Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	wonder_n	wonder_v	world_n	43	3	4.5625	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16814	Wonders worth the hearing VVhich being read or heard in a winters euening, by a good fire, or a summers morning, in the greene fields: may serue both to purge melancholy from the minde, & grosse humours from the body. Pleasant for youth, recreatiue for age, profitable for all, and not hurtfull to any.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1602 (1602)	STC 3714; ESTC S115952	19,622	31

VVONDERS VVORTH THE HEARING VVhich being read or heard in a winters euening by a good fire or a summers morning in the greene fields may serue both to purge melancholy from the minde grosse humours from the body Pleasant for youth recreatiue for age profitable for all and not hurtfull to any LONDON Printed for Iohn Tappe and are to be solde at his shop on Tower hill neere the Bulwarke gate 1602 To my honest and kinde louing friend Ma. Iohn Cradocke Cutler at his house without Temple Barre health hearts-ease and eternall happines YOur affection to all good spirits and mine the worst of many hath made me preferre your knowne kindne● before the shadow of idle showes● a Scholler I holde you none but I know you vnderstand English and can conceipt an honest meaning better then a braine full of more busines and therefore in my loue haue giuen you this fruite of my thoughts labours In which since Diuinitie is too deepe Vertue will not ●ell Law is cost●ie and Poetrie is too common Histories are tedious State matters are too high and loue is growne a laughing iest ● haue thought good leauing all idle humours to ●all on●ly vpon a few wonders In the discourse whereof I doubt not but you shall finde a little glimmering of the light of my better loue To the assurance whereof without fraude or further delay I haue heere unto set downe my name thi● 22. of December 1602 Your affectionate poore friend Ni●h Breton To the Reader I Wonder with what tytle to fit you gentle wise or fonde and scoffing Reader but in hope of the best I w●ll begin with Gentle Reader let me intreate you not to wonder at me for writing of Wonders for there is nothing common that is currant but money and that is growne so scant with a number that many a one wonder what kinde of thing it is but because I haue little to doe with it I will speak● little of it and onely tel you that it was my hap to light on a few odde Wonders that being vnhappily set downe might passe away a little idle time to looke on Now hoping that some mad-head in the world might haue as much ley sure to read as I haue had to write I haue thought good to those good people to co●mit the perusing of this little wonderfull peice of worke wherein if they finde nothing that may please them I shall wonder at my wit if any thing doth like them I shall wonder what i● is and thinke the bet●er of it when I know it In the meane time least you wonder too much at me to make such a doe about nothing I will leaue my wonders to your coni●ctures and my loue to your kinde fauours and so rest as I haue reason Your friend N. B. Merry VVonders GRéene rushes M. Francisco it is a wonder to sée you héere in this Country why I was afraide that you had been so out of charity with your enemyes that you had beenalmost out of loue with your frends but I am glad that hauing wished for you so long I shall yet enioy you at last Fran. Master Lorillo I doe wonder at your wondring for though I am contented to be helde a man yet I would be loath to be worse natured then a dogge for I am in charity with al the world though I am not in loue with mine owne shadowe but to your purpose can you eyther fell what loue or a friends is Lor. Indeed they are two Wonders in this world for men are so full of malice and women haue so little faith that a friend is like a Phoenix and a faithfull woman like a blacke Swanne Fran. Now fie man you are too much to blame to make a wonder of nothing for friendship is the grace of Reason and loue is the ioy of life and therefore rather wonder at reasons disgrace in the breath of friendship and at the nature of life without loue then to see a true friend or a faithfull louer Lor. But is it not then a wonder to thinke what should be and s●e what is for loue is become a riddle and friendship a dreame where hee may wonder at his fortune who findes that he lookes for Fran. Well I perceiue it were a wonder to remooue you from your wondring at these wonders but is there nothing to be wondred at but loue and friendship Lor. Nay would you not rather say that I wonder to heare of so much and finde so little But leauing to trouble our selues longer with these toyes which are become such wonders as are too s●ldome to be seene let me intreate you a little to discourse of such wonders as you haue met withall in your last trauaile abroad and what I haue seene at home that may be wor●h the hearing I will tell you Fran. Content is pleased and therefore not to burne day-light you shal heare at my first arriuall in a certaine count●y which for some causes I will omit to name it was my hap to come into a very faire towne or rather Citty where I saw the houses strong and beautifull the shops richly furnished handsome men and faire women well apparelled and well countenaunced so that there was almost nothing wanting that might seeme to make a happy state but ●t is wonderfull to thinke what a world of vnhappines liued within the walles of this Citty for wealth which should haue made men bountifull and charitable made them so proude and miserable that the poore wretches were merrier with a crust then the rich with a world of treasure the faire which promised much grace were so enuious so proude and so vitious that I wonder how so great a beauty to the body should breed so foule a blot to the soule Lor. Alas nature is subien to weaknesse and therefore beare with a little i●●e●●ertion age will tea●h repentance and sorrow is a sa●ue for sinne and therefore pray rather for the correction of reason then wonder at the corruption of nature but o●wa●●s with the rest of your wonders Fran. Oh Sir excuse is no satisfaction though contrition be gratious the sinne of you●h makes the shame of age and he that is bountifull at his death is better in the graue then in the world but I will leaue to argue further vpon the case goe onward with my course When I had wondred a whi●e at particular points in particular persons I began to wonder at the state of the gouernment for so farre as I could ●euill at it with the eye of my s●mple iudgement the ●hiefest matters were wonderfully well ●uled lawes were executed according to the estate of the offenders If he were poore hee was made an example if rich hee was made a profit a profit to the common wealth to take away the riches of one that might haue been hurt to many and the poore an example to the poore to take warning rather to worke then to want for feare by such offen●e to r●ceiue