Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bear_v	fruit_n	tree_n	1,451	5	8.5127	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07602	The silkewormes, and their flies: liuely described in verse, by T.M. a countrie farmar, and an apprentice in physicke. For the great benefit and enriching of England	Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.	1599 (1599)	STC 17994; ESTC S112804	35,719	84

Whilst woods stand bare naked ech thing grows And Thisbes sap for aide be inward runne For as with cold their brooding powre is spilde So are they then for want of herbage kilde Th'Arch-mason of this round and glorious bal Of creatures created Man the last Not that he thought him therefore worst of all For in his soule part of himselfe he cast But lest his wisedome might in question fall For hauing in his house a stranger plac't Ere eu'ry thing was made to please and feast So great a Monarch and so braue a guest Vnder whose feete where e're he went abrode Vesta spread forth a carpet voide of art Softer then silke greener then th' Emerode Wrought al with flowres and eu'ry hearb apart Ouer him hang'd where e're he made abode An azur'd cloth of state which ouerthwart Was biast as it were and richly purld With twelue braue signes glistring stars inurld Vppon him then as vassals eu'ry day Stowt Lions waited tameles Panthers eke Fierce Eagles and the wildest birds of pray Huge whales in Seas that mighty carricks wreake Serpents and toades Yea each thing did obey Fearing his lawes and statutes once to breake Yet wherto seru'd this pompe and honour great If man had wanted due and dayly meate Trace you Gods steppes and til you can attaine Wherwith to feed your guests when first they shew Haste not their hatching for t'wil prooue a paine Filling your hearts with ruth your eyes with dew As when th'vntimely lambe on Sarums plaine Fallne too too soone from winter-starued ewe To pine you see for want of liquid food Which should restore his wants of vitall blood Attend therefore when farmers ioy renues Her liuely face and buddeth all in greene For Hyems then with all his frozen crues Is fully dead or fled to earths vnseene Corne cattell flowers feare then no heauie newes From Northern coasts or Boreas region keene Birds sing flies buzze bees hum yea al things skip To see the very blush of Morus lippe Let swallowes come let storkes be seene in skie Let Philomela sing let Progne chide Let T●ry-tiry-leerers vpward flie Let constant Cuckoes cooke on euery side Let mountaine mice abroad in ouert lie Let euery tree thrust foorth her budding pride Yet none can truely warrant winters flight Till she be seene with gemmes and iewels dight O peerelesse tree whose wisedome is far more Then any else that springs from natures wombe For though Pomonaes daughters budde before And forward Phillis formost euer come And Persian fruit yeeldes of her blossoms store And Taurus hotte succeedeth Aries roome Yet all confesse the Mulbery most wise That neuer breedes till winter wholly dies Such is her wit but more her inward might For budded newe when Phoebus first appeares She is full leaued e're it grow to night With wondrous crackling filling both our eares As though one leafe did with another fight Striuing who first shall see the heau'nly spheares Euen as a liuely chickin breakes the shell Or blessed Soules do scudde and flie from hell Yet witte and strength her pittie doth exceede For none she hurts that neere or vnder grow No not the brire or any little weede That vpward shootes or groueling creepes below Nay more from heauenly flames each tree is freed That nigh her dwels when fearful lightnings glow For vertue which the Romanes made a law To punish them that should her cut or saw I leaue to tell how she doth poison cure From adders goare or gall of Lisards got VVhat burning blaines she heales and sores impure In palat iawes and al enflamed throte VVhat canckars hard and wolfes be at her lure What Gangrenes stoop that make our toes to rotte Briefly few griefes from Panders boxe out-flew But here they finde a medcine old or new Her bloud retourn'd to sweete Thisbean wine Strengthneth the lungs and stomacke ouer-weake Her clustred grapes do proue a dish most fine VVhose kernels soft do stones in sunder breake Her leaues too that conuerted are in time Which kings themselues in highest prize do reake Thus giues she meat and drink medcine cloth To eu'ry one that is not drownd in sloth Bragge now no more perle-breeding Taprobane Of Cocos thine that all-supplying foode Vaunt not of Dates thou famous Africane Though sweete in taste and swift in making bloud Blush Syrian grapes and plums Armenian Ebusian figges and fruit of Phillis good Bad is your best compared with this tree That most delights my little flocke and mee But wil you know why this they onely eate Why leaues they onely chuse the fruite forsake Why they refuse al choise and sortes of meate And hungers heate with onely one dish slake Then list a while you wonder-seekers great Whilst I an answere plaine and easie make Disdaine you not to see the mighty ods Twixt vertuous worms and sinful humane gods I thinke that God and nature thought it meete The noblest wormes on noblest tree to feede And therefore they else neuer set their feete On any tree that beareth fruit or seede Others diuine that they themselues did weere No other tree could yeelde their silken threede Iudge learned wittes But sure a cause there is VVhy they else feede vpon no tree but this Ne eate they all as greedy Kafers do But leaue the berries to their Soueraigne Religiously forbearing once to bloe Vpon the fruit that may their Lord maintaine Nay if these leaues though nothing else doth growe In Eden rich their nature to sustaine Had erst bin giuen for other creatures meate They would haue chusde rather to starue then eat In that they onely feede vppon one tree How iustly do they keepe dame Natures lore Who teacheth eu'n the bleare-eyde man to see That change of meates causeth diseases store The gods themselues if any such there be Haue but one meate one drinke and neuer more Whereby they liue in health and neuer die For how can one against it selfe replie Dualitie of meates was sicknesse spring With whom addition meeting by the way Begate varietie of euery thing Who like a whore in changeable array With painted cheekes as did Philinus sing And corall lippes and breasts that naked lay Made vs with vnitie to be at warres And to delight in discords change and iarres Wherefore assoone as they beginne to creepe Like sable-robed Ants farre smaller tho Blacke at the first like pitch of Syrian deepe Yet made in time as white as Atlas snow Send seruants vp to woods and mountaines steepe When Mulb'ry leaues their maiden lippes do shew Feede them therewith no other soule they craue If morne and eu'n fresh lefage they may haue The first three weekes the tend'rest leaues are best The next they craue them of a greater size The last the hardest ones they can disgest As strength with age increasing doth arise After which time all meate they do detest Lifting vp heads