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
A18953	A recantation of an ill led life. Or A discouerie of the high-way law With vehement disswasions to all (in that kind) offenders. As also many cautelous admonitions and full instructions, how to know, shun, and apprehend a theefe. Most necessarie for all honest trauellers to per'use, obserue, and practise. Written by Iohn Clauell, Gent.	Clavel, John, 1603-1642.	1628 (1628)	STC 5369; ESTC S105018	32,417	82

lacke With farre-fetcht complements they will salute And bid you welcome marke from their dispute What you can gather you may somewhat guesse By their mens sawcy peremptorinesse For seruants when their Masters ills they know Cease their obedience and presumptious grow Enquire a part each ones particular name And let your seuerall seruants doe the same And you shall finde them tripping they well may Forget the new names that they tooke that day At supper time let some one hastily Knocke at your gate as with authority You shall obserue a sudden fearefull start Marke then their lookes the Index of the heart And you shall finde them troubled looke you sad And aske if yonder Constable be mad Bid them say quickly what their danger is Then promise no authority of his Shall enter there if they command it so By this into their priuate thoughts you go They will confesse for succour needs no more 'T is euident what you but thought before But say hereafter they should carelesse grow Then are they taken with the lesse adoe Now say they come about the noone of day You shall well know them by their needlesse stay Their carelesnesse of time for they but bait That they may stand at gaze and fitly wait For honest passengers when they haue spide A likely-moneyd booty by them ride Then will they bussle and make hast away With farre more speed then tedious was their stay And cry yon rides their Vncle or their friend With whom some earnest businesse they pretend When in an Inne they must all-night abide They cunningly sometimes themselues diuide And come as seuerall companies thereby To crosse the number in the Hue and Cry Besides thus parted they are sure to know If otherwise then well the squares should goe They of each other will no notice take Of you mine Host they will enquirie make What their companions are what Countrimen Whether you know them yea or no and then If they can finde you haue a Ielousie Shrewdly suspecting either company Hauing discouered your opinion With all conuenient speed they will get gone But if you doe as well you may mistake them And that for honest trauellers you take them They as by chance will in your kitchen meet And as meere strangers one another greet There will they drinke together ere they goe From thence so louing and so kinde they grow That they will sup togeather marke them well And you their cunning knauery shall smell Still strangers to each other will they bee Whil'st any of your house are there to see But see and be not seene and you shall finde Them all familiar in another kinde They will Embrace reioyce laugh at their plot And at mine Host that he suspects it not The fairest Innes they vsually frequent Out of a wary-politicke intent Presuming for disparaging the man They will not search his howse and the re they can Rest vnmolested but since this you know Let not the subtile theefe escape you so ☞ Loe here I haue vnclasp'd this obscure booke And full Quotations on those secrets tooke That the plaine eye of Iudging reason may Discouer such abuses of the way And as 't is said that true repenters must Their secret sinnes and all ills from them thrust Lest the vild tainture of one crime behinde Contaminate againe the sinfull minde Thus haue I left no nooke no cranny small Which men may cunning or pernicious call Vn-open'd here before the curious day As cleere and plaine as is the Champion way No act or vse which the eues discouer might No Art to make the honest know them right Lest by retaining ought it might be deem'd My true recanting is not what it seem'd But marke my cautions well and you will know That these way-riflers must some new way goe Imagination or their practice yet Could neuer reach to or before you set Preuention of their worst assaults their drifts In their attempt and their best scaping shifts Nor can I feare but since so freely I Haue here dissected such impietie Anatomizing euery hidden Nerue That for the strength of such occasions serue The charitable world will hence allow That I those men and actions disauow I make so plaine and hatefull nor againe Will I my honour in those puddles staine Nor can it be suppos'd by enuie that Any relap's of mine be aimed at For mine owne writ must then in Iudgement stand And signe me vnto death mine owne false hand The Iurie and the Iudge in Euidence Shall no enquiry need for mine offence This booke alone against all pittie 's plea Turnes all excuse into Apostrophe Whil'st dumbe as death with double shame I must Count both my ruine and my sentence iust Now let detracting censure pawse and stay And turne their rank'rous spleenes another way And know that now in Censure they doe more Then I haue done in all the rest before When my determin'd Innocence shal bee A Iudge seuere against their cruelty ☞ And such whose most vnnecessary eye Into forbidden acts of others pry And when the man they curiously haue read Must then attempt the secrets of his bed To poyson all his blessings nicely draw The Curtaines whose concealings no man saw Without a rude intruding for the bed Of lawfull couples being iniured By base detractions leades that troubled sence Into the fullest foulnesse of offence And so my pillowes partner to whose truth I owe the best reforming of my youth As if she must be sharer of my wrongs Though ne're arraign'd was yet condemn'd by tongs As if of force because shee 's mine she must In spight of all her vertue be vniust But I imagine rather this surmize Doth from the common ground of ill arise Or from that Enuy Sathan left behind When he infected our first mothers mind Shew me the man whose tendrest dearest loue And whose affection in a straine doth moue Beyond community vnto his wife Who but in her has neither soule nor life And giue me reasons why his should transcend The debt I owe to mine vnequall friend Then will I yeeld my dotage his loue rare And thus our obligations I compare First vnto you whose marriages intent Haue to the fortune of your choice extent More then the person or those faire deserts Which make the blessedst contracts of the hearts And loue the purchase more of her estate Then her persections you ne're leaueld at You who were neuer caught with darting eies Whose best affections in her treasure lies And neuer had your soules with loue refin'd Peruerting the true vse of either kind Can yet in this your portions dotage not Exceed the Income I by mine haue got For when I was adiudg'd and doom'd to die She onely by strange importunitie Melted the hearts of all resolu'd against mee Who pittying her set my lifes danger free In this my life my fortune and my all I may her portion and her blessing call And last for other tyes which doe obliege Such as to loues faire