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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	love_n	love_v	1,420	5	6.4743	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86606	Poems, and essays with a paraphrase on Cicero's Lælius, or Of friendship. Written in heroick verse by a gentleman of quality.	Howard, Edward, fl. 1669.; Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de amicitia. Paraphrases.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2973; ESTC R230675	88,758	208

him the better part of me subsists My Soul my Body moves but Loves most his This vertue should man's best esteem create Which does to such Transcendent deeds relate The force of Union here the world maintains Where providence with such high grandure raigns Should it one cause of Concord disunite Twou'd puzzle Heaven to set its works at right To humane life Man's discord is a Curse Which than all beings renders Mankind's worse This the world's reason knows both just and true Though 't is man's crime and fate so bad to do In words who will not worthy acts commend Or him that with his peril serves his Friend But how unworthy are such Ethicks made If of their practice Reason is afraid Orestes Pylades such Friendships make As either sought to dye for eithers sake This fiction we on Theatres behold A Noble Moral in high Language told VVhich to applaud yet live less great and wise Shews that our Fables do our lives despise Our guilty Nature blushing to confess It knows more good than we in deeds express Thus far my speech this Noble Theam has brought And what remains from others may be sought Fan. Too soon a close our Lelius us affords On this high subject heightn'd by his words Fit to prolong the fleeting hours of day And raptures to our nightly sleeps convey The thred of thy discourse yet more extend Though it will length still want when it do send Scaev. Well hast thou Fannus spoke great Lelius worth Thy Love provokes him farther to set forth As once I did when sweetly pass'd the day In Scipio's Gardens whilst with us did stay The accurate Philus gravely argu'd too Yet learn'd from Lelius what was fit to do VVho did so wisely Justice make his cause That it might have been written with Rome's Laws But on our Friendly subject more to touch And briefly to declare what I think such By it the most agreeing Love I mean Or such admits few turns to raise its Scene Which constancy and Justice must defend Who 's various soon may falsly be call'd Friend A worthiness of minde my Love expects From him I love or he my Love neglects Lel. Hard 't were my Scaevola in Friendships cause VVhich of all humane has the kindest Laws T'enact such strict Conformities of life VVhich with our Natures have too high a strife Vertue 't is true we chiefly should allow And yet not Criticize upon it so That no allay should pass amongst its gold VVhil'st we our souls in Bodies do behold Compos'd of dross in which 't were vain to think Our minds can pass Lifes-strands and nothing sink Friendship I can't resist could I not finde A well-deserving Love in humane kinde Vertue in us must this foundation lay Our Friends would else like bribes their Friendship pay As on this subject often I have thought This worthy question by my Soul was brought Whether man's helpless life or want should be Sufficient ground to enter Amity Or whether giving and receiving prove The mutual endearments of his Love Which vertues near affinities express Though more the Beauties of its cause confess That from our Nature's goodness did arise Or from above inspir'd the great and wise VVhose Souls Divinely did themselves prepare To fix such Concords before Friendships were VVhich had I not a Friend it 's worth would show How much beforehand me the world does owe. Our Souls their own internal Love assign'd But scorn'd to be unto themselves confin'd VVhich great instinct diffusive soon was made VVhil'st men did Traffick for their vertues Trade Unburthen'd with the fraight of meaner ends VVhich for design or profit seek out Friends In Friendship nothing feign'd or false should be A choice unmixt of man's felicity Pure as we Souls in Bodies can suppose VVhen to their Vice alone declared Foes How contrary a course the world does run And few there are who are not first undone Before the vertue of their Friend they prove Or his ingratitude does meet their Love A Friend too dearly by his Friend is bought That proudly gives respects or would be sought Expecting for his good deeds to be pray'd VVho takes my Money is less meanly paid Than such a sordid or unkinde return A grief our Souls are most oblig'd to mourn Their best estate of life is then destroy'd VVhen Friendship fails or meanly is enjoy'd My Love I place not to advance my gain But on a worth that may with mine remain In which consists the prudence of our choice VVhen minds are match'd that best themselves rejoyce On vertues lovely-Ethicks man should feast Before his amity deserves a guest Her entertainment highly does invite Our Souls the good of others to delight For whose bright sake we vertuous Friendships show Nay prove its force toward such we do not know Who can great Curius or Fabritius name Though dead and not rejoyce their living fame As much proud Tarquin's memory we hate VVith Cassius Melius vicious in our State Though Martial Pyrrhus did with Rome make VVar Him less than Annibal we hated far His vertue did his Arms more friendly make But how unworthy did Rome's honour take The cruelty of that great Punick foe Our Cities lasting Odium well does show If we th' effects of probitie confess Oblig'd by Enemies its worth express How much a greater power does goodness gain VVhich more familiar we with friends maintain And with our hours such benefits renew As most endear our Loves and Vertues too VVhat 's beneficial we shall surely finde Though 't were a meanness by us first design'd To fly unto our Friends when fate us drives Is like a Pilot in a Port survives VVhich in a calm perhaps he ne'r had sought So in a storm our Souls should not be brought To Friendship 's harbour to which we should steer More to protect our goodness than our fear In our best strengths our amities should meet Not in our froward age or youthful hear But when we wisely obligations weigh Yet need them less than ready such to pay VVhat did my Scipio of his Lelius want Nor did my Fortune more my Friendship scant His vertue I design'd my Loves high choice And his as gratefully did mine rejoyce Large is th' extent of good that does accrew To such who wisely Noble Loves pursue Their profits sure yet enter'd for no gain Nor are they ours of whom we can complain That our concerns oblig'd us to require Such kinder deeds as they should first desire Request 's a bribe good men should seldom take VVho would be sought to can his Friend forsake The fruit and growth our vertue should expect Is that our Friendship greater it effect How then should we contemn that giddy race VVho their unworthy Loves in pleasures place A motive we in sensual creatures see VVhich for such brutal ends as kinde can be No wonder then if we dissent from these Who more their Bodies than their Souls would please Unworthy farther mention to obtain But in a vile contempt