Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	according_a	master_n	servant_n	1,516	5	7.1482	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B11821	Horæ subseciuæ observations and discourses.	Chandon, Grey Brydges, Baron, d. 1621.; Cavendish, Gilbert.; Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.	1620 (1620)	STC 3957; ESTC S105996	135,065	562

affect to choose and in what kinde he ought for to vse them And first in their choise I would haue them to auoid all of whatsoeuer present state or fame that had beene noted for or branded with any notorious crime It is seldome seene that either punishment or shame reduce men to good but rather confirme them in euill and dissolute behauiour Neither would I take a man that presumed too much on his owne sufficiencie or that seemed to bee extreme wise in his owne conceit Such a disposition is fond and ridiculous in all sorts but in a seruant most intolerable For whatsoeuer he doth will smell of Ostentation and Arrogance Men that bee married they bee euer lesse diligent then others and therefore he that can keep but few seruants had best make choise of those that be single Such a one as is alwayes preaching to you of preferment begging of Sures and putting you in minde of his merit is a seruant meerely for his own ends and not at all for yours and is euer accompanied with the spirit of impatience and presumption Such as affect Principalitie in your employments and Primacie aboue others be of busie enuious ambitious and factious disposition and therefore vnfit for seruice Such as are too officious and instruments of dissention in a house by doing ill offices betwixt a Master and the rest of his Family in flattering of him censuring or slandering of them those natures be made of too crooked timber for this building Those that will be prying into your most secret affayres censuring your actions murmuring at your rebukes be most pernicious and incorrigible And lastly I would auoid such as haue past through the hands of many Masters for as that may be a signe of some ill qualitie that they haue so it necessarily expresseth them to bee of inconstant and giddy dispositions But such as be diligent and constant in their duties faithfull in their seruice trusty in their places and louing to their Masters be the seruants of whom you are to make election resolution should be to keepe and will to preferre according to their merits and your own abilitie A Masters part is to command and a Seruants to obey wisedome is required in the one and duty in the other Masters should so liue with their inferiours as they would wish their Superiours should doe with them and they know best how to gouerne that know how to serue Put not your seruants to base offices nor make them not the instruments of your licentiousnesse and luxury Neither tyrannize ouer them with strokes for that argues intemperance nor rebuke them with publique checkes and scornes which be both insufferable and disgracefull Suffer your seruant sometimes the freedome of speech and let not his lips be euer sealed in your presence They that speake least to you before your face seldomest speake good of you behinde your backe Such seruants as speake most freely before their Masters bee most reserued in disgracing his person or publishing his errours Thinke not your seruant your slaue Fortune hath as much power ouer the one as the other You haue no certainty of not being transferred to the same or a worse degree You are borne after the same manner enioy the same ayre eate the same bread breathe liue and dye alike with them Therefore insult not too much and reduce them not to ouer-great subiection For loue can neuer suffer mixture with feare And thinke not that there is so great a distance betwixt you and your seruant for there bee few Masters that serue not either Pride or Women or Ambition or Feare or Couetousnesse And these kindes of seruitude which be most voluntarie are alwayes most reprochfull Of Expences EXpences doe naturally diuide themselues into actions of Honour Charitie and Necessitie the first requires a Great man the second a good man the third is common to both Honourable expences bee commendable Charitable religious and Necessarie forced The first addes respect the second loue and the last shewes our humane frailty Inaptitude to the former shewes a man to be of a poore and ignoble spirit backwardnesse in the next expresseth an Atheisticall and heathenish nature and not promptnesse to the third argues a most peruerse and couetous disposition But on the contrarie to vndoe a mans selfe with publique and magnificent charge is the badge of a Vaine-glorious man to cloath another and goe naked himselfe is a signe rather of Fryerly Hypocrisie then of Charitie To limit our whole expence for our selues and to bee couetous in respect of others and prodigall in our owne particular is the true marke of a Licentious Luxurious and Selfe-louing condition Let not therefore Honourable expence bee stayned with wasting neither let Pharisaicall ostentation bee ioyned to our Charitie and take heede that superfluitie choake not either And loue not Riches more then your Reputation the Poore or your selues but let your honour be maintained without Pride the poore relieued without Arrogance and nature satisfied without Excesse Expences should euer be limited according to the occasion and our own ability For vnnecessary charges be as vaine as the other dangerous They that spend more thē they haue want gouernment they that spend all Prouidēce And as a man should take an account of his expences past so hee ought to make a rate of what he meanes to spende For incertainties of this kinde be neuer good As expences bee proportioned so the reckonings should bee certaine otherwise a man walkes in the darke But this is to bee vnderstood of such as haue a competencie bee come to yeeres of ripenesse and iudgement and that haue not been by any casualtie or accident put behinde hand in the world All which though they do not auoid the mischiefe yet they extenuate the error Riches be ordained for our vse but neither to bee adored nor contemned A Prodigall runs thorow his estate and is so entangled to other men that hee is neuer master of himselfe this is the fruit of the Contempt A couetous man as he is farre from benefitting others so he is loath to accommodate himselfe but liues in the state rather of a Steward for another then master of his owne And this is the benefit of the Adoration So that in this there can be no other mediocrity or better composition then to spend with discretion that that you haue honestly obtained Liberality is a Vertue and so is Parsimony within their seueral bounds but the error is when the one steps or the other declines too neere the contrary Those men that bee blest with great and fortunate estates I thinke to bee tyed euen by the law of Nature to a more publike appearing then those that bee below them either in degree or estate to a willingnesse in relieuing the necessities of others proportionably according to their abilities and so to prouide for their posteritie that they may rather finde encrease then diminution of any part of their patrimony A man ought to moderate his