Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	brother_n	mother_n	sister_n	19,176	5	10.3477	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28570	A just and seasonable reprehension of naked breasts and shoulders written by a grave and learned papist ; translated by Edward Cooke, Esquire ; with a preface by Mr. Richard Baxter.; De l'abus des nudités de gorge. English	Boileau, Jacques, 1635-1716.; Cooke, Edward, fl. 1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing B3463A; ESTC R18399	51,556	182

unchaste Love he seem'd methinks to hint to us that his brave Structure should be as the Asylum and Fortress of Impurity and if I may be permitted to use the expression as the Amphitheatre and Scaffold where Innocence Honesty and Chastity should be sacrificed So difficult is it for men to keep themselves innocent among Women that are so glorious in their Dresses and naked in their Bodies and for Women to conserve all their purity in the company of wild Sparks who make it all their study and business to flatter and please them and who entertain them freely with the violence of their passions Both the Men and the Women do study their pleasure and divertisement in those Assemblies and both of them therefore esteem and love pleasure and how can they avoid those lamentable consequences of the irregular affection of volupty at the same time when they only think of satisfying it XXXVIII I HAVE not forgot that there are Maids and Women who think they are allow'd to go with naked Necks at least when they are in their house where there are none but those of their own family and when they are in a Cloyster where they only converse with Nuns Abbesses for in those two cases they say we cannot have any design to please men and we can neither cause scandal nor inspire any evil thoughts It is very easie to answer them that though it should be true that in those two occasions their nakedness cannot prejudice any person it is sufficient that it may be of fatal consequence to themselves A woman truly chast does not only fear and avoid both strangers and domestick eyes but even her own and she who accustoms her self to go with deep naked Necks by her usual habit comes not to have any shame of her nakedness and by consequence prepares her self to make others see her without any scruple It is not necessary that she be desirous to please men in discovering her bosome to make her self guilty It is sufficient that she desires to please her self to become so for since the value she hath for her own beauty is not of a nature different from that which she may have for the beauty of others she is not less sensual nor does she excite any motions that are more Innocent XXXIX MOREOVER if these Maids and Women do not expose their nakedness to the view of men it is only by accident and I dare say that it is apparently against their Intention for what likelyhood is there that the desire and indeed the habit they have to shew their Necks should be destroy'd and vanish when they think a man ought to see them and at the same time therefore that this habit and desire ought in all probability to be renewed and increas'd what likelyhood is there that they should refuse any opportunity to hear themselves commended for those breasts they are so strangely charmed with and which they do not discover but only to conserve augment or shew the Beauty of them in a word what likelyhood is there that those who cannot resolve with thems●lves to have their necks covered when they are alone should take care to hide them when volupty self-love and vanity most powerfully sollicite them to shew 'em most bare and naked XL. BUT FROM whence have they learnt except it be from error and a lye or dream that they cannot do any hurt to their family although they do go with their breasts and shoulders naked may not I say to them with Tertullian whether you are a mother or daughter or Sister if you are a mother be vail'd because of your children be not any cause of temptation to your Sons do not give any ill example to your Daughters If you be a daughter be vail'd because of your Father if you are a Sister cover your Neck and Breasts because of your brothers and whatever you be Sister Daughter or Mother be vail'd because of your Servants There is no age nor quality which exempts a man from being tempted by the sight of a naked Neck and the Inclination that Nature inspires into us for our Neighbours proves oftentimes a disposition to the dishonest love which the Devil suggests to us XLI OF WHOM could they have learnt but of the Father of Lyes and Errors that they did not scandalize any person by their nakedness under pretence that they are retired into Monasteries where they have scarce any society but with Virgins consecrated and devoted to God Could they be the cause of a greater scandal in the Church than of coming to attacque Innocence even in its Asylum and Chastity even in its strongest Castle the Nuns are shut up in Cloisters the better to be able to resist the Devil and the Charms of voluptuousness these Maids and Women insinuate themselves into the Cloysters and by their naked Necks do become the very Devils and tempters of these Nuns the very Ministers and furtherers of sensuality Those Religious Votaries for Heaven have preferr'd a perpetual prison to the criminal Liberty which the world inspires and have rendred themselves captive to Jesus Christ that so they might be free from the tyranny of sin but these Maids and Women enter half naked into those Sacred Cloysters to introduce there the Libertinisme of the Age and to shake even the Devotion of those holy Nuns to change the Captivity of those happy Vestals and to make them the Slaves of the Vanities of the World whereas they are now Servants to the Law of Jesus Christ They sollicit those Spouses of our God to be unfaithful to him they renew in their minds the Idea of the pleasures they have renounced and seem to give them a secret reproach for having left the world for God and a private Lesson to quit God for the World Do they not think they scandalize our Religion as well as those holy Nuns and can they doubt but that they serve as a scandal to those Religious persons that have any solid Piety and that they are not the cause of your irregularities and it may be too of the destruction of those that have but a weak and staggering Devotion XLII WHAT fellowship can there be sayes the great Apostle between Jesus Christ and Beliel and what communion ought there to be between the Spouses of Jesus Christ and those of Beliel that is to say of the world which refuses to bear the yoke of Jesus Christ If the loose VVomen of the Age will live Nuns they ought to live then as becomes Nuns they ought to imitate their modesty so far should they be from wounding their bashfulness they ought to learn from them to live like Christians so far should they be from teaching them to live like worldlings they ought to imagine that if there be not any men in Cloysters yet the Angels are there in the room of men and that if they do not tempt the Angels by their nakedness they displease them they offend them and they