Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	deceive_v	unlikely_a	16	3	16.2807	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00410	Questions of profitable and pleasant concernings talked of by two olde seniors, the one an ancient retired gentleman, the other a midling or new vpstart frankeling, vnder an oake in Kenelworth Parke, where they were met by an accident to defend the partching heate of a hoate day, in grasse or buck-hunting time called by the reporter the display of vaine life, together with a panacea or suppling plaister to cure if it were possible, the principall diseases wherewith this present time is especially vexed.	O. B., fl. 1594.	1594 (1594)	STC 1054; ESTC S120718	71,141	94

about to deceiue you with darkenesse of words If a field be said to haue eyes a wood may likewise haue eares But whether you heare me not or list not to beleeue me the likelihood hereof shall carrie me to credit the same knowing that matters of lesse proofe and more vnlikely trueth haue bene receiued from worse grounds and beginnings then this commeth from But you may see how the loue I beare you hath carried me to clime vnknowne hauntes and such difficult pathes as there are no steppes or traces left mee to follow therefore you may say it is like to proue a hard iourney to a weake traueller Dunst Now I better remember my selfe I haue read many stories agreeing with your worthies in their notable deedes and exploites done by couragious and bold attempts Huddle I will not seeke to winne you by extremitie of speeches but leaue you to the libertie of your owne better conceauings To keepe whole the vnderstanding of the matter I will come to that which shall neereliest agree with that I said before After this principall Worthie was enthronized by others himselfe was also addicted and disposed for the better conseruation of all things in order in the integritie of his iudgement and discernings to consider with rewards and dignities such deseruers and beautified mindes as himselfe had seene forward by ready and feruent dispositions placing and crediting vnto them for their tryed and approoued seruices such degree of trust and superioritie as might both stand in stead towards a recompence of their trauailes and also the more incourage them to go on with him in perfecting things necessarie to vphold societies and vocations wherevnto he had lately sorted the whole people Afterward such of all sorts as had defected and come short in sufficiencie to performe matters and places committed vnto them so as the rest receiued losse and hinderance by their fault or negligence such iniurious deceiuers were deposed thrust downe and disfranchised as persons vnfit to become the strong vertues and properties beseeming men euer after compelled to exercise weake things and withall enioyned to liue out the rest of their dayes in the company and conuersation of women What occasion soeuer notwithstanding vrging the vse of them such were neuer recalled nor suffered to execute duties amongst men Dun. That you may perceiue the warmth my beleefe hath catcht through your most excellent description I will open vnto you my conceiuing of your speeches by the processe whereof I gather you meane to deriue Kings and Princes from the most especiall deseruing worthy who from successour to successour haue still added ornaments of rare excellencies to the intent that those who from time to time haue issued from them might through their cleare and shining perfections be discerned to haue issued from such noble famous and renowmed progenitours Prouing further withall that such high prowesse and meritorious parts neuer fading but euer more and more encreasing haue long sithence through the dignitie and glory of notable deeds by the hand of God bene exalted into throne and Maiestie wherein they sit hauing in themselues through him sufficient power and abilitie enough to nobilitate and make famous whomsoeuer they may please to nominate appoint and choose Hud I thinke it hath bin the warmth of gentle bloud which beating within your brest hath thrust out this formalitie you indent your words withall could my consent helpe towards it you should be made a gentle maister Scriuener for your orderly frame of words are so well suted that as me thinketh you haue much amended the old patterne you began with in the morning If you mistake me in sence also no worse hereafter it shall not repent me to talke of this fashion yet a while longer with you Dunst Though of my selfe it soundeth not well yet without brag be it spoken there be Gentlemen of bloud in this countrey that sit not so high in the subsidie booke neither are rated in furnitures and setting out of men to the warres in sort as I am Hud Herein you deceaue me little I euer tooke you fitter for the land then the sea How can you proue a good marchant that are not willingly pleased with the venture of a little without grudging to gaine infinitlie and continually I doubt me if her Maiesties most gratious prouidence exceeded not the beneuolent respects you beare euen to your self you could not so quietly haue encreased your ability nor brought your wealth to that plenty you now enioy it but might haue bene indangered to haue lost somewhat of that you haue long sithence through her safe gouernment and defence laid vp hoords robbing the common-wealth of the due vses they were made and should serue for There are too many both vnmercifull and most vnthankfull men who repine and are more troubled with the departure of a from their superfluitie and abounding plentie then other good men are from their reasonable and competent abilities which they readily shew to the vttermost by their good intents I partly know them you stretch your superlatiue degree of comparisons at or if I do not thus much generally I can say of all Gentlemen that their forwardnesse to haue such things in a readinesse for themselues if need should so require and with setting out their sonnes in seruices already past that if you should be rated as they becommingly prepare themselues you would thinke your selfe robbed of that you bestow in that sort of and for the safetie of your selfe and your goods I confesse you want no abilitie with the formost to performe necessarie seruices could your willing heart consent to the same as I said to your owne good I trust for Subsidies Gentlemens lands and their other values are more readily discerned and farre more seruiceable then your buried pelse laid vp for the deuill and his kingdome of darknesse Had you the lamentable experience but of one daies warres which God keepe vs from you would then call for twentie yeares subsidies and bring them in as willingly as you now burie and obseure them from the seruice of the realme For all your complaining I doubt not but once in the yeare you squit out a commoditie to ingrate vpon the Gentlemans necessitie you meane with buying eyther his whole yeares wood-sale his croppe on the ground or some other out-lying commoditie that shall goe neare to defray your whole yeares charges the marriage of your children excepted Dunstable Had I thought your maistership would haue taken my free speeches in so ill part which concerned onely my selfe and my ready abilitie to forward to my power my Prince her occasions and seruices I would haue forborne to haue vttered my minde wherein I onely grieued that any should exempt themselues or forbeare to extend their vttermost helpe and indeuour in such good workes My intent was not to repine at my owne easie charges especially to performe so necessarie a dutie If it please you to forget my foolish speeches and scattering questions beginning where