Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	body_n	earthly_a	soul_n	2,499	5	5.3816	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03786	Egypts favorite The historie of Ioseph, divided into foure parts: 1. Iosephus in puteo: or, the vnfortunate brother. 2. Iosephus in gremio: or, the chaste courtier. 3. Iosephus in carcere: or, the innocent prisoner. 4. Iosephus in summo: or, the noble favorite. Together with old Israels progresse into the land of Goshen. By Francis Hubert, Knight, and sometime one of the six clarkes of his Maiesties High Court of Chancerie.	Hubert, Francis, Sir, d. 1629.	1631 (1631)	STC 13903; ESTC S104272	40,316	129

returne to thee The subiect of my ill-made well-meant Song 59 Me thinkes I see how this poore youth doth lye Vnmanly thus vnnaturally vsed Thinking the pi● his graue fixing his eye On heau'n that sees helps innocents abused 60 Me thinkes I heare him say and saying w●epe How vnexampled is my wretchednesse My sea of sorrow is so very deepe That there 's no line to fathom my distresse 61 O by what name shall I expresse my ill It is not banishment that I endure I am too truely in my Countrey still But banishment were better more secure 62 Earth is my Countrey and in earth I am And yet I am not in my proper place For I vvas borne to vvalke vpon the same And with my feet to trample on her face 63 Now am I in her armes or bowels rather Into my Mothers vvombe aliue I goe O Iacob my belou'd and louing Father Didst thou beget mee to be swallow'd so 64 I know that shee embraces all at last Shee is the Center vnto vvhich we tend But yet with me she makes preposterous hast Her right begins but when my life doth end 65 And then she may with justice seize on mee Now she intrudes before her lawfull time O common Parent I doe wrong to thee Thou art not to be charged with this crime 66 Yet Earth is the sole Agent of my ill But 't is indeed a more refined Clay 'T is breathing vvalking Earth against thy will Makes me close prisner in thy wombe this day 67 Where I am neither liuing nor yet dead And yet am both I know not what I am But this I know that neuer was there bred Amongst all men a more disastrous man 68 Which am depriued of that common good That all Mankind nay very beasts possesse Ayre light heat motion and all hope of food Who though I liue yet can I not expresse 69 The powers and actes of life and which is worse Haue able actiue Organs for the same And eu'n those blessings doe encrease my curse For had I been descrepit blind or lame 70 Benumb'd vvith Palsies sinew-crackt vvith crampes Without all vse of limbes and senses to I should not haue been choak'd with Earth's cold dampes Nor in my graue haue liu'd as now I do 71 Nay eu'n those nobler graces of the mind Wit Vnderstanding Iudgement Memory Serue all as one sad Index for to find And read my wofull History thereby 72 And the more actiue-able that they are The more they set my suffrings on the racke A feeling knowledge is more wretched farre Then a dull stupid non-sense that doth lacke 73 True apprehension of its proper ill And therefore slightly entertaines distresse Conceiuing sorrowes are most pregnant still In ignorance is senselesse happinesse 74 O how extreamely wretched is that man Whose greatest blessings turne vnto his curse All his endeauors doe eu'n what h●e can Serue but as mean●s to make his fortunes worse 75 But Ioseph whither doth thy stormy passion Which doth indeed but swell thy misery Transport thee from thy selfe in such a fashion As thou art almost fallen to lunacie 76 Why dost thou vent thy sorrowes to the earth Sh●e heares thee not 'T is bootlesse to complaine Besi●es thou hast no surplusage of breath Why doest thou make such waste thereof in vaine 77 Rather improue the same vnto the best Thinke not on earth advance thy selfe to heau'n If there be hope of helpe there doth it rest And one'y by that hand it must be giu'n 78 And thus resolu'd this Phenix in his nest Not built-with Spices and Arabian Gummes But of hard flints with toads slow-worm ● drest An humble suppliant to his God becomes 79 And being in the bowels of the Earth The cold therof augments his inward heat Which from his heart breaks forth into his breath And thus sweet incense mounts to Gods high seat 80 Father of Heau'n let not my brothers hate Their causelesse hate prevaile against my blood Thou canst their malice and their spleene abate And turne their plots and proiects to my good 81 They are but like to Pipes which doe convey The streame of action that doth flow from thee The worke as 't is a worke is thine but they As 't is a sinne they onely guiltie be 82 They are thy instruments though now they jarre And thou canst sweetly tune them as thou wilt Extract my peace from forth this civill warre And thine owne glory raise out of their guilt 83 But if my sinnes which be in number great Haue shut thine eare and barr'd vp mercies gate Forgiue my brothers yet I thee intreat And lay not to their charge their murdrous hate 84 But let this pit that now must be my tombe Bury my body and wi●hall their shame O neuer let it to the world be knowne That Iacobs sonnes were guiltie of ●uch blame 85 Especially shew mercie to my Sire Let his gray head in peace goe to his graue And once againe I humbly thee desire Forgiue my brothers and thy seruant saue 86 Ioseph thy body in the pit I find That 's earth in earth out thy more noble part Thy purer soule ●rom earthly drosse refin'd Mounts vp to heau'n to which thou send'st thy heart 87 In faithfull prayer an Agent of such trust So gracefull and so pow'rfull to prevaile That though thy selfe seemes buried in the dust Yet that makes way to heau'n and will not faile 88 With such effect to prosecute thy cause To treat and mediate for thee with thy Lord That though thou seem'st eu'n in destructions jawes His mighty arme will timely helpe afford 89 As here a troope of Ishmaelites came by Merchants it seemes they were to Egypt bound Laden with Balme and Myrrhe and spic●ry Such precious things as were in Gilead found 90 So and more ancien● is the Entercourse By which one Countrey traffiques with another And as we see oft times an able Nourse Supples the wants of a defectiue Mother 91 So doth one Climate with its natiue wealth Furnish another and by such supplyes We haue most soveraigne Simples for our health Pearle Gold and diuers-rich Commodities 92 For this Worlds deepe vnsounded Architect Hath not confin'd all blessings to one Land Ea●h Countrey labours vnder some defect Which must be helped by anothers hand 93 And 't is the chiefest cause and vse of Trade To bring in others vvealth and vent our owne And to that end long Voyages are made Eu'n to remotest Climates erst vnknowne 94 But what me thinkes my Muse doth trauaile too And bends her selfe vnto a forreine cost Returne againe to what thou hast to doe Else will thy fruitlesse labour all be lost 95 When Iudah did these Merchant strangers see Some spar●e of Pitie or Hypocrisie Did seeme to touch his heart Let vs quoth he Sell yonder Lad that in the pit doth lie 96 For say we kill him and the murder keepe Secret as night Alas will that availe vs His blood will crie when wee