Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

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
A05418	Curiosities: or the cabinet of nature Containing phylosophical, naturall, and morall questions fully answered and resolved. Translated out of Latin, French, and Italian authors. By R.B. Gent. Never before published.	Basset, Robert.	1637 (1637)	STC 1557; ESTC S101058	58,950	311

instant But I rather suppose that this happeneth not but to faint-hearted and weake cowards which are stricken into a maze and astonishment which is a cause that the naturall heate retires inward neare about the heart so that the outward parts being destitute of heate become as it were benumb'd and shake as those doe through extreame cold in the winter Q. Whence comes it to passe that the flesh of a sheepe bitten by a wolfe eates farre tenderer than others the wool is more apt to breed lice vermin A. It is because the breath of the wolfe is very hot and attenuating the flesh by his heate makes it more tender and by the same cause the wool participates the alteration of the flesh and is more subject and apt to putrefaction and to breed vermin This is the solution of Plutarch Q. Whence is it that the wolfe is sayd never to see his syre nor whelpe A. Because the Wolfe after his coupling with the female smells very ranke and strong farre more than before the smell being augmented by the motions of the humors which are in the coupling wherefore the other wolves in a rage fall upon him and worry him to death and teare him peece-meale and by that meanes he shal never see his whelps nor they him nor their owne which they shall beget The generall opinion of Hunters is that the Bitch-wolfe never couples with the Male but once in her life which is the cause that many Malewolves follow her when she is proud and fight and while they are all fighting if any one of them couple with her all the rest fall upon him and kill him Of Mules Male and Female Qu. VVHy is it that the Mulets beget not nor the Mules can conceive A. Some are of opinion that this proceedeth from their being ingendred of two divers and very different species or kinds of animals for the Horse is of a very hot and the Asse of a very cold temperament by nature they have not a disposition requisite for generation and conception Or rather because Nature doth abhorre the generation and propagation of monsters and Animals being engendered of two different creatures as these are being monsters Nature will not permit that their generation shall extend or enlarge it selfe any farther This reason is generall and the precedent is particular but both probable neverthelesse it is observed that Mules have sometimes conceived brought forth Quest Wherefore is it that Mulets are stronger sounder and longer-liv'd than Horses or asses being they participate of both natures A. Because by the providence of nature the defect of generation which is in them is recompensed by their other qualities or rather because of the great heate of the horse and the coldnesse of the Asse being mixed together doe make a good temperamēt by the strength healthinesse livelinesse and long continuance of the Mulet which partakes of both Species Q. Wherefore is it that the Mulets participate more of the nature of the Asse than of the Horse being that the Horse is greater both in courage and fiercenesse and more generous than the Asse A. Because the Asse is of a melancholicke constitution and by consequence more desirous of copulation lust and venery by the reason whereof her feede is predominant in the generation of the Mulet or rather it is because the seede of the Asse being of a colder temper than that of the Horse is more tenacious or retayning Of Drunkards Q. WHerefore is it that great drinkers are said to gather death whence others gather life A. By the reason of excesse for Plures enecat intēperantia quā gladius Excesse killeth more than the sword and by this meanes their foreheads oreshew to the world their more than brutish affection by the variety of pimples the rubies on their noses the rednesse of their eyes the trembling of their hands their stinking breath and as their bodies batten so their soules wither and themselves accelerate their deaths as immature by their intemperance As Saint Austine noteth Multi manducant bibunt in hac vita quod postea in inferno digerant Many eate and drinke that in this life which they must afterwards digest in Hell And Diogenes called these men the Charyhdes of life For the Charybdis swallows what the sea brings to it and casts it up againe but these swallow up rivers and lands but never cast them up againe Q. VVherefore is it that teares are frequent and usefull to your Maudlin drunkards A. The reason is that the shedding of teares is a great ease to them by the effusion of the superabundant humours in the head for the braine is filled with vapours which is much eased by such teares and by consequence they as Tibullus acknowledgeth thus Sape ego tentavi curas depellere vino At dolor in lachrymas verterat omne merum In English thus By wine I oft have try'd t' expell my cares But they converted all my wine to teares Qu. Wherefore is it that to a drunken man every thing seemes two A. These questions are not for a triviall understanding to resolve but I will doe my endeavour to enucleate what you propose The reason then is that by the abundance of humectation or moistning the tender muscles of the eyes more than ordinary affected and contracted they divert and distract the eyes the one being forced upwards and the other downewards Therefore both the eyes doe not direct themselves to one marke or object which causeth the sight to be double each eye directing it selfe differently Qu. How doe these pot-companions excuse themselves An. Certainly I thinke out of Anacreon thus Faecunda terra potat Hanc arboresque potant Et potat aequor auras Ipsumque Luna Phaebum Quid ergo vos sodales P●●●●●… me vetatis In English thus The fruitfull Earth doth drinke The Trees drink earth I thinke The Sea drinkes Ayre I weene The Moone drinks Sol agen Then Blades why should wee fall From drinking Knock and call Qu. What kind of life is most fit for these kinde of Animals An. In my conceite the life of Frogs for they having liquor enough yet croake for more that is for fresh raine Quest How is it that Wine workes contrary and different effects in the drinkers An. The Sunne melts the Ice and hardens 〈◊〉 by the diversity of the subject whereon it operateth So Wine not of its owne Nature but by the nature of the bodies into which it is powred they being not all of one temper workes divers and different effects The melancholy man becomes fearefull without any manifest cause and steales away and starts as fearefull at every noise hee talkes of nothing but Ghosts and dead men or on the Scripture and is never more religious than when hee hath got a cup or two The phlegmaticke becomes heavy dull and stupid The sanguine hee laughes sings dances and spends himselfe in mirth The Cholericke hee puts all the rest in a confusion and quarrels

contagion of his breath as Toads and other venimous creatures doe envenome those Hearbs under which they shelter themselves Q. Wherefore is it that lovers are said to enchant one another onely by the eye An. Not by the emission of the rayes as I sayd but because in the eyes which are the Indices animi The discoverers of the minde there is a certaine amorous passion which increaseth by frequent expression and discovereth it selfe by them more than by any other part especially if the complexions of those Lovers be both agreeable and amorously bent Of the exteriour Senses in generall Qu. VVHerefore is it that the five Senses viz. seeing hearing smelling tasting and touching are called exteriour An. Because they are necessary for the body and are common to Man and other Animals and in discourse to make a difference betweene them and the interiour which are faculties of the soule which are Vnderstanding Imagination and Memory Qu. Wherefore is it that Nature gave them neither more nor fewer but onely five An. Because all the objects of the world as well common as particular that are perceptible by the exteriour Senses of Animals doe fall under some one of them and therefore the Philosopher concludes that there can be no more than five Qu. Wherein consisteth the chiefe benefit of the sight An. In this that the sight is not onely usefull for the providing of necessaries but also for the avoyding of things hurtfull thereby to secure themselves from them and to man in particular that by the viewing of celestiall things he might employ himselfe in the contemplation thereof Qu. Where in consisteth that of hearing An. The hearing also serveth not onely for the following of things good and profitable for them or for the shunning of things hurtful according to the voice or noise which they beare but also to man for instruction or discipline who is capable of Sciences and holy mysteries Qu. Wherein availeth the use of Smelling An. For the recreating and purifying of the spirits of the braine by which they are cheered and better disposed by good wholesome and sweet savours Qu. Wherein that of Tasting An. It was given us for the discerning of the aliment which we make choice of for the sustentation of the body for growth in youth and afterwards for the repairing or restoring of that which is every day losing decaying Q. Wherein the Touching A. That is very necessary for the distinguishing in the darke the exteriour qualities of a body that wee meete with and by those the difference of the body it selfe Concerning these and further reasons I referre the curious to Scaliger contra Cardan exerc 297. Qu. Which of these are held most necessary A. Two which are Tasting and Touching The reason is because my Animal can be without food and aliment for the maintenance of life which cannot be chosen but by the Taste neither can it subsist without Touching without the other three it may Qu. Wherefore is it that Man of creatures the most perfect is inferiour to some creatures in the exteriour senses A. Although the Latine Verse concludeth him so to be which saith Nos aper auditu Lynx visu Simiagustu Vultur odoratu praeceb●it Aranea tactu The Boare heares better Lynx sees Vultar smells The Apes taste and Spiders touch farre Mans 〈◊〉 in Taste and Touch hee is farre more curious and excellent as Dup●●● 〈…〉 stantly maintaining Mans prerogative affirmeth Of the interiour Senses Qu. WHerefore are they tearmed interior An. To extinguish them from the exteriours Foreven as the exteriours doe perceive their objects outwardly so doe these theirs interiourly within the head and these are tearmed first Sensus communis which is the Intellect Secondly Phantasie or Imagination And thirdly Memory Qu. What is that which is tearmed the common sense A. It is the chiefe and master-sense and Prince of the exteriours and hath its seat in the highest and noblest part of the body which is the Braine where all the exteriours take their roote by nerves and they as scouts or spyes sent out to all parts come and give it an account of their severall objects to the end that it may judge and distinguish the one from the other So that it is that which gives us notice and knowledge of what the exteriours declare unto it Q. What is fantasie or imagination An. Fantasie according to Aristotle Cap. 3. Lib. 7. de Anima is an apparition or imagination under which are also meditation and thought comprised by which are represented Idaea's of things which may fall under the exteriour senses but also an infinity of other things which neither are nor can be and this either sleeping or waking as Gyants Devils Hydra's castles in the Ayre Chymaera's and any thing that can be imagined or thought upon joyntly or severally Qu. What is Memory A. It is the Store-house or Treasury of all conceits imaginations and thoughts For as the Fantasie imprints them in it it retaines and keeps them And that is the reason why we so easily forget those things which wee sleightly thought upon or tooke little notice of Qu. Wherefore is it that when wee would conceive any thing we put our hands to the forehead and when we would call a thing to memory wee scratch behinde the head A. By the reason of the diversity of the seates for the Intellect is seated in the fore part the Memory in the hinder part and the Fantasie in the interstice betweene them and therefore by those actions we doe as it were summon each by a peculiar motion to the use of its function Of sleeping Qu. VVHerefore is it that Women are more sleepy than men An. Because naturally they are more moyst and cold than men and humidity is the cause of sleepe and the cold is the congealer of the vapors into water which vapours stopping the conduits of the senses doe cause sleep Qu. Wherefore is it that fat and grosse people are ordinarily more sleepy than the leane and slender An. Because that more than that they are replete with a great quantity of humours which cause sleepe they are moreover very heavy and unweldy and desire their ease and rest which is the companion of sleepe The slender and leane contrary are more active and laborious and action and motion doe breake and interrupt sleepe Qu. Wherefore is it then that labouring men and the lazy and idle are very sleepy An. Because the idle by their lazinesse doe contract within them a great quantity of humours and the others by interrupting their sleepe by industrious labours and travaile doe enforce it Qu. Wherefore are those that are naturally merry and cheerefull more desirous of sleepe than the melancholy and those that are in sorrow and affliction An. Because that the latter are in trouble of the minde disquiet and agitation of spirit which are opposite adversaries to naturall rest and the other enjoy that by tranquillity and repose both