Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	conceive_v	seed_n	womb_n	1,446	5	10.0770	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05418	Curiosities: or the cabinet of nature Containing phylosophical, naturall, and morall questions fully answered and resolved. Translated out of Latin, French, and Italian authors. By R.B. Gent. Never before published.	Basset, Robert.	1637 (1637)	STC 1557; ESTC S101058	58,950	311

begotten which we commonly terme Monsters but this is not ordinary but rather extraordinary for Nature doth never produce any of these Monsters but by some extraordinary and lascivious thoughts in the very act or else after the act which bringeth sleepe there to continue in the body of the Female which I thinke and some other learned are of my opinion is a maine cause of these Monsters called Hermophrodites and sometimes Nature hath given them that are thus luxurious no comfort of their issue for if not Hermophrodites then they proove fooles and ideots Qu. Why doe some children resemble sometime their Father more than the Mother which breeds them in their body and sometime like the Grandsir or some other of their kinred Ans It is according to their youth whether it bee father or mother which hath more seed in their vessels than the other which overflowes the lesser and being more desirous of lust which causeth the same likenesse And againe it is when in the very act the man remembers the visage of the Woman which is a great matter having it in his thought at that time sometimes it is like the Grand-father when hee is thought upon or remembred in the like action Qu. Why doe those infants which come out of the wombe at the eight Moneths end most commonly become weake and sometimes in danger of death A. Because nature is weak in those women and not able in regard of their burden to hold out any longer by reason of the watery and cold Planet the Moone which hath rule in every body whatsoever and by reason the Moon is retrograde ill desposed at that time is the cause of its death Q. Why doth the infant open the wombe at forty weekes end A. The reason is as wee may see in divers fruites when they be ripe they easily fal and so likewise when the childe is at full growth then the vessell doth breake or open and the tendons or ligaments easily broken and therefore those women which hold out their full time without their terms falling down in that time haue strong and lusty children and live long Q. Why doth either excessive ioy or griefe cause a woman to miscarry A. Sometime extraordinary joy doth take away the naturall heat which causeth and giveth life to the seede in the wombe and so causeth miscarrying and the very same reason is given for griefe conceived which taketh away the natural heat from the wombe to comfort the heart Q. Why doth the tongue sometimes lose the use of speaking A. The learned Physitian Hypocrates saith sometime it doth happen through a Palsie or Apoplexy which is by a violent effusion of blood and of other thicke humours and againe it is the infection spiritus animalis in the Median part of the braine which is an hinderāce that the vigor or spirit is not carryed unto the tongue which is the maine cause why the tongue sometimes is not able to expresse those actions which its office ought to make manifest Q. Why did nature make rather the braine cold than hot A. For this maine reason onely to temper and moderate the heate of the heart to the end it might serve in stead of a Fan or cooler Q. Wherefore made Nature Man naked and without weapons onely his armes to defend him A. Nature having bestowed wisedome upon man hath given him meanes enough to arme himselfe at his owne pleasure as well against the cold and heate of the aire as against the blowes of his enemies Q. What is the cause that children who are moyst by nature are not bald notwithstanding A. Because their humidity is intermingled with a temperate heate Q. Why doth Rue being planted under a fig-tree grow the better and receiveth more nourishment A. Because it drawes unto it selfe the sweetnesse of the Fig-tree or else the Fig-tree suckes away from the Rue a part of his bitternesse and so being somewat sweetned it groweth the better Q. Why doe old men dye almost without paine A. By reason that all their sences are debilitated and their rudicall moysture and naturall heate consumed Q. Why doth sorrow and care make some men to look old and gray before their time Answ Because they dry up the moysture of their bodie by their Cholericke humour which is too predominant in them and indeede Age is no thing but a kind of drynesse Q. Wherefore are womens counsailes which they give upon the suddaine commonly esteeemed happy and prosperous in effect and those which they give upon long deliberation unlucky and disastrous A. Erasmus is of opinion that their mindes are for the most part employed with what they most affect and upon a pinch if they bee put to it they shew much and a quicke wittinesse for Women are naturally farre more witty than men but more prone to affect and sometimes make use of it to extreame wickednesse Q. VVherefore is it said what 's a VVoman but her tongue A. Because antienly they had no other defence nor weapon but that but now they have better fortified themselves with tongue tooth and nayles Q. VVhat kinde of people are those that doe not sleepe in their owne faces A. Women that paint which put on other faces than nature gave them under which fained fairenesse there is a foule pretence of concealing age and wrinkles but not their desire of youthfull actions Justice Sph. Ph. pa. 683. Dialogismus What Goddesse Justice Why thy lookes so sterne Not to be wonne from what I once discerne VVhence born From heaven Thē say who was thy father Measure he 's cald and true-faith is my mother Why one eare open and the other shut To th' good thats ope to th'bad that 's closed up Why sword i' th right hand in the left a scales These weigh each act ' gainst th' guilty that prevailes Why art alone Good company is rare These times conduct mee not where good men are Why poorely clad Cause hee that will be iust Refraine to purchase wealth and treasure must Q. What doe you iudge to be most fit for the tranquility of of a marryed life A. No married life can be peaceable and quiet except the man be deafe and the woman blind for either of them must conceale somethings that she being blind may not be peeping prying into every action of her husband he deafe that he may not heare his wife brawling continually at home Altera luminihus quando caret auribus alter Improba coniugium tale querela fugit In English thus Where Wives want eyes and Husbands want good eares That Wedlocke seldome causeth jarres and teares Of a widow Q. Wherefore is it that no Spaniard of what meane quality soever will marry a widdow bee shee very young and wealthy A. It hath beene a resolution of theirs from Antiquity and continueth to this day and to this effect one of them made this answer I will no Widow wed my reason's sound I 'le drinke no water wherein one was

to desire meates of the same quality as that humour requires so that if that corrupt humour bee participant of melancholy it happeneth that the party with child desireth to eate coales tyles ashes or some other adust things If that humour be of the quality of a pricking and biting phlegme she desires Vinegar or sowre meates and sauces of such kind and so of other humours But this happeneth not to all women with child because all have not that naturall purgation so vicious and corrupt Moreover the wiser sort of them doe moderate or conceale these kind of desires and longings The same reason is for the loathing and detesting that they have to some meates which seeme hatefull unto them according to the evill humours which predominate as aforesaid Q. Wherefore is it that great-bellyed women have not or very seldome have their naturall all purgations A. Because the matter that is voyded by them serveth for the nourishing of the Embrio or fruit conceived Q. VVherefore is it that women great with a man childe are more cheerely and better coloured than those that go with a Female A. It is because in the males there is a great deale more naturall heate which the mothers doe feele and perceive and by consequence are better coloured and more healthy than when they goe with a female Q. VVhat is the reason that women with Childe are more tetchy then when they are not A. It is because they are then lesse afraid of being offended so long as they are bigge wherein they discover their weaknesse for weake and feeble persons become more insolent when they know themselves cleare out of danger and feare and great courages contrarily shew themselves most in greatest dangers Q. VVhy are women more covetous more crafty and revengefull than men A. By reason of the weaknesse of their nature for being not able by force to support and maintaine themselves they betake themselves to craft covetousnesse and discord which Casar said was the Mother of Assurance Q. VVherefore are women more heavy at the beginning of conception than after they have gone some moneths with childe A. Because at the beginning the infant participates not so much of the humours within the body of the Mother as when it groweth a little bigger for it is nourished by the naturall purgations and superfluous humors of the Mother Q. VVherefore hath nature placed the Paps of the woman upon the stomacke and not lower as other female animals A. In regard of the preservation of her modesty moreover she being an upright and two-footed creature and of a singular perfection above all other females Nature provided her a place more decent for them and freed her from a great trouble which were they otherwise placed would be undecent and incommodious Q. Wherefore have not men great Paps and large Dugs as women have A. Nature frames nothing in vaine these great Pappes being given to Women as vessels to receive their naturall purgations which are converted into Milke for the sustenance of the infant it was needlesse that men that have no such purgations and is not fit they should suckle their infants should have any such large receptacles or vessels Q. But how comes it that womans Paps or Breast begin not to rise or appeare before the age of 12 or 13 yeares A. Because then beginneth the time of their naturall purgations and have them not before that age Q. Wherefore is it that women and children weepe oftner and with more facility than men of a perfect age A. It is because both women and children are very humide therefore being surcharged and pressed by griefe and vexation they easily evacuate that plenty of moysture by the way of teares Q. Whence is it that the man and the woman both old and consequently cold that the woman is not so easily nor so soone drunke as the man A. By reason that women being cold and moyst doe more resist the heate of Wine and old men being dry and the Wine soaking in and greatly moystning their bodies doth more endamage them Q. Wherefore is it that women are more mutable and variable than men A. Because they are of a temparament lesse perfect being more cold than men and things of more perfection are lesse mutable moreover women being more weake are so much the more suspicious and contentious and suspicion brings alwaies with it a change of will But let me say thus much in their behalfe They are more constant in their love than men Q. Why doe women make water stooping and men doe the contrary A. Because their bladder stands higher than a mans doth Q. What is the reason that when maidens breasts beginne to grow they begin to change their voice A. Because then the Organ of the voice is wider and lesser closed which is common when they are come to the teenes Q. Why are some twinnes not so strong as others be A. Because the Seede which should have served one receptacle was parted into two Q. Why doe the Paps of maidens when they are in their teenes grow bigge and not before that time A. Albertus Magnus saith the reason is that then her monethly termes doe begin to have course and increase and by that reason her breasts grow bigge Q. Why hath a woman that is great with childe of a boy the right dug harder than the left A. Because the Male-childe is conceived in the right side of the Mother and therefore the Flowers or Termes have more course to the right Pap than to the left and so by this reason causeth it to be harder Q. And likewise why doth the hardnesse of the Pappes betoken the health of the Childe in the Matrix A. The reason is because her Terms are turned into milk and that Milke doth nourish the fruite in the wombe aboundantly and thereby its strength is manifested as Aristotle saith Q. Why is the Milke of a womans breast white seeing that her Termes are red which it is ingendred of A. Because the blood well purged and concocted becommeth white as it appeareth in any flesh whose proper colour is red but being sod it is white Q. How shall one know when a woman hath twinnes in her wombe A. Nature hath given a certaine signe for when a woman is quicke sixe weeks or thereabouts shee then may perceive a seame or stroke downe from the middle of her breasts to the bottome of her belly of a darke colour like a Veine Q. Why haue not birds milke and Paps A. Because Paps would hinder their flying Qu. How comes it to passe that Nature doth produce both man and woman in one body commonly called Hermophrodites An. Because Nature hath three Receptacles wherein the seed of man doth flow the one in the right side which commonly doth breed the Male the other on the left side which doth breed the Female and the third vessell or receptacle is that which is in the middle in which the seed doth fall whereby the Hermophrodite is