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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	baron_n	earl_n	king_n	15,398	5	3.8090	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15140	A choice of emblemes, and other deuises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and moralized. And diuers newly deuised, by Geffrey Whitney. A worke adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable: wherein those that please, maye finde to fit their fancies: bicause herein, by the office of the eie, and the eare, the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holsome preceptes, shadowed with pleasant deuises: both fit for the vertuous, to their incoraging: and for the wicked, for their admonishing and amendment	Whitney, Geffrey, 1548?-1601?	1586 (1586)	STC 25438; ESTC S119929	99,935	252

A CHOICE OF EMBLEMES AND OTHER DEVISES For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers Englished and Moralized AND DIVERS NEWLY DEVISED by Geffrey Whitney A worke adorned with varietie of matter both pleasant and profitable wherein those that please maye finde to fit their fancies Bicause herein by the office of the eie and the eare the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holsome preceptes shadowed with pleasant deuises both fit for the vertuous to their incoraging and for the wicked for their admonishing and amendment To the Reader Peruse with heede then frendlie iudge and blaming rashe refraine So maist thou reade vnto thy good and shalt requite my paine LABORE ET CONSTANTIA Imprinted at LEYDEN In the house of Christopher Plantyn by Francis Raphelengius M.D.LXXXVI QVI MAL. Y PENSE HONI SOIT DROIT ET LOYAL TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY SINGVLER GOOD Lorde and Maister ROBERT Earle of LEYCESTER Baron of Denbighe Knight of the moste noble orders of the garter and of saincte Michaël Maister of her Maties horse one of her Highnes moste honorable priuie Counsaile and Lorde Lieutenant and Captaine Generall of her Maties forces in the lowe countries A SOVLDIOR of Kinge PHILLIP of MACEDONIA Righte honorable suffering shipwracke Brusonius lib. 3. and languishinge throughe necessitie and extreme sicknes A Macedonian mooued with compassion moste louinglie entertayned and longe cherished and releeued him Who being well recouered promised at his departure if he might come to the presence of his Soueraigne to requite his frendship At the lengthe cominge to the courte the souldior made reporte of the shipwracke but not of the kindnes of the Macedonian and contrariwise so incensed the Kinge against his louinge countryman that he obtained a graunt of all his liuinges But afterwarde his ingratitude and trecherous practise being discouered to this good prince he reuoked his guifte and in detestation of his dealinge caused him to bee marked with a hotte iron Idem The Emperor CLAVDIVS reduced all those to their former bondage who neclecting the bountie and loue of their Lordes in infranchisinge them requited them in the ende with anie vnkindnes This foule vice Ingratitude hathe bin common in all ages and yet so odious to the vertuous and best disposed that they haue lefte behinde innumerable examples to the like effecte for the rooting out thereof from all societies If the former ages who knewe not the liuinge GOD nor his holie worde haue bin so carefull herein Then ought wee muche more who knowe not onlie howe odious it is to man but howe hatefull it is cheeflie in the sighte of God For we maie see in the holie scripture howe often the children of Israel weare plagued for their vnthankefulnes Exod. 14 15 16 17. c. and howe the Lorde often complaineth therof sayinge by the Prophet I say I haue nourished and exalted them and yet they dispised mee Isaie cap. 1. the oxe knoweth his maister and the asse his cribbe but Israël knoweth not mee c. Also by the Prophet Ieremie Ierem. cap. 8. The Storke the Turtle and the swallowe doe obserue their time but my people doe not knowe the iudgement of the Lorde In the newe Testament also when Christe had clensed the ten lepers and but one of them gaue thankes Luc cap. 17. our sauiour said Are not ten clensed Mich. 6. Osee 13. where bee the other nine c. By whiche and manie other like places it is manifest howe ingratitude is vile bothe in the sighte of GOD and man Wherefore to cleare my selfe of the suspicion of my guilt herein whiche your honor maye iustlie conceiue against mee in deferring so longe before I present some testimonie of my bounden dutie to your good Lordship hauing so ofte and so largelie tasted of your honourable bountie and fauor I haue therefore strained that small talent I haue to pleade my cause in this behalfe to your honour Most humblie beseeching the same to pardon the wantes wherewith this my simple trauaile is blemisshed throughe my lacke of leasure and learninge The first denieth me to perfecte it as I purposed The other to polishe it as it ought that shoulde bee presented to so noble a personage whose heroicall vertues so manie graue and learned men haue eternised to all posterities For leauinge your natiue countrie where so manie godlie and vertuous are countenanced So manie learned aduaunced and so manie studious incoraged by your honour What other countrie in Christendome but knoweth that your lordship is a Noble and moste faithfull counsellor to her excellent Matie a zelous fauorer of the Gospell and of the godlie Preachers thereof a louinge patron of learninge and a bountifull Mecoenas to all the professors of worthie artes and sciences whereof my selfe is a witnes who haue often harde the same in other countries to your euerlastinge memorie Learninge woulde be soone put to silence without the aide and supporte of such noble Peeres as your Lordship which was well considered by the Emperors and Princes manie hundreth yeares since whereof Artaxerxes the Kinge of Persia hath lefte behinde him this example who wrat to a ruler of one of his dominions to this effecte Kinge of Kinges great Artaxerxes to Hiscanus gouernor of Hellesponte greeting Suidas The fame of Hippocrates a Phisition is come vnto mee therfore see thou geue him as muche goulde as he desireth and all other thinges he wanteth and send him to me He shal bee equall with anie Persian in honor and if there be anie other famous man in Europe spare no money to make him a frend to my courte Also Phillip of Macedonia fauored Aristotle comitting his onlie sonne Alexander the great to his tutorship Aul. Gell. lib. 9. cap. 3. reioysing that he had a sonne borne in suche a time as he mighte haue such a famous Philosopher to be his instructor Aelian de Var. Hist lib. 13. ca. 7. The same Alexander so honored the poët Pindarus that at the destruction of Thebes he gaue chardge that the familie and kinred of Pindarus shoulde bee spared Plutarchus in Alexand. Hee loued so learninge that he vsed to laie the Jliades of Homer which he learned of Aristotle with his dagger vnder his beddes head Also hauing learned certaine priuate instructions of his said Scoolemaister after hauing knowledge that Aristotle had published the same to others hee was highly offended and althoughe hee weare busied in the great warres against Darius yet in the middest of those waightie affaires hee wrat vnto Aristotle blaminge him for participating to others that which hee desired to haue proper to him selfe Sayinge Howe can I excell others in any thinges I haue learned of thee if thou make the same common to all for I had rather goe before them in learning then in power and aboundance Gellius setteth downe the Epistle of the King to Aristotle Aul. Gell. lib. 20. cap. 4. with the aunsweare therevnto being worthie to bee imprinted in the