Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	absolute_a	young_a	youth_n	18	3	7.9315	4	false

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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

victorious could not winne her though with him price prayer and power did ioyntly wooe her Well deseru'd such two modest Matrons the choice Embraces of two such heröicke Champions as might equal their cōstant Loues with the tender of their dearest liues And two our Histories afford whom succeeding fame hath recorded eminent because double Conquerours both of Cities and of themselues puisant and continent This noble testimonie we receiue of Scipio that being a young man of twenty foure yeares of age in the taking of a City in Spaine hee rep●essed the flaming heat of his youthfull desires when a beautifull maid was brought him restoring her to a young man called Allutius to whom shee was espoused with a great reward Right worthy was hee to conquer another who could with such temper subdue himselfe such good successe hath euer attended on these Morall vertues though professed by Pagans The other Heröe was rightly * Cap. Augustus both in name and nature and wherefoe're you looke a victorious CAESAR Cleopatra kneeled at his feet Tit. Liu. lib 4. cap. XI layd baits for his eyes but in vaine her beauties were beneath that Princes chastity Absolute Commanders were these Heröicke Princes of their affections yet a farre more singular argument of his composed disposition and of Morall if not Diuine Mortification shewed that young man SPVTIMIA in Valerius Maximus whose beauty did so incomparably become him as it occasioned many women to lust af●er him which this noble youth no sooner prrceiued than hee purposely wounded his face that by the scarre he sustained his beauty might become more blemished and consequently all occasion of lusting after it clearely remoued Now Gentlewomen if you make Estimation your highest prize if you preferre honour before pleasure or what else is deare or tender your fame will find wings to flye with This will gaine you deseruing Suiters Portion may wooe a worldling Proportion a youthfull Wanton but it is Vertue that winnes the heart of discretion Surely I haue seldome knowne any make this esteeme of honour and dye a contemptible begger Such as haue beene prodigall of it haue felt the misery of it whereas a chaste minde hath euer had something to succour and support it Thus you see what this inward beauty is which if you enioy you sit farre aboue the reach of Calumny age cannot taint it nor youth tempt it It is the Estimation within you that so confines you as you hate that place which giues opportunity that person which makes importunity his agent to lay siege to your Chastity Now wee are to descend to the second branch wherein wee are to shew you how this Estimation which is your highest prize may be discerned to be reall which is not gathered by the first appearance but a serious and constant triall IN Philosophy a man begins with experience and then with beleef● but in Diuinity wee must first beginne in faith and then proceed to knowledge True it is that the Sunne Moone and Starres become subiect to vanity yet charity bids me beleeue that there are many beauteous and resplendent Stars in this our Firmament many fresh fragrant Roses in this our inclosed Garden of Albion who haue preseru'd their beauty without touch their honour without taint Where if vanity did touch them yet did it not so seize on them as to disfigure or transforme them You noble Gentlewomen are those Starres whose glory can neuer be eclipsed so long as your Estimation liues vnstained you are those fragrant Roses whose beauty cannot be tainted so long as your stalke of honour growes vntouched Now to the end that your lustre may not bee like to that of the Glow●rme nor rotten wood which is meerely imaginary compared with that is reall How Estimation may be discerned to be reall you are not to make faire and glorious pretences purposely to gull the world and cast a mist before the eyes of bleered iudgements No you are to be really what you appeare outwardly These that walke in the Clouds though they deceiue others much yet they deceiue themselues most Obserue then this rule of direction it will accomplish you more than any outward Ornament that Art can bestow on you Be indeed what you desire te be thought Are you Virgins dedicate those inward Temples of yours to chastity abstaine from all corrupt society inure your hands to workes of piety your tongues to words of modesty Let not a straid looke taxe you of lightnesse nor a desire of gadding impeach you of wantonnesse The way to winne an husband is not to wooe him but to be woo'd by him Let him come to you not you to him Profferd ware is not worth the buying Your states are too pure to bee set at sale too happy to be weary of them So long as you liue as you are so your mindes bee pure you cannot possibly be poore You haue that within you will enrich you so you conforme your mindes to your meanes In the discourse of vertues and true estimate of them Salust none was euer held more excellent than that which is found in chaste youth You are Conquerours in that wherein the greatest Conquerours haue fail'd Your chaste paths are not trac'd with wandring desires your priuate Chambers arras'd with amorous passions you spinne not out the tedious night in ah mee 's Your repast findes no hinderance in digestion your harmelesse repose no loue-sicke distraction Others you may command by none commanded Others will vow their seruice vnto you while you are from all seruitude freed Liue then worthy the freedome of so noble a Condition for your Virgin state wants nothing that may enlarge her freedome Againe are you wiues you haue attained an honourable state and by it made partakers of that indiuiduate vnion where one soule ruleth two hearts and one heart dwelleth in two bodies You cannot suffer in that wherein you haue not one share Griefe by your Consort is allayed ioy by partaking with him is augmented You haue now taken vpon you to become Secretaries to others as well as your selues but being one and the same with your selues doe not betray their trust to whose trust you haue recommended your selues Imagine now to recall to memory an ancient Custome that you haue broken the axletree of your Coach at your doore you must be no more straglers These walking Burses and moueable Exchanges sort not with the constancie of your Condition You must now intend the growth and proficience of those Oliue branches about your table Like a curious and continuate builder you must euer addresse your selues to one worke or other From their infancy to their youth from their youth to their maturer growth For the first I know well that di●tich to bee most true A mother to be Nurse that 's great and faire Is now held base True Mothers they be rare But farre was it from those ancient heröicke Ladies to thinke this to bee either a disgrace to their place or a