Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	brother_n	daughter_n	sister_n	5,598	5	10.9500	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40522	A new account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters being nine years travels begun 1672 and finished 1681 : containing observations made of the moral, natural and artifical estate of those countries ... / by John Fryer ... ; illustrated with maps, figures and useful tables.	Fryer, John, d. 1733.	1698 (1698)	Wing F2257; ESTC R23401	489,960	472

English Trumpeters after him the Factors on Horseback and lusty Fellows running by their sides with Arundells which are broad Umbrelloes held over their heads Soldiers and Spear-men Two hundred at least and after these a Row of Palenkeens belonging to English and other Merchants At Meals their Domesticks wait on them with Obeisance suitable to great Potentates Their manner of living enclosing their Tables which are strewed liberally with Dainties served up in Plate of China Nam nulla aconita bibuntur fictilibus says Juvenal which crack when poysoned which whether true or false since it is so much practised in this Country by way of Revenge is but a necessary Caution by all means to avoid They fan the Air with Peacocks Tails set in huge Silver Handles and chiefly now because the busy Flies would cover the Table were they not beaten off Abroad shading their heads with broad Targets held over their heads washing and rubbing them in their Tanks wanting in no Office may render them acceptable to their Masters But not to detract from the Inhabitants The Pompousness of the Gentues their Solemnities are very Courtly commonly performed by Night with the noise of Drum Shawm and Fife especially at their Weddings when the meanest excepting those protested against of the Gentues must not be denied his Week's Jollity in a Palenkeen and a Guard of Targets Swords and Javelins and others bearing the Ensigns denoting the Honour of their Tribe If any of the subjected Tribes as they count them assume the Honour though the Governor connive they fall together by the ears and drag him shamefully by the Hair of the Head to the place he first set forth They are array'd in White Vests Their Attire girt with Sashes small Turbats on their Heads long Breeches to their Heels the Gentues barefoot mostly The Moors and Persians shod with Sandals and over their Shoulders a Silk Mantle of what colour they fancy The English keep their fashion though cloathed in white The Armenians like the Inhabitants The Moors are very grave and haughty in their demeanor The Gravity and Pride of the Moors not vouchsafing to return an Answer by a Slave but by a Deubash who is the Interpreter Their chiefest Delight and Pride is to be seen smoking Tobacco cross-legg'd in a great Chair at their doors out of a long Brass Pipe adapted to a large Crystal Hubble-bubble fixed in a Brass Frame their Menial Servants surrounding them All of this Robe's way of Salute is by lifting their Hand to their Head except the Armenians who move their Turbats as we our Hats The Moors are by Nature plagued with Jealousy Their Jealousy cloistring their Wives up and sequestring them the sight of any besides the Tapon that watches them When they go abroad they are carried in close Palenkeens which if a Man offer to unvail it is present death the meanest of them not permitting their Women to stir out uncovered of whom they are allowed as many as they can keep Their Matches are contrived by their Parents when young Strictness towards their Women at Seven Years the Son being taken from the Mother the Sister from the Brother and not a Father though Fourscore and ten suffered the Interview of his Daughter every Dwelling having Apartments allotted for this Confinement The Gentues observe not that strictness Contrary Freedom among the Gentues both Sexes enjoying the open Air. Their Women are manacled with Chains of Silver or Fetters rather and hung with Ear-rings of Gold and Jewels their Noses stretch'd with weighty Jewels on their Toes Rings of Gold about their Waste a painted Clout over their Shoulders they cast a Mantle their Hair tied behind their Head which both in Men and Women is naturally very long a-top a Coronet of Gold beset with Stones compleatly bodied and so flexible that they are excellent Dancers and good at Feats of Activity I having seen them hold Nine Gilded Balls in play with their Hands and Feet and the Muscles of their Arms and Legs a long time together without letting them fall They are clearer complexion'd than the Men. As for their dealing in the World Their Craftiness and Skill in staining Calicuts they are well skill'd and will arithmetize the nicest Fractions without the help of Pen or Ink much given to Traffick and intelligent in the way of Merchandize if not fraudulent having an accomplishment in the Art of Staining Calicuts here beyond any other place in the East-Indies for that they are upon washing rather clearer and livelier than at first and this is it that makes this Port so much frequented which is painted with the Pencil by little Children as well as elder grown they stretching the Pieces on the ground and sitting upon them run them over with a dexterity and exactness peculiar to themselves They are all of them of Disposition timerous Their fearful disposition so that Twenty four English-Men armed kept the Bank-Solls against them on a late Demur and thereupon at the coming in of our Ships they were all packing up to be gone notwithstanding 200000 Souls receive here their daily Sustenance And as Tyrannous when they get the uppermost an instance whereof the Occasion of this Demur presents For our Factory protecting one of the English Nation from their Fury who too incautiously had to deal with some of their Women they set a De-Roy on the Factory which is a Prohibition in the King's Name for any one to have any thing to do with them till that be taken off whereby they were debarred Wood and Water and all other Necessaries till they had their Revenge on the Aggressor which terminated not till Death had expiated the Fact For having intrapped him by deluding Speeches into their merciless Power they cut him in pieces before the Factory Gate Whereupon the English drew out some Field-Pieces and scowred the Streets when they fled and left the Bank-Solls to their possession which were not resigned till the De-Roy was taken off which was not done till within a little of our Arrival when the thing being fresh and thinking us not only able by such a Fleet to demand Satisfaction but resolved so to do they were all shifting for themselves According to the true nature of Cowards who when Peril is far from them strike all with Lightning but when it appears on equal terms presently discover the wonted Paleness of an unsound Virtue Of Complexion the Gentues are blacker than the Moors 〈…〉 the Moors than the Persians Their executing of Justice in Capital Cases is sudden 〈◊〉 in Cases Capital either cutting them in pieces which for Murder is always begun by the next Relation who must be both Prosecutor and Executioner and then seconded by the Rabble or Impaling them on Stakes The punishing of their Great Ones because not in force in our Western Empires may deserve to be mentioned Upon an Offence they are sent by the King's Order The Post and