Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	1,307	5	9.6147	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36720	The accomplish'd woman written originally in French ; since made English by the Honourable Walter Montague, Esq.; Honneste femme. English	Du Bosc, Jacques, d. 1660.; Montagu, Walter, 1603?-1677.	1656 (1656)	Wing D2407A; ESTC R3125	57,674	154

crime because that meeting with many enemies to their evil intents there is no malice so black that passion doth not infuse into them for the ruine of those that intercept either their love or fortune Aphrodisia wife to the Emperour Dioclesian tryed alwaies to be beloved of her son in law Erastus but after having lost many intreaties on him in a chamber where she thought the opportunity would afford her victory the refusall incensed her with as much spite as shame she came perplext to her husband to accuse this innocent of a crime he would not commit 'T is the custome of Debauched women to turn their love into hate when their desires are discovered and not satisfied and to plot the preservation of their credits even by the ruine of those that would not be their complices It should seem that the Philosopher Chilon spoke of such when he maintained that it was the uttermost of all comminations could be made to enemies the anger of women Me thinks it is an incomparable Master-piece and an art that no body is passed Master of the pacification of a furious woman If this passion last till they grow old they will be sick of it all their lives because they will fright those that would appease them when they can no longer give love they will hardly give patience The wrinkles will score out their years in their faces as lines do hours upon the Dyall And you may judge of the vilenesse of their infamous age since they frighted their nurse even in the Cradle The head of Medusa that struck so much fear into the world had but her hair changed into Serpents these have their eye-browes over and above to be compleatly horrible The divel which inspires them with so much fury must needs trouble their sight also when they look in a glasse since they do not scare themselvs and in stead of being content to be endured expect stil to be beloved Hel may keep its furies these wil serve in the world to act or perswade sins blacker then those that heretofore drew fire from heaven or have opened the jawes of the earth If ugliness be the mark of cruelty want of wit is the spring head of it I hold it infallible that those that have no sweetness nor gentlenesse are void of understanding and courage Generous women are alwaies pitiful they know it is more glorious to overcome their own passions then their enemies and that to give life where it may be taken is almost to resusciate the dead without a Miracle But for fear this morality should not be understood Anaxarates was not cruel in seeing Iphis die in dispaire before her door the refusal was just because the demand was not so 'T was an offender that did injustice on himself for his temerity Worthy women should fear less the ruin of importunate men then of their own honour and it were to be ill advised to be cruel to themselves to be so unfittingly pitifull to insolence or detraction Of Beauty THose that adore or despise Beauty either offer too much or too little to the image of God It is one of the rarest presents that heaven hath made to earth but we must ascribe all the merit to the power of him that gratifies us with it In the opinion of Plato it is a humane splendor amiable in its own nature that has the power to ravish the mind with the eyes Since heretofore deformed Ministers have been rejected from the Temple let us not believe ill of beauty God himself hath thought it necessary for those that approch his Altars it must be a mark of our inclination to good since we as seldome find beauty without vertue as uglinesse without mischief The judgment that we make of the beauty of the min● by that of the body are not most commonly ill grounded soules like Queens prepare their residence where they themselves take the pains to adorn them when they are received into them And indeed if vertue be necessary for the establishment of Soveraign authorities beauty also sweetens them and welcomes even servitude which otherwise would be insupportable I find sometimes fair wits in ill-favoured bodies but they are relicks ill set which the country people do not so much respect and reverence as if they were covered with Gold or Pearl This lovely quality may challenge a command every where wherethere is the light of eyes or reason The face alone of Scipio the Affrican Subdued many a barbarous Nation without so much as the drawing of a sword and Heliogabalus himself from a Priest of the Sun rose to be Emperour of all the world as soon as his mother had shown him to the Souldiers so as all the world payes a duty to such as nature hath thus advantaged The vulgar believe that if there be no ill in handsome women at least there is inconvenience the temptation is there though the sin be not when beauty is the occasion of ill 't is an innocent that makes offenders and those that complain of it do as idly as if one should accuse the Sun for dazling his sight when he looks too fixedly on that glorious body This is objected one can hardly keep that which many love and there is no great assurance in the possession of that all the world aspires to sometimes Towns are so long besieged assaulted at so many several places as at last they are taken one cannot praise beauty better then in confessing all desire it as the object of their delight If handsome women are sometimes gained this complaint must be addressed rather to their wit then face A place is not the weaker because he hath yeilded which should have kept it the fault is in the Captaine not the Fort Howsoever ill-favoured ones can have no advantage in this reproach because since they are never attempted their holding out cannot argue their strength They should have curiosity only to seek darknesse because the Sun never rises but to their shame which seems to shine only to give light to faire objects They are in more paine to defend themselvs from contempts then suits and patience is the vertue they had most need of Handsome women are accused of being scornfull but when we think well of it we shall find that their disdain proceeds rather from conscience then vanity because they cannot endure the idolatrous pursuits of the excessive praises which artificiall men offer up to surprize them As Kings laugh at the complements of Courtiers because they are made more for interest then affection so women may mock the officiousnesse of Gallants because all their pains tend but to their own pleasure and the ruine of indiscreet ones There is not so much presumption in the most admired women as there is poorness in men that tie their own chaines the services they do them and the names they give them express as much their weaknesse as the extravagancy of their passion What reason is there to call their Empire Tyrannicall since