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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	jupiter_n	mars_n	venus_n	2,591	5	12.6694	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18047	The fountaine of ancient fiction Wherein is liuely depictured the images and statues of the gods of the ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions. Done out of Italian into English, by Richard Linche Gent.	Linche, Richard.; Cartari, Vincenzo, b. ca. 1500. Imagini de i dei de gli antichi.	1599 (1599)	STC 4691; ESTC S107896	106,455	205

by which they were represented But the opinion of Plato as I haue said was to haue them altogether made of wood For Yron sayth hee and other such hard mettals are vsed and imployed in many fatall and horrible bloudie massacres and are the occasions of huge and infinite slaughters Tibullus speaking of their domesticall gods whom they called Lares thus sayth of them Maruell not you foolish men to see these our gods made of stockes of drie trees for such sayeth hee in the prosperous daies of our contentfull fathers when religion faith and Iustice were sincerely and louingly embosom'd were reuerenced with truer zeale of vnfained veneration than are now adaies these gorgeous and gold-composed Statues It is written by Plinie That Images and Pictures be of great antiquitie in Italie yet they were not made of any other mettals but wood and some few of stone since Asia was vassallized and subiugated to the Romanes And for that vnto all such Statues and Images of their gods was annexed and adioyned the picture of Eternitie I thinke it not amisse in this place in some sort to touch it Although Boccace writing of the Progenie of the gods sayth That the auncients haue deriued it from Demogorgon as the principall and first of them all and who inhabited in the middle center of the earth encircled round about circumuested with a dark and obfuscate cloud breathing from his mouth a certaine liquid humiditie but herein I will proceed no further hauing no further warrant for such depicturance onely I will now reuert my penne to the Statue of Eternitie which what it is the name doth cleerely discouer containing in it selfe all worlds and ages and not limitted or measured by any space of time And therefore Trismegistus Plato and the Pythagorickes called Time the Image of Eternitie in that it is reuolued in it selfe and admits no date Wherevpon for the more ample and copious manifesting thereof we will heare the opinion of Claudius in his Stiliconyan comends who there makes a description by a Serpent that compasseth round with her bodie the denne or caue wherein she lyeth in such sort that making as it were a circle she holdeth in her mouth the end of her taile by which is signified the effect of time which in it selfe alwaies goeth round which description is taken from the Aegyptians who before that the vse of letters and of writing was inuented signified the circumference of a yeare by a Serpent with her taile betweene her teeth For that in times there is the like coherence and depencie for the end of one yeare or time passed is the beginning of the other succeeding And I remember the picture of Eternitie to be by some thus defigured A woman clothed in rich robes downe to her feet holding in her right hand a round ball and vpon her head is instrophiated a thinne vaile which spreads and casts it selfe downe so farre as both her shoulders are therewith wholly circumcinct and couered The Image weighed in the heedfull ballance of aduise is not much vnlike that reported by Claudianus which wee will endeauour though not in his right colours thus to compose Downe in a vale close hid from Phebus eie Held in the arms of two heauen-threatning mountains From out whose bosome furiously their flie With vnresisted force two swiftwing'd fountaines There dwels an aged Caue that nere will die Though death sits pictur'd in her horrid countenance She sends foorth Times and cals them backe againe For Times and Ages aye with her remaine Vpon her lap a greene-scal'd Serpent lies Whose hugenesse fils her wide rotunditye Darting forth fierie sparckles from her eyes And what she finds deuoures most hungrilie Her wrinckled taile fast twixt her teeth she ties Euen which she seemes to gnaw most greedilie All in a circle thus she sits involved Whose firme tenacitie is ne're dissolved And at the gate of this so strange-fram'd denne In Matrons habit and in graue attire Stands gracious Nature noting with her pen Whom she lets forth and whom againe retire And round about the caue the soules of men Flie here and there as seeming to aspire And longing to recouer heauen but these With Nature must remaine till death shall please In furthest nooke and corner of the cell Sits an old man whose colour'd haire Is far more white then any toung can tell And whose cleere louely face exceeds all faire Writing downe lawes for those that here do dwell That ignorance may neuer cause despaire And as he sits each star he doth diuide And euery Plannet in his course doth guide Prescribing with immutable decree To euery one their courses as they lie By whom all liuing things what ere they be That haue or life or death doo liue and die Then streight he turnes him round about to see How Mars attends his course full busilie Who though through doubtfull paths he long doth stray Yet at the length all tends but to one way How Iupiter the worlds ne're-failing friend Directs his circuit through the azur'd skie How Luna at her brothers iournies end Rides in her purple coach most gloriouslie How soure-fac'd Saturne his slow steps doth tend And how faire Venus through the aire doth flie And next to her succeeds heauens messenger Posting amaine as Phebus harbenger Who when He comes in his al glorious shine Great Nature meets him in most reuerent wise To whom the aged man doth make a signe In curtesie as though he meant to rise When straight the gates of this same caue diuine Open themselues with wondrous subtleties Within whose adamantine cell is seene What from beginning of the world hath been Here euerie age of sundry mettall's framed Apactly seated in his due degree And of those mettals so they still are named Whether of wood brasse yron or steele they be Here shall you see the siluer age so famed Staining the former in cleere puritie But when you see that of resplendent gold The other but base mettals you will hold The description of this caue or denne according to the opinion of Boccace importeth thus much That Eternitie hath an absolute and sole commaund ouer all times and therefore she liues farre hence remoted in some vnknowne vale where humane steps neuer approached but is euen vnfound out of the celestiall inhabitants that is those happie soules which stand before the presence of the greatest who onelie knoweth all things shee sendeth forth times and recals them backe againe for that from her all ages haue had their beginning instantly possesse their being and with her for euer shall continue she sits incircled and inuolued in her selfe as wee haue alreadie discouered in the former description by the forme of a Serpent who continually with her taile in her mouth turneth her selfe round with as great slownesse or leisure as is possible shewing thereby that Time with a creeping and vnseene pace steales by little and little cleane from vs. At the entrance of the