Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	cold_a	dry_a	moist_a	4,796	5	10.4311	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11401	The first day of the worldes creation: or of the first weeke of that most Christian poet, W. Salustius, Lord of Bartas; Sepmaine. Day 1. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.	1595 (1595)	STC 21658; ESTC S110825	21,273	48

diall of all destinies Vnto himselfe that knowes all secrecies That Kalender he shuts vp in his hand Wherein Doomes-day with letters red doth stand That day whereof no man can read the date Shall swiftly strike the rowt of men secure And striking warne when warning is too late For times delay no longer may endure Then comes thy Sonne O Father essence pure Thy glorious Sonne with maiestie shall come The second comming of Christ In shape of man once formed in the wombe Immortall God that glorious Sonne of thine In flaming fire triumphant shall descend About whose throne shall troupes of Angels shine And thousand thousand holie saints attend Ioious to see that long desired end His chariot wheeles shall skud like lightning flame Iustice and mercie haling on the same Then such as sleepe in bowels of the graue Opprest with dust or weight of marble toombes Such as the sea hath swallowd in hir caue Such as by fire receiud their former doomes Or paunch of beasts haue had for buriall roomes All shall stand vp repaird with manlike shape No one so great or small that shall escape All must appeere appeering must attend In their owne persons till the Iudge proceed Awarding life or death to be their end Of mercie some of iustice other speed Too some is weale to others wo decreed Some to the lowest pit shall be debased And others with the highest shall be graced O thou whom once th' Italian President Pronouncing wicked sentence terrifide Grant me Pilate that when thy trumpet shall be sent To sound a sommons vpon eurie side East west north south where anie men abide Rowzing the world with sudden change of state I may haue thee my iudge and Aduocate The sage and powerfull prouidence of Ioue Brought out this world as she beare foles hir yoong The creation of the worlds matter from nothing A lumpish gobbet first vnapt to moue Till it be lickt and trickt vp with the toong She spares no paines till all the lims be sproong She smoothes it vp with mouth and mothers moisture Till she disclose the shape hid in the cloisture By licking she expresseth eurie lim She formes the head and fashions out the feet Indents the pawes and makes the visage grim Rough casts the shag hair'd shoulders as is meet In euerie part she shewes hir selfe discreet Discreet and diligent till she haue done And brought hir whelpe to iust perfection For when Gods wisdome by his pregnant voice Powrd out a masse of heate cold moist and drie In processe he gan make exacter choice And separate the low lie things from high Consorting like with like dislike laid by Fire ioind with fire things heauie found like matter Cold drew to cold and liquid things to water The queintest forme that best beseemes each part Is vnto each particular assignd And in sixe daies God shewd his matchlesse art Forming this world conformall to his mind Not but he could haue all these things refind And perfected in lesse than times least tittle Vnlike to man that 's long about a little The heauens he could haue spangled with their lamps And storde the airie cage with winged breed The forest where the sauadge Beuie rampes He could haue furnisht foorth with for a need And fild the seas with fishes in like speed But yet it was his vncomptrouled pleasure Why God would take sixe daies for his creation To worke them out in sixe whole daies at leasure So many daies such leasure and such art Bestowd in preparation of a seat For man vnformed seemeth to impart That doubtles his good will is woonderous great To those for whom he made this goodly seat To whom by promise he first seald a warrant Of thousand fauours afterward apparant He gaue an imitable president That we should not in ouer eager haste Post in our toyle till breath and strength be spent Nor rashlie ruffle vp our works to waste But make good speed yet hurrie not too faste Aduisement alwaies brings an act to proofe Sat cito si sat bene Fostina lente And things well done are all done soone enough Father of wisdome father of the light What first might be extracted from that traunce Where all things lay confusde without delight More woorthie then the lights faire countenaunce Whose absence were faire beauties hinderaunce Light the first fruite of Gods creatures For without light Timanthes had in vaine To carue his antique Cyclops tooke such paine In vaine Parrhasius had shapt his peece And Zeuxis drawne his queint Penelope Apelles had exprest the floure of Greece Dame Venus to no purpose if so be The Sunne had not affoorded light to see In vaine those masters artificiall Had raisd their woonders supernaturall Dianes temple and that moniment Of loue and death Mausolus tombe much famed And Pharos beacon works of woonderment By three great masters exquisitely framed Which Sostrat Scopas Ctesiphon are named In vaine those maruailes all had been erected If by the light they had not been detected What more hath euerie artsman in request When he doth frame an exquisite deuise Then that the worlds faire eie which lights the rest Should also glaunce vpon his worke of price For that intent his windowe open lies He doth admit the sunne-light for a witnes That he obserues proportion art and fitnes Either Gods actiue spirit houering Vpon the boyling confluence of water Which wrapt the Chaos as a couering Strooke out light fire by secret force of nature diuerse opinions touching the matter and creation of the light As when contrarie winds begun to clatter In Sommer nights and clap two clouds together From hence proceed bright flames lightning wether Or God by parts disposing of the masse Fetchd brightnes from the fierie element Or heauens cleare curtaine that extended was In twise sixe houres vpon that litterment Againe by God was darkned to th' intent That ech Horizon should by turnes haue light And each againe an intercourse of night Or whether God produc'd a christall lampe In countenance vnlike vnto the Sunne And with another light clear'd vp the dampe While somtimes vp and somtimes downe it runne Like Titan brandishing his station Let there be light said God Genes 1.3 no sooner spoken But Light began to shew a glorious token The glistring raies acknowledging their dutie Do shed themselues on nature being glad To feele the cheering sparks of lights faire beautie Who skornes the shade wherewith she erst was clad And loaths to be or suffer others sad Cleere lampe God giue thee many goodly morrowes That chasest night and putst to flight all sorrowes Thou worlds great candell thou truths right parent Terrour of theeues and perfect looking glasse Of Gods good creatures made by thee apparent First fruit of God bespread vpon the masse How doth thy beautie and thy grace surpasse Gods cheerefull eie which all the world suruaies Why should not modest men chaunt out thy praise And yet because all pleasures

wast comportenance On backside of the booke we spend our daies Not vsing natures text a furtherance To helpe instruct our blindfold ignorance Thence might we learne that God is chiefest cause Supporting cities peace with wholsome lawes What do we trauell in the multitude Of languages and labour to explaine The sense which Turkish characters include Or Aegypts sacred figures do containe What those small pricks in th'Ebrew language meane To know the notes and accents of the Greeke These things so slight what neede we greatly seeke The Scythian and the wildt Tartarian The seuen yeeres wit not growne yet to be wise And those that haue the Pole meridian By natures light can scand these mysteries Saunce further insight than by carnall eies But he that is illuminate by faith Moues from this mould and mounts a greater haith He vawts aboue the cristall firmament And vnderneath his feet beholds the stirre Of spheeres conuerted by Gods regiment Whence reading his celestiall kalender He proues to be an arch-Astronomer Aided with faith I long to be discerning The sacred text of Gods inspired learning My pleasure is to couch in statelie verse The worlds first birth and tender nurserie The eaning and the weaning I reherse The infant nonage and minoritie And how it grew to perfect dignitie I will vnfold the bosome of this frame That all may read Gods essence in the same The founder of this ouerspreading tent Tooke no fantasticke copie for his guide No borrowed shadow for his president Nor melancholie did he long abide God tooke no view of any externall patterne to make the world after Inuenting how the parts might be applide There was no world before this world erected No former plot nor patterne he respected An earthly builder tossing in his braynes How best to raise a pallace for a king First craueth respite counsell taketh paynes To make suruey of many a such like thing Before he sets his hand to fashioning That after diuers pallaces beheld Himselfe at last might exquisitely build Where any queint conueiance is comprisde He markes the point the workmanship and grace Heere he commends the forefront well deuisd Else-where some pillar raisd on comely base Or stares well mounted honoring the place Surueying much he notes a thousand things And in his worke the grace of all he brings No such examples of Ichnographie Had euerlasting Ioue to imitate That he might forge a second world thereby And frame a worke for worlds to woonder at He neuer sweat nor beat his braynes for that But cast the world with ease into a square Quartered with earth and water fire and aire Euen as the Sunne earths fairest husbandman Annexed to the wheeling firmament Descendeth not from his pauilion But sends from thence his fruitfull increment Cheering the loue-sicke earth with meriment Although he list not come yet doth he send Garlands of plentie to his distant frend Gods pleasure and performance will and deed Conceit and act are of one equall age Purpose and practise word and worke proceed And march alike with perfect aequipage As ofsprings of one heauenly parentage All keepe their course inioynd on God attendant He was their maker and is their defendant But yet the matter of this comely frame Was not foorthwith so curious to behold Nor so polite as now we see the same Till Ioue had cast it in a fairer mold For as a shipwright not to be comptrold When he should build a barke to checke the seas By leasure lookes what kinds of stuffe he please First trees for tymber iron pytch for strength Then he prouides his cables and his cord Which all he layes on heapes vntill at length He singles out a sayle-yard from the hord The beake and sterne he makes of some choyse bord The tallest firre he marketh for his mast Vntill by art ech part is fitly plac'd So God before this world was polished Produc'd his pregnant and immortall word And then collecting all the parts vntride He mendgd them all in one confused hord But where the Shipwright to his hands is stord God was the author both of forme and stuffe Not borrowing ought for he had all enough Base was the worlds first visage and vncowth An Auerne dungeon tost with heedles quoyle A rifraffe medley The world without forme fashion place at the first and a gulphall mouth A sluggish heape of Elements at soyle Amongst themselues pell mell all one the spoyle Cold nipt the heat square things and round did iar The hard and rough with soft and smooth made war Moisture and drouth high mounting things humble At hurlie-burlie skattered on a ranke In ciuill strife vnciuillie did tumble The fire and aire plaid many a lawles pranke The water skornd to keepe within a banke Nor earth nor aire retained bound or border But all things were vnperfect out of order Somtime the water kept such heaue and shoue That it incrochde vpon the victorie The aire somtimes by strugling did remoue The waters force and got the masterie Somtime the earth did crush the other three Eftsoones the fire aboue them all did skip When topsie turuie downe the rest did slip That high Lord Marshall darting thundershot As yet had not his offices disposd The shapeles skie had not one glystering spot Nor any Planetarie signe that glosd The earth had not hir motley weeds imposd Nor Neptune had his watrish kingdome storde Nor any foule amidst the welkin soarde All things lay weltring in a slothfull shade No quickning spright did animate the lumpe Genos 1. ● The blended fire no fierie gesture had The earth no earth the aire could make no thumpe These first borne creatures stucke as in a dumpe No setled course degrees or bounds ordained By which this reuell rout might be restrained If fire were then t was not possest with heat If aire it did not thorough shine with light If water yet the moysture was not great If earth it tottering daunc'd for lacke of weight Do but imagine such an auckwoorth sight Where Tellus bald and barren were presented Not firme nor plaine nor yet with dales indented Suppose the heauens disrobde of all their pride Those eies pockt out and lights extinguished Debard of motion and all forme beside And thinke thou seest the first world pictured Whose portraiture can not be vttered What then was not I better can declare Then what that was which was of old time theare World was it not but hope of world to come A lumpe that askt sixe daies the finishing A likelihood such as in mothers wombe The fruite giues first when first it ginnes to spring Embrye Which growes so long till it be liuely thing First face then eies then chin and nostrils parting Then hands distinct and fingers thereto sorting This pettie world thus at the length increasd Obtaineth vigour for his enterprise And out of prison striues to be releasd Getting a larger prospect for his eies Yet in this masse a secret vertue lies Which hath