Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	natural_a	spirit_n	vital_a	2,146	5	10.9559	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12517	A midnights trance wherin is discoursed of death, the nature of the soules, and estate of immortalitie. As it was written at the desire of a nobleman, by W.D.	Drummond, William, 1585-1649.	1619 (1619)	STC 7252.5; ESTC S117487	17,167	104

oft as man Hee seemeth not the same person in one and the same Day by reason of his subiection to his priuate Passions Young wee scorne our childish conceits and wading deeper in yeeres for yeres are a Sea into which we wade vntill we drown we esteeme our Youth inconstancy Folly Rashnes Old wee begin to pity our selues plaining because we are changed that the World is changed Like them in a Shippe which when it is they that launch frō the shore are brought to beleeue that the shore doth flie from them Whē we are freed of euill in our owne estate wee begin to grudge and vex our selues at the happinesse and fortunes of others wee are fraught wee care for what is present with sadnes for what is by-past with feare for that which is to come nay for that which will neuer come we deeme that pitty which is but weakenes and plunge our selues in the deepest gulfes of anguish one day still laying vp strife of griefe for the next The Aire the Sea the Fire the Beasts be cruell executioners of Man yet Beasts Fire Sea and Ayre bee pitifull to Man in respect of Man for mo men are destroied by men then by them all What wrongs scornes contumelies prisons poysons torments receiueth man of man What engines and new workes of death are daylie found forth by man against man What Lawes to thrall his liberty Fantasies and scar-crowes to inueigle his reason Amongst the Beastes is there any hath so seruile a lot in anothers behalfe as man yet neither is content nor hee who raigneth nor he who serueth The halfe of our Life is spent in sleepe which sith it is a release of care the balme of woe and indifferent arbiter vnto all must be the best and yet is but the shadow of Death and who would not rather thē suffer the Slings and Arrows of outragious Fortune the whips and scorns of time the oppressors wrongs the proud mans contumelies sleepe euer that is dye and end the Heart-ake and the thousand naturall Shocks that flesh is heire to Our happinesse heere seemeth rather in the wanting of euils and being free of crosses then in the enioying of any great good What hath the brauest of mortals to glory in Is it greatnesse Who can be great on so small a round as this Earth and bounded with so short a course of Time How like is that to castles or imaginary Cities builded in the Skie of chance-meeting Clouds Or to Giants modelled for a sport of Snow which at the hotter lookes of the Sunne do melt away such an impetuous vicissitude so towseth the estates of this World Is it knowledge But wee haue not yet attained a perfect vnderstanding of the smallest floure and why the grasse should rather bee greene then red the Element of fire is quite put out the Ayre is but water rarified some affirme there is another world of men and creatures with Cities and Towers in the Moone the Sunne is lost for it is but a cleft in the lower Heauens through which the light of the highest shines What is all we know compared with what wee know not It is perhaps artificiall cunning how many curiosities be framed by the least creatures of Nature vnto which the industry of the most curious Artizans doth not attaine Is it Riches What are they but snares of Liberty bands to such as haue them possessing rather then possessed Metalls which Nature hath hidde foreseeing the great euill they should occasion and the only opinion of Men hath brought in estimation When wee haue gathered the greatest aboundance wee our selues can enioy no more thereof then so much as belongs to one man Rich and great men doe their businesse by others the lesser doe them themselues Will some talke of our pleasures It is not though in the fables told out of purpose that Pleasure being called in haste from Earth to Heauen did here forget her apparell which Sorrow hauing thereafter found to deceiue the World attired her selfe with and if wee shall confesse the truth of most of our ioyes we must say that they are but disguised Sorrows the drammes of our honey are lost in pounds of Gall Remorse neuer ensueth our best Delights Will some Ladies vaunt of their Beauties That is but skinne-deepe of two senses onely knowne short euen of Marble Statues and Pictures dangerous to the beholder and hurt full to the possessor an enemy to Chastity a thing made to delight others and not those who haue it a superficiall lustre hiding Bones and the Braines things fearefull to bee looked vpon growth of yeres doth take it away or sicknesse or sorrow preuenting them our strength matched with that of the vnreasonable creatures is but weakenesse If Death be good why should it be feared And if it bee the worke of Nature how shall it not bee good And how shall it not bee of Nature Sith what is naturally generate is subiect to corruption for such a composition cannot euer endure but must of necessity dissolue Againe how is not Death good fith it is the thaw of all those miseries which the frost of life bindeth together In two or three ages without Death what an vnpleasant spectacle were the most flourishing Cities in the World For what should there bee to be seene in them saue bodies languishing and courbing againe into the Earth Pale disfigured faces Skelitones in stead of Men And what were there to bee heard but the regrets of the yong and Plaints of the aged with the pittifull cries of sicke and pining persons there is almost no infirmity worse then age If there bee any euill in Death it would appeare to bee for that paine and torment which we apprehend to arise of the breaking of those straight bāds which keep the Soule and Bodie together which since it is not without great wrestling and motion seemes to proue it selfe vehement and most extreme The sences are the onely cause of paine but before that last effect traries that the worst cōposed Bodies feele paine least and by this reason all sicke persons should not much feele paine for if they were not euill composed they would not bee sicke That the sight hearing smelling taste leaue vs without paine and vnawares wee know most certainely and why should wee not beleeue the same of the feeling That which is capable of feeling is the vitall Spirits which in a man of good health are spred extended through the whole Body And hence is it that the whole body is capable of paine but in sicke men wee see that by degrees those parts which are most remoued from the heart remaine cold and being denuded of naturall heate all the pain that they feele is that they can feele no paine now as before the sicke be aware the vitall Spirits retire themselues from the whole extension of his body to assist the heart like distressed Citizens which finding their wals battred run to defend their Cittadell so do they abandon the heart