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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	good_a	soul_n	2,711	5	5.0049	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12570	A looking glasse for maried folkes Wherein they may plainly see their deformities; and also how to behaue themselues one to another, and both of them towards God. Set forth dialogue-wise for the more tastable and plainnesse sake. By R. S.	Snawsel, Robert.	1610 (1610)	STC 22886; ESTC S106906	42,687	118

Abigail the fathers ioy Eulalie wel-spoken Xantip a scold Margerie a proud malapert Ben-ezer an helper Eulaly GOOD Morrow neighbor Xantip how do you to day did you see my gossip Margerie Xantip No I saw her not to day but mee thinks you are fairer then ordinary Eulal What do you begin to frump me Xant No truly you seeme to mée to bée very smug Eulal Peraduenture my new gowne sets a glosse on my face Xant I promise you you say true indeed I haue not seene a goodlier a great while I take it to bee made of English wooll Eul. The wooll indeed is from England but it was died in Venice Xant Truely it is a most gallant gowne the softnesse of it passeth silke and what a fine purple colour is it of Eul. It is true I like it well indeed but looke who comes yonder Xant It is Margerie whom you asked for Oh huge how braue is shée you haue onely a new gowne but shee is new from toppe to toe Abigail And yet I feare me her soule is as old as Adam and as filthy as the Serpent Xant Where were you that we saw you not before now Abig. Little had you thought that I had bene so neare you till you saw me Xant No for if I had I would not haue sworne so as I did Abig. Alas I heard thee with griefe and thought to haue told thee of it at time conuenient but were you not afraid lest God should see you and heare you sweare so horribly Xant I know well that God seeth all things but he is mercifull Abig. And as he is mercifull so also is he iust Xant Welcome Margerie welcome Marg. God a mercie good Xantip how dost thou Xant Better to see you so fresh and well liking mee thinks you are too too braue your gown is most stately made your neckerchiefe is of the finest cambricke your stomacher is most gallantly wrought and euery thing about you is so in print that it doth mee good to looke vpon you Marg. Woman I may speake it amongst vs here I will haue it so Xant And the more is my griefe that I cannot haue it so too Abig. I pray you neighbours talke no more of those things why should wee busie our minds so much about this outward apparell which onely sets out the body and many times makes vs forget both God and our selues Therefore I pray you good neighbours let vs regard this outward decking lesse the inward adorning of our selues more Marg. What shall wée haue of you a Puritane Abig. I pray you Margerie vse no more such scoffing speeches Marg. And I pray you Abigail tel mee doe you not thinke better of your selfe then of any of vs Abig. If you aske me to be bettered by my speech I will tell you what I thinke of my selfe Eul. Truly I do Abigail Abig. I think in my conscience that I am a poore sinfull and miserable woman in my selfe not worthy to liue vpon the earth onely in and by Christ Iesus I hope to bee made eternally happy Eulal What are you poore and miserable haue you not riches the world at will and haue you not a louing husband which makes much of you Abig. Alacke Eulaly thou art an honest ciuill woman I must needs say but yet thou speakest very carnally What is all my riches if I had 10000 times more then I haue if that I bee not rich in Christ Iesus and what though I could rule the whole world which way I would if I haue not peace of conscience and what if I haue a louing husband if I haue not a good husband Eul. Are you not rich in Christ haue you not peace of conscience and haue you not also a louing and good husband Abig. Because you protested that you asked me to be bettered by me I will make my case knowne vnto you in your eare It is many times thus with me when I thinke vpon my riches and the aboundance of wealth which God hath bestowed vpon my husband and me then sathan suggesteth euill motions in my heart and my corrupt affections break forth in my life so that often I thinke better of my selfe then I ought and that I may neglect to worke with my hands and that I may haue this and that fashion of apparell because other of my calling haue the same and that I may eate this dainty thing or that and that I may either sit vp idly in the night or lye longer then ordinary in the morning And on the other side while I thus pride my selfe in my apparell and walke idly out of my calling and pamper this sinfull carcase with delicious fare I haue not respect vnto some of my poore members nay vnto Christs members as I ought I speake this to my shame that selfe loue is so much in me which quenches the spirit of God and depriues me many times of his fauour and the excellent graces of his spirit then my conscience is troubled and disquieted and then it is such a griefe vnto me that I haue not a good husband howsoeuer I confesse indeed I haue a louing husband Eul. What meane you by a good husband Abig. By a good husband I meane a religious husband which should be my partener and helper not onely in bodily and worldly things but especially in spiritual and heauenly that we might draw Christs yoke equally together that so in and through Christ wee might bee glorified together I tel you neighbour you will hardly beleeue what a comfor it would bee vnto mee if hee would tender my soule as he doth my body nay if he would tender his owne soule Indeed he will not be against any good thing I doe I thanke God for it but here is my griefe that he will not bee partener of the good with mee which is the cause when I am sicke or afflicted in conscience as many times I am humbled for my sins I blesse God for it then I say he cannot minister spirituall comfort to me Onely this he wil say how dost thou wife or God helpe thee which I take kindly but alas it is farre from that which the Apostle exhorts men vnto namely that they should dwell with their wiues as men of knowledge that is if the woman be ignorant as the most are he should instruct and informe her in the waies of the Lord if she heare any thing preached or at publicke disputations whereof shee stands in doubt shee should aske her husbande iudgement at home and he should be able to resolue her he should be able through God to comfort her in affliction and to reioyce with her in prosperity I do not meane any outward or fleshly ioy so much as that which is spirituall and heauenly Marg. What is that which you two are whispering together of so long I doe not think but it was about some religious matters for Abigail loues to talke of nothing else mee thought I heard now and then a sound

credit nor profit whē the streame runs with violence this way What a horrible sinne is it that the woman should vsurpe the mans authority the poore man dares not do any thing but what his wife wil and as she saith so it must bee or else the house will not hold her neither will she looke vpon him without lumping and lowring if any describe the vglines of her countenāce in the time of her anger she will scarce be friends with them Oh therfore Oh therefore that these masterly dames would but glasse themselues that they might see their rugged browes their fiery eyes pouching mouthes their blacke and poysoned tonges which vtter horrible blasphemies both against God and men especially against their husbands whom they should loue most dearely So heere is the cause why many men thinke it their greatest wisdome to possesse their soules in patience and to passe by many grieuances in our sexe Onely this is the refuge of those that are godly to comfort themselues in the Lord their God Therefore well saith Salmon It is better to liue in the wildernesse with a dinner of greene hearbes then to haue a stalled oxe or to liue in a wide house with a contentious woman Marg. I will be sworne if there were but thrée or foure moe here if they were of my mind wee would teach you how to defame shame vs on this manner Eul. You defame and shame your selues I onely shew what shrewes are and those that will neither be ruled by God nor their husbands as he that toucheth not pitch shall not be defiled so she that is not of this stocke and linage is not blamed Xant Let her alone good Eulaly and tel me how did you after your husband was in bed Eulal When his stomack was emptied and he come to himselfe when he was not stirred in his affections nor troubled with other actions but he and I alone either in bed or in some conuenient place I would gently admonish him or rather intreat him that he would haue a care of the health of his body to auoid that sin to bee ouercome with drinck telling him of such young men yea gallant gentlemen as he knew who got surfets by so ouercharging their stomacks also with weeping eies I would intreat him to haue a care of his estate and credit children and seruants lest the one should be vndone by his spending their portions and the other by following his vnseemely course of life This was the manner of my proceeding with him seasoning my speeches in the best manner that they might not be distasted but digested of him Also sometimes I was wont to vse a preface and make him promise mee that hee would haue patience with me if I a simple woman should put him in minde of something that might tend to his credit or welfare any way whē I had told him my mind I would breake off that talke and fall into some other more delightful to him For gossip Xantip I may say to you that this is the weakenes of vs women that when wee haue begunne to speake wee are so talkatiue and full of words that wee wot not when to leaue Xant It is the pleasure of men indeed so to say of vs who haue no better sport then to speake of and report our infirmities but say on I pray you Eul. I had also a speciall care of this that I would not find fault with my husband for any thing in any bodies presence nor complaine of him abroad A matter is soone amended that is but betweene two and not blazed abroad But if the matter bee of such a nature that it cannot well be holpen by the wiues counsell it is a seemelier course that the wife make complaint to her husbands parents or some of his kindred rather then to her owne and also that she moderate her complaint tēper her speech so that she may seeme not to hate her husbands person but only his ill conditions Neither let her blab out all that so when her husband comes to heare of it by his friends that she hath spoken of his faultes with the least he may be forced to acknowledge his wiues courtesie and kind dealing to say as Saul did of Dauid She is more righteous then I. Xant She had neede be an Academick and brought vp in their schooles and Vniuersitie that should skill to do this as you haue set downe Eul. By this meanes we shall draw our husbands to shew vs the like kindnesse Xant There are some husbands whom no gentle intreaty will doe any good Eul. Truely I thinke there are few or none such but say there be first of al as I haue said before the husband must be borne endured and dwelled with though neuer so wretched and wicked euen a diuell incarnate Therefore it is farre better to beare with one like our selues or that may bee bettered by our courteous carriage then one that will be worse euery day then other by our ouerthwart crabbed behauiour Come on Margerie what will you say if I tell you of some husbands that haue reformed their wiues on this wise by their gentle carriage If they doe it how much more thē is it meet that we should do the same to our husbands Marg. If you can tell vs of a truth of any such I say they are rare swans and such husbands are hard to come by Eul. Why there are many such géese as you are will not bee ruled by them but continually will bee gagling at them Xant Shee hath such a swanne her selfe if she had eyes to se him or grace to make vse of him I would I had such another if I had I would thinke I had a rare Iewell Eul. I am acquainted with such another who is both a learned and a noble man and of an excellent good courage He married a young maid about 17. yeares old brought vp continually in the country as noble men you know haue a kind of felicity to dwell in the country that they may there hunt and hauke He would make choise of a plaine and homely wench to the intent he might better bring her to his bow He began to teach her to reade and to plaie on instruments by little and little to accustome her to make relation of some points deliuered in the Sermon and to traine her vp in other matters which were commendable profitable Now because these were strange and vncouth to the rude young woman which had liued quitely in her mothers kitchin among men and maid seruants she grew soone weary of them and would not obey her husband as you Margery wil not and when her husband vrged her to them shee would like a child put fingar in the eye and sometimes she would throw her selfe vpon the cold ground and beate her head against it as if shee would haue beaten out her braines Shee continued this course a good while her husband very wisely