Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	part_n	way_n	1,424	5	4.6103	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01694	A vvomans vvoorth, defended against all the men in the world Proouing them to be more perfect, excellent, and absolute in all vertuous actions, then any man of what qualitie soeuer. Written by one that hath heard much, seene much, but knowes a great deale more.; Paradoxe apologique, où il est fidellement démonstré que la femme est beaucoup plus parfaite que l'homme en toute action de vertu. English	Pontaymeri, Alexandre de, d. 1618.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633, attributed name.; Gibson, Anthony.	1599 (1599)	STC 11831; ESTC S105731	43,550	162

A WOMANS Woorth defended against all the men in the world Proouing them to be more perfect excellent and absolute in all vertuous actions then any man of what qualitie soeuer Written by one that hath heard much seene much but knowes a great deale more Patere aut abstine Imprinted at London by Iohn Wolfe and are to be solde at his shop in Popes head Alley neere the Exchange 1599. To the Right Honorable Lady Elizabeth Countesse of South-hampton TRuely honor'd Lady and by me for many your great fauours to bee euer more then honoured As some testimony of my dutifull remembrance to answere by humble thankfulnesse what all other meanes vtterly dis-able me of some part of such your especiall open handed graces receiued I offer you a translated Apologie of womens faire vertues written in French by a Lord of great reckoning giuen by him to a very honorable Dutchesse since translated by a fellow and friend of myne now absent who gaue me trust to see it should not wander in the world vnregarded or depriued of that beatitude which makes bookes respected whereto animated beside by diuers my good friends I haue noble Lady the rather thus presumed If eyther then for the subiect my selfe or my friendes sake it may seeme any way pleasing to you the French Lord neuer thought his labour halfe so graced as I will continually confesse our fortunes honored Your Honours euer obliged ANTHONY GIBSON To the Right Honourable the Countesse of South-hampton THe loue most honor'd Lady that I owe To your high vertues cannot be confin'd In words or phrases nor can paper showe The obiect-lesse endeuours of my mind How then shall any though the purest spirit That sucks the seau'n-fold flower of art expresse The genuine glories of your Angell-merit Which shine the more in that you make them lesse Now could I wish I had a plenteous braine That thence as from Inuentions clearest floud Those formes might flow composd in a rich vaine That crowne your noblesse and enrich your bloud Thē would my zeale breake forth like mornings fier That now lyes spent in sparkes of my defier To the worthy Ladyes and vertuous Maydes of Honor to her royal Maiesty Mistresse Anne Russell Mistresse Margaret Ratcliffe Mistresse Mary Fitten and the rest c. VErtuous Ladies and Right Honorable Maides attending on the only vertuous Ladye and Maide in the world the duteous affection I beare yee and the vnualuable respected graces receiued from you seuerally is the onlie aduocate must plead for my present boldnesse what he can say for mee is but returne of humble thankefulnesse what hee expectes from you is but excuse from presumption and fauourable acceptaunce both which meeting in no misinterpreted cōstruction you shal remaine for euer honored I in my sute right fully satisfied A friend fellow seruant with me to her Maiesty hauing left in trust with me this litle treatise being a Paradoxe Apologicall of womens vertues written in French by an honorable person and Dedicated by him to a worthy Dutchesse knowing my friendes intent to sute with mine that on you rather then any other the same should be bestowed as only true Ideas of vertue and glories of your sexe In his absence though yet in his harts meaning I know I offer both his good will and mine thus ioyntly together If you giue it but good lookes it is all I desire but if it may gayne your very least good word his labour and my loue are most highly answered In which hope as to hope otherwise from so true spirits were well worthy reproofe I humbly commit this translation to your fauourable perusing and my very vttermost trauailes to beat your commaunding Yours euer most deuoted ANTHONY GIBSON To the Honorable Mistresse Anne Russell LAdy to whom my true deuoted loue Hath been engadgd in more then wit can pay Which to discharge the more I still haue stroue The more in deepe arrearedge euery day So much from me vnto your selfe is due That all my thoughts vnto the debt must runne Yet is there more remaining vnto you And as these crosd so others are begun Dearest of dearest take in thankefull part This sacrifice which may my will approoue Vppon the Aulter of a faithfull heart Consumed in the flames of zeale and loue True honourable Virgin euer liue In all that arte that time that fame can giue To the Honourable Mistresse Margaret Ratcliffe TO you deare Nimph whose wit and forme enflames A world of spirits with wonder of your graces That in their strength pursew no higher ames Then how to giue your bounties soueraigne places I heere am bolde to make extent of will Though not of power Pardon my first essay I goe by night now to the Muses hill But I may liue to drinke there at Mid-day O then my soule shall flow through my cleare vaines And taking light from your bright vertues spheare Pay richer duties in farre-sweeter straines Tun'd to your worth and set to euery eare Had I a Spencers spirit a Daniels powers Th'extracted quintessence were only yours To the Honorable Mistresse Fitten THis testimonie of my true hearts zeale Faire and for euer honord vertuous maide To your kinde fauour humbly dooth appeale That in construction nothing be mis-saide Those fierie spirits of high temperd wit That drinke the dewe of heauen continually They could haue graced you with termes more fit Then can my lowlie poore weake ingenie Let not my loue yet slightly passe respect Deuoted onely to your excellence Winke woorthy Virgin at my lines defect Let will extenuate what ere offence It is no bountie that is giuen from store Who giues his hart what gift can he giue more FINIS To all the Honorable Ladies and Gentlewomen of England LAdies and most perfecte Ideas of all vertues I haue so many times admired your rare perfections brought from the Theater of the very best assemblies thorow Europe that hauing combated with mine owne naturall affections which till then had no matter of maruaile offered them of necessity now must needes by right confesse that you are the onely wonders of time and eternity And that I am not misse-led heerein Mercurius Trismegistus stands foorth in your cause and thus defends yee against all your enemies A soule enclosed within a body purely celestiall where the notes of whatsoeuer disanulling are not to be discerned because their period can alter no part of a true nature For no way are her ordinary functions weakned but onely in strengthning the vertue of the minde So that she is no way to bee dissolued but may well chaunge into a forme more conuenable and agreeing with the quality of her Demon Ladies you are such as Sappho describes ye to be With child of Honor rich in all good grace Splendant in vertue which them both surpasse A piercing eye and carried with such state As the worlds Torch may light it selfe thereat Euen as Apollo from Auroraes lookes Gildes all this goodly rounde darkest nookes