Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	father_n	mother_n	5,111	5	7.8086	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00808	A diamonde most precious, worthy to be marked instructing all maysters and seruauntes, how they ought to leade their lyues, in that uocation which is fruitfull, and necessary, as well for the maysters, as also for the seruants, agreeable vnto the holy Scriptures. Reade me ouer, and then iudge, if I be not well, then grudge: thinke well of him that mee made, for Gods worde shall neuer fade.	Fit John, John.	1577 (1577)	STC 10929; ESTC S117750	53,823	110

was a planter of Vyneyardes and canst thou not liue as thy father hath done before thee Puer No I cannot lyue in that order it is to paynefull for me although my Father did Hedge and diche digge and delue and did bring me vp in the same trade and you haue shewed me those examples I mynde not to doe so Ciuis No what wilte thou do then Puer What will I doe I will tell you I will be a Seruingman and wayghte on a Gentleman and then I shall goe a Hawking and Hunting and haue my delight as Gentlemen hath I shall haue two new coates a yeare I will haue my sutes of Hose my Hats with feathers and be all in the brauerye after the newe fashyon and sometyme I shall wayght vpon a Gentlewoman who woulde desyre to lyue a merryer lyfe or else I will to London to be a seruaunt Ciuis The old Prouerbe is true A yong Courtyer an old Begger for they say seruice is none heritage and if thou shouldest be vsed as Esop doth declare in a fable what wouldst thou then say to thy brauery Puer I pray you recyte the same to me Ciuis He was a man by whome there is a booke made that I haue read and is caled Esops fables wherin he likeneth a Seruingman to a Greyhound Puer He was a horeson in deede that would liken a man to a Dog. Why there is a great sort that be Seruingmen and doth liue well ynough and so I trowe I will. Ciuis Yea I wil not despyse seruingmen for they are men necessary But Esope sayeth as long as a Greyhound is youthfull and can follow his game he shall be much made of and as long as you are yong and lustye so maye you be but when age commeth on you as dyd on the Greyhound then you shall not bee steemed but ready to be set at liberty without comforte Puer Why then I praye you tell me your mynde what your aduyce is for me to doe Ciuis My counsell is to haue you go home agayne to your Mother consydering you say she is an old woman and your Father dead shee is without friendship or comforte and you shall be a good stay and a helper vnto her Puer I mynde not so to doe for I know a way better then to doe so she hath geuen me Gods blessing and hers and is well contented withall and hath geuen mee Money in my Purse I may be bolde to say vnto you besydes that I take you to be an honest man and a true man else I woulde not haue tolde you for there be so many men now a days of dyuers sortes I knowe not well whome to trust Ciuis Thou sayest truth in deede the more is the pittie for one man cannot trust another but yet Moises writeth as I remēber Let euery one reuerence his Father and mother Iesus the sonne of Syrach wryteth on this manner Heare me your Father O my deare Chyldren and doe thereafter that ye may be safe for the Lord will haue the father honoured of the children Honor thy father and Mother this is the fyrst commaundement that hath any promyse that thou mayest be in good state and lyue long on the earth And looke what a Mother commaundeth her children to doe he will haue it kepte Who so honoureth his Father his sinnes shall be forgeuen him and he that honoreth his mother is one that gathereth treasure togither who so honoureth his Father shall haue long life and he that is obedyent for the Lords sake his mother shall haue ioy of him Honour thy father from thy whole harte forget not the sorrowfull trauayle that thy mother had with thee The Apostle sayeth Chyldren obay your fathers and mothers in the Lorde for so it is right Tobias sayde to his sonne hold thy Mother in honour all the dayes of thy lyfe for thou oughtest to remember what and howe great perrill she suffred for thee in her wombe Puer You are verye scripulous with mee to honour my mother I doe not denye it but I confesse my duetye is vnto my mother yet may I doe that which I purpose to doe for I am sure you cannot tell me of any that doth practise such obedience to Father or mother Of my parte I promise you I knowe not what obedience is for it was neuer taught me Ciuis Then will I teach you especially concerning our communycation Fyrst I will shew you that obedience is a lowly and harty submissyon of our selues to God and afterwardes to our Parentes to the Maiestrates to our superyours and to al those to whome GOD hath committed the rule and gouernaunce of his Flocke and people in this worlde or in iust causes to all them to whome we be by any tytle inferyour Isaac shewed obedience to his father Abraham Yong Tobias at his fathers cōmandement went into a farre country about his fathers busines did not deny it Christ humbled himself became obediēt to the death so was he to his parents Ioseph and Mary More wil I call to remembraunce out of the scripture of the duty of Children hereafter Puer I am therewith content I perceyue you haue had some intelligence knowledge of Scriptures that can remember such thinges vpon a sodayne yet I may loue both father and mother and shew my duety and obedience vnto them although I doe not dwell with them For I must seeke how to behaue my self when God calleth thē away from me out of this vale of misery to get my liuing as they haue done for if I should do as the Prouerbe is loke after ded folks shoes I might thāce to go barefote Ciuis And can you not liue by taking paynes with Husbandrye as your father and others haue done Puer No forsooth Ciuis And why so I pray you tell me Puer Mary syr there is such moyling and toyling and taking of great paynes with harde fare that I must needes to London to be a Townseman thereto liue more at ease Ciuis If euery one were of thy mynde and so permitted to haue their owne wils we might chaunce to fast for lack of bread Corne and such other necessaryes for mans body But the truth is at London thou mightest learne some honest and profitable occupation wherewith thou mayest be able to get thy own liuing in tyme to come and to make prouision for such as shall belong vnto thee hereafter for if thou shouldst be brought vp ydely thou shouldest become an vnprofytable member in a common weale and for lack of liuing fal into many inconueniences for it is written Send him to labour that he goeth not ydle for ydlenesse bringeth much euill And agayne Let no laborious worke be tedious vnto thee neyther the Husbandrye which the almightye God hath created As the Byrds of the ayre are created to flie so man is borne to labour He that Tilleth his Land shall haue plentiousnesse of bread but