Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	daughter_n	father_n	king_n	2,497	5	3.6177	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62729	Euphuia, or The acts, and characters of a good nature. Written by Tho. Tanner G.J.E.	Tanner, Thomas, 1630-1682.	1665 (1665)	Wing T142; ESTC R220783	57,475	118

There is no apology no reason no vertue to excuse it 'T is incompatible with the temper of a Good Nature When the daughter of Servius Tullius being married to a Tarquin conspired with her Husband the death of the King her Father through ambition of the Kingdom she made her Chareteere to drive over his dead body as he lay slain in the streets to the utter detestation of mankind but with such a sort of wickedness as is yet untermed by any name For if Solon thought fit to make no law against Parricide because it had never been committed least he should seem to admonish of a crime unheard of rather than to prohibit it how could such a fact as hers an instance once for ever be known or branded by any common appellation She is an example without parallel But should we go about to enumerate others on the contrary we might be infinite Only that same Manlius who was so severe a Father deserves to be commended as a Son For whereas his Father was accused by the Tribunes of the People among other things for ignoble and unworthy breeding of himself he came to M. Pomponius the chief Prosecutor and entring with him as it were for farther information into his appartment he there obliged him seting his ponyard to his breast to dismiss the whole appeal which when it came to light procured him honor and advancement 3. Fratrum quoque gratiarara est 'T is observed that Brothers seldom do agree whether through too much familiarity which engenders contempt or too much competition while they account themselves by nature equal by favour prejudiced or by law and custom impeached of their native priviledges interfering with one another They are ost in brigues and skirmishes and as oft in reconcilements and recrudities Their fallings out are but means of their holding still together and when they seem to be at the greatest distance they fall into an easy coalition against a stranger that seeks the wrong of either Acquaintance from the cradle similitude derived from their parents sympathy of affections frequent broiles and passions do the more cement them and though the wealth of one be the impoverishing of another yet the cause is foreign and the stronger hath a natural respect for the weaker and the weaker a natural dependance upon the stronger which is more near than remote acquired aids and less offensive because more secret and more due to the sense of honor and reputation So that brotherly love answers many obligations that are to be understood and never to be exprest And wherever any Amity is comprehensive of more respects it may multiply unto infinite especially where the ground of it is so pure and unquestionable Which hath moved the most intimate of friends to adopt this appellation as the most significant of perfect Amity Cato the younger who could find in his heart to let his friend Munatius coming kindly to see him in his province of Cyprus to part from him disobliged and take no notice of it neither was so ready afterwards to make him satisfaction was so fond of his Brother Caepio that for 20 years he neither sup't nor walk't abroad without him he followed him into the Camp he left his charge to visit him in another Countrey being sick and finding him deceased lamented over him in such manner as was not accounted seemly in a valiant or a wise man such as he was reputed and being ever counted parsimonious to it spent the value of eight Talents upon his Monument So much may be in Brotherhood when ingenuous Minds are brought up both together Nor peradventure whatsoever is conceited can any other friends depending upon will or fancy be any more than an imitation of it even as art imitates Nature or the shadow represents the life for secondary acts can but tend to make an union like the first What can we do for a friend more than to make him as our self to adopt him into our bloud and account him as con-native to us 4. The love of a Brother to a Sister is so pure and innocent by Nature as if it took no notice of any difference of sexes save only as a Brother respects the tenderness of a Sister and a Sister honours the worth and valour of a Brother and is most passionate in his concerns and services Q. Margaret de valois hath written her memoirs almost on purpose to shew what affection she bore the person and the interests of her Brother the Duke of Alençon the name that was so gracious to our Q Elizabeth and what persecutions it did occasion her So that this sex may have a pure Amity towards men and are most unjustly bespattered anent their fairest offices Their civility their secrecy their pity their sedulity their pretty arts of covering and dissembling which are unsearchable when they seek to do a kindness are traduced and prophaned The abuse of them is the more hainous especially where there should not be any shadow of suspition as among relations Incest is as Murther or as treason a thing abhorrent unto Nature which many brutes decline and will rather wast their solitude And to bring dishonor on a kinswoman is conspiracy against the whole bloud an act of malice greater than of lust For the fences that are between relations are but weak and moveable being their distinct estates are apt to be coincident into one family Hence an uncle is collateral to a Father a Cosin-german to a Brother and the more remote are but supplemental to defects that may happen The distinct and distant Mansions of a worthy kindred are like City and Countrey-houses to one another where they have confidence community and are mutual stayes and pledges against vicissitudes and turns of fortune They are friends which nature gives which use confirms which are made perfect at the first fight if Relation be but mentioned Cosins do as frequently resemble one another as Brothers Uterines They have somewhat in them gentilitial to the family Their lineaments features aires graces manners some or other more or less do symbolize together and call as it were upon one another to be mutually ingratiated Yet there are that flight these bonds as complemental and unnecessary that hate an obligation coming on them without election that prefer any other of their own acquist that think themselves to be born at liberty and not to be contracted but by their own choice and pleasure This I hear but take it to be most ungrateful and unworthy of a noble spirit if in what it vindicates to its own will it derogates from Nature whose bond is indispensable Neither can I judge that person capable of a chosen friendship who is but a formal and perfunctory Courtier of his consanguinity or allyances § V. Of the next sort of Amity me-seemes there may be some doubt whether the Heroick love which being in order to it we will therefore consider under the same head be not greater then