Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	mercury_n	planet_n	venus_n	1,132	5	12.1294	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12110	The shepardes kalender Here beginneth the kalender of shepardes newly augmented and corrected.; Compost et kalendrier des bergiers. English.	Copland, Robert, fl. 1508-1547, attributed name.	1570 (1570)	STC 22415; ESTC S107779	143,077	197

and gambauldes with leaping and springing and wil vse playing at the chesse and at the cardes and tables and desire ofte to commune of lust and loue and couet of sweete meates and drinkes as wine and be oft dronken and oft desire lechery and the beholding of faire women and the women of men in likewise and vse dead fleshly lust oftentimes they will desire faire clothes of gay colour fyne with ringes of vanitie and all vayne pleasure of the world with fair and rich clothes and pearles and precious stones they shall loue flowers wyth sweete smelles yet shal they be of good faith and they shal loue other as wel as them selues they shal be liberall to their frendes they shal haue few enemies if they be browne they shal be wel proporcioned of body if they swere it is true ye may beleue them and uenus gouerneth the thighes of man. of the faire planet mercury mercurius significat hominem non multum album neque nigrum habentem colorem frontem eleuatum longam faciem nasum longum barbam in maxillis oculos pulchros non ex to'o nigros longosque digitos atque perfectum magistrum next vnder uenus is the faire planet mercury and it is masculine nexte aboue the moone and there is no planet lower then mercury sauinge only the moone this mercury is very full and dry of nature and hys principall signes be these gemini is the first that raigneth in the armes and in the handes of man or of woman and the other signe is uirgo that gouerneth the nauyll and the stomake of man this planet is lorde of spech in likewise as the sunne is lorde of light this planet mercury passeth and circuiteth the .xii. signes in cccxxxviii dayes hereafter is shewed the disposition of the children that be borile vnder the planet mercury of what condition they shal be as doctours of astronomy do discusse of his proprieties who so is borne vnder mercury shal be very subtill of wit and shal be a deuoute person to god and haue good conscience and shal be very crafty in many sciences he with his wisedome and laboure shall get him many frendes and sonets be shal euer folow and resort to their that be of good maners shal be fortunate on the sea to vse the course of marchandise he shal be very gracious and he shall haue harme by women when he is maried men shall not set so much by him as they did before he will haue great loue to ladies and gentlewomen but yet they shall not be maisters ouer him he wil be a very good man of the church or a religious man and he shall not loue to go a warfare he wil hate theues and swerers and he shall gather great goods by his wisedome if he be a man of the world he shal be perfite in some handy craft he shal loue well to preach and to speake faire rethorike language and to talke of philosophy and geometry he shal loue wel writing and to rede euer in strange bo●es and to cast accompts of great numbers shal be a gay maker of ballades songes myters and rimes he shal be perfite in the art of musicke and loue it he shall loue measuring and meting shal be some great clothmaker he shal be seruant to some great lorde or els a receyuer of his money he shal haue a hye forehed a long visage blacke eyen and a thin bearde he shal be a great pleder in the law and he wil meddle with other mens deedes if they do not well and say against it and mercury gouerneth the thighes the flanckes and the belly of the moone ¶ luna significat hominem album confectum rubore iunctis superciliis beniuolem habentem oculos non ex toto nigros faciem rotundam pulchram staturam in facie eius signum in initio quod crescit significat omne quod faciendum est in plenitudine quod distru●ndū quia decrescit it is to be vnderstande and knowen that the lowest planet of the seuen is named luna the which we call the moone the which planet is called feminine or female and is called amonge the shepardes the lady of the night for the chiefe light and cleerenesse that is by nighte is by the presence of the moone for the moone is much more nerer approched vnto vs then any sterre is and therfore she giueth vs much more light then the sterres do and also the mone is lady of moystu●ē and ruleth the sea by ebbe and studde the moone doth take her light of the sonne .xxii. times in a yere and also the moone is cold and moyst of nature and her colour is much fayrer then sylue● and her chefe house is cancer and there is none of the other planets that is so slow and goeth so little circuit as doth the moone and she descendeth into scorpio and she goth about the .xii. signes in .xxvii. dayes and then changeth and is called newe of her proprieties such men and women as be borne vnder the moone shal be wholy and seruiceable and very gentle and if it be a mayd childe she shal be very shamefasle and womanly and they shal be wel fa●oured both man and woman their faces shal be full and round● and they shal be very pacient folkes and will suffer much wronge or they be reuenged and wil be softe of spech and very e●●reyse and shal liue honestly with such as god shall sende them and wil haunt vertuous company they shal be wel fourmed of body and haue mery lokes and lo●e honestly to be glad and will li●e very chastly and loue greatly the vertue of clennesse both in worde and deede they hate lecherous talkers and speakers of rybawdry their coloure shal be mixed but with a little rednesse they shall gladly go arayed in many coloured clothes and they shall sone sweate in the fo●ehed also they wil haue great desyre to be masters mistresses ouer great stremes ryuers and fluddes and shall deuyse many proper engynes for to take fish and to deceaue them loke what they say it shal be true and stedfast and they shal be very honest and good goers on foote and comforte sycke persons they shall loue well to talke sometime of matueyles they shall not kepe hatred longe in their mynde they shall appease the people vnder coloure with their communications as well as other should do with siluer honest women they shal loue they will hate harlots and brothels and shall nourish their children vp in vertue and good maners and the lightes and the braynes of man is vnder the gouernance of luna thus endeth the .vii. planets with their proprieties of the phyzonomy of shepardes phyzonomy of the which ben spoken afore is a science that shepardes haue to know the naturall inclination of man and woman good or euill by dyuers signes on them in beholding them only the which inclinatiō we ought to folow if it be good but if it