Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	aaron_n	bring_v	land_n	52	3	5.8756	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20831	The Muses Elizium lately discouered, by a new way ouer Parnassus. The passages therein, being the subiect of ten sundry nymphalls, leading three diuine poemes, Noahs floud. Moses, his birth and miracles. David and Golia. By Michael Drayton Esquire.	Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.; Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631. Moyses in a map of his miracles. aut	1630 (1630)	STC 7210; ESTC S109889	101,886	216

had need to feare Amongst the rest is terrifi'd with those With which before none euer troubled were As we behold a swarming cast of Bees In a swolne cluster to some branch to cleaue Thus doe they hang in bunches on the trees Pressing each plant and loading eu'ry greaue The houses couered with these must'ring Flies And the faire windowes that for light were made Eclips'd with horror seeming to their eyes Like the dimme twilight or some ominous shade For humane food what Egypt had in store The creatures feed on till they bursting die And what in this vnhappy Land was more Their loathsome bodies lastly purrifie O goodly Goshen where the Hebrewes rost How deare thy children in th' Almighties sight That for their sakes thou onely should'st be blest When all 〈◊〉 on the Egyptians light What promis'd people rested thee within To whom no perill euer might aspire For whose deare sake some watchfull Cherubin Stood to defend thee arm'd in glorious 〈◊〉 Thou art that holy Sanctuary made Where all th' afflicted cast aside their feare Whose priuiledges euer to inuade The Heauens command their horrors to forbeare But since mans pride and insolence is such Nor by these plagues his will to passe could bring Now with a sharpe and wounding hand will touch The dearer body of each liuing thing To other ends his courses to direct By all great meanes his glory to aduance Altreth the cause by altring the effect To worke by wonder their deliuerance As Aaron grasping ashes in his hand Which scarcely cast into the open aire But brings a murraine ouer all the Land With scabs and botches such as neuer were What chewos the cud or hoofe on horne alotted Wild in the fields or tamed by the yoke With this contagious pestilence is rotted So vniuersall's the Almighties stroke The goodly Horse of hot and fiery straine In his high courage hardly brook'd his food That Ditch or Mound not lately could containe On the firme ground so scornfully that stood Crest-falne hangs downe his hardly manag'd head Lies where but late disdainfully he trod His quick eye fixed heauily and dead Stirres not when prick'd with the impulsiue goad The Swine which Nature secretly doth teach Onely by fasting sicknesses to cure Now but in vaine is to it selfe a Leech Whose suddaine end infallibly is sure Where frugall Shepheards reckoning wooll 〈◊〉 lambe Or who by Heards hop'd happily to winne 〈◊〉 Now sees the young-one perish with the damme Nor dare his hard hand touch the poys'ned skinne Those fertile pastures quickly ouer-spread With their dead Cattell where the birds of prey Gorg'd on the garhidge wofully bestead Pois'ned fall downe as they would fly away And hungry dogs the tainted flesh refrain'd Whereon their Master gormondiz'd of late What Nature for mans appetite ordain'd The creature that 's most rauenous doth hate Thus all that breathes and kindly hath encrease Suffer for him that proudly did offend Yet in this manner here it shall not cease In Beasts begun in wretched man to end To whom it 〈◊〉 violently can Not by th' Almighty limited to slake As Beast is plagued for rebellious man Man in some measure must his paine partake Those dainty breasts that open'd lately were Which with rich vaines so curiously did flow With Biles and Blaines most loathsome doe appeare Which now the Dam'zell not desires to show Features disfigur'd onely now the faire All are deformed mostill-fauour'd be Where beautie was most exquisite and rare There the least blemish easili'st you might see For costly garments fashion'd with deuice To forme each choise part curious eyes to please The sicke mans Gowne is onely now in price To giue their bloch'd and blistred bodies case It is in vaine the Surgeons hand to proue Or helpe of Physicke to asswage the smart For why the power that ruleth from aboue Crosseth all meanes of industrie and Art Egypt is now an Hospitall forlorne Where onely Cripples and diseased are How many Children to the world are borne So many Lazers thither still repaire When those proud Magi as oppos'd to Fate That durst high Heau'n in eu'ry thing to dare Now in most vile and miserable state As the mean'st Caitiue equally doe fare Thus stands that man so eminent alone Arm'd with his power that gouerneth the skie Now when the Wizards lastly ouerthrowne Groueling in sores before his 〈◊〉 doe lie Not one is found vnpunished escapes So much to doe his hungry wrath to feede Which still appeareth in as many shapes As Pharaoh doth in tyrannies proceede Euen as some graue wise Magistrate to finde Out some vile treason or some odious crime That beareth euery circumstance in minde Of place of manner instance and of time That the suspected strongly doth arest And by all meanes inuention can deuise By hopes or torture out of him to wrest The ground the purpose and consederacies Now slacks his paine now doth the same 〈◊〉 Yet in his strait hand doth containe him still Proportioning his allortted punishment As hee 's remoou'd or pliant to his will But yet hath Egypt some what left to vaunt What 's now remaining may her pride repaire But lest she should perhaps be arrogant Till she be humbled he will neuer spare These plagues seeme yet but nourished beneath And euen with man 〈◊〉 to moue Now Heauen his furie violently shall breath Rebellious Egypt scourging from aboue Winter let loose in his robustious kinde Wildly runnes rauing through the airie plaines As though his time of liberty assign'd Roughly now shakes off his 〈◊〉 chaines The windes spet fire in one anothers face And mingled flames fight furiously together Through the mild Heauen that one the other chace Now flying thence and then returning thether No light but lightning ceaselesly to burne Swister than thought from place to place to passe And being gone doth sodainly returne Ere you could say precisely that it was In one selfe moment darkenesse and the light Instantly borne as instantly they die And euery minute is a day and night That breakes and sets in twinkling of an eye Mountaine and valley suffer one selfe iro The stately Tower and lowlie coate alike The shrub and Cedar this impartiall fire In one like order generally doth strike On flesh and plant this subtill lightning praies As through the pores it passage fitly findes In the full wombe the tender burthen slaies Plercing the stiffe trunke through the spungie rindes Throughout this great and 〈◊〉 Ball The wrath of Heauen outragiously is throwne As the lights quickning and Celestiall Had put themselues together into one This yet continuing the big-bellied clouds With heate and moisture in their fulnesse brake And the sterne Thunder from the ayrie shrouds To the sad world in feare and horrour spake The blacke storme bellowes and the yerning vaule Full charg'd with furie as some signall giuen Preparing their artillirie t' assault Shoot their sterne vollies in the face of Heauen The bolts new wing'd with fork'd AEthereall fire Through