Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	live_v	spirit_n	8,899	5	5.3156	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16749	Grimellos fortunes, vvith his entertainment in his trauaile A discourse full of pleasure.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1604 (1604)	STC 3657; ESTC S104795	19,890	34

dispatch her quickly I warrant you quoth shee for sooth with a 〈◊〉 Thus was the Eeles death approching and the matter thoroughly enacted Now the Pye being made and baked and set on the Table and betwixt the maide and her Dame or mistresse brought to such a passe that there was very little left for her master The Magot-a-Pye like a vyle Bird that would kéepe no counsaile but duely would use her tongue to talke of all that she saw or heard no sooner saw the good-man come into the house but as shee was taught to speake began with welcome home maister and then more then she was taught she fell to pratle Noh maister my Dame hath eaten the Eele my Dame hath eaten the Eele my Dame hath eaten the great Eele The goodman remembring his fish began now to aske his wife Now doth mine Eele What meanes the Bird to talke thus of eating the great Eele Tush Husband quoth she warme you I pray you and goe to bed It is cold and late talke of your Eele to morrow No quoth he I will not goe to bed till I haue séene mine Eele and there within a bodily feare of that which was fallen out goes to the Cesterne and there finding his Eele gonne comes in againe as dead at hart as a Stocke-fish and yet resolued to brawle out of reason Comes out Why hoh the good-wife ready to burst with laughing and yet kéeping it in with a fayned sigh sits downe in a chaire and hangs the head as though she had had the mother The maid hauing wit enough to make a foole of a tame-goose méetes her maister and catching him in her armes cries out but softly maister be a man and mooue not all My dame you know loues you well and it may be she breedes and bring you a boye worth twenty bushels of Eeles saie she had a minde to it and hath eaten it if you should séeme to chide for it it may be a meane to cast her awaie and that she goes with And therfore saie nothing of it let it goe For indéed it is gone saist thou so my Girle quoth hee I thanke thee hold thée there is a Letter for thée for thy good counsaile I warrant thée all shall be well Then in a goes to his wife findes her in her chaire sitting as if were heauily comes to her and takes her by the hand with how now wife be of good chéere and take no thought much good doe thy hart with her take the rest that are left if thou haue a minde to them I pray thée With this she as it were awaked out of a trance said I thanke you good husband and so after a few home-complaints to bed they went where they agréed so well that the next morning hee had his part though it were the least of that was left and glad of it to and so without more adoe goes about his busines But no sooner was he out of doores but the mistresse and the maid went to the bird the Pye and taking her out of the Cage plucked all the feathers off from her head and left her as bare as a balde Coote which in the cold winter was very vncomfortable Which done she was put into the Cage againe with these wordes Tell tales againe of the Eele doe Now about dinner-time comes in againe the goodman and brings in with him a neighbour of his with a good face but a balde head that he had almost no haire on it Now the Pye being let out of the Cage no sooner sées this man put off his hat but she skips on his shoulder and sayes Oh your head hath bene puld aswell as mine for telling of tales You haue told my maister how my dame eate the great Eele and so she would do to any that shee saw bald that came into the house And was not this a merrie iest of the Pye and an Eele Ga. I thinke I haue heard it long agoe but not as thou hast told it and therefore as it is I thanke thée for it And now since it is not farre to the Towne I pray thée let me trie a litle of thy wit in the aunswers of a few questions that I will put vnto thée Gri. With all my heart Sir I am for you at this time Ga. I pray thée who was the happiest man that euer thou knewest Gri. My Lord Gouernours Foole. Ga. And why Gri. Because his maister fauours him and none dare hurt him hee fares well and sléepes well weares good cloathes and takes no paines Ga. Countest thou this a happines Gri. For a lazie spirit but not for my selfe Ga. Why how wouldest thou be happie Gri. In a feeling of Gods grace in sufficiency of abilitie to liue without borrowing in wit to discerne iustly in Conscience to deale truly in an honest kinde wife gratious children honest seruants faithfull friendes and quiet neighbours Neither disire of life nor feare of death but a scorne of the one and contented minde in the other Ga. Well said But all this while I heare thee speake of no maister Gri. Oh no Sir for to a frée spirit there is no greater miserie then bondage And yet a kinde maister is a kinde of father where loue breeding obedience maketh a seruant like a Sonne Ga. And what sayest thou of a kinde mistresse Gri. With a kinde maister they are the harts comforter and they are like vnto a paire of Gloues that fitte both hands Ga. But couldest thou please both Gri. If I know both Gan Then let me put thee in comfort of me thou shalt haue rather a father then a friend to nourish thy good spirite of my wife rather a sister then a mistresse to make much of thee for my sake Gr. I thanke you Sir and for the good I see in you and the good I hope of you I will trie my Fortune with you Ga. And do not thinke it shall be the worst Come on you shall goe to the towne and there dine with mee and so home Gri. I will attend you FINIS