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	think_v	9,849	5	4.3485	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84639	An unhappy vievv of the vvhole behaviour of my Lord Duke of Buckingham, at the French island, called the isle of Rhee / discovered by Colonell William Fleetwood, an unfortunate commander in that untoward service.	Fleetwood, William, Colonel.	1648 (1648)	Wing F1259; Thomason E430_14; ESTC R202115	6,192	16

understood it all in two dayes after in our comfortlesse journey homewards and we had thereupon presently mortalized his carkasse for amends but that upon a more mature deliberation we thought it fitter to let him die at home by the inquestionable hand of the Parliament so he himself could not take this as his preservation but as his reservation to a more infamous end And truely should the revenge of the Parliaments almost extremity seize upon him it would be but correspondent to his merits that would find in his heart to lye secure himself and all the while to see us that were his charge knocked down and slaughtered like dogges O let him go to the grave and let no man stay him for it is a sin to pity him in his worst estate My Lord Mountjoy was the onely man of note of our party that accepted Quarter and was since very honourably ransomed and sent home againe which proceeded more from the Heroique clemency of the French King then for any desert either of his own or ours One of our French prisoners that we have taken at our first encounter confessed to me in our return homewards that had Sir John Burrowes lived one two dayes longer the Defendants were concluded to have given up the Fort and all the treasure in it to our disposure in respect they had so miserable experience of his vigilant intercepting of all their convoyes and stopping of their passages And therefore this reach could not but redownd to their utter confusion in the end unlesse they submitted themselves betimes but the news of his death was joyous unto them as it was grievous unto us and made them resolve to dye in their own defences but the mistake at last cost most of us our lives And this is the whole description of our mis-fortunes which upon a due consideration I think must needs provoke the poorest affected of our nation to indevour a revenge to be done In all our future Voyages he must and will be still our Generall and then to thrive at least after the old fashion we must assure our selves We have not been a little famous in France for Conquest heretofore with a few but God Almighty is omnipotent and just and we now see it is his pleasure to make us all to suffer for the sin and lascivious life of this one man His will be done in all And if we can we must be content besides too notwithstanding he hath been the death of divers of the nobility the unlucky overthrow of all our late voyages The unknown consumer of our Treasury and the utter confusion of the poore Protestants in France now daily massacred without all pity through their needlesse defence of their Religion Yet it is the Kings pleasure still to afford him his wonted grace and connivance for all this And Treason it is apparent to denounce him faulty in any thing But let his Majesty look to it for his longer sheltring of this rich Traytor and false-hearted man both to God and his Country which will be the ruine both of himself and his kingdom at last yet then I have hope out of the integrity of his heart now whilest it is called to day and before the evill day come he will give him over to the Parliament whilst it is of strength to punish him And that they for their parts will send him to H. without any more adoe If any hereafter shall maligne or goe about to disprove me in any one of these points so I may be unquestionable for this presumption I will notwithstanding my lamenesse maintaine all upon notice to his face to the expence of my dearest blood In the interim I expect good news from the Parliament by the next faire wind FINIS