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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	world_n	worse_a	write_v	18	3	4.5947	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19705	Cupids messenger: or, A trusty friend stored with sundry sorts of serious, wittie, pleasant, amorous, and delightfull letters. Newly written		1629 (1629)	STC 6122; ESTC S105143	34,686	64

mulier is now the purest and truest Latine Thus my deare Mistresse you haue the newest Newes of the season which I write rather to keepe you in your old way of vertue then to lose your selfe in the folly of imitation I know your goodnesse and how true a rewarder it is of its owne merits relie vpon it euer it will make your end happy and my life fortunate that am the seruant of so great a perfection T.W. Her Answer YOu haue sent me worthy seruant my desire backe with so great an interest that I stand two wayes fearfull how to receiue it either to incurre the suspition of too greedy an inquiry or the enuy of a weake nature that is pleased with detraction from both which I am free in as much as my ayme is held within the leuell of modesty I confesse the parts you haue giuen mee may belong to a beast or rathers Monster for the shape hath little proportion yet I haue heard of excellent Painters which haue made curious peeces of perspectiue that beheld with a liberall eye on the plaine Table hath appeared vgly and most deformed but the sight straitned and drawne into a more seuere and narrow compasse it hath beene beautifull and in the glory of the best perfection such I feare was the picture from whom you tooke your copie and looking vpon it the wrong way you saw the lines but not the beautie I doe confesse the world is olde yet not so olde but it may continue to weare out many new garments Age makes it subiect to sicknesse and infirmitie and what better defence then warme and sound cloathing Sicknesse brings corruption and ill sauours what better preuention then much shift and many new things so that I conclude these nouelties which you dislike are but to cure something in the world that is vnwholesome Againe I haue seene an Italian Comely consisting of a louer a woman a zany or foole and a deuill and to it I may fashion the world for that the stage the people the actors each degree haue their zanie and their deuill Now if the zany will steale his masters apparell and make betweene vice and vertue no difference blame not the discretion of the master if it deuise new fashions till either the foolish zany be tyred or the deuill for his pride fetch him away and conclude the enterlude This my best seruant you may apply at your pleasure for mine innocence hath taught me that charitie not to accuse any of that crime I would not my selfe be guiltie nor is my defence an argument to draw on your silence but rather a motiue to make you more liberall in bestowing on me the rest of your collections in which doubt not my constancy since no inchantments can make mee forget to preserue my selfe euer worthy to be your Mistris M. S. A wooing and comfortable letter to a noble widow that had newly lost her husdand THough my noble Widow I am the last that send you comfort yet was I the first that felt your anguish and will be the readrest of all men to serue you in your trouble you haue lost a dearly desired husband and sound an infinit way to griefe the one is the act of Fate and cannot be preuented the other is the worke of Nature and by wisdome must be corrected Remember faire Widow who is gone a good man to whom he is gone to a good God and from whom from a wicked World and worse people and you shall find more cause to praise heauen for his happines then to murmure for your losse of comfort a good man dies to liue there 's your ioy an ill man liues to die there 's true anguish the ioyes of mariage should bee writ in table-Table-bookes not vpon paper that Widowes might blot and rubbe out the writing for they ought not to remember the delights past but to meditate on pleasures to come not to marrie for eternity but during the will of heauen neither haue you lost any thing for hée was but a treasure lent you and to grieue at the repayment were to wrong your goodnesse with ingratitude Beleeue mée Madam were your cure in my hands as your griefe is at my heart neither should your anguish hurt you nor the memory of your losse suruiue a moment but it is in heauen and your wisedome couple them together by yeelding to prouidence and you shall sée your comforts flow vpon you in a new tyde you haue reputed mée your friend and shap'd your best actions by my counsels you were neuer more weake then now because alone nor did you euer stand in more néed because many assaults are prepared against you to kéepe you then in perfect safetie please you make mée of a tryed friend a true husband of a faithfull counseller a profitabe Ruler and of an able helpe a deuout seruant I doubt not but you shall finde that armor aganst all necessities which shall both guard you against iniuries and bring you much honour my character you know best for I am no stranger and my zeale you may iudge by my former seruices if they appeare faultlesse before you there will bée no let but ceremonie which to countenance against vertue were to bee guiltie of soule superstition you are wise and that wisedome I make my aduocate if he approue me worthy to be yours my faith shall make me your truest seruant among the liuing F. R. Her Answer SIr had the comforts you sent me comne in a true wedding garment pure and of one intire stuffe I could not haue chosen but receiued it as the rest of your chaste counsels and feasted on it with my daily meditation but being so disorderly patcht I can neither beleeue it is yours nor affect that which is so vncomely you haue sent me delicate gilt pills where though the gold be more then the poison yet is this poison enough to confound therefore as much as with safetie I may retaine for your ancient friendshippe I will keepe and studie the rest pardon me to returne you not out of malice to your wish but griefe at your folly you haue told me so well the excellency of my losse that it were madnesse in me to runne into a second hazard and how euer you would take from widowes the blisse of remembrance yet deare Sir know that I can neuer forget this maxime that the death of a good husband ought not to take away the loue of a chaste wife To conclude what you desire is not in my power to grant for all my loue I haue sent with him to the graue whom I haue lost to hold me without that portion were to grasp a cloud that would bring froth a Centaure yet from thence should either Fate or my follies deliuer it I could not finde any more worthy then your selfe to keepe it but the first is too constant and the latter I hope shall neuer so farre rule in me Therefore being as you were a chast counseller and