Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	husband_n	mother_n	wife_n	20,403	5	8.3061	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12581	The excellent and pleasant worke of Iulius Solinus Polyhistor Contayning the noble actions of humaine creatures, the secretes & prouidence of nature, the description of countries, the maners of the people: with many meruailous things and strange antiquities, seruing for the benefitt and recreation of all sorts of persons. Translated out of Latin into English, by Arthur Golding. Gent.; Polyhistor. English.	Solinus, C. Julius, 3rd cent.?; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1587 (1587)	STC 22896.5; ESTC S117641	133,961	228

the birth daies are sorrowfull and contrariwise the burialls are ioyfull In somuch that the Fathers and Mothers fall a wéeping when they Children are newe borne and reioyce when theyr are deade The Menne doo glorie in the number of theyr Wiues and count it an honour to haue manie bedfellowes Such Women as are chare of their chastitie doo leape into the fires where their dead Husbandes are burned and which they thinke to be the greatest token of chastity that may bee runne headlong into the flame When Women come to the time of marriage they take not Husbands at the appointment of their Parents but such of them as excel others in beautie set themselues foorth to sale and making Proclamation who wyll giue moste they marrie not to him that is of best conditions but to him that is best Chapman Those that are foule or deformed bring dowries with them to bie Husbandes withall When they feast bothe sexes of them goe about the harthes and cast the séede of certaine Hearbs growing among them into the fire The fume of which Hearbes so striketh vp into their heads that it woundeth theyr sences and maketh them like drunken folke whereat they haue a good sporte Thus much concerning their customes Nowe shall ensue of their places and peoples Along the Ryuer Strymo on the right hande thereof inhabite the Denselats There are also manie kinreds of the Besses euen vnto the Ryuer Nestus which runneth about the foote of the Mountaine Pangaeus The soyle of the Odryses sendeth foorth the Ryuer Hebrus which runneth amōg the Briants Dolonks Thynes Corpills and other barbarous nations toucheth also y e Cycones Then is there Mount Haemus sixe myles high the back part wherof is inhabited by the Maesians Gets Sarmats Scythians and manie other Nations On the sea coast of Pontus dwelleth the people of Sythony the renowne whereof is augmented by Orpheu● the Poet and Prophette that was borne there who is reported to haue practised the secrets whither it were of his Musicke or of his Ceremonies in the Promontorie Sperchius Afterwarde is the Poole of Biston and not farre from thence the Country of Marony wherein was the Towne of Tyrada sometime the stable of Diomeds horses But nowe it hath giuen place to time and there remaineth no more but the foundation of the Towre Not farre from thence is the Citty Abdera which Diomeds sister builded called so after her owne name Anon after it became the house of Democritus y e natural Philosopher therfore to say the truth it is the more renowmed This Abdera béeing by time decaied was restored to a greater countenaunce by the Clazomenians comming out of Asia the hundreth and one and thirty Olympiad who abolishing the things that had passed before restored it to the olde name againe The comming of Xerxes made the place of Doriscon famous because he mustered hys Armie there Mount Haemus hath y e tombe of Polydore to shewe on that side which the Scythians Ar●teres doo inhabit and it hath the Cittie which in olde time was called Gerania and is now called of the barbarous people Cattruza from whence the reporte goeth that the Pygmaeans were dryuen by Cranes Surely it is manifest that Cranes in the wynter time doo flye in great heards towards the North and it shall not gréeue me to declare whither and in what sort they direct their sight They march in araye as it were an Armie vnder an Ensigne And least the violence of the windes should driue them from the coaste to which they direct theyr course they gorge thēselues wyth Sande and balace themselues by taking vppe stones of a measurable waight Then they mount as high as they can to the intent ●rom thence as from a hygh watchtowre to aime the Landes which they would goe vnto He that is surest of wyng goeth before the Hearde and with his clarying rebuketh their slothfulnesse and causeth the trayne behinde to make haste after When he wexeth hoarce another takes his roome When they shall passe the Sea of Pontus they séeke for the narrowest places which they may easilie finde by eye sight and they are betwéene Taurica and Paphlagonia that is to say betwéene Carambis and the Rammes head As soone as they knowe themselues to be past the mid channell they disburden thēselues of the stones in theyr féete So the Shipmenne report who by suddaine aduenture haue oftentymes béene rayned vppon wyth theyr stonie showers As for theyr Sande they put it not vp againe before they be well assured of theyr abyding They are all alike rarefull for such as are weary Insomuch that if any of them tyre the rest flocke altogether and beare them vppe that faint vntil they may recouer their strength by resting Neyther are they lesse circumspecte vppon the Land For they kéepe watch a nights in such wise that euery tenth of them waketh Those that watche holde little weyghts in their clawes which reprooue them of sléepe if they happen to let them fall If aught be to be auoyded they giue warning thereof by clarying Theyr colour bewrayeth their age for the elder they growe the blacker they wexe Let vs come to the Promontorie Chrysokeras renowmed with the Cittie Byzance héeretofore called Lygos which is distaunt from Dyrrachium seauen hundred and eleuen miles For so much is y e space betwéene the Adriatish Sea and ●ropontis In the Country of Cenik not far from Flauiople a Towne builded and peopled with Romaines is the Towne of Byzia in tymes past the Palace of King Tereus now hated and vnhaunted of Swallowes and so foorth of other byrds although it bee so that Swallowes doo shunne to come within Thebae also because the wals thereof haue béene so often taken For among other thinges that they haue a kinde of foreknowledge it is knowne héereby that they wyll not come neere a house that is like to fall nor come vnder the roofe that by any means shal perish Surely they are not chaced by rauening foules neither are they a pray to any but are as holy birds There is an other Isthmos in Thrace of lyke straightnesse and hauing a narrow Sea of like wydenesse to that of Peloponnesus vpon the shores wherof stande two Citties on either side one The shore toward the Sea of Constantinople is beautified wyth the Towne of Pactie and Melane bay with the Cittie Cardy which hath that name because the platt of it is in fashion like a hart All the great Sea of Hellespont is streightned into seauē furlonges which space disseuereth the coast of Asia from Europe Héere also stande two Citties Abidos in Asia and Sestos in Europe And harde by are two Promontories one ouer against the other Mastusia of Chersonesus where endeth the thirde coast of Europe and Sygeum of Asia where is a little Hill called Cynossema the Tombe of Hecuba and the Tower of Protesilaus put to y ● vse