Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	body_n	earth_n	element_n	7,308	5	10.1853	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68132	The discouery of a new world or A description of the South Indies Hetherto vnknowne by an English Mercury.; Mundus alter et idem. English	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Gentili, Alberico, 1552-1608.; Healey, John, d. 1610.	1613 (1613)	STC 12686.3; ESTC S103684	102,841	283

this language when they heare it spoken They call the earth Silo. The soule Adek Al thing within the skin Chohos The inner part of the midriff Coostrum Aquality borne with the body Relloleum A thing naturall Cherionium Salt Al and Malek The earths vapor Leffas The waters mouing Lorindt Wilde hony Tereniabin The euill fumes of the elements Realgar A mandrake Aroph A male Cony Ircub A beginning Ilech A thinke supernaturall Iesadoal An vnguent Oppodeltoch Vineger Xisinium Star-slime Nostoch Iupiter Cydar Successiue generation Dordo An vncertaine presage Erodinium A certaine one Essodinium Pustules Bothor Lame Artetiscus Crooke-backed Nasda An amulet against the plague Xenechtū But I wondered much more at the names of their mineralls and spirits for they call brimstone Chibur Alcubrith Kibrit and Alchur Quicksiluer Sibar plissadā azoth vnquasi Vnfined lime Wismadt The Philosophers salt Alembrot Mercury precipitate Diatessadelton A mettall like Iron Bobolt Iron Edir Mercury Missader Zaibar Minerall gold Chifir Fido. Copper Maelibeum The rust of copper Almizadir Vitriol Colcohar A compound of corall and the lobster Dubelcolep And now come the spirits names with whom they are wondrously familiar Euestrum Is the good Genius Xeniphidei Good spirits that reueale secret things to man Trifertes Spirits of the fire Caballi Goblins Trarames Apparitions Operinethiolin Minerall spirits Gamahaea An image impressed in the Phantasie Sylphes Ayry spirits Paracelsus was prouost of the colledge who inuented thē this strange language But indeed I am not sure whether this tongue continuestill amongst them or hath by this time giuen place to some language of the later edition How-soeuer it bee I haue done my duty in warning you of it before hand Of Fooliana the Craggye CHAP. 4. FOoliana the Craggy lieth iust vnder the pole the farthest of all the Land Southward it is a Mountaynous stony and eternally frosty country lying in an ayre extreamely cold and as extreamely dry Here there is an Iron Rock iust like that Rocke of Lode-stone which the Geographers say is vnder the North pole and this is the reason why the compasse af●er you are past the Epinoctiall declines towards the South the cause whereof no Geographer or Marriner could euer as yet declare This land is diuided into two dutchies rather spacious then fertile commonly called Solitary and the sad Cholerik-oye Of the Duke and inhabitants of Solitaria the sad Sect. 2. THE Duke of Solitaria is generally called by the name of Grumble-doro the Great a testy and seuere man whose subiects are as like in conditions vnto him as they are vnlike to all the rest of the other Foolianders Hee hath a huge spacious pallace called Hearts-griefe-Court built all of Ebonye and Iet in a most magnificent kinde of structure Ouer the portch are these words enchased in Corall Merentum locus est procul hinc discedite laeti This is the place where sorrow dwels and care Fly far far hence all you that mirthfull are The people of this nation are generally al haire-be growne leane slouenly swarty complexioned rough headded sternely visaged and heauy eyed fixing their lookes as in amazement and seldome mouing their ey-bals their optike organs stand far into their heads making them looke like so many hollow-eyed sculls Here it is in vaine to looke either for citty or village they dwell euery man in a place far from other as Hares choose their seates and professe a kinde of life most truly Heremiticall partly because they are of too suspicious and fearefull a nature to dwell in companie partly because the Duke hath expresly forbidden all men to build any one house within the sight of another or within the distance of thus many miles from any habitation whatso-euer They seldome or neuer stirre forth a dores partly for the continuall darkenesse that couereth all this climate and partly for their owne and their Princes pleasures and when they doe goe abroad they doe very seldome salute any one they meet for this is one statute in their lawes Let no man stirre abroad but vpon necessity nor salute any man hee meetes but vpon Thursdaies Goe to any of their houses and knocke at the dore you shall stand a good while to coole your toes and at last bee sent away with a snappish answere for they are the most insociable creatures vnder the cope of heauen But how doe they spend their time thinke you Faith in imagining framing fictions to themselues of things neuer done nor neuer likely to bee done in beleeuing these their fictions and in following these beleefes This is the reason why they abhorre company and hate to bee interrupted in their ayrie castle buildings You shall haue one of them directly perswaded that hee is dead and lying all along vnder the stoole like a dead carcasse If any one come to question him hee flieth in his face with most violent furie supposing him some Necromancer that hath called his soule backe againe from the dead by his magicall enchantments and from that time forwards he wanders all about the country like a Ghost imagining himselfe hence-forth wholy inuisible but if any of his fellowes take him and binde him hee forth-with deemes him a fury sent from Pluto to fetch back the soule that lately brake away from hel and now is he in the most pitiful taking that euer was man imagining his house which he held to be but his graue before to be a direct hel to him now Another is of opinion that he is become a Mole and lieth in a caue vnder ground hunting for wormes and turning vp the earth with a pike vpon his nose prouided iust for the purpose if any one follow him and giue him but a little pricke hee presently beleeueth himselfe taken by the Mole-catcher and with miserable cries prepares himselfe to bee hung vp on the hedge A third holds himself to be Atlas the worlds supporter and so standeth immoueably still now and then fetching a sigh or two sometimes lifting vp his shoulder and sometimes shrinking it downe-wards now when hee hath swet a little with this excessiue toile if any one come and thrust him from his station he presently falls flatte downe on his face with roares and cries expecting euery moment when the skies should fall vpon him and railing at the wickednesse of man that had so little respect of his owne preseruation and the safety of the whole world Another auowes himselfe to bee Megaera one of the furies affrighteth the passengers with terrible gestures shaking his haire which he thinkes is nothing but snakes hissing and running at them that come by him with open mouth if hee catch a whelpe or a catte ô how hee will torture it and imagining it the soule of some sinner taketh great pleasure in the cries of the poore beast as it is said Aiax in his madnesse did by the Rammes Another beleeues his nose to be grown of such a size as Cyngar did in Cocaius he gets