Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	life_n	old_a	5,148	5	5.6715	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06913	Countrey contentments, or The English husvvife Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgerie, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, oats, their excellent vses in a family, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the honour of the noble house of Exceter, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1623 (1623)	STC 17343; ESTC S112049	175,630	246

the skinne of the hands very smooth take Almonds and beate them to oyle then take whole Cloues and put them both together into a glasse and set it in the sunne fiue or sixe dayes then strayne it and with the same annoynt your hands euerie night when you goe to bed and otherwise as you haue conuenient leasure To make that soueraine water which was first inuented by Doctor Steuens in the same forme as he deliuered the Receite to the Arch-bishop of Canturbury a little before the death of the said Doctor Take a gallon of good Gascoyne wine then take Ginger Galingale Synamon Nutmegges Graines Cloues brused Fennell seeds Carrawaie seeds Origanum of euery of them a like quantitie that is to say a dramme Then take Sage wild Margerom Peny-royaell Mints Red-roses Time Pellitory Rosemary wild-time Cammomill Lauender of each of them a handfull then bray the spices small and bruise the hearbs and put al into the wine let it stand so twelue houres only stirre it diuers times then distill it by a Lymbecke and keepe the first water by it selfe for that is the best then keepe the second water for that is good and for the last neglect it not for it is very wholesome though the worst of the three Now for the vertue of this water it is this it comforteth the spirits and vitall parts and helpeth all inward diseases that commeth of cold it is good against the shaking of the palsie cureth the contraction of sinnewes and helpeth the conception of women that be barraine it killeth the wormes in the body it cureth the cold cough it helpeth the tooth-ache it comforteth the stomacke and cureth the old dropsie it helpeth the stone in bladder and in the reines it helpeth a stinking breath And whosoeuer vseth this water moderately and not too often preserueth him in good liking will make him seeme young in old age With this water Docter Steuens preserued his owne life vntill such extreame age that he could neither goe nor ride and he continued his life being bed-rid fiue yeares when other Physicions did iudge he could not liue one yeare which he did coufesse a little before his death saying that if he were sicke at any time he neuer vsed any thing but this water only And also the Archbishop of Canterbury vsed it and found such goodnesse in it that hee liued till he was not able to drinke of a cup but sucked his drinke throug a hollow pipe of siluer This water will be much the better if it be set in the Sunne all Summer To make a cordiall Rosasolis take Rosasolis and in any wise touch not the leaues thereof in the gathering nor wash it take thereof foure good handfuls then take two good pints of Aqua●itae and put them both in a glasse or pewter pot of three or foure pints and then stop the same hard and iust and so let it hand three dayes and three nights and the third day straine it through a cleane cloth into another glasse or pewter pot and put thereto halfe a pound of Sugar beaten small fowre ounces of fine Licoras beaten into powder halfe a pound of sonud Dates the stones being taken out cut them and make them cleane and then mince them small and mixe all these together and stop the glasse or pot close and iust and drinke of it at night to bedward halfe a spoonefull with Ale or Beere but Ale is the better as much in the morning fasting for there is not the weakest body in the world that wanteth nature or strength or that is in a consumption but it will restore him againe and cause him to be strong and lustie and to haue a maruailous hungrie stomacke prouided alwaies that this Rosasolis be gathered as neare as you possibly can at the full of the moone when the sunne shineth before noone and let the roots of them be cut away Take the flowers of roses or violets breake them small and put them into sallet oyle and let them stand in the same ten or twelue dayes and then presse it Or otherwise take a quart of oyle Olyue and put thereto Sixe spoonefuls of cleane water and stirre it well with a slice till it waxe as white as milke then take two pound of red rose leaues and cut the white of the ends of the leaues away and put the roses into the oyle then put it into a double glasse and set it in the sun all the summer time and it is soueraine for any scalding or burning with water or oyle Or else take red roses new plucked a pound or two and cut the white ends of the leaues away then take may Butter and melt it ouer the fire w●th 2. pound of oyle olyue when it is clarified put in your roses and put it all in a vessell of glasse or of earthen and stop it well about that no ayre enter in nor out and set it in another vessell with water and let it boyle halfe a day or more and then take if forth and straine or presse it through a cloth and put it into glasse bottells● this is good for al manner of vnkind heates Take two or three pound of Nutmegges cut them small and bruse them well then put them into a pan and beate them and stir●e them about which done put them into a canuasse or strong linnen bagge and close them in a presse and presse them get out all the liquor of them which will be like manna then scrape it from the canuasse bagge as much as you can with a knife then put it into some vessell of glasse and stoppe it well but set it not in the sun for it will waxe cleane of it selfe within 10. or 15. dayes and it is worth thrice so much as the Nutmeggs themselues and the oyle hath very great vertue in comforting the stomacke and inward parts and asswaging the paine of the Mother and Cyatica Take the flowers of Spyke and wash them only in Oyle olyue and then stampe them well then put them in a canuasse bagge presse them in a presse as hard as you can take that which commeth out carefully and put it into a strong vessell of glasse and set it not in the sun for it will cleare of it selfe waxe fayre and bright and will haue a very sharpe odor of the Spike and thus you may make oyle of other hearbs of like nature as Lauender Camomile and such like Take an ounce of Masticke and an ounce of Olibanum pounded as small as is possible boyle them in oyle Olyue a quart to a third part then presse it and put it into a glasse after 10. or 12. dayes it will be perfect it is exceeding good for any cold griefe Thus hauing in a summary manner passed ouer all the most Phisicall chirurgicall notes which burtheneth the mind of our English House-wife beeing as much as needfull for the