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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	wine_n	woman_n	year_n	18	3	4.4554	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57489	Familiar letters: vol. I. Written by the Right Honourable, John, late Earl of Rochester, to the honourable Henry Savile, esq; and other letters by persons of honour and quality. With letters written by the most ingenious Mr. Tho. Otway, and Mrs. K. Philips. Publish'd from their original copies. With modern letters by Tho. Cheek, Esq; Mr. Dennis, and Mr. Brown.	Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.; Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.; Cheek, Thomas.; Philips, Katherine, 1631-1664.; Dennis, John, 1657-1734.	1697 (1697)	Wing R1744A; ESTC R222099	74,413	242

unfortunate Pilgrims tho' he appears very obdurate ●o the Complaints of his own best Concubine and your fair Kinswoman M who now starves The Packet inclos'd in your last I read with all the sence of Compassion it merits and if I can prove so unexpectedly happy to succeed in my Endeavou●s for that Fair Unfortunate she shall have a speedy account I thank God there is yet a Harry Savile in E●gland with whom I drank your Health last Week at Sir William Coventry's and who in Features Proportion and Pledging gives me so lively an Idea of yourself that I am resolv'd to retire into Oxfordshire and enjoy him till Shiloe come or you from France ROCHESTER Ended the 2● th of June 1679. TO THE Honourable HENRY SAVILE HARRY ANY kind of Correspondence with such a Friend as you is very agreeable and therefore you will easily believe I am very ill when I lose the opportunity of Writing to you But Mr. Povy comes into my Mind and hinders farther Compliment In a plainer way I must tell you I pray for your hapyy Restoration but was not at all sorry for your glorious Disgrace which is an Honour considering the Cause I wou'd say something to the serious part as you were pleas'd to call it of your former Letter but it will disgrace my Politicks to differ from yours who have wrought now sometime under the best and keenest Statesmen our Cabinet boasts of But to confess the Truth my Advice to the Lady you wot of has ever been this Take your Measures just contrary to your Rivals live in Peace with all the World and easily with the King Never be so Ill-natur'd to stir up his Anger against others but let him forget the use of a Passion which is never to do you good Cherish his Love where-ever it inclines and be assur'd you can't commit greater Folly than pretending to be Iealous but on the contrary with Hand Body Head Heart and all the Faculties you have contribute to his Pleasure all you can and comply with his Desires throughout And for new Intrigues so you be at one end 't is no matter which Make Sport when you can at other times help it Thus I have giv'n you an account how unfit I am to give the Advice you propos'd Besides this you may judge whether I was a good Pimp or no. But some thought otherwise and so truly I have renounc'd Business let abler Men try it More a great deal I would say but upon this Subject and for this time I beg this may suffice from Your humble and most affectionate faithful Servant ROCHESTER TO THE Honourable HENRY SAVILE Dear SAVILE 'T Is not that I am the idlest Creature living and only chuse to imploy my Thoughts rather upon my Friends than to languish all the Day in the tediousness of doing nothing that I write to you but owning that tho' you excel most Men in Friendship and good Nature you are not quite exempt from all Human Frailty I send this to hinder you from forgetting a Man who loves you very heartily The World ever since I can remember has been still so insupportably the same that 't were vain to hope there were any alterations and ther●fore I can have no curiosity for News only I wou'd be glad to know if the Parliament be like to sit any time for the Peers of England being grown of late Years very considerable in the Government I wou'd make one at the Session Livy and Sickness has a little inclin'd me to Policy when I come to Town I make no question but to change that Folly for some less whether Wine or Women I know not according as my Constitution serves me Till when Dear Harry Farewel When you Dine at my Lord Lisle's let me be remembred Kings and Princes are only as Incomprehensible as what they pret●nd to represent but apparently as Frail as Those they Govern This is a Season of Tribulation and I piously beg of Almighty God that the strict Severity shewn to one scandalous Sin amongst us may Expiate for all grievous Calamities So help them God whom it concerns TO THE Honourable HENRY SAVILE HARRY IF Sack and Sugar be a Sin God help the Wicked was the Saying of a merry fat Gentleman who liv'd in Days of Yore lov'd a Glass of Wine wou'd be merry with a Friend and sometimes had an unlucky Fancy for a Wench Now dear Mr. Savile forgive me if I confess that upon several occasions you have put me in mind of this fat Person and now more particularly for thinking upon your present Circumstances I cannot but say with myself If loving a pretty Woman and hating Lautherdale bring Banishments and Pox the Lord have mercy upon poor Thieves and S s But by this time all your Inconveniences for to a Man of your very good Sence no outward Accidents are more draw very near their end For my own part I 'm taking pains not to die without knowing how to live on when I have brought it about But most Human Affairs are carried on at the same nonsensical rate which makes me who am now grown Superstitious think it a Fault to laugh at the Monky we have here when I compare his Condition with Mankind You will be very good-natur'd if you keep your Word and write to me sometimes And so good Night dear Mr. Savile ROCHESTER TO THE Honourable HENRY SAVILE HARRY WHether Love Wine or Wisdom which rule you by turns have the present Ascendant I cannot pretend to determine at this distance but Good-nature which waits about you with more diligence than Godfrey himself is my Security that you are unmindful of your absent Friends To be from you and forgotten by you at once is a Misfortune I never was criminal enough to merit since to the Black and Fair Countess I villanously betray'd the daily Addresses of your divided Heart You forgave that upon the first Bottle and upon the second on my Conscience wou'd have renounc'd them and the whole Sex Oh! That second Bottle Harry is the Sin●●rest Wisest and most Impartial Downright Friend we have tells us truth of o●rselves and forces us to speak Truths of others banishes Flattery from our Tongues and distru●t from our Hearts sets us above the mean Policy of Court-Prudence which makes us lie to one another all Day for fear of being betray'd by each other at Night And before God I believe the errantest Villain breathing is honest as long as that Bottle lives and few of that Tribe dare venture upon him at least among the Courtiers and Statesmen I have seriously consider'd one thing That the three Businesses of this Age Women Politicks and Drinking the la●t is the only Exercise at which you and I have not prov'd ourselves errant Fumblers If you have the Vanity to think otherwise when we meet let us appeal to Friends of both Sexes and as they shall determine live and die their Drunkards or entire Lovers For as we mince the Matter