Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	heart_n	law_n	write_v	3,285	5	6.1567	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52019	The confession of the new married couple, being the second part of the ten pleasures of marriage relating the further delights and contentments that ly mask'd under the bands of wedlock / written by A. Marsh. Typogr.	Marsh, A.	1683 (1683)	Wing M726; ESTC R18203	66,702	209

expectation of And the son being come home gives a great Pleasure to his Father and Mother by reason he speaks such good Latin and Italian and is so gentile in his behaviour but to look to the shop he hath no mind to Say what they will talk is but talk All his desire and mind is to go to the University either of Oxford or Cambridge And although the Father in some measure herein yeelds and consents the Mother on the other side can by no means resolve to it for her main aim was that her son shouldbe brought up in the shop because that in the absence or by decease of her husband he might then therein be helpfull to her Besides that it is yet fresh in her memory that when her Brother studied at Oxford what a divellish deal of mony it cost and what complaints there come of his student-like manner of living Insomuch that there was hardly a month past but the Proctor of the Colledge or the Magistracy of the City must have one or other penalty paid them Now they try to imploy the son in the shop who delights in no less melody then the tune of that song letting slip no occasion that he can meet with to get out of the shop and shew himself with all diligence to willing be a Labourer in the Tennis Court or at the Bilyard-Table and is not ashamed if there be hasty work in the evening to tarry there till it be past eleven of the clock What a pleasure this vigilance is to the Father and Mother those that have experience know best Especially when they in the morning call their son to confession and between Anger and Love catechize him with severall natural and kind reproofs 'T is but labour lost and ill whistling if the horse wo'nt piss What remedy turn it and wind it so as you will The son his mind to study is full bent Or else will live upon his yearly rent Here must be a counsell held by wisdom prudence love and patience Here also the imaginations of incapableness or want of monies must be conquered for to constrain a son to that he hath no mind to is the ready way to dull his genious and perhaps bring him to what is worser to wit running after whores or Gaming And to teach him how to live upon his yearly means the tools are too damn'd costly So that now the Parents have true experience of the old Proverb The Children in their youth oft make their Parents smart Being come to riper years they vex their very heart Neverheless after you have turn'd it and wound it so as you will the sending of him to the University of Oxford bears the sway and there to let him study Theology being the modestest Faculty by one of the learnedst and famousest Doctors And verily he goes forward so nobly that in few months before he half knows the needfull Philosophy he is found to be a Master of Arts in Villany And moreover the Parents were by some good friends informed that lately he was acting the domineering student and being catcht by the watch was brought into the Court of Guard but through the extraordinary intercession of his own and some other Doctors they privately let him go out again A little longer time being expired he sends Post upon Post dunning letters his quarter of the years out his Pockets empty and the Landlady wants mony besides there are severall other things that he wants both of Linnen and Woollen all which things yield an extraordinary Pleasure especially if the mony which is sent without suffring shipwrack be imploied and laid out for those necessaries For some students are so deeply learnt that they consume the monies they get in mirth and jovialty and leave their Landladies Booksellers Tailors Shoomakers and all whom they are indebted to unpaid Nay his own Cousin that studied at Cambridge knew very learnedly how to make a cleaver dispatch with his Pot-Companions at Gutterlane of all the mony that was sent him by his Parents for his promotion and under the covert of many well studied lies desired more But who knows what wonderfull students tricks before he is half so perfect your son will have learnt to make his Father and Mother merry with for as I have heard he hath gotten so much aquaintance that he hath the Bookseller to be his friend who sets down the prizes of the Books he delivers three times as much again as they are worth and for the ouerplus he with some other students are bravely merry together Yea he 's come so far himself that he doth to get mony know how to sell his best Authors and sets in place of them some Blocks very neatly cut and coloured like gallant Books And if any one comes that will lay their hands upon them he saith immediately eat drink smoke and be merry to your hearts content but whatsoever you do touch not my books for that 's as a Medean Law and an inviolable statute in my Chamber as it doth to the same purpose stand written thus before my Chamber of Books Be jolly sing and dance commaud me with a look One thing I do forbid you must not touch a Book The old Proverb saith it must bend well before it can make a good hook But it is easie to be perceived by the beginning what may be expected from the flexibility of this precious twig O extraordinary and magnisicent pleasure for the Parents when they see that their son in so short a time is so damnably advanced And so much the more a little while after there comes one and tells them by word of mouth that there were several Schollars which were playing some antick tricks in the night and amongst some others both their Son and their Cousin were apprehended and at this very present sad accusations were brought in against them In the mean while the Chancellor having heard that they are all persons of good Parentage and that there will be brave greasing in the case laughs in his fist because such things as those are generally moderated and assopiated by the means and infallible vertue of the correcting finger hearb This brings the Parents a fine Bartholomew Baby to play with and if their ly loosely in a corner a fifty pound bag they will go nigh to see how they may make use of it And this gives a horrible augmentation to the Pleasures of Marriage But let them turn it and wind it which way they will the Parents must go thither and seek by all means possible according to their ability to pacifie the matter As they are upon their journy they hear in every Town where they come how debauched and wicked lives the Students leads not only concerning that which was lately done at Oxford but at other places also Which makes them be in no small fear whether their son perhaps may not be guilty only of this but some worser misdemeanor and is therefore at present clapt up Here