Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bear_v	fruit_n	tree_n	1,451	5	8.5127	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94300	Pray be not angry: or, The womens new law: With their several votes, orders, rules, and precepts, to the London-prentices, both in Cheap-side, Lumbard-street, Fish-street, Gracious-street, Broad-street, Fleet-street, Newgate-market, the Strand, Convent-garden; and all other places whatsoever, in and about the City of London, or parts adjacent. Likewise, their rare presidents and instructions, both to young-men and old, for the choosing of a good wife, or vertuous mistress; and how they shall know and distinguish an honest woman from an enticing and dissembling whore. Printed according to order; being pleasant for young-men, profitable for old-men, and hurtful to none.	Thorowgood, G.	1656 (1656)	Wing T1064; Thomason E885_7; ESTC R207326	6,294	8

jealous conceit that she took and a merry fellow asking the cause why she hanged her self and being told that it was for jealousie I would said he that all Trees did bear such fruit In a word there is no woman but either she hath a long tongue or a longing tooth and they are two ill Neighbours if they dwell together for the one will lighten the purse if it be still pleased and the other will waken thee from thy sleep if it be not charmed It is strange of what kind of mettal a womans tongue is made that neither correction can chasten nor fair means quiet For there is a kind of venome in it that neither by fair means nor soul they are to be ruled All Beast by men are made tame but a womans tongue will never be tame it is but a smal thing and seldome seen but is often heard to the terrour and confusion of many a man Some with sweet words undermine their husband as Dalilah did Sampson and some with chiding and brawling are made weary of the world as Socrates and others Socrates when his wife did chide and brawl would go out of the house till all were quiet again but because he would not scould with her again it grieved her the more for on a time she watched his going out and threw a Chamber-pot out of a window on his head Ha ha quoth he I thought after all this thunder there would come rain Therefore as a sharp Bit curbs a froward Horse even so a curst woman must be roughly used but if women could hold their tongues three to one but men would hold their hands As the best metled blades are mixt with Iron even so the best woman that is is not free from faults the goodliest Gardens are not free from Weeds no more is the best nor fairest woman from ill deeds For who was adorned with more beauty then fair Venise in Cyprus and Rodepe in Aegypt yet both notorious Strumpets It is said that the gods themselves did change their shapes for the love of such women they lusted after Jupiter transformed himself into a Bull Neptune into a Horse and Mercury into a Goat Nay Sampson and Hercules for all their great strength and conquest of Gyants and Monsters yet the one yielded his Club at Delanira's foot and the other revealed his strength to Dalilah and paid his life for his folly Was not wise Solomon and holy David overcome by the sweet enticements of women And the great Captain Holofernes whose sight made many thousands to quake yet he lost his life and was slain by a woman Wherefore to avoid the sight many times is the best Razor to cut off the occasion of the evil which cometh by women for had not Holofernes seen the beauty of Judeth and marked the fineness of her foot he had not lost his head by her If Herod had not seen Herodias daughter dance he had not so rashly granted her St. John Baptists head Had not Eve seen the Apple and so was tempted with the beauty of the Serpent who as School-men write shewed himself like a fair young-man but had not she seen it I say she had not eaten thereof to her own grief and many more So that consequently he that lays his Net to catch a fair Woman he may chance to fall into the sprindge which was laid for a Woodcock therefore I do admonish young men and advise old men and I counsail simple men and I warn all men that they flye a wicked woman as from the pestilence or else she will make thee fly in the end FINIS