Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	council_n	majesty_n	privy_a	11,336	5	9.5907	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77669	A map of the microcosme, or, A morall description of man newly compiled into essayes / by H. Browne.	Browne, H. (Humphry)	1642 (1642)	Wing B5115; ESTC R232470	35,011	208

A MAP OF THE MICROCOSME OR A Morall Description OF MAN Newly compiled into ESSAYES By H. BROWNE Sunt bona sunt quaedam mediocria sunt mala plura Quae legis hic aliter noa sit Avite liber Martial Ep. l. 1. LONDON Printed by T. Harper for John Williams and are to be sold at the Holy Lamb in Pauls Churchyard 164● TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE William Lord Marquess and Earle of Hartford Viscount Beuchamp Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath one of his Majesties Most Honourable privie Councell and Lord Governour to the Prince his Highness RIght Honourable the great glory of your name and unparalleled goodnesse of your nature have not invited but inforced the readiest affections of my mind like so many winged messengers to flye to your most honoured Lordship in most humble acknowledgement of that unspeakable duty and service I owe to your most noble linage which if I should forget I were worthy as Alexander once served one ●o bee branded in the forehead with Ingratus Hospes My Father had this small Parsonage he now enjoyes through the meanes of the Right Honorable your Lordships grand father of famous memory whose deserts were so great that Vertue and Fortune scemed to contend for the preheminence in crowning them had he no statue erected for him his great memory is marble to it self and his goodnesse is its owne Monument sufficient to consecrate his name to perpetuity Hee is gone Majore nostro cum damno quàm suo as Suetonius said of Titus his soule accompanyed with the winged hoast of heaven is fled to her Maker and is clothed with the glorious robes of immortality and perfect glory in heaven where I leave his blessed soule and returne to your Lordship who makes mee weigh my thoughts as it were in a ballance whether I should conceive m●re griefe for the death of your Lor●ships grandfather or more joy for enjoying your Lordship who now shines in the upper Region of honour and authority certainly 't is fit they should be equall Seeing then my joy is nothing diminished I am bold humbly to crave your Lordship● propitious favor so much as to shroud this my brood now offered with the young Eagles at the altar of your Sunne under your Honours powerfull wings that like the Sparrow which fled into the Philosopher Zenocrates his bosome from the talons of the perspicacious Hawke it may be protected from the poysonous teeth of black-mouth'd Momus in this criticall carping and censorious age As Apelles when he painted Bucephalus appealed to none but Zeuxis so I appeale from the judgement of all men to your Lordships approbation without which this meane worke of mine may be compared as Plato compared many writing Adonidis hortis writings that were of short continuance Scombros metuentia scripta Your most noble name honoured of all sorts of men being stamped in this leaden peece of my phantasie will make it currant and as Phidias his Images were wont to be rspected for the makers sake not for the stuffe so your Honour will make this Image and gain r●spect unto it for unlesse your Lordship were ultim● perfectio forma hujus materiae I might well say with Theognis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Agens verò non egi non finivi finiens I should never have presumed to crave your Honourable patronage of these first fruits of my poore endeavours or but offered them to your judicious view but that I trust you will favourably accept the will for the deed because Voluntas est mensura actionum It is enough for little Birds to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is required of beasts that are bigger Characters in the booke of Nature to bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For obscure and poore men that were not able to sacrifice a living Bull the Gentiles deemed it sufficient if they did but Taurum e●farina fingere Artaxerxes did gratiously accept of a fist-full of water from the hand of poor Cynaetas And ambitious Alexander the Great would parva libenter accipere I hope therfore most Noble Lord that as the great glory of your powerfull name is able to dispell the foggy mists of my weaknesse so your goodnesse which exceeds your greatnesse will excuse my boldnesse So shall I rejoyce more then the old Arcadians did to see nights sable canop● removed and heavens great spye the Sunne shine in his sphere againe and I will alwayes praise the Lord of Lords for your ear●hly honour praying for increase thereof beseeching him to multiply his richest blessings upon y●ur Honour here and to give you the inco●ruptible Crowne of glory hereafter Your Lordships loyall and most humble servant Humphry Browne AD Lectorem CVpio si fieri potest propitiis auribus quid sentiam dicere Sin minus dicam iratis Senec. Epist 59. A Map of the Microcosme OR A morall description of MAN Newly Compiled into ESSAIES MAN is the masterpiece of GODS workmanshippe the great miracle and monument of Nature both for externall transcendencies and inward faculties He is the abstract modell and briefe story of the universe Hee is the Analysis or resolution of the greater world into the lesse the Epitome of that huge Tome that great Manuscript of Nature wherein are written the Characters of Gods omnipotency and power the little Lord of that great Lordship the World In a word he is Gods Text and all other creatures are commentaries upon it Heaven resembles his soule earth his heart placed in the middest as a center the liver like the sea from whence the lively springs of blood doe flow the braine giving light and understanding is like the Sunne the senses set round about like starres The World is a great Man and a man is a little world as one wittily Est Microcosmus hom● venae sant flumina corpus Terra oculi duo sunt lumina silva caput The soule of man is Immortall And as Aristotle by the light of Nature saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Restat ●t mens sola extrinsecus accedat eaque sola divina sit nihil enim cum ejus actione communicat Lib. de gen anim c. 3. actio corporalis The body of man is mortall but so symmetriously composed as if nature had lost it selfe in the harmony of such a feature Omnium animātium formam vincit hominis figura Cicero 1. de nat deorum The forme of all living creatures is without forme compared to the excellent figure and composition of man Man is called in the Hebrew Adam from Adamah which signifies red earth not that solid part of it but the britlest dust His body onely is mortall and that onely per accldens occasioned by his disobedience not by creation a false perswasion of his immortality made him become mortall by the fond desire of knowing more then hee did his eyes were opened but his sight was blemished He knew indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Those Homer Odysls things that were