Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	lose_v	young_a	youth_n	17	3	7.6094	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77333	Englands selected characters, describing the good and bad worthies of this age. VVhere the best may see their graces, and the worst discerne their basenesse. The particulars be these, 1 A worthy king. 2 An unworthy king. 3 A worthy queen. 4 An unworthy woman. 5 A worthy prince. 6 An unworthy prince. 7 A worthy Privy counsellour. 8. An unworthy Privy counsellour. 9 A worthy noble-man. 10 An unworthy noble-man. 11 A worthy bishop or minister. 12 An unworthy bishop or minister. 13 A worthy judge. 14 An unworthy judge. 15 A worthy knight & souldier. 16 An unworthy knight & souldier. 17 A worthy gentleman. 18 An unworthy gentleman. 19 A worthy lawyer. 20 An unworthy lawyer. 21 A worthy souldier. 22 An untrained souldier. 23 A worthy physitian. 24 An unworthy physitian 25 A Jesuit reprobated. 26 A cowardly Cavalier. 27 A bawd of the black guard. 28 A malignant knave a hatcher of plots.; Good and the badde. Selections	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1643 (1643)	Wing B4384; Thomason E55_18; ESTC R2558	11,423	16

man his life is a kinde of sicknesse which breeds a kinde of palsie in the joynts and his death the terrour of his conscience with the extream weaknesse of his faith he would have peace in regard he fears a sword in his soul hating to meet a man or to incounter an enemy or opposite in the field witnesse our present troubles when like the Egyptians plagues they fester and are the disquiet of this our land robbing pillaging and spoyling poore Countrymen and carriers who cannot give any resistance one eyd Hasting-like if he cut his finger he looketh presently for the signe and if his head ake he is ready to make his will a report of a Gauon strikes him slat on his face and a clap of thunder makes him a strange metamorphosis rather then he will fight he will be beaten and if his legs will helpe him he will put his armes to no trouble but trie the strength with the levity of his flight while he is as he conceives beyond the reach of his arrivall where like a moule he is ready to run his head into any hole to hide him searing the very sent of a man he makes love commonly with his purse and brags most of his maiden-head he will not marry but into a quiet family and not too faire a wife to avoid quarrells if his wife frowne upon him he sighs and if she give him an unkinde word he weeps he loves not the borne of a Bull nor the pawes of a Bear if he chance to be rich he is afraid of theeves if he be poore he will be slave to a beggar In summe he is the shame of man-hood the disgrace of Nature the scorne of Reason and the hate of Honour 27 A Bawd of the blacke Guard IS a kind of woman-beast who having lost the honour of her virginity in her youth meanes to goe to hell in her age she is dangerous among yong people for feare of the infection of the falling sicknes and not to teach children to spell lest she learne them too soon to put together she is partly a Chyrurgion but most for the allaying of swelling in the lower parts and hath commonly a charme to conjure the Divell into hell She greeves at nothing so much then at disability to sin and is never so merry as when she is perswaded to be yong she feares nothing more then the Cart and cares for nothing but ease and loves a cup of sacke and a pot of ale almost as well as the hope of her salvation Shee is much troubled with sore eyes and ill teeth with sitting up late and feeding upon sweet things She is well verst in the black Art to accommodate them of the black Guard a weesel-look't goslip she is in all places where her mirth is a bawdy tale and a matrone in an Hospitall to see yong Wenches well set to worke In summe she is the loathsomnesse of nature the hate of vertue the spoile of wealth and the ruine of maiden-heads 28 A malignant knave a hatcher of plots IS the scumme of wit and the scorne of reason the hate of wisdome and the dishonour of humanity he is the danger of society and the hurt of amity the infection of youth and the corruption of age hee is a traytor to affiance and an abuse to imployment and a rule of villany in a plot of mischiefe he hath a Cats eye and a Beares paw a Syrens tongue and a Serpents sting his words are lies his oathes perjuries studies subtilties and his practices villanies his wealth is his wit his honour is his wealth his glory is his gaine and his God is his gold he is no mans friend and his owne enemy cursed on earth and banished from heaven he was begotten ungraciously borne untimely lives dishonestly and dies in a halter or worse shamefully His heart is a puddle of poyson his tongue a sting of iniquity his brayne a distiller of deceit and his conscience a compasse of hell In summe hee is a dog in disposition therefore not worthy to live among men a fox in wit a wolfe in his prey and a Divel in his pride FINIS