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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	wife_n	word_n	3,358	5	4.9141	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14270	The casket of iewels contaynynge a playne description of morall philophie [sic], diligently and after a very easie methode declared by the well learned and famous author Cornelius Valerius: lately turned out of Latin into Englishe, by I.C.	Valerius, Cornelius, 1512-1578.; Chardon, John, d. 1601.	1571 (1571)	STC 24583; ESTC S119018	51,195	190

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to wit consideracion well to trade the fa●ily either which is touchinge the preseruacion of housewifery affaire This respect is busied verely in the houshold as in the mattier which it handleth to whom that scope is propounded that it be wittelye gouerned for the worthinesse of euery parson Euery Family consisteth of two partes the man and the substaunce The man compriseth the Husband or the Maister the wife the Children the seruauntes But the substaunce conteyneth the house and worldly pealthe Let vs briefly reason of these orderly and let vs take beginning of the dutie of the good man of the house because he is the first Original of a Family to be ordained The Lorde of the place then whom we vnderstande by nature studious of freendship and affinity getting children ought both to know and be able to protecte the societie of his wife and Children and gently and curteously to rule ouer his both Children and Seruauntes of which they oftentimes are of a more honest nature these commonly of a more vile The family now constituted nourishment is to be sought for sustenance apparell and harborough whiche may defende vs from stormes and inrodes of Beastes Groundtilthe Huntinge Hawking Fishinge labour shall minister Foode Now whereas the goodman and wife are the cheefest and effeciente causes of Houshould and the Children and Seruauntes as it weare certaine Instrumentes and euerie one are conuersaunt in the house and substaunce as the mattier we in this place first formost will vtter a few wordes of them and then wee shall expresse the Offices of the persons a little before nominated Before all others a mansion place is to be sought for which the necessitie of life compelled men to Builde that they might haue whether to trudge as birdes into their Nestes Beastes into their couerts In the beginning houses were erected for a seruiceable vse forth with by littel and littel Ornamentes approched therto Especially a confideracion is to bee had of the profite and commodity and next of eche ones dignitie Ouermuche coste and hurtfull sumptuousnes it not to be admitted in building and that the house as he counseled want not ground The holesomnesse and fitnesse of place is to be viewed and manie moe which Victrunius and Philosophers who haue written de re familiari diligently haue expressed And hetherto recheth the discourse of the house henceforth wee ought to dispute of affaires apperteining to Familie That is either naturall and the worthieste of all as Husbandry Hunting Fishing Or els artificious which considereth gaine as traueiles trades throughe which the liuinge is adepted Besides there are others partly liberall partely seruile as the crafte of Painting as the drawinge of similitudes as the science of buildinge which are brought to perfection both by witte and trauaile Of these Artes which are many and chaungeable inuented for the diuers wantes of men the good man of the house ought to put that in practise in whiche he shall haue skill and should prouide sustenaunce honestly for him and his without pillinge and pollinge of any man He ought to auoyde incommodious and hatefull trades and ought to searche for the profitable The lucre of Vsurers and of Escheters or of such as do selfe any maner of thing for a forfaiture is odious Likewise the gaine of those Marchauntes who are enriched with forged tales is filthy which be the seruauntes of Delyces The maister of the house ought to preserue such things which are gotten ought to vse them temperatly and ought to vnderstande that it is not lesser cunninge to saue them than to procure them And these thinges haue wee compendiously made manifest touchinge the house and housholde prouision Now we will pursue the charges or offices of houshold dwellers and first of the good man of whom before we began to treate of His cheefeste regarde shal bee to marry a wife which is a companion and a copartner of life and goods honest prudent welny as riche as him selfe not proude nor more curious then néedeth or els waywarde whiche may bothe be loued and loue He shal intreate her no otherwise than him selfe a Leagfellow and a partener as of Seruice and Domesticall toyle so likewise of all casualties and affaires And perdie he shall loue her only ioigned vnto him with a bonde not able to be dissolued and as becommeth a free woman he shall not withhold her ouer rigorously if so that no iuste feare of Chastity doth interrupte Neither shall he handle her vnciuily but honestly godly comely courteously gentelly that he remember how he is a Christian man the head perdie of his wife but whome he oughte to tender as the halfe part of him selfe and permit her also to vse her certaine peculier right He shall traine vp the Children begotten of his wife diligently he shall fashion them to vertue and godlinesse beyng as yet tender and shal prouide them to be instituted with holsome and expedient trades he shal seeke his pelth by his owne trauell and industrie vertuously and without enuie and he shal keepe a commendable trade of clodding substance either by makyng of Contractes either by doyng of workes or els through more honest and better meanes to espie out riches and promocions whiche are ver●… many he shall minister foode bothe to himself and his if necessitie shall vrge him to seeke If so be the wealth is not to be gotten with paynes takynge but is left of the parentes he shal protecte the same hedely he shal imploy costes wisely and moderatly an aduyse beyng had of the place and condition that neither he may be accompted a greedy gut nor an outragious spender and had leiffer at al season both to be recitened and also to be more liberal than couetous If the master hath seruauntes he shall know to vse them wel and he shal instruct them and shal freendly intreate them But if they being hyred for meed do faithfully serue he shal consider their paynes and shal exercise them in conueniēt trauel he shal not fatigate them and he shal nourish them as it becommeth he shal see vnto them as the necessarie instrumentes of the house and he shal keepe them in awe nor shal permit them to be aduaunced arrogantly He shal pay them gentely their couenant at due time If there shal be many seruantes they are to be preferre● either to a more excellent or vyler office as ech ones capacitie requireth The wyfe ought to respecte the house painefully and dayly and ought to be present at domesticall doynges she ought to marke the chayres of her seruantes she ought to reuerence her husbande not curst and snappish but pudique and she ought to keepe cleanly both her maydes and children and al the rest pliant and peasible in their office She ought not to be stately not sumptuous nor yet beastly but appareled with decent attier accordyng to habilitie Her chiefest regard ought to be in bringyng vp her children honestly She

and eschewinge thinges that is to wit a right affection of the minde by which it is perceiued what is to be done or shunned in humayn actions Of Cornificius in bookes of Rhetorik vnto Herennius it is termed Calliditas a s●ines which through a certaine reason maye obtaine a choise both of good and badde because all the facultie of wisdom is ap●rooued in the election of good and euill ●●ings of them as be neither good nor ●●●ll He vnderstandeth a wilynesse not 〈◊〉 vicious who oft times boroweth 〈◊〉 same appellacion but that subtility ●ch priuyly vndermineth with a cer●ne honest and profitable dissimula●n Vnto the which craftie sayinges ●d deceiptfull doynges which in war● are called Stratagemes are refer● Of the same writer also prudencie ●ermed Multarum rerum memoria 〈◊〉 memory of many matters and the 〈◊〉 of plentifull affaires Although per●●isdom as other vertues is conuer●nte in humaine actions Notwith●nding especially trouth is Subiecte ●erto as the mattier which it hand●h And certes the inquisicion and ●arche of soothe seemeth to be peculiar 〈◊〉 man Vnto the out finding of veritie ●ue vertues comprehended vnder In●elligence are adioygned of Aristotle Science Arte Prudence Sapience vnderstanding of which Science Sapience and vnderstandynge require a a definite knowledge cake an absolute vertue Art and prudencie a probable one Science is defined a sure and an established knowledge and learninge of some matter through the cause whiche is perceaued withoute any ayde by naturall motions of the minde or els it is atchiued through demonstration of argumentes and it is of those thinges whiche may not otherwise exist or els be transfigured as diuinity Arte is said a perfection to dispatche those things by reason which otherwise may be as all humaine craftes Prudency is defined A qualitie to perfourme those thinges by reason which are either commodious or hurtfull to man Sapience verely is a most exquisit knowledge of those matters whiche are able to bee learned of man who compriseth the experience of diuine and human affaires Vnderstanding is called a qualitie perceauing the principles out of which confirmations are deducted Vnto Prudency he annected Art Science Intelligence and Sapience that althoughe verely he gainesaieth Vertue to be a Science yet he supposeth that shee is not of power to perseuer without this For althoughe onely goodnesse is purposed to vertues and trouth vnto Disciplines yet wheras to the searche hereof a greedinesse of good is coupled Science Sapience Art and Intelligence appere that they may not absurdely be nominated vertues if they serue for the operations of Prudence succoure the outfindinge of that which is good They ought not attende verelye to the contemplacion of causes only sithens all the commendacion of Vertue consisteth in dooinge and in gouerning the life vndefiledly Prudency then may take vnto her as waytynge mates vnderstanding for to know matters Science truly to conceiue them Arte for the generall vse of life Sapience for the out tracting of diuers things that by these props she may passe to the knowledge of trouth and may comprehend the verie Soueraine good and the liuely Fountaine of all wisdome flowing with Heauenly waters rushinge forth moste swiftly into eternall lyfe Now wheras vnto euery vertu certain seats in the soule from whence they issue are attributed A place is graunted to Prudencie in the minde to the remnaunt in the will sith it belongeth to prudencie to bolt out what is honest or wicked in matters to be handled and to debate of the same with iustful sentēce Which thyng doubtlesse is adepted not only by wit although sharpe but by a greate knowledge of sundry matters And very pretely it is sayd Longo prudentia surgit ab vsu Prudence ariseth through longe practise that we vnderstand the perfection of the minde whence creepeth this dexteritie of triynge out the truth to be termed prudencie who desireth a longe life and the handlynge and memory of diuers matters and the science of present cases to leuel vprightly the interchaungeable operation of men Moreouer it is requisite that a prudent man be polished with a certain natiue faculty of through seyng and adiudgyng the trouth by whiche he may contemplate thinges present and diligently discusse them may call to remembrance matters past may foresee sequels through whiche he may excell in takyng aduise and in outfindyng wittily through which he may passe in perceauyng clerely what is true in ech matter and what is to be attempted through which he may florish in proposinge sentence iustfully eake in ratifiyng subtely and wisyly what is decent what filthie what profitable For there are three partes conteined vnder wysdome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a facultie of ministrynge holsom counsell good aduise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a perfect sight and cunnyng in finishinge of that whiche is excogitated through profitable counsell and Gnome a sentence and iust verdit of matters to bée perfourmed and a stedfastnesse in that which is leyfull It is the duty than of a prudente wighte that I may driue my tale at his marke in few wordes to remember those thinges which are past to be skilfull in many matters to flowe in counsell to be quicke witted and to Iudge well and farthermore to leade not only an vndefiled conuersacion but also as place and oportunity in this cōmon life shall craue to becom somwhat more charie and circumspecte And truly concerning the charge of Prudencie who should be kept in humain operacions we haue treated hitherto And by reason the variety of doinges apperteining to men is seuored in three sortes that some should be of peculiar persons which be Coincident to euerie one and generall som Domestical which serue to the order of Family others ciuill which we muste put in vre for the preseruacion of the Publike fellowship of menne a three parted force of wisdome likewise may be gathered the one common to all sortes which is named Monastica solitary the second Oeconomica belongyng to householde the third Politica which is thought to be the excellentest of all others because first and formost it is busied in common vtilitie vnto whiche yet wee must clime by degree For he shall not well gouerne either a family or els a weale publike who is not a good man and informed with the rules of condicions and fashioned vnto euery vertue and shall come prepared to the common wealth and shall wit perfectly to nurtur an householde The two latter of these three members of Morall Philosophie Although they be seuerally debated of Aristotle yet in this place likewise because they are ruled of prudencie which as Cicero telleth in his particions oratoriall in her proper affayres is accustomed to be termed domesticall and in cōmon cases politike we shal descriue Of Domesticall goueruernance Cap. xiij WEe haue spoken of that part of wisdom which is tried in the operacions of euery man Now we muste intreate of that which is comprehended in the houshoulde duties whome the Greekes tearme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉