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duty_n	family_n	parent_n	superior_n	1,108	5	11.9710	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09800	The philosophie, commonlie called, the morals vvritten by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. VVhereunto are annexed the summaries necessary to be read before every treatise; Moralia. English	Plutarch.; Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637.	1603 (1603)	STC 20063; ESTC S115981	2,366,913	1,440

dishonest what is just and generally what to choise and what to refuse how we ought to beare our selves towards the gods and towards our parents what our demeanour should bee with our elders what regard we are to have of lawes what our cariage must be to strangers to superiours how we are to converse with our friends In what sort we ought to demeane our selves towards our children and wives and finally what behaviour it beseemeth us to snew unto our servants and familie For as much as our duetie is to worship and adore the gods to honour our parents to reverence our ancients to obey the lawes to give place unto our superiors and betters to love our friends to use our wives chastely and with moderation to be and affectionate to our children and not to be ouragious with our servants nor to tyrannize over them But the principall and chiefe of all is this not to shew our selves over joious and merrie in prosperitie nor yet exceeding heavie and sad in adversitie not in pleasures and delight dissolute nor in anger furious and transported or rather transformed into brutish beasts by choler And these I esteeme to be the foveraigne fruits that are to be gathered and gotten by Philosophie For to carrie a generous and noble heart in prosperitie is the part of a brave minded man to live without envie and malice is the signe of a good and tractible nature to overcom pleasures by the guidance of reason is the act of wise and sage men and to bridle and restraine choler is a mastry that every one cannot skill of But the height of perfection in my judgement those onely attaine unto who are able to joine and intermingle the politicke government of weale publike with the profession and studie of Philosophie For by this meanes I suppose they may enjoy two of the best things in the world to wit the profit of the common weale by managing State affaires and their owne good living so as they doc in tranquilitie and repose of mind by the meanes of Philosophie For whereas there be amongst men three sorts of life namely Active Contemplative and Voluptuous this last named being dissolute loose and thrall to pleasure is bruitish beastly base and vile The contemplative wanting the active is unprofitable and the active not participating with the speculation of Philosophie committeth many absurde conormities and wanteth ornaments to grace and beautifie it In which regard men must endevour and aslay as much as lieth in them both to deale in government of the State and also to give their mindes to the studie of Philosophie so farre foorth as they have time and publike affaires will permit Thus governed in times past noble Pericles thus ruled Archytas the Tarentine thus Dion the Syracusian and Epaminondas of Thebes swaied the State where they lived and both of them aswell the one as the other conversed familiarly with Plato As touching the Institution of children in good literature needlesse I suppose it is to write any more This onely will I adde unto the rest that hath beene said which I suppose to be expedient or rather necessarie namely that they make no small account of the workes and bookes of the ancient Sages and Philosophers but diligentlie collect and gather them together so as they do it after the maner of good husbandmen For as they doe make provision of such tooles as pertaine to Agriculture and husbandrie not onely to keepe them in their possession but also to use them accordingly so this reckoning ought to be made that the instruments and furniture of knowledge and learning bee good bookes if they be read and perused For from thence as from a fountaine they may be sure to maintaine the same And here we are not to forget the diligence that is to be imployed in the bodily exercise of children but to remember that they bee sent into the schooles of those masters who make profession of such feats there to be trained and exercised sufficiently aswell for the streight and decent grouth as for the abilitie and strength of their bodies For the fast knitting and strong complexion of the bodie in children is a good foundation to make them another day decent and personable old men And like as in time of a calme faire season they that are at sea ought to make provision of necessarie meanes to withstand foule weather and a tempest even so verie meete it is that tender age be furnishd with temperance sobrietie and continencie and even betimes reserve and lay up such voyage provision for the better sustenance of old age Howbeit in such order ought this labour and travell of children to be dispensed that their bodies be not exhaust and dried up and so by that meanes they themselves be overwearied and made either unmeet or unwilling to follow their booke afresh and take their learning For as Plato said very well Sleepe and lassitude be enemies to learning But why do I stand hereupon so much being in comparison so small a matter Proceed I will therefore and make haste to that which is of greatest importance and passeth all the rest that hath beene said before For this I say that youth ought to be trained to militarie feats namely in launcing darts and javelins in drawing a bow and shooting arrowes in chasing also and hunting wilde beasts Forasmuch as all the goods of those who are vanquished in fight be exposed as a prey and bootie to the conquerours neither are they fit for warfarre and to beare armes whose bodies having beene daintily brought up in the shade and within house are corpulent and of a soft and delicate constitution The leane and dry the raw bone soldiour fierce Who train'd hath beene in armes and warlike toile In field wholerankes of enemies will pierce And in the lists all his concurrents foile But what may some men say unto me Sir you have made promise to give us examples and precepts concerning the education of all children free borne and of honest parentage and now me thinkes you neglect the education of commoners and poore mens children and deliver no instructions but such as are for gentlemen and be sutable to the rich and wealthie onely To which objection it is no hard matter to make answere For mine owne part my desire especially is that this instruction of mine might serve all but in case there be some who for want of meanes cannot make that use and profit which I could wish let them lay the waight upon fortune and not blame him who hath given them his advise and counsell in these points And yet for poore men thus much will I say Let them endevour and straine themselves to the utmost of their power to bring up their children in the best manner and if they cannot reach unto that yet must they aime thereat and come as neere as their abilitie will give them leave I have beene willing to insert these points by the way into this present