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	hand_n	parent_n	1,378	5	8.6103	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16157	Eromena, or, Love and revenge. Written originally in the Thoscan tongue, by Cavalier Gio. Francesco Biondi, Gentleman extraordinary of his Majesties Privie Chamber. Divided into six books. And now faithfully Englished, by Ia. Hayvvard, of Graies-Inne Gent; Eromena. English	Biondi, Giovanni Francesco, Sir, 1572-1644.; Hayward, James, of Gray's Inn.	1632 (1632)	STC 3075; ESTC S107086	212,008	210

received for her an exceeding great ransome Faine would the Prince see those prizes and passing over therefore into their Galley he found there certaine women and among those the Countesse of Palomero the Princesse her Governesse with foure Ladies of honour and among the men six Knights The women rather dead than alive as soone as they saw the Prince kneeled downe before him who courteously entertaining them accompanied them in grieving for their misfortunes yet joying in that hee was the meanes of their deliverance he prayed them to acquaint him with their voiage and the occasion thereof The Countesse somewhat comforting her selfe and assured by the Royall presence of the Prince whom by many circumstances she thus judged to be such said My Lord we and those Knights are all Vassals and servants of the King of Maiorica who having but one onely daughter which is one of the fairest of the world and shee retired into Asrique sent us thither with all provision necessary to sojourne with her in that Countrey but scarce had we issued out of the Port when we were taken by these Pirats The Prince causing her though unwilling to fit her down with all the other Ladies curious to understand the manner of the case besought her to relate it him minutely and particularly saying that being now freed it would serve them to shorten and drive away the time At which word they would all of them have kissed his hands which he not permitting but profering them all further courtesies possible the Countesse respectively thanking him with the termes of Noble gratitude thus beganne Two yeares are now expired sithence the King of Sardegna treated of a Marriage betweene the Prince his Sonne and the Princesse Eromilia our Mistresse which was concluded on to the great content of both parties for the commodities of commerce and neighbour-hood but much more for the rare qualities of the bride-couple being such as I beleeve whosoever had searched over all the world could not have found out such another paire for Perosfilo Prince of Sardegna besides the valour of his person was by nature endowed with parts so excellent for beauty feature comelinesse and grace as hardly meete all in one man alone And for Eromilia our Princesse I le not only say that who so hath seene her beleeves her to be for beautie matchlesse but I will also without error affirme her to bee such as needs not in that regard the favourable judgement of any The marriage then concluded with hope of a speedie performance she was by her hopefull Bridegroome visited by letters and presents whereunto she reciprocally corresponded building a most ardent affection on the presumption of being his wife and upon two of his pictures the one limmed and painted the other made of stuck this later fully and proportionably representing his naturall lineaments It fell out afterwards whilest the marriage for more than two yeares was upon some unknowne occasion deferr'd that the infortunate Prince was by the Marquesse of Sassari Admirall of Serdegna in the night time found a bed with his wife and by him therefore slaine which newes spread abroad in Maiorica manifested the cause of so long putting off the mariage which neuerthelesse was not sufficient to take away from our Princesse all occasion of griefe as it had done to any other whereas she no sooner heard it than she sunke downe to the ground senselesle and breathlesse so as there was much adoe to restore her to her spirits that had suddenly forsaken her Impossible it is to expresse the extremitie of her lamentation suffice it that two dayes after she went her wayes whither no body knew except one very aged and trusty Priest of hers who also untill he was a good way of the Iland never knew any thing of her resolution which was to retire her selfe from the world and never more to thinke of father and mother realme subjects or ought else save onely on her dead husband whom because she could not owne living she resolv'd to enjoy now dead and gone spending a coine quite contrarie to his both in stampe and metal for wheras he had obscured the puritie of his customes by falsifying his faith for love of another woman before he had maried her she on the contrary though now a freewoman and he dead and buried would reserve her selfe constantly his spouse resolved never to change her resolution for any mans sake in the world The good old man could not with any arguments perswade her to returne he shewed how she abiding in Maiorica might accomplish her intention telling her how that to goe wander about to seeke places of aboad in strange countries was neither commendable nor secure for a woman of ordinarie condition much lesse for a Princesse ordained both by birth and desert to a royall dignitie moreover that in so doing she could not please the gods to whom she pretended to devote her selfe within the limitation of whose service were not comprehended the disobedience and crueltie to parents-ward who without doubt would for this occasion die with griefe that her reason of neglecting her parents for divine love was not in this case approueable but that she should and ought to understand it rightly in a wholsome construction which was not to neglect their service for any affect of bloud which ought not to be held in equall esteeme with them who admit of no comparatives much lesse of superlatives in their love and that under such a pretence to abandon our parents especially growne aged desolate and charged with a family was rather to displease than to serve the gods who by the law they gave us by nature require at our hands reverence and obedience towards our parents being strong and vigorous and pitty comfort and sustenance being become weake and impotent and that then the eldest child ought together with the family sustaine and undergoe the charge and burthen of parents and if this were the true meaning and manner of discharging on 's dutie even in private families how much rather should it be observed in hers that was Royall wherein she being an onely child had forsaken her parents growne now aged and with them also the whole kingdome being her family which being by her means made an Orphan lay subject to the tyranny of whosoever would oppresse it Besides that this resolution of hers sprang not from any true affection she had of serving the gods but from a despaire and discontent for seeing her selfe deprived of such a husband whose companie she hoped would have endowed her with a blessed life which effect she despairing to finde in any other had suffered her selfe to be beguiled by her evill Genius who perswaded her under the colour of pitty to become cruell against father subjects and her owne selfe But to all these arguments the good old man found her eares deafe for she accompanied with one onely Damsell and two of her ancient servants by whose meanes she had found out that vessell and