Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	life_n	mortal_a	4,247	5	8.6378	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12650	The triumphs ouer death: or, A consolatorie epistle, for afflicted mindes, in the affects of dying friends. First written for the consolation of one: but now published for the generall good of all, by R.S. the author of S. Peters complaint, and Mœoniæ his other hymnes	Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.	1595 (1595)	STC 22971; ESTC S111055	19,504	40

be longer registred in gratefull memories diuers that haue tried her in that kinde auowing her for secrecie wisedome and constancie to be a miracle in that sex yea when shee found least kindnesse in others she neuer lost it in hirselfe more willingly suffering then offering wrong and often weeping for their mishappes whome though lesse louing her shee could not but effect Of the innocencie of her life this generall all can auerre that as she was gratefull many wayes and memorable for vertues so was shee free from the blemish of any vice vsing to her power the best meanes to keepe continually an vndefiled conscience her attire was euer such as might both satisfie a curious eye and yet beare witnesse of a sober minde neyther singular nor vaine but such as her peeres of least report vsed her tong was very little acquainted with oathes vnlesse eyther duetie or distrust did enforce them and surelie they were needelesse to those that knewe her to whome the trueth of her words could not iustly be suspected much lesse was she noted of any vnfitting talke which as it was euer hatefull to her eares so did it neuer defile her breath of feeding shee was very measurable rather of too sparing then too liberall a diet so religious for obseruing all fasts that neuer in her sickenesse shee could hardly bee wonne to breake them and if our soules be possessed in our patience surely hir soule was truly hir owne whose rocke thought often stricken with the rod of aduersitie neuer yeelded any more then to giue issue of eie streames and though these thrâ—ugh the tendernesse of her nature aptnes of hâ—r sex were the customarie tributes that her loue paied more to her friendes than her owne misfortunes yet were they not accompanied with distempered words or ill seeming actions reason neuer forgetting distancie though remembring pitie her deuotions she daily obserued offering the daily sacrifice of an innocent heart and stinting her selfe to her times of prayer which shee performed with so religious a care as well shewed that shee knew howe high a Maiestie shee serued I neede not write how duetifully shee discharged all the behoofes of a most louing wife since that was the commonest theame of her praises yet this may be saide without improofe to any that whosoeuer in this behalfe may be counted her equall none can iustly be thought her superiour where she owed she payed dutie where she found she turned courtesie wheresoeuer she was knowen she deserued aâ—itie desirous of the best yet disdaining none but euill company she was readier to requite benefits theÌ„ reuenge wrongs more grieued then angred with vnkindnes of friends when either mistaking or misreport occasioned aâ—y breaches for if their words carie credite it entred deepest into her thoughts they haue acquitted her from all spice of malice not onely against her friends whose dislikes were but a retire to steppe further into friendship but euen her greatest enemies to whom if she had bene a iudge as she was a suppliant I assuredly thinke she would haue redresâ—ed but not reuenged her iniuries In summe she was an honour to her predecesâ—ours a light to her age and a patterne â—o her posteritie neither was her conclusion different from her premisses or her death from her life she shewed no dismay being warned of her danger carying in her conscience the safeconduct of innocencie But hauing sent her desires before to heauen with a milde countenaunce and a most calme minde in more hope then feare she expected her owne passage shee commended both her duetie and goodwill to all her friends and cleared her heart from all grudge towardes her enemies wishing true happinesse to them both as best became so soft and gentle a minde in which anger neuer stayed but as an vnwelcome stranger Shee made open profession that shee did die true to her religion true to her husband true to God and the world she enioyed her iudgement as long as she breathed her body earnestly offering hiâ— last deuotions supplying in thought what faintnes suffered not her tongue to vtter in the end when her glasse was tunne out and death beganne to chalenge his interest some labouring with too late remedies to hinder the deliuery of her sweet soule she desired them eftsoones to let her goe to God and her hopes calling her to eternall kingdomes as one rather falling asleepe then dying shee most happily tooke her leaue of all mortall miseries Such was the life such was the death of your dearest sister both so ful of tru comfort that this suruey of her vertues may be a sufficient lenatiue to your bitterest griefes For you are not I hope in the number of those that reckon it a paâ—te of their paine to heare of their best remedies thinking the rehearsall of your dead friendes prayses an vpbraiding of their losse but sith the obliuion of her vertues were iniurious to her let not the mention of her person be offensiue vnto you and bee not you grieued with her death with which shee is best pleased So blessed a death is rather to be wished of vs than pitied in her whose soule triumpheth with God whose vertues stil breatheth in the mouthes of infinite praises and liueth in the memories of all to whom either experience made her knowen or fame was not enuious in concealing her deserts shee was a iewel that both God and you desired to enjoy he to her assured benefit without selfe interest you for allowable respectes yet employing her restraint among certaine hazards and most vncertaine hopes Be then vmpier in your owne cause whether your wishes or Gods will importeth more loue the one the adornement of her exile the other her returne into a most blessed countrie and sith it pleased God in this loue to be your riuall let your discretion decide the doubt whome in due should carry the suite the prerogatiue being but a right to the one for nature grace being the motiues of both your loues she had the best title in them that was author of theÌ„ and she if worthy to be beloued of either as she was of both could not but prefer him to the dearest portion of her deepest affectioÌ„ let him with good leaue gather the grape of his own vine plucke the fruit of his owne planting and thinke so curious workes euer safest in the artificers hand who is likeliest to loue them and best able to preserue them shee did therefore her duety in dying willingly and if you will doe yours you must be willing with her death sith to repine at her liking is discourtesiâ— at Gods an impietie both vnfitting for your approoued vertue she being in place where no griefe can annoy her she hath little neede or lesse ioy of your sorrow neither can â—he allow in her friends that she would loathe in her selfe loue neuer affecting likenesse if she had bin euill she had not deserued our teares being good she cannot desire them nothing being lesse to the

likenes of goodnesse than to see it selfe any cause of vniust disquiet or trouble to the innocent Would Saul haue thought it friendship to haue wept for his fortunes in hauing found a kingdome by seeking of cattel or Dauid account it a curtesie to haue sorowed at his successe that from following sheepe came to foile a giant and to receiue in fine a royall crowne for his victorie why then should her lot bee lamented whome higher fauour hath raised from the dust to sit with princes of Gods people if securitie had bin giuen that a longer life shuld stil haue bin guided by vertue and followed with good fortune you might pretend some cause to complaine of her decease But if different effectes shoulde haue crossed your hopes processe of time being the parent of strange alterations then had death beene friendlier then your selfe and sith it hung in suspense which of the two would haue hapned let vs allowe God so much discretion as to thinke him the fittest arbitrator in decision of the doubt her foundations of happines were in the holy hilles and God sawe it fittest for her building to be but lowe in this vale of teares and better it was it shoulde be soone taken downe than by rising too high to haue oppressed her soule with the ruines Thinke it no iniury that she is now taken from you but a fauour that shee was lent you so long and shew no vnwillingnes to restore God his owne sith hitherto you haue payed no vsury for it consider not how much longer you might haue enioyed her but how much sooner you might haue lost her and sith she was held vpon curteâ—ie not by any couenant take our soueraignes right for a sufficient reason of her death our life is but lent a good to make thereof during the loane our best commoditie It is due debt to a more certaine owner than our selues and therefore so long as we haue it we receiue a benefit when we are depriued of it we haue no wrong we are tenants at will of this clayee farme not for tearme of yeeres when wee are warned out we must be ready to remooue hauing no other title but the owners pleasure it is but an Inne not a home we came but to baite not to dwell and the condition of our enrance was in fine to depart If this departure be grieuous it is also common this to day to me to morrow to thee and the case equally afflicting all leaueth none any cause to complaine of iniurious vsage Natures debt is sooner exacted of some then of other yet is there no fault in the creditor that exacteth but his owne but in the greedinesse of our eger hopes either repining that their wishes faile or willingly forgetting their mortalitie whome they are vnwilling by experience to see mortall yet the generall tide washeth all passengers to the same shoare some sooner some later but all at the last and wee must settle our mindes to take our course as it commeth neuer fearing a thing so necessarie yet euer expecting a thing so vncertaine It seemeth that God purposely concealed the time of our death leauing vs resolued betweene feare and hope of longer continuaunce Cut off vnripe cares lest with the notice and pensiuenesse of our diuorce from the world we should lose the comfort of needfull contentments before our dying day languish away with expectation of death Some are taken in their first steppe into this life receiuing in one their welcome and farewel as though they had beene borne onely to be buried and to take their pasport in this hourely middle of their course the good to preuent change the bad to shorten their impietie some liue till they be weary of life to giue proofe of their good hap that had a kindlier passage yet though the date be diuerse the debt is all one equally to be answered of all as their time expireth for who is the man shall liue and not see death sith we all die and like water slide vppon the earth In Paradice wee receiued the sentence of death and here as prisoners we are kept in ward tarying but our times till the Gaoler call vs to our execution Whom hath any vertue eternized or desert coÌ„mended to posteritie that hath not mourned in life and bin mourned after death no assurance of ioy being sealed without som teares Euen our blessed Lady the mother of God was throwen down as deep in temporal miseries as she was aduanced high in spirituall honours none amongst al mortall creatures finding in life more proof then she of her mortalitie for hauing the noblest sonne that euer woman was mother of not onely aboue the condition of men but aboue the glorie of Angels being her sonne onely without temporall father and thereby the loue of both parents doubled in hir breast being her only Sonne without other issue and so her loue of all children finished in him Yea he being God and she the nearest creature to Gods perfections yet no prerogatiue either quitted her from mourning or him from dying and though they surmounted the highest Angels in all other preheminences yet were they equall with the meanest men in the sentence of death And howbeit our Ladie being the patterne of christian mourners so tempered her anguish that there was neither any thing vndone that might be exacted of a mother or any thing doone that might be disliked in so perfit a matron yet by this we may gesse with what curtesies death is likely to friend vs that durst cause so bloody sunerals in so heauenly a stocke not exempting him from the law of dying that was the authour of life and soone after to honour his triumphs with ruines and spoile of death Seeing therefore that death spareth none let vs spare our teares for better vses being but an idle sacrifice to this dease and emplacable executioner and for this not long to be continued where they can neuer profit nature did promise vs a weeping life exacting teares for custome as our first entrance and for suting our whole course in this doleful beginning and therefore they must be vsed with mesure that must be vsed so often and so many causes of weeping lying yet in the debt â—ith we cannot end our teares let vs at the least reserue them if sorowe cannot bee shunned let it bee taken in time of neede sith otherwise beeing both troublesome and fruitlesse it is a double miserie or an open follie We moisten not the ground with pretious waters they were stilled for nobler endes either by their fruites to delight our sences or by their operations to preserue our healths Our teares are water of too high a price to be prodigally powred in the dust of anie graues If they be teares of loue they persume our prayers making them odour of sweetenesse fit to be offered on the aultare before the throne of God if teares of contrition they are water of life to

belong more then to this which hath already giuen you the most vngrateful congee They that are vpon remouing send their furniture before them and you still standing vpon your departure what ornament could you rather wish in your future abode than this that did euer please you God thither sendeth your adamants whither hee would draw your heart and casteth your anchors where your thoughts should lie at rode that seeing your loue taken out of the world and your hopes disanchored from this stormie shoare you might settle your desires where God seemeth to require them If you would haue wished her life for an example to your house assure your selfe shee hath left her friends so inherited with her vertues and so perfit patterns of her best parts that who knoweth the furuiuors may see the deceased and shall finde little difference but in the nuÌ„ber which before was greater but not better vnlesse it were in one repetition of the same goodnesse wherefore set your selfe at rest in the ordinance of God whose workes are perfit and whose wisedome is infinite The termes of our life are like the seasons of the yere som for sowing some for growing and some for reaping in this only different that as the heauens keepe their prescribed periods so the succession of times haue their appointed changes But in the seasons of our life which are not to the lawe of necessarie causes some are reaped in the seed some in the blade some in the vnripe eare all in the end this haruest depending vpon the reapers wil. Death is too ordinarie a thing to seem any nouelty being a familiar guest in euerie house and sith his comming is expected and his arrant vnknowen neither his presence should be feared nor his effects lamented What wonder is it to see fuell burned spice pownded or snow melted and as little feare it is to see those dead that were borne vpon condition once to die she was such a coÌ„pound as was once to be resolued vnto her simples which is now performed her soule being giuen to God and her body sorted into her first elements it could not dislike you to see your friend remoued out of a ruinous house and the house it selfe destroyed and pulled downe if you knewe it were to build it in a statelier forme to turne the inhabitant with more ioy into a fairer lodging Let then your sisters soule depart without griefe let hir body also be altered into dust withdraw your eyes from the ruine of this cotage cast them vpon the maiestie of the second building which S. Paul saith shall be incorruptible glorious strange spirituall and immortall night and sleep are perpetuall mirours figuring in their darknes silence shutting vp of sences the finall end of our mortal bodies for this some haue entituled sleep the eldest brother of death but with no lesse conuenieÌ„ce it might be called one of deaths tenants neare vnto him in affinity of condition yea far inferior in right being but tenaÌ„t for a time of that which death is the inheritance for by vertue of the conueiance made vnto him in Paradice that dust we were to dust we should returne He hath hitherto shewed his signiorie ouer all exacting of vs not only the yerely but hourely reuenues of time which euer by minuts we defray vnto him So that our very life is not only a memorie but a part of our death sith the longer we haue liued the lesse we haue to liue What is the daily lessening of our life but a continual dying and therfore none is more grieued with the running out of the last sand in an houre glasse then with all the rest so should not the end of the last houre trouble vs any more of so many that went before sith that did but finish course that all the rest were stil ending not the quantity but the quality commendeth our life The ordinarie gaine of long liuers being onely a great burthen of sinne for as in teares so in life the valew is not esteemed by the length but by the fruit and goodnesse which often is more in the least than in the longest What your sister wanted in continuance she supplied in speede and as with her needle shee wrought more in a day than manie Ladies in a yeere hauing both excellent skil and no lesse delight in working so with her diligence doubling her endeuours shee won more vertue in halfe than others in a whole life Her death to time was her birth to eternitie the losse of this worlde an exchange of a better one indowment that she had being impaired but many farre greater added to her store Mardocheus house was too obscure a dwelling for so gracious an Hester shrowding royall partes in the mantle of a meane estate and shadowing immortall benefits vnder earthly vailes It was fitter that shee being a summe of so rare perfections and so well worthy a spouse of our heauenly Ahashuerus should bee carried to his court from her former abode there to be inuested in glorie and to inioy both place and preheminence answerable to her worthines her loue would haue beene lesse able to haue borne hir death than your constancy to brooke her and therefore God mercifully closed her eies before they were punished with so grieuous a sight taking out to you but a newe lesson of patience out of your old booke in which long studie hath made you perfect Though your hearts were equally ballanced with a mutual and most entire affection and the doubt insoluble which of you loued most yet death finding her the weaker though not the weaker vessell laide his weight in her ballance to bring her soonest to her rest let your mind therefore consent to that which your tongue daily craueth that Gods will may bee done as well here in earth of her mortall body and in that little heauen of her purest soule sith his will is the best measure of all euents There is in this worlde continuall enterchange of pleasing and greeting accidence still keeping their succession of times ouertaking ech other in their seuerall courses no picture can be all drawen of the brightest colours nor a harmonie onely conforted onely of trebles shadowes are needefull in expressing of proportions and the base is a principall part in perfect musicke the condition of our exile heere alloweth no vnmedled ioy our whole life is tempered betweene sweete and sowre and wee must all looke for a mixture of both the wise so wish better that they stil thinke of worse accepting the one if it come with liking and bearing the other without impatience being so much maisters of eche others fortunes that neither shall worke them to excesse The dwarse groweth not on the highest hill nor the tall man looseth not his height in the lowest valley and as a base mind though most at ease wil be deiected so a resolute vertue in the deepest distresse is most impregnable They euermore most perfectly enioy their comfortes that

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