Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	wit_n	woman_n	world_n	44	3	4.0184	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06590	Euphues. The anatomy of vvyt Very pleasant for all gentlemen to reade, and most necessary to remember: wherin are contained the delights that wyt followeth in his youth, by the pleasauntnesse of loue, and the happynesse he reapeth in age, by the perfectnesse of wisedome. By Iohn Lylly Master of Arte. Oxon.	Lyly, John, 1554?-1606.	1578 (1578)	STC 17051; ESTC S105598	115,224	186

nourisher of wantonnesse Had it not bene better for thée to haue eaten salt with the Philosophers in Greece then sugar with the courtiers of Italy But behold the course of youth which alwayes inclyneth to pleasure I forsooke mine olde companions to search for new friends I reiected the graue and fatherly counsayle of Eubulus to follow the brainesicke humor of mine owne will. I addicted my selfe wholy to the seruice of women to spende my lyfe in the lappes of Ladyes my lands in maintenance of brauerie my witte in the vanities of idle Sonnets I had thought that women had bene as we men that is true faithfull zealous constant but I perceiue they be rather woe vnto men by their falshood gelousie inconstancie I was halfe perswaded that they were made of the perfection of men would be comforters but now I sée they haue tasted of the infection of the Serpent and will be corasiues The Phisition saythe it is daungerous to minister Phisicke vnto the patient that hath a colde stomacke and a hotte lyuer least in giuing warmth to the one he inflame the other so verely it is harde to deale with a woman whose wordes séeme feruent whose heart is congealed into harde yce least trusting their outwarde talke he be betraied with their inwarde trechery I will to Athens ther to tosse my bookes no more in Naples to lyue with faire lookes I will so frame my selfe as al youth héereafter shal rather reioice to se mine amendmēt then be animated to follow my former lyfe Philosophie Phisicke Diuinitie shal be my studie O the hidden secrets of Nature the expresse image of morall vertues the equall ballaunce of Iustice the medicines to heale all diseases how they beginne to delyght me The Axiomaes of Aristotle the Maxinis of Iustinian the Aphorismes of Galen haue sodaynelye made such a breache into my minde that I séeme onely to desire them which did onely earst detest them I● witte be employed in the honest study of learning what thing so pretious as witte if in the idle trade of loue what thing more pestilent then witte The proofe of late hath bene verefied in me whome nature hath endued with a lyttle witte which I haue abused with an obstinate will most true it is that the thing the better it is the greater is the abuse and that ther is nothing but through the mallice of man may be abused Doth not the fire an element so necessarie that without it man cannot lyue as well burne the house as burne in the house if it be abused Doth not Treacle as wel poyson as helpe if it be taken out of time Doth not wine if it be immoderately taken kill the stomacke enflame the lyuer murther the droncken Doth not Phisicke destroy if it be not well tempred Doth not law accuse if it be not ryghtly interpreted Doth not diuinitie condemne if it be not faythfully construed Is not poyson taken out of the Honnysuckle by the Spider venime out of the Rose by the Canker dunge out of the Maple trée by the Scorpion Euen so the greatest wickednesse is drawne out of the greatest wit if it bée abused by will or entangled with the world or inueig-with women But séeinge I sée mine owne impietie I wyll endeuoure my selfe to amende all that is paste and to be a myrrour of godlynes héereafter The Rose though a lyttle it be eaten with the Canker yet béeing distilled yéeldeth swéete water the yron thoughe fretted with the ruste yet béeing burnte in the fire shyneth brighter and witte although it hath bene eaten with the canker of his owne conceite and fretted with the rust of vaine loue yet beeinge purified in the still of wisedome and tryed in the fire of zeale will shine bright and smell swéete in the nosethrilles of all young nouises As therefore I gaue a farewell to Lucilla a farewell to Naples a farewell to woemen so now doe I giue a farewell to the worlde meaning rather to macerate my selfe with melancholye then pine in follye rather choosinge to dye in my studye amiddest my bookes then to courte it in Italy in the company of Ladyes It happened immediatly Ferardo to retourne home who hearing this straunge euent was not a lyttle amazed and was nowe more readye to exhorte Lucilla from the loue of Curio then before to the lykinge of Philautus Therefore in all haste with watry● eyes and a wofull heart began on this manner to reason with his daughter Lucilla daughter I am ashamed to call thée séeing thou hast neyther care of thy fathers tender affection nor of thine owne credite what sprite hath enchaunted thy spirite that euery minute thou alterest thy minde I had thought that my hoary haires should haue found comforte by thy golden lockes and my rotten age greate ease by thy rype yeares But alas I sée in thée neyther witte to order thy doinges neyther will to frame thy selfe to discretion neither the nature of a child neyther the nurture of a mayden neyther I cannot without teares speake it any regarde of thine honour neyther any care of thine honestie I am nowe enforced to remember thy mothers deathe who I thincke was a Prophetesse in hir lyfe for oftentimes shée woul●e saye that thou haddest more beautie then was conuenient for one that shoulde bée honeste and more c●ckering then was méete for one that shoulde bée a Matrone Woulde I had neuer lyued to bée so olde or thou to bée so obstinate eyther woulde I had dyed in my youthe in the courte or thou in thy cradle I woulde to God that eyther I● had neuer bene borne or thou neuer bredde Is this the comfort that the parent reapeth for all his care Is obstinacie payed for obedience stubbernnesse rendred for duetie mallitious desperatenesse for filiall feare I perceiue now that the wi●e Paynter saw more then the foolish parent can who paynted loue going downeward saying it might well descend but ascende it coulde neuer Danaus whome they reporte to bée the father of fiftie children had amonge them all but one that disobeyed him in a thinge most dishonest but I that am father to one more then I would be although one be all haue that one most disobedient to me in a request lawfull and reasonable If Danaus séeing but one of his daughters without awe became himselfe without mercie what shall Ferardo doe in this case who hath one and all most vnnaturall to him in a most iust cause Shall Curio enioy the fruite of my trauailes possesse the benefite of my labours enherit the patrimony of mine auncestors who hath neither wisedome to increase thē nor wit to kéepe thē wilt thou Lucilla bestow thy self on such an one as hath neither comlines in his body nor knowledge in his minde nor credite in his countrey Oh I would thou haddest eyther bene euer faithfull to Philautus or neuer faithlesse to Euphues or would thou wouldest be more fickle to Curio As thy beautie hath made thée blaze of Italy so will thy