Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dead_a	life_n	live_v	7,322	5	6.0283	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58059	Judgment on Alexander and Cæsar and also on Seneca, Plutarch, and Petronius / translated out of the French.	Rapin, René, 1621-1687.; Dancer, John, fl. 1660-1675.	1672 (1672)	Wing R263; ESTC R21235	18,139	78

beheld the dead body and considered the tears and saw the lacerated countenance he soon conceived what it might be and that the dead object had made the other careless of living he then brought his Supper into the Monument and began to exhort the dying Lady not to afflict her self with so vain a mourning and with a grief that could bring no benefit that we must all dye and all go to the same home and many such like things wherewith we use to reduce minds overcharged with sorrow but she obstinate to all consolation rent more violently her breasts and tearing off her hair strowed it on the bosom of her dead Husband Yet would not the Soldier be so repulsed but with fresh exhortations began to perswade her to eat till the Maid corrupted with the sent of the Wine first reach'd out her vanquish'd hand to the humanity of the Inviter and being enlivened with meat and drink began to combat her Ladies obstinacy and what will it profit you said she thus to consume your self why will you bury your self alive or why will you render you spirit to the Fates before they ask it Think you the gods do for our ashes care Will all your mournings give light to what the Fates have extinguished why will you not rather renounce this womanly error and enjoy life while you may that very dead body lying there should admonish you to live There 's none do unwillingly give ear when they are compelled either to eat or live The Lady wearied with several days abstinence permits her resolution to be broken and with the same desire which before had vanquished her Maid falls to and eats you might guess the rest who know the effects of human satiety With the same allurements wherewith the Soldier had perswaded the Matron to live with the same he assaults her Chastity The young man appeared to her neither deformed nor of unpleasant discourse and the Maid was assistant with her counsel Will you said she a pleasing love disdain Think how you are restor'd to life again Why should I prolong my story Neither in this case could the woman preserve her vow'd abstinence the Soldier becomes Victor both ways they therefore lay together not only that night in which they made their close and sudden Nuptials but likewise the following and the third day shutting up the entrance of the Tomb that both known or unknown which passed that way believed this Mirror of Chastity to be expired on the body of her dead Husband The Soldier in the mean time delighted as well with the womans excellent beauty as the secret of the adventure bought all necessaries as far as his slender means would go and every night brought them to the Monument But whilst he thus enjoyed his love some of the friends of one of the crucified persons perceiving the guard neglected took down the body and pay'd it the last Rites which when the Soldier the next day found himself thus rob'd off and beheld one of the Crosses without a body he runs to his woman bitterly complaining and tells her the like punishment was to be inflicted upon him nor would he stay the Judges sentence but with his own Sword do justice upon himself for his neglect So that now she was like to behold in the same fatal Sepulcher the dead bodies of her Husband and her Gallant but the woman was as merciful as she was chast The gods forbid said she that I should at once behold the Funerals of two men whom I held so dear I had rather hang up the dead than kill the living and accordingly she bids him take the body of her dead Husband out of the Coffin and hang it on the Cross that wanted one the Souldier steads himself of the ingenuity of this prudent woman and the next day all the Town admired how a dead body could creep to the Cross FINIS