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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	friday_n	lord_n	thursday_n	4,699	5	13.2887	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13572	The strangest aduenture that euer happened: either in the ages passed or present Containing a discourse concerning the successe of the King of Portugall Dom Sebastian, from the time of his voyage into Affricke, when he was lost in the battell against the infidels, in the yeare 1578. vnto the sixt of Ianuary this present 1601. In which discourse, is diuerse curious histories, some auncient prophesies, and other matters, whereby most euidently appeareth: that he whom the Seigneurie of Venice hath held as prisoner for the space of two yeres and twentie two dayes, is the right and true king of Portugall Dom Sebastian. More, a letter that declareth, in what maner he was set at libertie the xv. of December last. And beside, how he parted from Venice and came to Florence. All first done in Spanish, then in French, and novv lastly translated into English.; Adventure admirable, par dessus toutes autres des siecles passez & present. English	Teixeira, José, 1543-1604.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1601 (1601)	STC 23864; ESTC S118296	67,947	90

girdle-sted downe to the knees he is very long 5. The right legge is longer then the left 6. The right foote greater then the other 7. The toes almost equall 8. On the little toe of the right foote he hath a wart so increasing as it appeares to be like a sixt toe 9. The instep or necke of the foote very high raised vp 10. On the one shoulder is a seale or marke of the greatnesse of a Vinten of Portugall such a peece of money as a French peece of three blankes the very least and auncientest 11. On the right shoulder toward the chine of the necke he hath a blacke scarre of the largenesse of ones little naile 12. He hath little pimples on his face and hands and very apparant but such as knowes it not cannot discerne them 13. He hath the left side of his body shorter then the right so that he halts a little without any perceiuing 14. He lackes one tooth on the right side in the neather ●aw 15. He hath the fluxe of seed or Gonorrhaea 16. He doth abound in a signall very secret that is to be spoken of when need shall require 17. Besides these secrets and signes he hath many other which my easily be seene as the fingers of the hands long and the nailes likewise 18. The lip of Austriche like his graundfather Charles the fift Emperour father to his mother and of his graundmother Catherine Queene of Portugall mother to his father sister to the sayd Charles the fift 19. His feete little and his legs crooked c. All these markes were borne with him 20. He hath many markes of the harquebuze on his left arme which he receiued in the battell of Affricke 21. Another marke or wound vpon the head 22. Another vpon the right eye-brow ●e copie of a letter written by a Gentle● a Portuguese to the most excellent Prince ●he Lord Dom Emanuell sonne to the Lord Dom Antonio elect king of Portugall abiding at Dort in Holland ●e out of Portuguese into Castillian out of Castillian into French and lastly out of French into English ●Ost excellent Lord in the separation which was made at Florence of the Portuguezes who had at Venice procu●e deliuerance and freedome of the King of Portugall Dom ●ian our Lord the choise for Fraunce was committed to my ● Dom Christophero your brother Dom Iohn de Castro ● Manuell and Frances Antoine they went by the way of ●ne and from thence intended to go to Marseilles Manuell ●ito and Sebastian Figuera they went for Rome frier Chry●e for Parma frier Stephen de Sampayo and Rodrigo Mar● ●ooke another course as all the others did My direction was ●e States of Holland whither it was not possible for me to ●y Germany in regard of the reasons you shall reade in this ●urse Sebastian Figuera told vs that he had written to you ●e the whole passage touching the King our Lord and vs ●s letters by the ordinary way of Lions Now because it may ● out that those letters are not as yet arriued at you or might ●ps be lost by the way I determined with my selfe in regard may be with you in fewer dayes then I can come to see your ●lency to giue you aduertisement by these letters of all the ●e passages since we arriued at Venice ●he Lord Dom Christophero being at Rome had intelligence ●ters from Doctor Sampayo and other Lords how needfull ●s for him to succor the affaires of our Lord the king Dom Se●a● For which cause he left Rome bringing in his company ●uell de Brito my selfe Frances Antoine came vnto vs the 18. of Nouēber the 28. we arriued at Venice where being with other Portuguezes we were enformed of the businesse and what was expedient to be done for him Certaine daies after the Lord Dom Christophero required audience which was giuen him on Monday the 11. of December Before he entred to the Senate he was caused to sit downe without in a chamber richly hung with tapistrie where he attended till he should be called in They gaue him the seate on the right hand of the Prince speaking to him termed him Illustrissime when these courtesies had bin done him he gaue in writing what he desired The same day the Prince with aboue two hundred of the principall Seigneurs of that State entred to Councell touching the matter of the king D. Sebastian our Lord this assembly is called the Pregay there they determine of matters graue and important The Tuesday following the Pregay held againe for the same cause The wednesday being S. Lucies day the Pregay held not at all because they then made election of an Attourney They sate againe the Thurseday and the Friday following the case was concluded At night after ten a clocke the King our Lord was called to the Senate where to him was intimated the selfe intimation which had bene made to him by the Podestate of Padoa the yeare 1598. It is said that when the king entred the Senate and while the decree of his sentence was reading all the Seigneurs were vp on their feete and noted him with very much respect The king being gone from the Senate went presently without admitting the companie of any one though many made offer of themselues to the lodging of his first host maister Frances where I had diuerse times seene him before his imprisonment Thither came Rodrigo Marques and Sebastian Figuera who at first sight of him was much astonished because he found him verie different from him whome he had seene in Portugall and in Barbarie the verie same day of our ouerthrowe flying foure leagues distance from the field of battaile But when he had well considered the forme of his face the dimples the browe the eyes nose and Austrich lippe which is not now so plumpe as when he was in Portugall because then he was in good plight and now verie meagre his speech and the other parts of his bodie he suddenly sent ●o Marques to aduertise the Lord Dom Christophero ●f and the other Portugueses They thought it meete that ●ing should bee brought to the lodging of Don Iohn de ●o and Diego Manuel as being a house more retired from ●oples haunt of the Citie then that belonging to Maister ●es and so it was done Thither resorted all the Portugue●●ccept the father Doctor Sampayo and Frier Chrysostome ●eing ouerlated went to the Monasterie of S. Dominicke ● is of the aduocation as I thinke of S. Iohn and S. Paule ●rs and brethren neither was there the Chanon nor the ●deacon who was gone to Rome 〈◊〉 the King sawe vs all there together he prayed vs that we 〈◊〉 examine him and know if he were the true king of Por● Don Sebastian or no and he would haue vnclothed him● to shew vs the secret marks of his bodie which we would ●ffer because Dom Iohn de Castro had alreadie known him ●ently and principally by his speech for as he beganne to ●e his voice was