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	love_n	soul_n	8,923	5	5.0064	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90143	Bradshaws ultimum vale, being the last words that are ever intended to be spoke of him. As they were delivered in a sermon preach'd at his interrment. By J.O. D.D. time-server general of England.	Owen, John, 1616-1683, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing O3; Thomason E1011_1; ESTC R203078	8,878	15

Brother Foxley who spoke Bulls more reverently in the Pulpit or was more gravely impertinent in his Homilies Yet was he Chaplain to our deceased Patriot and he fed him with Mony and fat Venison But why have we made use of a Sundyall why because it is the only thing which discovers the Thieveries of that Arch Pilferer old Time You 'l say I might as well have made use of those things with which the young Striplings play for Sawcers in Bartholomew Fair but I deny that for though they serve to passe the time away yet they are no Sundyals Now this Time my Beloved was one of the arrantest Thieves in the World He was Great grandfather to Robin-Hood that Robb'd in Yorkshire and his Mother was Sister to Wood of Kent For he was as great a Glutton as a Thief and he Robb'd to Eat and Eat that he might Rob. And therefore our Auncestors knowing how great a Thief he was translated the Latin word Tempus and called it Time placeing him upon the Beams of Sundyals with a great Si●h in his hand judge yee what great gobbets he puts in his mouth and what a Stomach he hath by the weapon with which he uses to cut his meat Now this Time being made a Demon or Semigod even as our fore Fathers deifyed Wine and call'd it Bacchus by reason of its great power over Mortals will not yet leave his Theiving but steals our Years our Days Months and Minutes nay our very Lives from us And more than this if the Sexton be not too nimble for him makes no Conscience to steal our winding Sheets from us as we lye helplesse and succourlesse in our Graves In Law Offices the Rats and He feed together upon old Parchments so that the Lawyers are fain to make their Deeds and Leases of no use after so many years lest he should eat away the Evidences of Mens Inheritances Ecce venio ut Fur saith the Dyal of Cannon Street Church Surely he was a VVise Man that made that Dyall and understood Latin for never was a better Character given of Time than this But let him go like a Thief as he is and let us see what we have next to insist upon You find by what we have said already a true explanation of the Letters and Hieroglyphic of this Text. Now the Letters and Hieroglyphic being put together do immediatly spawn or procreate this sense or meaning We Must Dye all Here we are to note the action and universality of the action The action is Dying the universality of the action Wee Must Dye all VVell then Wee Must Dye all But what must we Dye all after one fashion In other things there is variety as of VVomen there are the Black the Brown the Fair. Of Drink there is variety as Ale Beer Cider Sack Claret c. There are also several sorts of Meat as Flesh Fowl And of these also there are various kinds whereby the Palat need not to be nauseated alwayes with one and the same thing And is there but one way of Dying Beloved yee need not fear There are as many wayes of Dying as of Eating and Drinking Some Men Dye for Love as you may read in the first Book of Claudian Gruget or the Cronicles of Queen Marget Beloved I shall read unto you the Text it self where you shall find the Story of a certain young man who this way lost his Life It is said o him V. 1. c. 10. There was a certain young man who loved a certain Lady and his Love was grounded on no other end but to Love her with all his power as perfectly as he could V. 2. But this Lady he being not a match sufficient for her was by the urgency of her Friends caus'd and forc'd to marry another Gentleman V. 3. Therefore he fell Sick and his strength failed him so that he was forc'd to keep his bed V. 4. Neverthelesse the Daughter and the Mother haveing some compassion on him came to visit the Gentleman whom they found near his end V. 5. But then being ready to descend unto the sleep of Death and beholding her whom his Heart loved he found himself so fortified that he did arise up in his bed V. 6. And said unto the Mother of the young Lady I beseech you to give her into my Arms and command her to Embrace and Kisse me V. 7. Then Embracing the cause of his death and Kissing her with his pale and cold Lips he held her with so much vehemence that his weak Heart could not endure the strength of his Love V. 8. Therefore the faculties of Life abandoining him the seat of his Soul failed and she fled to her Disposer Thus you see the Example of one way of Dying But what says the Learned Hircan in his Comment upon this place This saith he was the veryest Fool that ever I heard speak for is it likely or reasonable that we should Dye for Women who are made for us and be afraid to ask them what they are enjoyn'd to give us Now I speak not this for my self nor for any man here that is married for I have enough of a VVoman or rather more than will serve my turn but to shew you that there are more ways to the Wood than one Truly Beloved our dear and worthy Brother here lying before us was not a little guilty of this vanity which made him in hisyounger days quaff a health to his Mistriss in his own blood I should have blam'd him for it but that it made him known and shew'd him fit for the trust reposed in him for he that was so lavish of his own blood could never be chary of another mans But there are other ways of leaving the World and I believe as many postures there are of dying as our Brother Aretine hath delivered postures of Copulation Let us reckon One I have told yee already The second is when a man going to bed takes a good Dose of Opium and sleeps away his life and this is called the Syndercomb The third is the Turks way of strangling and borrows its name from a stuff in Pater-noster-ro and is called Lute-string The fourth is that posture which Derick most commonly uses and is called Noosing The fifth is burning to death and is called the Witches Farewell The sixth is breaking on the wheel and is called St. Katherines Legacy The seventh is when a man wasted with a Disease lyes upon his back and gives up the Ghost and is called the Custome of Women The eighth differs little from the seventh only that the man lyes on one side and this is called King Arthurs way of dying The ninth is broyling to death and is called St. Lawrences March The tenth is drowning and this is called Neptunes Excise The eleventh is beheading and is called Bradshaws Delight The twelfth and last which I shall now number up referring you for the rest to the Pictures of the ten Persecutions and Sennertus's work is our deceased