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	heart_n	soul_n	4,780	5	4.6461	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03389	The most excellent historie of Lysimachus and Varrona, daughter to Syllanus, Duke of Hypata, in Thessalia Wherin are contained the effects of fortune, the wonders of affection, and the conquests of incertaine time. By I.H. R.	Hind, John, fl. 1596-1606.	1604 (1604)	STC 13510; ESTC S106221	70,579	101

of his eleuation vnto prosperitie vtterly casting behind them the remembrance of their former state and condition This Insolainder was so blinded with promotion that vpon hope of a little commoditie purchased by his maisters death sought as I said by all meanes to worke his ruine which being perceiued for God will not suffer such vilde attempts to be practised Valentine prosecuted the matter so earnestly against him that hée was throwne into prison where for shame of his déede and dread of deserued punishment he did himselfe desperately to death Now Delfridus séeing his mistres too firmely fortified in vertue to be by consent vanquished by villanie determined also by death to remoue the obstacle And as nothing is so impossible which frantike furie will not enterprise nothing so shamefull which vnbridled desire will not vndertake nothing so false which fleshly filthines will not forge so to bring his purpose to passe as Valentine on a time in ill time passed through a blinde lane of the citie he throwded himselfe in a corner and as he came by shot him thorough with a Pistoll which done he forthwith repaired home making grieuous lamentation but in a counterfait manner for the cruell murder of his most louing and affectionate maister as he tearmed him ●uluia hearing of this vnnaturall déede and by circumstances knowing Delfridus to be the authour thereof tearing her haire scratching her face and beating her bodie against the ground so soone as the flouds of teares had flowen so long that the fountaine was drie so that her speech might haue passage which before the teares stopped she began to crie out in this carefull manner O God what iniustice is this to suffer the earth to remaine polluted with the b●oud of innocents Didst thou curse Cain for killing his brother Abell and wilt thou not crucifie Delfridus for slaying Valentine Is thy heart now hardened that thou wilt not or are thy hands now weakened that thou canst not preserue thy seruants from the slaues of Satan If there be no safetie in innocencie wherein shall wee repose our selues If thou be not our protector who shall defend vs If the wicked vanquish the vertuous who shall set foorth thy honour and glorie or who will so much as once call vpon thy name But what meane I wretched wight to exclaime against God as the authour of my euill whereas it is onely my selfe that am guiltie of my husbands death It is I that pampred vp my beautie to make it glister in the sight of euerie gazing eye in the thriftlesse threed whereof this miscreant was intangled that to vnwinde himselfe thereout ●ée hath wrought all this mischiefe It is I that would not detect his doings to the view of the world whereby the perill which hung ouer my husbands head might haue bée ●e pr●uented And séeing I haue beene the cause of his death shall I béeing a murderer remaine aliue Did 〈◊〉 seeing the dead carkasse of her husband C●i● cast on shore willinglie cast her selfe into the Sea ●o accompanie his death and shall I sée my sweete belou●d true Valentine●laine ●laine and not drinke of the same cup Did true 〈◊〉 goare hee gorgeous bodie with the same sword wherewith princely Pyramus had prick● himselfe to the heart and are not my hands strong ynough to do the like Did Iulietta die vpon the corps of her Romeo and shall my bodie remains on earth Valentine being buried No gentle death come with thy direfull dart and pierce my painefull soule and with one death rid me out of a thousand at once For what thought do I thinke on my Valentine which doth not procure me double death What thing do I see belonging to him which is not a treble torment vnto me But it is cowardlinesse to wish for death and courage valiantly to take it Yes I can and will bestow my life for my Valentines sweete sake But O God shall the varlet remaine aliue to triumph in his treacherie and vaunt in his villanie Shall I not loe his fatall day before my finall end It is his blood that will be a most sweete sacrifice to the ghost of my Valentine and then can I end my life contentedly when I haue offred vp this acceptable sacrifice And vntill such time as I haue opportunitie hereto I will prolong my wofull d●yes in direfull griefe and only the hope of reuenge shall heauilie hold my loathsome life and sorrowfull ●oule together For other can●● why I should desire life I haue not for that I am vtterly depriued of all ioyes of life For as the bird that is bruised with some blow lieth aloft in the ●eaues and heares his fellowes sing and is not able to vtter one warbling note out of his mournef●●l voice but rather hates the harmony which other birds do make so I my heart being broken sit solitary alone and see some h●ng about their husbands necks some closely clip them in their armes some trifle with them some talke with them all which redoab●● my paine to thinke my selfe destitute of those pleasures yea to a wretched wounded heart that dwels in dole euery pleasant sight turnes to bitter anguish and the onely obiect which shall euer content my eyes shall be the destruction of that Iudas which hath brought me to this desolation Now Delfridus thinking that time had taken away her ●eares and sorrow and supposing that neither she or any other had suspected him for the murder of Valentine began to enter into she lifts of lu●● againe and with a new encounter of incontinencie to set vpon her But she so much abhorred him that if she had but heard his name it caused her nature to faile in her and all her senses to faint so that when he sawe no possibilitie to impell her to impictie he meant to sollicite her in the way of marriage and caused her neere kinsfolks and friends to moue his suite vnto her for he was a man well countenanced of many who laboured very earnestlie in the matter and were so importunate vpon her that no answere would satisfie them Now Fuluia seeing she could not be rid of her friends and foreseeing that by this meanes she might be fréed from her enemie agreed to take him to husband And the day of solemnizing the marriage being come they went togither to the temple of Diana where all things according to custome being consummated the Bride-wife as the vse was dranke to her husband in wine as he thought but indeed in poison which she had prouided of purpose and when she saw he had drunke vp his death she said vnto him Go now and in steed of thy marriage bed get thee a graue for thy marriage is turned to murder a punishment iust for thy outragious lost and mercilesse designement for vengeance asketh vengeance and blood blood and they that sowe slaughter shall be sure to reape rume and destruction Now Delfridus hearing these words and féeling the force of the poison to worke within him assayed all