Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	cold_a	heat_n	2,211	5	8.1509	4	true

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 meÌ„ 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 cohereÌ„te 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 theÌ„selues 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 amoÌ„g them In like maner our English wisemeÌ„ 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 mentioÌ„ 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 exaÌ„ple 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 indiffereÌ„t 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 oppositioÌ„s 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

immediatelye or wyth meanes If with meanes they cannot determine whether the Heauens or Aungelles or menne or anye other thinges bee the meanes of hys prouidence Thirdly if they were able to knowe what the Heauen woorketh naturallye yet they were neuer the better for GOD beside the power of the heauens hath in all thinges his particular workyng prouidence alteryng and framyng and bendyng aâ— waxe his instruments to his good will Truely by this consideration a Christian man will be brought to leaue of to seeke what euent the workes of God shall haue before they come to passe If a man shall come into a Ioyners shoppe can hee by knowing the vse of all his tooles tell what thinges he hath made in his shoppe No. What is the cause of that he vseth not onely his tooles in his worke but thereunto adioyneth his owne hand by which he handleth and tourneth the toole to his own pleasure and so maketh diuers kinde of workes with the same instrumentes The same may bee sayd of our Prognosticatours whiche I would to God they would somewhat consider The third Reason the want of experience IF our Prognosticators haue any means to foretell thinges to come they haue those meanes either without experieÌ„ce or with experience If they haue them without experience then must thou accompt all which they do to be foolish dreames deceite For all kinde of humaine learning whiche is profitable hath vse in the life of man is taken froÌ„ often obseruations and experience If it be sayd that they haue their directions in Prognosticating from experience and that of all tymes I will conuince them thus True experience of the causes of thinges is an often obseruing of the effectes of the same causes with this grounde that they can proceede from no other thyng The Phisician sayth Rhoubarbe doth purge choler Well how knoweth he this hee hath often tryed this and that in olde men young men children and hath found that in the bodies of all men the cause of purgyng this humor could be ascribed to nothyng els UUherefore hee may peremptorily conclude Rhoubarbe purgeth choler Our Prognosticatours in the heauens can haue no such experience For they can not obserue often the same position of starres in the heauen The order and cause of the fixed starres and Planets whiche we finde in the heauens this day the next day wil be chaunged and neuer the like agayne They will say in deede although the same position of the whole heauen neuer happen yet the same coniunctions of notable starres the same visinges and settynges and the same constellations of the chiefest stars are marked often I say agayn that when these Eclipses and great coniunctions happen the rest of the starres beyng otherwise affected then they were before hauyng new positions may either encrease and diminish their effectes or els hinder them and quite take them away As we see when the Sunne casting his beames into a chamber the light of candels and torches and fires doe make it shine dimme yet these beyng absent it will shine bright Agayne they are not able to saye that constellations whiche they haue marked are causes of those effectes whiche followe as warres diseases disteÌ„pered wether earthquakes famine c. For in those thinges which happeÌ„ together the one is not the cause of the other When Nero played vpon his harpe Rome was on fire yet Neroes playing on the harpe was no cause of the burning of Rome Also these effects may haue others causes in the heauen then those which they marke and they may come immediately froÌ„ God they may come onely from the will of man UUherfore seyng that they cannot assure themselues that those Eclipses coniunctions are the workes of such effectes vpon earth they cannot haue often obseruations of the course of heauen their rules of Predictions are feyned and supposed not built vpon true experience Let a man whiche knoweth not one hearbe take all kindes of hearbes and put them into a great vessell yet so that there be more of some hearbes and lesse of other some let him beate them all together make a compound vertue of all their vertues Can he now tell the nature and operation of euery particular hearbe Can he deuide and seuer by any helpe the vertue of one hearbe froÌ„ another No in deede The same thing may be sayd of the starres of heauen all their lightes and all their influences as they terme it are in the lower bodies more plainly euery earthly body hath in it all the secret powers workyng of euery particular starre so that they make as it were a compounde operation rising of all or of the most of their vertues ioyned together for the Astrologers hold that although the light may be hindred by the thickenes of the body yet the heauenly influence pearceth through all Therefore they are not able to seuer and learne the nature of these starres except they caÌ„ stoppe the influence of what starres they list and bring them into what coÌ„passe they will Yet thus much I will graunt them that they may haue a litle knowledge of the vertue of the Sunne and Moone and some other starres as we see those hearbes in the former coÌ„position whose vertues be the chiefest though not fully yet somewhat doe represent their nature and shew themselues aboue the rest But what is this to the purpose If I confesse the operations of the Sunne Moone If I shall graunt that Saturne is in nature cold dry Iupiter warme moyste Mars hot dry Venus cold and moiste Mercurie in nature mixt the notable fixed starres in the Zodiacke to bee of the nature of Planets and to haue manifest operations as the rising of the â—â—gg to make heate tempestuous seas the rising of Arcturus to make rayne and showers Pleiades to be of the nature of Mars the Moone c. what will all this suffice to make a Prognostication for seyng all starres haue their owne powers peraduenture also the least starres whiche we make no accompt of haue great effectes amongest vs as one grayne of muske in the Apothecaries shoppe maketh a greater smel then all other powders bee they neuer so many nothyng will the knowledge of the operation of some Starres preuaile the rest beyng not knowne and neuer regarded They will say they haue some experience but yet vnperfite I haue showed how they haue no true experience at all and their vnperfite experience maketh them perfite lyers The fourth Reason the ignoraunce of causes A Man whiche will iudge rightly of any matter by the causes must not onely consider the common causes but hee must also with them conferre the particular causes of all thinges which happen amongesâ— vs so he shall iudge a right In heauen the starres be common causes of all thinges amongest vs because they shew their vertue on euery matter one way or other The same things haue their peculiar efficientes and matters and

these reasons whiche follow 1. The signes cannot haue any such dominion ouer mans body I make it manifest thus There is no corporall heauen in deede aboue the firmament yet because the firmament or 8 Sphere hath many motions to giue reasons of those motions the Astronomers haue feyned two heauens aboue the firmament the Christaline heauen and the first moueable or 10. Sphere which they deuide into twelue partes whiche partes they call signes Now I praye you tell me is it possible to conceiue that an imagined part of any imagined heauen voyde of all starres shall either haue in it selfe or giue vnto other Starres power to gouerne the parts of mans body More reasonable was that man who beyng asked what was the cause of the sandes in Sandwiche hauen he aunswered the buildyng vppe of Tenterton Steeple Secondly the gouernement of the signes in the body is not taken from experience in nature but feyned long ago by some drowsie pate and now because it hath a cloake of antiquitie it is allowed More naturall was this kinde of waye that hote signes should gouerne hote partes cold signes cold partes earthy signes earthy partes So Aries should gouerne the hart and the vitall bloud not the head the rest of the signes those partes whiche are of their nature and disposition Thirdly great experience of many men dayly confuteth this rule For many learned Phisitians expert Chirurgians haue by infinite exaÌ„ples found that if a man be let bloud in the signe or lanched or boxed or seared no harme ensueth nay they haue giuen testimony that the patients haue found euen then great comfort Wherefore let not these thynges trouble thy mynde any more but let them be nombred euen amongest vaine and vnprofitable fables 2. Next after followeth Elections of dayes and houres necessary for all matters as followeth Speciall dayes to Prepare humors Let bloud Purge with Vomite Electuaries Potions Pilles Cut hayre Comforte the vertue Bathe Attractiue Digestiue Retentiue Expulsiue Put children to schoole Trauell Marrye Hunte Hauke Fishe Plante Geld Cattell Laye foundations Here I pray thee marke their naughtie dealinges how they abuse thy ignoraunce to make themselues skilfull and to doe more then they can doe For if the iudgementes of the best Astrologers may be taken certainly most of these elections cannot be prescribed to thee vnlesse they knowe beforehand the figure of thy Natiuitie For all Election which concerne thy person must be moderated to speake as plainly as their toyes will suffer mee by the direction of the roote of thy Natiuitie and by the monthly and diurnall Progressions of thy present Reuolution If anie of these pretende some euill the perticuler Election may bee a meanes to increase and to bring it to passe For example suppose thou being a man toward marriage in the Almanacke thou findest a good daye noted by the Prognosticatour to marry in thou takest thy opportunitie after a while thou art wearie of thy life the first daye of thy marryage was the last daye of thy ioye UUhat is the cause of this All the Planettes which were signifiers of thy marriage in thy natiuitie were then euilly affected and peraduenture also at the first thou wast borne they receaued some disgrace So then thou maiest laye all blame partly vpon thy selfe for beleeuing and partlie vpon the Prognosticator who deceiued thee But to come vnto particulers the elections of daies to purge the bodie with anie kinde of purgation and to comfort the same are most ridiculous Why do they not also prescribe houres of eating meat Why do they not appoint the kinds of meats and drinks which wee must eate vse daily If thou see that God doth dayly blesse the enterprises of those Phisitians which neuer regarde those elections in ministring to their patients neuer esteeme of them let them goe as lyes to the Diuell from whence they came Concerning the electioÌ„s of days to sowe to sett to plant to lop they are also foolish the generall obseruation of the season of the yeare in whiche these things are to be done is sufficient And S. Augustine in his book de ciuitate Dei laugheth at the folly of them whiche choose perticuler daies to do their husbandrie as thogh some certain positioÌ„s of starres had some speciall influence to the thinges which are sowne then His reason is because manie grains of corn beeing cast into the grounde together springing vp together and riping al at one time yet some of them are blasted some are eaten of birds some are trodeÌ„ down vnder foot some stand and are neuer touched The rest of the elections and especially that of laying foundations is most absurde They saye that if an house a citie a town haue his foundation when the starres be well affected the inhabitauntes shall haue prosperous and quiet liuing if when the starres be euill disposed then trouble disquietnes They haue no experience of this but y t onely which is most false for they knowe not the foundations of cities and towns neither the positions of the stars when they were built Let Rome and Venice be examples because these are most alledged of Astrologers the time in whiche they were built is vncertaine and the Planets are falsly sette in the figure of the foundation of Rome because Mercurye is contrarie to the sunne a thinge flatte impossible Agayne the folly of this is thus manifest that an house or Citie or common wealth may remayne the people being gone as it is in the time of plague and banishment and conquestes of Princes And the inhabitantes also may be safe and remain the building quite ransumed and beaten downe as we may see in Carthage the people and common wealth remai ned the Cittie quite defaced That al elections are vnlawfull Saint Augustine writing vnto Ianuarius prooueth it forth of the 4. to the Galathians by these wordes ye obserue months and times and yeares Therfore saith he let vs not obserue dayes yeres and monethes and times least wee heare this of the Apostles I am afraid least I haue taken labour in vayne with you for he rebuketh them which say I wil not goe because the Moone is thus or thus mooued or I will take my iourney that I may haue good successe because there is such a position of Starres I will not doe my businesse this moneth because suche a Starre gouerneth this moneth or I will doe my businesse this moneth because such a starre ruleth How then shall a man doe not to breake the worde of God Art thou a man that desirest to leade a christian life Then take the example of Paule as a patterne to gouerne all the actions of thy life without ceassing saith he I make mention of you in my praiers beseeching that by some meanes one time or other I might haue prosperous iourney by the will of God to come vnto you So thou if thou hast anye businesse in hand any iourney to take any thing to buy or sell or

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