Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	death_n	heart_n	soul_n	3,734	5	4.4869	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00926	The affections of a pious soule, unto our Saviour-Christ Expressed in a mixt treatise of verse and prose. By Richard Flecknoe.	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?	1640 (1640)	STC 11032; ESTC S115106	11,653	64

these are but rags of patience the poor and wretched soule puts on whilst the gallant and richer scornes to weare such piec'd-up stuffe this is for those who never endevour to limb and pourtraiture in the table of their hearts any brave and noble piece because they never take patterne by any but base and ignoble ones Inspice fac secundum exemplar quod tibi in monte monstratum c. Did they but consider our Saviours sufferings their own would shrink to nothing in comparison Which whilst she considered it made her so brave in purpose and resolution as even death it selfe would have appeared lovely and amiable to her which now since hee died for us to those who truly love him even seemes to have exchanged darts with love indeed As thus they fable it Love and death o' th' way once meeting Having past a friendly greeting Sleep their wearie eye-lids closing Laid 'em downe themselves reposing Love whom divers cares molested Could not sleep but whilst death rested All in haste away he posts him But his haste full deerly costs him For it chanc'd that going to sleeping Both had given their darts in keeping Vnto Night who Errors mother Blindly knowing not one from t'other Gave Love deaths and ne're perceiv'd it Whilst as blindly Love receiv'd it Since wch time their darts confounding Love now kils in stead of wounding Death a joy in hearts distilling Sweetly wounds in stead of killing And thus in various cogitation she wandred about Mount Calvary affording a large and ample field for her devotion to exspaciate in her pious thought still going in circle from her Beloved unto her selfe and from her selfe to him againe untill at last it was suddenly surprized by the unexpected arivall of some new-commers there who tending directly towards the crosse made her feare some ill intention in it till espying Ioseph of Aramathea a principall amongst them she assured her feares there was nothing but good intended as indeed their comming onely was to take downe the body from the Crosse and bury it To which every one lending a ready and pious hand it had soone beene done had not this impediment occurred in the doing it that their griefes for his death rendred them so nigh dead themselves as they scarcely could performe the offices of the living and those who swouned not for love of him would swoune for verie sorrow they loved him not enough confirming what they report with admiration of the effects of divine love O heavenly darts Of love unto heaven loving harts Whether ye wound or spare How equally yee mortall are For if yee wound them presently They with the sweetnesse dye And if yee spare 'em then With bitternesse they dye agen O sacred flame To hearts once melted in the same Whether or no yee burne How both to their destruction turne For if yee burne they presently In flames consume and dye If not in teares they then Consume and dye agen So as like two wayes that run Their severall course then joyne in one And whilst diversly they tend One and the same is still their end So both equally destroy Be it sorrow be it joy Or in water or in flame The end of both is still the same Neither is it to be so much admired they thus could dye as it were for him but the greatest wonder is that they could live now hee was dead who was their very life hee who had so many attractive sweets in him as drew all to him but such who like Scarrebs delighted to live in stench Curremus in odorem unguentorum tuorum c. Hee who had such divine magick in his face as charm'd all that beheld it and was of so ravishing entertainment besides hee spake all flame and fire Nonne cor nostrum ardens in nobis erat dum loqueretur c. Able to burne and dissolve the ice of as many hearts as ever the cold of death or tepiditie had frozen up provided that venomous serpent had not first fixt its black tooth in them for then the Pollinctori will tell you that hearts envenom'd will not burne No wonder then I say that him who they so loved living they so lamented dead It being by Natures Lawes decreed wee then should love things most passionately and deerest when wee were deprived of them Whether because the appetitive irrascible power then joyntly move more strongly towards the object than can joy alone in the fruition of it or that our sharp appetite of things wee want is soone blunted with the enjoying them Certaine it is whatsoever the cause be such is the effect as they well experienced everie one of them his blessed mother whilst shee called to mind what a deere and amiable son his friends what a true and constant friend and what a kind and loving Master his Disciples had lost of him In remembrance of which when they had buried him as with all due rites and ceremonies of griefe they did his sacred mother embalming him with her teares the holy Magdalen with her sweet unguents for which her memorie is so pretious in the Gospell as there never occurs mention of any but her name enters as an Ingredient They departed each one with somewhat to foment their memories of him One with the thought of his sweet and gentle conversation of life another with that of the excessive love he declared unto them in death Amongst the rest our pious Soule ever to have a memoriall of his passion digged him a new monument in her bosome and buried him in her heart FINIS