Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	great_a	life_n	love_n	7,775	5	5.2746	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18244	Cato variegatus or Catoes morall distichs: translated and paraphras'd, with varations of expressing, in English verse. By Sr. Richard Baker Knight; Catonis disticha. English and Latin.	Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234-149 B.C., attributed name.; Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.	1636 (1636)	STC 4863; ESTC S107921	41,226	110

Dye thou knowst not when Put not thy hope in death of other men Or thus 19 Since all are mortall what more vaine can be Then hope to bury them may bury thee Or thus 19 Since God a fraile vncertaine life doth give thee Hope not on dead mens shooes that may out live thee Or thus 19 Why should we hope of being others Heyres Doth not our owne sand runne as fast as Theirs Or thus 19 Since in us all Life hath a doubtfull scope To hope for dead mens Goods is dead mens Hope Or thus 19 What contract canst thou make with Death that He Should serve his writs on others and spare thee Or thus 19 It is not Hope but wan hope to surmize That thou shalt live to close anothers eyes Or thus 19 Since all our lives are brittle Glasse and weake What reason thine should hold and others breake Or thus 19 Why shouldst thou thinke t' out live them that be old Though thou art young D●th death a scantling hold Or thus 19 Thinke not thy selfe from Death the more at rest For being young 't is greene fruit Death loves best Or thus 19 Thinke not that life 's a fruit not fit to gather But when t is ripe Death likes it unripe rather Or thus 19 Lifes fruit is tender seldome comes to good Death is a Frost in May nips it i' th Bud. Or thus 19 The lives of men seeme in two seas to swimme Death comes to young folkes and old goe to him Or thus 19 Which may we count to death the greater haster The old hath lesse to goe the young runnes faster Or thus 19 No certaine time is set to be lifes border Death takes away by lot and not by order Or thus 19 Old folkes so gastly are and looke so grimme That death feares them as much as they feare him Or thus 19 To thinke t' out live thy youngers midnesse were● Thine Elders Folly therefore Both forbeare 20 Exiguum munus quum dat tibi pauper amicus Accipito placide plene laud●re memento 20 When a poore friend a small gift gives to thee Take it in worth and let it praysed be Or thus 20 When a poore friend presents thee some small toye Shew thy acceptance by some show of joy Or thus 20 When a poore friend for some small thing makes shift Looke on the Givers minde not on the Gift 21 Infantem nudum quum ie Natu●a crearit Paupertat is onus patienter ferre memento 21 Since Infants bare and naked borne we were Let us our Poverty with patience beare Or thus 21 Even nature teacheth Poverty to beare Since bare and naked made by her we were Or thus 21 What child that 's good would skorn his Mothers blessing Then skorn not barenesse which is Natures dressing Or thus 21 She that gave Life gave Barenesse Is sh'a Mother In giving life A stepdame in the other Or thus 21 Since Poverty is Natures Gift and Gifts Of Nature All are good why seeke we shifts Or thus 21 Barenesse and Poverty are of Natures giving In Birth and Death and why not then in living Or thus 21 Nature that 's simple why wouldst thou have mixt Poore first and last and why not Poore betwixt Or thus 21 Richmen and Poore what difference between them All Borne All dead alike the rest a Dreame Or thus 21 We came into the world without a clout And in as poore a pickle we goe out Where life 's both Ends are in so meane degree What matter is 't how meane the middle be Or thus 21 We came into the Word without a robe And we goe out againe as poore as Iob If Earth unto us should a heaven prove How could we looke to have a Heaven above Or thus 21 Since Nature made us poore le ts patient be Shee better knowes what 's good for us then we 22 Ne time as illam quae vitae est vltima finis Qui Mortem metuit quod Vivit perdit idipsum 22 Feare not that Ende of life which Nature gives He that feares Death looseth even that he lives Or thus 22 Feare not that End of life which is the last The feare of Death puts Lifes mouth out of taste Or thus 22 Doe not thy minde to frightfull fancies give To live still fearing Death is not to live Or thus 22 Betimes thinke on thy last End and be steady He that feares Dying is halfe dead allready Or thus 22 Feare not least Death should thee of life deprive Such Feare puts life into her Grave alive Or thus 22 Feare not the houre that life shall lose her light Where such Feare is she never hath but night Or thus 22 Feare not lifes last each day Death cuts our skore And yet not Felt the last will doe no more Or thus 22 Feare not the time that life shall end her taske The Feare of Dying is Deaths Antimaske Or thus 22 What cause have we at Death to take offence If Feele we live still if not live No Sence Or thus 22 As good to fall as still to feare we were Feare is as deadly as the Fall we feare Or thus 22 Feare not lifes End to feare that Dye we shall Makes life a Death and so no life at all Or thus 22 Feare is it selfe a Death then Death comes on And makes Two Deaths where we might scape with one Or thus 22 What day is liv'd but that to death we give Who therefore would not Die He must not live Or thus 22 Feare's never good but when it may preserve Then feare not Death for which no feare will serve Or thus 22 Possesse thy minde in peace stint Passions strife Neither Feare death nor Be in love with life 23 Si tibi pro meritis nemo respondet amicus Incusare Deum noli sed te ipse coerce 23 If th●u find'st no friend answer to thy merits Yet charge not God withall but calme thy spirits Or thus 23 If men for thy deservings prove unkinde Yet blame not God but moderate thy minde Or thus 23 If thou be kinde to friends They not to thee Yet doe not lay the blame on Gods Decree Or thus 22 Because thy friends not gratious are to thee Wilt thou to God Ungratious therefore be Or thus 23 To finde thy friends ungratefull is a curse But for it to repine at God is worse Or thus 23 If all thy friends unthankfull prove to thee Yet doe not Thou to God but thankefull be 24 Ne tibi quid Desit qu●sitis vtere parce Vtque quodest serves semper tibi deesse putato 24 To keepe from want spend prodigally never To keepe from spending Th●nke thou wantest ever Or thus 24 That want thou mayst not save what thou hast got That save thou mayst Thinke that thou hast it not Or thus 24 The best way not to want is to be sparing The way to spare To be for want still caring 25 Quod praestare potes ne bis

it makes even Foes our friends 2 Mitte Arcana Dei Cal●mque inquirere Quid sit Quum ●is Mortalis quae sunt Mortalia Cura 2 Search not Gods secrets nor to Heaven ascend Since thou art Mortall Mortall things attend Or thus 2 What Heaven is and what Gods secrets are Seeke not to finde let Earth of Earth take care Or thus 2 What God and Heaven is search not to know What are the things Above to us Below Or thus 2 About Gods hidden workes straine not thy wit To Humane Creatures Humane things best fit Or thus 2 Gods secrets Riddles are for which a man Is no fit Oedypus Doe what he can 3 Linque metum Lethi Nam stultum est tempore in omni Dum Mortem metuis amittere gaudia vitae 3 Leave ●eare of Death for what Folly more rise Then fearing Death to lose the joyes of life Or thus 3 Leave fearing death let life have some delights Which can have none as long as Death affrights Or thus 3 Leave feare of Death who can have merry heart As long as Feare stands brandishing Deaths Dart Or thus 3 Leave feare of Death what pleasure can life have When feare still keepes her thinking of her Grave Or thus 3 Leave feare of Death what mischiefe greater were Then feare a mischiefe that comes with a feare Or thus 3 Leave to feare Death for Death beares life a spight And hurts her more with terrour then with might Or thus 3 Leave feare of Death why shouldst thou not adhere Rather to life in Ioy then Death in Feare Or thus 3 Make Death looke merrily what shrewder turne Then putting Death in Blacks to make life mourne 4 Iratus dere in certa contendere noli Impedit Ira animum ne possit cernere verum 4 Contend not Angry about doubtfull things Anger the minde into starke blindnesse brings Or thus 4 Strive not in doubtfull things with angry sprite Anger feeles up the minde from seeing right Or thus 4 In doubtfull matters how can Truth be seene When Anger stands before it as a skreene Or thus 4 In doubtfull things no Angry man sees right Doubt makes the object lesse Anger the light 5 Fac sumptum propere quumres desyderat ipsa Dandum ●tenim est aliquid quum Tempus postulat aut Res. 5 Be ready to bestow as Cause requires For something must be given to Times desires Or thus 5 Spare not to spend when there is just occasion From Cause and Time we must seeke no Evasion 6 Quod nimium est fugit● Parvo gaudere memento T●ta mage est puppis modic● quae●●● mine fertur 6 With little be content seeke not Extremes The Ship goes safest in the smaller streames Or thus 6 Be not Aspiring nor too lofty flie No Falls so dangerous as those from High Or thus 6 Seeke not Extremes 't is the conceit of Pride To thinke it never Fl●d without Spring-tide Or thus 6 Be not more curious then needes to be Brightnesse is for the Stars cleannesse for thee Or thus 6 If little be enough Much is too much Why seekst thou then to be such and not such Or thus 6 When Natures turne is servd the rest runs ore Little serves that then never seeke for more 7 Quod pudeat s●ci●s prudens celare memento Ne plures culpent id quod tibi displicet vni 7 With what thou mayst be sham'd disclose to none Least many blame what now thou blam'st alone Or thus 7 Why shouldst thou make that knowne which t is too much Thou knowst thy selfe sores are not fit to touch Or thus 7 Faulty in Doing Be wise in Concealing Faults are twice done when of ones owne Revealing Or thus 7 When thou commitst a fault tell not the same What needs a Theatre to shew thy shame Or thus 7 Blaze not abroad to others thine owne Evill This were to light a candle to the Devill 8 Nol● putes pravo● homines peccata lucrari Temporibus peccata latent sed temp●re parent 8 Thinke not that men can steale sinnes and goe quite Sinnes lurke a time but Tyme brings them to light Or thus 8 Thinke not that men can gaine their doing wrong Times mute awhile but keepes not Counsayle long Or thus 1 Thinke not that men can si●ne and goe invisible To Times cleere Eyes the most hid things are visible Or thus 8 Thinke not that si●res once doue are gone and past Time is a Blab and will tell all at last Or thus 8 No sinne was ever cloakt with such disguise but hath lyen open alwayes to Times Eyes Or thus 8 No sinne was ever done nor ever shall But for a reckoning Time is sure to call 9 Corporis exigui noli contemnere vires Consilio pollet cui vim Natura negavit 9 Skorne not the strength of men of little size Whom Nature makes lesse strong she makes more wife Or thus 9 Slight not small statures t is not said in vaine The lesser Head the better is the Braine Or thus 9 Marke Natures course and you shall finde she puts Her Choicest wine in Runlets not in Buts Or thus 9 Despise not littlemen t is natures guise To give the greater sight to lesser Eyes Or thus 9 Little men have their worth t is Natures pleasure To adde in weight what she abates in measure Or thus 9 He knows not Nature that small statures mocks For whom she makes no Oxe she may a Foxe Or thus 9 Nature is wise and gives not All to One To some more Brai●e to others greater bone Or thus 9 By bulke of Body Indge of men who can Great bones make Drones ' ●is spirit makes a man Or thus 9 Marke inward worth and you shall finde it then that lesser bodies make not lesser men 10 Cui scierisnon esse parem te tempore Cede Victorem a victo supera●● faeye videmus 10 Finding thy selfe too weak sound a retreat We see the Conquer'd oft the Conquerour beat Or thus 10 Forbeare when overmatcht and doe not fret Though beaten now thou mayst hereafter beat Or thus 10 To give ground when there 's Ods never disdaine He that yeelds now may fight againe and Gaine Or thus 10 Yeeld being too weak and stand not out mens laughter Thou mayst perhaps have better Cards hereafter Or thus 10 Yeeld when thou art too weake and never fret Though lose a Game yet thou mayst win the set Or thus 10 Thy forces fay●ing be content to yeeld Who winnes it now may after lose the Field Or thus 10 The cause bidds yeeld but Valour cannot flie Then Valour is in a fool●s custody Or thus 10 Why not yeeld when too weake Valour sayes No Valour is but a Foole for saying so Or thus 10 To fly when overmatcht doth not Disparage It comes from strength of wit Not want of Courage Or thus 10 It is not Valour but Foole-hardinesse To see the Danger more and flee it lesse Or thus 10 What hope for such men