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A60295 Sir Arthur Haselrig's last will and testament with a briefe survey of his life and death 1661 (1661) Wing S3873; ESTC R12781 5,469 12

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Sir Arthur Haselrig's LAST Will and Testament With a briefe SURVEY OF HIS LIFE and DEATH LONDON Printed for Henry Brome and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Gun in Ivy-lane 1661. Sir ARTHVR HASELRIG'S LAST VVILL TESTAMENT WITH A briefe Survey of his LIFE and DEATA O Death how unwelcome art thou to a troubled Spirit Is my long hanting after worldly Honour and fishing after Church Lands to inlarge mine Inheritance by an injurious surprizall of others Rights brought to this Precipice Yes most justly that Sacred-secret Synod from which all my sinister Actions have ever peremptorily appealed has justly and irrevocably decreed that ARTHVR who was once such an eminent Champion at the ROUND TABLE should be now deserted nay shamefully stripped of those weak stayes whereon He miserable He in the height of his swelling Fortunes so strongly relyed and imprudently doated Ah me what an eye-sore is this to see Lawn-sleeves rise to their wonted height and my blasted Honour sinking down with contempt into a disconsolate Depth O Bishoprick where in my Regality I so much Soveraigniz'd or as some will have it Tyranniz'd must I now leave thee and leaving thee recommend thee to a Prelacy which was most hated by me Though for pity sake that Prelatical State might retain this opinion of me for otherwise they traduce me highly that I never bore such hate to their Persons as I bore love to their Personages nor such dis-esteem to their Professions as I had and hold ever in my estimate of their Possessions But now my hydroptick Thirst is quenched my earthly desires though much against my will unfortunately sated whence I collect with an heavy eye to what I have left behind me what a vading breath or light blast is this flash of Honour whose overswollen Bladder as it puffs us up living so it stifles us dying But it is high time for me now to recollect my self and look a little back having so small a space left me to look forward I may expect a Funeral but OLIVERS vast excess usher'd in with such scorn and registered with such shame deters me from injoyning too much cost lest my Executor might be enforced to pay more than either the price of my Carcass or the remnant of my forfeited Estate would discharge My Rebellion as this late Synod by cutting and cutting of our late Rump styles it has sufficiently all the world over proclaimed me Bankrupt it would grieve me to leave my Heir protested against for a Vessel of crumbled Dust which I am confident will be accompanied by more Fiends than Friends more Followers than Mourners so as in this case a Rope of strong-sented Onions would do excellent service for enforcing wet-eyes from dry hearts to pump tears with a few feigned fghs to delude the Spectators at my death as my actions under a vizard of zeal bravely though now unfortunately performed all my life On which State-Stage there is none that ever knew Sir ARTHUR but will ingeniously confess to his honour that there was no Shimei of all that Leven who acted his part more politickly nor daringly nor promoted the Interest of the Good Old Cause with more acrimonious fidelity Upon which account though Self-interest turn'd the wheele that steer'd all my Actions I behav'd my self in that posture and manner as I was ever held I appeal to my mortallest enemies if this be not true a most useful and serviceable Instrument to the Antimonarchical Tribe and withall such an endeered Favorite to redoubted OLIVER as his ear was as attentive to me as it was ever to his close faithful Cu● St. Johns till he found my averseness from King-ship whereto his vast ambition subtilely aspired Mean time though I stood ever a profest enemy unto Monarchy I appeared a constant Zealot for a Pentarchy A Fift-Monarchy-Man I was cordially whose Spirits now when I am dying sound in mine ears mortally stirring though my short Lease of Life will prevent me from partaking the issue of that fair Quarrel Sure I am Phanatick heat will not be quenched without much blood This our dislaughtered Complices who lately sacrificed their active lives with undaunted valour to the hands of the common Executioner expected which my brother HARRISON gave a touch of at his death saying I see the Lord will not appear to us this day But discontents must not be so cured Our trusty Phanaticks hope a day will come which seeing my weak divining Spirit cannon prefine it I unwillingly leave to those that shall live to see it And no doubt but the discontented Party seconded by our baffled Reformades and desperate Decoys of our late disbanded Army may find our impregnant City a ready Foster-Mother to nurse these distempers in her ranting Racketers besides the winning demureness of our conscientious Anabaptist which will strengthen the Quarrel mainly and make our Phanatick ruffle bravely upon these grounds if not timely diverted which we hope the Liberty of the time will slowly look into there is small doubt to be made but this teeming age may breed as many John Leydons apt to design a fresh massacre in every circumstance equal to that memorable one of Munster But to my grief rhough it be not my fortune to be a Spectator of it nor Actor in it my desires are as strong as my faculties weak I shall swell in my wishes dying what I could not atchieve living But leaving these till time shall repent them and posterity become more sensible of them let me petition Death to whose arrest I hold my Fame much indebted for snatching me from the claws of ravenous Dun to respit me a little a very little my words shall be but few because my hours cannot be many and these shall be bestowed on the discovery of my life wherein to unrip my Infirmities I hold it needless seeing the whole Island has been long time Pronotory of them No Court of Record in all Westminster but may bear Record of my restless Passion which these Reverend Judges would usually give way to out of their indulgent favour being highly taken with the erring tumour of my active State-valour though Runaway Downs as the Usurper sometimes twitted me may witness the contrary The sallies and various occurrences of which Field were every way as terrible to me as the encounters of Death now approaching me or Duns dreadful attendance upon my feverish tryal Truth is that in the height of my being as I was generally held a confiding man and one that intended to have his voice and voto bear sway were it right or wrong against all Opposers there was no Plea were it legal or illegal which I pursu'd and expected not a successful issue Neither in the prosecution thereof did I encounter with any affront to my then imperious power more disgustful than from those virulent aspertions thrown upon me by a tart but acute Counsellor whose Coife might authorize him to make bold with me But I am perswaded his