Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	brother_n	sister_n	wife_n	57,154	5	9.8443	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16403	The booke o[f] merrie riddles Together with proper questions, and witty prouerbs,to make pleasant pastime. No lesse vsefull then behoouefull, for any young man or childe, to knowe whether he be quick-witted or no.		1617 (1617)	STC 3322.5; ESTC S115147	13,806	48

Solution One of the sonnes had a sonne thus hée is father and standeth both for the father and the sonne The 74. Riddle I consume my mother that bare me I eate my nurse that fedde mee then I die leauing them all blind that saw me Solution Meant of the flame of a candle which when it hath consumed both wax wéek goeth out leauing them in the darke which saw by it The 75. Riddle As long as I liue I eate but when I drinke I die Solution That is the fire which continueth so long as it hath matter to burne vpon except it be quenched with water which may be termed the death of that nature The 76. Riddle Ten thousand children beautifull of this my body bred Both sonnes and daughters finely deckt I liue and they are dead My sonnes were put to extreame death by such as loued them well My daughters died in extreame age but where I cannot tell Solution That is a trée which signifieth the mother the fruite the sonnes and the leaues the daughters ¶ John Goose LOng time since when men eat butterd peason with a spoone I had a man vnto my father borne vnder the moone His name was Tom Goose this is true indeede When he could liue no longer he fell sicke and dyed And within foure dayes after when he was layd in graue My mother would needes another husband haue The more husbands the better lucke some wiues do say the same And then married she one Dick Duck was by his name A widdoer he was and had a daughter called Ione She was a merry one and a minion minser alone She was my sister and I was her brother By law it was so it could be none other And my mother did loue him as the turtle Doue Yet at length my father died for loue Then said my mother though I haue two husbands wed I must liue dy the quicke quoth she and not by the dead Yet was she tough and toothlesse short tale to make And married the third husband called Iohn Drake He loued her right well and had his owne wishing For within ten dayes he killed her with kissing Then would he haue a yong woman to lengthen his life And fell in with my sister Ione and tooke her to wife After that I could not chuse though before I was her brother But iustly as became me I called her mother At length he was sealous and she perceiud his blindnesse Where vpon within a few dayes she killed him with kindnesse After he was dead then did my mother Duck Take me to her husband me thought I had strange luck Because first she was my sister Ione and I Iohn her brother And after Iohn her sonne and she Ione my mother Now am I Iohn her husband and she Ione my wife We Iohn Goose and Ione Duck together must lead our life ¶ Now if you haue well marked Vnto you I haue tolde How this demand is true Therefore you may be bold Proper Questions The first Question I Bought thrée penny-worth of Egs lately and for euery penny had like many And after gaue them in almes a none vnto thrée Beggars euery each one Some to the Beggar that asked my first the second had twice so many iust The third Beggar that there I found had twice as many as the second Now answere me to this question shortly how many Egges had I for a penny And how many Egges after the rate that euery Beggar had for his part Solution I bought seuen Egges for euery penny the first Beggar had thrée Egges the second six Egs the third beggar had twelue Egs. The second Question Two men that had in their purses mony the one to the other thus can say Put one of thy pence of thy purse in mine then is in my purse as much as in thine Nay said the other I pray thee do thus put one of thy pence into my purse Then haue I double as much as thou What was in both their purses say ye Solution The one of them had fiue pence in his purse the other had seuen pence in his purse and so the question is assoyled But if yee make the question take alwayes two pence then the numbers must be ten xiiii of iii d. xv one and twentie and so alway procéed forth The third Question A Fisher an hundred of herrings did buy after the rate of two for a penny And bought an hundred in another place three for a penny neither more nor lesse He put them together and sold anone still fiue for two pence till all were gone Now in that bargaine I thinke that he Eyther woon or lost How say you Solution Account euer sixescore to the hundred and reckon then and ye shall finde that hee hath lost thereby euen foure pence The fourth Question ANother question I would faine define I wedded thy mother thou weddedst mine By my wife I had a son soone after thou vpon thy wife begattest a daughter This question now tame would I know of thee What kin together these Children be Solution The Sonne was Vncle to the Daughter because that her brother was his Father also the Daughter was Aunt to the Sonne because her brother was his Father The fifth Question I Knew a maide that once did pray a man to lend her some money Which swore by God and by Saint Iohn that to that maide he would lend none Yet for all that ere that he went thence he saued his oth lent her twelue pence Solution This man lay with the maide first and so she lost her maiden-head and afterwards he lent her twelue pence The sixth Question A Batcheler came a mans wife vntill praying her his carnall lust to fulfill She sware a great oath as touching that sin She would neuer offend with him therein She kept her oath so vndefilde that soone after he got her with childe Solution The wiues husband dyed first and after that the Batcheler married her lawfully and with her then he had carnall copulation The seuenth Question I Knew a man which in his life begat a childe vpon his owne wife And when it was born his heart was done he looked vpon it it was not his Sonne Of this now tell me the true solution Solution The child that he begot vpon his wife was a daughter The eight Question A Man would haue slaine his son hastily But one counselled him the contrary To slay thy sonne it is well done to dread and feare nothing For such a deed thou shalt haue meede of Christ our heauenly King The ninth Question A Payre of Gloues a man once bought and them to thrée sisters brought And said Cast lots for some of you thrée shall weare these Gloues for loue of me How might his saying be verified there Yet none of them all did them weare Solution The one of the Sisters ware the one gloue and one of the other Sisters ware the other The tenth Question A

apples and thus I gaue away no apples for I gaue but one and thus I left no apples for I left but one The 45. Riddle What is that as small as a nit and serues the king at euery bit Solution It is salt The 46. Riddle There is a water that I must passe The broadest water that euer was And yet of all waters that euer I sée To passe it ouer is least ieopardy Solution It is the dew for that lieth ouer all the world The 47. Riddle What is that the more it is the lesse men feare it and the lesse it is the more men dread it Solution It is a bridge for if it be little we are afraid to go ouer it for falling and if it be bigge we feare no more to goe ouer it then on the ground The 48 Riddle I bought a brace of hounds for my Lordes grace and when I departed from his place I neither left them there nor tooke them with mee this maruellous thing how may it bee Solution I left one of the greyhounds there and took the other with mee so then I neither left them there nor tooke them with me The 49. Riddle Here I haue it and yonder I sée it Solution It is my breath in a mystie morning for héere I haue it at my mouth and yonder I sée it a yard from me The 50. Riddle What is that is higher then a hall or a house and it séemes much lesser then a mouse Solution It is a starre in the skie The 51. Riddle My Louers will I am content for to fulfill Within this rime his name is framed Tell me then how he is named Solution His name is William for in the first line is will and in the beginning of the second line is I am and then put them both together and that maketh William The 52. Riddle What is that that is as white as snow And yet as blacke as any crow And more pliant then a wand And is tied in a silken band And euery day a Princes péere Looketh vpon it with a sad chéere Solution It is a booke tied within a silken lace for the paper of it is as white as snow and the inke is as blacke as a crow and the leaues bee more pliant then a wand The 53. Riddle What space is it from the highest of the sea to the bottom Solution It is but a stones cast for bee the sea neuer so déepe a stone if it be cast in will reach to the bottome The 54. Riddle How many calues tailes will reach to the skie Solution One if it be long enough The 55. Riddle Mary an Christ loued very well My Ladies name héere I do tell Yet is her name neither Christ nor mary Tell me her name then and doe not tarry Solution Her name is Maryan for in the beginning it is said Mary an Christ but this riddle is to be put without the booke and not be read or else it will soone be perreiued The 56. Riddle What is that as white as milke As soft as silke As blacke as a coale And hoppeth in the stréet like a stéed fole Solution That is a Pie that hoppeth in the street for part of his feathers bee white and part bee blacke The 57. Riddle What is that goeth about the wood and cannot get in will not lie in a great chest Solution It is a long Speare The 65. Riddle What is that as round as a ball Longer then Pauls stéeple weather-cocke and all Solution It is a round bottome of thréed which when it is vndone it is much longer then Pauls stéeple The 66. Riddle Downe in the medow haue I two swine the more meat I giue them the lowder they cry the lesse meat I giue them the stiller they be Solution These bee two milstones which the more they grinde the more noise they make and they be called swins heere because swine bée fed with corne and so be they The 67. Riddle What is that that goeth through the wood and toucheth neuer a twig Solution It is the blast of a horne or the cry of a beast or such other The 68. Riddle What is that that hath flue legges on one side and three on the other Thrée heads and six eares and two things like my mother And yet such another thing as hath my brother Solution That is a man and a woman vpon a mares backe The 69. Riddle Beyond the sea there is an oake And in that oake there is a nest And in that nest there is an egge And in that egge there is a yolke That calleth together Christian folke Solution It is a clapper in a bell within a stéeple for the Church is taken for the oake the stéeple is taken for the nest the bell is taken for the egge and the clapper is taken for the yolke The 70. Riddle Downe in a dale there sits and stands Eight legges and two hands Liuers and Lights and liues thrée I count him wise that tels this to me Solution It is a man riding on horsebacke and hauing a hauke sitting on his hand The 71. Riddle Walking abroad to take the aire I met two Ladies bright and faire Two pretty boyes by the hands they led And thus vnto them both I said O ye faire Ladies I pray you tell me By nature and kind whose children these be Their answere Gentleman if yee will the truth knowe plaine The sonnes of our sonnes they be certaine Brothers to our husbands they be ywis And truly each of them to the other vncle is Begotten and borne in wedlocke they be And we are their mothers we tell you truly Solution These two Gentlewomen had two sonnes the one Thomas and the other William Thomas married Williams mother and William married Thomas his mother and either of them had a sonne by their wiues which sonnes must néedes bee the sonnes of their sonnes brothers to their husbands the one vncle to the other and they their lawfull mothers The 72. Riddle Ouer a water I must passe and I must carry ouer a lambe a woolfe and a bottle of hay if I carry any more then one at once my boate will sinke if I carry ouer the bottle of hay first and leaue the lambe and the woolfe together the wolfe will carry my lambe away if I carry ouer the woolfe first the lambe will eate my bottle of hay Now would I know how I should carry them ouer so that I leaue not the lambe with the woolfe nor the bottle of hay with the lambe on neither side Solution First carry ouer the lambe and then come againe and fetch the woolfe and bring the lambe back again on the other side and then take the bottle of hay and carry it and then fetch ouer the lambe and so the question is assoyled The 73. Riddle There were two fathers a hunting went And their two sonues for the same intent They caught conies in all but thrée And euery one had one how may that be