Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	covenant_n	law_n	life_n	4,307	5	5.4437	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13503	[Taylors goose] [describing the wilde goose]	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1621 (1621)	STC 23799; ESTC S1018	14,095	30

men but note their worthy disposition And we shall see they are of best condition Free honest spirits such as men may trust In all their actions constant true and iust It is a thing I haue obserued long An Archers minde is cleare from doing wrong It is a note worthy respect and marke An Archer is no base defamed Sharke Not giuen to pride to couetousnesse or To swearing which all good men doe abhorre Nor doth he exercise or take delight To cheate to cogge to lye and to backbite But with most louing friendly conuersation He practiseth this manly recreation There was a Statute in th' eight Henries raigne Which Statute yet doth in full force remaine And as it stands in force so doth my Muse Wish that it were obseru'd and kept in vse Within these few yeares I to minde doe call The Yeomen of the Guard were Archers all A hundred at a time I oft haue seene With Bowes and Arrowes ride before the Queene Their Bowes in hand their Quiuers on their shoulders Was a most stately shew to the beholders And herein if men rightly doe obserue The Arrowes did for two good vses serue First for a shew of great magnificence And trusty weapons for to guard their Prince Prince Charles our hope of Britaines happinesse Doth his affection oftentimes expresse With many Noble men of worthy race Doe with their best performance shooting grace And long may these superiour Worthies liue Example to th' inferiour sort to giue That though this exercise be much declin'd May some supporters and defenders finde King Sauls braue sonne true hearted Ionathan Dauids true friend a Prince a valiant man Did in this noble quality excell As the true story of his life doth tell King Dauid made a Law and did command That shooting should be taught within this land Thus from true Histories we plainely see That shooting is of great antiquity And that the glory of the Gooses wings Hath beene aduanc'd by Princes Lords and Kings And that yet Princes Pieres and Potentates And best of all conditions and estates Doe giue to Archery the praise and prise Of the best manly honest exercise The praise of the Gooses Quill ANd thus for Shooters hauing shew'd my skill I 'le now say somewhat for the Gooses Quill Great Mars his Trayne of Millitary men I leaue and turne the Shaft into a Pen The Gooses feathers acteth sundry parts And is an Instrument both of Armes and Arts. Many diuine and heauenly mysteries And many memorable Histories Had with blinde Ignorance beene ouer-growne And were 't not for the Pen had ne're beene knowne The Muses might in Pernass hill haue staide Their fames had ne're been through the world displaide But that the Gooses Quill with full consent Was found to be the fittest Instrument To be their Nuntius and to disperse Their glory through the spacious Vniuerse Grammar that of all Science is the ground Without it in forgetfulnesse were drownd And Rethorick the sweet rule of eloquence Through the Goose Quill distils it's Quintessence Logick with difinitions I am sure Were nothing or else very much obscure Astronomie would lye or lye forgot And scarce remembred or regarded not Arithmetick would erre exceedingly Forgetting to deuide and multiply Geometry would lose the Altitude The crassie Longitude and Latitude And Musick in poore case would be o're-throwne But that the Goose Quill pricks the Lessons downe Thus all the liberall Sciences are still In generall beholding to the Quill Embassages to farre remoted Princes Bonds Obligations Bills and Euidences Letters 'twixt foe and foe or friend and friend To gratulate instruct or reprehend Assurances where faith and troath is scant To make the faithlesse to keepe couenant The Potent weapon of the reuerend Law That can giue life or death saue hang or draw That with a royall or a noble dash Can from the Kings Exchequer fetch the Cash To most Shop-keepers it a reckoning makes What 's got or lost what he layes out or takes Without the Goose a Scriuener were a foole Her Quill is all his onely working toole And sure a Goose is of a wondrous nature Contrary to each other liuing creature Things that in water earth or ayre hath growth And feede and liue bite onely with the mouth But the Goose with sophisticated skill Doth bite most dangerously with her quill Yet is she free from prodigality And most of all bites partiality She oft with biting makes a Knight a detter And rankle to a begger little better She oft hath bit a Gallant from his land With quick conueyance and by slight of hand Sometimes her biting is as durable As is a Gangren most incureable And many that into her fangs doe fall Doe take the Counters for their Hospitall A Forger or a Villaine that forsweares Or a false Witnesse she bites off their eares On me her power she many times hath showne And made me pay more debts then were mine owne Thus doth her Quill bite more then doth her chaps To teach fooles to beware of after-claps They say in Latine that a Gooses name Is ANSER which made in an Annagram Is SNARE in English which doth plaine declare That she to fooles and knaues will be a snare Indeede she oft hath beene a snare to mee My selfe was in the fault alas not shee The memorable honour of the Goose for sauing the Capitall at Rome BVt now to shew her neuer dying name And how at Rome she wan deseruing fame When barbarous Brennus cruell King of Galls Had wasted Italy and raz'd Romes walls When deuastation did depopulate With sword and furious fire the Romane state When many a throat was tyrannously cut And all the Citie to the sack was put When many of the Citizens did flye Into the Capitall to liue and dye Whereas the Image of great Iupiter The rip rap thwick thwack thumping thunderer Was of refined gold adorn'd ador'd Where helplesse fooles poore helplesse helpe implor'd The Capitall a goodly building was And did for strength by Art and Nature passe So that the people that were there within Thought it impregnable that none could win But slender watch vpon the walls they kept And thinking all secure secure they slept They thought Ioues Statue and his Temple there Was a sure guard that foes they need not feare But Ioue these dangers did not vnderstand Or else he had some other worke in hand Perhaps poore Io like a Cowe in shape He like a Bull then wrong'd with beastly rape Or like a Swan for Leada he thought fit In that fowles forme that foule fault to commit Perchance that time faire Danae to intrap He rain'd bewitching gold into her lap He then perhaps did to Alcmena goe And made a Cuckold of Amphitrio Or else to Semele that time he came And burnt his burning loue with lightnings flame Perhaps with Hele he the Ram did play Or with Europa toy'd the time away Mnemosine he could not let alone Or he to Hebe