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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	church_n	day_n	dedicate_v	1,586	5	10.9303	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51924	Maria misera miseranda, or, A brief relation of the life and death of an unfortunate young maid in the county of Desmond in Ireland together with the most horrid murder of her lover, an English-man, committed by the father of the said virgin.		1674 (1674)	Wing M597A; ESTC R13332	6,997	12

Maria Misera Miseranda Or A brief RELATION OF THE Life and Death OF An Unfortunate Young Maid IN THE COUNTY of DESMOND IN IRELAND Together with the Most Horrid Murder of her LOVER an English-man committed by the FATHER of the said VIRGIN Very Strange and True LONDON Printed for R. T. at the Crown in Little-Britain 1674. Maria Misera Miseranda OR A brief Relation of the Life and Death of an Vnfortunate young Maid in the County of Desmond in Ireland IN the most Western parts of the Kingdom of Ireland where the County of Desmond opposes its tripple head to the surging Ocean there is scituate upon the banks of a slender Torrent neer Dingle Bay a very magnificent Castle known by the name of Kerbre and hard by the same another fair Mannor House which for its convenient opportunity of Sea and various recreations by Land dilated on the one side into spacious Fields and pleasant rising Hillocks and bounded on the other with gay Medows fresh Springs and solitary Groves has for these many years been honored with the Habitation of an Antient and right Noble Family whose Name the sadness of the subsequent Story gave me sufficient cause to conceal The Heir now living was in the eighteenth year of his Age contracted to a young Maid in the same County who did so well answer her Bridegroom in Quality and Comliness that they were not unjustly accounted The most happy and Lovely Pair in all those parts But these were only the Preludiums of that happiness which was consummated in their Nuptial bed whither although in modesty I dare not follow them yet doe's the event sufficiently declare that there also was nothing wanting in either party whereby to advance and Crown their long expected Bliss For the full space of five months had scarce past beyond the Wedding-day when sweet Helena by the unusual vicissitudes of Blushes and Paleness in her Cheeks and sudden Qualms in her Stomach gave evident tokens that of a Virgin she was made a Mother Joyful news this we need not doubt both to her Friends and especially her dear Husband who from so fair a Wife could not but expect a more than ordinary Child and so indeed it was for when the long expected hour was come Behold a Daughter came laughing into the world A Babe of such admirable Form and Features as might easily presage her future advancement to the highest seat in Loves Empire The Resemblance and Idea of both Parents were plainly seen in this little Model but so sweetly interwoven one with another that you would have thought Nature like some skilful Painter had pourtrayed the chiefest excellencies of them both into one Copy of the Daughter and lest notwithstanding she should seem too sparing in her blessings added an extraordinary and unheard of Ornament to the upper part of her Breast in the middle of which was the picture of a fresh Primrose so lively drawn that at a very small distance it seemed natural 'T were in vain here in dull words to attempt an essay of that joy which this Creature brought into the world with it and therefore I leave it rather to the Rhetorick of a pure-thinking mind abundantly more capacious of so large a subject The eighth day of her age was celebrated with a huge confluence of Kinsfolks and Acquaintance for the giving of her a Name which after the Roman Ceremony was in a Church dedicated to St. Mary very solemnly performed and because that Saint is reputed amongst the Catholicks as the glory of all her Sex what other name so fit to adorn this Babe which promised so fair an advance to her nature Hereafter therefore let her be call'd Mary Lovely and Happy Mary in the first of her days although much more miserable in the end As for her Education it was every way worthy her own person and defective in nothing whereby to perfect the Blessings of Nature by the accomplishment of Art For the years of her Infancy being expired under her Mothers care she was then removed to the Court of Rome where she continued under the Inspection of a very Noble Personage for eight years together In which time 't is a wonder how admirable she grew in all those Endowments which adorn the Female Sex For beside her great knowledg in three or four several Tongues History and Philosophy she played excellently upon many Musical Instruments and yet of all these none so sweet as the undulations of her Seraphick Voice which to hear and admire were things unseperably united She Danced with an incomparable Majesty and huge-taking gesture and discoursed in as eloquent a Stile as most Romances In short there was nothing desirable which was not in an eminent degree in this Virgin and yet above all was the excellency of her Person which by the fourteenth year of her Age was arrived at a perfection beyound the ken of a vulgar imagination There you might behold the sweet Strokes and Harmonious Composure of most Lovely Features gilded over with an Incomperable Beauty without and garnished with a meek Spirit Virgin Modesty most virteous and capacious Soul within There you might feast the Eye without weariness the Ear without dulness and the Touch I am sure without repenting None that ever saw her could have desired a better and whosoever could heartily content himself with a worse knew not the extent of his own happiness But the sweet Lady was totally ignorant of all these and she who at her first entrance into Rome knew none more than her self nor was beknown of any doe's now know none less although beknown of all Now amongst those many which were Suitors to her in their thoughts the first which made his open address was one Don Antonio Heir to a Senator of great Wealth and Quality Who approaching neer to do his Devoir to her in a Salute was cast into such an extasie by the splendour of her Countenance forced him rudely to retreat without the Libation of her Sweet Lips This did not a little discompose the Lady and made her ask him very sincerely whether any thing about her had done him harm But assoon as he had with tears in his eyes related the cause and bowing at her feet disclosed his Passion for her She then smiling said I hope Sir you are more tender of your Honor than to stoop so low as me beneath your own deserts and I assure you my Ambition is not large enough to entertain such large proffers My Equal shall be my Bridegroom when ever I enter that holy State and therefore I intreat you desist from this enterprize which may justly defame you and can never please me The Young Man had heard enough to stop the Current of his Rhetorick and thefore gazing a while upon her with a gastly countenance he departed the Room replying never a word only 't was thought by the working of his breast he would have spoken but could not Nor had the Horned Racer of the