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duty_n	child_n	honour_v	parent_n	3,428	5	9.3487	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08566	The fiue bookes of the famous, learned, and eloquent man, Hieronimus Osorius, contayninge a discourse of ciuill, and Christian nobilitie A worke no lesse pleasaunt then profitable for all, but especiallye the noble gentlemen of England, to vievv their liues, their estates, and conditions in. Translated out of Latine into Englishe by VVilliam Blandie late of the Vniuersitie of Oxeford, and novv fellovv of the middle Temple in London.; De nobilitate civili et christiana. English	Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580.; Blandie, William.	1576 (1576)	STC 18886; ESTC S113632	145,792	234

in the entermingling so many contrary sciences who besydes that he vnreuerently ioyned liberall artes and seruile occupations together omitted the knowledge skil of som things wherby the estate of a common wealth is kept and mainteined To passe ouer many which myght be spoken of I find not where he maketh mention of chiualrie which is the onlye defence and safegard of a common wealth But it could not be that Hippias nowe cutting out his cloake ▪ thē grauing his ring and sowing his sockes could haue any leasure to learne the feats of warre poynts of a good souldiar It is a thinge therefore most nedefull that some shoulde beare rule sit in the place of maiesty by whose wisedome and pollicye the multitude should be gouerned other some should geue them selues to warlike practises or to be cōning in some science through the perfectiō wherof they mighte in distresse and daunger be a staye to theyr countrye other till the ground other worke at annile all to the commoditie of their natiue countrie Whereas then it is very requisite that men should differ in degree ▪ dignitie in labour industrie Nature hath prouidētly wrought the varietie of witts of dispositions qualities Herehence the sharpe witte deepe iudgement the high and loftie minde proceedeth wherewith some are especially through Natures benefite endued Who through their good constellacion may both wisely forsee daunger and couragiously repell imminente mischiefe Socrates in the Booke entituled Phaedro calleth this excellency of Nature the gould of the Gods whereby he is indured to thincke that they whose mindes are thus beautifyed are vnto them allyed and fitte of all other to be placed on the earth in the Throne of Maiestie Dame Nature therefore the mother of all things hath placed them principally in highest roome of dignitie Other some she hath not framed in such perfite wise either for witte prowesse and valiauntnes yet hath shee imparted vnto them greate strength and much courage in so much they will not easly fainte but manfully obseruinge lawes and ordinaunces and aide their country in time of daunger Other she hath made more simple of vnderstandinge more coulde of courage and therefore iustly hath appointed them to toyle in seruile Artes of which sort are they whom we terme men of occupation For so it is brought to passe by the wōderfull prouidence of God that whereas ech man helpeth an other and laboureth in the Vocation wherunto he is called the estate of man kinde is thereby happely preserued And the diuersitie of man his inclination and disposition was knowen euen from that time when men as Barbarians wandered in woods and desolate places voyde of reason and all good ciuilitie For at that time some one beside the rest excelling in witte knowledge and industrie withdrew them through great perswasiōs from rudenes to ciuill gouernment from barbarousnes to all maner of gentlenes The which thing the best learned haue declared vnto vs vnder fictions and Poets tales As when Orpheus is fained to haue drawen vnto him the woods and wilde beastes by his sweete sounde and pleasaunt Harmonie Amphion in like maner is sayd to driue at his pleasure whither him listed stones and sensles things through the swetnes of his songe Whereby it is geuen vs to vnderstand that those men which for want of vnderstanding were as blunte as blocks were wonne by wysedome and brought by the pollicie of other to much ciuility By such a deede Theseus wanne great fame immortall memory Who first assembled into one place the people of Athens miserablye deuided geeuinge them profitable lawes and good ordinaunces I will in meane time let to speake of those who were longe before Theseus whiche erected and builded many Citties Then was it to bee seene howe much the gentlemanlike and Princely mynde was preferred before the base and abiecte courage In those vertue was so much loued and merueyled at that they which had receyued so greate benefite by such which excelled in vertue and honestye yelded themselues with all submission to be ruled by their wysdome in so much that when they were deade they gaue vnto them deuine honoures and embraced wyth entyre loue theyr children and ofspring Principally they were moued therevnto for that their benefites were freshe in memorye which were so great and many that of deutye they thought to render thanckes to theyr posteritye When afterwardes they founde and had experiensed that there was in the issue the true and liuely image of the parente not to be seene so much in the feature and makinge of the bodye as in the qualitye and disposition of the mynde then they were styrred vp excedingly not onely for the loue that they bare to theyr auncestours as for the especiall regarde that they had to the Noble dispositions of their progeny to honour that stocke and family to whom they did offer the swaye and gouernment of the common wealth most wilinglye If then any man will demaunde at what tyme Gentilitye first began hee is to learne that then it firste entred when men oute of order were reduced to good order by the perswasion and pollicie of such as were endued with the excellency of good Nature and noble bloud Which degree of honour was geuen for two causes First for the iust desertes of parents then for the great expectation and hope which they had in their ofspringe and progenie For it was imprinted in the minds of men in time paste that the father which did excell in vertue coulde not but leaue a sonne endued with the like giftes and the behauour maners and disposition to declare the worthines of noble birth and parentage which is most wisely noted by Euripides In tender yeares a Princely grace Is token sure of noble race The opinion wherof so much preuayled wyth our forefathers that who so descended from a worthy stocke him they hoped to see in processe of time adourned with noble vertues If so then the worthines and vertue of any one man was had in such admiration that he might challēge vnto himself as his owne right the superioritie the same man litle regarding these vaine and transitorie pleasures deriued the first originall cause of his birthe and Generation from the Deuine Nature of the Gods. The cause why the common people was induced and brought to this opinion proceeded not so muche from ignoraunce and superstition as from the great shew of vertue which appeared in their life and conuersation For it seemed vnto them a thinge very likely and probable that those sprang of a Deuine Nature which were endued with the excellencie of vertue and honestie Herehence arose those worthy wighes which Homer setteth out in his Ilias amonge whom no one was founde which fotte not his petegree from the Emperiall throne of Maiestie As for example Hector the noble Troian who whyle hee liued was the verye strength and staye of his countrye of whom Neptune warneth the Greecians Aie me I feare the enmies force