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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	charity_n	faith_n	grace_n	3,616	5	5.8698	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03415	Tvvo bookes of epigrammes, and epitaphs Dedicated to two top-branches of gentry: Sir Charles Shirley, Baronet, and William Davenport, Esquire. Written by Thomas Bancroft.	Bancroft, Thomas, fl. 1633-1658.	1639 (1639)	STC 1354; ESTC S100668	41,519	86

dy'd Was not this Mammons voyce that did provide To entertaine that Guest what thinke ye friends If so then worldlings hasten to such ends Through Bills and Bonds that at your wisht repaire You with your golden god may richly share Where your intreasur'd hearts may nere be cold For feare of want but swimme in molten gold 229. A tryall of right Women and Metalls by their sounds we know If not by touch-stones whether right or no. 230. To the same Thou rayl'st at Rome and dost her friends oppose Yet bear'st her Badge in chiefe a Roman Nose 232. Of carnall pleasure The strongest shaft which to the metall'd head The Devill drawes each loving heart to slay Is that fond pleasure which in lazybed Slips from the string of Lust and hastes away 233. To Francis Quarles My Muse did purpose with a pious strife To have trac'd out my sinlesse Saviours life But thou hadst lanch'd into the Maine I heare Before my Barke was rigg'd which shall forbeare To interrupt so prais'd an enterprize 'Bout which with Quarles no quarrells shall arise Ply then thy steereage while deficient gales My wishes still supply and swell thy sailes 234. To the Honourable Matron the Lady GRACE CAVENDISH Faire Vertues which in single hearts take place Are in a double sense the gifts of Grace 235. An Epitaph on Mistris Anne Port. Here lyes a creature to be most admir'd So good and yet a woman who aspir'd To summe all vertues up before her yeares And scale by such ascents the heavenly Spheares VVhereon she sits comparing with the Sunne The Diadem of glory she hath wonne And joying to out-shine him makes the frame Of Heaven resound her mirth as Earth her fame VVhilst we halfe wrack't with losses of this sort Like Sea-men sigh that want their wished Port. 236. To the Lady Maunsfield now the Countesse of New-Castle AN AGRAMME All Fame liveth in Deeds WHile those which nought save fruitlesse titles have Bury their greatnesse in Oblivions grave Your reall worth unto your Name shall give A royall fame that in your deeds shall live 237. To his Muse. No enemy hath done me so much wrong As thou that hast betray'd me with a song To ship-wracke of my fortunes yet such sport Thou dost afford me that I hugge thee for 't And those that most doe envy thee delight To see thee hovering in thine Eagle-flight And proudly pearched on a Meteors backe With Ioves maine Thunder vying crack for crack While Swallow-like Detraction flyes below And chatters For such feates I love thee so That were the choyce propos'd I should refuse Rich India's bosome to embrace my Muse. 238. To the Flower of Youngsters Rose Verney By some fore-knowledge wert thou named Rose Whose fame-blowne Beauty such a tincture showes Of vernall brav'ry as may well compare With Venus Flower that in sweet and faire Dainties excells yet is not without pricks No more art thou Blush Rose I smell thy tricks 239. To Sir Charles Shirley Baronet COuld I but coyne you in my minde you should Be of the right stampe as were all your old Fore-fathers men of merit and renowne Whose meanest puts our moderne Nobles downe Their Houses seem'd as Hospitalls for poore And Charity still waited at their doore As Fame will upon you whilst you aspire To equall their desert and my desire The end of the First Booke The second Booke of Epigrammes 1. To William Davenport Esquire YOur native sweetnesse which you often have Diffus'd to others boldens me to crave Your favour to this weakling worke of mine Whereon if your cleare Iudgment daigne to shine All clouds of envy menacing my Verse I shall despise and with one puffe disperse 2. On Theologicall Vertue Vertue 's a Bridge neare to the Crosse whereby We passe to happinesse beyond the Spheares Whose Arches are Faith Hope and Charity And what 's the water but repentant teares 3. Sinne like a Serpent Sinnes falshood glistereth like the Serpents kind From whence it crept and beares a sting behind 4. On Drunkennesse The youngest of all vices that I know Is Drunkennesse which in the age of Noe First reel'd into the World and thus appeares Like the Red Dragon after thousand yeares Yet sure to Hell this sucking Vice hath spew'd More soules than all that ancient multitude 5. On Devotion Devotion 's like an Eagle making way Through cloudy Meteors when she meanes to pray 6. Gods Bounty No mortall hath seene God few heard him speake Hence is their love so cold their faith so weake Yet all his goodnesse taste which like the shower On Gideons Fleece he on all flesh doth powre 8. On Lazarus in Abrahams Bosome From sorrowes straights wherein we launch our lives In his hopes Haven Lazarus arrives And wonders in how short a flight of time He to that Crowne of happinesse could climbe From Ragges and company of Dogges to sort Himselfe with Princes of that glorious Court There with those armes that on the Altar plac'd Our dying Saviours lively type embrac'd O blissefull change to be incircled so What King would not his Diadem forgoe 9. Mocking's Catching Ieere they that list whose follies are profest With sinnes or swords it is not safe to jest 10. The body and the soule God at one instant did not make the whole Of man but first the Body then the soule And hence the fleshly Rebell for the right Of eldership doth with the Spirit fight 11. Percolation of Waters Sea-waters finding passage through the clay Lose saltnesse as experienc'd Writers say And with a sweeter relish please the sence So than the mournfull teares of penitence Which sinners through their earthen Organs straine No water is more sweete more soveraigne 12. Faith and Love The aire doth first affect us though the fire Be more Celestiall and more high aspire So the first tendrell of straight vertues tree Is Faith but the toppe branch is Charity 13. Of Nature In Heavenly things meere Nature's blind and base And like a meale of fragments without Grace 14. David and Goliah Christ and Sathan Five stones tooke David winning at one throw Goliah's head and our meeke Saviour so Five wounds receiv'd that weapon-like did slay Th' Infernall Gyant and his Host dismay 15. The fall of Angells Some say the downe-cast Angells here and there Alighted as they bodied Creatures were But whether some of them in Aire reside Others in Water or in Earth abide It matters not for howsoere they fell Who loseth God findes every place his Hell 16. Strong encouragement He acts as brave a part as David in Killing Goliah did who conquers sinne At the first onset for that is to wound A Gyants front and force him to the ground 17. Of Mortification Sith Paradise is lost looke not to see God in soft pleasures walkes for surely he That did to Moses in a Bush appeare Loves sharpe compunction and a life austere 18. To penitent Magdalen Mary but late the cage of Hell Thy heavenly change what Muse can tell

Tyrants In the Red Sea sterne Pharaoh dy'd and in Christs blood was drown'd that cursed Tyrant Sinne. 45. Gods Image Likenesse breedes love and therefore God did make Man as his Image that he thence might take A deare occasion in deepe love to fall With his high Lord whose grace surmounts to all 46. Of Divine Precepts How good is God! whos 's every sweete command Doth with the soules and bodies safety stand Whose true and happy preservation lies In antidotes of vertuous exercise But vice is like a worme that Canker sets Into the Bone and harder Conscience frets 47. Of Repentance Put not Repentance off till thou beest old For such Devotion heartlesse growes and cold Nor ere shall that man for a wise one passe That layes much treasure on a tyred Asse 48. On Worldlings Like Gideons troopes which off the Captaine cast For bending Beast-like to the ground to tast The Crystall River is the wretched crew Of Worldlings which with downe-cast mindes pursue Their wretched treasure that like water flowes By course and from them with a murmure goes 49. On the same Rich Worldlings are poore Snakes sustain'd alone With shining dust and downe to basenesse throwne 50. Prosperity perilous King Saul his sonnes and other Chieftaines more Fell under wounds upon Mount Gilboa And when in high prosperity we soare Well may we feare a downfall and decay For honours Bubble swelling ne're so high Breakes with a pricke and out the winde must flye 51. Affliction profitable A fishes Gall blind Tobit cur'd and so Bitter affliction lends us light to know The World and all its fashood that in lieu Of promis'd Roses sticks our breasts with Rue 52. On the same The higher that the Deluge rose More upward did the Arke ascend So in the deepest waves of woe More Heaven-ward our affections tend And sad affliction oft doth prove A beaten path to joyes above 53. Paine before pleasure Vigills and Fasts to joyfull feasts make way And Earths short paines to Heav'ns long Holiday 54. Of Riches Like Sparrowes Dung that seel'd up Tobits sight Is wealth whose love our soules becloudeth quite And with pollution so belimes her wings That heavily she mounts to heavenly things 55. Ioseph in Prisan to Pharaoh's Butler at liberty Whilst we in Prison fettered lay Our loves were fast and thou didst say Thou surely wouldst if ever grac't Againe relieve me but thou hast Let slip thy promise and my paine Though Pharaoh's Cuppe thou holdst againe Thus Royall favours Sunne-shine makes In Dunghill mindes ungratefull snakes Of Libertines in office set And cuppes make men their friends forget 56. On Tobias his Fish The Entrailes of this Fish once laid on fire Caus'd all infernali Spirits to retire So a zeale-burning heart the fiends doth quell And a good liver feares no bugges of Hell 57. The Devills child the Devills lucke Iudas that did the Khapsacke beare Like a false-hearted Souldier The bloody colours did forgoe Of his deare Lord to serve his foe For helish pay yet in the close Had not one crosse to helpe his woes But with his empty bagge by 's side Was hang'd and broke and poorely dy'd 58. On Avarice Greedy Gehazies snow-white Leprosie Fairely resembleth foulest Covetize That makes men lame to workes of Charity And hoares our haires ere age their colour dyes 59. A false World This crooked World is serpentine And poysons doth with pleasures deale Just as the Snake doth brightly shine Yet banefull venome doth concile So one faire fruit deform'd us all Whence all our lives like leaves doe fall 60. Of Religion Religion is a golden chaine to binde With tenne strong linkes all Adams stubborne kinde 61. On Saint Stephen stoned Some men are beaten to this world but here 's One that was battered to the heavenly spheares Whose prayers faster than the stones did fly Vollyed for entrance to the opening sky Nor did poore halfe-dead Isaac more rejoyce To see the Ramme and heare the Angels voyce Than Stephen did to see the Lambe once slaine For our sins guilt with his triumphant traine Well might he joy that was within a small Stones cast of Heaven whence treasured blessings fall 62. Pride and Humility Mountaines their tallnesse loose but vallies grow Higher by ruines on their bosome cast And climbing pride comes tumbling downe below But humble goodnesse will reach Heaven at last 63. Divine Wisedome Moses his reall Serpent had the power Those other made by Magicke to devoure And Gods transcendent wisedome doth containe All others knowledge as a boundlesse maine Which never Creature strove to passe but fell Short in his Voyage lost in darkest Hell 64. Ignorance the Divels foole The Divell in darke ignorance delights And as sterne Nahash once the Gileadites Right eyes required so endeavours he Knowledge to quench and arts dexterity 65. Of Mahomets Religion Like to that thousand-slaying Asses jaw Which Sampson brandisht is the sencelesse Law Of Mahomet which more weake soules hath slaine Than th' Alcaron doth witlesse words containe 66. On Iacobs wrestling Iacob that Esau had supplanted first With confidence well fortify'd now durst Encounter with an Angell and doth beare The blessed prize away though lam'd he were Yet no discomfort could him hence dismay Sith such maim'd souldiers shall have heavenly pay 67. On the same Iacob went halting that he might not fly Farre from his Lord that loves such company 68. Mans life in the lapse On Tigris banke when once Tobias sate Of slippery life he well might meditate Which faster than that swiftest river flowes With downe-right course to death nor Eddy knowes 69. Of the Pillar of Salt the remainder of Lots Wife What object 's this that doth assault my sense With feare the monument of her offence Who with good Lot did from lewd Sodome goe Yet for apostacy was pillory'd so Warning us all to season with this Salt Our ranke affections and avoyde her fault 70. Of a Carnalist How like is he a wanton life that leades To hoary Iordan that the flowery meads Clippes in his progresse yet doth swiftly tend To the dead sea and makes a bitter end 71. Seths Pillars Seths famous Pillars that inscribed stood With Learning and Religion scap'd the floud For though both Gold and Silver feele decay Faire knowledge may be clipt nere washt away 72. Of Drunkards Drunkards are like to leaking shippes and in Great danger to be sunke in seas of sinne 73. Worldly pleasure As Ioab Amaziah did embrace And stabbe together so with flattering face False pleasure courts us but with paine the whiles Wounds whom she wooes slaughters when she smiles 74. Not too fast Swift as a sylvan Roe was Asahel Yet overtooke by Fate he wounded fell In following Abner For in veyle of night Close by the ground flyes death and puts to flight The bold'st pursuers and from life of grace Too frequently they fall that honour chase 75. To an Epicure Thy belly is thy God thine appetite All thy Religion which with tooth and