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	power_n	soul_n	11,029	5	5.2663	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05412	The estate of English fugitiues vnder the king of Spaine and his ministers Containing, besides, a discourse of the sayd Kings manner of gouernment, and the iniustice of many late dishonorable practises by him contriued.; Discourse of the usage of the English fugitives, by the Spaniard	Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626.	1595 (1595)	STC 15564; ESTC S108544	137,577	247

charitie not to refuse to receue him seeing it had nowe pleased God to touch his heart with so godly and zealous a desire in fine hee vsed such perswasiue speeches that the gardian was contented presently to admit him and withal to alow him a time of probation after the which if in the meane time hee did not mislike of their orders nor they of his behauiour hee promised to accept him into their fraternitie Presently a Friers long coate with a cowle was giuen him which after hee had worne three or foure dayes and learned the behauiour thereto belonging he acquainted the gardian with certaine debts that he had in the towne wherwith his conscience was greatly burthened Mary withall that hee had a lyberansa able to discharge them and ouerplus besides remaining which hee meant to bestow upon the Cloister if that the Treasurer would be so fauourable vnto him as to pay the same to which end hee requested the gardian to accompany him and to help to intreate the Treasurer in that behalfe to which hee consented and being both admitted to the presence of the Treasurer the new conuerted brother first with a Friers ducke lowe to the ground then with a very reuerent gesture and humble speech told him that he came not now as in former time to importunate him for mony but only to signifie to his Lordship the grace the which it had pleased God by his holy spirit to work in him praying him from hence forward to continue his good Lord and patron as hee woulde for euer in his spirituall function remaine his Oratour and bedseman Mary withal that the debts which hee had made during his time of being a suter laie heauie vpon his conscience and withall his creditors came clamorously to the cloister in such forte that the gardian there present had threatened to expell him the house vnlesse hee tooke present order for their satisfaction which as it could not but bee greatly to his bodily shame euen so might it also turne to the destruction of his soule if hee shoulde be now againe thrust into the wandering courses of the worlde which of necessitie hee must bee vnlesse it would please his Lordship to bee good vnto him and to cause his poore lyberansa to bee payed and therewith wiping his eyes as though hee had wept made an other lowe reuerence neither was the gardian behinde to confirme his speeches and earnestly in his behalfe to entreate the Treasurer who at the generall request of the standers by as also that hee felt his owne conscience beginning to wamble with compassion after hee had encouraged him with many comfortable words to patience and perseuerance in that blessed estate of life caused his lyberansa to be taken and his money to bee foorthwith payed vppon which with many himble thankes tooke their leaue The Spaniard vpon his returne to the Cloister told the gardian that hee could not by any meanes conforme the frailenes of his flesh to that austeritie of life And therefore with many harty thankes deliuering him his coate went his wayes to make good cheere amongst his Cameradoes not gloyifying a little in the happinesse of his successe The like practise of cousonage vsed by a Sycilian But now to our Sycilian he hauing by many obseruances found the humor of the Treasurer chiefly to be addicted to one especiall Iesuite aboue any other of the Colledge as both beeing his ghostly father as also otherwise of very priuate conuersation with him and finding the Iesuite one day hearing of confessions in the Church of their Colledge according as their custome is kneeled downe and when his turne came vttered his confession in the end whereof he interrupted his speeches with many sighes as though there were something hanging in his teeth that he was loath to commit to the vtterance of his tongue Which the Iesuite perceiuing with many protestations and assurances both of his comfort and counsell encouraged and perswaded him to reueale it insomuch that after a long shew of great vnwillingnesse and drawing backe hee told him that he had made a solemne othe and vow to kill Iohn de Lasture the Kings high Treasurer moued thereunto by a violent dispaire whereunto his extreame and rigorous dealing had driuen him The Iesuite amazed at so strange a speech failed not to tell him that the obseruation of such a vow was much more wicked than the breach thereof and withall that the performance would procure both his bodies death and his soules damnation The souldier replied that hee knewe his wordes to bee true and withall that hee had in his minde already forecast this and much more neuerthelesse that his minde was so strongly possessed with this dispairefull and dreadfull resolution that it was not in his power to withdrawe his thoughts from the desire to accomplish it Whereupon the Iesuite seeing that it was not in his force to diuert him from that vppon which to his seeming his minde had so fully resolued requested him yet that hee would the next morning at eight of the clocke meet him in the same place againe and hee would conferre further with him Which the souldier promising the Iesuite presently repaired to the Treasurer and after his solemne oath taken neuer to prosecute any thing against the fellow acquainted him with what had happened forgetting not withall to dilate much of the wilde countenaunce and amazed gesture of the fellow and therefore wished him not by any means to hazard a thing of so great valew as his life vppon the franticke resolution of a desperate souldier The Treasurer not daring to apprehend the fellowe lest thereupon danger might haue ensued to the Iesuite for reuealing a thing vttered in confession and withall restrained by his oathe requested him to bring him with him the next morning which the Iesuite not failing to doe they found a fellow ready in the hall to receiue them with money who taking the souldiers lyberansa gaue him presently satisfaction which was of such vertue that it assoiled him of his vow In fine you may see that these are no great tokens of that bottomlesse plenty which they speake of when poore men that haue spent their yeeres and their blood in his seruice must be driuen to vse such dishonest sleights and cousoning deuises for the obtaining of their money Neither as I heare is the matter much better in Spaine it self euen there where the storehouse of his treasure is For I my self haue seene many comming thence poore and penylesse cursing their iourney and denied the suites they went for And withall I heard not long agone a gentleman of good sort and iudgement say that it was his happe to bee in Spaine at such time as sundry of those Spaniards that had bin prisoners here in England after the ouerthrow of their Amada ariued there poore miserable where he saw great troups of them suing in the court for some small reliefe but to so small purpose that he heard diuers of