Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	bear_v	husband_n	wife_n	2,368	5	6.6913	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00758	A supplication of the poore commons Whereunto is added the supplication of beggers.	Fish, Simon, d. 1531. Supplicacyon for the beggers. aut; Brinkelow, Henry, d. 1546, attributed name.; Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588, attributed name.	1546 (1546)	STC 10884; ESTC S102081	30,801	66

hym selfe vnto them O case most horrible that euer so noble a kynge Realme and succession shoulde thus be made to stoupe to suche a sorte of bludsuppers Where was his swerd power crowne dignitie become where by he myghte haue done iustice in thys matter Where was their obedience become that shoulde haue ben subiect vnder his high power in this matter Ye where was the obedience of all his subiectes become that for mayntenaunce of the comon wealthshould haue holpen him manfully to haue resysted these bloudsuppers to the shedinge of theyr bloud Was not all together by theyr polli cy translated frō this good kinge vnto thē ●…e what do they more Cruely nothynge but applye thē selues by all the sleyghtes they may to haue to do with euery mannes wife euery mānes doughter euery mānes mayde that cuckoldryi husbandrye should reygne ouer all amonge your subiectes that noman should knowe his owne chylde that theyr basterdes myght enheryte the possessions of euery man to put the ryght begotten childrē clere besyde theyr inheritaūce in sub uersion of al estates godly ordre These be they that by theyr absteyninge frō mariage do let the generatiō of the people wherby al the realme at length yf it shulde be continu ed shal be made desert inhabitable ¶ These be they that haue made an hundreth thousande ydel hores in youre realme which wold haue gottē theyr lyuinge honestly in the swete of their faces had not their superfluous riches illected thē to vncleane lust ydelnesse These be they that corrupte the hole generatiō of mankynd in your real me that catch the pockes of one womā and beare it to an other ye some one of thē wyll boste amonge his felowes that he hath med led with an hūdreth wymen These be they that whē they haue ones drawē mennes wi ues to such incōtinency spende awaye theyr husbandes goodes make the womē to rūne awaye frō theyr husbandes ye runne away thē selues both with wyfe gooddes bring both man wyfe chyldren to ydelnes theft and beggery Ye who is abell to nomber the great brode botomles occean see full of euels that thys myscheuous synfull generacion may lawfully brynge vppon vs vnpunished Where is youre swearde power croune dignity become that should punish by punishment of death euen as other men be punished the Felonyes rapes murdres and treasons committed by thys synful generacion Where is theyr obediēce become that shulde be vnder youre hygh power in thys matter Is not altogyther translated and exempte from youre grace vnto them Yes tru●…lye What an infynyte nomber of people myghte haue bene encreased to haue peopled the realme yf these sorte of folke hadde bene maryed lyke other men What breache of matrymony is theyr broughte in by them Suche truely as was neuer syns the worlde began amonge the whole multitude of the Heathen ¶ Who is she that wyll set her handes to worke to get thre pens a day and may haue at leste twenty pens a day to slepe an houre wyth a fryer a monke or a preeste What is he that wolde laboure for a grote a daye and may haue at the leest twelfe pens a day to be baude to a preest a monke or a frier What a sorte are there of theym that mary prestes soueraygne ladyes but to cloke the prestes incontinencye and that they maye haue a lyuynge of the preest them selues for theyr laboure How mani thousandes doth suche lubrycyte brynge to beggery thefte ydelnes which shuld haue kepte their good name and haue set theym selues to worke had not bene thys excesse treasure of the spi rytualtye What honeste man date take anye man or woman in hys seruice that hath ben at such a scole with a spiritual mā Oh the greuous shipwrake of the comō wealth which in aunciēt tyme before the cōmynge in of these rayenouse wolues was so prosperous that thē there were but few theues ●…e theft was at that time so rare that 〈◊〉 a●… was not cōpelled to make penalyte of deark vpō felony as your grace may well perceiue in his institutes There were also at that time but few pore people yet they dyd not begge but there was geuen thē ynough vnared for there was at that tyme none of these rauenous woulfes to are it from thē as it appeareth in the actes of the Apostles Is it any maruayle though there be now so many beggers theues ydel people Naye truly ¶ What remedy Make lawes against thē I am in doubt whether ye be able Are they not strōger in your owne parli ament house then your selfe What a nomber of Bysshoys Abbotres Pryours are lordes of your parliamēt Are not al the lear ned men in your realme in fee with them to speake in youre parliament house agaynste your croune dignity comō wealth of your realme a few of your owne learned coūsell only excepted what law cā be made against them that maye be anaylable Who is he though he be greued neuer so sore for the murder of his auncester rauyshment of hys wife of his daughter robbery trespas made dette or any other offence dare leye it to theyr charge by any way of actiō yf he do then is he ●…y ●…y by theyr wylines accused of heresy Ye they wyll so handle him or he passe that excepte he wyll bere a fagot for their pleasur he shal be e●…comunicate thē be all his accions das●…hed So captyue are your lawes vnto thē that no man that they list to excomunicate may be admitted to sue any action in any of your courtes Yf anye man in our sessions dare be so hardy to endite a preste of any such crime he hath or the yeare goeth out such a yoke of hēresy leyde in hys neck that it make him wyshe that he had not done it Your grace may se what a worke there is in Londō how the Bisshop cageth for enditinge of certayne curates of extorciō incontinency the last yeare in the warmol quest Had not Rychard hunne cōmenced accion of premunire against a priest he had ben yet alyue and none heretyke at all but an honest man ¶ Dyd not dyuers of youre noble progenitours seynge theyr croune●… dignity runne into ruyne and to be thus craftely translated into the handes of this mischeuous generation make dyuerse statutes for the reformatiō ther of amonge which the statute of mortmayne was one to the entēt that after that time they should haue no more geuen vnto thē But what aaualed it haue they not gottē into theyr h●… des more landes syns then any duke in Englād hath the statute notwithstāding Yea haue they not for all that translated into theyr hādes frō your grace hal●…e your king dom throughly The hole name as reason is for the auncity of your kyngdō whyche was before theyrs and oute of the whyche theyrs is growē onely abidinge with youre grace and of one kingdome