Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	heart_n	son_n	17,006	5	5.6134	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03017	The funerals of the high and mighty Prince Henry, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornewaile and Rothsay, Count Palatine of Chester, Earle of Carick, and late Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter VVhich noble Prince deceased at St. Iames, the sixt day of Nouember, 1612. and was most princely interred the seuenth day of December following, within the Abbey of Westminster, in the eighteenth yeere of his age.		1613 (1613)	STC 13157; ESTC S103976	16,990	50

and fear'd that Triple Maiestie VVhose finger could so easily sticke a Fate Twixt least Felicity and greatest state Such as should melt our shore into a Sea And dry our Ocean with Calamitie Heauen open'd and but show'd him to our eies Then shut againe and show'd our Miseries O God to what end are thy Graces giuen Expostulatio ● perturbatione Onely to show the world Men fit for Heauen Then rauish them as if too good for Earth VVe know the most exempt in wealth power Birth Or any other blessing should employ As to their chiefe end all things they enioy To make them fit for Heauen and not pursue VVith hearty appetite the damned crue Of meerely sensuall and earth ye pleasures But whē one hath done so shal strait the tresures Digg'd to in those deeps be consum'd by death Shall not the rest that error swalloweth Be by the Patterne of that Master-peece Help't to instruct their erring faculties VVhen without cleare example euen the best That cannot put by knowledge to the Test what they are taught serue like the worst in field Is power to force who will not freely yield Being great assistant to diuine example As vaine a Pillar to thy Manly Temple when without perfect knowledge which scarce one Of many kingdoms reach no other stone Man hath to build one corner of thy Phane Saue one of these But when the desperate wane Potentia expers sapi entiae quo maior est eo perniciosior sapientia procul à potentia manca videtur Pla Of power and of example to all good So spent is that one cannot turne the flood Of goodnes gainst her ebbe but both must plie And be at full to or her streame will drie VVhere shall they meete againe now he is gone Where both went foot by foot both were one One that in hope tooke vp to toplesse height All his great Ancestors his one saile freight VVith all all Princes treasures he like one Of no importance no way built vpon Vanisht vvithout the end for vvhich he had Such matchlesse vertues was God-like made Haue thy best vvorkes no better cause t' expresse Themselues like men and thy true Images To toile in vertues study to sustaine vvith comfort for her want shame paine No nobler end in this life then a death Timeles and wretched wrought with lesse then breath And nothing solide worthy of our soules Nothing that Reason more then Sense extols Nothing that may in perfect iudgement be A fit foote for our Crowne eternitie All which thou seem'st to tell vs in this one Killing discomfort apt to make our mone Conclude gainst all things serious and good our selues not thy forms but Chymaeras brood Chymaera a monster hauing his head and brest like a Lyon his belly like a Got● and taile like ● Dragon Now Princes dare ye boast your vig'rous states That Fortunes breath thus builds and ruinates Exalt your spirits trust in flowry youth Giue reynes to pleasure all your humors sooth Licence in rapine Powers exempt from lawes Contempt of all things but your own applause And think your swindge to any tyranny giuen VVill stretch as broad last as long as heauen whē he that curb'd with vertues hand his powre his youth with continence his sweet with sowre Boldnes with pious feare his pallats height Applied to health and not to appetite Felt timeles sicknes charge state power to flie And glutted Death with all his crueltie Partiall deuourer euer of the best To Death VVith headlong rapture sparing long the rest Could not the precious teares his Father shed That are with Kingdomes to be ransomed His Bleeding prayer vpon his knees t'implore The Prayer of the King in the Princes sickne● That if for any sinne of his Heauen tore From his most Royall body that chiefe Limme It might be ransom'd for the rest of Him Could not the sacred eies thou didst prophane In his great Mothers teares The spightful bane Thou pour'dst vpon the cheeks of al the Graces In his more gracious Sisters The defaces with all the Furies ouer-flowing Galles Cursedly fronting her neere Nuptials Could not O could not the Almighty ruth Of all these force thee to forbeare the youth Of our Incomparable Prince of Men whose Age had made thy Iron Forcke his Pen T'eternise what it now doth murder meerely And shal haue from my soule my curses yerely Tyrant what knew'st thou but the barbarous wound Thou gau'st the son the Father might cōfound Both liu'd so mixtly and were ioyntly One Spirit to spirit cleft The Humor bred In one heart straight was with the other fed The bloud of one the others heart did fire The heart and humour were the Sonne Sire The heart yet void of humors slender'st part May easier liue then humour without heart The Riuer needes the helpfull fountaine euer More then the Fountaine the supplyed Riuer As th Iron then when it hath once put on Sim l. The Magnets qualitie to the vertuous Stone Is euer drawne and not the stone to it So may the heauens the sonnes Fate not admit Apodesis To draw the Fathers till a hundred yeeres Haue drown'd that Issue to him in our teares Blest yet and sacred shall thy memory be Reditio ad Principem O-nothing-lesse-then-mortall Deitie Thy Graces like the Sunne to all men giuing Fatall to thee in death but kill me liuing Now as inuerted like th Antipodes The world in all things of desert to please Is falne on vs with thee thy ruines lye On our burst bosomes as if from the skye The Day-star greater then the world were driuen Suncke to the Earth and left a hole in Heauen throgh which a secod deluge now poures down On our poore Earth in which are ouer-flowne met The seeds of all the sacred Vertues set In his Spring-Court where all the prime spirits Of all our Kingdomes as if from the death Those that came to the Princes seruice seem'd compared with the places they leu'd in before to the from death to the fields of life in tending the best part of yong and noble Gentlemen That in men liuing basenes and rapine sheath VVhere they before liu'd they vnwares were come Into a free and fresh Elisitum Casting regenerate and refined eyes On him that rais'd them from their graues of vice Digg'd in their old grounds to spring fresh on those That his diuine Ideas did propose First to himselfe then would forme in them VVho did not thirst to plant his sonne neer him as neer the Thames their houses what one worth VVas there in all our world that set not forth All his deserts to Pilgrime to his fauors VVith all deuotion offering all his labors And how the wilde Bore Barbarisme now will roote these Quick-sets vp what hearb shall grow that is not sown in his inhumane tracts No thought of good shall spring but many acts Will crop or blast or blow it vp and see