Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	act_n	effect_n	will_n	1,670	5	6.6468	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36595	Amphitryon, or, The two Sosia's a comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal / written by Mr. Dryden ; to which is added the musick of the songs, compos'd by Mr. Henry Purcel.	Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Plautus, Titus Maccius. Amphitruo.; Molière, 1622-1673. Amphitryon.; Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Amphitryon.	1691 (1691)	Wing D2235; Wing D2366_PARTIAL; ESTC R3605	55,761	84

Reverence sake to be close Hypocrites Phoeb. But what necessitates you to this Love Which you confess a Crime and yet commit For to be secret makes not sin the less 'T is only hidden from the vulgar view Maintains indeed the Reverence due to Princes But not absolves the Conscience from the Crime Jup. I Love because 't was in the Fates I shou'd Phoeb. With reverence be it spoke a bad excuse Thus every wicked Act in Heav'n or Earth May make the same defence but what is Fate Is it a blind contingence of Events Or sure necessity of Causes linck'd That must produce Effects or is 't a Pow'r That orders all things by superior VVill Foresees his VVork and works in that foresight Jup. Fate is what I By vertue of Omnipotence have made it And pow'r Omnipotent can do no wrong Not to my self because I will'd it so Nor yet to Men for what they are is mine This night I will enjoy Amphitryon's VVife For when I made her I decreed her such As I shou'd please to love I wrong not him VVhose VVife she is for I reserv'd my Right To have her while she pleas'd me that once past She shall be his again Merc. Here 's Omnipotence with a Vengeance to make a Man a Cuckold and yet not to do him wrong Then I find Father Jupiter that when you made Fate you had the wit to contrive a Holy-day for your self now and then For you Kings never Enact a Law but you have a kind of an Eye to your own Prerogative Phoeb. If there be no such thing as right and wrong Of an Eternal Being I have done But if there be Jup. Peace thou disputing Fool Learn this if thou could'st comprehend my ways Then thou wert Jove not I yet thus far know That for the good of Human-kind this Night I shall beget a future Hercules Who shall redress the Wrongs of injur'd Mortals Shall conquer Monsters and reform the World Merc. Ay Brother Phoebus and our Father made all those Monsters for Hercules to Conquer and contriv'd all those Vices on purpose for him to reform too there 's the Jeast on 't Phoeb. Since Arbitrary Pow'r will hear no Reason 't is Wisdom to be silent Merc. Why that 's the Point this same Arbitrary Power is a knock-down Argument 't is but a Word and a Blow now methinks our Father speaks out like an honest bare-fac'd God as he is he lays the stress in the right Place upon absolute Dominion I confess if he had been a Man he might have been a Tyrant if his Subjects durst have call'd him to account But you Brother Poebus are but a meer Country Gentleman that never comes to Court that are abroad all day on Horse-back making Visits about the World are drinking all Night and in your Cups are still rayling at the Government O these Patriots these bumpkin Patriots are a very silly sort of Animal Jup. My present Purpose and Design you heard T' enjoy Amphitryon's Wife the fair Alcmena You two must be subservient to my Love Merc. to Phoeb. No more of your Grumbletonian Morals Brother there 's Preferment coming be advis'd and Pimp dutifully Jup. Amphitryon the brave Theban General Has overcome his Countreys Foes in Fight And in a single Duel slain their King His Conquering Troops are eager on their march Returning home while their young General More eager to review his beauteous Wife Posts on before wing'd with impetuous Love And by to morrows dawn will reach this Town Merc. That 's but short warning Father Jupiter having made no former advances of Courtship to her you have need of your Omnipotence and all your Godship if you mean to be before hand with him Phoeb. Then how are we to be employ'd this Evening Time 's precious and these Summer Nights are short I must be early up to light the World Jup. You shall not rise there shall be no to morrow Merc. Then the VVorld's to be at an end I find Phoeb. Or else a Gap in Nature of a Day Jup. A day will well be lost to busie Man Night shall continue sleep and care shall cease So many Men shall live and live in peace VVhom Sun-shine had betray'd to envious Sight And Sight to sudden Rage and Rage to Death Now I will have a night for love and me A long luxurious Night fit for a God To quench and empty his immortal Heat Merc. I 'll lay on the VVomans side for all that that she shall love longest to night in spight of your Omnipotence Phoeb. I shall be curs'd by all the lab'ring Trades That early rise but you must be obey'd Jup. No matter for the cheating part of Man They have a day's sin less to answer for Phoeb. When wou'd you have me wake Jup. Why when Jove goes to sleep when I have finish'd Your Brother Mercury shall bring you word Exit Phoebus on his Chariot To Merc. Now Hermes I must take Amphitryon's form T' enjoy his Wife Thou must be Sosia this Amphitryon's slave Who all this Night is travelling to Thebes To tell Alcmena of her Lords approach And bring her joyful news of Victory Merc. But why must I be Sosia Jup. Dull God of Wit thou Statue of thy self Thou must be Sosia to keep out Sosia Who by his entrance might discover Jove Disturb my Pleasures raise unruly Noise And so distract Alcmena's tender Soul She wou'd not meet my warmth when I dissolve Into her Lap nor give down half her Love Mer. Let me alone I 'll cudgel him away But I abhor so Villanous a shape Jup. Take it I charge thee on thy Duty take it Nor dare to lay it down till I command I cannot bear a moments loss of Joy Night appears above in her Chariot Look up the Night is in her silent Chariot And rouling just o're Thebes bid her drive slowly Or make a double turn about the World While I drop Jove and take Amphitryon's Dress To be the greater while I seem the less Exit Jupiter Merc. to Night Madam Night a good Even to you fair and softly I beseech you Madam I have a word or two to you from no less a God than Jupiter Night O my nimble finger'd God of Theft what make you here on Earth at this unseasonable hour what Bankers Shop is to be broken open to Night or what Clippers and Coiners and Conspirators have been invoking your Deity for their assistance Merc. Faith none of those Enormities and yet I am still in my Vocation for you know I am a kind of Jack of all Trades at a word Jupiter is indulging his Genius to night with a certain noble sort of Recreation call'd Wenching The truth on 't is Adultery is its proper name Night Jupiter wou'd do well to stick to his Wife Juno Merc. He has been marry'd to her above these hundred years and that 's long enough in conscience to stick to one Woman Night She 's his Sister too as well as his Wife that