Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	child_n	father_n	mother_n	4,215	5	7.2898	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04801	A wonder vvorth the reading, or, A true and faithfull relation of a woman, now dwelling in Kentstreet who, vpon Thursday, being the 21 of August last, was deliuered of a prodigious and monstrous child, in the presence of diuers honest, and religious women to their wonderfull feare and astonishment.		1617 (1617)	STC 14935; ESTC S106531	4,251	12

A WONDER VVOORTH THE READING OR A True and faithfull Relation of a Woman now dwelling 〈◊〉 Kentstreet who vpon Thursday being the 21 of August last was deliuered of a prodigious and Monstrous Child in the presence of diuers honest and religious-women to their wonderfull feare and astonishment LONDON Imprinted by William Iones dwelling in Red-crosse-streete 1617. To the Reader I Le broach no lye past mans beliefe or reason For that I would keepe custome with the Season I Bring no newes here of some hideous Dragon Nor tell I of Charles Starre-bestudded Waggon New hurld from heauen Nor of some Horse and Beare which ' fore the King did one another teare Nor of strange Earthquakes swallowing worlds of people Nor Prophecie found in some ruind Steeple But here I bring in a new true-borne Storie A monstrous Message sent from the King of Glorie A True and faithfull Relation of a Woman now dwelling in Kentstreet who vpon Thursday last being the 21 of August was deliuered of a Prodigious and Monstrous Child in the presence of diuers honest and religious women to their wonderfull feare and astonishment IT is reported of the famous Scythian that when he went foorth to warre against his enemies it was his fashion first to display a white Ensigne as a token of his mercie if his foes would yeeld to faire conditions but if not then would he display a red Ensigne in signe of effusion of bloud and threatning death and destruction but if at least they refused to stoope to his faire admonitions then would he set vp his black banner betokning nothing but reuenge and bloudie slaughter and that not one should scape from his threatning furie So hath Almightie God dealt with this our Country hath he not from time to time sent downe his Ensignes of anger amongst vs to affright vs from our sinnes and to stope our fete in the way of Iniquitie and yet notwithstanding we goe one in our abominations He hath deuoured vs with diseases pinched vs with famine terrified vs with accidentall fiers consuming our houses he hath commāded the mercilesse waters to swallow the friutes of the Earth so as they became vtterly vselesse and vnprofitable to you he hath trāsposed the seasons set Summer in Winters place Winter in Summers stead He hath called from amongst you the Noble graue and learned the wise the iudge godly nay hath he not come nearer vnto you and called the husband from the wife the wife from the husband the child from the mother the father from the Sonne one friend from another and sayd them all vp together in the graue of corruption by the hand of death to your sad sorrow and discomfort These and many moe Iudgements hath God sent downe amongst you as so many Heralds to proclayme his iust anger against you for your abominatiōs and yet you lie snorting in your sinnes quaffing downe iniquitie like water and securely streching your limes vpon the bed of luxuritie as if God were not iealous of his honour and regarded not our trāsgressions O England England delude not thy selfe with these goulden dreames but resol●● that God will come and visit thee in some sharper measu●●●nd manner then heretofore he hath done the axe is allready laid to thy roote his powerfull hand hath long beene heaued vp ouer thee and when it fals it must be thy confusion O remember that God is said to haue feete of Lead and hands of Iron he is slow to wrath but when he strikes he paies home and heauie Therefore abuse not thou Gods patient How many warning peeces of his displeasure hath he discharged vpon thee O England and yet thou takest no warning What blazing Comets what Apparitions what vnnaturall Inundations what maleuolent Coniuntions of the Starres what Conspiracies against our King and State What miraculous Monstrous and Prodigious births haue beene presented to our eyes as hideous spectators of deformitie yet all these cannot moue vs from our wickednesse For better confirmation here of and meeting with so faire an occasion I will briefely relate a most strange and mōstrous accident in nature which howsoeuer in mans apprehention it may seeme unpossble Therefore lest any should meet my discourse with a scoffe and smilingly say This is an vsuall tricke put vpon the world for profit and that this monstrous Childe birth whereon my present subiect is chiefly grounded was begotten in some monster hatching brayne produced for a Bartlemew faire babie and sent at this time for order sake to be nurced at the common charge of the newes affecting multitude let them know that not one syllable shall be added to the making vp of an vntrueth but as it is approued to be true by the attestation of many godly honest and religious women so no lesse faithfully truely will I relate it to the generall satisfaction of all those that read And in briefe thus it happened In Kent-streete there dwelleth one whose name is Iohn Ladyman whose wife vpon the 21. of August 1617. after long travell was deliuered of a Female child with a halfe forehead without any scull hauing a faire proportioned body from the brest downward the said child had its mouth eyez miraculously placed in the sayd halfe forhead neere vpon the breast vpon the said halfe fore-head lay a peece of flesh of two fingers thicke round about the flesh being wonderfully curled like Gentle womens attire being of a very blew coullour like a turcke Cocke the eyes being very bigg staring and very firy red which greatly terrifyed the midwife and all that were present the chid being dead the midwife labored to close the staring eies but could not they presently fell all to prayer desiring God to take from them this so sodayne astonishment and feare the midwife after prayer arising and so the rest of the women beholding agayne the Child they saw the eares of it fastened to the halfe forhead not being like to Christians eares but stood pricking vp behind each eare was two little bones standing vp ouergrowne with flesh and hauing very long heaire In this hideous and fearefull forme was this child brought forth aliue to the great astonishment of the beholders and grieuious lamentation of the parents If any curious censurer call in question the trueth hereof let him ēquire at the place before recited for his better satisfaction In the meane time let me thus stop his mouth That he who bad the Sun retire it obeyed that he who reared vp the diuided waters like walls of bricke and maide a pathway through the deepe that he who graspeth the thunder in his right hand and the Rainbow in his left that he whose thrōe is heauen whose footestoole is earth that this terrible God I say who created all of nothing can as easily diuert the vsuall and orderly course of procreation into dreadfull and hideous deformitie Therefore let me induce euery honest heart to apply this to his owne conscience and seriously to weigh and