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	way_n	6,089	5	4.7618	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02117	Greenes newes both from heauen and hell Prohibited the first for writing of bookes, and banished out of the last for displaying of conny-catchers. Commended to the presse by B.R.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.; Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1593 (1593)	STC 12259; ESTC S103409	45,621	64

to nouelties that you might the rather sée howe willing I am to satis-fie your humors I haue sent you heere the whole discourse of my aduentures what hath be●…yde mee since I left the terrestiall worlde with a very true report of my infernall trauailes Strange per aduenture for you to vnderstand of but for the truth of the matter if you shall any where stand in doubt doo but compare the place with that golden volume of Legenda Aurea or with the workes of that famed wise man Syr Thomas More in his Booke of Quoth I to your freend and quoth your freend to me in his discourse of Eutopia The suppli●…ion of soules in Purgatory If your conscience be yet scrupe●… and that these authentike authorities will not fully satis-fie you turne ouer then to the Remish Testament and leauing the Chapters and wordes of the Euangelistes looke into the notes inserted by that holy fraternitie of I●…suites and that blessed broode of Seminaries and tel me then if you do not find matter seeming more incredible thē any by me here alleaged and yet I dare boldly auouch it and that without blushing if you consider duly of the circumstances you shall finde no lesse cause to laugh at the one then to beleeue the other Hauing thus prepared your mindes to receiue the certaintie of my discourse now likewise sette open your eares and be attentiue to the rest for thus it foloweth When pittiles Death had sommoned my soule to leaue his transitory estate infusing his frosty humour through all the parts of my body leauing my breathles corps a fitte pray for the sepulcher my deceased ghost wandring now to and fro in many obscure vnknown waies desirous to find a place of rest at the length lighted into a straight and narrow tract so ouergrowne with bryers brambles that there was almost no passage left and as it should séeme vnto me did lead vnto some ruinated place where all former trade traffique was decayed the solitarines wherof me thought was best befitting answerable to my humor so that with great difficulty scratching through the bushes it brought me at the length to the foote of a mighty stéepe Hil whose height I was not able to discerne but by the vnpleasantnes of y ● path leading ouer monstrous Rocks craggy ill fauoured to passe I perceiued it to be the high way to Heauen But should I tel you heere the toil●… y ● I had to climbe this Mountaine with what labor I attained it how many breathings I tooke by the way before I could reach it what folly I found in my selfe to vndertake it and should I discribe vnto you at large howe many inconueniences they finde that vndertakes thys passage to Heauen peraduenture I might so discourage you that a great number would neuer desire to come there at all but thys I can assure you for your better c●…mforts he that hath a willing minde to vndertake thys trauaile let hym bring with hym a pottle of that lyquour which I was wont to drinke with my Hostesse at the Redde lat●…esse in Tormoyle streete and hee shall finde it more auailable in the furthering of hys iourney then a whole poke full of the Popes pardons When I was gotten vp to the toppe of the Hill after that I had a little panted for breath looking forwarde ouer a fayre greene as my high way did direct mée I myght perceiue a little distant from mee where two were fast together by the eares weapons they had none more than their bare fistes but with them they laide on such load that I perceiued the one was loath to remayne in the others debt and I somewhat mending my pace when I was come vnto them presently knew them both to be of mine olde acquaintaunce the one Veluet breeches the other Cloth breeches betwéene whom I had not long before béene a stickler and as I supposed had taken a quyet order betwéene them for ending of all controuersies But they neuer the more vppon my ariuall forbare the one the other but sometimes with downe-right blowes enough to haue feld a Bullocke sometime with bobbes at the lippes able to haue dasht out theyr téeth otherwhiles lugging one an other by the eares as if they had committed some offence in listning too lightly after foolish spéeches but Veluet breeches being in the French fashion with a goodly locke hanging downe his left chéeke wherin Cloth breeches had so snarled his fingers that when I thrust in betwéene them to haue parted them I could not pluck away his hand tyll he had pluckt away hayre and all that he had holde on but hauing once put them a sunder I wild them as they were men to hold their hands why qd I doo you know what you doo or doo you remember the place where you are I am sure wee be not farre from Heauen gates and if S. Peter should vnderstand of your abuse I knowe he would commit you both to the Porters Lodge Veluet breeches who was so farre out of breath that h●…e was not able to speake in the end when he had a while well blustred and blowne deliuered mee these words This base fellowe whom I haue euer disdayned and although in our late controuersie by the inconsideration of a partiall Iurie he preuayled against me sentence being giuen on his side the which I thinke dooth incourage him the rather in his presumption toward mee but I euer scorning him denying him as he is vnworthy to conuerse with a Gentleman of any quallitie or trayning vp and as I was yerwhiles quyetly trauelling all alone in a solitarie muse how I might behaue my selfe when I came to heauen what salutations I might render to the Saincts with what grace I might giue the Baseles manes to the Monarches and great Princes that had raigned in the world and what countenance I might carry best beseeming a Gentleman of my reputation calling newly comming amongst so many strangers of al sorts amongst whom I was altogether vnknown and had no manner of acquaintance as I was painfully and with great difficultie trauelling vp the hill in these other like cogitations this barbarous fellow whose rude training vp hath better inabled him to indure labour toile than those that haue lyued in pleasure ease was followed hard at my heeles before I was aware of him which in truth at the first made me halfe afraide but looking back seing who it was my feare was turned into disdaine and my stomacke meruailously began to swell against him but without any mann●…r of word speaking vnto him ●… kept my way the which being so straight as you know that there can passe but one at once I held him behinde me till I was gotten vp to the very height of the hill where the passage growing more spacious he makes no more adoe at the matter but without any word speaking steps afore began to hold on his way as though I had béene but