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
A69163	Paradise within us: or, The happie mind. By Robert Crofts	R. C. (Robert Crofts)	1640 (1640)	STC 6043; ESTC S116646	41,645	221

use such and onely such of them as we can with most conveniency attaine unto and thinke most-necessary Besides Physitians say that sometimes to digresse herein is not amisse So as the same be but seldom and so as we usually apply our selves to a temperate and convenient Diet otherwise by a continuall and constant too precise and strict though good diet and custome the stomacke will not be able to endure occasionall errours And sometimes Changes and Varieties though in some respects inconvenient doe whet and provoke the stomacke to good digestion Yet certainely it is very good to know even precisely what is most fit and convenient for us And as at a marke most usually to direct our minds thereunto And also as neare as wee may conveniently without too much nicenesse to observe the same and to apply our selves most willingly thereunto knowing the good effects thereof which are many and of great consequence both to the welfare of the body and happinesse of the Mind For by such a due convenient order and diet many Diseases and Infirmities may bee prevented And such as have already seised upon us may by this meanes be cured or at least mittigated Thereby also the body becomes in good state and temper and is made healthy agill and apt to performe all the motions and offices belonging thereunto Sound and quiet sleepe is thereby also caused and likewise a good stomacke so as meat and drinke becomes most pleasant to us also well digested and good bloud humours and spirits ingendred Life it selfe is thereby prolonged And by reason thereof usually ensues a quiet and happy dissolution The Sences and Memory are thereby also made sound and cleere The affections and passions well tempered and the whole mind made free cheerefull and apt to performe the exercises and functions thereof And during life to enjoy all good pleasures both Terrestriall and heavenly He then who would this happy mind enjoy Should keepe his body well without annoy So may his mind become prepared well For vertues happinesse therein to dwell The sweetest joyes hee 's fit and apt to gaine A Paradice of pleasures to obtaine THE IV. DIVISION Directions concerning Phlegmaticke Complexions such as are of Slow Dull Idle heavie minds exciting to Quicknesse Livelinesse and Cheerefulnesse FOrasmuch therefore as the disposition welfare and felicity of the mind doth very much agree to and in some sort depend upon the Temperature of the body as hath beene declared I shall in the following Divisions briefly discourse of the principall passions and affections of the Mind observing a method therin according as the same are most incidēt to the foure severall humours and complexions prescribing some mixt directions both Physically and Philosophically and sometimes perchance also Divinely for Divinity doth likewise much encrease the Morall happinesse of the Mind First concerning such in whom the humour of Phlegme doth abound which is a cold and moyst humour These men if they adict themselves to vertue and goodnesse are commonly gentle quiet free from choller and anger civill honest and harmelesse people But if to vicious Courses they become Carelesse Inconsiderate lazy Drones Dull Sottish Heauy Ignorant Forgetfull Low-spirited and of weake apprehension full of base sordid lusts and affections Hating the most excellent vertues and also vertuous men because their Sottish Lazy dulnesse and Carelessenesse makes them uncapable or unfit to conceive or equall the others vertues and worth Wherefore such as are of a Phlegmaticke Complexion To keepe themselves in as good temper of body mind as they may to prevent or mitigate cold and moist distempers as Rheums Distillations Catarrhes and a multitude of maladies proceding from thence to which they are most subject also To rectifie refine and reduce to a better temper their over-cold moyst and grosse humours and spirits and to quicken revive elevate and cheere their slow dull heavie minds making the same apt to enjoy all happiness Let them observe such directions as follow First Physically Let them if it be requisite in the Spring and Autumne purge out those over-over-cold and tough humours in the body by such meanes as are appropriated for this purpose and as the learned Physitian shall advise them and also diminish and consume the same by avertors and Correctors of such Phlegmaticke humours and extenuating and digesting the same by the distilled waters of such Hearbs as heate and dry but especially by avoyding such a cold and moist kind of diet as is hurtfull to this Complexion and using a contrary good and Temperate diet and Custome Let them therefore as much as they may in a convenient manner without too much nicenesse and perplexity eschew such cold and moist things as are hurtfull Such as are cold water and hearbs which are moist and cold in operation as Lettuce Sorrell Endive Succory Cucumers and the like also Fish cold raw milke and all kinds of crude raw over-over-moist cold dyet Let them also avoid vnusuall cold and moist Aire much sleepe Idlenesse sottishnesse and lumpishnesse Also they are to apply themselves to a contrary order of Diet and custome such especially as is moderately hot and dry Let them sometimes especially in winter use spices as Nutmegs Cloves Macis Ginger especially greene Ginger and condite in honey Cassia Cinamon and the like stamped into Powder reduced into Syrrups or otherwise Raisens also and Currans doe moderately humect and calefie as also Honey likewise Almonds Nuts and Filberds so as they be eaten sparingly are good for them Anacardus is very good to dissolve Phlegme that is cold moist and viscous Insomuch as it is said It restoreth them that are stricken with an Appoplexy and that the same effect may be brought to passe with Oximell Scillet and Aquavitae wherein a few graines of Rocket may be steeped Embrocations and brothes profit much if they be made of the flowers of Meliot and Camomill also Marjoram Origan Bettony Sage Lawrell-leaves Fennell Parcelly and such like Confection made with Baulme Hyssope Savory Stychas also Bettony Cowslips Marjoram Penny Royall young Cresses Germander Angelico Vervin Setwell Mirrhe Pepper-wort Basill-rootes and all such hearbs and rootes as are hot and dry in operation are good for this purpose Also it is good to eate such Diet as is easie of digestion dry and warme not too fat and foggy Meat roasted rather then sod Bread white and well baked To use commonly such Beere as is cleere somwhat stale and well hopt their Wine to be pure thin and piercing as white-Wine and old Sacke It is good for them to eate bur sparingly especially at Supper and to eate a Crust or some other hard and dry morsell at the end of a Meale after Drinke It is also good for them to use commonly in a warm and cleere Ayre Not to sleepe too much To rise early especially in the Spring and Summer To stretch the Body every morning often to use exercise and moving of the Body Especially such exercises as quicken and recreate

Flouters Gibers and adding to other mens miseries very rash haire-brain'd and violent often throwing themselves unadvisedly upon evill actions and as suddainly againe wish they had not Variable Unstable unconstant unquiet seditious testy quarrelsome notable maintained of vice and wickednesse Cursers Swearers Roarers Tyrants angry and furious Let such ment heretore as are of this Chollericke humour and Complexion To maintaine their bodyes and minds in good temper to prevent or mittigate hote and dry maladies and distempers which are most subject to men of this Complexion Such as are inflamations of the Heart Liver Humours and Spirits and divers Diseases and distempers which usually spring from thence and to allay the unruly violent rash Chollerick passions and perturbations of the mind most subject to men of this humour to reduce the same to or mainetaine the same in a good and laudable temper and disposition And so to make the same fit and apt to perform all good offices and actions and to enjoy all good pleasures and happinesse observe such directions as follow Let them in a fit season purge out those evill excessive Cholericke humours of the body by such medicines as are usually appropriated for the same purpose and let them allay the heate thereof as much as they may conveniently by all coole and moyst things So let them also eschew such things as are hote and dry such Spices hearbs and diet as is before prescribed to bee used by cold and moyst complexions Also hot waters and strong hot Wine and Drinkes long watching excessive exercise and sweating Also anger and all perturbations of the Minde which doe much heate and distemper their bodies are also as much as may bee to be avoided by them But on the contrary let them commonly use a cold and moist kind of Diet Meates of good digestion Solid meats which are not too hot and salt are not amisse for them Fishes are cooling and good for them especially fresh fish It is said that in the Spring or Autumne sometimes to dip their bread in cold water is good to coole the heat of their stomacke liver and humours Reasonable small Beere fresh and coole is best for them to use as ordinary drinke And sometimes especially in the Spring it is good to allay the heat of their Wine with water borrage and the like Vinegar is very coole in operation therefore sometimes although tart is not amisse for them Julip of Roses and their Conserves two or three houres before meales especially in the Spring time are good to be used by men of this Complexion as also Syrrup of the infusion of Roses of Water-lillies and water of Borrage and Sychory All coole Hearbes are good for them as Endive Sorrell Lettuce Succory Buglosse Borrage Fumitory Violets Roses Strawberry-leaves Primrose Burnet Germander Orage Mallowes Spinage the hearbe Patience Purslane Water lillies Dragon-woort and the like Also Straw-berries Cherries Goose-berries Sanders Camphire Mellons or Citrons Cucumers the juyce of Apples especially bak't or roasted after the same is cooled stewed Prunes and the syrrup thereof also Whay especially clarified and in the Spring-time and so likewise all coole distilled Waters Syrrups Julips c. They may allow themselves a larger quantity both of meate and drinke then the Phlegmaticke so as their diet be not too strong hot hard and dry but rather coole moist and soluble for a plentiful diet doth allay their too light wandring Phantasticke passionate and vnstable Spirits and provoketh them to sleepe rest and quietnesse So also to rest and sleepe as much as they may and quietly is very good to coole and allay their hot and turbulent Spirits for sleep doth moisten and coole the body and consequently thicken and allay the extravagant lightnesse wandring and heate or the Spirits Therefore to make them rest-and sleepe well Violets sod Lettuce Syrrup of Roses Saffron Baulme Nitre Watergruell Apples eat before going to bed and as some say a good draught of cold water in the Spring and Summer sometimes are good to make young folkes and such as have strong hote Chollericke stomacks to sleepe well and soundly Voluntary extasies and fixed profound meditations joyned with a quiet mind doe thicken and allay the Spirits So as by these or some of these remedies observed onely with conveniency and without too much nicenesse and perplexity the excessive heate of the Heart Liver Choller Bloud and other humours will bee allayd and qualified And consequently the Stomacke Braine Spirits and in summe the whole body and mind become of a good temper and well disposed to performe all goodnesse to enjoy all happinesse Thus much concerning Physicall Remedies Now further concerning the dispositions of the Mind most incident to this Chollericke humour and to direct and rectifie the same First inasmuch as the spirits issuing from this hot and impetuous humour of Choller which in vertues wayes excite to Resolution fortitude to active speedy worthy desires and actions being corrupted by vice excites the mind to that haughty top-lesse and towring vice of Ambition which is most commonly resident in great and fiery spirits let us endeavour to rectifie our minds herein by such considerations as follow Let us first thinke of the vanity of this vice of Ambition which maketh a man plunge himselfe into a multitude of restlesse cares paines and perplexities to gaine only the windy praises and aiery estimation of men whose minds are most unconstant and wavering But the miseries of this vice are many Ambition hath beene the cause of much Sedition Warres Strife Murder Ruine and Destruction of Empires Kingdomes Cities and Multitudes of Families and persons The same is the fountaine of Pride Ingratitude Insolency perfidiousnesse Enuy Mutiny Contention Sedition and Treason A multitude of vaine plots purposes Cares Jealousies Envies Perplexities Immoderate and unsatiable desires feares griefes and discontents spring from this Founiaine It often brings men to a great and miserable downe-fall Let us also consider That there are no men who live more pleasantly and happily on Earth then such who are free frō such vaine Empty Haughty unsatiable and perplexfull desires such as are meeke and moderate therein Contented and pleased in all estates and conditions Such vertuous men are indeed truly honourable truly happy But now concerning such dispositions of the mind as are more properly incident to this Chollerick humour such as are Anger Rashnesse fury and the rest which spring from thence Let us consider the miseries and evill effects thereof But in this ensuing discourse against Chollericke angry passions I doe not meane a moderate necessary Anger which is used onely with reason and discretion for some good purpose and presently extinct againe according to that divine Councell Bee angry but finne not Let not the Sonne goe downe vpon your wrath c. But J meane in this following discourse onely vitious as vnnecessary customary Immoderate passions in this kind and such as proceeds from envie malice revenge and the like Let us know that a multitude