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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	year_n	young_a	youth_n	481	4	8.3378	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33015	Elise, or, Innocencie guilty a new romance / translated into English by Jo. Jennings ...; Elise. English	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Jennings, John, Gent.	1655 (1655)	Wing C413; ESTC R6950	123,482	158

and survive the grave And many times our Timoleon would suddenly say to his son Bring me a daughter that I may resigne The house to her who must keep me and mine But this young Lord which we will call Philippin without much disguising the name he received at his birth very neer that of the famous Apostle which converted the Eunuch of the Queen of Candace applying himself to games and pastimes conformable to his humour and his years gave little attention to these fatherly admonitions for what can one ingrave upon a Mercury not fixt or upon a running water which is never firm Hunting is the principal exercise of this Adonis for to what could this generous and noble spirit addict himself better then to this occupation which is in peace the lively image of war Timoleon goes sometimes but rarely and sometimes to those which had more strength for the benefit or if you will the ill effect of years began now to make him unable for these exercises he loves his stable better then the following hounds or the prey then to hunt it On the contrary Philippin delighteth rather in the pursuit then to see it in the dish The young Gentlemen thereabouts came often to this young Lord he is much made of honoured and respected of all as it is the custom of Courtiers to adore rather the sun rising then the going down Whilst the Father feasts it with the aged Philippin spits the woods in company of the youth like that young Ascanio neer the Prince of the Poets of the Romans full of strength and valour he asks no more but even to encounter some huge Bore or furious Wolf or some old Stag to shew his strength by the greatness of his prize But after so many preys he becomes a prey after so many prizes he himself is taken and all his strength thrown to the ground not by the teeth of a cruel Bore nor by the horns of a Stag nor by a ravenous Wolf but by the glance of an eye worse then that of Basilisk for this glance is his death and which is worse a miserable death There was in a fair valley very neer to Bellerive a little house belonging to a Gentleman that was Tenant to Timoleon the situation of which shall be the occasion to call it Vaupre by reason it was invironed with delicate meadows and pleasant brooks which made the seat very delightfull and pleasing you would have said having seen it though little but very well composed and trussed together that it shewed like a nosegay in the midst of a garden of sweet flowers It was possest by a Master in goods of fortune poor but of a brave and resolute courage which will be well known in this our history under the name of Pyrrhe without altering his own but in one letter This same had of children a son and a daughter sprung from a mother generous in all her actions which we will name Valentine So that as Eagles do not ingender Doves these Children were nothing but courage and generosity The daughter which we must call Isabella brought into this condition by her brother which shall be known under the name of Harman leaving in her most tender yeares the occupations ordinary to her sexe gave herself to exercises of arms and hunting with such strength and address that she was much admired of all the neighbourhood and esteemed another Amazon Her Father liking this humour in her was well pleased to see her ride a horse like man to run at the ring and to vault to fence and handle a harquebuzer and to these contributed his own help and industry The mother was not displeased as judging there was no point of honour lost of which she was very jealous So now as things strange and new are most esteemed so these qualities extraordinary gave such a fame to this maid that all the vallies did resound of nothing but her praises and the eccho's gave an envy to the hearers to see this wonder to all those that heard of her There was no assembly of hunting where she was not yet always accompanied with either her father or brother And as she was alone in her fashions so she shewed with so much the more advantage and always accompanied with so much modesty as her presence unaccustomed filled the hearts and eyes of the beholders with admiration and astonishment For she had been very well brought up very ready in any thing she undertook she spake with great discretion her actions were composed and at pleasure detained and although she gave som what a lively natural liking to these exercises so far from her condition yet nevertheless it was with so much simplicity and so little vanity as if malice it self should have strove to have bit she made herself not only irreprehensible but commendable And would to God that she had either continued in these terms or that she had been retained within the bounds of those exercises fitting her sexe we should not then see her defamed as she will be nor the only instrument of these tragick businesses the which bloodies the course of this History The reputation of this Diana was not long before it came to the ears of Philippin the which more for curiosity then for any affection he had ever experimented desired to see her a hors-back and made this request to her father whom he saw often who would not deny so small a courtesie to his Landlords son and the which should one day be his chief jewel There is a match made for hunting the Stag Pyrrhe and Herman bring Isabella to the sport who without any other design then that which all those of her sexe have to seem pleasing to the eyes of those which did with curiosity consider her put herself in such order as her natural graces not being small were much heightened with art that it was very easie for her to draw upon her the eyes of all that troop I will not trouble my self with the description of her form nor of the habit For although the picture of her fashion might much set forth and beautifie this discourse being dressed yet nevertheless to shew the beauty of vertue and deformity of vice rather then to present corporal perfections it shall suffice me to shew the cause by the effect in saying that fire takes not hold so soon of the Nap●h● of Babylon or of the herb called Aproxis as this of Love seised on the heart of this young Philippin at the presence of this object which appeared to him the fairest that ever he had seen The sight of his person was so ravished in this contemplation carrying such a dimness into that of his understanding that he lost both his liberty and the knowledge of himself so as may be said of him these words of an antient Poet His optick-nerves when this star shin'd Were Planet-smitten and turn'd blind This great blow struck him in such sort as he remained pensive and astonished all