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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	good_a	put_v	sugar_n	3,265	5	10.2030	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09207	The truth of our times revealed out of one mans experience, by way of essay. Written by Henry Peacham.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1638 (1638)	STC 19517; ESTC S114189	39,175	216

this Exodus 16. 16. Manna Thuris or the Manna of Frankinsence as Pliny sheweth is like neither of these but onely the smaller and finer cornes of Frankinsence falling out in the shaking and tossing two and fro If there bee any as there be many that cannot away with an ordinary purgation their stomacks taking offence thereat let them take but two ounces and a halfe of Manna and it will purge choler m●● easily and gently and without any offence at all The like error hath antiquity been possessed with concerning the Beare who is said to bring forth instead of a proportioned whelpe a lumpe of flesh without forme which by often licking shee bringeth to its right shape which Ovid verily beleeved when he saith Nec catulns part● quem reddit ursa recenti Sed malè viva caro est lambendo mater in artus Fingit in formā quantam capit ipsa reducit It is most false for I have seene a Beare whelpe newly littered in all respects like unto the dam in head back sides feete c. like unto other young creatures it is true the Beare licks it so doth the Cow her calfe the Mare her foale and other creatures in like manner but that by licking shee gives it forme and shape it is most untrue Scaliger affirmeth as much saying in our Alpes meaning those about Piemount the hunters caught a ●he Beare bigge with yong who beeing cut up they found a whelpe within her of perfect forme and shape c. The Diamond saith Pliny never agreeth with the Loadstone l. 37. c. 4. but are so farre at enmity each with either that the Diamond will not suffer the Load●tone to draw any Iron unto it and happily if it doe it will plucke and withdraw the same away unto it selfe which is most untrue as Garz●as ab Horto and many other great Physitians learned men have proved And as true it is that the Diamond can be broken by no meanes but by the blood of a goate onely I know not whether or no there be severall kindes of Diamonds but I am sure I have seene in the City of Antwarp the powder of a Diamond and the afore-named Garzias affirmeth with an Iron hammer it may be easily done and himselfe hath seene it beaten into a fine powder It is moreover as commonly beleeved as reported that the Swanne before her death singeth sweetly her owne funerall song which not onely Poets and Painters ever since the time of AEschylas but even the chiefe among Phylosophers themselves have beleeved and published as Plato Aristotle Chrysippus Philostratus Cicero and Seneca yet this hath proved a meere fable so confessed by Pliny Athe●aus and others and confirmed by daily experience see Bodin in Method hist. c. 4 The vulgar ignorance and simplicity is in these daies notably wrought upon by cunning Sectaries pretending under a severe kinde of carriage and shew of religion the cure of their soules and by medicinall impostures for the cure of their bodies of the former I have spoken of the later I will now say something For the first true it is they suffer themselves to be bitten of Serpents especially Vipers but cleared rid of their poison for they take their Vipers in Winter when they lye halfe dead and benumbed with cold and with a fine or small paire of tongues take away certaine little bladders about their teeth wherein their poyson lyeth which beeing gone their bi●ing is never deadly after others keep their Vipers lean and halfe hunger-starved then throw amongst them some hard dryed flesh which when they fall upon their teeth sticke so fast in the same that at once they power out all their poyson and become harmelesse ever after and of these they suffer themselves to be bitten to the great admiration of the standers by but if you happen to get a Viper fresh out of the field and offer that to him to shew his skill he will rather bee hanged than venture upon it hereby their notorious cheating is discovered The other will have nothing to doe with Serpents but onely swalloweth downe poyson or seemeth so to doe to utter his trade or antidote to the people at as deare a rate as he can These when they take poyson take before hand in Summer time Let●uce well steeped and soaked in oyle but in winter the tripes or fattest entrails of beasts for by these meates they retund and abate the strength of the poyson the coldnesse of the Lettuce and fatnesse of the oyle an entrailes onely availing hereunto● neither is this all but returning to their lodging they drinke good ●tore of thicke milk and cast it up againe and if all cannot bee brought upward the milke digested conveighes it the other way But they having bin many times deceived by Arsenicke which having tarried so long with some till it eate out their guts they have found out a new tricke which is when they are upon their stage they send a boy forthwith to the Apothicaries for Arsenicke or Mercurie beeing brought hee shewes it to the multitude about him with the Apothicaries te●timony that is right and good all the people see it what then he presently conveighes into the cover of a boxe lidde turned upward upon which sticks Sugar made into the forme and colour of Arsenicke which Sugar he takes out puts into water or wine drinks it off fals downe and keepes his breath that you would certainly say he were quite dead but hee remembers his Triacle takes it and is raised to life then he commends his Antidote and Triacle to the skies the people fetch it from him as fast as he can utter it but if any afterward happen to use his triacle when they are poysoned indeed it never does good but they dye without all question I have spoken the more at large of these kinde of people that our Magistrates in Cities and townes may have a care of seeing themselves and the people abused by such runnagates and artificiall picke-pockets but wee are not much troubled with them here in England Of quietnesse and health VVE doe finde by daily experience that the Age of man very much declineth and that men now for the most part are not halfe so strong vigorous as they were in the memory of our fathers as we may easily perceive by those arrowes of a yard or an ell long which hang by the wals in many places of the North and west part of England which the owners grandfather or great grandfather left behinde him for a monument of his loyall affection to one of the Roses under whose conduct he served an Archer the shooting-Bu●s in Countrey Townes have lost much of their length since the beginning of Q. Elizabeths reigne Who can wield that launce which Charles Brandon D. of Suffolke tilted withall yet to be seene in the Tower neither can so heavy armes be borne as were not many years our Pikes and Muskets are made farre lesse because our