Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	little_a	put_v	sugar_n	6,277	5	10.6573	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06294	A discourse of waters. Shewing the particular natures, various uses, and wonderful operations both in food and physick, the all-wise creator hath endued this cleansing element with. I. Of rain-water. II. River or running-water. III. Spring or fountain-water. IV. Well or pump water. V. Pond or standing-water, with something concerning purging-waters. Published for the benefit of mankind. / By Thomas Tryon. Author of the Good house wife made a doctor, Country-mans companion, Monthly observations for health, &c.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1696 (1696)	Wing T3177; ESTC R185763	9,793	31

defiled by Accidents as by Tiles of Houses or the Vessels 't is kept in For 1st It is a light pure thin Water 2dly It is drawn up into the Clouds by the power and vertue of the sweet Influences of the Sun Beams 3dly Being carried to and fro with the Clouds by Gods Divine Power it hath thereby had the greater benefit of Motion 4thly 'T is endued with wonderful Vertue from the Element of Air and the sweet Influences of the Coelestial Bodies whereby it is made more Spirituous than other Waters and of a fat unctious Quality of a light friendly mild Nature and Operation Thus it mollifies the harsh Earth making it light and tender and causes all Plants to multiply and grow far better than any Artificial Watrings can do Rain Water being among its other Vertues like a Ferment or Leaven that makes the hard compacted Earth more spirituous and penetrable giving Life and Motion to all the Vegetable Kingdom 5thly Rain-Water is not only exhaled by the Beams of Heaven from the most clear and subtle Fountains and impregnated with the Coelestial Influences but also is as it were strained with the Airy Motions and Winds which fill it with a Saline and Balsamick Vertue when it descends like the Tears of a repenting Sinner in gentle reviving Showers that give Vertue and Power to all Vegetables and restore the gasping parched Earth and languishing Nature to the briskness of the Spring and Joys of Autumn 6thly This is the lightest of all Waters it cools and heats quickly it oppresses not the Stomach or any other part of the Body but passeth suddenly into the Vreters having neither in Colour Smell nor Taste any manifest Quality it bindeth not the Belly as some other Waters do and is the best to be used in all Physical Operations if it be well received and afterwards kept from defilement 7thly It is to be preferred before all other Waters in House-wifery for it Boyls all sorts of Meats better and sooner and makes them easier of Concoction as likewise it Brews and Washes to greater advantage than others rain-Rain-Water hath likewise various other Uses and excellent Vertues viz. It is a good remedy for all sorts of sore Eyes they being washed often with it or if a little white Bread be put into the Water with a small quantity of white Sugar and then made boiling hot being stirred all the time then applied in the manner and form of a Pultess every two or three hours This Water is also good to wash all sorts of Wounds and Sores and if it be done often it mightily forwards the Cure The best Seasons to receive this Water in are March April May June and July it being put into Glass Bottles let them stand in the Windows of airy Rooms or without Doors open that the Air may have its free Influence on them which will preserve and keep the fine thin spirituous Qualities living which if they are stopped will in a short time become stagnated This Water doth likewise make an excellent Pultess against the Gout Pains in the Sides and other Infirmities of the like Nature Take one Quart of this Water half a Pint of Ale a little Balm Parsly and Mint of each an equal quantity cut small and as much good Bread as will make it thick then add to this two Ounces of the best Sugar mix them well then make it boiling hot stirring it all the time it is on the Fire then it is done spread this Pultess indifferent thick on a Linnen Cloath as warm as Milk from the Cow apply it every two or three hours for one two or three Days as we have treated more largely in the Good House-Wife made a Doctor Of River-Water This is next in Goodness whose Original is Fountain or Spring Water and yet there is rarely any Spring Water so good for common and general use at the Fountain-Head as in the River For 1st Rivers or running Waters have great advantages by passing through various Soils and sorts of Earth from whence it drains or sucks in a certain Vnctious Vertue or Saline Fatness which the surface of the Earth does plentifully contain and from which Vegetation does chiefly proceed 2dly This sort of Water has the benefit of Motion with the benevolent Influences of the Sun and the Element of the Air which purge it from its harsh earthy Qualities and as it were open its Body enduing it with a pure Spirituous Airy and Balsamick Vertue of a warming friendly Nature and Operation This is the chief reason why River-Water is of a softer milder Nature and will perform all Preparations in House-wifery to more advantages than Spring-Water taken from the Fountain-Head for there most Waters retain a Saturnine earthy Quality which the Influences of the Sun and Air with the help of Motion do destroy 3dly The New-River that supplies London is some of the best Water in England except Thames Water it being a cut or made River that runs on the Surface of the Earth for above twenty Miles and is not sed or increased by hungry Springs as many other Rivers are that run through Vallies which is their own Natural way but Land-Floods sometimes fall into it which augment its Vertue and Goodness for they are the richest of Waters draining and sucking into themselves the fat Saline Vertue of the Earth For this reason most Vallies that lie between the Hills are so fruitful for the Waters that run off the Hills do wash or carry away the Salintral Vertue into them and there it centers and thus Hills come not to be so fruitful as Valleys or Plains by reason of such disadvantages Whereas on the contrary do not Land Floods and the overflowing of Rivers make Meadows fruitful from the same causes For when the Waters retire and sink away they leave behind them the Saline or Spiritual Quality that does Muck such Ground as tho' it had been over-spread with substantial Dung. And indeed the very same is to be understood when a Man dungs his Land it is not altogether the gross substance or matter that enricheth the Land but it is the before-mentioned fat Saline Quality which the moisture of the Earth receives and the Rains wash out of the Dung for if you lay a load of Dung in a heap and let it lie a Week two or three and then remove it clean away from that place and spread it thick in another place yet that spot which the Dung lay on two or three Weeks will be more enriched than where the gross substance is spread for the Earth with the help of the Rains and Dews sucked into it self the Salintral Vertue of the Dung Therefore in most Fields where such heaps of Dung do lie for a while before they are spread both the Grass and Corn is not only greener but also much stronger and more in quantity than in other places of the Field 4thly River-Water for the Reasons aforesaid is better for Men and Beasts to drink of