Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	adultery_n	commit_v	wife_n	2,548	5	8.1753	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09153	Theatre of wits ancient and modern attended with severall other ingenious pieces from the same pen [brace] viz. I. Faenestra in pectore, or, A century of familiar letters, II. Loves labyrinth: A tragi-comedy, III. Fragmenta poetica, or, Poetical diversions, IV. Virtus redivivi, a panegyrick on our late king Charles of ever blessed memory concluding with A panegyrick on His Sacred Majesties most happy return / by T.F.	Forde, Thomas.	1661 (1661)	Wing F1548A; ESTC R177174	187,653	418

his mate by chance or casualty but by the undeclinable fate of Gods prae-determination And having laid down this for a ground I shall adventure this Superstructure that it is not in the power of a man to dis-joyn himself from the companion which providence hath joyned him to in so indissoluble a link of amitie that one member is not more truly a part of a mans body than his Wife and therefore he ought rather to undergoe with patience what God hath ordained him perhaps for other reasons than he can understand than to forgoe it with wilfulnesse I remember it was the resolution of a compleat man That he took the untowardness of his wife as a School of patience Yet to pursue the Allegory though I would not have a man to cut off a limb for a curable disease yet if it out-face art and nature in a remedy then Ense rescidendumest And having done so I cannot suppose it lawful though I should grant all his assertions for indisputable truth that such a man should admit another member like a wooden leg and if I mistake not to help him a little the weight of our Saviours argument lies in the last clause that whosoever puts away his wife for other cause than adultery commits fornication If he marry another To come as near therefore as I can to comply with your Author I shall lay down this Position that it is altogether unlawful for a man or wife to divorce If both parties be not equally agreeing to it and if either of them marry again And to this I shall add this inconvenience that being parted they must not expect that the Devil who is the Father and Factor of divisions will be less active in so wide a breach that is so ready to widen the least cranny of discontent into his advantage He that will creep in when the doors are shut shall we imagine him to be lesse willing to enter when they are wide open This farther I must confess there are some natures so Hetrogenious that the streightest and most gordion knot of Wedlock is not able to twist of which the Epigrammatist speaks my mind better than I can my self Non amo te Sabide nec possum dicere quare Hoc tantum possum dicere non amo te Take the English is the words of a Gentleman to his wife I love thee not Nel But why I can't tell But this I can tell I love thee not Nel. So that I must confesse I cannot but afford them my pitie that are thus joyned in you know whose phrase like a Spread-Eagle with one body but two heads But whether this division ought to make a Divorce I had rather subscribe to your judgment than tell you my own who am Sir wholly at your dispose T. F. To Dr. S. Sir NOt to confess your favours were a sullenness beyond the sin of ingratitude they were too late to be forgotten and too large to be requited Civilities that might very well constitute a Turkish Paradise A debt beyond my meannesse to discharge so that you have paid me before-hand for all the services I shall ever be able to do you And it shall be my endeavour that my performances of your commands may be as swift as Lightning or the flights of that Bird which is happy to make his nest in your Arms. My thanks will bear the better weight for they are too light of themselves if you please to tender them to Mr. L. whom it were a Solecisme to put last To your self varyed and your self multiplied And give me leave to kisse your hands as I give you mine that I am Sir your much obliged Servant T. F. To Mr. C. A. Sir IT was once my miserie and your good fortune that I have had of late no leisure to discharge my weekly tribute which indeed amounts to no more upon your audit than the product of a constant trouble Assure your self I take no pleasure in being my own enemie For how many rate fish might my course bait happily have taken But truly I have been so crampt or rather crippled with some not unnecessary diversions that my pen hath been forced to wander from the direct road of your service Now having retrived an opportunitie of inhappying my self by this literal exchange I shall take leave to tell you that I will not forgive my self till you pronounce my pardon And I cannot but indulge my hopes with confidence that you will once more exercise that noble virtue from the many repeated acts of which goodnesse I am apt to plead praescription Though having dealt so unworthily with you I am something suspitious you will retract that title of worth your friendship hath formerly fastned on my unworthiness and no longer vote those lines for jewels which in the midst of Summer present you with conceits as cold as ice or our modern charity However in obedience to the Sovereignty of your Judgment I shall resolve to estimate my self by your valuation of me and make your opinion the Standard whereby to measure my abilities to your Service And as we measure our hours by minutes and those by the minuter attoms of sand may my several Letters but run into Syllables by which together you may read me though imperfectly Sir your very faithful Servant T. F. To Mr. C. F. Sir PArdon the bashfulnesse of my Pen that hath been hardly drawn to the presumption of endeavouring an answer to your ingenious lines Had my fancie been better or yours worse you had long before this time received an Answer But such is the unequal fate of the greatest merits that they alwayes meet with the least returns stupendious worth exacting from our surprized senses but admiration at best in stead of praise and admiration is never so well dress'd as when 't is cloathed in silence Sorry I am that you should waste your so great respects upon one that deserves so little and that hath nothing to return you but the protests of a most real affection The Gentleman you speak of I have not yet seen nor heard of but in your relation Whenever he comes assure your self he shall be as welcome as his own worth and your commends can render him But he shall pardon me if I wish rather it had been your self It is an Age me thinks since I enjoyed you and I grow old in my unhappinesse 'T is in your power to create a Spring in my soul and to make those faculties live again that have hitherto been buried in a silent grave of negligence One line of yours will be strong enough to draw me from that depth of dulnesse into which some late melancholly thoughts have thrown me though it were as profound as the pit wherein Truth lieth hidden The fire that shines in your expressions is onely able to call forth that quondam ingenuitie you accuse me of If ever I enjoyed any such thing 't was when I enjoyed you and that left me when I left London Like insects