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	mother_n	parent_n	5,127	5	9.0796	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04640	Catiline his conspiracy· VVritten by Ben: Ionson	Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.	1611 (1611)	STC 14759; ESTC S107869	61,878	112

you And I would make those your complexion Would you of whom the Senate had that hope As on my knowledge it was in their purpose Next sitting to restore you as they ha' done The stupide and vngratefull Lentulus Excuse me that I name you thus together For yet you are not such would you I say A person both of Blood and Honor stock't In a long race of vertuous Ancestors Embarke your selfe for such a hellish action With Parricides and Traitors men turn'd Furies Out of the wast and ruine of their fortunes For 't is despaire that is the mother of madnesse Such as want that which all Conspirators But they haue first meere colour for their mischiefe O I must blush with you Come you shall not labour To extenuate your guilt but quit it cleane Bad men excuse their faults good men will leaue ' hem He acts the third crime that defends the first Here is a Lady that hath got the start I● piety of vs all and for whose vertue I could almost turne Louer againe but that Terentia would be i●alous What an honor Hath shee atchieued to her selfe What voices Titles and loud applauses will pursue her Through euery street What windores will be fill'd To shoote eyes at her What enuy and griefe in Matrons They are not shee when this her act shall seeme Worthier a Chariot then if Pompey came VVith Asia chain'd All this is while shee liues But dead her very name will be a Statue Not wrought for time but rooted in the minds Of all posterity when Brasse and Marble I and the Capitol it selfe is dust FVL. Your Honor thinks too highly of me CIC. No I cannot thinke inough And I would haue Him emulate you 'T is no shame to follow The better precedent Shee shewes you Curius VVhat claime your Countrey laies to you and what duty You owe to it Be not afraid to breake VVith Murderers and Traytors for the sauing A life so neare and necessary to you As is your Countries Thinke but on her right No Child can be too naturall to his Parent Shee is our common Mother and doth challenge The prime part of vs Doe not stop but giue it He that is void of feare may soone be iust And no Religion binds men to be Traitors FVL. My Lord he vnderstands it and will follow Your sauing counsell But his shame yet stayes him I know that he is comming CVR. Doe you know it FVL. Yes let me speake with you CVR. O you are● FVL. What a● I CVR. Speake not so loud FVL. I am what you should be Come doe you thinke I 'ld walke in any plot Where Madame Sempronia should take place of me And Fuluia come i' the rere or on the by That I would be her second in a businesse Though it might vantage me all the Sunne sees It was a seely phant'sie of yours Apply Your selfe to me and the Consul and be wife Follow the fortune I ha' put you into You may be some thing this way and with safety CIC. Nay I must tolerate no whisperings Lady FVL. Sir you may heare I tell him in the way Wherein he was how hazardous his course was CIC. How hazardous how certaine to all ruine Did he or doe yet any of them imagine The Gods would sleepe to such a Stygian practise Against that Commonwealth which they haue founded With so much labour and like care haue kept Now neare seuen hundred yeares It is a madnesse Wherewith Heauen blinds 'hem when it would confound 'hem That they should thinke it Come my Curius I see your nature's right you shall no more Be mention'd with them I will call you mine And trouble this good shame no farder Stand Firme for your Countrey and become a man Honor'd and lou'd It were a noble life To be found dead embracing her Know you What thanks what titles what rewards the Senate Will heape vpon you certaine for your seruice Let not a desperate action more engage you Then safety should and wicked friendship force VVhat honesty and vertue cannot worke FVL. He tels you right sweete friend 'T is sauing counsaile CVR. Most noble Consul I am yours and ●ers I meane my Countries you ' haue form'd me new Inspiring me wi●h what I should be truely And I intreate my faith may not seeme cheaper For springing out of penitence CIC. Good Curius It shall be dearer rather and because I l'd make it such heare how I trust you more Keepe still your former face and mixe againe With th●se lost spirits Runne all their mazes with'hem For such are treasons Finde their windings out And subtle turnings watch their snaky waies Through brakes and hedges into woods of darkenesse VVhere they are faine to creepe vpon their breasts In pathes nere trod by Men but Wolues and Panthers ●earne beside Catiline Lentulus and those VVhose names I haue what new ones they draw in VVho else are likely what those Great ones are They doe not name what waies they meane to take And whither their hopes point to warre or ruine By some surprize Explore all their intents And what you finde may profit the Republique Acquaint me with it either by your selfe Or this your vertuous friend on whom I lay The care of vrging you I le see that Rome Shall proue a thankefull and a bounteous Mother Be secret as the night CVR. And constant Sir CIC. I doe not doubt it Though the time cut off All vowes The dignity of truth is lost VVith much protesting Who is there This way Least you be seene and met And when you come Be this your token to this fellow Light ' hem O Rome in what a sicknesse art thou fall'n How dangerous and deadly when thy head Is drown'd in sleepe and all thy body feu'ry No noise n● pulling no vexation wakes thee Thy Lethargie is such or if by chance Thou heau'st thy eye-lids vp thou dost forget Sooner then thou wert told thy proper danger I did vnreuerendly to blame the Gods VVho wake for thee though thou snore to thy selfe Is it not strange thou should'st be so diseas'd And so secure But more that the first symptomes Of such a malady should not rise out From any worthy member but a base And common strumpet worthlesse to be nam'd A haire or part of thee Thinke thinke hereafter What thy needes were when thou must vse such meanes And lay it to thy breast how much the Gods Vpbraid thy foule neglect of them by making So vile a thing the Author of thy safety They could haue wrought by nobler waies haue strooke Thy foes with forked lightning or ramm'd thunder Throwne hilles vpon 'hem in the act haue sent Death like a dampe to all their families Or caus'd their consciences to burst ' hem But VVhen they will shew thee what thou art and make A scornefull difference 'twixt their power and thee They helpe thee by such aides as Geese and Harlots How now What answere Is he come LIC. Your Brother VVill streight be