Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	call_v	die_v	live_v	5,133	5	5.1165	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20080	A rod for run-awayes Gods tokens, of his feareful iudgements, sundry wayes pronounced vpon this city, and on seuerall persons, both flying from it, and staying in it. Expressed in many dreadfull examples of sudden death ... By Tho. D.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1625 (1625)	STC 6520; ESTC S105262	17,724	34

A Rod for Run-awayes Gods Tokens Of his feareful Iudgements sundry wayes pronounced vpon this City and on seuerall persons both flying from it and staying in it Expressed in many dreadfull Examples of sudden Death falne vpon both young and old within this City and the Suburbes in the Fields and open Streets to the terrour of all those who liue and to the warning of those who are to dye to be ready when God Almighty shall bee pleased to call them By THO. D. Lord haue mercy on London 〈…〉 London for Iohn Trundle and are to be sold 〈…〉 TO THE NOBLE Gentleman Mr. Thomas Gilham CHIRVRGIAN SIR IN this Vniuersall sicknesse giue mee leaue in a few Leaues to salute your Health and I am glad I can do so To whom in an Epidemiall confusion of Wounds should a man flye but to Physicke and Chirurgery In both which you haue skill In the last the World crownes your Fame as beeing a great Master Many of your excellent Pieces haue beene and are to bee seene in this City No Painter can shew the like no Limner come neere such curious Workemanship What you set out is truely to the life their 's but counterfeit I honour your Name your Art your Practice your profound Experience And to testifie I doe so let this poore Monument of my loue bee looked vpon and you shall finde it The Sender beeing sorry it is not worth your acceptation But if you thinke otherwise he shall be glad And euer rest at your seruice THO. Dekker To the Reader REader how farre soeuer thou art thou maist here see as through a Perspectiue-Glasse the miserable estate of London in this heauy time of contagion It is a picture not drawne to the life but to the death of aboue twelue thousand in lesse then six weekes If thou art in the Countrey cast thine eye towards vs here at home and behold what wee indure If as thou canst not choose thou art glad thou art out of this Tempest haue a care to man thy Ship well and doe not ouer-lade it with bad merchandize foule Sins when thou art bound for this place for all the danger will be at thy putting in The Rockes of insection lye hid in our deepe Seas and therefore it behoues thy soule to take heed what sayles she hoyses and thy body what Pylote it carries aboord Wee doe not thinke but numbers of you wish your selues here againe for your entertainement a far off cannot be courteous when euen not two miles from vs there is nothing but churlishnesse But it is to be feared some of you will get such falls in the Corne-Fields of the Country that you will hardly bee able without halting to walke vp and downe London But take good hearts and keepe good legges vnder you and be sure you haue hung strong Pad-lo●…es vpo●… your doores for in many Streetes there are none to guard your goods but the Houses themselues If one Shop be open sixteene in a row stand shut vp together and those that are open were as good to be shut for they take no Money None thriue but Apothecaries Butchers Cookes and Coffin-makers Coach-men ride a cock-horse and are so full of Iadish trickes that you cannot be iolted sixe miles from London vnder thirty or forty shillings Neuer was Hackney-flesh so deare Few woollen Drapers sel any Cloth but euery Church-yard is euery day full of linnen Drapers and the Earth is the great Warehouse which is piled vp with winding-sheetes To see a Rapier or Feather worne in London now is as strange as to meet a Low-countrey Souldier with Money in his Purse The walkes in Pauls are empty the walkes in London too wide here 's no lustling but the best is Cheape-side is a com fortable Garden where all Phisicke-Herbes grow Wee wish that you the Run-awayes would suffer the Market-Folkes to come to vs or that they had hearts to come for the Statute of fore-stalling is sued vpon you Wee haue lost your companies and not content with that you robbe vs of our victuals but when you come backe keepe open house to let in ayre and set good cheere on your Tables that we may bid you welcome Yours T. D. Gods Tokens Of His fearefull Iudgements WEE are now in a set Battaile the Field is Great Britaine the Vantguard which first stands the brunt of the Fight is London the Shires Counties and Countries round about are in danger to be prest to come vp in the Reare the King of Heauen and Earth is the Generall of the Army reuenging Angels his Officers his Indignation the Trumpet summoning and sounding the Alarum our innumerable sinnes his enemies and our Nation the Legions which he threatens to smite with Correction Sinne then being the quarrell and ground of this warre there is no standing against so inuincible a Monarch as God is no defending a matter so foule as our sinnes are Would you know how many Nations for sinne haue beene rooted vp and swept from the face of the earth that no memory of them is left but their name no glories of their Kings or great Cities remaining but only this Here they liued Here they stood Reade the Scriptures and euery Booke is full of such Histories euery Prophet sings songs of such lamentable desolations For Iehouah when he is angry holds three Whips in his hand and neuer drawes bloud with them but when our Faults are heauy our Crimes hainous and those three Whips are the Sword Pestilence and Famine What Country for sinne hath not smarted vnder these Ierusalem felt them all Let vs not trauell so farre as Ierusalem but come home looke vpon Christendome and behold Hungaria made desolate by sword and fire Poland beaten downe by battailes Russia by bloudy inuasions the Turke and Tartar haue here their insolent triumphs Looke vpon Denmarke Sweden and those Easterne Countries How often hath the voice of the Drumme called them vp Euen now at this houre the Marches are there beating How hath the Sword mowed downe the goodly Fields of Italy What Massacres hath in our memory beene in France Oh Germany what foundations of bloud haue thy Cities beene drowned in what horrors what terrors what hellish inuentions haue not warre found out to destroy thy buildings demollish thy Free States and vtterly to confound thy 17. Prouinces Gods three whips haue printed deepe markes on thy shoulders the Sword for many yeeres together hath cut thy people in pieces Famine hath beene wearied with eating vp thy children and is not yet satisfied the Pestitence hath in many of thy Townes in many of thy Sieges and Leagers plaid the terrible Tyrant In all these thy miseries the Spaniard hath had his triumphs his Fire-brands haue been flung about to kindle and feede all thy burnings his furies haue for almost foure score yeeres stood and still stand beating at the Anuils and forging Thunder-bolts to batter thee and all thy neighbouring Kingdomes in pieces