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	live_v	soul_n	15,929	5	5.3820	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14821	An ould facioned love. Or a loue of the ould facion. By I.T. gent; Amintæ gaudia. English. Selections	Watson, Thomas, 1557?-1592.; Trussel, John, fl. 1620-1642, attributed name.; I. T., gent.	1594 (1594)	STC 25118; ESTC S106218	15,231	68

such works are seldome found The handle with such anticks is imbraced As one would thinck they leapt aboue the groūd The Ammell is so faire and fresh of hew As to this day it seemeth to be new That glasse where in the sun doth sometime prie To see his harpe and quiuer placed right And to amend those locks that are awry Against he meets his best belou'd at night That glasse I say the rainebow I intend Not halfe these colors from hir clowds do send The substance wrought deserues but little price Comparing to the workemanship of it More then them both I valew his deuise That in smal space so may things did fit Yet imitats the life in euery shape As if the caruer had beene natures ape But since the emblems some what secret be I wil declare each charge and what is ment Euen as my mother vttered them to me When vnto you both ring and paile she sent The order I must keepe and first is set A Lady couered with a golden net Looke how at church or in the open streete A sluttish bawde or some vnquiet skould That for hir sinnes doth penance in a sheete A cloth before hir shamelesse face doth hold So in this net the trembling Lady stands Hiding hir blushing cheeks with both hir hands The net is loues right worthily supported Bacchus one end the other Ceres guideth Like Tramellers this god and goddes sported To take each foule that in their walkes abideth And as by night they vp and down did iumble Vpon Minerua by mischance did stumble Minerua in their nets so strangely masked As strugling was too weake to set hir fre● Till by loues censure she was straightly tasked From that time forth his drudge and slaue to be To teach vs first this first of all was placed That loue by nicenes wil not be disgraced For though when nature vs●d on rootes to bite And ●rinck such liquor as the well did giue Though then to catch hir loue had small delight As better pleasd in fatter minds to liue Yet since the world with diet ●lowes Both hir and al the rest ●e ouerthrowes Wretched Prometheus next to these here stands Whose side do freshly seeme euen now to bleede His fettered legs and his inchained hands doth hold him whilst the Egles on him feede The Eagles teare and tier vpon his heart But though he shrinks he cānot shun the smart Marke how his forhead doth both frown skoule To shew that he both wrath greefe sustaines Marke how he gapes as if he ment to howle Or else to bite the workers of his paines His staring eies right bitterly did threat To driue those hasty feeders from their meat Euen as a wolfe whom hunters staffe doth choke Whilst angry dogs his torments more encrease New smart with his resistance doth prouoke And may nor fight nor yet procure a peace So stands Prometheus to abide his throwes And end wherof he neither hopes nor knowes Though day by day his heart they do deuoure And rifell all the intralls they can catch Yet haue nor beaks nor griping tallants power His soule from marty●ed carca●e to dispatch But still he liues for night doth still restore What gorged Eagles eate the day before Perhaps the cause here of you do admire And why this penance thus he doth performe Some say he filtcht from Ioue the liuely fire Wherewith he quicneth euery perfect forme And yet no doubt it hath another sence Not plaine in shew but plaine by inference By such as fire from heauen do steale away Is ment al those that place their loue too high For such do yeald their hearts to them a prey Who euer killing neuer make them die Soule fretting cares as fa●t our quiet eate As emptie Eagles do deuoure their meate Yet hope and rest as much by night repaires As care by day too greedily did wast Thus liues deaths from hopes from dispaires To climing minds incessantly are cast Why therfore shuld we wish more thē we need An hundred hands must fiftie bellies feede The third by shape or forme appeares a monster Hauing both head and feete and al things double But least the truth thereof you should misconster I will declare it were it not your trouble This personage Androgina was named Thus man and woman iointly first were framed All of one peece their loines and heads did grow Diffrence of sex was vtterly vnknowne So ioind their forheads and their parts below As equall men together had beene fowne Like to indentures met twice twenty toes And whē they moue the one half backward goes So may you see by two Laualto danced Who face to face about the house do hop And when one mounts the other is aduanced At once they moue at once they both do stop Their iestures shew a mutuall conscent I thinke this last the first did represent Foure eies it had yet so their forheads grew As they could neither glaunce nor looke amisse Onely the one the other still did view Much like to wantons smothering of a kis One health one voice at once they laugh and weep Happy are they that such agreements keepe And thus no doubt these had remained euer So euenly were they macht at first by nature If discord had not laboured to disseuer And par●e them both by altering of their stature With sicknes therfor striue● this cōcord breker To make one halfe therof become the weaker And sicknesse made indeede the one so tangle That then hir growth was hindred much thereby Which causd the vnited so to wrangle As boies for cloths when they a could do lye Whereat the stronger falles to flat disdaine And now he minds to part though to his paine The sick consents and saith as he doth say Their armes are straind their ioyning skin is rent The stronger by his force doth ●eare away A greater share then ere was to him ment Hence quarrels grew ●oue knowes it was vniust But still the weaker to the wal is thrust Thus discord made that simphathy deuide Thus parted was the toung the flesh the braine Much better had they beene one to abide Then still to long to ioine themselues againe But soft me thinks my penne too fast doth trot In vttering that which now concerns it not For I should tel the meaning of this twin Which only signifies the Gordion knot That toung tyde knot which but with deadly sin Or wealth or woe or time dissolueth not To speak more plain it shews the marieng states To chose to conuerse them with their mates Their Birth their wealth and age alike should be Equality do sweeten much that life An hatefull sight I gesse it were to see The Lions daughter made the moushis wife So therefore was Androgina deuised As iust one height and bignes it comprised By going backward alwaise of the one Is ment the yealding wedlock doth require And that one ought not euer rule alone But some time crosse himselfe in his desire Yea