Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	good_a	let_v	4,185	5	4.2812	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62894	Lingua, or, The combat of the tongue, and the five senses for superiority a pleasant comoedy.	Tomkis, Thomas, fl. 1604-1615.; Brewer, Anthony, fl. 1630-1655.	1657 (1657)	Wing T1842; ESTC R23455	58,475	144

touch me but hence fly apace Adde wings unto your feet and save your lives VIS. Why what 's the matter Tactus prethe tell me TACT. If you will needs jeopard your lives so long As hear the ground of my amazednesse Then for your better safety stand aside GUST. How full of ceremonies sure he 'l conjure For such like Robes Magicians use to wear VIS. I le see the end though he should unlock Hell And set th' infernall haggs at liberty TACT. How rash is man on hidden arms to rush It was my chance O chance most miserable To walk that way that to Crumena leads GUST. You mean Cremona a little Town hard by TACT. I say Crumena called Vacua A Town which doth and alwaies hath belong'd Chiefly to Scholars from Crumena wals I saw a man came stealing craftily Apparelled in this vesture which I wear But seeing me eft-soons he took his heels And threw his garment from him all in hast Which I perceiving to be richly wrought Took it me up But good now get you gone Warn'd by my harms and scape my misery VIS. I know no danger leave these circumstances TAC. No sooner had I put it on my back But suddenly mine eyes began to dim My joynts wax sore and all my body burn With most intestine torture and at length It was too evident I had caught the plague VIS. The plague away good Gustus le ts be gone I doubt 't is true now I remember me Crumena Vacua never wants the plague GUST. Tactus I le put my self in jeopardy to pleasure thee TACT. No gentle Gustus your absence is the only thing I wish Lest I infect you with my company GUST. Farewell Exit Gustus VIS. I willingly would stay to do thee good TACT. A thousand thanks but since I needs must die Let it suffice death only murthers me Oh 't would augment the dolour of my death To know my self the most unhappy Bow Through w pale death should aim his shafts at you VIS. Tactus farewell yet die with this good hope Thy corps shall be interred as they ought Exit Visus TAC. Go make my Tomb provide my funerals ha ha ha ha ha ha Excellent Asses thus to be deluded Bewail his death and cruel destinies That lives and laughs your fooleries to scorn But where 's my Crown oh here I well deserve Thus to be crowned for two great victories ha ha ha Visus take care my corps be well interr'd Go make my Tomb and write upon the Stone Here lies the Sense that lying gul'd them all With a false plague and fained Urinal ACT. 1. SCEN. 9. AUDITUS TACTUS AUD. Tactus Tactus TACT. O Jupiter 't is Auditus all 's mard I doubt the slie knave hears so far but yet I le grope him how now Ears what make you here ha AUD. Nay what make you here I pray what were you talking even now of an Asse and a Crown and an Urinal and a plague TA. A plague on you what I AUD. Oh what you TA O I had well nigh forgot nothing but I say AUD. What TAC. That if a man do you mark sir being sick of the plague do you see sir had a a a hem hem this cold troubles me It makes me cough sometimes extreamly had a French Crown sir you understand me lying by him and come hither come hither and would not bestow two pence do you hear to buy an Urinal do you mark me to carry his water to the Physician hem AUD. What of all this TACT. I say such a one was a very Asse this was all I use to speak to my self when I am alone but Auditus when shall we hear a new set of singing books or th' viols or the consort of Instruments AUD. This was not all for I heard mention of a Tomb and an Epitaph TACT. True true I made my self merry with this Epitaph upon such a fools Tomb thus a thus thus plague brought this man foh I have forgotten O thus plague brought this man so so so unto his burial because because because hem hem because he would not buy an Urinal come come Auditus shall we hear thee play the Lyroway or the Lute-way shall we or the Cornet or any Musick I am greatly revived when I hear AUD. Tactus Tactus this will not serve I heard all you have not found a Crown you no you have not ACT. 1. SCEN. Ultima TACTUS AUDITUS VISUS GUSTUS MENDACIO TACT. Peace peace faith peace come hither hark thee good now AUD. I cannot hold I must needs tell TACT. O do not do not do not come hither will you be a fool VIS. Had he not wings upon his feet and shoulders MEN Yes yes and a fine wand in his hand Coriously wrapped with a pair of snakes TACT. Will half content you pish 't will nere be known GUST. My life 't was Mercury MEND. I do not know his name but this I am sure his hat had wings upon 't VIS. Doubtles 't was he but say my Boy what did he MEND. First I beheld him hovering in the air And then down stooping with a hundred gires His feet he fixed on Mount Chephalon From whence he flew and lighted on that plain And with disdainfull steps soon glided thither Whither arived he suddenly unfolds A gorgeous Robe and glittering ornament And lays them all upon that hillock This done he wafts his wand took wing again And in a moment vanisht out of sight With that mine eies 'gan stare and heart grew cold And all my quivering joynts with sweat bedew'd My heels my thought had wings as well as his And so away I runne but by the way I met a man as I thought coming thither GUST. What marks had he MEND. He had a great what this is he this is he VIS. What Tactus GUST. This was the plague vext him so Tactus your Grave gapes for you are you ready VIS. Since you must needs die do as others do Leave all your goods behinde you bequeath the Crown and Robe to your Executors TACT. No such matter I like the Egyptian Knights For the more state will be buried in them VIS. Come come deliver Visus snatcheth the Crown and sees letters graven in it TACT. What will you take my purse from me VIS. No but a Crown that 's just more then your own Ha what 's this 't is a very smal hand What Inscription is this He of the five that proves himself the best Shall have his Temples with this Coronet blest This Crown is mine and mine this garment is For I have alwaies been accounted best TACT. Next after me I as your self at any time besides I found it first therefore 't is mine GUST. Neither of yours but mine as much as both AUD. And mine the most of any of you all VIS. Give me it or else TACT. I le make you late repent it GUST. Presumptuous as you are AUD. Spite of your teeth MEND. Never till now a ha it works apace Visus I know t is

guided mine arm pointed still to the midst of my Buckler so that by this means I hurt the Knave mortally and my self came away untoucht to the wonder of all the beholders ANA. Sirra you speak Metaphorically because thy wit Mendacio always draws mens objections to thy fore-thought excuses HEU. Anamnestes 't is true and I have an addition to this which is to make the bullet shot from the enemy to return immediately upon the Gunner but let all this passe and say the worst thou canst against me ANA. I say Guns were found out for the quick dispatch of mortality and when thou sawest men grow wise and beget so fair a child as Peace of so foul and deformed a mother as War least there should be no murther thou devisedst poyson MEN. Nay fie Nam urge him not too far ANA. And last and worst thou soundst out cookery that kills more then weapons guns wars or poysons and would destroy all but that thou inventedst Physick that helps to make away some HEU. But sirra besides all this I devised Pillories for such forging villains as thy self ANA. Cal'st me villain They fight and are parted by Mendacio MEN. You shall not fight as long as I am here give over I say HEU. Mendacio you offer me great wrong to hold me in good faith I shall fall out with you MEN. Away away away you are Invention are you not HEU. Yes Sir what then MEN. And you Remembrance AN. Well sir well MEN. Then I will be Judicium the moderator betwixt you and make you both friends come come shake hands shake hands HEU. Well well if you will needs have it so ANA. I am in some sort content Mendacio walks with them holding them by the hands MEN. Why this is as it should be when Mendacio hath Invention on the one hand and Remembrance on the other as hee 'l be sure never to be found with Truth in his mouth so he scorns to be taken in a lye hai hai hai my fine waggs whist AN. Whist HEU. Whist ACT. 4. SCEN. 2. Communis Sensus Memory Phantastes Heuresis Anamnestes take their places on the bench as before Auditus on the stage a Page before him bearing his target the field sable an heart or next him Tragedus apparelled in black velvet fair buskins a fauchion c. then Comaedus in a light coloured green taffata robe silk stockings pumps gloves c. COMMUNIS SENSUS MEMORY PHANTASTES HEURESIS ANAMNESTES c. COM. They had some reason that held the soul a harmony for it is greatly delighted with musique how fast we were tyed by the ears to the consort of voices powder but all is but a little pleasure what profitable objects hath he PH. Your ears will teach you presently for now he is comming that fellow in the bayes me thinks I should have known him ô t is Comaedus t is so but he is become now a daies something humerous and too too Satyrical up and down like his great grand-father Aristophanes AN. These two my Lord Comaedus Tragedus My fellows both both twins but so unlike As birth to death wedding to funeral For this that rears himself in buskins quaint Is pleasant at the first proud in the midst Stately in all and bitter death at end That in the pumpes doth frown at first acquaintance Trouble the midst but in the end concludes Closing up all with a sweet catastrophe This grave and sad disdain with brinish tears That light and quick with wrinkled laughter painted This deales with Nobles Kings and Emperours Full of great fears great hopes great enterprises This other trades with men of mean condition His projects small small hopes and dangers little This gorgeous broidered with rich sentences That fair and purfled round with merriments Both vice detect and vertue beautifie By being deaths mirrour and lifes looking-glass COM. Salutem jam primum a principio propiliam Mihi atque vobis spectatores nuntio PH. Pish pish this is a speech with no action le ts hear TERENCE Quid igitur faciam c. COM. Quid igitur faciam non eam ne nunc quidem cum accusor ultro PH. Phy phy phy no more action lend me your baies do it thus Quid igitur c. he acts it after the old kinde of Pantomimick action COM. S. I should judge this action Phantastes most absurd unlesse we should come to a Commody as Gentlewomen to the Commencement only to see men speak PH. In my imagination it 's excellent for in this kinde the hand you know is harbinger to the tongue and provides the words a lodging in the ears of the Auditors COM. S. Auditus it is now time you make us acquainted with the quality of the house you keep in for our better help in judgement AUD. Upon the sides of fair mount Cephalon Have I two houses passing humane skill Of finest matter by dame nature wrought Whose learned singers have adorn'd the same With gorgeous porches of so strange a form That they command the passingers to stay The dores whereof in hospitality Nor day nor night are shut but open wide Gently invite all commers whereupon They are named the open ears of Cephalon But least some bolder sound should boldly rush And break the nice composture of the work The skilful builder wisely hath inrang'd An entry from each port with curious twins And crookt Meanders like the labyrinth That Dedalus fram'd to inclose the Minotaur At end whereof is placed a costly portal Resembling much the figure of a drum Granting slow entrance to a private closet Where dayly with a Mallet in my hand I set and frame all words and sounds that come Upon an Anvile and so make them fit For the perewinckling poor that winding leads From my close chamber to your Lordships Cell Thither do I chief Justice of all accents Psyches next porter Microcosmes front Learnings rich treasure bring discipline Reasons discourse knowledge of forraign states Lowd fame of great Heroes vertuous deeds The marrow of grave speeches and the flowers Of quickest Wits neat Jests and pure Conceits And often times to ease the heavy burthen Of government your Lordships shoulders bear I thither do conduce the pleasing Nuptials Of sweetest instruments with heavenly noise If then Auditus have deserv'd the best Let him be dignifi'd before the rest COM. S. Auditus I am almost a Sceptick in this matter scarce knowing which way the ballance of the cause will decline when I have heard the rest I will dispatch judgement mean while you may depart Auditus leads the show about the stage and then goes out ACTUS 4. SCENA 3. COMMUNIS SENSUS Memoria Phantastes Anamnestes Heuresis as before Olfactus in a garland of several flowers a Page before him bearing his target his field vert a bound argent two Boyes with casting bottels and two with censers with incense another with a velvet cushion stucke with flowers another with a basket of herbs another with a box of Oyntment Olfactus leads them