Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	think_v	4,338	5	3.9369	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01375	The mirrour of maiestie: or, The badges of honour conceitedly emblazoned with emblemes annexed, poetically vnfolded.	H. G., fl. 1618.; Goodyere, Henry, Sir, 1551 or 2-1629.	1618 (1618)	STC 11496; ESTC S102778	12,143	74

Of faiths full harmony this spiny pale Sharpe conflicts are who still the Truth assaile This Heart the Church is th' holy Ghost being Center Afflictions may surround but cannot enter You are the prime linke of this manuall chaine Whereby Religion do's its strengthmaintaine O! may the Reuerend Rest to you sticke fast That Truth though long yet conquer may at last TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR THe North and Southerne Poles the two fix'd Starres Of worth and dignitie which all iust warres Should still maintaine together be here met And in your selfe as in your Scutchion set The halfe Moone 'twixt threatens as yet no change Or if she doe she promises to range Till she againe recouer what she lost Your endlesse fame so gaines your Bounties cost EMBLEME 6. SVB ✚ VMBRA ✚ ALARVM ✚ TVARVM ✚ NEuer should any thinke himselfe so sure Of friends assistance that he dares procure New enemies for vnprouok'd they will Spring out of forg'd or causelesse malice still Else why should this poore creature be pursu'd Too simple to offend a beast so rude Therefore prouide for malice danger brings House-roome to find vnder an Eagles wings You are this Eagle whcih ore-shades the sheepe Pursu'de by humane wolues and safe doth keepe The poore mans honest though might-wronged cause From being crushed by oppressions pawes Faire Port you are where euery Goodnesse findes Safe shelter from swolne Greatnesse stubborne winds Eager to drench it but that fearelesse rest Dwels in your harbour to all good distrest I bid not you prouide you are compleate The good for to protect or bad defeate TO THE LORD TREASVRER HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE YOur sable Crescent might to some whose lips Speake ignorance portend a blacke Ecclipse I rather thus discerne how Time would shroud Your radiant Crescent in a sable Cloud And hold those enuious ignorant or dull That cannot see your Crescent growing full EMBLEME 7. QVI ✚ CVRAT ✚ VIGILANS ✚ DORMIT THe carefull States-man who the Key doth carie Of a a Kings Treasury must not partiall varie But to iust causes compasse still be ti'de For Iustice vniust shutting opens wide And lets in hard Opinion to disgrace His Soueraignes selfe his Person and his place Nor must he carelesse slumber but thus keepe His lids vnshut-vp by soft-fingred Sleepe And hold a Counsell with the saddest howres Of silent Night and spend his purest powers In care to render to whom dues belong That Subiects may haue right and Kings no wrong But you Great Lord beare vp this waight of Trust. With a most easie Care because most iust TO THE LORD PRIVY SEALE HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE THose dressings that adorne both parts of Nature First is exprest in this Maiesticke Creature Next in these Flowres of Light both which present Your Honours at full height of complement And Clearnesse which runnes through your noble Blood Mixt with this two-fold tincture Great and Good What 's here but shadow'd then by outward kind Bedeckes the ●nner Roomes of your braue mind EMBLEME 12. ET ✚ DEO ✚ ET ✚ PATRIAE ✚ VVHen ere thou draw'st out thy reuenging rod Let be for Countrey and the cause of God Else thy Oblations will thy curses be When thou encountrest with thine enemy Nor is it sacrifice that can appease Gods wrath vnlesse the mans obedience please More then his offering for if his dull heart Thinkes he inricheth God in any part By offering Hecatombs he looseth all Nay further yet he giues a sword with all To Heau'ns high Iustice by inuoking downe Reuenge in lieu of Guerdon or a Crowne Such as were sacrifices once such bee Our prayers still and our true Sanctitie Which is your In-mate and familiar guest More clearely seene in You then here exprest TO THE LORD ADMIRALL HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE YOur sable mullet like a Starre in blacke Shewes what our honour'd Admirall doth lacke And shewes as if that Starre of Effingham Were thus bemourn'd in a briefe Epigram This may your Pole-starre be most noble Lord And guide you vnto that so much abhorr'd The mournfull yet the blessed Port of death Blowne by the prayers of all good mens breath EMBLEME 9. QVEL CHE DRITTO DA IL CIEL ✚ TORCER NON PVOSSI ✚ SVppose a Globe were fast'ned in the skie With cordes depending on it quarterly And men should striue by violence to wrest That cordage to what crooked forme they list All wise men would conceiue them madly bent Why should they else impossibles attempt And we may thinke it as absurd a drift In him who craftily shall hope to shift When Fate forbids him or shall hope to thwart The good intentions of an honest heart For that which heau'n directs all ages see May iniured but not diuerted be Seeke then no further honest meanings can Make a plaine minde best policy in man TO THE DVKE OF LENOX HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE VVHat neede I further striue to amplifie Your high-borne worths and noble dignitie Then by these beautious flowres which declare Your mind 's faire puritie vnstain'd and bare These golden Buckles bordring them about A Palizado to keepe Foulenesse out EMBLEME 10. NON MANCA AL FIN SE BEN TARDA A VENIRE THe Wolfe and Lyon once together met And by agreement they their purpose set To hunt together when they had obtainde Their bootie long pursude the Wolfe refrainde No more then formerly from greedinesse The Lyon apprehending that much lesse Might satisfie a beast no bigger growne Thought all the purchase rather was his owne And thought suppression of a beast so base Was Iustice to preserue the common race Of harmlesse beasts then speedily he teares The Wolfe to take away their vsuall feares Eu'n thus when our great Monarch clearely saw How that insatiate Wolfe of Rome did draw More riches to his coffers then deare soules To Heau'n he like this Lyon then controules His vsurpation deeming him a slaue Who more intended to deuoure then saue But you know best to follow in free course The Best in best things and passe by the worse TO THE MARQVESSE OF BVCKINOHAM HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ALL that we see is comely and delights The eyes which still are pleas'd with pretious sights And as your golden Scallops You appeare To promise that which we may value deare More then a glorious out-side which containes Meate not to be disclos'd without due paines Thus is it scarce to be imagin'd how Desert should paralell your worth or You. EMBLEME 11. INVIDIA ✚ SVVM ✚ TORQVET ✚ AVTHOREM THis glorious Starre attending on the Sunne Having from this low world iust wonder wonne For brightnes Envie that foule Stygian brand T' extinguish it thrusts forth her greedie hand To catch it from it s mounted moving place And hurle it lower to obscur'd Disgrace But while she snatches to put out the flame Foolishly fiers her fingers with the same Who others glories striuet ' eclipse poore