Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	brother_n	daughter_n	sister_n	24,794	5	10.8865	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00350	De co[n]temptu mundi The dispisyng of the worlde / co[m]piled in Latyn by Erasmus Rot. ; and translated in to Englyshe by Thomas Paynell ...	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Paynell, Thomas.	1532 (1532)	STC 10470.8; ESTC S878	52,338	112

her father What shulde I make many wordes He beinge ouercome partly with shamefastnes partlye with pyte and compassion of his daughter and partlye with our eggyng granted her request But than thou shuldest sodaynely haue seen there a ryght miserable syghte The father in collynge and kyssynge of his daughter beganne so to lament and wepe as though she shuld forth with haue ben layde in her graue Her mother for very sorowe fell downe deed in al wounde Her onely brother and her syster that was a lyttell elder than she wepynge crienge out enbraced their dere syster and sayde By these our wepynge teares for what so euer brotherly and systerly pite and tender loue may do we pray you swete syster that ye forsake vs nat thus your miserable brother and syster leest that you beynge but one distroy vs twayn The other frendes wept some priuely some openly some entreated some perswaded and some blamed or rebuked but there was none amonge them all but that the teares ranne from his eyen And we also that came to entreate for the mayde were so moued what with y e wepynge of other that were there and with y e lamētation of her father from whose eies the teares ranne as he had ben a childe began lyke wyse to wepe y e whiche thyng though I say it besemed vs nat Yea and it almoost repented vs that we had gone so farre in the matter What trowe ye dyd the yonge virgin this whyle the whiche cōsideryng her sexe or kynde her tender age her softe nature and bryngynge vp was so delycate Saynte Paule hym selfe whā he toke leaue to depart from his bretherne shewed that he was moued with their wepyng though it were nat greatly sayeng what do ye wepynge and troublynge myne harte But the virgine all though she was of a greatte pitie or mekenes to her father mother with her eies drye a mery chere and smylynge on her father she sayde that he had no cause to be so vexed and greued but he oughte rather to reioyce and be gladde as he that had nat loste his daughter but as he that was sure to fynde her the whiche shulde praye to god for hym She also endeuoured her selfe diligētly with kyssynge prayenge and pratye exhortation to ease and appease her mothers heuy harte and other that were there But all was in vayne for they droue forthe and prolonged the soupper with syghynge and sobbynge wepynge and complaynyng tyll it was very late in the nyghte and except Margarete there was nat one merye amonge them all So often as they se these thinges for they must nedes se suche thynges other whyle I meane these felowes the whiche as I haue sayde ben all gyuen to bodily pleasure they wepe with the other they maruayle at the stoutnesse strēgth of theyr yonge myndes yea and are ashamed of theyr owne softe delycacy What suppose they Deme they these yeres these mery countināces these bodies and these stomakes to be so soone inclined yea so vtterly to set naught by the pleasures of the worlde excepte they founde other that be to them more leauer Wolde they so obstinately and with so good a corage take these labours vpon them if they dyd nat knowe very well that they be swete and pleasant So it is good Ioyce so hit is playnely a thynge that is swete and pleasant to them that be expert therin semeth sower and harde to them that be vnexpert therof But howe longe shall it be er thou perswade these felowes to beleue the For as saynt Bernarde saythe they se our crosses but they se nat our vnctions Truely I wolde they had a better mynde ne were hit that they haue a pleasure frantyckely to erre lyke as Argiuus dyd of whom Flaccus speketh But seyng that we be nat farre from y e errour of Argiue I wyll playnly perswade the. Wolde to god y t I myght lefully haue my wysshe that lyke as this my wrytynge shall come before thy syghte that so myn affection myght entre in to thy mȳde that is to saye that thou shuldest be so affectioned whan thou redest it as I was whā I wrote it Than here I wold make an ende of myn epistil wolde thynke that I neded nat to spend many mo wordes to perswade the. But parauenture bicause that that I desire is frustrate or ī vaine and that myn auctoryte is nat sufficient to perswade y t I wyll brynge forth saynt Hieronime the whiche by reason of his good and holy lyfe was a man of great grauyte and by reason of his counnyng a very noble man I pray the tell me moost holy man what dost thou in this sharpe and comforteles desarte alone all moost deed for hunger so leane w t cōtinuall watchyng and wasted awaye with so great labours haste thou no iocūdite or plesure of thy lyfe O sayth he whyle I was in wyldernes in that greatte desarte the whiche beinge burned and parched with the heate of the sonne is but a very course and a harde harboroughe for monkes howe often tymes thought I my selfe to be amonge the delitis and pleasures in Rome And I take god to wytnesse that after many a wepynge teare and after that I had longe loked vpwarde to heuen in cōtemplation me thought many tymes that I was amonge a great sorte of aungelles and beynge gladde and ioyfull I sange thus Post te in odorem vnguentorum tuorum curtemus In y e smel of thy swete sauours we wyl ron after the. Haste thou harde good Ioyce what this holy man confessethe here I coude recyte other to wytnesse the same but either we must gyue credēce to hym or els to no man And this same plesure euery good deuoute and wel disposed soule hath enioyeth Yet besydes these thynges excellēt lerned mē haue an other speciall pleasure y t is as ofte as they rede the enditynges of most noble wryters or elles whan they them selfe wryte thynges for other to rede or elles whan they reuolue in theyr mynde suche thynges as they haue redde This kynde of pleasure is so variable and so abundante that hit shall neuer seme tedious or make the wery For if they lyste to drynke of the fyrste fountaynes than they resorte to the volumes of the olde and newe testament If that verite of it selfe honestly arayd and hyghted w t the freshe garment of eloquēce doth delite them they rēne to saynt Hieronyme saynt Augustine saynt Ambrose Cypriane and suche other If those be nat eloquent inough to thy mynde and hast a luste to here some christen Cicero take and put Lactantius Firmianus in thy bosome And in case that thou canste be content with lesse costlye apparayle and sobre fare than take in thy hande Thomas Alberte and suche lyke bokes But thou canst nat belonge absēt from the other thyn olde frendes yet hardyly visette those to nowe and than amonge so that it be guest wyle nat as one of householde For among