Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	false_a	know_v	true_a	4,114	5	4.5846	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11625	The second part of Philomythie, or Philomythologie Containing certaine tales of true libertie. False friendship. Power vnited. Faction and ambition. / By Thomas Scot Gent..; Philomythie. Part 2.	Scot, Tho. (Thomas), fl. 1605.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626, attributed name.	1616 (1616)	STC 21871A.7; ESTC S116842	14,994	40

was ended thus death tooke away And where they did not well we mend it may Epimythium Some are of opinion that wisedome consisteth in the ability to giue good counsell But I think the knowledge how to take good counsell and how to discerne the differencs of aduise is the principall part of wisedome That Frog in AEsope which in a great drought spying water in a deepe pit aduised his fellow to leape downe that they might be satisfied and liue there gaue good counsell and seemed to be a patterne of the first wisedome spoken of But the other Frog that refused his aduise and diued deeper then the present time then the bottome of the pit with this question But if the water faile vs there how shall we then get out or how shall we liue there was a figure of the second wisedome and teacheth vs that it is harder to take good counsell then to giue it Let vs therefore beware in this point and learne to looke a little beyond that good which is first and most apparant in euery proiect The second and third good is that which we must rest on for truth is often most remote and neerest the bottome all that swims vppermost is the froth and false good and fraud The House of Fame Dedicated to all the noble attendants of Royalty in the Campe of Vertue who fight for the honor of the Church and Common-wealth Till now of late we feard that lowd report Of Cressy field Poicters and Agincourt Fought by our Kings and Princes heretofore Had not been true or should be tould no more We wondred if those Nobles euer were Whom fame for armes and bounty did prefer We doubted all our Countries had forgot The deede of Audely or beleeud it not We thought our Nation was of worth bereft When bowes and arrowes and brown bills were left But see occasion now hath turnd our eyes To inward wars where greater wonders rise To see affection conquerd lust chastisd'e Pride humbled Murther slaine all vice despisd'e And all old vertues freshly now reneude By faire examples as the Sun ere vewd In which braue war of wonders passing far All other conflicts that compounded are Of loue and hate each Lord who lends a hand To fight gainst vice for vertue doth this land More honor then his Ancestors before In conquering France and shall be famd for 't more Some for their Prudence who found out and led Others for zeale through whom the enemy fled Others for Art whose skill the squadrons placed Others for Iustice who the enemy chased And some for Constancy who held it out And still vnwearied not vn wounded fought But none more fame attaind then mercies squire Who begd to giue all sauing in desire He Audely-like taught Courtiers how to craue What they might giue away and giuing saue Saue free from feare of forfeiture or losse Or the re-begging or the next yeeres crosse Or enuies eye-sore or the Commons hate Or poores complaint or gre uance of the state To him and to the rest this tale is sent How soeuer taken with a good intent FAme that in Homers time a vagrant was Without a house aud home did after passe In stately structures all the mixed race Of Semdeities and euery place Built her a Court assisted by the Rages Of sundry Poets in succeeding ages For euery one did something ad to frame More space and room for their friends narrow fame Which as they purchast still to her they gaue And that 's the cause themselues so little haue This Fame hath now her house glazde al with eies The rafts beames balkes nerues sinewes arteries The dores wide open eares hangd round about With nimble tongues and couerd so without All things are seene and heard the wide world ore Which touch that place and farthest off the more The House of Fame built vp foure stories hie Stands in an open plaine in which doth lie Foure sister twins True fame and good the first And eldest are false and bad fame the worst And yongest payre yet swiftest are in flight And though last borne yet oft come first to light These last dwell in two darker roomes below Among the thicke Crowdes where all errors grow There keepe they Court where Scandals Libels lies Rumors Reports Suspicions calumnies Are fauorites and Gouernors of State Whose practise 't is true worth to ruinate False fame liues lowest and true Fame aboue Bad Fame next false good fame next true doth moue Yet good fame somtime doth with false fame stay And bad fame sometime doth with true fame play But false and true opposd will neuer meete Nor bad and good fame one the other greete It so fell out as oft strange things befall A gallant Knight ariued at that faire Hall Attended on with such a noble sort Of warlike squires as fild this spatious Court Who curiously enquiring o● the rout Whose Court it was could no waies find it out For contradictions crost each other so As truth from falshood he could no waies know Bad fame did call it hers and said she was A guide to such as vnto glory passe False Fame did call it hers he saw they lide For ' boue their heads two brighter Queens he spide True fame spake to him then and let him know That she and good fame did the building owe Being eldest borne to Titan and the Earth Before the Gyants war when th 'others birth Long since was subiect to their parents sinne And heauens curse which now they liued in For as those Gyants gainst the Gods did war So these to truth professed enemies are Had by strong hand and fraud vsurpd her state And to expresse to vertue vtmost hate Had bard all passage to their houses hie That mortall men might in obliuion die Or haue their memories blasted glories kild By eating time with lies and slanders fild She wisht him then if he his good desired To haue repeated or his spirit aspired To worthy honor as old knights had wont Whose swords not rust but too much vse did blunt That he would vse some meanes to set them free Whereby his blest name might eternizd be Good Fame then told him that the only way How he this enterprize accomplish may Was by the helpe of mercy prudence art Iustice and zeale and Constancy of heart All their knowne friends to summon vp in armes To force the place and to disperse those swarmes Of idle vagabonds who kept below And hated good Fame would not true fame know Then since the stayres of fame were broken downe And dores stopt vp to glory and renowne She wild him make an engine wherewithall He might her lodging and her sisters scale And so himselfe in spite of perill raise Aboue the reach of enuy or dispraise The Knight in spirit rauisht with delight To heare their speech to see their goodly sight Mounts his fierce Coursers backe with which at hand His Squires attend vpon his strict command Wils euery one of them to take