Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	abundance_n	bring_v	evil_a	2,273	5	7.2270	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33015	Elise, or, Innocencie guilty a new romance / translated into English by Jo. Jennings ...; Elise. English	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Jennings, John, Gent.	1655 (1655)	Wing C413; ESTC R6950	123,482	158

kept the more he would gather the more it disperses it self All know the combat of the Wind and the Sun who should despoil man at last the sweet rays of the Sun did that the blustring blasts of the other could not The more Isabel importunes Roboald to discover his affection with confidence the more he hides it and the more he enters into distrusts yet when she presses him least he burns with impatience to manifest it to her not being able to die of a silent grief being so neer his remedy Love whose attempts are not so hard but as quick as those of necessity subtilsied his spirit and gave divers means to make known to this Damosel that which she knew but too well already but fains to be ignorant of by an artificious countermine It is reason that Verses symbols of this passion that touches the heart and Poesie daughter of this affection come to the relief of Roboald He is acquainted with ●imer that would furnish him with Madrigals which he lets often fall as by negligence but with design in the chamber of this prisoner She reads them and laughs and to let him burn in a little fire and take her vengeance in this love by a new industry she makes no shew to understand these Enig●a's nor did they say any thing in particular Such is the folly of this childish passion which is not fed but with follies nor imployed but in thoughts as frivolous as the hunting of Butterflies And to let you see the impertinencies of Roboald behold his folly in these three scrolls of which this is the first 'T is harder not to love then be denied By such a look who being deified Doth with the wound it gives my panting heart Both joy and pleasure to my thoughts impart When silent grief of sweetness is so full I thousand deaths had rather on 〈◊〉 pull Thou not to yield to an attempt so fair Where hope 's to be preferr'd before despair Happy is he can love and hide his flame Suppress affection and conceal Her name Who can in midst of anguish pleasure find And hug his passions though she prove unkind Here is the second that seems to cherish the folly of the first Nor do I here present it in this place for any thing of worth but to make known clearly how hard it is yea impossible to be wise and love at once and as shadows serve to pictures even so the follies of some to raise the wisdom of others From thence it comes that Cato said that the wise learnt more of fools then fools did of the wise But let us hearken to our Rimer What rigor is it for to be a Lover And not to dare his passion to discover So pale and dropping is my physnomie That every one I am in love may see Now if my soul be in such agonies Who can obstruct or blame my plaints or cryes To be severely punish'd is a grace When one attempts an Angel to imbrace At last to throw the third scroll was the accomplishment of his impertinence for it is the end of presumption always to rise He says Dear origen of all my fears and fires Not knowing the extent of my desires Must I thus perish and yet dare not say 'T is you who doth my soul and passions sway But why do I stay in reciting his idle thoughts which would be better buried under silence then raised upon this paper But to imitate the fashion of Painters that set off the features of a fair face by an extreme deformity as also to throw confusion in the face of those that in their follies commit these extravagances I follow expresly in this the imitation of Nathan that threatned David to manifest to the light of the sun what he had committed in darkness and to cast his shame on his face if by a confession unfained and healthfull penitence he had not prevented the publication Even so the Saviour of the world threatned to make be preached in the publike places the evils committed in the most private chambers when the secrets of the dark should be manifested and the counsel of hearts given to iniquity And who knows not that shame and disgrace is the certain recompence of vile Love Thus Roboald seeing that all these small lights gave none to Isabel to make her know that herself was the idol to which he offers his thoughts languishing with a silent grief so neer his remedy and such a remedy as seemed should yield to his mercy with much facility yet durst not promise it himself however resolves to attempt by an art after which he thought that necessity would break for him as to the son of Craesus the obstacle that hindred his speech One day as Isabel pressed him on this subject which was their ordinary entertainment for from the mouth proceeds the abundance of the heart you will not believe said he to what extremity hath brought me shall I say my affection or my folly to an evil so extraordinary having sought all the strangest remedies that humane thoughts can devise The curious Maid conjures him not to hide his means being they gave no knowledge of the cause Roboald that strove always to oblige her and to make this obligation more precious made himself to be prayed earnestly for a thing of which he had more desire then his suppliant herself And to cherish this in her You press me quoth he to discover a means that you lead as by the hand in the sight of the subject of my passion and then my secret will be no more a secret nor my own being disclosed not only to another but to a woman as capable to contain it under silence as a sieve is to hold water At which Isabel makes a thousand protestations of fidelity and silence but they were oaths as light as if they had been written on the sands or drawn on the waves At which Roboald fained to yield and to remit his life with his love into the hands of this gracious prisoner If your oaths quoth he should not bind you with chains as strong as they seem holy the interest you have your self will bind you to conceal that I shall manifest unto you for the part you have in heir whose face I will let you see is such that you will be constrained to confess to me when you have seen it that you have not a better friend in the world You must know then that having been just to that point to consult with a Magitian of this Country who as yet hath promised nothing good of the issue of my design but on the contrary threatens me that the hope of a Nuptial bed will be the grave of my desires yet I have taken his prophesie as coming from the father of lyes so that as the antient Oracles I have believed one may better judge of his truth by the contrary And indeed I have already known by some hopes that if I persevere to love with fidelity