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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	head_n	old_a	paint_v	2,070	5	13.1683	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01492	A treatise of c[hri]stian renunciation Compiled of excellent sentences [and] as it were diuerse homelies of ancient fathers: wherin is shewed how farre it is lawfull or necessary for the loue of Christ t[o] forsake father, mother, wife and children, and all other worldly creatures. Against the enemies of the crosse of Christ, ... Wherunto is added [a shorte discourse against going to hereticall churches.]	Garnet, Henry, 1555-1606.	1593 (1593)	STC 11617.8; ESTC S113062	99,728	170

is afflicted with our Lords Passiō and weeping bitterly he ●eareth Feed my sheepe Paule a rauening woolfe and another young Beniamin is strooken blind in a traunce that he may receiue his sight and being compassed with a soudaine horrour of darknes calleth him Lord whom before he persecuted as man Euen so now o Marcella we haue seene our louing Blesilla thirty daies cōtinually to haue bene tormented with the burning of an ague that she might learne to reiect the delightes of that body which shortly after is to be cōsumed with wormes To her also came our Lord Iesus and touched her hand and behould she arising now serueth him she sauoured somewhat of negligence and being tied with the bandes of riches she lay in the sepulcher of the world But Iesus groned and being troubled in spirit cried out Blesilla come forth Who arose whan she was called and being come forth now sitteth at the table with our Lord. Lett the Iewes threaten swell These men are like to Iewes spiritually seeking to murder Lazarus lett them seeke to murder her which hath bene raised vp againe and lett the onely apostles reioise she knoweth that she oweth her life vnto him who did restore it she knoweth that she embraceth his fecte whose iudgement lately she feared her body lay almost dead and death approching did shake her gasping members Where were than the helpes of her kinred where were than the wordes full of vanity she oweth nothing vnto thee o vngratefull kinred which dying to the world is reuiued vnto Christ Who is a Christian lett him reioise he that is angry sheweth that he is no Christian A widow loased from the bond of mariage needeth nothing but perseuerance The discription of an holy widow But doth the browne garment offend any person lett Iohn offend him than whom amongst the sonnes of women there was none greater who being called an Angell baptized our Lord him selfe for he also was cladd with a camells Skinne and girded with a girdle of heare do grosse meates displease thē nothing is more grosse than locusts Let those women rather offend Christian eies who with vernish and colourings paint their cies and cheekes whose plaistered countenances deformed with ouermuch shining do resemble idolls who if they happen for want of heed to let fall a teare it trickleth down in a furrow whom not so much as the very number of their yeares can perswade that they are olde who with other folkes haire sett forth their head and paint out in aged wrinckles their youth fore spent who finally in presence of many nephewes are trimmed like trembling girles Let the Christian woman blush if shee force the comelinesse of nature if she make prouision for the flesh vnto concupiscence in which according to the Apostle whosoeuer are delighted cannot please Christ Our widow before was very carefully dressed and all the day at the glasse she studied what might be amisse now she confidētly saith But we behoulding the glory of our Lord with face reuealed 2 Cor. 3. are transformed into the same image from glory vnto glory as of our Lords spirite Than the maides did platte her heare and the harmeles head was wringed with friseled toppes but now the vntrimmed head knoweth this to suffise it that it is couered Than did the very softnes of feathers seeme hard and she could scarce lye in the raised beddes now she riseth betime for to pray with her shrill voice preuenting the others in singing Alleluia she is the first which beginneth to praise her Lord. shee kneeleth vpon the ●are ground and with often teares that face is purged which before was defiled with painting after praier there are soung psalmes and the feeble necke and wearied knees and sleepy eyes for the earnest feruour of the mind can scant obtaine any rest the mourning gowne is leaste fouled whan she lieth on the ground The course pantoffle affordeth the price of gilte shoes vnto the poore the girdle is not besette with golde pretiouse stones but wollen and most pure because of the simplicity and such as may rather straiten the vestiments than adorne thē If the scorpion enuieth fo good a purpose and with flattering speach perswade againe to eate of the forbiddeu tree in steed of a shoe lett him be crusshed with ANATHEMA A deseription of Antichrist and whilest he dieth in his poison lett him haue this answere● Go after me Satan which is as much to say as aduersary for he is the aduersary of Christ and an Antichrist whosoeuer is displeased with the precepts of Christ I pray you what haue we donne like vnto the Apostles that they are so offended The Apostles forsooke their Parents They forsake their aged father with their shippe and nettes the publicane riseth from the custome house and followeth our Sauiour The Disciple which desired to returne home and bidd his frendes farewell is forbidden by our masters voice The buriall of a father is not allowed and it is a kind of piety for our Lord to be voide of piety We because we go not in silkes are esteemed Monkes because we are not droncke neither open our mouthes vnto dissolute laughter we are called graue and melancholy if our coate be not gorgeouse we straite heare that cōmon prouerbe he is an hypocrite deceiuing Greciā See how Let thē vse euen yet more rude scoffes and carry about with thē men stuffed with fatte paunches earnest Gods Saints haue bene against the Persecutors of vertue our Blesilla will laugh and not disdaine to heare the reproches of croking frogges wheras her Lord and master was called Beelzebub A notable epistle of Saint Bernard in the person of one Helias a monke vnto his parents ep 111. §. 6 THe onely cause for which it is not lawfull to obey our parents He defendeth his entry into religi●n against them Mat. 10 True loue of parents toward the is children Mat. 10. Mich. 7 is God For he saieth Who loueth his father and mother more than me is not worthy of me If you loue me in deed as good godly parents if you carry a true and faithfull piety towardes your sonne why do you disquiet me being about to serue God the father of all and endeuour to drawe me backe from the feruice of him to whom for to serue is to raigne Verely I now perceiue that a mans enemies are those of his owne houshould In this I must not obey you in this thing I ta●e you not for my parents but for my foes If you loued me you would certainely reioise because I go to my father yours yea and the father of all otherwise what haue I to do with you What haue I of you but sinne and misery onely this corruptible carcase which I carry I confesse and acknowledge that I haue of yours is it not sufficient for you that wretches that you are you haue brought me a wretch into the wretchednes of this world and