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	hot_a	moist_a	5,078	5	10.3751	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43173	Proteus redivivus, or, The art of wheedling or insinuation obtain'd by general conversation and extracted from the several humours, inclinations, and passions of both sexes, respecting their several ages, and suiting each profession or occupation / collected and methodized by the author of the first part of the English rogue.	Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?	1675 (1675)	Wing H1272; ESTC R13684	160,760	370

parts for no other reason but because he finds it a difficult thing to circumvent them Every mans happiness he measures by their Mony and therefore nick-names Thrive-well to do well and Preferment he profanely calls the Grace of God He knows no other content than when his Plots hit right purchasing him Mony Gallantry and the variety of Town-pleasures at these Marks all his Studies aim at and he holds as an idle thing all other speculation Thus much of the Wheedle in general I shall more at large Characterize or Paint him in his proper Colours when I shall treat of the several sorts of Wheedles or Town-shifts in the variety of their Mysterious Practices and Devices CHAP. IV. What are the Praecognita or things first necessary to be known before the Student in this Art of Wheedling enter upon the Practice of the Profession I Have in the foregoing Chapters given you an Account of the Nine first requisite Qualifications of our Wheedle in the next place I shall endeavour to discover what other things he consults for his Advantage before he puts in practice his Art of Insinuation which indeed are the principal discoverers in the profitable Science of reading or knowing Men. Man is a difficult Book to be read if we only take an outward view of his Person and Actions for without much caution and circumspection they may both prove dangerously deceitful though it 's said That the Face is the Index of the Mind yet Experience tells us it is no infallible Indicium of the Nature or Disposition of the Person For which cause Socrates would not believe his own Eyes but his Ears rather for when a Youth was highly commended to him for his excellent Parts and great endowments of Mind he did not pry into his outward Feature which was admirable and needed not to have demurred his approbation of him if that lovely hew and sweet countenance would have done it but took a contrary way by asking him Loquere puer ut te videam which Seneca alluded to in one of his Epistles Videre non eloqui nec videre est which puts me in mind of an Italian Proverb A Lucca te vidi a Pisa te conobbi I saw thee at Lucca I knew thee at Pisa he had an external superficial View of him at one place but by converse he gain'd an inward acquaintance with him in another Yet it must nor be denied but that the Eye is the Casement of the Soul through which we may plainly see it as one lately saw the Pride of a Rich Phanatick through his thread-bare holy Cloak as he was going to a Conventicle upon one of his own Solemn Days of Humiliation The Tongue is the truest Touchstone of the Heart and Herauld of the Mind but not always for what is more deceitful and treacherous than it how sweetly will it Wheedle to obtain its end lye and flatter to propagate Interest and hath so full a command and power over the Heart that it can utter nothing without her assistance and when the Tongue pleaseth will corruptedly speak what the Heart dictated Again as one well observes all is not Gold that glisters and it was well observed by a Philosopher concerning a young man that was well proportioned and spoke ill a Leaden Rapier in a Golden Sheath Nero's Beard in a Golden Box wrinkled Faces and rugged Brows lurk under smooth Paint a rotten Nutmeg gilt over or a gaudy outside with a Baudy rotten inside an old deformed Woman in a New-fashion'd Gown yet on the other side when we see a Body well framed as wrought out of the purest Virgin-wax as tempered with the cunning hands of beauty and favour enriched with the very prodigality of Nature shall we say this golden Mine affords only leaden Metal This is no wonder no rare thing to see Wit Wisdom and Virtue in fellowship or in one House-hold with Beauty wherefore we must not censure too far by the outward resemblance or else to instruct knowledge it self in this That always to see is not to know Neither can any see the Deformity of the Soul by the blemishes of the Body not but that a man may give a shrewd conjecture and many a hanging look hath presaged his certain going to the Gallows some years before the approach of that sad Catastrophe I cannot deny but that we may gather something from outward appearances for men largely sized are seldom witty Men we find little Eyes in men betoken crafty and circumventing Dispositions in Women salacity or lechery with an obstinate selfish humour a great head a small wit goggle eyes a stark staring fool great ears a dull heavy Ass large breasted long liv'd a plain unfurrowed brow liberal thick nails harsh hair and a gross hard skin are certain signs of a dull understanding a fat belly bespeaks a little ingenie because the subtile Spirits are affected with gross and turbulent Fumes which darken the understanding Fat Panches make lean Pates and grosser bits Enrich th' Ribs but Bankrupt quite the Wits This will not hold good if you examin the great Wit notwithstanding the corpulent Body of Doctor R. W. Now since these are no certain Signs which may direct us to the knowledge of Mankind let us consider what other helps remain which I find to be four very important and necessary to be understood by all the Students of this Art or Science viz. The four Temperaments or Humours Inclinations Passions and Conversation of these I shall speak in order CHAP. V. Of the four Principal Humours or Complexions Of the Sanguine ALL Natural Bodies have their composition of the mixture of the four Elements Fire Air Water and Earth from the Dominion of any of these or their qualities each Temperament or Constitution hath its Denomination thus Sanguine hath its original from Air Choler from Fire Phlegm from Water and Melancholy from Earth now the Blood is hot and moist Choler hot and dry Water cold and moist the Earth cold and dry The golden Crasis or Sanguine Complexion is as T. W. describeth it at large with much Learning and Rhetorick The Pride of Humours the Paragon of Complexions and the Prince of all Temperaments And as a Potentate he continues his Metaphor thus You cannot but admire him if you view him in those Princely Scarlet Robes he is always invested with seated in a Kingly Throne and placed in the midst of our Earthly City next take notice of his Officers I mean the Veins and Arteries which are spread throughout his whole Politeia yea dispersed in every Angle to execute his Commands and carry the lively influence of his goodness reviving those remote parts which without his influence would be frettished with a chilness and in a short time be mortified Then consider his wise subtle Counsellors which daily consort with him for the welfare of his whole Kingdom the limpid Spirits the very seat of Divine reason it self the fountains of Policy c. If we poize all