Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	die_v	year_n	6,258	5	4.9578	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81262	The case is altred [sic]: both thy case, and my case, and every mans case. With a direction for a speedy present way to make every thing dog-cheap.		1649 (1649)	Wing C869; Thomason E556_9; ESTC R205762	4,363	8

frantick to believe other wise but that we all are in a dream for it is beyond all beliefe or example that Christians English men Protestants and true Subjects would or could be so farre deprived of Grace Wisdome Understanding Wit Sense or common Capacity as wilfully headlong to precipitate themselves into such and so many Temporall and Eternall dangers as such horrid designes must necessarily produce But these are onely mad dreams as may be fancied with no more shew of truth amongst honest men except such as either saw or feele the miseries and mischiefs then it is for a great Earl to degenerate so farre as to be a Knight of a Shire or a Lord Major to descend lower then to the office of an Headborough or Tithingman Charity is a most heavenly vertue her chiefest delight being still to be doing of good and in rel●eving the necessities and wants of the needy true Charity is never idle and because she shall not want work there are fresh and new beggers made every day but the Proverb sayes Charity should begin at home but where her home is is a very hard and cold enquiry It is to be imagined that she is well esteemed and much made of in the House of Commons at Westminster for their weekly Historians and Chronologers of their most Honourable Acts and Monuments do week-ly moderate-ly and perfect currant-ly set forth their abundant love of Charity for a great part of their Pamphlets do frequently devoutly and palpably declare the care and pains there taken for the speedy relief of the poore and the further encrease of Beggers for the Kingdomes honour the humiliation of the Malignant Party and the exercise of Charity But suppose there were a dearth dearnesse and scarcity of food fewell and other things which are the Preservers and maintainers of our Lives yet there is a speciall provident speedy way to avoid a sudden famine to procure a present plentie And it is a wonder that our State-Pollitians have not long agoe put it in practise for it would make them to be more honoured for so charitable a worke then for all the good that ever they have done since their first sitting and thus it is First if they would consider the great number of Malignants and the many thousands that are sequestrated amongst all which innumerable numbers with their Families their oppressours have not one friend amongst them all They with their Children Wives Kinsfolks Friends and Allies cannot be fewer then a million of mouths and those mouths do eat and feed every day upon such meat as the Godly Parliament and sanctified Army should have and seeing they are deprived of their livelyhood and means of subsistence to live It is as just to cut their throats and take away their lives and by so doing stop so many mouths at once from eating and this is one way to stay abundance of S●o●nacks and to bring down the price of victualls suddenly besides it will raise more money for the State and Army by making quick Sale of such small possessions of Lands and Goods which as yet all those whom they are pleased to call Malignants and Delinquents do live poorely upon Secondly if they would be pleased to hang all the Whores and Whore-masters in the Kingdome and that a Committee be appointed for that purpose And further that the ingenious Harry Martin may be Chaireman to the said Committee And also if they please they may take all the drunkards loyterers and idle vagabonds and thieves Sectaries knaves and Levellers into the bargain Thirdly they may do as the Canniball Brasilians do in America kill all the old folks men and women of all degrees who by reason of their decrepit impotency weaknes and encombrances of old age are but a chargeable pestring and trouble to the State and little or no pleasure to themselves and when they have killed them they may eat them as the Canniballs do Fourthly they may hang up all the Beggars male and female old and young blind lame deaf and dumb this is a piece of Charity for it is better to hang then starve besides it will be no losse to the State for they can at their pleasure make Beggers at any time or at all times more then a good many Fifthly they may play the part of Herod not to destroy males of two yeares old and under But to dispatch all the females which are not seven years of age for the feminine exceeds the masculine seven to one and the Girles outvie the boyes more then treble in number and all those toyes do eat and drink daily and help to make every thing deare It may be considered that men have more wayes to dy then naturall deaths but for the most part women do seldome dy by any casualty of warre either by Sea or Land as men do for if the women do fight at any time it is but a kind of Billingsgate Battell with tongue and nailes scolding and scratching and those conflicts are seldome mortall Lastly if they would hang up all the Rebells and Traitours or all the Enemies of the late King it would be much available for the saving of dinners and suppers but if they will do none of these things for the good of the Common-wealth then they are humbly desired to hang themselves for the case of the Kingdome FINIS