Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	wife_n	woman_n	4,471	5	7.1539	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89598	The womens advocate, or, Fifteen real comforts of matrimony being in requital of the late fifteen sham-comforts : with satyrical reflections on whoring, and the debauchery of this age / written by a person of quality of the female sex.	Marsin, M.	1683 (1683)	Wing M813EA; ESTC R228951	53,453	143

matter Why the Woman 's a meer Tyger for jealousie And what can be more irksome to a man than to live under the yoak of Tyrannical suspition His goings out and comings in are dog'd and trac'd like a Hare i' the snow Where ha' you been to day What you ha' been to visit the Taylors Wife I see by your hang-dog countenance But I shall pull the eyes of her out at one time or other I hear of your Pranks I do but I 'le spoil your swan-hopping i'faith And when he comes to pay his nocturnal Tribute No no get ye gone where you have been all this day I 'll ha' none o' your Gilflurts leavings And this is a great inconveniency of Matrimony that gives him no rest But such men not that your jealous women are the only kind Wives in the world 'T is not on t of anger that they chime so loud i' their husbands ears nor out of disrespect or neglect of Duty that they tell him his own but out of pure love and affection The Woman would ne're have been at the price of a halter to hang her husband that was to be executed and carried it the Sheriff her self but that she was jealous lest her Husband should escape the punishment of his Sin Where jealousie is absent there can be no real Love Jealousie is the Conditement that preserves Love as Sugar preserves Pears and Plums 'T is the Dog and Bell that keeps blind Love i' the right way Jealousie is the Argos that watches the unruly and wandring footsteps of scaperloytring Leachery And therefore men are discontented murmur at the jealousie of their Wives as little Children hate the Chyrurgeon that cures 'um of a Fistula i' their Tails because he hurts ' um The first Condescentions of women are but the beginning of Love but Jealousie compleats and perfects their affection For unless a woman lov'd her Husband why should she be angry that another should enjoy him 'T is a sign she 's ambitious of her husbands Affection when she envies all others that she thinks have any share with her and a demonstration that she preserves her chast embraces entirely for her Husband A loving Mother is always brooding in her thoughts over her absent Infant and still supicious of the miscarriages of a Neglectful Nurse In like manner what can be more kind and obliging than a wife that keeps a continual watch and guard over the safety and preservation of her Husband well knowing how many traps and baits that Harlot Pleasure lays up and down in every corner for Mouse-like men that are ready to snap at the toasted cheese of every loose and vain affection The Surgeon that boasted that he had Nuts of Priapus's enow the spoils of venereal Combats to button a Leaguer-Cloak gives a woman sufficient warning to be careful of her husbands ware It shews a woman has a true value for her self when she scornes to be out ●ival'd These Maximes the Town-Misses are not ignorant of and therefore count themselves then best belov'd and are best satisfi'd when their Paramours brook no Copartnership in their Chamber-Practice In them jealousre is applauded by their wanton Admirers and why not in a Wife whose care is much more tender and cordial Thus a jealous Wife takes care of the main Chance and a Man has the same reason to be oftended at a jealous Wife as at an honest servant who takes care to keep himself sober when he finds his Master resolv'd to be drunk THE Fourteenth Real Comfort OF Matrimony AY that 's fine musick for a Husband indeed for his Wife to lye hickupping a Bed as if she were ongaging her stomack to give her Husband a Pillowposset He is then in a bodily fear in truth when he finds her breath inflam'd with Brandy and is afraid every moment of being burnt in his bed For I have heard of a woman than has set her self on fire and been burnt to death with swallowing a Snap-dragon And yet in such a Wife there is both pleasure and content For they say that Women are generally most kind in their cups and kindness in a Wife is one of the chiefest things which the Husband expects from Matrimony Lovers are pleas'd to see Babies in their Mistresses eyes but when his wife becomes all Looking-glass where can he more delight to behold his own failings Which if they be failings he has the advantage thereby to dress and reform his own ill manners first and then hers afterwards What greater pleasure can a man have than to fuddle with his own Wife or what greater kindness can she fhew him then to fit foot to foot with him at the Tavern 'T is like drinking on a Sunday in Sermon-time with the Church-warden and Constable of the Parish in company Or if a man have a mind to be rid of his Wife let him not suffer her to disgrace him by the revail way of only a quartern at time from the Stillers Shop but let him extend his kindness like the Taylor i' the Strand let her toss off her Noggins by whole-sale let the Brandy-Firkin stand by her bed-side Now that Women have as much right to drink Wine as well as men is plainly demonstrable from this That the Poet assures us that Bacchus was both Female as well as Male and perform'd the greatest part of his Conquests by the assistance of women of which Sex the chiefest part of his Armies consisted His Nurses too the Pleiades were notable Topers you may be sure for they spill their Liquour to this day and are the certain forerunners of rain and fowl weather when they rise in an ill humour Then who were to be trusted with the Religious rites and worship ascrib'd to this carowsing Deity but women And whether they were not notable Bowsers you may easily guess by their Horse-play Ceremonies But now Heaven's bless us what a crime is it for a woman to drink a glass of wine But let us consider I beseech ye one thing more There 's an old proverb In vino veritas the Cup never lyes Whence we infer that Fuddle-coyf wives always speak truth I promise ye then I think that man has no reason to be discontented that has such a precious Jewel for you know that all other women are not to be believed although they be dead Oh! but you 'l say Fudling women are apt to miscarry i' their drink To which I answer that though I might tell ye more Women miscarry when they are sober than when they are Tipsie yet I will onely blame the Husdand for that who ought to take the more care of her knowing her disposition 'T is a thing that looks ill in men not to take care of their friends in their drink but suffer 'em to reel home i' the dark and moyl themseves in the kennel and therefore to neglect women the weaker vessels when they have been a little over-indulgent to nature is a Soloecism in a Husband that justly deserves