Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	speak_v	word_n	9,131	5	4.2861	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43169	The miss display'd, with all her wheedling arts and circumventions in which historical narration are detected, her selfish contrivances, modest pretences, and subtil stratagems / by the author of the first part of The English rogue.	Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?	1675 (1675)	Wing H1264; ESTC R10113	54,314	139

of these Beldams A Baudy-House or the Community of two or three Bauds and their well affected people the Wenches is as like our late Commonwealth as may be where all should share alike and the emoluments should be equally universally distributed but in effect it all comes into private hands no regard being had to those that drudge for it and sweat not with their brows for their daily provision Just as Cornelia in a great measure had got the mastery over her Mistress she perceived she was with Child which very much disordered her thoughts and was the occasion of her suddain Pensiveness and Melancholy Polyandria taking more than ordinary notice thereof was very inquisitive to know the cause but Cornelia thinking it might tend to her prejudice conceal'd it as long as she could but in a little time it discovered it self by various symptoms and appearances this Venerable Matron perceiving the cause of her unwonted sadness came one day to her with a countenance more Cheerful than usuall and said Come Daughter be not thus troubled in your thoughts the grief that thus internally afflicts you will in a short time be in your arms and then all will be well again in the mean time be of good cheer the father is able to maintain the Bantling and we will make him pay dearly for the pains he shall put you to in bringing his stolne delights into the world Cornelia was now constrein'd to tell the truth confessing she was with child and had concealed it some ten weeks that that was indiscretion quoth the Mother this should have been revealed sooner however it is well enough the father shall know of it at his next comeing and as she spake the word in came the Knight who had formerly taken notice of Cornelia's melancholy and severely check't her for 't and now finding her in the same moody posture blam'd her as before This gave Polyandria occasion to discourse him after this manner Sir I am not ignorant of what familiarity hath past between you before she came to my house and since and it is no wonder if a Person so young plump and tender as she is meet with a Person like your self middle-aged strong and lusty should conceive with child since there have been made so many endeavors between you to that end and purpose Now Sir if she be sad and melancholy her eat blame her not since she now fears a general Publication of her shame and infamy and that her reputation will be for ever ruin'd besides having never tried man before you and hearing how variable they are in their affections she is fearful after this you may desert her If that be all the cause of thy discontented countenance said he be cheerfull and assure thy self Cornelia prove but constant still and this will cause my love daily to increase and to divert her entertain'd her with pleasant discourse caressed her Affectionately treated her in her own Chamber most sumptuously and taking his leave of her left her Fifty broad pieces till his return for he was going into the County of Tipperary In his absence Polyandria consulted nothing more than where and how she should lye in what costly things to be bought and where the Child should be Nurst and all with the greatest privacy For her delivery she judgd her own house as convenient as any other but that she must then pretend that she is a Gentlewoman whose husband is gone for England about some urgent affair and that would spoil her design after she was brought to bed for she intended that she should pass for a Maid till she was detected to the contrary wherefore she pitch'd upon an obscure place and agreed with the people payin'g down twenty pounds ready money they should keep the Child and never more return it to the Parent this they greedily yielded to since they nor their frye-fathers never saw such a sum of Arraget Saffenagh English money before in their life-time The time of Child-bearing drawing on the Knight was consulted about the charge how necessary it was for her to remove into the Countrey how expensive her lying in would be having been so tenderly and Gentilely educated and that it would be altogether expedient to provide for the Child for his life-time and lest any thing should miscarry by negligence or for want of prudent management she would accompany Cornelia and stay with her till her up-rising though it would considerably prejudice her business at home since she must leave all to the guidance of her servants and so she might without any great damage for as yet she kept no pubick house having lived but a little while in that place having furnished her house very gallantly for the entertainment of Lodgers to begin with All these Items for charge of one lyng in made the Knight scratch where it did not itch but seeing there was a necessity that things must be carried privately and that the way propounded could not but be very chargeable he ordered them two hundred pounds to defray all expences a great part whereof Cornelia notwithstanding her former conquest could not keep from Polyandria Being safely delivered and secretly too without prejudice to her honor they return'd with triumph to Dublin where burroughing again Co●nelia appeard then after the purification of her body a thousand times more fair and lovely than formerly if it were possible she sweetly Bloom'd ready to Bud to the first Golden Rayes that should dart on her and her glad and greedy Foster-mother was almost made young again with the hopes her lovely and enchanting Pupill did promise her But part of her hopes were quickly dash't by the discontinuance of the Knights visits which were not so frequent as formerly more cold or indifferent and not half so beneficial It seems he was cloyd with this delicate bit sweetest meats are most subject to surfeit and was wearied with his annual charge and diurnal expences which caused his life to be so vext and discontented that he saw there was no remedy for his grief but a positive resolution to abandon this Lady Errant and be content with his domestick Recreations and that he might have a pretext to acquit himself of his Obligation to allow his Miss a considerable annuity in case of constancy he charg'd her one day seemingly in a great rage and passion with disloialty and breach of promise and as in his expressions he became discourteous and uncivil so his actions were rude and boisterous in so much that Mother-Damuable was forced to flye for it to save her a sound kicking whilst he in the mean time compel'd very unhandsomely Cornelia to deliver up to him a paper he had sign'd for the payment of the annuity aforesaid and going down the stairs he vow'd he would never see her more Poor Cornelia was so amazed at this sudden causeless change that she was in a manner senseless and seem'd to be converted into a well-fram'd white marble Statue and as that