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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	darkness_n	light_n	shadow_n	2,254	5	9.9071	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64744	Flores solitudinis certaine rare and elegant pieces, viz. ... / collected in his sicknesse and retirement by Henry Vaughan.	Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio, 1595-1658. Two excellent discourses.; Eucherius, Saint, fl. 410-449. De contemptu mundi. English.; Vaughan, Henry, 1622-1695.	1654 (1654)	Wing V121; ESTC R35226	150,915	376

sicknes Give my Spirit health To the Reader CAndidus medicans Ignis deus est So sings the Poet and so must I affirme who have been tryed by that white and refining fire with healing under his wings Quarrelling with his light and wandring from that fresh and competent gourd which he had shadowed me with drew those Sun-beames upon my head whose strong and fervent vibrations made me oftentimes beg of him that I might dye In these sad Conflicts I dedicated the Remissions to thy use Reader now I offer them to thy view If the title shall offend thee because it was found in the woods and the wildernesse give mee leave to tell thee that Deserts and Mountaines were the Schooles of the Prophets and that Wild-hony was his diet who by the testimony of the Sonne of God was the greatest amongst those that are borne of women It may be thy spirit is such a popular phantastick flye as loves to gad in the shine of this world if so this light I live by in the shade is too great for thee I send it abroad to bee a companion of those wise Hermits who have withdrawne from the present generation to confirme them in their solitude and to make that rigid necessity their pleasant Choyse To leave the world when it leaves us is both sordid and sorrowfull and to quitt our station upon discontents is nothing else but to be the ●pes of those Melancholy Schismaticks who having burnt off their owne hands in setting the world on fire are now fallen out with it because they cannot rule it They are Spirits of a very poore inferiour order that have so much Sympathy with worldlie things as ●o weepe at Parting And of as low a Parentage are those that will be sick of Leap-yeares Sublunarie mutations I honour that temper which can lay by the garland when he may keepe it on which can passe by a Rosebud and bid it grow when he is invited to crop it Whose gentle measure Complyes and suits with all estates Which can let loose to a Crown and yet with pleasure Take up within a Cloyster gates This Soule doth Span the world and hang content From either pole unto the center Where in each Roome of the well-furnished tent He lyes warme and without adventure Prince Lewes the eldest Son of Charles King of Naples at the age of twenty one yeares and just when he should have been married to the youthfull Princesse of Majorica did suddenly at Barcellon put on the rou●h and severe habit of the Franciscans The Queens and Princesses theye met to solemnize the marriage of his sister Blanch with James King of Aragon imployed all their Rhetorick to disswade him from it but to no purpose he loved his Sack-cloth more then their silks and as Mounsier Mathieu alluding to that young Princesse speakes of him Left Roses to make Conserve of thornes Resolution Reader is the Sanctuary of Man and Saint Pauls content is that famous Elixir which turnes the rudest mettall into smooth and ductible gold It is the Philosophers secret fire that stomack of the Ostrich which digests Iron and dissolves the hardflint into bloud and nutriment It was an honest Reply that his Cook made unto the Duke of Millain when worsted in a great battell by the Florentines the over passionate resentment of so unexpected a repu'se made him quarrell with his meate If the Florentines said he have spoyled your tast that is no fault of mine the meate is pleasant and well drest but the good successe of your Enemies hath made your appetite ill I protest seriously unto thee and without Scepticisme that there is no such thing in this world as misfortune the foolish testinesse of man arising out of his misconstruction and ignorance of the wise method of Providence throwes him into many troubles The Spouse tells us that the fingers of the Bride-groome are deckt with Beryll and pretious stones what ever falls upon us from that Almighty hand it is a diamond It is celestiall treasure and the matter of some new blessing if we abuse it not God saith the wise King created not Evill but man who was created upright sought out many inventions these indeed be get that monster his ill digestion of his punishment which is a kinde of divine diet makes him to pine away in a sinfull discontent If thou art sick of such an Atrophie the precepts layd down in this little booke if rightly understood and faithfully practised will perfectly cure thee All that may bee objected is that I write unto thee out of a land of darkenesse out of that unfortunate region where the Inhabitants sit in the shadow of death where destruction passeth for propagation and a thick black night for the glorious day-spring If this discourage thee be pleased to remember that there are bright starrs under the most palpable clouds and light is never so beautifull as in the presence of darknes At least intreat God that the Sun may not goe down upon thy own dwelling which is hartily desired and prayed for by Hen Vaughan Newton by Vsk in South-vvales April 17. 1652. Two Excellent DISCOURSES Of 1. Temperance and Patience Of 2. Life and Death Written in Latin by Johan Euseb Nierembergius Englished by HENRY VAUGHAN Silurist Mors Vitam temperet vita Mortem LONDON Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at the Princes Armes in St Paul's Church-yard 1654. OF TEMPERANCE AND PATIENCE THe Doctrine of good living is short but the work is long and hard to be perswaded though easie to bee learnt for to be good is of all things the most easie and the most ready if wee could learne but one other Art which Antisthenes termed the most necessary I will add the most difficult and that is to forget to doe Evill I find that peace and joy have two handles whereby we may take hold of them Patience and Temperance Rule thy Evil with these and then thy will may rule thee well Horses are ruled with bridles and spurs In prosperity use the first that is restraine or keepe in thy selfe In adversity the last that is Incite and use thy selfe to a gallant Apathie and contempt of misfortunes Generous and metlesome Coursers when they are breathed or rid abroad are compelled to trample upon those very things whose first sight startled and terrified them doe so with thy selfe tread under thy feet thy most hideous adversities so shalt thou forget the feare of fortune which makes men unfit for vertue Patience in adversity is temperance in prosperity Nor can it be easily resolved which of these two excells This is most certaine that noble sufferance is as necessary to man as the virtue of temperance Some few Crosses thou canst beare well but fortune can afflict thee with many and thou by patience the greatest of virtues must afflict her with more for The naked man too getts the field And often makes the armed foe to yeeld It costs not much