Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	air_n	element_n	water_n	13,099	5	6.7742	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17624	A prognostication for euer, made by Erra Pater, a Iew, borne in Iury, Doctor in Astronomie and Phisicke very profitable for to keepe the body in health: and also Ptholomeus saith the same.; Book of knowledge	Erra Pater.	1605 (1605)	STC 439.19; ESTC S114501	9,896	35

Meridionall the cure hot dry and of the same complection Trauit Aqua vitae or in Potage Heere hee sheweth of all the dismall or perillous dayes that commeth in the yeere Maisters of Astronomie and Phisicke that this craft first found telleth the most perillons and the most dangerous daies in the yéere In which if any man or woman bée let blood of wound or veine they shall die within xxi daies following Or who so falleth in sicknesse in any of these daies they shall neuer escape it till they be dead And who so taketh any great iourny in any of these daies to goe from home hée shall be in daunger to die or hée come home againe And who so weddeth a wife in any of these dayes hastely they shall bée departed or else they shall liue together with much sorrow And who so beginneth in any of these dayes any great worke it shall neuer come to good end and these are the dayes following That is to say ¶ In Ianuarie are eight daies that is to say the first the second the fourth the fift the tenth the fiftéenth the seauentéenth and the ninetéenth In Februarie are thrée daies the viii the x. and the xvii ii In March are thrée daies the xv the xvi and the xix iii In Aprill are two daies the xv and the xxi iii In May are thrée daies the vii xv and the xx v In Iune are two daies the iiii and the vii vi In Iuly are two daies the xv and the twentith vii In August are two daies the xix and the xx viii In September are two daies the sixt and the seauenth ix In October is one the sixt day x In Nouember are two daies the sixt and the nintéenth xi In December are thrée daies the sixt the vii and the xi Et alii dicunt the xv and the xvi xii And who so will learne the Canicular daies which are daies of great daunger and perill as Clarkes say and they begin the xv Kalend of August and dureth to the fourth Nonas of September which season is very perillous to take sickenesse and it is also perillous to take drinckes or medicines or to let bloud but if it bée great néede and that it must bée after the middest of the day Heere beginneth the distance betweene the signes It is to bée vnderstood that there is a circle in the Firmament that is called Zodiacke is deuided into twelue euen parts and of those parts bée called the xii Signes in the Latine and these be their names Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornia Aquarius and Pisces These twelue Signes are in complection like vnto the foure Elements that is to say the Fire the Aire the Water and the Earth the Fire is hotte and dry his Element is likened vnto the Ram the Lion and the Shooter for these bée hot dry also the Ayre is hot moist his Element is likened to the Children the Ballance and the water bearer for they be hot and moyst The water is moyst and cold for to the water is likened the Crab the Scorpion and the Fish The earth is dry and cold to the Earth is likened the Bull the Maid and the Goate for they be drie and cold And euery one of the signes is deuided into thirtie euen parts these parts are called degrees and euery degree is deuided into thrée score euen parts these parts are called Minutes and euery minute is deuided into thrée score euen parts and these parts bée called seconds and so foorth to the thirds and fourthes It is to bée vnderstood that there is seuen Planets as Saturnus Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercurius and Luna These bee the seauen moueable Starres The aforesayde twelue Signes taketh great power might of the seauen Planets the seauen Planets taketh great power of the twelue signes for the Planets be to the Signes as the soule to the body the signes to the Planets as the body to the soule For like as the body may doe nought without the Soule no more may the Soule without the body no more may a signe without the seauen Planets Saturnus is the highest and next béeneath Saturnus is Iupiter beneath Iupiter Mars beneath Mars Sol beneath Sol Venus beneath Venus Mercurius béeneath Mercurius Luna The wise Philosophers say it is from the Earth to Luna xv M. vii C. l. miles From Luna to Mercurius is xii M. viii C. xii miles and a halfe From Mercurius to Venus as many From Venus to Sol is xxiii M. iiii C. and xxxviii miles From Sol to Mars is xv M. vii C. and fiue and twentie miles From Mars to Iupiter is thrée score and eight thousand seauen hundred and xxi miles From Iupiter to Saturnus as many From Saturnus to the Firmament is vi score M. iii. C. lxxxv miles The summe of all these miles is seauen score and xviii M. foure C. lxiii miles Heereafter followeth a coniunction of the change of the Moone Héere is a rule of the chaunge of the Moone when the Prime is on this letter A. the third daye béefore the Prime the xix houre shall be y e change of the Moone And yée shall begin to tell your houres at midnight for a daye naturall is from midnight to midnight When the Prime is on this letter B. iii. daye then it shall change the iiii houre that is to say after midnight When it changeth on this letter C. iiii day then the viii houre When it is on this letter D. iiii day then the xx houre When it is on this letter E. iiii day then the xviii houre When it is on this letter F. iii. day then the xvi houre When it is on this letter G. iii. day then the xvi houre The disposition of the xij Moneths vpon bloud letting Ianuarie IN the month of Ianuary let thée not blood in the first day for it is perillous nor the second day nor the fifth day nor the x. day nor the xv day nor the xix day nor the xx day nor the xxv day but as often as thou wilt drinck good white wine fasting and also take good héede of the dayes that be aboue written for they be perillous for to bléede on except the signe be right good for blood letting February In the month of February eate no potage made of hocks or mallowes for that is venim And if thou haue néede to bléed on thy wrest or thy thomb bléed not on the fourth day nor on the vi day nor on the viii day but on y e xiii day nor on the xvi day nor on y e xxviii day but that the signe be very good and thou maist choose March In the 〈…〉 eate Figges Reisons and 〈…〉 and drinckes and hot meates ●●d let thée blood on the right arme on the fifth day or on the vii daye or on the xvii day for that is good against all manner of Feuers but beware bléede not the first day nor the xv