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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	day_n	earth_n	great_a	11,067	5	3.2684	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35671	Letters upon several occasions written by and between Mr. Dryden, Mr. Wycherly, Mr. ----, Mr. Congreve, and Mr. Dennis, published by Mr. Dennis with a new translation of select letters of Monsieur Voiture.	Dennis, John, 1657-1734.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Wycherley, William, 1640-1716.; Congreve, William, 1670-1729.; Voiture, Monsieur de (Vincent), 1597-1648.	1696 (1696)	Wing D1033; ESTC R6297	77,708	226

Eagle builds Poor Sheep from Tempests and their Shepherd Shields The Royal Bird possesses all the Boughs But Shade and Shelter to the Flock allows This Madam is the language of the Gods applyed to so Divine a Subject that nothing but the Language of Gods can express it with Dignity And therefore your Majesty will have no Patience to hear me speak after one who can speak so well I am Your Majesty's Most Humble and Dev●ted Subject and Servant A. Shadwell Select Letters OF VOITURE The First Translated By Mr. DRYDEN And the rest By Mr. DENNIS To my Lord Cardinal de la VALETTE My Lord I Am satisfy'd that you Old Cardinals take more Authority upon you than those of the last Promotion because having written many Letters to you without receiving one from you yet you complain of my Neglect In the mean time seeing so many well-bred Men who assure me that you do me too much Honour to think of me at all and that I am bound to write to you and to give my Acknowledgments I am resolved to take their Counsel and to pass over all sorts of Difficulties and Considerations of my own Interest This then will give you to understand that six days after the Eclipse and a Fortnight after my Decease Madam the Princess Mademoisell● de Bourbon Madam du Vigean Madam Aubry Mademoiselle de Rambouill●● M●demoiselle Paulet Monsieur de Cha●●e●onne and my self left Paris about six in the Evening and went to La Barre where Madam du Vigean was to give a Collation to the Princess In our way thither we found nothing worth our Observation but only that at Ormesson an English Mastiff came up to the Boot of the Coach to make his Compliment to me Be pleased to take this along with you My Lord that as often as I express my self in the Plural Number as for Example We went we found or We beheld 't is always to be Understood that I speak in the Quality of a Cardinal From thence we happily arriv'd at La Barre and enter'd a Hall where we trod upon nothing but Roses and Orange-Flowers Madam the Princess after she had sufficiently admir'd this Magnificence had a mind to see the Walks before Supper The Sun was then just setting in a Cloud of Gold and Azure and gave us no larger a share of his Beams than to supply a Soft and Pleasing Light The Air was not disturb'd either with Wind o● Heat and it seem'd that Heav'n and Earth were conspiring with Madam d● Vigean in her Treating the Fairest Princess upon Earth After she had passed through a great Parterre and Gardens full of Orange-Trees she arrived at the Entrance of an Enchanted Wood so thick and shady that Authors conclude the Sun since the Day of his Birth never enter'd it till now that he waited on her Highness thither At the end of an Alley which carried the sight out of distance we found a Fountain which alone cast up a greater Quantity of Water than all those of Tivoli together About it were plac'd four and twenty Violins which had much ado to make themselves be heard for the rumbling of the Streams in falling When we were got near enough we discover'd in a certain Nich within a Pallisade a Diana of about Eleven or Twelve Years of Age and fairer than the Forests of Greece and Thessaly had ever seen She bore her Bow and Arrows in her Eyes and was encompass'd with all the Glories of her Brother In another Nich not far distant was another Nymph Fair and Gentile enough to pass for one of her Train Those who are not given to believe Fables took them for Mademoiselles de Bourbon and la Priande and to confess the Truth they resembled them exactly All the Company was in a profound Silence admiring so many different Objects which at once astonish'd their Eyes and Eares when on a Sudden the Goddess leapt down from her Nich and with a Grace impossible to be describ'd began a Ball which lasted for some time about the Fountain 'T was somewhat strange My Lord that in the midst of so many pleasures which were sufficient to ingage the whole attention of their Spirits who enjoy'd them yet we could not forbear to think of you and it was generally concluded that something was wanting to our Happiness since neither you nor Madam de Rambouillet were present Then I took up a Harp and Sung this Spanish Stanza Pues quiso mi suerte dura Que faltando mi sennor Tambie● faltasse mi Dama And continued the rest of the Song so very Melodiously and with such an Air of Sadness that there was not one of the Company but the Tears came into their Eyes and they wept abundantly Their sorrow had endur'd much longer had not the Violins struck up a Sarabrand with great speed and presence of Mind Upon which the Company got upon their Feet with as much Gayety as if nothing in the World had happen'd and fell into the Dance thus Leaping Capring turning Round and Hopping we returned to the House where we found a Table already Spread and serv'd as if it had been serv'd by Fairies This My Lord is one passage 〈◊〉 the Adventure which is so stupendous tha● no words are capable of expressing it 〈◊〉 there are neither colours of Speech nor Figures in the Art of Rhetoric which 〈◊〉 describe six several sorts of Po●ages which were at once presented to the Sight And what was particularly remarkable that there being none but Goddesses and 〈◊〉 Demi-Gods at the Table viz. Mons●e●● Ohandebnonne and I yet every one eat as heartily and with as good Appetites as if we had been neither more nor less than plain Mortals And to con●ess the Truth a better Treat could not have been provided Amongst other things there were twelve Dishes besides other Eatables in disguise which were never seen before on any Humane Table and whose very names have never been so much as mention'd in any History This Circumstance My Lord by some disastrous accident has been related to Madam La Ma●eschalle And though immediately upon it she ●ook twelve Drams of Opi●m beyond her ordinary Dose yet she has never been able to close her Eyes from that fatal Moment During the first Course there was not so much as one single Cup went round to your Health the Company was so intent upon the present Affair and at the Deser● we quite forgot it I beg your permission My Lord to relate all things as they pass'd like a Faithful Historian as I am and without Flattery For I would no● for the World that Posterity should mistake one thing for another and that at the end of two thousand years hence or thereabouts Posterity should imagine your Health was drunk when really there was no such thing in Nature Yet I must give this testimony to Truth that it was not for want of Memory For during all Supper time you were often mention'd All the Ladies wish'd you there