Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	boil_v	let_v	strain_v	4,125	5	10.4278	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66357	Virginia's discovery of silke-vvorms, with their benefit and the implanting of mulberry trees : also the dressing and keeping of vines, for the rich trade of making wines there : together with the making of the saw-mill, very usefull in Virginia, for cutting of timber and clapbord, to build with-all, and its conversion to other as profitable uses.	Williams, Edward, fl. 1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing W2659; ESTC R235035	55,527	81

pure and without smoake let it be made of Charcoale The difficulty of their winding may be mollified by sope put in the Basin or Caldron the old Cods or bottoms hardened by time will have the naturall Gumme which glues their threads dissolved and the silke come off much more easie Those bottomes of silke preserved for seed and pierced by the Butterflyes may be made of good use if washing them in water you throwe them into a Caldron ready to boyle with sope in it which must be dissolved before the bottomes are cast in thus let them boyle a quarter of an houre or thereabouts which done take them out wash them in cleane water and dâ—ye themâ— being dyed you must beat them with a round stâ—ffe of a good bignesse upon a stone or some block which is better which will make them become white and smooth as wooll The way to spinne them after is this They must with the fingers be pul'd one from one another and opened as wooll uses to be in such preparations let it then bee put on a Distaffe and spunne as small as you can or please Treatise of the Vine THat the use of the Vine is really intended by nature for VIRGINIA those infinite sâ—ore of Grapes which crowne the forehead of that happy Country are so many speaking testimonies But what fate hath hitheto diverted our English there inhabiting from the publick undertaking a Commodity of so inestimable benefit I doe not say for a publick Staple though it would bee as rich as any other one species of Traffick whatsoever but even from private Vineyards where they might sit under their owne Vine drinke of their owne Grapes satisfie even the most irregular desire of their voluptuous appetites and all this de suo without entring into the Merchants bookâ—s for Wines peradventure adulterate without paying the sweat of their browes for the exudation of the Grape I dare not determinately judge lest I might bee forced to ascribe it either to a strange nonchalency or sluggishnesse to their owne profâ—â— or which is worse an inveterate contempt of all other wayes of improvement of what ever returne in comparison of Fume of Tobacco But that they may not bee ignorant of the profit of the Vine they will bee pleased to know that the Vine requires once planted little more labour then the Hoppe To attend upon foure Acrees of Hops is the ordinary undertaking of one man in ENGLAND who besides this neglects not many other labours If one man in VIRGINIA bee not sufficient to doe as much as another in ENGLAND â— shall either imagine him to bee lame or idle nor let them oâ—jâ—ct to me the heat of the Countrey if the mid-dayes be hotter the mornings are much colder and the Labourer in VIRGINIA hath this advantage of being full of bread to â—atieâ—y whereas oftentimes the Hireling in ENGLAND having a family to feed and sometimes no imployment comes to worke with a famish'd body and courage lives meerly de die in diem with as little hopes of ever changing the copy of his fortune as renewing the lease of his Cottage with his Landlord those are but leane encouragements In VIRGINIA the meanest servant if he have any spirit is still in expectation of improving his condition and without any presumption may cherish his hopes which promise him his time expired a present happinesse and future possibility of a Fortune equall if not outgoing his Master the encouragement being greater the care lesse and his provisionall subsistence by much better why the Laborer in VIRGINIA should not â—e I do not say superiour but equall in strength of body and resolution of minde to the miserable day-Hireling in ENGLAND needs an OEDIPUS to unriddle By this I hope it granted that the VIRGINIAN may without any extraordinary efforts of sweat and spirits labour equally with those of ENGLAND and upon this accompt I shall assigne a Vignard of four Acres to his tillage an easie taske let us compute the profit with the labour and see what may be the proceed of this â—â—â—portion well husbanded That an acre of Vines in VIRGINIA when once growne to perfection will yield an equall increase to a common Acre of Vines in FRANCE there being as great a difference between the soyles as the Acres and much greater will I believe be denyed by none who pretend to modesâ—y or reason yet the Acre of Vines in FRANCE one with another very few excepted will yield yearely ten or twelve Muyds of Wine a measure containing seventy two gallons a very famous Frenchman LIEBAULT is my Author what the common Acre or Arpent is in FRANCE the same man informes us an Arpent the common Arpent or Acre of FRANCE is 100 Pole in the square the Pole being longer then ours by eighteen inches so that one French Acre yields three Tun of Wine and upwards Our Acre being near upon 50 Pole more we doubt not of profit equall The excellent VIRGINIA will pardon me if for dilucidation of an argument I make her pure and unexhausted browes descend to weare a Gyrlond of fertility equall to that laborious and over-teeming Mother the French Kingdome nay to her common Vineyards yet let us compute the profit arising from the foure acres being but one mans labour we shall finde the product even by that estimate to be twelve Tunne of Wine as the recompence of his particular toyle let us imagine this but at ten pounds the Tunne and the profits of this single person amounts to 120 pounds per annum Here they will object the dearenesse or difficulty of Caske but this objection must be made by those who know not VIRGINIA where there is such an excellent convenience and abundance of peculiarly proper Timber that the Winter will afford the other Labourers together with our Vigneron leasure to cleave Pipe-staves sufficient for private use of Caske and to sell to the publique one man during that little season being easily able to make foure thousand But our acre being a third part bigger the soyle Â½ better why we may not promise to ouâ— selves this profit is an incredulity in ENGLAND wâ—rth a bâ—and of misunderstanding in SPAINE would deserve the Inquisition What soyle is most proper for the Vine HEE which will goe to pâ—ant the Vine without the twinne coâ—sideration of the qualyty of the soyle and the disposition of the aire hath much affinity with him who goes to Sea without Lead or Compasse the one seldome attaines his Port nor the other his Harvest The quality of the ground whereon the Vine thrives best is a fine small Moâ—ld of a subsistance rather inclining to a gentle lightnesse then a churlish stubbornesse they which would not have it to be very fat are ignorant that while the Vine is yong the soyle where you plant may be imployed to other tillage and by such expence of its native richnesse reduced to that which they commend so highly mediocrity But if the fitnesse of the ground

Quince is of a more wrinkled drye redolent Fâ—uit and golden colour then the Quincesse If you graft the Male upon the Female or E conversâ— the Quinces thence proceeding will be tender and may be eaten raw which without such an Hermaphroditisme must of necessity have beene prepared to which nature rather then to eate it crude hath deâ—igned it The use of Marmalade and its preparation is so publickly known that it is unnecessary to repeate it It is not enough to enjoy the delight of these fruits for the Summer onely The Winter too in reason should claime a part of our Summer contentments which cannot bee better expedited then by â—â—ying such fâ—uits as are capable of a refaction and agreeable when dryed the principall whereof are the Vine or Gâ—ape the Fig the Peach and Abricot How to dry Grapes that they may bee kept YOur Grapes being at their just ripenesse select the fairest out of your Vineyard for such quantity as you shall use let them lye thin spread while you prepare a Lye for them made of faire water and Ashes proceeding onely from the cuttings of the Vine without any other mixture of wood whatsoever seeth this lye till you have made a strong and cleaâ—e liquor then taking or straining away the Ashes put the liquor into a cleane Caldron set it againe over the fire till it bee ready to seeth then tying the stalkes of your Grapes with thread and fastening the thread to such sticks and in such order bunch by bunch as Chandlers use to dip their Candles which dip them into this lye foure or five severall times Which done let them dry in the Sunne either so hanging on their sticks oâ— which is better upon Lattices or Hurdles of Rods or the like untill they bee conveniently dry then barrell them pressing them very hard and flat in the Vessell others dry them upon such Lattices or Hurdles without steeping them even as they come from the Vine and peradventure more successefully How to drie â—igges LET them as the Grape bee gathered very ripe then lay and spread them upon Hurdles or Lattices of Reeds or Osier joyned together with rifts or vacancies betwixt the covering of those Osiers that the aire transpiring through those voyd spaces may assist the Sunne in the drying them but you must bee cautious that during their exposure to the open aire no Raine or Dew incommodate them When they are dry barrell with the same poise of pressure used to the Grapes Others take a bigge Reed or Cane of two or three foot in length boring little holes all the length of it through which they put little sticks of two foot extent being the small and â—harpe upon which they thread the Figs till they are very full of them and so hang the Cane in the Sunne which dryed they barrell up using the same course as before How to dry Peaches aâ—d Abricots of all sorts VVHen they are very ripe pare off the upper skin cleave them into foure quarters dry them as you did your Figs barrell them and keepe them for the Winter The manner how you shall prepare them to eate is this provide an earthen pot and after you have washed your Peaches in faire water put them into the pot with as much Wine as will cover the Peaches then seeth them halfe a quarter of an houre They may beâ— made ready without boyling thus let them infuse three or foâ—re dayes in Wine which way they are much better put to them beaten Cynamon and thus they will last a Moneth in the Wine eaten every morning they are very wholesome and provoke a good appetite The fittest seasons for sowing of seeds TO prescribe Rules according to our Climate to thaâ— of VIRGINIA may have much of affection but without all peradventures little of Wisdome Wee must therefore seeke for a nearer correspondence in parallells Having therefore seene some letters of an ancient date written by Frenchmen then employed in VIRGINIAâ— to their Intrusters wherein they confâ—ssâ— that of all the Provinces of FRANCE None came so neare to that noble Countrey as LANGâ—EDOCK and PROVENCâ— two of the Eyes of that Kinâ—dome abounding withall the dâ—lights and delicacy that ITALY can pretend to or SPAINE boast of I could not but apprehend that their times of sation and insition of planting and replanting might in some measure correspond with that place where the English are now seated and having seene a regular diâ—tribution of the moneths and seasons in the yeare for sowing graftingâ— and other offices belonging to the industrious Lovers of Agriculture I should both unsatisfie my owne conscienceâ— and disoblige that Countrey and its Christian Inhabitantsâ— if I did not publish it with the same resentment of affection I received it not that any should bee so pinioned to these Precepts that neither weather inconveniency or want of opportunity should make him recede from the punctuall observation of them But I speake it out of a very strong confidence that the observations of the seasons according to these prescriptions will sort well with VIRGINIA in generall and the Planters in particular to whom it is intended and indeed it is as exact a Directory as any yet published I am not ignorant that Criticks will laugh at this much good doe it them and why so many Moneths for the same seed Why so many Repetitions My Exceptionist forgets that wee not onely covet to have things early but their continuance Will it offend him that wee have Artichokes in May and July both Because wee may have Cabbage Lettuse in April shall wee bee forbidden to have any in May the principall scope of this directer was to show how long such and such seedes might bee continued to bee sowen and in what Moneth and Moone if hee apprehend it not I can send him to no Moneth but that of June nor Moone but that of Midsommer He that will sow seed must know that Some may be sowen at all times of the Moneth and Moone as Asparagus Colewort of all sorts Spinage Lettuse Parsnips Reddisâ— Otherâ— would be sowed in a certaine Moneth and Moone as there must bee sowen in February the Moone being New Spike Garlike Borage Bugloâ—se Cheruse Coriander Gourdâ— Water creâ—ses Mâ—jorane Palma Chriâ—â—iÌ„ Flower gentlâ— White Poppy Puâ—stane Radish Rocket Rosemary Sorrell Double Marigold Thyme Full Anise Violetâ— Blites Skirworts White Succory Fennell Parsley Old Holy Thistle Cole Cabbage White Cole Green Colâ— Cucumberâ— Harts-hornâ— Sampier Diers graine Spinage Cabbage-Lettuâ—â— Melonâ— Onionâ— Larkes-heelâ— Burnet Leâ—kesâ— Soâ— in March the Moone being New Garlick Borage Chervile Coriander Gourds Mâ—jorane White Poppy Purslâ—ine Radish Sorrâ—ll Double Marigold Thâ—me Violets Full Anise Bleets Skirworts Succory â—â—nnâ—ll Apples of Love Marvellous Apples Old Artichokeâ— Baâ—il Thiâ—â—leâ— Blâ—ssâ—d Thisâ—le Cole Cabâ—age White Cole Greene Cole Ciâ—rons Cuâ—uâ—bers Hartâ— horne Saâ—pire Dierâ— graine Spinage Gilly flowerâ— â—yâ—sop Caâ—â—age Letâ—use Melonâ— Onyonâ— Flâ—wer ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ Burnet Leekeâ— Savory Soâ— in April the Moon being New

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