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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	heart_n	see_v	2,559	5	3.3012	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07268	The historie of S. Elizabeth daughter of the King of Hungarie. Written in French by Peter Mathieu and translated into English by Sr T.H.; Elizabeth, fille du roy d'Hongrie. English	Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621.; T.H., Sir (Thomas Hawkins), d. 1640.	1633 (1633)	STC 17663; ESTC S101124	24,992	96

that they taught even kings themselues to liue Though she were yong she made her selfe deafe indocible to all discourse but of heaven she could not be drawne out of Churches beginning early to purify her heart from all earthly thoughts as gould is cleansed from drosse of the mine Then did her gouernesse tell her the world was not worthy of her that she was not made for the world that her loue not vnlike the supreame elemēt suffered not by Vapours nor those infectiōs which corrupt others When she was of riper yeares she framed vnto her selfe a rule of life wholly pious and deuout nor was it by precedent or imitation as there are many who haue noe other touch of vertue and piety then conformity of example but vpon her owne choyce the mere motion of the grace of God Her exercise was entirely religious so soone as she awaked the first thought her soule admitted which swayed throughout the whole day was the remembrance of death then rysing out of bed she represented vnto her selfe the comfort infinite ioy of those who at the sound of the trumpet shall rise againe to glory As many pieces of attire as she putt on so many vertues wished she for the beauty and ornament of her soule When she was cloathed she prostrated her selfe at the feete of a Crucifixe renewing the homage of her heart to the goodnesse of God giuing thankes for his benefitts imploring his mercy for her sinnes his holy spiritt for her direction protesting rather to dy then to loose his fauour the very life of her life As in the morning she meditated on that she was to doe soe in the euening she required an account of her soule of what she had done she often fed it with the blessed Sacrament the bread of Angells the Manna of heauen the restoratiue of life the soueraine remedy against death the admirable proofe of the loue of God towards men Who notwithstanding in stead of yeilding him thankes for so great a benefitt receiued do now dispute whether it be true that he gaue it All the day long she stood vpon her guard against the subtile snares of the world from which she sought to disengage her selfe she auerted her eyes aswell as her thoughts from all illusions keeping her selfe very carefullie from tasting the honey of pleasures vanityes of Court more daungerous then that which bewitcheth men If at any tyme she approached it was but as the fly which buzzeth about feares to rest vpon it least he loose his wings The marriage treated in her childhood was confirmed at such tyme as discretion made her capable of choice or refusall but it was done with so much coldnesse that many thought if she had not imagined the dispose of her body was due to her father shee no whit had feared to disobey him to pursue the holy inspirations which she now intertayned of continuing a virgin Of three conditions of the feminine sexe there is not any one whose contentmēt hath not anxiety If marriage haue fruitfullnes it hath also corruption If widowhood enioy liberty it likewise suffers the sadnes of solitude If virginity put on integrity it liueth with the griefe of sterility But Elizabeth better loued to liue a virgin then a mother and hauing dedicated all her thoughts to virginity she held it sacriledge to employ them on marriage well remembring that many of her quality had gone out of the pallaces of kings their fathers not being able to preserue this flower among the thornes bryars of worldlie vanityes the nipping frosts of its impietyes Transported then by two so powerfull lawes the commaundement of God authority of her father she gaue consent to this match The Landtsgraue brought with him as many graces as he acknowledged admired in her she likewise afforded him so much affection that neuer were two hearts scorched with more ardent flames It was thought her marriage might cut of something of the first seuerity of her life and that she would begin to relish the pleasures of youth But her heart like a lampe perpetuallie burning before the face of God shined not at all in the darknes of the brightest splendour of the day Her eyes were wearie in behoulding things specious her eares displeased with harmonious her tast with the most delicious but her heart was neuer satiated with the loue of God This her triangle could neuer bee filled but by this triangle She stole the sweetest houres of the night from repose to ly at the foote of the Crosse tast the bitternes thereof in the security of silence Sophia her mother in lawe Agnes her sister in lawe coniured her to forsake her scrupulosity And will you Madame said they perpetuallie vse your selfe so cruelly Will you alwaies preferre thornes before roses Will you be so sharp an enemy to your selfe as to hasten your death at the tyme when you ought to thinke vpon life Since life is so short that if the world be not seasonablie vnderstood wee dy before wee knowe it Her silence answeared for her and her constant perseuerance gaue them occasiō to iudge what they might hope from such discourse She cōtinued this kinde of life amidst all these impertinences but auoided those deuotions more faigned then holy which seeme to transport into extasy the mindes of those which vse them to please the world to satisfy their owne hipocrisy They are starres neither stable nor fixed in the firmament of true piety rather wandring fires Comets exhalations of the earth which dissolue into the ayre of vanity The Court of this Princesse likewise resembled not those which were at that tyme said to be seas of dissolution and which as the Sea were swolne vp with pride foaming with exorbitance where vertue was perpetuallie in torment Hers was a temple of piety an Academy of honour her example perfumed the most corrupted ayre and breathed into the most wauering affections firme thoughts of virtue with one glaunce of her eye she led the rest along and withdrew them from errour which inticeth heartes to pleasure hath its carreere of Ice in the end a precipice Her ladyes and maides were bred without curiosity vanity or nicenesse Their eyes by a modest disdaine mortifyed euill appetites And because the best borne natures by deprauation become worse then others as the corruption of good things is worst of all she had an infinite care this first integrity might neuer be dissolued For which cause she exhorted them to hold the heart in liberty the body in seruitude and the conscience in repose assuring them of the infinite contentment they should one day haue in seeing their sowles in heauen free from slaunder leauing their bodyes on the earth without infamy She recommended nothing so much vnto them as to stifle wicked thoughts in their birth whilest the bramble is greene it may be eaten but when it becomes bigger it choketh When the spirit is caught in those