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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	lord_n	sing_v	song_n	1,893	5	9.6892	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03210	The history of Susanna Compiled according to the Prophet Daniel, amplified with convenient meditations; sung by the devoted honourer of the divine muses, George Ballard.	Ballard, George, writer of verse.	1638 (1638)	STC 1333; ESTC S114851	36,368	150

them On willowes to remain Which crowned Perah's winding streame In midst of Shinar-plain Then our Captivors mockt our mone Thus taunting with their tongues Come tune your Harps and sing us one Of Sions holy songs Lord how can we our songs commend To our great God and King Can we be glad within a land Of strangers can we sing Hierusalem if I doe let From my remembrance slide Then let my dexter-hand forget My warbling Harpe to guide And if I thee remember not Cleaue to my mouth O tongue Hierusalem ●f I preferre Not thee within my song Forget not Edom's sonnes O Lord When thou did'st Sion wound How they against thy Sion roar'd Down down with 't to the ground O daughter Babel thou shalt be Quite overturned thus He shall be blest rewardeth thee As thou hast served us They shall be blessed that shall take The children of thy sonnes And for thy fornications sake Dash them against the stones Before she was in middle of her song Lust-boldned elders through the thickets flung And rudely a blacke Psalme began to sing Unto molested Susan in the Spring To her asham'd they unconfounded plead Whose lustfull language nothing stands instead For where Heav'n winnes that fortresse of renown Is too much strong for fiends to batter down MEDIT. VII Aetas aurea prima IT was a golden age yer sin began Strange fires to kindle in the soule of man For man an Angel's fellow then could sing Heav'n-tuned lauds to heav'ns eternall King Could then converse with God could psalme his praise Commingling sweet songs with Archangel's layes Like Truth did man go naked then and blesse The God of truth without abashfulnesse He had no charmes like Sirens to entise The gentler Virgins of the world to vice His body did a heav'n-born soule eashrine And like the same was deathlesse and divine All humane thoughts were perfect Belial then Had not a sonne among the sonnes of men Then fairest women naked though they went Did never feare inhumane ravishment For their illustrious ever-during beauty Inchanted not men to forget their duty Sorrowes and shames which since have overflown The earth in earth were utterly unknown Enormous crimes dwell'd with infernall Devils And man's sweet heart was undistain'd with evils A mansion 't was where Vertues did remayne 'T was then a throne where Helion did raigne But sinfull now become a noysome stie Of all pollution where Fiend-legiens-lie And since this worser Iron-age is come Vertues retire unto coelestiall home That Vertue Chastity which God regard's To crown from Heav'n with undefil'd rewards By painted Vice is injur'd ev'ry ●●ower Almost is lost her mayden-blushing flower Vice counterfeit's her colours she proclaimes Ever to dwell in insubstantiall wind Fair Chastity which vice cannot infring Nor the great Engineere of Hell unhing O Favourite of th' Eternall where art thou What happy place doth entertain thee now Didst thou relinquish this vain World below When other Goddesses of old did so Abandoning the earth of blisse bereaven To wander in the milky way of heaven Or staidst behind alone to raigne and rest In Princely throne of faire Susanna's brest Thou art but seldome seen on earth 〈…〉 Shall almost sooner find a sable 〈…〉 Where may the Daphnes of the 〈…〉 Themselves in safety from assaulting 〈…〉 Sith Sinne that wandring Iew 〈◊〉 fast 〈◊〉 Through earthly kingdoms Heav'n 〈◊〉 the chast Sect. VIII ARGUMENT The Elders sue to chast Susan Who doth their obscene suit disdain Threatning her they offer rape Which she by calling loud doth scape TO holy-thoughted Susan in the Spring These Goatish Elders thus began to sing Susanna fairest of all blessed creatures Susanna quintessence of blessed features With whom the faire dames of the world compar'd Would Morians seeme unworthy man's regard World's living wonder rare Susanna know We unto thee are humble Suppliants now In such a suit as once supernall Iove Motion'd unto his metamorphos'd Love Uncloud the Sun-beams of thy Beautie 's shine Let no misseemly frowne nor teares of brine Unglorifie that happy forme of thine Grant us thy love becalme thy countenance In Lethe-streames drench the rememberance Of nuptiall vowes let folly not forestall Thy soule of blessings take the golden ball Of lovely Venus whiles youth's flower lasts Gather the same before the flower blasts By us old blades whose mettle backs are steele The approbation thou anon shalt feele We are no Scouts thy jealous Husband sends To tempt and tell by heav'n we are thy friends And German-kinsmen of the Royall line Of Iudah-Kings as thou mayst well divine Our complements must not be tedious we This many a day have long'd to lie with thee We are love-martyrs and to dust shall turn Unlesse thou quench the fires wherein wee burn The Planet now which bringeth love's delight Comes in conjunction with the Queen of night Heav'n on the action smile 's thy doores are fast Come in thy Paradise of joy repast Our warme desires let us fal quickly to it Lest Gods themselves trans●orme themselves and do it Susanna be not coyous we do know Women who take good turns will answere no. Why seemest thou compos'd of snowy stone Turn like the Image to Pigma●ion Be not flint-hearted from this fountain come Have pity on us and be pleasuresome Hast thou not heard of Iacob's princely sonne Thy grand forefather's lovely actions done In holy Regions to a dainty dame For pawned ring it savours not of shame Were to thy husband such occasion lent He would persue the self-same merriment As he hath often done in wisdome then Reciprocall come forth and pleasure men That we thy servants wilt thou but infold Us in thy armes may give thee bags of gold Which unto thee we consecrating prove Like men of Lemnos to the Queen of Love Scorn not affection love disdained will In little time convert to mortall ill Th' amazed Lady oftentimes afraid Div'd under stream not harkning what they said When she up-heav'd her beauty ten times more They gan to woo and threaten then before Like David she desired Dove-like wings Or to deferre them from her holy springs Such sounds as frightned sonnes of Aram from Besieg'd Samaria in their eares might come Within her Saintly countenance there stood Abundance of abasht Vermilion-blood But then she frown'd upon these evill doers And thus admonisht her old wanton woers Her deniall You that are more lascivious far then either Sea-Sargons or the Land-goats when together Know that mine Honour not receiu'd in vain Abhor's the tincture of foule whoredomes stain Were you both young as David when he kill'd The monstrous Giant in Philistian field More beautifull then Absolon and could To be unchast you give me seas of gold I would contemne you both and rather fall Into your wrath then to infernall thrall Men shall not stain for gold nor orient stone The faire white robe Heav'n gave my soule to d'on Iudges go doom your selves masters of Lawes Who learn'd you plead in such a crimefull