Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	body_n	eye_n	foot_n	6,516	5	6.8863	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19354	Essayes of certaine paradoxes	Cornwallis, William, Sir, d. 1631?; Hidalgo, Gaspar Lucas. Carnestolendas de Castilla.; Passerat, Jean, 1534-1602. Nihil. English.	1616 (1616)	STC 5779; ESTC S105004	28,093	56

tender commiseration of mankinde I will endeuour to rectifie their iudgement in a Paradox then which there hath none more intricate been discussed and canuassed among the Stoiks in Zenos porch that is That it is better for a man to liue in debt then otherwise Ordiar ab ouo I will begin from the egge that your concoxion may be the easier In the whole course and frame of Nature we see that nothing is made for it selfe but each hath a bond of duty of vse or of seruice by which it is indebted to other The sunne by his splendor to lighten all the world by his warmth and heate to cherish and comfort each liuing and vegetable thing Yea man himselfe is so framed of God that not onely his Countrey his Parents and his friends claime a share in him but he is also indebted to his dogge and to his Oxe to teach the one to hunt for his pleasure the other to labour for his profit so that quicquid habet genij ingenij moris amoris the abilities of his spirit the affections of his mind he hath them for others asmuch as for himselfe nay the more for others by how much hee desireth to be the greater Lord ouer others Let him but looke into himselfe and see how his constitutiue parts are debters each to other the soule doth quicken and giue life to the body the body like an Automaton doth moue and carry it selfe and the soule Suruey him in his parts the eye seeeth for the foote the foote standeth for the hand the hand toucheth for the mouth the mouth tasteth for the stomacke the stomacke eateth for the whole body the body repayeth backe againe that nutriment which it hath receiued to al the parts discharging the retriments by the Port-Esquiline and all this in so comely an order and by a Law so certaine and in so due a time as if Nature had rather man should not haue been at all then not to be a debter in euery part of him which hath made me resolue that to whomsoeuer I meane to bee a friend I will striue to be in his debt and what can I do lesse for to him that doth mee a good turne I am bound to returne him the greatest pleasure which I can no way do but by being in his debt for what contentment will it be vnto him when I shall repay him his owne againe The Alchymists who promise to themselues to turne Tin into siluer and Copper into gold how will they bee transported out of themselues with ioy if they should but see a happy issue of their attempt How much more a Creditor when hee shall recouer a desperate debt It is like the ioy of a Father that receiues his lost Child Againe he that is in debt hath this great priuiledge aboue other men that his Creditors powre out hearty prayers for him they wish that hee may liue and thriue and prosper and grow rich and all for their owne aduantage They seeme to be carefull for their debtors that they may not lose their principall with the interest for their money is their life witnesse those Vsurers of France who when they heard that the price of Corne was fallen went and hanged themselues for griefe What a command doth the debtor gaine ouer his Creditors He becommeth in a manner their Landlord to whom they cap crouch and kneele as if they did owe him all suits and seruices and are as ambitious of their fauours as they who in Rome did canuas the people for their voices to attaine the greatest offices but here is their cunning Laudant vt Leadant they praise them that they may prey vpon And therefore you braue gallants and spend-thrifts who find by your wofull experience that no whip giues a shrweder lash then the label of a Bond or Obligation with a Nouerint vniuersi Skinner and Lacy. Whensoeuer you fall into the Mercers books neuer take care or make conscience of paying your debts for by that meanes you shall keepe your Creditor in awe and shall haue him wonderfull courteous and officious and obsequious towards you and a great mint-master of faire words Without debt and loane the Fabricke of the world will be disioynted and fall asunder into its first Chaos The beauty of the Starres what would it be but vastnesse and deformity if the Sunne did not lend them light The earth would remaine vnfruitfull if shee did not borrow refreshing dewes from the watery Signes and Planets The Summer is pleasant and promiseth great hopes of plenty but it is because it taketh vp much vpon trust from the friendly and seasonable temperment of the Elements And to say the truth there is nothing good or great in the world but that it borroweth something from others to make it great or lendeth to another to make it good And therefore I maruaile why Antiquity who made Mildew Feauer and Scuruinesse goddesses did not matriculate loane and debt among the rest The Elements who are linked together by a league of association and by their symbolizing qualities doe barter and truck borrow and lend one to another as being the Bursse and Royall-Exchange of nature they are by this traffique and intercourse the very life and nourishmēt of all sublunary bodies and therefore are called Elimenta quasi alimenta whose happy concord coniunction hath brought forth those whom the World for the good done to mankind hath esteemed gods as Bacchus the great Vintner Ceres the Meale-mother Flora the Tutty-maker Vertumus and Pomona Costard-mongers Now if euery man would render and repay in full waight that which by due debt he oweth and hath borrowed from others Saturnes golden age would returne againe in which there was no difference of metals but gold and siluer were all one Oare and made the yelke of the earth Natures great Egge neither did Meum and Tuum bound out and apportionate Lands and Lordships by meare stones and diuersity of Tenures of sockage and focadge since when Qui habet terras habet guerras and the King of heauens peace hath been disturbd amongst men but then all things were all mens as necessitie did allot and award who was then the onely iudge and arbitrator competently allowing to euery man that which he stood in need of With what dearenesse haue both gods and good men countenanced and graced debtors To whom Diana the great goddesse of Ephesus granted her Temple for a Sanctuarie to keepe them out of Bagwell Pigeon-houses Or if they were caught Solon by a solemne Law inacted would not haue their bodies to be fettered or manacled amongst malefactors but that they should enioy their liberty throughout all the Parkes and Purlues of the prison or to speake more mildly of their restraint indurance For the Prison is built Purgatory-wise after the Architecture of Rome with a Limbus and Tullianum The dungeon is the Deuils pinfold and the very suburbs of Hell where varlets roarers and stilettostabbers are let downe