Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	drink_v	root_n	seed_n	13,425	5	9.8716	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02281	Havvking, hunting, fouling, and fishing, with the true measures of blowing A vvorke right pleasant and profitable for all estates, vvhoso loueth it to practise, and exceeding delightfull, to refresh the irksomnesse of tedious time. Whereunto is annexed the maner and order in keeping of hawkes, their diseases, and cures: and all such speciall poynts, as any wise apperraine to so gentlemanlike qualitie. now newly collected by W.G. faulkener. Pulblicum comodum priuato preferendum.; Boke of Saint Albans	Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?; Gryndall, William.	1596 (1596)	STC 12412; ESTC S112449	53,206	89

the tailes of your Rods may bee towards the water if you sticke them by any Riuer side and the heads of your Roddes scooping from the Riuer that the foule may come with the Rods for there is no foule that will come against the Rods nor is not able almost if they would but being your Rods turned from the Riuer they will bée the bolder to goe onwards and then they can no way escape And so likewise set your Roddes about the whole plat that you set with their tayles outward and their heads stooping inward for the foule will bée the bolder to goe amongst your Roddes if they chaunce to light beside them but you must giue good attendance vpon your Rods least that the foule which is tangled doe picke themselues and get away againe but you must lie verie close least that the foule doe chaunce to spie you but if it bee somewhat darkish that you cannot espie whether there bee anie foule lighted among your Roddes then goe to your Roddes and giue ashue and if that there bée anie they will flutter straight and fligh vpward and if that there bee none then take your staffe and beat the Riuers and Lakes within halfe a mile compasse once or twise if you be able to compasse it or more and then shall you haue them resorte to you Limerods very thicke for hée that mindes to catch any must so trauell that hee leaue no Lakes or Springes vnsearched and sée that your Limerods bee set some what lowe round about at the very entring for that is good for all manner of foule but if that they bee set high within it is good reason that the foule doth shut her winges before shee is altogether at the ground and see that you doe set your Roddes within one another about three quarters or halfe a yarde asunder almost and if it freese hard you must trim them with a little new Lime and Goose greace mingled together and that will kéepe them long from freesing And if there bee anie speciall place which foules doe resort to as in deepe waters and running Riuers and that the Riuer is deepe that you cannot set your Roddes in then take a pole or a cord and a long hay rope that will winde round about the length of the pole then take your Limerods and sticke them verie thicke and loose withall and then lay your pole or poles ouer the Riuer and thrust the end of your pole within the bancke and tye the other ende of you pole next to you to the bancke side and see that your pole bée a pretie way within the water and that the heads of your Rods doe stand close to the water and thus may you set as many poles or cordes as you thinke the place doth desire and sticke your Roddes verie loosely that they may goe with the foule as soone as they touch them Good Spaniell a treasure to Fouler sure is To helpe him sometime els oft should he mis For water and land it is a good thing A Spaniell to haue his game for to bring Also there is another maner of way to catch in the water with small cordes being tied ouerthwart the water and lime them as you doe your Limerods with good water lime as wée call it though indéed it is but Birdlime but it is tempered to holde within the water which if you let the cordes bée but a little within the water that it may scarce couer it and if the water bee broad then take a Corke or two and tie them to your Line to holde it vp This is a pretie way and not to be suspected Hovv to make Birdlime very pure FIrst pill the Barke from the Holly trée about Midsommer then boyle the same barke till the vtter rind will pill from the gréene barke which will bée within one day then lay the same inner barke so pilled in some close place on the ground and couer the same with some greene weedes or dockes till it be well rotten which will bée within nine daies or thereabout then either beat it in morters or grind it very small and then in some quicke streame wash it very cleane then put it in a pot of earth and it will spurge within thrée dayes then take of the skumme twise or thrise for if there be any filth left in it it will rot the Lime After this keepe the Lime very close till you haue neede to occupie it mingle a little Hogs grease with it and so many you worke your Rods with it Therefore as it is mentioned of the Poet the Wosell or Robin is a great cherisher of the Holly tree as Terence sayth Turdus cacat sibi malum hée maketh a Rod for his owne taile for the dung of the Wosell cherisheth much the Holly tree which afterwards turnes to his owne sorrow A rare secret to catch foule as Geese Duckes or Birds NVxe vomica otherwaies called in English the Spring Nut being a pretie deale of that sod in a pecke of Barley or as little as you thinke good or Fetchis or Wheate and being strowed where wild Geese or wild Duckes come and as soone as they eate of this they will sound and you may take them will your hand Also the powder of Nuxe vomica is good to kill Kites Rauens Pyes Crowes or anie other carronus foule Also take a peece of flesh and lay it in the fielde and make holes in it then put in the powder of Nuxe vomica in euery hole and as soone as any foule eats of this they will bée ouercome and then they will fligh boult vpright and fall downe to the ground straight againe and so you may take them Another pretie way to make birds dronke that you may take them with your hand TAke Wheat or Fitchis or any other séed and lay the same insteepe in lees of wine or in the iuyce of Hemlock and strawe the same in the place where Birds vse to haunt and if they eat thereof straight waies they will bée so giddy that you may take them with your hand An excellent good vvay to make a baite to catch vvild Geese or wild Duckes and all other sort of foule TAke the seed of Belenge and the rootes also and steepe them in water the space of a day and a night then seeth the said séeds and roots in the water that they were stéeped in so that the séeds may well drinke soke vp the water then lay the sayd seedes or graine in the places where wilde Duckes and wilde Geese and woont to resort and they will eat this graine or seede so prepared and thereupon will sleepe as they were drunke and in the meane time you may take them with your hands but there must be a pretie quantitie of this especially for wild Geese This may also serue to take all other maner of foule that goe together in sholes or companies If you seeth this graine in Brimstone and lay it in the places where birds and foules