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
A20069	The magnificent entertainment giuen to King Iames, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, vpon the day of his Maiesties tryumphant passage (from the Tower) through his honourable citie (and chamber) of London, being the 15. of March. 1603. As well by the English as by the strangers: vvith the speeches and songes, deliuered in the seuerall pageants. Tho. Dekker.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1604 (1604)	STC 6510; ESTC S109541	27,136	70

had bin Th Antipodes But see the vertue of a Regall eye Th' attractiue wonder of mans Maiestie Our Globe is drawne in a right line agen And now appeare new faces and new men The Elements Earth Water Ayre and Fire Which euer clipt a naturall desire To combat each with other being at first Created enemies to fight their worst See at the peacefull presence of their King How quietly they moude without their sting Earth not deuouring Fire not defacing Waternot drowning the Ayre not chasing But proping the queint Fabrick that heere stands Without the violence of their wrathfull hands Mirror of times lo where thy Fotune sits Aboue the world and all our humaine wits But thy hye Vertue aboue that what pen Or Art or braine can reach thy vertue then At whose immortall brightnes and true light Enuies infectious eyes haue lost their sight Her snakes not daring to shoot-forth their stings Gainst such a glorious obiect downe she flings Their forkes of Venome into her owne mawe Whilst her ranke teeth the glittering poisons chawe For t is the property of Enuies blood To dry away at euery kingdomes good Especially when shee had eyes to view These foure maine vertues figurde all in you Iustice in causes Fortitude gainstfoes Temprance in spleene and Prudence in all those And then so rich an Empyre whose fayre brest Contaynes foure Kingdomes by your entrance blest By Brute diuided but by you alone All are againe vnited and made One Whose fruitfull glories shine so far and euen They touch not onely earth but they kisse heauen From whence Astraea is descended hither Who with our last Queenes Spirit fled vp thither Fore-knowing on the earth she could not rest Till you had lockt her in your rightfull brest And therefore all Estates whose proper Arts Liue by the breath of Majestie had harts Burning in holy Zeales immaculate fires With quenchles Ardors and vnstaind desires To see what they now see your powerful Grace Reflecting joyes on every subjects face These paynted flames and yellow burning Stripes Vpon this roab being but as showes and types Of that great Zeale And therefore in the name Of this glad Citie whither no Prince euer came More lou'd more long'd for lowely I intreate You 'ld be to her as gracious as y' are great So with reuerberate shoutes our Globe shall ring The Musicks close being thus God saue our King If there be any glorie to be won by writing these lynes I do freelie bestow it as his due on Tho. Meddleton in whose braine they were begotton though they were deliuered heere Qnae nos non ●ecimus ipsi vix ea nostra voco But hauing peiced vp our wings now againe with our owne feathers sufter vs a while to be pruning them and to lay them smooth whilst this song which went foorth at the sound of Hault-boyes and other lowde instruments flyes along with the trayne Cant. Where are all these Honors owing Why are seas of people flowing Tell mee tell me Rumor Though it be thy Humor More often to be lying Than from thy breath to haue trueth flying Yet alter now that fashion And without the streame of passion Let thy voyce swim smooth and cleare When words want gilding then they are most deere Behold where Ioue and all the States Of Heau'n through Heau'ns seauen siluer gates All in glory riding Backs of Clowds bestriding The milky waie do couer With starry Path being measur'd ouer The Deities conuent In Ioues high Court of Parliament Rumor thou doest loose thine aymes This is not Ioue but One as great King IAMES And now take we our flight vp to Temple-bar the other ende of this our Gallery where by this time his Majestie is vpon the poynt of giuing a gratious and Princely Fare-well to the Lord Major and the Citie But that his eye meeting a seauenth beautifull object is invited by that to delay awhile his lamented departure The Building being set out thus The Front or Surface of it was proportioned in euery respect like a Temple being dedicated to Ianus as by this inscriptiō ouer the Ianus head may appeare Iano Quadri fronti Sacrum The height of the whole Aedifice from the grownd line to the top was 57. foote the full bredth of it 18. foote the thicknes of the Passage 12. The personages that were in this Temple are these 1. The principall person Peace 2. By her stood Wealth 3. Beneath the feet of Peace lay Mars War groueling 4. And vpon her right had but with some little descent was seated Quiet the first hand-maid of Peace 5. Shee had lying at her feete Tumule 6. On the other side was the seconde hand-mayd Libertie at whose feete lay a Catte 7. This person trod vpon Seruitude 8. The third handmaid was Safety 9. Beneath her was Danger 10 The fourth attendant was Faelicitie 11 At her feete Vnhappines Within the Temple was an Altar to which vpon the approch of the King a Flamin appeares and to him the former Genius of the Citie The effect of whose speech was that whereas the Flamin came to performe rites there in hônour of one Anna a goddesse of the Romaines the Genius vowes that none shall doe Sacrifice there but himselfe the offring that he makes being the Heart of the Citie c. And thus haue wee lowely and aloofe followed our Soueraigne through the seauen Triumphal gates of this his Court Royall which name as London receiued at the rysing of the Sunne so now at his going from her euen in a moment She lost that honour And being like an Actor on a Stage stript out of her borrowed Majestie she resignes her former shape title of Citie nor is it quite lost considering it went along with him to whom it is due For such Vertue is begotten in Princes that their verie presence hath power to turnea Village to a Citie and to make a Citie appeare great as a Kingdome Behold how glorious a Flower Happinesse is but how fading The Minutes that lackey at the heeles of Time run not faster away then do our joyes What tongue could haue exprest the raptures on which the soule of the Citie was carried beyond it selfe for the space of manie houres What wealth could haue allurde her to haue closde her eies at the comming of her King and yet See her Bridegrome is but stept from her and in a Minute nay in shorter time then a thought can be borne is she made a Widdow All her consolation being now to repeate ouer by roate those Honors which lately she had perfectly by hart And to tell of those joyes which but euen now shee reallie behelde yet thus of her absent beloued do I heare her gladly and heartily speaking Virg. In freta dum Fluvii Current dum montibus vmbra Lustrabvnt Conuexa Polus dum sidera pascet Semper Honos Nomenque tuum Laudesque manebunt The Pageant in the Strond THe Citie of Westminster and Dutchy of Lancaster perceiuing what preparation