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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	mind_n	soul_n	1,535	5	4.8520	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06875	Epithalamium Gallo-Britannicum or, Great-Britaines, Frances, and the most parts of Europes vnspeakable ioy, for the most happy vnion, and blessed contract of the high and mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Lady Henrette Maria, daughter to Henry the fourth, sirnamed the Great, late King of the French and Nauarre, and sister to Levvis the thirteenth: now king of the said dominions. Manifesting the royall ancestors and famous progenitors of the mighty Prince Charles, and the most illustrious princesse, the Lady Henrette, explaining the sweete interchanges of mariages, as haue beene betweene France and Great Britaine. ...	Marcelline, George.	1625 (1625)	STC 17308; ESTC S111979	61,352	158

a Den of theeues for when the Body fasteth the Soule feasteth and the earthly members being mortified the faculties of the Soule doe grow more liuely and powerfull Thus being Master of his owne lusts Hee scornes to be a seruant to his substance but at his pleasure can part from it and turne it out of his seruice yet neuer but vpon a iust occasion for that were to haue too little and light respect of his seruant being a meere prodigalitie but when Hee seeth it requisite for the reward of Vertue or the maintenance of Honour to part from it the Sunne is not more liberall of his light at high noone-day than He of his meanes for Hee loues not money like your couetous man whose eyes are out and he can neuer see when he hath sufficient who like a Danaïdum dolium is neuer fill'd or satisfied but onely for necessitie like a wife Mariner prouiding in a calme against the comming of a storme and in the sunne-shine of peace preparing to welcome the turbulent tempestuous time of warre And for his wisdome as who should say it were likely Hee should bee in nothing vnlike to his father He outrunneth his age and leaueth all those of his yeeres behinde Him in knowledge for Hee sitteth in counsell like a sage Senatour and a Law-making Lycurgus that it seemeth a wonder but wonders are no wonders in a wondrous subiect how in the blossome of his yeeres He should haue such ripenesse and maturitie of Iudgement and in his greene youth bee such a graue Counsellour For did not his Gracious Highnesse in the last Parliament not only in appearance but in truth so well prouide for the safetie and securitie both of his Friends and Countrey that Hee was generally applauded both of Counsellours and Commons as being the most wise and watchfull Prince for the welfare of his people First shewing his ardent zeale to Gods Glorie and Religion to make wholsome salutiferous Lawes for the suppressing of the Sowers of Sedition and the Interminglers of the tares of their owne inuentions amongst the pure graine of Gods Word And thus hauing exprest his loue to God aboue all vnder God He prouides for his Peoples prosperitie enacts Lawes as Antidotes against former exactions so customarily and vnconscionably practised in this our Common-wealth as if He were soly and wholly happie in making his people fortunate and in easing them of the heauie burthens of oppression imposed vpon them bound vpon their backs and laid vpon their shoulders And indeed there neuer was Prince in Christendome more commended by mortall men in speeches or commended to the immortall God in prayers than is our mightie inuict Prince whose worth is such that if I should liue to the age of Nestor and in the whole course of my life doe nought but praise Him praise Him in nothing but that which He is worthie of vtter his worth compendiously yet my pen would still bee a debter to his deserts for He is not like the vulgar sort as the vulgar Prouerbe tels vs Constant in nothing but inconstancie but his minde once fixed on a worthie obiect is like a Starre which moueth not out of her orbe but is euer the same in her motion The little shrubs are shaken with eueric little puffe of winde but the stately Cedar which is firmely rooted and fastned in the ground as it is more noble so it is more stable Many Feathers and Weather-cocks in our daies who are not resolute in any determinations or determinate in any resolution doe in an instant loathe that which they haue loued but our Prince as He doth not lightly settle affection so He will not easily remoue it for He deemes the one a defect of wisdome the other an excesse of wauering and an ouer-plus of inconstancie Therefore Hee being alwayes balanced and counterpoysed with due premeditation in affecting cannot be induced in an instant to relinquish and distaste that which Hee affecteth Then hath not France great reason and cause of ioy and exultation who hath found out such a Mate for their incomparable Princesse who is one which hath stoutnesse and courage of minde ioyned to the strength of his bodie wisdome accompanying his valour vertue his soule who is a Prince as well in worth as birth excelling in bountie and beautie and in all his actions obseruing the golden meane who is constant in his loue firme in his resolutions whose worth few can conceiue no man vtter all men may admire the descent of whose bloud doth ennoble his birth the excellencie of whose birth doth enthronize and dignifie his vertues whose vertues as I may so say doe almost Deifie his Soule the inestimable price of whose Soule doth adorne his bodie by inhabiting in it the rare temper of whose bodie doth blesse his soule by being the Mansion-place of it And thus Hee which hath all vertues is to be all Hers and that Princesse to bee blest with the admirable constitution of his bodie and the incomparable condition of his minde Had his body been of vnequall vnproportionable mixture by the elements the soule might haue loathed such a muddie building would soone haue forsaken her habitation or hath the minde beene corrupt and filthie it would soone haue ruinated the rare bodie in regard it would haue employed it to such ryotous ruinous courses as it would soone haue produced her ouerthrow and demolisht this mortall Edifice of Nature by which meanes and likelyhood the shortnesse of the Princes life might haue made an abridgement of her happinesse and haue cut short the continuance of her ioyes but Nature hath so tempered and framed Him of such an equall proportion of heat and moysture that the excessiue heat of the one doth not threaten a Combustion nor the abundance of the other a Deluge but for his complexion Hee may bee another Methuselah and She most superlatiue of her Sex in all felicitie in the possession of so louing a Husband so long a time as He is like to inioy this vital transitorie vncertaine breath Had He beene like a Rose or a Flower De-luce which though they bee faire things yet they are of short continuance for the one is no sooner blowne but it sheddeth the other fadeth in the bud her ioy might haue found sorrow in the fear of the losse of her Ioy but He alreadie is growne to ripenesse and we hope as may be coniectured both by the temper of his bodie temperance of his minde is not onely pleasing to the eye but is also likely to be a lasting fruit It is the office of an husband to liue with his wife as a man of knowledge and what Prince wiser than his Highnesse who squares out all his actions according to the Rule of Gods Word who is so verst in each verse of Scripture so well read in Diuinitie as Hee is not onely a Prince to command but for his learning might be a Priest to enstruct his people Feare not then oh renowned France

but He hath taken your Princesse by the hand not onely to leade Her to all happinesse on earth but to bring Her felicitie For what aduise can She who is so well vnderstanding the dutie of a royall louing Spouse refuse which distilleth like Nectar from his lips Or what counsell shall proceed from Him but that which tendeth to the welfare of her bodie the sauing of her soule body hereafter Oh no neuer was Princesse blest with a more holy happie heauenly Head than She in being vnited to his Highnesse who as Hee hath knowledge so He hath loue to direct Her to an happie end Had his heart beene the harbourer of loue onely without knowledge it had beene but as a blinde Guide and knowledge without loue to put it in practife had been but as a fruitlesse plant or power without a will but our mighty Prince as He hath no small measure of wisdome so He hath an infinite abundance of affection affection so great as indeed Hee is nothing but loue loue to his God loue to his Princesse loue to his people all of which are in Him so exceeding that none of any of those three particulars can be in any one person more eminent than they bee ioyntly found in Him For He loueth God aboue Himselfe Hee loueth Her as Himselfe because She is halfe Himselfe and He loueth his People almost as Hee loueth Her He loueth God because Hee is maried to Him mystically He loueth Her as being knit vnto Him in mariage really Hee loueth his People as being wedded vnto them representatiuely indeed He is so much loue as none that liues but loues Him The Lord of Heauen hath manifested his loue to Him in his mercie for when Hee vndertooke that dangerous voyage out of his Countrey Great Brittaine into Spaine dangerous in the iourney dangerous in the end of it indeed nothing but danger both for his passage thither his arriuall there his departure from thence being full of feare and composed of nothing but danger for the waues being proud of such a Burthen did swell with ambition and the surges soared aboue the ship as if the sea had longed to haue her wombe the Tombe of such a Worthie and had intended to haue erected her honour vpon his ruine But God to whom the windes and the seas obey did still the rage of Neptune and closed vp the mouth of Aeolus in so much as his people were all made fortunate in his happie returne reioycing that they had Him any waies but more ioyous that they had Him single but now most exulting that He is vnited by the sacred bond of wedlocke to your Princesse of France and wee by that meanes conioyned to you Thus hath the Lord to the comfort of all well-disposed people deliuered our best affected Prince and in bringing Him from Spaine hath brought Him to France that howsoeuer his loue began in the other yet it might end in this in which Hee hath giuen most infinite content vnto his Kingdomes who distasted the likelyhood of the former as much as they applaud the certaintie of this new Contract Surely God hath manifested his infinite loue and respect to our noble Prince in so infinitely blessing his proper Selfe in Himselfe and his people in Him in respect of his deliuerance Yea God and man your Highnesse and all the world may see the happinesse we conceiue of this Mariage and hope for from this Contract And what was the efficient cause of this but the loue of God to his Highnesse thus worthily disposed to the content and happinesse of his people Here was the loue of God manifestly and miraculously exprest to Him and all this Nation in this one particular but if I should proceed to make a whole discourse of Gods mercies as well towards his Bodie as his Soule my taske would be as infinite as his blessings But to leaue our mightie Prince whose actions doe more commend Himselfe let France but as nobly conceiue of our Nobles as they deserue and they shall finde a most ineffable cause of most vnspeakable Ioy in this Confederation for their brests are the lodges of loyaltie For indeed howsoeuer some of our naturall Country men haue lifted vp vnnaturally their hands against their Leige Soueraigne neuerthelesse it was their religion not their disposition which moued them to it And how long time hath our King rested free from danger begot and nurst vp by his Nobles No such I dare say is or at least ought to bee their loue to their gracious King that they deeme it more libertie to be his Seruant than anies Soueraigne For whereas generally great Kings weare Crownes like our Sauiours made of thornes composed of cares which makes their eyes as Sentinels to watch continually lest treason should surprize and ouerthrow and feares enioyne the minde to keepe diligent watch lest treason should euert both Person and people their pettie Crownes are crowned with contentment they are not affrighted with danger neither doth feare make their night of rest a day of trauell vnto them and all by their meanes who like a stately Cedar to the adioyning trees shelters them from tempests and drops downe the honie of peace vpon them This labour on his part begets the childe of loue in them and they deeme no iniurie so great nor apprehend any wrong so grieuous as that which is done to their Prince neither doe they coniecture any greater indignitie can bee done to them than when He is not dignified they count that glorie lest which doth not redound to Him and that honour to be as nothing with which He is not graced and therefore like so many pillars they doe support Him vpon the shoulders of their obedience who is their Roofe their Couer Protector To the grauer sort of the which Nobilitie our King stands as a Patterne for them to imitate in soundnesse of iudgement depth of learning and other vertues and to the younger our Prince serues as a Tutor to teach them and instruct them what way leadeth to the perfection of honour and true glorie and indeed none can bee more willing to set them an example than He and none more desirous to follow such a Leader than they they being proud in such a Patterne and Hee ioyfull in them Oh who can measure the happinesse of that Kingdome where the Prince is so accomplisht in the parts of his bodie and endowments of minde in whose actions all his followers may reade whole Lectures of Ethicks and Moralitie And thrice fortunate is that Prince all whose Nobles striue to be his pictures and euerie one desireth and striueth to haue neerest resemblance and to be drawne to the life according to his pourtraicture each of them reioyceth to be the shadow of such a substance and to bee like the creature which is is so like the Creator Here is no treason plotted no insurrections made by them but all those which doe truely feare loue God doe truly feare