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
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

wordes according to the vulgar eye there be nine temperatures are blazond out among the phisicions 4. simple according to the foure first qualities heat drines moi●ture coldnes the other 4. be compound as hot and drie hot moist cold and moist c. the contrarieties bee in no body according to their eminencie and valour but onely comparatiuely as hot and cold is agreeable to no nature according to their predominancies drie moist competent to none not in the height of their degrees for as in political affairs one kingdome or seat cannot brooke 2. Monarchs or compeers as Lucan saith Omnisque potestas Impatiens consortis erit c. No Potērate admits an equal yea through ciuil garboils and mutinies their eger contention ruinates and often dissolues the sinewes of the common weale So happens it in the naturall body where the qualities are equaliz'd in strength there must needs be action and reaction a bustling and strug ling together so long till there be a conquest of the one which no doubts wil soon di●euer the partes and rend a sunder the whole compound yet these twaine may I meane drines and moisture or cold and hot bee competent to the same subiect by comparing them with others in other subiects as man is both hot and cold hot in re gard of such bodies as are of a colde constitution as in regard of the femall sex which abounds with moisture hotte in compare with an Asse which is reported among the Philosophers to be of an exceeding colde constitution which may euidently appear by his slow pace by shoes made of his skin by that chill water of th' Arcadian M●acris which for the extreame coldnes cannot be contained in any vessell saue the hoofe of an Asse Man is hot in comparing him with the Salamander the Torpedo and the Pirausta Could in respect of the Lion the Struthio-camell or O Estridge which will con coctiron or Leather the Sparrow Cock Pig●on and Dog and these are rather to be tearmed distemperaments The ninth and the last is called temperamentum ad pondus of which wee spake erst not in any but onely in conceit But how euery temperature is good or bad how their mixtures implye an excellent and healthfull or a diseased estate as if in mans body the chiefe valour of fire concur with the tenuity of water or the grossest substance of water with the purest tenuity of fire be conioind or the strength and quintescence of sire with the thickest part of humour ruling in one or the purest and ra rest parts of fire with the thinnest and clea rest substance of water what temperature all these import looke Hippoc. in his booke de victus ratione lib. 1. sect 4. A temper also as it is vsually taken may be referred to the equall proportion of radicall heate to inbred moisture when they are like aegeo powerfull to the excellency and purity of the blood to the subtilty of the spirits to asupple soft and tender skin to mollified and smooth haires to the amiable and beautifull feature to affability and gratious deliuery of speech to a buxome pliable refined wit to a wise moderation of anger to the vassalizing of the rebellious affections all which when we see to iumpe together in one or the most of them we say that man or that body hath a most happy tēper a rare composition a sweet complection Cap. 7. Of diuersities of wit and most according to tempers PLinie makes mention of king Pirrhus that he had a little pretious pearle of diuers resplēdent coulors commonly tearmed the Achates of our skilfull Lapidaries Wherin were admirably coadunated the nine Helicanian Ladies and Apollo holding his golden harpe Our soul● that princely ' Pirrhus or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that ign●us vigor quintessence or vertue of heauens fire as the poet cals it hath this rate gemme as an Achates dayly to consort with it wherein is not only a boure for the Muses to disport themselues in but also a harbor for wise Apollo to lodge in to wit ou● acute pleasant and actiue wit which can apparrell it selfe with more variable coulours and sute it selfe with more resemblances then either the Camelion or Polypus and like an industrious Bee taking her flight in to the fragrant fieldes of Minerua can gather such honnisuckle from the sweete● flowers as may feast with delicious dainties the hungry eares of the attentiue auditours if they deigne but to let their eares as once diuine Platoes mouth was bee the hiues or celles wherein to store vp their honny combes if they will suffer them to be as vessels ready to receiue and intertaine the Nectar-flowing words of wit It is caled among the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hethat's ●ossessed of it is tearmed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 excelling ●n actiue nature acute hauing a quicke in●ight into a thing a liuely cōceit of a thing ●hat can inuent with ease such witty pol●cies quirks and stratagems as hee that is ●ot of so sharpe a wit would euē admire ne euer can compasse It hath his sate in intel●ctu agente in the actiue vnderstanding which doth offer the species and idaeas of ob ●ects to the passiue there to bee discerned iudged of according to their real essēce As diuers and the most are indowed with wits so most wits are diuers in nature Ther ●s a Simian or apish wit an Arcad●an wit a 〈◊〉 wit a Scurril wit an Aenigmatical wit ●n Obscene wit an Autolican or embezel'd wit a Chance medlay wit and lastly there is ●smirke quick dextericall wit They that ●aue the first do onely imitate do apishly counterfeit and resemble a poet or an oratour or any man of excellence in any thing yet can they neuer climbe vp to the top of poetry whither his wit saspired whō they do imitate and as it was once said that it is impossible to get to the top of Pythagras his letter without Craesus golden ladder intimating that Haud facile em ergunt quorum virtutibus obstat res angusta domi No Eagle proues he but a silly Wren That soares without an Angels golden pen. that learnnig cannot climbe without golden steps so they can neuer attaine to his hie straine with their base leaden inuentions but are constrained either foolishly to go on vnto the Catastrophe or with disgrace and infamie being tired in the race of their owne fansies to make a full period long before the Catastrophe Thus Accius Labeo was an apish imitatou 〈◊〉 Homer An Arcadi● an wit is meant of hi● cum sono intempesti●o rudit a sellus when a man imagins hee singes harmoniously o● the nightingales sugred notes or like ●e of Camus swans when in deed he prou● no swan but rather a silly swaine Ledaos st●epit anser vt inter olores He is li●e aloud sack but intermedled with still musicke he brayes like an Arcadian asse he is conceited without reason as he was who among the