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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	eye_n	see_v	8,993	5	3.6630	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03032	The riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus		1598 (1598)	STC 13174; ESTC S118769	15,010	32

amorous sportes I kild my selfe Foole propagating kinde 15 VPon some pale or pearch Or stond or rotten tree In watrie lowes and fennie grounds Where store of fishes bee There will he gazing stand And fish be faine would eate Bur he disdaines to touch a fish If that it be not great Right good ones he lets goe For better still to stay Till that the sunne is welnigh set And gone almost the day Then downe vnto the ground In stately sort he hies Where he a hungrie supper makes On wormes and butterflies 16 THe welkin is welnigh out of our seeing Our eies and thoughts are on the ground remaining On th' earth or no where is our happie being Yet there we euer grudge and are complayning But turne vs so that heauen hang in our spying And straight we leaue our murmur and our crying 17 ONe rips the earth another cuts the seas And runs the world in circuite round about All for my sake I doe all men so please That all doe seeke which way to finde me out In Diadems in scepters and in Crownes In robes in rotchets in a Cardnals hat In scarlet silkes in costly furred gownes In stones and pearles and in I wot not what In horses haukes bounds harlots and in bookes One flieth for me vp into the skies Another downe to Plutoes raigne he tookes Where all this glistering Or and argent lies This search declares how greatly men doe leeke me But they are mad so far from home to seeke me 18 A Neuer wearied but euer bearing mother was deliuered of children all in a maner of stature equall which though they were being yong very like one vnto another yet by diuer sitte of bringing vp they were transmuted so that vnneath they might be discerned to be of one linage Some of them were made carters plowmen some serued in cities as porters sergeants and hangmen some became mariners and serued at sea Some were fine lier trained vp and for their delicacie waxed in fauour with faire virgins great matrones gentlewomen and great Ladies To all which they were so inwarde and neerely conioyned that scarcely brother or husband was permitted to be with them of equall trust Many of these waxed so skilfull and stored with all manner of learning that more of them became diuines lawiers and states-men then are to be found in Paris Padua Bononia Venice or Vienna Of this last sort sundry which grew to be embassadours secretaries and intelligencers were finally brought to violent death by fire or interred in so fowle a fashion that not knowing with what termes to expresse it I must of force leaue it to be deuined at 19 AFter midnight ere it was day His eies he did vnclose And striuing for to get away From prison he arose With bodies two as colde as Leade He wrought so fine a feate That other two which seemed dead Receiued life and heate Then dead men came about him round I wot not who they were But of much thing deepe and profound With them he did confer 20 WE are in number not fiue times fiue No one of vs two handfull long Nor any of vs takes care to thriue Yet all together we doe so throng That if a man would list to striue T'extinguish or to doe vs wrong Were he the greatest prince aliue We should be found for him too strong And could make him infamous in time to come Though most of vs beene deafe and dombe 21 BY helpe of fiue and sixe and seuen And lines and distances betweene A scale is made that brings from heauen A virgine sweete that nere was seene Nor any man euer see her shall Though heauen and earth together fall Vnseene of louers she hath choice That are not led by wanton eies But they doe loue her Angels voice And he that rules aboue the skies Doth daine a listening eare to lend Her earnest praiers to attend 22 I Am not but am said to bee And many things are told of mee As first for sooth that I am blinde And bushed before and balde behinde And that I halting come to one And flie when as I will be gone With fooles my godhead is not small With wise men it is none at all 23 SVch as the companie is such am I And I thinke some other folke are so too To two Ladies great I euer am nie And we with the world haue much to doo Tis hard for a lowte to tell ye my name And shame for a clerke if he hit not the same 24 IT is not more fabulous what Prometheus did then ridiculous what Paracelsus promiseth yet there is one to no man of great vnderstanding vnknowen that not onely maketh persons at her pleasure but also bringeth them from hell or heauen to life againe when they be dead Yea she maketh pillers wals or any thing to speake not by sorcerie witcherie or imprecation of deuils but by fine arte to the face of iudges for iustice she hath heretofore practised her skill and of her propertie a long time borne speciall denomination 25 THis is the age that I would haue These times for me are woondrous fit Each Ladie that is fine and braue With me delights to goe and sit My liuing lieth not in my lands Yet I am daintie fine and sweete The Ladies take me in their hands Their lips and mine full often meete Their paps their cheekes I well may touch In smiling sort with me they play Their husbands thereat thinke not much No though I downe with them doe lay In sooth it is a foolish sin When foolish husbands iealous bin 26 TWo forward went and one did seeme to stay them Foure after ran and fiue did ouerlay them Of which one dead foure quicke was comprehending And all these twelue vnto one marke were tending 27 FIrst I was small and round like a pearle Then long and slender as braue as an Earle Since like an hermit I liude in a cell And now like a rogue in the wide world I dwell 28 THere is a bodie without a hart That hath a toong and yet no head Buried it was ere it was made And lowde it speakes and yet is dead 29 FArre in the west I wot not wheare Are trees men say which oisters beare I woonder how that comes about Those oisters she not out of doubt And fall straight like a swarme of bees At home here on our apple trees Growe they on trees those oisters fie Me thinkes it soundeth like a lie A kinde of trees I know tis true In purpoole lane beare oisters new And fish and flesh and now and then They beare I tell you honest men 30 THe new world is enuironed with a deepe ditch whereinto many riuers do fall continually in so much that it would ouerflow the whole world were it not that from the water of this ditch there riseth and is ingendred great store of barnacles and other sea fowle of diuers colours and proportions some of them being bigger by great ods then

many other things no man would haue entertained him for he could eate doing little worke but not worke vnlesse he were eating Hauing deuoured to some scarcitie things growen and nourished vpon the earth he was brought to feede on viler achates taken from the bowels thereof But still he eateth bringing profit by his seruice comfort by his presence and in his chaps destruction He hath therefore allowed him roome from his trade and habitation by himselfe wherein he neuer resteth but when he is wrapped vp in his owne excrements and wert not that he is in danger of death by too much fasting or too much drinking ye might iudge him to be immortall 55 AN idle braine and wanton eie Breedes in the hart sometime a goose Thats often kept full hungrily Whilst lecherie iugling fast and loose Doth gaine his bushell for each oate That comes into the gozlings throate 56 ENuie and loue together hatcht a beast Or hag of hell it rather seemes to mee That pines if other comes but neere her feast And willingly would euer watching bee Things that are not this enuies bird would see This parricide this errour whelping sprite This Sibill false seldome diuining right 57 THere is a thing some call it sport That yong and olde and all will prooue Tis musicke in a kind consort On tuned instruments of loue The fashion something bagpipe like With poke and pipe the minstrels plaie And if the bommes iust measure strike Tis pastime for a wedding day Maides that to this their mindes applie For Lute and harpe care not a flie 58 A Tree a beast an angell all in one Liues and hath rule ouer both beast and tree That oft is after goatishnesse so gone That there is no beast beastlier than hee Bridle the beast monster mishapen thing Least tree beast angell to the deuill fling 59 TO th'earth from highest heauen Foure virgins were descended Sent downe from him that vnto men All goodnesse hath intended And here they staide a while And many things amended But they were forced backe by those That should haue them defended Since then the golden age The happie daies were ended And vice hath raigned most in them That vertue most pretended 60 IN a towne where the Praetor is wise the Counsell wittie is a slouenly citizen to whom many are so indebted that they haue much to doe to pay for the forbearance and no man can get a generall quietus est at his hand till he be dead which yet is longed for of very few For both the principall agents in the corporation receiue maintenance from him and the Maioresse with the other good wiues doe so fansie him and the fore man of his shop Bawdie Brian that there is many times much misgouernance thereby in the whole towne notwithstanding any edict proclamation or reclamation that the magistrate can make FINIS The solutions IT importeth that all things are contained in some place and that hell it selfe must needes be locall A variation of the first riddle So that here is not meant any thing of the citie Rome But onely roome or place viz. the hollow capacitie of one bodie conteining or comprehending another It may perhaps be vnderstood of the winde but rightlier I thinke of that which we call vacuitie or emptinesse Which is a name and none essence For the penetrant subtilitie of aire suffereth nothing to be emptie as say the philosophers Mercurie is fained to be god of merchandizing which is the trade that beautifieth the glorious citie of Venice Neptune inuironeth her and her Duke is seruile or of very small authoritie For the maiestie and supreme commandement is in the senate and magnificoes The high way wheresoeuer it go eateth vp the vesture of the earth It was not created at the first but is rather a priuation then a thing made And if men were makers of it it was for the more part rather with feete then with hands By the Tyrants are meant vse and necessitie great rulers in the life of man The soueraigne and dread prince of princes hath the great earth a little forrest of his pleasure The fiue partes of it are the fiue Zones or otherwise the fiue great continents Asia Africa Europa America and Magellanica The keeper is the Sunne his wife or sister the Moone that bringeth alwaies with her light and moisture The footeman is the planet Mercurie the Smithes wife Venus They crosse the Zodiacke continually attending on the Sunne The Phoenix is our yeere which beginneth when Sol entreth into Aries and endeth when he goeth out of Pisces It is meant by the faire Ladie Tellus which conceiueth in her wombe the resplendent mettals of golde and siluer the vnwoorthie burnished regents of the earth The earth that beares vs shall deuoure vs. And of chalke which is accounted adeps terrae the fatnesse of the earth mixed with sand the leanest earth is made morter for buildings to defend vs against all winde and weather A description of a student sitting at his booke in a greene chaire wherein he leand and lolled till it cracked A description of the indomable wilde sea whose waues are her wrincles she is as wanton as any Westminster wagtaile and for the bodie as perilous The lasse is the vine a true louer of the Sunne for whome she mourneth when he is run far southward Her iuice hath compelled many to reueale their owne secrets and not a few to lay open their owne shame Christ called himselfe the vine Stamped coyne is ruled and it cureth also what diseases it cureth and what great things it perswadeth the world knoweth but too well It containeth a kinde of chronologie It may well be vnderstood by cardplay In the spring time a yoong damsell putteth in her bosome the egs of a silke worme which being disclosed the yoong worme ere it be long will fall to his naturall taske till he hath inclosed himselfe in his huske From which when he is broken out he ioineth with the female for preseruation of his kinde and then voluntarily dieth There is a bird called in Italian Perdigiornata the daywaster of this qualitie And some men are of the like that let go all small offers to expect better imployments Swine saith Plutarch to whome nature hath not giuen a looke vp to the skies are the most crying beasts in the world euer grunting and complaining But tie them by the heeles and carrie them on a staffe whither ye will so long as they see the cloudes they are quiet and silent And if men could learne to leaue wrooting in the earth and place their cogitations in heauen their tranquillitie should be the greater But men hunt after felicitie preposterously with too much circuition for it is best sought at home in a quiet soule and cleane conscience The infatigable earth beareth hempe which is brought to diuers trades mysteries formes and fashions There of is made linnen cloth for sheetes shirts and smocks And if they go not neerer my Ladies taile then my