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	love_v	parent_n	3,193	5	9.2231	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00410	Questions of profitable and pleasant concernings talked of by two olde seniors, the one an ancient retired gentleman, the other a midling or new vpstart frankeling, vnder an oake in Kenelworth Parke, where they were met by an accident to defend the partching heate of a hoate day, in grasse or buck-hunting time called by the reporter the display of vaine life, together with a panacea or suppling plaister to cure if it were possible, the principall diseases wherewith this present time is especially vexed.	O. B., fl. 1594.	1594 (1594)	STC 1054; ESTC S120718	71,141	94

wan their credit and aduancement by such degrees of fantasticall and slouthfull slightnesses but rather by valiant and aduenturous deeds acceptable and pleasing to kings and Princes their maisters whom they serued Which words he seemed not to heare on purpose to shew his mother in the most despitefullest sot he could her vnworthinesse to speake to him who was neither at so much leasure nor so base minded to leese any time in answering her Which she noting and the easilier by his knitting and frouncing his paire of lordly browes at her this tender Gentlewoman finding her selfe thus ouer awed by the weed her sonne fell into a great greefe or fresh lamēting the losse of the worthy Gentleman her husband this bastard God his father frō whom in the many yeares of their liuing together she had receiued no such discomfiture Withall breaking into these words vttered it should seeme with much griefe Shall I die ere I see the hope of one of thy father his vertues come from thee Had not thy birth made thee a Gentleman this painted apparell with thy darke conditions would prooue thee but a mock Gentleman They that borow gestures and apparell to put on the out sides of Gentlemen for an houre could they become the persons of them they striue thus to counterfait no better then thou imitatest thy fathers inwarde vertues notwithstanding their apparrell and likenesse of them they would present they should be thrust headlong from the stage Wretch that thou art to haue one finger of thy gloue the worst and meanest thing about thee better and of more worth then all thy conditions His remembrance being thus rubbed he gaue his mother this replie You tell me that which I make lessereckening of then the lace that tieth my shoo Care I for my father or your breeding me a Gentleman or should I be so foolish to thinke the world esteemeth or careth the more for me in that he hath left me gentilitie which neither he nor you could take from me I hauing that you see lying before you to whome I am more beholding then to heauen or earth Had my father left me enough of that then perhaps his vertues you speake of might haue had my good word now he is gone I confesse I haue heard my father when he was disposed to please himselfe to remember the seruices he did his Soueraignes at Bullen New Hauen Saint Quintins and I wot not where else besides Put case he did in these places thankes worthie offices beseeming a forward and a valiant Gentleman what is that to me Had I no money in my purse now to pay for my supper to night thinke you the reciting or remembrance of my fathers Acts would pay for my ordinarie Perhaps it would where nothing is to be had so nothing and nothing may haue a merrie meeting but something and something shall haue the better greeting His pensiue mother too much discontented and discomforted with this carelesse and irreligious answer fell into a further perturbation or rather greeuous passion of minde out of which these words were occasioned Alas the while that I should liue to heare a counterfait wretch contrarious to nature and borne of my body to recken his fathers liuing too little for him and his vertues too great Are we come to that passe now not to care how we be bred nor on whom so that lands and goods be one let the deuill or the dung-hill be the other it mattereth not Had thy father carried that minde or rightly discerned thy disposition he would haue left thee that which should better haue fitted thy conditions and haue bestowed a gentle gift vpon a Gentleman Is there a diligent choise made and a principall labour taken to make horses fit for a Prince his stable shall we not admit or bestow the like care to breed and fashion men beseeming a worthy Prince and nation in their better places and seruices If a horse that is not rightly bred prooue better then the generation from whence he commeth because of the ill likelihood it is more then was looked for On the contrary part if a horse that was duly bred miscarry come short of the likely or rather certaine grounds of well doing it cannot be without faults in themselues who wanted not good breeding Thou canst looke for no lesse then a heauy iudgement from God for thus pulling downe with thy vices whom he had exalted for vertues There I see money lying before thee for land I am sure is already solde I feare the rest standeth but vpon assurance Lock it vp and keepe it safe since thy lands thou couldst not keepe As for thy conditions trust them abroad loose I warrant thee neither Gentleman nor honestman will robbe thee of them Dunst Surely sir it is a dangerous wit which maketh a man forget nature Had it not bene for the ordinance of nature this Gentlemans father might haue had perhaps more likely reasons and better hopes to haue bestowed his liuing vpon some other of his children or kindered May this geare go on this sort we shall haue an vntoward race of children if they be no better taught then thus to care for none nor to shew duty longer nor futher then they receiue benefits To say truly they that care not what parents they come off I little thinke they can sufficiently regard themselues or loue their children Hud You did well to put me in minde of my owne forgetfulnesse of the time of the day which already beginneth to bid vs good night Dunst I wonder how a man thus puffed vp with the whirlewinde of vanitie could keepe his bones from breaking vnder his flesh My Lord is not yet returned from hunting so that if I haue not wearied you too much already I may hope to enioy you yet another while till this discourse at the least be at an end Hud My businesse being altogether with my Lord no excuse nor borrowed occasion shall carry me frō you till by the last season of the euening we be constrained to part Du. Then I beseech you sir to finish these newes and shew me what became of this Gentleman Hud After all was sold and spent there fell out this merry iest All his men sauing one were gone to set vp their bils in Pauls to catch another yong maister better feathered then the other whose plumes they had pulled within the downe He finding himselfe thus forsaken in a lunatick sort bad his man thus post alone left with him make ready his horses for he would ride home and liue sparingly vsing abstinence after a surfet till his halfe years rent should be due To which his man made answer why sir whither will you go Marry knaue quoth he home named the place To which he smilingly replyed You know sir you tooke money for that long ago Why villaine quoth the Maister where is the money then I thinke Sir spent saith his man The money spent saith the Maister my land sold and