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	lady_n	marry_v	25,536	5	10.1831	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04136	A perfite looking glasse for all estates most excellently and eloquently set forth by the famous and learned oratour Isocrates, as contained in three orations of morall instructions, written by the authour himselfe at the first in the Greeke tongue, of late yeeres translated into Lataine by that learned clearke Hieronimus Wolfius. And nowe Englished to the behalfe of the reader, with sundrie examples and pithy sentences both of princes and philosophers gathered and collected out of diuers writers, coted in the margent approbating the authors intent, no lesse delectable then profitable.; To Demonicus. English	Isocrates.; Isocrates. To Nicocles. English. aut; Isocrates. Nicocles. English. aut	1580 (1580)	STC 14275; ESTC S107436	124,103	118

small somme towardes her dowrie in that he vnderstoode her as before be trothed to an other wherevpon being afterwarde asked why he did not take her because said he I am an Emperour to whome it belongeth to surpasse his people in the integritie of life Antigonus the third as soone as he had beheld a certaine Virgine in the Temple of Diana at Ephesus and did feele himselfe moued with the delight of her bewtie he presently departed the Citie least he should haue bike compelled to haue committed a thing so vnlaw full A Harlot saith Diogines is a cuppe of sweete wine mixed with deadlye poison whose tast though it be sweete and pleasaunt yet in the ende it bringeth destruction A straunger demaunded of one Gerada a man of Sparta what punishment adulterers had in his Countrey seeing Licurgus had made no law for the same no sayde Gerada it needed not for there is no adulterer in Sparta neyther is it possible that there should be any among them that doe so greatly detest excesse wealth sumptuous fare laciuious wantonnesse and fond foolishe pride and in steede of them are content to liue modestly and soberly yeelding dutifull obedience to their Magistrates and obeying the lawes not for feare but for the zeale they haue to vertue herselfe The counsayle of Aristotle was that we should beholde pleasure as she went away and not as she did come towardes vs for though she looke vppon vs with a smyling and pleasaunt countenaunce yet hath she alwayes hanging at her backe care sorrowe and lamentable repentaunce Alexander did not onely shew himselfe a continent and chast liuer but also reproued the same very seuerely in others as appeared in the sharpe rebuke he gaue vnto Cassander for kissing of Pitho being but the Concubine of Euius When as a yong man had said vnto Monedemas that he thought it a great happinesse if a man might obtaine all that he desyred nay saide the Philosopher it were more happier if we could not attaine any of those thinges which are vnhonest and vndecent to be desyred or sought for Hauing spoken of the Continency which ought to be in men I cannot let passe those worthy dames with infinite others whose faithfulnesse and integritie of life hath bene most rare or at least in these dayes is a thing moste straunge Zenobia Queene of Palmerie neuer desyred the company of her husbande but onely for procreation sake Sophronia a Lady of Rome when as she should be compelled to bethe Emperours Decius Concubine killed her selfe with her husbandes sworde rather then so to be defyled and to the shame of those which being neuer so olde hauing once bene maried are so fleshly bent that they are neuer well till they be maried againe The worthye Lady Rodogune the Daughter of King Darius shall not be omitted who killed her Nurse because she went about to perswade her to marry again yea though she were yong and bewtifull Iugurtha being the Bastard of Manastabalus killed the sonnes of Mitipsa his vncle and Atreus and Thiestes the sonnes of Pelops borne of Hippodamia murthered their brother Chrisippus borne by Danayida because he was his fathers darling such is the force of Ambition that manye haue neither spared father mother brother nor sister to obtain the sole principallity and giuen as they shall see their Princes to be affectioned and bent also it becommeth kinges and gouernours as farre to excell and to surpasse their subiectes in good liuing as they doe exceede them in honour and renowne and truely there is nothing more vnseeming then to constraine others to liue soberly and honestlye and yet they themselues to haue no care howe fondly and licentiously they spend their time Moreouer I see that it is as an vsuall thing vnto most men to be able to brydle and to restraine their foolish desires and fond imaginations when soeuer they are moued with any perturbation or motion of minde in any other thing but those raging fittes and burning flames of fleshly desire neither the strongest nor wisest haue euer byn able as yet to exstinguishe or quench if so be that they were once fastened and kindled within them ye though they suffered them to take neuer so little holde wherefore I desired yea haue laboured and that with great care not onely to excell the basest and meanest in those trifles so easily to bee done of euery one but also to shewe my selfe a Conquerer and victorer euen in that wherein the greatest and renownedst Peeres of the world haue both fainted and failed And nowe to giue my iudgement of those men which marrying and vowing themselues to an honest and ioyfull societie of life at length forgetting all their former promises and abiding by nothing care not howe or in what sort they offend those chaste matrons with whom they are coupled so that their beastly appetite may bee satisfied when as they them selues can not abide to be contraried or displeased not in the least thing truely I must of necessitie sharpely reprooue their folly as mē most lewdly bent supposing also those men as worthie of rebuke which faithfully obseruing and fulfilling their promises in all other couenauntes contractes according to equitie and iustice are yet found so dissolute as carelessely to breake and violate the vowes which they haue made to their wyues the which truely in my opinion ought aboue all other thinges firmely and strictly to haue byn obserued in that they are worthier and of greater importaunce then all other promises are whatsoeuer they bee but if the ende hereof were thorowly considered if they would call to minde the great and sundrie discommodities which they procure to themselues the wonderfull dissention and discorde which they breede and cause within their owne pallaces the horrible feares and continuall daungers they wilfully bring themselues into then would they soone be reuoked and reduced from this their errour and it is the duetie of a Prince to bee a procurer of vnitie and peace not onely in his townes and Cities but also and that especially to see loue and amitie fostered within his owne Courtes and within the gates where he himself remaineth for these are the originals and groundes both of Temperancie and iustice whiche can not be maintained where ryotous liuers and amorous wantons doe inhabite but to returne to my selfe and to vse a fewe wordes as touching the issue of my bodie as concerning my children which the Celestiall gods haue lent me and whom I hope I shall leaue behinde mee to the better preseruation of your Citie and to the greater comforte of you all I let you to vnderstande that I haue not herein followed the licentious order of other Princes whose vse hath byn to haue some by meane and base women others by noble and renowned Ladies some also as bastardes others as true and lawfully begotten of their owne bodyes through which their euill behauiour great discentions ciuill broyles and bloudie warres haue happened amongest their subiectes after their deathes