Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	know_v	young_a	youthful_a	42	3	10.5125	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47787	The temperate man, or, The right way of preserving life and health, together with soundness of the senses, judgment and memory unto extream old age in three treatises / the first written by the learned Leonardus Lessius, the second by Lodowich Cornaro, a noble gentleman of Venice, the third by a famous Italian; faithfully Englished.; Hygiasticon. English. 1678	Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.; Cornarus, Ludwig.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Ferrar, Nicholas, 1592-1637.	1678 (1678)	Wing L1181; ESTC R32465	69,139	222

of Architecture that they are coll in summer and warm in winter I enjoy aso my gardens and those divers parted with rills of running water which truly is very delightful Sometimes of the year I injoy the pleasure of the Euganean hills where also I have fountains and gardens and a very convenient house At other times I repair to a village of mine seated in the valley which is therefore very pleasant because many ways thither are so ordered that they all meet and end in a fain plot of ground in the midst whereof is a Church suitable to the condition of the place This place is washed with the river Brenta on both sides whereof are great and fruitful fields well manured and adorned with many habitations In former time it was not so because the place was moorish and unhealthy fitter for beasts than men But I drained the ground and made the air good Whereupon men flockt thither and built houses with happy success By this means the place is come to that perfection we now see it is So that I can truly say that I have both given God a Temple and men to worship him in it The memory whereof is exceeding delightful to me Sometimes I ride to some of the neighbor cities that I may enjoy the sight communication of my friends as also of excellent Artificers in Architecture painting stone-cutting musick and husbandry whereof in this age there is great plenty I view their pieces I compare them with those of Antiquity and ever I learn somewhat which is worthy of my knowledg I survey places gardens antiquities publick fabricks temples and fortifications neither omit I any thing that may either teach or delight me I am much pleased also in my travels with the beauty of situation Neither is this my pleasure made less by the decaying dulness of my senses which are all in their perfect vigor but especially my Taste so that any simple fare is more savoury to me now than heretofore when I was given to disorder and all the delights that could be To change my bed troubles me not I sleep well and quietly any where and my dreams are fair and pleasant But this chiefly delights me that my advice hath taken effect in the reducing of many rude and untoiled places in my country to cultivation and good husbandry I was one of those that was deputed for the managing of that work and abode in those fenny places two whole months in the heat of summer which in Italy is very great receiving not any hurt or inconvenience thereby So great is the power and efficacy of that Temperance which ever accompanied me These are the delights and solaces of my old age which is altogether to be preferred before others youth Because that by Temperance and the Grace of God I feel not those perturbations of body and mind wherewith infinite both young and old are afflicted Moreover by this also in what estate I am may be discovered because at these years viz. 83. I have made a most pleasant Comedy full of honest wit and merriment which kind of Poems useth to be the child of Youth which it most suits withal for variety and pleasantness as a Tragedy with old Age by reason of the sad events which it contains And if a Greek Poet of old was praised that at the age of 73 years he writ a Tragedy why should I be accounted less happy or less my self who being Ten years older have made a Comedy Now lest there should be any delight wanting to my old age I daily behold a kind of immortality in the succession of my posterity For when I come home I find eleven grand-children of mine all the sons of one father and mother all in perfect health all as far as I can conjecture very apt and well given both for learning and behavior I am delighted with their musick and fashion and I my self also sing often because I have now a clearer voice than ever I had in my life By which it is evident That the life which I live at this age is not a dead dumpish and sower life but chearful lively and pleasant Neither if I had my wish would I change age and constitution with them who follow their youthful appetites although they be of a most strong temper Because such are daily exposed to a thousand dangers and deaths as daily experience sheweth and I also when I was a young man too well found I know how inconsiderate that age is and though subject to death yet continually afraid of it For death to all young men is a terrible thing as also to those that live in sin and follow their appetites whereas I by the experience of so many years have learned to give way to Reason whence it seems to me not only a shameful thing to fear that which cannot be avoided but also I hope when I shall come ta that point I shall find no little comfort in the favor of Jesus Christ Yet I am sure that my end is far from me for I know that setting casualties aside I shall not die but by a pure resolution because that by the regularity of my life I have shut out death all other ways And that is a fair and desirable death which Nature brings by way of resolution Since therefore a Temperate life is so happy and pleasant a thing what remains but that I should wish all who have the care of themselves to imbrace it with open arms Many things more might be said in commendation hereof but lest in any thing I forsake that Temperance which I have found so good I here make an End A DISCOURSE Translated out of Italian That a Spare Diet is better than a Splendid and Sumptuous A PARADOX I Verily believe however I have titled this opinion yet it will by no means be allowed for a Paradox by a number of those whose judgment ought to bear the greatest sway And to speak freely it would seem to me very uncouth that any man that makes profession of more understanding than a beast should open his mouth to the contrary or make any scruple at all of readily subscribing to the truth and evidence of this Position That a frugal and simple Diet is much better than a full and dainty Tell me you that seem to demur on the business whether a sober austere diet serves not without further help to chase away that racking humor of the Gout which by all other helps that can be be used scarce receives any mitigation at all but do what can be done lies tormenting the body till it have spent it self Tell me whether this holy Medicine serve not to the driving away of Head-ach to the cure of Dizziness to the stopping of Rheums to the stay of fluxes to the getting away of loathsome Itches to the freedom from dishonest Belchings to the prevention of Agues and in a word to the clearing and draining of all ill Humors whatsoever in