Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
reason_n	day_n	sabbath_n	sanctify_v	3,539	5	10.6237	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02300	A dispraise of the life of a courtier, and a commendacion of the life of the labouryng man	Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?; Allègre, Antoine.; Bryan, Francis, Sir, d. 1550.	1548 (1548)	STC 12431; ESTC S109583	53,989	226

honestly apparelled the feastes commaunded to be obserued the curate preacheth y e gospel after diner they make mery with a thousande honest pastymes In the great tounes the holydaies are knoweÌ„ when the wyfes goe gaye when they slepe long in the mornyng wheÌ„ thei play after diner and generally when they consume the day involupteousnes and vanities Another commoditie is this that where the courtiers vse to eate fleshe and corrupt venison wildefoule that is long kept they of the village haue their meate freshe and freshe tender and holsome as one may say in good seasoÌ„ that is housdoues Partrige pullettes stockdoues wodcockes Fesauntes fatte Capons Conyes Hares and innumerable victayl of al sortes And ouer and besydes this to their great aduauntage they haue shepe that beareth woll to clothe them good mutton to eate dong to make fatte their ground and Kyddes and Goates also with Oxen to labor in the plough and kyne to milke and make butter chese and hogges to make bacon of Coltes for to norishe horses for to serue them and for to sell when nede requireth And another priuelege of the village is this that the good shall be honoured for a good man and the vnthriftie person knowen as he is whiche is not so in the court for ther is nomaÌ„ praised for that he deserueth to be praised but because he hath auctoritie and riches O how muche is the wise maÌ„ honored in the village for his wysedome and good counsail how many tymes is he thaÌ„keo and how many presentes hath he If parcase one of his neighbors haue any goodfruit in his garden a good melon a good pear or a good muscadel grape gladly they wyll present him therewith as to him that hath deserued it Another preuilege of the village is this that euery maÌ„ may marry his daughters to his equalles and neighbours that thereby dayly he may receiue bothe pleasure and seruice the whiche the courtiers cannot do that marry their doughters so farre froÌ„ theim that for y e most part they lament theim or they see theim O happy inhabitor in y e village that fyndes at his gate husbandes for his doughters and wiues for his sonnes He maryeth theim nigh to him that he may easly see his soÌ„nes in lawe his litle nephues his posteritie he is beloued of theÌ„ succoured in his affaires serued norished in his sickenes and great coÌ„forte to him in his age Another commoditie is that they are not to muche carefull nor yet ireful or enuious whiche commoditie they of y e court and the citezens litle tasteth or emoyeth for the courtier many times lacketh money when his great affaires shuld be brought to passe I say therfore o happy maÌ„ of y e village that nedes not to go at ten of the clocke to the palice to beg counsel to speake fayre to y e vssher to waite vpoÌ„ the president make flectamus ienua to the lawyer and flatter the kyng and his counsel the Magistrate but hath in stede of these Idolatries for a happy solace the benefites of nature and y e pastimes therof to heare the shepe blete the Bulles to bray the Horse to nese the Nityngales to syng y e Thrushes to warble the Lynets to mynse their songes dogges to runne Lambes to leape Kyddes to gambolde see the Pekockes set vp their tailes like a whele HeÌ„nesto kecle kockes to crow a thousand kynde of beastes and birdes play and sporte Another commoditie is that in the village one may be there more vertuous lesse vicious then in the court or in the great citiees and y e reason is for that in great companyes we shall coÌ„menly fynde a M. that kepe men from good doyng x. M. that will moue vs to do euill And in the village euery man sanctifyeth the Sabboth day kepeth the feastes heareth the sermones and by this meanes with great labor worketh his soule health assisted by grace Wherfore the village is to be praised for that y e occasions of euil and of our destruccion are not so plentifull and practised there as they are in the court in good tounes no cokes houses to make them licorous nor there are no great estates wher by enuy shuld arise there is no choppyng nor chaungyng by vsury whores to quarell and fight for nor courtiers to torney in armure nor wanton and lewde places to corrupt youth withall nor Iustices to feare them ye and that best of all is no couetuousnes whiche shuld swalow vp and deuoure them Another preuilege there is that there one may well gather some good and spende muche lesse then in the court For euery man knowes well what excessiue expeÌ„ces are accustomed to be wasted in the court specially in these dayes that the great apparellyng of baÌ„kettes is suche that they be well worthy to be reformed O peaceable peysauÌ„tes which nedes not the tapettes of Flaunders linnyng clothe of Holland siluer plate garmentes imbrodered Parcement lace purfilde nor yet cariage Mulettes varlettes to conduct them nor other superfluous attyre but contrary in stede of that is contented w t a lytle houshold well ruled with a grosse table and a fewe plaine stoles to eate his meate vpon with dishes of Peuter a mattres for to slepe on two gounes one for soÌ„mer another for wynter one geldyng in the stable one varlet one chamberer to do him seruice As muche happy is a gentleman and as muche honored with his lytle companye in his house in the village as is a riche lord in the court with his great pride and ruflyng traine The .viii. Chapiter Â¶ That in princes courtes the custome and vse is to speake of God and liue after the worlde IN the Court euen as there is no rigorous iustice no father that chastiseth his soonne no frende that correcteth one the other none that loueth his neighbor no bishop nor curate that gouerneth well his shepe nor teacheth them after the gospel So he that is by nature good hath great libertie to be naught In the court if one wilbe an adulterer he shall haue felowes It he wilbe a quareller he shal haue helpe that with suche as will drawe their swordes If he be disposed to banquetyng euery where he shall fynde gluttons If he will manifestly shamefully lye he shall fynde companions ready that will approue his lies If he wil steale he shal fynde theim that will instructe him many wayes therto If he will play there is so many cardes and so many dise that it is shame to see it If one will be falsely forsworne he shal fynde theim that will geue money for forswearyng Fynally if he wil vtterly geue himself to do euil in the court he shall see perfecte examples To the court resorteth menne of diuers nacions some for busines some to plede or to serue or to shewe theim selues whiche persons to bring themselues acquainted are forced to folowe the seruauntes of suche as be in

the Court it had been better for him neuer to haue gone froÌ„ it because that in remembryng them the thinkyng is more prickyng the mynde weaker to resist them In the court of princes chauÌ„ses often tymes that lacke of money or other great busynes makes a manne abstayne from doyng euil the whiche beyng after in his house doeth suche dedes vnsemely to a gentlemaÌ„ that they deserue to be corrected yea and bitterly punished There be also another sorte of men that forsakes the court to be more idle at home And suche would be reiected froÌ„ the nomber of honest menne seyng they chose y e tyme for their purpose to sinne in the village fearing to be infamed or dishonored in the court and yet beyng in the countrey liues w t shame forgettyng all reason To exchue these thynges he that leaueth the Court ought to leaue his percialitie that he hath folowed to forget all passions otherwise he shal lameÌ„t y e swete bitternes that he leues wepe the life that he hath begunne This is true that in the court are more occasions geuen to destroy a maÌ„ then are at home in his owne house to saue him It is a small profite to y e courtier the chauÌ„gyng of his dwellyng onles by thesame meanes he chaunge his condicions When the courtier sayth I wil withdrawe me to my countrey and go dye at home that is wel sayd but this shall suffice that he honestly withdrawe him selfe without determyng there dye This mortall life is to vs so prescript that we ought not to pursue it with sorowe but that we are bounde to amende it When Iob sayd Tedet animam meam vite mee it was not for that his life weried him but because he did not amende it Whosoeuer leaueth y e court may be bolde to say y t he goeth not to dye but may wel thinke he hath escaped from a fayre prison from a confused life froÌ„ a daungerous sickenes from a suspicious conuersacion froÌ„ a great sepulchre froÌ„ a meruail without ende The wysest beyng in y e court may say euery day that they dye at their houses in the couÌ„trey that they liue And the reason is that beyng in the court those necessary thynges that are to be done in the worlde cannot be done as they wold nor when thei wold for lacke of libertie Yet I will not say but many in the court do their deuor to do as they would but I dare affirme y t for x. pounde weight they haue of honest will they haue not halfe an ounce of honest libertie Likewise let him that forsakes the Court sette a wise ordre in suche busynes that he hath to do callyng to minde that to go home to his countrey nedes no loÌ„g iorney but to dispoyle him selfe of the euil clothes of the Court nedes a wonder long tyme. For like as vices increase in a man lytle and lytle so is it mete to roote theim out by litle and litle This ought y e courtier to do that myndes to rule himselfe plucke vppe by lytle pieces the most notable faultes that are in him and so pretely dispatche himselfe of one vice to day froÌ„ another to morow in such sort that when one vice takes his leaue and is gone straight way a vertue do entre in his steade so y t in proces he may go froÌ„ good to better The courtier is in nothing more deceiued then in liuyng a wilde wanton life parauenture the space of .xx. or .xxx. yeres thinketh in a yere or two to become sage graue aswell as though he applied all his life in a sobre and sad life truely that happeneth for lacke of good iudgement for it behoueth without comparison a lenger tyme for to lerne to cast away vice then to learne vertue consideryng y t vices enter our gates laughyng and goeth out from our house wepyng lamentyng O how muche greueth it y e ambicious courtier when he can not commaunde as he was wont to do then it may be sayd y t to forsake the court is requisite to a good heart a good witte to obtain rest Those that leaue the Court for fainte heart be of that nature that it is more painfull to theim to see theimselues absent from the Court then their ioye was when they wer in y e court whiche sayd persons if they would folow myne aduice and counsel should not onely leaue the court but forget it vtterly for euer And farther the courtier ought to retyre in suche maner that he may come to the Court againe if the feare and study in orderyng of his housholde constraine him eftsones for to desire the voluptuousnes of the court In the heart of the prudent courtier that forsaketh the court when there falleth bishoprickes or other great offices the affeccions desires of the mynde ryngeth alarme when he shall thynke if I had not come awaye so soone that office or that dignitie had been myne but he again remeÌ„bryng that many suche thinges hath fallen which he had not so like wise might he haue in the stede of ye a plain nay of that which fell when he was gone Then is it not muche better to ouerse and trauaile his owne house then to haue suche a shamefull denial in the court Therfore destinies of y e courtiers are so prompte and ready that for the moste parte one is constrained to dispise theÌ„ more by necessitie then by wyll and in that meane while their purpose is at an ende before they themselues beware therof For when the Courtier commeth to be at a quiet w t himselfe aboue all thynges it is necessary that he take hede of pesteryng of himselfe for if he did liue in the court euil willed let him take hede that in the village he dispaire not by reason of charge the importunitie of his wife of his children the sautes of his seruauntes the grudgyng of his neighbours may parcase make him astonyed but to thinke again that beyng escaped from the dauÌ„gerous golfe of the court he may repute him selfe halfe a God And besides this none ought to thinke that he dwellyng in a village in the countrey shall putte awaye all troubles and displeasures for it can not be but he that neuer fell in the croked rough way may happen to stumble in the plaine way breake his necke and therfore it is necessary that he retiryng froÌ„ the court take the tyme as it shall come that he may the more occupie him selfe in vertuous exercises to y e entent that to much rest and to much busynes of minde let him not from the great good that commeth of this to be well coÌ„tented with a litle Ioyne vnto this also that there is none so muche enemye vnto vertue as is idlenes of the which idlenes be taken in the beginnyng thoughtes superfluous coÌ„sequently the distruccion of men To the purpose hath not the courtier cause to coÌ„plaine that occupieth himselfe in nothyng but

to wayte of my lorde or damosell to waite vpon my lady And that were scorneful to do in the court alone And without dauÌ„ger one may walke froÌ„ neighbor to neighbor and from land to land and not therby minish any part of his honor Another benefite is that men may go whether they will clothed simply with a staffe in his hande a swearde by his side or hacbut in his necke and if he be wery of pounsed hosen lette him wear sloppes if he be a colde lette him take his furred goune for all is one there A good Gentleman dwellyng in the village and hauyng a good cote of clothe an honest Spanishe cloke on his backe a paire of lether shooes goeth as wel trymmed to the churche as doeth my lorde the courtier to the court with his goune furde with Marters or Sables A man of the village of what sort soeuer he be is in as good case that rydeth to market or to the faier to make prouision for his housholde vpon a mare or a nagge as a lorde of the courte is at Iustes vpoÌ„ a great courser trapped with golde And when all is sayd better is the poore ploughman on a poore asse liuyng as he should then the riche man well horsed pillyng doyng extorcion to pore honest men The .vi. Chapiter Â¶ That in the village the dayes seme more long and the ayer more clere and better And the houses more easy and testfull ENsuyng styll the coÌ„modities of the village we ought not to forget that he whiche dwelles there among other thynges hath commoditie of good corne and consequently good breade contrary to this in the court specially ingreat tounes they haue bread for the moste parte euil baked or euil leuened or not leuened at all the cause is forasmuche as in the tounes often there lacketh good corne or good corne milles to grinde the corue and holsome water wherby often hath come amoÌ„g them great death Another commoditie in the village is this the whiche I praise mnche he that dwelles there may practise and labour in mod thynges and better imploy the tyme then in the court or in y e great tounes in whiche places it behoueth a maÌ„ to dissemble to say litle ful of reuengyng and enuyous a treder of stones and pauemeÌ„tes must vse grauitie seldome to come out of his house and incessantly be graue O half a God that dwelles in the village where liberally one may speake what he will and iest with his neighbours before his gates and his wyndowe And this may he do without euer to chaunge or to lese any of his mean auctoritie Another coÌ„moditie is in the village that those that dwell ther be w tout comparison more helthfull and lesse sicke then in the cities and in the courte because in the great tounes the houses be more higher and the stretes narower and more croked whiche is the cause that the ayre is corrupt and makes meÌ„ very euil at ease In y e village the houses stand more at large the men more better disposed the ayre better the sunne more clere the yearth more swete the priuate goodes or coÌ„mons better ruled without contencion the exercise more pleasant and the company much better And aboue all thinges the thoughtes lesser and the pastyme more great Another commoditie in the village is that ther are no yoÌ„g Physicians nor olde sicknes And contrary to this the courtier is constrained there to part his goodes in fower partes the one part to flatterers y e other to men of lawe another to pottecaries the fowerth to y e Phisicians O well fortunate village forasmuche as in the seldome or neuer is the Frenche pockes named neither the pausy not yet y e goute fewe or none there knoweth what is a Iulep a Pyll a Sirup or a Thysan nor no sodain sickenes What will ye that I shall say more of the village And if it were not but that for necessitie they are compelled to builde there litle pretie houses ye should scant fynde one of theim that knewe what to do with morter stoones And sometyme they are very well pleased with cabons made of small stickes well fastened together Another commoditie in the village is that thee daies there seme to be more long and they are better imployed then they are either in the court or in the great tounes forasmuch as the yeres passe awaye there or one be ware and the daies without any enoiyng of them And how beit that the sportes and pleasures be more in the village then in the tounes yet so it is that one day shall seine lenger there then shal a moneth in the court the reason is for that the village is happye and fortunate forasmuche as there the Sunne semes to make a more longer day the mornyng is redy to shew and the night slow to come Scarcely one can perceiue the dayes slyde away in the court In the village if it be perceiued it is bestowed with honest busynes whiche cannot be done in the court In the village also is muche more plentie of wood then in other places hay strawe Otes much better chepe then in good tounes Also in the village a man is at libertie to eate his meate where he will when he will with whoÌ„ he will but in the court they eat late the meat euil dressed and colde and with out sauor and that whiche is worst of al for the most parte he must eate with his enemies where as the good felowes of the village liueth at their pleasures and without suspicion keping their thre good fashioÌ„s that belongeth to good repast that is first he erneth his meat next that he eateth his meate merely thirdly he eateth with good company Another commoditie is that the husbandman of the village hath how to occupy themselfes and howe to be mery whiche the courtier nor the citezen hath not thathath enemies enough to feare and fewe frendes to company withall O recreacion pleasaunt of the village to fishe with nettes and with hokes to catche birdes w t lyme to hunte with dogges to catche Conies with ferrettes hayes to shote in the crosbowe and the hacbut at stokdoues at Mallardes at partryges and se folkes labor in y e vynes raise diches amende hedgees to iest with y e auÌ„cient laborers All these pleasures haue they of the villages whereas the courtiers and citezens desire it caÌ„not haue it The .vii. Chapiter Â¶ That commonly the inhabitauntes of the villages be more happy then courtiers ANother commoditie of the village is that thei do fele y e trauailes lesse on the workyng day reioyce merely on the holy day where the courtier continually vexed with weightie and troubleous affaires neuer knoweth when it is holy day O village it is not so in the wheras on the feastful daye the clerke ceaseth not to tolle the bell to make clene the churche to make redy y e alters the people

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