Selected quad for the lemma: head_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	hand_n	lay_v	left_a	2,504	5	10.2275	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28179	The penitent bandito, or, The history of the conversion & death of the most illustrious lord, Signor Troilo Sauelli, a baron of Rome by Sir T.M.	Biondi, Giuseppe, 1537-1598.	1663 (1663)	Wing B2936B; Wing P1232_CANCELLED	53,944	149

Lordship have any such apprehension you may repeat as much and as often as you please for I only advised you of it before as thinking perhaps you might have don it by errour The errour says he was m●ne and a grievous error it was to ●ffend those so many waies who did ever stand in my d●fence But however that be in this respect as in some others I shall dy contented in that I can never satisfie my self with confessing my faults to you dear Father Which now by the goodnesse of God are as well known by me as heretofore they were little esteem'd and are now as bitterly lamented as heretofore they gave me gust though it were a false one I (m) The man did even melt between grief and love wish O thou most sweet Saviour of my Soul I had as well a thousand tongues that so I might fully cenfesse them a a thousand eyes that so I might bitterly bewail them and a thousand hearts that so eternally I migh detest them And that this grief for my sins committed against God might so break my heart as the instrument of Justice will take my head for those I have committed concerning men I do good Father by the goodnesse of God know what a sinner I am As a sinner I lament my self and as a sinner I will dy but a sinner all humbled and contrite and with my tears I will make my Funerals then suffer me to perform them after mine own fashion And here even I not (n) I cannot blame him being able to contain my self from weeping was observ'd by him who said thus Most happy Funerals are therefore these of mine which are solemnized by the servants of God Yet this part belongs not to you but only as being a Father to my Soul Who knows but that by these mutual tears and this exchange of tendernesse my impure conscience may indeed be cleansed Thus both of us being silent for a while he then proceeded Well my good Father it is now high time that by the (o) This authority was given to his true Church by Iesus Christ and in his name by his power 't is exercised Authority which God has given you to loose and bind men on earth you loose me from so many chains of sin which hang upon me To the end that as you have taught me I may say Auditui meo dabis gaudium laetitiam exultabunt ossa humiliata And first I besceech you you give me Absolution and then I may perform my Penance Though indeed what Penance carrying proproportion to my sinns is your Reverence able to impose At this he cast himself at my feet and bowed his head to my knee where I had laid my left hand and he all bathed it with tears and kissed it and expected the Penance Absolution Which I gave him fully in form of a p This is a ful remission of all Canonical Penances requir'd by the ancient discipline of the Church Plenary Iubiley according to the most ample priviledge (q) By the Popes granted to those of the Congregation of the (r) It is called a congregation of M sericordia because it is so great a wo k of charity and mercy wherein they imploy themselves Misericordia Being absolv'd and having don his Penance with incredible affection of mind he sate down again by my direction and then the rest cam● and encircled him after the accustomed manner I then spake first to him after this sort Most Illustrious Lord Troilo our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ whom here we have present did by dying upon the Crosse give remedy in his person this night to three things among many others He (s) An application f●ll of life and comfort dyed in the flower and vigour of his youth that your Lordship might not have too much indulgence and compassion of your own tender youth and so might say O but why is my life taken away in so tender years And this is the first He dyed and he dyed of a violent death that to your Lordship it might not seem insupportable to dy upon necessity and so you might say O but why is the flower of my years cut off by a violent hand and this is the second He dyed of the most reproachful death which in those times was inflicted that it might not seem strange to your Lordship to dy by the hand of Justice and so you might say O but why died not I in my cradle or at least by some other natural accident Nay if your Lordship will accept this death in so tender years you offer him the best part of your time By dying a violent death you may make that which is necessary to be voluntary and by dying a dishonorable death taking it as a Penance for your sins you may avoid the shame of that last terrible day And so much the better you may accept it because you are not to dy in publique upon the Bridg as the ordinary Gustom bears but (t) It is there accounted of less dishonor to be put privatly to death They who dy privatly dy within the Castle they who publickly at the foot of the Bridg. privatly here below in the Court as is wont to be used towards your Peers I added also some other considerations and so ended my speech To which the Baron who was ever ready made this answer And (u) How wise the grace of God is able to make a very yong man upon a s●ddain I O Father for as much as coneerns the first dy willingly in this fresh age of mine because thus I shall be sure not to offend my Lord any more And from this instant I offer him my years my age and my life and a hundred years and a hundred ages and a hundred lives As for the second I will make a vertue of necessity and being to dy per force and according to reason I will dy willingly that so I may yield willingly to force and willingly give satisfaction to reason But as for the third I could wish for a more ignominious death And be you pleased to know that to have dyed in publique would have given me I know not what increase of consolation and gust For so I might have hoped by (x) Because publick sinns require publick satisfaction publique Penance to have made a better amends for my publique crimes And God knows I take no contentment to receive the favor of dying privatly But yet however if the determination which is made be such I resist it not Our Lord will accept the promptitude of my will Hereupon the Proveditore took up the speech and said Let your Lordship accommodate it self to the will and providence of God who has not only one way of ariving to save our Souls nor one only means of drawing them to him He leads one by one means and others by another It imports not that (y) Many of Gods judgments are secret but they

are all just his Judgments are hidden from us but it suffices that they are just Who can tell if your Lordship should have dy'd in any other sort then this whether or no you should have been saved I am he saith the Baron who can tell you that for I should have tumbled headlong into Hell Do you not know how God has proceeded with me It is just as a Hunts-man would do when he would take a wild beast which he would have brought to his hand whole and sound not torn by the teeth or paws of dogs nor strucken by the bowe nor bruized by nets or snares He arivs this beast somtimes one way somtimes another but never lets slip the dogs nor shoots the arrow nor spreads the net or Toyl upon the ground or sets the snare but at the most with some outcries or els by throwing som stones he rowseth him and addresseth him towards the place designed and so long he drives the beast by several waies that at last he brings him thither where he would have him The Huntes-man knowes this well and did long expect him there and he takes him and enjoys him all sound and safe I am (z) Note how wittily and piously he makes this application to himself he O my Good Jesus who have been this beast hunted hither and thither but thou hadst a mind to have me safe thou hadst a mind to have me sound And so thou didst not permit I should be torn with dogs nor pierced by arrow nor taken by nets or Toyles or snares when thou deliveredst me out of so many dangers of death in which though very young I have found my self and wherein if I had died without fail I had perished for all eternity Thou didst only throw stones at me and cry out after me when by so many admonitions and inspirations thou didst solicite me And now I repent me that I was so deaf to them But what mervail if I were deaf who after a sort was (a) By sinne dead And thus has thy goodnes conducted me to this strait pass without my knowing it that so I may be forced to leap into thy lap For whither am I able to turn my self more securely then to my dear Jesus Yea and though it were in my power I would not turn any way but to Thee It is true I am forced but yet I am content withall One of the Confortatori then replied It is enough Signor Troilo So great and so liberal is the goodness of God that he accepts all and he does it with delight And one of the Chiesa nuova said That though our Lord received a Precept or Commandment that he should dy neverthelesse it is affirm'd and very true that he died voluntarily And having accompanied this speech of his with divers choice examples one of our Fathers concluded that discourse with shewing by what means that which was necessary (b) That punishment which is imposed by necessity may be made voluntary by a voluntary acceptation of it might grow to be voluntary by a voluntary acceptatation of it and that so much more it would be meritorious as it should more willingly be imbraced Then teach me said the Baron how I may make this enforced death truly voluntary Whereupon certain devout and apt waies how to do it being declared by the Governour of the Congregation of the Confortatori and imbraced by the Baron I said Perhaps Signor Troilo we weary you too much How can you weary me said he These discourses make the night short to me and my disastre fortunate And here all were silent a while when he rising up for he was sitting said That he would speak with the father And drawing neer me the (c) Whom the penitent did accompany therein Confortatori said the Confiteor and that being ended I desire saith he if it please you Father to call again to mind some of the things aforesaid both for the better repeting of them and for the addition of some others Which I refusing out of the assurance I had that it was not necessary he said And is it possible dear Father that you will not give me this last contentment Will you not permit at least that I may satisfie my self with confessing the offences I have committed against God And besides d●es not your Reverence remember that we must speak together of (d) The Father it seems had made him som such promise before Penance I answered Let that Penance be to dy and to dy well Then teach me that said he And I thus to him Offer now this death of yours to God with your whole hart in penance for the sins you have committed I do said he offer it with my heart and with my mouth and it grievs me as our Lord knows that I have not this night a thousand heads that in this one of mine they might be all cut off and a thousand lives that they might all be lost Nay (e) How much he gives to God and how little he thinks it to be and yet how faithfully he acknowledges it all to be of God I confesse and know that even that penance would yet fall short but since more I cannot more I know not what to do and since more I have not I can give no more and even the doing and giving this little I acknowledge to proceed from the hand of God I told him by way of reply that it was wel and that he should stil be doing so And when sayd I you are laying your head upon the block say thus in your heart O Lord by this act of mine I protest to do penance for my sins as if I had a thousand heads and thousand lives and I acknowledge and confesse it is all too little But I doubt Signor Troilo whether then you wil be able to remember this for at that time perhaps you wil be as it were not your self It is no trifle to look death in the face take my word for that The magnanimous Lord made this answer I wil not presume so much upon my self but (f) He can never faile who putteth all confidence in God and none in himself hope wel and confide greatly in God that he wil not let it slip out of my memory And if by any accident you should perceiv I were unworthy so great a grace doe me the favor to bring me in mind of it for you shall find me ready to put it in execution In the mean while I beseech your Reverence tell me som what els towards this end of mine and that quickly for the time has wings I bad him leave the care of that to me For I will said I go intimating from time to time whatsoever you are to think upon and whatsoever shal be sit for you to say even til your last breath And (g) He exhorts him to a great devotion to his good Angel very now you shall begin to make a strait friendship with