Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	mortal_a	sin_n	venial_a	6,152	5	13.8485	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08597	Sir Thomas Ouerburie his wife with new elegies vpon his (now knowne) vntimely death : whereunto are annexed, new newes and characters / written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen.	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.	1611 (1611)	STC 18909; ESTC S1598	73,798	259

and priuate mens dores to the hazard of their purses and credit There went but a paire of sheeres betweene him and the Pursiuant of Hell for they both delight in sin grow richer by it and are by iustice appointed to punish it onely the Diuell is more cunning for hee pickes a Liuing out of others gaines His liuing lieth in his eyes which like spirits hee sends through chinckes and key-holes to suruey the places of darkenesse for which purpose he studieth the opticks but can discouer no colour but blacke for the pure white of chastity dazleth his eyes He is a Catholike for hee is euery where and with a Politicke for he transformes himselfe into all shapes He trauels on foot to auoid idlenesse and loues the Church entirely because it is the place of his edification He accounts not all sinnes mortall for fornication with him is a veniall sinne and to take bribes a matter of charity hee is collector for burnings and losses ar Sea and in casting account can readily subtract the lesser from the greater summe Thus liues he in a golden age till death by a processe summons him to appeare An Almanacke-maker IS the worst part of an Astronomer a creature compact of figures characters and cyphers out of which he scores the fortune of a yeere not so profitably as doubtfully He is tenant by custome to the Planets of whom he holds the 12. Houses by lease parol to them he payes yeerely rent his study and time yet lets them out again with all his heart for 40 s per annum His life is meerely contemplatiue for his practise t is woorth nothing at least not worthy of credit if by chance he purchase any hee loseth it againe at the yeeres end for time brings truth to light Ptolomy and Ticho-Barche are his Patrons whose volumes he vnderstands not but admires and the rather because they are Strangers and so easier to bee credited then controul'd His life is vpright for he is alwaies looking vpward yet dares beleeue nothing aboue Primium mobile for t is out of the reach of his Iacobs Staffe His charity extends no further then to Mountebanks and Sow-gelders to whom hee bequeathes the seasons of the yeere to kill or torture by The verses in his Booke haue a worse pace then euer had Rochester Hackney for his Prose 't is dappled with Inke-borne tearmes and may serue for an Almanacke but for his iudging at the vncertainty of weather any old Shepheard shall make a Dunce of him He would bee thought the Diuels Intelligencer for stoln goods if euer he steale out of that quality as a flie turnes to a Maggot so the corruption of the cunning-man is the generation of an Empiricke his workes flye soorth in small volumes yet not all for many ride post to Chaundlers and Tobacco shops in Folio To be briefe he fals three degrees short of his promises yet is hee the Key to vnlocke Termes and Law-dayes a dumbe Mercury to point out high-wayes and a Bayliffe of all Marts and Faires in England The rest of him you shall know next yeere for what hee will be then hee himselfe knowes not An Hypocrite IS a gilded Pill compos'd of two vertuous ingredients Naturall dishonesty and Artificiall dissimulation Simple Fruit Plant or Drug he is none but a deformed mixture bred betwixt Euill Nature and false Art by a monstrous generation and may well bee put into the reckoning of those creatures that God neuer made In Church or common-wealth For in both these this Mongrell-weed will shoote it is hard to say whether he be Physicke or a Disease for he is both in diures respects As he is gilt with an out side of Seeming purity or as he offreth himselfe to you to be taken downe in a cup or taste of Golden zeale and Simplicity you may call him physicke Nay and neuer let potion giue Patient good stoole if being truely tasted and rellisht hee be not as loathsome to the stomacke of any honest man He is also Physicke in being as commodious for vse as he is odious in taste if the Body of the company into which he is taken can make true vse of him For the malice of his nature makes him so Informer-like-dangerous in taking aduantage of any thing done or sayde yea euen to the ruine of his makers if hee may haue Benefit that such a creature in a society makes men as carefull of their speeches and actions as the sight of a known Cut-purse in a throng makes them watchfull ouer their purses and pockets he is also in this respect profitable Physicke that his conuersation beeing once truely tasted and discouered the hatefull foulnesse of it will make those that are not fully like him to purge all such Diseases as are ranke in him out of their owne liues as the sight of some Citizens on horse-backe makes a iudicious man amend his own faults in horsemanship If none of these vses can bee made of him let him not long offend the stomacke of your company your best way is to spue him out That he is a Disease in the body where hee liueth were as strange a thing to doubt as whether there bee knauery in Horse-coursers For if amongst Sheep the rot amongst Dogs the mange amongst Horses the glaunders amongst Men and Women the Northerne itch and the French Ache bee diseases an Hypocrite cannot but be the like in all States and Societies that breede him If he be a Cleargy Hypocrite then all manner of vice is for the most part so proper to him as hee will grudge any man the practise of it but himselfe like that graue Burgesse who being desired to lend his cloathes to represent a part in a Comedy answered No by his leaue he would haue no body play the foole in his cloathes but himselfe Hence are his so austere reprehensions of drinking healths lasciuious talke vsury and vnconscionable dealing when as himselfe hating the profane mixture of malt water will by his good will let nothing come within him but the purity of the Grape when he can get it of anothers cost But this must not bee done neither without a preface of seeming lothnesse turning vp the eyes mouing the head laying hand on the brest and protesting that he would not doe it but to strengthen his body being euen consumed with dissembled zeale and tedious and thankelesse babling to God and his Auditors And for the other vices doe but venture the making your selfe priuate with him or trusting of him if you come off without a sauor of the aire which his soule is infected with you hane great fortune The fardle of all this ware that is in him you shall commonly see carried vpon the backe of these two beasts that liue within him Ignorance and imperiousnesse and they may well serue to cary other vices for of themselues they are insuppportable His Ignorance acquites him of all science humane or diuine and of all Language but his mothers holding