Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	belly_n	child_n	womb_n	1,413	5	9.6916	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47961	Il putanismo di Roma, or, The history of the whores and whoredom of the popes, cardinals, and clergy of Rome discovered by a conclave of ladies convened for the election of a new pope / written in Italian by the author of Cardinalismo and Nepotismo ; and now made English by I.D., Esq.; Putanismo di Roma. English	Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701.	1670 (1670)	Wing L1340A; ESTC R36249	57,206	143

the Chair is vacant to promote their own advantage and endeavour to introduce a custom of choosing a Pope after their own mode and to their own fancy Mar. I have now understood many particulars in this business which tend to no other end but to stir up a desire in me of knowing every the smallest punctilio so that you by acquainting me with what you know and I you with what I apprehend we shall mutually satisfie one another by our arguing for the future upon those matters which deserve most to be published as we think convenient Pasq The subject in truth is very proper to raise an argument it being a novelty and never heretofore heard of that the Whores do pretend to have a share in the Election of the Pope and that which increaseth the wonder is that their pretenses are not so vain and airy as they seem to be for they appear to me as grounded upon the solid basis of reason Mar. O I can by no means entertain this in my thoughts I ever took all that to be a kind of Curtezan-like liberty and a thing rather ridiculous then substantial And indeed to speak rationally what a Devil have the Curtezans to do with the Election of the Pope Pas And to answer you in reason what a Devil hath the Pope to do to draw so much money from the Whores for the maintainance of his Nephews pride To oblige the Whores to give great store of contribution-money to force them to pay so many Gabels and Taxes this is nothing else but a permission for them to sin after their own mode to sell their own flesh at cheaper rates then that which is vended at the Shambles and to leave no stone unturn'd to make even those great ravenous birds of prey the Friars to be taken by the lime-twigs and when they are once catch't they leave all their feathers behind them and some of them break their necks by struggling to get their liberty Now this Theologian will say that is no less sin to grant the Whores the power of choosing the Pope then the Pope liberty to oblige the Whores to play the Whores to pay off those Taxes which the Nephews impose upon their way of Livelyhood The reason which mov'd the Whores to such pretences are many First the Curtezans say why shall not we choose that Pope that must be maintain'd by us Why should not we pay money to one that is elected to please anothers humour Why should others set up a Pope and we empty our own purses to fill his coffers We do not refuse the payment of those contributions that are laid upon us but very well may we deny him to be our Pope who is not ours Mar. If they are furnished with no better reasons then these they will never bring their pretended desi●… of having power to elect a Pope to a period Pas These are in a manner inconsiderable they have a far greater number but the business is this in Rome it is not reason but the interests of those that are the most powerful that prevail in the Popes Election Wherefore if it were granted that the Whores should be admitted into the Conclave and have a free vote as well as the Cardinals in the creation of the Pope they would do no good because the Ingles who are more esteem'd would procure all the votes in favour of them and so would set up a Pope according to their own fancy in despight of all the Whores not in Rome only but the whole world Mar. Don't you know that the sin of Sodomie makes not such an noise in the world as that of Wenching which is the reason that the most conselentious Prelats and those Cardinals that are the nearest pretenders to the Papacy turn away their face when they spy a pretty little poor Whore go to Mass or a most excellent Curtezan to ride for her recreation in some Ambassadours Coach as if they saw the devil with his horns crossing themselves often times with the left hand and yet afterwards take a pride in spending whole dayes and the greater part of the night in their Chamber with some little Sodomitical Boy or filthy Ingle And what is the reason Because that as soon as the Whores of Rome do but once touch the Pontificial Glove of any Prelat they grow so proud that the Roman Lords can scarce have the honour to touch their Toe and so much the worse if it be a Cardinal then they go about to every Bawdy-house proudly mounted on their Chioapins boasting that they serv'd as a Mare to his most illustrious Lordship and as an Hackney to his Eminencie For in truth it is the nature of a Whore to discover all she does and the Boy 's to keep secret whatever is done to him therefore the Prelats and Cardinals to preserve the reputation of the Purple and Episcopal Robe think it well done to slight the Ladies that they may avoid all occasion of scandal to Christians and spend their time with Sodomitical Boy 's with whose friendship being a long time acquainted serves for a use of edification to the Court now the major part of the Courtiers lick their fingers ends and take no notice of it Pas If they would be content the one with the Bull-calf the other with the Cow the thing would be more tolerable but in Rome they steer another course whilst they that diet themselves with the ordinary food of the Bull-calf do not altogether refrain from taking some small morsels of the Cow which serves as sauce the better to sharpen the appetite to have their belly full of bulling and they who feed ordinarily on the Cows flesh will for all that like women with child sometimes satisfie their longing that the Infant in the womb may have no mark of the Bull-calf 'T is true that these devout Arseworms do like him that said the Liver was not flesh wherefore he did eat flesh on the Thursday liver on the Friday without any scruple of conscience The Hereticks spend the leisure time of the day in murmuring at the Courts proceedings in this business and there are thousands who have been just upon the point of forsaking heresie and becoming good Catholicks that afterwards were diverted from those holy thoughts by seeing Bull-beef sold as it were in a market among the Roman Prelats and in truth that kind of victuals is had in so high esteem at Rome that even the greatest Courtiers call it the Cardinals bit which is no other then a hellish kind of food that deserves to be burn't in the fire and reduc'd to ashes that so by this means it may be absolutely forgotten Nature hath distributed things according to natural order so that the destroying that order is no other then to bid a Turd in Natures teeth and consequently to transform ones self into an animate beast In sum the sin of Sodomie is a contagious vice that hath infected the Roman Court insomuch that all Christendom