Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	body_n	element_n	5,315	5	9.9100	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39898	The sun's-darling a moral masque : as it hath been often presented at Whitehall by Their Majesties servants, and after at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, with great applause / written by John Foard and Tho. Decker, Gent.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.; Ford, John, 1586-ca. 1640.	1656 (1656)	Wing F1467; ESTC R17978	25,772	52

come to be your guest your bounteous free Condition does assure I shall have A welcom entertainment Win. Illustrious sir I am ignorant How much expression my true zeale will want To entertain you fitlie yet my love And hartie dutie shall be farr above My outward welcome to that glorious light Of heaven the Sunne which chases hence the night I am so much a vastaile that I 'le strive By honoring you to keep my faith alive To him brave Prince tho you who do inherit Your fathers cheerefull heat and quickning spirit Therefore as I am Winter worne and spent So farre with age I am Tymes monument Antiquities example in my zeale I from my youth a span of Tyme will steale To open the free treasures of my Court And swell your soul with my delights and sport Ray. Never till now Did admiration beget in me truly The rare match'd twins at once pittie and pleasure So royall so aboundant in earth's blessings Should not partake the comfort of those beames With which the Sun beyond extent doth cheere The other seasons yet my pleasures with you From their false charmes doth get the start as farr As heaven's great lamp from every minor starr Boun. Sir you can speak wel if your tongue deliver The message of your heart without some cu●ing Of restraint we may hope to enjoy The lasting riches of your presence hence Without distrust or change Ray. Winters sweet bride All Conquering Bounty queen of harts life's glory Natures perfection whom all love all serve To whom Fortune even in extreame 's a slave When I fall from my dutie to thy goodness Then let me be ranck'd as nothing Boun. Come you flatter mee Ray. I flatter you Why Madam you are Bounty Sole daughter to the royall throne of peace Hu. He minds not mee now Ray. Bounties self For you he is no souldier dares not fight No Scholar he that dares not plead your merites Or study your best Sweetness should the Sun Eclips'd for many yeares forbeare to shine Upon the bosome of our naked pastures Yet where you are the glories of your smiles would warm the barren grounds arm hartless misery And cherish desolation Deed I honor you And as all others ought to do I serve you Hu. Are these the rare sights these the promis'd Complements Win. Attendance on our revells let delight Conjoyn the day with sable-footed night Both shall forsake their orbes and in one sphere Meet in soft mirth and harmlesse pleasures here While plump Lyeus shall with garland crown'd Of triumph-Ivie in full cups abound Of Cretan wine and shall dame Ceres call To waite on you at Winters festivall While gawdy Summer Autumne and the Springe Shall to my Lord their Choycest viands bring Wee 'l robb the sea and from the subtill ayre Fetch her inhabitant to supply our fare That were Apecious here he in one night Should sate with danties his strong appetite Begin our revells then and let all pleasure Flow like the Ocean in a boundlesse measure Florish Enter Conceit and Detraction Con. Wit and pleasure soft attention Grace the sports of our invention De. Conceit peace for Detraction Hath already drawn a faction Shall deride thee Con. Antick leave me For in laboring to bereave me Of a scholars praise thy dotag Shall be hist at De. Here 's a hot age When such pettie penmen covet Fame by folly on I 'le prove it Scurvie by thy par● and trie thee By thine owne wit Con. I defie thee Here are nobler Judges wit Cannot suffer where they sit De. Pri'thee foolish Conceit leave off thy set-speeches and come to the conceit if selfe in plain languages what goodly thing is 't in the name of laughter Con. Detraction doe thy worste Conceit appears In honour of the Sunne their fellow-friend Before thy censure know then that the spheres Have for a while resigned their orbes and lend Their seats to the Four Elements who joyn'd With the Four known Complexions have atton'd A noble I ague and severally put on Materiall bodies here amongst em none Observes a difference Earth and Ayre alike Are sprightly active Fire and Water seek No glory of preheminence Phlegm and Blood Choler and Melancholy who have stood In contrarieties now meet for pleasure To enterain Time in a courtly measure De. Impossible and inproper first to personate insensible Creatures and next to compound quite opposite humors fie fie fie i'ts abominable Con. Fond ignorance how darest thou vainly scan impossibility what reignes in man Without disorder wisely mixt by nature Maskers To fashion and preserve so high a creature De. Sweete sir when shall our mortall eyes behold this new peice of wonder We must gaze on the starres for it doubtlesse Con. See thus the clouds flie off and run in chase The Maskers discover'd When the Sun's bountie lends peculiar grace De. Fine ifaith pretty and in good earnest but sirrah scholar will they come down too Con. Behold em well the foremost represents Ayr the most sportive of the Elements De. A nimble rascall I warrant him some Aldermans son wonderous giddy and light-headed one that blew his patrimony away in feather and Tobacco Con. The next near him is Fire Det. A cholerick gentleman I should know him a younger brother and a great spender but seldom or never carries any money about him he was begot when the sign was in Taurus for a rores like a Bull But is indeed a Bell-weather Con. The third in rank is Water Det. A phlegmatick cold piece of stuff his father me thinks should be one of the Dunce-table and one that never drunk strong beer in 's life but at festival times and then he caught the heart-burning a whole vacation and half a Term after Con. The fourth is Earth Det. A shrewd plodding-pated fellow and a great lover of news I guesse at the rest Blood is placed near Air Choler near Fire Phlegme and Water are sworn brothers and so are Earth and Melancholie Con. Fair nymph of Harmonie be it thy task To sing them down and rank them in a mask SONG See the Elements conspire Nimble Air doe's court the Earth Water doe's commix with Fire To give our Princes pleasure birth Each delight each joy each sweet In one composition meet All the seasons of the year Winter doe's invoke the Spring Summer doe's in pride appear Autumn forth its fruits doth bring And with emulation pay Their tribute to this Holy-day In which the Darling of the Sun is come To make this place a new Elisium Wint. How do these pleasures please Hu. Pleasures Boun. Live here And be my Lord's friend and thy sports shall vary A thousand waies invention shall beget Conceits as curious as the thoughts of change Can aim at Hu. Trifles progresse o're the year Again my Raybright therein like the Sun As he in heaven runs his circular course So thou on earth run thine for to be fed With stale delights breeds dulnesse and contempt Think on the Spring Ray. She was a lovely Virgin Wint. My roial Lord Without offence be pleas'd but to afford Me give you my true figure do not scorn My age nor think cause I appear forlorn I serve for no use 't is my sharper breath Doe's purge grosse exhalations from the earth My frosts and snows do purifie the air From choking foggs makes the skie clear and fair And though by nature cold and chill I be Yet I 〈◊〉 warm in bounteous charitie And can my Lord by grave and sage advice Bring you toth ' happie shades of Paradice Ray. ●hat wonder Oh! can you bring me thither Wint. I can direct and point you out a path Hu. But where 's the guide Quicken thy spirits Raybright I 'le not leav thee Wee 'l run the self same race again that happinesse These lazie sleeping tedious winters nights Becom not noble action Ray To the Spring Recorders I am resolv'd Oh! what strange light appears The Sun is up sure The Sun above Sun Wanton Darling look and worship with amazement Oes gracious Lord Sun Thy sands are numbred and thy glasse of frailtie 〈…〉 out to the last here in this mirror Let man behold the circuit of his fortunes The 〈◊〉 of the Spring dawns like the Morning Bedewing Childhood with unrelish'd beauties Of gawdie sights the Summer as the Noon Shines in delight of Youth and ripens strength To Autumns Manhood here the Evening grows And knits up all felicitie in follie Winter at last draws on the Night of Age Yet still a humor of som novel fancie Untasted or untry'd puts off the minute Of resolution which should bid farewel To a vain world of wearinesse and sorrows The powers from whom man do's derive his pedigree Of his creation with a roial bountie Give him health youth delight for free attendants To rectifie his carriage to be thankful Again to them Man should casheer his riots His bosom whorish sweet-heart idle Humor His Reasons dangerous seducer Follie then shall Like four streight pillars the four Elements Support the goodly structure of mortalitie Then shall the four Complexions like four heads Of a clear river streaming in his bodie Nourish and comfort every vein and sinew No sicknesse of contagion no grim death Of deprivation of healths real blessings Shall then affright the creature built by heaven Reserv'd to immortalitie henceforth In peace go to our Altars and no more Question the power of supernal greatnesse But give us leav to govern as wee please Nature and her dominion who from us And from our gracious influence hath both being And preservation no replies but reverence Man hath a double guard if time can win him Heavens power above him his own peace within him FINIS