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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	pomp_n	renounce_v	vanity_n	3,174	5	10.1762	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31554	The Challenge sent by a young lady to Sir Thomas &c., or, The female war wherein the present dresses and humours &c. of the fair sex are vigorously attackt by men of quality, and as bravely defended by Madam Godfrey and other ingenious ladies who set their names to every challenge : the whole encounter consists of six hunded letters pro and con on all disputable points relating to women, and is the first battle of this nature that was ever fought in England.	Philaretos.	1697 (1697)	Wing C1796; ESTC R25334	179,218	410

aggravated and never forgotten which must needs by degrees sower our Minds and were they not generally more confirm'd in Patience and other Vertues than your Sex which gives 'em sufficient occasion to exercise 'em would be apt to throw 'em into the worst Extravagancies But if your Example and Conversation should incline us to greater Faults yet why may not we amend as we have known some of your selves when there has been but little hopes of you A calm a kind a seasonable and rational representing our Errors with the ill-consequences of 'em can hardly miss Success But when did you know a Furious Reproof work any good effect or how shou'd it when the Reprover himself as he manages is guilty of it may be as great a fault as those against whom he exclaims with so much bitterness and so little discretion A harsh Reproof is like cold Water thrown on a Bed of Salla●ing after 't is newly sown it hardens the Earth and starves the Seed But one that carries Kindness and Concern with it is like warm Water it enters kindly cherishes the little sprouting Principles of Life softens the Earth and brings a plentiful Crop to recompence the Gardiner's Industry and Labour Violence and Noise and Eagerness have so little of Reason in themselves that they ever discredit the best Reason and for the most part render it unprofitable when it lights into such bad Company It looks like an Abuse and an Attack rather than a Kindness and we are apt to be upon our Guard in such Cases to keep the Gate shut and even exclude a Friend for fear of admitting an Enemy Especially when all this is done in publick for every little Fault and often none at all in the more provoking and assuming manner beyond the patience even of a Woman to suffer it VVherefore would you be at the pains to use the quite contrary Methods would you observe our Tempers and Inclinations and work us accordingly and bend us by degrees and take time and pains about us you might bring us to take whatever Ply you desire and make your own Lives and ours much happier Dorothy Barnes LETTER XXII Against Plays By Mr. KINGHAM YES here you 're in your Element and 't wou'd be a more difficult matter to make you renounce Plays then to embrace the Alcoran and you like 'em the better for what Pryn tells you of 'em that they were formerly expressly reckon'd among the Pomps and Vanities of the World nor will it much move you that Satan and they were us'd to stand and fall together The Play-house is your Church and you had much rather be Excommunicated from dear St. Brides it self then from that yet more convenient place of Assignation Here you Learn all that you think is necessary for your Sex to know and yet more see it put in practice at least if you don't just then do it your selves To disobey your Parents disoblige your Friends ogle and then bilk your Lover cheat your Husband talk pertly and lewdly and laugh at all that 's graver and better then your selves This is the rare Academy to form your minds or rather to ruine 'em and often your Estates and Bodys with ' em How many Modern Plays can you show me without a more then moderate share of Impiety and Lewduess The best are patterns of Revenge and Foolish Love that eithe● weaken the mind or mislead it The most I 'm sure are so unfit for any civiliz'd Countrey that I 've often wondred how any of your Sex who are not Profess'd could have Impudence to sit 'em out or read 'em or their Authors to set their Names to 'em For them indeed they have an excuse which you best know the Truth of that the Stage is an Image of Life and that they only represent things as they find 'em and Women just what they are which if true is very much for your Sexes and the present Ages Reputation For your selves they have either taught you the way or you have Learnt it from Mother Nature to set out as fulsom stuff as N. Lees Princess of Cleve without Blushing You don't understand it pretty Innocents No more then a Viper does Poison which is his daily Food and almost the Air he breaths for there 's a great harmony it seems between Sabina's sences and your understandings But suppose for once there cou'd a modest play be found I mean in the Expressions what are we the better if the whole Action as it generally happens insinuates nothing but looseness and lewdness Are you all such Vestals to be proof against the Allurements of Musick and the more fatal Witchcraft of Poetry and Example when it may be at the same time a Bevy of Fops hang about your Ears as Milton says the old Traitor did at Eves tho in a little more proper shape and prodigally squander their Wit and Souls and all striving who shall damn theirs fastest to perswade you to damn yours Not that I 'd scandalize 'em with being always witty neither No they seldom offend against that rule of Mr. Cowley and are well enough pleas'd with following his advice Rather then all be wit let none be there For I 'm apt to believe the greatest part of their Conversation is just such as pleases you and such as you 're capable of as dull as you cou'd hear in e're a Countrey Church in Christendom But your wise discourse has carry'd me off from the Play which is the only good it does in the Theatre where your chat can hardly be worse then the Actors and therefore the lowder the better How often is' t you there see Virtue prosperous and vice unhappy So far from it that the Play-wrights tell you now positively 't is none of their business to make 'em so They have got possession they make their own Rules and you must take their Herces as you find ' em Or if they do now and then kill a Don John or a Maximinian to thin the Stage a little and turn off some over-grown Villain they yet generally take a particular care not to let him repent they kill him while he 's in an ill mind staring and blaspheming at such a rate that even when he falls you must think him an even-match for Heaven But what 's this still to common Life where Vice is expos'd indeed but only in order to Imitation A little Atheism or whoring tho with the Aggravation of Infidelity Incest and all the Fowlest Blackest Names that cou'd raise blushes in a very Heathen shall break no squares The Spark still shall obtain his beautiful and wealthy Mistress three or four of his last conveniences soder'd up again and marry'd to some plodding Countrey Gentleman and all 's as well as ever They tell you 't is a sign he Repents when he Marrys if they had said this brought him in a fair way to 't they had said something but as 't is they are for the most part a Mouth or two short