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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	body_n	life_n	soul_n	11,671	5	5.9298	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10413	The English ape, the Italian imitation, the footesteppes of Fraunce VVherein is explaned, the wilfull blindnesse of subtill mischiefe, the striuing for starres, the catching of mooneshine: and the secrete found of many hollow hearts. by W.R.	Rankins, William, fl. 1587.	1588 (1588)	STC 20698.5; ESTC S110586	22,832	30

aduauncement stretched beyonde the authority of his Kingly gouernement not being thereunto elected his pride no longer permitting that supposed taunt sodainely murdered his faithfull Clytus with the bloudy thirst of his vnsheathed sword Yet at the length considering the same so loathed the detested maner of his former face that he would in reuenge of himselfe had he not beéne staied most vnnaturally killed himselfe and spilled his owne bloud being a Monarch that hath left a remembrance of valor to all posterities to whom both lyneally from himselfe and to others both eares and eyes the report and sight of his prowesse hath beéne vttered This famous and excellent Prince whose noblenes almost what Region hath not felt was so besotted with the sensuall deceit of maintayning his present pride that forgetting of him selfe he went beyonde the Maiesticall limits of his Princely heart The Care of Kingdomes whose superiour authority euery inferiour capacity and estate maintained by a submissiue condition cannot coniecture hath no greater an enemy then this subtyle snare of pride which Sathan layeth as a beautyfull bayte and entrapping engine by glosing deceyts to deceiue mens soules Not vnlike to a monster in Egypt who hauing one foote by nature framed like a Ducke and the other like a Dragon vsed to the water the fayre dissimulation of the one that he might the better satisfie the greédy disposition of the other This fayre offence therefore deuised by that enemy to humaine soules is beautyfull to deceaue and greédy to bereaue colouring with the Crocodyle vnder entycing teares the tyranny of his damnable effect singing with the Syrens sweét songs to couer and cloke the falsehood of an irreuocable mischiefe Be wise therefore with Vlisses to shun those intycing suares and foreseé with prouidence the pernicious deceyt of this cunning Crocodylisme For what kingdome hath former ages whereof we are care witnesses though not eye beholders left a memoryall for example sake vnto our forgetfull mindes by confusion brought to extirpacyon or ruyne but the same hath beéne wrought by proude and ambitious gouernement Babylon a place sometimes blessed thorow pride by reason of their ambitious thoughts was so vtterly left wast voyde of all famous and sumptuous building that were before the walles were wondered at for strength and fortitude Nowe not one stone commendes anothers strength being knit in vnity but all decayed and scattered lye in heapes Syracusa a part of that famous Isle Cicilia a City wondred at for beauty pompe and sumptuous showe in building whose scituation was such that the Sunne all day did shine vpon the same and in the middest the Moone did yeelde her light thorow pride did fall and in the night of their brauery vnexpected of the inhabitaunts were made a slaughtered pray vnto the barbarous enemy Demosthenes that worthy Grecian Orator and the lampe of Athens thorow out all the course of his Orations which hee made before their learned assemblies and graue audyence for admonition aboue all did vse this chiefe perswasion Citizens beware of pride a worme whose biting breédeth death yet is not felt before death And sooth to saye Athens had neuer Eclipsed her shining glorye perfected wyth morall studye of vertue bright with wisedome and knowledge and continuing his light with a lasting nourishment of learning had it not beéne by reason of this vyle and darkesome pride darkesome I tearme it for that it cloudes mens thoughts that as they woulde they cannot seé their owne deformity Democritus continually laughing at the fickle disposition of mens folly derided nothing more then their pride as the chiefest marke of their vanity the lyne wherby they direct the course of their godlesse life Againe Heraclitus whose contrary disposition of weéping bewrayed a wayling of mens senselesse soules did vse alone to lay his body downe and on the earth would thus bewayle their state Oh Earth whose senselesse disposition hath more sense then humaine to theé I will complaine of their folly and to theé for that thou best regardest me will I bewray my very secret thoughts Whether runne men thus headlong in their sinne as though their soules were puffed vp with pride With pride Earth are mens soules resolued to liue and thus bewayling of their vanity in teares hee did expresse the loue of his feruent affection chiefly exclaiming on their hauty pride Then England blush at thy owne folly that thy pride borrowed from euery bast inferiour climate neither gouerned by any religion or vertue the chiefest markes to know a perfect soule immaculate frō blots of filthy pride should make theé so brutish as with Nabuchodonozer to be transformed to a sauage beast Let neither Venice whose vanities presents a world of woes Fraunce whose pride exceédes the Persian Monarchies nor any forraigne Nation whatsoeuer hewe downe thy florishing tree and make thy beauty an habitation of wilde foules and birdes of the ayre Well might this pointe be seéme so large a discourse as neither the time nor oportunity of study can vnfoulde But this I say with Solon who beholding the people securely lyuing in all sensuall lust and greédy appetite braste sodainely into this abruption Death death oh death for euery one must dye Supposing that Oration sufficient to talke of naught but death where he saw nothing lesse then death to be respected And notable is that of Phillip of Macedon who knowing his owne frailety to be such that security would haue domination of his sinnefull soule hyred one in middest of his banquets pride shewes to cry to him Phillip Memento mori remember death the ende of thy iollity If Solon thought his Oration both pithy and wyse containing nothing but an exclamation of death being to admonish security to vigilancy vnwatchfulnes to warinesse prodigality to temperance sensuality to simple hospitality If Philip a Monarche whose memoriall vertues are yet in minde thought it sufficient continually to be admonished of death I hope I shall neither feéme friuolous nor to encurre the condemning of Herculis Cothurnos If I proceed some what farther in this necessary pointe more daungerous then any mortall death because it toucheth the immortallity of the soule the most precious parte of mans creation There is yet another parte more preposterous then this and though it seémeth lesse because the practisers are weaker and therefore the lesse able to withstand the powre of vanity Yet viewe it and finde it as an vnremooueable Rocke in the middest of the Sea for euery passenger to auoyde the fearefull daunger thereof Catterpillers cleaue aswell to the tender stalke of the Rose as to the toughe braunche of the tall Ashe Hisse not Adders where byrdes singe Crooke not Rauens where Doues feéde Roares not the Lyon where the Lambe grazeth on the greéne and springing grasse Euen so in the honorable sect of women honorable I tearme them because they are the heauenly creatures of God