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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	world_n	wretched_a	yield_v	34	3	6.3328	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02135	Greenes Arcadia, or Menaphon: Camillaes alarum to slumber Euphues in his melancholy cell at Silexedra Wherein are decyphered, the variable effects of fortune, the wonders of loue, the triumphs of inconstant time. A worke, worthy the yongest eares for pleasure, or, the grauest censures for principles. By Robertus Greene, in Artibus Magister.; Menaphon	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1599 (1599)	STC 12275; ESTC S103412	58,429	87

lesse extasie séeing her eyes to ●azle with the re●●exe of his beautie and her chéeks tainted with a blush of disgrace by t●o too much gazing on his face said that either the Sun had left his b●wer to beguile their eyes with a borrowed shape which could not keepe in his brightnesse or Cupid dis●●ounted from his mother● lap left his how quiuer at random to outbraue the Thessalonian dames in their beautie In this contrariety of thoughts being all plunged wel-nigh in a spéechlesse astonishment the faire childe Pleusidippus not vsed to such hyperbolicall spactators broke off the silence by calling for his victuals as one whose empty stomacke slace his comming from sea was not ouer-cleped with delicates Wherout Agenor reuiued from him trance wherein the present wonder had inwrapt him demaunded such questions 〈◊〉 his name and parentage as the Pyrats ignorance could not vnfolde but hée being able to tell no more then this that his mother was a Shephear●esse and his owne name Pleusidippus cut off all other interrogatories bp calling after his childish manner againe for his dinner Whereupon Agenor commanding him to bee had in and vsed in euery respect as the childe of a Prince began in his solitarie walke by his countenance to ralculate his Natiuitie and measure his birth by his beautie contracti●g him in thought heire to the Kingdome of Thessaly and husband to his daughter before he knew whence the childe descended or who was his father But leauing yong Pleusidippus thus spending his youth in the Thessalian Court protected with the tender affection of such a courteous Foster-father as Agenor returne wee where wee left backe into Arcadie and meete his mother the faire Samela returning from the Foldes who hauing discoursed by the way as shee came home to Lamedon and Menaphon what shee late saw and obserned in her Sonne they both conioyned their iudgements to their conclusion that he was doubtlesse borne to some greater fortunes then sheepcotes could containe and therefore it behooued her to further his Destinies with some good and liberal education and not to detaine him any longer in that trade of life which his fortune withstood but by the way to rebuke him for tyrannizing so Lordly ouer the Boyes left the neighbour Shepheards might haply intrude the name of iniurie on them being Strangers for his insulting ouer their children With this determination came shée home and calling for Pleusidippus according to their former counsaile hée would 〈◊〉 wise bee found Thereupon enquirie was made among all the Shepheards diligent search in euery Village but stil the most carefullest Post returned with Non est in●entus Which Samela hearing thinking shee had vtterly lost him whom fortune had saued began in this manner to act her vnrest Dissembling Heauens where is your happinesse Vnconstant times what are your triumphes Haue you therefore hitherto fed mee with ●ouie that ye might at last poyson me with gall Haue you ●atted mee so long witly Sordenian smiles that like the wracke of the Syrens I might perish in your wiles Curst that I was to a●●ie in your courtesse● curst that I am to taste of your crueltie O Plousidippus liuest thou or art thou dead No thou art dead dead to the world dead to thy kinsfolkes dead to Cypres dead to Arcadie dead to thy mother Samela and with thee dyes the Worlds wonder thy kinsfolkes comfort Cypres soule Arcadies hopes thy mothers honors Was this the prophecy of thy Soueraignty to yéeld vp thy life to death so 〈◊〉 wretched was I of all women to bring the forth to this infencie O cruell The●i● that didst reuolue such vneuitable fate hard-hearted death to prosecute me with such hate Haue we therefore escap●e the ●urio of the seas to pepish on the land was it not enough that we were exiled from higher prosperitie but wee must all of vs suddenly be ouerwhelmed with the ouerflow of a second aduersitie my husband my father to be swallowed in the fury of the furge and now thou to be and therewith her eies distilled such aboundance of teares as stopt the passage of her plaints made her séeme a more then second Niobe be wailing her seuenfold sorrow vnder the forme of weeping Flint Menaphon who had ouer-heard her all this while as one that sought opportunitie to plead his vnrest perceiuing her in that extremitie of agony for her sonnes supposed losse stept to her presently and chéered her vp in these these terme faire shepherdesse might y● 〈◊〉 of contritiā rayse the dead frō destruction then were it wisdome to bewaile what wéeping might recall but since such anguish is fruitlesse and these plainings bootlesse comfort your selfe with the hope of the liuing and omit the teares for the dead Why quoth Samela how is it possible a woman should lose him without gr●efe whom shee hath conceiued with sorrowe he was sw●●te Menophon the deuided halfe of my essence soule to my ioyes and life to my delights as beaute●us in his birth as is our bright how-hearing god that played the Shepheard awhile for loue amidst our pleasant Areadian downes What euer he was in heautie quoth Meniphon procee●ed from your bountie who may by marriage make his like when you please therefore there is no cause why you should so much grieue to 〈◊〉 your first worke defaced that of a new ●old can forme a far better then euer he was 〈…〉 ●ere more 〈◊〉 his like proceede from 〈◊〉 ●oynes I 〈…〉 hée made the Chamber bright with his beautie when he was borne and check● the night with the golden rayes that gl●amed from his lookes neuer more may ●●e the mother of such a 〈◊〉 Yes Samela quoth the 〈…〉 but if thou wilt list to my loues I will 〈◊〉 th● with is 〈…〉 reas● as euer he was Alas poore Swaine said ●hée thou hopest in vaine fluee and her must reape what thou hast sowne and gather into his 〈◊〉 what thou hast 〈◊〉 in the furrow Another 〈◊〉 what I haue 〈◊〉 Therewith he● 〈…〉 and s●tting his cap he could not tell which way in a hot● 〈…〉 vttered these words of fury 〈◊〉 of Greece 〈◊〉 thou my loue with this 〈…〉 ingratitude 〈◊〉 I therefore with my plentie supplyed thy 〈◊〉 that thou 〈◊〉 thy pride shouldest 〈◊〉 my 〈…〉 thée iii 〈◊〉 to wound me in thy welfare with disdaine Deceitful woman an● there with he swore a holiday oath by 〈◊〉 the god of the sepheards either ret●rat loue for loue or I will turne thée forth of dores to 〈…〉 canst and make thée pittied for thy pouertie that 〈…〉 honored in euery mans eye through the support 〈◊〉 of thy beautie Be like then quoth Same●a when you on 〈◊〉 me into your house you 〈◊〉 not in regard of the lawes of hospitaliti● but only with this 〈…〉 the Armes of your fancie then Sir I haue 〈…〉 am lesse indebled to your 〈…〉 I thought no lesse said 〈◊〉 when your struggling eye at our last ●eating would 〈…〉 euery corner of our