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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	exact_a	good_a	great_a	62	3	2.1122	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40691	Triana, or, A threefold romanza of Mariana. Paduana. Sabina	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1655 (1655)	Wing F2470A; ESTC R221237	41,758	158

TRIANA Or a Threefold ROMANZA Of Mariana Of Paduana Of Sabina Omne tulit Punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci LONDON Printed for John Stafford and are to be sold at his House at the George at Fleet-bridge 1655. To the Reader IT is hard to say whether it is worst to be Idle or ill imploy'd whilst I have eschewed the former I have fallen on the latter and shall by the severer sort be censured for mispending my time Let such I pray heare my Plea and I dare make my accusers my Judges herein that is not lost time which aimes at a good end Sauce is as lawfull as meat recreation as Labour it hath pleased me in composing it I hope it may delight others in perusing it I present not a Translation out of the Spanish or from the Italian Originall this is the common Pander to mens fancy hoping to vent them under that title with the more applause These my play-labours never appeared before and is an essay of what hereafter may be a greater volume Things herein are composed in a generall proportion to truth and we may justly affirme Vera si non scribimus scribimus veri similia I will not be deposed for the exact variety of the gravest passages in the greatest historian a Liberty hath ever been allowed to fancies of this nature alwaies provided that they confine themselves within the bounds of probability Thus wishing every faithfull Lover Feliciano's happinesse every good wife Facundo's Love every true servant servant Gervia's fortune every Maiden-Lady Fidelio's constant affection every faithfull friend Vejetto's successe every clownish foole Insuls his mishap and every cruell wanton Nicholayo's deserved punishment I leave thee to the perusall hereof censure not so rigidly lest you blast a budding Writer in the blossoming of his endeavours TRIANA MARIANA IN the City of Valentia Metropolis of the Kingdome so named which with many other Dominions are the tributary ●●ooks discharging themselves into ●e Ocean of the Spanish Monarchy ●welt one Don Durio a Merchant of ●●eat repute For as yet the envious ●●nds had not as at this day ob●●ructed the Haven in the Valentia but ●●at it was the principall port in ●●ose parts This Don Durio had advanced an ●tate much by Parcimony more by ●apine being halfe a Jew by his extraction and more then three quarters thereof by his Conditions being a notorious oppressor But growne very aged and carrying his Eyes in his pockett Teeth in his Sheath and Feete in his Hands he began with remorse to reflect on the former part of his Life with some thoughts of restitution to such whom he had most injured This his intention he communicated to one Francisco a Frier and his Confessor Francisco was glad to see such a qualme of Religion come over his heart and resolved to improve it to the uttermost Hee perswades him that restitution was a thing difficult and almost impossible for one in his condition so many were the particular persons by him wronged the shortest and sures● way was for him to consigne his only Daughter Mariana to be a Nun in the Priory of St. Brigett and to endow that Covent with all hi● Lands which exemplary piece o● his liberality would not only wit● the lustre thereof out-shine all his former faults but also be a direction to posterity how to regulate their estates on the like occasion Don Durio though flinty of himself yet lately softned with Age and sicknesse entertaines the motion not onely with contentment but with delight and will not be a day older before the same be effected But there was a materiall person whose consent herein must be cōsulted with even Mariana his Daughter who had not one ounce of Nuns flesh about her as whom nature had intended not as a dead stake in a hedge to stand singly in the place but as a plant to fructifie for posterity Besides she had assured her self to one Fidelio a Gentlemā of such merit that though his vertues started with great disadvantage clogg'd with the waite of a necessitous fortune yet such the strength and swiftnes thereof that he very speedily came not being above the years of two and twenty to the marke of a publique reputation but these things were carried so closely between them and all leakes of superstition were so cunningly made up that neither friend nor foe had gained the least glimps of their intentions Don Durio Francisco being in his presencc importunes his Daughter a hard taske to bury her beauty under a vaile and become a Frigittine What he propounded with a fatherly bluntnesse Francisco sharpens with the edge of his wit heightning the happinesse of a recluded Life to the Skie and above it A discourse very unwelcome to Marianaes Eares racketted between two dangers on either side If she surrender her selfe herein to her Fathers will she is undone and wha● she values above herselfe Fidelio i● ruined If she deny she exposeth he● selfe to the just censure of disobedience yea it puts a light into the hand of her suspitious Fathers therby to discover her intentions that her affections being preingaged obstructed the acceptance of this Motion No time is allowed her to advise in a moment almost she must consult and conclude and resolved at last to comply with her Fathers desires for the present not despairing but that courteous time in the processe thereof would tender unto her some advantage whereby hereafter she might make a faire evasion But her Father hurries her in her present attire as good enough for a mortified mind without allowing her respit of of exchanging unto the Covent Francisco leades the way Don Durio followes and Mariana comes last her countenance was neither so sad as to betray any discontent nor so blith and cheerefull as to proclaime any likenesse therein but so reduced and moderately composed as of one that well understood both what she was leaving off and what she was entring into And if the falling of a few teares moistened her cheekes it was excusable in one now taking her farewell of her former friends and her Father beheld the same as the Argument of good nature in her Ringing the Bell at the Covent Gate the watchfull Porter takes the Alarum and presently opens for though it was something difficult for strangers to have excesse into the Covent yet the presence of Frier Francisco was as strong as any Petar to make the sturdiest gate in the Covent pliable to his admission Out comes the Lady Abbesse who had now passed Sixty winters and carried the repute of a grave and Sanctimonious Matron A strict discipliner she was of the least wantonnesse of any committed to her charge reputed by most to her virtuous dispositiō but ascribed by others to her envy driving away those delights from others which formerly had flowne away from her selfe Francisco with a short speech acquaints her with the cause of their comming surrenders Mariana to be a Probationer in their house whom the Abbesse