Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	caesar_n	civil_a	pompey_n	2,660	5	10.9879	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05047	Tom Tel-Troths message, and his pens complaint A worke not vnpleasant to be read, nor vnprofitable to be followed. Written by Io. La. Gent.	Lane, John, 16th/17th cent.	1600 (1600)	STC 15190; ESTC S109323	11,551	46

bodie clad with comelinesse And honour shrouded was in rude aray But since those times by future times were changed Thousands of fashions through the world haue ranged Ambitious thoughts hearts haughtie mindes aspiring Proud lookes fond gates and what not vndescreete As seruants waite mens bodie still atyring With far-fetcht gewgawes for yong children meete Where with whilst they themselues doe daily decke Brauado-wise they scorne to brooke the checke Some couet winged sleeues like Mercurie Others round hose much like to Fortunes wheele Noting thereby their owne vnconstancie Some weare short cloakes some cloakes that reach their heele These Apish trickes vsde in their daily weedes Bewray phantasticke thoughts fond words foule deedes Bold Bettresse braues and brags it in her wiers And buskt she must be or not bust at all Their riggish heads must be adornd with tires With Periwigs or with a golden Call Tut tut t is nothing in th' Exchange to change Monthly as doth the Moone their fashions strange It seemes strange birds in England now are bred And that rare fowles in England build their nest When Englishmen with plumes adorne their head As with a Cocks-combe or a Peacocks crest These painted plumes men in their caps doe weare And women in their hands doe trickly beare Perhaps some women being foule doe vse Fowles feathers to shroude their deformitie Others perchance these plumes doe rather chuse From weather and winde to shield their phisnomie But whilst both men and women vse these feathers They are deem'd light as feathers winde and weathers Some dames are pumpt because they liue in pompe That with Herodias they might nimbly daunce Some in their pantophels too stately stompe And most in corked shooes doe nicely praunce But here I doubtfull stand whether to blame The shoomakers or them that weare the same In countrie townes men vse fannes for their corne And such like fannes I cannot discommend But in great cities fannes by truls are borne The sight of which doth greatly God offend And were it not I should be deem'd precise I could approue these fond fann'd fooles vnwise A Painter lately with his pensill drew The picture of a Frenchman and Italian With whom he plac'd the Spaniard Turk and Iew But by himselfe he sat the Englishman Before these laughing went Democritus Behinde these weeping went Heraclitus All these in comely vestures were atired According to the custome of their land The Englishman excepted who desired With others feathers like a lay to stand Thus whilst he seeketh forraine brauerie He is accused of vnconstancie Some call him Ape because he imitates Some foole because he fancies euery bable Some liken him to fishes caught with baites Some to the winde because he is vnstable Then blame him not although gainst Englishmen This Englishman writ with his plaintife pen. But hush no more enough's enough fie fie Wilt thou thy countries faults in verse compile Desist betimes least thou peccaui crie For no bird sure his owne nest will defile Well sith thou brak'st his head and mad'st a sore With silence giue a salue and write no more The world began and so will end with Pride With Pride this poynt began with Pride it ends And whilst in pleasures Chariot she doth ride My plaintife pen page-like still by her wends Thus hauing painted out Prides roysting race At this poynts end a periods poynt I place Now pyning Enuie whining doth appeare With bodie leane with visage pale and wan With withered face and with vnkeamed haire She doth both fret and fume sweare curse and ban She fareth ill when other men fare well Others prosperitie is made her hell She peepes and pries into all actions And she is neuer well but when she iarres She is the mother of all factions She broacheth quarrels and increaseth warres Anger is hot and Wrath doth roughly rage But nothing Enuies heating hate can swage This Trull inticed Pompey to contend And with great Caesar ciuill warres to moue This dame allured Kings their liues to spend In bloodie broyles and braules deuoyd of loue Incensing subiects gainst their gouernours Sonnes against Sires Captiues against Conquerors As Iron doth consume it selfe with rust By eating which it selfe it still doth eate So doth the enuious man soone come to dust And doth consume himselfe whilst he doth fret Thus Enuie still conspires to end his life That liuing with another liues at strife We reade that Enuie twixt two men did grow And that the one of them one eye would lose So that he might pluck both eyes from his foe And plucking both eyes out his eyes might close O who would thinke a man should beare the minde To lose one eye to make another blinde What trade so base but there is Enuie in it When Minstrels with blinde Fidlers daily striue What strife is there but Enuie doth begin it When iusling Iacks to walls their betters driue The truth hereof I shall not neede to sweare Sith Hesiode old hereof doth witnesse beare What is the cause that many mop and moe That many scoffe and scorne and gibe and iest With rimes and riddles rating at their foe Flouting the base and powting at the best What is the cause the cause one line shall show Enuie is cause which in mens hearts doth grow Knowledge within the hart of man doth dwell And loue within the liuer builds his nest But Enuie in the gall of man doth swell And playes the rebell in his boyling brest O would to God men had no gall at all That Enuie might not harbour in the gall Enuie and Charitie together stroue Which of them two a man should entertaine The one with spight the other sought with loue The first in gall the last in hart would raigne So long they stroue that Enuie lost the field And Charitie made Enuie captiue yeeld Enuie adiew and welcome Charitie The bond of peace and all perfection The way that leades to true felicitie Filling the soule with most diuine refection Enuie shall goe I le cleaue vnto thy lore Thee will I serue and thee will I adore Next followes Wrath Enuies fierce fellow-mate Attired in a roring Lions skin Ietting along with a giant-like gate Which aye a tyrant terrible hath bin A butcher-like within his hands doth beare Their harts which he with woluish teeth doth teare Wrath moued Herod with blood-thirstie hart To slaughter infants from their mothers brest Like lambes scarce can'd or doues new-hatcht to part And with liues losse to leaue both damme and nest O had King Herod knowne what would ensue He had not done what he did after rue He shed their blood their blood did vengeance craue They first too soone he last too late did dye They led the way he followed to the graue Both they and he a pray for wormes did lye Yet thus they differ wormes them dead did eate But him aliue the wormes did make their meate Wrath in Caligulaes mad head did grow Making him wish that Rome had but one head