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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	year_n	young_a	youth_n	706	4	8.2392	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10718	A right exelent and pleasaunt dialogue, betwene Mercury and an English souldier contayning his supplication to Mars: bevvtified with sundry worthy histories, rare inuentions, and politike deuises. wrytten by B. Rich: gen. 1574.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1574 (1574)	STC 20998; ESTC S106077	75,348	199

so rychlye in such goodly order that it séemeth onely nature hath traueled to the adournyng thereof and besides these all other kynde of frutes doth so inoble and adorne this teretory or place that it semeth to resemble the famous wood of Thesalien remembered or spoken of by Heredotus Plinius Strabo Elias in his third booke of Hystorys diuers and not forgotten of the the Poets whiche place is frequented and assayled of the passers by especiallye of the Inhabytantes whiche bidde as it were battell to the Trées and fru●es Which Playne is set betwéene two small Hills on eueryside shadowing the flancks of this frutful Valley which is waterd with brookes or Riuers that with their pleasant murmur or swéete softe noyse do floate aboute this pleasant verdure naturall re ioysinge the eyes of man and serue for the pasture of the flock of sheepe and heards of cattell of all the countrye theraboute In this same earthlye Paradice and not farre from the sayd towne stands there a Castle named Chabry the Lorde wherof not long before espoused the Daughter of one of his neighbors called the Lord of Mas of whom our Historye hererafter shall make ofton mencion This younge Lady gouerned her life so modestly al the time of her youth that her honest chastitie was no lesse commended of all that knewe her then the chaste Lucrecia or Penelope But be it whether the hipocrisie so long hyd in the wicked hart of this Ladye could not any lenger couer the wickednesse therof without shewing some profe of the fruts of the same or whether that the grenenesse of her Husbands yeares being now for age come into a scortchy drynesse and withoute moysture had lost his strength or possible led by the naturall appetite of such as loue to change beinge now vppon the poynte of their age of a younge vertuous and chaste Lady she was now become an olde harlot and being tender and in the yeares of her youth gaue vnto all a more hope that is to say shewed more effect of her honesty then hir age did in the mortifica●ion of these heats proper to the follye of that vnbridled youth to the whiche they binde their affection and the effect of litle discription accordynge as they saye commonlyg that of a young holy Hermit oftentimes we sée the chaung to be transformed into an olde Deuyll This Ladye now comminge to yeares and Children began to muse of loue and to desire of her Husband that which could not be twice had and that whiche she her selfe had not so much desired when those flames are moste excéedinge in the gréennes of her yeres she not contenting her self now with the frosen and rare imbracementes of her Husbande she beganne to excogitate the meanes to satisfie her vnbrideled desyers and by that meanes beganne the mischife which after caused the ruine of her self and the perpetuall dishonour of all hers These are as you may see the effect of this wrecthed beast carnall pleasure to bring to man the plague or pestilence vnder the vizor of a cleare holsome ayre and to plong and drown the séely ship when the saylours shal think themselues most in queit harbor Who wil not confesse heere that loue is as it weare a certayne rage madnesse or fury séeing that she doth cause to doo violentlye that whiche ought to refraine and bridle those immodesties foolysh passions that she doth suggerate or put into our mindes Now there was dwelling in this Lagrasse a certaine Docter of the lawes an aduocate and a Citisen of the sayd towne This Docter for that he was of counsell with the Lords of Chabry in proces of time had so good credit both of the Lorde and Lady that oftentimes he entred into the chamber of the Lady her Lord being absent and woulde there consult with her in her Bed wherof the Lorde was nothing suspicious but it came that on a daye during the absence of the Lorde of Chabry this Doctour came to visyte and sée this Madame lying yet in her Bedde where hée bent him selfe to behold contemplate more liuely the bewty of the Lady whsoe liuely colloure her Age had nothing altered And with an intent farre otherwyse then hée was wont to ouersee the professe the Lord of Chabry Shée which sawe the Doctour youthfullye disposed And as sufficientlye able to furnishe the affayres appertayning to the bed as of matters in the Lawe whiche touched the house was nothing sorye to sée this Goate to beholde her so vnshamefastly but more bolde than any common harlot made no conscience to discouer that part of her bodye the which honestlye any shamefast woman coulde not nor ought to discouer And that with countenaunce and eyes so Lasciuious vndiscret that he that were least practised in the affayres of loue might easelye haue knowne and perceyued what prouendour the Horse nayghed for Iudge then if this Lawyer sufficiently practised in such deceyptes knew or perceyued that she most desyred or if hee forgat to commend the bewty or proportion of the well shape in members of this vnshamefaste Alcine Which in smyling wyse spake vnto him Alas Mayster Tolonio for so was hée called Is it not vnto me great dammage That my Lorde is so discrepite and olde that I can not nowe any more enioye that thing that it may content my pleasure and appetite being my selfe in suche disposition as you sée truelye this good man careth for no more but to mumble his Prayers and small Suffrages in the euening tyll he bée as coulde as Ise which doeth whollye coole in mée the heate of my first desyres And if at any tyme I doe aduaunce my selfe to styrre vp in him or to awake the forces of the fleshe alas it is no purpose so that wyll I or nyll I I must bée fayne to kysse as it were the Shéete with so great displeasure as I shoulde haue of contentment If I had a man worthy of mée which could accomplishe this appointment whiche is due in Marriage The Doctour hearing this right easelye vnderstood vnto what ende shée had discoursed this fayre Tale Aunswered Madam I suppose your Ladyship hath euer prooued and knowne mée for the Loyall and faithful seruitour of your house Neuerthelesse I beléeue vnder correction that my Lorde is not so farre spent that his age should let him to geue yet some contentacion to any Gentlewoman how yong or lustye so euer shee were The dishonest Ladye hearing him saye so aunswered Tolonio men iudge commonly of thinges at randome as they haue taken roote in theyr cogitacions through their owne onely opinions but those which haue knowne the effectes and whiche haue experimented tho contrarye maye speake without reproche and according to the truth of that which others hold not but by thought onelye you estéeme my Lord so valliaunt a Champion that by your wordes there is no armour which he is not able to péerce But I which doe féele his weakenesse cowardise and small force maye speake thereof