Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	country_n	part_n	5,598	4	4.1644	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81487	The Emperor Augustus his two speeches, in the Senate-House at Rome; the first addressed to the married Romans, the other to the unmarried. / Translated out of Dion Cassius, an ancient Greek historian.; Speeches. English. Selections	Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.; Cassius Dio Cocceianus.	1675 (1675)	Wing D1503A; ESTC R15326	3,942	8

sure it 's best the riches of Rome should be in your hands that have young Romans to bestow them on you have given pledges to your Country of your fidelity and your concern for her felicity The Second Speech to the Unmarried Gallants p. 574. AUGUSTUS CAESAR I Am at a stand how to address my self to you shall I call you Citizens You have done your part for the ruining of the City shall I call you men will you own you deserve the name Shall I call you Romans you blush not to take the ready way to blot that name from under Heaven I confess my self in some confusion when I consider how ye are endeavouring to frustrate all the designs that I have managed on the most mature deliberation for the peopling of Rome I am sorry I have so many to speak to that are like to bring a multitude to a few You regard not the care the higher Powers have taken to plant the Roman name you value not the blood of your Fathers shed to preserve it and postpone all things to a humour which one age would confute by sad experience Were the Commonalty infected with this as with many other of your Vices what would become of Rome nay of the world of men You are some of our principal branches and voluntary barrenness can be none of your glories the People imitate you and Posterity may deservedly brand you if you shew them the way to ruin either all will do as you do if not your vitious singularity renders you justly odious you deserve to be hist off the stage of the world that will alone act such unbecoming parts nay you deserve their rage that will trample on what is so sacred in the eyes of all men else but if you find a croud of followers the next age will follow your memory with millions of Curses You 'l say it will be no hurt for us to live as we list so may the Robbers plead their number is not great the Serpent in the egg deserves to die But what is theft nay a cluster of the greatest crimes to yours You are murderers wilfully smothering the vital flame you are unnatural to Parents not perpetuating their name and honour and all for a Miss to whom you give for your pleasure what she spends on others that please her better You are unjust to the higher Powers robbing them of their most pleasing offering a succession of rational creatures to adore them if your way take their Temples as well as our Houses will be empty our Romulus and his followers stole forreign Virgins for their Wives and you neglect our own Wives were the cause of and Wives obtained made the Peace in the famous Sabine War Those old things you despise but so you cast contempt on the actions of your Fathers And for what is this Confusion Will you profess Chastity as vestal Virgins then with them you should die if you offend but I know none of you live without your Woman both at bed and board all this you propose to your selves is to range wildly it 's an ungoverned brutishness you plead for or rather to have liberty to fill the City with jealousie and murders if these bounds you will not be contained in Why may not the Thief break over all hedges of the Law that keep him from your Riches No mans propriety in his Estate hath a more rational foundation than that in his Wife Gentlemen if my words wound you think how much deeper your deeds have wounded me those antient Laws of Wedlock I found when I first took up this Scepter and will as soon suffer that as them to fall to the ground Remember you live in a Society and are not lawless and your Obedience I expect to this of all my Laws enforce not the State to employ your slaves to get children for you and continue the name of Romans But I blush for you I have spoke nothing out of hatred to you but as your Emperor that would have you grow good and thousands like you Go home take Wives and with joynt prayers adore the God of Families try the ways of vertue and you 'l need no more Speeches from Augustus FINIS