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	life_n	put_v	4,598	5	4.9968	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68487	A banquet of daintie conceits Furnished with verie delicate and choyse inuentions, to delight their mindes, who take pleasure in musique, and there-withall to sing sweete ditties, either to the lute, bandora, virginalles, or anie other instrument. Published at the desire of bothe honorable and worshipfull personages, who haue had copies of diuers of the ditties heerein contained. Written by A.M. seruaunt to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1588 (1588)	STC 18260; ESTC S120954	23,574	80

once to quaile thy credite will after be alwaies the wursse Beauty is vading and will not endure faire Absolons warning may well suffise Set not thy fancie on things so vnsure for beautie full often hath blamed the wise Beautie with charges must be maintaind and charges eates déepe where riches is scant Then count the costes that thou hast gainde and all thy sicknes will be but of want Therefore if thou wilt be warned by me according to cloth so cut out thy coate And as thy getting let spending so be and suffer fond yonkers to liue all a-flote Equall thy selfe with none of those althought they scorne to sée thée chaunged Thou shalt sit smiling at their woes when thou perceiuest how they haue raunged Shake of their freendship and know them no more it is no shame to turne to doo well The flatterer eateth a man very sore yea to the bare bones as some can well tell A freends rebuke farre better is then the swéete kisse of an enemie The one would gladly work thy blisse the other thy death farre contrarie A prouerbe there is both auncient and true while welth will hold out thou shalt haue freends store But money once failing they bid thée adiew they scorne then to know thée as they did before Such is now the fréendship that this world dooth vse Trust not to others least they doo deceiue thée but to thine owne selfe then maist thou be bolde Fayrest lookes flatter in lurche they will leaue thée good Will leaue the newe fréende and cleaue to the olde All this hath béene prooued Will I tell no newes When thine owne rod hath beaten thée well then wilt thou remember what Wit hath bewraid That better it is in quiet to dwell then climing to fall and so be dismaid Kéepe thee on the ground and then thou canst not fal He that presumeth aboue his degrée the holy writ telleth shall be brought full lowe And he that is humble content so to be he shall be exalted and happy also Thus thou séest humilitie is best of all If thou doost doubt of that which I say Behold the examples full greeuous to sée The Children of Folly how they doo decay and as their beginnings their endings so be What is then the cause that they doo spéede so ill Folly first bred them then Daintinesse lulde them and Idlenes brought them to horror and strife Impietie taught them and Wilfulnesse plud them from vertuous delighting to dissolute life Then their ende to tell it gréeueth me good Will. Séeke then by Labour thy selfe to maintaine for Labour gets Learning the chéefest of all And learning will bée thy profit and gaine Whereby to preferre thée when other things fall Cleaue to this and then be sure thou doo 〈…〉 ot ill For nothing is gotten except thou take paine And when thou hast got it then kéepe it as well Prouide in an honest estate to remaine And so thou maist hazard at all times expell Thinke on this and so farewell good gentle Will. FINIS A Dittie declaring the vncertaintie of our earthly honor the certaine account that we must all make of death and therefore that we should make our selues ready at all times because we are ignoraunt of our latter howre This Dittie is sung after a very prettie set note which is called Primero WHat state so sure but time subuarts what pleasure that is voide of paine What chéerefull change of former smarts but turnes straitwaie to gréefe againe What credite may a man repose vppon so fraile a clod of clay Which as to daie in sollace goes to morrowe is brought to earthly bay Thinke O man How thy glasse is daily sette to runne And how thy life shall passe when it is doone Thy graue hath then thy glory wun and all thy pompe in cinders laide full lowe Take example By the fragrant flower in the féeld Which as to daie in brauery to beheld The parching Sun hath ouer-queld O wretched man euen thou thy selfe art so Howe then How canst thou bragge or canst thou boast How that thou maiest Or that thou shalt Enioy thy life vntill to morrow day Thou seest That death subdues the strength of Kings Of high and lowe Of rich and poore And all as one he dooth call awaie Tantara tantara tantara Thus dooth the Trompet sounde The Bell bids prepare a prepare a prepare a Your bodies to the ground Euen so While we are sporting sporting sporting Amidst our earnest play Death commeth stealing stealing stealing And takes our liues awaie To goe Put on your black aray for needes you must away Vnto your house of clay Prepare your conscience gay against the dreadfull day That you may be Christes chosen flocke and sheepe Whom he will safely keepe Whether you doo wake or sléepe Then shall the hellish foe Away in terror goe This ioy to sée Remember this amidst your blisse that Christ hath redéemed vs by his blood Then let vs kill our affections so ill to be elected his Seruants good Then shall we be sure for aye to endure On Gods right hand among the pure When as the ill against their will the endlesse paine shall passe vntill God graunt vs feruent constancie to auoide so great extremitie That by his grace continuallie we may purchase heauens felicitie FINIS ❧ In this Dittie is expressed the sundry and daily mishaps that chaunce in Loue deciphered by him that felt them to his paine This Ditty is sung to Iohnsons Medley WHen fond desire had drawne my mind to Loue Hard was my happe and fierce the fittes I was enforst to proue When Beautie gaue her becke and Fancie held me thrall Then Will had conquered Wittes deuise Loue had me at her call Quoth Wisdome ware thy woe thy daunger is at hand Runne not too rash be ruld in time least perill thée withstand These are the snares of Loue her doome a lasting ill Her sleights are nought but thriftlesse shifts for to allure thy will Therefore respect the hard effect that may thee stay When thou wouldst it reiect Set hatch before the wilfull doore for blame and shame Keepe still a shift in store So shalt thou espy it when foes would say nay When skill dooth desery it tis good to obey Sure footing good booting the bargaine well made returneth thy trauaile and charges Forewarned hath learned deceite would inuade when libertie crieth a larges Youths wales are vnsteddy he runneth on heady and scorneth the hazard to sée Loue leadeth to caring and often dispayring wherefore fréend be warned by mée The child once toucht with paine Will feare the like againe And proouing this too true Willed me bid Loue adiew ¶ But yet alas this warning would not serue for vaine delight had wunne me so From Wisdome I did swerue Boldnesse dyd egge me on the vtmost harme to trie Loue had enchaunted me within when she had wunne mine eye Selfe-will perswaded me the passage would be fayre And Dalliaunce fedde my fancie so I little past