Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	heat_n	hot_a	2,056	5	7.8780	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09545	The glasse of time, in the two first ages. Diuinely handled, by Thomas Peyton, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent	Peyton, Thomas, 1595-1626.	1620 (1620)	STC 19824; ESTC S114595	86,637	182

and his store That man I say I le punish seuen times more Because thou shalt not need that thing to feare My badge diuine for euer thou shalt weare A fearefull Signe which whosoere shall eye But in thy face my dradfull Iudgements spye Shall see and know that I haue markt thy hide And branded thee from all the world beside Great powerfull God Creator of this Ball The heauens and earth the firmaments and all How good art thou in euery action iust Thou Habels blood beholdest in the dust Com'st downe below examinst first the deed To Iudgement then thou dost at large proceed And lest the same might chance neglected bee Thou dost thy selfe the execution see Searing Cains conscience body heart and liuer And marking him as now I tolde for euer Yet holy Father let vs know the pith The Badge and Signe that thou didst brand him with Some men there be which thinke the marke of Caine Was that foule horrid irkesome fearefull paine Scabd Leprosie or wofull falling Euill As if possessed with some spirit or Diuell Or shiuering shaking of his sturdy ioynts That euery way his body reels and poynts Feares quauers trembles in that dradfull case As most of vs haue seene before our face Or some such thing apparant to ech eye That euery man may his foule fact espye Yet what it was who sound this vaste abbisse When Reason blinde leades euery man amisse T is true the world in euery States Dominion Is now of this and then of that opinion For none aliue which on the Earth do well Can shew what 't was or yet for certaine tell But by coniecture likelyest to be guest The ground and sum of all mens Iudgements best Reueald by studie in the Arts diuine To all the Sisters learned Muses nine That Cains most fearefull punishment and marke For raking vp his brother in the darke Was that his skin was all to blackensse turn'd Like to a Coale within the fire halfe burnd simile Ah cursed Caine the scourge of all thy Race Now thou hast got a blacke and murdring face For God aboue in Iustice hath ordaind Thy ofspring all should to this day be staynd Vnto the griefe and terror of their Soules For laying Habel in could dusty mouldes No other cause the world could euer tell To make them looke as if they came from hell Amongst the diuels at euery step to start The fatall place where thou vile wretch now art Some haue alledg'd out of their brains and wit Alex Prob. Celius Rhod. The Sun himselfe to be the cause of it That in the hot and torrid burning Zone Vnder the line there Phaeton alone Must driue his Cart and teame a little hire Or else againe the world would be on fire The heate extreame their bodyes doth enflame Their flesh it parches and their stomackes tame Their blood it dries their humors all adust As if their skin were ouergrowne with rust If this be true how is it that there bee In Africa America to see Vnder the line both people white and faire As many men that now in Europe are There borne and bred by courteous Natures lawes A pregnant Signe that cannot be cause Againe the Sun with labour great and paine If that the line but once he doth attaine Though to the Earth he seemeth somewhat nigher Yet in his Spheare he mounted farre more higher More temperate there the people liue and well Then do the men vnder the Tropicks dwell And twice a yeere he vseth there to burne When once a yeere i' th Tropicks serues his turne And other men haue other Reasons found To shew the cause which to like purpose sound There be that say the drynesse of the Soile May be the cause that doth their bodies foyle To make them looke worse then a Colliers Elfe simile Much like the Diuell and cursed Cuine himselfe From top to toe from heade vnto the foote As if with grease they were besmeard and soote Vnto such men I would but know and try If the Libian desarts be not far more dry Whose people parch't the very Sun doth rost Yet are they white or tawny at the most The want of water with the Sun and Sand May be the cause that they so much are tand But yet in Negro land the people haue Of water store in euery ditch and Caue For Niger great euen from his very source Iust through the midst hath euer kept his course And all the land on euery side and round Euen like to Nilus ouerflowes the ground The drinesse of their Reason we may waue Because t is knowne they water plenty haue Those that ascribe it proper to the Earth And see vs there euen from our very birth How we and they are borne within one place And we are white and they are black and base May sit them downe and well may take a pause To thinke with vs that cannot be the cause And some there be which to this day affirme That t is the blacknesse of the Parents sperme To be the cause and for a ground it take But how came they so close a search to make If it be black which some men haue denide How came it so Imprinted on their hide That in their youth iust in their prime and bud Then is their skin as red as any bloud And in their age when perisht is their sight From top to toe they are all yellow quight And if you try to throw one in a ditch To wash him white hee 'le be as black as pitch Others there be aboue the clouds do fly To search the secrets of their destiny Whose wits and learning sure must wander farre To a Constellation or some fixed Starre I would the cause they would vnto vs teach And not to flye to farre aboue our reach Vntill which time I shall be well content To thinke it was Gods righteous punishment On cursed Caine and all his of-spring lewd For doing that which I before haue shew'd I must confesse vpon the vpper face Of this wide Ball almost in euery place Variety we see in strange attire Complexion Colour Nature and Desire Shape gesture face the belly limbs and back But none more differ then the white from black The Indian borne there where the Sun doth rise Is palefast Ashey with red flaming eyes The American which we but late haue seene Is Oliue coloured of a sad french greene The Libian dusky in his parched skin The More all tawny both without and in The Southerne man a black deformed Elfe The Northerne white like vnto God himselfe And thus we see euen still vpon the earth God shewes his workes both in our liues and birth The fatall place where Habels bloud washed Esay 7. 8. Is call'd Damascus Arams chiefest head Iem of the Earth the eye of all the East Pearle of the World where Iupiter did rest In Siria Land the goodliest Citty seene And sister to Ierusalem the Queene Eze. 23. 4 Sweete Parragon a