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	see_v	1,964	5	3.3848	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B15755	L.A. Seneca the philosopher, his booke of consolation to Marcia. Translated into an English poem; Ad Marciam. English	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; Freeman, Ralph, Sir, fl. 1610-1655.	1635 (1635)	STC 22215a; ESTC S117095	22,671	50

him that dyed before For he two daughters also left behind That should bring him not sorrow to thy mind Which thou great pleasures or great paines maist make Accordingly as thou the same shalt take The husband-man when any trees he findes Torne by the rootes or split with sudden winds Some grafts thereof doth instantly replant And with advantage soone supply's their want For time whom all these humane things obey Is swift as well in growth as in decay Place thou those daughters in Metellius stead And let two joyes be from one sorrow bred It is the nature of all mortalls most To Covet what they utterly have lost And with such earnestnes the same t' effect As what they present have they quite neglect Behold how fortune hath to thee extended Her favour though she seem'd to be offended Who doth beside those daughters that yet live The comfort of so many Nephews give Cap. 17 COnsider likewise Marcia that if all According unto merit should befall No evill ever good-men should betide But now both good and bad alike divide And though it grievous be to have him dye On whom his parents might so much relye Yet it is humane thou and all mankind Art certainely to all these things design'd To suffer losse to dye to hope to feare To grieve and to be grieved to appeare Desirous and yet fearefull to depart And not to know in what estate thou art If any man before-hand should propound To one that were for Syracusa bound The good and evill that from thence arise And thus before he went should him advise These rare things shalt thou find first thou shalt see That Iland severed from Italy By such a narrow sea as by consent Of all is thought t' have beene the continent Through which the sea with sudden breach did flow And ever since the land divided so Then thou by knowne Charybdis gulfe must saile Which while the winds forbeare their southerne gale Continues calme but otherwise hath power The greatest vessells wholly to devoure Next shalt thou see the cleere and famous spring Of Arethusa whereof Poets sing Which either there begins or passage makes Beneath the Sea and not thereof partakes And then thou shalt the safest harbour gaine That nature ere did make or art obtaine For ships to ride in where it shall be showne Where all the power of Athens was o'rethrowne And where were many thousand captives shut In one vast prison out of maine rocks cut Thou shalt arrive at Syracuse at length A citty of large circuit and great strength Where winter is so temperat that no day Without some sun-shine ere doth passe away But when th' ast found all this thou shalt be sure A hot contagious summer to endure That with diseases will the land annoy And that mild winters Benefit destroy There shalt thou Dionysius behold Who having law and equity controld The County's freedome under foot doth tread And though he have divinest Plato read Yet to the height of Tyranny aspires And after a base exile life desires Some he will burne and some to death will scourge Others when no occasion him doth urge He will behead and overgrowne with vice He male and female will to lust entice And ' mongst those bruitish sinnes that men should loath Hee 'le active be at once and passive both Th' ast heard what may invite what may deter And therefore with thy serious thoughts conferre Whether thou wilt resolve to goe or stay If after all this warning any say He will adventure let him beare the blame That undertooke advisedly the same Thus nature doth to every one declare If thou bring'st children know some may be faire Some foule and some if that thou many have Their countrey may betray as well as save Despaire not but thy children may attaine To so great worth as may mens tongues restraine From obloquy yet likewise thinke they may Be such as will a curse upon thee lay I see no cause but thee they should out-live Yet be prepar'd them unto death to give In child-hood youth or age for there appeares Small difference here in concerning yeeres Since parents seldome go but with moist-eyes To any of their childrens obsequies When thou hast all these things before thee laid Thou no way canst the heavenly powers upbraid If thou wilt then bring children for behold How they before-hand did the truth unfold Cap. 18 With this example therefore we may well The lives of men and women parallell As thou intending Syracuse to view Hast understood what thereon will ensue So now imagine that before thy birth I come to tell what thou shalt find on earth Here nature thee into a cittie brings Common to gods and men where in all things Contained are by lawes eternall tide Where the celestiall bodies doe abide In their unwearied courfe there shall thine eyes Behold the starres in their varieties And see with admiration one great light That fills the world dividing day and night By dayly motion by whose annuall race Winter and Summer have their equall space Then shalt thou see the Mooue succeed the other Who by encounters borrowes from her brother Her dimmer light which sometimes not appearing And sometimes with full face the sad earth cheering Is in increasing and decreases strange And every day from what she was doth change Then shalt thou see five planets that all bend Their courses severally and do contend With heavens swift motion these controle the fates Of private people and of publicke states Which subject are to good or bad effects According to their different aspects Then shalt thou see the clouds the raine and wonder At oblique lightnings and heaven-piercing thunder And when thine eyes are filled with that fight Behold the earth affordeth new delight Smooth boundlesse plaines high snow-headed mountaines The falls of rivers and cleare streaming fountaines Floods from one source that runne both East west And tottring woods with their owne beight opprest Thicke forrests fraught with beasts and birds that fly And warble foorth their differing harmony Then shalt thou see the divers scituations Of citties and of farre disjoyned nations Whereof some for security retire Into the mountaines some the plaines desire Others delight neere rivers to remaine And some to dwell in Fens do not disdaine Then shalt thou see the plow-man till the land Preparing harvest with industrious hand Trees fructifie alone brookes gently slide Along the moddowes in their flowry pride Havens and creeks that all beholders please And scattered Ilands giving names to Seas What should I tell of pretious stones of gold That swiftest torrents in their sands infold Of fires in midst of land and sea that shine And of the Ocean whose large armes intwine The spacious earth which that in three parts cuts And so a barre betwixt the nations puts Which rageth oft with an unbridled will Within whose waters that are seldome still Huge monsters live that all beleefe exceed Some are so great and heavy