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	word_n	9,286	5	4.0695	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31966	Majesty in misery, or, An imploration to the King of kings written by His late Majesty King Charles the First in his durance at Carisbrook Castle, 1648.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1681 (1681)	Wing C2422; ESTC R26592	1,136	4

Majesty in Misery Or an Imploration to the KING OF KINGS Written by His late Majesty King Charles the First in his durance at Carisbrook Castle 1648. GReat Monarch of the World from whose arm springs The Potency and Power of Kings Record the Royal Woe my Sufferings And teach my tongue that ever did confine Its faculties in truth's Seraphick line To track the treasons of thy foes and mine Nature and Law by thy Divine Decree The only work of righteous Loyalty With this dim Diadem invested me With it the sacred Scepter purple Robe Thy holy Unction and the Royal Globe Yet I am levell'd with the life of Job The fiercest furies that do daily tread Upon my grief my gray discrowned head Are those that owe my bounty for their Bread They raise a War and christen it the cause Whilst Sacrilegious persons have applause Plunder and Murther are the Kingdom 's Laws Tyranny bears the Title of Taxation Revenge and Robbery are Reformation Oppression gains the name of Sequestration My Loyal Subject who in this bad season Attended me by the Law of God and Reason They dare impeach and punish for High-Treason Next at the Clergy do their furies frown Pious Episcopacy must go down They will destroy the Crozier and Crown Church-men are chain'd and Schismaticks are free'd Mechanicks preach and holy Fathers bleed The Crown is crucified with the Creed The Church of England does all Faction foster The Pulpit is usurpt by each Imposter Extempore excludes the Pater Noster The Presbyter and Independent's Seed Springs from broad blades to make Religion bleed Herod and Pontius Pilate are agreed The corner Stones misplac'd by every Pavier With such a bloody Method and Behaviour Their Ancestors did crucifie our Saviour My Royal Consort from whose fruitful Womb So many Princes legally have come Is forc'd in Pilgrimage to seek a Tomb. Great Britain's Heir is forced into France Whilst on his Father's Head his Foes advance Poor Child he weeps out his Inheritance With my own Power my Majesty they wound In the King's name the King himself 's uncrown'd So doth the dust destroy the Diamond With Propositions daily they inchant My Peoples Ears such as due Reason daunt And the Almighty will not let me grant They promise to erect my Royal Stem To make me great t' advance my Diadem If I will first fall down and worship them But for Refusal they devour my Thrones Distress my Children and destroy my Bones I fear they 'll force me to make Bread of Stones My Life they prize at such a slender rate That in my absence they draw Bills of Hate To prove the King a Traitor to the State Felons attain more Priviledge than I They are allow'd to answer e'er they die 'T is death to me to ask the reason why But sacred Saviour with thy words I woo Thee to forgive and not be bitter to Such as thou know'st do not know what they do For since they from the Lord are so disjoynted As to contemn the Edict he appointed How can they prize the Power of his Anointed Augment my Patience nullifie my Hate Preserve my Issue and inspire my Mate Yet though we perish bless this Church and State Vota dabant quae bella negarunt London Printed Anno Domini 1681.