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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	die_v	life_n	remainder_n	4,042	5	10.9432	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16659	The English gentlevvoman, drawne out to the full body expressing, what habilliments doe best attire her, what ornaments doe best adorne her, what complements doe best accomplish her. By Richard Brathvvait Esq.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 3565; ESTC S122488	147,901	276

vnto it yet will not suffer her brest to harbour an vnchaste thought or consent vnto it In that Countrey where I was borne saith Lud. Viues we vsually terme such widowes the greatest associates and assistants of vices whose too much delicacy in bringing vp their children makes them ofttimes-depraued and to all inordinate liberty addicted Wherefore I approue well of their course who recommend the care of their children to some discreet and well-disposed person For such is the too tender affection of mothers towards their children and so much are they blinded with the loue of them as they thinke they treat them too roughly albeit they embrace them neuer so tenderly Saint Hierome writing vnto Saluina saith The chastity of a woman is fraile and fading like a flower quickly perishing and vading with the least gust or blast of aduerse Fortune failing if not falling especially where her age is apt for vice and the authority of her husband wants to afford her aduice from whose assistance her honour deriues her best succour and supportance Who if shee haue a great family many things are required of her and to bee found in her to minister supply to the necessity of time and vse of affaires wherein she stands interessed Requisite therefore it were that shee made choyce of some one discreetly ripe both in yeares and inward gifts by whose honest integrity her family might bee better mannaged with more diligence attended and to the woman lesse occasion of disgrace obiected For I haue knowne very many women who albeit they spent their daies continually within their owne doores yet haue fallen into reproach either by some persons obseruing them or of their owne families disposed by them for suffering their seruants goe abroad to neatly arguing thereby a neglect of their family so as the handmaids pride brought her Mistresse into suspition of contemning her honour Sure it is that an honest woman whose fame is her highest prize requires nothing else desires nothing else than to satisfie her husbands bequest though dead honouring him with a due Commemoration and admiration of his vertues for the liues of those that dye consist in the memory of those that liue So did Anthonia the daughter of Marc. Authonie and wife to Drusus leading all the remainder of her life with her stepmother and retaining alwayes the remembrance of her dead husband The like did Liuia who left both her house and land that shee might dwell vnder one roofe with Noemia fearing perhaps lest the Maids of h●r family growing ●oo lasciuiously wanton and inordinate might by their lightnesse preiudice her honor which she incomparably valued aboue any treasure See you not hereby our discourse Gentlewomen what excellent Lights darted out from those darke times Estimation was their best portion nothing of equall prize vnto it vertues were their choycest Ornaments which they preseru'd with such constancy as feare of death could not depriue them of them though after death they had scarce the least glimpse of immortality Thus haue we traced ouer these three Conditions which wee haue stored with precepts strengthened with examples sweetned with choycest sentences that this reall Estimation whereof we treat might be discerned and that Superficiall Esteeme whereon we are now to insist discouered MAny desire to appeare most to the eye How Estimation may be discerned to be superficiall what they are least in he●rt They haue learned artfully to gull the world with apparances and deceiue the time wherein they are Maskers with vizards and semblances These can enforce a smile to perswade you of their affability counterfeit a blush to paint out their modesty walke alone to expres●e their loue to priuacy keepe their houses to publish them prouident purueyors for their family receiue strangers to demonstrate their loue to hospitality Their speech is minced their pace measured their whole posture so cunningly composed as one would imagine them terr●striall Saints at least whereas they are nothing lesse than what they most appeare Some you shall obserue so demure as in their Salutes they forbeare to expresse that freedome of Curtsie which ciuill custome exacts of them Those true Troian Dames to pacifie their incensed husbands could finde a lippe to procu●e them loue and supple their contracted looke Whereas these ciuilized Dames either out of a reseruancy of state or desire to be obseru'd scorne to be so familiarly demeaned as if they renounced antiquity and sought by all meanes that such Customes as plead prescription might be reuersed Their Lipp● must be their Cheeke which as it retaynes a better tincture so many times a sweeter sauour At these the Poet no lesse pleasingly than deseruedly glanced in this Sonnet Tell me what is Beauty Skin Pure to th' eye but poore within What 's a kisse of that pure faire But Loues Lure or Adons s●aire Nectar-balme did Adon sippe Not from Venus cheeke but lippe Why should then Loues beauty seeke To change lippe vnto be cheeke All which he elegantly clozeth in opposition to himselfe with these continuate Stanza ' s Cheeke shall I che●ke because I may not taste it No Nature rather who to th' eye so plac'd it As none can view it but he must draw neare it O make the Chart familiar or else teare it To purchase improuement of esteeme by these meanes were to swimme against the streame Discretion cannot approue of that for good which selfe-opinion or singularity onely makes good These are but Superficiall showes which procure more contempt than repute more derision than ground of esteeme It is not a ciuill habit a demure looke a staid gate that deserues this report vnlesse all these be s●conded with a resolued soule and a religious heart Those who dedicate themselues to the ●●ruice of vertue preferre the pith before the rinde substance before appearance What can bee safe will these say with Lucretius to any woman if shee prostitute her honour or make it common Good women as they labour to auoyd all occasion of scandall so much more any act that may giue breath to ●candall Ciuill they are in heart and habit Constant in the profession of vertue For others they imitate the Whoorish Woman who wipes her mouth and saith Who seeth mee So they carry themselues charily they care not how little chastely There is none lookes through the Chinke to see them none in presence to heare them freely therefore may they commit what shall afterwards shame them Let mee then direct my Speech to these whited walls who make pretences their best attendants immaske their Impudence with the Vayle of darkenesse Tell mee yee deluded daughters is there any darkenesse so thicke and palpable that the piercing eye of heauen cannot spye you thorow it O if yee hope by sinning secretly to sinne securely you shall bee forced to say vnto your God as Ahab said vnto ●●ijah Hast thou found mee O mine Enemy Nay O God terrible and dreadfull thou hast found mee And then let mee aske you in the