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	great_a	lung_n	2,098	5	11.1885	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18057	A shorte and briefe narration of the two nauigations and discoueries to the northweast partes called Newe Fraunce: first translated out of French into Italian, by that famous learned man Gio: Bapt: Ramutius, and now turned into English by Iohn Florio; worthy the reading of all venturers, trauellers, and discouerers; Voyages. 1 and 2. English	Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557.; Florio, John, 1553?-1625.	1580 (1580)	STC 4699; ESTC S104896	60,030	90

spotted with spottes of bloud of a purple couloure then did it ascende vp alofte to theyr anckles knées thighes shoulders armes and necke their mouth became stincking their gummes so rotten that all the flesh did fall off euen to the rootes of the Téeth which did also almost all fall out With such infection did this Sicknesse spreade it selfe in oure thrée Shippes that aboute the middle of February of a hundreth and tenne persons that we were there were not tenne whole so that one coulde not helpe the other a moste horrible and pitifull case considering the place wée were in forsomuch as the people of the Country would dayly come before our forte and saw but few of vs. There were alreadie eight deade and more than fiftie sicke and as wée thought past al hope of recouerie Our Captaine séeing this our misery and that the sicknesse was gone so far ordained and commaunded that euery one shoulde deuoutly prepare himselfe to prayer and in remembraunce of Christ caused his Image to be sette vp vpon a trée aboute a Flight shotte from the Forte amidst the Ice and Snowe giuing all men to vnderstande that on the Sonday following seruice should be saide there and that whosoeuer coulde goe sicke or whole should go thither in Procession singing the seauen Psalmes of Dauid with other Letanies praying moste hartily that it woulde please the said our Christ to haue compassion vpon vs. Seruice beyng done and as well celebrated as we could our Captaine there made a vowe that if it woulde please God to giue him leaue to returne into Fraunce he would goe on pilgrimage to our Lady of Rocquemado That daye Philip Rougemont borne in Amboisa died being two and twenty yeares olde and bicause the sicknes was to vs vnknowen our Capitaine caused him to be ripped to 〈◊〉 if by any means possible we might know what it was and so séeke means to saue and preserue the reste of the company he was founde to haue his heart white but rotten more than a pottle of red w●er about it his liuer was indifferent faire but his lungs blacke and mortified his bloud was altogither shrūke about the heart so that when he was opened great quantity of rotten bloud issued out from aboute his heart his milt toward the backe was somwhat perished rough as if it had bin rubbed against a stone Moreouer bicause one of his thighs was very black without it was opened but within it was whole and sounde that done as wel as we could he was buryed In suche sorte did the sicknes continue and encrease that there were not aboue thrée found men in the ships and none was able to go vnder hatches to draw drinke for himselfe nor for his fellowes Sometimes we were constrayned to burie some of the dead vnder the Snowe bycause we were not able to digge any graues for them the ground was so hard frosen and we so weake Besides this we did greately feare that the people of the Countrey would perceyue our weakenesse and miserie whiche to hide our Captayne whome it pleased God alwayes to kéepe in health woulde go out with two or thrée of the companye some sicke and some whole whome when he saw out of the Fort he would throw stones at them and chide them faigning that so soone as he came againe he woulde beate them and then with signes shew the people of the Countrey that he caused all his men to worke and laboure in the Shippes some in mending them some in beating of chalke some in one thing and some in another and that he woulde not haue them come foorthe till their worke was done And to make his tale séeme true and likely he woulde make all his men whole and sound to make a great noyse with knocking stickes stones hammers and other things togither at which time we were so oppressed and gréeued with that sicknesse that we had lost all hope euer to sée France agayne if God of his infinite goodnesse and mercie had not with his pitifull ●ye looked vpon vs and reuealed a singular and excellent remedie against all diseases vnto vs the best that euer was founde vpon earth as héereafter shall followe ¶ How long we stayed in the Porte of the holy Crosse amidst the Snow and Yse and how many dyed of the said disease from the beginning of it to the midst of March CHAP. 14. FRom the midst of Nouember vntill the midst of Aprill we were kepte in amidst the Yse aboue one faddome thicke and Snow aboue foure foote high and more higher than the sides of our Shippes which lasted till that time in such sorte that all our drinckes were frosen in the Vessels and the Yse through all the Shippes was aboue a handebreadth thicke as well aboue hatches as beneath and so much of the Riuer as was fresh vntill to Hochelaga was frosen in which space there dyed fiue and twentie of our best and chiefest men and all the rest so sicke that we thoughte they shoulde neuer recouer agayne onely thrée or foure excepted Then it pleased God to cast his pitifull eye vpon vs and sente vs the knowledge and remedie of our healthes and recouerie in such maner as in the next Chapter shall be shewed ¶ How by the grace of God we had notice of a certayne tree wherby we all recouered our health and the maner how to vse it CHAP. 15. OVr Captayne considering oure estate and how that sicknesse was encreased and hote amongst vs one daye wente foorth of the Forte and walking along vppon the Yse he saw a troupe of those Countreymen comming from Stadacona among whiche was Domagaia who not passing tenne or twelue dayes afore had bene very sicke with that disease and had his knées swolne as bigge as a Child of two yeares olde all his sinowes shruncke togither hys téeth spoyled his gummes rotten and stincking Oure Captayne séeing him whole and sound was thereat maruellous glad hoping to vnderstand and knowe of him how he had healed himselfe to the ende he might ease and help his men So soone as they were come néere him he asked Domagaia how he had done to heale hymselfe he answered that he had takē the iuice and sappe of the leaues of a certayne Trée and therewith had healed himselfe For it was a singular remedie agaynst that disease Then our Captayne asked of hym if any were to bée had thereabout desiring him to shew it him for to heale a seruant of his who whilest he was in Canada with Donnacona was stricken with that disease That he did bicause he would not shewe the number of his sicke men Domagaia straight sent two women to fetche some of it whyche broughte tenne or twelue braunches of it and therewithall shewed vs the way howe to vse it and that is thus to take the barke and leaues of the saide trée and boile it togither then to drinke of the saide decoction one daye and the other not and the dregges of it to be put