Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	bring_v	fruit_n	tree_n	11,470	5	9.5299	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04586	Cornucopiæ, or diuers secrets wherein is contained the rare secrets in man, beasts, foules, fishes, trees, plantes, stones and such like, most pleasant and profitable, and not before committed to bee printed in English. Newlie drawen out of diuers Latine authors into English by Thomas Iohnson.	Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644.	1595 (1595)	STC 14707; ESTC S101071	18,849	48

A CORNVCOPIAE Or diuers secrets Wherein is contained the rare secrets in Man Beasts Foules Fishes Trees Plantes Stones and such like most pleasant and profitable and not before committed to bee printed in English Newlie drawen out of diuers Latine Authors into English by Thomas Iohnson AT LONDON Printed for VVilliam Barley and are to be sold at his shop at the vpper end of Gratious streete nere Leaden-Hall 1595. CORNVCOPIAE OR diuers secrets wherin is contained the rare secrets in Man Beastes Foules Fishes Trees Plantes Stones and such like most pleasant and profitable and not before committed to bee printed in English MAnie are the woonders mar●ailes in this world and almost incredible were it not that experience teacheth the contrarie for who could bee perswaded to beleeue that the Owstridge could eate or deuoure cold hard Iron or that hote burning Iron could not hurt her stomacke were it not that it hath and is daylie seene and knowne There is a little fish called Echines which cleauing to the keele or mast of the Shipe will so retaine the shippe that no violence of winde or weather can remoue it The Salamaunder and the worme Piransta liue in the fire and although they seeme to consume and burne away yet are they not hurt or burned at all The Satyres haue heads like vnto men and bodies like vnto goats and are capable of reason and speech which is both strange wonderfull The Loadstone hath vertue to drawyron to it yet if you holde a Diamond by him that vertue will bee taken away so long as the Adamant is by him The stone found in an Eagles neast bound to the left arme of a woman with child preserueth from abortion but bound to her thigh in her trauaile causeth easie and speedie deliuerance Also it is saide that if a theefe eate a peece of this stone any manner of way it shall ueuer passe through him A theefe can not swallow any broth wherin this stone hath bin sodden The Iasper stone restrayneth bleeding If any thinge be laid in salt and there left remayning in processe of time it becommeth salt itselfe Many thinges are holpen by their like as Phisitions can tell that the braines of manye thinges are helpefull to the braine of man the Iunges to the Iunges the eye to the eye foote to the foote c. The right eye of a Frogge applied to the right eye of one that is purblinde or the left eye to the left healeth the party So doth the eye of a Crabfish The snaile applied in the same sorte helpeth the gout Euerie barren Beast or Foule causeth sterility or barrennes especiallie the Uri●…e matrice or stones anie waies taken So doth the milke of a Mule once in a month eaten oause her that ea●…e it not to conceaue If you would moue loue take such creatures as loue most such are the Turtle the Sparrow the Swallow the Waggetaile If you would moue audacity respect the Lion and the Cocke The dog the rauen the cocke the nightinggale the bat or remouse such like especiallye the head the hart the eyes are said to profit in vigilancy or to keepe one from sleeping The hart of a Crowe or a Batte borne vppon one suffereth not the partie to sleepe till it ●…ee taken awaie The head of the Batte brought to powder bound to the right arme doth the like but put vppon the stomacke of one that is a sleepe it is saide that he shall not a wake till it bee taken awaie The Frogge and the Toade are much effectuall to make one talkatiue The tongue of a water Frogge put on the head of one sleeping causeth him to speake in his sleepe The heart of a Toade or of a Night Crowe or the fatte of a Hare put vpon the brest of one sleeping causeth them to tell whatsoeuer shall be asked them All beasts of long life are said to bee helpers to long life The Hart renueth his age by eating of the Serpent The Phenix by the fire If the right foote of the Pellican bee put in hotte dung for three months thereof will bee ingendred a Pellican The Load-stone doth not onelie draw iron to it but also maketh that iron to drawe other iron to it if the Load-stone berubbed therewith It is supposed that in like maner the smock or other apparrell of a strumpet beeing worne of others giueth a certaine impudencie and shameles boldnes to those parties Euen so if a Woman behold her selfe ●…fte in the glasse wherein an whore hath accustomed to looke in it maketh her not onely impudent bold but also the more prompt to further offending Also a blacke cloth which hath beene vsed ouer the Coffin of dead folkes bringeth a certain kinde of sadnes or melancholly to them that weare it in apparrell The Load-stone hath the vertue attractiue the Emerauld giueth great probability to obtain riches the Iasper helpeth byrths the stone Achates giueth sweet and pleasant speech The root of the hearbe Aproxis draweth fire to it a farre off The Palme tree of the male kind and of the female kinde growing together doo folde the branches one within another as it were embracing each other neither will the female beare any frute without the company of the male The Uine is greatly delighted with the Elme and yeeldeth more frute being placed together The Almond tree sollitarily planted is lesse fruitfull The myrtle tree and the Oliue tree loue each other mutually euen so doth the Oliue tree and the figge tree In like manner as in plants so also in foules and beastes is there a mutuall amity as betweene the Owsell and the Felfare between the Crow and the Hernshawe betweene the Doue and the Peacocke betweene the Turtle and the Popiniay Also the fish called Musculus loueth the Whale so that he leadeth the Whale from danger of Rocks Also there is a great amitie betwixt it and the Chirlepoole It is supposed that the Cat so much reioyceth with the herb Nep that euen by the rubbing o●… her selfe against it she bringeth young by that meanes supplying the defect of the Male. Also manie Mares in Capadocia conceaue euen by the blowing of the winde and drawing in of the same by the nostrils Frogges Toades Serpents and all kinde of venemous things reioyce greatly in a kinde of Persly called Apium risus a most venemons weede whereupon who soeuer eateth dyeth soone after in laughing The Snaile being hurt of the Serpent is comforted by earing Organie and in like case the Storke The weasell helpeth her selfe o●… poyson by eating of Rue And by these meanes it is found out that Organy and Rue are great resisters of poyson The Toade beeing bitten or hurt by anye meanes hasteth to Rue or Sage and rubbeth the wound there against and by that meanes is healed So men haue learned many precious remedies for many diseases euen by brute 〈◊〉 as we see by the swallow who hath taught vs that the ioice of Celandine is