Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	child_n	glory_n	parent_n	1,912	5	9.5403	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12947	A breef discour[s] wherin is declared, of y[e] trauailes an[d] miseries of this painful life, & that death is t[he] dissoluer of mans miserie. Gathered out of d[i]uers good writers, by Leonard Staueley. Wh[er]vnto is annexed the authors muse of this life, in English vearse and his prayse likewise of vertue, felicitie and true sentillitie	[Staveley, Leonard].	1575 (1575)	STC 23239.5; ESTC S111282	14,869	46

strength of body expert in marshall affaires and finally in him no exellent qualitie lacked that was requisit for any noble man I could tell you likewise how Tiberius was dispatched by the hands of Caligula for the gouernment and domination of the Empier of the Romains and how Caligula had his deadly wound of Tiberius Drusus who gouerned a short time the Regiment of that kingdome with infinit such like Thus may you sée héere that Death hath ended their couetous conceits and ambicious desires bridled their wilful wils and restrained their wicked entents Death is feareful yea but the losse of eternall life is more to be feared death depriueth vs of honors worldly renowne riches Fréends Parents and children yea but if we forgoe the Crowne of imortall glory the heauenly Riches the company of our déer fréends Moyses and the Prophets and the societie of our first Parents Adam Eue and their childrē Seth Enos Kenam Mchalael Iered Henoch and Methuselah who liued in this Pilgrimage nine hundreth thréescore nine yéeres this is a greater losse much more to be feared Death abādoneth our delicate delights our pleasant Pastimes our worldly solace taketh from vs all our bagges golde of siluer our treasures our famous buildings with all the rest of our ioyes Yea but in stéed of them it restoreth vs to a celestiall place fol of blessednes inspekable felicities which no eye hath séen no eare hath herd no hart can conceiue nor no tung able to vtter In this place is a heauēly Ieruzalem where all ioyes incomporable are to be found and sorowes vtterly exiled But peraduenture some one wil say I liue a quiet life I haue the good gifts of Fortune she neuer frowneth on me my neighbours enuey not my estat of worldly felicitie nor my happy procéedings and I haue mountaines of welth and no man hateth me but I haue many Fréends by reason of my golde and therfore by this means I can procure my estate pleasure helth life and libertie to my liking O vain man doost thou not knowe that thy state is so much the more miserable by how much the more thou estéemest of thy self and those transitory things For I assure thée moste wretched is he that neuer hath tasted any misfortune and he is hated of the Gods that neuer féeleth any troubles Demetrius calleth a quiet life without aduersitie Mare mortuum a dead Sea. Pollicrates a tirant of the Samians whose good Fortune was such as he neuer felt any mischaunce in all his life time sauing towards his death who being wery of his continuall ioy and gladnes towing in a vessell for his pleasure into the depth of the Chanell and mening to turne his present good hap to changeable futer ill fortune wilfully cast a precious Ring of golde hauing 〈◊〉 Pearl in it of inestimable value into the waues therof which a hungry fish snapped vp the same in sted of other féeding which béeing presently taken with Fishermen presented into the Kichin of Pollicrates for her singuler rarenes the Cooke ●●pping the belly vnawares found this Ring took it and deliuered it to his maister Although Pollicrates did now ride on the top of Fortunes whéel yet at the last the whéel turned and he had a great fall for in the warres which were betwéen him and Darius King of the Pertians Orantes the chéef Captain or Lieutenant of Darius tooke him prisoner after moste painful and terrible torments caused him to be honge vpon a gibet vpon the top of a stéep hill or mighty mountaine O blinde vnstable fortune Had it not béen better for Pollicrates now and then to haue tasted some of thy sower sops of sorow and sometimes to haue droonk of the bitter drink of Aduersitie then altogither in his brauest iollitie not only to lose his kingdōe but also his déer life in moste shamful manner As thou then deltst with him so since thou hast vsed others thy guests in like sort But yet you think that golde can redéem you from gréet Siluer from sorowe and déeds from Death no I tell you they are rather means to hasten your dispatch then to linger your delay For as Bion reporteth Arristippus a very wise Philosopher had a Seruant who was ouer charged with the waight and charge of his Maisters money therfore bidden by his maister to cast away the ouerplus and carry that which he might with his ease which doon Aristippus happening to be on the Sea with Pirats threw all his Golde and Siluer into the waues therof saying better it were that all this géere be throwne away by Aristippus then Aristippus by them meaning that the kéeping of the money might procure him a dismall day he béeing in the company of such falce and fained fréends Not much vnlike to this I finde as the worthy Poets record in their moste sacred Verses how Arion the exellent and cuning Musition who for to encrease his knowledge in forren contries and to augment his estate in gathering golde for sooke Lesbos his owne natiue soyle and Contry and sayling into Scicile remained there a season from thence he traueled into Italie where hauing got his wished desire of gaine and pretending to passe to Corinth being a Ship boord in moste safty as he thought with his owne contrie mē they vnderstanding what riches he had sought by all meanes priuily how to slay him but he perceiuing their intent desired of thē to take his golde and other treasures and saue his life which they would not agrée vnto but graunted him that he should throwe him self into the waues of the Sea hedlong and so stoppe his breth for that he should not bewray their mischeuous Act of Robbery wherfore with abundance of teares he requested the Marriners nay rather Théeues and Pirats for no other term can I better giue thē to grant him his lamentable Lute and eke his mourning Roab which béeing obtained he sung to his sollemn Lute a sory song and so amiddest the surging Sea did sée the face of Death yet being aliue But for all that he was deliuered by the help of a Dolphin fish who presently receiued him on her back and moste safely conuaied him a shore when he least looked for any such mater I remember that the renowned Poet Maro in his Eneidos of the destruction of the famous Citie of Troy writeth how the ancient and wise King Priamus fearing lest the mightie Gréekes should ouerthrowe and vtterly destroy all the regall blood and Issue there sent his yungest sōne Pollidorus to his cosen Pollimnestor being a King hauing a great some of Golde with him to minister vnto the Infant necessaries Polimnestor made much of Pollidorus so lōg as his Father Priamus liued but he being dead the cruell Tirant for the gréedines of his golde slew him moste vnnaturally to his shame dishonor reproch and perpetuall infamie Wherin we may perceiue what little saue gard is in golden riches how vnstable fortune