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	nature_n	soul_n	10,684	5	5.3166	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16748	The good and the badde, or Descriptions of the vvorthies, and vnworthies of this age Where the best may see their graces, and the worst discerne their basenesse.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1616 (1616)	STC 3656; ESTC S104792	20,529	48

and of the poore learnes but a heart-breaking profession his bed is the earth and the heauen is his Canapy the Sunne is his Summers comfort and the Moone is his Winter candle his sighes are the notes of his musick and his Song is like the Swanne before her death his study his patience and his exercise prayer his dyet the herbes of the earth and his drinke the water of the Riuer his trauell is the walke of the woful and his horse Bayard of ten-toes his apparell but the clothing of nakednesse and his wealth but the hope of heauen He is a stranger in the world for no man craues his acquaintance his funerall is without Ceremony when there is no mourning for the misse of him yet may he be in the state of Election and in the life of loue and more rich in Grace then the greatest of the World In sum he is the griefe of Nature the sorrow of Reason the pittie of wisedome and the charge of Charity A Iust man A Iust man is the Child of Truth begotten by vertue and kindnesse when Nature in the temper of the spirit made euen the ballance of Indifferency his eye is cleere from blindnesse and his hand from Bribery his will from wilfulnesse and his heart from wickednesse his word and deed are all one his life shewes the nature of his loue his care is the charge of his Conscience and his comfort the assurance of his Saluation In the Seat of Iustice he is the grace of the Lawe and in the iudgement of Right the honour of Reason he feares not the power of Authority to equall Iustice with Mercie and ioyes but in the iudgement of Grace to see the execution of Iustice his Iudgement is worthy of honour and his Wisedome is gracious in Truth his Honour is famous in Vertue and his Vertue is precious in Example In summe he is a spirit of Vnderstanding a braine of Knowledge a heart of Wisedome and a Soule of Blessednesse A Repentant Sinner A Repentant Sinner is the Child of Grace who being borne for the seruice of God makes no reckoning of the mastershippe of the world yet doth he glorifie God in the beholding of his creatures and in giuing praise to his holy Name in the admiration of his Work-manship He is much of the nature of an Angell who being sent into the world but to do the will of his Master is euer longing to bee at home with his fellowes He desires nothing but that is necessary and delighteth in nothing that is transitory but contemplates more then hee can conceiue and meditates onely vpon the Word of the Almighty his Senses are the tyrers of his Spirit while in the course of nature his Soule can find no rest He shakes off the ragges of Sinne and is cloathed with the Robe of Vertue he puts off Adam and puts on Christ His heart is the Anuile of Truth where the braine of his Wisedome beates the thoughts of his Minde till they be fit for the seruice of his Maker His labour is the trauaile of Loue by the rule of Grace to find the high-way to Heauen His feare is greater then his Loue of the World and his Loue is greater then his feare of God In summe he is in the Election of Loue in the booke of Life an Angell incarnate and a blessed Creature A Reprobate A Reprobate is the Childe of sinne who being borne for the seruice of the Deuill cares not what villany he does in the world His wit is alwaies in a maze for his courses are euer out of order and while his will stands for his wisedome the best that fals out of him is a Foole Hee betrayes the trust of the simple and sucks out the blood of the Innocent His breath is the fume of Blasphemy and his Tongue the fire-brand of Hell His desires are the destruction of the Vertuous and his delights are the Traps to damnation Hee bathes in the bloud of Murther and sups vp the broth of Iniquity He frighteth the Eyes of the Godly disturbeth the hearts of the Religious he marreth the wits of the Wise and is hatefull to the Soules of the Gracious In summe he is an inhumane Creature a fearefull Companion a man-Monster and a Diuell incarnate An Old man AN Old man is the declaration of Time in the defect of nature and the imperfection of sense in the vse of Reason He is in the obseruation of Time a Kalender of experience but in the power of Action he is a blanke among Lots He is the subiect of weakenesse the Agent of sicknesse the displeasure of life and the forerunner of death Hee is twise a Child and halfe a man a liuing Picture and a dying Creature he is a blowne Bladder that is onely stuffed with winde and a withered Tree that hath lost the sappe of the Roote or an old Lute with strings all broken or a ruined Castle that is ready to fall Hee is the eye-sore of Youth and the iest of Loue and in the fulnesse of Infirmitie the Mirror of Misery Yet in the honour of Wisedome he may be Gracious in Grauity and in the gouernment of Iustice deserue the Honour of Reuerence Yea his Words may be notes for the vse of Reason and his Actions examples for the imitation of discretion In summe in whatsoeuer estate he is but as the snuffe of a Candle that pinke it neuer so long it will out at last A Young man A Young man is the Spring of Time when Nature in her Pride shewes her Beauty to the World He is the delight of the Eye and the study of the minde the labour of instruction and the Pupil of Reason His Wit is in making or marring his Wealth in gaining or losing his Honour in aduancing or declining and his Life in abridging or increasing He is a Bloome that either is blasted in the Bud or growes to a good fruit or a Bird that dies in the nest or liues to make vse of her wings Hee is a Colt that must haue a Bridle ere hee bee well managed and a Faulcon that must be well man'd or hee will neuer be reclaimde Hee is the Darling of Nature and the charge of Reason the exercise of Patience and the hope of Charity His exercise is either Study or Action and his study either Knowledge or Pleasure His disposition giues a great note of his generation and yet his breeding may eyther better or worse him though to wish a Black-Moore white bee the losse of labour and what is bred in the bone will neuer out of the flesh In summe till experience haue seasoned his Vnderstanding hee is rather a Childe then a man a prey of flattery or a praise of prouidence in the way of Grace to proue a Saint or in the way of sinne to grow a Deuill A Holy man A Holy man is the chiefest Creature in the workemanship of the World He is the highest in the Election of Loue and the neerest to the Image of the humane Nature of his Maker Hee is serued of all the creatures in the Earth and created but for the seruice of his Creator Hee is capable of the course of Nature and by the rule of Obseruation finds the Art of Reason his senses are but seruants to his Spirit which is guided by a power aboue himselfe his Time is onely knowne to the Eye of the Almighty and what hee is in his most greatnesse is as nothing but in his Mercy He makes Law by the direction of life and liues but in the mercy of Loue he treads vpō the face of the Earth til in the same substāce he be trod vpon though his Soule that gaue life to his senses liue in Heauen till the resurrection of his flesh Hee hath an Eye to looke vpward towards Grace while Labour is onely the punishment of sinne his Faith is the hand of his Soule which layeth hold on the promise of Mercy his Patience the Tenure of the possession of his Soule his Charity the rule of his life and his hope the Anchor of his Saluation His study is the state of Obedience and his exercise the continuance of Prayer his life but a passage to a better and his death the rest of his labours His heart is a watch to his Eye his wit a doore to his Mouth his Soule a guard to his Spirit and his Limmes but labourers for his Body In summe hee is rauisht with Diuine Loue hatefull to the nature of Sinne troubled with the Vanities of the World and longing for his Ioy but in Heauen FINIS

In summe she is the seede of trouble the fruit of trauaile the taste of bitternesse and the digestion of death A good Wife A Good Wife is a world of wealth where iust cause of content makes a kingdome in conceit She is the eye of warinesse the tongue of silence the hand of labour and the heart of loue a companion of kindnesse a Mistris of Passion an exercise of Patience and an example of experience She is the Kitchin Physician the Chamber comfort the Halls care and the Parlours Grace She is the Dairies neatnesse the Brue-house wholsomnesse the Garners prouision and the Gardens plantation her voice is musicke her countenance meekenesse her minde vertuous and her soule gracious she is her Husbands Iewell her Childrens ioy her Neighbors loue and her seruants honour she is Pouerties praier and Charities praise Religions loue and Deuotions zeale she is a care of necessity and a course of Thrift a booke of Huswifery and a mirror of modestie In summe she is Gods blessing and Mans happinesse Earths honour and Heauens creature An Effeminate Foole. AN Effeminate foole is the figure of a Baby he loues nothing but gay to look in a Glasse to keepe among Wenches and to play with trifles to feed on sweet meats and to be daunced in Laps to be imbraced in Armes and to be kissed on the Cheeke To talke Idlely to looke demurely to goe Nicely and to Laugh continually To be his Mistresse seruant and her Mayds master his Fathers Loue and his Mothers none-Child to play on a Fiddle and sing a Loue-song to weare sweet Gloues and looke on fine things To make purposes and write Verses deuise Riddles and tell lies To follow Plaies and study Daunces to heare Newes and buy trifles To sigh for Loue and weepe for kindnesse and mourne for company and bee sicke for fashion To ride in a Coach and gallop a Hackney to watch all Night and sleepe out the Morning to lie on a bed and take Tobacco and to send his Page of an idle message to his Mistresse to go vppon Gigges to haue his Ruffes set in print to picke his Teeth and play with a Puppet In summe hee is a man-Childe and a Womans man a gaze of Folly and Wisedomes griefe A Parasite A Parisite is the Image of iniquity who for the gaine of drosse is deuoted to all villanie He is a kinde of Thiefe in committing of Burglarie when hee breakes into houses with his tongue and pickes pockets with his flatterie his face is brazed that he cannot blush and his hands are limed to catch holde what hee can light on his tongue is a Bell but not of the Church except it be the Diuels to call his Parish to his seruice hee is sometime a Pander to carry messages of ill meetings and perhaps hath some Eloquence to perswade sweetnesse in sinne he is like a dogge at a doore while the diuels dance in the chamber or like a Spider in the house top that liues on the poison belowe hee is the hate of honesty and the abuse of beauty the spoile of Youth and the misery of Age. In summe he is a danger in a Court a Cheater in a Citie a Iester in the Countrey and a Iacke-an-Apes in all A Bawde A Bawde is a kinde of Woman-Beast who hauing lost the honour of her Virginity in her youth meanes to goe to hell in her Age She is dangerous among young people for feare of the infection of the falling sicknesse and not to teach children to spel lest she learne them too soone to put together shee is partly a Surgeon but most for the the allaying of swellings in the lower parts and hath commonly a charme to coniure the Diuell into hell Shee grieues at nothing more then at disability to sinne and is neuer so merry as when she is perswaded to be young she feares nothing more then the Cart and cares for nothing but ease and loues a cup of Sacke and a pot of Ale almost as well as the hope of her saluation shee is much subiect to sore eyes and ill teeth with sitting vp late and feeding on sweete things she is a Gossip at a Childe-birth where her mirth is a bawdy tale and a Matrone in an Hospitall to see young wenches well set to worke In summe shee is the loathsomenesse of Nature the hate of Vertue the spoile of wealth and the ruine of Mayden-heads A Drunkard A Drunkard is a Nowne Adiectiue for he cannot stand alone by himselfe yet in his greatest we aknesse a great trier of strength whether health or sicknesse will haue the vpper hand in a surfet He is a spectacle of deformitie and a shame of humanity a viewe of sinne and a griefe of Nature he is the anoiance of Modesty and the trouble of Ciuility the spoile of wealth and the spight of Reason he is only the Bruers Agent and the Ale-house Benefactor the Beggers Companion and the Constables trouble he is his Wifes woe his Childrens sorrow his Neighbours scoffe and his owne shame In summe hee is a Tubbe of swill a Spirit of sleepe a picture of a Beast and a Monster of a man A Coward A Coward is the childe of feare hee was begotten in colde bloud when Nature had much adoe to make vp a Creature like a man his life is a kinde of sicknesse which breeds a kinde of palsey in the ioynts and his death the terror of his conscience with the extreme weakenesse of his faith hee loues Peace as his life for he feares a sword in his soule if he cut his finger hee looketh presently for the signe and if his head ake he is ready to make his will a report of a cannon strikes him flat on his face and a clap of thunder makes him a strange Metamorphosis rather then he will fight he will be beaten and if his legges will helpe him he will put his armes to no trouble he makes loue commonly with his purse and brags most of his Mayden-head he will not marry but into a quiet family and not too faire a wife to auoide quarrels if his wife frowne vpon him he sighes and if shee giue him an vnkinde word he weepes hee loues not the hornes of a Bull nor the pawes of a Beare and if a dogge barke he will not come neere the house if hee be rich he is afraide of Theeues and if he be poore he will be slaue to a Begger In summe hee is the shame of man-hood the disgrace of Nature the skorne of Reason and the hate of honour An honest Poore man AN honest Poore man is the proofe of miserie where patience is put to the trial of her strength to endure griefe without passion in staruing with concealed necessity or standing in the aduentures of Charitie if he be married Want rings in his eares and woe watreth his eyes if single he droopeth with the shame of Beggery or dyes with the passion of penurie of the Rich he is shunned like infection