Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	nature_n	son_n	13,355	5	6.0279	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54240	The wits academy, or, The muses delight consisting of merry dialogues upon various occasions composed of mirth, wit, and eloquence, for a help to discourse to such as have had but small converse with the critical sort of people, which live in this censorious age : as also, divers sorts of letters upon several occasions both merry and jocose, helpful for the inexpert to imitate, and pleasant to those of better judgement, at their own leisure to peruse : with a perfect collection of all the newest and best songs, and catches, that are, and have been lately in request at court, and both the theatres.	W. P.	1677 (1677)	Wing P139; ESTC R4337	143,775	351

and no longer let me live then in the care of that comfort as for Fools they cannot understand me and Knaves shall not trouble me as for drunkenness never doubt me for it is a thing most loathsome in my Nature as for your Money I humbly thank you and I hope to bestow it according to your good liking thus with my prayers for your long life health and happiness I remain Your dutiful Son till death H. D. A merry Letter after the old Fashion sent to a Maid AFter my Love remembred unto you trusting in God that you are in good health as I was at this present writing with my Father and my Mother and my Brothers and Sisters and Unkles and Aunts and the rest of my good Friends thanks be to God for it The cause of my writing to you at this time is that I hear Joan since my coming from Weston when you know what talk we had together there at the sign of the Horns and how you did give me your hand and swear that you would not forsake me for all the World and how you made me buy you a Ring and a Heart that cost me two and twenty pence and I left them with you and you gave me a Napkin to wear in my Hat and a small Feather I thank you which I will wear to my dying day and I marvel if it be true as I hear that you have altered your mind and are made sure to my Neighbour Pigsay's Son Truly Joan you do not well in so doing and God will plague you for it and I hope I shall live well enough if I never have you for there are more Maids in the World besides you Joan and truly I count my self worth the whistling after I am sure there are some young Maids about us will except of me and be glad to leap at me to have such Honey kisses Joan as I used to give you therefore be not so high and so proud Joan and so scornful for if you will have none of me I will have none of you but will be as stout and as coy as any handsome Maid in England for you know my old Grandsir has left my Father good House and Land and my Father will give it to me his own Son I am sure and therefore praying you to write me your Answer by this Bearer my friend touching the truth of all how it stands with you I commit you to God From Willow-green May 11. 1675. J.S. Jones Answer INdeed sweet John I did not expect such a Letter from your hands I would have you to know I scorn it have I got my Fathers and Mothers ill will for you to be so used at your hands I perceive and if you be so jealous already you would be somewhat another day I am glad I find you that you can believe any thing of me but it is no matter I care not send me my Napkin and you shall have your Ring and your Heart for I can have enough if I never see you more for there are more Batchellors then John and my penny is as good silver as yours and seeing you are so stout even put up your Pipes for I will have no more to do with you and so unsaying all that ever hath been said betwixt us pray make your choice where you list for I know where to be beloved and so farewel J. R. A Letter from a Father to a Son at the university Dear Son I Am sorry to tell thee that I hear thy diligence doth not answer my desire and I would gladly wish it otherwise but I hope a kind admonition will suffice to work a on good Nature and therefore will rather hope the best then doubt the contrary and in the love of a Father let me entreat thee to avoid the company of a lewd fellow as rather an enemy then a Friend The Feminine Sex are dangerous to affect for as they will be a loss of time so with hinderance of study they will produce expence The exercise of thy body I admit for thy health but let thy Love be in thy Learning else wilt thou never be a good Scholar for desire and delight are the best Masters both of Art and Knowledge whilst vertuous Reason makes Understanding gracious Therefore not out of the bitter humour of displeasure but the careful Nature of affection I write unto thee for thy own good and as nothing can joy the heart of a Father more then the obedience of a loving child so can there nothing be more grievous then the stubborn spirit of an ungracious Son I speak this to thee knowing thy years and understanding able to digest the consideration of my desire which in sum is my joy in thy good For let me tell thee my Estate thou knowest and how much I have strained my credit for thy advancement to which Learning being a speedy and an assured good means I would be glad to see my comfort in thy profit in such fruits of thy study as with the blessing of God may hasten thy preferment therefore be industrious and diligent for thy own benefit and thou shalt not want a Father's encouragement to the very utmost of his ability thus praying to God for thee whom I beseech daily to bless thee with my hearts love to the Lord's blessing I leave thee who am Thy loving Father S. D. The Son's Answer Loving Father AFter the bands of humble duty my good Father I have received your most kind and loving Letter in which how much joy I have received I cannot express fearing rather your sharp rebuke then loving admonition but God himself who can and doth work more in some Natures with a kind chiding then in others with may stripes I know you are not ignorant of the inclination of youth and therefore thus kindly touch the hurt of inheedfulness for which how much I do humbly thank you I hope the care of your counsel in time shall pleasingly tell you therefore for what ill you have heard grieve not and of the good you may hear doubt not but believe me for I will not abuse your trust whatever vanity soever I have seemed to effect My Book hath been the Mistress of my Love in which how much I will labour and from which what profit I will gather your hope shall see in the effect of God's blessing without the which how dangerous are many studies to the understandings of ungracious Spirits I would it were known in any and I pray God that none may know it in me I My preferment I leave to God's pleasure who best knows how to dispose of his Servants and for your contentment that it may be in my obedience Your health as the worlds happiness I pray for mine own moderate exercise with abstinence from excess doth with God's blessing hold me in good state and for the Feminine Sex though I would be no Hypocrite I had rather read of then be acquainted with them for I allow