Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	daughter_n	father_n	husband_n	25,606	5	9.9891	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13240	The araignment of leuud, idle, froward, and vnconstant women or the vanitie of them, choose you whether : with a commendation of wise, vertuous and honest women : pleasant for married men, profitable for young men, and hurtfull to none.; Arraignment of lewd, idle, froward, and unconstant women. 1615	Swetnam, Joseph, fl. 1617.	1615 (1615)	STC 23534; ESTC S529	43,338	78

vs many pretty toyes to moue vs to mirth and laughter and when they are bigger growne and that age or pouerty hath afflicted the Parents then they shew the duety of children in relieuing their old aged parents with what they can shift for and when their parents are dead they bring them to the earth from whence they came Yet now consider on the other side when a wrinckled and toothlesse woman shall take a beardlesse boy a short tale to make of it there can be no liking nor louing betweene such contraries but continuall strife and debate so likewise when matches are made by the Parents and the dowry tolde and paid before the young couple haue any knowledge of it so many times are forced against their minds fearing the rigour displeasure of their parents they often promise with their mouthes that which they refuse with their hearts Also if a man marry a wife for fayre looks without dowry then their loue will soone waxe cold insomuch that they vse them not like wiues but rather like kitchinstuffe whereas those which marry rich wiues they haue alwaies something to be in loue withall It is a common thing now a dayes that fayre women without riches find more louers then husbands Choose not a wife too faire nor too foule nor too rich for if she be faire euery one will be catching at her and if she be too foule a man will haue no mind to loue her which no body likes if too rich thou thinkest to marry with one which thou meanest to make thy companion thou shalt find her a commaunding Mistresse so that riches causeth a woman to be proud beauty makes her to be suspected hard fauoured maketh her to be hated Therefore choose a wife young well borne and well brought vp reasonable rich and indifferent beautifull and of a good wit and capacity also in choyse of a wife a man should note the honesty of the parents for it is a likelyhood that those children which are vertuously brought vp will follow the steps of their parents but yet many a tree is spoyled in the hewing there are some which haue but one onely daughter and they are so blinded with the extreame loue that they beare her that they will not haue her hindered of her will whatsoeuer she desireth so suffering her to liue in all wanton pleasure delicacy which afterwads turneth to be the cause of many inconueniences Now the Father before he marry his daughter is to sift throughly the qualities behauiour and life of his sonne in law for he which meeteth with a ciuill and an honest sonne in law getteth a good sonne and he which meereth with an ill one casteth away his daughter The husband must prouide to satisfie the honest desires of his wife so that neyther necessity nor superfluity be the occasion to worke her dishonour for both want and plenty both ease and disease makes some women oftentimes vnchaste and againe many times the wife seeing the husband take no care for her making belike this reckoning that no body else will care for her or desire her but to conclude this point shee onely is to be accounted honest who hauing liberty to doe amisse yet doth it not Again a man should thus account of his wife as the only treasure he enioyeth vpon earth hee must also account that there is nothing more due to the wife then the faithfull honest and louing company of the husband he ought also in signe of loue to impart his secrets and counsell vnto his wife for many haue found much comfort and profite by taking their wiues counsell and if thou impart any ill hap to thy wife shee lightneth thy griefe eyther by comforting thee louingly or else in bearing a part thereof patiently Also if thou espie a fault in thy wife thou must not rebuke her angerly or reprochfully but onely secretly betwixt you two alwayes remembring that thou must neyther chide nor play with thy wife before company those that play and dally with them before company they doe thereby set other mens teeth on edge and make their wiues the lesse shamefaste It behoueth the married man alwayes to shew himselfe in speech countenance both gentle and amiable for if a woman of modest behauiour seeth any grosse inciuility in her husband she doth not onely abhorre it but also thinketh with her selfe that other men are more discreet and better brought vp therefore it standeth him vpon to be ciuill and modest in his doings lest he offend the chaste thoughts of his wife to whose liking he ought to conforme himselfe in al honest and reasonable things and to take heed of euery thing which may mislike her Why some women loue their louers better then their husbands the reason is the louer in the presence of his Lady is very curious of his behauiour that he vseth no vnseemely gestures whereby there may no suspition of iealousie or any exception bee taken by any thing hee doth it behoueth euery woman to haue a great regard to her behauiour and to keepe her selfe out of the fire knowing that a woman of suspected chastity liueth but in a miserable case for there is but small difference by being naught and being thought naught and when she heareth other women ill spoken of let her thinke in her mind what may be spoken of her for when a woman hath gotten an ill name whether it bee deseruedly or without cause yet shee shall haue much adoe to recouer againe her honour and credite thereof let a woman auoyde so much as may bee the company of a woman which hath an ill name for many of them indeauour by their euill fashions and dishonest speech to bring others to doe as they do and many of them wish in their hearts that all women were like vnto themselues it may be sayd of many women that the feathers are more worth then the birds therefore it behooueth euery woman to behaue her selfe so sober and chaste in countenance and speech that no man may bee so bold as to assayle her for commonly Castles if they come once to parlie are at point to yeeld therefore if a woman by chance bee set vpon let her make this answere When I was a maid I was at the disposition of my parents but now I am married I am at the pleasure of my husband therefore you were best speake to him and to know his mind what I shall doe if her husband be out of the way let her alwayes behaue herselfe as if he were present Also a woman may consider if her husband be cholericke and hasty she must ouercome him with milde speech and if he chide she must hold her peace for the answere of a wise woman is silence and shee must stay to vtter her mind vntill hee be appeased of his fury and at quiet for if women many times would hold their tongues they might be at quiet There was a very angry couple married