Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	woman_n	world_n	young_a	200	3	6.3135	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32910	The female advocate; or, A plea for the just liberty of the tender sex, and particularly of married women. Being reflections on a late rude and disingenuous discourse, delivered by Mr. John Sprint, in a sermon at a wedding, May 11th, at Sherburn in Dorsetshire, 1699. / By a Lady of Quality.	Chudleigh, Mary Lee, Lady, 1656-1710.	1700 (1700)	Wing C3984; ESTC R4679	27,821	63

Elements are most troublesom out of their proper places as Profaneness in Ministers Injustice in Judges and Discomfort in a Wife Now this way of talking seems to imply that Profaneness and Injustice in some persons look very well and are in their proper places by which what he intends is beyond my weak Ability to learn If his meaning be good I am sure his utterance and expression are not very proper here but however 't was done with an upright Intention and a Design to bring down the Desires of all Womens hearts into subjection to the high and mighty Sex As to the Proverb of Solomon he quotes there is no doubt of the truth of it nor his Comment upon it but really I can see no great Piety nor Ingenuity in that Sentence he has from his Pious and Ingenious Author That 't is a hundred pities the Tongues of such Shrows had not as many Blisters as their Jaws have Teeth and 't is never better with their Husbands than when they are hoarse If this be not Billingsgate of the coarsest Alloy I know not what is only coming from the Pulpit 't is sanctified and becomes a very Pious and Ingenious Saying What he says in the conclusion of this part of his Discourse that a clamorous and turbulent Wife that spits Passion and Poison is a Torment to her self and her Husband is a most undoubted Truth and they are justly Self-Tormentors only this I must add that I think there needs no farther Torment for a Woman than only being oblig'd on pain of Damnation to bring under her very Desires to the unaccountable Humours of a wild and giddy Fop who becomes more insolent by Submission and grows more intolerable by being born with Thus I have followed this courteous Gentleman thro all the pleasant Paths he hath here laid down for us The next thing he tells us is how and which way married Women should endeavour to please their Husbands And here he pitches on three very Canonical Heads Love honour and obey And tells us a very learned Story that he hath heard some Women say They never would nor did repeat the sacred Words and that if he had been to officiate he would have kept them to the Text or made them lie alone all their Days to their unspeakable Terror and Afrightment This is a fine Period to be delivered from the Pulpit but being set off with a vehement Accent and a very earnest Delivery it passed no doubt very well and mightily affected the Auditory I am not about to quarrel with the Compilers of the Liturgy only I shall take notice that they were Men who had a hand in it and by consequence would not omit the binding our Sex as fast as possible But 't is also to be observed that those words with my Body I thee worship if they have any meaning in them can never be applied to such a sort of Creature as is a Slave tho our Author should cast in his mind this way and that way and every way to pervert the sense of them He tells us that every married Woman in order to please her Husband ought to love him A notable Discovery and who ever doubted or denied it But however a Man must be a person of extraordinary Merit all Love and Kindness and a thousand good Properties to bring a Woman to that extravagant height of Passion as to be contented and pleas'd tho all the World besides were annihilated P. 28. And he seems to suggest some odd unlucky thing or other in this Matrimony which gives a very strong Temptation to the poor Ladies to be discontented as soon as ever they come under the Yoke and accordingly he says by all means a Woman newly married especially is to avoid all occasion of Difference with her Husband and to this purpose makes a very grave and learned Citation out of Plutarch for the edification of the Auditory concerning his acquaintance with the antient Fathers for so it may be he supposes that at least we poor ignorant Souls do think and know no better Now by his pressing so obvious and uncontested a Matter with such vehemence it looks as if he had a mind to represent us as a Generation of Vipers that as soon as ever any charitable Man is so kind as to lodg us poor willing Creatures in his Bosom immediatly sting him to death Then he breaks out into the most scurrilous and ungenteel Language imaginable P. 30 31. and tells the World that young Women before Marriage do all they can to engage the Affections of a Husband so that in their Looks Dress and Behavior you may read Come love me Very coming and easy Creatures Certainly if they were so very willing abundance of little arts which the Men use might very well be spared 'T is very easy for any Knight-Errant to fancy himself happy and that some great Lady loves him most desperately if she is but civil in her behavior cleanly in her dress and has an air of Candor especially if she happens to smile tho it be at his Follies And according to this rule the Author should have made a more civil return to the Sex for I doubt not but he has read Come love me many a time if this does express it But is it not the Vanity of the Men that makes the Women if any of them are so vain to use those petty Arts he here sets down I hope this Gentleman does not speak by experience when he says that as soon as ever they are married their pleasant Looks are turned into Frowns and the Neatness of their Dress into Sluttery c. Notwithstanding all this there are some Ladies not so very easy of access but hold out desperatly against all the arts of the undermining Sex and the puling Lovers cannot spell Come love me till they have given some very remarkable proofs of their Integrity which if they prove afterwards to be but Shams are no very contemptible Temptations to the new-married Woman to blot out the Impressions of undeserved Love which Hypocrisy only had made in her Heart But in my Observation for let me bring that as an Argument as well as he does his I have found very few if any Women who have had obliging and respectful Husbands for that 's his own Phrase P. 20. that have begun first to withdraw their Affections as some have done no question who by the undiscoverable Arts of designing Men have been betray'd and afterwards slighted to the utmost degree But it becomes those who are guilty themselves to talk at this huffing rate and silence all Complaints by the impudent Accusations they bring against those they injure Thus he talks and raves like one that has forgotten common Civility and the generous Education of the Men of his Coat and concludes this Head with a very wooden Simile for the Instruction and Edification of all well-meaning Carpenters and Joyners viz. That when two Boards are first glued together