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	show_v	soul_n	5,454	5	5.2942	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15807	Cyrupædia The institution and life of Cyrus, the first of that name, King of Persians. Eight bookes. Treating of noble education, of princely exercises, military discipline, vvarlike stratagems, preparations and expeditions: as appeareth by the contents before the beginning of the first booke. Written in Greeke by the sage Xenophon. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine and French translations, by Philemon Holland of the city of Coventry Doctor in Physick. Dedicated to his most excellent Maiesty.; Cyropaedia. English	Xenophon.; Holland, Abraham, d. 1626. Naumachia. aut; Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 26068; ESTC S118709	282,638	236

you well interrupt ones joy with manifold troubles And you my sonne Cambyses I would have you to know that it is not this golden Scepter that is able to preserve your Kingdome and Royall estate But many friends and those trusty are unto Kings the truest appay and surest Scepter to rest upon And never thinke that men are naturally borne faithfull friends unto you for if that were so the same men would be true and loyall unto all like as other things in one nature are seene to bee the same unto all indifferently But every Prince must himselfe make men trusty and fast unto him and made they are such not by force but rather by beneficence and bountie If you therefore would gaine others unto you for to bee assistant in the preservation of your royaltie begin not at any other before him who is sprung from the same stocke that you are to wit your owne brother And verily you see that naturall Citizens are more neerely linked unto us than strangers such as eate drinke and daily converse with us more than those that live apart and be unacquainted with us They then that are come of one seed and the same blood nourished by the same mother brought up in the same house loved of the same parents calling one father and one mother how can these otherwise be but of all others most inward and familiar Suffer not then those good blessings to be in vaine bestowed upon you whereby the very Gods lead brethren to the entertainment of mutuall amitie but over and above this foundation already laid build forthwith other workes of love and thus your reciprocall friendship shall continue for ever invincible And to say a truth he regardeth his owne selfe who taketh care of his brother For unto what other person is a brother if he be a mightie man such an ornament as to his brother And who beside is able to honour a puissant Potentate so much as a brother And whom will a man having a great person to his brother feare to wrong so much as hee will his owne brother See therefore that no man obey him sooner nor be readier to come and assist him than your selfe For neither his prosperitie nor adversitie concernes any man more properly than you Consider moreover in gratifying whom you should hope to gaine more or winne greater thanke than if you doe your brother a pleasure In succouring shall you get a firmer Ally than him whom is it more unseemely or dishonest not to love than a brother and whom in all the world is it more decent and befitting to honour above the rest than a brother It is a brother onely and none but he ô Cambyses who if hee have the principall place of love with a brother incurreth not the envie of others thereby For the tender love therefore of our tutelar Gods my children As yee have any desire to gratifie mee your father honour yee one another For yee doe not I trow beleeve and know for certaine that when I end this humane life I shall become nothing at all and have no more being Neither did yee so much as erewhile see my soule visibly but by the operations which it had yee conceived of it as of a reall essence Or know yee not yet what terrours doe their soules who have suffred violence and wrongs strike into murderers hearts and what revengefull tormentors they send among the wicked Thinke yee that the honours done to those that are departed would have endured so long if their spirits had no power and strength remaining in them For mine owne part my sonnes I could never be perswaded to beleeve that the soule all while it is contained within this mortall body should live and afterwards die when it is departed from it For this I see that the soule quickeneth these mortall bodies and giveth life to them so long as it remaineth therein Neither could I ever be brought to thinke that after the soule is separate from this blockish and senselesse body it shall be it selfe void of sense and understanding But when the pure and sincere minde is once departed then by all likelihood and reason it is most wise After the dissolution of a man every thing is seene to returne againe unto its owne kinde save onely the soule which neither present nor absent can be seene Consider moreover quoth he that nothing in the world resembleth mans death neerer than sleepe But the soule of a man whiles he sleepeth sheweth most of all her divinitie yea and foreseeth future things being as it seemeth at such a time at greatest libertie Is it so then as I perswade my selfe it is doth the soule quit and forsake the body In all reverence and honour therefore unto my soule performe that which I request you to doe But were it nothing so but that the soule as it abideth in the body so it perisheth with the same yet feare yee the Gods who are immortall who see all things and bee omnipotent who maintaine and keepe this orderly course of the whole world so certaine perpetuall infallible and for the grandeur and beauty thereof so inexplicable Feare the Gods I say that yee may neither commit nor devise any impietie or injustice Next unto the Gods reverence all Mankinde which in a continuall succession is perpetuall For the Gods doe not cover you with darkenesse but all your actions must of necessitie be exposed to the eyes of the world which if they be pure and void of iniquitie shall make you powerfull with all men but if yee devise and practise to wrong one another yee shall be disreputed with all men For no man were he never so well aff●cted can trust you any longer when he sees him to receive injury at your hands who is linked most neere in the bond of friendship If then this remonstrance of mine be sufficient to instruct you in your deportment one to another it is well if not yet at least wise learne of them who lived before us for this is the best way simply of teaching and instruction Many parents there have beene who constantly persisted in love to their children and many brethren likewise to their brethren yea and some of both sorts have plotted the cleane contrary one against another Whether of them therefore yee know to have reaped more good by that which they have done if yee make choise of their deeds and follow their steps yee shall doe very well But hereof peradventure I have said enough And now my sonnes as touching my body when I have once finished the course of this my life see yee enshrine it neither in gold nor in silver nor in any thing else but presently with all speed enterre the same For what is more happie than to be committed unto the earth which as a mother beareth and as a nource feedeth all things faire and beautifull all things good and profitable I have beene otherwise at all times a respective lover of