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	mind_n	soul_n	1,535	5	4.8520	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37489	Delightful novels exemplifyed in eight choice and elegant histories lately related by the most refined wits ; with interludes in which are comprised the gallant adventures, amorous intrigues and famous enterprizes of several English gentry ; with the most pathetick oratory and subtil stratagems used in love-affairs.		1686 (1686)	Wing D904; ESTC R37723	67,955	176

have now appear'd to you for if you do my restless Ghost will ever haunt you I dare promise any thing thy Blessed Shade desires me Reply'd Amasius but to live is a pun●shm●nt too intolerable for f●ail Mo●ta●ity to bear I 'le cast off my h●ted Life w th all the Gild●d vanities that attend it to be Blest amongst the N●mber of the dead with the Sight of my Ortelia We must not said She Carve out our own desires if we should our unskilful Hand would oft mistake the Poison for the Antidote but as thou Tenderest the Prayers and Entreatyes of dead Ortelia patiently attend thy Fate At which word the Shrill Harbinger of the Morn gave Notice of the approach of day and Summon'd all wandring Ghosts to their dark abode when Ortelia contracting her scatter'd Rayes into one Glorious Beam of Light cryed Farewell Farewell My Dear Amasius and vanish'd in a Minute Amasius seeing that Ortelia was now gone beyond recall fell into these passionate Complaints Oh kind Death if ever thou had'st pity for the Miserable suffer thy self this once to be entreated discharge me from this Clog of earth which still sinks my aspiring Soul See here a Resistless breast which begs but one single Shaft and hast thou none at leasure Insulting Tyrant to keep the wretched in Chains and like the Conquer'd B●jazet make me the Gazing Stock of Fools whilst I am imprison'd in this Cage of Flesh but Oh! that like him I could dash out life against those Bars that hold me Oh sad parting Oh Dear O●telia and art thou gone so soon from me who per●aps may never see thee more Come death and ease me Oh cruel fate obey No! no! I am condemn'd to Linger out a miserable life in pains more Exquisite then the sharpest Martyrdoms but thou dear Soul hast told me it shall not be long Oh remember but thy last promise and I will ask no more to compleat me happy with these and other dolorous Expression● did the Unhappy Amasius Vent his sorrows whilst excess of passion had thrown him into a Violent Feaver In the Morn●ng early his Friends came Crowding to his Chamber to bid good Morrow to the Bridegroom and finding him in Bed yet one of them began to Rally his Sluggishness who on a Wedding-day when all the preparations for the Nuptials waited for him and his Friends were Met to welcom the Happy Hour was the greatest Loyterer himself To whom Amasius only answer'd with a deep Sigh which wa followed by Showers of Tears the most pathetick Oratory of a troubled Mind what weeping Amasius sayes another sye for shame let the old and impotent who have worn out Youth and are now curst with the miseries of Age bewail the loss of those pl●asures they once did Revel in but thou art now in full possession of those riper Joys and thy happier fortune speaks nothing but Mirth and Jollity Pray forbear Sir your unwelcom Jests and spare your Railery at this time said Amasius the Grave mu be my Marriage Bed and Oh that I were now to dress my self and be th●re undrest at N ght with what chearfulness should you then see m● c nsummate those wish'd for Espou●als But G ntl m●n as you are my Friends let me beg of you to give me no farther disturbance my th●u●hts are otherways disposed of then you imagine and the greatest kindness you can do me is to leave me to my own Meditations In so disconsolate a tone did Amas●us deliver himself that he strangely Surpriz'd the hearers with pity for his Condition the reason of which they could not pos●ibly imagine His Father was immediately a●qu●inted with it who coming to his Bed-side found him extreamly ill and fitter for the Advice of the Physitians then the Entertainment of his Frien●s or the intended Solemnity The Doctors were sent for to consult of his present Distemper who all agreed he was in a High Feaver but th●t the cause thereof was not External but from some ex●raordinary grief which opprest his Spirits and was not to be remov'd by al● their Learned prescriptions nor could they advise a more proper Cure then what they endeavou●'d to prevent his Death For some week● in this miserable Condition did he linger out the tedious Hours to the great trouble and discomfort of his Relations who daily Visited him and as often prest to know the cause of his present affl●ction which he the more carefully strove to hide nor could they Guess at any probable cause but as they observ'd his deep Sighs and then of a sudden his pa●sionate and abrupt expressions of O dear O●telia happy Ort●lia but lost but gone for ever O miserable wretch miserable Amasius I come I come my ●oy my Dear Saint I com from whence they all concluded nothing but the Hand of Heaven could work a Cure on his Distemper'd mind whilst his Body only S●mpathiz'd with the anguish of his Soul in the mean time his Father heard from his Dutch correspondent how fatal his unkindness had been to his Family who now began to see his own E●rour and blame himself as the only cause of those Misfortunes in which they had both so g●eat a Share and that by crossing the Establish'd Loves of Amasius and Ortelia which receiv'd their Life an● vigour from his encouragement he had occasion'd the death of Beautifull Ortelia and reduc'd his Son into those miseries and discontents from which he had but small hopes to recover him However after six weeks Languishing under his illness he began to grow into a better State of health but his Melancholy increased upon him Though his Father endeavour'd by all imag●neable diversions to drive it from his wounded mind and supposing he yet knew nothing of O●telia's Death resolv'd to Conceal it from him till he had in some measure Estrang'd his Affect●ons from her which he hoped in time to Effect But after two Months were pass'd and Amasius was rather worse then better he began to think that if his Son knew of Ortelia's death an● the impossibility of ever enjoying her it might by degrees quiet his troubled mind and put him upon s●me thoughts of perfecting the Match he had design'd him with much advantage Accordingly one Evening he took an opportunity to disclose Ortelia's Death to him omiting those Circumstances that more particularly concern'd her love to him which would rather aggravate then allay his passion Alas Sir said Amasius I have long since known more of that affair then you are pleas'd to Communicate to me now I know that Ortelia is dead and that Amasius can never be happy till he is so too But for this I must blame the weakness of my Love that what a Woman could do for me I cannot for her nor dare not Since I am forbid all violent Remedies which adds to my affliction and prevents that Cure which otherwise I would soon accomplish His Father was strangely Surpriz'd to see himself prevented in his disc●very and

Heart was suddenly Fired with the wanton desires of an unlawful passion and an amorous inclination dunwarily stole upon me Her Lodging being in a quarter of the City remote from mine I thought I might easily bring her into an opinion that I was a Batchellor which I Endeavor'd to perswade her to as knowing such most acceptable to them the quality of Husband in such case being no ways pleasing to them by reason they cannot hope if occasion should so require to obtain them for their own I had wrought my self in a short time into her favour and good opinion that all outward appearances perswaded me that nothing was wanting on my behalf but a good courage and confidence to render me happy and contented I resolved therefore vigorously to put the Lady to it but though I made a good attaque she made no worse a defence and told me that unless it were in the way of Marriage I must expect no favour from her I was surprized at the resistance she made whereby I learn't that outward appearances are often deceitful and that those Women which seem most complying by the manner of their carriage and conversation are quite otherwise then what we take them for when they are press'd to any thing beyond the bounds of an honest Affection The resistance of that Lovely Maid who was called Clitia did but the more inflame me but it also greatly perplex'd me for in short I was Married to a P●rson of whom I had no reason to complain and whose return from the Country I daily expected All the protestations of Marriage which I made to this beautiful Maid avail'd me nothing and all my Prayers and intreats stood me in little stead neither would the Finest arguments I could invent to perswade her to yield to my desires win any thing upon her she still stood firm to her first design This Counterfeit modesty and Virtue charm'd me with the more love which seem'd to me as the greatest Marks of the entire Affection and Good-will she bore me not in the least perceiving that she Entertain'd a Gallant Named Clitophon who was of Intellig●nce with her to draw me into the snare of M●trimony with her so that I must be the Husband and he the Gallant who would continue his Pastime at my Cost Leander beginning to grow weak by reason of the great Loss of Blood he had sustained was Interrupted in this part of his Story that care might be taken of his Wounds but he would not suffer their endeavours notwirhstanding whatsoever Entreaties they made him or whatsoever Efforts they used to Cure him even against his Will All the Compliance they could obtain of him was that he would suffer himself to be succour'd so soon as he had Finish'd his Discourse but was sensible all their Endeavors would come too late for he was certain that Death which he so much desired would quickly put a Period to his days they were forced to grant his Demand though not without some Reluctancy and then he pursu'd his Discourse after the Manner following My Perplexity having continued some time and not having yet Fixed upon any Resolution I Received a Letter from my Wife wherein she gave an Account what day she would Arrive at London After the Reading of her Letter I went to Clitia and found her that day so Beautiful and Charming in my Imagination that forthwith there was Framed in my Mind this horrible Design which I am about to Relate and which Caused me to Promise Clitia that within a short time I would Espouse her I then took my leave my Mind being Fixed upon the damnable Resolution I had Pitch'd upon before So soon as I Arrived at my own Lodging I Res●sted this Devilish Enterprize and took up Resolutions quite contrary to the former but the next day making another visit to Clitia my depraved mind re●ss●med its first wicked Sentiment and I fully determined within my self to go in disguise and Kill my Wife in her way home which bloody Enterprise I had no sooner Executed and returned free from discovery but I went immediately to her House who had first inspired my Evil Genius with the wicked Sentiments of so Horrid a Murther but Oh! the admirable Justice of Heaven I found her dead and was informed that she was with Child by the Gallant who had hitherto con●e●l'd himself from my taking Notice of him and that she had used violent meanes upon her Body to force an abortion after that I had promised her Marriage which precipitate and cruel procedure had been the cause of her Death Immediately my Crime returned into my remembrance and it presented it self with such Horrour to my imagination that I could not endure to think of so vile a wretch as my self then it was that I Framed a design to Kill my self which just now I have put in Execution Now that you know my Crime added he I cannot believe you so cruel to bestow your care in preserving a Life which within a short time would be forced from me by the Hangman In Finishing these words he was Seized with a great weakness and dyed in a short time after The Company being his Friends desired the Surgeon not to discover any thing of the matter and the Confession he had made of his Crimes did greatly surprize and astonish the whole Company The whole Company were extreamly pleas'd with the Recital of this Tragical History by Philotas which they Express'd by a grateful acknowledgement but the Misfortune of Leander moved compassion in the minds of the Auditors Theodosia then knowing it to be her place to conclude declared to the Company that part of the Stories already Recited had made an alteration in her mind that she must of necessity pass by that she intended next having so near affinity to the former and proceed to another which she began in this manner NOVEL the Eighth By THEODOSIA IN the Late Reign of Queen Mary Baldwin a Swedish Gentleman by Birth being Younger Brother to the Count de Walbourgh espoused an English Lady and was on his return from Canterbury in the County of Kent to his own House not far distant from an adjacent River It was in the long days of Summer when the greatest heats make the Shades to be most affected His Man who carried his Male and his two Footmen being more thirsty than their Master were stayed at a Tavern to drink and refresh themselves whilst Baldwin went leisurely on dreaming and arri ed alone at the River side as he stay'd there for his Men to pass over with him there came a handsom Young Man reasonably well Clothed who proffer'd to take the Bridle of his Horse the comely aspect of this Youth caused him to commiserate his Fortune when questioning him what he was the Youth with a Voice able to inchant the Rocks said I am an Orphan having neither Father or Mother my Country is the Northern part of England right to the borders of Scotland forsaken by