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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	age_n	young_a	youth_n	222	4	8.1811	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12231	The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight. Now since the first edition augmented and ended; Arcadia	Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.; Sanford, Hugh, d. 1607.	1593 (1593)	STC 22540; ESTC S111872	580,659	488

art the only author of my mischiefe Zelmane the more astonished the more she vnderstood her Madam said she whereof do you accuse me that I will not cleere my selfe Or wherein may I steed you that you may not command me Alas answered Gynecia what shall I say more Take pitty of me O Zelmane but not as Zelmane and disguise not with me in words as I know thou doost in apparell Zelmane was much troubled with that worde finding her selfe brought to this streight But as she was thinking what to answere her they might see olde Basilius passe harde by them without euer seeing them complayning likewise of loue very freshly and ending his complaint with this song Loue hauing renewed both his inuention and voyce LEt not old age disgrace my high desire O heauenly soule in humaine shape conteind Old wood in flam'de doth yeeld the brauest fire When yonger dooth in smoke his vertue spend Ne let white haires which on my face doo grow Seeme to your eyes of a disgracefull hewe Since whitenesse doth present the sweetest show Which makes all eyes doo homage vnto you Old age is wise and full of constant truth Old age well stayed from raunging humor liues Old age hath knowne what euer was in youth Old age orecome the greater honour giues And to old age since you your selfe aspire Let not old age disgrace my high desire Which being done he looked verie curiously vpon himselfe somtimes fetching a little skippe as if he had saide his strength had not yet forsaken him But Zelmane hauing in this time gotten some leasure to thinke for an answere looking vpon Gynecya as if she thought she did her some wrong Madam said she I am not acquainted with those words of disguising neither is it the profession of an Amazon neither are you a partie with whom it is to bee vsed If my seruice may please you imploy it so long as you do me no wrong in misiudgeing of mee Alas Zelmane said Gynecia I perceiue you know full little howe percing the eyes are of a true louer There is no one beame of those thoughts you haue planted in me but is able to discerne a greater cloude then you doo goe in Seeke not to conceale your selfe further from mee nor force not the passion of loue into violent extremities Nowe was Zelmane brought to an exigent when the king turning his eyes that waye thorow the trees perceiued his wife and mistres togither so that framing the most louely countenance hee could hee came straightway towardes them and at the first word thanking his wife for hauing entertained Zelmane desired her shee woulde now returne into the lodge because hee had certaine matters of estate to impart to the Ladie Zelmane The Queene being nothing troubled with ielousie in that point obeyed the kinges commaundement full of raging agonies and determinately bent that as she would seeke all louing meanes to winne Zelmane so she woulde stirre vp terrible tragedies rather then faile of her intent And so went she from them to the lodge-ward with such a battaile in her thoughts and so deadly● an ouerthrow giuen to her best resolutions that euen her bodie where the fielde was fought was oppressed withall making a languishing sickenesse waite vpon the triumph of passion which the more it preuailed in her the more it made her ielousie watchfull both ouer her daughter and Zelmane hauing euer one of them entrusted to her owne eyes But as soone as Basilius was ridde of his wiues presence falling downe on his knees O Lady saide hee which hast onely had the power to stirre vp againe those flames which had so long layne deade in mee see in mee the power of your beautie which can make olde age come to aske counsaile of youth and a Prince vnconquered to become a slaue to a stranger And when you see that power of yours loue that at lest in me since it is yours although of me you see nothing to be loued Worthy Prince answered Zelmane taking him vp from his kneeling both your manner and your speech are so straunge vnto me as I know not how to answere it better then with silence If silence please you said the king it shall neuer displease me since my heart is wholly pledged to obey you otherwise if you would vouchsafe mine eares such happinesse as to heare you they shall conuay your words to such a mind which is with the humblest degree of reuerence to receiue them I disdaine not to speake to you mightie Prince said Zelmane but I disdaine to speake to any matter which may bring my honor into question And therewith with a braue counterfeited scorne she departed from the king leauing him not so sorie for his short answere as proud in himselfe that he had broken the matter And thus did the king feeding his minde with those thoughts passe great time in writing verses and making more of himselfe then he was wont to doo that with a little helpe he would haue growne into a prettie kind of dotage But Zelmane being ridde of this louing but little-loued company Alas said she poore Pyrocles was there euer one but I that had receiued wrong and could blame no body that hauing more then I desire am still in want of that I woulde Truly Loue I must needes say thus much on thy behalfe thou hast imployed my loue there where all loue is deserued and for recompence hast sent me more loue then euer I desired But what wilt thou doo Pyrocles which way canst thou finde to ridde thee of thy intricate troubles To her whom I would be knowne to I liue in darkenesse and to her am reuealed from whom I would be most secret What shift shall I finde against the diligent loue of Basilius what shield against the violent passions of Gynecia And if that be done yet how am I the neerer to quench the fire that consumes me Well well sweete Philoclea my whole confidence must be builded in thy diuine spirit which cannot be ignorant of the cruell wound I haue receiued by you But as sicke folkes when they are alone thinke companie would relieue them and yet hauing company do find it noysome changing willingly outward obiects when indeed the euill is inward So poore Zelmane was no more weery of Basilius then she was of her selfe when Basilius was gone and euer the more the more she turned her eyes to become her owne iudges Tyred wherewith she longed to meete her friende Dorus that vpon the shoulders of friendship she might lay the burthen of sorrow and therefore went toward the other lodge where among certaine Beeches she found Dorus apparelled in flanen with a Goats skin cast vpon him and a garland of Laurell mixt with Cypres leaues on his head wayting on his master Dametas who at that time was teaching him how with his sheephooke to catch a wanton Lambe and how with the same to cast a litle clod at any one that strayed out of companie And while Dorus was