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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	answer_v	young_a	youth_n	42	3	8.3005	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20028	The defence of contraries Paradoxes against common opinion, debated in forme of declamations in place of publike censure: only to exercise yong wittes in difficult matters. Wherein is no offence to Gods honour, the estate of princes, or priuate mens honest actions: but pleasant recreation to beguile the iniquity of time. Translated out of French by A.M. one of the messengers of her Maiesties Chamber.; Paradoxes, ce sont propos contre la commune opinion. English. Selections	Estienne, Charles, 1504-ca. 1564.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.; Landi, Ortensio, ca. 1512-ca. 1553. Paradossi.; Duval, Jean-Baptiste, d. 1632, attributed name.	1593 (1593)	STC 6467; ESTC S105222	52,873	110

companion to her husband only but indeed Ladye and mistresse ouer her house and familie And if for example the reports of fundry places might serue I would aboue all other willinglie perswade ye to this one That I being one day at Lions deuising priuately with a very faire and young woman as is the manner in this Citty heere we entred into talke concerning the braue fashion of a garment which one of his neighbours ware and hadde caused newly to be made When I gaue her councell to haue such another she began to sigh maruelouslie Now I knew her husband to be rich inough able to content her in a greater desire and not to giue her one but a doozen farre better wherefore Lady quoth I why speake ye not to your husband who can and will heerein satisfie ye She answered she durst not neither would she require it bicause she had not yet as so wel deserued but if it pleased God to fauour her so much as to sende her one or twoe sweet yong babes she shoulde haue the meanes to aske of him other thinges then a new gowne It happened according to her wishe that a yeere after she was deliuered of two male children at one burthen so soone as she saw her desire accomplished she who before had beene so kind and louing to her husband began to holde all her housholde in such subiection as the poore Gentleman had no better helpe but euen to forsake his house now beholde what fruite comes by this kind of domesticall increase As for the aduantages that ensue by barrennesse I finde so great a number of them as it is impossible for me to acquaint yee with them all First of all if thou haue a barren wife consider thou shalt not need to doe as many doe nursse other folks childrē It shall not displease thee to heare the stir she makes when thy wife is sicke with childe nor shalt thou abide the painefull trouble during the month of her downe-liyng nor shalt thou heare the cryinges and cradle-noise to waken thee out of thy first sleepe Thou shalt bee free from the strifes and perpetuall molestations of iniurious and vnnaturall nursses And to conclude thou shalt not feele that yikesome anguish in seeing them die by thee or in thy presence Witnesse heereof let serue the wise Solon who being one day gone to visite his friend Thales that then for more quietnes of studie was gone not far off frō the Citty of Myletum And seeing no children goe vp and downe before his house he maruelled greatlie thereat and conceiued but rudely of Thales that hee hadde no care of linage to ensue him Thales within few daies after would returne the like to his companion and came to visite him euen in his lodging And while they discoursed on many thinges there entred to them a yong Lad who before hadde beene instructed for the purpose by Thales he said that he was come from Athens to see the Phylosopher and to enquire if he would command him any thing thither for which cause only came nowe to salute him Solon dilligentlie enquired of him if hee knew any matter of newes and how all things fared at Athens The yong youth answered he knewe no other thing but the death of an honest wise yong man for whom all the Cittie mourned and lamented at his departing because he was saide to be the son of a wise Philosopher of that Cyttie who as then was absent and euery one accounted well of him but his name he had then vtterlie forgotten O poor and vnhappie father cried out Solon being mooued with feare and trembling Then afterwarde cariyng suspition of his owne sonne in his minde he could not forbeare from demaunding if perhaps the name of the dead childes father was not Solon he answered that it was Solon for so he heard him called Then the poore Philosopher began to weepe and to beate his head against the faire walles so that if he had not swouned in the place he was in danger had the doores beene open to haue runne into the fieldes and there haue raunged vp and downe as madde or frantike Thales seeing himselfe reuenged and that he had preuailed enough against him after he had dawned him to remembrance by the helpe of vinager and colde water he saide Now thou seest Solon the cause which hath with-held me so carefully from listening to the desire of children in that it can so easily offend the sence of such a man as thou art whome I esteemed the firmest and most constant in the worlde Afterward he let him vnderstand the fallacie to shew him whence proceeded his slender affection to haue any linage I would faine learne of him that is so earnestlie this way addicted how doth a woman knowe what her children will be when shee hath brought them foorth For but by the issue of women had euer the Romaine Empire beene tormented with such horrible monsters as were Caligula Nero Commodus and Bascianus Had they euer liued vppon the earth if Marcus Antonius Domitian and Septimius had not byn married or at least had met with barren women Augustus would often wish that of his wiues hee might neuer haue children and woulde many times call his daughter and Neece two horse-leaches that destroied and eate vppe his daies with great and extreame greefes The selfe-same words might poor Agripina haue vsed who was mother to the cruel and hated Nero. Likewise the good father to Phraates K. of Parthia when he beheld his sonne so cruelly slain and at length without any remorse of conscience the homicidiall sworde to be sheathed in his owne poore and ouer-wearied aged bodie Epaminondas a king of so high spirit and most noble wisedome liued a long time without marriyng when being one day reproched and bearded by Pelops as in the way of reprehension for making no regard of procreation of children for aide of the common wealth which already declined and fell to ruine he returned him this quicke answer Take heed that thou hast not doone worse than I for the Common wealth by such seed as thou shalt leaue behind thee Heereon they elected one of his sonnes who was of such an infamous and wicked disposition as he hoped for nothing more then to bring all thinges to confusion What shall I say of Mithridates who by desire to succeede in the kingdome of Pontus seeing the ambushes he hadde secretly prepared against his father sorted to none effect made open warre against him assailed him very dishonorably for to depose him And what may be said of Lotharius sonne to K. Lewes who hauing suspition that he was not so well beloued as his brother Charles found the meanes to imprison his father I might in this place produce the deede of C. Thuranius Antipater of Gal●en sonne to the Emperour Valerian and of infinite other homicides or rather paricides But I will not trouble yee with multitude of examples in a matter not to bee any way