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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	see_v	speak_v	2,624	5	4.0293	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09604	Phillis and Flora The sweete and ciuill contention of two amorous ladyes. Translated out of Latine: by R.S. Esquire.; Phillis and Flora. English	Map, Walter, fl. 1200.; Stapleton, Richard, fl. 1595, attributed name.; Chapman, George, 1559?-1634. Ovids banquet of sence.; R. S., Esquire.	1598 (1598)	STC 19880; ESTC S101174	5,621	32

Horse holds by Mine thinks on me And then they dy He turns fight past and Foes inchased And lookes on me with Helme vnlaced Lifts his strong lyms brest strait graced And saies kyss-blesse me O hart-placed Flora hir wrath in pants did spye And many a Dart at hir lets flye crye Thou canst not make with heauen-reacht A Camell pierce a needels eye False goes for true for Honny Gall To make a Clerke a Souldiers thrall Doth Loue to Souldiers coradge call No but the neede they toyle withall Fayre Phillis would thy Loue were wise No more the trueth to contrarise Hunger and thirst bow Souldiers thies In which Deaths path and Plutos lies Sharpe is the wasting bane of Warre The lot is hard and strayneth farre The lyfe is stooping doubts doth iarre To get such things as needefull are Knewst thou the case thou wouldst not say Shauen haire shamd Clerks or black aray Worne higher honors to display And that all states they ouersway All things should to my Clerke encline whose crowne sustains th' Impereal signe He rules and payes such friendes as thine And Lay must stoope to men diuine Thou sayst that sloth a Clerke disguiseth Who I confesse base workes despiseth But when from cares his free minde riseth Heauens course Naturs be compriseth Mine Purple decks thine Maile bedighteth Thine liues in war mine peace delighteth Olde acts of Princes he resighteth All of his friend thinks seeks wrighteth What Venus can or Loues wingd lord First knowes my Clerke and brings me Musicke in cares doth mine afford word Thine ioyes in rapine and the sword Here speech strife had both their ending Phillis askt iudgment all suspending Much stir they made yet ceast contending And sought a Iudge in homewards wen ding With Countnances that egale beene With egale Maiestie beseene With egale Voyce and egale spleene These Virgins ward vppon the Greene. Phillis a white robe bewtifide Flora wore one of two hews dide Phillis vpon a Mule did ride Flora did back a horse of pride The Mule was that which being create Neptune did feede and subiugate Which after fayre Adonis fate He Venus sent to cheere hir state This she the Queene of Iberine Phillis fayre Mother did resigne Since she was giuen to workes diuine Whence Phillis had the Mule in fine Who of the Trappings asks and Bit The Mule though siluer champing it Know all things were so richly fit As Neptunes honor might admit Then Phillis no decorid wanted But rich and bewtious all eyes daunted Nor Floras vertue lesse enchaunted Who on a welthy Palfrey vaunted lightnes Tamde with his Raines won heauen for Exceeding fayre and full of wightnes His Brest Art dectt with diuers brightnes For Ieate blacke mixt with Swans pure whightnes Young and in dainty shape dygested His Lookes with Pride not Rage inuested His Mayne thin haird his Neck high crested Small Eare short Head and burly Brested His brode Backe stoopt to this Clerks-loued which with hir pressure nought was moued Strait Legd large Thighd hollow Houed All Natures skill in him was proued An Iuorie seate on him had place A hoope of Golde did it imbrace Grauen and the Poitrell did enchace A Stone that star-like gaue it grace Inscription there allurde the eye With many a wondrous misterie Of ancient thinges made noueltie That neuer man did yet descrie The God of Rhetoriques nuptiall bowre Adornd with euery heauenly powre The Contract and the Mariage howre And all the most vnmeasurd dowre No place was there that figurd nought That could through all the world be sought But more excesse of Meruails wrought Then might inceede a humane thought The skyll of Mulciber alone Engran'd that admirable Throne VVho looking stedfastly thereon Scarse thought his hand such art had shone The Trappings wrought he not with ease But all his payne employde to please And left to go in hand with these The Tardge of great Aeacides A Styrrop for hir feete to presse And Bridle-Bosses he did dresse And added Rains in worths excesse Of his sweete Spowses goulden Tresse Thus on their famouse Caualrye These Prince-borne Damzels seemd to flye Their soft young cheekebales to the eye Are of the fresh Vermilion dye So Lillies out of Scarlet peere So Roses of the Vernall yeere So shoote two wanton Starrs yfeere From the eternall burning Spheere The Child-Gods gracefull Paradise They ioyntly purpose to inuise And louely emulations rise In note of one anothers guise Phillis to Flora laughter led And Flora Phillis answered A Merlin Phillis managed A Sparhawlke Flora caried In little tyme these Ladyes founde A Groue with euery pleasure crounde At whose sweete entrie did resounde A Poorde that flowrd that holy grounde From thence the sweete-breathd winds conuay Odors from euery Mirtle spray And other flowrs to whose aray A hundred Harpes and Timbrels play All pleasurs Studie can inuent The Dames eares instantly present Voyces in all sorts different The foure parts and the Diapent Two tunes that from those Voyces flie With admirable harmonie The Tymbrell Harpe and Psalterie Reioyce in rapting symphonie There did the Vials voyce abounde In Musicke Angellike profounde There did the Phife dispredden rounde his songe in many a variant sounde All Birdes with tunefull bosoms sing The Blackbird makes the woods to ring The Thrush the Iay and she in Spring Rues the past Rape of Thraces king Their shrill notes to the Musicke plying Then all the different Flowrs descrying The Odors in abundance flying Prou'd it the Bowre of Loues soft-lying The Virgins something entered here And sprinckled with a little feare Their harts before that helde Loue deare In Cupids flames encreased were And while each winged Forester Their proper Rumors did prefer Each Virgins minde made waight on her Applauses apt and singuler Deathles were he coulde there repose Each path his spycie Odor stroes Of Mirh and Synamon there groes And of our blessed Ladyes Rose Each Tree hath there his seuerall blisse In fruites that neuer season misse Men may conceaue how sweete Loue is By that Celestiall Court of his The dauncing companies they see Of Young men and of Maydens free Whose Bodyes are as bright in Blee As Starrs illustrate Bodyes bee In which so meruaylous a guyse Of vnexpected Nouelties These Virgins bosoms through their eyes Were daunted with a quicke surprise Who stay their Boyall Steads outright And almost from their Seates alight Forgetting their endeuors quight with that proud Rumors sweete affright But when sad Philomene did straine Hir Rape-full-Rauing Brest againe These Ladyes hearing hir complaine were reinflamd in euery vaine About the Center of the Spring A secret place is where they sing And vse their supreme worshypping Of Loues neare-darting fiery king There many a two-shapt companie of Faunes Nimphes Satyres meete and plie The Tymbrell and the Psalterie Before Loues sacred Maiestie There beare they Goblets bigg with wine And Coronets of Flowrs combine There Nimphs and Fauns demy-diuine Doth Bacchus teach to foote it fine Who keepe true measure with their feete That to the Instruments do fleete But olde Silenus playes not sweete In Consort but indents the streete The Spring-sleepe did his temples lode As on a long-eard Asse he rode Laughters excesse to see him nod Dissolu'd the Bosome of the God Fresh Cups he euer cals vppon In sounds of imperfection With Age and Bacchus ouergon They stop his voyces Organon Amongst this gamesome crew is seene The issue of the Cyprian Queene Whose head and shoulders fethered beene And as the starrs his countnance sheene In his left hand his Bow he bare And by his side his Quiuer ware In powre he sits past all compare And with his Flames the worlde doth dare A Scepter in his hand he hild With Chloris natiue flowrs vntild And Nectars deathles Odors stild From his bright lookes the Sunne did guild The triple Graces there assist Supporting with their Brests commist And Knees that Tellus bosome kist The Challice of this Amorist These Ladyes now approached neare And worshipped exempt from feare Loues God who was enuirond there with Youth that honord stiles did beare Their ioy is superexcellent To see a Court so confluent Whom Cupid seeing their intent Doth with his greeting interuent He askes the cause for which they came They confidently tell the same And he giues prayse to eyther Dame That durst so great a warre proclame To both he spake to make some pause Vntyll their honorable cause Profoundly wayde in euery clause Might be explande with all applause He was a God which well they know Rehearsall needes it not bestow They light and rest and playnely show where Loue striues Loue wil Maister grow Loue Lawes and Iudges hath in fee Nature and vse his Iudges bee To whom his whole Courts censures flee Since past and things to come they see These do the hart of Iustice trie And show the Courts seueritie In Iudgment and strong Customs eye The Clerke is first for venerie Gainst which the Queenes but little stroue Since Loues high voyce did it approue So both to their Abodes remoue But as at first rest firme in Loue. Explicit Rhithmus Phillidis et Flora. FINIS Phillis to Flora. Flora to Phillis Phillis to Flora. Flora to Phillis