Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	woman_n	year_n	young_a	182	4	5.8912	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77334	I pray you be not angry: for I will make you merry A pleasant and merry dialogue between two travellers, as they met on the highway.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1650 (1650)	Wing B4386A; ESTC R229776	12,927	16

yield to an ill imployment no doubt but either your private life will find some secret contentment or your Patience will find somewhere the advancement of your vertues and therefore rather be joyfull of Gods blessing than impatient with your Fortune and think not amisse that I say I pray you be not angry But to requite you Say that I having more money in my purse then a wise man would part with but upon the better reckoning should be perswaded to play the Vsurer so with a little 〈…〉 cunning 〈…〉 should be brought in hope of gain to take in pawn for my mony some lease of a good farm or piece of rich plate which being not fetched by the day of payment would return me more then double my mony put my mony out of my hands which I have fared full hard to get together and I glad of my forfeit hoping to gain more then a good conscience would away withall find my lease not worth a point by a former déed of gift or such a conveyance as carrieth all away from my fingers and leave me for all my cunning in the law to plead repentance to my folly or my plate challenged for some piece of pilfery I brought in trouble for I know not what and to get out I know not how till I have brought my stock to a poor state where I may see the just reward of Vsury when I look in my purse and find nothing would not this make one angry Fer. Not a whit For Knaves will be Knaves and Fools must be bitten ere they be wise of which if you be none no doubt but there are enough in the world And since all the anger in the world will not recover a penny loss let me say to you as you say to me I pray be not angry And let me tell you that upon a time it was my hap to have a friend as I thought whom I loved dearly and building upon the care of his conscience that for a world of wealth he would not play the Jew with me it fell out that I having more then a moneths mind to a wench above a year old whose worthiness might command a far better servant than my self and yet it had so fallen out betwixt us that our Affections were so settled that I thought without death there could be no remove and therefore fearing no Fortune relying so much upon her Love loving as I said my imagined friend more then a wise man should do for there is a measure to be kept in all things made him acquainted with my serresse iouching the intent to steal away my Mistresse from the place where she had no pleasure to be kept in as she had béen long like a chicken in a coop and to the performing of this purpose hoping to have use of his best help deliver him a ring or a jewel of some value to present unto my Love when I know his means better then mine own to have accesse unto her without suspition and he after a world of Protestations sealed with too many Oaths to deal so faithfully carefully and secretly for me as my heart could desire when faith there was none nor care of me nor care of me nor secresie but in kée ping all from me when like a dissembling Jow he useth my Iewel for a mean to rob me of my better Iewel when he presented it as for himself and revealing some matter of secresie betwirt us unpleasing to her and nothing to my profit with inchanting charms wins her affection and borroweth my money to cut my throat till having carried away my mistris he either laugh at me or write me a letter to cologue with me when I think how with trusting a knave I have played the fool in conscience say if ever man would fall out with himself have not I cause to be angry Fab. No for as you said to me knaves will be knaves and in matters of love he that will not be the follower of his own cause may happen to be over thrown in his own sute and to look for constancy in woman especially of a woman in young years when gifts and bribes are able to work great matters in those courses it is a meer folly for say that some are I know not how many as constant as Penelope yet let Danae take heed of a golden shower in her lap and therefore I pray you be not angry For lot me tell you to be deceived by a friend it is an ordinary matter to loose a wench it is a thousand mens fortunes and therefore since she was so fickle to trust to think her better lost then found and for him get your golden Iewels and your mony from him and let him walk with his wirked houshold-stuffe and let me tell you of a discontentment of mine It was my hap I may say my ill hap to cast my affection of late on a very proper young man of a pure complexion neither effeminate nor course faced neither of Lether-sellers nor Painters comp●ny but a good feature and well coloured and for his countenance neither Paul-sleeple height nor with the fall of the tide but carried in so good a measure as shewed his wits no more out of order then his members for his voice neither Treble nor Base but a good mean and his spéech neither Rhetorical nor Logical nor Tragical nor Colastical but such as neither too little nor too much answering directly to every question and speaking necessarily upon good occasion wan him such commendation for his discretion as increasing much my affection made me as I thought upon good judgement make him a subject of my contentment in brief I singled him out of company to make him my compa●i●n to●● him into my house bestowed bountifully upon him let hi●●●●… want ●ny thing that was néedfull for him my table to dine at a fair chamber for his lodging yea and sometimes made him my bed-fellow furnished him with money horse apparel books and credit for whatsoever he would demand yea and in mine absence trusted him with the government of my whole house till my favour bred in his folly that that at the first I saw not such a presumption of his own worthinesse as I liked not where contronling even my self for a trifle himself to blame in the self-same nature for a greater matter thinking all too little that was done for him and urging more then was meet for him at last not able to suppresse the venome of his pride till his heart made his head swell as big as a cods-head in recompence of all my kindnesse plays false with my servant-maid steals away my eldest daughter robs my coffers cracks my credit befools my wi● doth what he may to séek the ruine of my estate is it possible that a man could think of such a villain and not be angry Fer. Yea very wel and I say unto you I pray you be not angry for still knaves will be knaves and a man had néed eat a bushel of salt with a man before he go toe far to trust him for he was a worldling and out of the simplicity of your honesty thinking him to be that he was not might learn him to trust his like or any at all at least with your house your daughter if you have any or your servants if you kéep any and having Patience with your lack of judgement do for your daughter as you have cause in nature and reason and pray in charity for his soul what ever becomes of his carkasse and since I hope you will take this for no ill councel I say as I did I pray you be not angry FINIS