Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	john_n	sir_n	viscount_n	32,713	5	12.1426	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36720	The accomplish'd woman written originally in French ; since made English by the Honourable Walter Montague, Esq.; Honneste femme. English	Du Bosc, Jacques, d. 1660.; Montagu, Walter, 1603?-1677.	1656 (1656)	Wing D2407A; ESTC R3125	57,674	154

hurtfull to them because if they discover their suspitions to be false they are obliged to repentance if they find them true they cannot be too miserable for being too curious Those that thinke jealousie or envy was the sinne of the Angels do halfe justifie those that have this passion since Angels were capable of it with all their illumination which is so above the reach of men But we learn too by this example that it was that which made hell and that every day renders many miserable by their own delights even to drive lovers out of Paradise if there be one in imaginary contentments There is no malice black enough to blind this passions capacity it gives craft to the dullest and perverts the most vertuous to seek satisfaction for this injury Cyrce jealous of Silla fearing that Glausus was in love with her poisoned the water where she did ordinarily bathe to make a monster of a Nimph Murder poison and witch-craft are but sports jealousy has no bound to its inventions and crimes but impossibility t is strange that those that pass their time are notwithstanding jealous of their husbands and violate the law of nature as well as of Divinity not enduring to be paid what they lend Women are most commonly debauched because they practice what they fear and their apprehension arises from their experience Jealous spirits never confess their error but when there is no help for it All the world knows Herods suspitions of Mariana only because she was handsome having no other ground to believe her faulty but because her merit might make her be sollicited but what fury and rage is this after that he had put this innocent Lady to death he calls for her as if she had not been dead and thinks to find her in his palace as if he had not sent her to her grave This Tyrant would have committed many of their crimes in a month since he forgot them so soon and had as ill a memory as a judgment Jealousie carries us out of our selves we have some reason to disavow the effects of it when we are come back and when we consider the malice and extravagancy of it We do often by his example grieve many to death by our suspitions and then we sorrow for it to no purpose rendring them their reputation by our repentance but not their life which they have given to Melancholy because we do too late convict our blindnesse to justifie their innocence The reports of ill spoken women made Prochis jealous of her husband Cephalus she imagined he had a Mistris which he went to seek in the woods under the pretence of hunting she hid her self behind a bush thinking to hear the discourse of his solitary thoughts he hearing a noise and believing it was a Deer shot an arrow at it which hit her in the heart she dying cried out Cephalus This word made him know that he had taken his wife for a beast it may be he was not deceived it is to be very senseless so lightly to abandon our reason give a belief to our worst interpretation of the best things An ingenuous liberty is a better guard then any restraint freedom extinguishes desire and interdiction kindles it When the opportunities of sin are common they are neglected when they are rare they are made use of lest they should not be met with again so commodiously In any case how extreme soever jealousie were me thinks the jealousie of Vulcan should remedy it when he was jealous of Mars and Venus he spread nets to take them in presence of all the gods but afterwards what got he by all his curiosity and dexterity but to be declared infamous with more solemnity even to be thrown from heaven with a broken leg Yet for fear of being deceived in this matter we must take notice that jealousie is for love envy for fortune and emulation for vertue the goods of fortune are too gross and material those of love too light for our minds only those of vertue deserve to be made their object 'T is for her only that competitors endure one another in their designs and there is no more sedition or dispute amongst them then there is for the impropriation of the light of the Sun or the influence of the Stars So we see among the ancients that the three Graces hold one another by the hand and are united in the alliance of vertue while the three Goddesses are quarrelling for the apple of beauty and the Triumvirate cannot agree about the possession of the Empire If we must joyn for this Christianity to morality to find retreats for the persecution of jealousie let us make use of holy Ioseph and the Virgin to teach us that the chastest of women has made jealous the simplest of men There is sometimes more mis-fortune in it then ill meaning we must neglect the apparencies like him and suffer suspicions like her It is no small consolation to thinke that after all the proofs and testimonies that may seem to constrain us to conclude ill it is better in this extremity to believe a miracle then a sin and to acknowledge the power of God rather then the weaknesse of the creature FINIS Pag. 78. last line but two read forgive line penult 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