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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	heart_n	speak_v	1,937	5	4.3317	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02643	The hunting of the fox: or, Flattery displayed The flatterers devise; a water-man looking one way, and rowing another, with this motto mel in ore, fel in corde. By H. H. Grayens.; Hunting of the fox.	Harflete, Henry, fl. 1653.	1632 (1632)	STC 12771; ESTC S117317	25,874	94

face another to slander him behinde his backe hee is one that to please some will backbite and detract from others The flatterer that gives his neighbour an ill name is halse a hangman who with the sharp razour of his tongue doth cut his throat Cum actum est de nomine actum est de homine Hee that hath an ill name is halfe-haaged the tongue is a dangerous thing if ill vsed though it cannot prevaile alwayes ad interitum hominis yet it will ad interitum nominis if it cannot murther yet it will murmure the head of Iohn was cut off with the foote of a vvoman and a mans good name divers times is cut off by the tongue of a man these flatterers are such as do famam ex infamia comparare climbe to merit praise by the stayres of others disgrace These are the fire-brands of the devill if thou hearkens to them they will burne thee in thine eare or if thou hearkenest to them thou hast a devill in thine care as they in their tongues I have done with the object of Flattery I come at last to the Signes of a Flatterer The first signe is to praise a man though absent beyond his deserts so saith Aquinas Adulator supra debitum virtutis modum verbis hominem delectare studet A flatterer doth seeke to delight a man by praising others beyond their merits The second signe is to praise a man to his face for this is but to puffe a man vp with pride and selfe-conceit for saith one it is an easie thing to make men beleeve they be better then they be but you may flatter some vvomen beyond the knowledge of themselues Wee ought not to be proud of the flatterers praise for anothers dispraise can soone blemish it but anothers opinion of thee concernes thee not so much as thine of thy selfe in which thou shouldst not be partiall The third signe is if vpon small distasts slacks his acquaintance then he was not a friend but a flatterer for a good Bow is not easily broken vnlesse it be extreamly overdrawne nor a well grounded affection fullied with the smallest distasts The fourth and last signe hee is a tale-bearer if he doth backbite another and tell thee long tales to the disgrace of another hee is a flatterer for be sure hee spares not to doe the like of thee to another this is confirmed Pro. 18. 8. 26. 22. Psal. 41. 6. Hee hath a devided tongue of two humours like Ptolomies man or as of two colours white and blacke white with a complementall courtesie to thy face and blacke with a defaming iniury behind thy back hee vses his tongue as Ioab did his hand hee salutes and stabs the same man with the same tongue beleeve him not for he will deceive thee Thus have I ript open the flattering Fox I hope you may now partly know him and knowing him avoid him for there is no truth but deceit in him And now thou flatterer I speake to thee repent of thy sinnes which by flatteries meanes doe accompany thee lying covetousnesse deceit malice ambition hypocrsie and what not Panaces the hearbe was good for all diseases so this hearbe Repentance applied to thy heart is good for these and all other thy foule and soule-diseases repent that God may forgive thee repent of all or else of none for God will forgive thee all or none Larga Dei pietas veniam non dimidiabit Aut nihil aut totum te lachrymante dabit FINIS Eccl. 1. 1. Psal. 39. 6. Wicked hunt 1. Vi by force 2. Fraude by craft August 〈◊〉 vita moribus Christi Metaphoricall hunting 〈◊〉 ●…d ●…at flat●… is ●…ry is 〈◊〉 1. It is the worst of vices Worst of vices 1. Because i●… counte ●…its all vices Bern. super Cant ser. ●…6 2. Because it is hated 1. Of God 2. Of man Tully Sol. 1. Sol. 2. 3. Be●… it preser●… vi ces 2 Infectious vice 3. A hurtfull vice 4. A scoffing vice Diogen 5. A fawning vice Aquin. 22. Friendship what it is 〈◊〉 Pro. 26 24. Pro. 26. 28. Laer●… in vit●… D●…gen Tul. in Lalio Lingua Pro. 36. 11. Ob. Ans. Ob. Ans. Ob. Ans. Lib. 4. Et●… cap. 6. Super Ezek lib. 1. cap. 9.

hi ●…nquam saith Laeliu●… they sometimes speake truth these never Receive then Solomons advise le●…t hee deceive you by his faire-tongued devises Though hee speake fairely or favourably beleeve him not so I leave his fine and fained tongue and come to his vaine Ends. Which are twofold his Policy where is the Obiect of his policy and that is favour to get favour Extent of the object for som worldly respect Intent to deceive First the obiect of his policie and that is To get favour The flatterers policie is but a craftie and worldly policy It is most sure that he is the worlds friend and Gods foe For crafty knavish and worldly policy and true and religious piety never shake hands together Policie is derived from the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in our English tongue is termed civility but I am sure the flatterers policy is but knavish civility the confines of his policy reaches to a mans favour and deceit sets a full period to his policy To be in a mans favour is but to bee well esteemed of him or to have the favourable aspect of his countenance and respect of his heart I thinke it is strange that the tur●…ing of a favourable countenance vpo●… a man should make a man turne devill To bee a devill in heart a Saint in tongue To insinuate is the devils practise and the flatterer is but the devils Ape These kinde of vvretches are a kinde of mercenary wretches they prostrate themselues thereby to suck out private advantage such a one vvas Iehonadab 2 Sam. 13. who being destitute of all grace did prostitute his service to Ammon to be a gracelesse approver and shamelesse procurer of Ammons shamefull lust that so being a favourer of Ammons incestuous minde he might the better insinuate himselfe into Ammons favour Thus for the object now followes the 2. Extent For some worldly respect We read of a three-fold love Amor 1. Purus 2. Lascivus 3. Quaerens vtile The first is a pure love the second lascivious the third worldly The first is a stranger to the flatterer with the second hee may with the third hee alwayes doth entertaine his friend which shewes him to bee a temporiz●…r Hee loves his friend as long as hee can live by his friend he is a faire company-keeper as long as he is a faire tongue-keeper hoping by faire words to obtaine his worldly desire if you can finde in your heart to give him presently hee will finde in his heart to love you everlastingly but yet Aes in praesenti imperfectum format amorem His love is lame of one foote which makes him goe halting hee is like vnto a Hawke who getting into the vvide vvorld vvith a full belly gives his Master a kinde farewell but if once he finde neede and want hee will againe stoope to the lure The Greeke vvord for the world is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies saire which may shew vs thus much that a faire-tongued flatterer is a meere worldling 't is the property of a vvorldling to faine himselfe a friend as long as he can gaine by his friend I would have every good man to beware of this pocket-friend Thus have I done with his policy his first end I come to his second end by which he intends Deceit To deceive Hee doth invont many good words thereby the more easily to circumvent his friend he is like the horse-stealer that strokes the horse with a sweet Glove whose end is to cheat him of his good cheare for hee gets vpon his backe and rides him out of his Pasture Wee read in the Prou. 29. 5. That a man that flat●…ereth his neighbour spreads a net for his feete The flatterer playes the fowler the poore silly mistrustlesse friend is his bird and his faire cunning and close words the nett hee spreads to deceive him Fistula dulce canit volucrem dum decipit auceps saith the Poet. Pindarus calls the deceitfull man a flatterer Impossibile est saith hee vt cives dolosus qui est adulator forte aliquod sincerum verbum proferat It is impossible that a deceitfull Citizen who is a flatterer should speake a true word from his heart and flattery is not onely deceitfull but it is cruelties partner Fallax crudelis res est adulatio saith Saint Austin and therefore Felicem accipimus qui fallacem non recepit Wee account him happy that shunnes the flatterers acquaintance For hee that vvarily receives the deceiving flatterer may easily perceive a cheating knave but follow him not lest hee leade you to hell for roaring and drinking is the horse-way to hell and whoring and cheating is the foote-way to that infernall pitt and there I leave his deceit and come to his 4. Hypocrisie Pretending what he intends not He seemes what hee is not and that is player-like Extremum injustitiae genus est iustum haberi qui iustus non est saith Plato T' is the highest kinde of injustice for a man to be accounted just true and honest who indeed is not so A man had better trust to an enemie that seemes as he is then to a friend that seemes as he is not For multo melius de quibusdam acerbi inimici merentur quam illi amici qui dulces videntur acerbi vere sunt The greatest enemie deserues better at a mans hand then that friend which seemes to be his loving friend but indeed is his greatest foe and from such a friend Libera me Domine Thus have I done with the Definition of flattery I come now to the Distribution which demonstrates the causes object signes of flattery First for the Causes which are foure The cause Efficient Materiall Formall Finall First for the efficient cause of flattery and that is the Devill He makes a man a flatterer for these two are great friends and there is a kinde of a conjunction copulative that knits these two together they are commonly in league soothing vp one another as mutuall flatterers they never meet without shaking of hands such mutuall fellowship is there betwixt them as betweene prosperity and pride vvhich are seldome perswaded to part company but here is the difference the devill is the Master and the flatterer is his Schaller who being no good and skilfull Grammarian teaches him to speake false Latine his Schoole is the flatterers heart and quando adulatio linguâ resideat diabolus corde insidet When as flattery is resident in the tongue as porter the devill keepes Court and sits president in the heart as King and the chiefe Ruler and wheresoever you see a flatterer you may say Ibi diabolus He is the devils child too and as like the father as hee can possibly looke he is the father of lyes Ioh. 8. 44. and there is no lyar like the deceitfull flatterer wherefore lying and flattery are joyned together Psal. 78. 36. The devill began to flatter our first parents in Paradise and there hee first put out his