Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	aaron_n	dew_n	odour_n	15	3	9.9939	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03210	The history of Susanna Compiled according to the Prophet Daniel, amplified with convenient meditations; sung by the devoted honourer of the divine muses, George Ballard.	Ballard, George, writer of verse.	1638 (1638)	STC 1333; ESTC S114851	36,368	150

May'st o'recome Danae in her brazen towre Nations in blinded times of old bare love To Heaven when they de●sied Iove But now-adayes no Iupiter i● found For in all lands Pluto a god is 〈…〉 And through the Christian world in moder●● times In female-hearts god Mammo● highly climbes Gold is a Load-starre to their loves it can Draw them to fancy any wealthy man To winne a golden Husband some devise To cover all Natures informities If fairnesse dwindles in their cheekes they will Water't with Clarets and bestow their skill Lest Titan's kisses staine their painted skin Their fannes and veiles shall mew their beauties in If they have bouncing limbs the same are pennd In leatherne prisons proportion to amend If they want grace by art in fac● they bring Of white and red a second beauty's Spring Such when I see Lord how compleatly vaine Thinke I is all god Mammon's following traine Such yeeld's this world affording other some Contemning gold which covet wealth to come Not in this world whose parents that did breed them With blessed food Helcias-like did feed them And they not worldly minded never marry But where they find the feare of Heaven tarry Slighting Earth-treasures they will not approve Mortals for mortall riches worthy love They with Susannan vertues are endi●●ae Of them i● but a slender multitude Who haply train'd in faintly education Can joyne their love with Christian moderation With so much comelinesse as their complexions A man would deeme full of divine perfections And such like Capharean Lanternes give Them light which in nocturnall darknesse live Such when I see I seeme to see the graces Of heav'nly Angels shrin'd in human● faces And then I thinke if such perfection dwels With Saints abiding in terrestriall cell In mortall mansions of flesh what stories Can shew the heav'nly ones supernall glories Sect III. ARGUMENT Ioachim to Helcias ●oes His love unto Susanna showes Her Sire assents his speeches ●●ines Her heart and marriage-day obtaines NOw when Susanna's beauty through the towne And Provinces was b●azon'd up and downe Some Noble Lords who liv'd in Babylon Sought her in marriage 〈◊〉 her Paragon Of fairest beauties so all tongues agreed Who her in wooing had as haplesse speed As those gay Dames that whilome but in vaine Suppos'd the yong Lord Ioachims love to gaine For old Hel●ias though his daughter could Not fancy them fearing in time she would Susanna listning to her constant Lover Her whisp'ring friends in corners do discover A glorious combat in her countenance By all the Graces fought in puissance A pleasant battle none of them would yeild To lose the glory of that honour'd field Aurora's blush of ruby countenance Nor Maiden Cynthia's silver-radiance Nor deawly Vesper's Crimson-colour'd skie Nor via lactea's heavenly milken die Nor Doves nor Roses could such colours show As in her countenance did come and goe It seems her judgment wisely did approve His Courtly learning in the schoole of Love For yer Titania with her horned brow Wādred on high 12 heav'nly mansions through She was affianc'd at her father's boo●d To Ioachim her overjoyfull Lord. Glad as our Lovers were their friends and they Prefixt the wedding's ceremoniall day Which soon expires and in his nuptiall bands The mariage-god conjoyns them heart hands Glad Io-Peans Hymen then did sing And to their wedding pompe and glory bring What shall I say such mariage unbereaven Of happinesse was forecontriv'd in heaven To tell the Bride and Bridegroom's going forth With various musick quaintest songs of mirth When spangled anadems bedeckt the brow Of Madam Bride time scanteth me to show Suffice it you she was attended on By all the stately trains of Babylon And through that town to honour Susan's name Loud Cymbals ring out Naptha bonfires flame Tilts Tournaments and great triumphant sport Honour'd her Nuptials in great Babels Court. MEDIT. III. Verus amor odit moras THe best love-potion is whoever prove Vertuous affection it obtaineth love True love resembling unction powr'd upon The Crown of Aaron thence descending on His beard and garment-skirts that left behind Odours which to devotion mov'd the mind 'T is like the fine dew of Hermoni●●-fountains Gently distilling upon Sion-mountains 'T is purest fire extracted from the Pole Surpassing that that fond Prometheus stole It being enkindled by Celestiall breath Burns till extinguisht by the hand of death In vertuous soules of men Beauty alone ●n●ends it not it dures when beauty's gone 〈◊〉 profit not on pleasure it depend's Pleasure and profit on true love attends True love disdaineth all ignoble ends It 〈…〉 hearts in that contentive chai● Which World 's great builder did for man ordain Not in the earth where bloud and wrong abounds But in the bosome of Elizian grounds By love and wedlock highest God who then Made two of one made them two one agen Leaving the same for signals to abide Of Heavens bridegroome and his holy bride Could men of such a Theme no verses make Mountains and Rocks would warblings undertake Lowd eccho answ'ring them again would sing And shame upon unthankfull men would bring Our soules Redeemer by his 〈◊〉 divine To honour these turn'd water into wine At Galilean Canaan God declar'd Heav'n-joyes unto a wedding feast compar'd But for true-love and marriage-propagation The World had still remain'd in desolation O love and wedlock chasing wanton fires Which in our soules the Paphian god inspires In you the poore man's joyes 〈◊〉 abound As his whose browes with fined gold are 〈◊〉 You empty dwellings fill and are a signe Of Sions bridegroome and his love divi●● Your praise alas my Muse too saintly sings Let some good Angell spread his shining wings Descending on them from supernall Quire And bring with him some sempiternall Lyre To strike with aires of Heav'n the eares of men And shew how much indebted mortals been To Heav'n for these let duller worldlings be Ravisht to heare celestiall melody When he shall strike his more than Orphean string Stones streames and woods will dance about and sing Sect. IV. ARGUMENT Ioachim and Susann's love Crown'd with blessings from above They have beauteous children faire Mansions and Gardens rare OVr married Lovers full of high content Live merry lives in Fortune's blandishment God showr's abundant blessings on them down Giving them children wedlock joyes to crown In whose composure Elements conspire To turn themselves into eternall fire The vertuous Of-spring of the patient Ioh For beauty famous in this earthen Globe Whose fairnes sham'd the finest flowres of May Were not more amiably faire then they Lord Ioachim and Lady Susan were When ever nam'd Musick to ev'ry eare Their joy abound's on earth Fortune's Sunne With golden-beames on them serenely shone No sadning want no sorrow-bringing strife Was known to burthen their good mariage-life But in their bosome dwell'd a purer love Then what the Tur●le beare●s his fellow-dove Their dwellings for the years bine seazōs stand Like little Temples in a holy Land Within