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A07266 The heroyk life and deplorable death of the most Christian King Henry the fourth Addressed to his immortall memory; by P: Mathieu, counceller and historiographer of France. Translated by Ed: Grimeston, Esquire.; Histoire de la mort déplorable de Henry IIII. English Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621.; Grimeston, Edward.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618. 1612 (1612) STC 17661; ESTC S112465 671,896 410

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LAGENIA VLTONIA IRELAND being described in generall I thinke it worth my labour before I come to a particular description of the severall parts first to make a division thereof Ireland is divided into five Parts or Provinces Into Lagenia which being Eastward is next to England Connacia or Connachtia which lyeth toward the West Vltonia on the North side Momonia which is situate in the Southerne part The fift part is called Media which being placed in the midst is enclosed with the rest In these five Provinces there are many notable Territories As Lagenia doth include Fingal Offal Leis Ossir and Ormund Media containeth Slani Four and Delvin In Connacia is contained Clar in Vltonia is contained Vril Antrimen Lecal and Treconch In Momonia are included Trippitate Kerie Cosmay Desmond Tomond and some others There is another division of Ireland which wee have touched in our generall Table which is diligently to be considered if any one desire to know the state of this Countrie wherefore hee must observe that Ireland is divided into two parts the English part and the Irish part The latter the native Irish do inhabit the former the Englishmen and that part in common speech is called the English Province because it is as it were empaled and environed with the Territories of the English For after that the English having supprest the Irish Rebells had restored Dermicius to his Countrie and Kingdome they seated themselves and built themselves seats in the chiefest places of Ireland Afterward seeing that as it were certaine Islands did part them from the subdued Irish they called that part in which they placed a Colonie the English Province In this is contained the greater part of Lagenia and Media and that part of Vltonia which is called Vril but the chiefest part of Lagenia which is called Fingal neere to Dublin on the North hath the chiefe place and Media is next to that But Mercator useth the same division which wee made of it in the former Tables describing it in foure Tables beginning with Vltonia Connacia Media and part of Lagenia I will make a briefe description of all these parts in the same order as our Author placeth them Vltonia offers it selfe in the first place This part of Ireland was first called by the Welch Vltun by the Irish Cui-Guilli by the Latines Vltonia and by the English Vlster toward the North it is parted with the Narrow Sea toward the South it stretcheth it selfe to Connaught and Lagenia the THE SECOND TABLE OF IRELAND UDRONE East part is bounded with the Irish Sea and the West part is beaten with the great Westerne Ocean This Countrie beeing neere to Scotland is reckoned one of the Scotch Islands which are called the Hebrides and lye scatterd in the Sea betweene both Kingdomes which Islands the Irish-Scots the successours of the Ancient Scythians do inhabit It is round in forme and in length from the Haven Coldagh in the North to Kilmore in the South it is about an hundred miles and it is in breadth from Black-Abbey in the East to Calebegh a Westerne Promontorie an hundred and thirtie miles and more The whole circumference or compasse of it is about foure hundred and twentie miles This Country hath seldome any intemperate weather for the suddaine and fresh gales of winde do refrigerate and coole the heat of Summer and soft and gentle raines do mitigate the cold of Winter Briefly it is neither in the Cold nor Torrid Zone The clouds are faire and cleare and when they are most impure yet the winde continually driving them about doth make the aire wholsome and at length quite dispelleth them The equall temper of the Clime is the cause that the soyle doth plentifully bring forth divers kindes of trees some bearing fruit and others for building The Countrie is full of grasse and fit for pasturing very rich in horse and sheepe and Oxen. The Rivers are as I may say doubly commodious being navigable to bring up Vessels and Barques and also being full of fish and very convenient for the inhabitants in other uses Among these the first is Vinderius which is now called the Bay of Knocfergus from the Town seated on it from the safety of the Haven which the English call Knocfergus the Irish Caregfergus that is Fergus his rock which name it received from Fergusius who was drownd there There is also Banna which as Giraldus saith is a very faire River as the name witnesseth it runneth out of the Lake Eaugh and dischargeth it selfe into the Ocean with a double Channell it is fuller of Salmons than any River in Europe because as some thinke the water is so cleare in which Salmons do chiefly delight And there is the River Logia which Ptolemie mentioneth and now is called Lough Foile which falleth into the Sea with a great streame There are many great Lakes in it in which is the Lake Eaugh which spreadeth it selfe abroad from Armaugh and on the East side are the woods Kilulto Kilwarney and Dyffrim into which the Lake doth so insinuate and winde in it selfe that it maketh two Peninsula's Lecale toward the South Ard toward the North Lecale runneth out farthest toward the East of any part of Ireland the farthest Promontorie therof Marriners do now call Saint Iohns Foreland Ptolomie calls it Isanius perhaps from the Brittish word Isa which signifies Lowermost In the Isthmus therof stands Dunam which Ptolemie mentions now called Down being an ancient Towne and the Seat of a Bishop Ard lyeth over against it being divided frō it by a little slip of land There are also Lakes of which we have made mention in our generall Table The Countrie is shadowed with great woods To speake in a word although it be barren in some places by reason of Lakes Bogs thicke Woods yet it is every where full of Cattell Grasse at all times it abundantly requiteth the labour of the husbandman Nature is so little beholding here to Art or Industrie that the flourishing bankes of Rivers embrodered with flowers the shadie Woods greene Medowes bending Hills and Fields fit to beare corne if they were tilled do seeme to be angrie with the Inhabitants because by their carelesnesse and negligence they suffer them to be rude and wilde The Voluntii Darni Robogdii and Erdini in Ptolemies time held all this Countrie who also dispersed themselves into other parts of Ireland The speciall place in this Countrie is Armach neere the River Kalis which although it be not very faire yet it is the seat of an Archbishop the Metropolis of the whole Island The Irish-men do fabulously report that it was called so from Queene Armacha but Camden thinkes it to be the same which Beda calleth Dearmach which signifies in the Scotch and Irish language the field of Redmen There is one Archbishop in Vltonia who hath his Seat at Armach hath these Suffraganes
severall parts of his house as the Porch the Wine-cellar and Butterie the Kitchin the Parlour the Supping-roome the Bed chamber the Closet the Studie c. whereby hee may use them conveniently but also it is fit and necessary that hee should know in what part and street of the Citie his house standeth and thence hee may straightway discerne if any fire or tumult happen in the Citie how neare or how farre he is from danger So it is no lesse necessary to know in what part of the world thou dwellest what people are neare thee and which are farther off that when warre approacheth thou mayst know when to feare and when to be quiet in minde Lastly though Cosmographie be the light of all Ecclesiasticall and Politicall Historie and that the beholder may learne more from thence than the Traveller by his long tedious and chargeable labour who often changeth his Climate onely but not his condition yet you shall receive little benefit thereby if you doe not joyne the Generall Tables to the Particular Now these Generall Tables are gathered out of the great description of the Globe of the Earth whose beginning of Longitude or position of the first Meridian wee have followed in every one of them and out of my great Europa which I published at Duysburg In the meane time Reader farewell and enjoy this worke and diligently consider with the Poet Buchanan the glory of this thy habitation granted unto thee only for a time who doth so compare it with the heavens that he may thereby lift up those mindes which are drowned in these earthly and transitory things and shew them the way to more high and Eternall matters How small a part that is thou mayst perceive Which we into proud Kingdomes here doe cleave With stately wordes we part it with our sword And buy it with our bloud that forth is powr'd We make great Triumphs when that we have got Some part of this same little earthen clot For this same heape it selfe being view'd alone Is large and of a great extention But it will seeme a Point if that it be Compar'd with Heavens starrie Canopie Or like unto a seed upon which ground Ancient Gargetius many worlds did found This is mans seate and this a house affordes Vnto wilde Beastes and to all sortes of Birdes And how much from this prison house of clay Doth the Seas flowing water take away And that which breakes through the Herculean boundes And parteth Europe from the Lybian groundes With Seas which limits to Arabia yeelds And those which straighten the Hyrcanian fields Then adde to these the Lakes that are beside With Moores and Marshes being large and wide And Rivers which the Mountaines downe doe throw From their high tops or those which stand below In Lakes unmov'd and while with hastie course These take part of the earth away by force And these with deepe gulfes drowne the world again The greatest part of land that doth remaine In cover'd o're with water and doth seeme Like a small Island in the Sea to swimme In this againe what barren sands there be And great vaste Mountaines without fruite or tree How much of it is scorch't with too much flame Or how much is benum'd with cold againe Or how much lies unfit for to be till'd Or how much is with mortall poysons fill'd O shame O madnesse of a fond desire How little cause hath glory to aspire Anger doth rage feare troubles griefe doth fret And want even by the sword doth riches get By treacherie fire nor poyson doth it spare Thus humane matters full of troubles are OF THE WORLD THis Universe which rather presents it selfe to the contemplation of the minde of man then to the sight of the Eyes for the perfect elegancie and absolute puritie thereof is called in Latine Mundus This Pliny in the 11. Lib. Cap. 1. of his Naturall Historie calleth That which covereth all things with his Circumference And Apuleius painting forth an admirable picture of it calleth it That which consists in the societie of heaven and earth and of those things which belong unto their natures The same Apuleius more elaborately describes the world thus or to this purpose The world saith hee is a garnished ordinance of things the just charge and custodie of the Gods whose pole for so I call the Center beeing strong and immoveable passeth through the earth the Mother and nourisher of all living creatures All the higher parts as may be seene being enclosed and hidden with the moistnesse of the aire in manner of a covering Beyond is the house of the Gods called Heaven which wee see is full of divine bodies as the faire and shining lights of the Sunne Moone and the other Starres with which it is carried about by the diurnall and nocturnall motion in such a perpetuall course as shall never have an end Now that the forme thereof is gathered round together like a Globe the name thereof doth declare and the consent of men calling and painting it in manner of a Globe besides diverse arguments that prove the same As because such a figure is most capable most simple and doth bend in all parts towards it selfe sustaines it selfe includes and containes it selfe wanting no joyning together nor having any end or beginning in any of its parts as also because wheresoever you behold it it hath a circular forme in all its parts which cannot happen in another figure Therefore it was a ridiculous imagination of them who supposed that it had not a Sphericall round figure but either an angular or ovall or some other forme There be two parts of the World the Aetheriall or heavenly and the Elementary or sublunary The Aetheriall is that cleare part which containeth all the celestiall Spheeres and is free from alteration The Elementary is that which is placed beneath those Orbes and it admitteth generation and corruption and containeth not onely simple Bodies as Fire Aire Water Earth but also those which are compounded of them whereof wise men have delivered five kindes For some are imperfectly mixt which we call Meteors as Hayle Raine Snow Thunder Lightning Winde others perfectly mixt but without life as Stones Mettalls c. There are others which have a vegetable soule as Plants and those which have a sensible soule as Brute Creatures Lastly there are some in the highest and last degree of compound things which beside all these have a reasonable soule as Men. We leaving those things which belong to Astronomers and Philosophers will chiefly consider the Globe of the Earth The whole Earth being diversly divided by Seas Rivers and Marshes doth make altogether an absolute Globe Homer for no other cause calleth it Orbicular And Numa Pompilius for the same consideration did consecrate a round Temple to Vesta the mother of Saturne whom Poets take for the earth And that the figure thereof can be no other both Aristotle hath demonstrated by the reason of heavy things making towards