Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10053	Prince Henry his first anniversary. By Daniel Price Doctor in Divinity, one of his Highnesse chaplaines	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1613 (1613)	STC 20299; ESTC S115209	19,273	39

of soule so did he season sanctifie himselfe as Iob sacrificed to sanctifie his sonnes so did he pray against his sinnes commune with his owne heart in his chamber and was still and thought not this enough but that with David more fervently more frequently he would praise the Lord in the Congregation and that as that holy prophet professeth instaÌ„tly yea and continually vespere mane meridie in the morning evening and at noone did he praise the Lord not only as some interpreters iudge because these three parts of the day were consecrated by those three prime acts of our redemption the evening by Christs passioÌ„ the morning by his resurrectioÌ„ the noone by his blessed Ascension but also because these times haue alwaies by the faithfull of all ages beene hallowed by divine orisons and therefore in chamber and closet our Solomon observed these knowing that actions both of difficultie and weight are drawne to perfection by often vse And therefore seeing it is a very hardmatter either to praie or to die either willingly or well all ought both timelie and diligently to exercise themselues that by praying often and so consequently by dying often in the end men may both pray and die easily and willingly O then all yee drowsie Night-birds arise from your beds of sloth Rev. 6.8 cary the watch of praier be vigilant over your owne soules looke vpon the pale horse and him that sitteth thereon whose name is death Provide that yee be not sodainely surprised and dy before yee begin to liue It is weaknesse to be vnwilling to that which is necessary to be done it is necessary to die and it is necessary for dying well often to pray often to meditate vpon thy death A day wil come when thy evening shal be shut vp be thou mighty thou canst not resist be thou rich thou canst not corrupt be thou never so wise thou canst neither appease nor avoid DEATH Which in the principall strength and beauty of age plungeth the thoughts of the worldly interrupteth the enterprises of the worthy breaketh the studies of the learnedst croppeth of the flowrishing hopes of the fairest the same God telleth Princes yee are Gods et homines coelestibus aequat and yet they shall die like men sceptra ligonibus aequat 7 Which meditation extracted by the Limbique of contemplation into vertuous action indued and endowed our PRINCE with an humble holy patience in all the stormy invasions of his sicknesse having so conquered himselfe as sorrowes could not conquer him his experiments sage for their truth though young for their time had drawne out rules of confidence and patience which he did oppose against all the feares of distrust he knew whom he trusted and how farre death could lead him his shield was of a mettall not so hard as flexible as it was never missed so never pierced he both saw endured a divine hand invisibly striking and in those sensible scourges he did not murmur His hopes were so stroÌ„g that they insult over the greatest discouragements his apprehensions so deepe that wheÌ„ he once fastened he sooner left his life theÌ„ his hould his holy patience invincible as full of faith as void of fury being theÌ„ aboue nature when below himselfe his paines faintings heats tossings coÌ„vulsioÌ„s not able to distract his person or disturb his patience wheÌ„ after a lingring growing encreasing possessioÌ„ of some pestilent humor sicknesse had surprised his head Laur. Anat. Sacram Palladis arcem the watchtower of the whole body domicilium sensuum propugnaculum as Laurentius calleth it yet his patience increased with his disease with a tongue calmlie free a forhead Socrates-like resolute and firme with a setled countenance he consults the Pilots of his bodily vessell and in their distraction while he suffers and is silent and beholders pitie him and his torments cannot disease him he refers all peaceably patiently to the will of his maker Zanch. as if hee had learned that lesson of Zanchius Oramus Domine fiat voluÌ„tas tua facta est feramus In all this when not master of his health yet master of himselfe subduing passion to reason bowing to beare the burden Bern. he verified that of Bernard Submittitur sensus non amittitur nec deest dolor sed superatur sed contemnitur Learne hence yee impatient and passionate whirlewinds yee who hoise vp sailes in your tempests whose words be wounds breath blood behold but not without amazement a Princely soules calme in the midst of a bodily storme whose resolution was as that sometimes of Tertullian Totum licet seculum pereat Tertul. dum patientiam lucrifaciam rather would hee that the world should perish vnto him then his patience perish Learne if yee are not as farre past the boundes of nature as grace yee fiery monsters who as if yee were borne vnder the torrid zone whose spleneticall phreneticall passions like the surges of the sea breake the vessels of your vnderstanding and reason who are stirred with lesse then a word and are more turbulent then a torrent who in the least disasters are ready to blaspheme God and die whose proceedings are as heady as your words hasty and lookes peremptory who never looke how innocent but how strong yee are and will rather vsher then smother an iniurie making your sword the first of tryals murther the fruit of the sword whose societie admits no safetie nor acquaintance any traÌ„quillitie O yee bloodhounds is the life of man no more pretious or the iustice of God for blood no more rigorous that without respect I say not of Christian but Pagan patience yee familiarly destroy your brethren for whoÌ„ Christ hath died Yee posterity and tribe of Cain when any small disgrace nay the least distast a tale a toy a breath a word a syllable The lye will edge to revengefull impatience behold him holy soule from whom al his paines redoubling of his pangs the violence and virulence of humours in his troubled heart tormented head parched tongue schortched throat inflamed body and fired blood could not extort any sparkes of impatient passion 8 Thus in him never was divorce between devotion patience Holy soule how prevalent was devotion in him by which hee cast so often sweet wood into his bitter waters how did Gods spirit by this subdue his reason regenerate his will purifie his nature how by this in his extremitie hourely did he walke with his maker and talke with him familiarly celestial spirits affording him company and service all the roomes of his holy hart set a part for holinesse Which habit was obtained by the former acquisition of it in those many vertuous actions of his tender age when in the 14 yeare of his time he approved himselfe to be a religious hearer iudicious observer and obsequious obeyer of the word of his maker his gracefull gravitie giving much life to those sermons which were heard by him but

12 And now death Natures midwife began her final act of dissolution this fatall day friday a day which long before his highnesse accounted dismall proved to be the day of blacknesse and darknesse a day of clowds gloomishnes there never was since the time of Christ the like and Lord let never be the like any more after it even to the yeares of many generations Now the infallible signes of vnsatisfiable death approaching the disiointing CoÌ„vulsions trembling agonies came vpoÌ„ him Nature wasting like a dying Lampe in that day his starres begin to be darkned the keepers of his house to tremble the strong men to bow themselues the grinders to cease they that looke out of the window to be darkened Now the siluer Cord is ready to be loosed the golden pitcher breaking at the fountaine and the wheele breaking at the Cesterne Now now HEE is going to his long home and the mourners go about in the street O miseram faciem orbis O wofull countenance of a Court that now appeared the Eccho and reclamation of sighes sobs the throwes of sorrow of outcryes and vnspeakeable Lamentation sounded not only in that wofull house and therein in the Chambers of death but in all the Court all the city men passing along by each other as if they had bin come out of the graues Teares groanes heavy lookes dissheveld lockes and lamentations filling all places speach life seeming to be strangers to men the saddest time sablest world that ever our Country knew It exceeds invention to imagine it and is able to cast a perpetual dampe vpon the vnderstanding that shal conceiue it my hand pen heart all my faculties sinke vnder this burden I lacke Agamemnons vaile The delight of mankinde expectation of nations is expiring where how whence is Comfort to bee had I shal never forget ever to pity those poore souls with wringing hands breaking harts whose shrikes and outcries are able to pearce AdamaÌ„t Are sins more prevailing then prayers Where is the power and violence of praier which opened and shut and sealed vp heaven brought downe fire and staied the sunne in the firmament No hope no helpe all miracles ceased No balme in Gilead nothing in the strength and extracts of nature no Elixir in Art to recover to repaire this irrecoverable consumption It was providence that disposed it and doth silence question But was the charge so strict as that the great Tyrant Death would smite neither small nor great but Israels Prince the Ioshua Iosiah Maiesties first borne Religions second Must the Rose be blemished before it was fully bloomed or the fig tree blasted before it was time to bring forth fruit O crueltie of that savage monster Death O Death thou child of sinne and father of confusion hast thou not already triumphed enough in funerall solemnities thy applause in the cries of widdowes and orphans by the disorder and desolation of thy vniversall dominion that as many ages as haue beene since the world was created so many conquests hast thou obtained and yet thy all devouring throat the graue vnsatisfied But againe I see the finger of providence imposing silence forbidding question Yet my eares tingle with the dolefull tune of that wofull time The bell now calleth him to the triumphant Church by day Death durst not approach by night he vndertakes this deed of darknesse The redoubled sound of that solemne but sorrowfull knell strooke all hearts with a chilling killing feare now hope was without helpe the ayer was troubled with the scriching outcries and all knees bowed all faces plentifully bedewed the world in an extasie as if some especiall part of nature were dissoluing Now were the last prayers of the family who without intercession were all that day assisted by many honourable and infinite lamentably sobbing soules whereof the Chappell vestry entry and whole Court were ful all ioyning with strong cries weeping eyes bleeding hearts did commend his blessed soule to be bathed in the pretious blood of his Saviour And so not long after quietly patiently blessedly he expired and yeelded his spirit into the hands of his immortall maker Even then when that inauspicious aspect of the planets did porteÌ„d some ominous disaster when only Saturne and Iupiter appeared aboue and Sol Mars Mercury Venus and Luna lay hid below not daring to be witnesses of that heavie and horrid effect of that horrible coniunction Learne hence all yee firre trees that Cedars may fal and Princes the Gods of the earth may die They are men helplesse men mortall men corruptible men in the frames of their bodies and in the cogitations of their minds Happy therefore is he that hath the God of Iacob for his refuge Happy is hee whose hope is in the Lord his God! And blessed be our God who in the vnconceavable wisdome of his divine wil hath freed blessed Prince HENRY from the fetters of the flesh Who when he had shewed him the world to loath the world enfranchised him from this earthly prison and dungeon and possessed him now with greater libertie Where being exalted in greatest glory hee is nowe in his presence where there is fulnesse of ioy and at his right haÌ„d pleasure for euermore Where there is an immortall immarcessible crowne wherewith already hee is adorned in that kingdome of continuance where sorrow shal never be felt sicknesse never be feared where ioy cannot be touched with sadnesse nor health tainted with sicknesse where there is all good without any evill and all trouble all punishment and all feare is done away And finally blessed bee that God who hath out of his fountaine of goodnesse once againe opened the windowes of the mornings mercy and restored a new light to those sorrowfull soules who sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death and hath restored the voice of ioy and gladnesse vnto our most gracious K. IAMES and the family of St IAMES by the setling of that house and the happy shining of our day starre CHARLEMAINE the apparant heire of his blessed Brothers vertues and titles the Parallel of former and absolute patterne of future Princes whose stemme and stock long may it florish vnder the branches of those Royall Cedars his renowned Parents that so with much happinesse his Highnesse may bring forth his fruit in due season to all good mens good and Gods great glory Amen

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