Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	good_a	peace_n	sin_n	5,972	5	5.0702	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19035	Cobbes prophecies his signes and tokens, his madrigalls, questions, and answeres, with his spirituall lesson, in verse, rime, and prose. Pleasant, and not vnprofitable. Reade that will, iudge that can, like that list.		1614 (1614)	STC 5452; ESTC S108104	11,901	38

COBBES PROPHECIES HIS SIGNES AND TOKENS his Madrigalls Questions and Answeres with his spirituall Lesson in Verse Rime and Prose Pleasant and not vnprofitable Reade that will Iudge that can Like that list Printed at London for Robert Wilson and are to be sold at his Shop at Grayes-Inne Gate 1614. To the Reader THere was vpon a time an odde Country Riming Fellow whose name was Cobbe where hee dwelt I finde not and what hee was it skils not Onely this I note of him that it seemes by the Memoriall I haue of him that he was in his time as no doubt are many now adaies giuen to looke so farre aboue the Moone that as falling through the Clouds when he wak't he knew not where he was but strange thinges he had in his head which he set downe as oddely in writing where if you looke for verse you are out if for Rime you are in now if you take delight in old idle Prophecies strange Signes and Tokens though they neuer come to passe and to reade now and than of many a strange Madrigall heere you may haue change to fit your choise how they will fall fit with your humour I know not and therefore this is all I will say to you I know the Book Seller will say What lack you and I say I wish all may like you so till I see you though I know you not when I meete you to the Lord of heauen I leaue you Your well willer as to all honest Men. Richard Rablet COBBES PROPHECIES HIS MADRIGALS SIGNES AND TOKENS WHen fashions make mens Bodies And wits are rul'd by Noddies When Fooles grow rich by fortune And wife must fooles importune When Greyhounds must cry crauen And Mastiue Dogges must rauen When Faulcons stoope to carren And Poulcats spoile the warren The Sunne doth leaue his shining The Moone is in declining The Starres are ouer-shrouded The Sky is ouer-clouded The Ayre is all infected The Plague yet not respected No Charity nor pitty In Country nor in Citty The vertuous all disgraced The famous all defaced And rascall kinde of people Shall looke aboue Paules steeple When Nightingales are scorned And Cuckoes are adorned And Black-birds leaue their whistle And pearch vpon a Thistle And Oates are sowne and gathered And Children are strange fathered And Swannes do loose their feathers While Geese fortell foule weathers When Horses tug at Cables While Asses keepe the Stables When Virgins waite on whoores And Knights keepe Beggars doores And Iackes like Knights shall Iet it Because their purses get it When Noble-minded Spirits Can haue no hope of Merits But either quite discarded Or slenderly rewarded When Owles and Apes and Asses Shall pranke themselues in Glasses While better kind of Creatures Of farre more dainty Natures Shall clad in cloath of lether To hold out winde and wether When Schollars mocke their Teachers And Lay men laugh at Preachers And woodcockes learne of wizards To play the doting dizards When foule flaps shall be painted And faire paps shall bee tainted And patience must content her That no man will lament her But all things topsie-turuy Do proue the world so scuruy That honestmen abhorre it Why then who will care for it But that no such ill season Where truth may dye by treason The wicked foole may flourish While none the good will nourish Or Earth be seene or heard To make the world afeard Pray all good hearts with me That it may neuer be WHen lacke of grace turnes good to euill And men leaue God to serue the Deuill And young men follow imperfections And old men dote in ill affections When Beauty is a baite of sinning While wanton threds make wicked spinning And wealth doth onely breede ambition When Nature shewes an ill condition And basenesse buyes the Badge of Honor VVhile VVisedome weepes to looke vpon her VVhen learning teacheth but illusion VVhere fancies study but confusion When power is seene buti n oppression VVhile conscience makes no sinnes confession VVhen Lechery is Natures sollace And Robbery is Reasons purchace VVhen peace doth breede an ill security Where pleasure liues but in impurity When simple vertue is disdained And subtill vice is entertained If such a time should euer be That I hope neuer man shall see That so the wicked fiende should rage In euery course of euery age That lack of Grace should thinke it good To liue vpon the fruit of blood While Spirits carelesse of saluation Will headlong runne vnto damnation Pray to the Lord of heauen to mend it Or in his mercy quickly end it VVHen Tradesmen take no Mony Nor Varmin hunt a Cony Old Mumpsie is no Meacocke Nor his proud Minckes a Peacocke The Souldiour is not bloody His Ostesse is not muddy The Vsurer not greedy The rich releeue the needy The Courtier is not haughty His Courtizan not naughty The wantons leaue their winking The damned crew their drinking The Geese do leaue their grazing And idle eies their gazing Dame Parnell is no pratler Her parasite no flatterer The Chapmen leaue their buying And Sellers leaue their lying The Skipper leaues his sayling The Oyster-wiues their rayling The Farmer leaues his tillage The Begger leaues the village When Snudges leaue their sparing And Coseners leaue their snaring When Theeues doe leaue their robbing And heauy harts their throbbing When proud men leaue their spighting And Poets leaue their byting When Children leaue their crying And old men leaue their dying Strange will be the alteration Or else a consummation VVHen Ships doe saile against the winde And Nature goes against her kinde And tongues must say that blacke is white While mad men make a day of night When Reason must subscribe to will To leaue the good and take the ill When Conscience sits and blowes the cole While Patience liues on pitties dole And Wisedome shall be poore and bare While folly lights on Fortunes share And learning doth but breake the braine While bare Experience gets the gaine And loue is plaid on follies Stage Twixt Youth and Ages marriage And Auarice with ielous eies Doth liue in greefe while pleasure dies And man becomes but Monies Slaue While Vertue liues in Honors Graue When Nature thus doth change her course From good to bad from ill to worse And hope of mendment will be small When thus the Deuill workes in all If euer man should liue to know The wailefull time of so much woe As God forbid should euer be That Eare should heare or Eye should see Then harty prayers would do well For sauing of the Soule from Hell VVHen the Fisherman drownes the Eele And the Hare bites the Huntsman by the heel When the Geese do driue the Foxe into his hole And the Thistle ouertops the May-pole The Hering is at warre with the Whale And the Drunkard forsweares a pot of Ale When the Lawyers plead all for pitty And conscience is the Ruler of a Citty When the parson will his Tithes forgoe And the Parish will pay him will or no.

And what makes cheapnesse An. Aboundance Qu. Where is the best dwelling in the world An. In a mans owne house Qu. And where is the best being for all men An. In Heauen Qu. What is of most esteeme in the world An. Mony Qu. What is the least cared for of a great many An. Conscience Qu. Why is honesty with many held a Iest A. Because there are so few honest in earnest Qu. Which is the best ground to plant on An. That which is a mans owne Qu. Why should Beggars liue without labour An. Because their Mony comes in easily Qu. Why do Gamsters fall out so oft An. Because losse breeds impatience Qu. Why are rich men most sickly An. Because they take to much ease Qu. What is the best Phisicke for all Natures An. Motion Qu. When is best taking Phisicke An. When one is sicke Qu. What sicknesse is most dangerous An. The Plague Qu. What most vnsightly An. The Poxe Qu. What most continuing An. The Ague Qu. What most incurable An. The Gout Qu. What most painefull An. The Tooth-ach Qu. What most common An. The Rheume Qu. What is ill for the eye-sight An. An Enemy Qu. What is good for it An. Gold Qu. What is the fruit of Learning An. Pride pleasure or profit Qu. What is the honor of the Law An. Iustice Qu. What is the Glory of the Law An. Mercy Qu. And what is the force of the Law An. Obedience Qu. VVhat makes Lawyers rich An. Contentions of Clients Qu. What makes Magistrates benorable An. Execution of Iustice Qu. What is the poore mans happinesse An. Patience Qu. And what is the wise mans wealth An. Content Qu. VVhy are faire women most loued An. Because mens eies marre their wits Qu. VVhy do wise men keepe Fooles An. To exercise their Charity Qu. VVhy are Diuines most worthy Reuerence An. Because they are the mouths of God vnto his people Qu. VVhy are so many Sects in Religion An. Because the Deuil sowes sedition in the Church Que. Why do many befoole themselues with Idolatry A. Because blindnes in deuotiō breeds indiscretion Que. Why should wise men be vndone by suretiship An. Because their loue exceeds their wits Qu. Why are men vndone by women An. Because they had rather be slaues then free-men Que. Why do many Louers grow franticke An. Because they seek that which is hard to be found Que. Why do mad men talke so much A. Because their tongues wag with the wind of their braine Que. Why are honest harts most crossed An. To try their patience Que. When are the patient most happy An. At the houre of Death Que. What is the greatest feare in the world An. To dye Que. What is the greatest greefe An. Want Que. Why do Phisitions die An. Because Death is to cunning for them Que. Why doe men cry out vpon Fortune An. To excuse their follies Que. Why do Labourers sing An. For the hope of their wages Que. Why do wise men take thought An. Because their wits are oppressed Que. Why are fooles full of Mony An. Because t is their baby to play withall Que. Why do Misers build faire houses An. To mocke Beggars Que. Why doe Beggars loue their drinking An. Because it is an exercise of Idlenesse Que. Why do Scolds loue scolding An. Because it is their naturall Musique Que. Why do not Theeues feare hanging An. Because it is so easie a punishment Que. Why doe not the wicked feare God An. Because they are to great with the Deuill Que. Why are the vertuous most happy An. Because their ioyes are in heauen Cobs talke with Wisedome COme Wisedome let me speake with thee a word or two Some blessed Lesson reade to me what I shall do What saist thou First that Christ his Crosse must be my speede My labour else would be but losse what are I reade With Alpha then I must begin to finde a friend To lead me from the way of sinne to comforts end And in Omega reade the last of all my loue Wherein my soule all sorrow past her ioy may proue I must not sinne I cannot chuse ah wo is me To take the ill and good refufe through want of thee In Youth I scorned thine aduice now I am old I hold thy counsaile in more price then purest Gold Thou readst me patience I confesse it easeth paine But little hope yet of redresse thereby I gaine Thou readst me penitence for sinne with sorrowes smart Oh there the sorrow doth begin that wounds my hart Thou readst me hope to heale my wound with sorrowes teares But conscience makes my hart to swound with sorrowes feares Thou readst me Faith to hold my Hope on Mercies Grace But when that Faith the gate would ope feare hides my face Thou readst me loue the line of life that leades to blisse But hatefull sinne hath wrought the strife where no loue is Thou readst me Truth yet in the word that failes no trust But it doth onely Grace affoord vnto the iust Thou readst me Mercy yet will heale the wounded hart To Mercy then let me appeale to cure my smart And with true faithfull penitence to sorrow so That Hope with happy patience to Heauen may go And there with Ioy at Mercies gate receiue that Grace Where neuer Soule that thou dost hate may haue a place FINIS