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
A35436	Cupids master-piece, or, The free-school of witty and delightful complements being the art of love refined, and augmented with divers new, pleasant, and delightful comments and discourses of love ...		1656 (1656)	Wing C7605; ESTC R19646	8,808	24

CUPIDS MASTER-PIECE OR The Free-School of Witty and Delightful Complements BEING The Art of Love Refined and augmen●●● with divers new pleasant and delighful com●●●ments and discourses of Love With sundry p●●●sant and amorous Songs and Sonnets As also ●●●sies for Rings Handkerchiefs Gloves and o●●●● things for benefit and delight of young Men 〈◊〉 Maids With divers other pretty fancies and ●●●tasies full of Delight and variety of Wit When Hearts and Hands united are What joy with Love then can compare London Printed for John Andrews at the White 〈◊〉 at the Upper end of the Old-Baily Cupids Master-Piece A brief Description of true Love TRue Love is a pretious treasure Rich delight unvalued pleasure Mens harts like to a Maze intwining Two firm minds in one combining Foe to faithless vowes perfideous True Love is a knot Religious Dead to the sins that flaming rise Through beauties soul seducing eyes Deaf to gold-inchanting Witches Loves for Vertue not for riches Such is true Loves boundless measure True Love is a pretious treasure This is Love and worth commending Still beginning never ending Like a wily Net insnaring Like a Round shuts up all squaring In and out whose every Angle More and more doth still intangle Keeps a measure still in moving And is never Light but loving Twining armes exchanging kisses Each pertaking others blisses Laughing weeping still together Bliss in one is mirth in either Never breaking ever bending This is Love and worth commending Instructions for Lovers ●eaching them how to demean themselves towards their Sweet-hearts ●Ou must not accost them with a shrug as if you were lowsie With your Ladie ●et Ladie or most super-excellent Ladie ●her must you let your words come rumb● forth ushered in with a good full mouth'd 〈◊〉 as I love you But you must speak the ●-coming language of Love I do not mean ●e strange Pedantick phrases used by some ●ants who aim at wit but make themselves ●k asses by it praise their Mistresses by the 〈◊〉 Moon or Stars whilest the poor Girles ●gine they mean the signes their Mercers Perfumers live at But you must in fine ●l● words deliver your true affection praise 〈◊〉 Mistress Eies her Lip her Chin her ●e her Neck her Face her Hand her ●t her Leg her Waste her every thing 〈◊〉 leave your Lillies and your Roses for your ●ntrie Froes to make Nosegaies with Thoughts c Valued may B. Searching c Love may B. A merry sportive and Delightful Discourse between a young Gallant and a curious conceited Lady Gent. LAdie what think you of a handsome man now Lady And a wholesome too Sir Gent. That 's as you make your bargain a handsome wholsome man then and a kinde man to chéer up your heart and to lie close to you to kéep you warm and get two boyes at a birth Lady Two at a birth that 's nothing Sir I have known a Cobler a poor thin Cobler out of mouldy chéese brown bread and turnups do as much as that Me thinks a Gentleman should scorn to have a poor Mechanick Cobler out-do him Gent. What then you would have me get two dozen at a birth like Buttons Lady You do well to brag Sir but if you perform this at your marriage then I will say you are a man indeed Gent. You are a merry Gentlewoman and may make a good wife Lady Not for you Sir for then I may chance to get nothing in what a state am I then Sir Gent. But for all this I know you love to hear of a good husband Lad. You say true Sir for by my troth I h●ve heard of none this ten years they are so rare that there are a great many longing women upon their knees to pray for the dropping down of good husbands from heaven because there 's none upon earth Gent. But tel me Lady can you love a man Lad. Yes if the man be lovely honest and modest Gent. Then I am the man must make you a wife Lad. You make me a wife no Sir no. Gent. Ay a wife a wife I say you need not be ashamed on it for its the best calling a woman can come to Lad. A grant it Sir but I mean not to be your wife Gent. Not mine I beleive it will be the best bargain thou wilt ever make in thy life Lad. Sir I do beleive you look after wealth and I mean to have one that will love and respect me for my vertues Gent. Wealth yes by my troth I must have lands and Lordships too Lady Lad. Cry ye mercie Sir I mistook you all this while did not you say it was for love Gent. True but there 's two words to a bargain all the world over and if love be one I am sure money is the other else it s no bargain pardon me Lady I must dine as well as sup Lad. Then Sir you may trie your fortune for I am resolved never to be your wife and so farewel A Song for Maids MAids they are grown so coy of late Forsooth they will not marry Though they be in their teens past They say they yet can tarry But if they knew how sweet a thing It were in youth to marry They would sell their Petticoats Smocks and all Ere they so long would tarry The Lass that is most coy of all I● she had time and leisure Would lay by al● he● several thoughts And turn to love and pleasure Winter nights are long you know And bitter cold the wea●her Then who is so fond to lie alone When two may lye together A merry complemental woing between two jeering Lovers Man FAirest of all faires will you eat a piece of Ginger-bread Maid You might have more manne●s or at least more civilitie then to scoff at her that never injured you Man Scoff nay indeed I love you I vow I burn in love like some peny Fagot Maid St. Winitrid forbid it man may I beleive it Man Ay and though I say it that should not I am affected towards you strangely there 's some thing like thy self comes every night to my beds side Maid And to me every morning a voice utters these words Matrimony Matrimony Man Now do I shake all over and doubt its some spirit that would join us M. Goodly great ones may I beleive this also Man What not beleive Ladie I am wholly and solely yours yea more then this your servants servant Maid Now you contradict your self Sir how can you be wholly mine and yet my servants servant Man I do but complement in this Ladie But if thou canst love me I can love thee law thee now I am rich Mai. Sir I look not after riches but the person I must have one that can guide me for I am foolish yet Man Now sée the luck of it Ladie I am so too but doubt not this noddle shall perform all I warrant I am rich Maid But riches create no love by my virginitie I fear you will flinch Man By my virginitie