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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	great_a	see_v	world_n	7,593	5	4.4143	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12628	Marie Magdalens funeral teares	Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.	1591 (1591)	STC 22950; ESTC S111081	49,543	152

thy selfe with these cares His father knoweth and hée will helpe him The Angels know and they wil gard him His own soule knoweth and that will asist him And what néede then is there that thou séely woman shouldst know it that canst no way profite him But I féele in what vain thy pulse beateth and by thy desire I discouer thy disease Though both heauen and earth did know it and the whole world had notice of it yet except thou also wert made priuy vnto it thy woes would be as great thy teares as many That others sée thy Sunne doth not lighten thy darkenesse neither can others eating satisfie thy hunger The more there be that know of him the greater is thy sorrow that among so many thou art not thought worthy to be one And the more there bée that may help him the more it gréeueth thée that thy poore helpe is not accepted among them Though thy knowledge needeth not thy loue doth desire it and though it auaile not thy desire will séeke it If all know it thou wouldest know it with all if no other thou wouldest know it alone and from whom soeuer it be concealed it must be no secret to thée Though the knowledge would discomfort thée yet know it thou wilt yea though it would kill thée thou couldest not forbeare it Thy Lord to thy loue is like drink to the thirsty which if they cannot haue they die for drouht and béeing long without it they pine away with longing And as men in extremity of thirst are still dreaming of fountaines brookes and springs being neuer able to haue other thought or to vtter other word but of drink and moisture so louers in the vehemency of their passion can neither thinke nor speake but of that they loue and if that be once missing euery part is both an eie to watch and an eare to listen what hope or newes may be had of it If it be good they die till they hear it though bad yet they cannot liue without it Of the good they hope that it is the verye best and of the euill they feare it to be the worst and yet though neuer so good they pine til it be told and be it neuer so euil they are importunate to know it And when they once know it they can neither beare the ioy nor brook the sorrow but as well the one as the other is inough to kill them And this O Mary I ghesse to be the cause why the Angels would not tell thee thy Lords estate For if it had béen to thy liking thou wouldest haue died for ioy if otherwise thou wouldst haue suncke downe for sorrow And therefore they leaue this newes for him to deliuer whose word if it giue thée a woūd is also a salue to cure it though neuer so deadly But alas afflicted soule why doth it so déepely grieue thée that thou knowest not where he is Thou canst not better him if he be well thou canst as little succour him if he be ill and sith thou fearest that he is rather ill then well why wouldest thou knowe it so to end thy hopes in mishappe and thy great feares in farre greater sorrows Alas to aske thée why is in a manner to aske one halfe starued why he is hungry For as thy Lord is the foode of thy thoughts the relief of thy wishes the onely repast of all thy desires so is thy loue a continuall hunger and his absence vnto thée an extream famine And therefore no maruail though thou art so gréedy to heare yea to deuour any be it neuer so bitter notice of him sith thy hūger is most violent and nothing but he able to content it And albeit the hearing of his harmes should work the same in thy minde that vnwholesome meat worketh in a sicke stomacke yet if it once concerne him that thou louest thy hungry loue could not temper it selfe from it though after with many wringing gripes it did a long and vnplesaunt penance But why doth thy sorrow quest so much vppon the place where hée is were it not inough for thée to knowe who had him but that thou must also know in what place he is bestowed A worse place then a graue no man will offer and many farre better titles wil allowe and therefore thou maist boldly thinke that where so euer he be he is in a place fitter for him then where he was Thy sister Martha confessed him to be the Sonne of God and with her confession agreed thy beleef And what place more conuenient for the Sonne then to be with his Father the businesse for which he hath béene so long from him being now fully finished If he be the Messias as thou diddest once beléeue it was said of him That he should ascend on high and leade our captiuity captiue And what is this height but heauen what our captiuity but death Death therefore is become his captiue and it is like that with the spoiles thereof he is ascended in triumphe to eternall life But if thou canst not lift thy mind to so fauourable a beléefe yet maist thou very well suppose that he is in Paradise For if he came to repaire Adams ruines and to be the common parent of our redemption as Adam was of our originall infection reason seemeth to require that hauing endured al his life the penalty of Adams exile he should after death reenter possession of that inheritance which Adam lost that the same place that was the nest where sinne was first hatched may be now the child-bed of grace and mercy And if sorrow at the crosse did not make thée as deafe as at the tomb it maketh thée forgetfull thou diddest in confirmation hereof heare him selfe say to one of the théeues that the same day he shuld be with him in Paradise And if it bee reason that no shadow should be more priuiledged then the body no figure in more account then the figured truth why shouldest thou beléeue that Elias and Enoch haue bin in Paradise these many ages and that he whom they but as tipes resembled should be excluded from thence He excelled them in life he surpassed them in miracles he was farre beyond them in dignity Why then should not his place be farre aboue or at the least equall with theirs sith their prerogatiues were so farre inferiour vnto his And yet if the basenesse and misery of his passion haue laid him so low in thy conceite that thou thinkest Paradise too high a place to be likely to haue him the very lowest roome that anye reason can assigne him can not bée meaner then the bosome of Abraham and sith God in his life did so often acknowledge him for his Sonne it seemeth the slendrest preheminence that he can giue him aboue other men that being his holy one hee should not in his body see corruption but be frée among the dead reposing both in body and soule where other Saints are in soule onely Let not therefore the

disperpling the cloudes of melancholie cured the letargie and breaketh the dead sleep of her astonied senses Shée therefore rauished with his voice and impatient of delaies taketh his talke out of his mouth and to his first and yet onely worde aunswered but one other calling him Rabboni that is Maister And then sodaine ioy rowsing all other passions shée coulde no more procéed in her own then giue him leaue to goe fore ward with his spéech Loue would haue spoken but feare enforced silence Hope frameth the words but doubt melteth them in the passage and whē her inward conceits striued to come out her voice trembled her tongue faltered her breath failed In fine teares issued in liew of words and déep sighes in stead of long sentēces the eie supplying the mouths default and the heart pressing out the vnsillabled breath at once which the conflict of her disagréeing passions would not suffer to be sorted into the seuerall soundes of intelligible speeches For such is there estate that are sicke with a surfet of sodaine ioy for the attaining of a thing vehementlye desired For as desire is euer vshered by hope and waited on by feare so is it credulous in entertaining coniectures but hard in grounding a firme beliefe And though it be apt to admitte the least shadow of wished comfort yet the hotter the desire is to haue it the more perfect assurance it requireth for it which so long as it wanteth the first newes or apparaunce of that which is in request is rather an Alarum to summon vp all passions then a retraite to quiet the desire For as hope presumeth the best and inuiteth ioy to gratulate the good successe so feare suspecteth it too good to be true calleth vp sorrowe to bewaile the vncertainety And while these enterchange obiections and answeres somtimes feare falleth into despaire and hope riseth into repining anger and thus the skirmishe still continueth till euidence of proofe conclude the controuersie Mary therefore though shée sodainly aunswered vpon notice of his voice yet because the nouelty was so strāge his person so chaunged his presence so vnerpected and so many miracles laid at once before her amazed eies shée found a sedition in her thoughts till more earnest vewing him erempted them from all doubt And then though wordes woulde haue broken out and her hart sent into his the dueties that shée ought him yet euery thought striuing to be first vttered and to haue the first roome in his gracious hearing shée was forced as an indifferent arbitrer among thē to seal them vp al vnder silence by suppressing spéech and to supplye the want of words with more significant actions And therefore running to the haunt of her chiefest delights and falling at his sacred feete shée offered to bath them with teares of ioye and to sanctifie her lippes with kissing his once grieuons but now most glorious wounds She staied not for any more words being now made blessed with the word himselfe thinking it a greater benefite at once to féede al her wishes in the homage honour and embracing of his féet then in the often hearing of his lesse comfortable talke For as the nature of loue coueteth not onely to be vnited but if it were possible wholly transfourmed out of it selfe into the thing it loueth So doth it most affect that which most vniteth and preferreth the least coniunction before any distant contentment And therefore to sée him did not suffiss her to heare him did not quiet her to speak with him was not inough for her and except shée might touch him nothing could please her But though she humbly fell down at his féete to kisse them yet Christ did forbidde her saying Do not touch me for I am not yet ascended to my Father O Iesu what mistery is in this Being dead in sinne shée touched thy mortall féete that were to die for her sake being now aliue in grace may shée not touch thy glorious féete that are no lesse for her benefite reuiued Shée was once admitted to annointe thy head and is shée now vnworthy of accesse to thy féete Doest thou nowe commaund her frō that for which thou wert wont to commend her and by praising the déede diddest moue her often to doe it Sith other women shall touch thée why hath shée a repulse yea sith shée her selfe shall touch thée hereafter why is shée now reiected what meanest thou O Lord by thus debarring her of so desired a duty and sith among al thy disciples thou hast vouchsafed her with such a prerogatiue as to honour her eies with thy first sight and her eares with thy first wordes why deniest thou the priuiledge of thy first embracing If the multitude of her tears haue wonne that fauour for her eies and her longing to heare thée so great a recompence to her eares why doest thou not admitte her handes to touch and her mouth to kisse thy holye féete sith the one with many plaintes and the other with their readinesse to all seruices seeme to haue earned no lesse reward But notwithstanding all this thou preuentest the effect of her offer with for bidding her to touch thee as if thou haddest said O Mary know the difference betwéene a glorious and a mortall body betwéene the condition of a momentary and of an eternall life For sith the immortality of the body and the glory both of body and soule are the endowments of an heauenly inhabitant and the rights of an other world think not this fauour to se me here ordinary nor leaue to touch me a common thing It were not so great a wonder to sée the starres fall from their Sphers and the Sunne forsake heauen and to come within the reach of a mortall arme as for me that am not only a cittizen but the soueraign of saints and the sunne whose beames are the Angels blisse to shew my self visible to the pilgrims of this world and to display eternall beauties to corruptible eies Though I be not yet ascended to my father I shall shortly ascend and therfore measure not thy demeanour towardes me by the place where I am but by that which is due vnto me And then thou wilt rather with reuerence fall down a farre off then with such familiarity presume to touch me Doest thou not beléeue my former promises hast thou not a constant proofe by my present wordes are not thy eies and eares sufficient testimonies but that thou must also haue thy handes face witnesses of my presence Touch me not O Mary for if I doe deceiue thy sight or delude thy hearing I can as easely beguile thy hand and frustrat thy féeling Or if I be true in any one beléeue me in all and embrace me first in a firme faith and then thou shalt touch me with more worthy hands It is now necessary to weane thée from the comfort of my externall presence that thou maist learne to lodge mee in the secretes of thy heart and teach thy thoughts to