Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	cold_a	dry_a	moist_a	4,796	5	10.4311	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06484	The second part and knitting vp of the boke entituled Too good to be true Wherin is continued the discourse of the wonderfull lawes, commendable customes, [and] strange manners of the people of Mauqsun. Newely penned and published by Thomas Lupton.; Too good to be true. Part 2	Lupton, Thomas.	1581 (1581)	STC 16954; ESTC S109660	170,117	212

Marrie sir Hunger is the best sauce of all other that is the most pleasaunte sauce of all other it is the most delicate sauce for meate and easyest to gette and of most vertue and of least cost none in our Countrey of Mauqsun on paine of death may vse anye other kinde of sauce but that if they in your Countrey woulde giue ouer all sauces and vse that sauce onely their bodyes woulde not be so ful of deseases Marke this nor their purses so empty of mony but how dyd you for drinke to your meate Siuqila For wante of wine I was gladde to drinke water wherof I had plentie for there was a goodlye riuer did runne not far from the place where I supt Truly sir since my departing from you God so wonderfully and sodainely ayded me in my necessitie by his creatures that therby I was not only enforst to prayse God therefore but also to muse and studie of his miraculous works wherby in few words I haue couertly couched thrée maruellous misteries that few I think is able to resolue yet so true and so playne that if I shoulde reueale the meaning thereof that none but woulde affyrme the same Omen Then you néede not feare to vtter the words wherin is hyd your mystical meaning yet thogh they be neuer so dark I beléeue I shal gesse shrewdely at them Siuqila Nay I am sure you wil quickly fynd out there meaning which if you coulde not I would reueale them vnto you Omen Declare them I praye you for I am desirous to heare them Siuqila I wyll vtter them in course as I hadde occasion to frame them therefore the first of them is this The foe doth ayde and helpe his extreame foe A strange Probleme Else foe at al no power or strength could show Which foe so helpt yet none can feele or spye That he hath shape but only qualitie Omen Surely this is both couertly hid wisely inuented wittily framed if euery one that haue an ouer wéening in their owne wittes and discommendeth other that are wiser than themselues that cannot resolue this or that cannot inuent the like shoulde giue but the halfe of that they spende in waste to the reléeuing or succoring of their pore neighbors many wold not be so hungry nor so néedie as they are I vnderstand youre meaning therein very well it is maruellous and I may saye myraculous though dayly sight and common practise taketh away the admiration thereof But what droue you to deuise it Siuqila Forsooth I wil tel you as I trauelled in the wilde wildernesse being very hungry through the goodnesse of God I founde a fewe egges but what egges they were I knowe not yet they were very like the egs of a Turkey Hen which when I had founde I was very desirous to roste or to séethe for my dinner whych there by no meanes I coulde do for there was neither wood nor any other thing wheron to make a fire And thoughe I was extreame hungry yet I was very loth to eate them rawe but as I walked forwarde thoroughe Gods prouidence I spyed a little shedde wherein I founde quick● lime vnquenched whereof I was not a little glad for therein I knewe that I might roste my egges hauing water of which lime stones I tooke a good quantitie and caryed them to a waters side that was not far from thence which stones I sprinckled with water and then they waxed very hot as daily practise doth proue amongst whych lime stones I laid my egges whiche were well rosted and that very quickly throughe the great heate of the saide limestones whych the water that I sprinckled on them caused them to haue and thus by this maruellous means I rosted the egs wherwith I dined very wel Thus you may plainely perceiue that the foe did aide and helpe hys extreme foe for Water is an vtter enimie to Fire for they are of clean contrarie qualities for Fyre is hote and drie and Water is colde and moiste yet Fire could not shew his force or strength whyche lay hid in the saide lime stones vntill Water whiche was his enemie was cast vpō him yet thogh therby he shewed forth his heat which is the qualitie of fire yet the brightnesse shape or forme of fire by no meanes therby could be séen Omen It is most true which is the wonderfull worke of God yet many thousands are so brutish so senslesse so doltishe and so thankles for these Gods miraculous benefits euē made for their daylie vse and commoditie that they neyther consider the great power of God that didde make them the maruellous mysteries hyd in them nor the great cōmoditie they haue daily by them You that haue this cōsideration in the works of God it is a token you haue a great consolation in God himselfe that made the workes Your first Probleme is so prettie and pithie that I desire to heare the second Siuqila You shall and that with spéede this it is whiche is more true than reasonable The stronger is led by force of the weaker Another Probleme Although of his bones he hath bene a breaker Omen Truly this is very strange and séemes so repugnant to reason that many that are both wise and learned will iudge at the first hearing of the words that it cannot be truly applied to any thing But by what occasion did you frame it Siuqila As I trauelled in the desarts I could find no perfect way where the thorne● brambles were so thicke that I was enforced very painfully to go through them which did so rent tear● my clothes that I was constrained to sowe them as wel as I could for I seldom go without needle ●hreed and whyles I was busie in sowing the same I sodenly loste my needle for which I was very sory for I had ●o mo but only a broken néedle that lacked a point wherwith I could not sowe at al so that I left my thréed in the same place went to séek a stone wheron to sharp my blunt néedle and as I was very diligent in séeking a stone for my purpose I found a very hard heauy stone not of the colour of other cōmon stones which I toke and then went and sit in the same place wh●re I losse my néedle then I began to rub and whet my broken néedle vpon it but for all my labor I could not therwith so sharpen it that it would do●e any good So that I layd● the sayd néedle and stone by me on the grounde being wéerie with rubbing the sayde blunt or broken néedle on the same Yet being driuen to a great necessitie and thinking at length with labour so to sharpen the sayde broken néedle on the stone that I found that it might serue my turne I tooke vp the sayde stone wheron to my great maruel not only the broken néedle but also the néedle which before I had lost did hang cleaue or stick which whē I saw I knew

that stone was an Adamant stone wherby I did as well giue God thankes for his great goodnesse in sending me such a meane to finde my néedful néedle as also did find out and inuent the sayd dark and true Probleme thereof Omen As before you reueled your practise euent it séemed very darke and false so nowe since it is very plaine and true For though by the strength of yron the Adamant stone may be broken wherby he iustly may be called the stronger and the Adamant the weaker yet the Adamant stone being the weaker by his nature draweth yron the stronger vnto him as daily experience doth teach Now I pray you let me heare the thirde Siuqila You shall which if you marke well is as straunge and true as the rest A thing there is that hunger can not kill Another fine Probleme Although a thousand yeares it sleepeth still But once awakte it must feed by and by And still must eate it dyeth else presently Omen If it be as true as it is strange then is it well worthie to be noted If euery one of your countrey that of them selues can not find out the true meaning of it in a moneth should faste but a wéeke or else bestowe their one yeares vaine and prodigal expences on suche godly purposes as you could deuise and appoint then many shoulde haue their right that nowe are much wrōged many that want should then haue ynough many that goe pecorkly shoulde th●n goe derently many that liue riotously shoulde then liue moderately and many that die shortly by surffeting should liue long with temperate féeding Surely it is a very strange thing that can sléepe so long and neuer eate and when he is once awaked 〈…〉 or else die If it be not very néedefull and also such a thing 〈◊〉 can be spared it were a greate deale better and more profite to let hym sléepe stil than to awake him out of his sléepe For he muste needes be a very costly fellowe to kéepe that must be alwayes a feeding If he neuer stinte eating I thinke then hée will out eate his gaines as many loytring lubbers that spend more with their mouthes than they gette wyth their handes But nowe shewe the occasion that caused you to deuise it Siuqila I wil not lette to doe that As I was trauelling in the wilde wildernesse being very hungry I sodainely espyed a neste of yong Byrdes whyche were almoste ready to flie Omen But howe did you for fire to roste them for fire is there harde to get Siuqila Nay as I vsed the matter it was harder to find foode than to get fire I neuer goe without a tinder boxe especially when I trauel farre wherein I haue a flinte stone a stéele burned linte with matches so that when I hadde dressed my Byrdes I stroke fire out of the flint stone with my Stéele the sparkes whereof falling into the burned linte did take holde of the same and then I did therein light a matche dipped in brimstone whereby hauing wood there ynoughe at hande I made a fire and so I rosted the Byrdes and fed my hungrye mawe therewith and a●ter I had giuen God thankes for thus féeding me I fel into a greate admiration of thys maruelous worke of God and considered how strange a thing it was that Fyre the most hottest Element of al other should be included in erth being a colde Element And further in this déepe cogitation I considered A thing to bee considered that God had as greate a respect to the pore as to the rich for Fire is such a thing that no man aliue may want and God of his infinite goodnesse hathe so ordered the matter that the riche can not defraude the pore of fyre that are at libertie for in euery little flinte stone it is to be founde yea and there is ynough in one little stone for a whole Realm which is a wonderful simile in the déepest Philosophie that is Omen This is such a wonderful worke of God and so necessarie for all men that thousands that dayly sée the same and haue dayly a maruellous commoditie thereby do neyther thāk God therfore nor once consider gods miraculous worke therein And as God hath delt with the poore for fire so he hath done with all the other thrée Elements Ma●ke wel for the rich cannot defraude the poore of them nor the enuious person cannot take them frō his foe as long as they be at libertie for they are euery where to be had well may the riche locke the poore from them but they cannot locke them from the poore for as fire is common euery where and is to be founde in euery flinte stone so the aire which is the next Element to fire is in euery place and is cōmon both to man and beast And the water is so aboūdant both in Riuers and Springs euery where that the rich cannot waste it the poore cannot consume it nor all the beastes on the earth can deuour it And as for the earth it is the onely floure for all men and beastes to treade on so that in this pointe thoughe it be little regarded God is not only highly to be thanked but also to be maruellously magnified that he hath so louinglye and mercifully placed and distributed these his Elements whiche is fire ayre water and earth without which we cannot liue that the mightiest Emperour on the Earth nor the cruelst tyrant vnder the sun cannot kéepe nor locke any one of thē from the poorest wretch in the world wel they may locke him from them as is saide but they cannot lock them from him Siuqila Oh if we would consider these gods great giftes that he most liberally hath bestowed on the poore A maruellous immediating alliance aswel as on the rich we shold loue him better thā we do but marke what a maruellous knitting or cōbynatiō yea immediating alliāce one element hath with another in qualitie fire is hotte and dry he is hot of the nature of the ayre which is vnder him and dry of the nature of the earth which is the extreamest from him Ayre is hot and moyst hote of the qualitie of fire nexte aboue him and moyste of the qualitie of water next vnder him water is cold moyst moyst of the nature of aire next aboue him colde of the nature of erth which is next vnder him erth is colde dry cold of the nature of water that is next aboue him dry of the nature of fire which is next in order to him And herein is gret misteries to be considered according to philosophy Omen God is maruellous as well in these as in al other his workes in numero pondere mensura omnia fecit deus nowe I sée by the stricking of the fire out of the flinte stone you framed finelie this pithie probleme A thing there is that hunger cannot kill Although a thousand yeres it sleepeth still But once awakte it