Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	daughter_n	marry_v	son_n	5,756	5	5.0360	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18303	Certaine preceptes or directions, for the well ordering and carriage of a mans life: as also œconomicall discipline for the gouernment of his house: with a platforme to a good foundation thereof, in the aduised choise of a wife: left by a father to his sonne at his death, who was sometimes of eminent note and place in this kingdome. And published from a more perfect copie, than ordinarily those pocket manuscripts goe unwarranted by.	Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1618 (1618)	STC 4898; ESTC S114691	4,899	18

can neuer liue happilie nor contented being broken distracted with worldly cares for the euery least disaster maks him ready to morgage or sell and that Gentleman that selleth an acre of lande looseth anounce of credite for Gentilitie is nothing but auncient Riches So that if the foundation doe sinke the building must needes consequently fall PRECEPT II Teacheth the Education of Children BRing your Children vp in obedience and Learning yet without too much austeritie praise them openly reprehende them secretly giue them good countenance and conuenient maintenance according to your abilitie For otherwise your liues will seeme their bondage and then as those are censured that deferre all good to their ende so that portion you shall leaue them they may thanke death for and not you Marry your daughters betimes lest they marry themselues Suffer not your Sonnes to passe the Alpes for they shall exchaunge for their forraine trauell vnlesse they goe better fortified but others Vices for their owne Vertues Pride Blasphemie and Atheisme for Humility Reuerence and Religion And if by chaunce out of a more wary industry they attain to any broken Languages they will profite them no more than to haue one Meate serued in diuers Dishes Neither by mine aduise shall you traine them vp to Warres For he that sets vp his rest to liue by that profession in mine opinion can hardly be an honest man or a good Christian For Euerie Warre of it selfe is vnjust the good cause may make it lawfull Besides it is a Science no longer in request than vse for Souldiours in Peace are like Chimneyes in Summur like Dogges past hunting or Women when their beauty is done As a person of quality once noted to the like effect in these Verses following Friendes Souldiours Women in their prime Are like to Dogges in Hunting time Occasion Warres and Beautie gone Friendes Souldiours Women heere are none PRECEPT III For House-holde Prouision and of the choyse of Seruantes LIue not in the Countrey without Corne and Cattle about you For he that must present his Hande to his Purse for euery Expence of House-hold shall as hardly keepe Money therein as it is for one to hold Water in a Siue And for your Prouision Lay to buy it at the best hand for there may be sometimes a pennie saued betweene buying at your neede or when the season most fitly may furnish you Be not willingly attended or serued by Kinsmen or Friendes which will seeme to bee men as it were intreated to stay for such will expect much and stead little neither by such as are amorous for their heads are commonly intoxicated Keepe rather too few than one too manie feede them well and paye them with the most so maye you lawfully demaund seruice at their handes and boldly exact it PRECEPT IV How to intreat your Kindred and Allies LEt your Kindred and Allies bee welcome to your Table Grace them with your countenance and euer further them in all their honest actions by worde liberalitie or industrie For by that meanes you shall double the bonde of Nature Bee a Neighbour to their good as well as to their blood By which reasonable deseruinges you shall finde them so manie Aduocates to pleade an Apologie for you behind your backe so manie Witnesses of your Vertues whensoeuer others shall seeke to depraue you But shake off the Glow-wormes I meane Parasites and Sycophantes who will feede and fawne on you in the Summer of your Prosperitie but in anie aduerse Storme will shelter you no more than a Cloake of Taffatie or an Arbour in Winter PRECEPT V Aduiseth to keepe some great Man to your Friend and how to complement him BE sure you keep some great Man alwayes to your Friend yet trouble him not for trifles Complement him often present him with manie yet small gifts and of little charge And if you haue cause to bestow any great gratuitie on him then let it be no Chest commodity or obscure thing but such a one as may bee dayly in sight the better to be remembred for otherwise you shall liue but like a Hop without Pole or a Vine without her Elme subject to injury oppression ready to be made a Football for euery superior insulting companion to spurne at PRECEPT VI How and when to vndertake suites VNdertake no Suit against a poore man without receiuing of great wrong for therin you make him your Compeditor Besides that it is helde a base Conquest to triumph vpon a weak Aduersary Neither vndertake law against any man before you be fully resolued you haue the Right on your side which being once so ascertained then spare neither cost nor paines to accomplish it For a Cause or two being so close followed and well accomplished may after free you from Suits a great part of your life PRECEPT VII Aduertiseth for Suretieshippe BEware of Suretieshippe yea for your best Friend For hee that payeth another mans debts goeth the way to leaue other men to pay his and seeketh his owne ouer-throwe Therefore if hee bee such a one as you cannot well say nay choose rather then to lend that mony from your selues vpon good bonds though you borrowe it so may you pleasure your Friende and happily secure your selues In borrowing of Money bee euermore precious of your word For hee that hath a care to keepe daye of payment is lord-commaunder many times of another mans Purse PRECEPT VIII How to carrie a Mans selfe towardes his Superiours and Inferiours TOwards your Superiours bee humble yet generous with your Equalles familiare yet respectiue towardes your Inferiours shewe much humilitie with some familiaritie as to bow your body stretch foorth your hand vncouer your head and such like populare complements the first prepareth way to aduancement the second will make you knowne for men well bred the thirde gaineth a good report which once gained may easily bee kept for high humilities are of such respect in the opinion of the multitude that they are easilier won by vnprofitable Courtesies than by churlish benefits Yet doe I not aduise you ouermuch to affect or neglect popularitie PRECEPT IX How farre to disclose a Mans Secrets TRust no man with your Credite or Estate For it is a meere follie for a man to inthrall himselfe further to his Friende than that hee needeth not feare him beeing his Enemie PRECEPT X. BE not scurrilous in conuersation nor Stoicall in your wittes for the one maketh you vnwelcome to all companies as the other pulleth quarrels on your heads and maketh you hated of your best Friends Iestes when they doe sauour of too much trueth leaue a bitternesse in the minds of those that are touched And although I haue alreadie pointed at these inclusiue yet I thinke it necessarie to leaue it to you as a Cantion because I haue seene manie so prone to quippe and girde that they had rather lose their Friende than their Iest And if by chaunce their boyling Brayne yeeld a quaint Scoffe they will trauell to bee deliuered of it as a Woman with Childe But I thinke those nimble Apprehensions are but the Froth of the Wittes FINIS