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	hand_n	life_n	12	3	3.5263	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13821	The historie of serpents. Or, The second booke of liuing creatures wherein is contained their diuine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their liuely figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts: with their seuerall poysons and antidotes; their deepe hatred to mankind, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, and destruction. Necessary and profitable to all sorts of men: collected out of diuine scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and ænigmaticall obseruations. By Edvvard Topsell.	Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?	1608 (1608)	STC 24124; ESTC S122051	444,728	331

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those_o man_n call_v ophiogenes_n that_o be_v descend_v or_o beget_v by_o serpent_n therefore_o i_o will_v return_v where_o i_o leave_v namely_o to_o the_o hatred_n of_o man_n to_o serpent_n and_o of_o serpent_n to_o man_n again_o in_o testimony_n whereof_o there_o have_v be_v mutual_a slaughter_n namely_o man_n which_o have_v kill_v monstrous_a serpent_n and_o serpent_n which_o have_v kill_v man_n again_o hercules_n be_v but_o a_o infant_n as_o poet_n fain_o kill_v thóse_v two_o serpent_n which_o juno_n send_v to_o his_o cradle_n to_o destroy_v he_o for_o juno_n be_v say_v to_o be_v much_o offend_v at_o his_o birth_n because_o he_o be_v beget_v by_o jupiter_n upon_o al●mena_n and_o therefore_o there_o be_v reserve_v the_o image_n of_o sicul._n hercules_n at_o athens_n strangle_v a_o serpent_n but_o pierius_n make_v of_o this_o fiction_n a_o good_a moral_a or_o hieroglyphic_n when_o he_o say_v that_o by_o hercules_n strangle_v of_o the_o serpent_n in_o his_o cradle_n be_v understand_v how_o those_o man_n which_o be_v bear_v for_o any_o great_a enterprise_n shall_v kill_v their_o pleasure_n while_o they_o be_v young_a i_o need_v not_o to_o stand_v long_o upon_o this_o point_n for_o it_o be_v evident_a that_o to_o this_o day_n there_o be_v many_o hyades_n both_o man_n and_o woman_n which_o be_v not_o afraid_a to_o kill_v the_o serpent_n brood_n but_o such_o as_o have_v perrish_v by_o serpent_n i_o mean_v man_n of_o any_o note_n be_v also_o express_v whereof_o ovid_n write_v of_o a●lacos_n the_o son_n of_o priamus_n and_o alixothoes_n who_o follow_v the_o nymph_n hesperia_n with_o who_o he_o be_v in_o love_n be_v sudden_o kill_v by_o a_o snake_n bite_v his_o foot_n so_o be_v apaesantus_n munitus_fw-la eurydice_n laocoon_n opheltes_n the_o son_n of_o lycurgus_n king_n of_o nemea_n orestes_n idmon_n and_o mopsus_n be_v slay_v by_o serpent_n whereof_o opheltes_n by_o the_o negligence_n of_o his_o nurse_n hypsiphiles_n leave_v he_o ungarded_a in_o his_o cradle_n it_o be_v record_v by_o aelianus_n and_o pliny_n that_o when_o a_o serpent_n have_v kill_v a_o man_n he_o can_v never_o more_o cover_v himself_o in_o the_o earth_n but_o in_o punishment_n of_o so_o vile_a a_o offence_n wander_v to_o and_o fro_o subject_a to_o infinite_a misery_n and_o calamity_n be_v not_o acknowledge_v by_o his_o female_n if_o he_o be_v a_o male_a nor_o yet_o by_o the_o male_a if_o it_o be_v a_o female_a and_o be_v forsake_v of_o all_o his_o crew_n or_o society_n the_o earth_n itself_o not_o deign_v to_o entertain_v a_o man-murtherer_n into_o her_o bowel_n but_o constrain_a he_o to_o live_v winter_n and_o summer_n abroad_o upon_o the_o open_a earth_n and_o thus_o have_v the_o divine_a providence_n dispense_v his_o justice_n that_o he_o suffer_v not_o