Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	dragon_n	fight_v	leopard_n	42	3	16.2199	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A99901	A Schole of wise conceytes wherein as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth : set forth in common places by order of the alphabet / translated out of diuers Greeke and Latine wryters by Thomas Blage ...	Blague, Thomas, d. 1611.	1572 (1572)	STC 3115; ESTC S116173	81,183	192

as muche as in him lieth let him studie to auoyde warre and discorde 95 Of a Leoparde and an Vnicorne fighting with a Dragon THe Leopard sometime fought with a Dragon agaynst whom bicause he could not preuayle he besought the Vnicorne to ayde him and sayd Thou art a godly beast expert in fighting and valiaunt wherefore I pray thée helpe me The Vnicorne hearing this commendation of him selfe answered Thou sayest truth for I haue skill in fighting and therfore I will valyauntly defende thée for when the Dragon shall open his mouth I wil thrust him into the throte with my horne When they were both come to the Dragon the Leoparde gaue the onset trusting to the strength of the Vnicorne but the Dragon fought with them and spit fire at them The Vnicorne séeing him open his mouth ran hastely to thrust him through but he caste hys heade at one ●●de whereby the Vnicorne missing him smote his horne faste into the ground and dyed MOR He that will fight for another séeketh his owne destruction Despite 96 Of the enuious Dogge and the Oxe A Dogge lay sléeping in a racke full of hey thyther came an Oxe to féede The Dogge séeing him comming barked forbad him To whom the Oxe sayd the Diuell choke thée with this thy despite which neither canst eate hey thy selfe nor yet will suffer me MOR Many are of that disposition that they will grudge others that which they for lacke of wit can not attayne vnto Despise nothing 97 Of a yong man. A Certayne yong man espied an olde man gooing crooked like a bent bow whom he asked if he woulde sell a bowe Haste thou quod he any néede to loose thy money If thou liue till my age nature shal giue thée a bow without money MOR. The faults of age are not to be laughed at bicause no man if he liue can escape it 98 Of a Countreyman and Peares A Certayne gluttonous man tooke his iourney to goe to a wedding wherevnto he was bidden By the way he founde an heape of peares but none of them he touched albeit he was excéeding hungry which in contempt he made water on for he thought scorne of such meate gooing to so good chéere But as he passed on his way he came to a streame lately risen with rayne whiche without daunger of life he coulde not passe ouer therefore he returned home agayne and by the way he was so hungry bycause of his long fasting that if he had not eaten the peares that he pissed on séeing there was nothing else he had famyshed MOR. Despise nothing for what is so vyle or base that will not at one time or another serue for some purpose Dispraysers of Phisike 99 Of a man that refused Clysters A Certen rich German fell sick to whom came many Phisitians to cure hym for to hony come flyes by heapes amongst whom one helde opinion that he muste take a Clyster if he would recouer his health the Pacient hearing this bicause he had neuer taken any such medicine was wood angry and commaunded all the Phisitians to be put out of doores saying that they were mad which woulde minister to hys tayle when hys head aked MOR. All holsome things séeme tedious to them which neueh assayed them Dissemblers 100 Of a Deceiuer A Certeine poore man béeing sick vowed to the Gods if he might recouer his health an hundred Oxen in sacrifice the Gods bicause they would try him made him whole When he was well bycause he had no Oxen he made an hundred Oxen of paste which on the Altar he sacrificed The Gods meaning to punish him therefore appeared to him in a dreame and sayd Go to the sea shore in suche a place and there thou shalt finde an hundred talents of golde This fellow when he awaked reioysing gretly went to the place that was shewed him and sought for it where he was taken by Pirates whome he prayed for his libertie promising them a M. talents of golde but to him they gaue no credit but caried him away sold him for a M. grotes MOR. God hateth dissemblers and lyers Dissimulation 101 Of a Cat and Myse A Cat hearing that there were many Mise in a certayne house came thyther of whych those that she caught she deuoured The Myse séeing them selues dayly diminished agréed togither to come down no more least they should all be destroyed for if the Cat come not hither sayd they we shall be safe The Cat perceiuing the mise descended not thought by deceit to take them and climbed vp on a beame whereon she hanged hir self fayning to be dead whom one of the Mise as he looked downward espied sayde to him verily my frende though I knewe thou were dead yet would I not come downe MOR. A wise man once deceiued through the falshode of a wicked man will neuer after credite his dissimulation 102 Of the Wolfe and the Sheepe A Wolfe béeing bitten by Dogges and euill entreated lay prostrate along he lackyng meate espied a Shéepe whome he desired to bring him some of the running water to drinke saying If thou wilt giue me drinke I wil prouide meate my selfe she aunswered if I giue thée drinke thou wilt eate me MOR. This Fable is agaynst an euill body which by dissimulation lyeth in wayte 103 Of the sicke Asse THe reporte was that the Asse lay sicke nigh at the poynte of death there came bothe the wolues Dogs to visite him and demaunded of his Sonne how hys Father dyd he answered looking through the chinkes of the doore better than ye would MOR. This Fable speaketh of them that faine to take heauily the death of other where as they wishe them dead long before 140 Of a Foxe A Foxe came into a Vyneyard where he espied fayre clusters of Grapes which were rype of them fayne would he eate and bycause they were past his reach he thought to find some shift to gette them but perceiuing his labour to be lost and that by no meanes he could satisfie hys desire he turned his sorowe into ioy saying Those Clusters be yet to soure to eate for they would set my téeth on edge MOR. It is wisdome to dissēble that he careth not for that which he knoweth he can not get 105 Of a man that would kill a Hogge IT was a custome in a certaine Citie of Picene in Italie that he which killed a Hog in Winter should bid hys neighbours to supper Now there was one which minded to kill a Hog but lothe he was to bée at any charges wherevpon he asked the aduise of his Godfather howe he might thifte off the expences Tell abroad quod he to morrow that this night there was a Hog stollen from thée It happened the same nyght he nothing mistrusting it that one verily conueyed a Hogge from him In the morning when he rose he looked for his hogges wherof missing one he went incontinent to his Godfather and cryed aloude that one of his Hogges were stollen Well doone quod