Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	mean_v	young_a	youth_n	63	3	8.3669	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16748	The good and the badde, or Descriptions of the vvorthies, and vnworthies of this age Where the best may see their graces, and the worst discerne their basenesse.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1616 (1616)	STC 3656; ESTC S104792	20,529	48

In summe she is the seede of trouble the fruit of trauaile the taste of bitternesse and the digestion of death A good Wife A Good Wife is a world of wealth where iust cause of content makes a kingdome in conceit She is the eye of warinesse the tongue of silence the hand of labour and the heart of loue a companion of kindnesse a Mistris of Passion an exercise of Patience and an example of experience She is the Kitchin Physician the Chamber comfort the Halls care and the Parlours Grace She is the Dairies neatnesse the Brue-house wholsomnesse the Garners prouision and the Gardens plantation her voice is musicke her countenance meekenesse her minde vertuous and her soule gracious she is her Husbands Iewell her Childrens ioy her Neighbors loue and her seruants honour she is Pouerties praier and Charities praise Religions loue and Deuotions zeale she is a care of necessity and a course of Thrift a booke of Huswifery and a mirror of modestie In summe she is Gods blessing and Mans happinesse Earths honour and Heauens creature An Effeminate Foole. AN Effeminate foole is the figure of a Baby he loues nothing but gay to look in a Glasse to keepe among Wenches and to play with trifles to feed on sweet meats and to be daunced in Laps to be imbraced in Armes and to be kissed on the Cheeke To talke Idlely to looke demurely to goe Nicely and to Laugh continually To be his Mistresse seruant and her Mayds master his Fathers Loue and his Mothers none-Child to play on a Fiddle and sing a Loue-song to weare sweet Gloues and looke on fine things To make purposes and write Verses deuise Riddles and tell lies To follow Plaies and study Daunces to heare Newes and buy trifles To sigh for Loue and weepe for kindnesse and mourne for company and bee sicke for fashion To ride in a Coach and gallop a Hackney to watch all Night and sleepe out the Morning to lie on a bed and take Tobacco and to send his Page of an idle message to his Mistresse to go vppon Gigges to haue his Ruffes set in print to picke his Teeth and play with a Puppet In summe hee is a man-Childe and a Womans man a gaze of Folly and Wisedomes griefe A Parasite A Parisite is the Image of iniquity who for the gaine of drosse is deuoted to all villanie He is a kinde of Thiefe in committing of Burglarie when hee breakes into houses with his tongue and pickes pockets with his flatterie his face is brazed that he cannot blush and his hands are limed to catch holde what hee can light on his tongue is a Bell but not of the Church except it be the Diuels to call his Parish to his seruice hee is sometime a Pander to carry messages of ill meetings and perhaps hath some Eloquence to perswade sweetnesse in sinne he is like a dogge at a doore while the diuels dance in the chamber or like a Spider in the house top that liues on the poison belowe hee is the hate of honesty and the abuse of beauty the spoile of Youth and the misery of Age. In summe he is a danger in a Court a Cheater in a Citie a Iester in the Countrey and a Iacke-an-Apes in all A Bawde A Bawde is a kinde of Woman-Beast who hauing lost the honour of her Virginity in her youth meanes to goe to hell in her Age She is dangerous among young people for feare of the infection of the falling sicknesse and not to teach children to spel lest she learne them too soone to put together shee is partly a Surgeon but most for the the allaying of swellings in the lower parts and hath commonly a charme to coniure the Diuell into hell Shee grieues at nothing more then at disability to sinne and is neuer so merry as when she is perswaded to be young she feares nothing more then the Cart and cares for nothing but ease and loues a cup of Sacke and a pot of Ale almost as well as the hope of her saluation shee is much subiect to sore eyes and ill teeth with sitting vp late and feeding on sweete things she is a Gossip at a Childe-birth where her mirth is a bawdy tale and a Matrone in an Hospitall to see young wenches well set to worke In summe shee is the loathsomenesse of Nature the hate of Vertue the spoile of wealth and the ruine of Mayden-heads A Drunkard A Drunkard is a Nowne Adiectiue for he cannot stand alone by himselfe yet in his greatest we aknesse a great trier of strength whether health or sicknesse will haue the vpper hand in a surfet He is a spectacle of deformitie and a shame of humanity a viewe of sinne and a griefe of Nature he is the anoiance of Modesty and the trouble of Ciuility the spoile of wealth and the spight of Reason he is only the Bruers Agent and the Ale-house Benefactor the Beggers Companion and the Constables trouble he is his Wifes woe his Childrens sorrow his Neighbours scoffe and his owne shame In summe hee is a Tubbe of swill a Spirit of sleepe a picture of a Beast and a Monster of a man A Coward A Coward is the childe of feare hee was begotten in colde bloud when Nature had much adoe to make vp a Creature like a man his life is a kinde of sicknesse which breeds a kinde of palsey in the ioynts and his death the terror of his conscience with the extreme weakenesse of his faith hee loues Peace as his life for he feares a sword in his soule if he cut his finger hee looketh presently for the signe and if his head ake he is ready to make his will a report of a cannon strikes him flat on his face and a clap of thunder makes him a strange Metamorphosis rather then he will fight he will be beaten and if his legges will helpe him he will put his armes to no trouble he makes loue commonly with his purse and brags most of his Mayden-head he will not marry but into a quiet family and not too faire a wife to auoide quarrels if his wife frowne vpon him he sighes and if shee giue him an vnkinde word he weepes hee loues not the hornes of a Bull nor the pawes of a Beare and if a dogge barke he will not come neere the house if hee be rich he is afraide of Theeues and if he be poore he will be slaue to a Begger In summe hee is the shame of man-hood the disgrace of Nature the skorne of Reason and the hate of honour An honest Poore man AN honest Poore man is the proofe of miserie where patience is put to the trial of her strength to endure griefe without passion in staruing with concealed necessity or standing in the aduentures of Charitie if he be married Want rings in his eares and woe watreth his eyes if single he droopeth with the shame of Beggery or dyes with the passion of penurie of the Rich he is shunned like infection