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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	work_v	write_v	writing_n	28	3	8.5140	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57355	The arts of empire and mysteries of state discabineted in political and polemical aphorisms, grounded on authority and experience, and illustrated with the choicest examples and historical observations / by the ever-renowned knight, Sir Walter Raleigh ; published by John Milton, Esq.; Cabinet-council	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1692 (1692)	Wing R155; ESTC R20812	78,456	250

punished Also petty Errors are severely corrected but great and grievous Crimes be rewarded In like manner where many receive Wrong few seek Revenge For Injuries universal are with more Patience than particular Offences endured All or the greatest part of Men that have aspired to Riches or Power have attained thereunto either by Force or Fraud And without they have by Craft or Cruelty gained to cover the foulness of their Fact they call Purchase as a Name more honest Howsoever he that for want of Will or Wit useth not those Means must rest in Servitude and Poverty The Reason thereof is That as Nature hath laid before Men the chief of all Fortunes so she disposes them rather to Rapine than honest Industry and more subject to bad than good Endeavours Hereof it cometh that one Man eateth another and he that is weakest must always go to the worst Where Necessity forceth Boldness is reputed Wisdom and in great Enterprises Peril is not to be made accompt of For those Attempts that begin with Danger always end with Honour or Reward also from one Peril there is no way to escape but by entring into another A wise Man ought not to desire to inhabit that Country where Men have more Authority than Laws For indeed that Country deserves to be desired where every one may securely enjoy his own not that where with facility it may be taken away and that Friends for fear to lose their own are inforced to forsake them Some Magistrates either by over great Zeal or Ignorance take a Course of Rigour which being for the present favoured they are ever the more imployed as Men meet to extirpate Inconveniences But thereby the Subjects are often drawn into Desperation and consequently have recourse unto Arms as their uttermost Resuge In this case a Wise Prince for appeasing the People is forc'd to disallow his Ministers and sometimes also to inflict publick Punishment A Prince naturally suspicious and having about him Persons inclined to Envy is easily induced to mistrust those Men that have served him with most sufficiency Which Danger they cannot eschew because they who are worthiest Commendation are oftentimes envied by such Persons as have access unto the Prince Who so cannot endure both Envy and Hate must refrain to enterprise great Matters For great Honours being desired of many it behoveth him that aspireth unto them to be for his Dignity envied and for his Authority hated which Authority albeit the same be well used yet they who hate or envy persuading themselves it might be better handled endeavour to oppress that Power as fearing it will be worse Among other things which worketh the Inconveniences of Common weals Ambition and Desperation are chief of both Desperation is worst For Ambition may attend Occasion Desperation will not as that cannot endure Delays Historians desiring to write the Actions of Men onght to set down the simple Truth and not say any thing for Love or Hatred Also to chuse such an Opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will and write what they think which is a rare Happiness of the Time In commending or disallowing the Actions of Men it is a course very requisite to consider the Beginning the Proceeding and End So shall we see the Reasons and Causes of things and not their bare Events only which for the most part are governed by Fortune It is a matter of much Necessity that every Man and chiefly a Prince should in his first Actions give some Testimony of Vertue for falling at first into obloquie do he well or ill all isill-taken The Custom of the Common People is to judge rather by their Eyes than by their Ears Which is the cause they allow more of external Shew than inward Vertue And true it is where excellency of Mind and Beauty of Body concur the Commendation due to such a Person is far the greater Gratior est pulchro veniens e corpore virtus A Prince or great Personage that constantly endureth Adversity deserveth great Praise Yet greater Commendation is due to him that beareth himself modestly in his Happiness For Miseries are oft born with Patience but Felicity corrupteth To be descended of Princes or great Personages is a matter of meer Fortune and so to be esteemed But Adoption proceedeth from the Judgment of Men therefore seemeth incorrupt and seldom abused It hath been long observed and is a Rule which rarely faileth that he shall be ever suspected of the Prince in possession whom Men account worthy to be a Prince in Reversion It hath been a Use very ancient to give Credit to Astrologers and other such Persons who by their Star-Learning or Blind Divination take upon them to tell of things to come The Reason thereof is That the most part of Men believe that soonest which they least understand and if they see the Event of a Prediction though it happeneth by meer Chance to fall out according to that was premised thereupon they settle so firm an Impression as albeit many other fail yet the good Conceipt of their Cunning cannot be removed Liberality is a Vertue which gaineth Love but much are they deceived whom Riot in lieu thereof abuseth To cast away and consume is soon learned but to give in good Order few have the Skill In Time of sudden Mutiny Conspiracy and Offence of People the wisest Resolution is not to oppose Force to prevent Fury but rather give Space for the Bad to amend and the Good to consent For Treasons prevail on the sudden but good Council gathers Forces by Leisure Mature Deliberation ought ever to be used but when Arms are to determine speedy Execution is the best Because no Delay in that Enterprise is fit which cannot be commended before it be ended Who so is pleased to observe the proceedings of Men in Authority shall observe that some of them hold a plain course without respect others projecting for time to come do forecast how to hold their present good fortune or at least to escape danger For they mistrusting present Prosperity and fearing a change prepare beforehand some private Friends to oppose against publick hatred Whereof may be inferred that no care is taken of Innocency but every one studieth how to pass without punishment In Captains and all Military Commanders three things are required Vertue Discipline and Authority but in private Soldiers Obedience and Courage only sufficeth for by due obeying and no curious scanning the Leaders directions are maintained and the Army in danger is alwaies most valiant which before the danger is most quiet Let the Soldier therefore be well armed and valiantly minded To advise and direct must be the Captains care It is a matter of no great moment yet always worthy the noting that any exterior Behaviour or Garment presenting Pride or Greatness chiefly in Persons lately advanced though no Man be thereby interessed or injured doth move in others a certain offence For the nature of Man is such as