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	soul_n	very_a	5,362	5	5.6127	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08597	Sir Thomas Ouerburie his wife with new elegies vpon his (now knowne) vntimely death : whereunto are annexed, new newes and characters / written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen.	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.	1611 (1611)	STC 18909; ESTC S1598	73,798	259

And loose men will feare to flatter Children I would haue her beare More for loue of name then bed So each childe I haue is heyre To another maydenhead For she that in the act 's afraids Euery nigh'ts another maide Such a one as when shee s woo'd Blushes not for ill thoughts past But so innocently good That her dreames are euer chast For that Maide that thinkes a sin Has betraide the Fort shee 's in In my visitation still I would haue her scatter feares How this man and that was ill After protestations teares And who vowes a constant life Crownes a meritorious Wife When the Priest first giues our hands I would haue her thinke but thus In what high and holy bands Heauen like twinnes hath planted vs That like Aarons rod together Both may bud grow greene and wither FINIS THE LIVELY PORTRAICTURE OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURY THE METHOD FIrst of Mariage and the effect thereof Children Then of his contrarie Lust then for his choice First his opinion negatiuely what should not be the first causes in it that is neither Beautie Birth nor Portion Then affirmatiuely what should be of which kind there are foure Goodnesse Knowledge Discretion and as a second thing Beautie The first only is absolutely good the other being built vpon the first doe likewise become so Then the application of that woman by loue to himselfe which makes her a wife And lastly the only condition of a wife Fitnesse A WIFE EAch Woman is a briefe of Woman-kinde And doth in little euen as much containe As in one Day and Night all life we finde Of either More is but the fame againe God fram'd Her so that to her Husband She As Eue should all the World of Women be So fram'd he Both that neither power he gaue Vse of themselues but by exchange to make Whence in their Face the Fayre no pleasure haue But ' by reflex of what thence other take Our Lips in their owne Kisse no pleasure find Toward their proper Face our Eyes are blind So God in Eue did perfit Man begun Till then in vaine much of himselfe he had In Adam God created onely one Eue and the world to come in Eue he made We are two halfes whiles each frō other straies Both barren are Ioyn'd both their like can raise At first both Sexes were in Man combin'de man a Shee-man did in his bodie breed Adam was Eues Eue Mother of Mankinde Eue From Liue-flesh Man did from Dust proceed One thus made two Marriage doth revnite And makes them both but on Hermaphrodite Man did but the well-being of his life From Woman take her Being she from Man And therefore Eue created was a Wife And at the end of all her Sex began Mariage their obiect is their Being then And now Perfection they receiue from Men. Marriage to all whose ioyes two parties be And doubled are by being parted so Wherein the very act is Chastitie Whereby two Soules into one Bodie goe Which makes two one while here they liuing be And after death in their Posteritie God to each Man a priuate Woman gaue That in that Center his desires might stint That he a comfort like himselfe might haue And that on her his like he might imprint Double is Womans vse part of their end Doth on this Age part on the next depend We fill but part of Time and cannot dye Till we the world a fresh supply haue lent Children are Bodies sole Eternitie Nature is Gods Art is Mans instrument Now all Mans Art but only dead things makes But herein Man in things of life partakes For wandring Lust I know t is infinite It still begins and addes not more to more The guilt is euerlasting the delight This instant doth not feele of that before The taste of it is only in the Sense The operation in the Conscience Woman is not Lusts bounds but Woman-kinde One is Loues number who from that doth fall Hath lost his hold and no new rest shall finde Uice hath no meane but not to be at all A Wife is that enough Lust cannot finde For Lust is still with want or too much pinde Bate lust the Sin my share is eu'n with his For Not to lust and to Enjoy is one And more or lesse past equall Nothing is I still haue one Lust one at once alone And though the Woman often changed be Yet Hee 's the same without varietie Marriage our lust as 't were with fuell fire Doth with a medicine of the same allay And not forbid but rectifie desire My selfe I cannot chuse my wife I may And in the choyce of Her it much doth lie To mend my selfe in my Posteritie O rather let me Loue then be in loue So let me chuse as Wife and Friend to finde Let me forget her Sex when I approue Beasts likenesse lies in shape but ours in minde Our Soules no Sexes haue their Loue is cleane No Sex both in the better part are Men. But Physicke for our lust their Bodies be But matter fit to shew our Loue vpon But onely Shells for our posteritie Their soules were giu'n lest man should be alone For but the Soules Interpreters wordes be Without which Bodies are no Company That goodly frame we see of flesh and blood Their fashion is not weight it is I say But their Laye-part but well digested food T is but twixt Dust and Dust Liues middle way The worth of it is nothing that is seen But onely that it holds a Soule within And all the carnall Beautie of my Wife Is but skin-deepe but to two senses knowne Short euen of Pictures shorter liu'd then Life And yet the loue suruiues that's built thereon For our Imagination is too high For Bodies when they meete to satisfie All Shapes all Colours are alike in Night Nor doth our Touch distinguish foule or faire But mans imagination and his sight And those but the first weeke by Custome are Both made alike which diffred at first view Nor can that difference Absence much renew Nor can that Beautie lying in the Face But meerely by imagination be Enioy'd by vs in an inferior place Nor can that Beauty by enioying we Make ours become so our desire growes tame We changed are but it remaines the same Birth lesse then Beauty shall my Reason blinde Her Birth goes to my Children not to me Rather had I that actiue Gentrie finde Vertue then passiue from her Ancestry Rather in her aliue one vertue see Then all the rest dead in her Pedegree In the Degrees high rather be she plac't Of Nature then of Art and Policie Gentry is but a relique of Time-past And Loue doth onely but the present see Things were first made then words she were the same With or without that title or that name As for the oddes Sexes Portion Nor will I shun it nor my ayme it make Byrth Beautie Wealth are nothing worth alone All these I would for good additions take Not for Good Parts those