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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	law_n	young_a	youth_n	27	3	7.5911	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38449	Englands vanity or The Voice of God against the monstrous sin of pride, in dress and apparel wherein naked breasts and shoulders, antick and fantastick garbs, patches, and painting, long perriwigs, towers, bulls, shades, curlings, and crispings, with an hundred more fooleries of both sexes, are condemned as notiriously unlawful. With pertinent addresses to the court, nobility, gentry, city and country, directed especially to the professors in London / by a compassionate conformist.	Compassionate conformist.	1683 (1683)	Wing E3069; ESTC R32945	62,360	146

tricked up in the most excessive Curiosity of Attire and I was surpriz'd when I found that Cornelius a Lapide in his Comment on Timothy has gotten the story by the end Mistress saith he vnless God give you Hell for all this Pains and Labour of Dress Verily He will do you great Injury But what said Old Plautus A Woman and a Ship are never sufficiently rigg'd up therefore said he if any Man want work or business for his mony Let him get him a Ship or a Wife Yet Plutarch tells us that Phocian the Athenian General was Singularly happy in this who when a great Lady of Jonia came to Athens to pass a visit on her and shew'd her all the Rich Jewels and Precious stones of her Cabinet But saith this Lady All my Riches and Jewels is my Husband Phocion Indeed those Athenians were a politick People and car'd very little that their women should bare away the spoiles of their Estate who therefore had Officers on purpose who were to order the Apparrel for women and to take care that no one might wear any thing unbecoming her Place or Degree and these were called Gyneconomi A Committee that sate on the Female affayrs to keep them in due Moderation and Order Very much wanted in England The like Power had the Ephori to correct the Spartan Extravagancies and I confess the Laws of Licurgus for youth especially were so choice and remarkable that the very reading of them would make us reflect on our own impudencies when as my Author tells me the very young men of the City were reduced to so high a degree of Civility and Modesty that passing through the Streets on their Lawful Occasions they would wrap themselves up in their Cloaks not stand prating to every one they met nor Gaze up and down but kept their very eyes fixt upon the ground by which means in a while the masculine Sex excelled in all bashfulness and gravity the very choicest perfections of the Feminine Their Voices were no more heard than if they had been Statues of Stone neither were the young Damosels more chast in their Chambers than were those young men as they walked in the Streets And does not this make thee blush Reader to consider the Rudeness the Incivility the Insolence the the Wild and Immodest Gestures and Deportment not of the Males only in our City but the Loosness the Staring and Gaping the Idle and Dissolute Carriage of the very Virgins and Young Ladies who set themselves out on purpose to be pick't up and Gaz'd on and turn their back upon every passenger as it were to tell him they are freely at his service Not to speak now of the swarmes of these execrable prostitutes the Plagues of the Town that have every Night their several walks and appartments to ply in you may find them as Solomon sayes not in the Corner of the Streets onely but thick in the very midst of them and turning the whole City into a Stews It were well if the like dispatch of some Ship-Loads of them were made to the Forraign Plantations as in the time of the Usurper there was And these too glittering as so many Stars all over in the sparkles of St. Martins the proper Lawful Dress of their Trade by the Lacedemonian-Law who allowed none of these Gayities to any but VVhores Nor can I but mention another most profitable Law of Licurgus who ordain'd that the young men of Sparta should have frequent meetings in some publick place where they should Eat and Drink together for a mutual increase of acquaintance and love but when assembled their chiefest discourses were ordain'd to be for the better contrivance and carrying on the prosperity and wellfare of the City on purpose saith my Author to avoid any idle or impertinent prattle and when all finish'd in due Order and Civility to depart each one to his proper home and betimes too without the Least Debauchery by VVine lest any notice should be taken of any disorder in their passage home through the Streets for Night was to be no mantle to vice no more than the day had been so as they were under an Excellent Government they should take care to honour it by as honest a Carriage What Reader does the Wilderness bring forth better fruit than the Garden We are every one striving for the Honour of the Church and the Kingdomes Let us at least take Example by these Heathen who surely were wiser in their Generation than we Is debauchery and sottishness become the true methods of Honour to so incomparable a Government we lye under and the roarings of our Taverns at midnight quite drowning the Anthems of our Church Alas when shall we begin with a faithful sobriety with these Spartanes to bring glory to the Crown and the Miter whose Honour we so passionately contend for yet suffer its Jewels to swim away in our Spew and then only to dispute for a Decipline when we have lost our sences in the draughts of intemperance and are not able to speak a plain word And further they were so farr from Pomp of Apparrel that no gain or encrease of Estate could tempt them to so vain a Superfluity they consulted the well-Ordering and Governing their Bodies more than any Exteriour magnificent Clothing and loved better to have Mony in their Purses than to lay it all out on their Backs When thou knowest Reader what a World of Byas'es appear like Princes among us yet carry all they have in the World about them as He. Long-Coats and a Drivelling-Cloth is the proper Demonstrative Garbe of a Natural and is not unbecoming for him who dresses himself up in his whole Estate and has left not a peny to dine on but is more ridiculous than Jack-Pudding who disguises himself to get some There was once a Gallant in a Velvet-Coat and a Scarlet-Cloak over it walking in Paul's where finding himself very hungry and over-hearing some others discourse of a Feast the Ironmongers held that day in their Hall was glad of that News and resolving to intrude amongst them No sooner appear'd then was courteously received and promoted by the Stewards to the best Seat at the Table as one they thought who might formerly be of the Society or at least descended from a Father that was and now had done them the Honour to Grace them with His Worshipful Company when Dinner was over and he had lay'd well about him and brisk'd up his Spirits with Wine The chiefest of the Company with whom he Convers'd were at length so bold to desire him to discover himself and what Relation he had to their Society To whom he very merrily replyed O a very near affinity to your Trade for I my self am a Monger too They pray him to explain what he meant By my troth Gentlemen since you must know I am a Whore-Monger and have wasted my Estate in my Vocation so that wanting a Dinner I supposed the contiguity of our Callings might