Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	air_n	earth_n	element_n	2,483	5	9.5484	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42948	The man in the moone, or, A discourse of a voyage thither by F.G., B. of H. ; to which is added Nuncius inanimatus, written in Latin by the same author, and now Englished by a person of worth.	Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633.	1657 (1657)	Wing G970; ESTC R35701	46,142	175

upon so many perches the Lines sâ—â—cked neither I nor the Engine moved at all but abode still as having no manner of weight I found then by this Experience that which no Philosopher ever dreamed of to wit that those things which we call heavy do not sink towards the Center of the Earth as their natural place but as drawn by a secret property of the Globe of the Earth or rather some thing within the same in like sort as the Load-stone draweth Iron being within the compass of the beams attractive For though it be true that there they could abide unmoved without the prop or sustentation of any corporal thing other than the air as easily and quietly as a fish in the middle of the water yet forcing themselves never so little it is not possible to imagine with what swiftness and celerity they were carried and whether it were upward downward or sidelong all was one Truly I must confess the horrour and amazement of that place was such as if I had not been armed with a true Spanish courage and resolution I must needs have dyed there with very fear But the next thing that did most trouble me was the swiftness of Motion such as did even almost stop my breath If I should liken it to an Arrow out of a Bow or to a stone cast down from the top of some high tower it would come far short and short Another thing there was exceeding and more than exceeding troublesome unto me and that was the Illusions of Devils and wicked spirits who the first day of my arrival came about me in great numbers carrying the shapes and likeness of men and women wondring at me like so many Birds about an Owl and speaking divers kindes of Languages which I understood not till at last I did light upon them that spake very good Spanish some Dutch and other some Italian for all these Languages I understood And here I saw onely a touch of the Suns absence for a little while once ever after having him in my sight Now to yeeld you satisfaction in the other you shall understand that my Gansa's although entangled in my line might easily find means to seize upon divers kinds of Flyâ—s and Birds as especially Swallows and Cuckoes whereof there were multitudes as Motes in the Sunne although to say the truth I never saw them to feed any thing at all As for my self in truth I was much beholding unto those same whether men or Devils I know not that amongst divers speeches which I will forbeare awhile to relate told me that if I would follow their directions I should not onely be brought safely to my home but also be assured to have the command of all pleasures of that place at all times To the which motions not daring to make a flat deniall I prayed a time to think of it and withall intreated them though I felt no hunger at all which may seeme strange to help me with some victualls least in the meane while I should starve They did so readily enough and brought mee very good Flesh and Fish of divers sorts well dressed but that it was exceeding fresh and without any manner of relish of salt Wine also I tasted there of divers sorts as good as any in Spain and Beere no better in all Antwerp They wished me then while I had meanes to make my provision telling me that till the next Thursday they could not help me to any more if happily then at what time also they would find means to carry me back and set me safe in Spain where I would wish to be so that I would become one of their fraternity and enter into such covenants and profession as they had made to their Master and Captain whom they would not name I answered them gently for the time telling them I saw little reason to be very glad of such an offer praying them to be mindfull of me as occasion served So for that time I was rid of them having first furnished my Pockets with as much Victuall as I could thrust in amongst the which I fail not to afford place for a little Botijo of good Canary wine Now shall I declare unto you the quality of the place in which I then was The Clouds I perceived to be all under me between me and the earth The starrs by reason it was always day I saw at all times alike not shining bright as upon the earth we are wont to see them in the night time but of a whitish colour like that of the Moon in the day time with us And such of them as were to be seen which were not many shewed farre greater than with us yea as I should ghess no lesse than ten times so great As for the Moon being then within two dayes of the change she appeared of a huge and fearfull quantitie This also is not to be forgotten that no starrs appeared but on that part of the Hemispheare that was next the Moon and the neerer to her the bigger in Quantity they shewed Again I must tell you that whether I lay quiet and rested or else were carried in the Aire I perceived my self still to be alwayes directly between the Moon and the earth Whereby it appeareth not only that my Gansa's took none other way than directly toward the Moon but also that when we rested as at first we did for many houres either we were insensibly carried for I perceived no such motion round about the Globe of the Earth or else that according to the late opinion of Copernicus the Earth is carryed about and turneth round perpetually from West to the East leaving unto the Planets onely that motion which Astronomers call naturall and is not upon the Poles of the Equinoctiall commonly termed the Poles of the World but upon those of the Zodiake concerning which question I will speake more hereafter when I shall have leysure to call to my remeÌ„brance the Astronomy that I learned being a young man at Salamanca but have now almost forgotten The aire in that place I found quiet without any motion of wind and exceeding temperate neither hot nor cold as where neither the Sun-beames had any subject to reflect upon neither was yet either the earth or water so neer as to affect the aire with their naturall quality of coldnesse As for that imagination of the Philosophers attributing heat together with moistnesse unto the ayre I never esteemed it otherwise than a fancy Lastly now it is to be remembred that after my departure from the earth I never felt any appetite of hunger or thirst Whether the purity of the Aire our proper element not being infected with any Vapors of the earth and water might yeeld nature sufficient nutriment or what else might be the cause of it I cannot tell but so I found it although I perceived my self in perfect health of body having the use of all my Limbs and Senses and Strength both of Body and Minde rather

abâ—sed to ill purposes and that was all I could get of them Now after it was known that Irdonozur the great Monarch had done me this honour it is strange how much alâ— men respected me more than before my Guardians which hitherto were very nice in relating any thing to me concerning the government of that world now became somewhat more open so as I could learne partly of them and partly of Pylonas what I shall deliver unto you concerning that matter whereof I will onely give you a taste at this time referring you unto a more ample discourse in my second part which at my returne into Spaine you shall have at large but not till then for causes heretofore related In a thousand years it is not found that there is either Whoremonger amongst them whereof these reasons are to be yielded There is no want of any thing necessary for the use of man Food groweth every where without labour and that of all sorts to be desired For rayment howsing or any thing els that you may imagine possible for a man to want or desire it is provide by the command of Superiors though not without labour yet so little as they do nothing but as it were playing with pleasure Againe their Females are all of an absolute beauty and I know not how it commeth to passe by a secret disposition of nature there that a man having once known a Woman never desireth any other As for murther it was never heard of amongst them neither is it a thing almost possible to be committed for there is no wound to be given which may not be cured they assured me and I for my part doe believe it that although a mans head be cut off yet if any time within the space of Three Moons it be put together and joyned to the Carkasse againe with the appointment of the Juice of a certaine hearbe there growng it will be joyned together againe so as the partie wounded shall become perfectly whole in a few houres But the chief cause is that through an excellent disposition of that stature of people there all young and old do hate all manner of vice and do live in such love peace and amitie as it seemeth to be another Paradise True it is that some are better disposed than other but that they discerne immediately at the time of their birth And because it is an inviolable decree amongst them never to put any one to death perceiving by the stature and some other notes they have who are likely to be of a wicked or imperfect disposition they send them away I know not by what means into the Earth and change them for other children before they shall have either abilitie or opportunitie to do amisse among them But first they say they are faine to keepe them there for a certain space till that the Aire of the Earth may alter their colour to be like unto ours And their ordinary vent for them is a certain high hill in the North of America whose people I can easily believe to be wholly descended of them partly in regard of their colour partly also in regard of the continuall use of Tobâ—cco which the Lunars use exceeding much as living in a place abounding wonderfully with moysture as also for the pleasure they take in it and partly in some other respects too long now to be rehearsed Sometimes they mistake their aime and fall upon Christendome Asia or Affricke marry that is but seldome I remember some years since that I read certain stories tending to the confirmation of these things delivered by these Lunars as especially one Chapter of Guil. Neubrigensis de reb Angl. it is towards the end of his first book but the chapter I cannot particularly resign Then see Inigo Mondejar in his description of Nueva Granata the second book as also Joseph Desia de Carana in his history of Mexico if my memory faile me not you will find that in these which will make my report much the more credible But for testimonies I care not May I once have the happinesse to return home in safety I will yield such demonstrations of all I deliver as shall quickly make void all doubt of the truth hereof If you will aske me further of the manner of government amongst the Lunars and how Justice is executed Alas what need is there of Exemplary punishment where there are no offences committed they need there no Lawyers for there is never any contention the seeds thereof if any begin to sprout being presently by the wisedom of the next Superior puld up by the roots And as little need is there of Physicians they never misdiet themselves their Aire is alwayes temperate and pure neither is there any occasion at all of sicknes as to me it seemed at least for I could not hear that ever any of them were sicke But the time that nature hath assigned unto them being spent without any paine at all they die or rather I should say cease to live as a candle to give light when that which nourisheth it is consumed I was once at the departure of one of them which I wondred much to behold for notwithstanding the happy life â—e led and multitude of friends and children he should forsake as soone as certainly he understood and perceived his end to approach he prepared a great feast and câ—â—â—ing about him all those he especially esteemed of he bids them be merry and rejoyce with him for that the time was come he should now leave the counterfeit pleasures of that world and be made partaker of all true joyes and perfect happinesse I wondred not so much at his constancy as the behaviour of those his friends with us in the like case all seeme to mourne when often some of them do but laugh in their sleeves or as one sayes under a visard They all on the other side young and old both seemingly and in my conscience sincerely â—â—id rejoyce thereat so as if any dissembled it was but their own griefe conceived for their own particular losse Their bodies being dead putrifie not and therefore are not buried but kept in certaine Roomes ordained for that purpose so as most of them can shew their Ancestors bodies uncorrupt for many generations There is never any raine wind or change of the Aire never either Summer or Winter but as it were a perpetuall Spring yeelding all pleasure all content and that free from any annoyance at all O my Wife and Children what wrong have you done me to bereave me of the happinesse of that place but it maketh no matter for by this voyage am I sufficiently assured that ere long the race of my mortall life being run I shall attain a greater happiness elsewhere and that everlasting It was the Ninth day of September that I began to ascend from El Pico twelve dayes I was upon my Voyage and arrived in that Region of the Moon that they call Simiri September the 21.

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