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
A13434	A common vvhore vvith all these graces grac'd: shee's very honest, beautifull and chaste. Written by Iohn Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1622 (1622)	STC 23742; ESTC S111365	15,048	33

a Whore by day light or by Candle 'T is euer free for euery Knaue to handle And as a new Whore is belou'd and sought So is a new Booke in request and bought VVhen Whores waxe old stale they 're out of 〈◊〉 Olde Pamphlets are most subiect to such fate As Whores haue Panders to emblaze their worth So these haue Stationers to set them forth And as an olde Whore may be painted new VVith borrowed Beauty faire vnto the view VVhereby she for a fine fresh whore may passe Yet is she but the Rotten whore she was So Stationers their olde cast Bookes can grace And by new Titles paint a fresh their face VVhereby for Currant they are past away As if they had come forth but yesterday A Booke is Dedicated now and than To some great worthy or vnworthy man Yet for all that 't is common vnto me ●● thee or he or all estates that be And so a man may haue a Whore forsooth ●pposing she is onely for his tooth ●●t if the truth he would search out and looke ●●e's common vnto all men like a Booke 〈◊〉 Booke with gawdy Coate and silken stringes VVhose inside's full of Obsceane beastly thinges ● like a Whore Caparison'd and trap'd ●ull of Infection to all mischiefe apt ●●one Whore may be common vnto any ● one Booke may be Dedicate to many And sure I say and hope I speake no slaunder 〈◊〉 such a Booke the Poet is the Pander 〈◊〉 prostitutes his Muse to euery one ●hich should be Constant vnto one alone ●his is a kinde of Bawd'ry vile and base Is bounty and is Poetryes disgrace ●●d least they should be lost it is ordain'd ●●t Bookes within a Library are Chain'd ●hee that to himselfe will keepe a Whore ●●st Chaine her or she 'le trade with forty more 〈◊〉 Bookes are leafe by leafe oft turn'd and tost 〈◊〉 are the Garments of a whore almost 〈◊〉 both of them with a wet finger may 〈◊〉 solded or vnfolded Night or Day Moreouer 't is not very hard to proue That Bookes and Whores may Riuals be in Loue To purchase mens displeasures I am loth But sure good Schollers still hath lou'd them both Some Bookes haue their Errataes at the last That tels their Errors and offences past So many great Whores did in state suruiue But when Death did their hatefull liues depriue Their faults escap'd and their Errataes then Hath beene made manifest and knowne to men Some Bookes and Whores to wicked purpose bent Doe for their faults receiue one punishment As Bookes are often burnt and quite forgotten So Whores are ouerstew'd or rosted rotten Experience shewes that Bookes much knowledge bri●●● And by experience Whores know many Thinges And as true Iustice all mens losse repaires So whores doe giue to all men what is their's Terence she learnes yet will she much Rebuke● If we doe play the part of true Eunuchus As Bookes prophane or else Hereticall Or scurrillous non sence Seismaticall Peruerts mans Iudgement and his soule pollutes Such are all whores and such will be their Fruites Some Slouens soyle a Booke in little space And slauer it and so the Leaues deface And some againe will take a cleanly course To reade it dayly yet 't is ne're the worse So some men vse a whore when once they haue They 'le touze and teare and beastly all beslauer When Forty neat whoremasters might haue play'd And vsde her and she still be thought a Mayde ●e that doth Read a Booke he likes would be ●●one from any Interruption free And he that with a whore would toy or iye ● thinke desires no other Company When Bookes are wet their beauty 's gone or soyl'd 〈◊〉 wash a whore and all her paintings spoyl'd ●●d as an olde whore spight of Paint or cloathing ●●lls at the last the obiect of mens loathing ●●om'd and vnpittyed and to finish all ●●es in a Ditch or in an Hospitall ● Pamphlets and some workes of writers Graue 〈◊〉 vsde much worse then whores by many a Knaue Who ne're regards the matter or the price 〈◊〉 teare like Tyrants to wrap Drugs or Spice 〈◊〉 which is worse in Priuy matters vse them 〈◊〉 worst of all like Roarers they abuse them When as they Rend good Bookes to light and dry 〈◊〉 ●acco Englands bainefull Diety 〈◊〉 't is a thing I ne're thought on before * Now a● dayes 〈◊〉 Booke 's examin'd stricter then a whore 〈◊〉 ●re's not a Sheet a Leafe a Page a Vearse ●●orde a sillable or letter scarce 〈◊〉 that Authority with Iudgements eye 〈◊〉 diligently looke and search and pry 〈◊〉 gage the sence and first will vnderstand all ●●st in a Phrase or word there lurke a scandall 〈◊〉 my poore whore in this hath not bin spar'd 〈◊〉 skirts were curtayld and her nayles were * She wold haue scratched else par'd All 's one for that though she such vsage had She 's not left naked though not richly clad I knew she must be question'd and I say I am right glad she scap'd so well away And should all whores of high and lowe Degree As Bookes are to account thus called be The Whorish number would waxe very small Or else men neuer could examine all This Booke my Whore or else this whore my Boo● Shee beares both Names so neither is mistooke Respects not all her enemies a straw If she offended she hath had the Law She was examin'd and she did Confesse And hath endur'd the torture of the Presse Her faults are Printed vnto all mens sight Vnpartially declar'd in blacke and white And last in Pauls Church-yard and in the street She suffers Pennance vp and downe in Sheets And if all Whores to doe the like were made A Linnen Draper were the richest Trade If any Whore be honester then mine is I le write no more but stop my mouth with FINIS