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	lord_n	way_n	6,566	5	4.6434	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77333	Englands selected characters, describing the good and bad worthies of this age. VVhere the best may see their graces, and the worst discerne their basenesse. The particulars be these, 1 A worthy king. 2 An unworthy king. 3 A worthy queen. 4 An unworthy woman. 5 A worthy prince. 6 An unworthy prince. 7 A worthy Privy counsellour. 8. An unworthy Privy counsellour. 9 A worthy noble-man. 10 An unworthy noble-man. 11 A worthy bishop or minister. 12 An unworthy bishop or minister. 13 A worthy judge. 14 An unworthy judge. 15 A worthy knight & souldier. 16 An unworthy knight & souldier. 17 A worthy gentleman. 18 An unworthy gentleman. 19 A worthy lawyer. 20 An unworthy lawyer. 21 A worthy souldier. 22 An untrained souldier. 23 A worthy physitian. 24 An unworthy physitian 25 A Jesuit reprobated. 26 A cowardly Cavalier. 27 A bawd of the black guard. 28 A malignant knave a hatcher of plots.; Good and the badde. Selections	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1643 (1643)	Wing B4384; Thomason E55_18; ESTC R2558	11,423	16

ENGLANDS SELECTED CHARACTERS Describing the good and bad Worthies of this Age. VVhere the best may see their graces and the worst discerne their basenesse The Particulars be these 1 A worthy King 2 An unworthy King 3 A worthy Queen 4 An unworthy woman 5 A worthy Prince 6 An unworthy Prince 7 A worthy Privy Counsellour 8. An unworthy Privy Counsellour 9 A worthy Noble-man 10 An unworthy Noble-man 11 A worthy Bishop or Minister 12 An unworthy Bishop or Min●ster 13 A worthy Judge 14 An unworthy Judge 15 A worthy Knight Souldier 16 An unworthy Knight Souldier 17 A worthy Gentleman 18 An unworthy Gentleman 19 A worthy Lawyer 20 An unworthy Lawyer 21 A worthy Souldier 22 An untrained Souldier 23 A worthy Physitian 24 An unworthy Physitian 25 A Jesuit reprobated 26 A cowardly Cavalier 27 A Bawd of the black Guard 28 A malignant knave a hatcher of plots LONDON Printed for T. S. 1643. To the Reader I Am sure that if you read through this Booke you will finde your description in one place or other If among the Worthies hold you where you are and change not your card for a worse If among the other mend that is amisse and all will be well I name you not for I know you not but I will wish the best because the worst is too bad I hope there is no body will be angry except it be with himselfe for somewhat he findes out of order if it be so the hope is the greater the bad will be no worse yet the world being at such a passe that living Creatures are scarcely known from Pictures till they move nor Wise men from Fooles till they speake nor Artists from Bunglers till they worke I will only wish the Worthies their worth and the contrary what may mend their condition and for my selfe but pardon for my presumption in writing upon the natures of more worth then I am worthy to write of So leaving my Booke to your best liking with my better Labours to the like effect in hope to find you among the Worthies I rest At your command if worthy B.N. 1. A worthy King IS a figure of God in the nature of government he is the chiefe of man and the Churches Champion Natures Honour and Earths Majesty is the directour of Law and the strength of the same the Sword of Justice and the Scepter of Mercy the glasse of Grace and the eye of Honour the terrour of Treason and the life of loyalty his Command if right is generall and his power absolute his frowne a death and his favour a life his charge is his Subjects his care their safety his pleasure their peace and his joy their love he is not to be paralleld because he is without equality and the prerogative of his Crowne may not in just wayes be contradicted he is the Lords anointed and therefore must not be touched and the head of the publicke Body and therefore must be preserved he is the scourge of sinne and a blessing of grace Gods Vicegerent over his People and under him supreme Governour his safety must be his Councells care his health his Subjects prayer his pleasure his Peers comfort and his content his Kingdomes gladnesse his presence must be reverenced his passion attended his Court adorned and his State maintained his bosome must not be searched his will in write not disobeyed his wants not unsupplied nor his place unregarded in summe he is more then a man though not a God and next unto God to be honoured above man 2. An unworthy King IS the usurper of Power where tyranny in Authority loseth the glory of Majesty while the feare of terrour frighteth love from obedience for when the Lion playes with the Wolfe the Lambe dies with the Ewe he is the messenger of wrath to be the scourge of sin or the triall of patience in the hearts of the Religious he is a warrant of woe in the execution of his fu●v● and in his best temper a doubt of grace he is a dispeopler of his Kingdome and a prey to his enemies an undelightfull friend and a tormenter of himselfe hee knowes no God but makes an I doll of Nature and useth reason but to ruine of sense his care is but his will his pleasure but his ease his exercise but sinne shame and bloud and his delight but unhumane his heaven is his pleasure and his gold his god his presence is terrible his countenance horrible his words unconstant uncomfortable and uncertaine and his actions intollerable in summe hee is the foile of a Crowne the disgrace of a Court the trouble of Councell and the plague of a Kingdome 3. A worthy Queen IS the figure of a King who under God in his grace hath a great power over his people she is the chiefe of women the beauty of her Court and the grace of her sex in the royalty of her Spirit she is like the Moone that giveth light among the Stars and but unto the Sunne gives none place in her brightnesse She is the pure Diamond on the Kings fi●●ger and the Orient Pearle unprizable in his eye the joy of the Court in the comfort of the King and the wealth of the Kingdome in the fruit of her love She is Reasons honour in Natures grace and the Wisdomes love in vertues beauty in summe She is the hand-maid of God and the Kings second selfe and in his Grace the beauty of a Kingdome 4. An unworthy Queen or woman IS the misery of man whose demeanure is not to be described but in extremities her voice is like the sc●●ching of an Owle her eye the poyson of a Cockatrice her hand the claw of a Crocodile and her heart a Cabinet of horrour she is the griefe of Nature the wound of Wit the trouble of Reason and the abuse of Time her pride is unsupportable her an●er unquenchable she feares no colours she cares for no counsell nor advice but such as is Jesuiticall derived from that cursed black mouth Whore of Rome from whence proceeds nothing but bloud ●apine mischiefe and all manner of miseries sparing no person age of sex which walkes not in her way and in this she is vigilant at all times not caring at what ra●te she purchaseth it be it Kingdomes jewels yet what note her command is must her reason will her resolution shall and her satisfaction so she looks at no Lawes and thinkes of no Lord admits no command and keeps no good order she is a crosse but not of Christ and a word but not of Grace a creature but not of Wisdome and a servant but not of God in summe she is the seed of trouble the fruit of travell the taste of bitternesse and the digestion of death 5. A worthy Prince IS the hope of a Kingdome the richest Jewell in a Kings Crowne and the fairest flower in the Queens Garden he is the joy of Nature in the hope of honour and the love of wisdome in the

man his life is a kinde of sicknesse which breeds a kinde of palsie in the joynts and his death the terrour of his conscience with the extream weaknesse of his faith he would have peace in regard he fears a sword in his soul hating to meet a man or to incounter an enemy or opposite in the field witnesse our present troubles when like the Egyptians plagues they fester and are the disquiet of this our land robbing pillaging and spoyling poore Countrymen and carriers who cannot give any resistance one eyd Hasting-like if he cut his finger he looketh presently for the signe and if his head ake he is ready to make his will a report of a Gauon strikes him slat on his face and a clap of thunder makes him a strange metamorphosis rather then he will fight he will be beaten and if his legs will helpe him he will put his armes to no trouble but trie the strength with the levity of his flight while he is as he conceives beyond the reach of his arrivall where like a moule he is ready to run his head into any hole to hide him searing the very sent of a man he makes love commonly with his purse and brags most of his maiden-head he will not marry but into a quiet family and not too faire a wife to avoid quarrells if his wife frowne upon him he sighs and if she give him an unkinde word he weeps he loves not the borne of a Bull nor the pawes of a Bear if he chance to be rich he is afraid of theeves if he be poore he will be slave to a beggar In summe he is the shame of man-hood the disgrace of Nature the scorne of Reason and the hate of Honour 27 A Bawd of the blacke Guard IS a kind of woman-beast who having lost the honour of her virginity in her youth meanes to goe to hell in her age she is dangerous among yong people for feare of the infection of the falling sicknes and not to teach children to spell lest she learne them too soon to put together she is partly a Chyrurgion but most for the allaying of swelling in the lower parts and hath commonly a charme to conjure the Divell into hell She greeves at nothing so much then at disability to sin and is never so merry as when she is perswaded to be yong she feares nothing more then the Cart and cares for nothing but ease and loves a cup of sacke and a pot of ale almost as well as the hope of her salvation Shee is much troubled with sore eyes and ill teeth with sitting up late and feeding upon sweet things She is well verst in the black Art to accommodate them of the black Guard a weesel-look't goslip she is in all places where her mirth is a bawdy tale and a matrone in an Hospitall to see yong Wenches well set to worke In summe she is the loathsomnesse of nature the hate of vertue the spoile of wealth and the ruine of maiden-heads 28 A malignant knave a hatcher of plots IS the scumme of wit and the scorne of reason the hate of wisdome and the dishonour of humanity he is the danger of society and the hurt of amity the infection of youth and the corruption of age hee is a traytor to affiance and an abuse to imployment and a rule of villany in a plot of mischiefe he hath a Cats eye and a Beares paw a Syrens tongue and a Serpents sting his words are lies his oathes perjuries studies subtilties and his practices villanies his wealth is his wit his honour is his wealth his glory is his gaine and his God is his gold he is no mans friend and his owne enemy cursed on earth and banished from heaven he was begotten ungraciously borne untimely lives dishonestly and dies in a halter or worse shamefully His heart is a puddle of poyson his tongue a sting of iniquity his brayne a distiller of deceit and his conscience a compasse of hell In summe hee is a dog in disposition therefore not worthy to live among men a fox in wit a wolfe in his prey and a Divel in his pride FINIS