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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	angel_n	earth_n	soul_n	5,044	5	4.5764	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42646	Elogium heroinum, or, The praise of worthy women written by C.G., Gent.	C. G. (Charles Gerbier)	1651 (1651)	Wing G583; ESTC R7654	34,740	214

but to the contrary do employ all their faculties to perform onely that which the Epitaph of Heliogabalus denotes Ede bibe lude post mortem nulla voluptas imagining that the life of man was only created but to eat and drink and sleep and thus they are meer animals nay not so prudent and moderate for they do carefully provide those things which do belong to the defending of their lives which moved one to say thus Nor are these creatures to be thought to be Quite void of th' intellectual faculty But that they can discern and understand The language spoken in their native land And might discourse if to so strange a wit Nature had lent them but due organs fit Lucan reports that the Elephants having washed themselves they fall down and adore looking upwards towards heaven after which they appear to be joyful The Storks whereof there are many in Holland do ere they give food to their young ones look upwards towards heaven as if they gave God thanks and wheresoever they build their nest as a token of their gratitude they cast down one of their young ones to the owners of the house The Dove when she picks up her food at every grain she lifts up her eye towards heaven And thus these harmlesse creatures appeare to be not onely as so many teachers to the Rationals of gratitude for the numberlesse mercies which they have received from the Almighty for having made them so when he might have turn'd them into any other shape as the Potter doth his clay but as so many judges against those who have made not onely Men their gods but Brutes Vegetables and inanimated viz. The Phaenicians worshipped a Serpent The Trogloditae a Tortise The Thessalians a Stork Those of Delphos a Wolf The men of Samos a Sheep The Islanders of Tenedos a Cow with Calf The Romans a Goose In Alba a Dragon The Egyptians Garlick and Onyons In some parts a rude and unbeautified Stone And of such kinde of gods the Pagans had no lesse then thirty thousand If the aforesaid Elephants Storks and Doves could speak no doubt but they would as Du-Bartas saith of the ascending Larks Alleluja tell men that they do acknowledge but him who is the Creator of all the world and thereby confound Alas but too many of those Monsters who not so much as the Pagans believe a Godhead goddesses they will but not such as these godly women who whilst they lived on earth might on the Scriptures warrant have been said that they were Gods and the Temple of God wherefore they enjoy Torrents of unspeakable contentments in an everlasting Kingdome where all the elected soules of the Apostles Martyrs Prophets Angels Archangels Thrones Dominions Powers Vertues Cherubims and Seraphims perpetually sing hymns and Alleluja for after they had been on earth as Angels in women shapes they could not fail to be their fect equals in Heaven from whence if a message should by them be sent unto some men of this age what would it bear but O yee monsters that say there is no God who tread the paths it 's true whereof Job speaks where gold silver and moulten brasse is to be found the Onyx and the Saphir c. but not those which these ever to be admired Women did viz. the unknown paths which no Fowle knoweth the Vultures eye hath not seen the Lions whelp hath not troden nor the fierce Lion passeth by whence Wisdome commeth which is the fear of the Lord and to depart from evil which is understanding And that these Christian Women sought and that they found after they had left behind them those manifold Examples of their Vertues which brought them thither and for the which all Rationals ought to celebrate their praises with Garlands Crowns Columns Statues and Monuments and not to presume to bark at this most worthy Sexe For who if he be the production of a woman can deride the vertues of his own Mother Let those Zoilusses and Momusses let them I say beware of incurring their just curse for having not only obscured as clouds the Sun that raised them in stead of imitating the true looking-glass which returns the lively image so soon as the face is presented unto it without any disguisements at all But for shewing themselves not only wilfully ignorant and monstrous ingratefull but void of all sense and shame And though these monsters doe not acknowledge the unspeakable deserts of vertuous Women yet neverthelesse Truth doth manifest to all the world what they are and it may be justly said of them as Socrates answered to Hermogenes who reproving him for that he did not think at all of defending himself when he was accused replied that he had thought of that all his life time by striving to live well And the example of Demetrius Phalerius a Prince of immortal renown teacheth us how little account is to be made of the dealings of envious men when as word was brought unto him that the Athenians moved with envy against him had broken down the 300 Images which had been erected in the streets of Ariopagus to his honour He replied The Athenians may well throw down my Images but they nor all the men of the world are not able to abase my Vertues for whose sake my Images were erected And there needs no other examples then these everto be admired Women to encourage vertue and to discourage vice to perswade both Sexes to that eternal blisse which is to be attained by treading the unknown paths which is not to be found in the land of the living for that the living run that of the Lyon and the Lyons whelp and depart not from evil their aim is at gold at the onix And what is the end of all that path You may remember it if you have read it Were not all the riches of Craesus the Persians prey Was not Cyrus the Conqueror at last glad to crave for a cup of water Did not the Parthians when they had overthrown Crassus with all his wealth poure molten gold down his throat to satisfie his greedy desire of mony And was not the Treasure of Decebalus though hidden in the bottome of the great River Sargesia fisht out by the Romans Is not the Assyrian Empire reduced into seven mountains And of those great and strong Cities Niniveh the walls whereof had fifteen hundred towers Babylon which was threescore miles in compass the Pyramides at Amasia's Sepulcher in the building whereof thirty six thousand men were imployed above fourscore years the great and famous Temple of Diana which was scarce finished by the inhabitants of all Asia in two hundred years and of all those great Emperors Kings sumptuous Buildings what doth there now remain but dust Vertue which these matchless Women sought only remained that never dyeth therefore Seneca studied in his youth time the Art bene vivendi and in his age bene moriendi And since Vertue was the mark at which these everto be admired women did aim the price which they so ran for to obtain they attained to its possession so absolutely as that nothing was ever able to bereave them thereof The venemous speeches of those vile Detractors of this most worthy Sexe will therefore prove but as the fools bolt shot upright which in the fall endangers their own heads And it 's no wonder since Diamonds are cut and whilst despised Peebles lie safe in the sand and the Cedars crushed with tempest whenas low shrubs are scarce toucht with the wind that malice strives to make vertuous Women suffer by supposed crimes But as the Ruby whatsoever Foile it hath doth yet shew red so they will flourish and triumph to all posterity and their fame remain glorious as having approved themselves such Gemmes wherewith their Creator hath been well pleased The Elogium of whose Vertues I cannot better close then with these Mr. Randal's Verses in praise of this most worthy Sexe HE is a Paracide to his Mothers name And with an impious hand murthers her same That wrongs the praise of women that dare● writ● Libels on Saints or with foul ink requite The milk they lent us Better Sexe comman● To your defence my more religious hand At sword or pen. Yours was the nobler birth For you of man were made man but of earth The son of dust And though your sin did bree● His fall again you rais'd him in your seed Adam in 's sleep a gainful losse sustain'd That for one Rib a better self regain'd Who had he not your blest creation seen An Anchorite in paradise had been VVhy in this work did the Creation rest But that th' eternal Providence thought you best Of all his six dayes labour Beasts should do Homage to man but man should wait on you You are of comelier sight of daintier touch A tender flesh a colour bright and such As Parians see in marble Skin more fair More glorious head far more glorious hair Eyes full of grace and quicknesse purer Roses Blush in your Cheeks A milder white compose Your stately Fronts your Breath more sweet then his Breathes spice and Nectar drops at every kisse Your skins are smooth bristles on theirs do grow Like quils of Porcupines rough wooll doth flow Ore all their faces you approach more near The form of Angels they like Beasts appear