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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	affection_n	love_n	love_v	1,622	5	6.3349	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28452	The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1654 (1654)	Wing B3321; ESTC R15301	117,120	245

almost incurable A talkative fellow is the unbrac'd drum which beats a wise man out of his wits Love LOve in the interpretation of the envious is sof●ness in the wicked good men suspect it for lust and in the good some spiritual men have given it the name o● Charity And these are but terms to this which seems a more considerate def●nition That indefinite Love is Lust and Lust when it is determin●d to one is Love This definition ●oo does but intrude it self on what I was about to say which is and spoken with soberness though like a Lay-man that Love is the most acceptable imposition of nature the cause and preservation of life and the very healthfulness of the minde as well as of the body But Lust our raging feaver is more dangerous in Cities then the Calenture in ships Sir William Davenant in his Preface to Gondibert Love in the most obnoxious interpretation is natures preparative to her greatest works which is the making of life ibid. Love in humane nature is both the source and center of all passion● for not only hope f●ar and joy but even anger and hatred rise first out of the spring of love Mr. Montagu To be in love is the most intensive appropria●ion of all the powers of our minde to one design ibid. Sensual love is the most fatal plague among all passions It is not a simple malady but one composed of all the evils in the world it hath the shiverings and heats of Feavers the ach and prickings of the Meagrum the rage of Teeth the stupe●action of the Vir●●go the furies of Frenzie the black vapors of the Hypocondry the disturbances of the Waking the stupidities of the Lethargy the fits of the Falling-sickness the faintness of the Tysick the heavings of the passions of the heart the pangs of the Colick the infections of the Leprosie the venom of Vlcers the malignity of the Plague the putrifaction of the Gangrene and all which is ho●rible in nature Holy Court Love Care is thy Court Tyranny thy Raign Slaves thy Subjects Folly thy Attendance Lust thy Law Sin thy Service and Repentance thy Wages Fear breedeth Wit Anger is the cradle of courage Joy opens and enables the Heart Sorrow weakneth it but love is engendred betwixt lust and idleness his companions are unquietness longings fond comforts faint discomforts hopes j●alousies ungrounded rages causeless yieldings the highest end it aspires to is a little pleasure with much pain before and great repentance after At that time the flames of his chast love began to burn more forcible then ever He loved her with a love mingled with respect of merit and compassion of her persecuted innocency To love is natural not to love is monstrous H.C. Such was the unresistable force of his unlimitable affection that in spite of reason he was enforced to do homage unto passion Her love was a rich rock of defence against all Syrene songs It received such an impression of that wonderful passion which to be defined is impossible because no words reach to express the strange effects of it they only know it who inwardly feel it it is called Love He besought him not to make account of his speech which if it had been over passionate yet was it to be born withal because it proceeded out of an affection much more vehement Humanity enjoyns you to love me seeing I hold my life an easie sacrifice to enjoy you It is no pilgrimage to travel to your lips Worldly loves are the true Gardens of Adonis where w● can gather nothing but trivial flowers surrounded with many bryars Christian Diary A silent expression gives the pregnant'st testimony of a deep grounded affection where every look darts forth love Nothing shall have power to alien my love from you Let me draw from your look one blush of love or line of fancy Let me become an abject in the eyes of fame an object o● contempt to the world if my faithful devotion and observance supply not all my defects I am he who either you have great cause to love or no cause to hate She loved him as the pledge-bearer of her heart You towards whom I know not whether my love or admiration be greater Your affection hath got a Lordship in my thoughts Love to a yielding heart is a King but to a resisting is a Tyrant Sealing up all thoughts of love under the image of her memory The extream bent of my affection compells me to Love in the heart is an exhalation in a cloud it cannot continue idle there it daily forms a thousand imaginations and brings forth a thousand cares it findes out an infinity of inventions to advance the good of the beloved c. H.C. Death may end my life but not my love which as it is infinite must be immortal Him whose love went beyond the bounds of conceit much more of utterance that in her hands the ballance of his life or death did stand Such a love as mine wedded to vertue can never be so adulterated by any accident no nor yet ravish'd by passion as to bring forth a bastard disobedience whereof my very conscience not being able to accuse my thoughts I come to clear my self The proportion of my love is infinite So perfect a thing my love is to you as it suffers no question so it seems to receive injury by addition of any words unto it The more notable demonstrations you make of the love so far beyond my desert with which it pleaseth you to make me happy the more am I even in course of hu●anity b●und to seek requitals witness Having embarked my careful love in the ship of my desire Good God! what sublimate is made in the lymbeck of Love His eyes were so eager in b●●●lding her that they were like those of the Bird that ●atches her eggs with her looks Stratonica He expected her at A. with so great impatience of love that he would have willingly hastned the course of the Sun to measure it by his affections He beholding her so accomplished easily felt the glances shot from her eyes were rays from her but arrows for his heart from whence he could receive nought but honorable wounds If you have as much confidence in me as I have love towards you Love is in effect a force pardon the exorbitancy of the word that is unresistable so strong a war is that which the appetite wageth against reason Then then in the pride of your perfections you paradized me in the heaven of your love The rare Idea that thus through the applause of mine eye hath bewitched my heart is the beautious image of your sweet self pardon me if I presume when the extremity of love pricks me forward Faults that grow by affection ought to be forgiven because they come of constraint Then Madam read with favor and censure with mercy Why should not that which is one rest in unity Bacon His bosom was the Cell wherein I hid my secrets

destiny Beauty without chastity is like a Mandrake apple comely in sh●w but poysonful in taste I must accuse my self of presumption for daring to consider any moles in that face which you had marked for a beauty Sir K.D. A beauty which always with too eloquent a tongue did dictate tacite perswasions to his heart What a fair vestment is to a deformed body the same is a comely body to a deformed minde Bacon A fair soul in a fair body is a river that windingly creepeth with many wavy-turnings within the ennamel of a beautiful meadow and ravisheth the whole world with the admiration of its exc●llency B●auty in it self is such a silent Orator as ever i● pl●●ding for respect and liking and by the eye● of others is ever sending to their hearts for love Feltham The modest sweetness of a lilied ●ace Beauty is the wit of nature put into the frontispiece I have seen and yet not with a partial eye such features and such mixtures as I have thought impossible for either nature to frame or art to counterfeit yet in the same face I have se●n that which hath our gone them both the countenance Oh! if such glory can dwell with corruption what Celestial excellencies are in the Saints above who would not gaze himself into admiration when he shall see so rich a treasure in so pure a Cabinet unmatched vertue in matchless beauty Feltham Zeno said grace of body was a voyce of flower and a fl●wer of voyce Voyce of flower because it drawes amity to it as the flower of a garden not crying out nor tormen●ing it self a flower of voyce because it is one of the most flowry elo●encies among the attractives of nature What is temporal beauty but a transitory charm an illusion of senses a voluntary imposture a slave of pleasure a flower which hath but a moment of life a Diall on which we never look but whilst the Sun shines on it What is human● beauty but a dunghill covered with snow a glass painted with fals● col●urs a prey pu●sued by many Dogs a dange●ous h●stess in a ●rail house a sugred fruit in a feast which some dare not touch for respect ●ther● gormandize through sensuality Go ●rust so a ●ing a good Go b●take you to so ●nhappy a s●are G● tie your contentments to ●o sl●ppery a knot What else will happen unto you bu● to court a phantasie which loos●ing your hold will leave you nothing but the sorrow of your illusions H. Court Blush AS she s●ake that word her cheekes in ●ed Letters writ more then her tongue did speak As the wonder strove to make her pale warm love did fortifie her cheeks wi●h guilty blushes At whose presence a fr●sh vermilion dye bestowed a new complexion on her Company HIs pleasing company did beguile the times haste and shortned the waies length Why will you give me with so sparing a hand the riches of your presence Constancy She whose constancy neither time nor absence the mothes of affection nor what is more this my change in fortune could alter He who signed his faith with the seal of his constancy Be but thou as constant a friend to my mind as thou shalt be a true possessor of my heart and I shall have as just a cause of joy as thou no cause of doubt Though the surging sea hath moved the humors of my body yet it hath not power to change the inclinations of my mind for I love you no less at Antwerpe where I am arrived then I did at London c. He continued always constant like the Needle of a Sea-compass in a storm Constancy is the foundation of vertue Bac. Fortune is lik Proteus if you persist she returns to her true shape Bacon Comparisons THis comfort in danger was but like the honey that Sampson found in the Lions jaws or like lightning in a foggy night R●solved he was not to touch the forbidden fruit nor to drink on Circes cup he would not with the Spider suck poyson out of a fair flower In the greenest grasse is the greatest Serpent ●n the clearest water the ugliest Toad In the most curious Sepulcher are inclosed rotten bones The O●●●ich carrieth fair feathers but rank flesh As there hath been an unchast Helen in Greece so there hath been also a chast Penelope As there hath been a prodigious Pasiphae so has there been a godly Theocrita Hipp●manes ceased to run when she had gotten the Goal Hercules to labour when he had obtained the victory Mercury to pipe when he had cast Argus in a slumber Every action hath his end Each book sent into the world is like a Bark put to sea and as liable to censures as the Bark is to ●oul weather Herbert Like the Citie Mindus whose Gates were so big that the City might go out of them Which like the flaming two edged waving sword of the Cherub cuts asunder on all sides whatsoever does oppose it Cressy Li●e the stone that groweth in the River of Curia which the more it is cut the more it increaseth There is no iron but will be softned with the fire So no c. As a fair flower nipt with the morning frost ' hanging down his head as much sorry for his declining glory When the Halcions hatch the Sea is calm and the Phoenix never spreads her wings but when the Sun shines on her nest So Like the Spaniel which gnaws upon the chain that ties him but sooner marres his teeth then procures liberty Consider that the heavenly Sun disdains not to give light and shine upon the smallest worm In this 't is so evident that I will not light the Sun with a rush candle He commends unto us a golden chain of Christian perfections consisting of these links Faith Vertue Patience c. We can expect but Polyphemus courtesie to be last devoured Romes Capitoll was not built in one day nor was Zeuxis Helena suddenly limn'd forth with one pensill They have long sported in the bloud and treasure of the land as the Leviathan doth in the Waters His mind was all this while so fixed upon another devotion that he no more marked his friends discourse then the child that hath leave to play marks the last part of his lesson or the diligent Pilot in a tempest attends the unskilful words of a Passenger She trembled like the unlickt lamb newly yean'd upon a sheet of s●ow My expression is but like a picture drawn with a cole wanting those lively colours which a more skilfull pen might give it It is the Decree of Heaven That every Composition here beneath as well fram'd by the hand of Art as fashioned by the help of Nature should sustain some imperfection for glasse hath its lead gold its drosse corn its chaff Helen her mole the moon her spots and the Sun its shade Spa. Bawd Like the Sun that illuminates the whole aire if no cloud or solid opacous body intervene S. K.D. Did make no more