Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	blood_n	body_n	vital_a	2,040	5	10.4566	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13217	Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation.	Swan, John, d. 1671.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 23516; ESTC S118043	379,702	552

word and then the other creatures were produced but now he calls a councell and doth consult not out of need but rather to shew the excellencie of his work or indeed to shew himself he speaks not therefore to the Angels but the Trinitie saying Let us make man Wherein the Father as the first in order speaketh to the Sonne and holy Spirit and the Sonne and Spirit speak and decree it with the Father and the Father Sonne and holy Ghost all Three in One and One in Three create a creature to be the other creatures lord He was therefore the last as the end of all the rest the last in execution but first in intention the Map Epitome and Compendium of what was made before him Three worlds there are and Mankinde is the fourth The first is Elementarie the second a Celestiall world the third Angelicall and the fourth is Man the little world In the first is ignis urens a burning fire and this in the heavens is ignis fovens a nourishing and quickning fire but in those creatures above seated in the supercelestiall world it is ignis ardens amor Seraphicus an ardent burning and Seraphicall love and in the fourth are all these found at once For first as mans bodie is compounded of the Elements he hath his share of that warm fire in him The influence of the Planets working on him doth likewise shew the second And for the third their hearts who burn within them do declare it Neither was he made like other creatures with a groveling look or downward countenance but with an erected visage beholding the heavens and with lordly looks well mixt with majestie He hath a bodie whose members are either Principall and Radicall or else Lesse principall and Officiall His heart liver and brain contain the vitall naturall and animall spirits and these are carried by the arteries veins and nerves The arteries carrie the vitall spirits from the heart The veins carrie the naturall spirits from the liver giving nourishment to every part And the nerves carrie the animall spirits from the brain being spirits for sense and motion and therefore called animall spirits howbeit the motive nerves spring from the marrow in the back and the sensitive come from the brain Also know that under every vein is an arterie for wheresoever there goeth a vein to give nutriment there goeth an arterie to bring the spirit of life Neither is it but that the arteries lie deeper in the flesh then the veins because they carrie and keep in them more precious bloud then the veins keep and are therefore not onely further from outward dangers but clothed also in two coats whereas the veins have but one Whereupon it is no hard thing to distinguish between these two vessels of bloud if we can but remember that the arterie is a vessel of bloud spirituall or vitall and the vein a vessel of bloud nutrimentall for as I said before the veins have their beginning from the liver bringing from thence nutritive bloud to nourish every member of the bodie Moreover his heart is the seat of all the passions as in one instance may suffice for being transported with fear we call back the bloud to the heart as to the place where fear prevaileth the bloud going thither as it were to comfort and cherish the heart And whereas it may seem that our anger is seated in the gall love in the liver and melancholie in the splene it is answered that those humours placed in the gall liver and splene are not the seat of the passions and affections but they are the occasion whereby the passions are stirred up as the abundance of bloud in the liver stirreth up the passion of love which neverthelesse is placed and seated in the heart and so of the rest And again seeing the vitall spirits proceed from the heart it cannot be denied but that this member liveth first and dieth last And as the heart was the seat of all the passions so the head is a seat and place for all the senses except the touch for that is not onely in one place but in all and every place being spread quite through the whole bodie or isle of man The eyes are the windows of the bodie and albeit a man have two eyes in his head yet he receiveth but one sight at once because the optick nerves meet both in one The eares be like certain doores with labyrinthicall e●…tries and crooked windings and here again although the eares be two yet a man can heare but one sound at once because his acoustick nerves like to the optick nerves meet both in one His tongue discerneth tastes and albeit he have two eyes and as many eares yet his tongue is single and alone A man should therefore heare and see more then he speaketh and when he speaketh not wrong his heart and secret thoughts by uttering words with a double tongue for bilinguis is more then God made him and double tongues shall be rooted out Besides the lungs be the bellows of the voice and are seated close to the heart to teach us that speech ought to be the interpreter of the heart and not that a man may speak one thing and think another The nose serveth not onely as a gutter for the excrements of the brain to flow and passe through but also for a pipe of respiration to give and take our living breath and to conduct the aire and odoriferous smells up to the brain for the conservation and recreation of the animal spirits When the head is in danger the hand casts it self up to save it And in giving hands to man the speciall providence of God is to be marked for he hath made him to take his meat with his hand and hath not left him to gather and take it up with his lips as the beasts do because that would be a means to hinder his speech by thickening his lips as experience teacheth in those who either by nature or by accident have thick swollen lips causing them to speak in the mouth uttering their words very badly and indistinctly Neither could there be so many quick conceits of the minde or curious inventions of sundry artists brought to perfection without such an instrumentall help as the hand The feet be the bases of the bodie carrying man like a lordly creature with his face from earth and eyes to heaven that he might thither strive to come at last where he inhabiteth who gave him these and all his other members else which now I cannot stand to dilate upon at large And when he had them all and was framed out like a curious piece God breathed in his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul he then took his second part when his first was finished neither was that second made till then for in the infusion it was created and in the creation it was infused

South South and by East South South East South East and by South South East South East and by East East South East East and by South East East and by North East North East North East and by East North East North East and by North North North East North and by East And then North again as in the beginning Artic. 4. The nature and qualitie of the windes IT may well appeare by that which already hath been written concerning the generation of windes that every winde in it self or in respect of the matter causing it is of an hot and drie qualitie If therefore blowing from any quarter we finde it other it is by accident and not through any inherent propertie for windes do evermore participate of the nature of that place by which they passe If by snowie mountains then bring they with them the cold of those mountains if by marshes contagion if by woods their blast is broken if by sandie plains they are warm if by moist watry places they are wet And therefore for particular windes the Panormi in Sicil are extream hot for before they pierce thither they scoure through the plains of Sicil and taking heat from the sands they carrie it into the citie The South winde at Genua is cold because it passeth the sea and taketh coldnesse thereof without touching the land before it arive But the North winde which bloweth through France saith one cometh from the sea and taking some measure of heat by the saltnesse thereof and finding no mountains covered with ice or snow in his passage augmenteth his heat by passing over the fields of Normandie Champaigne the isle of France and other provinces even to the hills of Auvergne which being moderately heated by the South winde on the one side and the North winde on the other bringeth forth every where excellent pastures and feedings for cattell and sheep besides divers sorts of medicinable plants and most perfect simples Also in some places it is found that the Eastern winde moisteneth and the Western winde bringeth drought and in other some the Western moisteneth and the other drieth So that it is possible for one and the same winde to have a divers qualitie although not in it self yet by accident as at the first was mentioned Yet neverthelesse generally and in most places the North with his associates is cold and drie the South with his companions is warm and moist and the East with his adherents is farre more drie then the Western and his neare neighbour windes The reasons whereof may be First for the North because it bloweth over many snowie mountains and ariseth from a climate which hath little neighbourhood with the sunne where the vapours be few and the exhalations many that arise out of sundry islands by the way Unto which also adde because the exhalation passeth not farre before it come at us that therefore it seldome bringeth rain for the exhalation hath not time enough to spend the driest portion of it so as the South winde doth who passeth both over more waterie places and also cometh further before we feel it Secondly for the South winde it cometh over the Mediterranean sea out of which the sunne begets abundance of waterie vapours which mix themselves with the windes causing them thereupon to be the blowers in of rain And as for their heat it is because they blow from the Equator where heat is most predominant Also know that a long and gentle South winde may sometimes cause clearenesse and fair weather most commonly in the summer season because it is by nature hot and therefore blowing for a certain space it so warmeth the aire that the vapours which otherwise would produce rain are not suffered to be knit but are attenuated and made so thin that they come to nothing or being any thing they prove onely barren clouds affording little rain Thirdly the East winde is found to be the driest because it cometh over a great continent of land lying towards the East out of which many drie and earthie exhalations are drawn In winter these windes are very cold and freezing but in summer they are pleasantly warm but healthfull and if at any time they blow up rain which is not ordinary they then continue it by the space of a whole day even as the like also sometimes happeneth from the North. The reason of which I take to be because perhaps their lateralls not being absolutely of the same qualitie may arise together with them and so bring rain especially if at the same time there be any other working in nature apt to moisten the skie with vapours For it is affirmed that Eurus on the one side and Coecias on the other side being two laterall windes pertinent to the East do naturally raise clouds and often turn them into rain as do also Upocoecias and Mes'eurus their collateralls And so also Cyrcius may do and Borrholybicus being on the West side of the North if either of them happen to arise and joyn although but weakly with the Northern blast For in their own sole blowings they beget both snow and hail either of which may fall down in drops of rain when the mixture of qualities is found to be divers Fourthly the Western winde is farre more moist then the East because it passeth over the great ocean of the Atlantick sea which must needs cast out many waterie and moist vapours and they cannot but beget rain and showers It is said also to be of a cold temper but surely not of an absolute coldnesse for it is found by experience that a direct Zephyrus or Favonius with their collateralls Mesocorus and Up'africus are warm and pleasant bringing sometimes hot showers sometimes warm and cleare weather And therefore it is determined by certain authours that this winde may blow from a cold place and yet bring heat For although in regard of the place over which it cometh it be cold yet in respect of the time when it usually bloweth it is hot Which Horace also pointed at saying Solvitur acris hyems grat â vice veris Favonî The winter sharp is loosed by the kinde Return of Spring and of the Western winde Or will you heare what others say Lemnius as Origanus relateth affirmeth that this Western winde and his collateralls are of a changing temper For although in the beginning of the Spring they be pleasing and gentle and are found to recreate and cherish all things seeing they are warmed by the moderate heat of the sunne which makes them bring out the beautie of trees and flowers to the view of the world and also causeth the bloud and good humours to appeare which in winter lay hid as if they were not casting away also the clouds of the minde and begetting jocundnesse in the heart yet neverthelesse Autumne ending and the circuit of the yeare enclining to Winter the foresaid windes do blow unkindely striking the sea

semper ago In which regard the distilled water of Borage or Buglosse with the leaves and flowers being drunk with wine cannot but be good comfortable and pleasant for the brain and heart it increaseth wit and memorie engendreth good bloud and putteth away melancholy and madnesse as the authour of the haven of health affirmeth The herbs following are hot and dry NExt unto Buglosse I mention Balm or Baum because the water of it also being drunk in wine is good to comfort the heart to drive away all melancholy and sadnesse in which regard it is not amisse to have them all distilled together Moreover I finde it recorded that the hives of bees being rubbed with the leaves of this herb causeth the bees to keep well together and allureth others to come unto them For saith Plinie they delight in no herb or flower more and therefore they fly not away from such hives as are either rubbed with the leaves or anointed with the juice of this herb and hereupon it cometh to be called Apiastrum which is as much as to say The bees starre or guide For when they are strayed farre from home by the help of this herb they finde their way again But the common Latine name is Melissa or Citrago It is also called in some authours Melissophyllum and Meliphyllon This is an herb which is hot and dry in the second degree good to be either eaten or smelled unto by them who are subject to the Mother Gerard. Plinie writeth a strange secret in a kinde of Balm which he calleth Iron-wort viz. that the leaves close up wounds without any perill of inflammation and also that it is of so great vertue which you may beleeve as you list that though it be but tied to his sword which gave the wound it stancheth the bloud Sage called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Salvia in the Latine and amongst the many kindes which some observe there are principally two the greater and the lesser Some say it is hot and dry in the third degree some name not the third so much as the end of the second others determine that it is hot in the first degree and dry in the second This is an herb which hath many and singular properties insomuch that the Salern school makes this demand Cur moriatur homo cui Salvia crescit in horto As if it should be said such is the vertue of Sage that if it were possible it would cause Clotho evermore to hold the distaffe and Lachesis to spin perpetually yea Atropos must forbear to cut in two the thread of life such a desire hath Sage to make a man immortall The Latine and English names speak greatly for the commendation of it For Salvia takes the name of safety and Sage is a name of wisdome Sith then the name betokens wise and saving We count it natures friend and worth the having Beside these names some call it the Holy herb because women with childe if they be like to come before their time and are troubled with abortments do eat thereof to their great good For it maketh them fruitfull retaineth the birth and giveth life unto it Ger. in his Herball Moreover Sage is singular good for the brain and head quickeneth the memorie and senses strengtheneth the sinews is good against the palsie and stayeth a shaking in any part of the body The most of which properties are expressed in these two verses following Salvia confortat nervos manuúmque tremorem Tollit ejus ope febris acuta fugit Sage makes the sinews strong the palsie cures And by its help no ague long endures Also the juice of this herb drunk with honie is good for those that spit and vomit bloud for it stoppeth the flux thereof incontinently And last of all although I omit many vertues in this herb yet one thing must not be forgotten The leaves of the red Sage put into a wooden dish wherein are put very quick coals with some ashes in the bottome of the dish to keep the same from burning and a little vineger sprinkled upon the leaves lying upon the coals and so wrapped in a linnen cloth and holden very hot unto the side of those that are troubled with a grievous stitch they take away the pain presently and also greatly help the extremitie of a plurisie Ger. Rue or Herb-grace in Latine is called Ruta in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is quòd caliditate suā 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 semen quasi congelat If it be wilde Rue and not such as groweth in gardens then it is hot and dry in the fourth degree but garden Rue is a degree cooler and moister Plinie writeth that there is such friendship between it and the fig-tree that it prospereth no where so well as under that tree delighting also as he affirmeth to grow in funnie places It is an enemie to the Toad as being a great enemie to poyson And excellent is that medicine approved by Mithridates King of Pontus in Asia who lived in the dayes of Pompey viz. that if any do eat fasting two dry wall-nuts as many figs and twentie leaves of Rue with one grain of salt nothing which is venimous may that day hurt him it being also an excellent preservative against the pestilence Which also the Salern school teacheth in these words Allia Ruta Pyra Raphanus cum Theriaca Nux Praestant antidotum contra lethale venenum Garlick Rue Pears and Radishes will make With Triacle and Nut An antidote which will fell poyson slake And doore of danger shut Moreover Schola Salerni setteth down some other properties of it thus Ruta comesta recens oculos caligine purgat Ruta viris coitum minuit mulieribus auget Upon which occasion one once gave it this commendation Rue is a noble herb to give it right For chew it fasting it will purge the sight One qualitie thereof yet blame I must It makes men chaste and women fills with lust Which last propertie is caused in regard that the nature of women is waterish and cold now Rue we know heateth and drieth whereupon it stirreth them the more to carnall lust but it diminisheth the nature of men which is of temperature like to the aire viz. hot and moist working thereupon a contrary effect from that which it doth in women Also for those who are feeble in their sight let them distill Rue and white roses together and putting the water thereof into their eyes it will open their windows and let in more light To which joyn also this other experiment taken out of Schola Salerni Feniculus Verbena Rosa Chelidonia Ruta Ex istis fit aqua quae lumina reddit acuta Fennell Vervine Rose Celandine and Rue Do water make which will the sight renew What other properties are pertinent to it may be seen at large in Plinie lib. 19. cap. 8. lib. 20.