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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41238	Sir George Sondes his plaine narrative to the vvorld, of all passages upon the death of his tvvo sonnes.	Feversham, George Sondes, Earl of, 1599-1677.	1655 (1655)	Wing F823B; ESTC R213731	40,869	42

I had heard of such a businesse and had spoken with his Cousin about it and that she finding it so distastfull to her Mother and me seemed willing to lay it aside if the like willingnesse were in him Is she so said he yes really said I I doe not see but she may be perswaded to it and so I would have you for I tell you if you goe on it will be the ruine of you both Perhaps this familiarity may have somewhat setled your affections to one another and therefore for the present I would have you forbeare going to her and that will lessen it Upon this he absented for a few dayes but being under-hand solicited by them to come thither he was very importunate with me to goe I confesse I was much against it but because he so earnestly prest it at last I gave way to it telling him I hoped it might be so good and that he would so fully tell her his mind that she might have no more thoughts of it About an houre after he was gone I went after him and when I came to Lingsted I asked for them and my Sister telling me they were in the Parlour come said I let you and I goe to them and when we came to them Cousin and Sonne said I I have already spoken to you both apart now I will tell you my minde together It is this I shall never give my consent that you two shall be Marryed together for I doe and ever did abhorre the Marriage of Cousin Germans and therefore if you will both fairely lay it down there need be no more words of it and I thinke no wrong to either party For if you have been so foolish as to make engagements to one another it was without your Parents consents or knowledge and between parties not fit to marry together and now your Parents know of it they are utterly against it and therefore you may both disingage each other of your promises and I think no harme done but all well and then Cousin Anne be assured I shall be a good friend to you Upon this the young couple began to be something at a stand when presently my Sister said Brother what if my Daughter be with Childe Truly Sister said I it is a question very unseasonably put and I thinke upon no ground for I am confident that he did never lye with her which he hath often since professed and that he did not know whether she were Man or Woman but if she be with childe said I the Bastard must be kept better so then worse for I tell you George if you Marry her you must not look to come within my doores Upon this my Sister presently replyed Cousin George be not discouraged with that for if your Father will not receive you I will and you shall be welcome to me stay as long as you please This is right said I now you have fully discovered your selfe to be what I thought you the maine contriver of the match I have done Come George said I if you will goe home with me well and good if not take what comes of it and so away I went About halfe an houre after my Sonne followed me home I told him it was well he was come and wisht him to forbeare going thither anymore he followed my advice and kept with me But privately under-hand my Sister and his Cousin sent to him and then she carryed her Daughter up to London and there indeavoured to have them Asked at Church and Cryed at Market which comming to my eare I prevented and that most fearfully madded her and her party And to prevent farther attempts of the like nature his Uncle Dudly comming in the nick of time and offering himselfe my sonne also desiring it he was admitted his companion and bed-fellow to stave them off for as soone as my back was turn'd they were still soliciting of him Then my sonne presently wrote a civil Letter to her that whatever his intents were heretofore yet the matter being now known to his Father he did see so much aversness in him that he could not goe on and that they were so neer of blood that he feared God would never prosper such a Mariage and therefore desired her to have no more thoughts of it After this her friends soliciting and troubling him he went into Sussex with his Uncle Dudley and was absent from me neere six months In all that time for ought I ever heard they kept very good company and lived orderly and what ever his Uncle did himselfe I am sure he was carefull that my son should no wayes be debauched neither did I at his return find him tainted with the vices of the times but every way very well I am sure he did run far greater hazards when he kept her kinred company for I have been informed by a good hand that there were strange plots to intoxicate him so to work their ends I am ashamed to mention the manner of it Indeed they could never compasse their designe for he hath very often professed that he did never lye with her nor was ever marryed to her Something they talk of was said by a man of their procuring in a Chamber but sure it signified nothing for she hath discharged him of that and all his other promises to her and as he said did give him free liberty to marry whom he pleased And I verily believe had it not been for the Mother little dispute had been about it For not long defore his death he was heard to say that he would not for ten thousand pound that he had been marryed to his Cousin Anne de Laune for I could not have lov'd her said he a moneth to an end And I am sure of late he was so averse to them that he could not endure any mention of her or her Mother And this is the story of that so much talkt of marriage And wherein I pray you lies the hainousnesse of my sin in this businesse if I did forbid my son to marry where to me it seems absolutely forbidden by the Word of God by Decrees of Ancient Councils and not allowed by the most Orthodox and best men I am sure the Scripture sayes Thou shalt not approach to any that is neere of kin to thee and I am sure Cousin Germans are very neere of kin Let others doe as they will and make what constructions they please the words of the Text have and ever shall prevaile with me So long as God hath given us choice enough I think I shall not venture within the line And what ever may be talked it was neither smalnesse of portion nor want of proportion and handsomnesse nor meannesse of birth nor unfitnesse of yeers or any outward thing though perhaps there might be enough to except against that made me so averse but onely the prohibition of Heaven which sayes Thou shalt not approach c. And now Gentlemen if I must be punished for causing