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	speak_v	4,234	5	4.7152	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23383	A meruailous combat of contrarieties Malignantlie striuing in the me[m]bers of mans bodie, allegoricallie representing vnto vs the enuied state of our florishing common wealth: wherin dialogue-wise by the way, are touched the extreame vices of this present time. VVith an earnest and vehement exhortation to all true English harts, couragiously to be readie prepared against the enemie. by W.A.	Averell, W. (William)	1588 (1588)	STC 981; ESTC S104468	32,149	54

it be by my help and furtheraunce so that if the Belly bidde the Tongue deceiue I poast out to performe it if y ● Back commaund the Hands to steale or shed blood then I haste to make them finish it so that in all actions I am a seruaunt in most vile slauery to these vniust oppressors and therefore haue as much cause to complaine of their tyranny in euerie thing as either of you in any thing The Tongue Certaine it is we all doo serue them dilligently we labour for them painefully and yet are rewarded slenderlie The Tyrants of Sicilia neuer oppressed their subiects with more violence then they do● vs with their exactions and yet we haue thereby no benefit for had wee any recompence it woulde asswage the burthen of our trauaile and make our labour swéete but such is the condition of these two that albeit we dailie giue them hourelie labor and continually prouide for them yet they neuer cease complayning that wee giue them nothing The Hande Yea for though I labour to day to féede the one and trauaile to morrow to clothe the other yet if I doo not the next day and the next day also giue them stil they complayne of myne idlenes of mine vniustice negligence saying I am vnnaturall vnkinde slothfull and giuen to ease and that I forget the ende wherefore I was made which is they say to serue them in all necessities what said I nay rather in all superfluities The Foote In the same state am I and so they deale also with mée for though I nowe fetch them in things not wholy needfull but for the most part curious it may bee that a while they will be contented but shortly after they crie it is too little and except I procure the one varietie of dainties and the other diuersitie of sutes they are neither contented so variable are they and ful of alteration so that I cannot tell what to compare them to except to the lake in the furthest part of Affrick among the people Trogloditae which is thrise in a day bitter and salt and yet anone pleasant and sweete The Tongue Nay rather they are like the gaping Gulfe in Sicil named Charybdis which euer deuoureth is neuer satis-fied or like the fire that the more it hath the more it still consumeth for Polypus had neuer more shifts then y ● Back hath suites nor the Camelion more cullers then y ● Belly Cookes The Hande I thinke the Crocodil is not more gréedy then the Bellie nor the Leopard more variable then the Backe Theyr nature is like y ● stone Siphnius which heated in Oyle wareth hard but let alone becommeth soft The more we pleasure them the more they displease vs and the more wee bestowe vpon them the more they are vnthankfull The Tongue Will you sée the patterne of a gluttonous Pantrey then looke vpon the Bellie for he is a smoking Kitchin of variable viands Gurmand●se is his Porter and Gluttony hys Cooke the lustfull Lyuer like a flaming fire boyleth vnder the great Kettle Cauldron of the stomack the breathing Lunges like blowing bellowes 〈◊〉 by the Liuer as by a Forge the Wealand pype as it were a Cestern bringeth in liquor to dresse the cates and the entrayles like a sinck conuay the filth downe the Fundament Nowe all this while who fareth the better for theyr co●kery nay which of vs are not the worse for the Bellyes vntemperancie and which of vs smarteth not for the Backs prodigalitie Wherefore Bretheren and fellow members let vs not be subiect to two such Cormorants which regarde not our benefit but theyr owne profit consider the seruillity they haue long kept vs in what labour and paine what carke and care they haue continually put vs to if we cast off their yeake we shall bee freed from slauerie if not wee liue in continuall drudgery they rule not by reason but by rigour their lust is a law and their will a warrant and therfore to stake off their oppression were wisdome and to liue at liberty wilbe our onelye happines The Hand Sister I promise for my part to yéeld to your perswasion and whereas in times past I haue wrought full harde for the maintenaunce of these my iolly Maisters I purpose now to take mine ease thinking it better to liue at rest thē to toyle and haue no thank for my labour and therefore let them worke for themselues if they wil for I neither meane to féede the one nor clothe the other The Foote Neither will I step ouer the threshold to fetch in anie thing for the sustenaunce of the one or maintainance of the other but meane to take my rest in mine Inne expecting howe these that haue so long ruled as Lordes can become nowe seruaunts to themselues The Tongue In this dooing wee shall abate their pride and plucke downe their Peacocks plumes so that though nowe they holde theyr heades full high yet within these two or thrée dayes I am sure my gluttonous Maister the Belly wyll sing a newe song for I promise for my part to be no instrument to feede nor no seruaunt to serue him and as for our gallant youth the Back I doo not doubt but y ● want of your seruice will make him in short time after beshrew himselfe But hushe Lupus est in fabula behold where they both come of whom we haue long talked let vs shrinke a side to heare their communication till opportunity serue for vs to speake The Belly What greater misery can happen in this life then when as in a naturall body where the members should serue each others necessitie and mutually helpe succour one another they shall not onely denie their ayde vnto the body but conspire also the death of the same by meanes of which not the body alone dooth consume and pine away but the members themselues doo consequently perish and yet are they so blinded with enuie and ledde on with selfe loue that they cannot perceiue their destruction at hand till present perrill doo teach them and their owne smart doo warne them what folly it is to be led by enuie whereby to make a mutinie in a naturall bodie in which there ought to be a cordiall consent of amitie and a tuneable harmonie of loue I knowe not what hath mooued my fellow members to this conspiracie for my part I haue naturally fedde them and louingly nourished them all yet they complaine and not of me alone but of the proude Back also whose pride prodigalitie hath oftentimes indéede depriued both them and me of our due sustenaunce and naturall nourishment euen this statelie and lordly Backe the pyllar of pryde the waster of wealth and the window opening to all wickednes a leader vnto luxurie and vncleane leacherie a bulwarke to beate backe chastitie the roote from whence all presumptuous pride dooth growe for whose faults it is no reason I should suffer the malice of the members that not onelie in mine