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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	lesson_n	morning_n	psalm_n	3,247	5	9.9882	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19070	The haven of health Chiefly gathered for the comfort of students, and consequently of all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five words of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6. Labour, cibus, potio, somnus, Venus. Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late sicknes at Oxford. By Thomas Coghan Master of Arts, and Batcheler of Physicke.	Cogan, Thomas, 1545?-1607.	1636 (1636)	STC 5484; ESTC S108449	215,466	364

it is worthy and most fit for students I will recite verbatim Dicere solebat Scipio Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus ne● minus solum quam dum solus esset Of this saying Tullie speaketh as followeth Magnifi●● ve●o v●x ac magno viro ac sapiente digna quae declarat illum in o●●o de negotiis cogitare in sol●tudine secum loqui solitum vt neque cessaret unquam interdum colloquio alterius non egeret Itaque duae res quae languorem afferunt caeteris illum acuebant tium solitudo Leasure then and solitarinesse are two of the chiefest things appertaining to studi● which two who so hath obtained and is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Isocrates speaketh that is to say discendi cupidus let him him observe these rules following Mane cito lectum ●uge mollem discute somnum Templa petas supplex venerare Deum Those things presupposed which I have spoken of in the preparation of exercise of the body this golden lesson of Lillie is next to bee observed And if you goe not to the Church yet forget not venerare Deum And for this purpose no time is more convenient than the morning Which the Prophet David every where witnesseth in his Psalmes namely Psalme 5. saying Quoniam ad te orabo domine mane exau●ies vocem meam mane astabo tibi videbo quoni●m non Deu● volens iniquitatem es tu And for studie how much better the morning is than other times of the day the reasons following may declare First of all there be three Planets as the Astronomers teach most favourable to learning that is Sol Venus and Mercury these three in a manner meeting together when night approacheth depart from us but when day draweth neare they returne and visit us againe Wherefore the best time for studie is early in the morning when the Planets be favourable to our purpose Againe when the Sunne ariseth the aire is moved and made more cleare and subtill and the blood and spirits of our bodies doe naturally follow the motion and inclination of the Aire VVherefore the morning or sunne rising is most fit for study Aristotle therefore in his Oeconomikes not without great cause biddeth us to rise before day and saith that it prevaileth greatly both to the health of the body and to the study of Philosophy VVhose counsell that famous Oratour of Greece Demosthenes diligently followed as Tullie reporteth of him Dolere se ●iebat Demosthenes si quando opificum antelucana victus esset industria whose good example I wish all students to follow having alwaies in minde this short sentence Aurora Musis amica and not to imitate the practise of Bonacius a young man of whom Poggius the Florentine maketh mention This Bonacius was wont to lie long in bed and when he was rebuked of his fellowes of so doing he answered smiling that hee gave eare to certaine persons who contended and disputed before him For as soone as I awake said hee there appeareth in the shape of women Solicitudo and Pigritia Carefulnesse and slothfulnesse Carefulnesse biddeth mee to rise and fall to some work and not to spend the day in my bed Contrariwise slothfulnesse biddeth me lie stil and take mine ease and keepe me from cold in my warme Couch Thus while they vary wrangle I like an indifferent judge inclining to neither part lie harkening and looking when they will agree and by this meanes the day is overpassed or I beware This young mans practise I leave to loytering Lurd●ines and returne againe to diligent students who having used the preparation aforesaid must apply themselves earnestly to reading and meditation for the space of an houre then to remit a little their cogitation and in the meane time with an Ivory Combe to kembe their head from the forehead backwards about forty times and to rub their teeth with a coarse linnen cloth Then to returne againe to meditation for two houres or one at the least so continuing but alwayes with some intermission untill toward noone and sometimes two houres after noone though seldome except we be forced to eate in the meane season for the Sunne is of great power at the rising and likewise being in the middest of the heavens And in that part also which is next to the midst which the Astronomers call the ninth part and the house of wisedome the Sunne is of great vertue Now because the Poets doe account the Sunne as Captaine of the Muses and Sciences if any thing bee deeply to be considered wee must meditate thereon especially the houres aforesaid As for the residue of the day is convenient rather to revolve things reade before than to reade or muse of new Alwayes remembred that every houre once at the least wee remit a little while the earnest consideration of the minde neither should we meditate any longer than we have pleasure therin for all wearinesse is hurtfull to health wearinesse of the body is evill but wearinesse of the minde is worse and wearinesse of both worst of all For contrary motions draweth as it were a man in sunder and destroyeth life But nothing is more hurtfull than studying in the night for while the Sunne shineth over us through the power thereof the pores of the body are opened and the humours and spirits are drawen from the inner parts outward And contrariwise after the Sunne setteth the body is closed up and naturall heate fortified within Wherefore to watch and to be occupied in minde or bodie in the day t●me is agreeable to the motions of the humours and spirits but to watch and to study in the night is to strive against nature and by contrary motions to impaire both the body and minde Againe by continuall operation of the aire opening the Pores there followeth exhalation and consumption of the vitall spirits wherby the stomacke is greatly weakned and requireth a renewing and repairing of the Spirits which may best be done in the season when naturall hea● returneth from without to the inward parts Wherefore whosoever at that time shall begin long and difficult contemplation shall of force draw the spirits from the stomake to the head and so leave the stomack destitute whereby the head shall be filled with vapors and the meat in the stomacke for want of heate shall be undigested or corrupted VVell therefore saith Erasmus Nocturnae lucubrationes longe periculosis●imae habentur Notwithstanding I know that such as bee good Students indeed having alwayes in minde that notable saying of Plinius Omne perire tempus quod studio non impertias doe spare no time neither night nor day from their bookes VVhereof Plinie himselfe hath given a goodly example in that by his owne testimonie he wrote that most excellent work called the Historie of nature Noctibus et succisi●is temporibus Yea Galen in his old age as hee writeth was