Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	aaron_n	child_n	rod_n	13	3	9.0066	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08592	A wife novv the widdow of Sir Thomas Overburye Being a most exquisite and singular poem of the choice of a wife. Whereunto are added many witty characters, and conceited newes, written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen his friends.; Wife now a widowe	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.	1614 (1614)	STC 18904; ESTC S120266	28,037	66

the Priest first giues our hands I would haue her thinke but thus In what high and holy bands Heauen like twins hath planted vs That like Aarons rod together Both may bud grow green and wither FINIS THE METHOD FIrst of Mariage and the effect thereof children Then of his contrarie Lust then for his choice First his opinion negatiuely what should not be the first causes in it that is neither Beauty Birth nor Portion Then affirmatiuely what should bee of which kind there are fower Goodnesse Knowledge Discretion and as a second thing Beauty The first onely is absolutely good the other being built vpon the first doe likewise become so Then the application of that woman by loue to himselfe which makes her a wife And lastly the only condition of a wife Fitnesse A Wife EAch Woman is a briefe of Woman-kind And doth in little euen as much containe As in one Day Night all life we find Of either More is but the same againe God fram'd Her so that to Her husband She As Eue should all the world of Women be So fram'd he Both that neither power he gaue Vse of themselues but by exchange to make Whence in their Face the Fayre no pleasure haue But by refl●xe of what thence other take Our Lips in their owne Kisse no pleasure find Toward their proper Face our Eyes are blind So God in Eue did perfit Man begun Till then in vaine much of himselfe he had In Adam God created onely one Eue and the world to come in Eue he made We are two halfes whiles each from other straies Both barren are Ioyn'd both their like can raise At first both Sexes were in Man combin'de Man a Shee-man did in his body breed Adam was Eues Eue mother of Mankinde Eue from Liue-flesh Man did from Dust proceed One thus made two Mariage doth revnite And makes them both but one Hermaphrodite Man did but the well-being of his life From woman take her Being she from Man And therefore Eue created was a Wife And at the end of all her Sex began Mariage their obiect is their Being then And now Perfection they receiue from Men. Mariage to all whose ioyes two parties be And doubled are by boing parted so Wherein the very act is chastitie Whereby two Soules into one Body goe It makes two one whiles heere they liuing be And after death in their Posteritie God to each Man a priuate woman gaue That in that Center his desires might stint That he a comfort like himselfe might haue And that on her his like he might imprint Double is Womans vse part of their end Doth on this Age part on the next depend We are but part of Time yet cannot die Till we the world a fresh supply haue lent Children are Bodies sole Eternitie Nature is Gods Art is Mans instrument Now all Mans Art but only dead things makes But here in Man in things of life partakes For wandring Lust I know t is infinite It still begins and addes not more to more The guilt is euerlasting the delight This instant doth not feele of that before The taste of it is only in the Sense The operation in the Conscience Woman is not Lusts bounds but Woman-kind One is Loues number who from that doth fall Hath lost his hold and no new rost shall find Vice hath no meane but not to be at all A wife is that Enough Lust cannot find For Lust is still with want or too-much pinde Bate Lust the Sin my share is eu'n with his For Not to Lust and to Enioy is one And More or Lesse past equall Nothing is I still haue one Lust one at once alone And though the woman often changed be Yet Hee 's the same without varietie Mariage our Lust as t were with fuell fire Doth with a medicine of the same allay And not forbid but rectifie desire My selfe I cannot chuse my wife I may And in the choice of Her it much doth lye To mend my selfe in my Posteritie O rather let me Loue then be in Loue So let me chuse as Wife and Friend to find Let me forget hir Sex when I approue Beasts likenesse lyes in shape but ours in minde Our soules no Sexes haue their Loue is cleane No Sex both in the better part are Men. But Phisicke for our lust their Bodies be But matter fit to shew our Loue vpon But onely Shells for our posteritie Their soules were giu'n lest man should be alone For but the Soules interpreters words be Without which Bodies are no Companie That goodly frame we see of Flesh and bloud Their Fashion is not weight it is I say But their Laye-part but well digested food T is but twixt Dust and Dust Life's middle way The worth of it is nothing that is seene But only that it holds a Soule within And all the carnall Beauty of my wife Is but skin-deep but to two Senses knowne Short euen of Pictures shorter liu'd then Life And yet the loue suruiues that's built thereon For our Imagination is too high For Bodies when they meet to satisfie All Shapes all Colours are alike in Night Nor doth our Touch distinguish foule or faire But Mans imagination and his sight And those but the first weeke by Custome are Both made alike which diffred at first view Nor can that diffrence Absence much renew Nor can that Beauty lying in the Face But meerely by imagination be Enioy'd by vs in an inferior place Nor can that Beauty by enioying we Make ours become so our desire growes tame We changed are but it remaines the same Birth lesse then beauty shall my reason blinde Hir birth goes to my Children not to me Rather had I that actiue gentry finde Vertue then passiue from hir Auncestrie Rather in her aliue one vertue see Then all the rest dead in her Pedigree In the Degrees high rather be shee plac't Of Nature then of Art and Pollicie Gentry is but a relique of Time-past And Loue doth only but the present see Things were first made then words She were the same With or without that title or that name As for the oddes of Sexes Portion Nor will I shun it nor my ayme it make Birth Beauty Weal●h are nothing worth alone All these I would for good Additions take Not for Good Parts those two are ill combind Whom any third thing from thēselues hath ioynd Rather then these the obiect of my Loue Let it be Good when these with vertue goe They in themselues indiffrent vertues proue For Good like Fire turnes all things to be so Gods Image in Her Soule ô let me place My Loue vpon not Adams in Her Face Good is a fairer attribute then White T is the Mind's beauty keeps the other sweet That 's not still one nor mortall with the light Nor glasse nor painting can it counterfet Shee s truly faire whose beauty is vnseen Like heau'n faire sight-ward but more faire within By Good I would haue Holy vnderstood So