Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	kingdom_n	people_n	18,543	5	5.1521	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64155	The art of good husbandry, or, The improvement of time being a sure way to get and keep money. Wherein is prescribed several ruls [sic] for merchants, shop-keepers, and mechanick tradesmen, (as well servants as masters) how they may husband their time to the best advantage; the loss whereof is the sole cause of poverty in this city and nation. Likewise the loss of a mans time spent in a tavern, coffee-house, or ale-house, computed. Also instructions to all sorts of people, how to order their business for the future, both to the enriching of themselves and their families. In a letter to Mr. R.A. by R.T. With permission, August 7th 1675. Roger L'Estrange.	R. T.	1675 (1675)	Wing T43; ESTC R219148	3,948	10

probable the greatest part by this means is introduced Gaming Foolish Wagers Wenching Swearing and other Debaucheries And usually at parting or breaking up of these Clubs they divide themselves according to their several Inclinations or Dispositions some go to a Tavern some to a convenient place for Gaming others to a Bawdy-House by which means the Family is neglected and not governed as it ought to be the Wife though possibly a very virtuous and careful Housewife exasperated by the extravagancies of h●s Husband and foreseeing Poverty and Want attending her and her Children growes desperate and it may be yeilds to some Temptations that are too too common in these dayes by which means oftentimes an Estate that was gathered by Grains is scattered abroad by Bushels The Servants too by these Examples fall into the same Vices and many times ruine both themselves and their Friends who have strained their Estates to the utmost to get them into those places and engaged their Friends for their Fidelity hoping that their Industry might afterwards make them some retalliation all which is frustrated and they become Vagrants and Extravagants by which means City and Country are filled with so many idle persons that live only by Spoyle and Rapine or like Droans feeding upon others Labours the greatest part of their business being to undo what others do and to devise or contrive ways to cosen supplant or cheat each other accounting it as lawful to get Twenty Shillings by Cheating or Playing as by the most honest and industrious labour so that by this means our Commodities which might be employed by industrious Manufactory lie waste and no wonder that we complain for want of TRADE when the hands that should be employed about it are idle for if a strict inquiry were made into the City and Suburbs of all the persons that are capable of work either in the Wooll or Fishing-Trade as Men Women and Children from seven years upwards that are now all together idle or nor employed to any purpose in Trade there would not be found less than an Hundred and fifty thousand that live like Droans feeding upon the Stock of others Labours Now it is our own negligence and idleness that brings Poverty upon us for if these idle persons were employed we need not cry out of the Exportation of Wooll neither would industrious Forrainers have that encouragement to work here if we would mind it our selves but if we will not improve our Manufactory we cannot blame others for doing of it Now it will be supposed that if those Laws for setting idle people to work punishing Vagrants rectifying disorders in publick Houses all this might be prevented This commonly is our Last Shift and thus are we apt to excuse our selves and lay the burden of our own faults upon the shoulders of our Governours we may be very sensible that we have in this Kingdom as good Laws as in any place in the World we live under such a King that for Prudence and Wisdom no Empire or Kingdom can make comparison withus nor can Laws be better executed than in this Kingdom But it is impossible that the eye of Magistracy can see into every Corner every single person hath a Corporation within himself every Family is a petty Principality of which the Master or Mistress is Vicegerent it lies upon every Private Person to put in execution those Laws of Nature within himself that will inform him what he ought to do and what he ought not to do Every Governour or Governess of a Family should take care by their good examples to instruct their Families and severely to punish such Disorders as shall be committed in their House or Houses as far as their power doth extend the remainder they may leave to the Magistrates who will not be wanting on their parts Now since every one is guilty let us endeavour to mend and no longer complain of Want since it is in our power to enrich our selves and our Country The industrious Hand needs not make a Leg to Fortune for Wealth Nor the honest Heart bend his knee to Fla●●●ry to gain him a Reputation These are the Heads of what afterwards I shall present you with methodically handled in a Treatise which as this finds acceptance will ere long see the light In the mean time I am Yours to command R. T. FINIS