Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	signify_v	tree_n	wither_a	60	3	16.7334	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02299	Archontorologion, or The diall of princes containing the golden and famous booke of Marcus Aurelius, sometime Emperour of Rome. Declaring what excellcncy [sic] consisteth in a prince that is a good Christian: and what euils attend on him that is a cruell tirant. Written by the Reuerend Father in God, Don Antonio of Gueuara, Lord Bishop of Guadix; preacher and chronicler to the late mighty Emperour Charles the fift. First translated out of French by Thomas North, sonne to Sir Edward North, Lord North of Kirthling: and lately reperused, and corrected from many grosse imperfections. With addition of a fourth booke, stiled by the name of The fauoured courtier.; Relox de príncipes. English	Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545? Aviso de privados. English.	1619 (1619)	STC 12430; ESTC S120712	985,362	801

not repent mee for calling them vayne since there is no vanity nor fondnes comparable to this for they are not contented to bee vaine in their liues but will also after their drathes enterprise their vanities in sumptuous and stately sepulchres The coale of the Cedar in mine opinion that is high and fayre is nothing more whether when it is burnt then the coale of the oake which is little and crooked I meane oftentimes the Gods doe permit that the bones of a poore Philosopher are more honoured then the bones of Princes With death I wil threaten thee no longer for sith thou art giuen to the vices of this life thou wouldest not as yet that with a word it should destroy thee but I will tell thee on ● word more though it grieue thee to heare it which is that God created thee to die women bare thee to dye and thou camest into the world for to die and to conclude I say some are borne to day on condition they dye tomorrow ●●d giue their places to others When the great and fearefull Trees beginne to budde by the rootes it signifieth that time draweth on for them to cut the drie withered branches meane that to see hildren borne in Ihe House is no other but to cite the Grand-fathers and Fathers to the graue If a man would aske me what death is I would say a miserable lake wherein all worldly men are taken for those that most safely thinke to passe it ouer remaine therein most subtilly deceyned I haue alwayes read of the Ancients past and haue seene of the young men present and I suppose that the selfe same will bee to come hereafter that when life most sweetest seemeth to any man then suddenly death entereth in at their dores O immortall Gods I cannot tell if I may call you cruell I know not if I may call you mercifull because you gaue vs flesh bones honour goods friends and also you giue vs pleasure finally yee giue to men all that they want saue onely the cuppe of life which to your selues you did reserue Since I may not that I would I will that I may but if it were referred to my will I would rather one onely day of life then all the riches of Rome for what auayleth it to toyle and take paines to encrease honour and worldly good since life dayly diminisheth Returning therefore to my first purpose thou must know that thou esteemest thy selfe and glorifiest in thy personage and beauty I would gladly know of thee and of others which are young and faire if you doe not remēber that once yee must come to bee olde and rotten for if you thinke you shall liue but a little then reason would you should not esteem your hea●ties much for by reason it as a straunge thing that lise should abate vs and folly traine vs. If you thinke to become aged yee ought to remember and alwayes to thinke that the steele of the knife which doth much seruice at length decayeth and is lost for lacke of looking to Truely the young man is but a new knife the which in processe of time cankereth in the edge For on one day hee breaketh the poynt of vnderstanding another he looseth the edge of cutting and to morrow the rust of diseases taketh him and afterwards by aduersitie he is writhen and by infirmities hee is diseased by riches hee is whetted by pouertie hee is dulled againe and finally oftentimes it chanceth that the more sharpe he is whetted so much the more the life is put in hazard It is a true thing that the feete and hands are necessarie to climbe to the vanities of youth and that afterwards stumbling a little immediately rowling the head downewards wee discend into the misery of age For to our seeming yesterday wee knew one that was young and beautifull and within short time after wee heare that he is dead and rotten When I consider many men as well friends as enemies which were not long agoe flourishing in beauty and youth ' and presently I see them to bee old and drie sicke and foule truely I thinke that as then I dreamed of them or that they be not now as they were then What thing is more fearefull or more credible then to see a man become miserable in short space that the fashion of his visage should change the beauty of the face should bee lost the beard waxe white the head bould the cheekes and forehead full of wrinckles the teeth as white as Iuorie become blacke the light feete by the goute to seeme crepeled and and afterward waxeth heauy the palsey weakenneth the strong arme the fine smoth throat with wrinckles is playted the body that was straight and vpright waxeth weake and crooked Aboue all that I haue spoken I say to thee Epesipus which presumest to bee fayre that hee which through his propernesse in youth was the mirrour of all becommeth to bee such a one that he doubteth whether he be the selfe same now in his age that he was in his youth Doe what thou wilt praise and glorifie thy beautie as much as thou thinkest good yet in the end the beauty of men is none other but as a vayle to couer their eyes a payre of fetters for the feete manacles for the hands a lime rodde for the winges a theefe of time an occasion of daunger a prouoker of trouble a place of lecherie a sinke of all euill and finally it is an inuentor of debates and a scourge of the affectioned man Since thou hast forsaken thy study I am not bound to send thee any thing chiefly wasting thy money in childish and youthfull to yes but not withanding all those things I sende thee by Aulus Vegenus two thousand crownes for thy apparrell and truelle thou shalt be very vnthankfull if thou doest not know the benefite done vnto thee for a man ought to giue more thanks for that which is done of curtesie then for that which is offered of necessitie I cannot tell what to let thee vnderstand in these partes but that thy sister Anania Salaria is married who sayth shee is content I pray God it bee so for with money men may bee holpen to marriages but it lyeth in the gods to content the parties If thou wilt know of Torings thy cofin thou shalt vnderstand shee is embarked in the fleet which went to Spaine indeed I neuer thought otherwise wise on her after shee had been three dayes hidde in the way of Salaria For maydes that will betimes gather their grapes it is a token that they will go on warfare with Souldiers Of Annius Rufus thy friend and companion I certifie thee that hee is gone into the Isle of Helespont and hee goeth by the authority of the Senate to vnderstand the gouernement thereof and albeit he bee young yet he is wise and therefore I suppose he will render a good account of his commission for of these two extremities the aged that doe