Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	drink_v	eat_v	meat_n	4,143	5	8.2696	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04586	Cornucopiæ, or diuers secrets wherein is contained the rare secrets in man, beasts, foules, fishes, trees, plantes, stones and such like, most pleasant and profitable, and not before committed to bee printed in English. Newlie drawen out of diuers Latine authors into English by Thomas Iohnson.	Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644.	1595 (1595)	STC 14707; ESTC S101071	18,849	48

long finger from the great or third ioynt to the ende of the finger is the length of your span These ought to be obserued in mē of meane stature and such as are not missformed nor diseased Marueilous in our eies are the hidden qualities in other thinges as is the nature of a stone named Abeston found in Araby of the colour of Iron which hath not onelie a kinde of Wooll growing about it which some say is the doune of the Salamaunder and of truth will not burne and consume awaye with fire but the stone also it selfe beeing once hotte will neuer afterwards bee cooled againe Achates the stone sometimes hath t●…e representation of the nine Muses sometimes the picture of Uenus sometime it hath the colour of Corall sometimes of Christall Plinie and others affirme that by the smoke made by burning of this stone stormes and tempestes are driuen awaie euen as it is a common experiment in all countries that the ringing of Belles doth scatter and put awaie thunder Galactides the stone beeing verie blacke without yet being broken sendeth out a licour both of the same taste and whitenesse of milke Straunge it is that the fish called an Horn-beake ca●…eth out her spaune by none other meanes but onely by opening of her bellie that after the casting of the spaune the woūd closeth againe The Adamant or Diamonde stone is so hard that nothing may break it but the blood of a Goate Among straunge matters this may seeme to bee none of the least that in Egipt it seldome or neuer raineth yet by the ouer-flowing of the riuer Nilus it is so aboundant of all thinges that it may be compared euen with the chiefest yet is there not a Uine in all Egipt The Eele commeth or is ingendred of the earth and mud without anie spawne neither is there either male or female of them It is said that an Hare is one yeare male another yeare female There is in Syria a water called Asphaltum whose vertue is such that there cannot anie thing sinke or be drowned in it that hath life Affricke yeeldeth a little s●…rpent called Aspis the stinging stroke whereof cannot by any●… meanes bee healed but by the drinking of the stone of some ancient king Wonderfull it is that Plinie writeth of this misc●…ieuous worme for the male saith he the female goe both together and if anie man kill one of them the other stil pursueth the slaier and wil neuer leaue him til he be reuenged yea and will followe him euen through an assembl●… of people so that there is no helpe but to passe ouer some water which it cannot passe Athanasi●…s the famous Bishop of Alexandria is reported to haue liued six whole yea●…s in a dry cesterne where he neuer saw the sunne It is strange to consider the hugeu●…s of the Citty of Babilon for by report it was in compasse threescore miles the walles therof three hundred feete in ●…night three●…core and fifteene foote in bredth hauing one hundred gates of brasse the tower that Nimroth builded abo●…e fine miles in haight Woonderfull is the inhumanitie of the people in the further most part of Persia who whē their Parentes bee verie sicke or aged they throwe them vnto fierce and wilde dogges which doe rent and deuoure them The dogge-fish is saide to make a noise like the barking of a dogge when the fisher hath taken him In the bankes of the riuer Nilus is ingendred a little beast which hath such venemositie in his eyes that who so be holdeth them dieth incontinent The Cammelles of Bractria will run aboue an hundred miles in one day There is a kinde of Carbuncle stone called Carehedonius of a woonderfull nature for being in an house it is of a purple colour but in the aire it is fierie against the sunne it sendeth forth sparkes and if wax bee put to it it melteth awaie Strabo writeth that in Tartarie nere the Sea Caspium be a kinde of people that if they perceaue that their Parentes li●…e or exceede the age of three score ten yeares they put them into a close place and so most vnnaturally doe famish them which done they draw them out and leaue them in some desart going a far off from them and beholding them Nowe if birdes doe deuoure them they then accounte them blessed if dogges or wild-beastes do it they doe not account it so happy but if Dogs and wilde beastes doe they esteeme those mē most vnhappie There are Cedar trees in Siria one hundred and thirtie foote high and fiue or six fathome in compasse the wood will neuer rotte neyther will wormes breed in them The little beast the Chamelion beeing spotted chaungeth those spottes at his pleasure according to the thinge then presente in his sight he sleepeth with his eyes open so that his eyes bee neuer shut hee neuer eateth nor drinketh but liueth only by the aire It is suposed that the Stork hath no tong and that the yong ones much succour and prouide meate for the old ones Corrall is a tree or bush growing in the sea which beeing once gathered out of the water becometh a stone such is the straunge nature thereof Strange it is that the Goate should be continuallie troubled with an Ague and the Quaile with the falling sicknes In Sicile Ileland are Giants which haue but one eye and that is in the middle of their foreheades In Sicillia is a Riuer which runneth from the great Mountaine Taurus of such an exceeding cold nature that if any man remaine therin any time it mortifieth the whole body The beaste Canips which is some what like an Ape but that he is more greater and more puissant and his head more like vnto a Dog is of a wonderfull strange nature for besides that they haue a voice like a man they shewe euery houre of the day and night by their making of water for at euery houre doe they pisse to wit foure and twentie times in a naturall day Also they so lament the wane of the Moone that during the time of her darknes before her change they neuer wil look vpward or eate any thing but hanging downe their heads show a countenance of sorrow There bee people vnder the great Cham which haue heads like vnto our dogs In A●…thiope by a towne called Debris is a Well of a strange property for the water in the day time is cold as y●…e and in the night it is boyling hote The Dolphin is so wōderful swift in swimming that wer it not that his mouth is so nere his belly no fish might escape him but by reson of his mouth he can tak no fish but lying with his belly vpward his m●…uable tong is apt for voyce is greatly delighted with musick is thought of all fishes best to loue mankinde Certaine people called Derli●…es haue this custome when their friends come to the age of 70. yeres they slay them eat them calling all their neighbors to the feast but

breed where it is throwne Also Plinie affirmeth that if one that hath the f●…lling sicknes doo marke the place where his head fell at the first beginning of the disease and in that place doo driue an Iron naile ouer the head that it will presently help or deliuer him from falling any more Take the paringes of the nailes of any that hath the quartaine Ague and put them in a linn●…n cloth and tie the same about the necke of a quicke ●…ele putting the saide Eele into the water and it will deliuer the partie from his disease The Rauen bringeth forth two egs whereof are ingendred a Male and a Female Rauen If you phance to see ●…ne Rauen flying alone it signifieth the partie to be a Widdower or to lead his life as a Widdow If a Rauen or a Crow doe crooke towards 〈◊〉 it pretendeth some aduerse fortune either of person honour wife children or substance as Epictitus Stoicus ●… most graue Philosophet doth affirme The merrie countenance of the Swan doth presage to shipmen a happie adventure and to passengers ioy by their iourney The Eagle is said to drinke no water but blood and therefore flying ouer an hoast or army of Souldiers doth signifie an happie victorie The 〈◊〉 promiseth most happie successe but the Uultur most lamentable stratagems The Pellican noteth some danger for doing 〈◊〉 to others The 〈◊〉 is ●… signe of concord the chattering 〈◊〉 sheweth some guestes from that part from whence he looketh and this is true by daylie experience The Scrich Owle and the Night-Crow euermore prognosticate death and this also is daylie approued The finding of a toade in any vncouth 〈◊〉 noteth death The Hawke flying ouer your heade pr●…tendeth death to the partie The fighting of Hawkes one with an other noteth mutation of kingdomes The Swallow is a signe of enioying a patrimonie or inheritance The meeting of a Remouse or 〈◊〉 signifieth euasion from enemies To meete the sparrow flying is a signe of euill lucke but in loue matters it noteth good The meeting of a 〈◊〉 is accounted fortunable It is not good to meete with an Hare in a iournie for manie haue proued it euill ●…y common experience Also the Mule the Hogge and the Horse are not verie fortunable to meete in desert places Sheepe and Goates prete●…d good So doe Oxen Dogs to be met in a iournie The Mouse pretendeth euill The Spider drawing 〈◊〉 her thredde from ab●…ue is a signe that there is hope to receaue monie and this is a common sentence The meeting of a snake giueth warning to beware of some euill tonged enemie Woonderfull are the portraitures and proportions of men Let a man stand vpright and holde vp his hands ouer his head then is there his cubitte from the top of his heade to the long fingers ende The length of the arme from the elbow to the end of the fingers is iust the length from the middle of the whorlebone to the sole of the fo●…te The nauill is iust in the middle of a man for looke howe much distance is from the fingers ends holden vpright ouer the heade to the nauil so much is there from the nauill to the sole of the feete and so like wise in the bredth The nauill is also the middle point from the crowne of the head to the knee From the top of the shoulder bone to the elbow is the fourth part of a man Foure cubittes or foure times the length of halfe the arme that is to say from the elbow to the fingers end is the stature of the man The length of the whole arme from the top of the shoulder to the end of the longest finger is halfe the length of the man The space betweene the toppe of the one shoulder to the top of the other ouer the back is also the fourth part of that mans length Six handfulles make 〈◊〉 oubite 〈◊〉 ●…ome handfulles make a foote and foure fingers make an hands bredth The length of a man is foure and twentie of his hand bredths Six f●…et of a well set man maketh his full length but of slender tall men seauen feete in length are his height Fourescore and sixteene si●…gers bredth is also the length of the partie that measureth them The length of the brest from the top to the bottome is the sixt part of his stature The space from the highest part of the brest to the top of the forhead euen to the rootes of the haires is the seauenth part of his length From the crowne of the head to the bottom of the chin maketh the eight part of the length of a man If you measure the compasse of a mans head along by the fore head and rootes of the haire then haue you the first part of his length The length of the face from the top of the middle of the forehead to the bottome of the chinn●… is the tenth parte so is the length of the hand from the wrest to the forefingers end so also the distance betweene the two dugges and from the bottome of the throat to either of the dugges is the like distance making right triangle equall on euerie side The compasse of the neoke is as much as from the top of the brest to the chin euen like distance is from the haight of the brest to the nauill From the top or crowne of the head to the 〈◊〉 sheweth halfe the compasse of the middle From the end of the forefinger measured on the backe of the hande to the third ioint of the said finger is of equalitie with the length from that ioynt to the backe side of the wrest Also the length of the long finger by the out side from the end of the naile to the third ioynt thereof is of equall length with the space from the wrest to the bending of the first ioynt of the said finger in the inner side of the hand The space from the nethermost ioynt of the thumb to the greater ioynt of the same is equall to the haight of the forehead The two hands are as much as the whole face for with their inside may you couer rightly the whole conntenance The length of the nose the haight of the fore●… and bredth of the mouth are equall one with another The bredth of the sole of the foote and the palme of the hand are both alike The compasse both of the eye and also the ●…are and the opening of the mouth are all one If you measure from the crowne of the head vnder the chin to the crowne of the head againe then haue you the compasse of your middle The length of your hand from the wrest to the longest fingers ende is the length of the foote The compasse of the caulfe of the legge is the compasse of the necke Twice the compasse of the wreste is the compasse of the caulfe of the legge Thrise the compasse of the first ioynt of the thumb is the compasse of the wrest Twise the length of the