Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	put_v	set_v	water_n	6,115	5	6.4808	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04606	The arte and science of preseruing bodie and soule in healthe, wisedome, and Catholike religion phisically, philosophically, and diuinely deuised: by Iohn Iones phisition. Right profitable for all persones: but chiefly for princes, rulers, nobles, byshoppes, preachers, parents, and them of the Parliament house.	Jones, John, physician.	1579 (1579)	STC 14724; ESTC S119245	104,818	142

leaues as Gordonius appointeth But our manerly midwiues doe washe them in a Bathe of warme water of Clemens Alexander commended for foure especiall causes that is to wit warmenesse clenlinesse helth and pleasauntnesse And of Hippocrates for a great helpe vnto growsomnesse largenesse and talnesse Which Bath if it containe ten partes of running water and one of new milke from the cowe and haue a fewe malowes putte in before it be set on the fire to boyle or a little Sallet oyle after it be taken off when it is but luke warme in my iudgemēt that wil be best or for lacke of Sallet oyle swéete butter as some of the finest sorte forth of Cities and townes do vse And when you haue trimmed it vp wipe it with very soft clothes ayred or through dried Then slicke vp the foreheade or forfronte of the tower and ampier of Reasō and Sapience ouerclasping your handes before and behinde vpon the rounde heade treasurer of al Science and Knowlege After clense the common Eniunctuaries or purging wayes as the eyes beholders of things celestiall and witnesse of things terrestriall the eares triers of tongs and times the nosethrils clensers of the braine iudgers of smelles receyuers and deliuerers also of the ●●●es opening also gentlye the mouth loking if it bée frée of tong the glorifyer of God tryer of tastes and Ambassador betwéene man and man prouing also if it wil emptie the bodie Then lay it vppon your lappe farre tender and ●rast placing euery limme and ioynt right for as yet it will be ●●pliant as waxe for all good forme And cut not of the na●●ll string as Ezechiel sayth the Iewes did but knit it with a shréede fast and annoint it with oyle of Roses or swéet butter and let it fal away of it selfe Nowe if you be desirous of a patterne of the finest hope as you haue alreadye noted of the beste temperature 〈◊〉 following is of the beste forme according to the iudgement of Policletus Plinie Vitruuius and Montuus whom I 〈◊〉 most of all other yet not as a translatour but as a collectour And by the thrée dementions Geometricall it is tryed 〈◊〉 he that is by length breadth and thicknesse beginning 〈◊〉 with the heade as the worthyest part bycause it is the Tabernacle and mansion of the immortall soule of science all vnderstanding and of art before al the artes the inuentor 〈◊〉 ●riteth Hippocrates Plato and Cicero vnto whom Galen 〈◊〉 subscribe Clemens Alexandrinus S. Augustine Melancton and Vasselius with Columbus Fuchsius Fernelius Paparilla Bullinger and Banisterus which head if it agrée with 〈◊〉 waste in compasse as our Prince doth with hir subiectes in vnity then it is right And the face of miracles the mirror fit contain from the vpper part of the forehead to the lowermost part of the chin declarer of fruitfulnesse or barrenesse 〈◊〉 tenth part of al the length it is iust And it is diuided into their equall portions that is from the vppermost part of the foreheade to the neathermost parte of the browes from the neathermost part of the browes to the neather moste part of the Nosethrils From the neather moste part of the Nosethrilles to the neather moste parte of the chinne 〈◊〉 whiche portions of the face described agréeth with the hande from the ende of the longer finger to the wrest and is also the length of the foote Hence appeareth the errour of Peter Bouastiau who affirmeth that it contayneth but halfe a foote But as the whole is equall to the face so parts of the fingers doth agrée with the mouth as namely the greater bone of the thumbe wyth the mouth wide open and is equall to the space that is from the neathermost part of the chinne to the neathermost lippe and the lesser bone is of measure with Mustaxe which is the space betwéene the Nose ende and the vpper lippe whence the heare groweth that nowe a dayes is so muche chearished of Galants and is termed after the Spanishe phrase Moucheacheos The greter bone of the long finger is like to the bredth of the forehead The two lesser are equall to the length of the middle finger The length of the nailes are the fourth part of the lēgth of the fingers And the thumbe agréeth with the little finger in length The other two of like length betwéene which the middlemost finger obtayneth the greatest length as the man in state of best forme here described although I know seldom founde in this our age of too vntimely coopling of the heyght of sixe foote after the Geometricall foote consisting of foure little handefuls euery handefull of foure fingers contaynyng in thicknesse halfe alwayes of his length so that you measure him about the breast The eight part of the length is from the chinne to the top of the crowne of the heade The sixt from the toppe of the breas●e to the neathermoste rooke of the eares and that is the measure and space of the foote The fourth from the toppe of the breaste to the toppe of the heade And that is also the measure of the Cubite and breast But al such as be of greter stature pleaseth not the Counte Castilio as he telleth the Courtiers by Doctour Clearke into Latine moste excellentlye translated as Giantes whiche are of height 7. Cubits nor I say Dwarfes Pigmeis Stil●●●●s whom Homer Plinie Strabo affirme to fight with ●●●●●s These being in state of gretest groweth passe noti height two foote and a quarter neyther yet those monsters mentioned of Hippocrates and Iacobus Siluius that are be●●tten in Asia as the Nacrocephali Phasiam Monoculi and Ciclopedij To be shorte althoughe after the common opinion the lengthe of euerye one of iuste proportion is the bredth his armes stretched abroade betwéene the two formost fingers endes yet if doth not proue that comely greatnesse defined of Vigetius to be in valiaunt and puissant Souldiours as by the Page of the late noble Marques of Northampton appeared and by the proper Grome of the prudente and noble Earle of Sussex that I sawe attendaunt vppon his honour at Buckstones being both according to their stature in eche proportion aunswerable So that we conclude that wyth semelye forme muste be hadde a goodlye bodye endued wyth valour to the graces in mankinde aunswerable if persons of best constitution and frame they shall bée accounted when is the reasonable Soule is but the Image as sayth Hugo of the mightie creator as the séemelye bodie is the shadowe of a wise minde All whiche if you seriously marke you may knowe easilye not onely thys heauenlye Idea of best nature shape and temperature endued also consequentlye alwayes after nature with beste reason enclyned likewise to beste manners as Hippocrates Galen and Auicen doe teach For as nature doeth euer make the forme of the bodye me●te and agréeable to the manners of the minde so also you maye iudge hereby of all counterfeites whether they be