Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	able_a	body_n	destroy_v	4,435	5	7.8202	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29968	Tyrannicall-government anatomized, or, A discovrse concerning evil-councellors being the life and death of John the Baptist : and presented to the Kings most excellent Majesty by the Author.; Baptistes. English	Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5298; ESTC R4582	22,804	31

with ire weep and exclaime and sharply reprehend but no reliefe by wrath or teares I gaine for all my words are scattered by the winde Mal. If with your husband a meet power you had would he have born your wrongs thus unrevenged Or rather may I speak more truly his Qu. Thou feest the people how they be inclinde Perhaps by this imprisonment the King The Baptists eager spirits think to •uaile and to allay his boldnesse Malch If you suppose imp•isonment and bonds Can bridle the fierce spirit of this thiefe Your Highnesse erres The rage of savage beasts That break their Dens and libertie regain Is much more vehement them theirs that range In woods or desert Mountaines Being freed What will not he attempt Whose •etters now the people reveren•e wrath once •rovokd is kindled not a•laid by taunts and scorn the haughty spirit is 〈◊〉 f•ry bor• Qu. This benefit should rather quench it quite For that by royall mildnesse he is free Who by his own perversnesse might have perished Mal. What your esteem a benefit he holds an injury and will more oft remember that you imprison'd him then set him free Qu. A rough and crabbed na•ure thou relat'st Malch This in most men is naturally graff'd What favour you afford is quickly lost but what disfavor no man doth forget Good turnes if born in memory with bad All men well neere doe hate Think that the Baptist as oft as he remembers your Desert will not his crime forget and still believe he is not loo•e from that But in your thoughts a guilty man by soule ambi•ion freed His paine remitted and you wrath supprest but for a time Qu. Yet courtesie prevailes to mitigate fierce natures Malch What with long use is hardned to the worst We much more easily may break then bend Qu. What doe you then advise me in this case Malch I'le shew you quickly may I be believ'd Qu. And what your counsell I will not delay Malch By seeking agitating and providing not fitting still great things are brought to passe Qu. If seeking agitating and providing nought may availe 'tis better to sit still then to make work in vaine and be to others a mocking stock Malch Where strength oft cannot labour overcomes a tall Oake is not suddenly born down nor does the warring Ram at one assault overthrow the wals what often you suppose cannot be finished is in time dispatched• And importunity doth overcome what reason sometimes cannot therefore seeke solicite Herod mingle teares with suite wrath with monitions flattring words with brawles work and intreat him by what meanes you can embracing all occasions every where But if by such plaine course you cannot speed set snares and use deceit for mine own part I am resolv'd untill we finde successe in our desig•ments never to desi•t Cho. Envie at length and bitter grie•e incens'd by impious F•ries on this pious Prophet have cas• the venome of their cruelty from thence fierce calum•ny and false de•raction joyned with fell cruelty by cursed fraud maintaine the battell from hence harmlesse truth s•pported by no guard their threats contemnes So many weapons doe one head assault so many su•tle drifts doe menace death to this young man yet like the hardy Holme with North-east wi•ds assaulted or a Rock that's •eaten by the Seas returning flood •e with no fear is mov'd O power divine by all men to be hono•'d candid Truth whom neither force of armes with trembling feare nor fraud with all her projects can depell from her firme station or unmov'd estate The grievous changes of unstable fortune th•u only fearest not and dost arme thy breast obnoxious to no chances with a strength insuperable and th•• impartiall hand of the three Ladies both of life and death for bidst us to begriev'd at But this Prophet I am too slow to meet with and relate the ruthful'st newes that ever pierc'd his eares yet see he stands before the prison doore O thou more holy then thy holy Parents and th'only •cred it of old innocence Now for thy safetie in due time provide The Rabine Malchus privately intends deceit against thee and King Herods wife unwitting what to doe is almost mad The Courtiers flatter her the King diffembles what he conceives and others twixt the teeth mutter as those that dare not speak the truth Now is your finall perill Ioh. And what's that Cho. To escape death you shall have much to doe Ioh. Of eminent evills I hold that the sum Cho. Then which none greater can a man befall Ioh. As Tyrants power and deceit may cease Times length may bear it of its own accord Which evill men do f•ar good men do wish Cho. But your own safety though you doe neglect consider ours and that high spirit of yours a while remitting sue for Herods mercy and make some friends I hope he will not prove inexorable Ioh. Doe not I doe this Cho. That minde God grant you Ioh. To sue there's no need for that minde •ath been long now with my blood the Tyrant hasts to satisfie his wrath Neither doe I rcsist how am I able rather to pacifie this bloody King Then when the same things we will not and will Cho. Good words I pray Ioh. Why then report you thus and thus advise me ••y there are two Kings and they on both sides two things bid me doe that be repugnant The one King is earthly cruell and mischievous who threatens death and hath a power my body to destroy The other heavenly mercifull and milde forbids me death to fear and a reward proposeth to my tourage being able in flames inevitable to torment body and soule Now seeing these two Kings doe differ in command give mee advice wh•ther I ••all obey Cho. If now •ccasion offerd you omir Herod will never after be appeas'd but God is ever easie to be pleas'd Ioh. Gods anger the more gently it doth rage the more severely punishment req•ires being once mov'd Cho. So death which God would have all mortals feare doe you disdaine the body with the soule he in a mutuall bond of love hath knit lest unadvisedly some cause be offred that may their holy fellowship disjoyne Ioh. Death I disdain nor but by momentany shun that erernall and the use of light which God hath given me at his command I willingly surrender Cho. Will you then being a Parent thus forsake your Orphans Ioh. He who believes that God his Father is shall never •eean Orphan Cho. Can the teares of all your friends and kindred whom you leave unto a spightfull Tyrant move you nothing Ioh. I leave them not but they mee rather leave for truly unto death I run the way from the beginning of the world ordain'd yea all men that enioy the gift of life are born to die and and wee are all restrain'd with one con•ition we tend all to death and thither every day doth surely lead us God will have death a pennance to the bad and to the good a Port the utmost