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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	world_n	year_n	youth_n	34	3	7.3345	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16157	Eromena, or, Love and revenge. Written originally in the Thoscan tongue, by Cavalier Gio. Francesco Biondi, Gentleman extraordinary of his Majesties Privie Chamber. Divided into six books. And now faithfully Englished, by Ia. Hayvvard, of Graies-Inne Gent; Eromena. English	Biondi, Giovanni Francesco, Sir, 1572-1644.; Hayward, James, of Gray's Inn.	1632 (1632)	STC 3075; ESTC S107086	212,008	210

By the high gods replied the Marquesse your Highnesse hath reason to conceive of me as you do for by my good-will I would never grow old Where is that man living that desires to be unpleasant Take away but the jocondnesse of our thoughts and what are we old men good for seeing melancholy makes a man noysome both to himselfe and others and mirth in old age is the gift of heaven It conserves a man and makes his company become desired of every one which if in youth it be dissolute and wanton yet hath it in graver yeares its gravitie and its peculiar wayes so as under the barke of pleasantnesse lies hidden the substance of the Theoricke and Practicke of the world which being the onely booke for perfecting man instructs without error unlesse error bee caught hold of in its beginnings and in the simple vulgar opinions The Princesse smiled at his discourse and to give him further matter thereof she replied Oh how simple are those encomions you make of old age of that shivering age which cannot be pleasant because it wants the vigour of bloud the efficient cause of mirth Your Highnesse may reason as you thinke good answered the Marquesse that reason of yours may hold good in old dotards as being long sithence fallen from being any more themselves are good for nothing but yet give me leave to tell you that such as fortifie their minds against the defects of time with good governement against fortune by enjoying her favours indifferently and against their owne rebellious affections by having gotten a habitude of commanding them fall not under the censure of this your reason for such keeping themselves from both extremes that is from such things as befit no other than young men and from excesse of melancholy which is most habituall in old men may finding themselves free from mentall perturbations conserve themselves a long time in a healthfull and pleasant disposition in whom if mirth cannot engender love yet makes it them at leastwise become more sociable and usefull to such as are enamored not without awaking withall the memory of their owne particular loves which in them cannot for all that bee blamed for being confined within the limits of an affection overswayed by reason You will say then replied the Princesse that if an old man would conserve himselfe in a blithsome disposition he then ought by consequence to procure its effects and therefore the effects of love I say it and yet I say it not answerd the Marquesse The wife old man may bee master of the affects of the minde but not of the progressions of nature necessarie to the consideration of such effects against which there is no word either of Prudence or Philosophy that can suffice Yet remaines there in him I know not what thing which I cannot expresse that makes him though having himselfe laid by his armes delight neverthelesse to see them exercised by young men in the termes of legall affection Now touching what I have motioned unto you your Highnesse should doe it of your selfe and not wonder at me as you doe for if I were not growne old I would not stay till some other should put mee in minde of businesses of that nature Whereat the Princesse smiled saying And whom Cozen shall I take to husband There is to Prince but will when he hath married me reside in his owne countrey and I againe will by no meanes leave mine and for wedding a private man who will commend me Neither the one nor the other should your Highnesse doe said he but reade a meane path betweene both and being asked how he proceeded saying I meane some Prince noble and valourous though without any means for such a one can not be said to be a private man who in being a Prince shall bee a match befitting your greatnesse and for having no dominions will doe all whatsoever is requisite for your affaires Yea but could you name me such a one asked with a grave countenance the Princesse Marry that can I well Madame answered the Marquesse Whom could your Highnesse ever chuse more noble valiant and generally beloved of all men than the Infante Polimero Whereat she changing her colour and standing a while in a muze said I know that to match my selfe is necessarie because to continue as I am is for many respects disconvenient unto me albeit as your selfe know I have ever had but a small inclination therto but the maine difficultie consists in finding out such a one as may give the people satisfaction I cannot denie but that the Infante Polimero ownes all those conditions you speake of yet reason will not that I be she he should aime at neither beleeve I that he will ever offer to looke for me for feare perhaps of being rejected for want of meanes Neverthelesse if you thinke that this marriage may make for the publike good of the kingdome take you care then of the managing thereof and for my owne part I promise you not to swerve from your Counsell The Marquesse kneeling downe before her and kissing her hand undertooke the charge thereof assuring her he would conduct it in such a manner as she should therewith rest well satisfied which indeede he afterwards accordingly performed for taking opportunely hold of an occasion to exaggerate before the Councell the favours of the two Mauritanian Princes and to exalt the valour of the younger and descending handsomely thence to the occasions and affaires of the time to the infirmitie and decadency of the King to the sex of the Princesse though valorous yet feminine he at last in generall termes proposed the necessitie of matching her with such a husband as might reside in the kingdome Whereupon all the neighbouring Princes and others also further off being named and proposed he found oppositions against every one except Polimero whose age and nature hee considered to be apt to receive the aire and customes of Sardegna who although hee wanted Dominions and meanes yet wanted hee not forces and warlike troopes but could upon any occasion procure as hee had done at that present great supplies of his father and brother whose amitie was more profitable and enmity more dangerous to Sardegna than all the rest of the neighbouring Princes Some there were that feared there was some dissembling or double dealing in this businesse so patly proposed in the instant of the arrivall of the Mauritanian forces as if they menat in case they could not obtaine their desire by faire meanes to enforce them thereto with their powers which the Marquesse perceiving assured such of their being therein mistaken wishing them withall to deliver themselves freely if they thought that such a match would prove any way inutile or prejudiciall unto them assuring them of the Mauritanian troopes as well as of their owne native Sardegnans Their disputations were at length reduced into resolutions that the marriage of the Princesse was necessarie that there was not alliance nor match better nor fitter for