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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	write_n	write_v	writing_n	37	3	8.6506	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16435	The Booke of pretty conceits taken out of Latine, French, Dutch and English : very merry, and very pleasant and good to bee read of all such as doe delight in new and merry conceits.		1628 (1628)	STC 3354; ESTC S1511	8,471	24

be drunke an noint your priuie members in vineger and ye shall waxe sober To make a good bait for fish at all times of the yeare Take wheat flowre and tallow of a new slaine sheepe and the glaire of an Egge and beat them all together and bait your hookes therewith To make an Egge goe vp to a Speares end Empty the Egge at a little hole and fill it full of May dew and stop the hole close with a little waxe parchment glued that the dew goe not out then sticke a speare in the earth in the heat of the Sun and lay the Egge by the Speare and it will mount vp to the top thereof by the heat of the Sun To make a candle burne in the water Take Wine Oile Salt Brimston quick●iluer Wax and hony and put them together and make a Candle thereof and the same will burne in water To make flesh or fish seeme raw Take the blood of a Wat or Kid and dry it and kéepe it from the ayre then cast it on fish or flesh that is hot and it will séeme raw To make wormes to seeme to be in meat Take Harp strings and cut them in smal péetes and cast them but on meat and they will stir like wormes To make potage run out of the pot Take and cast Sope in the pot and it will run ouer A good Medicine for Poultry that haue the pip Take Rue and put it into their troughs of water where the Prultry doe vse to driuke and the same will helpe them presently To kill hens and Ducks Cast them the séed of Henbane and they will fall downe as they were dead Make powder of Saint Iohns wort and when that the coales are wasted and the strenere out cast it thereon and it will lie That a man shall not be weary of going Drinke the iuice of Mugwort and beare the hearb it selfe about you with the hearbs Pedelion and Crowsoot Another way ●O ●n●id wearinesse Take Mugwort and cary it about you and you shall not bée weary neither shall there any wicked spirit come neare you hauing it about you A present remedy to asswage both hunger and thirst Take the quantity of a massie nut of Roch Allom that is both fine and pure and when you séele either hunger or thirst to oppresse you put it into your mouth and suck it for a little space and vse it oftentimes in the day and it will presently asswage your hunger and thirst vse this as often as néed shall require one penny worth of Allom will serue almost a whole wéeke To write without Inke Take fine white paper and with the iuice of a red Onion well mixed and the tempered with the yolke of an Egge you may write which being very dry will shew as though it ware onely plaine paper without any writing at all but if you hould it against the ●ire you may then easily read it and perceiue the letters Another way to cause writing not to be perceiued Take powder of Allome and put into water whatsoeuer you write therewith neither the writing nor the letters will appeare except you put the same paper in wather and then you may read it persectly To keepe Inke from freezing Take a little Aquavitae some sewe drops and mixe it with writing inke and the same will neuer fréeze at all A present remedie to destroy a Carbuncle Take Coriander séede and beate it to powder and mingle it with Honey and make a plaister thereof and lay it on the carbuncle or other grieuous biles and the same will spéedily destroy them A ready and easie way to ery whether a Maid be a pure Virgin or not Take roots of red Nettles and stamp them small and mixe the iuice thereof with Ale and let her drinke thereof and if it doe remaine with her then she is a Maid otherwise she is not To try if a woman being with childe be with child of a man child or a woman-child Take faire Well-water and put it into a cleane bason and let the woman with child milke a drop or two of her milk into the wate● 〈◊〉 if the milke sinke to the bottome 〈◊〉 is a man child and if it float on the top about the water then it is a woman child To make yarne and linnen cloth white Take a herring barrell and fill it nigh full of good Ale-dregs and stop it fast but you must haue a good dishfull of parched Beanes and put them in a linnen bag and very hot put them to the dregs till they coole and shut it fast the space of a quarter of an houre then take two pounds of Allom grownd to small powder and cast it thereon and let it lye foure daies naturall well closed and then wash your yarne To make that a Horse may not goe through a street Take the guts of a Wolfe and lay them ouerth wart the stréet and couer them with earth or sand and he will not go that way as long as the guis couered lie there Proued To take Conies with ones hand Take a Coney that is full of young Rabbets and kill her and put her all whole into a pottle of Oyle Oliue and put thereto some A safetida and so boile them together from a pottle to a pint and then make a paire of Gloues of Calue-skins fit for your hands and boile the Cloues in the suine liquour with the coney and let it boyle from a potle to a pinte and when the gloues be well boyled let them bée safe kept vntill you come where store of Conies are then put on thy gloues and stand on the wind side of the conie-berries and the conies will coule forth to thée Another Take a quantity of Iuy-leaues and lay them to stéep in Aquavitée for the space of thrée or foure daies and then cast the same leaues néere to the conie holes An easie way to catch Moales If you will catch Moales or Wants take Garlicke Léekes Onyons and put them in the mouth of the holes or entrance into the groūd where they are and you shal sée them come leaping out of the ground as if they were amazed Another way to catch Moales Take the quantity of a Nut of Asafetion and two spoonfulls of cummin-séed and beat them together into powder make dough with flower of it then worke it well and make it into bals as big as a pease and then put them into the Moale-holes in euery hole But first scrape away the earth cleane from the holes and the Moale will come forth of the earth thereso watch them well Vse this in the moueth of March when they goe a clickerting To ripen Nuts Take Nuts at Midsommer delue them well in the ground and coner them well and they will be as ripe as those that you shall gather when they be ripe vpon the frée To driue away Rats Take the hoofe of a flon'd horse sliced in pieces and put it on a chafingdish of coales and the very sent or smell thereof being well perfumed will driue away all the Rats from the house Ad capiendum pisces Recipe luce Mullage vel scolares tortes collectum circa medium Maii quando Luna sit plena distemperata comminge sape serua in olla terrea quando vis occupare vnge manus tuas eclaua sita ni aqua vel loco ubi sunt Pisces To take Rats Take a quicke Rat and put her in a pot and make a soft fire about it and vnder it and when sh● féeleth the heat she will crye and the Rats that heare her will come to helpe her and then they may take them And in like manner you may doe with moles To take Moles Take a couple of quicke Moles and put them in a déepke pot and set the pot in the carth to the brim and when they cannot get out they will péepe and all the other Males will come and fall into the pot to them To make a light for euer Take the wormes that shine commonly in the night and gather the liquor of them and mingle it with a quartren of Quick-siluer and put it in a Viall and thē you shall sée all the night long by it To put ones hand into any hot seething thing Anoint thy hants with hearbe Mercury and put it in a see thing thing and it will doe thée no harme at all To kill Lice Make a good fire and put Quicke-filuer therein and hang the cloathes that are troubled with Rice ouer the fire in the smoake and then assure your selfe no vermin will bréed or come in them To kill Lice and Neets Take the powder or scraping of a Harts horne and let the party that is troubled with them drinke often thereof and there will neither Lice nor Néets breed eyther in his head or body Also it you strew the same powder other vpon his head or on his cloathes all the Lice and Neets will presently dye An easie way to kill Fleas Take the herbé Coriander and seeth it wēl in water and then sprinkle the same water in your Chambers and r●omes and it will destroy all the Fleas Another way Take Worm-wood and Rue and stampe them together then mingle them well with good wine and put them all together in a linnen cloth and rub all thy body well with it before thou goest to bed and the Fleas will not come neere thee