Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	life_n	soul_n	14,602	5	5.1897	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09581	A commemoration of the life and death of the right worshipfull and vertuous ladie; Dame Helen Branch (late wife to the right worshipfull Sir Iohn Branch Knight, sometime Lord Maior of the famous Citie of London) by whose godly and virtuous life, virgines are insinuated to virtue, wiues to faithfulnes, and widdowes to Christian contemplation, and charitable deuotion, &c. Which godly ladie left this mortall life (to liue with Christ Ihesus) the 10. of April last: and lieth interred in the parish church of Saint Marie Abchurch, nigh vnto Canwicke streete, the 29. day of the same month. 1594. I.P.	Phillips, John, fl. 1570-1591.	1594 (1594)	STC 19863.7; ESTC S104641	4,381	10

did pray And God the mightie Lord of hoasts his hand maide did behold And vnto hir the gifts of Grace did louingly vnfold For vnto Sir Iohn Branch sometimes Lord Maior of this Cittie Our happie Helen wedded was béeing full of loue and pittie As he by iustice ready was to worke faire Londons weale So to the poore this Lady had a feruent loue and zeale In fruitful loue this gentle Knight with Lady his did liue And vnto God both they and theirs did daylie glorie giue But fading time that runnes forth right and neuer stands at stay From this good Lady tooke hir Knight and closed him in clay But death in Sir Iohn Branch good Knight no doubt remaineth dead For Iesus Christ aboue the skies with glorie crownes his head A woefull Lady Helen liues to heauen shée makes hir mone And prostrate falls for comfort swéete before Gods glorious throne To watch to fast and pray shée settled hir delight And at hir booke did vse to sit from morning vntill night Shée to the Drapers companie in hir life time did giue A stocke of fifty pounds no doubt pore youngmen to relieue One man for to enioy the same for tearme of foure yeares space And intrest none at all to pay but praise God for his Grace And then the money rendred two young men of that trade Shall haue that fiftie pound in vse on hands sufficient made And thus this money shall no doubt from man to man be lent According to this ladies minde hir meaning and intent Shée generally vnto the poore hir large almes déeds extended The pore distraught in Bethlem shée hath often times befrended Saint Marie Abchurch well can tell the loue to them she bare With money coales and cloath she did reléeue poore peoples care Where were the sicke that shée refusde to comfort in distresse This Lady helpt the widdowes want and fed the fatherlesse Where were the blind the sore and lame that had not of hir coyne Wher sought she not to stay their moode that would frō pore purloine Where was hir hart hir hand and purse at any time found slacke To comfort those that wanted aide and cloath the naked backe Then Ladies all example take by this most vertuous Dame And learne by hir whilst life you haue to conquer death by fame Gods feare was fixed in hir sight hir honour still shée sought Against the world sin death and hell a battell shée hath fought Faith was hir shield Christ was the rocke on whome shee sought to build And he by grace hath made hir cleane that was with sin defilde Thus wisdome in hir bore the sway vertue did rule the raine Who taught hir still that worldly pompe and worship was but vaine Thus béeing mindefull of hir end as one that néeds must die Shée hir last will in perfect minde did make right orderly Wherein to Marie Abchurch shée a legacie did giue And of a long continuance to such as there doe liue The famous vniuersities this Ladie had in minde To students poore that vertuous bée sweet comfort shée assignd To prisoners poore in London shée and Southwarke here and there Hath money giuen to helpe their griefe as plainely may appeare The hospitalles in generall this Lady did remember And poore maides marriages to mend hir care was not found slender Unto hir friends and seruants all this kinde and louing Lady Hath left a portion of hir store as orderly as may bée Shée gownes to men and women poore bequeathed by hir will And readie rests the excecutor hir meaning to fulfill This was a steward of the Lord ordayned for the poore Whom shée in soule and spirit still did reuerently adore Where might shée help that once to hurt shée euer gaue consent When shée recéeued ill for good to doe good shée was bent But God the mighty God of grace that gaue hir life and breath Arrested hir with sicknes sharpe and sicknes wrought hir death But as in health in sicknes shee the Lord of hoasts did praise And in true faith and feare of him shée sought to end hir dayes Hir Lamp was fullie fraught with Oile she builded on the rock And at the glorious gates of grace for mercie she did knock And that eternall spotles Lamb of graces his most good From all hir sinnes hath clensed hir in his deare death and blood ●on Ladies all behold hir life and marke hir vertuous end And whilst you liue vouchsafe in time to make swéet Christ your frend For when that death began forthwith his pageant for to play She humbly gaue hir soule to Christ and left hir corps to clay Hir friends doe waile hir kinsfolke weepe hir neighbours all lament Hir seruants sob the pore crie out but teares in vaine are spent Then cease your plaints this Ladie liues though death haue cut hir downe Swéet Christ in heauen with glory great hir happie head doth crowne Foure score ten yeares she liued here in credit praise and fame And dying to the world she left no doubt a spotles name And thus good Ladie from thy friend receaue thy last farewell Thou leauste this world to liue with Christ with whome thy soule doth dwell Virtutis Laus Actio Shee was the Daughter of M. William Nicolson and Ioane his wife Citizen and Draper of London