Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	daughter_n	son_n	wife_n	6,684	5	7.2935	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11812	An essay of drapery: or, The compleate citizen Trading iustly. Pleasingly. Profitably. By William Scott.	Scott, William, 17th cent.; Droeshout, John, d. 1652, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 22109; ESTC S110892	39,623	186

have so esteemed that they have freed him from taxation and Offices that had many Children but punisht him for an unprofitable member that lived long single It is commendable for a Citizen to marry but since his negligence may bee his Wifes undoing let him live so profitably to her as by his discretion to direct her The ancient Heathen used to place Mercury by Venus to shew what need the affections of marriage have of the rule of Reason and wisedome to order them God cast Adam into a heavy sleepe Gen. 2. whilest he made him a Wife of one of his Ribs upon which one moralizeth very well thus the affections ought to sleepe about this worke and reason to wake as in the choice of a wife so in the governing of her when shee is chosen As he married or should have done respecting his posterity and the Common-wealth so now he must not let her spend too much lest his posterity rue it or he be disabled to doe good to others Among many faults of Shee-Citizens their pride stands as a Saul higher by the head and shoulders than the rest not that it is greater or more common than their secret sins but more seene and so with lesse danger I may speake against it Doe any of them beare the minde of Philons wife who being demanded why she alone went so plainely apparelled made answer that her Husbands vertues were ornament sufficient for her For redresse of their pride let Husbands shew them good examples by going plainely themselves so they if they have any goodnesse in them will bee ashamed to doe otherwise if this will not doe let them be restrain'd Let not a woman rule it is the counsell of the Apostle Let wives be subject to their husbands he considered that the woman rul'd nay over-ruled so ill at first as that it were pitty shee should bee permitted to rule againe Le● 〈◊〉 uxorious man who will ●et his wife doe any thi●● rather than displease her S●●iens ju dicto debet amarecon ●●gem non affectu harken to St. Hierom a wise man must love his wife with judgement not with blinde affection As hee may not dote on his wife so let him not bee bitter towards her opprobrious termes and dealings have made women doe that which otherwise they would never have done Clytem nestra being injured by her Husband fell into adultery and consequently slew him Let him walke honestly towards her let him bee to her as he desires she should be to him Culpa libido fuit poena libido fuit was said of one I may say the same of two the lust of the one being the fault the lust of the other may bee the punishment Let him beare with her infirmities remembring that she is the weaker vessell Virà viribus mulier quasi mollior let him practice lenity not severity clemency not tyranny otherwise a good womans patience may bee turned to fury if she doe not performe such businesse as hee puts upon her Patientia nimium laesa fit furor with that wisedome he expects let him beare with her he was a wise man that expected no more wit from a woman then to know her Husbands bed from a strangers If he perceive her angry let him beare with her infirmitie in that also and not bee angry at the same time for a house divided cannot stand Socrates was the more able to converse quietly with perverse persons abroad hearing with patience dayly thescolding of his Zantippe at home Let him bee willing and endeavour to be able to instruct her it is not onely necessary that hee walke with his Wife as a man of love but before her as a man of understanding It is monstrous to see the head stand where the feet should be and a double pitty when a Nabal and Abigail are matcht together but if thou hast a Wife whose wisedome needs none of thy instruction thank GOD for her Pro. 19.14 Houses and riches are the inheritance of the Fathers but a prudent Wife is of the Lord. Lastly let him shew kindnesse to her at his death one makes mention of a Law among the Romanes Ne quis haeredem faeminam faceret nec unicam filiam Civi Dei lib. 3. Cap 21. that no man should make a Woman or his onely daughter heire I know not what Law can be devised more unjust than this God himselfe hath said If a man dye and have no Son Num. 27.8 then hee shall turne his inheritance to his Daughter and Divinitie which hath taught men how to love their Wives hath taught them to provide for them but discretion must teach to leave them no more then enough for we often see a mans enemies enjoy that which he hath laboured for how much good might those many thousands which many Citizens have left have done to the poore to Hospitalls to Schooles of Learning and Religion to repairing of Churches and other good uses if they had not bin given to silly ambitious Women which can doe nothing with them but buy the title of a Lady As hee shall live profitably to his Wife so to those of whom he hath the charge Children and Aprentices Dionysius meaning to reveng himselfe upon Dion who made warre against him caused his son to be brought up in ryot and wantonnesse this labour many save their enemies and doe it themselves proving miserable Governours of dissolute young ones what hope can the City have of those youth the debauchtnesse of whose lives hath not been prevented by good education Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem testa diu Hor. Few good Citizens sons become good Citizens thēselves they know those waies of spēding which the Father never knew but not his wayes of getting and saving as Cicero's son they are like their Fathers in nothing but in name To redresse this let youths wilfulnes be restrained they should not know they have a will in their owne keeping but in the charg of those which are above them Quaeritis Aegistus quare sit factus adulter in promptu causa est desidiosus erat Ovid. Let them not be idle in doing nothing they learne to doe ill it was good policy in the Romanes to let their youth learn nothing sitting the best Commonwealthes have allowed them Theatres and spacious fields for them to exercise their gymnicks and exercises in and the best Republiquists have allowed those youths whom they had in their tuition time to performe them Let them have good examples shewed them I may say of most of them Vel in poculum impingunt vel in puellam and I would they did it not by example Cicero exacteth an extraordinary knowledge from his sonne because of his hearing and conversing with C●atippus and we might expect great vertue from our youth if those that governe them would walke vertuously In the next place he shall live profitably to the poore Art thou a great man and wouldst