Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	woman_n	worldly_a	young_a	31	3	6.7717	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16257	Thirtene most plesant and delectable questions, entituled a disport of diuers noble personages written in Italian by M. Iohn Bocace, Florentine and poet laureate, in his booke named Philocopo. Englished by H.G. These bookes are to be solde at the corner shoppe, at the northweast dore of Paules; Filocolo. English	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Gifford, Humphrey.; Grantham, Henry, fl. 1571-1587.	1571 (1571)	STC 3181; ESTC S109327	66,026	176

swearing faithfully that if thou shalt take vppon thée to lye with either of them a yeare and the first yeare with the yong womā that as many times as thou shalt kisse or haue to do with hir as many times shalt thou kisse and haue to do with the old woman the seconde yeare And if thou shalt take the first yeare the olde woman looke howe many times thou shalt kisse and touche hir so many times likewise and neither more nor lesse shalt thou doe the lyke to the yong woman the seconde yeare The yong mā listening to the sentence and desirous to liue sayd that he would lie with these two two yeares It was graunted him But he remained in dout with which of them he shuld first begin either with the yong or with the olde Whether of them would you giue counsell he should first for his moste consolation begin withall The Quéene and likewise the whole company somewhat smiled at this tale and after shée thus made answere According to our iudgement the yong gentleman ought rather to take the faire yong woman than the fowle old bycause no present good turne ought to be left for the future neither the euil to be takē for the future good bicause we know that we are vncertain of thinges to come and in doing the contrary hereof many haue already sorowed to late and if any haue praysed him selfe herein not dutie but fortune hath therin holpen him Let the faire therfore be first taken Ye make me greatly to maruell sayd Parmenio seing the the present good ought not to be left for the future to what end then is it conuenient for vs with a valiaunt mind to follow beare worldly troubles wheras we may flée them if it were not thorow the future eternall kingdoms promised to vs thorow hope It is a maruellous thing that suche a shocke of people as are in the worlde al moyling to the ende at one time to tast of rest and béeing able to reste before trouble shoulde remayne so long whyle in suche an errour as trouble after rest were better than before It is a thing verye iuste as it séemeth to me after troubles to séeke rest but to desire to rest without trouble in my iudgement ought not to be neither can it bring delight Who then will giue counsell to any that he lye first with a fayre Gentlewoman one yere the whiche is the onely rest and ioye of him that must lye with hir in shewing him after that there must follow so great annoy and vnpleasaunt lyfe as he muste in euery acte wherein he abode with the young woman haue to do as long with a lothsome olde woman Nothing is so noysome to a delightfull lyfe as to remember that after death we shall be founde spotted This death returning to our memory as enime cōtrary to our being doth disturbe vs of al goodnes plesure and whilst this is remembred there can neuer be ioy tasted in worldly things Likewise no delight can be had with the yong woman that is not troubled or destroyed in thinking remembring that it behoueth him to do as muche with a most vile old womā who shal alwais be remayning before the eyes of his minde The time that flyeth with an inestimable wing shall séeme vnto him to ouer-flie lesning eche day a great quantitie of the due houres and this mirth is not tasted where as infallible future sorow is taryed for Wherefore I would iudge that the contrary were better counsell that is that all trouble wherof gracious rest is hoped for is more delightfull thā the delight whereof anoy is taryed for The colde waters séemed warme and the dreadfull time of the darke night séemed cleare and sound day and turmoils rest to Leander at what time he went to Hero swimming wyth the force of hys armes thorow the salt sourges betwéen Sesto and Abido for the delight that he conceyued to haue of hir tarrying his cōming God forbid then that a man shuld couet rest before trauaile or reward before the doing his seruice or delight before he hath tasted tribulatiō forasmuch as if that way as we haue alredy sayd should be taken the future annoy should so muche hinder the present ioy that not ioy but rather annoy it might be sayde What delight could the delicate meats and the instruments sounded with cunning hande and the other maruellous ioyes made to Dionysius the tyrāt bring when as he sawe a sharp pointed sword hang by a fine thréede ouer his heade Let then sorowful occasions be first fled that afterwards with pleasure and that without suspition gracious delightes may be followed The Queen made him answere saying You answer in part as though we did reason of eternall ioyes for the purchasing whereof there is no doubt but that all troubles oughte to be taken in hand and all worldly wealthe and delight to be left aparte but at this instant we do not speake of them but do moue a Question of worldly delightes and of worldly annoyes Wherunto we answere as we sayd before that euery worldly delight that is followed wyth worldly anoy ought rather to be taken than the worldly annoye that taryeth worldly delight bicause who that hath tyme and tarieth time loseth time Fortune graunteth hir goodnesse with sundry mutations the which is rather to be taken when as she giueth than to moile to the ende after turmoyles to gette the same If hir whéele stoode firme and stable vntil that a man had toyled so much as he should nede to toyle no more we would then say that it wer to be graunted to take paynes first but who is certayne that after the euil may not folow the worse as well as the better that is taried for The times together with worldly things are al transitorie therfore in taking the old woman before the yere be complete the which shall neuer seeme to waxe lesse the young woman may dye and hir brethren repent them of this they haue don either elfe she may be giuen to some other or peraduenture stolne away so that after one euil there shal follow a worse to the taker But cōtrarywise if the yong woman shall be taken the taker shal therby haue his desire so long time of him desired neither shall there after follow that annoy of thought that you say must follow thereby bicause that we must dye is infallible but to lye with an old woman is a hap able enough with many remedies to be of a wise man auoyded worldly things ar to be taken of the discret with this condition that ech one whiist he holdeth and enioyeth them he dispose himself with a liberal mind when he shal be required to restore or leaue them Who that busieth himselfe to the ende to rest bringeth a manyfest example that without that he can not haue rest since he therefore taketh troubles to the ende to haue rest how much more is it to