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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	foot_n	knee_n	neck_n	3,602	5	11.9575	5	false

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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

benefytes ueritie is that by the which any sayinges or doings be recited or shewed by approuable reason without to adiust dimynishe or to make it any otherwise then it is of force force or for to haue a sure and stedfaste courage amonge the aduersities of labours and perils that may happen to come or in to the which a person may fal and the branches be these mag●ificence confidence tollerance rest stablenesse perseuerance and reason magnificence is a ioyous clerenesse of courage administringe thinges laudable and magnificenciall that is to say hye or great confidence is to arest and hold strongly his thought and his courage by vnmouable constance among such things as be aduers aud contrary tollerance is cotidianly or daily suffring and bearing the strange improbites and molestees that is to say persecutions ob●robries and iniuries that other folke doth reste is a vertue by the which a likernesse is geuen vnto the thought of contempment of the vnstablenesse of transitory things and worldly vanities stablenesse is for to haue the thought or courage stedfast and sure without castinge it on diuers things by any varying or changing of time or places perseuerance is a vertue that establisheth and confirmeth the courage by a perfection of vertues that is in a man and be perfite by force of longanimitie reason is a vertue by the which a man commaundeth to do such thinges as be conceyled and delyuered for to come to the ende whych a man knoweth to be good and vtyle to be done and had here endeth the floure of vertues and how they be named and signifyed in the tree figured howe shepardes by calculation and speculation knowe the .xii. signes in their course reygning and domining on the .xii. partes of mans body and which be good for letting of blud and which be indifferent or euill for the same capitulo .xxii. some shipardes say that a man is a little worlde by hym selfe for the lykenesses and similytudes that he hath of the great worlde whych is the aggregation of the nyne skyes foure elements● and all thinges in them conteyned first a man hath such a likenesse in the first mobile that is the soueraigne skye and principall partes of the great world for like as in his first mobyle the zodiake is deuided in .xii. parts by the .xii. signes so man is deuided in .xii. parts holdeth of the signes euery parte of his signe as this figure sheweth the signes be these aries taurus gemini cancer leo uirgo libra scorpio sagittarius capricornus aquarius and pisces of the which three be of the nature of the fyre that is aries leo and sagittarius and three of the nature of the ayre gemini libra and aquari●s and three of the nature of water cancer scorpio and pisces and three of the nature of earth taurus uirgo● and capricornus the first that is aries gouerneth the head and the face of man taurus the necke and the throte boll gemini the shoulders the armes and handes cancer the brest sydes mylte and lightes leo the stomake the hart and the backe uirgo the belly and the entrayles libra the nauill the graynes and the parts vnder the branches scorpio the priuie parties the genytailes the bladder and the foundement sagittarius the thighes only capricoruus the knees only also aquarius the legges and from the knees to the heeles and ancles and pisces hath the feete in his dominion a man ought not to make incision ne touch with yron the member gouerned of any signe the day that the moone is in it for feare of the greate effusion of blud that mighte happen ne in likewyse also when the sunne is in it for the daunger and perill that might ensue hereafter foloweth the nature of the .xii. sygnes aries is good for bludde lettinge when the moone is in it saue in the part that it domineth aryes hot and dry nature of fyre and gouerneth the heade and the face of man good for bleeding when the moone is in it taurus is euill for bleeding taurus is dry and colde nature of the earth and gouerneth the necke and the kno● vnder the throte and is euill for bleeding gemini is euill for bleeding gemini is hot and moyste nature of ayre and gouerneth the shoulders the armes and the two handes and is euill for bleeding cancer is indifferent for bleeding cancer is colde and moyst nature of water and gouerneth the brest the stomake and the mylte and indifferent that is to saye neyther to good ne to bad for letting of blud leo is euill for bleeding leo is hot and drye nature of fier and gouerneth the backe and the sydes and is euill for bleeding uirgo is indifferent for bleeding uirgo is colde and dry nature of earth and gouerneth the wombe and inward partes and is not good ne very euill for bleeding libra is right good for bleeding libra is hot and moyst nature of ayre and gouerneth the nauill the reynes and the low partes of the wombe and is good for bleeding scorpius is indifferent for bleeding scorpius is colde and moyst nature of water and gouerneth the members of man and is neyther good ne bad for bleeding sagittarius is good for bleeding sagittarius is hot and dry nature of fier and gouerneth the thighes and is good for bleeding capricornus is euill for bleeding capricornus is colde and dry nature of earth and gouerneth the knees and is euill for bleeding aquarius is indifferent for bleeding aquarius is hot and moyst nature of ayre and gouerneth the legges and is neyther good ne euill for bleeding pisces is indifferent for bleeding pisces is colde and moyste nature of water and gouerneth the feete and is neyther good ne bad for bleeding aries libra and sagittarius be right good cancer uirgo scorpio aquarius and pisces be indifferent taurus gemini leo and capricornus be euill for bleeding a picture of the phisnomy of mans body and sheweth in what partes the .vii. planets hath domination in man cap. xxxiiii we may know by this figure the bones and ioynts of all the parties of the body as wel within as without of the head necke shoulders armes handes sydes brest backe haunches thighes knees legges and of the feete the which bones shal be named and numbred hereafter and it is called the figure anothomy by this figure one may vnderstand the parties of mans body ouer the which the planets hath might and domination to kepe them from touching any iron ne to make incision of bludde in the veynes that procede in the time while that the planet of the saide partie is conioyned with any other planet maneuolent without hauing regarde of some good planette that might encombre and let his euill course ¶ the names of the bones in a mans body and the number of them which is mall two hundred eyght and forty capitulo xiiii first on the sommet of the head is a bone that couereth the braine the which shepards call the capitall bone

in the skull be two bones which be called paryetailes that holdeth the brayne close and stedfast mo●e lower in the braine is a done called the crowne of the heade and on the one syde and on the other be two holes within the which is the palys or ro●e bone in the part behinde the heade be foure like bones to the which the chyne of the necke holdeth the bones of the nose be two the bones of the chaftes aboue be xi and of the nether iaw be two aboue the opposyte of the brayne there is one behinde named collaterall the bones of the teeth be .xxx. eyght before foure aboue and foure vnderneth sharpe and trenching for to cut the morsels and there are foure sharpe two aboue and two vnderneth and be called co●ynes for they resemble co●ies teeth after that be .xvi. that be as they were hammers or grinding teeth for they chaw and grinde the meate the which is eaten and ther is on euery side foure aboue and foure vnderneth and then the foure teeth of sapyence on eche syde of the chaftes one aboue and one vnderneth in the chyne from the heade downeward be .xxx. bones called knots or ioynts in the brest afore be seuen bones and on euery syde .xii. ribbes by the necke betwene the heade and the shoulders be two bones named the sheres after be the two shoulder blades from the shoulders to the elbow in eche arme is a bone called the adiutor frō the elbow to the hande on eche arme be two bones that be called cannes in eche hand be .viii. bones aboue the palme be foure bones whych be called the combe of the hande the bones in the fingers in eche hand be .xv. in euery finger three at the ende of the ridge be the ho●●le bones whereto be fastened the two bones of the thighes in eche knee is a bone called the knee plate from the knee to the fote in ech legge be two bones called cannes or marow bones in ech fote is a bone called the ankle or pin●● of the fote behind that ankle is the heele bone in eche fote the whych is the lowest parte of a man and aboue ech fote is a bone called the hollow bone in the plant of ech fote be .iiii. bones then be the combes of the feete in eche of whych be .v. bones the bones in the toes in eche fote be the number of .xiiii. two bones be tofore the belly for to holde it stedfast with the two branches two bones be in the head behind the eares called oculares we recken not the tender bones of the ende of the shoulders nor of the sydes nor diuers little grystles and spelders of bones for they be comprehended in the number abouesayde thus endeth the notomy and foloweth the flubotomy ¶ hereafter foloweth the names of the veynes and where they rest and how they ought to be letten bludde we man vnderstande by this figure the number of the veynes and the places of a mans ●ody where they ●en and how they ought to be letten blud and no where else so that it be a nutural day for blud letting that the mone be not new ne at the full ne in quarter and that it be in any signe before named good for bleeding but if that such signe were it that domineth the member of the which blud should be letten for then it ought not for to be touched ne also that it be the signe of the sunne the names of the places where the veynes be are shewed by the letters set in the margent at the beginning of the matter after the fourme of the picture a the veyne in the myddes of the forehed would be letten blud for the ache and peyne of the head and for feuers lytargy and for the megryme b aboue the two eares behinde is two veynes the whych be letten bludde for to gyue clere vnderstanding and the vertue of light hearing and for thicke breth and for doubt of meselry c in the temples byn two veynes called the artires for that they pant the whych ben letten bludde for to diminyshe and take away the greate replection and habundaunce of bludde that is in the brayne that myght noye the heade and the eyen and it is good agaynst the goute megryme and dyuers other accidents that may come to the heade d under the tounge byn two veynes that ben letten bludde for a syckenesse named the sequamy and against the swellinge and apostumes of the throte and agaynst the equinauncy by the whych a man myght dye sodainly for defaute of such bleeding e in the necke byn two veynes called orygynalles for that they haue the course and habundaunce of all the blud that gouerneth the body of man and principally the head but they ought not to be letten blud without the counsel of the surgyon and this bleedynge auayleth much to the syckenesse of lepry when it commeth principally of bludde f the veyne of the hart taken in the arme profiteth to take away humours or yll blud that might hurt the chamber of the harte or the appurtenance and it is good for them that spitteth bind and that be short winded by the which a man may die sodainly by defaute of such bleeding g the veyne of the lyuer taken in the arme taketh deminys●eth the great heate of the body of man and holdeth the body in health and this bleedinge is profitable against the yelowe axes and apostume of the lyuer and agaynst the plurisy wherby a man may die by defaute of such bleeding h betwene the master fynger and the leche to let blud helpeth the dolours that commeth in the stomake and sides as botches and apostumes and diuers other accidentes that may come in those places by great habundance of blud and humours i in the sydes betwene the wombe and the braunch be two veynes● of the which that of the right side is letten blud for dropsy that of the left syde for euery sicknes that commeth about the milte and they should blede after that persons be fat or leane take good heede at foure fyngers nye the incysyon and also they not to make such bleeding without counsell of the surgion k in euery foote ben three veynes of the whych three veynes one is vnder the ancle of the fote named sophane the which is letten bludde for to deminish and put out diuers humoures as botches and apostumes that commeth aboute the graynes and it profyteth much to women for to cause their menstruositie to dyscende and to fyxe the emoroydes that commeth in the secrete places and such other like l betwene the wrest of the foote and the great too is a vayne the which is letten bludde for dyuers syckenesses and inconuenyences as the pestylence that taketh a person sodainly by the greate superhaboundance of humoures and this bleeding must be made wythin a natural day that is to wyt within xxiiii houres after that the sickenes is taken of the pacient and before the feuer come on