Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	action_n	good_a	will_n	1,601	5	6.4879	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08278	The labyrinth of mans life. Or Vertues delight and enuies opposite. By Io: Norden	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1614 (1614)	STC 18611; ESTC S110180	46,781	96

branches infinite distinct in powre Some attribute mens dispositions To Starres aspects and Constellations That are predominant at time of birth Thence to proceed hartes heauines or mirth Some to the clime where men are borne and liue Some to the tribe whence men discend it giue Some to the feeblenesse or force of seede Some to the Nurse and food whereon men feed These much preuaile not yet of force cheefe cause Why men refist or hold diuiner lawes An inward cause there is that workes the will As light or darke giues motiues good or ill Two ruling powers are of distinct effects Mens mindes are led as each of these directs Of loue diuine th' one th' other of set hate As these preuaile mens actions perpetrate Betwixt these powers is alwayes emnity The good confirm'd by contrariety For if there were no feeling fight within Law needed not to make a sinne a sinne Nature the mother of all earthly things Creates preserues by due contraryings Without a discord can no concord be Concord is when contrary thinges agree But these two contraries that guide the mind Are so disiunct can neuer be combin'd As good and ill as right and wrong cannot Be in one subiect as may cold and hot So heauen and hell and what partakes their might Can neuer be in one without a fight Though thinges repugnant may haue vnity And seeme as one and of one quality Though Natures simples may in one combine And one to others quality incline Yet one too strong breedes such dissention As Nature hardly workes re-vnion Nature by art may imitated be And contraries by art be made agree Of coulours mixed meerely contraries She moldes and makes most pleasing decencies The eye beholdes the mixtures with delight If they haue beauty and be exquisite But if the growndes as white or black or blew Exceed too much it marres the mixed hew Drugges farre vnlike in hot cold moyst and dry Are brought by art to true Congruity Musicke the medicine of heauy hearts Makes concord only of discording partes As high and low as longs and shortes agree So harsh or sweet is musicke found to be No contraries appeare in perfect kind But seene together or by art combind Vnlike to these are inward qualities The hart indureth not her contraries But as to good or ill it stands affected It harbors one the other is reiected Vertue and vice are meerely contraries And each is foe to others qualities And neither Art nor Nature can bring those At one they are and will be mortall foes Vice seekes to blemish mindes best qualified Neuer preuailes in persons rectified Where Vertue liues there Vice doth seldome dye Vice liues below vertue aspireth hie Vertue in earth is meerely perigrin In heauen a naturalized Citizen Who so is led by that celestiall guide Confronts all Vice strong truely fortifide Of inward heart and not of outward weede Doe all effects of good and ill proceede But what is good that Enuie doth dispise Foe to true vertue friend to vanities What can best wit what can deep'st wisedome chuse Or best performe but Enuie will abuse No publike place no person of estate Whom hatefull Enuie will not emulate Then I of lowest rancke can I be free If Enuie heaue at highest in degree I will digest foule Enuies cup of spite Sith they tast most that are most exquisite Foule Enuie aymes to hit the innocent And wounds her selfe shee 's so maleuolent She waxeth leane seeing another fat She kicks at others she not spurned at Long haue I trod this Labyrinth with care Yet know I not in it what curuings are The wayes and turnings are ●'ambiguous They make me doubtfull and infatuous But who so treades it with best skill throughout Walkes not so wyselie but findes waies of doubt Two guides are in this maze most principall As are the wayes two in the generall The branches infinite of either be All doubtfull though the entries plaine men see They guide the passengers in either way The first aright the second leads astray The first yet narrow slippie full of let The second faire broad full of pleasures set The first seemes base most ignominious The second pleasant and tres-glorious But whether so or meerely contrary Successe declares not wit or pollicy A hidden mistery vnseene there lyes Within this Labyrinth of Destinies Wherein scarce two estates stand equaliz'd More one then other hurt or benefizd As many men so many earthes estates From basest begger to great'st potentates Some sing some sigh some laugh and some lament Some fast some feast some murmor some content Some fawne some frowne some act and some admire Some hope some feare some runne and some retyre Some grac'd some griu'd some wrong some complain Some get some lose some take some giue and gaine Some rise some fall some stand some feede some pine Some heau'd aloft some lofty ones decline Some saile with tide some swim gainst winde and tide Some flote some sinke some run and neuer slide Some sleeping get for frutelesse gaine some wake Some all men grace some causlesse all forsake Some neitlie tir'd sotts held of high desert Some basly clad deseruing held in erte Some bosting breake into the worlds admire Some meeke though worthy sildome raysed hier Some frowned on in fine regaine regard Some fawned fayle of their vayne hopes reward Some lyuing ill stand yet in wished grace Some well yet liue but in penurious case Some cruell tyger-like some temperate Some mild some mad some kind some obstinate Some hauty proud some of an humble mind Some louing hatefull buxsum some vnkind Luxurious some lustfull some continent Perfidious some faithfull some insolent Thus yeeldes this labyrinth wherein men liue It giues some ioy and some it maks to grieue A thousand thousand strange varieties Of outward mirth and inward miseries It yeelds to men yet none true iudgement haue To shape their wills to his who first them gaue But feede on vapors of a strange content That vanish quite as soone as they haue vent On humaine promise that is made and dies Clip'st as the Sunne by blackesse cloudes that ryse Who thinkes all promises will come to passe Makes faire foule fancy with a flattering glasse Fancies farre fetch 't doe feede a feeble heart They cure or comfort by dissembling art As he that 's plac'd in highest ranck conceiues Him most secure yet fancie oft deceiues The Bramble and the Cedar neighbors bee And farre the stronger is the Cedar tree The Bramble bends breakes not when tempests rise That soonest falls that is of greatest sise Vnder the Cedar on a mountaine set The lower trees and shrubs there shelter get But when the tempest tumbles downe the tree They bend or breake that vnder-shelter'd be Her stature tall her massie bodie teares And breakes the branches which the bodie beares And vnderlings which Cedars shelter haue Doe bow or bruse or others shelters craue High Cedar falling hath no meanes of stay

lie Which they auoid that runne aduisedly Some may mistake and iudge of men amisse Not euery one aduanc'd ambitious is Whom Vertue rayseth honorable parts Will show desert good deeds bewray good hearts When earthly honor hath celestiall grace Th' inferiour by them are in gracefull case For as the Sun shines not but giues all heate So by true honor meanest comfort get A painted Sunne may seeme in show to shine So may th' ambitious to the outward eyne And he that seekes to warne him by that Sun Needs not complaine of too much warmth he wun A man that scales fayre Honors mount by might Though most vnlust presumes to seeme vpright Where vertue daignes not her preuailing hand To raise the rais'd is as a plant in sand Though water'd wythers with the frost of ha●e The blossomes fall forg'd fayre and delicate As good men grow and rise to wished grace So grow the ill not iudged by their place But by the sword that in the place they sway Th' vse or abuse whereof their heatrs bewray None are aduanc'd by chance to gouerment Nor rise nor fall by Fortune discontent But all are set in places high or low And wither too or else more greater grow By powres Diuine The good he sets To succour those that haue wrong counterlets The ill he sets that good and ill may see How right and wrong how light and darke agree For as all creatures liue by contraries So Common weales in their societies If all were of one disposition Law needed not nor imposition But as the night and day are two in show And each giues other changing ouer throw So right and wrong are euer in debate The second seekes the first to violate Yet takes the habite of the thing she hates To faine it good the thing she perpetrates A wicked man that counterfects his deeds Couets to show them as true vertue 's seeds At length they show the soyle wherein they grew By bud or bloome by branch or stalke or hew It bootes men much aduanc'd to haue foresight Whom they accept and shelter by their might Yet wish I none to be suspitious Without good cause or too too credulous None can forsee th' euent of future dayes His harmes his helpes dispatch or his delayes Nought can succeed vnto the good or ill Wealth want or meane with or against their will As they do will or as they can foresee All thinges are done by him whose will is free And if men knew what prouidence diuine Workes by his will they would their willes incline To take it wel how so their wills were crost For oft it 's ill when seeming wisest boast If one aduanc'd be brought to meane estate Let him not murmur rather r●●inate Re-chaw the cudde of wilful wayes forgot Which who forgets the powers diuine do not From whose al-seeing eye nothing is hid Disclos'd shall be what so the closest did If Enuy hurt thee vertues dismall ghost Feare not nor faint think not thine honor lost Where Vertue liues there Enuy neuer dyes Where Enuy lurkes is nest of villanies True Honor maybe stung but cannot dye Though Enuy hisse she standes and scornes to flye True vertue fortefies true Honors seat The hart heroycall that still is great By inward grace If by his vice one fell Obraid him not nor wish him greater hell For sinne sufficeth for sinnes punishment Without inflict of death or banishment Men in this Maze haue sundry greefes and paines Yet none that liues all greefes at once sustaines But one with this with that another pines As hart corrupt or member grosse inclines Some crie as did the Sh●na●ite his head Some as Antiochus his belly ill besteed With Asa some against the gout complaine With Aristarch against the dropsey paine Th'aflicting feauer shakes some's trembling bones The grating Stone inforceth helples groanes If theirs and other greefes combin'd in one And in one body did insist alone They all could not one euill equalize A troubled Conscience gulfe of maladies Which though men feele not in their pleasures fits● In fine 't wil try the quintessence of wits As riuers run into the Ocean all So in the conscience greefes in generall To rack the heart that feeles no terror now And nought shall ease it deep'st protest or vow Though men of might may deeme them free from ill For that none dare to countercheck their will A guilty Conscience wil bring miseries No boot to plead high lawlesse dignities Though Tyrants seeme to haue no feare to fall In outward show within they feed on gall The outward lawlesse haue small inward rest Their seeming free is froth of fretting breast Foolish feeble faithlesse is vanity Yet feedes fond fancy with variety Oh flye her truthlesse faining flatteries That seekes to sooth men in impieties And yet betraies the worthiest wights that loue her Thrice happy he that can in time remooue her And most vnhappy who imbrace her most A Sainct in show in deed an owgly ghost Some great disguize their guile by smiling face And seeme in show to back the weak with grace A strong conceit of dreamed feast doth feed As doth a promise of a helples deed Resembling th apple Tantalus would taste That gapes and bytes but byteth still in waste A promis'd fauour not performed is Much like the Apples of Asphaltidis Which to the eye are goodly great and faire Within all ashes and corrupted ayre The fairest promises are farthest tost Oft striken faire as often nicely crost A ball that hath no stuffe to beare it out Lights alway short though he that strikes be stout Great care ought men of greatest place to haue In promise or denyall what men craue A quick deniall or a quick consent In all demands yeelds Reason best content Lingring performance of a promise made Makes Hope to wither in the ripening blade Experience teacheth how to take or shun As former good or ill successe hath runne Some men do find by others fortunes fall A stronger staffe to stay themselues withall He then is happy who can harmes forsake By shunning that some to their hurts did take Examples teach to take or to eschew And onely steede as helpes or harmes ensue The best examples may direct awry Though in the president no error lye As is opinion so is good or ill Mistaken oft by rash conceiuing will Who so pre-ponders how things may succeed Before attempts takes likeliest way to speed Somtimes doth Ignorance breed most content Not to foresee some dangers imminent It breedes but terror anguish greefe and feare A knowne ineuitable danger neere It profits nothing danger to fore-show To him that by no meanes can it foregoe Onely it may prepare the hearts consent To vndergoe what meanes cannot preuent Sometimes to lack what one desireth most Is best And when a thing held dear'st is lost Fond fancies best is often worst to haue What she affects oft makes a free-man slaue Fancy miscarried