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cause_n	blood_n	part_n	reason_n	1,453	5	4.9686	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66697	The honour of merchant-taylors wherein is set forth the noble acts, valliant deeds, and heroick performances of merchant-taylors in former ages, their honourable loves, and knightly adventures ... together with their pious acts and large benevolences, their building of publick structures, especially that of Blackwell-Hall, to be a market place for the selling of woollen cloaths ... / written by VVilliam VVinstanley.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1668 (1668)	Wing W3064; ESTC R41412	58,050	83

if it lay in his power to refuse no danger to do him good so that with much importunity Hawkwood revealed all unto him conjuring him of secrecy yet withal telling him that he was resolved since that his time was now expired and that he proved so unfortunate in his Love to forsake the Ensign of Cupid and to p●t himself under the Banner of Mars At that time King Edward the third laid claim to the Kingdome of France in Right of his Mother and in pursuance of his title raised a mighty Army and conducted them into France With there went O●● discontented Lover whose low fortunes could not then ra●●e him to a higher place then a private Souldier who safely landed with the rest of the Army where for a while we will leave him to relate how William served Ralph the Journey-man Who soon after the departure of Hawkwood fell also deeply in love with the fair Arabella and understanding how strongly her affections were placed on Ralph he thought it the best policy to remove that obstacle out of the way before he discovered his love unto her to this end he framed a Letter in Ralphs name to this effect Dear Friend I Received your Letter and thank you for your good advice but do not think I am so deep in Love but that I can go out of it when I please no Cupids manacles are of no greater strength to bind my heart then a twine thread is to hold a Gyant for Love which to others seems to be a great torment is to me only a pastime in beholding the vanity of our female Saints w●●m two or three kind words can bring into a fools paradise This could I instance in my fond Arabela who thinks she hath my heart chaired to her devotions when alas poor filly wench upon sight of the next fair object it is ready to take flight therefore rest confident that Love shall never cause my ruine for I will never hang it on so close but that I will easily shake it off and so adieu Your faithfull friend Ralph This Letter had William so cunningly counterfeited that a knowing eye could not discern it from Ralphs own hand his next policy was that Arabella only should have the sight of it which was easily done by dropping it unsealed whereby she was to pass who stooping and taking it up thinking by the Character it had been her Lovers hand for the more secrecy in reading it she went into her own chamber and perceiving his name at the bottom thereof she then rested confident it was his own writing but having read it over the paper which before as coming from him she kissed with her lips she could now scarcely forbear from tearing with he● hands who had then seen her would have taken her for one of Diana's Nymphs metamorphosed into a fu●y such a sudden change did th●se lines work in her heart that what s●e before so much loved now she as much loathed what before was so highly honored is now as moch abhorred and that which was so greatly respected is now as much disliked O Heavens said she why did you create so false a thing as man and is it possible such dissimulation could harbo● in that breast who ever hereafter will trust to vo●s or protestati●ns O Sun why do not you extinquish your light since he so deeply swore that you should sooner fall to run your course then he would cease to be faithful unto me Frown Heavens at these perjuries and O you Gods panish these impleties let dissimulation have his ●ust reward and violation of faith suffer chastisement In this manner did she exclaim on Ralph whilst he remained both innocent and ignorant and William who had wrought this misch●ef was the least of all suspected Now doth she alter her carriage to another tune shunning as much as she could the very sight of him such impressions of hatred had the Letter wrought in her But her Revenge resteth not here next she solicites her Father to turn him away and that with such importunity that she will have no denyal so that hereupon Ralph hath warning to be gone suddenly at which he much marvalled yet not in the least suspected the reason and now insending to impart his mind to his dearest Love he ●inds her so far estranged as not to be spoken withall Not an opportunity did he let slip where he imagined to méet her but all his vigilancy could nothing avail and the time drawing near wherein he was to depart he therefore took Pen and Paper in hand and writ to her as followeth Most dear heart WHat should cause his strangeness in you thus on a suddain is to me altogether unknown having to my knowledge given no just occasion is love so light thus to be quite blown away and no reason to be given therefore or can you so soon forget those solemn engagements past between us were there a ●ailing on my part I should soon expiate the offence though with my dearest blood be then so merciful a judge as not to condemn me before my cause be known and if you find me guilty then let me suffer your severest censure in the mean time I shall desire to have the happiness as to plead my own cause before your self where I make no doubt but to be acquitted and to prove my self Your faithful servant Ralph This Letter he conveyed to her hands by the Maid of the house whom she chid for bringing it yet nevertheless the opened and read it but Williams counterfeit Letter had so far possessed her with an evil opinion of him that what he had written gained no credence with her but rather exasperated her more then before she judging it to be all but meer dissimulation and therefore to check his arrogancy as she imagined it she took Pen in hand and returned him this following Answer With what confidence or impudence rather you could thus write unto me I much marvail is this your course to intrap Maids hearts by Dissimulation and then to insult over them for their pains I can you carry so fair a gloss upon so foul a Text or think ye I am so ignorant of your ways as you would have me to be is your large protestations come to conclude in perjuries and was the end of your oaths only to deceive false man hadst thou none to abuse but me and must you needs boast of your victory before you had fully obtained it blame me not then if I turn haggard and resufe to come again to your lure in the mean time go court some other Lasses whose credu●ity you may abuse by Dissimulation as you have done mine and let not impudence prevail so far further with you as to trouble me again with another Letter for know I hate the very memory of thee much less shall I abide either to see or hear from thee Your deserved enemy Arabella By the same hand which brought her the Letter did she return him the answer