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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	desire_v	young_a	youth_n	19	3	7.5380	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02131	Mamillia The second part of the triumph of Pallas: wherein with perpetual fame the constancie of gentlewomen is canonised, and the vniust blasphemies of womens supposed ficklenesse (breathed out by diuerse iniurious persons) by manifest examples clearely infringed. By Robert Greene Maister of Arts, in Cambridge.; Mamillia. Part 2	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1593 (1593)	STC 12270; ESTC S105831	71,941	112

maister and the marriners very francklie desiring the Pilot sith he himselfe was a stranger to guide him to some honest Inne where hée might make his aboade while he staied in the countrie Who being verie desirous to gratifie the Gentleman carried Pharicles to a verie friends house of his who for the Pilottes cause gaue Pharicles such curteous entertainment as hée thought himselfe to haue hapt on a verie good hoast Where by the way Gentlemen we sée the tickle state of such yong youthes whose wits are wils and their wils are lawes coueting so much sensual libertie as they bring themselues into perpetuall bondage for the Polype hath not more colours nor the Camelion more sundrie shapes than they haue change in thoughts now liking now loathing for a while professed enimies to Venus court then sworn true subiects to the crowne of Cupid so variable as a man can neither iudge of their nature nor nourture vnlesse by natiuitie they be lunatikes not taking this worde as the English men do for starke mad but as borne vnder the influence of Luna and therfore as firme in their faith as the melting waxe that receiueth euerie impression thinking as Pharicles did that it is a Courtiers profession to court to euerie dame but to bee constant to none that it is the grace to speak finely though without faith and to be wedded in words to as many as the lusting eie can like so that at length whē their talke is found tales their loue lust and their protested promises smal performance then their credite béeing crackt they must be trauellers to séeke that in a strange country which they could neuer find in their own they must into Sicillia for shiftes into Italie for pride to France for fraude and to Englande for fashions and follie so that they returne home laden not with learning but with leaudnesse not with vertue but with vice yea their whole fraught is a masse of mischiefes I speake not of all trauellers Gentlemen but of such as Pharicles which take their iourney either that their credite at home is crasie or else being wedded to vanitie séeke to augment their follie But againe to Pharicles who now safely setled in Saragossa the chiefe citie in Sicillia a place of no lesse suspition than resort and yet the most famous mart in all the countrie dealt so clarkely in his calling and behaued himselfe so demurely as his pretensed kinde of life gaue occasion to no man to suspect his fained profession for his Palmers wéed was worne with such a grauitie in his countenance and such a modestie in his maners as all men thought the man to be halfe mortified For Pharicles knew verie well that he could not liue in Saragossa vnder the state of a gentleman but either he must spende with the best or sit with the woorst yea beside that without companions hée could not bée and hée thought it verie harde to choose a dramme of golde among a pounde of drosse to finde one Gemme amidst a whole heape of flint one Eele among many Scorpions and one friend amōg a thousand flatterers it might assoone be his happe to chaunce on a dissembling Dauus as on a trusty Damon to commit his counsel to a subtil Sinon as to a faithfull Pilades to take him for a professed friend which might be a protested foe in the fairest grasse to finde the fowlest Snake in Oryllus boxe a deadly poyson in Carolus scarph a withered roote in the shape of a friende the substance of a foe Hée thought likewise that such a Citie as Saragossa was often times as well stored with Parasites as garded with souldiers and as full of counterfaites as counsellers and that he might finde many cousins claiming more acquaintance to his purse than kinred to his person more allyed to his liuing than to his linage to conclude more to féed his fancie for gaine than either good wil or friendship Pharicles partly feared and partly perswaded with the consideration of the former premisses was fully resolued in his minde to abandon all company to giue a finall farewel to his forepassed follie to make a change of his chaffer with better ware of his drosse with golde and of his fléeting will with staied wisedome Hauing thus determined to leade a Pilgrims life to punish his bodie with this Palmers penance in satisfaction of his disloyall dealings with his trusty louers he had not liued in this Hermits state by the space of a moneth but he proued the Pilots talke to be no tales nor his wordes to be winde but a setled sentence for want of company so increased his care and brought such melancholike motions to his musing mind as now he perceiued solitarinesse to be the nursse of sorrow and discontinuance the father of fancie The modestie of Mamillia the constancie of Publia his credite crakt in Italie his youth spent in vanity his great promises and smal performance his fained faith forged flatterie so battered the bulwarke of his brest gaue such fierce assaults to his carefull conscience as he thought himselfe to be in a second Hell vntill he might find a meanes to mitigate his miserie and therfore as solitarines was the sore so he meant societie should be the salue determining to driue away those dumpes by frequenting of companie which otherwise woulde haue bredde his vtter bane respecting neither cost expences nor hazarding of himselfe so his minde might remaine in quiet Pharicles hauing thus cast off his Pilgrimes wéed and Pilgrims profession gaue the citizens of Saragossa in short time to vnderstand that hée was as well a Gentleman by nature as by nurture and as worthily brought vp as worshipfully borne For first hée made a restraint of his will by wit then vsed his wit so warilie and wiselie shewing such a curteous countenance and franke liberalitie to al estates as he draue them into a dout whether the comlines of his person or the worthinesse of his mind deserued greater commendation In so much as those yong Gentlemen thought themselues happie which might be counted companiōs to this new guest aboue all the rest of this courtly true which kept him company a yong gentlemā named Ferragus onely sonne to the gouernour of Saragossa was ioyned with him in most priuate familiarity thinking that day euill spent wherein he had not visited his new friend Pharicles and the more to do him honor being a stranger hée oftentimes carried him to his fathers house where in short time Pharicles wonne such credit by his curtesie that Signor Fernese for so was the old gentleman called thought his house the more luckie he had such a guest his sonne the more happie he had chosen such a companion but for al this Pharicles fearing to find a pad in the straw and a burning sparke amongst colde ashes was a foe to none nor a friend to anie neither durst trust Ferragus without sufficient triall but bare himselfe so indifferent to all yet shewing