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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
A44991	Emblems with elegant figures newly published by J.H.	Hall, John, 1627-1656.; J. H.	1648 (1648)	Wing H344; ESTC R177726	18,888	124

how Upon thy brow ●throniz'd bands of graces sit How on thy white ●●me out bloud-thirsty roses which 〈◊〉 Hemispheres thy cheekes inrich 3 〈◊〉 could I come how art thou dight With ambient light 〈◊〉 Phenix-like in her tomb-nest Sleep on thy breast 〈◊〉 from thy od'rous bosom draw ●●ole snowy-clouds of Cassia 4 But oh what ambushments orespread The way I tread How crooked are those paths of mine How serpentine What ranks of peevish thornes beset My torn and more then weary feet 5 But look how either side doth smile And would beguile How all 's with Amethysts beset How negro-jet Mingle's with Alablaster how The scatter'd Topasses do glow 6 What virgins do on either hand Assailing stand Whom could they not orecom if none Thy face had known Their beauty is but borrowed thine Doth with a native lustre shine 7 But I 'le be blind untill I be Restor'd by thee They are but shadows and are gone Ere they can run Into thy sight Thy beauty shall Stand while the dying sun shall fall EPIGRAM 18. ●rust not the world when 't smiles it will betray ●nd when secure doth the most dangers lay ●●t break her snares and all her charmings flie 〈◊〉 th' art at best in splendid slavery 〈◊〉 love which doest ever burn and art never extinguish't enlighten me with thy flames Aug. Mannual cap. 10. MY wishes cannot reach so far With empty towrings as to rear ●ge piles of marble that may rise ●●d fiercely emulate the skies ●annot wish me gardens where ●errestiall planets may appear ●nd rise and set by courses no ●annot all this madness know ●●ght I bathe in Pactolus swim 〈◊〉 yellow Tagus might each limb ●●ale after it more Ore then may ●●ng poverty on India 〈◊〉 are not wish so high yet are ●●y royall wishes higher far 〈◊〉 could I though the restless sun ●ould not his usuall journey run ●●y self supply his light and rear ●ithin my heart a taper far ●armer then his but should he go ●s usuall progress I might flow ●ith double fires but ' las I wish ●●apes of impossibilities 〈◊〉 whose disbanding members have ●●ouldred themselves within the grave ●annot get up and walk and knit ●●s limbs as they at first were set Sure no! can I revive again My palsied heart my frozen brain What can my strength command them cease Their monstrous shakings and confess They were diseas'd till thou display The powerfull influence of thy ray Alas I cannot till thou shine And fright away these clouds of mine I shall be darkned com oh com Break in upon me here 's a room Thy subtle joyes can pierce and gain And entrance in the depths of men Though wee be all polluted yet Thy viceroy doth rise and set Upon base thistles and will close With weeds as soon as any rose Burn me oh burn me so I shall Enjoy no meaner funerall Then the great world and nimbly flee Unclog'd with matter unto thee EPIGRAM 19. ●●w monstrous are man's wishes and how vain ●●w he do'th pray and then unpray again ●●at strange Chimera's does his fancy frame 〈◊〉 beg his ruine in a specious name How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange land Psal. 137. v. 4. VVHil'st by the reedy bancks of aged Cam My golden minuts softly went and came Nothing was wanting to content unless 〈◊〉 minde fit for to grasp such happiness ●y wishes still were ratifi'd and still ●onfirm'd nor had I any law but will Whether severer thoughts my minde posse'st ●nd freed her from her load of flesh and dre'st ●er like her self and carried her on high ●eyond the narrow reach of thought or eye Or if some serious follies call'd m' away ●ow boldly and securely durst I stray 〈◊〉 little from my self that so I might ●eturn with the more spirit and delight ●o have I seen a painter when his eyes ●ere wearied with intentive poaring rise ●nd leave his curious labor and refrain Till that his eyes might gather life again Thus did I out-run time nor did I know ●ow to complain that any hour went slow ●ut nothing now at all remain's with me ●ut the sweet Torment of the Memory ●ood in fruition's somewhat lost no more Then an half cured wound or easie soar ●r like a dose of Honey when 't doth fall ●pon the tongue sweet and in th' stomack gall But what divor'st me from these pleasures say Tell me my Muse what ravish't them away Could not the silver Thames continue them Or were thy minde and wishes not the same Or did'st thou climb too high and so awake That monster envy which thy slumbers brake Or did'st thou finde those faithless who lest ought Or were thy great design 's abortive brought Or did thy sins like pullies draw thee back And make thy thoughts so strongly bended slack● What ere it is now I am fal'n and now Under my care 's must either break or bow And that great Fabrick of Leucenia Which should to th' last of time my name conveigh● Must lie unperfit and dismembred so And be at most a monstrous Embryo Nay my sublimer thoughts must stoop t' invent Some stratagems 'gainst famine and prevent Contempt the worst of evils and sharp cold But whether run I I let go my hold Conquer thy sorrows Hall 't is patience can Alone secure thee though all sorrow 's ran At once upon thy head 't is fear alone That giv's these scar-crow 's arms they else ha●● non He is a man whose resolution dar's The worst of evil's who command's his fears Els what poor things we are how weak how blind Apt to be troubled by each wanton Winde Nay man the best of creatures is below The weakest of them if he tremble so EPIGRAM 20. What a mad thing is grief should we devise To harm our selves with other's injuries And wound our hearts with every sleight offence When we may be shot-free by patience EPIGRAM 20. What a mad thing is grief should we devise To harm our selves with other's injuries And wound our hearts with every slight offence When we may be shot-free by patiēce EMBLEMS With elegant Figures not before published By I. H. Esq Book II. Ex frigore FLAMMA LONDON Printed by ROGER DANIEL Anno Dom. 1658. SPARKLES OF DIVINE LOVE Book II. Ex frigore FLAMMA Printed by Roger Daniel Printer to the Universitie of Cambridge 1648. SPARKLES OF DIVINE LOVE 1 I am come a light into the world and whosoever believeth in me shall not abide in darkness John 12. v. 46. COnceive not happy malecontent although Thou stand'st below But thy inlarged eye may freely rove And soar above Nay all that ambient Darkness clear's the light Unto thy sight And all those silver-streakes of light which were Seemingly hid before do now appear 2 Although the space of Heaven which doth lie Before thine eye Seem's small thy bulk's too little and unfit To measure it What seem's an inch will quickly unbeguile And prove a mile Stars seem like spangles but a tube let