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	servant_n	wife_n	4,873	5	6.7520	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56841	Solomons recantation, entitvled Ecclesiastes paraphrased with a soliloquie or meditation upon every chapter : very seasonable and useful for these times / by Francis Quarles ; with a short relation of his life and death.	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.	1648 (1648)	Wing Q117; ESTC R6110	37,566	71

Pictor adumbravit Vultum guem cernimus aft hic Non vaset egregias pingere mentis Opes Has siscire cupis sua consule Carmina in illis Dotes percipies pectoris eximias What heere wee see is but a Graven face Onoly the shaddow of that brittle case Wherin were treasur'd up those Gemms which he Hath left behind him to Posteritie Al Ross W M Sculy SOLOMONS RECANTATION ENTITVLED ECCLESIASTES PARAPHRASED With a SOLILOQUIE or Meditation upon every Chapter Very Seasonable and Usefull for these times By FRANCIS QUARLES VVITH A SHORT RELATION OF His LIFE and DEATH The third Edition O curas hominum O quantum est in rebus inane LONDON Printed for RICHARD ROYSTON and are to be sold at his Shop at the Signe of the Angel in Ivy-Lane 1648. A SHORT RELATION Of the Life and Death of Mr. FRANCIS QUARLES BY URSULA QUARLES his sorrowfull Widow THough it be inconsistent with the duty of a Wife to be injurious in any respect to her Husband yet in this my bold undertaking I fear I shall be so to mine which I doubt not but he would have forgiven if he had been living as proceeding from love and I hope his friends will pardon now he is dead as being the last duty I can perform to a loving Husband Those that see with what pen his Works are written will say his Life deserved a more skilful Artist to set it forth which office though many might have been procured to undertake and to which I doubt not but some would voluntarily have offered themselves if they had known that such a thing had been intended yet have I with much zeal though small discretion adventured upon it my self as being fully assured that none can be more sensible of the losse of him then I though thousands might have exprest that losse to the world with more Art and better judgement He was a Gentleman both by birth and desert descended of an ancient Family and yet which is rare in these last and worst times he was an ornament to his Ancestors His Father was Iames Quarles of Rumford Esquire Clerk of the Green-cloth and Purveior of the Navie to Queen Elizabeth and yonger brother to Sir Robert Quarles His education was sutable to his birth first at schoole in the Country where his School-fellows will say he surpassed all his equals afterward at Christs Colledge in Cambridge where how he profited I am not able to judge but am fully assured by men of much learning and judgement that his Works in very many places doe sufficiently testifie more then ordinary fruits of his Vniversity studies Last of all he was transplanted from thence to Lincolns Inne where for some years he studied the Laws of England not so much out of desire to benefit himself thereby as his friends and neighbours shewing therein his continuall inclination to peace by composing suits and differences amongst them After he came to maturity he was not desirous to put himself into the world otherwise he might have had greater preferments then he had He was neither so unfit for Court preferment nor so ill beloved there but that he might have raised his fortunes thereby if he had had any inclination that way But his mind was chiefly set upon his devotion and study yet not altogether so much but that he faithfully discharged the place of Cup-bearer to the Queen of Bohemia and the office of Secretary to the Reverend and learned Lord Primate of Ireland that now is and of Chronologer to the famous City of London which place he held to his death and would have given that City and the world a testimony that he was their faithfull servant therein if it had pleased God to blesse him with life to perfect what he had begun He was the Husband of one Wife by whom he had eighteen children and how faithful and loving he was my pen and their tears are not able to expresse In all his duties to God and man he was conscionable and orderly He preferred God and Religion to the first place in his thoughts his King Country to the second his Family and Studies he reserved to the last As for God he was frequent in his devotions and prayers to him and almost constant in reading or meditating on his holy Word as his Divine Fancies and other parts of his Works will sufficiently testifie For his Religion he was a true son of the Church of England an even Protestant not in the least degree biassed to this hand of superstition or that of schisme though both those Factions were ready to cry him down for his inclination to the contrary His love to his King and Country in these late unhappy times of distraction was manifest in that he used his pen and powred out his continuall prayers and tears to quench this miserable fire of dissention while too many others added daily fewell unto it And for his family his care was very great over that even then when his occasions caused his absence from it And when he was at home his exhortations to us to continue in virtue and godly life were so pious and frequent his admonitions so grave and piercing his reprehensions so mild and gentle and above all his own example in every religious and morall duty so constant and manifest that his equall may be desired but can hardly be met withall Neither was his good example of a godly life contained only with●n his own Family others as well as we have or at least might have made good use of it For he was not addicted to any notorious vice whatsoever He was courteous and affable to all moderate and discreet in all his actions And though it be too frequent a fault as we see by experience in Gentlemen whose dispositions incline them to the study of Poetry to be loose and debauch'd in their lives and conversations yet was it very far from him Their delight could not be greater in the Tavern then his was in his Study to which he devoted himself late and early usually by three a clock in the morning The fruits thereof are best tasted by those who have most perused his Works and therefore I shall be silent in that particular For though it had been necessary in another to have spoken somewh●t of his writings yet I hope it will not be expected from me seeing that neither the judgement of my Sex can be thought competent nor if it were would the nearnesse of my relation to him suffer me to praise that ● commendations whereof from others I have often blushed I shall therefore rather desire le●ve to speak a word or two concerning the blessed end of my dear Husband which was every way answerable to his godly life or rather indeed surpassed it For as gold is purified in the fire so were all his Christian virtues more refined and remarkable during the time of his sicknesse His patience was wonderfull insomuch as he would confesse no pain even