Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	corruption_n	soul_n	5,827	5	5.4920	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16206	The castle, or picture of pollicy shewing forth most liuely, the face, body and partes of a commonwealth, the duety quality, profession of a perfect and absolute souldiar, the martiall feates encounters and skirmishes lately done by our English nation, vnder the conduct of the most noble and famous Gentleman M. Iohn Noris Generall of the Army of the states in Friseland. The names of many worthy and famous gentlemen which liue and haue this present yeare. 1580. ended theyr liues in that land most honorably. Handled in manner of a dialogue betwixt Gefferay Gate, and William Blandy, souldiars. Anno 1581.	Blandie, William.; Gates, Geffrey.	1581 (1581)	STC 3128; ESTC S104609	42,363	70

endlesse felicity and that the iusticer is assaulted although after an other manner as egerly of his enemy in the chamber as the souldiar prouoked to fight in the fielde with his deadly foe I speake not here of a bodely death but of a death whereunto bodye and soule through offence is subiect and that peace is to be preferred before warres for which we dayly pray the officers and magistrates in peace and therefore the iusticer their chiefe and principall shall haue the second place in this commonwealth as one that will not harken to corruption much lesse suffer his minde to be abused and defiled with bribery For woe woe may that cōmonwealth crie if they which sitt in iudgement will be by any maner of entisementes allured and wonne from the swéete and sacred countenaunce of iustice In consideration whereof this realme of England is in my opinion in this poynt thrise happy and blessed Gate Verely I thinke no lesse if the Lawyers of this Realme for the most part with theyr companies did as well imitate the vertue and sincere dealing as they daylye beholde the grauity of the iudges of this land their order should not at this present be subiect to a deserued disgrace such rebuke such reproch should not follow those fellowshippes and houses of courte where gentlemen descended of noble Parentage liue and suppose themselues to trace the steppes of honor and worshipp Blandy What say you Gate I speake not against the law for without it no kingdome can stand The good and well minded Lawyer I greatly reuerence The young Gentlemen which come thither either to study the law or to approue what exercise and condition of life may best fitt theyr noble natures I highly commend wishing my selfe as able to perswade thē the best as they are of a good inclination tractable The rēnant which retayne no good thing I would with all lowly duety and submission to the state I speake it were well imployed Blandy Are any of this profession idle and vnoccupyed Gate It were better they were idle then so ocupied Blandy Is it possible Gate This is the blowing billow you in your bodye proportioned spake of before which deformeth all other parts This is y e mortiferous deadly worme which hath almost with his eger and perpetuall gnawing and biting worne the legges to the bone This is the impostumation which if it be not in time pricked will with his stincking contagiō poison all This order is the nurse mother of those mates which at their seasons styrre hither and thither to moue brawles It is a worlde to beholde what new and straunge natures they haue clapt on how they transforme them selues There where there is no hope of gayne he stādeth as he thinketh gaylye but yet as he is a counterfaite looking to be worshipped and will not stick so vnmanerly a puppye he is to take the vpper place of right good gentlemen Here the same man hoping to gayne of a poore and simple clowne of the Countrye fortye pence is become his slaue and drudge O that Georgias Leontinus did lyue in some English mans hart and stomack who reprouing the rulers of Larissa because they had receaued into the company of pleaders any kinde of people was wont to say that euen as plasterers of any kynde of stuffe would make Morter or any thing of lyke sort So there were so conning crafismē in Larissa which of any condition and kinde of men would make a Lawyar Cicero the most famous orator and learned in the lawes that euer Rome nourisht whē they brake their lists and lymits grewe disordered nippeth most wisely those of his owne order in this māner Proueniūt nobis oratores noui stulti adolescētuli So that I pray God most hartely it fareth not with vs the inhabitants of this noble Iland as it did after the forewarnings and shewes of these two not so faythfull to their Countrye as inséene in the state of their Commonwealth with the people of Larissa and the Cittizens of Rome For not long after these people and florishing Citties fell downe headlong to the ground For how was it possible that the state of those Empires could long stand stedfast when the chiefe and principall pillers that should susteyne the waight and burthen of so huge so high so honorable and ample a gouernement became rotten Which ruine and ouerthrowe of the whole Common-wealth appeared then not so much by decayed houses which were aunciēt of great nobility as by erecting mānors where dyrt and dong was found In consideration whereof I let to speake of the hills and mountaynes raysed lands and possessions purchased aboundance of wealth gathered and forst together by men in our nation neither wise nor learned politike nor prudent temperate liberall nor pitifull Blandy Is it not a poynt and chiefe poynt thinke you of great pollicye and wisedome to aduaunce our stock and family Is it not in the opinion of most men a happy thing to be rich doe not all men delight in and therefore desire a fayre large and beautifull house To be Lord of many Mannors to receaue many reuenewes doth it not in gender great fauour bring much worshipp and reuerence Gate If you folowe herein the iudgement of the multitude I assent If you forgett their blinde and grosse Imaginations and cleaue to the assured and vndeteaueable directions of wise men you shall briefely vnderstand what is séemely in and best becommeth a Lawyar Where the the minde is styrred with a desier to be aduaunced and to rayse his name and bloud frō a meane to a higher degrée there is the minde so vexed with diuersitye that at length it yeldeth to some great and greuous extremitye But whē the minde is taught that the chiefe and soueraigne good resteth in an honest and vertuous lyfe there are the cogitations calme and swéete there content holdeth desier restrayned from any ambitious affection This man that is thus affected séeketh altogether to please and inrich his minde prouideth for no more then will suffise nature holdeth it a perilous thing to be rich and is assuredly perswaded that aboundance and flowing of worldly wealth rather hindereth then helpeth rather plucketh downe then erecteth the courage and aspiring minde of a noble nature The Iusticer therefore and Lawiar which is the right hand of a Prince ought if he purpose to kéepe the state condition of his lyfe cleare and vnsteyned to lyue in the contemplatiō of iustice feede and nourish his minde with the lone of vertue thinking it a thing farr vnfitt for his high calling to be déemed in his desiers a Marchaunt in his order and course of lyfe an artificer The Souldiar who hath the third place in this Cōmonwealth of whose lyfe nature and propertye we purpose presently to treate of yeldeth the desire of riches to the Marchaunt déeming it for his condition of lyfe and profession a foule matter to be addicted to such trash dyrt and pelfe Blandy