A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

which so affected the Governors, that they spared the Mother's life, and raised a monument of the daughter's ingenuous piety. The other of one Perns (for that seems to be her name) who in the same manner relieved her Father Cymon, and renewed his age the same way, in the same case, which it seems was so taking, that it was represented in a Picture when the Historian wrote, and that in Tiberius his time; so ancient was that Table which our modern Painters copy. And this was the more notable, because this now old Cymon did by his own bonds purchase his Father's freedom. The Chinoises in their natural Religion do to this day pay their gratitude to their Parents with the greatest strictness, as I learn from Spizelius in a late learned Tract^*, wherein he shows, they persuade themselves the perfection of man doth consist in this, both with respect to the surviving ⟨p. 402⟩Parents and the deceased, for whom they are longer in solemn mourning than any other people. Before I leave this head, I cannot pass over a prodigious Instance^† of the contrary vice, I mean monstrous ingratitude to Parents. 'Tis the unthankful Son of a more kind Father, who had made over his estate to all his Sons, with a reserve of a right by turns to come and take his diet at their Tables. This unnatural wretch being at dinner, and having a Goose before him, espied his Father coming, and set the Goose underneath the Table till his Father, was gone again: then (as is related) going to take up the hidden Goose, found it wonderfully turned into a great Toad, which leaped upon his face, and notwithstanding all his striving could not be removed, till it had stifled him. Let Children learn hence, to take heed of being ungrateful to their Patents for fear of the dreadful consequence thereof. Thus we have seen three particulars of Children's active obedience, there is yet another which is more passive, and that is,

which so affected the Governours, that they spared the Mother's life, and raised a monument of the daughter's ingenuous piety. The other of one Perns (for that seems to be her name) who in the same manner relieved her Father Cymon, and renewed his age the same way, in the same case, which it seems was so taking, that it was represented in a Picture when the Historian wrote, and that in Tiberius his time; so antient was that Table which our modern Painters copy. And this was the more notable, because this now old Cymon did by his own bonds purchase his Father's freedom. The Chinoises in their natural Religion do to this day pay their gratitude to their Parents with the greatest strictness, as I learn from Spizelius in a late learned Tract