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	think_v	8,106	5	4.3475	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00503	Duell-ease A worde with. valiant spiritts shewing the abuse of duells, that valour, refuseth challenges and priuate combates. sett foorth by G.F. a defendour of Christian valoure.	G. F., defendour of Christian valoure.	1635 (1635)	STC 10637; ESTC S101807	46,663	98

a bodie so suddenly Thus whilest Iesus was writing his 24. Letters in that little time the accusers perchance reflected they might have done wiser not to have made the matter so publique before it was onely the wives hurt now it became the husbands disgrace the childrens infamie The witnesses also reflected such as bee so busie to have others ●ives punished should think upon their owne faults for thereby lawes may bee brought to call upon them with a smart reckoning And so with a little pause on the matter but whilest Iesus writ 24. Letters the quarrell was quite ended those that challenged the woman put up their weapons and turned their backes that when Iesus having ended his scribebat lifted up his hand to give order for entring the lists of Iustice there was no body to go with the woman to the field Are you so angry and offended give me then but a little time you cannot loose much by it you shall get to know whether it be fitting what you go about yeeld me a little stay your delay at least shall leave your mischiefes the fewer it shall shew you how to hurt another with least harme to your selfe And peradventure you may find more for it is ever true that Remedia in remissionibus morborum prosunt at the Sen. de ira declining of the burning ague of anger Doctor Reason doth use to prescribe her Physicke And so sometime you may chance to forget to quarrell by a little delay of quarrelling so it hath happened unto many when anger is going out is the best time to cure it If no way can helpe you if nothing can stay you but you will to the field suddenly to a Duell then fare you well and call upon the gallowes as you come home if you be so happy as to live as to come to it Point 7 Antidote 7. If nothing can serve there is a tree will serve you DElictorum impunitas saith the Stoicke homines facit audaciores ad malum Certainely had Law beene rightly executed against Duellers they had never growne to that head and number as they are now adaies I aime not to draw Princes to the edge of severity which ever have in them discreet mercy for companion But thus I presume to speak if ever severitie were to walke alone it should bee to the house of the Dueller for the tender love to humane bloud doth bid you spill it for to spare the further spilling of it Heavens stop nothing let then when the love of Powers on earth look about them Democritus maintained there were two Gods no more and cared little for either Paena and Praemium one a Punisher and another a Rewarder And Duellers I beleeve do a little Democratize from the rewarder God which inhabites the heavens the Dueller expecteth no great Preferment and so that God hee little regardeth As for the other God the Punisher who raigneth upon earth and men commonly call the King as soone as hee is a little out of the way the Dueller thinkes he can shift and so he cares not what mischiefes he doth unto mankinde therefore the Punisher God or his rod should stirre abroad somthing the oftner If youth were once perswaded that whensoever they make a challenge their life is ended their thread is spunne and must needs either be cut by the sword or crackt on the gallows their heads must off either by their enemy or by the hang-man certainly youth would never enter into Duels For life is sweet and none will cast away all hopes of keeping it if one way they hazzard it yet some way they still hope to save it Men say they fight for honour but who cares for honor after death not the Dueller Let him vaunt his fancy I will but smile at it and thinke even those that you brag have cast themselves away for honor either did it to be rid of loathsom life or yet hoped to escape and live to inioy the glory of their proffer It was wittily discoursed by the wisest of the Philosophers the Bull roareth and rageth against the Mastives some hee worieth others he killeth and most he woundeth you stand by and laugh because whiles the Bull thus layeth about him the butcher expecteth and the combat ended the Victor Bull is carried away to the slaughter Even so Duellers they fight they kill they keep a roaring like bulls the officers laugh and looke about them and soone after the fight ended the Dueller Victor is to be led by a coward to the gallowes If our times do tell you it is not so then give humble love leave to drop a teare and whisper young spirits may sport at bull baiting but greedy gaine should not doe so at duelling let humane bloud rise to a dearer esteeme let that bloud fall like another Nilus with such noise such cries for vengeance that those which si● at the bankes of Iustice before whom these bloudy streams must come be ever deafened unto prices and praiers else time may warrant vices to set fury a worke a taske for the extirpation of mankind to rid the earth of men for a piece of money To talke to you here of things beyond the Moon of a most great God of a most strict Iudge to come neere you and speake of a most severe punishment an eternall smart laied on by a hand so heavie that at one blow it could strike all the Divels from the highest of the Heavens to the lowest Centre of the earth were to talke to you Non-sence therefore here in a corner I ioyne gallows and goodnesse together as equally pleasing you they may be pretty stories to tell women and children but you will fight with the Divell himselfe nay God doth wisely to stand out of your way within doores in his heaven there you meane not trouble him nor I my self with you any longer rill you learne more wit FINIS