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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	affair_n	better_a	great_a	44	3	2.1748	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49747	Remarques on the humours and conversations of the town written in a letter to Sr. T.L.	S. L.	1673 (1673)	Wing L64; Wing R932B; ESTC R16879	29,360	164

ancient Precepts of nobleness generosity and vertue but when you come to the Town you must be told that these things are set formalities and out of Mode and not suitable to that careless and undesigning way of living now in use careless and undesigning with a witness Which owes its Epithites to the neglect of all vertue and the blind impetuosity of humour their way of living is now removed out of the Road hedg'd in by the prudence and justice of our Ancestors and acknowledges no course inglorious and irregular the admired wit to which they pretend and in which they so much triumph is of so hot a mettle that it has leap'd the Fence of Ages and takes its wild carrear over all the Inclosures of the Universe and it is now on so fierce a speed that where it will stop even Astrology can-cannot assure us Our Ancestors deserv'd the fame of a better management who considered equally their own satisfaction and the good of the world and in that practised a moderation which freed humane affairs from those inconveniencies and surfeits they suffer from their Children To be serious and to be wise was a reputation great enough to them and they coveted not the triumphs reap'd from the heights of frenzy and madness the Town was then a place of better education and its conversation was manly accomplisht and innocent and a Gallant then visiting the Country came furnisht with something more excellent than a bundle of Sonnets bringing with him from the fountain of the refinedst conversation a richer sence than was sung at the corner of every street yet this is the advantage they communicate to us now affording us only the knowledge of those trifling things which we esteem our felicity to be without whilst yet they are pleased to value themselves highly on such a sufficiency and to despise us for being defective in those accomplishments and yet these Gentlemen thirst after the fame of Heroes extraordinary men The real advantages then which you propose to your self Sir are nothing important in that sort of life whilst the inconveniencies will be very considerable it is necessary you should think on what you abandon in quitting the Country which yet are advantagious things if you will put your self to the trouble of reflecting on them You have just reason to believe and you have the vogue of the world to concur with you in such an opinion that all the accomplishments of Woman-kind are to be found in your excellent Mother her great wit her prudence her port and manner of living rendring her self her house most considerable And though there is usually that awe imprinted on us by the severities of education as makes us desire to spend our youth far from our Parents out of a love of childish liberty and frollicks yet my Ladies carriage to you has still been attended with that sweetness and prudence as perfectly to overcome an unpleasant obsequiousness in you it is true her discretion would not permit her to indulge you in any vicious liberties like those fond and imprudent Mothers who think they cannot shew their love enough to an only Son unless they comply with all their extravagancies and consider them alwaies as Children that must have their wills so loosing betimes that authority and respect which the ill-educated Boy has never after grace enough to acknowledge and then like some sort of Lovers they please themselves in their own kindness and in supporting the neglects of their children with a patience truly a reproach to their dignity and duty my Lady has lov'd your accomplishments in Vertue and excellent qualities too well to permit you an extravagant liberty but yet she did these things with a sweetness and an air that demonstrated at the same time the pleasures of her conduct She considered that you were her only Son but yet she did not from such a reflection become presently of the opinion that she could not appear fond enough of you nor with too much freedom let you know the pleasure she took in you but with greater wisdom and generosity she thought it her duty to endeavour to make appear in you the vertue and the hopes of many Sons well knowing that a wild Liberty usually the effect of a declared fondness would have been the reproach of your family and of her conduct and that it would have been worse to have you live with so much infamy what ever the Age may discourse to the contrary than to bury you with the universal compassion and grief paid to the death of a hopeful Gentleman Moreover she considered tha● a Mother is a stranger assumed into a Family and tha● she is on that score to discharge the trust she stands obliged in to that Race she is not to gratifie her particular fondness but to govern her self by the glory and the interest of a name so that any just severity in a Mother is no● to be looked upon as her peculiar resentments but he respect to that Duty she stand obliged to perform I remind you of all this Sir because you are now arrived to an Age of consideration and to invite you to reflect on the grand obligations you have to my Lady for her manner of educating you in which you will see a little ingratitude in being opposite to her desires of keeping you with her let the Humourists of this Age talk what they please of the height of Spirit and the gallantry of despising the Regiment of a Mother they must show us a greater advantage they make of that liberty than lying perpetually in Play-houses Taverns and Whore-houses before we can agree to their extravagant sentiments neither is it my Ladies fondness of keeping you with her so much as her fear of having you debaucht which now perplexes her she would willingly spare you for any glorious or advantagious adventures if it were for the service of your Prince or the defence of your Country she would blush to withhold you from pursuing such noble enterprizes and she had rather loose you to the world than to your Vertue and the true glory of your Ancestors but she fears the Vices of the Town more than the Arms of an Enemy and the slavery of those Humours worse than the Fetters of a Conquerour She would rejoyce to see you stick fresh Laurels in the Garlands of your Ancestors and she would freely abandon you to those fields where you might gather them but what Bayes you are like to purchase in Town or what perfections you are like to learn there which may be truly enobling to a Gentleman cannot possibly be made appear to her But Sir if you believe that all this stands on a childish punctilio of gratitude and a fondness of your Parent that would make you ridiculous to the Heroes of this Age you will find other things capable of detaining you in the Country It is agreed by all that though conversation is a great felicity and solace to Humane