Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	hair_n	nature_n	wear_v	1,532	5	9.6915	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19158	La dance machabre or Death's duell. By W.C.	Colman, Walter, d. 1645.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 5569; ESTC S108509	28,947	92

vs Christians what to doe Reflecting what must certainly ensue 150 Which if we did so many would not runne Such headlong courses to their owne perdition But striue with earnest diligence to shunne Those things which passe for mirth and recreation And not conceiue that time lost or mispent Not dedicated to some meriment 151 For know that man to Gods owne Image fram'd Indu'd with reason and supernall grace Was but here plac'd by his Creator uam'd Lord o're all other creatures for a space To serue as 't were his prentiship that hee His precepts kept of Heauen might make him free 152 And not to liue and die like beasts whose soules Transcend no farther then their bodies goe Gouern'd by sence whom nothing else controls But mans prerogatiue and their owne woe For were it so which for to think 's a sinne Better for man't were neuer to haue bin 153 Since not to know what knowne must be forgotten For what we neuer had cannot be lost A great deale better is besides paines taken To liue with worldly crosses is so saus'd That were our pleasures measured with our paine Few would the one the other to regaine 154 Only the hope of heauen in vs hath So great a stroke by miracle confirm'd The radicall foundation of our faith By stedfast hope and charitie discern'd That to a man who weighes all things aright To die's to liue to liue 's but small delight 155 Yet too too many whom bewitching wealth Soule-killing honour momentany pleasures Inuest with an addition of good health Would hardly earths exchange for heauenly treasures Such is the dull stupiditie of those Whose faith no farther then their knowledge goes 156 Still loath to die though Charons boat hath staid Full quarter ebbe gray haires greene thoughts retaine With no infirmity of age dismaid Though scarce the figure of a man remaine Both Dotards toothelesse grisselesse and bald Nasty crook-backt in euery member gald 157 These are so coltish that they die their haire Weare Periwigs shaue themselues twice aday Ingraft new teeth within their heads which were Writhen from some Hogs chaps disport and play With a youg Pigs nye as if nature sent A fresh supply of what before was spent 158 But as in weaknesse so in wickednesse Doe your old doting women beare the bell Though nere so much appaild with age expresse Their good will struing euer to excell Your fondest Wanton in whose mouthes still rise The Prouerbe for their warrantie Lifes Life 159 Dawbing their slaggie cheekes anoint their nerues Stand poring in a glasse expose their dugges Prouoke stale nature with restoritiues Write loue letters dance galliards with their drugges And tempting gold insight some smooth fac'st boy In that which is loues remedie to ioy 160 Tell these of death that one foots in the graue Vnto the market straight they will be bold To answere come so many shifts they haue The young sheep-skin as soone as doth the old Thus nuzeld in their sensualitie Towards death and hell they post on merrily 161 The husbandman t' exchange a barten soile May with much ease and pleasure be perswaded In hope of better where his daily toile With equall profit may be richly laded But where small profit and lesse pleasures taken That 's without great repugnancie forsaken 162 For he whose loe rooft fortune doth afford Him only necessary maintenance And can his mind to such small meanes accord Liues truly happy and with confidence Meets death halfe way in hope soone to possesse A Kingdome of eternall happinesse 163 Only the poore Religious man enioyes What we with so much diligence pursue Who all things deemes as necessary toyes That vnder heauen can come within his view So that in fine the matter well debated We cannot say he dies but is translated 164 No tempting titles nor bewitching wealth No costly cates food only to preserue Decrepid nature and maintaine good health The better to enable him to serue His Lord and maker he desires whose storè Doth totally consist in being poore 165 He that 's to grapple with his enemie Slips of his looser garments and betakes Him to his trowses Superfluitie Of temporall additions likewise makes Vs more vnapt and weaker to withstand Hellish temptations euer more at hand 166 The greatest Monarch when he comes to die And that poore puffe of breath he breathes exhal'd Tell me what is he more then thou or I A stinking carcassie wither'd and appal'd Only wrapt vp within a finer sheet More helpes of art apply'd to keepe it sweet 167 It makes a greater blunder in the world More ioyfull mourning Liueries are worne Some few deneires amongst the vulgar hurl'd A score or two of torches more are borne Before his herse more hymnes and dirges sung More ceremonie vs'd more bels are rung 168 Aud in the Chuch a richer tombe shall haue Where none but Kings and Queenes haue been interr'd Of his owne Line yet all is but a graue Before the rest on 's neighbours graues preferr'd Most for the golden superficies deem'd So superficiall men are most esteem'd 169 A mercenarie Epitaph his Shrine Shall grace more for the Poets praise then his Which shall not be engrau'd on yours or mine But what aduantage hath he by all this He 's the vnworthy burthen of a wombe That nothing leaues behinde him but a Tombe 170 'T is true Kings haue their Chronicles wherein For one good deed ten bad ones are recorded If they haue any priuiledge therein Let no man grutch it should be them affoorded May my good actions with my bad ones die Rather then flourish with my infamy 171 But great ones greater priuiledges craue Wherefore I know not and growne confident Doe any thing for which they can but haue Any though neere so slightly president We heed not mens religions but their liues Example more then precept edifies 172 Though we looke nere so sterne be nere so stout Though nere so valiant full of actiue slight Though nere so wittie cautelous and yong The glory of a Nation and delight Nature to such securitie doth giue Ten thousand wayes to die but one to liue 173 The poore thatcht cottage can as soone repell Deaths furious implacabilitie As can the Louuer or th' Escuriell And with a great deale more facilitie Saint Angelo Diogenes tub with like Successe and resolution doth it strike 174 Plutarch vpon Scipio Deuicto Hannibale capta Carthagine aucto Imperio hoc cineres Marmore tectus habet Cui non Europe non obstitit Africa quondam Respice res hominum quam breuts vrna premit 175 Plutarch vpon Scipio Fierce Hannibal orecome Carthage surpriz'd His Empire much augmented's here compriz'd Whom Africa nor Europe could withstand Behold man brought vnto a narrow strand 176 Waue-mounting vessels with a full-stretch● saile Though rigg'd and tackeld nere so well at last When Scilla nor Caribdis can preuaile With wormes of their owne generation waste Though all externall accidents we scape Nature it selfe will perpetrate