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	life_n	put_v	6,590	5	4.8343	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20115	The horrible murther of a young boy of three yeres of age, whose sister had her tongue cut out and how it pleased God to reueale the offendors, by giuing speech to the tongueles childe. Which offendors were executed at Hartford the 4. of August. 1606.		1606 (1606)	STC 6552; ESTC S113482	6,962	14

pleased God at that time to make a cocke to be as it were a tutor to the child and his first messenger of this mightie miracle like as a bird of the same name and nature vsing the selfe same note put Peter in minde that hee had denied his maister from which his remembrance sprung his true and heartie repentance But to proceede This child being playing as I said before one of the cocks in the yard began to crow and another answered him and thus they continued aprettie while At last one of the children began after their maner to mocke the cockes crying cocke-adoodle-doo in the end this dumbe child strayning her selfe cried as t●● rest had done cocke-adoodle doo which made all the children amazde and one of them that stoode next her said what canst thou speake now I that I can said she speaking it so plainly that they all vnderstoode her The hearing of this made the children breake vp their play and runne home with ioy to the house where this child was kept to carrie newes And when she came home to the house where she was kept and the folke of the house finding the report of the children to be true with exceeding ioy after the asking of her some few questions to which she did answere verie directly they led her againe to the knight before named to whom they tolde what had happened Which when he had heard he being furnished with the feare of God which is indeede the true fountaine and foundation of wisedome hee first of all gaue thankes to God and then he did aske her who cut out her tongue she said the olde woman and her sonne that killed her brother and put her into the trée then he asked her who tooke her out of the tree and she saide a man that when hee had done did runne away from her because she could not speake to him He likewise asked whither she went then but alas she could not tell him then he did aske her who brought her to the old womans house first and she said a man and a woman that had killed her father and her mother and taken a great bagge of money from them And she said that the man and woman had giuen a great deale of that money to the olde woman and that the olde woman did at that time lift vp her hands thrée times and did sweare thrée times that she would neuer tell any body who they were These and many other questions the Knight did aske her to all which she did answer with more reason and sense then is common to one of her age To conclude the Sises being come an Inditement was preferd against the mother and the sonne to which inditement they pleaded not guiltie and put themselues to the ordinarie triall Whereupon the childe was brought before the Bench and stoode vpon the Table betweene the Bench and the Iury. Where after that the foresaid knight had opened some part of this foule offence the childe was asked diuerse of the former questions to which she answered as before The taylor likewise was there who tolde vnto the Iurie what he had seene Then the Iurie was willed to goe togither but before they went they did looke into the childes mouth but could not see so much as the stumpe of a tongue therein The Iurie staid not long before they returned with their verdite guiltie wherevpon they had sentence of death pronounced against them and were both hanged at Hartfort the fourth day of August 1606. Thus farre gentle reader haue I set down briefly and truly the maner of this monstrous massacre And how farre it hath pleased God to reueale some of the Authors and for some secrete purpose best knowne to himselfe to conceale the rest which questionlesse shall be made knowne in his good appointed time when it shall bee most for his honour and glorie In the meane time let me intreat all you which doe reade or heare this ruthfull discourse to meditate as I doe and will on the many miseries and mischances mankinde is subiect to which if you doe questionlesse you will make lesse ioy at the birth of your children and lesse sorrow at their death then commonly you doe and rather secke in some sort to imitate those Heathens which did sing and daunce at the death of their children then those Christians which doe mourne and sorrow as men past hope As for the loue which ordinarily men beare vnto their children it may more fitlye bee called loue to themselues then to their children For notwithstanding we all know or ought to know that no one is truly happy till his end if he die well yet many nay most of vs doe rather desire to haue our children suruine vs then to see them fairely bestowed before vs. Neuer thinking respecting or regarding what may come to them after our death so our humors be fed in our liues And if this may not truly be said to be selfe-loue I know not what is selfe-loue Therefore let vs all and euery one of vs referre and put our willes to Gods will assuring our selues that all things shall worke togither for the best for them that loue and feare him As for the Pedler and his wife which the child hath confest to haue robbed and kild her father and mother they are not yet found out nor is the place and above of her too vnfortunate Parents yet knowne But yet all in good time if it be the will of the Amightie both the one and the other shall come to light Amen