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	life_n	soul_n	5,160	5	5.5664	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57763	The birth of Merlin, or, The childe hath found his father as it hath been several times acted with great applause / written by William Shakespear and William Rowley.	Rowley, William, 1585?-1642?; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Birmingham Shakespeare Library.	1662 (1662)	Wing R2096; ESTC R7261	41,256	56

be equal to the Gods and consummate my Marriage with this woman Bishop Her self gives barr my Lord to your desires and our performance 't is against the Law and Orders of the Church to force a Marriage Cador. How am I wrong'd was this your trick my Lord Dono. I am abus'd past sufferance grief and amazement strive which Sense of mine shall loose her being first yet let me call thee Daughter Cador. Me Wife Const. Your words are air you speak of want to wealth And wish her sickness newly rais'd to health Dono. Bewitched Girls tempt not an old mans fury that hath no strength to uphold his feeble age but what your sights give life to oh beware and do not make me curse you Kneel Modest. Dear father here at your feet we kneel grant us but this that in your sight and hearing the good Hermit may plead our Cause which if it shall not give such satisfaction as your Age desires we will submit to you Const. You gave us life save not our bodies but our souls from death Dono. This gives some comfort yet Rise with my blessings Have patience noble Cador worthy Edwin send for the Hermit that we may confer for sure Religion tyes you not to leave Your careful Father thus if so it be Take you content and give all grief to me Exeunt Thunder and Lighning Enter Devil Devil Mix light and darkness earth and heaven dissolve be of one piece agen and turn to Chaos break all your works you powers and spoil the world or if you will maintain earth still give way and life to this abortive birth now coming whose fame shall add unto your Oracles Lucina Hecate dreadful Queen of Night bright Proserpine be pleas'd for Ceres love from Stigian darkness summon up the Fates And in a moment bring them quickly hither Lest death do vent her birth and her together Thunder Assist you spirits of infernal deeps squint ey'd Erictho midinght Incubus Enter Lucina and the three Fates Rise rise to aid this birth prodigious Thanks Hecate hail sister to the Gods there lies your way haste with the Fates and help give quick dispatch unto her laboring throws to bring this mixture of infernal seed to humane being Exit Tates And to beguil her pains till back you come Anticks shall dance and Musick fill the room Dance Devil Thanks Queen of Shades Lucina Farewel great servant to th' infernal King In honor of this childe the Fates shall bring All their assisting powers of Knowledge Arts Learning Wisdom all the hidden parts Of all-admiring Prophecy to fore-see The event of times to come his Art shall stand A wall of brass to guard the Brittain Land Even from this minute all his Arts appears Manlike in Judgement Person State and years Upon his brest the Fates have fixt his name And since his birth place war this forrest here They now have nam'd him Merlin Silvester Devil And Merlins name in Brittain shall live Whilst men inhabit here or Fates can give Power to amazing wonder envy shall weep And mischief sit and shake her ebbone wings Whilst all the world of Merlins magick sings Exit Enter Clown Clown Well I wonder how my poor sister does after all this thundering I think she 's dead for I can hear no tidings of her those woods yields small comfort for her I could meet nothing but a swinherds wife keeping hogs by the Forestside but neither she nor none of her sowes would stir a foot to help us indeed I think she durst not trust her self amongst the trees with me for I must needs confess I offer'd some kindness to her well I would fain know what 's become of my sister if she have brought me a yong Cousin his face may be a picture to finde his Father by so oh sister Ioan Ioan Go-too't where art thou Within Ioan Here here brother stay but a while I come to thee Clown O brave she 's alive still I know her voice she speaks and speaks cherfully methinks how now what Moon-calf has she got with her Enter Ioan and Merlin with a Book Ioan. Come my dear Merlin why dost thou six thine eye so deeply on that book Merlin To sound the depth of Arts of Learning Wisdom Knowledge Ioan. Oh my dear dear son those studies fits thee when thou art a man Merlin Why mother I can be but half a man at best And that is your mortality the rest In me is spirit 't is not meat nor time That gives this growth and bigness no my years Shall be more strange then yet my birth appears Look mother there 's my Uncle Ioan. How doest thou know him son thou never saw'st him Merlin Yet I know him and know the pains he has taken for ye to finde out my Father give me your hand good Uncle Clown Ha ha I 'de laugh at that yfaith do you know me sir Merlin Yes by the same token that even now you kist the swinherds-wife i th' woods and would have done more if she would have let you Uncle Clown A witch a witch a witch sister rid him out of your company he is either a witch or a conjurer he could never have known this else Ioan. Pray love him brother he is my son Clown Ha ha this is worse then all the rest yfaith by his beard he is more like your husband let me see is your great belly gone Ioan. Yes and this the happy fruit Clown What this Hartichoke A Childe born with a beard on his face Merlin Yes and strong legs to go and teeth to eat Clown You can nurse up your self then There 's some charges sav'd for Soap and Candle 'slid I have heard of some that has been born with teeth but never none with such a talking tongue before Ioan. Come come you must use him kindly brother did you but know his worth you would make much of him Clown Make much of a Moncky This is worse then Tom Thumb that let a fart in his Mothers belly a Childe to speak eat and go the first hour of his birth nay such a Baby as had need of a Barber before he was born too why sister this is monstrous and shames all our kindred Ioan. That thus 'gainst nature and our common births he comes thus furnisht to salute the world is power of Fates and gift of his great father Clown Why of what profession is your father sir Merlin He keeps a Hot-house i th' Low Countries will you see him sir Clown See him why sister has the childe found his father Mer. Yes and I le fetch him Uncle Exit Clown Do not Uncle me till I know your kindred for my conscience some Baboon begot thee surely thou art horribly deceived sister this Urchin cannot be of thy breeding I shall be asham'd to call him cousin though his father be a Gentleman Enter Merlin and Devil Merlin Now my kinde Uncle see The Childe has found his Father this is he Clown The devil it is ha