Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	law_n	life_n	power_n	7,966	5	5.2131	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36695	The state of innocence and fall of man an opera, written in heroique verse and dedicated to her Royal Highness, the Dutchess / by John Dryden ...	Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.	1677 (1677)	Wing D2372; ESTC R4242	37,781	70

woman take his birth Why was this sin of nature made on earth This fair defect this helpless ayd call'd wife The bending crutch of a decrepit life Posterity no pairs from you shall find But such as by mistake of love are joyn'd The worthiest men their wishes ne'r shall gain But see the slaves they scorn their loves obtain Blind appetite shall your wild fancies rule False to desert and faithful to a fool Turns in anger from her and is going off Eve kneeling Unkind wilt thou forsake me in distress For that which now is past me to redress I have misdone and I endure the smart Loath to acknowledge but more loath to part The blame be mine you warn'd and I refus'd What would you more I have my self accus'd Was plighted faith so weakly seal'd above That for one error I must lose your love Had you so err'd I should have been more kind Than to add pain to an afflicted mind Adam Y' are grown much humbler than you were before I pardon you but see my face no more Eve Vain pardon which includes a greater ill Be still displeas'd but let me see you still Without your much-lov'd sight I cannot live You more than kill me if you so forgive The Beasts since we are faln their Lords despise And passing look at me with glaring eyes Must I then wander helpless and alone You 'll pity me too late when I am gone Adam Your penitence does my compassion move As you deserve it I may give my love Eve On me alone let Heav'n's displeasure fall You merit none and I deserve it all Adam You all Heav'n's wrath how could you bear a part Who bore not mine but with a bleeding heart I was too stubborn thus to make you sue Forgive me I am more in fault than you Return to me and to my love return And both offending for each other mourn Enter Raphael Raphael Of sin to warn thee I before was sent For sin I now pronounce thy punishment Yet that much lighter than thy crimes require Th'all-good does not his creatures death desire Justice must punish the rebellious deed Yet punish so as pity shall exceed Adam I neither can dispute his will nor dare Death will dismiss me from my future care And lay me softly in my native dust To pay the forfeit of ill-manag'd trust Eve Why seek you death consider ere you speak The laws were hard the pow'r to keep 'em weak Did we solicite Heav'n to mould our clay From darkness to produce us to the day Did we sollicite Heav'n to mould our clay From darkness to produce us to the day Did we concur to life or chuse to be Was it our will which form'd or was it he Since 't was his choice not ours which plac'd us here The laws we did not chuse why should we bear Adam Seek not in vain our maker to accuse Terms were propos'd pow'r left us to refuse The good we have enjoy'd from Heav'n's free will And shall we murmur to endure the ill Should we a rebel-son's excuse receive Because he was begot without his leave Heav'n's right in us is more first form'd to serve The good we merit not the ill deserve Raphael Death is defer'd and penitence has room To mitigate if not reverse the doom But for your crime th' Eternal does ordain In Eden you no longer shall remain Hence to the lower world you are exil'd This place with crimes shall be no more defil'd Eve Must we this blissful Paradise forego Raphael Your lot must be where Thorns and Thistles grow Unbid as Balme and Spices did at first For man the earth of which he was is curst To Adam By thy own toil procur'd thou food shalt eat And know no plenty but from painful sweat She by a curse of future wives abhorr'd Shall pay obedience to her lawful Lord And he shall rule and she in thraldome live Defiring more of love than man can give Adam Heav'n is all mercy labor I would chuse And could sustain this Paradise to lose The bliss but not the place here could I say Heav'n's winged messenger did pass the day Under this Pine the glorious Angel stay'd Then show my wondring progeny the shade In woods and lawnes where er'e thou dist appear Each place some Monument of thee should bear I with green turfs would grateful Altars raise And Heav'n with Gums and offer'd Incense praise Raphael Where er'e thou art he is th' Eternal mind Acts through all places is to none confin'd Fills Ocean Earth and Ayr and all above And through the Universal Mass does move Thou canst be no where distant yet this place Had been thy Kingly seat and here thy race From all the ends of peopled-Earth had come To rev'rence thee and see their native home Immortal then now sickness care and age And war and luxury 's more direful rage Thy crimes have brought to shorten mortal breath With all the num'rous family of Death Eve My spirits faint while I these ills foreknow And find my self the sad occasion too But what is death Raphael In vision thou shalt see his griesly face The King of Terrors raging in thy race That while in future fate thou shar'st thy part A kind remorse for sin may seize thy heart The Scene shifts and discovers deaths of several sorts Abattle at land and a Naval fight Adam O wretched off-spring O unhappy state Of all mankind by me betray'd to fate Born through my crime to be offenders first And for those sins they could not shun accurst Eve Why is life forc'd on man who might he choose Would not accept what he with pain must lose Unknowing he receives it and when known He thinks it his and values it 't is gone Raphael Behold of ev'ry age ripe manhood see Decrepit years and helpless infancy Those who by lingring sickness lose their breath And those who by despair suborn their death See yon'mad fools who for some trivial Right F ' or love or for mistaken honour ●●ght See those more mad who throw their lives away In needless wars the Stakes which Monarchs lay When for each others Provinces they play Then as if earth too narrow were for fate On open Seas their quarrels they debate In hollow wood they floating Armies bear And force imprison'd winds to bring 'em near Eve Who would the miseries of man foreknow Not knowing we but share our part of woe Now we the fate of future Ages bear And ere their birth behold our dead appear Adam The deaths thou show'st are forc'd and full of strife Cast headlong from the precipice of life Is there no smooth descent no painless way Of kindly mixing with our native clay Raphael There is but rarely shall that path be trod Which without horror leads to deaths abode Some few by temp'rance taught approaching slow To distant fate by easy journeys go Gently they lay 'em down as ev'ning sheep On their own woolly fleeces softly sleep Adam So noiseless would I live such death to find Like timely fruit not shaken by the wind But ripely dropping from the sapless bough And dying nothing to my self would owe. Eve Thus daily changing with a duller tast Of less'ning joyes I by degrees would wast Still quitting ground by unperceiv'd decay And steal my felf from life and melt away Raphael Death you have seen now see your race revive How happy they in deathless pleasures live Far more than I can show or you can see Shall crown the blest with immortality Here a Heaven descends full of Angels and blessed Spirits with soft Music a Song and Chorus Adam O goodness infinite whose Heav'nly will Can so much good produce from so much ill Happy their state Pure and unchang'd and needing no defence From sins as did my frailer Innocence Their joy sincere and with no sorrow mixt Eternity stands permanent and fixt And wheels no longer on the Poles of time Secure from fate and more secure from crime Eve Ravish'd with Joy I can but half repent The sin which Heav'n makes happy in th' event Raphael Thus arm'd meet firmly your approaching ill For see the guards from yon' far eastern hill Already move nor longer stay afford High in the Ayr they wave the flaming sword Your signal to depart Now down amain They drive and glide like meteors through the plain Adam Then farewel all I will indulgent be To my own ease and not look back to see When what we love we ne'r must meet again To lose the thought is to remove the pain Eve Farewell you happy shades Where Angels first should practice Hymns and string Their tuneful Harps when they to Heav'n wou'd sing Farewell you flow'rs whose buds with early care I watch'd and to the chearful sun did rear Who now shall bind your stems or when you fall With fountain streams your fainting souls recall A long farewell to thee my nuptial bow'r Adorn'd with ev'ry fair and flagrant flow'r And last farewell farewell my place of birth I go to wander in the lower earth As distant as I can for disposest Farthest from what I once enjoy'd is best Raphael The rising winds urge the tempestuous Ayr And on their wings deformed Winter bear The beasts already feel the change and hence They fly to deeper coverts for defence The feebler herd before the stronger run For now the war of nature is begun But part you hence in peace and having mourn'd your sin For outward Eden lost find Paradise within Exeunt FINIS