Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	moon_n	star_n	sun_n	12,021	5	6.6320	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07987	Axiochus. A most excellent dialogue, written in Greeke by Plato the phylosopher: concerning the shortnesse and vncertainty of this life, with the contrary ends of the good and wicked. / Translated out of Greeke by Edw. [sic] Spenser. ; Heereto is annexed a sweet speech or oration spoken at the tryumphe at White-hall before her Maiestie, by the page to the right noble Earle of Oxenforde..; Axiochus. English. Spenser. 1592.	Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.	1592 (1592)	STC 19974.6; ESTC S125749	12,676	38

there is no sence nor feeling And to this purpose do all those excellent and notable reasons of the soules immortalitie tend For it is not the weake nature of mortall man to raise himselfe to the fulfilling of such high and haughtye matters as to despise the ramping rage of wilde beasts to ieopard himselfe in the wastefull sea to builde Citties and them with lawes and pollicie to establish to looke vp into heauen and marke the course of the Starres and the wayes of the Sunne and Moone with their risings and setting to consider their eclipses their spaces their making of the nights and dayes alike their double conuersions to behold the order of the windes the seauen watrie starres of winter of summer of stormes with the violent rage of whirlewindes and as it were these labours of the world to deliuer to posteritie vnlesse in our mindes there were a certaine diuine spirit and vnderstanding which could comprehend and reach vnto the supernaturall knowledge of so great matters VVherefore nowe O Axiochus thou art not in the way to death but to immortality neither shalt thou as thou didst seeme right now to feare bee bereft of all good but shall hereby enioy true and perfect good Neither shalt thou perceiue such durty pleasures as are these beeing mingled with the puddle of this sinfull body but most pure and perfect delight being deuoid of all contagious trouble For beeing loosed and deliuered out of the darkesome dungeons of this body thou shalt passe to that place where is no lacke nor complaint but all things full of rest and deuoid of euill Moreouer there is calme and quiet liuing without all knowledge of vnrest peaceable and still occupied in beholding the course frame of Nature and studying Philosophy not to please the idle ignorant and common sort but with vpright and vndeceiuable truth Axiochus O Socrates with this thy gladsome speech thou hast now brought mee into a cleane contrary minde for so farre am I nowe from dread of death that I am euen set on fire and burne with desire thereof And that I may stay my selfe in the steppes of them which are counted workemasters of speech I will say thus much more excellently Now I begin to behold those high matters and doo ouerlooke that aeternall and heauenly course of things hauing now raysed vp my selfe out of my weakenes and being as it were renued and refreshed of my former malady Socrates If you demaunde of mee another reason and signe of the soules immortality I will tell you what the wise man Gobrias shewed me He saide that at what time Xerxes conuayed his huge Army into Greece his Grandfather which was of the same name was sent into Delos to defende that Iland in which were two Gods borne In the same Iland that his Grandfather learned out of certaine brasen Tables which Opis and Hecuergus had brought out of the Northerne Countries That the soule aftertime it is dissolued from the body passeth into a certaine darkesome place a Coast that lyeth vnder the earth wherein is Plutoes Pallace no lesse than Iupiters kingdome For the earth being equally ballanced in the middest of the world and the compasse thereof beeing round as a ball that the one halfe Sphere thereof is allotted to the higher Gods and the other halfe to the infernall powres betwixt whom there is such kindred and allyance that some bee brothers and other some brothers children But the entry of the way which leadeth to Plutoes kingdome is fenced with iron gates and fastened with brasen bolts which when a man hath opened he is entertained of the Riuer Acheron next which is Cocytus which flouds being ouerpassed hee must come before Minos and Rhadamanthus the merciles Iudges which place is called the plain of Truth where the Iudges sit examining euery one that commeth thither how he hath liued and with what trade or manner of life hee hath inhabited his mortall body with whom there is no place for lies nor refuge for excuses Then they which in their life time were inspired and led with a good Angell are receiued into the houshold of the blessed where all seasons flowe with abundance of all fruits where from the siluer springs doo calmely run the Christall streames where the flourishing medowes are cloathed with chaungeable Mantles of glorious colours where are famous Schooles of renowmed Philosophers goodly companies of diuine Poets trim sorts of Dauncers heauenly Musicke great banquets furnished with costly cates Tables abounding with all bounty delights without all care and pleasures without all paine For the Inhabitants thereof are neither touched with force of cold nor payned with excesse of heate but the moderate Aire breatheth on them mildly and calmely being lightned with the gentle Sunnebeames In this place and in the Elysian fields they which haue taken holy orders are highly aduanced and reuerenced dayly ministring the vnsearcheable rytes of Religion VVherefore then shouldest thou doubt but to be made partaker of the same honor being one of the seede of that heauenly race It is an old saying and rightly reported that Hercules and Bacchus going downe to hell they were instituted in holly orders and that they were emboldned to goe thither of the Goddesse Eleusina But they which being wrapped in wickednes haue led an vngodly life are snatched vp by the Furies and by them carried through the lowest hell into deepe darkenes and vtter confusion where the place and abode of the wicked is and where the three score daughters of Danaus dwell whose punishment is continually to fill a sort of bottomlesse vessels where also is to bee seene the vnquencheable thirst of Tantalus the gnawen Entrailes of Titius and the endles stone of Sisip●us whose end beginneth a newe labour There bee they rent of wilde beasts continually scorched with burning Lamps pained with all kind of torments and afflicted with endlesse pennance These thinges I remember that I haue heard Gobrias tell but you Axiochus may iudge of them as you list Only this I know and assuredly hold fast that euery mans minde is immortall and passing out of this life feeleth no griefe nor sorrowe VVherefore O Axiochus whether thou be carryed into those highest Pallaces or lower Vawts needes must it bee that thou shalt bee blessed because thou hast liued well and godly Axiochus Minding to haue said something vnto thee O Socrates I am impeached with bashfull shame For so farre am I now from the horror and dread of death that I continually couet the time thereof So hath thy heauenly and comfortable speeches pierced and relieued my faint heart And nowe loath I this life and scorne the delights thereof as that shall from henceforth passe into a better abode And now by my selfe alone will I recount these thy notable sayings but I pray thee O Socrates after noone resort to me againe Socrates I will doo as you say and now will I returne to walk in my school Lynosargus from whence I was hither called FINIS ❧