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	heaven_n	place_n	3,957	5	4.7600	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33611	A chain of golden poems embellished with wit, mirth, and eloquence : together with two most excellent comedies, (viz.) The obstinate lady, and Trappolin suppos'd a prince / written by Sr Aston Cokayn.; Chain of golden poems	Cokain, Aston, Sir, 1608-1684.; Cokain, Aston, Sir, 1608-1684. Obstinate lady.; Cokain, Aston, Sir, 1608-1684. Trappolin creduto principe.	1658 (1658)	Wing C4894; ESTC R20860	211,316	545

more despise The poorest then the richest Sacrifice So I my Lord present my self to you And this slight humble verse unto your view Let our best Heralds such as are most good Sail up the mighty Current of your blood And from the ancient and most glorious Stem Of those that wore the English Diadem Blazon your pedegree whil'st I admire Your fair Conditions sparks of honours fire To be born onely great and not to be Vertuous too is as we often see The morning Sun rise clearly in the East Presently after be with Clouds opprest And after one fair chearful blaze of light The day prove stormy till it mix with night But this concerns not you you are as far From all unworthiness as is that star That by the vertue of the Southerne stayes This Mass of earth and water in its place From earth And as those opposite Stars do poise This Globe of earth and Water midst the skies Equally distant in all places from The Heavens that round it in Circumference come Or to descend As Mahomets tombe doth fix By vertue of two Loadstones them betwixt So you my Lord for sweet Conditions known Parallels to your high birth stand alone Unaim'd and unarriv'd at to their ends Th' Amaze of all and honour of your friends Accept this graciously my Lord And know 'T is but a Glimps of the respect I owe And but an Atome of the Service For Whole volumes would not be a Character 4. To a Lady that was so like another that I cal'd her Picture I Call you Picture and by your Consent Although I know you want no Ornament Nor any curious Arts use to supply Any defect in you to any eye You then are none and do want Colours so snow As heaven wants clouds or Summers earth wants Both which do both deform And you therefore To ou●vy heaven and earth admit no more You then no picture are but unto those That can become enamour'd on your clothes Vandike Mitten Geltrop or Johnson may Draw something like you As a Summers day May in the fleeting Clouds well counterfeit Similitudes of things here and not hit For 't is impossible to Limn you right As 't is the earthly Globe without a night To make your eyes were to amaze us all Make in your face two Suns rise And to vail Their glorious motions no eclipses there Can be more beautiful then your brown hair So doth the brightest star ofttimes repine At it's own glory and forbear to shine To name Apelles and to wish him draw Your Portraicture could he perform 't 't were law To future Limners but your beauties height All imitation doth transcend outright Your Lips are like the rosy buds of May And your even teeth the pearls of India Your mouth 's the sweetest Magazin of bliss Where Cupids Dialect best spoken is Your loveliest Cheeks are the tru'st Hemispheres Of beauty triumphing above your Peeres This your first sitting is when you sit next I shall be better pleas'd and you more vext For I shall more admire your beauties store Though you be angry th' are so slubberd o're 5. To my Mistress TO love you Lady is but just we know We have good eyes and Judgments that do so Your beauties are no Common Ornaments But Rarities and plac'd with excellence By Natures curious hand That could entice Even Jove from all his Glories and the Skyes Make him reject his full triumphant way O're Gods and men and thunder cast away Depose himself from high Olympus leave Amaz'd the heavenly Deities and beneath Retire himself on earth to gaze on you More wonderful then all the Goddess Crew Make him forsake his stately Queens embrace Wise Pallas eyes and amorous Venus Face His draughtes of Nectar fil'd by Ganymed And the sweet Lessons by Apollo plai'd His sister Juno had not been his Queen If you the ●●atelie● beauty he had seen His daughter Venus had not been enstal'd Goddess of love but you the Goddess cal'd Nor had Minerva with the fair gray eyes Been crown'd for wisdom 'bove the Deities Had Jove heard your discourse your words do fall With such a ravishing force upon us all Immortal Phoebus that with glorious beams All Nations lights and gilds all Ocean streams In all his Progress yet did never view A beauty so supreme and bright as you Had Phaeton liv'd till now and skilful been He would have given his Chariot unto him Left the Star-chequer'd Court and from the skies A light on earth in some unus'd disguise To court your smiles more precious then his throne And all the glories that attend thereon And in your company swear by a kiss He never was before in any bliss Your eyes are not the Sun and Moon for they Are equal lights and both do rule by day Your Nose is such as doth become your face Better then the best other in that place Your mouth exceedes the breaking of the day For that is sweet when Night drives light away Your teeth surpass the milky way in Heaven More white then it more wonderful more even Your lips are smooth as Chrystal red as is Pure abstract redness blessedness to kiss Your bosom 's a new paradise of joy And undiscover'd to the vulgar eye Your hidden beauties do as much excell All all Art can invent and all tongues tell As doth your body magazin of joyes Exceed your clothes seen onely by our eyes But were this all you onely did present A curious Outside picture Ornament Your mind brave Lady is a thing above All Objects yet of all the past worlds Love It is so gentle sweet and unconfin'd In goodness that it makes the body minde Like the Philosophers Stone that mixing with Worse metals doth to them gold-substance give Let them therefore that do not wonder when They have seen you be counted beasts not men 6. To the Lady M. BEst of your Sex and handsomest to boot I here present you with no marriage-suit My Fate is fix'd and I contented am Although sometimes I court another flame I dare not wish a wrong to your desert Far be such thoughts for ever from my heart Yet must not be so cruel to my self As not from you to covet such a wealth Arabia's rich perfumes are nothing to Nor all the Spices all the East can show Sure my desire can be no Crime in me Nor your Consent can your dishonour be Else all the ancient Poets did devise To cheat the modern with most Stygian lyes Wherefore should Jove neglect Saturnia's Love And all his endless happiness above Assume so many various Shapes t' enjoy With humane beauties sensuality And glorious Phoebus cast his Rayes away With our fine Lasses here below to play Although grim Pluto the Infernal flames Endures his rage Proserpin's beauty tames Cynthia whose chastity each Grecian pen And Roman wit renowned left to men Victorious Love in triumph trampled on And made her wanton with Endimion These high examples we may imitate For Deities did