Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	draw_v	iron_n	loadstone_n	1,525	5	13.0457	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11815	Naturall philosophy, or, A description of the world, namely, of angels, of man, of the heauens, of the ayre, of the earth, of the water and of the creatures in the whole world.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Wydowes, I.	1621 (1621)	STC 22111; ESTC S971	34,963	68

vnable in the bodie to afflict it It is good for sore eyes for the stone and falling sicknesse Asbestos is of an Iron coullour being once fired it cannot be quenched It is found in Arabia Magnes or Loadstone is of a skie coullour or an Iron coullour It draweth Iron It hath like vertue with the Adamant It purgeth the dropsie helpeth the flux respecteth the North and South poole Galactites is of an Ash coullour it seemeth to sweat as it were milke it increaseth milke and helpeth running of the eyes and vlcers Now follow stones of diuers coullours Achates is a stone of diuers coullours resembling a Lyons skin sometime it is blacke with white veynes and yellow sometime it is as it were sprinkled with bloud it is very variable in coullour Eagles lay it in their nests to preserue their young from poyson Turcois is darke of a skie coullour and greenish It helpeth weake eyes and spirits Corneolus is like water of washed flesh It helpeth against the Pyles in the fundament and to stop fluxes In a ring it restraineth anger Chrysoprasus is of a greene coullour with golden spots It shineth a little in the darke it is rare and deare It comforteth the heart helpeth dim sight c. Hematite is of an Iron coullour with bloudie vaynes It is cold and dry cooleth hot waters stancheth bloud and helpeth against the scorching of the Sunne as Authors write Also the qualities of other stones depend rather vpon authoritie then vpon proofe Stones be found in Beasts Birds and Fishes Stones found in Beasts bee 1. Chelidonius is a small stone in the belly of yong Swallowes It is found in those of the first hatching in the new moone if two be found the one is red the other blacke The best is of a sprinkled red The red in a linnen cloth carried vnder the left arme expelleth madnesse the falling sicknesse and getteth fauour say some 2. Alectorius is of a christall or watrish coullour It is found in the Maw of an olde Capon as big as a beane in one of nine yeere old small in one of fiue yeer olde This stone quencheth thirst being held in the mouth It maketh warlike and couragious 3. The Rubet or Toadstone groweth in the head of a Toad It is of a white browne coullour sometime it hath a skie coulloured eye in the middle It is to be taken before the Toad touch any Water It is a remedie against all poyson If it come neare poyson it changeth coullour and sweateth as it were drops In fishes are found stones which are made of the cold hardening their matter 4. The Crabs eye of the female is like an eye it dissolveth bloud congealed and expelleth stones 4. The Perch stone found in his head is white and as big as Hemp-seed 6. The Carpe stone found in his chap is trianguler white without yellow within It helpeth against aboundance of choller Thus far of precious stones These following are of price because of their beautie but not so rare Porphirite is a Marble shining like purple Alabaster is a marble like in coullour to spotted Honny At this day it is cleare and smooth like Plaster The Ophite is a most hard marble of a sad greene spotted and Serpent-like coullour Common stones are of vnpure slimie earth thicke and darke some be solid as the Flint Boulder the Whet-stone c. Some be full of poores as the Pumise Gravil-stones and Free-stone SAlt is a fryable mettall begotten of a watrish and earthie moysture mixt and decocted together It bindeth scowreth purgeth disperseth represseth maketh thin and hard It is gotten in pits or waters The sorts of digged salts be Salt Amoniack is found in plates vnder the hotte sands of Cyreniae It is hot and dry in the fourth degree and serueth to purge slimie humors That which Apothecaries sell in blacke clods is made of Camels stale and because store of Camels be in Armenia it is called Armeniack Salt Peter is found in dry places vnder the ground and in hollow Rockes It is sometime called Nitre of a Region in Egypt Of this kinde is the salt called Borax Salt Gem is a white kinde of Euen-salt shining like Christall It is also called Stonie marbly salt Sarmaticke or Dacian Salt of Indie is a blackish Salt or ruddy It is in clods cut out of mount Oremen Salt of Water is taken on the Sea coast or from some lakes and springs and it is sod and congealed of the Sunne or by fire Allome is a salt sweat of the earth it is either liquid or hard Liquid Allome is called Roch or Rock-Allome with it is paper washed c. Hard Allome or Allome Sciffile is thicke and cleaueth It is as it were gray Bitume is a fat and tough moysture like pitch and is called Earthy pitch Liquid is like an oylely moysture flowing and is of diuers coullours after the varietie of the place of which Naphtha is a white fat of Bitumen which enflamed by water doth easily draw to it fire through store of oyle that is in it Naphtha Petreolum is found in rockes It is for his fatnesse of some called Oyle Ambar of Arabia is Bitume of an Ash coullour Hard Bitume is tough like foame swimming on the water but being taken forth it waxeth hard of this kinde is Asphaltus which is blacke Bitume hard like stone pitch The best is gotten in the dead Sea of Iudea c. Pissaphaltus is Asphaltus smelling of Pitch mingled with Bitume It is called Mummie Where this wants they sell vs counterfeit of Syria for poore men that die there be stuffed with Bitume but the rich are dressed with Mirrh Alloes c. It also is found in clods roling from mount Cerauine into the Sea Succinum is Bitume like a stone exceeding hard named Ex succo the Iuyce of the earth It is white or yellow which is called Ambar or blacke as Iet His fatnesse is so great that it burneth like a Candle and smelleth like the Pine tree It draweth to it chaffe and such other light stuffe by a certaine hid nature Metallar Earths which are digged forth of mines be Terra Lemnia an exceeding red Earth of Lemnos I le digged in a red hill It is sometime vsed for Armenian· In old time this had Dianaes seale vpon it printed by her Priests who were onely wont to wash this earth It is of force to expell poyson it healeth wounds festred and olde and poysoned Bole Armenian is earth of Armenia it is of a pale red coullour smooth and easie to breake as chalke It is a dryer and profitteth against all fluxes Terra Samia is white stiffe and tough comming from the I le Samos Ampelite is a pitchie Earth cleauing and blacke it is named of anoynting vines to kill the Wormes This earth is like that we call Stone or Sea coale Chalke is white earth of Creet and there is found of it in many other places There is also some sound that is blacke which is called Pignitis