Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	devil_n	power_n	sin_n	9,646	5	4.8933	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08592	A wife novv the widdow of Sir Thomas Overburye Being a most exquisite and singular poem of the choice of a wife. Whereunto are added many witty characters, and conceited newes, written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen his friends.; Wife now a widowe	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.	1614 (1614)	STC 18904; ESTC S120266	28,037	66

put thine enemie is desperation while forcing him to set light by his owne life thou makest him master of thine That neglected danger lights soonest and heauiest That they are wisest who in the likelyhood of good prouide for ill That since pitty dwells at the next doore to miserie he liueth most at ease that is neighboured with enuie That the euill fortune of the wars as well as the good is variable Newes from my Lodging THat the best prospect is to looke inward That it is quieter sleeping in a good conscience then a whole skin That a soule in a fat bodie lies soft and is loth to rise That he must rise betimes who would cosen the deuill That Flatterie is increased from a pillow vnder the elbow to a bed vnder the whole bodie That Policie is the vnsleeping night of reason That hee who sleepes in the cradle of securitie sins soundly without starting That guilt is the flea of the conscience That no man is throughly awaked but by affliction That a hang'd chamber in priuate is nothing so convenient as a hang'd Traitor in publique That the religion of Papistry is like a curtaine made to keep out the light That the life of most women is walking in their sleepe and they talke their dreames That chambering is counted a ciuiler qualitie then playing at tables in the Hall though Seruingmen vse both That the best bedfellow for all times in the yeere is a good bed without a fellow That he who tumbles in a calme bed hath his tempest within That hee who will rise must first lye downe and take humilitie in his way That sleep is deaths picture drawne to life or the twilight of life and death That in sleep wee kindly shake death by the hand but when wee are awaked wee will not know him That often sleeping are so many tryalls to die that at last we may doe it perfectly That few dare write the true newes of their chamber and that I haue none secret enough to tempt a strangers curiositie or a seruants discouerie God giue you good morrow B. R. Newes of my morning worke THat to bee good is the way to bee most alone or the best accompanied That the way to heauen is mistaken for the most melancholy walke That most feare the worlds opinion more then Gods displeasure That a Court friend seldom goes further then the first degree of charitie That the deuill is the perfectest Courtier That innocency was first cozen to man now guiltinesse hath the neerest allyance That sleep is deaths leger Embassador That time can neuer bee spent wee passe by it and cannot returne That none can be sure of more time then an instant That sin makes worke for repentance or the deuill That patience hath more power then afflictions That euery ones memorie is diuided into two parts the part loosing all is the sea the keeping part is land That honestie in the Court liues in persecution like Protestants in Spaine That predestination and constancie are alike vncerteine to be iudged of That reason makes loue the Seruingman That vertues fauour is better then a Kings fauorite That being sick begins a sute to God being well possesseth it That health is the coach which caries to heauen sicknes the post-horse That worldly delights to one in extreame sicknes is like a hiecandle to a blind man That absence doth sharpen loue presence strengthens it that the one brings fuell the other blowes till it burnes cleere that loue often breaks friendship that euer increaseth loue That constancie in women and loue in men is alike rare That Arte is truths iugler That falshood playes a larger part in the world then truth That blinde zeale and lame knowledge are alike apt to ill That fortune is humblest where most contemned That no porter but resolution keeps feare out of minds That the face of goodnes without a body is the worst wickednesse That weomens fortunes aspire but by others powers That a man with a female wit is the worst Hermaphrodite That a man not worthy being a frend wrongs himself by being an acquaintance That the worst part of ignorance is making good and ill seem alike That all this is newes onely to fooles M r●● B. Newes from the lower end of the Table IT is said among the folkes heere that if a man dye in his infancie he hath onely broke his fast in this world If in his youth hee hath left vs at dinner That it is bed-time with a man at therescore and ten and he that liues to a hundred yeeres hath walked a mile after supper That the humble-minded man makes the lowest curtsie That grace before meat is our election before we were grace after our saluation when we are gone The soule that halts between two opinions falls between two stooles That a foole at the vpper end of the table is the bread before the salt He that hates to be reproued sits in his owne light Hunger is the cheapest sawce and nature the cheapest guest The sensible man and the silent woman are the best discoursers Repentance without amendment is but the shifting of a foule trencher He that tells a lye to saue his credit wipes his mouth with his sleeue to spare his napkin The tongue of aiester is the fiddle that the bearts of the companie dance to The tongue of a foole carues a peece of his heart to euery man sits next him A silent man is a couered messe The contented man onely is his owne caruer Hee that hath many friends eats too much salt with his meat That wit without discretion cuts other men meat and his own fingers That the soule of a cholericke man sits euer by the fire side That patience is the larde to the leane meat of aduersitie The Epicure puts his money into his belly and the miser his belly into his purse That the best companie makes the vpper end of the table and not the saltseller The supersluitie of a mans possessions is the broken meat that should remaine to the poore That the enuious keeps his knife in his hand and swallowes his meat whole A rich foole among the wise is a gilt empty bowle among the thirstie Ignorance is an insensible hunger The water of life is the best wine He that robs mee of my invention bids himselfe welcome to another mans table and I will bid him welcome when he is gone The vaine-glorious man pisseth more then hee drinkes That no man can drinke a health out of the cup of blessing To surfet vpon wit is more dangerous then to want it He that 's ouercome of any passion is dry drunke T is easier to fill the belly of faith then the eye of reason The rich glutton is better fed then taught That faith is the elbow for a heauy soule to leane on Hee that sins that he may repent surfets that he may take physicke He that riseth without thanksgiuing goes away and payes not for his ordinarie He that begins to repent when he is old neuer washed his hands till night That this life is but one day of three meales or one meale of three courses childhood youth and old age That to sup well is to liue well and that 's the way to sleep well That no man goes to bed till hee dyes nor wakes till he is dead And therfore Good night to you heere good morrow hereafter J. C. Nowes from the Bed THat the bed is the best rendevou of mankind and the most necessarie ornament of a chamber That Souldiers are good antiquaries in keeping the old fashion for the first bed was the bare ground That a mans pillow is his best counseller That Adam lay in state when the heauen was his canopie That the naked truth is Eue and Eue lay without sheetes That they were either very innocent very ignorant or very impudent they were not ashamed the heauens should see them lye without a couerlet That it is likely Eue studied Astronomie which makes the posteritie of her sex euer since to lye on their backs That the circumference of the bed is nothing so wide as the convex of the heauens yet it containes a whole world That the fiue sences are the greatest sleepers That a slothfull man is but a reasonable Dormouse That the soule euer wakes to watch the body That a Iealous man sleeps dog-sleep That sleep makes no difference between a wise-man and a foole That for all times sleep is the best bedfellow That the deuill and mischiefe euer wake That loue is a dreame That the preposterous hopes of ambitious men are like pleasing dreames farthest off when awake That the bed payes Venus more custome then all the world beside That if dreames and wishes had been all true there had not been since Popery one maide to make a Nun of That the secure man sleeps soundly and is hardly to be wak't That the charitable man dreames of building Churches but starts to thinke the vngodly Courtier will pull them down again That great sleepers were neuer dangerous in a state That there is a naturall reason why popish Priests chuse the bed to confesse their women vpon for they hold it necessarie that humiliation should follow shrift That if the bed should speake all it knowes it would put many to the blush That it is fit the bed should know more then paper R. S. FINIS