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	word_n	6,641	5	4.7023	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16255	Amorous Fiammetta VVherein is sette downe a catologue [sic] of all an singuler passions of loue and iealosie, incident to an enamored yong gentlewoman, with a notable caueat for all women to eschewe deceitfull and wicked loue, by an apparant example of a Neapolitan lady, her approued & long miseries, and wyth many sounde dehortations from the same. First wrytten in Italian by Master Iohn Boccace, the learned Florentine, and poet laureat. And now done into English by B. Giouano del M. Temp. With notes in the margine, and with a table in the ende of the cheefest matters contayned in it.; Fiammetta. English	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Yong, Bartholomew, 1560-1621?	1587 (1587)	STC 3179; ESTC S102851	186,424	264

foming at the mouth with whot and firie froth prouoked by the instincte and lawes of naturall looue prepare and whet theyr tearing tuskes to fight And the whot Lions of Libia smitten with looue make all the wooddie hilles and hollowe valleyes to resound with their roaring outcries But leauing the woodes and champaignes I say moreouer that the Gods of the Seas and running Riuers euen in their coldest waters féele the burning and vnquenchable heate of my Son Nor doo I thinke that it is vnkowen to thée what approued testimonie Neptunus G'laucus Alfeus and others haue giuen therof who were not able to extinguish no not so much as to mitigate these flames with their colde frozen floodes which although it hath béene of euery one long since knowne in earth and in the déepest waters yet penetrating further into the bowelles of the earth it dooth violently make open way to the dreadfull King of the darke Stigian Lakes Heauen and earth therefore the Sea and Hell haue assaied the vertue and force of his arrowes And because thou mayest in fewe wordes comprehend euery thing concerning his mighty strength I say that all things are subiect to natures lore and no power is frée from it and that this it selfe also is vnder his lawes For if he dooth once commaunde olde hatreds and grudges are forgotten and newe angers and auncient rancours giue place to his forcible fiers And last of all his power stretcheth forth so farre that it dooth make mothers in lawe become gracious and gratefull to their steppe children which is no little wonder What doost thou therefore séeke What doost thou doubt of What doost thou foolishly flie If so many deuine Goddes so manie and so mighty men and so many fierce and cruel beasts haue béene conquered of him wilt thou then thinke it a shame to be ouercomed Alas thou knowest not what thou hast to doo But it may be in submitting thy selfe to him thou doost expect some bitter reprehension and doost perhaps feare some shame to ensue thereof which can by no meanes fall vnto thée since a thousande more excellent women then thy selfe hauing committed tenne thousand greater faultes then this shall sufficiently excuse thée and as great presidentes of this thy reasonable lappes if so it be exempte thée from reproch who as thou art not so mightie as they hast not erred so much as they haue doone But if those motiues doo not alter thy minde and yet perhappes will obstinately still resiste Thinke that thou canst not ioyne with Iupiter in vertue with Iuno in ritches with Apollo in wisedome and with me in beauty And if all we haue béene ouercome doost thou onely thinke to triumphe in thy sole conquest Thou art deceiued if thou art of this opinion and shalt suffer a base foile in thine own prowd conceite Let that suffise thée which heretofore hath béene enough and to much for heauen and earth and make not thy selfe so timerous in saying I haue a husband and holy lawes and promised faith forbiddeth me these thinges because they are but vaine conceites and friuolous obiections against his vertue For lyke a strong and mighty Prince he dooth plant his eternall lawes when not caringe for other of meaner substaunce hée dooth account them but base and seruile rules Pasiphae likewise had a husband and Phedra and I my selfe when I looued Nay husbands them selues for the most part looue other women when they haue wiues of their owne as Iason for example Hercules and wise Vlisses No iniurie therefore is offered vnto them if that they are counterchecked with those lawes which they themselues vse towardes other No prerogatiue is graunted more to them then to womē Wherfore abandon these foolish and vnconstant thoughts and looue securely as thou hast béegunne Beholde if thou wilt not submit thy selfe to mighty looue of necessitie thou must flie away whether wilt thou take thy flight but that he wil pursue ouertake thée his power is a like in euery place and wheresoeuer thou goest thou art still in his kindomes in the which none can hide thēselues no longer then it pleaseth him to suffer them Let this suffise thée young Ladie that thou art not molested with such abhominable and wicked lust as Mirra Semiramis Biblis Canace Cleopatra were My Son shal worke in thée no straung and new thinges He dooth rule by lawes as well as other Gods in following which thou must perswad thy selfe that thou art not the first and shalt not be the last And if peraduenture thou doost beléeue that thou doost at this present loue alone thy beléefe is but vaine and false For to let the other world passe in silence which is full of them let vs onely looke into thy noble Citty in the which thou hast many braue and infinite companions And note this withall that what hath béene and is doone of so many wise and iudicious persons may not iustly bee thought vaine and accompted friuolous Followe vs therefore and with thankfull wordes and gratefull déeds requite our deitie for thy péerelesse beauty and intermit not to remember her who hath out of the number of simple ignorāt soules chosen tooke thée to make thée know participate the pleasure of our gifts Alas good Ladies what shold or could I answer to such perswasiue or forcible reasōs alleaged by so mighty a Goddesse but only this Dispose with me as it pleaseth thée best I say therfore that now she held her peace when I hauing gathered all her words into the depth of my capacitie and felt them full of infinite excuses and knowing her also better now thē at the first resolued with my selfe to embrace and follow her sweet and pleasing councelles Wherefore rising quickly out of my bedde and with an humble minde casting my knées on the ground being full of feare I began softely to say thus vnto her Oh eternall and singuler beauty Oh heauenly deity Oh onely Lady and mistresse of my resolute minde The force of looue is felt more sensibly stronger in them that seeke to expell it whose force the more it is resisted the more it is felte pardon my simple and foolishe encounter which I haue made against the pearcing weapons of thy vnknowen and puissant Sonne And worke with mée at thy owne pleasure And stooping to thy will guerdon my faith as thou hast promised at fit time and conuenient place because that others praysing thy effectes in me and wishing themselues the like the number of thy subiects may without ende encrease I had scarcelie spoken these wordes when moouing from the place where she stood she came to me and with a feruent kinde of affection and merrie countenaunce embracing mée she first kissed my forehead and afterwardes as false Ascanius breathing secréet and burning fire into Dido her mouth so she respiring the lyke into mine made my first desires more whot and my passions more feruent as after to the ruine of my tormented hart I felte them