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	husband_n	sister_n	17,190	5	11.3833	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70258	Memorabilia mundi, or, Choice memoirs of the history and description of the world by G.H.	G. H.; G. H. (G. Hussey); G. H. (G. Hooker)	1670 (1670)	Wing H2629A; Wing H3812; ESTC R178183	59,815	208

any that would withstand the fury of their insulting pride whereupon they out of the City came and entred the Romans Army like a flood and in their desperate madness all was overwhelmed that durst withstand them the Walls then could not be assaulted the enemies fearful Engines was then by them set on fire and bravely fighting they bravely made their enemies to retire The Battel done back go these hair-braind men and divide again and each becomes the others foe and then pell mell they go to it and begin to disorder and bring all things to confusion with fire their Corn and Victuals they consumed all their provision in a moment spoiled and wasted which if well kept might have lasted them many years upon which the Famine like a Tyrant roams and rages and makes all both Old and Young Rich and Poor to starve and dye with fleshless Anatomies This was a Plague of Plagues a Woe of Woes death on every side did inclose them this being their condition they knew not what to do to sally forth they durst not for then their lives they were sure to lose to stay within for want of food they starved out they could not go for the Gates were shut and strongly warded their throats were cut if any staid within so that if they stay or go or go or stay every way Destruction they are sure to meet with But of all torments hunger is the worst for that will burst through the stony Walls therefore these people having been with War Woe and want on every side beset do now begin to consult and strive how they might get to the Romans for there was their hopes that in their swords they should find more mercy then their still dying famisht state afforded them And indeed when man is opprest then is wit most sharpest and then wisdom amongst evils chuseth the least Now they knowing Vespasian for a noble Prince and one that did not glory in their Woe they thought it best to try his clemency and not with hunger and famine to die and therefore despairing of all hopes resolved with Ropes to slide down the Walls which a number of them did and fled to Titus who bemoaned the sadness of their condition and relieved and took them to his grace and favour Thus when all hopes failed they were by their foes preserved to the number of at least 40000. The City Souldiers searched every house where they thought any Victuals were conveyed and if they found any the owners were most certainly beaten for concealing it but if they saw a man look plump and fat his throat they would surely cut for they thought him too much pampered and too full fed they would therefore strike him dead to save meat and drink The Richest and Noblest that was born both of Men and Women gave all they had for one poor strike of Corn and hid themselves and it under the ground in some close Vault and there they would eat it under the ground unground if any could get flesh they would eat it raw Thus the weaker were over-awed and kept under by the stronger No respect of persons where hunger came natural affection was then banished then the Husband did his own Wife reject the Wife she snatches the meat from her Husband all pity from the Mother was exiled she from the Child tears and takes the Victuals the Child plays the thief with the Parents and steals the food though with grief the Parents pine away There was neither Free-man nor Bond-man Fathers nor Mothers Wives Husbands Masters Servants Brothers Sisters be it propinquity or strong affinity no Law or reason or rule could bear sway and indeed obeysance must be given where strength commands the pining Servant will not know his Master the Son will not shew his duty to his Father the Commons regardless to the Magistrate each for one and but for one he cared disordered like the cart before the horse force caused all respect to yield These Miscreants with vigilancy did watch where a door was locked or latched that they could spy for there they supposed the people were at meat and in their out-rage the doors they would beat open where entring if they found them feeding they would tear it in haste out of their throats half eaten and half uneaten these wretches would constrain the people to cast it up again they hauld them about the house by the ears to force them to bring out their Victuals which they supposed they had some by the Thumbs they hanged up and some by the Toes some had many blows others were pricked with Bodkins sadly were they tormented to reveal their meat when they had none to conceal and in truth all was fish that came into their net and all was food that could be got by fraud or force Grass Hay Barks Leaves of trees Cats and Dogs Frogs Worms Rats Mice Snails Flies and Maggots all stinking and contagious roots the covering of their Coaches Boots and Shoes and the dung of Fowls and Beasts were Feasts for these poor miserable starved wretches things loathsome to be named in time of plenty is now dainties among these starved distressed Jews This Famine run beyond all natures bounds as before I have hinted and confounded all Motherly-affection no compassion was there had to bloud or birth It forced a woman to kill her only Son she ript and dis-joynted him and dis-joynted him limb from limb she drest she roasted she broiled and boiled him she eat him she interr'd him in her womb his life by nature proceeded from her and she her self most unnaturally did feed upon him he was her flesh her bloud her bones and therefore she eating him her self her self made food No woe can equal her misery no grief can match her sad calamities the Souldiers they smelt the meat upon which they straitly assembled which when they saw they trembled and with staring hairs and ghastly looks were thereat so affrighted and amazed that thereupon they presently left the house This horrid action did more with them then any force of man could ever do for this sad sight over came them Oh then thou that dost live like a fatted Brawn and cramst thy guts as long as thou canst thou that dost eat and drink away thy time accounting it no crime for gluttony to be thy God thou that must have fowl of all sorts and hast the bowels of the Ocean searched to satisfie thy appetite and hast thy dainties from all parts and places near and remote and all to satisfie thy devouring throat whose pamper'd paunch never leaves to feed and quaff Think on Jerusalem perhaps it will move thee in the midst of thy Diet and riotous courses to a more temperate and sober demeanor And you brave Dames adorned with Jems and Jewels that must have Grewels and Caudles Conserves and Marchpanes that too in sundry shapes made as Castles Towers Horses Apes and Bears think on Jerusalem in the midst of all your glory and