Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	fair_a	rain_n	windy_a	6,820	5	13.5870	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11936	The perfect vse of silk-vvormes, and their benefit With the exact planting, and artificiall handling of mulberrie trees whereby to nourish them, and the figures to know how to feede the wormes, and to winde off the silke. And the fit maner to prepare the barke of the white mulberrie to make fine linnen and other workes thereof. Done out of the French originall of D'Oliuier de Serres Lord of Pradel into English, by Nicholas Geffe Esquier. With an annexed discourse of his owne, of the meanes and sufficiencie of England for to haue abundance of fine silke by feeding of silke-wormes within the same; as by apparent proofes by him made and continued appeareth. For the generall vse and vniuersall benefit of all those his countrey men which embrace them. Neuer the like yet here discouered by any.; Theatre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs. Part 5. Chapter 15. English	Serres, Olivier de, 1539-1619.; Geffe, Nicholas.	1607 (1607)	STC 22249; ESTC S117159	60,238	108

certaine feete of the forkednes of the trees or otherwise as it shall best accord with their capacitie seruing themselues in this place with very sharpe instruments to the ende not to disbarke nor shatter the trees and to make the cut very right which shall bee aslope to cast off the annoyance of the raine The time of this busines is euen as the lopping of other trees that is the winter to be passed the sap beginning to enter not before for the reasons alleadged elsewhere In a faire day not in a windie mistie nor rainy for the Mulberries shooting in like manner as other trees yea so vigorouslie as any other plant haue commonly the season of felling When to lay the bill to them But because in the Mulberries is considerable the lease the chiefest of their reuenue it is requisit to be vigilant to lose nothing if it bee possible the which one shall come vnto in delaying to cut them vntill May or in the beginning of Iune then when it behoueth to imploy the leaues By this meanes one hath seruice of the leaues the same yeere of the cutting of the trees the which one cannot doe without this backwardnesse And although that for the disbranching of them in such season the trees bring not forth that same yeere so great branches as if one lopped them in the moneths of February or March the time being a little shortned of their growing it inportes not seeing there is as much gotten for the yeere after in the which such branches though they be but little yet hauing won the aduantage grow great merueilouslie whereby the trees in a small time are amplie spread againe yet that against the precepts of arte constrained by necessitie that one cuttes the trees in rainie weather and without regarding the Moone as is fit they are of so free and good a disposition What time of the Moone is to be obserued Touching the age of the moone it is handled diuersely according to the diuersitie of the groundes that gouernes such actions By the heauenly influence the Mulberries pouled in the encrease of the moone bringes forth their younge shootes long without spreading branches and in the waine short with many little branches crossing the principalles For to compose the things hauing election of the time without constraint we will dishead those of our Mulberries being in a leane ground in the new Moone and in the last quarter planted in a fat ground So those there will be furnished with new shootes as long as the feeblenes of the groundes will permit them and these here through the force of the grounds will conueniently regaine that which to purpose they would not cut in the encrease by reason that their spirie branches being not kept back by the little shoots will lengthen too much whereby bending downe they will deforme the trees those remaining emptie in the midst after the maner of palme trees that being not to bee feared in the rest by reason of the leanenesse of the groundes which neuer causeth theÌ„ to shoot out too abundantly By this meanes they will put themselues in wood againe neuerthelesse some more then others according to the goodnes of the soile but not any so slowlie but that at the tenth yeere they will be capable to begin againe their accustomed seruice prouided It behooueth to plow the ground of the Mulberries the grounds be tilled as appertaines For in vaine one should trauaile exactly to entertaine the Mulberries by their branches if one makes not account of their rootes whereby at the length they faile as in such error those fall which to spare the tillage plante their Mulberries in meadowes where they impaire In which they deceiue themselues because they consider not that the Mulberries left in vntilled grounds cannot bring so many nor so good ieaues as those which are tilled And although there are seene many faire Mulberrie trees in meadowes the answer is that the earth is fat in ensuing if not contrary yet at the least not at all good for the Wormes or being leane the trees will not dure long through lacke of tilling The assured meanes In the vi chapter the xxvii booke of husbandrie that there is to dresse a Mulberrie-yard thick spread with boughes and to keepe it without expence vntill a reasonable greatnes to serue well is represented hereafter in the discourse of the fruite trees that is in planting the Mulberries in rankes by line and leuel from foure to foure or from fiue to fiue fathams and in the same rankes to plant Vines amongst them low or propped according to the vsage of the countrey the which by labour will bring their fruit without alteration fifteene or twentie yeeres when being oppressed vnder the shaddow of the trees they wil fal vnder the burtheÌ„ then one shal pul them vp to leaue the place free for the trees which will onely occupie it and so one shall find to haue brought them vp for nothing The which shall be to finish the discourse of the victuall of our little beast for to make them their lodging The lodging of the Silk-wormes It behoueth also to dresse a lodging for our Wormes with such commoditie that they may easily doe their worke for to yeeld vs abundance of good silke The which one should hope in vaine lodging them in a place vnproper and contrarie to their nature for as they cannot be deceiued in their foode without manifest losse no more can they suffer an ill habitation And as one must not enterprise to plant the vine if he bee not forthwith prouided of cellers and vessels for the wine so this would bee to no purpose if one should plant the Mulberrie-yard without afterward to giue quarter and place to the Wormes All such like habitation desire they as men that is spacious pleasant wholesome far from ill sents dampes and humidities warme in the cold time and fresh in the hot neere the foundation nor vnder the lathings of the couerings neere the tyles one must not lodge the Silke-worme because of the intemperatenes of these two coÌ„trarie situations whereby the one may be too moyst the other too windie too hot too cold according to the seasons Neuerthelesse that is to be borne withal so that one can erect the lodging of the Wormes on one only stage neere the ground prouided that the plot-forme be erected three or foure feete for to auoid dampes and ouer that that there bee boords close ioyned to the end the creatures may be kept aloofe from the tyles the approch and neerenesse of which is alwaies hurtful vnto them because that the windes and colds pierce through them the heate of the Sunne is there insupportable when it lights The reckoning vp of the fitnes of the lodging for the Wormes vpon them in his force If for the capacity of your house you can commodiously be fitted for roome to feede them in it will be great ease to you and

the silke it is to be desired that the bottoms bee cast into the bason for to winde them immediately hauing pulled them from the roddes without any stay seeing that so freshly taken all the silke comes off easily without violeÌ„ce or any losse the which one cannot hope for of the bottoms kept some time because that the gumme wherewith the Worme fastens her threeds one against another being dried doth so harden the bottome that one cannot winde it but with great difficultie and losse whereby some portion of the silke rests in the bason and neuer remaines so faire And wherforâ— as that which is newly and easily wonde vp Besides by such festination is spared the feare that the Butterflies should spoile the worke there being not giuen them the leasure to bore the coddes for to come forth But because that within seuen or eight daies one can very hardly winde off all the silke of a reasonable feeding for the great number of worke men that for that one should employ one shall keep both the one and the other of these two waies that is in setting themselues a work to winde off the bottomes so soone as euer one shall perceiue to bee a number of perfect ones casting them directly from the twigges into the basen hauing first pilled and bared them of their sleaue without other delay And to kill the Butterflies of the rest which one is constrained to keepe to the intent that the creatures being dead within the coddes remaine exempt from feare to bee bored and by consequent reserued for good silke may atteÌ„d the leasure of the winder That The means to kill the Butterflies in the coddes is done in exposing and laying the coddes in the sunne the heate of which stifles the creature in his proper worke but you must vse a meane for feare of burning the silke Three or foure times in sundrie daies the coddes shal be set in the sun at each time they shall remaine two houres before noone and as much after to the end that the great heate of that part of the day may readily stifle the Wormes before they be metaphorised or changed into Butterflies which will come to passe in spreading the bottoms vpon sheetes and oftentimes remouing them to make them all feele it without excepting any from the heate of the sunne neuerthelesse to take heed to the charge that by too rude handling one bruises not the Wormes within the coddes for feare of stayning the silke with the matter of their bodies the which as hath been said doth so glue together the silke that it is impossible afterwards to winde it off Therefore very softly oftentimes a day one shall remoue them from one side to another afterwards they shal be heaped warmely together and wrapped vp in the sheets and so carried into a fresh chamber not into a danke celler as to il purpose some do The sunne failing as often times it comes to passe that the skie is clouded you shall vse an ouen moderately heated as it shall be two houres after the drawing of bread within the which by sackfuls one shall put the coddes which shall be laid vpon boords for feare that the stones of the ouens bottom should burne them There they shall remaine an houre or an houre and a halfe in reiterating the manner till that you shall know the creatures to bee certainely dead the which you shall be resolued without great losse in reÌ„ding one of the most suspectedst bottoms for to see the inner part In the meane time you shall take heed not to burne your silke by too vehement heate foreseeing which the most sure way shall bee to heate the ouen a little at once and to returne so much the oftener then too much and so hasting lose all the worke This smothering of the Wormes or Butterflies already formed is of great import for going to it either ignorantly or retchlessely not taking heed whether that the Butterflies should come forth of the coddes according to their nature or not being able at all to take the ayre should remaine in the way after to be forced to passe further nibbling the inner part of the coddes of the which little silke can come afterwards and that yet not very wel qualified Ill comparable to that of the Rats in this point differing that the Rats gnaw the exterior of the cods for to eate vp the creature which is there inclosed and the Butterflies the interior to free themselues The bottoms so prepared shall attend the leasure of the winder But this shall be no longer then that without delay you may conserue the silke in his naturall beautie without losse of waight in the one and in the other being so much the more defrauded of it as more longer the coddes shall bee kept For that euery day the hardnes of the bottoms augmenting In like manner is augmented the difficultie of winding it off wherby the silke breaks with diminishing the quantitie and by long keeping the qualitie is empaired To these losses diligence remedies so that there be not giuen too much time to the bottoms to ouer-harden the silke wil be wonde off well enough the winding whereof shall be continued without diuerting to other vses vntill the last bottome So shall you entirely gather from this food both silkes and sleaues without any losse To sort curiously the cods for to winde off the silke This done the bottoms shall be sorted setting apart the pierced and spotted ones on one side for to make faire sleaue as being of the most fine substance and of the other side the entire simple and cleane ones to wind off the most faire and pure silke of all the which for a foregoing one shall draw off all the downe in pulling off the out-side of the bottoms of which one shall make course sleaue for that this is the reffuse and skumme which the creature vomits at the beginning of his worke Of tooles and engines for winding off and other obseruations Of the fashion of the furnaces basens wheeles or Rices named at Paris deuidors at Tours windersvp but how one ought to turne them if it shall bee by the hand by the foot or by the water for the winding off there is no need to speake of in this place the work-men almost neuer agreeing together euery one hauing his particular practise Only I will say that the basens of lead makes the silke more pure than those of copper because of the rust that this mettall is subiect vnto though water remaines in it but a little while from which the lead is vtterly exempt That the wheeles ought to bee great for the forwarding of the worke the which shall be made to winde off two skeanes at once That the fire of the furnace be of char-coales or at the least of very drie wood to the end that the fire bee without smoake as well for the commodity of the winder as for the bewty of the silke the which

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