Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	condition_n	young_a	youth_n	14	3	8.1418	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16657	The English gentleman containing sundry excellent rules or exquisite observations, tending to direction of every gentleman, of selecter ranke and qualitie; how to demeane or accommodate himselfe in the manage of publike or private affaires. By Richard Brathwait Esq.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 3563; ESTC S104636	349,718	488

such impression in that State or Kingdome where the injury is offered as Hate lives and survives the life of many ages crying out with those incensed Greekes The time will come when mightie Troy must fall Where Priams race must be extinguish'd all But wee are principally to discourse of the former Branch to wit of proper or personall Revenge wherein wee shall observe sundry Occurrents right worthy our serious consideration That terme as I said before usually called Reputation hath brought much generous bloud to effusion especially amongst such Qui magis sunt soliciti vani nominis quÃ m propriae salutis Prizing vain-glory above safetie esteeme of valour above securitie of person And amongst these may I truly ranke our Martiall Duellists who many times upon a Taverne quarrell are brought to shed their dearest bloud which might have beene employed better in defence of their Countrey or resistance of proud Infidels And what is it which moves them to these extremes but as they seeme to pretend their Reputation is engaged their Opinion in the eye of the world called in question if they should sit downe with such apparant disgrace But shall I answer them The opinion of their valour indeed is brought in question but by whom not by men of equall temper or maturer judgement who measure their censures not by the Last of rash opinion but just consideration For these cannot imagine how Reputation should be brought in question by any indiscreet terme uttered over a pot whereof perchance the Speaker is ignorant at least what it meant But of these distempered Roisters whose only judgement consists in taking offence and valour in making a flourish of these I have seene One in the folly of my youth but could not rightly observe till my riper age whose braving condition having some young gooselin to worke on would have made you confident of his valour instancing what dangerous exploits hee had attempted and atchieved what single fields hee had pitched and how bravely he came off yet on my conscience the Battell of the Pygmeies might have equall'd his both for truth and resolution Yet I have noted such as these to be the Bellowes which blow the fire of all uncivill quarrells suggesting to young Gentlemen whose want of experience makes them too credulous matter of Revenge by aggravating each circumstance to enrage â—heir hot bloud the more Some others there are of this band which I have likewise observed and they are taken for grave Censors or Moderators if any difference occur amongst Young Gentlemen And these have beene Men in their time at least accounted so but now their fortunes falling to an ebbe having drawne out their time in expence above their meanes they are enforced and well it were if Misery forced them not to worse to erect a Sconce whereto the Roarers make recourse as to their Rendevou And hereto also resorts the raw and unseasoned Youth whose late-fallen patrimonie makes him purchase acquaintance at what rate soever glorying much to be esteemed one of the fraternity And he must now keep his Quarter maintaine his prodigall rout with what his Parcimonious â—aâ—her long carked for prepare his Rere-suppers and all this to get him a little knowledge in the Art of roaring And by this time you may suppose him to have attained to some degree so as he can looke bigge erect his Moucâ—atoes stampe and stare and call the Drawer Rogue drinke to his Venus in a Venice-glasse and to moralize her Sex throwes it over his head and breakes it But for all this he hath not fully learned his postures for upon discourse of valour he hath discovered his Cowardize and this gives occasion to one of his Cumrades to triumph ore his weaknesse Who entring upon termes of Reputation and finding himselfe wrong'd he would gladly wipe off all aspersions and gaine him opinion in the eye of the world but recalling to mind the dangers incident to Quarrells he thinkes it best to repaire to that Grand Moderator whose long experience hath made his opinion authenticke to receive satisfaction whether hee may put up the injury offered him without touch of disgrace Now he must be feed for his opinion as if he were some grave legall professour which done his reply must tend to the definiâ—tion of a wrong and what the law of valour holds foâ— satisfaction in actions of that nature Againe for still he workes on this Young-gallants weaknesse how the world esteemes his Opponent to be a brave sparke one whose spirit cannot be daunted nor fury appeased with lesse than bloud drawing him in the end by some Rhetoricall perswasion as nothing more smooth than the oyly tongue of an insinuating foist to some base composition whereof he and his complices are made equall sharers Now Gentlemen I could likewise produce certaine wofull occurrents which have befallen some of your ranke and qualitie and that within these few yeares by consorting with such Grand Cutters who pressing them to offence could not endure such affronts but with â—â—solution which ever attends a generous spirit encountring them have been utterly overthrowne either in doing or suffering But you will aske me how should this be prevented Can any Gentleman suffer with patience his Reputation to be brought in question Can he endure to be challenged in a publike place and by that meanes incurre the opinion of Coward Can he put up disgrace without observance or observing it not revenge it when his very Honour the vitall bloud of a Gentleman is impeached Heare me whosoever he be that frameth these Objections I am not ignorant how many unjust and immerited aspersions shal be throwne upon men of eminent'st desert by such whose tongues are ever steeped in calumnie But who are these save such as the glory of Greece the everliving Homer displayeth in the contemptuous person of Thersites whose character was More deformed in minde than bodie Their infamous and serpentine tongues inured to detraction deserve no other Revenge next legall punishment save avoiding their company and bruting their basenesse in all Societies where their names are knowne to caution others of them I am spoken evill of saith Seneca but the evill speake it I should be moved if M. Cato if wise Lelius or the two Scipio's should speak this of me but it is praise for mee to have the evill displeased with mee It is true for as no imputation can truly be said to staine a pure or undefiled soule whose inward sinceritie like a brazen Wall beats backe all darts of envie or calumnie so it is not in the power of the evill to detract from the glory of the good for what then should remaine secure from aspersion of the vicious But I imagine you will reply it is not only the report or scandall of these men of uncurbed tongues for so Pindarus termes them but of such whose eminent esteeme in the world gives approbation to what they speake which awakes my Revenge If

est hee is dead unto God answered the Bishop Nam nequam perditus uno verbo Latro evasit for he is wicked and lost and in a word a Theefe Much matter might be collected from this Story to enlarge the ground of our Proposition to wit what imminent dangers are ever attending on Youth and how easie it is by the painted flag of vanity and sensuall pleasure to draw him to ruine For doubtlesse many excellent rules of instruction had this grave Bishop delivered and imparted to his young Pupill many devout taskes and holy exercises had hee commended to his practice many prayers full of fervent zeale had hee offered for his conversion many sighes had he sent many teares had he shed to reclaime him from his former conversation Yet see how soone this youthfull Libertine forgets those instructions which hee had taught him those holy taskes which were injoyned him those zealous prayers which were offered for him those unfained sighes and teares which were shed for him I hee leaves this aged Father to become a Robber he flies from the Temple to the mountaine he puts off the roabe of truth and disguiseth himselfe with the vizard of theft And no small theefe but a Leader Rachel was a theefe for shee stole idolls from her father Iosuah was a theefe seeing hee stole grapes from Canaan David was a theefe seeing he stole the bottle of water from Saul Ionathas was a theefe since he stole hony from the Hive Iosaba was a theefe since he stole the infant Ioash But here was a theefe of another nature one whose vocation was injury profession theevery and practice crueltie one whose ingratitude towards his reverend Foster-father merited sharpest censure for Bysias the Grecian Osigeâ— the Lacedemonian Bracaras the Theban and Scipio the Roman esteemed it lesse punishment to be exiled than to remaine at home with those that were ungratefull for their service So as it is not only a griefe but also a perillous thing to have to doe with ungratefull men And wherein might ingratitude be more fully exemplified than in this Young-man whose disobedience to his Tutor sleighting his advice that had fostered him deserved severest chastisement But to observeâ— the cause of his fall wee shall finde how soone those good impressions which he had formerly received were quite razed and defaced in him by reason of depraved company whence we may gather that Youth being indeed the Philosophers rasa tabula is apt to receive any good impressure but spotted with the pitch of vice it hardly ever regaines her former puritie Whence wee are taught not to touch pitch lest we be defiled for as that divine Father saith Occasiones faciunt Latrones Truth is the sweetest Apples are the soonest corrupted and the best natures quickliest depraved How necessary therefore the care and respect Youth ought to have in the choyce and election of his Company may appeare by this one example which sheweth that Society is of such power as by it Saints are turned into Serpents Doves into Devils for with the wise wee shall learne wisdome and with the foole we shall learne foolishnesse Dangerous therefore it is to leave illimited Youth to it selfe yea to suffer Youth so much as to converse with it selfe So as that Greeke Sage seeing a Young man privately retired all alone demanded of him what hee was doing who answered he was talking to himselfe Take heed quoth he thou talke not with thine enemie For the naturall pronenesse of Youth to irregular liberty is such as it is ever suggesting matter of innovation to the Soveraigntie of reason Now to reduce these enormities incident to Youth to certaine principall heads we will display the Vanitie of Youth in these foure distinct Subjects Gate Looke Speech Habit that by insisting and discoursing on each particular we may receive the feature of Ladie Vanitie portrayed to the life IT is strange to observe how the very Body expresseth the secret fantasies of the minde and how well the one sympathizeth with the other I have seene even in this one motion the Gate such especiall arguments of a proud heart as if the body had beene transparent it could not have represented him more fully And I have wondered how Man endued with reason could be so far estranged from that where with he was endued as to strut so proudly with feet of earth as if hee were never to returne to earth But especially when Youth is employed in ushering his Mistresse hee walkes in the street as if hee were dancing a measure He verily imagins the eyes of the whole Citie are fixed on him as the very patterne which they esteeme worthy imitation how neerely then concernes it him to stand upon his equipage He walkes as if he were an upright man but his sincerity consists onely in dimension He feares nothing so much as some rude encounter for the Wall and so be discredited in the sight of his Idoll Now I would be glad to weane this Phantasticke from a veine of lightnesse and habituate him to a more generous forme First he is to know how that which is most native and least affectâ—ve deserves choisest acceptance We were not borne to glory in our feet the Bases of Mortalitie but to walke as children of light in holinesse and integritie Safer it were for us to observe and make use of that which the Swan is reported to use when at any time shee glories in the whitenesse of her colour to wit shee reflects her eye upon her blacke feet which qualifies her proud spirit making her so much the more dejected as joying before in her owne beautie shee was erected Excellently was that Embleme of humane frailtie shadowed in the image of Agathocles the Syracusan tyrant who commanded his Statue to be composed after this sort the Head to be of gold signifying purenesse the armes of ivory intimating smoothnesse the body of brasse implying strongnesse but the feet of earth importing weaknesse Be the Head-peece never so pure be it a Diadem of gold wee weare it cannot promise to us perpetuitie wee stand on earthen feet how may we then stand long relying on such weak supporters Though Nebuchadnezzer strut never so proudly upon the turrets of his princely Palace saying Is not this great Babel which I have builded hee knowes not how soone he shall be deprived of his glory and be enforced to feed with the Beasts of the field being as one estranged from his former magnificence Quid ergo ad nos consolatio mundi Let us not glory in mundane vanitie nor repose too much confidence in these feet of frailtie Sipes interris mens sit in coelis Though our foot be on earth let our minde be in heaven knowing that as Saint Augustine saith Three cubits of earth doe expect us and how little or much so ere wee possesse this is all that shall be left us THe next Subject we are to treat of in

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