Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	answer_v	great_a	time_n	806	5	3.2017	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31569	An academy or colledge, wherein young ladies and gentlewomen may at a very moderate expence be duly instructed in the true Protestant religion, and in all vertuous qualities that may adorn that sex also be carefully preserved and secured till the day of their marriage ...	Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703.	1671 (1671)	Wing C1818; ESTC R20294	3,570	14

AN ACADEMY OR COLLEDGE WHEREIN Young Ladies AND GENTLEWOMEN May at a very moderate Expence be duly instructed in the true Protestant Religion and in all Vertuous Qualities that may adorn that Sex also be carefully preserved and secured till the day of their Marriage under the Tuition of a Lady Governess and grave Society of Widdows and Virgins who have resolved to lead the rest of their lives in a single retir'd Religious way according to the Pattern of some Protestant Colledges in Germany In the SAVOY Printed by Tho. Newcomb 1671. An ACADEMY or COLLEDGE Wherein Young Ladies and Gentlewomen may at a very moderate expence be duly instructed in the true Protestant Religion c. BEfore the late unhappy Troubles in England it was the usual Observation of Forreigners who had been acquainted with this and other Nations that the English Lady was the most modest chast and pious Woman in Europe that she was eminent for Reverence Obedience Faithfulness and Affectionateness to her Husband for discreet frugal management of her House and Family for Sobriety Retiredness Taciturnity Humility Patience and all other Graces and Vertues wherewith the holy Women of old were endowed Since which by a general licentiousness during our late unnatural War not only all kind of Sects and with them Irreligion Atheism and Debauchery were introduced amongst the Men of this Nation but also most of those fore-mentioned excellent Qualifications are now at length to the great grief of all sober persons become more rare amongst Women then perhaps in any of our Neighbouring Countreys which having been seriously and sadly considered it is by many Godly prudent men judged very expedient that most earnest endeavors should speedily be used by some extraordinary way of Education to reduce if possible the Female Sex of England to their Pristine Vertues that so by their Godly Conversation and good Examples their Husbands Children and Servants may in time be won and at length a general Reformation wrought in this Kingdom Some have thought best to set their Daughters to be educated in the Maiden Schools in and about London where either through the Unskilfulness or Negligence through the Unfaithfulness or Covetousness of the Mistresses too much minding their private profit the Success oft times hath not answered the Expectation of their Parents and Friends whereof there are divers lamentable Examples and grievous Complainings Others therefore though of the Protestant Religion have chosen rather to be at the great Charges and hazard of sending their Daughters to be bred up till the time of their Marriage in some Popish Monasteries of our next Neighbouring Countreys whence they have return'd otherwise very vertuous but generally tainted with and enclined to Romish Superstitions and Errours Some have assayed to educate their Daughters alwayes at home but thereby have found them apt to be corrupted or betrayed by Servants of whose unfaithfulness and viciousness there is now a more general complaint than ever or else in continual danger to be stoln away by some debauched indigent Neighbours or if they are rich Orphans to be sold by the Trustees whereof there are also divers Examples or to be wholly ignorant and unacquainted with the World or at least to want that handsome becoming Deportment which usually sets off and recommends young Ladies to good Husbands and is to be acquired onely abroad in a vertuous converse with others Lastly Divers Gentlemen of this Kingdom have of late for the Education of their Daughters had recourse to the Families of some Non-Conformists where perhaps a stricter Education may sometimes be found but then if any advantage be there had it is usually attended with this great mischief that thereby schismatical and rebellious principles are insensibly instilled into them which may one day occasion if not timely prevented the final overthrow of the present established Church and State Now the Premisses considered and also that for the Education of Sons in all Vertue and Piety no way hath been found to succeed better generally then to let them pass their youth in a Collegiate life under the eye and care of a discreet learned pious Tutor and under the regular Government of the Head and Fellows of a Colledge It is not to be doubted but that some such Collegiate life if rightly instituted may prove as successful and perhaps much more for the Education of Daughters and that thereby may be founded not onely excellent Seminaries and Nurseries out of which Persons of Honour and Worth may at all times make choice of Vertuous Wives but also Provision whereof there is great want in England may be made for sober pious elder Virgins and Widdows who desire to separate themselves from the vanities of the World and yet employ their Talents to the benefit of the Publick These are therefore to give notice to all whom it may any way concern that near London in a pleasant healthy Soil and Air there is for both the purposes above-mentioned proposed a large House with a Chappel fair Hall many commodious Lodgings and Rooms for all sorts of necessary Offices together with pleasant Gardens Orchards and Courts all encompassed and well secured with strong high Walls Also there is a Reverend Learned and Pious Divine in the same Parish ready to officiate daily Morning and Evening as Chaplain a grave discreet Lady to be Governess with divers other Matrons who having taken up a resolution to live a retired single and religious life are to assist in the Government of the Colledge without expecting any gain profit or emolument for themselves but to bestow gratis all their care and pains in governing the Colledge and the young Ladies in their Education Moreover there will come at due times the best and ablest Teachers in London for Singing Dancing Musical Instruments Writing French Tongue Fashionable Dresses all sorts of Needle Works for Confectionary Cookery Pastery for Distilling of Waters making Perfumes making of some sort of Physical and Chyrurgical Medecins and Salves for the Poor c. There are also prepared a Body of Statutes and Rules whereunto all upon their Admission are to submit themselves until the whole Society with the consent of the Visitor who is a Person of great Eminency and Worth shall think fit to alter or repeal any of them for the better promoting this Pious Design If therefore any Honourable and Worthy Persons desire that their Daughters or any Trustees that their Orphans should be admitted Commoners or Pensioners of this Colledge or any Devout Widdows or Elder Virgins who intend not to marry desire to be admitted Fellows and Assistants in this Government and to lead the rest of their dayes without cares and troubles of the World to live with honour and reputation to devote themselves to the service of God and the good of their Countrey by contributing their advice and assistance in the training up of young Ladies and Gentlewomen and securing their Persons and Fortunes till the time of their Marriage let them repair