Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	dry_a	hot_a	moist_a	3,301	5	10.4672	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17162	A newe booke entituled the gouernement of healthe wherein is vttered manye notable rules for mannes preseruacion, with sondry symples and other matters, no lesse fruiteful then profitable: colect out of many approued authours. Reduced into the forme of a dialogue, for the better vnderstanding of thunlearned. Wherunto is added a sufferain regiment against the pestilence. By VVilliam Bulleyn.; Government of health	Bullein, William, d. 1576.	1558 (1558)	STC 4039; ESTC S109502	76,166	274

neither obserue tyme place age state no● cōdicion thinke theim thinges of small profite but onely the● respecte is to their disease the● loue not longe study in phisicke and are greatly deceyued because they would builde withou● foundacion and haue the frute● before thei haue planted y e trees These mennes cures be but b● chaunce medly One Sirus bega● this whiche receyued certayn rules of Asclepiades The chief ●este secte of Phisitions called Dogmatici These be the wyse mē●hiche sette not the carte before ●e horse nor the rootes of the ●ees vpwarde They dooe pru●ently consider the chaunge of ●ans nature y e dwellyng place ●e alteration of y e ayre the time 〈◊〉 the yeare the custome of peo●●e the maners of diseases the ●shion of mens diete And this ●ey will prous by trewe argu●entes and reasons and will be ●ry careful for their patientes ●he disciples of those mē be the ●st scollers therfore I counsell ●ee Ihon to loue wel Hippocrates ●e prince of Phisicions whiche ●gan the best maner to geue ru●s to all the louers of phisicke ●f this writeth Gallen much lau●●g Hippocrates his followers ●d in these daies Leonhardus Futchius Matheolus c. ¶ Iohn SEinge thou hast spooken of sondrie partes of Phisicions I praye thee what partes be there of phisicke ¶ Humfrey TRuly there be fyue thinges to be noted in phisicke as v. principall partes as Gallen saith in lib. de Elementis The first is to consider the nature of mans bodie The seconde is to kepe the bodie in health and to defende it from sickenes and infirmities The thirde is to knowe all the causes rules and sedes wherof the sicknes doth growe The .iiii is Crises or iudgemēt of the disease of thinges present past to come The fifth is the beste and moste excellēt for it sheweth the maner of healing dietinge fasshion order waye to helpe the sicke bodie preserue the same as longe as man doth remayne in the state of lyfe ¶ Iohn THou hast spoken of the partes of phisicke what is the forme maner or distribucion thereof ¶ Humfrey IT is distributed in thre formes one is natural another vnnatural y e .iii. agaīst nature The first is by those things wherof y e bodie is cōpact cōstituted or made as Gallen saith in his .iii. boke of his Tēpramentis Cap. 4. The secōd is called not natural as meates or thinges to preserue the bodie in health they be not called vnnaturall because they be againste the body but because the rasshe ●akynge or glotonus vsinge of ●hem may bryng many thinges ●o the vtter destruction of the bodie The thirde bee thinges against nature whiche doeth corrupt the bodie or poisone nature wherof Gallen writeth ¶ Iohn NOwe thou hast taughte me short rules of the partes formes phisicall I pray the shewe me some pretie rules of the complexions of men and that I may aptelie knowe theim with their properties elementes temperamentes and humors ¶ Humfrey VPon my lute some time to recreate my selfe I ioyne with my simple armonie manie playne verses Among all other one smal songe of the foure complexions wilte thou heare it take that chaire and sitte downe and I will teache thee my song ¶ Iohn I thanke thee ¶ Humfrey The bodies where heat moister dwel Be sanguen folkes as Galen tell With visage faire chekes rose ruddy The slepes is much dreames be bluddy Puls great and full with digestion fine Pleasauntlie concocting fleshe and wyne Excremētes aboūdant with anger short ●aughing very much and finding sport Drine grose with couler read Pleasaunt folkes at bord and bead Where cold w t moistur preuaileth much Fleumatike folkes be alway suche Fatues softnes here plaine and ryght Narrowe vaines and coller whyt Dull of wyt no hart to bold Pules very slowe disgestion cold Sleping ouer much vryne grose pale Spittell whit thick thus endes the tale Coller is hoot and drie as fyre ●enis of limmes and puffed with yre Costisse belles with litte slepe Dreames of fier or woundes depe Sallowe coulered or tawnie read Feding on salt meates crustes of bread Voyce sharpe and quickenes of wit Vryne yellowe and saltnes of spit Pulses swyft and very strong Cruell countenance not anger long Melancoly is cold and very drye As here in ryme his signes will trye Heare playne and veray thyn A leane wretche with hardnes of skyn Coller whitlie or like to leade Muche watthe and dreames of dreade And stif in folyshe fantasie Disgestion slowe and long angrie Feareful of minde with watrie spitle Seldome laughing and puls litle Vryne waterie and very thyn The colde earth to hym is kyn ¶ Iohn THis is a good song and I wil learne it for though it seme not verye pleasaūt yet I perceiue it is profitable Now thou hast spoken of the singes of the .iiii. complexions I pray the teache me shortlie howe to knowe the elementes ¶ Humfrey THey be y e foure beginners vnmingled and vntempored frō whose mixtures euerye corporall thynge hath his substaunce ¶ Iohn What be y e partes I pray the tel me ▪ ¶ Humfrey FOure the one is earth the heuiest matter grossest whiche is colde and drie and melancoly And the other is water whiche is lighter moste subtil then the earth of nature is colde moist and flegmatike Then is ayre more purer and lighter then water and if it bee not altered with any other straunge cause it is hote and moiste and sanguen Then fyer is moste lyghte pure and cleare a clarifier and a clenser of all the other elemētes whē they are corrupted and is of his owne nature hoot drie and collericke And of these foure Elementes both man beaste fysshe foule herbe stone mettall haue their propre workyng not of one of the Elementes alone but of al some more and some lesse accordyng to their natures Hippocrates saieth after the soule is gone from the bodie the body doeth returne to the first matter wherof it was made And to cōclude all thinges that be made vpon earth shal returne vnto the earth againe in tyme. ¶ Iohn VVhy might not men beastes fyshe or foule herbe or tree be of one element aswell as of foure I praye you tell me ¶ Humfrey NOo for Aristotel sayth Deus et natura nihil agunt frustra God nature hathe doone nothinge in vaine And if any thing vpon the earth sencible were of one element no sickenesse coulde hurte it nor disease corrupt it but euery thing liuing vppon the earth seing it hath had beginninge it must nedes haue ending to whō these foure complexiōs doeth belonge if they do greatly abounde or disminish or withdrawe their vertues with quantities or qualities ¶ Iohn MAy a man see anye of the Elementes ¶ Humfrey THe thing whiche men do see be none of y e foure Elemēts not earth but earthie not water