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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	breast_n	mother_n	suck_v	2,417	5	10.4894	5	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

consider that your age requireth rest which you may take hauing once accomplished this thing then what ioy maye it be vnto your aged minde to beholde with your eies your sonne assured lie placed in your possessions who though he be your onely heire to succéede you in the same yet may be thereof preuented by death or by accident of aduerse fortune This simple man heard attentiuelie this sugred tale not considering that in smothest streames is most daungerous wading in shallowest waters most perillous sayling and in greatest places most hurtfull sléeping the Bée carrieth honny in her mouth and a sting in her tayle the Sirens sing swéetly but theyr song is the Saylers sorrow So this flattering Knight though in his spéeche appeared an outward showe of trueth yet was it but the hooke to catch this séelie fishe with all to the ende that his Daughter might come to the possession of his wealth And therefore I may liken the simplicitie of such men that cast not the disprofite of eche cause as well as the commoditie to the follie of the fishe Sargus whereof Aelianus speaketh which so vehementlie loueth the Goate that the fisherman when he purposeth to take her putteth on a Goates skin ouer his head with hornes prepareth his nettes the Sunne shining at his backe and dispearseth in the Sea Wheate sodden in porrage made with Goates fleshe the sauour thereof when the Fishe perceyueth she draweth nie delighting in the sight of the fained Goate and so is taken in the nette to her owne annoyaunce euen so these men delighted in the shaddowe of outward trueth are deceiued with substaunce of inward deceits Thus this olde man trusting to the glorious wordes of this wilie Fisher was caught in the nette of vaine beléefe that such ease and contentation should redounds to his desyre as should cause the small course of his future lyfe to be spent in fulnesse of all delyght and therefore though lothe to depart from that hee firmelie loued yet perswaded thereto by the professed fréendes of this glorious Gentleman was induced to condiscend to theyr desires The marriage daye therefore appointed the solemnities thereof were shortlie accomplished The Sonne and the Daughter the first yéere ministred to the necessitie of theyr aged Parentes plentie of all thinges the second more sparinglie but the thirde most vnshamefastlie the fowrth yéere through the suggestions of his Wife he prepared for his wofull Parents a lyttle lodging opposite against his statelie building where he might yéeld vnto them a bare scantling of necessary sustenaunce Thus these odious children as time increased beganne to immitate the nature of the Pellicanes younglings who after theyr mother hath brought them vppe to some bygnesse beginne to strike and pecke her in the face for which she being vexed in her furie kylleth them and afterward being sorie therefore she pearceth her sides with her boysterous beake tyll the warme blood issuing from her breast renueth her younglinges to newnesse of life In which similitude is comprehended the entyre affection of a mother to her children and the small requitall of children to theyr Parentes This aged and vnfortunate Father with his croaked olde Wife suffered in this state no lyttle néede and necessitie yea scarselie durst they set foote within the doores of theyr vngodlie Sonne but commaunded those things yea and requested the same which they could not want from the handes of a household seruant O myserable seruitude nay O vntollerable slauerie that he which had aucthoritie to commaund the sonne was now at the pleasure of a seruaunt In this case these two croked Creatures passed a great part of theyr toylesome time vntyll it fortuned the aged Mother out of her cottage windowe espied one daye in the house of her Sonne meate spitted and layde to the fyre ready to be roasted the sight whereof procured vnto her some hope of better fare then accustomable vse did yéelde vnto her But séeing that delaye of eyther sending for her or to her did driue her in doubt of the least parte thereof shée came vnto her aged husbande the onelie copartner of all her gréefe saying vnto him O my well beloued husbande the auncient companion of all my paines thou séest in what hungerie state we spend our withering time which requireth greatest sappe of nourishment as for me I am but a myserable mother and an vnhappy woman whome fortune hath taught to be with fewest things content But goe thou to the house of our Sonne where it may hap thou shalt fyll thy hungerie bodie with part of that meate which mine eyes by chaunce espied The olde man hearing these wordes of his fréendlie Wife leauing his aged lymmes vppon his staffe hasted to the house of his vnnaturall childe hoping to finde that fare that his hungerie heart did wishe But this wretched and accurssed childe hauing intelligence of his Fathers approche caused the meate to be taken from the fyre and priuilie conuaide the same into a secrete place least the eyes of his aged Syre should but be fedde with the sight thereof and hastelie running to méete his croaked Father in steede of reuerent spéech gaue him froward language and for honour to his siluer heaires obstinatelic shewed him a frowning countenaunce Which when the séelie simple man perceyued how frustrate he was of his longed hope dissembling the matter he presentlie returned to his former abode whose sorrowfull heart I referre to the milde consideration of euerie lenious and gentle Parent that haue felt the discourtesie of such bastards and vnnaturall slips which degenerate from the vertue of theyr auncient roote from whence they tooke theyr off-sppring Sée héere the nature of a dunghill byrd once matched in alyaunce with the noble Eagle beholde the nature of this crabtrée slippe being once grafted into the daintie Pearetrée stocke Marke well the nature of this carren Kite being entred in societie with the fléeing Faulcone consider the quallitie of this vpstart Gentleman matcht in affinitie with this new alyaunce Set a begger on horsebacke and he will gallope set a foole on a bench and he will knocke his héeles make a cobler a Courtier and who more scornefull make a iauell a Gentleman and who more disdainefull This yong youth aduaunced to this state forgot the place from whence he had his originall disdaining his Father contemning his Mother and withholding from them sustenaunce and reuerence which had giuen vnto him substaunce essence But behold the punishment of God vpon disobedience how seuerelie he reuenged this lacke of earthlie duety which by his word he hath commaunded and let it be a myrror to all vertuous chyldren that they withholde not from theyr aged parents that loue and affection which nature hath required This haggard sonne his father being gone commaunded the meate to be laide againe to the fyre the which was no sooner doone but suddenlie a monstrous ●uglie Tode violently leaping vp and downe the Chamber approched the fire side and hastelie shipping vpon