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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16804	The vvil of vvit, vvits vvill, or vvils wit, chuse you whether Containing fiue discourses, the effects whereof follow. Read and iudge. Compiled by Nicholas Breton, Gentleman.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1597 (1597)	STC 3705; ESTC S104696	57,843	108

cannot bée without him Oh what haue I lost my Will Whither is he gone when will he returne who hath led him away or will bring him backe againe what company is he fal●… into or how doth he leade his life Well time yet may turne him Till when I wishe for him heping to meete him but hope is vncertaine yet hope well and haue well Thus alone I cannot dwell if I finde him so it is if not then ●…wis I must be content with this Patience is a vertue But whome doo I beholde so neere It is my Will with heauie cheere well I am sory for this gea●…e Yet will I to him out of hand and knowe howe so the case dooth stand What Will Will. Who Wit Wit Whither away Will. Where I may Wit Whereto Will. Oh to doo Wit What Will. Teach thou me that Wit Why sighe not boye VVill. Oh all my ioye VVit Where is it VVill VVill. Among the ill VVit What Is it lost VVill. That greeues me most VVit And not to be recouered VVill. Oh my heart is almost dead VVit What Will Holde vp head I will be thy friend to death VVill. Thē giue me leaue to fetch my breath And welcome twise and thrise well met where my hearts ioy is set Many a walke haue I fet but no comfort could I get till now by thee mine onely friend with whome I meane my life to ende If thou wilt giue me leaue good wit VVit Yes good sweete will and glad of it will Then harke good wit vnto my tale not of amidde my blisse in bale nor any such like stuffe so stale I studie not to talke in verse but I will vnto thee rehearse a plaine discourse in homely prosse wherein I will at large disclose How I haue liued with whome and where how I was tossed heere and there How I did chaunce to trauaile hyther and so we will be merry togither Wit Contented Uerse is good sometime but sometime presse and sometime ryme But be it eyther prosse or verse what so thou wilt good will rehearse I meane to heare it to the ende And quit thee quickly as a friend But since thou likest prosse so well begin in prosse thy tale to t●…l Willes Tale. OH good wit if thou doost remember I lost thée in trauaile to the Well of Wisedome Since when I haue wandred through a wildernesse of woe which in the Mappe of that Countrey I finde is called the Desart of Desire Wherein I sawe so many wayes as new in this and then in that ●…t last I came to the hill of ha●…de Happe which ledde mee downe into a Uale of Uanitie There did I liue in the Lake of Miseries with the lost people that hauing followed Fancie found Penitence the reward of running heades But Lord what a life it is I lothe to thinke on it Beleeue mee sweete wit there is such falling out with Fancie who shiftes all vpon Folly Such exclamation vpon Folly who bringes them to Fortune such cursing and banning of Fortune for her froward dealing in gentle helping them vppe vppon the wheele and then suddaine dinging them downe almost to theyr destruction that if there bee a Hell in this worlde there is the place God keepe all good mindes from such a ●…thy corner VVit Amen But tell me ●…w ca●…st thou thence will I will tell you anon ●…ut first I will tell you more There is of all States Princes crye out of cares Lordes of lacke of liuing Ladyes o●… false Loue Souldiours of want of paye Lawyers of quiet Poore men of Lawe Merchauntes of shipwracke Marriners of scule weather Usurers of Sermons and Diuines of Usurie Players of Preachers and Preachers of Pl●…yers Dicers of loosing and losers o●… Dicing Cryples of fighting and fighters of hurtes the Rich of sicknesse the Poore of want the Sicke of paine the healthfull of ill happe the vnhappie of the time that euer they were borne Oh it is a pittious crie I would not be there againe to heare it as I haue done for the gaine of Europe VVit Beléeue me I cannot blame thee but tell me how camst thou thence VVill. Oh brother I will tell you how you knowe sometime trauailers must néedes haue rest which they must come by as they may Now I hauing walked as I tolde you through this vnpleasant place weary at last I layde me downe in the ditch of Distresse where finding many dead skulles and other boanes I there thought to beginne a sléepe or sleepe my last now lying there in such sorte as I tell you mée thought in my sléepe I sighed in which sorrow a good motion of minde set my heart to prayer which tended to this effect that it would please the mightie and mercifull Maiestie of the most highest to sende me some meane to leade me out of this miserie beeing as it were from my Wit and altogither comfortlesse Now suddainly there appeared vnto me an olde aged man who tooke me by the hand with these words Arise thou sluggish wanton walke no longer out of thy way turne thee backe from this straye pathe experience doth teach thée what is VVill without VVit Prayer hath procured thee pardon the high and onely God hath giuen thée Grace by Grace goe seeke that is worth the finding looke where VVit is too him and make much of him With ioye of that worde I awaked and with shame of my Folly in leauing thee I hung the head with sorrowe whereof I was almost of life depriued but now by thy sweete welcome wholy reuiued now awake I shoulde say I sawe none but thee and now while I liue I will followe thée Wit Why was it heere you slept or haue you come farre since you waked Will. No no heere did I sleepe héere is the place of paine so vnpleasant but nowe I sée thee I haue receiued comfort for that I know thou canst leade me to Wisedome who will soone shew me the way to Paradise wit Why then will well hast thou slept better hast thou dreamed but best hast thou waked to hit on mée so happily who intende to bring thee to that good beginning that shall leade thee to endlesse blisse But to quit thy tale I will tell thée a little of my trauaile and so we will away togither Wits Tale. WIll thou knowest when I left thée in the lane of learning I went on straight to the schoole of Uertue and with her Testimoniall to the Well of Wisedome which standes within the Pallace of Patience where I found the Fountaine kept with foure Ladies whose names were Wisedome Temperance Fortitude and Iustice now when I came thither with suffient warning from Uertue yet for order sake they thus vsed me wisedome which stood with a Snake in her hand ouer whose head was written I see the holes that subtill Serpents make thus vsed her warie spéech vnto me Sirra quoth she how presume you into this place frō whence came you and how and whither will you Lady quoth