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	life_n	put_v	4,782	5	4.7946	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15608	VVitches apprehended, examined and executed, for notable villanies by them committed both by land and water With a strange and most true triall how to know whether a woman be a witch or not.		1613 (1613)	STC 25872; ESTC S120192	8,695	22

the Diuels throat by faith hee would haue to trample him downe by vertue least he should onely haue fled not foyled his enemie This is made showne in his miraculous working with this fellow for hee that before had neither power to moue or speake had then presently by diuine assistance frée power and libertie to giue repulse to her assault and deniall to her filthie and detested motion and to vpbraide her of her abhominable life and behauiour hauing before had three bastards and neuer married She vpon this séeing her suite cold and that Gods power was more predominant with him then her diuellish practise vanished and departed the same way shee came She was no sooner gone but as well as hee could hee called for his master told him that now hee could tell him the cause of this vexation That Mother Suttons daughter came in at the window sate knitting and working by him and that if hee would haue consented to her filthinesse hee should haue beene freede from his miserie and related all that had happened His master was glad of this newes for that the meanes found out the matter and manner of his griefe might bee the easier helped and redressed yet was he distrustfull of the truth and rather estéemed it an idlenesse of his braine then an accident of veritie Neuerthelesse he resolued to make proofe thereof The next morrow hee tooke company along with him and went into the fields where hee found her working and tending her hogges There Master Enger speaking to her she was a verie good huswife and that shee followed her worke night and day No sir said she My huswifery is very slender neyther am I so good a follower of my worke as you perswade mee with that he told her that she was and that she had béene working at his house the night before She would confesse nothing but stood in stiffe deniall vpon her purgation Insomuch as the Gentleman by fayre entreaties perswaded her to goe home with him to satisfie his man and to resolue some doubts that were had of her She vtterly refused and made answere she would not stirre a foote neyther had they authoritie to compell her to goe without a Constable Which Master Enger perceiuing and seeing her obstinacie to be so great fell into a greater dislike and distrust of her then he did before and made no more a doe but caused her to bee set vpon an horse-backe to be brought to his house All the company could hardly bring her away but as fast as they set her vp in despight of them shee would swarue downe first on the one side then the other till at last they were faine by maine force to ioyne together and hold her violently downe to the horsebacke and so bring her to the place where this perplexed person lay in his bed Where being come and brought by force to his bed-side he as directions had beene giuen vnto him drew blood of her and presently beganne to amend and bee well againe But her assiduitie and continuall exercise in doing mischiefe did so preuaile with her to doe this fellow further hurt that watching but aduantage and opportunitie to touch his necke againe with her finger It was no sooner done and she departed but he fell into as great or farre worse vexation then he had before The report of this was carried vp and downe all Bedford-shire and this Marie Suttons wicked and lewde courses being rumored as well abroad as in Master Engers house at last it came into the mouth of Master Engers sonne being a little boy of seuen yeares old who not long after espying old Mother Sutton going to the Mill to grinde corne and remembring what spéeches he had heard past of her and her daughter followed the old woman flinging stones at her and calling her Witch which thee obseruing conceited a rancour and deadly hatred to this young childe and purposed not to suffer opportunitie passe to bée reuenged As soone therefore as she had dispatcht at the Mill she hasted homewards and could not be quiet till she had grumbled to her daughter what had happened and how the childe had serued her Then conferring how Master Enger had vsed Mary Sutton the daughter and how hir little sonne had vsed the Mother they both resolued and vowed reuenge This conference and consultation of villanie was had and concluded in the presence and hearing of Henry Sutton the Bastard of Mary Sutton little thinking that his fortune should be to giue in euidene to breake the necke of his owne Mother and Grandmother To effect their diuellish purpose to the young childe of Master Enger they called vp their two Spirits whom she called Dicke and Iude and hauing giuen them sucke at their two Teats which they had on their thighes found out afterwards by enquirie and search of women they gaue them charge to strike the little boy and to turne him to torment Which was not long in performing but the childe being distract was put to such bitter and insupportable misery as by his life his torments were augmented and by his death they were abridged For his tender and vnripe age was so infeebled and made weake by that diuellish infliction of extremitie as in fiue daies not able longer to endure them death gaue end to his perplexities The Gentleman did not so much grieue for the losse and hinderance hee had in his cattell which was much nor for the miserable distresse that his seruant had endured which was more as that the hopefull daies of his young sonne were so vntimely cut off which touched his heart most of all Yet did his discretion temper his passions with such patience that he referred the remembrance of his wrongs to that heauenly power that permits not such iniquitie to passe vnreuealed or vnreuenged As hee was thus wrapt in a Sea of woes there came a Gentleman a friend of his forth of the North that trauelling towards London soiourned with him all night Hee perceiuing Master Enger to be full of griefe was desirous to know the cause thereof and hee was as vnwilling by the discourse of his misfortunes to renewe his many sorrowes till at last his friends vrgent importunacie perswaded him not to passe it ouer with silence Vpon Master Engers relation of what had happened the Gentleman demaunded if hee had none in suspition that should doe these wronges vnto him Yes quoth Master Enger and therewithall hee mamed this Mary Sutton and her mother and told him the particulars of his losses and miseries His friend vnderstanding this aduised him to take them or any one of them to his Mill damme hauing first shut vp the Mill gates that the water might be at highest and then binding their armes crosse stripping them into their Smocks and leauing their legges at libertie throw them into the water yet least they should not bee Witches and that their liues might not be in danger of drowning let there be a roape tyed about their middles