Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	steal_v	thief_n	treasure_n	2,093	5	9.4580	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09678	The praise of the gout, or, The gouts apologie A paradox, both pleasant and profitable. Written first in the Latine tongue, by that famous and noble gentleman Bilibaldus Pirckheimerus councellor vnto two emperours, Maximilian the first, and Charles the fift: and now Englished by William Est, Master of Arts.; Apologia seu podagrae laus. English	Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530.; Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625.	1617 (1617)	STC 19947; ESTC S114730	29,358	44

infirmities and all hastening to the same end to become meate for wormes Why then art thou proud O earth and ashes seeing that in thy most florishing prime thou art but filthy slime a packe of diseases a sacke of infirmities a Store-house of miseries thy body but compact of clay thy head but a panne of earth thy whole life besieged with a huge army of diseases and euery one both threatning to arrest thee and able to kill thee Thus with my disease I stoope the proudest and make selfe-loue to quaile And for the Viper Enuie that miserable fretting slaue a wretch euer sad and pensiue for besides his owne griefes he euer tormenteth himselfe at another mans felicitie I say of him as Seneca did once I could wish that the eyes of the enuious were so opened that in euery towne they might behold all that be in prosperity that their torments might be increased for as the ioies of others do increase so the sorrowes of the enuious doe multiply we can no way more vexe the enuious man then by applying our selues to vertue for he hath so many tormētors to scourge him as his neighbour hath vertues to commend him The poison of enuy is far worse then the poyson of Serpents for their poyson hurteth others but not themselues but the poyson of the enuious hurteth themselues but not others Moreouer the enuious man imagineth another mans good greater than it is thereby to increase his owne sorrow and miserie To this purpose I remember a pretie tale that certaine Physicions meeting together there grew a question among them concerning the chiefest medicine for the eies one said fennell another eye-bright another greene glasse c. Nay saith another merily it is enuie for that maketh other mens goods to seeme greater then they are and confirmed it by this saying of the Poet Fertilior seges est alieno semper in agro Vicinumque pecus grandius vber habet The neighbours fields are euermore with corne much better spedde Their flockes in milke more plentifull how euer they be fedde There is a Fable but it hath a good Morall of the enuious man and the couetous man they both went together into Iupiters Temple to pray Iupiter granted their petitions vpon this condition that whatsoeuer the one did craue the other should haue the same doubled the enuious man asked many things and had them but the other alwaies had them doubled the enuious man seeing this was grieued and praied that he might lose one eye and then reioiced that his fellow had lost both his See here what a ciabolicall sinne enuie is which careth not to hurt it selfe to doe a greater dammage vnto another But when I come to grapple with this Caytife I will so perplexe him and make him so wretched that no man shall enuy him nor himselfe haue little lust to enuy others I tell him that he is most his owne enemy for the man whom he enuieth may depart from him but he can neuer depart from himselfe whithersoeuer he goeth hee carrieth his enemy still in his bosome his aduersary in his heart his owne destruction within himselfe and thus I seeke to cure this malady And for Couetousnes I am like the clubbe of Hercules to beat it downe when paines and incessant torments enforce the couetous worldling to confesse and meditate with himselfe that riches are fickle that the liues of the possessors are brittle that transitory riches are but run-awayes they will either runne from vs as they did from Iob or we shall be taken from them as the Preacher sayd of the couetous worldly minded Thou foole this night shall thy soule be taken from thee The couetous man is like hell in the inlarging of his desires to containe all more greedie sayth Basil then the very fire which goeth out when the matter faileth but Couetousnesse is neuer quenched whose desire burneth as well when he hath matter as when he hath none Hee alwaies goeth with a three-toothed flesh-hooke the one is called Petax which desireth all the other Rapax which catcheth at all the third Tenax which holdeth fast all Now when the Gout gripeth him I teach him to meditate thus with himselfe O what pleasure can I take in riches which I haue so greedily scraped together I see they can yeeld me no ease at all no not so much as free me from a fit of feuer I now take no more pleasure in them they no more delight me then as the Poet sayth Lippum pictae tabulae vt fomenta podagraxs Auriculas Cytherae collecta sorde dolentes Who couets or who liues in feare his goods do him delight As much as blinde man pleasure takes in pictures finely dight Or one that 's deafe doth take delight in Musikes siluer sound Or as the Gout in foments when the griefe doth most abourd What ioy take I now in my stately houses which I haue built by theft in my large fields which I haue gotten by deceit my cursed sacriledge in deuouring Christs patrimony which will bee like the Eagles feather to consume all that I shall leaue to my heire in my reuenues for which I haue damned mine owne soule In my gold and siluer which I haue heaped together with the sweat yea with the bloud of the poore what comfort take I in my life it selfe which I haue so vnprofitably spent when I made my heapes my heauen my gold my god my lands my life I see now I haue chosen drosse for gold rust for siluer losse for gaine shame for honour toile for rest hell for heauen I see now all worldly cares are frustrate and fruitlesse I wil therfore aspire to heauenly treasure which is eternall which no rust can corrupt no moth fret no theeues steale in regard wherof all other things are but dung and drosse I will now fixe my desires vpon the life to come where there shall bee no sicknesse to afflict me no maladie to torment mee no griping griefes to assault me Thus where there is any sparke of Gods Spirit I teach men seriously to meditate Happy and thrice happy they which haue the grace thus to suppresse their inordinate desires of riches The ambitious man in his swelling humour which by all meanes seeketh to aspire vnto dignities and honour who had rather be vulpeculae caput quàm cauda leonis the head of a foxe then the tayle of a lyon as the Prouerbe is when I visite him I cause him soone to strike his loftie sayles I humble him and enforce his haughty heart to stoop I make him to know that he is like a Carbuncle which is the name of a precious stone and of a swelling sore or tumor hee hath together glittering glorie and wounding woe hee liueth inter malleum incudem betwixt the hammer and the Anuile betweene hope and feare I tell him that honour is not in honorato sed in honorante not in him