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earth_n	dry_a	hot_a	moist_a	3,301	5	10.4672	5	false

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A14103	The schoolemaster, or teacher of table philosophie A most pleasant and merie companion, wel worthy to be welcomed (for a dayly gheast) not onely to all mens boorde, to guyde them with moderate [and] holsome dyet: but also into euery mans companie at all tymes, to recreate their mindes, with honest mirth and delectable deuises: to sundrie pleasant purposes of pleasure and pastyme. Gathered out of diuers, the best approued auctours: and deuided into foure pithy and pleasant treatises, as it may appeare by the contentes.	Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613.; Anguilbertus, Theobaldus. Mensa philosophica.; Turswell, Thomas, 1548-1585, attributed name.	1576 (1576)	STC 24411; ESTC S111450	115,907	158

and eat downe their meat whole as it cummeth Thirdly why doth the raine profit fishes and hurt birdes Swéete water nourisheth onely and therwith are fishes nourished beeing mingled with mud and clay As for birdes they liue in the aier and séeke their liuinge by flying about and the feathers of their winges will clod and cleaue together with the rain and so are hindred in their flying Wherof it may bée gathered that abundance of raine hurteth aswell fishes as foules for in such times they fall into oppilations of the nutritiue partes by reason of the swéetenes of sutch water For swéete thinges as saith Galen do stop the parts nutritiue Fourthly Why do the Roes of fishes crackle more in the fire then other thinges do When the fire is so hot that it resolueth more then it consumeth then do they break in the fire as it also appeareth by the example of the chestnut But whē it is so temperate that it consumeth as much as it resolueth then do they neither réeue nor breake béesides that fishes egges or Roes do crackle by reason of windines included wi●hin them which issuinge foorth at a litle hole causeth a noyse The 12. Chap. Of Pultes or Podware conteining 3. Questions NExt wée maye take a conueniente occasion to dispute of Podware or graines contained in a Cod or shale wherin wée may first demaund the reason why Galen supposeth that sutch as vse to feede on that kinde of ware are mutch subiecte vnto the gowte And the cause is for that béeinge harde and windy they bée of euill digestion and are soone turned into fleame and of fleame springeth the gowt Secondly Beanes beeing windy why do they not lose that euill quality by boyling as well as barly Beanes are naturally more windy then barly Or this may bée the cause for that beanes are of a harder more compacte and grosse substance then barly which is light and houer and is sooner discharged of the windines Whereupon saith Isaac accordinge vnto the doctrine of Galen wée cannot altogether take away the windines from beanes but wée may diminish it by boylinge them Thirdly may Lentils prepared with vineger bee ministred in sharp diseases Auicen holdeth opinion that they may but Galen denyeth it And therfore it is thus to bée vnderstood that Lentils prepared with vineger are noysome in a Feuer with impostumation bicause they freat and binde the passages which thing Galen meaneth But in a Feuer without impostumation by reason of contrariety they bée good as Auicen vnderstandeth it The 13. Chap. Of Pot hearbes and Sallet hearbes conteining 6. Questions HEreafter now insueth to discourse with like breuity concerning a few vsuall hearbes where as first the cause and reason may bée required why Colewortes do dissolue drunkennes Aristotle answereth herunto in the third part of his problemes that Colewortes yeld a sweete iuce and conteine a purgatiue faculty the effect wherof Physicions vse to proue in the ministring of emollient Glysters so that by the same vertue it draweth the supefluous indigested matter from of the wine or drinke in those that bee drunken For this being left in the vppermost part of the belly the bodye waxeth colde which beeing cold the thinnest part of the moisture is conueied into the bladder Wherfore the body beeing rid of this double moisture must needes bee discharged of the surfet Secondly why doth Purcelain take away the benumming or edge of the teeth The same Aristotle also in the seconde part of his worke beefore named saith that the slimines of Purcelain entring within the teeth draweth forth the sharpnes which is the cause of beenumming and likewise milke meltinge about the teeth hath the same effect Thirdly why do Leekes and Onions prosper best in drye ground and worst in moyste It is also to bee answered by the same Authour in the first parte of the Probleames as all that is milted by hoat and drie is of the nature of water as appeareth by all kyndes of Mettals And Earth is turned into Salt when it is clensed from the drosse in moysture and burnyng heat and drieth congelyng and hardenyng it so that Salt is a certayn drinesse of the earth burned by an heat into a watrish hardnes wherby the tast therof cōmeth néere vnto bitternesse which is ingendred of heat woorkyng vpon an earthly drie substance Then beeing of this nature by heat it is hot and drie and by reason of the bitternesse it killeth the belly wormes and by drithe it drinketh vp putrifiynge moysture abolishyng the same and consequently prohibiting all stinking Now bicause it drieth and consumeth moysture and heate it hindreth generation and fruitfulnesse of the grounde and bicause it hath a sharpnesse of a burnyng heate it sharpneth the things that are mingled with it And bicause it hath a certain bitter drinesse the tast thereof is lothsome and prouoketh thirst by reason of drieth and bycause of the sharpnesse it dissolueth and beyng mingled with other sauces maketh them pearce into the tungue and so it hateth other tastes Moreouer Salt hath a certein meruelous nature which is to draw foorth the like vnto it selfe out of another thyng For if poudred Fish or fleash which is very salt be layd to sooke in brine which is newly made it draweth the saltnes out of it sooner then fresh water doeth Lastly Why doeth Salt crackle when it is cast into the fier According vnto the same doctrine in the fourth of the Meteors Salte is of substance earthy combust mingled with water and therfore it crackleth when it is throwne into the fire But if you would know the cause why Salt preserueth fleash from corruption read it beefore in the discourse of fleash The. 16. Chap. Of Hony conteynyng 2. Questions AMonge many other wée must not forget to say sumwhat of Honie and first to demaund this question therin which is the better of new or olde Honie The choyce in Honie and Wyne is quite contrarie for the newest Honie and oldest Wine is preferred according vnto Macrobius iudgement The cause hereof is this for that the nature of wine is moyst and of Honie drie as the proofe appeareth in the vse of Physick for things which are to bée moistned must bée fomented with Wine and sutch as are to be dried must be clensed with Honie Thus in continuance of time there is some part of thē both consumed away and the Wine waxeth stronger and the Honie drier Secondly If Hony be put into a Wine vessell why do the Lees rise vp vnto the top of the Hony wheras whatsoeuer els is put in the Lees as the heauier substance alwayes kepeth the bottome The dragges or Lees as béeing the most earthly and heauiest part of the substance fall downe to the bottome and yet are ouercome by Hony for Hony naturally by reason of the weight therof falleth downe to the bottome and driueth vp the Lées as lighter then it self The. 17. Chapter Of Oyle conteinyng 3. Questions NOw lastly