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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	heart_n	word_n	1,814	5	3.8480	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87570	A ministers mite cast into the stocke of a weake memory: helpt by rules and experiments. VVith a winter night schoole tutoring discourse to generous youth.	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing J681CA; Thomason E1361_1; ESTC R209182	21,533	64

reason of often motion bee more pure then the waterish blood of Fishes or grosser bloods of Beasts Thirdly of Birds the wilde of Teale Duck Mallard Pheasant Partridge rather then the tame though as the Fryer sayd who desired but the legge of a Capon and the wing of a Goose with the braines of a Woodcock neither comes amisse Fourthly for flesh Veales Muttons Pigs Rabbets and these of purer bloods and lighter digestion then Beeves Porkes Bulls or such as dainty Dames call the grosser Butchers ware Fiftly of wild Venisons Hares Deere Stags Roe-Bucks rather those which are hunted then shot with Peeces and kild as many Innocents by clublaw Sixtly of all kinde of flesh rather that which is roast which dries up the humidities then what is sodde whose strength goes into the broath Seventhly the often eating of Raisins of the Sunne Candid Ginger Coriander prepared Chestnuts and all Stypticks Eighthly the often mistication and clawing of white frankincense called Olybanum the anointing of the head with that which is called the Philosophers Oyle the speedy expulsion of all excrements from the braine by the nose from the body by the draught or by urim often frication and rubbing of the head with a Scarlet or Linnen cloth moderately warm'd as also the oft washing the head with the sweetest Hearbes and the feete with the decoction of Fennell the leaves of Laurell and Camomile with the use of Buglesse how ever it be taken Ninthly moderate exercise before meate as a preparative to a supping or dining stomack and after meate as a digestive with washing the hands chiefely in Rose-water which washing though some scoffe it before meat to bee Pharisaicall though after meate Phisicall yet neither before nor after even Fish and Oysters may bee thought slovinnicall and intrinching on Gorbianus and Gorbiana hee and shee slovens though indeed above all these prescribed Sepe recordari medicamine fortius omni No Paracelsians Gallenists supplyings Helpe memory so much as * Vsus Magister aerris Morat exercizings Lectio lecta placet decies repitita placebit Vsus ars decuit quod sapit omnis homo Ten times repeating what doth please being read Rivets all readings in the weakest head With art use right commixt makes rich supplies Of what man needes to cure all maladies Pr. Who usually have the weakest memories Pu. Old men by reason of the too much drynesse Children by reason of too much moysture in their braines Drunkards by too much in their bellies which not only rots the Livers of such wicked livers as Raines and Mildewes rot the Livers of Hares Deere Sheepe and Rabbits But as thick fogges from an Irish bogge ascend from the lower Region of their bellies to the upper Region of their clouded and dulled braines withall sick men by the commotions of their spirits and distemper of their heads especially timerous and fearfull ones whose heads are in their trembling hearts and hearts in their heeles have seldome so good memories as the sound and couragious neither have the melancholy in their thickned blood and clouded spirits so strong memories as the sanguine in their purified bloods and spirits Pr. What things are obnoxious to memory besides these wee have already discussed Pu. The greedy gulphing of all raw fruites with the use of Vinegar or Wine aegar is as farre short of sweete Wines Malmsie Muscadines Greeke Wines Canary Sacks and Vivium Cos for memory as Eringoes and hot Drugges are short of cold Lettice steeped Rew Tobacco and Agnus Castus for Chastity Withall the too much ingurgitations of meates and drinks in our Gluttons and Hellicons Hogs of Epicurus his stye drowne both their mindes and memories in Hogsheads as the Duke of Clarence once in a Butt of Sack Much sleepe also like a Dormouse or the Beast Colus after Rut and the Mauritanian Asses after their Hemlocks stupisies the memorative faculties so doe also all meats which are grosse and of hard digestion chiefly the immoderate use of Venus which dulls the braine spends spoyls and soyls the vitall and animall spirits and shortens life as we know in the Cock sparrow the quaile and other salatious Creatures withall no lesse obnoxious to memory are all sharpe vaporous liquids from Onions Garlicks Mustard seed as also our too cold and moyst Cucumbers water Cresses and Sorrells Lastly many things accidentally hurt memory as the corrupting of it when the species of things past are forgotten as also the diminution of it by accidentall passions sicknesses and diseases or the ablation of it utterly lost by the wounding of the braine or some part of it hence besides many brain-sicke Heretickes whose brains had need be purged with Helibore chiefely our new Seekers beyond the moone for some fift Gospell like that once of the Carmalites as though the Religion of the Prophets and Apostles were imperfect wee have some other Fantasticks called men of crackt and crazy brains Pr. Hence we have so many learned and famoused men in Authours quite losing their memory and turning as oblivious as the Ostridge which forgets her eggs which she hath hid in the sands upon severall occasions as Bambo the King of the Gothes by a draught of poyson administred unto him by Heringius his successor Gregory Trapezuntius by old age forgetting all letters both Greeke and Latine which was also the case of Francis Barbarus the learned Venetian and of Orbilius the great Gramarian and some by a cold Palsie as Lycosthenes Anno Dens 1555. who lost his memory as Nabuchaanezzar lost his Reason for seven years and after recovered it some by long sicknesse as Messala Corvinus after a long sicknesse forgetting his owne name as those nominated with others are recorded more largely by Solinus cap. 7. Polihist Pliny lib. 7. hist cap. 24. Sabellicus lib. 10. cap. 9. Volaterau lib. 21. Authrop and Valerius lib. 1. cap. 8. Therefore the summe of all this is that all hearers of the Word all students in humanity and Divinity should by frequent and fervent prayer be Petitioners to the Throne of Grace to the giver of all gifts both generall and speciall common and sanctified that he who gave wisedome to Solomon tongues to the Apostles inspirations to the Prophets a mouth unto Aaron the door of utterance unto Paul eloquence to Apollo and gifts unto men when he ascended up unto heaven Eph. 4.12 would in mercy bestow his spirit upon them not onely to enlighten their understandings as the Sunne doth the aire and to open their eyes Acts 26.18 as he did the Disciples Acts 24 and their hearts as he did Lidiaes Acts 16. and to lead them into all Truth Joh. 16.13 but to strengthen their memories according to his promise Joh. 14.26 as he did the memories of his Disciples Joh. 2.22 and of his Virgin Mother who hid all his words in her heart Luke 2.51 without this influence of Grace on our hearings and readings as the fruite of prayer all the means for memory prescribed be but in vaine 1