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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	burn_v	day_n	house_n	2,389	4	5.4502	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40372	An account of Muscovy, as it was in the year 1689 In which the troubles that happen'd in that empire from the present czar Peter's election to the throne, to his being firmly settled in it, are particularly related. With a character of him, and his people. By Monsieur de La Neuville, then residing at Moscow.; Relation curieuse et nouvelle de Moscovie. English.	Foy de la Neuville.; Baillet, Adrien, 1649-1706, attributed name.	1699 (1699)	Wing F2046A; ESTC R201277	48,599	138

Sweat may jump into the cold Water which they do as well in Winter as Summer but though they are very hardy yet they are more sensible of Cold than the Poles They Eat and Drink very ill their usual Food is only Cucumbers and Melons of Astrakan which they pickle in Summer in Water Flower and Salt They eat no Veal out of a scruple too infamous to be nam'd nor Pigeon out of Superstition because the Holy Ghost is represented to us under that Figure The Men are cloath'd much like the Poles those that are Rich in Winter wear Cloath-Gowns brought from Holland lin'd with fine Furs and Jewels or little Pearls that are common in their Country in their Caps In Summer Persian and Chinese Stuffs and Silks The Women are drest like the Turks the poorest of 'em are proud of having a Cap of Persian Stuff more or less Rich such as they can purchase The richest garnish 'em with Pearls and Precious Stones Their Gowns or Sultanaes in Winter are made of Stuffs flower'd with Gold lin'd with Sables and in Summer of Chinese Damask They wear no Hair in their Head-dresses They walk very uneasily for their Shooes are made like Sandals and too big for their Feet They paint their Faces shave their Eye-brows and colour 'em as they fancy Are very fond of Strangers little scrupulous about the Nearness of Blood and despise their Husbands above all things The Muscovites love to go abroad and are always in haste their Equipage is very pitiful most of 'em ride about Town upon a scrubbed Horse with their Footmen running bareheaded before 'em In Winter this Beast is harness'd to a Sledge and this is all their Carriage As for the Women they have most of 'em a scurvy kind of a Coach made like a Litter drawn commonly by a single Horse they go 5 or 6 together in 't and sit squat down for there 's neither Seat nor Cushion in it Though there are Five or Six hundred thousand Inhabitans in Moscow there are no more than Three hundred of these Coaches but above a Thousand little Chariots with one Horse which for a small matter carry people from one place to another Some of the Richest have Coaches made after the French fashion brought from Holland and Dantzick Those of the Czars are very old the reason is they never buy any hoping to have 'em presented by foreign Princes or Ambassadors The best they have are made after the Mode of the Country some with Boots and others like Litters Their Sleds are very fine those that are open are made of Gilded Wood lin'd within with Velvet and broad Galoons They are drawn by Six Horses whose Harness is cover'd with Velvet Those Sleds that are cover'd are made like a Coach with Glasses cover'd on the outside with Red Cloth and within with Sables They lye down and sleep in them when they travel which they commonly do in the Night-time in Winter When the Czars go through the City either in Coach or Sled they change their best Equipages for such as they use in the Country They have several Wooden Houses about Moscow which they improperly term Pleasure-houses for there 's neither Gardens nor Walks they are only surrounded with Walls for fear of being carried off by the Poles or Tartars which often happen'd fifty years ago The Czar Peter is very tall and pretty well shap'd and has a Comely Face his Eyes are large but unsteady which makes it no pleasant thing for any body to look upon him his Head shakes continually though he is but Twenty Years old His diversion is to make his Favourites shoot at one another and sometimes they kill one another to ingratiate themselves with him In Winter he causes great holes to be made in the Ice and forces his fattest Lords to pass over 'em in Sleds they fall in and are drown'd sometimes when the holes are not froze over again hard enough to bear ' em Now and then he causes the Great Bell to be toll'd and nothing pleases him better than to see houses on fire which happens very often in Moscow for they never take pains to put out the fire till there are four or five hundred burnt The truth on 't is there 's seldom much damage done for these houses are little better than our Hogsties in France or Germany They are bought in the Market ready built In 1688 there were Three thousand burnt and within four Months last Year I saw three fires in each of which five or six hundred houses at least were burnt These fires are occasion'd by their perpetual Drunkenness and their negligence to put out the many Tapers that they stick about the Pictures in their Chambers They prepare themselves for Lent by a Carnival of as many days during which the disorder is so great that the Foreigners who live in the Suburbs dare hardly venture into the City for they butcher one another like Wild Beasts and make themselves drunk with Brandy and other Liquors so strong and yet so abominable that no body but they can drink 'em so that 't is no wonder they lose the little reason they have naturally and stab one another with great Knives like Bayonets A fellow shall kill his best Friend and Comrade there if he hopes to rob him of a Penny All they do to hinder or at least lessen these outrages is to reinforce the Guards but the Soldiers who are no soberer than the rest never come in till the mischief 's done and provided they have their share of the Plunder the Criminal is sure to escape insomuch that no body 's concern'd in this Countrey to see people murder'd daily in the streets They eat so greedily that they are forc'd to sleep three hours at least after dinner and go to bed as soon as they 've supp'd but they make amends by rising betimes in the morning Nay they live thus in the Army and every private Soldier takes a Nap at noon In the Summer they strip themselves naked and bathe and so they lye down to sleep They can't endure Rain and 't is very rare in these parts They all wear little Caps and when they meet their Friends they make a sign of the Cross and shake hands This they do I suppose to call God to witness to their Infidelity for cheating's one of their Virtues The Religion of the Muscovites is that of the Greeks and may be call'd Archischismatical for 't is so full of horrible Superstitions which their Ignorance has introduc'd into it that they may pass for half Idolaters They have kept up the Sacerdotal Order among 'em but they treat their Priests and Monks with very little respect for they make no scruple when they catch 'em out of their Churches to take off their Caps and when they have thresh'd 'em sufficiently to put 'em upon their heads again very orderly The Patriarch of Muscovy resided formerly at Kiovia but the Muscovites have obtain'd since that City surrender'd