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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	end_v	life_n	4,337	5	4.6983	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20080	A rod for run-awayes Gods tokens, of his feareful iudgements, sundry wayes pronounced vpon this city, and on seuerall persons, both flying from it, and staying in it. Expressed in many dreadfull examples of sudden death ... By Tho. D.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1625 (1625)	STC 6520; ESTC S105262	17,724	34

is not safe to kisse Lightning mocke at Thunder or dally with diuine Iudgements The Bells euen now toll and ring out in mine eares so that here againe and againe I could terrifie you with sad Relations An ample Volume might be sent downe to you in the Country of dismall and dreadfull Accidents not onely here within London but more in the Townes round about vs. Death walkes in euery street How many step out of their Beds into their Coffins And albeit no man at any time is assured of life yet no man within the memory of man was euer so neere death as now because he that breakes his fast is dead before dinner and many that dine neuer eat supper more Let these then as terrifying Scourges serue to admonish the proudest of vs all to haue a care to our footing lest we fall suddenly How many euery day drop downe staggering being strucke with infection in the open Streets What numbers breathe their last vpon Stalles How many creepe into Eatries and Stables and there dye How many lye languishing in the common High-wayes and in the open Fields on Pads of Straw end their miserable liues vnpittyed vnrelieued vnknowne The great God of mercy defend vs all from sudden death and so defend you the rich Run-awayes at your comming backe to this desolate and forsaken City that as you fled hence to scape the Stroke of Contagion you bring not nor lay heauier strokes of mortality and misery vpon vs when you returne to your Houses It so fell out in the last great time of Pestilence at the death of the Queene and comming in of the King The Weekes did rize in their numbers of dead as the numbers of the liuing did increase who then came flocking to Towne As the fresh houses were filled with their old Owners so new Graues were opened for the fresh commers A heauy and sad welcome they had at home after their peaceable being in the Countrey and how could it happen otherwise They went out in haste in hope to preuent death in iollity to preserue life But when they came backe then began their terrours then their torments The first foot they sit out of their Countrey-Habitations was to them a first step to their Graues the neerer to London the neerer to death As condemned persons going to execution haue oftentimes good colour in their faces cheerefull contenances and manly lookes all the way that they are going but the neerer and neerer they approch the place where they are to leaue the World the greater are their feares the paler they looke the more their hearts tremble so did it fare with Londoners in those dayes but we that are heere pray that you may speed better that you may returne full of health full of wealth full of prosperity that your Houses may bee as Temples to you your Chambers as Sanctuaries that your Neighbours Kindred Friends and acquaintance may giue you ioyfull and hearty welcomes that the City may not mourne then for your thronging in vpon it as shee lamented to behold you in shoales forsaking her in her tribulation but that God would be pleased to nayle our sinnes vpon the Crosse of his Sonne Christ Iesus restore vs to his mercy render vs a Nation worthy of his infinite blessings and plucking in his reuengefull Arme from striking vs downe continually into Graues wee all abroad and at home in Countrey and City may meete and imbrace one another and sing an Allelniah to his Name FINIS Sinne the cause of the Plague All Nations upon earth punished for sinne Gods three whips Hungary Poland Russia Denmarke Sweden Norway c. It●…y France The miseries of ●…ermany 〈…〉 for them Englands security Gods three whips ready to scourge England Sin the offence It is not the numerous multitude of people causeth the Plague The number that dyed When Queene Elizabeth dyed Sinnes like the Bels neuer lie still The Plague dreadfull for three causes How the rich are buried How the poor ●… Newes for Run-awayes Much wayling ●…ttle weeping Thursday the ●…1 of Iuly Coffins and corslcts No gates keepe out Thunder The rich fly the poore dye London growes leaues The Countrie too f●… Both sicke of 〈◊〉 disease Foure thousand doores shut vp Foure thousand cro●…es set 〈◊〉 Now to the Run-awayes We may flye and we may not flye Londoners must not liue vpon dead pay The poore perish The Prisoners pine And Run-awaies all in long of you A new policy good for the City A Phoenix in London Shops shut vp Schooles shut vp Our s●…es stand open A Festiuall Fasting No 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 G●… must haue faire p●…ay A wound well cared for is balse cured Angels are Heauens Harbingers and appoynt our Lodgings A Londoner a Bugbeare A digression a little merrily taxing the inciuility of the common people The old Brittaines opprest by the Pictes call in the Saxons The Country people the bold Brittaines W●… of Moneys are the Pictes and Londoners the Saxons at first called in but now they care not if the Diuell fetched them Ouerthr●… horse and foot The foolish feare of the Corydons An Essex Calfe killed without a Butcher Sparrowblastings A Hounds-ditch Broker entertained like a brother This was aboue threescore in the hundred The wisdome of Pancridge-Parish The world is altered with Londoners A Retreate founded There be Iuries enough to sweare bis To wash money is against the Statute Burials still passing Bels still going Churchyards still receiving Graues still gaping for more The horrors of the tune A woman and her childe A Souldier A Flax-man A country fellow Another A woman in Barbican Whosoeuer in my Name giue●… a cup of cold water c. T is the Prey makes the Thiefe A Gentleman in Thames street A Kentish tale but truer then those of Changers Thirty pound 〈◊〉 lost well recouered The like was done three and twenty yeeres agoe Madnesse in merriment ●…iserable obiects Merry mornings goe before sad euenings

spying a Sexton digging a Graue stept to him asked many strange questions of the fellow touching Burials and what he would take to make a Graue for him but the Sexton amazed at it and seeing by his face hee was not well perswaded him to get into some house and to take something to doe him good No said he helpe me to a Minister who comming to him and conferring together about the state of his soule hee deliuered a summe of Money to the Minister to see him well buried and gaue ten shillings to the Sexton to make his Graue and departed not till he dyed Now suppose you are in Kent where you shall see a young handsome Maid in very good apparell ready to goe into the Towne to a Sister which dwelt there but then as you cast an eye on her comming into the City so behold a company of vnmercifull heathenish and churlish Townesmen with Bils and Glaues driuing her by force backe againe enter there shee must not it being feared she came from London neither could her Sister be suffred to goe forth to her Whereupon all comfort being denyed her all doores bard against her no lodging being to be had for her shee full of teares in her eyes full of sorrow in her heart sighing wailing and wringing her hands went into the open fields there sickned there languished there cracked her heart-strings with griefe and there dyed none being by her When she was dead the Den of a Serpent was not more shunned then the place she lay in It was death in any Townesmans thinking but to stand in the wind of it there the body lay two or three daies none daring to approach it till at the last an old woman of Kent stealing out of the Towne ventured vpon the danger rifled her Purse and Pockets found good store of Money stript her out of her apparell which was very good digged a homely Graue with the best shift she could make and there in the field buried her The Kentish Synagogue hearing of this presently laid their heads together and fearing lest the breath of an old woman might poison the whole Towne pronounced the doome of euerlasting banishment vpon her And so was she driuen from thence with vpbraidings and hard language and must neuer come to liue more amongst them Into another part of this Kingdome not full forty miles from London did a Citizen send his man for thirty pound to a country Customer which was honestly payed to him the young man departed merry and in good health from him and albeit he had so much money about him yet in his returne to London hee could get no loging in any place at which being much afflcted in his minde and offring an extraordinary rate to be entertained neither Money nor Charity nor common Humanity could get a doore opened to receiue him Patient he was to endure this cruelty and comforted himselfe that carrying health about him he should make shift to get to the City but God had otherwaies bestowed him his time was come the Glasse of his life almost runne out and his iourney must bee shortned For taking vp his lodging by compulsion in the open field there he fell sicke and wanting all humane helpe and comfort there dyed It was soone knowne by those that walked out of the Towne into their grounds that there he lay dead and as soone did they consult together what to doe with his body None was so valiant as to come neere it It was an eminent danger to suffer the Carkasse lye aboue ground and a greater danger for any one as they thought to remoue it from thence In the end one more couragious then the other was hyred for money to rid the Towne of this mortall feare who whatsoeuer should become of them purposing to saue himselfe muffled his mouth went into the same field where the dead body lay a far off digged a Pit a Graue hee knew not how to make and then with a long Pole hauing a hooke to it taking hold of the young mans clothes he dragged him along threw him in and buried him The Master of this seruant musing at his long staying and being loth to lose both man and money rode downe to see how both of them were bestowed and vnderstanding that the Money was paid and which way his man went for London came to the same towne where by ghesse he thought he must needs put in for lodging and vpon strict inquiry if such a young fellow had not beene seene amongst them it was confest Yes with all the former Relations of his death and where he lay buried The much-perplexed Londoner hearing this did by faire meanes and money get his Graue opened had his body in the clothes taken vp and found all his Money about him and then in the Towne bestowed vpon him a friendly louing and decent buriall It fell out better with a company of merry Companions who went not aboue ten miles from London for they getting with much adoe into a country Victualing-house were very iouiall and full of sport though not full of money Beere and Ale they called for roundly downe it went merrily and the Cakes were as merrily broken When the round O's beganne to increase to foure or six shillings quoth one mad fellow amongst the rest What will you say my Masters if I fetch you off from the Reckoning and neuer pay a penny A braue Boy cryed all the company if thou canst doe this Hereupon the Oastesse being called vp for t'other Pot and whilest it was drinking some speech being made of purpose about the dangerous time and the sicknesse it fortuned that the Tokens were named Vpon which the Woman wondring what kinde of things they were and protesting she neuer saw any nor knew what they were like this daring companion who vndertooke the shot clapping his hand on his brest How quoth hee neuer saw any Why then I feare I can now shew you some about me and with that hastily vnbuttoning his Doublet opened his bosome which was full of little blue Markes receiued by Haile-shot out of a Birding-piece through a mischance At sight of these his Comrades seemed to bee strucke into a feare but the innocent Oastesse was ready to drop downe dead They offred to flye and leaue him there Shee fell on her knees crying out Shee was vndone A reckoning then being call'd for because they would be honest to the house the poore woman cared for no reckoning let them call for as much more so they dranke it quickly and there was not a penny to pay prouided that they would take the spotted man away with them They did so and being gotten some little distance from the house the counterfeit si●…ke Companion danced and skipped vp and downe to shew hee was well Shee cursing them for cheating Raskalls that so had gulled her This was a tricke of merriment but few men I thinke would fill their bellies with drink so gotten It