Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	king_n	lewis_n	8,252	5	10.8817	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62729	Euphuia, or The acts, and characters of a good nature. Written by Tho. Tanner G.J.E.	Tanner, Thomas, 1630-1682.	1665 (1665)	Wing T142; ESTC R220783	57,475	118

satisfy its own propension having agreeableness for its proper object One may desire but they cannot love for need One may honor but they cannot love for an opinion of worth One may revere and accommodate ones behaviour but one cannot love through the tyranny of duty or obligation It is so free that it cannot be constrained from without neither can the ultimate dictate as they say in the schools of the practical intellect it self command it It is not a concession or voluntary act meerly though most voluntary but anemanation Nay many excellent persons known acquainted may not be the object of any great kindness to a Good Nature for want of somewhat in them suitable to a Gentle Heart For what does it signify to be valiant learned wise it there be withal in the same person an aversation or indisposition to that that I delight in Or if he be a stranger This love is nursed with jocundity and playes where Nature or the use of fortune has prescrib'd it What though the objects be not so accomplished as others Yet they are our Brothers or our Cosins or our Comerades or our dayly Visitants Or they are most loving to us most joyous in our company most apt to please us and most concern'd to serve us in any kindness What though they may have their faults or miscarriages The love is to the person I love him as I love my self Can I hate my self for my failings or misfortunes that happen to me as their punishments Or can I but desire earnestly my own recovery and better doing There is a sort of friendship if I may so call it or benevolence rather grounded in a principle of vertue which when it failes the vertuous lover withdraws his affection misses of his object in the subject where it was before But this is more Divine and Philosophical then to be sought purely in a Good Nature which having once conceived an affection upon liking to a person cannot choose but prosecute him with a good will though he become vicious even to the gallows or to the utmost of disgraces Whence it was never counted an unseemly thing to take notice of condemned persons to salute them to cheer them up going to their executions But a base thing to be ashamed of their chains while they retain any sparks of those good qualities that we once respected in them or any Colour for their misfortunes 2. It is born to go out of it self and live among its friends to be pleased in their satisfaction and advanced in their emolument and afford its private gustoes if it have any to their content and pleasure But I 'le let this rest a little longer 3. It is not weak or apt to be discouraged Not of it self for its love is from pure Nature quea agit quando quantum potest it cannot mantle or corrupt like a standing water it is restless and never weary but in every act refresheth its own vigour and buddeth in new desires of fruition And which is more One friend cannot supply the defect of another for a Good Nature hath sympathy with them all that make up its body Politique of Civil life uno avulso non difficit alter But the pain and grief of loosing or of missing any part shewes by how quick a nerve it is united to the lover Nor by fortune which though possibly an occasion never was a cause of love And so who loved not for need will not leave for need or cease for fear of loss who never sought gain by his love or ever knew any other use of wealth but enjoyment or any enjoyment like the pleasure of serving of his friends to the utmost If he joy and grieve with them will he do 't for nothing Or stay for asking Or keep account of exchange of benefits or kindnesses to do or return only so much as he has before hand or as he owes on interest or in strict gratitude There is no account where all is common There is no incentive of love like adversity 'T was but pretense what ever flaggs or droopes while the Relative friend is in being or droopes not when he deceases Nor at last by any other impeachments or prohibitions for bars and walls cannot sever true friends and in this case if in any other Nitimur in vetitum we are the more invincible to attempt to succour when we are inhibited either raise the siege or loose the battel 4. It is hardly dissolved though possibly it may if he that was once familiar to us do utterly neglect or forget us or fall to shameful vices and so precide the continuance of our correspondency or if he proove unnatural or malitious seeking as industriously to disoblige as ever he did to oblige us Otherwise how should enmities arise Who never knew us do not hate us Nor is any disgust bitter where the sweetness of mutual favour were not more ancient We may instance in all manner of examples When Medea had left her Countrey for the love of Jason and found her self despised and forsaken she could do nothing else but meditate on revenge for as she argued with her Nurse A lofty mind cannot contain When scornful wrong it bears in vain Nullae sunt inimicitiae nisi amoris acerbae When one Octavius had layen with Pontia Posthumia at Rome and enflamed with enjoyment of her did in vain sollicit her unto marriage he slew her in revenge of that repulse When Caesar and Pompey who had served one another in the highest concerns of honour the pledge of alliance failing came to contention nothing but the ruin of one or other could determine it When Lewis II. King of France came to quarrel with his Protector the Duke of Burgony When Edward the IV. King of England with his Restorer the Earl of Warwick and Richard III with his supporter the Duke of Buckingham what means to compromise those differences but extremity We see the same in private friends who once falling out run to duels the sooner by how much the Amity between them was the greater Disdain on this part blazeth suddenly and incenseth Contempt inflameth despight addeth oyl and brimstone to the fewel of discontent So that nothing resteth but a pointed most acumined revenge because there seems to be no other reparation of dishonour Love and favour howsoever generous are couditional to be understood for they cannot consist if they be not mutual and reciprocal who faileth once in such a point he is not to fail again There cannot be a reconcilement unless you can make a man to be what he is not or not to have done what he has done which is impossible Pian piano fair and softly There is no such precipitancy incident to the case if a Good Nature that is no Coward might interecede in it Medea was not the best of women and the Poet rather brings her in speaking as a fury then a Saint He could not have put those words