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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	hope_n	young_a	youth_n	20	3	7.5437	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33182	The citizen's companion: or The trades-man's mirrour Wherein most parts of a trading life are accomodated to the judgments and examples of the ancients. A work enrich'd with proverbs, and historically beautified with the deeds and sayings of the wisest and worthiest men that ever were in the world.		1673 (1673)	Wing C4338; ESTC R216321	63,979	167

solid judgment and a minde not garish vain and profusely expensive In 1439 and the Reign of Henry the sixth Philip Malpas Sheriff of London at his decease gave 120 l. to poor Prisoners and every year for five years following 400 Shirts and Smocks 40 pair of Sheets and 150 Gowns of Frize to the Poor to poor Maids marriages 100 Marks towards mending the High-ways 100 Marks besides to 500 poor people in London Six shillings and eight pence apiece Sir William Copinger Mayor Stows Survey in the fourth of Henry the 8 at his death gave half he was worth to his Wife and the other half to the Poor and other pious uses Behaving himself thus towards his Wife his care and kindness also must extend towards the rest of his Charge Children and Apprentices Train up a Childe in the way he should go Pro. 22.6 and when he is old he will not depart from it Dionysius King of Syracuse meaning to revenge himself on Dion a Syracusean who made war upon him caus'd his Son to be brought up in riot and wantonness This labour many Men save their Enemies and do it themselves proving miserable Governours of dissolute young ones What hope can our City have of those Youth whose debauchedness hath not been obstructed by good Education The Lacedemonians reproach highly our Citizens negligence for they were wont to chuse Publick Tutours for the education of Citizens bringing them up and fitting them upon emergent occasions for their Countries service but we have so little respect to the encouragement of Vertue that most of us would rather let all perish for want of Example than practise with some hardship an enemy to voluptuousness those Exercises which keep the body sound clean and healthful strengthen the brain further the dispatch of business spur up others to overtake us in such honourable and profitable courses awe all under our command from committing lewdness invite to tread in our steps and lastly wipe off from us that imputation Hipperides a Grecian Philosopher lay'd on one who told him he had sent his Son to travail with a slave for his Tutor You have done notably said he for instead of one Slave at his return you shall receive two I wish Fathers had less cause to charge Tradesmen for their immoderate harshness sleighting regards towards their Children for most are either dissolutely careless or unreasonably rigid governing either as if Servants needed no restraint or freedom It 's remarkable few good Citizens Sons but degenerate from their Fathers They know such ways of spending their Fathers were wisely ignorant of but those of saving are as distant from their inclination as the search of America was to Europeans a thousand years ago They like Cicero's Son resemble their Fathers only in name To redress such destructive heedlessness whereto Masters are so prone if they look for any blessing from Providence in the name of God let them begin such a kind of life as may be judg'd holy upright and godly And as where there is a smoak there is some fire the Grace of the Almighty may by degrees work such a change that their Souls Sons Servants and Success in their endeavours shall finde an equal and lasting improvement Nevertheless let my Citizen consult these few following rules Suffer neither Son if capable of doing any thing or Servant to be idle It was great and good policy in the Romans to let their youth learn nothing sitting The best Common-Wealths have allow'd them Theaters and spacious fields for their exercises and the Republicans have allowed their Youth time to perform them In the Eleventh year of Henry the 4th to the astonishment of beholders for Eight days together and in the presence of his then Majesty accompanied by the most of the Nobles and great Estates of the Realm near Clerken-Well was shewn all the skill and cunning that Age and the renowned activity of the English could put forth in such Exercises of hands or feet as far excelling smoaking and drinking as riding the Great Horse does a Hobby For the first being manly and healthful the last is effeminate ridiculous and destructive to the body Finally upon more than bare Quarterly days if some of the most Eminent and reputed Citizens used to be present in places of Publick Exercise there to praise to encourage and sometimes to reward Young men that were active what an alteration would there be in the customs of a World How would young men abstain excesses and riotting to preserve their strengths how would they by their Service oblige their Masters to dispense with a space of time now and then for them to shew themselves active skilful and emulous of glory which though it be vain in the practice of Vertue yet it 's always accompanied with the hope of understanding themselves more knowingly in process of time Themistocles by Nature viciously enclin'd was so inflam'd with the fame of Miltiades fung by all people and so ardently emulated his deeds that from a deprav'd and loose person he became a virtuous and renowned Captain In the next place my Citizen must look bountifully on the Poor I should have spoken a little of Hospitality in a place foregoing amongst my Citizens needless expences But Vice having almost rooted out a Vertue so many shar'd in formerly in our Land and of late years it lying even breathless I shall touch on it lightly in my treating of Charity to make the memory of our Heathen Ancestors appear more amiable and exemplary and to quicken my Citizen for the amplification of that we call good House-keeping Charity saith St. Augustine is the way of man to God and of God to man Is my Citizen great and wealthy and would have his Riches known let him do it then by gifts Marcus Antonius said of the Roman grandeur that is was less discern'd by what it took than by what it gave If occasions for doing good be not offred seek them Merciful works are accepted of God as Sacrifice yea better than Sacrifice Anthony Prince of Salern being ask'd what he would leave himself answered That which I have given But avaricious men think all lost that 's given When they beg in Italy they use this Phrase Do good for your selves There is that scattereth saith Solomon and yet encreaseth Prov. 11.27 and there is that witholdeth more then is meet but it tendeth to Poverty Prov. 19.17 He that hath pitty on the Poor lendeth to the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay again So he that forbids thee to be a Usurer commands thee to be so Titus Vespasian his Son who destroy'd Jerusalem so loved liberality that remembring one evening he had given nothing the same day he burst out O my friends we have lost this day What a reproach is it to Christians to be thus outdone by Infidels They may be judged very well to rise in judgment against us though they were obscurely lighted by Nature for we