Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	cause_n	father_n	son_n	2,620	5	5.4293	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20408	Greene in conceipt New raised from his graue to write the tragique historie of faire Valeria of London. Wherein is truly discouered the rare and lamentable issue of a husbands dotage, a wiues leudnesse, & children of disobedience. Receiued and reported by I.D.	Dickenson, John, romance writer.; Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1598 (1598)	STC 6819; ESTC S105352	46,384	71

theréwith did awake hauing my braines so set on worke by this strange slum ber that I could sleepe no more all that night The next morning the plot being fresh in my memory I went in hand with it proceeding therin at times of leasure till I had finishedit which Gentlemen Inow present vnto your fauours the only wished harbor wherein this my weathe●… bearen vessell may rest safely shrowded from the tempest of disgrace Besides sundry seapes of the Presse in Orthography and some more extraordinary of whole wordes mistaken though in the fewest coppies these foure are generall secrets for sorrowes p. 18. these for those p. 20. intent for content p. 21. deem ' for doom'd p. 〈◊〉 GREENE IN CONCEIPT New raised from his graue to write the Tragique storie of faire Ualeria of London PEace fraught with plentie waiting on the Scepter of a gratious Soueraigne had nowe seated her selfe in Albion whence at her ariuall rough-fac'd Bellona the nursse of broyles writing in blood her bailefull tryumphes fledde disconsolate to forraine coasts and there sounded hir Tragique summons At whose departure all things recouered their former quiet As when the yeare haueing shaken of stormie winters Ice badge growes young againe greeting the earth with gladsome tidings of the Flower-clad springes approach Sillie Sheepeherdes haunted securely with their harmelesse flockes the westerne plaines chanting by turnes sweete Roundelayes or tyring with long play their Oaten pipes Toyling husbandmen ioyde freely in the issue of their hopes reaping haruests plenty the guerdon of their winters paines Each season had his successe each state his solace In which tranquillitie of time and truce of fortune their liued in the famous citie of Troinouant an ancient gentleman sonne to a wealthie Citizen who dying ●…ulde lefte him not younge his onely childe sole heire of his goodes which besides money other moueables yealded him an ample reuenue of yearely rents Giraldo so was he named haueing enough deemed it follye to toyle for super fluous store or not to vse what his ●…ncestors succesfull industrye had alreadie afforded him Hee therefore conform'd his life to luch a course as might equall his calling and not Impaire his credit or procure his discontent Liuing thus at quiet the more to Augmeut his ease loue he esteemed so little and mariage lesse that he passed y ● most part of his time without ●… wife in which Stoicall humor he determined to persiste stiffely refusing many great offers mou'd to him by sundrye of good account and knowne sufficience whether the care of housekeeping and feare to match with a mate of vnlike conditions had dismaide him or the sweetenesse of a single life through long vse besotted him Howsoeuer this resolution seemd easie in regard of his yeares yet did the sequell largely shewe that no time no temperature is exempted from loues tyranny nor ought lesse to be trusted then affections try all The Sunne ofte shines not til nere his setting Cinthia filles not her circle til fardest from hir brothers Sphere Smothered Cinders may breed a flame where we least suspect a fire and winter fruites in growth lesse forwarde are in lasting most forceable The purest goulde hath his drosse the clearest Wine his dregges sweetest Roses their prickes sowrest Stoickes their passions Loue hath his change of Arrowes his choyce of obiectes to intice euery eye to intangle euery Age. It chanced in a fatall ho ●…er that Giraldo with sundry his familiers was inuited by a gentleman of the country his dead Fathers approued friende to accompany him home passe with him some daies of pleasure at his howse scituate in a gallant soyle fruitefull of all delightes They agreeing to his friendly motion lefte the Citie and arriuing where he dwelt found there such entertainement as might assure their welcome and warrant his good-will They were richly feasted and frollike royally in all gentlemanlike disportes hunting hauking with what soeuer pleasant recreation their thoughts could ayme at and the countrye yealde Thus farre lasted Giraldos comedie but heere though in a borrowed hue stept in his Tragedies sad Proem masking his following sorrows in outward semblance of a●…luring sweetnesse Such are the wiles of loue and fortune there first to smile where they intend last and most to lower This gentleman besides two sonnes of rare towardnesse had one daughter hir name Valeria young and fayre in discourse witti●… but in life wanton the fault and cause thereof her education for being the fathers ●…oy the Mothers Jewell their last borne and therefore most beloou'd she was trained vp by her parents in all libertie and taught not that which best beseem'd but which most delighted hir In steade of sowing shee could sing write daunce and sweetly touch hir Iuory Lute with whose weltuned stringes hir fingers were more acquainted then with hir needle Breefely what could shee not which least she should and all more exquisitly then was meete for a modest virgine If then the strongest Marble bee in time worne by weake droppes of raine the hardest Adamant though otherwise impenetrable pearc'dby Goats warme blood what maruel is it that these so mightie inforcements wrought so effectually on hir whose fewe years fraile sex and sleight education made the couquest easie Yet rau he headlongforward not heeding howe she was inclined nor weighing as he should haue done the issue of his attempt which these so many and so manyfest likelihoodes did forethreaten Such was his blindnesse enen when he first behelde her to whom nature had leut a looke so alluring a tongue so inchanting that it restes doubtfull whether hir countenance could more intrappe or hir wordes entangle To those that neuer sawe the Ocean narrowe straights may seeme large seas ●…he which till now had neuer view'd with curious regarde any such besotting obiect demed Valeria the westerne prragon His greedy euer gazing eyes fed like hungry Guestes en hir faces beautie yet neuer glutted for the more he looked the more he looued Affection was no sooner bred then wing'd no soner warme then flaming a thing in nature maruelous but in loue no miracle she was the onely subiect of his conceipt the onely ayme of his content If she spake his partiall eares deem'd hir voice more then Angelicall if she smil'd he was rauisht if shee frown'd euen frowning shee seem'd fairer and hir anger a●…iable Thus were hir wordes his eares musique her faire countenance his eyes harbor hir selfe his transported sowles supposed solace while he though olde yet a Nouice in the schole of fancie fed his vaine thoughtes with vainer hopes But when beginning his wooing with signes he sawe portraide on hir lookes a deepe misliking of his age threatning a sequell of many sorrowes a Centurie of sowltyring passions then somewhat rowsing his charm'd sences he began sadly to conferre his former course of life with his present crosses in loue weighing howe before he ioy'd in content nowe ioylesse through discontent then free from faucie now slaue to beautie And so farre he

waded in this pensiue meditation that sealing with manye sighes each clawse of his complaints he wished too late than he had not come or comming had not seene or seeing had not affected or affecting had not so extreamly doted But finding mone a bootlesse methode a sleight medicine to cure harts maladye he resolued to seeke some surer remedie which as he thought was immediatly to depart hoping that absence should worke his ease and that his eyes not hauing whereon to gaze his thoughtes should want wherewith to greeue him In the heat of which humor he abruptly tooke his leaue of the gentleman his friend and the other his familiars feining sodaine and extraordinary occasions of busines which drewe him thence They no lesse beleening his wordes then loath to hinder his waightie affaires did not importune his tariance yet vrged with much entreatie his spedy retorne which he promising though then not entending lefte them bnt could not leaue so his sorrowe for in him selfe he caried his owne wounde the euer-fresh and perfect Idea of Valerias farre peircing beautie a more inseperable companion to his thoughts then the shadowe to his bodye the one waiting without the other working so forceably within that by how much the more he stroue to alay his passions by so much the more hee encreased his paines concluding by his owne experience that to attempt the quenching of loue with absence is to cherish fire with oyse For as the course of a stronge currant counterchekt by a barre of earth seekes with greater violence another issue and hauing past his boundes tornes the pleasant medowes into vnpleasant marishes As the slowest flame somwhat dau●…ted by water gathers immediatly double force and brightnesse so the frenzie of a louers fancie is then most outragious and feeles greatest lacke of wonted ease when the eyes do want their wonted obiect Giraldo therefore finding in the citie lesse comfort then in the contrye content wandered in this labyrinth of woe feeling his soules agonie howerly augmented In the daie he could not rest in the night he could not ●…leepe if he sat he sighed but sighes yealded him no solace ofte he walked to out we are his sorrowe but oft walking could not worke it At the table he sat a cypher nor is it maruel for how could he haue any stomacke to disgest his meat that wanted ●…rength to disband his melancholie which was so frutefull in afflicting him that not Hydra foggie Lernas fowle guest could faster renue hir seauen heades with seauenfoulde encrease then his each-passion doubled his perplexitie making his vnquiet life the perfect ma●… of a louers miserie His friendes and neighbours mused much what might be the cause of his discontent supposiug nothing lesse then that loue had bene the occasion Among this number one of like yeares long acquaintance did on a time so farre importune him that Geraldo though loath to vtter his affection yet able to denie him nothing because he lou'd him dearely discoursed the whole at large peremptorily concluding to hast with all speede possible if his speding might bee possible a maryage betweene Valeria and himselfe For quoth hee as Telephus wounded by Achilles speare could not be cured but by the rust of the same speare And they which are stunge by the Serpent Dipsas feele an vnquenchable thirst in the midst of water so standes it with me which haue surfeted yet am not satiate but being wounded with Telephus must likewise with him deriue my helpe whence I receiued my hurt●… which word he had no soner vttered then his amazed friend deeming this humor in those yeares the eight miracle addrest himselfe to diuert him from so fonde a thought and after some pawse began thus Were I as wise as I am willing to discharge the duety of a friende then would I with mightie Arguments disswade you from a purpose so il beseeming Can it be y ● Geraldo so stale a batcheler so strict a follower of the Stoichs philosophie is in the wain of his age become a woer He which laught at loue and scornd fancy nowe droupe for loue and dote through folly resembling in repugnance to nature the stone Gagates whereon if water be powred it kindles fyer if oyle it doth quench the flame Two things I haue noted in many and finde both in you the first rare and commendable the second ridieulous yet common A young man wise an old man wanten Weigh yet with your sefe what your friends will say and the worlde censure hearing of this sodaine change If mariage be a course so requisite they will demaunde why you haue so long defer'd it if not to be respected why you shoulde nowe determine it know you not that loue in olde men is no lesse vnsermely and vnseasonable then frost in Aprill snowe in Sommer Ice in the entering of Autumne But admit it necessary yet this hast is needlesse Rash beginnings haue ruful ends ripe counsailes right successe The Elephant breedes not oft in age The Phenix as some affirme takes life from Ashes but once in sixe hundred and sixtie yeares the one how mightie a beast the other how matchlesse a birde In Samos stoode a Temple of Hymen ouer whose dore on the outside was set the portrature of a Snayle to admonishe the beholders that with slowe pace and deepe aduice they should proceede to a matter of such waighte importing their extraordinarye weale or woe Apelles drawing the picture of Folly gaue hir winges but not eyes hir eares stopt thereby intimating that fonde men runne headlong forwarde not seeing what they do nor hearing others which fortell them the issue of their vnheedfull actions It greeues me Geraldo to thinke that fondly gazing on fayre lookes which do commonly shroud false hearts you are taken in beauties trappe entangled like y ● fishe which leaping at the Sunne beames gilding the waues playes therwith vntill the net haue made him prisoner Had you fancied some modest Matron not for beauty a fading blisse but for vertue a lasting value your hast had bene yet more hopefull nor might any iustly haue accused your abstinence in youth or your affection in age But at these years when the prime of fancy is past to be won by a want on glance to dote on a silly Gerle whose continence or constancy you know not how farre vnfit The Cretans had a lawe made by Minos their iust Kinge that if a youngman matcht with an olde woman or an olde man wedded a young mayde they both should forfet whatsoeuer they possessed and the elder of either sexe so offending lose the reuerence due to their age Well sawe hee that true affection could finde no residence where the desires wereso different the one ayming wholy at youths delights the other dull to wonted daliance whence followes breach of wedlocke What is your Valeria that you so dote on hir say you shee is young then wauering grauitie is seldome in greene yeares But were shee well enclin'd yet might

heinousnesse which is rare euen to the barbarous Getes Giraldo haueing till then helde out in changing bitter termes with hir was hereat so amated that he now no longer wished to liue In his howse he had no ioy sith there bayted thus by them which from his bowells had their beeing But when shunning ofte his home he strayed abroade reuoluing in himselfe with many sighes his infinite fore-passed cares present corrosiues and likelihoode of farre greater ensuing griefe Iockey in his absence neuer wanted blowes nor 〈◊〉 a cause though faulse yet seeming iust haueing a witte so rich to coyne occasions power so absolute and a will so much inflamed with wrath to vse them Thus both the m●…er and the man the one in minde the other in bodie by this Ty●…nesse outragiously afflicted wished the first neuer to haue weded hir the second y t his master had herein likewise been by hir ouer-mastred when to thwart hir fury he would needs retaine him stil in seruice But she not moued by hir crimes discouery proceeded dayly in misdoing with so stoborne vnrelenting wilfulnesse that soner might the sunne melt with his beames the euer ysie bulke of waylesse Caucasus ouer whose snow manteled shoulders they glance without reflection Then hir sinfrozen thoughts melt with true sorrowe or which is lesse hir he●…delesse eares admit though sleightly holsome counsailes eares more deafe to friendes repro●…uinges then are the wrack rich Libique rocks or the guestlesse ship swalowing Sirtes to the cries of dying marriners such force hath custome euen against nature Then 〈◊〉 ●…cible where backed as here it was by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 When Vlisses matesturn'd from men to beastes through the taste of Circes potions had it afterwarde in their owne choyce whether they would so remaine or reasuming their former shapes returne from beastes to men againe they would in no sort be 〈◊〉 aleadging that in this there brutishe state they were farre more exempted from hart-gnawing greefe farre more secure then when their bodies were with humane shape inuested which fiction moralized as Homer ment it doth not onely note our liues troubles fraught with infinite distressing dangers but likwise that when reason is by affection ouerruled and the soule our better parte 〈◊〉 to the bodies tyr●…ye our baser parts such as are charmed with the loue of sen●…uall delights wherein we wholly communicate with beasts degenerating from our states decorum participate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their nature which is altogether led by 〈◊〉 bred appetits are then so deeply be witcht w t wantonnes 〈◊〉 they will sooner dye for loue of it then while they liue in any sort assent to leaue it but as the byting of the Aspicke brings death as in a slumber y ● a●…ult thereof not being felt so where defiling lust doth raigne at full they whose thoughtes it hath polluted haue no feeling of their destroying follyes till plungd in the mi●…st of their desorued paines When the stoode is at his highest source then takes the 〈◊〉 his turne Valerias crime fostered through 〈◊〉 conc●…ing was nowe subiect to 〈◊〉 desteny 〈◊〉 is to bee as openly discouered as it was before closely couered Hir offence earst priuately reueald to hir wrong'd husbande did soone after become publique with hir the partnours of hir impyetie shard like fortune for what can be more iust then that they which 〈◊〉 together 〈◊〉 participate the shame therof together And thus it was After many meetinges many mischiefes perpetrated by that troope of trulles it chanced that in one of their fleshly synods newes were toul●… of a great solemnitie which within fewe dayes was to bee celebrated with much royalty at the courte whereupon at Valerias motion they immediatly resolu'd that suted in mens attyre they would meete there in a maske there fauorits which promis●… without farle there to finde them and after one sporte acted by themselues to act on them another with so much the more safetie by how much the farder they should bee from their husbandes whose noses growing now with their hornes somwhat longe coulde smell shrowdly any thing at hande Was then there laying out of curled hear ●…uing oft the wants of their almost hearelesse scalpes so light a crime their buskes and that great humme of Paris that vaile of lechery so slight a sinne beeing so soueraigne a remedy for bigge bellyes which ofte at a pinch helpe forwarde the worldes increase with swelling zeale were there other former faults such veniall offences that to exceede them all and hererein only able to exceede them they must thus disguise there sexe But why maruell I at their desire to seeme men sith they so mightily affected men yet could they not conueigh their ill contriu'd intent with such secrecie but that sundry knewe thereof for amongst so many how coulde all be silent passing thus from one mouth to an other it came in the ende to the heering of certaine courtiers of which one the greatest in account deepely abhorring so odyous an enterprize bouldly reueald it to the prince of those times who desiring to see the issue of their impudence though deeming it almost impossible that anye of that sex should be so shamelesse commanded generall silence and such semblance as if nothing were discouer'd They going forward with their attempt fayld not to assemble at the day assigned each being cas●… in hir mynions best attyre then vsing the benefite of the darke which is gilty of many mischiefes they came to the court and there suing for farther accesse obtain'd it thinking of nothing lesse then that they were intrapt But to dispatch the matter breefely In the midst of their iolitie they were by the princes commaundemente all forceably 〈◊〉 standing then before hir as stony Images not blushing ought at this bewraying of their lewdnes though enuirond and like monsters gazd on by many eyes nor making any shewe of sorrowe for their soueraigns sharpe rebukes which conceiuing no hope of their amendment seut them home with open shame vnto their husbāds The griefe wherof pinched Giraldo so nere the heart that he fell through sorrow into a greeuous sicknesse which wasted so his infeebled body that all remedies fayling his last musique was the sertons vnison 〈◊〉 him with a dolefull sounde to make ready for his longest home When no ●…esse defirous of death then disparing of life he causd all in the chamber to withdrawe Valeria excepted whom calling to him he thus bespake Might these last wordes worke that remorse in thee which my former speeches neuer could effect I should deeme my selfe not wholly vnhappie That I am sicke thou seest that dangerously sick I feele the cause thy folly long haue wee liu'd together in litle ioy lesse agremēt our iarring groūded on thy falshood not my fault vnlesse it were a fault with too much loue to foster thy too much libertie But I cease to relate former iniuries at thought whereof I may iustly wish with Augustus that I had liu'd wiuelesse and died childlesse bee it