Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	word_n	work_n	worthiness_n	16	3	11.1321	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03754	The arbor of amitie wherin is comprised pleasant poëms and pretie poesies, set foorth by Thomas Howell Gentleman. Anno. 1568.	Howell, Thomas, fl. 1568-1581.	1568 (1568)	STC 13874; ESTC S113289	32,022	110

LVCRECIA-ROMANA ¶ Jmprinted at London in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Lucrece by Thomas Purfoote The Arbor of Amitie wherin is comprised pleasant Poëms and pretie Poesies set foorth by Thomas Howell Gentleman Anno. 1568. ¶ Imprinted at London by Henry Denham dwelling in Pater noster Rowe at the signe of the Starre ¶ To the ryght Noble and most vertuous Lady the Lady Anne Talbot Thomas Howell wysheth long lyfe with encrease of honor FEWE WORDES SONE amended as reporteth the Prouerbe inferring thereby that siluer sentence of the Philosopher Zeno worthie for the excellency of it to be grauen in durable place with Letters of the most purest Golde that nature had giuen vs two eares and one mouth to the entent that we should heare more than we vtter in wordes as it is also more agreeable to the way of wisedome wisely to be silent then fondly to speake greater vertue it is and labour more commendable to learne to suppresse thy tongue then to seeke the fasset to set abroch the same for in silence is wisedome and prudence when in talke fooles are knowne Which thing whilest I did perpend with my selfe right honorable Ladie though I had purposed before to practise my pen to the vtterance of suche an homely hoorde as was gathered in my vnskilfull head and to offer the present thereof vnto your honorable Ladiship yet these ratling sentences thundring along as it were Gunshot by the souldiours amased eares so abashed mee that I was vtterly discouraged to thinke much lesse yt doe so farre as to present a patterne of my rudenesse vnto your honor least in manifesting mine owne weakenesse in words I should appeere euen such a one as were wholy drowned in the lake of ignoraunce or washed in the Fountaine of folly to the ouerthrow of the good vndeserued report that my friendly welwillers doe conceiue But now right honorable Ladie I haue by experience prooued of my selfe being in your daylie presence the fame of your worthinesse and vertues to be certain true which eftsones before I had heard reported by others who in eche respect of vertue may be comparable to the noble Lady Argia the worthie king Adrastus his daughter who in beautie being inferiour to none in curtesie in noblenesse in clemencie in liberall bountie in prudence a superior in manie courtlike qualities in more vertuous knowledge in all godlinesse was equal with thē that surmoūted the chiefest Whereby she was reputed to be to hir euerlasting fame of a golden nature so curteous in words so friendly in deeds so comely of countenance so youthfull in yeres so auncient in talke that shee was no lesse adorned with these venerable vertuos than with a number of the rest hir princelike graces and giftes which sweetely sprang in hir as the flagrant flowers in the delectable month of May. Yea hir vertues were excellent and especially in hir true and amiable hart beautified with louing affection to continue in the same towardes ▪ hir spouse the noble knight Polynices as in the bloudy battell of Thebes when the worthie Polynices was most lamentablie slaine gored to the sore wounded hart with his brother quelled before his dolefull eyes and an innumerable sort ouerthrowne and a generall Edict by cruell Creon was set forth that vnder paine of death no one should aduēture to bury thē but leaue them a pray to dogges rauens Notwithstanding the cruelty notwithstanding this dreadfull daunger of commaūdement notwithstanding he had laine so long till the stink was so horrible that he was infectiue notwithstāding a thousand present perils yet this most honorable Lady of only loue of only hartie affection only accompanied with hir good sister the Ladie Antigone who bare lyke loue to hir brother in the night season shee spared not to go among an innumerable sort of carcasses stincking most lothsomly and ceassed not to tumble them vp downe with hir fine hands vntill she had espied hir deare husbands body whom although his face with gorie bloud and grauell was pitteously defiled she disdayned not to kisse and embrace washing hir face with the teares of hir eies tooke it vp in hir armes stole it away and as farre as hir womanly power could extend she interred the same such was the vertue such was the affection such was the noble hart of this loyall Lady Argia whose figure in eche qualitie your honor doe liuely represent no curtesie no comely countinance no grace no gift no one vertue at all in hir but that they haue alreadie taken roote and doe harbour in your blessed brest These honorable ornaments O noble Argia afterwardes I did plainely perceiue to be abundantly in you ▪ the inward feare which before ouerflowed my quailing aduenture is cleane put to flight And presuming on so noble a nature I am now boldened yea ouerbold humbly to giue these rude phantasies collected vnto your honor as the worke of a welwiller Although better it were for me to be silent than in speaking to shewe my nakednesse in wisedome But you are that princely Argia which will rather accept these toyes of my poore penne proceeding from the good will of my seruiceable hart then the riche present of a froward friendly foe wherefore I humbly craue right honorable Ladie O noble Argia that you will consider the hart not the hande the giuer not the gifte the trustinesse not the toyes the meaning not the matter my minde not my madnesse my paine not my penne whereby I shall be most bounde daylie to lift my prayers to the protectour of all that you with that right honorable Lord the Lord Talbot your husbande may most prosperously treade the trace of this painefull pilgrimage to your hartes desire to the encrease of your honors perpetuall maintenance of that right honorable and Noble name Your honors most humble Orator T. Howell Another to the same his honorable and very good Ladie SOme blase in chosen wordes and filed phrase so fine The passing praise of Ladies great extolde of wyt deuine And howe the Gods aboue haue giuen their giftes of grace To plant in them the vertues chiefe in bodie head and face But I will this omit my Muse in vaine to waste For néedlesse tis into the seas a water drop to caste You neede no trumpe to sounde to spread your noblenesse For why your wyt your wordes your workes doe well the same expresse Your worthinesse eche where your curtesie at home Your friendly face your bountie blest your grace in great renowme Your vertues excellent that spring in noble Well Shall neuer die no skill I haue one part thereof to tell And God hath giuen his giftes to you so large and kinde That euerie man may it conceiue onelesse he will be blinde Penelope in fayth vnto the Talbot hie Pandoras péere for qualities that shine as sunne in skie The Flower of fame you are for euer freshe to spring As fame will blow hir restlesse trumpe your lasting name to ring