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	husband_n	wife_n	7,705	5	7.0226	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19705	Cupids messenger: or, A trusty friend stored with sundry sorts of serious, wittie, pleasant, amorous, and delightfull letters. Newly written		1629 (1629)	STC 6122; ESTC S105143	34,686	64

no seducer you shall finde mee as you haue done a faithfull Cabinet full of your goodnesse E. L. Another to the same purpose Much honoured Mistris THe neuer-ceasing streame of your gratious kindnesses hath by the often thinking on their due deseruings profoundly imbosomed themselues in my gratefull affection which no course of tedious time can extenuate nor the longest absence by distance haue power to diminish But oh most kinde meriter of all respect whose good will I estimate as my greatest enrichment although the condigne requitall of such your rare courtesies lye not in the compasse and precinct of my poore power whose tenuity is not able to pay such and exceeding tribute yet how willing my mind is and how inextinguishable my desires this illiterate Epistle will testifie which deuoid of elegancies yet full fraught with the vnfeigned profession of my loue promiseth the imployment of my vttermost powers in all seruiceable endeauors if all that I can doe may but defray one mi●e of your inualuable courtesies Command my seruice there is not any thing so great that I will shrinke or so small that 〈◊〉 will disdaine to effectuate for your sake hauing vowed to dye before any word issuing from your lips shall come in vaine But least I should detract too much time from your more serious affaires in all humility I take my leaue Yours vnfainedly P.Q. Her Answer THough I am far from vanity to esteeme my selfe worthey of the style of beauty yet I see not how to excuse your sinister opinion that would thereto annexe so great an inconuenience for it seemes if things might be ordered by your mind you would haue beauty and loue to be inseparable companions oh grosse oh absurd wish and most execrable position against beauty and loue Then any vitious deformed or beggerly creature being but conducted by good fortune to the view of some rare Virgin this vnworthinesse must not onely be entertained but hee that rather deseru●d to be hissed away with disdaine must straight bee made the owner and Lord of her loue Nor shall it be in her power to giue a repulse to the presumption of ind●g●e●u●ers or to make ●●ee election of a deseruing personage to honour him with her gracious fauour But I hope sir being thus clearly conuinced you will confesse and make recantation of your error I rest as I haue reason Yours not to vse S. M. A Letter of discontent after the falling out of Louers Most discourteous and painted friend IT is the custome of Louers after the breach of their league and amitie to send backe those gratuities which formerly passed as tokens of their naturall affections you haue taken vp the fashion and beléeue mee I abhorre any longer to haue nearnesse with one of your qualification who for méere trifles can dissolue the knot of friendship and shake hands with familiarity For know that your memorie which was sometime deare in my thoughts is now abhorred seeing that the firmnesse and stability of affection then which there is nothing ought by men more religiously to be obserued you haue so causelesly brought to annihilation I may parallel my present condition to the state of the Sunne when pitchy clouds which enuironing him round about séeme to extinguish his splendor but time the perfecter of all terrestriall things may in due season impart a luster correspondent to my hopes and sutable to my disposition till when I will scorne the blasts of aduersity and dead all those who hauing little or no merits are endowed by the dispensation of the owly-eyd goddesse Fortune with large possessions howsoeuer if I can find no better to conuerse and spend my time withall then your selfe I will turne Momus and for euer hate the society of men but hauing a better opinion of the generality for your part I cashiere you with this Vltimum vale and rest A stranger A B. To his angry Mistris AS the declining of the Sunne brings a generall darknesse and discomfort so the deficiencie and absence of your shining and glorious fauours hath ouercouered mee with clouds of care But as the Suns heauenly essence by the course of Nature is daily reuiued so here I humbly sue that your wonted gracious aspect may returne in your countenance to solace the dolefull heart of your seruant with vicissitude of long intermitted alacrity it will redound to your great commendation when the world shall vnderstand that your heart is of waxe not inexorable and of a flinty and adamantine constitution hoping that you will be as ready compassionatly to grant as I doe submissiuely implore the renouation of your loue I rest Yours in vnutterable affection R. S. A Letter from an At prentice in London to his father in the Country MY humble dutie remembred good father vnto you and my mother Hauing the opportunitie of this bearer I thought good to certifie you of my present being giuing you to vnderstand that I am I thanke God and you in good health and very well placed here in London where I am in hope to continue my here being to some profitable and good purpose My Master vseth me in good sort and I want nothing that appertained to such a one as my selfe I trust you shall haue ioy of me and ere a few yeares passe I doubt not but so to be haue my selfe that I shall well deserue this good liking that already I haue of my master and further credit at his hands and employment about his businesse I hope you and my mother and all our friends in the countrie are in good health I pray you that you will write vnto my master as occasion serueth and thanke him for his good vsage and if you can to remember him with some good conuenient token from the countrie Thus desiring your daily blessings and with a recommendation of my humble dutie vnto you both I take my leaue Your louing and obedient son to command D. P. London A Letter from a husband to his wife GOod wife considering my hastie departure from you and my children my hope is that you will haue that louing and respectiue care towards them and your family that appertaineth I haue left manie things raw by reason of the suddennesse of my iourney which standeth vpon your good regard to be ordered as namely the charge of my seruants and the disposition of some other affaires and businesses You shall now shew your selfe a discréet and carefull wife if in my absence you will take vpon you to bée in my place Regard and consider with your selfe that seruants are negligent and carelesse and if the master forget his owne profit they are as readie as others to share with his gaines Your painfull attendance to oure-looke them shall straine their labours to my vsing your desire to see to them shall worke their vsing to my well deseruing You must now a little forget neighbourhood and walking for companie considering the old prouerbe that when the Cat is a way the Mouse will