Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	speak_v	true_a	word_n	8,834	5	4.4618	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29300	The triumph of love over fortune a pleasant novel / written in French by that great wit of France, M. St. Bremond ; and translated into English by a person of quality.; Triomphe de l'amour sur le destin. English	Brémond, Gabriel de.; Person of quality.	1678 (1678)	Wing B4357; ESTC R1287	48,728	160

her to be Dorothy and I must be broad awake to believe her my Wife The King made him no answer and the discourse was carried on so far that at last they promised one another mutual Offices of Friendship and agreed to watch Antonine narrowly and give one another intelligence of all passages that concerned either to find out who was deceived The King made the proposal Don Austin accepted it with a great deal of indifference thinking the King had done it only to amuse him The King no sooner left him but he returned to his Wife who at first sight of him fell to exclaiming against that Prince who not content to have made her Apartment the Scene of an Amorous Intrigue came disguised to surprise her when he knew she was sick a-bed and had no help at hand but her Voice and her Tears That it was an action unworthy a King who had so much reason to know her by the proof he had made of her virtue But she saw clearly enough that the complaisance of a base Husband was the thing encouraged him to make a new attempt upon her honour and they were agreed together to destroy her It being impossible the King would have ventured coming into her Chamber as he did had he not known the Windows were shut and no light in the room And he could not know this but from him The Marquess much troubled to hear himself charged with so much baseness by his Wife of whom he thought he had reason to complain did all he could to justifie himself to her But all to no purpose the more he justified himself the more guilty she made him calling him Traytor a Man of no Honour unworthy to possess a Lady so virtuous as she But all this noise could not keep the suspicious Don Austin from resolving to have the honour to lye with her that night for he thought her dream of the monstrous Child boded him no good And a Vow so much to the purpose attended with a little indisposition which obliged his Wife to have her Chamber Windows shut up and the King 's coming to her in a Shepherd's Habit gave cause for conjectures which pointed directly to his Forehead he needed no more motive to have her absolved that Evening of so delicate a Vow He sent presently to pray the Bishop of Carthagene his particular Friend to do him the honour of coming to his Lodgings the Bishop came who not only absolved the Lady from her Vow but according to the duty of his Character applyed himself to make Peace between the Marquess and his Lady and happily effected it to the satisfaction of both And their Union after the Bishop's Benediction being greater than ever they began to ask one another in good earnest the whole truth of the story The Marchioness was to speak first of common right as having more cause of complaint than Don Austin She told him it was most true that in the dark as he had left her she heard one come in without saying a word which surprised her very much But more when she found he came and sate on the Bed which made her trembling for fear call in Alice to her aid and that he came in himself the next moment Don Austin believed all this to be true as the Gospel not thinking it possible his Wife could have the Conscience to tell a Lye the next minute after receiving Episcopal Benediction He told her on his part the conference he had had with the King who assured him he had no other design but to surprise Dorothy which in truth might be true But the most pleasant jest of all is adds he he would fain have made me jealous of Antonine And because he hath reason to be jealous of that Shepherd he would have all the World be so too And since he cannot get rid of him he would set on another to do him that piece of service The Marchioness hereupon plaid her part excellently well making a thousand exclamations clapping her hands lifting her eyes to Heaven laughing with all her force and doing all other Actions of a Woman amazed at the strangeness of the News which afforded them matter of discourse most part of that Night In the mean time the Marquess according to the agreement between the King and him to watch over Antonine failed not at his rising to give the necessary orders as to Dorothy as for his Wives part he feared nothing The King on the other side eager for the sport and desirous at any rate to convince the incredulous Marquess of the new Title his Wife had given him placed his Scouts abroad to observe Antonine's motions towards the Marchioness But she was before-hand with him having that Evening sent orders by the Duenna to the Shepherd to retire and not approach the Palace especially her Apartment till notice from her So that the Spies for some days could give their Masters no account But absence is the greatest of torments for Lovers and the loss of the company of what you love is little less then the loss of Life Antonine was in torment not only on the account of Dorothy but of the Marchioness who served for a kind of amorous consolation for him when he could not see Dorothy The Marchioness was no less afflicted and Women as 't is said being more violent in their passions than Men 't is credible this Lady who loved the Shepherd so well had a very ill time on 't She had none but Alice her Universal Confident to comfort her And the poor old Wretch was as much afflicted as her Lady to see her languish and grow melancholy She would by all means go seek out Antonine to make her chearful promising the Marchioness to bring him in so safe and so secretly that no one should know of it But the Marchioness had more Wit than to run such a hazard and chose rather to go see him at his Lodging than expose him to discovery by being surprised in hers She asked the old Duenna if ever she had been at the Gardiners and Alice having made Answer she was acquainted with him and his Wife one of her best Friends I tell you says the Marchioness the reason of my Question and the design I have laid I know your fidelity and the affection you have always had for me therefore I confide in you I will go see Antonine at his Lodging I take that to be the surest course Dorothy is much about my pitch I will take a suit of hers and I doubt not but I shall be taken for her when I am seen go to her Fathers we need only order things so that when I am got thither Antonine may have notice and the Gardiner and his Wife both sent out of the way for they would wonder at the visit This must be done to morrow Morning when the Physicians have prescribed me a Bathing for my pretended indisposition The Duenna answered all this would be easily done that the