Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	earth_n	fire_n	nature_n	6,197	5	5.7514	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36291	A miscellania of morall, theologicall and philosophicall sentances [sic] worthy observation.; Polydoron	Done, John.; Donne, John, 1604-1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing D1857; ESTC R14930	35,703	226

with thinking too much of her invisibilities A busy headed tradesman stock't hath a hive of bees in his pate but turnd broker or Serjant varlet a nest of waspes in his scull and his mace is the sting It was properly similizd of him that sayed passions in a foole were like ordinance broke loose in a storme at sea for they ruine themselves commonly without great helpe and a cholericke and undisswasable man approues it Some Trades man made Scavenger stroakes up his stockeings carefully picks motes from his clothes discourses of reformation then made Constable extraordinarily cherisheth his beard and getts a humme of state but being Churchwarden acknowledgeth himselfe to bee one of the worshipfull and picks quarrells with any glazier in the parish Wee are slaves to the elements and faine to give the fire food before hee will warme us or cuit our meat entreat the ayre with voice and instruments before hee will speake us musicke beare and embrace the water ere hee will clense or quench our thirst manure the earth ere hee will bring us sustenance and they to God are but his Serving Creatures for the fire is his Chamberlaine the aire his musician the water his bason the Earth his footestoole All things obey their ordinance in Nature but Man and hee seduced by his will and vaine Appetites many times turnes rebell But when hee returnes and becomes true subject the Cittisens of Heaven rejoyce The honest informers I know are bookes for they crave nothing but unclasping and turning ouer Wise Sir Thomas Moore laught a man should thinke himselfe better then his neighbour because the cloth of his gowne was a finer threed and Democritus I thinke would breake his spleene if hee lived now to heare a man should be wiser then his neighbour by five hundred pounds A Goosquill scribe to some fat Saducae or storvling wrangling Pharisae thinks himselfe more knowing and wise then Albumazer the Heavens notary that sommond the revolutions but and you unty the string of this barmie youths pride hee will blot out his corke and spend all his witt in frothy scoffs The blacke dogge of New-gate I thinke is but the Genius of envy at Court of subtilltie in the Citty and of knaverie in the Country and shakes his loose haires in most houses once a yeare but is not visible but by effect to sence That which a man hath attained unto through the dilligence and industrie of honest endevours is shott free from care of others heart knawing envye Yet it is wisdome to bee wary of their malice It matters not what the person is that speakes or acts to good purpose but what the matter deed and speach is When a fellow braggs of his swift and farre riding in a day c. I inwardly prayse the horse and when I see an Heyre prowd of his ancesters leavings I likewise cōmend the purchassers if they well achieved it Most folke are more care full to preserue their cloathes from dust and spotts then their soules from guilt and bodies from surfeits Povertie is not amisse to a minde not rich in gouernment but a true wiseman esteemes not worldly wealth to bee right riches All earthly and corporall contentments doe but ranke us amongst our fellow Antes for the whole terrestriall globe is but as an Ant-hill to God and wee the pissmires Warre is a horrible Monster which were better drownd when borne as the ancient Lawes of some Countries was to hide natures defects then bred up and cherisht by ambitious Princes as it is to vex the world with roaring Warre the child of injury is prodigall beyond ordination it is pride in a soldiers mouth offence in a civill eare a Tygar and furious beast when assaylant a goodly man whē defendant a monster to heaven a comaedie to euill spirits a tragedie to the good Angells where men are verbs Active and passive and the slayne death's windfalls Noble Persons should resemble starrs in the Firmament the higher they are the lesse in pride they should seeme To prayse and disprayse one person upon every sleight occasion is like writing and rubbing out in a Tablebooke To be ouer curious in trifles is like a Tobacco seller that discourseth the whitnesse of the ash rysing in the pipe c. Wee ought not to bee proud of that anothers true disprayse can blemish or tread out Words are vagabonds where the perswaded hath an ill opinion of the perswader Prosperitie Court Law the Citty and a play-house have all the quallitie or gift to teach folks to bee shamelesse So speake of all men and to all men as they would all bee thy enemies and shame thee to their power for men are various and by nature affect the left hand in censure of others it is not what thy witt and understanding is that God respecteth for hee gave it thee as thy Talent but what thou doest with it for of that hee meanes to take account The principall cause as the Spāiard thinks the Duch man fell from the Romane Church was that they denyed the Cup to the Laietie Conceive that an other mans intention Couered however is most part for his owne ends and affects therein most his owne good however hee will seeme to be thine Contradiction is the ruine and death of a lye Take no part with people affected to the disprayse of others for thou knowest not thy turne amongst them but avoyd them and the subject whereon they worke in thine owne condition A common weale resembles a Shippe the King the master the Councellors and officers the pylot and mariners the ordinary subjects the passengers good-lawes the compasse afaire wind and sea roome God his blessing and yeares of plenty Those wretches which fore-doe themselves for worldly afflictions and troubles are like the flownders that leape out of the frying-pan into the fire The greevous difference is the one is momentary and terminate but the other everlasting to similize it more neerer let us conceave a man bitt with fleas in his bed who should therefore throw himselfe for ease into a cauldron of scalding oyle or amongst a tubb of Snakes Youth health and Riches makes a well furnisht Pallace of this world but age sicknesse and povertie a prison of this life but a good mind expects delivery with patience A Student is with his thoughts as an Artificer with his fingers A flatterer is fodder to a foole Where the reason is subjected and forced to follow the will the actions runne in a Kind of madnesse God saw it was not good for man to live alone and therefore made him a helper viz. woman Wherefore in consequence a woman ought not onely to bee a companion but also a helper Covetousnesse sensuallitie and opinion are the three Divells stirres most men to motion Care not for mens thoughts of thy workes if thy operations bee good for their cogitations and thoughts are not thy works but thy workes is the good thou shouldst bee constant in As Conjurers when they call up