Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	life_n	young_a	youth_n	36	3	7.5666	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19966	The English secretorie VVherin is contayned, a perfect method, for the inditing of all manner of epistles and familiar letters, together with their diuersities, enlarged by examples vnder their seuerall tytles. In which is layd forth a path-waye, so apt, plaine and easie, to any learners capacity, as the like wherof hath not at any time heretofore beene deliuered. Nowe first deuized, and newly published by Angel Daye.	Day, Angel, fl. 1575-1595.	1586 (1586)	STC 6401; ESTC S119008	166,059	274

the limittes and this must be the end of this Monitorie kind whereof that in their seuerall partes they maye the better be explaned let us now produce examples to be sorted to some of their purposes An example Monitorie concerning a stayed and well gouerned lyfe THE execrable force of mischieuous euill being such and the maleuolent disposition of the frowning heauens to some kind of people so great as hauing once throughly planted the fatall sting thereof in the inward conceipt of those that with tooth and nayle couet to participate the barreine and accursed fruites of the same it seemeth they be created to none other ende but onely by daring to perpetrate whatsoeuer matter of villanie to purchase to them selues by determination of a shamelesse and wicked lyfe the limitted rewarde of an vnprouided shamelesse and ignominious death The inchaunted course wherof perceauing in these daungerous tymes how muche it hath bewitched the estate and course of the whole worlde and considering there withall that by reason of your fathers late decease you beeing a greene youth voyde of experience bent to the triall of al companies richly possessed and wealthily endued are now left into your own hands and thereby deliuered from the plawsible and quiet moderation of a faithfull and louing guide into the endlesse reache of a youthfull carelesse and vncontrolled libertie hath moued me in respect of the care that euer I erst had of you being yet but a childe and in assured testimonie of the memorie I haue euer protested to the ghost of your louing parente to admonish you of some fewe thinges touching the order and conuersation of your liuing beeing a course so important as in the admittance exercise wherof can not but consist the scope and after fruition of all your happinesse benefite and lawdable continuaunce And first of all will I call vnto your remembraunce that being the sonn of so vertuous a father as you are howe greatly it importeth vnto your estate to be well gouerned that as well the precedent vertues as auntient possessions of your antecessor may in your person be euermore shining and resiant that of your deceased Parent as wel as in corporall shape and fauour you beare the true image and shew of his worthinesse that you stand not more in your actions vpon the glorious title or name of a gentleman then of the verie true and extreme conditions and behauiours that rightly do produce and make a gentleman And albeit I sinde no great apparant cause your youthfull head and vnstaied state of headstrong libertie onelye excepted that may induce any argument or supposall to the contrary but that you are or may be suche and of so worthy and great regard as touching your life and other conuersation deepely inough may bee adiudged to conceiue of all or any parte of these yet knowing how many and how sondry are the euils wherwith our mortall state is endaungered how diuers are the motions to wickednes and how many waies are we readye to fall into the crooked pathes of the same I could not but warne you that comming euen now into the middest of the world as you do you shall finde sondry baites and alurements drawing you into the worste most vilest parts thereof that vnlesse you were directly gouerned with the right rule and square of an honest and sober life twentie to one you not onelye fall very deeply into the inconueniences therof but without great and vnexpected chaunce occasioning the contrarye are like to be drowned and ouerwhelmed for euer You must call to mind that liuing in a place so ordinarilye frequented as is that Citie wherein you are and being in felowship with so many and diuers sorts of men as you now be conuersing also with the innumerable multitudes of persons of all estates condicions and faculties as you there doe it is no difficult thing for a young youth of your birth and qualitie to be led into lewdnes of a wanton to become dissolute of a spender to be made a consumer nor of a towardly Gentleman to be framed to an vntowarde companion Much credit me may the euill example of some lewdly giuen conduce heereunto making you to beleeue that to become a roister is credite to be a swearer valiaunt to shew your selfe a waster liberall that to become a drunkard is felowship to maintaine rakhels is bountie to be fantasticall is youthfull and to be an vnthrift is to be counted gentle but beeing ruled by me you shall giue heede to neither of all these beeing such and none other in deede as solie will breed your destruction but contrariwise in gaining of credit you shall become modest and discreetly behaued in being noted to be valiaunt you shalbe a supporter of honor shewing your selfe liberall it shall be in rewarding the good in maintaining of felowship you shall vse sobrietie in being bountifull you shall remunerate seruices in manifestation of your youth you shall entertaigne honest pleasures and in being counted gentle approue therewithall frugall The Asse goeth out in the morning to carry burthens and in the euening receiueth his prouendar for aduauntage The Oxe grazeth all daye in the pasture and at night is carried into the butchers stall their rewarde is their feeding and the contentment they require is onely to fill their bellies behooueth that men also who from beastes are sequestred by many degrees of reason should of their continuance and final determination liue a like careles No verilye it is too much vnseemly Such illusions as these are not fit for a man who by the nobilitie of his creation was ordained to sway ouer and not to become subiect to such vilities You therefore being now at your owne choice and liberty must beware and giue great and diligent aduertisement to all your wayes you must eschew and auoid not onely the very euils them selues but also all occasions inducing or partaking with those euils you must imagine that to bee in all thinges temperate and discreet argueth solie your reputation shunne vice as you would do a serpent flie wicked company as a pestilent infection doe alwaies thinges worthy your selfe affect not so much the vaineglorious title of praise as desire how and in whar sort to deserue and winne praise Esteeme nothing so precious as time abandon slouth and in all thy societie as neare as thou canst accompany with the best Consider that such as is the tree such is the f●uit Who toueheth pitch must needes be defiled With the good thou shalt be made good and with the euill tthou shalt be peruerted Thinke none so great an enemy as he that misledeth thee Misdeem no man willingly giue occasion to all men to iudge of thee indifferently These counselles forewarninges of thy ruine or happines if aduisedly thou wilt heaken vnto and faithfully lay vp among thy chiefest secreates it shall no waies repent thee to haue beene a man nor discontent me in this