Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	woman_n	year_n	youth_n	27	3	7.4954	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06860	A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.	Maplet, John, d. 1592.	1567 (1567)	STC 17296; ESTC S109788	96,800	244

round about his Temple or Forehed there was a golden circle in thrée sortes ordered and set vpon the which stoode with yealow flowers from one side to another We must gather that something was figured hereby and that the high Priest or Bishops were not on this wise ordred for nought Of Horse taile HOrsetaile but more commonlye with vs called Cat●es taile of the Greekes Hippyris of the Mages Saturnes foode It groweth in waterie places and those softlye dighted and banked about It creepeth vp by stalke aloft and reacheth ouer his neighbours head coueting and preasing as much as it may to be the higher In his top it figureth a taile to looke to And thereof had it his name His roote is tough and verie harde Diasc sayeth that it is a sore hinder and that it stencheth eruption of bloud Of Houselike HOuselike in Gréeke is called Acizoon as you would say always aliue It is alwaies gréene and well liking and for his endurance is resembled to Ambrosia for his colour to the Marigolde for his roundset or figure to the Bullocks ●ie Insomuch that the Romaines call it Iupiters eie It hath a fruitfull leafe in the bignes of a mans thumbe in the end therof it is sharpe or like a tongue It is giuen to drinke sayth Diascorides against the biting of the greatest kinde of Spider and that kinde principallye which hath the moste io●ntes as some be thrise iointed There is another of this name but it is lesse and is called Acizoon to Mikron or with the Romanes Vitalis herba or Semperuiua Semgréene It groweth vpon Walles and tiled housen and is many wayes medicinable Dia●corides Of Humlocke HVmlock in Gréeke is called Koneion With the Egyptians Apemphi in Latine Cicu●a It hath his stalk and stem like Fennell His flower is white His séede like Anise seede but more white It is one of those kinds of Plantes which destroye and kill as soone almost as it is taken Wherewith as we reade Socrates the good Philosopher died forthwith after that he had bene once caused and compelled of malicious Iudges to take y● Cup wherin the iuice hereof was poured and so to drink it off Diascorides sayth it killeth through extréeme colde vanquishing and extinguishing all naturall heate Of the Herbe Iacinct IAcinct is an Herbe hauing a purple flowre It tooke his name of a certaine noble childe which among the Syrtes in a Pasture there was found dead So the child his funeral gaue name to this Herbe His colour is properlye Aerie bespotted among with Purple and red It hath a certaine flaxe lyke Snowe Of these iij. colours were the Priestes robes of as we read in the old law Of Isope ISope is an Herbe of meane growth but of much vertue and principallye in purging the Lungs Wherefore in the olde law sayeth Isidor by a bunch of Isope they would be besprinkled with the bloude of Lambes which would be counted and reckened cleane Of the Iuniper tree THe Iuniper tree is so called of similitude and likenesse to the fire Pyr in Gréeke signifieth the fire or as some thinke it is so called for that in his maner of growing it is like that figure which the Geometricians cal Pyramis we may say sharpely topped Or as other some say it is so named for his good and long maner of retayning and keeping fier insomuche that if Coales of fire be raked vp and inwrapped with the Ashes hereof they continue as they saye vnextinguished by the space of a whole yeare It groweth sayth Diascorides in stony and desart places Plini● sayth that the onely shadow of this sleath and killeth Serpents and therefore his fruit is reckned to be a remedie against poyson Of Iupiters beard IVpiters Beard called of the Gréekes Chrysokome as you would say Goldilocks It is hairie like Isope Diascorides sayth it is taken in Wine eftsoones to purge Of Iuie IVie sayth Isidore is so called for that it créepeth all about and cleaueth fast to the trée some say as it may be also that it was so called for that at the first it was giuen to the Kid and Déere as nourishment meate For Haedera is the Latine word and we may fetch it as it were word out of word Haedera quasi Haedis data It is plentifull in giuing Milke wherewith the Kids were more full of Milke It is a token and signe with the Philosophers of colde and moyst earth Of the Kastainy THe Kastainy is a tree of good high growth so called as Isidore witnesseth for that it must be often lopped or gelt For this so soone as it is cut downe by and by as it were a faire greene groue spreadeth abrode and beareth infinite blossomes and buddeth wonderfullye His fruite hangeth betwéene leafe and leafe and that double or by couples in maner of a man his priuities Of the Laurell tree THe Laurell tree hath bene from the beginning the verie seignorie and badge of all such as haue gotten amongst men the name of honor dignitie and praise Insomuch that in olde time as also in many places now or not long since the Garlands Crownes of Emperours hardie Captaines valiant Souldiers and such like were made hereof With them of the olde time it was called Laudea afterwardes the letter d through an other custome had his chaunge into the letter r and is nowe called Laurea as many other wordes of like sorte of the which is Meridies for Medidies and the like The Gréekes named it Daphnis for that it is alwayes freshe and neuer leaseth his gr●ene colour Aristotle sayeth that this kinde of trée whereas other and those infinite are is neuer hurt by thunder and lightning Of Laus tibi LAus tibi or white Daffadill in Greeke is called Narkissos It hath his leafe like an Onyon His stalke yelow within his skinne and hollow Diascorides sayth that it ioyneth togither those sinewes which are cut being adhibited and vsed plaister like Of Lettice LEttice sayeth Isidor is so sayde for that it being eatē hath that humor which 〈◊〉 soone conuerted into milke and to the woman it encreaseth milke abundantlye To the man he sayth it is cause or prouokement to Uenerie There is both field Lettise and Gardain Lettise Diascorides sayth that it putteth away all hinderances of sound sléepe Of the Leeke THe Leeke hath his time of lustinesse and youth and his time also of age euen as man hath For the first yeare it bestoweth all care and trauell in growth and nourishment to his owne perfection and ripening then the next yeare following that that he can he reserueth and bestoweth vpon séede to the preseruation of his kinde Of Laburnum LAburnum is a tree growing vppon the Mountaines called the Alpes whose wood is white hard and hath his flower one Cubite in length so noysome that no Bée will touch it This groweth in hard and drie places and hateth moysture or water Of Libardbaine LIbardbaine of the Gréekes is called Ak●niton it hath leaues like