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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	holy_a	lord_n	1,489	5	3.6721	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10054	A treatise of the nobilitie and excellencye of vvoman kynde, translated out of Latine into englysshe by Dauid Clapam; Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus. English	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Clapham, David, d. 1551.; Margaret, of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, 1480-1530.	1542 (1542)	STC 203; ESTC S104365	25,704	101

man beinge ouer aged vnmeete for mariage or otherwise vnlusty to do the dedes of Venus had maried a maiden it shoulde be laufull for his wyfe to chose a goodly and a tall younge manne to dalye and play with her and the chylde gotten betwene theym shoulde be ascribed to her housbande and not to be called a bastarde and though those lawes were made and establyshed yet we rede not that they were kepte not so moche through the sturdynesse of the men as by the chastitie of the womenne refusynge those lawes ¶ There be innumerable excellent women whiche with notable clennesse of lyfe and perfet wiuely loue haue farre passed al men as Abigail the wyfe of Naball Arthemisia the wyfe of Nausoleus Argia the wyfe of Policinis a Chebane Iulia the wife of Pompeius Portia the wyfe of Cato Cornelia the wife of Gracchus Messalina the wife of Sulpice Alceste the wyfe of Admetus Hypsicratea the wife of Mithridates kynge of Pontus and also Dido the buylder of Carthage and the Romayn Lucrece and Sulpitia the wyfe of Lentulus There be innumerable other whose hartes were so fyxed on vyrgynitie and chastitie that the very dethe coulde not remoue theym of whom thexamples are manyfest and playne as Athlanta Calidonia Camilla Volsca Iphigenia of Grece Cassandra and Crise With these gone the Vyrgynes of Lacedemonye of Spartane of Milesia of Thebes with other innumerable of whome the storyes of the Hebrewes of the Grekes and of other Macyons doo make mencyon the whyche estemed vyrginite aboue kyngdomes yea and aboue theyr very lyues ¶ If the examples also of pitie and louing kyndnes be required amonge al other Claudia Vestalis towarde her father and that poore yonge woman of the whiche we spake afore towardes her mother are wonderfull ¶ But here some enuious felow wyl obiect ageinst those thynges the deadely mariages of Sampson of Iason of Deiphebus of Agamemnon and such other tragedies on whyche as saythe the prouerbe if a man loke throughly with clere eies he shall fynde that theyr wyues are falsely blamed of the whyche neuer chaunced vnto a good man one yll For yll wyues neuer chaunce but to ylle husbandes vnto whome all though the good somtyme chāce yet their husbandes vyces make them naught ¶ If it had bene laufull for women to make lawes too wryte histories how gret tragedies trowye wolde they haue writen of the inestimable malice of men amōg whom many ben murtherers theues rauishers of vyrgins periurers robbers burners of houses traytours of whome also in the tyme of Iosue Dauid the king so greatte a multitude were murtherers robbers that they were able to make princes capytaynes ouer theyr companies Yea and at this day there is an infinite number of them For all prisons be filled with men and al the galowes in euerye place be loded with the carcases of men But contrarye wyse womenne were the fyrste inuentours of all honest craftes of all vertue and benefittes Whiche thyng the very names of sciences and vertues beinge of the femynine gender do playnly specifye Whereof this is a notable profe that the circuite of the hole world is callyd by the names of women that is to say of the Nymph Asia of Europa the doughter of Agenor of Libia the doughter of Epaphus the whiche is also callid Aphrica And finally to recite all kyndes of vertue a woman shall euery where obteyne the hygheste place For the vyrgin Mary was a woman the whyche fyrst dydde vowe her vyrginitie to god and thereby deserued to be the mother of god The womenne prophetes were euermoore inspyred with a more diuine spyrite than the men Whiche thynge is welle knowen by that Lactātius Eusebius and Augustine wytnessen of the Sibylles ¶ So Mary the syster of Moses prophecied And whan Ieremye was taken prysoner his vncles daughter Olda rose vp and prophecied beyonde mans reache to the people of Israell atte the poynte redy to peryshe Lette vs serche holy scripture and we shall fynde that women in constancye in feythe and in other vertues ar commended farre aboue men as in Iudith Ruth Hester the whiche with so great glory and praise were celebrate and honored that holy bokes beare their names And all though Abraham for the stedfastnes of his fayth is called in scripture a iuste man by cause he surely beleued in god yet for al that he muste submyt hym selfe to his wyfe Sara For by y e voyce of the lorde he was cōmanded thus What so euer Sara saythe to the here her voyce So Rebecca beleuyng stedfastly went to aske god certayne questions and she being reputed worthy harde this oracle or aunswere of god Two maner of folke are in thy bealy and two maner of people shall be deuyded from thy bealy And the wydowe Sareptana gaue credence to Helias all thoughe it were harde to beleue that he tolde her So zachary rebuked of the aungell for his incredulitie was dumme and his wife Elizabeth with her wōbe and voyce prophecied is praysed bicause she beleued faithfully and she afterwarde praysed the most blessed virgin Mary saying Blessed art thou whyche dyddest beleue those thynges that were spoken to the of the lord So Anna the prophetesse after the reuelation of Simeon cōfessed god spake of him to al that wold here whyche loked for the redemption of Israel And Phylip had foure vyrgins to his doughters which dyd prophecy What shall I saye of her the samaritan with whom Christe spake at the well and beinge fedde with the faythe of this beleuing womā refused the meate that the apostelles broughte To these may be ioyned the faithefull woman of Chananee and the woman dyseased with the blouddye flyxe Was not also the faith and confessyon of Martha lyke the confessyon of Peter The Gospell wytnesseth howe greate constācy of faith was in Mary Magdaleyn For whyle the pristes and Iewes crucyfyed Christe she wepeth she bringeth oyntmentes vnto the Crosse she seeketh in the Tombe she asketh the gardyner for hym she aknowledgeth god she gothe to the apostles and sheweth them that he is rysen They were in doubte therof but she beleued it verily Ageyn what shall I saye of that holy woman Priscilla the whiche instructed Apollo apostolycke man perfitely lerned in the lawe and byshoppe of the Corinthians Nor it was no shame for a postell to lerne of a woman what he shulde teache in the churche ¶ Moreouer they that haue shewed the stedfastnes of theyr faith by sufferyng of Martyrdom and by the dispisynge of deathe be no fewer in number than men Nor that wonderfull mother shuld be lefte vnspoken of so worthy to be remembred the whiche not onely behelde her .vii. sonnes putte to deathe by most cruell martyrdom but also she boldly exhorted them stedfastlye to dye And she aboue all thynges trustyng in god was after her