Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	lady_n	young_a	youth_n	44	3	7.5196	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14083	Asylum veneris, or A sanctuary for ladies Iustly protecting them, their virtues, and sufficiencies from the foule aspersions and forged imputations of traducing spirits.	D. T. (Daniel Tuvill), d. 1660.	1616 (1616)	STC 24393; ESTC S118753	52,443	161

found in the vntutoured bosomes of some fewe amongst them must needs like a beloued Guest be inwardly harboured of them all is a consequence as voide of Charity as the other was full of Sophistrie For as for the first Mens immota manet lachrymae volvuntur inanes And for the other there can be no certaine demonstration grounded vpon particular obseruation But not to follow Womens valour any longer afarre of as Hippolytus did the Goddesse Venus I will begin to court it at a neerer distance and make knowne in breife vnto the world that amongst them are very many which deserue a wreath of Bayes as well as a garland of Roses and to haue their Temples shrouded vnder the Oliue as well as shadowed with the Lillie Plinie the younger had a neighbour neere vnto a certaine house of his in Italy wonderfully tormented with certaine Vlcers which had befallen him in those parts that were the occasion of our first Parents shame His Wife in the end considering how long hee languished besought him earnestly that shee might view his greife and that she would more freely than any bodie else tell him in briefe what he had to trust vnto which when she had obteyned she found it was impossible he should euer be recouered and therefore counsailed him as the safest and surest remedie to kill himselfe And finding him too soft for so rough an enterprise Nay doe not thinke said she sweete friend that the paines I see you suffer concerne not me as well as you and that to free my selfe from them I will not take the same medicine I prescribe to thee I will accompanie you in the Cure as I haue done hitherto in the Care Cast of this feare and beleeue assuredly that we shall meete but with pleasure in this passage which must rescue vs from such torments Come my Loue we will goe ioyfully together This said finding that shee had already warmed hir Husbands courage shee rosolueth from a window in their lodging to fling themselues headlong out into the Sea and to maintaine euen to the end this loyal and vehement affection where with shee had euer formerly imbraced him she would haue him dye within hir armes and that hir strict enlacements might not slacken either through the fall or feare shee caused him to be fast bound vnto hir middle and in this manner for the easing of his life abandoned hir owne But this was a Woman of meane ranke and amongst such it is not so strange a thing to see now and than some traces of extraordinarie goodnesse extrema per illos Iustitia excedens terris vestigia fecit I will bring you others from the Pallaces of Princes where some say Virtue seldome quartereth Arria wife to Cecinna Poetus when she saw that hir Husband afterthe ouerthrow of Scribonianus whose faction hee had followed against the Emperour Claudius was led away by the souldiers as a prisoner and that shee might not be suffered to accompany him in the same ship hired vpon the instant a fisher-boate and followed him in that manner from Sclauonia to Rome where one day Iunia the wife of Scribonianus accosting her in presence of the Emperour somewhat familiarly by reason of the Society of their fortunes shee thrust her backe veryeagerly with these words Heauens forbid that I should either speak or listen vnto thee in whose lap Scribonianus was slaine and thou yet aliue These and other the like words gaue her friends occasion to suspect that shee was not minded to continue long the slauish captiue of an insulting fortune And heereupon did Thrasea her sonne in Law beseech her not to lay violent hands vpon herselfe asking her whether shee would be content that his wife her Daughter if hee at any time should chance to runne the like hazard which Cecinna did should doe the like whereunto shee answered Would I yes yes assure thy selfe I would had shee liued so long and so peaceably with thee as I haue done with him These desperate replies made them more narrowly obserue her gesture and demeanour which when once shee had discouered You doe wisely said she well may you make mee die more vneasily but keepe mee from dying at all you cannot and therewith rising furiously out of her chaire she ranne her head against a post and a while after being somewhat recouered of the blow Did I not tell you said she that if you denied me an easie death I would make choice of some other how painefull soeuer it did prooue The end of such an admirable vertue was this Her husband Paetus was somewhat too faint-hearted to preuent what the Tyrant had cruelly design'd against him by doing it himselfe One day therefore amongst other hauing employed all the inducements perswasions end exhort ations that were fit for such a businesse shee tooke the poynard which he wore and holding it naked in her hand for the conclusion of her discourse Paetus said shee doe thus and hauing vpon the very instant giuen herselfe a mortall stroake about the stomacke and then snarching it out of the wound presented it vnto him as the Legacie of her affectionate loue with this noble generous and immortall encouragement Paete non dolet Hold take it Paetus it hath not hurt me at all The Summe of which worthy story is punctually comprized in this ensuing Epigram Mart. lib. 2. Ep. 14. Casta suo gladium cum traderet Arria Paeto Quam de visceribus traxerat ipsa suis Si qua fides vulnus q d feci non dolet inquit Sed quod tu facies hoc mihi Paete dolet And vpon the instant he strucke himselfe with the same weapon ashamed in my opinion that euer hee had needed so deere and precious an instruction But shall I shew you a Rosie Bud that will bloome no longer than it may lie in the bed of winter a Fire that burneth not but when cold water is cast vpon it a Marigold that openeth not but at a setting Sunne looke then vpon that young and honourable Romane Lady Pompeia Paulina who hauing in the spring of her youth matched herselfe with Seneca in the full fall of his age would not after Nero had decreed his death vpon any rearmes bee disswaded by him from dying with him It was she said a necessarie Iourney and could neuer bee better vndertaken then in his company Seneca was much delighted with this glorious determination of hers and told her that he would not enuie her that honour and withall that howsoeuer there might be an equality of constancie and resolution in both of them towards their common end the beauty yet and glorie of the action would bee greater on her side then on his by farre And so hand in hand after many sweete farewels taken and soft embraces they set themselues in a readinesse to welcome death and had their veines wide opened presently to let out life to let in him Harmonia the Daughter of Hieron the Syracusan would needes bee buried