Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dram_n	half_a	ounce_n	8,672	5	10.2661	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75168	The woman's almanack, for the year 1694 calculated for the meridian of city and country. Containing many choice, useful, pleasant, and most necessary, observations, adapted to the capacity of the female sex, and not to be found in other almanacks: as, the good house-wife's calendar. A table of expences. The critical days of the year. ... By Dorothy Partridge, midwife, student in astrology.	Partridge, Dorothy.	1694 (1694)	Wing A2016A; ESTC R232379	7,044	12

for so much it wanteth or is past the hour of her coming to the South and knowing the Age of the Moon at that time you shall find the time of her coming to the South by the Table of the length of Moon shining which is aforesaid As for example Let the shadow of the Moon point at 〈◊〉 of the Dial and if it be the 10th day of the Moon she cometh to the South or shineth by the Table 8 hours then substract 1 from 8 and there remaineth 7 of the Clock for the Hour of the said time The good House-wife's Table of Expencēs One Week One Month. One Year Expences for one Day   Shillings Pence Farthings   Shillings Pence Farthings   Pounds Shillings Pence Farthings A Farthing     1 3     7       7 7 1 A half-peny     3 2   1 2       1 2 2 A Penny     7 0           1 10 5   Two pence   1 2     2 4     3 00 10 0 Three pence is for 1 9   is for 4 8   is for 4 11 3 0 A Groat   2 4     9 4     5 14   0 Five pence   2 11     1 0 0   7 12 1 0 Six pence   3 6 0   14 0 0   9 2 6 0 A Shillings   7     1 l. 8       18 5 0 0 Here are four several Tables one for a Day the second for a Week the third for a Month the fourth for a Year As to know what the expence of one Farthing a Day is for one Week together to wit one Penny three Farthings a Day is for one Week together to wit one Penny three Farthings for a Month seven Pence and for a Year seven Shillings seven Pence and one Farthing And this is to be observed That so many Pence by the Day make by the Year just so many Pounds half Pounds and Groats as seven Pence a day is by the Year seven Pounds seven-half Pounds and seven Groats Of Riches and Poverty The Letter A in the Root of the Fore-finger promises much Riches and Gain likewise many Lines from the Root of the Thumb between the Thumb and Line of Life pointing toward the Ring-finger promises great Riches A Mark like a Ladder on the Mount of the Fore-finger signifies a poor Woman subject to great losses Of Husbands Lines reaching from the Mount of the Thumb over the Mount towards the Line of Life shew the Number of Husbands therefore observe how many there be and she shall have so many Husbands or at least a Bolus to keep her from the Green-Sickness I mean a Friend in the corner Of short Life The Line of Life if it be short it shews a short Life and by how much the more it inclines to brevity so much the more it is feared Of Buck-somness and Lust The Sister of the Line of Life on the Mount of the Thumb long and redish in the Hand of a Woman also the Mount or ring of the Thumb big and elevated with many cross disordered Lines with Lines chequerwise near the Wrist of the Hand all these denotes and intimates the Woman will kiss in a Corner or beat her Puff-past with her Neighbour's Rowling-pin one that cannot fix her Humours to a constant Diet. How to make Hair as red as a Foot a lovely Brown Take of Lead calcined with Sulphur one part and another part of quick Lime mix them with Water then let it dry then wash it very clean with Soap and Water and it will be a very natural Brown the longer it lieth the better it groweth To Cure a Lady's Red Face Take Li●ly-roots four Ounces boil them in two Pints of Water until half be consumed then take it off strain it out and keep it for your use To make an old Woman's Teeth white recover a new Set beautifie the Face and take out the furrow'd Rinkles as smooth as a Girl of Sixteen Take Loaf-sugar 1 Pound Allom 3 Ounces the flower of Beans Fumitory and Water-lillies a handful of each 4. Limons sliced the Crumb of 2 white Loaves Goats-milk and White-wine of each 2 Pints bruise what is to be bruised then mix them together in a Glass Alembick distil them in Balne● Mariae Keep the Water as most excellent for the abovementioned uses Of Moles how to know whether any Person hath them A Mole on the Nose of a Man or Lip of a Woman denotes another on the Privy Parts A Mole on the Nape of the Neck another on the Buttocks and if it be on the Check another on the Belly a Mole on the Forehead another on the Breast a Mole under the Eye-brow another on the Navel And this very seldom fails How to know whether a Woman be a Maid or no. Take a spoonful of the Spirit of Seagreen House-leek the Powder of Crabs-teeth one dram half an Ounce of Jamaica Pepper beaten very small and mixt together and presented in a Glass of Wine Beer or roasted Apple if the party do not sneeze in half an Hour after you may suspect her Virginity if she do be confident she is virtuous How to know which shall die first the Husband or Wife Note That there are seven Letters in the Cross-now that stand for Numbers as C for 100 D for 500 L for 50. M for 1000 V for 5 X for 10. Therefore to know which Party shall die first write down the Man 's Christian and Sirname and then the Woman's Maiden-name also and count which of their Names by those Letters can make the greatest Number and that Party shall over live the other How to make a Philtre or Love-powder Take a Swallow's Nest young ones and all and digging a hole in the Earth put them in and cover it up let them ●●e there 48 hours then opening the place take the young swallows out and dry them to Powder very small and this some say hath strange effects O hers the breathing the Basilick Veins and distilling it after is the best Love-powder Licensed according to Order