Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	faith_n	good_a	love_n	2,550	5	5.7551	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20038	The bachelers banquet: or A banquet for bachelers vvherein is prepared sundry daintie dishes to furnish their tables, curiously drest, and seriously serued in. Pleasantly discoursing the variable humours of vvomen, their quicknesse of wittes, and vnsearchable deceits.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632, attributed name.; La Sale, Antoine de, b. 1388?, attributed name.; Tofte, Robert, 1561-1620, attributed name.	1604 (1604)	STC 6477; ESTC S115691	61,544	79

but you are alwaies brawling doe nothing your selfe but spend wast your goods and mine with odde Companions What odde Companions satch hee as though you knowe not that these are such men as can either much further or much hinder me It is a signe that you deale very well that you must stand in distrust of such persons ●…erevpon shee takes occasion to raile and scolde all the day long the man being wearied with her waiwardnesse and Age being hasted with griefe and sorrow doth vnawares ouertake him Briefly he is in euery respect wretched but such is his follie that hee reckons his paines pleasure and would not though he might be againe at libertie out of Lobs Pound or if he would it is now too late for he must of force continue there in Care Thought and Miserie till Death make an ende of him and them together CHAP. VII ¶ The humor of a couetous minded Woman THe next humor belonging to a Woman is when the Husband is matched to a modest ciuil woman who is nothing giuen to that thwarting and crossing humour whereof I spake before But be she good or bad this is a generall rule many wiues hold and stedfastly belieue that their owne Husbands are worst of all others It oft happens that when they match together they are both young entertaine each other with mutuall delights so much as may be for a yeare or two or longer till the vigor of youth grow colde But the woman droopes not so soone as the man the reason whereof is because she takes no care thought nor griefe breakes not hor sléepe and troubles not her head as hee doeth but doth wholly addict her thoughts to pleasure and solace I denie not that when a Woman is with Childe shee bides many times great paines and is often verie ill at ease and at the time of her deliuerance shee is for the most part not onely in excéeding paine but also in no lesse daunger of death But all this is nothing to the Husbands troubles on whose handes alone restes the wholecharge and waight of maintaining the house and dispatching all matters which is oftentimes intangled so with controuersies and so thwarted with crosse fortune that the Poore man is tormented with all veration of minde Being thus wearied and as it were worne away with continuall griefe troublous cogitations toyle and trauell haue no minde on any other pleasure whereas shee on the other 〈◊〉 is as lustie as euer she was means while his storke d●…ayes and his state growes worse and worse and as that diminisheth so must he perforce shorten her alowance and maintenance which is almost as great a Corosiue to her as the former You may be well assured that this change in him makes her also change her countenance from Mirth and chéerefulnes to lowring Melanthalie seeking occasions of disagreements and vse them in such sort that their former loue and kindnes was not so great as are now their brawles iarres and discords It doth also oftētimes happen that the Woman by this meanes wastes and consumes all giuing leaudly away her Husbands goods which hee with great paines and cares hath gotten The Good-man he goes euery way as neare as hee can and warily containes himselfe within his bounds casting vp what his yearely Reuenues are or what his gaine is by his profession bee it Marchandize or other and then what his expences be which he finding greater then his commings in begins to bite the lip and becomes very pensiue his Wife and he being afterwards priuate together in their chamber he speakes thereof vnto her in this manner In faith Wife I much maruel how it comes to passe that our goods goe away thus I know not how I am sure I am as rarefull as a man can be I can not finde in my heart to bestow a new coate on my selfe and all to saue monie By my troth Husband saith she I do as much maruell at it as you I am sure for mine owne parte that I goe as neere in Housekéeping euery way as I can To be short the poore-man not doubting his wife nor suspecting her ill carriage after long care and thought concludes that the cause thereof is his owne ill Fortune which kéepes him downe and crosseth all his actions with contrary successe but it may be that in processe of time some Friend of his being more cleare sighted in the matter perceiuing all goes not well ●…oeth priuily informe him thereof who being astonished at his report gets him home with a heauie countenance which the Wife seeing and knowing herselfe guiltie begins presently to doubt the worst and perhappes gesseth shrewdly at the authors thereof b●…t howsoeuer shee will take such an order that she will be sure to escape the brunt well enough The Good-man will not presently make any wordes hereof vnto her but deferre it a while and trie in the meane time whether he can of himselfe gather any further likelyhood for which purpose hee will tell her that he must néedes ride some tenne or twelue miles out of Towne about some earnest busines Good faith husband saith the I had rather you should send your man and stay at home your selfe Not so wise saith he but I will be at home againe my selfe within these three or foure dayes Hauing told her this tale he makes as though he tooke his tourney but doth priuily lye in Ambush in such a place where hee may know whatsoeuer is done in the house But shee smelling his drift sends word to her sweet-heart that he doe not come in any case and all the time of his dissembled absence shee carryes her selfe that it giues no likelyhood of suspition which the silly man seeing comes out of his Ambush enters his house making as if then he were returned from his iourney and whereas before he lowred now hee shewes a chéerefull countenance being verily perswaded that his Friends report is a méere lye and that hee thinks so much the rather because she doth at his comming run to méete him with such a shew of loue and doth so embrace and kisse him that it seemes impossible so kinde a Creature should play false But long after being in Bedde together he thus speakes to her Wife I haue heard reported certaine wordes that like me not Good faith Husband saith she I know not what is the cause thereof I haue noted this great while that you haue bin very pensiue and was afraid that you had had some great losse or that some of your Friends had bin kild or taken by the Spaniards No saith he that is not the matter but a thing which grieues mee more then any such matter can doe Now God for his mercy quoth shee I pray you Husband let me know what it is Mary wife saith he a friend of mine told me that you kept company with R R. the veriest Ruffian in all the Tol●…e and a many other matters be told me of you ●…ere at she c●…ssing