Selected quad for the lemma: body_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
body_n	nature_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,882	5	9.6339	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68799	Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The recouerie of Ierusalem. Done into English heroicall verse, by Edward Fairefax Gent; Gerusalemme liberata. English	Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.; Fairfax, Edward, d. 1635.	1600 (1600)	STC 23698; ESTC S117565	257,252	400

GODFREY of Bulloigne or The Recouerie of Ierusalem Done into English Heroicall verse by EDWARD FAIREFAX Gent. Imprinted at London by Ar. Hatfield for I. Iaggard and M. Lownes 1600 To her High Maiestie WIts rich triumph Wisdomes glorie Arts chronicle Learnings storie Towre of goodnes vertue bewtie Forgiue me that presume to lay My labours in your cleere eies ray This boldnes springs frō faith zeal dewtie Her hand her lap her vestures hem Muse touch not for polluting them All that is hers is pure cleere holie Before her footstoole humble lie So may she blesse thee with her eie The sunne shines not on good things solie Oliue of peace Angell of pleasure What line of praise can your worth measure Calme sea of blisse which no shore boundeth Fame fils the world no more with lies But busied in your histories Her trumpet those true wonders soundeth O Fame say all the good thou maist Too little is that all thou saist What if her selfe her selfe commended Should we then know nere knowne before Whether her wit or worth were more Ah no! that booke would nere be ended Your Maiesties humble subiect EDWARD FAIREFAX The Allegorie of the Poem HEroicall Poetrie as a liuing Creature wherein two natures are conioined is compounded of Imitation and Allegorie with the one she allureth vnto her the mindes and eares of men and maruellously delighteth them with the other either in vertue or knowledge she instructeth them And as the heroically written Imitation of an Other is nothing else but the patterne and image of humane action so the Allegorie of an Heroicall Poeme is none other than the glasse and figure of humane life But Imitation regardeth the Actions of man subiected to the outward senses and about them being principally imployed seeketh to represent them with effectuall and expressiue phrases such as liuely set before our corporall eies the things represented It doth not consider the customes affections or discourses of the Minde as they be inward but onely as they come forth thence and being manifested in words in deedes or working doe accompanie the Action On the other side Allegorie respecteth the passions the opinions and customes not onely as they doe appeare but principally in their being hidden inward and more obscurely doth expresse them with notes as a man may say misticall such as only the vnderstanders of the nature of things can fully comprehend Now leauing Imitation apart we will according to our purpose speake of Allegorie which as the life of man is compound so it represents to vs sometime the figure of the one sometime the figure of the other yet because that commonly by Man we vnderstand this compound of the bodie soule or minde and then mans life is said to be that which of such compound is proper in the operations whereof euerie part thereof concurres and by working gets that perfection of the which by her nature she is capable sometime although more seldome by Man is vnderstood not the compound but the most noble part namely the Minde According to this last signification it may be said that the life of man is Contemplatiue and to worke simplie with the Vnderstanding forasmuch as this life doth seeme much to participate of heauen and as it were changde from humanitie to become angelicall Of the life of the Contemplatiue Man the Comedie of Dante 's and the Odyssees are as it were in euerie part thereof a figure but the ciuill life is seene to be shadowed throughout the Iliads and Aeneids also although in this there be rather set out a mixture of Action and Contemplation But since the Contemplatiue Man is solitarie and the Man of Action liueth in ciuill companie thence it commeth that Dante 's Ulysses in their departure from Calipse are fained not to be accompanied of the armie or of a multitude of soldiers but to depart alone whereas Agamemnon and Achilles are described the one Generall of the Grecian Armie the other leader of many troupes of Mirmidons and Aeneas is seene to be accompanied when he fighteth or doth other ciuill actes but when he goeth to hell and the Elisian fields he leaues his followers accompanied onely with his most faithfull friend Achates who neuer departed from his side Neither doth the Poet at randon faine that he went alone for that in his voiage there is signified this onely Contemplation of these paines and rewardes which in another world are reserued for good or guiltie soules Moreouer the operation of the Vnderstanding speculatiue which is the working of one only power is commodiously figured vnto vs by the action of one alone but the Operation Politicall which proceedeth together from the other powers of the minde which are as citizens vnited in one common-wealth cannot so commodiously be shadowed of Action wherein many together and to one end working doe not concurre To these reasons and to these examples I hauing regarde haue made the Allegorie of my Poem such as now shall be manifested The Army compounded of diuers Princes and of other Christian souldiers signifieth Man compounded of soule and bodie and of a soule not simple but diuided into many and diuers powers Ierusalem the strong citie placed in a rough and hilly countrey whereunto as to the last ende are directed all the enterprises of the faithfull armie doth here signifie the Ciuill happines which may come to a Christian man as hereafter shall be declared which is a good verie difficult to attaine vnto and situated vpon the top of the Alpine and wearisome hill of virtue and vnto this are turned as vnto the last marke all the Actions of the politicke man Godfrey which of all the assembly is chosen Chieftaine stands for Vnderstanding particularly for that vnderstanding which considereth not the things necessarie but the mutable and which may diuersly happen those by the wil of God And of Princes he is chose Captaine of this enterprise because vnderstanding is of God and of Nature made Lord ouer the other virtues of the soule and bodie and commaunds these one with ciuill power the other with roiall command Rinaldo Tancredie and the other Princes are in liew of the other powers of the soule and the Bodie here becomes notified by the souldiers lesse noble And because that through the imperfection of humaine nature and by the deceits of his enemy man attaines not this felicitie without many inward difficulties and without finding by the way many outward impediments all these are noted vnto vs by Poeticall figures As the death of Syrenus and his companions not being ioined to the campe but slaine farre off may here shew the losses which a ciuill man hath of his friends followers and other externall goods instruments of vertue aids to the attaining of true felicitie The armies of Affricke Asia and vnluckly battels are none other than his enemies his losses and the accidents of contrarie fortune But comming to the inward impediments loue which maketh Tancredie and the

that deare Lord who helpes his seruants trust Who ere they aske grants all things to the iust 28 This said each one his sacred blessing flings Vpon my coarse with broad out stretched hand And mumbled hymnes and psalmes and holy things Which I could neither heare nor vnderstand Arise quoth they with that as I had wings All whole and sound I leapt vp from the land O miracle sweet gentle strange and trew My lims new strength receiu'd and vigour new 29 I gazde on them like one whose hart denai'th To thinke that donne he sees so strangely wrought Till one said thus O thou of little faith What doubts perplex thy vnbeleeuing thought Each one of vs aliuing bodie haith We are Christes chosen seruants feare vs nought Who to auoid the worlds allurements vaine In wilfull penance hermits poore remaine 30 Vs messengers to comfort thee elect That Lord hath sent that rules both heau'n and hell Who often doth his blessed will effect By such weake meanes as wonder is to tell He will not that this body lie neglect Wherein so noble soule did lately dwell To which againe when it vprisen is It shall vnited be in lasting blis 31 I say Lord Swenoes corpes for which prepar'd A tombe there is according to his worth By which his honour shall be far declar'd And his iust praises spred from south to north But lift thine eies vp to the heauens ward Marke yonder light that like the sunne shines forth That shall direct thee with those beames so cleare To finde the bodie of thy maister deare 32 With that I saw from Cinthias siluer face Like to a falling star a beame downe slide That bright as golden line markt out the place And lightned with cleere streames the forrest wide So Latmos shone when Phebe left the chace And laid her downe by her Endimions side Such was the light that well discerne I could His shape his wounds his face though dead yet bould 33 He lay not groueling now but as a knight That euer had to heauenly things desire So towards heau'n the Prince lay bolt vpright Like him that vpward still sought to aspire His right hand closed held his weapon bright Readie to strike and execute his ire His left vpon his brest was humbly laid That men might know that while he dide he praid 34 Whil'st on his wounds with bootlesse teares I wept That neither helped him nor eas'd my care One of those aged fathers to him stept And forst his hand that needlesse weapon spare This sword quoth he hath yet good token kept That of the Pagans blood he drunke his share And blusheth still he could not saue his Lord Rich strong and sharpe was neuer better sword 35 Heau'n therefore will not though the Prince be slaine Who vsed earst to weild this pretious brand That so braue blade vnused should remaine But that it passe from strong to stronger hand Who with like force can weild the same againe And longer shall in grace of fortune stand And with the same shall bitter vengeance take On him that Sweno slew for Swenoes sake 36 Great Soliman kill'd Sweno Soliman For Swenoes sake vpon this sword must die Here take the blade and with it haste thee than Thither where Godfrey doth encamped lie And feare not thou that any shall or can Or stop thy way or lead thy steps awrie For he that doth thee on this message send Thee with his hand shall guide keepe and defend 37 Arriued there it is his blessed will With true report that thou declare and tell The zeale the strength the courage and the skill In thy beloued Lord that late did dwell How for Christes sake he came his blood to spill And sample left to all of doing well That future ages may admire his deed And courage take when his braue end they reed 38 It resteth now thou know that gentle knight That of this sword shall be thy masters haire It is Rinaldo yong with whom in might And martiall skill no champion may compaire Giue it to him and say the heauens bright Of this reuenge to him commit the caire While thus I list'ned what this old man said A wonder new from further speech vs staid 39 For there whereas the wounded body lay A stately tombe with curious worke behold And wond'rous art was built out of the clay Which rising round the carkas did enfold With words engrauen in the marble gray The warriours name his worth and praise that told On which I gazing stood and often read That epitaph of my deere master dead 40 Among his soldiers quoth the hermit heare Must Swenoes corpes remaine in marble chest While vp to heau'n are flowne their spirits deare To liue in endlesse ioy for euer blest His funerall thou hast with many a teare Accompaned it s now high time to rest Come be my guest vntill the morning ray Shall light the world againe then take thy way 41 This said he led me ouer holts and hags Through thornes and bushes scant my legs I drew Till vnderneath an heape of stones and crags At last he brought me to a secret mew Among the beares wilde boares the wolues and stags There dwelt he safe with his disciple trew And fear'd no treason force nor hurt at all His guiltlesse conscience was his castels wall 42 My supper rootes my bed was mosse and leaues But wearinesse in little rest found ease But when the purple morning night bereaues Of late vsurped rule on lands and seas His loathed couch each wakefull hermite leaues To pray rose they and I for so they please I congee tooke when ended was the same And hitherward as they aduis'd me came 43 The Dane his wofull tale had done when thus The good Prince Godfrey answer'd him sir knight Thou bringest tidings sad and dolorous For which our heauie campe laments of right Since so braue troopes and so deere friends to vs One howre hath spent in one vnluckie fight And so appeared hath thy maister stout As lightning doth now kindled now quencht out 44 But such a death and end exceedeth all The conquests vaine of realmes or spoiles of gold Nor aged Romes proud stately capitall Did euer triumph yet like theirs behold They sit in heau'n on thrones celestiall Crowned with glorie for their conquest bold Where each his hurtes I thinke to other showes And glorie in those bloodie wounds and blowes 45 But thou who hast part of thy race to ronne With haps and hazards of this world itost Reioice for those high honours they haue wonne Which cannot be by chance or fortune crost But for thou askest for Bertoldoes sonne Know that he wandreth banisht from this host And till of him new tidings some man tell Within this campe I deeme it best thou dwell 46 These words of theirs in many a soule renewed The sweet remembrance of faire Sophias childe Some with salt teares for him their cheekes bedewed Least euill betide him mongst the Pagans wilde And euery