Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	eternal_a	ghost_n	holy_a	29,948	5	5.9119	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51508	Vienna, noe art can cure this hart where in is storied, ye valorous atchievements, famous triumphs, constant love, great miseries, & finall happines, of the well-deserving, truly noble and most valiant kt., Sr. Paris of Vienna, and ye most admired amiable Princess, the faire Vienna.	M. M. (Matthew Mainwaring), 1561-1652.; Minshull, Richard.	1650 (1650)	Wing M295C; ESTC R19255	130,674	194

Dolphin in his name and tell him that as a stranger he was come to see him and of meat humanity to visit him which the Dolphin kindly accepting as kindly regreeted and entertained him with all the gracious remonstrances he could Sirap bad him then ask what his country was howgreat by what lawes they were governed under what title they were subjected what Religion they observed and what God they chiefly adored unto which the Dolphin thus briefly answered France he said is my native nest both most populous and spacious as having in it 27 thousand Parish Churches It is most fertile and abounds in all plentifulness of fruits wines salt corn fish and wild fowl There are many Vniversities famous therein the nursing mothers of all vertue out of whose breasts youth draws out the knowledge of all arts It hath many large Provinces and divers bordering Principallityes owe homage thereunto The Cityes are great and many rich in treasure and fair and uniforme in building the chief whereof is Paris famous for beauty and bignesse the usuall residence of the King and great trassique of all kind of Merchandize Our Lawes are termed the civill Lawes wherein Justice is tempered and qualified by equity and conscience and equity and conscience are garded and maintained with Justice Our Monarch is entituled a King the most Christian King of France under whose protection his people live secure injoying their own and under whose Greatnesse his Subjects rest fearlesse of forraign foes Our Religion is built upon Gods sacred word Truth is the root thereof Charity the branch and good works the fruit Our Pastors are our Teachers who like Lamps consume themselves to enlighten others their Doctrine is examined by the twelve Apostles Our prayers by Christ taught six Petitions Our Faith by the generall Greed and our lives by Gods tenne Commandements And where the tongue of Aaron cannot perswade there the rod of Moses doth correct and compell We serve and worship one onely God in persons three not confused nor divided but distinct of one and the same divine Essence eternity power and quality God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost The father being the first chief and originall cause of all things The Sun his word and eternall wisedom and the Holy Ghost his power vortue and efficacy This is that God that by his Word made the glorious Globe his seat and the massie earth his footstoole that fed his servants the unprovided Israelites with food from Heaven forty yeares in the Wildernesse that divided the Waters and brought them dry-foot through the Red-Sea and drencht proud Pharoh therein that purlued them with a murdering heart To him we offer no burnt-offerings nor sacrifice of blood but the sweet intercession of devout prayers For those ceremonies ceased at the comming of Christ by whom we are called Christians and we are received into his Church by baptisme and continued and fed therein by the other Sacrament of his last Supper And such is our Country these our Lawes such our King this our Religion and this the God we onely serve love fear and adore Sirap thanked him for his good description and seemed to take pleasure in the knowledge thereof Then he demanded how he brookt his Captivity and he answered like a Prince and therefore like himself as one subject to chance and resolved in the change Then he bad him ask whether he had any children and he all sighing said but one onely daughter Then Sirap caused him to ask why he then so sighed and he replying said that his sole souls grief consisted in her memory and so made manifest his hard cruell and unnaturall dealing toward her and how he had left her a prisoner to his tyranny and therefore by divine justice made himself a prisoner to Tyranny Sirap being thus certified was well pleased that Vienna yet living lived his permanent friend and though he grieved much for her endurance yet did he smother up his conceived sorrow in the recordation of her love The thought of his exile and Vienna's thraldome awaked Hatred and Anger the ready Officers of Revenge to hasten his death but in the eye of his milder consideration knowing him to be his Lord and Vienna's father his relenting heart checked his repining humor and blew the coals of his hotter desire to seek and to effect his speedy deliverance To compasse which he seeming seemed of purpose to take pleasure in him and understanding of his Countries customes commodityes and government And therefore he requested the Soldan for the continuance of his contentment and for his further knowledge of forraign affairs to admit● and tollerate his thither repair that he might hereafter if cause so required reduce his learning to practice which the Soldan granting gave in charge for his free accesse and so they departed the one glad in that he had or could gratifie so worthy a friend the other proud in that he had laid a foundation whereon to build The two next dayes Sirap spent in covertly revealing wherin his expertnesse and carriage did both win respect and gave delight The third following day he with his Interpretour went to parley with the Dolphin who despairing of life they sound expecting death But after they had greeted and regreeted each other with kind salutes Sirap told him by his Interpreter that as a man he bewailed his fortune and as he was a Prince he lamented his fall Yet dismay not noble Lord said he since all corporall damages that happen to mortall men are either by means remedied by reason suffered by time cured or by death ended Malicious and violent storms may for the time cleave the bark from the tree and rent the branches of his body yet for all the furious blasts of wrathfull winds it cannot be pluckt up by the root If there be a power above the capacity of men then may there come comfort contrary to the conceit of men Expectation in a weak mind makes an evil greater and a good lesse but the resolved mind digests an evill being come and makes a future good present before it come Then expect the best since you know the worst at the worst will have an end The Dolphin conceiting the civill demeanour the Philosophicall discourse and the pious mind of the supposed impious and barbarous Moor honoured his mild inclination wondered at his regular admonitions ond thanked him for his human comforts and tender regard My mind mindfull said Sirap of Fortunes ficklenesse affects I know not how nor wherefore your deliverance what then will the Dolphin give if I affect the same The Dolphin whose smallest sayles of hope the least winds did blow offered the third part of his Principallity when he should come to Viennois Promises said Sirap of advancement are no assurances of enrichment and he hath a wit too short of discretion that will lose certain favours for uncertain fortunes Notwithstanding if you will but swear unto me by that same God which

being then most ready when shee was most unready both to assay and allay that troublesome spirit Mal-Fiance having thus secured their stirring by deluding their hearing went boldly to the daughters bed the wished port where he desired to arrive where finding no opposition she stil deeming him to be Haunce he cast anchor that his barque might ride at full Sea At which time Mars and Venus being in conjunction produced such strange effects that the bed wherein they lay did both shake and rock which her mother-in-law hearing began to be half afraid having heard nothing before yet out of wonted holdness which was great in bodily adventures she called to her daughter and asked her how she did I do q●she well and as well as any woman can do It is the better for you replyed the mother but do you not heare nor feel any thing I hear nothing said she that is ill and most assured I am I feel no hurt Well daughter said the Mother blesse you and crosse you from all evill spirits Nay mother quoth she my faith herein hath ever been so great and so good that I neither fear the Devill nor think any man is present that endangers me All this while the poor Burgamaster lay over the head in the sweat of his false fear which and so tyrantize over his weaknesse that he durstily no longer but hastily calling up his man he had him light a candle for he would rise and go fetch his ghostly Father Fryer Br●●erick to come to blesse his Chamber and sprinkle it all over with holy water His wife could not divert him from it and his daughter and her unknown Paramour were ready to betray themselves with laughter yet was Mal Fiance glad to hide himself in the bed whilst to prevent suspition the daughter rose and took upon her to unlock the unlocked doors by which time the man came with a light and getting his Master up hee holpe to array him and after went with a Lanthorne with him to seeke the Fryer No sooner were they gone but in comes lascivious Haunce in the heat of his desire like the Prince of darknesse cloathed in a Bulls-hide with the horns on his head for it much behooved him to have borns that must leave horns behind him who finding the doors open made no stay till he came to the daughters bed where hearing two breath he softly shrunk back supposing it was the Fathers bed and stumbling after by hap on the other bed where the wife lay all alone he holding down his head softly said Fear not my Love it is I and so dismantling himself laid him down by her who conceiting that it was Mal Fiance that had taken the benefit of her husbands going forth resisted not but entertained him with all the full favours that wanton love could afford Thus doe Womens light thoughts many times make their husbands to have heavie heads But in this amorous combat the very bed proclaimed their forceable encounters and the fall of bedstaves well witnessed their fresh assaults which the daughter hearing deemed that her restlesse mother was tormented with some terrour of fear and therefore calling to her she wished her to have a good litart and not to yeeld to idle conceits which but troubled the mind with deceiving imaginations The mother perceiving that something was perceived and that they were heard took upon her to be affrighted and said Alas daughter something I know hath been upon me and if spirits have any substances it is surely one Cover your self well said the daughter By this enterchange of chatte Haunce knew that he had travailed in a by-path which so distasted him that his teeth gnashed together for anger and Mal Fiance lay loughing at the knowledge thereof who remembring now that Haunce would come in some fearfull shape to make way for his pleasure he thought to work further on him and to beat him with his own weapon And to give life to his device he stole up and creeping along the beds side wherein euchaffed Haunce did●ly he sought by feeling and by feeling sound the hairy hide which by handling thereof he knew well was a garment of his Fathers and as he threw it over him with intent to frighten Haunce he heard his Host and the Frier coming into the house who came sooner then they were expected Then he was forc'd to run behind the door thinking by his hell-like habite to terrifie them all and so got unknown to his Chamber Now Haunce perceiving light through the door for as yet the Fryer durst not come in till he had said divers Pater nosters and besprinkled the door with his holy water sprinkle leap'd hastily out of his disliked bed and failing to find his devills coat he pul'd the higher sheet out of the bed and shrowding himself therein went like a ghost to the other side of the dore thinking likewise so suddenly to fright them that undiscovered he might escape But the tardy-taken-women that now were more afraid of shame then they were before of sin were driven to such an exigent that they knew not how to avoid neither rebuke not reproach their scarlet blushes accused them and the holy Church was at the dore ready to condemn them In this hell they lay fearing to bee seene untill the light which most they feared freed them from those they most feared For the new transformed Devill and the late metamorphosed ghost suddainly seeing each other by the light of the Candle upon the opening of the dore were so agast at the fearefull sight of either others terrifying and unknowne shapes that they verily thought that the Devill or some other ill spirit were purposely come from hell to carry them away for their sinfull assuming their damned formes to such wicked and forbidden ends In this fear and fearful thought they made such hast to run away the one from the other that they both rusht at once so forceably through the door that they bear the old Burgamaster down and turned the poor Fryer over and over in which fall he pittifully brake his face on the housecill and half drowned the Burgamaster with the Holy-water that he brought and shed upon him The carefull women though they were thus cleared of disgrace yet were they so danted at the sight of these incarnall devills that they wofully cryed and shrieked out the servant with the Lanthorn as one distract run out of doors Mal Fiance as fearfully fled to his chamber and heartless Haunce most amazedly run into the street after the servant who looking for fear behind him saw this spirit P. running as he thought after him which made him cry out help help a spirit a ghost a ghost a spirit The Watchmen comming and hearing him thought the man was stark mad but looking about they saw this affrighted frightning ghost comming towards them which put them all into such amazed fear that they threw down their weapons and run away The coast being thus cleared