Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	soul_n	spirit_n	3,987	5	5.1512	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16762	The mothers blessing	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1602 (1602)	STC 3669; ESTC S104773	11,646	42

For be the Ph● a 〈◊〉 so 〈◊〉 a Blood Nature doth wond● in her worke house shroud The Sunne itselfe sometime is in a cloud Concealed comforts are the kindest sweets Where loue and honor with discretion meets A boasting tongue is like a heard mans hor●e Which makes a noyse 〈◊〉 nothing worth the hearing And bragging 〈◊〉 are no● to be borne Thogh fooles of choise ●time are worth the chering Yet in the points of wisdoms true appearing Presumptuous fooles and 〈◊〉 religious Iewes Emong the Noble● sort should neuer vse Know how to loue but know not how to hate T'one halfe a heau'n the ●other halfe a hell Learne what belongs to 〈◊〉 and to Fate And trust not all that Idle stories tell And do not reede before you learne to spell But keep thy spirit with that speciall care That Truth may shew thee where her honors are Offend not God with 〈◊〉 the faire In higher 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fit their 〈◊〉 And looke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the ●ire That 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spirit 〈◊〉 And let no 〈◊〉 so thy soule perple● But that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all 〈◊〉 remoue That may be ●full to thy happ●e loue Regard thy followers in a kind as friends But 〈◊〉 a difference in th●e eyes affect 〈◊〉 vse their 〈◊〉 in such carefull kinds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speake of thy respect And well 〈◊〉 rewards do not neglect For ●s the hand that 〈◊〉 the seruice binde Although the spirit 〈◊〉 commaund the minde 〈◊〉 Reason by the rules of Grace And ch● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in vertues choise In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dwell not on the Base And let thine 〈◊〉 be pleased in the voyce That sounds the song that makes the soule 〈◊〉 A●oyd all substance of the soules annoy And onely Iesus be thy spirits ioy If honor fall vpon thee 〈◊〉 Note how it comes and how it may begone And guide thy 〈◊〉 with such inward 〈◊〉 Thy ground may still be sure to build vpon But needles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 studie on For Time is 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And brings the 〈◊〉 soule to Paradise Follow the warres but in a worthy cause And Court it but for ●bilitie Be not a Rebell vnto honors lawes For t is a maime to true Gentilitie In all the notes of true Nobilitie So vse thy sword in field at home thy pen Thou maist be both belou'd and fear'd of men Let not a Sha●t a Bowle a Carde nor Die Take vp thy Rent a yeare before the day A Parats feather nor a 〈◊〉 cie Make thee too fast to throw thy wealth away Lest bad I wist do keepe fooles holly day Esteeme a horse according to his pace But loose no wagers on a wilde goos● chase Teare not thy throat with hollowing to hounds Nor ride thy horse to death to seeke a Hawke Spoile not thine eyes with leuelling of grounds Nor barre thine honest neighbour of his walke But take no pleasure with a foole to talke But harken to the shepheards what they saine Both of the Sun shine and a showre of raine Feed not too grosse and drinke not ouer much The sparing diet is the spirits feast The Pitch and Tarre are daungerous to tuch And want of reason makes a man a beast Of forced euils euer chuse the least Be warned by a little from the more And take heed of an inward breeding sore Wound not the conscience of a wofull hart Nor take delight in doing iniury But ease the sicke in his consuming smart And helpe the poore man in his misery So liue so die so liue and neuer die Relieue thy friend but not with all thou hast Lest thou be driuen to seeke to him as fast Importune not a Prince in any sute Nor do a sutor long delaie his hope In cause of Iustice be not ouer mute But in a malice do no secrets ope But keepe thy care within discretions scope Smile at the bird whose bill is ouerlong But neuer listen to the Cuckoes song Loose not thy paines to teach an Owle to speake Nor striue to wash an Ethiopian white Make it no tryumph to subdue the weake But vse thy force to put the proud to flight And in renow me giue euery man his right Begin no more then so thou mean'st to finish As of thine honor may 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 diminish Trauaile to learne diuersitie of Natures But keep at home the care of thy content And euer haue respect vnto those creatures That haue their talents in thy seruice spent And loue the soule that is to vertue bent For euer keep this point of noblenes Let no man note thee of vnthankfulnes Depraue not any that do well deserue No● magnifie an idle headed wit Nor let thy will from wisedomes order swarue How euer humors disalow of it Manage affection with discretions bit For time will teach thee in true reasons creature A foole is but the weake effect of nature In Princes Courts do neuer presse too fast Nor shrinke a foote from thy desert of fame And slip no time for once the humor past A pleasing fansie may be out of frame Shun all occasions of deserued blame 〈◊〉 i●●nwares thou happen to offend Let wit● excuse the care of will commend 〈◊〉 not too great for feare of Enuies figge Yet ioy in all that vertue may aduaunce Make not thy musique of a country Iigge But leaue the Lou● to tread the Moris-daunc● And keep thy sences from Narcissus traunce And follow not Acteon to the wood For feare Diana do thee little good Studie the lawe but to maintaine thy state Diuinitie to keep thy soule in peace Logicke but only questions to debate Arithmeticke but knowledge to encrease How numbers may both multiply and cease Philosophy to iudge of Natures best And Phisicke but grosse humors to digest And Rethoricke to speake in tune and sence Musique but to remoue melancholy Astrology to know circumference For Architecture learne Geometry And for thy trauaile learne Cosmography For recreation soorne not Poetry But for discourses study History To haue a kind of superficiall sight In hawkes and hounds and horse and fowle fish Is not amisse but let thy harts delight Be neuer setled in an idle dish Nor shew thy folly in a wanton wish Be silent to thy selfe what ere thou thinkest And take good heed with whō where thou drinkest Learne for instruction Reede for exercise Practise for knowledge and for gaine remember In worldly pleasures make no paradise Know that thou art of Christ his church a member And do not make thine Aprill in September Vnto thy God in youth direct thy waies And he will blesse thee in thine aged daies Let Conscience know the title of a crowne Yet know withall there is a king of kings Who hoisteth vp and headlong tumbleth downe And all the world doth couer with his wings While heau'n and earth but of his glory sings To whom discharge the loue thou daily owest And he will blesse th● where so ere thou goest Winke at the world 〈◊〉 though thou saw'st it not And

much for such respect suffice thee Let honour valour truth and wit allure thee Or neuer of a faithfull friend assure thee For pa●entage affect equalitie For l●●ing vertue ioind with eloquence For bountie wisedomes liberalitie For valou● resolutions patience For pro● ●bour with experience For ho●our vertues inclination For spirit graces inspiration Th● ch●● fri●d if thou wil● fauour any For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they that cannot alter nature But fauo● fewe for if thou mak'st of many Thou wilt be held a simple witted creature Take heed therefore of a dissembling feature Sound the condition and approue it ●ound Before thy faith be to thy fauour bound But if thou find'st a minde of that true worth That is not matcht in all the brokers shops Whence thou canst draw that true loues liquor forth Which is not season'd with vnsauery hops While faiths strong pillars need no vnderprops All as a Phaenix do esteeme that friend With whom thy life with thy affection end But if a smoothing tongue a fleering face A capping knee with double diligence By close colloging creepe into thy grace To make an vse of thy magnificence Know he will but abuse thy patience Away with such and from thy care discard them They purchase bur disgrace that regard them And if he seeke to vndermine thy thought And go about thee with a bad inuention And do denie thy due desire in ought That may performe the truth of his intention Or stand on ●ermes in causes of contention Then do thus much for thy assurance know A hollow friend is but a hellish foe And now for knowing of thine enemy Let this suffice for reasons true direction Who doth intrude into thy company And make a shewe of too too much affection Such nimble wits haue euer in reiection And by a serpents hisse and beare-whe●pes eie Mistrust the treason of an enemie If he perswade thee to disloyall thought Imagine him a villaine in the height If that he haue with wanton humors wrought Know that an Idoll is the diuels baite And if he cheat thee with a gaming sleight In cares discretion leaue his company And hold him for a cunning enemy If he importune thee with borrowing Or carelesse liue vpon thy purses spending Or daily put thee off with morrowing Till want do make thee wearie of thy lending Then in the care of better thrif●s commending Shake o● a varlet in his villany And hold him for an inward enemy But leauing more of friends or foes to speake The one too fewe the other all too many So many friends their friendships daily breake That fewe are faithfull if that fewe be any The Sunne so soone the painted f●e wil● tawny Tha● he that hath the world well ouergone Finde foes too many friends but fewe or none 〈◊〉 when thou wilt a seruant fitly chuse Haue great regard vnto his qualitie Lest lacke of care thy kindnes do abuse Allow no counterfeit formalitie No prigging theft nor prodigalitie No pot companion nor no prating knaue Not lazie Rascall nor vncomely slaue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●ggard nor sheep-biter dogge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 night-walker nor game player 〈◊〉 ●ing copes-mate nor no grunting hogge 〈◊〉 swearer brabbler nor way layer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iester nor soothsayer No da●ie tooth nor double diligence Nor him that hath a world wide conscience But sober honest wittie thriftie kinde Good shape good face expert and laborous Good hand good heart good spirit good minde Discreetly carefull but not couetous Faithfull and firme in perfect truths approuing And think that seruant kindly worth the louing Now if thy sernant vnawares offend In secret giue him reprehension But if you see he care not to amend Nor of aduice take better apprehension Mistrust his spirit of some ill intention Away with him and turne him to disgrace And seeke to put a better in his place But last of all and not the least in charge I wish thee looke into thy loues consort For when the heart hath left the eye at large Venus commaunds where Cupid scales the fort As all too many all too true report Be carefull therefore in thy thoughts affection That they be gouern'd by a good direction Beautie with vertue honour ioynd with kindnesse Wit with some wealth and person without pride True noblenesse without ambitious blindnesse Faire haird straight bodied sweet countenance and cleare ●ide A spirit where no poison doth abide Where these sweet birds do all in one bush sing Who would not spend his life in such a spring But if she be ilfauour'd blind and old A prattle basket or an idle slut A sleepie huswife or a hatefull scold Or such a sparrow as will not keepe cut Spoile not thy teeth with cracking such a nut For in the world there is no greater hell Then in a house with such a hagge to dwell Or if complexion with condition meete A Croidon sanguine and a currish nature A minde that treads good manners vnder feete A sorrell foretop and a sowish feature God blesse thee sonne from such a wicked creature And let thee rather leade a single life Then kill thy selfe to liue with such a wife Learne then to chuse the best and leaue the worst And chusing well make much of such a choise And thou shalt see while other liue accurst Thy heart and soule shall inwardly reioyce Oh heartie loue is such a heau'nly voyce As he that know it or doth kindly heare it Will finde no musicke in the world come neare it But I will leaue thee to the heau'ns direction Beseeching God of his high heauenly grace To settle so the care of thy affection It take no roote in an vnworthy place But that a virgins eye and Angels face So make thee ioyfull of thy happie chaine That fancie bound would not be free againe But that this course and euerie other care May purchase and continue thy content And that thy soule may liue where vertues are The happie soules eternall ornament To him that fram'd the highest firmament Thy heart and soule in loue all humbly bow And to his will thy seruice truly vow At morne at noone at euening day and night Vnto his mercie do confesse thy sin And begge of him to cleare thy blinded sight And teach thy spirit how it may begin To finde the way that gracious loue may win Pray weepe and cry vntill thou hast obtained Into his seruice to be entertained And when thou feel'st the spirit of that grace That rules the heau'ns come downe into thy hart And so thy thoughts in order all to place That vertue do dispose of euery part When thus thou feelest that thou blessed art Pray for continuance of that comforts blisse That keepes the soule it cannot go amisse And when thou feel'st the loathing of that sinne That long misled that mournfull soule of thine And the true way of grace art entred in That doth the soule to sacred loue encline And doth assure thee of the loue diuine Then let thy heart thy minde and spirit sing