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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	heart_n	see_v	2,559	5	3.3012	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12653	Ester hath hang'd Haman: or An ansvvere to a lewd pamphlet, entituled, The arraignment of women With the arraignment of lewd, idle, froward, and vnconstant men, and husbands. Diuided into two parts. The first proueth the dignity and worthinesse of women, out of diuine testimonies. The second shewing the estimation of the fœminine sexe, in ancient and pagan times; all which is acknowledged by men themselues in their daily actions. VVritten by Ester Sowernam, neither maide, wife nor widdowe, yet really all, and therefore experienced to defend all.	Sowernam, Ester.	1617 (1617)	STC 22974; ESTC S111037	31,313	62

she is honest because she lackes wit They le call women whores but their stakes they might saue There can be no Whore but there must be a Knaue They say that our dressings and that our attire Are causes to moue them to lustfull fire Of all things which are we euermore finde Such thoughts doe arise as are like to the minde Mens thoughts being wicked they wracke on vs thus That scandall is taken not giuen by vs. If their sight be so weake and their frailtie be such Why doe they then gaze at our beauty so much Plucke away those ill roots whence sinne doth arise Amend wicked thoughts or plucke out the eyes The humors of men see how froward they bee We know not to please them in any degree For if we goe plaine we are sluts they doe say They doubt of our honesty if we goe gay If we be honest and merrie for giglots they take vs If modest and sober then proud they doe make vs Be we housewifly quicke then a shrew he doth keepe If patient and milde then he scorneth a sheepe What can we deuise to doe or to say But men doe wrest all things the contrary way 'T is not so vncertaine to follow the winde As to seeke to please men of so humerous minde Their humors are giddy and neuer long lasting We know not to please them neither full nor yet fasting Either we doe too little or they doe too much They straine our poore wits their humors are such They say women are proud wherein made they triall They moou'd some lewd suit and had the deniall To be crost in such suites men cannot abide And therevpon we are entitled with pride They say we are curst and froward by kinde Our mildnesse is changed where raging we finde A good Iacke saye the prouerbe doth make a good Gill A curst froward Husband doth change womans will They vse vs they say as necessary euils We haue it from them for they are our deuils When they are in their rages and humerous fits They put vs poore women halfe out of our wits Of all naughty women name one if you can If she proued bad it came by a man Faire Helen forsooke her Husband of Greece A man called Paris betrayed that peece Medea did rage and did shamefully murther A lason was cause which her mischiefe did further A Cresside was false and changed her loue Diomedes her heart by constraint did remoue In all like examples the world may see Where women proue bad there men are not free But in those offences they haue the most share Women would be good if Serpents would spare Let Women and Maides whatsoeuer they be Come follow my counsell be warned by me Trust not mens suites their loue proueth lust Both hearts tongues and pens doe all proue vniust How faire they will speake and write in their loue But put them to tryall how false doe they proue They loue hot at first when the loue is a stranger But they will not be tied to racke and to manger What loue call you that when men are a wooing And seeke nothing else but shame and vndoing As women in their faults I doe not commend So wish I all men their lewd suites they would end Let women alone and seeke not their shame You shall haue no cause then women to blame 'T is like that this Author against such doth bawle Who by his temptations haue gotten a fall For he who of women so wickedly deemeth Hath made them dishonest it probably seemeth He hath beene a Traueller it may be well so By his tales and reports as much we doe know He promiseth more poyson against women to thrust He doth it for phisicke or else he would brust Thus I bid him farewell till next we doe meete And then as cause moueth so shall we greete IOANE SHARP FINIS Faultes escaped PAge 33. Line 1. for cary reade cutry p. 36. l. 30 for sincerity r. scurility p. 38. l. 28. for something r any thing Ibid. for countrey r. counter p. 40. l. 5. for contempt r. contention

men to ruine direct causes they cannot be in any respect if they be causes they are but accident all causes A cause as Philosophers say Causa sine qua non a remote cause which cause is seldome alleaged for cause but where want of wit would say somewhat and a guilty conscience would excuse it selfe by something Philosophers say Nemo leditur nisi a seipso no man is hurt but the cause is in himselfe The prodigall person amongst the Gracians is called Asotes as a destroyer an vndoer of himselfe When an heart fraughted with sinne doth prodigally lauish out a lasciuious looke out of a wanton eye when it doth surfeit vpon the fight who is Asotos who is guiltie of his lasciuious disease but himselfe Volenti non fit iniuria hee who is wounded with his owne consent hath small cause to complaine of anothers wrong Might not a man as easily and more honestly when hee seeth a faire woman which doth make the best vse that she can to set out her beautie rather glorifie God in so beautifull a worke then infect his soule with so lasciuious a thought And for the woman who hauing a Iewell giuen her from so deare a friend is she not to be commended rather that in the estimate which she sheweth shee will as carefully and as curiously as she may set out what she hath receiued from Almighty God then to be censured that she doth it to allure wanton and lasciuious lookes The difference is in the minds things which are called Adiaphora things indifferent whose qualities haue their name from the vses are commonly so censured and so vsed as the minde is inclined which doth passe his verdict A man and a woman talke in the fields together an honest minde will imagine of their talke answerable to his owne disposition whereas an euill disposed minde will censure according to his lewd inclination Womans beauty is good but the heart which doth surieit is naught When men complaine of beautie and say That womens dressings and attire are prouocations to wantonnesse and baites to allure men It is a direct meanes to know of what disposition they are it is a shame for men in censuring of women to condemne themselues but a common Inne cannot be without a common signe it is a common signe to know a leacher by complaining vpon the cause and occasion of his surfeit who had knowne his disease but by his owne complaint It is extreme folly to complaine of another when the roote of all resteth within himselfe purge an infected heart and turne away a lacinious eye and then neither their dreffings nor their beautie can any waies hurt you Doe not men exceede in apparell and therein set themselues out to the view Shall women betray themselues and make it knowne that they are either so bad in their disposition or so wanton in their thoughts or so weak in their gouernment as to complaine that they are tempted and allured by men Should women make themselues more vaine then yongest children to fall in loue with babyes Women are so farre off from being in any sort prouoked to loue vpon the view of mens apparell Women doe not fall in lone with men for their apparell and setting forth themselues that no one thing can more draw them from loue then their vanitie in apparell Women make difference betwixt colours and conditions betwixt a faire shew and a foule substance It shewes a leuitie in man to furnish himselfe more with trim colours then manlike qualities besides that how can we lone at whom we laugh We see him gallant it at the Court one day braue it in the Country the next day we see him weare that on his backe one week which we heare is in the brokers shop the next furthermore we see diuers weare apparell and colours made of a Lordship lined with Farmes and Granges embrodered with all the plate gold and wealth their Friends and Fathers left them Are these motiues to loue or to laughter Will or dare a woman trust to their loue for one Moneth who will turne her of the next This is the surfeit which women take by braue apparell They rather suspect his worth then wish his loue who doth most exceede in brauerie So Mr. Swetnam doe you and all yours forbeare to censure of the dressings and attires of women for any such lewd intent as you imagine Bad minds are discouered by bad thoughts and hearts Doe not say and rayle at women to be the cause of mens ouerthrow when the originall roote and cause is in your selues If you bee so affected that you cannot looke but you must forthwith be infected I doe maruaile Ioseph Swetnam you set downe no remedies for that torment of Loue as you call it You bid men shunne and auoyde it but those be common and ordinary rules and instructions yet not so ordinary as able to restraine the extraordinary humors of your giddy company I will do you and your friends a kindnesse if you be so scorched with the flames of loue Diogines did long since discouer the soueraigne salue for such a wound The receipt is no great charge your selfe may be the Apothecarie A medicine for Loue. Tane Hunger A Halter it is comprehended in three words First trie with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 next with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if both these faile the third is sure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This was Diogenes Antidote against that venemous infection There are more milder remedies which you may put in practise If your hearts be so fleshly or your eies so tender that you dare trust neither of them then trust to your reason to turne your eyes away or trust to your heeles as Ioseph did to carrie all away After you haue railed against women you bring in a fable of a contempt betwixt the Winde and the Same and you apply the morrall to women when as it hath a farre other relation for it euer hath been applyed to men to instruct them in the gouernment of woman for I pray you who is to gouerne or who are to be gouerned You should seeme to come from the Sauromatians whose wiues were their Masters but I will set you downe both the Fable and the Morrall as it was written in English verse long sithence THe Sunne and Winde at variance did fall Whose force was greatest in the open field A trauailer they chuse to deale withall Who makes him first vnto their force to yeeld To cast off Cloake they that agreement make The honour of the victory must take The Winde began and did encrease each blast With raging beate vpon the silly man The more it blew the more he grasped fast And kept his Cloake let Winde doe what it can When all in vaine the Winde his worst had done It ceast and left a tryall to the Sunne The Sunne beginnes his beames for to display And by degrees in heate for to encrease The Trauailer then warme doth make a