Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	affection_n	great_a	love_n	4,177	5	5.2173	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02099	Greenes farewell to folly Sent to courtiers and schollers as a president to warne them from the vaine delights that drawes youth on to repentance. Robert Greene vtriusque Academiæ in Artibus magister.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1591 (1591)	STC 12241; ESTC S105962	57,357	94

yet shall this deede make thée a table talke amongest beggers honour shall not priuiledge thee from the hate of them which are honest neither shall the glorie of a crowne shrowd thée from discredit Then Semyramis seeing thou séekest after fame séeke not to liue vse the knife thou hast in hand as a meanes to requite thy husbands loue and to warrant thy former honestie Panthea the wife of Abradatus séeing hir husbande slaine in the campe of Cyrus sacrificed hir selfe on his dead corps when Iulia the wife of Pompey saw but a gowne of hir husbands bloudy suspecting some mishap sell into a trance neuer reuiued Portia t●…e wife of Brutus hearing of hir husbāds death choked hir self with hot burning coales Aria the wi●… of Caecinna died with her condemned husband before the rapitoll Let the resolute loue of these noble dames incourage thée to the like constancy consider Semyramis thy husbande is deade and déedes done can not be reuoked Ninus meanes to make thée his wife his wife cowardly wretch as thou art answer to this foolish obiection which Pisca the wife of Pandoerus did who being slaine by the king of Persia after the slaughter of hir husbande he profered hir marriage but holding as thou doest the instrument of death in hir hand ●…he vttered these wordes The Gods forbid that to be a quéene I shoulde euer wed him that hath béene the murtherer of my deare husband And with this shee was readie to stab her selfe to the heart but staying her selfe and pansing a while she beganne as women are prone to conceit reuenge to thinke with her selfe how in time bett●…r to quite the iniury proffered by Nynus to her pore husbande This Gentlemen I coniecture was her imagination for she sodainly let fall her knife leapt into her bed past the rest of the night in a sound sléepe And in déede had not the sequele 〈◊〉 the contrarie it might haue ben coniectured that the hope o●… a crowne had bene a great peswas●…on from her desperate resolution but letting these supposes pa●…se to Nynus who made it his mornings worke as soone as he was vp to visite Semyramis and finding her in a better tune than he left her conceiued such ioy in the appeasing of her passions that presently he sommon●…d all his Lordes to a Parliament where hée vnfolded vnto them the intent hee had to make Semyra●…is quéene and therefore craued their consents The nobilitie whatsoeuer they thought durst not gainsaie the will of their Prince but assented to his demand so that all things were prepared for the coronation but when the brute of Maenons death was noised abroade in Babylon euerie one after their sundrie and seuerall imaginations began to conferre of the action all generally ●…eruailing that so honest a wife shuld commit so hainous a fact for euerie one thought her an actor in the tragedie yet they considered that ambitious h●…nour was a mortall enemie to honestie and that few women were so chast but dignitie could draw to follie Well murmure what they lis●… the kings purpose tooke effect The daie came and the coronation was most solemynely and sump●…ie perfourmed●… the king conceiuing such felicitie in his newe wife●… that hée continued the feast for tenne dayes which tearme ended euerie one departed to their home and the late married couple liued so contentedly to eueri●… mans coniectured that Scmyramis won her same halfe lost by her obedience and especially shee gained the loue of the commons for preferment had not pufte her vp with pride nor dignitie made her disdainfull of the glorie of a crowne nor the title of a quéene had made no metamorphosis of her minde but in this that as she grew in honour so she increased in courtesie bountifull to all that were poore and enuious to none that were noble preferring the sutes of them were wronged and seeming as neere as shée coulde to cause the king doe iustice to all This her vertuous disposition not onely stole the heartes of the commons but also the loue of her husband who to increase affection more had a sonne by her called Nynus Passing thus three or foure yeeres in great pleasure the king surcharged with content commaunded his wife to aske whatsoeuer she woulde that was within the compasse of his Babylonish monarch and it should bee graunted her Semyramis refused such a proffer but the king ●…eeing vrgent semmoned all his Lordes to the Court and there made them p●…uie what a frée graunt he made to his wife The noble men although smiling at the fondnesse of the king that so wilfully woulde put a naked swoorde into a madde mans hande yet outwardly seemed to allowe of his wilt so that Semyramis demanded that she might absolutely without checke or controlement rule the Babylonian Empire as sole quéene for thrée daies The king who no whit mistrusted that reuenge could so long harbour in the heart of a woman graunted her request and therefore presently with all conuenient spéede caused a sumptuous seaffolde in forme of a Theatre to be erected in the middest of Babylon whither calling his nobles and commons by the sound of a trumpet vpon the next festiuall which was ●…olden in honour of their God Iphis he there in presence of all his subiectes resigned vp his crowne and scepter into the handes of Semyramis placing hir in the Imperiall throne as sole quéene monarch and gouernesse of Egypt Semyramis being thus inuested with the Diadeame and regall power first publikely declared the effect of the kings grant how she was for the tearme and space of thrée dayes to reigne as soueraigne ouer the land to haue as great authoritie to do iustice and to execute martiall law as hir husbande to confirme which Ninus as a subiect did hir reuerence and iointly with the rest of the nobility swore to performe whatsoeuer she shoulde commande and to obey ●…ir as their sole and soueraigne princes After the king had solemnely taken his oath Semyramis vttered these or such like spéeches to the people It is not vnknowne worthy péeres of Egypt and inhabitantes of Babylon that I liued in my youth the wife of poore Maenon with credit fit for my degrée and with fame equall to the honesty of my life Occasion neuer a●…med report to staine me with disgrace neither was the wife of Maenon accounted to be prodigall of hir affections although perhaps a little proud of hir beautie the pouertie of my husbande neuer touched me with mislike nor the pro●…ers of preferrement coulde perswade me to inconstancie but Fortune that is euer ●…ckle in hir ●…auours and enuie that grudgeth at quiet seeing we liued securely in loue and content set king Ninus to be the meanes of my ouerthrow for he in●…amed with the sight of my beautie yelded presently to the allaromes of lust and sought with the golden baite of dignitie to hale me on to the wracke of my honestie which by no meanes he could bring to passe ioyning murther with the