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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	speak_v	true_a	word_n	4,837	5	4.2671	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89239	Naked truth, or, A plain discovery of the intrigues of amorous fops and humours of several other whimsical persons in a pleasant and profitable dialogue between a precious saint-like sister called Terpole and Mimologos, a scoffing buffoon / written by Don Francisco Baltheo de Montalvan, and faithfully translated out of the original by W.H., M.D.	Montalvan, Francisco Baltheo de.; W. H.	1673 (1673)	Wing M2483; ESTC R42790	21,050	79

one of the Minor Poets at least whose Verses in English run thus You wish me to a Wife rich fair and young That had the Spanish French and Latine tongue I thank you Sir for I will have none such I think one Language will be tongue too much Then love you not the Learned As my life The learned Scholar not the learned Wife Terp It is an hard and unjust sentence in you men towards us to doom our sex to the wheel altogether as if we were fit for nothing but to spin and prick in a Clout whereas we are capable of more sublime things I know it is commonly tost up and down in the Mouths of the Vulgar as you say that one Tongue is enough for a Woman In some sense I grant it is true that is where there is not prudence to regulate and moderate our words and actions and in that case for all as I know one Tongue may be too much But discretion doth not consist so much in speaking few words as no superfluous or impertinent ones Therefore many tongues are no harm if we know 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the moralist Plutarch hath it Parts both natural and acquired in Women and good qualities make their Company acceptable whereas it would be an insupportable burthen for men to stay long with us if we did twattle about nothing but what Bands or Gowns were in fashion or such like Gew-Gaw things and affected nothing but to besmear our Faces with paint which is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of an unsanctifyed Mind and is altogether inconsistent with that profession we make of Sanctity yea truly 't is a great scandal to the precious people of God in all places and argues a Woman to be very immodest I remember what the Italians say of such an one Donna che si liscia Vuol far altro che la piscia and likewise it is as great an offence to the Saints to see some of our sex which is a thing that I could wish was not so commonly practised among us to besprinkle our faces with Patches which shew as a good Author saith wittily that there is a Roome to be Let by the Bill on the door I say should we affect nothing else but these things and to appear in a new Habit or Dress every day or as if we were nothing else but a kind of walking Mercers shops and were born and shaped for our Clothes and consequently if Eve had not fallen had lived to no purpose What delight would sober persons think you take in our Company We labour under a great infamy in this kind it is said we have got such a trick to be so long a tricking our selves up that half a day is scarce sufficient to make our selves ready and therefore old Terence that knew well enough how to speak true Latine and so was well enough acquainted with the Foeminine Gender saith Dum moliuntur dum comuntur Annus est Mim Herein I do agree with you Terpole that the knowledg of any thing that is good is so far from being a burthen that it sets a lustre on and is an Ornament to the persons that are endued with it And I know no reason why Women should be barred from Cultivating their minds vvith Vertue and knowledg vvhich if they do seriously endeavour be it spoken without flattery I verily believe they are capable of as many vertues as men and what if I should say may exceed them for they are of a finer mould and temper than Men for whereas Man was made of the dust or slime of the Earth or Red Earth Woman was made of the dust or slime refined she is so curiously and exquisitely wrought that it is said in Holy Writ Gen. 2.22 That God Built her for so you have it in the Original though we translate it made her Which implyes what an admirable structure was reared up when she was made as if she was Gods Master-piece and that he shewed his chiefest skill in her contrivance you see then what a curious piece of work VVoman is and notwithstanding the vilifying and satyrical expressions of some malevolent persons who though they love them well enough while they are pleasured by them yet when that is over they take a pleasure to speak evil and write defaming Libels against them such is that of the Italians Se la Donna fosse piccola come é buona la minima soglia le farebbe una veste una Corona i. e. Were a Woman as little as she 's good A Pescod would make her a Cap and Hood Notwithstanding I say this and such like Sarcasmes which are more worthy of contempt than any confutation it is evident enough they are susceptible of all excellent qualifications and if it were fit to support so known a Truth with so weak a Prop as fiction is I would refer those that doubt of it to the Poets Nine Muses to which we ascribe the invention of Arts. But there is a real exemplification of this in Anna Maria à Schurman though she was of no great stature of Body to what an Altitude and Procerity of Knowledg did she grow to she was a Paragon for many incomparable Qualities and Vertues that she was adorned with She writ Latine so elegantly and politely as none exceeded her as appears by her Works in Print In which are many Epistles to several Learned Men most in Latine some in Hebrew Greek and French She was even ad stuporem Docta See what an Honourable Elogy Salmasius gives of her which is Printed with her Works She had a transcendent faculty in Limning engraving and a curious Hand at Needle-work so that the Cloth she wrought upon even seemed to pride it self in being prickt and wounded by such an Hand There are many other Women of other Nations that are qualified with rare and singular endowments of Mind as that great Heroina the Dutchess of Newcastle whose Name will be eternized after her Death by those living Monuments of her Books But what shall I say or rather what shall I not say if I had a Copia Verborum sufficient for such an undertaking of Elizabeth Queen of England who although she was not in Communion with the Roman Church was a Peerless Pearl of Virtue and all excellent and admirable Sciences the great VVonder of her Sex What Language was there so difficult that she did not attain to and that in perfection Mr. Ascham who was one among the rest that instructed her hath for the perpetuating her Memory left it upon Record that she read more Greek in one Day than many great Doctors did read Latine in an whole Week But I shall say no more in a Panegyrical way of her lest I should Eclipse the splendour of her unexampled glorious actions with my unpolished lines and indeed what Tongue can sufficiently express the Grandeur of her unparelled perfections Una loqui te Lingua nequit quae laudis opimae Materiam linguis