Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	air_n	earth_n	element_n	2,483	5	9.5484	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06167	A fig for Momus containing pleasant varietie, included in satyres, eclogues, and epistles, by T.L. of Lincolnes Inne Gent.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1595 (1595)	STC 16658; ESTC S109568	23,955	72

that formd the stile But his that did the sence compile Damian Since thou canst argue so for age My voice with harpe some warre shall wage And I will sing thee such a lay As erst I heard my Ringde play At Galateas wedding feast Where sea to heare his musicke ceast Cantus THere was a time or writers haue missung UUherein our partiall mothers ballance hung UUith equall poise and fish wild beastes and birds Had vse of reason and of needfull words VVherein foure-footed beasts of sauadge field UUho sought the state of winged fowles to wield Conspir'd the better to defence their states To chuse the fish to be their mutuall mates UUho vainly trusting to their fraile defence Consented quickly to the beastes pretence Supposing nature equallie had lent Like force in earth as liquid element Hereon ambition egging on the flocks Of proud foure-footed beasts the shoares and rocks UUere fild with fish and heauen with shoutes and cries And gastlie breathings almost lost his eies UUhen all the foules embatail'd in the aire Seeing their fortunes almost in despaire Besought the Gods who all iniustice hate To be assistant in this dire debate Ioue by a thunderclap a signall gaue Vpon their prayers they should good fortune haue And speedily sent out the Southerne wind To driue the waters from their bounds assind A murren on the beasts he thrilled downe UUhilst thus the reuerend iudge doth threat and frowne The fowles they stoupe and offering vrgent blowes Finde hartles beastes and each where liueles foes The fish on waueles shore disperst and left Of pride and life were all at once bereft The fowles preuaild and fed them fat with pray And after victors like did flie away And beating off the aire with open wings They tun'd this carroll to the woods and springs To beasts to fish reseru'd from brunt of warre To all that with both factions mortall are Beware ô what soeuer race you bee Too much ambitious in felicitie To striue to raise your fortunes through oppression Or count your neighbours purchase your possession For Gods reuenge each impious attempt Before the plague or punishment be drempt Be sure the square whereby you build your states Must breake and faile in dangers and debates For Nemesis hath euery houre reseru'd A plague for pride that hath from iustice sweru'd Oh you whose calme makes neighbours stormes seeme sore Trie you your tides before you trust your ore The surge may rise on sodaine ere you thinke And force you whilst you swim secure to sinke UUho trustes to choice of proud confederate And failes in choice of faithfull friends estate Let him disclaime his armes and claime foresight Lest he with beastes mannage a beastlie fight Engasto In sooth this is a wittie lay More pleasant then the verrelay The shepheard sings vnto his sheepe As soone as day begins to peepe Damian Waigh not the words but marke the worth Great flouds doe often issue forth From humble waters and deepe skill May flow from an impolisht quill Who waites for words may get him hence For shepheards onely sing for sence To happie Menalcus Eglogue 2. Philides Eglon. Philides WHat wrong or discontent old Eglon hath with-held Thine honorable age from gouerning the state Why liu'st thou thus apart whose wisdome wont to shield Our kingdome from the stormes of foes and home-bred hate Eglon. Ah Philides the tast of trouble I haue felt Mine actions misconceau'd my zeale esteem'd impure My policie deceite where faithfullie I delt These wrongs all vndeseru'd haue made meliue obscure Besides my youthfull yeares were cancel'd by mine age The verie Inne of griefes of sicknes and of cares Time bids me now prepare with death some warre to wage And thinke vpon mine end and shun these worldlie snares And time it is God wor when age hath got the start To flie from publique noyse and brawles of iudgement seate For now my wits waxe weake and scarce yeeld vse of art My limmes are stiffe and starke my pulses faintly beate And this late-purchas'd age besides all other paines Is subiect to contempts accus'd of auarice And youth with selfe conceit hath so bewitcht his braines As he esteemeth yeares wits chiefest preiudice Philides Can men so farre forget the reuerence and awe They should in iustice yeeld to siluer-suted haires Is duetie so despis'd enioyn'd by natures lawe That youth impugneth age in mannaging affaires Then worse then Ethnicks farre may Christians be esteem'd For both among the Greeks and Romanes I haue red Such honors giuen to eld that nothing happie seem'd Wherein their counsell mist and wisedome had not led In Solons happie lawes in olde Licurgus schooles In Numas sage decrees and graue Prometheus books Amercements were set downe for such misgouern'd fooles As did maligne at eld and loath their reuerent looks For where they first ordain'd the Gods should be ador'd Next that the silly poore should want no due reliefe They lastlie did command the yonger to afford All honour vnto age and still to hould them chiefe The Romane Senate wont in giuing dignities To take respect of yeares of iudgement and discretion The Lacedemon state in all their souerainties Did yeeld their publique charge to aged mens possession Taught by these flouring states by men so fortunate As reading what they did our mindes are stir'd to follow I wonder that our world should so degenerate From perfect awe and carrie harts so hollow Eglon. Ah Philides forbeare to wonder at the time There must be some contempt before a plague succeede I see great stormes at hand and sigh to see them clime Whose fall I might bewaile before it come indeede But let all reasons passe of enuie and disgrace Sufficient to with-draw a man from common weale Not these alone procure me leaue mine honored place But this because tis time with state no more to deale The houre prefixt is come the reuolution fixt Wherein I must and will giue ouer gouernement Taught by those happie men whose weale with sorrow mixt Did make them leaue the world which danger doth present Oh when I sadlie thinke of olde Lucullus wit Who hauing fortune thrall and fame attending him Thought good to leaue the world when he had conquer'd it And rather cease in time then sincke in hope to swim I cannot chuse but smile because by like aduise I flie from froward hate as olde Metellus did And leaue vngratefull men as erst did Scipio wise Deeming it happines in priuate to be hid Had Cicero forethought how sweet this course had beene When he had master'd fame and conquer'd Cateline His Tusculanum then he had more often seene And left vngratfull Rome before he did decline But hope of further fame so fondlie him besotted That wrastling with lewd chance at last he caught the fall And where he presuppos'd true fame was him allotted There lost he his desire his fortunes life and all His lessons make me wise these warnings are mine armes Wherewith I conquer chance and false Rhamnusias