Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	way_n	youth_n	youthful_a	35	3	10.9183	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10666	Dolarnys primerose. Or the first part of the passionate hermit wherein is expressed the liuely passions of zeale and loue, with an alluding discourse to valours ghost. Both pleasant and profitable, if iudiciously read, and rightly vnderstood. Written by a practitioner in poesie, and a stranger among poets, which causeth him dread this sentence: Nihil ad parmenonis suem.	Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.; Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650, attributed name.	1606 (1606)	STC 20941.7; ESTC S101214	32,543	74

set downe And tooke two pot●…s of flowers in his hands Hee knit his browes and seemed for to frowne Yet of the vertues thus at length he ●…kans These with'red flowers were as faire as these And these faire flowers wil be as foule as these This pot of flowers that dead and with'red be In prime of shew but yesterday were growing Their blasted lookes thus faded as you see Were yesterday both pleasant fresh and flowing What wee are all by these wee may deuine When death shall cut our thred and fatall line And these faire flowers that now so faire doo seeme Whose powers were foster'd with this mornings deaw Their gaudy time as I do iustly deeme Is nigh halfe spent as triall shall proue true For ere their lookes the morrow light shall see Their pleasant hewe full with'red off shal be These faded flowers are like vnto the man The which cold dead vpon the ground doth lie With gastly colour visage pale and wan And many mourners him atending by His life thus gon his body nothing craue But to be hid within an earthly graue The with'red flowers then he did set downe And tooke the flowers equall to the other Which when they were each one by other showne Scarse could I deeme the on 's hew from the other But that the last in 's right hand he did hold The first of them his left hand did infold Then with sad lookes he sigh 't and thus bespake Behold these flowers a paradox in yeares With such remorse these speeches from him brake That hee did partly smother them with teares Behold quoth he the man that liues in payne And eke the man that doth in ioye remaine These flowers quoth he his right hād flowers meaning Doth represent the life of happie men The which with vertue in their bound●… conteining Do leade their liue●… that none may looke age●… Whose humane course no ma●… hath euer seene To be corupt with fretfullire or spleene These flowers are like the man who from his youth Hath led his life in pathes of vpright wayes Th' are like to him that strayth not from the truth But liues in goodnesse all his youthfull dayes Th' are like to him whose yeares doo not decay But liueth young vntill his la●…est day These flow'rs quoth he were cropt two days ago But yet doo keepe their perfect colour still The water is the cause why they doe so For why brim-full this small pot I did fill So looke where vertu's fill'd with sweet content There life or colour will not soone be spent Yet euen as beauty from these pretty flowers Though moistly kept at length wil quite consume So shall that man who hath with all his powers Decked him selfe in vertues sweet perfume For though he feeds long on moist vertues breath Yet at the length he yeelds himselfe to death Then did he looke vpon his left hand flowers Alasse quoth he me thinks I see you fade The drouth of wo consumeth all your powers Y' are burnt with heat though always kept in shade For euen as care like fire consumes a man So drouth in shade your beauteous colours tanne These flow'rs are like the willfull prodigall That vnthrift-like spendeth his youthfull dayes Mounting vp still euen sodenly to fall By in directing of his willfull wayes His riotous life his toyes and lauish tongue Makes him looke old when that he is but young Th' are like to him that wantons it abroad With midnight reuills kept in Venus court Spar●…ng no cost but la●…'th on golden loade And in a brothell keeps Lordly port But when his purse and vaynes are all drawn drye Though he 's but young he lookes as he would die Th' are not vnlike a vertuous nurtur'd child The which did flowrish in his tender yeares But got the reines grows head strong proud and wilde Till all his graine is turn'd to frutlesse tares Then full of care he leaues his foolish ioy And looks like age when he is but a boie Good sir quoth he thus haue I to you showne The vertu●…s of these seuerall sorts of dishes My glasse and flowers you the ●…ast haue knowne Although not fill'd with flesh nor dayntie fishes And with those words he did set downe the flowers Feeding againe for to reuiue his powers Not past two bits the silly man did eate When in his hand he tooke the booke and bell And thus of them began for to intreat Whilst droping teares from his sad eies befel This booke quoth he a mans shape seems to haue And this the bell that cals him to his graue This Little booke presents the life of man Wherein is wrap'd the substance of his soule Which be it fresh or be it pale or wan T' must separate when as this bell doth toule How vertuous bad or pure soere it be When death doth call soule must from body flee Within this booke doth spring the well of life Which fountaine cleare giues drinke to al that craues it Heare li'th the sword that ends all Kindes of strife Deny'd to none but all that seeks it haue it And they that vse this sword or water cleare This bells alarum need not for to feare Within this booke good men renew their sight When as they bathe their liquid veines therein To heare this bell it doth their soules delight They feare not death they force him not a pin For when sterne death thinkes most their soules t'anoy This is their shield they thinke him but a toy This booke quoth he should Vsurers behold And foule vsurpers of their neighbours land That robs the poore and heapes vp hoordes of gold To note it well they would amazed stand And from those lands and bagges of money fall For feare this Bell to Limbo should them call If drunkards gluttons or lasciuious men Would deeply diue into this small bookes lines Their owne black leaues they would turneo●…e a gen And soone bewaile their monster like spent times Arming themselues with this the scourge of hell Least they should feare the tolling of the Bell. Or if that they who swell with haughty pride Within this booke should make their looking-glasse Or if false theeues should here their shares diuide And view it well before they hence did passe Pride and Celeno they would both go pray For feare this Bell to hell should them conuay But if a good and vertuous liuing man Should chance to prie within this little booke He neede not feare for he already can Their calmie lines with faire digest●…re brooke If death him call he doth him straight defie Only he knowes from this world he must dye This Bell presents the Crier of a Court The which in time doth call both good and bad Each man thereto must duly make resort For when he calles an answer must be had And when pale death shall shut vp all our powers The dolefull bell doth strike our latest houres With which sad words he set them on the cloath Now sir quoth he y'haue tasted