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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	knowledge_n	light_n	shine_v	6,882	5	9.8263	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57657	Mel heliconium, or, Poeticall honey gathered out of the weeds of Parnassus divided into VII chapters according to the first VII letters of the alphabet : containing XLVIII fictions, out of which are extracted many historicall, naturall, morall, politicall and by Alexander Rosse ...	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1642 (1642)	Wing R1962; ESTC R21749	84,753	182

is the name of him who first found out the knowledge of Astronomy and invented the Spheare which some think was Henoch and for this knowledge was said to support heaven 3. This is the name of a king in Mauritania who perhaps from the bignesse and strength of his body was called a mountain and was said to have a garden of golden apples because of the plenty of golden mines in his Kingdom 4. God is the true Atlas by whose Word and power the world is sustained that mountain on which we may securely rest who only hath golden apples and true riches to bestow on us 5. The Church is the true Atlas a supporter of a Kingdom the child of heaven the hill on which God will rest on which there is continuall light and day a rock against which hell gates cannot prevaile where is the garden of golden apples the Word and Sacraments 6. A King is the Atlas of his Common-wealth both for strength and greatnesse there is the day and light of knowledge in him which the people cannot see a Prometheus that is Providence is his brother by the meanes of his knowledge and providence the Kingdome is supported and his gardens are filled with golden apples that is his treasures with mony 7. He deserves not to be called a man but a monster who wil not be hospitable for homo ab humanitate and b Iupiter is the god of hospitality who punisheth the violation of it 8. As Perseus the son of Iupiter sought lodging from Atlas but could have none and therfore turned him into a senselesse hill So Christ the Son of God knocks at the doors of our hearts whom if wee refuse to let in wee shew our selves to bee more senselesse and stupid then hill Atlas Go too my soul thy doors unlock Behold the Son of God doth knock And offers to come in O suffer not to go from hence So great a God so just a Prince That were a grievous sin Refuse not then to intertain So great a guest who would so fain Come lodge and sup with thee If thou refuse he can command The Gorgon which is in his hand Thy soul to terrifie His word the Gorgon is which can Turn unto senslesse stones that man Whose gates will not display Themselves to him who still intreats To come unto our Cabinets And yet wee 'll not give way O Lord whose word doth me sustain And all that 's in the earth and main And in the painted skies Let me those goodly fruits of gold Which in thy gardens shine behold With these my feeble eyes Lord give the King a lasting name And strength that he may bear the frame Of this great Monarchy From whom if Prudence do not part Nor light of Knowledge from his heart Wee 'll fear no Anarchy Make thou his golden splendor shine As far as did King Atlas Mine To earths remotest bound And let his head ascend as high As Atlas did above the sky With light and glory crown'd AURORA THe daughter of Hiperion and Thia or as others write of Titan and the Earth the sister of Sol and Luna drawne in a chariot sometimes with four horses sometimes with two only she useth to leave her husband Tithonus with her son Memnon abed in Delos shee made old Tithonus young againe by means of herbs and physick THE MYSTERIES AUrora is the daughter of Hiperion which signifieth to go above for it is from above that we have the light of the a Sun and every other good thing even from the Father of lights her mother is Thia for it is by divine gift we enjoy light and nothing doth more lively represent the Divinity then the light as Dionys. Areopagit sheweth at large she is the daughter of Titan that is the Sun who is the fountain of light and of the earth because the light of the morning seemes to arise out of the earth The leaving of her husband abed with her son is only to shew that all parts of the earth doe not enjoy the morning at one time but when it is morning with us it is evening with those of the remotest Eastcountries from us whom she leaves abed when she riseth on us and leaves us abed when she riseth on them for all parts are East and West and all people may be called her husbands and sons for shee loves all and shines on all and by her absence leaves them all abed by turns Her chariot signifieth her motion the purple and rose colour do paint out the colours that we see in the morning in the aire caused by the light and vapors Shee hath sometime two sometimes four horses because she riseth somtime slower sometime sooner The making of old Tithonus young with physick may shew that the physicall simples which come from the Eastern countryes are powerfull for the preserving of health and vigour in the body Again faire Aurora leaving old Tithon abed doth shew that beautifull young women delight not in an old mans bed or by this may be signified a vertuous woman whom Salomon describes who riseth whilst it is night is clothed with scarlet and purple who doth her husband good c. a Last our Saviour is the true Aurora who was in love with mankind whom he hath healed from al infirmities and hath bestow'd on him a lasting life which knoweth not old-age his light from the chariot of his word drawen by the foure Evangelists shineth over all the world As fair Aurora from old Tithons bed Flyes out with painted wings and them doth spred Upon the firmament So from the heavens golden Cabinet Out flyes a morning all with Roses set Of graces redolent Whose presence did revive the hearts of those Whom night of sin and errour did inclose Within her darkest Cell This morning on a purple Chariot rides Drawn by four milk-white Steeds the reins he guides In spight of death and hell Christ is this morning who triumphantly On the bright Chariot of his Word doth flye The four white horses are The four Evangelists whose light doth run As swift as doth Aurora or the Sun Or Moon or any Star It s he that Eagle-like our youth renews And in us all infirmities subdues It s he whose radiant wings Displaid abroad hath chas'd away the night And usher'd in the day which mentall light And true contentment brings O thou whose face doth guild the Canopy Which doth infold fire air and earth and sea Extend thy glorious rayes On me Oh let me see that countenance Which may dispell the night of ignorance So shall I sing thy praise CHAP. II. B BACCHUS HEe was the sonne of Iupiter and Semele who was saved out of his mothers ashes after that Iupiter had burnt her with his thunder and was preserved alive in Iupiters thigh he was bred in Aegypt and nursed by the Hyades and Nymphs he subdued the Indians and other nations was the first who wore a Diadem and triumphed and found out the

Arrians and Semiarrtans a Minister also must be turned unto a Serpent for wisdom and so shall be received unto the Elysian fields 3. Christ is the true Cadmus who was sent of his father to seek that which was lost he is the husband of order and harmony the builder of a greater city then Thebes the destroyer of a the great Dragon the Devil and of all his armed teeth or associates he hath opened unto us the fountain of grace and knowledge upon him God bestowed all gifts and perfection that Serpent that was lifted upon the Crosse to cure all beholders and at last was received unto glory 4. Here is a type of the Resurrection Behold that Prince which once with Majestie Invested was whose throne was far more high Then is the starry Cabinet That over this low Globe is set Yet was content to leave that state and throw Himself upon his footstool here below He stept down from his lofty throne To seek his Sister that was gone And whilst he sought her he rear'd up the wall Of that great City which shall never fall And then the Dragon he did wound And all his toothbread sonnes confound He did those glassie springs of life discover Which drill the flowers and pleasant meads run over In his pure heart all graces met And beauty in his face was set But yet this all-commanding King was deem'd A worm no man and as a Snake esteem'd Men hide their faces from this King Whose face makes men and Angels sing Though men despis'd him yet he was received Into these joys which cannot be conceived By all the winged companies Whose dwelling is above the skies O thou who guides the heavens as with rain And dwels in light which no man can attain Vouchsafe to look from those high Towers On these low Cottages of ours Seek out my soul which hath forsaken thee To follow after lying vanity Tread down the Dragon and his brood For they have still my soul withstood The Picture of a King He is of noble pedegree His wife is called Harmony The chiefest Gods in their best state His Nuptials do celebrate Jove that shakes heaven with his brows Unto the King presents this Spouse Whose Father is the god of war Whose Mother is the morning star Minerva brings her golden chain And Ceres makes them rich with grain Joves daughters with their beardlesse King From Helicon their musick bring Each one with flowers and Laurels crown'd And Arca's harp doth sweetly sound The gods all in their best array With dances crown this wedding day Thus honour wealth and pleasure wait Where such a King doth rule the State He by Minerva's help can wound The Dragon and his brood confound That under him we freely may Drink of that fountain in the way But yet he hath the Dragons jaws To tear all those that break his Laws Thus in his life this King is blest And in his death in peace shall rest Now if there be above the ground A Prince so perfect to be found He 's either in King Arthurs chair Or else he doth reside no where CASTOR and POLLUX THese were twinnes begot of Leda's egge with whom Iupiter conversed in the forme of a Swan the one was a champion the other a horse-man they went against the Calydonian Boare and accompanied the Argonautes upon whose heads when two flames were seene when they were in the ship the storm ceased and they were afterward thought to be gods of the sea when Castor was killed Pollux obtained of Iupiter that the immortality should be divided between them therefore when one dieth the other liveth THE MYSTERIES I Thinke not unfitly against the Peripateticks we may gather out of this fiction the creation of the Sunne and Moone for in the beginning the Spirit of God like a Swan moving on the waters out of a confused egge that is out of the chaos brought forth these two glorious flames whose dominion is over the sea because by their influence light and motion stormes and vapors are raised and setled the Sun is the Champion who by his heat subdueth all things The Moon is the Horse-man if you consider its swift motion it is well and comfortable when they both shine but if either of them be eclipsed it is dismall and ominous Immortality may be said to be divided between them because when the one liveth that is shineth the other is obscured and in a manner dead at least to us They ride on white horses to shew their light and they found out the golden Fleece because no mettals are generated but by their influence nor can they be found out but by their light 2. The soule and body are like Castor and Pollux for when the one dieth the other liveth and when the body is a sleepe and as it were dead then is the soule most active and when the body is most vigilant the soule is lesse vigorous 3. By this fiction the Gentiles wound themselves for if they believe that these Dioscuri were begot of a god and a woman why will they not believe the true generation of Christ of a Virgin and the Holy Ghost 4. By this also judiciall Astrologers may be confuted for we see that the soules and dispositions of men depend not on the Stars these two were twins borne under the same constellation yet of farr different studies and inclinations the one being a wrestler the other a horse-man 5. Satan who can transform himselfe unto any shape appeared to the Romans in the Latin war in the form of Castor and Pollux on horse backe for which cause a Temple was errected to them by A. Posthumius dictator have not we more cause to errect the Temple of our hearts to Christ who upon the two white horses of the two Testaments hath brought us good news of our victorie against our spirituall foes 6 This temple was erected both to Castor and Pollux but Castor the lesse worthy caried the name from the other by which we see that honour is not alwayes given to those that deserve best 7. Dioscuri were preservers of men but Helena came out of the same egge which was the overthrower of Troy so in the same Church are good and bad savers and destroyers 8. It was love in Pollux to share his immortality with Castor but in this he did him more hurt then good for it had been better to dye once then so often thus our affections are oftentimes preposterous 9. Christ hath done more for us then Pollux for Castor for he lost his immortality for a while that we might injoy it for ever If Pollux was so kinde and free To share his immortality With Castor that was slain That they might both participate Of life and death by turn and that They both might grow and wain How much more gracious was he Who was a King and yet would dye For him that was a slave That he might never dye again But might be freed from endlesse pain And