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	life_n	see_v	4,904	5	3.2741	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20057	Foure birds of Noahs arke viz. 1. The dove. 2. The eagle. 3. The pellican. 4. The phoenix. ...	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1609 (1609)	STC 6499; ESTC S105249	16,536	274

to many children would like Gavel-kind lands in few generations become nothing or to say it by communication is errour in Divinity for to communicate the ability of communicating whole essence with any but God is utter blasphemy And if thou hit thy Fathers nature and inclination he also had his Fathers and so climbing up all comes of one man and have one nature all shall imbrace one course but that cannot bee therefore our complexions and whole bodies wee inherit from Parents our inclinations and minds follow that For our minde is heavy in our bodies afflictions and rejoyceth in our bodies pleasure how then shall this nature governe us that is governed by the worst part of us Nature though oft chased away it will retu●ne 't is true but those good motions and inspirations which be our guides must bee ●ooed courted and welcomed or else they abandon us And that old Axiome nihil invita c. must not be said thou shalt but thou wilt doe nothing against Nature so unwilling he notes us to curbe our naturall appetites Wee call our bastards alwayes our naturall issue and we define a Foole by nothing so ordinary as by the name of naturall And that poore knowledge whereby we conceive what raine is what wind what thunder wee call Metaphysicke supernaturall such small things such no things doe we allow to our pliant Natures apprehension Lastly by following her we lose the pleasant and lawfull commodities of this life for wee shall drinke water and eate rootes and those not sweet and delicate as now by Mans art and industry they are made we shall lose all the necessities of societies lawes arts and sciences which are all the workemanship of Man yea we shall lack the last best refuge of misery death ● because no death is naturall for if yee will not dare to call all death violent though I see not why sicknesses be not violences yet causes of all deaths proceed of the defect of that which nature made perfect and would preserve and therefore all against nature IX That only Cowards dare dye EXtreames are equally removed from the meane so that headlong desperatenesse asmuch offends true valour as backward Cowardice of which sort I reckon justly all un-inforced deaths When will your valiant man dye of necessity so Cowards suffer what cannot be avoided and to runne into death unimportun'd is to runne into the first condemned desperatenesse Will he dye when he is rich and happy then by living he may doe more good and in afflictions and miseries death is the chosen refuge of Cowards Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest But it is taught and practised among our Gallants that rather than our reputations suffer any m●ime or we any misery wee shall offer our brests to the Cannons mouth yea to our swords points And this seemes a very brave and a very climbing which is a Cowardly earthly and indeed a very groveling spirit Why doe they chaine these slaves to the Gallyes but that they thrust their deaths and would at every loose leape into the sea Why doe they take weapons from condemned men but to barre them of that ease which Cowards affect a speedy death Truely this life is a tempest and a warfare and he which dares dye to escape the anguish of it seems to mee but so valiant as hee which dares hang himselfe lest hee be prest to the warres I have seene one in that extremity of melancholy which was then become madnesse to make his owne breath an Instrument to stay his breath and labour to choake himselfe● but alas he was mad And we knew another that languished under the oppression of a poore disgrace so much that hee tooke more paines to dye then would have served to have nourished life and spirit enough to have out-lived his disgrace What Foole will call this Cowardlinesse Valour or this Basenesse Humility And lastly of these men which dye the Allegoricall death of entring into Religion how few are found fit for any shew of valiancy but onely a soft and supple metall made onely fo● Cowardly solitarinesse X. That a Wise Man is knowne by much laughing RIde si sapis ô puella ride If thou beest wise laugh for since the powers of discourse reason and laughter bee equally proper unto Man onely why shall not hee be onely most wise which hath most use of laughing aswell as he which hath most of reasoning and discoursing I alwaies did and shall understand that Adage Per risum multum possis cognoscere stultum That by much laughing thou maist know there is a foole not that the laughers are fooles but that among them there is some foole at whom wisem●n laugh which moved Erasmus to put this as his first Argument in the mouth of his Folly that shee made Beholders laugh for fooles are the most laughed at and laugh the least themselves of any And Nature saw this faculty to bee so necessary in man that shee hath beene content that by more causes we should be importuned to laugh then to the exercise of any other power for things in themselves utterly contra●y beget this effect for wee laugh both at witty and absurd things At both which sorts I have seen Men laugh so long and so earnestly that at last they have wept that they could laugh no more And therfore the Poet having described the quietnesse of a wise retired man saith in one what w●●ave said before in many lines Quid facit Canius tuus ridet We have received that even the extremity of laughing yea of weeping also hath beene accounted wisedome And that Democritus and Heraclitus the lovers of these Extremes have been called lovers of wisedome Now among our wisemen I doubt not but many would be found who would laugh at Heraclitus weeping none which weepe at Democritus laughing At the hearing of Comedies or other witty reports I have noted some which not understanding ●ests c. have yet chosen this as the best meanes to seeme wise and understandiug to laugh when their Companions laugh and I have presumed them ignorant whom I have seene unmoved A foole if he come into a Princes Court and see a gay man leaning at the wall so glistering and so painted in many colours that he is hardly discerned from one of the pictures in the Arras hanging his body like an Iron-bound-chest girt in and thicke ribb'd with broad gold laces may and commonly doth envy him But alas shall a wiseman which may not onely not envy but not pitty this monster do nothing Yes let him laugh And if one of these hot cholerike firebrands which nourish themselves by quarrelling and kindling others spit upon a foole one sparke of disgrace he like a that ●h● house quickly burning may bee angry but the wiseman as cold as the Salamander may not onely not be angry with him but not be sorry for him therefore let him laugh so he shall be knowne a Man because he can laugh a wise