Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	just_a	master_n	phoenix_n	231	3	18.0998	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60018	The triumph of wit, or, Ingenuity display'd in its perfection. Being the newest and most useful academy, in three parts. Part I. Containing variety of excellent poems, pastorals, satyrs, dialogues, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, choice letters with their answers, ... and exactest collection of choice songs. Part II. Containing the whole art and mystery of love in all its nicest intreagues and curious particulars, ... with the description & anatomy of perfect beauty. Part III. Containing the mystery and art of wheedling and canting, with the original and present management thereof, and the ends to which it serves and is employed. Illustrated with poems, songs and various intreagues in the canting language, with the explanation, &c. To which is added, Instructions for dancing with musical notes	J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3520A; ESTC R220267	116,290	243

these yet dismay thee he will Rid O're waring billows virtue is his guld Patience in Love declares a strength of mind Exactly peiz'd and neither way mclin'd An Acrostick Shall I still languish must I pine away And me'r be bles't ne'r see the happy day Resolve dear Saint to let our Loves once joyn And give us Transports near to those divine Beal with your heart the wounds you make in mine An Acrostick Am I deceiv'd fair Mistriss can't you love Nothing can nothing your affections move Nature consider made you not for this A Tryal of fresh Charms create fresh Bliss An Acrostick Remember fair one you was made for Man And are Imperfect till with him you joyn Consider that but half your self you are Half till with Man the other half you share Alure him then with your bewitching eyes Each glance of yours can Marble hearts surprlze Look out whilst Beauty lasts love and be wife An Acrostick Let it suffice your Virtues gain Applause Envy no more prevails The mighty cause Of all your Suff'rings Virtue still will shine No Star's more bright nothing is more divine O're casting Mists it's lustre long can't shroud Rays will dart forth and pierce the thickest cloud An Ark it is when winds and waves grow loud An Acrostick Each word you speak does seem a Sentence grave Learning and Beauty your Protection crave In either justly you perfection boast Season'd in youth your years have nothing lost Arts too of every kind upon you wait Be kind as ye 'r accomplish'd good and great Ease a sad Lovers pain and give him peace Those wounds that with a frown you did increase Heal with your Smiles and make my torments beast And thus may you sit an Acrostick to every Name it being no other than making a Verse upon some quaint subject Matter or Fancy answering to every Letter of the Name Anagrams are quaint Devices taken from the Letter of any Name that will bear them As Jacobus Stuart Justa Scrutabor James Stuart A Just Master And upon this the famous Sylvester in the beginning of Dubartus's Divine Week has Commented c. viz. For a Just Master have I labour'd long To a Just Master have I vow'd my best By a Just Master shall I take no wrong With a Just Master wou'd my life be blest In a Just Master are all Virtues met From a Just Master flows abundant Grace But a Just Master is so hard to get That a Just Master seems of Phoenix Race Yet a Just Master have I found in fine Of a Just Master if you question this Whom a Just Master I so Just define My Liege James Stuart a Just Masters is And a Just Master cou'd my work deserve Such a Just Master wou'd I justly serve This way in times of old was in great Request but now for the most part rejected though understood but by a sew as it appeared by a Country Gentleman who coming up to London and falling into a Club of the Town-Wits and Supper being almost ended one of them who had been tampering upon his-Mistress's Name in this way to shew his Ingenuity urged the rest that they might close with a Dish of Anagrams which the Gentleman not well understanding the Method of it took it to be a Plate of Tarts that came last to the Table and returning into the Country he in a rage turned away his Cook because in all the time he had been with him he had not furnished his Table with a Dish of Anagrams or at least ways forgot to call 'em by their right Name CURIOUS LETTERS and ANSWERS WRITTEN In the most Elegant Stile on sundry Occasions for Pleasure and Imitation A Letter from a Mother to her Daughter To Per swade her from rash Marriage Daughter AS I have a peculiar Int'rest in you so it is my chiefest care to study that you may be we● Provided for in Marriage and since I hear you entertain many that solicit you that way I thought ● became me though you are at present from unde● my wing or immediate Jurisdiction to give you● caution how you proceed in that great Affair a business upon which depends your present and fut●● Felicity on this side Heaven and though frequently too hastily undertaken yet if it fortune unhappy nothing remains but an uneasie Life and a fruitless repentance nor is there a Cordial but Death which proves at best but sower and unsavoury therefore le● a Mothers advice prevail with you not to give credi● lightly to the Flatteries and Dissimulations of Men whose Vows and Protestations for the most part a● valued no more than common Air when once the● have obtained their ends but he wary and cautious in your Proceedings that so you may not only be accounted wise by those that you converse withall but likewise that it may Redound to your own advantage considering that in your happiness mine by sympathy consists and that as a Mother whose affections cannot dissemble I shall on all occasions be ready to bear a part with you according to my strength and ability as well in Sufferings or Adversity as in yonr Advancement and Prosperity Therefore as you tender an indulgent Mother and wou'd avoid hastening her steps to the Grave be cauteous in this affair and so with my Prayers to Heaven for your welfare I remain Your Tender and Loving Mother A. B. The Daughters Answer to the foregoing Letter Dear Mother I Have received your Letter and in all Duty and Obedience return you my humble and hearty Thanks in a due acknowledgment of your Care and render Regard towards me in being solicitous for my welfare in the particular of Marriage nor shall my Caution therein be wanting to answer your Expectation for I very well know the decitfulness of many Pretending Lovers and have been both warned and armed by the Disasters and unfortunate Examples of too many of our Sex who have rashly ventured upon a state they are altogether unaquainted with and by that means failing of the competency they expected seeing too late their folly they have become burthensom to then selves and their Relations wherefore when I make a choice and give away my heart I shall move in that Affair with such caution that I hope neither you nor my self shall have the least cause to repent or repine for although I have many Pretenders yet none of them shall ga● Possession till I am well assertained I am upon su● Ground Wherefore intreating you to surpress y●● Fears of this kind and ever praying for your hea● and welfare I assume to subscribe my self as ● Duty bound Your most Dutiful and Obedient Daughter R B. The young Lover to his Mistriss a Letter c. Dear Mistriss DId you know how much I am intangled in Lo● and what Pow'r you have over me I doubt● but you wou'd look upon me with kinder Eye Great indeed has been my diligence to signifie it● you but it seems you were insensible of the Sig● and Love-Tokens