Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	witness_v	word_n	writing_n	13	3	8.2964	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19705	Cupids messenger: or, A trusty friend stored with sundry sorts of serious, wittie, pleasant, amorous, and delightfull letters. Newly written		1629 (1629)	STC 6122; ESTC S105143	34,686	64

giuen a new life to all things which the tempestuous winter had left forlorne the ioyfull Merchant hath made a rich returne and the laborious husbandman hath cramm'd his barnes with the plenteous crop of the euer fruitfull earth Euerie one hath his hope onely my selfe more vnfortunate then all the rest in this reuolution of time haue not had any successe I am you sée péerelesse in misfortune it rests in you with the sympathie of affection to make me péerelesse in felicity of which I will neuer despaire there being no heart that is more infinitely affected toward you then the heart of Your truest seruant E. I. To his sweet heart in the Country Sole mistris of my affections THough in London where I now am many singular beauties are daily obuious to my sight yet I beséech you not to charge me vnfained lines with flatterie if in the iust collaudation of your owne vnparalleld pulchritude I prefer your vnmatchable forme before the ratest of their composures Their formosities come as far short of yours as the splendor of the twinkling Stars comes short of the all-enlightning radiance of the Sun beames and they all are as far your inferiors in the rauishing gifts of Nature as the vilipended pibble is inferior to the worth of the most high prized Carbuncle To which outward endowments when I reuolue in my mind and no houre passeth without commemoration of your perfections how swéetly you haue vnited all internall graces then am I distracted with griefe for my absence and though my vnrestrained mind be inseparably with you yet I curse the distance of place which depriues me of all comfort because it disioynes mée from your presence which till I enioy all ioy is banished out of my brest and I haue giuen griefe a frée dominion in me I cannot say I rest but I remaine Your entire vessall I. S. A young mans Letter to his enamoured mistris Fairest of a thousand IF you were not absolute I would not be thus resolute onely to loue you whom I hold onely worthie louing your beautie tels mine eye and your kindnesse perswades my heart of your goodnesse for if you were proud I should disdaine you and if you were not faire I would not affect you now if you know the one true in your selfe beléeue the other in me and wrong not your selfe in not doing mée right Modestie and vicenesse are two and delayes are the hindrances of happinesse to vrge your patience with importunitie I will not and yet to giue ouer my suit I cannot and therefore knowing your iudgement sufficient to vnderstand your owne good I hope to finde your disposition not inclinde to hurt him who remaineth Your as you will and when you will T. D. Her kinde answer MY worthy friend how long I haue loued you was from the first instant that I beheld you how much I doe loue you I would I could tell you how dearly I will loue you my best endeauors shall truly make knowne vnto you and if vnder heauen I may find such happinesse on the earth as to be regarded in your fauour I will thinke it idle that figures earthly felicity for your excellence being almost without exception let my loue be without comparison and if truth may haue beliefe let my affection be without suspition and as you haue won my heart with your eyes make it happy with your hands so hoping that so sweet an aspect can haue no sowrenesse in spirit in the hope of your kinde answer I rest Yours deuoted to be commanded A. B. A Letter of Request KInde friend I would entreat a kindnesse but for feare of a deniall not out of mine owne deserts but rather your disposition which I doubt is too neare the nature of the world rather to grant then to gratifie excuses are more trials of wit then truth and a faithfull heart hath no stop in loue and therefore that I may not haue cause to wrong my selfe in my assured confidence of your worth doe right to your selfe in the good of that performance that without parenthesis may conclude in a full point of kindnesse The substance of my suit I haue sent you by word of mouth because my hand-hand-writing shall not witnesse my vnhappinesse if my hope should faile the expectation of my affection in which without greater care of the contrarie I rest Yours as you know D. S. A Letter of discontent vpon deniall of a Request My small friend I Thanke you for nothing more then that I haue nothing to thanke you for wherein you rather considered what I am then your selfe should be pardon my folly in presuming aboue knowledge and beleeue mée no more if I fall into the like error of opinion you willed mée to make account of your vttermost power in my good It may bée it was in wishes which are easily requited but when they are void of effects they are but troubles to reason I cannot spell without letters nor vnderstand words without substance therefore loath to be tedious when I haue vnwillingly béene troublesome I pray you let complements be without cost so shall kindnesse continue in that condition of iudgement that shall make me alwaies readie to requite your deniall of my request as I finde cause Your friend to command R. T. To a Court Lady IF Loue could dissemble patience could haue no passion but truth is so tyed to affection that as a sound limbe it cannot halt If you aske the reason of my affection looke into the excellencie of your owne worth and then if there be any extreame take it in the best part which groweth from your selfe for such is my iudgement of your deseruing as can be answered in nothing but in admiring for surely hée must be either verie dim sighted that doth not preferre your beautie to all shadowes or dull witted that vnderstands not the honour of your worthinesse O 〈◊〉 me leaue then out of the sight of my best sense and sense of my best sight to deuote my seruice to your command that may giue a happinesse in your employment and while idle Complements are but Court fashions let plaine truth haue such acceptance in your fauour that suspition may not wrong a true affection in which I vow euer to rest Yours all or mine owne not at all I. G. Her complementall answer VVHat words shall I vse to win your affection holding vnder heauen my happines but in your loue if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 would please you in your affaires I would neuer rest 〈◊〉 in your fauour if gifts might be graciously accepted I would giue you my selfe for your loue if pitty might moue you I would lay before you my passion and if my death might onely answer your desire I would not liue to despaire of your comfort but loue being a spirit of that nature that onely is pleased in being himselfe I will leaue all my hopes to that happy houre wherein he may in your eies cast those blessed beames of fauour vpon the faith of my heart that may make me in the infringible bond of deuoted seruice to the last period of my life Yours wholly and onely to be commanded E. N. FINIS