Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	heart_n	know_v	love_v	16,933	5	6.0649	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80417	The true character of a noble gennerall: seen and allowed of by His Excellencie, the Earl of Essex. Written in prose and verse.	Cooke, William, 17th cent.	1644 (1644)	Wing C6044; Thomason E52_4; ESTC R21642	4,780	10

The true Character of a Noble GENNERALL ●een and Allowed of by His Excellencie The Earl of ESSEX Written in Prose and Verse The Earl of Essex LONDON Printed by Iohn Hammond 1644. The Epistle Dedicatory to His Excellence the Earle of ESSEX MAy it please Your Excellence to accept the affectionated tender of your humble servant for why your Noble and Iuditious Honor hath still been held a Patron of the Muses a Lover of Arts and Art-like Siences and all good Arts ingenious man attaines to Let not me then dispaire though the first dip of my weak forward Pen ascend unto so high a Dedication I gently crave it might not meet refection because it is my love if so it would quite kill my hopes prepared journey and that sacred Mount I now am labouring up fall from 't and perish and made a scorne unto the Lawrell tree in my desire to touch it but noble Nature mixt with gentill Spirits ascends like Mirrh unto the saving Heavens and gives the same desire to you on earth from whose favours warmth I hope my spring flourish and these few mixt Poems here in Prose and Verse he mildly sensured and my obedient Service with my love thought free from flattery to whose Noble and Iuditeous sensure I recommend them unto Your Excellencies view And desire to be found Your Excellencies most humble Servant William Cooke The true description of a Noble Generall In Prose and Verse A Noble Generall by the generall assent of the high voice of great Authority being handed to the Piramide of Honour over whose top the golden Truucheon and the Verdant Wreath his worthinesse as worthily receives should be just such a man as hath it In which discretion shewed her Master-piece in calling such a Pillar of the State to their securer and more State supportance for as the lightning cleeres the troubled Aire when hot contagion mixeth amongst the Clouds and gives the Earth a healthier temperature so choosing of a man whose noble minde in all his actions was his Names expressor The peoples loves in whose hearts hee was wrapt in chose themselves forth to be his followers forsooke their wives their children and their sttates And when his Drummes beat up old Englands March and waving Ensignes cut the fleeting Aire Their Airey spirits back't their mettled steeds whose hot disdainfull pride champing their burnish't bits foame snow'd the earth as scorning it should bare them So diligence still waits upon love And as a Generall in all his state the very Pageant of Collosius warre being heavens great man should so be heavens good man as questionlesse he is that weares this charge for when Mars calls him to his maled throne and with the Plumes of honour crownes his head acquaints him with his whole artillery shewes him the rules and husbandrie of Warre brings him through all the cunn●ng laborinthes tells him his Statutes Lawes Edicts and Councells with it the Christians Conscience and the care the golden Plummets of the hearts even ballence where pure integrity from hearts corrupt reignes Monarch of the whole Celestiall frame shaping his life so cleane so white so good that he defies all stratagems against him though hell should for him make a Machivill whose own hot braine contains the quintiscence of all that ever from that man●ion leapt Yet the just Souldier spurnes at him and that were all the dangers from the Corners brought wrap'd up in Whirl-windes on an Earth quake mounted and every danger usher'd with new death according to the nature of each terrour yet all this to the Noble Martialist makes not feares breath so strong to shake the smallest haire upon his head There is the confidence of honesty whose Hoaste reignes under his command with love And where his love leads on with good discretion not justled by vaine glory thorough the applause of wide-mouth'd rumor popularity but knows true Martial distance to an Inch how to bring on with courage and with care And with the same care to bring oft againe to husband lives to cheri●● and repaire the ruines that red warre makes breaches thorough not he that in a tempest hurries men like violent thunder bursting through the Clowdes to set his Souldiers at a doubtful stake and at one cast to winne or loose the set to fill the fields with groanes of dying men and Citie Hospitalls with halting Criples making their deathes and maymes his recreation and with hosterities over-ruling sway com●and the●r Loves obedience tho●ough fear to say He this and that did by his Valour his fame like terrour shouting through the eares of those that gives the names of Enemies such Souldiers are and men of great esteem and praise though there be difference in equality Yet where sweet mildnesse swayes it is the best and shewes him most a Gentleman to whose known deserts brave worthy Sir in all things sance flattery I give you but your due The same in Verse WHo mount will to the top of Golden honour And there display bright fame and fortunes banner Must be discreet and all his Actions such Envie may tremble his fair Name to touch 'T is not to say I have been here and there In Holland ' gainst the Spaniard or else-where Where testimonie of his valours soe Hee took a Towne yet no re strook a blowe How he was shot in scaling such a Fort. And how came off making his paine his sport How hee was threatned by the States to be At least an Ensigne for his Chevalrie Such guilded motes but dance in Souldiers beames Whose praise is like a bubble full of Dreames To this truthes historie of man saith so They weare the name of Souldier but for showe But shaddowes banish for I now discry The rising of the Sunne whose glories high There needs no more addition then thy Name To get ovr loves yet thou hast gotten fame With it a Title of High Excellence Which doth so well become thee in my sense That it is farre more honour'd in thy wearing Then is thy goodnesse by the Titles bearing Great Sonne of Warre and Love put on thy Bayes Expell Romes Idolls bring home Haltian dayes That thy bright Fame in this Exchange of Warre May ESSEX Name convert into a Starre And may it to those 〈◊〉 thee not appeare A Meteor to or'e-whelme their hearts with feare By goodnesse I hate flattery and yet my love is so I must run thus whether I will or no I should with Injury abuse thy Worth Giving thy High deserts abortive birth If I not write my thoughts For if all that loves thee could or would thus doe What volumnes could be dedicate to You If it were otherwise Great Sir bee 't knowne People have hearts that would not thus be showne For two Conditions guides thee popular state Either pure Love or else deteste● hate Bigg swells the sailes where the strong gale blowes full But a still silence where affections dull Honour winnes Fame either for state or warres But he most merrits venters