Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	life_n	live_v	soul_n	13,623	5	5.6183	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72482	Keepe within compasse: or, the worthy legacy of a wise father to his beloued sonne teaching him how to liue richly in this world and eternally happy in the world to come. Meete for all sorts of people whatsoeuer.	Trundle, John.	1619 (1619)	STC 14898.5; ESTC S104889	14,131	50

of mans pride Out of Compasse In Apparell is Prodigality VVHo falls into Prodigality is drowned in the excesse of liberality which comming to extremity proues most vicious wasting vertues faster then substance and substance faster then any vertue can get it Prodigality is the fire of the minde whose heate is so violent that it ceaseth not whilst any matter combustible is present to burne necessary things into dust and cinders To spend much without getting to lay out all without reckoning to giue all without considering are the true effects of prodigality He that is sumptuous in his apparell lauish of his tongue and superfluous in his diet is the Cookes hope the Taylors thrift and the true sonne of repentance Riches lauishly spent brings griefe to thy heart discontent to thy friends and misery to thine heires A proud eye an open purse and a light wife bring mischiefe to the first care to the next and hornes to the last An vnthrift is knowne like a horse by his markes as by the company hee kéepeth the Tauerns he haunteth the whores he maintaineth and the expence he vseth Excessiue or couetous gaming at cards or dice is a smooth sleight and théeuish legerdemaine whereby many rob with iustification How much the more cunning a man is in Dyce play so much the more hee is corrupt in life and manners The Diuell was the first inuenter of gaming Dycing neither beséemeth the grauity of a Magistrate nor the honor of a gentleman because the gaine is loaden with dishonest practises and the losse with vnquiet passions When pride is in the sadle mischeife and shame sits on the crooper Husbandmen estéeme more of those eares of corne that hang downe then of those that stand vp straight for in them is much graine in the other chaffe The spring of pride is lying and the fountaine of truth is humility Immoderate dancing is the cheifest instrument of Ryot and excesse Hunting is the exercise of a man dauncing of a woman Yet one said that a Dauncer differs nothing from a mad man but onely in length of time the one being mad so long as he liueth the other whilst he daunceth They which loue dauncing too much séemes to haue more draines in their féet then in their head and thinke to play the fooles with reason Disagréeing musicke and vaine pastimes are the hindrances of delight One day takes from vs the credit of another and the excesse of sundry sounds take away all pleasure and delight in the sounds Those that séeke rather to decke their bodies then their soules séeme men rather created for their bodies then their soules Excesse in vanity hath neuer end Theft and the gallowes euer attend at the héeles of excesse Hee that imployeth his substance in brauery is the Mercers friend the Taylors foole and his owne enemy As you would iudge one to be ill at ease that weareth a plaster vpon his face or one that hath béene scourged to be punished by the law so you may know that a painted face betokeneth a diseased soule marked with adultery Those which are curious in decking of the body doe despise the care of their soule A young man vntemperate and full of carnall affections bringeth the body to old age much sooner with disease then time Hee cannot be a friend to temperance that delighteth in pleasure nor loue gouernment that liketh Ryot Trim not thy house with tables and pictures but paint it and guild it with temperance the one vainly féedeth the eies the other is an eternall ornament which cannot be defaced Where sundry flies bite the gall is great and where euery hand fléeceth the shéepe goe naked He that goeth a borrowing euermore goeth a sorrowing It is an auncient custome amongst the masters of good cloathes and shallow wits not to honor him that to the common-wealth is most profitable but him that to their company is most acceptable Hee that makes himselfe a shéepe shall euer be eaten of the wolfe He that loseth fauor on land to séeke out fortune at sea is like him that stareth so long at a starre till he fall into a ditch Loose wits doe neuer keepe a meane but spend their wealth too fast Goods long in gathering oft are seene in little time to waste Who spends his dead friends honest gift or wastes his fortunes lot At best is but a prodigall at worst a lauish sot Of riches if thy latter age a larger portion finde To grow more greedy by such gaine shewes a base Misers minde Who doth elect a wife alone for wealth and worldly store Oft findes a thriftlesse Steward and most commonly a whore Vse what thou hast to doe thee good but see thou make no waste Who vainely spend their owne and want seeke other mens at last One blessed note of blessednesse is riches to deny Which who so couets to ingrosse liues alwayes beggarly Keep within Compasse In Dyet SUffice Nature but surfet not supply the bodies néede but offend not Haunt not tauernes brothels or Ale-houses but beware the danger expence the bane of body soule and substance Mark the fearful end of notorious euil men to abhor their wickednes mark the life of the godly that thou maist imitate it obserue thy betters respect the wise accompany the honest loue the religious Gouerne thy selfe with moderation modesty in drinke but if it happen thou into company arise depart rather then be ouercome with drinking for the spirit ouercome with wine is like a coach-horse who hauing ouerthrowne his ruler runs here there without order hauing no guide to direct him so the soule is very much offended when the vnderstanding is distempered Moderate diet is the wise mans cognisance but surfet banquetting a fooles paradise To liue well frugally is to liue temperately for there is great difference betwéen liuing well liuing sumptuously the one procéeds from discipline and moderation of the soule contented with her owne riches the other from lust contempt of all order and mediocrity but at last the one is followed with shame the other with eternal praise cōmendation Continence in meate and drinke is the beginning and foundation of skill Sobriety retaines that in a wise mans thought which a foole without discretion hath euermore in his mouth Make not thy belly the commanding part of thy body Remember as meate and drinke is food to preserue the body so is Gods word the nourishment of thy soule The first draught thou drinkest should be for thirst the second for nourishment the third for pleasure but the fourth is for madnesse Refraine from Surfet because it is the parent of Sloath which is a vice fearing labor to ensue and a desisting from the necessary actions both of body and minde it is the sinke which receiueth all the filthy channels of vice and with that poysonous ayre infecteth the soule Refuse not labour for he that is idle can neuer excell in any Art Make thine industry thy best companion