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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	law_n	moses_n	read_v	2,745	5	6.8006	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09545	The glasse of time, in the two first ages. Diuinely handled, by Thomas Peyton, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent	Peyton, Thomas, 1595-1626.	1620 (1620)	STC 19824; ESTC S114595	86,637	182

guard thy person with her flaming sword Not long before if you remember well When Adam first with Eue his darling fell Charitas And both all naked iustly for it blam'd Loues bashfull Lady was thereof asham'd And as offended in that sacred place Mounts vp the clowds with discontented face Bewailes mans fall with teares bedewes her cheeeks Most louely looks and round about she seekes If she can find with all her toyle a friend To set all right and past offences mend When she had past to siluer Cinthia fayre Through the cold Region of the liquid Aire And crost the way that Phaeton begun With his prowd Teame about the world to run Aboue the stars and fiery regions hot With extreame labour paine and trauell got On euery side through danges great had ventred Yet at the last within heauens wals she entred Where she beheld a goodly glorious sight Ten thousand candles all the world to light Carryed in course about the earth to reele And Nature nobly turning of their wheele After those kind imbraces euer vsde Twixt Ladies faire dame Nature smiling musde To see her sister with her louely face Thus rapt alone within that sacred place To passe the clowds and firy frozen Ayre The earth to leaue vnto her to repayre Euen in an instant at that happy time What heauen so high but loue diuine will clime Scale vp the throane of God himselfe aboue Thrise noble Lady full of grace and loue Nature amaz'd as wondring what it ment To see thy lookes bewray a discontent Enquires the cause that makes thy face so sad The newes below she thinks is worse then bad But when she heard and vnderstood the cause That Eue and Adam brake their Makers lawes Incurr'd a curse on all their future seed She thought the world and all therein would bleed And that Gods anger for so foule offence Would not be pleasde vnlesse she went from thence Not staying now to heare the matter scand She takes her sister by her louely hand Descending both in all their rich attire Downe the hot region of heauens burnisht fire Through the cold Aire beneath the Moone they diued And at the last in Paradise arriued Here she stood by and saw Gods iudgement past And oftentimes forth from her eyes she cast A Sea of salt and driery briny teares Her loue alas was euer full of feares To make her venter in the heate and cold And mount the skies as euen but late I told Bring Nature downe in speedy postapace To appease Gods Iustice in that sacred place Time spies her forth and takes her by the hand Which louely there within that place did stand And as before he vsde each other Sister So now this Lady first of all he kist her Then leades her foorth much like a louely Queene Spangled in Iewels wrought with gold in greene Brings her to Iustice plac't her by her side In future ages euermore to bide That till this world by power diuine shall stand These sisters both should be on either hand To guide the earth and keepe her feete vpright And gouerne all vnder the Prince of might When Mercy Iustice both from Loue do flow The Scarlet garment seemes as white as Snow Time backe retires as heretofore he did When now the place was of the Ladyesrid And on a Dame of Noble birth doth light Cald Truth his daughter cloathed all in white Veritas He takes her gently by her lilly hand Wherein Gods booke did at that instant stand Brought her along as all the rest before Ouer the gate vpon the sacred dore In all her roabes with comely pompe and grace And plac't her right before dame Iustice face O heauenly God may I not well resemble Iusticia The flaming Sword which made the earth to tremble When all the world thy sacred Iustice saw To deare Elias liuing in the Law Rapt vp a liue within a flaming Cart His coate imblazde might be a bleeding heart 2. Kin. 18. 40. 2. King 1. 10. 2. Kiug 2. 11. When Iesabel the monster of her sexe His harmelesse soule vpon the earth did vexe Her Prophets false to Babylon that ran He quite consum'd and scarcely left a man To carry newes of that vn wonted fire Which fell vpon them at his iust desire That Cherubin vpon the right hand plac't Misericordia Which time himselfe hath with his fauour grac't In all the world how well I may compare To aged Henoch walking in the Ayre Within whose dayes when God his body rapt Aboue the clouds in innocency lapt Before such time as Moses Law was gaued By Mercy onely all the world was saued The other damsell which my pen doth lim Charitas The sweetest fast and louelyest Cherubim That Time himselfe vpon the left hand set And which my Muse can neuer well forget If that we reade the holy sacred Booke How neare her person all diuine doth looke To that Disciple which the rest suruiu'd In Pathmos I le into the heauens a riu'd Rauisht in spirit on a sacred day Within a coffin did his body lay And round about a light there shined bright The coffin caught quite out of all their sight The lesson still that he did euer preach Both in his life and by example teach In all his workes like to the Turtle doue Throughout his bookes was little else but loue That Cherubin which stood before the face Veritas Ofsacred Iustice in that reuerent place Like to an infant that his Nurse doth weane Whose face is smiling fingers ends are cleane All full of Truth not knowing how to faine Dissemble falsly all the world to gaine How well I may compare her setled looke To Gods eternall euer blessed booke These Cherubins all glorious to behold Surpassing farre the purest burnisht gold The radiant splendor of whose sacred rayes Resemble those ador'd within our dayes Iustice diuine much like to God himselfe Iustitia That scorneth bribing and all ill got pelfe And shewes by iudgements fearefull past examples How all the world vnder his feete he tramples Mercy againe much like to Christ his son Miserecordia That hath the crowne of glory for vs won And from the heauens descended to the earth To make vs happy in his welcome birth Whose panting soule had neuer minutes rest Suffring those torments not to be exprest Surpassing farre the greatest learned wits To see how he at Gods right hand now sits Triumphing ouer sin world death and hell In ioyes eternall which no tongue can tell Thrice euer blessed be his glorious name It was his mercy made him do the same Then Charity much like the God of loue Charitas I meane no Cupids which to folly moue But that great spirit ere the world was made Vpon the waters through the deepe did wade Gen. 1. 2 Mat. 1. 13. 20. By whom the Virgin happily conceiued To bring forth him that lustice wrath appeased When afterwards by