Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	act_n	king_n	parliament_n	4,616	5	7.4258	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20054	The dead tearme. Or, VVestminsters complaint for long vacations and short termes Written in manner of a dialogue betweene the two cityes London and Westminster. The contentes of this discourse is in the page following. By T. Dekker.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1608 (1608)	STC 6496; ESTC S105243	36,593	55

Law is vnto vs as the heauens are ouer our heads of their owne Nature they are cléere gentle and readie to doe good to man they giue light to his eyes comfortable Ayre to his Spirits warmth to reuiue him coolenesse to refresh him But if they bee troubled by brablings and vnruly mindes and be put from their owne smooth and euen by as then doe they plague the world with stormes Then doth Thunder shake the Rich mans building lightning burnes vp the poore mans Corne Haile-stones beat down the fruites of the earth and all Creatures that are within reach of their fury tremble and hide their heads at the horrour The very phrase of Going to Law shewes the greatnes Maiesty and state of Law for the Law comes to no man but he is eyther driuen or else so busie of himselfe that he goes to it The Law sléepes continually vnlesse shee bee wakened by the wronges of men oppressed or by the turbulency of those that will not let her rest for the first sort of which people she hath a payre of Balance wherein shee wieghes their Innocence and the Iniuries of others forcing one to make good the hurts of the other Against the second she drawes a sword with which shee both strikes them that break hir peace and defends thē that are threatned to be struck wrongfully He that Goe therfore to Law goes before a personage whose browes are vnwrinckled yet full of Iudgement whose eyes are not wandring yet turning to both sides whose lips are sildome opened yet what they pronounce is iust whose countenāce is austere yet setled in vprightnesse whose hands are open to all yet neuer filled with bribes whose heart lies hidden yet frée from corruption And what man would not desire to bee hourly conuersant with so excellent and so composed a creature He that is vp to the eares in Law is vp to the eares in experience He cannot choose but bee a good Subiect bycause he kéepes the Statutes and ordinances of his Country he cannot choose but proue a worthy souldier because he is still in action he must of necessity be both honest and pittifull for hee measureth other mens cases by his owne Law why it makes a man watchfull for he that meddles with it is sure neuer to sléepe It keeps him from the Irish mans disease Lazynes from the Dutch-mans weakenesse in not Bearing drinke from the Italians euill spirit that haunts him Lust for hee s so busied with so many Actions of the Case that hee can haue no leysure nor stomacke to the Case of Actions It preserues him from the French falling sicknesse yet no Stoues in Mosco●y can put a man into more violent sweates And last of all it kéepes him out of the English-mans su●●rites for his wayting at his Counsels Chamber so runs in his head that he scarcely allowes himselfe a time to dine or sup in O what an excellent Husband doth this going to Law make a man He giues ouer gaming presently vppon it He shakes off al commany that drew him to expences and in euery Uacation is so prouident that with the Ant hee layes vp Money then to let it flye amongest Councellors and Atturnies in the Tearme-time what an able and lusty bodie doth he get by it that followes it hard No Carryer is able to take more paynes no Porter beares more It makes a man to be well giuen for he prayes euen as hee ambles vp and downe the stréetes It makes him to be beloued amongst Lawyers Clarks and to be feared amongst his owne neigbours two properties which euery King desires from the hearts of his Subiects Loue and Feare If men should not goe to Lawe one with another the Courtier would walke vp and down Ietting by the Mercers doore and wearing his Silkes vnder his nose which now he dare not doe Thy Cittizens O thou the Best and onely Huswife of this Iland if Suites were not tryed some would scarce kéepe a good Sute on their backs Solicitors might likewise goe beg and Scriueners goe starue themselues Had not the people of this large Kingdome faine to so many priuate quarrels about blowes giuen To so many intricate bargains about buying and selling of Lands To so many Cozenages of wicked Executors in vndoing Orphans and Heires and so many starting holes Crannies Creuises windings wrestlings rackings Circumgirations Circumuentions to abuse the beautiful body of the Law and to make it grow crooked which of it selfe is comly vpright And had not the Law prouided cures for these sores of a common-wealth whips to punish such villains Thou O princely Mother of many Citties shouldst neuer haue had so many gallant Sumptuous rare Nurseries for young Students erected full in thine eye which stand before thy buildinges as Gates to Kinges Pallaces and are the onely honor for entrances into thée Had not the Inhabitants of this Empyre warred so in law from time to time one with another shee coulde not haue boasted of so many Graue wise and Learned Iudges Of so many Discréet Sage and reuerend Iustices Of so many carefull prudent and honourable Maiestrates By meanes of this is the Gentry of the Land increased for Studyes are Trées that bring forth aduancement by meanes of this the multitude is helde in Obedience for lawes are bridles to curbe those that are head-strong What a rare inuention therefore was pen and Incke out of whom as streames from a Fountaine flow all these wonders How much beholden are men to his witte that out of a poore Goose-quill was the first deuiser of so strange an Instrument as a Pen which carries in it such power such Conquest such terror such comfort and such authority that euen the greatest Subiects in kingdomes are glad somtimes to be beholden to it and as often to tremble whē it is but held vp against them For a Pen in a princes hand commaunds with as ample force as his Scepter with it doeth he giue Pardons for life or the heauy doom of death It bestowes honours and preferments and like a Trumpet proclaimes a kinges Liberality Yea of such Uertue is that worke which a princes hand doth with it that Actes of Parliament cannot giue a stronger confirmation In the hande of a Iudge it is as dreadfull as his voyce for it either saues or condemnes pronounceth freedome or imprisonment In the handes of a Spirituall finger it sets downe notes of Musicke which to heare the very Angels leape for ioy in heauen and deliuereth forth such Diuine Oracles that out of them mortals finde meanes to climbe vp to eternity Lastly in the hand of a good Lawyer a Pen is the common sword of Iustice and doth as much in the quarrell of the poore man as of the rich with it doth he help those that are beaten downe by oppression and liftes them vp by supplications but they that are trespassers against the sacred Orders of equity doeth hee with that Axe onely leade into Execution