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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	good_a	soul_n	9,788	5	5.0756	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36779	Counsellor Manners, his last legacy to his son enriched and embellished with grave adviso's, pat histories, and ingenious proverbs, apologues, and apophthegms / by Josiah Dare.	Dare, Josiah, 17th cent.	1673 (1673)	Wing D247; ESTC R23852	61,733	166

highly esteemed of others In such a case be not troubled with a frivolous report of Dishonour rather be prodigal of thy Reputation than thy life run not wilfully into an Aceldama into the Grave into Hell to be counted valorous care not so much for the shame of the world as the danger of thy body and soul Men of great Valour have rejected Challenges which have proceeded from those who have had more heart than brain more head than wit and that without any blemish at all to their Credit When Anthony challenged Augustus he answered That if Anthony were weary of life there were ways enough to death besides Duelling But say some will call thee a Coward yet fear not shame so much as sin thou hast but one body do not adventure it upon the Sword of an Enemy but one Soul do not adventure it upon the Sword of God Love a good Name but yet as an Handmaid of Vertue woo and court common Fame no further than it follows upon honest courses and vertuous actions and think thy self but base if thou shouldst depend upon vulgar breath which is commonly none of the sweetest It is as great a Symptom of a crazy Reputation as it is of a crazy body to be too impatient upon every slight touch And truly methinks it is strange that men should so eagerly pursue Honour and so hotly court her as to vindicate her upon any man who should but touch her though never so slightly with the hazard both of body and soul Whilst in their impious and inhumane Duels they make themselves if they survive their Antagonists either liable to be hanged by the Laws of men or to be damn'd by the Laws of God or finally liable to both if God shew not more mercy to them than they did to their Brethren whose blood they spilt in some vain or perhaps drunken Brabble But let them pass as dangerous men to be conversed withal only 't were good men would hearken to Gonsalvo that famous Commander who was wont to say that a Gentlemans honour should be de telâ crassiore of a stronger warp or web than that every slight thing should catch in it and be thought able to break it Think besides the bloody fact being once committed of those terrours which will if thou hast any Grace left in thee dog thy Conscience with the srightful Vissions of thy murthered Friend and think moreover how together with him thou hast murdered unless thou canst procure a pardon thy poor Children and undone thy whole Family and laid such a blemish upon thy posterity after thee as peradventure shall never be blotted out again the stain being laid so deep in blood LXXIV Be not too ventrous in exposing thy self like a Knight Errand to needness dangers 't is an unhappy Proverb He that courts perils shall dye the Devils Martyr I have heard that in our last Civil Wars a young Cavaliero being well mounted started out to pickeer with another of the Enemies side and killed him and returning in a vain glorious manner to his Company Prince Rupert who then commanded that Party and was a Spectator of his Bravery asked him this Question Sir pray resolve me whether you are an elder or a younger Brother who replying that he was an elder Brother the Prince told him That he had then that day shewed his younger Brother fair play for it And what got my Gallant by this but instead of the applause he expected the estimation of being Fool Hardy rather than truly valiant As I would not have thee kneel with the Camel to take up a burden under which thou canst not rise again so with the Elephant I would have thee like a stout man to bear a Castle if it be laid upon thy back There is a time for the tolerancy of a mans crosses and therefore neither like the wild Beast bred in a cold Climat run from the fire nor like a Moth flittering about the Candle run into it LXXV Come not presumptuousty into places where some are contagiously sick lest thou come untimely to thy Grave come not within the lists of destruction he that would not fall into the pit must not approach the brink Likewise bestow cost as long as thou mayst to continue thy life by upholding and repairing thy Cottage of clay It is against the course of Nature and a way to tempt the very God of Nature to destroy thee wilfully to hinder thy health or not to seek means to preserve it God sendeth several Diseases and hath appointed several Medicines as Remedies to encounter them therefore honour the Physician and with King Hezekiah lay a plaister upon the Boil say not mans life hath a period as the Sea hath its bounds beyond which it cannot pass and therefore think not like a Turk that if thy time be not yet come that though thou thrust thy head into a Cannon it cannot kill thee for though no man can live one minute beyond the set time God hath appointed him to live yet by refusing the due means to preserve thy self or by thy sins and deb nicheries thou mayst cut thy days the shorter God that predestines the end doth as well predestine the means tending to the attainment thereof This the Psalmist makes evident when he tells us The wicked and blood-thirsty men shall not live out half their days And we may observe by our daily experiences that men in Feavers Squinancies and Pleurisies are preserved many years longer by timely Phlebotomy who without such means would unavoidably and immediately perish To this purpose I have read a remarkable Spanish Story and it is this There was in Toledo a debauched young Gentleman scarce twenty years of age who for Robbery and Murder was condemned to dye and being hanged on the day of Execution upon a Gibbet suddenly there grew out of his a little before unflidged Chin a long Beard white as Snow which when the Archbishop of the place coming to the Gallows observed he gave the amazed people that stood by this conjecture of so strange an Accident that God by this wonderful thing had shewn that if the young Man had not cut himself off by his vitious and abominable courses he might have lived to an extreme old age Say not when thy Glass is run do what thou wilt thou canst stay no longer and the Clock will strike when the Minutes be past neither say that that which must be shall be and let death seek thee yet it shall not find thee till thy time be come and therefore away with Physick what shall means do For then a Rope upon thee try every Knife eat Coloquintida thy belly full frequent places where the Air about thee doth infect and where the breath of one body is poyson to another and by the like reason thou mayst excuse thy wickedness and be desperately and dissolutely careless But in matters of Hope where the end is not known use means with Asa though thou relye not upon