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	soul_n	780	5	4.7839	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49593	Asteria and Tamberlain, or, The distressed lovers a novel / written in French by a person of quality ; and rendred into English by E.C., Esq.; Astérie ou Tamerlan. English	La Roche-Guilhen, Mlle. de (Anne), 1644-1707.; E. C., Esq.	1677 (1677)	Wing L447; ESTC R10866	60,582	200

sentiments which have made you find such sweetness in the death of Ortobulus in the ruine of my Mother in the loss of Bajazet in my captivity and in a word in all your unworthy threatnings of me Thus Madam replied Themir you impute all the events of fate to me and I am culpable still because Adanaxus conspires against the Emperour I shall not go about to justify my self any longer to you but fear least you do not quite exhaust my patience such a haughty pride does not alwayes meet with submissive Souls and since I have suffered so much from your ingratitude I may very lawfully make use of my rights and priviledges I understand your menaces pursued the Princess but since I have nothing more to fear for Bajazet they have not the power to frighten me consider Heaven sometimes puts bounds to its anger it is not alwayes deaf to the prayers of the unfortunate and miserable but does reserve still its thunders for the punishments of Tyrants You ought then to make a Tryal answered Themir how far one may go without its succour and to begin to make a more profitable use of my Authority I confess I am tyred out with those tedious and servi●e respects I have paid you and in a short time you shall either consent to my desires or else not be in a condition to bring any obstacle to them He went away as he ended those words and though they had struck a terror into the Princesses soul yet it was no small relief to her to see the Barbarian go out of her room and leave her the liberty of finding consolations in her constancy against all the afflictions she was o'rewhelm'd with Axalla and his friends did incessantly labour to put a stop to the most pressing of them they examined with all the care they could when were those moments that the Emperour found in his breast any return of tenderness for his young Son at last they began to find him in a humour to hearken to what might be said in his favour then it was they conjured him to make a solid reflection upon Adanaxus's carriage and what severity soever he resolv'd to use against him he could not find any of his actions blameable and deserving condemnation his moderation in the unworthy treatments of Themir his submission to the commands of the Emperour and particularly to the last he had received from him coming again into his memory he began to fear he had acted with too much precipitation and reproaching himself for it as a default of paternal love he perceived himself in one of those inquietudes which ordinarily do usher in a deep repentance He was as soon come to himself as he had been provoked being incapable of himself to be carried out to any great violences but subject to a credulity which made him often take Chimera's for truths and the wicked and poisonous counsels of flatterers for a sincere zeal These kind of humours almost continually go from one extremity to the other Tamberlain past from that so favourably for the Prince of Tanaïs that he could not take any comfort in his being so much inraged against him I have been too cruel said he in those reflections to condemn Adanaxus upon discourses which I 've not given him time to oppose and answer Those accusers may not they be deceived in what they charge him with and is his justification impossible Weak Prince continued he search into the procedures of your Son with more mildness and tranquillity what would you sacrifice him to your fears and possibly to your errors Consider that a Prince elevated upon the Throne of Asia ought to prevent accidents with a greater moderation have you seen Adanaxus in the troops of Bajazet during that abscence which has deprived you of him Has fame that publishes all things ever told you any thing of him that you have need to complain of and in the extremity to which Bajazet was reduced when Adanaxus arrived at Samarcanda can you find any probability that his return was design'd by the Ottoman Prince or by his daughter He saw him not but by thy orders and did not obtain his life but by arguments very advantageous to thy glory and which it was impossible for thee not to yield to Those very arguments which have convinced me become now thy crimes thou wouldst make him suffer punishment for having perswaded thee to be generous No Tamberlain do not thou become the talk or rather the horrour of the world by such an action but seek the innocency of thy Son and not his ruine and if he be deeply smitten with the charms of that beauty so fatal to the repose of thy blood content thy self in bringing despair to his affection by giving that Asteria to Themir This change of the Emperour was soon observed by the friends and persecutors of the Prince of Tanaïs Odmar was quite enraged at it and did not doubt but that the love and care of Axalla did much contribute to it he would with all his soul have destroyed him with Adanaxus but how ruinously ingenious his envy and revenge were it could do nothing against Axalla's glory and he was obliged to confine his rage only in seeking out ways he thought might be most fit and proper to counterplot him in hindering the justification of Adanaxus In the mean time Tamberlain came more and more to himself and was considering among all those that were about him who should be the man he had best pitch upon to be sent to examine the Prince of Tanais and from his mouth to be informed when and how he got his acquaintance with Bajazet and Asteria after a great deal of balancing upon the election he concluded that Talmis should be the man one who was of a considerable eminence about him he was endowed with a great deal of wit and honesty Tamberlain knew Adanaxus had a high esteem and service for him and Talmis appearing more fit than any other to take upon him such an office and to discharge it with honour received the commands of the Emperour and performed them with as much justice as zeal He went to the young Prince and addressing himself with all that respect which was due to the Son of the Emperour he humbly beseeched him not to take it ill if he propounded some questions to him that he had in commission from his Father Adanaxus satisfied with his submission frankly told him all he had before acquainted Axalla with and afterwards his surprise when at the death of Bajazet he knew his Asteria again for Neris Talmis being informed of the truth made a very faithful recital of all the circumstances to the Emperour and fortified them with arguments that were so powerful for the innocence of the Prince that Tamberlain was more than half perswaded of them but yet he thought it prudence to see whether the Princess and Adanaxus would be found in the same story He went to her Apartment early the