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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	husband_n	sister_n	wife_n	31,415	5	10.2119	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30847	The unhappy favourite, or, The Earl of Essex a tragedy : acted at the Theatre Royal by Their Majesty's servants / written by John Bankes.	Banks, John, d. 1706.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.	1682 (1682)	Wing B663; ESTC R10948	49,320	86

Success Exeunt Omnes EPILOGUE By Mr. DRYDEN WE Act by Fits and Starts like drowning Men But just Peep up and then Dop down again Let those who call us Wicked change their Sence For never Men liv'd more on Providence Not Lott'ry Cavaliers are half so poor Nor Broken Cits nor a Vacation Whore Not Courts nor Courtiers living on the Rents Of the Three last ungiving Parliaments So wretched that if Pharoah could Divine He might have spar'd his Dream of Seven lean Kine And chang'd the Vision for the Mases Nine The Comet which they say Portends a Dearth Was but a Vapour drawn from Play-house Earth Pent here since our last Fire and Lilly sayes Fore-shows our change of State and thin Third dayes 'T is not our want of Wit that keeps us Poor For then the Printers Press would suffer more Their Pamphleteers their Venom dayly spit They thrive by Treason and we starve by Wit Confess the truth which of you has not laid To the Upper Gallery Four Farthings out to buy the Hatfield Maid Or what is duller yet and more to spight us Democritus his Wars with Heraclitus These are the Authors that have run us down And Exercise you Critticks of the Town Yet these are Pearls to your Lampooning Rhimes Y' abuse your selves more dully than the Times Scandal the Glory of the English Nation Is worn to Rags and Scribled out of Fashion Such harmless thrasts as if like Foncers Wise You had agreed your Play before the Prize Faith you may hang your Harps upon the Willows 'T is just like Children when they Box with Pillows Then put an end to Civil Wars for shame Let each Knight Errant who has wrong'd a Dame Throw down his Pen and give her if he can The satisfaction of a Gentleman PROLOGUE Intended to be spoken Written by the Author T IS said when the Renown'd Augustus Reign'd That all the World in Peace and Wealth Remain'd And though the School of Action War was o're Arms Arts and Letter 's then increas'd the more All these sprung from our Royal Virgins Bays And flourish'd better than in Caesar's Dayes And only in her time at once was seen So brave a Soldier States-man and a Queen Essex and Burleigh Her Reign may be compar'd to that above As the best Poet Caesar's did to Jove For as great Julius built the mighty'st Throne And left Rome's first large Empire to his Son Vnder whose weight till her we all did groan So her great Father was the first that struck Rome's Triple Crown but she threw off the Yoak Straight at her Birth new Light the Heav'ns adorn'd Which more than Fifteen hundred years had mourn'd But hold I 'm bid to let you understand That when our Poet took this work in Hand He trembl'd straight like Prophets in a Dream Her awful Genius stood and threaten'd him Her modest Beauties only he has shown And has her Character so nicely drawn That if her self in purest Robes of Light Shou'd come from Heav'n and bless us with her sight She wou'd not blush to hear what he has Writ Therefore To all the shining Sex this Play 's addrest But more the Court the Plannets of the rest You who on Earth are Man's best softest Fate So that when Heav'n with some ruff Peace has met It sends him you to would and new Create Strange wayes to Virtue some may think to prove But yet the best and surest Path is Love Love like the Ermine is so nice a Guest It never enters in a vitious Breast If you are pleas'd we will be bold to say This modest Poem is the Ladies Play FINIS A Catalogue of some Plays Printed for R. Bently and M. Magnes in Russel-Street near Covent-Garden ALL the Tragedies and Comedies of Francis Beumont and Iohn Flesher in one Volume containing fifty one Plays Tartuff or the French Puritan Forc'd Marriage or the Jealous Bride English Monsieur All Mistaken or the mad Couple Generous Enemies Andromacha A Tragedy Calisto or the Masque at Court Country-Wit A Comedie Destruction of Ierusalem 2 parts Miseries of Civil War Henry the 6th with the Murder of the Duke of Glocester in 2 parts Nero a Tragedie Gloriana a Tragedie Sophonisba or Hanibals overthrow Alexander the Great or the Rival Queens Mithridates King of Pontus Caesar Borgia Son of Pope Alexander 6. Oedipus King of Thebes Theodosius or the Force of Love The Plain Dealer The Town-Fop or Sir Timothy Taudry Abdellazar or the Moors Revenge Madam Fickle or the Witty False one Books Printed this Year The Fond Husband or the Plotting Sisters The Vertuous Wife or good luck at last The Fool turn'd Critick a Comedie Squire Oldsap or the Night Adventurers The Mistaken Husband a Comedy Mr. Limberham or the Kind Keeper Notes and observations on the Empress of Morocco The Orphan or unhappy Marriage The Souldiers Fortune Sertorius A Tragedie Tamberlain the Great King Lear. The Vnhappy Favourite or the Earl of Essex Thyestes a Tragedy Othello the Moor of Venice Novels Printed this Year 1680. The Amours of the King of Tamaran The Amours of the French King and Madam Lanilar The Amours of Madam and the Count de-Guich The Pilgrim A Satyrical Novel on the horrible Villanies of those Persons The Secret History of the Earl of Essex and Queen Elizabeth The Policy of the Clergie of France to suppress the Protestants of that Kingdom