Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	great_a	know_v	speak_v	4,061	5	4.0748	3	true

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