Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	inferior_n	master_n	superior_n	1,172	5	10.9124	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11863	Honor military, and ciuill contained in foure bookes. Viz. 1. Iustice, and iurisdiction military. 2. Knighthood in generall, and particular. 3. Combats for life, and triumph. 4. Precedencie of great estates, and others.	Segar, William, Sir, d. 1633.; Rogers, William, b. ca. 1545, engraver.	1602 (1602)	STC 22164; ESTC S116891	203,415	258

experirer an scires consulem agere Others are honoured as Parents to whom their children nephewes doe owe all duety and obedience as is commanded in the booke of Prouerbs Honora patrem matrem vt sis long aeuus super terram 28. To these many other causes of Honour may be added as subiects to honour their Prince seruants their masters inferiours their superiours And diuers demonstrations of honour are also due by externall countenance words and gesture as by attentiue hearing of him that speaketh by rising to him that passeth c. He that sitteth doth receiue honour from him that standeth yet a man of dignity in presence of Iudges ought to sit not to stand as other common persons doe vnlesse his owne cause be pleaded So sayth Baldus A man that sitteth at the table is more honoured then hee that serueth and he that sitteth on the right hand is more honoured then he that sitteth on the left hand He is also honored that sitteth next to the Prince or neerest to him that is of greatest dignity We also account him honored that standeth or walketh in the mids of two or a greater number quia mediocritas in electione loci maxime probatur He is likewise reputed most honoured that sitteth at the chiefe ende or in the hiest place of the Table because the most worthy ought to begin which haply moued Virgil to say A Ioue principium Musae He is most honoured that walketh next the wall vnlesse they be three in number for then he that is in the mids is in the worthiest place as hath bene formerly said And he that sitteth next the wall hath the higher place But if three of equall qualitie do walke together then for not offering Indignitie one th' other sometimes one and sometimes the other ought to take the middle place which Order the Spaniards and Venetians doe precisely obserue affirming the right side to be most Honourable Among brethren the eldest is alwaies to precede And so are their wiues to take place In pari dignitate Except by some peculiar dignitie the yonger be graced In like maner where many are of one company or fellowship as in the Innes of Court or the Vniuersities the more ancient is euer most honourable and shall precede others In pari dignitate Men are also honoured in their diet for the more honorable the ghest is the more delicate ought his fare be Likewise the apparell of men ought be differing according to their degrees to the end the profession and qualitie of euery one may be knowen as an arming Coat best becommeth a Captaine a Tippet is seemely for a Priest a Gowne is meetest for a Scholler because eche mans attire ought be like vnto the State profession and office he beareth as appeareth by that caution which Seneca did giue vnto the Empresse mother of Nero. His wordes are these Indue te charissima vxor delicatè non propter te sed propter honorem Imperij A man is also honoured when his Prince or other superior is pleased to salute him by word or writing or to grace him with gift of any Office or dignitie Men are honoured when for any egregious acte they are permitted to erect Images of themselues as Porcius Cato Horatius Cocles Mutius Scaeuola and other notable men were suffered to doe Men are honoured by drinking in gold and wearing of purple also by being stiled the cousins of Princes Men are honoured by bearing Armes For who so hath Armes from ancesters is more honourable then he who is the first Gentleman of his race and consequently ought be placed in a more worthy seate Note here that to euery title of great dignitie a particular ensigne or ornament is appointed An Emperour hath his Diademe or Infula a King his Crowne a Bishop his Mytre and Archbishop his Mantle a Doctor his Baretum As Lucas de Penna writeth Ca●de Murilegulis CHAP. 3. Of Ensignes Royall and Militarie POlydorus in his booke de Inuentoribus rerum lib. 2. cap 3. saith That the Ensignes of Romane Kings were Fasces cum securi Corona aurea sella eburnea trabeae curules phalerae annuli pal●damenta pretexta togae pictae tunicae palmatae which Ensignes may be called in our English a bondle of small wands with an hatchet a Crowne of gold a saddle of luory a kirtle of State trappings of horses robes of State euer burned with the Kings body which ornament was also after the expulsion of Kings worne by Consuls and other Magistrats who pronounced no sentence but in that garment Togae pictae I suppose were long gownes painted or wrought l●ke vnto Damaske or embroidered about and Palmatae were garments wrought with Palme-trees in signe of conquest and peace It seemeth also that no other Ensigne of Maiestie that might illustrate a Kings greatnesse and grauitie was there wanting These Kings had also 12 Littori as we may call them Sergeants who caried before them the bondles and Hatchets aforesaid A Diademe a Crowne and a Scepter are likewise Ensignes appertayning to Emperours and Kings But of Crownes there were anciently diuers kinds And Polydor in his booke aforesaid speaketh of many affirming that Liber Pater was the first inuentor of Crownes and ware vpon his head a Crowne of Iuie Yet doe we read that Moses many yeeres before caused Crownes of gold to be made as Iosephus hath written and of all antiquitie the Egyptian kings haue had Crownes Teste Coelio The first vse of wearing Crownes was in Tragedies and gladiatory combats at which time they were made of boughes and trees afterwards they were composed of flowers of diuers colours in the Playes Flo●eall and in the Pastoral Comedies also and by imitation of them others were framed of slender barres of tinne or some other mettall guilded so as in processe of time many kinds of Crownes were inuented and much esteemed chiefly among the Romanes and in the time of Consuls The chiefe Crownes were Militarie and with them Consuls and generall Commanders in their triumphes were crowned At the beginning those crownes were made of bayes which tree sheweth mirth and victorie and after of gold The next they called Corona Muralis giuen to him that first was seene vpon the wall of the Enemies towne This Crowne was also of golde wrought with certaine battlements like vnto a wall The third they named Corona Castrensis likewise of gold being giuen to him that could breake the wall of the enemie enter the towne or castle The points of this Crowne was made like Towers The fourth was Corona Naualis also of gold garnished with forecastles giuen to him that by force and vertue first boarded the enemies ship The fift was Corona Oleaginea bestowed vpon them that were victorious in the Olympian Playes or for repulsing the enemie Corona Oualis was made of Mirtle and giuen to them that entred a Towne taken with litle resistance or yeelded vpon composition or when the warre was proclaimed or made against