Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	battle_n	young_a	youth_n	46	3	7.3035	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03100	A newe discourse of morall philosophie, entituled, The kayes of counsaile Not so pleasant as profitable for younge courtiours. Optima est patientia victor.	Heron, Haly.	1579 (1579)	STC 13228; ESTC S108570	49,052	150

hadde suche care for the trayning vp of youth in vertue and good manners that they made lawes and ordayned a speciall Magistrate to foresée that none shoulde liue ydle And amongest all other Vertues equitie and trueth was there of suche estimation that they mighte by no meanes beare rule whiche were suspected of couetousnesse nor hardly be suffered to inherite whiche in their youth had bin knowen to haue been common lyers In so muche as the Emperoure Traianus after that he hadde slaine King Cebalus the father in battaile and taken his yong son to be kepte prisoner during his nonage in the Citie of Rome with much add graunted his life and due succession of the Kingdome vnto him onely vpon this condition that he shoulde be diligently taught well instructed in Vertues and for this cause appointed his gouernor him to continue stil within the precincts of his court But the yong Prince hauing libertie to solace himselfe with some of his companions on a time brake into the Emperors Orchard where they busily applyed themselues in the choice of swéete fruits to satisfie their childish delight whom the Emperor himself by chance out of windowe perceiued in that place nor much discontent therewyth hée came downe alone met the Prince with his companions meaning to haue apposed him in sundry points of his schollershippe and asked first from whence hée came vnto whom the young Prince aunswered from schoole and stoutely maintained the same to his face whiche proude faulte and impudent boldenesse in the childe so wonderfully moued the wrath and kindled the displeasure of the Emperor towards him that he would notwithstanding his former pardon haue dispatched him both from life and liuing when hée came to riper yeares had it not bin for the second suite and great intercession of the Nobilitie whiche earnestly perswaded him to the contrary Suche was the seueritie of thys Emperor Traianus in chastising of falshood the worthie fame of all the Romanes in the maintaynance of Truth And surely if suche lawes were executed in these daies we shold neither haue the cities gréeuously vexed wyth corrupt Magistrates nor the quiet stréets troubled with so many franticke frayes of brawling vnthrifts But where shoulde a man séeke Iustice but of Magistrates where should he find peace if not in cities of whome should we learne good maners but of Courteors For in such a multitude dayly méeting of the moste noble wise valiant persons the sūdry gifts of nature goodly vertues are so boūtifully bestowed no otherwise thā in a beautiful garden the sundrie swéet flowers which in the Spring time make a pleasant shew in sight yéeld a most delicate sauour of delight In thys place as in a strong bulwark of defence the worthy Knights returning frō the dreadfull warres refresh their weary limmes wyth comfortable words and greate entertainment here the wise consulte as in a moste quiet Senate house touching the welfare and commodities of a common wealth And likewise here the flower of Nobilitie dayly practise déedes of armes and exercise all feates of Chiualrie moste néedful in the defence of their Prince and Countrey and howe muche those men are to bée blamed whiche in steade of suche good exercise vse onely the practise of moste lasciuious pastimes it appeareth by the example of Vlisses whiche in regarde of hys swéete wife at home famed himselfe to bée distraught with soddaine furies to the intent he mighte withdrawe himselfe from the siege of troy For when he hadde béen thereof aduertized by Nauplus and other worthy Captaines of the Gréekes he was pensiue all the night consulting with hymselfe for some fine deuice or suttle sleighte to winde himselfe from the warres and on the nexte morrowe he furiously brake oute into the fieldes where he founde a plowe wherein in steade of Oxen he had yoked other wild beasts which he tooke by craft and thus eared the grounde whiche afterwardes he caused to be sowed wyth Baye salte But Nauplus vnderstanding hereof soone smelt his deuice and caused his yong sonne Telemachus to be broughte foorth laide in the furrowe whome when Vlisses perceiued ouercome by the strong force of naturall affection he turned his ploughe aside saued the life of the child to his own shamefull discredite To whome Nauplus cried out aloude Nowe maiste thou with shame leaue off thy dissembled furie sith thy councelles are betrayed and the deapth of thy deuice is throughlye sounded and couldest thou cowarde for filthy luste forsake the worthy enterprise of wars couldest thou persuade thy selfe for wanton loue to leaue the honorable déeds of Knighthoode It is a greate shame to a King to winne the loue of a woman and léese the honoure of the fielde and therefore I councell thée Vlisses to leaue such lewd practises henceforth follow the martiall déeds of arms most fit for thy calling And thus was Vlisses entrapped in his owne snare and circumuented with his own shameful deuice But here might a greate question arise in controuersie whether are more profitable of the valiant or wise in the administratiō of the common wealth which I had rather close vppe with the opinion of Cicero that said Parui sunt foris arma nisi est consilium domi Nexte vnto these Vertues appeareth bountiful Magnificence whose beames are so bright shining in the déeds of Nobilitie that I suppose to darke cloudes of Couetousnesse are not able to Eclipse the light of such a goodly vertue And we must estéeme it a dreame where men saye that English hospitalitie is fled or rather Metamorphosed into the likenesse of Italian thrift Spanish pride and other outlandish Parsimony which if it be in dreaming fansie but too truely found by common experience it is a thing moste lamentable and especially to be blamed in those which stād so much vpon the termes of honorable antiquitie and yet in Tauernes scornefull places kéepe their chiefe hospitalitie If a man should reason with these men aske what is the thing they chiefly desire perhaps they would say Fame Power or Libertie thrée spirituall giftes of Grace in déede but whiche of them liketh you beste Doest thou thirst after the swéete Nectar Heauenlye perpetuall flowing streames of Fame but there is no suche dulcet liquor to be founde in Tauerns Vertue is the onelye fountaine from whence these riuelets haue their beginning for this cause the diuine Poet Homer did record the worthy déedes of Hector and Achilles this moued Virgil to discourse the painfull trauels of Aeneas and likewise the whole company of Historiographers haue left the déeds and workes of antiquitie vnto all posterities onely for example of Vertue But doe you ambitiously desire to beare rule then you muste firste learne to obey for what duties can ye looke for at the hands of inferiors whom you disdain when you proudly mislike the authoritie of superiors from whence commeth youre honoure Is it Libertie that you séek then can you not be