Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	daughter_n	king_n	wife_n	4,569	5	6.4342	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20054	The dead tearme. Or, VVestminsters complaint for long vacations and short termes Written in manner of a dialogue betweene the two cityes London and Westminster. The contentes of this discourse is in the page following. By T. Dekker.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1608 (1608)	STC 6496; ESTC S105243	36,593	55

able to make it leape out of my Iurisdiction More Mayden-heades I verily beléeue are cut off vpon my owne feather-beds in one year than are heads of Cattell cut off in in two amongst the Butchers that serue my families But I feare O London that by dwelling so near thée thou hast infe●ted my houses with these two plagues that now run ouer all the Kingdome for all the world knowes that euen thy shop-kéepers and poorest Tradesmen lay by their owne occupations and fall to these Other sinnes lies gnawing like diseases at my heart for Pride sits at the doores of the rich Enuy goes vp and downe with the Begger féeding vpon Snakes Rents are layde vpon the racke euen my own sight and by my own Children that I haue borne whilst Conscience goes like a foole in pyed colours the skin of her body hanging so loose that like an Oxford Gloue thou wouldst swear there wer a false skin within her Couerousnes hath got a hundred handes and all ●●●se hands do nothing but tye knots on her Purse-strings but Prodigality hauing but two handes vndoes those knottes faster than the other can tie them O thou Darling of Great Brittaine thy Princes call thée Their Treasurer and thou art so But more peeces of Siluer and Gold passe not through thy fingers then oathes from the mouthes of my inhabitants Thou art held to be O London the lowdest swearer in the kingdome because some say thou hast whole shoppes and Ware-houses filled vvith oathes yet I feare I haue those about me that for filthy mouthing wil put thée down for I am haunted with some that are called Knights onely for their swearing Ranckely doe these and other stinking wéedes grow vp in my walkes and in my Gardens the sauours of them are Pestilent to my Nosthrils and are able to kill me yet much good wholesome fruits do I féed vpon that are to my life a preseruation So that for the aches that these diseases bréed in my bones I doe not languish neyther Thou knowest and I confesse it for if I should not the whole world would swear it that thou possessest the more but I the more goodly buildings thy hauses are contryued for thrist and profitable vses mine for state and pleasure thou dwe lest vnder plaine roofes I within royall Pallaces euery roome that thou lodgest in is but called a Chamber and euery Chamber I sleepe in is a Kinges Court In thine Armes lie the sonnes of England to suck wealth but in my lap sit the Princes of England to be Crowned In my bosome doe they slumber whilest they liue and when they dye they desire to bee buried betwéene my breasts To testifie this all the annoyted kinges and Queenes except one who receiued his Crowne at Glocester with all the Wiues of those kinges that haue raigned heere since that Norman Conqueror would if they were now liuing speake on my side in that behalfe for the full number of 21. Kinges and two Quéens being a payre of Sisters haue receiued the glorious Titles of Maiestie and were seen the very first day of their sitting on the English throne onely at my hands and in my presence of which that conquerour and Matilda his wife had the honour to begin for till hys time other places wer made happy by that dignity as Kingston c. which then were farre aboue me but now can no way be my equall To proue how much the Rulers of this Monarchy haue loued mee euen on their Death-beds their bodies which they haue as their richest Legacies bequethed to my kéeping are royall witnesses I can shew thee O thou Noblest of thy Nation the bones not onely of most of those kinges before-named but of some that liued here long before them But because the Graue is the vtter destroyer of al beauty yea and so defaceth the lookes and the bodies euen of the goodliest princes that men abhorre to behold them also for that it is helde an acte most impious and full of Sacriledge to offer violence to the deade I will onely giue thee the names of all those Kinges Queenes and Princes Royal bloud that now lay their heads on my knées must sléepe there till that day when all that rest in graues shal be summoned to awaken Of these was Sybert King of the East Saxons the first with his wife Aethelsoda Sybert gaue me my first being in the world and at his departure from the worlde did I giue his body an euerlasting habitation Next vnto him did I lay Harold Sir-named Hare-foot King of the West Saxons Then Edward the Confessor vppon whome king William bestowed a shryne of Syluer and Golde And then these Aegytha wife to that Conquerour Matilda wife to Henry the first and daughter to Malcoline king of Scots Henry 3. who builded a great part of that my famous Temple and whose Sepulcher was adorned with precious stones of Iasper fetched by his sonne Edwarde the 1. out of France Eleanor wife to that Henry Edmund second Sonne to that Henrie the first Earle of Lancaster Darby and Liecester wyth Auelyne hys Wife who was Daughter and heyre to the Earle of Albemarle Besides him all the Children of the sayde Henry the 3. and of Edward 1. being nine in number Edward the first who offered to the Shryne of Edward the Confessor the Chaire of Marble wherein the kinges of Scotland had wont to be crowned and in which the king that first made England and Scotlande one Monarchy was now lately inthronized Eleanor wife to that Edward 1. and Daughter to Ferdinando king of Castyle In memory of whose death so many stately Crosses as Mon●umentes of his loue to her were erected in all those places where her body was set downe when it was sent to bee lodged with mee Eleanor Countesse of Barre Daughter of Edwarde the first Edward 3. and Phillip of Henalt his wife Wiliam of Windsore and Blanch his Sister children to Edward the third Thomas of Wood-stock sonne likewise to that Edward Iohn of Eltham Earle of Cornewall sonne to Edward the second Richard 2. that vnfortunate king with Anne his Wife Daughter of Vinceslaus king of Bohem which Anne brought vp the fashion for women to ride in side Saddles which till her time rode as men Then that Guttorum Mastix the scourge of the French Henry 5. to doe honor to whose victorious and dreaded name Katherine his wife and daughter to the King of France caused an Image to the portraiture of hir husbande to bee made of Massy Siluer all gilded ouer which was layde vpon his Monument but Couetousnes not suffering euen hallowed places and the shrines of the dead to bee frée from hir griping talents the head of that Image which was al of Massy siluer is now broke off the plates that couered the body stoln and conueyed away That royall Quéene and Bedfellow of his Lady Katherine was with mee likewise layd to rest but after