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	good_a	wife_n	1,539	5	6.6793	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54001	Tvvo speeches made in the House of Peeres, on Munday the 19th. of December, for, and against accomodation. The one by the Earl of Pembroke, the other by the Lord Brooke. The latter printed by the desire of the House of Commons	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.; Brooke, Robert Greville, Baron, 1607-1643, attributed name.; Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of, 1584-1650, attributed name.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. Proceedings. 1643-12-19. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing P1125A; ESTC R218264	3,837	8

Lords that Lord shall not finde fault with me for concealing my intentions I will deale freely with him I am with all my heart against this Accommodation against any whisper or thought of Accommodation till His Majestie shall submit to our 19 Propositions and to all the Propositions wee have since made and delivered up all those wicked evill Counsellors who have saucily told him 't is lawfull for him to deny us any thing I know we have many difficulties to wrastle with and that many fall from us daily they who have much to lose as that Lord said will be quickly weary of us and yet some men of good fortunes will not leave us they who have a sense of gratitude of pass'd obligations or future hopes from His Majestie will be startled at our Resolution yet I see many here the most notoriously obliged indeed as much as servants can be to a master in this good cause have mastered those vulgar considerations and had the courage almost to despise him to his face besides the wisest men will not thinke themselves incapable of future favours if they use their utmost power to reduce him to a necessity of granting they who are transported with naturall affection to their Fathers and Brothers Kindred Friends will not keepe us company yet this troubles me the lesse whilest I see those noble Lords in my eye upon whom I can never looke enough who banishing those womanish and effeminate fancies cheerfully undertooke to serve against that Army wherein they knew their owne Fathers were and on my conscience I speake it to their honour had they met them alone would piously have sacrifized them to the commands of both Houses They who thinke that humane Lawes can binde the conscience and will examine the oathes they have taken according to the Interpretation of men will in time fall from us But such who religiously consider that such morall Precepts are fitter for Heathens then for Christians and that we ought to leade our lives according to the rule of Gods Word and that the Lawes of the Land being but mans invention must not check Gods children in doing the worke of their heavenly Father will not faint in their duty My Lords it is a singular instance of Gods blessing upon this Parliament that these truths which the pride and superstition of the Bishops used all possible meanes to smother is now taught in Pulpits that the poore peoples zeale to God may not be corrupted by their duty to the King By the Christian labour of these painfull Preachers wee shall not want hands to bring all our wishes to passe and let not us out of any worldly respects of Estate Wives Children Honour good Nature Iustice Compassion care of Trade of Lawes grow slack and lazy in our undertakings upon the successe of which the eyes of Christendome are fixt but let us proceed to shed the bloud of the ungodly And so my Lords hoping that what that Lord hath said hath moved nothing with you or the most of you and that what he can doe will prevaile as little in other places I have expressed the thoughts of my heart to you and if the House shall incline that way shall desire leave to enter my Protestation against any Accommodation Wednesday the 21th of December Resolved upon the Question That Mr Boswell be desired to wayte upon the Lord Brooke and in the name of this House to give his Lordship thankes for the excellent Speech he lately made in the House of Peeres against an Accommodation and to desire his Lordship since this House is informed that the Earle of Pembroke hath given many Copies of his Speech which occasioned the other that hee will cause that Speech to be printed and published Henry Elsinge Cl. Dom. Com. FINIS