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	heart_n	true_a	3,082	5	4.2829	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06457	The virgins A B C. Or, An alphabet of vertuous admonitions, for a chast, modest and well- governed maid. The tune is, The young mans A B C.		1681-1684? (1684)	Wing V637B; ESTC R234202	1,626	1

The Virgins A. B. C. OR An Alhpabet of Vertuous Admonitions for a Chast Modest and well-governed Maid The Tune is The Young-Mans A. B. C. ALL you faithful Virgins to this song give ear And learn these Lessons which are taught you here An Alphabet of Vertues are here set Being learn'd will make a Maid compleat BEar not a scornful mind although you are Beautious as Hellen or like Venus fair It ill becomes a forehead smooth and white To threaten anger in a Lovers sight CHuse thou a modest carriage and still be Courteous and not too coy in company Their nature's changing and too much unkind Who hath a comely face and scornful mind DIsdainful never seem nor yet too much Dote on your faces beauty slighting such As sue for Love least creeping age come on And then to late your folly you bemoan EXchange no love but always constant be Esteem true Love a perfect treasury For where true love and beauty doth unite It yields both parties both their hearts delight FEign no affection but where vows are past Fix there your heart there let your love be plac't For if by feigned wiles loves knot be ty'd It breeds dissention 'twixt the Groom Bride GRow not too proud though smiling fortune do Great store of wealth and her best gifts bestow For pride the Proverb says must have a fall And so must Maidens widdows wives and all HAst not too much for marriage nor the thing Which doth not pleasure but doth sorrow bring For hasty lovers often do destroy Their sweets of Love e're they their hopes injoy IF you do chuse a man whom you affect Injure him not with any disrespect But wary be and e're loves knot you tye Prove first your own and then his constancy K Knowledge is gained by experience and by this Thou may'st arrive unto the height of bliss First try then tru●● the which when you have prov'd You both may love and be as well belov'd LOok e're you leap the proverb still doth say Let not smooth tongues your love to Lust betray In fairest Grass a Snake is often found And smoothest tongues with falshood much abound MOan not too much nor be thou always sad Mirth sometimes may became a vertuous Maid Yet use not too much laughter lest you be Slighted and scorn'd for your immodesty NOr use uncivil talk or gesture light Nor in unseemly wantonness delight But keep chast behavour that you may Have good report in every kind of way OFfend not with a foul and slandrous tongue Of them that do not think thee any wrong But speak thou well of all and always do With others as you would have them to do with you PAint not your beauty when it is decay'd Prize not that for a jewel that will fade And when you 've done the best will fade away And through red Cheeks a wrinkled brow display QVench in thy self all lusts inflaming fires Which may provoke thee to such unchast desires For though a while such pleasure please thy mind Yet sorrow want and beggary comes behind REmember next how like a fading flower The earths best treasures vanish in an hour And now the best of things you can enjoy The Sithe of tune shall cut and death destroy SEek therefore richer gifts then he can give So shalt thou in a state most surely live For though fair beauty deck thy outward part Yet inward vertue best adorns thy heart TRy that rich jem which when thou hast attain'd Thou hast a vertuous Maids chief beauty gain'd And if fair Vertue do thy courses steer Like loves fair daughter thou shalt bright appear VAin beauty's but a triffle that a while Dame nature lends thee with a flattering smile Which lovers gaze at and with greedy hands Each one would crop its blossoms as it stands WHilst in its fullest ripeness it is grown When 't is decay'd their loves are with it gone Let then this he thy care and chiefest strife To live a vertuous Maid and honest Wife XAntippe like the wife of Socrates Affect thou not thy husband to displease Nor with a railing tongue persue his will And in humility obey him still YEild not to others when you once are wed The pleasures of your lawful husbands bed For if you you guilty be of such a fact Thou shalt not escape unpunisht for that act ZEalous be thou in all these vertues prove Both constant chast and loyal to your love And if these Lessons well you learn for thee 'T is truly stil'd the Vrigins A B C. Printed for J. Wright J. Clarke W. Thackeray and T. Passinger