Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	faith_n	love_v	2,537	5	6.2010	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42215	The [French-man] and the Spaniard, or, [The two great lights] of the world, displayed in lively [characters] representing the antipathy of their humours and different dispositions [with an impartiall survey] of the customes of both those nations / by R.G., Gent.; Oposicion y conjuncion de los dos grandes luminares de la tierra. English	García, Carlos, doctor.; Gentilis, Robert.	1642 (1642)	Wing G210; ESTC R7504	61,948	291

mean that all his actions have none other end but that which they then have and possesse remembring neither that which is past nor that which may happen and so for a content and pleasure in hand they forget all past adversities and make no count of any thing which may come though they know assuredly that that very occasion once past it shall surely happen to them The Spaniards are quite contrary who weigh all their actions with the scale of what is past and what is to come not plunging themselves in the content and enjoyment of the present without thinking weighing or esteeming all inconveniences which may ensue and therefore reducing this point to two words I say that the French mans memory is about the present if one may beare present things in memory and the Spaniards is of that which is past and is to come the French will easily remember or forget a thing being quickly angry for any present wrong done to them and easily forget and pardon it Your Spaniards must be much urged before they will remember an offence but once had in minde they will hardly forget it I could make a whole book and a large volume of the contrarieties and antipathies which are in their wills if I might speak all that which truly I might without distasting of neither nation I will therefore be content without touching the vertues or vices which might bee found in either God onely being perfect and without fault to say that there is no nation in the world so patient and suffering as the Spanish nation is so that it will never quarrell nor contend unlesse it be upon a more then urgent occasion which must prick him on to it The French contrariwise if you doe them but a haires breadth of offence or injury he presently makes a breach and will never rest till they be revenged by fighting The Spaniards are true firme and constant in their loves so that many times they goe beyond the bounds of affection adoring that which they love and with so much fidelity that they would bee afraid to annoy it so much as with a thought and they inviolably preserve this faith no chance whatsoever being able to remove them from what they professe yea they are so affected to their will that many times they lose their judgement which never happens to the French who are so mutable in their wills and purposes and so voluble that having set their affection upon one they will settle it upon a hundred more if so many should come to them And if any there be as there are many that have not this defect yet their affections are to changeable that the least anger in the world will change their fire of love into a colder snow then that which is in winter upon the Pyrenean mountaines A French man that is in his Mistrisses favour will doe what he can to let his friendes and all the world know his being in favour and his being acceptable unto her a thing much abhorred by the Spaniard who if he be in any such predicament with all care and diligence will seeke to hide his content from his friends and all the world and even from himselfe if it were possible Finally in this particuler they have two contrary motions The French man seekes to have that seene which lies hidden The Spaniard seekes nothing more then to hide that which is outward and in light The Spaniards delight extreamly in outward apparance and honour caring more to satisfie the world then for their owne interests so that they care not for suffering want or misery so that it be not known and there are some who being in places that they must goe abroad handsome in cloathes want will bring them to that extremity that they will fast two daies to have a handsome cloak and a starched ruffe to goe abroad in and they will carry themselves so lustily well disposed and haughty that you would thinke they had kept a very good house Contrariewise the French have no other end in their actions but their proper interest and pleasure so that if he may but fare well in his diet he cares not what the world can say and if necessity sorce him to it he will sell his cloake his sword yea his very shirt and drawers and after he hath consumed them hee will goe forth naked if need be into the street to give his friends satisfaction holding it no disgrace to say that he hath sold them to buy food If a Spaniard be so neere driven that hee must sell his cloathes to buy food hee will first sell his shirt seeing that with his doublet and ruffe he covers the want of it and if his need increases he will sell his doublet covering his body with his cloake after his doublet goes his sword after that his ruffe and the last thing of all is his cloake But the French man when he is in want doth quite contrary beginning where the Spaniard ends and the first thing hee sells is his cloake next his doublet then his britches and last of all his shirt in want there is none more valiant and fearlesse then the Spaniard nor is there any are more timorous then the French if he want victualls A Spaniard will live three daies upon a peece of bread and will not bee dismaid or shew losse of courage but if the French man wants his pottage but one day he thinkes himselfe lost and undone A Spaniards generositie is notable when he begs an almes seeing hee will never confesse hee doth it for necessity but by some accident or disaster that he was forced to save his life and his honour to cloath himselfe in a poore habit beg in the streets and the words he useth when he begs shall bee these or the like Please you Sir to doe some curtesie for a poore cavallier who is come out of his Countrey for such a mischance that hee hath beene forced to cloath himselfe in this habit as you see And when you know who it is that begs as long it shall not bee before you doe know you will thinke your selfe happy that you pleasured a man of my condition and qualitie and if by chance he that hears him and hearkens to his complete speeches aske him who hee is and what mischance he hath had having first made him sweare that he wil not discover him he will answer that he is nephew to an Earle or Duke or brother to the Admirall of Castile and that a great Princesse falling in love with him he conveyed her out of her fathers house in mans apparell which being discovered by her parents he was forced to absent himselfe and live in that fashion unknown till his friends had made peace and hee will say that he hath fifteene or twenty thousand crowns a year and eight or ten Baronies Finally the Spaniard then shews his generosity most when hee sees himselfe most crossed But if a Frenchman comes to that passe