Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	die_v	issue_n	son_n	13,628	5	5.9273	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81420	A dialogue between riches, poverty, godliness, gravity, labour, and content: fit for the perusal of all that are sober-minded, in this time of unsetledness, and dis-satisfaction. By a friend to the publique.		1659 (1659)	Wing D1322; Thomason E999_2; ESTC R207815	11,862	8

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN Riches Poverty Godliness Gravity Labour AND Content Fit for the Perusal of all that are Sober-minded in this time of Unsetledness and Dis-Satisfaction By a Friend to the Publique LONDON Printed for Nehemiah Bradford MDCLIX A DIALOGUE THere dwelt once as hath been said two Inhabitants in one Town the one cal'd Riches the other Poverty These two could not long agree for Riches would be insulting over Poverty either wronging and oppressing him or scoffing at him and abusing him and became so stately that after a while he disdained to look upon or speak to him though his next neighbor Poverty was as much to blame too for he was as stout as Riches for the heart of him and very foul mouthed and could never afford Riches a good word behind his back and grew full of envy and bitterness against him Upon these continual jars one of them must be gone Riches would not stir Poverty must and gets him to the further end of all the Town and dwelt a while there in a sorry ruinous Cottage which shortly after fell to the ground and he was never able to repair it There happened to come into those parts a stranger nobly born and of a far better descent then either of the former two his name was Godliness of a most ancient family he is said to have bin before the fall of Adam His means were not great for his family was much decayed by many said calamities they had undergone in some evil and troublous times yet was he of so quiet peaceable and sweet a disposition that he thought he could agree with any reasonable neighbor in the world if the fault were not his own He came and took a house near Riches first they long thus agreed and had not so much as an unkind word passed between them till Riches gave the first occasion Godliness was very industrious in his Calling medled with no mans business but his own Besides was very patient pitiful and charitable and next to his constant care to please God his desire was to live without giving any just offence to any man living for he would not wrong the least child But Riches grew every day more high and stately as was not by Godliness to be endured yet must he not be told of it neither Godliness had born long at length taking just offence at some of the ill wayes of Riches told him mildly of it But Riches said he would not be control'd nor so affronted by the greatest Godliness in the world But brake out to him in the words the Sodemites used to Lot This fellow came into sojourn here a while ago and he must needs become a Judge and a Lord But I will not take it at thy hands Besides Riches had a many lewd and loose servants all bitter enemies to Godliness Their names were Pride Oppression Covetousness Luxury Ryot Prodigality Malice Flattery Calumny and Laziness every one had his Office but Laziness who said he would wait on his Master at all turns but he would undertake no other imployment Oppression was his chief servant steward of his house a cruel enemy to the Poor Covetousness was his Bayliff Pride was his Taylor yet no good workman neither for let him take his measure how he would and make his garment with all the skill he had the making or the stuff or the colour or the fashion or the trimming or the putting on did not please at least if they did one day did not two days together neither him nor his wife her name was Jezabel so was her mother's befere her who learnt her to paint and to patch and to powder and her Waiting-woman Mistris Lightskirt Curiosity Prodigality was upper Butler and under him Ryot and the cup they all drank in was called Excess a foul great cup it was looking on it to see what mark it had I observed 3 letters but all 3 D's but yet not standing together but the one near the brim the 2d in the middle the 3d in the bottom Many would ghess what these 3 letters might mean some said it was Donum Domini Divitiarum the name of the Donour But they of the house said the first D. was Delight the 2d Drunkenness and the 3d was Drowziness But there dwelt an old man not far off whose name was Gravity a comely old man of much learning and great experience upon whose counsel all the Neighbors did much rely yea I have known when Labor Godliness Content too have gone to advise with him but he had bin discharg'd from looking into Riches his house he told me these 3 letters were set on by the same hand that wrote the 3 words on Belshazzars wall and that the first D. did signifie Disease the 2d D. Death and the 3d he was sure was Damnation And were it not too long a digression I could tell you what children Riches had and what Grand-children and since I hear what is become of all Riches was now an old man he had 2 Sons and 2 Daughters Both his Sons died without issue in their Fathers life so that he saw his name was like to perish what ever became of the estate The elder son was called Honor the Fathers darling and the hopes of all the family but a weak child he was and never like to be long lived he died young and put all the house into mourning they lament the loss of Honor to this day The yonger son was call'd Ambition one of an haughty aspiring mind and of a working restless spirit he was one still in every desperate and mischievous plot was betraid came to an untimely and shameful end and no man pitied him The 2 Daughters were Delicacy the elder more like the mother and Avarice the yonger more like the father The elder was always an unruly and wanton Girl never like to come to good and when her mother had provided a great match for her preferment she had cast her self away upon one of her fathers Serving men call'd Prodigality they agreed like dogs and cats and they had an only daughter whose name was Infamy Avarice was resolved to be ruled by her father by his perswasion she was bestow'd on his Steward Oppression his chief servant whom he said he loved as dearly as if he had bin his own child he told his daughter Avarice he would make the best husband for her in the world that they were sure never to want they nor theirs for if she could but save the husband would be sure to get But they had not a good day together neither but lived quite besides what they had they had an onely daughter whose name was Misery These 2 Grandchildren Infamy Misery is all that at present are left of Riches race they are yet living and like to live many a day But to return to his servants again Luxury was his Cook Gluttony his Carver Malice was his Secretary But he made most of