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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
A02153	Perimedes the blacke-smith a golden methode, how to vse the minde in pleasant and profitable exercise: wherein is contained speciall principles fit for the highest to imitate, and the meanest to put in practise, how best to spend the wearie winters nights, or the longest summers euenings, in honest and delightfull recreation: wherein we may learne to auoide idlenesse and wanton scurrilitie, vvhich diuers appoint as the end of their pastimes. Heerein are interlaced three merrie and necessarie discourses fit for our time: with certaine pleasant histories and tragicall tales, which may breed delight to all, and offence to none.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1588 (1588)	STC 12295; ESTC S105812	37,452	59

there arose hastely was ready to depart but the Despot who desired to know what she might be drawing more nie perceiued by the lineament of hir face that she had bene a woman of good proportion began to salute hir in this manner Woman Satyre Nymphe or whatsoeuer thou be that linest thus as a sauage creature in the deserts tell me of courtesie as to a straunger that pitties thy estate whether thou be bred here and so naturally wedded to this brutish kinde of life or if some misfortune hath led thée to this extreeme mishap that so either I may marueile at such a strange bréede or els both pittie and seeke to reliefe thy miserie Mariana hearing the Despot speake thus honorably and friendly made no answere at all but staring in his face called to remembraunce hir former estate and shamed at hir present wretchednesse so that the teares standing in hir eyes the burden of euermuch sorrowe made hir a long while sil●nt yet at last comming more nere she made him this answere Cur●eous straunger if I ouerslip either dutie or reuerēce due to thy calling thinke my sauage life leades me to such ignorance and therefore the more worthie of pardon but whatsoeuer thou be king or keisar know this I am no Satyr but a woman dis●ressed and placed ●ere by the enuie of fortune where time and patience hath l●arn●d me to li●e content for thy pitie I returne thankes ●s one whome these mother vnknowen for the space of a yeare in which time Marcella the daughter of the Despot noting the perfection of Procidor began at the altars of Vesta to offer smoaking thoughts at the shryne of Venus For womens eyes delight in the varietie of obiectes the mayde séeing that the sharpnesse of his wit a sparke that soonest inflameth desire was answerable to the shape of his bodie and that his minde was adorn●d with so many sundri● go●d qualities that if his fortune had bene equall to his face his deserts might haue made him a Prince she began so farre to enter into the considerations ●f his vertues that hazarding too rashlie into so dangerous a laborinth she felt hir minde begin to alter and hir affections to stoope to such a state as repent she might but recall she could n●t But taking these thoughts for passionat ioyes that might b● thrust out at pleasure cursing loue that attēpted such a chaunge and blaming the basenesse of hir minde that would make such a choice to auoide the Syren that inchanted hir with such deceitfull melodie she called to hir bedfellowe Mariana for a Lute whereupon war●ling a meri● galliard she thought to beguile such vnacquainted passions but fin●ing ●hat musicke was but to quench the flame with oyle féeling the assaultes to bee so sharpe as hir minde was rea●y to yelde as vanquished she began with diuers considerations to suppresse the franticke affections calling to minde that Procidor was hir fathers seruant a man of meane and base parētage for his birth not to be looked at of the daughter of a Despot much lesse to be loued of one of hir degrée thinking what a discredit it were to hir selfe what a griefe to hir parents what a sorrowe to hir friendes yea what a mightie shame should be guerdon to such a mōstrous fault Blaming fortune and accursing hir owne follie that should be so fond as but once to harbour such a thought as to stoupe so lowe as to hir fathers hyerling As thus she was raging against hir selfe loue fea●ed if she dallied long to loose her Champion and ther● feare st●pping more nigh gaue hir such a fresh woūd as pierst hit at the verie heart that she was faine to yelde maugre hir form●r considerations and forsaking all companie to get hir in hir closet where being solemnlie set she burst forth ●nto ●●●se pass●●nate tearmes Unhappie Marcella hath fame hetherto feared to spe●ke ill of thy thoughts and shall report dare to miscon●●ru● of thine actions hath Decapolis honoured thée for thy vertues and shall now all the worlde wonder at thée for thy vanities hast thou vowes thy selfe to Vesta and wilt thou runne after Venus wilt thou be counted a president of virginitie and yet subiect thy selfe to vnbridled fancie No Marcella there is no swéeter friend than libertie nor no worse enemy than inconsiderate affection the thoughtes of Ladies Marcella as they are worthy so ought they to looke no lower than honor Blush then at thy fortunes thy choice thy loue sith thy thoughts cannot be contriued without secret shame nor thy affections vttered without open discredit farre are these fancies or rather follies vnfit for thy byrth Hast thou not heard Marcella as an oracle from Apollo that it is better to perish with high desire then to liue in base thoughts And yet Procidor is beautifull a fauour fond foole framed to feede the eye not to fret the heart he is wise truth but poore and want is an enemy to fancy Tush being both beautifull and wise why should he not be loued wilt thou so farre forget thy selfe as to suffer affection to intangle thée with such had coniectures no consider how such a match will be most dismall to thy father most grieuous to thy friendes preiudiciall to thy selfe and most gladsome to thy ●oes the greatest griefe of all sith the smyle of a foe that procéedeth from enuie is worse then the tear● of a friend that commeth of pittie These premisses then duely considered preferre not a Barly corne before a precious Iewell set not a fading content before a perpetuall dishonour suppresse thy affections and cease to lou● him whō thou couldst not loue vnlesse blinded with to much loue As thus she was perplexed with sundrie passions Mariana came to seeke hir in hir closet whereupon she ceased hir complaintes hoping that time would weare out that which fond loue and fortune had wrought but all w●s in 〈◊〉 for so did the remembraunce of her late conceiued lo●e●●lienate hir thoughts from hir wonted disposition that sh●●e and dishonor the greatest preuenters of mishap were no meanes to diswade hir from hir determined affect●●●●● In so much that not possible to hyde fire in t●e s●●awe 〈◊〉 to smother vp fancy in youth she bore such a fauourable countenance to Procidor that not only hir selfe but the rest of the house marueiled at hir submisse familiaritie Yet in that she had hetherto troden hir shoe so euen as no steppe was so much as thought awry they construed all to the best and thought hir fauours toward Procidor procéeded as a reward for his vertues not from a regarde to his beautie But at last being Venus scholler and therefore daring with hir to daunce in a net played not so close but Procidor could iudge of colours and espye of the halfe what the whole ment puffed vp therefore a little in conceipt with the fauour of his masters daughter séeing oportunitie layde hi● hairie forehead on his lappe he began somewhat

passionate dumpes that her nuptials were so nye though men determine the Gods doo dispose and oft times many things fall out betwéene the Cup and the lip for the day being appointed certaine tenants as well Gentlemen as others that were vnder the Duke went to Pharao with generall complaints of his couetous and barbarous crueltye Pharao whose thoughts aimed at excessiue desire of coine tooke oportunitie by the hand thought by these complaints to possesse himsel●e of all his possessions and treasure wherevpon he sent for the Duke Rosilius and after he had heard the complaints he banisht him and Rosilius his sonne in law with his Daughter Melissa out of all the confines of Aegipt Gradasso willing to answer to his accusers could not be suffered by the King to make any replye but within thrée day●s they must depart which so danted the Duke and yoong Rosilius that they stoode like those men that Perseus turned to stones and poore Melissa sorrowing at the hard censure of the King and wéeping at the mishap of hir Father cryed ●ut against Fortune that was so fickle and the starres that ●ad so badlye dealt in the configuration of their natiuiti● séeing hir sorrow with teares and hir Fortunes with wa●ings well to be breefe the day came of their departure the Duke with Rosilius and Melissa were imbarked in a little Ship and so transported into Libia where wh●n they arriued the Du●e for that he had small acquaintance or none in the Countrie liued obscurely and in poore estate the clowne Rosilius hauing no quallities of the mind on●lye at h●m● relying vpon his reuenues now abroad driuen to satisfie his thirst with his hands and to reléeue his hunger with applying himselfe to any seruile kind of drudgerie Melissa she got hir selfe into the seruice of a rich marchant where with such court●sie she behaued hir selfe that she was generally liked of all the houshould while thus th●se thrée pilgrims liued in this penance Bradamant hearing of this straunge accident fell into diuers and ●undry perplexed passions● First the feruent affection he bare vnto Melissa tolde him that Fortune may not part louers nor the inconstant constellation of the planets disseuer that which Fan● ye had vnited with such a bande that the vowes of Venus are not to be violated that loue must resemble a cyrcle whose motion neuer ceaseth in that rounde therfore he was bound by loue and dutie to sayle after them into Lybia and there to giue what reléefe he could to these exiles but to these resolutions came strange and contrary motions First the forsaking of his Father whome he most reuerently honoured secondly his fréends whome in all duty he did reuerence but that which pained him most was to leaue Egipt his countrey which hee loued more then his life in so much that with Vlisses hee counted the smoake of Ithaca swéeter then the f●ers of Troie these considerations drewe him from his resolution of departure so that he stayed for two or thrée daies passionate in Aegipt but loue that is restlesse suffred him to take no rest but in his dreames presented him with the shape of Melissa and waking Fancie set so playnely the Idea of her person and perfection before his eyes that as one tormented with a second hell neither respecting father country nor friends as soone as wynde and weather did serue rigging a bonny Bark to the Sea he passed into Lib●a where he was no sooner arriued but straight ●ee highed him to the Court where then Sacrapant the king of that land kept his pallace royall Bradamant liuing there for a space as a courtier woon such ●auour for his excellent wit and rare qualities that the king held him as one of his cheefe gentl●men and promoted him with great giftes in so much that who but Bradamant in all the Court of Libia flowrisht thus in great credit he sought about to finde out the Duke and his daughter him on a day as he passed downe to y ● sea Cliffes he fou●d gathering of Cockles professing the state of a Fisher-man with whom after he had parted a litle he bewrayed what he was in what estimation he was with Sacrapant the Duke glad to sée one of his countrimen and neyghbours in so strang a land embraced him to whom Bradamant briefly discoursed his mynde as concerning y e imperf●ctions of Rosilius how his wealth onely r●sp●cted whereof now he was d●pryued he was a mere pleasant and slaue of nature not able being exil● though noble borne to shew any sparks of honor seeing then the Duke was tyed to extremities he would now mary his daughter and make hir liue as hir calling deserued in the Court Gradasso no sooner heard his minde but he graunted to hys motion so that Bradamant breaking the matter to the king Sacrapant with all his Lordes seeing the Damzell so fayre condiscended and with great pompe solempnised the Nuptials where Bradamant mainteyned his wyfe and his father very richly vntill Pharao dying the duke Bradamant and his wyfe Meli●sa with the clowni●h Lord Rosilius passed home to theyr former Possessions Perimedes hauing tolde his tale he brust forth into these spéeches Thou séest Delia how farre wit is preferred before wealth and in what estimation the qualities of the mynde are in respect of worldly Possessions Archimedes hauing suffered Shipwrack on the Sea being cast on shoare all the rest of the passengers sorrowing because theyr goods were lost he ●spying certaine Geometricall Caracters merrily and chéerefully sayd vnt● them Feare not fellow-mates in misfortune for I sée the steps of men and so passed but when hée was knowen among them the Phylosophers reléeued them all Least Perimedes should haue gone forward in his discourse one of his neighbours came in to beare him company and so hee ceast from his pratle If the rest of theyr discourse happen into my hands then Gentle-men looke for Newes William Bubb Gentleman to his freend the Author AFter that freend R●bin you had finished Perymedes and vouchsafed to commit it to my vewe liking the worke ●●d so much the rather for that you bestowed the Dedication on my verye good freind Maister Geruis Clifton whose deserts merit it and one of more worth whē your labour shall be imploied more seriouslie the last sheete hanging in the Presse comming into your studie I found in your Deske certaine Sonets fained to be written by the Caldees what time the poore Smith and his wife liued so contentedlye which shee hauing kept as iewels in her Chest and you as relikes in your Chamber not letting any but your familiars to peruse them for that you feared to discouer your little skill in verse these Sonets for that they fit my humour and will content others or els my iudgement failes I charge thee by that familiar conuersing that hath past betweene vs that thou annex them to the end of this Pamphlet which if you grant we still rest as we haue beene if not