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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	blood_n	great_a	vein_n	1,434	5	9.4641	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48952	The case of Ware and Sherley as it was set forth in matter of fact and argued in several points of law in the consistory of Dublin, in Michaelmas term 1668. By Dudley Loftus, J.U.D.	Loftus, Dudley, 1619-1695.	1669 (1669)	Wing L2820; ESTC R218143	56,859	93

that her softest answers were so far from giving him hopes that they did exceedingly increase his dispaire and that there did not remain in her disposition the least complyant softness which might be wrought to his desire And that nothing was to be expected from her but what an inexorable necessity could extort and he being rigidly resolved to use arguments of force where force of his arguments would not prevail he sharpned his revenge as a Persian Author saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on the Whetstone of his petrified heart and put himself upon a design as Barbarous and haynously flagitious as the malice of a disappointed Ambition could invent or the greatest cruelty perpetrate And that executed in such manner as never any man who had his face wash'd at a Christian Font especially a Protestant did own I see ye begin to wonder at what I say but that your thoughts may be the less transported into admiration ye may be pleased to remember what Salvianus hath said viz. That some in his time were Christians only in opprobrium Contumeliam Christianorum in such sence the Defendent may perhaps profess himself a Protestant but to proceed I must tell you how he advanced from design to endeavour and from endeavour to act the greatest violation and injury upon my Client that she was capable of receiving for the greatest torments that Tyrants have invented or Martyrs suffer'd are not to be compared with the Violation of Virginity first of all therefore by a slye and crafty insinuation he winds himself into a familiar though seeret Acquaintance with her Maid whom then she took to be a plain faithful and obsequious servant but afterwards in the event proved a ci ce Medea a Sphinx a meer shop of subtilties a practized Medianera or instrument in abomination he proceeds so far as to Bribe this Maids good will to the favouring of his lust in the betraying of her Mistriss and draws her so far along with him as that she had at length not only a finger in his Plott but was also ingaged therein up to the Elbowes and with as much endeavour as secrecy industriously served his design which was then as much hidden from the Plaintiffs observation as is the middle of a right line from our sight when the raye of Vision falls upon the Extension according to the diffinition of a right line thus given in the Persian Language by Machmad Shah Cholgi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and after they had a long time wrought in the Vaults of darkness they contrive by a fraudulent abduction to deliver her to the disposal of his force and Violence the Maid therefore pretends an importunat invitation from her sister to supp at her house in New-street as a Skreen to the private design of her abduction my Client was at first very backward in her Inclination to go thither yet at length through much perswasion she condiscended to that which so great an importunity had urged her to and promised to go Whereupon a Coach was prepared and thither she went where without the least shadow of suspition she was entertain'd untill about eight of the clock at night and then as well out of her own inclination as out of a desire to conform to her Parents will who could not endure her being out late she was desirous to repair homewards betakes her self to her Coach which being put into motion as she thought homeward she fell occasionally into earnestness of discourse with her Maid which together with the darkness of the night so surprised her animadvertency of the way that she never doubted whether she was going untill at last hearing some noyse she put her head out of the Coach and then though the night was mantled in much darkness she discovered that she was carried beyond Lt. Coll. Fernlyes house in St. Cavans-street there besett with an armed Troop or Squadren of Horse consisting of about eight Horsemen who seemed to be as void of reason as they were predigall of words which together with their rude compulsion used in hurrying on the Coach-man intimating their intent on to carry her away by force besides this she observed then in the Carriage of her Maid more then ordinary cause to suspect her fide●ity and moreover the appearance of the Defendent who at the same time flash't terrour out of the angry Caverns of his Pumified face cast the greatest injections of horrour into her terrified fancy hereupon cold fear seized the blood in her veins and hudled together her thoughts and spirits in such a confused amazement as that she lost the succours of her usual reason and knew not well what resolution to take then thinking it too Insignificant an utterance of her grief to express it only in the common evidence of tears or to sigh out the sence thereof with a moderate Woe is me she according to the sharpness of her Resentments cryed out with the utmost extent of a roaring exclamation imploring aid and pity but they who would not hear her with patience nor answer her with respect like the bloody sacrificers of their Children to Molech in the fire drowned her lamentations with the greatest shouts and most obstreperous noyses they could make least her complaints being understood she should be rescued I leave you therefore to imagin what strange impressions were now begotten in this weak and timorous young Woman affrighted with the dreadful face of a present confusion and the fore imagin'd forms of futurein creasing troubles whilest they with their Menacing incitations adding speed unto the Coach-mans pace every step of her rapid progress represented new horrours to her imagination insomuch that she being now carried beyond hope of succour from the Town and destitute of all assistance that could Minister defence or rescue unto her in the Countrey And there being then no hope of escape to any Sanctuary she being guarded as strictly by these Ruffians as was the Holy Sepulcher by the Pharisies She was transported out of her senses into a deep soon but shortly after returning out of that Extasie she Meditated deeply with her new recollected senses which advised her to fortifie her fainting resolution and rather to make use of the force of reason then the Vehemency of passion and thereupon she changed her angry and loud Exclamations into soft mild perswasions hopeing thereby to alter the by as of their rigid Inclinations into a Compassionat sence of her sufferings and certainly had not their consciences been seared with the hottest Iron in the Devils forge they would have been toucht with a sence of her grief which would have wrung tears out of a Marble statute but alas her softness of speech served but as a burning Glass to inflame the passions of some of them and the softness of her words where they most prevail'd were applyed as water cast upon a Smiths forge which makes it burn inward with more intension for a time but afterwar●s break out with a greater eff●amation