Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	desire_n	heart_n	2,921	5	4.6692	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13377	Tarltons newes out of purgatorie Onely such a iest as his iigge, fit for gentlemen to laugh at an houre, &c. Published by an old companion of his, Robin Goodfellow.	Tarlton, Richard, d. 1588, attributed name.; Armin, Robert, fl. 1610, attributed name.	1590 (1590)	STC 23685; ESTC S102439	37,301	60

answered for that he had like a bungler made Christ so hard fauored that it was not only vnfit to stand in any church but their children were afraid to looke on it so that euery way it should greatly hinder deuotion But yet quoth the maior the poore man hath done his goodwil you must consider his hand hath b●n long out of vse therfore there is no reason though his cunning hath failde him but you should pay him his mony well syr quoth they at your request we will giue him what our bargaine was but we must buie a new rood and cannot tell what to do with the old marry neighbors quoth the Maior if he wil not serue you for a god follow my aduise clap a paire of ●ornes on his head and I warrant you hee will prooue an excellent good deuill and that sir quoth the painter will I doe ouer and beside their bargaine Thus were the poore parishioners of Doncaster mockt and yet paid their money but their Uickar so delt with bell booke and candle against the poore painter for making the ill fauoured roode that he s●s in purgatorie beaten with a Belroape The tale of the Painter being ended passing a little further I might see where sat a crew of men that woar● Baie garlands on theyr heads and they were Poets amongst which was ould Ennius Virgill Iuuenall Propertius and wanton Ouid Martiall Horace and many moe which had written lasciuious verse or other heroicall poems But aboue them all I marked ould Ronsard and he sat there with a scroule in his hand wherin was written the description of Cassandra his Mistresse and because his stile is not common nor haue I heard our English Poets write in that vaine marke it and I will rehearse it for I haue learnd it by heart RONSARDS DESCRIPTION OF his Mistresse which he weares in his hand in Purgatorie DOwne I sat I sat downe where Flora had bestowed hir graces Greene it was It was greene Far surpassing other places For art and nature did combine With sights to witch the gasers eyne There I sat I sat there viewing of this pride of places Straight I saw I saw straight the sweetest faire of all faire faces Such a face as did containe Heauens shine in euery vaine I did looke Looke did I and there I saw Appollos wyers Bright they were They were bright with them Auroras head he tiers But this I woondred how that now They shadowed in Cassandras brow Still I gazde I gazde still spying Lunas milke white glase Comixt fine Fine comixt with the mornings ruddie blase This white and red their seating seekes Vpon Cassandraes smiling cheekes Two stars then Then two stars passing Sunne or Moone in shine Appearde there There appearde and were forsooth my Mistres ●ine From whence prowde Cupid threw his fiers To set a flame all mens desiers Brests shee had Shee had brests white like the siluer doue Lie there did There did lie Cupid ouergrowne with loue And in the vale that parts the paine Pitcht his tent there to remaine This was shee Shee was this the fairest faire that ere I see I did muse Muse did I how such a creature found could be A voice replied from the Aire Shee alone and none so faire This was Ronsards description of his Mistres and he is for●ll to hold it in his hande that euery time hee cast● his eies on it he may with ●ghs féel a secret torment in that he once loued toomuch being aliue A little aboue ●ate the gh● of a young gentlewoman that had béene false to hir husband shée shoulde haue béene grieuously tormented but that shée bestowed an annuity for thrée yeares pension vpon a morrow masse priest who so laboured it with dirges trentals and masses Ad requiem that shée had no other punishment but this that hir beautifull haire wherein shee so much delighted and whose tramels was a traine to intrappe young gentlemen that nowe was clipt off bare to the scull and so shée sate ashamde and mourning the cause as I learnde was this Why the gentlewoman of Lions sate with hir haire clipt off in Purgatorie IN the Citie of Lions there dwelt a gentleman of good account amongst his neighbors called Monsieur Perow this gentleman hauing lands and reuenues sufficient to maintaine his estate thought fully to heape to himselfe content and therefore sought out a yong virgin of equall parentage to himselfe with whom he had a sufficient dowry and hir he loued and shée likte him and so they maried liuing in good estimation amongst their Tenants As they were thus linked together in wedlocke so it séemde in outward appearance that they were so strictly tied in affection as no meanes might alienate But women whom nature hath framde to be inconstant cannot be altred by nurture The Palme will grow straight though it bee neuer so depressed and a wanton will bee a wanton were shee married to Cupid and so it proude by Maria for so was the gentlewomans name who because shée was faire had many Sutors that attempted to bee riuals with hir husband in hir loue amongst the rest as shée resolued to choose one there was a yong amorous youth of Lions calde Pier he sought diuers meanes to créepe into hir fauor past by hir house and cast vp looks that pleaded for pitty and had banded him again glances that foreshewed good will Thus with interchange of fauours they liued Pier séeking oportunity how to reueale his minde to Maria at last as hee walked one day forth the towne he saw where shee was walking only with one of hir maides taking therefore oportunity by the forehead he stept to hir and beganne to court hir with sundry protestations of his loue which had béen long and so surely set as no dispaire coulde race out promising not onely to be a faithfull seruant in constancie but to bee so carefull of hir honour as of his owne life for your grauitie think Mistres quoth he that faults in affections are fleight follics that Venus hath shrines to shade hir trewants Cupids wings are shelters for such as venter far to content their thoughts vnseene is halfe pardoned and loue requires not chastity but that hir Souldiers be chary Maria hearing the wag thus play the Orator hauing loue in hir eies and desire in heart after a fewe faint denials thrusting him away with the little ●inger and pulling him to hir with the whole hande shée graunted him that fauour to be cald hir seruant Grarde thus he grewe in such credite that there was no man with Maria but Pier hauing thus a loue beside hir husband although hee was a faire man and well featured yet shée found fault with him because he was a meacocke and a milkesoppe not daring to drawe his sworde to reuenge hir wrongs wherefore shee resolued to entertaine some Souldier and so shée did for one Signor Lamberto a braue Gentleman but some thing harde facde sought hir fauour and founde it and him shée

and whether shée likt him or no the match was made vp and in short time shée was married The poore wench was bound to the stake and had not onely an olde impotent man but one that was so iealous as none might enter into his house without suspition nor shée doe any thing without blame the least glance the smallest countenance any smile was a manifest instance to him that shée thought of others better then himselfe thus he himselfe liued in a hell and tormented his wife in as ill perpleritie At last it chaunced that a young Gentleman of the Citie comming by hir house and seeing hir looke out at hir windowe noting hir rare and excellent proportion fell in loue with hir and that so extreamely as his passions had no meanes till hir fauour might mittigate his heartsicke discontent The young man that was ignorant in amorous matters and had neuer béene vsed to Court anie Gentlewomen thought to reueale his passions to some one friend that might giue him counsaile for the winning of hir loue and thinking experience was the surest Maister on a day seeing the olde Doctour walking in the Churche that was Margarets husbande little knowing who he was he thought this the fittest man to whom he might discouer his passions for that hee was olde and knewe much and was a Phisition that with his drugges might helpe him forward in his purposes so that séeing the olde man walke solitary hee ioind vnto him and after a curteous salute tolde him that he was to impart a matter of great import vnto him wherein if hee woulde not onely be secrete but indeuour to pleasure him his paines should bee euery way to the full considered You must imagine gentleman quoth Mutio for so was the Doctors name that men of our profession are no blabs but hold their secrets in their hearts bottome and therfore reueale what you please it shall not onely be concealed but cured if either my Art or counsail may do it Upon this Lionel so was the yong gentleman called tolde and discourst vnto him from point to point howe he was fallen in loue with a gentlewoman that was maried to one of his profession discouered hir dwelling and the house and for that hee was vnacquainted with the woman and a man little experienced in loue matters he required his fauour to further him with his aduise Mutio at this motion was stung to the heart knowing it was his wife hee was fallen in loue withall yet to conceale the matter and to experience his wiues chastity and that if shée plaid false he might be reuengde on them both he dissembled the matter and answered that hee knewe the woman very well and commended hir highly but said shée had a Churle to hir husband and therefore he thought shée woulde bee the more tractable trie hir man quoth hee saint heart neuer woonne faire Ladie and if shée will not be brought to the bent of your bowe I will prouide such a potion as shall dispatch all to your owne content and to giue you further instructions for oportunitie know that hir husband is forth euery after noone from thrée till sixe Thus farre I haue aduised you because I pitty your passions as my selfe being once a louer but now I charge thée reucale it to none whomsoeuer least it doo disp●rage my credit to meddle in amorous matters The yoong Gentleman not onely promised al carefull secrecie but gaue him harty thanks for his good counsell promising to méete him there the next day and tell him what newes Then hee left the old man who was almost mad for feare his wife any way should play false he saw by experience braue men came to besiege the castle and séeing it was in a womans custodie and had so weake a gouernor as himselfe he doubted it would in time be deliuered vp which feare made him almost frantike yet he driude of the time in great torment til he might heare from his riual Lionello he hasts him home and sutes him in his brauery and goes downe towards the house of Mutio where he sées hir at the window whome he courted with a passionate looke with such an humble salute as she might perceiue how the Gentleman was affectionate Margareta looking earnestly vpon him and noting the perfection of his proportion accompted him in hir eye the flower of all Pisa thinkte hir selfe fortunate if she might haue him for hir fréend to supply those defaults that she found in Mutio sundry times that afternoone he past by hir window and he cast not vp more louing lookes then he receiued gratious fauoures which did so incourage him that the next day betwéene thrée and sixe hee went to hir house and knocking at the doore desired to speake with the Mistres of the house who hearing by hir maids description what he was commaunded him to come in where she interteined him with all curtesie The youth that neuer before had giuen the attempt to court a Ladie began his exordium with a blush and yet went forward so well that hee discourst ●nto hir howe hee loued hir and that if it might please hir so to accept of his seruice as of a friend euer vowde in all dutie to bee at hir commaunde the care of hir honour should bee deerer to him then his life and he would be ready to prise hir discontent with his bloude at all times The Gentlewoman was a little coye but before they past they concluded that the next day at foure of the clock he should come thither and eate a pounde of cheries which was resolued on with a succado des labres and so with a loath to depart they tooke their leaues Lionello as ioyfull a man as might be hyed him to the church to méete his ould Doctor where he found him in his ould walke what newes syr quoth Mutio how haue you sped Euen as I can wish quoth Lionello For I haue béene with my Mistresse and haue found hir so tractable that I hope to make the ould peasaunt hir husband looke broad headed by a paire of browantlers How déepe this stroake into Mutios heart let them imagine that can coniecture what ielousie is in so much that the ould Doctor askt when should be the time marry quoth Lionello to morrow at foure of the clock in the afternoone and then Maister Doctor quoth hee will I dub the ould Squire knight of the forked order Thus they past on in chat till it grew late and then Lionello went home to his lodging and Mutio to his house couering all his sorrowes with a merry countenance with full resolution to reuenge them both the next day with extremitie He past the night as patientlye as he could and the next day after dinner away he went watching when it should bee foure of the clocke at the houre iust came Lionello and was intertained with all curtesie but scarce had they kist ere the maide cryed out to hir Mistresse that hir Maister was at the