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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	wife_n	word_n	3,358	5	4.9141	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27198	Rule a wife, and have a wife a comedy, as it is acted at the new theatre in Little Lincolns Inn-fields, by His Majesty's servants.	Fletcher, John, 1579-1625.; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Casamiento engañoso.; Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616.	1697 (1697)	Wing B1606; ESTC R18001	40,729	62

not but I am loving Sir Juan What a lump is this man Was your Father wise Leon. Too wise for me I 'm sure For he gave all he had to my younger Brother Juan That was no foolish part I 'le bear you witness Canst thou lye with a Woman Leon. I think I could make shift Sir But I am bashful Juan In the night Leon. I know not Darkness indeed may do some good upon me Juan Why art thou sent to me to be my Officer Ay and commended too when thou darst not fight Leon. There be more Officers of my opinion Or I am cozen'd Sir men that talk more too Juan How wilt thou scape a bullet Leon. Why by chance They aim at honourable men alas I am none Sir Juan This fellow has some doubts in 's talk that strike me Enter Alonzo He cannot be all fool welcom Alonzo Alon. What have you got there temperance into your Company The spirit of peace we shall have wars Enter Cacafogo By th' ounce then O here 's another pumpion Let him loose for luck sake the cram'd son Of a stav'd Usurer Cacafogo both their brains butter'd Cannot make two spoonfuls Caca. My Father 's dead I am a man of war too Monies demesns I have Ships at Sea too Captains Juan Take heed o' th' Hollanders your ships may leak else Caca. I scorn the Hollanders they are my Drunkards Alon. Put up your gold Sir I 'le borrow it else Caca. I am satisfied you shall not Come out I know thee meet mine anger instantly Leon. I never wrong'd ye Caca. Thouhast wrong'd mine honour Thou lok'dst upon my Mistris thrice lasciviously I 'll make it good Juan Do not heat your self you will surseit Caca. Thou wan'st my mony too with a pair of base bones In whom there was no truth for which I beat thee I beat thee much now I will hurt thee dangerously This shall provoke thee He strikes Alon. You struck too low by a foot Sir Juan You must get a ladder when you would beat This fellow Leon. I cannot chuse but kick again pray pardon me Caca. Hadst thou not ask'd my pardon I had kill'd thee I leave thee as a thing despis'd assoles manus a vostra siniare a Maistre Exit Cac. Alon. You have scap'd by miracle there is not in all Spain A spirit of more fury than this Fire-drake Leon. I see he is hasty and I would give him leave To beat me soundly if he would take my bond Juan What shall I do with this fellow Alon. Turn him off He will infect the Camp with cowardise If he go with thee Juan About some week hence Sir If I can hit upon no abler Officer You shall hear from me Leon. I desire no better Exit Enter Estifania and Perez Per. You have made me now too bountiful amends Lady For your strict carriage when you saw me first These beauties were not menat to be conceal'd It was a wrong to hide so sweet an object I cou●d now chide ye but it shall be thus No other anger ever touch your sweetness Estif You appear to me so honest and so civil Without a blush Sir I dare bid ye welcom Per. Now let me ask your name Estif 'T is Estifania the heir of this poor place Per. Poor do you call it There 's nothing that I cast mine eyes upon But shews both rich and admirable all the rooms Are hung as if a Princess were to dwell here The Gardens Orchards every thing so curious Is all that plate your own too Estif 'T is but little Only for present use I have more and richer When need shall call or friends compel me use it The sutes you see of all the upper chambers Are those that commonly adorn the house I think I have besides as fair as civil As any Town in Spain can parallel Per. Now if she be not married I have some hopes Are you a maid Estif. You make me blush to answer I ever was accounted so to this hour And that 's the reason that I live retir'd Sir Per. Then would I counsel you to marry presently If I can get her I am made for ever For every year you lose you lose a beauty A Husband now an honest careful Husband Were such a comfort will ye walk above stairs Estif This place will fit our talk 't is fitter far Sir Above there are day-beds and such temptations I dare not trust Sir Per. She is excellent wise withal too Estif You nam'd a husband I am not so strict Sir Nor ty'd unto a Virgins solitariness But if an honest and a noble one Rich and a Souldier for so I have vowed he shall be Were offer'd me I think I should accept him But above all he must love Perez He were base else There 's comfort ministred in the word Souldier How sweetly should I live Estif I am not so ignorant but that I know well How to be commanded And how again to make my self obey'd Sir I waste but little I have gather'd much My Rial not the less worth when 't is spent If spent by my direction to please my Husband I hold it as indifferent in my duty To be his maid i' th' Kitchin or his Cook As in the Hall to know my self the Mistris Per. Sweet rich and provident now fortune stick To me I am a Soldier and a Bachelour Lady And such a Wife as you I cou'd love infinitely They that use many words some are deceitful I long to be a Husband and a good one For 't is most certain I shall make a president For all that follow me to love their Ladies I am young you see able I would have you think too If 't please you know try me before you take me T is true I shall not meet in equal wealth With ye but Jewels Chains such as the war 〈◊〉 as given me a thousand Duckets I dare ●●sume on in ready gold now as your ●●re may handle it as rich cloaths too as 〈◊〉 he bears Arms Lady Estif You are a true gentlemen and fair I see by ye ●nd such a man I had rather take Perez Pray do so I 'le have a Priest o' th' sudden Estif And as suddenly you will repent too Perez I 'le be hang'd or drown'd first 〈◊〉 this and this and this kiss Estif You are a Flatteter But I must say there was something when I saw you First in that most noble face that stirr'd my fancy Per. I 'le stir it better e're you sleep sweet Lady I 'le send for all my Trunks and give up all to ye Into your own dispose before I bed ye And then sweet wench Estif. You have the art to cozen me Exeunt ACT II. SCENE I. Enter Margarita and two Ladies and Altea Margar. SIT down and give me your opinions seriously 〈◊〉 You say you have a mind to marry Lady Marg. 〈…〉 I have for to preserve my credit 〈◊〉 not so much for that as for my state Ladies 〈◊〉 me 〈◊〉