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
A33571	Cocker's morals, or, The muses spring-garden adorned with many sententious disticks & poems in alphabetical order : fitted for the use of all publick and private grammar and writing schools, for the scholars of the first to turn into Latin, and for those of the other to transcribe into all their various and curious hands / by Edward Cocker.	Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675.	1675 (1675)	Wing C4843A; ESTC R29228	23,067	74

he 'l take it to be Stout VVho is with heaps of Riches fenc'd about God's a true Spirit Truths pure Fountain He In Spirit and in Truth will worship'd be Geographie the Worlds vast Compass stiles Twenty one thousands and six hundred miles God provides Grass and other Meats for Beasts And with those Beasts Man their Commander Feasts Greatness and Goodness make a man compleat But few there are that are both good and great Gamesters still gape for Gain but how can those That lose be Gainers since even Gainers lose God's Mercy finds best opportunity When Man groans under worst of Misery Grace Virtue Prudence and productive Parts May bid defiance to grim Envies Darts Gorgons nor Goblins can their Minds affright VVho trust in God and in his Word delight Give a true estimation of the worth Of All that under Heav'n the Earth brings forth Then think what you shall gain to buy the whole At the dear price of your Immortal Soul O wonder this vast world and All therein Cannot All ballance with one Mortal Sin Gracious is God to offer Means of Grace The only means to climb to Glories Mount VVhich before time has run his long-spun Race Embrace that you may give a just accompt VVhen Time shall be no more and then may stand VVith ever-blessed Souls at CHRIST's right hand H HE well begins to run in Virtues Race Who separates the Noble from the Base He that would learn to be an honest Man Let him view all the vicious ways he can And note their various windings and their Ends This sure will make him one of Virtues Friends He that begins to run in Virtues Race Must not look back but strive to mend his pace Him I esteem a man of the first Rate Who lives contented with a mean Estate He who Time 's Golden Sand does well apply Lays Earnest for a blest Eternity He 's truly wise he 's a right honest Lad Who rightly can distinguish Good from Bad And having made this nice Distinction right Does hate the bad and in the good delight His mind feels Pangs of Death and pains of Hell Wherein Divine contentment hates to dwell He bravely all Calumnious Baseness scorns Whose unstain'd mind true Honesty adorns How wise are they by whom the Dies are thrown To know if their own Mony be their own How soon might he that 's a meer Dunce by Nature By Industry become another Creature He 's truly learned whose tenatious Brain The Quintessence of Wisdom can retain And can both for his own and others Use In season the rare Fruits thereof produce But who loves Ignorance before choice Knowledge A Doctor may commence in Gotham College How many by wise management of Time From low Degrees have mounted to sublime How happily should we vain Mortals live Could we good Councel take as soon as give He that the most his own will can deny With Gods most holy will may most comply How pleasantly they have the World at will Who can their Bags with Gold and Silver fill His ripe Discretion always is in season Who can his Passions ballance with right Reason He to some height of Knowledge does advance Who knows how to conceal his Ignorance Hear See and say the best for that 's the way To live in peace as wise men know and say He that receives a Courtesie remains Till his Retaliation bound in Chains Health before VVealth prefer VVealth commonly Is Vassal to ingenious Industry How will he answer 't on the Reck'ning day Who runs in Debt and takes no care to pay Husband your Time well Squander not away The pretious patrimony of a day How many thousands please themselves to Death Whose Viands choice and rare obstruct their Breath He that 's exalted on the Wings of Praise Is wise if humbly he himself surveys How many beauteous Face-affecting Lasses Neglect their Graces to attend their Glasses How dark's the Lesser Worlds sad Winters Night VVhen Reasons radiant Rays do not enlight Having a Conscience uncontaminate Mind not what vulgar Tongues of thee may Prate He that all others Business lets alone Has the more time wherein to mind his own Hope 's that Alexipharmical whose rare And Sovereign Virtue antidotes Despair Hast thou wrong'd any Man make satisfaction And scorn to Stoop to an Ignoble action How quickly Learners would by too much Play Learn to forget the business of the Day Here the four Virtues Cardinal advance Fortitude Prudence Justice Temperance Hope not to rectify anothers Tongue Since for your government your own 's too strong Happy 's the man that is from Heav'n endu'd With Prudence Justice Temp'rance Fortitude He 's a wright noble Soul who bravely can forsake His pleasure when therein he might most pleasure take He whose Inheritance is only Time Must manage that with an ingenious Care For Arts and Parts though never so sublime Without our times improvement will impair Your pretious moments squander not away To the Industrious every Month is May. He that 's injurious to another he At the same time so to himself must be He that for Pleasure forfeits his Estate Has bought repentance at too dear a Rate How joyful is a man what satisfaction He reaps having perform'd some noble Action How many have been totally destroy'd For want of being honestly imploy'd He that contends with uncontrouled Tongues May lose his Reason and consume his Lungs He that loves Labour courts immortal Fame But Sloath is always waited on by Shame Hate Sensual Love Love Love that may advance The Lover to Loves bles'd Inheritance Honours may leave their Owners Riches may Assume swift wings and quickly fly away But Learning and the knowledge of rare Arts That man the most enjoys that most imparts Endeavour that your Breast and Brain The best of Learnings Treasures may retain I IF but one hour in every day you move Virtues Course 't will great advancement prove Innumerable Losses men sustain By greedily endeavouring to gain Immense Pecunia with Imperious hand All the Earths best Enjoyments does command In vain vain Man desires still to enjoy Those Things which were but lent him to imploy Innumerable Sins inflame our Score What should we do were not God's Mercies more If for my Friend I nineteen favours do All 's nought if I do not the twentieth too The Ingenious Youth's Resolution I 'le Write so fair that ev'ry Line shall be A sparkling Jewel for the World to see And every word shall be a radiant Gem Such as the noblest Souls shall not contemn All various Shapes of Beasts Birds Fish and men Shall Run Fly Swim and march from my Swift Pen. If you esteem a Noble Reputation With Sons of Virtue have your Conversation In your Discourses be brief sound and clear Let no Impertinences grate the Ear. If the free Ayr could be confin'd and Sold Those would live longest who produce most Gold If to excel the Best you Emulate The most-excelling Patterns Imitate And when your Pen your Pensil

Their Zeniths have before their Declinations The Youth's Letter from the Writing School c. These honour'd Parents are but small Effects Of your great Love and manifold Respects These few unpolish'd Lines cannot express The thousand part of my due thankfulness For your least favours yet if these you grace W●…●cceptation I in Writings Race Shall run more swift by that encouragement And in short time some nobler Piece present There is no virtue in the rarest Pen Which VVriting to Perfection can Produce Nor in the hand that member which to men Is in all works of admirable use Though each of these in Writing bears his Part Yet the grand Fountain whence it flows is Art V VIrtues Celestial Soul-refreshing Light Vice may Ecclips but not extinguish quite Valour for Honour Grace for Glory calls Brave Heroes Fames survive their Funeralls Vain Mortals it becomes you not to move Your Tongues concerning what 's decree'd above Violence when full Growth she does acquire Leaps forth like Thunder wrapt in Balls of fire Virtue though clad in Raggs may challenge more Than Vice adorn'd with Silks in mid'st of store Unto your Sence this Sentence still apply That there 's no Poyson like bad company Use Prudence Temperance and Moderation Shun Commendation and hate Ostentation Virtues heroick Sons will act their Parts Not fearing thousands of curst Envies Darts Vices which with their tempting Smiles invite Conceal their Teeth wherewith they after bite Virtues Tryumphant Chariot which now groans Under Oppressures shall break Envies Bones Vainly we Dream as vainly Act our Dreams And vainly think we parallel Supreams Voluptuous course Sensual Delights Obstruct the winged Souls Celestial Flights Vane in our heads and in our hearts too vain We like not Things however good if Plain Virtue and Truth are amicitial Mates Virtue all postures of Impostors hates Valiant he does approve himself and wise Who with a brave disdain slights Injuries Virtue hates Fucos Patches and perfumes Dust mixt with Sweat that painting she assumes Vain Glories Emblem is a blazing Taper Whose short-liv'd Snuff ends in a noysom vapour Virtue that 's her own Noble Satisfaction Is allways busied in the Shop of Action Vices which seem to lie within conceal'd Are by our words and Actions soon reveal'd Virtues vast worth transcends all Earths best Treasures She 's Honours honour and the Soul of pleasures Vanish beneath my thoughts vain worldly Toys Mount mount my Soul to Heavens Eternal joys Vexation makes a Man by transformation The strangest Creature in the whole creation Untamed youths for want of good Tuition Plunge into Shoreless Soundless Seas of Vice But to Ingenious Lads Learnings Fruition Is a Soul-chearing fruitful Paradice The one produces nought but weeds and Tares All delectable Fruits the other bears W WIsdom descends from the bright Orbs above To Teach her Children how to live in Love Whose where and what thou art consider well And think on Death and Judgment Heaven and Host When Pleasing Zephyrus-salutes us we For Blust'ring Boreas should preparing be VVho Writes or Paints or Carves or quid non VVhere is the Man that thinks himself out-gon Who Idolize themselves themselves desame And when they gape for Honour meet with Shame VVhat signife vast piles of well-wrote Books To him that on them but not in them looks Why vainly Learn we what we must unlearn And mind Concerns which do not us concern VVho waits for others Shooes it is well known Had need to keep a Coblar for his own Who mind their Business well may spare with ease Some hours for Recreation when they please Who gives thee Learning acts a Nobler Deed Than he that doth thy Body Cloath and feed Who in their Youth refused to be taught To numerous Endammagements are brought Who 's ab origene a faithful Friend Honour commands to hold out to the End VVhat we can suffer for that Friend is small VVho once was pleas'd to suffer for us all VVell to consider how ill Husbands fare Would make a man bad husbandry forswear When Friends we need not than our Friends abound But when we want Friends then few Friends are found While here Mortality doth us invest The best of Men will prove but men at best Why should the Drunkard strive his Acts to smoother Drink runs but from one Hogshead to another VVine VVomen Cards Dice with Hawks Hounds Reduce mens vast Estates to Lesser bounds VVhen Men make Presents to the best of Kings They wisely should present the best of Things VVealth pampers Pride and Luxury till they Their liberal Master to the Grave betray VVhen to the VVorld you others faults make known Ingeniously reflect upon your own VVhat would Poor man without Gods mercies be Alas but a sad Map of Miserie VVhen I a Servant had I had one then VVhen two I had but half a one and when I had three Servants I had none at all Thus was I serv'd by one two three and all Why hope you for your Friend 's large Legacy He makes his VVill but not his will to dye What Difficulty can we undertake Where true Affection will not conquest make What signifie the VVarrier's daring Pains If prudence keeps not what his Valour gains Who makes his Mark the Moon much further he May Shoot than he that levels at a Tree Who knows how soon an interposing Cloud May from our view our smiling Sun-beams shroud What Things by studious care a man does find In curious Arts lodge longest in the mind VVhen Lands Friends are gone wealth takes wing Then Learning 's priz'd then Learning 's a brave thing Where Beauty Virtue and true grace do meet The harmony is admirably Sweet Worth too base minds is Envies propagation But in Heroick Souls gains Emulation Who would build honours Temple large and high Must for foundation take Humility Wealth Pleasure Life it Self all move beneath The Sphear where Fames perfumes their Glories breath Where Reason VVill and Power all comply With heavenly wisdom there 's rare Harmony Where Education doth adorn The Minds of Children Nobly Born They seem of an Angellick Race But where good Education wants To be Engrafted in young Plants It renders them extreamly base Who of his Business makes a Recreation Is in the way of VVealth and Reputation But who a Business makes of Recreation May bid a dew to Wealth and Reputation What without Care and Pains can we effect VVhose Excellency may deserve respect X XEnophon writes that even the Gods above Delight with men in Friendships Orb to move Xerxes from a steep Mountains lofty Brow Survey'd his hundred thousand Men below And wept to think that in an Age they All By the impartial hand of Death must fall But after this vast Army did Engage Few dayes dispatch'd the Business of an Age. Xenocrates did prudently divide Into proportionable parts each day VVhich parts particularly he apply'd And One wherein to study what to say He did assign which gives us information VVisely to