Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	counsel_n	young_a	youth_n	20	3	7.8856	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02775	Pierces supererogation or A new prayse of the old asse A preparatiue to certaine larger discourses, intituled Nashes s. fame. Gabriell Haruey.	Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631.	1593 (1593)	STC 12903; ESTC S103899	142,548	254

is by nature and kinde an ennemy of the good vnlesse some-body imagine that the seede and roote of a naughty Sycophant ought to remaine in the Citty as it were for store or good husbandry Demosthenes was as deepely wise as highly eloquent and hath many such notable sentences as it were Caueats or Prouisoes against the daungerous ennemies of that flourishing Citty and especially against Calumniatours whose viperous sting hee could by no meanes avoide albeit otherwise such an Oratour as could allure heartes with perswasion or coniure mindes with astonishment I would no other Citty loued figges or must an other Citty of necessity loue figges because it is growne an other Athens a mother of eloquence a nurse of learning a grandame of valour a seat of honor and as Aristotle termed Athens a garden of Alcinous wherein one fruite ripeneth vpon an other one peare vppon an other one grape vpon an other and one figge vppon an other The Sycophant be his owne interpreter if he may be licensed or permitted to bee his owne caruer too much good may it doe him and sweete digestion geue him ioy of his dainety figg I must haue a little care of one that cānot easily brucke vnreasonable sawcinesse would be loth to see the garden of Alcinous made the garden of Greene or Motley It was wont to be said by way of a Prouerbe Hee that will be made a sheepe shall find wolues inough but forsooth this exceeding-wise world is a great Asse-maker and he that will suffer himselfe to be proclaimed an Asse in printe shall bee sure neuer to want loade and loade inough Who so ready to call her neighbour a skold as the rankest skold of the parish or who so forward to accuse to debase to reuile to crow-treade an other as the arrantest fellow in a country Let his owne mouth be his pasport or his owne penne his warrant who so leawd as his greatest aduersary modesty or so honest as his deerest frend villany or so learned as his learnedest counsell vanity or so wise as his profoundest Autor young Apuleius What familiar spirite of the Ayre or fire like the glibb nimble witt of young Apuleius or where is the Eloquence that should describe the particular perfections of young Apuleius Prudence may borrow discretion Logique arguments Rhetorique coulours Phantasy conceites Steele an edge and Gold a luster of young Apuleius O the rare and queint Inuention ô the gallant and gorgeous Elocution ô the braue and admirable amplifications ó the artificiall and fine extenuations ô the liuely pourtraitures of egregious prayses and disprayses ô the cunning and straunge mingle-mangles ô the pithy iestes and maruelous girdes of yong Apuleius the very prodigality of Art and Nature What greater impossibility then to decipher the high and mighty stile of young Apuleius without a liberall portion of the same eleuate spirite Happy the old father that begat and thrise happy the sweete Muses that suckled and fostered young Apuleius Till Admiration hath found-out a smoother and tricksier quill for the purpose Desire must be content to leaue the supple and tidy constitution of his omni-sufficient Witt vndisplayed Onely it becommeth gentle mindes to yeeld themselues thanckefull and to tender their bounden duety to that inestimable pearle of Eloquence for this precious glimze of his incomprehensible valour one shorte Maxime but more worth then all the Axioms of Aristotle or the Idees of Plato or the Aphorismes of Hippocrates or the Paragraphes of luftinian He knoweth not to manage his penne that was not born with an Affe in his mouth a foole in his throate and a knaue in his whole body Simple men may write against other or pleade for themselues but they cannot confute cuttingly like a hackster of Queen-Hith or bellow lustely like the foreman of the Heard I goe not about to discouer an Asse in an Oxes hide hee needeth no other to pull him by the famous eares that is so hasty to descry and so busy to bestirre his wisest partes but what a notable Asse indeede was I that sought the winges of a mounting Pegasus or a stying Phenix where I found the head feete of a braying creature Some promises are desperate debtes and many threatninges empty cloudes or rather armies fighting in the ayre terrible visions Simplicity cannot dubble and plaine dealing will not dissemble I looked either for a fine-witted man as quicke as quick-siluer that with a nimble dexterity of liuely conceite and exquisite secretaryship would out-runne mee many hundred miles in the course of his dainty deuises a delicate minion or some terrible bombarder of tearmes as wilde as wildfire that at the first flash of his fury would leaue me thunder-stricken vpon the ground or at the last volley of his outrage would batter me to dust and ashes A redoubted aduersary But the trimine silke-worme I looked-for as it were in a proper contempt of common finenesse prooueth but a silly glow-woorme and the dreadfull enginer of phrases in steede of thunderboltes shooteth nothing but dogboltes and catboltes and the homeliest boltes of rude folly Such arrant confuting stuffe as neuer print saw compiled together till ma●…ster Villany became an Autor and Sir Nash a gentleman Printers take hede how ye play the Heralds some lusty gentlemen of the maker can no sooner bare a Goose-quill or a Woodcockes seather in their shield but they are like the renowmed Lobbelinus when hee had gotten a new coate and take vpon them without pitty or mercy like the onely Lordes of the field If euer Esquier raued with conceit of his new Armes it is Danters gentleman that mightily despiseth whatsoeuer hee beholdeth from the high turret of his creast and cranckly spitteth vppon the heads of some that were not greatly acquaynted with such familiar enterteinement His best frende be his Iudge and I appeale to my worst ennemy whether he euer read a more pestilent example of prostituted Impudency Were hee not a kinseman of the foresayd viper a Dog in malice a Calfe in witt an Oxe in learning and an Asse in discretion time shall cronicle him as he is was it possible that any mā should haue bestowed some broad and loud tearmes as he hath done Who could abide it without actuall reuenge but hee that enterteineth spite with a smile maketh a pastime of Straunge Newes turneth choler into sanguine vineger into wine vexation into sport and hath a salue for a greater sore Come young Sophisters you that affecte raylinge in your disputations and with a clamorous howte would set the Philosophy schooles non plus come olde cutters you that vse to make dowty frayes in the streetes and would hack-it terribly come hee-and shee-scoldes you that loue to pleade-it-out inuincibly at the barre of the dunghill will rather loose your liues then the last word come busy commotioners you that carry a world of quarrelous wits and mutinous tounges in your heads come most-redowted Momus you that will sternely keepe heauen and

Turke and now the garland of a soueraine crowne When young Kings haue such a care of their flourishing Prime and like Cato are ready to render an accompt of their vacant howers as if Aprill were their Iuly and May their August how should gentlemen of yeeres employ the golden talent of their Industry and trauaile with what feruency with what vigour with what zeale with what incessant and indefatigable endeour Phy vpon fooleries there be honourable woerkers to doe and notable workes to read The afore-named Bar●…as whome elsewhere I haue stiled the Treasurer of Humanity and the Ieweller of Diuinity for the highnesse of his subiect and the maiesty of his verse nothing inferiour vnto Dante whome some Italians preferre before Virgil or Homer a right inspited and enrauished Poet full of chosen graue profound venerable and stately matter euen in the next Degree to the sacred and reuerend stile of heauenly Diuinity it selfe In a manner the onely Poet whome Vrany hath voutsafed to Laureate with her owne heauenly hand and worthy to bee alleadged of Diuines and Counsellours as Homer is quoted of Philosophers Oratours Many of his solemne verses are oracles one Bartas that is one French Salomō more weighty in stern and mighty counsell then the Seauen Sages of Greece Neuer more beauty in vulgar Languages but his stile addeth fauour and grace to beauty and in a goodly Boddy representeth a puissant Soule How few verses carry such a personage of state or how few argumentes such a spirite of maiesty Or where is the diuine instincte that can sufficiently commend such a volume of celestiall inspiration What a iudgement hath the noble youth the haruest of the Spring the sapp of Apollos tree the diademe of the Muses that leaueth the enticingest flowers of delite to reape the maturest fruites of wisedome Happy plants that speedily shew-foorth their generous nature and a soueraigne good possesseth those worthy mindes that suffer not their affections to be inueigled or entangled with any vnworthy thought Great Excercises become great personages as the Magnes approoueth his Nobility in commaunding Iron and taming the Sea baser or meaner pastimes belong vnto meaner Persons as Iett discouereth his gentry in drawing chaffe haires and such trifles A meete qualitie for Iett or a pretty feate for Amber to iuggle chaffe festues or the like weighty burdens but excellent mindes are employed like the noble Magnes and euer conuersant either in effecting or in perusing or in penning excellent workes It were an impossible attempte to do right vnto the great Captaine Monsieur de la Noë and the braue soldiour the French King himselfe two terrible thunderboltes of warre and two impetuous whirlewinds of the Field whose writinges are like their actions resolute effectuall valiant politique vigorous full of aëry fiery spirite honourable renowned wheresoeuer Valour hath a mouth or Vertue a pen. Could the Warlie Horse speake as he can runne and fight he would tell them they are hoat Knightes and could the bluddy Sword write as it can sheare it would dedicate a volume of Fury vnto the one and a monument of Victory vnto the other Albeit men should be malitious or forgetfull Spite is malitious and Ingratitude forgetfull yet Prowesse hath a Clouen Tounge and teacheth Admiration in a fiery language to pleade the glorious honour of emproued valiancy Some accuse their destiny but blessed Key that openeth such lockes and lucky most lucky fortune that yeeldeth such ve●…tue Braue Chiualry a continuall witnesse of their valour and terribility in warre and gallant Industry the dayly bread of their life in peace or truce Report shining Sunne the dayes worke of the King and burning Candle relat●… his Nightes-studdy and both ridd me of an 〈◊〉 For who euer praysed the wonders of Heauen And what an infinite course were it to runne-thorough the particular commendations of the famous redoubted 〈◊〉 or then 〈◊〉 pregnant writers of this age euen in the most-puissant Heroieall and Argonauticall kinde Nimble Entelechy hath beene a straunger in some Countries albeit a renowned Citisen of Greece and a free Denisen of Italy Spaine Fra●…nce and Germany but wellcome the most-naturall inhabitant of the 〈◊〉 the faile of the ship the flight of the bowe the shott of the gunne the wing of the Eagle the quintessence of the minde the course of the sunne the motion of the heauens the influence of the starres the heate of the fire the lightnesse of the Ayer the swiftnesse of the winde the streame of the water the frutefulnesse of the Earth the singularitie of this age and thanke thy most-vigorous felfe for so many precious workes of diuine furie and powerable consequence respectiuely comparable with the richest Treasuries and brauest armories of Antiquitie Thvise happie or rather a thousand times-happie Creature that with most aduantage of all honorable opportunities with the extremest possibilitie of his whole powers inward or outward emploieth the most-excellent excellencie of humane or diuine Nature Other Secretes of Nature and Arte deserue an high reputation in their seuerall degrees and may challenge a souerain interteinement in their speciall kinds but Entelechy is the mysterie of mysteries vnder heauen and the head-spring of the powerfullest Vertues that diuinitie infuseth humanitie imbraceth Philosophie admireth wisedome practiseth Industrie emproueth valour extendeth or he conceiued that conceiuing the wonderfull faculties of the mind astonished with the incredible force of a rauished enthusiasticall spirite in a profound contemplation of that eleuate and transcendent capacitie as it were in a deepe ecstasie or Seraphicall vision most-pathetically cryed-out ô magnum miraculum Homo No maruel ô great miracle ô most powerful Entelechy though thou seemist A Pilgrim to Dametas that art the Familiar Spirite of Musidorus what wōder though he empeach thy estimation that despiseth the graces of God flowteth the constellations of heauē frumpeth the operations of nature mocketh the effectuallest auayllablest Arts disdayneth the name of Industrie or Honesty scometh whatsoeuer may appeare Vertuous fawneth onely vpon his owne conceits claweth only his owne fauorits and quippeth bourdeth girdeth asseth the excellētest writers of whatsoeuer note that tickle not his wāton sense Nothing memorable or remarkable with hm that feasteth not the riotous appetite of the ribald or the humorous conceit of the phātast It is his S. Fame to be the infamy of learning his reformatiō to be the corruption of his reader his felicitie to be the miserie of youth his health to be the scurfe of the Citie the scabbe of the Vniuersitie the bile of the Realme his saluation to be the damnation of whatsoeuer is termed good or accounted honest Sweet Gentlemen and florishing youthes euer aime at the right line of Arte and Vertue of the one for knowledge of the other for valour and let the crooked rectifie itselfe Resolution wandreth not like an ignorant Traueller but in euery enterprise in euery affaire in euery studdie in euery cogitation leuelleth at some certaintie and