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	son_n	year_n	8,542	5	4.8430	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52404	The Norfolke gentleman his last vvill and testament and how he committed the keeping of his children to his brother, who dealt most wicke ly [sic] by them: and how God plagued him for it. To the tune of Rogero.; Children in the wood: or, the Norfolk gentleman's last will and testament.		1695 (1695)	Wing N1237; ESTC R216490	1,912	2

The Norfolke Gentleman his last Will and testament And how he committed the keeping of his Children to his Brother Who dealt most wicke ly by them and how God plagued him for it To the Tune of Rog●ro ●● ond●r well you parents deare ●●●●●ords that I shall write 〈◊〉 story you shall heare ●● time hath brought to light ●●man of good account ● folke liu'd of late wealth and riches did surmount ●●en of his ● state ● he was and like to die ●●hat he could haue ● by him as make did lye ●●h possest one graue ●betweene these two was lost 〈◊〉 to other kinde 〈◊〉 lid'd in love they dide 〈…〉 babes behinde 〈…〉 pretty Boy 〈…〉 ●eares old 〈…〉 ●ung then her 〈…〉 mould 〈…〉 little sonne 〈…〉 ●ould come which might not be contrould But if there Children chance to die ere they to age should come Their Vncle should possesse this wealth and so the Will did runne Now Brother said the dying man looke to my Children deare Be good vnto my Boy and Girle no friends I els haue heare To God and you I do ● commend my Children night and day A little time be sore wee haue ● within this world to stay You must be father and mother both and Vncle all in ●ne God knowes what will become of them when wee are dead and gone With that be spake their mother deare O Brother mine quoth shee You are the man must bring my Babes ●o wealth or misery If you doe keep them carefully then God will you reward If otherwise you seeme to deals your deed God will regard With lips as cold as any day shee ●●st her Children small God blesse ye doth my little lambes with that the tearis did fall These speeches then their brother spoke to this sicke couple there The keeping of your Children young sweet sister doe not scare God never prosper minor mine or ought el'e that I have If I doe wrong your ●hildren small when you are laid it grave Their Parents being dead and gone the children home hi takes And brings them ho●e vnto his house and much of them he makes Hee had not kept these pretty Babes a ●●●lue month and a day But for their wealthhe did deu●● to make them bothaway Hee bargain'd with two ruffians ●●de that were of furious mood That they should take the children young and stay them in the Wood And told his wife and all the ●st he did the Children send To be brought up in faire Lond● with one that was his friend The second part To the same tune A Way then went these pretty Babes reioycing of that tids Ang smiling with a merry minde they should on cockhorse rive They prate and prattle pleasantly as they rode on their way To them that should their butchers bee and worke their lines decay So that the pretty speech they had made murtherers hearts relent And that they tooke this beed to doe full fore they doe repent Yet one of them more hard of heart did vow to doe his charge Because the wretch that hired them had paid them very large The other would not gree thereto so heare they fell at strise With one another they did fight about these Childrens life And he that was of mildest mood did kill the other there Within an unfrequented Wood while ● Babes did quake for feare He tooke the Children by the hand when teares stood in their eye And bade them come and goe with him and looke they did not crie And two long miles he lead them thus when they for bread complaine Stay here quoth he I le bring yon ●ead when I doe come againe Those pretty Babes with hand in hand went wandering up and downe But never more they saw the man approching from the row●e Their pretty lips with blackberries were all besmeat'd and dy'de And when they saw the dartsome night they sate them dewne and cry de Thus wandred these little B●bes till death did end their griese In one anothers a●mas they di'de as Babes wanting reliefe No buriall these pretty Babes of any man receives Till Robin Redbrest painasvlly did cover them with lea●es And now the heavy wrath of God vpon then Vncle sell Yeasearefull fiends did haunt his house his conference felt a hell His Barns wer fir●d his goods consum'd his land was barren made His cattell di'd within the fields and nothing with him staid And in the voyag of Portugall two of his sonnes did die And ●o conclude himselfe was brought to extreame misery He pawnd and morgag● all his land ere seuen yeres went about And now at length this wicked act did by this meanes come out The fellow which did take in hand the Children for to kill was for a roberyin'd to death as was Gods blessed will Who did conses the very truth the which is here exprest Their Vncle died while he for debt in prison long did rest All you that be Crecutors made and overséers eke Of children that be fatherlesse of infants milde and m●ke Take you example by the same and yield to each their rig●● Left God withsuch 〈◊〉 your wicked●n 〈…〉 FI●●●● Printed 〈…〉