Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	daughter_n	son_n	william_n	21,930	5	7.9428	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67262	Periamma ʼepidemion, or, Vulgar errours in practice censured also The art of oratory, composed for the benefit of young students.	Walker, Obadiah, 1616-1699.; Battell, Ralph, 1649-1713.; Jension, Thomas, 1635 or 6-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing W408; ESTC R16501	51,264	130

Practises The first pretended use is Love shewed in them to the deceased But composers of Epitaphs strive to shew their Wit not their Love He shew'd neither who made himself and his subject ridiculous to after-Ages by the composing of this Epitaph Hic jacet in requie Woodcock John vir generosus Major Londoniae Mercerus valde morosus Or the Author of that upon William Longspee base sonne to Hen. 2. by Rosamond daughter to Walter Lord Clifford in a simple allusion to his name Flos Comitum Willielmus cognomine Longus Ensis vaginam coepit habere brevem There be passages enough for thee to vent thy Love and more perhaps then thou wilt willingly make use of and those of a more noble strain As by being pathetically ceremonious in the decent a restitution of his Body as did the Aegyptian Queen towards the departed M. Anthony By a vindication of his Credit if called in question by malevolent tongues As b many have shewed kindnesse to Epicurus in wiping off the aspersions of his sensuality and brutish behaviour by shewing his obedience to the c Stoicks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and declaring that his pursuit was after Spirits not Dregs after the refined Pleasure of the Mind not the faeculent delight of the Body By Liberality of head and hand in counselling or relieving those of Consanguinity or Familiarity with thy deceased Friend contrary to the practice of a Iustinian the second who having lost his Kingdome and Nose by the cruelty of the Usurper Leontius and being after a tedious exile repossess'd of the former caus'd some of the friends of Leontius to be put to death as often as he would have wiped his Nose if he had had it If thy friend was a good man endeavour not to express thy love in Verse for that will be a vain attempt for thou wilt go beyond his worth and turn Parasite now Love and Flattery Non bene conveniunt scarce admit of a mutuall Copulation Follow him not with the feet of a Poeticall Fancy but with the feet of a godly Conversation and therein will be the expression of thy Love towards him and his for so his Memory survives in thee whilst thou treadest in his steps and thou livest thy Friend over again Herein will the fire of thy Love sparkle and shine forth in that thou art so diffusive of thy goodnesse towards his friends as to continue in thee the good example which was set before them in him abolished by Death to their Detriment but revived by thee to their Benefit If thy Friend whom Death hath taken into possession was whilst living a whelp of the roaring Lion a son of his father the Devill a drop belonging to the bottomlesse pit when thou writest his Epitaph thou blottest out thine own love Thou she west not thy Affection but thy Indiscretion in the discovery of his Nakednesse and in the exposing to publick view of present and future times the deviations of his life Now if thou writest thou art bound to do this by the law of Sincerity which layes an engagement upon thee to decipher him with the pencill of truth and not where he is defic●ent to adde colour of thine own as Xenophon is supposed to have done in his Cyrus and is therefore accounted by some a Painter rather then an Historian a setter of a Pattern for a good Prince not a writer of a Description of a Prince so good The most sensible evidence of thy Love to such a person which can come within the compasse of imagination is not the writing of his Epitaph but the not transcribing of so foul a Copy the making him one of thine Antipodes and not making him still live by thine imitation for hereby in probability thou wilt cease from contributing more links to his everlasting chains from heaping more coals upon his head who is in the midst of an intolerable Furnace For so some make conjecture from the importunity of a Dives in the wildernesse of Hell with Abraham in the typifi'd Canaan for a Monitor for his Brethren that since there is not a spark of true Charity in the flames of Hell and that they onely harbour a self-respect the Torments of the Damned receive addition according to the extensivenesse of their bad Example in the practice of their followers The second pretended use is that thereby the Memory is continued to Posterity But how is this agreeable to Epitaphs in their minority unto the custome in their first inst●tution when they were onely mournfull Dirges sighed out with affectionate lungs at the interrment of the dead existing onely vivâ voce and dying with that breath which gave them life Gordianus lives and his memory is with us untill this day notwithstanding a the five-fold dissolution of his Epitaph The memory of Adrian must needs be conveyed to us after a more comely manner then that of his Horse and yet time hath spared the Beasts Epitaph but not his Masters Noble atchievements and Learned accomplishments will transmit the Memory to after-ages without the favour of the tongue of an Epitaph and in despite of the teeth of Time Nam neque Pyramidum sumptus ad sidera ducti b Nec Iovis Elei coelum imitate domus Nec Mausolei dives fortuna sepulchri Mortis ab extrema conditione vacant At non ingenio quaesitum nomen ab aevo Excidet Ingenio stat sine morte decus To which may be joyned that of the Lofty Virgil Marmora Maeonii vincunt monumenta libelli Vivitur ingenio caetera mortis erunt Caesar will live till the funerall of the world in his Commentaries and Cardan in his own opinion a in his Fomahant Horace was perswaded that his poeticall feet would carry him to Immortality and make his Name durable beyond brazen Statues and stately Pyramids b Exegi monumentum aere perennius Regalique situ Pyramidum altius And Naso told the world he should live to the end of it in his Metamorphosis Iamque opus exegi quod nec Iovis ira● nec ignis Nec poterit ferrum nec edax abolere vetustas Neither of them trusted to the courtesie of an Epitaph to enroll their names in an everlasting Register If the party that hath felt the arrow of death was o● a bad life and an inglorious Name wayes had need be invented to obliterate not to perpetuate his Memory What well-regulated mind would desire to be●● remem●red like Thersites for his cowardise or to exist like Herostratus to succeeding years and as many subsist in this present Age by the firing of a Temple Some Epitaphs take notice onely of an empty title as that upon the tomb of that famous Rowland Nephew to Charles le magne slain in the battell of Roncivalles and enterred at Blauz in Xantogne which declared that he was a Primus Comes Palatinus And some make mention onely of a bare Name