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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	young_a	youth_n	884	4	8.6083	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81963	The cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru. Exprest by instrumentall and vocall musick, and by art of perspective in scenes, &c. Represented daily at the Cockpit in Drury-Lane, at three after noone punctually.	D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668.	1658 (1658)	Wing D321; Thomason E756_22; ESTC R202044	8,487	30

his Attendant The Second Speech Describing briefly the pleasant lives of the Incas till this season of fulfilling that Prophecy when a Bearded People should come from the Sea to destroy them and two of the Incan Family ruine that Empire which twelve of the Emperours had erecte● IN all the soft delights of sleep and ease Secure from War in peacefull Palaces Our Incas liv'd but now I see their doom Guided by winds the Bearded People come And that dire Prophecy must be fulfill'd When Two shall ruine what our Twelve did build 'T is long since first the Sun 's chief Priest foretold That cruell men Idolaters of Gold Should pass vast Seas to seek their Harbour here Behold in floating Castles they appear Mine eyes are struck Away away VVith gentle Love's delicious sway The Incas from their wives must fly And ours may soon believe VVe mourn to see them grieve But shall rejoyce to see them die For they by dying safety gain And when they quit In Death's cold fit Love's pleasure they shall lose Life's pain The Priest having wav'd his Verge his Attendant performs the Trick of Activity call'd the Sea-Horse The Second Song Intimating their sorrow for their future condition according to the Prophecy under their new Masters the Spaniards 1. NO more no more Shall we drag to the Shore Our Nets at the Ebb of the Flood Nor after we lay The toyles for our Prey Shall we meet to compass the VVood. Nor with our Arrowes e're delight To get renown By taking down The soaring Eagle in his flight 2. Make haste make haste You delights that are past And do not to our thoughts appear Lest vainly we boast Of joyes we have lost And grieve to reckon what we were The Incas glory now is gone Dark growes that light Which chear'd our sight Set is their deity the Sun Chorus All creatures when they breed May then with safety feed All shall have times for liberty but we We who their Masters were Must now such Masters fear As will no season give us to be free This Song being ended a dolfull Ayre is heard which prepares the entrance of two Indians in their feather'd habits of Peru they enter severally from the opposite sides of the Wood and gazing on the face of the Scene fall into a Mimick Dance in which they express the Argument of the Prospect by their admiration at the sight of the Ships which was to those of Peru a new and wonderfull object and their lamentation at beholding their Country-men in deep affliction and taking their leaves of their wives and children The Third Entry A Symphany consisting of four Tunes prepares the change of the Scene the prospect consisting of plain Indian Country in which are discern'd at distance two Peruvian Armies marching and ready to give Battel being led by the two Royall Brethren sons of the last Inca Arm'd with Bowes Glaves and Spears and wearing Quivers on their backs The object having continu'd a while the Priest of the Sun enters with his Attendant The Third Speech Intimating the unhappy event of the love of the last Inca for be contrary to the custome of all his Royall Ancestors who alwaies marry'd their own Sisters had chosen to his second Wife the beautifull Daughter of an inferiour Prince his Priests and People having alwaies believ'd no blood lesse distant then that of his Sisters worthy to mingle with his own for propagation of the Emperiall Race This forraign Beauty so far prevail'd on his passion that she made him in his age assigne a considerable part of his Dominion to a younger Son his Ancestors never having during eleven Generations divided their Empire This Youth growing ambitious after his fathers death invaded his elder Brother at that unfortunate time when the Spaniards pursuing their second discovery of the Peruvian Coast landed and made a prodigious use of the division of the two Brethren by proving successfull in giving their assistance to the unjust cause of the Younger HOw fatall did our Inca's passion prove Whilst long made subject to a forraign love Poor Lovers who from Empire's arts are free By nature may entirely guided be They may retire to shady Cottages And study there onely themselves to please For few consider what they mean or do But Nations are concern'd when Monarchs woe And though our Inca by no Law was ty'd To love but one yer could he not divide His publick Empire as his private Bed In Thrones each is to whole Dominion bred He blindly priz'd his younger son's desert Dividing Empire as he did his heart And since his death this made the Younger dare T' affront the Elder 's Sov'raignty with war Ambition's monstrous stomach does encrease By eating and it fears to starve unlesse It still may feed and all it sees devour Ambition is not tir'd with toyle nor cloy'd with pow'r This Speech being ended the Priest waves his Verge and his Attendant very activly performs the Spring and they departing this Third Song is sung The Third Song Which pursues the Argument of the Speech and farther illustrates the many miseries which the Civill War between the two Royall Brethren produc'd 1. TVVelve Incas have successivly Our spatious Empire sway'd VVhose power whilst we obey'd VVe liv'd so happy and so free As if we were not kept in awe By any Law VVhich martiall Kings aloud proclaim Soft conscience Nature's whisp'ring Oratour Did teach us what to love or to abhor And all our punishment was shame 2. Our late great Inca fatally Did by a second wife Eclipse his shining life VVhilst reason did on love rely Those Rayes she often turn'd and check't VVhich with direct Full beams should have adorn'd his known And first authoris'd Race But Kings who move VVithin a lowly sphear of private love Are too domestick for a Throne Chorus Now rigid VVar is come and Peace is gone Fear governs us and jealousie the Throne Ambition hath our Chiefs possest All now are wak't all are alarm'd The weary know not where to rest Nor dare the harmlesse be unarm'd After this Song a warlike Ayre is play'd to which succeeds a martiall Dance perform'd by four Peruvians arm'd with Glaves who enter severally from opposite sides of the VVood and expresse by their motions and gestures the fury of that Civill VVar which by the ambition of the younger Brother has engag'd their Country and then depart in pursuit of each other The Fourth Entry A Symphany consisting of four Tunes prepares the change of the Scene which represents a great Peruvian Army put to flight by a small Body of Spaniards This object is produc'd in pursuance of the main Argument for the Spaniards having first bred an amazment in the Natives by the noise and fire of their Guns and having afterwards subverted the Elder Inca by assisting the Younger did in a short time attain the Dominion over both by Conquest The object of this Scene having remain'd a while the Priest of the Sun enters