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	see_v	16,095	5	3.5035	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18730	The epitaphe of the honorable Earle of Penbroke, Baron of Cardiffe, and knight of the most noble order of the garter Who dyed Lord stueward of the Quéenes maiesties houshold, and of her priuie counsell.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1570 (1570)	STC 5227; ESTC S121730	1,252	1

The Epitaphe of the honorable Earle of Penbroke Baron of Cardiffe and Knight of the most Noble order of the garter Who dyed Lord stueward of the Quéenes maiesties houshold and of her priuie counsell SInce playnts want power to perce the skyes or rayes the dead from graue No teares nor sighes may well suffies to wayle the losse we haue Then lordings wype your blobbred eyen and sobb no more alas For death and deastnye doth assigne all lyfe lyke shade shall passe No seat nor Scepture certayne is the hye and lowe a lyke In spight of pompe and worldly blis fall both amid the dyke But when a propp that stayde the state dropps downe as you do see The lokers on in muse do stand at crack of such a tree which leaues the world in moorning weeds behynd to weepe the losse Whyles frute is fled from brantch and bowe as gold forsakes the drosse O Penbroke wilt thou part so sone what hast hath hyed thee hence Had I byn warnd I had perfuemd thy Tombe with frankinsence But cald so swiftly to my pen the sweete insence I want yet sweare I by the sacred Gods though skill and sence be skant Thou shalt not hyde in clotts of claye thy ritch rare gyftes of kynd Nor skrawlling wormes shall make no praye apon thy noble mind The Court that knew thy constant hart bydds thee returne againe That art for troth and freendshipp fast a parfect pattern plaine A father where the counsell sate of tongue and talke deuine As he at byrth had stolne the grace of all the Musis nine His lookes dyd speake when silent lipps lockt vp great thinges in head yea eu'ry word past Penbrokes mouth peysd well a pound of lead No lightnes lodged in his browes and sure a man in deede That well might ryes from Troyians race and honour Hectors seede Of nature noble voyd of blott in Court and countrey throwe As curteys as the lyttell Lambe or Faucon gentyll nowe In bountie dyd his harte abound where cause made place before Not wonne by feare but held by loue what might be wished more To such as fau'red learnings lore though he no schole poynt knew His pursse and hand as closly crept as hauke weare clapt in mew To those that seemd somwhat to be whose harts he sawe aspier He gaue good hope in signe of happ to further there desier To Prince and countrey true as steell no blast could beare him downe He kept his promise fayth and oth in Court in feeld and towne Deuout to God his lyfe well showes his death doth that declare On Christ alone the corner stone he onely layd his care O manly Penbroke yet me thinks I see thee martch vpright Thy iesture and thy iolly port stands still before my sight Thy cleanly finenes trimly framd sprang out of noble brest And all thou didst within thy dayes a noble mind exprest But nothing here so cleane or gay can kepe the lyfe alyue Both wealth and Lordshipp leapes away when death our date doth dryue yet death when he hath done his worst dare not molest the spreete That God doth clayme and angels thinke for Abrams bosome meete FINIS A verse of farwell I lost a friend you lost no lesse who least lost lost to much Who lookes to light vpon the lyke in Court shall find fewe such Quoth Churchyard ¶ Imprinted at London in Fletestreat at the signe of the Faucon by Wylliam Gryffith and are to be sold at his shoppe in S. Dunstones Churchyard 1570. March. 27.