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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	breast_n	mother_n	suck_v	2,417	5	10.4894	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08389	La stratonica, or, The unfortunate queen a new romance / written in Italian by Luke Assarino and now Englished by J.B.; Stratonica. English	Assarino, Luca, 1602-1672.; Burbury, John.; Cartolari, Giovanni Battista.	1651 (1651)	Wing A4016A; ESTC R218449	91,350	186

Gelmindo began to prepare the attention of their mindes by tuning the Strings of an Arabian Cittern Then drawing from the bottom of his Breast a long but sweet Voyce he caused a chilness to run up and down in the bones of the Auditors which making their hair stand an end and uncolouring their Cheeks drew tears in many to the Confines of their Eyes The Preludium represented the gushing of a Wave which carrying on its back the soul of him that heard it while it ran now high now low now swift now slow made it really appear that even in Musick Tempests are not wanting to Shipwrack a Heart The Verses were these They were admirable in their own language but being transformed have lost very much by the traduction of their own native beauty Burn and consume burn wretched Heart Unhappy in extreams thou art If dying looks serve not thy turn To say I for Campaspe burn From thoughts enflam'd pale Colours fume Into the face and it consume O my poor heart what charms thee so That thy afflicted face can't shew Thy death nor tell who murthers thee Yet wilt thou still a Lover be Who hides Campaspes eyes that she Whom I adore thus cannot see How thou for her art made a prey To sorrow and dost pine away O foolish custome and vile use Of Silence he deserves no truce Nor peace to his just grief who is In pain and will not say 't is his Apelles so who for love groan'd Himself unto himself bemoan'd But durst not practise what he thought In his conceit fit to be taught Gelmindo went on and at last concluded his Song by telling them That Alexander pitying Apelles with an inimitable act of Liberality depriving himself of her gave him Campaspe The Lovers beheld one another many times and blushed at the Sense of those Verses The Signification of what he sung was as admirable as the Song it self A thousand times both the one and the other reproved with their Eyes the cowardize of their Hearts And lamenting much the time which they had so unprofitably let slip they encouraged themselves to perform with all study what the musical Orator without any study had perswaded them to When the Feast was ended divers sorts of Games and Pastimes agreeing with the Majesty of a King were introduced for the entertainment of the Guests With these and the Musick which played from time to time they at last brought that day to a period which for the many accidents that happened to Stratonica and Antiochus was eternally Memorable Leave being given to the Ladies and Lords to go away every one retired to bed Antiochus like one passing from the Active to the Contemplative life began there to ruminate on the whole order of the Pleasures he had enjoyed The sighs which intermissively came from his soul and the softness into which he felt his heart dissolve can onely be described by him who is as he was A passionate Lover Stratonica did the same and perhaps with more piercing resentments as she who more sensibly then Antiochus was acquainted with amorous Delights The Hearts of these two Lovers were united their bodies disjoyned The walls of the Chambers too far distant the one from the other were the cause of this bitter divorce Their nocturnal studies aimed at nothing else but to joyn too their bodies To see that both the one and the other shewed the same desire in the actions of the day made them both hope that the effect would shortly follow But many days passing away though in them many fair opportunities were offered them they never discovered their Passions Fortune and Chance esteemed by the Ancients as Gods playing with these two Lovers gave them occasion of crediting more their Deities They often reduced the Prince and the Queen to that condition that one moment onely was wanting to them to render them happy Of what great importance is a Moment Stratonica expected and with reason that Antiochus would have begun Antiochus not daring so much thought Stratonica would have spoken the first Losing in this maner their time and driven back with that extream which onely with a word they could have overcome they precipitated themselves into a Sea of a thousand strange Misfortunes The lamentations which one without the knowledge of the other made of his condition are incredible to him who is not a Lover Stratonica now accustomed to bewail her unfortunate love used often to retire into her Chamber to extinguish that Fire with her Tears which because it was concealed seemed to her the more violent Licofronia had first noted many days the paleness of her Queen and argued with her self that those colours could proceed from nothing else but an amorous Feaver She therefore observed her proceedings and perceived at last that she was in love with Antiochus The strangeness of the Case seemed no less temerarious then horrible to her Howsoever being wise she would not believe it till she first had had such a countersign as was capable of freeing her from all doubt It seemed to her no little offence against the honesty of a Princess but to think her dishonest Great Persons have always advantage in the esteem of being good as if the opinion of men was affraid to measure the height of their Fortune with any other rule but that of Goodness One day in the end as Fortune would have it Licofronia hapned unawares to hear behinde a Hanging a very sad complaint made by Stratonica She was about to go help her being unable to endure to see her own Heart distil in flowing Tears at the Eyes of the Queen But she heard a low voice pronounce twice the name of Antiochus At that saying the wise Matron listned more attentively and stood a while fixed to see if she could understand the sense of the words which the afflicted Queen uttered But her Sorrow occasioning an alternate change in her voice which sometimes was low and sometimes clear her words ere they came to Licofronia's Ears died among the multitude of her Sobs She perceived howsoever that Stratonica lamented Antiochus his cruelty in that he complied not with her Love in the maner she desired Licofronia's amazement was so great that it almost made her swoon Being a little returned to her self she was about to run distracted into the Chamber to reprove the Queen sharply and tell her how much she had degenerated from the Vertue of that Blood which when she was a Childe she had sucked from her Breasts But remembring her self that the Remedies of the Minde were not to be applied in the fervor of Passion she forbore then that Office which onely to her as to a Mother was due in all Reason She therefore retired to bewail the disasters of a Daughter in whom an amorous flame had obscured all the splendor she had formerly purchased in the time of her breeding The Water of those Tears quenched not the Desire of correcting her but swelled and encreased it in