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I was thinking "body of text" -- does EEBO support text searching enough to attempt this sort of thing yet? Examples from RE: Advancement of Learning: 2. But these, and the like imputations, have rather a countenance of gravity than any ground of justice: for experience doth warrant, that both in persons and in times, there hath been a meeting and concurrence in Learning and Arms, flourishing and excelling in the same men and the same ages. For, as for men, there cannot be a better nor the like instance, as of that pair, Alexander the Great and Julius Cesar the Dictator; whereof the one was Aristotle's scholar in philosophy, and the other was Cicero's rival in eloquence: Ester Hath Hang'd Haman: In the time of the Danes, chaste Ĉmma, whose innocency carried her naked feete ouer the fire-hot Plow-shares vnfelt; with the Saxons Queene Elfgiue the holy widdow, and the Kings daughter Eanh a Virgin Saint, both greater Conquerers then Alexander the great, that men so much boasted of, who could not conquere himselfe. Book of the Courtier: Where many most excellent wittes in this realme have made no lesse of this boke, then the Great Alexander did of Homer, I cannot sifficiently wonder that they have not all this while from tyme to tyme done a commune benefite to profite others as well as themselves. Florio's Preface to Montaigne: Who as he is happy in you, and you in him, that like Aristotle to Alexander, he may in all good learning, and doeth with all industrious attention, instruct, direct, adorne that noble, hopefull, and much-promising spirit of your beloved brother and house-heire Maister Iohn Harrington: Mortalities Memorandum: Great Alexander made so great account, Of Knowledge, that he oftentimes would say, That he to Aristotle was more bound For Knowledge, vpon which Death could not pray, Then to his Father Phillip for his life, Which was vncertaine, irkesome, full of strife. Shepherdes Calender, October, Notes: the mynd was made of a certaine harmonie and musicall nombers, for the great compassion & likenes of affection in thone and in the other as also by that memorable history of Alexander: to whom when as Timotheus the great Musitian playd the Phrygian melodie, it is said, that he was distraught with such vnwonted fury, that streight way rysing from the table in great rage, he caused himselfe to be armed, as ready to goe to warre (for that musick is very warlike:) And immediately whenas the Musitian chaunged his stroke into the Lydian and Ionique harmony, he was so furr from warring, that he sat as styl, as if he had bene in mattes of counsell. Etc. -- Richard Bear, M.S., M.A. <[log in to unmask]> Documents and Microforms Supervisor (541) 346-0763 Document Center <http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/> University of Oregon Libraries <http://libweb.uoregon.edu/>