Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	body_n	part_n	vital_a	2,464	5	10.5045	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18047	The fountaine of ancient fiction Wherein is liuely depictured the images and statues of the gods of the ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions. Done out of Italian into English, by Richard Linche Gent.	Linche, Richard.; Cartari, Vincenzo, b. ca. 1500. Imagini de i dei de gli antichi.	1599 (1599)	STC 4691; ESTC S107896	106,455	205

with Porphirius Eusebius and Suida who depicture the Image of Iupiter as it were sitting vpon a firme and irremouable seat to signifie that that vertue which gouerneth and preserueth the world is firme permanent and continuing the vpper parts of the picture appeare naked and vnclothed the lower parts couered and inuested dishadowing therby that the mercie and compassion of the diuine powers is alwaies manifest and apparent to those that are possessed with an vnderstanding spirit the lower parts being clothed meaneth that all the while that wee are here in the world delighted and as it were rockt asleepe with the illecebrous blandishments thereof we cannot any way apprehend superior knowledges but they are kept obscured hid and vnreuealed from vs. In his left hand he held a scepter for that say they on that side of the bodie lieth the principall part of man being the heart from which are dispersed and sent out the vitall spirits and powers of the body and as the king ruleth absolutely and commandeth ouer his people at his pleasure so the world al things cōtained therein are tied in subiection and dutie vnto the will of the highest king In his right hand they place a mightie Eagle ioyned with the portraiture of Victoria meaning thereby as by the other that as the Eagle ouer all other birds whatsoeuer ruleth as cheef so all the men in this world and all other things inclosed within her spacious embracements stand vassalized and subiect to the all-commanding power of Iupiter And this picture was erected in Piraeus a stately and magnifique gate of Athens The Aegyptians framed vnto themselues for the picture of Iupiter a peece of squared wood wherein was proportioned two round circles as it were one ouer the other through which there seemed to creepe a Serpent hauing the head of a Sparrowhawke The circles intended the widenesse and rotunditie of the world the Serpent the great commander and conseruer of all things therein for among the Aegyptians and Phenicians they held that Serpents were of a diuine and supernaturall power as hauing such speed and swiftnesse in their going without the supportation of any exterior lim carried onely by an interior spirit and liuelinesse which makes them so often wrest retort their bodies with so many flexuous and winding turnings and that they liue on the earth a wonderfull long time as disburdening themselues of their years by dispoiling and vncasing them of their vpper skins and so instantly againe rebecome youthfull and vigorous the head of the Sparrowhawke signifieth nimblenesse promptnesse and agilitie Martianus when hee writeth how Iupiter summoned all the gods to the marriage of Mercurie and Philologia depictures him there impalled with a regall crowne all adorned with most precious and glittering stones ouer his shoulders he weares a thin vaile wouen and made vp by Pallas owne hands which appeareth all white wherein are inserted diuerse small peeces of glasse formed out into the due proportion of the most resplendant starres in his right hand hee holdeth two round bals the one wholly of gold the other halfe gold and halfe siluer in the other hand an yuorie Harpe with nine strings his shoes are made of the greene Smarald and he sitteth on a footcloth wherein is wrought and intexed diuerse straunge workes with the feathers of a Peacocke and hard by his side lieth a tridentall gold-embossed mase And so farre Martianus among manie other his descriptions sets him forth In many Countries the Statues and Images of Iupiter were so depictured as they thereby discouered not only what hee was and of what vertue power and commaund but gaue light as it were and admonished Princes and Gouernours how to proceed in the execution of their rule and authority as being on earth the viceroyes and vnder kings vnto Iupiter appointed and installed by him to see iustice and equitie truly and effectually ministred and performed And Plutarch writeth That in some places of Crete were Statues erected of Iupiter which had all the proportion and shape of a humane bodie saue that they had no eares signifying thereby that he that commandeth in superiour authoritie aboue others ought not to be persuaded or carried away by any priuate conference or glosing insinuation but must stand vpright firme and stedfast not leaning to one side more than to another whereby he may be known not to fauour or partialize And contrarily the Lacedemonians framed his picture with foure eares as that Iupiter heareth and vnderstandeth all things alluded also to the wisdome of Princes and Magistrats which ought to haue information of euery cause or matter throughly before they deliuer out a definitiue sentence or iudgement and likewise that they receiue and admit intelligences and notices how their lawes precepts and edicts are kept and obserued among their subiects Pausanias reporteth That among the Argiues there was erected in the temple of Minerua the Statue of Iupiter made with three eies two of them seated in their right places and the other in the middle of his large forehead vnderstanding thereby that he hath three kingdomes to gouerne and mainetaine the one the heauens as that especially and intirely commanded by him the other Hell which is there vnderstood by the earth which compared with the wondrous glorie and beauteous excellency of the heauēs may in that respect worthily merit that name and the third kingdome is the sea for so much as Eschylus in manie places entitleth him with the name of the lord and commander of the watrie gouernement and dominion It is read also that hard by the pictures of Iupiter was alwaies placed the Image of Iustitia as that kings and great potentates might not commit anie thing wherin iustice and right were not administred And much to this purpose Plutarch writeth That in Thebes were certaine Statues and Images of Iupiter made without hands demonstrating thereby the dutie of Iusticers and authorised Officers for that indeed they ought to bee as it were without hands that is that they should not receaue any kind of bribe or reward nor bee corrupted with the enticing proffers of bounteous gifts whereby they might become iniurious to the true deseruers of right and equitie and bee drawne to giue wrongfull iudgement vpon the truth-inferring pledant Some there are also who haue defigured him without eyes as by that meanes Iusticers and men authorised for deciding lites and controuersies might not see their deerest friends in such times of pleading and so not put in mind either of friendship kinred or other occasion to lead them to partialitie And it is thought that this Iupiter with the Romanes was the same which they then entearmed Deus Fidius so reuerenced and adored among them whose picture was alwaies kept among their most sacred and regarded reliques and it was thus composed There stood in the midst of a Temple a great Colosse of marble out of which was framed and hewen with great curiositie of art a

as though wine bee in the first tast and receit thereof into our bodies something moist and engendring rume and raw humours yet it is in the operatiue vertue and power so maruellous hot and fierie that it drieth vp and concocteth all the moistnesse and humiditie whatsoeuer before ingendered and bred for Galen that euer-famous Doctor sayth That the greatest drinkers of Wine the more they drink the more drie and thirstie doe they find themselues by how much the more they thinke and doe beleeue to quench and allay their thirst by drinking more Wine so much doe they encrease and augment their drinesse and desire thereof Not much vnlike that former description of Bacchus was that depicturance which wee read to bee made of one Comus held and reputed among the Auncients to bee the god of Feasts Banquets and mirth-ministring cōuenticles whose Statue or Image was likewise drawne forth and framed in the resemblance and likenesse of a very young man whose face seemed to thrust out a few small haires his countenance pleasant gracious and smiling and his complexion rubicund and high coloured And Philostratus describes him standing at the dore of agreat chamber full of guests inuited to a most sumptuous banquet wherein was much drinking and feasting with great excesse and too much superfluitie as solemnising and celebrating the espousals of a new-married virgine and sayth that hee stood there leaning on a staffe with his eies halfe shut and halfe open so that by little and little his head declined towards his bosome and his bosome towards his arme then resting on the staffe which was indeed verie vncertainly placed and thus betweene falling and a weake supporting of himselfe hee reelingly wauered and mooued to and fro about his head sayth hee was wreathed a garland of smeet-smelling flowers and also ouer most part of his bodie at the one side of him was placed a great goblet of wine and hard by that a musicall instrument like to a Cymball the flowers so redemiting his temples signifie ioy mirth and pleasance and the instrument the lightnesse of heart and contempt of sadnesse and melancholike cogitations his pleasant fresh and liuely countenance shewes that by the operation and stirring vertue of wine mens spirits are awaked and made ioifull as without doubt a moderat and temperate receit thereof quickeneth reuiueth drousie and drooping sences infusing into their spirits a more loftie and aspiring thought Plinie writeth that discreet taking of wine encreaseth contexeth a mans forces and sinewes purifies the bloud from coniealed corruption sharpens the sight comforteth the stomach procureth appetite prouoketh vrine nourisheth sleepe forceth vomites purgeth melancholie expelleth sorrowfulnesse of heart and to conclude exceedingly reioiceth and dooth letificate the spirits of men Plato sayth That as raine temperately affoorded nutrifieth and giueth encrease to all kind of herbage whatsoeuer and that ouer-much abundance thereof and extraordinarie inundations destroyeth drowneth and spoileth them euen so wine taken with moderation and discreetly comforteth the heart and spirits whereas ouermuch vsed it scorcheth inflameth and consumeth it Apuleius Paniasis that writ of the diuers operations of meats sayth That one cup of wine a man may drinke after meales with health and the preseruatiue meanes thereof but the second quickeneth and prouoketh venerous lusts and the third bringeth shame dishonour infamie The Grecians neuer put any water into wine but caused a little wine to bee medled with a great quantitie of water Hesiodus commandeth that one cup of wine bee intermingled with three of water The auncient Romanes absolutely forbad the vse of Wine to anie women or children as Valerius reporteth Plinie writeth That wine was so highly forbidden in Rome and with such seuere penalties imposed on the breakers of such law that on a time a certaine maid hauing stolen the keyes of her maisters wine-seller priuily to haue drunke and tasted thereof or perhaps a desire onely to infringe the commaundement according to the humours of many of that sex was for the same without anie further intent therein meant by her adiudged by famine to loose her life and that also not without the consent and well-liking of many of her friends kinsfolkes and parents It is written of Romulus that when hee had made any great feast or banquet and inuited many guests therevnto would haue great plentie of wine at the table but would neuer himselfe so much as tast thereof saying that to morrow he was to determine of weightie affaires It is read that Iulius Caesar neuer drunke wine and yet that famous Alexander that true subiect of warshystorians almost neuer abstained it but in the end it ouerthrew him and depriued him of further vse thereof Anachrases sayth That Wine presenteth vnto vs three grapes the first of pleasure the second of drunkennesse and the last of teares sorrow and disgrace Diodorus Siculus sayth That Bacchus was depictured among the Grecians in two seuerall formes the one of a verie aged man with a very long beard growing stiffe and thicke the other of youthful years of a pleasant and amorous aspect by the first is vnfolded the nature of wine being immeasureablie taken which maketh men looke furious wild and of a sterne countenance and by the second as when wine is moderately and temperately taken is meant that it maketh men pleasant discoursiue and full of merry pastimes Macrobius who as I haue alreadie many times remembred alwaies vnderstood by the nature of such their gods the seuerall properties and vertues of the Sunne sayth That Bacchus was framed sometimes in the likenesse of a young child sometimes of a youth sometimes at the full age and growth of a man and sometimes in the forme of one very aged and decrepit with a long white beard to signifie that all these seuerall ages and encreases are seene to bee in the sun for in the time of the winter Solstitium whē the daies doe then newly begin to lengthen and grow longer it may bee said that hee is then a young child dailie encreasing and growing And that at the Equinoctiall of the Spring hee hath attained to the yeares of adolescencie and may bee called a young man Then afterwards at the Solstitium of the Summer when daies are fully at the longest and can lengthen no more hee is said to be at the estate of entire virilitie and manlie growth and hath then a full beard without further increasing or growing But because after that time the daies begin againe to shorten by reason of the sunnes withdrawing himselfe from our horison and obscuring his bright irradiance and glorie from the world he may be called an oldman as shortening and lessening his daies declining and drawing to an absolute obscuritie and departure from this life and thus Macrobius hath expounded his application Diodorus Siculus describeth Bacchus with two hornes on his head which sayth Macrobius signifie the raies and beames of the sun but Diodorus sayth That by