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	prudence_n	temperance_n	1,677	5	10.4183	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16679	A solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefely shadowing the lavv of drinking together, with the solemnities and controversies occurring: fully and freely discussed according to the civill lavv. Which, by the permission, priviledge and authority, of that most noble and famous order in the Vniversity of Goddesse Potina; Dionisius Bacchus being then president, chiefe gossipper, and most excellent governour, Blasius Multibibus, aliàs Drinkmuch ... hath publikely expounded to his most approved and improved fellow-pot-shots; touching the houres before noone and after, usuall and lawfull. ... Faithfully rendred according to the originall Latine copie.; Disputatio inauguralis theoretico-practica jus potandi breviter adumbrans. English	Multibibus, Blasius.; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673. aut; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, ill.	1617 (1617)	STC 3585; ESTC S106117	36,489	106

Sunne Some come from the camp to the stage from the pike to the pen and few Souldiers will prove good Poets For the nature of these men I my selfe have had an itching inclination to this poeticall phrensie had rather fight with Bacchus than Mars and had rather cope with a barrell than oppose themselves to a quarrell Others from an Indenture to a Theatre the Scribe turnes Pharisic and Asinus ad Lyram expresseth his owne shame by his Scriveners fragments Others from mowting to comicke writing a brave honour to descend to Poet from Lawyer But amongst these my brave Spurio thou shalt finde many generous wits possest with this phrensie call them to thee smoake their wits it may bee they are mustie and desire soaking These poore Gnats deserve thine acquaintance even the lowest favorite in Parnassus Armourie Qui nescit versus tamen audet fingere Take him to thee hee shall for his love to Ribauldrie drinke a pipe on my score What shall vanitie want smoake No my thrice-renowned Hermaphrodite smoake thou them here on Earth and I will smoake them in Hell with pipes of Sulphur But I pray thee retaine these last of all others they will draw company to thee they are made the verie Morio's of our time and what good wit but either can draw thee into acquaintance with great ones or is so endeared to the other sex as by their meanes thou shalt have creatures of both kindes and that will make thee for ever resort to thy shop continually Humor me these Poets extoll their devices though thou never heard of any of them they love to be tickled Flatterie they cannot judge of for they verily imagine their deserts out-strip all commendations But now my Rogue in graine if thou couldst set up a private Refectorie for the young effeminate sort for they would like Adamants draw continuall recourse I would hug thee eternally Sell mee Potato-roots Eringoes all Electuaries Confections Receipts Conceipts Deceipts Pomatum Cerusse with a large recitall of thy brave commodities and a little smooth-faced Ganymede standing at the doore who like another Parret or Mag-pie may crie ever in one tune What doe you lacke Pomatum of the best Cerusse what doe you lacke If thou be so blest as to get these Syrenfaced things into thy confines I shall be happie in thee The best meanes to ensnare them is to commend them and in comparison of sexes to prefer theirs in many degrees before the grosse and distempered constitution of man fumming up some especiall records of their sexes worth Blessed creatures Soveraignesses of earths happinesses thus mayst thou binde them to thee when Nature framed the best of her Art shee examplified it in you making you the founders of Cities and flourishing Countries Provinces and Ilands Asia first founded by a woman of that name Europe by Europa daughter 〈◊〉 Aegenor King of Phanicia and Scythia of a woman that sprung out of the earth who named her sonne Scytha To describe the rare sit●…s and foundations of Iles matchlesse creatures Rhodes Corcyra Salamyna and Ae●… were all founded by women Shall I ascend higher and register your excellence in the Planets and those celestiall bodies which give humane bodies light There bee a thousand and twentie stars names knowne all which have their Constellations of women Shall I then expresse your incomparable natures by essentiall goodnesse why Vertue her selfe makes your sex inimitable Justice with a sword in her hand portrayed like a woman Prudence with a glasse Temperance with a diall Fortitude with an huge Colossus on her shoulder that Hercules could not remove all these in Imbroderies as Tapistrie Cloth of Arras and the like beare the formes of women Thus commend them and they will sooner buy Eringoes of the worst so they may have them by retaile at thy shop than at others of the best that cannot with a glibberie tongue deifie them But I hold thee all too long last Caution I should give thee have I reserved for the last that it may take deepest and firmest root in thy memorie on my blessing I warne thee to contemne honestie as a poore whore that is neither for Court Countrey nor Citie Spurne at her when shee offers to be acquainted with thee it is not fit that Pluto's Bastard should respect Honestie Get and care not how forsweare thy selfe and thinke not when cheat respect not where Honestie could never thrive in the world as she is a beggar discard her as shee is simple scorne her and as she is base loath her When shalt thou see Honestie approach a great mans palace enter a Tradesmans shop or get bed-roome in an Inne but Knaverie is ever reaping a commoditie There is not a Comrade in all the Citie but she can make use on that wind blowes ill where she gaines not something To bee short ere thou ever set up shop or hang out thy Blackamoore disclaime honestie entertaine perjurie and the first part of knaverie may begin with a paire of uneven scales Thus if thou proceed in thy trade I shall thinke my Cautions well bestowed if not to aggravate thy punishment I will eternally banish thy strumpet-mother from mee and make those verie Gallants which frequent thy shop kicke thee into the kennell for thy honest simplicitie More should I say unto thee but that Hell growes turbulent for want of government Though I doe not leave thee as I found thee in that thy shape is altered yet I leave thee in some respect better instructed This is my last blessing Fly into the world and may knaverie guide thee false weights enjoy thee and many phantasticke Asses be seduced by thee HAVING shipp'd this plant in Charons vessell and sent it into the world what commerce it had in time and what people of all conditions frequented it shall appeare by this pitifull complaint made by Time whom you may imagine came forth of an old decayed and ruinous castle bald-headed with a sythe in his hand and blubbered face standing in the publique street of Troynovan●… for there this Plant tooke first planting where he exclaimes against Pluto's Bastard in these or the like continuate passions The Argument The Complaint of Time upon Tobacco and the miserie of mans securitie losing that treasure by Times expence which can never be repurchased or redeemed but by bitter and incessant repentance WHo CALS on Time Who makes use of Time Or who in meere compassion wil wipe these teares from the eyes of Time Unhappiest of men that should offer the best of men yet art despised by all men None here will negotiate in thy behalfe they make thee a stale to their pleasures a Pandor to their filthinesse a Brothell of shame and a contempt to thy selfe None esteemes thee as thou art precious but makes thee different to thine owne nature vitious The ambitious man hugs thee to climbe the ladder of preferment by thee The wanton and licentious Courtier to satisfie the phantasticknesse of his braine-sicke vanitie by thee