Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	begin_v	esteem_v	great_a	35	3	2.0660	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44704	The lady's new-years gift, or, Advice to a daughter	Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.	1688 (1688)	Wing H305; ESTC R26777	36,468	171

are to be allowed whilst they are well-suited to your Quality and Fortune and in the distribution of the Expence it seemeth to me that a full Attendance and well-chosen Ornaments for your House will make you a better Figure than too much glittering in what you wear which may with more ease be imitated by those which are below you yet this must not tempt you to starve every thing but your own Apartment or in order to more abundance there give just cause to the least Servant you have to complain of the want of what is necessary Above all fix it in your thoughts as an unchangeable Maxim That nothing is truly fine but what is fit and that just so much as is proper for your Circumstances of their several kinds is much finer than all you can add to it when you once break through those bounds you launch into a wide Sea of Extravagance every thing will become necessary because you have a mind to it and you have a mind to it not because it is fit for you but because some body else hath it This Lady's Logick setteth Reason upon its Head by carrying the Rule from things to Persons and appealing from what is right to every Fool that is in the wrong the word necessary is miserably applyed it disordereth Families and overturneth Governments by being so abused Remember that Children and Fools want every thing because they want Wit to distinguish and therefore there is not a stronger Evidence of a Crazy Understanding than the making too large a Catalogue of things necessary when in truth there are so very few things that have a right to be placed in it try every thing first in your Iudgement before you allow it a place in your Desire else your Husband may think it as necessary for him to deny as it is for you to have whatever is unreasonable and if you shall too often give him that advantage the habit of refusing may perhaps reach to things that are not unfit for you there are unthinking Ladies who do not enough consider how little their own Figure agreeth with the fine things they are so proud of others when they have them will hardly allow them to be visible they cannot be seen without Light and that is many times so sawcy and so prying that is like a too forward Gallant to be forbid the Chamber to Some when you are ushered into their Dark Ruelle it is with such solemnity that a Man would swear there was something in it till the Unskilful Lady breaketh silence and beginneth a Chat which discovereth it is Puppit-Play with Magnificent Scenes many esteem things rather as they are hard to be gotten than that they are worth getting This looketh as if they had an Interest to pursue that Maxim because a great part of their own value dependeth upon it Truth in these Cases would be very often unmannerly and might derogate from the Prerogative great Ladies would assume to themselves of being distinct Creatures from those of their Sex who are inferiour and of less difficult access in other things too Your Condition must give the rule to you and therefore it is not a Wifes part to aim at more than a bounded Liberality the farther extent of that Quality otherwise to be commended belongeth to the Husband who hath better means for it Generosity wrong placed becometh a Vice and it is no more a Vertue when it groweth into an Inconvenience Vertues must be inlarged or restrained according to the differing Circumstances A Princely Mind will undo a private Family therefore things must be suited or else they will not deserve to be Commended let them in themselves be never so valuable and the Expectations of the World are best answered when we acquit our selves in that manner which seemeth to be prescribed to our several Conditions without usurping upon those Duties which do not so particularly belong to us I will close the consideration of this Article of Expence with this short word Do not fetter your self with such a Restraint in it as may make you Remarkable but remember that Vertue is the greatest Ornament and good Sence the best Equipage BEHAVIOUR and CONVERSATION IT is time now to lead you out of your House into the World. A Dangerous step where your Vertue alone will not serve you except it is attended with a great deal of Prudence You must have both for your Guard and not stir without them the Enemy is abroad and you are sure to be taken if you are found stragling Your Behaviour is therefore to incline strongly towards the Reserved part your Character is immovably to be fixed upon that Bottom not excluding a mixture of greater freedom as far as it may be innocent and well-timed The Extravagancies of the Age have made Caution more necessary and by the same reason that the too great Licence of Ill Men hath by Consequence in many things restrained the Lawful Liberty of those who did not abuse it the unjustifiable Freedom of some of your Sex have involved the rest in the Penalty of being reduced And though this cannot so alter the Nature of things as to make that Criminal which in it self is Indifferent yet if it maketh it dangerous that alone is insufficient to justifie the Restraint A close behaviour is the fittest to receive Vertue for its constant Guest because there and there only it can be secure Proper Reserves are the Out-works and must never be deserted by those who intend to keep the Place they keep off the possibility not only of being taken but of being attempted and if a Woman seeth Danger at never so remote a Distance she is for that time to shorten her Line of Liberty She who will allow her self to go to the utmost Extents of every thing that is Lawful is so very near going farther that those who lie at watch will begin to count upon her Mankind from the double temptation of Vanity and Desire is apt to turn every thing a Woman doth to the hopeful side and there are few who dare make an impudent Application till they discern something which they are willing to take for an Encouragement It is safer therefore to prevent such Forwardness than to go about to cure it It gathereth Strength by the first allowances and claimeth a Right from having been at any time suffered with Impunity Therefore nothing is with more care to be avoided than such a kind of Civility as may be mistaken for Invitation It will not be enough for you to keep your self free from any criminal Engagements for if you do that which either raiseth Hopes or createth Discourse there is a Spot thrown upon your Good Name and those kind of Stains are the harder to be taken out being dropped upon you by the Man's Vanity as well as by the Woman's Malice Most Men are in one sence Platonick Lovers though they are not willing to own that Character they are so far Philosophers as to allow