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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23301	Hæc homo wherein the excellency of the creation of woman is described, by way of an essay. By William Austin Esquire.	Austin, William, 1587-1634.	1637 (1637)	STC 974; ESTC S100237	46,771	198

hard and dryed So as her fabrick shewes rather as a new building and his like a thing decayed by the weather And this for the generall beauty of the frame but for the particular Symmetry of every severall part I will not meddle any further then only to speake of those parts briefly and modestly which they themselves lay open namely of the face hands and breasts First the very front or Face of this building that first meets with the eye confounds it and will scarce suffer it to looke any further Certainly God not only made her body an epitome of the Earth for proportion but her face also an epitome of Heaven for beauty which like some cleare glasse or mirror being turned upwards towards heaven presents it selfe wholly full of heavenly figures The round forehead resembling the bowing orbes the eye browes the rainebowes the eyes the starres and plan●ts the red and white of the cheekes resemble the faire discoloured clouds the frownes resemble stormes and the smiles faire weather If heaven therefore be beautifull that face which in so small a compasse containes it must needs be faire indeed And this proves beauty to be heavenly and the daughter of the highest For as saith Anacharsis the greatest gift that God gave man was beauty For it delighteth the eye contenteth the minde and winneth good will and favour of all men So that if there were no more but this A beautifull countenance is a silent and sufficient commendation of it selfe Beauty saith Plato is a Privilege and prerogative of nature which hapneth but to a few It is therefore worth the having seeing it is a privilege and but a few have it Amongst whom of all creatures women seeme to bee the true owners of it For though there be a certaine generall beauty in all creatures as they are made by God and serve to adorne the whole universe Yet the chiefest and most delightfull to the heart of man is that of Woman which hath in it two qualities For it not only delights and warmes like the Sunne but sometimes to the resisters and violent contemners it burnes and consumes like lightning according to that of Guevarra An honest woman beautifull killeth with her countenance And justly are they so punished seeing hee which is a foe to beauty is an enemie to nature Beauty corporall is generally a good and proportionable agreeing coherence and compacture of all the severall parts of the body in one fairenesse as it doth especially in woman But in particular it shineth no where so ample as in the face and countenance wherein as Laurentius saies the beams of the divine Majesty so shine that all other creatures tremble at it especially in Women for in them all men admire and love it and all creatures else feare and tremble at it like as at fire from Heaven nay the Lyon the most fierce amongst others feares it and rages more against men then Women as giving more honour and reverence unto their countenance For the glory is so great that as the Sunne when it ariseth upon the high places of the Lord so is the beauty of a good Wife the ornament of her house And as the cleere light is upon the holy candlesticke so is the beautie of her face in a ripe age The Symmetrie and powerfull splendor whereof hath not only a property by opening the hearts of the beholders to make them discover their owne secrets as we have examples enow in Scripture by Sampson c. but it is the discoverer of it selfe and the most secret affections dispositions and passions of it owne heart Vultus est animi Imago the countenance is the Image of the mind saith Cicero And in another place Frons est animi Ianua the brow is the gate of the mind so that the gate lets forth the Image that you may soone see what the mind is If therefore the Image of the mind and the gate it stands in be so faire surely the mind it selfe in Women which is the Spirituall beauty must needs be faire and heavenly yea though they should deny it to be so with their owne tongues or any detractor for them Vultus loquitur quodcunque negas the very beauty of the countenance it selfe would convince them and declare it lowder But as in the Heaven the Sunne and Moone the greatest lightes beare greatest sway and make greatest show so in the countenance the Eyes sparkle forth greatest beauty and declare most the effects of our mind Oculos natura nobis dedit c. Nature saith Tully hath given us eyes as she hath given eares to Horses Lions c. that they may declare the motion of our mind Oculus Lu●erna corporis the eye is the light of the Body and indeed not only the light wherby we see what is in others but the light whereby others see what is in us For as Salomon saieth a wise mans eyes are in his head but the eyes of a foole are in the foure corners of the World and rowling every way So that it seemes Wisdome folly anger pleasure griefe envy mirth sadnesse chastity or whoredome appear not fromus in any one part so apparantly as in the eye nay in Women in whom indeed they are fairest and most powerfull they do shew certaine signes of Barrennesse and Fruitfulnesse which in that Sex is greatly to be respected as Aristotle testifieth But as they discover much in themselves so have they a very great power in ruling the affections of others For from their beames saith Iohannes de Baptista porta proceeds health or sicknesse love or hate life or death to the object that they view according as they earnestly behold it either in love or hate Nescio quisteneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos saith Virgill And the same is confirmed by Plutarch for as he saith The eyes of faire and beautifull Women kindle fire like the Sun in the very hearts and soules of their lovers though they looke not on them but a farre off From whence grew no doubt the opinion of Strato the Philosopher who held that the commanding part of the Soule remained betweene the Eyes seeing that he saw so great power in them and their affection But if I should write of all the particular beauties in Womens faces I should draw this part which even already growes too long much farther then it ought Wherefore to conclude this point take the generall commendation of the face out of Laurentius thus In the face onely is the particular seat of all the five Senses because it is called the Image of the mind For in the ●rowes loftines in the Cheekes grace in the Chin majesty in the Forehead wisedome in the Visage beautie and in the Cheekes and Chin honesty dwelleth in it is the difference of Age and Sex and the signes of life and death to be perceived and it is this alone that allures