Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	good_a	know_v	life_n	7,850	5	4.5045	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00810	The bloudy booke, or, The tragicall and desperate end of Sir Iohn Fites (alias) Fitz		1605 (1605)	STC 10930; ESTC S105621	14,005	43

had bin likely to haue offred vnto her In breefe beeing thus left to her misfortunes shee returned to her worthy Father who with much ioy receiued his distressed Daughter with a young daughter of hers also so that herein she was most fortunate that she was safe where she might heare of her Knights outrages but not indure thē This Lady beeing by him in this wise turn'd away hee noweknevve himselfe to be the onely maister of himselfe and might as he thought now be imboldened to follow his own loosnes Nowe vvas his owne house without contradiction or controlement open to his associates where nowe if they please they may erect a little Common-wealth of many iniquities and much imputation His purse they abused his goods they consumed and of his person they made a stale to theyr misdemeanors all feard him few loued him neither was his worshippe as much to be reuerenced as his lewd manners to be abhorred for continuing and insisting in his licentious and odious courses not long before his cōming towards London being in the heat of his old disorder he beeing backt by his retainers fell out with an Officer of the Towne and after vvith many reprochfull words and vpbraydings that he reuiled him withall forgetting both himselfe the person and the place hee with many blowes of his dagger broke his head in such sort as the man beeing carried home layd in his bed it vvas greatly feared that hee could not escape death which had it hapned questionlesse it had not onely been a great preiudice but also an indangering to Sir Iohn his own life who after thys deed was so farre frō doubtting the worst as that hee little regarding the hatred of his act stoutly perseuered in the accustimation of his former breaches of all cōmendable carriage But it is euermore notable that men ouer whom sinne hath greater predominance are reserued for more especiall misfortunes vntill at last being ouer-ripened they fall by theyr ovvne rottennesse which on this wise happened to Syr Iohn Fites Maister Slanning after his death left behind him for pledges of Gods blessing toward him two sonnes and one daughter his heyre beeing inward to a Knight of that Country of good account and credit which heyre of Maister Slannings beeing come to yeeres of discretion vpon aggreeuaunces of his Fathers death beeing as iust reason was loath to sell his deere Fathers blood and bearing a minde to reuenge himselfe by course of right and Law vpon the butcher of his Fathers life knowing that Syr Iohn had but a conditionall and no speciall pardon as Syr Iohn himselfe gaue foorth and falsly blinded the worlde withall vsed meanes for his attachement eyther to procure better meanes or aunswer the proceedings of Iustice in that case prouided Thys beeing heard of Syr Iohn who amidst his ryots little dreamed on any such incumbrance it draue him to diuers shyfts but beeing well befreended if his carriage had bin such to haue deserued theyr friendships who indeed were his freends he hauing now no hopes but such as relay vpon theyr credit for his better discharge vvas driuen to cōsider better of the vneuen race of his life past assuring himselfe that he was become to the world so rediculous in himselfe so faultie and of his owne ablenesse so insufficient to accomplish his desires that if hee could not procure a newe and absolute Pardon the old offence of his being laid to his charge and his riots since likely to be agrauated by the vulgar knowledge of the whole Country it would surely put not onely his reputation but also his lyfe in double ieopardy These reasons well cancelled feare not shame made him hasten some other course to be presently thought on and in some measure to beware of perrils to come though scarce repent his misdeedes past Oderunt peccare mali formidine penae doubt of trouble not hartie cōtrition pricketh the wicked to auoyde further lapses when as the loue of vertue maketh the vertuous abstaine from doing euill So Syr Iohn seeing how by his inordinate disorders he had impaired his estate seuer'd himselfe frō his wife wedded himselfe to wilfull obstinacie abused his neighbours murthered his freends cōsorted himselfe with villaines caused himselfe to be so odious as his life was now in new danger he now thought it behooued him to make freends and to that intent hee posted toward London where by the way continuall Furies tormenting his minde ere he came to his hopes he ended his lyfe For in his iournying towards London an accident of great ruth and pitty hapned in thys lamentable sort Syr Iohn harboring euen in despight of his owne vvill a guilty conscience in a grieued breast euen as he rode by the way often ranne ouer the whole course of his former euil life and neuer til now did he begin to ballance his own rashnes to consider the reason of his intended iourney which feares of his nowe doubting least that worthy Gentleman his Father in law vrged by the wrongs done to his daughter would not only deny him his befriending fauour but also be a plaintife against his inordinate course of life though grounded vpon no certainty but the guiltines of his own conceit he began to fal into a desperate kind of lunacie as by the sequell of his detestable deede it plainly appeared For hastning towards London he appointed his footeman to meet him by the way who enquiring as hee went for his Maister met him by hap at Kingstone vppon Thames where he allighted into his Inne hauing supped as his order was hee soone betooke himselfe to his bedde but as a man that hath committed some notorious and memorable crime beeing followed by the Country flyeth into a large vast house and hideth himselfe at euery creake of the wind feareth the entrance of some searcher or at euery styr of a rat doubteth the attachment of some officer euen so Syr Iohn hauing cōmitted the crime of murther and riot and flying into the sanctuary of a dispersed and molested mind was amidst his quiet followed and affrighted by the officers of vengeance guilt and terror In his dreames he muttered fearefull wordes grieuous sighes deep-fetcht grones most fearefull were his visions and so terrible vnto him that where hee lay in rest hee suddainly start vp and called for his horses intending to post presently away for that as he said Sir VVilliam Courtney with a number in his company were at hand to apprehend him neyther could they of the house perswade him to the cōtrary Moreouer so strange dreadfull was his owne minde vnto him that hee would not stay euer-more crying that Syr VVilliam was at hand to apprehend him insomuch as his gelding being brought him in the dead tyme of night riding through the Towne hee met the watch in the streetes at the sight of whome he cryed alowd they were come they were come but the watch being by his man more certainlie informed of this his so sodaine