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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	woman_n	young_a	youth_n	49	3	8.2213	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53649	A voyage to Suratt in the year 1689 giving a large account of that city and its inhabitants and of the English factory there : likewise a description of Madiera, St. Jago, Annobon, Cabenda, and Malemba (upon the coast of by J. Ovington.	Ovington, J. (John), 1653-1731.	1696 (1696)	Wing O701; ESTC R26896	238,999	640

servile and less able to Rebel against him When once the Husband and the Wife come to cohabit The Wives in some measure servile she is then under great distinctions of Respect and in a manner oblig'd to a kind of servile Attendance upon his Person however in Language and Deportment the Man appears very kind and obliging and shews a tenderness to the Partner of his Bed But among all the Nations of the East The great Civility which the Siamese Language shews to Women the Siameses excel in Civility of Expressions to the Female Sex For their Language as we are told admits no distinction of Masculine and Feminine in their Genders which is the cause that whenever they would Express a Woman they add young to the Masculine to imply the Feminine whereby their Language hinders a Woman from ever growing Old by affixing always Youth to the Female as when for Example they would name an Empress they would say young Emperour The Bramins Marry The Bramins Marry as well as the other Indians and treasure up sometimes abundance of Wealth which is bequeathed to their Families for maintenance of their Widows and to portion their Children One of the Bramins who had been straitned in his Abilities from giving a competent Portion with his Daughter A Bramin's Craft to get a Portion for his Daughter which was then closely Courted contrives this Stratagem to squeeze some hundreds of Roupies from the People for that purpose He ascended a Tree which stood without the Gates of his City and then declar'd that there he would fix his Habitation there he would stay and starve and never come down 'till they contributed among them to make up the Sum. The affrighted Inhabitants who are tender of the Life of any Animal thought it not fit to dally with that of their Priest but lest his obstinate Resolution of continuing there might endanger the welfare of him they so highly esteem'd and involve them in the guilt of Sacred Blood therefore with united Hearts they clubb'd together to make up a common Purse which was deliver'd to the Damsel as a Dowry The crafty Priest upon this descended from perching aloft in the Boughs of the Tree and was kindly congratulated at his coming down for sparing his Life which he had taken private Care of that it should not be in any Danger by engaging an Accomplice to convey to him secretly what Nourishment might be necessary for his Subsistence One sort of Bramins at Suratt A strict sort of Bramins which are by much the strictest Sect among them do far exceed the rest in Abstractions from Sense and abstemious living and refrain from entring the Conjugal State lest some Animals as they tell us might be crusht to Death by their mutual Embraces And therefore to keep up the Succession of this Priesthood if any Lay-Person of their Tribe has two or three Sons one of them is chosen from among the rest to be consecrated to this Order This sort of Bramins are sparing of their Speech and will rarely speak for fear of killing some invisible Creatures which they affirm float in the Air and which some of their Holy Men have seen though others cannot They also sweep the places where they rest with a Brush lest they should crush some Animal by sitting upon it And for this end a Cloath is always tied cross their Mouth and fastned at each Ear to prevent all invisible volatile Creatures approaching their Breath lest it might prove fatal to them Bramins that never wash their Bodies And though Ablutions are so necessary in India so universally practis'd and so solemnly enjoin'd yet cannot this sort of Bramins be brought over to this convenient Discipline to wash their Bodies and cleanse themselves with Water for fear of murthering some Creatures which they fancy live in that Element Nor will they drink cold Water till it 's boil'd because they say it has Life in it and that would destroy it They neither cut their Beards nor shave their Heads Nor cut their Hair but notwithstanding all the Pain of it pull all the Hair up by the Roots as fast as it grows on those parts of their Bodies And wholly careless of the Future Nor make any Provision for the future and never anxious for to Morrow's Concerns they take all chearfully that happens each Day and of the Provision which Providence sends them if any Overplus remains they liberally distribute to such as want it and trust the same Providence for the following Day Thus they live ex tempore and as little sollicitous for the World as if they had been intimately acquainted with our Saviour's Rule Take no thought for to morrow but let the morrow take thought for the things of it self sufficient unto the Day is the Evil thereof The Bannians at the naming of their Children The Ceremony of naming the Bannian Children which is about Ten Days after the Nativity perform that Ceremony after this manner They call together about a Dozen Children and put into their Hands a large Sheet which is spread and they standing round take hold of it in a Circle and bear it up from the Ground The Bramin standing by has brought to him thither two or three Sere of Rice which he pours into the middle of the Sheet and upon the Rice lays the Child to be named The young Boys that hold the Sheet shake the Child and the Rice together to and fro for a quarter of an Hour or more The Father's Sister then steps near and has the right of naming the Child but in case of her Absence or Death this Priviledge devolves upon the Father or the Mother of the Infant When the Child has thus receiv'd its Name it continues so for the space of a Month or two after the expiration whereof they proceed further towards its perfect Initiation into the Bannian Religion and then it is brought to the Pagode where the Bramin is ready and mixes some Shavings of Sandalwood Champhire Cloves and several other sweet-scented Perfumes and puts them upon the Child's Head after which it is esteemed a Member of their Religion and commences compleat Bannian Women in Child-bed not toucht The Mother till Ten Days after Child-bed is toucht by none but a dry Nurse nor is she allowed her self to put forth her Hands for the Dressing of any Meat till Forty be past after lying in and she be perfectly past her Purification Hanging-Cradles The Cradles for the Children in India are much easier and more convenient than ours that are plac'd and move upon the Ground For theirs are hung in the Air by strings ty'd to each end and fastned to a Beam or Post above and so swing to and fro with a soft quiet Motion by the slightest touch of the Hand And this was answerable to the Tenderness and Care they had for their Children's Temper Women with Child always kept chearful even whilst they were