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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	marriage_n	parent_n	2,707	5	9.3519	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54811	The two first books of Philostratus, concerning the life of Apollonius Tyaneus written originally in Greek, and now published in English : together with philological notes upon each chapter / by Charles Blount, Gent.; Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Book 1-2. English	Philostratus, the Athenian, 2nd/3rd cent.; Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.	1680 (1680)	Wing P2132; ESTC R4123	358,678	281

dangerous than in a Prince since as well Children as Subjects Quem metu●ni ●den● Again ●n some Northern Parts of this Kingdom the Parents are guilty of another sort of partial Cruelty which extends only to their younger ●●ildren when for the honour of their Name and Family they bequeath ●ast Estates to 〈…〉 Sons and leave the rest in a manner Beggars or at most but a small Annuity 〈◊〉 to make them their Brother's Faulconer or Huntsman as if the vain-glorious F●●s ●alu'd the ridiculous Title of a Name or Family more than the true Off spring of their own Body Such a person would for want of Children bequeath his Estate to a drunken Porter of his own Name rather than to his Sister's Son of another Name Is not my youngest Son as much my own as my eldest Had I not rather see my own Children that are immediately descended from my own Loyns prosper than Grand-children that are three or four removes off from me Certainly no custom can be more barbarous or inhumane than this The Scriptures allow'd but a double Portion and that only when the Priesthood was annex'd to the Eldership Neither ought any man to be punish'd for that which he could not help such as 〈…〉 of Juniority For my own part not Interest but Reason inclines me to this opinion the Indulgence of my Parents having been such to all of us that none ha●e cause to complain few except themselves have resign'd up their All amongst their Children even in thei● own life-time which not out of vanity but gratitude I must ever acknowledge So that although some there are who want this natural Affection to their young ones which is here ascribed to Beasts yet are they but rare and not to be cited as an Objection against this supream Dictate of Nature the preservation of our own Species and Children The getting Children is to satisfie our own lustful Appetites and no● ou● of consideration o● good or ill to what we do beget which act of generation i● rendred ju●● and honourable according to the care we bestow upon our Children when born since the most sinful act in Marriage is to bring Children into the World and then to take no care of them Nay did not Religion teach 〈◊〉 otherwise I should think that Child who is left at another man's door in a Hand basket had no other Parent nor ow'd a 〈◊〉 duty to any but those who were at the charge of breeding him 2 Elephants I rank next after men for Vnderstanding c. In the great Shows at Rome Elephants were frequently seen taught to move and dance certain Dances of strange turnings and changings at the sound of a Voice Arrius pro●esteth to have seen an Elephant with Cimbals tyed to his Thigh and Trunk make variety of Musick to other Elephants whilst they danced Also that they have been observ'd to practise their Lesso●● with much study and care for fear of their Master's anger Pi●●n● lib. 2. d● Hi●roglyph makes mention of an Elephant called Hanno afterwards presented by Em●nu●l King of Portugal to Pope 〈◊〉 the 10th who understood the advice of his Master as well as any man 〈◊〉 nor could ever be perswaded or compell'd to do contrary thereunto 〈◊〉 lib. 2. hist. Medit. saith that the Lord of Busbeck the Emperor of Germany's Ambassador at Constantinople saw an Elephant play very artificially at Tennis which is no less strange than that Story of Terence concerning an Elephant that walked upon a Rope Iuba King of Barbary reports that when any Elephant happens to fall into those Pits that are laid for him his Brethren will come with Stones and pieces of Timber to help him out An Elephant's Keeper in a private House in Syria being used to rob him of half his Provender he discover'd it thus his Master feeding him one time himself and giving him his whole quantity the Elephant looking sternly on his Master divided it in two parts with his Trunk Another having a Keeper who to increase the measure of his Provender was used to mingle Stones with it came one day to the Pot wherein his Keeper's Meat was seething and filled it with Ashes By all which we may justly conclude that there is more difference in Understanding found between some men and others than between some men and this Beast We find mention of three sorts of Elephants namely of Marishes of Mountains and of Fields They that are born and bred in Marishes have more agility but less wit the Mountainers are wicked and trayterous they of the Champain Countrey are easilyest tamed and most apt to learn the Elephants of the Indies are the fiercest of all others and very hard to tame they of Lybia are the least which cannot abide the smell nor voice of man and fly away before the Elephants of India as appear'd in that memorable Battel fought between the Kings Ptolomeus and Antiochus near to Raphi● and described by Polybius lib. 5. 3 Wolves being continually intent on their Prey The Wolf is a ravenous and devouring Beast therefore rightly sirnamed Spoil-Park those of the common sort have grizzled Hairs being white under the Belly with a great Head long Teeth sparkling Eyes short prickt Ears and Feet like the Feet of a Lion therefore call'd Lupus from Leopes Quia pedem quasi pedes Leonis habet Where these Creatures live the people are much infested with them When they come to the Sheep-folds they observe which way the Wind bloweth and then come marching against it that thereby they may the better deceive the Shepherd and his Dogs When they prey upon Goats they hide themselves under the Leaves of Trees that they may the more easily obtain their desires And when they catch little Children it is said they will play with them for a while as a Cat plays with a Mouse and at last devour them The great cunning of this Creature appears by a Tradition they have in Ireland of a foot-Traveller who having a Gun upon his Shoulder and passing through a Wood was assaulted by a Wolf who no sooner observed his Gun but presently quitted him whereupon the man being gone a mile or two from the place far enough as he thought out of the Wolfe's reach and meeting a Passenger who was going the same way as he had come he told him of the Wolf he had met and lent him his Gun to defend himself now being come where the Wolf was and he spying the same Gun immediately pursued the first Traveller whom he overtook and being then unarm'd tore him in pieces which must proceed from his knowledge of the Gun as well as from his observation that the other must be therefore unarm'd Pliny lib. 8. ch 22. and from him Olaus Magnus write that Egypt and Africa bring forth small Wolves in respect of those which are in the Northern Parts of the World for as the Elephant detests cold so does the Wolf heat therefore in those cold Countreys of Suetia and Norway you