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child_n	year_n	young_a	youth_n	706	4	8.2392	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02093	Theeues falling out, true-men come by their goods: or, The belman wanted a clapper A peale of new villanies rung out; the sound being musicall to all gentlemen, lawyers, farmers, and all sorts of people that come vp to the tearme: shewing that the villanies of leawd women, excell those of men.; Disputation, betweene a hee conny-catcher, and a shee conny-catcher	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1615 (1615)	STC 12235; ESTC S113894	33,505	44

and so set● their hearts the more on fire I was the fairest of all and yet not more beautifull then I was witty or so much that ●●ing a pretty Parrat I had such quaint conceipts and witty words in my mouth that the neighbours said I was too soone wise to bee long old Would to God either the Prouerbe had beene authenticall or their sayings Prophecies then had I by death in my nonage buried many blemishes that my riper yeares brought me to For the extreme loue of my parents was the very efficient cause of my follies resembling herein the ●●ture of the Ape that euer killeth that yong o●e which hee loueth most with embracing it too ●er●ently So my father and mother but shee most of all although hee to much so cockered me vp in my wantonnesse that my wit grewe to the worst and I wa●ed vpwards with the ill weeds Whatsoeuer I did were it neuer so bad might not bee found fault withall my Father would smile at it and say 't was but the tricke of a childe and my mother allowed of my vnhappy parts alluding to this prophane and old prouerbe An vntoward girle makes a good woman But now I find in sparing the rod they hated the child that ouer-kind fathers make vnruly daughters Had they bent the wand while it had been greene it would haue beene pliant but I ill growne in my yeares am almost remedilesse The Hawke that is most perfect for the flight and wil seldome proueth hagard and children that are vertuously nurtured in youth will be honestly natured in age fie vpon such as say yong Saints old Diuels it is no doubt a diuellish and damnable saying for what is not bent in the Cradle will hardly by bowed in the Sadle My self am an instance who after I grewe to bee six yeares old was s●t to Schoole where I profited so much that I writ and read e●cellently well plaid vpon the Uirginals Lute Citron and could sing prick-song at the first sight insomuch as by that time I was twelve yeares old I was holden for the most faire and best qualified youg girle in 〈◊〉 that Countrey but with this bewailed of my wel-wishers in that my parents suffered me to be so wanton But they so tenderly affected me 〈◊〉 so ●●nded with my excellent qualities that they had no insight into my insuing follies For I growing to be 13 yeare old féeling the yoke of liberty to be loose on mine owne neck begin with y● wanton Heyfer to aime at mine owne will and to measure content by the sweetnesse of mine own thoughts insomuch that 〈◊〉 ●reeping on I began to pranke 〈◊〉 selfe with the proudest and to hold it in disdaine that any in the Parish should exceed me in brauer● 〈◊〉 apparrell was costly so I grew to be licentious and to delight to be lookt on so that I ●aunted and frequented all feasts and weddings other places of merry meetings where as I was gazed on of many so I spared no glaunces to suruey all with a curious eye fauour I obserued Ouids rule right Spectatum veniunt veniunt spectentur vt ipse I went to see be seene and deckt my selfe in the highest degree of brauery holding it a glory when I was waited on with many eyes to make censure of my birth Beside I was 〈◊〉 ordinary 〈◊〉 and grew in that quality so famous that I was noted as the chiefest the●eat in all the Countrey yea and to sooth me vp in these follies my Parents took a pride in my dauncing which afterward proued my ouer-throw and their heart-breaking Thus as an vnbridled Colt I carelesly led forth my youth and wantonly spent the flower of my yeares holding such Maydens as were modest fooles and such as were not as wilfully wanton as my selfe puppies ill brought vp and without manners Growing on in yeares as tide nor time tarrieth for no man I began to wa● passion-proud and to thinke her not worthy to liue that was not a little in loue that as diuers yong men began to fauour me for my beauty 〈◊〉 I began to censure of some of them partially and to 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 of many wooers being ready to fall from the 〈…〉 I was come to the 〈◊〉 of a blossome which an 〈◊〉 of mine séeing who was my mothers brother as carefull of my welfare as me to mee in kinne 〈…〉 to talke with mee gaue mee this 〈…〉 A w●tch-word to want on Maidens 〈…〉 the most sudden showre and the yo●gest virgins the 〈◊〉 dangerous fortunes I speake as a kinsman and wish as a friend the blossome of a Maidens youth such as your selfe hath attending vpon it many frosts to nip it and many cares to consume it so that i● it be not carefully lookt vnto it will perish before it come to any perfection A virgins honour consisteth not onely in the gifts of Nature as to be faire and beautifull though they bee fauours that grace Maidens much for as they be glistering so they be momentany ready to be worne with euery winters blast and parched with euery Summers sunne there is no face so faire but the least Moale the slenderest scarre the smallest brunt of sicknesse will quickly bl●mish Beauty Cozen as it flourisheth in youth so it fadeth in age it is but a folly that feedeth mans eye a painting that Nature lends for a time and men allow on for a while insomuch that such as onely aime at your faire lookes tye but their lou●s to an Apprentiship of beauty which broken either with cares mis-fortune or yeares their destnies are at libe●ty and they begin to loth you and like of others For shee that is looked on by many cannot choose but bee hardly spoken of by some for report hath a blister on her tongue Maidens actions are narrowly measured Therefore would not the ancient Romans suffer their daughters to goe any further then their mothers lookes guided them And therefore Diana is painted with a Tortuse vnder her féet meaning that a maid should not be a stragler but like the snaile carry her house on her head and kéepe at home at her worke so to kéepe her name without blemish and her vertues from the slander of enuy Cozen I speake this generally which if you apply particularly to your selfe you shall find in time my words were well said I gaue him slender thankes but with such a frump that he perceiued how light I made of his counsaile which hee perce●●●ing shakt his head and with teares in his eyes departed But I whom wanton desires had drawn in delight still presumed in my former follies and gaue my selfe either to gad abrode or else at home to read dissolute Pamphlets which bred in me many ill-affected wishes so that I gaue leaue to loue and lust to enter into the center of my heart where they harboured till they wrought my finall and fatall preiudice Th●s leading my life loosly and béeing soothed vp with the applause

of my too kinde and louing parents I had many of euery degree that make loue vnto me as well for my beauty as for the hope of wealth that my father would bestow vpon me sundry sutors I had and allowed of all though I particularly granted loue to none yeelding them friendly fauours as being proud I had more wooers then a 〈…〉 in the parish beside amongst the rest there was a ●●●lthy Farmer that wished me well a man of some fortie yeares of age one too worthy for one of so little worth as my selfe him my father mother and other friends wold haue had me match my selfe with all but I that had the raines of liberty too long in mine owne hands refused him would not be ruled by their perswasions and though my mother with teares intreated me to consider of mine owne estate how wel I sped if I wedded with him yet carelesly I despised her counsell and ●●a●ly ●●de answere that I would none of him which though it pinched my Parents at the quick yet rather than they would displease me they left me to mine owne liberty to loue Many there were beside him men● sons of no m●●●e worth that were wooers vnto mee but in vaine either my fortune or destiny droue mee to a worser end for I refused them all and with the B●●●e refusing to light on the sweetest flowers all day ne●●led at night in a Cowsh●●●d It fortuned that as many sought to win me so amongst the rest there was an 〈◊〉 companion that dwelt with a Gentleman hard by a fellow of small reputation and of no li●ing neither had he any excellent qualities but thrumming on the gitt●on but of pleasant disposition he was and con●●gaw●● out many quaint ribaldrous Iigges songs and so was fauored of the foolish sort for his foppery This shi●●ing companion sutable to my selfe in vanity would oft times be iesting with me and I so long dallying with him that I beganne déepely oh let me blush at this confession to fall in loue with him and so construed of al his actions that I consented to mine owne ouer-throw for as smoke will hardly be concealed so loue will not be long smothered but wil bewray her owne secrets which was manifest in me who in my sporting with him so bewraied my affection y● he spying I fauoured him began to strike when the yron was hotte and to take opportunity by the forehead and one day finding me in a merrie vaine beganne to question with me of loue which although at the first I slenderly denied him yet at last I granted so that not onely I agréed to plight him my faith but that night méeting to haue further talke I la●ciuiously consented that he cropt the flower of my virginity When thus I was spoiled by such a base companion I gaue my selfe to content his humor and to satisfie the swéet of mine owne wanton desire Oh here let mee breathe and with teares bewaile the beginning of my miseries and to exclaime against the folly of my Parents who by too much fauouring me in my vanitie in my tender youth laide the first plot of my ensuing repentance Had they with due cor●●●tion chastised my wantonnesse and supprest my foolish will with their graue aduice they had made me more vertuous and themselues lesse sorrowfull A fathers frowne is a bridle to the childe and a mothers checke is a stay to the stubborne daughter Oh had my parents in ouer-louing me not hated me I had not at this time cause to complaine But leauing this digression againe to the loosnesse of mine owne life who now hauing lost the glory of my youth and suffered such a base staue to possesse it which many men of worth had desired to enioy I waxed bold in si●●e and grew shamelesse insomuch he could not desire so much as I did grant him whereupon séeing he durst not reueale it to my father to demand me in marriage he resolued to carry me away secretly therfore wisht me to prouide for my self to furnish me euery way both with money apparrell hoping as he said y● after we were departed and my father saw wee were married that no meanes was to amend it he would giue his 〈◊〉 cousent vse vs kindly and ●●ale with vs as liberally as if wee had matcht with his good will I that was apt to any ill agreed to this and so wrought the matter that he carried me away into a strange place and then vsing me a while as his wife when our money beganne to wax low hee resolued secretly to go into y● Countrey where my father dwelt to heare not onely how my father took my departure but what hope we had of his ensuing fauour although I was loth to be left in a strange place yet I was willing to heare from my friends who no doubt conceiued much heart sorrow for my vnhappy fortunes so that I parted with a few teares and enioyned him to make all the haste he might to returne He being gone as the Eagles alwayes resort where the carrion is so the brute being spred abrode of my beauty and that at such an Inne lay such a faire young Gentlewoman there resorted thither many braue yong Gentlemen and cutting companions that tickled with lust aimed at the possession of my fauour and by sundry meanes sought to haue a sight of me which I easily granted to all as a woman that counted it a glory to bee wondred at by many mens eyes insomuch that comming amongst them I set their hearts more and more on fire that there arose diuers brawles who should bee most in my company Being thus haunted by such a troope of lusty rufflers I began to find mine owne folly that had placed my first affection so loosly and therefore began as déeply to loath him that was departed as earst I liked him when hee was present vowing in my selfe though he had the spoile of my virginity yet neuer after should he triumph in the possession of my fauour and therefore began I to affection these new-come guests and one aboue the rest who was a braue yong Gentleman and no lesse addicted vnto me then I deuoted vnto him for daily hee courted mee with amorous Sonnets and curious pend letters and sent me Iewels and all that I might grace him with the name of my seruant I returned him as louing lines at last and so contented his lusting desire that secretly and vnknowne to all the rest I made him sundry nights my bed-fellow where I so bewitcht him with swéet words that the man began déeply to dote vpon me insomuch that selling some portio● of land that he had he put it into ready mony and prouiding Horse and all things conuenient carried me secretly away almost as farre as the Bathe This was my second choy●e and my second shame thus I went forward in wickednesse and delighted in change hauing left mine old loue to looke after some