Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bear_v	life_n	live_v	4,791	5	5.2156	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52019	The confession of the new married couple, being the second part of the ten pleasures of marriage relating the further delights and contentments that ly mask'd under the bands of wedlock / written by A. Marsh. Typogr.	Marsh, A.	1683 (1683)	Wing M726; ESTC R18203	66,702	209

contend about this Nevertheless some men because they imagine to have the best understanding use herein a very hard way of discourse with their wives making it all their business to snap and snarl chide and bawl nay threaten and strike also which indeed rather mars then mends the matter little thinking that quietness in a family is such a costly Jewell that it seldom can be valied Others on the contrary take their greatest delight when they know how with affableness to please their wives humour and with plausible words can admonish them what is best and fittest to be done and rather to extoll those graces which are found in them than to reprove their deficiencies According to the instructions of the prudent Emperor Marcus Aurelius who said that men ought often to admonish their wives seldom reprove them and never strike them But many men whose understanding is turned topsie turvy in their brains seek it in a contrary place and where the Bank is lowest the Water breaks in soonest In such case the Women suffer cruelly For if he be foul-mouth'd he is not ashamed openly before his servants and other people to check curb and controul his wife lustily and when they are in private together reprehends her so bitterly that he would not dare to mention it in the ears of honest people because having seen that his Border out of meer civility cut many times the best peece at Table and presented to his Wife bilds thereupon a foundation of jealousie and an undoubted familiarity which he privately twits her in the teeth with though in publick he is ashamed to let it appear that he is jealous because then he would be laught at for it therefore he doth nothing but pout mumble bawl scold is cross-grain'd and troubled at every thing nay looks upon his Wife and all the rest of his Family like a Welsh Goat none of them knowing the least reason in the World for it In the meanwhile he useth all possible means privately to attrap his wife for to see that which he never will see and at which he is so divellishly possessed to have a wicked revenge nay which he also never can see though he had a whole boxfull of spectacles upon his nose because she never hath or ever will give him the least reason for it In that manner violating loves knot and laying a foundation of implacable hatred Verily if a woman be a little light-hearted and merry humoured it is a great delight and pleasure for her to be taking notice and every way to be scoffing with all the foolish tricks and devices of such a jealous Coxcomb But otherwise there is no greater Hell upon Earth then for an honest Woman to dwell with a jealous husband because in his absence she dare not in the least speak to any one and in his presence hardly look upon any body This is known to those who have had experience of it and it never went well with any Family where this damned house-divel ever got an entrance 'T is true all men are not defiled with this dirtiness But such Loggerheads many times occasion through their wicked folly and evill doings that the Woman who before never thought of jealousie now begins to grow jealous her self For she considering that her husband is so without any ground or reason looks so sour and ill-natured and alwaies when he comes home every thing stands in his way besides that the soothings and friendly entertainments should differ so much from those of former times and especially from them of the first year cannot imagine that the small gain and the bad times are the occasion of it therefore she thinks that there is some open-ars'd Gipsie that puts him on to these base humors or that he is led away by some or other charming Punk And it is no wonder because coming home lately he said that somewhere as he was walking home he had lost his Watch which he had just as he was coming out of the Tavern And two or three weeks before came home without his Cloak saying that some wicked Rascals had taken it from him in the streets Moreover she rememorates how he related not long since that he had been out of jest one evening with three or four others in six of the most vile and wickedest Bawdy houses in the City though that he had committed nothing unhandsom there as he said therefore she thinks that she hath more reason to suspect his evil doings then he hath of hers And so much the more because that a few months since being at Branford who but he at a Country Wedding amongst the Country Lasses to play at blind mans buff Here he related that he came into Goodman Stones his house his familiar acquaintance in the evening past ten of the clock where he presently went to the daughters chamber and found her in bed under a very thin coverlid with her arms at the top of her head and her breasts with as little covering as was suffrable there he tarried talking kissing toying and playing till one of the clock in the night which she thinks is mighty unbecoming an und married person though it be much done in that Town and much less ought to be done by any married man as her husband is And having pondered upon all these things this and t'other way imagineth that she hath a great deal of reason to suspect him Nay the daily grumbling and mumbling the lessening of the mony his coming home late at nights his cool kindness besides all the rest seem to be sufficient proofs So that here the Pleasure of Marriage is so monstrously Clouded as if there were a great Eclipse of the Sun and it will be a wonder to see with what kind of colour it will appear again For the Husband catechizes his Wife with such a loud voice that it is generally heard through the whole neighbourhood and the Wife to vindicate her innocency le ts fly at him again with such a shrill note as if she had gone to school to learn it in Drury Lane or Turnball street And it is a wonder that the first Chyrurgian is not sent for to cure this Woman of her bad tongue Here you ought to come ô restless Lovers to behold your selves in these two darlings you who in your wooing are also possessed with jealousie if you see that another obtains access to your Mistris or who perhaps as wel as you doth but once kiss the knocker of the dore or cause an Aubade to be plaied under her Chamber Window Look sharply about you and behold how these Aubades decline or whether it be worth your while to give your Rival the Challenge or to stab poison or drown'd your self to shew by such an untimely death the love you had for her and on your Grave bear this Epitaph that through damn'd jealousie you murthered your self These married Couple used to do so but see now what a sad life they live together