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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	day_n	life_n	7,969	5	4.4414	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09765	A summarie of the antiquities, and wonders of the worlde, abstracted out of the sixtene first bookes of the excellente historiographer Plinie, vvherein may be seene the wonderful workes of God in his creatures, translated oute of French into Englishe by I.A.; Naturalis historia. English. Abridgments	Pliny, the Elder.; Alday, John, attributed name.; I. A.	1566 (1566)	STC 20031; ESTC S110480	40,229	130

féete two hundreth in hys handes and two hundreth on his shoulders so being loden or charged wyth sixe hundreth waight went vpon a ladder Plinie wryteth to haue séene one named Athanatus to haue a iacke on his backe waying fiue hūdreth waight going to a play with shooes on his féete waying fiftie pounde waight a piece Milo set his foote in a place from which place there was no man able to make him goe backe or remoue If that he helde a staffe in his hand there was no man able to take it away or wrythe it out of his fist For running there hath bene many light and nimble men that would runne a thousande a hundreth and threscore furlongs a day and more Also there are some y t haue their sight very singuler We reade of a man called Strabo of the country of Sicilia that is toward the East to recken cou●npt the shippes that parted from Carthage for to enter into the South sca. Cicero did recite that he did see the Ihades of Homer in verse written being included in a Nutte shell so small were the figures Marmecides made a Cart or Wagon so little that a flye did couer it And he made a ship that a Bée might couer with both hir wings For a truth there haue bene people that haue heard battayls fighting fiftie Leagues of for they haue counted the tyme hours of the assaults The memorie hath bene very singuler to some Cyrus Kyng of Persie had the memorie to know and call euery one of his army by their names Methridates the king did talke one day to his people in .xxij. languages without stutting or stammering Others léese their memory by fātastes or otherwise haue forgotten their vnderstanding Messalla the orator did forget by grieuous sicknesse his sciēces yea his owne name in such sorte that he knewe not frō whence he was Maruellous was the memorie of Iulius Cesar the which named to foure scribes or wryters at one tyme and in the meane time he read writ and hearde and if he had no other affaires he wolde name to seauen He sought 52. battayles And Marcellus 40. Cesar in his battayles is reputed to haue slaine of his enimies 1192. thousande men Pompeus did spoile and take from the pirates and sea robbers against whom he was sent by the Romaines 876. ships Moreouer Cesar had this cōstancie that the letters that Scipio did send him for to betray Pompeus he cast into the fire without reading them Cato was accused to the Senatours 42. tymes and alwayes absolued Sicinus dictator of Rome sustayned sixe score battayles he had fiue fortie woundes before and not one behinde Sergius was a worthy warrior he deliuered Cremona from the siege kept Placentia toke in Fraunce twelue Castles and Townes He had his right hande cut off and he made one of yron with the which he fought foure battayles Pitifull thinges are founde worthie of memorie thorowe all partes among the which it commeth to my remēbrance of a woman taken in Rome for to dye for offence and being put into straight Prison there to be famished hir daughter had lycence of the Iayler to goe sée hir euery day but shée was searched for feare least shée should bring hir mother foode In the ende it was found that euery day she did giue hir mother sucke with hir breastes and for to satisfie hir shee came dayly The Senators hauing intelligence therof did pardon the mother for the vertue that was in the daughter and did appoynte them a lyuing during their lyues Marucllous are the operations of humaine creatures amōg others onely of paintings that doe resemble the lyuing so nere that there resteth nothing but y e speach The king Attallꝰ bought a table or picture of a Painter whiche cost a hundreth Markes Cesar bought two for eyght hundreth Markes Mans age hath bene reputed greate among the auncients which do name Princes and kings to haue lyued eyght hūdreth yeares and a thousand yeares but it is by the varietie of yeres for some make the Sommer a yeare and the winter another yeare and others make thrée monthes a yeare as the Arcadians you muste not stay nor iudge things by the constellation of the firmament For in one presēt houre many are born as well seruaunts as maysters kings and magistrates whose fortunes are al dyuers contrarie Many examples we haue of sickenesses Publius Cornelius Rufus in dreaming to haue loste his sight became blinde lost his sight Some there are that liue but til middle age and others that dye in their youth and nature doth giue a man nothing better than short life To liue long the senses vnderstāding become blunt the whole mēbers féele dolor the sight the hearing and the going fayle the téeth also the instruments of meats therefore age is but payne and there is a tyme prefixed to liue We reade no better example than of Zenophilus the Musitian that lyued a hundreth fiue yeares without sicknesse The signes of death are to laugh in the ●uror grief of the malady or sicknesse to be bu●e in folding or doubling the clothes of hys bed with his handes to voyde from one in sléeping behinde a fearefull looke with other things and therefore séeing that by experience we sée innumerable signes of death therefore there is no certaintie Sickenesses are dyuers both to olde and yong Sirius died by the multitude of Serpentes procéeding from his body Some haue had an Ague all their lyfe time Mecaenas was seuē yeres in the end of his dayes without sléepe Antipater lyued long without sickenesse sauing that euery yeare on that day that he was borne he had the Ague We reade of one that lyued 157. yeares that slept in his age 57. yeares and weakened as thoughe he had slept but one houre Others that haue returned a foote from their graue when they were borne to be buried Pōpeus caused a mans heade to be smittē off which when it was layde againe to the body did speake an houre both to the maister of the house and to manye others of the house Death bringeth repentance Some die for ioy men in the hearing of ioyfull newes of victoryes and women to sée their children The father of Iulius Cesar dyed in putting on his hose felte before no harme Some in drinking some in wryting and others in dyuers maners as we daylye sée by experience Aunciently the vse was among the Romaines to bury the deade but for the often battayles of the Romaines that had all the worlde in their subiection they vse to burne the deade Among men Liber Pater found first the meanes to sell and buy also Diademes for kings for triumphes The Lady Ceres founde the meanes to sowe corne and to grinde it and therefore shée was called a Goddesse For before they vsed Acornes The Assirians founde firste the meane to write letters but the inuention hath bene since the beginning of the world Two brethren in Athens found