Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	fortitude_n	justice_n	temperance_n	2,097	5	10.3230	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07592	The mirrour of madnes, or a paradoxe maintayning madnes to be most excellent: done out of French into English, by Ia. San. gent	Sandford, James.	1576 (1576)	STC 17980; ESTC S107041	19,652	54

that therefore whereby these thynges are wrought is moste excellente by warre they are wrought Ergo it is most excellent but warre before is proued Madnes therefore Madnes is most excellente Doo not all the fower vertues concurre togeather lincked as it weere in one Chayne whersoeuer therfore thou findest Fortitude thinke also that there concurreth wyth it Iustice Temperaunce and Prudence nowe if warre leade all these vertues as it weere by a stringe as certaynly it dothe for euery man wyll confesse that it is but Iustice to reuenge Iniuries fortitude then executeth reuenge wisdome subministreth policie to reuenge temperaunce appoynteth measure how farre to reuenge then followethe consequentlye that Madnes must nedes bee good who hath for his ayde so manye vertues wherewith it is garded but here some curyous head wil obiecte and saye Syr can a man be madde and modest I answeare yea aswell as warrelyke and valiaunte for where one vertue taketh place there the residewe ensue thus may you perceaue that nothing letteth Madnes more to bee modestie then valiauncie in battaile to be fortitude but euery vertue is in his owne nature singularly good ioygned to an other more good cōcurring altogether most good so make the thing to be wherein they be in madnes they bee as I haue proued therefore Madnes is most good All thinges in nature are grounded vppon these twoo Loue and Hate and of loue to let Hate passe there be manye kyndes the Loue of God of our Parentes of our fryendes of our Countrye of our Wiues and Chyldren and of our selues and all these loues nature inferreth whereby wee be combined and lincked one to an other in full and perfecte league and amitye nowe is there one loue which beareth the stroke the Loue of procreation naturallye incidente to euerye one of vs guyded as the Poetes faygne by the pearcing shote and amorous arrowes of that litle wanton boye Cupido whose Golden arrowe worketh Loue and leaded darte engendreth hatred and alas what is Loue but a swete hate of our selues and a pleasaūt Madnes as Angelus Politianus notably recordeth in that boke which is intituled Stanze di Messer Angelo Politiano where he bringeth in Iuliane Medices speakinge to young Louers parte of whose woordes in that place be these Costui ch' el vulgo errante chiamo Amore E dolce ynsania A Madnes svveete is he vvhom erring Loue The common sorte do call And Fraunciscus Petrarcha bereft I suppose of his wittes for the Loue of his Ladye Laura in his Songes and Sonettes singeth thus Veggio senz'occhi e non ho linqua egrido E bramo di perir e geggio aita E ho in odio me stesso amo altrui Pascomi di dolor piangendo rido Egualmente mi spiace morte vita In questo stato son Donna per vui With eyes I nothing se my tongue is lost Yet do I crye and languishe to my coste Desirous life to ende yet healpe require Selfe hate me burnes vvhile loue stirres vp the fire With dole I feede my selfe in teares I laughe At life and death a like I fling the staffe In this estate I rest Madame for you How saye you by this geare is Loue nowe madnes or not and yet as Counte Baldessar Castilio sayth in his booke of the Courtier if an hoste of Louers were in the fielde and should hire euerye man but the cohortation of a weake woman to battayle there would be in suche bickeringe and such murder and smiting downe to please their Ladies that after great hewinge flashinge they wolde lay their carckasses and māly corpses before their eyes in the open fielde or elles obtayne suche a precious and tryumphaunt victorye that both sea and lande shoulde wholye be astonied to heare the greate renowme glorie thereof Although Mantuan we knowe beinge a lustie Freer and restrayned from his manelye appetites and frō the amorous girles which peraduenture be more desired then deserued cryeth out vpon Loue in this wyse Ludit amor sensus oculos perstringit aufert Libertatem animi mira nos fascinat arte Credo aliquis daemō subiens praecordia flāmam Concitat raptam tollit de cardine mentem Nec Deus vt perhibent amor est sed amaeror error Loue all the senses dothe beguile and bleareth al our eies It cuttes of freedome of the mynde and makes vs gape for flies I thinke some furious fend of Hell the hart doth this enflame And bringeth quite the same a dovvne from loftie reasons frame Ne is this Loue a God in deede but lies and bitter bane Be it what it will be it is certaynely a burninge fyre consuminge the sinewes and percinge thorowe the boanes and eatynge oute the peaseable quietnes of the mynde euen as a mothe a garmente as a Grashopper a greane Hearbe as a rust and cankar al kinde of Mettal in fire we see nothing but madnes for it burneth and wasteth all thinges moste vehemently in Loue of euery sort we perceaue nothinge but fire and zeale for it freateth the harte and burneth it vp moste fearcely eyther because of the thing that it loueth already obtayned or for the thing that it loueth to obtayne yt whiche is the cause that Poetes in comedies and Tragedies haue set forth Ad viuum the sundry loues of sundrye parsonnes as of Ariadne and Theseus Medea and Iason Deianira Hercules Clytemnestra and Hyppolitus Paris and Helena and that whiche Ouide singeth most for a wonder the loue of Narcissus Eccho Pygmalion his Image these are all set foorth to shewe the nature of loue moste igniferous and fyery whiche neuer is stanched but by deathe or desire whereupon this little reason may serue for proufe all fire is madnes in his operation euery Loue is a fire therefore euery Loue is madnes But here by and by commeth Mounsieur Beaumains and shaketh mee by the fiste and sayth sir Where is your fisher towne of Caletum whoos 's chiefe Marchaundise weere Sprats and pilchardes which made all our Countrye men sicke of the yallowe Iandise and of the whyte Leprosie bee shrewe my head Thurlpole and Gardener the one with his whyte rodde the other wyth his Perselye mattocke well rescued the Towne when the plum boates of Fraunce came in to offer a poudred bullies in the woorshippe of Sayncte Nicolas to his Churche and Temple there I cannot tell quoth I wher oure frynde Thurlepole was at that tyme I know wher he was at ane other time videlicet at Rome wyth a certayne noble man of Englande who for honoures sake shal be namelesse for that hee went more modestlye to woorke then the other as yee shall well heare marcke the Comedye I praye you it chaunced that these aforesayde entringe into Roome wyth solemne Procession wyth Streamers and Banners wyth bagpipes Bellles and Basens and all manner of solemnitye the Popes holinesse and myghtye fatherhode in worshippe of Sainct Bancke the bawdye sente vnto their lodginges two Lemons to season