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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	life_n	time_n	5,425	5	3.6662	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38569	Seven new colloquies translated out of Erasmus Roterodamus as also The life of Erasmus / by Mr. Brown.; Colloquia. Selections. English	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.	1699 (1699)	Wing E3209; ESTC R20336	72,450	140

happens to bestow herself upon a Parson how many Iests and Proverbs does the Neighbourhood pelt her with When Death puts an end to the Parson's Life what becomes of the Parson's Wife However she enjoys herself well enough while her Husband lives which is some satisfaction But the Heroine of our Tragedy cannot expect one easie moment with her Knight in his life-Life-time and when Dead the Infection he bequeaths to her will haunt her worse than a Ghost Pe. 'T is even so Your Pirates that surprize Women by stealth and Soldiers that take them as plunder in War never treat them half so Cruelly as this poor Girl has been treated by her Parents and yet the Magistrate never calls them to an account for it Ga. How should a Physician cure a Mad man if he himself has a spice of the same Distemper Pe. But 't is the greatest wonder in the world to me that Princes who are so nearly and visibly interessed in the Wellfare of their People shou'd make no wholesome Laws for their Health which is the greatest Blessing they can enjoy on this side Heaven The Disease we have been discoursing of all this while has travelled as it were with a Pass through the better part of the Globe and yet these worthy Vice-gerents of Heaven sleep as heartily in their Thrones as if it were not worth their while to take notice of it Ga. Hark ye friend Peter have a care what you say of Princes When you talk upon so nice a Subject keep your Tongue in a sheath or it may cut your Throat Lend me your ear to whisper a word or two to you Pe. I am heartily sorry for 't but I am afraid t' will be so as you say to the end of the Chapter Ga. But to pursue our point How many Ills do you think are occasioned by nasty Wines of the Vintners dashing and brewing Pe. Why if you 'll take the Doctor 's word for 't one half of the Diseases that carry off so many thousands every Week Ga. And do the Magistrates take no notice of this neither Pe. Poor Men they are wholly taken up in gathering the King's Customs and Excise There they are as watchful as Dragons but mind nothing else Ga. If a Woman knows a Man is infected and for all that will marry him she must take what he is pleased to give her for her pains but can blame no body else Although if it were my fortune to sit at the helm I should take care to banish them both from civil Society But if it was a Woman's hard fate to marry a Fellow that pretended to be well and healthful but was over-run with this Disease were I Judge of the Prerogative Court I should make no scruple to dissolve the Knot tho' they had been solemnly Married in all the Churches in London Pe. By what pretence I wonder For when Marriage is once legally contracted no humane Power you know can disannull it Ga. And do you call that a legal Marriage which is built upon such horrid Villany and Treachery The Civilians will tell you that a Contract is not Valid when a Slave palms himself upon a young Girl for a Freeman and under that sham Marries her Now the abovemention'd Knight to whom our poor Lady is sacrific'd is a Slave a most abandond Slave to that imperious Distemper the Pox and his Slavery is so much the more insupportable in respect he must wear her Livery all the days of his Life without any prospect of a Redemption Pe. I protest you have stagger'd me There is some colour in what you say but proceed Ga. In the next place Marriage can only be celebrated between two Persons that are living but in this case the Woman Marries one who in the literal Sense of Love is perfectly dead Pe. Ha! you have Arguments at will I see however I suppose you wou'd give your leave that the Diseased should Marry the Diseased according to the righteous Proverb of Covent-garden Clap that Clap can Ga. Why truly if I were Judge of the Court or some such great Person Perhaps for the publick benefit I might suffer them to Marry but so soon as the Ceremony was over I wou'd take care to put out one Fire with another and that a Faggot shou'd finish what the other Disease had begun Pe. Ay but this wou'd be to act like a Tyrant and not like a Prince Ga. Why wou'd you call that Physician a Tyrant that lopps off a Finger or two or it may be burns part of the Body to save the whole For my part I don't think it Cruelty but the highest Act of Pity that can be exerted and it were to be wished that this Course had been taken when this Distemper first appeared in the World for then the publick Welfare of Mankind had been consulted at the Expence of a few Sufferers Nay the French History presents as with an Instance of this Nature Pe. But after all it wou'd be the gentler way to geld or part them asunder Ga. And what wou'd you have done to the Women pray Pe. You know Italy affords a certain Invention call'd a Padlock Ga. That is something indeed for by this means we shou'd be sure to have no Branches from so blessed a Stock Come I will own your Method to be the gentler of the two provided you 'll in Compliment own that mine is the safer Even those that are castrated have an itching desire upon them neither is this Infection propagated by one way only but a thousand a bare kiss or touch may do it nay it may be got by Discoursing or Drinking with the Party Infected Besides we find that an unaccountable Spirit of doing Mischief is peculiar to this Disease for those that have it take a delight to propagate the Contagion tho' it does them no good Now if you talk of parting them asunder they may scamper to other Places and play the Devil where they are not known but I hope you 'll grant me there can be no danger from the Dead Pe. 'T is certain yours is the safer way of proceeding but still I much question whether it can be reconciled to that Gentleness prescrib'd us by the Gospel Ga. Pray tell me then whether there 's more danger from common Thieves or such People we have been talking of Pe. I must needs confess that Mony is not to be put in the same Ballance with Health Ga. And yet we Christians forsooth truss up a score of House-breakers and Fellons every Sessions neither does the World as Cenforious as it is call this Cruelty but Iustice and Mercy to the Nation in general Pe. Well but in that case the Party that did the Injury is fairly hanged out of the way Ge. And are the others then such mighty Benefactors to the Publick Let us for once suppose that some may get this Distemper by no Fault of their own tho' under Favour I believe that not one in ten thousand but purchased it