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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	affection_n	love_n	love_v	2,519	5	6.3625	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02092	A disputation, betweene a hee conny-catcher, and a shee conny-catcher whether a theefe or a whoore, is most hurtfull in cousonage, to the common-wealth. Discouering the secret villanies of alluring strumpets. With the conuersion of an English courtizen, reformed this present yeare, 1592. R.G.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 12234; ESTC S105909	39,793	48

that he had rather conceale his greefe then any way make me discontent so that hee smoothered his sorrow with patience and brookt the miurie with silence till our loues grew so broad before that it was a woonder to the worlde whereupon one day at dinner I being verie pleasant with his chosen friend and my choyce louer I know not how but either by fortune or it may be some set match there was by a gentleman there present a question popt in about womens passions and their mutabilitie in affection so that the controuersie was defended pro contra which arguments whether a woman might haue a second friend or no at last it was concluded that loue and Lordshippe brookes no fellowship and therefore none so base minded to beare ariuall Hereupon arose a question about friendes that were put in trust how it was a high point of treason for one to betray an other especially in loue in so much that one gentleman at the boord protested by a solemne oath that if any friend of his made priuie and fauoured witly the sight of his mistresse whom hee loued whether it were his wife or no should secretly seeke to incroach into his roome and offer him that dishonour to partake his loue he would not vse any other reuenge but at the next greeting stabbe him with his Poynado though hee were coudemned to death for the action All this fitted for the humor of my supposed husband and strooke both mee and my friend into a quandarie but I scornfully iested at it when as my husband taking the ball before it fel to the ground began to make a long discourse what faithlesse friends they were that would faile in loue especially where a resolued trust of the partie beloued was committed vnto them and herevpon to make the matter more credulous and to quip my folly and to taunt the basenesse of his friends minde that so he might with curtesie both warne vs of our wantonnes and ●eclaime vs from ill he promised to tell a pleasant storie performed as hee sayd not long since in England and it was to this effect A pleasant discourse how a wise wanton by her husbands gentle warning became to be a modest Matron THere was a Gentleman to giue him his due an Esquire heere in England that was married to a yoong Gentlewoman faire and of a modest behauiour vertuous in her lookes how soeuer she was in her thoughts and one that euery veay with her dutifull indeuour and outward apparance of honestie did breed her husbands content insomuch that the Gentleman so deeply affected her as he counted al those houres ill spent which he past not away in her company besotting so himselfe in the beautie of his wife that his onely care was to haue her euery way delighted liuing thus pleasantly togither he had one spetiall friend amongst the rest whom he so dearly affected as euer Damon did his Pythias Pliades his Orestes or Tytus his Gisippus he vnfolded all his secrets in his bosome and what passion hee had in his minde that either ioyed him or perplexed him he reuealed vnto his friend directed his actious according to the sequel of his counsailes so that they were two bodies and oue soule This Gentleman for all the iuward fauour showne him by his faithful friend could not so withstand the force ●f fancy but he grew enamoured of his friendes wife whom he courted with many sweet words and ●aire pr●nises chorms that are able to inchant almost the chastest eares and so subtilly couched his arguments discouered such loue in his eyes and such sorrow in his lookes that dispaire seemed to sit in his face and swo●e that if shee granted not him Le don du merci the end of a louers 〈…〉 would present his hart as a Tragick sacrifice to the sight of his 〈◊〉 mistresse the Gentlewoman waxing pitifull as women are 〈◊〉 ●●●ted and are loth Gentlemen should die for loue after a few excuses 〈◊〉 him dub her husband knight of the forked order and so to satisfie his humor made for feyt of her owne honor Thus these two louers continued by a great space in such plesures as vnchast wantons count their felicitie hauing continually fit opportunitie to exercise their wi●●● purpose sith the gentleman himself did giue them free libertie to lo●● neither suspecting his wife or suspecting his friend at last as such traytrous abuses will burst foorth it fell so out that a ●●yd who had been an old seruant in the house began to grow suspitious that there was too much familiaritie betweene her mistresse and her maisters friend and vpon this watcht them diuers times so narrowly that at last she sound them more priuiate then either agreed with her maisters honor or her owne honestie and thereupon reuealed it one day vnto her maister he little credulous of the light behauiour of his wife blamed the mayd and bad her take heed least she sought to blemish her vertues with slaunder whom hee loued more tenderly then his owne life the mayd replied that she spake not of enuy to him but of meere loue she heare vnto him and the rather that hee might shadow such a fault in time and by some meanes preuent it least if others should note it as well as shee his wiues good name and his friends should bee cald in question at these wise words spoken by so base a drug as his mayd the Gentleman waxed astonished and listened to her discourse wishing her to discouer how she knew or was so priuy to the folly of her mistresse or by what meanes he might haue assured proofe of it shee tolde him that to her her owne eyes were witnesses for shee saw them vnlawfully togither and please it you sir quoth shee to faine your selfe to go from home and then in the backhouse to keepe you secret I will let you see as much as I haue manifested vnto you vpon this the maister agreed and warnd his mayd not so much as to make it knowne to any of her fellowes Within a day or two after the Gentleman sayd hee would goe a huntiug and fo rise verie early and causing his men to couple vp his Honndes left his wife in bed and went abroad assoone as he was gone a myle from the house he commanded his men to ryde afore and to start the Hare and follow the chase and wee will come faire and softly after they obeying their maisters charge went theyr wayes and he returned by a backway to his house and went secretly to the place where his mayd and he had appointed In the meane time the mistresse thinking her husband safe with his Houndes sent for he● friend to her bed chamber by a trustie seruant of hers in whom shee assured that was a secret Pander in such affaires and the Gent●eman was not stacke to come but making all the haste hee could came and went into the chamber asking for the Maister of the house very familiarly the

I haue both offended God and wronged the honest Gentleman my husband and your friend hee putting a speciall trust in vs both assuring such earnest affiance in your vnfained friendship that hee euen committeth me his wife his loue his second life into your bosome this loue haue 〈…〉 constancy in playing the harlot that saith that he 〈…〉 you returned with trechery and falshood in abusing mine honesty and his honor now a remorse of conscience toucheth me for my sinnes that I hartily repent and vow euer hereafter to liue onely to my husband and therefore my sute is to you that from hencefoorth you shall neuer so much as motion any dishonest question vnto mee nor seeke any vnlawfull pleasure or conuersing at my handes this is my sute and hereunto I haue sworne you which oath if you obserue as a faithfull gentleman I will conceale from my husband what is past and rest in honest sort your faithfull friend for euer at this shee burst a fresh into teares and vttered such sighes that he thought for very griefe her hart would haue claue asunder The gentleman astonied at this straunge Metamorphesis of his mistresse sat a good while in a maze and at last taking her by the hand made this reply so God helpe mee faire sweeting I am glad of this motion and wondrous ioyfull that God hath put such honest thoughts into your mind hath made you the meanes to reclaime me from my folly I feele no lesse remorse then you doo in wronging so honest a friend as your husband but this is the frailnesse of man and therefore to make amends I protest a new neuer hereafter so much as in thought as to motion you of dishonestie onely I craue you be silent she promised that and so they ended And so for that time they parted at noone the gentleman came home and cheerfully saluted his wife and asked if dinner were ready and sent for his friend vsing him wonderfully familiarly giuing him no occasion of mistrust and so pleasantly they past away the day togither at night when his wife and he went to bed shee told him all what had past betweene her and his friend and how she had bound him with an oath and that hee voluntarily of himselfe swore as much being hartily sory that hee had so deepely offended so kinde a friend the gentleman commended her wit and found her afterward a reclaimed woman shee liuing so honestly that she neuer gaue him any occasion of mistrust Thus the wise gentleman reclaimed with silence a wanton wife and retained an assured friend At this pleasant Tale all the boord was at a mutinie and they said the gentleman did passing wisely that wrought so cunningly for the safetie of his owne honor but highly exclaiming against such a friend as would to his friend offer such villany all condemning her that wold be false to so louing a husband Thus they did diuersly descant past away dinner but this Tale wrought litle effect in me for as one past grace I delighted in chaunge but the gentleman that was his familiar and my Paramour was so touched that neuer after hee would touch me dishonestly but reclaimed himselfe abstained from me and became true to his friend I wondring that according to his woonted custome he did not seeke my company he and I being one day in the chamber alone and he in his dumpes I began to dally with him and to aske him why he was so straunge and vsed not his accustomed fauours to me He solemnely made answere that though he had playd the foole in setting his fancy vpon an other mans wife in wronging his friend yet his conscience was now touched with remorse euer since he heard the Tale afore rehearsed hee had vowed in himselfe neuer to do my husband the like wrong againe my husband quoth I he is none of mine he hath brought me from my friends and keepes mee here vnmarried and therefore am I as free for you as for him thus began to grow clamorous because I was debard of my lust the gentleman seeing me shamelesse wisht me to be silent and sayd although you be but his friend yet he hold you as deare as his wife and therfore I will not abuse him neither would I wish you to be familiar with any other seeing you haue a friend that loues you so tenderly much good counsaile he gaue me but all in vaine for I scorned it and began to hate him and resolued both to be ridde of him and my supposed husband for falling in an other familiar of my husbands I so inueagled him with sweet words that I caused him to make a peece of mony to steale me away and so carry me to London where I had not liued long with him ere he seeing my light behauiour left mee to the world and to shift for my selfe Here by my example may you note the inconstant life of Courtezens and common harlots who after they haue lost their honestie care not who grow into their fauour nor what villany they commit they fancy all as long as crownes last and only ayme at pleasure and ease they cleaue like Caterpillars to the tree and consume the fruit where they fall they be Vultures that praie on men aliue and like the Serpent sting the bosome wherein they are nourished I may best discourse their nature because I was one of their profession but now beeing metamorphosed I holde it meritorious for mee to warne women from being such wantons and to giue a caueat to men least they addict themselues to such stragling strumpettes as loue none though they like all but affectionate only for profit and when he hath spent all they beate him out of doores with the prodigall childe but stopping heere till occasion serue mee fitter to discouer the ma●ner of Courtizins to my selfe who now being brought to London and left here at randon was not such a housedoue while any friend stated with me but that I had visite some houses in London that could harbour as honest a woman as my selfe when as therefore I was left to my selfe I remoued my lodging and gat mee into one of those houses of good hospitalitie whereunto persons resort commonly called a Trugging house or to be plaine a whorse house where I gaue my selfe to entertaine al companions sitting or standing at the doore like a staule to allure or draw in wanton passengers refusing none that wold with his pursepurchase me to be his to satisfie the disordinate desire of his filthie lust now I began not to respect parsonage good qualities to the gratious fauour of the man when eye had no respect of person for the oldest lecher was as welcom as the yangest louer so he broght meate in his mouth otherwise I pronounce against him Si nihil attuleris ibis homere foras I waxed thus in this hell of voluptuousnes daily worse worse yet hauing as they terme it a respect to the maine

chance as neare as I could to auoyd diseases and to keepe my selfe braue in apparell although I pay● a kind of tribute to the Bawde according as the number and benefite of my companions did exceed but neuer could I bee brought to be a pickpocket or theeuish by any of their perswasions although I wanted daily no instructions to allure me to that villany for I thinke nature had wrought in me a contrary humor otherwise my bad nourture and conuersing with such bad company had brought me to it mary in all their vices I carried a brazen face was shamelesse for what Ruffian was there in London that would vtter mor edesperate oaths then I in mine anger what to spet quaffe or carouse more diuellishly or rather damnable then my selfe for beastly communication Messalyna of Rome might haue bin wayting mayd besides I grew so grafted in sin that Consueto peccandit ollebat sensum peccati Custome of sin tooke away the feeling of the sin for I so accustomably vse my selfe to all kinde of vice that I accounted swearing no sinne whordome why I smile at that and could prophanely saie that it was a sin which God laught at gluttony I held good fellowship wrath honor and resolution I dispised God nay in my conscience I might easily haue been persuaded there was no God I contemned the preachers and when any wisht mee to reforme my life I ●ad away with the Puritan and if any yoong woman refused to be as vitious euerie way as my selfe I would then say gip fine soule a yoong Saint will prooue an old diuel I neuer would go to the Church and Sermons I vtterly refused holding them as needles Tales told in a Pulpit I would not ●end mine eares to the hearing of any good discourse but still delighted in iangling Ditties of ryhaudrie thus to the greefe of my friendes hazard of my soule and consuming of my bodie I spent a yeare or two in this base and bad kinde of life subiect to the whistle of euerie desperate Ruffian till on a time there resorted to our house a Cloathier a propper yoong man who by fortune comming first to drinke espying mee asked mee if I would drinke with him there needed no great intreatie for as then I wanted company and so clapt me downe by him and began verie pleasantly then to welcome him the man being of himselfe modest and honest noted my personage and iuditially reasoned of my strumpetlike behauiour and inwardly as after he reported vnto mee greeued that so foule properties were hidden in so good a proportion and that such rare wit and excellent bewtie was blemisht with whoredomes base deformitie in so much that hee began to think well of me and to wish that I were as honest as I was bewtifull Againe see how God wrought for my conuersion since I gaue my selfe to my loose kinde of life I neuer liked any so well as him inso much that I began to iudge of euerie part and me thought he was the properest man that euer I saw thus we sat both amorous of other I lasciuiously he honestly at last he questioned with me what country woman I was and why being so proper a woman I would beseem to dwel or lie in a base Alehouse especially in one that had a bad name I warrant you hee wanted no kna●ish reply to ●it him for I tolde him the house was as honest as his mothers marry if there were in it a good wench or two that would pleasure their friends at a neede A gesse by his n●ase what porredge hee loued and that hee hated none such well seeing mee in that voice hee said little but shaked his head payd for the beere and went his way only taking his leaue of me with a kisse which me thought was the sweetest that euer was giuen mee assoone as hee was gone I began to thinke what a handsome man hee w●s and wisht that he wold come and take a nights lodging with me sitting in a dump to thinke of the quaint●es of his personage til other compan●●●s came in that shakte mee out of that melancholie but assoone againe as I was secrete to my selfe hee came into my remembrance passing ouer thus a day or two this Cloathier came againe to our house whose sight cheared mee vp for that spying him out at a Casement I came downe the staires and met him at the doore and hartily welcomed him asked him if he wold drinke I come for that purpose saies he but I will drinke no more below but in a Chamber marry sir quoth I you shal and so brought him into the fairest roome in their sitting there togither drinking at last the Cl●athier fell to kissing and other dalliance wherein he found me not coy at last told mee that he would willingly haue his pleasure of mee but the roome was too lightsome for of all things in the world he cou●● not in such actions away with a light Chamber I consented vnto him and brought him into a roome more darke but still hee said it was too light then I carried him into a farther Chamber where drawing a buckeram cuttain afore the window and closing the curtaines of the bed I asked him smiling if that were close inough no sweet loue saies he the curtain is thin not broad inough for the window peradu●●●●●● some watch 〈◊〉 eye may espie vs my hartmisdoubts my credit is my life good loue if thou hast a more close room then this bring me to 〈◊〉 why then quoth I follow me with that I brought him into a backe loft where stood a litle bed only appointed to lodge suspitious persons so darke that at noone daies it was impossible for any man to see his owne hands how now sir quoth I is not this darke inough he sitting him downe on the bed side fetcht a deep sigh said indifferēt so so but there is a glimpse of light in at the tyles some bodie may by fortune see vs in faith 〈◊〉 quoth I none but God God saies hee why can God see vs here good sir quoth I why I hope you are not so simple but Gods eyes are so cleare and penetrating that they can peirce through wals of brasse and that were we inclosed neuer so secretly yet we are manifestly seene to him and alas quoth he sweet loue if God see vs shal we not be more ashamed to do● such a filthy act before him then before men I am sure thou art not so shameles but thou woldst blush be afraid to haue the meanest commoner in London see thee in the actiō of thy filthy lust and doest thou not shame more to haue God the maker of all thinges see thee who reuengeth sin with death he whose eyes are clearer then the Sun who is the searcher of the heart and holdeth vengeance in his handes to punish sinners Consider sweete loue that if man and wife would be ashamed to haue any of their friendes