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	die_v	live_v	11,962	5	5.5900	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10285	True and wonderfull A discourse relating to a strange and monstrous serpent (or dragon) lately discouered, and yet liuing, to the great annoyance and diuers slaughters both of men and cattell, by his strong and violent poyson, in Sussex two miles from Horsam, in a woode called S. Leonards Forrest, and thirtie miles from London, this present month of August. 1614. With the true generation of serpents.	A. R., fl. 1614.	1614 (1614)	STC 20569; ESTC S104584	9,158	18

and the poore Mastiffes that were poysond may they not bee properly figur'd by poore mens cursses bark't out and sent against them but alas they mooue them not but are beaten downe and poyson'd with their stronger venome And lastly if they change not the coppy of their Serpentine condition they will leaue behind them at their returne from this world such as the tracke of the Serpent is when he shifts his ground a stench and vnholsome steame neither the sweet odour of poore mens prayers nor the happie farewell of a blessed memorie their farewels will bee both a like good for the world when they are both gone out of it Auarus nisi cum moritur nil rectè facit Seneca Might I not goe further and apply this Serpent to the stinging tongues of calumnious backe-biters and slanderers doe not their breaths often poison the reputation and good names of honest men and women let them listen to this larum-bell too What if I added Drunkards is there not a loathsome trackt left after them wheresoeuer they goe nay doe they not dailie throw forth their venome vomites not onely in the fields but in the stréetes yea the houses nay their verie friends bosomes are often made the receptacles of their ore-charged stomackes Me thinkes in two words more I could heere aptlie applie this Serpent to the most common kind of Creatures I doe not meane the Common-wealth but the common pouerty rather to the Serpentine sisterhoode of Brotherly the diseased strumpetrie of the Suburbes oh that the Cittie were not frée of but frée from that Companie is not our Serpent disciphered by a white Ring about his necke How thinke you when you sée onely a white Tiffanie about the necke of one of those tugging Gally-slaues of Damnation and all the rest poison May they not make themselues readie by looking into this mirror I dare goe no further in application and bootelesse it were vnlesse I knew how to kill the Serpent But now I will set forth two notable examples the one of a Dragon the other of a Dog and the rather I séeke to set them out that the wicked thereby may know what they themselues are when bruite beasts shall set them all to schoole There was a man as Plinie Plinie writeth which fostered vp a young Dragon Thankefulnesse of a Dragon to his Master who séeing the same beast to waxe wonderfull great feared to keepe his Dragon any longer within his house and therefore he put him out into a wilde Forrest It happened afterward that the same man trauailing on his iourney through the Forrest was beset with théeues And now béeing in this distresse and looking for no other end but death made as loath to depart a great showte and an out-crie straight vpon whose noise and at the knowledge of his voice the Dragon came to him in all the hast possible Wherevpon the théeues being greatly affraid ran cleane away to saue themselues harmelesse Then the Dragon conducted his Maister safe out of the danger homewards and returned to the Forrest againe Thankefulnesse of a Dog to his Maister The Dog of the Romane Fuluius is more wonderful This Fuluius trauailing by the way was slaine with slaues that lay in waite for him His Dogge séeing his Master dead laye by him for the space of two daies Whereuppon when the man was missing and search made for him they found him dead with his Dog lying by him Some maruailing to sée the Dog lye there by his dead Maister stroke him and would haue driuen him from the dead corse and could not some séeing such kindnesse in the Dogge and pittying him that he should lye there without meat two or thrée daies before cast him a piece of flesh wherevpon the Dog straight carried the meat to his Maisters mouth and would not eate any whit himselfe though he had forborne meat so long before And last of all when this dead body should be cast into the riuer according to the manner of the Romaines the Dog leapt in after and holding vp his Maister so long as he could did choose rather to die with him then to liue without him I would with my conclusion I could haue concluded with the death of this terrible and noisome Creature and that from that generall good to our Countrie I might haue return'd into euery mans particular bosome to haue destroy'd the home-bred Serpents which are indéed rather our Penates or houshold Gods then any annoyance to vs for 't is our miserable estate heauen reuert it rather to adore then abhorre our sins and iniquities Reuelat. The Dragons taile hath drawen after it most part of the stars of Heauen as reuerend Bernard saith hat Magnitudo penarum facit multitudo peccatorum from the monsters of our sinnes the monsters of our punishment increaseth These persons whose names are herevnder printed haue seene this Serpent besides diuers others as the Carrier of Horsam who lieth at the white Horse in Southwarke can certifie the truth of all Iohn Steele Christopher Holder And a widdow woman dwelling nere Faygate FINIS