Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	death_n	sleep_n	sleep_v	3,486	5	10.6583	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70441	A letter to a person of quality, occasioned by a printed libel, entituled, The cause of the difference between Tobias Cage esquire, and Mary his wife stated by the said Mary in a letter to a gentleman, for her own vindication: the design, malice, and falshood whereof is hereby detected with proofs by persons of value, on oath, and otherwise.	Cage, Tobias.	1678 (1678)	Wing L1692B; ESTC R222690	54,273	46

running into the Garden To which Sir Francis replied Madam Mr. Cage and she might be in the House and not naught together I doubt you are jealous Nay says she be gave the Quean twenty shillings a time when she lived with me I le make it plain to you yet I protest I was never so amazed in my life I was wondering what would come next when she thus began again I went up into my Chamber and there my Chamber was disordered and my Bed tumbled I called my Maid Mary and chid her for not setting my Chamber in order She told me that Mr. Cage and Mrs. Price had been there all the afternoon and she durst not come into the Chamber Upon which Sir Francis took notice I pray Madam let me speak with that Maid Mary She alledged she was gone from her and could not produce her Thereupon Sir Francis advised me to find her out and that she might make Oath touching that matter The said Mary who was a Gentleman's Daughter and waited on my Wife deposed That all this Allegation was untrue as by her Oath among the Depositions hereunto annexed may appear which when you have read judge I beseech you if ever such a Woman lived before her And to shew her further Deceit and Subtilty observe the like about the pretend● 〈…〉 for a Separation she pretended great care of me procured her Sister to provide a Servant for me to wait on me in my Chamber at Grays-Inn for I had none before she came about Bartholomew Tide my Wife before Christmass absents March following 1674 Mr. Cremor of Grays-Inn had been informed that this Wench haunted suspected houses acquainted me with it advised me to turn her away I gave her Warning and in June turn'd her away In August following comes a Letter by the Post directed to Mr. A. S. of Grayes-Inn then my Clerk and is as follows The Superscription To Mr. A. S. at Mr. Cage's Chamber in Grays-Inn After the first fold opened was wrote thus To Mr. A. S. at some of the Bawdy-Houses or with the Crew in Grays-Inn Within thus THis is to imform you of the truth There is one intends to lay the third Child on your back which I do not really think is yours but your Masters he is better able to keep it for you have more than you can keep already for now you begin to want Chink having no Suppliers but Spenders you may lick your Breech like a Dog if you have any left for in sometime you will not have Money to buy you Plaisters and I believe the Squire is in as much need as your self but he is a Gentleman therefore I pity him and if his Wife were dead I would do what I could to help him to such another but in some things she should not be like this for she should be as ugly as all the Devils could make her no more wit than himself like an Ostrich and as much Heathen as he is Turk Take this advice young Man though old in sin Ponder well thy paths and enter no more into the house of an Harlot lest thou sleep the sleep of death and so be taken in an evil hour Thus desiring to hear you are in another World I conclude for ever Amen Anno Domini 1677. Sir Of whose contrivance can you think this Letter was what could be the design of it I am satisfied Sir my Wife contriv'd it it is certain she sent it to her Daughter Blackwel to be there transcribed and sent it up by the Post directed as above I suppose you will take it as a magical Prediction of what was intended viz. the laying a Bastard to my charge for a farther pretence of separation for Sir she knew the Wench was of ill fame and had layn at a suspected House before she procured her Sister to hire her for me my Wife had a correspondency with the Wench whilst she lived with me met her several times And Sir is it not strange that my Wife who for eighteen Months before was not to be heard of should within four days after this Wench was brought to Bed if there was any such matter find out the Wench examine her with so much cunning and patience and so unconcernedly endure to be told that her Husband was so familiar with her nine Months without leaving some marks upon her Note The Wench lived not above ten Months in all with me of which my Cousin Mr. William Cage was my constant Bedfellow for four Months before she went away and never lodged from me I had warn'd her away in March she went away in June and had the Bastard if any in January following 't is not probable that after the Wench had taken warning to be gone she should be willing nor yet that I should venture after Mr. Cramer gave me notice of her haunting Bawdyhouses And 〈◊〉 my Wif● 〈…〉 several Persons as witnesses for a pretence with her And because when I heard of this damnable design against me I resolved to punish the Wench and for that end gave to Mr. Winford in Fullers Rents whose Cook Maid she then was ten Shillings to get a Warrant and to set a watch upon her that she should not get away before the matter was examined before a Magistrate But my Wife gave her another visit pretending to search the Bastard for a Mole I had on my Body which no Person knew but my Wife and this mark she acquainted the Woman of the House with that the Wench might the better pretend to a familiar acquaintance with me Sir This Wench on the sudden to prevent my bringing the matter to a full examination was conveyed away without either my will or knowledge and whither I know not or whether there ever was any Bastard of that Wenches as pretended I know not nor did I ever hear that the Wench was with Child until this Bastard Plot was discovered And Sir although my Wife hath several times declared in several places and to me afterwards that she had searched to the bottom of the business and was satisfied I was wronged in that matter yet I have ever since laid out to have this Wench taken I have offered five Pounds to effect it and will now give the same Sum to have her taken that the matter may come into Judgment publickly nay Sir I have sued and do now sue in the Spiritual Court a Consort of my Wifes for it that the truth may appear nor certainly would any man think me so silly as not to have prevented the disgrace by providing otherwise for the Whore and in a more remote place than Fullers Rents was which joyns to Grays-Inn where the Libel saith the Whore was lodged for neighboured Sir I would not have insisted so much upon this mean matter but that my Wife used it as her Achilean argument to justifie her treacherous departing from me notwithstanding she was gone from me eighteen Months before As to those falsities of turning my