Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	father_n	honour_v	1,529	5	9.1433	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00808	A diamonde most precious, worthy to be marked instructing all maysters and seruauntes, how they ought to leade their lyues, in that uocation which is fruitfull, and necessary, as well for the maysters, as also for the seruants, agreeable vnto the holy Scriptures. Reade me ouer, and then iudge, if I be not well, then grudge: thinke well of him that mee made, for Gods worde shall neuer fade.	Fit John, John.	1577 (1577)	STC 10929; ESTC S117750	53,823	110

was a planter of Vyneyardes and canst thou not liue as thy father hath done before thee Puer No I cannot lyue in that order it is to paynefull for me although my Father did Hedge and diche digge and delue and did bring me vp in the same trade and you haue shewed me those examples I mynde not to doe so Ciuis No what wilte thou do then Puer What will I doe I will tell you I will be a Seruingman and wayghte on a Gentleman and then I shall goe a Hawking and Hunting and haue my delight as Gentlemen hath I shall haue two new coates a yeare I will haue my sutes of Hose my Hats with feathers and be all in the brauerye after the newe fashyon and sometyme I shall wayght vpon a Gentlewoman who woulde desyre to lyue a merryer lyfe or else I will to London to be a seruaunt Ciuis The old Prouerbe is true A yong Courtyer an old Begger for they say seruice is none heritage and if thou shouldest be vsed as Esop doth declare in a fable what wouldst thou then say to thy brauery Puer I pray you recyte the same to me Ciuis He was a man by whome there is a booke made that I haue read and is caled Esops fables wherin he likeneth a Seruingman to a Greyhound Puer He was a horeson in deede that would liken a man to a Dog. Why there is a great sort that be Seruingmen and doth liue well ynough and so I trowe I will. Ciuis Yea I wil not despyse seruingmen for they are men necessary But Esope sayeth as long as a Greyhound is youthfull and can follow his game he shall be much made of and as long as you are yong and lustye so maye you be but when age commeth on you as dyd on the Greyhound then you shall not bee steemed but ready to be set at liberty without comforte Puer Why then I praye you tell me your mynde what your aduyce is for me to doe Ciuis My counsell is to haue you go home agayne to your Mother consydering you say she is an old woman and your Father dead shee is without friendship or comforte and you shall be a good stay and a helper vnto her Puer I mynde not so to doe for I know a way better then to doe so she hath geuen me Gods blessing and hers and is well contented withall and hath geuen mee Money in my Purse I may be bolde to say vnto you besydes that I take you to be an honest man and a true man else I woulde not haue tolde you for there be so many men now a days of dyuers sortes I knowe not well whome to trust Ciuis Thou sayest truth in deede the more is the pittie for one man cannot trust another but yet Moises writeth as I remeÌ„ber Let euery one reuerence his Father and mother Iesus the sonne of Syrach wryteth on this manner Heare me your Father O my deare Chyldren and doe thereafter that ye may be safe for the Lord will haue the father honoured of the children Honor thy father and Mother this is the fyrst commaundement that hath any promyse that thou mayest be in good state and lyue long on the earth And looke what a Mother commaundeth her children to doe he will haue it kepte Who so honoureth his Father his sinnes shall be forgeuen him and he that honoreth his mother is one that gathereth treasure togither who so honoureth his Father shall haue long life and he that is obedyent for the Lords sake his mother shall haue ioy of him Honour thy father from thy whole harte forget not the sorrowfull trauayle that thy mother had with thee The Apostle sayeth Chyldren obay your fathers and mothers in the Lorde for so it is right Tobias sayde to his sonne hold thy Mother in honour all the dayes of thy lyfe for thou oughtest to remember what and howe great perrill she suffred for thee in her wombe Puer You are verye scripulous with mee to honour my mother I doe not denye it but I confesse my duetye is vnto my mother yet may I doe that which I purpose to doe for I am sure you cannot tell me of any that doth practise such obedience to Father or mother Of my parte I promise you I knowe not what obedience is for it was neuer taught me Ciuis Then will I teach you especially concerning our communycation Fyrst I will shew you that obedience is a lowly and harty submissyon of our selues to God and afterwardes to our Parentes to the Maiestrates to our superyours and to al those to whome GOD hath committed the rule and gouernaunce of his Flocke and people in this worlde or in iust causes to all them to whome we be by any tytle inferyour Isaac shewed obedience to his father Abraham Yong Tobias at his fathers coÌ„mandement went into a farre country about his fathers busines did not deny it Christ humbled himself became obedieÌ„t to the death so was he to his parents Ioseph and Mary More wil I call to remembraunce out of the scripture of the duty of Children hereafter Puer I am therewith content I perceyue you haue had some intelligence knowledge of Scriptures that can remember such thinges vpon a sodayne yet I may loue both father and mother and shew my duety and obedience vnto them although I doe not dwell with them For I must seeke how to behaue my self when God calleth theÌ„ away from me out of this vale of misery to get my liuing as they haue done for if I should do as the Prouerbe is loke after ded folks shoes I might thaÌ„ce to go barefote Ciuis And can you not liue by taking paynes with Husbandrye as your father and others haue done Puer No forsooth Ciuis And why so I pray you tell me Puer Mary syr there is such moyling and toyling and taking of great paynes with harde fare that I must needes to London to be a Townseman thereto liue more at ease Ciuis If euery one were of thy mynde and so permitted to haue their owne wils we might chaunce to fast for lack of bread Corne and such other necessaryes for mans body But the truth is at London thou mightest learne some honest and profitable occupation wherewith thou mayest be able to get thy own liuing in tyme to come and to make prouision for such as shall belong vnto thee hereafter for if thou shouldst be brought vp ydely thou shouldest become an vnprofytable member in a common weale and for lack of liuing fal into many inconueniences for it is written Send him to labour that he goeth not ydle for ydlenesse bringeth much euill And agayne Let no laborious worke be tedious vnto thee neyther the Husbandrye which the almightye God hath created As the Byrds of the ayre are created to flie so man is borne to labour He that Tilleth his Land shall haue plentiousnesse of bread but

the Parentes themselues to be an ensample in this behalfe vnto their children and seruauntes and shew euermore such reuerence vnto the name of GOD that the yonglinges maye well perceyue that it is no vayne thing that they are taught If they doe the contrary that is to say blaspheme the holy name of God then shall they vndoubtedly come vnto dishonour and a shamefull ende In this world the plague and vengeance of God shall not goe away from their houses they shall be stricken with many greuous diseases in their bodyes their goods and Cattell yea and all that euer they haue shall come to nought their kynde of liuing shall be despysed with all good men their death shal be paynful miserable and wretched and after these so great and manifolde plagues they may be sure for their wicked swearing to be cast into Helfyre where the flames of it shal neuer be quenched where weeping and gnashing of teeth shall be where the wormes shall knawe their owne consciences and shall neuer dye More ensamples might be declared at large for thys matter but you shall here further what S. Paule writeth to the Ephesians the sixt chapter vnto maysters Ye maysters sayeth he doe euen the same vnto your seruants putting away threatnings and know that euen your maister also is in heauen neyther is there anye respecte of person wyth him Puer You haue accomplished my desyre But I pray you good mayster Citizen let mee some what vnderstande your mynde of the dutye of the seruauntes and in what order the maysters do take them in London when they come rawlye as I doe out of the cuntrey Ciuis The Citizens that lack seruants and especialy those that are men of great welth will seeke to haue some sufficient Sureties for those that they wil entertayn into their seruice and good consyderation it is for a man maye take into his house one that shall soone vndoe his mayster before hee hath warning thereof I woulde GOD Citizens would take heede of mayster Lillyes sayings Happy is he whome other mens harmes canne make hym to bee warned Puer As you saye then it is requisyte that he shall haue suretyes for his truth and honest behauiour but euery one that commeth to London is not of that ability Ciuis It is so therefore some honeste man doeth put it in aduenture Puer I truste in GOD so will some honeste man doe with mee I praye you doe you knowe anye honest man that lacketh a Seruaunte I force not of what occupation Ciuis I wil say vnto you as S. Iude sayeth in his Epistle I willingly would wish you vnto him that is able to keepe you that you fall not Puer I thank you for that I pray you now shewe vnto me the order and vsage of the apprentises how they be bound what the scripture sayth agreable thervnto Ciuis I wil. WheÌ„ you haue contynued a tyme with your mayster you shall goe with him to the Hall that he is free of before the mayster and Wardones of that company be preseÌ„ted that they may view see you whether you be crooked or lame they wil giue you good instructions to shew you what your dutye is as well to God and vnto your mayster and mistresse and also to know your duety as S. Peeter commandeth honour all men loue brotherly felowship and as the Lord hath called euerye person so lette him walke Also you must be bound by a payre of Indentures for so many yeares as your Mayster and you can agree for alwaies prouided wheÌ„ you come out of your yeres before you haue the liberties of London you must be of the age of foure and twenty yeres the same maister as I told you in the duty of maysters must teach you or cause you to be taught your occupation he to find you meat drink linnen wollen hose shoes and all other such necessaries And if you haue serued your mayster truely then he wil make you a freeman of London wherby you may liue with the ayde of almighty God doe full well as your mayster before you hath done You must be carefull and myndfull to carry awaye good exhortations when you heare them and willing and dilligent to please your Mayster and Mistresse in which doing you shall fynde great commoditie and profyte Puer When a man is bound shal he not go into the Countrey to see his friendes during the tyme of his Apprentiship nor a shooting in the fyeldes I loue that excercise well Ciuis Not without your mayster and Mistresse giue you leaue and you must take heede you doe not tarry long abroade then neyther for when you are absent you know not occasyon of busynesse they shall haue for you to doe Puer Then the seruants are at a better poynt in the countrey although they take paynes on the working dayes yet they maye goe leape shote Daunce Dise Card and bowle and vse what gaming they shall think good on the Sondaye and Holiday Ciuis You cannot do so in London I remember there was a statute made in the sixte yeare of the reigne of King Henrye the eyght that al Constables and other head officers fynding or knowing any person vsing or exercysing any vnlawfull Games as Tenis playe bowles Claish and al other vnlawful games prohibited by many statutes shall haue full power to commit euery such offender to warde there to remayne without Bayle or Maynprise tyll such tyme he or they so offending be bound by obligation to the Kinges vse in such somme as by discretioÌ„ of the same Officer shal be thought reasonable that they from thenceforth shal not vse any vnlawfull Games and besydes in another statute the Constables doth incur the daunger of a penaltie assessed vpon them for the neglecting of their duetyes and office and is not this put in execution in your countrey Puer God forbid it shoulde what shoulde wee doe when Seruice is done Ciuis I told you in the duety of the maysters so it is the dutye of alseruauntes to vse games and honest pastymes and excercyses alowable by the lawes of this realme that is shooting or else adict your selfe if you cannot reede with some well disposed person that can reade to here the scriptures reade descant vpon them and let that be your games and pastymes Puer These are very straunge conceites and doe the seruauntes in London I pray you vse this exercise Ciuis If they doe not it is lamentable their duety it is and myne lykewyse although wee be obliuious therin God graunt that we may be more myndfull thereof Puer I pray you now proceede and shew mee some aucthours and the duety of a seruaunte towarde his mayster Ciuis I thanke God I can somewhat shew it vnto you for I haue bene a seruant and now a mayster haue charge of seruants whereby I should know both although I must needes confesse Therighteous man offendeth and so may both

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