Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	child_n	parent_n	4,224	5	8.6238	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32841	The children's petition, or, A modest remonstrance of that intolerable grievance our youth lie under in the accustomed severities of the school-discipline of this nation humbly presented to the consideration of the Parliament.		1669 (1669)	Wing C3869A; ESTC R25344	14,244	69

of the piety we owe to God and our Parents to render honour to their Persons and obedience to their Instructions Dii Majorum umbris tenuem sine pondere terram Spirantesque crocos in urna perpetuum ver Qui praeceptorem sancti voluere parantis Esse loco It is our Parents we know from whom we derive our being in the World and it is our Masters many times to whom we owe our more happy being in regard of that shape and fashion vvherein they cast us for the serving our Generation or living more to purpose in it There is not therefore any veneration or gratitude we can pay them nor any gifts or gratuities according to their abilities from our Friends no nor any Revenues that have been bestowed on some Schools by the pious Erectors of them vvhich vve think too much for the care and labour of any such men vvho are but a little faithful in this charge We humbly think it vvere good that the stipends and emoluments of Masters vvere augmented But there is a certain payment vvhich they give and not receive a salacious pay of theirs which they take of us and not from us vvhereof vve crave an abatement and about vvhich as neither vvorthy nor innocent or at least vvhether it be so or no according to the common usage of it vve are vvilling to come to some account or argument vvith them One Boy hath happily a good understanding and no memory Another hath a ready memory and no judgment A third hath neither memory nor judgment The Boy vvhose memory is quick looks over his Lesson once or twice and goes to play the other tvvo ply their Book as hard as they can and are not able to get it The Master comes now and puts the Boy who follows his play to say his Part he sayes it and so passes The other two cannot say for their lives and are beaten Here is Nature in these Lads and no fault punished If the Boy who has the memory had been put on some other task requiring pains and judgment he should have suffered and one of the other escaped Thus Fortune not desert is encouraged or reproved And what if the Master who knows the difference of their abilities shall purposely set each of them to such tasks unto which he knows their parts most defective how easie is it for him as often as he is willing to serve himself of any of them Let us yet press this a little farther It is the custom of some Schools or rather of some Masters to set their Boys a Law That if we miss such a number of words as suppose just three words we must be certain of what follows And herein must they appear very righteous men to us that they impartially execute their own rule and none be spared Now what unreasonable dealings are these with us For one Boy to answer but three words in the whole and miss all the rest is more then for another to answer all the rest and miss but three words What is it whether a Boy miss three words or thirteen It is his care or negligence his diligence or disobedience is to be regarded It is the Will and Endeavour which alone renders him culpable or blameless And what shall we judge then of such School Edicts as these but that either the Master is one that follows others in his Methods without discretion or that these Rules of such who do invent or execute the same are but fine Devices to give themselves opportunity under the pretence of justice which will go among the Boys to satisfie those inclinations which the tribe of these men for ought we see generally if they be still suffered are sure to catch as fast as we Boys that come but together do our itch of one another Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab Uva There are no persons of innocent apprehensions who see a Master taken with their Child as more pretty sprack and ingenuous then others can but be apt to think that sure this Master who so likes that Child will be Ioth to beat him But when we that come to School together shall see this Lad taken out by his Master and have about half a dozen or half a score lashes given him by authority of that sentence Non castigo to quod odio habeam sed quod amem rung in his ear with repetition of the Quod amem at every lash What shall we think of such liking When these lashes farther shall be with a Weapon of that length and sharpness as when the Boy is set down he is made so raw that he is not able to sit what shall we think of these Quod amem's in the Lashers Mouth And what then if the reason be enquired for this there be nothing found but only a Head perhaps uncomb'd a Band not put on aright a word or two missing in his Part a pair of Stockings down at knees or a Shooe that hath taken dirt Certainly if this be the effect of the Masters greater affection how well were it for any of the rest so long as it would but make him thereby not to endure to meddle with them to be rather the Objects of his utter detestation and hate Here is a love towards Children like that indeed of a Canibal toward humane flesh Here are Butchers unto whom our Parents should send their Calves to be flead rather then Masters unto whom they should send their Children to be instructed and corrected with moderation It may be perhaps a lighter matter in some others of this Robe who many times have taken up a company of us as we do Poynts by the dozen onely to make themselves merry to divert their thoughts or catch them a heat and so long as they do it but gently and indifferently and with innocence otherwise we may be apt to think little of it when there is a difference to be made as to the affection and execution of what kind it comes It may be only of laughter or of wrath or of something else For what is that concupiscence in humane nature which is depraved and foul What that vile thing if we may call Evil Evil as we do Fire Fire in its own name when we would get it quenched which men call Lechery in any but an unclean Curiosity that is A desire of knowing what is hidden to wit the pleasures the secrets of another and so intermedling with those parts which nature and shame have retired and should be fore ever kept accordingly but that the desperately busie iniquity of mans heart can leave nothing free from the contamination of it self with it And what reason is there then to have this Discipline of our Schools supervised that our Correctors and their Rules may be corrected That our Teachers may be taught to be better Away with such doings from among us which are so vile and brutish Let the Horses be slashed with a Whip to be learned to draw Let