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	sin_n	23,098	5	4.9745	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18244	Cato variegatus or Catoes morall distichs: translated and paraphras'd, with varations of expressing, in English verse. By Sr. Richard Baker Knight; Catonis disticha. English and Latin.	Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234-149 B.C., attributed name.; Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.	1636 (1636)	STC 4863; ESTC S107921	41,226	110

labor frustra tent at a relinquas 15 Take no more on thee than thou canst performe Least fainting under it thou leave with Skorne Or thus 15 Attempt but what thou canst least in the race Thou faint and tire and leave it with disgrace Or thus 15 Attempt but what thou canst least thou be faine To turne in at the Signe of Labour in vaine Or thus 15 Undertake not too much least without thanke Thou prove thy selfe a bragging Mountibanke Or thus 15 Strive not above thy strength least thou be glad To take such Pay as Babell's Workmen had 16 Quod nosti hand recte factum nolite ●ilere Ne videare malos imit●rt velle tacendo 16 Conceale no Deed thou knowest to be naught Least for concealing thou as bad be thought Or thus 16 Conceale not what thou justly dost mislike Least thou be thought as like to doe the like Or thus 16 Silence consents 't is therefore necessity To tell mens faults least thou be Accessary Or thus 16 Conceale not what thou knowst ill done Concealing In Acts Fellonious is as bad as stealing Or thus 16 Conceale not mens ill doings least men Read Thy Will as wicked as the others Deed. Or thus 16 Sylence may make an Innocent be guilty If it conceale mens doings that are filthy Or thus 16 Conceale not mens ill Deeds least thy Concealing Make thee be thought as bad as them their Dealing Or thus 16 If thou a Theft know let it be reveal'd A Theefes Concealour is a Theefe conceal'd 17 Iudicis auxilium sub iniqua lege rogato Ipsae etiam leges cupiunt vt iure regantur 17 From wrong of Law seeke to the Iudge for Right For even the Lawes require an oversight Or thus 17 Wrong'd by the Law Implore the Iudges might It is the Lawes owne suit to bee set right Or thus 17 Appeale thou to the Iudge from the Lawes spight For even the lawes themselves appeale to right Or thus 17 Fly to the Iudge when thou art wrong'd by law For even Law must it selfe be kept in awe Or thus 17 When Law would strike the Iudge may be a shield The Dumbe Law to the speaking Law tnust yeeld Or thus 17 When Lawes doe freeze the Iudges Hearts may thaw And Iudges are a Law even to the Law Or thus 17 When Lawes are harsh the Iudges must be milde Else all Humanity will be Exil'd Or thus 17 No Law can be a Rule so streight and iust But it may Rule awry If Iudges lyst 18 Quod merito pateris patienter perfer id ipsum Quum que reus tibi sis ipsum te Iudice Damna 18 What thou deservst to beare beare without grudge And Guilty to thy selfe Be also Iudge 19 Multa legas facit● Perlectis perlege multa Nam Miranda canunt sed non Cr●denda Poetae 19 Read much and much read Read much more In briefe Poets are all for wonder not beleefe Or thus 19 Read much and much read Read it againe Indeed Poets speake strange things but not alwayes Creed Or thus 19 Read more and more and still Reade more and know Poets tel wonders but not Gospell though Or thus 19 Never give over Reading by thy will Poets sing sweet but above Ela still Or thus 19 Never give over Reading nor forbeare it Though Poets tell thee wonders Doe not sweare it Or thus 19 Be Reading still and never shut thine Eyes Poets tel Tales are neither Truths nor lies Or thus 19 Be Reading still Poets can give a passe To that shall never be nor ever was Or thus 19 Thy Bookes and thee let nothing part asunder In Poets mouthes A miracle is no wonder 20 Inter Convivas fac sis sermone modestus Ne dicare lrquax dum vis ●rbanus haberi 20 Amongst Ghests at a Feast be no Debater Least seeking praise of wit thou prove a prater Or thus 20 When thou art at a Feast much talke refraine Leaft thou be thought to have more Tongue then brain Or thus 20 When thou art at a Feast forbeare much talke Men come not thither to heare thy Tongue walke 21 Coniugis Iratae noli tu verba timere Nam struit infidias lachrymis quum faemina plorat 21 Let not the Angry words of thy wife fray thee T is when a woman weepes she meanes to pay thee Or thus 21 Feare not thy wifes hot words t is womans guise Plaine when she plaigues deceitfull when she cries 22 Vtere quaesitis sed ne vide aris abuti Qui sua consu●unt quum D●st aliena sequuntur 22 Abuse not thy Estate with riotous dealing For Riot wounds with want want cures with stealing Or thus 22 Vse thy Estate but Foole it not away Turn'd out of all Men turne to Birds of prey Or thus 22 Use but with temper that which thou hast got No Leech like One that had and hath it not Or thus 22 Vse that thou hast but Use it with discretion Evacuation's madde for new Repletion Or thus 22 Use thy Estate but give it not the slippe VVant makes the Old wife tro●t the Young wife trippe Or thus 22 Be not prof●se in spending when all failes Men live not by their hands but by their Nailes Or thus 22 Use that thou hast but make no wilfull waste All gone men turne to Cannyballs at last 23 Fac tibi propanas M●rtem non esse timendam Quae bona si non est Finis tamen illa malorum 23 Resolve of Death no feare is to be had VVhich though not good yet Ends all that is bad Or thus 23 Where Death is feard it seemes not understood Is not the End of Evils a Ioyfull Good Or thus 23 Be not afraid of Dying hast not thou Good Cause to welcome that brings th' Olive bough Or thus 23 Who would feare Death which though an End it be Yet not of Vs but of our Misery Or thus 23 Soule brought a Bed of Body and Delivered Is Death Is not hee that feares this white liverd Or thus 23 Death is an End and a Beginning too As that not ill as this a thing we woe Or thus 23 This one thing were enough to raise deaths price That ther 's no way but it to Paradise Or thus 23 These Goods are onely in Deaths Cabbin kept All weeping left all weeping past unwept Or thus 23 With this account all feare of Death is fled To live as long as live and longer Dead Or thus 23 Be this thy mindes both quietnesse and strife To make thy life a Grave thy Grave a life Or thus 23 Make life a Grave by being dead to sinne The Grave a life by Hope to Rise agen Or thus 23 This I resolve and let the houres fly To live upright and if I dye I dye 24 Vxoris linguam si frugi est ● ferre memento Nomque malum est te nolle puti hanc non posse tacere 24 Beare with thy wifes Tongue if her truth thou see Why should she

Suspect words spoken smooth and yet in paine Truths voice is simple Fraud is faine to Feigne 6 Segnitiem fugito qua vitae Ignavia fertur Nam cum animus languet consumit inertia corpus 6 Fly sloth the moth of life for when the minde Wants its due nourishment the Bodie 's pinde Or thus 6 Fly slothfulnesse which we may iustly call A Megrim not of Head but Heart and all Or thus 6 Fly Sloth which is a seeming loath to live Body and Minde no mutuall comfort give Or thus 6 Fly Sloth which is a Calme worse then a storme And doth our leaking ship of life more harme Or thus 6 Fly sloth which is to life an irksome Guest it take so much Rest that it takes no rest Or thus 6 Fly Sloth which Body pines and Minde be ●●●mes It is a taste of Death before Death comes Or thus 6 In drowsie men what differs life from Death More than for salt to keep them sweet their Breath 7 Interpone tuis interdum gaudia curis Vt possis anim● quemvis sufferre lab●rem 7 Mixe with thy Studies sometimes Recreation That so the spirits may have relaxation Or thus 7 Thou must not alwayes worke nor alwayes Play This That a breathing gives That this a stay Or thus 7 Care spends the spirits if it alwayes spend And no supply by mirth 't will soone have end Or thus 7 Myrth after Care is the Mindes Holyday It in●ermi●eth Care that care it may Or thus 7 The Minde is as a Bow if This still bent If That still Caring both grow impotent Or thus 7 Not Mirth nor Care alone but enter wreathed Care gets Mirth stomack Myrth makes Care long breathed Or thus 7 Not Care nor Mirth alone but both by turnes The minde without Care rusts without Mirth mourns 8 Alterius Dictum aut Factum ne carpseris vnquam Exemplo simili ne te deriderat alter 8 At others Deeds or Words no Carper be Least as thou Carp'st at them they Carpe at thee Or thus 8 Skoffe not at that which others doe or say Least others thee in thy owne mony pay 9 Quod tibi sors dederit tabulis suprema notato Augendo serva ne sis quem Famalequatur 9 The stocke and state thy friends have left to thee Keepe and Encrease least thou a By word be 10 Quum tihi Divitiae superant in fine senecta Munificus facito vivas nonparcus amicis 10 When life neere spent thou still hast riches store See thou be liberall and give almes the more Or thus 10 When thou hast more then thy old life can spend Be franke t is fit thy Goods end with thy end Or thus 10 When extreame old thou art extreamely rich Let bounty make it knowne that thou art such Or thus 10 When Death now threats to take thy Goods from thee Doe thou take them from Death and Bounteous be Or thus 10 Since wealth skornes not thy Age to wayte upon Place it where it may live when thou art gone Or thus 10 Since Fortune hath thee all thy life attended Cast her not off but to some friends Commended Or thus 13 Though Fortune stay to bring thee to Deaths doore Yet manners learne and take thy leave before Or thus 10 When thou art come with riches nere the Grave Loose not the benefit thy Almes Deeds may have Or thus 10 When life neere spent thou hast still store of wealth Let charity make way for thy soules health Or thus 10 When Goods in Almes are well destributed One seemes to hold them still when he is Dead Or thus 10 What I gave that I have One writ on 's Grave Then old and Rich Give that thou still mayst have 11 Vtile Consilium Dominus ne despice servi Nullius sensum si prodest tempseris unquam 11 Good counsaile from a servant never slight What matter who so what is said be right Or thus 11 Skorne not a servant to be thinet Adviseer A Foole sometimes see● more then one thats wiser 12 Rebus in censu sin●n est quod fuit ante Fac vivas Contentus eo quod tempora pr●bent 12 If Fortune have thy Goods throwne over boord Yet live content with what the times affoord Or thus 12 If thy Estate be not as it hath beene Yet be Content and try what time will winne Or thus 12 In fall of Goods to fall in Heart Disdaine But be content woods cut may grow againe Or thus 12 If Fields and Fermes thou hast lesse then have beene Then Patience hath a Field more to walke in Or thus 12 If Fortune be growne pinching in her wrath Then cut thy co● according to thy cloth Or thus 12 If Fortuen give thee lesse then she hath done Then make lesse fire and walke more in the Sunne Or thus 12 Never make wonder at Moone Fortunes change if change she should not That would be more strange Or thus 12 What 's Fortune but a Moone sometimes i' th wayne Sometimes at Full nere constant in one veyne Or thus 12 If Fortune powre upon thee all her Gall Yet patience hath a spleene will hold it all Or thus 12 If all the weights of Fortune on thee fall Yet patience hath a backe will beare them all Or thus 12 The Burden of Misfortune never feare No Burden's great that patience helpes to beare Or thus 12 At losse of worldly Goods never looke pale It is but a high winde turn'd to a Gale Or thus 12 VVhy should the change of Fortune make thee pale Thou dost but leave the Hill to walke i' th Vale. Or thus 12 If Fortune of her Ankers have thee ridde Patience can make an Anker of a thridde Or thus 12 VVhen thou hast lesse than that thou hadst before If thou canst'o●e content thou hast the more Or thus 12 Content is all we ayme at with our store If that be had with little what needes more Or thus 12 Content is great though little bee the meate The Great in Little makes the Little Great 13 Vxorem f●ge ut ducus sub nomine Dotis Nec retinere v●lis si coeperit esse molesta 13 Take heed thou marry not a wife for Portion Nor keepe her longer than she keepes proportion Or thus 13 Take not a wife for wealth or if thou doe If once she grow insulting let her goe 14 Multorum disce exempl● qu● Facta sequaris Quae fugias ●ita est ●●bis alien● Magistra 14 By others learne what to Embrane or shunne Their lives may be our guides what course to runne Or thus 14 by others take example what is Errour And what is right their lives may be our Mirrour Or thus 14 No schoole can better teach us what t' embrace And what to 〈◊〉 than others shame or Grace Or thus 14 Make other men thy patternes what to follow And what to Flie● their lives are out Apollo 15 Quod potes id tentato ●p●ris in pondere pressus Succ●●bat

silent Thou not patient be Or thus 24 If thy Wifes Tongue be all as well she may Thy Patience aske as Thou her silence pray 25 Aequa diligito caros pietate parentes Nec matrem offendas dum vis banus esse parenti 25 Love both thy Parents in an equall measure Displease not one to doe the other pleasure Or thus 25 Love equally thy Father and thy Mother And doe not scratch the one to claw the other Liber Quartus DEspice Divnias si vis anime esse beatus Quas qui suspic●●● 〈◊〉 semper a●ari 1 Scorne Riches if to happinesse thou aspire Who Riches love are Beggers in Desire Or thus 1 Scorne Riches if a faire life thou desire Monies admirers live but in the mire Or thus 1 This were enough to prove Riches accurst If nothing else They make men still athirst Or thus 1 Happy who riches from his Heart removes And wanting needs them not nor Having loves Or thus 1 Who would Imagine rich men Beggers were Yet so they are still craving still in feare Or thus 1 It need no riddle be whereat to stagger A man may be a Richman Yet a begger Or thus 1 Riches consist not in the having store But in the having no desire to more Or thus 1 Beggery consists not in an empty chest But in an empty minde that cannot rest Or thus 1 To be an Actuall Begger is a curse Yet the Habituall begger is the worse Or thus 1 The Actuall begger may be helpt by having Th'Habituall cannot still more had more craving Or thus 1 The Actuall begger doth but want at worst Th'Habituall wants it more because more thirst Or thus 1 A begger wants but that which he hath not But rich men want even that which they have got Or thus 1 A begger hath much paine a rich man more Hee but of want They both of want and store Or thus 1 If happinesse thou love then love not Riches For such mens minds are never without stitches Or thus 1 Our bodies turne to earth if Death arrive Because we turne our mindes to earth alive 2 Comm●da Natura nullo tibi tempore deer unt Si fue t is contentus eo quod postulat vsus 2 Natures supplyes shall never faile to thee If with things needfull thou contented be Or thus 2 Enough for Nature thou shalt alwayes finde If thou to nature 〈◊〉 conforme thy minde Or thus 2 Your store will alwayes Natures want exceed If you can thinke you want but what you need Or thus 2 If thou art not content unlesse have store Thou wouldst not be content If thou hadst more Or thus 2 Little is store to one content and store Is little to him that still longs for more Or thus 2 Nature gives all men a sufficient lot But they runne after Toyes and soe it not Or thus 2 If Natures treasures thou desire to finde Search not the Mines of India but the mind 3 Dilige Denari sed parce Dilige formam Que●● Nemosanctus nec hon●stus captat ab are 3 Love Monies forme but loue it not too much Which no good man lov'd ever for the touch Or thus 3 The forme of mony Love but not the stuffe Much is too much a little is enough 4 Quum sistincuatus nec Remratione gubernes Noli Fortunam quae non est dicerec aecam 4 When thy affaires succeede not to thy mind Say not that Fortune which is not is blind Or thus 4 When thou by thy improvidence art orethrown Accuse not Fortunes blindnesse but thine owne Or thus 4 Accuse not Fortune if thy state decline Fortune is not too blame the fault is thine Or thus 4 'T is blindnesse to thinke Fortune blind and not That we are blind when we have blind mens lot Or thus 4 What we call Fortune is not hap or chance But good our care Bad our misgovernance Or thus 4 Fortune 's no word of Cause but of Event The cause our selves then let our selves be shent Or thus 4 Fortune Adverse or prosperous never call Vpon our owne legs we must Rise or Fall Or thus 4 Fortune thy state can neither make nor marre Our selves the Forgers of our Fortunes are Or thus 4 Events successfull or Adverse betide us As we have cleere or dimmer Eies to guide us Or thus 4 Fortune is never blinde if thou have Eyes Nor ever sees but when thy selfe art wise 5 Quum fu●ris faelix Corpus curare memento Aeger Dives habet ●●m●es se non habet ipsum 5 Regard thy Body more then worldly pelse● A sicke rich man hath mony not himselfe Or thus 5 Breferre thy body before worldly wealth Riches are of a lower fourme then Health Or thus 5 To gather Riches Doe not hazard Health For truth to say Health is the wealth of wealth 6 Verbera quum t●leris Discens aliquando magistri Fer Patris ingenium quum verbes exit in Iram 6 Since thou at Schools wert by thy Master beaten Thy Father beare when Anger makes him threaten Or thus 6 If of a Master thou hast blowes abidden Then of a Father grudge not to be chidden 7 Res age quae prosunt Rurs●s 〈◊〉 memento In queis Error inest nec spes est certa laboris 7 Seek wayes of profit but tread not amisse In wandring By-waies where no profit is Or thus 7 Looke after things of profit but take heed Of Idle courses that no profit breed Or thus 7 Intend to things of value but refraine All fond Designes where nothing's got but paine Or thus 7 Bestow thy time in that may quit thy cost But labour not in things where labours lost Or thus 7 Set not thy rest up on things base and meane Who ever knew a Sexton made a Deane Or thus 7 Who aymes not high shall never shoot but low And then aswell may cast away his bow Or thus 7 Who the Philosophers stone 'to make assay Though misse the End meere secrets by the way Or thus 7 If things of worth and value be a●●aid● Though misse Penelope you may get her maid Or thus 7 Sow in good ground what is in barren sowd Is seed and Time and labour ill bestowde 8 Quod donare potes gratis Ne ve●de roganti Nam recte fecisse bonis in parte lucrorum est 8 To sell what thou canst freely give refraine Good men account good deeds the greatest gaine Or thus 8 Give freely what thou canst rather then sell Who gives to good men hath not he sould well 9 Quod tibi suspectum est confestim Discute quid set Namque solent primo quae sunt neglecta nocere 9 What you suspect search instantly to know For things at first neglected worser grow Or thus 9 Vpon the first suspicion of a thing Looke to it least it get a stronger sting Or thus 9 What thou suspectest search without delay Evils neglected doe not use to play Or thus 9 Suspitions search if safety thou