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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	evil_a	good_a	reason_n	2,746	5	5.3703	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49592	Almanzor and Almanzaida a novel / written by Sir Philip Sidney, and found since his death amongst his papers.; Almanzaide. English	La Roche-Guihen, Mlle de (Anne), 1644-1707.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.	1678 (1678)	Wing L446; ESTC R9977	30,629	118

kept from your knowledge because of its cruel circumstances Your informing of me that you love is defective replied the Eunuch except you acquaint me with the Object also Dear Aristan replied the amorous Captive if ever you have observed me when near the amiable Almanzaida you could not but perceive it Almanzaida replied Aristan with an extraordinary emotion Roxana's Slave Yes pursu'd Almanzor it is she that a thousand Charms makes me adore Remember replied the Eunuch that she is destinated to an eternal Servitude and if it be possible fix you heart on some other Object Dear Aristan replied Almanzor can Almanzaida's ill Fate make you forget mine of the same nature Does the glittering of my Apparel so dazel your eyes as that you cannot see the Badge of my Slavery on me And does this Chain because of Jewels alter my Condition It is peradventure that equality of Fortune that unites our Souls Know Aristan that my Griefs are not the effects of Almanzaida's Rigours for we having been both together bred in this Palace with the liberty of seeing and conversing with one another have kindled such Flames as have grown more furious by the difficulties they have encountered and which will prove eternal though of a Slave I should become Master of the whole World For do not imagine that none but my single Heart does justice unto Almanzaida's Beauty the Prince Abdemar Son to the King and to proud Roxana is her Captive also That Rival's he which makes me unfortunate 't is he who envious of those Advantages which Love gives me over Almanzaida's Heart does by a cruel Jealousie disturb the quiet of two Persons whom the Heavens have produced designedly to love one another The change which I see in your face Aristan continued he after a little pause speaks that particular interest which you take in my misfortunes therefore to give you still more occasion of exercising your compassion of my miseries hearken attentively unto the Story of my Love The Eunuch did but cast his eyes towards Heaven and Almanzor thus continued The History of Almanzor and Almanzaida I Need not give you the Pourtraicture of Almanzaida she is too well known to you to be ignorant of it and your eyes have too just a discernment not to inform you that she is more beautiful than any thing else they ever yet saw But Aristan though I am not ignorant of whatsoever her Person has of amiable you are not throughly informed of the excellency of her Soul In the whole World there is not a Vertue more solid than that she is Mistriss of she has a Generosity beyond all example such noble Thoughts such an exact Knowledge and a quaintness of Wit so little common that it may boldly be asserted that her greatest Perfections are wholly unknown to those that have not such familiar Conversations with h●r as I have had the happiness to enjoy in which all is spoken wi●h absolute Liberty I was yet so young and she so innocent when she was placed with Roxana that all our Pleasures were limited within the bounds of Childrens Sports yet then was I infinitely pleased with them when permitted me and Love was then interwoven with them in a manner proportionable to our age It was still my endeavour to insinuate my self in all places that were bless'd with Almanzaida's presence and the addition of some few years to those I had pass'd already in that agreeable Commerce did give to understand that an innocent complaisancy and some childish enendearments had been the beginners of a most violent Passion After that I had no other thoughts but such as did absolutely confirm me of the certainty thereof and would languish in all places that her presence did not grace I would be out of patience when Abdala would defer some moments in his custom of sending me with an How do you to Roxana and I confess that I would grumble within my self also when you detained me upon some Lesson longer than my Affections thought reasonable of which I could reap no benefit at all but what did happen by meer chance seeing that I could have no other thoughts but of her all my Study was bent in endeavouring to please her and that took up my whole thoughts she could no sooner desire any thing but I would with all the earnestness imaginable effect it And when at last she had learn'd from her own Heart and from my Eyes rather than from my Mouth part of my Intentions she would frequently blush at the receit of any Services from my hands The Prince Abdemar went but too frequently unto Roxana's Apartment not to see her which he could not do without Love and I had but too much Interest in that Love not to take notice of it and the Princes high birth and other Advantages representing daily a thousand Evils in that Concurrency I suffered infinitely by it He was not so reserv'd as I he would speak of his Love to Almanzaida in a most tender manner even in my presence without the least scruple or any thought that his Fathers Slave durst raise his Pretensions to the same object to which he address'd his The young Bond-maid would always answer his Sute with such reservedness as would charm me and conjuring the Prince to spare her gave him to understand that if she had heard him make his Addresses to her he was obliged for it to nothing but his Rank and Almanzaida's evil Fortune Some moments after he went out and I remained singly with her with an impatient desire to learn the cause of a profound reasoning within her self in which she had fallen immediately upon Abdemars departure Her Complexion was altered her Eyes were troubled and her Respiration being more violent than usual gave me to understand that her Heart had a great share in this disorder Good Gods how heavy did my doubts and my restlesness lie upon me I look'd upon her for some time with silence but at last taking the resolution to inform my self of the very center of this business which till then I durst not attempt You are surprized Almanzaida said I and what is most sensible to me is that I perceive with sorrow it immediately follows the Discourses with which Abdemar has entertained you Abdemars Discourses replied she have nothing in them but what is a trouble to me and whether what he has said to me be true or feign'd I think my self very unfortunate in being obliged to hear him Abdemar is so great a Prince I replied that he thinks he may say any thing without caution but if he could be what Almanzor is then acting like a slave he might 't is like less displease the fair Almanzaida in his Addresses Abdemar replied she cannot become a Slave without a wonder but though he is the Son of a great Monarch his Love is no more pleasing to me than if he were in Chains or of a mean Rank For my part added she with the unhappiness of an unknown Birth I