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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	husband_n	mother_n	sister_n	13,459	5	11.1008	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96944	Characters and elegies. By Francis VVortley, Knight and Baronet.	Wortley, Francis, Sir, 1591-1652.	1646 (1646)	Wing W3634; Thomason E344_21; ESTC R200973	32,406	78

chance That the Masculine is more worthy then the Feminine Gender is a rule we take up in our childhood and lay downe with our lives but she gives Lilly the lye she proves that the Theologicall and Cardinall vertues are of the female gender and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} potestas and potentia power and ability too and concludes like a Mathematician demonstratively As a chaste wife and happy mother she brought her husband a son in whose education she shewes her selfe more like a father in her discreet management of his youth in travell then a tender mother in distrust of Gods providence abroad and doth in this like the wise Merchant who trusts the Sea with his bullion and stock and transacts it where exchange runnes highest and so ballances his trading by the probability not certainty of advantage in the returne whereas her husband would wrap his talent in a napkin or hide it in a dung-hill and breed his sonne no better then himselfe were not she the better Merchant yet hers is but a mothers interest his a fathers hers in blood his in perpetuity As for the sisters part she hath out-done all presidents in that more then both the other it being hard to finde a sister can be so tender a mother to her Brothers Orphane that the childe were he come to her owne sonnes age could scarcely misse his mother such is her care of it And that which most commends her is she in her Noble Brothers imprisonment hath managed his misfortunes with as much or more advantage then her owne wasting her weak body in those noble services nay over-witting those engins imployed to ruine her Brother Like Moses shee stood in the gap betwixt her Brother and the Parliaments displeasure nor would give over untill like him she by her intercession had set him free and delivered him from the judgements which hung like a cloud over his head She lost not the least advantage in relation to her Brothers honour fortune or happiness In a word she is to her husband a loyall wife to her sonne a discreetly indulgent mother to her Brother such a Sister as the wisest man would wish his owne and I mine Mothers Wives Sisters you who would not erre Steere all your courses by this Character This is no faigned Character but true My soule could wish it were my Sisters due Nor wealth nor titles could inrich our blood So much as this would could they make it good X. The politique Neuter IS an Hermaphrodite partaking of two sexes and as unfruitfull to his Prince or country a man that dares not professe the Religion he was baptized to nor protest against an Innovation and so no Protestant he reserves his choice for the prevailing partie and for the present professeth that which they doe wonders at the distractions in the Church and Common-wealth and in the mean time is more distracted in himselfe he dares not owne his conscience now and therefore that will change Masters and turne witnes against him when he stands most need of it he would fain serve two Masters at once and please both but finding our Saviours words true that he must hate the one and love the other he resolves to hate him he fears most and to love neither not firme to either he loses the good opinion of both and so fals betwixt two stools God calls on him in the Old Testament with a quere how long he will halt betwixt two opinions and Christ in the New promises him the Laodiceans reward he is so far from trusting Gods mercie in Martyrdome that he dares not trust his providence in wants he is as much troubled as David at the prosperitie of the wicked but hath not the patience to goe to Gods House with him to enquire of their ends he will not beleeve Davids experience concerning the Children of the righteous whom he never saw begging their bread he had rather leane upon the rotten reeds of his owne policie then trust the firme rock of Gods providence if he ever professed to be for the King when his cause prospered he presently repented it and purchased the Parliaments pardon and protection and paid at least two yeares purchase for it if he be a Prisoner it is with accommodation and by it he saves the charges of hospitalitie yet hopes that moneys thus disburst makes him a Martyr and may be pleaded as well in bar of further assistance to the King as a Privie seale though it be disburst for the Parliaments use if for the Parliament you shall never find him without a Royall protection and purchased friendship at Oxford and that sometimes is mistaken and shewn to the wrong partie and then he payes for it if either partie prevaile he is in Misericordia if an Accommodation for which he prays more heartily then the forgivenesse of his sins help not he hath so long endeavoured to get a dexterous use of his left hand that he hath almost lost the perfect use of his right and is become an imperfect perfect Ambodexter or at best so cunning at leger-demaine that he gets the repute of a notable Jugler In a word he dares not seeme what he is nor be what he seemes but like luke-warme water having neither heat enough to warme the Stomacke nor being cold enough to coole it is rejected of both and spued out as friend to neither XI The Citie Paragon IS a woman whose birth was greater then her portion but her vertues greater then her birth who was marryed to a husband whose fortune exceeded his wisdome yet his fortune in her was greater then his wealth who manages his fortune so that she improves his conscience as much as his wealth and her wit makes him eminent in the City She loves not with the Pharisees the highest places at Feasts nor salutations in Assemblies knowing Envy attends the first and Pride the other Her dresse is more comely then costly modest then garish her visits like Sabboth dayes labours not frequent and never without charity or necessity undertaken her entertainment to her husbands friends or her owne suits both their conditions more neat it is then curious and is more reall and solid then ceremonious She desires her children may be so bred that they may be seasoned in their childhood with those vertues which may make them happy in their age And knowing Examples prevaile more then Precepts she gives them none but such as she would have them follow Those troubles incident to rich men which they call misfortunes she makes blessings by her right use of them knowing it is not the fruition but right use that makes us truly rich nor the losse of wealth can make any so miserable as the abuse of it If she heare any ill of her neighbour she had rather suppresse it then report it if any good she will rather improve it then enviously diminish it If any uncertaine evill be reported of

her As for her dresse she had rather owne any infirmitie either in colour shape or feature then cover them with an undecent much lesse an immodest attire though her judgement even in this be like the royall stamp to bullion which gives it reputation and denomination and makes it currant so doth her approbation any fashion In a word she is honoured of those she reverences and reverenc'd by those she loves she had rather know her self truly wise then be thought so yet would not onely be vertuous but be esteemed so she knows there may be envie in the first without cause and dishonour in the other without reason Come Ladies you at deare rates buy The French wash and Italian dye All you who paint they say will trade Here is true beautie will not fade Looke well into this right Court glasse And learne by it your selves to dresse AN ELEGIE Vpon the Right Honourable The Earle of LINDSEY 1. GReat Lindsey's falne yet did not fall by chance For Sparrowes fall not but by Providence What are our sinnes when such as Lindsey fall One who so often had been Generall One nere deceiv'd our hopes by Sea or Land And had been now as glorious in Command Had our Reserve of Horse as bravely stood To their great Charge as Lindsey made it good But they pursue the chase therefore we may And justly too say they lost us the day Sure their Commission was not left so large That a Reserve without Command should Charge For a Reserve for safe Retreat should stand And should not stir without expresse Command Their Zeale to honour and the Kings just Cause Might make brave men forget strict Martiall Lawes So Lindsey fell as when the Phenix lyes In her rich Urne another doth arise Even from her ashes So from Lindsey's grave Another Phenix we or Lindsey have A gallant man and of most noble parts As great a Master of his trade as hearts But the old Phenix in his Martiall heat Did great Gustavus past his Cannon beat With reverence yet old Christian speaks his name Then boasts from Danish blood the English came Wee must acknowledge and confesse t is true The Normans their discent from Rollo drew And Rollo was a Dane by birth yet wee Thought Lindsey mongst the Danes as brave as he And we beleeve that our young Lindsey rather Improves his stocke then borrowes from his Father Hic jacet Robertus Bartu Baro Willoughby Dominus de Ersby Comes de Snidsey Magnus Angliae Camerarius apud Edghill Serenissimi Regis Caroli {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} A turmis Equitū in regis presidiū relictus in prelio vulneratus etiam ad mortem sed non sine Victoria cecidit An Elegy upon the right Honourable the Earle of Northampton I Must acknowledge now I love thee more When thou art not then ere I did before The love wherewith I living loved thee Is changd to honour of thy memory As rarifi'd ayre turns to the purest fire So what I lately lov'd I now admire Many professe they for the King would die Thou for his sake didst offered life deny Thou wouldst not beg but Martyrdom command They offered what thou wouldst not understand There 's not a hayre which from thy head was torn And in despite to Loyalty was worn In Triumph not a wound to thee was given But they are in the black Records of Heaven And when the Grand Inquest for blood shall come They must strike Tallies for thy Martyrdom How many Scotch Bawbies cast in account Would to the Talents David left amount For if wee reckon wee cannot go lesse Then this proportion this they must confesse They noble loyall blood I dare be bold Compar'd with theirs will this proportion hold What disadvantage hath our Cause since we Become such loosers by a Victory Hic jacet Spencer Dominus Compton Comes Northamptontae progenie nobilis Conjugio foelix filiis utrisque dignus qui sanguineo regi fidelitatem martyrio obsignivit Nec magno Gustavo dissimilis victor in praelio juxta Stafford per infortunium cecidit Anno salutis 1644. An Elegy upon the right Honourable the Earle of Kingston KIngston thy losse was Epidemicall It was indeed a generall losse to all I will not name thy Ladies interest Childrens nor servants theirs were farre the least Though I dare say thus much for all the three Th 'ave lost as much as in a friend could be No better husband liv'd nor kinder father Nor nobler master joyning these together I speak the losse but as it did relate To God his Church the King and to the State For his Religion it was pure and sound And no man better understood his ground A Protestant he liv'd a Martyr dy'd Professing truth his truth by death was try'd This I dare say the King had none more able Nor really loyall at his Councell Table Of brave resolves and of a publick spirit Who knew him best knew he conceald his merit Discreet he was and providently wise Kinde to his friends and faithfull in advise No man his Countrey better understood Nor was more apt to do it reall good Though he was rich I dare pronounce him just No man was more religious in his trust Nor better understood this kingdomes Lawes Yet he with noble blood durst seal the Cause Nor would great Kingston in the Cause have dyed Had he not been in Conscience satisfyed As well as Law These two hee durst not sever Since God in this Cause joynd them both together Hic jacet Robertus Comes de Kingston ortu nobilis conjugio nobilior sed prole nobilissimus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} An Elegy upon the right Honourable the Earle of Carnarvan HEre lies the highest Fancy of our Times Who Lucian like could sharply scourge our crimes Whose wit Mercuriall was high and sublime So near ceration ' ●wanted only time For he had all our Artists could require To m●ke th' Elixar matter art and fire All three sublimed to as great a heigth As Art and Nature could and all set right Thus near perfection brave Carnarvan fell Who left behinde him scarce a paralell If men shall rise in judgement then I fear This loyall Lord shall condemn many a Peere Who more obliged to the King then he Have scarce returnd or thanks or loyalty Hic jacet Comes de Carnarvan Baro Dormar Mercurio magnus sed Marti major qui vitam hanc in Regis causa cum armis deposuit vulnere sed nobili ictus heu cecidit invictus An Elegy for the Princely Brothers of the Illustrious Duke of Lenox STay passer by and fix thine eye Oh see who here Intomb'd doth lye Three Brethren of Illustrious birth Loyall as ever breathed on earth Stuarts and of the Noblest blood But more because they made it good I dare pronounce their deaths as loyall As was their births and actions Royall Mistake mee not it is their dust Not they