Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	believe_v	life_n	sin_n	7,878	5	4.6423	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11488	The castell of loue, translated out of Spanishe into Englyshe, by Johan Bowrchier knyght, lorde Bernis, at the instance of lady Elizabeth Carew, late wyfe to Syr Nicholas Carew knyght. The which boke treateth of the loue betwene Leriano and Laureola doughter to the kynge of Masedonia; Cárcel de amor. English	San Pedro, Diego de, fl. 1500.; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533.	1548 (1548)	STC 21739.5; ESTC S110641	74,182	217

vnkyndnes in his lyfe without the losse of lyfe I could not rewarde hym accordyng to his desire I wyll thou know that his deth causith me to lyue alwayes dyenge now shalte thou se how moche it sorowith me and how moche he pleasyde me now thou shalt iudge what loue I bare hym and know yf I dyd well to suffer hym to dye thou knowist well that with his lyfe he myght haue wonne that by his deth he dysparyd and lost it but syn I can not now paye nor rewarde hym I shall satisfye the make the bere witnes yf I rewarde not seruice as I ought to do ¶ The auctor SHe endyd her wordes with suche heuynes that she coulde scante make an ende for sorow then she went fro me subbyng and sore wepyng wherby her tonge was sore troubelyd chaunged colour and so went in to her chamber with sore inwarde lamen●aciō for feare she shuld haue ben hard Then I wēt to my lodgyng w t so great sorow that often tymes I was desperate of my lyfe with myne owne deth I wold haue ben reuengyd if I coulde not puttynge my selfe in dyspayre And thus beynge alone withoute pleasure aswell as with oute frendes to speke vnto for werynes I layd me downe and as though I had sene Lereano before me presente I sayd to hym as folowith ¶ The auctor to Lereano O Lereano enemye to thy aduēture and frende to thy myshape who can be cause of thy lyfe with this ambassade as I was cause of thy deth w t my message for now if thou knewyst the repentance of Laureola thou woldest change the glory celostyall for thy lyfe temporal for by thy deth thou hast lost thy desyre if thou haddest sauyd thy lyfe without doubte thou shuldest haue wonne that by thy deth thou hast lost Dyd I nat say to the when thou lay a dyenge that by thy deth thou shuldest lese all and by thy lyfe thou myghtest attayne to thy desyre O vnhappy y t I am y t I were not in y ● place where as I myght shew the all that Laureola hath sayd to me and of the thought that she tak●th for lesynge of thy lyfe though w t the deth thou hast wonne the desire of thy will by that she shewith now thou oughtest to thynke thy deth well bestowyd great ioy I shuld recene if I knew that thou dyddeste here me and beleue m● for thou maist se that alonely her repentance suffy seth to pay y ● thy reward yf thou haddeste lyuyde thou shuldeste haue had no cause to haue bē in trouble now thy payne shal be withoute hope of sufferance now thou nediste not to be troubly with thy lyfe nor take no ioy of thy deth O what welth shuld it be for me if god wold suffer me to lese my lyfe to recouer thyne why doth god leue me here without the. who can lese the and lyue after wold to god that the good will that I haue in thy lyfe that thou myghtest pay me with my deth y t which I hope thou shuldest do if thou haddest as good wyll to se me as I haue desire to serue y e. Thus I wyll leue any further to trouble the. ¶ The auctors dreme THus I was so wery that I left my talkynge and as he that wyst not what he dyd I fell in a slombere and amonge other thynges I beganne to dreme wherby I had more payn then pleasure I drempt that I saw Lereano before me aparelled after this maner he had on his hedde a bonet of scarlet with a grene ryband of an euyll colour with a worde enbrowdered saieng thus hope is dead with his colour slayne by your vnkyndnes and when he came nere me I sawe he had on a shyrte wrought with blak sylke with a border of letters sayenge encreasyng my stedfastnes at the ende I found deth Also he had a doblet of yeolow saten enbrowdered with this worde my passion with my ioye satisfied in doynge that I haue done Also he had on a iaket of blake veluyt with a border of saten of the same colour and theron a wrytynge that sayd in my stedfastnes shewed is myne euyll and your trespace Also he had a gerdell of golde with letters reportynge more rather was my dethe then lyfe if ye wolde be seruyd therwith He had also a dager y ● knyues and pomell of asure w t letters sayeng ryght sore was the passion that ye gaue me and yet ye neuer repentyde it Also he had a sworde with the sheth gyrdell of sylke enbrowderyde w t this worde gyuyn to my lyfe such torment that diyng and lyuyng I was content Also his hosen one white a nother blew w t this word chastite ielus of my lyfe could not be sufferyd to serue And ouer all this he had a cappe of blacke enbrowderyd with darke tawny with a worde that sayd heuynes can not so trauayll me that it shulde chāge my stedfastnes His slippers were enbrowdered w t smal letters that sayde myne euyls are at an ende for my seruyce and denyed me is the benyfyte And on his gloues was writen thus begynnyth and endeth the name that most deseruyth So when I had at length regarded his aparell and the stedfaste thoughtes that by lykelyhod he enduryd I behelde his face and I saw his iesture so beautefull that it semed he had neuer taken thought and with an amorous semblant After he had curtesly salutyd me with the same voyce as he was wonte to speke me thought he began to say in this maner ¶ Lereano to the auctor O Thou my true frende thou hast thought that my presence hath bene longe fro the so that I could not tell what y u dyddest nor hard what thou hast spoken thynke not so for I shall neuer be so farre fro the but that I shall alwayes be ioyned with the for though by aduenture in my lyfe I deperted fro the neuer in the deth I shall deperte fro the I shall alwayes be ionyed with the. And all that thou hast sayd of Laureola and of me I was present and hard it god knowith if I myght I wold haue spoken to the but I could not nor feare wold not leue me for I certifie the that this that I do though my speche be short yet it tormenteth me and therfore acordynge to the trust that I haue in thy great vertue I wyll not put the to the payne with long wordes therfore I wyll goo to the effect of thy wordes and to my aunswere Thou sayest thou woldest gladly put me agayne in to life as thou puttedest me to deth beleue nat that thy message gaue me the deth nor I in the begynnynge can not be excused fro coming to this ende thou sayst thou woldest that I were in the dysposicion that I myght ioy me for the repentynge of Loureola I can not thanke the therfore bycause I can not make y ● a recompence for the gretest seriuce that

I could make is not so greate but the lest deseruynge that I huae receyued of the is moche gretter As for her rewardes I desyre them not for I can haue as now no ioye of them though I desyre them neuer somoche and though now with her repentynge she thynk to satysfie me yet her cruelnes was so trobelous that though she dyd more yet I can not be rewardyd Thou sayst I shuld thynke my dethe well enployede syn I haue wonne by her that without her I lost now wold I do it if lyfe were lefte with me for though I myght ioy therwith what profyt shuld it be to me to beleue this without I myght se what she doth and I beleue if she myght se me agayne to lyue she wolde gyue me more payne and lesse hope but the best to be delyueryd fro hope is deth for it is better to suffer a good deth then to endure with an euyll lyfe beleue not but and I had beleuyd that I shuld haue seruyd her better lyuyng then to dye I wold not haue dyed yet but syn that with my lyfe I could not preuayll I thought then with deth to remedy me thynke not that I was so farre withoute wytte that I knew not that it was good to lyue to serue her though I coulde haue no ioy of her but I could neuer know by her aūswere that she was cōtēt w t my seruyce as y u knowist ryght well but she dyd let me dye for I desiryd lyfe to leue me also y u seist that y u desirest to recouer me to lese thy lyfe I beleue y ● and I thāke y ● therof though I cā do none other thyng y u desirist me to pray for thy deth bycause we myght lyke frendes ioy to gether syn we could not in our lyfe be not of y ● beleue for I had rather her spekynge of thy lyfe withoute syght of the then to know thou shuldest be with me dede howbeit by thy deth thou shuldest but change thy lyfe for thy fame shuld neuer dye but euer lyue thus I wyll leue the not bicause I wyll go farre fro the. wherfore I requyre the take it for none euyll that I speke no more to the for though I wolde I can not ¶ The auctor WHen Lereano had made an ende of his wordes I thought to haue aunswerd hym but then in my dreme me thought I saw Laureola entre into my chambre as vysyble as though I had bene wakyng me thought she was in a strange aparel and with a new companyon and in y e regardynge of so new a vision I left aunswerynge Lereano and began to marke the maner of her aparell● and I so regarded her● that I left lokyng vpon Lereano She hadde vpō her hed a fresh atyer frete enbrowdered with letters sayeng my cruel condicion gyueth no deth to seruyce nor yet rewarde Her smocke wrought with whyte sylke tyed with letters sayeng thy deth is so fastened to my lyfe that I can not scape without deth Her kertell of blacke saten with a folyage of tawny w t letters sayeng thy stedfastnes myght haue gyuen me suche payne that at the ende it myght haue wonne me Her gyrdell was wrought with thredes of gold reportynge More rather shulde haue bene my glory with thy lyfe then with thy deth Her mantel was of .ii. colours the one parte red the other blew with a wrytynge that sayde now ioye can not enioye me without great thought She had a tabard of blew russet with letters sayeng with thy deth my memory is certayne so that lyuynge my glory is dede Also on her gloues was wryten thus with that I began I make an ende though I deserue no deth her slyppers were enbrowdered with this word I haue more payne for thy payne then for myne own yet more deserueth my shame So when I had well regarded her aparell and marked well the sygnificacions of the wrytynges I saw how w t moche sorow and smal pleasure by semblant more lykely to dye then to lyue she turned her face towardes Lereano wher as he stode and began to say in this maner ¶ Laureola to Lereano FRende Lereano neuer thynke that the force of thy strenght for so litle an incōuenience that I shuld consent to lose for as thou hast sayd to be desyrous to serue me more honour y u shuldest haue done me in lyuynge then I to gyue y ● deth for surely thy wekenes nor thy payne nor yet thy loue coulde not make me beleue that thou shuldest haue died therfore thou maist clerely se what euyll thou hast done yf y u thynk that I dyd was to mocke the or to proue the what errour then I haue done to thy purpose yf true louers cane not suffre how shall they come to theyr desyrs he that can not suffre can not ioy nor but seldome attayne to his glory there is no vertue but in sufferynge of payne therby to haue ioye of theyr good aduenture thou oughtest more to be blamed beynge discrete for that thou hast done then to be praysed for a trew louer And beleue surely that yf I had not ben surer of thy fayth I wolde haue gyuen no credence to thy stedfastnes nor yet haue gyuen the none occasion at the begynnynge to haue come to this ende and more to shew the the trouth● then to rewarde the of thy payne I make the sure yf I had beleued that y u shuldest haue died I wold rather haue taken the deth my selfe ● then to haue consented to thy deth for it shuld haue bene greate conscience to me to haue sffuered the to dye for the trust that I had in that thou dydest for my seruyce caused me in maner to beleue thy wrytynge but then agayne the suretie y t I thought had ben in thy wysdome and dyscrecion caused me to doubte it and in this maner I gaue more credence to thy discrecion then to thy determyned deth Lereano it ought to haue suffysid the to remēber in what case myne honour stode in and perell of my lyfe and to haue ben cōtent to know that I ought the my fauour for thy euyll greuyd me worse thē myne owne though I shewyd it not to the if thou wylte denye this remember what I was and how small necessite I had of thy seruice ones writyng to the shuld haue sufficyd though I dyd not put the in no suretie for thou knewist well that my wrytyng procedyd of no feare but of myne owne good wyll thou canste not denye whan of my message thou dyddeste dispaire and dyed dyd I not put the in hope when I sayde that if I lyuyd lenger then my father then shuldest se how I wold rewarde thy deseruyng so that thou shuldeste not blame me for any vnkindnes I will speke no more syn I shall no more se the and by cause I can receyue no more passiō then I do for thy deth therfore I make short my wordes

haue sene hym now I wolde neuer haue come hither to se hym but rather haue suffered payne with his absence then glory to se hym seinge I can not remedy hym I had thought neuer to haue had suche payne for hym for the more that the greatnes of astate withstode denyed yet for all that I thought to haue done the contrary or my lyfe had departed for with great trauayll I thought to haue suyd to the kyng my father for his libertie it was not by my consent that he was cōmaundyd not to come in to y e courte where as he myght haue place to haue sene me yet for al y t he neded not to haue dyed for the tyme myght haue come y t he shulde haue hadde no cause to haue disparyd for thought I by my crueltie had consentyd to haue put hym to passion yet I myght aswell agayne haue rewarded hym by my bountie and pitie as to haue denyed hym I wyll as now make no quarell to my wyll syn his seruyce good warkes I thought to haue rewardyd but I quarell with the bautie that god hath gyuen me and so myght Lereano haue done for that more begyled hym then other condiciō or wyll But bycause the tyme is short and the passion great I wyll no more say but I make the sure that thought Lereauo were not worthy of a state nor lynage to haue had me to his wyfe● yet he shuld not haue bene in dispayre ther of but syn I can not as now rewarde his warkes and good seruyce I desyre the not to depart fro the courte thouhg thy desyre be in to thyne owne natural countrey so doinge thou shalt know by the rewardes that I shal gyue the what honour I bare to Lereano lyuing ¶ The auctor WHen Laureola had endyd her wordes she was so heuy and so full of wepyng y t in a maner hre payneful lyfe greuyde me as sore as the dethe of Lereano And to all this that she hadde sayd I wolde haue aunswerde her and thankyd her of her great bountie to me shewyd aswell as for the curtesye of her meke speche And so me thought as I was mouyd sodēly with a great sighe she depertyde fro me and with a loude voyce sayd I can no more sorow y e deth which is euer certeyne then the losse of the lyfe of hym that is dede thē I lokyd all aboute and saw how I was left all alone and therwith awoke out of my dreme then was I so sorowfull that I wist not what to do nor thynke of my dreme and when I saw no man to speke vnto I was so pēsyue that oftē tymes with myne owne handes I thought to haue ryde my lyfe● therby thynkynge to haue founde that I had lost and when I remembryd that with my deth I could not recouer the lyfe of the dede then I thought it a great errour to lese myne own sowle w tout the ioyeng of his body And as it is a sure xeperiēce that musyk encreasith payne to hym y t is in sorow so lyke wyse it encreasith pleasur in the harte of them that be contente and in ioye then I toke an harpe and songe as folowith Harte take no payne in this lyfe for it may be ouercome for it canne not endure longe bicause we be mortall the euyll that shewith her force is redy to take the deth synne that lyfe is most euyll thē I coūsayl the shew no strēgth against y e ouercome for who that sleith the lyfe with deth is pleasyd therfore that lyfe is good that takith deth after the best sorte he that dyeth lyuyng hath not moche to suffre but he that lyueth dyenge his euyll payne is stronge who can not suffre euyll when they be satisfyed with euyll and though they be mortall yet the sorow is equall thus I make an ende of my songe and then without any more studyng that I had to do I cōmaunded to sadell my horse for I thought it was tyme for me to deperte to go in to my owne country And thus I departed fro them that I mette in the streate more acompaned w t sorow and wepynge yes then with any other consolasion of pleasoure my heuynes so encreased and my helth so payred that I neuer thought to come a lyue in to my countrey when I was well entered on my way there came so many thynges to my fantasye that thynkyng on them I was nere oute of my witte howbeit at last remembrynge my selfe that it was no profyt to muse on them I traueled my self asmoch as I myght to brynge them out of my remembrance So I traueled my body in this yourney and my sowle in sundry thoughtes and fynally I arryued at my owne poore mansion and thus I bydde fare well adew all true louers And all y e readers an herers of this proces desyryng them where they fynd faulte to amend it and I shall pray to god for theyr prosperyte and at theyr ende to send them the ioyes of paradyce Amen Finis ¶ Prynted at London in Pauls churcheyarde by Iohan Turke at the sygne of the byble

meruayll why the kyng delte so with hym Then they were conueyede oute of the feld with lyke seremonyes how be it they were not lyke in fame honour So they were brought to theyr lodgynges and there taryed all nyght The next day in the mornyng Lereano determynyd to go to y e palace to desyre the kyng in presence of all his courte to restore his honour to do vpon Persio ryghtwyse iustyce But Persyo who was malycyous of his condycion and sharpe wyttyd to th entent y t he myght by some meanes attayn to his purpose whyls y t Lereano spake w t the kyng he callyd to hym .iii. false men lyke to his own condycions toke theyr othe that they shuld shew them To y ● which they agreyd Then he gaue to them moche money so that they shuld say and swere to the kyng that they had sene Lereano spekyng w t Laureola in places suspect and in tyme dyshonest which they proferyd to afferme and to swere it to the lefyng of theyr lyues I leue to speke of the doloure that Laureola sufferyd by cause the passyon shuld not trouble so my wytte but that I myght make an ende of y t I haue begonne for I haue no lesse payne to remembre her sorowe beyng absent then as thought I were present and saw it with myne eyen but I wyll torne to Lereano who had more sorow for her prysonement then glory of his victory When he knew that the kyng was ryson he went to the palayce in the presence of the knyghtes of the courte he sayd to the kyng as folowith ¶ Lereano to the kyng SIr of suertie with better wyll● I wold haue sufferyd the chastisement of your iustice then y ● shame to haue come to your presence if I had not atteygned yesterday the better of the batayll The which yf ye had taken well I shulde haue bene clene quyte delyueryde fro the false accusacion of Persyo for in the syght of euery man I shuld haue gyuen hym the rewarde that he deseruyd It is great dyfference to haue power to do a thynge and to do it in deade Great auauntage ye shewyd hym y ● reason why I can nother thynke nor imagine● ye cōmaūdyde to deperte vs and specially syn our debate tochyd your selfe so nere as he that shuld desyre to be reuengyd for the loue of Laureola lyke a pytefull father and I beleue well that as now ye be well satysfied of her dycharge and ignorance And syr yf ye dyd it for compassion ye hadde of Persyo ye ought as iustely to haue regardyd myne honour aswell as his lyfe seyng I ame your naturall subget And yf ye dyd is by reasone of the inportunate● suet of some of his frendes ye ought aswell to haue remembryde the seruyce that I myne haue done you syn ye know w t what constaūce of hart many of them in dyuerce bateyls haue loste in your seruyce theyr lyues which none of them haue done the .iii. parte Therfore syr I requyre you that by uistice ye wyll satysfye the honour that I haue wonne w t my handes Syr kepe your lawes if ye thynke to conserue your naturall subiectes nor syr consent not that so false a man shuld lyue that kepith so euyll preemynence of his predecessours to the entent that his venyme do not corrupte them that be his parte takers Certaynly I ame culpable in no thyng but in that I haue bene so good a frende to my wrongfull accuser and if for this I haue deserued payne lette me haue it yet my clere innocency shall assoyll me I haue conseruyde his amyte beleuyng he had bene good and not iudgyng his euyll nor falsenes If ye suffre hym to serue you I say he shal be the beste seruaunt to make dyscorde and lyes that shal be in all your courte Syr remember in your selfe how ye be bounde to do ryght to eury man Wherfore determyne this cause with prudence and gyue sentence with your acustomed iustice Syr the thynges of honour ought to be clere and if ye perdone hym for any request though yt be by the pryncipall of your realme or for any other thyng at your pleasur I wyll not then abyde y e iudgement of dyuerce of your mē to be taken as clene dyscharged For thought some beleue the trouth by reasone yet some wylbe troubelyd and say the worste And though in all your realme the trouth be not knowen yet comenly the fame of the trouth by reasone of fouour of the partye wyll not be borne farre of so y t I can not be clene dyscharged out of all mennys fantasyes yf this man scape withoute open punyshemēt Syr for goddessake sette myne honour with oute any dysputacion as for my lyfe ordeyne at your pleysour ¶ The auctor TO the sayng of Lereano the kyng gaue good entent and aunswered that he wold take counsayll what was best to do and sayde that in suche a case delybercion wold be taken or any sentence shuld be gyuyn Of trouth the kynges aunswere was not so swete as it ought to haue ben for by that I saw yf the kyng hadde put Laureola at her lybertie Lereano hadde enduryde no trouble For he thought to serue her for all y t he was reputyd culpable though his entent were clere withoute faulte Thus the kyng to eschewe the rumour and besynes that was lykely to fall bytwene Lereanos frendes Persius cōmaundyd Lereano to go to a towne of his owne a .ii. leages fro y ● court cally● Susa and there to tary tyll he had set a dyrection in y e mater The which Lereano dyde with a ioyful hart thynkyng that ●aureola was clerely dy●chargyd whiche was y e thyng he mooste desiryd● But then Persyo who alwayes trauelyde to offend and to shame his honour and to defende it by malyce he sente for ii of his complyses or Laureola was delyuerede and sayde to them That eche of them a parte shulde go to the kyng and of them selfe to shew hym how that the accusacion of Persio was trew and to bere wytnes that they had ●een Lereano dyuerce tymes speke with Laureola aloone suspyciously The which wytnes and affyrmacion whe● the kyng hard it he was sore trowbelyd therwith and examynyd eche of them a parte by subtyle sharpe perswasions to se yf they any thyng swaruyd in ther sayenges But they were such persons that if a man shulde haue wastyde all his lyfe in falsenes coulde not be lyke them They were so sure of theyr wordes the more they were examynyde the surelyer they fortefyed theyr false lyes So that therby the kyng gaue to theyr false sayenges fayth and beleue And by reasone of theyr informaciō y e kyng reputyd Persyo for trew seruant and beleuyd that it was more by reasone of his fortune rather then by his vntrw quarell that he lost the batayll O Persyo better it hadde ben for the to haue sufferyd the deth