Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	air_n	body_n	element_n	4,001	5	9.7677	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00117	Hæc-vir: or, The womanish-man: being an answere to a late booke intituled Hic-mulier. Exprest in a briefe dialogue betweene Hæc-vir the womanish-man, and Hic-mulier the man-woman.		1620 (1620)	STC 12599; ESTC S106169	9,727	24

the Worlds Iudgement doth blind so farre D'Bart That Vertue is oft arraign'd at Vices Barre And will you bee so tyrannous then to compell poore Woman to bee a mistrisse to so vnfaithfull a Seruant Beleeue it then we must call vp our Champions against you which are Beauty and Frailty and what the one cannot compell you to forgiue the other shall inforce you to pitty or excuse and thus my selfe imagining my selfe free of these foure Imputations I rest to bee confuted by some better and grauer Iudgement Haec Vir. You haue wrested out some wit to wrangle forth no reason since euery thing you would make for excuse approues your guilt still more ougly what baser bondage or what more seruile basenesse then for the flattering and soothing of an vnbridled appetite or delight to take a wilfull libertie to do euill and to giue euill example this is to bee Hels Prentice not Heauens Free-woman It is disputable amongst our Diuines whether vpon any occasion a woman may put on mans attyre or no all conclude it vnfit and the most indifferent will allow it but onely to escape persecution Now you will not onely put it on but weare it continually and not weare it but take pride in it not for persecution but want on pleasure not to escape danger but to runne into damnation not to helpe others but to confound the whole sexe by the euilnesse of so lewd an example Phalaris though an extreme tyrant when he executed the inuenter of the Brazen Bull in the Bull did it not so much for the pleasure he tooke in the torment as to cut from the earth a braine so diuelish and full of vnciuill and vnnaturall inuentions And sure had the first inuenter of your disguise perisht with all her cooplements about her a world had been preserued from scandall and slander for from one euill to beget infinites or to nourish sin with a delight in sinne is of all habits the lowest ignoblest and basest Now who knowes not that to yeeld to basenesse must needs be folly for what Wisedome will bee guilty of its owne iniury To be foolishly base how can there bee an action more barbarous and to bee base foolish and barbarous how can there appeare any sparke twinkle or but ember of discretion or iudgement So that notwithstanding your elaborat plea for freedome your seuere condemnation of custome your fayre promise of ciuill actions and your temperate auoiding of excesse whereby you would seeme to hugge and imbrace discretion yet till you weare hats to desend the Sunne not to couer shorne locks Caules to adorne the head not Gregorians to warme idle braines till you weare innocent white Ruffes not iealous yellow iaundis'd bands well shapt comely and close Gownes not light skirts and French doublets for Poniards Samplers for Pistols Prayer-bookes and for ruffled Bootes and Spurres neate Shooes and cleane-garterd Stockings you shall neuer lose the title of Basenesse Vnnaturalnes Shamelesnesse and Foolishnesse you shall feede Ballads make rich shops arme contempt and onely starue and make poore your selues and your reputations To conclude if you will walke without difference you shall liue without reuerence if you will contēne order you must indure the shame of disorder and if you will haue no rulers but your wills you must haue no reward but disdaine and disgrace according to the saying of an excellent English Poet A stronger hand restraines eur wilfull powers C. M. A Will must rule aboue this will of ours Not following what our vaine desires do woo For Vertues sake but what wee ought to deo Hic-Mul Sir I confesse you haue raysd mine eie-lids vp but you haue not cleane taken away the filme that couers the sight I feele I confesse cause of beliefe and would willingly bend my heart to entertaine beliefe but when the accuser is guilty of as much or more then that hee accuseth or that I see you refuse the potion and are as grieuously infected blame mee not then a little to stagger and till you will bee pleas'd to be cleans'd of that leprosie which I see apparant in you giue me leaue to doubt whether mine infection be so contagious as your blinde seuerity would make it Therefore to take your proportion in a few lines The description of a Womanish Man my deare Feminine Masculine tell me what Charter prescription or right of claime you haue to those things you make our absolute inheritance why doe you curle frizell and powder your hayres bestowing more houres and time in deniding locke from lock and hayre from hayre in giuing euery thread his posture and euery curle his true sence and circumpherence then euer Caesar did in marshalling his Army eyther at Pharsalia in Spaine or Brittaine why doe you rob vs of our Ruffes of our Earetings Carkanets and Mamillions of our Fannes and Feathers our Busks and French bodies nay of our Maskes Hoods Shadowes and Shapynas not so much as the very Art of Painting but you haue so greedily ingrost it that were it not for that little fantasticall sharp pointed dagger that hangs at your chins the crosse hilt which gards your vpper lip hardly would there be any difference between the fayre Mistris the foolish Seruant But is this theft the vttermost of our Spoyle Fie you haue gone a world further and euen rauisht from vs our speech our actions sports and recreations Goodnesse leaue mee if I haue not heard a Man court his Mistris with the same words that Venus did Adonis or as neere as the Booke could instruct him where are the Tilts and Tournies and loftie Gallyards that were daunst in the daies of old when men caperd in the ayre like wanton kids on the tops of Mountaines and turnd aboue ground as if they had been compact of Fire or a purer element Tut all 's forsaken all 's vanisht those motions shewed more strength then Art and more courage then courtship it was much too robustious and rather spent the body then prepared it especially where any defect before raigned hence you tooke from vs poore Women our trauerses and tourneys our modest statelinesse and curious slidings and left vs nothing but the new French garbe of puppet hopping and letting Lastly poore Sheetle-cock that was only a female inuention how haue you taken it out of our hands and made your selues such Lords and Rulers ouer it that though it be a very Embleme of vs and our lighter despised fortunes yet it dare now hardly come neere vs nay you keepe it so imprisond within your Bedde-Chambers and dyning roomes amongst your Pages and Panders that a poore innocent Mayd to giue but a kicke with her Battle-dore were more then halfe way to the ruine of her reputation For this you haue demolish'd the noble schooles of Hors-manship of which many were in this Citie hung vp your Armes to rust glued vp those swords in their scabberds that would shake all Christendome with the brandish and entertained into your