Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	abase_v	gardener_n	thief_n	24	3	10.6755	5	false

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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

but thy fault deserueth fauor because thy charity is so great and therefore O mercifull Iesu giue me leaue to excuse whom thou art minded to forgiue Shée thought to haue found thée as shée left thée shée sought thee as shée did last sée thée being so ouercom with sorrow for thy death that shée had neither roome nor respite in her mind for any hope of thy life and being so déeply interred in the griefe of thy buriall that shée could not raise her thoughtes to any conceite of thy resurrection For in the graue where Ioseph buried thy body Mary together with it entombed her soule and so straightly combined it with thy corse that shee could with more ease sunder her soule from her owne bodie that liueth by it then from thy dead bodie with which her loue did bury it for it is more thine and in thée then her owne or in herselfe and therefore in séeking thy bodie she séeketh her owne soule as with the losse of the one shee also lost the other What maruaile then though sence faile when the soule is lost sith the lanterne must néeds be dark when the light is out Restore vnto her therefore her soul that lieth imprisoned in thy body and shée will soone both recouer her sense and discouer her errour For alas it is no errour that procéedeth of any will to erre and it riseth as much of vehemency of affection as of default in faith Regard not y e error of a woman but the loue of a disciple which supplieth in it self what in faith it wanteth O Lord saith she If thou hast carried him hence tell me where thou hast laid him I will take him away O how learned is her ignoraunce and how skilful her errour Shée charged not the Angels with thy remoning nor séemed to mistrust them for carrying thée away as though her loue had taught her that their helpe was néedelesse where the thing remoued was remouer of it selfe Shée did not request them to enfourme her where thou wert laide as if shée had reserued that question for thy selfe to answere But now shée iudgeth thée so likely to be the author of her losse that halfe supposing thée guilty shée sueth a recouery and desireth thée to tell her wher the body is as almost fully perswaded that thou art as priuy to the place as well acquainted with the action So that if shée be not altogether right shée is not very much wrong shée erreth with such aime that shée litle misseth the truth Tell her therefore O Lord what thou hast done with thy selfe sith it is fittest for thy owne spéech to vtter that which was onely possible for thy owne power to performe But O Mary since thou art so desirous to know wher thy Iesus is why doest thou not name him when thou askest for him Thou saidst to the Angels that they had taken away thy Lord and now the second time thou askest for this him Are thy thoughtes so visible as at thy onely presence to be séene or so generall that they possesse all when they are once in thee when thou speakest of him what him doest thou meane or how can a stranger vnderstand thée when thou falkest of thy Lord Hath the worlde no other Lords but thine or is the demanding by no other name but him a sufficient notice for whom thou demandest But such is the nature of thy loue thou iudgest that no other should be intitled a Lord sith the whole worlde is too litle for thy Lordes possession and that those few creatures that are cannot chuse but knowe him sith all the creatures of the world are to fewe to serue him And as his worthies can appay all loues and his only loue content all heartes so thou deemest hym to be so well worthy to bee owner of all thoughtes that no thought in thy conceite can be well bestowed vppon anie other Yet thy speeches seeme more suddaine then sound and more peremptorie then well pondered Why doest thou say so resolutely without anie further circumstance that if this gardiner haue taken him thou wilt take him from him If he had him by right in taking him away thou shouldest do him wrong If thou supposest hee wrongfully took him thou laiest theft to his charge and howsoeuer it be thou either condemnest thyselfe for an vsurper or him for a theese And is this an effect of thy zelous loue first to abase him from a God to a Gardiner and now to degrade him from a Gardiner to a theese Thou shouldest also haue considered whether he tooke him vpon loue or malice If it were for loue thou maiest assure thy selfe that he wil be as wary to keepe as hee was ventrous to get him and therefore thy pollicie was weake in saying thou wouldest take him away before thou knewest where he was sith none is so simple to bewray their treasure to a known théefe If he tooke him of malice thy offer to recouer him is an open defiance sith malice is as obstinate in defending as violent in offering wrong and he that woulde be cruell against thy maisters dead body is likely to be more furious against his liuing disciple But thy loue had no leysure to cast so many doubts Thy teares were interpreters of thy words and thy innocent meaning was written in thy dolefull countenance Thy eyes were rather pleaders for pity then Heralds of wrath and thy whole person presented such a paterne of thy extreame anguish that no man from thy presence could take in anie other impression And therefore what thy wordes wanted thy action supplied and what his eare might mistake his eye did vnderstand It may be also that hee wrought in thy heart that was concealed from thy sight and happily his voyce and demeanor did import such compassion of thy case that hee seemed as willing to affoord as thou desirous to haue his helpe And so presuming by his behauiour that thy sute should not suffer repulse the tenour of thy request doth but argue thy hope of a grant But what is the reason that in all thy speeches which since the misse of thy maister thou hast vttered where they haue put him is alwaies apart So thou saydst to the Apostles the same to the Angels and nowe thou doest repeat it to this supposeo gardiner verie sweete must this word be in thy hart that is so often in thy mouth and it would neuer be so readie in thy tongue if it were not verie freshe in thy memorie But what maruell though it fast so swéete that was first seasoned in thy maisters mouth which as it was the treasurie of trueth the fountaine of life and the onely quire of the moste perfect harmonie so whatsoeuer it deliuered thy eare deuoured and thy heart locked vp And nowe that thou wantest himselfe thou hast no other comfort but his wordes which thou déemest so much the more effectuall to perswade in that they tooke their force from so heauenly a speaker His