Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	father_n	son_n	2,571	5	5.5290	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26561	Female pre-eminence, or, The dignity and excellency of that sex above the male an ingenious discourse / written orignally in Latine by Henry Cornelius Agrippa ... ; done into English with additional advantages by H. C.; Declamation de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus. English	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1670 (1670)	Wing A784; ESTC R14394	35,504	110

said to be so exactly temper'd with Chastity and Holiness that though it captivated all hearts yet it never tempted any to folly so much as in thought Nor is Beauty only esteemed amongst Men but seems also to be particularly regarded even by God himself as indeed how can he but respect his own Reflection Thus we sometimes read him commanding all the Males even Children should be slain but the Women that were fair to be saved alive And in Deuteronomy liberty is indulged to the Israelites to take one of their Captives to Wife if she were beautifull which otherwise was unlawfull But besides this charming Excellency which not only invites but commands our admiration Woman is endowed with another natural Ornament not vouchsaft to Men her Hair growing to that becoming length as to veil those more reserved parts whereof Modesty commands concealment and indeed of that blushing Virtue this sweet Sex may justly challenge the far greatest share it having been o●t experienced That in desperate Diseases they have chosen to expose themselves to Deaths Imbraces rather than to the view and handling of Chyr●●gions for cure Nor can Death it self rifle them of this modest bashfulness for when drowned as Pliny relates and Experience proves they lye in the Water with their Faces downwards Nature sparing their Modesty whereas a Man in such case swims on his back exposing all his shame and nakedness to publick view Further the most worthy part of us whereby we chiefly differ from Brutes is the Head and of that especially the Face Now in Men that noble member the Head is often by Age or other Infirmity plundered of Hair its native Ornament and grows deformed with a despicable Baldness from which misfortune Women by an extraordinary priviledge of Nature are exempt As likewise their Faces remain alwayes smooth and comely whereas Mens are frequently so beset with over-grown Beards and sordid Hair that 't is difficult to distinguish them from Beasts whence by the Law of the Twelve Tables it was provided Women should not shave their ●heeks lest it might occasion the growth of Beards and destroy their native pudor and comeliness Now of the cleanness and purity of this Sex this oft-try'd Experiment cannot but be a proof beyond exception for when a Woman hath once washt her self clean let her wash again in fresh Water and it shall receive no spot or tincture of foulness but a Man never so well washt as oft as he washes again will still leave behind some filth and sordities Nor may we omit That Nature hath given Women the greatest share in the procreation of Mankind for according to the opinion of those great pillars of the Art of Healing G●len and Avicenna she contributes most to the matter and nutriment of the Birth which may be the reason that most Children resemble their Mothers many times in external features but almost alwayes in Genius and Inclinations for where Mothers be simple the Children generally prove Fools and where they are wise these are witty but on the contrary the wisest Fathers have most times Idiots to their Sons and foolish Fathers frequently get wise Children provided the Mother be but possest of a competent stock of discretion And hence it should seem Mothers become more fond and indulgent to Children as being sensible of having a greater share and interest in them in requital whereof for the same cause we are naturally more affected towards our Mothers than to our Fathers so as we seem but to respect our Father and to love only our Mother And this leads us to make some reflection on that which is our first Commons in this World our Mothers Milk a thing of that Catholick virtue that it not only nourishes Infants cherishes the sick and restores consumptive and languishing Nature but may in case of necessity suffice for the preservation of life to persons of any age a notable Instance whereof we read in Valerius of a poor young Woman who therewith preserved her aged Mother in prison that otherwise had inevitably been swallowed up by the devouring jaws of Famine whereby She sav'd her Life who gave her Life before And kindly did in kind her Milk restore Which signal Love and Tenderness not only procured the old Womans Release and a competent maintenance for her and her Daughter but for a Monument thereof the Goal was converted into the Temple of Piety a virtue to which Women are almost ever more prone than Men so that Aristotle recounts Piety Mercy and Compassion as virtues peculiar to this Sex Nor is it unusual for Physitians to relate That the heat of young Womens Paps applyed to the Breasts of persons worn out with age doth stir up augment and serve the vital heat of which David not ignorant when Age had snow'd her silver Hairs on his Head and robb'd him of his youthfull vigour procured the fair young Shunamite for his Bed-fellow that he might receive warmth from her sweet Caresses and cherishing Imbraces Furthermore to omit that Women are more early ready to accomplish that great end of our being generation and the propagation of Posterity than Men and that stupendious Miracle of Nature their Longing when many times without danger they greedily feed on raw Flesh or Fish and not seldome on Coals Dirts Stones and other Trash which without damage they concoct and convert into healthfull Nutriment We only at present adde That according to the Traditions of Philosophers and Physitians ratified by Experience Women have obtained this excellent Boon from the indulgence and bounty of Nature That in all Dise●ses whatever they of themselves from their own proper stock are furnisht with Remedies and can cure themselves without praying maid of any forreign Help or 〈…〉 But that which transcends all wonder is that Woman alone without Man should be able to produce humane Nature which Man alone never could pretend to and yet this is commonly affirmed by the Turks and other Mahumetans to be feazible amongst whom many are believed to be conceiv'd without Fathers whom in their own Tongue they call Nef●fogli Stories likewise go of Islands where the Women are conceived to Conceive by the Wind but this we dare not admit into our Creed for thereby we should injuriously rob the blessed Mary of her Honour whose alone Prerogative it was to Conceive without the knowledge of Man when she brought forth her natural Son our Saviour of her proper substance being Impregnated by the holy Spirit and remaining still a pure and Immaculate Virgin such fruitfulness attending the precedent Benediction that she needed not Mans help in reference to Conception But of brute Animals●is ●is more confidently affirmed some Females conceive without the ●●●pany of the Male as Origen against Faustus delivers on the credit of History concerning she-Vultures and Antiquity of certain Mares which went to Foal by the fruitfull Gales of Zephyrus of which the Poet Ore omnes versae in Zephyrum stant Rupibus alti● Excipiuntque leves Aura●