Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	husband_n	sister_n	wife_n	31,415	5	10.2119	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96944	Characters and elegies. By Francis VVortley, Knight and Baronet.	Wortley, Francis, Sir, 1591-1652.	1646 (1646)	Wing W3634; Thomason E344_21; ESTC R200973	32,406	78

chance That the Masculine is more worthy then the Feminine Gender is a rule we take up in our childhood and lay downe with our lives but she gives Lilly the lye she proves that the Theologicall and Cardinall vertues are of the female gender and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} potestas and potentia power and ability too and concludes like a Mathematician demonstratively As a chaste wife and happy mother she brought her husband a son in whose education she shewes her selfe more like a father in her discreet management of his youth in travell then a tender mother in distrust of Gods providence abroad and doth in this like the wise Merchant who trusts the Sea with his bullion and stock and transacts it where exchange runnes highest and so ballances his trading by the probability not certainty of advantage in the returne whereas her husband would wrap his talent in a napkin or hide it in a dung-hill and breed his sonne no better then himselfe were not she the better Merchant yet hers is but a mothers interest his a fathers hers in blood his in perpetuity As for the sisters part she hath out-done all presidents in that more then both the other it being hard to finde a sister can be so tender a mother to her Brothers Orphane that the childe were he come to her owne sonnes age could scarcely misse his mother such is her care of it And that which most commends her is she in her Noble Brothers imprisonment hath managed his misfortunes with as much or more advantage then her owne wasting her weak body in those noble services nay over-witting those engins imployed to ruine her Brother Like Moses shee stood in the gap betwixt her Brother and the Parliaments displeasure nor would give over untill like him she by her intercession had set him free and delivered him from the judgements which hung like a cloud over his head She lost not the least advantage in relation to her Brothers honour fortune or happiness In a word she is to her husband a loyall wife to her sonne a discreetly indulgent mother to her Brother such a Sister as the wisest man would wish his owne and I mine Mothers Wives Sisters you who would not erre Steere all your courses by this Character This is no faigned Character but true My soule could wish it were my Sisters due Nor wealth nor titles could inrich our blood So much as this would could they make it good X. The politique Neuter IS an Hermaphrodite partaking of two sexes and as unfruitfull to his Prince or country a man that dares not professe the Religion he was baptized to nor protest against an Innovation and so no Protestant he reserves his choice for the prevailing partie and for the present professeth that which they doe wonders at the distractions in the Church and Common-wealth and in the mean time is more distracted in himselfe he dares not owne his conscience now and therefore that will change Masters and turne witnes against him when he stands most need of it he would fain serve two Masters at once and please both but finding our Saviours words true that he must hate the one and love the other he resolves to hate him he fears most and to love neither not firme to either he loses the good opinion of both and so fals betwixt two stools God calls on him in the Old Testament with a quere how long he will halt betwixt two opinions and Christ in the New promises him the Laodiceans reward he is so far from trusting Gods mercie in Martyrdome that he dares not trust his providence in wants he is as much troubled as David at the prosperitie of the wicked but hath not the patience to goe to Gods House with him to enquire of their ends he will not beleeve Davids experience concerning the Children of the righteous whom he never saw begging their bread he had rather leane upon the rotten reeds of his owne policie then trust the firme rock of Gods providence if he ever professed to be for the King when his cause prospered he presently repented it and purchased the Parliaments pardon and protection and paid at least two yeares purchase for it if he be a Prisoner it is with accommodation and by it he saves the charges of hospitalitie yet hopes that moneys thus disburst makes him a Martyr and may be pleaded as well in bar of further assistance to the King as a Privie seale though it be disburst for the Parliaments use if for the Parliament you shall never find him without a Royall protection and purchased friendship at Oxford and that sometimes is mistaken and shewn to the wrong partie and then he payes for it if either partie prevaile he is in Misericordia if an Accommodation for which he prays more heartily then the forgivenesse of his sins help not he hath so long endeavoured to get a dexterous use of his left hand that he hath almost lost the perfect use of his right and is become an imperfect perfect Ambodexter or at best so cunning at leger-demaine that he gets the repute of a notable Jugler In a word he dares not seeme what he is nor be what he seemes but like luke-warme water having neither heat enough to warme the Stomacke nor being cold enough to coole it is rejected of both and spued out as friend to neither XI The Citie Paragon IS a woman whose birth was greater then her portion but her vertues greater then her birth who was marryed to a husband whose fortune exceeded his wisdome yet his fortune in her was greater then his wealth who manages his fortune so that she improves his conscience as much as his wealth and her wit makes him eminent in the City She loves not with the Pharisees the highest places at Feasts nor salutations in Assemblies knowing Envy attends the first and Pride the other Her dresse is more comely then costly modest then garish her visits like Sabboth dayes labours not frequent and never without charity or necessity undertaken her entertainment to her husbands friends or her owne suits both their conditions more neat it is then curious and is more reall and solid then ceremonious She desires her children may be so bred that they may be seasoned in their childhood with those vertues which may make them happy in their age And knowing Examples prevaile more then Precepts she gives them none but such as she would have them follow Those troubles incident to rich men which they call misfortunes she makes blessings by her right use of them knowing it is not the fruition but right use that makes us truly rich nor the losse of wealth can make any so miserable as the abuse of it If she heare any ill of her neighbour she had rather suppresse it then report it if any good she will rather improve it then enviously diminish it If any uncertaine evill be reported of