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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	line_n	page_n	read_v	4,280	5	9.9304	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14040	The garland of a greene vvitte Discouering the constancie of Calipolis. A precious spectacle for wanton wiues, fit to be read of all sorts, if oportunitie serue. Profitable to some, and pleasant to all saue the enuious. By R. Turnar.	Turner, Richard, poet.	1595 (1595)	STC 24345; ESTC S111487	22,710	40

Lewis ouer-cloyed griefes will cause thy hart to burst hadest thou first dyed when first thou gazedst on the Bassalisk then hadst thou perished before desire begunne but now begunne I heere expect but death nay worse then death Deniall of that Saint in whom I haue shrowded my affection that Goddesse whom I in heart adore Could I but gayne her loue then Lewis were thrise blessed aboue all yea but I feare she wil not loue why Lewis is a King therfore may cōmaund Foolish man abollish this fond determination trampell loues branches vnder thy féete least they sproute vp to thy heart bridell thy affection for entering at the eye it harbors at the hart and hauing ●●oke good hand-fast it indangers the whole body That Cice●●es tongue cannot preuaile nor Circes charmes Calipsoes inchauntments Archimedas circles Rhombus rifraffe bee a medicine for that malady Fond man whilst thou sits drawing of Mathematicall fictions the enemy stands with a sword at thy breast and he that talketh much and dooth little is like to him that sayles with a side winde and is borne with the tyde to a wrong shore After he had bewayled his passions and could not abollish that fond determination hee pulled out a letter charging his Page to poste with it vnto Calipolis where nowe I le rest and come to King Fredericke who had kindled such hote coales as al the water in the world coulde not quench who vttered these spéeches wrapt in a world of woes consumed in a Laborinth of cares Poore soule I tosse I tumble too and fro one while I think on this another while I pause on that and so twixt hope and dread I liue though liuing die and loue is the cause of this calamitie Fickle Fortune still froward vnto me desembling fauors with so kinde a friend fancie is entertained at my hart affection lodgeth in thys tender breast delayes deludeth mee from my deere delight and loue is cause of all this cruel spight Imps of reuenge yée fatall sisters thrée come Atropos vntwist my thread in twayne and by your Destinies come worke mée thys despight robbed of the swéet that rauished my soule I starue with Mydas and thirst with Tantalus burning like the vnquenchable flames of Aetna ouerflowing like Nilus in thy loue I search I séeke and yet I cannot gaine and loue alas hath wrought mée all this paine Whilst hee was thus breathing out his passions came the Page with the Letter who questioning with the boy after certaine communication had shewed King Fredericke the Letter who looking on the superscription opened the same and ouerlooked the secrets therein which tended to this effect The Letter SWéet Goddesse of my harts sole affection brighter in beauty then Auroraes blush that beautifies the siluered skyes fayrer in glory then the turkish Carbuncle or the rar shyning Christolit from whose inchaunting face a thousand charmes descends thorowe the imperiall Orb and makes men liue a subiect vnto loue no sooner had my eyes beheld Dame Natures workes and with the Eagle gazed against the sunne but loue had giuen such a brauado to my breast as nought but death can alter my affection Therefore know sweete Saint that the sting of a Hornet is to be healed a pricke with the bone of a Dolphyn is healed by musick but he that is wounded with the Scorpion must be healed by the same Therefore sweete deeme not of my loue otherwise then I deserue for I haue heard it sayd there is more content in a Countrey Cottage then a Kings Pallace Solinus the Turkish Emperor made more account of a poore milke-mayde then the King of Hungaries Daughter Diogenes commended one in a home-spunne gray gowne more then one that shyned in silken robes alluding to the Lapidarians that choose not stones for beauty but vertue the Diamond is bright yet a deadly poyson the glorious coate hides the venemous Snake the gréenest trées the fuller of Caterpillers the Bassaliske lurketh in the clearest fountaine the sweetest wine the most filthy dregs the fuller of beauty the flower is the emptier of vertue resembling the beautifull Roses in Barbary that perrish in the prime or the hearb Soli that being croped looseth both colour and vertue the apples of Tantalus that touched turne to ashes But to be briefe swéete loue you know my estate to be restlesse such is louers content and if thou hast reason to deeme of snow by the whitenes or trees by the blossomes thou mayst easily perceaue by the furrowes in my face which deciphers the sorrowes of my soule that thou art she yea thou art onely she is mistresse and commaunder of my heart my Diadem and all I haue Were it to win thy loue and make thee Empresse of the world I would vndertake the taske with Alexander Thus restlesse flowing in the tempestious seas of my loue I rest at your friendly liking the procurer of my life or your deniall the finisher of dayes Yours for euer though neuer Lewis King of Fraunce Fredericke hauing read the Letter vnderstood the lines and marking the meaning of euery minnom began in this manner deliuering the Letter backe to the Page and commaunding him to make spéed Amorous man thys kinde writing shewes thy interior affection the painting of these fine phrases deciphers an inward dissembling What Kings are to gaze at starres and not to stumble on stones Stay Fredericke therein thou pinchest thy selfe by the elbow Medium tenere tuissimum est the meane is sweete melody strings high stretched eyther soone cracke or quickly grow out of tune Attempt not with Phaeton least thou drowne with Icarus a homely place harbors more content then a Kings Court Vertue is not shrowded vnder beauties wings it is often shadowed with the home-spunne coate Fonde Fredericke what hast thou done eaten with the Deare against the winde or yéelded with the Harts in Calabria that knowing Dictanum poyson still bruse it with greedines or grazed against the bowe till thou art striken with the boult Hast thou sored with the Eagle against the Sunne till thou art dazeled Foolish man thy rash dooing is more preiudiciall then thy forward affection Thou hast made thy friend thy foe encurred Lewis his displeasure by ouer-looking his secrets Whilst hée was thus solitary vnloding his secrets came the Page back who brought worde of Calipolis death which heauie tyding was such a corrosiue to Fredericks hart that taking his pen in hand after hée had vttered these lines folowing hee framed a mournfull Dittie of her death and so béeing wardly gréeued he departed from Fraunce Héer 's heapes of newes vnto a wounded hart Calipolis in whom I ioyed most is dead Dead is that ioy wherein I tooke delight Fled is delight and sorrow takes the place Sorrow gins to harbor at my hart Hart swels with vnexpected greefes Greefe is begunne all pleasure bids adiew Adiew to worlds content on earth Earth all earthly ioyes are fled my hart And care hath compast euery little part And more to adde