Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	hot_a	temperate_a	zone_n	21	3	13.0461	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07832	New English Canaan, or New Canaan containing an abstract of New England, composed in three bookes : the first booke setting forth the originall of the natives, their manners and customes, together with their tractable nature and love towards the English : the second booke setting forth the naturall indowments of the countrie, and what staple commodities it yeeldeth : the third booke setting forth what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their tenents, and practise of their church / written by Thomas Morton ...	Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.	1637 (1637)	STC 18203; ESTC S455	99,493	200

The first Booke Containing the originall of the Natives their manners Customes with their tractable nature and love towards the English CHAP. I. Prooving Nevv England the principall part of all America and most commodious and fitt for habitation THe wise Creator of the universall Globe hath placed a golden meane betwixt two extreames I meane the temperate Zones betwixt the hote and cold and every Creature that participates of Heavens blessings with in the Compasse of that golden meane is made most apt and fit for man to use who likewise by that wisedome is ordained to be the Lord of all This globe may be his glasse to teach him how to use moderation and discretion both in his actions and intentions The wise man sayes give mee neither riches nor poverty why Riches might make him proud like Nebuchadnezar and poverty despaire like Iobs wife but a meane betweene both So it is likewise in the use of Vegetatives that which hath too much Heate or too much Colde is said to be venenum so in the use of sensitives all those Animals of what genus or species soever they be if they participate of heate or cold in the superlative are said to be Inimica naturae as in some Fishes about the Isle of Sall and those Ilandes adjoyninge betweene the Tropickes their participatinge of heate and cold in the superlative is made most manifest one of which poysoned a whole Ships company that eate of it And so it is in Vipers Toades and Snakes that have heate or cold in the superlative degree Therefore the Creatures that participate of heate and cold in a meane are best and holsomest And so it is in the choyse of love the middell Zone betweene the two extreames is best and it is the●efore called Zona Temperata and is in the golden meane and all those Landes lying under that Zone most requisite and fitt for habitation In Cosmography the tw● extreames are called the one Torrida Zona lying betweene the Tropickes the other Frigida Zona lyin● neare the Poles all the landes lying under eithe● of these Zones by reason they doe participate to much of heate or cold are very inconvenient and are accompanied with many evils And allthough I am not of opinion with Aristotle that the landes under Torrida Zona are alltogether uninhabited I my selfe having beene so neare the equinoctiall line that I have had the Sunn for my Zenith and seene proofe to the contrary yet cannot I deny but that it is accompanied with many inconveniences as that Fish and Flesh both will taint in those partes notwithstanding the use of Salt which cannot be wanting there ordained by natures hande-worke And that is a great hinderance to the settinge forth and supply of navigation the very Sinewes of a florishing Common-wealth Then barrennesse caused through want of raines for in most of those partes of the world it is seldome accustomed to raine untill the time of the Tornathees as the Portingals phrase is who lived there and then it will raine about 40. dayes together which moisture serveth to fructify the earth for all the yeare after duringe which time is seene no raine at all the heate and cold and length of day and night being much alike with little difference And these raines are caused by the turning of the windes which else betweene the Tropickes doe blow Trade that is allwayes one way For next the Tropicke of Cancer it is constantly North-●ast and next the Tropicke of Capricorne it is Southwest so that the windes comming from the Poles do keepe the aire in those partes coole and make it temperate and the partes habitable were it not for those and other inconv●niences This Torrida Zona is good for Grashoppers and Zona Temperata for the Ant and Bee But Frigida Zona good for neither as by lamentable experience of Captaine Davis Fate is manifest who in his inquest of the Nortwest passage for the East India trade was frozen to death And thefore for Frigida Zona I agree with Aristotle that it is unfit for habitation and I know by the Course of the caelestiall globe that in Groeneland many Degrees short of the Pole Articke the place is too cold by reason of the Sunns absence almost six monethes and the land under the continuall power of the frost which thinge many more Navigators have prooved with pittifull experience of their wintringe there as appeareth by the history I thinke they will not venture to winter there againe for an India mine And as it is found by our Nation under the Pole Articke so it is likewise to be found under the Antarticke Pole yet what hazard will not an industrious minde and couragious spirit undergoe according to that of the Poēt Impiger extremos currit Mercator ad Indos per mare pauperiem fugiens per saxa per ignes And all to gett and hord up like the Ant and the Bee and yet as Salomon saith hee cannot tell whether a foole or a wise man shall enjoy it Therefore let us leave these two extreames with their inconveniences and indeavour to finde out this golden meane so free from any one of them Behold the secret wisedome of allmighty God and love unto our Salomon to raise a man of a lardge hart full of worthy abilities to be the Index or Loadstarre that doth point out unto the English Nation with ease and comfort how to finde it out And this the noble minded Gentleman Sir Ferdinando Gorges Knight zealous for the glory of God the honor of his Majesty and the benefit of the weale publicke hath done a great worke for the good of his Country And herein this the wondrous wisedome and love of God is shewne by sending to the place his Minister to sweepe away by heapes the Salvages and also giving him length of dayes to see the same performed after his enterprise was begunne for the propagation of the Church of Christ. This judicious Gentleman hath found this goulden meane to be scituated about the middle of those two extreames and for directions you may proove it thus Counting the space betweene the Line and either of the Poles in true proportion you shall finde it to be 90. Degrees then must we finde the meane to be neare unto the Center of 90. and that is about 45. Degrees and then incline unto the Sotherne side of that Center properly for the benefit of heate remembringe that Sol Homo generat hominem and then keepe us on that same side and see what Land is to be found there and we shall easily discerne that new England is on the South side of that Center For that Country doth beginne her boundes at 40. Degrees of Northerne latitude and endes at 45. Degrees of the same latitude and doth participate of heate and cold indifferently but is oppressed with neither and therefore may be truly sayd to be within the compasse of that golden