Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	cold_a	moist_a	3,600	5	10.5118	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14665	The optick glasse of humors. Or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phlegmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth, and their externall intimates laide open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. Lately pend by T.W. Master of Artes.	Walkington, Thomas, d. 1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 24967; ESTC S119414	78,133	198

of Aurelianus the Emperor who when he was sicke of any malady as Fl. Vopiscus records neuer called for any physicion but alwaies cured and recouered himselfe by a sparing thinne diet such temperance is to be vsed of all them that haue iudgement to expell and put to flight all discrasies and diseases whatsoeuer least by not preuenting that in time which will ensue we be so far spent that it is too late to seeke for helpe But all too late comesth ' electuary Wh●n men the corse vnto the graue y carry Ecquid opas Cratero magnos promitter● mō●es if thou wouldst giue whol mountaines for the physicions help al 's too late sithēce thou ar● past cure Let iudgement and discretion therefore stay thy fond affections and lusts let them be like the little fish Echi●eis or Remora which will cause the mightiest Atalātado or highest ship to stad still vpon the surging waues so thou must stay the great shippe of thy desire in the Oceane of wordly pleasures lest it going on thou make shipwracke of thy life and good name Whosoeuer prophesieth thus foretelleth truth yet he is accounted vain and too sharp vnto the Epicures of our age as whosoeuer in any prophesie So Euripides or rather Tiresias in Euripid. his Phaenissae saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The poet Persius is this prophet that foretels of death and a suddaine end to them that are giuen to luxury and surfet Turgidus hic epulis atque albo ventre lauatur Gutture sulphureas lentè exhalente mephites Sed tremo● inter vina subit calidumque triētal Excut●t e manibus dentes crep●ere retecti Vncta cadunt laxis tunc pulm e●taria labris Hinc tuba candelae tandemque beatulus al●o Compostus lecto crassisque litatus amomis c. With surfets tympany he ginning swell All wan eft lauers in Saint Buxtons well He breathing belketh out such sulphure aires As Sunne exhales from those Aegyptian mares Death's shuddring fit while quaffing he doth stōd With chilnes smites the boule out of his hond Grinning with all discouered teeth he dies And vomits vp his oily crudities Hence i' st the solemne dolefull cornet cals And dimmer tapers burne at funeralls At length his vehement malady being calmed In 's hollow tombe with spice he ●ies e●balmed But Cassandra may prophesie of the sacking of the citty and bid the Troianes be warned of the woddē horse as Tryphiodorus speakes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and some will step out as Priame did too fond in that yea not a few and will cry with him frustra nobis vatic●aris tut thou art a false prophet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wilst neuer bee tired or cured of this phrenetical disease but was not thou Epicure the Cyclops his eye put out as Telemus Eurimid prophesied vnto him yet the Cyclops as the poet witnesseth laught him to scorne Risit O vatum stolidissime falleris inquit He laught ' in 's slee●e and said to Telemus Fondling thou errest thus in telling vs. Thou that art wise Telemus speakes to thee that being fore-warnd thou maist bee fore arind by physicking thy selfe thou maist liue with the fewest and outliue the most Be not addicted to this foule vice of Gastrimargisme and belly chear like Smyn derides who when he rid a suiter to Clysthenes his daughter caried with him a thousand cooks as many fowlers and so many fishers saith AElian although Athen●us say hee caried with him but a hundred of all This Smy●derida was so giuen to meate wine and sleepe that hee bragd hee had not seene the Sunne either rising or setting in twenty yeares the same author reportes whom it is to bee meruailed how he in that distemper could liue out twenty We must not like the Parasite make our stomachs caemeterium ciborum lest we make our bodies sepulchr● animarum Dum os delectatur co●dimentis anima ne●atur comedentis Gregory out of Ludolphus Too much doth blunt the edge of the sharpest wit dazell yea cleare extinguish the bright and cleare beames of the vnderstanding as Theopompus in the fift of his Phil. reports yea it doth so fetter captiuat the soule in the darkesom prison of discontentednes●e that it neuer can enioy any pure aire to refresh itselfe till it by constraint be enforced to breake out of this ruinous jayle the distēpered ill affected bodie which will in a moment come to passe if a man be inclined to luxury the suddaine shortner of the daies I would wish that euery one that hath wisedome could vse abstinence as well as they know it but it is to bee feared that they that neuer haue attained to that pitch of wisdome vse abstinence more though they know it lesse Cap. 6. Of Temperaments We must know that all naturall bodies haue their composition of the mixture of the elemntes fire ayre water earth now are they either equally poisd according to their waight in their combinatiō as iust so much of one element as there is of another throughout the quaternio or whole number as imagin a duplū quadruplū or decuplū of earth so much iust of fire as much of ayre and the like quantity of water and no more th● they bee truly ballanced one againe another in our vnderstanding when there are as many degrees of heat as of could of drinesse as of moisture or they bee distemperate or vnequall yet measured by worthinesse where one hath dominion ouer another as in beasts that liue vpon the center earth and water do domineere in fowles commonly aire and fire are predominant Or thus where the true qualities are inherent and rightly giuen vnto their proper subiects as in the heart well tempered heat consists moisture rules in the braine hauing his true temper cold in the fatte drines in the bones The first is tearmed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Temperamētum ad pondus which is found in none though they haue neuer so excellent and surpassing a temperature onely imaginary yet in some sort held to be extāt by Fernelius The other is called Temperamentum ad iustitiam which distributes euery thing it owne according to the equity of parts Of the predominion of any element or rather the qualities of the element the complection hath his peculiar denomination as if the element of fire be chieftaine the body is said to be cholericke if ayre beare rule to be sanguine if water bee in his vigour the body is said to be phlegmaticke if earth haue his dominion to be melancholicke For choler is hot and dry blood hotte and moist water cold and moist earth could and drie These four complections are compared to the 4. elemēts secondly to the four planets Mars Iupiter Saturne Luna thē to the four winds then to the four seasons of the yeare fiftly vnto the twelue Zodiacall signes in thē four triplicities lastly to the foure ages of man all which are here deciphered and limmed out in their proper orbes But to square my