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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	earl_n	lady_n	marry_v	1,844	5	9.6391	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66656	Eurēka, Eurēka the virtuous woman found, her loss bewailed, and character examined in a sermon preached at Felsted in Essex, April 30, 1678, at the funeral of ... Mary, countess dowager of Warwick, the most illustrious pattern of a sincere piety, and solid goodness his age hath produced : with so large additions as may be stiled the life of that noble lady : to which are annexed some of her ladyships pious and useful meditations / by Anthony Walker.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.; Warwick, Mary Boyle Rich, Countess of, 1625-1678. Occasional meditations upon sundry subjects.	1678 (1678)	Wing W301; ESTC R233189	74,039	235

born a Lady and a Virtuosa both Seventh Daughter of that eminently Honourable Richard the First Earl of Cork who being born a private Gentleman and younger Brother of a younger Brother to no other Heritage than is expressed in the Device and Motto which his humble Gratitude inscribed on all the Palaces he built God's Providence mine Inheritance By that Providence and his diligent and wise Industry raised such an Honour and Estate and left such a Family as never any Subject of these three Kingdoms did and that with so unspotted a reputation of integrity that the most invidious scrutiny could find no blot though it winnowed all the methods of his Rising most severely which our good Lady hath often told me with great content and satisfaction This Noble Lord by his prudent and pious Consort no less an Ornament and Honour to their Descendants than himself was blessed with five Sons of which he lived to see four Lords and Peers of the Kingdom of Ireland And a Fifth more than these Titles speak a Sovereign and Peerless in a larger Province that of universal nature subdued and made obsequious to his inquisitive mind And eight Daughters And that you may remark how all things were extraordinary in this great Personage it will I hope be neither unpleasant nor impertinent to add a short Story I had from our Lady 's own mouth Master Boyl who was then a Widdower came one Morning to wait upon Sir Jeoffry Fenton at that time a great Officer of State in the Kingdom of Ireland who being engaged in business and not knowing who it was who desired to speak with him a while delayed him access which time he spent pleasantly with his young Daughter in her Nurses Arms. But when Sir Jeoffrey came and saw whom he had made attend somewhat long he civilly excused it But Master Boyl replyed he had been very well entertained and spent his time much to his satisfactiou in courting his Daughter if he might obtain the Honour to be accepted for his Son-in-law At which Sir Jeoffrey smiling to hear one who had been formerly married move for a Wife carried in Arms and under two years old asked him if he would stay for her to which he frankly answered him he would and Sir Jeoffrey as generously promised him he should then have his full consent And they both kept their words honourably And by this virtuous Lady he had thirteen Children ten of which he lived to see honourably married and died a Grandfather by the youngest of them Nor did she derive less honour from the collateral than the descending Line being Sister by Soul and Genius as well as Blood to these great Personages whose illustrious unspotted and resplendent Honour and Virtue and whose useful Learning and accurate Pens may attone and expiate as well as shame the scandalous Blemishes of a debauched and the many impertinencies of a scribling Age. 1. Richard the truly Right Honourable Loyal Wise and Virtuous Earl of Burlington and Cork whose life is his fairest and most laudable Character 2. The Right Honourable Roger Earl of Orery that great Poet great States-man great Soldier and great Every-thing which merits the name of Great or Good 3. Francis Lord Shannon whose Pocket-Pistol as he stiles his Book may make as wide Breaches in the Walls of the Capital as many Canons 4. And that Honourable and well known name R. Boyl Esquire that profound Philosopher accomplished Humanist and excellent Divine I had almost said Lay-Bishop as one hath stiled Sir H. Savil whose Works alone may make a Library The Female Branches also if it be lawful so to call them whose Virtues were so masculine Souls knowing no difference of Sex by their Honours and Graces by mutual reflections gave and received lustre to and from her The Eldest of which the Lady Alice was married to the Lord Baramore The Second the Lady Sarah to the Lord Digby of Ireland The Third the Lady Laetitia to the eldest Son of the Lord Goring who died Earl of Norwich The Fourth the Lady Joan to the Earl of Kildare not only Primier Earl of Ireland but the ancientest House in Christendom of that degree the present Earl being the six and twentieth or seven and twentieth of Lineal Descent And as I have heard it was that great Antiquary King Charles the First his observation that the three anientest Families in Europe for Nobility were the Veres in England Earls of Oxford and the Fitz-Geralds in Ireland Earls of Kildare and Momorancy in France 'T is observable that the present young Earl of Kildare is a mixture of the Blood of Fitz-Geralds and Veres The Fifth the Lady Katharine who was married to the Lord Vicount Ranelaugh and Mother to the present generous Earl of Ranelaugh of which Family I could have added an eminent Remark I meet with in Fuller's Worthies This Lady's Character is so signalized by her known Merit among all Persons of Honour that as I need not so I dare not attempt beyond this one word She was our Lady's Friend-Sister The Sixth the Lady Dorothy Loftus The Seventh the number of Perfection which shut up and crown'd this noble Train for the Eighth the Lady Margaret died unmarried was our excellent Lady Mary married to Charles Earl of Warwick of whom if I should use the Language of my Text I should neither despair their pardon nor fear the reproach of rudeness Many Daughters all his Daughters did virtuously but thou She was Great by her Marriage into the Noble Neighbouring Family which yet received accession to its Grandure by the lustre of her Name and Virtues But she needed neither borrowed Shades nor reflexive Lights to set her off being personally great in all natural Endowments and Accomplishments of Soul and Body Wisdom Beauty Favour Virtue Great by her Tongue for never Woman used one better speaking so gracefully promptly discreetly pertinently holily that I have oft admired the edifying words that proceeded from her Mouth Great by her Pen as you may Ex pede Herculem discover by that little taste of it the world hath been happy in the hasty fruit of one or two interrupted hours after Supper which she professed to me with a little regret when she was surprised with it's sliding into the world without her knowledge or allowance and wholly beside her expectation Great by being the greatest Mistress and Promotress not to say the Foundress and Inventress of a new Science The Art of obliging in which she attain'd that Sovereign Perfection that she reigned over all their hearts with whom she did converse Great in her nobleness of Living and in her free and splendid Hospitality Great in the unparallel'd sincerity of constant faithful condescending Friendship and for that law of kindness which dwelt in her Lips and Heart Great in her dexterity of Management Great in her quickness to apprehend the difficulties of her Affairs and where the stress and pinch lay to untie the Knot and loose and ease them Great