Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	life_n	live_v	20,689	5	6.0033	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00679	Seldome comes the better: or, An admonition to all sorts of people, as husbands, wiues, masters, and seruants, &c. to auoid mutability, and to fix their minds on what they possesse. To the tuue [sic] of the He-deuill.		1629 (1629)	STC 22179; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.7[382]	1,612	2

Seldome comes the better OR An admonition to all sorts of people as Husbands Wiues Masters and Seruants c. to auoid mutability and to fix their minds on what they possesse To the tune of the He-Deuill YOu men that are well wiued and yet doe raile on Fate As though you were depriued thereby of happy state Learne well to be contented with a good wife if you get her For often when the old wife's dead seldome comes the better I once had a wife O would to God she had liued For while the Lord lent me her life indifferent well I thriued Yet cause that she would chide at me I wisht that death would fet her But since I haue got a worse then shée for seldome comes the better She would tell me for my good that I must leaue my vice But I not rightly vnderstood her counsell of high price Full glad was I when she was dead so much at nought I set her But since I haue got a worse in her stead for seldome comes the better I now haue one that 's not content with any thing I doe The others tongue did me torment this scolds and beates me too I thought when I was rid of one that Fortune was my debtor But now I see when one wife 's gone that seldome comes the better That wife would onely me reprooue for wasting of my store But this as well as I doth loue the good Ale pot and more She 'l sit at the Alehouse all the day and if the house will let her Shee 'l run on the score and I must pay thus seldome comes the better The other was a huswife good when she a penny spent It went from her like drops of bloud toth ' Alehouse she ne're went Vnlesse it were to fetch home me for which at nought I set her But this wife is quite contrary for seldome comes the better And if I doe rebuke her as a Husband ought and will She 'l call me Rogue and Rascall base her tongue will ne're lye still Nay much adoe I haue to shun her blowes if much I fret her The other quickly would haue done thus seldome comes the better The Second part To the same tune VVHen I consider well of this it sore doth vexe my minde O then I thinke what t is to misse a wife that 's true and kinde There 's many men like me that haue good Wiues yet wish for neater And faine would send the old toth ' graue in hope they shall haue better But that doth seldome come to passe though many hope it will Therefore let him that has a good Lasse desire to kéepe her still Nay though she hath some small defect to chide when he doth fret her Yet let him not her loue neglect for seldome comes the better Some thinke that were their old Wiues dead such are their fickle mindes They should get richer in their steads but few or none that findes Their expectation answered suppose the portion 's greater Yet he may say as I haue sed that seldome comes the better Ther 's many Lads and Lasses young that in good seruice light And yet they thinke that they haue wrong to serue their time out quite They loue to shift from place to place toth'little from the greater Till at last they say in wofull case faith seldome comes the better Change of pasture makes fat Calues this is a prouerbe vs'd Which fore another like if salues and helpes the first abus'd A roling stone ne're gathers mosse so hée that is a flitter From house to house shall find with losse that seldome comes the better Likewise some men and women both when they haue Seruants true To kéepe them ouer-long th' are loth but still they wish for new And hauing put the old away they take some farre vnfitter Which being tride at last they say faith seldome comes the better And he that hath a perfect Friend let him retaine his loue Lest losing th' old the new ith'end a faigned frend doe prooue And so it happens many times as some can tell that yet are Aliue and doe lament their crimes with seldome comes the better Therefore let all both Men and Wiues Seruants and Masters all Thinke on this Prouerbe all their liues the vse on 't is not small If you are well your selues so kéepe and striue not to be greater Be sure to looke before you leape for seldome comes the better FINIS Printed at London