Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	hate_v	lord_n	love_v	5,673	5	6.6468	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78017	Balzac's remaines, or, His last letters· Written to severall grand and eminent persons in France. Whereunto are annexed the familiar letters of Monsieur de Balzac to his friend Monsieur Chapelain. Never before in English.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; Chapelain, Jean, 1595-1674.; Dring, Thomas.	1658 (1658)	Wing B616; Thomason E1779_1; ESTC R209057	331,826	458

meane eloquent Vrania's are worth at least as much as those that one Antipater a Sidonian wrote on the death of the learned Sapho You shall be the absolute and Soveraigne judge of them and to this purpose I send you the Greek Originall of the Post of Sidon with the Latine version of Doctour concerning which you must also pronounce the unrepealable sentence I am withall my soul SIR Your c. Aug. 9. 1644. LETTER XIIII To Monsieur Fermin Councellour to the King Controller of the Kings revenew in the Generality of Limoges c. SIR YOur leaving this country hath left a sting in my heart that continually goades me with a longing for your returne Our last conversation when I was your perpetuall auditour imprinted in my braine such lasting and acceptable Ideas that I have since done nothing else but blesse the hower wherein you gave them me and envy my deare friends who engrosse you to themselves whole dayes together they are happy if they can but be sensible of their good fortune if they do but know that a Commissioners place is the least gaine they can make by you I understand very well the advantages of such a neighbourhood and though I love nothing like quiet and all kind of noise be troublesome to me yet I protest the sound of your words had with much delight weaned me f●om the love of silence and solitude Since you do not despise the fruits that grow in this wildernosse I send you by Monsieur what i● hath brought forth in this season of drought It may be the noveltie may please you and because you love Tacitus and do not hate my Lord Cardinall de la Vallette I thought it would not be distastefull to you to peruse a manuscript that would put you in mind both of the one and the other My new way of consolation and the Method I use to practice on the sick Grandees to qualifie griefe by soothing it hath been received at Paris with approbations But although it had all the successe I could wish and passed for an originall after the making so many Consolations in the world yet since Men are still mortall and under the lawes of Fortune you may judge of it if you please Sir without respect to any preceeding sentence upon it You shall moreover decree soveraignly in the contest I had in Holland some yeares since the Pleadings whereof Monsieur now brings you My Scribe hath added to them the Letter written on the Kid which is yet in debate and referres to that famous Cause that divided all the Court-Wits into faction If the Kings service remand you to Angoulesme I would seek out some other recreations for you among my papers But if you should chance to travell the road of St. John d'Angely and be within fifty steppes of Balzac I will be confident you will not offer me a second affront by refusing me a visit where you may conferre so great favour on a Landlord that can give very diligent attention to you It is impossible but you must feel some remorse for using me so hardly and with out question you will sometime or other take the paines to come down the hil into the Valley and wade over a little rivulet for my sake who would cross an Arme of the Sea nay would not be afraid of the maine Ocean to give you a testimony that I am SIR Your c. July 15. 1636. LETTER XV. To Monsieur the Marquesse of Montausier Governour and Lieutenant Generall for the King in Alsatia c. SIR YOu wil know by Monsieur Chaplain with what respect I received the honour you did me by retaining me in your remembrance But you must understand from my self how great an obligation I resent in the handsome way whereby you were pleased to express it You comfort me Sir and that most gloriously for all the time and paper which hitherto I thought lost For now though I have taken pains only for an ungratefull Court and insensible Grande's yet since you prize my pains at so high a rate I look for nothing from any body you have paid me what others did apparently owe me Can it be that I not only take up your spare hours but cure your sadnesse and that such trifles as were only the pastime of the idle are become remedies for the afflicted Since you find them so savory I had rather for your sake call th●m the nutriment of wise men and if they were able to deserve that name I would begge of God but still for your sake the fertility of that good Prelate who hath strowed France with books and who lately counted the seaventy-fifth of his volumes It should be that you might be supplyed with whole convoyes of them from time to time and to quicken up those by my example who make the KINGS troops languish that they might not suffer you to lack money and ammunition as I could be carefull to furn●sh you with Histories and discourses The great consideration is this Sir you would afford the subject to thes● Histories and discourses if they would but give you wherewithall to undertake and act The share you had in that miraculous yeare of the Duke of Weymar will not give you leave to suspect but that as you were one of the Companions of his actions you shall be one of the inheritours of his thoughts they would be too bigge to be confined in breasts of an ordinary capacity and would stifle common souls with their weight But Sir what opinion do you thinke we have of the elevation of yours And what do you conceive Monsieur Chaplain and I promise our selves from your destiny things so high and extraordinary that not to say more they dant his verse and my prose and drive me almost to the shift and of a bare protestation which I make in this place that I am SIR Your c. Nov. 25. 1638. LETTER XVI To my Lord the Arch-bishop of Corinth Coadintour of the Archbishoprick of Paris My Lord IT was enough that you accepted the small present I sent you too much to thanke me for such inconsiderable trifle I expected not this second favour and believed the good fortune of my book had attained its higest at the courteous reception you gave it But you have done more you have with speeches of commendation consecrated a homage that was paid you before with thoughts of distrust and fear Who could not seriously fear such subtle and penetrating eyes as yours who pry out the most concealed defects and are offended at the sleightest staines who would not tremble my Lord in the behalfe of compositions so deformed as mine so unadorned with the Art of the Court almost as irregular as the buildings in our Village I do not doubt but they will become better improv'd had I but the honour to be neer you and one of those happy ones that heare you when teaching how to live well you exhibite a pattern of excellent speaking I count the