Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	good_a	seed_n	sow_v	1,957	5	9.8778	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19911	A select second husband for Sir Thomas Ouerburie's wife, now a matchlesse widow	Davies, John, 1565?-1618.; Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613. Wife, now a widowe.	1616 (1616)	STC 6342; ESTC S109367	27,255	98

wisedome learn'd the trade To bow them streight then gently them to binde With cords of loue from starting backe againe Till without stubburnnesse they streight remain Of Earth his Maker made man but of bone God made his wife then wiues still harder are Than men for bent yet hu●…bands must turne stone When throgh their softnes they their wiues do mar Men may be hard and good but harldy can A husband soft e're make a good wise-man While Eue was made her Make did soundly sleep But oft while husbāds sleep their wiues are marr'd The house-wife then the house doth hardly keepe When in soft-sleepe she sees he sleepeth hard Then wakefull be to keep thy wife from sin And running out that marres thy commings in She made was of the Rib not of the Head Then keepe thy headship for thine honors sake And for her grace and good and keepe thy bed But sleep not much frō that w ch keeps thee wake For if they touch thy Brow t' will swell vnseene Which ranking inward outward shews thy teene The fertile seed-plot of the world should be Free from pollution mariage should be cleane Pure seed well sowne from cockle should be free That so the crop or fruite might be a meane Whereby the t●…ibe maintain'd might still endure In name as right as in fame firme and pure And so to keepe it it behooues thee much To make thy wife no wanton for thou maist Make her thy whore with many a wanton-touch Be prudent then when e're thou with her plai'st And set straite limits to thy lust for she Will proue a libertine if so thou be It 's thy fault though thy right she wrong therein Art thou her stay yet mak'st her fall the more Yea fall into adulterous three-fold sinne For so she is thy widow wife and whore Then let no lawlesse lust the bed pollute That may make sacred mariage dissolute Would'st haue the body chast and not the head That cannot be but she the body is Whose head thou art by thee she 's bred or led To good or ill then do not thou amisse As good the head were empty as not full Of braines to gouerne all beneath the scull The dueties of the bed may but may not Be well perform'd without some secret staine For each least wandring thought incurres a blot From which what loue could euer thoght restrain So we are all too sinfull ere we sinne Sith we by this are all conceiu'd therein Can the desire but thinke vpon the deede As 't is an Act of Generation And neuer let the thought on fancies breede Through heate of lust some loth'd corruption Lust mixt with loue begets the race of men Then who knows lusts iust sise or keeps it then Say it 's but so much as but warmes Desier To get our like yet who doth mete so much But in the measure may be found a layer Sith Iustice scales are turn'd but with a touch Whose eye still waits so on their turning right That each least tricke of lust is found too light Then let thy lust thy pure loue neuer let For loue lusts not or if it do it is But complementall or our likes to get While loue is kept a-foote the more for this Yet loue may be so pure and so intire That it will hate least heate of soraigne-fire O! to a soule that 's simply pure it is Irkesome to do pure marriage duest rights Whose spirit suspects fraile flesh doth still amisse In all her workes so with it still she fights But women weak'st of flesh are yet so strong As if thou wrong'st thy self thy right the 'l wrong From sense of ill then keepe her for she 's wax To take impressions apt and hold them too She 'l lacke no time nor place nor wit she lacks To do what her will marr'd by thee would do No maruell then though Fame the bugle winds Thou seek'st thy self and follow what she finds Teach not thy wife to speake facundiously Much lesse affectedly but still to speake Her natiue dialect with puritie Yet short as seld when e're she silence breakes To make thy wife a Parrat she 'l giue thee A Daw perhaps or Cuckow for thy fee. Do thou thy selfe what thou wouldst haue her do Examples more than Precepts leade the way And of her sex rehearse Examples too Mellow and moderne these will runne away With her Affections so to emulate Their Vertues that all worlds so celebrate To keepe Loue greene forbeare the Custome gray Of lying whollie with thy Halfe each Night Yet not sans leaue least the Halfe fall away But with consent it breedes the more delight In Loues delight for that doth but annoy Which loathd Societie doth still enioy If shee be faire i'ts fowle to bring her to Mad merry-meetings Reuells or to Court Kinde-Natures as their like there needs must do So there thy Browes may batter'd bee in sport That 's hardly kept that many doe desire Then not t'enflame her keepe her out of Fire If her Behauiour be a surer Barre Then is her No then tempt not That too much Shee is a Woman so too weake to warre With Compleat-men that take but with a Touch Many that haue resisted long with strength Yet striuing still grow weake fall at length The force of Womens loue in vertuous course Is Lyon-like not first to be withstood But sooner tam'de by following than by force For Bloods made hottest oft in coldest blood Like Wells in Winter so the Leacher can Be first a good and then a Beastly Man Is shee but young Then t' is but young to bring Thine Olde-acquaintance to her Is shee olde Olde-Doings yet may rise from Communing Then olde and young from such Occasions holde Yet not so straite her as shee may espie Through pure Restriction thy grosse Iealausie There 's none extreamly good or passing badde Vpon the sudden but by slowe degrees No sober soule is at an Instant madde But falls too 't peece-meale in her Faculties First Fantasie and then Intelligence Then Iudgement with each other Inward-sense So must thou looke thy Wife vntyr'd may runne In Uertues progresse right from grace to grace Sith running backe she may be ouerrunne By Uice and so be ruin'd in the Race Custome is Natures second-selfe and so By Custome shee 'l runne right and vpright goe The higher Pow'rs doe second Causes make As Accessaries to their iust Decrees And that vnwittingly then make thy Make Vnwares to doe what with thee best agrees Who art the second Cause of what shee is Then thou hast chiefest Cause to looke to this Its good to keepe a Hatch before the Dore And yet that Hatch to hatch no euill will In Wife nor Friend nor yet in rich nor poore But to doe good let it but keepe out Ill. An Husband should be carefull of his Wife Then can not be too carefull of her life It s no mistrust of thy Wiues truth to keepe Thy Chest fast lockt wherein thy