Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	affection_n	friendship_n	love_n	1,017	5	5.1675	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10214	The secretary in fashion: or, A compendious and refined way of expression in all manner of letters. Composed in French by P. Sr de la Serre, historiographer of France. And translated into English, by John Massinger, Gent; Secrétaire à la mode. English	La Serre, M. de (Jean-Puget), ca. 1600-1665.; Massinger, John.	1640 (1640)	STC 20491; ESTC S115331	42,861	162

you is valuable according to the greatnesse of my Zeale and not of my Diligence so I thought that though it came something late it would not be lesse Considerable If I had had no other object but your Lordships good Fortune I had prevented in this actiō all that have now got the start of me but taking nothing into my Consideration except your Desert my Inclination to your service I gave way to my own desires rather then Custome which is to make my selfe remarked every where in effect rather than appearance My Lord Your most humble servant M. Another My Lord I Could not be silent in the Acclamations of such an universall Gladnesse being forced to ioyne my voice to other Mens in Publishing our Commune Contentment touching the Mareschalship of France wherewith the King has beene graciously pleased to honour you This Action of Iustice is so highly approved by every Person that your Enemies are constrained to condemne themselves to an everlasting silence being not able to open their Mouthes but to their owne Confusion Live then happily with this part of Good fortune which your merit first made you aspire to and believe assuredly that in the whole traine of your Excellencies servants there shall be very few able to imitate me in the resolution which I have taken to carry to my grave the Quality MY LORD of Your most humble most obedient Servant M. Letters to a Person of Note acknowledging some notable favour received My Lord I Doe not render you this duty as thanks for the favours which your Goodnesse has beene pleased to heape upon me since their excesse force me to a silence as taking from me all meanes to revenge my selfe It sufficeth me you beleeve that I will sooner loose my selfe then the remembrance of your bounty I know your Lordship satisfied your selfe first every time you obliged me but being I cannot doe so what advantage soever I take without rendring you some service of consideration I humbly beseech your Lordship to grant mee the Liberty to Importune you at all times to honour me with your Commands to the End that by the Innocncy of my observance you may be constraind to know that if you bee extreamely generous I am no lesse sensible nor no lesse My Lord Your most humble and most faithfull Servant M. Another MY LORD IF you expect thanks worthy of the Favours wherewith you have beene pleased to honour mee I humbly beseech your Lordship to afford mee the tearmes that I may repeat them after you for your satisfaction I confesse boldly my incapacity to expresse unto your Lordship the resentment which your obligations cause in mee as well as my disability in meeting with occasions to acquit my selfe But being Generous actions carry their owne recompense along with them all that I can doe is to put your Lordship continually in minde of your Noblenesse and to publish it in all Corners of the World together with the Quality My Lord of Your most humble and most obedient servant Letters to aske Pardon for a Fault Committed SIR IF the confession of my fault can merit any Grace I will expect it from your Bounty not my Intention because it is Innocent T is true I have lost your good Affection by reason of the Passage last night but since I was surprized by an extremitie of Anger which would not suffer mee to consider where I was I leave the Iudgement of my weaknesse to you having wholly condemned it my selfe You know that our first motions are so soveraigne in their violence that in contempt of reason they will undergoe no lawes but their owne who should obtaine of you to consider that in the fault which I have committed there was more contributed by nature then my own free will so that I knew not how to avoid it I know at least how to repent my selfe of which I assure you most faithfully to the end that my most humble intreaties for your pardon and favour may bee made more acceptable and the rather because they proceed Sir from Your most humble servant M. Another SIR I Have too great an opinion of your Piety to make doubt of the Pardon which I crave for my fault committed last night 't is not that I feare the Innocence of my Intention is not able to justifie me but because I would set my Minde in quiet as I have already my Cōscience This act of acknowledgement should serve you for a satisfaction as it does me for a Pennance putting you in minde of the Passion which alwayes heretofore I have had to doe you service and of the Profession which I have made to beare in all places the Quality Sir of Your most humble and most obedient Servant M. Letters Reproaching a friend for the Coldnesse of his Affection SIR IF I made not an extream account of your friendship I would not have complain'd of your silence nor that Coldnesse which you shewed at our last meeting I speake not this because I would force your Love but I should bee very glad you would acknowledge the Affection which I have vowed you whereby you might bee obliged to doe me justice in honoring me with the like yet I leave you the liberty to doe as you please against my will I say against my will because I have taken Oath to live and dye Sir Your most humble Servant M. Another SIR I Am constrain'd to put you in minde of those protestations of friendship which once you made mee being I perceive that yours growes already weary of her wonted Constancy You seeme to have forgot at the same time both the esteeme which I make of your Desert and the Passion which I have to your service Sir you may change your humour when you please if you would have me beleeve you are not fickle in your Promises and that you know the Art to Conserve eternally those that Endeare themselves the most to you as I doe In Quality Sir of Your most humble servant Letters to complaine of Backebiting Speeches SIR T Is told mee that you maintain'd a Certaine discourse to my disadvantage I beseech you out of Charity repent your selfe in time if you would not have mee constraine you to a more rigorous Pennance I understand not Iesting if I begin it not my selfe wherefore correct your Pleadings or I will cause you to loose both your suit and charges I give you this faire warning that you may have lesse cause to complaine hereafter and when I shall perceive you in as humble a submission as I expect I le then take it into my consideration whether I ought to be for the time to come as hitherto I have beene Sir Your most humble servant M. Another upon the same SIR I Understand that when you have nothing else to doe you take upon you to backbite a Person very neare allied unto mee 'T is the worst trade and most dangerous that you can imploy your selfe in but if your wine bee the