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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	woman_n	word_n	youth_n	35	3	7.8170	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32873	Choice novels and amarous tales written by the most refined wits of Italy ; newly translated into English.		1652 (1652)	Wing C3917; ESTC R13551	88,161	254

the Lady would either resolve to put him from his importunity either accusing of him to her husband or making it known to her kindred who assuredly would not let pass unpunish'd so foolish a temerity which endeavoured to stain with notes of infamy the honest reputation of another mans Family Love admits of no advise he acknowledgeth the truth of reason in his friends words but it being not possest by him the words were but cast into the air with this answer onely leaves he him You shall soon see saith he whether I or who else it is that shall be lost His friend was astonished and afflicted that he could nothing move him from avoiding those dangers which threatned him if he should obstinately pursue his intentions Many daies were not past when Eusebio going to a Villa of his was shot in the flank with a brace of bullets he knew not from whence and having enmity with no man he could not imagine from whom it should come This hurt made him fall to the ground from his horse so that he could not help himself til some Country men passing by who knew him put him on their Cart which was loaded with Corn going for the City and brought him home to his wife who for the disaster which had befaln him was unmeasurably afflicted The Physitians and Chirurgians were sent for who knowing the wound to be mortal gave him over yet they did not forbear to apply the best remedies they knew which were but all in vain the miserable man at the end of the seventh day was forc'd to leave his life and his wife I should say his wife first since by him she was preferr'd before it What sighs and complaints she made how she toar with her white hands her golden locks and beat her candent brest cannot be exprest the excess of them was so great that men would hardly find faith to beleeve the truth of them The last day of the month was scarce at an end the fair having perform'd the obsequies of her deceased Husband when Gelindo was observ'd more then he was wont frequently to go about the Ladies house and with words and gestures to discover himself more enflam'd then ever with her unparalell'd beauty He often tempts by means of a neighbour of hers that she might procure her for him to wife causing her in his name to make as generous offers as could be made from a heart which loves immoderately But all vainly succeeds for she was resolv'd never to consent to any the rather for that although she was not assured yet she very much doubted that her husbands death had been effected by none but by Gelindo so that she did not onely deny to exchange love but she return'd him one of the fiercest hatreds that ever woman bore a man Women as well in hatred as in love have no bridle but have both in excess The most beautiful Widow nourishing the fire of this disdain within her heart against Gelindo who ador'd her often meditates to revenge her wrong'd and murther'd husband and because she could finde out no way more secure then one which was to execute it with her own hands she deliberates with her self to dispatch it after this manner It was about the end of the year of her mourning widowhood when on a day she cals one of the most faithful amongst her maids and having shut themselves up together in a secret Chamber she speaks to her after this manner Fosca for so was her name My long experience of thy fidelity towards my person assures me that I may confide in thee even one of the highest resolutions which I ever made in the whole course of my life but before I discover it think well upon it whether you can be sure to keep it secret for if you finde that you have not resolution enough to silence it tell me that I may not speak it and I shall take another expedient for to accomplish my thought It s needless to relate what Fosca answer'd it s enough that her words were such that Limisinda pursued her already began discourse I have alwaies heard say that its impossible for a young woman that 's handsom and that hath tasted the delights of her husbands embraces to live long after his death without the company of a man I have prov'd the truth thereof from the affections of my minde I have endeavoured a long time since the death of my dear Eusebio who is now amongst the Stars to violence my self and to repress the heat of youth which a fresh fomented my desires of those amorous pleasures but because I perceive it impossible any longer to overcome the force thereof I have taken a resolution that I will not live altogether the rest of my life unaccompanied of a man It s true I would not subject my self to that Noose which is not to be unloosed betwixt man and woman unless by the death of the one or other of them Other thoughts other desires possess my mind The Maid remain'd a while suspended at these words of her Mistris who observing it continued Wonder not my Fosca at what I am to tell thee and if you see me chang'd in my opinion which in the esteem of all was of an unparalell'd honesty I must hereafter live otherwise Resolve therefore on what I shall impose upon thee for I am confident you will one day praise me when you shall entirely know the end of these thoughts which revolve in my minde Servitude fidelity and the importunity of a Lover with the time overcomes the most obstinate rigour of a womans brest I am not the first who have been subdued If thou hadst ever found thy self in the like case thou wouldst compassionate help me so that what thou art to execute may be effected with all possible secrecy that it at no time may be known by any but by us two and Gelindo whom at the shutting in of the Evening thou art to expect at a window of the lower room and when he according to his custome passeth by cast him out this paper wrapt up in this sarsenet and then presently retire thy self that he reading it may think upon what he is to do The wench takes the letter from her Mistris and full of astonishment by reason of the novelty of the accident wonders at so unexpected a resolution Yet she promiseth diligently to perform what was commanded her and so departs to go about her other house affairs till the hour come wherein she was to execute it The Evening being come Gelindo passeth the street and whilst he cast his eyes towards the uppermost windows of Limisinda's house where sometimes he had had the fortune to see her there comes to him thrown by the Maid who stood hid behinde the glass of a Balcony in the lowermost part of the house this letter involv'd and having observ'd him to take it she presently returns to her Mistris to acquaint her with the success

demands the cause of her imprisonment in vain she witnessed her own innocency since where its necessary to obey the violence of so many 't is bootless to produce excuses for her deliverance The fame was soon spred abroad that Euridea was imprisoned for poysoning this Lady at her table the publick voice added that she was already condemned to death as that lyer when it cannot offend truth in the substance of the fact yet at least it will prejudice it with false additions Niarpe heard of this accident more confus'dly then others so that in repeating it he even confounded it in himself by reason of the dangers wherein his beloved enemy was This says he to himself is the time to terminate thy pains here is the opportunity of a certain death together with a most indearing deceit to make my faith and affection appear let me but encounter this capital sentence insteed of my Mistris and I shall make it appear that the intention was always impossible in me of killing her when we lov'd when even now when I ought to hate her by my own life I shall free her from losing of hers Arise O my heart run boldly in this occasion to witness thy fidelity to live is no waies desirable since a fallacious dream alone is able to disturb thy contentment even to dispair Hast thou suffered so many torments not to yeeld to be thought an unhappy Traytor unloose thy self from these bonds that thy soul may be at liberty and happily fly away without the weight of such grievous passions which clog it He consulted in this manner with his own thoughts without being aware to what end these counsels directed his resolutions He confounded himself in the vehemency of his desire which aspired to repacifie him with his beloved which inconsiderately precipitated him in the arms of every occasion which his hopes represented favorable He goes to Euridea's house with these revolv'd thoughts in his stupified minde to gain a perfect notice of the fact the servants were astonish'd no less in seeing then in hearing him so perplex'd for their Mistrisses deliverance they knowing of his former passages esteem'd him as a perfideous enemy They which serv'd her said in confirmation of the relation which he had already heard adding with multiplyed oathes that she was innocent of the imputed crime that they had season'd all the meat without the least poysonous ingredient or their being any wayes offended by the tast thereof were the accusation true they doubted onely of the dish which was sent for a present yet that excluded the fault from those of the house as being a recevi'd deceit They the more provok'd him lamenting the sudden and eminent danger of their Lady since without defence she was to maintain all what her incens'd Accuser did instance they thought they might move Niarpe out of pitty to afford her some assistance although they durst not intreat it beleeving his disdain against Euridea to have been equal with what she did beleeve of his cruelty observing besides that her safety was urgent they sollicited him further telling him that all remedy would be fruitless unless suddenly undertaken And according to the property of women easie of beleef when mov'd by fear they thought even that their Lady was already brought to the Scaffold and her head was cuting off by the Executioner The distemper'd minde of the young man could no longer hold at that impression taking the danger far greater then in truth it was and so ravisht away he runs to the Tribunal where his love was to be condemn'd and according to his belief unquestionably to be executed Presenting himself to the Judge I am come says he to deliver the innocent from death the poyson which criminates Euridea as that she had prepared it for her friend was sent by me in the meat which as I perceive was brought to her table at dinner I sent it to intoxicate Euridea her self but baffled by Fortune I see my self betray'd by my own designs repenting to have machinated her death I correct my error neither will I double the crime unjustly suffering that which now lies on her by vertue of a false accusation What sayest thou O foolish Niarpe Thou hazardest thy self to regain the affection of thy dear and to abolish the thought of being a Traytor thou accusest thy self that thou wouldst have poysoned her Doest thou think to discriminate thy self by a sinister belief with this fraud of thine thou castest down thy hopes and rather confirmest her belief by confessing to have endeavour'd to poyson her The more envenom'd against thee at this thy redoubled attempt insteed of a lover thou wilt render her a fury thou shalt die infamous hated by her detested with perpetual ignominy which will follow the assurance of thy twice repeated treachery a wise resolution a prudent counsel What thou didst design to shun thou estrangest thy self from the end which thou didst prescribe to thy amorous resolution But 't is no wonder that he should do thus who trusted a blinde guide spurr'd on by love to this action he went on without thinking what would become of the business weaving a black mantle of guiltiness for his own innocency wherein in speaking he made his tongue the nurse of his love as he had before followed his steps The Judge admits of his voluntary accusation exchanging the Accuser for the Lady whom he declares innocent and taking her out of prison satisfied her curiosity by relating the success which was the occasion of her unlook'd for deliverance She at first wondred at the guilty persons true heart but afterwards understanding that it was Niarpe who had confess'd that that poyson had been design'd for her death those affections then preceding it which will suffer no bridle to wit disdain she exclaimes against his perfidiousness who the second time discover'd his designes of treachery against her life Assuredly said she remorse of conscience hath forc'd thee for such treacheries to condemn thy self O God how can a soul although perverse conceive a hatred against me which seems insatiable even to my death I who lov'd him with so sincere a heart answered him with such a ready compliance and so curteously that I dare swear I never had but amorous desires for him Let Ladies learn to be free to their young Lovers that they may gain so grateful a reward even for the testimonies of tollerable cruelty Beleeve not now that if there were a man more faithful then he that even I could procure my self to overcome the inconstancy of my sex to parralel him in affection Exaggerating after this manner her passion she comes to the presence of the Judge and doubly makes Niarpe guilty discovering his former attempt to kill her in her sweetest rest in her quiet sleep One fault confirms another Euridea having aggravated his fault departs assured that he should be severely punish'd by a mortal sentence she gladly returns home no less for her own liberty then for