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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	yield_v	youth_n	youthful_a	19	3	11.4397	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00935	The diamond of deuotion cut and squared into sixe seuerall points: namelie, 1 The footpath to felicitie. 1 2 A guide to godlines. 81 3 The schoole of skill. 181 4 A swarme of bees. 209 5 A plant of pleasure. 245 6 A groue of graces. 283 Full of manie fruitfull lessons, auaileable to the leading of a godlie and reformed life: by Abraham Fleming.	Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607. Footepath of faith, leading the highwaie to heaven. Selections.	1581 (1581)	STC 11041; ESTC S102282	82,454	300

there is shame and confusion but where lowlines is there is wisedome Yrcke and loath the follies of the flesh for the end of them is euerlasting confusion Yéeld not thy selfe into the hands of thine enimies for they séeke nothing but to sucke thy bloud Youthfull arraie is vnséemelie for the aged but grauitie maketh youth louelie and gratious Zealouslie mainteine the truth yea before a Iudge for truth will preuaile and get the victorie Zeale in a good cause is commendable and praiseworthie O happie is he that hath such a zeale Zealouslie to follow the commandements of God and trulie to loue his lawe is life euerlasting FINIS A Referendarie to the Premisses THough praise it be to fight in feeld With valiant magnanimitie Yet till thy foe be forst to yeeld As prisoner in captiuitie Thou canst not vaunt of victorie Subdue the band rebellious So shalt thou be victorious Againe in running of a race We see by plaine experience That he which hath the swiftest pace And gets the gole by diligence Receiues a winners recompence The rest with running weried are slenderlie considered Euen so this Schoole of godlie skill In order Alphabeticall To Scholers wanting wit and will Is nothing beneficiall Because they are the principall Requird in each capacitie Bring these and reape commoditie A swarme of Bees VVith their honie and Honicombes Gathered out of the sweete and odoriferous Garden of Gods Word Heerein such lessons are to be learned as concerne the whole course of our life both towards God and man being in number two hundred whereof some persuade vs to vertue and godlinesse othersome dissuade vs from vice and wickednesse BY ABRAHAM FLEMING Ecclesiasticus 11. 3. ¶ The Bee is but small among fowles yet doth her fruit passe in sweetenesse AT LONDON Printed by Henrie Denham Anno Dom. 1581. The Preface to the Christian Reader WE see that Bees being a sociable creature that is apt for companie flee together in swarmes and assembled vnder one hiue discharge the dutie wherevnto they are ordeined namelie to make Honie The benefite of this labouring and diligent creature is so necessarie that such as haue knowne and tasted by due proofe and experience the fruite of their trauell and the sweetenesse of their worke will be hardlie persuaded to neglect the fostering of them for feare of losing so singular commodities as they do yeeld Euen so this swarme of Bees which I not by the sound of a basen but by the painefulnesse of my pen haue gathered together out of the pleasant garden of Gods most holie word where I found them scattered heere and there among the fragrant flowres and sweete beds of wholesome hearbes making most comfortable Honie and offering thee a tast thereof are not lightlie to be esteemed considering that the issue and euent of their trauell well ordered and vsed is so beneficiall as nothing more if anie thing like For their Honie hath this vertue that to such as eate it and digest it throughlie it giueth a regenerated mind a sanctified soule a circumcised hart a mortified bodie and all good things that man can imagine or deuise of which spirituall graces who so hath once possession his conscience will tell him what it is to taste to sucke to eate and thoroughlie to digest Honie made by such a swarme of Bees These Bees followe one another orderlie and decentlie without desire of first or highest place out of one garden they gathered it in one hiue they made it and for all godlie disposed peoples feeding heere they leaue it in their Honicombes There is none that hauing wit will finde fault with water of the cleerest fountaine with floure of the finest wheate with a garment of the costliest silke with a ring of the purest golde with a iewell of the highest price For it is the nature of man to couet the verie best things yea and to obteine them if they may be gotten for anie monie Heere thou hast a swarme of Bees making most excellent Honie sweete pleasant and whoalsome It differeth from ordinarie Honie because the Bees that made it are extraordinarie and the flowers whereout they suckt it grew in no common garden it is offered vnto thee gratis no gaine looked for but onelie thy good will in receiuing it and thy diligence in vsing it Make much therefore of these Bees and open thy mouth wide that thy throte swallowing their sweete Honie may distribute the same to all thine inward partes and that the outward and inward man may be reformed Abraham Fleming A SVVARME of Bees The first Honicombe yeelding most wholesome exhortations vnto vertue and vertuous life 1 BE mercifull and faithfull binde these two iewels about thy neck and write them in the tables of thine heart 2 Be ioifull in the Lord thy God with all thine heart and leane not vpon thine owne will 3 Be obedient to the lawe of the Lord honour him with thy substance and with thy firstlings 4 Be a searcher after wisedome and an inquirer after vnderstanding and knowledge 5 Be wise so shalt thou haue honour in possession but shame is the promotion that fooles shall haue 6 Be a louer of wisdome she shall beautifie thy head with manifold graces and garnish thée with a crowne of glorie 7 Be conuersant with the righteous for their path shineth as the light that is brighter brighter 8 Be carefull to kéepe thine owne counsell in a matter of weight for therein consisteth the safetie of thy soule 9 Be obedient to the voice of thy teachers and harken vnto them that infourme thée 10 Be circumspect in choosing thy waie so shalt thou escape misfortune and danger 11 Be thou a drinker of the water of thine owne well and of the riuers that run out of thine owne spring 12 Be bountifull let thy welles flowe abroade that there may be riuers of waters in the stréetes 13 Be thou contented with thine own prouision and be glad with the wife of thy youth 14 Be glad with thy yong wife let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe let her breasts alwaie satisfie thée 15 Be wise warie in thy waies for the Lord séeth thy footesteps and pondereth all thy goings 16 Be carefull to saue thy selfe as a Doe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler 17 Be prouident in Summer what shall serue thée in winter least thou haue not to supplie thy want 18 Be obedient to thy fathers commandement and forsake not the lawe of thy mother 19 Be at defiance with a wicked and naughtie woman for her house is the high waie to hell 20 Be temperate in thy diet for gluttonie and gormondising is vninéete for a man The second Honicombe yeelding most wholesome exhortations to vertue and vertuous life 21 BE true and trustie to thy friend so shall he be bold to commit the secrets of his soule into thy hands 22 Be conuersant with the wise and with such as be of