Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	river_n	run_v	sea_n	5,329	5	6.8400	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11333	Narbonus The laberynth of libertie. Very pleasant for young gentlemen to peruse, and passing profitable for them to prosecute. Wherein is contained the discommodities that insue, by following the lust of a mans will, in youth: and the goodnesse he after gayneth, being beaten with his owne rod, and pricked with the peeushnesse of his owne conscience, in age. VVriten by Austin Saker, of New Inne.	Saker, Austin.	1580 (1580)	STC 21593; ESTC S101648	202,886	286

imbracings at their méetings that should enterchangeably passe from one to the other and the pretie phrases that shoulde bée vsed betwéene them would burne their boyling breastes and enflame their frying fancies to possesse that place of priuiledge possessed before by them musing whether Phemocles woulde most reioyce or he bée most glad for that the one was forced by his father the other constreyned not with his owne consente then he imagined how they shoulde dyet their affections and vse their amitie so as they might neuer be wéerie of their loue but make it séeme fresh as at the first Amongst other his cauilling cogitations and fonde fancies that thus assayled him Fidelia was neither forgotten nor out of the number But if the truth were knowen her name called first in question happilie whither absence had procured dislikinge and choyce had beene made of such as were no flinchers but would sticke to their tacklinges and fade like euery frost but bide all bruntes and haue a shade for euery showre and a salue for euery sore then feared hee her secrecie and doubted shée was so close as a Siue that it was knowen to her Father and so mighte hinder their pretence the inconuenience that might bee gotten thereby and the preiudicialitie it might procure for as it was hote with one hande so might it bée cooled with one Carde then he mused on the mariage day and the solemnizing therof the courtous crue that should bee inuited and their passaunces in pleasure with the celebration of their fortunate fidelitie lincked in the bandes of amitie determined the time and the place drowned almost in these cogitations and wallowing in the fits of his fancy new supplyes alwayes assayled him and contrary came in their places like the water bubble in a raynie day or when the weather is setled to raine one dieth and an other riseth in that place or like the Moone in a winters night when the weather is warme when the Clowdes rocke a pace and passe fast ouer her now is she hidden and then sheweth her selfe againe Or like as when an armie marcheth by or passeth a longe some goe alwaies bie and others possesse their places or like to the running of a softe Riuer or the passinge of a narrow floud that runneth swifte or like the wallowing waters tumbling and roulinge one straight after the other neuer stayinge till they beate on the Beache or hit against the harde Rockes Or like a great flocke of shéepe runninge through a narrow Lane or passinge foorth of some gate so fast as some runne bie others are in their places so fared his fancies and so wauered they so ranne they forward and so neuer stayed they longe vpon one poynte but by how much the more his sences were eleuated with these contrary cogitations by so much the more was the tediousnes of that toyling trauaile shortned swimming thus as well in the waues of his will as in the waters of his wishes in the floudes of his conceyued felicitie as in the Sea of securitie and in the affections of his fancies as in his shakinge Ship hee espied at length the shoare of his safegarde and the Hauen of his happinesse the Porte of his pride and the arriuinge place of his reste Now hée behelde Vienna at the full and discerned the sight of the whole Towne then lookinge on his vile apparrell and his torne ragges the vncleanesse of his cloathes and the filthines of his face the chaunge of his countenaunce and the complexion conceiued of his yll dyet knew not whether to goe presently into the towne or stay till the shadowie night approched or if he should so goe to his Unckles house to put a Uisour before his face if hée should not finde his Unckle at home to make him knowen to the seruauntes or not if hee should make him selfe knowen his Unckle not there they would bée sorowfull not knowing how to helpe him and if not tell who hee were they would not receiue him béeinge so ragged a coult so like a roge duringe the counterbuffe of these crosse cogitations and abidinge the méetinge of these flowing fancies the Ship thrust to the shoare and came to the landinge place by this time the Sunne had seduced him selfe to the inferiour partes of the earth and cleane out of their sight an houre beefore Narbonus then treadinge his steppes on more firme ground than not longe béefore hee could came directly to his Unckles house where entering in found the Tables couered his Unckle ready to sit down to whom he did his duetiful obedience and vsed such courtesie as hee best thought Henricus stared earnestly on him and looked longe béefore hee knew him but perceiuinge it to bee his Nephew and not any other man imbraced him so hard as if hee should neuer haue séene him agayne saying Alas Narbonus with tricklinge teares and watry eyes how harde hath fortune dealt with thee and how fauourable with mee how frowarde was thy fate and how luckye my lotte how vnsatiable thy rigour and how sure my safetie had I beene thy companion or thy fellow partner in this villaynous voyage or borne a parte in thy perplexed perilles my care had beene the lesse and my consolation the greater thy hap more fortunate and my minde better satisfied thy dread without daunger and my perplexity without perill whom hadst thou for thy companion or who was thy Cabin fellow Alas are these pale cheekes and these whitely lippes the face of my Nephew and the fauour of my beloued Narbonus how haste thou beene tormented and in what manner hast thou beene tumbled how pined and howe plagued how weather beaten and how belly battred how depriued of thy reste and how beguiled in this bargayne O Narbonus how happy is thy home and how lucky thy owne Land how fortunate heere thy fréends and how doth Vienna swimme in pleasure they are troubled neyther with Sommers shyninge nor pinched with Winters blastinge But are these thy owne Robes or hast thou borowed them What Armes giuest thou in this Coate armour or in what place hanges thy Shéelde the Lyon roaringe or the Tigre tearinge the halfe Moone or the white Beare No thou giuest the Nitte nippinge or the Louse rampinge But O good God the mutabilitie of felicitie and the vncertainty of this estate the troublesome time of this paltry Pilgrimage and the vale of this Uanitie the place of perplexity and the Mother of Misery God hath disposed to euery thing life and lyuing and giuen to all other creatures a restinge place but man hath no certainty of his béeing nor any time apointed wher he shal alwaies rest he is borne here nourished a thousand miles off leading here his infancie youth and his old age he knoweth not where or in what place when a man presumeth most vpon his good hap then is hée likeliest to fall and when hee thinketh the steppes are troden for him then hee soonest slippeth when hee thinketh hee sitteth in

why would not hee haue consented or happely haue graunted my request I might haue gained his grace or wonne his willing will I might haue found such fauourable fréendship and haue gained my desired wish to haue had his company inioyed his presence to laude his comfortable wordes and giuen eare to his sweete sayinges more swéet then Suger and more holesome then Honny more satiable then the tollerable tongue of Tullie more acceptable then the vauntinge verses of Virgill And did not hee doubt of the consent of my Father and was fearefull of his agreement for that olde men are froward and wayward testy and doting who thinke the absence of their children for a time will bréede their euerlastinge farewell and which most delighteth vs seemes most vnsauery to them But how couldst thou brooke the Seas that neuer tasted the sowces of the waltringe waues or how couldst thou indure the waters that neuer was acquainted with the tossinges of those sorowfull Surges thy body may bee so contrary to away with the nature of the Seas and thy sences so impatient with the qualities of the Waues as thy life may bee in daunger and thy death pronounced If so thy life be lost or thy soule sinke into the Sandes who will there bewaile thee or what freendes will make moane what company will follow thy Hearce or who will sing thy Dirges who wil beare thy Coffin or who will dig thy Graue who wil intombe thee or who will wrap thee in Leade who will write Uerses in the praise of thy person or will erect a Monument in honour of thy fidelitie Alas the colde waters must be thy Graue and the Mermaydes must wayle and lament in stead of thy stately Tomb where thou shouldst lye whole and sound the fléeting Fishes will now teare and mangle thee where thou shouldst haue béene imbaulmed with swéet perfumes the flowinge floods must wash and make thee cleane I pray Narbonus that thy boone be not so bad and wish thy hap bee not so yll and if thou haue escaped the rigour of the Rockes and auoyd the beatinge of the Billowes is not thy daunger afterwardes great and thy penaunce then as much pronounce Yes for the Spaniard is proude so is he stately he is haughty so is hee arragant hating thy health and loathing thy liberty not crauing thy company and flying thy fréendship flatteringe thy welfare and laughinge at thy losse contemninge thy courtesie and péeuishly requitinge thy painfull pilgrimage At euery wry looke mooued against thée for euery crosse conceit séeking to displeasure thee maintaining malice or procuring some mischiefe cockred in carnall conceyts dandled in daungerous delightes alwaies repining at thy pleasure and euer more vituperating thy welfare If thou talke with him hée is as testy froward as may bee if thou vse any conference so contrary and crosse as thou wouldst not imagine if thou walke with him in the stréetes or also in the Church thou must turne as hée turneth otherwise hee will imagine thou disdaynest him and so shalt purchace his displeasure thou must talke to answere him directly though he speak neuer so contrary thou to please his patience he to mooue thy humour thou to make him merry hee to make thee weepe thou to fauour his fancy hee to offende thee frowardly if thou séeme contented vnles to gayne his gratulation hee is then offended thinkinge thou vsest some pretence to displease his person If in familiar talke thou vnwittingly wrest out some waywarde worde or vnwillingly speake which thou wouldst not hee will straight chalenge the combat and soone offer thee to fight which excepte thou seeme as willinge to perfourme as hee is ready to offer thou art no Cocke of the Game therefore thy combe shall be cutte But if happely thou thus escape and agrée well with them what afterward will become of thee or how canst thou digest this coare when thou shalt bee forced to march all the day in thy heauy armour and at night to looke thy lodginge amongst the Dogges ● There the longe grasse if fortune fauour thee so wel may bee thy softe feather bed or some straw if thou canst get any thy quiet Couche thy Boulster some turfe of the ground and thy sheetes not very faire for that they are alwayes at thy backe thy coueringe colde excepte thy bargayne bee the better thy Chamber not stately but a house for a Swine marchinge thou shalt bee hindred with Hayle and sowced with Snowe bitten with the Froste and nipped with blastes frozen in the flawes and troubled with winde and weather When thou shalt turne thy face vp to Heauen or looke a little vpwarde all these droppinge on thee and all these runninge downe thy skirtes how happye then was thy home and how blessed thy Unckles House Alas will the remembraunce of these thoughts reuiue thee nay will they not terrifie thee then shalte thou bee thrust out into euery skirmish euermore be the first that shal goe forth at euery false Alarum disquieted of thy rest and at euery péece discharged in the night thou must run to the Trench there must thou watch at thy Warde and stand thy sentinell bee one in the still watch or walke thy Round Then shalt thou be the first that shall fight because thou art a raw Souldiour and the foremost that shall enter at the Breach because thou shalt be made expert And if by good happe thou escape all these daungers and bee hurte with none of these harmes that litle money spente that thou cariedst with thee and thy purse pennylesse then shalt thou be ready to sterue with hunger and like to faint with thirst and steale there thou maist not for Martiall Law is straightly executed and begge thou canst not for none will reléeue thee for euery trifle thou shalte gayne the yll will of thy Captayne and for euery small offence thy life shall bee in daunger when perhaps thou shalte bee better borne then him selfe and thy courage not inferiour to his Going into the Féeld some dastardly dotard or cowherdly sotte shall get that by chaunce and gaine by good hap which thou with great daunger of thy life and duetifull seruice shall neuer obtaine nor at any time bee in likelyhood For is not this saying sooth the Prouerb too true The more foole the better fortune For did not that carpet Knight kill by chaunce that noble Achilles whose force to haue frowned on him the other beeinge presente or whose lookes to haue lowred he being néere him would feare the other to frame one frowarde face or caused him to vsed one contrarie countenance the one lasshed with his launce the other laid on load with his Lute the one a notable Captaine the other a Courtly Carpeter the one a litle practised by pollicy the other tried by strēgth yet his hap was to giue the gleeke the others chaunce to bide the bitter bargaine So may fortune frowne on thee nay so will it not defie