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
A06684	A health to the gentlemanly profession of seruingmen; or, The seruingmans comforts With other thinges not impertinent to the premisses, as well pleasant as profitable to the courteous reader.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, attributed name.; I. M., fl. 1598.	1598 (1598)	STC 17140; ESTC S120831	45,157	78

keepes them out of the Libertie least they should sing the Counter tenor or at Ludgate For the Lords sake But pittie it is that Liberalitie that honest fellow should dying be buried without his rites and ceremonies his funeralles and obsequies to be duely solemnized I feare me that none was so charitable as to ring his soule knell or bestow on him a winding sheete O that I had lyued when he dyed or had been at the making of his Will though I had been none of his Executors nor had had any Legasie bestowed vpon mee yet would I at my owne charges haue seene him honestly brought foorth to his long home as the saying is but sure he died Intestate and for heyres Apparent I think he had none for since his death I neuer heard o●● any his successours Notwithstanding though he were before my tyme yet haue I heard so much good of him as loth I am that his fame should be buried in obliuion wherefore I will though I be no profest Poet frame some Epitaph of his lyfe and death though the place and tyme of his death be vnto me altogeather vnknowne and leaue it to ensuing ages It is not for the Sheepheards O ten pipe to presume to keepe his part in consort in Princes Pallaces where heauenly harmony is dayly harboured neyther I to take vpon me Poetrie whose iudgement therein can scarcely discerne what feete a Uerse doth stande vpon notwithstanding since I haue promised an Epitaph I will performe it though it lie buryed with the shauinges of the Presse in the bottome of a Dryfat wherefore hoping the Fiddle may be accepted for want of musicall Instrumentes giue eare and you shall heare his best tune Ceasse Sunne to lende thy glorious shine Moone darkned be as cloudy night Starres stay your streaming lightes diuine That wonted were to shine so bright Weepe woofull wightes and wayle with me For dead is Liberalitie You Fire Water Earth and Ayre And what remaynes at your commaund Foules Fysh or els be fyld with care And marke the summe of my demaund Weepe weepe I say and wayle with me For dead is Liberalitie You siluer Streames that wont to flow Upon the bankes of Helicon You sacred Nimphes whose stately show Bedimd the bright of Phaeton Weepe weepe I say and wayle with me For dead is Liberalitie If Due-desart to Court resort Expecting largely for his payne The Prince he findes then alamore No lue his labour is spent in vayne May he not then come wayle with me Yes dead is Liberalitie The paringes from the Princes Fruite That silie Groomes were wont to feede Now Potentates for them make suite True Gascoine sayth the Lord hath neede Weepe therefore weepe and wayle with me For dead is Liberalitie The Courtly crew of Noble mindes Would giue rewarde for euery Legge To crouch and kneele now duetie bindes Though Sutor nought but right doth begge Weepe therefore weepe and wayle with me For dead is Liberalitie When Countreys causes did require Each Nobleman to keepe his house Then Blewcoates had what they desyre Good cheare with many a full carouie But now not as it wont to be For dead is Liberalitie The Haull boordes-ende is taken vp No Dogges do differ for the bones Blacke-Iacke is left now Glasse or Cup It makes mee sigh with many groones To thinke what was now thus to be By death of Liberalitie Where are the Farmes that wont to flye Rent free by seruice well deserued Where is that kinde Annuitte That men in age from want preserued What do you looke for wont to be No dead is Liberalitie What Squire now but rackes his Rentes And what he ●●ath who will g●●ue more T●●e giffe gaffe promise he repentes The Lord hath neede surceasse therefore Weepe weepe for now you well may see That dead is Liberalitie The golden worlde is past and gone The Iron age hath runne his race The lumpe of Lead is left alone To presse the poore in euery place Nought els is left but miserie Since death of Liberalitie Weepe weepe for so the case requires The worlde hath lost her second Sunne This is the summe of my desires To ende where earst I haue begunne Euen still I say come wayle with me The death of Liberalitie Thus you haue heard the death of Liberalitie to be one of the especiall occasions that hath wrought the vtter ouerthrow ruine subuertion of Seruingmens estate Now for the ambition and disdayne of the Countrey-man and the Gentlemanly Seruingman First for the Yeoman or Husbandmans sonne aspyring from the Plough to the Parlor I holde these the contempt of his vocation Feare to hazard his life in his Princes Marciall affayres and the ambitious desire of dignitie to be the especiall occasions that hath mooued him to change his habite and cullour from Ierkin to Coate and from Russet to Blew In the first he imitates Icarus who presuming vpon his Waxen winges soared so high as the heate of fierie Phaeton melted the winges of this vnfethered Foule and so cast him fully as lowe as he had his beginning euen so this Yeomans Sonne prying into this easie and pleasaunt lyfe of Seruingmen and considering the droyling he hath about his drudgerie without consideration that he is called to this Countryes labour or how farre he is vnfitte to execute the others office not acquainted therewithall taketh vppon him this new trade of lyuing in my iudgement as far vnable to execute the others office as Icarus to soare in the highest heauens but pittie it is that they are not as well punished for their aspyring mindes as Icarus for his proude and presumptuous enterprise Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis when crooked olde age commeth and they shaken off as by their vnwildinesse not able to merite foure Markes and a Lyuerie then they are faigne with heauie cheare retro spectare and wisheth that eye had been blynde wherewith they fyrst pried into the floryshing profession of Seruingmen floryshing I say in their first age but now by these and such like occasions ruinated and almost cleane withered The seconde occasion that made Blew so deare was this These latter dayes are more dangerous and troublesome then former ages so that many Kinges and Princes are euen occasioned to maynteine their right by force of Armes and Hostilitie And now falling out so that an Armie must be leauied to be imployed at home or abrode for the defence of the Countrey or offence to the enemie Robin Russetcoate must of necessitie be one of the number as good reason that all sortes shoulde be assistant to such seruice Now his Father loth to part from his beloued Sonne will giue Markes and Poundes to redeeme him and keepe him at home from doing his Prince and Countrey seruice And yf he can by any fauoure coyne or kindnesse blow ouer these boysterous blastes and keepe his Sonne from being made deafe by the gunshot of great Ordinance then he will seeke by all meanes