Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	father_n	parent_n	9,669	5	9.1242	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06672	The first part of the nature of a vvoman Fitly described in a Florentine historie. Composed by C.M.	C. M., fl. 1596.; Middleton, Christopher, 1560?-1628, attributed name.	1596 (1596)	STC 17126.5; ESTC S101403	25,105	47

such dutie as naturally belongeth to parents from the children and sorrowful to beholde their old father labouring so earnestly with the wearie assaults of neuer tired death swelling sorrowe plentifully flowes out at the christall condites of their starre like eies in pearle-like droppes of brinie salt teares Which when their old sire beheld giuing charge to some of his attendants there by to set him vp in his bed for by this had the bloody conflicts of al deuoring death almost druncke vppe al the moisture of his sometimes wel moistned members and vsing some perswasions to his gréeuing sonnes to desist from their wéeping he thus beginnes to dispose of his earthly riches Since quoth he the common course of continuall yéeres in the flourishing and fading fruits of our mother Earth daily decipher to our therfore gréeuing thoughts the vnconstant state of our here abode may sufficiently perswade and induce you to conceiue the occasion that hath brought me your old father to be a weake souldior as here you sée in the lists of death who haue past the spring of my growth the summer of my flourishing the Autumne of my fading must nowe like a dried leafe fal in the comfortlesse bosome of colde killing winter at whose end you must beginne whose death must be your life and whose fal the step wherein you must tread to arise then take truce a while with the vnbrideled course of nature and learne with patience to loose that which care can not kéepe your many teares may occasion some hurt to you but were they more then they are they could not al help me when this conquering captaine vnder whose cruel hand lieth vanquished your sometimes vanquishing father prowdly triumphed in the treble victorie of your woorthie grandsire to whome my selfe was sole heire he though rich yet left me poore and though I succéeded in the possession of much wealth yet was I then but slenderly stored with wisedome so that what he had carefully got I at the first as carelesly spent til the experience of some few yéeres though it were somewhat long yet was it not too late enriched me with the one as he had stored me with the other both which I leaue more amply to you then I did plentifully receiue them of him Then taking in hand his crowne this heauen quoth hée which I like Atlas haue long supported must I nowe lay vpon your shoulders and on you two disloade this heauie burthen which hath so long béene onely borne by me Breake it I may not in twaine whose golden circle closeth so manie in one containing the welfare of as many people within this ring as the Atlantike sea compasses in her gréedie armes Diuision brings foorth discord discord confusion confusion desolation which woful end to preuēt by a good beginning I haue thus contriued Twins you are both and therfore in birth equal Thou quoth hee Perseus to his eldest son art a scholler richly adorned with the great gift of godlike learning and therefore mightest chalenge a prerogatiue aboue thy brother but that Theseus speaking then to his yongest sonne hath as farre excéeded thée in the practise of a souldiour as thou him in the profession of a scholler so that being ioyned togither you would make one perfect man but seuered are two maimed members It is reported of the Pelican that with her owne blood she reuiued her dead yong and so I though wanting blood to recall you from the dead pleasures of yoong secure delights yet shal my latest breath counsel you to the careful desire of vertuous déedes The Rauen so long as shée is able to prouide meate for her yong wil neuer let them flie from her sight and so fares it with me willing stil to enioy your desired companies as long as I might but sith I am now too weake to swim against so great a currant as is this sea of death that drowneth in eternall obliuion whatsoeuer the worlde hath brought forth since her first creation I must here vrged of necessitie leaue that which willingly I would prolong And therefore in a word I bequeath to you this crown and kingdom which your forefathers for many yéeres haue royally vpholden be as one soule in two bodies two men but one minde two hands gouerned by one head Let thy wit direct his weapon and his weapon defend thy wit There is a roote in Libia that beareth two bulkes which as long as they cleaue together prosperously flourish but being seuered they soone fade Great streames that forcibly breake forth of the bowels of mighty mountains kéeping their course togither within compas of two banks forcibly preuaile against al oppositions but being separated their force decreases and themselues in the end decay There are two friendly fishes alwayes kéeping companie together opposing themselues against the mightiest monsters that the sea affoords but when by any sinister occasion they are separated then are they easily ouercome by smaller creatures then themselues Be not proud least you be hated nor too humble for then will you be dispised heare the complaints of the poore and then shall you be beloued and punish the misdéedes of the wicked and so shall you be feared Surfet not with drinking much wine for that will bréed follie nor accompanie with many women for thence comes all iniquitie Vse your sports in measure and deferre not your weightie affaires for the loue of vaine pleasure Do iustice with all sinceritie and let not your punishment taste too much of seueritie Take héede of the crie of Orphans for that ascends to heauen and procureth speedie vengeance and incurre not the curse of widowes for that weyes downe to hell from whence there is no redemption Well could I wish that my now decaying breath were not so sore vrged by impartiall death to leaue this concaue castell of my panting breast that I might more enrich you with that good whereof you shall haue farre more néede then of much golde but what heauen prouides cannot by vs be preuented and therefore must I leaue you to your fortunes which proue as prosperously as your father wisheth it heartily And so kissing both his sonnes and making some signes still of more matter when his weake tong had denied any more to performe his office and shortly after turning his face to the wall ended his dayes The mutual succession of his sonnes in his Dukedome The second Chapter AFter whose death his sonnes carefully prouides to order all things in the best order for the adorning of their fathers funeral All which done the funerall rites solemnised and euerie thing fully brought to ende all which after they according to the solemne custome of their ciuil country sumptuously had performed they took order for their coronation which was also in euery part effectually discharged as they had orderly deuised so that now it rested for them ioyntly to goe forwarde in the peaceable gouernement of that quiet common wealth which their deceased father had left vnto their