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cause_n	child_n	father_n	good_a	1,717	5	3.7214	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23344	A dyall for dainty darlings, rockt in the cradle of securitie A glasse for all disobedient sonnes to looke in. A myrrour for vertuous maydes. A booke right excellent, garnished with many woorthy examples, and learned aucthorities, most needefull for this tyme present. Compiled by VV. Auerell, Student in Diuinitie, and Schoolemaister in London.	Averell, W. (William)	1584 (1584)	STC 978; ESTC S112712	28,627	52

O fathers the fruite of slacke correction what foolishe pittie procureth in gracelesse children what lyttle lacke of vice and what great want of vertue corruption hath sowne in the hearts of your younglinges bring not your selues therefore vnder the yoake of your children for your shall finde it a painefull burthen The Wise man sayth Trust not to their lyfe nor regard not their labours For common experience teacheth vs in these dayes that the loue of Fathers to theyr children is verie great but the affection of children to theyr Parents verie small we sée what care Fathers haue ouer the state of theyr children and what negligence children haue euer theyr Fathers and therefore it may be saide verie well that loue by nature dooth descend but not ascend it descendeth from the Father to the Sonne but it ascendeth not from the sonne to the Father wherein the loue of the Father appeareth more and the loue of the childe lesse but what is the cause that the loue of the Father is more effectuall to the childe then the childes good will to the Father the reason is Quia radix citius putresceret quamque ramus remitteret sibi influentiam Because the roote shall sooner rotte then the braunch shall send backe his influence vnto it But somewhat to amplifie as well the duetie of children as to quallifie the vaine affection of Parents I wish all children to print this passed patterne in theyr hearts and to write the same in the table of theyr thoughts that they may learne thereby to honour theyr Parents and to cherish them in theyr latter yéeres The Wise man saith My sonne make much of thy Father in his age greeue him not as long as he liueth And againe Honour thy Father from thy whole heart and forget not the sorrowfull trauaile thy Mother had with thee It is written in the booke of Tobias Honour thy Mother all the dayes of her lyfe for thou oughtest to remember what and howe great perilles she suffered for thee in her wombe This did that Heathen man Coriolanus remember of whome Valerius maketh mention who being Consull of Rome and depressed thereof being driuen into exile by the Romaines went vnto the Volscans of whome being fréendly entertained he was made theyr Captaine against the Romaines and after many Citties taken he approched vnto Rome and comming within a thousand paces thereof they sent vnto him Orators from the Senate to intreate of peace but he would not heare them againe they sent their Priests with their Insignes adorned but he refused them at the length his Mother named Veturia cōming to the campe being suddenly espied of her sonne he cried out O mater vicisti iram meā scio quid vis O mother thou hast sayth he ouercome my anger I knowe what thou wouldest haue wherof hapned peace onely through the loue of his mother insomuch as he said more hath the loue of my mother doon then the strength of the Romains The Philosopher Aristotle sayth Dijs parentibus et magistris non potest reddi equiualens To God to Parentes and masters no man can yeeld recōpence Valerius rehearseth a notable history of a mother in Rome which had a daughter married the mother had committed a fault for which she should be burned her daughter came to the Emperor with her little child bowed her knée desiring life for her mother the Emperor sayd the case committed required death that she was worthy the same the daughter replied O mightie Emperor Princes should be mercifull not suffering their suppliants to depart without comfort yet I beséech thée O Emperor let not my mother be publiquelis put to death for how filthy will that be how ful of confusion so to die before the people but if that no pardon may redéeme my mothers life yet graunt I beseech thée that she may be condemned to perpetual prisonment there to finish her last farewel The Emperor considering y e meeknes of the daughter gaue sentence that the mother should be condemned to die in prison without any nourishment to her giuen the daughter yet craued that she might naked descend vnto her mother in the dungeon which being graunted she visited her mother in this wise O mother I came naked out of thy wombe naked vnto thee I doo descend to bring thee bread or foode was not to me permitted but as I being young did sucke thy breast to maintaine me so thou being old sucke mine to sustaine thee thus liued the mother eight dayes with the milke of her mild daughter this being showne to y e Emperor how that she was yet liuing moued him to wrath in somuch y t he would haue slaine the Jayler for that he suffred not her to famish with hunger who sware that nothing was by him administred to her the Emperor therfore marked secretlie the egresse of this kinde and louing daughter and heard her sweet and mild cōmunication and séeing her giuing vnto her mother her breasts to sucke cōmaūded this daughter to be drawne foorth of prison naked wéeping séeing the compassion of the daughter to her mother said daughter I giue vnto thee thy mother whose tender intyre good will hath deserued her deliuerance A most worthy rare example for children in these daies to immitate and folow For as saith Rauen Auelle à sole solis radium et nō lucet rinum à fonte et arescit ramū ab arbore et exiccatur membrū à corpore et putrescit separa filium à deuotione paterna et iam non est filius sed frater et collega illorum de quibus dicitur vos ex patre diabolo estis Take away from the Sun his beames and it shineth not from the fountaine his riuer it waxeth dry from the tree his bough it wil wither from the body his member it will rot so seperate a sonne from fatherly loue and then is he no sonne but a brother and a fellowe of them of whome it is sayd Ye are of your father the deuill To conclude let all children or they of what age state or calling so euer which haue Parents thinke them worthy of all honor reuerence loue feare endonoring to requite as much as in them lyeth though fully they cannot the labor trauaile the cost and care the loue losse that theyr Parents haue passed for theyr preseruatiō that they may say they haue nourished vp no Woolues to worrie them but well-willers to cherishe them that beastes in theyr nature exceed not theyr loue whom reason hath framed to excell all creatures As the Storke● that succour theyr parents in theyr aged time recouering them with theyr winges supporting them in flying and also administring to theyr noriture and necessitie Moreouer let them consider but the tender nature and kinde affection that they ought to beare vnto them being stronglie vrged thereto by reason of theyr being for by

this accurssed meate cleaued to close to the same that force nor strength could beat the same away The maide crying to her young maister with a shriking voice caused him quicklie to discerne the matter who assaying by stripes to repulse the same away wrought by Gods iust iudgement his owne punishment for this filthie Tode contrarie to natures temeritie which hath taught the same to flie the sight of man with forcible strength reuerted from the meate and respringing from the same leapt suddenlie into the face of this Lordlie sonne cleauing so fast therevnto that no art nor councell no force nor fortitude could driue the same from his accurssed fleshe but that sticking thus vnto his face many yéeres punished the wickednesse of this vngratious impe that contrarie to lawe nature disdayned the duetie due to his withered Parents But that which is most myraculous when any man touched any part of this hateful monster or endeuored to driue the same from of his face the terror of torment so assaulted his heart that it pinched the same with most vntollerable paines The fame of this woonder was spread throughout all the vttermost endes of Normandie and Fraunce the straungenesse whereof did amaze as many as heard the same causing in many children some feare and duetie to theyr Parentes and in many Fathers more carefull regard of theyr children Yet as there is no offence so bainous but by contrition auoideth Gods vengeaunce so is there no sinne so gréeuous but is pardoned by repentaunce for though the fire of Gods wrath be often kindled against our transgression yet the waterie teares of submission quencheth the consuming coles of his anger and obteineth present remission and so though this obstinate sonne had both offended his earthly Father and also incensed his heauenlie Creator yet his minde melting in humility prouoked the Lord to accustomable pittie so that after long patient and sufficient sufferaunce the Lord sent vnto him spéedy delyueraunce Drawe néere you dallying Daddes that marre the mindes of your children by excessiue and ouermuch cockering beholde the iudgementes of God that punisheth you in those thinges that you chéefely loue because you make them your Gods who ought to be theyr guides you adore them lyke Saintes which should serue you lyke Sonnes you let them run at lybertie which you ought to kéepe in straightly you minister to theyr néedlesse youth which should labour for your néedfull age you giue them all things and deny them nothing and yet you complaine that your children are gracelesse when you your selues are not therein blamelesse O Fathers remember you haue béen children remember that in your childhood the flesh did assayle yée letchery dyd burne yée lust dyd inflame yée the world dyd prouoke yée and the deuill dyd tyse yée and sith thou art a Father and hast béene a sonne sith thou art olde and hast béene young let not thy chylde liue so in youth as maye make thée wéepe in age neyther let him so follow his affection as maye cause thee wayle thy want of discretion Harke what the Wise man sayth If thou bring vp thy sonne delycatelie he shall make thee afraide and if thou playe with him he shall bring thee to heauinesse laugh not with him least thou weepe with him also and least thou gnash with thy teeth at the last giue him no lybertie in his youth and excuse not his follie bowe downe his necke whyle he is young hye him on the sydes whyle lie is but a childe least he waxe stubborne and giue no more force of thee and so shalt thou haue heauinesse of soule Saint Augustine reciteth a notable example of Cyrillus a Cittizen of Hiponenses who hauing a Sonne which he superfluously loued for that he was his onely sonne he possessed he brought him vp so delicately that he wanted nothing but had it of him willinglie denying nothing that he demaunded but graunting him all things that he requyred being as slowe to correct him as he was loth to displease him this youth consumed a great part of his fathers goodes in luxurious lyuing as a number doo with vs in these dayes which frequent the Tauerne before the Temple visite theyr harlottes with letters before theyr redéemer with teares delyte rather to sippe the cuppe of theyr concubine then to taste of the comfortable cuppe of Communion but beholde the glorie of foolish Fathers and marke the fruite of vnbridled children for being one day dronken with as much wine as his Syre was with superfluous loue he kylled his Father weake with age oppressed his Mother great with childe would haue defyled his sisters and wounded two of them vnto death O myserable and detestable impe of the deuill but sée héere O fathers what cōmeth of your too too foolish affection superfluous loue which blindeth your iudgement that you cannot will not correct the faultes of your children as the Philosopher sayth Amor et odium sepe faciunt iudicium non cognoscere Loue and hatred oftentimes peruert iudgement The cause of which maketh you to nussel them in such nicenes that they are vnfit for labor or study through corruption of idlenes the Emperor Octauian set his sonnes daughters to labor to the end y t they might if fortune failed obtaine a meane to liue in honest behauior he taught his sonnes the exercise of chiualrie his daughters to worke in wooll painefully Licurgus taught his yong children to suffer harme patientlie to doo good willingly Many examples may be héerin inserted in which I should séeme too tedious if I should prosecute them with prolixitie but because I will not be too long I will therefore conclude with breuitie shewing how this want of correction and this too fond affection hath caused Parents to be punished in theyr children Dauid for as much as he was too slacke in correcting his childrens abuses was therefore plagued in theyr oppressions how was he expulsed by Absalon How was he shamed in Amon And to be short Hely for his negligence in not correcting the offences of his children was punished of God so that in one day his sonnes were slaine he brake his necke and his daughter in lawe for sorrowe thereof trauailed with childe and died Boetius reciteth a History of Lucretius that was nourished vp of his father without discipline and correction vntyll mans state who consumed his money at dice and harlottes and being many times redéemed by his Father out of prison fell notwithstanding to ill company and conuersation tyll on a time being taken for some great offence and led vnto the gallowes his father folowing him he requested at the place of execution that he might speake with his father and that he might but kisse him before his departure and fayning the same most sharplie bitte of his fathers nose saying Father iustlie by thy meanes doo I suffer this for hadst thou but corrected me I neuer had come to this miserie Beholde héere