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cause_n	great_a	life_n	see_v	3,300	5	3.3210	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31544	The famous history of Auristella originally written by Don Gonsalo de Cepedes ; together with the pleasant story of Paul of Segovia, by Don Francisco de Quevedo ; translated from the Spanish.; Español Gerardo. Parte 1, discurso 2. English	Céspedes y Meneses, Gonzalo de, 1585?-1638.; Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645. Historia de la vida del Buscón. English.; W. B.	1683 (1683)	Wing C1782; ESTC R9238	26,201	146

Joy I am about to be deprived of with so much Injustice This therefore is my greatest Malady which encreases in proportion to the approaching time to see you in the power of another Wherefore I come resolv'd not to leave your Chamber without the recovery of my health assurance that you shall be mine If I lose my Life let me be your Husband first for just Heaven has reserved that Honour and good Fortune for me alone I expect no other answer from you but the giving me your hand You cannot defer it nor do I fear you are able to find the means to avoid it since the accomplishment of my desires is now in my power for I will deprive you of Life with this Poniard in the same instant that you shall make the least resistance to give me satisfaction So he took his Poniard from his Cincture which he presented to my Throat which so much affrighted me that it was a long time e're my Tongue could pronounce any thing sometimes considering the peril of my Honour and then I was surprised with excess of fear of my death which is natural to our Sex which made me thoughtful either to avoid my Death or put my Chastity out of danger To divert his resolution without reproaching his Treachery I endeavoured to sweeten him by the tendrest Words could utter and promised him with a thousand Oaths I would be his Wife and believing that he would at present content himself by my permitting him my hand as he at first demanded I gave it him but he no sooner had it e're I found my self drawn into his arms and my strength failing me in the affright I was in I could not prevent his disposal of me as he pleased But just Heaven to which all the complaints of my afflicted Soul ascended did not permit the chastisement which this offence and Treachery merited to be long deferred for he received it from my own hands with his own proper Poniard The resentment of my shame animating my weakness with an undaunted courage As soon as I found him fast asleep I took my revenge and seizing of that fatal Weapon which before had over-awed me I thrust it through his heart and by many other stabs which I redoubled I made a large gap for his perfidious Soul to pass and without being heard I wrapt his miserable Corps in my sheets drencht in his own Bloud and dragg'd it out and left it near to our House This was not the end of my disgraces for when I saw you come they did afresh renew and if I had not been prevented by the fears of punishment in another world I had made the same Sacrifice of my own life because I was afraid and did believe I could never hide my infamy from you But in this desperate imagination I found some comfort in thinking that Mariana might be now very useful to me who having been bred up with me from her Infancy bore part in my most secret thoughts and actions yet I knew not how to declare to her what was come to pass till the fatal Melancholly into which I was plunged and in a time when I should shew the greatest joy gave her the first occasion to ask who did conjure me with much earnestness to let her know the true cause of it so that I saw my self obliged to tell her all without disguising the least particular and being not able but by her means to find any remedy for my affliction I put my life and honour into her hands and after I had importuned her by all that I found the most powerful and sacred to perswade her as much as my necessity and the time would permit I made her at length to condescend to my request which was to put her self in my place on my Wedding-night being certain of her honesty and virtue I believed I might by that deceit prevent the suspition which you must perceive by me and I forbear to apprehend Mariana with great perswasions and not without much difficulty consented not only for the loss of what she held the dearest thing in the World but for the uncertainty of success in this subtle Affair But at last she resolvd to extricate me from the Labyrinth I was in and put off all other considerations which did succed as I hoped it would for as soon as you came to Bed and the Lights with-drawn I desired you to permit me to make a prayer before an Image in my Chamber to perform a vow I had made I arose and Mariana whom I had concealed was ready and easily took fit time to put her self in my place But after some time seeing she contrary to the orders I gave remained with you I suspected she was well pleased to stay in your Arms or else she migt also fall asleep and hearing that the clock struck three I began to conclude I was in extream peril considering that it was impossible to awake her you not perceive me When taking counsel from my jealousie I descended softly into the Hall where I put as many combustible things as I could find and placed them next the Tapistry and with a Candle put all in a flame and quickly returned to your Chamber assuring my self that the confusion which this accident would put you in would not permit you to make any reflection or nice remembrances and that hearing my voice you would immediately go to the assistance of the House which accordingly you did and so you left me alone with Mariana so transported with anger against her for the too long time she staid with you for the disorder which she was the cause of and the loss which must necessary follow that I was almost resolved to thrust her through the Body with your Sword To these considerations I joyned such as might succeed apprehending the consequence of what had passed between you and her at least to find my self a continual slave to the faith and inconstancy of a maid which necessity alone had subjected to my service In fine I went down with her to the Well where our servants were busie to draw Water and whilst they went and came I believing I had an happy opportunity to disentangle my self from the confusion I was in I commanded her to draw some Water also and observing carefully that none perceived me I with much ease pushed her into the Well where leaving her some time strugling with her last Agony and supposing her to be certainly drowned dissembling my ingratitude and cruelty I made loud Outcries and shed a Torrent of Tears so well feigned that you as well as the rest of the Family believed that no one could be more afflicted than I appear to be That horrible offence and this abominable sin wherewith I have so highly offended Heaven have drawn down all the miseries and just punishments of your unhappy Auristlla who still loved and respected you with all imaginable fidelity and constancy of which Truth both Heaven and