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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	holy_a	mercy_n	miserable_a	4,748	5	11.1845	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35217	Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select and choice emblems, divine and moral, ancient and modern curiously ingraven upon copper plates : with fifty delightful poems and lots for the more lively illustration of each emblem, whereby instruction and good counsel may be promoted and furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation : to which is prefixed an incomparable poem, entituled Majesty in misery, or, An imploration to the King of Kings, written by His late Majesty K. Charles the First, with his own hand, during his captivity in Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle or Wight, 1648 : with an emblem / collected by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, Remarks of London, and Admirable curiosities, &c.	R. B., 1632?-1725?; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Majesty in misery.; Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1684 (1684)	Wing C7312; ESTC R8820	41,002	244

And makes Contentment lesser then before Such Fools are they whose Hopes do vainly stretch To climb by Titles to a happy Height For having gotten one Ambitious-Reach Another comes perpetually in sight And their stupidity is nothing less Who dream that Flesh and Blood may raised be Up to the Mount of perfect Holiness For at our best corrupt and vile are we Yet we are bound by Faith with Live and Hope To roll the Stone of Good Endeavour still As near as may be to Perfections top Though back again it tumble down the Hill So What Our Works had never power to do God's Grace at last shall freely bring us to Lot 5. M. DOubtless thou art either wooing Or some other business doing Which you shall attempt in vain Or much hazard all your pain Yet if good your meanings are Do not honest means forbear For where things are well begun God oft works when man hath done Emblem VI. Pedetentim THE Sixth Emblem Illustrated His Pace must wary be and slow That hath a slippery way to go A Travailer when he must undertake To seek his passage o're some Frozen Lake With leisure and with care he will assay The glassy smoothness of that Icy-way Lest he may slip by walking over-fast Or break the crackling Pavement by his hast And so for want of better taking heed Incur the mischiefs of Unwary-speed We are all Travellers and all of us Have many passages as dangerous As Frozen-lakes and Slipery-ways we tread In which our lives may soon be forfeited With all our hopes of Life-Eternal too Unless we well consider what we do There is no private Way or publick Path But rubs or holes or slipp'riness it hath Whereby we shall with Mischiefs meet unless We walk it with a steadfast-wariness The steps to Honour are on Pinacles Compos'd of melting Snow and Isicles And they who tread not nicely on their tops Shall on a suddain slip from all their hopes Yea ev'n that way which is both sure and holy And leads the mind from Vanities and Folly Is with so many other Path-ways crost As that by Rashness it may soon be lost Unless we well deliberate upon Those Tracts in which our Ancestours have gone And they who with more haste then heed will run May lose the way in which they well begun Lot 6. IN slippery Paths you are to go yea they are full of danger too And if you heedful should not grow they 'l hazard much your overthrow But you the mischief may eschew If wholsom Counsel you pursue Look therefore what you may be taught By that which this your chance hath brought Emblem VII Pro Lege pro Grege THE Seventh Emblem Illustrated Our Pelican by bleeding thus Fulfill'd the Law and cured us LOok here and mark her sickly birds to feed How freely this kind Pelican doth bleed See how when other Salves could not be found To cure their sorrows she her self doth wound And when this holy Emblem thou shalt see Lift up thy soul to him who dy'd for thee For this our Hieroglyphick would express That Pelican which in the Wilderness Of this vast World was left as all alone Our miserable Nature to bemone And in whose eyes the tears of pity stood When he beheld his own unthankful Brood His Favours and his Mercies then contemn When with his wings he would have brooded them And sought their endless peace to have confirm'd Though to procure his ruine they were arm'd To be their Food himself he freely gave His Heart was pierc'd that he their Souls might save Because they disobey'd the Sacred-will He did the Law of Righteousness fulfill And to that end though guiltless he had bin Was offered for our Universal-sin Let me Oh God! for ever fix mine eyes Upon the Merit of that Sacrifice Let me retain a due commemoration Of those dear Mercies and that bloody Passion Which here is meant and by true Faith still feed Upon the drops this Pelican did bleed Yea let me firm unto thy Law abide And ever love that Flock for which he dy'd Lot 7. THis present Lot concerns full near Not you alone but all men here For all of us too little heed His Love who for our sakes did bleed 'T is true that means he left behind him which better teacheth how to mind him Yet if we both by that and this Remember him 't is not amiss Emblem VIII Quid si sic THE Eighth Emblem Illustrated Though he endeavour all he can An Ape will never be a man WHat though an Apish-Pigmy in attire His Dwarfish Body Gyant-like array Turn Brave get him Stilts to seem the higher What would so doing handsome him I pray Now surely such a Mimick sight as that Would with excessive Laughter move your Spleen Till you had made the little Dandiprat To lye within some Auger-hole unseen I must confess I cannot chuse but smile When I perceive how Men that worthless are Piece out their Imperfections to beguile By making shows of what they never were For in their borrow'd-Shapes I know those Men And through their Masks such insight of them have That I can oftentimes disclose ev'n then How much they favour of the Fool or Knave A Pigmey spirit and an Earthly-Mind Whose look is only fixt on Objects vain In my esteem so mean a place doth find That ev'ry such a one I much refrain But when in honour'd Robes I see it put Betrimm'd as if some thing of Worth it were Look big and on the Stilts of Greatness strut From scorning it I cannot then for bear For when to gross Unworthiness Men add Those Dues which to the Truest-worth pertain T is like an Ape in Humane Vestments clad Which when most fine deserveth most disdain And more absurd those Men appear to me Then this Fantastick-Monkey seems to thee Lot 8. M. Thy chance is doubtful and as yet I know not what to make of it But this I know a Foe thou art To what thine Emblem hath in part Expressed by a Mimick Shape Or thou they self art such an ape Now which of these pertains to thee Let them that know the Judges be Emblem IX Fures Privati in Nervo Publici in Auro THE Ninth Emblem Illustrated Poor Thieves in Fetters we behold And Great Thieves in their Chains of Gold IF you this Emblem well have look'd upon Although you cannot help it yet bemone The Worlds black Impudence and if you can Continue or become an honest man The poor and petty Pilferers you see On Wheels on Gibbets and the Gallow tree Trust up when they that far more guilty are Pearl Silk and costly Cloth of Tissue wear Good God! how many hath each Land of those Who neither limb nor life nor credit lose But rather live befriended and applauded Yet have of all their livelihoods defrauded The helpless Widows in their great distress And of their Portions rob'd the Fatherless Yet censur'd other 's Errours as if none Had cause to say