Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	branch_n	small_a	stalk_n	1,481	5	11.5915	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01443	Phisicall and approved medicines, aswell in meere simples, as compound obseruations With a true and direct iudgement of the seuerall complexions of men, & how to minister both phisicke and medicine, to euery seuerall complexion. With the making of many excellent vnguents, and oyles, as also their applications, both for gargarismes & inflamations of the face, and other diseases incident to the body of man, aswell chiurugicall as phisicall. With the true vse of taking that excellent hearbe tabacco, aswell in the pipe by sume, as also in phisicke, medicine and chirurgerie.; Triall of tabacco	Gardiner, Edmund.	1611 (1611)	STC 11564.5; ESTC S114900	64,844	130

with the huge woods to bee found in Germanie Bohemia Muscouia and Ireland or with the notorious vegetables of other nations namely the mines of mettals and fossiles wherof there are such sundry species as it may seeme impertinent of vs to be further touched considering so soone as they are discouered they be committed to writing Some besides will not grant this to be true but altogether false that Andreas Theuetus writeth that Tabacco keepeth the Indians from hunger and thirst for a certain time although that our Epicureall Tabbacconists will sufficiently refute the contrarie for they will say and for a need sweare to it that they can liue a whole weeke together neither eating nor drinking any other sustenance And if they wil not be cōtented with this our witnessing and affirmation let them read Herodotus which in his second booke maketh mention of a people in Africa liuing onely with hearbes Apian rehearseth that the Parthians being banished and driuen out of their countrey by Marous Anthonius liued with a certaine herbe that tookeaway their memorie neuerthelesse they had opinion that it did nourish them though that in a short time after they died Master Stephen Burrough did see some Lappians eat rocke weedes as hungerly as a cowe doth grasse when she is hungry I saw them also saith hee eate fowles egges raw and the young birds also that were in the egges The Indians will liue seuen or eight moneths in the warre with meale made of certaine hard and drie rootes in the which some would iudge that there were no nourishment or sustenance at all And they will tell strangers who arriue in their coasts that they haue heard say of their fathers that before they had the knowledge of the best rootes they liued but with hearbs and wilde weeds roots like brute beasts There was they say in their country a great Charaiba that is to say a Prophet the which came to one of their young maidens and gaue her certaine great roots named Hetich shewing her that she should cut them in peeces and then plant them in the earth the which she did and since they haue alwaies continued from father to sonne the which roots haue so well prospered that now they haue so great aboundance that they eat little other food and it is as common with them as bread is with vs. The old Poets and ancient people of the world did conceit that the Gods themselues did feede vpon nothing but Nectar and Ambrosia yea and that some of them had worse cōmons meaner meats as they write of Romulus who being a God as they say liued vpon turneps But I thinke that they rather alluded vnto the pouertie and simplicitie of feeding that was vsed in former ages wherewith Romulus was so well acquainted The Poet Martialis seemeth couertly to insinuate that they eat the same meats in heauen wherewith in earth they were inured to feede vpon in these verses Haec tibi brumali gaudentia frigore rapa Quae damus in coelo Romulus esse solet Therefore ought not the Storie of this Gentleman Tabacco bee thought so strange for men to liue withall as thought the like had neuer been heard or read of in histories and times forepassed The people of the East and West India haue diuers kindes of fruits proper only to those regions as Nature bringeth them forth and yet they liue long and well disposed being strong and of robustious constitutions yea they will liue I meane the people of America a whole weeke together with one groat which neither the Spanyard nor any nation in the world can doe as Petrus Martyr saith And for their long liues we may read in the learned Hackluit discoursing of the voiages of the English nation in farre distant parts of the world who introduceth the example of the King of Balloboam being one hundred and threescore yeeres of age when captaine Candish arriued at the Iland of Iaua Minor and yet he was liuing after that many yeares at that time when the Hollanders trauailed thither to the towne of Bantam which is the furthest part in the world from this realme of England being measured geometrically Therebe many who thinke it strange that some nations liue onely with fish and yet he that is but meanly trauailed in Histories knoweth that the poorest sort among the West Indies liue more with sea-fish and other like meats than with flesh The same is true in this our Isle of Britaine especially among the Cornish men and Scots yea our elders in times past liued onely with fish as many sects in religion both in these dayes and in former ages did The lawes of Triptolemus as Xenophon writeth did defend and forbid the Athenians the vse of flesh Therefore it is no strange thing to liue with fish onely First in our Europe and before that the ground was tilled men liued more hardly without flesh or fish hauing not the meane to vse them and yet notwithstanding they were stronger and liued the longer being nothing so effeminate as now in our age Americus Vespusius one of the best Pilots that euer was coasted almost from Ireland vnto the cape of Saint Augustine by the comandement of the King of Portingale the yeare 1501. And since another Captain the yeare 1534. sayled vnto the region named of Giants In this Region between the riuer of Plate and the streight of Magellane the Inhabitants are verie mightie named in their language Patagones Giants because of their hie stature and forme of bodies They which first discouered this countrey tooke one of them finely being twelue foot long who was so vneasie to hold that 25. men had inough to doe about him and for to keep him it behooued them to binde his feet and hands in their shippe notwithstanding they could not keepe him long aliue but for sorrow and thought as they say he died for hunger Thus you see I haue plainely shewed that people dwelling in some regions though faring hardly and poorely nourished yet notwithstanding are men both of good complexions of personable and heroical nay Giant-like statures and long liued And this may seeme to bee a little beside though not altogether out of the way Trinidada Tabacco hath a thicke tough and fibrous roote from which immediatly rise vp long broad leaues and smooth of a greenish colour among which riseth vp a stalke diuiding it selfe at the ground into diuers branches whereon are set confusedly the like leaues but lesser at the top of the stalkes stand vp long necked hollow flowres of a pale purple tending to a blushe colour after which succeed the coddes or seed vessels including many small seeds like vnto the seede of marierome The whole plant perisheth at the first approach of winter in hot countreys it is sowen all times of the yeare but when it first sprouteth vp it must be defended and preserued from cold and planted neere vnto a wall for the beautifying thereof for in such hot Regions as Spaine