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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
A16264	The new-found politicke Disclosing the secret natures and dispositions as well of priuate persons as of statesmen and courtiers; wherein the gouernments, greatnesse, and power of the most notable kingdomes and common-wealths of the world are discouered and censured. Together with many excellent caueats and rules fit to be obserued by those princes and states of Christendome, both Protestants and papists, which haue reason to distrust the designes of the King of Spaine, as by the speech of the Duke of Hernia, vttered in the counsell of Spaine, and hereto annexed, may appeare. Written in Italian by Traiano Boccalini ... And now translated into English for the benefit of this kingdome.; De' ragguagli di Parnaso. English	Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613.; Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Florio, John, 1553?-1625.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626. Newes from Pernassus.; Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613. Pietra del paragone politico.	1626 (1626)	STC 3185; ESTC S106274	157,616	256

lament at the great inequalitie which they saw betwixt the Husband and the Wife in the particular punishment of Adultery so that women could not rest contented to see men in such wise free that the punishment of shame which alone was wont to terrifie honourable persons did now lesse serue to restraine them from committing against their wiues these beastly and libidinous defaults In which dissolute courses they said that they proceeded so far that many Husbands were not onely not ashamed to keepe openly Concubines in their houses but had oftentimes presumed to make them partakers of the sacred bed of Matrimonie These abuses came to passe by reason that the Lawes had not prouided the like punishment against the offending Husbands as were thundred out and practised against adulterous Wiues And that in this case the Lawes shewed too much fauour vnto maried men in allowing them to reuenge the iniurie with their owne hands at the time when they hapned to take their wiues in the adulterous act By which notorious aggrieuances the Sexe of women being so much wronged were now forced to repaire vnto the cleare fountaine of true Iustice to the end that by publishing equall punishment in the equalitie of the self-same fault there might be some competent remedy ministred for their oppressions And that if this did not stand with Apolloes good will and pleasure there might be at leastwise the like liberty granted vnto them in this particular of Adultery to keepe amorous seruants or to marry againe as many men aduentured to doe After which liberty granted them they would not perhaps make vse thereof but only in terrorem tantùm vnder colour of law to be enabled to bridle their loose and lustfull Husbands Vnto this demand of the Lady Victoria Apollo answered that the Law of Fidelitie betwixt the Husband and the Wife ought to be indeed equall and that the defect and breach thereof ought to be punished no lesse in the one than in the other but that in the Wife a more exquisite and perfect chastitie was required for the great and weighty respect to know the certainty of their children to which end Nature had assigned them the noble vertue of Chastitie the which was so necessarie for procreation of humane kinde that without it the children should both lose their inheritance and their fathers affection A thing so true that Nature herselfe hath most prouidently allotted chaste wiues to all liuing creatures of the earth where the Male concurres for the industrious hatching of the Egge or for the nourishing of their young ones all to the end that the carke of the fathers being imployed for their children welfare should proue somewhat pleasing and that their charge should redound to comfort and to great gaine in time to come At these words the Lady Victoriaes beautifull cheeks were stained with an honourable blush who with a Roman ingenuitie confessed vnto his Maiestie the simplicitie of her demand and said that indeed it were a great shame and dishonour to the sexe of women if in the pretious gift of chastitie they suffred themselues to be ouercome of those vnreasonable liuing creatures who although they pursue no other thing than pleasure yet neuerthelesse doe they very religiously obserue Chastitie because they would not anger the fathers of their young ones by their wandring and inordinate lust And for the important reason that Husbands desired to haue their wiues chaste the lawes against adulterous women were too fauourable because the wound which the vnchaste Husband giues his Wife did only pierce the skin whereas the Wife by her lasciuious deeds doth stab and kill her Husband with the poniard of euerlasting infamy and also doth disparage her children CHAP. 13. A Poetaster for playing at Cards and deuising the Game called Triumph or Trump is brought before Apollo who after he had deeply entred into the mysticall meaning of the said Game not only dismisseth him but granteth him an yearely pension to instruct his Courtiers in that new Art TO the end that the Ignorant with the filthinesse of their most beastly minds should not profane the vertuous places at Parnassus Apollo many yeares since caused two companies of Skeltenicall Poets dogrel Rimers men that made verses at random and very aduentrous at ruffianly conceits to come out of Sicily whose office was to scoure the countrey and to cleare the coast of vagabonds These about eight daies past tooke prisoner a Poetaster that had beene capitally banished from Parnassus who although he was forbidden the vse of all books and the exercise of his pen notwithstanding as it were in despite of Apollo and in contempt of the sacred Muses he defiled paper with his dissolute rimes and at last proceeded so far in his audacious arrogancie that he assumed vnto himselfe the Soueraigne name of a Poet. This exorbitant fault of his became aggrauated with a paire of Cardes which those Catchpoles in searching him had found in his pocket for which being likewise a notorious Vice and worthy of death they brought him incontinently with the said Cardes before Apollo who when he saw them was wonderfully amazed at the brutish inuention which the vicious had found out to cast away their pretious time to consume their reputation and to spend their meanes But much more was his Maiestie astonished when he vnderstood that men now a dayes were growne to such a height of folly that they vsed to call that thing a Play or Game whereat they dealt so cruelly in good earnest And further that they esteemed it a delight sport and pastime to put in suspence and to doubtfull compromise that money which was gotten with so much toyle and cares and serued so necessary for such great vses that without it this present world would take Aristotle to bee an ignorant foole and Alexander the Great a base Plebeian Then Apollo askt the Prisoner what game at Cards was most familiar vnto him and because he answered that it was Trumps or Triumph his Maiestie willed him to play it The Prisoner obeyed and plaide which when Apollo had obserued penetrated into the magiste●iall lessons and secrets of the Game he cried out that this Game of Trumpe was the true Philosophy of Courtiers the most necessarie Science which all men ought to learne that would not be thought innocents or simple-witted And shewing how much the affront done vnto the prisoner did displease him he inlarged him presently and honoured him with the title of a Vertuous man And the next morning commanded his Officers to erect vp a publike Schoole where with a stipend of fiue hundred Crownes a yeare that notable Person for the common good should reade as a Lecture that excellent Game of Trumpe and vpon a grieuous penalty to be imposed hee charged the Platonicks Peripateticks the Stoicks and other Philosophers specially the Morall and to all other the Vertuous crew residing at Parnassus that they should learne this most necessarie Science the which because they should

cannot yeeld vnto God to whom vengeance belongeth and from whom wee must all acknowledge our liues liuing and liberty to proceed This Varchi spake when Lodouico Dulce began the deliuery of his Opinion that if that were true which all confessed that the rarest and most prized greatnesse that might be considered in a Prince was to disarme with facilitie and without danger one of his war-like Generals and to receiue of him exact and conformable obedience for all that that this Generall did aforehand know and long before his returne how his Prince grew in suspition of his loyalty or in dislike of his seruice Then this custome vsual in the state of Venice deserued more to be wondred at then any other to be able to disarme with great ease their Generals and Admirals at Sea Yea and at such time when they vnderstood how the Senate was earnestly bent to punish them at their returne notwithstanding that they found themselues very strong beloued of their souldiers and powerfull enough to offend the State or to defend themselues from shame it alwayes fell out that assoone as euer they were sent for they readily and presently obeyed voluntarily they resigned ouer their charge and publike command and withall speed hastned to Venice to be sentenced by their friends and Citizens though with Capitall punishment which they willingly endured rather then to hazard the losse of their Countrey by vnnaturall innouations and ciuill warres So deare vnto them is the care of the Common safetie The most excellent Venetian Lady who without answering any thing to the Vertuous aboue-named had attentiuely heard all these commendable Orders and admirable Prerogatiues said to Dulce that the matter which he related was indeed of great consequence yet not so rare but that the Ottoman Emperours likewise participated of the like benefit Howbeit neuerthelesse there was one singular Prerogatiue which she most exactly possessed and wherein she excelled all other Principalities as well of the ancient as present times whereto she acknowledged and ascribed all her Greatnesse the which as yet she did not heare any of them as much as touch Then spake Hieronymus Mercurialis that while he read the Physicke Lecture at the Vniuersitie of Padua hee knew some of the Plebeian and common sort at Venice that went in their Gundoloes to disport themselues vpon the water with some young Courtezans according to their common custome and there being mightily misused by certaine young Noble-men whom they casually met it chanced that these Plebeians slew one of them in the affray For which offence vpon complaint made by the parties friends the Plebeians were sent for by the Iudges who although they knew the power of the Law to be in the hands of the Nobilitie whom they had offended neuer fled but trusting in the vprightnesse and integrity of the Senate and Magistrates they doubted not to appeare before them and to yeeld themselues prisoners Neither did their hopes faile them for vpon consideration of the cause giuen in euidence for their defence how they were prouoked first by those young Noble-men they were enlarged and pronounced innocent to the honour of the Venetians vncorrupted Iustice so that neither powerfull parentage greatnesse of friends nor abundance of wealth can blinde and diuert the Iudges of Venice to wrong any man Last of all these vertuous States-men spake the most learned Hermolaus Barbarus that in a free State Tyranny begins then to vsurpe and worke when the most weightie secrets concerning the generall good of the Common-wealth are communicated to a few Senators And for this cause the most Soueraigne Lady of Venice to auoid shipwreake on that dangerous rockie shelfe imparted her Secrets and deliberated the designes and pragmatickes of greatest import wherein her state was interessed in her highest Court of Magistracy or Parliament of the Pregadi a number cōsisting of two hundred and fiftie Senators and vpwards and to him it appeared to be a miraculous thing how the Venetian State could finde among so great a number of Senators that Secrecie which many great Potentates for all their exquisite diligence and large entertainment of gifts and rewards had bootlesse sought in one only Secrtarie or in a couple of Counsellors of State At these words the most excellent Venetian Lady laid her hand on the shoulders of Barbarus and pronounced this verdict Now thou hast hit the naile on the head and named that most pretious Iewell wherein I most glory and prize my selfe aboue all other States and for which indeed I ought to be iustly emulated and enuied at seeing that nothing else appertaines for the true gouernment and managing of State-businesse more necessary than Secracie CHAP. 11. The Doctors of the Chaire hauing admitted into their Vniuersitie some famous Poeticall Ladies Apollo commands them to be dismissed home to their Families THe famous Doctors of the Chaire about a few moneths past admitted the most vertuous Ladies Victoria Colonna Laura Terracina and other learned Poeticall Ladies of Parnassus into their Academicall Corporation where they vsed times to resort to their publike exercises But it chanced so that many Schollers enamoured with the beautie of these Ladies did not only flocke oftner than they were accustomed into the Schooles whensoeuer they vnderstood that these Ladies repaired thither but also consumed their pretious time and wits in composing of amorous Sonnets which they dedicated vnto these Ladies as if they were Goddesses with such rare conceits and lofty tunes as eclipsed the glory of the Muses themselues At length the sauour of these Sonnets though fragrant and sweet in the Schollers apprehensions offended Apolloes diuine nostrills worse than the stinke of a Blackamore For which cause before the end of these Ladies probationship and their matriculation his Maiestie charged the Cathedrall Doctors to dismisse them out of the Vniuersitie His reason was because he well saw out of his Diuine knowledge that the true poetry of women were the Needle the Distaffe and the Wheele and that the Schoole exercises of Ladies among Vniuersitie men might well be likened vnto the dalliance and playing of Dogs which after some fained snarling catching and gamesome tossing one another doe conclude their sport in riding and mounting vpon their play-fellowes backs CHAP. 12. The Lady Victoria Colonna intreats of Apollo that the infamie which women incurred for cuckolding their Husbands might likewise extend to adulterous Husbands Apolloes answer THe most Excellent Lady Victoria Colonna a Princesse of exemplarie chastitie about three daies past appeared in his Maiesties Court of Audience and in the name of all womankind said that they all loued the excellencie of chastitie which was naturally giuen them for a most particular vertue that they did not awhit enuy Courage a vertue attributed to mans sexe because they well knew that a Lady without the soule of chastitie which renders her odoriferous to the world was but a stinking carcasse yet notwithstanding it seemed vnto them that they had much cause to grieue and