Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	daughter_n	husband_n	sister_n	63,589	5	12.8150	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13461	A iuniper lecture With the description of all sorts of women, good, and bad: from the modest to the maddest, from the most civil, to the scold rampant, their praise and dispraise compendiously related. Also the authors advice how to tame a shrew, or vexe her.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1639 (1639)	STC 23766; ESTC S111401	39,881	238

of man can restraine or keepe his wife within the limits of reason if Heavenly grace guide her not Now for the Readers better satisfaction hereafter followeth a relation of what degrees and callings and of what Countries and Nations those womē were whose names are Recorded in History for good or bad as also of what qualities and conditions the most part of them were of with the manner of some of their lives and deaths Hellen is said to bee Iupiters Daughter and that shee was so faite that for her beauty shee was ravished twice The first time was by Thesius the tenth King of Athens after that she was married to Menelaus King of Sparta or Lacedemonia from whom shee was stolne by Paris the sonne of Priam King of Troy for which second Rape of Hellen the Princes of Greece combined together in Armes and after tenne yeares siege of Troy they tooke it sack'd and fired it Hellen another of that name was the happy mother of the Illustrious and famous Christian Emperout Constantine the Great which Emperour restored and gave full freedome to the Gospels preaching after it had bin three hundred and odde yeares supprest and persecuted under the tenne bloody persecutions Hee repaired old Bizantium and named it Constantinople His mother Hellen was likewise the Religious foundresse of a magnificent Chappel upon the Mount Tabor where our Saviour was transfigured she was a most vertuous Empresse and as some writers say she and her Sonne Constantine were borne in London Also there was another Hellen the Mother of the unfortunate Constantine the last Emperour of Constantinople who was overthrowne by Mahomet the Great Emperour of the Turkes May 29 1453. On which day Constantine Paleologus lost the City with his Empire and life so that one Hellen and Constantine built it and two others of the same name lost it as aforesaid Lais was a famous Grecian or Corinthian whore she was so haunted with the Princes and Nobility of those times that shee was exceeding Rich and shee was at so high a rate that when Demosthenes the admired Orator demanded of her the price of a nights Lodging with her she told him that shee would not take lesse than 10000. Drachmas which in our mony is two hundred pound Sterling but Demosthenes not liking such a Bargaine answer'd her That he would not buy Repentance at so deare a rate She was ston'd to death by whores for her too much over-valuing of her selfe Thais was also another famous whore of Corinth and that of such singular beauty that shee would entertaine none but Kings and Princes She mightily befool'd the wise Philosopher Aristippus held him in a neare degree under a slavish command Livia was the light Empresse and Wife to Augustus Caesar it is related that she made him weare a Cuckoes Feather in his Cap. Semiramis was Empresse and wife to Ninus the grand-child of Nimrod shee was left a Widdow with one Sonne whose name was Ninias who was so effeminate a Prince that hee suffered his Mother Semiramis to reigne 42. yeares over him She was valiant and victorious but in the end shee was so overcome with a lustfull inordinate affection to her owne Son that he slew her with his owne hands in Babylon Pasiphae was the wife to Minos King of Crete now called Candi it is said she was in love with a Bull by whom shee had a Monster called Minotaurus but it is more probable that a Courtier named Taurus did use such familiarity with her that she brought forth a Sonne more like the said Taurus than to her Husband King Minos Hermia was a Strumpet of that excellent feature that Aristotle the famous Philosopher was so besotted on her that hee adored her with divine honours and offered sacrifice unto her Messalina was Empresse and wife to Claudius Caesar she was a Monster rather than a Woman and of such incredible insariablenesse that is unfit to be rehearsed Olympias was wife to Philip King of Macedon and Mother to Alexander the great shee was a woman of a haughty minde and bloody nature and so revengefull that she murdered Cleopatra the former wife to her Husband and her two children the one she kill'd in the armes of the Mother and the other she caused to be broyl'd alive in a Copper-bason it was suspected also that she poysoned her Husband King Philip At last she was slaine by the commandment of Cassander one of the successors of Alexander Mirha was the incestuous daughter of Cynare or Ciniras King of Cypris upon whom her owne Father begot the faire and beautifull youth Adonis the delightfull Darling of Venus Medusa a fiction Fury or Hellish Hagge Progne was one of the Daughters of Pandion King of Athens and wife to Tereus King of Thrace her Husband ravished and cut out the tongue of her Sister Philomela in revenge whereof Progne murthered her owne Son It is and caused him to be baked boyl'd and roasted for her Fathers her Husband Tereus supper and because her revenge flew so swift it is faigned that she was turn'd to a Swallow For further satisfaction looke Ovids Metamorphosis Lib. 6. Media was daughter to Ceta King of Colchos shee was a most beautifull Witch or Sorceresse she was so enamoured on the goodly personage of lason that she shew'd him the way to shun the dangers in the winning the Golden Fleece which after Iason had accōplished she ran away with him into Thesally Circe is feigned to be the Daughter of Sol and that by the Mothers side shee is Grand-child to Oceanus the Sea-god she was also a cunning Witch the wise Vlysses had something to doe with her as you may reade in the 14. booke of Ovids Metamorphosis Agripina was the Mother of the bloody Emperour Nero shee poison'd her Husband Claudius with his Son Brittanicus and lastly shee was murthered by command of her Sonne Nero who was formerly suspected to have incestuously strumpitted her Flora was a beautifull Whore in Rome who by her Trade had heaped up great treasures which she gave all to the common people at her death for the which they built a Temple to her and worshipped her calling her the Goddesse of Flowers Clitemnestra was wife to Agamemnon King of the Micenians he was the valiant Generall of the Greekes at the ten yeares siege and sacking of Troy but returning home to his Wife hee was most wickedly murthered by her procurement and by the hands of one Aegisthus who had long lived in Adultery with the said queane Queene Clitemnestra Pandora was a Woman so in favour with the gods that Pallas gave her wisedome Mercury gave her Eloquence Apollo Musicke Venus Beauty also they gave her a Boxe wherein were hidden and secret things inclosed as they said and withall commanded her straightly that she should not dare to open the said Boxe which neverthelesse shee did open and suddainly thence flew out of it all the griefes paines maladies and diseases that doe afflict miserable mankind This Fiction is