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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	age_n	youth_n	youthful_a	108	3	10.7986	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06891	The queen of Nauarres tales Containing, verie pleasant discourses of fortunate louers. Now newly translated out of French into English.; Heptaméron. English	Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.; A. B., fl. 1597.	1597 (1597)	STC 17323; ESTC S120742	69,714	98

very instant when we were ready to go to church she was schooling of her with this exhortation Sisly said she the day is now come which you haue so much longed after it is twenty yeares ago since you first wished for a husband byrlady daughter you were then seuenteene or eighteene yeares of age so that at this present you want not aboue two or three of forty now if wit went by yeares you are olde enough to be wise but I being your mother besides my many yeares which might aduance my skill so I haue buried foure seuerall husbands the heauens he praised for it which hath so much the more confirmed my experience in the dispositions of men and can the better iudge of their naturall inclinations and by all that I haue gathered by my own proofe and practise I haue found it still by triall that the fantasies of men are euer best fitted with the follies of women but leauing generalities and to come to so much as concerneth but thy selfe thou art now to be maried to a husband who in respect of his age thou mightst be his mother and couldest thou now but consider what a comfort it is for an old woman to be imbraced by a young man O daughter daughter thy mothers mouth beginnes to water but with the very imagination to thinke of the pleasure and therefore happy maiest thou deeme thy selfe that art so likely to inioy it But here is now agreat piece of discretion to be vsed for as age conceiueth such contentment with the society of flesh and pleasant youth so youth will quickly fall a loathing of olde and croked age if the parties be not wise to enforce that by art that they are otherwise deuaied by nature which is to shew a youthfull disposed minde how farre soeuer they be spent in yeares for it is a tyred iade that cannot cry wee hee and a sorie mare that cannot wag her taile thou art nowe to consider the inequality of the yeares betweene thy selfe and thy husband and therefore a little to whet him on to make him to like the better of thee it shall not be a misse for thee to shewe some youthfull conceipt especially being thy bridall day it is tollerable for thee a little to play the wanton I tel thee daughter men are well pleased to see their wiues youthfully giuen as there is nothing doth more delight them then to see them wantonly disposed and this is the means to win your husbands liking to draw him to that appetite which your many yeares might quench remember therefore what I haue tolde you and faile not for your aduantage to shewe some youthfull tricke Sisly making a manerly curtesie sayd yes forsooth mother I will remember all that you haue tolde me by this time all things being prepared to Church they went where the Priest hauing once done his office they returned againe and were accompanied with her neighbours and friends that went home to dinner with them for whom there was provided furmentie and minced pies besides other good meates both rost and sad the which being all ready Sislie was placed at the vpper end between two of the most substantial honest men according to the custome of the parish and himselfe likewise as the maner was did wait that day at the table with a napkin hanging on his shoulder But o what a comfort it was vnto him to see how dainetily Sisly fed of euery dish that came to the table and howe lustily she layd about her for her victuals and though hee if it be true as some men say that a good feeding horse will go through with his labour then I warrdnt you if I giue Sislie her meate I neede not feare to ride her where I list but dinner being almost at an end and the cakebread cheese readie to be set on the table the good old woman her mother who had likewise beene very busie that daie in taking paines to fill the pots to carie away empty dishes began to cheere vp the companie bidding them welcome and telling them she was sorie there was no better cheere for them Sislie presently vpon the sight of her mother bethought her selfe what she had to doe and calling now to minde what lesson she had giuen her and how she had willed her that day to shew some youthfull tricke thereby to purchase the favor of her husband and picking out at that very instant a sitte opportunity to perfourme it she called to her mother in this youthful maner Mamma vp and cack the old woman hearing her daughter said why how now Sislie fie for shame will you speake bugs words could you not pretily haue said I pray you mother haue me vp to picke a roase nay now I see you plaie the wanton too much then speaking to the companie that sate by she said I pray you bear with my daughters childishnes for I know it is the furmentie that doth so much annoy her for euen from her infancie if shee had taken any spoone meat she was stil troubled in the bottome of her backe side with a great ventosity The neighbours seeing the cleanelinesse of the wench did euer after that call her by the name of manerly Sisly Let this suffice within a very few months after he was maried Sisly began to grow ielous for if she had bin once thirsty and that he wanted money to send to the alehouse she would tell him that hee spent away his thrift amongest some other yong queanes Here began our first falling out and to set forward the matter there dwelt at the very next house by him a Taylor that had a wife who was sure once a day to measure the breadth of her husbands shoulders with his owne metyarde Sisly and this Taylors wife grew to be acquainted and amongst other conclusions it was agreed between them that to preuent diseases to preserue them in health they would euery morning next their hearts take a physicall diet which was a full quarte of the quintessence drawne from an Ale tub warmed by the fire with a grated nutmeg halfe a yeard of blacke pudding rosted a quantitie of salt with a measure of fine wheat flower first made into paste and after baked in a loafe of bread these ingrediences after they had incorporated together they would afterwardes lightly fast till noone and they found such a commoditie in vsing the medicine that if the Taylor and he had not euery morning giuen them money to pay for the simples it had not beene good for them to come that day after in their sights for the Taylors wife she could handle a metyeard or a cudgell passing nimbly But Sisly had gotten the practise of all manner of weapons and besides that she had the vse of her nailes which she employed many times about my face she could likewise handle a paire of bellowes about my pate a paire of tonges a thwart my shinnes a firebrand sometimes should flie at my head