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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	word_n	world_n	worldling_n	39	3	11.7417	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18066	The voyage of the wandering knight. Deuised by Iohn Carthenie, a Frenchman: and translated out of French into English, by VVilliam Goodyear of South-hampton merchant. A vvorke vvorthie of reading, and dedicated to the Right worshipfull Sir Frauncis Drake, Knight; Voyage du chevalier errant. English	Cartigny, Jean de, 1520?-1578.; Norman, Robert, fl. 1590.; Goodyear, William.	1581 (1581)	STC 4700; ESTC S104901	93,834	138

foolish worldlings harken you vessells of Voluptuousnesse This teacheth you assuredly wherein consisteth all your Felicitie and how it is damnable Consider S. Iohns wordes That the world shal passe the concupiscēce of the same What meneth he by y e world nothing else but as S. Austen saith All worldlings louers of Voluptuousnes which prefer visible things before inuisible y e flesh before the spirit Satan before Iesus Christ euen as commonly we cal a house good or bad according to the vsage of thē y t dwel in it The eye the flesh y e pompe of lyfe is the worldlings felicitie y t is their heauen If all goodnes come of God as most true it is that concupiscence of the eie of the flesh the pride or pomp of lyfe cōmeth of the diuell are not they deceiued y t thinks it good or fixe their affection to follow it I could saie ther is a gnawing conscience to torment the worldlings I could say y t the voluptuous man hath the wrath of God hanging ouer his head I could saie eternall death is reserued for his reward After excessiue eating drinking comes surfets agues head-ach losse of wit dropsies losse of appetite griping in y e guts palsies weakening of y e body infamy shame Now to Venory wherin y e voluptuous man taketh such plesure as in nothing more First what pains what sorows what tormēts anguish hath the lewd louer before he can cōpasse his desire Their desire cannot be atchieued without losse For we sée that lecherie and gluttonie bréedeth pouertie which is a very heauy burthen But I imagine it costeth nothing as oftentimes it chaunceth mouing such as be rich yet notwithstanding they féele euen what follows namely losse of body soule Touching the sin of lecherie a man therein is like vnto a beast For in his blinde delight he is depriued of reason therfore y e deede declareth it selfe to bée damnable This sin bringeth her reward in this world as dropsies palsies leprosies gowtes burnings botches French poxe which is y e very worst the commonnest y e loathsomest the most infectious disease of al besids y t banishmēt frō al honest company decay of strength losse of good name fame Doe you count him a happy man which spends his daies in drōkennesse lechery hauing heere so many hels Abstinence or forbearance doth not warne thē to take héed therof though it be their onely medicine Now touching concupiscence of y e eyes wherby couetousnesse desire of riches is vnderstood First though gold siluer be but carth what vexation hath the couetous man to atchiue it He saileth ouer tempestuous seas he climbeth ouer monstrous moūtains he diggeth déepe into y e bowels of the earth he suffereth hunger thirst colde heat a thousand mischiefs One is drowned another kild the third robbed he y t hath obteined his purpose liueth in feare to lose it the couetous man suspects euery body It is not cofers ful of coine y t can make men happy Our Sauiour tearms it trash thornes because it pricks y e hart corrupteth both body soule S. Paul saith He that wisheth wealth in the world falleth into temptation Is not Iudas an example who in a case of couetousnesse hanged himselfe Now to concupiscence of pride He y t hath honour authoritie might estimation dignitie in the world thinketh he is happy but such are loden w t vnhappinesse For what paines labour vexation endures y e ambitious man before he can come to dignitie honour authoritie And when he hath it with all these vexations he is not sure how long he shal enioy it We see oftentimes Fortune turnes hir whéele that the ambitious ende their liues with infamye Take an example of Priamus king of Troy who flourished in friendes riches honour and might kinred and children did not he and his ofspring y e greatest part of them die most miserably as for y e rest they became seruitudes wer at length kild in Troy Croesus king of the Lydians as rich mightie as he was after he had reigned .xv. years he was vanquished by king Cirus lost his realme was carried away captiue led all y e rest of his life like a slaue Dionysius the cowardly king of Sicil was hunted out of his realme and became so poore that hée kept a Schoole in Corinthe by teaching little children he got his liuing verie poorely God wot and beggerly Mithridates king of Pontus a rich and mightie Prince he subdued .xxii. Nations wherein some saye all languages were spoken yet he for all that after he had wearied the world with warres was forsaken of his owne people pursued by his owne sonne ouercome by subtiltie insomuch that he was glad to desire a French man to kill him who did so and that was his end Valerianus the great Emperour of Rome euen he that persecuted the Christians and did much mischiefe was taken by his enimie the king of Persia who against the lawe of armes made him lye downe whiles he troad on his back to leape on his horse Baiasethes the fourth king of the Turkes was vanquished by Tamerlanes a Tartarian and king of Scithia who kept him in a cage like a beast and with a golden chaine led him like a Spaniell throughout all the armie yea he was glad to féede vnder Tamerlanes table like a dogge And therfore let this be a conclusion that honour authoritie dignitie is no heritage Moreouer what labours trauailes vexations perills do Princes passe through euen at this present to mainteine themselues in their estates What warres and slaughters haue bene committed partly to get and partly to kéepe rule and regiment whereby you may perceiue that worldly felicitie is ful of ficklenes Ambitious worldlings cannot play with their pleasures if they haue not first passed some of these vexations In youth men runne their race without regard of conscience but when age comes on nothing left for lust whē white haires a walking staffe or crutch a paire of spectacles Cotton put in the eares when none of these things can helpe him then must he endeauour the gnawing of conscience which Voluptuousnesse kept hidden a long time Whatsoeuer is pleasant to youth the same is vnpleasant to age And what comfort may an olde man conceiue when he can thinke vppon no time of his youth that was well spent and vertuously bestowed What discomfort is it when cōscience accuses the old man of his young yeares wickedly wasted But as the elect line in hope so doe the reprobate in dispaire He that followeth Voluptuousnesse is Gods enimie For Saint Iames saith He that loues the world hateth God You may well thinke that sin is hated of God when he suffered his onelye sonne to dye vppon the Altar of the crosse for this ende that sinne should not bée vnpunished And why was it but because the sinnes of Adam