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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	great_a	king_n	people_n	9,166	5	4.4099	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15631	A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation. By George VVither. The first booke.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.; Passe, Crispijn van de, ca. 1565-1637, engraver.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 25900A; ESTC S118583	146,635	294

Emblem we resemble may The Name of none I purpose to reveale But their Condition heere I will display Some both by gifts of Nature and of Grace Are so prepared that they might be fit To stand as Lights in profitable place Yet loose their Talent by neglecting it Some to the common Grace and nat'rall parts By helpe of Nurture and good Discipline Have added an accomplishment of Arts By which their Light may much the brighter shine Some others have to this acquired more For to maintaine their Lampe in giving light Of Waxe and Oyle and Fatnesse they have store Which over-flowes unto them day and night And ev'n as Lampes or Candles on a Table Or fixt on golden Candlesticks on high To light Assemblies Great and Honourable They oft have also place of Dignitie By meanes of which their Splendor might become His praise who those high favours did bequeath They might encrease the Light of Christendome And make them see who sit in shades of Death But many of them like those Candles bee That stand unlighted in a Branch of gold For by their helpe wee nothing more can see Than wee in grossest darknesse may behold If such there be as there bee such I feare The question is For what good use they are The Sacrifice God loveth best Are Broken-hearts for Sin opprest SACRIFICIVM DEO COR CONTRIBVLATIM ILLVSTR. XV. Book 2 NO Age hath had a people to professe Religion with a shew of holinesse Beyond these times nor did men sacrifice According to their foolish fantasies More oft than at this present One bestowes On pious-workes the hundreth part of those Ill-gotten goods which from the poore he seazed And thinkes his God in that is highly pleased Another of her dues the Church bereaves And yet himselfe a holy man conceives Yea and right bountifull if hee can spare From those his thefts the tenth or twentieth share To some new Lecture or a Chaplaine keepe To please Himselfe or preach his Wife asleepe Some others thinke they bring sincere Oblations When fir'd with zeale they roare out Imprecations Against all those whom wicked they repute And when to God they tender any sute They dreame to merit what they would obtaine By praying-long with Repetitions vaine With many other such like Sacrifices Men come to God but he such gifts despises For neither gifts nor workes nor any thing Which we can either doe or say or bring Accepted is of God untill he finde A Spirit-humbled and a troubled-minde A contrite Heart is that and that alone Which God with love and pitie lookes upon Such he affects therefore Oh Lord to thee Such let my Heart and such my Spirit bee A King that prudently Commands Becomes the glory of his Lands REGNI CORONA REX ILLVSTR. XVI Book 2 THe Royall-Scepter Kingly power implyes The Crowne-Imperiall GLORIE signifies And by these joyn'd in one we understand A King that is an honour to his Land A Kingdome is not alwaies eminent By having Confines of a large extent For Povertie and Barbarousnesse are found Ev'n in some large Dominions to abound Nor is it Wealth which gets a glorious-Name For then those Lands would spread the widest Fame From whence we fetch the Gold and Silver-ore And where we gather Pearles upon the shore Nor have those Countries highest exaltations Which breed the strongest and the Warlikst Nations For proud of their owne powre they sometimes grow And quarrell till themselves they overthrow Nor doe the chiefest glories of a Land In many Cities or much People stand For then those Kingdomes most renowned were In which Vnchristian Kings and Tyrants are It is the King by whom a Realme's renowne Is either builded up or overthrowne By Solomon more fam'd was Iudah made Then by the Multitude of men it had Great Alexander glorified Greece Throughout the World which else had bene a piece Perhaps obscure And Caesar added more To Rome then all her greatnesse did before Grant Lord these Iles for ever may be blessed With what in this our Emblem is expressed By Studie and by Watchfulnesse The Jemme of Knowledge we possesse STVDIO ET VIGILANTIA ILLVSTR. XVII Book 2 I Thinke you would be wise for most men seeme To make of Knowledge very great esteeme If such be your desires this Emblem view And marke how well the Figures counsell you Wee by the Bird of Athens doe expresse That painefull and that usefull watchfulnesse Which ought to bee enjoyned unto them Who seeke a place in Wisdomes Academ For as an Owle mewes up her selfe by Day And watcheth in the Night to get her prey Ev'n so good Students neither must be such As daily gad or nightly sleepe too much That open-booke on which the Owle is perch'd Affords a Morall worthy to be search'd For it informes and darkly doth advise Your Watchings be not after Vanities Or like their Wakings who turne dayes to nights In following their unlawfull appetites And that in keeping Home you doe not spend Your houres in sloth or to some fruitlesse end But rather in good Studies and in that By which true Knowledge is arrived at For if your Studies and your Wakings bee To this intent you shall that Path-way see To Wisdome and to Honour which was found Of them whose Knowledge hath been most renownd But if your Watchings and Retyrednesse Be for your Lust or out of Sottishnesse You are not what th' Athenian-Owle implies But what our English-Owlet signifies When Mars and Pallas doe agree Great workes by them effected bee ARTE ET MARTE ILLVSTR. XVIII Book 2 IT prospers ever best in all Estates When Mars and Pallas are continuall Mates And those affaires but seldome luckie be In which these needfull Powers doe not agree That Common-wealth in which good Arts are found Without a Guard will soone receive a wound And Souldiers where good order beares no sway Will very quickly rout themselves away Moreover in our private Actions too There must bee both a Knowledge how to doe The worke propos'd and strength to finish it Or wee shall profit little by our Wit Discretion takes effect where Vigour failes Where Cunning speeds not outward-force prevailes And otherwhile the prize pertaines to neither Till they have joyn'd their Vertues both together Consider this and as occasions are To both of these your due respects declare Delight not so in Arts to purchase harmes By Negligence or Ignorance of Armes If Martiall-Discipline thou shalt affect Yet doe not honest-Policie neglect Improve thy Minde as much as e're thou may But foole thou not thy Bodies gifts away The Vertues both of Body and of Mind Are still to be regarded in their kind And wee should neither of the two disgrace Nor either of them raise above his place For when these two wee value as wee ought Great works by their joynt power to passe are brought They after suffring shall be crown'd In whom a Constant-faith is found CONSTANTE FIDVCIA ILLVSTR. XIX Book 2 MArke well this Emblem and observe