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	love_v	reason_n	2,986	5	5.2856	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43351	Miscellanea, or, A mixture of choyce observations and institutions, moral, and divine, composed for private use being the product of spare hours, and the meditations of J.H.	Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.	1669 (1669)	Wing H1480; ESTC R4644	40,398	215

then he that keeps low Remember if God hath given thee Children or other near Relations they claim a share in what thou hast and before thou departest hence fairly part with all it being the property of every good man not to deceive or disappoint any even in Death if thy estate mend thou mayst live up to it but not above it CHAP. LXV LEt the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest lest the greatest part of what thou believest be the lest part of what is true and report nothing for truth in earnest or in jest unless thou know it or at least confidently believe it to be so neither is it expedient at all times or in all Companies to report what thou knowest or knowest to be true sometimes it may avail thee if thou seem not to know that which thou knowest Hast thou any secret Commit it not to many nor to any unless well known unto thee CHAP. LXVI HAst thou a Friend use him friendly and abuse him not in jest or earnest conceal his infirmities privately reprove his Errours Commit thy secrets to him yet with caution lest thy friend become thy enemy and abuse thee CHAP. LXVII IF any thing befal thee which thou hast neither prudence to foresee nor power to prevent nor means to alter blame not him that sent it but bear it patiently for look abroad into the World and thou shalt fee some persons who neither want discretion to contrive nor means to effect their designes yet fail in their success others who have neither that power nor wisdom yet prosper in what they take in hand some impute this success to the influence of the Starrs Predominant in their Nativity others to blind fortune but 't is safe for thee to acknowledge him who is the cause of causes who oftentimes doth give success to the impious and improvident disappointing the wise and prudent that he himself may be acknowledged to be All in All and that vain man may have nothing after him yet the wicked shall not alwayes prosper but the pious and prudent shall at length prevail CHAP. LXVIII NEither despise nor over-much value any small thing despise it not for thou knowest not whither it may grow even those things whose beginnings have been low have grown great and thou knowest not of what use or disuse it may be unto thee The Lyon having caught a Mouse upon intreaty let her go not long after this Mouse hearing the Lyon roar sought him out and found him taken in a Net creeps to the Net and bites the cords asunder and so in requital gives the Lyon an escape Thou knowest not how far a small matter may hurt or help thee yet regard it not over-much lest thy mind be over-filled with fear and care if thou hast an enemy whose power is small fear him and have alwayes a watchful eye upon him lest thy want of fear make thee secure and thy security give him strength and this strength enable him to overcome thee CHAP. LXIX OF all the passions of thy mind beware of Love then which none is more unruly especially when the Object is unsuitable or difficult to be obtained it will fill thy mind with fear anxiety care and jealousie IN Love these vices are suspions Peace War and Impudence Detractions Dreams Cares and Errours Terrours and Affrights Immodest pranks devices flights and slights Heart-burnings wants neglects desire of wrong Loss continual expence and hurt among Yet if the object of thy affection be truly desireable and facile thou mayest love yet so that friends be thy Counsellours and reason thy conduct so shalt thou seldome miscarry Sed vix deo conceditur amare sapere It is scarce allowed to the Gods to be in love and to be wise CHAP. LXX ABove all things shun Melancholy as that which will both impare thy health delude thy fancy and discompose thy mind The Melancholy person is apt to think that to be which is not and things to be as they are not excellently described by Democritus Junior Burton's Melancholy WHen I go musing all alone Thinking of divers things fore-known When I build Castles in the Air Void of sorrow and void of fear Pleasing my self with phantasms sweet Methinks the time runs very fleet All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as Melancholy When I lye musing all alone Recounting what I have ill done My thoughts on me then Tyrannize Fear and sorrow me surprize Whether I tarry still or go Methinks the time moves very slow All my griefs to this are Jolly Naught so sad as Melancholy When to my self I act and smile With pleasing thoughts the time beguile By a Brook side or wood so green Vnheard unsought for or unseen A thousand pleasures do me bless And Crown my Soul with happiness All my joys besides are folly None so sweet as Melancholy When I lye sit or walk alone I sigh I grieve making great moan In a dark Grove or irksome den With discontents and furies then A thousand miseries at once My heavy Heart and Soul ensconce All my griefs to this are folly None so soure as Melancholy Methinks I hear methinks I see Sweet musick wondrous melody Cities towns and places fine Now here then there the World is mine Rare beauties gallant Ladies shine What ere is lovely or divine All other joyes to this are folly None so sweet as Melancholy Methinks I hear methinks I see Ghosts Goblins Fiends my fantasie Presents a thousand ugly shapes Headless Bears black-Men and Apes Doleful out cryes and fearful sights My sad and dismal Soul affrights All my griefs to this are Jolly None so damn'd as Melancholy Methinks I court methinks I kiss Methinks I now embrace my Mistris O blessed dayes O sweet content In Paradise my time is spent Such thoughts may still my fancy move So may I ever be in love All my Joyes to this are folly Naught so sweet as Melancholy When I recount loves many frights My sighs and tears my wakeing nights My jealous fits O my hard fate I now repent but 't is too late No torment is so bad as Love So bitter to my Soul can prove All my griefs to this are Jolly None so harsh as Melancholy Friends and Companions get you gone 'T is my desire to be alone Nere well but when my thoughts and I Do domineer in privacy No gemm no treasure like to this 'T is my delight my crown my bliss All my joys to this are folly None so sweet as Melancholy 'T is my sole plague to be alone I am a Beast a Monster grown I will no light no company I find it now my misery The Scene is turn'd my joys are gone Fear discontent and sorrows come All my griefs to this are jolly Naught so fierce as Melancholy I 'le not change life with any King I ravisht am can the world bring More joy then still to laugh and smile In pleasant toys