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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	answer_n	letter_n	receive_v	778	5	5.2253	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84087	Pearls of eloquence, or, The school of complements Wherein ladies, gentlewomen, and schollars, may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complemental, amorous, and high expressions of speaking, or writing of letters. By VV. Elder, Gent.	Elder, William, fl. 1680-1700.; J. G. (John Gough), fl. 1640, attributed name.	1656 (1656)	Wing E325AB; ESTC R229809	69,698	138

how the Foxes and wolves prey upon your Geese and lambs and what sport your Swallows make with the Flyes in the aire I wish you not to write of any wonders because they are incredulous nor of matters of state for they may be perhaps ill taken but only how honest men may thrive and knaves have their reward how wise men are honoured and fools laught at and how the weaker sort hold their strength with the stronger when wenches eyes pul out mens hearts out of their bellies their wits out of their brains and the money out of their purses and such matters of no moment then must needs if you wil take a little pains to set down in a little Paper I shall be glad to look upon them and in my love to requite them for our world to hear it were a world to think of it but the messengers hast not giving me time to write of it til the next Post I wil say this of it God bless the best and mend or end the worst grant all honest hearts good lives in it and a joyfull departure when they are to leave it to which prayer hoping you will say Amen til we meet and alwayes I rest Thine or not his own c. His Answer My long acquaintance and worthy beloved friend I have lately received your Lette wherein I find your desire to hear of the passages in the world on this side the salt water now to satisfie in as much as I can let me tel you that I find some difference in the natures of nations but touching their divisions I think they are much alike through the whole world for the one side I finde the powerful imperious the ambitious envious the covetous never satisfied the liscencious idle and the foolish unprofitable On the other side majesty gracious honour vertuous wealth charitable thrift wealthy wit painful and religion loyall and labour commodious Now looking into the danger of greatness the charge of honour the care of wealth the misery of want the folly of wantonness and the beggary of idleness I have chosen the mean for my part of Musick where I shall neither strain my voyce nor stretch my strings but with little charge keep my instrument in tune The passages are here as in other places where Ianuary and May meet in conjunction there are strange kinds of countenances that shew not the best content And when winds are highest in summer the fruit shal fall ere they be ripe many idle exercises are more costly than comfortable much talk and little truth and ga● outsides have poor insides oathes and lyes are as common as highwayes and painted images make fools idolls honest men thought more silly than the wise men among the wizards of the world and the devills among the brokers daily hunted with beggars murmuring of war among the unquiet spirits and peace guarded for fear of a close stratagem In sum such variety of business that every mans brain is ful of humors and for women they are of such force that they put men to great patience for my self I see the world at that pass that I think him happy that is wel out of it In sum God bless the best while the worst mend and send us his grace health with a happy meeting so till hear from you which I wish often with my hearts love that shal never end but with life my hearty commendations I commit you to the almighty Yours as mine own c. A Letter from an apprentice to his father to send him some Money to succour himself withall he being hardly used by a cruel Master and mistris KInd and loving Father my humble duty premised with hope of your good health with my Mother and the rest of our good friends c. The extremity which I have long endured at the hands of my unconscionable Master and Mistris constraineth me seeing no likelyhood of redress to reveal and manifest that unto you which long I have concealed which as it is uncouth unto me in regard of your paternall care of me whilst I lived with you so I doubt not your fatherly love continued unto me but it wil be displeasing unto you I am placed by your good friend A. W. in a service where til I was bound Apprentice I had good usage but since I was bound I have seldom had good day nay after that you sent them the mony which Master A. W. did promise with me they began to exasterate hard usage unto me to debar from me not only liberty but victuals finding many times faults without occasion wrongfully beating and buffeting me without offence which I neither can nor do I think you wil wish me to endure I am almost pin'd with want which how to redress I know not unless you vouchsafe to supply my present wants to leave my trade I am loath to call my master in question I am more loath where to have redress I know not in this my extremity unless you take some course for me and send me wherewith to succour my selfe between time untill it shal please God to turn their hard hearts Thus having briefly acquainted you with my present estate hoping of your fatherly love unto me humbly craving your and my Mothers dayly blessing leaving you to the tuition of the Almighty expecting speedily to hear from you I rest Your Obedient Son c. His Answer SON I have received your Letter wherein I am given to understand that my Friend A. VV. hath not so friendly discharged that friendly trust which I reposed in him as I expected Notwithstanding I will in what I may seek redress for thy wrongs In the mean time deliver this twenty shillings to your Master as a token from me happly his hard usage of you is to draw somthing from me which if I see I cannot by my gift● which I have sent to him have mended I wil come up my self and take some course to remove you from him In the mean time I send you ten shillings to supply your necessary wants which I wish you sparingly as you have occasion to bestow and not idely or wastfully and let me hear from you alwayes by this Carryer Serve God endeavour to please your Master and Mistris and whil'st I live Boy they shall know thou hast a Father So in hast I rest Your loving father c. A Letter of a Patient to his Physici●n MAster Doctor your Patient commends him to your patience to bear a little kind chiding for your too long absence my disease holds his own and my pain nothing diminished and if you come not the sooner your Physick wil be past working for my Stomack is weak and my heart groweth faint and yet I feed though my digestion be not he best loath I am to languish if I may have hope o● comfort but your absence makes me doubt of my recovery I pray you therefore hast you unto me an● let me be assured of your comming lest you

lustfull suit withdraw You shall not thatch my New-house with old straw An Epithalamium for a VVedding Night NOw is that welcom night addrest When love beauty makes a feast Let not the Bridegroom be afraid Though he encounter with a maid Shee l squeck shee l cry Shee l fain shee l eye Shee l fear as she did tremble But take her and rowse her And mowse her and rowse he● For she doth but dissemble Now Mistris Bride thus much to you The Item I shall give is true Young maidens must not be to coy To entertain their wishes joy But take him and hug him And rug him and lug him For thus true love is tryed Nor be too nice in yeilding things Which must not be denyed Protestations of Charity I le bind my hands to fasten just desire My tongue shall fear to wrong my Mistris fair And if to gaze on her mine eyes aspire I wash them forth with my repentant tears If my proud hands dares once offend my love Or make an offer of a guilty touch I le cut the veins whereby my Fingers move And blead the last my love to her is such If any part or motion of my sence Transcends the limits of my loves direction My bodies death shall ransome that offence My souls engag'd so deep in her perfection A Description of love A Lover is like the Hearb Helit●opia which alwaies inclineth to that place where the sun shineth being deprived of the Sun dieth so as lunaries herb as long as the Moon waxeth bringeth forth leaves and the waning shaketh them off So a lover whilst he is in the company of his l●dy where all joyes increase uttereth many pleasant conceits but ban●shed from the sight of his mistris whereall mirth decreaseth either liveth in melancholly or died with desparation Of constancie in Lov● COnstancie is like unto the Stork who wheresoeever she fly commeth into no nest but her own or the Lapwing whom nothing can drive her from her young ones but death The Tongue of a Lover should be like the Poin● in a Diall which though it go none can see it ●oi●g or a young Tree which though it grow no●e can perceive it growing The Tryangles in love THere must be in every Tryangle three Lines the first beginneth the second augmenteth the third concludeth it a figure So in Love three Vertues affection which draweth the heart the second Secrecie which increaseth the hope third Constancie which finisheth the VVork without any of these three Rules ●o Tryangle without these three Vertues no Love Another LOve is not unlike the fig-tree whose fruit is sweet but the root is more bitter than the claw of Byte●● or li●● the Apple in Persia whose blossome savoureth lik● honey whose bud is more sowre than gall as the adament draweth the heavie Iron and the Harp the fleet Dolphin so beauty allureth the chast mind to love and the wisest wi●● to lust and who more trayterous to Phillis than Demophoon yet he a traveller who more perjured to Dido ●ha● Aeneas and he a stranger who more false to Ari●d●e tha● Theseus yet he a Saylor who more fickle to Medea tha● Jason yet he a Sta●●● Again love is like musk though it be sweet in smel it is sower in the smack the leaf of t●● Cedar tree though it be fair to be seen yet the sirrop dep●●v th sight even so love though it be p●●g●ned by saluting each other with a kiss ●●t it ●s sha●●n off by fraud of the heart A perfect Lover should be like the glass-worm which shineth most bright in the dark or like the pure frankinsenc● which smelleth most sweet when it is in the fire or to the Damask Rose which is swee●er in the stil than on the stalk In praise of a loving friend OF all the heavenly gifts on earth Which mortall men commend No treasure wel may countervail A true and faithfull friend What sweeter solace can befall Than such a one to finde As in whose brest thou maist repose The secrets of thy minde If flattering fortune seem to frown And drive thee to distress A true and faithfull friend wil help at need And make thy sorrows less Oh precious Item Oh Jewel great On Friendship Pearl of Price Thou surely dost each thing excel That man can wel devise The Golden Mines are soon decay'd When Fortune turns the Wheel And Force of Arms is soon allay'd If body sickness feel And cunning art soon overthrown Experience teacheth plain And all things else their course doth change When friendship doth remain But since by proof they have been taught A feigned friend to know I wil not trust such glossing tongues More than any open Foe A Complementall Letter for receiving divers favours SIR I am so tyed unto you by your many favours as I profess I know not how to carry my selfe in thankfulness unto you Sir This I earnestly desire you that you wil instead of a recompence for all your favours accept thanks and of your poor creature who is able to give nothing take prayer for payment what my good mind● is to you my tongue cannot express what my true meaning is your heart cannot conceive Sir I hope it shall be read with the same mind it was written taken on the right hand it shal I trust not want its due effect and good acceptance I know it is not excellent but the worst your worthiness indeed whom I have oft admired deserves far better● yet I pray you accept of it and God I trust in time wil inable me to give a further testimonial of my poor service to you Yours in the best bond that I may Another Letter for one absent KInd Sir The scarcity of Letters make them prove dainties being the only way to enjoy presence in affection though not in realty I confess the be●t way to judge of a things excellencie is sometimes to want it for we esteem not of the excellency of breath til we want ayre to breathe in and the goodness of your conversation is seen sometimes in absence from you seeing it is absence that kindles a desire to enjoy your presence Sir I suppose you are not ignorant of that common rule that Letters are alwayes for to to bee indited in a kind of careless strain which rule Tully that Prince of Orators observeth in his Epistles the Bonclace of Rhetorich is better to adorn and imbrace the neck of some love-sick Gentlewomen which is as a token sent from her lover to please her and keep her from crying I doubt not but you easily perceive what natural love ought to be united betwixt us raked up in the ashes of forgetfulness and almost quite extinguished for want of blowing and in whose power is it to revive this languishing but in you sir who are the life of Rhetorick Sir the great esteem I have ever had of your friendship suffers me not to endure your absence any longer This tyrannie of your humor or