Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	speak_v	true_a	word_n	8,834	5	4.4618	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00503	Duell-ease A worde with. valiant spiritts shewing the abuse of duells, that valour, refuseth challenges and priuate combates. sett foorth by G.F. a defendour of Christian valoure.	G. F., defendour of Christian valoure.	1635 (1635)	STC 10637; ESTC S101807	46,663	98

foole out of Westminster we will make that hall a goodly shambles of Inns of Courts we will devise fencing schooles and will have no more assises all care must be to finde out a lusty butcher that can knocke downe readily Whosoever hath best skill in armes shall have best right to others lands wee will have a new conquest if you deny the strongest mans right hee shall give you the lye and boare a hole in your bosome and that way come into possession The truest tongue shall ever grow neerest the lustiest shoulders and from the stoutest mouth you must alwayes gather verities Nay wee will passe into trades the valiantest taylor shall doe your worke so you may goe out of fashion the lustiest mason shall bee your layer so your house may fall on your head And such be the consequences of unruly courage These like tenets are too mad to passe for currant amongst men One will fight will kill to prove himselfe the valianter man that is no good consequence It may be your enemy his foote failed him not his heart he stumbled so you killed him His weapon forsooke him not hee the action so you overtooke him The wrenching of a sinew hindered the right rule of his sword whereby you got within him so you reached him his deadly wound And thus the valianter man ofttimes dyeth Goe on and let us heare your further discourse your enemie gave you the lie therefore you will fight you will kill him to prove that your selfe speakes more truth then he That is a worse consequence strength of body and true dealing fall often a sunder if every word the strong man speakes must passe for currant truth that Ancient was a very foole which first invented a Polyphemus a mighty strong fellow and yet with one eye onely compacted with strong limbs and weake sight a face with a single Eye and it out of the way in his forehead in this pendent-haire fashion now a dayes hee would be alwayes hud-winked Surely Vlysses had done great mischiefe to the world in putting out that one eye had hee not presently knocked out his braines for we should have had a fellow as blinde as a betle most strong most powerfull and so turne teacher of every body for all truth must be delivered from his mouth his lips only keepes the treasure of wisedome from him wee must take new doctrines new councels new customes and every body must beleeve him after his eyes be out else every body must be knocked in the head because hee is strong enough to do it If strength must thus maintaine truth then let us resolve first who is the strongest man in a countrey let that man prate at pleasure faire maidens must owe unto him their good names and gentlemen their good bloud If you once finde the strongest man of a kingdome hee may freely geere and discourse Let him say there is no honour in peace no valour in warre Captaines be but kettles of base extraction some forced for feare of the pothookes to hang over the fire of warre as not able at home to keepe open kitchings Others often boyle ever they inrich themselves so fast Most the rather maintaine fire of dissention about them to have meat within them Let him say that men are but frogs in ho●e and dublet quackers that women are but bundles of doubts moved up and downe by the winde fi●kers Let him say there is no inclosure upon earth no kings in the stocke no great cards but coted knaues some bigger some lesser some thinner in cloathes some mufled in larger garments and knaves all that shuffle the queances amongst them And all this must be so nay though as he denyeth a king on earth so hee deny unto the heaven a godhead And all this must bee true because hee is the most strong man that saith so and will challenge you if you deny it and proves all by the sword as by a most bright argument Is not all this against reason when strength carrieth away truth what shall poore women have they must speake never a true word and so their amorous swordmen shall have worke enough to make for every lye a quarrell O Inconsiderate Duellers will no reason force you to put up your weapons but still they play to gaine you honour then take this point they can win you no honour but what must be stayned with Infamy I know honour and wealth are things in great price But hearke a tall fellow that never sowed will now gather wealth upon the highwayes and you like it not such moneyes come in basely who will have them so must be a theefe why no otherwise you the honour which you get by murthering is as base when you duellize you latronize when you project combats you doe noe otherwise then as in an honest neighbourhood to turne theefe and who protects you is no better then a receiver of th● e●es Point 4. Plea 4. To enter a Duell is to turne Theefe IN a Duell what doe you strive for life why that is not yours when you rob a man of his life you steale it then if you goe a combating you goe a stealing You kill your enemy you expose your selfe to be killed why you dispose of things none of your owne that is but a tricke of a theefe Your life God hath given it to your king and unto you but the loane of it the king keepes it for his owne turne you may take the use of it in your owne affaires only during the kings pleasure when the king cals for it to the warre or his other service you must carry it is it not then against all reason that you should spoyle your life when you will May one murther himselfe in the field no heathen dare say it why neither can you carry your selfe to field to be murthered by any other you are accessary to both crimes equally a stranger should have rather lesse power over your life then you have your selfe so you foulely mistake in concurring with any to kill you You will call any priuate man theefe that drives but a beast off your ground and sels it that takes against your will but a crust out of your house and casts it to the dog and will not you call him a worser theefe that snatcheth a soule out of a living body and casts it perchance to the divell Your life is not your owne God keepes it for his owne use there are two Ioint lords of your life God and Caesar God will have you to liue longer to pay him services God is Lord of the Honour and he will have you live a longer terme Gods bayly Reason warneth you that it is not fit you should remove out of Gods f●alty disrespectfully you cannot leave Gods service suddenly at your pleasure or displeasure take heed it will beare an action in the leet of heaven This reason was so strong that in a great uprore it held the courage of the valiant Weneslaus