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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	drink_v	honey_n	wine_n	9,133	5	9.1359	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51439	Lusus serius, or, Serious passe-time a philosophicall discourse concerning the superiority of creatures under man / written by Michael Mayerus ...; Lusus serius. English	Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622.; Hall, John, 1627-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing M286; ESTC R7027	62,551	168

formidable and victorious there is no Creature swifter than we even through the Aire it selfe Alexander whom I just now mentioned and Julius C●sar used alwayes incredible celerity and by this meanes victoriously over-ran the best part of the known World which doubtlesse they had never done had they ever admitted doubts into councell or delayes in execution Hence Alexander being asked by what means he subdued so many Kingdomes in so short a time answered {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by delaying nothing The other in a very short space fought over all Pompey's parties in three parts of the World never failing of victory in respect his swiftnesse prevented all the Councells and Designes of the Enemy even so we by their example very nimbly and quickly strike our enemies with our little Javelins but 't is onely when we are provok'd by an injury our indulgent Mother nature having given us these weapons for the rooting out drones hornets and other mischievous insects For as the common proverb sayes very truly He that puts up one injury proffers himselfe to receive another Besides A generous minde most easily awakes T is true we are slow to anger but if we be provok'd much more furious than possibly could have been imagined such petit Animals could be Magna etenim est nobis in parvo corpore virtus We in small Bodies make great vertues shine It was said of Tyd●us a very little man but of a vast and Gigantick spirit For vertue inclos'd in a narrow roome becomes stronger by compression and rushes out with a more vigorous violence upon its enemies Notwithstanding all this though we be so powerfull in armes and enjoy so great a command we do not offer injury to any no we offer no affront or injustice to our professed enemies the sordid robbers of our Hives those people who absolutely desertlesse do not onely envy us the fruits of our owne labours but in seeking them seeke our lives also Yet in the heat of our wrath and agitation with a little tinckling of Musick we are presently pacifi'd as great Warriours have been said to be charm'd out of their warlike humour into softnesse and retirement We are therefore a Musicall Creature and in this not unlike to Man Let no Creature brag here that his garbage is fit for Musick and instruments we our selves are living and moving instruments perpetually cheering our selves while we labour in our chymicall extractions and upon the hearing of any other noyse easily appeas'd Hic Rhodus hic salta nam quae non fecimus ipsae Vix ea nostra voco Here 's Rhodes here Dance what 's by another done Belonging not to us we cannot owne We during life sing and not as mutes after death are inspired by others as the Sheepe and Goose ridiculously glory we send forth a sound which is very pleasant and all agreeable tunes are wellcome to us of which we our selves are the fittest judges none other But as to the profits accrewing by us unto Man I shall speake a little and were there nothing else certainly we ought not to be debarr'd this claime of Royalty The benefits accrewing from our little Nation are large and vast and they especially consist in two things What have you sweeter what pleasanter what more healthfull than Honey Hence an old man very fresh and lusty in his old Age being demanded by what means so many happy and healthy yeares had attended him he replied it was by using Honey within his Body and Oyle without Honey therefore is an ingred●ent principally contributing both to length of Life and Preservation of sanity t is most delightfull to children acceptable to Women and salubrious to the aged Of this many Nations make drinke as good as Wine but much more convenient for many maladies This is made use of in colder Diseases to which the Northerne Nations are subject to with very happy effect they call it Hy● dromel or Mead or Metheglin c. because it is made of Water and Honey as they do oenomeli because it is made of Wine and Honey From Honey and us the Mothers of it that invincible Heroe Sampson put a considerable riddle as we reade in Scripture Of the making of Honey and the Government of Bees Virgill and other excellent Writers ●●ade it their businesse to write whole volumes which with so much curiosity and diligence they had not performed had they not seriously considered our utility to Mankinde In medicine Honey is of divers great uses besides the former drinks which we have mention'd both in preserving and assisting the vertues of simples as in Roses and innumerable others and though to the Cholerick and splenetick it is not so convenient by reason of their incumbent distemper yet to flegmatick and melancholy men it is an excellent remedy joyn'd with other things So much shall suffice as to Honey whose excellencies to enumerate in particular I might spend the whole day but I must confine my selfe We are now to speake of our Wax from which Man reapes three extraordinary advantages The first is that of Wax-candles which are not onely exceedingly usefull in Churches and sacred places but also in private Houses In Churches it is apparent in that we burne a perpetuall Holocaust as it were unto the Almighty prolonging our flame much more longer then any thing else which is accensible which is knowne to the generality of Mankinde where we have been in use not onely Christians but Heathens themselves for the one courts their Idols and Devils the other their Saints Confessors with waxe and ceremonies 'T is we that offer our first fruits to God and our T●thes to the Church We are the principall Architects that design our wax in our Escurials in which all the wit of man hath not been to understand or follow us nor the ingenuity of Artificers to counterfeit us And in this consideration we must needs appeare to be not onely subservient to Religion but very contributary to Man himselfe in which double discharge of out duty we farre out-strip all other For private houses none will call it in question that hath been in the Palaces and Hostel's of Kings and Princes at whose tables in the night we diligently watch consuming our selves to be serviceable to them which istruly the character of a King and therefore owing to us as the authors of so great a benefit Secondly it must be remembred that in all medicines outwardly applyed to the body of man as in plaisters salves and ointments it is Wax that gives its assistance and that to all affections of parts and diseases besides the oyles that are drawn from it are of very great use The last but most considerable is that the Ancients had waxen Tables and Bookes enriched and embellished with all kindes of Sciences and at this day as formerly men preserve Seales those faithfull witnesses of all contracts impressed upon it to the great profit of all Cōmon-wealths As for Books and Tables all agree

Silver or other kinde of Plate yet they enforce me to serve either their use or Magnificence I am also imployed in abundance of Mechanicall operations some use me in Fishing for the light and splendor I throw about me some use me for the fourbishing of Armes some for the better moving and poizing of Engines which particularly to insist on I thinke not necessary in this place But in Medicine I contribute such admirable advantage unto Man When I am pulveriz'd either with Gold or any other Body so it be not corrosive or noxious that I am the best Purgative Nature hath given us This dust although it be but meanly prepar'd as it hath the name and attribute of Aurelian is a Panchymagôgon a Generall Medicine which I cannot aver to purpose without a particular discourse of all particular Physick yet see here most sage Judge to make good this point I shall deliver some things that may very much conduce to the service of your selfe and the rest of your Brethren and my method shall be this First I will tell you the vertue of this Aurelian powder then of the use and way of Administration and lastly I shall mention its admirable operation and effects For the first as to its vertues it is highly Soveraigne for all these diseases and affections which proceed from any humours whether antecedent or restaynant With time they are immunerable I shall not bring them hither upon a precise accompt but onely in generall that it roots out and chases away all putrid Feavours Gouts Swellings and Obstructions of any part as also the great Pox Palsies lesser Apoplexyes Hypocondriack Melancholy palenesse and Jaundise in Women the Jaundise Chachexys and growing Dropsies for drawing out and evacuating any humours descending unto and fermenting in the Bladder which it does most powerfully whether it be Wind Phlegme Choler or Melancholy as any matter Joyntly-Coagulated by them In the Gout it is the surest remedy which may well suffice since under that name there are almost an hundred diseases compriz'd though frequently lurking under more Common or different shapes In Fluxes inflamations and the like affection● the dissolution of continuity it may be very advantagiously used and upon experience hath done a great deale of good but never any hurt but rather as in the maladies before mentioned hath ever afforded present reliefe with Gods assistance Secondly For the Dose it is one two or three grains to sixe or more commonly three in children of three yeares old two to them of two in other that are stronger foure or six for the encrease of the Dose is not dangerous and the reason is because it gently draws the Humours into the Stomach as the Magnet does Iron to it workes not violently at all it is taken most commonly in Fountaine water or some hot-Hot-water as spirit of Wine Cinnamon water Aniseed water Agnus Castus spirits or any other especially in diseases not extreamely hot in themselves as Burning Feavers hot distempers or inflamation of the Liver in which cases it is better taken in cold water Carduus Benedictus Endive or Rhenish Wine or any other liquor or in Diet or Meales in which it is m●st proper Thus used put one Dose into a spoonfull of liquor and stirring it well up with your finger drinke it off hastily that so it may descend into the Stomach if there stay any thing either in the Spoon or the Throat wash it so often with the same liquor till you have drunke it all and are sure to have taken the full Dose But this must be done in the morning keeping your selfe warme in Bed neither sleeping eating nor drinking upon it But in case of necessity it may be taken out of Bed and businesse may be dispatch'd some as melancholy persons may stirre abroad if the skie be clear and persons in health It is given without any danger to all ages as to children of two or three years old nay to old Men in whom you must consider abundance of Humours lest they be too much stirred but in children there needs not so much Caution Thirdly for the Operation it is thus if the Ayre be warme or the Patient keep himself so and drinke warme broths if he have a full body the humours work well and Plentifully otherwise if the Ayre be cold and he keep not himselfe warm nor make use of an hot Vehicle and his body be thin and extenuated this Medicine will work much lesse or not at all if any should suddenly sleep drink or eat upon it or casually take it in Pills he would not want acquaintance of the effects of it violently moderately or not at all it never does any harme for it hath not the Nature of other violent Purgatives to doe mischiefe in case it faile of Operation But commonly this is the effect of it after you have taken it in a fitting liquor if the disease be Phlegme or any crude matter this though it be thick tough and clammy is drawn out of the Mesariack veines and the parts adjacent into the bottom of the Stomack where the Medicine seats it self where if any considerable quantity be gathered there arises a little loathing which if it encrease it causes a desire of vomiting which provoking and causing frequent spitting throws out and egests all but more easily by putting the finger in the throat and by this means the ventricle being eas'd and evacuated and freed from all that filthy matter that clog'd it which being preserv'd in a Bason till there be no further Spitting or Vomiting you will finde that sometimes one two or three pound of ugly matter is gently drawne out without much straining and that with immediate ease and reliefe of the Patient And when all trouble of Spuing or Spitting ceases let him take ●●rme broth or meat If the humour be 〈…〉 some Ginger in Wine or Beer if the disease be hot and proceeding from a bilious matter the Operation will be somewhat different the like it is if Melancholy predominate These humors for the most part work upward the rest conveigh away themselves both upwards and downwards Where by the way take these Cautions that in Women or cachectick old Men or any infected with the Pox that you onely give it once and in warme drinkes as I said and then stay till you see the effect of its working after this it may be given againe unlesse the disease be overcome lest the Humour being plentifull should ascend to the upper parts and the Patient falling asleep might finde some vexation in his Jawes occasioned by such putrid vapours which yet with any abstergent Gargarisme as of Wine Bole Almoniack Hony or Allum boyl'd either with themselves or with Betony Mint Plantain c. are washt away and Educt In Melancholy diseases it draws away and cleanses all Humours like Pitch This one Medicine being so gentle so harmlesse yet so effectuall is imployed as the noblest Panchymagogon both for the preservation of the Healthy and