Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	daughter_n	father_n	husband_n	25,606	5	9.9891	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51558	The use of the astronomical playing-cards teaching any ordinary capacity by them to be acquainted with all the stars in heaven, to know their place in heaven, colour, nature, and bigness. As also the poetical reasons for every constellation, very useful, and pleasant, and delightful for all lovers of ingeniety. By Joseph Moxon hydrographer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty.	Moxon, Joseph.; Hood, Thomas, fl. 1582-1598. aut	1692 (1692)	Wing M3027A; ESTC N66308	31,031	62

of most from the true Pole but 3 degrees 30 minutes The Arabians call it Alrukaba And of the Scythians it is said to be an Iron nail and is worshipped by them as a God The two Stars that are in the shoulders of the Bear are called the Guards of the Spanish word Guardare which is to behold because they are diligently to be looked unto in regard of their singular use which they have in Navigation The reason why this Constellation was brought into the Heavens is diversly set down and first in this manner Saturn having received of the Oracle that one of his Sons should banish him out of his Kingdom determined with himself to kill all the Men-children that he should beget whereupon he gave command to Ops his Wife being then great that she should shew him the Child so soon as ever it was born But she bringing forth Jupiter and being greatly delighted with his hair gave the Child unto two Nymphs of Creet dwelling in the Mount Dicte whereof this was one and was called Cynosura the other was Helice Jupiter after that according to the Oracle he had bereft his Father of his Kingdom in recompence of their pains and curtesy translated them both into the Heavens and made of them two Constellations the lesser Bear and the greater Bear Other-some say that it was Arcas the son of Calisto and they tell the Tale on this manner Calisto a Nymph of singular Beauty Daughter to Lycaon King of Arcadia induced by the great desire she had of hunting became a follower of the Goddess Diana After this Jupiter being enamoured with her Beauty and out of hope by reason of her profession to win her love in his own person counterfeited the shape of Diana lay with Calista and got her with Child of whom was born a Son which was called Arcas Diana or rather Juno being very much offended herewith turned Calisto into a Bear Arcas her Son at the age of fifteen hunting in the Woods by chance lighted on his Mother in the shape of a Bear who knowing her Son Arcas stood still that he might come near unto her and not be afraid but he fearing the shape of so cruel a Beast bent his Bow of purpose to have slain her whereupon Jupiter to prevent the mischief translated them both into Heaven and of them made two several Constellations unto the Lesser Bear there belongs but one Star unformed 2. VRSA MAJOR the Greater Bear called also of the Greeks Arctos and Helice consisteth of 27 Stars Among the which those seven that are in the hinder part and tail of the Bear are most observed the Latines call them Plaustrum and of our met they are called Charles Wayn because the Stars do stand in such sort that the three which are in the tai● resemble the Horses and the other four which are in the flank of the Bear stand after a manner like the Wheels of a wagon or Chariot and they are supposed by some to be greater than the Sun The reason of the translation of this Constellation into the Heaven is at large set down in the other Constellation● and therefore needs not here to be repeated This Constellation was first invented by Nauplius the Father of Palamedes the Greek and in great use among the Grecians and this is to be noted both in this and the former Constellation that they never set under the Horizon in any part of Europe which though it fal● out by reason of their scituation in the Heavens Ye● the Poets say that it came to pass through the displeasure and hatred of Juno who for that she was by Calisto made a Cuckquean and they notwithstanding as she took it in despight of her ' were Translated into Heaven requested her brother Neptune that h● should never suffer those Stars to set within hi● Kingdom To which request Neptune condescended● so that in all Europe they never come near unto th● Sea or touch the Horizon If any one marvel tha● seeing she hath the form of a Bear she should have a tail so long imagine that Jupiter fearing to come too nigh unto her teeth laid hold on her tail and thereby drew her up into Heaven so that she of her self being very weighty and the distance from the Earth to the Heaven very great there was great likelyhood that her tail must stretch The Unformed Stars belonging to this Constellation are Eight 3. DRACO the Dragon of some named the Serpent of others the Snake by the Arabians Aben and by Junctinus Florentinus Vrago because he windeth his tail round about the Ecliptick Pole it containeth 31 Stars This was the Dragon that kept the Golden Apples in the Orchard of the Hesperides now thought to be the Islands of Cape de Virde and for his diligence and watchfulness was afterwards Translated into Heaven Yet others say that he came into Heaven by this occasion when Minerva withstood the Gyants fighting against the Gods they to terrifie her threw at her a mighty Dragon but she catching him in her hands threw him presently up into Heaven and placed him there as a memorial of that her resistance Others would have it to be the Serpent Python whom Apollo slew after the Deluge 4. CEPHEVS containeth in him 11 Stars and hath two unformed This was a King of the Aethiopians and Husband unto Cassiopeia and Father of Andromeda whom Perseus married He was taken up into Heaven with his Wife and Daughter for the good Deeds of Perseus his Son in Law that he and his whole stock might be had in remembrance for ever The Star which is in his right shoulder is called by the Arabians Alderahiemin i. e. his right Arm. 5. BOOTES the driver of the Oxen for so I suppose the name to signifie rather than an Herdsman for he hath not his name because he hath the care of any Cattel but only because he is supposed to drive Charles his Wain which is drawn by 3 Oxen he is also called Arctophilax the keeper of the Bear as tho' the care of her were committed to him This Constellation consisteth of 22 Stars Some will have Bootes to be Arcas the Son of her who before was turned into the Great Bear and they tell the Tale thus Lycaon the Father of Calisto receiving Jupiter into his house as a Guest took Arcas his Daughters Son and cut him in pieces and among other Services set him before Jupiter to be eaten for by this means he thought to prove if his Guest were a God as he pretended to be Jupiter perceiving this heinous fact overthrew the Table fired the house with lightning and turned Lycaon into a Wolf but gathering setting together again the limbs of the child he committed him to a Nimph of Aetolia to be kept Arcas afterwards coming to mans estate and hunting in the Woods lighted at un-awares upon his Mother transformed by Juno into the shape of a Bear whom he pursued into the Temple of Jupiter Lycaeus whereunto by