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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	court_n	defendant_n	plaintiff_n	3,417	5	10.5128	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43443	Poor Robin's visions wherein is described the present humours of the times, the vices and fashionable fopperies thereof, and after what manner men are punished for them hereafter : discovered in a dream.	Poor Robin.; Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674.; Winstanley, Robert, b. 1647?; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1677 (1677)	Wing H1598; ESTC R1859	42,525	135

Towers do the Turkish Tires wear upon their womens heads How are the Grecians buried in cloaths How do the 〈◊〉 of all Nations disguise them that they must put on their Masquin habits or be taken to pieces like Watches e're they can be enjoyed And to what other end were they made The Customs of Countries are different and that garbe is Majestick in one place which is ridiculous or sordid in another All People have not the same conceptions of Beauty which is as hateful to an Ethiopian as black to us But once uncloathed women and they were all the same but the conceptions about the Harmony and measures of a body differ not And what greater right can be done to women then to bring them to be judged by one Rule And since every woman judges her self the fairest she that would be backward to this Arbitriment would be a diffident of her self and consequently a Rennegade from her Sex Now what better way of Judgement then those Rules which the voices of all men conclude upon There have two great blemishes lain upon this Sex the uncertainty and change of their judgements and their inconstancy in their cloaths and carriage And how can either be better removed than if they were once reduced into such a posture as they should all necessarily agree in and they had not Liberty to change And I pray what other way is there unless you make them all naked But then they may complain take away their Arts and Ornaments they shall want of their complacency and provocations to either Husband or Gallants to which I answer that since it is fit to borrow the customs of others as well as imitate those of our Ancestors the Danes and Britians if they be usefull and fit to be assumed there may be seen choice of dressings enough in the one and other Indies In a word since Sun Moon Stars c. appear as nature made them since the strongest and most handsom Animalls are satisfied with their own naturall vestures and the most ugly and deformed repine not since the most delicate and Aramatick flowers are not ashamed of their barks of Prickles which are commonly unsightly if not offensive in it is but an irregular and diseased desire in women who are the Master-pieces of Nature and of that sort of productions wherein she is most vain-glorious and emulous to undo her self to descend to those little poor adulterations of Art which are so far beneath her as the most exquisite artificiall thing in the world is below the most careless production of Nature As he was about to proceed I slunk out of the crowd fearing the pollution of my understanding by the fulness of his Doctrine and knowing the Devil to be a Logician and a cunning Sophister I knew not but that he might set on to work this dangerous disciple of his to make me his Proselite and upon my return engaged me to be his Factor in spreading this erronious opinion to the utter undoing of Female modesty and shame-facedness Eighth VISION The fields of joy describ'd there none must dwell But purged Souls and such as have done well Some Souldiers there but none that dy'd in love Poets sit singing in a Lawrell Grove WHilst I directed my course for Flizium and the Ferriman was plying his Fairs for covetuousness of Money the wandring Knight aforesaid having dispatcht with the Devil and understanding that he upon whose business he was just at that time walking in the Elizian Gardens he vainly thought to take that in his way but the Infernall Laws barring him from entrance into those sacred places he told Charon that he was going on a Message for his Hellish Lord and Master and therefore demanded waftage over which was done accordingly and finding himself where he would be with as few words as he was wont to carry pence in his purse he instantly mounts one of the Devils Hacknies and away he rides to follow his other worldly business about which whilst he is damnably sweating take a survey with me of those 〈◊〉 Fortunata ordained to be the happy Countries for none but blessed Souls possession The walls that encompass these glorious habitations are as white as the Front of Heaven they shine like polisht Ivory but the stuff is finer high they are like the Pillars that support the Court of Jove and stronger they are then Towers built by Enchantment there is but one Gate to it all and that of the most refined Silver so narrow it is that but one at once can enter round about it wears a Girlde of Christalline-waters that are sweet and redolent Walk into the Groves besides the inexpressible harmony of the winged airy Quire you shall see Swains piping and Virgins chastly Dancing Shepheards there live as merrily as Kings and Kings are glad to be in the society of such harmless rurall companions The 〈◊〉 there complains of no wrong the Orphan sheds no Tears for 〈◊〉 has there no residence nor cruelty abode with the sway of greatness the poor Client needs fee no Counsellour to 〈◊〉 for him for there is no Jury to bring in Verdicts true or false or Judges unjustly to cast or malitiously condemn There is all mirth without immodesty all 〈◊〉 without base abufing it Songs 〈◊〉 continually without bawdry all sorts of Wines without intemperance all riches without Sensuallity all Beauty without Painting or other Sophistications all 's 〈◊〉 without Hypocrisie or 〈◊〉 Winter there Plays not the Tyrant neither is the Summer breath contagious for Spring is ever there perpetuall adorning the boughs with flourishing leaves the Fruits continually growing and the flowers ever budding The Benches whereon the blest Inhabitants sit are sweet Beds of Violets the Beds whereon they lie Damask-Roses their Pillows for their Hearts are Hearts-Ease c. Neither is this a Country free from all Travellers but is the Kingdom and very Pallace where happiness her self keeps Court and none are allow'd her followers and attendants but such as are of merit Of all men in the world griping over-reaching Landlords dare not quarter themselves here because they are Rackers of Rents A Pettifogger or splitter of Causes who hath taken a Fee on both sides from the Plaintiff and Defendant will be damn'd 〈◊〉 he come with in sight of this place Some Shop-keepers come many yards short of it Farmers who raise their Corn in a dear time unreasonably cannnot reach it by thousands of Acres Some Seamen for want of a true Compass that may guide them thither steer a quite contrary course and a Taylor shall never get thither unless he creep through the 〈◊〉 of his own Needle though true Poets are free Denisons hereof yet here is no Room for Pamphletteering Poetasters Ballad-makers and their chaunts since by the insufferable noise of their Nonsense they must consequently be disturbers of the peace of that Kingdom Women for all their subtilety scarce one among five hundred hath her Pew there especially old Midwives