Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	hear_v	speak_v	word_n	7,138	5	4.4441	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01053	A line of life Pointing at the immortalitie of a vertuous name.	Ford, John, 1586-ca. 1640.	1620 (1620)	STC 11162; ESTC S114264	21,399	139

of his life The period of all shal be knit vp with the aduise of a famous learned Philosopher as he wrote to his familiar friend let vs transcribe to men in Authoritie Let a publike man reioyce in the true pleasures of a constant Resolution not in the deceiuable pleasures of vanitie and fondnesse By a good conscience honest counsells and iust actions the true good is acquired Other moment any delights only supple the forehead not vnburthen and solace the heart They are nothing alasse they are nothing it is the minde must be well disposed it is the minde must bee confident it is the mind aboue all things must be rectified and the true comfort is not easily attayned and yet with more difficulty retayned But hee he who directs all his whole priuate life in hononurable proiections cannot any way misse our LINE OF LIFE which points at the immortalitie of a vertuous name by profitably discharging the burthen of such imployments as are vsually imposed vpon those whom their callings haue entitled Publike men A GOOD MAN is the last branch of Resolution and by him is meant as is said before such a man as doth beside the care he hath of himselfe in particular attend all his drifts and actions to bee a seruant for others for the good of others as if it were his owne School-boyes newly trayned vp in the Principles of Grammer can resolue what a good man is or who Who Qui consulta patrum qui leges iuraque seruat Such an one as not indeed singly obserues what he should doe but doth euen that which hee obserues hee should doe This man not only liues but liues well remembring alwayes the old adage that God is the rewarder of Aduerbes not of Nownes His intents are without the hypocrisie of applause his deedes without the mercenary expectation of reward the issue of both is all his workes are crown'd in themselues and yet crowne not him for that hee loues Vertue for it selfe This man neuer flatters Folly in greatnesse but rather pitties and in pittie striues to redresse the greatnesse of Folly This man neuer enuies the eminence of Authoritie nor feares the Enuious His reprehensiōs are balms his Prayses Glories and he is as thankfull to bee rebuked as to bee cherished From such a Man all things are to be gratfully accepted His desire to doe good to all hath not a like successe to all notwithstanding in him to will is commendable and not to be able to doe pardonable For it is not only the propertie of true Vertue but also of true Friendship as well to admonish as to bee admonished For amongst good men those things are euer well taken that are well meant yet euen this man that vncompeld vn-required not exacted interposes himselfe to set at vnitie the disorders of others not so inclinable to goodnesse is not free from enmity with those whom in a general care he labours to deserue as friends The Reason Flattery procures friēds Truth hatred How Truth Hatred Yes for from Truth is Hatred borne which is the poyson of Friendship as Laelius wel obserued But what ensues Hee whose eares are so fortified and barrocaded against the admitment of Truth that from his Friend he wil not heare the Truth this mans safetie is desperat wherfore if any one will only relish words of Downe and Honey as if wee loued to speake nothing but pure Roses as the Prouerbe is let such a one learn from the skilfull Artists of Nature that the Bees doe annoint their Hiues with the iuyce of the bitterest Weeds against the greedinesse of other Beasts Let him learne from the skilfullest Phisicians that the healthfullest Medicines smart most in the Wound Let him learne from the Prince of Philosophie that Anger was giuen to men by Nature as hee writes as a Whetstone of Valour and then he cānot but consider that any paines which a good Man vndergoes for reconciliation be they either by way of admonition or reprehension tend both to one end that hee may make all like vnto himselfe that is Good Men. This very word GOOD implyes a description in it selfe more pithy more patheticall then by any familiar exemplification can bee made manifest Such a man as makes the generall commoditie his particular benefit may not vnfitly bee stiled a PRIVATE STATES-MAN His endeuours are publike the vse publike the profit publike the commendation publike But the person priuate the Resolution priuate the end priuate and the reward peculiar It is impossible that the wretched and auaricious banking vp of wealth can draw him into a conceipt that hee can euer make friends of mony after his death considering that the World was created for the vse of men and men created into the World to vse it not to enioy it This mans bounty is giuing not lending and his giuing is free not reserued He cherisheth Learning in the Learned and incourageth the Learned to the loue of Learning by cherishing them He heartneth the vpright in Iustice ratifies Iustice in the vpright He helpes the distressed with counsell and approoues the proceedings of wise Counsellors He is a patterne to all what they should bee as to himselfe what he is Finally try all his desires his actions are the seasoners of his speeches as his profession is of his actions Hee is a Physitian to other mens affections as to his own by comprimitting such passions as runne into an insurrection by strengthening such as decline by suppling such as are inflamed by restrayning such as would runne out by purging such as ouer-abound His Ambition climbes to none other cure then to heale the wounded not to wound the whole beeing neither so vnwise to doe any thing that he ought not to doe nor so vnhappy to doe any thing what hee does not His singular misfortune is that with Drusus an excellent man he attempts many times with a more honest and good mind then good fortune and successe insomuch as it often comes to passe that other mens mischiefes are preferred before his Vertues yet still as he is a good Man iniuries can no more discourage him then applause can ouer-weene him Euen this man hath his particular aduersaries to threaten him and if it could be possible to terrifie him and deter him from the soliditie of his temper Scandal to defame him and imposture to traduce him Flatterie and enuie are not a more pestilent broode set in armes against a publique man then those two miscreant monsters are against a good man But is his resolution any way infracted for that some refractaries are like Knights of the post hired to witnesse against him Doubtlesse no but much the rather confirmed to run by a LINE OF LIFE to the Goale of Life His owne solace is to him as an inexpugnable castle of strength against all the forcible assaults of diuellish cōplots built onely vpon this foundation that he is conscious to himselfe of an vnforced sinceritie