Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	honourable_a	majesty_n	privy_a	10,396	5	9.6495	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07881	The first part of the elementarie vvhich entreateth chefelie of the right writing of our English tung, set furth by Richard Mulcaster.	Mulcaster, Richard, 1530?-1611.	1582 (1582)	STC 18250; ESTC S112926	203,836	280

THE FIRST PART OF THE ELEMENTARIE VVHICH ENTREATETH CHEFELIE OF THE right writing of our English tung set furth by RICHARD MVLCASTER Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the blak-friers by Lud-gate 1582. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY VERIE GOOD LORD THE L. Robert Dudlie Earle of Leicester Baron of Denbigh knight of the most noble order of the garter and S. MichaÃ«ll master of hir maiesties horses and one of hir highnesse most honorable priuie counsell RIGHT honorable and my verie good Lord as the considerations which enforced me to offer hir maiestie the first frutes of my publik writing were exceding great so those reasons which induce me now to present to your honor this my second labor be not verie small Hir maiestie representeth the personage of the hole land and therefor clameth a prerogatiue in dewtie both for the excellencie of hir place wherewith she is honored as our prince and for the greatnesse of hir care wherewith she is charged as our parent If honor be the end of that which is don hir place is to clame if the common good then hir charge is to chalenge VVhich both clame in honor and chalenge in charge did concur in one aspect when I offered hir my book For mine own purpos was to honor hir place with the first of my labor and my book pretended to benefit hir charge with som generall profit Again being desirous both to procure my book passage thorough hir maiesties dominions to laie som ground for mine own credit at the verie fountain how could I haue obtained either the first without hir sufferance or the last but with hir countenance VVhose considerate iudgement if my book did not please my credit were in danger whose gracious permission if it were denyed my successe were in despare So that both my dewtie towards hir maiestie as my souerain prince and my desire of furtherance by hir maiestie as my surest protection compelled me of force to begin with hir highnesse by satisfying of my dewtie to com in hope of my desire if the matter which I offred should deserue liking as the course which I took shewed desire to please Now my dewtie in that behalf towards hir maiestie being so discharged whom the presenting of my book makes priuie to my purpos doth not the verie stream of dewtie the force of de sert carie me streight froÌ„ hir highnesse vnto your honor whether I haue in eie your general good nesse towards all them which be learned themselues or your particular fauor towards my trauell which teach others to learn For in common iudgement is not he to take place next after the prince in the honor of learning which all waie by the prince most preferreth learning wherein I do not se that there is anie one about hir maiestie without offence be it spoken either to your honor if you desire not to hear it or to anie other person which deserues well that waie which either iustlie can or vniustlie will coÌ„pare with your honor either for the encouraging of students to the attainmeÌ„t of learning or for helping the learned to aduancement of liuing VVhich two points I take to be most euident proufs of generall patronage to all learning to nurish it being grene to cherish it being grown Of which your honors both first nurishing and last cherishing of ech kinde of learning there is no one corner in all our cuntrie but it feleth the frute and thriues by the effect For how manie singular men haue bene worthilie placed how manie nedefull places haue bene singularlie appointed by your either onelie or most honorable means with this generall consideration whereby all men ar bound to your honor in dewtie who either like of learning or liue by learning mine own particular doth ioyn it self with all officiousnesse and desire to do honor where it hath found fauor For I do find my self excedinglie indetted vnto your honor for your speciall goodnesse and most fauorable countenance these manie years VVhereby I am bound to declare the vow of my seruice vnto your honor not by the offering of a petie boke alone such as this is but by tendring whatsoeuer a thankfull minde can deuise in extremitie of power for so excellent a patron And tho I begin the shew of my deuotion with a verie mean sacrifice for so great a saint as what a simple present is a part of an Elementarie or an English ortografie to so great a person and so good a patron yet am I in verie good hope that your honor will accept it and measur my good will not by the valew of the present but by the wont of your goodnesse For dewtie will break out and an ishew it will find which tho it stream not great where it springeth first yet is it as pure as where it spredeth most Mo offerings hereafter of the like sort maie giue it greater shew but none of anie sort can shew more good will And so I desire your honor to take it in waie of euidence to the world that your desert hath bound me in waie of witnesse to your self that I would return dewtie Mine own good will I know my self of your good liking I nothing dout whose honorable and ordinarie dispositioÌ„ is to take things well which taste of goodwill I offred to hir maiestie the prime of my pen I offer to your honor the prime of right penning not handled thus before as I can perceiue by anie of my cuntrie tho I se diuerse that haue bene tampering about it And as the difference of state betwene hir maiestie your honor made me of mere force to begin with hir and to discend to you so the matter of that book which I presented vnto hir is the occasioÌ„ of this which I offer vnto you In that book among other things which the discourse enforced as it enforced manie bycause it doth medle with all the nedefull accidents which belong to teaching I did promis an Elementarie that is the hole matter which childern ar to learn and the hole maner how masters ar to teach them from their first beginning to go to anie school vntill theie passe to grammer in both the best if my opinion proue best This point is of great moment in my iudgement both for young learners to be entred with the best and for the old learned to be sound from the first This Elementarie am I now to perform VVhose particular braÌ„ches being manie in number the book thereby growing to som bulk I thought it good to de uide it into parts vpoÌ„ sundrie causes but chefelie for the printer whose sale will be quik if the book be not big Of those seuerall parts this is the first wherein I entreat tho that be but litle of certain generall considerations which concern the hole Elementarie but I handle speciallie in it the right writing of our English tung a verie necessarie point and of force to be handled ear the child

your fo as well by speche of writers as by spoill of soldiers And when the foren word hath yeilded it self is receiued into fauor it is no more foren tho of foreÌ„ race the propertie being altered But he nede not lak words that will speak of words Howbeit in this place there nedeth not anie further speaking of them neither which be common neither which be bewtifull nor which be braue nor which be borrowed nor that for anie ornament therein we giue no place to anie other tung For mine own words and the terms that I vse theie be generallie English And if anie be either an incorporate stranger or otherwise translated or quite coind a new I haue shaped it as fit for the place where I vse it as my cunning will giue me And to be bold that waie for either enfranchising the foren or translating our own without to manifest insolence to want on affectatioÌ„ or else to inuent new vpon euident note which will bear witnesse that it fitteth well where it is to be vsed the word following smoothlie the circumstance about bewraing what it meneth till oft vsing do make it well known we ar sufficientlie warranted both by president precept of them that can iudge best Wherefor to saie that in plane terms which I mean as planelie he that is soundlie learned will streight waie sound a scholer he that is well acquainted with a strong pen whether in autors or in vse will soon sift a close stile he that hath skill in language whether learned old or liked and new will not wonder at words which he knoweth whence theie ar neither yet maruell at a conceit quiklie deliuered the like whereof he meteth oft abrode And therefor such skilfull men as I fear not their iudgement bycause cunning is curteous so I praie their frindship bycause their countenaÌ„ce is credit For those that want of this and cannot iudge right tho theie be sharp censors and commonlie vttering their talking talent I must craue their pardoÌ„ if I passe not for their censuring which I take for no iudgement And yet I am content to bear with such fellowes and pardom them their errors in my behalf so theie that can iudge will pardon me mine in their curtesie Those that neither caÌ„iudge right for waÌ„t of cunning nor maie seme to iudge wroÌ„g for bewraing their own weaknesse if theie desire to learn in anie case of dout theie haue the learned to counsell as the smatterer to corrupt If theie like and allow the profit is theirs but if theie do not theie fraie me not from writing wherein I hope at length either to win their fauor by deseruing well or at least their silence by cumbring them to much tho I win not their fauor Here to conclude in generall for the maner of writing words in our English tung this is my opinion that as for choice of argument to proue with som verie near to the substaÌ„ce it self of that which is in question som further of tho of probable seruice there is regard to be had by him that proueth if he do his dewtie the thing is discharged howsoeuer it be charged so in the haÌ„ dling maner thereof the like respect being had for both perspicuitie propertie to the thing tho som one point seme straÌ„ge to the maÌ„ that will iudge the deliuerer is discharged For either inuention of matter or elocutioÌ„ in words the learned know well in what writers theie ly and those that be vnlearned must learn to think of them before theie think to iudge least by missing the leuell which the writer vseth theie misse of that right whereby theie should iudge For the matter it self which shal be the subiect of anie learned method as I haue said allredie acquaintance will make it easie tho it seme to be hard as the maner also tho it seme to be strange if the thing it self maie deserue acquaintaÌ„ce which wil not appear before acquaintaÌ„ce And a litle hardnesse yea in the most obscure most philosoficall coÌ„clusions maie neuer seme tedious to a conquering mind such as he must haue which either sekes himself or is desirous to se his cuÌ„trie tung enlarged the same made the instrumeÌ„t of all his knowledge as it is of his nedes But I haue bene to tedious my good cuÌ„triemen curteous readers yet not so where no hast is enioyned but to read at leasur not all at once now am I to moue my request vnto you which I mentioned at the first or your frindlie construction cuÌ„trimaÌ„like fauor The reuerence to learning which allureth the good student to embrace hir in his youth auanceth him to honor by hir presence in his age will entreat the learned in generall for me for endeuoring my self to recouer hir right by whose onelie autoritie theÌ„selues be of accouÌ„t The samenesse inprofession will work me more fauour among my fellow teachers then found emulatioÌ„ can work me discountenance the fauorable side discouering good natur and learning in dede the peuish detracting a beggerlie spite som want of skill The consideratioÌ„ of mine own present profession this last conceiued hope of the learned teachers doth put me in minde to aduertis them in generall of one speciall point which in dewtie must moue theÌ„ no lesse then me to the carefull thought of redresse in our schools which maie abide the amendmeÌ„t I pretend not here relligion which chargeth in conscience neither yet priuat maintenance which enforceth trauell but onelie the munificence and that extraordinarie of our princes and parlements towards our hole order in our cuntries behalf who partlie by suffring vs to enioy old immunities partlie by graunting vs diuerse other exemptions from personall seruices ordinarie paiments wherewith our fellow subiects ar coÌ„monlie charged both encourage vs to labor binde vs to requite them For the continuaÌ„ce whereof the assured enioying all the teachers in EnglaÌ„d haue great cause to honor the right honorable S r. Walter Mild maie knight chancellor of hir maiesties court of exchequor one of hir maiesties most honorable priuie counsell The right honorable S r. Roger Manwod knight Lord chefe baron of hir maiesties court of Exchequor the right worshipfull master Robert Sute master Iohn chlinch master Iohn Sotherton Esquiers baroÌ„s of the same hir maiestes court the two first S r. Walter S r. Roger great founders to learning both within the vniuersites in the cuntries about theÌ„ the other thre Esquires great fauorers to relligion learning eueriewhere For the small coÌ„sideration or rather the ouersight of som to passionat sessors in the last subsidie making that a priuat question which was a generall priuilege scant charitablie seking the dammage of a number by quarell to som few it pleased these honorable worshipfull personages vpon humble sute for the common benefit of a number of poor men to take the cause to

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