Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	east_n	north_n	sail_v	1,645	5	10.3744	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02823	Partheneia sacra. Or The mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes symbolically set forth and enriched with pious deuises and emblemes for the entertainement of deuout soules; contriued al to the honour of the incomparable Virgin Marie mother of God; for the pleasure and deuotion especially of the Parthenian sodalitie of her Immaculate Conception. By H.A.	Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.; Aston, Herbert, b. 1614, attributed name.; Langeren, Jacob van, engraver.; Langeren, P. van, engraver.	1633 (1633)	STC 12958; ESTC S103886	142,987	288

wherin they had need to haue been excellent Morallists and consequently good Naturallists to know the natures and properties of al creatures I adde withal some part of their wits also should haue layne in their fingars ends to shape forth with cole or chisel so manie diuersities of things Adam our first Parent gaue them the first ground therof when frō the beginning he so called assembled al the new-born creatures to giue thē names as a Baylif of some great Lord should goe about to marke this Maister 's sheep with special marks notes or signes of whose they are And this he did by the pattern exāple first giuē him by GOD in himself and his consort the first that euer took anie name while he was called Adam as signifying de terra terrenus she Virago à viro desumpta The Patriarks after him stil practized the same which Adam did assigning names very apt to al their children as the present occasiōs put them in the head or rather as diuinely inspired by him that best can skil to single out and cal each thing by its proper name Hēce Ioseph as his type was called a Sauiour and Iosue likewise for the same reason S. Iohn the Baptist his Precursour was called Grace which Iohn imports to signify the coming and approach of Grace indeed in the Messias at hand Yea IESVS which signifyes Sauiour came at last with that name assigned him from al eternitie and lastly giuen him by the Paranymph Angel with the surname of Emanuel as much to say as Deus nobiscum And so the Incōparable Virgin was Diuinely sorted with the name of MARIE that fitted her so right For she was indeed a Sea of bitternes through the seauenfold sword of sorrow that pierced her hart and therefore rightly AB A MARO MARE A MARI MARIA THE ESSAY THE richest pieces of Eloquence and Poetry are borrowed of the Sea be it for descriptions of some notable shipwrack or to expresse the blustering winds which furrow the face of that liquid Element raysing vp billowes that dash and wash as it were the very face of the Heauens and seeme to plunge the Starres in the surges of the wrathful Nemesis or Thetys rather or lastly in expressing some Naumachias or sea-fights or that of the Remora that Caesar of Caesars in captiuing so in a floating Castle Caligula the Roman Monark to the stupour and amazement of the world These are the vses Poets make therof but Philosophers goe further yet and tel vs stranger things of this stupendious work of Nature of the Flux and Reflux therof and faire correspondences it hath with the Moon The fabulous Antiquitie hath reckoned euer the Sirens those chanting Nimphs great enchantresses to be the Hostesses of the Sea and euen the sagest of them in their follies take it for a grace to their Goddesse Venus to fetch her extraction from the impure flames of the waues This we know by experience the fome and froth of the Sea being dryed with the rayes of the Sun conuert to sponges they againe into pomice-stones as light as Venus herself it is ordinarily veyled with vapours curtened ouer with clowds enwrapped with fogs and sometimes buryed in Cimerian darknes then of a sudden it changes the countenance and becomes a cerulean Sea as various in hew with as manie coulours as the changeable neck of a Doue giues forth with the reflection of the Sun when the former furrowes al of wrath in the face of this stern Ocean wil turne to smiles and daliances with his amorous Tethis the Halcion the ioy of Marriners wil streight appeare vpon the decks of ships to glad the passengers the Dolphins dāce before them with a pleasant glee the waterie pauements seeme as swept the while to inuite them likewise to dance laualtoes with thē and the gentle Eurus and Zephirus in disposition to tune their pipes for the purpose And for Cosmographers whome we must beleeue vnles with measuring the world ourselues we wil disproue thē they tel vs the Ocean is that vniuersal Choas of waters which enuirous the land of al sides for looke what coasts soeuer they sayle vnto they alwayes find the Seas to waft thē thither which on the east is called the Indian Sea on the West the Atlantick on the North and the Regions opposit the Pontick and the frozen Sea and on the South the Red or Ethiopian beyond al which manie striuing to reach to the vtmost shores haue made vast nauigations and haue sooner found their victuals to fayle them then ample spaces of immense waters vndiscouered THE DISCOVRSE BEhold heer a singular Symbol of cur Incōparable Virgin a vast and immense Sea of Charitie for so is she pleased to go shadowed at this time nor may it seeme to anie strange she should do so or we presume so to stile her since lo the Blessed Cyprian tearmes her not a Microcosme only as we are al but euen an ample cōpleat and vniuersal World within herself adorned with the Species of al creatures I reade sayth he and vnderstand that Marie is a certain intelligible and admirable world whose land is the soliditie of humilitie whose Sea the latitude of Charitie whose heauen the height of Cōtemplation whose sunne the splēdour of Vnderstanding whose moone the glorie of Puritie whos 's Lucifer the brightnes of Sanctitie whose cluster of seauen starres the seauen-fold Grace and whose other starres are the beautiful ornaments of the rest of her admirable Vertues The Histories report that Helena amōg the Grecian Beauties carried the prize away that Zeuxis a most exquisit painter in the Age immediatly following would needs draw her pourtraict though he had neuer seen her while she liued therefore gathered he togeather al the fayrest damzels in those parts and whatsoeuer he found rare and excellent in anie he would exactly put into his peece not leauing til he had finished a most admirable peece of work delineated from them which euen rauished the eyes and harts of al. So may we say of our blessed Ladie Mother of the eternal King that she was an abstract of al the perfectiōs possible dispersed not only in that sex or the humā kind but euen likewise in the Angelical nature itself and therefore wel might be called a Sea of al perfectiōs since both her name in the Hebrew sounds as much as Sea and as the Sea is nothing els but a certain congregation togeather of al waters so is she no lesse an assemblie and congregation of al graces and perfections to be found elswhere The Sea indeed hath three properties It is the Spring and origin of al fountains it is alwayes ful and is bitter and brackish in tast Our Ladie likewise is the spring and origin of al graces from whose virginal womb did IESVS flow the fountain of this Fountain the increated Grace from the plenitude of whose grace we al receaue grace in what measure soeuer we become capable of And