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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	find_v	love_v	2,574	5	5.6724	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12313	The new-yeeres gift presented at court, from the lady Parvula to the Lord Minimus, (commonly called Little Jefferie) Her Majesties servant, with a letter as it was penned in short-hand: wherein is proved little things are better then great. Written by Microphilus.	Slater, Master.; Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641, attributed name.; Slater, Master, attributed name.	1636 (1636)	STC 22631; ESTC S111064	13,046	128

Magna vides parvis de fontibus orta Ovid. The Cloudes weepe not downe their gratefull teares in Great Floods but by droppes Great and High Mountaines natures Bulwarkes cast up as the Spaniard saies at God Almighties owne charges what are they but heaps of rubbish and offals left of the creation of the World as so many warts or pimples disfiguring the smooth face of the earth the difficulty of their ascent the horridnesse of their crags the wildnesse of their inhabitants beasts or people the chilnesse of their frosty toppes with the inhospitable barrennesse of their rugged sides leave often an imputation of poverty barbarousnes to that Coūtry that hath most of them Whereas the low vallies are most pleasant most fruitfull most hospitable enriching the inhabitants refreshed with wholesome springs beautified with curious structures among which likewise the Cedarbuilt Pallace is oft strucke with thunder when the shrubby cottage is secure Would a man live happily and well let him ever be getting a little for Horace saith Vivitur parvo bene Is he not yet content but would live better let him still continue his endeavours of getting though never so little for Claudian saith Vivitur exiguo melius Nay little is so lovely that wee should not onely endeavour for it as a thing necessary for is it not most necessary every one should have a little but reioyce in it as a thing pleasant and Great is so cumbersome that we should not onely not desire it but flie from it and both these prooved out of Catullus Quod nimium est fugito parvo gaudere memento But you perhaps Sir may demand is a little wit better then a Great Wit or a little estate better then a Great Estate or little honesty better then Great Honesty or little knowledge better then Great Knowledge I will not presume being of the weaker Sexe admired Sir herein to decide any thing onely bee your selfe the iudge The Philosopher saith There is no Great Wit without a mixture of madnesse then probably by the rule of contraries no little wit without a mixture of prudence now iudge you which is better to bee with a Great Wit madde or with a little wit wise As for Estates the practice of the World contrary to their opinions in effect maintaines the affirmative for every man possessing a Great Estate accounts money but as durt but when once by any casualtie it becōes little then he makes much of it Yet howsoever grant a Great Estate were better yet all know it is commonly gained but by degrees that is by little and little A Lord who hath Great Revenues is oft found melancholy sighing when his hired Groome who has little or nothing is blithe whistling As for honesty wheresoever it is found it is I confesse very excellent yet more excellent likely where it causeth besides love admiration then where it barely moves affection We love it in good men we both love and wonder to discover it in knaves now is not good mens honesty very Great and finde wee not it in knaves very little Lastly how little knowledge is better then Great may bee thus demonstrated the Greatest-Clerkes are not the wisest men Little childrē as most innocent best for imitation little women as most nimble-spirited best for generation little men as most witty best for negotiation Aske every Schoole-boy and he can tell you parvi penditur honestas honesty it selfe is but of little account Aske the tradesman and he will tell you that a short terme is better then a Long Vacation Aske the Scholler and hee will tell you nothing is better then Wisedome and then aske any Courtier whether little be not better then nothing Goe on goe on therefore diminutive Sir with the guide of Honour and service of Fortune your lovelinesse being such as no man can disdaine to serve you your littlenesse such as no man needes to feare you the first having put you without hatred the latter below envy Your little low person me thinkes is natures humble pulpit out of which shee reads graces diviner lectures to High-aspiring Mortals and whereas some in the world wedded to errour may fondly imagine your residence at Court to bee rather for wonder and merriment then for any use or service you may require from them no lesse satisfaction then a publique recantation For as it hath beene the custome of famous Princes to use at chiefe times some ceremony which represented some hidden Morall as at the Court of Bel-gian David or Prester Iohn the powerfullest Potentate in all Africke the first Dish served in at their Festivalls is a Deaths-head and it hath beene in use that the Coronation of Kings was celebrated at the Sepulcher of their Fathers and the Pope at his Inaugura●ion hath 4. Marble stones presented unto out of which he chooseth his toombe-stone So at all times the residence of dwarfes in Courts hath a twofold Representment Theologicall and Politicall the first to the Soveraigne the second to the Subiect For the first as Philip King of Macedon betimes every morning had a little boy came unto him and cryed Philippe memento te esse mortalem O Philip remember how thou art mortall So little dwarfes boyes in proportion though perchance men in discretion being about a Monarch though silent yet their very persons being with Princes of the same naturall extraction are as a voice crying Rex memento te esse minimum O King remember how thou art little borne like others little to teach thee to Heaven humility to Earth humanity For the second the civill regard in relation to the subiect the residence of dwarfes about Monarchs hath beene by those who are grounded Politicians accounted emblemattically necessary to denote those who desire to approach neere Princes ought not to bee ambitious of any Greatnesse in themselves but to acknowledge all their Court-lustre is but a beame of the Royall Sunne their Master which when and to whom he please hee can send forth or withdraw Minde not minde not therefore most perfect abridgement of Nature the Great neglect which the ignorant vulgar cast upon littlenesse considering it hath made you an attendant of Princes is in it selfe so full of worth that for it onely you were thus preferred And though it seemes a meere riddle to say You are alwaies at Court and yet are very little there yet your person makes it so famous a one that were Homer alive and had his eyes againe again he would by this loose them or else weepe them out that he lost them before by that lowsy one of Fishermen Quod capimus perdimus Quod non capimus tenemus What wee take wee loose what wee take not wee keepe and missed the happy aenigma of your admired corpusculum And since little is prooved better then Great little Schoole-boyes I doubt not will wisely relinquish their old theame-exordium Vt olim Alexander ille Magnus Macedonum Rex and learning out by enquiry some of your splendid deeds will learnedly front their exercises thus Ut nuper Galfredus ille parvus Britanniae pumilio Certainely if there be any thing in the World worth the relying on it is very little no Great or Long happinesse here to bee expected but very little and short When one's undone by fire or shipwrack or goods taken by Pyrats what sets him up but the Kings briefe and alas how would many a poore Knight live if he had not a little to keepe him Consider little morally and vertue is in the meane consider little theologically and the whole Church is but a little flocke consider little civilly and who dare deny I assume spirit from truth but that the little prince is a better man then the Kings Greatest Subiect Nay the King himselfe who is Gods Epilogue and mans Prologue take him in the better consideration with God he is minor take him in the other with man he is Maior for so Tertullian Imperator est Maior omnibus solo Deo minor A King is Greater then all others lesse onely then God And I will for ever heartily pray Heaven blesse our Queene because she hath made the Kingdome happy by bringing his Maiesty so many little ones In short who desireth not in debt to be as little as may bee and what a rare temper is it in men of desart not to bee ambitious of Greatnes even in the Highest matters which men attempt how commonly the most doe come short and in their Greatest businesse effect but little And therefore as it was said of Scipio that he was nunquam minus solus quam cum solus never lesse alone then when alone so it may be said of you excellent abstract of Greatnesse that you are nunquam minus parvus quam cum parvus never lesse little then when little I hope you will pardon me if in my stile I have used a little boldnesse and familiarity you knowing it to bee so commendable and that it is Nimia Familiaritas Great Boldnes onely which breedeth cōtempt especially since you are no stranger but of my owne Countrie an Englishman though some iudging by your stature have taken you to bee a Low-country-man Many merry New-yeares are wished unto you by The sworne servant of your Honours perfections PARVULA Postscript If the Great Length of my Letter hath molested your more serious Affaires you may thence gather the convenience of little and yet that it might not displease I appointed it by my servant Microphilus to be written in your owne hand FINIS Breve