Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	belly_n	head_n	loin_n	2,846	5	15.1256	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09800	The philosophie, commonlie called, the morals vvritten by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. VVhereunto are annexed the summaries necessary to be read before every treatise; Moralia. English	Plutarch.; Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637.	1603 (1603)	STC 20063; ESTC S115981	2,366,913	1,440

the evaporation of naturall hear conteined within the same seed PARMENIDES is of opinion that when the seed descendeth out of the right side of the matrix the children be like unto the fathers but when it passeth from the left side unto the mothers The STOICKS opine thus from the whole body and the soule passeth the seed and so the similitudes doe forme of the same kinds the figures and characters like as a painter of the like colours draweth the image of that which he seeth before him also the woman for her part doth conferre genetall seed which if it be prevalent then the infant is like unto the mother but if the mans seed be more predominant it will resemble the father CHAP. XII How it falleth out that children resemble others and not their fathers and mothers THe most part of the Physicians affirme this to happen by chaunce and aventure but upon this occasion that the seed as well of the man as the woman waxeth cold for then the infants resemble neither the one nor the other EMPEDOCLES attributeth the forme and resemblance of yoong babes in the wombe unto the strong imagination of the woman in time of conception for many times it hath beene knowen that women have beene enamoured of painted images and statues and so deli vered of children like unto them The STOICKS say that by a sympathie of the minde and understanding through the insinuation of beames and not of images these resemblances are caused CHAP. XIII How it commeth that some women be barren and men likewise unable to get children PHYSICIANS hold that women be barren by reason that the matrix is either too streight over rare or too hard or else by occasion of certeine callosities or carnosities or for that the women themselves be weaklings and heartlesse or doe not thrive but mislike or else because they are fallen into some Cachexia and evill habit of body or by reason that they are distorted or otherwise in a convulsion DIOCLES saith that men in this action of generation are impotent for that some send foorth no seed at all or at leastwise in quantitie lesse than is meet or such as hath no generative power or because their genetals be paralyticall or relaxed or by reason that the yerd is crooked that it cannot cast the seed forward or for that the genetall members be disproportioned and not of a competent length considering the distance of the matrix The STOICKS lay the fault upon certeine faculties and qualities discordant in the parties themselves that come together about this businesse who being parted one from another and conjoined with others uniting well with their complexion there followeth a temperature according to nature and a childe is gotten betweene them CHAP. XIIII Why Mules be barrain ALCMAEON is of opinion that Mulets that is to say male Mules be not able to engender for that their seed or geneture is of a thin substance which procecdeth from the coldnesse therof The Females also because their shaps do not open wide enough that is to say the mouth therof doth not gape sufficiently for these be the verie tearmes that he useth EMPEDOCLES blameth exilitie or smalnesse the low positure and the over streight conformation of the matrix being so turned backward and tied unto the belly that neither seed can be directly cast into the capacitie of it nor if it were caried thither would it receive the same Unto whom DIOCLES also beareth witnesse saying Many times quoth he in the dissection of Anatomies we have seene such matrices of Mules and it may be therefore that in regard of such causes some women also be barrain CHAP. XV. Whether the Infant lying yet in the mothers wombe is to be accounted a living creature or no PLATO directly pronounceth that such an Infant is a living creature for that it moveth and is fed within the bellie of the mother The STOCKS say it is a part of the wombe and not an animall by it selfe For like as fruits be parts of the trees which when they be ripe do fall even so it is with an Infant in the mothers wombe EMPEDOCLES denieth it to be a creature animall howbeit that it hath life and breath within the bellie mary the first 〈◊〉 that it 〈◊〉 respiration is at the birth namely when the superfluous humiditie which is in such unborne 〈◊〉 is retired and gone so that the aire from without entreth into the void vessels lying open DIOGENES saith that such Infants are bred within the matrice inanimate howbeit in heat whereupon it commeth that 〈◊〉 hear so soone as ever the Infant is turned out of the mothers wombe is drawen into the lungs 〈◊〉 leaveth to unborne babes a mooving naturall but not a respiration of which motion the 〈◊〉 be the 〈◊〉 cause but afterwards they become perfect living animall creatures when being come forth of the wombe they take in breath from the aire CHAP. XVI How unborne babes are fed in the wombe DEMOCRITUS and EPICURUS hold that this unperfect fruit of the wombe receiveth nourishment at the mouth and thereupon it commeth that so soone as ever it is borne it seeketh and nuzzeleth with the mouth for the brest head or nipple of the pappe for that within the matrice there be certaine tears yea and mouths too whereby they are nourished The STOICKS say that it is fed by the secundine and the navell whereupon it is that Midwives presently knit up and tie the navell string fast but open the Infants mouth to the end that it be acquainted with another kind of nourishment ALCMAEON affirmeth that the Infant within the mothers wombe feedeth by the whole body throughout for that it sucketh to it and draweth in manner of a spunge of all the food that which is good for nourishment CHAP. XVII What part of the Child is first made perfect within the mothers bellie THe STOICKS are of opinion that the most parts are formed all at once but ARISTOTEE saith the backe bone and the loines are first framed like as the keele in a ship ALCMAEON affirmeth that the head is first made as being the seat of reason PHYSICIANS will have the heart to be the first wherein the veines and arteries are Some thinke the great toe is framed first and others the navill CHAP. XVIII What is the cause that Infants borne at seven moneths end be livelike EMPEDOCLES thinketh that when mankind was first bred of the earth one day then by reason of the slow motion of the Sunne was full as long as in this age of ours tenne moneths and that in processe of time and by succession it came to be of the length of seven moneths And therefore quoth hee infants borne either at ten or seven moneths end doe ordinarily live the nature of the world being so accustomed in one day to bring that fruit to maturitie after that night wherein it was committed into the wombe thereof TIMAEUS saith that they bee not ten moneths but are

in case every souldier of himselfe knew his ranke his place his time and opportunity which he ought to take keepe and observe Neither would there be any use of gardiners carpenters or masons if water were of it selfe taught naturally to go where as it is needfull and to runne and overflow a place which requireth watering and if bricks timber-logs and stones by their owne inclinations and naturall motions were to range and couch themselves orderly in their due places Now if this reason and argument of theirs doth directly abolish all providence if order belong unto God together with the distinction of all things in the world why should any man wonder that nature hath beene so disposed and ordeined by him as that fire should be here and the starres there and againe that the earth should be seated here below the Moone placed there above lodged in a more sure strong prison devised by reason than that which was first ordeined by nature For were it so that absolutely and of necessitie all things should follow their naturall instinct and move according to that motion which naturally is given them neither would the Sunne runne his course any more circularly nor Venus nor any other planet whatsoever for that such light substances and standing much upon fire mount directly upward Now if it be so that nature reciveth such an alteration and change in regard of the place as that our fire here being moved and stirred riseth plumbe upward but after it is gotten once up to heaven together with the revolution thereof turneth round what marvell is it if semblably heavie and terrestriall bodies being out of their naturall places be forced overcome by the circumstant aire to take unto another kind of motion For it can not be said with any reason that heaven hath this power to take from light substances the propertie to mount aloft and can not likewise have the puissance to vanquish heavie things such as naturally move downward but one while it maketh use of that power of her owne another while of the proper nature of things alwaies tending to the better But to let passe these habitudes and opinions whereto we are servilly addicted and to speake frankly and without feare what our minde is I am verily perswaded that there is no part of the universall world that hath by itselfe any peculiar order seat or motion which a man simply may say to be naturall unto it but when ech part exhibiteth and yeeldeth profitably that wherefore it is made and whereto it is appointed moving it selfe doing or suffering or being disposed as it is meet and expedient for it either for safetie beautie or puissance then seemeth it to have place motion and disposition proper and convenient to the owne nature For man who is disposed if any thing els in the whole world according to nature hath in the upper parts of the bodie and especially about his head those things that be ponderous and earthly but in the mids thereof such as be hote and of a firy nature his teeth some grow above others beneath and yet neither the one range of them nor the other is against nature Neither is that fire which shineth above in his eies according to nature and that which is in the bellie and heart contrary to nature but in ech place is it properly seated and commodiously Now if you consider the nature of shell-fishes you shall finde that as Empedocles saith The 〈◊〉 murets of the sea and shell-fish everyone With massie coat the tortoise eke with crust as hard as stone And vaulted backe which archwise he aloft doth hollow reare Shew all that heavie earth they do above their bodies beare And yet this hard coat and heavie crust like unto a stone being placed over their bodies doth not presse or crush them neither doth their naturall heat in regard of lightnesse slie up and vanish away but mingled and composed they are one with the other according to the nature of every one And even so it standeth to good reason that the world in case it be animall hath in many places of the body thereof earth and in as many fire and water not driven thither perforce but so placed disposed by reason for the eie was not by the strength of lightnesse forced to that part of the body wherein it is neither was the hart depressed downe by the weight that it had into the brest but because it was better and more expedient for the one and the other to be seated where they are Semblably we ought not to thinke that of the parts of the world either the earth setled where it is because it fell downe thither by reason of ponderositie or the Sunne in regard of lightnesse was caried upward like unto a bottle bladder full of winde which being in the bottome of the water presently riseth up as Metrodorus of Chios was perswaded or other stars as if they were put in a ballance inclined this way or that as their weight more or lesse required and so mounted higher or lower to those places where now they are seated but rather by the powerfull direction of reason in the first constitution of the world some of the starres like unto bright and glittering eies have beene set fast in the firmament as one would say aloft in the very forhead thereof and the Sunne representing the power and vigor of the heart sendeth and distributeth in maner of bloud and spirits his heat and light thorowout all The earth and sea are to the world proportionable to the paunch and bladder in the body of a living creature the moone situate betweene the Sunne and the earth as betweene the heart and the bellie resembling the liver or some such soft bowell transmitteth into the inferiour parts here beneath the heat of those superior bodies and draweth to herselfe those vapors that arise from hence and those doth she 〈◊〉 refine by way of concoction and purification and so send and distribute them round about her Now whether that solid and terrestriall portion in it hath some other propertie serving for a profitable use or no it is unknowen to us but surely it is evermore the best and surest way in all things to go by that which is necessarie for what probabilitie or likelihood can we draw from that which they deliver They affirme that of the aire the most subtile and lightsome part by reason of the raritie thereof became heaven but that which was thickened and closely driven together went to the making of starres of which the Moone being the heaviest of all the rest was concret and compact of the most grosse and muddy matter thereof and yet a man may perceive how she is not separate nor divided from the aire but mooveth and performeth her revolution through that which is about her even the region of the winds and where comets or blasing starres be engendered and hold on their course Thus these bodies have not