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	put_v	5,228	5	5.8876	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16279	The discription of the contrey of Aphrique the fyrst part of the worlde, with the cituation of al the countreys together, with the perticuler maners lawes, and ceremonies, of dyuers people inhabityng in the same part. Translated out of Frenche into Englyshe by Wyllyam Prat of London, the fyrst daye of the newe yere, M.CCCCC.LIIII. Rede it dylygently, marke it perfectly, reuolue it thorowly, beare it equally, beholde the auctours simplicitie, and prayse God almyghty.; Omnium gentium mores. Book 1. English	Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Prat, William.	1554 (1554)	STC 3196.5; ESTC S112745	45,413	174

And by this his lyberalitie the comon people be not burdened to pay taxes and fynes as they do in other countreys The thyrde parte of the reuenewes belongeeh to the men of warre to the ende they may haue the greater desyre to put them selues forth in al partes dangerous for the defence of theyr countrey Theyr policie consisteth in thre maner of people that is to say labourers herdemen and practisers of science The labourers do bye eyther of the prests Kynge or of men of warre certeine grounde in the fyelde and do continue in labourynge all theyr lyfe longe vpon the same And therof it commeth that they can better skyll to laboure and tyll the earthe then other nacions This industry and labour of theyrs is gyuē by nature from the father to the chylde lykewyse the shepherde from the father to the chylde do kepe and noryshe beastes and haue no other vocation This art and science hath ben gretly augmented by the artyficers of Egypt for that they meddle with no publyke matter nor do exercise no other occupaciō but that which they are called to and apoynted by theyr lawes or learned of theyr fathers They do iudge nothing rashly In so muche they say that these thynges which be conducted posytyuely and by maturitie be of gret commodytie and for the preseruacion of societe and humayne lyfe They can fynde no better meanes to expulse or banyshe all noughtynes then to punishe mulefactours and euyl doers so shal al offenders be whypped And they haue suche a respect that due Iustyce be done that neyther for loue frendship nor money the trespasses of the offendour shall be forgeuen for they sayd these remissions to be destruction of man Wherfore in the gretest Cyties as in Heliopole in Memphis and Thebes there was elected and chosen good men to whom the correction of all causes was commytted who do lyttle dyffer from those of Areopagites of Athenes or to the senate of the Lacedemoniens wher there was of longe time two iudges constituted They do apere alwayes to the nomber of xxx and they chose some of the moste lykest amonge them to be president And ageyne there is gyuen to theym an other superior by the Cytizens The kynge doth fynde all the necessaries as lyuynges but the superiours was cōmaunded by the king to be more honorablye serued then the inferiours He that is principal of thē hath a cheine of golde hange at his necke wherunto is tyed an Image wel garnyshed with precious stones This cheyne is called verytie In so much that president shulde signifie to all menne that he which was apoynted to heare their causes by the cheyne shulde presēt veritie and with truth to way all thynges Ageyne theyr lawes conteynynge in .viii. bookes brought amongest them This was the custome that the accuser shuld bring in written the causes of the accusacion to certifie the iudge in forme and maner as it was done Is the hurte doone to an other was a question To the defendant there was gyuen tyme to aunswere the plaintifes obiection and to pourge him selfe or auoyde the fault or els to deny al and be cleare Moreouer they gyue audyence to the accuser Fynally after that they haue benne harde two tymes before the iuges They take deliberacion that done the iudge tourneth the Image towardes the true and feythfull partye and doth pronounce iudgemēt Seyng nowe by chaunce we haue fallen into this passage and taken vpon vs this iourney in the formal declaracions it wolde be most best to rehearse some olde and auncient lawes of the Egyptians to the entent that we may know the one frō the other as those that be euyll to shone and the other that be good profytable to folow Al Periurers were corporally punyshed and taken as men dispraysynge the religion of the goddes in so doynge they had vyolated the fayth to man the which is no other thyng then a true lyne of humayne societie and felowshyp he that in the hygh way shal mete any man which hath ben pursued by theues or robbers and beynge able wolde not runne to take them was holden coulpable of the inconueniens and misfortune happened vnto the man And if so be it he coulde not folowe him Yet was he bonde to come before the Iustice and there to declare the cause and to present him selfe as an accuser agaynst the thyefe The peyne that was appoynted to him that transgressed the law was that he shuld endure a nombre of strypes with a rod and not to eate nor drynke for the space of thre hoole dayes The false accuser is punished as a great transgresser Al the Egypciēs wer bounde to brynge theyr names in wrytynge and the state of the gouernour of theyr countrey he whiche in that place was founde a lyer or gat his lyuyng by an vnlawfull way as vserye ▪ or suche lyke was put to death The man whiche kylleth an other whether he be free or bounde was iudged to dye for murtherers or those which commit homicede they be not curious to haue the lawes passe vpon them The person dead present deathe to the manslers so by that the nobles of the contrey be in surety and out of feare The father which kyll the chylde is not put to deathe but for the space of thre dayes thre nightes he is continually nyghe death beynge accompanied with a certein nombre of seriantes And their reson is that thoughe they commyt this cryme yet ought not to be pupunished for they iudge that the father taketh awaye ageyne but the lyfe whiche before he gaue to his chylde and it is sufficient for him to be afflicted by continual repentance and dollour he taketh for his euyll deade and by this meanes it seameth to theym that other fathers were admonished not to cōmit the lyke They haue a sharpe punishement for the paradices and mans●eers Fyrste they are with a sharpe poynted toole thrust thorowe and afterwarde set vpon a great heape of thornes and there be brused for they esteeme manslauter to be the greatest cryme that a man can commyt to put hym to deathe whiche wolde lyue If a women with chylde had done an offence and condempned to dye execution shulde not haue ben done vntyll she hadde ben delyuered of chylde for feare that the infaunte in her wombe not trespassynge shulde be punisshed with the trespasser And for one faute two parsons to be punysshed He that in the battayle obeyethe not hys Capyteyne is not put to deth but incurreth in a notable infamie to the dysstruction of his honour They haue suche a regarde to their honoures that they esteme the dystruction of theyr name worse thē deth it selfe The tongues of them be cutte out which do reueyle to theyr enemyes the secretes of publyke matters All clyppers of money Forgers of false Coyne Changers of weyght and marke Grauers of anye face scripture or writyng and coūter featters of letters haue theyr two Thombes cutte of to th ende