Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	world_n	wretched_a	write_v	26	3	4.8779	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18243	Marcus Ausonius his foure bookes of morall precepts, intituled Cato concerning the precepts of common life / translated out of Latin hexamiters into English meter by Walter Gosnold gentleman ...; Catonis disticha.	Gosnold, Walter.	1638 (1638)	STC 4863.5; ESTC S280	51,283	144

shade and comfort in the day and solace in the night To good ends both of them were made and so they both are still But oftentimes they are abus'd unto most dangerous ill And then we finde it so fall out that these two weaker things Doe overcome the strong and wise yea Emperours and Kings W. G. A loving exhortation to all young married women that they discover not that in the day which their husbands acquaint them withall in the night YOu whose resplendent beauty sets on fire Your Husbands love and whose modest attire Suits their estates making the world admire Your comely personage and sectes desire Let not your tongues be as a piercing dart Or two-edg'd sword to cut in twaine their heart With words of horrour to their gentle eare Which no mild Husband can endure to heare Or fondly tattle to your friends abroad The secrets of your best beloved Lord. This is a thing befits not your estate Let Beldames scould and idle Gossips prate More modest carriage should be in your yeares What age so ere you are as well appeares For marry with a Virgin old or young She scarcely can offend but with her tongue Then strive to tame that little member stout Though set on fire of hell or plucke it out To live at peace else it will be a wonder When in the house wives maketh such a thunder Or privatly doth whisper to their friends Their Husbands secret counsels to vile ends Babling what commeth next unto their tongues With heavy sighes as if they 'd spit their longues This full out is as ill as all the rest For both are bad I know not which is best But some will scould at home and prate abroad That 's worst of all and most to be abhord Such wives there be I 'd wish man no worse evill Then to be plagu'd with such a shrewish devill Abandon therefore all you that are wives Such double wrongs and quickly mend your lives T is not your beauties will your husbands please If you be guilty of such crimes as these Nor yet your smiles and flattering lookes availe When you are given so much to scold and raile Without any just cause at girds and fits As if you were distract out of your wits Disgracing quite your hansome comely parts Having faire faces but false wicked hearts Then in a word be as your Emblem shewes Loving unto your husbands and not shrews For to have wives it is the worst of evils To looke like Saints and yet be worse than devils So leave I you each woman in her place Desiring God assist you with his grace W. G. Three Lessons that old Cato as he did lie in his bed gave unto his sonne Cato to be observed and kept above all other Precepts and Commandements formerly left him in writing CAto being wise and of an understanding wit Roms government he had in judgment seat did sit And came to such high honor so great estate That none in all the City were so fortunate Great offices he had who did them well supply Performing worthy deeds deserving memory This Cato had a son who was of his owne name As Authors manifold do witnes still the same When he was very old long time had been sick Nature being spent not finding helpe by phisicke Perceiving i● himselfe the day of death drew neere He called to him his sonne whom he loved deare And in most decent wise to him he did declare His mind and full intent as after you shall heare Saying my deare and loving sonne its long that I Have lived here my time draws neer that I must die And leave this wretched world which is ful of misery Deaths stroke uncertain is yet may one it descry Wherfore I gladly would thee teach while I have breath how to behave thy self my son after my death That thou unto the Common-wealth maist ever be A member sound good from wicked vices free And so alwaies to live without reproach or shame To the joy of friends increase of thy good name Remember many precepts I have left behind Writ heretofore of me for to instruct thy mind Which to thy profit may redownd if thou hast wit Those documents to follow as becomes thee fit Yet notwithstanding all those rules lessons good I formerly have given thee to be understood There be three more which I wil charge thee to observ And keep'bove all the rest not frō thē to swarve The first Precept THe first precept that I of thee require And charge thee keep is never to aspire To any Office of high dignity For to advance thy selfe and pedigree By the Emperour who is free to give So long as thou sufficient hast to live Or any other Prince thy state to raise To a more higher pitch of greater praise For he that is content lives most at rest The meane estate is ever counted best Most sure it is and most comfort doth bring And he that hath it hath asmuch as King Or Emperour may have no man therefore Ought to demand or aske of God no more Wherefore great folly t is I say for such As have enough and yet repine and grutch At that they have yea very dangerous That of preferment art so covetous And through desire of honour too greedy To put themselves so much in jeopardy To lose both their estates there lives and lands Their goods and all they have within their hands For he that doth presume above his state Instead of love incurres but deadly hate As daly we may see where greatnesse is Their envie doth not want nor malice misse Gainst those that seeke to be promoted high Through false reports are faint in prison lie And lose all that they have such is their fall That have enough yet would have more than all Honour is that the mind doth covet most And no dishonour like that honour lost And truly my beloved sonne be wise Great Princes are of divers qualities And sometimes overcome through false report And flattery of rich and greater sort Gainst those subjects who are most faithfull true I then advise thee keepe my precepts few The second Precept I charge thee not prolong whilst thou hast breath The life of him that hath deserved death Especially whose evill wicked fame Hath beene a common scandall to his name For all those evils which he after doth Or moveth others for to doe insooth Thou guilty art as is himselfe therein And art partaker with him of the sinne And as the old and common proverbe have He that a thiefe doth from the gallows save He for himselfe a hangman doth provide Or keepeth one in store as oft betide To doe him an ill turne in time to come Of this beware my deare and loving sonne The third Precept THe last precept I le give thee in my life For so observe is first to prove thy wife To know if she can secret keepe those things Which touch thy honest name discredit brings