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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	air_n	cold_a	moist_a	2,451	5	10.2857	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16279	The discription of the contrey of Aphrique the fyrst part of the worlde, with the cituation of al the countreys together, with the perticuler maners lawes, and ceremonies, of dyuers people inhabityng in the same part. Translated out of Frenche into Englyshe by Wyllyam Prat of London, the fyrst daye of the newe yere, M.CCCCC.LIIII. Rede it dylygently, marke it perfectly, reuolue it thorowly, beare it equally, beholde the auctours simplicitie, and prayse God almyghty.; Omnium gentium mores. Book 1. English	Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Prat, William.	1554 (1554)	STC 3196.5; ESTC S112745	45,413	174

in contempte the goodnes of God frō that tyme continued and encreased the wyckednes of men in such sort that God therefore after he hadde found one iust man which was called Noe for whose cause he saued all his famyly for the restorynge of mankynde sent the fludde whiche drowned the hole earth with al lyuynge thynges therevpon excepte those which were saued in the holy arke made by the sayde Noe 〈…〉 called 〈◊〉 be●●●se it ●oken 〈◊〉 Chri●●… church fyue monethes then after the beginning of the flud the arke touched groūd vpon the mountaynes of Armenie and Noe went out with his and encreased mankynde in short space after by the helpe of God he enterprised to haue all the partes of the earth inhabyted and for that occaon sente his chyldren into dyuerse contreys in the world he sent his sō Cain into Egipt with his dukes as Berose reciteth Esennius into Libie in Cerene Tritames al the rest of Aphrique he sent Iapetus the elder Atalas Into the Oriētal Asie he sente Ganges with some of the chyldren of Gomer the Gallica into the luckye Arabie he sent Sabus the Encense bearer Ara●us was by him appointed chyefe of the deserte Arabie and Petretus capyteyne of Araby the stony he caused the contrey from Damas vnto the borders of Palestyne to be inhabyted by Canaan Into Europia he sent Tuisco the gyaunt to be kynge of Sarmatie from the ryuer of Panais vnto the ryuer of Rh●● nyhg vnto the same Tuisco there dydde inhabite the chyldren of Ister and Mesa with his brethren who had the contrey from the mount Adule vnto Mesemberie and the contrey of Ponticque _____ at that tyme Tyras Achardius and Emathius helde Italy Gomer the Frenche man Samotes the Celtes the whiche be the countreys of the sayde Gaule nowe called Fraunce and Iubal enioyed the Celriberiens which is Spayne The sodayne and short departure from his kindred who had not yet learned neyther the lyuyng ne maners of their parentes was the cause of al the dyuersitie that syns folowed In so muche that Cham who dyd flee for the shame done to his father remayned he his wyfe and chyldren in those partes of Arabie synce called by his name Cain who neuer gaue to his posteritie any preceptes of religion in so muche that he trauailed not to learne any where vpon it came to passe by succession of tyme the one sente after the other out of one lande to inhabyte an other After hauynge occupied many coūtreys in the world for this skattered lygnage multyplyed meruelously fynally they fel into most execrable errours out of the whiche they colde not vnwrap themselues theyr language chanched and it was not to be vnderstande or intelligeble the trew worshyppynge and knowledgynge of God was out of remembrance So men haue lyued after suche a strāge sort that one can not wel deserne the lyuing betwene the bests and them They whiche do passe Egipt for the admiracion they had of the celestiall creatures beganne to worshyp as gods the sonne and the mone callynge the son Osyris and the moone Isis They attributed godlynes to respiracion by the whiche all men do lyue vnder the name of Iupiter to the element of fyre vnder the name of Vulcaine to the ayre vnder the name of Pallas to the earth vnder the name of Seres and to dyuers other creatures vnder ▪ many other names And they of Egypt do not onely thus walke in darkenes but also in the countreys possessed by them whiche be descended from Cham haue ben subiett to execrable bondage and ignorance of the trew religion Moreouer there was neuer countrey that the people were so fertyll to brynge forthe chyldren nor better merytynge the name of a mother for this respect then this part of Arabie which the said Chā with his occupied Suche and so greate a ruyne was brought to man kynde the banyesh mente of that onely personage to the contrary S●m and Iaphet with all theyr stocke who were instituted appoynted by theyr fathers in certeyne lawe were contented with small possessions and therfore they were not so largely disparsed thorowe out the hole worlde as the other Then it came to passe that the loue of the truth that is to say the true hollynes and adoration of the ryght God dyd remayne hyd in one onely nacion vntyll the commynge of Messias he false opinion of the Etheniques and Infydels touchynge the Originall of man Chapi ii THe Phylosophers in tyme past without any knowledge of the trewe Godde of longe tyme dyd speake of naturall thynges Some of them beleaued that the worlde was a thynge not created and incorruptyble and that mankynde was without takynge beginning The other ageyne iudged that the worlde was created and subiecte to corruption and that men were created by succession of tyme. To confyrme this opinion they sayde before any thynge had his begynnynge heauen and earthe had one onely forme and that the propriete of these two thinges was confuse that synce these two elementes seperated one from the other whervpon suche disposition and forme of the worlde that we perceyue the eyre in contynuall agitacion and that of him the part of the fyer had gotten the hyghest place because of his agilitie and lyghtnes and that by this reason the sonne and the other starres hadde kepte theyr places and certeyne courses in the hyghe region as for that which resteth beynge as of a moist qualitie moued but a lyttle frō the fyrst place because of his heuynes and weyght hauynge a kynde of moystenes in hym of the moystest part one wold say that the sea had folowed it and that the heauynes disapoynted of so greate humydite shall retourne to slammy earth and soft the whiche by lyttle and lyttle shall harden by reason of the heate of the sonne In such sort the abouesayde by the vyolence of the heat shal be swollen rysen whervpon many humours vnder the holones of the groūde risen vp were gethered and by lyttle and lyttle conuerted and tourned to matters rotten as we se hathe happened in the maryshes of Egypt Ageyne the earth beynge colde and moyste of her nature is made hote in a lytle space by the vehemente heate of the ayre that a man wolde iudge in a small tyme that the heate had ben mingled with moyst thynges whiche agayne shal be formed in a proper matter and engendred to an efficacie to the whiche was gyuen moystues shed by nyght and by the vygneur of the sonne hadde kept and noryshed this matter generatyue vntyll that by contynuaaunce of tyme the abouesayd matters shal be compelled to ascend vp also as yf the tyme had ben come that the sayde hardenesse woulde haue rendred that whiche it hathe engendred that maye be open and broken by the vehemency of the sō and in a lyttle space after brought forthe all kynde of beastes of the which those whiche were perticipent of the greate heate were volatyfe or made to fly and did