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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	great_a	pass_v	time_n	1,706	5	3.1051	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16255	Amorous Fiammetta VVherein is sette downe a catologue [sic] of all an singuler passions of loue and iealosie, incident to an enamored yong gentlewoman, with a notable caueat for all women to eschewe deceitfull and wicked loue, by an apparant example of a Neapolitan lady, her approued & long miseries, and wyth many sounde dehortations from the same. First wrytten in Italian by Master Iohn Boccace, the learned Florentine, and poet laureat. And now done into English by B. Giouano del M. Temp. With notes in the margine, and with a table in the ende of the cheefest matters contayned in it.; Fiammetta. English	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Yong, Bartholomew, 1560-1621?	1587 (1587)	STC 3179; ESTC S102851	186,424	264

deceiued husband perceiued that all these drugges did helpe mee but a little or nothing at all hee being more tender and carefull of mée then I deserued by sundrye wayes and newe meanes endeuoured to purge me of this melancholick humour and to restore to mée my lost and former mirth but yet he laboured all in vaine Sometimes with comfortable wordes hee did assaie to chéere me vp saying There are swéete Ladie and my déerelie belooued wife as thou knowest well enough a little beyonde the pleasaunt hill of Falernus in the middest of olde Cuma Delectable places delectable Ilandes vpon the Sea coastes The situation of which is so swéet pleasaunt delightsome that the like I thinke is not vnder the coape of wyde heauen They are inuironed with most fayre hils full of all sortes of fruit and couered all ouer with gréene vines loaden with goodlie bunches of white redde and purple Grapes in the vallies of which there are no kinde of wilde beasts that may with pleasure be hunted but are to be found there Nor farre distaunt from thence there is a great playne full of game and fytte for all manner of flyghtes of praying and sollacing Hawkes There is the Ilande Pitycufa and Nisida abounding in Connies and the Sepulcher of great Mesenus leadinge awaie to the darke kyngdomes of Pluto There are Sibilla of Cuma her Oracles there is the Lake Auernus and the great Theator a common and auncyent place for many braue pastymes and rare spectacles There are swéet cléere Fishpondes the Hill Barbarus and the vayne and prodigall labours of the wicked Emperour Nero. All which delightes both olde and moderne cannot but greatly recreate mens mindes that neuer sawe them béefore Who for theyr pleasure and sollace goe many times to visite them And besides all this there are most healthfull and wholesome Bathes for men and women of all degrées and most swéete and goodlie ones for Ladies of honour and renowne And the ayre being verie temperate and pleasaunt there dooth continually aforde fitte tymes and good occasions and meanes to visite them There is no going thether without a merry minde nor abyding there without great feastes iollitie and pastime in such braue companies of noble men Ladyes Gentlewomen and fine and stately dames of this Cittie Wherefore I am determined that thy selfe not well as thou sayest in thy stomacke and troubled worse I feare in minde and as farre as I can gesse gréeued with déepe and melancolie passions for recouerie of eache sanitie againe shall goe thether with mée Which iourney shall not bée without great pleasure assured profitte and spéedy helpe vnto thy distempered bodie and sorrowfull minde But when I heard his words doubting least in the very middest of our sports and abroad there my déere Panphilus might returne and so might not perhappes sée him inflicted with inwarde gréefe I stayed a good while pawsing before I could answer him againe But after séeing his resolute pleasure imagining also that if he came he would séeke me out wheresoeuer I was I answered hym I was readie at his pleasure to goe whether and when he would And to bee shorte not manie dayes af-after we went thether Oh what contrarie medicines did my loouing husband excogitate and practyse for my helpelesse greefes Admitte that corporall langours were cured there yet verie sildome or neuer dyd any goe thether with a whole and sound mind that dyd returne with the same agayne whether it was the méere Situation of the place washed with the waues of the Sea the naturall place of Venus natiuitie or the time in which it is more vsed in spring tyde I meane as more fitte for those thinges that made it Neither is that truely to be maruailed at which often times appeared to me there That the most honest Gentlewomen and of best account deposing for a while theyr womenly modestie and shamefastnesse did vse in all their merrie méetinges and sportes an vnwoonted kinde of vnbrideled libertie and irrequisite familiaritie and did more lasciuiously assemble togeather in those places priuiledged perhappes for such wanton pastimes then any where else And I was not onely of this oppinion that with lesse stayne to theyr honours in those places in that companie at those times they might doo it but all those almost which were accustomed to resort to those Ilands thē as ful of mirth glée and feasts as Cypres or Cytherea were at what tyme their Ladies holidaies and diuine honours were celebrated there The greatest part of the time there was spent in ease and passed away sometime more in delightfull exercises not a fewe times in amorous discourses of Gentlewomen amongst themselues or else in company of young gentlemen and Gentlewomen altogether There were no viands but most delicious which were most deintie to be got Wine stirreth vp to Venery most noble precious olde the purest wines of force not onely to awake drousie Venus but to rayse vp to lyfe that vigour which is already mortified in any man or woman doo followe there And how much also the vertue of the bathes dooth conferre to the same they doo better knowe who haue sometimes prooued them There the coole Sea bankes and most pleasaunt gradens and euerie other place besides with diuers feastes with newe deuised sportes with most fyne and curious dauncinges with all kindes of musicall instrumentes and celestiall melodie and with amorous songes and Madrigalles made plaied and sung by those lusty youthes and swéet Nimphes did resound forth merueilous and pleasant Ecchoes Who is he therefore that can amongest so many entising pleasures there kéepe him selfe frée from Cupide his dartes who dooth without any paine or labor if I am not deceiued rule there as in the most principall place of all his kindomes and helped by so many fréendlie allectiues dooth with great ease against such willing and capable subiectes vse his strength and diuine forces Into such places most pittifull Ladies my husband was wont to carrie me to rid me of my amorous burning feuer Into which after that we were arriued looue vsed no other meanes towardes me then hee did towardes other but my soule rather which could not be wrapped in more strayght bondes of looue then it was somewhat though little enough cooler and by the long staying that Panphilus being from me had made and by many teares sustained gréefes was kindled into so great flames that I thought I had neuer felt the like before And this did not onely arise of the foresayd occasions but remembring with my selfe that I was often times there in Panphilus his companie both looue and grefe séeing my selfe without him did not a little encrease in my wounded heart I sawe not any Hill or Valley that I accompained sometimes of many and of him sometimes pitching their toiles for wild and sauage beasts sometimes leading houndes and learning water Spaniels and laying ginnes to entrappe and snare the sillie Foules of the Ayre sometimes bayting