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	parent_n	provoke_v	1,966	5	10.4177	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09207	The truth of our times revealed out of one mans experience, by way of essay. Written by Henry Peacham.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1638 (1638)	STC 19517; ESTC S114189	39,175	216

then covering them againe with turfes that the least winde in a manner would lay them along and these shifts do● mercilesse fathers put their children unto who though by nature towardly ingenious and no way vitiously given are oftentimes through poverty and want wrested from the bent and that naturall and inbred honesty of minde to doe things base and u●beseeming whereupon Mantua● wisely complaineth of poverty s●ying O mala paupe●tas vitij scelerisque m●nis●ra I ●●ve knowne some whom their fathers ha●●ng s●nt to the Univers●●●es or the Innes of court have le●t t●eir houses and cour●e o● studies for want of maintenance making mo●●y o● books bedding 〈…〉 as they had to 〈◊〉 else where hence ●hey have ●ot bee●e able to ●●epe company with the better sort they are undervalued all their lives after whatsoever their good parts are they are constrained to walke on foote take up their lodging in base Ale-houses bee haile fellow with every Tinker by every fire side many times driven by necessity they borrow of their kindred or fathers tenants lie at their houses sometimes for debt or despaire they are faine to leave the Land and seeke meanes in forraigne countries either by turning Souldiers or Seminaries sometimes not going so farre they take purses about home ending their miserable dayes at the gallowes where they cry out against their Parents Fathers especially hardnesse and carelesnesse of them in neither giving them maintenance or settling them in some course wherin they might have lived and prooved honest men and good members in the Common-wealth Neither must Parents have all the share in their Childrens undoing since I know though many are hard enough they all would have their children to doe well and the most are carefull enough to bring them up in all vertuous education yet many times their children are refractory and averse to all goodnesse out of an ill temperature of the minde by nature and proove so notoriously evill that nothing can reduce them to civility and honesty Such a one was Troilo Savello of late yeares in Rome descended of noble and honest Parents being their onely childe and hope of their house who by that time he was sixteene yeares of age joyning himselfe to the Banditi or out-lawd theevs and robbers became the arrentest villaine one of them that ever Italy bred and before those yeares his mother laid him up in prison being glad to keepe him alive there but hee breaking out and falling to murthering robbing and acting all manner of mischiefe was afterward beheaded If I mistake not there is the story of his life translated out of Italian into English by Sir Tobie Matthew I have often seene and read it over in Dutch but this by the way Sometimes among Children the Parents have two hopefull and the third voyd of all grace sometimes all good saving the eldest I remember when I was a School-boy in London Tarlton acted a third sons part such a one as I now speake of His father being a very rich man and lying upon his death-bed called his three sonnes about him who with teares and on their knees craved his blessing and to the eldest sonne said hee you are mine heire and my land must descend upon you aud I pray God blesse you with it The eldest sonne replyed Father I trust in God you shall yet live to enjoy it your selfe To the second sonne said ●e you are a scholler and what profession soever you take upon you out of my land I allow you threescore pounds a yeare towards your maintenance and three hundred pounds to buy you books as his brother he weeping answer'd I trust father you shall live to enjoy your money your selfe I desire it not c. To the third which was Tarlton who came like a rogue in a foule shirt without a a band and in a blew coat with one ●leeve his stockings out at the heeles and his head full of straw and feathers as for you sirrah quoth he you know how often I have fetched you out of Newgate and Bridewell you have beene an ungracious villaine I have nothing to bequeath to you but the gallowes and a rope Tarlton weeping and sobbing upon his knees as his brothers said O Father I doe not desire it I trust i● God you shall live to enjoy it your selfe There are many such sons of honest and carefull parents in England at this day I have also knowne many children to have prooved and become honest and religious through the loathing of the parents vices and lewdnesse of behaviour as if they have been addicted to drunkennesse the childe would never abide it or if to swearing their sonne was free from that vice yea many times children have prooved their parents best advisers and reclaimers from their vices I never knew any childe thrive in the world that was rebellious against father or mother by cu●sing them abusing them scorning them as many doe that come to p●e●●rment and high place from a poore paren●age and a meane beginning bu● the Iudgemen● o● God hath fallen heavy upo● them at one time or othe● Solomon saith valley● meaning they shall be hanged left fo● Ravens and other foules to feede upon I have also knowne very Religious and honest parents withall of very great ability who have had but onely one sonne in the world heire not onely to their owne inheritance but also to brothers other of the kin to whom they have given allowance according to his owne desire as his horse to ride on whither it pleased him money to spend among gentlemen to stay at home or goe whither and when hee listed yet all this and all the care they could take could not keepe him at home but like a vagabond to wander up and downe the country with common Rogues and Gipsies till at the last he came to the gallowes I have knowne two of this humour being the sonnes o● v●ry rich and able men my loving friends From sonnes I come to daughters of whom I have knowne many proper young gentlewomen daughters to rich and miserable clownes who to save their money for portions and servants wages keepe them at home unmarried making drudges of them to doe all manner of worke about the house till growing stale maides they bestow themselves on their fathers horse-keepers serving-men many times on tailors that come to worke at their houses so are oftentimes undone for ever That among these extreames we may come to a mediocrity Let both the Parent and the Childe listen to and remember the short but pithy advice of St. Paul in their reciprocall duty Children obey your Parents Parents provoke not your Children I never knew a race to thrive and prosper but where there was a firme and mutuall love of one toward the other in the childe a true filiall and fearefull to offend in the father that ●ame 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or naturall affection discending and applying it selfe without bitternesse to the disposition of weake and