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
A30887	The Shepheards kalender newly augmented and corrected.; Compost et kalendrier des bergiers.	Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552.; Copland, Robert, fl. 1508-1547.	1656 (1656)	Wing B713; ESTC R16875	141,038	199

autem dedit filiis hominum Non mortui laudabunt te Domine neque omnes qui descendunt in infernum Sed nos qui vivimus benedicemus Domino Quoniam videbimus coelos tuos opera digitorum tuorum lunam stellas quae tu fundasti Quia subjecisti omnia sub pedibus nostris oves boves universas insuper pecora campi volucres coeli pisces maris Domine Dominus noster quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra CHAP. XXXI Here followeth the shepheards Astrology WHo that will as shepheards that keep sheep in the fieldes without knowing any letter save only by some figures that they make in little Tables of wood have knowledge of the movings and properties of the heavens And divers other things contained in this present compost and Kalender of shepheards the which is extract and composed out of their kalender put in letters so that each may comprise know as they things above said First one ought to know what the figure is the disposition of the world the number and order of the Elements and the movings of Skies appertaineth to be known of every man of free condition and noble engin For it is a fair thing delectable profitale and honest and therewith it is necessary to have divers other knowledges in especiall for the Astrology of shepheards which sheweth how the world is round as a ball And after wise men say there is nothing so round as it For it is rounder than any thing artificiall And moreover in this world we see nothing ne never shall that is so iust and equall round as it self is and is composed of the heaven and the four elements in five princi●all parts After that a person ought to know that the earth is in the middle of the world for it is the heaviest element Vpon the earth is the water or the sea but it covereth not the earth to the end that men and beasts may live therein and the part that is uncovered is call'd the face of the earth for it is as the face of a man alwayes uncovered and the part which is covered with water is as the body of man which is cloathed hid On the water is the ayr that incloseth the earth the water and is divided into three Regions one is low whereas inhabiteth beasts and birds another mean whereas been the cloudes the which maketh the impressions as lightnings thunder and other is alway cold the third is the highest whereas is neither wind nor rain nor tempest nor other impressions there be some mountaines that attain unto it as is Olympus that reacheth the highest region of the ayr and the element of fire mounteth to the sky the elements sustaineth the skies as pillars or beames sustaineth a house Of such moūtains is one in Af●●c● named Atlas After that is the element of fire which is neither flame ne coales but is pure invisible for the great brightnesse for so much as the water is more clear and light than the earth and the ayr more cleer and light than the water of so much the fire is more cleer light and fayrer than ayr and the skies in equipollent been clearer lighter fairer than the fire the which turneth with the movings of the heavens and the next region of the ayr also in the which is ingendred comets the which been called starres for so much as they be shining and move as stars After the saying of some shepheards the fire is invisible for his subtilty and not for his cleernesse forasmuch as a thing is more cleer of so much it is the more visible for we see the skies well but not the fire for it is overmuch more subtile than the ayr that is invisible for the same cause the earth and the water be thick and therefore they be visible The skies be neither properly heavy ne lighht hard ne soft cleer ne dark hot ne cold sweet ne soure colour ne sound ne such other qualities save that they be hot in vertue for they may cause heat here beneath by their lights movings and influences and be improperly hard for they may not be divided ne broken And also they be improperly colours of light in some parts and bee thick as be the partes of the Stars In the which there may no star nor other party be anusted put to nor none maye be diminished ne taken away and they may neither increase ne wax lesse nor be of other figure than round ne they may not change ne pair ne wax old ne be corrupted ne altered but in light only as in tyme of the Eclipse of the Son and Moon ne they may not rest and stand still ne turn any other wayes later ne sooner in part ne all ne behave them otherwise than after their common course but by miracle divine and therefore the Stars and skies be of another nature than the elements and the things of them composed the which be transmutable and corruptible The Elements and all things of them composed be inclosed within the first skie as the yolke of an eg is inclosed within the white and the first skie is inclosed of the second and the second in the third and the third in the fourth and so of the other The first skie next the elements is the sky of the Moon next is the sky of Mercury and next is the sky of Venus then is the sky of the Sun then is of Mars then of Iupiter and after it of Saturn And thus be the skies of the planets after their order The eighth sky is of the stars fixed and bee called so for that they move more regularly and after one guise than the planets doe Then above which is the first mobile in the which nothing appeareth as shepheards may see Some shepheards say above this ninth skie is one Immobile for it turneth not and above that is one of christall over the which is the sky imperiall in the which is the throne of God of the which sky shepheards ought not to speak but onely of the first mobile and that it containeth all together called the world Of one thing they marvell much that is how God hath distributed the stars that he hath put none in the ninth sky and hath put so many in the eight sky that they may not be numbred and in each of the other seven but one onely in calling the sun and the moon stars as appeareth in the figure hereafter Hereafter the great master Shepheard sheweth more plainly of the four elements and of the similitude of the earth how that every planet is one above another and telleth which of them be masculine as these five Saturn Jupiter Mars Sol and Mercury And of two feminine as Venus and Luna And which of them is northerly and southerly and which be orientall or occidentall CHAP. XXXII Of the movings of the skies and planets SOme movings been of the sky and planets