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
A36657	Oedipus a tragedy, as it is acted at His Royal Highness, the Duke's Theatre / the authors, Mr. Dryden and Mr. Lee.	Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.; Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692.	1679 (1679)	Wing D2322; ESTC R22022	48,606	90

Tir. Hear and appear By the Fates that spun thy thread Cho. Which are three Tir. By the Furies fierce and dread Cho. Which are three Tir. By the Judges of the dead Cho. Which are three Three times three Tir. By Hells blew flame By the Stygian Lake And by Demogorgon's name At which Ghosts quake Hear and appear The Ghost of Lajus rises arm'd in his Chariot as he was slain And behind his Chariot sit the three who were Murder'd with him Ghost of Lajus Why hast thou drawn me from my pains below To suffer worse above to see the day And Thebes more hated Hell is Heav'n to Thebes For pity send me back where I may hide In willing night this Ignominious head In Hell I shun the publick scorn and then They hunt me for their sport and hoot me as I fly Behold ev'n now they grin at my gor'd side And chatter at my wounds Tir. I pity thee Tell but why Thebes is for thy death accurst And I 'll unbind the Charm Ghost O spare my shame Tir. Are these two innocent Ghost Of my death they are But he who holds my Crown Oh must I speak Was doom'd to do what Nature most abhors The Gods foresaw it and forbad his being Before he yet was born I broke their laws And cloath'd with flesh his pre-existing soul Some kinder pow'r too weak for destiny Took pity and indu'd his new form'd Mass With Temperance Justice Prudence Fortitude And every Kingly vertue but in vain For Fate that sent him hood-winckt to the world Perform'd its work by his mistaking hands Asks thou who murder'd me 't was Oedipus Who stains my Bed with Incest Oedipus For whom then are you curst but Oedipus He comes the Parricide I cannot bear him My wounds ake at him Oh his murd'rous breath Venoms my aiery substance hence with him Banish him sweep him out the Plague he bears Will blast your fields and mark his way with ruine From Thebes my Throne my Bed let him be driv'n Do you forbid him Earth and I 'll forbid him Heavn Ghost descends Enter Oedipus Creon Haemon c. Oed. What 's this methought some pestilential blast Strook me just entring and some unseen hand Struggled to push me backward tell me why My hair stands bristling up why my flesh trembles You stare at me then Hell has been among ye And some lag Fiend yet lingers in the Grove Tir. What Omen saw st thou entring Oed. A young Stork That bore his aged Parent on his back Till weary with the weight he shook him off And peck'd out both his eyes Adr. Oh Oedipus Eur. Oh wretched Oedipus Tir. O! Fatal King Oed. What mean these Exclamations on my name I thank the Gods no secret thoughts reproach me No I dare challenge Heav'n to turn me outward And shake my Soul quite empty in your sight Then wonder not that I can bear unmov'd These fix'd regards and silent threats of eyes A generous fierceness dwells with innocence And conscious vertue is allow'd some pride Tir. Thou know'st not what thou say'st Oed. What mutters he tell me Eurydice Thou shak'st thy souls a Woman Speak Adrastus And boldly as thou met'st my Arms in fight Dar'st thou not speak why then 't is bad indeed Tiresias thee I summon by the Priesthood Tell me what news from Hell where Lajus points And who 's the guilty head Tir. Let me not answer Oed. Be dumb then and betray thy native soil To farther Plagues Tir. I dare not name him to thee Oed. Dar'st thou converse with Hell and canst thou fear An humane name Tir. Urge me no more to tell a thing which known Wou'd make thee more unhappy 't will be found Tho' I am silent Oed. Old and obstinate Then thou thy self Art Author or Accomplice of this murther And shun'st the Justice which by publick ban Thou hast incurr'd Tir. O if the guilt were mine It were not half so great know wretched man Thou onely thou art guilty thy own Curse Falls heavy on thy self Oed. Speak this again But speak it to the Winds when they are loudest Or to the raging Seas they 'll hear as soon And sooner will believe Tir. Then hear me Heav'n For blushing thou hast seen it hear me Earth Whose hollow womb cou'd not contain this murder But sent it back to light and thou Hell hear me Whose own black Seal has ' firm'd this horrid truth Oedipus murther'd Lajus Oed. Rot the tongue And blasted be the mouth that spoke that lye Thou blind of sight but thou more blind of soul. Tir. Thy Parents thought not so Oed. Who were my Parents Tir. Thou shalt know too soon Oed. Why seek I truth from thee The smiles of Courtiers and the Harlots tears The Tradesmans oaths and mourning of an Heir Are truths to what Priests tell O why has Priest-hood priviledge to lye And yet to be believ'd thy age protects thee Tir. Thou canst not kill me 't is not in thy Fate As 't was to kill thy Father wed thy Mother And beget Sons thy Brothers Oed. Riddles Riddles Tir. Thou art thy self a Riddle a perplext Obscure AEnigma which when thou unty'st Thou shalt be found and lost Oed. Impossible Adrastus speak and as thou art a King Whose Royal word is sacred clear my fame Adr. Wou'd I cou'd Oed. Ha wilt thou not can that Plebeian vice Of lying mount to Kings can they be tainted Then truth is lost on earth Cre. The Cheats too gross Adrastus is his Oracle and he The pious Juggler but Adrastus Organ Oed. 'T is plain the Priest's suborn'd to free the Pris'ner Cre. And turn the guilt on you Oed. O honest Creon how hast thou been bely'd Eur. Hear me Cre. She 's brib'd to save her Lover's life Adr. If Oedipus thou think'st Cre. Hear him not speak Adr. Then hear these holy men Cre. Priests Priests all brib'd all Priests Oed. Adrastus I have found thee The malice of a vanquish'd man has seiz'd thee Adr. If Envy and not Truth Oed. I 'll hear no more away with him Hoemon takes him off by force Creon and Eurydice follow To Tir. Why stand'st thou here Impostor So old and yet so wicked lye for gain And gain so short as age can promise thee Tir. So short a time as I have yet to live Exceeds thy pointed hour Remember Lajus No more if e're we meet again 't will be In Mutual darkness we shall feel before us To reach each others hand Remember Lajus Ex. Tiresias Priests follow Oedipus Solus Rememember Lajus that 's the burden still Murther and Incest but to hear 'em nam'd My Soul starts in me the good Sentinel Stands to her Weapons takes the first Alarm To Guard me from such Crimes Did I kill Lajus Then I walk'd sleeping in some frightful dream My Soul then stole my Body out by night And brought me back to Bed e're Morning-wake It cannot be ev'n this remotest way But some dark hint would justle forward now And goad my memory