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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	great_a	life_n	1,451	5	4.1995	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37487	Delightful and ingenious novells being choice and excellent stories of amours, tragical and comical / lately related by the most refin'd wits, under borrowed names ; with interludes between each novel ...		1685 (1685)	Wing D902; ESTC R9589	55,912	144

Flesh but Oh! that like him I could dash out life against those Bars that hold me Oh sad parting Oh Dear Ortelia and art thou gone so soon from me who perhaps may never see thee more Come death and ease me Oh cruel fate obey No! no! I am condemn'd to Linger out a miserable life in pains more Exquisite then the sharpest Martyrdoms but thou dear Soul hast told me it shall not be long Oh remember but thy last promise and I will ask no more to compleat me happy with these and other dolorous Expressions did the Unhappy Amasius Vent his sorrows whilst excess of passion had thrown him into a Violent Feaver In the Morning early his Friends came Crowding to his Chamber to bid good Morrow to the Bridegroom and finding him in Bed yet one of them began to Rally his Sluggishness who on a Wedding day when all the preparations for the Nuptials waited for him and his Friends were Met to welcom the Happy Hour was the greatest Loyterer himself To whom Amasius only answer'd with a deep Sigh which wa● followed by Showers of Tears the most pathetick Oratory of a troubled Mind what weeping Amasius sayes another sye for shame let the old and impotent who have worn out Youth and are now curst with the miseries of Age bewail the loss of those pleasures they once did Revel in but thou art now in full possession of those riper Joys and thy happier fortune speaks nothing but Mirth and Jollity Pray forbear Sir your unwelcom Jests and spare your Railery at this time said Amasius the Grave must be my Marriage Bed and Oh that I were now to dress my self and be there undrest at Night with what chearfulness should you then fee me consummate those wish'd for Espousals But Gentlemen as you are my Friends let me beg of you to give me no farther disturbance my thoughts are o●herways disposed of then you imagine and the greatest kindness you can do me is to leave me to my own M●ditations In so disconsolate at one did Amasius deliver himself that he strangely Surpriz'd the hearers with pity for his Condition the reason of which they could not possibly imagine His Father was immediately acquainted with it who coming to his Bed side found him extreamly ill and fitter for the Advice of the Physitians then the Entertainment of his Friends or the intended Solemnity The Doctors were sent for to consult of his present Distemper who all agreed he was in a High Feaver but that the cause thereof was not External but from some extraordinary grief which opprest his Spirits and was not to be remov'd by all their Learned prescriptions nor could they advise a more proper Cure then what they endeavour'd to prevent his Death For some weeks in this miserable Condition did he linger out the tedious Hours to the great trouble and discomfort of his Relations who daily Visited him and as often prest to know the cause of his present affliction which he the more carefully strove to hide nor could they Guess at any probable cause but as they observ'd his deep Sighs and then of a sudden his passionate and abrupt expressions of O dear Ortelia happy Ortilia but soft but gone for ever O miserable wretch miserable Amusius I come I come my Joy my Dear Saint I com from whence they all concluded nothing but the Hand of Heaven could work a Cure on his Distemper'd mind whilst his Body only S●mpathiz'd with the anguish of his Soul in the mean time his Father heard from his Dutch correspondent how fatal his unkindness had been to his Family who now began to fee his own Errour and blame himself as the only cause of those Misfortunes in which they had both so great a Share and that by crossing the Establish'd Loves of Amasius and Ortelia which receiv'd their Life and vigour from his encouragement he had occasion'd the death of Beautifull Ortelia and reduc'd his Son into those miseries and discontents from which he had but small hopes to recover him However after six weeks Languishing under his illness he began to grow into a better State of health but his Melancholy increased upon him Though his Father endeavour'd by all imagineable diversions to drive it from his wounded mind and supposing he yet knew nothing of Ortelia's Death resolv'd to Conceal it from him till he had in some measure Estrang'd his Affections from her which he hoped in time to Effect But after two Months were pass'd and Amasius was rather worse then better he began to think that if his Son knew of Ortelia's death and the impossibility of ever enjoying her it might by degrees quiet his troubled mind and put him upon some thoughts of perfecting the Match he had design'd him with much advantage Accordingly one Evening he took an opportunity to disclose Ortelia's Death to him omiting those Circumstances that more particularly concern'd her love to him which would rather aggravate then allay his passion Alas Sir said Amasius I have long since known more of that affair then you are pleas'd to Communicate to me now I know that Ortelia is dead and that Amasius can never be happy till he is so too But for this I must blame the weakness of my Love that what a Woman could do for me I cannot for her nor dare not Since I am forbid all violent Remedies which adds to my affliction and prevents that Cure which otherwise I would soon accomplish His Father was strangely Surpriz'd to see himself prevented in his discovery and commanded Amasius to tell him how he came by his Intelligence supposing that contrary to his order some of his Friends had acquainted him with it Amasius humbly beg'd his Pardon and assur'd him it was not from his Relations or any Person else he had Entrusted with the Secret that he came by the knowledge of it and earnestly pray'd him not to press that question any farther which if in Obedience to his Commands he should be oblig'd to Answer would yet add more to that weight of sorrow he so miserably labour'd under This made the old Gentleman his Father the more Inquisi●ive who conjur'd him by that respect and duty he ow'd him as his Father to give him a plain and Satisfactory account which without any excuse he immediately expected from him Well Sir said Amasius since you will extort a Secret from me which of all things can only make me more Vnhappy take it and Judge if my Duty to you is not above all regard to my self Here Amasius acquainted his Father how he had s●en Ortelia and the discourse he had with her the Night before his intended Nuptials Adding withal that in declaring what he had forc'd him to he should be the most miserable of Men as the Sequel of his Vnhappy Life approv'd him to be Some time after his Father by the Advice of his Friends remov'd Amasius into the Countrey and having several Relations and acquaintance