Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	woman_n	world_n	young_a	47	3	5.4430	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53048	Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1671 (1671)	Wing N856; ESTC R11999	321,583	731

infuse a Saving-grace By his Tongue 's Rhet'rick for to preach SEVERAL Feigned Stories IN PROSE The Second BOOK The strict Associate THERE was a Gentleman came to a Lady with a Message from his Lord which was to tell her His Lord would come to visit her Sir said she Is your Lord a Poet No Lady said he Then he hath no Divine Soul said she Is he a Philosopher No Madam said he Then said she he hath no Rational Soul Is he an Historian Neither said he Then said she he hath no Learned Soul Is he an ancient Man No Lady said he Then he hath no Experienced Soul said she Is he an Orator No Lady said he Then he hath no Eloquent Soul said she And if he hath neither Poetical Wit Philosophical Wisdom Studious Learning Experienced Knowledg nor Eloquent Language he cannot be conversable and if he be not conversable his Visit can neither be profitable nor pleasant but troublesome and tedious therefore I do entreat your Lord that he will spare his pains and mine in giving me a Visit. But said the Man though my Lord is neither a Poet a Philosopher an Historian an Orator nor Aged yet he is a Young Beautiful Man which is more acceptable to a fair Lady Sir said she Youth and Beauty appears worse in Men than Age and Deformity in Women wherefore if it were in my power I would make a Law That all young men should be kept to their Studies so long as their Effeminate Beauty doth last and old Women should be put into Cloysters when their Youth and Beauty is past but I must confess That the custom of the World is otherwise for old Women and young Men appear most to publik view in the World when young VVomen and aged Men often retire from it The Judgment THERE were two Gentlemen that had travelled both into England and France and meeting another Gentleman he asked one of them Which he liked best England or France Who said He liked both well where they were alike worthy and disliked them both in things that were not worthy of praise Then he said to the second Gentleman And which like you best VVhich do you mean answer'd he the Countreys or Kingdoms VVhy what difference is there betwixt saying a Countrey and a Kingdom was reply'd to him Great difference said he for to say a Countrey is but such a circumference of Earth and to say a Kingdom is to say such a Countrey manured inhabited or rather populated with Men that dwell in Cities Towns and Villages that are governed by Laws either Natural or Artificial Well which Kingdom do you like best then Truly said he I cannot give a good judgment unless I had travelled through every part in both Kingdoms and had taken strict surveys of their Forts Havens Woods Plains Hills Dales Meadows Pastures Arrable also of their Architectures as Cities Towns Villages Palaces Churches Theaters of their Laws Customs and Ceremonies of their Commodities Trafficks and Transportations of their Climates and Situations and of the several Humours of the several People in each Kingdom which will not only require a solid Judgment and a clear Understanding but a long Life to judg of it all But said the other judg of as much as you have seen To judg of Parts answered he is not to judg of the Whole but to judg of as much as I have seen I will compare them or similize the Parts of those two Kingdoms to two Ladies whose Faces I have only seen their Bodies and Constitutions being unknown the one that a larger and fairer Forehead than the other and a more Sanguine Complexion the other hath better Eyes Eye-brows and Mouth So France is a broader and plainer Countrey and the Climate is more clear and somewhat hotter than England and England hath better Sea-Ports Heavens and Navigable Rivers than France hath also the one hath a more haughty Look than the other and the other a more pleasing and modest Countenance So France appears more Majestical and England more Amiable The Vulgar Fights A Young Gentleman of a good Natural Wit had a desire to travel but first he would visit every Province in his own Countrey before he went into Forreign Kingdoms preferring the knowledg of his own Native Soil before those wherein he was neither born nor meant to dwell So he went to the Chief Metropolitan City where he did intend to stay some time that he might inform himself best of the several Trades Trafficks Imposts Laws Customs Offices and the like When he was come to it he sent his Man to seek him out some Lodgings in some private House because Inns are both troublesome and more chargeable His Man had not gone far but he saw a Bill over a Trades-man's Door to let Passengers know there were Lodgings to be Lett. The Mistress sitting at the Door he asked her if he might see the Lodgings that were to be Lett She answered No she would first see them that were to take them Who is it that would take them said she My Master said he Hath he a Wife said she Why ask you that said he Because said she I will not Lett my Lodgings to any Man that brings a Wife for Women to Women are troublesome Guests whenas Men are very acceptable and I thank the Gods said she I am not so poor as I care for the Profit but for Company and Conversation for to have no other Company but my Husband is very dull and melancholy The man said My Master hath no Wife Is he a young man said she Yes said he Is he a handsome man said she Yes said he Then said she my Lodging is at his service At what Rate are they said the Man She said Your Master and I shall not fall out about the Price So he returned to his Master and told him He had found not only Lodgings but as he thought a fair Bed-fellow for him for the Mistress would make no Bargain but with himself So thither he went where he found all things accommodated for his use and his Landlady who was a handsome Woman and her Husband a plain Man bid him very welcome then taking their leave left him to himself after which the good man seldom troubled him but the Wife was so officious as he seldom mist of her Company and so wondrous kind as might be making him Whitewine-Caudles for his Break-fast and giving him very oftern Collations besides if he stay'd out she would send her Husband to bed and wait for his coming home for which Kindness he would return her Courtly Civilities He went often abroad to view the City and to see the course of the People and the several passages that happen in such places and one day as he went through a large Street a Coach-man and Carman man fell out for out for the right side of the way the Carman said he was loaded and therefore would not give way the Coach-man said It was not fit for a