Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	eat_v	fruit_n	serpent_n	1,943	5	9.6634	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56850	Divine meditations upon several subjects whereunto is annexed Gods love and man's unworthiness, with several divine ejaculations / written by John Quarles.	Quarles, John, 1624-1665.	1671 (1671)	Wing Q124; ESTC R4731	61,452	184

very looks disgrac'd The Face of Beauty to whose thriftless hand He gave that Government with this Command Of all the Trees that here thou dost behold Thy lips being authoriz'd thou mayst be bold To taste with freedom only one which I Conjure thee from therefore restrain thine eye From lusting after it if not thy breath Shall glut it self in everlasting death Forget not my Commands but let thy brest Be always faithful and thou shalt be blest Thus the Recorder having spoke at large This well-deliver'd although ill-kept Charge He after said It is not good that man should be alone Without a help I le therefore make him one Oh sacred prudence Here we may discern A sweet conjunction here our Souls may learn Wisdom and Love both which if not enjoyd Pleasures prove vanities and blessings void Heav'n whose unidle art-full hand had set Man as a Jewel in his Cabinet Thought it unfit that those delights which he Had made by his most powerful Love should be Monopoliz'd by one he therefore laid Adam asleep and having done he made Out of a crooked Rib strange kind of Art A woman fair compleat in every part Nay and a helper too for in conclusion She helpt poor Adam to his own confusion Oh most detested deed Unconstant wife To prove a Traitor to thy Husbands life As soon as made Fond wretch could nothing suit With thy nice palate but forbidden fruit Ah could thy longing lie no longer hid What didst thou long because thou wert forbid Was there no tree that could content thy eye But only that which was forbidden Fie Oh shame to think thou shouldst so quickly waste Thine hours of pleasure for a minutes taste Couldst thou not like or fall in love with any But that Heav'n had but one thou hadst many Wherewith to please thine appetite and yet Wouldst thou prove so ambitious as to sit Upon the highest twigg Ah could th' advice Of Satan tempt thee to this avarice With so much ease and make thee rashly do So foul a deed and tempt thy Adam too Preposterous wretch how hast thou spread a cloud Over thy head what didst thou think to shrowd Thy self from vengeance Having eat thy death Couldst thou expect to live Oh no thy breath Offended Heav'n but ah hadst thou but thought Before thy heart had entertain'd a fault So great as this what 't was to die thy mind Had made thee more abstemious and confin'd Thy base inordinate desires thy meat Had prov'd delightful and thy comforts great But now unhahpy now thy crimes have made Thy Soul Deaths Debtor and thou art betrayd By thine own self therefore prepare to meet Thy wrathful Judge 't is said stoln goods are sweet But thine prov'd sour the fruits w ch thou hast stole Sugar'd thy mouth but wormwoodiz'd thy soul When thou hadst eaten Ah! why didst thou not Tremble to death to think thou hadst forgot Thy Gods Commands that his Judgments must Follow thy Soul and blow thee into dust Thus Eve thus Adam having vilipended Their Gods Commands their happines soon ended Their joys were turn'd to mourning their light Was turn'd to darkness and their day to night Both being too much conscious fled with speed To hide themselves from God but not the deed Even as some poor distressed wretch desires To hide himself from the enraged fires Of his incensed Foe runs up and down To shun the rage of a condemned frown At last observing his enquiring Foe Approach the place lies still and dares not blow For fear the wordless Eccho of his breath Should soon betray him to a sudden death Being at last descry'd his throbbing heart Gives an Alarum to each trembling part Fear like an Earthquake then begins to shake His loosen'd joynts he knows not how to make A ready answer to his foes demands But as a sad convicted man he stands Subjected to his will that can dispence With nothing but with death to calm th' offence Even so Guilt-loaded Adam having done A deed so foul prepares himself to run To some close shelter where he might immure His naked body and repose secure But ah in vain in vain he strove to hide Himself from God that need implore no guide To teach him where his sad offender lay He needs must find when sin hath chalk'd th' way But when Heav'ns shril-enquiring voice surrounded The ears of Adam Adam was confounded With deep distress his heart began to call His quivering Senses to a Funeral Fear like a powerful fire began to thaw His frozen thoughts and keep his Soul in awe He breath'd in a Dilemma and could find No Sanctuary for a perjur'd mind At last the Language of th' Eternal God Storm'd his Sin-armed Soul and like a Rod Whipt him from his security and cry'd Adam where art thou Adam thus reply'd I heard thee walking in the pleasing shade Of the cool ev'ning and I was afraid And hid my self because I must confess I blusht to see my shameful nakedness GOD. Tell me thou trembling wretch how dost thou know That thou art naked say who told thee so What has thy lips usurp'd the fruit which I Conjur'd thee not to touch if so reply Adam The woman which thou gav'st me gave to me And I did eat of the forbidden tree GOD. Unconstant woman Ah why hast thou run Beyond thy bounds what 's this that thou hast done Woman The Serpents flowing language swel'd too great For my low banks he tempted and I eat Gods Curse against the Serpent Because thou hast thus subtilty deluded The lustful woman thou shalt be excluded From future good more shall thy curses yield Than all the Beasts and Cattel in the field Thy belly shall because thou hast done this Give to the earth a life-remaining kiss Thou shalt not taste of any thing that 's good Dust shall supply the place of wholsome food Curst be thy ways thou shalt no more be seen By me I will put enmity between Thy seed and hers hereafter thou shalt feel A bruised head and she a bruised heel Gods Curse against the Woman And as for thee oh Woman I 'le enlarge Thy grief and thy conception I 'le discharge Thy joyes and load thee with a weighty grief Thy pains in child-bed shall find no relief Thou shalt desire thy Husband and his hand Shall over-rule thee with a strict command Adams Curse Rebellious Adam unto thee I 'le give A Life as bad as Death for thou shalt live To see thy sorrows more and more abound And for thy sake I 'le curse the loathed ground For thou hast hark'ned to the conquering voice Of thy frail wife and made my fruit thy choice And sepulchred my words within the grave Of thy false heart begon thou self-made slave The thorny ground shall give a large increase To thy laborious hand the name of Peace Shall prove a stranger to thy ears and thou Shalt eat thy bread with a sweat-dropping brow I 'le murther all thy