Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	love_n	wife_n	8,272	5	8.0646	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06684	A health to the gentlemanly profession of seruingmen; or, The seruingmans comforts With other thinges not impertinent to the premisses, as well pleasant as profitable to the courteous reader.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, attributed name.; I. M., fl. 1598.	1598 (1598)	STC 17140; ESTC S120831	45,157	78

thereof equall partaker What was the difference then wyll some say betwixt the Maister and the Man yf their pleasures were equall for then it had been as good to haue been a Seruant as a Soueraigne a Man as a Maister euen this was one and all that parted the Potentates power and the Seruingmans profession the one did commaunde the other was to obey the due obedience to which commaunde was had in so reuerent regarde and the Seruant so fearefull to offende his Maister no seruile but as it were a filiall feare as the Maister was almost as carefull in his commaunde as the Seruant diligent in his duetie For in these dayes what greater loue could almost be found then betwixt the Maister and the Seruant it was in maner equall with the Husbandes to the Wyfe and the Childes to the Parent for testimonie whereof there are infinite examples to be alleadged as in the prescription of the triumuerie of Marcus Lepidus Marcus Anthonius and Octauius Cesar in the Romane ciuile warres where Naso condemned by their prescription was by one of his Seruants kept safe in an hill the sayd Seruant going to the Sea side to hyre his Maister a Boate for his more safe passage and speedy escape and at his returne perceauing his Maister by the strikers to be killed he cryed aloude vnto him hauing yet a lytle life Stay a whyle O Maister quoth he and sodaynely stroke the Captayne and killed him then comming agayne to his Maister killed him selfe saying O Maister you haue receaued comfort An other in the same tyme of persecution and tryall of frindes hauing a fayre shadowed Uineyarde and in it a goodly Caue deepe and large for the which peraduenture he was condemned by chaunce refreshing him selfe in the sayd Caue one of his Seruantes perceauing the quellers yet a farre off which came to finysh his Maisters tragidie for the pure loue and sinceere affection that he bore to his Maister hid him safely as he thought in the secret place of the Denne and furnished him selfe with his Maisters apparrell feigning to be hee euen offeryng him selfe to the death for his Maisters safetie O rare examples worthy of euerlastyng memorie What greater goodwil What purer loue or more sinceere affection can be found amongst any consort of creatures then this O happie Seruantes that had your beeing in those goulden dayes when Maisters would merite such maruels at your hands and thrise happie Maisters that past your pilgrimage in those blessed houres when by your loue and liberalitie you tyed your Seruantes with this vndessolueable bonde of assured friendshyp euen to deserue and merite the full measure of your good will towardes them Infinite are the examples as I sayd before that may be alledged in this matter onely these two I holde sufficient to confirme this argument since none but will confesse this loue and affection to be auncient and of long continuance Yea but will some say these examples are olde and long is it since this loue and affection was thus in the highest degree made manifest and the tryall of friendshyp thus exercised shew me some examples of late yeeres for the more credite of your cause or els some reasons why these examples should not be as plentifull in these latter dayes as in former tyme. To this Obiection I answere thus There be two especiall causes that hath vntwyned this knott and euen cancelled this firme Obligaton exchanging it for a single Bi●●l The first is the compounding of this pure and refined mettall whereof Seruingmen were first framed with vntryed dregges and drosse of lesse esteeme The seconde is the death and decay of Liberalitie or Rewarde for well doing But I wyll omit to vnrippe the bowelles of these reasons tyll tyme and place of fitter oportunitie be offered since I haue not as yet finished the seconde part of this tractate which is onely to declare the florishyng dayes of the prime of this profession I haue before declared how this seruice was in no sort seruile nor the paynes belonging it any pennance but they ioyed as much in their libertie florished as fresh in their profession as any other of what sort degree or callyng soeuer their fare was alwayes of the best their apparrell fine neate handsome and comly their credite and esteeme alwayes equall with their birth and callyng in good regarde their exercises or dayly labours nothyng but pleasure their head so smally troubled with carpe and care of worldly Coyne and them selues so farre from miserie pennurie scarcitie or beggerie harboured in the hauen of happinesse swimming in the calme neyther too deepe nor too shallow supported by these good patrons their Maisters neither soaryng to high nor dyuing too deepe neither Prince nor begger floryshing in this their estate being as it were euen the meane or midwarde of all degrees and callinges as I verily thinke they were the happiest consort of Companions and the least troubled tradesmen in the prime of their profession that belonged this Mundaine market O what pleasure belonged Seruingmen in those dayes when the great Chamber was serued the Hauls cryer with a Hoe yes summoned all good fellowes to appeare vpon an allarum at which battayle the boordes end was euer battered with the gunshot of Good-stomackes where the chine of Beefe the hagstocke to these Carpenters was hewen and squared into diuers parcels for seuerall purposes And the blacke Iacke merily trowlyng from one to another well lyned with the lyquor of lyfe moystened and molified the malecontent humors of these merrie mates to their Maisters credice and their owne comfort But mee thinkes I heare the maligners of this mysterie or profession lyke Momus mates murmure saying to them selues He telleth vs of their delicate diet handsome habite and pleasant passing the Sommer of their yeeres But when this lustie 〈◊〉 begunne with the Moone to wane and that crooked olde age had eclipsed the bright Sunshyne of their golden dayes with duskie blacke Cloudes of darke morpheus I meane when that stealing Time had consumed the oyle of their Lampes and euery ioynt begunne to grow starke not able to supply his former place what course then they tooke to maynteine them selues from miserie in this their greatest necessitie he doth omit as a thing altogeather impertinent to this discourse but in my iudgement a thing most necessarie amongst them to be considered and the very marke whereat they ought chieflyest to ayme for els who is so simple but will confesse that the Seruingmans profession in regarde of their pleasure and ease is to be preferred before diuers sortes of people of more wealth and greater abilitie yf their ende were not miserie pennurie scarcitie and almost beggerie For I holde it an infallible rule An olde Seruingman a young Begger What Gentleman now a dayes that giueth wages and lyueries doth not looke his Seruant shoulde deserue them and when the Seruant is olde and crooked and altogeather vnable to helpe him selfe how much more is he then vnable