Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	worthy_a	year_n	young_a	19	3	5.1678	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03875	The mirrour of mindes, or, Barclay's Icon animorum, Englished by T.M.; Satyricon. Part 4. English	Barclay, John, 1582-1621.; May, Thomas, 1595-1650.	1631 (1631)	STC 1399; ESTC S100801	121,640	564

containes in it almost al these how differēt so ever with a wonderfull but not laudable variety Yet a brave disposition it were if nature had allowed it a bridle as well as spurres And that is of men that run into the extreames of whatsoever their affections leade them to If they would bee Religious presently as if it were not lawfull to interpose any recreations among those holy duties they put on a mortified face brooking no remission and a looke of such holinesse as cannot last They are proud Censurers of other mens lives and measure all mens honesty by their owne suddaine severity Then they shake off the pleasure of their old friendships and cannot brooke innocent mirth which wise men mingle with their cares as an helpe eyther to forget them or overcome them Anone when the strength of their mindes is broken by too much intention when they begin to bee weary of this rigid piety which they so unadvisedly followed not by degrees and ordinary turning tides as it we●e but like a torrent tur●ing 〈◊〉 they run againe 〈…〉 themselves as immede●ately as before they had forsaken thē foolishly 〈…〉 the very name 〈…〉 with all manner of jests 〈…〉 the Professors of that 〈◊〉 piety which themselves 〈◊〉 lately left While they are thus busied behold religion comes upon them againe and with a sad repentance drives away that wantonnesse untill they begin againe to repent themselves of that repentance Nor are these frequent and immoderate changes onely in their religion but in all things else they erre with the same heat From most entire love they are carryed as it were with a whirlewind into extremity of hatred sometimes immoderate in labour sometimes nerve-lesse in sloth so in their loves or lusts and whatsoever else can stir●e up cōtrary motions in the minds of men Nor can they governe their speech and silence if they be taken with a heat of speaking what cōpany soever they come into themselves have all the talke and are onely heard By and by when that mirth forsakes thē which made their minds so 〈◊〉 with talke they sit in a sad silence and as if collected into a discourse within themselves so fixe their eyes that they scarce know those that are present nor heare when they are asked questions an aequall offence on both sides to the sweetnesse of humane society whereto speake opportunely to be silent onely by 〈◊〉 is a lowed by māners But the cause of 〈◊〉 great an 〈◊〉 in those men is an inward kinde of sweetnesse by which they suffer themselves wholly 〈…〉 and as that guides them they avoyd or follow That motion upon what matter soever it carry them how full soever of cares and labour yet presents it first to their minds in a most pleasing shape and overcomming their mindes with a sweet and pleasing violence carries them away and forces them to beleeve it in all things But when that show 〈◊〉 vanished and that 〈◊〉 and fugitive sweetnesse 〈◊〉 another way they straight follow it For they are not onely impatient 〈…〉 our but of pleasure it selfe as soone as that inward 〈◊〉 temptation is gone 〈◊〉 this is a signe of a weake 〈◊〉 impotent judgment a minde formed for vertues but t is onely for the beginnings of vertues not stale eyther in ●aith or friendship but every where so unlike to it selfe that it is distastfull It 〈◊〉 neither command it selfe nor deny any thing But it is a sad fate and ill for the people when men of this unhappy disposition exempted from the lawes of feare or modesty are borne to a Soveraigne dignity The twelfth Chapter Of amorous dispositions How those affections are tempered and sometimes changed by Fortune and diversiti● of conditions of life BVt in reckoning up all the affections of Mankinde it were against reason and humanity to forget Love which reigning in all breasts except they bee altogether barbarous claimeth notwithstanding a more neare jurisdiction over some and filleth them more with his cares Love is a sweet and restlesse desire to be liked by them who eyther by chance or by their owne vertue o● by our errour are liked by us and so creep●s upon us from those ambushes as it were that wee sooner perceive our selves to bee in love than we thinke upon the way of loving It were not hard in the beginning to shake off this load if it did not by degrees and sweetly assault so ensnaring those whom it catches especially unexperienced men that they suppose it were inhumane barbarous and inconvenient to themselves to shake off by a rough severity the sweetnes of this flattering mischief But there is nothing more excellent among men than this affection if it bee rightly governed For it sets a certain curious glosse upō all vertues and sometimes excuses even vice it selfe Vnjustly doe severe men accuse Love and paint him in a l●ose and feeble figure when there is nothing more sincere amongst Mankinde provided that hee burne i● just limits and those raised by vertue and fire not with an unlawfull flame where he is forbidden 〈◊〉 is this sweet desire sti●red up onely in young men and in men of middle age but boyes also in their harmelesse yeares that you may know that this flame is rather borne in worthy breasts than lights by chance upon them And 〈◊〉 boyes and youths are lesse 〈◊〉 to governe themselve● 〈…〉 their 〈◊〉 although superfluous therefore love in them breeds a greater and more anxious care And from hence their minds are raised to atchievements that are high and above their age as if by that experiment they would proove to themselves that they are worthy to bee beloved A young youth that went to Schoole was by his carefull Schoolemasters often admonished to learne his book but the booke was hatefull to him that loved play and liberty A noble Lady by chance came to that Towne where he lived with two of her daughters that were Virgins and because there was acquaintance betweene the tw● families this youth 〈◊〉 brought by way of visitation to the Ladies lodging Hee began immediately to admire one of the young Gentlewomen then to hold discourse with her and in conclusion even the same day to fall extreamely in love with her Then first his simple and free minde began to be enthralled with cares The next day he goes again to the place where he received his unfelt wound and by prolonged discourses so fed his malady that hee grew worse and worse For on the third day the Ladie with all her company going out of Towne left this youth scarce a living ●oule And he poore wretch obbed even of that ease was forced to conceale his flame for feare of being chid by his Father or mocked by his fellowes After long consultation within himselfe he judged no course better for him than wholly to apply himselfe to his booke for so he thought he might gaine his Father and in recompence of so great a diligence in study obtaine from him a