Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	lord_n	servant_n	service_n	5,597	5	7.0128	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90783	Pliny's panegyricke: a speech in Senate: wherein publike thankes are presented to the Emperour Traian, / by C. Plinius Cæcilius Secundus Consul of Rome. Translated out of the originall Latin, illustrated with annotations, and dedicated to the prince, by Sr Rob. Stapylton Knight, Gent. in Ordinary of the Privy Chamber to His Highnesse.; Panegyricus. English	Pliny, the Younger.; Stapylton, Robert, Sir, d. 1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P2579; Thomason E283_5; ESTC R200055	90,710	86

and once againe have masters for now not our servants but we our selves are the Princes friends Nor doth the Father of his Country more indeare himselfe to and put more confidence in others slaves then his owne subjects You have freed us all from our domestick accusers and giving the word as I may say of publike safety you have put an end unto this z He compares the private bandying of servants informing against their masters to the publike warre of slaves against Rome begunne in Sicily by Ennus the Syrian serville warr whereby you have not more obliged the masters then the servants for you have made those secure these honest Will you not be yet commended well put the case these were not commendable sure they are pleasing to them who remember a a Domitian who incouraged servants to sweare against their Lords and then the just remarkable reward of Traytours from those hands that should pay them for their service they like Tarpeia received their fatall blow Prince that incouraged servants to swear away their masters lifes and pointed them out the crime whereof they should informe that he might punish it a great inevitable and still experienced Evill as oft as any had servants like the Prince 'T is to be placed in the same ranke rhat our last Wills and Testaments are now b Which had beene invaded by former Emperours Tiberius broke the heart of the rich Augur Lentulus because he durst not leave his estate to any but the Emp. The Primipilarij or chiefe Centurions that dyed in the reigne of Tiberius and made not him heyre Caius called ungratefull and Nero ordained that the Testaments of the ungratefull should be confiscated secure nor do you carry away all because you were once nominated an heyre You are intituled to no false no unjust Will no ones anger no ones impiety no ones fury flies to you for refuge nor are you named because another hath offended but because you have merited Your friends put you in strangers leave you out no difference betwixt your being a private person and a Prince but that now you are beloved of many more because you love many more This course Caesar you hold and experience shewes whether it be not more beneficiall to a Prince not only in prayse but profit that to make him their heyre men should be rather desirous then compelled Many donations in this kinde your c Nerva who restored the rapines of Domitian was bount full to the poore even out of his owne Estate and so free to his freinds that Philostratus sayes when Atticus father to Herod the Rhetoritian writt to Nerva that he had digged vp a great Treasure and desired to know how he pleased it should be disposed of he writt back Vse it Atticus answered his letter that 't was too great for a private condition Nerva replyed then abuse it Father and you have granted dyed he out of favour yet dying so he leaves them that injoy his estate and you have nothing out of it but glory For a gratefull debter makes bountie sweeter an ingratefull more conspicuous But who untill your time preferred this prayse before that profit What Prince but thought so much of our patrimony his owne as had been gotten under him as our Tyrants so likewise our Princes bountyes were they not like hookes bayted with food like nets cover'd over with prey till being swallowed laden with private mens fortunes they drew backe with the whatsoever touched them How beneficiall it is to come to prosperity through adversity You have lived with us beene in danger with us in feare which was the life of the innocent You know have experience how much Princes detest evill mē though they themselves do make them such You remēber your old wishes with us your old greivances for in the bosome of a Prince you beare the judgemēt of a private man Nay you are better then you wished another Prince should be You have so accustomed us that whereas before our highest ambitiō was a Prince better thē the worst now none will content us but the best No man therefore is so ignorant of you or of himselfe as to desire that place after you It is easier for one to be your successour then to This was no prophesy of Adrian for he wished it and by the favour of Plotina wife to Trajan Adrian succeeded him in the Empire wish it for who willingly would undergoe your weight of care who will not feare to be compared to you even you your selfe found how burthensome it is to succeed a good Prince and therefore would have beene excused from your adoption Is it an ordinary Patterne easy to be matcht that no man redeemes his safety with turpitude all are secured both of life and the dignity of life Nor is he now considerate and wise that obscures himselfe and lives in darkenesse for virtue hath the same encouragements under our Prince which it had in our liberty nor is well doing onely rewarded by the Conscience but farther recompenced You love the constancy of your Subjects and their lively and erected spirits you doe not like others deject and depresse but cherish and raise Honesty preferres men that thinke it enough and more if it hurt them not To these you offer Honours Preisthoods Provinces these flourish by your freindship by your esteeme and Judgement They are quickened by the price that is set upon Integrity and industry The like and the unlike are attracted for it is the reward of good and evill that makes men good or bad There are naturally few by whom foule or faire ends are not proposed or avoided as they make for or against their benefit The rest when they see the wages of labour paid to sloth of vigilance to drowsinesse of frugality to luxury they aime at the same rewards by the same e Tacitus l. 16. saith that C. Petronius spent the day in sleep the night in waiting and wanton offices and as industry raised others so sloath advanced him who applying himselfe to vices or the imitation of vices got to be one of that small Juncto that were in Nero's favour arts wherewith they perceive others have attained them such as those are such these desire to appeare what they would only seeme they doe really become And our former Princes your Father excepted and one or f He meanes Augustus and Titus whowere good but Dion sayes the Romanes would scarce have thought them so if Augustus had died sooner or Titus lived longer For the troublesōe beginning of his Reigne made Augustus more cruell who when things were setled proved gracious and noble But Titus at first stiled the delight of mankind afterward did some barbarous acts as when he caused Aulus Caecinna whom he invited to supper to be murthered in his Dining roome two I feare I have over numbred them rather delighted in the vices then the virtues of their Subjects First because every one