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
A02151	The pleasant historie of Dorastus and Fawnia VVherein is discovered, that although by the meanes of sinister fortune, truth may be concealed; yet by time, in spight of fortune, it is manifestly revealed. ... By Robert Greene, Master of Arts in Cambridge.; Pandosto	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1636 (1636)	STC 12292; ESTC S103413	39,826	56

vnder her hand Fawnia thought Porrus had béene her father and Mopsa her mother for so was the Shepheard and his wife called and honoured and obeyed them with such reuerence that all the neighbours praised the dutifull obedience of the child Porrus grew in short time to be a man of some wealth and credit For Fortune so fauoured him in hauing no charge but Fawnia that hée began to purchase Land intending after his death to giue it to his daughter So that diuers rich Farmours sonnes came as wooers to his house For Fawnia was something cleanly attired being of such singular beauty and excellent wit that who so saw her would haue thought shée had béene some heauenly Nymph and not a mortall creature In so much that when shee came to the age of sixteene yéeres shee so increased with exquisite perfection both of body and minde as her naturall disposition did bewray that shee was borne of some high parentage But the people thinking she was the daughter to the Shepheard Porrus rested onely amazed at her beauty and wit Yea shee won such fauour and commendations in euery mans eye as her beauty was not onely praised in the Countrey but also spoken of in the Court Yet such was her submisse modesty that although her prayse daily increased her minde was no whit puffed vp with pride but humbled her selfe as became a country maid and the daughter of a poore Shepheard Euery day she went forth with her sleep to the field keeping them with such care and diligence as all men thought she was very painefull defending her face from the heat of the Sunne with no other vaile but with a Garland made of boughes and flowers Which attire became her so gallantly as she seemed to be the goddesse Flora her selfe for beauty Fortune who all this while had shewed a friendly face began now to turne her backe and to shew a lowring countenance intending as shée had giuen Fawnia a slender checke so shee would giue her a harder mate To bring which to passe she laid her trains on this wise Egistus had but one onely sonne called Dorastus about the age of twenty yéeres a Prince so decked and adorned with the gifts of Nature so fraught with beauty and vertuous qualities as not only his father ioyed to haue so good a sonne but his Commons reioyced that God had sent them so noble a Prince to succéed in the Kingdome Egistus placing all his ioy in the perfection of his sonne séeing that hee was now marriageable sent Ambassadours to the King of Denmarke to intreate a marriage betwéen him and his daughter Who willingly consenting made answer that the next Spring if it pleased Egistus with his sonne to come into Denmarke he doubted not but they should agree vpon reasonable conditions Egistus resting satisfied with this friendly answer thought conuenient in the meane time to break it vnto his sonne Finding therefore on a day fit opportunity he spake to him in these fatherly termes DOrastus thy youth warneth me to preuent the worst and mine age to prouide the best Opportunities neglected are signes of folly actions measured by time are seldome bitten with repentance Thou art young and I old age hath taught me th●t which thy youth cannot conceiue I therefore will counsell thée as a Father hoping thou wilt obey as a child Thou seest my white haires are blossomes for the Graue and thy fresh colours fruit for time and Fortune so that it behooueth me to thinke how to dye and for thee to care how to liue My Crowne I must leaue by death and thou enioy my Kingdome by succession Wherein I hope thy Vertue and prowesse shall be such as though my subiects want my person yet shall see in thee my perfection That nothing either may faile to satisfie thy minde or increase thy dignities the onely care I haue is to sée thee well married before I die and thou become old Dorastus who from his infancy delighted rather to die with Mars in the field then to dally with Venus in the chamber fearing to displease his father and yet not willing to be wed made him this reuerend answer SIr there is no greater bond then duty nor no stricter Law then Nature disobedience in youth is often galled with despight in age The commend of the father ought to be a constraint to the child so parents wills are lawes so they passe not all Lawes May it please your grace therefore to appoint whom I shall loue rather the by deniall I should beappeached of disobedience I rest content to loue though it be the onely thing I hate Egistus hearing his sonne to flie from from the marke began to be some what chellericke and therefore made him this answer What Dorastus canst thou not loue Commeth this Cinicall passion of proud desires or péeuish frowardnes What dost thou thinke thy selfe too good for all or none good enough for thee I tell thee Dorastus there is nothing sweeter then youth nor swifter decreasing while it is increasing Time past with folly may be repented but not recalled If thou marrie in age thy wiues fresh coulours will bréd in thée dead thoughts and suspition and thy white haires her loathsomnes and sorrow For Venus affections are not fed with Kingdomes or treasures but with youthfull conceits and swéet a●ours Vulcan was allotted to shake the trée but Mars allowed to reape the fruit Yéeld Dorastus to thy fathers perswasions which why preuent thy perils I haue chosen thée a wife faire by nature Royall by birth by vertues famous learned by education and rich by possessions so that it is hard to iudge whether her bounty or fortune her beauty or vertue be of greates force I meane Dorastus Euphania daughter and heire to the King of Denmarke Egistus pausing here a while looking when his sonne should make him answer and séeing that he stood still as one in a trance he tooke him vp thus sharpely VVEll Dorastus take héed the trée Alypa wasteth not with fire but withereth with dew that which loue nourisheth not perisheth with hate If thou like Euphania thou bréedest my content and in louing her thou shalt haue my loue otherwise and with that he flung from his sonne in a rage leauing him a sorrowfull man in that he had by denyall displeased his father and halfe angry with himselfe that he could not yéeld to that passion whereto both reason and his father perswaded him But see how fortune is plumed with times feathers and how she can minister strange causes to bréed strange effects It hapned not long after this that there was a méeting of all the Farmors daughters in Sicilia whither Fawnia was also bidden as the mistresse of the feast who hauing attired her selfe in her best garments went amongst the rest of her companions to a merry meeting there spending the day in such homely pastime as Shepheards vse As the Euening grew on and their sport ceased each taking their leaue of other