Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	bring_v	lord_n	milk_n	1,453	5	9.6655	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09789	A president for parentes, teaching the vertuous training vp of children and holesome information of yongmen. / Written in greke by the prudent and wise phylosopher Chœroneus [sic] Plutarchus, translated and partly augmented by Ed. Grant: very profitable to be read of all those that desire to be parents of vertuous children. Anno. 1571. Seene and allowed according to the Quenes iniunctions.; De educatione puerorum. English	Plutarch.; Grant, Edward, 1540?-1601.	1571 (1571)	STC 20057.5; ESTC S110518	57,885	148

Of eloquence and ciuill lavves that she hir children thē might teach O that there were many suche mothers as Eurydices or but a few like fathers to the zealous minde of this surmountyng woman What mother at this day wold take such paine what parent wold so cōsume hir selfe with studie for their childrens erudition though they loue theyr children well and desire to haue them learned but they séeke not the way No not the father which were the fittest for such a purpose A rare Phaenix was Eurydices whose example if any wold folow then should they vndoubtedly haue suche vertuous sonnes as Eurydices had Therfore to imbrace all these our institutions and wholsome preceptes is rather the work of prayer than of admonition how be it it is no small felicitie industrie to follow many of them Let all true parēts which desire to bring vp their children vertuously trie and proue how muche it auaileth to folow these precepts no hard matter it passeth not that power nor reache of mā If they be diligent if they be careful if they be vigilant in the good instruction of their children let them imbrace these precepts folow them practise them and vndoutedly they shall be worthis Parents and haue vertuous godly honest modest discrete and painful childrē endued with all good qualities and adorned with all ciuil behauior and good conditions They shall haue at last the guerdon of theyr trauell they shall haue the hire of their paine and reward of theyr diligence When they are olde and run ouer many a yeare the vertues which they espie in their well instructed children shall prolong their dayes and comfort theyr heartes wyth great delight Héere let Parentes learne to be Parents and in the pruning of their yeares looke diligently to the good education of theyr children For those children which in the beginning be well nurtered instructed and brought vp and whose foūdation of good education is well and vertuously layd shall easily vnderstand and folow the other things which flow from the beginning But what chylde soeuer is not taught to knowe the principles of good institution shal be ignorant in al the other duties of life which flow from the beginnings He that is seasoned with the wholesome precepts of adolescencie and after them exerciseth the course of hys lyfe he shall after wardes easily vnderstand and perceyue what rules may be anornament and furniture to all the folowing ages Ioseph in his childehode and adolescencie was so taught the scare of God and so geuerned bothe those two ages according to the feare of God that when he was well stroken in yeares he also knewe what dueties were decent and most méete for an olde mannes grauitie Therefore as his childehode and adolescencie so also was his olde age famous and passing in those dueties which euery age requireth Semblably whosoeuer shall honestly direct his youth stall be able to lead the action of his manhode and olde age most orderly decently and plausibly Be which in his youthe shall followe temperance and learne what conuenient meates and potions and other good exercises are to be offered to thys age shall knowe what order of lyuing he ought to vse when he is a man and an olde man and what duetyes he ought to practise So that parēts in the beginning must be careful for this if they will be parents of good children Yet not with standing I know if they do all these things and practise all these fruteful lessons yet shal they hardly ouercome and vtterly eradicate the naughtinesse and prauitie of humane nature For our nature by that fall of our first Parentes was so depraued and corrupted and hiddē vnder the vaile of al vices so that it can hardly be made sound vices being abandoned although thou leauest nothing vndon and no wayes precepts vntride in the good and true education of thy child But if that fault and crime had not so imbroyned and defiled vs the issue of our first parentes and also had not oblitterated and obscured in vs that fotesteps of vertue peraduenture we myght haue with greater facilitie bene called againe to the path of vertue in it to perseuer Euen as the Esopicall fable admonysheth so standeth humane state although there be neuer so much labor trauel and pame exhausted and consumed in our education and institution A certaine Cat sayth Esope was the only delight of a certayne yongman which yongman desired Venus to change hir into a womā the goddesse pitiyng the desire of the yongman conuerted hir into a beutifull woman with whose beuty the yong man accēsed and enflamed caried hir with him home and whē they wer set togither in a chamber Venus desirous to proue whither the cat had altred with hir body hir maners sēt a mouse into the middest of the chamber but she hauing forgotten those that wer present and hir nuptialles rifing vp ranne after the mouse desirous to catch hir eate hir so man howsoeuer he be trayned vp in vertue can neuer so belche oute the olde poyson and venim of vices that when occasion is ministred and offered he feleth not the prickings of vices and is not enflamed to syn of this we may take the Iudaicall people for a manifest example so intierly beloued of the Lord who although they had receiued fathers lawes grace fauor a land flowing with milke and honey and infinite other benefits of the Lorde and were subiect to many punishments could not bée brought to forget their corupt nature and aspire into a new mā in whō Adam was dead and Christ liued They always desired to go againe into Egipt and neglecting the worshipping of the lord toke againe the most vaine superstitions of the Gentiles The Bethlemeticall king and Prophet Dauid although God thought and spoke of him honorably for his godlinesse and pietie notwithstanding although he was excellently brought vp instructed in gods law he could not take heed to himself but fel into most filthie detestable adultrie which he impiously incresed by the slaughter of the stout mā Vrias not deseruing the same What speake I vpon Dauid Not Noah whom God spared when all other almost perished in the deluge and inundation could so warely walke before the Lord but he committed incest and not with incest alone but with drnkennesse polluted he himselfe Samuel in other things a godly and iust man notwithstanding he could not take heede but fel into that crime which to parentes bringeth great reproche and infamie He was blamed and rebuked bicause he instructed not his children in the Artes erudition and learning of the countrey And to come to Prophane examples what shall we say of Aristotle that péerelesse Prince of Philosophers He could not conquere his corrupt nature although without all controuersie he ascended the top and scaled the fort of Philosophie but fell into the moste filthy loue of a womā which enforced him like a brute