Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	beauty_n	heart_n	see_v	2,957	5	3.2630	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93284	Rare verities. The cabinet of Venus unlocked, and her secrets laid open. : Being a translation of part of Sinibaldus, his Geneanthropeia, and a collection of some things out of other Latin authors, never before in English.; Geneanthropeiae. Selections. English	Sinibaldi, Giovanni Benedetto, 1594-1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing S3863; ESTC R184190	34,716	116

were either Whores Bawds Panders c. by which means he converted his royal Palace into a most filthy brothel-house Doubtless there is scarce a whoredome or adultery committed wherein this sluggish vice hath not a predominant hand You may be resolved of the Poet why Aegisthus fell adulterately in love with Clitemnestra both of which being steep'd in ease and rest and she being a lusty Lady taking likewise with impatience the absence of her husband such secret familiarity sprung up between them that at last it turned into flat adultery Aegisthus did fair Clitemnestra wo Being idle he had nothing else to do Those yet have been cried up through the whole world for their prowess and valour have by a little giving their minds to rest been miserably infested with this lustful vice Achilles had no sooner rested himself from slaying the Trojans but he was ready to embrace his love if you will believe Ovid as he expresseth it in these termes He unarm'd his head To tumble with his love in a down bed Those war-like hands that did but late embrew Themselves in bloud of Trojans whom they slew Were now imployed to tickle touch and feel And shake a lance that had no point of steel It should seem by this that amorous encounters is a petty kind of war or at least a duel if I may terme it so improperly otherwise Mars the God of war would have never loved it so well Here Ovid relates his being in love with Venus The God of war doth in his brow discover The perfect and true pattern of a lover Nor could the Goddess Venus be so cruel Mars to deny such kindness is a jewel The Sun both sees and blabs the sight forthwith In all great haste he speeds to tell the Smith Oh Sun what bad example doest thou show What thou in secret seest must all men know For silence sake ask bribes from her fair treasure She 'll grant thee that shall make thee swell with pleasure The Smith whose face is smok'd with smut and fire Placeth about the bed a net of wire The lovers met where he that train hath set And both are catch'd within that wiry net He calls the Gods the lovers naked spraul And cannot rise the Queen of Love shews all Mars chafes and Venus weeps Moreover Phlegmatick and Melancholy men as it is confest are not easily induced to love yet when once they are so they love most vehemently Another thing that doth invite or rather charm men to love is Musick As without breath no pipe doth move No musick kindly without love To be sure they have little else to do then to behave themselves as servants befitting Venus that spend most of their most precious time in reading Romances and such like amorous and fictitious stories Concerning those things that increase love A Morous desies are rekindled by the sight and remembrance of the object beloved Tu nisi vitaris quicquid revocabit amorem Flamma redardescet quae modo nulla fuit Or as one of our English-men hath it Fair beauty is the spark of hot desire And sparks in time will kindle to a fire Philosophers are of opinion that we are nourished of that of which we are Love hath its original from the eyes and from thence by consequence it must have its increment and aliment Love though blind by often meeting and seeing the person beloved observes some new pleasing charme which it observed not before which keeps up its heart from sinking into despair and which forceth him to use importunity and opportunity that he may at last crown his desires Do but persist that suit thou hast begun In time will chaste Penelopy be won Oft what she most denies she most desires In frosty woods are hid the hottest fires Onely begin to reap what thou hast sown A million to a mite she is thy own Whether Love may be cured by medicaments ALthough there be many things that will blunt the edge of lust yet when love is a chast passion being of a long time rooted in the heart it s not easily to be supplanted but by death or the object possessed or enjoyed Apollo that by vertual heat Did virdant plants and herbs create Yet found no herb or plant to be A medicine for loves malady Concerning Love-potions or Philters ALbertus Magnus and Plinie relate several things conducing to this Philter though for the most part vaine and feigned Former times joyned to ours will afford variety of examples of such men as by these potions have so perverted female fancies as in an instant they have caused them to love those which a little before they hated At Brixia there is a monument which makes mention of a woman that used this art with this inscription D. M. Qui me volent Valete matronae matresque Familiâs vixi ultra Vitam nihil credidi Me Veneri alumnae addixi Quos potui pellexi philtro Et astu viro humato Non vidua fui c. It s reported that Charles the Great King of France was by this means charmed to affect a woman of a mean beauty and had he not been miraculously admonished by an Angel what to do he had been for ever undone The thing effecting this is small if you consider its external quality as being nothing but a little stone fastned to the womans gums but it seems its internal vertue was such that it made him lay aside and almost wholly forget the affairs of his kingdome that thereby he might have the more freedom and occasion to be continually imbracing this strumpet At last a Priest of this Kings was admonished by an Angel to kill this woman to free his Majesty from such a pernicious malady which accordingly was done yet the King still loved the dead and almost stinking carcase till the second time the Angel appeared and told him he should remove the stone out of her mouth which was no sooner done but the King then as much detested her as before he loved her There is no question but Philters may be made but the danger the composing and administring them will bring may be a sufficient ground to hinder any from making them Whether females may change their Sex HIstories are full of such accidents Ausonius saith Venus Epheborum virgo repente fuit Hippocrates Marcellus Donatus with many other learned Physicians can sufficiently furnish you with many examples of such catastrophe's Michael Montanus attests that in his time a maid by a violent jump was changed into a man her Clytoris issuing forth Fulgosius writes of a maid of fifteen years of age being married the first night her husband lay with her was thus changed whether it was by reason of her too much motion in the venereal act or the fervent heat of those parts I cannot tell but probably it might happen by an extraordinary dilatation of the Clytoris by much hoat and thereby being provok'd and by reason of its swelling on every side not able to contain

yours hath not so much as a black patch or any discoverable inequality In the interim what others discover must go under the usual apology of humanity and clemency there is not in any singular a prerogative of infallibility That in most things there are both superfluous additions and substantial deficiencies this paper of mine which haste must excuse wil bear sufficient demonstration And really I think that deception and misapprehension are become so universal and epidemical that there is hardly a book but that may have for its prologue a catalogue of Errata and for its Epilogue a Caetera desiderantur Concerning the Name of VENUS THe Poets feign the Original of this Goddess to arise from the seed and testicles of Saturne cast into the Sea whence the name in Greek is ἀφροδίτη although others would have Venus to be derived from the Latin word viere to bind thereby intimating its usual effects by inslaving and captivating mens bodies and minds It would not be improper to deduce her name from ἀφροσύνη since that pourtraies her nature By reason she excell'd all in her excessive appetite after pleasure and delight in lust she is held of old to be the patroness or Goddess of Love And hence by reason her adorers found such delighting ease in worshipping her she soon acquired a vast number of vassals and subjects so that now she is become the most powerful among the Goddesses Above all others that worshipped this light Goddess there was a Cynique sect of Philosophers that without either shame or blushing did openly ofter up their chastities to her shrine At Corinth she had a Temple consecrated to her name unto which did daily flock a number of young men and maids at whose altar they willingly did sacrifice as a pleasing offering unspotted virginities Boemus Aubanus makes mention of a Countrey whose inhabitants are all Adamites or those which went naked These people have very often set meetings where a number of both sexes meeting together every man takes her that likes him best to satisfie his lust according to the Poet And then upon these well known sweets they ventred Where many an oft sack'd for t was scal'd and entred Art they had none no man there plaid the suitor Each man link'd to his own without a tutor Let thus much suffice for the name of Venus which you may take throughout this discourse for nothing else then a mutual copulation or lust the substance of which being an unbridled force and scum of a luxurious nature What is Copulation LEt us now pass from the name to the knowledge of the thing it self and although there is none so ignorant but knows somewhat of it yet a word or two may not be amiss to make it appear more perspicuous It s thus then Copulation is a conjunction of male and female by fitness of instruments with an ejection of seed to beget their likeness It s a conjunction because its act cannot be done at a distance of male and female because in every operation of nature there is required an active and passive faculty by apt instruments is meant male and female genitals which are required to be fit and proper and not as some vainly suppose that creatures may ingender by conjoyning mouth to mouth or eyes to eyes c. or unnaturally one male with another for that is not by apt instruments Lastly with the effusion of seed c. which is the complement of venereal action and without which conception and generation can no way be effected In this consists the whole pleasure and delight of lovers this is that which luls nay almost stupifies their mutual senses Wherefore take Ovids counsel if you please Flie not then maids your tickling pleasures when They are desir'd of you by loving men Tell me what lose you by it of your store You nothing lose but rather still get more Tast then a thousand sweets be not afraid You keep your own and nothing is decay'd Stones are by use made soft irons wore to dross That never wears and therefore finds no loss What is Venereal love THere are of this love two sorts the one contemplative or Platonick the other active or Socratical the first contents it self solely with seeing the object beloved the other is inflamed the more by it and can no wayes be satisfied but by the carnal injoyment of its beloved This is that which is termed lust Seneca's definition of it is a forgetting of reason to this you may add it s an enemy to the purse a foe to the person a canker to the mind a corrasive to the conscience a weakner of the wit a besotter of the senses and finally an enemy to the whole body Another saith Love is I know not what born I know not where it came I know not from whence and inflamed I know not how Love is a blinded fool an angry boy He 's neither God nor man a witless toy He 's any thing yet 's nothing that is just A private hell a raging sea of lust Through what part is love at first received in THe receptacle and habitation of Love is the eye that is the first thing we perceive in the face Venus her eyes do deeper wound mens hearts Then Cupid can with all his bows and darts Love wounding through the eye of a lover easily laieth open a passage to penetrate the heart Cardanus is of opinion that those are not easily affectionate but are flowly inthral'd by love that have their eyes quick and piercing For there is no beauty so perfect in which a curious sharp eye may not find some defect In a word it s the eye which is all in all to a lover It s his sentinel to perceive all things for his advantage nay it even penetrates the thoughts it s his legate and silent orator to discover when by either fear or her presence he is struck mute thereby the inward motions of his or her amorous heart Who are they which are most apt to be in love ONe calls love a passion of an idle soul In idle breasts Love takes its rests Let labour be thy sauce and excercise thy fire Then will loves flames with its effects retire Sloth and idleness being it is said to be the pillow of the Devil therefore it must needs be the fountain of most vices but especially of lustful desires How in an instant was valiant Hercules metamorphosed by it into effeminate Venus By giving way to idleness he soon laid aside his Lions skin and his mortiferous club and betook himself to soft wantonness and effeminacy he quickly changed his masculine habit and invested himself with feminine apparel that thereby he might insinuate himself and more easily enjoy Queen Omphale Sardanapalus fell into the self same errour as Hercules did by not banishing idleness from him For divesting himself of that sublimity and excellency which accompanies Majesty and sequestring his person from his martial Nobility he made these solely his companions which