Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

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
A49947	Theodosius, or, The force of love a tragedy, acted by Their Royal Highnesses servants, at the Duke's Theatre / written by Nat. Lee ; with the musick betwixt the acts.	Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692.	1680 (1680)	Wing L877; ESTC R228929	46,446	85

brand me thus with Infamy And everlasting shame Thou might'st have made Thy choice without this cruel act of Death I left thee to thy will and in requital Thou hast murder'd all my Fame╌ Athen. O pardon me I lay my dying Body at your Feet And beg my Lord with my last sighs intreat you To impute the fault if 't is a fault to love And the ingratitude of Athenais To her too cruel Stars Remember too I begg'd you would not let me see the Prince Presaging what has happen'd yet my word As to our Nuptials was inviolable Theo. Ha! she is going see her languishing Eyes Draw in their Beams the sleep of death is on her Athen. Farewell my Lord alas alas Varanes To embrace thee now is not immodesty Or if it were I think my bleeding Heart Would make me criminal in Death to clasp thee Break all the tender niceties of Honour To fold thee thus and warm thee into Life For oh what Man like him cou'd Woman move O Prince belov'd O Spirit most divine Thus by my Death I give thee all my Love And seal my Soul and Body ever thine╌ Dies Theo. O Marcian O Pulcheria did not the Power Whom we adore plant all his Thunder-bolts Against Self-murderers I would perish too But as I am I swear to leave the Empire To thee my Sister I bequeath the World And yet a gift more great the Gallant Marcian On then my Friend now shew thy Roman Spirit As to her Sex fair Athenais was Be thou to thine a Pattern of true Honour Thus we 'll atone for all the present Crimes That yet it may be said in after-times No Age with such Examples cou'd compare So Great so Good so Vertuous and so Fair Ex. Omnes FINIS Epilogue THrice happy they that never writ before How pleas'd and bold they quit the safer shore Like some new Captain of the City Bands That with big looks in Finsbury Commands Swell'd with huge Ale he cries beat beat a Drum Pox o' the French-King uds bud let him come Give me ten thousand Redcoats and alloo We 'll firk his Cr●qui and his Conde too Thus the young Scriblers Mankinds sense disdain For ignorance is sure to make 'em vain But far from Vanity or dang'rous pride Our cautious Poet courts you to his side For why should you be scorn'd to whom are due All the good days that ever Authors knew If ever gay 't is you that make 'em fine The Pit and Boxes make the Poet dine And he scarce drinks but of the Criticks Wine Old Writers should not for vain glory strive But like old Mistresses think how to thrive Be fond of ev'ry thing their Keepers say At least till they can live without a Play Like one that knows the Trade and has been bit She doats and fawns upon her wealthy Cit And swears she loves him meerly for his Wit Another more untaught than a Walloon Antick and ugly like an old Baboon She swears is an accomplisht Beau-garson Turns with all winds and sails with all desires All hearts in City Town and Court she sires Young callow Lords lean Knights and driv'ling Squires She in resistless flattery finds her ends Gives thanks for Fools and makes ye all her Friends So should wise Poets sooth an awkard Age For they are Prostitutes upon the Stage To stand on points were foolish and ill-bred As for a Lady to be nice in Bed Your wills alone must their performance measure And you may turn 'em ev'ry way for pleasure FINIS A Catalogue of some Plays Printed for R. Bently and M. Magnes in Russel-Street near Covent-Garden 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 Jerusalem 2 parts Miseries of Civil-War Henry 6. with the Murder of the Duke of Glocester 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 The Fond Husband or the Plotting Sisters The Vertuous Wife or good luck at last The Fool turn'd Critick a Comedy 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 Souldier of Fortune in the Press