Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	evil_a	good_a	tree_n	3,486	5	10.2364	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14083	Asylum veneris, or A sanctuary for ladies Iustly protecting them, their virtues, and sufficiencies from the foule aspersions and forged imputations of traducing spirits.	D. T. (Daniel Tuvill), d. 1660.	1616 (1616)	STC 24393; ESTC S118753	52,443	161

non prosperae tantum sed omnis fortunae inisse societatem That by Marriage shee had not made hir selfe a companion for him onely in prosperity but in all aduerse chances whatsoeuer Neither was she vnwilling to buye the embracing of his latest breath with the hazard of hir owne This puisne age of ours affordeth the like example in Isabella sister to Charles the Emperour and wife to Christierne King of Denmarke whose discontented subiects when they had degraded him from that royall dignitie would willingly haue conferred the types thereof vpon hir but she most valiantly refused them thinking it a greater honour and more beseeming the dutie of a Wife to leade a languishing life in exile with hir husband then to liue a Princesse in the highest transcendent of all Soueraignetie without him What should I speake of Artemisia or Alceste when Prouinces peopled with Women of no lesse integritie towards their Husbands expose themselues vnto our view Those of Mynia in Thessalie when their husbands according to the laws of Sparta were by night to suffer death for their ambitions and vngratefull vsurpation ouer that Citie vnder pretence of speaking with those cōdemned wretches before their execution entred the prison and hauing changed garments with them vailing their faces vnder a shew of griefe made meanes for their escape themselues remaining in their place to abide with constancie whatsoeuer the deluded Magistrate should inflict vpon them for this their bold attempt Conrade III. After he had compelled Guelphus D. of Bauaria to open to him and to his forces the gates of Winsbergh and to yeelde vp the towne to his mercie granted vpon some easie entreatie that the Duchesse and such other Matrons as were there should depart vntoucht and carrie with them whatsoeuer they could conueniently vpon their shoulders whereupon forgetting their precious ornaments and such things as Women vsually most delight in and charging themselues immediately with no other burthen then with their Husbands they forsooke the place which pious act of theirs so mollified the heart of the Emperour that hee caused them to bee brought backe cancelling the wrongs iniuries which had incited him to that sieg receiued the Duke into his fauor restored him to his dignity and seated him againe without any charge or innouation at all in his auncient gouernment But I will now retire a little from these softer Virtues which can no more be separated from this Sex then whitenesse from the Swanne and curtaine vp a while the Table in which I haue hitherto laboured as with the pencile of Apelles to giue each foule-mouthd Mantuanist the liuely representation of Womens perfections in a louely Venus whilst I endeuor hereafter withall the art I can to limme them foorth in an armed Pallas sprung out of the very head of Ioue and endued with such learning wisdome courage and other the like abilities which Men ouerwhelmed with self-conceit presumptuously entitle Masculine as being essentiall to themselues alone that they may iustly challenge the garland euen from the greatest worthies as in briefe shall plainly appeare CHAP. 8. Of their Learning LEarning in the brest of a Woman is likened by their Stoicall aduersaries to a sword in the hands of a Mad-man which hee knoweth not how to rule as reason shall informe him but as the motions and violent fits of his distemperature shall enforce him It doth not ballast their Iudgements but onely addeth more saile to their ambition and like the weapon of Goliah serueth but as an instrument to giue the fatall period to their Honours ouerthrow And surely this fond imagination hath purchased a free inheritance to it selfe in the Bosomes of some vndiscreeter Parents who hereupon will by no meanes endure that their daughters should be acquainted with any kinde of literature at all The Pen must be forbidden them as the Tree of good and euill and vpon their blessing they must not handle it It is a Pandar to a Virgine Chastitie and betray eth it by venting foorth those amarous Passions that are incident to hotter bloods which otherwise like fire raked vp in embers would peraduenture in a little space be vtterly consumed But if this be their feare let them likewise barre them the vse of their needle with this did Philomela fairely character those foule indignities which had bin offered hir by Tereus the incestuous husband of hir sister Progne and why then may not others expresse their loues and their affections in the like forme Cupid hath wings and like another Daedalus if his passage be stopped by land and water he will cut through the aire but he will be Maister of his desires You cannot hinder his Pinnions from Soaring hie by depriuing him of a quill or twaine Affection is ingenious and can impe them as it pleaseth hir Leander will not for a Hellespont be kept from Heros kisses nor Daenae by a brasen Tower from Iupiters embraces Be Iuno neuer so iealous Loue hath a Mercurie that can at all times delude hir Spies Et quid non fiet quod voluere duo To conuerse with the dead and this is to conuerse with Bookes hath bin still accounted the readiest way to moralise our harsher natures and to weane them from all inbred Barbarisme to more humane and ciuill conuersation And hence it was that Iulius Agricola when he had obtained the gouernment of this our Isle that he might abasethe fierce and fiery temper of the inhabitants whose knowledge could demonstrate nothing but by armes tooke from the nobler Britons their sonnes and trayned them vp in all the liberall Sciences whereby hee made them willingly submit themselues to the Romane Empire and not prone to rise so often vp in armes as formerly by reason of their rough-hewen dispositions they had accustomed to doe Now I see no hinderance why they should not produce the same effect in them which they doe in vs their bodies consisting of the same matter and their mindes comming out of the same molde But if those prohibitions proceed from a prouidence in them to preuent a curious desire of searching further into the Cabinets of Minerua then is fitting an errour incident to capriocious and working Wits such as they would haue Womens for the most part to be let them shew me what Men are free from the like weakenesse Knowledge is infinite and admitteth no bounds It is Iacobs ladder and reacheth from the lowest part of the Earth to the highest place in Heauen Mans Thoughts are like those Angels which were seene by the Patriarch in his Vision neuer at a stand but still going either vp or downe And therefore Salomon anouncheth that Qui addit scientiam addit dolorem an acquist of learning bringeth with it an encrease of labour For the more a man attaineth vnto the more hee seeth to bee attained and so not content with any former purchase wearieth out himselfe in pursuite of that which is behinde Nil actum credens cum quid sibi cernit agendum Those