Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	faith_n	good_a	unfeigned_a	2,823	5	11.0408	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08653	The passenger: of Beneuento Italian, professour of his natiue tongue, for these nine yeeres in London. Diuided into two parts, containing seauen exquisite dialogues in Italian and English: the contents whereof you shall finde in the end of the booke. To the illustrious and renowmed Prince Henry ...; Passaggiere. English and Italian	Benvenuto, Italian.; King, Mr., fl. 1612.	1612 (1612)	STC 1896; ESTC S101559	418,845	732

succeeded or confirmed and so this our Courtier not for ambition nor for gaine but as a true Courtier for honour that is as one vertuous following this his Lord or Prince that such a Court would be a liuely figure of the glorious future and celestiall Court E. But doe you omit to mention enuie vvhich makes euery Court an hell A. Why there is remedie for euerie thing the young man with good will the olde man with grauitie and discretion must fore-see and prouide for vvhatsoeuer euill may succeede and with the hope of sweet to come temper all present bitternesse E. A thousand thousand times most fortunate is he That can so bound and limit his high thoughts As through v●ine hopes of good immoderate He loose not wholy that which is in meane A. To tell you freely my conceit those Fathers seeme vnto mee verie iudicious vvho desiring to place their Sonnes in the seruice of some Prince doe first make them follow their learning and other conuenient exercises for a Courtier and then to conuerse in Court to the end they may thus learne the manners obserue the fashions and become expert in those places and amongst people vvith vvhom they are to conuerse and liue and in the meane vvhile they grow to a proportionable bodie to graue and ciuill customes and to maturitie of iudgement For questionlesse the Court is not a place for children a schoole for Infants nor a Market-place for boyes hoytings and knaueries but a place of vertue vvisedome and prudence E. All this is true and yet I know many Gentlemen in Italy the which neuer permit their sonnes very young to frequent the Court. A. This peraduenture was because they were rude and incapable of all ciuilitie E. You may rather say that many Courts at this day are so corrupted that there is no goodnesse in them but onely vanity pompe and deceit A. Doe you not remember that which the diuine Poet as diuinely singeth of that Court vvhich openly confesseth that euery Court is subiect vnto it Fountaine of griefe and harbour of fowle ire All errors schoole and Temple of Heresie Rome sometime but now wicked Babilon For whom so much wee sigh and doe lament The forge of all deceit the prison of ire Where good doth dye and ill is nourished The liuings hell great wonder it will be If Christ at last gainst thee be not prouokt Founded in chaste and humble pouerty Against thy founders thou rear'st vp thy hornes Most greedy whore where pleasest thou thy hopes In thy adulteries or in so great wealth Ill got Good Constantine doe thou returne no more The world embraceth him who doth her maintaine And hereupon I may with reason say That which the selfe-same Authour said else-where From wicked Babilon where out is banished All shame and euery good thing quite shut out Harbour of griefe mother of errours all Am I now fled for to prolong my life E. Wittie Guirinus speaking of other Courts or peraduenture alluding to the same spake most sincerely and truely A. I know he aduiseth euery one after this manner Who euer thought for to impaire his state in greatnesse and middest heapes of gold to want I euer thought in Royall Palaces the people had euer beene the more humane by how much more these riches they possesse whereby humanitie so honoured is but sure I found it all quite contrary People in words and speech most courteous but slow in deedes to pittie enemies People in countenance milde and affable but inwardly more raging then the deepest seas onely men in appearance in whom vvee see a faire face but a very enuious minde Then found I in cleere lookes but a darke minde and the least faith where appeared most flattery that which else-where is vertue here is defect their speech good deeds and most vnfained loue pittie sincere inuiolable faith a life in heart and hand most innocent They iudge a base minde and a rude conceit vaine folly vvorthy to be laughed at but fraud theft lying and all close deceit rapine all clad in fained pietie to be enricht by anothers losse and downe fall and in anothers disgrace to be graced these are the vertues of that Protean troupe not merit valour or yet reuerence of age of honour or of any Law no whit of shame as also no respect of loue or bloud no gratefull memory of any good receiued nor finally can any thing so sacred venerable or iust be found which to this hot desire of honours and to this insatiable maw of hauing more inuiolable is but who lesse wise and skilfull in their artes liues there and in his fore-head written hath his thoughts and openly his heart reueales iudge if this man be not an open marke to enuious men and priuie arrowes shot E. Vnderstand sir nay I remember that Guirinus finding no complete entertainment at the Duke of Ferraraes hands being much distasted retired to the Court of the Duke of Piomont and Sauoy and in the nuptials of that renowned Prince vnder whose protection hee liued composing his Pastorall Tragical-comedie he seemes both in this and in many other places to bestow many sound bobs both vpon the Court and consequently vpon the Duke of Ferrara himselfe but yet in reading you may finde many Authours who haue honoured and celebrated the Court. A. You say well for at this instant I remember Tasso who with wonderfull Art sets it out that is the Court Knights and Ladyes he thus saying in his Anintas Be vvarie and roughly doe not presse neere hand where there be coloured cloaths glittering with gold with plumes deuises and new fashions but aboue all take heed least some euill destinie fresh youthfull beautie doe not thee diuert vnto the ware-house of all toyes but flye flye I say this inchanted residence I asked what place this was he answered mee here dwell the hagges that doe inchant and charme make each one falsely heare and falsely see That which seemes polished gold or Diamant is glasse or Copper and those siluer chests which you suppose to be full of treasure are onely filled with bladders and puft with lies Here wals are made and framed all of arte which speake and answere to intergotants neyther doe they so answere in halfe words as ecchoes vse to doe in woods but they reply them whole and absolute and adding more then formerly was said The stooles the tables and the benches round the low stooles curtaines and so bed-steads all the furniture of chambers and of hals haue each a tongue and euen speake here lyes a forme where little infants doe both sport and play and if one that is dumb doe but enter hee must needes prattle whether hee will or no yet this is the least ill that encounters thee for there thou maist remaine transformed and changed into a beast a willow water or fire into a floud of teares and a fire of sighes E. Tasso in the place aboue-mentioned alluded also to the court