Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	husband_n	love_v	wife_n	5,489	5	7.6449	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01886	Hollands leaguer: or, An historical discourse of the life and actions of Dona Britanica Hollandia the arch-mistris of the wicked women of Eutopia VVherein is detected the notorious sinne of panderisme, and the execrable life of the luxurious impudent.	Goodman, Nicholas.	1632 (1632)	STC 12027; ESTC S105768	16,772	54

no soule and but halfe a motion Her parents quickly perceiue this alteration and like noble Phisitians labor to find out the cause to make the cure more easie more speedie more certaine but she that had a lockt vp soule in a fort impregnable what through disdaine the handmaid of Pride Pride it selfe the Lord of stubborne resolution she became so impenitrable that sooner might they bring the Poles together then separate her from one tittle of her private resolution so that finding her fixed they leaue to molest her onely obserue all occasions and all circumstances euery passage and euery Action that might give any light to those designes on which shee laboured with such difficultie in the end finding her set one day in a priuate Roome without any companion but solitude her owne thoughts her Father stealing within the distance of her speeches might heare her vtter these wordes O life which hast deceiued so many seduced so many blinded so many thou art nothing at thy beginning thy light is nothing but a shaddow thou art but smoake at thy height thou art sweet to fooles thou art bitter to the wise who loueth thee knowes thee not who knoweth thee contemnes thee and here with a deepe sigh shee made a full period when her father pressing vpon her demanded the cause of this quarrell betwixt her and life vrging her with much ingratitude to condemne that from which her selfe had receiued so much luster applying her beauty her youth her wit and all her inward and outward faculties as vnrefellible arguments of infinite beholdingnesse to life who had brought them into the World made them beloued of the World but she with a silent bashfulnesse fuller of deceit then innocence forbearing to reply gave him occasion to assaile her with all the strength that nature loue a fathers authority could collect together and did so vrge her to display and lay open the Cabinet of her deerest counsells that she either vnwilling to loose so faire an opportunity or to apparel her envious griefe in the robes of obedience with a seeming vnwilling willingnesse did disburden her heart of that loade of griefe which so long had afflicted her yet not without many disguises and false habits as not being weary of the Countrey for it's solitude but carefull to discharge him of much cost and incumbrance that the City was more hopefull for her aduancement because the two columbes of posteritie honorable Mariage and wealthy imployment had there a setled residence and threw away their fauors blindfold like the children of Fortune There did need small debatement When both the parties did agree vpon one proposition for he seemed to outrun her in willingnes and as if their thoughts had bene cast in one mould an equall diligence made preparation for her speedy departure the mothers consent was not wanting so that all drawing by one linke without hinderance strife or aduantage the work was in a trice effected the daughter was brought to the City and setled in an honest Magnificos seruice Here after the expence of some small time liuing as it were in a Burse of resort where men and their minds were continually trucking for new commodities it was impossible for this rich Iewell which was without foyle because it knew no Art and without fraud by reason of an innocent ignorance should either stand gaping for a chap-man or like an idle prentise with his hands hid in his cap cry Sir what lacke you No vnsullied beauty like the Sunne will giue light to a whole Hemyspheare and this damosell had so shot her beames through euery corner of the City that her Suitors were like Coriscas smockes infinite in number many in good opinion and but one at one time in imployment yet with such seuerity she gouerned her passions that the strictest eye of modesty could hardly detect her gouernment and she was the rather induced to this Austerity by beholding the pictures of two famous Curtezans which did hang in her Masters Gallery the first which vvas lesse faire but more fortunate had this inscription Si non Caste tamen Caute the other which vvas farre beyond all for beauty and inferior to none for Miserie had vvritten ouer her Nec caste Nec caute on these two plaine songs her resolution made sundry descants but the close of euery strain was That to sinne wisely was to sinne safely that after-thoughts vvere foolish and had I wist childish hence it came that amōgst the vn-numbred number of her Suitors she chose one whom shee knevv honest by all mens report frugall in her owne experience industrious in his affaires and painefull in euery circumstance of his profession one that was handsome enough to loue and stout enough to controle yet such an Idolater to her beauty such a slave to her commandements that neither his eyes nor eares could carry credit beyond her sufferance of this man she made a husband and had not the deuill and womans vveakenesse conspir'd to make ship vvracke of her vertue they might have liued and dyed vvith faire reputation but novv shee shakes handes vvith bashfulnes and feare the manlinesse of her courage meeting vvith the libertie of a bold wives rudenes she dare both intice and lend an eare to inticements 'T is true that loue in her friends made them call impudence an high spirit and losenesse a pleasant behauiour but those which had beene brought vp in the same schoole where shee learnt her complement knew that the gate was wide enough and the way plaine enough which leade to the ruine of her vertue Many assault were giuen to this faire Fort but some she with-stood to gaine an opinion of goodnesse and they were great ones some she durst not entertaine for feare of after repentance and they were loose ones some she held at a distance to draw on benefit and they were the rich ones and some she scorn'd and they were fooles Fidlers or base ones But behold at last the deuill himselfe fearing to lose so rich a prize which hee knew would not come to his kingdome alone with her owne lading but with the spoyles and triumphs of a world of vnfortunate creatures of both sexes he sent to assaile her one Ignatius a Puritane Iesuite a fellow whom Lucifer had so instructed and adorned with all the deceiuable qualities and inchauntments of a seeming goodnesse that vertue herselfe could hardly have discouered him without the vse of her diuinest spectacles he had al the amiablenesses of a good face and a well-shap'd body which he made more glorious with grauity good cloathes he had an excellent wit prompt and ready which he witnessed in his discourses being full of delight and learning he was full of Bounty and liberalitie a world of poore deceiued people especially women maintaining his exchequor and when the fire of lust was kindled in him by the deuils bellowes he was so full of delicate Petulance and