Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	justice_n	prudence_n	temperance_n	1,847	5	10.3903	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46913	The scholars guide from the accidence to the university, or, Short, plain, and easie rules for performing all manner of exercise in the public school viz. rules for spelling, orthography, pointing, construing, parsing, making Latine, placing Latine, variation, amplification, allusion, imitation, observation, moving passion : as also rules for making colloquys, essays, fables, prosopopæia's, characters, themes, epistles, orations, declamations of all forts : together with rules for translation, variation, imitation, carmen, epigrams, dialogues, eccho's, epitaphs, hymnes, anagrams, acrostichs, chronostichs, &c. / by Ra. Johnson ...	Johnson, Ralph.	1665 (1665)	Wing J786; ESTC R2152	24,605	48

Geaces Furys Fates Vertues c. See Rousner Quarles Alciat Cambden 6. Laws and Customs of the Jews Greeks Romans Egyptians Saxons c. See Godwins Antiq. Leo Modena Plutarch Verstegan Olaus Magnus 7. Neat and Significant Sentences and Apothegms out of Tacitus Salust Livy Tully Licosthones and the Poets 8. Rhetoricall sigures especially such as adorn an Oration or move the Passions See Vessius Faruaby Vicars Butler 9. Topicks of Logick or heads from whence arguments are drawn viz. Causes Effects Subjects Adjuncts Contraries 10. The whole Series of Naturall and Artificiall things especially Pyramids Labyrinths Temples Palaces Shops of Artists Meats Merchandise Stones Plants Fish Fowls Stars c. Collections out of choice Authors under these heads will serve in all manner of Exercise for Exordiums Simile's Testimonies Allusions and other Ornaments RVLES of Observation In reading Authors besides the above recited perticulers Scholars must diligently observe and treasure up in memory 1. All choice single words especially such as agree in sound with the thing signified as Boatus mugitus ululatus lugubris vortex tinnio clangor stridor fragor c. 2. Such as both by use and Etymology appositely express the thing signified as philomela sacro-sanctus sartus-tectus praeter-propter 3. Such whose signification is very large or hardly to be expressed in other words as colo s●ringo mereor tenor Idea tinctura 2. All choice Phrases or Idiotisms of the tongue whether Poeticall Historicall or Oratoricall together with Congruous and Significant Epithets Neat Periphrases and Descriptions 3. All choice strains of Eloquence fit to be imitated such be Non feram non patiar non sinam pleni sunt omnes librí plenae sapientium voces plena exemplorum vetustas nullo possessio firmior constantior nulla Obsequium amicos veritac odium parit 4. The Rhetoricall Analysis viz. the parts of which any Oration doth consift the heads from whence the Arguments are drawn as also what passions are moved and from what heads 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the heights of Eloquence viz. when an Author doth express a passion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or other Action to the life so that nothing can be said further Such be Seneca Med. Mens intus agitat vulnera caedem vagum Funus per artus levia memoravi cinnis Haec virgo feci gravior exurgat dolor Majora jam me scelera post partus decent Ja. Infesta memet perime Med. misereri jubes RVLES for moving the Passions 1. Fear is moved 1. By setting forth the greatness of the approaching evill 2. By shewing that it is near at hand 3. By producing examples in like cases or prodigies 2. Confidence and hope are moved 1. By shewing that the Dangers or evils may be or have been escaped by us or others 2. By reckoning up the convenient means or helps which we have and others want 3. By perswasion of Divine favour from prodigys prophesies or common voice of the people 3. Shame is moved 1. By setting forth the baseness of the fact 2 Or the signs of baseness in the parties or their relations 4. Joy is moved 1. By recounting our former miseries 2. By exaggerating our present happiness 5. Anger is moved 1. By shewing the hainousness and indignity of the fact 2. The Innocency vertue dignity of the person injured 3. The vices and contemptible condition of the person injuring 4. That the injury extends not onely to the present but to posterity 6. Lenity is moved 1. By shewing that the offence was not committed through wilfulness or disrespect but through passion rashness c. 2. That the former good deeds exceeded this offence 3. By testifying our unfeigned sorrow 4. By setting forth the glory and benefits of lenity 7. Love is moved by expressing our willingness to do good to others or their relations especially under the notion of good men without respect to our own advantage 8. Hatred is moved by relating and exaggerating the offences enviously committed against what is dealt to us 9. Indignation is moved by comparing the former baseness of a person with his present undeserved honour or plenty 10. Envy is moved 1. By shewing that the honour or riches gotten were not obtained by vertue but basely 2. By exaggerating the persons insolency shewint that it exceeds his merits 11. Pitty is moved by exaggerating the misery from the adjuncts of time place person end manner 2. By comparing our former felicity with our present misery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR Short and plain directions for the making of all manner of School-Exercises in Prose or Verse A Colloquie A Colloquie is a feigned discourse betwixt two or more Persons RVLES for making it 1. Imagine some discourse betwixt two or more persons concerning some matter daily hapning among people as about the School House Church Market Fields Woods or something done therein or about News Travels Games Imployments Trades c. 2. Express your thoughts in choice and good phrase such as you have collected out of approved Authors 3. Let not one word or phrase be said oft over but if you must use the same Sence vary the Phrase 4. Indeavour to make your Colloquy pleasant with witty jerks quibbles and fancies such as you shall often find in Erasmus joking upon a name action proverb or the like 5. In larger Colloquies upon any perticular Subject as Foot-ball Hand-ball Hunting Hawking Fishing Swiming Shuting Musick Dancing Feasts Souldiery Law Heraldry c. Indeavour to apply as many of the terms belonging to that exercise as may be An Essay An Essay is a short discourse about any vertue vice or other common-place Such be Learning Ignorance Justice Temperance Fortitude Prudence Drunkenness Usury Love Joy Fear Hope Sorrow Anger Covetousness Contentation Labour Idleness Riches Poverty Pride Humility Virginity c. RVLES for making it 1. Having chosen a Subject express the nature of it in two or three short Definitions or Descriptions 2. Shew the severall sorts or kinds of it with their distinctions 3. Shew the several causes adjuncts and effects of each sort or kinde 4. Be carefull to do this briefly without tautology or superfluous words in good and choice language 5. Metaphors Allegories Antithetons and Paranomasia's do greatly adorn this kind of exercise 6. In larger and compleat Essays such as Bacon's Feltham's c. we must labour compendiously to express the whole nature of with all observables about our subject A Fable A Fable is a facetious discourse false in it self yet secretly intimating a truth RVLES for making it 1. Chuse some Subject which you intend for your morall as Learning Arts Cowardise Courage Fraud Patience Envy Ingratitude c. 2. Pitch upon some living creatures for your speakers which may fitly resemble the vertue or vice chosen as the Hieroglyphick thereof as for Corwardise the Hare or Dere for subtilty the Fox for courage the Lion for dulness the Ass for Hypocrisie the Crocodile for Chastity the Turtle for naturall affection the Stork for

Paintets have fansied concerning them as Cum aquilâ portante Jovem Dialogismus Dic mibi quem portes volucrum regina tonantem Nulla manu quare fulmina gestat amat Que calet igne Deus pueri cur mit is operto Respicis ore Jovem de Granymede loquor Dialogus in Justitiam Quae dea Justitia quid torvo lumine flecti Nescia sum Lacrhymis precio precibus Quod genus à superis ex quo genitore modo ex quâ Matre fide Nutrix quae tua pauperies Quis Deus infantem fovit prudentia quonam Freta duce agnoscis crimina judicio Cur gladium tua dextra gerit cur laeva bilancem Ponderat haec causas percutit illa reos Quid rari assistunt quòd copia rara bonorum est Quae comes assidua est caudida simplicitas Aurium aperta tibi cur altera altera clausa Haec surda injustis panditur illa bonis Paupere cur semper cultu justissimus esse qui cupit exiguas semper habebit opes 7. ECHO An Echo is a facetious kind of Poëm imitating the resounding Rocks wherein the last Syllables of a Sentence repeated give answer to a question in the same or a divers and sometime a contrary Sence RULES for making an Echo 1. The answer or repetition must be made at the end of every sentence whether it be at the end or in the middle of the verse 2. The answer sometimes onely affirms the same thing with the question sometimes it doth contain something divers contrary like greater or lesser than the question and the more unexpected the better 3. The Persons speaking are sometimes onely the querent and Echo sometimes the Poet historically relates the passage 4. The same letters are not necessary in Echo so the sound be the same or near it the first Consonant may be changed aspiration added or taken away 5. The repetition is most elegant in Dissyllables as nearest a naturall Echo yet Trissyllables or Monosyllables may be used Example Dic mihi quae gelidis habitas convallibus Echo Cur populus pacem sic modo clamat amat Ad divam pacem precibus concurpitur itur Vt damnum fugiat triste colonus onus Rusticus ergo iterum campos reparabit arabit Et tuto curret remige navita ita Omniaque evenient in mundo prospera spera Largaq nec rerum copia deerit erit Si retulisti Echo mihi vera relata voleto Donec nostra iterum verba novabis abis 8. EPITAPH An Epitaph is a Poém writ upon the Herse or Tombe of a deceased person expressing the name age merits state dignity praises studies kind of death or the like in way of commiseration or sorrow RVLES for making Epitaphs 1. In the Epitaphs of Kings Princes Nobles c. 1. We briefly recite their Praises viz. Felicity Wisdom Justice in Government Clemency in pardoning their Subjects offences affability valour Piety in building Churches or Schools or in Defending Religion or other their peculier vertues 2. We take notice of any thing new admirable or wofull in Life or Death 3. We conclude with a grave Gnome or Epiphonéma 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tumulus Caroli quinti. Europae domuit tollentes cornua reges Carolus atque Asiae terror horror erat Et pedibus Libyam calcavit victor illi Innumeras victus praebuit Indus opes Deinde sibi fraenum injecit fratrique regendum Imperium nato caetera regna dedit Atque ait è nobis honores temnere unum hoc Discite mortales pulvis umbrasumus 2. In the Epitaphs of Generals Captains or Souldiers 1. We mention their skill in Military affairs valour authority good fortune prudence victories trophies love to their Countrey 2. We compare them with former Worthies and Out-vies them 3. We bemoan the Countries loss and want of them Tumulus Hectoris Defensor patriae juvenum fortissimus Hector qui murus miseris civibus alter erat Occubit telo violenti victus Achillis Occubuere simul spesque salusque Phrygum Hunc feras Aeacides circumsua maenia traxit Quae juvenis manibus texerat ante suis Heu quantos Priamo lux attulit illa doleres Quos flet us Hecubae quos dedit Andromachae Sed raptum pater infoelix auroque repensum condidit maerens hâc tumulavit humo 3. In the Epitaphs of Learned men 1. We recount their peculier vertues in Divines piety in Philosophers quicksightedness in Physitians diligence in Lawyers integrity in Orators elegancy in Poets sweetness in Grammarians much reading c. 2. We Allegorically hold on in a strain of Terms proper to their Art 3. We compare and prefer them before the Ancients Renowned for those Arts 3. We praise their Works Epitaphium Paridis Pantoninni Quisquis Flaminiam teris viator Noli nobile praeterire marmor Vebis deliciae salesque Nili Ars gratia lusus voluptas Romani decus dolor theatri Atque omnes Veneres Cupidinesque Hoc sunt condita quo Paris sepulchre Tumulus Andreae Vesalii Medici Quo non arte prior fuit medendi Aut Asclepius aut Senex Machaon Aut magnus Podalarius medensum Princeps Vesalius celebriorum Dum morbis bonus artifex medetur Cunctis tam sibi non medetur ipse Summus paeoniae magister artis Fato mortuus heu nimis maligno 4. In the Epitaphs of friends or relations 1. We mournfully express our loss and hopes frustrated 2. We complain of Deaths cruelty 3. We use Simile's of flowers cropt and withered with heat or wind 4. We set forth their remarkable praises Lachryma Rabirii in funere Parentum Quisquis laeta tuis sera parentibus optas fata brevem titulum marmoris hujus ama Condidit hâc charas tellure Rabirius umbras nulli sorte jacent candidiore senes Bis sex lustratori nox mit is ultima clusit arserunt uno funera bina roge. Tumulus Astyanactis Flos Asia tantâque unus de gente superstes Parvulus Argivis sed jam de patre timendus Hic jacto Astyanax Scaeis dejectus ab altis Proh dolor Iliaci Neptunia maenia muri Viderant aliquid crudelius Hectore tracto Tumulus Filii Non lachrymis-indigne meis nec honore sepulchri rapte mihi ante diem dulcis alumne jaces Intra bis denos te ostendit abstulit annos parca ferox vot is inficiata mcis. Nec potuit probit as nec amaeni gratia vultus flectere nec arae nec piaturba deûm Spes hominum stolidas tumulavi maestus Ephsbum qui me debuerat laetus humâsse senem 5. In feigned Epitaphs or upon vitious persons 1. We merrily and wittily play upon the name manners lineaments manner of death or other memorable events affording matter of witty conceit Ad Henricum Good-year Kal. Jan. Quid tibi prostren â mittam Goodyere precabor ut possis nomen multiplicare tuum Tres dimensiones in Battologum Vox tua mensuris desiderat è tribus unam lata