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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	arundel_n	earl_n	lord_n	3,776	5	4.6831	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B13592	Honor triumphant. Or The peeres challenge, by armes defensible, at Tilt, Turney, and Barriers In honor of all faire ladies, and in defence of these foure positions following. 1. Knights in ladies seruice haue no free will. 2. Beauty is the mainteiner of valour. 3. Faire lady was neuer false. 4. Perfect louers are onely wise. Mainteined by arguments. Also The monarches meeting: or The King of Denmarkes welcome into England.	Ford, John, 1586-ca. 1640.	1606 (1606)	STC 11160; ESTC S115119	19,652	46

HONOR TRIVMPHANT OR The Peeres Challenge by Armes defensible at Tilt Turney and Barriers In Honor of all faire Ladies and in defence of these foure positions following 1. Knights in Ladies seruice haue no free-will 2. Beauty is the mainteiner of valour 3. Faire Lady was neuer false 4. Perfect Louers are onely wise Mainteined by Arguments ALSO The Monarches meeting OR The King of Denmarkes welcome into England Tam Mercurio quam Marti AT LONDON Printed for Francis Burton 1606. To the most noble Lord the Duke of Lennox his grace First Position Knights in Ladies seruice haue no free-will To the Right Honorable the Earle of Arundel Second Position Beauty is the mainteiner of valour To the Right Honorable the Earle of Pembrooke Third Position Faire Ladie was neuer false To the Right Honorable the Earle of Mountgomery Fourth Position Perfect louers are onely wise To the Rightly Honourable and truely worthy Ladies the Countesse of Pembrooke and the Countesse of Mountgomerie MOST EXCELLENT LADIES Where perfect honour is ennobled with accomplisht perfection Beauty is not scant which euermore is the glorious shrine of honourable fauour else had I misconceited mine owne hopes and beene grauelled in mine own conceipts but my strong confidence is my confident warrant neither can ye distast that which explanes but what is done for you what is done by yours If the pleasure ye shall take in the Defenders who are yours by the defence which is for you be great then the acceptance cannot be lesse in reading the reasons for that defence especially being to you deuoted and onely to you deuoted What defects and weakely mainteyning arguments in the arguments there are your protection shal wipe off and the trueth it selfe which needes no lustre chiefly priuiledge I affect no singularity I boast no affectation yet can I not freeze in the one when I am temperately heated with the other To whom noble Countesses should I dedicate the ornaments of loue and beauty but to the beautifullest ornaments worthy to be beloued Neither doubt I but as these endeauours were willingly intended so will they as gratefully bee accepted Otherwise as I hope as I feare not I will be an alien to mine owne issue as vnworthy to be christined for mine since dis-esteemed in being mine Others who oppose themselues if not by Mercury perswaded I referre to be by Mars enforced So aduenturing at once all my deserts in your like or dislike I rest Deuoted to your honourable virtues I. F. To euery sundry opinioned Reader READER I Intend not to make any tedious Apologie if thou be my friend thou wilt censure friendly if a stranger indifferently if an enemie I esteeme thee not Then thus I write not to content each cauelling braine But eyes of noblest spirits he that loues mee Will thanke my labours and commend my veyne For any others enuy least it moues mee He that will storme at euery wrongfull hate Must not referre it to desert but fate Let Ladies smile vpon my lines I care not For idle faults in grauer Censors eye On whose opinion truth it is I dare not The merit of my studies to rely Heere is the comfort which doth cheere despaire I shall be lik't not of the graue but faire Meritum rependant venustae Honor tryumphant TO THE RIGHT NOble Lord the Duke of Lennox his Grace First Position Knights in Ladies seruice haue no free-will RIGHT NOBLE LORD HOw certaine it is both by the tradition of ancient and moderne iudgements avowed that euerie man is not borne for himselfe the communitie of the sawe and the authoritie of reason shall bee a Priuiledge sufficient but how much mistaken both the Philosophers of old and later Neotorickes haue been their owne ignorance makes manifest A man say they is partly borne for his Countrey partly for his Parents partly for his friends nothing or if any thing yet least and lastly for himselfe True yet had the sensible touch of passion toucht them with the feeling of a passionate sence how much more and more truely might they haue affirmed that the chiefest creation of man was next his owne soule to doe homage to the excellent frame of beautie a woman A woman the art of nature the liuely perfection of heauens Architecture for though Man be the little world where wonder lyes yet Women are Saints aboue earth's Paradise For what is he who is so absolute a Lord of himselfe so powerfull in his owne power so free of his owne affections as being ensnared in the pleasing seruitude of a gracious beautie can or durst to vndertake any occasion of remisnesse but his own hart wil be the first guilty accuser of his owne folly and his sincere repentance doe pennance in the language of griefe in the griefe of despaire Againe what is he then that being free from this captiued happinesse of loue as it were disdaining to stoope to the bondage of beautie will not at length feele the miserie of his scorne and be scorned in the wracke of his miserie besides may hee not be desperate of his owne merit to thinke himselfe the onely exiled abiect banished from out the acceptance of a Ladies fauour as also his owne vnworthinesse which cannot deserue so delicious a blessing say then such a one be entertained as a happie seruant to a more glorious mistresse how soone how much is his owne free rule of himselfe indeered to the commaund of a precious Goddesse neither then hath he neither is it meet he should haue any more domination ouer his owne affections Mars throwes downe his weapons and Venus leads him captiue the lustre of her eyes and the glorie of her worth are of such vnresistable a force as the weaknesse of his manhood or the aptnesse of his frailtie are neither able to endure the ones reflection or withstand the others temptation how then must he yeeld true not to captiuitie but freedome for to bee captiued to beautie is to bee free to vertue who would not put of an armour of hard steele and turne from his enemies to be enchained in pleasure and turne to a lady in a bed of soft down foolish hardinesse is hardened foolishnesse when securest loue is the loueliest securitie Loue once was free from loue and had a will To play the wanton wag he strooke full many And tooke delight soft thoughts of ease to kill Yet he himselfe was neuer spoyid of any Loue carelesse would go walke when by a groue Loue saw a Nymph when straight Loue fell in loue Cupid with Psiches fell in loue whose beauty Dazled the lustre of his wandring eye Forcing his heart deuote obsequious duty Vnto the wonder of her diety Herein was Cupid blind who els could see Loue now captiu'd his heart which earst was free Loue hath no power ere he gaine his rest But to impawne sweare promise and protest Alas what is it then that men in bed Will not vow vrge to gaine a maiden head Which being got they euer after stand