Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	great_a	parent_n	1,520	5	8.2359	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28452	The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1654 (1654)	Wing B3321; ESTC R15301	117,120	245

then by continued devotion to your self and service to purchase at length the esteem of Madam Your most faithfull servant T.B. XXXV To his Lady M ri● complaining of her cruelty Madam TYranny as ill becomes a subject as a Prince and cruelty is the natural issue of that Monster To say your Ladyship is guilty of both in some kind is a truth undeniable For ever since fortune made me happy in your knowledge my affection hath had no Centre but your breast my faith no fellow and my constancy such as can never admit a change yet my sighes are unpittied my love unregarded my faith and constancy answered with nothing but your disproportionate denialls Nor can I without wonder consider that your Ladyship should be 〈◊〉 all the world so perfectly charitable to mee so cruell unles 't were ordained by fate That the first fruits of my love which should be the first step to happines must be made abortive by your incompassion Madam the more you deny the more fuel you add to those flames which if not suddenly allai'd by your pittie will consume my very being into ashes of mortalitie These are Madam the reall dictates of a heart that 's wholly ben● To serve you T. B. XXXVI A consolatory letter to a Mother upon the death of her first born Honoured Madam THe sad need a Comforter and a Soul in desolation requires to bee assisted with reasons to bear the cause of its griefs That you are both sad and grieved I can no more doubt then I can be without a share in your passions That you have many comforters because friends many solid considerations from your own pietie and pious wisdome to salve your sorrowes I am as confident Yet as none more tenders your happinesse then my self so could not I alone be silent in this motive of your teares what I would say is Dearest Madam be comforted and this were 't in my power I would effect The reason of your sable thoughts the spring that streames your cheekes rise I know from the sad accident of your childs death It was I confess the first image of your likenes the first bless●●g that heaven honored your body with the first pledge of nature the first title you had to be a Mother And to bee deprived of this almost as soon as 't was given could not but find and afford matter both for teares and grief in a disposition so natural and good But Madam there 's a time for all and a meane also What could not be denied to your sweetness must be moderated by your discretion 'T is true that sweet infant was yours 't was your first 't was dear and you suffered many dolours to give it life But withall you consider as 't was yours so given you by God as the first so more due to him as dear yet could it not be too dear for him that hath it Although of painfull birth yet that your throwes brought forth a Saint that your dolours were endured so soon to enthrone a part of your self among the Angels these dolours these throwes happily suffered Those whom God makes Parents he makes but Nurses of his own children he lends them to be brought up for heaven and if hee hath so soon discharged you of this obligation t is not so much a cross as a blessing Had it lived to mature age perhaps he saw danger both to It and you it might have been more cause of grief to you more loss to it self it might have been unfortunate in life in death unhappy 'T is not the being children of either good or great extract that makes them alwayes either good or happy And this perhaps God that provident Parent of all foresaw Be it so or not certaine it is the bodies but the souls prison wherein 't is no soner breathed from Heaven but 't is maculated by this corrupt Earth and in this as it longer sojournes so is it not only debarred of its true happiness welfare but also offends its great Creator and consequently is miserable Therefore would God make the cradle of yours its death bed that he might hasten its blisse As he breathed a pure soul into it so would he again take it before defiled by the actuall blemishes of sin Had it liv'd it could have afforded no comfort to your piety but being in health prosperity and pious and can it be more pious then in heaven more prosperous then in heavens joyes more healthfull then in the enjoyance of immortality O consider t is now past all danger 't is freed from all misery 't is blessed in blessedness it prayes for you And can there be any sorrow so great that these considerations cannot consolate O what more happy then to be so happy a Mother no sooner a Mother then a Mother to heaven Nor doubt dear Madam but hee that gave you this dear pledge of his love will give you more and as he took this to his own joyes so will he leave in its stead more to your comfort This he took to give it as soon happiness as being and therein to try your virtue and resignation to his will this as I doubt not but he will find so may you be confident he will bee bountifull a sure rewarder of your patience a prosperer of your soul body and its fruitfulness But pardon most honoured Madam my loves redousness and if in this unpolishd Consolatory I have errd let it be as it is loves fault a fault that your nobleness I am certain will remit Thus with humblest respects he takes his leave that will no longer bee then be yours the daily Petitioner to heaven for your most wished comforts of both Worlds Madam Your humble and most affectionate servant D.W. XXXVII To excuse the not answering a letter SIR THat I have committed so great a Solaecisme in good manners as to receive two letters from you without giving you humble thanks for either I beseech you ascribe not to any want of zeal to your service for in earnest you cannot make me more happy then in vouch safing mee the honour of your commands which shall alwayes find as ready an obedience in mee as any thing that most concernes my own interest In the assurance ●●ereof I give you the humble respects of Sir Yours ad nutum T. B. XXXVIII Vpon a Motion of marriage Dear Sir I Give you many humble thanks for your tendring mee a wife and your good advise in that affair I well remember the Counsell of a prudent friend was not to marry till I were 30 years of age and then to have a wife ten years younger then my self because women especially teeming ones sooner decay then men I have also read that there are 3 principall motives to a wedded life Procreatio Prolis Conservatio Domus and Consolatio vitae Now the gentlewoman you write of in stead of being ten years younger I believe is ten years elder then my self and so may be in danger to