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	marriage_n	wife_n	3,594	5	7.6210	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33015	Elise, or, Innocencie guilty a new romance / translated into English by Jo. Jennings ...; Elise. English	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Jennings, John, Gent.	1655 (1655)	Wing C413; ESTC R6950	123,482	158

divine hath joyned Elise this innocent unfortunate creature which is the principal person in this tragick Scene which we present was a Gentlewoman well born endowed with more chastity and vertues then beauty of face for it appears in this our lamentable age wherein we live that beauty and vertue are enemies Her mother wife of Scevole her father shall be by us for her wisdom called Sophie her birth was not so illustrious as she was full of vertues for Who in rare manners hath her sexe outgone Next comes her daughter and gives place to none She had brought up these two Daughters which were all the children she had with much modesty and great fear of God and as Elise had been longer under her discipline then her sister Elinor so she surpassed her in humility and obedience She was of more years then Philippin but very few being very discreet and judicious that nothing was wanting in her to make her an accomplished mother of a family Her vertue sweetness modesty and the extreme affection she had to her husband was so great that in the end he was constrained by so many obligations of strong chains to love You would have said that she brought into the house of Timoleon the same qualities that Raguel ordained in his daughter Sara in the house of Tobias She was quiet and pleasing to her husband respectfull and serviceable to her Father-in-law who became almost her idolater he was so much ravished with the good offices she rendred him Philippin who is not altogether insensible is constrained to yield to so much goodness for there is no heart so hard says an Antient which will not give love not being constrained for the only price of love is love the charm without witchcraft to make one beloved is to love And what appearance is there not to love her which loved but him who loved not day but to see him nor breathed but to please him He must be a rock that should not yield himself to so just so holy and legitimate a flame For although his thoughts refused and his imagination filled with the consideration of another idea not leaving any void to imprint this new impression yet his reason vanquished by so much love is constrained to acknowledge it by a mutual return of love You would say that as Isaac tempred the grief he had for the death of his mother by the coming of his wife so our new Bridegroom forgetting altogether his first furies to range himself within the bounds of duty and obedience wrapping up these flying fires in the sacred and solid marriage is a wise march which we ought to conduct with much temperance and good government That husband which expects so much seeking from his wife is as an Antient says no other but an adulterer those who mingle so much niceness and curiosity in this venerable alliance strengthening their valour and esteeming their dignity This Sacrament ought rather to be practised by ripe and staid judgments then by heat and desire Happy had Philippin been had these considerations been weighed in the other scale of his carriage but his years too tender did not as yet make him capable of these solid governments but only necessity the fear of his father and the strong ascendant power the vertues of his new wife had gained in his judgment held him within the bounds of duty with much admiration of all those which saw it who would never have thought so happy a beginning in marriage to have had so unfortunate an end as this which I have almost with Honor writ Thrice happy Elise as the Poet says of his Did● if on the borders of Carthage Aeneas had never arrived than under a fain shew of being free and noble hid falshood and disloyalty Elise was but too happy we may say of her if her parents had not been blinded with the brightness of immoderate ambition bringing her to so great and illustrious an alliance for this height serves her but like that of the Tortoise which is raised by the Eagle to be thrown upon the rocks and broken 〈◊〉 thousand peeces If resemblance of dispositions is the cause of the firmness of friendship equality is also the surest pillar of a good marriage For disproportions in birth or in faculties early or late brings always distastes and riots these are the seeds of divisions for the latter season All this nevertheless appears no more in the beginning of the marriage then seeds freely sowed in the earth but such as you sow such shall you reap Timoleon bring his son and daughter to Bellerive so full of joy and contentment to see himself freed of his debts the business of his house in the hands of one both wise and of authority his son delivered as he thought of his antient passions that there was not any of all those which visited him to which he did not shew in his face and in his discourse the excess of his joy He was so carefully served so religiously honoured by his daughter-in-law that he esteemed by this fashion his life crowned with the happiest age imagineable he thanks of nothing but making good chea● and running smoothly the rest of his days The care of his domestick businesses troubled him not for Elise instructed in the knowledge of these things by her mother Sophie in her tendrest years takes all this charge and with such care and good order as nothing was wanting all in abundance every one content and all the world blessed them What doth not a vertuous and well given person accompanied with piety perform she inspires all the house with devotion it is a salt which seasons all things she is Mary in her orisons Martha in her solitude you would say by her vigilance and affairs that she had no time for prayer and seeing her spiritual exercisc● that she spent no time but in prayer all sweetness in her exterior all fervor in her interior the perpetual visits of companies did no way divert her from the service of Godo It is wisdom in a woman to be watchfull in great things without neglecting the least Humble gracious temperate wise advised modest pleasing metry the honour and glory of her her race and of all that country How is not Philippin's heart charmed with so much merits he wanted nothing but a little more judgment to esteem so many obliging qualities Among those which came to visit Timoleon and Philippin to congratulate this haypy alliance Pyrrhe and Harman failed not to which their neighbourhood obliged as also their vassalage There is no speech of what 's past Timoleon keeps an open table Philippin strives to oblige them a thousand ways Our young son is married he hath no more need of a Governour having so good a Governess The exercises of hunting are renewed which the Citizen understands not so well as the Country wench Elise understands nothing but what a woman ought to know Isabel is a souldier of the long robe She hears by

heat of passion in love was far from thought of sorrowing for the death of his father The more she thinks to comfort him the more he is displeased the more she courts him the more he seems to be importuned and although she strives as much as may be to cover with a false joy a true sadness yet could he not hinder but his face his actions and words betrayed him making it appear to those which had least of apprehension that there was I know not what in his thoughts which tormented him Elise sees this and is in an agony inconceivable She thought it was a wrong to her husband to esteem he had any ill opinion of her she is too innocent to find in herself any subject of discontentment that she had ever given him and there is nothing she thinks less on then the true cause of this alteration Jealousie of Isabel she had none for she believes that time hath healed Philippin of this old impression But in the end the many matches made for hunting made her plainly see they were not without design and the other visits to Vaupre made her to know the fire by the smoak the beast by the foot but so late that the evil was almost without remedy On the other side Philippin was in extreme agonies for the way of the perverse is sowed with a thousand thorns All seemed contrary to his desires The cunning Isabel which saw she had returned him into her net and that she held him in her goal by means as full of subtilty as Elise was full of simple innocence who made as if she saw not that which she did but too well perceive Isabel seems not to take notice of that which doth clearly appear and by her flying and fained retiredness adds desire in Philippin to see her Industrious Galatee that drawest in flying and hidest in shewing thy self For coming to Bellerive to visit Elise and then he seeing her at Vaupre it was always in the presence of his wife or of her father or brother that he spake to her which was an extreme torment to this passionate This damosel full of vanity took pride tormenting him without giving him any hope to quench the least spark of this great fire in his breast Judge but the craft of this creature Here is a Tantalus dead with drougth in midst of waters and like the Page of Alexander he is constrained in silence to burn It serves him not to speak with Eyes language which she hath heretofore well understood now fains not to understand by a deafness as great and greater then that by which she is beloved The good of Philippin is his hurt For this liberty to see that which he desired redoubled his passion and makes him perish with a death and languishing grief by the object which is the cause All his study is to make known to this malitious creature the renewing of his antient flames but that in such a fashion that neither Elise Pyrrhe nor Harman understood any thing yet all see clearly like Eagles The jealousie of a wife is not to be feared The valour of Pyrrhe and Harman are not unknown to him although his Vassals they are noble and Gentlemen full of honour and that rather then abate the least point would lose a thousand lives Oh how true it is that evil men travel by ways stubled and full of stops and difficulties and attain much weariness in the end of their iniquities If once his courtings be but perceived by so many eyes as watch him all is lost there will be nothing but tempests within and shipwrack without If he but consider the end of his unjust pretension it is but an assured loss of his reputation and may be of his life For if Elise perceive it once farewell friendship and peace but that is the least he thinks of If either her father or brother should suspect any thing there 's no more frequenting nor visits no more duty nor acknowledgment A quarrel that would set all the Gentlemen upon him thereabouts and make him odious to Scevole and to all that knew the rare vertues of his wife And to revenge himself there is no hope He is too far in the business his passion holds his foot at his throat he is fallen and lost he is altogether undone To dissemble his ill he cannot any longer he cannot without death and to dye without daring to complain or make known who is the cause he cannot resolve Here is our Ixion on the wheel It is most true that a disordered spirit is his own hangman he gets much by ruling his actions and motions He loses his countenance at the aspect of the Basilisco whose sight kills him This moving he cannot hinder betrays He speaks to her enough but not enough as much as becomes him but not enough for 't is not that he would or cannot or dares not manifest to her She see● him nevertheless and seems ignorant Learn the cunning of women by this same So that our passionate Philippin dies of a sickness obscure and hidden in midst of all these commodities and remedies that opportunity seems to present him In the end the imposthume grows That which he cannot intreat for with his tongue he borrows with his pen being an interpreter of his thoughts which cannot blush That makes known to the artificious Amazon what she knew already but as she loved her honour and was jealous of her reputation she struck against the rock of a chaste resolution these first points making all these considerations recoil before the impenitrable buckler of a holy cruelty The glory of having captived so great a courage left not to flatter her seconded with pride of a secret joy that she had in her hands the means to be revenged of Philippin for the wrong she thought he had done her in leaving her for one of meaner beauty And as there needs to infernal Archimedes but one point out of the earth for to raise all the earth it was by this large gate of vengeance that he convey'd into the soul of this maiden the Trojan horse the funeral-torch that put all her reputation in ashes What dost thou Isabel in stead of sending back his Pacquets thou receivest and concealest them without giving any notice to thy father or brother Ha! this is not the course of a wise Maiden which like the Mother of Pearl ought not to open but to receive the dew of heaven nor to receive other courtings but those of a legitimate marriage with the permission of her parents You will hide serpents in your breast and then complain you are stung very ill you let in the thieves and then complain of being robbed you put in fire and then are astonished if it burn you Where is your wisdom Isabella I well perceive you are of that unfortunate band that are not wise but in doing ill whilst you are parlied with you intend to yield you betray your self in capitulating with a Traitor