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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	crow_n	eye_n	owl_n	48	3	16.0030	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90256	Ovid's Invective or curse against Ibis, faithfully and familiarly translated into English verse. And the histories therein contained, being in number two hundred and fifty (at the least) briefly explained, one by one; with natural, moral, poetical, political, mathematical, and some few theological applications. Whereunto is prefixed a double index: one of the proper names herein mentioned; another of the common heads from thence deduced. Both pleasant and profitable for each sort, sex and age, and very useful for grammar schools. / By John Jones M.A. teacher of a private school in the city of Hereford.; Ibis. English	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Jones, John, M.A.	1658 (1658)	Wing O678; Thomason E1657_2; ESTC R208994	89,564	191

Tamar 2 Sam. 13. 2 God will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children of them that hate him yet not unless the children hate him as their fathers did Why then should unmerciful murdering man punish a guiltless infant for the guilty parents sin As Aeolus did the child of his daughter Canace If thou hast daughter may she prove to thee As Pelope Myrrha and Nyctimene 1. Pelope daughter of Thyestes lay with her own father the child by them begotten as soon as it was born was cast into the woods to be devoured of beasts a shepherd finds it and doth nurse it with Goats milk whence he is called Aegysthus 1 Lot cannot so properly be said to lie with his own daughters as they with him for he knew not when they lay down or when they rose up Neither can his drunkenness mitigate but aggravate the sin When bloud toucheth bloud in this kind it is abominable out of kind From such bloud-guiltiness and bloud-thirstiness good Lord deliver us 2. Myrrha daughter of Cynaras King of Cipria by the means of the old witch her nurse lay with her own father being drunk the child begot was Adonis the father discovering his daughter furiously pursued her she fled to Arabia there fearing to die and not desirous to live she is turned into a tree of her own name 1 Bodin observeth that there is an hundred women Witches for one man Witch as more easily seduced by the Devil in regard of their Melancholy and Envy Non audet Stygius Pluto tentare quod audet Effraenis Monachus plenaque fraudis anus Not Stygian Pluto ever durst pursue What a bold Monk or cozening Hag durst do 2 Where Bacchus is Porter Venus seldome fails of entrance Prodigal cups besot the understanding drunkenness confounds the Memory and so bemists the eye that things appear not the same as they are 3. Nyctimene daughter of Nycteus by the help of her Nurse enjoyed her fathers bed after she living in woods was turned by Pallas into an Owle 1 Ugly was the shape of Nyct●mene being now an Owl but more ugly her crime of filthy incest She is wondered at like a prodigie in nature driven from the society of others ashamed of her self and stalking in the dark when virtue though unfortunate shuns not the light being a reward and praise to it self 2 The Crow and the Owle express two deadly enemies the Crow breaking the eggs of the Owl by day Mr Sandys Met. and the Owl the eggs of the Crow by night The Owl is the hieroglyphick of death and the Crow of long life The Owl was sacred to Minerva and therefore Homer cals her Glaucopis either for her gray eyes for that coloured eye hath acutest sight or from her faculty of watching and musing the mind in silent night being more recollected and vigorous or because the Athenians had many Owls or that they stamped their Coyn with that figure And no more faithful to her fathers hair 360. Then Pterela's or Nisus daughters were 1. Clitvetho whom Servius calleth Polidice knowing all her fathers secrets being much taken with the beauty of Amphitrio an enemy in hope to obtain his love cut off her father Pterela King of Thebes his golden hair which as long as he kept Neptune promised he should never be conquered This hair she gave Amphitrio who afterward killed her father and rejected her 1 Dionysius that would not trust his daughters to cut his hair but taught them to singe it off with burning shells of Wall-nuts was more prudent then Pterela or Sampson that discovered to his concubine the lock wherein his strength did lie 2 Affection breaketh the strongest tie of relation as we find in Polidice Omnia vincit amor 3 Let not thine enemy know one of thy secrets let thy friend know some let not thy child no not thy wife know all Hezechias disclosing his treasure lost it Isa 39. 2. Scylla daughter of Nysus King of Megara cut off her fathers purple hair and gave it Minos then besieging Megara whose destiny lay in that hair and so betrayed her father and city 1 Vespasians head without hair did more handsomly become a Crown then Absalons hair without a head 2 Torte●ing is that kingdome whose fate depends like Damocles sword upon an hair Unless the supreme head of the Mystical body do govern the politick the power of an arme of flesh is not worth an hair 3 Happy are true believers for the very hairs of their head be numbred Though we are but as small hairs no principalities nor power of earth or hell can pluck away or separate us from Christ our head Or she whose bloudy act defam'd the place That rid in charet o're her fathers face Tullia daughter of Servius the sixth King of the Romans wife to Tarquinius Superbus to congratulate her husband being new made King commanded her Coach to be driven over her dead fathers face then killed by Tarquin 1 Ambition tramples Natural and Civil Fathers under foot making such opportunities a stirrop to mount into a throne swimming through Aceldama to a Crown But such puffed bladders when they are swollen to the fullest one prick will empty them of all their windy honour Perish like those young men whose dismal fate Was limbs and head to hang on Pisa 's gate Oenomaus King of Pisa ordained that whosoever conquered him Nat. Com. by running with horses in a Charet should marry his daughter Hippodamia and that the conquered should die Thirteen were overcome and put to death and for terrour were hanged on the gate of Pisa At last Pelops won the race by the help of Myrtilus the Coachman who for a bribe omitted to put the pin into the Axle-tree so the King fell to the ground and his daughter and the kingdome fell to Pelops 1 Our life is a race our Antagonists worldly pleasures and carnal affections which are like furious horses 2 Thirteen are conquered onely one doth conquer Many are called few chosen and few there be that shall be saved he that conquers shall gaine the glory of victory and the crown of glory So run therefore that ye may obtain But the race is not to him that runneth call for the help of God he will weaken your adversary and make you more then conquerours 365. Or he that coloured with his own that land Which with the poor woers bloud he first had stain'd That cruel Oenomaus Natal Com. after he had hanged up the heads of so many at last broke his own neck 1 The pitcher that comes too often to the water in the end is cracked Neque enim lex justior ulla est Quàm necis artifices arte perire suâ Nor any juster law find I Then death-inventors by their art to die So Oenomaus by his own invention was destroyed 2 Fate can and will effect its end without any assistance against all resistance yet commonly it worketh not alone Dallington Aph. but is attended with second and