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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	sir_n	thomas_n	william_n	8,060	5	10.2909	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12779	Fovvre hymnes, made by Edm. Spenser	Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Daphnaïda. aut	1596 (1596)	STC 23086; ESTC S111278	28,510	76

most fit For so great powre and peerelesse maiesty And all with gemmes and iewels gorgeously Adornd that brighter then the starres appeare And make her natiue brightnes seem more cleare And on her head a crowne of purest gold Is set in signe of highest soueraignty And in her hand a scepter she doth hold With which she rules the house of God on hy And menageth the euer-mouing sky And in the same these lower creatures all Subiected to her powre imperiall Both he auen and earth obey vnto her will And all the creatures which they both containe For of her fulnesse which the world doth fill They all partake and do in state remaine As their great Maker did at first ordaine Through obseruation of her high beheast By which they first were made and still increast The fairenesse of her face no tongue can tell For she the daughters of all wemens race And Angels eke in beautie doth excell Sparkled on her from Gods owne glorious face And more increast by her owne goodly grace That it doth farre exceed all humane thought Ne can on earth compared be to ought Ne could that Painter had he liued yet Which pictured Venus with so curious quill That all posteritie admyred it Haue purtrayd this for all his maistring skill Ne she her selfe had she remained still And were as faire as fabling wits do fayne Could once come neare this beauty souerayne But had those wits the wonders of their dayes Or that sweete Teian Poet which did spend His plenteous vaine in setting forth her prayse Seene but a glims of this which I pretend How wondrously would he her face commend Aboue that Idole of his fayning thought That all the world shold with his rimes be fraught How then dare I the nouice of his Art Presume to picture so diuine a wight Or hope t' expresse her least perfections part Whose beautie filles the heauens with her light And darkes the earth with shadow of her sight Ah gentle Muse thou art too weake and faint The pourtraict of so heauenly hew to paint Let Angels which her goodly face behold And see at will her soueraigne praises sing And those most facred mysteries vnfold Of that faire loue of mightie heauens king Enough is me t'admyre so heauenly thing And being thus with her huge loue possest In th' only wonder of her selfe to rest But who so may thrise happie man him hold Of all on earth whom God so much doth grace And lets his owne Beloued to behold For in the view of her celestiall face All ioy all blisse all happinesse haue place Ne ought on earth can want vnto the wight Who of her selfe can win the wishfull sight For she out of her secret threasury Plentie of riches forth on him will powre Euen heauenly riches which there hidden ly Within the closet of her chastest bowre Th' eternall portion of her precious dowre Which mighty God hath giuen to her free And to all those which thereof worthy bee None thereof worthy be but those whom shee Vouchsafeth to her presence to receaue And letteth them her louely face to see Wherof such wondrous pleasures they conceaue And sweete contentment that it doth bereaue Their soule of sense through infinite delight And them transport from flesh into the spright In which they see such admirable things As carries them into an extasy And heare such heauenly notes and carolings Of Gods high praise that filles the brasen sky And feele such ioy and pleasure inwardly That maketh them all worldly cares forget And onely thinke on that before them set Ne from thenceforth doth any fleshly sense Or idle thought of earthly things remaine But all that earst seemd sweet seemes now offense And all that pleased earst now seemes to paine Their ioy their comfort their desire their gaine Is fixed all on that which now they see All other sights but fayned shadowes bee And that faire lampe which vseth to enflame The hearts of men with selfe consuming fyre Thenceforth seemes fowle full of sinfull blame And all that pompe to which proud minds aspyre By name of honor and so much desyre Seemes to them basenesse and all riches drosse And all mirth sadnesse and all lucre losse So full their eyes are of that glorious sight And senses fraught with such satietie That in nought else on earth they can delight But in th' aspect of that felicitie Which they haue written in their inward ey On which they feed and in their fastened mynd All happie ioy and full contentment fynd Ah then my hungry soule which long hast fed On idle fancies of thy foolish thought And with false beauties flattring bait misled Hast after vaine deceiptfull shadowes sought Which all are fled and now haue left thee nought But late repentance through thy follies prief Ah ceasse to gaze no matter of thy grief And looke at last vp to that soueraine light From whose pure beams alperfect beauty springs That kindleth loue in euery godly spright Euen the loue of God which loathing brings Of this vile world and these gay seeming things With whose sweete pleasures being so possest Thy straying thoughts henceforth for euer rest Daphnaida AN ELEGIE VPON THE DEATH OF THE NOBLE AND VERTVOVS DOVGLAS Howard daughter and heire of Henry Lord Howard Viscount Byndon and wife of Arthur Gorges Esquier Dedicated to the Right honorable the Ladie Helena Marquesse of Northampton By Ed. Sp. ANCHORA SPEI AT LONDON Printed for William Ponsonby 1596. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND VERtuous Lady Helena Marquesse of North-hampton I Haue the rather presumed humbly to offer vnto your Honour the dedication of this little Poëme for that the noble and vertuous Gentlewomā of whom it is written was by match neere alied and in affection greatly deuoted vnto your Ladiship The occasion why I wrote the same was aswell the great good fame which I heard of her deceassed as the particular good will which I beare vnto her husband Master Arthur Gorges a louer of learning and vertue whose house as your Ladiship by mariage hath honoured so doe I find the name of them by many notable records to be of great antiquitie in this Realme and such as haue euer borne themselues with honoarable reputation to the world vnspotted loyaltie to their Prince and Countrey besides so lineally are they descended from the Howards as that the Lady Anne Howard eldest daughter to Iohn Duke of Norfolke was wife to Sir Edmund mother to Sir Edward and grandmother to Sir William and Sir Thomas Gorges Knightes And therefore I doe assure my selfe that no due honour done to the white Lyon but will be most gratefull to your Ladiship whose husband and children do so neerely participate with the bloud of that noble family So in all dutie I recommende this Pamphlet and the good acceptance thereof to your honourable fauour and protection London this first of Ianuarie 1591. Your Honours humbly euer Ed. Sp. DAPHNAIDA WHat euer man he be whose heauie