Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	strange_a	young_a	youth_n	18	3	7.3028	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53049	Observations upon experimental philosophy to which is added The description of a new blazing world / written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1666 (1666)	Wing N857; ESTC R32311	312,134	638

to steal her away which he had the better opportunity to do because her Fathers house was not far from the Sea and she often using to gather shells upon the shore accompanied not with above two or three of her servants it encouraged him the more to execute his design Thus coming one time with a little light Vessel not unlike a Packet-boat mann'd with some few Sea-men and well victualled for fear of some accidents which might perhaps retard their journey to the place where she used to repair he forced her away But when he fancied himself the happiest man of the World he proved to be the most unfortunate for Heaven frowning at his theft raised such a Tempest as they knew not what to do or whither to steer their course so that the Vessel both by its own lightness and the violent motion of the Wind was carried as swift as an Arrow out of a Bow towards the North-pole and in a short time reached the Icy Sea where the wind forced it amongst huge pieces of Ice but being little and light it did by assistance and favour of the Gods to this virtuous Lady so turn and wind through those precipices as if it had been guided by some Experienced Pilot and skilful Mariner But alas those few men which were in it not knowing whither they went nor what was to be done in so strange an adventure and not being provided for so cold a Voyage were all frozen to death the young Lady onely by the light of her Beauty the heat of her Youth and Protection of the Gods remaining alive Neither was it a wonder that the men did freeze to death for they were not onely driven to the very end or point of the Pole of that World but even to another Pole of another World which joined close to it so that the cold having a double strength at the conjunction of those two Poles was insupportable At last the Boat still passing on was forced into another World for it is impossible to round this Worlds Globe from Pole to Pole so as we do from East to West because the Poles of the other World joining to the Poles of this do not allow any further passage to surround the World that way but if any one arrives to either of these Poles he is either forced to return or to enter into another World and least you should scruple at it and think if it were thus those that live at the Poles would either see two Suns at one time or else they would never want the Suns light for six months together as it is commonly believed You must know that each of these Worlds having its own Sun to enlighten it they move each one in their peculiar circles which motion is so just and exact that neither can hinder or obstruct the other for they do not exceed their Tropicks and although they should meet yet we in this world cannot so well perceive them by reason of the brightness of our Sun which being nearer to us obstructs the splendor of the Suns of the other Worlds they being too far off to be discerned by our optick perception except we use very good Telescopes by which skilful Astronomers have often observed two or three Suns at once But to return to the wandering Boat and the distresed Lady she seeing all the Men dead found small comfort in life their bodies which were preserved all that while from putrefaction and stench by the extremity of cold began now to thaw and corrupt whereupon she having not strength enough to fling them over-board was forced to remove out of her small Cabine upon the deck to avoid that nauseous smell and finding the Boat swim between two plains of Ice as a stream that runs betwixt two shores at last perceived land but covered all with snow from which came walking upon the Ice strange Creatures in shape like Bears onely they went upright as men those Creatures coming near the Boat catched hold of it with their Paws that served them instead of hands some two or three of them entred first and when they came out the rest went in one after another at last having viewed and observed all that was in the Boat they spake to each other in a language which the Lady did not understand and having carried her out of the Boat sunk it together with the dead men The Lady now finding her self in so strange a place and amongst such a wonderful kind of Creatures was extreamly strucken with fear and could entertain no other Thoughts but that every moment her life was to be a sacrifice to their cruelty but those Bear-like Creatures how terrible soever they appear'd to her sight yet were they so far from exercising any cruelty upon her that rather they shewed her all civility and kindness imaginable for she being not able to go upon the ice by reason of its slipperiness they took her up in their rough armes and carried her into their City where instead of houses they had Caves under ground and as soon as they enter'd the City both Males and Females young and old flockt together to see this Lady holding up their paws in admiration at last having brought her into a certain large and spacious Cave which they intended for her reception they left her to the custody of the Females who entertained her with all kindness and respect and gave her such victuals as they were used to eat but seeing her constitution neither agreed with the temper of that Climate nor their Diet they were resolved to carry her into another Island of a warmer temper in which were men like Foxes onely walking in an upright shape who received their neighbours the Bear-men with great civility and courtship very much admiring this beauteous Lady and having discoursed some while together agreed at last to make her a present to the Emperour of their world to which end after she had made some short stay in the same place they brought her cross that Island to a large River whose stream run smooth and clear like Chrystal in which were numerous Boats much like our Fox-traps in one whereof she was carried some of the Bearand Fox-men waiting on her and as soon as they had crossed the River they came into an Island where there were Men which had heads beaks and feathers like Wild-geese onely they went in an upright shape like the Bear-men and Fox-men their rumps they carried between their legs their wings were of the same length with their bodies and their tails of an indifferent size trailing after them like a Ladies Garment and after the Bear and Fox-men had declared their intention and design to their neighbours the Geese or Bird-men some of them joined to the rest and attended the Lady through that Island till they came to another great and large River where there was a preparation made of many Boats much like Birds nests onely of a bigger size and having crost that River they