Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	conceal_v	full_a	great_a	23	3	2.1046	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20374	[An apologie of the Earle of Essex]	Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601.; Rich, Penelope, Lady, 1562?-1607. Lady Rich to Her Maiestie in the behalfe of the Earle of Essex.	1600 (1600)	STC 6787.7; ESTC S341	26,155	38

Earle of Essex EArely did I hope this morning to haue had mine eyes blessed with your Maiesties beauties but seeing the same depart into a cloud meeting with spi●●tes that did presage by the wheeles of their chariots some thunder in the ayre I must complaine and expresse my feares to that high Maiestie and diuine oracle from whence I receiue a doubtfull answere vnto whose power I must sacrifice againe tho teares and praiers of the afflicted that must dispaire in time if it be too soone to importune heauen when we feele the miseries of hell or that wordes directed to that sacred wisedome should out of season be deliuered for my vnfortunate brother whom all men haue libertie to defame as if his offences were capitall and he so base deiected a creature that his loue his life his seruice to your beauties and the state had deserued no absolution after so hard punishment or so much as to answere in your faire presence who would vouchsafe more iustice and fauour then hee can expect of partiall iudges For those combined enemies which lay open false groundes to build his ruine vrging his fault as criminall to your diuine honour thinking it heauen to blaspheme heauen when their owne particular mallice and counsels haue practised onely to glut themselues in their priuate reuenge not regarding your seruice or losse so much as their ambitious ende to rise by his ouerthrowe And I haue reason to apprehend that if your faire hand do not check the course of their unbridled hate that the last course will be his last breath since their cuill instrumentes that by their office and cunning prouided for the feast haue sufficient poyson in their heartes to insert to the seruice which they wil serue shall be death to digest till it be tasted and then it will prooue but preparation for greater mischiefes concealed among such craftie woorkemen as would not only pull downe all the obstacles of their greatnes but when they are in their full strength like the Giants make warre against heauen But your Maiesties gracious conclusion in giuing hope of the voide is all the comforte I haue which if you hasten not before he take full surfet of disgraces they will say the spottes they haue cast vpon him are too foule to be washed away And so his blemished reputation must disable him for euer seruing againe his Sacred Goddesse whose excellent beauties and perfections will neuer suffer those faire eyes to turne so far from compassion but at the least if hee may not returne to the happines of his former seruice to liue at the feet● of his admired Mistresse yet he may sitte downe to a priuate life without the imputation of infamie That his posterity may not repent their fathers were borns of so hard a desteny two of them porishing by being imploied in one country where they would haue done you loiall seruice to the shedding of their last bloude if they had not beene wounded to the death by their faction which care not on whose neckes they uniustly build the walles of their own fortune Which I feare will growe more daungerously high then is yet discouered if God do not hinder the worke as the tower of Babell and confound their tongues that understand one another too well And lastly since out of your Maiesties owne princely nature and vnstained vertue there must needes appeare that mercy is not far off from such beauty I most humbly beseech you to make it your owne worke and not to suffer them to take aduantage that ly in ambush thinking so soone as they recouer a relenting compassion in your worthy minde to take the honour vpon them as meanes of our saluation not out of charity but pride But all must bee attributed to them and your sacred clemency abused by forcing vs to goe through Purgatorie to Heauen But let your Maiesties diuine power be no more eclipsed then your beauty which hath shined throughout the whole world and imitate the highest in not destroying those that trust onely in your mercies Which with humble request I presume to blesse your sacred hands vowing the obedience and seruice of your Maiesty Your most dutifull and loiall seruant