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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	old_a	year_n	4,796	5	5.3056	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46448	The vvish, being the tenth satyr of Juvenal, peraphrastically rendered in pindarick verse by a person, sometimes fellow of Trin. Col. Dublin.; Satura 10. English	Juvenal.; Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1675 (1675)	Wing J1295; ESTC R16717	17,235	44

Not e Aeolus himself e're scourg'd 'em so before 31. Nor did the Sea scape better than the wind In fetters he did Neptune bind 'T is thought that he had f branded him to boot But that the God was watry and he cou'd not do 't How e're 't was kind to wave the slavish brand d What God cou'd e're dispute shou'd he command But how got he from the Athenian fray In one poor fisher-boat he stole away Sail'd through th' unnatural flood Of his own Subjects blood Dead shoals his folly did upbraid The carcases his Vessel stay'd So thick about him they did float They lay'd Embargoes on his Navy-boat This was th' event of all his pride And courted Glory ha● serv'd many so beside 32. Give length of age good Jove give me more years This with an open 〈◊〉 you say Your chief concern 〈◊〉 in these pray'rs They employ all you●●●ys and fears You speak 'em pale as 〈◊〉 that ' gainst which you pray And yet old age ●●●●'d to the heighth you 'd raise Is fuller fat of evils than of days Let an old face be thoroughly descry'd Look at that quondam skin curry'd by age to hide Behold the hanging cheeks disgrace It cannot blush to think what 't was But in its way asham'd seems to l decline the face Such wrinckles do indent the jaws As no Similies can essay But those i' th wood of m Tabracha Where in n cheek-pits the Grandam Ape does lose her paws 33. Young men from one another may be known This than that man fairer is T' other stronger much than this But Chaos-age has no distinction o Eighty makes all alike there is no choice The limbs quaver like the voice The head 's a perfect scull no hair there grows All moisture in one current flows And the poor infant cannot rule his nose The teeth are fled And disarm'd gums are left to fight with bread Troublesome to his wife he well may grow And children when t'himself he 's so When the loath'd sight makes ev'n his flatt'rers spue 34. All sense is gone what signifies to eat You might as well remove the meat There is no provocation in grand Sallets Wine 's spilt upon the p pavement of such pallats He 's chast indeed but that 's no virtue when Nature leaves not the least remains of men As he tasts just so he hears q Selencus self does sing in vain So does the proudest of the r golden train All musick 's lost to him that has no ears 'T is alike to him to fit In the Gall'ry or the pit Mens voices well may be too weak He scarce can hear Cornets or Trumpets speak When he sends one t' enquire the hour He must the errand toll Just like the bell Must either ring it to him or must louder roar 35. Some cold blood the surviving coarse retains Yet no heat at all it knows But what it to the Feaver owes Troops of diseases quarter up and down the veins So many if their names you 'd have I must your pardons crave I might as soon that grand account adjust Of all those s Hippia has betray'd to lust As soon unto you shew How many t Themison in one Autumn slew Count all th' Estates By u Basilus rook'd from our Confederates Or tell as soon How many wards curst w Irus has undone Nay I almost as soon might guess What wealth that x Senator has Who once my Barber was Or count how many Farms his Honour does possess 36. In age nothing but Hospitals we find Here a useless shoulder lyes There feeble loins there helpless thighs And here a wretch has lost both eyes And envies all that see ev'n the purblind Another with his pale lips stands And for his mouth 's supply borrows another's hands T'other at the sight of meat Without a stomack yawns a wish Gapes almost as young Swallows do For whom the hungry Dam does seem to chew But has no appetite to the dish He onely gapes to shew that he was wont to eat 37. Their least of ills though lye in their disease Such losses in respect are gains What 's hand or eye or head without the brains Dotage is more intol'rable than these Their memory 's gone all past things they disclaim They forget their Servant's name Their dearest Friend 's forgotten quite Although he supp'd with them last night All thought of children's gone Those whom they got and bred they are unknown And lest you this sad truth shou'd doubt Their wills can prov 't their names are there left out Lust they remember and no more Perhaps their Testament is fill'd with an old whore 38. But yet allowing more than Nature will Say that their sense continues vig'rous still All they gain hence is but to be More sensible of misery Be their-House ne're so num'rous grown They live to dwell alone See to close their children's eyes Hear all the dismal Funeral cryes At Wive's and Sister's obsequies Like rotten Oaks forsaken time's disgraces As marks of ruine in those very places They singly stand where once there stood Thousand fresh glories of a flour'shing wood These are the onely benefits of years To see beloved bodies burn Whilst happy you provide the Urn And older grow in mourning and accustom'd tears 39. Nestor if Homer's credit you 'l allow Outliv'd all creatures but the Crow Happy sure he needs must be Fate 's sole favourite was he Who did so many ages breath If we may call that life 〈◊〉 onely is deferring death His blessings sure must needs surmount Whose years did so encrease Who drank so many Vintages And on his y right hand kept the blest account Will you then a little pause And hear how he complains of Nature's Laws What he to the Sisters said For their unhappy lengthening his thread Going with his Son to 's grave When doleful he stood by And on the pile saw his Antilochus lye And flames singeing the beard none e're did shave He turn'd him to the mourning throng Expostulating the inhumane wrong And ask'd what sin h 'ad done that he shou'd live so long 40. The aged Peleus said the same Viewing Achilles by a Funeral flame z Laertes too grown old in fears For a Vlysses did complain Vlysses banish'd to the Main He coppy'd all his storms in tears When old yet liv'd th' unhappy tempest of ten years Had b Priam dy'd 'fore Paris went to Sea Troy being safe then happy he Had to his Grandsires gone Carry'd by his c warlike Son Help'd by his Brothers all in mourning d Cassandra had decorum kept In grief and taught the rest t' have wept e Polyxena following the Bier Had rent her Gown and torn her hair And Priam f burnt in state without the Cities burning 41. What therefore did old age on him bestow What did longer life afford Onely betwixt fire and sword The pleasant sight of Asia's overthrow At this the aged Prince throws off his crown And having little time to live My arms says he

Elephants from which the Poet describes the Countries calling those parts of Africa which were in Lybia and Mauritania aliosque Elephantos u Rome so called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 w Sab●rra was the same in respect of Rome that Cheapside is of London x Prusias King of Bithynia to whom Hannibal fled after the Carthaginians had made peace with the Romans y Hannibal overcoming the Romans at Cannae in Apulia got so great a victory that he sent thence as a present to the Senate of Carthage many bushels of Rings being the spoils of the slaughtered He likewise kept poison in a ring to prevent being delivered alive into the hands of his great Enemies the Romans which had happened when the Romans compell'd Prusias and Eumenes to a Peace had he not avoided it by that fatal device here mentioned by the Poet. a Alexander born at Pella in Macedon b Gyarus and Scriphus named by the Poet are two small Islands belonging to the Cyclades whither the Romans banished those who were guilty of the most enormous crimes c 'T is reported that Xerxes did dig a channel through the great mount Athos and sailed through it d Xerxes e The God of the winds who is feigned to have a great a we and tyranny over them Virgil sayes Vinelis carcere fraerat f Mark'd him for his slave for slaves were so used d What God c. A great Irony as much as if he had said that mark was needless seeing the Deities could not chuse but by their own accords serve the madman their pretended Master who used them so kindly as is here described h A Boat borrow'd from a Fisherman being all he had to shew for his vast Navy i Death Like which they looked out of a concern and for fear of not obtaining their earnest and foolish request of a too long life k It viz. the bloodless cheek l By Hanging down as if it had a desire to quit its station m A Wood near Tunis where there is great store of Apes n Great hollows in the cheek resembling pits so big that the old ape fears to lose her paws or scarce able to reach their bottoms when she scratches to which he compares the face of old men o Most people about Fourscore are alike at least no remarks of beauty remain to make the distinction p Worn out as the High way by long usage and as void of sense q A rare Musician in the Authour's time r Those that sung on the Stage to please the Spectators wore an embroidered Garment called lacerna termed golden from the mixture of gold in the Embroidery s A notorious Whore of that age mentioned in his sixth Satyr t A famous Physician of that time u A Governour of a Province w A notorious wicked Guardian in those dayes x Some call him Tricinius some Linnamus but all conclude he was first a Barber afterwards a Senator and vastly rich y Right-hand that is counted hundreds of years the ancient way of counting was done by the position of fingers as was manifest in their Statues of Mercury in the High way which were not onely set as guides to the next eminent place by looking that way but by the posture of the hand signified how many miles it was distant they reckoned the left hand to 90. the first Figure of the right hand was 100. the second 200. and so on to 900. z Laertes was Vlysses his Father a Kept from home by being confined by the anger of the Gods that took part with Troy of which Homer relates in his Odysseis b Paris Priam's Son who stole Helena c Hector The Corps of the Ancients were usually borne by their Sons d e Cassandra and Polyxena Priam's Daughters f They burnt their Dead Lucian gives this account of Funeral Rites The Greek burnt his dead the Indian preserved the corps with ointment made of Swines grease the Persian buried the Scythian eat it and the Egyptian embalmed g Mithridates thrice overthrown by Sylla Lucullus and Pompey h The potent King of Lydia i Solon k Cyrus rescued him from death but he living long after in a mean condition who before had been one of the greatest Monarchs in the world may well seem more miserable for his unhappy length of years l The great Roman-Captain Marius conquered by Scylla fled to Asrica and beg'd in Carthage which had been before that sacked by the Romans m He triumphed for his Victory over the Gauls n The Mother of Diana and Apollo o Ravished for her beauty by Tarquin she slew her self p Slain by her father for fear Ap. Claudius should ravish her q A deformed old woman of 97. mentioned by Pliny r The Sabines were a chast and rigid people and in the beginning of the Roman State embodied with them Numa Pompilius the great Emperor was of that Nation s He fancies him born under Mars and alludes to the Story in Ovid's Metam where Vulcan catches Mars and Venus in a Net t There were several Laws made against Adultery yet the punishments inflicted by the abus'd Husband often surpass'd them all in severity u Servilia without offence to Commentators may be fancied poor who when her money was gone gave away her clothes to maintain her lust w The Son of Theseus banished by reason of a false accusation of his Mother-in-law who missing her intent wrought that revenge he was torn in pieces by his Chariot-Horses going to exile x Hippolitus his Mother-in-law y The Son of Glaucus who being sollicited by Praetus the Argive King's Wife to dishonesty and refusing her was by her accused and suffered many evils z Praetus his Wife a Messalina Claudius Caesar's Wife b C. S●lius designed for Consul a very beautiful young nobleman with whom Messalina was enamoured and thereby wrought his destruction the story is at large set down both by Tacitus and Suetonius c These were the formal Solemnities of marriage in those dayes d Lust sometimes betrays Law-makers and in this case was so impudent as to abuse the Laws themselves in the legal solemnity of a marriage which was an impudent adultery e Claudius then absent at Ostium sixteen miles from Rome f The last Assyrian Monarch of the most effeminate The End ERRATA PAge 7. l. 18. read strangely p. 11. l. 22. r. Court-plots p. 17. l. 2. r. want ibid. l. 10. r. sweating ibid. l. 23. blot out Xerxes p. 18. l. 5. r. taught p. 25. l. 12. r. I pass Craesus ibid. l. 18. r. bread p. 28. l. 23. r. atone p. 30. l. 21. r. this p. 34. 15 16. r. Massy p. 35. l. 26. r. habitura