Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	little_a	sea_n	see_v	1,312	5	3.4874	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18949	The rape of Proserpine. Translated out of Claudian in Latine, into English verse: by Leonard Digges, Gent; De raptu Proserpinae. English	Claudianus, Claudius.; Digges, Leonard, 1588-1635.	1617 (1617)	STC 5367; ESTC S108051	32,436	78

grasse with wanton tread Nor horned Moones yet peepe from curled head The lowing Damme that it by chance doth misse Finding doth giue it many a licking kisse The Virgin faire was growne now ripe and neare To Hymens rites a chaste and shamefast feare Breeds in her brest new flames now she desires One while to marrie then againe loues fires Despitefully she quencheth thus her mind Eu'n in a moment makes her curst and kinde To loue and not to like which mysterie Is caus'd by feare that beares the mastery Ouer her will her will that oft doth call Her passions vp but feare straight layes them all Now store of suters throng and each 'gins ply Old Ceres for her daughter cunningly Two great Competitors with equall strife Contend to haue the louely Mayd to wife Mars with his shield Apollo with his bowe And shafts their greatnesses alike both shewe Both offer a round earnest for their loues Yet neithers suite the yellow Ceres moues Nor though proud Iuno and Latona too Speake for their sonnes and seuerally woo VVould she consent but as a mother kind In her owne thoughts and with fond passion blind Vnwitting future rape her too too deare She sought to hide from those she least might feare And thus descending from Olympus high With her faire Proserpine both secretly At fruitfull Scicile arriue and there The carefull mother in a iealous feare Viewes the rich Island and the Sea that round Doth ring-like compasse and its fertile ground Sprinkle th'vnknowing goddesse straight conceiues The place for purpose fitting and so leaues Her daughter to it's charge thus neither she Nor it soresawe th'ensuiug prodigie Sicilia once the Continent did touch And made a part of Italy till such Was the Seas rage and Nereus swelling pride As did the firme land seuer and diuide He with his subtill art and puissance stout The confines broke and cut those mountaines out Which to the little land did there remaine Contiguous were now parted from the maine He bathes them with his waues yet men may see 'Twixt both the Lands a knowne affinitie The Promontories that are seene from farre Pachinus high and Lilibeum are On which the waues that brauing play let flee Their force and make continuall batterie Pachinus shewes vnto th' Ionian Sea His lofty head the top of Lylibe Lookes to the Libian Coast from whence in vaine The waues driues through his armes which as a reine And bridle serue t' abate and curbe their pride And roaring noyse when Thetis to abide Disdaineth there and from the Thuscane shore Her waues vpon Pelorus beate much more These Promontories three at first the Ile Sicilia now Trinacria did stile In midst of which Aetna of old renowne For burning rockes so high his flaming crowne Lifts that the Promontories which before Did Gyants seeme like Dwarfes his height adore Aetna true witnesse of Briareus His folly and of bold Enceladus The Tombe and bonefire where he liues in death And spits forth fire with brimstone-pois'ning breath The Mountaines load there keeps him prisoner fast That when the weighty burden off to cast He groaning striues and to his vtmost straines To quit his rebell necke from yoke and paines The poore Inhabitants he maketh feare By often shaking lest some Earth-quake there Should roote the Islands vp and so her towrs And walles the violence of Seas deuours This Mountaines top is only to the eye Of mortals subiect so you may descrie The smoke and flames but neuer hath it yet Been trampled on by any humane feet With stately Groues and Trees the lower part Is deckt that ne're were planted there by Art The vpper commonly with misty fogge Staines the Sun-beams and dayes cleere light doth clog With pitchy Clouds which lasting vntill night Ascend the Firmament and dayes cleere light Conuert to darknesse still the flames increase Is nourisht though the mountaines selfe decrease In midst of boiling heate the snow doth fall Vpon the top and neuer melts at all It snowes vpon the Mountaine and that heate Which burneth there albeit ne're so great The snow it ne're offends whose inward cold Condenseth it and if dissolue some should By reason of hot vapors that arise Yet most vpon the top congealed is Or neuer lower falls but that which breeds The greatest admiration and exceeds All common wonder is the noyse within The hollow Cliftes that doth neuer linne It's raging whether caused by the wind That stopt in Aetnas bowels faine would find A passage out and cannot till it breake With speedy motion through some open creake Of the torne rockes till when it rumbles there Or else the greedy Sea whose armes doe teare The Mountaines bosome and the brackish waues Mingling with fires in those hot sulf'rous caues Within and wanting meanes to sally thence Adde matter to the broiling violence And noyse vncertaine whether of the twaine It is but one may be the reason plaine Diuinest Ceres now most confident Of the sure Island to whose charge she lent And left her dearest pledge without all feare Or least suspicion of her danger neere To Phrigia posteth and amaine doth hie To her torne foundresse mother Cybele By sixe fierce Dragons that taile wheeling round With writhed limbes her chariot lift from ground She carri'd is and snatcht into the ayre From whence her speedy flight they swift prepare And breaking through the clouds that giue them way Them leaue behind and posting lead away With giddy gallop the free raines they beare Vpon their lofty crests bemoistned were With foamie froth which on their golden scales They cast and doubly spot their winged sailes One while the middle Region they diuide And soare aloft then suddainly they slide Downe to the earth and slacking of their flight The Chariots golden wheeles they couer white With hoarie dust their Mistris as she goes Her bountie casts and plenteously bestowes O're all the fields the very tract and path Made by her wheeles sufficient plentie hath Of rip'ned eares which as she passeth on Cloath all the fields and wayes they run vpon VVith golden habit Thus behind her quite Aetna she leaues and th'Island out of sight Till looking backe with her presaging eies And moist'ned cheekes the palace she espies VVhere she her daughter left then with fresh teares She doubles her prognosticating feares As doubtfull of the fatall accident And thus the hard mishap would faine preuent By courting the faire Island Dearest Earth Blest Soyle saith she farwell my first last birth I leaue vnto thy charge looke well to her Be thou her guardian safe since I preferre Thee before other places as thy care Shall speed the mindfull Ceres will not spare For thy reward be sure of this before The cruell Spade shall neuer wound thee more Nor rugged Clowne when he thy fields will sowe Shall once with crooked tooth of deluing plow Teare vp thy fruitfull entrailes thou shalt make Glad husbandmen to wonder and forsake The vse of toyling Oxen and sharpe Goad VVhen