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woman_n	bear_v	child_n	son_n	3,241	5	5.4812	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18296	The table of Cebes the philosopher. How one may take profite of his enemies, translated out of Plutarche. A treatise perswadyng a man paciently to suffer the death of his freend; Pinax. English.	Plutarch. De capienda ex inimicis utilitate. aut; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. De morte declamatio. aut; Poyntz, Francis, Sir, d. 1528.; Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546, attributed name.; Cebes, of Thebes, attributed name.	1545 (1545)	STC 4891; ESTC S109138	35,783	158

whiche deede the accusacion of his foe Aeschynes both confirmeth the trouth setteth out the glorie ¶ Thinke also vpon the kyng Antigonus the whiche when he heard tidynges that his owne sonne was slain in a disordred skyrmisshe pausyng a littell and beholdyng theim well that brought him the tidynges with a stoute and a constante mynde he saied O Alcynonen that was his sons name all to late thou perishest that wouldest so foolishely caste thy selfe awaie among thy fooes nothyng regardyng thine owne health nor my monicions and woordes ¶ If ye delite more to heare the examples of Romains beholde Puluillꝰ Horace to whom as he was dedicatyng the capitol tidynges was broughte that his sonne was dead he neyther drew away his hande from the poste nor tourned not his chere from religion to priuate sorow ¶ Consydre how Paulus Aemilius whan he had within the space of .vii. daies lost his .ii. sonnes he came foorth abrode amonge the people of Rome and there shewed theim that he was very glad that by the lamentacion of his householde whiche was but a priuate sorow he had redeemed the enuie of Fortune bent toward thē al. ¶ Thinke also how Q. Fabius Maximus whan he was consull and had lost his sonne that was than a man in hygh rowme and dignitee and greatly renowned for his noble actes he came foorth abroade among the people gathered together and there to theim he recited the commendacion of his sonne ¶ Thinke on also whan Cato Censorius his eldest sonne died the whiche was a yonge manne of singular witte and high prowesse and therto elect and chosen to be Mayer yet was he nothyng so amoued with that chaunce that he would in any thyng more slackely endeuour hym selfe about the needes and businesse of the common welth ¶ Ye should remembre Marcius whose surname wasking whan his sonne of right noble disposicion and that stode highly in the fauour and good opinion of the people and therto beyng his onely son was dead he toke the losse of hym with so constaunt a minde that foorthwith euen from the buryall of hym he caused the Senatours to assemble together to ordeyne lawes concernyng theyr common welth ¶ Ye should not forget Lucius Sylla whose valiant and most fierce courage toward his enemies the death of his son could nothyng abate nor cause that he should seeme falsely to haue vsurped or taken vpon hym to be called by this surname felix that is to saie lucky or welthy ¶ Whan Caius Caesar that was Sylla his felow in rowmeth had inuaded Britaine and hadde tidynges that his daughter was dead yet er thre daies were fully ended he went about his impery all buisinesse ¶ Whan Marcus Crassus in the warre that he made against the Parthiens behelde his sonnes head the whiche his ennemies in skorne and derision had set vpon a morispykes end and the more to exasperate and augment his calamitee thei approached neere to his armie and with woordes of reproche and blame they shewed it vp he tooke in woorth all that doyng with so constant a mynde that sodainely he rode forby all his battailes and said to them with a lowde voyce that that was his own priuate harm but the health and saluacion of the common weale stode in the sauegard of them his men of warre ¶ But nowe to ouerpasse the manifolde examples of Galba Pyso Scaeuola Metellus Scaurus Marcellus and Aufidius remembre whan Claudius Caesar had lost him whom he bothe begotte and moste entierly loued yet for all that he his owne selfe in the common pulpit lauded and praysed his sonne the corps beyng present all onely couered with a littell veyle and whan all the people of Rome wepte and bewayled his sonnes death he his father wept not a teare ¶ And suerly lyke as it is a right goodly thyng to folowe and dooe as these men dyd euen so were it a right shamefull thyng if menne should not be found as stedfast and as stoutly minded as women haue been in suche case ¶ Cornelia sawe and hehelde hir two sonnes Titus Graccꝰ and Caius Graccus slain and vnburied and whan hir freendes comforted hir and saied she had a wretched chaunce I will neuer saie quoth she that I am vnluckie or vnfortunate that haue borne suche two children ¶ But whereto dooe we nowe repete these examples out of ancient chronicles as though we sawe not daiely before our face sufficient exaumples Beholde your neighbours beholde your kynsfolke and alies howe many yea seely women shall ye finde the whiche veraie moderately take in good woorth the death of their children This mattier is so plaine that there nedeth no great helpe of philosophie therto For he that wold consider well in his minde how wretched on all sydes this our lyfe is to howe many perils to howe many sickenesses to how many chaunces to howe many cares to howe many incommoditees to how many vices and to howe many iniuries it is endangered how littell and how small a porcion therof we passe foorth I will not saie in pleasure that is not attached with some maner griefe and displeasure and than further to consider howe swiftly it vanisheth and rolleth awaie that we maie in maner reioyce and be glad of them that been departed out of this world in their youth ¶ The shortnes of our life Euripides sadly expresseth whiche calleth the lyfe of mortall creatures one littell daie But Phalereus Demetrius doeth better whiche correctyng the saiyng of Euripides saieth that the lyfe of man should rather be called the Minute of an howre But Pyndarus sayeth best of all whiche calleth the lyfe of man the dreame of a shaddowe He ioigneth twoo speciall thynges of nothyng together to the entent that he would declare how vaine a thyng this lyfe is Now how wretched and miserable the same life is on euery behalfe the auncient poetes semed to perceiue it passyng well the whiche deemed that a man coude not more truely nor more better name mortall creatures than surname theim veraie myserable wretches For the first age or formoste parte of mans lyfe the whiche is reckened the best is ignorant The middell parte of the life is assailed with trouble and care of manyfolde businesses and yet al this while I speake but of theim that bee moste luckie and fortunate Therfore who is he whiche of veraie right will not approue the saiyng of Silenus the best is neuer to be borne the next is most swiftly to be clene extinct ¶ Who will not allow the ordinaunce of the Thraciens the which customably vse to receiue theim that bee borne in to this worlde with lamentacion and mournyng and againe whan they depart hence they be very glad and demeane great ioye And he that by hym selfe considereth inwardly those thynges that Hegesias was wont to declare to his hearers he woulde rather desyre his owne death than abhorre it and wolde far more indifferently take inworth the death of his freendes But now your fatherly sorow commeth