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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	die_v	year_n	8,996	5	5.0082	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09766	The secrets and wonders of the world A booke right rare and straunge, containing many excellent properties, giuen to man, beastes, foules, fishes and serpents, trees, plants &c. Abstracted out of that excellent naturall historiographer Plinie. Translated out of French into English.; Naturalis historia. English. Abridgments	Pliny, the Elder.; Alday, John, attributed name.; I. A.	1585 (1585)	STC 20032; ESTC S110483	38,595	64

times and alwaies absolued Sicinus dictator of Rome sustained sixe score battayles he had fiue and fourtie woundes before and not one behinde Sergius was a worthie warrier he deliuered Cremona from the siege kept Placentia tooke in Fraunce twelue Castels and Townes He had his right hand cut off and he made one of Iron with the which he fought foure battailes Pitifull things are found worthy of memorie thorowe all partes among the which it commeth to my remembrance of a woman taken in Rome for to dye for offence and being put into straight Prison there to be famished her daughter had licence of the Iailer to goe sée her euery day but she was searched for feare least shée should bring her mother foode In the ende it was founde that euery day shée did giue her mother sucke with her breastes and for to satissie her she came daily The Senators hauing intelligence thereof did pardon the mother for the vertue that was in the daughter did appoint them a liuing during their liues Marueilous are the operations of humaine creatures among others onely of paintings that doe resemble the liuing so neere that there resteth nothing but the speach The king Attallus bought a table or picture of a Painter which cost a hundreth Markes Caesar bought two for eight hundreth Markes Mans age hath bene reputed great among the ancients which doe name Princes and Kings to haue liued eight hundreth yéeres and a thousand yéeres but it is by the varietie of yéeres for so me make the Sommer a yéere and the Winter another yéere and others make thrée moneths a yéere as the Arcadians and you must not stay nor iudge things by the constellation of the firmament For in one present houre many are borne as well seruants as maisters Kings and Magistrates whose Fortunes are all diuers and contrarie Many examples we haue of sicknesses Publius Cornelius Rufus in dreaming to haue lost his sight became blinde and lost his sight Some there are that liue but till middle age and others that die in their youth and nature doeth giue a man nothing better then short life To liue long the senses vnderstanding become blunt the whole members féele dolour the sight the hearing and the going faile the téeth also and the instrumēts of meats therefore age is but paine and there is a time prefixed to liue We reade no better example then of Zenophilus the Musitian that liued a hundreth and fiue yéeres without sicknesse The signes of death are to laugh in the furor and griefe of the maladie or sicknesse to be busie in folding or doubling the clothes of his bedde with his handes to voyde from one in sléeping behinde a fearefull looke with other things and therefore séeing that by experience we sée innumerable signes of death therefore there is no certaintie Sicknesses are diuers both to olde and yong Sirius died by the multitude of Serpentes procéeding from his body Some haue had an Ague all their life time Mecaenas was seuen yéeres in the ende of his dayes without sléepe Antipater liued long without sickenesse sauing that euery yéere on that day that he was borne he had the ague We reade of one that liued 157. yéeres that slept in his age 57. yéeres and wakened as though he had slept but one houre Others that haue returned a foote from their graue when they were borne to be buried Pompeus caused a mans head to bée smitten off which when it was layde againe to the body did speake an houre both to the maister of the house and to many others of the house Death bringeth repentance Some die for ioy men in the hearing of ioyfull newes of victories and women to sée their children The father of Iulius Caesar died in putting on his hose and felte before no harme Some in drinking some in writing and others in diuers maners as we daily sée by experience Aunciently the vse was among the Romaines to bury the dead but for the often battailes of the Romaines that had all the worlde in their subiection they vse to burne the dead Among men Liber Pater found first the meanes to sell and buy also Diademes for kings and for triumphes The Lady Ceres founde the meanes to sowe corne and to grinde it and therefore she was called a Goddesse For before they vsed Acornes The Assirians founde first the meane to write letters but the inuention hath bene since the beginning of the world Two brethren in Athens founde first the meanes to make houses and bricks Gellius Doxius inuented lathing and loming of walles for before they had Caues and holes in the grounde and they tooke example of the Swalowes which do make their neastes Cynira sonne to Agriope foūd out mettal of copper brasse of lead he made first many hāmers therewith Danaus was the first in Grecia that made welles digged for water Thrason made the first walles towers The Lidians found the means to dresse woolls Arachneus found the meanes to make Linnen Cāuas The Egyptians the art of medicine Lydius to mingle tēper mettals together Erichtonus found siluer Cadmeus gold in the moūtaine of Pangy The Ciclopiās were the first workers of small Iron worke Corebus the Athenian made earthē pots Theodore the Samyan made the first keyes Palamides the measures waights Phrigies the charrets wagons Penius the first trader for Marchandise Aristeus to make oyle and hony Briges of Athens did first yoke Oxen to Cart and Plough The Lacedemonians founde Harnesse and habilimēts for warre Laūces Spears swords Bucklers c. Cares the Bowe Arrowes The Phenitians the crosse bowes Belerophons first moūted vpō horses Palamides in the warre betwéene the Grekes the Troyans found the order of Stādarts signes penuōs streamers to giue warning to kéepe watch Iason did first sayle on the Sea in long Ships or Galleys Before the time there were made little ones of wood hydes since that time some haue added to thē masts sayles cabels tackelings many other things that we sée by the experience to be necessarie The first Dials were made at Rome w e water according to the course of the Sunne since they are reduced to houses Churches as it is séen at this present which was very agreable to the Romaines Finally among al the knowledge the man hath Plinie thinketh this to be the chiefest point for man to know him selfe of what estate soeuer he be The eight booke treateth of beastes that are on the Earth IN the Earth there is no beast greater then the Elephant they haue knowledge to vnderstande their Countrey speache they haue obedience and vnderstande their dueties and charges they neuer passe the Sea tyll that their master or gouernour doth promise to bring them home againe they knéele down for to be loden carrie the Ladies litters in feare prudence equitie their téeth are of Iuorie w e their other bones there are made goodly woorks they are full of