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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	france_n	king_n	lewis_n	2,769	5	10.1557	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25458	The Annals of love containing select histories of the amours of divers princes courts, pleasantly related.		1672 (1672)	Wing A3215; ESTC R11570	240,092	446

necessary to guard it Elvira went to this Closet every night attended only by one person which lighted her and was well paid for his pains It was known her custom was to read when she was there so that her Women were not affrighted if she staid sometimes an hour longer than ordinary As soon as the door was shut she took down the Grate and receiving the Prince who leapt plum into the Window without the help of a Ladder they past the time very happily without any discovery Besides this they had found another Expedient There was a Covent of Nuns at Burgos to which the Countess made her Visits very frequently She carried few of her Friends or Servants with her pretending unwilling to incommode the young Damoisells in their Retirement The Prince of Galicia had corrupted the Porter so far as to suffer him to enter the Monastery in the habit of a Gardiner he met the Countess still in the most obscure part of the Garden and it was at these Enter-views they agreed where and when they were to meet next This convenience of private meetings excused the Prince from all formal Visitations he sees the Countess in publick but very seldom and the Count of Tholouse judging of their Amours by the frequency of his Visits was grown to that pass he could sleep pretty well But nothing is so close but time will discover let one manage his affairs with never so much prudence something or other falls out still to detect it Upon a night as the Count was passing from the King of Castiles Lodgings the door of one of the Terrasses of Communication being shut he past by the private way the Closet-Window opened in to no body but the Count of Tholouse himself durst have taken that liberty for that being the usual Walk for the Countess and her Maids it was kept as sacred from all other persons as he was going by the Count perceived a light at the Window he went softly to it and commanded his Servants to keep back By disaster the Countess opened the Grill at the same instant to let out the Prince and observing the Flambeau which attended her Husband she not only clapt the Grill to again but put out her Candle in such haste that the great light which was there and the sudden putting it out gave him occasion to suspect he ran up directly into his Wifes Appartment to see what was the matter But he found no Prince for he had had time to save himself but with so much precipitation he left his Gloves behind him The Count knew at first sight who was their Master He fell into great agonies and imprecations he caused her Lodgings to be searcht and threatned fire and faggots to every one that came near to and calling for his Flambeau to examine the Lattice he lookt about it so narrowly that at length he found which way it was to be opened Had he found his Countess in that fury he had doubtless been transported to some violence against her but she had the discretion to run immediately to the Kings Chamber and the fright she was in had produced so much compassion in the good man that when the Count followed her with complaints against the ill conduct of his Daughter the old King received him with no other Ceremony than threats and reproach Not liking that kind of Entertainment he retired secretly from Burgos and left his Wife to her Destiny His first thoughts were to have gone into France to have raised Forces there and to have demanded reparation with his Sword in his hand but remembring himself that he had heard Vrraca was an imperious and high-spirited Princess he conceived she might probably be made so sensible of her Husbands insidelity that she might contribute considerably to his Revenge He took his way therefore towards Compostella and indeed to do the Prince of Galicia a mischief it was the best course he could steer The Princess was of a very sensible complexion the long absence of the Prince began already to disturb her The Count of Tholouse was a very handsom Person and a French-man by birth which is a Nation so acceptable in Foreign parts that the very name of a French-man is enough to startle the severest of the Ladies and mollifie the most unmalleable obduracy amongst them Vrraca no sooner saw her Brother-in-law the Count but she felt the force of the French Constellation she promised him whatever he askt she gave him absolute Command over the Town of Compostella but these were but Complements and Formalities as yet Vrraca was not so beautiful as Elvira but Elvira was the Count of Tholouses Wife and convict of infidelity In this posture were our two Brothers-in-law preparing for reprisal Raymond de Burgogne lent nothing to the Count of Tholouse in Castile but the Count repaid very punctually in Galicias and some say with interest for the Intrigue betwixt Raymond and Elvira being private nothing was known of it but what her Husband had been pleased to divulge but that betwixt Vrraca and the Count was so publick at first dash there was not any friend the Prince had in Galicia which had not given him advertisement This is an offence in which a man generally considers himself more than any body else Whether the Wife be beloved or whether she be not her inconstancy is always abominable to her Husband Raymond repairs with all diligence to Galicia He was of opinion he need but shew himself to dissipate that storm but he was mistaken and kept out at the Gates of Compostella the new Governour sending him word in a Military way he had found in the Astrologers Book that he ought to be Vrraca's Gallant as Raymond had been Gallant to Elvira It is easie to imagine this Complement appeared something strange to the Prince of Galicia He was conscious of having been the Example but he had kept within the bounds of outward Civility There was none but the Count knew any thing of his Amours and he had done his utmost to conceal it from him but to see the Gallant of his Wife refuse him entrance publickly into his own house was a thing he had never seen practised before Raymond being highly incensed at the outrage forgot nothing that might revenge it He dispatcht a Messenger to Castile to demand of King Alphonso possession of the Principality he had promised him upon Marriage He sent into France for Supplies from his Father the Duke of Bourgondy and all the rest of the Allies The Count of Tholouse seeing him take that way followed his Example he complained to the King of Castile of the injury he had received by his Daughter He writ to Lewis le Gros King of France to desire his Protection In this manner all Castile was in an Uproar The Province of Galicia like to become the Seat of a bloody War and all for the impertinence of Love Love is so seditious it works it self into all Plots and all Parties