Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	part_n	see_v	1,884	5	3.4409	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20862	The most excellent, profitable, and pleasant booke of the famous doctour and expert astrologien Arcandain or Aleandrin to fynd the fatal desteny, constellation; complexion, and naturall inclination of euery man and childe by his byrth: with an addition of phisiognomie very delectable to reade. Now newly tourned out of French into our vulgar tonge, by Williamd Warde.; Arcandam de veritatibus et praedictionibus astrologiae. English	Roussat, Richard.; R. H. aut; Ward, William, 1534-1609.	1562 (1562)	STC 724; ESTC S118908	73,307	256

THE MOST excellent profitable and pleasant booke of the famous doctour and expert Astrologien Arcandam or Aleandrin to fynd the fatal desteny constellation complexion and naturall inclination of euery man and childe by his byrth with an addition of Phisiognomie very delectable to reade Now newly tourned out of French into our vulgare tonge by William Warde I R Printed at London by Iames Rowbothum and are to be solde at his shop in Chepesyde vnder Bowe churche To the ryght honorable and vertuous lord the Earle of Shrowesbury knyght of the moste noble order of the Garter c. Iames Rowbothum wysheth longe lyfe with the encrease of godly honour I Doubt not right honorable but the mynde of man is free and hath the rule and power of him selfe throughe the vertue of hys libertye and that the wise man by his reason and reasonable sapience hath dominion ouer the starres and their impressions namely ouer all naturall inclinations and celestiall destnies withoute any forced necessitie to do this or that which commeth by the grace and gyfte of God the gouernour of the vniuersal worlde Euen so Stilpo by reason rulyng him auoyded whoredome although he were naturallye enclyned therevnto Yet not withstanding it is most certayne that men haue some inclinations and complexions by nature which some men know either by Astrologie or by coniecture of their nature called Phisyognomie and thei that coniecture are called in Greeke Physiognomones which tell by coniectures notes signes and tokens the inclinations of mens affections The Philosophers indeed haue inuented and found out phisiognomy to the great commoditie of men for to knowe to what vertue or what vice yong children were enclined to the end thei might amend their vicious and faultie nature with good education not to geue the brydle to their affections but to moue them to scienences studyes and other qualities whereunto nature moste calleth them and maketh them moste enclined So Apelles and Zeusis folowed and learned naturally the arte of painting So Polyeletus and Praxiteles folowed the art of making pictures images So Demosthenes Cicero chose the art of Oratorie and eloquence in pleadyng matters in the law So Homere and Virgil folowed poetrie So Socrates Plato and Aristotle handled Philosophie And nowe all is altered and chaunged and almost cleane ouerturned and goeth as I might saye ouerthwartly lyke the Crabbe For he that should be naturally a plowman is forced to the study of pleading and to bee an Oratour or Philosopher or elles of some higher learning snoring on his bookes turning and returning himself this way and that way as though he sat vpon coales or hoate embers Contrariwise they that are well borne and called by the benefite of nature to all honesty often times are constrained to seruyle doyngs The knowledge then of Phisiognomy is requisite profitable to men so that men abuse it not as some fond people do commonly called Egiptians which are as it were rauening Harpies hunting after the gaine of money which haue brought to passe by their lyes that this parte of philosophie is now in no estimation which is to be lamented seyng that euen Hunters know by cōiectures notes signes draughtes lineamentes sight of the body the nature and propertie of dogs And by the lyke meanes Horsecorsers do knowe the nature of Horses as the Poete Vergill describeth in the thirde booke of his Georgykes saying The good Colt by and by marcheth high vpon the grounde orderly extolleth himself or elles setteth down often tymes his soft thighes the one after the other And first he dare goe in durtye wayes or into great riuers and venter vpon a bridge whiche he knoweth not neither feareth he any vaine noyse or cry The good horse hath a high neck a lytle head a short belly fat behinde faire before hauinge a full mane The red is faire faire also is the speckled faire is the browne baye and euyll is a whyte colour in a horse And worse is the colour betwene whyte and red A good horse can not stande still at the sounde of a trumpet that he heareth a far of The eare we see waggeth vp down euery member moueth foming at the mouth he breatheth out and gathereth in vnder his nostrels fier hote breath A thicke mane hangyng on the syde alonge downe all his necke and a double chyne ending broade vpon hys back He treadeth deepe in the ground and in treadinge he astonieth it His hard hoofe of horne sowneth with other qualities belōgyng to a good horse But nowe a dayes no man careth to coniecture or to know by coniectures or to referre mans naturall inclinations to such a profit And though there were no other profite risynge by it but onely to make a troubled mynde merry whereunto we oftentimes see musick applied which is one of the sciences commonly called liberall this art of phisiognomy ought not be contemned And therefore wayinge w t my selfe the pleasauntnes of this part of philosophy and hauing occasion to publishe in our vulgare tongue this litle booke of Arcandam or Aleandrin doctour moste expert Astrologian treating of the predictions of the byrth fatall disposition of yong childrē I was so bold as to dedicate y e fruite of this labour vnto your lordship and to honour it with the honourable tytle of your honours name most humbly besechinge your lordshyp fauorably to accept it as offered of one who wisheth vnto you and yours all health wealth long life and much encrease of vertue honour nothing doutinge but that after your lordshippes weyghty and serious affaires you shal not be greued to recreat your self with the reading of some pleasaunt parte hereof whiche maye ease such tedious exercises as your lorship may vpon occosions take in hande Your honours most humble Iames Rowbothum A briefe declaration moste certaine and profitable for to fynde out as much as the art of Astronomie can certifie mans fate and constellation indicatiue touching the naturall inclination of man Made by Arcandam the learned and expert Astrologian THe maner to fynde oute the destnie and constellation is this Fyrst if you wyll knowe the constellation of any man take his natural name which is cōmonlye called his proper name and the proper name of his mother in suche sort as neither of y e said two names in any wise be chaunged or depraued from the vulgare or proper callynge as often tymes it chaunceth by the common apellation of mens names but that thei be perfect and not diminished And for two causes the name of the mother is taken and not of the father Fyrst because the mothers syde is more apparent then the fathers Secondlye although the father be the originall of the conception and generation of the childe yet the chylde touchyng the bodye hath more of the mothers matter and substaunce then of the fathers Yea and as oftentymes it happeneth some parte of the fathers seede doeth not entre nor serue touchynge the