Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	action_n	good_a	life_n	2,683	5	4.5961	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02093	Theeues falling out, true-men come by their goods: or, The belman wanted a clapper A peale of new villanies rung out; the sound being musicall to all gentlemen, lawyers, farmers, and all sorts of people that come vp to the tearme: shewing that the villanies of leawd women, excell those of men.; Disputation, betweene a hee conny-catcher, and a shee conny-catcher	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1615 (1615)	STC 12235; ESTC S113894	33,505	44

as his wife therefore I wil not abuse him neither would I wish you to be ●●miliar with any other séeing you haue a friend that loues you so tenderly much good counsell hee gaue mee but all in vain for I scorned it began to hate him and resolued both to be rid of him my supposed husband for 〈◊〉 another familiar of my husbands I so 〈◊〉 him with 〈◊〉 words that I 〈◊〉 him to make a 〈◊〉 of money to steale me away so carry me to London where I had not liued long with him ere he seeing my light behauiour left me to the wide world and to shift for my sefe I now being brought to London and left here at randon was not such a house-doue while any friend staied with me but that I had visite some houses in London that could harbour as honest a woman as my selfe when as therefore I was left to my selfe I remoued my lodging gat me into one of those houses of good hospitality whereunto persons resort commonly called a Trugging-house or to be plaine a Whore-house where I gaue my selfe to entertaine all companions sitting or standing at the dore like a staule to allure or draw in wanton passengers refusing none y● would with his purse purchase me to be his to satisfie the disordinate desire of his filthy lust now I began not to respect personage good qualities to the gracious fauour of the man when eie had no respect of person for y● oldest lecher was as welcom as y● yongest louer so he broght meat in his mouth Thus to the griefe of my friends hazard of my soule consuming of my body I spent a yeare or two in this base and bad kind of life subiect to y● whistle of euery desperate Ruffian till on a time there resorted to our house a Cloathier a proper yong man who by fortune comming first to drinke espying me asked me if I would drink with him there needed no great entreaty for as then I wanted company so clapt me downe by him began very pleasantly to welcom him y● man being of himselfe modest and honest noted my personage iudicially reasoned of my strumpet-like behauiour and inwardly as after hee reported vnto me grieued that so foule properties were hidden in so good a proportion and y● such rare wit excellent beauty was blemisht with whoredomes base deformity in so much y● he began to thin● well of me to wish y● I were as honest as I was beautiful Again●●● sée how God wrought for my conuersion since I gaue my selfe to my loose kind of life I neuer liked any so well as him in so much y● I began to iudge of euery part me thought he was y● properest man y● euer I saw thus wée sate both amorous of other I lasciously he honestly at last he questioned with me what country woman I was why being so prop●● a woman I would beseem to dwell or lie in a base Ale-house especially in one y● had a bad name I warrant you I wanted no knauish reply to 〈◊〉 him for I told him the house was as honest as his mothers mary if there were in it a good wench or two that would pleasure their friends 〈…〉 I gesse by his nose what porredge he lo●ed 〈…〉 none such well seeing me in y● voyce he said little but shaked his head paid for the beere went his way onely taking his leaue of mee with a kisse which mee thought was the sweetest that euer was giuen me assoone as he was gone I began to thinke what a handsome man hée was wisht y● he wold come take a nights lodging with me sitting in a dump to think of y● quaintnes of his personage ●ll other companions came in y● shakt me out of y● melancholy but assoone againe as I was secret to my selfe hee came into my remembrance passing ouer thus a day or two this Cloathier came againe to our house whose sight chéered mee vp for that spying him out at a Casement I ranne downe the staires met him at y● dore heartily welcomed him asked him if he would drinke I come for y● purpose saies he but I will drink no more below but in a Chamber marry sir quoth I you shall so brought him into y● fairest 〈◊〉 in their sitting there together drinking at last y● Clothier fell to kissing other dalilance wherein he found mée not coy at last told mee y● he would willingly haue his pleasure of me but y● 〈◊〉 was too lightso●e for of all things in y● world he could not in such actions away with a light Chamber I 〈◊〉 vnto him brought him into a roome more dark but still he 〈◊〉 it was too light then I carried him into a further chāber where drawing a Curtaine before y● window closing y● curtaines of y● bed I asked him smiling if y● were close enough no sweet loue saies he y● curtaine is not broad enough for y● window some watching 〈◊〉 may espye vs my heart misdoubts my credite is my life Good 〈◊〉 if thou hast a closer roome then this bring me to it why thē quoth I follow me with that I brought him into a backe l●ft wher● stood a little ●ed onely appointed to lodge suspitious persons so darke that at noone daies it was impossible 〈◊〉 any man to sée his owne hands how now sir quoth I is not this darke enough He sitting him downe on the bed side fetcht a déepe sigh and sayd indifferent so so but there is a glimpse of light in at y● tiles some body 〈…〉 fortune sée vs in faith no quoth I none but God 〈…〉 hee● why can God sée vs here Good sir quoth I why I hop● you are not so simple but Gods eyes are so cleare and penetrating that they can pierce through walles of brasse And alas q●●th he swéet loue if God sée vs shall we not be more ashamed to do such a filthy act before Him then before men I am sure thou art not so shamelesse but thou wouldst blu●● to haue the meanest commoner in London see thee 〈◊〉 action of thy filthy lust dost thou not shamemore to 〈◊〉 God the maker of all things see thee who re●eng●th 〈◊〉 with death he whose eyes are cleerer then the ●un who i● y● searcher of the heart and holdeth vengeance in his hands to punish sinners Oh let vs tremble that we but once durst haue such wanton communication in the hearing of his di●ine Maiesty who pronounceth damnatiō for such as giue themselues ouer to adultery It is not possible ●aith y● Lord for any whoremaister or lasciuious wanton to enter into y● Kingdome of God for such sins whole Citties haue sunck Kingdomes haue bene destroyed though God suffer such wicked liuers to escape for a while yet at length he payeth home in this world with beggery shame dis●ases or infamy in the other life with perpetuall damnation weigh but the incōuenience that grows through thy loose life thou art hated of all that are g●od despised of the vertuous and onely well thought of of Reprobates Rascals Ruffians such as the world hates subiect to their lust and gaining thy liuing at the hands of euery diseased leacher O what a miserable trade of life is thine that liuest of the vomit of sin in hunting after maladies but suppose while thou art yong thou art fauoured of thy companions when thou waxest Cu●purses in their ●●llers Three shapes The Shee Diuell worst Women Foysts and Boyes most dangerous in Fayres and Markets A Trull with a Gull Tricks of bawdes A prettie 〈◊〉 One varlet smo●●●● another ● Country ●oyst Gulles ●●e Cittie ●oystes The Wolfe eates the Fox Cardes well packt are as halfe the game won Worse feard then hurt Crosbiting now most in vse The co●ditions of a Life I will tell you wōders of this mad wench her husband in my blacke booke with both their names The end of keeping a whoores companie Women out-strippe men in villany Examples New Lawes A Harlots repentance

and so set● their hearts the more on fire I was the fairest of all and yet not more beautifull then I was witty or so much that ●●ing a pretty Parrat I had such quaint conceipts and witty words in my mouth that the neighbours said I was too soone wise to bee long old Would to God either the Prouerbe had beene authenticall or their sayings Prophecies then had I by death in my nonage buried many blemishes that my riper yeares brought me to For the extreme loue of my parents was the very efficient cause of my follies resembling herein the ●●ture of the Ape that euer killeth that yong o●e which hee loueth most with embracing it too ●er●ently So my father and mother but shee most of all although hee to much so cockered me vp in my wantonnesse that my wit grewe to the worst and I wa●ed vpwards with the ill weeds Whatsoeuer I did were it neuer so bad might not bee found fault withall my Father would smile at it and say 't was but the tricke of a childe and my mother allowed of my vnhappy parts alluding to this prophane and old prouerbe An vntoward girle makes a good woman But now I find in sparing the rod they hated the child that ouer-kind fathers make vnruly daughters Had they bent the wand while it had been greene it would haue beene pliant but I ill growne in my yeares am almost remedilesse The Hawke that is most perfect for the flight and wil seldome proueth hagard and children that are vertuously nurtured in youth will be honestly natured in age fie vpon such as say yong Saints old Diuels it is no doubt a diuellish and damnable saying for what is not bent in the Cradle will hardly by bowed in the Sadle My self am an instance who after I grewe to bee six yeares old was s●t to Schoole where I profited so much that I writ and read e●cellently well plaid vpon the Uirginals Lute Citron and could sing prick-song at the first sight insomuch as by that time I was twelve yeares old I was holden for the most faire and best qualified youg girle in 〈◊〉 that Countrey but with this bewailed of my wel-wishers in that my parents suffered me to be so wanton But they so tenderly affected me 〈◊〉 so ●●nded with my excellent qualities that they had no insight into my insuing follies For I growing to be 13 yeare old féeling the yoke of liberty to be loose on mine owne neck begin with y● wanton Heyfer to aime at mine owne will and to measure content by the sweetnesse of mine own thoughts insomuch that 〈◊〉 ●reeping on I began to pranke 〈◊〉 selfe with the proudest and to hold it in disdaine that any in the Parish should exceed me in brauer● 〈◊〉 apparrell was costly so I grew to be licentious and to delight to be lookt on so that I ●aunted and frequented all feasts and weddings other places of merry meetings where as I was gazed on of many so I spared no glaunces to suruey all with a curious eye fauour I obserued Ouids rule right Spectatum veniunt veniunt spectentur vt ipse I went to see be seene and deckt my selfe in the highest degree of brauery holding it a glory when I was waited on with many eyes to make censure of my birth Beside I was 〈◊〉 ordinary 〈◊〉 and grew in that quality so famous that I was noted as the chiefest the●eat in all the Countrey yea and to sooth me vp in these follies my Parents took a pride in my dauncing which afterward proued my ouer-throw and their heart-breaking Thus as an vnbridled Colt I carelesly led forth my youth and wantonly spent the flower of my yeares holding such Maydens as were modest fooles and such as were not as wilfully wanton as my selfe puppies ill brought vp and without manners Growing on in yeares as tide nor time tarrieth for no man I began to wa● passion-proud and to thinke her not worthy to liue that was not a little in loue that as diuers yong men began to fauour me for my beauty 〈◊〉 I began to censure of some of them partially and to 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 of many wooers being ready to fall from the 〈…〉 I was come to the 〈◊〉 of a blossome which an 〈◊〉 of mine séeing who was my mothers brother as carefull of my welfare as me to mee in kinne 〈…〉 to talke with mee gaue mee this 〈…〉 A w●tch-word to want on Maidens 〈…〉 the most sudden showre and the yo●gest virgins the 〈◊〉 dangerous fortunes I speake as a kinsman and wish as a friend the blossome of a Maidens youth such as your selfe hath attending vpon it many frosts to nip it and many cares to consume it so that i● it be not carefully lookt vnto it will perish before it come to any perfection A virgins honour consisteth not onely in the gifts of Nature as to be faire and beautifull though they bee fauours that grace Maidens much for as they be glistering so they be momentany ready to be worne with euery winters blast and parched with euery Summers sunne there is no face so faire but the least Moale the slenderest scarre the smallest brunt of sicknesse will quickly bl●mish Beauty Cozen as it flourisheth in youth so it fadeth in age it is but a folly that feedeth mans eye a painting that Nature lends for a time and men allow on for a while insomuch that such as onely aime at your faire lookes tye but their lou●s to an Apprentiship of beauty which broken either with cares mis-fortune or yeares their destnies are at libe●ty and they begin to loth you and like of others For shee that is looked on by many cannot choose but bee hardly spoken of by some for report hath a blister on her tongue Maidens actions are narrowly measured Therefore would not the ancient Romans suffer their daughters to goe any further then their mothers lookes guided them And therefore Diana is painted with a Tortuse vnder her féet meaning that a maid should not be a stragler but like the snaile carry her house on her head and kéepe at home at her worke so to kéepe her name without blemish and her vertues from the slander of enuy Cozen I speake this generally which if you apply particularly to your selfe you shall find in time my words were well said I gaue him slender thankes but with such a frump that he perceiued how light I made of his counsaile which hee perce●●●ing shakt his head and with teares in his eyes departed But I whom wanton desires had drawn in delight still presumed in my former follies and gaue my selfe either to gad abrode or else at home to read dissolute Pamphlets which bred in me many ill-affected wishes so that I gaue leaue to loue and lust to enter into the center of my heart where they harboured till they wrought my finall and fatall preiudice Th●s leading my life loosly and béeing soothed vp with the applause