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	see_v	soul_n	14,522	5	5.2397	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14984	VVestward for smelts. Or, the vvater-mans fare of mad-merry vvestern wenches whose tongues albeit like bell-clappers, they neuer leaue ringing, yet their tales are svveet, and will much content you. VVriten by Kinde Kit of Kingstone.	Kinde Kit, of Kingstone.	1620 (1620)	STC 25292; ESTC S101857	31,657	44

your will though vnwilling I am to doe it yet I will performe it So went he his way toward Waltam and his Master presently rid to the Court where hee abode with King Henry who a little before was inlarged by the Earle of Warwicke and placed in the Throne againe George beeing come to Waltam did his dutie to his Mistris who wondred to see him and not her husband for whom she demanded of George he answered her that hee was at Enfield and did request her to meet him there To which shee willingly agreed and presently rode with him toward Enfield At length they being come into a by way George began to speake to her in this manner Mistris I pray you tel me what that Wife deserues who through some lewd behauiour of hers hath made her Husband to neglect his estate and meanes of life seeking by all meanes to dye that he might be free from the shame which her wickednesse hath purchased him Why George quoth shee hast thou met with some such creature Be it whomsoeuer might I be her Iudge I thinke her worthy of death How thinkest thou Faith Mistris said he I thinke so too and am so fully perswaded that her offence deserueth that punishment that I purpose to bee executioner to such a one my selfe Mistris you are this woman you haue so offended my Master you know best how your selfe that he hath left his house vowing neuer to see the same till you be dead and I am the man appointed by him to kill you therefore those words which you meane to vtter speake them presently for I cannot stay Poore Gentlewoman at the report of these vnkinde words ill deserued at her hands she looked as one dead and vttering aboundance of teares she at last spake these words And can it be that my kindnes and louing obedience hath merited no other reward at his hands then death It cannot be I know thou onely tryest me how patiently I would endure such an vniust command I 'le tell thée héere thus with body prostrate on the earth and hands lift vp to heauen I would pray for his preseruation those should be my worst words for deaths fearfull visage shewes pleasant to that soule that is innocent Why then prepare your selfe said George for by heauen I doe not rest With that shee prayed him stay saying And is if so then what should I desire to liue hauing lost his fauour and without offence whom I se dearely loued and in whose sight my happinesse did consist come let me die Yet George let mee haue so much fauour at thy hands as to commend me in these few words to him Tell him my death I willingly imbrace for I haue owed him my life yet no otherwise but by a wiues obedience euer since I call'd him Husband but that I am guilty of the least fault toward him I vtterly deny and doe at this houre of my death desire that heauen would powre down vengeance vpon me if euer I offended him in thought Intreat him that he would not speake ought that were ill on mee when I am dead for in good troth I haue deserued none Pray heauen blesse him I am prepared now strike prethée home and kill me and my griefes at once George séeing this could not withhold himselfe from shedding teares and with pitie he let fall his sword saying Mistris that I haue vsed you so roughly pray pardon me for I was commanded to by my Master who hath vowed if I let you liue to kill me But I being perswaded that you are innocent I will rather vndergoe the danger of his wrath then to staine my hands with the bloud of your cléere and spotlesse brest Yet let mee intreat you so much that you would not come in his sight lest in his rage he turne your butcher but liue in some disguise till time haue opened the cause of his mistrust and shewed you guiltlesse which I hope will not belong To this she willingly granted being loth to die causelesse and thanked him for his kindnes so parted they both hauing teares in their eyes George want home where he shewed his Masters King for the gouernment of the house till his Master and Mistris returne which he said liued a while at London ' cause the time was so troublesome and that was a place where they were more secure then in the Countrey This his fellowes beléeued and were obedient to his will amongst whom hee vsed himselfe so kindely that he had all their loues This poore Gentlewoman Mistris of the house in short time got mans apparell for her disguise so wandred she vp and downe the countrey for she could get no seruice because the time was so dangerous that no man knew whom hee might trust onely she maintained her selfe with the price of those Iewels which she had all which she sold At the last being quite out of money and hauing nothing left which she could well spare to make money of she resolued rather to starue then so much to debate her selfe to become a begger with this resolution she went to a solitary place beside Yorke where shée liued the space of two dayes on Hearbs and such things as she could there finde In this time it chanced that King Edward béeing come out of France and lying thereabout with the small forces hée had came that way with some two or thrée Noble men with an intent to discouer if any ambushes were laid to take him at an aduantage He séeing there this Gentlewoman whom he supposed to be a Boy asked her what she was what she made there in that priuat place To whom shée very wisely and modestly withall answered that she was a poore Boy whose bringing vp had bin better then her outward parts then shewed but at that time she was both friendlesse comfortlesse by reason of the late warre He being moued to sée one so well featur'd as she was to want entertained her for one of his Pages to whom she shewed her selfe so dutifull and louing that in short time shee had his loue aboue all her fellows Still followed she the fortunes of K. Edward hoping at last as not long after it did fall out to be reconciled to her husband After the battell at Barnet where K. Edward got the best she going vp down amongst the slaine men to know whether her husband which was on K. Henries side were dead or escaped happened to sée the other who had béen her ghest lying there for dead she remembring him and thinking him to be one whom her husband loued went to him finding him not dead she caused one to helpe her with him to a house there-by where opening of his brest to dresse his wounds she espied her Crucifix at sight of which her heart was ioyfull hoping by this to find him that was the originall of her disgrace for she remembring her selfe found that she had lost that Crufix euer since that morning he departed from her