Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72366	Here begynneth a lytell treatyse called the Lucydarye; Elucidarius	Honorius, of Autun, ca. 1080-ca. 1156.; Chertsey, Andrew.	1507 (1507)	STC 13685.5; ESTC S125242	28,310	52

god of the grete mercy that he vnto thē hath done And to speke shortely the Ioyes of paradys ben so grete that there ne is entendement the whiche them can comprehende / For yf all the goodes / and all the Ioyes and gladnesses the whiche ben / was / and shall be in the wor● were all to gyders that sholde be nothynge vnto the cōparyson of the leest glory of paradys For all the Ioyes of this worlde ben transytoryes / and also passeth as smoke But the Ioyes of paradys ben perpetuelles and without ende ¶ Mayster how many ordres of aungelles ben in ꝑadys My chylde there be nyne The fyrst ordre is called the ordre of seraphȳs the whiche is the moost hyghest / The seconde of the Cherubyns The thyrde is of the thrones / The fourthe of the puyssaunces The fyfth is of the prynces The syxte of the seygnouryes The seuenth of the vertus The eyght of the .ix. ordres as lordes aboue theyr seruauntes archaungels And the nynth of the aungelles the whiche is moost lowe and al the sayntes holy men women of paradys ben aboue them ¶ Mayster haue we euery of vs his good aūgell the whiche kepeth vs My chylde euery one hath his gode aungell the whiche hym defendeth from the ylle and styreth hym to do we le / and soo hadde our lorde Ihesu cryste of good aungelles for to mynyster vnto hym And the Anthecryst shall haue one to kepe hȳ from doynge of so moche yll as he may well And the aūgelles ben of the laste moost lowe ordre that is called proprely the ordre of aūgelles as I haue now tolde the. ¶ Mayster wherfore loseth the mone somtyme his clerenesse My chylde the mone hath none other lyght but that / that the sonne vnto her gyueth / so it happeneth often that the erthe is founde bytwene the son 〈◊〉 and the mone in suche wyse that the sonne ne may gyue her clerenes / and than she is all blacke / for the erthe shadoweth her But whan the erthe is not dyrectely betwene them / but some parte all onely than is she clere in as moche as the sonne mayse her / whan the erthe is nothynge betwene them than is she clere / for there is nothynge bytwene theym And for that cause hath the mone euer the backe towarde the sonne ¶ Mayster what thynge is the bowe of heuen the whiche we se in the ayre My chylde they ben the beames of the sonne the whiche medle them in the mater of the mone that whiche is thycke that whiche taketh foure coloures that whiche ben dysposed to receyue many dyuers coloures after the nature of herbes of the place where they growe ¶ Mayster fro whēs cometh the wyndes / thondres / frostes / snowes / raynes / dewes / suche semblable thynge My chylde al these thynges cometh of some vapoures the whiche aryseth frome the erthe in heyght by the vertue of the sonne / of that whiche some ben drye / the other moyst whan suche that whiche ben lyft vp tyll vnto the meane regyon of the ayre that whiche is ryght colde they ben made thycke begyn to droppe / frome thens cometh the rayne And whan the colde is gretely destraynynge aboue so they assemble congeleth / frome thens cometh the hayle / whan these droppes falleth here alowe / fyndeth this bace region of the ayre colde as in wynter they also congele meanely the wȳde the whiche is colde frome thens cometh the snowes / and this dewe is made of the selfe vapoures / that whiche whan they dyscende vpon the erthe / there fyndeth colde they conuerte them in to water But whan these vapoures ben drye lyght they aryse vp more hye vnto the thyrde regyon of the ayre the whiche is hote / for it toucheth the regyon of the fyre in suche wyse whan the vapoures drye that these clerkes calleth exalacyons passeth in the ayre meteth the one with the other / the moost strongest cadereth the moste weykest by the vertue of the sonne of the mone / frome thens cometh the wyndes / whan these exalacyons passeth in mountynge by the meane regyon of the ayre the whiche is ryght colde they meddle them with the cloude closeth them wtin the colde the he●● of the sōne stryketh brēnȳgely bytwene these cloudes in suche wyse that these exalacyons hote that ben enclosed wtin the cloudes wyl go forth / but they ne may for the cloude is colde thycke the whiche holdeth the