Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	good_a	life_n	16,696	5	4.8534	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03177	The playe called the foure PP. A newe and a very mery enterlude of A palmer. A pardoner. A potycary. A pedler. Made by Ioh[a]n Heewood	Heywood, John, 1497?-1580?	1544 (1544)	STC 13300; ESTC S109760	19,085	42

knowe entreth heuen gate Tyll from the bodye he be separate And whome haue ye knowen dye hostlye Without helpe of the potycary Nay all that commeth to our handlynge Except ye happe to come to hangynge That way perchaunce ye shall nat myster To go to heuen without a glyster But be ye sure I wolde be wo If ye shulde chaunge to begyle me so As good to lye with me a nyght As hange abrode in the mone lyght There is no choyse to ●le my hande But as I sayd into the bande Syns of our soules the multitude I sende to heuen when all is vewed Who shulde but I then all togyther Haue thanke of all theyr commynge thyther Pardoner ¶ If ye kylde a thousande in an houre space When come they to heuen dyenge from state of grace ❧ Potycary ❧ If a thousāde pardons about your neckes were teyd When come they to heuen yf they neuer dyed ☞ Palmer ⚜ Longe lyfe after good workes in dede Doth hynder mannes receyt of mede And deth before one dewty done May make vs thynke we dye to sone Yet better tary a thynge then haue it Then go to sone and vaynly craue it ❧ Pardoner ¶ The longer ye dwell in communicacion The lesse shall you lyke thys ymagynacyon For ye may perceyue euen at the fyrst chop Your tale is trapt in such a stop That at the leste ye seme worse then we ☞ Potycary ¶ By the masse I holde vs nought all thre ❧ Pedler ¶ By our lady then haue I gone wronge And yet to be here I thought longe ❧ Potycary ¶ Brother ye haue gone wronge no wyt I prayse your fortune and your wyt That can dyrecte you so discretely To plante you in this company Thou palmer and thou a pardoner I a potycary ☞ Pedler ❧ And I a pedler ❧ Potycary ¶ Nowe on my fayth full well watched Were the deuyll were we foure hatched ☞ Pedler ¶ That maketh no mater syns we be matched I coulde be mery yf that I catchyd Some money for parte of the ware in my packe ❧ Potycary ¶ What the deuyll hast thou there at thy backe ☞ Pedler ¶ Why dost thou nat knowe that euery pedled In euery tryfull must be a medler Specyally in womens tryflynges Those vse we chefe aboue all thynges Whiche thynges to se yf ye be disposed Beholde what ware here is disclosed Thys gere sheweth it selfe in suche bewte That eche man thynketh it sayth come bye me Loke were your selfe can lyke to be chooser Your selfe shall make pryce though I be looser Is here nothynge for my father Palmer Haue ye nat a want on in a corner For your walkyng to holy places By cryste I haue herde of as straunge cases Who lyueth in loue or loue wolde wynne Euen at this packe he must begynne Where is ryght many a proper token Of whiche by name parte shall be spoken Gloues pynnes combes glasses vnspottyd Pomanders hookes and lasses knotted Broches rynges and all maner bedes Lace rounde and flat for womens hedes Nedyls threde thymbell shers and all suche knackes Where louers be no suche thynges lackes Sypers swathbondes rybandes and sleue laces Gyrdyls knyues purses and pyncases ❧ Potycary ¶ Do women bye theyr pyncases of you ☞ Pedler ¶ Ye that they do I make god a vow ⚜ Potycary ¶ So mot I thryue then for my parte I be shrewe thy knaues nakyd herte For makynge my wyfe ys pyncase so wyde The pynnes fall out they can nat abyde Great pynnes must she haue one or other Yf she lese one she wyll fynde an other Wherin I fynde cause to complayne New pynnes to her pleasure and my payne ☞ Pardoner ¶ Syr ye seme well sene in womens causes I praye you tell me what causeth this That women after theyr a●ysynge Be so longe in theyr apparelynge ❧ Pedler ¶ Forsoth women haue many 〈◊〉 And they ●e ma●ked in many ●ettes As frontlettes fyllettes parlettes and barcelettes And then theyr bonettes and theyr poynettes By these lettes and nettes the lette is suche That spede is small whan haste is muche ❧ Potycary ¶ An other cause why they come nat forwarde Whiche maketh them dayly to drawe backwarde And yet is a thynge they can nat forbere The trymmynge and pynnynge vp theyr gere Specyally theyr fydlyng with the tayle pyn And when they wolde haue it prycke in If it chaunce to double in the clothe Then be they wode and swereth an othe Tyll it stande ryght they wyll nat forsake it Thus though it may nat yet wolde they make it But be ye sure they do but defarre it For when they wolde make it ofte tymes marre it But prycke them and pynne them as nyche as ye wyll And yet wyll they loke for pynnynge styll So that I durste holde you a ioynt Ye shall neuer haue them at a fall poynt ☞ Pedler ⚜ Let womens maters passe and marke myne What euer theyr poyntes be these poyntes be fyne Wherfore yf ye be wyllynge to bye Ley downe money come of quyckely ❧ Palmer ¶ Nay by my trouth we be lyke fryers We are but beggers we be no byers ☞ Pardoner ¶ Syr ye maye showe your ware for your mynde But I thynke ye shall no profyte fynde ❧ Pedler ¶ Well though thys your ney acquyte no coste Yet thynke I nat my labour loste For by the fayth of my body I lyke full well thys company Vp shall this packe for it is playne I came not hyther al for gayne Who may nat play one day in a weke May thynke hys thryfte is farre to seke Deuyse what pastyme ye thynke beste And make ye sure to fynde me prest ❧ Potycary ☞ Why be ye so vnyuersall That you can do what so euer ye shall ☞ Pedler ¶ Syr yf ye lyste to appose me What I can do then shall ye se ❧ Potycary ¶ Than tell me thys be ye perfyt in drynkynge ☞ Pedler ¶ Perfyt in drynkynge as may be wysht by thynkyng ❧ Potycary ¶ Then after your drynkyng how fall ye to wynkyng ☞ Pedler ¶ Syr after drynkynge whyle the shot is tynkynge Some hedes be swymmyng but myne wyl be synkynge And vpon drynkynge myne eyse wyll be pynkynge For wynkynge to drynkynge is alway lynkynge ❧ Potycary· ¶ Then drynke and slepe ye can well do But yf ye were desyred therto I pray you tell me can you synge ☞ Pedler ⚜ Syr I haue some syght in syngynge ❧ Potycary ¶ But is your brest any thynge swete ☞ Pedler ⚜ What euer my breste be my voyce is mete ▪ ❧ Potycary ¶ That answere sheweth you a ryght syngynge man Now what is your wyll good father than ❧ Palmer ☞ What helpeth wyll where is no skyll ☞ Pardoner ⚜ And what helpeth skyll where is no wyt ❧ Potycary ☞ For wyll or skyll what helpeth it Where frowarde knaues be lackynge wyll Leue of thys curyosytie And who that lyste synge after me ☞ Here they synge ❧ Pedler ¶ Thys lyketh me well so mot I the. ☞ Pardoner