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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	reason_n	see_v	3,316	5	3.1434	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14591	Newes out of Cheshire of the new found well	G. W., fl. 1600.	1600 (1600)	STC 24904; ESTC S101818	14,872	30

bodie brought euen to deaths doore and through helpe as he thinketh next vnder God of this water is verie well restored to his former health I heard an other very sensible wise Gentleman professe and openly auerre that hee verily beleeued if he had not had ease by the water of this Well the disease of the Stone had surely killed him the Gentleman is toward Sir H. Harrington and will confidently auouch it It hath had no fewe reports of doing good to some such as haue beene there to seeke for remedie against falling sicknesse Apoplexies Epilepsies Letargies Giddinesses and other straunge Symptomes but eyther I suppose these proofes are sufficient or infinite cannot serue I hold it therefore a needlesse and vnprofitable labour to trauell further in these recitals of cures Neither doe I labour hereby to spread an opinion beyond trueth of the vertue of this Well which to do were no way to me worth my labour That I should endeuour to deceiue and beguile mens eares with a straunge report would more displease me to thinke my selfe so gulde in mine owne folly then pleasure me to thinke there were a pleasure in illusions to labour to draw men the faster to frequent the place and come to see the Well I protest before God I know not how that may any way benefit me one farthing Only my desire is to satisfy my friends and others of the truth of that whereof now there grow many doubts and disputations among men They which dwell farre remote rest doubtfull whether the large and ample fame thereof spread deserue credit or not Some that dwell neere the place argue and debate whether or how it is possible such straunge and admirable effects should be produced from a cause so simple poore easie and common as the water of a little Spring Of the first sort those that be generous gentle and well disposed I suppose these confirmations will worke very farre for their satisfaction because I know not how any thing may be proued if it be not a good proofe which is drawne from the approbation of worshipfull wise learned rich poore and altogether and that not of one but of many Shires and I will neuer beleeue prouerbe more whilest I liue if the prouerbe be not in this cause somewhat auaileable which saith It must needs be true which euery man saith For those that doubt of each thing they see because they presently apprehend not the reason of it I holde them not worthie of satisfaction because their peruerse opinions are incapable of instructions of the true acceptation of any benefits eyther diuine or naturall These are like to the neighbours of some excellent and skilfull Phisition who in enuie and hatred do vsually disable his skill and cannot endure to see other men flocke to him for helpe and remedies yet if griefe paine or sicknes sease vpon themselues they then are glad to sue for his helpe then for necessitie sake they honour the Phisition not the wise man which gaue this precept but necessitie it selfe teacheth them to do him his due reuerence Endlesse were the labour a man might haue that would go about to answere the obiections which the curiositie of some braines will still brue and fling in his face that shall commend any truth whatsoeuer neither will I enlarge this discourse with so tedious a purpose as to conuince that by way of argument which no equall mind will much doubt of The Scepticke inquirers which professe doubtfulnes in all things though neuer so manifest and aske why fire is fire or why heat is heat why white is not called blacke and why blacke is not called blew what answere deserue their friuolous demaunds but silence the reward of foolish questions They that aske why the water of that Well should be so holsome aboue an other water eyther on this side or beyond the same place eyther on one this side the hill or one the tother are they not like to those which contēned the Prophets prescription touching Naaman and asked if Abanah and Pharpar riuers of Damascus were not as fine waters as that of Iordan Why was not this precious water say some found out before this time or how comes it to passe that in an element so bare void of mixture and so meerely nothing almost differing from other water there should be operation so diuers as to be medicinable against such diuersitie of diseases wherof no doubt the causes proceed some contrary one to another Questions sottish contemptible Haue not all notable benefits had their seuerall beginnings and cannot men tell you of the inuention and first finding of tenne thousand publike admirations whereof some haue lien hid and vnreuealed euen till our daies and is it any new thing that waters should effect so strange and so diuers operations What meane Scholler hath not read of the Well in Gnarsborrough forrest which cōuerteth leaues flesh and such like into hard stone of the Well in Glocestershire which turneth oke rootes as they grow into hard stone of an other neere Stonie Stratford conuerting stickes and the like into the like hardnes of stone Are not these straunge operations and can a man prefently giue a reason hereof Knowes any man the reason why that lake in Snowdon which carrieth the mooueable Iland should bring forth Eeles Perches and Trouts with onely one eye a peece in their heads which no other water beside doth or why that Well in Wales six mile from the sea or another in Darbishire 40. miles distant from the sea should rise and fall iust with the ebbing and flowing of the sea We are to wonder at not examine all the secret workings of nature and giuing praise to the great Guider of nature and ouer-ruler of naturall causes to receiue the good benefits we find with thankfull humilitie I could heartily wish that some learned and experienced man of ability and iudgement rather a skilfull Phisition then any would take paines iudicially to approue and publish to the world the vertues and vse of this good water as hath heretofore been done by our best bathes in other parts of the Realme Perhaps some famous Doctor Turner or learned Master Iones could well satisfie the curiosity of the narrowest inquirers why this should be and that should be they could iudge of the nature of the water of the colour of the vaines of the earth of the situation of the climate of all the collaterall causes which make it beneficiall If our Well worke the like or as strange effects as Bath Buxtons Saint Vincents or Hally well what aduantage haue they of it sauing that good fortune hath found them out such men as those before named to publish their vertues The first of which named Welles I meane the Bath I must needs with great reuerence giue due admiration vnto in respect of the great fame and antiquitie it is knowne to be of And because it exceeds all the rest as in heat so in the sensiblenes or manifest apparance of phisicall or medicinable curing I hold it great reason it should retaine the preheminence ouer all the rest And where our Wel wanting that sensible heat may perhaps in that respect be disallowed the name of a medicinable water I answer nothing but that which Master Iones writeth of Buxtons Well that being not so hot as the water of Bathe it healeth more temperately and effectually Thus farre Bro. B. as my haste and slender abilitie would permit I haue laboured to impart vnto you the newes of the New found VVell If you please you may commit it to further view if it be not well reported or the newes not well accepted or my meaning not well construed I can say no more but this I would all were well FINIS