Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	child_n	mother_n	nurse_n	1,698	5	11.4284	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03100	A newe discourse of morall philosophie, entituled, The kayes of counsaile Not so pleasant as profitable for younge courtiours. Optima est patientia victor.	Heron, Haly.	1579 (1579)	STC 13228; ESTC S108570	49,052	150

whiche burneth in desire of soueraintie And lastly for wisdome is it like that Pallas would instruct mē and spitefully withdraw frō hir owne sexe the worthy gift of vnderstanding no but it is manifest that she hath adopted them for hir only heires of such a right bountiful patrimonie which benefit men haue rather receiued at their hands than foūd out by their owne industries For it is thoughte that the Latines firste learned their leters of Nicostrata Pithagoras was supposed to be the desciple of hys sister Theoclea Pericles the Duke of Athens was instructed in learning by Aspatia Suche and absolute perfection of vertue and so rare a figure of diuine beautie is both fixed and fashioned in the noble mind and comely proportion of women that who can mistrust any lothsome qualities to lurke vnder the couerte shadowes of such comelinesse but those which haue by experience vnhappily found the same to be manifest But oh blind goddesse Fortune or cursed furie Fate with what tearmes shall I enter into thy disprayse with what voyce shall I sound thy dishonour or by what force shall I confound thy gouernement thou that vnequally diuidest thy goodes thou that partially bestowest thy giftes and thou that disdeynefully rewardest thy subiectes why diddest thou not indifferently impart riches vnto men that none should be disdeyned or vniuersally bestowe vertues on women that none mighte be condemned bycause thou wilt say the last was not in my power and the firste was not conueniente But is it nature then that hathe thus scornefully abused hir creatures to rayse vp one vnto the seate of honourable fame and to foyle a thousand with the reproche of shamefull follie Surely it were an vniust parte of a mother that had manye daughters to make one of them hir Mistresse and all the rest hir seruantes And it were vnnaturall in a Nursse in stead of Milke to giue hir children poyson But Nature is the mother of mankinde and teacheth to maynteyne the commodities of life she is oure Nursse and therefore wisheth the health of hir children No it is euen oure selues that are corrupte and imperfect it is menne that are abused by women and it is women that are the cause of all mischiefe Examine histories whyche are the light of truth euen from the begynning of the worlde vntill thys day and you shall finde no griefe no sorrowe no deathe no danger no warres no wast no fiers no destruction no woes no lamenting no deceypt falsehode discorde no not anye other inconuenience whereof a woman hath not bin some part of the occasion Was not Eue the cause of Originall Sinne than the whyche to mankynde what coulde happen more pernicious thys one singular example of moste auntiente authoritie myghte serue to daunte the pryde and coole the vauntyng bragges of wicked and licentious women for as they beganne with persuasions of false delyghte so they continue wyth dissembling practise and ende commonly wyth horrible shamefull mischiefe Theyr begynning I call the floures of youth whyche age is fyrste subiecte to the manye assaultes of loue wherein howe maydenly they behaue themselues in the mayntenance of Virginitie nay howe Syrenelyke they shewe themselues in the Shipwracke of theyr modestie it is wonderfull And firste she learnes to set hir eies fixed with the stars in signe of stabilitie hir eares are vigilāt to heare hir self praised hir tong is taught to be silente in token of modestie hyr countenance is milde hir spéech short and swéete and lastly hir liuely lookes of sober chéere but yet amiable She is bashfull therefore sittes most comely beneath at the dore or else aboue somewhat more modestly in a windowe where she sings sometimes for sorow she sighes perhaps for delighte she sowes for a fashion shée playes to remoue fansies she mournes for want of company And whē she cōmes to be moued with playne tearmes of mariage good God what nicenesse she wyll vse how coy she will become and what a countenance of virginitie she will borow to set forth the matter for then they will all be Nunnes they will neuer marrie nor knowe what a man meanes so long as they liue whereas they meane nothing so muche as the contrarye but lette them be courted after another sorte and as you would saye proffer them the common courtesie it is not so soone offered as willingly enterteyned for when they know the depth of his deuotion they sound his affection by their owne desire they suppose he will be quickly lost if not lightely loued and thus they féede some wyth lookes and other with loue some wyth wordes and other with workes some with sporte and other with spite some with pleasure some with payne some with fauoure some with disdeyne some with losse some with gayne that I thinke their insatiable desire would haue as many supplyes as they haue sleightes of alluring And these are the slighte practises of yong women whome when riper yeares and alteration of estate hath well grounded in the perfection of their science then they begin to procéede in high degrées of falsehoode By this time vse hath made them experte and impudence hath giuen thē vtterance of déepe dissembling flatterie but now they haue a cloke for the rayne and why shoulde they bée bashfull before they masked in the close visordes of virginitie but nowe they daunce with the figure a Saincte in their hande and the image of Diuels in theyr heart before they were onely molested with the tyrannie of loue but nowe they are vexed with hate pressed with pryde poysoned with disdeyne haunted with iealousie and plagued with suspition and the least of them all if it lay in their power is as muche as a mans lyfe is worth for the nature of them all is in extreames in so muche that eyther they loue affectionately whiche is seldome or else they hate deadly whyche is common they are too proude or too sluttishe too fonde or too frowarde too pleasaunte or too péeuishe too muche fawning or too scornefull too much familiar or too strāge too shéepishe or too shrewishe too apish or too lumpishe so that all their affections are without meane and theyr passions without measure as soone surprised in delight as soone confounded with sorrow soone quickned with hope and as soone drowned in despayre soone wéeping soone laughing and accordyng to the Prouerb Soone ripe soone rotten And seldome seene is soone forgotten They are Lawlesse for they choose whome they like and refuse when they list but yet they are conscionable for they woulde haue all thinges in common So they are liberall but it is of other mens goodes they are pitifull bycause they would haue no man wāt that which they desire they are courteous bycause they would be courted Mantuan likeneth thē to a Northeast winde whiche beareth off cloudes at the first puffe and drawes them back again with a false encoūtring blast So womē whē they perceiue the deuotiō of mē to be cold or