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	life_n	old_a	5,148	5	5.6715	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21010	The prayse of nothing. By E. D.	Dyer, Edward, Sir, 1543-1607, attributed name.; Daunce, Edward, attributed name.	1585 (1585)	STC 7383; ESTC S111987	18,920	32

mans sinne and according to this rule that who striketh with the sword shal be stroke with the scabarde a pronounced rewarde of their husbands error Miserable is that course and contrary to the nature of honesty to ascribe to nothing their disloyal parts but so doe they that vnder their owne teste they may be conuinced of many faultes and their condemnation be greater Some others there be by a marueilous indisposition of honestie who although they be garded with mo felicities then diuers ages before them haue tasted courted w e many fauours of hir Maiesty floate notwithstanding ouer the landmarke of due obedience for no other cause if they were well examinied then for nothing a matter not agreing with their impietie which yearely renueth w t Aphrica some monster nursed in their mutinus conferences where being impatient of any season they woulde drawe the gouernments of Princes to the ordinary rule of themselues capitulating their fauorers with special noats of good wil and cancelling the good names of the rest with infamous titles as though that men and not God had the erecting of kingdoms which whilest they frame in the aire with the rebellious Ciclops they vndermine their naturall dwellings and countrye walles thinking to be made no smale fooles in that they be by those meanes knowne to Italie France and Spaine when kings whose secpters be supported with prudence and iustice neuer reckned the executioners of their furye within the Colledge of good men or thought the reward of such mastiues any other then garbage A portion to good for that course which is made miserable in being suspected to them from whom they looke for al fauor and good wil a matter to be reserued by great estates for honest men least their own people by an ill president be drawne from the dutie of good subiects and recompence their Princes error with disobedience the same hapning by the iust iudgements of god which hetherto neuer failed to minister them who haue made themselues stumbling blocks to their neighboures new matter with which they haue béene fearefully intangled to the terrible example of the whole worlde Let them therfore deale vprightly with al men that iudge the earth and not abuse the amitie of vertuous Princes for ouerthrowing a good cause or alienat themselues or peaceable ordinaunces from their willing subiects to the hazard of their whole interests as though their desires were to sée the order in nature troubled and to be the last whose eyes should behold the ruin of all things It were a romth for some idle bodye so looke into the accedents of euery state which hath béen diuersly afflicted for nothing or to péepe into euery dwelling for examining this cause which fathereth many nouelties and such enterprises as are either bloodily executed or performed against the vse of common sence as though those things were lawfull to wise and valiant men which are not permitted ideots or thought naturall for brute beasts In this lowest degrée of reason Xerxes the greatest prince and least wise of his time by an vnspeakeable folly acquited all other of extreame blockishnes for whatsoeuer any dedicated to that Lady or dame he seruilly loued applied this forgetfull king to a plane trée putting theron his Diadem yéelding humbly therto his scepter complaining with such iestures as be eyther dissembled by wise louers or plainely vsed by simple fooles accursing that day and night in which neither Sun or Moone spread on him the shadowe of his beloued boughes which had in such sort bereaued him of iudgement by gathering in the swéete ayre by their softe mouing that his care of the Persian gouermente lay vnder foote more estéeming the compasse of earth which inclosed the roote of their trunck thē his seuerall gouerments and large dominions which in his conceipte were no otherwise beautified then by giuing nurrishment to the same Of like passions may large volumes be written though worthy of no other pen then a black coale or memorie then was by decrée of all Asia left for the burner of Dianas temple And although nothing is absolutly simple innocent harmlesse in it self yet therfore hath all impiety been set abroch duties abrogated vertue suppressed truth put to silence charitie purst which should be currant amongest men by which peruersiō nothing hath found no lesse fauor then the ritch stone by luster of his foile or as the faire mistresse by the company of browning hir mayde It shall be necessary in respecte thereof to obserue a lyke proportion in disciphering y e incomodities of those things we estéeme profitable to that ende we may more apparantly perceiue the good effects which come of nothing as of the least or no enimie of life by whose societie many euils depart which as murderers of peace either drawe vs from the fauour of God or bring vs into the vncertaine liking of the worlde in which there was neuer any but that he was continually foste and made seasicke or suffered extreame wracke of lyfe or other fortunes And although the opinion which we conceiue of this trashe hath a like dominion in vs as white or blacke in other coullors we neuerthelesse gaze theron w e no other admiration danger then Narcissus beheld his beautifull reflexion or chearishe it then as the frozen serpent in the warme bosome of the ideot by meane wherof we render many times a sorrowfull testimonie of our light choise and dangerous affections The knot of this mistery hath closed the best wits for giuing iudgement in this repugnancie in nature vz y ● whilst euery one desireth a long and peaceable time he yet hunteth after the vse of those things which frowardly abridge y e good course of life It is therfore no maruel though this supernaturall motiue hath béene condemned of them who estéeming al things by their weight fashion haue for their purpose this croked saying Somewhat hath some sauor not weighing consideratly y ● as by those instrumēts by which we perceiue any pleasure common to man we pertake also a thousand incomodities which flocke without number to crosse the ioyes of life which so withereth wyth any sorrow as though we had dwelt in continuall calamitie and neuer felte other then the passions of extreame misery Compaire the ioyes and sorrowes which grow of corruptable things there wil be sufficient reason minstred to confirme this argument For beginning with the state of mariage from whence the maides of Greece reckned their age who are they that after the death of their beautifull chaste wiues or contrary wise of their ritch and louing husbands that thinke not their time past vanished the present perished and their life following desolate reckning the remembrance of their olde ioyes the mother of their newe sorrowes and lamentable state Or what naturall parent being depriued of good children doth not more lament their losse then he reioyced of their liues which being carefully feared were by so much the lesse