Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	common_a	hold_v	tenant_n	1,715	5	9.6503	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03192	A curtaine lecture as it is read by a countrey farmers wife to her good man. By a countrey gentlewoman or lady to her esquire or knight. By a souldiers wife to her captain or lievtenant. By a citizens or tradesmans wife to her husband. By a court lady to her lord. Concluding with an imitable lecture read by a queene to her soveraigne lord and king.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1637 (1637)	STC 13312; ESTC S104055	48,969	275

valour abroad incurre these yoaked cattle the Horse and weapons of warre are a remembrance unto her There are very few knowne adulteries committed amongst that great and populous Nation for the punishment thereof is very severe and speedy For she that shall be found guilty of such an act her husband causeth her to be sh●ven and then stript naked and after brings her out of his owne doores in the presence of all his and her neerest kinred then beats her with a battoone through the streets for there is no connivence to be used or pardon to be granted to any woman who hath once violated her wedlocke chastity neither can her youth beauty or riches though all should meet together in one ever purchase her to have the honour of a second husband so odible and detestable is that sinne held amongst them The Assyrians take their daughters with them when they be marriageable to the market and there such as want wives buy them for their money or money-worth The like is in custome with the Babylonians and people of Thrace so did the ancient Grecians purchase their wives either for coine or some other commodity that was vendible The like the Indians in many places observe Iphidanas the son of Antenor according to Homer gave fifty yo●ke of Oxen to his father-in-law to enjoy his daughter in marriage In Tapila a great Citie in India situate betwixt the two Rivers of Indus and Hydaspes they entertain no wives into their conjugall embraces which they buy not at some price Strabo in his booke of Geography lib. 15. informes us that in some Countries as Carthage and others there was a custome that if a poore mans daughter by reason of her poverty could not compasse a husband she was brought to a publike faire or market with trumpets and lowd musicke before her and when a great confluence of people was gathered about her first h●r backe parts were discovered bare as high as to her shoulders from her heele and then the like before and if upon that view she were found to be well featured and no way defective at the charge of the City she was to be provided of a husband Plato in his sixt booke de Legib. writes lest any man should be deceived in the choice of his Bride and so after repent himselfe when it is too late that it was thought convenient that divers assemblies of young men and maids should be permitted to wrestle and ●rie masteries together having their bodies naked from the neck to the waste as farre as modesty would give leave But St. Ierome against Iovinian condemneth this wanton and lascivious custome and so doth Clemens Alexandrinus pedag lib. 2. cap. 9. and St. Cyprian in his booke De Virgin habit in these words The honour and bashfull shame of the body are both preserved in the modest coverture of the garment And Blandus supra leges interposit cap. 1. writeth that the very feare of shame without the terrour of death or torment is sufficient of it selfe to put off a contract The Namasanes a people of Lybia as Herodo●u● informes us had a strange custome to cause the Bride the first night of her nuptialls to prostitute her selfe to all her guests and then she was injoined to preserve her chastity for ever after The Anthropophagi the Medes and some part of the Aethiopians after they be once married are admitted free congresse with their mothers and sisters The Arabs make their wives common to all the kinred The Moores Numidians Persians Parthians Garamantes the Turkes and some Jewes take as many wives as they can well maintaine and the ancient Athenians made their wives and daughters common It was once a custome i● Scotland that the Lord of the soile might lay just clai●e and title to every Virgins maidenhead who was to bee married within his Lordship For by that custome the Tenant held his land which was after quite abolished by King Malcoline who ordained that the new married couple should redeeme her virginitie in which her Landlord pretended interest with a small piece of gold which in many places of the Kingdome is observed even untill this day A young man of Lacedemon being seated in the Theater when a valiant and ancient Captaine a single man and Batchelour but for his valour and famous atchievements much honoured by his Nation came to take his place to be a spectator of the sports and games there presented hee denyed to give him place at which Callidus for so was the Captaine called much offended at the arrogance of his youth gave him course and bitter languag● to whom he returned this short answer Thou hast O great Captaine Callidus as yet fathered no child neither accasioned the birth of any who comming unto my age may when I am come unto thine in this place arise to do me a like honour Plato also in his booke of Lawes appointed single men no place of dignity in the common-weale nor suffered any to bee conferred upon them but caused them to bee more charged with fines and amerciaments than any of the other married Citizens Socrates professeth of himselfe to have learnt more morall philosophy from women than naturall of which he made excellent use In marriage there is a domesticke Common-weale in which the Father of the family may expresse wisedome temperance justice pietie and all other vertues by loving his wife instructing his children governing his familie ordering his affaires disposing his goods The Romans in the yeere that Quintus Me●ellus was Consull established many famous and worthy Lawes and priviledges to incourage people to marry and especially unto those who had numerous issue and great increase of children for without wedlock all alliance would be extinct all Common-weales in short time decay and all sweet societie be quite abandoned There bee twelve impediments to hinder lawfull marriage or to dis-annull it after it be once consummated which Cardinall Caj●tanus comprehends in these foure verses Error conditio votum cognatio crimen Cul●us disparitas vis ord● ligamen honesta● Si sis affinis si forte c●ire nequibis Haec socianda vetant conubia facta ●etracta●● Thus paraphrased Errour condition parentage and vow Adultery the law will not allow Disparitie in divine worship and Violence or force or where we understand In priesthood there 's profanenesse or else where False faiths profest wee likewise must forbeare When there is precontract for honesty Affinitie and disability These twelve from present marriage us disswade Or can retract from wedlock when 't is made I end with this of Socrates Let men obey the Lawes and women their Husbands whose duty is to bee wise in speaking and mild in conversation circumspect in promise and carefull in performance faultlesse in taking and faithfull in giving good counsell patient in adversity and not puft up in● prosperitie somewhat indulgent over his wife but most industrious in the education of his children And a good wife according to Theophrastus must bee grave abroad