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
A66753	Fides-Anglicana, or, A plea for the publick-faith of these nations lately pawned, forfeited and violated by some of their former trustees to the rendering it as infamous as fides-punica was heretofore : it is humbly offered to consideration in a petitionary remonstrance to all in authority on the behalf of many thousands to whom securities were given upon the said public-faith and was prepared to have been put forth during the sitting of the last Parliament ... / by the author George Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing W3157; ESTC R27622	56,067	97

it was supposed he heard he had two wreathen horns like a Goat his right arm was longer then his left and his hands were like the hoofs of horses his shoulders and his head were both of one height his shoulders shined like the scales of a fish his breast was hairie his face in all things like unto a man save that he had but one eye in the midst of his fore-head and but one nostril From the middle downward nothing could be seen because he sate in a Chariot which concealed it the Chariot was in fashion like other Chariots then used and drawn with four beasts two Lions before and two Bears behinde Within the Chariot stood a great Caldron with ears wherein this monster sate It wandred a great space through the City from one gate to another casting out sparks of fire which caused so great a fear throughout the City that women with child miscarried and some died out-right with fear Men and women great and small ran to the Temples of Jupiter Mars and Februa makeing importunate prayers with sad cries At the same time the Pirates were in the Governours Palace whose name was Solyno born at Copua and in that Palace the spoyls being kept thither the Monster came after it had wandred through the City and cutting off one of the Lyons ears wrote with the blood thereof upon the Palace gate these Letters R. A. S. V. P. I. P. P. These Letters were diversly interpreted so that the Interpretations were more then the Letters But in the end a Prophetess greatly esteemed for her science opened the true meaning of the Letters saying R. signifieth Reddite A. aliena S. si V. vultis P. propria I. in P. pace P. possidere which words altogether make up this sense Reddite aliena si vultis propria possidere in pace Render to other men that which belongs to them if you will possess in peace that which is your own The Pirates were wonderfully afraid of this command and the woman highly commended for her exposition but the injunction was not obeyed The Monster went the same night out of the City unto an high hill named Jamicia and there continued three dayes within sight of the City the Lions and Bears terribly roaring and the Monster casting forth flames during all which time there was neither bird seen in the air nor beast in the field near that place and the people offered great sacrifices to the gods yea their own blood to appease their wrath Three dayes being passed there appeared in the Element a marvellous dark cloud seeming to darken the whole earth and then it began to thunder and lighten so terribly that many men died and divers houses fell to the ground and at last there came such a flame of fire from the Monster that it burnt both the Palace where the Pirates were and all that was therein consuming the very stones thereof yea the tempest was so great that there fell above two thousand houses and more then ten thousand persons died in the Tempest In that place where the Monster stood upon the said hill the Emperour built a sumptuous Temple to Jupiter in memorial thereof of which Temple Alexander the Emperour made afterward a strong Castle This is taken out of the Epistles of Marcus Aurelius the Emperour Thus you have an evidence of two witnesses one of divine credit and the other recorded by one of greatest fame among heathen Philosophers and Emperours to shew how dangerous it is to neglect Justice and not to render unto every man his own when God requires it to be done Also how honourable it is for Kings and States to do righteous things and how necessary and warrantable it is both for men oppressed and others thereto conscientiously moved in such times and cases as many are in at this present to speak truth plainly and boldly even to the highest Powers on earth this that follows may illustrate A testimonial of the first tending to stir up Princes and States to be ambitious of the like glorious vertues is taken out of an Epistle of the same Emperour written to Antigonus In the twentieth year of my age I lay saith he during the Winter season in the Isle of Cheten which now is called Cyprus where in former time lived a King greatly renowned for Clemency and other Heroick vertues and who lay there buried under four Pillars within a Tomb whereon was engraven in Greek Letters without the addition of his name which indeed saith my Author I could not learn from any one an Epitaph to this effect Whilest by the permission of the gods I here lived and reigned my endeavour was to nourish Peace and prevent Discord I desired nothing but what might be vertuously obtained without any vitious practises and what I could acquire by a peaceable means I never sought to obtain by war and force or to procure that by rigour which might possibly be gotten by mildness I never openly reprooved any man before I had first admonished him in secret neither delighted in flatterers but hated and abhorred lying both in my self and others I coveted nothing that was another mans but was content with what was justly mine own spent not prodigally nor spared nigardly nor ever deserted any friend in his Adversity I delighted more to forgive then to revenge and punished not the greatest offendors but with compassion and much sorrow in mine own heart Being born of a woman I was to be subject to the condition of mortals and dying was laid here to be meat for worms as other men are and having endeavoured to live a vertuous life did willingly resign my Soveraignty to Death and my Spirit to the Gods who gave it How thinkest thou Antigonus said the Author What an Epitaph was this How glorious was his life how eternall deserves his memory to be I swear unto thee by the Law of a good man and as the gods may prosper me I took not so much pleasure in Pompey with his Jerusalem in Semeramis with her India in King Cyrus with his Babylon in Cajus Caesar with his Gaules nor in Scipio with his Africa as I do with this King of Cyprus in his grave For more glory bath that King there in that sharp Mountain being dead then all these and all those in proud Rome who are now alive Now out of many approved presidents justifying by the acceptation they had the just freedom which men oppressed may challenge in plainly and boldly declaring their grievances and oppressions to the greatest Potentates of the world I have chosen two the first of a Jew and the other of a German both which came to Rome to complain unto the Senate there on the behalf of themselves and Country-men oppressed by the Romans Their speeches being long I will here Epitomize and first that of the Jew spoken to the Roman Senate the third year after Pompey sacked Jerusalem and whilest Valerius Gracchus governed Judea Fathers Conscript Your good fortune