Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	great_a	year_n	5,578	5	4.7612	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40870	Love in the dark, or, The man of bus'ness a comedy : acted at the Theatre Royal by His Majesties servants / written by Sir Francis Fane, Junior, Knight of the Bath.	Fane, Francis, Sir, d. 1689?	1675 (1675)	Wing F408; ESTC R16385	59,714	105

Plots come from thence 3 Man Knock him down 4 Man Brain him This is he that set my House o' fire 'T could be no body but a Frenchman 6 Man This is he that got my Daughter with Child That was a French trick too Watch. Keep the Peace neighbors and let us bring him before the Senate He was in as much haste as if he had been coming from Candia or Gygery All. I I away with him away with him A Plot a Plot the French the French 1 Man They 'll burn the City 2 Man They 'll worry our Wives and Children 3 Man They 'll let in the Sea and drown us 5 Man T was they that brought the Plague into Venice 7 Man I and the Pox too formerly Watch. What 's your name Visc. Me he Metre de Language to Signior Grimani Me be no Frenchman me be Italieen 1 Man No matter you shall be hang'd for looking like one 2 Man I for clipping the true Language 3 Man You shall be hang'd Al-a-mode de France Watch. Come come away All. Away with him away with him Boys follow him crying A Mounsire A Mounser A Munchir A Mister Mownseer Exeunt all in a hurry haling him away The SCENE A Prison with a Bed in 't Trivultio in his Night-Gown and Cap. A Table with bottles of Wine and Glasses upon it A Soldier to guard him Triv. Come honest Guard take thy Glass in thy hand Gives him one Guard God bless your Worship Triv. Now let us sing the Catch I show'd thee SONG HOw happy 's our Fate To live thus in State With our Guards at our Gate None can have access But must Court and Address And their business confess Then take off thy Glass on thy dutiful Knee Guard kneels and drinks For Princes are Pris'ners as well as we Triv. Now fill my Glass faith if we must dye let 's dye merrily however Guard I have heard 'em say Sir that Drinking 's the cure of all Diseases Triv. No thou' rt mistaken It sweetens sorrow but removes it hot Unless the mind be made Serene before With sublime preparations then 't is the highest Leachery to dye and next to that to be in prison Guard Troth Master methinks you make very light on 't If I were sure there were good Drink i' th' other World I did not care if I were dead too Triv. Why dost thou doubt it man They say every thing is more plentiful there than here and all Men are alike and no poor Guard Oh Lord Master how can you tell Triv. Why there are several that have staid in the other World a little time as some that have been in long Swoons Apoplexies and praeternatural Sleeps others that have been halfe-hang'd cut down again and recover'd The other world they say is just such another place as the Countreys of America Brazile Mexico and Peru there are few that venture to go there but such as can live here no longer but when they come thither they find every thing so good there that they never think of coming back again Guard Oh Lord what would I give to speak with one of those Men that have been in the other World Triv. This fellow 's deadly simple and drunk to boot Aside Why thou shalt speak with one presently I 'm a dying man thou know'st and if I were hang'd out-right now 't were but some hours sooner and a toy takes me i' th' head to have thee put my Garter about my neck and half hang me that I may see what the other World is we 're going to but be sure you leave pulling when I make signs to give o're Guard Oh that would be fine and pleasant indeed if I did not hurt you But Master if I should hang you in good earnest I should be hang'd for you Triv. Oh never fear that Here take my Garter make a running knot and on with it Guard puts it on Now according to the laudable custom of Malefactors will I give this wicked World a short exhortation Guard Oh pray Master do Triv. Good People I am come hither to be a spectacle to Men and Angels Criticks and Devils I am to pay a debt to Nature which she has made over to a greedy Huswife call'd Fortune who calls for it in before the day of payment But Death is Honorable Advantageous and Necessary Honourable in old Men to make room for younger Advantageous to those that get Legacies by it and Necessary for Married people that have no other Jayl-delivery I am most justly brought hither to suffer this ignominious death and as my Legacy do beqneath you an useful caution concerning that horrid and crying sin that has brought me to this most Tragical end My Godly Parents brought me up most virtuously in hopes to have sold me to a Wife to the greater advantage but at fifteen years of age the Devil the Devil grew powerful in me and tempted me to a sin Nature would never have thought of good people I tremble to name it Speaks softly and quivering getting my Mother's Maid with Child Ah Bettina Bettina thou taughtst me a trick I could never leave since Thy Sweet-meats and thy Sugar-plums have brought me to the Gallows Hangman I freely forgive thee and more freely than ever any dying man did Do thy Office Guard Oh Gemini what a brave Speech will he make when he comes to 't in good earnest Triv Pull down my Night-Cap that I may not fright thee and that I may see more inwardly into the other world Pulls down his Cap and pulls the Garter Guard What do you see now Master Triv. Nothing yet but a Myst. Pull harder Triv. puts his fingers between his Throat and the Garter Now pull o' God's name Guard pulls a little then asks Guard What do you see now Master The Rope's very close pray God he recover Triv. I see Rocks and Mountains and He counterfeits a ratling in his Throat craggy places and Men crawling upon 'em like Snails or Maggots Now I am come into a fair Plain all set with Orange-Trees Jessamin and Rose-Trees the most delicious place that in my life I ever saw But oh oh oh now I see Guard What Master what he speaks mighty plain to be three quarters hang'd but 't is a lightning before death Triv. Oh the blessed sight At the end of this Plain I see a great huge pair of blew Stairs as broad as all the whole World made all of Turky Stones and Lapis Lazuli's and they are stuck as thick with Checquins as ever they can hold with many broad Portagu'us and English Jacobus's amongst 'em and there is one piece of huge bright Gold as broad as from hence to Padua and another paler piece as broad as from hence to Malamocco Guard Now o' my conscience these same blew Stairs are the Skies and the Stars it seems are nothing but Checquins and the Planets Portugu'us and Cobus's and the Sun and Moon are those same great gallant pieces Pray