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	lie_v	speak_v	1,709	5	4.3933	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89239	Naked truth, or, A plain discovery of the intrigues of amorous fops and humours of several other whimsical persons in a pleasant and profitable dialogue between a precious saint-like sister called Terpole and Mimologos, a scoffing buffoon / written by Don Francisco Baltheo de Montalvan, and faithfully translated out of the original by W.H., M.D.	Montalvan, Francisco Baltheo de.; W. H.	1673 (1673)	Wing M2483; ESTC R42790	21,050	79

in these dayes of more light or rather more light dayes to lay down themselves with their hole stubstance and now there is no great fear that they will Apostatize from their first principles although nature may be so prevailing in them that they may Fall back a little Terp You will never leave your Drolling Mimologue 't is strange you should affect this scurrilous sarcastical way Mim Come Come Terpole for all you look so demurely and speak so precisely as if you were such a Saint Yea though you turn up the white of your Eyes and make such a shew yet if my skil do'nt fail me in Physiognomy you look as if you would turn up somthing else too provided it be done in due time and place and so no scandal to the strait-laced Sisters Come you see I know you a little you are Pisello di buona cucina as the Italian Idiom is you are loose in the Hilts I 'le warrant you and now I hope I touch you to the quick I do the rather use this Gibing way which you charge upon me as a fault it seems because I would fain laugh you out of that silly rambling humour of yours that when you have a good Orthodox Preacher in your own Parish you should leave him and go a Pilgrimage two or three Miles it may be to bear such pitiful nonsensical men keep a babling who beat upon the Cushion more than their Text and make the Pulpit groan more than their Hearers whom you of the Sisterhood admire because he delivers all he saith by heart Oh say they a rare man he never looks upon a Book and indeed 't is no marvel for 't was a thing he never was used to I 'le hold you a good wager Terpole that I 'le make a better Sermon that never preached in my life than any of those sonorous Pulpit-Thumpers you use to hear and so work upon the Sisters by my Doctrine and overcome them so that they will be more ready than in times of yore when the old lusty puss was started the good old Cause I mean to bring in their Bodkins Thimbles and Marriage-Rings and all that they have and lay them down and themselves holy at my Devotion Terp Here is multum clamoris sed parum lanae as they say great boast but little roast I 'le warrant you Mim Well come and try and bring some of the Sisters with you and I 'le exercise them to purpose Terp By my truly I could find in my Heart to come if you be in earnest Mim Do'nt doubt that for I am serious but remember then to come Die veneris which is to morrow at Nine of the Clock in the Morning for I am best at morning exercise to Grubstreet at the Signe of the Naked Woman because that is a very convenient Conventicling place and I 'le be sure to keep touch with you in the mean time I 'le bid you farwell Terp I can hold up no longer now 't is so late 't is twelve a Clock for this Night I verily believe therefore I must go sleep Mim Good Night to you Terpole I 'le leave you to your rest Terp I wish you a good Nights rest Mimologue but remember your promise of exercising to morrow Mim I 'le warrant you do'nt fear it but I will be punctual Corina Good morrow Sir are you Mr. Morologue Mim I am no more a Logg than your self my Name is Mimologue Cor. Pardon the mistake of your Name Sir you are the person intended Mim Well! Go on what is your business with me Cor. My Mistriss Madam Terpole sent me to know whether you were come and were ready to exercise here as you promised she being at the next door at the Sign of the Green-Gown Mim Let her know I have been here this half Hour and come as well provided as I could in so short a time Cor. I shall readily perform your commands your servant Sir Mim Farewell sweet Heart Mim Hoh Good morrow Terpole you are come I see with the Brethren and Sisters you have brought to hear me Well I am none of the best gifted but I 'le perform as well as I can I pray walk into the next Room because that is most convenient for the purpose So 't is well now the company is come together I 'le begin My Beloved prick up your ears and hearken with all diligence as you shall find it Written for your instruction in the Second Book of Pseudology Cap. 3. v. 30. in these words Oh that men were wise and would consider what pleasure and profit there is in Lying and they would never speak Truth again Now beloved if you would find me hereafter never look for me in the Text for it may be I may never come at it again No more than those Rambling Pulpiteers you hear who are as far off from the Text as that unskilful Archer was from the mark whom when Diogenes saw ready to shoot he presently ran to the place where the Arrow was to be directed alledging this reason for it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that I might not be hit Well my Beloved the Text you have heard from which words I shall gather this plain lamping observation which flowes naturally from the Words viz that Lying is a very pleasant edifying and universally profitable thing all over the Christian World Now I shall speak to these words first by way of Explication Secondly by way of Application shutting up all with a word of Exhortation Lying Beloved is a word of great Latitude and extent As to its Pedigree I must tell you 't is of great Antiquity it comes of a very ancient Family the first Temptation that ever was it was a Lye But that you may know what Lying is you are to take notice that the credit of the Relator is that which makes the difference between Lying and speaking of Truth for a Lye believed is Truth and Truth not believed is a Lye and here I 'le illustrate this with a short story that concerns a Conventicling Brother who exercised upon the Butchers Wife very ardently she admiring him as many of the other Sisters did for his profound knowledge in revealing of mysteries and secrets or rather Mistress secrets you may perhaps guess whom I mean but I 'le do him that right not to name him because he is dead and gone and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a precept But the story is thus there was a plain farming Fellow in the Country that lived near the said Brother of the Congregational way that had a youth to his Son who though a Minor in Years yet was arived to a great maturity in all debauchery and notwithstanding the repeated admonitions of his Father he continued in his wicked Courses insomuch that his Father despairing that he could ever work upon him so as to reclaim him desired the said Teacher that he would exercise his Jurisdiction over him he being a person of such Authority among the Brotherhood and

omnibus una dabas One Tongue in Praise of thy great worth's to weak Which yields full matter for all Tongues to speak There are some other Women that I could mention though not that excell in the knowledge of Tongues for indeed since Men are so ill affected to their Tonguing of it so much they have lay'd aside the study of Languages Yet are adorned with many eminent qualities But they being now living their Modesty will not suffer them to hear their own commendations and so I shall forbear to name them by what I have said then I think it is apparent enough that Nature or rather the God of Nature hath not denyed Women parts and abilities sufficient for the acquiring the highest attainments and perfections that Men are capable of and that all kind of Knowledge and Virtue is as commendable in them as in Men. Therefore I cannot but Judge that Satyrical scomm that Francis Duke of Brittany used concerning Isabella the Daughter of Scotland savoured more of an humour than reason who when he understood that she had been studious and was learned said that a Woman was knowing enough when she knew the difference between her own Smock and her husbands Doublet Terp I am glad since you have dissented from me all along in our former dissertations that now at length we meet in Vno tertio And I give you many thanks for the right you have done our Sex Mim I hope the rest of the Sisters will have the same Sentiment that you have of my good inclinations towards them and that they will shew their forwardness upon occasion to pleasure me when I stand in need of them but it comes into my Mind Terpole to ask you another Question which I had almost forgot Since you have vvaded through the knowledge of so many Tongues Did you not learn Hebrew too among the rest Terp Yes I did learn that too so far as to read it and to give the Grammatical Construction of two or three of Davids Psalms for it being the holy Tongue the primitive Tongue and the Language that God revealed his Will to us in the old Testament I thought it was worth my enquiry into it Mim But there is another reason which you have omitted that seems to carry a great deal of force with it and might induce you to love this Tongue more than any other and that is because it hath more Cognation and Affinity with your sex than any other for it is to be read from the Right Hand to the Left and thereupon a good Author saith that Women and Hebrew are much alike they are best when read backward Terp You are still for your Puns and Joques but to be serious I wonder that since the Hebrew tongue is of such antiquitie and conduces so much to the right understanding of Scripture that it should be so much vilipended yea and exploded too and that by Men who would fain have the World believe that they are not inferiour to any for learning Mim There is no other account to be given of this but that it proceeds from ignorance and Envy for those persons that do contemn it are as the Elegant Moralist Plutarch expresses it like those that are troubled with blear Eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who cannot look upon any bright thing without great offence Such think to raise themselves to the Zenith of an huge Reputation by censuring and eclipsing of others that know more than they These persons deserve to be severely lashed but that I conceive 't will be time mispent they are so incorrigible I shall say no more now concerning such but this They being Blind stand more in need of pitty than reproof and being they refuse to have their Eyes opened and be led by Counsel a Dog with Bell about his Neck is fitter for them than good advice only in compassion to them I could find in my Heart to sound forth that doleful Ditty commonly used by Persons deprived of their sight Good people pitty the Blind But notwithstanding the knowledg of this Tongue is so decryed and depretiated by such men it is of great account among others that know how to value things rightly and thought to be very useful for the Ignorance of this Tongue hath been the occasion of many Errors not only in Learning but in Religion too for want of understanding the Equivocal word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies both an Horn and Light or Brightness as you find it 34 Exodus v 29. Moses most ridiculously is painted with Horns which is the cause of great laughter to the Jews and Arabians to see the Venerable old Prophet Metamorphosed into a Cornish Knight If all Men were as fottish and ignorant as some are what would have become of us think you as to the Holy Bible should we have received it without a great deal of mixture and corruption No surely it is the Jewes care and zeal that we are beholding to for preserving it in its native purity they were so strict and rigid in this kind that it is written in Baba Bathra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Joab killed his Master because he did the work of the Lord negligently he reading Deuteronomy c. 25. v. 19. Tinichi Zachar Amalec h. e. delebis masculum Amalec when he ought to have read Zecher Amalec h. e. memoriam Amalec This story too St. Hierom records as a very memorable thing if I be not mistaken in his exposition of the Sixth Chapter of Isaiah Now you see by this how necessary the knowledge of this Hebrew tongue is especially for men and it would do no harme if Women had a little smack of it as you say Terpole you have but your Smock Madam is more taking with Gallants But stay Where do we ramble this discourse of Languages was a thing Obiter mentioned and not mainly intended therefore I must remind you of what past before in reference to the Lecture You told me I remember who it was you heard at the Lecture but you did not acquaint me with the Subject matter of his Discourse Therefore I pray tell me now what Doctrine did this Stan-hup you spoke of before Teach or rather prattle Terp I must once again correct you for now you don 't only make a mock of Religion but also speak very improperly when you call it Teaching For we of the Conjugational Way term it Holding Forth Mim This is an heavy charge though I doubt not but to clear my self from the first imputation viz. of flouting at Religion although perhaps not from the second part of my charge as to impropiety of speech Terp But I hardly believe you can do either you are so obnoxious .. Mim I say as to the first part of my charge of scoffing at Religon in Truth I plead not guilty but as for this Mock Religion of Conventicling if I do make a Mock of it it is no great crime for it is but an holy Cheat at best who