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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	affection_n	love_n	love_v	1,882	5	6.6827	4	true

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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

manner My little child whence art thou where wert thou borne what is thy name and wherefore wanderest thou thus all alone on the shoare I pray yee what are ye Sir quoth Pleusidippus that deale thus with me by interrogatories as if I were some run-away Wilt thou not tell me then who was thy father said he Good sir if ye will néeds know goe aske that of my mother He hath said well my Lord quoth Romanio who was one of his speciall associates for wise are the children in these dayes that know their owne fathers especially if they be begotten in dog-dayes when their mothers are franticke with loue yong men furious for lust Besides who knowes not that these Arcadians are giuen to take the benefit of euery Hodge when they will sacrifice their virginitie to Venus though they haue but a hush of net●les for their bed and sure this boy is but some shepheards bastard at the most howsoeuer this wanton face importeth more then appearance Pleusidippus eyes at this speech resolued into ●ire and his face in purple with a more then common courage in children of his yéeres and stature gaue him the lye roundly in this reply Pesant the bastard in thy face for I am a Gentleman wert thou a man in courage as thou art a cow● in proportion thou wouldest neuer haue so much impaired thy honesty as to derogate from my honor Look not in my face but leuel at my heart by this that thou séest therwith he ●et ●riue at him with such ptbble stones as he had in his hat insomuch that Romanio was driuen to his héeles to shunne this suddaine haileshot and Eurilochus resolued into laughter and in termes of admiration most highly extolled so excéeding magnanimitie in so little a bodie which how auailable it proued to the confirmation of his fancie that was before inflamed with his features let them imagine that haue noted the imbecillitie of that age and the vnresisted furie of men at Armes Sufficeth at this instant to vnfold all of her circumstances of praise laid apart that Eurilochus being far in loue with his extraordinary lineamēts awaited no farther parly but willed his men perforce to hopse him a ship-boord intending as soone as euer he arriued in Thessalie by sending him to the Court as a present to make peace with his Lord Master Agenor who not long before had proclaimed him as a notorious Pirat throughout all his dominions Neither swarued hee one whit from his purpose for no sooner had he cast anker in the port of Hadrianopolis but he arraied him in choise silkes and Tyrian purple and so sent him as a prize to the king of that Countrey who walking as then in his Summer garden with his Quéene the beauteous Eriphila fell to discourse as one wel séene in Philosophie or Hearbs and flowers as the sauour or colour did occasion and hauing spent some time in disputing their medicinable properties his Lady reching him a Marigold he began to moralize of it thus merrily I maruell the Poets that w●re to prodigall in painting the amorous affection of the 〈◊〉 to his Hiacinth did neuer obserue the relation of loue twixt him and the Marigold it should séeme eyther they were loth to incurre the displeasure of women by propounding in the way of comparison any ser●ile imitation for head-strong wiues that loue no precepts lesse then those pertaining vnto dutie or that the ●lower not so vsuall in their gardens as ours in her vnacquainted name did obscure the honour of her amours to Apollo to whose motions reducing the method of her springing shée waketh and stéepeth openeth and shutteth her golden leaues as he riseth and setteth Well did you fore-stall my exception quoth Etiphila in terming it a seruile imitation for were the condition of a wise so slauish as your similitude would inferre I had as liefe be your page as your spouse your dog as your darling Not so swéet wife answered Agenor but the comparison holdeth in this that as the Marigold resembleth the Sun both in colour and forme so each mans wife ought euery way to be the image of her husband framing her countenance to smile when shee sées him disposed to mirth and contrarywise her eyes to teares hee being surcharge with melancholy As the Marigold displayeth the orient ornaments of her beautie and to the resplendant view of none but her louer Hyperion so ought not a woman of modestie lay open the allurements of her face to any but her espoused Phéere in whose absence like the Marigold in the absence of the Sunne she ought to shut vp her dores and solemnize continual night til her husband her Sun making a happy returne vnsealeth her silence with the ioy of hid sight Beléeue mee but if all flowers quoth Eriphila affoord such influence of eloquence to our aduerse Orators I le exempt them all from my smell for feare they be all planted to poison Oft haue I heard replyed Agenor our cunning Phisicians conclude that one poison is harmelesse to another which if they be so there is no cause why a thistle should feare to be s●ung of a Natile I can tell you sir you were best beware ●eft in wading to● farre in comparisons o● thistles and Nettle● you ochange not your Rose for a Nettle If 〈◊〉 Agenor it is no more but my gardener shall plucke it vp by the roots and throw it ouer the wall as a wéed To end this iest which else would issue to a iarre what purple flower is this in forme like a Hiacinth quoth Eriphila so cunningly dropped with bloud as if nature had intermeddled with the Heralds art to ●mblazon a bléeding heart It 〈◊〉 flower into which Poets faigne Venus 〈◊〉 dying 〈◊〉 to hi● turn●d afaire Boy but 〈…〉 it ●ossible 〈◊〉 Eriphil● that euer nature should be so bounteous to a Boy to giue him a face in despite of women so faira faine would I sée such an obiect and then would I defie beautie for imparting our excellencie to any infer obiect In saying those words as if fortune meant to present her fancie with her desired felicitie Romanio conducted by one of the Lorde came with young Pleusidippus in his hand into the priuie Garden where discoursing vnto the King the intent of Eurilochus in presenting him with such an inestimable Iewell the manner of his taking of the Strond of Arcadie with other circumstances of vowed allegeance all which being greatefully accepted of Agenor hee sealed their seuerall pardons and gaue them leaue to depart But when hee had thorowly obserued euerie perfection of young Pleusidippus he burst into these termes of passion Had Sea-bo●●e P●ntia then an applyable eare in our idlenesse that to testifie her eternall Deity she should send vs a second Adonis to delude our senses what euer may deserue the name faire haue I séene before beautie haue I beheld in his brightest orbe but neuer set eye on immortalitie before this houre Eriphila likewise in no