Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	blood_n	body_n	heart_n	5,603	5	5.0093	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09202	Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, newly devised, moralized, and published, by Henry Peacham, Mr. of Artes.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1612 (1612)	STC 19511; ESTC S114357	68,103	232

Oake's downe ever● one gathers stickes Schol Theocrit But this example doth admonish thee On wretches poore to haue compassion To pitie those on whome doth fortune frowne Minimum debet libere cui nimium libet Seneca in T●oad And Tyrant-like not more to crush them downe This pleaseth God this Pietie commaundes Nature and Reason * Ignoscendo auxit magnitudinem pop Romanus Salust bids vs doe the like Yea though our foes doe fall into our handes Wee should * Severitas amittit assiduitate authoritatein Seneca 1 de Clementia haue mercie not in malice strike Who helpes the sick and pities the oppressed He liues to God and doubtlesse dieth blessed Pulchrum est eminere inter illustres viros Consulere patriae parcere afflictis Senec● in Octavio Fera caede abstulere tempus atque irae dare Orbi quietem Saeculo pacem suo Haec summa vi●●● petitur hac Coelum via Homo Microcosmus HEARE what 's the reason why a man we call A little world and what the wiser ment By this new name two lights Coelestiall Are in his head as in the Element Eke as the wearied Sunne at night is spent So seemeth but the life of man a day At morne h●e's borne at night he flits away Of heate and cold as is the Aire composed So likewise man we see breath's whot and cold His bodie 's earthy in his lunges inclosed Remaines the Aire his braine doth moisture hold His heart and liver doe the heate infold Of Earth Fire Water Man thus framed is Of Elements the threefold Qualities And as we fitly INFANCIE compare Vnto the SPRING so YOVTH we liken may To lazie SVMMER whot devoid of care His middle Age to AVTVMNE his decay To WINTER snowie white and frostie gray For then his vigor failes his heate is cold And like the saplesse Oake he dieth old Vini natura BEST BACCHVS Ivie thy faire brow befits Thy winges withall that proud Gorgonean horse Because thou addest vigor to our wits Heate to our blood vnto our bodie force Mirth to our heartes vnto the dullard spright A quick Invention to the Sence delight Vnum alam THE Husband good that by experience knowes With cunning skill to prune and when to plant Must lop the Tree where ranck abundance growes Aswell as helpe the barren in her want Else happilie when Summer season 's past With leaues he may goe satisfie his tast Even so the wit that ranckly doth abound With many fancies but it selfe deceiues And while it seemes in sundry Artes profound In no one good it 's fruitfull but in leaues Then some one calling choose whence good may growe And let the rest as * Vellem in Adolescente quod ●putem Cicer● 〈…〉 needelesse branches goe Terminus Symbolū fuit Erasmi Roterodami quod licet Crambe a Poetis nostris toties repetitum illius postremo memoriae dedico consecroque A PILLAR high erected was of stone In former times which TERMINVS they nam'd And was esteem'd a God of every one The vpper part was like a woman fram'd Of comely feature downe vnto the brest Of Marble hard a Pillar was the rest Which when IOVE passed by with sterne aspect He bad this God remooue and get him gone But TERMINVS as stoutly did neglect His heste and answer'd I giue place to none Varro I am the bound of thinges which God aboue Hath fixt and none is able to remooue Fortuna maior HEERE Povertie doth conquered Fortune bind And vnder keepes like HERCVLES in aw The meaning is the wise and valiant mind In Povertie esteemes not Fate a straw * Non est fortu●● saepius tentanda Iul Caesar Comen● lib 4. And though a while this angry Goddesse frowne She vtterlie shall never cast him downe If Wisdome haue but what the corpes doth craue Convenient foode and raiment for the back And libertie to liue not like a slaue Here in this world she little else doth lack But can contented in her cottage sing In greater safetie then the greatest King Nec in vna sede morantur THE awfull Scepter though it can compell By powerfull might great'st Monarches to obay Loue where he listeth liketh best to dwell And take abroade his fortune as he may Ne might or gold can winne him thence away Whereto he is through strong affection led Be it a Pallace or the simplest shedde But VENVS Infant dred of all beneath Imperious feare from my sweete Saint remooue And with thy soft Ambrosial kisses breath Into her bosome meeke and mildest Loue With melting Pitie from thy Queene aboue That she may reade and oft remember this And learne to loue who most beloued is Super terram peregrinans NOR house nor home hath wretched man on earth Ne ought he claimeth iustly as his owne But as a * 1 Pet Cap 2 11 Pilgrim wandring from his birth In Countries straunge and Deserts wild vnknowne Like * Ieremiae 35.7 RECHABITE or those Tartarian * Companies of Ta●tars and subiects of the great CHAM liuing in Tentes in the wildernes without Civilitie togeither with their wiues children and cattle never abiding in one place but ranging and robbing vp and downe where they list HORDES Whose vastest Region but a Tent affordes Betime hence learne we wisely to supplie Our inward wantes ere hence we flit away And hide in Heauen that treasure carefully Which neither Moth nor Canker shall decaie In * Sequor nil consequor dictum Ariosti following state eke not to spend our stock Where oft for merit we but gaine a mock Sapientia● Avaritia et Dolus decipiunt AH pitie PALLAS who hath thee enwrapt And in a snare thus brought thee to distresse The wisest now I see may be entrapt And Vertue stoope to Fortunes ficklenesse Nor Scholler-ship or wit at all times can From sad disaster keepe a mortall man The loue of Money and Dissimulation Hold thee MINERVA tangled in their snare For now the world is growne to such a fashion That those the wisest that the richest are And such by whome the simpler should be taught Are in the net like PALLAS soonest caught Personam non animum THE Hypocrite that doth pretend in show A feigned Zeale of Sanctitie within Eschew betime nor haue with such to doe Whose hoodes are but the harbour of their Sinne And humblest habits but a false disguise To cloke their hate or hidden villanies No HIRCAN Tyger ERYMANTHIAN Beare So arm'd with malice thirstie after blood To high estate aspiring as they are The worst of men nay man it is too good Where LVCIFER did openly rebell To God these Traitors even within the Cell Honores isti ●liunde THE cheifest good ah would so good it were That most imagine Honours bring with them We pick from others praises here and there So patch herewith an Indian Diadem Of Parrats feathers vocall favours light And Plumes indeede whereto we haue no right He is not honourd that Discents can show Nor he that can

to Towne to beg for their releife Who was a while in 's office very iust But shortly after proou'd an errant theife By eating or embezling of the best And casting to the sterued Houndes the rest Of Regnards kind there is a craftie crew Who when at death of frendes are put in trust Doe robbe the Church or Infantes of their dew Disposing of anothers as they lust Whome being bound in Conscience to preserue They suffer oft in open streete to sterue Patientia laesa furorem WHO lightly sets his enimie at nought And feares him not because he is too weake Or that he is thy pray alreadie caught Within such net he cannot eas'ly breake Repents him often and doth prooue too late No soe so dang'rous as the desperate Wherefore saith one giue passage to his Ire Abuse him not with too much insolence Least hopeles backe he doth againe retire With Furie arm'd in stead of Patience And prooues the Victor when with cunning skill Thou might'st before haue rul'd him at thy will Te aspicit vnam Ad Sidoniam virginem nobilem THOV greeu'st Sidonia that I thus divide My Loue so largely to a severall frend While thou thou think'st remainedst vnespi'de Or takest thy fortune at the latter end And certes who his loue impartes to all Affectes but coldly nay loues not at all With wonder rapt though much I doe admire Some Starres for lustre and their glories best You are that Arctick most I doe desire Whereon my hope hath wholly set her rest And who sweete Maide when others downe do slide To vnknowne Fate must be my surest guide Maior Hercule TWO Columnes strong heere little Loue doth beare Vpon his shoulders bare though Lillie white Vis magna mentis Seneca As if another Hercules he were And would erect them in a deepe despite Of that Colosse or Pharos fiery bright Th' Egyptian Piles proude Mausolaeus toombe Spaines Pillars or great Traians yet in Roome Nor may you lesse imagine Cupids might Though Ladies he but seeme a child in show Since hand to hand himselfe in single fight Hath giuen the great'st Hero'es their overthrow Ne could the wisest man avoide his bow Who●e Trophees braue triumphes were they●sh Thy Sonne Al●mena never had bee●e knowne C●ecus est ignis stimul●tu● ira Seneca in Me●●a Ne● regi curat patiturve ●●nos Haud timet ●o●tem cupit ire m●ip●os Obvius enses Erit altera merces Ad amicum suum Iohannem Doulandum Musices peritissimum Iohannes Doulandus Anagramma Authoris Annos l●dendo hausi HEERE Philomel in silence sits alone In depth of winter on the bared brier Whereas the Rose had once her beautie showen Which Lordes and Ladies did so much desire But fruitles now in winters frost and snow It doth despis'd and vnregarded grow So since old frend thy yeares haue made thee white And thou for others hast consum'd thy spring How few regard thee whome thou didst delight And farre and neere came once to heare thee sing Ingratefull times and worthles age of ours That let 's vs pine when it hath cropt our flowers Cui candor morte redemptus THE Ermin heere whome eager houndes doe chase And hunters haue around environ'd in As some doe write will not come neere the place That may with dirt defile his daintie skinne But rather chooseth then the same should soile Be torne with dogges or taken with the toile Me thinkes even now I see a number blush To heare a beast by nature should haue care To keepe his skinne themselues not care a rush With how much filth their mindes bespotted are Great Lordes and Ladies turne your cost and art From bodies pride t' enritch your better part Status humanus FOWER Captiue Kinges proud Sesostris did tie And them compeld his charriot to draw Fortunam tuam Prince●s pressi● man●bus te●e lubrica est nec invita teneri potest Curt lib 7. Whereof the one did ever cast his eie Vnto the wheele which when the Tirant saw And ask'd the cause the chained King repli'de Beca●se heerein my state I haue espi'de Vidi cruentos carcere includi D●ces et impotentis terga plebeia manu scindi T●ranni Seneca in Her● For like our selues the spoke that was on high Is to the bottome in a moment cast As fast the lowest riseth by and by All humane thinges thus find a change at last The Tyrant fearing what his hap might be Releas'd their bandes forthwith and set them free AEstuat ambiguis vita hae● agitata procellis Ba●●● Doro● Fertque refertque vices sors male fida suas Hunc de plebe creat regnantem deprimit illum Vel rota tot casus vna SESOSTRIS habet In tranquilissimis rebus interdum existit periculum quod nemo expectat Erasmus Vita Fortuna regitur non Sapientia Cic in Tuscula●● Cum severitate lenitas OF orient hew a Rainebow doth containe An hideous shower within her Circlet round Resembling that great punishment of raine The Lord inflicted when the world was drown'd The Rainebow of his Mercy heere a signe Which with his Iustice he doth ever ioine For though we howerly doe the Lord provoke By crieng Sinnes to bring his vengeance downe The salue he tempers while he strikes the stroke And ioines his favor with a bitter frowne To let vs know that wrath he keepes in store And grace for such as will offend no more Quintil declam 1● Oh quam difficile hominibus misereri et sapere P●r●git tran 〈…〉 Claudian Quod viol●nta n●quit manda●a● 〈◊〉 vrget I●p●ri●●● qui●s Sine pluma THIS warlick Helme that naked doth appeare Not gold-enchased or with Gemmes beset Yet doth the markes of many a battaile beare With dintes of bullets there imprinted yet No featherie creast or dreassing doth desire Which at the Tilts the vulgar most admire For best desert still liveth out of view Or soone by Envie is commaunded downe * Emitur so●● virtute potestas Claudian Nor can her heauen-bred spirit lowly sue Though t' were to gaine a kingdome and a crowne Beside it tells vs that the valiant heart Can liue content though wanteth his desert Vmbra tantum THE Pl●tane Tree that by the bankes of PO With gentle shade refresheth man and beast Of other Trees doth beare the goodliest show And yet of all it is the barrenest But Nature though this tree of fruite bereaues It makes amendes in cooling with the leaues This Platane Tree are such as growe aloft * Contemptor animus et superbia commune nobilitatis malum Salust I●gurth Ore-dropping others with their wealth or might And yet they of themselues are barren oft Wanting th' endowments of the meaner wight Who many times in vertue doth excell When these but haue the shadow or the shell Vita tota dies vnus OF all our life behold the very summe Which as this flower continues but a day Our youth is morne our middle age is come By noone at