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
A73300	The triumphs of fame and honour, or, The noble accomplish'd solemnity, full of cost, art and state, at the inauguration and establishment of the true worthy and right nobly minded Robert Parkhurst, into the right honourable office of Lord Maior of London the particularities of every invention in all the pageants, shewes and triumphs both by water and land, are here following fully set downe, being all performed by loves, liberall costs, and charges of the right worshipfull and worthy Brother-hood of the Cloth-workers the 29 of October 1634 / written by Iohn Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1634 (1634)	STC 23808; ESTC S5206	8,852	44

you and she did prefer You to this dignity to Maintaine her I doe command her still with you t' abide Doe you defend her she shall be your guide For truth-sake Time shall be your servant still And in your just commands obey your will Time shall transport your Marchandise and wares Time shall assist you in your great'st affaires Time shall be alwaies yours Auspitiously And Time will bring you to Eternity Her 's Hermes from his Spheares circumferance Hath brought the Poet wit and Eloquence And quick Invention likewise he Inflam'd Into the Artists that these pageants fram'd That for your future Honour this may be A day of well Compos'd Variety Of Speach and shew these Triumphs we present We hope as they are meant shall give content We humbly wish that you this yeare may finde Full of true worth as is your worthy mind Next and neere to this Pageant of Time and Mercury is the forme of a Citie representing London with walls Battlements Gates Churches Towers Steeples and lofty Buildings and some Antique shapes here and there on the tops of the highest Edifices Also with shops and men at worke upon cloth as Cloth-workers fullers shermen and others the walls of the Citie being adorned round with Armes and scoutcheons of the Cittie and company as also divers figures as 1 of Antiquitie 2 Record 3 Memory 4 Wisedome and others the like also an ancient Matron in a civill grave robe with her haire long hanging downe in trammels dishevelled behind her backe sitting in one of the Gates of the Citie shee speaks in the person of London to the Lord Mayor and company as followeth By me faire London in obedience shewes The service love and duty that she owes To this daies Triumph but my aime is higher My thankfulnesse doth up to heaven aspire Which unto me hath so propitious beene That I doe see this day and now am seene The Queene of Cities Empresse of content And Princesse of unmarched government Weigh well my state and think on other states Thebes is ruin'd with her hundred Gates Numantia Carthage great Jerusalem And Babylon what are become of them Constantinople doth in sorrow lye And groane beneath the Turkish tyranny Rome and all Cities that hold Rome supreme Their glorie 's are eclips'd or but a dreame Whilst fire and sword doth Germany molest London's secure with peace and plenty blest Turke Pope and war beare here no rule or sway For I one God one King one Law obey Ther 's my security and my state doth stand Supported by the unsupported hand These are the meanes and instruments whereby We rise to Honour painfull Industry An Idle Citizen is like a Moth One spoyles b'example t'oher spoyles the Cloth True Citizens are the true Cities sonnes The others are but bastards mad that runnes Like Runnagates or cursed Imps of Caine And never shall to Honours seat Attaine Worke on my Lads and you in time may be Good members of this Honour'd Company And though good Freeman of this Corporation Deceas'd before his halfe yeares expiration Yet Heaven hath soone provided for our good Another worthy of this Brother-hood And now my Lord I give my selfe and mine To your command and charge and I divine That as great is the Honour of your seat Your Government shall be more good than great The next is a Pageant in the forme of a Tower which doth import a Tower of Honour on the top of which Tower sits one in royall robes with a majestique Impalement on his head a scepter in one hand and a Ball in the other under him in the next descent sit in equall distances the figures of a Lord Mayor a Bishop a Lawyer and a warlike Captaine or Generall On the right hand of the Lord Mayor is placed the figure or emblem of Honour next the Bishop is placed piety or the feare of God on the right hand of the Judge a figure representing power is seated and by the Generall or Captaine stands victory In the descent below the Lord Mayor is an apprentice and by him stands obedience beneath the Bishop is a scholler and by him is placed patience under the Judge a clark and by him diligence under the Lord Generall is a Common Souldiour and by him is placed vertue which shewes that by vertuous actions and true industry meane men have ascended and may be raised to Honourable places which is an encouragement and paterne for others to pursue and follow those most worthy wayes to Honour and Renowne The Tower being round or circular and the Basis or Ground-worke square or Quadrangle on each corner whereof sits the foure prime or Cardinall Vertues namely Justice Fortitude Temperance and Prudence every one of them habited in Robes significant and Emblematically shewing that those vertues doe adorne and dignifie the above presented noble personages This Pageant attending my Lord Mayor in Pauls Church-yard or at the upper end of Cheapside neere the little Conduit he that sits highest in the place and person of Honour speakes this following Speech The Speech of Honour Low steps begin to mount the highest hills Great Rivers have their heads from little Rills From servitude growes freedome and from thence Through Industry springs Worth and Eminence All such as will true Honours seat ascend Must doe as these have first obey and bend For though Humility to man seemes low The fruit of it as high as Heaven doth grow T is diligence doth the puny-clarke prefer To be a Reverend Judge or Counceller Paines and much perill oft obtaines the grace A common Souldiour gaines a Generals place The poorest Schollers study by degrees Ascends the height of spirituall dignities And from th'apprentice seven yeares servitude Proceeds the grave gowne and the Livery-Hood Till in the end by merit paines and care They win the Grace to fit in Honours chaire Thus Humble service is advanc'd and rear'd To Honours seat obey'd belov'd and fear'd Authoritie's the touch-stone of the minde And shewes which way the bearer is inclin'd For having power joyned to his will It makes him much more good or much more ill It makes him to foresee with Judgements eye That Justice without Mercie 's cruelty That Mercy without Justice is much worse Breeds scorne contempt makes power to leese her force When you in scales of Equity doe lay The sword of Justice who dares but obey Your faith and Honour are in marriage joynd By oath this day which no man can unbinde Therefore my Lord whose service and true merit Hath made this Honour your's which you inherit T is treble Joy that you doe wisely know To mix those vertues well and to bestow Them justly as occasion shall incite To gard the good and make wrong render right In which expectance all our hopes abounding Joy crowne this day with Drums and Trumpets sounding Then his Lordship being come to Saint Laurence lane end in Cheapside he is saluted by Endimion or a shepherd rideing on a Rams back the Ram being