Selected quad for the lemma: child_n

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
A44659	The history of the seven wise mistrisses of Rome ... wherein, the treachery of evil counsel is discovered, the innocency of harmless virgins cleared, and the wisdom of seven wise women displayed, to the wonder of their own nation, and the administration of all the world.; Seven wise mistresses of Rome	Howard, Thomas, 17th/18th cent.	1663 (1663)	Wing H3008; ESTC R4376	68,088	179

my sake and so I commit you to God The fifth Complaint of Radamentus RAdamentus hearing the young Princess was not dead forthwith retired into his Chamber sighing and sobbing most bitterly and caused all his apparel and necessaries to be made ready and his Wagons and Horses brought up as though he was just going into his own Countrey The servants perceiving their Lord was departing from the Court acquainted the Empress that Radamentus their Lord was preparing for his own Countrey when the Empress perceived that she basted to his Chamber and said to him O my grave Lord I thought you had been more tender of my safety and the Government of the Empire then to go and leave me thus to which he answered 'T is true I tender your welfare as much as I do my life and you know I have had a care of your reputation and the safety of the Empire but now I sée you are going in the high way to shame me and dishonour your self and ruin● the whole Realm the world knowing I am your assistant and do think 't is all my advice in what you do supporting Bawdry and other vices and in the very Court it self had it béen Vertus the world had ne're taken notice on 't but being Vice the tongue of every inferiour fellow do noise it abroad like the breath of a Trumpet or a Herald at arms through all the parts of the world therefore I go from you for I had rather hear of your ruine then sée it you will be ruled by the words of the foolish Mistrisses till at last it will happen to you as it did unto a Roman Lady and her Daughter which Example is mentioned and the Empress said pray shew me that Example for my better understanding And he said though I shall shew you all the Examples in the world and give you all the advice I may imagine you though it tend to the preservation of both Life and Kingdom as indéed it doth yet you would not be ruled by me nor follow my counsel nevertheless I will shew you this Example provided henceforth you do not delight nor hear the Mistrisses whose id●● Fables doth subvert your wise judgement the Example is as followeth The fifth Example of Radamentus SOmetimes in Rome there lived a famous Lady whose worth and renown was spread far and near being beloved of all people for she was vertuous in conversation modest in behaviour gracious to her people and amiable to all and in reference to the poor she was adorned with a frée and bountiful liberality so that she had the prayers of all This Lady had two Daughters both of them very beautiful and comely the eldest she kept at home with her and the youngest she put abroad to be taught and instructed having a motherly car● and in process of time this Lady sent for her Daughter home expecting she had learnt much for her edification but when she came home alas she was ne'●e the better so she grieved very much for her Daughter in regard of the tender love she ●are her and therefore she would kéep her at home being the youngest and set the other abroad which being done this young Girle began to do nothing but play having what liberty she pleased at last she grew to maturity and then she would not go abroad without money therefore her Mother gave her money from time to time at last she had wayes to spend more then her Mother allowed her if it had béen twice as much for she kept a private lover in the City which her mother knew not of and many nights when her Mother was asleep she would rise and take the Keyes from under the Ladies head and go out to her love and towards break of day come in again her mother never perceiving it but towards morning she wondered how her Daughter came so cold and asked her what was the reason she was so cold she said the Cramp had taken her in her leg and being loath to wake her she rose and walked about the Chamber to drive it away so that excuse past for currant The next night she awak't and mist her out of the house and wondering how she got out put up her hand to feel for her Keyes they were gone so when her Daughter came in about break of day again she asked her O Lord Daughter where have you been now Truly said she I had a tooth did ake so grievously that my ●aw I thought would have broke and you bring so sound a sleep I was loath to disturb ye therefore I took the Keyes and went forth to the Chyrurgion to draw it but I could not make him hear me so this second excuse past as currant as the former and her Mother said no more of it Vpon another time she espied her Mothers Key of her Cabinet and she took it and prest it in Clay that it made an impression and from this impression she got another Key made whereby she could go to the Cabinet of money when she pleased and her Mother missing money so off little thought of her own Daughter but sometime fathered the crime upon the Maid sometime upon the Man that the Family was never but in strife and variance and upon a time she went to her Mothers Cabinet for more money and went away and left her Key behinde her in the Cabinet her-Mother séeing a key in her Cabinet and knew she had her own in her Pocket let it alone and watcht behinds the Curtain to sée who would fetch it out by and by in comes her Daughter and snatcht the Key out but her Mother catcht hold of her and said O thou graceless wrecth is it thée that hast robb'd me these two years together now I have found thee out O wicked imp I have béen often cold of thee but I would never believe it till now I do sée it for which thou shalt dye a shameful death but there was living not far off an old woman whom this young imp was wont to take advice of in all her wicked pranks therefore in this time of necessity she did send for her to come and by her craft and cunning to save her life When she came she said O vertuous Lady let not your wrath be so ●uriously bent against her she is your Daughter whom you have bore of your body and gave her suck nine moneths from your breast for we were all guilty of faults in our infancy therefore let her not come to shame for the first time the sever● Law will give reprieve to the veriest Felon for the first fault much more a natural Mother ought to do for a Childe and if she should thus dye it will acrew great shame to her Family and you will be branded with rebuke for tyranny Vpon these words the good Mother was pacified and pardoned her It happened afterwards as the Lady was walking in the evening in her Garden she espied her Daughter l●●ng with a strange man