Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	charity_n	faith_n	temperance_n	1,943	5	10.7125	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

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

A IVNIPER LECTVRE A Iuniper Lecture With the description of all sorts of 〈◊〉 good and bad From the modest to the maddest from the most Civil to the scold Rampant ●heir praise and dispraise compendiously related The second 〈…〉 with many 〈…〉 Als● 〈…〉 advi●● 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Printed 〈…〉 and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Churchyard 〈…〉 To as many as can Read though but reasonably it makes no great matter whether they understand or no. HEre 's a strange Lecture toward my towardly or untowardly Reader for here shall be found many things worthy your observation I know you have heard of a Curtaine Lecture before now and shall very shortly heare of a Crab-tree Lecture also But for a Juniper Lecture although the phrase or stile be ancient yet the matter is new And because it doth take is liked so well I have inlarged it in many places with many new Lectures to it But why is it called a Juniper Lecture Marry for sundry small reasons why a Lecture partly in Verse indeed for no reason at all But as the gagling tongue of a scold leapes and skippes like a Squirrell from one twigge or branch to another observing neither Method or Measure so doth this various discourse and description of the good bad qualities of women skip from the vicious to the vertuous back againe from the best to the worst It is said that Iuniper being on fire is the most lasting wood in the World and that if the fire of it be rak'd up in the Embers or Ashes it will not be extinguished in a yeare or more which may bee alluded to some revengeful women who being once offended the fire of their malice will hardly be quenched in their Ashes or Graves Juniper is hot and drye in the third Degree as Galen saith and the tongue of a scold is altogether combustible It is full of prickles so are a curst womans words very piercing to the eares and sharpe to the heart Juniper hath also some qualities and vertues of good women for as it may be used it is a Counter-poison against any one that is envenomed so a vertuous woman is the honor preservation of her husbands person and estate the Berries Gumme is likewise good against gripings and gnawings in the stomacke so is a good wife a comfortable helpe to a mans aking heart It hath a good savour and so hath the good name of a worthy woman the Gumme of it is called Lachryma or Teares and for Teares women for the most part have them at command but the best is they are like April showres wet and dry in a moment But as every woman is not a patient Grissel so she is a rare Wonder amongst women that neither hath the skil or the desire to scold Vale. To the Reader I Sing the praise and dispraise of that Sex That gives men cause of comfort or to vex His joy or care his blessing or his curse His weale his woe his Saint or Divell or worse You vertuous worthy women few that be I know you 'le be so good to pardon me And yet what pardon need I crave of them Whom I will not offend nor yet condemne If women that are bad I doe offend It is the cause why these my lines are pend And if they be not angry I dare say That all my labour 's lost and cast away Thus free from feare or flattery on I runne To please or displease when my taske is done Our Grandam Eve in reverence I omit But yet she plaid the foole for want of wit And her weak follies incredulity She left unto her fraile posterity It is the earthly portion that we have From womb to tombe from cradle to the grave A woman was sins mother but another Most blessed woman was a Saviours mother And therefore it may well be understood As millions may bee bad there 's thousands good As some are Furies that do men torment So some are Fairies that gives some content As some are Destinies and fatall shrowes Like Clotho Lachasis Atropos To spin and reele our lives with ●ares and moanes And cut our threads at last with sighes and groanes Yet for our comfort there are Graces three T' affront those Fates faith hope and charity As there are witches that in mischiefe swell And Syrens Furies Harpies Hagges of Hell Yet Prudence Temperance Justice Fortitude Are vertues with such mighty force endu'd That those that doe possesse them are so arm'd They cannot bee by Hell or Hell-hounds harm'd Margery Quiet of Tame in Oxford-shire to her Ingenious friend the Author she acknowledging him to be a well-wisher to all good women MEn have the Art of flattery to commend That most whereto their vaine affections bend Our beauties they extoll unto the skies In prose and verse with many thousand lyes With tongue and pen our prayses they repeat How faire how fine how proper and how neate How handsome and how bony and how gay How delicate and dainty every way We silly women are with tooth and naile Mens flattery still our weaknesse doth assaile And wee alas beleeve them too too much And what they say wee strive still to be such For cause they praise us for those things we see Wee give our whole endeavours so to be To paint pounce frounce kemb curle purle powder sleeke And all new fashions to search out and seeke To please our praysers But if men could find What 't were to praise the vertue of the mind What honour doth belong to chastity What merit doth pertain to modesty If goodnesse with mens praises were but grac't We should bee then more modest and more chast But thou the Author of this following book Ingenious just impartiall paines hast tooke Thou dost commend the good condemne the ill For which all women of all sorts shall still Remaine thy friends and foes M.Q. The Table 1. LEcture by a Mistresse to her Apprentice as soone as she rises in the Morning with new additions p. 1 2. Lecture by a woman to her husband that hath beene marryed three or foure yeares p. 5 3. Lecture by a yong gentlewoman being a widow to an old man who offered to be a suitor to her with new additions p. 14 4. Lecture by an old rich widow to a young Gallant who came a woing to her that had little or no meanes p. 18 5. Lecture by a Countrey Farmers wife being a shrew to her husband for being abroad late at night with new additions p. 23 6. Lecture by a wife who was very jealous of her husband p. 28. 7. Lecture by a widow which was newly marryed to a widower with some additions p. 23. 8. Lecture by an old woman to her young husband whom she had newly marryed p. 3● 9. Lecture by a proud dame because her husband would not allow her all the new fashions that are worne p. 37 10. Lecture by a mother to her daughter that was to be marryed forth-with p.