Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	family_n	husband_n	wife_n	3,861	5	7.2804	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08357	To the Quenes Maiesties poore deceyued subiectes of the north countrey, drawen into rebellion by the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland. Written by Thomas Norton. Seen and allowed according to the Quenes iniunctions	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 18680; ESTC S113359	23,488	60

inestimable benefit a most gracious Quéene our most deare mother nurse and protectrice to draw vpon vs the yoke of a cursed and abhominable rule of most vile and cruell example odious to God and man to shake away a most peasible gouernment to pull vpon our owne heades by Gods iust plage most miserable calamitie flauerie and to be parteners of his iuste reuenge for the notorious euils of those whose yoke we should so séeke to enter And yet a change must be made by our wyse leaders greate discretions a noble change forsothe Some of you parhaps sée nothing but the outward shewe colour bicause you loke to nothing else which yet God wot is full il fauoured Your great Captains a likely matter pitying the foule dysorder of the realme of England so empouerished and decaied frō the maruelous welthy state wherin Quéen Marie lefte it so far indetted beyond the expenses of infinite treasure that King Philip brought and left in this land so subiected to strangers that had so small lykelyhode to haue oughte to doe here in Quéene Maries raigne so troubled with forrein warres and inuasions as we haue ben in the. xj yeares more of the Quéenes noble gouernment so defrauded of due excution of iustice that no subiect can haue his right by lawe wher in déed none wanteth his right but they and you that yet wante your due execution but may haue it time ynough and that most lamentable is those good deuout men as your holy Earle of Westmerlande and other in whome no kinde of lewdnesse lacked but rebellion which they haue now added to make vp their full heape of iniquitie y t they might be perfitly starke nought being gréeued forsoth to sée God yll serued in the common order of prayers preaching and administration of sacramentes and specially in this that the boke of God lieth open to the people and that god is serued after gods own teaching to remedie al those mischiefs these notably well chosen men like themselues haue called a noble Parlament Conuocation that is a route of vnlearned rude Rebelles forgetting all dutie to God Prince Countrey Neighbours and al that euer honest is and in this déep wise and godly assemblie by the inspiration of the Diuels spirit whome vnder false name of the holie Ghost they haue in abhominable sacrifice called vpon it is at length decréed enacted and proclaimed that your two Earles with the rest of their faction are the Quenes true and faithful subiectes that they haue a good meaning that nobilitie haue giuen their fayth to further it that disordered and euill disposed persons about the Quene seking their own aduancements haue ouerthrowne true religion disordred the realm and seke destruction of the nobilitie that these your good Gouernours wil with the help of God and good people redresse things amisse restore ancient customes liberties to the Church and Realme Finally they enforme of a great purpose of strangers to correcte and chasten vs to the hazard of the Realme which they wil auoyd by hazarding it themselues And after the ende they saye God saue the Quéene when in their doings and discourses before out of all course of dutie they haue plainly shewed it is not our quéene Quéene Elizabeth that they meane Blind men may iudge no colors A man in a darke place without light or he whose eies be blindefild or couered with any thing that he can not sée through or he that obstinately winketh is as vnapt to discerne colours as he that is stark blinde Wherfore if you will rightly iudge of these coloures and sée what they be in déed you must come out of that blinde corner of rebellion and errour where no truthe shyneth you muste shake of the veyle or couering of wrongfull affection and misunderstanding and you must leaue winking at your owne faultes and follies And principally you must pray to Almighty God to open your eies to giue you his grace to sée truthe and finde mercie at his handes And thus prepared I besech you descende to conferre these gaye colours in the broade light Your Earles say they are the Quéenes true subiects Suppose it for the time and for the questions sake as they would haue you but for the time and for their purposes sake to take it that they vnderstād or mean therby Quéene Elizabeth our most gracious soueraigne Ladie not any other that woulde bring vpon vs Mariana tempora the miserablest dayes that euer Rome or Englande felte Farre doth the proportion of dutie of Subiectes to the Prince exceede the dutie of Seruants to Maisters or Children to Parents yea or Wiues to their Husbands the very neerest conioyning in humaine fellowship euen so farre as a Realme excéedeth a priuate Familie But if one of your owne seruantes children or wiues should do that without your wil yea against your wil and expresse commaundement that your Captains and you haue attempted without and against the Quenes highnes plesure would you accompt them good seruaunts good children or good wiues If the seruant shall departe from his maisters seruice wythout leaue the childe from his fathers obedience the wife frō the society of her husband without hys contentement or pleasure knowen the case being supposed your owne you can not like it If they shall put on armoure and weapon and become terrible or threaten force to the Master Father Husband or the rest of the familie if the case I say were your owne you would more myslike it If they shall threaten to pull away to banish to destroy those frends or good seruantes or the rest of the children whom the maister father or husbande dearely estemeth by whose good trauayle cherishing and dutiful ministerie and attendance the maister father or husband is serued preserued mainteyneth the cōmodities of his contenāce this being your own case you would yet more disalowe it If they shall misentreate rob spoyle mayheme and murder some of the rest of those other seruauntes friendes children that the maister father or husband so dearly loueth for his benefite cōfortably vseth were it in your own case you wold now abhor it If by no warning prohibition request promise of recōciliation threatning or otherwayes they wil cesse off prosecuting their enterprise the case being your owne you would hiely stomack it If notwithstāding all these doings procedings continuings neglecting of threatnings reiecting of faire speache and promises these risers withstanders inuaders robbers murderers cōtemners without licence against the authoritie ageinst the open declaration of his own wil and meanes of pacification sought by the maister father or husbande will still saye and maintayn that they be true and faithfull seruantes humble and obedient children good and louing wiues if the cases were you owne you would not beleeue it The Quenes maiestie Quene Elizabeth is by al right the soueraigne Ladie Maistresse of vs al and of you too that must ye