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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	evil_a	good_a	sin_n	7,176	5	5.3331	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10199	The vnlouelinesse, of loue-lockes. Or, A summarie discourse, proouing: the wearing, and nourishing of a locke, or loue-locke, to be altogether vnseemely, and vnlawfull vnto Christians In which there are likewise some passages collected out of fathers, councells, and sundry authors, and historians, against face-painting; the wearing of supposititious, poudred, frizled, or extraordinary long haire; the inordinate affectation of corporall beautie: and womens mannish, vnnaturall, imprudent, and vnchristian cutting of their haire; the epidemicall vanities, and vices of our age. By William Prynne, Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1628 (1628)	STC 20477; ESTC S115447	86,786	86

and genuine grounds or motiues that induce and mooue them for to weare these Lockes contrary to the practise and custome of their Countrey and of the Ciuiler Grauer and more Religious sort of men their Hearts and Consciences could giue no other answere but onely this that Pride and Singul●ritie are the onely grounds and causes of it The reason why they loathe that natur●ll plaine and common cut which euery man obserues and chuse this new one of th●ir owne is onely this because they would bee singular and somewhat different from the v●lger Crue or because they would imitate some Frenchefied or outlandish Mounseir who hath nothing else to make him famous I should say infamous but an Effeminate Ruffianly Vgly and d●formed Locke And is not this a sure Badge and Character of Singularitie and Auersnesse is it not a kinde of breach of ciuill societie and a violation of the Guise the Fashion and Laud●ble Dec●n● and app●ooued custome of our Countrey from which we ought not for to vary without some grand or weighty cause to contemne the ciuill Cut and ancient Tonsure of our Countrey as if wee were ashamed of or dis●ontented with it and to follow this new-fangled Horred Strange Mishapen Womanish and Outlandish Guise and Fashion which doeth in a manner seperate and diuide vs from the communitie and body of our proper Nation as if wee had no harmonie nor communion with it or were no limbes nor members of it vndoubtedly it is Wherefore wee may iustly say of all our impudent Ruffianly and shameles●e Loue-locke fosterers who are Odious and blame-worthy euen in this respect that they suite not with that whole of which they doe professe themselues a part as Saint Paul did of the Iewes in a different case that they please not God and are contrary to all men Their very Lockes are Badges of Humourous Licentious Pernicious and wilfull Singularitie they are breaches of ciuill societie and infringments of the Tonsure Guise and Fashions of our Countrey therefore they must needes bee Euill Sinfull and Vnlawfull vanities which we should all renounce Eghtly That which serues for no Necessary Laudable Profitable nor Decent vse at all that which brings in no Glory at all to God nor good or profit vnto Men in any kinde must needes be Euill Vaine and vtterly Vnlawfull vnto Christians the end and scope of all whose actions should bee the praise and glory of God and their owne or others good 1. Cor. 11.30 31 32. 1. Pet. 4.11 But the nourishing or wearing of Loue-lockes doeth serue for no N●ce●sary Laudable Profitable nor Decent vse at all that can bee thought of It brings no Glory at all to God nor no good to those that weare them they are mee●e superfluous vnusefull and vnnecessary vanities in their very best acception there is no good no vse nor profit in them that euer I could heare of Therefore it must needes be Euill Vaine and vtterly Vnlawfull vnto Christians Ninthly That which is an ordinary occasion or cause of Sinne and Euill both to the Wearers and Spectators must needes be Odious Sinfull and Vnlawfull witnesse Matth. 6●13 1. Thes. 5.22 which are full in point But Loue-lockes are an ordinary occasion or cause of Sinne and Euill both to the Wearers and Spectators of them Therefore they must needes be Odious Sinfull and Vnlawfull things The Maior needes no confirmation the Minor I shall prooue in two particulars First that Loue-lockes are an occasion or ordinary cause of Sinne and Euill to the Wearers and that in these respects First in that they cause them to Exalt themselues and to Triumph and Glory in them as if they were a Dignitie Honour or Aduancement to them as if they did enhance their Valour Worth and Bea●tie and make them better then themselues or others in their owne retired thoughts whence they oft times cause their Hearts to swell with secret pride in so much that they doe priuily disdaine neglect and vnderualue all such persons who either want them or condemne them Secondly in that they oft ti●es cause a prodigall vaine and great expence sufficient to relieue the wants and miseries of many poore distressed Christians who starue for want of succour and re●iefe Much is the cost and great the disbursements which many lauish out vpon their Haire and Loue-lockes So that we c●nnot say as Charillus did that Haire is the cheapest and least costly ornament of all other● which made the Lacedemonians for to nourish it since it is now so costly and expensiue vnto diuers How many hundreds are there now among v● whose heads are almost as chargeable and expensiue to them as their backes or bellies whose Barbars stipend doeth exceede their Ministers who bestow more cost vpon their Haire Loue-lockes then their Soules who spend more weekely quarterly or monethly on their Hairie excrements then they bestow Ann●ally on Christs poore members how many poore Christians would those stipends and expenses nourish which many lauish out so largely on their Lockes and Haire that all their Charitie and Bountie turnes to excrement being so smothered hid or fast intangled in their costly Haire and Frizled Loue-lockes that none but such as marshall and set out their Lockes can finde them out this prodigall expence therefore which these Lockes and long Haire cause doeth prooue them to be a meanes of Sinne and Euill to those who weare and nourish them Thirdly they are such in that they cause a great mispence and losse of rich and precious Time Many are those Peerelesse Precious Rich and mo●ning Howers which diuers spend from day to day in Ordring Dressing Combing Poudring Platting nay Curling and Crisping of their Haire and Loue-lockes which a whole genera●● Councell which Scriptures Fathers Moderne Christians yea Pagans haue condemned as a Badge and cleare Prognosticke of a Meriticious Proud Vaine-glorious False and sinfull Heart as an Allectiue● Baite and Prologue or Ba●d and Pander to Vncleannesse and as an Effeminate Vnnaturall Vaine Lasciuious Fantastioue Proud Vnchristian Heathenish and Gracelesse practise Much is the time that many spend betweene the Combe and the Glasse in Viewing Ordering Platting Frouncing Poudring● and curling of these goodly Eare-iewels or else in dallying and playing with them Many there are I may be bold to speake it who spend more time more thoughts and paines vpon their Haire and Loue-lockes weeke by weeke then vpon God himselfe their Soules or Christian dueties as if they were borne for no other purpose but to manure and adore their Excrements whiles their Soules lies rotting vtterly neglected in the very sorded ragges and dregges of Sin so that they are an occasion of much ill vnto them euen in this respect Fourthly they are so in that they commonly incroach so farre vpon their disordred affections that they ouer-affect and dote so much vpon them at the last as not to part with them vpon any tearmes but to bid