Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	daughter_n	son_n	wife_n	6,684	5	7.2935	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20094	The vvonderfull yeare. 1603 Wherein is shewed the picture of London, lying sicke of the plague. At the ende of all (like a mery epilogue to a dull play) certaine tales are cut out in sundry fashions, of purpose to shorten the liues of long winters nights, that lye watching in the darke for vs.; 1603. The wonderfull yeare	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1603 (1603)	STC 6535.5; ESTC S105274	33,757	48

partie complaine and take on because hée lay in a field●bedde when before hee would haue beene glad of a mattresse for very spight cut the threade of his life the crueltie of which déede made the other that playd Charities part at his wittes end because hée knew not where to purchase tenne foote of ground for his graue the Church nor Churchyard would let none of their lands Maister Uiear was strucke dumbe and could not giue the dead a good word neither Clarke nor Sexton could be hired to execute their Office no they themselues would first be executed so that he that neuer handled shouell before got his implements about him ripped vp the belly of the earth and made it like a graue stript the colde carcasse bound his shirt about his téete pulled a linnen night cappe ouer his eyes and so layde him in the rotten bedde of the earth couering him with cloathes cut out of the same piece and learning by his last words his name and habitation this sad Trauailer arriues at London deliuering to the amazed widdow and children in stead of a father and a husband onely the out-side of him his apparell But by the way note one ●hing the bringer of these heauy tydings as if he had liued long enough when so excellent a worke of pietie and pittie was by him finished the very next day after his comming home d●parted out of this world to receiue his reward in the Spirituall Court of heauen It is plaine therefore by the euidence of these two witnesses that death like a thiefe sets vpon men in the hie way dogs them into their owne houses breakes into their bed chambers by night assaults them by day and yet no law can take hold of him he deuoures man and wife offers violence to their faire daughters kils their youthf●ll sonnes and deceiues them of their seruants yea so full of trecherie is he growne since this Plague tooke his part that no Louers dare trust him nor by their good wils would come neare him for he workes their downfall euen when their delights are at the highest Too ripe a proofe haue we of this in a paire of Louers the maide was in the pride of fresh bloud and beautie she was that which to be now is a wonder yong and yet chaste the gifts of her mind were great yet those which fortune bestowed vpon her as being well descended were not much inferiour On this louely creature did a yong man so stedfastly ●ixe his eye that her lookes kindled in his bosome a desire whose ●●ames burnt the more brightly because they were fed with swéet and modest thoughts Hymen was the God to whome he prayed day and night that he might marry her his praiers were receiued at length after many tempests of her deniall and frownes of kinsfolk the element grew cléere he saw y e happy landing place where he had long sought to ariue the prize of her youth was made his own and the solemne day appointed when it should be deliuered to him Glad of which blessednes for to a louer it is a blessednes he wrought by all the possible art he could vse to shorten the expected houre and bring it néerer for whether he feared the interception of parents or that his owne soule with excesse of ioy was drowned in strange passions he would often with sighs mingled with kisses and kisses halfe sinking in ●eares prophetically tell her that sure he should neuer liue to enioy her To discredit which opinion of his behold the sunne had made hast and wakened the bridale morning Now does he call his heart traitour that did so ●alsly conspire against him liuely bloud leapeth into his chéekes hee s got vp and gaily attirde to play the bridegroome shée likewise does as cunningly turne her selfe into a bride kindred and friends are mette together soppes and muscadine run sweating vp and downe till they drop againe to comfort their hearts and beca●se so many coffins pestred London Churches that there was no roome left for weddings Coaches are prouided and away rides all the traine into the Countrey On a monday morning are these lustie Louers on their iourney and before noone are they alighted entring insteade of an Inne for more state into a Church where they no sooner appeared but the Priest fell to his busines the holy knot was a tying but he that should fasten it comming to this In sickenesse and in health there he stopt for sodainly the bride tooke holde of in sicknes for in health all that stoode by were in feare shee should neuer be kept The maiden-blush into which her chéekes were lately died now beganne to loose colour h●r voyce like a coward would haue shrunke away but that her Louer reaching her a hand which he brought thither to giue her for hée was not yet made a full husband did with that touch somewhat reuiue her on went they againe so farre till they mette with For better for worse there was she worse than before and had not the holy Officer made haste the ground on which shée stood to be marryed might easily haue béene broken vp for her buryall All ceremonies being finished she was ledde betwéene two not like a Bride but rather like a Coarse to her bed That must now be the table on which the wedding dinner is to be serued vppe being at this time nothing but teares and sighes and lamentation and Death is chiefe waiter yet at lenght her weake heart wrastling with the pangs gaue them a fall so that vp shée stoode againe and in the fatall funerall Coach that carried her forth was she brought back as vpon a béere to the Citie but sée the malice of her enemy that had her in chase vpon the wensday following being ouertaken was her life ouercome Death rudely lay with her and spoild her of a maiden head in spite of her husband Oh the sorrow that did round beset him now was his diuination true she was a wife yet continued a maide he was a husband and a widdower yet neuer knew his wife she was his owne yet he had her not she had him yet neuer enioyed him héere is a strange alteration for the rosemary that was washt in swéete water to set out the Bridall is now wet in teares to furnish her buriall the musike that was heard to sound forth dances can not now he heard for the ringing of belles all the comfort that happened to either side being this that he lost her before she had time to be an ill wife and she left him ere he was able to be a bad husband Better fortune had this Bride to fall into the handes of the Plague then one other of that fraile female sex whose picture is next to be drawne had so scape out of them An honest cobler if at least coblers can be honest that liue altogether amongest wicked soales had a wife who in the time of health treading her shooe often away determined in