Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	bear_v	father_n	son_n	766	5	4.9151	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01286	A booke of christian ethicks or moral philosophie containing, the true difference and opposition, of the two incompatible qualities, vertue, and voluptuousnesse. Made by William Fulbecke, maister of Artes, and student of the lawes of England.	Fulbeck, William, 1560-1603?	1587 (1587)	STC 11409; ESTC S105667	32,626	90

despyseth feare and turneth not his backe from the sword Iob béeing greatly apalled and daunted wyth these and such like spéeches doth confesse his imbecillitie acknowledgeth his basenes and remooueth from hys mind all opinion of statelines wyth great humilitie méekenes and lenitye of mind frameth this aunswere to the Lorde Beholde I am vile what shall I aunswere thee I wyll lay my hande vpon my mouth Thys may sufficiently argue mans ignobilitie and contemptible estate in thys life if we rest onely in the naturall manne and goe no further but this notwithstanding he will scarce beléeue that this worlde is discommodious and daungerous vnto him sith hee tasteth the fruites of most acceptable fréendshippe and hath such a large title to so many freendes By that recorde I wyll be tryed and as the iudgement of freendshypp is registred in the hartes of wise men let definitiue sentence bee giuen The discoloured and mutable affection of fréendes hath driuen many to that exigent that they haue beene ready to aduowe and betake themselues to a voluntary exile whereof Vmbricius the Romaine was one who made this protestation proponimus illuc Ire fatigatas vbi Daedalus exuit alas Thither I meane to hie Whither the wearied Dedalus constrained was to flye And he giueth afterward a substantiall reason Quis nunc diligitur nisi conscius cui feruens Aestuat occultis animus semperque tacendis What man is nowe beloued but he whose guilty mind Dooth feele the flames of secrete sins and can no comfort find Salomon did much lament the defect of charitie and the coldnes thereof when he considered that the poore and innocent manne was fréendles and succourlesse I behelde sayth Salomon the ●eares of the innocent and there was none to comfort him and hee coulde not resist the violence of aduersaries beeing destitute of all mens ayde Therfore I praysed them that were deade more then them that were lyuing and happier then bothe did I iudge him that was not yet borne As it was in Salomons time so is it nowe and I feare worse What cruelty is daylye committed of neighbour against neighbour brother against brother fréend against freende non hospes ab hospite tutus Nec socer a genero fratrum quoque gratia rara est nor hoste his guest doth spare Nor sonne in lawe the father in lawe and brothers loue is rare There is nothing more common in these dayes then fréendly salutations sugered spéeches large promises fauning faces fauourable wordes the fidelitie of the forehead and the charity of the countenaunce But a fréende that will take his hart out of his brest and gage it for thy safetye to whom thy teares be as greeuous as the droppes of hys own blood which accounteth thée his owne déere worth though thou be deformed by pouertye such a fréend is the beauty of the world and his fréendship is a rare mysterie to the cōsideratiō of man But such fréend ship is y e imagined fréendship of Aristotle which is so haue we corrupted altered nature an accident but not inhaerent in any subiect an excellent thing diuinely described But y e good Philosopher peace be to his cinders coulde not giue an instance of a perfit freend though hee gaue many rules and documents which may direct to fréendship Nothing tinckleth more in the eares of men then the name of society and the profession of amitie nothing seemeth more delectable vnto vs then the name of fréendship nothing more detestable then the name of enimitie yet in the common practise of our life that which by wordes we doo so greatly dyscommend by déedes we doo confirme and approoue and in our hartes enimitye hath a francke tenement freendshyp is tenaunt at wyll which in euerye cholericke furie we are ready to extrude This is the cause that freendship is so clowded by anger so diminished by suspition so weakened by emulation so corrupted by enuie so supplanted by trechery so solde for commoditie so chaunged with nouelty so farre distant from constancie that this onely remaineth to a mā to beast of in fréendshyppe that he is not deceiued nor be trayed by his fréendes Now if fréends be so disprofitable and fréendshyppe so daungerous a thing in this Worlde what are then our foes in this worlde our sworne foes our bitter enemies such as are neuer satisfied tyll theyr eies be glutted with beholding a whole Ae●na of miseries falling vppon vs. Let him loath therefore this world let hym loath this life let him desire to leaue this carkasse This life is indéede a death and this carkasse but a Tombe and Sepulcher of a shry●ed soule Let him desire to bee dissolued and to bee with Christ for that is the best without comparison Let him lastly call to account the shortnes of thys life Let him marke howe the Feathers are almost as soone molten as they beginne to growe Man sayth Iob is of a short continuaunce and full of trouble hee buddeth as a flowre and is soone cutte downe he vanisheth also as a shaddowe and continueth not Though a man sayth Dauid shoulde passe the compasse of a thousand yeeres they are but as yesterday with thee and as a watch in the night Thou takest them away as it were in the flowing of the sea they are as a dream They are in the morning as grasse that vadeth away which vadeth in the fame morning wherein it flowrisheth in the euening it is cutte vppe and withereth away all our dayes passe away from vs by thine anger we spende our yeeres and they are like vnto a tale in the daies of our life be but seauentie yeeres and if we bee most healthfull but eyghtye yeeres the greatest excellency of them is troublesome and greeuous which when it passeth away wee doo immediatly vanish Let vs therefore make great account how we spend y e dayes of our peregrination in this worlde and the longer we liue let vs liue the better God will not bee wanting to our wyll if our will be not wanting to our selues let the worldling weigh in hys mynde the reasons and precepts that of the sacred worde of God I haue borrowed If he thinke them to burthenous let him thinke of the reward that he shall haue for the carriage The weight wherewith he is charged is the waight of pearles not of quarry si●nes Euery ounce hath a pound of commoditie and let the godly Christian take this poeticall clause not as poetical but true and as a fréendly farewel of a contemplatiue Christian Hîc sumus extorres alienaque regna tenemus sub grauis exilii seruitiique iugo Est illîc natale solum sedesque penatum Regnat vbi magno maximus orbe pater Heere vnder heauy yoke of seruitude Like banisht men we runne a pilgrims race There is our Country and our onely God Where onely God doth beare imperial mace The Authors Resolution SIncke downe into the bottome of thy graue Into the dankish denne of Uestaes wombe Thou mildering lumpe of my dispised coarse With greenish Mantle let thy loynes be cladde Bestowe thyne entralles on the griping wormes And at the dawning of that dreadfull day When Christ as corronell of blessed Sayntes Shall bee enuironde with a burning Sphere A radiant Starre to his tryumphant Church When hallowed soules shall to theyr bodies flye And damned ghostes shall bee recorporate Ryse thou againe and with these fleshly eyes Beholde the fleshe of thy sweete Sauiour Christ Strike then thyne hart and let thy teares distill Strayne then thy voyce to heare the Echoes sounde Which with a cheerefull chaunt may bidde thee come May bidde thee come to taste the ioyes of Heauen To beare a Crowne to take eternall rest And thou my soule which wandrest heere too long In desert vaste of worldly wyldernesse Flye to the vtmost Heauen thy natiue soyle To take thyne heritage among the Sayntes To holde a plotte of Parradise for share And leaue the Wagon of this earthly moulde To be dissundred by the tooles of death Make heauen thy Hauē make Sions mount thy towre Make there thy nest where Hermons dewe doth droppe Make there thy tents where God of hostes doth raigne Make him thine arme who is the God of hostes Make there thy mansion where thou still must liue Let Salem newe by thy Ierusalem Let Abrams bosome be thy Palestine For Mylke of Canaan tast thou Angels foode For Iordan ●●oode let Cristall Fountayne serue Let mercie be thy meede good happe thy hope Nourish this hope good Lord and graunt thys happe FINIS Sol oculi Mundi Horat. Epistolarum Lib. 1. Ouid in Epi. Acont Non sum qui soleam paridi● reprehendere factum Nec quemque qui vir possit vt esse fuit Horat. Epistola● lib. 1. 1 Timoth. cap. 3. Salust in coniur Aristot lib de Histor animalium 8. cap. 5. Ioseph Ben Gord. Iohn Baptist Gello incite● Horat. ●irgil ●eneid 1 Herod o● lib. 1. ●ion in vita Neronis Prouerb 23. Iacob 1. Sapi. 5. ●say 57 Rom 1 Math 19 Iuuenal Satyr 3. Aristo Libro 2 ●●hicor cap. 2 Seneca in Thebaid Villeius Pater cul Prou 2 Prou 26 Iunenall Satyr 3 Arist in arte poetica Cicero Arist Metaphisi 3 c. 5 Valer. Flaccus argonautic Lib. 6. Augustus Senec● Cicero Li●ius Lib 1 De moribus vltima fiet quaestio Iuuenal Dion in vit Seuer Statius in Achilie id Psal 22. Psal 55 Ouid Ouid in Epistol Virgill Ioan. Pic. Mirand lib. 7 in Astro Aristot R●etoric 1. cap. 11. Prou. 30 Iob 39 Iuuenal Satyr 3 Eccle 4 Phill. 1. Iob 14 Psal 90 Mantua I