Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	blood_n	child_n	womb_n	2,043	5	9.7787	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00659	Golden epistles contayning varietie of discourse both morall, philosophicall, and diuine: gathered as well out of the remaynder of Gueuaraes workes, as other authors, Latine, French, and Italian. By Geffray Fenton.	Fenton, Geoffrey, Sir, 1539?-1608.; Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?	1575 (1575)	STC 10794; ESTC S101911	297,956	420

shall bée prepared at my table and I will béestow you in the height of my glory to the ende you may there haue the fruition of my Diuinitie This truly is a most highe and great mistery for the Apostles to follow Iesus Christ hauing abandoned parentes and friendes countrey and goods yea renounced their proper willes God thought them not worthie of recompence so much for that as for that they perseuered till the ende he sayth not to his Disciples you are onely they that are tempted but you haue remayned wyth me in my temptations Wherin he giues vs to know that in the other worlde none shall haue place at the table of God but such as perseuere in him to the end One of the priueleadges which God giues to his friendes sayth Dauid is that no temptation shall haue power to chaunge their mindes nor any aduersitie be hable to make them giue ouer the good they haue béeginne vntill the ende For that the gyft of constancie is of many desired and of few obteyned And therefore to béeginne a good worke is the custome of good men to pursue and follow it is the office of the vertuous But to leade it to his ende and effect is a pryuileadge mearly appertayning to those that be holy and Religious And to speake the truth wyth what industry so euer we enforce our selues and vnder what wéening so euer we presume yet to resist an ill we are to tender of harte and farre to moueable of condition So that right happy is it with those that shall heare Christ say You are they that haue perseuered wyth mee and therefore you are regenerate and shall enioy wyth mee for euer the perfect ioy and felicity A resolution of certayne famyliar and naturall questions wyth apparant coniectures and tokens of death I Would your importunities were as iust as my excuses are reasonable so should the contencion be easely resolued whether be greater my faultes or your complaints In him that makes request it is easie to find wordes to speake for that he speakes in desire but to whom the sute is made belongs great discretion for that all denials are hatefull not so much by the merit and consideration of the cause as for that the affection of the sutor may be corrupt Which I do not alledge here to the proofe of your fault for that in our friendship should remaine no faction nor yet to iustifie my excuses if they beare not both reason and innocencie Assuring you that séeing it pleaseth you to make a triall of my wit more for exercise then possibilitie of knowledge I wil ioyne my self to your fancie not so much for necessitie as to kéepe vse of my imperfection You aske me wherefore men containe greater corpolencie and substance of body then women I say it procedes of the heate which is more aboundant in the one then in the other For heate being of a nature td encrease and swell giues vnto men a greater perfection in stature and nature then to women whose humors being tempered with cold makes their bodies lesse substantiall and of more infirmities You would know how it hapneth that of foure Elements the fire and the aire are incorruptible and of the contrary the earth and the water are subiect to corruption To this I sayd it is of necessitie that all thinges intangled with corruption are first made colde but the fire cannot suffer cold for that it is an enemie to cold and the aire albeit sometimes bring forth cold yet it is alwayes full of fire Where the earth and water hauing their temperature of cold and heate are subiect to corruption by the nature and qualitie of their composition You aske whereuppon it commeth that oftentimes we shrinke and enter into a cold after we be deliuered of our vrine The reason is this so long as the vrine being hot remayneth yet in the bladder neither the bladder nor the partes about it can féele any cold but the bladder béeing discharged all the sayd partes are eftsones filled with an aire more colde then was the vrine for there is nothing voide in nature And that aire occupying the place of the vrine causeth naturally the shiuering and cold that wée feele You would know how it hapneth that when we fare very cold cōming hastily to the fire to séeke warmth we feele a griefe or ache in our finger endes and warming vs by leasure we haue no mocion of paine This may be aunswered by experience that when we passe out of one countrary into an other mutation is great as may be séene in trées who being plied bowed by litle and litle breake not but strayning them by force they rent in two euen so the heate that is within holdeth the cold out repulsing withall the moysture and so one contrary is resisted by an other The same béeing the cause that receiuing warmth by litle and litle the heat within comes out is not hindred by the cold which causeth the lesse sence or féeling of paine But in receiuing suddenly the warmth of the fire we do by violence draw out a great heat and by the repugnancie that it findes with the cold not fully gone bringes no small paine to the partie You aske me by what reason most women the first and second month that they are with child haue that disordered appetite to eate coales and other strange thinges The reason of that appetite is that nature hath drawne downe all the bloud of the woman to helpe to forme the fruite in her wombe Which bloud being corrupted makes also the stomacke pertaker of his vice and corruption By which occasion the stomacke being pressed with such matter so corrupt requireth all meats that are vaine lothsome ta +king his lust desire to many things according to the qualety or impression of the matter wherewith he is charged For if it abounde with an humor malancholike which is blacke it formeth an appetite to coales such like things if it suffer aboundance of sharpe fleame it bréeds a lust to thinges sharpe and eger the lyke iudgement being proper for all other humors To your demand why women and Eunukes haue their voice so small and shirle I say it procéedes of the quill or pype of their wesand which being strait cannot be enlarged by reason of the humor whereof it is full and heate onely hath power to make it wyder For as we sée out of little and small phyfes come a voice cleare shirle And out of smal trunks the lowdest sownd Euen so is it of the pype of the wesand which by reson of his subtlety is called lowd or shirle You aske me why such as conteine but meane stature are for the most parte more wise then those that haue great bodies That may be by this reason that in a little body the senses spirits are always better vnited cōpact then in a great where in a greater by reason they