Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bad_a	good_a	sin_n	1,576	5	5.0139	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19913	Wittes pilgrimage, (by poeticall essaies) through a vvorld of amorous sonnets, soule-passions, and other passages, diuine, philosophicall, morall, poeticall, and politicall. By Iohn Dauies	Davies, John, 1565?-1618.	1605 (1605)	STC 6344; ESTC S109368	85,753	170

S●nce ●or that doth blind the Soule and lame the Mind But must I sensuall 〈◊〉 to seem excus'd ●hen wo●se and worse falls ou● mine ill excuse ●were better say by Loue I am abusd 〈◊〉 I to loue haue off●ed much abus● Abusd by Loue without my Lust● consent That is too strange a strength for Loue or Lust And eithers powr in me is impotent ●o● how boile● Bloud that long since is addust Wel be it as it may it seems my might Giues way to what it would not what it should Which on the bent of my Minds Motions light Puts these right Lines of Loue which long will hold But i● they breake when my Mind is vnbent Now shal they breake for I eu'n now repent Qualis vir talis oratio FAces do not more varrie in their Formes Then Wits in shapes though most be shapelesse Wits For breeding base oft well-shapt Wit deformes So 〈◊〉 comes off comly but by fits And 〈◊〉 o●t part are better fed then bred But they that feeding want want Wit and Wealth Then most Mens Wits are most il-fauoured And what they show by Wit they show by stealth Yet many Members o● that Block●head Body The Multitude write idly without stint And he that 's not in P●int they hold a Noddy Because themselues are Noddies still in Print Some Ryme in rage which rage puts Reason downe Yet puts not Reason downe in their Rymes rage These Arrs run rough but their Rimes if their owne With reason rnnne like a thwart Marriage Yet if too smooth be this smart Simily Although it be as rough as Rage or VVrack Their Rymes and Reason then runne like a Cry Of brayning Beasts that Rime and Reason lack Yet will they force Minerua not by Arte But for●e or feare of their wittes strength or stature For so these Asses weene to take their part So like the Giants ●ight gainst God and Nature Some make in Prose greate Tomes their wit●s t'intomb To bee as Monuments of Witt for euer Yet sith those Monuments no Witt enwombe Being quite consumed they continue neuer The mo●'s the pitty that such stately Tombes That of haue* gold without though drosse within Should bee gazd on by Lea●●ings drugging Gromes And by their Engin razd ô d●●dly sinne Minerua ble●●e my Booke Witts Mon●ment A little Monument for lesser Witt From such vsurpi●g Ben●clarkes violent Lest ●hey pul out Wittes ere 's their turnes to fit Yet will I leaue it them while fearelesse I To ●ury goe in expedition To trie their trúth or taste their Tyranny The wo●st is Eylesse deposition And if it happ I hope Ile Sion gaine Sith I the Cause of Sion will maintaine When the ritch man speakes euery man holds his tongue and what he saith is praised vnto the Clouds c Ecclus. 13. 24. THe Tongue of t●uth hath said hen true it is Though Indigence could speake like Salomon The VVorld is mute or saies he speakes amis●e Sith but the golden Asse speaks well alone Thus golden Asses clawd by Claw-backs are Where they do ytch and but for clawing itch Yet like lades pinch each other being ba●e And so the Ri●ch are praisd by poore and ritch 〈…〉 Wings of Sun●b●ight Seraphins 〈…〉 Pe●s and make them Nectar flow 〈…〉 not gult like Cherubins 〈…〉 in deed but sink in show 〈…〉 World is wise herein Though wise ●●●ein more then most wickedly 〈◊〉 Detraction is esteemd no sin So ●hat the great be greatly praisd thereby 〈…〉 greatly praisd when all but Theirs 〈…〉 is how lawdable soere Their 〈◊〉 ●hough Crabs are sweet with Apple squires 〈…〉 for Loue and Loue for meed or feare They may be bold they wo● well with the poore 〈◊〉 pack-hors●s beare when Asses bray Th●y 〈◊〉 may wince but they can do no more And for their wincing They on them may lay ●ut heer 's the comfort vpright after ●imes Vpright sith that which Is not no way bends Will Lawrell-Crowne them for their roiall Rimes ●or Enuies selfe Desert if dead commends Then Rimes how ere vnroial run you on You may in time perhaps come neer that Crowne Meane while look for no Coronation ●ut such as Enuy giues high-borne Renowne Yet with your Wit those after times perswade That some were mard perhaps e●e al were made Vpon Apparitions in the Night YE g●izly Ghosts that walk in shades of Night Like Shades whose Substance though quite Matterlesse The dayly fowle Offender doth aftright Why make ye Darknesse Paper for your Presse Do you imprint in Blacknesse blacker formes Of matters worse or in our Fantazi● ●mpresse ye Figures raising Horrors stormes Or how in darknesse come you to the Eye Do you but show or show in Substances Thicken you Aire and so a Shape assume Or creepe you in some Corprall Ef●ences Or els the Sight deceaue with lesse then Fume And why ô Hell hounds range you in the Night Out of Earthes Center your infernall Hold Lothe ye the Sunne a or is the day too light To do your deeds of Darknesse as ye would Can ye dead Bodies truly actuate And so such Bodies borrow of the Saints Or can ye Wicked Bodies animate So take from God the cause of his Complaints For if you Soules infuse into the i●l You are the Father of their Spi●ites and God Complaines without cause that ●hey cros●e his Will Nor are they vnder naturally his R●dd But He it is alone that Soul●● cr●ates Without whome nought was made that made hath bin And Bodies good and Badd he animates Only he made not Death first made by Sinne. And what is Sinne but only meere Defect So Sinne is nought then nought hath Death begott And Nothing should in sense haue no effect So Sinne and Death Nought made and Nought Is not I would it were not but too true it is But is as Canker doth to Siluer cleaue So you fowle ●iends that loue such Filth as this Do leaue no Sinners that no sinne do leaue The purest Places you do hold an Hell And Places most impure you Heau'n esteeme The one do plague the other please you well And so of deeds of either Kinde you deeme To be among the the deads Graues you are gladd Wherein you●seeke their sensles●e Bones to griue And loue to rattle them in signe you had The Conquest of Mankind through Adams E●ue So by a Woman your familier Y' are now familier with Men night and Day And which of both Familiers worse do warre With Men and Reason it is hard to say These femine Familiars but too oft Torment vs men as if you friends they were Whose hard harts plac'd in their faire Bodies soft Plague whom that Beauty doth to them indeere Yet some so filthy are that they are best When they are worst that is when fowle defame With vse of trading ill their Trade hath ceast Then with a Pox they liue Chast to their shame Thus haue we got double Familiars Women and Diuels by a VVomans pride Both which familiarly vvage