Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	child_n	parent_n	4,224	5	8.6238	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29289	The apology, or, The genuine memoires of Madam Maria Manchini, Constabless of Colonna, eldest sister to the Duchess of Mazarin written in Spanish by her own hand ; and afterwards made into English by a Person of Quality.; Apologie. English	Mancini, Maria, 1639-1715?; Brémond, Gabriel de.; Person of quality.	1679 (1679)	Wing B4344; ESTC R15149	61,211	191

of my Instructors I discover'd some Charmes till then wholly unknown to me although I had not the full liberty of taking the pleasures of the place My Mother seeing me lively and brisk had not the same kindness for me she had for my Sisters but kept me Lock'd up as long as she could and watch'd me so narrowly that I stirr'd not abroad but in Company and was frequently left at home all alone This was no small mortification to me and appear'd far the greater when compar'd with the indulgence us'd to my Sisters and the liberty given Olympia now Countess of Soissons and Hortensia who came two Months after out of the Covent I Confess I was vext at the heart to see them allowed to spend their time at Court when I was mewd up alone in a Camber and depriv'd of the pleasures they enjoyed I could not forbear making my Complaint to my Mother for her using me so and told her sharply that if my Sister Hortensia deserv'd by her beauty the Chief place in her affection however she could not but know I was her Elder my Mother at this was touch'd to the quick and told my Uncle there was no living with me and that it were better make me a Nun than venture me into the World where she clearly foresaw I should be very miserable having neither ingenuity nor respect for those I was oblig'd most to esteem The Remonstrances my Uncle made me after these Complaints were so harsh and cutting they would have made impression on any other but me who minded them so little that though I remembred very well what he said I never laid it to heart The Great melancholly my Mother soon after fell into was a certain presage and fore-runner of her Death she became of so strange an humour 't was impossible to endure it And I whom she lov'd least was to bear the torment of all her ill conditions my Sister Olympia having a distinct Apartment to her self and Hortensia was at the Dutchess of Mercoeur's where her Governess Madam de Venele brought her up with extraordinary tenderness and care The life I led was very sad and my troubles unparallell'd And to mend the matter my Apartment was the worst of all and no company but an old Chamber-maid call'd Rose who waited on us when Children And to compleat my misery I saw my self on the point of returning into the Covent This was my condition when my Mother fell sick And though at first her sickness did not appear dangerous His Majesty honoured her every Evening with his presence and observing I had some wit and briskness he said to me one thing or other every day by the by which help'd me a little to bear with comfort the affliction I was in by my Mothers ill humours but this was no small addition to my Mothers disease who could not endure I should enter her Chamber when company was there My Mother at length grew better but afterwards relaps'd and dy'd The Hemettick Wine which is us'd as a remedy in Cases of extremity was given her in her sickness and quickly brought her to her Grave Education is the greatest present Parents can bestow on their Children after their being But 't is very necessary it should be attended with Gentleness too much Severity being often a means to root out Natural Affection so inconsistent are Love and Fear I speak it by Experience the fear my Mother had kept me in having made such impression in me that Two Years after her death I still dreamt she was alive and when broad awake I often fancy'd I saw her to my very great trouble Soon after Madam de Mercoeur dy'd suddenly in Child-Bed to our general affliction who could not but lament the loss of a Beauty so rare and so extraordinary Vertue My Mother being dead Madam de Venele was made my Governess with the like power and charge over my Sisters Hortensia and Mariana who was lately come to us with our Brother Alphonso who dy'd very young and very unfortunately having been wounded in the Head as he was at play with his Schollers of the College of Clermont where he boarded The death of my Mother having made me a little more mistress of my self and my Sister Olympia being marry'd I enjoyed the Priviledges of an elder Sister and was in a fair way to lead a Life full of Tranquility and Pleasure The condition I found my self in convinc'd me that the health of the Body depends almost altogether on the satisfaction of the Mind And in the condition I was then in I might have said without Vanity that Fortune had been no less favourable to me in the Gifts and Endowments of mind she conferr'd on me than in outward advantages and that the Soveraign Faculty of my Soul had a strong influence over my carriage and form'd my deportment In the mean time my manner of living with the King and his Brother was so familiar and pleasing that I had liberty to speak what I thought and the good fortune to find what I spoke very well taken At my return with the Court from Fountainbleau I was assur'd I was not hated by the King who though very young had penetration enough to understand that Eloquence which without speaking a Syllable perswades more than all the fine words in the World And the particular inclination I had for the King whose merit and Quality I easily discover'd greater than any Man 's in his Kingdom had perhaps render'd me more skilful in this than in any thing else I thought the Testimony of my Eyes not sufficient to convince me of so important a truth till confirm'd by the extraordinary respects and devoires paid me by the Courtiers who as so many spyes of the Actions of their King had clearly discover'd his Majesties Love for me In the midst of this my ravishing prosperity a small storm arose but was quickly over It was reported the King would marry the Princess Margaret of Savoy Daughter of Madam Royal and afterwards Dutchess of Parma a Lady of extraordinary merit This occasioned the Court to go to Lyons I leave it to those who have Wit and Affection to judge how capable a Proposal of this kind is to trouble and afflict a person in love and what a torment it is to fear the loss of what we have an extream passion for especially a passion grounded on extraordinary merit and occasion'd by so exalted an Object when reason doth countenance and authorize our affection and not only inclines but commands us to love But this storm was too violent to last and the marriage was as suddenly broke off as propos'd I was oblig'd for this to Don Antonio Pimental who luckily arriving with Proposals of Peace between Spain and France whereof he had a Project their Highnesses presently return'd for Savoy and I recover'd my former Tranquility and found that the pain I had newly endur'd being short and follow'd by the happiness I regain'd had improv'd my