Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	world_n	worldly_a	wretched_a	24	3	9.9873	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07911	Zelauto. The fountaine of fame Erected in an orcharde of amorous aduentures. Containing a delicate disputation, gallantly discoursed betweene to noble gentlemen of Italye. Giuen for a freendly entertainment to Euphues, at his late ariuall into England. By A.M. seruaunt to the Right Honourable the Earle of Oxenford. Honos alit artes.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1580 (1580)	STC 18283; ESTC S120745	97,466	166

commend me as héereafter you shall purchase occasion to prayse me I remayne to pleasure you in what I can possible and will stand your fréend in more then I will speake of Indéede your Father hath found me so fréendly that I thanke him he déemes me to deserue his Daughter you I sée conceyue so good opinion of me that you thinke me sufficient to match with your Syster Well if all prooue so well as I hope it will and the matche be so graunted as on my part it is proffered It is not money or ought that I haue but shall be all present to doo you a pleasure Strabino began to smyle in his sléeue Rodolfo much a doo to kéepe his countenaunce to sée the olde whorson how willing he was how craftily they caught him into so good a beléefe wherefore nowe he beginneth to shewe foorth his sute not doubting to spéede before they departed Well Syr quoth Rodolfo for your proffered courtesie I remayne your debtor not doubting but the matter will come so to passe as I haue alwayes wished it if it lyke you so well as to graunt me one request whyle I liue you shall binde me to the vttermost of my power Héere is a Gentlemā a verie déere fréend and fellow of mine who because his liuing is not yet come into his handes is desirous to borrowe a certayne sum of money allowing for the gaynes thereof what you will demaund the sum dooth amount to fowre thousand Duckattes and but for one month he desireth the lending and if by that tyme he doo not discharge the debt he is willing to forfayte his patrimony and besydes the best lym of his body Fréend Rodolfo quoth Truculento the world is so wretched now a dayes diuers of the people so pinched by pouerty that many will borrow but slack payment is made then if we exact the Law to the vttermost we are accoumpted couetous carles worldly wretches and such like which makes me so lothe to lende for I care not for dealing in the trade any more What pleasure were it to me to maime or māgle this Gētleman for mine owne truly I had rather if I could well spare so much to giue it him outright so should I sustayne no reproch my selfe nor he be endamaged in the distresse of the law Yet for your sake I care not if I lende him so much so that you wyll stande bound vnto mée as straytlie as hée shall Syr quoth Rodolfo for the credit of the Gentleman I dare wage all that I am woorth and for the payment thereof I dare stand to the perill deliuer you the money if the debt be not discharged before or at the aboue named day I will loose all my Landes beside the best lym of my body Well quoth Truculento this is the bonde if by the first day of the month ensuing the whole sum be not restored eache of your Lands shall stand to the endamagement besides the losse of bothe your right eyes are you content to stand to this bargayne Yea quoth they bothe and that right wyllingly With that he departed to fetche the money then quoth Strabino to his fréende Dyd euer man see a more extorting villayne then this Is not our Landes sufficient to glut vp his gréedinesse But that each of our eyes must stand to the hazard Oh myserable myser oh egregrious cormorant surely the iust iudgement of God wyll reward him for his wickednesse Well cease quoth Rodolfo no more woordes Lupus est in fabula little sayd is soone amended Then comes Truculento wylling them to tell out theyr money and then to set their handes to his Byll which béeing doone he delyuered fortie Duckattes more to Rodolfo to carie his Syster for a token from him saying Desire her to estéeme of the gratefulnesse of the gyft more then the quantitie dooth amount vnto and tell her that in lyfe or death I am hers at commaund Your courteous token quoth Rodolfo shall be delyuered and your message ministred with as much expedition as possibilitie wyll permitte and thus thanking you a thousand tymes for your Brotherlyke beneuolence I committe you to the custody of the heauenly Creator The lyke wishe I you quoth he desiring you to remember the bargaine wherin you are bound ¶ After that Rodolfo and Strabino had borrowed the money of Signor Truculento they departed to their lodgings and in the morning goe and buy the ritch Iewell which Strabino presenteth to Signor Giorolamo Ruscelli the Father of Cornelia and obtayneth promise that he shall haue her in marriage Cap. 6. ROdolfo in the morning repayreth to the Chāber of his assured Strabino where béeing entred he found him in his study at his Booke awayting his company to goe about their businesse Strabino quoth he let your Bookes a whyle be left and frame your selfe to furder your fancie let be the solemnesse you vse in your study for you are lyke to purchase a double delyght the tyde taryeth no man and when we are assured of our wished Iewell then may we deferre the tyme as long as we lyst Wherefore my selfe desyrous to hasten in our enterprise and also to prooue the doubt of a dreame I desire the more to make an ende of this matter Quoth Strabino hath a dreame driuen you in any such doubt or haue you séen a fancie in your sléepe which you shall prooue effectuous now you are waking if it shall like you to tell me the trueth I will define thereon as well as I can To trifle the tyme in talke quoth Rodolfo may let our labour and beside to shew you the effect of the same would cause you to delude me wherefore I will let it alone tyll we returne and if by the way it prooue to perfection as my desire is of God it may not truly I wyll tell you They take theyr way downe by Signor Truculentos doore where he sawe the Saint sitting which all night was in his vision no further could he goe he was so faynt but stoode leaning on the brest of his fréend Strabino at last he burst foorth in these woordes saying O my Strabino but that you are my fréend and one whom I doo highly make accoumpt of I should doubt to discouer the cause of my dollor and feare to display my so sodayne passions yet séeing your selfe hath tasted like torment and haue borne out the bruntes which now I abide the bolder I may my secretes bewraye and the surer demonstrate the cause of my care Yet you will condempne me for my preter presumption and may rightly controule me for my rashe reprehension yet iudge with indifferencie and deale with me fréendly let olde faultes be forgotten and penaunce clayme pardon I sée there is no stomacke so stoute but looue will allay it no courage so conquerous but looue will conuince it nor no heart so hautie but looue can bring lowe Euen so my selfe who was a reiecter of looue am now enforced to followe my