Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	air_n	cold_a	heat_n	1,490	5	8.2077	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09431	Foure great lyers, striuing who shall win the siluer whetstone Also, a resolution to the countri-man, prouing is vtterly vnlawfull to buye or vse our yeerly prognostications. Written by W.P.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1585 (1585)	STC 19721.7; ESTC S113859	31,826	108

starres worke vpon mens bodies yet so y t the nature of the Country and soyle the meates and drinkes haue most commonly greater force Why are the bodies of Gentlemen of England and poore labouring mē of diuers dispositions are they not both in one countrey do not the starres shew their force in them alike yes truely but the kinde of life and diet preuaileth In the same region why are they which dwel vpon hills of other temperatures then they which dwell vpon playne champion grounde Why doe not the same influences of Starres make them of like natures is it not because the nature of the soyle preuayleth So then when as there be many causes effectuall and differing in altering mens bodies to builde an argument vpon one cause is most vnreasonable 2. The starres worke vpon the Elementes earth water ayre by makyng heate cold moisture drines The elementes how worke they on mens bodies They will also say by making heate cold moysture dryenesse which is most vntrue for the whotter and dryer the Elementes be the colder and moyster by nature are mens bodies Accordyng to that saying of Empedocles Nature placed a whote body in a cold countrey and a cold body in a whote countrey 3. The Philosophers say that all causes are either per se or per accidens Now the heauens being causes of the alteration of the senses per accidens they must not bee causes of the inclination of the will either per se or per accidens but per accidentis accidens whiche is most ridiculous 4. This long chayne by whiche they lincke the will of man to the starres if it shalbe applyed vnto particulars it must needes breake for the actions of the will is buying selling trauailyng lying heaping vp wealth murdering spreading of false rumours offering of discourtesies hatyng of kinsfolkes and such like whiche our heauengazers foretell haue no coherēte with the first qualities heate cold moisture drynesse neither can they any waye proceede from them and therfore the starres cannot be causes of them for they worke onely by these qualittes 5. This reason is nothyng to their purpose for because they graunt that a man may freely resiste the inclination of the starres he may hinder that vnto which the stars bend his wil how dare they presume to say this or that will come to passe The heathen men gaue vp thēselues to their own lustes vanities and followed euery litle and vayne inclination of them in this order did auncient Astrologers among them diuine that this or that time such actions such vices such enterprises such affaires should be amōg them In like maner our English wisemē speake of vs as though we were beastes not reasonable men as thogh we neuer had heard the blessed Gospell of God neuer tasted of the grace of God neuer learned what is good and what is bad neuer laboured to subdue our lustes affections alwayes turned to and fro with the blast of any influence working very slenderly in vs. Thus muche of Ciuill affaires They make mentiō also yearely of the diseases whiche shall reigne but the way which they follow is taken forth of the barren and vncertaine rules of of the old Astrologers who do so ascribe vnto euery Planet certaine diseases that if neede shall require they may referre the same disease vnto many significatours as in the plague the putrefaction of humors is attributed vnto Iupiter the sharpe feuer vnto Mars the madnesse whiche followeth vnto Mercurie the whole plague vnto Mars In the plurecie the inflammation of the bloud betwene the skinne called Pluritis and the ribbs is attributed vnto Iupiter the suppuration of the bloud vnto Saturne and the whole pluresie vnto Iupiter In the Iaundes the inflamation and corruption of humors vnto Iupiter the yelow humor in the gaule vnto Mars the obstruction of the partes vnto Saturne the whole Iaunds beyng white vnto Mars blacke vnto Saturne And so in euery disease they vse this inconstancie and ambiguitie in Prognosticating It is a rule among the Astrologers that if the Planets signifiers of diseases be well affected then there shalbe no diseases but health if they be euilly affected then diseases follow Our Prognosticatours neuer marke this rule but howsoeuer the Planets bee affected they straightwayes pronounce that such diseases shall reigne For exāple the last winter quarter it was said by one of them that y e diseases which should afflict mens bodies were rewmes coughes cold laskes swelling of the face throte fallyng of the Colmel sore eyes deafenesse the stone goute dropsie greenesicknes madnes quarterne feuers c. And all the Planets signifiers of diseases in that quarter were indifferēt well affected wherfore thou hast not one cause to feare their threatninges but rather to be sorie for their continuall deceites wishing them myndes that they may one day see their owne follie Concernyng the tyme when the constellations take their effectes our Prognosticators say that some take their effectes the same yeare some not the same yeare but long after as great coniunctions and Eclipses For they say if the Moone be eclipsed one houre she worketh her effect a moneth after if two houres two monethes after and the Sunne for euery houre it is Eclipsed taketh his effect an whole yeare after Truely this rule whiche they follow must needes be agaynst all reason For why should not all coniunctions and oppositiōs of the Sunne and Moone differre their effectes as well as those coniunctions and oppositions in which the Sunne and Moone is Eclipsed if they showe forth their power immediately after why should not these also do the same Moreouer the Epignosticall Astrologers who haue conferred the course of the heauens with histories shew very manifestly that Eclipses do not deferre the tyme of working their spite vpon the earth In the yeare of our Lord. 1419. the Sunne was Eclipsed in Aries and presently after shewed all his force There was a great sedition in Prage that yeare In Paris an vprore betwene them of the Citie and the Uniuersitie and two thousand Scholers were slayne Then also Wenzeslaus king of Bohemia being in a great palsie dyed In the yeare .1524 There was a coniunction of Saturne and Iupiter in Scorpius also a great Eclipse of the Sunne in Iune whiche tooke their effectes the same yeare Charles king of Fraunce driuen forth of his countrey warre betweene Danes and the men of Sleswicke There was a great plague in Germanye Ciuill dissention amongest the Princes of the Empire and them which tooke the part of Iohn Husse .1452 An Eclipse of the Sunne in Sagittarius his effectes began presently and lasted a great while Euen then Constantinople was taken by the Turke The Hungarians and Bohemians besieged Fredericke the Emperour 1473. the 27. of Aprill the Sunne was Eclipsed in Taurus Mars beyng in Aries and Iupiter in Sagittarius The same yeare in sommer was such heate and drynesse of weather that woodes euen withered and one might