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A12957	Essayes and characters, ironicall, and instructiue The second impression. With a new satyre in defence of common law and lawyers: mixt with reproofe against their common enemy. With many new characters, & diuers other things added; & euery thing ammended. By Iohn Stephens the yonger, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent.; Satyrical essayes characters and others	Stephens, John, fl. 1613-1615.	1615 (1615)	STC 23250; ESTC S117830	122,073	444

For I suppose it a more safe position to say I cannot be the greatest and therefore wil be nothing vertuous then I will be a little vertuous in action but will haue vertuous meaning Of Disinheritance Essay VI. IT is more impossible for an vnnatural Father to bee a true friend then for an abused sonne to be an obedient sonne because I think it is a sound precept That hee whose disposition findes a soone-moued contrariety betwixt himselfe and his vndoubted children must of necessity bee a man who refuses all men except aduantage pleades for them Seeing he neglects those for whom nature pleades if aduantage be absent The same may be inferred concerning all degenerate kinsfolke though in a lesse degree But for the first I haue obserued it generally that hee who was apt for Disinheritance hath been a man alwayes of as many affections as there be faces And as prompt to refuse any as to receiue any if hee might saue by the bargain Howsoeuer sub●…ects be now growne so tyrannicall that where pretences may accomplish their malice they cānot thinke there is a God or at least they thinke God fauours their proceedings For calumnious pretences and aggrauated trifles haue been the common glosse of Parents cruelty in this kinde Their president is vulgar for tyrants neuer slew without state-Alchimy or multiplicatiō of pretēded treasons neither may Alexander lack occasiō so long as he had a meaning to kill 〈◊〉 The hungry Woolfe may call the Lambe his debtor but a good stomack is the day of payment and the Prouerbe is well verified If thou wouldst beate a Dog heere is a staffe So that although churlish Parents pretend iust causes of disinheritance yet these are quickly found soone allowed and as soone amplyfied From whence you may gather that no sparke of naturall affection but onely a compulsiue maintenance keeps the reference betwixt such Parents and such children For louing nature and affection be tractable of long forbearance much pitty manifest care and keep an establisht forme of affability with which friendes or kinsfolk be vnacquainted This prouokes an eminent reflexe of loue whereas rough carriage begets loue in Curres but a conremptible scorne in Noble Spirits In a milk-white table one blot is more visible then forty in a browne paper And in a continued louing vsage one reproofe is more preuaileable then fifty in a vsuall crabbednes For common noyses go not beyond our eares but a sudden clamor startles the whole man It is therefore more commendable to follow the extreame of vertue abounding then defectiue The first partakes with mediocritie in the nature but the last is altogether opposite We may then more safely allow indulgence then austerity because it approcheth neerer to true loue For though indulgence hath made children lofty in behauiour towardes others yet I obserue it breeds a true and vndiuorced affection towards the originall cause It is therefore an excellent rule for children to bee any way restrain'd without the Parents knowledge or at least their taking notice wherby Nature cānot grudge against Nature nor yet want reprehension For howsoeuer Marcus Cato said well That hee had rather be vnrewarded for doing wel then vnpunished for offences Yet we haue naturally a secret spleene against the Iudge though wee account him righteous and impartiall It must be expected then that children doe knowe a difference betwixt Fathers and Maisters which makes them the more implacable when they see Nature impartiall From hence Sertorius a politicke Captaine would not himselfe represse the disobedience of his Souldiers least howsoeuer they deserued ill yet his correction might take away their louing duty Which respect made him suffer the enemyes incursions rather to scourge their insolence whilst they out of a hare-brained lunacie desire battaile And thus the sacred decree of Correction may bee kept vnuiolate and the loue of children vnblemished For I am vnanswerably perswaded that Parents wrath diminisheth the childes loue making him seruile or else refractory to the doctrine of thēselues others because they cannot vndertake with delight so long as frownes and feare be crept into their fancy But affable Parents beget truely affectionate Children who may endure another mans reproofe to mittigate the name of Cockney and yet louingly adore the Father because hee was alwayes louing So then the Fathers diligent loue and a Tutors modest instruction may make a seldome-seene Heire affect his Fathers life without hypocrisie and proue a venerable wise man Without which loue apparant or oftentimes indulgence I see an eldest sonne in stead of the Fathers blessing render backe sweating curses I see another inclining onely to the mother and a third slippe into the disinherited Fortune The comaedian therefore saith well touching a fathers dutie I ouer-passe expences I call not euery thing to a strict account and that which other sonnes labour to keepe secret I doe not bitterly condemne in mine least many things should ●…ee concealed for hee that through a ●…ugged vsage depriues his father by false excuses of a youthfull error will soone deceiue others Indeede mistrust makes children disobedient for I doe make it a most equall question whether more men haue deceiued others because they haue beene distrusted or whether more men haue distrusted others because they haue beene deceiued It is more auailable then to gouerne by liberalitie not base compulsion for he that thus becomes obedient expects onely till he may wan●… the witnesse of his actions But the comicall Poet saith truly Patres aequum esse censent nos iam iam a puerisillico nasci senes Now for the danger arising by parents vnkindenesse it hauing beene propounded that want of loue breedes disinheritance I will demonstrate first how horrible second vnlaw●…ull and third impossible disinheritance may be well accounted The diuorce of mariage is a weighty case much forbidden much controuerted because mariage it selfe is made a strict vnion so farre as Husbands seeme incorporate with their Wiues being both to bee taken as one flesh But this vnion admits many exceptions neither may any thinke their being made one extends further then the rhetoricall aggrauation of vnitie to insinuate how difficult a thing Diuorce will be betwixt two so narrowly vnited but children haue a more exquisite property of indiuorceable because they really partake with parents by existence deriuing a particular true strength of body from the parents body And therfore it seemes the matter of disinheritance is a thing so odious as being held improbable to be acted among the Iewes or any Nation no Law of Scripture contradicts it Indeed rebellious sonnes are by the verdict of Diuine iniunction to suffer death if they shall strike the parents or rise vp against them But for the matter of Disinheritance which farre transcends the punishment of death I haue read no sillable that may giue the tolleration of Diuinity Death indeed cōparatiuely respected may be thoght the best wages of a rebellious son for the act includes his