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	live_v	year_n	5,204	5	5.0746	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85112	The age & life of man. Here you may see the frailty that's in men, till they have run the years threescore and ten. / Tune of Jane Shore.	Fancy, P., fl. 1675.	1675 (1675)	Wing F406A; ESTC R232854	1,764	1

The Age Life of MAN Here you may see the frailty that 's in Men Till they have run the years threescore and ten Tune of Jane shore 1. When man is born he in a Cradle hides 7. At one time seven a Hoby horse bestrides 14. At two times seven a book to read withal 21. At three times seven a Bandy and a Ball 28. At four times seven a wife he seeks and finds 35. At five times 7 the Horn of strength he winds 42. At six times seven Time standeth by him still 49. At seven times seven his Bag begins to fill 56. At eight times seven his house with riches shines 63. At nine times seven he to the Earth inclines 70. At ten times seven his Glass time is run Into the earth man falls his story 's done AS I was wandring all alone A project then I thought upon The which in my senses ran that I should right the Age of man Man he is Clay and came from Earth and sinners live till day of death From one sin to another run and never leaves till he 's undone Then fear your God make no delay For Time and Tide for none will stay The first of seven years in a Cradle to stand or go he is not able Whiles other creatures making scorn tramples him down when he is born So weak he is he cannot go and poor is born we all do know Into this world stark naked he came and so shall go out of the same Then fear your c. At two times seven his friends to rule provide for kéeping him at School That what to him in youth is told may do him good when he is old But he so given is to play he truants most his time a way When Age comes on he 'l then repent that he his time had so mispent At thrée times seven he is very idle that all his friends cannot him bridle Then fear your God make no delay His thoughts run wandring too fro perswade him well you are his foe In other Countreys he will rome and have no mind to stay at home That all his friends are grieved still while he persues his headstrong will Then c. The Second Part To the same Tune At four times seven a wife he gets using mustring up his wits How he should thrive he takes great pains alass for little or no gains He then to bend his senses rowse things most convenient for his house Which in time wasts fades away even so must man that is but Clay Then fear c. At five times seven a charge comes on Which in the world few think upon He labours hard with right good will striving like stones against a hill Or like a fload that swiftly goes At one time ebbs another flows Even so is man that 's rich to day to morrow God takes all away Then fear c. At six times seven then he should leave and for his former folly grieve His heart is vert with sobs sighs for all his former vain delights Good Husbandry he then home takes bad husbandry he then forsakes And sober lives and those defie such as do ●●te good husbandry Then fear c. At seven times seven a covetous mind is all to which he is inclind Covetous he is in himself to purchase up all worldly wealth Gathering up that which is but dross which may prove once to be a cross Except his talent he improve towards the poor by acts of love Then fear your God make no delay For time and tide for none will stay At eight times seven his cunning skill striving with all his worldly will In barganing selling then making his Children mighty men Leaving behind him that which he for it shall never thanked be As he did gather and lay it by the Prodigal doth make it fly Then fear c. At nine times seven he waxes old his limbs benum'd veins are cold His children glad with much content their father have so good judgment So knowing is in every cause his wit doth make young men to pause Yet all this world he now must leave and now prepare himself for grave Then fear c. At ten times seven his Glass is run and he poor soul can no way shun No he must leave children wife to give the world can't save his life Happy is he that liveth here and kéeps his Conscience pure cléer Although in dust his body lye his soul shall mount up to the Sky Then fear c. Thus have I shown from Stage to Stage the frail condition of mans age From seven to seven we pass till when we reach the years threescore ten Let us all joyn with one accord and with due reverence fear the Lord. Then may we all rejoyce and sing Hallelujah to our heavenly King By P. Fancy Printed for J. Williamson in Canon street and at the Bible on London-Bridge