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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	according_a	speak_v	word_n	3,087	5	4.2851	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11812	An essay of drapery: or, The compleate citizen Trading iustly. Pleasingly. Profitably. By William Scott.	Scott, William, 17th cent.; Droeshout, John, d. 1652, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 22109; ESTC S110892	39,623	186

〈◊〉 the Nove●lists Formality then either of them because he seldome petturbs states and is ever most wary but to our purpose let his Religion teach him to have his soule still panting after Heaven stealing up thither in the midst of busines as if he were there ever more conversant whence hee lookes for a Saviour Man is made De terra ex terra in the earth and of the earth non tamen ad terram nec propter terram sed ad Coelum propter Coelum saith one but not to the earth or for the earth but to Heaven and for Heaven He whom no busines should put out of our mindes is in Heaven Resurrexit non est hic he is risen hee is not here Looke for him in the Church you shall heare of him there looke for him by invocation and a conscionable diligence in thy Calling and the holy Ghost will shew him there and when thou hast thus found him hee will take thee up to Heaven to raigne with him there Saint Chrysost m and Hierome wonder at the Eunuch mentioned in the eighth Chapter of the Acts He was a Barbarian distract with many businesses hee read and though hee did not understand yet he read and that in the way in the Chariot Si talis in ipso itinere qualis in quiete domi fuisse credendus est if hee were thus devoted in his journey how would hee have beene in quiet at home if hee a Heathen did thus much upon the way shall not wee Christians doe much more in our Shops to minde the affaires of the soule is the way to prevent distraction not to further it as Physicians say of sorrow for sin it hurts not the heart as worldly sorrow doth so I may say it is worldly care not this care that troubles our peace So much of his living pleasingly to himselfe Hee shall live Pleasingly to others VVHich that hee may performe he must be assisted by behaviour without this his other qualities will not help him It cannot but bee distastfull to any man comming into a Shop when he sees a man stand as if hee were drown'd in flegme and puddle having no other testimony of his being awake than that his eyes are open It is expected that the outward carriage should promise what 's within a man Except liberality courtesie is more regarded of men than any vertue it payes a great deale yet is never the poorer it satisfies every man yet lessens not the Stock it is a good Character of a good nature and it hath beene observed that few men have risen to great Fortunes which have not beene courteous These small ceremonious matters win great commendations because they are continually in use and note whereas the occasion of a great vertue commeth but seldome To use these not at all is to teach others not to use them and so to diminish respect they have in them a certaine well-becomming majestie if they bee used without pride or affectation To make no difference in the use of them to a Lord and a Ploughman kissing their hands and bowing as low to a Chamber-maide as to her Lady is uncomely It was well said of one Corpus animum tegit detegit the body the outward carriage of it covers and uncovers the mind which should bee to some more open to some more hid Let my Citizen then use Ceremonies but not with affectation neither let him use them too often He cannot comprehend great matters that breaketh his minde too much to small observations But there is an inward thing which unlesse it bee added to these makes them all nothing A Schoolemaster had in his place of exercise a Glasse wherein hee caus'd his Schollers to behold themselves If they were comely he would tell them what pitty it was that goodly bodies should bee possest with defective mindes if they were ill-favoured he would tell them they should make their bodies faire with dressing their mindes handsomely If the behaviour and countenance bee good the adorning the minde doubles the excellency If ill it will make it good when a mans minde performeth what his body promiseth not His minde must be stuf't with sufficiency to produce pleasing discourse wherein he must not bee so lavish as to hinder his observation and become tedious to him he deales with To speake all he can at once as if hee were making his Will is not the way to please the best way to doe that is to know how to be silent and when he speakes to let his speech not be accompanied with vehemency his words should flow from his mouth so that it might bee said of them they are non tam verba quàm mella not so much words as Honey And I would have these words tyed to his Commerce for therein his Customer will commonly take more delight to heare than hee to speak All hee speakes of that must bee true However the Dresse be Truth is constantly the same it still keepes the same Splendor that if it met with masculine and true elocution fitted to the matter and circumstances is praise worthy but note that it alwaies gives more grace and lustre to the speech than possibly it can borrow from it Yet because men are most taken with pleasing words let them be discreetly chosen and properly applied For as speech makes a man more excellent than a Beast so eloquence will make him more excellent than other men but to this must bee added a grave naturall action wherein a man may see the visage hands and members of the man to speake with his mouth and thus perswading his Customer to the liking of his commodity hee must put on the same liking himselfe for putting on the same passion hee would stir up in others he is most like to prevaile Yet in as much as hee is to deale with men of divers conditions let him know that to speake according to the nature of him with whom he commerceth is the best Rhetorick I must needs condemne the using of one phrase to all men and the mistrusting of every mans sences with doe you heare Sir and to tell every man he will make a word as if he would be thought an augmenter of learning is vaine but if he meanes to speake his mind at once I wish him so to doe for that 's the old and the best way He that sold Abraham the field for buriall askt what he would and had it but the custome of our times is contrary Et quod censuetum praesumitur esse justum and what is usuall is presumed to be just yet I desire every man to use as few words as possible hee may so the way of making bargaines may in time be brought to the first and best state I shall not taxe the ordinary phrase what lacke ye it being great policy for a man to entreat for his own necessities by asking others what they want but the too common use of it sounds harsh I would not have a