Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	ounce_n	red_a	rose_n	7,119	5	10.0358	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11815	Naturall philosophy, or, A description of the world, namely, of angels, of man, of the heauens, of the ayre, of the earth, of the water and of the creatures in the whole world.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Wydowes, I.	1621 (1621)	STC 22111; ESTC S971	34,963	68

are best Of the blacke pith is made a good and gentle purgation called Cassia extract This helpeth much against fevers and many other diseases if one ounce of it be taken with as much Rose water Shrubs lesse Noble The Hasell is an high shrub with a slender stalke and full of white spots His leaues are broader and haue more gashes then the Alder. The tree beareth the Filberd and the Nut these Nuts are hot and moyst make fat but hurt the stomach and procure a laske If stamped in water and sugar they be applyed they helpe an old cough The Ashes burnt with Swines or Boares grease and applyed to the head causeth the hayre to grow The Elderne hath boughs of an Ash coullour and in it is store of pith and his leaues are much like to those of the Wal-nut tree it beareth purple berries hauing red iuyse Dwarfe Elderne is low and short with a foure-square stalke these plants are hot and dry and haue power to purge and digest Also it healeth and closeth the roote or leaues of Elder sod in wine purge the dropsie and nothing is more effectual to that purpose then the roote of Dwarfe Elderne Water in which the leaues of Elderne are sod helpe to rid the dry cough The Pitch or an electuary of the berries expelleth sweat and all poyson Barberryes are not much vnlike the wilde Peare although they be farre lesse and in the boughes some two or three prickes grow together His leafe is like Quince leaues but narrower Barberries be hot and dry in the second degree The iuyse of the berryes profitteth against the inflamation of the liuer as also against inward impostumes·if it be applied with night shade it quencheth thirst The barke of his roote or fruit stamped plucketh out a thing fast in the flesh his syrrope tempered with sugar comforteth the hart restoreth appetite profiteth against burning Feuers all inward diseases of much bloud The small Raisin hath purple boughes and pampin leaues but lesse and of blackish greene It hath round red berries vpon long stalkes his fruit and leaues are colde and dry in the second degree hauing power to close The iuyse of the fruit taken helpeth against trembling of the heart and inflamations of the bodie but chiefly it helpeth the plague his iuyse with Endiue water profiteth to remoue specks of the face The Rose groweth vp with small twigs of a black greene full of crooked prickes his leaues are dented on the edge his fruit namely Roses be of diuerse coullours All Roses be colde and dry and helpe both inward and outward affections of the bodie The iuyse sod in Wine helpeth griefes of the head eyes and gums Honey and Rose water strengthen all parts and purge melancholy and fleame sodden with Fennell and Salt his oyle healeth burnings and layed on the forehead taketh away heauinesse and hot sicknesses The funge of wilde Rose trees in powder with wine expelleth the stone Water of Roses helpeth sore eyes comforteth and cooleth the braine it being drunke relieueth the heart and stomach it keepeth the spirits and naturall heate The Bramble is full of prickes and crawleth about the leaues of sweete bryer on the one side are white on the other blacke his fruit is the blacke berry full of iuyse the berry is dry colde and close His fruit leaues or sprouts quench inward heate The top of his leaues sod in Wine stay the bloudie flixe helpe vlcers of the mouth and fasten loose teeth Poterion vua crispa Gooseberries is full of boughs hath ash coulloured barke or white full of sharpe thornes his leaues are lesse then ground Ivie and crooked his berries from greene turne to redish it is cold in the first dry in the second degree his greene leaues cure inflamations and apostumes and asswage Ignis sacer Colutea in leafe not vnlike to Fengreke hath a round fruit as big as a Lentle in a puffed shell It is hot in the beginning of the second degree and dry in the first it purgeth the panch scoureth away chiefly melancholy without trouble from the head braine and the Instruments of the senses Thus farre of·Plants growing from a trunke or stalke c. Now follow Herbes which haue but a thin small stalke consisting most vpon leaues These doe nourish more or lesse as Corne and Pot-herbes which nourish more Wheate is a kinde of Corne hauing an eare vpon the blade stuffed with many graynes it is moderately hot and dry and of much nourishment and helpefull for many diseases aswell within as without the body the best is hard to breake heauie and of gold cullour smooth and growing in fat ground Leauen of Wheate doth draw ripen and open vlcers and apostumes Bisket profitteth against rhume Barley is cold and dry in the second degree and purgeth His floure and new milke in plaster cure Biles and such tumors by easing their paine and drawing forth heate Bread made of it begetteth cold and slimie humours and nourisheth lesse then wheat Barley water maketh the skin faire and smooth Spelte or Zea is of a middle temperature betweene Wheate and Barley it is a kinde of Wheate and commonly goeth vnder that name Rye is not so hot as Wheate and hurteth much except it be well disgested Oates are colder then Wheate and of operation almost like Barley Now follow of Pulse Millet is a most fertill Pulse with sharpe leaues broad below and sharpe towardes the toppe his cod hath in it around long fruit It is colde in the first and dry in the third degree it stoppeth the belly and nourisheth but little Rize is smaller then Millet and farre lesse it groweth in moyst and watry places it bindeth Lentells grow like small pease and haue a vertue to binde Pease are either of the field or garden bearing a white or a purple flower Beanes are meanely colde and moyst inflaming windie hard to disgest Now follow Pot-herbes Coleworts haue very broad leaues which enclosing one another round about become Cabbedges These be colde and moyst and in Egypt be very bitter The Romanes for the space of six hundred yeares vsed this onely herbe to cure all diseases His broath expelleth the stone and grauell his leaues applyed by themselues or with the flowers cure inflamations his iuyse healeth festred sores it cureth the falling of the haire Broath made of his leaues with an olde Cocke cureth the Collicke and other gripings Spinagh hath an high stalke and beareth sharpe seedes his leaues being sharpe and triangular it is colde and moyst in the first degree His iuyse expelleth hurtfull rhume It mollifieth the belly and cureth hardnesse of the backe and belly His Iuyse taketh away the paine and heate of the stomacke and liuer it helpeth the byting of Spiders Lettise hath his leaues gathered into a curled roundnesse that which groweth in the field hath a shorter stalke and leafe then Garden Lettise being bitter and full of milke It is moderately moyst and colde like Spring water it is wholesome

and for their earthie matter binding They are hard to disgest and beget lice but good if rosted and eaten with Salt Pepper and Sugar The powder of dry Chesnuts voydeth Vrine The Beech is tall with a thicke white barke or a sad red It hath leaues like Lawrell nicked on the edge His fruit is a thre'angle Nut closed in a little pricking huske His fruit is hot sweete and binding His leaues are coole which being eaten doe helpe much the griefe of the gums and lippes If they bee stamped they much strengthen dead members being anoynted with it Swine and Mise delight much in this fruit Trees whose fruit is but halfe couered The Oke is a tall tree hauing a thicke rough barke his leaues are deepe gashed and his boughes are knotted his proper fruit is the Acorne the gall and his glew are but accidentall It is moderately hot and dry it bindeth and especially the little skin which couereth the Acorne Distilled water of Oke leaues cureth Fluxes and rottennesse of the Liuer and expelleth all congealed bloud His leaues stamped and applyed to greene wounds heale them Likewise they draw heate from swellings and pimples arising by heate Galls grow especially in olde Okes and in the night in the Summer the Sunne then leauing Gemini they be of two sorts small and rough and great and smooth Galls haue in them sometime Spiders Flies and Ants Some thinke Spiders doe presage pestilence Flies warre and Ants dearth The powder of Galls doth heale wounds without any scarre Robur is very hard and during It hath lesse fruit The Ilex is very tall with leaues Lawrell-like euer greene but lesser and sharpe a thicke wood and of a blacke red coullour and is very rare Another kinde is the Corke tree hauing like leafe fruit and greennesse yet is it lesser and hath a most thicke barke which though it be taken of yet doth not the tree wither it is called the female Ilex his wood is full of poores and holes and most light and not to be sunke Now follow trees that beare gum whose Nut hath scales The Pineapple is a tree full of boughes with hayrie leaues like Combe teeth of whose sharpe top it takes his name His fruit is Pine-nuts these are hot and dry and binde They are good against coughs and consumptions strengthening and heating The wilde Pine is a great high tree with hairy leaues The Pitch tree is tall with a blacke barke tough and stiffe and running along his boughes like a crosse from both sides of the trunke his leaues are broader softer and smoother then Rosemary From betweene the barke and wood of this tree floweth a gumme like Rozen The Firre tree is a kinde of Pitch tree but somewhat whiter his leaues on one side are of an Ash coullour from this floweth also a Rozen which sod with honie profitteth against the destillations of the head and throat against the Quinsey and other maladies it asswageth the inflamation of woundes and ioyneth them it soden with Barley bran and wine cureth hard kernells The Larix is a high tree with a thicke barke clifted on each side his boughes grow by degrees about the trunke his leaues are thicke long soft and hairie his fruit is almost like the Cypres and hath a pleasant smell The wood of this for that it is dry and full of Rozen burneth vehemently and soone melteth mettall His Rozen is in smell taste and working better then common Turpentine In coullour it is like honey tough but not hard In the bodie of the tree groweth Fungus Agaricus a swamp or mush-rome The best is white thin full of pores light and easie to breake it purgeth fleame Now follow trees that bring forth no fruit of note called Barren trees The Elme is tall with rough leaues and sharpe his wood is yellow hard deformed the barke boughes and leaues have a healing facultie in scabbes It also closeth woundes The Alder hath a long straight trunke his wood is soft his leaues like Peare-tree but greater thicker and rounder it groweth in moyst places and by ryuers His wood is hot and dry and indureth long vnder the earth or in water His thin and fat leaues layd vpon tumors with hot water cure them and helpe all swellings The Teile is a large and broad tree with a thicke stalke his leaues like Ivie but softer and sharper It bindeth his other qualities are like the wilde Oliue The Boxe hath little round leaues alwayes greene his stalke is rough for most part full of knotts and blacke the wood is hard and heauie it sinketh in water and neuer decayeth with age Of this boxes are named because most of them were wont to be made of Boxe It is dry and binding the powder of his leaues with Lauender and water profiteth against madnesse Lye of Boxe maketh yellow heires The Birch is a tender tree his barke is blacke at first but after white his wood is soft and weake aboue other It hath a sweete sap In the rude age his barke was vsed for Paper His sap taken in the spring heldeth the stone I aundies and rottennesse of the mouth also being put in milke preserueth the Cheese made of that milke from Maggotts Willow groweth apace it endureth long for though it be hollow and rotten yet it liueth It is of two sortes solid or brittle the solid is blacke or yellow the blacke is the greater and better and is most apt for binding The yellow groweth chiefly neare water it is somtime white The brittle Willow is most white and vnapt for binding Willowes are dry and thicke his leaues and barke sod in Wine helpeth grypings of the belly The Poplar delighteth in moyst and watrish places It is white or blacke the white hath a long straight trunke and a smooth barke his leafe round and after sharper greene beneath hoarie aboue and doe continually shake it is moderately hot and dry The roote taken in drinke desendeth from gripings in the belly Blacke Poplar is like the white but greater softer and hath narrower leaues and greene below and of an Ash coullour aboue It is hot and dry the boughes held in the hand some say forbid wearinesse of hand and foote his gumme stamped helpeth loosenesse Now follow shrubbs which spring vp with many stalkes and are noble or lesse noble The noble as first Cynamon which is a barke of a shrub of that name growing in India of a blacke coullour with thin boughes which if they be broken cast forth a sweet sent His barke is of two sorts thicke and thin The thin is of the sharpest and best taste The thicke is more slowly disgested it comforteth the heart the best is red and sharpe with some sweetnesse It is of subtill partes hot in the third and dry in the second degree It helpeth a colde stomacke it strengtheneth the sight heart and liuer and begetteth pure bloud Cassia Fistula is a round great and purple Cane hauing a very blacke pith the heauiest and reddest Canes