Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

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death_n	body_n	love_n	soul_n	5,983	5	5.1532	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02124	Greenes carde of fancie Wherein the folly of those carpet knights is deciphered, which guiding their course by the compass of Cupid, either dash their ship against most dangerous rocks, or else attaine the haven with pain and perill. Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydonius a cruell combate between nature and necessitie. By Robert Green, Master of Art, in Cambridge.; Gwydonius	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Labé, Louise, 1526?-1566. Debat de folie et d'amour.	1608 (1608)	STC 12264; ESTC S105823	97,810	154

dint of the deadly Dragons no doubt Iupiter himselfe would eyther haue made the flaggering bridge more strong considering that no hope of wealth no desire of riches no gréedinesse of gaine no loue of luere but beauty her selfe was the victorie I meant to vaunt off or else if I had sowled in the roaring Seas hee would haue prouided som happy Dolphin that Arion like I might arriue at the desired Rock and then my daungers should haue béene turned into delight my perils into pleasures my hazarding into happinesse yea I should haue possessed that heauenly paragon and enioyed the loue of that louely Venus whose onely sight were a sufficient salue against all forepassed sorrowes Stay there Master Gwydonius quoth the Lady Melytta for I sée to graunt one false proposition is to open a doore to innumerable absurdities and that by suffring you too long of these supposed premises you will inferre some cauilling conclusion to your former reasons thus I reply That I confesse necessity to haue no law but I grant not the same of Loue for if it be lawlesse it is lewde if without limits lasciuious if contained within no boundes beastly if obserued with no order odious so that lawlesse Loue without reason is the very Load stone to ruth and ruine Sith then Master Gwydonius as your selfe affirme this was the pricke that pusht you into perill how can the effect be good when the cause was naught or how can you clarkely defend your desperate motion proceeding of such a fond and foolish occasion But it was the perfection of her comely person her exquisite feature and rare beautie that so kindled thy desire and so bewitched thy senses for who is so fearefull that beautie will not make bolde who so doubtfull that beauty will not make desperat yea what so hard that a man will not hazard to obtaine so diuine a thing as beauty Oh Gwydonius hast thou not heard that the Fish Remor● listening to the sound of a Trumpet is caught of the Fishers that while the Porcupine standeth staring at the glimmering of the starres hée is ouertaken with dogges that the Deere gazing at the bowe is striken with the bolt that the Leopard looking at the Panthers painted skinne is taken as a praie and that hee which taketh too much delight to gaze vpon beauty is oftentimes galled with griefe and misery Yea his pleasure shall inferre such profit and his good will such gain as if he reapt the beautifull apples of Tantalus which are no sooner toucht but they turne to ashes Beauty Gwydonius no sooner flourisheth but it fadeth and it is not fully ripe before it begin to rot it no sooner blossometh but it withereth and scarcely being toucht it staineth like to the Guyacum leafe that hath the one halfe parched before the other halfe be perfect to the bird Acanthis which hatched white yet turneth blacke at the first storm or like to the stone Astites that chaungeth colour with the onely breath of a man If then Gwydonius beautie bée so fading so fickle so momentary so mouing so withering so waning so soone passed and so soone parched is this the Iewell which you count more deare than life and the Gemme which you think worthy to bée purchased with the danger of death No doubt Gwydonius if you won the victory you might vaunt of a great conquest and if your long hope were repayed with a great hap it should be much like to his which thinking to embrace Iuno caught nothing but a vanishing cloude You do well Madame quoth Castania to put an If in it because he that vaunteth of victory before he hath wonne fielde may proue himselfe a foole hee that brags of gaines before the accounts be cast may perhappes put his winnings in his eies and he that bloweth the Mort before the fall of the Buck may verie well misse of his sées so he that countes himselfe a spéeder before hee be a wooer sheweth himselfe a vaine person or a vaunting patch Might it not be I pray you Master Gwydonius that passing the bridge scaping the dangerous seas and happily arriuing at the desired Rocke yet you might misse of your purpose Yes forsooth for many a man bendeth his bowe that neuer killeth his game layeth the strap that neuer catcheth the fowle pitcheth the Net that neuer getteth the fish and long time are heauie wooers that neuer proue happie spéeders So perhaps Gwydonius you might be crossed with a chip of the same mischance and the gorgious Dame whom you adore for a Goddesse might repaie your liking with loathing your loue with hate your good will with despite and your fixed fancie with small affection either that shee liked you too little or loued another too much All these doubtes Gwydonius are carefully to be cast wisedome it is to feare the worst and finde the best but you sir like a lustie champion thinke a Ladie wonne at the first looke and the good wil of women gained at the first glance thinking the Gods themselues are to be accused of iniustice if they be not ayders to your enterprise insomuch that if in ventring ouer the perillous passage you had by disaster Fortune fallen into the dangerous Seas you doubtes not but that Iupiter would haue sent a Dolphin that Arion like you might escape the fearefull surges but Gwydonius be not so ventrous least though you harpe verie long you get not the like hap These premisses considered if my censure might stande for a sentence I déeme it better to be counted a dastardly coward than a desperate caitife better to forsake your Goddesse than your God better to liue pinched with a fewe momentarie passions than with desperate death to destroy both soule and bodie for there is no sore such which in time may not be salued no care such which cannot be cured no fire so great which may not be quenched no loue liking fancie or affection which in time may not either be repressed or redressed Valericus hearing this rough reply of Castania supposed that although she leuelied at Gwydonius yet she shot at him and scaring the fort should be too much shaken with this fierce assault hee stifly desended the walles with this fresh alarum Madame quoth he I sée you will sit nigh the walles creyou be thrust out for a wrangler and that you will speake against your owne conscience but you will haue the conquest for my owne part Madame howsoeuer I séeme to like it I will not saie I mislike it but I am sorie you Madame Melytta should so blasphemously imblaze the armes of beautie and so recklesly raile against the sacred lawes of loue take héed for crossing Cupid so crabbedly for thogh he forgiue and forget Venus is a woman and will seeke reuenge Valericus quoth shée take no care what daunger I incurre for speaking the trueth If I chaunce to bee harmed it is mine owne mishappe and for Venus reuenge I care for it the lesse because I feare it not