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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	william_n	wish_v	worshipful_a	16	3	9.9665	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16256	A pleasaunt disport of diuers noble personages: written in Italian by M. Iohn Bocace Florentine and poet laureat: in his boke vvhich is entituled Philocopo. And nowe Englished by H. G.; Filocolo. English	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Gifford, Humphrey.; Grantham, Henry, fl. 1571-1587.	1567 (1567)	STC 3180; ESTC S110498	68,810	118

A pleasaunt disport of diuers Noble Personages Written in Italian by M. IOHN BOCACE Florentine and Poet Laureat in his Boke vvhich is entituled PHILOCOPO And nowe Englished by H. G. OMNIA TEMPUS HABENT BE ¶ Imprinted at London in Pater Noster Rowe at the signe of the Marmayd by H. Bynneman for Richard Smyth and Nicholas England ANNO DOMINI 1567. ¶ To the right worshipfull M. William Rice Esquire H. G. wisheth a happie long life with increase of much Worshippe IN HOW MVCH THE thankful sorte are desirous as reason vvilleth and experience daylie teacheth to gratifie suche their deare friendes as to vvhome for sundrie good tournes and receyued benefits they are not a lyttle beholding the sundrie dealing of thousādes daylie in vse and apparant to the vvorlde to the great prayse and commendation both of the one and the other gyueth a sufficiēt testimonie So that taking occasion therby to shevv the good vvil I haue to pay in part the debt many yeares due for that your boūtie tovvardes me the least sparke vvhereof I am vnable to satisfie I do giue vnto you this ITALIAN Disporte the vvhich I haue tourned out of his natiue attyre into this our ENGLISH habite to the end the same maie b● no lesse familiar to you and to such others for your sake as shall vouchsafe thereof than it is eyther to the ITALIAN or the FRENCH and desire that the same may march abrode vnder your charge to vvhome I recoumpt the protection therof Not doubting but as the reading thereof shal bring pleasure and delight so the matter being thervvithall duely considered shall gyue sundrie profitable Lessons meete to be follovved And bycause the name of the Author being of no smal credit vvith the Learned for those his sundry vvell vvritten vvorkes is of it selfe sufficient to carrie greater commendation therevvyth than my Pen is able to write I leaue to labour therin least my lacke may be an occasion to the loosing of his due prayse And vntill Portune the onely hope of the vnhappie shal make me better able I shal desire you thankfully to accept this as a tokē and pledge of the good vvill I haue to performe that vvhervnto mine ability is vnable to stretch Thus taking my leaue I betake you to the tuitiō of almighty God vvho preserue you in health to his pleasure and after this life make you possessor of those ioyes vvhereof vve all hope to be partakers ● Martij 1566. The Booke to the Reader LOk●●● thou leape dome not by viewe of face Least hast make wast in myssedoming the case ▪ For I teac● n●● to Loue ne yet his lore Ne with what s●lue is cured such a sore But I the carke with ●ares that thereby happs The blysse with ioyes the storms with thunder clapps The curtesies where most his force is shewde The choise of best be it of good or ●●●de Compare them so as domed is the doubt Thereof and aye the truth well sifted ou● ▪ The which to reade such pleasure thou shalt finde As may content a well dysposed minde The Prologue to the .xiii. Questions composed in Italian by M. Iohn Bocace Florentine and Poet Laureat And nowe turned into English by H. G. FLORIO surnamed Philocopo accōpanied wyth the Duke Montorio Ascalion Menedō Massalino in sayling to séeke hys Friende Biancofiore was thorow a very obscure and darke night by the fierce winds driuen into gret dangers but the perilles béeing once passed they were cast into the Porte of the auncient PARTHENOPE whereas of the Mariners espying themselues in Hauen he receiued comfort not knowing into what coast Fortune had forced him yealded thankes to his Gods And so tarried the newe day the which after it once appeared the place was of the Mariners discried so that they all glad of suretie of so acceptable arriuall came a shoare Philocopo with hys companions who rather séemed to come forth new risen againe out of their Sepultures than dysbarked from ship loked backe towardes the waywarde waters and repeating in themselues the passed perilles of the spente night coulde yet scarcely thinke themselues in suretie They all then with one voice praysed their Goddes that had guided them safe out of so crooked a course offred their pitifull Sacrifices and beganne to receyue comforte and were by a friende of Ascalions honorably receyued into the Citie whereas they caused their Shippe to be all newe repaired and decked of Mast Saile and better Sterne than were the others which they had lost and so tarrying time for their furder voyage y● which was much lōger lengthened than they loked for by occasion wherof Philocopo would many times haue taken his iourney by land but dyscouraged therin by Ascalion stayed in tarrying a more prosperous houre in the aforesayde place where he and his companions sawe Phebea fiue times rounde as many times ho●ned before that Notus did abanden his violent forces And in so long a while they neuer almost sawe time to be merrie whervppon Philocopo who was very desirous to performe his deferred iourney one day called his companiōs vnto him and sayd Let vs go take the pleasant aire and passe the time vpon the salt sea shoare in reasoning and prouiding for our future voyage Thus he with the Duke Parmenion and the rest of his companions dire●ted their walke with a milde pace discoursing diuers matters towardes that place where rest the reuerende Asshes of the most renoumed Peet Maro They al thus talking a good space were not gone far frō the City but that they came to the side of a Garden wherein they heard gracious ioyous feasting of yong Gentlemen Dames Damsels There the aire dyd al resounde with the noise of sundrie instruments and as it were of angelicall voices entring with swéete delight into the hearts of them to whose eares it came the which noise it pleased Philocopo to staie a while to heare to the ende his former melancolie thorow the swéetenesse thereof might by little and little departe away Then Ascalion restrained their talke And whilest Fortune helde thus Philocopo and his companions without the garden intentiuely listening a yong gētleman comming forth thereof espied them forthwith by sight porte and visage knew them to be noble Gentlemen worthie to be reuerenced Wherefore he without tariaunce retourned to his companie and sayde Come lette vs goe welcome certayne yong men séeming to be Gentlemen of great calling the which perhaps bashfull to enter herein not being biddē staie without giuing eare to our dysport The companiōs then of this Gentleman left their Ladies at their pastime went forth of the Garden came to Philocopo whom by sight they knew to be chiefe of all the reste to whome they spake with that reuerence their reason could deuise and that was most cōuenient for the welcomming of such a guest praying him that in honour and increase of this their Feast it would please him and his companiōs to enter with