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	husband_n	wife_n	2,730	5	6.6528	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11423	A second and third blast of retrait from plaies and theaters the one whereof was sounded by a reuerend byshop dead long since; the other by a worshipful and zealous gentleman now aliue: one showing the filthines of plaies in times past; the other the abhomination of theaters in the time present: both expresly prouing that that common-weale is nigh vnto the cursse of God, wherein either plaiers be made of, or theaters maintained. Set forth by Anglo-phile Eutheo.; De gubernatione Dei. Book 6. English	Salvian, of Marseilles, ca. 400-ca. 480.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633, attributed name.	1580 (1580)	STC 21677; ESTC S105761	39,276	142

changed in life I would wish therefore al maisters not onlie to withdraw themselues but their seruants also frō such wicked assemblies For it is alwaies wisedome to shun the occasions of euil Youth wilbe withdrawen by companie if they be not restrained of their libertie They neede not to seeke out for schoole-masters they can learne euil too fastof them-selues and are pregnant enough at home to learne vnhappines Manie of nature honest and tractable haue bene altered by those showes and spectacles and become monsterous Mans minde which of it selfe is proane vnto vice is not to be pricked forward vnto wantonnes but bridled if it be left vnto it selfe it hardlie standeth if it be driuen forth it runneth headlong Flee far from Baby lon yee that carrie the Lordes vessels Forsomuch as yee are baptized into Christ it standeth you vpō to be holie both of bodie and minde to dedicate your felues to his seruice which yee shal neuer do vnles ye withdraw your selues from the inticements of vanitie and eschue the occasions of euil which that yee maie the better do yee are to fasten your eies vpon God by whome we are sanctified Let not the examples of the wicked be a president vnto vs neither let vs be drawen away to euil with the multitude Custome shal but make vs bold in sin and the companie of scorners make vs more impudent and disordered of life It is not enough for vs to excuse our selues by the doings of other men it wil not be taken for an excuse although we could alleage that euerie man doth as wee doe For it is no meanes to acquite vs before God to saie that other be no better than our selues I would rather wish that the euil conuersation of others might be an occasion to drawe vs backe least perhaps we be wrapped in the vices that raigne in al the wicked and so be partakers of the punishment due to them For we are not to walke as men that looke but onlie vpon the creatures but our part is to set God before our eies whose presence we cannot possiblie escape It is maruelous to consider how the gesturing of a plaier which Tullie termeth the eloquence of the bodie is of force to moue and prepare a man to that which is il For such thinges be disclosed to the eie and to the eare as might a great deale better be kept close Whereby a double offence is committed first by those dissolute plaiers which without regard of honestie are not ashamed to exhibite the filthiest matters they can deuise to the sight of men secondly by the beholders which vouchsalfe to heare and behold such filthie things to the great losse both of themselues and the time There cōmeth much euil in at the eares but more at the eies by these two open windowes death breaketh into the soule Nothing entereth in more effectualie into the memorie than that which commeth by seeing things heard do lightlie passe awaie but the tokens of that which wee haue seene saith Petrarch sticke fast in vs whether we wil or no and yet they enter not into vs vnles we be willing except verie seldome Alack what violence carieth vs awaie to be merie an hower and alwaies after to be sad to see that at one time which a thousande times after wee shal rue that euer we sawe it Manie haue ben intangled with the webs of these Spiders who would gladlie haue bene at libertie when they could not The webs are so subtillie spun that there is no man that is once with in them that can auoide them without danger None can come within those snares that maie escape vntaken be she maide matrone or whatsoeuer such force haue their inchantements of pleasure to drawe the affections of the mind This inward fight hath vanquished the chastitie of manie women some by taking pittie on the deceitful teares of the stagelouers haue bene mooued by their complaint to rue on their secret frends whome they haue thought to haue tasted like torment some hauing noted the ensamples how maidens restrained from the marriage of those whome their frends haue misliked haue there learned a policie to preuent their parents by stealing them awaie some seeing by ensample of the stage plaier one carried with too much liking of an other mans wife hauing noted by what practise she hath bene assailed and ouertaken haue not failed to put the like in effect in earnest that was afore showen in iest The wilines craft of the stage is not yet so great as is without on the scaffoldes For that they which are euil disposed no sooner heare anie thing spoken that maie serue their turne but they applie it vnto themselues Alas saie they to their familiar by them Gentlewoman is it not pittie this passioned louer should be so martyred And if he finde her inclining to foolish pittie as commonlie such women are then he applies the matter to himselfe and saies that he is likewise caried awaie with the liking of her crauing that pittie to be extended vpō him as she seemed to showe toward the afflicted amorous stager These running headed louers are growen so perfect scholers by long continuance at this schoole that there is almost no worde spoken but they can make matter of it to serue their turne They can so surelie discouer the conceits of the minde and so cunninglie handle themselues are growen so subtile in working their matters that neither the ielosie of Iuno who suspecteth al things nor the streight keeping of Danaes maie debar nor the watchfulnes of Argoes with his hundred eies espie Credite me there can be found out no stronger engine to batter the honestie as wel of wedded wiues as the chastitie of vnmarried maides and widowes than are the hearing of common plaies There wanton wiues fables and pastorical songes of loue which they vse in their comical discourses al which are taken out of the secret armorie of Venus practising bawderie turne al chastitie vpside downe corrupt the good disposition manners of youth insomuch that it is a miracle if there be foūd anie either woman or maide which with these spectacles of strange lust is not oftentimes inflamed euen vnto furie The nature of their Comedies are for the most part after one manner of nature like the tragical Comedie of Calistus where the bawdresse Scelestina inflamed the maiden Melibeia with her forceries Do wee not vse in these discourses to counterfet witchcraft charmed drinkes amorous potions thereby to drawe the affections of men to stir them vp vnto lust to like euen those whome of them-selues they abhor The ensamples whereof stirre vp the ignorant multitude to seeke by such vnlawful meanes the loue goodwil of others I can tel you a storie of like practise vsed of late by a ielous wife to her husband whose hart being as she thought estranged otherwise than of custome did practise with a sorceresse to haue some powder