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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	breath_n	life_n	7,064	5	5.1483	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04887	Loues load-starre Liuely deciphered in a historie no lesse commendable than comfortable, for all those that in their louely affections, haue by the enmitie of their friends, bene molested with the menacing meteors of crossing misfortunes. Leading also all kinde and true louers, that in their choyces are frownd at by froward parents, vnto the portfull paradise of pleasurde patience, and patient pleasures. By Robert Kittowe, student.	Kittowe, Robert.	1600 (1600)	STC 15026; ESTC S119664	47,205	78

runne headlong to mischiefe and haue no helpe Go to thy mother go vile Girle And so he left her This sharpe che●ke surprizde poore Katherinas passionate soule with such vehement supposes that halfe distracted of her sences scarce able with her trembling féete to ascend the stairs craued her Closet where when she entred fetcht déepe and heartie-shiuering sighes faintly drawing breath fell into a suddaine sowne and hauing againe recured her memorie she vttered to her selfe this sorrowfull complaint Ah Loue quoth she the onely Lampe and Load-starre of life how peruersly art thou burthened with Atlas loade Ah life the greatest light of the world how art thou clowded with the counterfait of death Ah death the onely phisitian to cure a gréeued heart Why withdrawest thou mercilesse as thou remainest thy piercing dart to cut off my woful dayes lengthned too long by the spitefull Destenies Ah Destenies the continual consumers of mortal life cut ah cut off the twist of my daies for I abhorre all my liuing daies prolonged by the lingring slacknesse of doating Tyme Ah Tyme the deuourer of all earthly things suffer this hateful breath of mine to forsake my wretched breasts habitation that my poore soule with the winges of a Doue may mount vnto the glorious heauens Ah heauens the predominant gouernours of mortal bodies and blessed receptacles of deified soules deliuer a wretched soule from a distressed bodies poyson to haue some comfortable content with your sacred selues amongst the glorious Seraphins Heauens Destenies Tyme and Death accord in one to the end my miserable life and with my life my inspired and yet discomfortable loue Then she staide from her wofull heart shooting footh volleys of sad sighes and powring from the conduicts of her Christall eyes streames of teares that trilled downe her Lilly dide chéekes and hauing by these meanes a little lightened her burthened stomacke shée thus againe beganne to ruminate And shall my Fathers browes furrowed with frownes or his words as sharpe as the blastes sent foorth by Boreas turne or driue away my Loue that ought to me his dearest life No by the Gods no whilst I liue if his heart remaine loyall as though his heart too would remaine otherwise that thus thou pleadest with If● oh whilest I liue I say will I loue my Iacomin But and then she shoote foorth ●alt teares our Fathers our froward and furious Fathers ah that Parentes should séeme crosses to the godly proceedings of their children our Fathers that should be our best helpes are our most hinderers our Fathers who in furthering our choyce should chiefly pleasure vs doo chiefly displeasure vs their enmitie confuseth our amitie their contentions infrindge our contenta●i●ns their armours our amours their aggreuates our agreements their frownes our affections their hardie spéeches our heartie sportings Ah hard hard hard happe Goe to thy mother vile Girle quoth he and so ●lung from his onely childe in anger Should I tell my mother what would she replie I know what I must not loue his ofspring that Serpent-like intends my Parents downfall As though the faulte of the Father were rightly to be reputed to the sonne who wisheth peace if it were possible requireth quiet if it might bee graunted requisite commendeth concord thereby to haue all reconciled And yet is he ah he my ioy and comfort my Iacomin he is had as an Agent in these hurly-burlies Therefore Katherina wretched and miserable Katherina sith thine eyes are debarred from beholding the light of thy vniuersall consolation let thy Closette become a sollitarie Cell which mantled all about with blacke sorrowe may séeme to thy best content euen the shades of Cymmeria for what more may excruciate a macerated soule whose eyes abhorre the light than to behold the lightsome day Hauing thus said abounding passions stopt the organons of her voice and féeling her selfe faint laid her féeble limmes on her woe-acceptable bed there neither permitting her outward eyes nor yet her inward minde to enioy any rest Now turne we on the other side to yong Iacomin whose eares hauing heard in some part howe shée was ratled and rated at by Bartolo stealing sadly to his Chamber with eyes fu●l of teares brest swolne with sobbes and hart burdened with passion hée burst forth into these disconsolate clamours O haplesse helplesse and hopelesse Caitiue Haplesse because voide of all good happe and therefore vnfortunate Helplesse for that thou wretched thou wantst all comfortable help and therefore accursed And hopelesse in that all hope of comfort hath fled thy company and therefore desperate And sith thou art so vnfortunate so accurst and desperate banne Fortune curse the Fates and so dispaire and die for onely death may bring thée some happe to win helpe or some helpe to enioy hope of future comfort where now thou remainest wholly comfortlesse Then he pawsed a space and with milder moode thus went forward And yet Iacomin remember thy selfe be not driuen to dispaire through distrust As thou hast lost thy ioyes so may thy ioyes againe chaunce to be found Policrates had a precious Iewel in the belly of a fish serued at his boord which he let fall into the sea This onely chaunce hath made this chaunge Thou hadst not long since libertie and leaue not only to behold but also to imbrace thy Loue in thy Parents presence But that libertie is lost that leaue is out of date that fréedome is past and thou art made the bond-slaue of all miserie And yet the caurse of time may restore them all but when And with that he stood as though he had beheld Medusas head ●ill after a while comming to himselfe he procéeded with these exclaimes O vnhappie estate of Princes whose dignities placed on the whirling whéele of vnconstant Fortune stand in such vncertaintie as when they mount to the highest degree and loftiest altitude of honour prosperitie euen at an instant they ar● lopsie turuie ouerturnd tumbled downe to the lowe touch of the ground with disgrace beggery Percutiunt fulmi●a montes non valles i●fimos Would I had bene of baser Parentage so might I haue obtained more patience to endure misfortunes I patience perfect patience is a salue to heale all the smartful scourages of Fortune But yet it is a vertue for cowards and crauens not for valiant venterous youth whose minds couragious minds dare with the Gyants again in the Phlaegraean fields Bellare cum dijs to threaten and pronounce wars against great loue and all the other Gods climbing vp the heauens as did braue Belleropho● on winged Pegasus and breaking the infernal gates of hel bind trypl●-headed Cerberus in chaines as did Hercules in his labors of wonders to appease the wrath of angry Iuno But why Iacomin ouercome with rage like to blinde bayards doest thou obraid the glorious Sun or with the witlesse Wolues séem to bark against the Moone hope wel haue wel intreat the gods Quid enim nisi vota super sunt with praiers to pacifie those

right and drinke vp the remnant Katherina wiping her wayling eyes as hauing tane some smal heart agrace framed modestly this reply Although egregious Prince it fits not Fortunes meacocks to séem courtly with kings nor Captiues to cry checkmate with their kéepers yet sith your highnesse is so graciously bent towarde the welfare of me worthlesse and vnworthie wretch I wil not deny to pledge your highnesse And hauing so saide tooke a good wholesome draught of the Wine The king then pleasantly conceyted asked her what bedfellow she would desire to haue And she answered she desired such a one as would for dishonour like Lybidinous Tereus séeke neyther to defile her nor like a lewde Priapus to defame her For it is better be kild than liue with crackt credit Whose so chaste answere gaue a memorandum to the wanton demaunders meaning and yet because he would not séeme to be rubd on the gall bolted forth this insinuation But yet beauteous quoth he if a louely wight would beare you company in bed I déeme you not so disdainful as to depel him with deniall Why and it please your royaltie said she vnbidden guests are neuer best welcome at a banquet neither vnto a woman is acceptable any vnknowne bedfellowe Which dry buffet made him euen dumbe for shame would not suffer him to reueale his owne lauishnesse and therefore with the Lapwing he thus cried farre from his neast Wel prettie peate quoth he thy mind as yet disagreeth within it selfe because it is not partaker of any pleasant good To change which appalling and oppressing propertie thou shalt be conducted to that place of pleasure whence doth remaine exilde all melancholy passions I cannot imagine thée greater good neither wil I doo thée a lesse commoditie And so prouided attendants to conduct Katherina to the Castle As the glorious Sunne beganne to drench his fire-breathing Stéeds in the colde Ocean and the gladsome daylight was shadowe● by the nights gloomy clouds Iacomin almost made deaths Captiue through weakenesse with his other sickly Companions had gotten land euen on the shoare of this same Cittie where Katherina was brought for a present to the Prince And hauing obtained lodging for himselfe and the rest of his heartlesse followers was taken in cure by a cunning Surgian all the company at the Inne where he laie bewayling the heartilesse downefal and distresse of so faire a person Katherina in the meane time being come to the Castle beholding it without somewhat wondred but when she beheld within the gresses and steppes guiding them vnto seueral Inclosures whose imblazures were no lesse resplendent than the glorious Iasper or a multitude of goodly Emeraldes shée was ouercome with incredible admiration Some salutes being imparted towards her by many of the Dames there resident she was placed by those of the Kings Guard according to his Maiesties commaund in a most prettie Closette all about garnished with flowers so liuely portrayed as that Arte séemed to goe beyonde Nature in her workes For there were Roses so depaynted and framed as if they were but then plucked and brought from the Garden bearing so varnished a die as did Zeuxes Artificiall Grapes which the Byrdes beguilde did often pricke at with reaching beakes There was a square Table by the nimble Seruitors straight couered ouer with delicious dainties To eate whereof Katherina was inuited both by some Damzels that at poynt-deuise awaited on her and intreated by the other Dames that welcommed her as best allowed for that purpose Little was it that Katherina tasted lesse that her passionate stomacke digested and least of all that her gréeued minde delighted Only her wandring eyes euen fedde on diuers sightes so farre foorth that they séemed neuer satisfied sufficiently As shée satte at meate shée helde in ken portrayed with a most perfect plotforme in cloath of Arras the proportion of the famous Cittie Athens to haue preheminence whereof Minerua accompanied with all the Muses whose fourmes were rarely pollisht holding in theyr handes diuers Instruments but Minerua bearing a Booke helde a controuersie with Neptune who helde in her hand a thréefolde Mace and all his Demi● Gods In the middest of which contention there séemed to appeare vnto them an admirable water Nymph euen faire Thetis whose admyrable lookes lyke the Sunnes austers so piercest Neptunes cordyalls that to winne fauour hée graunted to yéelde vp the dominion of all his lande-Citties vnto the handes of the contending Goddesse Taking hold on whose promise Minerua for him wonne the Nymph and gaind the frée gouernment of Athens Underneath that Portrayture was set this Poesie Arma quae violant vinciunt amores What Table-talke the wanton Wagtailes that were her copesmates to increase merriment and decrease melancholy for recreation their mindes then vsed it skilles not to repeate and therefore shal be omitted to auoyd troublesome prolixitie For no man is so dunsticall that cannot coniecture follie in the smiles and vanitie in the spéeches of suche vyle Huswiues The Table taken vp they walked a while to behold the varietie of Arts ornaments spred round about this metropolitane house And when Katherina had throughly viewde and reviewde all shée sette downe her censure for a Principle that Omnia vanitas When time gaue Morpheus libertie with his inchaunting noates to bedull mens vigilant sences summoning all humane bodies to recreating rest the skie being maskt with a duskie vaile and onely made brightsome by the glimmering appearaunce of some set Starres Katherina by the company béeing brought againe vnto her setteled Chamber the place that was appoynted her to solace in all bidding her good night and the Kéeper locking fast the Chamber doore as he commonly vsed and was accustomed euerye Night to shut locke and bolte faste the reste in place of slumbering shée waxed againe sorrowfull in stead on that sumptuous bed to take quiet she stood at the windowe with ●yes most carefull in place of swéete content entertaining within her breast sharpe discontent reckoning all proffered pleasure as perill all dilicates but dregges all courting but counterfeit and all the pleasant Uyands but plaine vanitie And from the aboundance of striuing thoughts her voyce the mindes enterpreter vttered this Homilie Is it worthy the title of beautie or blemish to haue the body purpled and the soule polluted The Serpent that in Paradice beguilde Eua knew not how to entice her to eate the forbidden Apple but by bidding her behold the beautie thereof for the rinde seemed swéete and the taste to sée the coare bred a sowre infection whose wittinesse ouerwinning their wits to agrée vnto that pleasure procured an vnrecitable punishment The King Katherina hath placed thée in a semblable delightsome Eden promising thée pleasure without paine mirth without moane ioy without annoy solace without sorrow and all delight without any dolours whose allurements if thou reiect not whose blandishments if thou banne not and templations if thou temperate not thy mind wil be blemished thy conscience stained thy thoughts polluted and thy