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	husband_n	wife_n	1,526	5	7.7220	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07711	The common-vvealth of Vtopia containing a learned and pleasant discourse of the best state of a publike weale, as it is found in the government of the new ile called Vtopia. Written by the right Honourable, Sir Thomas Moore, Lord Chancellour of England.; Utopia. English	More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.; Robinson, Ralph, b. 1521.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1639 (1639)	STC 18098; ESTC S112890	95,095	304

Priests the Counsell haue allowed the cause of his death him as vnworthy either to be buried or with fire to be consumed they cast v●buried into some stinking marrish The woman is not married before she be eighteene yeares old The man is foure yeares elder before he marry If eyther the man or the woman be proued to haue actually offended before their mariage with another the party that so hath trespassed is sharpely punished And both the offenders be forbidden ever after in all their life to marry vnlesse the fault be forgiven by the Princes pardon Both the good man and good wife of the house where that offence was committed as being slacke and negligent in looking to their charge be in danger of great reproach and infamy That offence is so sharpely punished because they perceiue that vnlesse they be diligently kept from the liberty of this vice few will joyne together in the loue of marriage wherein all the life must be led with one and also all the griefes and displeasures cōming therewith patiently be taken and born Furthermore in choosing wiues and husbands they obserue earnestly and straightly a custome which seemed to us very fond and foolish For a sad and honest patron sheweth the woman be she Maid or widdow naked to the wooer And likewise a sage and discreet man exhibiteth the wooer naked to the woman At this custome we laughed and disallowed it as foolish But they on the other part doe greatly wonder at the folly of all other Nations which in buying a Colt whereas a little money is in hazard be so chary and circumspect that though he be almost all bare yet they will not buy him unlesse the saddle and all the harnesse be taken off least under those coverings be hid some gall or sore And yet in chusing a Wife which shall be either pleasure or displeasure to them all their life after they be so rechlesse that all the residue of the womans body being eovered with cloathes they esteeme her scarcely by one hand breadth for they can see no more but her face and so to joyne her to them not without great jeopardy of evill agreeing together if any thing in her body after ward should chance to offend and mislike them For all men be not so wise as to have respect to the vertuous condition of the party And the endowments of the body cause the vertues of the mind more to be esteemed and regarded yea even the marriages of wise men Verily so foule deformity may be hid under those coverings that it may quite alienate and take away the mans mind from his wife when it shall not be lawfull for their bodies to be separate againe If such deformity happen by any chance after the Marriage is consummate and finished well therein no remedy but patience Every man must take his fortune well in worth But it were well done that a law were made wherby all such deceits might be eschewed and avoided before hand And this were they constrained more earnestly to looke vpon because they onely of the nations in that part of the world be content every man with one wife a piece And matrimony is there never broken but by death except adultery breake the bond or else the intollerable wayward manners of either party For if eyther of them find themselves for any such cause grieved they may by the licence of the Counsell change and take another But the other party liveth ever after in infamy and out of wedlocke Howbeit the husband to put away his wife for no other fault but for that some mishap is fallen to her body this by no meanes they will suffer for they judge it a great point of cruelty that any body in their most need of helpe and comfort should be cast off and forsaken and that old age which both bringeth sicknesse with it and is a sicknesse it selfe should unkindly and unfaithfully be delt withall But now and then it chanceth wheras the man and woman cannot well agree betweene themselves both of them finding other with whom they hope to live more quietly and merrily that they by the full consent of them both be divorsed asunder and married againe to other But that not without the authority of the Councell Which agreeth to no divorses before they and their wives have diligently tryed and examined the matter Yea and then also they be loath to consent to it because they know this to be the next way to breake love betweene man and wife to be in easie hope of a new marriage Breakers of wedlocke be punished with most grievous bondage And if both the offendors were married then the parties which in that behalfe have suffered wrong being divorced from the adulterers be married together if they will or else to whom they lust But if either of them both doe still continue in love toward so unkind a bed-fellow the vse of wedlock is not to them forbidden if the party faultlesse be disposed to follow in toyling and drudgery ●he person which for that offence is condemned to bondage And very oft it chanceth that the repentance of the one and the earnest diligence of the other doth so moue the Prince with pitty and compassion that he restoreth the bond person from seruitude to liberty and freedome againe But if the same party be taken e●●soones in that fault there is no other way but death To other trespasses no prescript punishment is appointed by any law But according to the hainousnesse of the offence or contrary so the punishment is moderated by the discretion of the Councell The husbands chastice their wives and the parents their children unlesse they have done any so horrible an offence that the open punishment thereof maketh much for the advancement of honest manners But most commonly the most hainous faults be punished with the incommodity of bondage For that they suppose to be to the offendors no le●se griefe and to the Common-wealth more profit then if they should hastily put them to death and so make them quite out of the way For their commeth more profit of their labour thē of their death and by their example they feare other the longer from like offences But if they being thus vsed do● rebell and kicke againe then forsooth they be ●laine as desperate and wild beasts whom neither prison nor chaine could restraine and keepe vnder But they which take their bondage patiently be not left al hopelesse For after they haue beene broken and tamed with long miseries if then they shew such repentance as thereby it may be perceived that they be ●orier for their offence then for their punishment sometimes by the Princes prerogatiue and sometimes by the voice or else consent of the people their bondage either is m●ttigated or cleane released and forgiven He that mooveth to adultery is in no lesse danger and jeopardy then if he had committed adultery in deed For in all offences they