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	mother_n	sister_n	25,437	5	10.5778	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

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