Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	good_a	life_n	6,280	5	4.4872	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11143	A crevv of kind gossips, all met to be merrie complayning of their husbands, with their husbands ansvveres in their owne defence. Written, and newly inlarged by S.R.; Whole crew of kind gossips, all met to be merry	Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?	1613 (1613)	STC 21414; ESTC S110530	18,162	39

till Choller grew And then he at my head a Cushion threw Saying there Skold take somewhat for thy paines Goe too quoth I y' are best beat out my Braines With Cushions now to make the Prouerbe true Then outgoes hee to meet the cursed crue And to inquire who t' was did hurt him so But I le keepe that my Wenches close I trow The third Husbands Answere BEware a Widdow Oh that I were free Such mischiefe neuer more should light on mee I le pawne my heart yea euen my dearest blood Not one amongst fiue hundred that prooues good They are not kind they cannot right be sayd To haue such pure affection as a Mayde I le stand to it and bring my Wife to sweare it And Batchelers beleeue it you that heare it Though I till death doe bayle me am fast bound Would t' were tomorrow for fiue hundred pound Yet by my harmes I would haue you escape That haue a Diuell in a Womans shape A Woman-diuell and a Diuel-wife That makes me weary of a Husbands life I cannot speake with tongue nor write with pen The wofull state of such distressed men As I my selfe yet somewhat may suffice To paint her in this Paper to your eyes That those which with such creatures would be doing May by my Patterne goe to Hell a woing She is most impudent and shamelesse bold Since I was borne I neare heard such a Scold When she is vp she rayles me out of dore When I come in she rayleth ten times more If I intreate her she will sweare and curse If I say nothing she growes worse and worse I am as patient as a man can be When this vile woman thus tormenteth me If I be hungry and demaund some meate Shee le wish me choak't with the next bit I eate Then with a dogged countenance will say Spight of my heart I shall her leysure stay If I do reason mildly with her then For euery word I speake she giues me ten And tels me of her t'other husbands praise With whom she liued all her happy dayes That he would weepe euen at her finger ake And to content her any paines would take He was the kindest louing man aliue And day and night to please his wife would striue Then wishes in his graue with him she lay Amen thinke I that were my happy day For sure a man that 's mach't with such a wife Hath but two happy dayes in all his li●e The first of them 's the day whereon they marry For then the thing for which they long did tarry With wishing and much expectation still Is with great ioy effected to their will The second merry day we married haue Is when our wiues are carried to their graue For we are freed from former thraldome then And shaking of the yoke become free men Then we may ioy that we haue got release Attayning to a Batchelers sweet peace When Serpent dies adue poyson and sting When my wife 's gone farewell venomous thing But that 's not like to be a long time yet Death is too slow in challenging his debt Such happinesse to me it will not bring She will liue longer then a better thing The other day a cunning prancke she plaide One of her Gossips she brought to perswade That I should furnish her in hast to ride Vnto a Gentlewoman neere allyed Vnto my wife to see her being sicke I did it but was couz●n'd by the tricke It was her Cozen as they both gaue out But su●e they kindred made of me I doubt I sent one after them to be my spy An honest f●●●d I know that will not lye He sayes both Gentleman and country Boore Abroad report my Cozen is a Whore And she hath gallants haunt her farre and neare What should my wise and her conso●t doe there No goodnesse sure a mischiefe take them both To weare a paire of Ho●●es I would be loth But who can helpe the deed once being done It is a threed so close with cunning spun But Maisters keepe it secret I doe pray Doe not acquaint my wife with what I say Harke in your ●are If I can prooue her so I le be diuorc'd and farewell all my woe I doe intend to let her haue full scope And then a Whore will prooue a Whore I hope Let her keepe company with whom she list Let her suppose mine eyes be dimn'd with mist Let her not care into what sinne she sinkes I le come vpon her when she little thinkes And where she takes me for a silly Mome For all her knau'ry then I le pay her home The fourth Gossips Complaint WEll Gentlewomen sayd the fourth I see You haue great reason to complaine all three Vpon your Husbands they are bad indeed But I haue one in conscience doth exceed The chiefest thing wherein he takes delight Is to be vp at Dice and Cardes all night He is a Gamester though no Cocke of game For I doe finde he doth his businesse lame In things you know my meaning scant worth prayse But fast and welcome as a number sayes Al 's one for that my care hath euer bin Because he will not stay a nights within But ●unneth still abroad from place to place Wasting away his Money ●ewd and base His Gameste●s companies hee le not refuse For all the milde behau●our I can vse Intreat him kind deare Husband play no more And speake him faire vntill my tongue be fore Request him if 〈…〉 loue with Cardes he bee That he would play at Noddy but with mee Or if he loue the Tables so a life Why then to play at Nublets with his wife No no t' is death vnto him out he must To keepe the Money in his purse from rust Novum and Passage scoure his Mettall bright New-cut euen makes a Begger of him right Looke heere 's the best Apparrell that I haue The very Wedding Gowne my Father gaue He neuer gaue me yet a paire of Gloues I am beholding more to others loues Then vnto him in honest manner tho And Gossips I beseech you take it so There are kind Gentlemen some two or three And they indeed my louing Kinsmen bee Which will not see me want I know it I Two of them at my house in Terme time li● And comfort me with testes and odde deuice When as my Husband 's out a nights at Dice For if I were without a merry Friend I could not liue a twelue-month to an end One of them gaue me this same Ruf●e of Lawne It cost three pound but last weeke in the Pawne Doe y'thinke my Husband would haue bin so free Alas he neuer made so much of mee Nay t'other day at Church I spide a Hat My minde and eye was neuer off from that The onely fashion to content alone Yet thinke you he would buy me such a one No I prote●● but when I made the motion Oh wise sayd he pray where was your deuotion Goe you to Church to finde new fashions out Is