Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	excel_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	17	3	9.7967	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05322	Great Britains beauties, or, The female glory epitomized, in encomiastick anagramms, and acrostiches, upon the highly honoured names of the Queenes most gracious Majestie, and the gallant lady-masquers in her Graces glorious grand-masque. Presented at White-Hall on Shrove-Tuesday at night, by the Queenes Majestie and her ladies. With disticks, and illustrations, upon their severall anagramms, being in number fifteene, whose names ensure in order on the next side. Published by authoritie. Framed, and formed, by the humble pen of Francis Lenton, the Queenes poet.	Lenton, Francis, fl. 1630-1640.	1638 (1638)	STC 15465; ESTC S109403	9,994	40

shall be barr'd The place o' th Blessed for which shee doth strive By pious Acts whilst shee is yet alive Shee 's one a rare one too who loves and fancies Vertue before all pleasures sports and dances Her Acrostiche F aire Vertues Cittadell and Beauties Grace R ich both in reall goodnesse and high Place A Lady of inestimable Worth N ot by a meaner Muse to be set forth C ome all yee Sisters joyne with one Consent I n her Applause who is so eminent S ince what proceedeth from my humble Bayes W ill but diminish not augment her Praise E ngaged thus for your Assistance I S hall study to be gratefull till I Dye T hen gentle Lady cast a gracious Eye O n these Endeavours on your Honour'd Names N ow filling Brittaines Court with your great Fames An Anagramme upon the Name and Title of the beauteous and vertuous LADY ANNE RICH. Anagr. RICH IN LANDE Distichon Shee who hath all Earths pleasures at command Is Rich in all and therefore Rich in Land Illustration RIch in your honour'd Birth and Rich in Name Rich in your Family and Rich in Fame Rich in your Vertues Rich in Chastity Rich in your noble Carriage Courtesie Rich in your Consort Rich in Progenie Rich in religious Zeale and Piety Rich in your Person Beauty Modesty Seeming to us a Terrene Deity In all these Riches which you doe possesse Heaven sure hath lent you a great Happinesse To which adde this which is at your command Rich in Estate which wee call Rich in Lande To all may length of daies increase with Honor And all Ioves blessings still be heap'd upon her Her Acrostiche A ngelique Lady Beauties Magazen N atures faire Glory and Perfection N o Muse can blaze thy vertuous worth nor Pen E xpresse to th' life thy rare Proportion R ich every way in Goodnes Grace and Name I n Honour Bounty and Urbanity C hacing all Vice that may detect thy Fame H igh seated in the Sphaere of Majestie Where may it ever flourish and grow greene By the Reflection of our Sacred Queene An Anagramme upon the beauteous and vertuous Virgin the Lady KATHERINE HOVVARD Anagr. KIND HEART HEAR WO. Distichon If you expect kind usage from a Foe In your distresse then pitty others woe Illustration HEroick Lady Chast wise faire and witty Whose tender soule attentive is to pitty Which doth adorne your virgin noble Sex If a yong Lord for you by Loves perplex Be drown'd in sorrow drench'd in amorous woe By the fierce dart of Cupid from his bow And quite o'rethrown in that All-conquering Duell Of love whose fire burnes out his vitall Fuell Kind heart kind heart O be not too too cruell But e're hee hath his fatall overthrow Relent kind heart relent and hear his wo And though your heart may thinke he doth presume Vpon your kindnesse doe not quite consume Him in his ardent Flame which cannot dye Till hee find mutuall love to quench it by Thus from your tender soule the world will know That your kind heart hath eares to pitty wo Yet not so pitty as to crosse your mind In Loves most Sacred Band though Love be blind O may you when faire Hymen you invites Be blest in all Loves mutuall chast delights Meane time 'cause Cupids coales in you may glow If hee deserve kind Lady hear his wo Another KATHERIN HOVVARD Anagr. AH THOV RARE KIND THou art the Kind and Phoenix of thy kind Thou art the Rare nay rarest of the faire Whose Vertues shew the beauties of thy mind And lovely hue thy eye cheeke lip and haire Thus art Thou kind and faire in soule and face Of noble carriage and of comely grace Blame not your Anagramme Thou Kind and Rare In whose chast soule each Vertue claimes a share Wee may assoone the Northwest passage find As such another Thou so Rare so Kind Her Acrostiche K now Gallants all who love her Noble name A nd Virgine Vertues that this Beauteous Dame T ranscendeth far the thrice three Sisters Praise H ere crown'd with Pallas and pure Vesta's Bayes E nriching her with Wisdome from on high R eligious Zeale Love Truth and Chastitie I n whom all other Vertues we descry N or is this Fictive for her glorious Fame E xceedeth all Encomiastique Flame H ere Birth and high Discent from auncient Kings O n her reflect as Heraldry now sings W hose Grace excels the greatnesse of her Armes A nd conquers Heroes with her vertuous Charmes R are Vest all Lady pardon if my Truth D ue Honour and Applause adds to your Youth An Anagramme upon the Name of the Pious Zealous and Beauteous Lady ELISABETH CECILL Anagr. BY THY ZEAL ECCELL Distichon Certes in Ioyes eternall thou shalt dwell If on this Orbe in Zeal thou dost eccell Illustration YOur Anagramme imparative doth tell That you faire Lady others should excell And as there is a great Transcendencie In Birth in Person Place and Quality From others who in lower places dwell So you in grace and goodnesse should excell That they by your example may delight To imitate though not attaine that height Of Vertue which your honour'd Youth doth hold Like Saphires rich enamelled in Gold But how should you excell Heroick Dame And gaine unto your selfe an endlesse Fame Not onely by your Vertues morally As Justice Prudence Temp'rance Chastity But by a pious and a zealous Flame Which shall in Sion ever fixe your Name Doe noble Lady By thy Zeal excell And Earth will scarse afford Thy Paralell Her Acrostiche E xcellent Lady in your forme I see L ively delineate the Graces three I nriching you with Vertues from above Z eale Meekenes Piety Faith Hope and Love A dorning your faire Soule and beauteous Mind B eyond all Trimmes which we on Earth doe find E xcell you doe indeed most of your Kind T hy Uertues and rare Parts doe well descry H eaven of his guifts hath not dealt nigardly C ome all yee Shepheards all that are with speed E xcellent or with Pipe or Oaten Reed C ome all yee Muses from Parnassus Hill I here invoke Apollo with his Quill L et all these now assist me in her Praise L est in the same I linger out my Dayes An Anagramme upon the Name of the beauteous Virgin the Lady DOROTHEA SYDNEY Anagr. THY EYES DO ADORN Distichon Thy chast and modest Eyes so much adorn That Beauties Queene to thee is but a scorne Illustration THe Eyes they are the beauties of the face And of the feature are the onely grace The bodies light most pleasant of the sense Feeding upon each objects excellence The prospect of the soule which taketh pleasure Thorow these Organs to behold the treasure Of this large Cosmos where as well I weene Wee all delight to see and to be seene So that to have a Body without Eyes Is like the world sans Phoebus in the skies But not to lose my selfe I will returne Vnto your Eyes your Eyes