Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	blessing_n	child_n	parent_n	2,162	5	9.2185	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32323	Passion and discretion, in youth and age ...	Calver, Edward, fl. 1649.	1641 (1641)	Wing C316; ESTC R22499	54,467	122

art thou subject to such error To give most honour to the most inferiour To let those parts meere sensitive beare sway Which should to reasons just commands obey Thy reason is deluded by thy sense And so thy judgement proves corrupted thence Which makes thee to thinke best of that condition Which is most pleasing to thy disposition Thus far meere beasts and savage creatures goe They are as stayd and moderate as so They which of reason wholly are deny'd And have but onely appetite for guide But thou must passe the savage creatures guise Because indu'd with reasons faculties Or else the beast without these powers of mind May be preferd before thee in his kind Yea mine owne heart which dost by reason scan Thou must by reason shew thy selfe a man And alwayes unto reason yeeld subjection Both in thy understanding and affection Besides thy youth is subject to obey Affection which in youth will run astray And therefore thou must use the greatest ayd Now in thy Youth to keepe affection stayd But here I doe not goe about to prove That thou in Youth shouldst disalow of love So it be lawfull but the thing admit As in thy Youth most absolutely fit For love in Youth united proves most pure And is againe most likely to indure Besides it serves to settle the desire Which otherwise Youth could not so retire What then deare selfe why this must be thy care Not so much when to place thy love as where Not so much sway'd by sensuall delight To rule thy reason by thy appetite Thou seest affection fetters like a chaine It plac'd is hard to be displac'd againe And like the seale which leaves the print behind It makes a deepe impression in the mind And therefore doubtlesse it behooves thee much That in thy Youth thy providence be such That thou hereafter dost not find this true I had my will but willfulnesse I rue Yea be resolved mine owne tender heart Youth which are wilfull often feele this smart And therefore be deare selfe herein discerning Let others sad experience give thee warning Be well advis'd stay thy affections ponder And for a while let reason keepe them under What art thou to confirme a league in love Which once confirmed must not then remove But like those lawes unchangeable abides Till death the parties joyned thus divides Art thou to doe this weighty thing indeed Sure it requires the dilligentest heed The deepest meditation and the best Because the chiefest thing of all the rest For if thy choyce be bad thy joyes are done If otherwise they are but then begun For in thy choyce consisteth peace or strife In it remaines the issues of thy life For that whereto thou now thy selfe dost binde That is the portion thou must looke to find T is so deare selfe then ere this knot be ty'd Consider well let counsell be thy guide Such can instruct thee best directions frame As have had just experience of the same But above all these thou must have respect Unto the way thy Parents doe direct For their consent and blessing in this thing Doth with their owne Gods blessing also bring And where the Parents fit consent is missing There for the most part God affords no blessing This is a rule in generall most fit And thou in duty must acknowledge it But yet there are some Parents in this kind Which are so much unto the earth inclind That if their children will not have their blame They must like them be marryed to the same For earth and earthly things is all their ayme Those are the onely heritage they clayme Without the least regard of what is fit Either in vertue breeding shape or wit Now such as these which onely doe belay To basely mould their children up in clay And thinke them then in heav'n when they poore soules In earth possest ly scrambling like moules Such men as these must not be too unkind Although their children beare a better mind Nor are their children to be blam'd although They stead of duty doe their wisdome show And rather follow reason for their guide Than duty which would lead them thus aside This freedome may in modesty be us'd And upon such necessity excus'd But my deare selfe make thou not this a snare Upon this freedome cast not off all care But to thy parents willingly incline So far as reason doth with duty joyne But above all things aym'd at in thy choyce Let vertue please thee make thee most rejoyce For vertue herein must be valu'd higher Than either Parents or thine owne desire Parents are to be reverenc'd as due Riches may be respected too t is true Good breeding's to be honour'd in election And beauty seemeth to command affection Yet beauty riches breeding or good birth All without vertue are but little worth And though these outward things cannot be had If vertue may the choyce cannot be bad Besides if in thy choyce thou hast the grace To ayme at vertue in the chiefest place Then needst thou use no apish imitation In thy attire by following the fashion Devising fondly to new forme each part As if thy skill exceed Natures art No these are fruitlesse and accounted vaine Within that brest where vertue doth remaine And rather serves thy weakenesse to discover Then any way delight a vertuous Lover To be thus fond or vaine in this condition Doth but ingender or beget suspicion Because immodesty in the attire Doth note immoderation in desire Imports a want of wit and doth impart A shrewd presumption of a wanton heart That all such fondnesse or as vaine expence Are lost where vertue hath its residence For vertue stoups to no such baites as they But soares a pitch is far above such prey Like as the precious Diamond which but By Diamond or nothing can be cut So love in vertues brest will take no print But onely that which vertue doth indent That vertue is the onely way to wooe And eke to win where vertue hath to doe Let vertue then be first thine owne and sure Thou shalt prevaile where vertuē doth indure For like to like most willingly incline And vertues met most readily doe joyne Which joyn'd what tongue is able to expresse The joy such vertuous bosomes doe possesse No change can turne their honey into gall Because that vertuē makes good use of all Resembling much though in a lower kind The heavenly highest marriage of the mind Passion VVHat strange harsh strictnes is here urged still As if that Love could be confin'd at will My love is settl'd where I hope to finde Those vertues which are pleasing to my minde Shall Parents then whose sight is not so cleare To see the Truth before it doth appeare Condemne my choyce as wonderfull to blame Before they know the tryall of the same Deare friends I know you wish me not amisse But you may erre as well as I in this In this my choyce may blessings hidden lye Which deepest insight cannot

Strength is counted vaine Beauty deceitfull wit affords no gaine Art 's little usefull Learning 's lesse regarded Thus things most good becomes most ill rewarded And all because the Authours hand doth place them Where wealth affords not countenance to grace them Oh precious riches whatsoere men say Wealth is the chiefest earthly god beares sway Concludes most cases of the wise approv'd Of most desired and is best belov'd All this is true and yet for my part know I take no care to gaine such riches though My sublime thoughts fly higher and have wings Which carry my desires above such things And in my heart I count such doters vaine As for such trifles doe molest their braine As earthly riches which are gain'd with care And being gotten are possest in feare The sad imployments of such fretting cares Are much unfitting for my tender yeares And quite against my nature which I finde Is unto sweeter liberty inclin'd My Parents they their youthfull time have spent And in their youth tooke part of youths content But now growne staid and wanton thoughts supprest More weighty studyes doe become them best Let them take care for getting gaine not I Their saving wisedome must my want supply The elder for the younger doth provide As by a Law in Nature strictly ty'd Especiall the Parent for the Childe It is the care of creatures bruite and wilde To feede and foster up their young but then Much more the care of reasonable men And afterward if I a Parent be I le doe for mine as Parents doe for me I le then be carefull of these outward things And slip no meanes that show of profit brings But count it duty as it is indeed To make provision for my tender seed The meane time Parents will I hope be won To give me lēave to doe as they have done To seeke to fit my selfe unto the time And like to all things flourish in my prime Now in my youth be youthfully inclin'd With youthfull pleasures satisfie my minde And take those freedomes due unto my state Youth justly pleades its liberties are great Which if my Parents labour to restraine Injustice will appeare therein so plaine That Parents shall be pleased to give way Or I excus'd if I doe not obey Discretion BUt stay mad Passion whether dost thou run Fond and mistaken sense what hast thou done By what illusions hast thou showne thy skill To make my reason subject to my will Thy motives and thy Rhetoricke are such As may perswade and doe perswade too much But soothing Passion whatsoere is past I now resolve to answer thee at last All things created doe observe their time And doe by nature flourish in their prime From whence thou labourst to infer for truth That I by nature should rejoyce in youth All which in part I doe acknowledge true And Nature seemes to challenge it as due And therefore may not be deny'd by me In ought where sense with reason doth agree But if my nature would beare all the sway And make my reason to my sense obey I doe in reason no such justice see To let my reason so subjected be Besides I doe my youthfull nature finde So much unto the worlds delights inclin'd That my estate in this respect requires The greatest care to bridle my desires Then restlesse Passion keepe thy selfe retir'd I with thy Fury need not be inspir'd Nor will I if I can the same prevent I trust without thee to reape best content Come then Oh! come then be advis'd by reason Mine owne deare selfe this is the onely season The fruitfull earth doth afterward make knowne What seed was in it in the Spring time sowne The stocke with what t is grafted in the Spring Such fruite doth forth for ever after bring And with what scent the vessell first is fild The savour of it is not soone expeld Such is thy apt and youthfull nature know What now is sowne in thee is like to grow What habite now is got will prove the strongest What custome now is learn'd will last the longest And therefore it doth now concerne thee sure To have most care to keepe thy selfe secure To seeke content where reason doth admit To settle thy desires in what is fit That thou hereafter maist not cry in vaine I learn'd what now I would unlearne againe Thou then my selfe whose safety is mine owne And favour mine that unto thee is showne As thou hast a respect unto Discretion I doe advise thee to be ware of Passion And labour to discover those deceites Whose gall lyes hidden in most pleasant baites Yea though most neare and deare unto thee seated In thine owne bosome let them be defeated If thine owne heart which is to the most deare Would fall in love with any creature here Before thou dar'st to render thy consent Thou must take heed there be no danger in 't Or if that any more inferiour part Of body or of mind would plead desert As if they were some excellence allow'd Which vainely might induce thee to be proud Here it behooves thee to have speciall care To arme thy selfe against this inbred snare This bosome brat which will not be excluded That by thy selfe thou be'st not selfe-deluded It as in Youth it often comes to passe Thy wanton eye views beauty in thy glasse Whose beames reflecting would thy thoughts inflame With any admiration of the same Trust not thine eye nor yet thy glasse too farre They both deceitfull both uncertaine are But say thy beauty be the same indeed That it appeares yea though it doth exceed Yet weigh the honey of it with the gall And thou shalt see the vantage of it small It gaines much savour and is most alluring T is true but favour gain'd by its procuring Is sometimes such as yeelds a present friend But seldome chaste and constant to the end For looke as beauty fades and weares away So doth such friendship vanish and decay It tis alluring t is indeed but how To that which modest vertue doth allow Sure no the nature of it doth intice In humaine faces rather unto vice Againe t is beauty that doth beare the praise And oft doth unto much preferment raise Indeed t is so upon the sudden oft It from the dunghill doth draw up a loft But what this Sun-shine doth exhale like raine Falls for the most part in a cloud againe And for the praise and vertue on 't suspition So often brings the truth of it in question That all the comfort which doth in it lye As it appeares is but to feed the eye Whiles it doth glister whiles it doth indure Which every little shaddow doth obscure But if thou wouldst give beauty an excuse Then of thy beauty strive to make this use That as thy Youthfull face is faire as cleere Thy vertues may unto the world appeare That so thy face this outward grace assign'd May shew the inward beauties of thy mind Or hast thou strength and in thy bosome