Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	according_a	spirit_n	will_n	2,452	5	6.1603	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16779	A poste vvith a madde packet of letters; Post with a packet of mad letters. Part 1	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1602 (1602)	STC 3684; ESTC S104722	28,019	44

so wearie of the world that you will hang your selfe for a medicine to heale your wits of a melancholy I will bequeath you a halter vpon free cost at your pleasure and so I rest Your friend for such a matter E. P. A Letter for the preferring of a seruant SIr knowing your necessary vse of a good seruant and remembring your late speech w t me touching such a matter I thought good to commend vnto you in that behalf the bearer hereof W. T. a man whose honest secrecie and carefull diligence vpon a reasonable trial wil soone make proofe of his ●ufficiencie his parentage is not base nor his disposition vile but in all parts requisite in one of his place such a one as I am perswaded will fit your turne if therefore at my request you will entertaine him I doubt not but you wil thank me for him for I was glad to get him for you and hope to heare he will much content you and thus loth to trouble you with longer circumstances leauing his seruice to your good regard and my loue to your like commandement in affectionate good will I rest Yours euer assured N. B. The Answere SIr I haue receiued both your Letter and the bearer both which I wil make much of for your sake for in the one I will often see you and in the other remember you your commendatiō of him argueth your knowledge a sufficient warrant for his worth which I wil as kindly as thankfully think on his countenance I like wel and his speech better and for the performance of my expectation am the better perswaded of his discretion when I see you you shall know how I like him in the meane time hee shall find that I wil loue him for all things necessary for his present vse I find him sufficiently furnished but if I find his want it shall be soone supplied So thanking you for sending him and wishing you had come with him remaining your kind debter ●il a good occasion of requital with my hartie commendations I commit you to the Almightie Your verie louing friend R. T. A Letter of counsell to a friend MY best approued and worthiest beloued Philo I heare by some of late come from Venice that seeme to be somewhat inward in thy acquaintance that thou art of late fa●nt into an amorous humor especially with a subiect of too much vnworthines a newes that knowing thy spirit I could hardly beleeue but vpon solemne affirmation I was sorie to beare for beautie without wealth is but a beggerly charu●e honor without vertue is but a little for a Title hath she a glib tongues it is pittie she hath no better wit is she witti● it is a sorrow it is n● better best●wed for the craft of one woman is the confusion of many a man doth she say she loues thee beléeue her not nay doth she loue ●hee regard it not for it is a Iewell of so little worth as wil giue but 〈◊〉 in the buying I feared the plague had taken hold of thy lod●in● but thou art peppered with a world of infection thy studie 〈…〉 with ●oleness● thy braine with dizinesse and thy spirit with madnes O● leaue these follies think loue but a dreame and beautie a shadow and folly a witch and repentance a misery wake out of thy sleepe and call thy wittes together be not sotted with an humour nor slaue to thy selfe will leaue courting of a Curtizan and keepe thy breath for a better blast saue thy purse for a better purpose and spend thy time in more profit let not the wise laugh at thee and the honest lament thee for my selfe how I grieue for thee I would I could tell thee but let thus much suffice thee beleeue nothing that shee saieth care for nothing that she doth nor giue her any thing that she wants see her but to purge melancholy talke with her but to sharpen wit giue her but to be ridde of her company and vse her but according to her conditiō so shalt thou haue a hand ouer those humors that would haue a head ouer thy heart and be maister of thy sences by the vertue of thy spirit otherwise Will hauing gotten the bit in his téethe will runne away with the bridle and Reason being cast off may neuer sit well againe in the saddle but why do I vse these perswasions for the remoue of thy passions If thou be soundly in thou wilt hardly get out but if thou be but ouer shoes thou maist be saued from drowning well whatsoeuer I heare I hope the best but to a●●●d the worst I haue presumed out of my loue to send thee this fruit o● my affection In which if my care may doo thee comfort I ●h●l● thinke it a great part of my happinesse howsoeuer it 〈◊〉 I co●●it the consideration to thy kindnesse And so till I ●eare from thee which I daily long for I rest Thine as his owne N. R. His answere Gentle Millo I haue receiued thy most kinde and carefu●● Letter a messenger of the most honest loue who hath tolde me no lesse then I wholy beleeue that loue in idlenesse is the very entrance to madnesse but yet though I will thinke on thy counsell giue me leaue a little to goe on along with conceit whereof let me tell thee my opinion Beautie without wealth is little worth but being a riches in itselfe how can it be poorely valued and honour beeing but the state of vertue how can you plucke a little out of her ●tytle the tongue is the instrument of wit and wit the approuer of discretion where it Reason b● grauelled nature may bée admyred now for words they hau● their substance and loue is not to bee abused for it is a Iewell well knowne that is worthy his price Intrations are cuerie where and Iealousie a most cruel plague but rid thy selfe of that disease and feare not my health in the other conceit is a kinde of dizinesse which worse formented then with idlenesse is troubled with too strong a madnesse but he that is unwise had need to be reformed and he that laughes at an imperfection may fall himselfe vpon the foole now for a mad dreame or an imagined witch a conceited sleepe or an intreated waking I must confesse they are pr●tie humours and will thinke of their errors now for lotting and slauerie and for courting in ●nauerie be perswaded that time will employ my purse to better purpose then grieu● not for mee but onely loue mee and let that suffice mee and for thine aduice in seeing talking and giuing feare not the had●wist of my folly for he that is master of himselfe shall not need to his mistresse and therefore hee that cannot ride let him leaue the saddle for Reason hath a power ouer 〈◊〉 where 〈◊〉 is but a seruant to Nature in the certainty of which course intending so to lay my hand on my heart that I will feare no ho●nes on my head with many thankes for