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	law_n	parent_n	4,009	5	8.7116	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02203	Epigrams and sentences spirituall in vers, of Gregori Nazanzen, an auncient & famous bishop in the Greke churche Englished by Tho. Drant.	Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint.; Drant, Thomas, d. 1578?	1568 (1568)	STC 12345.5; ESTC S4328	27,951	96

more thou canst be gonne thou pelfe Thy lycence is exspirde Thynke not to make me lyke thy selfe Nowe must I marche to heauen Up to the Threshoulds pure and fine With fresh and gloriouse lyght My nouell lyfe must shewe and shine To god aloft in skyes Aduaunce I do my heaued hand Receyue my god my soule Mongst troups of thine where bright thou stands I dyinge leue a flocke And praye that world thou wouldst them spare Fare well to the o worlde World Fare the well full freyght with care A good beginning a good endir That eche good acte that 's well begonne Doth luckely fall out That doth the ende aduertise the When it is brought aboute Constancy is crowned A life that had beginning good And ends as it beganne Doth endid bringe an endlesse life And deifye a man Hie speakinge Be furnisht well to speake or ells ▪ In speach mount not to hie The bird wil haue hir feathers first Ere she assaye to flye Vse and Abuse The greatest ornament to lyfe Is knowledge vsed right Abused knowledge is againe Most yrcksome vnto sight Vaine glorie Let not vayne glory moue the ought Or winde the in with wyle The simplest man the soner she Gyues onsett to beguil Continuaunce In workynge well contynnue still And neuer loke thou backe The course lyes easy vnto sinne If once thou ginne to slacke Laughter anger babling Laughe not controule thyne anger swift To anger be thou slowe An ydle and vnthriftie worde Thy lipps let them not knowe Dutie to God parents preists ▪ and Elders Feare god and to thy parents kinde An humble dutie paie The preists and elders reuerence Whose heads with hoare do swaye Parentes and Children The sonne with syer to be at lawe And brablinge to contende That wrightings and that Natures laws For bidde and discommende Suche like What thou in no wise canst abide To suffer in an other That thou in no wise worke or wishe Unto thy Christian Brother Proportion Great tortour is not great to him That greatly doth offend The lawes do leuye lyke to lyke And like to like do lende The tounge A Tounge well spoken vttereth out Of hoony wordes a fludde The foolyshe mouth doth vtter muche But vttereth litle good Language Forth out the wise mans wittie mouth Procedeth language swete Forth bitter chaps full brabling words Do inshue matched mete Haples frindles The riche mans house knowes no poore frinde Nor frindeth any such The rich mans house is frindly aye To him that hath as muche Drunkennes Smale single drinke doth not insoft The vigor of the mynde But bely fat ▪ and drunken noule Doth chaunge the from their kynde VVynde Who doth suppose vnruly windes To kepe a measure iust Whiche taken eftsons do vprayse A soft vngodly lust A fat belly a leane vvitt A gorrell paunche and godly mynde In one maye hardly lye Thinges contrary we playnly so Dryue out the contrary Thriftye dyet A dyet thinne doth profit more Then that thou dost deuise Uppon they Beade contriuinge it In coastly daintie wyse Fooles wise The frantike foole for dreames doth thinke Him selfe more wiser man Then he which thousandes many one His owne distribute can Baronnes A baron wombe then children had I rather wishe in will Thus am I sole but so should I Haue company of ill A milking sheparde The hungrie pastor let him milke Yea goots to fill his mawe But for swéet milke in strayning harde Méere bloud he shall out drawe Order The hogge when he at trowighe doth spye His drafe approchyng neare Betakes him selfe vnto his rome And keps no further stéere Order The dissolute and obstinate By force of lawe compell That they the lawes do right obserue And what becomes them well Order Mongst beasts which grouling féede on grounde Uppon theyr forage rude Mongst kenell vile of houling dogges And order their is shewde Man death To mortall men cutt of by death The earth is comen graue First earth he was now earth he is And him the earth must haue The good feare not Obseruing lawe thou mayst at ease Set feare of lawe aside For he that bideth in the lawe In feare neads not to bide VVisdome vanquisheth The practisd Pilote can eschue Both wracke of waue and winde Gainst haples happe the happie wise Best present helpe can finde Perseueraunce Those means eschue whyche leade not to The right and perfit waye For errour easy bendes to vyce And speady workes decaye VVisdome is stronge Not heauie thumpes or hamers harde Do moue at all a stithe To beare all bruntes a steadfast mynde Hath puisance strong and pithe Bugges fraye fooles Eche crackeling lefe the Leueret skars And some suche fooles we fynde That euery bushe and euery blast Doth skarre them from their mynde The poore giuing Those poore I hate to noble men Which giue their presentes gaye Who wordes againe and many wordes And only wordes repaye The lavvyer The wicked Lawyer with his lawe The law and realme doth mayme The vpright Lawier with his lawe Doth rule and saue the same The Tutour of the Fatherles The neadles chuffe that laugheth at The Orphans tricklyng teares Doth laugh at Gods owne vengfull ire An God his laughter heares The sentence not the vvordes He goose the redyest way of all The lawe for to distroye Who doth the meanyng of the lawe And sentence trewe annoye Diuersitie The poore man hath to mynde his meate His stomacke for to plye The riche hath muche and forceth not But still to more dothe hye Instruction of fooles Instruct a fole perseuer still Nor euer him forsake Thoughe hope be smale suche hap may be Thou shalt him wiser make Chastninge By stroke of stele the hardest flynte Is forcd to flynge out fyer A stony breast throughe discipline To vertue will aspire An othe If thou dost sweare or if throughe the An other man doth sweare Both thou dost ill and he doth ill And both the lawe do teare Treasure Hurde treasure fast but treasure suche Which end shall neuer tast All worldly treasure in the ende Shall suffer wracke and wast Short pleysure Easteme not that nor compte of it Which time to the hath brought For that which time erected hath That time will bringe to nought Pleasure chaungable Pleasure is pretye for a tyme Dilightfull vnto all But as she came she ouercasts ▪ As whurlyng as a bal. Shamefastnesse in vvomen A womans corps nor mannishe moade Nor mannishe trickes besitt Ther modesties a sober moade And shamefastnes doth fit Helth. In sicknesse nought more wishd then helth That haply Nature spies And therfore hunteth after helth And after helth she hies Bablinge A madd mans wordes are veary like The seas roughe raginge roore Which still doth beat vpon the banckes But nothing moist the shore Bribes That wyse men arre thats monies worke Bribes hath their hart in hould A bird is caught with twisted hempe A man is caught with gould A sadd spirit Care bringeth age before his tyme And that whiche age doth