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
A54301	The compleat swimmer, or, The art of swimming demonstrating the rules and practice thereof in an exact, plain and easie method : necessary to be known and practised by all who studie or desire their own preservation / by William Percey, Gent.	Percey, William, Gent.	1658 (1658)	Wing P1454; ESTC R20550	29,227	94

waters which no fishes nor other creature can do SECT VI. What time of the year is to be observed Those that would learn to be perfect and expert in this Art must in their progress make several observations And first of the time of the yeer and the season of the month when to swim although if cruel Necessity compel we must not then respect the time of the yeer nor the water but be inured to swim in all times cold or hot and in any water but commodiously to chuse a time to commit our render skin to the water and to learn Experience in the Art of Swimming these four months are most proper viz. May June July August which yield a calm and temperate Air although in May there are sometimes rigid and sharp blasts and more hurtful then in the other months yet in that month and in all the other there is an Election of time to be taken and of the dayes for in the hottest months the water is on some dayes more cold and hurtful then in others yet from the twentieth day of May unto the twentieth of August we may commodiously adventure our Bodies in the water SECT VII Swimming in the night is not to be used As the time of the year is to be chosen by him that without hurt to himself would learn to swim so also are the dayes for the learner ought not to swim every day and not at all in the night for going into the water by night is altogether to be avoided Although it hath been much used because in the night the waters seem to be more warm then in the day-time yet dear-bought experience hath made many leave it off And though the waters seem warmer in the night then in the day-time yet the Sun the Author of heat light and life is absent and darkness is spread over us and the author of death lurkes in deep waters And in the night many deadly dangers occur and that suddenly and unthought of As boughs stubbs mudd flaggs weeds quick-sands and infinite other dangers of present death And if you do fall into danger to whom can you call in the night for help And besides these dangers the night it self may be the cause of many more As fumes and thick poisonous vapours arising from the water hurtful and noisom vapours in the Air by reason of the absence of the Sun Toades snakes and other hurtful poisonous things abroad And although the moneth be very hot yet every day it is not good to go into the water SECT VIII It is not good to Swim every day The days and hours are also to be observed by the diligent learner the knowledge whereof we shall now lay down unto you for there are some days and hours more hurtful then all others and more obnoxious to these Aquatical and watery exercises in which the Air is much more raw and crude then in others and the water therefore more cold and the exercise consequently more dangerous which are the days and hours of the Change or New Moon especially if it happen in earthly or watery fignes it renders the waters more cold the Stomack raw and crude And therefore the body is the more unfit to endure the water is more unapt to swim and therefore in more danger of drowning the same same rule is when the Moon passeth earthly or watery Signes or the Sun and Moon suffering an Eclipse in any such Signes SECT IX When it raines Swimming is not to be practised Youth do oftentimes with pleasure purchase ensuing pain and sorrow which in this Art to avoid be careful in observing the rules thereof therefore in cloudy or rainy weather attempt not to go into the water for the falling of the rain is alwayes accompanied with a cold and moist Air unprofitable to the body hurtful to the eyes and to the whole man bringing many inconveniences The bankes also of the river are diligently to be observed where we intend to go into the water for there are many fit and commodious places and many dangerous and discommodious let therefore such banks be chosen as are not sandy not full of soft clay nor muddy for therein your feet may stick so that you cannot get out neither let it be a place growing full of weeds or grasse for therein often lurk Toades Froggs and other noisome and hurtful vermine But chuse a solid hard dry gravelly bank with green grass growing in the Meadow by the rivers side flourishing with flowers SECT X. The waters are to be searched A convenient bank being chosen as before is directed yet before we attempt to go into the waters the River is diligently to be sounded and searched that is that the water be clear and clean upon the top without any grasse straw stickes leaves froth or any sordid and unclean superfluities upon the top then we are with a carefull penetrating eye to look unto the bottom and diligently observe whether it be pure and cleane And that there be no earth or other thing fallen thereinto from above nor no filth cast therein And that it be not muddy for such a place is altogether to be shunned And then we are certainly to inform our selves of the depth of the water of the quantity and quality of the bottom where it is deep and where shallow for if it be muddy and shallow in one place and suddenly falling into deep holes in another or muddy such a place to the unskilful Swimmer is very ●angerous And if you be a skilful Artist in Swimming yet in waters which are muddy at the bottom unlesse the water be very deep you may oftentimes have no cause to boast of your attempting therein for if your leggs happen to stick in the mudd the water will soon be a deadly covering for your head And if one should have such an unhappy chance as to stick in the mudd by how much the more he strives to deliver himself out by so much the deeper he stickes into the bottom unlesse happily the mudd lie but thin and not very deep having firm ground underneath then he having standing for his feet may raise himself up therefore a cleer stream having a firm hard sandy or gravelly bottom which may plainly be seen is to be chosen by boyes and learners to swim And therefore whenever you intend to exercise the Art of Swimming first walk round the banks of the water before you adventure into it diligently observing the depth and bottom of the same having to that purpose a fishingrod or some such thing with a line and a plummet of Lead affixed there unto where with you may plainly and exactly try the depth of every place which be sure to try everywhere until you are well acquainted with the degrees of the water in every place And never presume to go into any water which you are not acquainted withall until you are a skilful Swimmer and seldom or never venture into any water alone without a tutor or a

they have them all This is done with a great deal of expedition by Swimming under water circularly 'T is done by the faculty of the hands winding about the water with a great deal of activity winding them from the right to the left if you intend to turn to the right if to the left then the involution or turning of the hand proceeds from the contrary part or side When you pass by any thing lost in the water by a straight jumping in then you correct your error by a circular motion and in all Swimming under water you must have a care of going no lower then he hath light to shew him his way for if the water is obscured and your eye likewise this is a sign that you are crept too far under the bank or gone too deep or under a cock-boat or some such thing deceiving your sight of the beams of the light and covering or darkning the superficies or top of the water to have erred not without danger Now the difficulty is how to escape when you can neither see any thing nor call on any body nor rise up nor freely breath The onely and surest remedy is first to keep out of such thick obscure places but if you are obscured so through your hasty and speedy course remember which way you came and return in a direct line backward endeavouring to rise upward for the light will appear to you a great length above all be very careful that you breath not under water but if the enemy stand on the shoar with their mortal darts or arrows and keep you under longer then you can well bear then we have recourse to SECT LI. The Nimbleness of the Dolphin This teacheth you to rise up and go down bobbing up your head a little and so draw breath then down again with safety which may be done by those that are put to this extremity to save their lives five hundred paces together chiefly in the Summer and that with very little or no danger They that try this with some of the forementioned kinds of Swimming forward with their face downward do presently sink themselves the deeper the safer so that they can but see Swimming forward thus under water till they can no longer without prejudice and hurt to themselves hold their breath Then proceeding by degrees let them begin to rise and when they see through the clearness of the light that they are almost at the top let them of a suddain pop up their head and having breathed a little let them down again to the bottom of the water going forward according to their pleasure more or less and let them do this as often as the danger and present occasion requires Thus having related unto you these secrets with all possible brevity and succinctness viz. how a man may be safe and secure from receiving any danger by the water when he is in or under the water nay from any danger or enemy that prosecutes and follows us on the shoar what remains now but SECT LII The last Act or posture in Swimming Although the longer or more you swim you do it the better and with more grace yet after you have staid a sufficient while in the water you must go to shoar lest your members and joynts through the too nipping cold of the water as mine begin to be at present be benummed with the water Therefore when you are well wash'd and all the parts of your body clean return to the place that is most fit and commodious for you which ought to have been sought out before you committed your body to the tender and soft footing of the water and this must be done or at least I used to do it with my face upwards on my back or belly or side or by a supine retrogradation or returning on my back being upon the shore wrap your self in your cloke and having got a crust in your hand with your shoes slipt on run about the green fields leaping and playing The eating of bread belongs also to this Art very much for after the languishing digestion of the hungry Stomack it gathers and raiseth up the spirits within removes the pains of the head that are often the effects of too long Swimming it restores the heat renews the colour recreates the heart and finally exhilarates or enlivens the whole body These things have I related to you at present with much hast and according to my time I have instructed you how to behave your self like a Proteus in the water or A Sea-God to appear in several shapes which you may soon attain to with neatness and perfection so you frequent the River of Thames twice or thrice a day As for me I shall cordially rejoyce if my water-work hath promoted you a degree higher in the Art of Swimming But I forget my self Phebus is gone to bed and he honours Swimming so far as first to water his horses and the wearied hours of the day give place to the sable mantle of the night Now 't is time to sound a retreat and lest I should too much offend your weak Stomack by being so long on the water I le return to my proper Element the Land I am so reall hearted to this Nation that I have pen'd down and directed several wayes how men may avoid drowning As for that usual disaster that attends them by Land this is my Letany Good Lord deliver them Amen FINIS