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	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
A16755	I pray you be not angry, for I will make you merry A pleasant and merry dialogue, betweene two travellers, as they met on the high-way.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1632 (1632)	STC 3663; ESTC S104801	13,090	16

seruice was an heritage when I found nothing but losse of time and repentance Haue I not cause thinke you with all this to be angry Fab. And yet I say I pray you be not Angry For if yée had so much of the grace of God as to make you rather haue the hope of preferment then to yéeld to an ill impl●yment no doubt but eyth●r your priuate life will finde some secret contentment or your patience will finde s●mewhere aduancements of your vertues and therefore rather be ioyful o● Gods blessing than impatient with your fortune and thinke not amisse that I say ● pray you be not Angry But to requite you Say that I hauing more money in my Purse than a wise man would part with but vpon the better reckoning should be perswaded to play the Usurer and so with little reward to make my money multiply by the cunning working of a cunny-cat●hing knaue I should be brought in hope of gaine to take in pawn for my money some lease of a good farme or péece of rich plate which being not fetcht by the day of payment would returne me more than double my money put my money out of my hands which I haue fared full hard to get together and I at the glad of m● forf●yt hoping to gaine more than a good conscience would away withall ●inde my lease not worth a point by a former déede of gift or such a conueyance as carryeth all away from my fingers and leaue me for all my cunning in the Law to plead repentance to my folly or my plate challenged for some péece of pilfery and I brought to trouble for I know not what and to get out I know not how till I haue brought my stocke to a poore state where I may sée the iust reward of Usury when I looke in my purse and finde nothing Would not this make one Angry Fern. Not a whit for knaues will be knaues and fooles must bée bitten ere they bee wise of which if you be none no ●oubt but there are enough in the world And finde all the Anger in the world will not recouer a penny losse let me say to you as you say to me I pray you be not Angry And let me tell you that vpon a time it was my hap to haue a friend as I thought wh●m I loued dearely and building vpon the care of his conscience that for a world of wealth hee would not play the Iew with mée It fell ●ut that I hauing more than a moneths minde to a Wench aboue a yeare old whose worthinesse euery way might command a better seruant than my selfe and yet it had so faine out betwixt vs that our affections were so setled that I thought without death there could be no remoue and therefore fearing no fortune relying so much vpon her loue louing as I said my imagined friend mor●●hā a wise man should do for there is a measure to be kept in all thing●e made him acquainted with my secrets touching the intent to steale away my Mistris from the place where shee had no pleasure to be kept in ●s she had béene long like a chicken in a coope and to the performing of this purpose hoping to haue vse of his best helpe deliuer him a ring or a Iewell of some value to present vnto my loue when I know his meanes better than mine owne to h●ue accesse vnto her without suspition and he after a worl● of protestations sealed with too many oathes to deale so faithfully carefully and secretly for me as my heart could desire when faith there was none nor care of me nor secrecy but in kéeping all from me when like a dissembling Iew he vseth my Iewell for a meane to rob me of my better Iewell when he presented it as from himselfe and revealing some matter of secrecie betwixt vs vnpleasing to her and nothing to my profit with inchanting charmes winnes her affection and borroweth my Money to cut my throat till hauing carryed away my Mistris he eyther laugh at we or write me a letter of excuse to collogue with mee When I thinke how with trusting a Knaue I haue played the foole in conscience say If euer man would fall out with himselfe haue I not cause to be Angry Fab. No for as you ●ayd to me knaues will be knaues and in matters of loue he that will not be the follower of his owne cause may hap to be ouerthrowne in his owne sute and to looke for constancy in a woman especially of young years when bribes and gifts are able to worke great matters in those courses it is a méere folly for say that some are I know not how many as constant as Pen●l●pe yet let Danae take héed of a golden shower in her lap and therefore I pray you be not angry For let me tell you to bee deceiued by a friend it is an ordinarie matter to loose a wench it is a thousand mens fortune and therefore since she was so fickle to trust to thinke her better lost than found and for him get your golden Iewels your Money from him and let him walke with his wicked houshold-stuffe and let me tell you of a discontentment of mind It was my hap I may say my ill hap to cast my affection of late vpon a very proper young man of a pure complexion neyther effeminate nor course face● neyther of leather-sellers nor painters company but a good feature and well coloured and for his countenance neyther Pauls stéeple height nor with the fall of the tyde but carryed in so good 〈◊〉 measure as shewed his wits no more out of order than his members for his voyce neyther Treble nor Ba●e but a good meine and his spéech neyther Rethoricall nor Logicall nor tragicall nor Colasticall but such 〈◊〉 neyther too little nor too much as answering directly to euery question and speaking nece●●arily vpon good occasion wan him such commendation for his discretion as increasing much my affection made me as I thought vpon good iudgement mak● him a great ●ubiect to my contentment in briefe I ●ingled him out of company to make him my Companion tooke him to my house bestowed bountifully vpon him let h●m not want any thing that was needfull for him my table to dine at a faire chamber for his lodging yea sometime made him my bedfellow furnished him with money horse apparell bookes and credit for whatsoeuer hee would demand yea and in my absence t●usted him with the gouernement of my whole house till my fauour bred in ●is folly that that at the first I saw not such a presumption of his owne worthinesse as I liked not where controulling euen my selfe for a trifle himselfe to blame in the selfe same nature for a greater matter thinking all too little that was done for him and vrging more than was méete for him a● last not able to suppresse the venome of his pride till his heart made his head swell as big as a Cods-head in recompence of all my kindenesse playes false with my seruant Mayde steales away my eldest daughter robs my Cofers troubles my conscience crackes my credit befooles m● wit and doth what he may to seeke the ruine of my state Is it possibl● that a ma● could thinke of such a villaine and not be Angry Fern. Yea very well and I say vnto you I pray you be not Angry For still knaues will be knaues and a man had néede eate a bushell of salt with a Man before hee grow too farre to trust him for he w●s a worldling and out of the simplicitie of your honestie thinking him to be that he was not might learne him to trust his like or any of all at least with your house your Daughter if you haue any or your seruants i● you kéepe any and hauing Patience with your lacke of iudgement doe for your Daughter as you haue cause in nature and reason and pray in charitie ●or his Soule what euer become of his carkasse and since I hope you will take this for no ill counsell I say as I did I pray you be not Angry FINIS

better or worse when she cannot well be worse and will be no better must hold out his life worse then ten deaths with her Say your selfe that when a man thinkes of this miserie it would fret him to the very heart But where is the remedie Fab. Oh! I pray you be not Angry for if a man should haue a Sister whom he loueth dearely whose beautie with vertue were a Dowrie for a Prince her Linage Noble her personage comely her nature kind and her gouernment so discréet that by the iudgment of the wise she was a match for the worthy to see this blessed creature by the crueltie of the Fates bestowed vpon the bastard sonne of a Begger whose Father was a villaine his Mother a foole and he a Changling whose eyes were thrée foote out of his head his nose too long for his mouth and his skinne too wide for his face his head like a high-way with a little heath on either side and his beard bending to the ale-house from thence came the originall of his little honor and for his vnder proportion and answering to the vpper parts whose wit was onely practised in villanie whose heart studied but Hell while his soule was sworne seruant to the Diuell and yet this rascall Uiper shall onely with his golden Clawes créepe into the hands for in the heart he could neuer of a prettie Wench and carry her away into such a world of discontentments that she could neuer leaue sorrowing till she had got into her graue Would it not fret such a Brother as had such a Sister or chase such a Louer as had such a Loue to see such an ouerthrow of his comfort or confusion of his kind hope Fern. Oh! I pray you be not Angry For marriage and hanging some say goe by destinie and although hanging is but a short paine and marriage is a lingring miserie where disagréement is a deadly life yet since we cannot goe against the will of the higher powers Patience is a playster that will in time draw a mans heart out of his belly except He haue more wit to gouerne his passion But leauing loue toyes let me tell you that if a man finding by some old writings in his mothers chest that his father had title to a péece of Land which for want of a good purse he durst neuer make challenge to it and say that I were the man and I by the witnesse of my honest auncient neighbours can approue it in good conscience to be mine owne in right of law and thereupon asking counsell and paying for words by waight and by my learned councell perswaded that it is mine past all plea And thus playing with my Nose or rather with my purse till all be spent with Demurrs and tricks he driues me to beggerie with suing for mine owne right while he goes gay with my money and I starue with his words a vengeance vpon his craftie conueyance Would not this fret a mans soule to think on it and cannot helpe it Fab. Now God forbid I pray you be not Angry for Law was ordained for the best and though in all professions some are to blame yet no doubt but some haue such consciences that they would not be corrupted for a kingdome but Courts must haue their fees and Schollers must not study for nothing But for that I am not a good Lawyer nor euer met with any bribes I haue nothing to say to them but wish the wicked their reward while the honest may take héed by their example and so leauing them all to the day of their death I will tell you of another matter Say that I had a friend at least as I take him and louing him so dearely that I durst nay I doe trust him with all that I am worth and being to take a voyage eyther vpon command or commoditie fearing some ill courses to be taken for my children if I should die knowing women generally so sorrowfull for a lost husband that they will not tarry long for a new and what fathers in law be to orphants while widdowes sigh say nothing hauing in trust to my friend made a secret déede of gift of all my estate vnto him the rather that my wife and children may fare the better and now I haue escaped many dangers by sea and land and spoiled of all that I had with me come home hoping to find comfort yet at mine owne house with that I left behind me and there no sooner entred in at the gate but with a coy looke and a cold welcome I find my wife either turned out of doores or so basely vsed within that she could well wish to be without then if I take it vnkindly be bidden mend it as I can and so with a frowne or a frumpe almost thrust out of doores be constrained to goe to Law for mine owne liuing while my mistaken f●●end hauing turned Turke ca●es for nothing but his owne commodity contrary to all conscience playes with me for mine owne money till the Lawyer and he together haue wonne me quite out of mine owne land and so play me the Traytor with my trust leaue me in the miserie of my fortune to end my vnhappie daies Now can you say to this I pray you be not angry Fern. Yes very well for since you sée no remedie but God is such a God in the world as makes the deuill work many wonders among men is it not better with Patience to endure a crosse then to crucifie the soule with impatience But say that you should haue a wife that you thought did loue you well when she would stroake your beard and neuer lie from your lipps and would speake you as faire as Eue did Adam when she coosened him with an Apple would not abide an Oath for a bushell of gold and be so sparing of her purse that she would not loose the dropping of her nose bridle it in her countenance like a Mare that were knapping on a Cow-thistle would weare no ru●●s but of the smal set though of the finest Lawne that might be gotten and edged with a Lace of the best fashion would not abide no embro●erie inther apparell yet haue the best stuffe she could lay her hands 〈…〉 sparingly at dinn●● when she had broke her fast in the bed and missed not a Sermon though she pro●●ted little by the word This dissembling péece of flesh making a shew of lamentation out of the abundance of her little loue for lacke of your good company if you were but a mile out of the Towne and if you were to take a iourney would lay an O●ion to her eyes to draw out the Rheume in stéed of teares and hauing eaten an apple with ●inching in a backward wind send out a belching sigh for sorrow of the absence of her Goose-man and then after all these and a world of other trickes to bring a man in a bad beliefe of her good minde if you returning home a night