Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	abomination_n	know_v	zion_n	25	3	8.8213	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12821	Staffords Niobe: or His age of teares A treatise no lesse profitable, and comfortable, then the times damnable. Wherein deaths visard is pulled off, and her face discouered not to be so fearefull as the vulgar makes it: and withall it is shewed that death is only bad to the bad, good to the good.	Stafford, Anthony.	1611 (1611)	STC 23129; ESTC S106303	42,293	224

this behalfe it is so much the more intollerable by how much of the twaine shee should bee the more shamefaste She ought euer to prize a bashful countenaunce before a paynted one that cannot blush and should be so farre from proffering these vnseemely loue-trickes as rather at the least lewde looke or touch to present the beholders eyes with modesties red badge in waie of mislike To the same ende did the Romanes of olde carrie before the married couple fier and water the former representing the man the later the woman what else signifying then that the woman should expect till heate bee infused into her by her husband it being as much against the nature of an honest spouse as of the coldest water to boile of her selfe and on the contrarie side that the bridegroome should distill warmth into his water and heate it but not ouer-heate it The bashfull and well disposed wife should repose her selfe on her pallet and there with emulation contemplate that answer of the Lacedemonian lasse who being asked in the morning by her friend whether or no in the night she had infolded her husband in her armes replied Good words good man not I him but he me Oh diuine song of a refined creature whose tongue vnlocked the treasure of her hearts chastiric The next vice in women is pride arising from the lauish and lasciuious praises of men which women knowing too well how to applie to themselues becom so proud that they scorne earth and are scorned by heauen For euery one that is proude in heart i● abhomination to the Lord. And in another place it is said The Lord will destroy the house of the proude But hearken you miserable vnfortunate Dames to that which the Lord saith in the third of Esay Because the daughters of Sion are hautie and walk with stretched-out necks and with wandering eyes walking and minsing as they goe and make a tink●ing with their feete therefore shall the heads of the daughters of Sion be balde and the Lord shall discouer their secret parts In that day shall the Lord take-away the ornament of the slippers and the calls and the round tiers the sweete balls and the bracelets and the bonets the tires of the head and the slops the headbands and the tablets the eare-rings the rings and the mufflers the costly apparel and the veiles and the wimples and the crisping pinnes and the glasses and the fine linnen and the hoodes and the lawnes and in stead of sweet sauour there shall be stink in stead of a girdle a rent and in stead of dressing of the haire baldenesse and in stead of a stomacher a girdle of sackecloth and burning in stead of beauty Then shall her gates mourne lament and she being desolate shall sitte vppon the ground Amongst these menaces of GOD some haue already lighted vpon our women as baldenesse and burning many of our men gaining burning in stead of beautie and the restare as yet to fall whose weight will bee so heauie as that it will crush these tender offenders O! I could lash pride and bee bitter towards these sweets but that I knowe my words would goe into winde and be rather scoffed at then regarded I could tell them of setting borrowed teeth into their pale bloudless gums how they ouerlaie yellowe with white in so much that in an howres space they will make a man belieue that the yellowe Iaundies is turned into the greene sickenesse how they turne their blacke bloud ● into faire crimson and set that Baude Art to bedaube Nature I could tel them also of their prodigalitie in apparell but that it concerneth not all in generall but onely some in particular Honour as of her selfe shee is bright and glorious so wee allow her like raiment correspondent to her splendour to the end that shee may be discerned from the base vulgar But that euerye blurt who is only a gentlewoman of two moneths standing should be clad like a Queene this I thinke is more then any wise man will yeeld to Another kinde of base pride hath possessed our womē so that they think a man poor in spirit that is not rich in cloathing Bring me a gentleman of a great far-famed family whose mightie ancestours haue spent their bloud to crowne their bloud with vertues diademe and left behinde them triumphant trophees of their vncontrouled greatnes and to associate this Pirocles bring mee a Dametas who hath of late extracted gentility out of dung if this foist be more fine then the former his entertainement shal bee rich and sumptuous the others poore and beggerly But this is not onelie a fault in this frailer sexe but also in men of eminency who though they should be the eyes of our Iland yet their sight is dimmed with this foggy mist If one man excell another as farre in height of knowledge as heauen earth in distance yet hee that is the best able in purse shall be iudged worthiest of preferment and imployment Seneca had lied in his throate if he had saide in our time Nemo sapientiam paupertate damnauit for as the world goes now the inversion would be most true Quiuis sapientiam opulentia approba●it Pouerty thou veile of wisedome curbe to the minde thou common enemie to vertue through thee Natures greatest gifts passe vnrespected and the best deserts vnrewarded How many braue spirits ●urke and become pliable to wretched seruitude and all for want of meanes to declare their meaning I haue seene a decayed merchant put-on the spurs of him who in times past made clean his shooes man him whose master hee was once but he did it not without an eye of indignation Why pouertie fashioneth a man to any thing Nobilium familiarum posteros egestate venales in seenam de duxit saith Tacitus Wherefore I cannot but meruaile at the sottishnesse of the Papists who teach men to vow pouertie which in it selfe is euill as Beckermane a late dutch writer very wittilie proueth against the Stoickes where he saith that a free prae●lection is not but of good nor a free shunning but of euil If then they grant saith hee as indeede they doe that health riches libertie are to be chosen and on the contrary diseases pouertie griefe to bee auoided they yeeld perforce these to bee bad those to be good For my part would riches come for the vowing it should be the first vow I would make and bless God for them as blessings bestow'd vpon the blessed the want of them being as a punishment laied vppon man to bring him vnto God and to the knowledge of himselfe which if a man do attain-to in prosperitie what needeth humiliation O penury through thy perswasions kings think Cottages Kingdomes and subiect themselues to their owne subiects Thou monster thou cunning Artist thou transformer of men that of a gentleman canst make a scullian of a prince a pesant craule along with plebeians but mount not the backe of vnsaddled honour nor