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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	scripture_n	soul_n	6,785	5	5.5065	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14055	A nevv booke of spirituall physik for dyuerse diseases of the nobilitie and gentlemen of Englande, made by William Turner doctor of Physik	Turner, William, d. 1568.	1555 (1555)	STC 24361; ESTC S118750	76,442	208

the meane season he lent the paryshe a foule euell fauored hole an ende of an olde abbey very strayt narow euell couered and euery daye lyke to fal vpoÌ„ the poore peoples heades and as for other churche the poore people caÌ„ get none vnto thys houre Where is there any good parsonage in Englande but it is ether bought and dronken vp of some gentlemen or els is let to ferme to some gentleman As wyth great honesty and prayse the noble mennes seruauntes had wont to come home to theyr maisters houses wyth hares wylde cattes foxes vpon their backes so wyth muche shame they come wyth tythe pygges by theyr tayles wyth tythe egges and tythe hemp and flaxe Well they that cam from the donghyl muste go thether agayne Nature wyll out although it be holden in wyth forke a whyle as the dauncyng of the ape doth testefye in Esopes fables whych dauÌ„ced wel vntyl the nuttes were casteÌ„ abrode in the floure In dede I fynde this dropsy for the moste part alwayes in the crowish stert vppes Crowish stert vp and not so muche in the ryght and olde nobilitie How be it euen some of the stocke of the olde nobilitie haue growen and gone out of kynde and are also sycke in thys common sycknes There was an erle wythin these fewe yeares that had lande good enoughe coulde not quenche hys thyrst therwyth vntyl he had gotten one of the greatest deanryes in Englande and so was made my Lorde deane also But he left to hys successours the laÌ„des vndiminshed and therfore dyd muche better then he shoulde haue done yf he had takeÌ„ the Deanerye quyte awaye into his owne handes for euer for hym and his heyres Some haue bene so thirsti of late that they drank vp not onlye hole comones and great fyldes but also the very hyghe wayes and the foule puddels in them A certayne felowe of mine which had ben loÌ„ge from hys frendes gat leue to go to them and went thetherwarde but when he came wythin a litle of hys fathers house he could fynd no way a loÌ„ge tyme into his fathers house the thirsty gentleman had so dronk vp al the hygh wayes there Some haue dronke vp of late hole riuers and meres and fennes whych had wont to be common and wyl not suffer a maÌ„ to angle therin nether any man to put a veast there but let them to ferme Some when as they haue dronken vp as muche of the coÌ„mones of abbey landes of byshoppes landes of deanes landes of persones laÌ„des and of beggers landes I meane of hospitalles as wolde serue .iiii. as honest and as honorable men as they be yet for to spare theyr owne drynke at home are not ashamed to begge drynke of suche poore meÌ„ as I am When as I had but .74 lib. to spende in the yeare my fyrst frutes yet vnpayd And yet they neuer gaue me a cup of ale vndeserued iÌ„ al their lyues I haue yet copies of theyr begging letters here in germany to be witnesses of their shameles beggynge I wolde there were some acte of parlament made agaynst suche valiaÌ„t beggers whiche vexe poore men as I was much worse then the lousye beggers do Honest gentlemen that are not syke in the dropsye when as they are verye thyrstye and entre into a cytie they do not lyght and drynke in the fyrst alehouse that they se in the cytie but for sauyng of theyr honestye differ to drynke vntyl they come into an honest in there they drinke as muche as they nede but no more He that is an honeste gentleman wyll leuer suffer great honger and thyrst at home then to earne drinke in the market with sellyng of coles or bere or of bullockes of plowes of shepe or of shepes doÌ„ge or of pisse or of suche like vile thinges as some haue done do at thys tyme wyth shame enough yf they were not past shame Buth suche gentlymeÌ„ as the dropsye hath taken awaye theyr honestye shamefacednesse froÌ„ them that they care not howe they get drinke whether it be wyth honour or shame so that they maye haue it while as some gentlemen yea some Knightes and lordes do nowe in Englande not be ashamed to sell oxen shepe bere corne mele malt coles thynges muche vyler then these be Nowe it is euident that there are many of the nobilitie of Englande sycke in the spiritual dropsye let vs se whether it is any perilus disease or no. This dropsye is a disease very harde to heale and kylleth many a man and woman and it bryngeth not onely death of bothe bodye and soule but in the lyfe tyme mocketh men and bryngeth men into false opinioÌ„s The holy scripture sayeth that the spirituall dropsy bryngeth death and euerlastyng damnacion as Paule .i. Corin .vi. 1. Cor. 6 wytnesseth in these wordes Nether theues nether couetous men nether dronkerdes nether cursed speakers where extorcioners or rauen ous men shall haue the heritage of the kyngdome of God He that is syke in the dropsye thynketh that plentye of drynke shall helpe hys disease and that hys drynke shal be turned into bloude and that he shal be noryshed therwyth So is it also in the dropsy that our gentlemen are sycke in They thynke that in heapyng together of muche golde and syluer in gettynge of many fermes in gettynge of many benefyces that their gredye appetite shall therwyth be quenched but they are deceyued For the noble poetes in these verses folowyng affirme the contrary Crescit amor nuÌ„mi quamtum ipsa pecunia crescit Quanto plura parasti tanto plura cupis Semper auarus eget quare quia competit vsus Tangere parta timet cur ne minuatur aceruus At primum scelerem matrem quae semper habendo Plus sitiens patulis runatur faucibus aurum Trudis auaritiam Crescit indugeirs sibi dirus hydrops Nec sitim pellit nisi causa morbi Fugerit venis aquosus albo corpore langor The loue of the peny groweth as muche as the pkny groweth The more thynges that thou haste gotteÌ„ the more thou desyrest A couetous man is euer nedy and why the vse requyreth he is afrayed to touche that whych he hath gotten why because that his heape should not be mynished or made lesse But fyrst thou thurstest downe couettousnes the mother of myschiefe whyche the more it hathe the more golde it gapeth for wyth open iawes and is more thyrsty The cruel dropsye fauourynge it selfe to muche can not put awaye thyrste excepte the cause of the syknes flye out of the veynes the wattery siknes leue the pale body The preacher in the .v. Eccle. 5. cha coÌ„firmeth the same that the poetes haue sayd A couetous man sayeth he wyll neuer be fylled wyth mony Furthermore as in the bodely dropsye the great plentye of drynke is not turned into bloud nether into any good noryshment of the body but is turned all into water and wynde and the body is neuer

drynker or the lesse whyche of these two kynges heyres was lefte rycher at the death of hys father ye wyll saye I am sure that the heyre of the lesse drynker was left much rycher Or els what neded kynge Edwardes counsellers and good housbandes so ofte crye the kynge is poore the kynge is poore and to get al the chauntries in Englande vnto him and so ofte to spoyle the byshoppes landes to enryche hym therewyth ye se therfore that in both the kyndes of dropsy that the exceding plentye of drynke nether quencheth the thyrst of the syke nether helpeth the disease nether increaseth any good blood Therfore seyng that the spirituall dropsye wherein dyuers gentlemen of Englande are sycke in at thys tyme bryngeth at length death of both body and soule and maketh suche a folishe opinion in them that they beleue that it that moste of all engendreth the syknes helpeth it that it that most destroyeth both the blood naturall heate ingendreth bothe the same it muste nedes be a perillous disease Then where as it is so perillous a disease they that ar syke in it had nede of some remedy for it whych I intende to offer vnto them But before I shewe the remedye of thys dysease it is mete that I shewe the causes of it that I in healyng of it maye shewe the practice more lyke a workeman then a foole for he that knoweth not the cause of the disease howe shall he take the cause away of it And he that knoweth not the cause of the disease how shal he take it awaye and he that taketh not the cause of that disease away howe shall he take the disease away when as the cause abydyng styll the effecte muste nedes folowe It is also necessary for all my patientes to knowe the cause of theyr diseases that after that they are ones healed they maye exchewe the disease by puttyng awaye and auoydyng the causes of it It shal be also necessary for them that are not yet sycke in that sycknes but are disposed naturally therto to knowe the causes of thys disease that by flyeng and eschuyng the causes of it they maye auoyde it Sycknesses come two wayes moste coÌ„monly of a naturall cause and sometyme though it be but seldome immediatly of God without any natural cause for the reueÌ„ging and ponyshyng of some open synne or offence As for an exemple The leprye moste coÌ„monly coÌ„meth of a melancholike humour or of a salt burned humour that is in a mannes body But we reade that wythout any suche natural cause it commeth immediatly of God ponyshyng soÌ„e notable and opeÌ„ offence 4. Re. 5. Nu. 12. 2. pa. 26. as it came vnto Gehasi to mary Moses syster to kynge Osias The bodely dropsye coÌ„monly coÌ„meth of the stopping of the liuer and the stoppyng commonly commeth ether of colde or of grosse humores Euen so the spiritu all dropsye coÌ„meth of colde or grosse humores Vnder the name of colde humores I vnderstande suche spirituall drinke as is not warmed with an earnest preacher but is coldely serued out wythout any zele or feruentnes in sprete after whych maner our newtralles and manpleasers of late and now the latin sacrificers serue the people in England By grosse humores I vnderstande fleshely and grosse ceremonies whiche were neuer tryed wyth the fyer of Goddes worde But as thys is the coÌ„mon waye wherby meÌ„ come to the dropsye so is there also an other preuye straunge and seldome waye wherby I reken that many of oure gentlemen haue fallen into the spiritual dropsye That is by the ponyshment of almyghtye God whych suffered them to fall in to thys sycknes for theyr open synnes as he brought the .iii. aforenamed persones into the lepry The noble wel borne kyng Henry the .viii. by the counsel of certeine of hys scripture learned counsellers toke in haÌ„de to reforme heale some of hys clergie whyche was so sycke in the dropsye that they had almoste dronkeÌ„ vp a quarter of the hole realme and accordynge vnto the worde of God and hys bound deutye he began to dryue out of hys lande the seuen kyndes of people whereof is motion made in the seuenth chap. of Deuteronomi that is the Hethites the Bergelces Deu. 7. the Amores the Canarees the Pherisees the Euees and the Iebusees And in dede he healed the clergye after one maner that phisicianes vse that is per ablati onem he droue out after a maner the forsayd enemies of God whych had gotten them by continuaunce of longe tyme seuen newe names Yf any man wyll knowe theyr names that he droue out their names are these Iacobites and Minorites Augustinianes Carmelites whyt monkes blacke monkes and Chanones c. Because he coulde nether heale all the watersyke alone nether coulde alone dryue out so many enemyes he coÌ„maunded hys nobilite to helpe hym and they not vnwyllyngly toke hys parte But howe healed they the dropsye howe droue they awaye the seuen heathen nacions Surely nether accordynge vnto the rules of bodely nor of spiritual phisyck What maner of phisiciane is he that coÌ„meth vnto a house where as there are some parsons syck because they had to many humores and others for lacke of sufficient humores other are not syck he not onely coÌ„maundeth them al together both syck and hole to faste alyke for the space of an hole yeare and to gyue hym for hys labour al it that they shulde haue eaten that yeare but enioyneth theÌ„ al alyke for all the tyme of theyr lyues euer after to departe wyth the tenth parte of the meate that they had wont to spende and to gyue it vnto hym Haue not the noble phisiciaÌ„s occupyed the same phisick whylse they went about to heal the clergie yes doutles For some of the clergye had to muche and some to litle some no more theÌ„ enough and yet muste euery man haue one kynde of medicine all muste be purged bothe the sycke and the hole and all muste faste and kepe one dyet both the hole and the two kindes of sycke Wolde these phisicians be coÌ„tent that doctor Wendy or doctor Owen doctor Wotton or doctor Huic or I shuld practise wyth them so yf we were called to theyr houses to heale certeyne syck persones there Doutles they wolde not Wherfore when as they do otherwyse vnto theyr brethren then they wolde be done to them selues they haue broken the rule of oure maister doctor Iesus the chife phisician and haue coÌ„mitted an open synne that all the world may se For the which synne God hath suffered them to fall into thys foule dropsy that they are syck in now euen as he ponished Gehasy wyth a lepry for coÌ„mittynge the same synne that our gentlemeÌ„ dyd For as Gehasy synned in couetousnes in takynge of rewardes of the heathen man that hys maister healed hauyng no coÌ„maundemeÌ„t so to do so these when as they had no commaundemeÌ„t of theyr maister Christ

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