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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	blue_a	grey_a	lantern_n	48	3	16.7024	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47663	The secret miracles of nature in four books : learnedly and moderately treating of generation, and the parts thereof, the soul, and its immortality, of plants and living creatures, of diseases, their symptoms and cures, and many other rarities ... : whereunto is added one book containing philosophical and prudential rules how man shall become excellent in all conditions, whether high or low, and lead his life with health of body and mind ... / written by that famous physitian, Levinus Lemnius.; De miraculis occultis naturae. English	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.	1658 (1658)	Wing L1044; ESTC R8382	466,452	422

that they see clearly by day because the day light runs into these dark shady eyes and moves and enlightens the spirits But at night they see ill and not so exactly as others because they want the outward light to move the humours and spirits to sharpen their sight Grey and blew colour'd eyes whence and how they see but where the humour of a mans eye is transparent and clear but the spirit is small slender and weak they have Owls eyes or grey and blew colour'd that is temper'd with blew and white of which colour are lanthorns that you may see through Lanthorns are a light grey for with these are made plates for lanthorns and of this colour are the eyes of Owls and many other creatures They that have such eyes see weakly and confusedly by day because the day light and brightnesse of the Sun dissolves and dissipates the visual spirits that are not very strong but in the night because the organs of sight are enlightned with a natural and imbred light the spirits being collected and heaped together they see clearly what is in their way These kind of eyes sparkle What eyes twinkle in the night and shine in the dark and like glittering Stars they send forth their beams so that besides men many living creatures not so much by their craft in hunting as by the faculty of sight they are endued with find no inconvenience by the darknesse of the night whereas the bright day hurts them and blinds them as we see in Owls Creatures that see clear in the night night-Crows Bats Cats Rats Mice Dormice who see worse in the day by reason of the too great light but the darknesse of the night sharpneth their eyes for you see that if you hold candles or Torches before them they can hardly see wherefore Sea-men when they Sail at night desire not that the Moon should shine too clear but a dark kind of sky that is not covered with too thick clouds For so they can see farther and the rayes are lesse dissipated by a light object and do not vanish away so soon Sea-colourd eyes Sea-colourd eyes are tempered with white and green it is a moyster colour than the rest but not so clear and smooth and neat Wherefore by reason of the grosse moysture of it and the small spirits they that are so affected see not very clearly especially in a bright Ayre which offends them chiefly But if the humour and spirit be of a moderate temper Eyes and sight moderately disposed the colour is between white and black very clear and thereby is the sight performed most exactly The colours of the eyes vary according to age The colour and sight of the eye by what reason it is varied and by reason of the thicknesse thinnesse plenty paucity of the humours and spirits which thing is also manifest in the leaves of plants which when they first shoot forth are yellow then as they grow elder they wax green and again as the plant grows old they become yellow or Sea-colour So when children are first born their eyes are grey and blew Sea-green green Owl-eyes but as age comes on they grow black but in old age they grow white as their hairs do or degenerate into Owl-like eyes Also Dioscorides hath from the opinion of other men L. 1. c. written that by medicaments the colours of the eyes may be altered For the shells of small nuts burnt to ashes will make the pupills of young childrens eyes black that are grey and blew being powred in and anointed on the forehead with Oyl Also the wind the constitution of the Ayre the climate diseases affections and passions of the mind immoderate venery hunger immoderate sleep watching and surfetting change both the colours of the eyes and the qualities of the humours and spirits Counsels in restoring the eyes Wherefore a moderate diet and course of life must be kept least the organ of sight than which God hath given us nothing better in our bodies should receive any damage Emptinesse and fullnesse to be observed in recreating the eyes And if the eyes begin to grow dark for want of humours or by drinesse or want of spirits with grief of mind weeping watching wearinesse old age immoderate venery or be extenuated and wasted with immoderate study we must use such things as are restorative for our bodies and foster our eyes What things restore eyes that are decay'd as new rere Egs sweet wine Raysins sweet Almonds Pistaches Chestnuts either rosted or boyled soft Turneps the vertue whereof by reason of the plenty of their windinesse riseth to the head and wonderfully refresheth the visive spirits that are wasted also the brains of birds that fly much do the like as of Sparrows Linnets Spinks They do unadvisedly who without any choice or making any difference apply to their eyes Rue Celandine Rue sometimes hurts the eyes the galls of Vultures Kites Hawks that are of a burning and biting faculty and they waste and devour the spirits and humours that make the sight they are indeed fitly applied when the eyes are dark and misty from superfluity of humours When Rue and Celandine are good for the eyes Radish and Rapes good for the eyes and when the pin and web take away the sight and deform the eyes for they dissolve the congealed and collected humours that by their thicknesse hinder the spirits to be brought thither so all things that are abstergent and extenuating are good in this case as are common Radish that procures a good appetite Fennel-seed leaves and roots Eyebright French-Lavander and all things that cleanse the brain of thick vapours Wherefore let Schollers that must study by the help of their eyes avoid Garlick Leeks Onions and all strong ●●●elling things and that send forth such s●●●king vapours and are hurtfull for them Garlick and all strong things are hurtfull to the eyes For these spoil the eyes memory and damnify all the senses But such as use hard labour and exercise none of these things can hurt them But outwardly we must look on such things that refresh the sight Green things delight the eyes and are delightfull to behold as are all green things whereof there are innumerable kinds and differences in the fields woods Gardens Groves to be found but of stones Emrods are by their green colours good for the eyes the full greennesse of the Emrod and with which the eyes can never be satisfied as also the Prasius the Topaz the Jasp●r the Saphir Eranos commonly called a Tarquesse and the Lazul-stone Whereby the visive spirits are collected and do not vanish so they sharpen the sight of the eyes But that some by looking on the eyes do collect the inclination of the mind and thoughts The eyes are tokens of the mind I am not against it For they are the Indexes and do shew forth the inward affections thoughts conceptions though the tongue be