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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	motion_n	soul_n	1,821	5	5.5524	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47946	The unequal match, or, The life of Mary of Anjou Queen of Majorca Part 1. an historical novel.	La Chapelle, M. de (Jean), 1655-1723.; Spence, Ferrand.	1681 (1681)	Wing L133; ESTC R10966	69,072	170

soon as she could of Don Geronimo and having sent two Maids in whom she consided to observe the Queens steps she had no sooner learnt that she was gon into the Garden accompanied only with two of her Maids of Honour than that she suspected a Rendevouze wherein all that her jealousie had been able to invent for the disuniting of those Two Lovers was going to be destroyed She called for her Cloathes and notwithstanding all the opposition of the Persons about her who were astonished at her design and who represented to her that she was not in a Condition to rise and much less to go out of her Chamber and to go take the Air she would go walk in the Garden and took with her only one of her Chamber Maids who was of her Confidence She had not had the patience to be quite dressed and all in disorder she descended into the Garden with more haste than the weakness of her Body could well permit her but it was the mind which carryed her or if you will her Love or jealousie She had no sooner discovered where the Queen was than that stealing from Alley to Alley and still concealing her self with the Hedges between which she walked she came towards that where they were and just in the time that those two Lovers were going to informe themselves upon her Chapter Which obliged her to show her self notwithstanding all the Curiosity she had of listening to them It is true that she came to them with so much trouble and Agitation of mind that she could hardly understand what they said But in fine the Word of Sacrifice and that of Countess coming to her Ears she could no longer be Mistress of her self and must needs go interupt them She did at first all she could to compose her self but the alteration there was in her Face did but too much discover the occasion of her coming in a place where there was so little reason to expect her and seeing the surprize with which they look'd upon her you find it without doubt strange Madam said she to the Queen to see me here and I am assured you did not expect me but wearied with lying in Bed I fancied it would do me no hurt to go take the Air. But may be I am come inconveniently and am troublesome to you If it be so Madam I shall retire You spake answered the Queen something blushing a Language very new both to your self and me You know pursued she that I am very glad to see you where-ever I am and that you cannot incommode me but it is true that I am something astonished that you have so little care of your health and if there is any thing I blame in you it is that Nothing pressed you to come out but let us retire for I confess you raise my pitty and I fear you will really fall sick The Countess after having thanked the Queen for the tender Sentiments she seemed to have for her set her self to follow her but with so much difficulty that she could hardly bear her self up insomuch that that Charming Princess who had a most compassionate and tender Soul taking notice of it would not augment the ills of that Poor Sick Lady and bid the Count have pitty of that Lover and that he should give her his Hand resolving that for once at least the passion she had in her Heart should not be the strongest The Count obeyed but the Conversation he had with that Lady was not great for she could hardly speak overcome with emotion that her Soul as well as her Body suffered She only held her Eyes sixed upon him and it was the Language with which she expressed to him all the violent motions which then passed in her and of which he was the only cause They came in that manner to the Queens apartment who having been willing to accompany the Countess to her Chamber left her a moment after at the Liberty to go to Bed of which she had great need The Count having given her his Hand to lead her back was in an extream impatience of entering again into the Conversation they had begun in the Garden and which he perceived was tending to a kind Reconciliation But the Queen whether out of Malice or Prudence told him that it was too late and that he should go give some Comfort to that desolate Lady and that they would at another time end their Quarrel Hannibal undone with this answer begged of her to give him at least one Quarter of an Hours Audience more but with an Air so passionate that the Queen could not hold from laughing You have then a mind said she to him to kill that Poor wretch who at this Hour imagines a Thousand things that sting her Go pursu'd She still smiling go put her Mind at rest for you owe this at least to her Love The Count looked upon the Queen who he saw took delight in railling him upon his pain and with an Air very indifferent there are Madam answered he Her other people about her who are more proper than I to render her those Cares But if her Disease had occasion for mine her recovery would be very dangerous You are too cruel replyed the Queen and that does not become such a man as you But can it be possible pursued She that these are your true Sentements and do you not still abuse me For after the things you daily say to the Countess who certainly loves you very tenderly your Soul must be full of Treachery that so much Contempt and Indifference can be without disguise The Count whose Heart was pierced with all these Words the Queen said to Him though She spoke to Him in a manner to make him know that She was not fully perswaded of what She reproached Him hardly knew with what Air to answer her but sighing What is it I beseech you Madam I have ever said to that Lady that is contrary to the Sentiments I have alwaies made appear for you Upon what have I entertained her but of the tender passion I have had more then Five Years for the most cruel Princess upon the Earth and of which I must dye for her satisfaction If it is a Crime pursued he to have made her this Confession which never ought to come out of my Mouth accuse the vanity not to say the insolence of Don Geronimo from whom she had already known all the Conversation I had had with you in your Chamber What do you mean by Don Geronimo interrupted the Queen This is the Third time you have mentioned him without my comprehending any thing of what you tell me Has he ever had part pursued she in our discourses and must you not be very extravagant or the Countess very wicked to make you beleive that I could be capable of bringing him into such a confidence he who I should fear in such an occasion more than all the Persons of the World But Madam interrupted the Count

is not any thing but what I would do to hinder it if it depend on me No Madam answered the Count but I have already told you that I shall not explain my self further therein you will know enough in time and whatsoever is the cause it suffices that I tell you that I have a very great reason for what I do and that from the moment I can get from hence I will go give order for my embarking The Countess pierced to the very bottom of her Soul with hearing this news as well as she had joy at the misunderstanding there was between the Queen and him did all that she could to make him change his resolution and told him in respect of her self the most moving things imaginable that she might take advantage of their disunion but that is not all waies the best time for the gaininga Heart which is sometim●s themore strongly bound when it is believed to be disengaged by some prevention The Count hardly hearkned to what she said and his Soul more disposed to motions of despair than to sentiments of tenderness did not show that fair Lover one ray of tenderness nor even a spark of complaisance he was in an extreame impatience till day came And he no sooner saw the moment he could retire without danger than that he took his leave of the Lady leaving her as little satisfied with him as one could be and enough for the putting an end to a passion if these contempts did not sometimes rather augment Love than diminish it The Queen who had passed one of those terrible nights that Love takes delight in poysoning with all that is most cruel and bitter no sooner saw the King go out but she arose to go put Don Geronimo out of her Cabinet This Minister who had been as uneasy in this place as she in her Bed fell again upon his knees as soon as he saw her and with a pityfull look and Heart truly contrite he asked hir pardon for all the troubles he had given her The Queen having made him rise told him that all this was nothing in comparison of the grief she had that the Count had found him thus by night in her Cabinet and that if he would repair the fault he had commited and render himself worthy of her pardon he must go find him out and relate to him the true occasion of his being in that place and endeavour to undeceive him of certain impression that he might have taken thereupon it being important for her glory that that Ambassador had better Sentiments of her than so unlucky an accident might give him Don Geronimo who in another occasion would hardly have been perswaded to take upon him such a message humbly submitted himself to this Order too happy to be quit with this satisfaction which he owed to the goodness alone of a Princess whose reputation he had so much hazarded and whom he had brought into a condition of having all the reason imaginable to complain of and to ruine him as she might have done if she had a mind at least according to his opinion but Affairs went quite otherwise than he believed wherefore he promised to the Queen to execute faithfully what she commanded him and having quitted her with great acknowledgment for her goodness he went directly from thence to the Ambassadors Palace where he found that all diligence possible was made for his depart and that the Count having passed the night very ill would not see any body that day at least till it was very late The Queen stayed in her Cabinet loaded with thoughts upon which she formed a thousand designes that the resolutions she made upon the state of her heart inspired her when she saw one of the Count's Pages enter her Chamber who delivered her a Letter from his Master she opened it trembling and the impatience the had at first to Read it not permitting her to think of any thing else the King who was ever listning and spying her actions entered the chamber at that time and slipping softly into the Cabinet came upon her before she hardly with the earnessness she read that Letter perceived him and snatched it out of her hands without her being able to hinder it The grief as well as surprize of that Princess were such as may be easily imagined She ran after the King begging him in the most earnest and moving manner possible to restore her Letter employing even tears but the more pressing she was the suspicions of that jealous Prince the more augmented insomuch that to be freed from the Queens importunity he retired to his own apartment where he might read that Letter with a little more liberty I leave you to think in what a terrible perplexity the poor Queen was that a Letter of the greatest and most dangerous concern in the world was fallen into his hands whom she had most reason to fear of a King jealous and passionate and that in fine there was no means of having it again She knew not what to do in so cruel a conjuncture and her mind floating between fear and danger love and shame she meditated an infinite number of designes without having the Courage to undertake any she went in sine to the Countess to ask her councill she had formerly found it successful but it was now no longer the time She first related to her what had passed that night in her Cabinet between the Count and Don Geronimo and afterwards the misfortune that had happened to her upon the Letter the Count had wrote to her upon that adventure The dissembling Countess overjoyed at so unlucky an accident and that things were so disordered affected the shewing the Queen an extreame regret for that accident but instead of comforting her she only told her things to make her the more despair making her fear the terrible consequences of that Letter and that if she did not take refuge with the soonest in some Convent she would find the fatal consequences it would be of to her The sad desolate Princess suffering her self to be perswaded to follow that advice as it really was the safest tho the Countess gave her that council to be rid of her to have the more liberty of taking according to what should happen such measures as her Love or rather her despair should advise her The Queen ● say resolved to go cast her self into a Convent for avoiding the Kings fury quitted the Countess and prepared her self to execute with the soonest her designe During this Don Geronimo who had not been able to procure to speak with the Ambassador of Naples returning to his House found people who told him that the King had caused him to be sought for every where Is it not said he immediately to himself that he knows that I have passed the night in the Queens Cabinet Every man whose conscience is ulcerated with any crime of which he cannot justifie himself is ever in fear of being accused of it