Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	blood_n	flesh_n	meat_n	9,640	5	9.2298	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05335	Of the interchangeable course, or variety of things in the whole world and the concurrence of armes and learning, thorough the first and famousest nations: from the beginning of ciuility, and memory of man, to this present. Moreouer, whether it be true or no, that there can be nothing sayd, which hath not bin said heretofore: and that we ought by our owne inuentions to augment the doctrine of the auncients; not contenting our selues with translations, expositions, corrections, and abridgments of their writings. Written in French by Loys le Roy called Regius: and translated into English by R.A.; De la vicissitude ou variete des choses en l'univers. English	Leroy, Louis, d. 1577.; Ashley, Robert, 1565-1641.	1594 (1594)	STC 15488; ESTC S113483	275,844	270

because it is needfull for them to remoue their cattaile from place to place for pasture they are constrained to follow exercising as it were a liuely kind of husbandry Some liue on hunting in diuers sorts as some on their pray others on fishing as they which liue neere vnto lakes pondes and riuers and such as border on the sea others on birds and wild beasts which inhabite neere vnto the woodes The poore thoroughout the wide forests and high mountaines liue on roots akornes and wildfruits notwithstanding the greatest part of men liue of the earth and of such fruits as they finde at home So that the manners of liuing vsed amongst them are pasturage tillage hunting hauking fishing and fouling Others by mingling of these do liue better at ease helping their life which hath need of many things with that which it wanteth to thend to haue sufficient As some vse pasturage and hauking others ioyne tillage with hunting and so the other kinds of liuing according as necessitie constraineth them or delight and pleasure prouoketh them The Canibals euen at this day do eate mans flesh rosted likewise the other Sauages eate their enimies which they haue taken in wars The Arabians feed on Camels and Ostriches bread of Millet and rapeseed pilled The Tartarians on raw flesh indifferently of dogs horses cats snakes and such other beasts which they do only presse betweene two stones to draw out the bloud thereof or els do mortifie it on the backe of a horse when a man is on him They drinke mares milke preparing it in such sort that it resembleth white-wine it is not much vnsauoury nor of ill tast The Cathayans also eate raw flesh cutting it first in small peeces then they conserue it in odoriferous oyles with good spices and then do eate if so prepared Their drink is made of rice with diuers spices which hath a tast more delicious pleasant then wine and they which drink more then enough thereof are sooner drunk then with wine The Medites hauing neither corne nor wine vse great hunting in the summer time taking both of wild beasts and birds wherof they make their prouision to liue in winter And in some places they make bisket of fishes dried and cut in smal peeces which they beate and bray into powder or flower then they temper it with water make past thereof mould it and make it into loaues of bread which they dry in the sunne liue thereof all the yere The people of Calecut liue on rice fishes spices fruits altogether different from ours They drinke wine of palmes and of dates mingled with rice and sugar Throughout al the western Islands they make bread of a kind of wheat called Mahiz and of a roote named Iuca which are ordinary feeding aswel in the Islands as in the maine land They make drinke of certain Pine apples which the call Ya yama which is holsome but because it is to sweet it is not so pleasant to drinke as the drinke of our countries It would be too long tedious to recite here and set downe seuerally all the kinds of liuing receiued of men either for necessitie or for superfluitie and delights Therfore these already rehearsed as the most strange and most different from ours shal suffice at this time But besides the commodities and discommodities of liuing which men haue in their seuerall Countries some abstain from certaine meates either by opinion as the Pythagoreans did from a cow and from a beane or els by religion and that either for a time as from flesh in Lent and on fasting daies amongst the Christians or alwaies as the Charterhouse Monkes and Carthusian Friers On the contrary the auncient priests of Egipt thought it a great sin to eate fishe as Herodotus hath wrtiten The Egiptians abstained also from swines-swines-flesh as the Iews do at this day and the Mahometans who moreouer wil drinke no wine The Malharbians and Guzeras do eate nothing that hath blood neither kil they any thing that hath life Therefore they neither eate greene herbes nor newe fruit thinking that there is life in them and that it is a great offence to make them die They worship Oxen and abstaine from eating them as the Iewes do from swine The others being not so scrupulous do vse indifferently all kind of meates which they can comeby OF THE VARIETY of People IT seemeth that there is in men some natural desire to chaunge their habitations and dwellings hauing a mutable mind impacient of rest and desirous of nouelties By reason whereof they cease not from going one to an other changing of maners tongues letters lordships and religions Few countries are inhabited by the true originaries almost all Nations are mingled In auncient time the Egyptians dwelt in Babylon Cholchis Syria and Greece The Grecians in that part of Italie which is next the lower sea the Tyrians in Afrike the Africans in Spaine the Phocians in Gaule the Gaules in Greece and Asia the Macedonians in Syria and Egipt So haue the Arabians past into Persia Syria Afrike Italie and Spaine So the Tartarians into Scythia So the Spaniards into America to Peru and into the East and West India The excessiue heates and coldes the deepe seas and large riuers the high mountaines the great woodes and deserts can not let them from changing their dwellinges Notwithstanding they remoue commonly out of cold Regions into temperate as the Parthians and Turks haue done on the side of Asia and in Europe the Cymbrians Sicambrians Saxons Gothes Lombards Burgundians Frenchmen Vandales Normans Alanes Hunnes Hungarians and Slauonians which at diuers times going out of the North haue possessed the principall regions of Europe Others hauing long straied and wandered do not make choise of their habitation but stay at the first place where they find themselues wearle being not able to go any farther Others get it by force of armes Some straiers perish bythe way others dwell where their pouertie leaueth them and they haue not all the same necessitie to abandon their Countrie and to seek a new Some by strange armies being beaten out of their owne inuade some other others being oppressed with ciuil sedition others being increased to an ouergreat multitude others by pestilence or by barrennes of their land and others hoping to recouer a better Howsoeuer all vsurpers haue accustomed to abolysh as much as lay in them the dignitie and memorie of their predecessors aswell for enuie hatred and contempt as for ambition to thend to make their name onely from that time forward to flourish as the Medians did vsurping the Lordship ouer the Assyrians the Persians ouer the Medes and Egiptians the Romains ouer the Gaules Spaniards and Africans the Gothes and Vandales ouer the Romains the Arabians ouer the Persians Egiptians Africans which at this day also the Spaniards do in the new found Lands and the Turks in those places which they get on the Christians destroying their buildings titles letters bookes histories