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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	great_a	see_v	1,964	5	3.3848	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42212	Hugo Grotius, his consolatory oration to his father translated out of the Latine verse and prose ; with epitaphs, &c. by F.G.; De consolatoria oratio ad patrem. English	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Goldsmith, Francis, 1613-1655.	1652 (1652)	Wing G2095; ESTC R30324	7,558	18

HVGO GROTIVS HIS Consolatory ORATION TO HIS FATHER Translated out of the Latine Verse and Prose With EPITAPHS c. By F G. LONDON Printed by W. H. and are to be sold by Iohn Hardesty at the Black-spred-Eagle in Duck-lane To His Honoured Friend and Kinsman ARTHUR HERRIS Of Lincolnes Inne Esq Sir THe happinesse that Iacob had to find Ioseph againe and in so glorious a condition may not unfitly be fancied a Type of having our decea•ed children restored to us at the Resurrection Every good Christian Parent •herefore may be comforted with this hope to which I here adde a Consolatory Discourse made in his younger yeares by •he even then learned Grotius I am sorry I have so seasonable and sad occasion •f applying it to your selfe who have •…tely lost a beloved and only Daughter Your Dudley Herris had in her life-time some acquaintance with my Sophompaneas and a desire to have seen Him in Publique But her chast and pious soule whose Lamp was so well trimm'd with oyle of Spirituall Graces is gone to mee• the Heavenly Bridegroom and the door are now shut against any mixture o• Earthly Cogitations Neverthelesse ma•… her Name and Memory if these my papers have a Genius live here in Them and thus at least may she still dwe•… with Your affectionate Cousin Servant Francis Goldsmit• HVGO GROTIVS HIS Consolatory Oration to his Father Upon the death of his Brother FRANCIS A Youth's sad obsequies our Colledge Hall In mourning pompe thy solemn funerall I saw O Brother I thee this last one Office I could of blood love have done I and a child chiefe-mourners were but he A child and therein happy did not see The fiery feaverraging in each veine And frantick fits of thy distemper'd brain Nor when he did thy breathless limbs and cold And thy so much chang'd eyes and face behold Wept he nor did perceive his Brother gone Nor when the bell rung out and sadly on The biere thy corps were laid did he forgoe •childs praerogative griefe not to know But when thy body was put in the ground And from our eyes quite hid O then he found A loss so manifest from his young yeeres His Brother to be seen no more drew teares Nor did about the grave the company There standing round their teares and sighs deny When a childs cheeks were wet the force was such It did even strangers hearts with pitty touch At this funerall I say I with our little William was chiefe mourner And who then I had better right For if in mourning we weigh the losse of friendship my parents degree of inequality my sisters sex my brothers tender age kept them at a greater distance from the deceased But I joyn'd unto him in an equall familiarity of kindred how little wanted I of being a twin with him The same studies too gave occasion of mutuall offices And hee might even in this respect bee no lesse deare unto me then in that he was a brother I say thus least when I comfort you you may think a sound man gives counsell to a sick You have one a partner with you in sorrow yea who contends in mourning and ye• is bold not only to comfort himselfe but to communicate unto others the experiment of that which hee hath found to be good against his own griefe First therefore let me see whether I ought not to fear least I may rub wound too fresh and as yet not clos'd up with a scarre whilest I run to apply over-hasty remedies I suppose not For I speake both unto a man and a father whom the very custome of our Country forbids to prolong hi• mourning beyond the buriall Surely parents have no• so great cause as the common people thinke to grieve as not to grieve and even in this that they have begotten Children finde comfort It was much but it came from nature of him who said I knew I had begot a mortall Wee deceive our selves if wee doe not daily thinke that they shall not alwaies be who without us had never been See how great the perversness of mans disposition is To lacke children is not grievous but to those who have had them And yet Bachelors are no lesse childlesse then others but they mourne not Why then should wee not lose without teares what without teares wee could have wanted Many are the pleas for vice and not only covetousness and ambition and luxury come under this name but also excessive and unreasonable griefe I could have wish'd he had surviv'd me according to the course of Nature I grieve that having had proofe of his piety I might no longer use and enjoy it I have lost him whose helpe might have bin both to the service of his Countrey and comfort of my selfe These are the words of them that favour their own misery this is witty calamity Apples downfall and the surviving Tree Doth her dead fruit but with a dry bark see Nor is unhappy call'd that she lives then False arguments of griefe please wretched men Whose eyes in teares at his sons death shall swim He weeps because his son weepes not for him You have lost a good sonne It is better then to have had an ill You have lost your paines in his education I may object unto you a recompence of joy which you tooke in his towardnesse But this also is now gone and it troubles you If you be wise account it gaine that you have had it rather then dammage that you have lost it You are sure of the fruit of a past good this can neither be taken away nor cease at any time and is onely beyond the envy of fate It is not the part of the same man to grieve that it hath not befalne him long yet not to rejoyce that it hath happen'd at all See therefore how much happier you are then those who never had a sonne and yet they mourne not But if wee account children goods and certainely they are the chiefest it is better not to have had them long then never For even when they are taken from us the remembrance of them remaines still a great delight to a gratefull minde You see then parents have very little cause to grieve if wee weigh griefe not according to the vulgar opinion but right reason Besides that the majesty of a parents authority and that sacred dominion of nature unbecommingly stoopes so low as to bewaile him dead of whose life your selfe were the author and to submit your passions to him whose passions you are commanded to rule over Have a care you do nothing misbeseeming the high dignity of a parents name in which God and Nature have plac'd you and yet upon her wee list to lay the fault of our impatiency neither is any defence so ready even of womanish lamentation as that it proceeds from Nature But we are guilty of manifest calumny in imputing our crime to her We all give way to griefe yea most of us enforce it so pleasing