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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	inferior_n	parent_n	superior_n	2,193	5	11.4759	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08134	Newnams nightcrowe A bird that breedeth braules in many families and housholdes. Wherein is remembred that kindely and prouident regard which fathers ought to haue towards their sonnes. Together with a diciphring of the iniurious dealinges of some younger sorte of stepdames.	Newnham, John.	1590 (1590)	STC 18498; ESTC S121837	38,495	66

to take delight in her husbands first chirdren Neither commeth this woorde Stepdame of the speakers ill speech or terming but in deede is drawne from the parties ill doing although perhaps the Grammarians will say Nouerca is a compound worde quasi noua furca in english a newe frame of three peeces prepared and set vp for some purpose By that word God forbid I should meane all mothers in lawes of whome I dare vowe and affirme there bee a great number so kindly to their husbandes children that they may well be called mothers The abuse of a fewe sometime maketh all of that sute or sort to be blamed propter paucas inuisa sumus omnes mulieres sayth Terence for a fewe Stepdames sake we are all called Stepmothers To be short I would constantly beseech all mother in lawes in generall to haue this opinion of my meaning that haue aduentured to meddle in this kind of matter chiefely in fauour of the ouerborne motherlesse and of the poore innocents whose Angels be before the throne of God that as we are sure one Crowe pulleth not out anothers eyes so I hope this my Nightcrowe shall spiritually or temporally doe good vnto many euen of them that rightly deserue that name Vale. The Table THat the vertue thriuing and prosperitie of children are for the most part wrought by the fathers good examples and instructions Chap. I. That the vice and other infelicitie of children mostly proceedeth of the fathers ill examples Chap. II. That fathers ought not to prouoke their childrē to wrath or disobedience Chap. III. That fathers ought to deale kindly and faithfully and not preiudicially or fraudulently towards their children Chap. IIII. That fathers or parents ought not to dispose their goods or landes after priuate fancie Chap. V. The second part OF the vngentle dealing of some Stepmothers towardes their husbands children Chap. vj. That stepmothers ought not to be priuate or false accusers of their husbandes children more than of others Chap. vij That Stepmothers ought not to supplant or procure disheriting of their husbandes eldest sonnes Chap. viij That disheriting of the eldest sonne without very great lawfull cause is an act verie wrongfull and vngodly Chap. ix That procurers and counsailors of disherison and all wrong doing ought to make or procure restitution Chap. x. The first part of this treatise surnamed the Night-crowe perswadeth in certaine kindely points pertaining to a natural father the regard whereof may worke a meete preseruatiue or preuention against a womans inchanting or peruerting CHAP. I. That the vertue thriuing and prosperitie of children are for the most parte wrought by the fathers good examples and instructions SOlon that was reputed so wise and prouident a lawe-maker for the Athenians being asked howe a State or Common-wealth might best be kept vpright and longest endure mary saith he if subiects obey their Magistrates and the Magistrates obey the lawes as if hee woulde say It is not enough if the subiects obey the Magistrates neglect the obseruing of laws themselues but these must obey first that the others may learne obedience otherwise they are like to reape such fruits as they sowe by examples As subiects and inferiors are contained within bounds of order and duety by lawes so princes pastors parents and all superiours are subiected to other lawes for the most parte haue a superior Iudge whereby is performed the earthlie Hierarchie so well pleasing vnto God and so much desired of good men whiles they commaund by their owne lawes they stand obliged by no lesse duetie of obedience to the law of God and of nature And specially Parents who are so déepelie bound to loue and tender their children that brute beasts and birds may reproue controll many The thing that is most requisite to be found in them is naturall loue augmented and cōfirmed by the same which Christ so carefully commended to his children to wit charitie Charitie makes one heart of many it is the way of man vnto God and the way of god to man but he that expresseth himselfe in his actions to faile in the duety of naturall loue is not worthy to be counted an obseruer of the bond of Charitie This Charitie or wonderfull newe loue Christ not onely left vnto his children by forme of an expresse commandement but also taught and confirmed the same by the example of himselfe in the vnspeakable mysterie of Sacraments folke are taught better by example of doing then by words and such examples are alwayes to be drawne from the superiour to the inferiour They whom nature or order hath preferred in degrée before others will alwayes bee looked vppon for their examples which therefore had néede to bée good For that which is doone by example the inferiours will thinke they may lawfullie doe the like Good examples doe edifie and vpholde ill examples do destroy and confound Humanitie is taught by the lawe of Nature If parents by their example should teach the contrarie what do they else but indeuour to transfourme men into beasts beginning first to perfourme it in their owne children These will say they bée Christians and of the faithfull and yet Saint Iames saieth Fides sine operibus mortua est Faith without workes is dead They must shewe vs better examples to come from them towardes their children then colde friendship peruerting of order and sowing séedes of dissention in their owne house Good workes generallie tende towardes the clothing of the soules nakednesse but good workes in performing the will of GOD in our owne house may prooue a preseruatiue against the plague or poyson of imputient mindes or more rather remedy against the ruine of Soules descended in our owne osspring Pietie or godlines which is a vertue annexed vnto Iustice besides the fourth expressed Commandement compelleth children to loue and honour their Parentes their kindred and their countrey but yet Parents must not thinke themselues vntouched or vnbound by this commaundement séeing by a secondarie meanes the same willeth and inuiteth Parentes to honour and especiallie to regarde theyr children Which honouring or speciall regarding is to bée perfourmed of eche partie in heart worde and déede As for the loue of people at large it is to bée accounted as mutable as the faire weather or as permanent as the calmes of the Sea But the naturall and the kindelie loue of Parentes towardes their children is or ought to bee as constant and readie as we woulde wish to finde the lone and fauour of GOD towardes vs. Neyther can they folowe a better example giuer then Christ hymselfe who hath taught them to commende and bequeath loue vnto theyr Children for if there had béene anie thing more expedient hée woulde haue commended it vnto his Apostles and Disciples before this Neuer were more néedefull the Parentes examples of loue and well dooing then nowe séeing children finde them scarce to be had at the handes of others Pondus meum amor meus saieth Saint Augustine My waight is my loue And