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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	7,211	5	10.1332	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96974	Parnassus biceps. Or Severall choice pieces of poetry, composed by the best wits that were in both the universities before their dissolution. With an epistle in the behalfe of those now doubly secluded and sequestred Members, by one who himselfe is none.	Wright, Abraham, 1611-1690.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3686; Thomason E1679_1; ESTC R204146	62,203	178

Parnassus Biceps OR Severall Choice Pieces OF POETRY Composed by the best WITS that were in both the Universities BEFORE THEIR DISSOLUTION With an Epistle in the behalfe of those now doubly secluded and sequestredMembers by One who himselfe is gone LONDON Printed for George Eversden at the Signe of the Maidenhead in St. Pauls Church-yard 1656. To the Ingenuous READER SIR THese leaves present you with some sow drops of that Ocean of Wit which flowed from those two brests of this Nation the two Universities and doth now the sluces being puld up overflow the whole Lands or rather like those Springs of Paradice doth water and enrich the whole worlds whilst the Fountains themselvss are dryed up and that Twin-Paradise become desart For then were these Verses Composed when Oxford and Camebridge were Vniversities and a Colledge more learned then a Town-Hall when the Buttery and Kitchin could speak Latine though not Preach and the very irrational Turnspits had so much knowing modesty as not to dare to come into a Chappel or to mountany Pulpits but their own Then were these Poems writ when peace and plenty were the best Patriots and Maecenasses to great Wits when we could sit and make Verses under our own Figtrees and be inspired from the juice of our own Vines then when it was held no sin for the same man to be both a Poet and a Prophet and to draw predictions no lesse from his Verse then his Text Thus you shall meet here St. Pauls Rapture in a Poem and the fancy as high and as clear as the third Heaven into which that Apostle was caught up and this not onely in the ravishing expressions and extasies of amorous Composures and Love Songs but in the more grave Dorick strains of sollid Divinity Anthems that might have become Davids Harpe and Asaphs Quire to be sung as they were made with the Spirit of that chief Musitian Againe In this small Glasse you may behold your owne face fit your own humors however wound up and tuned whether to the sad note and melancholy look of a disconsolate Elegy or those more sprightly jovial Aires of an Epithalamium or Epinichion Further would you see a Mistresse of any age or face in her created or uncreated complexion this mirrour presents you with more shapes then a Conjurers Glasse or a Limnors Pencil It will also teach you how to court that Mistresse when her very washings and pargettings cannot flatter her how to raise a beauty out of wrinkles fourscore years old and to fall in love even with deformity and uglinesse From your Mistresse it brings you to your God and as it were some new Master of the Ceremonies instructs you how to woe and court him likewise but with approaches and distances with gestures and expressions suitable to a Diety addresses clothed with such a sacred filial horror and reverence as may invite and embolden the most despairing condition of the saddest gloomy Sinner and withall dash out of countenance the greatest confidence of the most glorious Saint and not with that blasphemous familiarity of our new-enlightned and inspired men who are as bold with the Majesty and glory of that Light that is unaprochable as with their own ignes fatui and account of the third Person in the blessed Trinity for no more then their fellow-Fellow-Ghost thinking him as much bound to them for their vertiginous blasts and while-winds as they to him for his own most holy Spirit Your Authors then of these few sheets are Priests as well as Poets who canteach you to pray inverse and if there were not already too much phantasticknes in that Trade to Preach likewise while they turn Scripture-chapters into Odes and both the Testaments into one book of Psalmes making Parnassns as sacred as Mount Olivet and the nine Muses no lesse religious then a Cloyster of Nuns But yet for all this I would not have thee Courteous Reader pass thy censure upon those two Fountains of Religion and Learning the Uviversities from these few small drops of wit as hardly as some have done upon the late Assemblies three-half-penny Catechisme as if all their publick and private Libraries all their morning and evening watchings all those pangs and throwes of their Studies were now at length delivered but of a Verse and brought to bed onely of five feet and a Conceit For although the judicious modesty of these Men dares not look the world in the face with any of Theorau Johns Revelations or those glaring New-lights that have muffled the Times and Nation with a greater confusion and darknes then ever benighted the world since the first Chaos yet would they please bnt to instruct this ignorant Age with those exact elaborate Pieces which might reform Philosophy without a Civil War and new modell even Divinity its selfe without the ruine of either Chuch or State probably that most prudent and learned Order of the Church of Rome the Jesuite should not boast more sollid though more numerous Volums in this kind And of this truth that Order was very sensible when it felt the rational Divinity of one single Chillingworth to be an unanswerable twelve-years-task for all their English Colledges in Chrisendome And therefore that Society did like its selfe whe●… it sent us over a War instead of an Answer and proved us Hereticks by the sword which in the first place was to Rout the Universities and to teach our two Fountains of Learning better manners then for ever heareafter to bubble and swell against the Apostolick Sea And yet I know not whether the depth of their Politicks might not have advised to have kept those Fountains within their own banks and there to have dammd them and choakd them up with the mud of the Times rather then to have let those Protestant Streams run which perchance may effect that now by the spreading Riverets which they could never have done through the inclosed Spring as it had been a deeper State-piece and Reach in that Sanedrim the great Councell of the Jewish Nation to have confined the Apostles to Jerusalem and there to have muzzeld them with Oaths and Orders rather then by a fruitful Persecution to scatter a few Gospel Seeds that would spring up the Religion of the whole world which had it been Coopd within the walls of that City might for all they knew in few years have expired and given up the ghost upon the same Golgotha with its Master And as then every Pair of Fishermen made a Church and caught the sixt part of the world in their Nets so now every Pair of Celledge-fellows make as many several Vniversityes which are truly so call'd in that they are Catholick and spread over the face of the whole earth which stands amazed to see not onely Religion but Learning also to come from beyond the Alpes and that a poor despised Canton and nook of the world should contain as much of each as all the other Parts besides But then as when our single Jesus