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| author | Klaus Thoden <kthoden@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de> |
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><echo xmlns="http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ns/echo/1.0/" xmlns:de="http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ns/de/1.0/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:echo="http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ns/echo/1.0/" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="1.0RC"> <metadata> <dcterms:identifier>ECHO:WX8HY2V2.xml</dcterms:identifier> <dcterms:creator identifier="GND:118505696">Bacon, Francis</dcterms:creator> <dcterms:title xml:lang="en">Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries; includes: History natural and experimental of life and death : or, of the prolongation of life (1669). Articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals (1669). New Atlantis : a work unfinished </dcterms:title> <dcterms:date xsi:type="dcterms:W3CDTF">1670</dcterms:date> <dcterms:language xsi:type="dcterms:ISO639-3">eng</dcterms:language> <dcterms:rights>CC-BY-SA</dcterms:rights> <dcterms:license xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC-BY-SA</dcterms:license> <dcterms:rightsHolder xlink:href="http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de">Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Library</dcterms:rightsHolder> <parameters>despecs = 1.1.2</parameters> </metadata> <text xml:lang="en" type="free"> <div xml:id="echoid-div1" type="section" level="1" n="1"><pb file="0001" n="1"/> <pb file="0002" n="2"/> <handwritten/> <pb file="0003" n="3"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div2" type="section" level="1" n="2"> <head xml:id="echoid-head1" xml:space="preserve">SYLVA <lb/>SYLVARUM, <lb/>OR, <lb/>A Natural Hiſtory, <lb/>IN <lb/>TEN CENTURIES.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head2" xml:space="preserve">Whereunto is newly added, <lb/>The Hiſtory Natural and Experimental of LIFE <lb/>and DEATH, or of the Prolongation of LIFE.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head3" xml:space="preserve">Publiſhed after the Authors Death, <lb/>By <emph style="sc">William</emph> <emph style="sc">Rawley</emph>, Doctorin Divinity, <lb/>One of His Majeſties Chaplains.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head4" xml:space="preserve">Whereunto is added Articles of Enquiry, touch-<lb/>ing Metals and Minerals. And the New Atlantis.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head5" xml:space="preserve">Written by the Right Honorable <lb/>FRANCIS <lb/>Lord Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head6" xml:space="preserve">The Ninth and Last Edition, <lb/>With an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things <lb/>contained in the Ten Centuries.</head> <handwritten/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div3" type="section" level="1" n="3"> <head xml:id="echoid-head7" xml:space="preserve">LONDON: <lb/><gap/>rinted by J. R. for William Lee, and are to <lb/><gap/> be Sold by the Bookſellers of London. 1670.</head> <pb file="0004" n="4"/> <pb file="0005" n="5"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div4" type="section" level="1" n="4"> <head xml:id="echoid-head8" xml:space="preserve">TO THE <lb/>MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY <lb/>PRINCE CHARLES, <lb/>By the Grace of <emph style="sc">God</emph>, <lb/><emph style="sc">King</emph> of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, <lb/>Defender of the Faith, &c.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s1" xml:space="preserve">May it pleaſe Your Moſt Excellent Majesty,</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2" xml:space="preserve">THe vvhole Body of the Natural <lb/>Hiſtory, either deſigned or vvrit-<lb/>ten, by the late Lord Viſcount <lb/>S. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3" xml:space="preserve">Alban, vvas dedicated to Your <lb/>Majeſty, in his Book De Ventis, about <lb/>Four years paſt, vvhen Your Majeſty vvas <lb/>Prince: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4" xml:space="preserve">So as there needed no nevv Dedica-<lb/>tion of this Work, but onely in all humble-<lb/>neſs, to let Your Majeſty knovv, it is Yours. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5" xml:space="preserve">It is true, if that Lord had lived, Your Ma-<lb/>jeſty, erelong had been invoked to the Pro-<lb/>tection of another Hiſtory, vvhereof, not <lb/>Natures Kingdom, as in this; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6" xml:space="preserve">but theſe of <pb o="2" file="0006" n="6" rhead="The Epiſtle Dedicatory."/> Your Majeſties, (during the time and Reign <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0006-01a" xlink:href="hd-0006-01"/> of King Henry the Eighth) had been the ſub-<lb/>ject; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7" xml:space="preserve">vvhich ſince, it died under the Deſig-<lb/>nation meerly: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8" xml:space="preserve">There is nothing left, but <lb/>Your Majeſties Princely goodneſs, graciouſly <lb/>to accept of the undertakers Heart and In-<lb/>tentions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9" xml:space="preserve">vvho vvas vvilling to have parted <lb/>for a vvhile vvith his darling Philoſophy, that <lb/>he might have attended Your Royal Com-<lb/>mandment in that other VVork. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10" xml:space="preserve">Thus much <lb/>I have been bold, in all lovvlineſs to repreſent <lb/>unto Your Majeſty, as one that vvas truſted <lb/>vvith his Lordships VVritings, even to the <lb/>laſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11" xml:space="preserve">And as this VVork affecteth the Stamp <lb/>of Your Majeſties Royal Protection, to make <lb/>it more currant to the VVorld; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12" xml:space="preserve">ſo under the <lb/>protection of this Work, I preſume in all <lb/>humbleneſs to approach Your Majeſties pre-<lb/>ſence, and to offer it up into Your Sacred <lb/>Hands.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div4" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0006-01" xlink:href="hd-0006-01a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s14" xml:space="preserve">Your Majefties moſt Loyal <lb/>and Devoted Servant</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s15" xml:space="preserve">W. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s16" xml:space="preserve"><emph style="sc">Rawley</emph>.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s17" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="3" file="0007" n="7"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div6" type="section" level="1" n="5"> <head xml:id="echoid-head9" xml:space="preserve">TO THE <lb/>READER</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s18" xml:space="preserve">HAving had the Honor to be continually with <lb/>my Lord, in compiling of this Work; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s19" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>to be employed therein, I have thought it not <lb/>amiß, (with his Lordſhips good leave and <lb/>liking) for the better ſatisfaction of thoſe that <lb/>ſhall read it, to make known ſomewhat of his Lordſhips inten-<lb/>tions, touching the ordering and publiſhing of the ſame. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s20" xml:space="preserve">I <lb/>have heard his Lordſhip often ſay, That if he ſhould have <lb/>ſerved the glory of his own Name, he had been better not to <lb/>have publiſhed this Natural Hiſtory; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s21" xml:space="preserve">for it may ſeem an <lb/>indigeſted heap of Particulars, and cannot have that luſtre <lb/>which Books caſt into Methods, have: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s22" xml:space="preserve">But that be reſolved <lb/>to prefer the good of Men, and that which might best ſecure <lb/>it, before any thing that might have relation to himſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s23" xml:space="preserve">And, <lb/>he knew well, that there was no other way open to unlooſe Mens <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0007-01a" xlink:href="hd-0007-01"/> mindes, being bound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s24" xml:space="preserve">and (as it were) Maleficiate, by the <lb/>charms of deceiving Notions and Theories; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s25" xml:space="preserve">and thereby <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0007-01a" xlink:href="hd-0007-01"/> made impotent for Generation of Works: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s26" xml:space="preserve">But onely no where <lb/>to depart from the Senſe and clear experience, but to keep cloſe <lb/>to it, eſpecially in the beginning. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s27" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, this Natural <lb/>Hiſtory was a Debt of his, being deſigned and ſet down for <lb/>a third Part of the Inſtauration. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s28" xml:space="preserve">I have alſo heard his <lb/>Lordſhip diſcourſe, That Men (no doubt) will think many <lb/>of the Experiments contained in this Collection, to be Vul- <pb o="4" file="0008" n="8" rhead="To the Reader."/> gar and Trivial, mean and ſordid, curious and fruitleß; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s29" xml:space="preserve">and therefore he wiſheth, that they would have perpetually be-<lb/>fore their eyes, what is now in doing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s30" xml:space="preserve">and the difference between <lb/>this Natural Hiſtory, and others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s31" xml:space="preserve">For thoſe Natural <lb/>Hiſtories which are extant, being gathered for delight <lb/>and uſe, are full of pleaſant Deſcriptions and Pictures; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s32" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>affect and ſeek after Admiration, Rarities, and Secrets. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s33" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>contrariwiſe, the ſcope, which his Lordſhip intendeth, is to write <lb/>ſuch a Natural Hiſtory, as may be fundamental to the <lb/>erecting and building of a true Philoſophy: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s34" xml:space="preserve">For the illumi-<lb/>nation of the Under ſtanding; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s35" xml:space="preserve">the extracting of Axioms, <lb/>and the producing of many noble Works and Effects. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s36" xml:space="preserve">For he <lb/>hopeth by this means, to acquit himſelf of that, for which he <lb/>taketh himſelf in a ſort bound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s37" xml:space="preserve">and that is, the advancement <lb/>of Learning and Sciences. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s38" xml:space="preserve">For having, in this preſent Work, <lb/>collected the materials for the Building; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s39" xml:space="preserve">and in his Novum <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0008-01a" xlink:href="hd-0008-01"/> Organum (of which his Lordſhip is yet to publiſh a Second <lb/>Part) ſet down the Inſtruments and Directions for the <lb/>VVork; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s40" xml:space="preserve">Men ſhall now be wanting to themſelves, if they <lb/>raiſe not knowledge to that perfection, whereof the Nature of <lb/>Mortal Men is capable. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s41" xml:space="preserve">And in this behalf, I have heard <lb/>his Lordſhip ſpeak complainingly, That his Lordſhip (who <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0008-01a" xlink:href="hd-0008-01"/> thinketh, that he deſerveth to be an Architect in this Build-<lb/>ing) ſhould be forced to be a VVorkman, and a Laborer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s42" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>to dig the Clay, and burn the Brick; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s43" xml:space="preserve">and more then that, <lb/>(according to the hard condition of the Iſraelites, at the lat-<lb/>ter end) to gather the Straw and Stubble, over all the Fields, <lb/>to burn the Bricks withal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s44" xml:space="preserve">For he knoweth, that except he do <lb/>it, nothing will be done; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s45" xml:space="preserve">Men are ſoſet to deſpiſe the means <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0008-01a" xlink:href="hd-0008-01"/> of their own good. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s46" xml:space="preserve">And as for the baſeneß of many of the <lb/>Experiments, as long as they be Gods VVorks, they are <lb/>honorable enough: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s47" xml:space="preserve">And for the vulgarneß of them, true <lb/>Axioms muſt be drawn from plain experience, and not from <lb/>doubtful; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s48" xml:space="preserve">and his Lordſhips courſe is to make VVonders plain, <pb o="5" file="0009" n="9" rhead="To the Reader."/> and not plain things VVonders; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s49" xml:space="preserve">and that experience like-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0009-01a" xlink:href="hd-0009-01"/> wiſe muſt be broken and grinded, and not whole, or as it <lb/>groweth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s50" xml:space="preserve">and for Uſe, his Lordſhip hath often in his <lb/>Mouth, the two kindes of Experiments, Experi-<lb/>menta Fructifera, and Experimenta Lucifera. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s51" xml:space="preserve">Experiments of Uſe, and Experiments of <lb/>Light: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s52" xml:space="preserve">And he reporteth himſelf, whether he were not <lb/>a ſtrange Man, that ſhould think, that Light hath no Uſe, <lb/>becauſe it hath no Matter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s53" xml:space="preserve">Further his Lordſhip thought <lb/>good alſo, to add unto many of the Experiments them-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0009-01a" xlink:href="hd-0009-01"/> ſelves, ſome gloſs of the Cauſes, that in the ſucceeding <lb/>work of Interpreting Nature, and Framing Axi-<lb/>oms, all things may be in more readineß. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s54" xml:space="preserve">And for the <lb/>Cauſes herein by him aßigned; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s55" xml:space="preserve">his Lordſhip perſwadeth <lb/>himſelf, they are far more certain, than thoſe that are ren-<lb/>dred by others; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s56" xml:space="preserve">not for any excellency of his own wit, (as <lb/>his Lordſhip is wont to ſay) but in reſpect of his continual <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0009-1a" xlink:href="hd-0009-1"/> converſation with Nature and Experience. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s57" xml:space="preserve">He did <lb/>conſider likewiſe, That by this Addition of Cauſes, <lb/>Mens mindes (which make ſo much haſte to finde out the <lb/>cauſes of things;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s58" xml:space="preserve">would not think themſelves utterly loſt <lb/>in a vaſt Wood of Experience, but ſtay upon theſe <lb/>Cauſes (ſuch as they are) a little, till true Axioms <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0009-1a" xlink:href="hd-0009-1"/> may be more fully diſcovered. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s59" xml:space="preserve">I have heard his Lordſhip <lb/>ſay alſo, That one great reaſon, why he would not put theſe <lb/>Particulars into any exact Method, (though he, that look-<lb/>eth attentively into them, ſhall finde, that they have a ſe-<lb/>cret order) was, Becauſe he conceived that other men would <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0009-1a" xlink:href="hd-0009-1"/> now think that they could do the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s60" xml:space="preserve">and ſo go on with a <lb/>further Collection, which, if the Method had been exact, <lb/>many would have deſpaired to attain by Imitation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s61" xml:space="preserve">As <lb/>for his Lordſhips love of Order, I can refer any Man to <lb/>his Lordſhips Latin Book, De Augmentis Scien-<lb/>tiarum; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s62" xml:space="preserve">which, if my judgment be any thing, is written in <pb o="6" file="0010" n="10" rhead="To the Reader."/> the exacteſt order, that I know any writing to be. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s63" xml:space="preserve">I will <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0010-01a" xlink:href="note-0010-01"/> conclude, with a uſual Speech of his Lordſhips. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s64" xml:space="preserve">That this <lb/>Work of his Natural Hiſtory, is the World, as God <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0010-1a" xlink:href="hd-0010-1"/> made it, and not as Men have made it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s65" xml:space="preserve">for that it hath <lb/>nothing, if Imagination.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s66" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div6" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0007-01" xlink:href="hd-0007-01a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0007-01" xlink:href="hd-0007-01a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0008-01" xlink:href="hd-0008-01a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0008-01" xlink:href="hd-0008-01a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0008-01" xlink:href="hd-0008-01a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0009-01" xlink:href="hd-0009-01a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0009-01" xlink:href="hd-0009-01a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0009-1" xlink:href="hd-0009-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0009-1" xlink:href="hd-0009-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0009-1" xlink:href="hd-0009-1a"/> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0010-01" xlink:href="note-0010-01a" xml:space="preserve">The Epiftle <lb/>is the ſame, <lb/>that ſhould <lb/>have been <lb/>prefixed to <lb/>this Book, if <lb/>his Lordſhip <lb/>had lived.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0010-1" xlink:href="hd-0010-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s67" xml:space="preserve">W. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s68" xml:space="preserve">RAWLEY.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s69" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb file="0011" n="11" rhead="The TABLE."/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div8" type="section" level="1" n="6"> <head xml:id="echoid-head10" xml:space="preserve">A TABLE <lb/>OF THE <lb/>EXPERIMENTS.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head11" xml:space="preserve">Century I.</head> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>OF Straining or Percolation, Outward and Inward. Experiment 8. # page 1 <lb/>of Motion upon Preſſure, Exp. 5 # pag. 2 <lb/>of Separations of Bodies L’quid by Weight. Exp. 3 # pag. 3 <lb/>of Infuſions in Water and Air. Exp. 7 # pag. 4 <lb/>of the Appe@i@e of Continuation in Liquids. Exp. 1 # pag. 5 <lb/>of Artificial Springs. Exp. 1 # pag. 6 <lb/>of the Venemous Quality of Mans Fleſh. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Turning Air into Water, Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Helping or Altering the shape of the Body. Exp. 1 # pag. 7 <lb/>of condenſing of Air to yield Weight, or Nouriſhment. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Flame and Air commixed. Exp. 1 # pag. 8 <lb/>Of the ſecret nature of Flame. Exp. 1 # pag. 9 <lb/>of Flame in the midst and on the Sides. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Motion of Gravity. Exp. 1 # pag. 10 <lb/>of Contraction of Bodies in Bulk. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of making Vines more fruitful. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the ſeveral Operations of Purging Medicines. Exp. 9 # ibid. <lb/>Of Meats and Drinks moſt Nouriſhing. Exp. 15 # pag. 12 <lb/>of Medicines applied in Or<unsure/>der. Exp. 1 # pag. 16 <lb/>Of cure by Cuſtome. Exp. 1 # pag. 17 <lb/>Of cure by Exceſs. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Cure by Motion of Conſent. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of cure of Diſeaſes contrary to Prediſpoſition. # ibid. <lb/>Of Preparation before and after Purging. Exp. 1 # pag. 18 <lb/>of Stanching Blood. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of change of Aliments and Medicines. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of Diets. Exp. 1 # pag. 19 <lb/>Of Production of Cold. Exp. 7 # pag. 196 <lb/>Of turning Air into Water. Exp. 7 # pag. 20 <lb/>Of Indurætion of Bodies. Exp. 8 # pag. 22 <lb/>Of Preying of Air upon Water. Exp. 1 # pag. 124 <lb/>Of the force of Vaion. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of M@king Feathers and H@irs of divers colours. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of Nouriſhment of young creatures in the Egge or Womb. Exp. 1 # pag. 25 <lb/>of Sympat<unsure/>hy and Antipatby. Exp. 3 # ibid. <lb/>Of the Spirits or Pneumatical<unsure/>s in B@dies. Exp. 1 # pag. 26 <lb/>Of the Power of Heat. Exp. 1 # pag. 27 <lb/>Of Impoſſibility of Annih@lation. Exp. 1 # pag. 28 <lb/></note> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div9" type="section" level="1" n="7"> <head xml:id="echoid-head12" xml:space="preserve">Century II.</head> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>OF Muſick. Exp. 14 # pag. 29 <lb/>of the Nullity and Entity of Sounds. Exp. 4 # pag. 32 <lb/>of Production, Conſervation, and Delation of Sounds. Exp. 14 # pag. 34 <lb/>Of Magnitude, Exility, and Damps of Sounds. Exp. 25 # pag. 37 <lb/>Of Loudneſs, and Softneſs, of Sound. Exp. 3 # pag. 41 <lb/></note> <pb file="0012" n="12" rhead="The TABLE."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>Of Communication of Sounds. Exp. 3 # ibid. <lb/>Of Equality and Inequality of Sounds. Exp. 9 # ibid. <lb/>Of more Treble and Baſe Tones. Exp. 6. # pag. 43 <lb/>Of proportion of Treble and Baſe. Exp. 4 # pag. 44 <lb/>of Exteriour, Interiour Sounds. Exp. 4 # pag. 45 <lb/>Of Articulation of Sounds. Exp. 9. # pag. 46 <lb/></note> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div10" type="section" level="1" n="8"> <head xml:id="echoid-head13" xml:space="preserve">Century III.</head> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>OF the Lines in which Sounds move. Exp. 6 # pag. 49 <lb/>Of the Læſting or Periſhing of Sounds. Exp. 5 # pag. 50 <lb/>Of the Paſſage in Interception of Sounds. Exp. 5 # pag. 51 <lb/>Of the Medium of Sounds. Exp. 4 # pag. 52 <lb/>Of the Figures of Bodies yielding Sounds. Exp. 3 # ibid. <lb/>Of Mixture of Sounds. Exp. 5. # pag. 53 <lb/>of Melioration of Sounds. Exp. 7 # pag. 54 <lb/>of Imitation of Sounds. Exp. 6 # pag. 55 <lb/>of Reflexion of Sounds. Exp. 13 # pag. 56 <lb/>of Conſent and Dißent between Audibles, and Viſibles. Exp. 23 # pag. 58 <lb/>Of Sympathy and Antipathy of Sounds. Exp. 5 # pag. 61 <lb/>of Hindring or Helping of Hearing. Exp. 4 # pag. 62 <lb/>of the Spiritual and Fine Nature of Sounds. Exp. 4 # pag. 63 <lb/>of Orient Colours in Diſſolutions of Metals. Exp. 1 # pag. 64 <lb/>of Prolongation of Life. Exp. 1 # pag. 64 <lb/>of the Appetite of Union in Bodies. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the like Operations of Heat and Time. Exp. 1 # pag. 65 <lb/>of the Differing operations of Fire and Time. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Motions by Imitation. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Infections Diſeaſes. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Incorporations of Powders, and Liquors. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Exerciſe of the Body, and the Benefits or Evils thereof. Exp. 1 # pag. 66 <lb/>of Meats ſome Glutting, or not Glutting. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/></note> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div11" type="section" level="1" n="9"> <head xml:id="echoid-head14" xml:space="preserve">Century IV.</head> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>OF Clarification of Liquors, and the Acclerating thereof. Exp. 11 # pag. 67 <lb/>of Maturation, and the Accelerating thereof; and of the Maturation of Drinks, <lb/># and Fruits. Exp. 15. # pag. 69 <lb/>of Making Gold. Exp. 1 # pag. 71 <lb/>of the Several Natures of Gold. Exp. 1 # pag. 73 <lb/>of Inducing and Accelerating Putrefaction. Exp. 12 # ibid. <lb/>of Prohibiting and Preventing Putrefaction. Exp. 1. # pag. 75 <lb/>of Rotten Wood ſhining. Exp. 1 # pag. 77 <lb/>of Acceleration of Birth. Exp. 1 # pag. 78 <lb/>of Acceleration of Growth and Stature. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Bodies Sulphureous and Mercurial. Exp. 5 # ibid. <lb/>of the Chamcleon. Exp. 1 # pag. 80 <lb/>of subterrany Fires. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Nitrous Water. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Congealing of Air. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Congealing of Water into Cryſtal. Exp. 1 # pag. 81 <lb/>Of Preſerving the Smell and Colour in Roſe-Leaves. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Laſting of Flame. Exp. 10 # ibid. <lb/>of Infuſions or Burials of divers Bodies in Earth. Exp. 5 # pag. 83 <lb/>of the Affects of Mens Bodies from ſeveral Winds. Exp. 1 # pag. 84 <lb/>Of winter and Summer Sickneſſes. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/></note> <pb file="0013" n="13" rhead="The TABLE."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>of Peſtilential Tears. Exp. 1 # pag. 85 <lb/>of Epidemical Diſeaſes. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Preſervation of Liquors in Wells or Vaults. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Stutting. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of ſweet Smells. Exp. 4 # pag. 86 <lb/>of the Goodneſs and Choice of Waters. Exp. 7 # ibid. <lb/>oſ Temperate Heats under the Æquinoctial. Exp. 1 # pag. 87 <lb/>of the Coloration of Black and Tawney Moors. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Motion after the Instant of Death. Exp. 1 # pag. 88 <lb/></note> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div12" type="section" level="1" n="10"> <head xml:id="echoid-head15" xml:space="preserve">Century V.</head> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>OF Accelerating or Haſtening forward Germination. Exp. 12 # pag. 89 <lb/>of Retarding or putting back Germination. Exp. 9 # pag. 92 <lb/>of Meliorating, or making better, Fruits and Plants. Exp. 55 # pag. 93 <lb/>of Compound Fruits, and Flowers. Exp. 55 # pag. 100 <lb/>of sympathy and Antipathy of Plants. Exp. 19 # pag. 101 <lb/>of making Herbs and Fruits Medicinable. Exp. 2 # pag. 104 <lb/></note> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div13" type="section" level="1" n="11"> <head xml:id="echoid-head16" xml:space="preserve">Century VI.</head> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>OF Curioſities about Fruits and Plants. Exp. 17 # pag. 107 <lb/>of the Degenerating of Plants; and of their Tranſmutation one into another. Exp. 14 <lb/># pag. 110 <lb/>of the Procerity and Lowneſs of Plants; and of Artificial dwarfing them. Exp. 5. # pag. 138 <lb/>of the Rudiments of Plants; and of the Excreſcences of Plants, or ſuper-Plants. Exp. 36 <lb/># ibid. <lb/>of Producing perfect Plants without Seed. Exp. 11 # pag. 117 <lb/>of Forrain Plants. Exp. 3 # pag. 118 <lb/>of the Seaſons of ſeveral Plants. Exp. 6 # pag. 119 <lb/>of the Laſting of Plants. Exp. 5 # pag. 120 <lb/>of ſeveral Figures of Plants. Exp. 3 # pag. 121 <lb/>of ſome Principal differences in Plants. εxp. 4 # ibid. <lb/>of all Manner of Compoſts and Helps for Ground. Exp. 6 # pag. 122 <lb/></note> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div14" type="section" level="1" n="12"> <head xml:id="echoid-head17" xml:space="preserve">Century VII.</head> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>OF the Affinities and Differences between Plants, and Bodies Inanimate. Exp. 6. <lb/># pag. 125 <lb/>of Affinities and Differences between Plants, and Living Creatures; And of the Confiners <lb/># and Participles of Both. Exp. 3 # pag. 126. <lb/>of Plants Experiments Promiſcuous. Exp. 67 # pag. 127 <lb/>of Healing of woun@s. Exp. 1 # pag. 139 <lb/>of Fat diffuſed in Fleſh. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Ripening Drink ſpeedily. εxp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Pilo<unsure/>ſity and Plumage. εxp. 1. # ibid. <lb/>of the Quickneſs of Motion in Birds. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Clearneſs of the Sea, the North wind blowing. εxp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the different heats of Fire and boyling water. Exp. 1 # pag. 140 <lb/>of the Qualification of heat by Moiſture. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of rawning. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Hiccouchs. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/></note> <pb file="0014" n="14" rhead="The TABLE."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>of Sneezing. εxp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Tenderneſs of the Teeth. Exp. 1 # pag. 141 <lb/>of the Tongue. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Mouth out of Taſte. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of ſome Prognoſticks of Pestilential Seaſons. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of ſpecial Simples for Medicines. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Venus. Exp. 3 # 142 <lb/>of the Inſecta, or creatures bred of Putreſaction. Exp. 1 # pag. 142 <lb/>of Leaping. εxp. 1 # pag. 145 <lb/>of the Pleaſures and Diſpleaſures of Hearing, and of the other serſes. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/></note> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div15" type="section" level="1" n="13"> <head xml:id="echoid-head18" xml:space="preserve">Century VIII.</head> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>OF Veins of Earth Medicinall. Exp. 1 # pag. 147 <lb/>of Sponges. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Sea@fiſh in freſh Waters. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Attraction by ſimilitude of ſubſtance. Exp. 1 # pag. 148 <lb/>of certain Drinks in Turkey. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Sweat. Exp. 6 # ibid. <lb/>of the Glo@worm. Exp. 1 # pag. 149 <lb/>Of the Impreſſions upon the Body, from ſeveral Paſſions of the Mind. Exp. 10 # ibid. <lb/>of Dru@kenneſs. Exp. 4 # pag. 152 <lb/>of the Hurt, or Help of Wine taken moderately. Exp. 1 # pag. 153 <lb/>of Catterpiller. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Flies Cantharides. Exp. 1 # pag. 161 <lb/>of Laſſitude. Exp. 2 # pag. 154 <lb/>of casting the Skin and Shell in ſome Creatures. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Poſtures of the Body. Exp. 3 # ibid. <lb/>of Peſtilential year. Exp. 1 # pag. 155 <lb/>Of ſome Prognoſticks of hard Winters. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of certain Medicines that condenſe and relieve the spirits. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Paintings of the Body. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the uſe of Bathing and Anointing. Exp. 1 # pag. 156 <lb/>of Chamolletting of Paper. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Cuttle-Ink. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of S@rth increaſing in Weight. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Sleep. Exp. 3 # ibid. <lb/>Of Teeth and Hard fubſtances in the Bodies of Living Creatures. Exp. 11 # pag. 157 <lb/>of the Generation, and Bearing of living Creatures in the womb. Exp. 3 # pag. 159 <lb/>of ſpecies Viſible. Exp. 2 # pag. 160 <lb/>of Impulſion and Percuſsion. Exp. 3 # ibid. <lb/>of Titilacion. Exp. 1 # pag. 161 <lb/>Of ſcarcity of Rain in Ægypt. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Clarification. Exp. 1 # pag. 162 <lb/>of Plants Without leaves. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the materials of Glaſs. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Prohibition of Putrefaction, and the long confervation of Bodies. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Abundance of Nitre in certain<unsure/> Sec-ſhores. Exp. 1 # pag. 163 <lb/>of Bodies born up by Water. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Fuel conſuming little or nothing. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of cheap Fuel. Exp. 1 # pag. 164 <lb/>Of G@thering of wind for Freſhneſs. εxp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Trials of Aires. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of Encreaſing Milk in Milch-Beaſts. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Sand of the Nature of Glaſs. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Growth of Corral. Exp. 1 # pag. 165 <lb/>of the Gathering of Manna. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/></note> <pb file="0015" n="15" rhead="The TABLE."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>of Correcting of Wines. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Bitumen one of the Materials of Wild-fire. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Plaiſter growing as hard as Marble. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Cure of ſome ulcers and Hurts. Exp. 1 # pag. 166 <lb/>of the Healthfulneſs or unhealthfulneſs of the Southern Wind. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of wounds made with Braſs or with Iron, Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Mortificatien by Cold. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Weight. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of ſuper-Natation of Bodies. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Flying of unequal Bodies in the Air. Exp. 1 # pag. 167 <lb/>of Water that it may be the Medium of Sounds. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of the Flight of the spirits upon odious objects. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the ſuper-Reflexion of εccho’s. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the force of imagination imitating that of the Senſe. Exp. 1 # pag. 168 <lb/>Of Preſervation of Bodies, Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Growthor Multiplying of Metalls. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the drowning the more baſe Metall in the more pretious. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of Fixation of Bodies. Exp. 1 # pag. 169 <lb/>of the reſtleſs Nature of things in themſelves, and their deſire to change. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/></note> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div16" type="section" level="1" n="14"> <head xml:id="echoid-head19" xml:space="preserve">Century IX.</head> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>OF Perception in Bodies inſenſible, tending to natural Divination and ſubtle tri-<lb/># als. Exp. 30 # pag. 171 <lb/>Of the Cauſes of Appetite in the Stomach. Exp. 1 # pag. 176 <lb/>of ſweetneſs of Odour from the Rain@bow. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of ſweet Smels. Exp. 1 # pag. 177 <lb/>Of the Corporeal ſubſtance of Smels. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Fetide and Fragrant Odo<unsure/>urs. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of the Ca<unsure/>uſes of Putrefaction. Exp. 1 # pag. 178 <lb/>of Bodies unperfectly mixt. Exp. 1 # pag. 179 <lb/>of Concoction and Crudity. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Alterations which may be called Majors. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Bodies Liquefible, and not Liquefible. Exp. 1 # pag. 180 <lb/>of Bodies Fragile and Tough. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the two kinds of Pneumaticalls in Bodies. Exp. 1 # pag. 181 <lb/>of concretion and diſſolution of Bodies. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Bodies hard and ſoft. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Bodies ductile and tenſile. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of ſeveral paſsions of Matter, and characters of Bodies. Exp. 1 # pag. 182 <lb/>of Induration by ſimpathy. εxp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Honey and Sugar. Exp. 1 # pag. 183 <lb/>of the finer fort of baſe Metals. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of certain Cements and Quarries. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Al@ering of colours in Hairs and Feathers. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the difference of Living Creatures, Male and Female. Exp. 1 # pag. 184 <lb/>of the Comparative Magnitude of Living Creatures. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Producing Fruit without Coar or Stone. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Melioration of Tobacco. Exp. 1 # pag. 185 <lb/>of ſeveral Heats working the ſame Effects. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of Swelling and Dilatation in Boyling. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Dulcoration of Fruits. Exp. 1 # pag. 186 <lb/>of Fleſh Edible, and not Edible. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Salamander. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the contrary operations of Time, upon Fruits and Liquors. εxp. 1 # pag. 187 <lb/>of blows and bruiſes. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>of the Orris Root. εxp. 1 # ibid. <lb/></note> <pb file="0016" n="16" rhead="The TABLE."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>Of the compreſſion of Liquors. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of the working of water upon Air contiguow. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of the Nature of Air. Exp. 1 # pag. 188 <lb/>Of the Eyes and Sight. Exp. 7 # ibid. <lb/>Of the colour of the Sea, or other water. Exp. 1 # pag. 189 <lb/>Of Shell-Fiſh. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of the Right ſide and the Left. Exp. 1 # pag. 190 <lb/>Of Frictions. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of Globes appearing flat at diſtance. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of Shadows. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of the Rowling and breaking of the Seas. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of the Dulcoration of Salt-water. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of the return of ſaltneſs in pits by the Sea-ſhore. Exp. 1 # pag. 191 <lb/>Of Attraction by ſimilitude of ſubstance. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of Attraction. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of Heat under earth. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of Flying in the Air. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of the Scarlet Dy. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of Malificiating. Exp. 1 # pag. 102 <lb/>Of the Riſe of Liquors or Pouders, by means of A<unsure/>ame. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of the influences of the Moon. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of Vinegar. Exp. 1 # pag. 194 <lb/>Of Creatures that ſleep all Winter. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/>Of the Generating of Creatures by Copulation, and by Putrefaction. Exp. 1 # ibid. <lb/></note> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div17" type="section" level="1" n="15"> <head xml:id="echoid-head20" xml:space="preserve">Century X.</head> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>OF the Tranſmiſſion and Influx of Immateriate Virtues and the Force of Imagination; <lb/># whereof there be Experiments Monitory, three inall. Exp. 11 # pag. 197 <lb/>Of Emiſſion of spirits in Vapour, or Exhalation, odour like. Exp. 26 # pag. 201 <lb/>Of Emiſſion of ſpiritual Species which effect the Senſes. Exp. 1 # pag. 204 <lb/>Of Emiſſion of Immateriate Vertues, from the Minds, and the Spirits of Men, by Affecti-<lb/># ons, Imagination, or other Impreſſions. Exp. 21 # ibid. <lb/>Of the ſecret vertue of Sympathy, and Antipathy. Exp. 39 # pag. 208 <lb/>Of ſecret Vertues and Properties. Exp. 1 # pag. 214 <lb/>Of the General Sympathy of mens Spirits. Exp. 1 # pag. 215 <lb/></note> <pb file="0017" n="17"/> <pb file="0018" n="18"/> <pb file="0019" n="19"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div18" type="section" level="1" n="16"> <head xml:id="echoid-head21" xml:space="preserve">THE <lb/>LIFE <lb/>OF THE <lb/>RIGHT HONOURABLE <lb/>FRANCIS BACON <lb/>Baron of <emph style="sc">Verulam</emph>, Viſcount St. <emph style="sc">Alban</emph>.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head22" xml:space="preserve">BY <lb/>WILLIAM RAWLEY. D D. <lb/>His Lordſhips firſt and laſt Chaplain, and of late his <lb/>Majeſties Chaplain in Ordinary.</head> <figure> <image file="0019-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0019-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div19" type="section" level="1" n="17"> <head xml:id="echoid-head23" xml:space="preserve">LONDON, <lb/>Printed by S. G. & E. G. for William Lee, and are to be ſold at the ſign <lb/>of the Turks-Head in Fleet ſtreet, over againſt Fetter-Lane, 1670.</head> <pb file="0020" n="20"/> <pb o="1" file="0021" n="21"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div20" type="section" level="1" n="18"> <head xml:id="echoid-head24" xml:space="preserve">THE <lb/>LIFE <lb/>OF THE <lb/><emph style="sc">Right</emph> <emph style="sc">Honourable</emph> <lb/>FRANCIS BACON</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head25" xml:space="preserve">Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s70" xml:space="preserve">FRANCIS BACON the Glory, of his <lb/>Age and Nation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s71" xml:space="preserve">The Adorner, and Orna-<lb/>ment of Learning; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s72" xml:space="preserve">Was born in York-houſe <lb/>or York-Place, in the Strand, On the 22th, <lb/>Day of January; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s73" xml:space="preserve">in the Year of our Lord, 1560. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s74" 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(as I have been informed) delighted much, then, <lb/>to confer with him; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s91" xml:space="preserve">And to prove him with Queſtions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s92" xml:space="preserve">un-<lb/>to whom, he delivered Himſelf, with that Gravity, and Matu-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0022-1a" xlink:href="hd-0022-1"/> rity, above his years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s93" xml:space="preserve">That Her Majeſty would oſten term <lb/>him, The young Lord Keeper. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s94" xml:space="preserve">Being asked by the Queen, <lb/>how old he was? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s95" xml:space="preserve">He anſwered with much diſcretion, being <lb/>then but a Boy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s96" xml:space="preserve">That he was two years younger than her <lb/>Majeſties happy Reign; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s97" xml:space="preserve">with which anſwer the Queen was <lb/>much taken.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s98" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div20" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0022-1" xlink:href="hd-0022-1a"/> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s99" xml:space="preserve">At the ordinary years, of Ripeneſs, for the Univerſity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s100" xml:space="preserve">or <lb/>rather, ſomething earlier; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s101" xml:space="preserve">he was ſent by his Father, to Tri-<lb/>nity College, in Cambridge; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s102" xml:space="preserve">To be educated, and bred un-<lb/>der the Tuition of Doctor John White-Gift, then Maſter <lb/>of the Colledge; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s103" xml:space="preserve">Afterwards the renowned Arch Biſhop of <lb/>Canterbury; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s104" xml:space="preserve">a Prelate of the firſt Magnitude of Sanctity, <lb/>Learning Patience, and Humility; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s105" xml:space="preserve">Under whom, He was ob-<lb/>ſerved, to have been more, than an Ordinary Proficient, in <lb/>the ſeveral Arts and Sciences. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s106" xml:space="preserve">Whilſt he was commorant, in <lb/>the Vniverſity, about 16 years of age, (as his Lordſhip hath <lb/>been pleaſed to impart unto my ſelf;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s107" xml:space="preserve">be firſt fell into <lb/>the Diſlike, of the Philoſophy of Ariſtotle. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s108" xml:space="preserve">Not for the <lb/>Worthleſſeneſs of the Author, to whom he would ey<unsure/>er aſcribe <lb/>all High Attributes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s109" xml:space="preserve">But for the Vnfruitfulneſs, of the way; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s110" xml:space="preserve">Being a Philoſophy, (as his Lordſhip uſed to ſa<unsure/>y) only <lb/>ſtrong, for Diſputations, and Contentions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s111" xml:space="preserve">But Barren, of <lb/>the production of Works, for the Benefit of the Life of Man. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s112" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>In which Mind be continued to his Dying Day.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s113" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s114" xml:space="preserve">After he had paſſed, the Circle of the Liberal Arts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s115" xml:space="preserve">His <lb/>Father thought fit, to frame, and mould him for the Arts of <lb/>State; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s116" xml:space="preserve">and, for that end, ſent him over into France, with <pb o="3" file="0023" n="23" rhead="FRANCIS Lord BACON."/> Sir Amyas Paulet, then Employed Ambaſſadour Lieger, <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0023-1a" xlink:href="hd-0023-1"/> into France; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s117" xml:space="preserve">By whom, he was, after a while, held fit to be en-<lb/>truſted, with ſome Meſſage, or Advertiſement, to the <lb/>Queen; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s118" xml:space="preserve">which haring performed with great Approbation, he <lb/>returned back into France again; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s119" xml:space="preserve">with intention to continue, <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0023-1a" xlink:href="hd-0023-1"/> for ſome years, there. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s120" xml:space="preserve">In his abſence, in France, his Father, <lb/>the Lord Keeper, died; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s121" xml:space="preserve">Having collected, (as I have heard, <lb/>of Knowing Perſons) a conſiderable ſum of Money, which <lb/>he had ſeparated, with Intention, to have made a competent <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0023-1a" xlink:href="hd-0023-1"/> Purchaſe of Land, for the Lively hood of this his youngeſt <lb/>Son; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s122" xml:space="preserve">(who was onely unprovided for; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s123" xml:space="preserve">and though he was <lb/>the young eſt in years, yet be was not the loweſt, in his Fathers <lb/>affection;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s124" xml:space="preserve">But the ſaid Purchaſe, being unaccompliſbed, at <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0023-1a" xlink:href="hd-0023-1"/> his Fathers Death, there came no greater ſhare to him, than his <lb/>ſingle Part, and Portion, of the Money, dividable among ſt <lb/>five Brethren; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s125" xml:space="preserve">By which means, he lived, in ſome ſtreits, <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0023-1a" xlink:href="hd-0023-1"/> and Neceſſities, in his younger years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s126" xml:space="preserve">For as for that pleaſant <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0023-1a" xlink:href="hd-0023-1"/> Scite, and Mannor of Gorhambury, he came not to it, till <lb/>many years after, by the Death, of his Deareſt Brother, Mr. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s127" xml:space="preserve">Anthony Bacon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s128" xml:space="preserve">a Gentleman, equal to him, in Height of <lb/>Wit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s129" xml:space="preserve">Though inferiour to him, in the Endowments of Lear-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0023-1a" xlink:href="hd-0023-1"/> ning and Knowledge; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s130" xml:space="preserve">Unto whom he was, moſt nearly con-<lb/>joyned in affection; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s131" xml:space="preserve">They two being the ſole Male-iſſue of aſe-<lb/>cond Venter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s132" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div21" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0023-1" xlink:href="hd-0023-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0023-1" xlink:href="hd-0023-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0023-1" xlink:href="hd-0023-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0023-1" xlink:href="hd-0023-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0023-1" xlink:href="hd-0023-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0023-1" xlink:href="hd-0023-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0023-1" xlink:href="hd-0023-1a"/> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s133" xml:space="preserve">Being returned from Travail, he applied himſelf, to the <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0023-1a" xlink:href="hd-0023-1"/> study of the Common-Law; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s134" xml:space="preserve">which he took upon him to be <lb/>his Profeſſion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s135" xml:space="preserve">In which, he obtained to great Excellency <lb/>Though he made that, (as himſelf ſaid) but as an acceſſary, <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0023-1a" xlink:href="hd-0023-1"/> and not as his Principal ſtudy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s136" xml:space="preserve">He wrote ſeveral Tractates, <lb/>upon that Subject. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s137" xml:space="preserve">Wherein, though ſome great Maſters, <lb/>ofthe Law did out-go him in Bulk, and Particularities of <lb/>Caſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s138" xml:space="preserve">yet, in the Science, of the Grounds, and Myſteries, <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0023-1a" xlink:href="hd-0023-1"/> of the Law, he was exceeded by none, In this way, he was af-<lb/>ter a while, ſworn, of the Queens Counſel Learned, Ex-<lb/>traordinary; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s139" xml:space="preserve">agrace, (if I erre not) ſcarce known before. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s140" xml:space="preserve">He ſeated himſelf for the commodity of his ſtudies, and Pra-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0023-1a" xlink:href="hd-0023-1"/> ctiſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s141" xml:space="preserve">amongſt the Honourable Society, of Greyes-Inn; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s142" xml:space="preserve">Of which Houſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s143" xml:space="preserve">he was a Member; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s144" xml:space="preserve">where he Erected, <pb o="4" file="0024" n="24" rhead="The Life of the Right Honorable"/> that elegant Pile, or Structure, commonly known by the Name <lb/>of the Lord Bacons Lodgings; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s145" xml:space="preserve">which he Inhabited by Turns, <lb/>the moſt part of his Life, (ſome few years onely excepted,) <lb/>unto bis Dying Day. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s146" xml:space="preserve">In which Houſe he carried himſelf, <lb/>with ſuch Sweetneſs, Comity, and Generoſity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s147" xml:space="preserve">That he was <lb/>much revered, and beloved, by the Readers and Gentlemen <lb/>of the Houſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s148" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div22" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0023-1" xlink:href="hd-0023-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0023-1" xlink:href="hd-0023-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0023-1" xlink:href="hd-0023-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0023-1" xlink:href="hd-0023-1a"/> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s149" xml:space="preserve">Not withſtanding, that he profeſſed the Law for his Lively-<lb/>hood, and Subſiſtence; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s150" xml:space="preserve">yet his Heart and Affection was more <lb/>carried after the Affairs and Places of Eſtate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s151" xml:space="preserve">for which, if <lb/>the Majeſty Royal then, had been pleaſed, he was most fit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s152" xml:space="preserve">In <lb/>his younger years, he ſtudied the Service, and Fortunes, (as <lb/>they call them,) of that Noble, but unſortunate Earl, the <lb/>Earl of Eſſex; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s153" xml:space="preserve">unto whom be was, in a ſort, a Private and free <lb/>Counſeller, and gave him Safe and Honour able Advice, till, <lb/>in the end, the Earl inclined too much, to the violent and preci-<lb/>tate Counſell of others, his Adherents, and Followers, which <lb/>was his Fate and Ruine.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s154" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s155" xml:space="preserve">His Birth and other Capacities qualified him, above o-<lb/>thers of his Profeſſion, to have ordinary acceſſes at Court; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s156" xml:space="preserve">and to come freqnently into the Queens Eye; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s157" xml:space="preserve">who would of-<lb/>ten grace him with private and free<unsure/> Communication; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s158" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Not onely about Matters of his Profeſſion, or Buſineſs in <lb/>Law; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s159" xml:space="preserve">But alſo, about the arduous Affairs of Eſtate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s160" xml:space="preserve">From <lb/>whomſhe received, from time to time, great Satisfaction. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s161" xml:space="preserve">Ne-<lb/>vertheleſs though ſhe cheered him much, with the Bounty of <lb/>her Countenance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s162" xml:space="preserve">yet ſhe never cheered him with the <lb/>Bounty of her Hand: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s163" xml:space="preserve">Having never conferred upon him, a-<lb/>ny Ordinary Place or Means of Honour or Profit, Save <lb/>onely one dry Reverſion of the Regiſters Office, in the Star-<lb/>Chamber; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s164" xml:space="preserve">worth about 1600 @ per Annum; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s165" xml:space="preserve">For which he <lb/>waited in Expectation, either fully or near twenty years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s166" xml:space="preserve">Of <lb/>which his Lordſhip would ſay, in Queen Elizabeths Time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s167" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>That it was like another mans Ground, buttalling upon <lb/>his Houſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s168" xml:space="preserve">which might mend his Proſpect, but it did <lb/>not fill his Barn. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s169" xml:space="preserve">(Nevertheleſs in the time of King James, <lb/>it fellunto him, which might be imputed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s170" xml:space="preserve">not ſo much to <lb/>her Majeſties averſeneſs and Diſaffection, towards him;</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s171" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="7" file="0025" n="25" rhead="FRANCIS Lord BACON."/> as the Arts and Policy of a Great Stateſman, then; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s172" xml:space="preserve">who la-<lb/>boured by all induſtrious, and ſecret Means, to ſuppreſs, <lb/>and keep him down; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s173" xml:space="preserve">leſt, if he had riſen, he might have obſcur-<lb/>ed his Glory.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s174" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s175" xml:space="preserve">But though; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s176" xml:space="preserve">he ſtood long at a ſtay, in the Dayes of his Mi-<lb/>ſtreſs Queen Elizabeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s177" xml:space="preserve">ret, after the change, and Coming <lb/>in of his New Maſter, King James, he made a great pro-<lb/>greſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s178" xml:space="preserve">by whom he was much comforted, in Places of Truſt, <lb/>Honour, and Revenue, I have ſeen, a Letter of his Lord-<lb/>ſhips, to King James, wherein he makes Acknowledgement; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s179" xml:space="preserve">That he was that Maſter to him, that had raiſed and ad-<lb/>vanced him nine times; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s180" xml:space="preserve">Thrice in Dignity, and Six <lb/>times in Office, His Offices (as I conceive) were Counſel <lb/>learned extraordinary, to his Majeſty, as he bad been, to <lb/>Queen Elizabeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s181" xml:space="preserve">Kings Solliciter General; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s182" xml:space="preserve">His Maje-<lb/>ſties Atturney General; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s183" xml:space="preserve">Counſellor of Eſtate, being yet <lb/>but Atturney; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s184" xml:space="preserve">Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s185" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Laſtly, Lord Chancellor: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s186" xml:space="preserve">which two laſt Places, though they <lb/>be the ſame, in Authority and Power; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s187" xml:space="preserve">yet they differ in Pa-<lb/>tent, Height, and Favour of the Prince. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s188" xml:space="preserve">Since whoſe time, <lb/>none of his Succeſſors, until this preſent Honourable Lord; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s189" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>did ever bear the Title of Lord Chancellor. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s190" xml:space="preserve">His Digni-<lb/>ties were firſt Knight, then Baron of Verulam; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s191" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, <lb/>Viſcount Saint Alban: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s192" xml:space="preserve">Beſides other good Gifts and Boun-<lb/>ties of the Hand, which his Majesty gave him, Both out of <lb/>the Broad-Seal, and out of the Aleniation-Office, To the va-<lb/>lue, in both of eighteen hundred pounds per annum: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s193" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>with his Mannour of Gorhambury; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s194" xml:space="preserve">and other Lands and <lb/>Poſſeſſions, near thereunto adjoyning, aw<unsure/>ounting to a third <lb/>part more, he retained to his Dying Day.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s195" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s196" xml:space="preserve">Towards his Riſing years, not before, he entered into a mar-<lb/>ried Eſtate, and took to Wife, Alice, one of the Daughters, <lb/>and Co heirs of Benedict Barnham, Eſquire, and Alder-<lb/>man of London, with whom he received, a ſufficiently am-<lb/>ple, and liberal Portion, in Marriage. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s197" xml:space="preserve">Children he had <lb/>none: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s198" xml:space="preserve">which, though they be the means to perpetuate our <lb/>Names, after our Deaths; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s199" xml:space="preserve">yet he had other Iſſues to perpe-<lb/>tuate his Name; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s200" xml:space="preserve">The Iſſues of his Brain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s201" xml:space="preserve">in which be was e- <pb o="6" file="0026" n="26" rhead="The Life of the Right Honorable"/> ver happy, and admired; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s202" xml:space="preserve">as Jupiter was, in the production <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0026-1a" xlink:href="hd-0026-1"/> of Pallas. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s203" xml:space="preserve">Neither did the want of Children, detrast from <lb/>his good uſage of his Conſort, during the Intermarriage; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s204" xml:space="preserve">whom he proſecuted, with much Conjugal Love, and Re-<lb/>ſpect; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s205" xml:space="preserve">with many Rich Gifts, and Endowments; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s206" xml:space="preserve">Beſides <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0026-1a" xlink:href="hd-0026-1"/> a Robe of Honour, which he in veſted her withal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s207" xml:space="preserve">which ſhe <lb/>wore untill her Dying Day; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s208" xml:space="preserve">being twenty years and more, af-<lb/>ter his Death.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s209" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div23" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0026-1" xlink:href="hd-0026-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0026-1" xlink:href="hd-0026-1a"/> </div> <handwritten/> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s210" xml:space="preserve">The laſt five years of his Life, being with drawn from Ci-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0026-1a" xlink:href="hd-0026-1"/> vil affaires, and from an Active Life, he employed wholly <lb/>in Contemplation and Studies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s211" xml:space="preserve">A thing, @bereof his <lb/>Lordſhip would often ſpeak, during his Active Life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s212" xml:space="preserve">as if <lb/>he afſected to dy in the Shadow, and not in the Light; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s213" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0026-1a" xlink:href="hd-0026-1"/> alſo may befound in ſeveral Paſſages of his Works. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s214" xml:space="preserve">In <lb/>which time he compoſed, the greatest part of his Books, and <lb/>Writings; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s215" xml:space="preserve">Both in Engliſh and Latine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s216" xml:space="preserve">Which I will enu-<lb/>merate, (as near as I can) in the juſt order, wherſsin they were <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0026-1a" xlink:href="hd-0026-1"/> written. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s217" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory of the Reign of King Henry the Se-<lb/>venth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s218" xml:space="preserve">Abcedarium Naturæ; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s219" xml:space="preserve">or a Metaphyſical piece; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s220" xml:space="preserve">which is loſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s221" xml:space="preserve">Hiſtoria Ventorum; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s222" xml:space="preserve">Hiſtoria Vitæ & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s223" xml:space="preserve">Mor-<lb/>tis; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s224" xml:space="preserve">Hiſtoria Denſi & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s225" xml:space="preserve">Rari, not yet printed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s226" xml:space="preserve">Hiſtoria Gra-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0026-1a" xlink:href="hd-0026-1"/> vis & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s227" xml:space="preserve">Levis, which is alſo loſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s228" xml:space="preserve">A Diſcourſe of a War with <lb/>Spain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s229" xml:space="preserve">A Dialogue, tonching an Holy War. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s230" xml:space="preserve">The Fable of <lb/>the New Atlantis. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s231" xml:space="preserve">A Prefare to a Digeſt of the Lawes <lb/>of England. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s232" xml:space="preserve">The Beginning, of the Hiſtory of the Reign <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0026-1a" xlink:href="hd-0026-1"/> of King Henry the Eighth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s233" xml:space="preserve">De Augmentis Scientiarum, <lb/>Or the Advancement of Learning, put into Latin, with <lb/>ſeveral Enrichments and Enlargements. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s234" xml:space="preserve">Counſels Civil, <lb/>and Moral. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s235" xml:space="preserve">Or his Book of Eſſayes, likewiſe Enriched <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0026-1a" xlink:href="hd-0026-1"/> and Enlarged. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s236" xml:space="preserve">The Converſion of certain Pſalms, into <lb/>Engliſh Verſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s237" xml:space="preserve">The Tranſſation into Latin; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s238" xml:space="preserve">of the Hi-<lb/>ſtory of King Henry the Seventh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s239" xml:space="preserve">Of the Counſels Civil <lb/>and Moral. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s240" xml:space="preserve">Of the Dialogue of the Holy War. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s241" xml:space="preserve">Of the <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0026-1a" xlink:href="hd-0026-1"/> Fable of the New Atlantis, For the Benefit of otber Na-<lb/>tions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s242" xml:space="preserve">His Reviſing of his Book, De Sapientia Vete-<lb/>rum. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s243" xml:space="preserve">Inquiſitio de Magnete, Topica Inquiſitionis, de <lb/>Luce & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s244" xml:space="preserve">Lumine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s245" xml:space="preserve">Both theſe not yet Printed, Laſtly, Syl-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0026-1a" xlink:href="hd-0026-1"/> va sylvarum, or the Natural Hiſtory. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s246" xml:space="preserve">Theſe were the <pb o="7" file="0027" n="27" rhead="FRANCIS Lord BACON."/> Fruits and Productions, of his laſt five years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s247" xml:space="preserve">His Lord-<lb/>ſhip alſo deſigned upon the Motion and Invitation of his late <lb/>Majeſty; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s248" xml:space="preserve">To have written the Reign of King Henry the <lb/>Eighth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s249" xml:space="preserve">But that Work Perifhed in the Deſignation meer-<lb/>ly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s250" xml:space="preserve">God not lending him Life, to proceed further upon it, then <lb/>only in one Mornings Work: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s251" xml:space="preserve">whereof there is Extant, An, <lb/>Ex Ungue Leonem, already Printed, in his Lordſhips Miſ-<lb/>cellany Works.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s252" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div24" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0026-1" xlink:href="hd-0026-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0026-1" xlink:href="hd-0026-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0026-1" xlink:href="hd-0026-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0026-1" xlink:href="hd-0026-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0026-1" xlink:href="hd-0026-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0026-1" xlink:href="hd-0026-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0026-1" xlink:href="hd-0026-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0026-1" xlink:href="hd-0026-1a"/> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s253" xml:space="preserve">There is a Commemoration due; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s254" xml:space="preserve">As well, to his Abilities, <lb/>and Vertues, as to the Courſe of his Life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s255" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe Abilities, <lb/>which commonly go ſingle in other Men, though of prime, and <lb/>Obſerveable Parts, were all conjoyned, and met in Him. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s256" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe are, Sharpneſs of Wit, Memory, Judgment, and <lb/>Elocution. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s257" xml:space="preserve">For the Former Three, his Books do abun-<lb/>dantly ſpeak them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s258" xml:space="preserve">which, with what Sufficiency he wrote, let <lb/>the World judge; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s259" xml:space="preserve">But with what Celerity he wrote them, <lb/>I can beſt teſtifie. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s260" xml:space="preserve">But for the Fourth, his Elocution; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s261" xml:space="preserve">I will <lb/>onlyſet down, what I heard, Sir Walter Rawleigh, once ſpeak of <lb/>him, by way of Compariſon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s262" xml:space="preserve">(whoſe Judgment may well be <lb/>truſted;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s263" xml:space="preserve">That the Earl of Saliſbury, was an excellent <lb/>Speaker, but no good Pen-man; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s264" xml:space="preserve">That the Earl of North-<lb/>ampton, (the Lord Henry Howard,) was an excellent <lb/>Pen-man, but no good speaker; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s265" xml:space="preserve">But that Sir Francis <lb/>Bacon, was Eminentin both.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s266" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s267" xml:space="preserve">I have been enduced to think; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s268" xml:space="preserve">That if there were, a <lb/>Beam of Knowledge derived from God upon any <lb/>Man, in theſe Modern Times, it was upon Him. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s269" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>though he was a great Reader of Books; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s270" xml:space="preserve">yet he had <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0027-1a" xlink:href="hd-0027-1"/> not his Knowledge from Books; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s271" xml:space="preserve">But from ſome Grounds, <lb/>and Notions from within Himſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s272" xml:space="preserve">Which notwith-<lb/>ſtanding, he vented with great Caution and Circum-<lb/>ſpection. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s273" xml:space="preserve">His Book, of Inſtauration Magna, (which, <lb/>in his own Account, was the chiefeſt of his Works,) was no <lb/>Slight Imagination, ar Fancy, of his brain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s274" xml:space="preserve">but a setled, <lb/>and Concocted Notion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s275" xml:space="preserve">The Production of many years, <lb/>Labour, and Travel. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s276" xml:space="preserve">I my Self, have ſeen, at the lest, <lb/>Twelve Coppies, of the Inſtauration; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s277" xml:space="preserve">Reviſed, year by <lb/>year, one after another; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s278" xml:space="preserve">And every year altered, and amended, <pb o="8" file="0028" n="28" rhead="The Life of the Right Honorable"/> in the Frame thereof; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s279" xml:space="preserve">Till, at laſt, it came to that Model, in <lb/>which it was committed to the Preis; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s280" xml:space="preserve">As many Living Crea-<lb/>tures, do lick their young ones, till they bring them, to their <lb/>ſtrength of Limbs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s281" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div25" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0027-1" xlink:href="hd-0027-1a"/> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s282" xml:space="preserve">In the Compoſing of his Books, he did rather drive at a <lb/>Maſculine and clear Expreſsion, than at any Fineneſs, or Af-<lb/>fectation of Phraſes, and would often ask, if the Meaning <lb/>were expreſſea plainly enough: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s283" xml:space="preserve">as being one that accounted <lb/>words to be but ſubſervent, or Miniſterial, to Matter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s284" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>not the principal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s285" xml:space="preserve">And if his Stile were Polite, it was be-<lb/>cauſe he could do no other wiſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s286" xml:space="preserve">Neither was be given, to any <lb/>Light Conceits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s287" xml:space="preserve">Or Deſcanting upon Words; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s288" xml:space="preserve">‘But did <lb/>ever, purpoſely, and induſtriouſly, avoid them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s289" xml:space="preserve">For he held <lb/>ſuch Things, to be but Digreſsions, or Diverſions, from the <lb/>Scope intended; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s290" xml:space="preserve">and to derogate, from the Weight and Dig-<lb/>nity of the Stile.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s291" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s292" xml:space="preserve">He was no Plodder upon Books; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s293" xml:space="preserve">Though he read much, and <lb/>that with great Judgement and Rejection of Impertinences, <lb/>incident to many Authors; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s294" xml:space="preserve">For he would ever interlace a <lb/>Moderate Relaxation of His Minde with his Studies; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s295" xml:space="preserve">As Walking, Or Taking the Air abroad in his Coach; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s296" xml:space="preserve">or <lb/>ſome other hefitting Recreation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s297" xml:space="preserve">and yet, he would looſe no <lb/>Time, In as much, as upon his Firſt, and Immediate Return, <lb/>he would fall to Reading again, and ſo ſuffer no Moment of <lb/>Time to Slip from him without ſome preſent Improve-<lb/>ment.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s298" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s299" xml:space="preserve">His Meales were Refections of the Eare as well as of <lb/>the Stomack: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s300" xml:space="preserve">Like the Noctes Atticæ; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s301" xml:space="preserve">or Convivia Deip-<lb/>no Sophiſtarum; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s302" xml:space="preserve">Wherein a Man might be refreſhed in his <lb/>Mind and underſtanding, no leſs then in his Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s303" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>I have known ſome, of no mean Parts, that have profeſſed to <lb/>make uſe of their Note-Books, when they have riſen from <lb/>his Table. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s304" xml:space="preserve">In which Converſations, and otherwiſe, he <lb/>was no Daſhing Man, as ſome men are; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s305" xml:space="preserve">But ever a Coun-<lb/>tenancer, and Foſterer, of another Mans Parts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s306" xml:space="preserve">Neither was <lb/>he one, that would appropriate the Speech, wholy to Himſelf; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s307" xml:space="preserve">or à<unsure/>elight to out-vie others; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s308" xml:space="preserve">‘But leave a Liberty, to the <lb/>Co-Aſſeſſours, to take their Turns. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s309" xml:space="preserve">Wherein ht would draw <pb o="9" file="0029" n="29" rhead="FRANCIS Lord BACON."/> a Man on, and allure him, to ſpeak upon ſuch a ſubject, as <lb/>wherein he was peculiarly Skilful, and would delight to ſpeak. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s310" xml:space="preserve">And, for Himſelf, he contemned no Mans Obſervations, <lb/>but would light his Torch at every mans Candle.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s311" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s312" xml:space="preserve">His Opinions and Aſſertions were, for the moſt part, Bin-<lb/>ding, and not contradicted by any; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s313" xml:space="preserve">Rather like Oracles, than <lb/>Diſcourſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s314" xml:space="preserve">Which may be imputed, either to the well weigh-<lb/>ing of his Sentence, by the Skales of Truth, and Reaſon; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s315" xml:space="preserve">Or elſe to the Reverence and Eſtimation, wherein he was <lb/>commonly had, that no Man would conteſt with him: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s316" xml:space="preserve">So <lb/>that there was no Argumentation, or Pro and Con (as they <lb/>term it) at his Table: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s317" xml:space="preserve">Or if there chanced to be any it was <lb/>carried with much Submiſſion and Moderation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s318" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s319" xml:space="preserve">I have often obſerved, and ſo have other Men of great <lb/>account, That if he had occaſion to repeat another Mans Words <lb/>after him, he had an uſe and faculty to dreſs them in better <lb/>Veſtments, and Apparel than they had before: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s320" xml:space="preserve">So that the <lb/>Authour ſhould find his own speech much amended; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s321" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>yet the ſubſtance of it ſtill retained: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s322" xml:space="preserve">As if it had been Na-<lb/>tural to him to uſe good Forms; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s323" xml:space="preserve">As Ovid ſpake of his Fa-<lb/>culty of Verſifying.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s324" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div27" type="section" level="1" n="19"> <head xml:id="echoid-head26" xml:space="preserve">Et quod tentabam ſcribere, Verſus erat,</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s325" xml:space="preserve">When his Office called him, as he was of the Kings Coun-<lb/>ſel Learned, to charge any Offenders, either in Criminals, <lb/>or Capitals; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s326" xml:space="preserve">He was never of an Inſulting, or Domineering <lb/>Nature over them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s327" xml:space="preserve">But alwayes tender Hearted, and carry-<lb/>ing himſelf dee ently towards the Parties; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s328" xml:space="preserve">(Though it was his <lb/>Duty, to charge them home:) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s329" xml:space="preserve">‘But yet, as one, that looked up-<lb/>on the Example, with the Eye of Severity, But upon the Per-<lb/>ſon, with the Eye of Pitty, and Compaſſion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s330" xml:space="preserve">And in Civil <lb/>Buſineſs, as he was Counſellor of Eſtate, he had the beſt <lb/>way of adviſing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s331" xml:space="preserve">Not engaging his Maſter, in any Precipi-<lb/>tate or grievous Courſes, but in Moderate and Fair <lb/>Proceedings: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s332" xml:space="preserve">The King, whom he ſerved, giving him this <lb/>Teſtimony; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s333" xml:space="preserve">That he ever dealt, in Buſineſſe, Suavibus <pb o="10" file="0030" n="30" rhead="The Life of the Right Honorable"/> Modis; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s334" xml:space="preserve">Which was the way that was moſt according <lb/>to his own heart.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s335" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s336" xml:space="preserve">Neither was He in his time leſſe gracious with the Subject <lb/>than with his Soveraign. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s337" xml:space="preserve">He was ever acceptable to the Houſe <lb/>of Commons, when he was a Member thereof. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s338" xml:space="preserve">Being the <lb/>Kings Atturney, and choſen to a place in Parliament; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s339" xml:space="preserve">he was <lb/>allowed and diſpenſed with to ſit in the Houſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s340" xml:space="preserve">which was <lb/>not permitted to other Atturneys.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s341" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s342" xml:space="preserve">And as he was a good Servant to his Maſter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s343" xml:space="preserve">Being never, <lb/>in nineteen years ſervice (as he himſelf a verred,) rebuked by <lb/>the King for any Thing relating to his Majeſty; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s344" xml:space="preserve">So he was <lb/>a good Maſter to his Servants, And rewarded their long at-<lb/>tendance with good Places, freely when they fell into his <lb/>Power. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s345" xml:space="preserve">Which was the Cauſe that ſo many young Gentle-<lb/>men of Blood and Quality, ſought to list themſelr<unsure/>es in <lb/>his Retinue. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s346" xml:space="preserve">And if he were abuſed by any of them in their <lb/>Places, It was onely the Errour, of the Goodneſs, of his Na-<lb/>ture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s347" xml:space="preserve">but the Badges of their Indiſcretions, and Intempe-<lb/>rances.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s348" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s349" xml:space="preserve">This Lord was Religious; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s350" xml:space="preserve">For though the World he apt <lb/>to ſuſpect, and prejudice, Great Wits, and Politicks to have <lb/>ſomewhat of the Atheiſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s351" xml:space="preserve">ret he was converſant with God: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s352" xml:space="preserve">As appeareth, by ſereral Paſſages, throughout the whole Cur-<lb/>rent of his Writings. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s353" xml:space="preserve">Otherwiſe he ſhould have croſſed <lb/>his own Principles; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s354" xml:space="preserve">which were, That a little Philoſo-<lb/>phy, makerh Men apt to forget God; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s355" xml:space="preserve">As attributing <lb/>too much to ſecond Cauſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s356" xml:space="preserve">But Depth of Philoſophy, <lb/>bringeth Men back to God again. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s357" xml:space="preserve">Now I am ſure there <lb/>is no Man that will deny him, or account other wiſe of him, <lb/>but to have him been a deep Philoſopher. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s358" xml:space="preserve">And not only ſo, <lb/>But he was able to render a Reaſon of the Hope which <lb/>was in him; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s359" xml:space="preserve">Which that Writing of his, of the Confeſſion <lb/>of the Faith, doth abundantly testifie. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s360" xml:space="preserve">He repaired frequent-<lb/>ly, when his Health would permit him, to the Service of the <lb/>Church, To hear Sermons, To the Adminiſtration of the <lb/>Sacrament of the Bleſſed Body and Bloud of Chriſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s361" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>died in the true Faith eſtabliſbed in the Church of Eng-<lb/>land.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s362" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="11" file="0031" n="31" rhead="FRANCIS Lord BACON."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s363" xml:space="preserve">This is moſt true; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s364" xml:space="preserve">He was free from Malice; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s365" xml:space="preserve">which, (as he <lb/>ſaid Himſelf,) He never bred nor fed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s366" xml:space="preserve">He was no Reven-<lb/>ger of Injuries; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s367" xml:space="preserve">which, if he had minded, he had both Oppor-<lb/>tunity and Place High enough, to have done it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s368" xml:space="preserve">He was <lb/>no Heaver of Men out of their Places, As delighting in their <lb/>Ruine and Undoing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s369" xml:space="preserve">He was no d<unsure/>efamer of any Man to <lb/>his Prince. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s370" xml:space="preserve">One Day, when a great States-Man was new-<lb/>ly Dead, That had not been his Friend; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s371" xml:space="preserve">The King asked<unsure/> him, <lb/>What he thought of that Lord, which was gone? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s372" xml:space="preserve">He an-<lb/>ſwered, That he would never have made his Majeſties <lb/>Eſtate better; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s373" xml:space="preserve">But he was ſure he would have kept it <lb/>ſrom being worſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s374" xml:space="preserve">Which was the worſt, be would ſay of <lb/>him. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s375" xml:space="preserve">Which Ireckon, not among his Moral, but his Chriſtian <lb/>Vertues.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s376" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s377" xml:space="preserve">His Fame is greater, and ſounds louder in Forraign Parts <lb/>abroad, than at home in his own Nation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s378" xml:space="preserve">There by verify-<lb/>ing that Divine Sentence, A Prophet is not without ho-<lb/>nour, ſave in his own Country, and in his own houſe. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s379" xml:space="preserve">Concerning which I will give you a Taſte onely, out of a Let-<lb/>ter, written from Italy (The Store-houſe of Refined Wits) <lb/>to the late Earl of Devonſhire, Then, the Lord Candiſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s380" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>I will expect the New Eſſayes of my Lord Chancellor <lb/>Bacon, as alſo his Hiſtory, with a great deal of De-<lb/>ſire, and whatſoever elſe he ſhall compoſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s381" xml:space="preserve">But in <lb/>Particular of his Hiſtory, I promiſe my ſelf a thing per-<lb/>ſect and Singular; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s382" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially in Henry the Seventh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s383" xml:space="preserve">Where <lb/>he may exerciſe the Talent of his Divine Underſtand-<lb/>ing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s384" xml:space="preserve">This Lord is more and more known, and his <lb/>Books here, more and more delighted in; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s385" xml:space="preserve">And thoſe <lb/>Men that have more than ordinary Knowledge in <lb/>Humane affairs, eſteem him one of the moſt capable <lb/>Spirits of this Age; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s386" xml:space="preserve">and he is truely ſuch. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s387" xml:space="preserve">Now his Fame <lb/>doth not decrease<unsure/> with Dayes ſince, but rather increaſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s388" xml:space="preserve">Di-<lb/>vers of his Works have been anciently, and yet lately, tran-<lb/>ſlated into other Tongues, both Learned and Modern, <lb/>by Forraign Pens. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s389" xml:space="preserve">Several Perſons of Quality, during his <lb/>Lordſhips Life, croſſed the Seas on purpoſe to gain an Oppor-<lb/>tunity of ſeeing him, and Diſcourſing with him: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s390" xml:space="preserve">where of one, <pb o="12" file="0032" n="32" rhead="The Life of the Right Honorable"/> carried his Lordſhips Picture, from Head to Foot, over with <lb/>him into France; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s391" xml:space="preserve">as a Thing which, he foreſaw, would be <lb/>much deſired there; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s392" xml:space="preserve">That ſo they might enjoy, the Image of <lb/>his Peiſon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s393" xml:space="preserve">as well as the Images of his Brain, his Books. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s394" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt the reſt, Marquis Fiat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s395" xml:space="preserve">a French-Nobleman; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s396" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>who came Ambaſſador into England, in the beginning of <lb/>Queen Mary, Wife to King Charles, was taken with an <lb/>extraor dinary Deſire of Seeing him: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s397" xml:space="preserve">For which, he made <lb/>way by a Friend: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s398" xml:space="preserve">And when he came to him, being then, <lb/>through weakneſs, confined to his Bed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s399" xml:space="preserve">The Marquis ſaluted <lb/>him with this High-Expresſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s400" xml:space="preserve">That his Lordſhip, had <lb/>been ever to Him, like the Angels; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s401" xml:space="preserve">of whom he had of-<lb/>ten heard, and read much of them in Books; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s402" xml:space="preserve">But he ne-<lb/>ver ſaw them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s403" xml:space="preserve">After which they contr acted an intimate Ac-<lb/>quaintance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s404" xml:space="preserve">And the Marquis did ſo much revere him; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s405" xml:space="preserve">that <lb/>beſides his Frequent viſits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s406" xml:space="preserve">they wrote Letters, one to the o-<lb/>ther, under the Titles and Appellations, of Father and Son; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s407" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>As for his many Salutations, by Letters from Forraign Wor-<lb/>thies, devoted to Learning; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s408" xml:space="preserve">I forbear to mention them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s409" xml:space="preserve">Be-<lb/>cauſe that is a Thing common to other Men of Learning, or <lb/>Note together with him.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s410" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s411" xml:space="preserve">But yet, in this Matter of his Fame, I ſpeak, in the Com-<lb/>parative, onely, and not in the Excluſive. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s412" xml:space="preserve">For his Reputati-<lb/>on is great, in his own Nation, alſo; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s413" xml:space="preserve">Eſpecially amongſt thoſe, <lb/>that are of a more Acute, and ſharper Judgement: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s414" xml:space="preserve">Which <lb/>I will exemplifie, but with two Teſtimonies, and no more. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s415" xml:space="preserve">The Former; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s416" xml:space="preserve">When his Hiſtory of King Henry the Se-<lb/>venth was to come forth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s417" xml:space="preserve">It was delivered to the old Lord <lb/>Brook, to be peruſed by him; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s418" xml:space="preserve">who, when be had diſpatched <lb/>it, returned it to the Author, with this Eulogy: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s419" xml:space="preserve">Com-<lb/>mend me to my Lord; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s420" xml:space="preserve">and bid him take care, to get <lb/>good Paper and Inke, for the Work is in comparable. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s421" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>other ſhall be that, of Doctor Samuel Collins, late Provoſt, <lb/>of Kings Colledge, in Cambridge, A Man of no vulgar Wit, <lb/>who affirmed unto me, That when he had read, the Book of <lb/>the Advancement of Learning, He found himſelf in a caſe <lb/>to begin his Studies a new, and that he had loſt all the <lb/>Time of his ſtudying before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s422" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="13" file="0033" n="33" rhead="FRANCIS Lord BACON."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s423" xml:space="preserve">It h ath been deſired; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s424" xml:space="preserve">That ſomething ſhould be ſignified, <lb/>touching his Diet; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s425" xml:space="preserve">And the Regiment of his Health: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s426" xml:space="preserve">Of <lb/>which, in regard, of his Univerſal Inſight into Nature, he <lb/>may (perhaps,) be to ſome, an Example. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s427" xml:space="preserve">For his Diet; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s428" xml:space="preserve">It was rather a plentiful, and liberal, Diet, as his Sto-<lb/>mack would bear it, then a Reſtrained; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s429" xml:space="preserve">Which he alſo com-<lb/>mended in his Book of the Hiſtory of Life and Death. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s430" xml:space="preserve">In <lb/>his younger years, he was much given to the Finer and Light-<lb/>ter ſort of Meats, As of Fowles; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s431" xml:space="preserve">and ſuch like: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s432" xml:space="preserve">But after-<lb/>ward, when he grew more Judicious; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s433" xml:space="preserve">He preferred the ſtron-<lb/>ger Meats; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s434" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as the Shambles afforded; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s435" xml:space="preserve">As thoſe Meats, <lb/>which bred the more firm and ſutſtantial Juyces of the Bo-<lb/>dy, and leſs Diffipable: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s436" xml:space="preserve">upon which, be would often make <lb/>his Meal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s437" xml:space="preserve">Though he had other Meats, upon the Table. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s438" xml:space="preserve">You <lb/>may be ſure; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s439" xml:space="preserve">He would not neglect that Himſelf, which He ſo <lb/>much extolled in his Writings; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s440" xml:space="preserve">And that was the Uſe of Ni-<lb/>ter: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s441" xml:space="preserve">Where eof he took in the Quantity of about three Grains, <lb/>in thin warm Broath, every Morning, for thirty years toge-<lb/>ther, next before his Death. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s442" xml:space="preserve">And for Phyſick, he did, indeed, <lb/>live Phyſically, but not miſerably; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s443" xml:space="preserve">For be took only a <lb/>Maceration of Rhubarb; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s444" xml:space="preserve">Infuſed into a Draught of White <lb/>Wine, and Beer, mingled together, for the Space of half an <lb/>Hour; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s445" xml:space="preserve">Once in ſix or ſeven Dayes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s446" xml:space="preserve">Immediately before his <lb/>Meal, (whether Dinner, or Supper,) that it might dry, the <lb/>Body, leſſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s447" xml:space="preserve">which (as he ſaid,) did carry away frequently, the <lb/>Groſſer Humours of the Body, and not diminiſh, or carry <lb/>away, any of the Spirits, as Sweating doth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s448" xml:space="preserve">And this was no <lb/>Grievous Thing to take. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s449" xml:space="preserve">As for other Phyſick, in an ordinary <lb/>way, (whatſoever bath been vulgarly ſpoken;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s450" xml:space="preserve">he took not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s451" xml:space="preserve">His <lb/>Receit, for the Gout; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s452" xml:space="preserve">which did, constantly, eaſe him of his <lb/>Pain, within two Hours, Is already ſet down in the End, of the <lb/>Natural Hiſtory.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s453" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s454" xml:space="preserve">It may ſeem, the Moon, had ſome Principal Place, in the <lb/>Figure of his Nativity. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s455" xml:space="preserve">For the Moon, was never in her <lb/>Paſsion or Eclipſed, but he was ſurprized, with a ſudden Fit, of <lb/>Fainting: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s456" xml:space="preserve">And that, though he obſerved not, nor took any pre-<lb/>vious Knowledge, of the Eclipſe thereof; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s457" xml:space="preserve">and aſſoon as the <lb/>Eclipſe ceaſed, he was reſtored, to his former ſtrength again.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s458" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="14" file="0034" n="34" rhead="The Life of the Right Honorable"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s459" xml:space="preserve">He died, on the 9<emph style="sub">th.</emph> Day of April, in the year 1626; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s460" xml:space="preserve">In <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0034-1a" xlink:href="hd-0034-1"/> the early Morning, of the Day then celebrated for our Savi-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0034-1a" xlink:href="hd-0034-1"/> ours Reſurrection, In the 66<emph style="sub">th.</emph> year of his Age; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s461" xml:space="preserve">at the <lb/>Earle of Arundells Houſe in High-gate, near London; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s462" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0034-1a" xlink:href="hd-0034-1"/> To which Place, he caſually repaired, about a week before, <lb/>God ſo ordaining, that he ſhould dye there, Of a Gentle Fea-<lb/>ver, accidentally accompanied, with agreat Cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s463" xml:space="preserve">whereby <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0034-1a" xlink:href="hd-0034-1"/> the Defluxion of Rheume, fell ſo plentifully upon his Breaſt, <lb/>that he died by Suffocation: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s464" xml:space="preserve">And was buried, in Saint Mi-<lb/>chaels Church, at Saint Albans; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s465" xml:space="preserve">Being the Place, deſigned <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0034-1a" xlink:href="hd-0034-1"/> for his Burial, by his laſt Will, and Teſtament; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s466" xml:space="preserve">Both be-<lb/>cauſe the Body of his Mother was interred there; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s467" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>becauſe, it was the only Church, then remaining, within the <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0034-1a" xlink:href="hd-0034-1"/> Precincts of old Verulam: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s468" xml:space="preserve">Where he hath a Monument, <lb/>erected for him of White Marble; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s469" xml:space="preserve">(By the Care, and Gra-<lb/>titude, of Sir Thomas Meautys, Knight, formerly his <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0034-1a" xlink:href="hd-0034-1"/> Lordſhips Secretary; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s470" xml:space="preserve">After wards Clark of the Kings Ho-<lb/>nourable Privy Gounſel, under two Kings:) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s471" xml:space="preserve">Repreſenting <lb/>his full Pourtraiture in the Poſture of ſtudying; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s472" xml:space="preserve">with an <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0034-1a" xlink:href="hd-0034-1"/> Inſcription compoſed by that Accompliſht Gentleman, and <lb/>Rare Wit, Sir Henry Wotton.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s473" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div27" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0034-1" xlink:href="hd-0034-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0034-1" xlink:href="hd-0034-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0034-1" xlink:href="hd-0034-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0034-1" xlink:href="hd-0034-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0034-1" xlink:href="hd-0034-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0034-1" xlink:href="hd-0034-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0034-1" xlink:href="hd-0034-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0034-1" xlink:href="hd-0034-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s474" xml:space="preserve">But bowſoever his Body was Mortal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s475" xml:space="preserve">yet no doubt his <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0034-1a" xlink:href="hd-0034-1"/> Memory and Works will live; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s476" xml:space="preserve">And will in all probability, <lb/>last as long as the World laſteth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s477" xml:space="preserve">In order to which, I have <lb/>endeavoured, (after my poor Ability,) to do this Honour to his <lb/>Lordſhip by way, of enducing to the ſame.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s478" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div28" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0034-1" xlink:href="hd-0034-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s479" xml:space="preserve">SPEECHES</s> </p> <pb o="1" file="0035" n="35"/> <figure> <image file="0035-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0035-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div30" type="section" level="1" n="20"> <head xml:id="echoid-head27" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL <lb/>HISTORY.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head28" xml:space="preserve">Century I.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s480" xml:space="preserve">DIg a Pit upon the Sea-ſhore, ſomewhat above the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0035-01a" xlink:href="note-0035-01"/> High-water Mark, and ſink it as deep as the Low-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0035-02a" xlink:href="note-0035-02"/> water Mark; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s481" xml:space="preserve">And as the Tide cometh in, it will fill <lb/>with Water, Freſh and Potable. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s482" xml:space="preserve">This is common-<lb/>ly<unsure/> practiſed upon the Coaſt of Barbary, where other <lb/>Freſh Water is wanting. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s483" xml:space="preserve">And Caſar knew this well, <lb/>when he was beſieged in Alexandria; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s484" xml:space="preserve">for by digging <lb/>of Pits in the Sea-ſhore, he did fruſtrate the labori-<lb/>ous Works of the Enemies, which had turned the <lb/>Sea-water upon the Wells of Alexandria, and ſo ſaved his Army, being <lb/>then in Deſperation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s485" xml:space="preserve">But Caſar miſtook the cauſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s486" xml:space="preserve">for he thought that all <lb/>Sea-ſands had Natural Springs of Freſh-water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s487" xml:space="preserve">But it is plain, that it is the <lb/>Sea-water, becauſe the Pit filleth according to the Meaſure of the Tide: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s488" xml:space="preserve">And the Sea-water paſſing or ſtraining through the Sands, leaveth the <lb/>Saltneſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s489" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div30" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0035-01" xlink:href="note-0035-01a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0035-02" xlink:href="note-0035-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Straining and <lb/>Paſsing of Bo-<lb/>dies one thorow <lb/>another; which <lb/>they call Per. <lb/>colation.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s490" xml:space="preserve">I remember to have read, that Tryal hath been made of Salt-water <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0035-03a" xlink:href="note-0035-03"/> paſſed through Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s491" xml:space="preserve">through ten Veſſels, one within another, and yet it <lb/>hath not loſt his Saltneſs, as to become potable: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s492" xml:space="preserve">But the ſame Man ſaith, that <lb/>(by the relation of another Salt-water drained through twenty Veſſels, <lb/>hath become freſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s493" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment ſeemeth to croſs that other of Pits, <lb/>made by the Sea-ſide; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s494" xml:space="preserve">and yet but in part, if it be true, that twenty Repeti-<lb/>tions do the effect. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s495" xml:space="preserve">But it is worth the note, how poor the Imitations of <lb/>Nature are, in common courſe of Experiments, except they be led by great <lb/>Judgment, and ſome good Light of Axioms. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s496" xml:space="preserve">For firſt, there is no ſmall <lb/>difference between a Paſſage of Water through twenty ſmall Veſſels, and <lb/>through ſuch a diſtance, as between the Low-water and High-water Mark. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s497" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, there is a great difference between Earth and Sand; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s498" xml:space="preserve">for all Earth <lb/>hath in it a kin @e of Nitrous Salt, from which, Sand is more free: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s499" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>beſides, Earth doth not ſtrain the Water ſo finely as Sand doth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s500" xml:space="preserve">But there <lb/>is a third point, that I ſuſpect as much, or more than the other two; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s501" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>that is, that in the Experiment of Tranſmiſsion of the Sea-water into the Pits, <lb/>the Water riſeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s502" xml:space="preserve">but in the Experiment of Tranſmiſsion of the Water, through <lb/>the Veſſels, it falleth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s503" xml:space="preserve">Now certain it is, that the Salter part of Water (once <pb o="2" file="0036" n="36" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> ſalted throughout) goeth to the bottom. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s504" xml:space="preserve">And therefore no marvel if the <lb/>draining of Water by deſcent, doth make it freſh: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s505" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, I do ſome what <lb/>doubt, that the very daſhing of the Water that cometh from the Sea, is <lb/>more proper to ſtrike off the ſalt part, than where the Water ſlideth of her <lb/>own motion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s506" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div31" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0035-03" xlink:href="note-0035-03a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s507" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth Percolation or Tranſmißion (which is commonly called Strain-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0036-01a" xlink:href="note-0036-01"/> ing) is a good kinde of Separation, not onely of thick from thin, and groſs <lb/>from fine, but of more ſubtile Natures; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s508" xml:space="preserve">and varieth according to the Body, <lb/>through which the Tranſmißion is made. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s509" xml:space="preserve">As if through a Woollen-bag, the <lb/>liquor leaveth the fatneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s510" xml:space="preserve">if through Sand, the ſaltneſs, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s511" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s512" xml:space="preserve">They ſpeak of <lb/>ſevering Wine from Water, paſſing it through Ivy-wood, or through other <lb/>the like porous body, but Non conſtat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s513" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div32" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0036-01" xlink:href="note-0036-01a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s514" xml:space="preserve">The Gum of Trees (which we ſee to be commonly ſhining and clear) <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0036-02a" xlink:href="note-0036-02"/> is but a fine paſſage, or ſtraining of the Juice of the Tree, through the <lb/>Wood and Bark. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s515" xml:space="preserve">And in like manner, Cornish Diamonds, and Rock Rubies, <lb/>(which are yet more reſplendent than Gums) are the fine Exudations of <lb/>Stone.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s516" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div33" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0036-02" xlink:href="note-0036-02a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s517" xml:space="preserve">Ariſtotle giveth the cauſe vainly, Why the Feathers of Birds are of more <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0036-03a" xlink:href="note-0036-03"/> lively colours than the Hairs of Beaſts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s518" xml:space="preserve">for no Beaſt hath any fine Azure, or <lb/>Carnation, or Green Hair. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s519" xml:space="preserve">He ſaith it is, becauſe Birds are more in the <lb/>Beams of the Sun than Beaſts, but that is maniſeſtly untrue; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s520" xml:space="preserve">for Cattle are <lb/>more in the Sun than Birds, that live commonly in the Woods, or in ſome <lb/>Covert. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s521" xml:space="preserve">The true cauſe is, that the excrementitious moiſture of living Crea-<lb/>tures, which maketh as well the Feathers in Birds as the Hair in Beaſts, paſs-<lb/>eth in Birds through a finer and more delicate Strainer, than it doth in Beaſts: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s522" xml:space="preserve">For Feathers paſs through Quills, and Hair through Skin.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s523" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div34" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0036-03" xlink:href="note-0036-03a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s524" xml:space="preserve">The Clarifying of Liquors by Adheſion, is an inward Percolation, and is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0036-04a" xlink:href="note-0036-04"/> effected, when ſome cleaving Body is mixed and agitated with the Liquors; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s525" xml:space="preserve">where by the groſſer part of the Liquor ſticks to that cleaving Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s526" xml:space="preserve">and ſo <lb/>the finer parts are freed from the groſſer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s527" xml:space="preserve">So the Apothecaries clarifie their <lb/>Syrups by Whites of Eggs, beaten with the Juices which they would clarifie; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s528" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>which whites of Eggs, gather all the dregs and groſſer parts of the Juice to <lb/>them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s529" xml:space="preserve">and after the Syrup being ſet on the fire, the whites of Eggs them-<lb/>ſelves harden, and are taken forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s530" xml:space="preserve">So Ippocraß is clarified by mixing with <lb/>Milk, and ſtirring it about, and then paſſing it through a Woollen-bag, <lb/>which they call Hippocrates Sleeve; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s531" xml:space="preserve">and the cleaving Nature of the Milk, draw-<lb/>eth the Powder of the Spices, and groſſer parts of the Liquor to it, and in <lb/>the paſſage they ſtick upon the Woollen-bag.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s532" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div35" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0036-04" xlink:href="note-0036-04a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s533" xml:space="preserve">The clarifying of Water, is an experiment<unsure/> tending to Health, beſides <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0036-05a" xlink:href="note-0036-05"/> the pleaſure of the Eye, when Water is Cryſtaline. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s534" xml:space="preserve">It is effected by caſting <lb/>in, and placing Pebbles at the head of a Current, that the Water may ſtrain <lb/>through them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s535" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div36" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0036-05" xlink:href="note-0036-05a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s536" xml:space="preserve">It may be Percolation doth not onely cauſe clearneſs and ſplendor, but <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0036-06a" xlink:href="note-0036-06"/> ſweetneſs of ſavor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s537" xml:space="preserve">for that alſo followeth, as well as clearneſs, when the <lb/>finer parts are ſevered from the groſſer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s538" xml:space="preserve">So it is found, that the ſweats of <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0036-1a" xlink:href="hd-0036-1"/> men that have much heat, and exerciſe much, and have clean Bodies and <lb/>fine Skins, do ſmell ſweet, as was ſaid of Alexander; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s539" xml:space="preserve">and we ſee commonly, <lb/>that Gums have ſweet odors.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s540" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div37" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0036-06" xlink:href="note-0036-06a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0036-1" xlink:href="hd-0036-1a"/> </div> <handwritten/> <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Motion of <lb/>Bodies upon <lb/>their Preſſure.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s541" xml:space="preserve">TAke a Glaſs, and put Water into it, and wet your finger, and draw it <lb/>round about the lip of the Glaſs, preſſing it ſomewhat hard; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s542" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>after you have drawn it ſome few times about, it will make the Water frisk <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0036-1a" xlink:href="hd-0036-1"/> <pb o="3" file="0037" n="37" rhead="Century I."/> and ſprinkle up in a fine Dew. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s543" xml:space="preserve">This inſtance doth excellently demonſtrate <lb/>the force of Compreßion in a ſolid Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s544" xml:space="preserve">For whenſoever a folid Body (as <lb/>Wood, Stone, Metal, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s545" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s546" xml:space="preserve">is preſſed, there is an in ward tumult in the parts <lb/>thereof, ſeeking to deliver themſelves from the Compreſſion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s547" xml:space="preserve">And this is <lb/>the cauſe of all Violent Motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s548" xml:space="preserve">Wherein it is ſtrange in the higheſt degree, <lb/>that this Motion hath never been obſerved, nor enquired; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s549" xml:space="preserve">it being of all <lb/>Motions, the moſt common, and the chief root of all Mechanical Operations. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s550" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0037-1a" xlink:href="hd-0037-1"/> This Motion worketh in round at firſt, by way of Proof and Search, which <lb/>way to deliver it ſelf, and then worketh in Progreſs, where it findeth the <lb/>deliverance eaſieſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s551" xml:space="preserve">In Liquors this Motion is viſible; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s552" xml:space="preserve">for all Liquors ſtruck-<lb/>en, make round circles, and withal daſh, but in Solids (which break not) it is <lb/>ſo ſubtile, as it is inviſible; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s553" xml:space="preserve">but nevertheleſs bewrayeth it ſelf by many <lb/>effects, as in this inſtance whereof we ſpeak. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s554" xml:space="preserve">For the Preſſure of the Finger <lb/>furthered by the wetting (becauſe it ſticketh ſo much the better unto the <lb/>Lip of the Glaſs) after ſome continuance, putteth all the ſmall parts of the <lb/>Glaſs into work, that they ſtrike the Water ſharply; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s555" xml:space="preserve">from which Percußion, <lb/>that ſprinkling cometh.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s556" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div38" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0036-1" xlink:href="hd-0036-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0037-1" xlink:href="hd-0037-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s557" xml:space="preserve">If you ſtrike or pierce a Solid Body that is brittle, as Glaſs or Sugar, it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0037-01a" xlink:href="note-0037-01"/> breaketh not onely where the immediate force is, but breaketh all about <lb/>into ſhivers and fitters; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s558" xml:space="preserve">the Motion upon the Preſſure ſearching all ways, <lb/>and breaking where it findeth the Body weakeſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s559" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div39" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0037-01" xlink:href="note-0037-01a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s560" xml:space="preserve">The Powder in Shot being dilated into ſuch a Flame, as endureth not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0037-02a" xlink:href="note-0037-02"/> Compreſſion, moveth likewiſe in round (the Flame being in the nature of <lb/>a Liquid Body) ſometimes recoyling, ſometimes breaking the Peece, but <lb/>generally diſcharging the Bullet, becauſe there it findeth eaſieſt deliver-<lb/>ance.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s561" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div40" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0037-02" xlink:href="note-0037-02a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s562" xml:space="preserve">This Motion upon Preſſure, and the Reciprocal thereof, which is Mo-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0037-03a" xlink:href="note-0037-03"/> tion upon Tenſure; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s563" xml:space="preserve">we uſe to call (by one common name) Motion of Liber-<lb/>ty; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s564" xml:space="preserve">which is, when any Body being forced to a Preternatural Extent or Di-<lb/>menſion, delivereth and reſtoreth it ſelf to the natural: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s565" xml:space="preserve">As when a blown <lb/>Bladder (preſſed) riſeth again; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s566" xml:space="preserve">or when Leather or Cloth tentured, ſpring <lb/>back. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s567" xml:space="preserve">Theſe two Motions (of which there be infinite inſtances) we ſhall <lb/>handle in due place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s568" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div41" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0037-03" xlink:href="note-0037-03a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s569" xml:space="preserve">This Motion upon Preſſure is excellently alſo demonſtrated in Sounds: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s570" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0037-04a" xlink:href="note-0037-04"/> As when one chimeth upon a Bell, it ſoundeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s571" xml:space="preserve">but as ſoon as he layeth his <lb/>hand upon it, the Sonnd ceaſeth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s572" xml:space="preserve">And ſo, the ſound of a Virginal String, as <lb/>ſoon as the Quill of the Jack falleth from it, ſtoppeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s573" xml:space="preserve">For theſe ſounds are <lb/>produced by the ſubtile Percuſſion of the Minute parts of the Bell or String <lb/>upon the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s574" xml:space="preserve">All one, as the Water is cauſed to leap by the ſubtile Percuſſi-<lb/>on of the Minute parts of the Glaſs upon the Water, whereof we ſpake a lit-<lb/>tle before in the Ninth Experiment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s575" xml:space="preserve">For you muſt not take it to be the local <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0037-1a" xlink:href="hd-0037-1"/> ſhaking of the Bell or String that doth it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s576" xml:space="preserve">As we ſhall fully declare when <lb/>we come hereafter to handle Sounds<unsure/>.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s577" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div42" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0037-04" xlink:href="note-0037-04a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0037-1" xlink:href="hd-0037-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s578" xml:space="preserve">TAke a Glaß with a Belly, and a long Neb, fill the Belly (in part) with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0037-05a" xlink:href="note-0037-05"/> Water: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s579" xml:space="preserve">Take alſo another Glaß, whereinto put Claret Wïne and Water <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0037-06a" xlink:href="note-0037-06"/> mingled. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s580" xml:space="preserve">Reverſe the firſt Glaſs, with the Belly upwards, ſtopping the <lb/>Neb with your Finger; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s581" xml:space="preserve">then dip the mouth of it within the ſecond Glaſs, <lb/>and remove your Finger. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s582" xml:space="preserve">Continue it in that poſture for a time, and it <lb/>will unmingle the Wine from the Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s583" xml:space="preserve">the Wine aſcending and ſetling in <lb/>the top of the upper Glaſs, and the Water deſcending and ſetling in the <lb/>bottom of the lower Glaſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s584" xml:space="preserve">The paſſage is apparent to the Eye; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s585" xml:space="preserve">for <pb o="4" file="0038" n="38" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> you ſhall ſee the Wine, as it were, in a ſmall vein, riſing through the Water. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s586" xml:space="preserve">For handſomneſs ſake (becauſe the working requireth ſome ſmall time) <lb/>it were good you hang the upper Glaß upon a Nail. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s587" xml:space="preserve">But as ſoon as there <lb/>is gathered ſo much pure and unmixed Water in the bottom of the lower <lb/>Glaß, as that the Mouth of the upper Glaß dippeth into it, the Motion <lb/>ceaſeth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s588" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div43" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0037-05" xlink:href="note-0037-05a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0037-06" xlink:href="note-0037-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching Se-<lb/>parations of <lb/>Bodies;<unsure/> by <lb/>weight.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s589" xml:space="preserve">Let the upper Glaß be Wine, and the lower Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s590" xml:space="preserve">there followeth no <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0038-01a" xlink:href="note-0038-01"/> Motion at all. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s591" xml:space="preserve">Let the upper Glaß be Water pure, the lower Water coloured, <lb/>or contrariwiſe there followeth no Motion at all. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s592" xml:space="preserve">But it hath been tryed, <lb/>that though the mixture of Wine and Water, in the lower Glaß, be three <lb/>parts Water, and but one Wine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s593" xml:space="preserve">yet it doth not dead the Motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s594" xml:space="preserve">This ſe-<lb/>paration of Water and Wine appeareth to be made by weight; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s595" xml:space="preserve">for it muſt <lb/>be of Bodies of unequal weight, or elſe it worketh not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s596" xml:space="preserve">and the heavier <lb/>Body muſt ever be in the upper Glaß. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s597" xml:space="preserve">But then note withal, that the water <lb/>being made penſible, and there being a great weight of Water in the Belly <lb/>of the Glaß, ſuſtained by a ſmall Pillar of Water in the neck of the Glaß; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s598" xml:space="preserve">it <lb/>is that which ſetteth the Motion on work: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s599" xml:space="preserve">For Water and Wine in one Glaß, <lb/>with long ſtanding, will hardly ſever.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s600" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div44" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0038-01" xlink:href="note-0038-01a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s601" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment would be extended from mixtures of ſeveral Liquors <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0038-02a" xlink:href="note-0038-02"/> to Simple Bodies, which conſiſt of ſeveral ſimiliar parts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s602" xml:space="preserve">Try it therefore <lb/>with Broyn or Salt-vvater and Fresh-vvater, placing the Salt-vvater (which <lb/>is the heavier) in the upper Glaß, and ſee whether the freſh will come above. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s603" xml:space="preserve">Try it alſo with Water thick Sugred, and pure Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s604" xml:space="preserve">and ſee whether <lb/>the Water which cometh above, will loſe his ſweetneſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s605" xml:space="preserve">For which pur-<lb/>poſe, it were good there were a little Cock made in the Belly of the upper <lb/>Glaß.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s606" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div45" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0038-02" xlink:href="note-0038-02a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s607" xml:space="preserve">IN Bodies containing fine Spirits, which do eaſily diſſipate when you make <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0038-03a" xlink:href="note-0038-03"/> Infuſions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s608" xml:space="preserve">the Rule is, A ſhort ſtay of the Body in the Liquor receiveth the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0038-04a" xlink:href="note-0038-04"/> Spirit, and a longer ſtay confoundeth it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s609" xml:space="preserve">becauſe it draweth forth the <lb/>Earthy part withal, which embaſeth the finer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s610" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it is an Er-<lb/>ror in Phyſitians, to reſt ſimply upon the length of ſtay for encreaſing the <lb/>vertue. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s611" xml:space="preserve">But if you will have the Infuſion ſtrong, in thoſe kinde of Bodies, <lb/>which have fine Spirits, your way is not to give longer time, but to repeat <lb/>the Infuſion of the Body oftner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s612" xml:space="preserve">Take Violets, and infuſe a good Pugil of <lb/>them in a Quart of Vinegar, let them ſtay three quarters of an hour, and <lb/>take them forth, and refreſh the Infuſion with like quantity of new Violets <lb/>ſeven times, and it will make a Vinegar ſo freſh of the Flovver, as if a Twelve-<lb/>moneth after it be brought you in a Saucer, you ſhall ſmell it before it come <lb/>at you. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s613" xml:space="preserve">Note, that it ſmelleth more perſ<unsure/>ectly of the Flower a good while <lb/>after, then at firſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s614" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div46" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0038-03" xlink:href="note-0038-03a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0038-04" xlink:href="note-0038-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching Iu-<lb/>dicious and <lb/>Accurate In-<lb/>fuſions, both <lb/>in Liquors, and <lb/>Air.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s615" xml:space="preserve">This Rule which we have given, is of ſingular uſe for the preparations <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0038-05a" xlink:href="note-0038-05"/> of Medicines, and other Infuſions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s616" xml:space="preserve">As for example, the Leaf of Burrage hath <lb/>an excellent Spirit, to repreſs the fuliginous vapor of Dusky Melancholy, <lb/>and ſo to cure Madneſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s617" xml:space="preserve">But nevertheleſs, if the Leaf be infuſed long, it <lb/>yeildeth forth but a raw ſubſtance of no vertue: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s618" xml:space="preserve">Therefore I ſuppoſe, that <lb/>if in the Muſt of Wine or Wort of Beer, while it worketh before it be Tunned, <lb/>the Burrage ſtay a ſmall time, and be often changed with freſh, it vvill make <lb/>a ſoveraign Drink for Melancholy Paßions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s619" xml:space="preserve">And the like I conceive of Orange <lb/>Flovvers.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s620" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div47" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0038-05" xlink:href="note-0038-05a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s621" xml:space="preserve">Rubarb hath manifeſtly in it Parts of contrary Operations: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s622" xml:space="preserve">Parts that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0038-06a" xlink:href="note-0038-06"/> purge, and parts that binde the Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s623" xml:space="preserve">and the firſtlay looſer, and the latter lay <pb o="5" file="0039" n="39" rhead="Century I."/> deeper; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s624" xml:space="preserve">So that if you infuſe Rubarb for an hour, and cruſh it well, it will <lb/>purge better, and binde the Body leſs after the purging, than if it ſtood <lb/>Twenty ſ<unsure/>our hours: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s625" xml:space="preserve">This is tried, but I conceive likewiſe, that by repeat-<lb/>ing the Infuſion of Rubarb, ſeveral times (as was ſaid of Violets) letting <lb/>each ſtay in but a ſmall time, you may make it as ſtrong a Purging Medi-<lb/>cine, as Scammony. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s626" xml:space="preserve">And it is not a ſmall thing won in Phyſick, if you can <lb/>make Ruharb, and other Medicines that are Benedict, as ſtrong Purgers, as <lb/>thoſe that are not without ſome malignity.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s627" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div48" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0038-06" xlink:href="note-0038-06a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s628" xml:space="preserve">Purging Medicines, for the moſt part, have their Purgative Vertue in a fine <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0039-01a" xlink:href="note-0039-01"/> Spirit, as appeareth by that they indure not boiling, without much loſs of <lb/>vertue. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s629" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it is of good uſe in Phyſick, it you can retain the Pur-<lb/>ging of Vertue, and take away the unpleaſant taſte of the Purger; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s630" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>it is like you may do, by this courſe of infuſing oft with little ſtay. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s631" xml:space="preserve">For it is <lb/>probable, that the horrible and odious taſte is in the groſſer part.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s632" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div49" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0039-01" xlink:href="note-0039-01a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s633" xml:space="preserve">Generally, the working by Infuſions is gro@s and blind, except you firſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0039-02a" xlink:href="note-0039-02"/> try the iſſuing of the ſeveral parts of the Body, which of them iſſue more <lb/>ſpeedily, and which more ſlowly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s634" xml:space="preserve">and ſo by apportioning thetime, can <lb/>take and leave that quality which you deſire. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s635" xml:space="preserve">This to know, there be two <lb/>ways; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s636" xml:space="preserve">the one to try what long ſtay, and what ſhort ſtay worketh, as hath <lb/>been ſaid; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s637" xml:space="preserve">the other to try, in order, the ſucceeding Infuſions, of one and <lb/>the ſame Body, ſucceſſively, in ſeveral Liquors. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s638" xml:space="preserve">As for example, Take <lb/>Orange-Pills, or Roſemary, or Cinnamon, or what you will; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s639" xml:space="preserve">and let them in-<lb/>fuſe half an hour in Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s640" xml:space="preserve">then take them out, and infuſe them again in <lb/>other Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s641" xml:space="preserve">and ſo the third time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s642" xml:space="preserve">and then taſte and conſider the firſt <lb/>Water, the ſecond, and the third, and you will finde them differing, not one-<lb/>ly in ſtrength and weakneſs, but otherwiſe in taſte, or odor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s643" xml:space="preserve">for it may be <lb/>the firſt Water will have more of the ſent, as more fragrant; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s644" xml:space="preserve">and the ſecond <lb/>more of the taſte, as more bitter or biting, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s645" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s646" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div50" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0039-02" xlink:href="note-0039-02a" xml:space="preserve">21.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s647" xml:space="preserve">Infuſions in Air (for ſo we may call Odors) have the ſame diverſities with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0039-03a" xlink:href="note-0039-03"/> Infuſions in Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s648" xml:space="preserve">in that the ſeveral Odors (which are in one Flower, or <lb/>other Body) iſſue at ſeveral times, ſome earlier, ſome later: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s649" xml:space="preserve">So we finde, <lb/>that Violets, Woodbines, Strawberries, yield a pleaſing ſent, that cometh forth <lb/>firſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s650" xml:space="preserve">but ſoon after an ill ſent quite differing from the former. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s651" xml:space="preserve">Which is <lb/>cauſed not ſo much by mellowing, as by the late iſſuing of the groſſer <lb/>Spirit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s652" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div51" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0039-03" xlink:href="note-0039-03a" xml:space="preserve">22.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s653" xml:space="preserve">As we may deſire to extract the fineſt Spirits in ſome caſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s654" xml:space="preserve">ſo we may <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0039-04a" xlink:href="note-0039-04"/> deſire alſo to diſcharge them (as hurtful) in ſome other. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s655" xml:space="preserve">So Wine burnt, by <lb/>reaſon of the evaporating of the finer Spirit, inflameth leſs, and is beſt in <lb/>Agues: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s656" xml:space="preserve">Opium leeſeth ſome of his po@ſonous quality, if it be vapored out, <lb/>mingled with Spirit of Wine, or the like: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s657" xml:space="preserve">Sean leeſeth ſomewhat of his <lb/>windineſs by decocting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s658" xml:space="preserve">and (generally) ſubtile or windy Spirits are taken <lb/>off by Incenſion, or Evaporation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s659" xml:space="preserve">And even in Infuſions in things that are <lb/>of too high a ſpirit, you were better pour off the firſt Infuſion, after a ſmall <lb/>time, and uſe the latter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s660" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div52" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0039-04" xlink:href="note-0039-04a" xml:space="preserve">23.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s661" xml:space="preserve">BUbbles are in the form of an Hemiſphere; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s662" xml:space="preserve">Air within, and a little Skin <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0039-05a" xlink:href="note-0039-05"/> of Water without: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s663" xml:space="preserve">And it ſeemeth ſomewhat ſtrange, that the Air <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0039-06a" xlink:href="note-0039-06"/> ſhould riſe ſo ſwiftly, while it is in the Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s664" xml:space="preserve">and when it cometh to the <lb/>top, ſhould be ſtaid by ſo weak a cover, as that of the Bubble is. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s665" xml:space="preserve">But as <lb/>for the ſwift aſcent of the Air, while it is under the Water, that is a <lb/>motion of Percuſſion ſrom the Water, which it ſelf deſcending, driveth <lb/>up the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s666" xml:space="preserve">and no motion of Levity in the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s667" xml:space="preserve">And this Democritus <pb o="6" file="0040" n="40" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> called Motus Plagæ. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s668" xml:space="preserve">In this common Experiment, the cauſe of the encloſure <lb/>of the Bubble is for that the Appetite to reſiſt Separation, or Diſcontinu-<lb/>ance (which in ſolid Bodies is ſtrong) is alſo in Liquors, though fainter and <lb/>weaker: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s669" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee in this of the Bubble; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s670" xml:space="preserve">we ſee it alſo in little Glaſſes of <lb/>Spittle that Children make of Ruſhes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s671" xml:space="preserve">and in Caſtles of Bubbles, which <lb/>they make by blowing into Water, having obtained a little degree of <lb/>Tenacity by Mixture of Soap: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s672" xml:space="preserve">We ſee it alſo in the Stillicides of Water, <lb/>which, if there be Water enough to follow, will draw themſelves into a <lb/>ſmall Thred, becauſe they will diſcontinue; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s673" xml:space="preserve">but if there be no remedy, <lb/>then they caſt themſelves into round Drops; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s674" xml:space="preserve">which is the Figure, that <lb/>ſaveth the Body moſt from Diſcontinuance: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s675" xml:space="preserve">The ſame reaſon is of the <lb/>Roundneſs of the Bubble, as well for the Skin of Water, as for the Air with-<lb/>in: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s676" xml:space="preserve">For the Air likewiſe avoideth Diſcontinuance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s677" xml:space="preserve">and therefore caſteth it <lb/>ſelf into a round Figure. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s678" xml:space="preserve">And for the ſtop and arreſt of the Air a little <lb/>while, it ſheweth, that the Air of it ſelf hath little, or no Appetite of <lb/>Aſcending.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s679" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div53" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0039-05" xlink:href="note-0039-05a" xml:space="preserve">24.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0039-06" xlink:href="note-0039-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Appetite of <lb/>Continnation <lb/>in Liquids.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s680" xml:space="preserve">THe Rejection, which I continually uſe, of Experiments (though it ap-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0040-01a" xlink:href="note-0040-01"/> peareth not) is infinite; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s681" xml:space="preserve">but yet if an Experiment be probable in the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0040-02a" xlink:href="note-0040-02"/> Work, and of great uſe, I receive it, but deliver it as doubtful. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s682" xml:space="preserve">It was <lb/>reported by a ſober man, that an Artificial Spring may be made thus: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s683" xml:space="preserve">Finde <lb/>out a hanging Ground, where there is a good quick Fall of Rain-water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s684" xml:space="preserve">Lay <lb/>a Half-Trough of Stone, of a good length, three or four foot deep with-<lb/>in the ſame Ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s685" xml:space="preserve">with one end upon the high Ground, the other upon <lb/>the low. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s686" xml:space="preserve">Cover the Trough with Brakes a good thickneſs, and caſt Sand <lb/>upon the top of the Brakes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s687" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall ſee (ſaith he) that after ſome ſhowres <lb/>are paſt, the lower end of the Trough will be like a Spring of Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s688" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>is no marvel, if it hold, while the Rain-water laſteth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s689" xml:space="preserve">but he ſaid it would <lb/>continue long time after the Rain is paſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s690" xml:space="preserve">As if the Water did multiply it <lb/>ſelf upon the Air, by the help of the Coldneſs and Condenſation of the <lb/>Earth, and the Conſort of the firſt Water.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s691" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div54" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0040-01" xlink:href="note-0040-01a" xml:space="preserve">25.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0040-02" xlink:href="note-0040-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>making of <lb/>Artificial <lb/>Springs.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s692" xml:space="preserve">THe French (which put off the name of the French Diſeaſe, unto the name <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0040-03a" xlink:href="note-0040-03"/> of the Diſeaſe of Naples) do report, That at the ſiege of Naples, there <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0040-04a" xlink:href="note-0040-04"/> were certain wicked Merchants that barrelled up Mans Flesh (of ſome that <lb/>had been lately ſlain in Barbary) and ſold it for Tunney; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s693" xml:space="preserve">and that, upon <lb/>that foul and high Nouriſhment, was the Original of that Diſeaſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s694" xml:space="preserve">Which <lb/>may well be; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s695" xml:space="preserve">For that it is certain, that the Canibals, in the VVeſt-Indies, eat <lb/>Mans Flesh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s696" xml:space="preserve">and the VVeſt-Indies were full of the Pox when they were firſt <lb/>diſcovered: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s697" xml:space="preserve">And at this day the Mortaleſt poyſons, practiſed by the VVeſt-Indi-<lb/>ans, have ſome mixture of the Blood, or Fat, or Fleſh of Man. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s698" xml:space="preserve">And divers <lb/>Witches, and Sorcereſſes, as well amongſt the Heathen, as amongſt the <lb/>C<unsure/>hriſtians, have fed upon Mans fleſh, to aid (as it ſeemeth) their Imagination, <lb/>with high and foul Vapors.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s699" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div55" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0040-03" xlink:href="note-0040-03a" xml:space="preserve">26.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0040-04" xlink:href="note-0040-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experriment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Venomous <lb/>quality of <lb/>Mans Fleſh.</note> </div> <handwritten/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s700" xml:space="preserve">IT ſeemeth that there be theſe ways (in likelihood) of Verfion of Vapors <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0040-05a" xlink:href="note-0040-05"/> or Air, into Water and Moiſture. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s701" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is Cold, which doth mani-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0040-06a" xlink:href="note-0040-06"/> feſtly Condenſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s702" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in the contracting of the Air in the Weather-<lb/>Glaſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s703" xml:space="preserve">whereby it is a degree nearer to Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s704" xml:space="preserve">We ſee it alſo in the Gene-<lb/>ration of Springs, which the Ancients thought (very probably) to be made by <lb/>the Verſion of Air into VVater, holpen by the Reſt, which the Air hath in <lb/>thoſe parts, whereby it cannot diſſipate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s705" xml:space="preserve">And by the coldneſs of Rocks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s706" xml:space="preserve">for <pb o="7" file="0041" n="41" rhead="Century I."/> there Springs are chiefly generated. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s707" xml:space="preserve">We ſee it alſo in the Effects of the Cold <lb/>of the Middle Region (as they call it) of the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s708" xml:space="preserve">which produceth Dews <lb/>and Rains. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s709" xml:space="preserve">And the Experiment of turning Water into Ice, by Snow, Ni-<lb/>tre, and Salt (whereof we ſhall ſpeak hereafter) would be transferred to the <lb/>turning of Air into Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s710" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond way is by Compreßion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s711" xml:space="preserve">as in Stilla-<lb/>tories, where the Vapor is turned back, upon it ſelf, by the Encounter of <lb/>the Sides of the Stillatory; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s712" xml:space="preserve">and in the Dew upon the Covers of Boiling Pots; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s713" xml:space="preserve">and in the Dew to wards Rain, upon Marble, and VVainſcot. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s714" xml:space="preserve">But this is like to <lb/>do no great effect; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s715" xml:space="preserve">except it be upon Vapors, and groſs Air, that are al-<lb/>ready very near in Degree to Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s716" xml:space="preserve">The third is that, which may be <lb/>ſearched into, but doth not yet appear; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s717" xml:space="preserve">which is, by Mingling of moiſt <lb/>Vapors with Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s718" xml:space="preserve">and trying if they will not bring a Return of more Wa-<lb/>ter, than the Water was at firſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s719" xml:space="preserve">For if ſo, That Increaſe is a Verſion of the <lb/>Air: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s720" xml:space="preserve">Therefore put VVater into the bottom of a Stillatory, with the Neb <lb/>ſtopped; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s721" xml:space="preserve">weigh the VVater firſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s722" xml:space="preserve">hang in the Middle of the Stillatory a large <lb/>Spunge; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s723" xml:space="preserve">and ſee what quantity of VVater you can cruſh out of it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s724" xml:space="preserve">and what <lb/>it is, more, or leſs, compared with the VVater ſpent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s725" xml:space="preserve">for you muſt under-<lb/>ſtand, that if any Verſion can be wrought, it will be eaſily done in ſmall <lb/>Pores: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s726" xml:space="preserve">And that is the reaſon why we preſcribe a Spunge. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s727" xml:space="preserve">The fourth way <lb/>is probable alſo, though not appearing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s728" xml:space="preserve">which is, by receiving the Air into <lb/>the ſmall Pores of Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s729" xml:space="preserve">For (as hath been ſaid) every thing in ſmall quan-<lb/>tity is more eaſie for Verſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s730" xml:space="preserve">and Tangible Bodies have no pleaſure in the <lb/>conſort of Air, but endeavor to ſubact it into a more Denſe Body: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s731" xml:space="preserve">But in <lb/>Entire Bodies it is checked; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s732" xml:space="preserve">becauſe, if the Air ſhould Condenſe, there is no-<lb/>thing to ſucceed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s733" xml:space="preserve">Therefore it muſt be in looſe Bodies, as Sand, and Pow-<lb/>der, which we ſee, if they lie cloſe, of themſelves gather Moiſture.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s734" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div56" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0040-05" xlink:href="note-0040-05a" xml:space="preserve">27.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0040-06" xlink:href="note-0040-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Verſion and <lb/>Tranſmm<unsure/>tati-<lb/>on of Air in <lb/>to Water.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s735" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported by ſome of the Ancients, That Whelps, or other Creatures, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0041-01a" xlink:href="note-0041-01"/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0041-02a" xlink:href="note-0041-02"/> if they be put young into ſuch a Cage, or Box, as they cannot riſe to their <lb/>Stature, but may increaſe in breadth or length, will grow accordingly, as <lb/>they can get room; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s736" xml:space="preserve">which, if it be true, and feaſible, and that the young <lb/>Creature ſo preſſed, and ſtreightned, doth not thereupon die; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s737" xml:space="preserve">it is a means <lb/>to produce Dwarf Creatures, and in a very ſtrange Figure. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s738" xml:space="preserve">This is certain, <lb/>and noted long ſince, That the Preſſure, or Forming of Parts of Creatures, <lb/>when they are very young, doth alter the ſhape not a little: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s739" xml:space="preserve">As the ſtroak-<lb/>ing of the Heads of Infants, between the Hands, was noted of old, to make <lb/>Macrocephali; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s740" xml:space="preserve">which ſhape of the Head, at that time, was eſteemed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s741" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>the raiſing gently of the Bridge of the Noſe, doth prevent the Deformity <lb/>of a Saddle Noſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s742" xml:space="preserve">Which obſer vation well weighed, may teach a means, <lb/>to make the Perſons of Men and Women, in many kindes, more comely <lb/>and better featured, than otherwiſe they would be; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s743" xml:space="preserve">by the Forming and <lb/>Shaping of them in their Infancy: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s744" xml:space="preserve">As by Stroaking up the Calves of the <lb/>Legs, to keep them from falling down too low; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s745" xml:space="preserve">and by Stroaking up the <lb/>Forehead, to keep them from being low Foreheaded. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s746" xml:space="preserve">And it is a common <lb/>practice to ſwathe Infants, that they may grow more ſtraight, and better <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0041-03a" xlink:href="note-0041-03"/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0041-04a" xlink:href="note-0041-04"/> ſhaped; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s747" xml:space="preserve">and we ſee young Women, by wearing ſtraight Bodies, keep them-<lb/>ſelv es from being Groſs and Corpulent.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s748" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div57" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0041-01" xlink:href="note-0041-01a" xml:space="preserve">28.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0041-02" xlink:href="note-0041-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Helps to-<lb/>wards the <lb/>Beauty and <lb/>good Features <lb/>of Perſons.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0041-03" xlink:href="note-0041-03a" xml:space="preserve">29.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0041-04" xlink:href="note-0041-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Condenſing of <lb/>Air in ſuck <lb/>ſort as it may <lb/>put on <lb/>Weight, and <lb/>yield Nouriſh-<lb/>ment.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s749" xml:space="preserve">ONions, as they hang, will many of them ſhoot forth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s750" xml:space="preserve">and ſo will Penny-<lb/>ro<unsure/>yal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s751" xml:space="preserve">and ſo will an Herb called Orpin; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s752" xml:space="preserve">with which they uſe, in the <lb/>Countrey, to trim their Houſes, binding it to a Lath, or Stick, and <lb/>ſetting it againſt a Wall. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s753" xml:space="preserve">VVe ſee it likewiſe, more eſpecially, in the greater <pb o="8" file="0042" n="42" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Semper-vive, which will put out Branches, two or three years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s754" xml:space="preserve">But it is true, <lb/>that commonly they wrap the Root in a cloth beſmeared with Oyl; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s755" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>renew it once in a half year. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s756" xml:space="preserve">The like is reported by ſome of the An-<lb/>cients of the ſtalks of Lillies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s757" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that theſe Plants have a <lb/>ſtrong denſe, and ſucculent moiſture, which is not aptto exhale; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s758" xml:space="preserve">and ſo <lb/>is able, from the old ſtore, without drawing help from the Earth, to ſuffice <lb/>the ſprouting of the Plant: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s759" xml:space="preserve">And this ſprouting is chiefly in the late Spring, <lb/>or early Summer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s760" xml:space="preserve">which are the times of putting forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s761" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, <lb/>that ſtumps of Trees, lying out of the Ground, will put forth Sprouts for <lb/>a time. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s762" xml:space="preserve">But it is a noble tryal, and of very great conſequence, to try <lb/>whether theſe things, in the ſprouting, do encreaſe weight; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s763" xml:space="preserve">which muſt be <lb/>tryed, by weighing them before they be hanged up; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s764" xml:space="preserve">and afterwards again, <lb/>when they are ſprouted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s765" xml:space="preserve">For if they increaſe not in weight, then it is no <lb/>more but this, That what they ſend forth in the ſprout, they leeſe in ſome <lb/>other part; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s766" xml:space="preserve">but if they gather weight, then it is Magnale Naturæ: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s767" xml:space="preserve">For it <lb/>ſheweth, that Air may be made ſo to be condenſed, as to be converted in-<lb/>to a denſe Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s768" xml:space="preserve">whereas the race and period of all things, here above the <lb/>Earth, is to extenuate and turn things to be more pneumatical, and rare; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s769" xml:space="preserve">and not to be retrograde, from pneumatical to that which is denſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s770" xml:space="preserve">It <lb/>ſheweth alſo, that Air can nouriſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s771" xml:space="preserve">which is another great matter of con-<lb/>ſequence. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s772" xml:space="preserve">Note, that to try this, the Experiment of the Semper-vive, muſt <lb/>be made without oyling the cloth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s773" xml:space="preserve">for elſe, it may be, the Plant receiveth <lb/>nouriſhment from the Oyl,</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s774" xml:space="preserve">FLame and Air do not mingle, except it be in an inſtant; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s775" xml:space="preserve">or in the Vital <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0042-01a" xlink:href="note-0042-01"/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0042-02a" xlink:href="note-0042-02"/> Spirits of vegetables, and living Creatures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s776" xml:space="preserve">In Gunpowder, the force of <lb/>it hath been aſcribed to rarefaction of the earthly ſubſtance into Flame. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s777" xml:space="preserve">And thus far it is true; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s778" xml:space="preserve">and then (forſooth) it is become another Element; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s779" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>the form where<unsure/>of occupieth more place; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s780" xml:space="preserve">and ſo, of Neceſſity, followeth <lb/>a Dilatation: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s781" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, leſt two Bodies ſhould be in one place, <lb/>there muſt needs alſo follow an Expulſion of the Pellet, or blowing up <lb/>of the Mine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s782" xml:space="preserve">But theſe are crude and ignorant ſpeculations: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s783" xml:space="preserve">For Flame, <lb/>if there were nothing elſe, except it were in a very great quantity, will be <lb/>ſuffocate with any hard body, ſuch as a Pellet is, or the Barrel of a Gun; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s784" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>ſo as the flame would not expel the hard body, but the hard body would kill <lb/>the flame, and notſuffer it to kindle, or ſpred. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s785" xml:space="preserve">But the cauſe of this ſo po-<lb/>tent a motion is the Nitre (which we call otherwiſe Salt-Peter) which <lb/>having in it a notable crude and windy Spirit, firſt by the heat of the Fire <lb/>ſuddenly dilateth it ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s786" xml:space="preserve">(and we know that ſimple Air, being preterna-<lb/>turally attenuated by heat, will make it ſelf room, and break, and blow <lb/>up that which reſiſteth it.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s787" xml:space="preserve">And ſecondly, when the Nitre hath dilated it <lb/>ſelf, it blo weth abroad the flame as an in ward Bellows. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s788" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we <lb/>ſee that Brimſtone, Pitch, Camphire, U ildfire, and divers other inflamable <lb/>matters; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s789" xml:space="preserve">though they burn cruelly, and are hard to quench, yet they make <lb/>no ſuch fiery wind, as Gunpowder doth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s790" xml:space="preserve">And on the other fide, we ſee that <lb/>Quick-ſilver (which is a moſt crude and watry Body) heated, and pent in, <lb/>hath the like force with Gunpowder. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s791" xml:space="preserve">As for living Creatures, it is certain, <lb/>their Vital Spirits are a ſubſtance compounded of an airy and flamy mat-<lb/>ter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s792" xml:space="preserve">and though Air and Flame, being free, will not well mingle; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s793" xml:space="preserve">yet <lb/>bound in by a Body that hath ſome fixing, they will. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s794" xml:space="preserve">For that you may beſt ſee <lb/>in thoſe two Bodies (which are their Aliments) Water and Oyl; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s795" xml:space="preserve">for they <lb/>likewiſe will not well mingle of themſelves, but in the Bodies of Plants, <pb o="9" file="0043" n="43" rhead="Century I."/> and Living Creatures, they will. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s796" xml:space="preserve">It is no marvel there fore, that a ſmall Quan-<lb/>tity of Spirits, in the Cells of the Brain, and Cannals of the Sinews, are able <lb/>to move a whole Body (which is of ſo great maſs) both with ſo great force, <lb/>as in Wreſtling, Leaping; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s797" xml:space="preserve">and with ſo great ſwiftneſs, as in playing Diviſi-<lb/>on upon the Lute: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s798" xml:space="preserve">Such is the force of theſe two Natures, Air and Flame <lb/>when they incorporate.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s799" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div58" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0042-01" xlink:href="note-0042-01a" xml:space="preserve">30.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0042-02" xlink:href="note-0042-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Commixture of <lb/>Flame and <lb/>Air, and the <lb/>great force <lb/>thereof.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s800" xml:space="preserve">TAke a ſmall Wax-Candle, and put it in a Socket of Braſs or Iron, then <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0043-01a" xlink:href="note-0043-01"/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0043-02a" xlink:href="note-0043-02"/> ſet it upright in a Porringer full of Spirit of Wine, heated; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s801" xml:space="preserve">then ſet <lb/>both the Candle, and Spirit of Wine on fire, and you ſhall ſee the flame of <lb/>the Candle open it ſelf, and be<unsure/>come four or five times bigger then other-<lb/>wiſe it would have been, and appear in figure Globular, and not in Pyramis. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s802" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall ſee alſo, that the inward flame of the Candle keepeth colour, and <lb/>doth not wax any whit blew to wards the colour of the outward flame of <lb/>the Spirit of Wine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s803" xml:space="preserve">This is a noble inſtance, wherein two things are moſt <lb/>remarkable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s804" xml:space="preserve">the one, that one flame within another quencheth not, but is <lb/>a fixed Body, and continueth as Air or Water do; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s805" xml:space="preserve">and therefore flame would <lb/>ſtill aſcend upwards in one greatneſs, if it were not quenched on the ſides; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s806" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>and the greater the flame is at the bottom, the higher is the riſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s807" xml:space="preserve">The other, <lb/>that Flame doth not mingle with Flame, as Air doth with Air, or Water <lb/>with Water, but onely remaineth contiguous; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s808" xml:space="preserve">as it cometh to paſs be-<lb/>twixt Conſiſting Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s809" xml:space="preserve">It appeareth alſo, that the form of a Pyramis in <lb/>Flame, which we uſually ſee, is meerly by accident, and that the Air about, <lb/>by quenching the ſides of the Flame, cruſheth it, and extenuateth it into <lb/>that form; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s810" xml:space="preserve">for of it ſelf, it would be round: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s811" xml:space="preserve">And thereſore Smoak is in <lb/>the figure of a Pyramis reverſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s812" xml:space="preserve">for the Air quencheth the Flame, and re-<lb/>ceiveth the Smoak. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s813" xml:space="preserve">Note alſo, that the flame of the Candle, within the <lb/>flame of the Spirit of Wine, is troubled, and doth not onely open and move <lb/>upwards, but moveth waving, and to and fro: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s814" xml:space="preserve">As if Flame of his own Na-<lb/>ture (if it were not quenched) would roul and turn as well as move up-<lb/>wards. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s815" xml:space="preserve">By all which it ſhould ſeem, that the Celeſtial Bodies (moſt of them) <lb/>are true Fires or Flames, as the Stoicks held; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s816" xml:space="preserve">more ſine (perhaps) and rari-<lb/>fied, than our flame is. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s817" xml:space="preserve">For they are all Globular and Deternate, they have <lb/>Rotation, and they have the colour andſplendor of Flame: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s818" xml:space="preserve">So that Flame <lb/>above, is durable and conſiſtent, and in his natural place; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s819" xml:space="preserve">but with us, it <lb/>is a ſtranger, and momentany and impure, like Vulean that halted with his <lb/>fall.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s820" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div59" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0043-01" xlink:href="note-0043-01a" xml:space="preserve">31.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0043-02" xlink:href="note-0043-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Secret Nature <lb/>of Flame.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s821" xml:space="preserve">TAke an Arrovv, and hold it in Flame for the ſpace of ten Pulſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s822" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0043-03a" xlink:href="note-0043-03"/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0043-04a" xlink:href="note-0043-04"/> when it cometh forth, you ſhall finde thoſe parts of the Arrow which <lb/>were one the outſides of the Flame, more burned, blacked, and turned al-<lb/>moſtinto a Coal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s823" xml:space="preserve">whereas that in the midſt of the flame, will be as if the <lb/>fire had ſcarce touched it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s824" xml:space="preserve">This is an inſtance of great conſequence for the <lb/>diſcovery of the nature of Flame, and ſheweth manifeſtly, that Flame burn-<lb/>eth more violently to wards the ſides, then in the midſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s825" xml:space="preserve">And, which is <lb/>more, that Heat or Fire is not violent or furious, but where it is checked and <lb/>pent. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s826" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the Peripateticks (howſoever their opinion of an Ele-<lb/>ment of Fire, above the Air, is juſtly exploded) in that point they acquit <lb/>themſelves well: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s827" xml:space="preserve">For being oppoſed, that if there were a ſphere of Fire, <lb/>that incompaſſEd the Earth ſo near hand, it were impoſſible, but all things <lb/>ſhould be burnt up; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s828" xml:space="preserve">they anſwer, that the pure Elemental Fire, in his own <lb/>place, and notirritate, is but of a moderate heat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s829" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div60" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0043-03" xlink:href="note-0043-03a" xml:space="preserve">32.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0043-04" xlink:href="note-0043-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Different force <lb/>of Flame in the <lb/>midſt, and on <lb/>the ſides.</note> </div> <pb o="10" file="0044" n="44" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s830" xml:space="preserve">IT is affirmed conſtantly by many, as an uſual Experiment, That a lump of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0044-01a" xlink:href="note-0044-01"/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0044-02a" xlink:href="note-0044-02"/> Vre, in the bottom of a Mine, will be tumbled and ſtirred by two Mens <lb/>ſtrength; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s831" xml:space="preserve">which if you bring it to the top of the Earth, will ask ſix Mens <lb/>ſtrength at the leaſt to ſtir it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s832" xml:space="preserve">It is a noble inſtance, and is fit to be tryed to <lb/>the full: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s833" xml:space="preserve">For it is very probable, that the Motion of Gravity worketh weakly, <lb/>both far from the Earth, and alſo within the Earth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s834" xml:space="preserve">The former, becauſe the <lb/>appetite of Union of Denſe Bodies with the Earth, in reſpect of the diſtance <lb/>is more dull. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s835" xml:space="preserve">The latter, becauſe the Body hath in part attained his nature, <lb/>when it is ſome depth in the Earth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s836" xml:space="preserve">For as for the moving to a point or place <lb/>(which was the opinion of the Antients) it is a meer vanity.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s837" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div61" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-01" xlink:href="note-0044-01a" xml:space="preserve">33.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-02" xlink:href="note-0044-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Decreaſe of the <lb/>Natural Mo-<lb/>tion of Gravi-<lb/>ty in great <lb/>diſtance ſrom <lb/>the Earth; or <lb/>within ſome <lb/>depth of the <lb/>Earth.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s838" xml:space="preserve">IT is ſtrange, how the Antients took up Experiments upon credit, and yet did <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0044-03a" xlink:href="note-0044-03"/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0044-04a" xlink:href="note-0044-04"/> build great Matters upon them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s839" xml:space="preserve">The obſervation of ſome of the beſt of <lb/>them, delivered confidently, is, That a Veſſel filled with Aſhes, will receive <lb/>the like quantity of Water, that it would have done if it had been empty. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s840" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>this is utterly untrue, for the Water will not go in by a fifth part; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s841" xml:space="preserve">and I ſup-<lb/>poſe, that that fifth part is the difference of the lying cloſe, or open of the <lb/>Aſhes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s842" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee, that Aſhes alone, if they be hard preſſed, will lie in leſs <lb/>room; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s843" xml:space="preserve">and ſo the Aſhes with Air between, lie looſer, and with Water <lb/>cloſer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s844" xml:space="preserve">For I have not yet found certainly, that the Water it ſelf by mix-<lb/>ture of Aſhes or Duſt, will ſhrink or draw into leſs room.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s845" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div62" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-03" xlink:href="note-0044-03a" xml:space="preserve">34.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-04" xlink:href="note-0044-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Contraction of <lb/>bodies in bulk, <lb/>by the mixture <lb/>of the more <lb/>Liquid Body, <lb/>with the more <lb/>Solid.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s846" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported of credit, That if you lay good ſtore of Kernels of Grapes’, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0044-05a" xlink:href="note-0044-05"/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0044-06a" xlink:href="note-0044-06"/> about the Root of a Vine, it will make the Vine come earlier, and proſper <lb/>better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s847" xml:space="preserve">It may be tried with other Kernels, laid about the Root of a Plant of <lb/>the ſame kinde; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s848" xml:space="preserve">as Figs, Kernels of Apples, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s849" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s850" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that the <lb/>Kernels draw out of the Earth Juice fit to nouriſh the Tree, as thoſe that <lb/>would be Trees of themſelves, though there were no Root; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s851" xml:space="preserve">but the Root <lb/>being of greater ſtrength, robbeth and devoureth the nouriſhment, when <lb/>they have drawn it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s852" xml:space="preserve">as great Fiſhes devour little.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s853" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div63" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-05" xlink:href="note-0044-05a" xml:space="preserve">35.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-06" xlink:href="note-0044-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Making Vines <lb/>more ſruitſul.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s854" xml:space="preserve">THe operation of Purging Medicines, and the cauſes thereof, have been <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0044-07a" xlink:href="note-0044-07"/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0044-08a" xlink:href="note-0044-08"/> thought to be a great Secret; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s855" xml:space="preserve">and ſo according to the ſlothful manner <lb/>of Men, it is referred to a Hidden Propriety, a Specifical Vertue, and a Fourth <lb/>Quality, and the like ſhifts of Ignorance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s856" xml:space="preserve">The Cauſes of Purging, are <lb/>divers, All plain and perſpicuous, and throughly maintained by experience. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s857" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is, That whatſoever cannot be overcome and digeſted by the <lb/>Stomack, is by the Stomack, either put up by Vomit, or put down to the <lb/>Guts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s858" xml:space="preserve">and by that Motion of Expulſion in the Stomack and Guts, other <lb/>Parts of the Body (as the Orifices of the Veins, and the like) are moved to ex-<lb/>pel by Conſent: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s859" xml:space="preserve">For nothing is more frequent then Motion of Conſent in the <lb/>Body of Man. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s860" xml:space="preserve">This Surcharge of the Stomack, is cauſed either by the <lb/>Quality of the Medicine, or by the Quantity. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s861" xml:space="preserve">The Qualities are three, <lb/>Extream Bitter, as in Aloes, Coloquintida, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s862" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s863" xml:space="preserve">Loathſome, and of horrible taſte, <lb/>as in Agarik Black Hellebore, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s864" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s865" xml:space="preserve">And of ſecret Malignity, and diſagree-<lb/>ment towards Mans Body, many times not appearing much in the taſte, <lb/>as in Scammony, Machoacham, Antimony, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s866" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s867" xml:space="preserve">And note well, that if there <lb/>be any Medicine that Purgeth, and hath neither of the firſt two Manifeſt <lb/>Qualities, is to be held ſuſpected as a kinde of Poyſon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s868" xml:space="preserve">For that it worketh <lb/>either by Corroſion, or by a ſecret Malignity, and Enmity to Nature; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s869" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>thereſore ſuch Medicines are warily to be prepared and uſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s870" xml:space="preserve">The quantity <lb/>of that which is taken, doth alſo cauſe Purging, as we ſee in a great quan-<lb/>tity of new Milk from the Cow, yea, and a great quantity of Meat: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s871" xml:space="preserve">For <pb o="11" file="0045" n="45" rhead="Century I."/> Surfeits many times turn to Purges, both upwards and down wards. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s872" xml:space="preserve">There-<lb/>fore we ſee generally, that the working of Purging Medicines cometh two <lb/>or three hours after the Medicines taken: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s873" xml:space="preserve">For that the Stomack firſt maketh a <lb/>proof, whether it can concoct them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s874" xml:space="preserve">And the like happeneth after Surfeits, <lb/>or Milk in too great quantity.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s875" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div64" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-07" xlink:href="note-0044-07a" xml:space="preserve">36.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-08" xlink:href="note-0044-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Purging Me-<lb/>dicines.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s876" xml:space="preserve">A ſecond cauſe is Mordication of the Orifices of the Parts, eſpecially of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0045-01a" xlink:href="note-0045-01"/> the Meſentery Veins; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s877" xml:space="preserve">as it is ſeen, that Salt, or any ſuch thing that is ſharp and <lb/>biting, put into the Fundament, doth provoke the part to expel, and Muſtard <lb/>provoketh ſneezing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s878" xml:space="preserve">and any ſharp thing to the eyes provoketh tears. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s879" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>therefore weſee, that almoſt all Purgers have akinde of twitching and vel-<lb/>lication, beſides the griping which cometh of wind. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s880" xml:space="preserve">And if this Mordi-<lb/>cation be in an over-high degree, it is little better than the Coroſion of Poyſon; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s881" xml:space="preserve">and it cometh to paſs ſometimes in Antimony, eſpecially if it be given to <lb/>Bodies not repleat with humors; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s882" xml:space="preserve">for where humors abound, the humors <lb/>ſave the parts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s883" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div65" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0045-01" xlink:href="note-0045-01a" xml:space="preserve">37.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s884" xml:space="preserve">The third cauſe is Attraction: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s885" xml:space="preserve">For I do not deny, but that Purging Me-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0045-02a" xlink:href="note-0045-02"/> dicines have in them a direct force of Attraction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s886" xml:space="preserve">as Drawing-Plaiſters have <lb/>in Surgery: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s887" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee Sage, or Bittony bruiſed, SneeZing-powder, and other pow-<lb/>ders or Liquors (which the Phyſitians call Errhines) put into the Noſe, draw <lb/>Flegm and Water from the Head; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s888" xml:space="preserve">and ſo it is in Apophlegmatiſms and Gar-<lb/>gariſms that draw the Rheume down by the Palat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s889" xml:space="preserve">And by this vertue, no <lb/>doubt, ſome Purgers draw more one humor, and ſome another, according to <lb/>the opinion received: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s890" xml:space="preserve">As Rubarb draweth Choler, Sean Melancholy, Aga-<lb/>rack Flegm, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s891" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s892" xml:space="preserve">but yet (more orleſs) they draw promiſcuouſly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s893" xml:space="preserve">And note <lb/>alſo, that beſides Sympathy between the Purger and the Humor, there is alſo <lb/>another cauſe, why ſome Medicines draw ſome humor more than another; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s894" xml:space="preserve">and it is, for that ſome Medicines work quicker than others; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s895" xml:space="preserve">and they that <lb/>draw quick, draw onely the lighter, and more fluid humors; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s896" xml:space="preserve">they that draw <lb/>ſlow, work upon the more tough, and viſcuous humors. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s897" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, <lb/>men muſt be ware how they take Rubarb, and the like, alone, familiarly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s898" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>it taketh onely the lighteſt part of the humor away, and leaveth the Maſs <lb/>of Humors more obſtinate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s899" xml:space="preserve">And the like may be ſaid of Worm-wood, which <lb/>is ſo much magniſied.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s900" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div66" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0045-02" xlink:href="note-0045-02a" xml:space="preserve">38.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s901" xml:space="preserve">The fourth cauſe is Flatuoſity: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s902" xml:space="preserve">For wind ſtirred, moveth to expel; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s903" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0045-03a" xlink:href="note-0045-03"/> we finde that (in effect) all Purgers have in them a raw Spirit or Wind, which <lb/>is the principal cauſe of Tortion in the Stomack and Belly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s904" xml:space="preserve">And therefore <lb/>Purgers leeſe (moſt of them) the virtue, by decoction upon the fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s905" xml:space="preserve">and for <lb/>that cauſe are chiefly given in Infuſion, Juyce, or Powder.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s906" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div67" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0045-03" xlink:href="note-0045-03a" xml:space="preserve">39.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s907" xml:space="preserve">The fifth cauſe is Compreßion or Cruſhing: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s908" xml:space="preserve">As when Water is cruſhed <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0045-04a" xlink:href="note-0045-04"/> out of a Spunge: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s909" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee that taking cold moveth looſneſs by contraction <lb/>of the Skin, and outward parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s910" xml:space="preserve">and ſo doth Cold like wiſe cauſe Rheums <lb/>and Defluctions from the Head, and ſome Aſtringent Plaiſters cruſh out pu-<lb/>rulent Matter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s911" xml:space="preserve">This kinde of operation is not found in many Medicines: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s912" xml:space="preserve">Mirabolanes have it, and it may be the Barks of Peaches; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s913" xml:space="preserve">for this vertue re-<lb/>quireth an Aſtriction, but ſuch an Aſtriction, as is not grateſul to the Body <lb/>(for a pleaſing Aſtriction doth rather binde in the humors, than ex-<lb/>pel them:) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s914" xml:space="preserve">And therefore ſuch Aſtriction is found in things of an harriſh <lb/>taſt e.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s915" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div68" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0045-04" xlink:href="note-0045-04a" xml:space="preserve">40.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s916" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth cauſe is Lubrefaction and Relaxation: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s917" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee in Medicines <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0045-05a" xlink:href="note-0045-05"/> Emollient, ſuch as are Milk, Honey, Mallows, Lettuce, Mercurial, Pellitery of <lb/>the Wall, and others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s918" xml:space="preserve">There is alſo a ſecret vertue of Relaxation of Cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s919" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>the heat of the Body bindeth the Parts and Humors together, which <pb o="12" file="0046" n="46" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Cold, relaxeth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s920" xml:space="preserve">As it is ſeen in Vrine, Blood, Pottage, or the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s921" xml:space="preserve">which, if they <lb/>be cold, break and diſſolve. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s922" xml:space="preserve">And by this kinde of Relaxation, Fear looſneth <lb/>the Belly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s923" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the heat retiring in wards to wards the Heart, the Guts, <lb/>and other parts are relaxed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s924" xml:space="preserve">in the ſame manner as Fear alſo cauſeth trem-<lb/>bling in the Sinews. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s925" xml:space="preserve">And of this kinde of Purgers are ſome Medicines made <lb/>of Mercury.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s926" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div69" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0045-05" xlink:href="note-0045-05a" xml:space="preserve">41.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s927" xml:space="preserve">The ſeventh cauſe is Abſterſion, which is plainly a ſcouring off, or Inciſion <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0046-01a" xlink:href="note-0046-01"/> of the more viſcuous humors, and making the humors more fluid, and cutting <lb/>between them, and the part; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s928" xml:space="preserve">as is found in Nitrous Water, which ſcoureth <lb/>Linnen-Cloth (ſpeedily) from the foulneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s929" xml:space="preserve">But this Inciſion muſt be by a <lb/>Sharpneß, without Aſtriction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s930" xml:space="preserve">which we finde in Salt, Wormwood, Oxymel, and <lb/>the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s931" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div70" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0046-01" xlink:href="note-0046-01a" xml:space="preserve">42.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s932" xml:space="preserve">There be Medicines that move Stools, andnot Vrine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s933" xml:space="preserve">ſome other Vrine, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0046-02a" xlink:href="note-0046-02"/> and not Stools. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s934" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe that Purgeby Stool, are ſuch as enter not at all, or little <lb/>into the Meſentery Veins; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s935" xml:space="preserve">but either at the firſt, are not digeſtible by the <lb/>Stomack, and therefore move immediately downwards to the Guts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s936" xml:space="preserve">or elſe <lb/>are afterwards rejected by the Meſentery Veins, and ſo turn likewiſe down-<lb/>wards to the Guts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s937" xml:space="preserve">and of theſe two kindes, are moſt Purgers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s938" xml:space="preserve">Butthoſe that <lb/>move Vrine, are ſuch as are well digeſted of the Stomack, and well received <lb/>alſo of the Meſentery Veins; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s939" xml:space="preserve">ſo they come as far as the Liver, which ſendeth <lb/>Vrine to the Bladder, as the Whey of Blood: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s940" xml:space="preserve">And thoſe Medicines, being open-<lb/>ing and piercing, do fortifie the operation of the Liver, in ſending down <lb/>the Wheyey part of the Blood to the Reins. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s941" xml:space="preserve">For Medicines Vrinative do not <lb/>work by rejection and indigeſtion, as Solutive do.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s942" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div71" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0046-02" xlink:href="note-0046-02a" xml:space="preserve">43.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s943" xml:space="preserve">There be divers Medicines, which in greater quantity move Stool, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0046-03a" xlink:href="note-0046-03"/> in ſmaller, Urine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s944" xml:space="preserve">and ſo contrariwiſe, ſome that in greater quantity move <lb/>Urine, and in ſmaller Stool. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s945" xml:space="preserve">Of the former ſortis Rubarb, and ſome others. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s946" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Rubarb is a Medicine, which the Stomack in a ſmall <lb/>quantity doth digeſt, and overcome (being not Flatuous nor Loathſome,) <lb/>and ſo ſendethit to the Meſentery veins; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s947" xml:space="preserve">and ſo being opening, it helpeth down <lb/>Urine: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s948" xml:space="preserve">But in a greater quantity, the Stomack cannot overcome it, and <lb/>ſo it goeth to the Guts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s949" xml:space="preserve">Pepper, by ſome of the Ancients, is noted to be of the <lb/>ſecond ſort; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s950" xml:space="preserve">which being in ſmall quantity, moveth wind in the Stomack <lb/>or Guts, and ſo expelled by Stool; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s951" xml:space="preserve">but being in greater quantity, diſſipateth <lb/>the wind, and it ſelf getteth to the Meſentery Veins, and ſo to the Liver and <lb/>Reins; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s952" xml:space="preserve">where, by Heating and Opening, it ſendeth down Urine more <lb/>plentifully.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s953" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div72" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0046-03" xlink:href="note-0046-03a" xml:space="preserve">44.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s954" xml:space="preserve">WE have ſpoken of Evacnating of the Body, we will now ſpeak ſome-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0046-04a" xlink:href="note-0046-04"/> thing of the filling of it by Reſtoratives in Conſumptions and Emaciating <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0046-05a" xlink:href="note-0046-05"/> Diſeaſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s955" xml:space="preserve">In Vetegables, there is one part that is more nouriſhing than <lb/>another; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s956" xml:space="preserve">as Grains and Roots nouriſh more than the Leaves, inſomuch as <lb/>the Order of the Foliatans was put down by the Pope, as finding Leaves un-<lb/>able to nouriſh Mans Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s957" xml:space="preserve">Whether there be that difference in the <lb/>Fleſh of Living Creatures, is not well enquired; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s958" xml:space="preserve">as whether Livers, and <lb/>other Entrails, be not more nouriſhing than the outward Fleſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s959" xml:space="preserve">We finde <lb/>that amongſt the Romans, a Gooſes Liver was a great delicacy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s960" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, <lb/>as they had artificial means to make it fair, and great; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s961" xml:space="preserve">but whether it were <lb/>more nouriſhing, appeareth not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s962" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that Marrow is more <lb/>nouriſhing than Fat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s963" xml:space="preserve">And I conceive, that ſome decoction of Bones and <lb/>Sinews, ſtamped and well ſtrained, would be a very nouriſhing Broth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s964" xml:space="preserve">We <lb/>finde alſo, that Scotch Skinck (which is a Pottage of ſtrong nouriſhment) is <pb o="13" file="0047" n="47" rhead="Century I."/> made with the Knees and Sinews of Beef, but long boiled: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s965" xml:space="preserve">Felly alſo, which <lb/>they uſe for a Reſtorative, is chiefly made of Knuckles of Veal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s966" xml:space="preserve">The Pulp, <lb/>that is within the Crafiſh or Crab, which they ſpice and butter, is more <lb/>nouriſhing then the fleſh of the Crab, or Crafiſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s967" xml:space="preserve">The Yolks of Eggs are <lb/>clearly more nouriſhing than the Whites. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s968" xml:space="preserve">So that it ſhould ſeem, that the <lb/>parts of Living Creatures that lie more in wards, nouriſh more than the out-<lb/>ward fleſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s969" xml:space="preserve">except it be the Brain, which the Spitits prey too much upon, to <lb/>leave it any great vertue of nouriſhing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s970" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth for the nouriſhing of aged <lb/>Men, or Men in Conſumptions, ſome ſuch thing ſhould be deviſed, as ſhould <lb/>be half Chylus, before it be put into the ſtomach.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s971" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div73" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0046-04" xlink:href="note-0046-04a" xml:space="preserve">45.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0046-05" xlink:href="note-0046-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Meats and <lb/>Drinks that <lb/>are moſt nou-<lb/>riſhing.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s972" xml:space="preserve">Take two large Capons, perboil them upon a ſoft fire, by the ſpace of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0047-01a" xlink:href="note-0047-01"/> an hour or more, till in effe ct all the Blood be gone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s973" xml:space="preserve">Add in the decoction <lb/>the Pill of a Sweet-Lemmon, or a good part of the Pill of a Citron, and a <lb/>little Mace. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s974" xml:space="preserve">Cut off the Shanks, and throw them away; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s975" xml:space="preserve">then with a good <lb/>ſtrong Chopping-knife, mince the two Capons, Bones and all, as ſmall as <lb/>ordinary minced Meat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s976" xml:space="preserve">put them into a large neat Boulter, then take a Kil-<lb/>derkin, ſweet, and well ſeaſoned, of four Gallons of Beer of Eight ſhillings <lb/>ſtrength, new as it cometh from the Tunning; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s977" xml:space="preserve">make in the Kilderkin a great <lb/>Bung-hole of purpoſe, then thurſt into it, the Boulter (in which the Capons <lb/>are) drawn out in length; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s978" xml:space="preserve">let it ſteep in it three days and three nights, the <lb/>Bung-hole open to work, then cloſe the Bung hole, and ſo let it continue a <lb/>day and a half, then draw it into Bottles, and you may drink it well after <lb/>threedays Bottling, and it will laſt ſix weeks (approved). </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s979" xml:space="preserve">It drinketh freſh, <lb/>flowreth, and mantleth exceedingly, it drinketh not newiſh at all, it is an <lb/>excellent drink for a Conſumption to be drunk either alone, or carded with <lb/>ſome other Beer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s980" xml:space="preserve">It quencheth thirſt, and hath no whit of windineſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s981" xml:space="preserve">Note, <lb/>that it is not poſſible, that Meat and Bread, either in Broths, or taken with <lb/>Drink, as is uſed, ſhould get forth into the Veins, and outward Parts, ſo <lb/>finely, and eaſily, as when it is thus incorporate, and made almoſt a Chylus <lb/>aforehand.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s982" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div74" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0047-01" xlink:href="note-0047-01a" xml:space="preserve">46.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s983" xml:space="preserve">Tryal would be made of the like Brew with Potado-Roots, or Bur-Roots, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0047-02a" xlink:href="note-0047-02"/> or the Pith of Artichoaks, which are nouriſhing Meats: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s984" xml:space="preserve">It may betryed al-<lb/>ſo, with other fleſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s985" xml:space="preserve">as Pheſant, Patridge, Young Pork, pig, Veniſon, eſpecially of <lb/>Young Deer, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s986" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s987" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div75" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0047-02" xlink:href="note-0047-02a" xml:space="preserve">47.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s988" xml:space="preserve">A Mortreß made with the Brawn of Capons, ſtamped, and ſtrained, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0047-03a" xlink:href="note-0047-03"/> mingled (after it is made) with like quantity, at the leaſt, of Almond Butter, is <lb/>an excellent Meat to nouriſh thoſe that are weak, better than Black-Manger <lb/>or Jelly: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s989" xml:space="preserve">And ſo is the Cullice of Cocks, boiled thick with the like mixture of <lb/>Almond Butter: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s990" xml:space="preserve">For the Mortreſs or Cullice of it ſelf, is more ſavory and <lb/>ſtrong, and nor ſo fit for nouriſhing of weak Bodies, but the Almonds that <lb/>are not of ſo high a taſte as fleſh, do excellently qualifie it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s991" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div76" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0047-03" xlink:href="note-0047-03a" xml:space="preserve">48.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s992" xml:space="preserve">Indian Maiz hath (of certain) an excellent Spirit of Nouriſhment, but it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0047-04a" xlink:href="note-0047-04"/> muſt be throughly boiled, and made into a Maiz-Cream like a Barley Cream. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s993" xml:space="preserve">I judge the ſame of Rice, made into a Cream; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s994" xml:space="preserve">for Rice is in Turky, and other <lb/>Countreys of the Eaſt, moſt fed upon, but it muſt be throughly boiled in re-<lb/>ſpect of the hardneſs of it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s995" xml:space="preserve">and alſo, becauſe otherwiſe it bindeth the Body <lb/>too much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s996" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div77" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0047-04" xlink:href="note-0047-04a" xml:space="preserve">49.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s997" xml:space="preserve">Piſtachoes, ſo they be good and not muſty, joyned with Almonds in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0047-05a" xlink:href="note-0047-05"/> Almond Milk, or made into a Milk of themſelves, like unto Almond Milk, <lb/>but more green, are an excellent nouriſher. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s998" xml:space="preserve">But you ſhall do well, to <lb/>add a little Ginger ſcraped, becauſe they are not without ſome ſubtil windi-<lb/>neſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s999" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div78" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0047-05" xlink:href="note-0047-05a" xml:space="preserve">50.</note> </div> <pb o="14" file="0048" n="48" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1000" xml:space="preserve">Milk warm from the Cow, is ſound to be a great nouriſher, and a good <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0048-01a" xlink:href="note-0048-01"/> remedy in Conſumptions: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1001" xml:space="preserve">But then you muſt putintoit, when you Milk <lb/>the Cow, two little Bags; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1002" xml:space="preserve">the one of Powder of Mint, the other of Powder <lb/>of Red Roſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1003" xml:space="preserve">for they keep the Milk ſome what from turning, or crudling <lb/>in the Stomack; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1004" xml:space="preserve">and put in Sugar alſo for the ſame cauſe, and partly for the <lb/>taſtes ſake: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1005" xml:space="preserve">But you muſt drink a good draught, that it may ſtay leſs time <lb/>in the Stomack, leſt it cruddle: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1006" xml:space="preserve">And let the Cup, into which you milk the <lb/>Cow, be ſet in a greater Cup of hot Water, that you may take it warm. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1007" xml:space="preserve">And Cow-milk thus prepared, I judge to be better for a Conſumption, than <lb/>Aß-milk, which (it is true) turneth not ſo eaſily, but it is a little harſh: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1008" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Marry it is more proper for ſharpneſs of Urine, and Exulceration of the <lb/>Bladder, and all manner of Lenifyings. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1009" xml:space="preserve">Womens-milk like wiſe is preſcribed, <lb/>when all fail; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1010" xml:space="preserve">but I commend it not, as being a little too near the Juyce of <lb/>Mans Body, to be a good nouriſher; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1011" xml:space="preserve">except it be in Infants, to whom it is <lb/>natural.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1012" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div79" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0048-01" xlink:href="note-0048-01a" xml:space="preserve">51.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1013" xml:space="preserve">Oyl of ſweet Almonds newly drawn, with Sugar and a little Spice, ſpred <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0048-02a" xlink:href="note-0048-02"/> upon Bread toſted, is an excellent nouriſher; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1014" xml:space="preserve">but then to keep the Oyl from <lb/>frying in the Stomack, you muſt drink a good draught of Milde-Beer after <lb/>it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1015" xml:space="preserve">and to keep it from relaxing the Stomack too much, you muſt put in a <lb/>little Powder of Cinnamon.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1016" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div80" type="float" level="2" n="51"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0048-02" xlink:href="note-0048-02a" xml:space="preserve">52.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1017" xml:space="preserve">The Yolks of Eggs are of themſelves ſo well prepared by Natmre for nou-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0048-03a" xlink:href="note-0048-03"/> riſhment, as (ſo they be Potched, or Rear boyled) they need no other pre-<lb/>paration or mixture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1018" xml:space="preserve">yet they may be taken alſo raw, when they are new <lb/>laid, with Malmſey or Sweet Wine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1019" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall do well to put in ſome few ſlices <lb/>of Eringium Roots, and a little Amber-greece: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1020" xml:space="preserve">For by this means, beſides the <lb/>immediate faculty of nouriſhment, ſuch drink will ſtrengthen the Back, ſo <lb/>that it will not draw down the Urine too faſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1021" xml:space="preserve">For too much Urine doth al-<lb/>ways hinder nouriſhment.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1022" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div81" type="float" level="2" n="52"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0048-03" xlink:href="note-0048-03a" xml:space="preserve">53.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1023" xml:space="preserve">Mincing of Meat, as in Pies, and Buttered minced Meat, ſaveth the grind-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0048-04a" xlink:href="note-0048-04"/> ing of the Teeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1024" xml:space="preserve">and therefore (no doubt) it is more nouriſhing, eſpecially <lb/>in Age, or to them that have weak Teeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1025" xml:space="preserve">but the Butter is not ſo proper <lb/>for weak Bodies, and therefore it were good to moiſten it with a little <lb/>Claret Wine, Pill of Lemmon or Orenge cut ſmall, Sugar, and a very little <lb/>Cinnamon, or Nutmeg. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1026" xml:space="preserve">As for Chuets, which are like wiſe Minced-meat; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1027" xml:space="preserve">inſtead of Butter, and Fat, it were good to moiſten them, partly with Cream, <lb/>or Almond, or Piſtachomilk, or Barley, or Maiz Cream; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1028" xml:space="preserve">adding a little Co-<lb/>riander-ſeed, and Carraway-ſeed, and a very little Saffron. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1029" xml:space="preserve">The more full <lb/>handling of Alimentation, we reſerve to the due place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1030" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div82" type="float" level="2" n="53"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0048-04" xlink:href="note-0048-04a" xml:space="preserve">54.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s1031" xml:space="preserve">We have hitherto handled the Particulars, which yield heſt, and eaſieſt, and plentifulleſt, <lb/>Nourishment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1032" xml:space="preserve">and now we will ſpeak of the beſt Means of conveying, and convert-<lb/>ing the Nourishment.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1033" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1034" xml:space="preserve">The firſt Means is to procure, that the Nouriſhment may not be robbed <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0048-05a" xlink:href="note-0048-05"/> and drawn away; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1035" xml:space="preserve">wherein that which we have already ſaid, is very mate-<lb/>rial, to provide, that the Reins draw not too ſtrongly an over-great part <lb/>of the Blood into Urine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1036" xml:space="preserve">To this add that Precept of Ariſtotle, That Wine <lb/>be forborn in all Conſumptions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1037" xml:space="preserve">for that the Spirits of the Wine do prey <lb/>upon the Roſcide Juyce of the Body, and inter-common with the Spirits of <lb/>the Body, and ſo deceive and rob them of their Nouriſhment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1038" xml:space="preserve">And therefore <lb/>if the Conſumption, growing from the weakneſs of the Stomack, do force <lb/>you to uſe Wine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1039" xml:space="preserve">let it always be burnt, that the quicker Spirits may evapo-<lb/>rate, or (at the leaſt) quenched with two little Wedges of Gold, fix or ſeven <lb/>times repeated, Add alſo this Proviſion, that there be not too much expence <pb o="15" file="0049" n="49" rhead="Century I."/> of the nouriſhment, by Exhaling and Sweating: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1040" xml:space="preserve">And tnerefore if the Patient <lb/>be apt to ſweat, it muſt be gently reſtrained. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1041" xml:space="preserve">But chiefly Hipocrates Rule is to <lb/>be followed, who adviſeth quite contrary to that which is in uſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1042" xml:space="preserve">Namely, <lb/>That the Linnen or Garment next the Fleſh, be in Winter dry and oft <lb/>changed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1043" xml:space="preserve">and in Summer ſeldom changed, and ſmeared over with Oyl: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1044" xml:space="preserve">For certain it is, that any ſubſtance that is fat, doth a little fill the Pores of <lb/>the Body and ſtay Sweat in ſome degree. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1045" xml:space="preserve">But the more cleanly way is to <lb/>have the Linnen ſmeared lightly over with Oyl of ſweet Almonds, and not <lb/>to forbear ſhifting as oft as is fit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1046" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div83" type="float" level="2" n="54"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0048-05" xlink:href="note-0048-05a" xml:space="preserve">55.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1047" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond Means is to ſend forth the nouriſhment into the parts more <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0049-01a" xlink:href="note-0049-01"/> ſtrongly, for which, the working muſt be by ſtrengthning of the Stomack; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1048" xml:space="preserve">and in this, becauſe the Stomack is chiefly comforted by Wine and hot <lb/>things, which otherwiſe hurt, it is good to reſort to outward applications to <lb/>the Stomack: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1049" xml:space="preserve">Wherein it hath been tryed, that the Quilts of Roſes, Spices, <lb/>Maſtick, Wormwood, Mint, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1050" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1051" xml:space="preserve">are not ſo helpful, as to take a Cake of <lb/>New Bread, and to bedew it with a little Sack or Alegant, and to dry it, and <lb/>after it be dryed alittle before the Fire, to put it within a clean Napkin, <lb/>and to lay it to the Stomack: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1052" xml:space="preserve">For it is certain, that all Flower hath a po-<lb/>tent Vertue of Aſtriction, inſomnch, as it hardneth a piece of Fleſh, or a <lb/>Flower that is laid in it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1053" xml:space="preserve">And therefore a Bag quilted with Bran, is like wiſe <lb/>very good, but it dryeth ſomewhat too much, and therefore it muſtnot lie <lb/>long.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1054" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div84" type="float" level="2" n="55"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0049-01" xlink:href="note-0049-01a" xml:space="preserve">56.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1055" xml:space="preserve">The third Means (which may be a branch of the former) is to ſend <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0049-02a" xlink:href="note-0049-02"/> forth the nouriſhment the better by ſleep. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1056" xml:space="preserve">For weſee, that Bears and other <lb/>Creatures that ſleep in the Winter, was exceeding fat: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1057" xml:space="preserve">And certain it is, (as <lb/>it is commonly believed) that Sleep doth nouriſh much, both for that the <lb/>Spirits do leſs ſpend the nouriſhment in Sleep, than when living Creatures <lb/>are awake: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1058" xml:space="preserve">And becauſe (that which is to the preſent purpoſe) it helpeth <lb/>to thruſt out the nouriſhment into the parts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1059" xml:space="preserve">Therefore in aged-men, and <lb/>weak Bodies, and ſuch as abound not with Choler, aſhort ſleep aſter dinner <lb/>doth help to nouriſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1060" xml:space="preserve">for in ſuch Bodies there is no fear of an over-haſty <lb/>digeſtion, which is the inconvenience of Poſt-meridian Sleeps. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1061" xml:space="preserve">Sleep alſo in <lb/>the morning, after the taking of ſomewhat of eaſie digeſtion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1062" xml:space="preserve">as Milk from <lb/>the Cow, nouriſhing Broth, or the like, doth further nouriſhment: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1063" xml:space="preserve">But this <lb/>would be done ſitting upright, that the Milk or Broth may paſs the more <lb/>ſpeedily to the bottom of the Stomack.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1064" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div85" type="float" level="2" n="56"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0049-02" xlink:href="note-0049-02a" xml:space="preserve">57.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1065" xml:space="preserve">The fourth Means is to provide that the parts themſelves may draw to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0049-03a" xlink:href="note-0049-03"/> them the nouriſhment ſtrongly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1066" xml:space="preserve">There is an excellent obſervation of Ari-<lb/>ſtotle, that a great reaſon why Plants (ſome of them) are of greater age than <lb/>Living Creatures is, for that they yearly put forth new Leaves and Boughs; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1067" xml:space="preserve">whereas Living Creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing <lb/>that is young, but Hair and Nails, which are Excrements, and no Parts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1068" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And it is moſt certain, that whatſoever is young, doth draw nouriſhment <lb/>better, than that which is old; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1069" xml:space="preserve">and then (that which is the myſtery of <lb/>that obſervation) young Boughs and Leaves, calling the Sap up to them, <lb/>the ſame nouriſheth the Body in the Paſſage. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1070" xml:space="preserve">And this we ſee notably pro-<lb/>ved alſo, in that the oft outting or polling of Hedges, Trecs, and Herbs, doth <lb/>conduce much to their laſting. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1071" xml:space="preserve">Transfer therefore this obſervation to the <lb/>helping of nouriſhment in Living Creatures: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1072" xml:space="preserve">The Nobleſt and Principal <lb/>Uſe whereof is, for the Prolongation of Life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1073" xml:space="preserve">Reſtauration of ſomc de-<lb/>gree of Youth, and Inteneration of the Parts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1074" xml:space="preserve">For certain it is, that there <lb/>are in Living Creatures Parts that nouriſh and repair eaſily, and parts that <pb o="16" file="0050" n="50" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> nouriſh and repair hardly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1075" xml:space="preserve">and you muſt refreſh, and renew thoſe that are <lb/>eaſie to nouriſh, that the other may be re reſhed, and (as it were) drink in <lb/>nouriſhment in the paſſage. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1076" xml:space="preserve">Now we ſee that Draught Oxen put into good <lb/>Paſture, recover the Fleſh of young Beef; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1077" xml:space="preserve">and Men after long emaciating <lb/>Diets, wax plump and fat, and almoſt new: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1078" xml:space="preserve">So that you may ſurely conclude, <lb/>that the frequent and wiſe uſe of thoſe emaciating Diets, and of Purgings; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1079" xml:space="preserve">and perhaps of ſome kinde of Bleeding, is a principal means of prolonga-<lb/>tion of life, and reſtoring ſome degree of Youth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1080" xml:space="preserve">For as we have often ſaid, <lb/>Death cometh upon Living Creatures like the Torment of Mezentius,</s> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div86" type="float" level="2" n="57"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0049-03" xlink:href="note-0049-03a" xml:space="preserve">58.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s1081" xml:space="preserve">Mortua quinetiam jungebat corpora vivis, <lb/>Component Manibuſque Man{us}, atque orib{us} ora.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1082" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1083" xml:space="preserve">For the parts in Mans body eaſily repairable (as Spirits, Blood, and Fleſh) <lb/>die in the embracement of the parts hardly repairable as Bones, Nerves, <lb/>and Membranes) and like wiſe ſome Entrails (which they reckon amongſt <lb/>the Spermatical Parts) are hard to repair: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1084" xml:space="preserve">Though that diviſion of Sper-<lb/>matical and Menſtrual Parts, be but a conceit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1085" xml:space="preserve">And this ſame obſervation <lb/>alſo may be drawn to the preſent purpoſe of nouriſhing emaciated Bodies: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1086" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Gentle Frication draweth forth the nouriſhment, by making <lb/>the parts a little hungry and heating them, whereby they call forth nouriſh-<lb/>ment the better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1087" xml:space="preserve">This Frication I wiſh to be done in the morning. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1088" xml:space="preserve">It is <lb/>alſo beſt done by the Hand, or apiece of Scarlet-Wool, wet a little with <lb/>Oyl of Almonds, mingled with a ſmall quantity of Bay-Salt, or Saffron: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1089" xml:space="preserve">We <lb/>ſee that the very Currying of Horſes doth make them fat, and in good <lb/>liking.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1090" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1091" xml:space="preserve">The fifth means is, to further the very act of Aßimilation of Nourish-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0050-01a" xlink:href="note-0050-01"/> ment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1092" xml:space="preserve">which is done by ſome outward emollients, that make the parts more <lb/>apt to Aſſimilate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1093" xml:space="preserve">For which I have compounded an ointment of excellent <lb/>odor, which I call Roman ointment, vide the Receit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1094" xml:space="preserve">The uſe of it would be <lb/>between ſleeps; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1095" xml:space="preserve">forin the latter ſleep, the parts aſſimulate chiefly.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1096" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div87" type="float" level="2" n="58"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0050-01" xlink:href="note-0050-01a" xml:space="preserve">59.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1097" xml:space="preserve">THere be many Medicines, which by themſelves would do no cure, but <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0050-02a" xlink:href="note-0050-02"/> perhaps hurt, but being applied in a certain order, one aſter another, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0050-03a" xlink:href="note-0050-03"/> do great cures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1098" xml:space="preserve">I have tried (my ſelf) a Remedy for the Gout, which hath <lb/>ſeldom failed, but driven it away in Twenty four hours ſpace: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1099" xml:space="preserve">It is firſt to <lb/>apply a Pultaß, of which, vide the Receit, and then a Bath or Fomentation, <lb/>of which, vide the Receit, and then a Plaiſter, vide the Receit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1100" xml:space="preserve">The Pultaß <lb/>relaxed the Pores, and maketh the humor apt to exhale. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1101" xml:space="preserve">The Fomentation <lb/>calleth forth the Humor by Vapors; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1102" xml:space="preserve">but yet in regard of the way made by <lb/>the Pultaß, draweth gently; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1103" xml:space="preserve">and therefore draweth the Humors out, and <lb/>doth not draw more to it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1104" xml:space="preserve">For it is a gentle Fomentation, and hath withal <lb/>a mixture (though very little) of ſome ſtupefactive. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1105" xml:space="preserve">The Plaiſter is a <lb/>moderate Aſtringent Plaiſter, which repelleth new humor from falling. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1106" xml:space="preserve">The Pultaß alone would make the part more ſoft and weak, and apter to take <lb/>the defluxion and impreſſion of the Humor. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1107" xml:space="preserve">The Fomentation alone, if it <lb/>were too weak, without way made by the Pultaß, would draw forth little; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1108" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>if too ſtrong, it would draw to the part, as well as draw from it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1109" xml:space="preserve">The Plaiſter <lb/>alone would pen the Humor already contained in the part, and ſo exaſpe-<lb/>rate it, as well as forbid new Humor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1110" xml:space="preserve">therefore they muſt be all taken in <lb/>order, as is ſaid: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1111" xml:space="preserve">The Pultaß is to be laid to for two or three hours; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1112" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>Fomentation for a quarter of an hour, or ſomewhat better, being uſed hot, <lb/>and ſeven or eight times repeated; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1113" xml:space="preserve">the Plaiſter to continue on ſtill, till the <lb/>part be well confirmed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1114" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div88" type="float" level="2" n="59"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0050-02" xlink:href="note-0050-02a" xml:space="preserve">60.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0050-03" xlink:href="note-0050-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Filam Medi-<lb/>cinale.</note> </div> <pb o="17" file="0051" n="51" rhead="Century I."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1115" xml:space="preserve">THere is a ſecret way of Cure, unpractiſed by Aſſuetude of that which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0051-01a" xlink:href="note-0051-01"/> in itſelf hurteth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1116" xml:space="preserve">Poyſons have been made by ſome Familiar, as hath <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0051-02a" xlink:href="note-0051-02"/> been ſaid. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1117" xml:space="preserve">Ordinary Keepers of the ſick of the Plague, are ſeldom infected. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1118" xml:space="preserve">Enduring of Tortures, by cuſtom hath been made more eaſie: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1119" xml:space="preserve">The brook-<lb/>ing of enormous quantity of Meats, and ſo of Wine, or ſtrong drink, hath <lb/>been by cuſtom made to be without Surfeit or Drunkenneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1120" xml:space="preserve">And generally <lb/>Diſeaſes that are Chronical, as Coughs, Phihiſicks, ſome kinde of Palſies, <lb/>Lunacies, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1121" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1122" xml:space="preserve">are moſt dangerous at the firſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1123" xml:space="preserve">Therefore a wiſe Phyſitian will <lb/>conſider, whcther a Diſeaſe be incurable, or whether the juſt cure of it be <lb/>not full of peril; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1124" xml:space="preserve">and if he finde it to be ſuch, let him reſort to Palliation, <lb/>and alleviate the Symptom without buſying himſelf too much with the <lb/>perfect cure: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1125" xml:space="preserve">And many times (if the Patient be indecd patient) that courſe <lb/>will exceed all expectation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1126" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe the Patient himſelf may ſtrive, by <lb/>little and little to overcome the Symptom in the Exacerbation, and ſo by <lb/>time turn ſuffering into Nature.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1127" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div89" type="float" level="2" n="60"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-01" xlink:href="note-0051-01a" xml:space="preserve">61.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-02" xlink:href="note-0051-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Cure by Cu-<lb/>ſtom.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1128" xml:space="preserve">DIvers Diſeaſes, eſpecially Chronical, (ſuch as Quartan Agues) are ſome-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0051-03a" xlink:href="note-0051-03"/> times cured by Surfeit and Exceſſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1129" xml:space="preserve">as exceſs of Meat, exceſs of Drink, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0051-04a" xlink:href="note-0051-04"/> extraordinary Faſting, extraordinary ſtirring, or Laſſitude, and the like. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1130" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Diſeaſes of continuance, get an adventitious ſtrength <lb/>from Cultom, beſides their material cauſe from the Humors: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1131" xml:space="preserve">So that the <lb/>breaking of the Cuſtom doth leave them onely to their firſt cauſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1132" xml:space="preserve">which, <lb/>if it be any thing weak, will fall off. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1133" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, ſuch Exceſſes do excite and ſpur <lb/>Nature, which thereupon riſeth more forcibly againſt the Diſeaſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1134" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div90" type="float" level="2" n="61"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-03" xlink:href="note-0051-03a" xml:space="preserve">62.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-04" xlink:href="note-0051-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Cure by Ex-<lb/>ceß.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1135" xml:space="preserve">THere is in the Body of Man, a great conſentin the Motion of the ſeveral <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0051-05a" xlink:href="note-0051-05"/> parts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1136" xml:space="preserve">We ſee it is Childrens ſport, to prove whether they can rub up-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0051-06a" xlink:href="note-0051-06"/> on their Breſt with one hand, and pat upon their Forehead with another; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1137" xml:space="preserve">and ſtraight ways they ſhall ſometimes rub with both hands, or pat with <lb/>both hands. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1138" xml:space="preserve">We ſee, that when the Spirits that come to the Noſtrils, ex-<lb/>pel a bad ſent, the Stomack is ready to expel by vomit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1139" xml:space="preserve">We finde that in <lb/>Conſumptions of the Lungs, when Nature cannotexpel by Cough, Men fall into <lb/>Fluxes of the Belly, and then they die. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1140" xml:space="preserve">So in Peſtilent Diſeaſes, if they can-<lb/>not be expelled by Sweat, they fall like wiſe into Looſneß, and that is common-<lb/>ly Mortal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1141" xml:space="preserve">Therefore Phyſitians ſhould ingeniouſly contrive, how by Mo-<lb/>tions that are in their power, they may excite inward Motions that are not <lb/>in their power, by conſent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1142" xml:space="preserve">as by the ſtench of Feathers, or the like, they <lb/>cure the riſing of the Mother.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1143" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div91" type="float" level="2" n="62"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-05" xlink:href="note-0051-05a" xml:space="preserve">63.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-06" xlink:href="note-0051-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Cure by Mo-<lb/>tion of Conſent.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1144" xml:space="preserve">HIppocrates Aphoriſm, in Morbis Minus, is a good profound Aphoriſm. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1145" xml:space="preserve">It im-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0051-07a" xlink:href="note-0051-07"/> porteth, that Diſeaſes contrary to the Complexion, Age, Sex, Seaſon of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0051-08a" xlink:href="note-0051-08"/> the year, Diet, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1146" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1147" xml:space="preserve">are more dangerous than thoſe that are concurrent. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1148" xml:space="preserve">A <lb/>Man would think it ſhould be otherwiſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1149" xml:space="preserve">For that when the Accident of <lb/>Sickneſs, and the Natural diſpoſition, do ſecond the one the other; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1150" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>Diſeaſe ſhould be more forcible. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1151" xml:space="preserve">And (ſo no doubt) it is, if you ſuppoſe like <lb/>quantity of Matter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1152" xml:space="preserve">But that which maketh good the Aphoriſm, is, becauſe <lb/>ſuch Diſeaſes do ſhew a greater collection of Matter, by that they are able <lb/>to overcome thoſe Natural inclinations to the contrary. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1153" xml:space="preserve">And therefore in <lb/>Diſeaſes of that kinde, let the Phyſitian apply him ſelf more to Purgation, than <lb/>to Alteration; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1154" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the offence is in the quantity, and the qualities are <lb/>rectified of themſelves.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1155" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div92" type="float" level="2" n="63"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-07" xlink:href="note-0051-07a" xml:space="preserve">64.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-08" xlink:href="note-0051-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Cure of Diſ-<lb/>caſes which are <lb/>contrary to <lb/>Prediſpoſition.</note> </div> <pb o="18" file="0052" n="52" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1156" xml:space="preserve">PHyſitians do wiſely preſcribe, that there be Preparatives uſed before Juſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0052-01a" xlink:href="note-0052-01"/> Purgations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1157" xml:space="preserve">for certain it is, that Purgers do many times great hurt, if <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0052-02a" xlink:href="note-0052-02"/> the Body be not accommodated, both before and after the Purging. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1158" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>hurt that they do, for want of Preparation before Purging, is by the ſtick-<lb/>ing of the Humors, and their not coming fair away; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1159" xml:space="preserve">which cauſeth in the <lb/>Body great perturbations, and ill accidents, during the Purging; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1160" xml:space="preserve">and alſo <lb/>the diminiſhing and dulling of the working of the Medicine it ſelf, that it <lb/>purgeth not ſufficiently: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1161" xml:space="preserve">Therefore the work of Preparation is double, to <lb/>make the Humors fluide and mature, and to make the paſſages more open; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1162" xml:space="preserve">For thoſe both help to make the Humors paſs readily: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1163" xml:space="preserve">And for the former <lb/>of theſe, Syrups are moſt profitable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1164" xml:space="preserve">and for the latter, Apozums or Preparing <lb/>Broths; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1165" xml:space="preserve">Clyſters alſo help leſt the Medicine ſtop in the Guts, and work griping-<lb/>ly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1166" xml:space="preserve">But it is true, that Bodies abounding with Humors, and fat Bodies, <lb/>and open Weather, are Preparatives in themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1167" xml:space="preserve">becauſe they make the <lb/>Humors more fluid: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1168" xml:space="preserve">But let a Phyſician beware how he purge after hard <lb/>Froſty Weather, and in a lean Body, without Preparation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1169" xml:space="preserve">For the hurt <lb/>that they may do after Purging, it is cauſed by the lodging of ſome Humors <lb/>in ill places; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1170" xml:space="preserve">for it is certain, that there be Humors which ſome where <lb/>placed in the Body, are quiet, and do little hurt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1171" xml:space="preserve">in other places (eſpecially <lb/>Paſſages) do much miſchief. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1172" xml:space="preserve">Therefore it is good after Purging, to uſe <lb/>Apozums and Broths, not ſo much opening as thoſe uſed before Purging, <lb/>but Abſturſive and Mundifying Clyſters alſo are good to conclude with, to <lb/>draw away the relicks of the Humors that may have deſcended to the lower <lb/>region of the Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1173" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div93" type="float" level="2" n="64"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0052-01" xlink:href="note-0052-01a" xml:space="preserve">65.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0052-02" xlink:href="note-0052-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Preparations <lb/>before Purg-<lb/>ing, and ſet-<lb/>ling of the <lb/>Body afier-<lb/>ward.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1174" xml:space="preserve">BLood is ſtanched divers ways: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1175" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, by Aſtringents and Repercuſſive <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0052-03a" xlink:href="note-0052-03"/> Medicines. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1176" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, by drawing of the Spirits and Blood in wards, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0052-04a" xlink:href="note-0052-04"/> which is done by cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1177" xml:space="preserve">as Iron or a Stone laid to the Neck doth ſtanch the <lb/>Bleeding of the Noſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1178" xml:space="preserve">alſo it hath been tried, that the Teſticlcs being put <lb/>into ſharp Vinegar, hath made a ſudden receſs of the Spirits, and ſtanched <lb/>Blood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1179" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, by the Receſs of the Blood by Sympathy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1180" xml:space="preserve">ſo it hath been <lb/>tried, that the part that bleedeth, being thruſt into the body of a Capon, <lb/>Sheep, new ript and bleeding, hath ſtanched Blood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1181" xml:space="preserve">the Blood, as it ſeem-<lb/>eth, ſucking and drawing up, by ſimilitude of ſubſtance, the Blood it meet-<lb/>eth with, and ſo it ſelf going back. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1182" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, by Cuftom and Fime; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1183" xml:space="preserve">ſo the <lb/>Prince of Aurange, in his firſthurt by the Spaniſh Boy, could ſinde no means <lb/>to ſtanch the Blood, either by Medicine or Ligament, but was fain to have <lb/>the Oriſice of the Wound ſtopped by Mens Thumbs, ſucceeding one an-<lb/>other for the ſpace at the leaſt of two days; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1184" xml:space="preserve">and at the laſt the Blood by <lb/>cuſtom onely retired. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1185" xml:space="preserve">There is a fifth way alſo in uſe, to let Blood in an ad-<lb/>verſe part for a Revulſion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1186" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div94" type="float" level="2" n="65"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0052-03" xlink:href="note-0052-03a" xml:space="preserve">66.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0052-04" xlink:href="note-0052-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Stanching of <lb/>Blood.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1187" xml:space="preserve">IT helpeth, both in Medicine and Aliment, to change and not to continne <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0052-05a" xlink:href="note-0052-05"/> the ſame Medicine and Aliment ſtill. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1188" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Nature by con-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0052-06a" xlink:href="note-0052-06"/> tinualuſe of anything, groweth to a ſatiety and dulneſs, either of Appetite <lb/>or Working. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1189" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee that Aſſuetude of things hurtful, doth make <lb/>them leeſe their force to hurt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1190" xml:space="preserve">As Poyſon, which with uſe ſome have brought <lb/>themſelves to brook. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1191" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it is no marvel, though things help-<lb/>ful by cuſtom, leeſe their force to help, I count intermiſſion almoſt the <lb/>ſame thing with change; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1192" xml:space="preserve">for that, that hath been intermitted, is after a ſort <lb/>new.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1193" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div95" type="float" level="2" n="66"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0052-05" xlink:href="note-0052-05a" xml:space="preserve">67.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0052-06" xlink:href="note-0052-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Change of A-<lb/>liments and <lb/>Medicines.</note> </div> <pb o="19" file="0053" n="53" rhead="Century I."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1194" xml:space="preserve">IT is found by Experience, that in Diets of Guiacum, Sarza, and the like, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0053-01a" xlink:href="note-0053-01"/> (eſpecially, if they be ſtrict) the Patient is more troubled in the beginning <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0053-02a" xlink:href="note-0053-02"/> than aſter continuance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1195" xml:space="preserve">which hath madeſome of the more delicate ſort <lb/>of Patients, give them over in the midſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1196" xml:space="preserve">Suppoſing, that if thoſe Diets <lb/>trouble them ſo much at firſt, they ſhall not be able to endure them to the <lb/>end. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1197" xml:space="preserve">But the cauſe is, for that all thoſe Diets, to dry up Humors, Rheums, <lb/>and the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1198" xml:space="preserve">and they cannot dry up until they have firſt attenuated: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1199" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>while the Humor is attenuated, it is more fluid, than it was before, and <lb/>troubleth the Body a great deal more, until it be dryed up, and conſumed. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1200" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Patients muſt expect a due time, and not check at them at <lb/>the firſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1201" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div96" type="float" level="2" n="67"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0053-01" xlink:href="note-0053-01a" xml:space="preserve">68.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0053-02" xlink:href="note-0053-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment) <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Diets.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1202" xml:space="preserve">THe producing of Cold is a thing very worthy the Inquiſition, both for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0053-03a" xlink:href="note-0053-03"/> uſe and diſcloſure of cauſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1203" xml:space="preserve">For Heat and Cold are Natures two hands, <lb/>whereby ſhe chiefly worketh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1204" xml:space="preserve">and Heat we have in readineſs, in reſpect of <lb/>the Fire: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1205" xml:space="preserve">But for Cold, we muſt ſtay tillit cometh, or ſeek it in deep Caves, <lb/>or high Mountains; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1206" xml:space="preserve">and when all is done, we cannot obtain it in any great <lb/>degree: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1207" xml:space="preserve">For Furnaces of Fire are far hotter than a Summers Sun, but <lb/>Vaults or Hills are not much colder than a Winters Froſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1208" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div97" type="float" level="2" n="68"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0053-03" xlink:href="note-0053-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Production of <lb/>Cold.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1209" xml:space="preserve">The firſt means of producing Cold, is that which Nature preſenteth us <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0053-04a" xlink:href="note-0053-04"/> withal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1210" xml:space="preserve">namely, the expiring of Cold out of the inward parts of the Earth <lb/>in Winter, when the Sun hath no power to overcome it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1211" xml:space="preserve">the Earth being <lb/>(as hath been noted by ſome (Primum Frigidum.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1212" xml:space="preserve">This hath been aſſerted, as <lb/>well by Ancient, as by Modern Philoſophers: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1213" xml:space="preserve">It was the tenet of Parmenides it <lb/>was the opinion of the Author of the Diſcourſe in Plutarch, (for I take it, that <lb/>Book was not Plutarchs own) De primo Frigido. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1214" xml:space="preserve">It was the opinion of Tele-<lb/>ſius, who hath renewed the Philoſophy of Parmenides, and is the beſt of the <lb/>Noveliſts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1215" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div98" type="float" level="2" n="69"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0053-04" xlink:href="note-0053-04a" xml:space="preserve">69.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1216" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond cauſe of Cold is, the contact of cold Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1217" xml:space="preserve">for Cold is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0053-05a" xlink:href="note-0053-05"/> Active and Tranſitive into Bodies adjacent, as well as Heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1218" xml:space="preserve">which is ſeen <lb/>in thoſe things that are touched with Snow or cold Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1219" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, <lb/>whoſoever will be an Enquirer into Nature, let him reſort to a Conſervatory <lb/>of Snow and Ice; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1220" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as they uſe of delicacy, to cool Wine in Summer: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1221" xml:space="preserve">Which is a poor and contemptible uſe, in reſpect of other uſes that may be <lb/>made of ſuch Conſervatories.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1222" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div99" type="float" level="2" n="70"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0053-05" xlink:href="note-0053-05a" xml:space="preserve">70.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1223" xml:space="preserve">The third cauſe is the Primary Nature of all Tangible Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1224" xml:space="preserve">for it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0053-06a" xlink:href="note-0053-06"/> is well to be noted, That all things whatſoever (Tangible are of themſelves) <lb/>Cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1225" xml:space="preserve">except they have an acceſſory heat by Fire, Life, or Motion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1226" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>even the Spirit of Wine, or Chymical Oyls, which are ſo hot in operation, <lb/>are to the firſt touch, Cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1227" xml:space="preserve">and Air it ſelt compreſſed, and condenſed a <lb/>little by blowing, is Cold.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1228" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div100" type="float" level="2" n="71"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0053-06" xlink:href="note-0053-06a" xml:space="preserve">71.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1229" xml:space="preserve">The fourth cauſe is, the Denſity of the Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1230" xml:space="preserve">for alldenſe Bodies are <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0053-07a" xlink:href="note-0053-07"/> colder than moſt other Bodies, as Mettals, Stone, Glaß, and they are longer <lb/>in heating than ſafter Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1231" xml:space="preserve">And it is certain, that Earth, Denſe, Tangable, <lb/>hold all of the Nature of Cold: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1232" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that all Matters Tangible <lb/>being Cold, it muſt needs follow, that where the Matter is moſt congregate <lb/>the Cold is the greater.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1233" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div101" type="float" level="2" n="72"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0053-07" xlink:href="note-0053-07a" xml:space="preserve">72.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1234" xml:space="preserve">The fiſth cauſe of Cold, or rather of increaſe and vehemency of Cold, is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0053-08a" xlink:href="note-0053-08"/> A quick Spirit incloſed in a cold Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1235" xml:space="preserve">as will appear to any that ſhall atten-<lb/>tively conſider of Nature in many inſtances. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1236" xml:space="preserve">We ſee Nitre (which hath <lb/>a quick Spirit) is Cold, more cold to the Tongue than a Stone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1237" xml:space="preserve">ſo Water <pb o="20" file="0054" n="54" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> is coldèr than Oyl, becaufe it hath a quicker Spirit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1238" xml:space="preserve">for all Oyl, though it <lb/>hath the tangible parts better digeſted than Water, yet hath it a duller Spirit: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1239" xml:space="preserve">So Snow is colder than Water, becauſe it hath more Spirit within it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1240" xml:space="preserve">So <lb/>we ſee that Salt put to Ice (as in the producing of the Artiſicial Ice) encrea-<lb/>ſeth the activity of cold: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1241" xml:space="preserve">So ſome Inſecta which have Spirit of Life, as <lb/>Snakes and Silkworms, are to the touch, Cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1242" xml:space="preserve">So Quick-ſilver is the col@eſt of <lb/>Metals, becauſe it is fulleſt of Spirit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1243" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div102" type="float" level="2" n="73"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0053-08" xlink:href="note-0053-08a" xml:space="preserve">73.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1244" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth cauſe of Cold is, the chaſſing and driving away of Spirits, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0054-01a" xlink:href="note-0054-01"/> ſuch as have ſome degree of Heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1245" xml:space="preserve">for the baniſhing of the Heat muſt <lb/>needs leave any Body cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1246" xml:space="preserve">This we ſee in the operation of Opium, and Stu-<lb/>pefactives upon the Spirits of Living Creatures; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1247" xml:space="preserve">and it were not amiſs to try <lb/>Opium by laying it upon the top of a Weather-Glaß, to ſee whether it will <lb/>contract the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1248" xml:space="preserve">but I doubt it will not ſuceed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1249" xml:space="preserve">For beſides that, the ver-<lb/>tue of Opium will hardly penetrate thorow ſuch a body as Glaſs, I conceive <lb/>that Opium, and the like, make the Spirits flie rather by Malignity, than by <lb/>Cold.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1250" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div103" type="float" level="2" n="74"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0054-01" xlink:href="note-0054-01a" xml:space="preserve">74.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1251" xml:space="preserve">Seventhly, the ſame effect muſt follow upon the exhaling or drawing <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0054-02a" xlink:href="note-0054-02"/> out of the warni Spirits, that doth upon the flight of the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1252" xml:space="preserve">There is <lb/>an opinion, that the Moon is Magnetical of Heat, as the Sun is of Cold and <lb/>Moiſture: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1253" xml:space="preserve">It were not amiſs therefore to try it with warm waters; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1254" xml:space="preserve">the one <lb/>expoſed to the Beams of the Moon, the other with ſome skreen betwixt <lb/>the Beams of the Moon and the Water: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1255" xml:space="preserve">As we uſe to the Sun for ſhade, <lb/>and to ſee whether the former will cool ſooner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1256" xml:space="preserve">And it were alſo good <lb/>to enquire, what other means there may be, to draw forth the Exile heat <lb/>which is in the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1257" xml:space="preserve">for that may be a ſecret of great power to produce <lb/>cold Weather.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1258" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div104" type="float" level="2" n="75"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0054-02" xlink:href="note-0054-02a" xml:space="preserve">75.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1259" xml:space="preserve">WE have formerly ſet down the Means of turning Air into Water, in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0054-03a" xlink:href="note-0054-03"/> the Experiment 27. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1260" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe it is Magnale Naturæ, and tendeth to <lb/>the ſubduing of a very great effect, and is alſo of manifold uſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1261" xml:space="preserve">We will <lb/>adde ſome inſtances in Conſort that give light thereunto.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1262" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div105" type="float" level="2" n="76"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0054-03" xlink:href="note-0054-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Verſion and <lb/>Tranſmutation <lb/>of the Air in <lb/>to Water.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1263" xml:space="preserve">It is teported by ſome of the Ancients, that Sailers have uſed every <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0054-04a" xlink:href="note-0054-04"/> night, to bang Fleeces of Wool on the ſides of their Ships, the Wool to-<lb/>wards the Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1264" xml:space="preserve">and that they have cruſhed freſh water out of them, in <lb/>the Morning, for their uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1265" xml:space="preserve">And thus much we have tried, that a quantity <lb/>of Wool tied looſe together, being let down into a deep Well; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1266" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>hanging in the middle, ſome three Fathom from the Water for a night, in <lb/>the Winter time, increaſed in weight, (as I now remember) to a fifth <lb/>Part.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1267" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div106" type="float" level="2" n="77"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0054-04" xlink:href="note-0054-04a" xml:space="preserve">76.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1268" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by one of the Ancients, that in Lydia, near Pergamus, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0054-05a" xlink:href="note-0054-05"/> there were certain Workmen in time of Wars, fled into Caves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1269" xml:space="preserve">and the <lb/>Mouth of the Caves being ſtopped by the Enemies, they were famiſhed. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1270" xml:space="preserve">But long time after, the dead Bodies were found, and ſome Veſſels which <lb/>they had carried with them, and the Veſſels full of Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1271" xml:space="preserve">and that Wa-<lb/>ter thicker, and more towards Ice, than common Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1272" xml:space="preserve">which is a notable <lb/>inſtance of Condenſation and Induration by Burial under Earth (in Caves) for <lb/>long time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1273" xml:space="preserve">and of Verſion alſo (as it ſhould ſeem) of the Air into Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1274" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>if any of thoſe Veſſels were empty. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1275" xml:space="preserve">Try therefore a ſmall Bladder hung in <lb/>Snow, and the like in Nitre, and the like in Quick-ſilver: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1276" xml:space="preserve">And if you finde <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0054-1a" xlink:href="hd-0054-1"/> the Bladders faln or ſhrunk, you may be ſure the Air is condenſed by the <lb/>Cold of thoſe Bodies, as it would be in a Cave under Earth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1277" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div107" type="float" level="2" n="78"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0054-05" xlink:href="note-0054-05a" xml:space="preserve">77.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0054-1" xlink:href="hd-0054-1a"/> </div> <pb o="21" file="0055" n="55" rhead="Century I."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1278" xml:space="preserve">It is reported of very good credit, that in the Eaſt-Indies if you ſet a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0055-01a" xlink:href="note-0055-01"/> Tub of Water open in a Room where Cloves are kept, it will be drawn dry <lb/>in Twenty four hours, though it ſtand at ſome diſtant from the Cloves. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1279" xml:space="preserve">In the Countrey, they uſe many times in deceit, when their Wooll is new <lb/>ſhorn, to ſet ſome Pails of Water by in the ſame Room, to encreaſe <lb/>the weight of the Wooll: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1280" xml:space="preserve">But it may be, that the Heat of the Wool re-<lb/>maining from the Body of the Sheep, or the heat gathered by the lying <lb/>cloſe of the Wool, helpeth to draw the watry vapor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1281" xml:space="preserve">but that is nothing to <lb/>the Verſion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1282" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div108" type="float" level="2" n="79"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0055-01" xlink:href="note-0055-01a" xml:space="preserve">78.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1283" xml:space="preserve">It is reported alſo credibly, that Wool new ſhorn, being laid caſually <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0055-02a" xlink:href="note-0055-02"/> upon a Veſſel of Verjuice, after ſome time hath drunk up a great part of the <lb/>Verjuice, though the Veſſel were whole without any flaw, and had not the <lb/>Bung-hole open. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1284" xml:space="preserve">In this inſtance there is (upon the by) to be noted, the <lb/>Percolation or Suing of the Verjuice thorow the Wood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1285" xml:space="preserve">for Verjuice of it ſelf <lb/>would never have paſſed through the Wood: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1286" xml:space="preserve">So, as it ſeemeth, it muſt be <lb/>firſt in a kinde of vapor before it paſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1287" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div109" type="float" level="2" n="80"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0055-02" xlink:href="note-0055-02a" xml:space="preserve">79.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1288" xml:space="preserve">It is eſpecially to be noted, that the cauſe that doth facilitate the Ver-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0055-03a" xlink:href="note-0055-03"/> ſion of Air into Water, when the Air is not in groſs, but ſubtilly mingled <lb/>with tangible Bodies, is, (at hath been partly touched before) for that tan-<lb/>gible Bodies have an antipathy with Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1289" xml:space="preserve">and if they finde any Liquid Body <lb/>that is more denſe nearthem, they will draw it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1290" xml:space="preserve">and after they have drawn <lb/>it, they will condente it more, and in effect incorporateit: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1291" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee that <lb/>a Spunge, or Wooll, or Sugar, or a Woollen-cloth, being put but in part, in <lb/>Water or Wine, will draw the Liquor higher, and beyond the place, where <lb/>the Water or Wine cometh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1292" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that Wood, Lute-ſtrings, and the like, <lb/>do ſwell in moiſt ſeaſons; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1293" xml:space="preserve">as appeareth by the breaking of the ſtrings, the <lb/>hard turning of the Pegs, and the hard drawing forth of Boxes, and opening <lb/>of Wainſcot doors, which is a kinde of infuſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1294" xml:space="preserve">and is much like to an in-<lb/>fuſion in Water, which will make Wood to ſwell; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1295" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in the filling of <lb/>the Chops of Bowls by laying them in Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1296" xml:space="preserve">But for that part of theſe <lb/>Experiments, which concerneth Attraction we will reſerve into the proper Title <lb/>of Attraction.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1297" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div110" type="float" level="2" n="81"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0055-03" xlink:href="note-0055-03a" xml:space="preserve">80.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1298" xml:space="preserve">There is alſo a Verſion of Airinto Water, ſeeing in the ſweating of Mar-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0055-04a" xlink:href="note-0055-04"/> bles, and other Stones; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1299" xml:space="preserve">and of Wainſcot before, and in moiſt weather. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1300" xml:space="preserve">This <lb/>muſt be, either by ſome moiſture the Body yieldeth, or elſe by the moiſt Air <lb/>thickned againſt the hard Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1301" xml:space="preserve">But it is plain, that it is the latter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1302" xml:space="preserve">for that <lb/>we ſee Wood painted with Oyl-colour, will ſoonergather drops in a moiſt <lb/>night, than Wood alone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1303" xml:space="preserve">which is cauſed by the ſmoothneſs and cloſeneſs, <lb/>which letteth in no part of the vapor, and ſo turneth it back and thickneth <lb/>it into Dew. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1304" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that breathing upon a Glaſs, or ſmooth Body, <lb/>giveth a Dew; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1305" xml:space="preserve">and in Froſty mornings (ſuch as we call Rime Froſts) you <lb/>ſhall finde drops of Dew upon the inſide of Glaſs-windows: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1306" xml:space="preserve">And the Froſt <lb/>it ſelf upon the ground, is but a Verſion or Condenſation of the moiſt va-<lb/>pors of the night, into a watry ſubſtance: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1307" xml:space="preserve">Dews likewiſe, and Rain, are but <lb/>the returns of moiſt vapors condenſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1308" xml:space="preserve">the Dew, by the cold onely of <lb/>the Suns departure, which is the gentler cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1309" xml:space="preserve">Rains, by the cold of that <lb/>which they call the Middle Region of the Air, which is the more violent <lb/>Cold.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1310" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div111" type="float" level="2" n="82"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0055-04" xlink:href="note-0055-04a" xml:space="preserve">81.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1311" xml:space="preserve">It is very probable (as hath been touched) that that which will turn <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0055-05a" xlink:href="note-0055-05"/> Water into Ice, will likewiſe turn Air ſome degree nearer unto Water. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1312" xml:space="preserve">Therefore try the Experiment of the Artificial turning Water into Ice <lb/>(where of we ſhall ſpeak in another place) with Air in place of Water, and <pb o="22" file="0056" n="56" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> the Ice aboutit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1313" xml:space="preserve">And although it be a greater alteration to turn Air into <lb/>Water, than Waterinto Ice; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1314" xml:space="preserve">yet there is this hope, that by continuing the <lb/>Air longer time, the effect will follow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1315" xml:space="preserve">for that artificial converſion of <lb/>Waterinto Ice, is the work of a few hours; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1316" xml:space="preserve">and this of Air may be tried by <lb/>a moneths ſpace, or the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1317" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div112" type="float" level="2" n="83"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0055-05" xlink:href="note-0055-05a" xml:space="preserve">82.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1318" xml:space="preserve">INduration or Lapidification of Subſtances more ſoft, is like wiſe another de-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0056-01a" xlink:href="note-0056-01"/> gree of Condenſation, and is a great alteration in Nature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1319" xml:space="preserve">The effect-<lb/>ing and accelerating thereof, is very worthy to be enquired it is effected by <lb/>three means.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1320" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div113" type="float" level="2" n="84"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0056-01" xlink:href="note-0056-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Induration of <lb/>Bedies.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1321" xml:space="preserve">The firſtis by Cold, whofe property is to condenſe, and conſtipate, as <lb/>hath been ſaid.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1322" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1323" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is by Heat, which is not proper but by conſequence; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1324" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>the heat doth attenuate, and by attenuation doth ſend forth the Spirit, and <lb/>moiſter part of a Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1325" xml:space="preserve">and upon that, the more groſs of the tangible parts <lb/>do contract and ſerve themſelves together; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1326" xml:space="preserve">both to avoid Vacuum (as they <lb/>call it) and alſo to munite themſelves againſt the force of the Fire, which <lb/>they have ſuffered.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1327" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1328" xml:space="preserve">And the third is by Aſſimilation, when a hard Body aſſimilateth a ſoft, <lb/>being contiguous to it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1329" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1330" xml:space="preserve">The examples of Induration taking them promiſcuouſly, are many: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1331" xml:space="preserve">As <lb/>the Generation of Stones within the Earth, which at the ſirſt are but Rude <lb/>Earth or Clay; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1332" xml:space="preserve">and ſo of Minerals, which come (no doubt) at firſt of <lb/>Juyces Concrete, which after ward indurate: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1333" xml:space="preserve">And ſo of Porcellane, which is <lb/>an Artificial Cement, buried in the Earth a long time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1334" xml:space="preserve">and ſo the making <lb/>of Brick and Tile; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1335" xml:space="preserve">alſo the making of Glaß, of a certain Sand and Brake-Roots, <lb/>and ſome other matters; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1336" xml:space="preserve">alſo the Exudations of Rock Diamonds and Cbryſtal, <lb/>which harden with time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1337" xml:space="preserve">alſo the Induration of Bead-Amber, which at ſirſtis a <lb/>ſoſt ſubſtance, as appeareth by the Flies and Spiders, which are found in it, <lb/>and many more. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1338" xml:space="preserve">But we will ſpeak of them diſtinctly.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1339" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1340" xml:space="preserve">For Indurations by Cold, there befew Trials of it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1341" xml:space="preserve">for we have no ſtrong <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0056-02a" xlink:href="note-0056-02"/> orintenſe cold here on the ſurface of the Earth, ſo near the Beams of the <lb/>Sun and the Heavens, the likelieſt tryal is by Snow and Ice; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1342" xml:space="preserve">for as Snow <lb/>and Ice, eſpecially being holpen, and their cold activated by Nitre or <lb/>Salt, will turn Water into Ice, and that in a few hours: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1343" xml:space="preserve">So it may be it <lb/>will turn Wood or ſtiff Clay into Stone in longertime. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1344" xml:space="preserve">Put therefore into <lb/>a Conſerving Pit of Snow and Ice, (adding ſome quantity of Salt and <lb/>Nitre) a piece of Wood, or a piece of tough Clay, and let it lie a moneth <lb/>or more.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1345" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div114" type="float" level="2" n="85"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0056-02" xlink:href="note-0056-02a" xml:space="preserve">83.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1346" xml:space="preserve">Another tryal is by Metalline VVaters, which have virtual Cold in them. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1347" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0056-03a" xlink:href="note-0056-03"/> Put therefore Wood or Clay into Smiths water, or other Metalline water, and <lb/>try whether it will not harden in ſome reaſonable time. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1348" xml:space="preserve">But I underſtand <lb/>it of Metalline waters, that come by waſhing or quenching, and not of Strong <lb/>Waters that come by diſſolution; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1349" xml:space="preserve">for they are too Corroſive to conſo-<lb/>lidate.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1350" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div115" type="float" level="2" n="86"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0056-03" xlink:href="note-0056-03a" xml:space="preserve">84.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1351" xml:space="preserve">It is already found, that there are ſome Natural Spring-waters that will <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0056-04a" xlink:href="note-0056-04"/> inlapidate Wood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1352" xml:space="preserve">ſo as you ſhall ſee one piece of Wood, where of the part <lb/>above the Water ſhall continue Wood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1353" xml:space="preserve">and the part under the Water, ſhall <lb/>be turned into a kinde of Gravelly Stone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1354" xml:space="preserve">It is likely thoſe Waters are of <lb/>ſome Metalline Mixture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1355" xml:space="preserve">but there would be more particular inquiry made <lb/>of them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1356" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that an Egg was found, having lain many years in the <pb o="23" file="0057" n="57" rhead="Century I."/> bottom of a Moat, where the Earth had<unsure/> ſomewhat overgrown it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1357" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>this Egg was come to the hardneſs of a ſtone, and had the colours of the <lb/>White and Yolk perfect; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1358" xml:space="preserve">and the Shell ſhining in ſmall Grains, like Sugar <lb/>or Alablaſter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1359" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div116" type="float" level="2" n="87"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0056-04" xlink:href="note-0056-04a" xml:space="preserve">85.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1360" xml:space="preserve">Another Experience there is of Induration by Cold, which is already found, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0057-01a" xlink:href="note-0057-01"/> which is, That Metals themſelves are hardned by often heating, and quench-<lb/>ing in Cold-<unsure/>water: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1361" xml:space="preserve">For Cold ever worketh moſt potently upon Heat pre-<lb/>cedent.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1362" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div117" type="float" level="2" n="88"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0057-01" xlink:href="note-0057-01a" xml:space="preserve">86.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1363" xml:space="preserve">For Induration by Heat, it muſt be conſidered, That Heat, by the exha <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0057-02a" xlink:href="note-0057-02"/> ling of the moiſter parts, doth either harden the Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1364" xml:space="preserve">as in Bricks, Tiles, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1365" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1366" xml:space="preserve">Or if the Heat be more fierce, maketh the groſſer part of it ſelſ, run and <lb/>melt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1367" xml:space="preserve">as in the making of ordinary Glaſs, and in the Vitrification of Earth, <lb/>(as we ſee in the inner parts of Furnaces) and in the Vitrification of Brick, <lb/>and of Metals. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1368" xml:space="preserve">And in the former of theſe, which is the hardning by <lb/>Baking, without Melting, the Heat hath theſe degrees: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1369" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, It Indu-<lb/>rateth, and then maketh Fragile; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1370" xml:space="preserve">and laſtly, It doth Incinerate and Calci-<lb/>nate.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1371" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div118" type="float" level="2" n="89"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0057-02" xlink:href="note-0057-02a" xml:space="preserve">87.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1372" xml:space="preserve">But if you deſire to make an Induration with Toughneß, and leſs Fragility, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0057-03a" xlink:href="note-0057-03"/> a middle way would be taken, which is that which Ariſtotle hath well <lb/>noted, but would be throughly verified. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1373" xml:space="preserve">It is, to decoct Bodies in Water <lb/>for two or three days; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1374" xml:space="preserve">but they muſt be ſuch Bodies, into which the <lb/>Water will not enter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1375" xml:space="preserve">as Stone and Metal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1376" xml:space="preserve">For if they be Bodies, into <lb/>which the Water will enter, then long ſeething will rather ſoften than in-<lb/>durate them, as hath been tried in Eggs, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1377" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1378" xml:space="preserve">Therefore, ſofter Bodies <lb/>muſt be put into Bottles, and the Bottles hung into Water ſeething, with <lb/>the Mouths open above the Water, that no Water may get in: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1379" xml:space="preserve">For by this <lb/>Means, the Virtual Heat of the Water will enter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1380" xml:space="preserve">and ſuch a Heat, as will <lb/>not make the Body aduſt or fragile: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1381" xml:space="preserve">But the Subſtance of the Water will <lb/>be ſhut out. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1382" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment we made, and it ſorted thus, It was tryed <lb/>with a piece of Free-ſtone, and with Pewter, put into the Water at large; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1383" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>Free-ſtone we found received in ſome Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1384" xml:space="preserve">for it was ſofter and eaſier to <lb/>ſcrape, than a piece of the ſame ſtone kept dry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1385" xml:space="preserve">But the Pewter, into which <lb/>no Water could enter, became more white, and liker to Silver, and le<unsure/>ſs flexi-<lb/>ble by much. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1386" xml:space="preserve">There were alſo put into an Earthen Bottle, placed as before, a <lb/>good pellet of Clay, a piece of Cheeſe, a piece of Chalk, and a piece of Free-<lb/>ſtone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1387" xml:space="preserve">The Clay came forth almoſt of the hardneſs of Stone: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1388" xml:space="preserve">The Cheeſe <lb/>likewiſe very hard, and not well to be cut: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1389" xml:space="preserve">The Chalk and the Free ſtone <lb/>much harder then they were. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1390" xml:space="preserve">The colour of the Clay inclined not a whit to <lb/>the colour of Brick, but rather to white, asin ordinary drying by the Sun. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1391" xml:space="preserve">Note, that all the former tryals were made by a boyling upon a good hot fire, <lb/>rene wing the Water as it conſumed, with other hot Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1392" xml:space="preserve">but the boyling <lb/>was but for Twelve hours onely: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1393" xml:space="preserve">And it is like, that the Experiment would <lb/>have been more effectual, if the boyling had been fortwo or three days, as <lb/>we preſcribed before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1394" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div119" type="float" level="2" n="90"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0057-03" xlink:href="note-0057-03a" xml:space="preserve">88.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1395" xml:space="preserve">As touching Aßimilation (for there is a degree of Aßimilation, even in Inani-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0057-04a" xlink:href="note-0057-04"/> mate Bodies) we ſee examples of it in ſome Stones, in Clay-grounds, lying <lb/>near to the top of the Earth where Pebble is; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1396" xml:space="preserve">in which you may manifeſtly <lb/>ſee divers Pebbles gathered together, and a cruſt of Cement or Stone be <lb/>tween them, as hard as the Pebbles themſelves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1397" xml:space="preserve">And it were good to make a <lb/>tryal of purpoſe, by taking Clay, and putting in it divers Pebble-ſtones, thick <lb/>ſet, to ſee whether in continuance of time, it will not be harder than other <lb/>Clay of the ſame lump, in which no Pebbles are ſet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1398" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo in Ruins <pb o="24" file="0058" n="58" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> of old Walls, eſpecially tow ards the bottom, the Morter will become as <lb/>hard as the Brick: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1399" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that the Wood on the fides of Veſſels of <lb/>Wine, gathereth a cruſt of Tartar harder than the Wood it ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1400" xml:space="preserve">and Scales <lb/>likewiſe grow to the Teeth, harder than the Teeth themſelves.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1401" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div120" type="float" level="2" n="91"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0057-04" xlink:href="note-0057-04a" xml:space="preserve">89.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1402" xml:space="preserve">Moſt of all, Induration by Aßimilation appeareth in the bodies of Trees, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0058-01a" xlink:href="note-0058-01"/> and Living Creatures: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1403" xml:space="preserve">For no nouriſh ment that the Tree receiveth, or that <lb/>the Living Creature receiveth, is ſo hard as Wood, Bone, or Horn, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1404" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1405" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>is indurated after by Aſſimilation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1406" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div121" type="float" level="2" n="92"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-01" xlink:href="note-0058-01a" xml:space="preserve">90.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1407" xml:space="preserve">THe Eye of the Underſtanding, is like the Eye of the Senſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1408" xml:space="preserve">For as you <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0058-02a" xlink:href="note-0058-02"/> may ſee great objects through ſmall Cranies, or Levels; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1409" xml:space="preserve">ſo you may ſee <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0058-03a" xlink:href="note-0058-03"/> great Axioms of Nature, through ſmall and contem ptible inſtances. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1410" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>ſpeedy depredation of Air upon watry moiſture, and verſion of the ſame in-<lb/>to Air, appeareth in nothing more viſible than in the ſudden diſcharge, or <lb/>vaniſhing of a little Cloud of Breath, or Vapor, from Glaſs or the Blade of <lb/>a Sword, or any ſuch poliſhed Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1411" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as doth not at all detain or im-<lb/>bibe the moiſture: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1412" xml:space="preserve">For the miſtineſs ſcattereth and breaketh up ſuddenly. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1413" xml:space="preserve">But the like Cloud, if it were oily or fatty, will not diſch arge; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1414" xml:space="preserve">not becauſe it <lb/>ſticketh faſter, but becauſe Air preyeth upon Water, and Flame, and Fire, <lb/>upon Oyl; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1415" xml:space="preserve">and therefore, to take out a ſpot of Greaſe, they uſe a Coal upon <lb/>brown Paper, becauſe fire worketh upon Greaſe or Oyl, as Air doth upon <lb/>Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1416" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee Paper oiled, or Wood oiled, or the like, laſt long <lb/>moiſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1417" xml:space="preserve">but wet with Water, dry or putrifie ſooner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1418" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that <lb/>Air meddleth little with the moiſture of oyl.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1419" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div122" type="float" level="2" n="93"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-02" xlink:href="note-0058-02a" xml:space="preserve">91.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-03" xlink:href="note-0058-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Verſion of Wa-<lb/>ter into Air.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1420" xml:space="preserve">THere is an admirable demonſtration in the ſame trifling inſtance of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0058-04a" xlink:href="note-0058-04"/> little Cloud upon Glaſs, or Gems, or Blades of Swords of the force of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0058-05a" xlink:href="note-0058-05"/> Union, even in the leaſt quantities, and weakeſt Bodies, how much it con-<lb/>duceth to preſervation of the preſent form, and the reſiſting of a new. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1421" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>mark well the diſcharge of that Cloud, and you ſhall ſee it ever break up, firſt <lb/>in the skirts, and laſt in the midſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1422" xml:space="preserve">We ſee like wiſe, that much Water draw-<lb/>eth forth the Juyce of the Body infuſed, but little Water is imbibed by the <lb/>Body: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1423" xml:space="preserve">And this is a principal cauſe, why, in operation upon Bodies, for their <lb/>Verſion or Alteration, the tryal in great quantities doth not anſwer the tr<unsure/>yal <lb/>in ſmall, and ſo deceiveth many; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1424" xml:space="preserve">for that (I ſay) the greater Body reſiſteth <lb/>more any alteration of Form, and requireth far greater ſtrength in the Active <lb/>Body that ſhould ſubdue it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1425" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div123" type="float" level="2" n="94"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-04" xlink:href="note-0058-04a" xml:space="preserve">92.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-05" xlink:href="note-0058-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Force of Vni-<lb/>on.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1426" xml:space="preserve">WE have ſpoken before in the Fifth Inſtance, of the cauſe of Orient <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0058-06a" xlink:href="note-0058-06"/> Colours in Birds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1427" xml:space="preserve">which is by the fineneſs of the Strainer, we will <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0058-07a" xlink:href="note-0058-07"/> now endeavor to reduce the ſame Axiom to a Work. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1428" xml:space="preserve">For this Writing <lb/>of our Sylva Sylvarum, is (to ſpeak properly) not Natural Hiſtory, but a <lb/>high kinde of Natural Magick. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1429" xml:space="preserve">For it is not a diſcription onely of Na-<lb/>ture, but a breaking of Nature, into great and ſtrange Works. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1430" xml:space="preserve">Try there-<lb/>fore the anointing over of Pigeons, or other Birds, when they are but in <lb/>their Down, or of Whelps, cutting their Hair as ſhort as may be, or of <lb/>ſome other Beaſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1431" xml:space="preserve">with ſome oyntment, that is not hurtful to the fleſh, <lb/>and that will harden and ſtick very cloſe, and ſee whether it will not alter <lb/>the colours of the Feathers, or Hair, It is received, that the pulling off <lb/>the firſt Feathers of Birds clean, will make the new come forth White: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1432" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>it is certain, that White is a penurious colour, and where moiſture is ſcant. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1433" xml:space="preserve">So Blew Violets, and other Flowers, if they be ſtarved, turn pale and white.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1434" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="25" file="0059" n="59" rhead="Century I."/> Birds, and Horſes, by age or ſcars, turn white; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1435" xml:space="preserve">and the hoar Hairs of <lb/>Men, come by the ſame reaſon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1436" xml:space="preserve">And therefore in Birds, it is very likely, <lb/>that the Feathers that come firſt, will be many times of divers colours, <lb/>according to the nature oſ the Birds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1437" xml:space="preserve">for that the skin is more porous, <lb/>but when the skin is more ſhut and cloſe, the Feathers will come white. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1438" xml:space="preserve">This is a good Experiment, not onely for the producing of Birds and <lb/>Beaſts of ſtrange colours, but alſo, for the diſcloſure of the nature of <lb/>colours themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1439" xml:space="preserve">which of them require a finer poroſity, and which a <lb/>groſſer.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1440" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div124" type="float" level="2" n="95"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-06" xlink:href="note-0058-06a" xml:space="preserve">93.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0058-07" xlink:href="note-0058-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Producing of <lb/>Feathers and <lb/>Hairs of di-<lb/>vers Colours.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1441" xml:space="preserve">IT is a work of providence that hath been truly obſerved by ſome; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1442" xml:space="preserve">that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0059-01a" xlink:href="note-0059-01"/> the Yolk of the Egg conduceth little to the Generation of the Bird, but <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0059-02a" xlink:href="note-0059-02"/> onely to the nouriſhment of the ſame: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1443" xml:space="preserve">For if a Chicken be opened when <lb/>it is new hatched, you ſhall finde much of the Yolk remaining. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1444" xml:space="preserve">And it is <lb/>needful, that Birds that are ſhaped without the Females Womb, have in the <lb/>Egg, as well matter of nouriſhment, as matter of generation for the Body. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1445" xml:space="preserve">For after the Egg is laid, and ſevered from the body of the Hen, it hath no <lb/>more nouriſhme<unsure/>nt from the Hen, but onely a quickning heat when ſhe <lb/>ſitteth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1446" xml:space="preserve">But Beaſts and Men need not the matter of nouriſhment within <lb/>themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1447" xml:space="preserve">becauſe they are ſhaped within the Womb of the Female, and <lb/>are nouriſhed continually from her body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1448" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div125" type="float" level="2" n="96"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-01" xlink:href="note-0059-01a" xml:space="preserve">94.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-02" xlink:href="note-0059-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Nouriſhment <lb/>of Living <lb/>Creatures be-<lb/>fore they be <lb/>brought forth.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1449" xml:space="preserve">IT is an inveterate and received opinion, That Cantharides applied to any <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0059-03a" xlink:href="note-0059-03"/> part of the Body, touch the Bladder, and exulcerate it, if they ſtay on <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0059-04a" xlink:href="note-0059-04"/> long. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1450" xml:space="preserve">It is like wiſe received, that a kinde of Stone, which they bring out of <lb/>the Weſt-Indies, hath a peculiar force to move Gravel, and to diſſolve the <lb/>Stone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1451" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as laid but to the Wreſt, it hath ſo forcibly ſent down <lb/>Gravel, as Men have been glad to remove it, it was ſo violent.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1452" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div126" type="float" level="2" n="97"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-03" xlink:href="note-0059-03a" xml:space="preserve">95.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-04" xlink:href="note-0059-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Sympathy and <lb/>Antipathy <lb/>for Medicinal <lb/>uſe.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1453" xml:space="preserve">It is received and confirmed by daily experience, that the Soals of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0059-05a" xlink:href="note-0059-05"/> Feet, have great affinity with the Head, and the Mouth of the Stomack: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1454" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee, Going wetſhod, to thoſe that uſe it not, affecteth both; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1455" xml:space="preserve">Applica-<lb/>tions of hot Powders to the Feet, attenuate firft, and after dry the Rheume. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1456" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And therefore a Phyſician that would be my ſtical, preſcribeth for the cure <lb/>of the Rheume, That a Man ſhould walk continually upon a Camomil-<lb/>Alley; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1457" xml:space="preserve">meaning, that he ſhould put Camomil within his Socks. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1458" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe, <lb/>Pigeons bleeding, applied to the Soa<unsure/>ls of the Feet, eaſe the Head; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1459" xml:space="preserve">and So-<lb/>poriſerous Medicines applied unto them, provoke ſleep.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1460" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div127" type="float" level="2" n="98"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-05" xlink:href="note-0059-05a" xml:space="preserve">96.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1461" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth, that as the Feet have a ſympathy with the Head; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1462" xml:space="preserve">ſo the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0059-06a" xlink:href="note-0059-06"/> Wreſts and Hands have a ſympathy with the Heart. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1463" xml:space="preserve">We ſee the affects and <lb/>Paffions of the Heart, and Spirits, are notably diſcloſed by the Pulſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1464" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>it is often tryed, that Juyces of Stock-gilly-flowers, Roſe-campion, Garlick, and <lb/>other things, applied to the Wreſts, and renewed, have cured long Agues. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1465" xml:space="preserve">And I conceive, that waſhing with certain Liquors the Palms of the Hands, <lb/>doth much good: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1466" xml:space="preserve">And they do wellin Heats of Agues to hold in the Hands, <lb/>Eggs of Alablaſter, and Balls of Cryſtal.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1467" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div128" type="float" level="2" n="99"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-06" xlink:href="note-0059-06a" xml:space="preserve">97.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1468" xml:space="preserve">Of theſe things we shall ſpeak more, when we handle the Title of Sympathy and <lb/>Antipathy, in the proper place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1469" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">98.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1470" xml:space="preserve">THe knowledge of Man (hitherto) hath been determined by the view <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0059-08a" xlink:href="note-0059-08"/> or ſight; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1471" xml:space="preserve">ſo that whatſoever is inviſible, either in reſpect of the fine-<lb/>neſs of the Body it ſelf, or the ſmallneſs of the Parts, or of the ſubtilty of the <pb o="26" file="0060" n="60" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Motion, is little inquired. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1472" xml:space="preserve">And yet theſe be the things that govern Nature <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> principally, and without which, you cannot make any true Analyſis and <lb/>Indications of the proceedings of Nature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1473" xml:space="preserve">The Spirits or Pneumaticals <lb/>that are in all Tangible Bodies, are ſcarce known: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1474" xml:space="preserve">Sometimes they take <lb/>them for Vacuum, whereas they are the moſt active of Bodies: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1475" xml:space="preserve">Some<unsure/>-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> times they take them ſor Air, ſrom which they differ exceedingly, as <lb/>much as Wine ſrom Water, and as Wood from Earth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1476" xml:space="preserve">Sometimes <lb/>they will have them to be Natural Heat, or a Portion of the Element of <lb/>Fire, whereas ſome of them are crude and cold: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1477" xml:space="preserve">And ſometimes they will <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> have them to be the Vertues and Qualities of the Tangible Parts which <lb/>they ſee, whereas they are things by themſelves: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1478" xml:space="preserve">And then, when they <lb/>come to Plants and Living Creatures, they call them Souls. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1479" xml:space="preserve">And ſuch <lb/>ſuperficial ſpeculations they have; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1480" xml:space="preserve">like Proſpectives that ſhew things in-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> ward, when they are but Paintings. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1481" xml:space="preserve">Neither is this a queſtion of words, <lb/>but infinitely material in Nature: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1482" xml:space="preserve">For Spirits are nothing elſe but a Na-<lb/>tural Body, rarified to a Proportion, and included in the Tangible Parts <lb/>of Bodies, as in an Integument: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1483" xml:space="preserve">And they be no leſs differing one from <lb/>the other, then the Denſe or Tangible Parts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1484" xml:space="preserve">And they are in all Tangible <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> Bodies whatſoever, more or leſs, and they are never (almoſt) at reſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1485" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>from them, and their Motions, principally proceed Arefaction, Colliquation, <lb/>Concoction, Maturation, Putrefaction, Vivification, and moſt of the effects of Na-<lb/>ture. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1486" xml:space="preserve">For, as we have figured them in our Sapientiâ Veterum, in the Fable of <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> Proſerpina, you ſhall in the Inſernal Regiment hear little doings of Pluto, <lb/>but moſt of Proſerpina: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1487" xml:space="preserve">For Tangible Parts in Bodies, are ſtupid things, <lb/>and the Spirits do (in effect) all. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1488" xml:space="preserve">As for the differences of Tangible Parts <lb/>in Bodies, the induſtry of the Chymiſts hath given ſome light in diſcerning <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> by their ſeparations, the Oily, Crude, Pure, Impure, Fine, Groß, Parts of Bodies, <lb/>and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1489" xml:space="preserve">And the Phyſitians are content to acknowledge, that Herbs and <lb/>Drugs have divers parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1490" xml:space="preserve">as that Opium hath a ſtupefacting part, and a heat-<lb/>ing part; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1491" xml:space="preserve">the one moving Sleep, the other a Sweat ſollowing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1492" xml:space="preserve">and that <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> Ruburb hath Purging parts, and Aſtringing parts, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1493" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1494" xml:space="preserve">But this whole In-<lb/>quiſition is weakly and negligently handled. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1495" xml:space="preserve">And for the more ſubtil differ-<lb/>ences of the Minute parts, and the poſture of them in the Body, (which <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> alſo hath great effects) they are not at all touched: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1496" xml:space="preserve">As for the Motions of <lb/>the Minute Parts of Bodies, which do ſo great effects, they have not been <lb/>obſerved at all; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1497" xml:space="preserve">becauſe they are inviſible, and incur not to the eye; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1498" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>yet they are to be deprehended by experience. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1499" xml:space="preserve">As Democritus ſaid well, <lb/>when they charged him to hold, that the World was made of ſuch little <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> Moats, as were ſeen in the Sun. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1500" xml:space="preserve">Atomus (ſaith he) neceßitate Rationis & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1501" xml:space="preserve">Ex-<lb/>perientiæ eſſe convincitur: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1502" xml:space="preserve">Atomum enim nemo nunquam vidit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1503" xml:space="preserve">And therefore <lb/>the tumult in the parts of ſolid Bodies, when they are compreſſed, which <lb/>is the cauſe of all flights of Bodies thorow the Air, and of other Mechanical <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> Motions, (as hath been partly touched before, and ſhall be throughly <lb/>handled in due place,) is not ſeen at all, but nevertheleſs, if you know it <lb/>not, or inquire it not attentively and diligently, you ſhall never be able to <lb/>diſcern, and muchleſs to produce, a number of Mechanical Motions. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1504" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> Again, as to the Motions Corporal, within the Encloſures of Bodies, <lb/>whereby the effects (which were mentioned before) paſs between the Spi-<lb/>rits and the Tangible parts (Which are Arefaction, Colliquation, Concoction, <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0060-1a" xlink:href="hd-0060-1"/> Maturation, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1505" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1506" xml:space="preserve">they are not at all handled; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1507" xml:space="preserve">but they are put off by the <lb/>names of Vertues, and Natures, and Actions, and Paßions, and ſuch other Logical <lb/>words.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1508" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div129" type="float" level="2" n="100"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0059-08" xlink:href="note-0059-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Secret Proceſſes <lb/>of Nature.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0060-1" xlink:href="hd-0060-1a"/> </div> <pb o="27" file="0061" n="61" rhead="Century I."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1509" xml:space="preserve">IT is certain, that of all Powers in Nature, Heat is the chief; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1510" xml:space="preserve">both in the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0061-01a" xlink:href="note-0061-01"/> Frame of Nature, and in the Works of Art. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1511" xml:space="preserve">Certain it is likewiſe, that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0061-02a" xlink:href="note-0061-02"/> the effects of Heat, are moſt advanced, when it worketh upon a Body with-<lb/>out loſs or diſſipation of the matter, for that ever betrayed the account. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1512" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it is true, that the power of Heat is beſt perceived in Diſtil-<lb/>lations, which are performed in cloſe Veſſels and Receptacles. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1513" xml:space="preserve">But yet <lb/>there is a higher degree; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1514" xml:space="preserve">For howſoever Diſtillations do keep the Body in <lb/>Cells and Cloyſters, without going abroad, yetthey give ſpace unto Bodies <lb/>to turn into Vapor, to return into Liquor, and to ſeparate one part from <lb/>another. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1515" xml:space="preserve">So as Nature doth expatiate, although it hath not full liberty; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1516" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>whereby the true and ultime operations of Heat, are not attained: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1517" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>if Bodies may be altered by Heat, and yet no ſuch Reciprocation of Rare-<lb/>faction, and of Condenſation, and of Separation, admitted; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1518" xml:space="preserve">then it is like <lb/>that this Proteus of Matter, being held by the Sleeves, will turn and change <lb/>into many Metamorphoſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1519" xml:space="preserve">Take therefore a ſquare Veſſel of Iron, in form <lb/>of a Cube, and let it have good thick and ſtrong ſides; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1520" xml:space="preserve">put it into a Cube of <lb/>Wood, that may fill it as cloſe as may be, and let it have a cover of Iron as <lb/>ſtrong (at leaſt) as the ſides, and let it be well Luted, after the manner of <lb/>the Chymiſts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1521" xml:space="preserve">then place the Veſſel within burning Coals kept quick kindled, <lb/>for ſome few hoursſpace; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1522" xml:space="preserve">then take the Veſſel from the Fire, and take off <lb/>the Cover, and ſee what is become of the Wood, I conceive, that ſince all <lb/>Inflamation and Evaporation are utterly prohibited, and the Body ſtill turn-<lb/>ed upon it ſelf, that one of theſe two Effects will follow, Either that the <lb/>Body of the Wood will be turned into a kinde of Amalagma, (as the Chy-<lb/>miſts call it,) or, that the finer part will be turned into Air, and the groſſer <lb/>ſtick as it were baked, and incruſtate upon the ſides of the Veſſel, being <lb/>become of a denſer matter, than the Wood it ſelf, crude. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1523" xml:space="preserve">And for another <lb/>tryal, take alſo Water, and put it in the like Veſſel, ſtopped as before; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1524" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>uſe a gentler Heat, and remove the Veſſel ſometimes from the fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1525" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>again, after ſome ſmall time, when it is cold, renew the heating of it, and <lb/>repeat this alteration ſome few times; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1526" xml:space="preserve">and if you can once bring to paſs, <lb/>that the Water which is one of the ſimpleſt of Bodies, be changed in Co-<lb/>lour, Odor, or Taſte, after the manner of Compound Bodies, you may <lb/>be ſure that there is a great work wrought in Nature, and anotable entrance <lb/>made in ſtrange changes of Bodies, and productions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1527" xml:space="preserve">and alſo a way <lb/>made to do that by Fire, in ſmall time, which the Sun and Age do in <lb/>long time. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1528" xml:space="preserve">But if the admirable effects of this Diſtillation in cloſe, (for <lb/>ſo we call it) which is like the Wombs and Matrices of Living Creatures, <lb/>where nothing expireth nor ſeparateth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1529" xml:space="preserve">We will ſpeak fully, in the due <lb/>place. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1530" xml:space="preserve">Not that we aim at the making of Peracelſus Pigmeys, or any ſuch <lb/>prodigious follies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1531" xml:space="preserve">but that we know the effects of Heat will be ſuch, as <lb/>will ſcarce fall under the conceit of Man, if the force of it be altogether <lb/>kept in.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1532" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div130" type="float" level="2" n="101"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0061-01" xlink:href="note-0061-01a" xml:space="preserve">99.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0061-02" xlink:href="note-0061-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Powe<unsure/>r of Heat.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1533" xml:space="preserve">THere is nothing more certain in Nature, than that it is impoſſible for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0061-03a" xlink:href="note-0061-03"/> any Body to be utterly annihilated; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1534" xml:space="preserve">but that as it was the work of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0061-04a" xlink:href="note-0061-04"/> Omnipotency of God, to make Somewhat of Nothing: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1535" xml:space="preserve">So it requireth the <lb/>like omnipotency, to turn Somewhat into Nothing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1536" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it is well <lb/>ſaid by an obſcure Writer of the Sect of the Chymiſts, That there is no ſuch <lb/>way to effect the ſtrange Tranſmutations of Bodies, as to endeavor and urge <lb/>by all means, the reducing of them to Nothing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1537" xml:space="preserve">And herein is contained al- <pb o="28" file="0062" n="62" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> ſo a great ſecret of Preſervation of Bodies from change; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1538" xml:space="preserve">for if you can <lb/>prohibit, that they neither turn into Air, becauſe no Air cometh to them, <lb/>nor go into the Bodies Adjacent, becauſe they are utterly Heterogeneal, nor <lb/>make a round and circulation within themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1539" xml:space="preserve">they will never change, <lb/>though they be in their Nature never ſo periſhable or mutable. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1540" xml:space="preserve">We ſee how <lb/>Flies and Spiders, and the like, get a Sepulchre in Amber, more durable than <lb/>the Monument and Embalming of the Body of any King. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1541" xml:space="preserve">And Iconceive the <lb/>like will be of Bodies put into Quick-ſilver. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1542" xml:space="preserve">But then they muſt be but thin, as <lb/>a leaf or a peece of Paper or Parchment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1543" xml:space="preserve">for if they have a greater craſſi-<lb/>tude, they will alter in their own Body, though they ſpend not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1544" xml:space="preserve">But of this, <lb/>we ſhall ſpeak more when we handle the Title of Conſervation of Bodies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1545" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div131" type="float" level="2" n="102"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0061-03" xlink:href="note-0061-03a" xml:space="preserve">100.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0061-04" xlink:href="note-0061-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Impoßibility <lb/>of Annihile-<lb/>sion.</note> </div> <figure> <image file="0062-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0062-01"/> </figure> <pb o="29" file="0063" n="63"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div133" type="section" level="1" n="21"> <head xml:id="echoid-head29" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL <lb/>HISTORY.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head30" xml:space="preserve">Century II.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1546" xml:space="preserve">MUſick in the Practice, hath been well purſued, and in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0063-01a" xlink:href="note-0063-01"/> good Variety; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1547" xml:space="preserve">but in the Theory, and eſpecially in <lb/>the yielding of the Cauſes of the Practick, very weak-<lb/>ly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1548" xml:space="preserve">being reduced into certain Myſtical ſubtilties, <lb/>and not much truth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1549" xml:space="preserve">We ſhall therefore, after our <lb/>manner, joyn the Contemplative and Active Part <lb/>together.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1550" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div133" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0063-01" xlink:href="note-0063-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort <lb/>touching <lb/>Muſick.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1551" xml:space="preserve">All Sounds are either Muſical Sounds, which we call Tones; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1552" xml:space="preserve">whereunto <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0063-02a" xlink:href="note-0063-02"/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0063-1a" xlink:href="hd-0063-1"/> there may be an Harmony, which Sounds are ever equal: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1553" xml:space="preserve">As Singing, the <lb/>Sounds of Stringed, and Wind-Inſtruments, the Ringing of Bells, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1554" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1555" xml:space="preserve">or <lb/>Immuſical Sounds, which are everunequal: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1556" xml:space="preserve">Such as are the Voice in Speak-<lb/>ing, all Whiſperings, all Voices of Beaſts and Birds (except they be Sing-<lb/>ing Birds;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1557" xml:space="preserve">all Percuſſions, of Stones, Wood, Parchment, Skins, (as in <lb/>Drums) and infinite others.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1558" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div134" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0063-02" xlink:href="note-0063-02a" xml:space="preserve">101.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0063-1" xlink:href="hd-0063-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1559" xml:space="preserve">The Sounds that produce Tones, are ever from ſuch Bodies as are in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0063-03a" xlink:href="note-0063-03"/> their Parts and Pores equal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1560" xml:space="preserve">as well as the Sounds themſelves are equal: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1561" xml:space="preserve">And ſuch are the Percuſſions of Metal, as in Bells; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1562" xml:space="preserve">of Glaß, as in the ſillip-<lb/>ping of a Drinking Glaß; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1563" xml:space="preserve">of Air, as in Mens Voices whileſt they ſing, in Pipes, <lb/>VVhiſtles, Organs, Stringed Inſtruments, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1564" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1565" xml:space="preserve">And of Water, as in the Nightin-<lb/>gals Pipes of Regals, or Organs, and other Hydraulicks, which the Ancients <lb/>had; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1566" xml:space="preserve">and Nero did ſo much eſteem, but are now loſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1567" xml:space="preserve">And if any Manthink, <lb/>that the String of the Bow, and the String of the Vial, are neither of them <lb/>equal Bodies, and yet produce Tones; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1568" xml:space="preserve">he is in an error. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1569" xml:space="preserve">For the Sound is <lb/>not created between the Bow or Plectrum, and the String; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1570" xml:space="preserve">but between the <lb/>String and the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1571" xml:space="preserve">no more than it is between the Finger or Quill, and the <lb/>String in other Inſtruments. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1572" xml:space="preserve">So there are (in effect) but three Percußions that <pb o="30" file="0064" n="64" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> create Tones; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1573" xml:space="preserve">Percuſſion of Metals (comprehending Glaß, and the like) <lb/>Percuſſions of Air, and Percuſſions of Water.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1574" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div135" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0063-03" xlink:href="note-0063-03a" xml:space="preserve">102.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1575" xml:space="preserve">The Diapaſon or Eight in Muſick, is the ſweeteſt Concord; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1576" xml:space="preserve">in ſomuch, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0064-01a" xlink:href="note-0064-01"/> as it is in effect an Vniſon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1577" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in Lutes that are ſtrung in the baſe ſtrings <lb/>with two ſtrings, one an Eighth above another, which make but as one ſound; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1578" xml:space="preserve">and every Eighth Note in Aſcent, (as from Eight to Fifteen, from Fifteen <lb/>to Twenty two, and ſo in inſinitum) are but Scales of Diapaſon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1579" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe <lb/>is dark, and hath not been rendred by any, and therefore would be better <lb/>contemplated. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1580" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth that Air (which is the ſubject of Sounds) in <lb/>Sounds that are not Tones (which are all unequal as hath been ſaid) ad-<lb/>mitteth much variety; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1581" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in the Voices of Living Creatures, and <lb/>likewiſe in the Voices of ſeveral Men; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1582" xml:space="preserve">for we are capable to diſcern ſeve-<lb/>ral Men by their Voices) and in the Conjugation of Letters, whence Ar-<lb/>ticulate Sounds proceed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1583" xml:space="preserve">which of all others, are moſt various. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1584" xml:space="preserve">But in the <lb/>Sounds which we call Tones (that are ever equal) the Air is not able to <lb/>caſt it ſelf into any ſuch variety; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1585" xml:space="preserve">but is forced to recur into one and the <lb/>ſame Poſture or Figure, onely differing in greatneſs and ſmallneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1586" xml:space="preserve">So <lb/>we ſee Figures may be made of Lines, crooked and ſtraight, in inſinite <lb/>variety, where there is inequality; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1587" xml:space="preserve">but Circles or Squares, or Triangles <lb/>Equilateral, (which are all Figures of equal Lines) can differ but in greater <lb/>or leſſer.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1588" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div136" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0064-01" xlink:href="note-0064-01a" xml:space="preserve">103.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1589" xml:space="preserve">It is to be noted (the rather, leſt any Man ſhould think that there is any <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0064-02a" xlink:href="note-0064-02"/> thing in this number of Eight, to create the Diapaſon) that this computa-<lb/>tion of Eight, is a thing rather received than any true computation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1590" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>a true computation ought ever to be, by diſtribution into equal Por-<lb/>tions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1591" xml:space="preserve">Now there be intervenient in the riſe of Eight (in Tones) two <lb/>Beemols or Half-Notes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1592" xml:space="preserve">ſo as iſ you divide the Tones equally, the <lb/>Eighth is but Seven whole and equal Notes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1593" xml:space="preserve">And if you ſubdivide that <lb/>into Half-Notes, (as it is in the ſtops of a Lute) it maketh the number of <lb/>Thirteen.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1594" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div137" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0064-02" xlink:href="note-0064-02a" xml:space="preserve">104.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1595" xml:space="preserve">Yet this is true, That in the ordinary Riſes and Falls of the Voice of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0064-03a" xlink:href="note-0064-03"/> Man (not meaſuring the Tone by whole Notes and Half Notes, which is <lb/>the equal Meaſure) there fall out to be two Beemols (as hath been ſaid) be-<lb/>tween the Vniſon and the Diapaſon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1596" xml:space="preserve">and this varying is natural. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1597" xml:space="preserve">For if a <lb/>Man would endeavor to raiſe or fall his Voice ſtill by Half-Notes, like the <lb/>ſtops of a Lute, or by whole Notes alone, without Halfs as far as an Eighth; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1598" xml:space="preserve">he will not be able to frame his Voice unto it, which ſheweth that aſter e-<lb/>very three whole Notes, Nature re quireth, for all Harmonical uſe, one Half-<lb/>Note to be interpoſed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1599" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div138" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0064-03" xlink:href="note-0064-03a" xml:space="preserve">105.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1600" xml:space="preserve">It is to be conſidered, That whatſoever vertue is in Numbers, for con-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0064-04a" xlink:href="note-0064-04"/> ducing to concent of Notes, is rather to be aſcribed to the Ante-number, than <lb/>to the Entire-number; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1601" xml:space="preserve">as namely, that the Sound returneth after Six, or after <lb/>Twelve: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1602" xml:space="preserve">So that the Seventh or the Thirteenth is not the Matter, but the <lb/>Sixth, or the Twelfth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1603" xml:space="preserve">and the Seventh and the Thirteenth, are but the <lb/>Limits and Boundaries of the Return.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1604" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div139" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0064-04" xlink:href="note-0064-04a" xml:space="preserve">106.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1605" xml:space="preserve">The Concords in Muſick which are Perfect, or Semiperfect, between the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0064-05a" xlink:href="note-0064-05"/> Vniſon and the Diapaſon, are the Fifth, which is the moſt Perfect; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1606" xml:space="preserve">the Third <lb/>next, and the Sixth which is more harſh: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1607" xml:space="preserve">And as the Ancients eſteemed, and <lb/>ſo do my ſelf, and ſome other yet, the Fourth which they call Diateßeron; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1608" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/>for the Tenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and ſo in infinitum, they be but Recurrences <lb/>of the former; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1609" xml:space="preserve">viz. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1610" xml:space="preserve">of the Third, the Fifth, and the Sixth, being an Eighth <lb/>reſpectively from them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1611" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div140" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0064-05" xlink:href="note-0064-05a" xml:space="preserve">107.</note> </div> <pb o="31" file="0065" n="65" rhead="Century II."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1612" xml:space="preserve">For Diſcords, the Second and the Seventh, are of all others, the moſt odi-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0065-01a" xlink:href="note-0065-01"/> ous in Harmony to the Senſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1613" xml:space="preserve">whereof, the one is next above the Vniſon, the <lb/>other next under the Diapaſon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1614" xml:space="preserve">which may ſhew, that Harmony requireth a <lb/>competent diſtance of Notes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1615" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div141" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0065-01" xlink:href="note-0065-01a" xml:space="preserve">108.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1616" xml:space="preserve">In Harmony, if there be not a Diſcord to the Baſe, it doth not diſturb the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0065-02a" xlink:href="note-0065-02"/> Harmony, though there be a Diſcord to the higher parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1617" xml:space="preserve">ſo the Diſcord be <lb/>not of the Two that are odious: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1618" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the ordinary Concent of <lb/>Four parts conſiſteth of an Eighth, a Fifth, and a Third to the Baſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1619" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>that Fifth is a Fourth to the Trebble, and the Third is a Sixth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1620" xml:space="preserve">And the cauſe <lb/>is, for that the Baſe ſtriking more Air, doth overcome and drown the Trebble <lb/>(unleſs the Diſcord be very odious) and ſo hideth a ſmall imperfection <lb/>For we ſee, that in one of the lower ſtrings of a Lute, there ſoundeth <lb/>not the ſound of the Trebble, nor any mixt ſound, but onely the ſound of <lb/>the Baſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1621" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div142" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0065-02" xlink:href="note-0065-02a" xml:space="preserve">109.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1622" xml:space="preserve">We have no Muſick of Quarter-Notes, and it may be, they are not cap-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0065-03a" xlink:href="note-0065-03"/> able of Harmony; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1623" xml:space="preserve">for we ſee the Half-Notes them ſelves do but interpoſ ſome-<lb/>times. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1624" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs, we have ſome Slides or Reliſhes of the Voice or Strings, <lb/>as it were, continued without Notes, from one Tone to another, riſing or <lb/>falling, which are delightful.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1625" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div143" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0065-03" xlink:href="note-0065-03a" xml:space="preserve">110.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1626" xml:space="preserve">The cauſes of that which is Pleaſing or ingtate to the Hearing, may <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0065-04a" xlink:href="note-0065-04"/> receive light by that which is Pleaſing or ingrate to the Sight. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1627" xml:space="preserve">There <lb/>be two things pleaſing to the ſight (leaving Pictures and Shapes aſide, <lb/>which are but Secondary Objects, and pleaſe or diſpleaſe but in Me. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1628" xml:space="preserve">mory;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1629" xml:space="preserve">theſe two are Colours and Order. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1630" xml:space="preserve">The pleaſing of Colour <lb/>ſymbolizeth with the Pl@aſing of any Single Tone to the Ear; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1631" xml:space="preserve">but the <lb/>pleaſing of Order doth ſymbolize with Harmony. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1632" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we ſee <lb/>in Garden-knots, and the Frets of Houſes, and all equal and well anſwer-<lb/>ing Figures, (as Globes, Pyramides, Cones, Cylinders, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1633" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1634" xml:space="preserve">how they pleaſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1635" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>whereas unequal Figures are but Deformities. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1636" xml:space="preserve">And both theſe plea-<lb/>ſures, that of the Eye, and that of the Ear, are but the effects of equa-<lb/>lity, good proportion, or correſpondence: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1637" xml:space="preserve">So that (out of queſtion) <lb/>Equality and Correſpondence are the cauſes of Harmony. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1638" xml:space="preserve">But to finde the <lb/>Proportions of that Correſpondence, is more abſtruſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1639" xml:space="preserve">whereof, not with-<lb/>ſtanding we ſhall ſpeak ſome what (when we handle Tones, in the general <lb/>enquiry of Sounds.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1640" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div144" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0065-04" xlink:href="note-0065-04a" xml:space="preserve">111.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1641" xml:space="preserve">Tones are not ſo apt altogether to procure Sleep, as ſome other ſounds: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1642" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0065-05a" xlink:href="note-0065-05"/> As the Wind, the Purling of Water, Humming of Bees, a ſweet Voice of <lb/>one that readeth, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1643" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1644" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe where of is, for that Tones, becauſe they are <lb/>equal and ſlide not, do more ſtrike and erect the Senſe, than the other. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1645" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>overmuch attention hind ereth ſleep.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1646" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div145" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0065-05" xlink:href="note-0065-05a" xml:space="preserve">112.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1647" xml:space="preserve">There be in Muſick certain Figures or Tropes, almoſt agreeing with the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0065-06a" xlink:href="note-0065-06"/> Figures of Rhetorick, and with the Afſections of the Minde, and other Senſes. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1648" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, The Diviſion and Quavering, which pleaſe ſo much in Muſick, have an <lb/>agreement with the Glittering of Light; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1649" xml:space="preserve">As the Moon-Beams playing upon <lb/>a Wave. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1650" xml:space="preserve">Again, the Falling from a Diſcord to a Concord, which maketh great <lb/>ſweetneſs in Muſick hath an agreement with the Affections, which are reinte-<lb/>grated to the better, after ſome diſlikes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1651" xml:space="preserve">it agreeth alſo with the taſte, which <lb/>is ſoon glutted with that which is ſweet alone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1652" xml:space="preserve">The ſliding from the Cloſe <lb/>or Cadence, hath an agreement with the Figure in Rhetorick, which they call <lb/>Prater Expectatum; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1653" xml:space="preserve">for there is a pleaſure, even in being deceived. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1654" xml:space="preserve">The Re-<lb/>ports and Fuges have an agreement with the Figures in Rhetorick of Repetition <lb/>and Traduction. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1655" xml:space="preserve">The Tripla’s and Changing of Times, have an agreement with <pb o="32" file="0066" n="66" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> the changes of Motions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1656" xml:space="preserve">as when Galliard time, and Meaſure time, are in <lb/>the Medly of one Dance.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1657" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div146" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0065-06" xlink:href="note-0065-06a" xml:space="preserve">113.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1658" xml:space="preserve">It hath been anciently held, and obſerved, That the Senſe of Hearing, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0066-01a" xlink:href="note-0066-01"/> the Kindes of Muſick, have moſt operation upon Manners; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1659" xml:space="preserve">as to incourage <lb/>Men, and make them warlike; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1660" xml:space="preserve">to make them ſoft and effeminate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1661" xml:space="preserve">to make <lb/>them grave; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1662" xml:space="preserve">to make them light; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1663" xml:space="preserve">to make them gentle and inclined to <lb/>pity, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1664" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1665" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Senſe of Hearing ſtriketh the Spirits <lb/>more immediately, than the other Senjes, and more incorporeally than <lb/>the Smelling: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1666" xml:space="preserve">For the Sight, Taſte, and Feeling, have their Organs, not of ſo <lb/>preſent and immediate acceſs to the Spirits, as the Hearing hath. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1667" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>as for the Smelling (which indeed worketh alſo immediately upon the Spi-<lb/>rits, and is forcible while the object remaineth) it is with a communica-<lb/>tion of the Breath or Vapor of the object oderate: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1668" xml:space="preserve">But Harmony entring <lb/>eaſily, and mingling not at all, and coming with a manifeſt motion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1669" xml:space="preserve">doth <lb/>by cuſtom of often affecting the Spirits, and putting them into one kinde <lb/>of poſture, alter not a little the nature of the Spirits, even when the ob-<lb/>ject is removed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1670" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we ſee, that Tunes and Airs, even in their <lb/>own nature, have in themſelves ſome affinity with the Affections: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1671" xml:space="preserve">As <lb/>there be Merry Tunes, Doleful Tunes, Solemn Tunes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1672" xml:space="preserve">Tunesinclining <lb/>Mens mindes to Pity, Warlike Tunes<unsure/>, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1673" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1674" xml:space="preserve">So as it is no marvel, if they <lb/>alter the Spirits, conſidering that Tunes have a prediſpoſition to the Moti-<lb/>on of the Spirits in themſelves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1675" xml:space="preserve">But yet it hath been noted, that though <lb/>this variety of Tunes, doth diſpoſe the Spirits to variety of Paſſions, con-<lb/>form unto them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1676" xml:space="preserve">yetgenerally, Muſick feedeth that diſpoſition of the Spi-<lb/>rits which it findeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1677" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that ſeveral Airs and Tunes, do pleaſe <lb/>ſeveral Nations, and Perſons according to the ſympathy they have with their <lb/>Spirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1678" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div147" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0066-01" xlink:href="note-0066-01a" xml:space="preserve">114.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1679" xml:space="preserve">PErſpective hath been with ſome diligence inquired; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1680" xml:space="preserve">and ſo hath the Na-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0066-02a" xlink:href="note-0066-02"/> ture of Sounds, in ſome ſort, as far as concerneth Muſick, but the Na-<lb/>ture of Sounds in general, hath been ſuperficially obſerved. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1681" xml:space="preserve">It is one of <lb/>the ſubtilleſt pieces of Nature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1682" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, I practiſe, as I do adviſe: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1683" xml:space="preserve">Which is after long inquiry of things, immerſe in matter, to enterpoſe ſome <lb/>ſubject which is immateriate or leſs materiate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1684" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as this of Sounds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1685" xml:space="preserve">To <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0066-03a" xlink:href="note-0066-03"/> the end, that the intellect may be rectified, and become not partial.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1686" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div148" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0066-02" xlink:href="note-0066-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Sounds; and <lb/>firſt touching <lb/>the Nullity, <lb/>and Entity of <lb/>Sounds.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0066-03" xlink:href="note-0066-03a" xml:space="preserve">115.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1687" xml:space="preserve">It is firſt to be conſidered, what great motions there are in Nature <lb/>which paſs withoutſound or noiſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1688" xml:space="preserve">The Heavens turn about in a moſt rapide <lb/>motion, without noiſe to us perceived, though in ſome dreams they have <lb/>been ſaid to make an excellent Muſick. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1689" xml:space="preserve">So the motions of the Comets, and <lb/>Fiery Meteors as Stella Cadens, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1690" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1691" xml:space="preserve">yield no noiſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1692" xml:space="preserve">And if it be thought, that <lb/>it is the greatneſs of diſtance from us, whereby the ſound cannot, be heard; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1693" xml:space="preserve">we ſee that Lightnings and Coruſcations, which are near at hand, yield no <lb/>ſound neither; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1694" xml:space="preserve">and yet in all theſe, there is a percuſſion and diviſsion of the <lb/>Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1695" xml:space="preserve">The Winds in the Upper Region (which move the Clouds above <lb/>(which we call the Rack) and are not perceived below paſs without noiſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1696" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>The lower Winds in a Plain, except they be ſtrong, make no noiſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1697" xml:space="preserve">but a-<lb/>mongſt Trees, the noiſe of ſuch Winds will be perceived. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1698" xml:space="preserve">And the Winds <lb/>(generally) when they make a noiſe, do ever make it unequally, riſing and fall-<lb/>ing, and ſometimes (when they are vehement) trembling at the height of <lb/>their blaſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1699" xml:space="preserve">Rain or Hail falling, though vehemently<unsure/>, yieldeth no noiſe, in <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0066-1a" xlink:href="hd-0066-1"/> paſsing through the Air, till it fall upon the Ground, Water, Houſes, or the <lb/>like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1700" xml:space="preserve">Water in a River (though a ſwift ſtream, is not heard in the Channel <pb o="33" file="0067" n="67" rhead="Century II."/> but runneth in ſilence, if it be of any depth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1701" xml:space="preserve">but the very Stream upon Shal-<lb/>lows, or Gravel, or Pebble, will be heard. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1702" xml:space="preserve">And Waters, when they beat up-<lb/>on the Shore, or are ſtraitned, (as in the falls of Bridges) or are daſhed againſt <lb/>themſelves by Winds, give a roaring noiſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1703" xml:space="preserve">Any peece of Timber, or hard <lb/>Body, being thruſt for wards by another Body continguous, without knock-<lb/>ing giveth no noiſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1704" xml:space="preserve">And ſo Bodies in weighing, one upon another, though <lb/>the upper Body preſs the lower Body down, make no noiſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1705" xml:space="preserve">So the motion <lb/>of the Minute parts of any ſolid Body, (which is the principal cauſe of violent <lb/>Motion, though unobſerved) paſſeth without ſound: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1706" xml:space="preserve">For that ſound, that is <lb/>heard ſometimes, is produced onely by the breaking of the Air, and not by <lb/>the impulſion of the parts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1707" xml:space="preserve">So it is manifeſt, that where the anterior Body <lb/>giveth way as ſaſt as the poſterior cometh on, it maketh no noiſe, be the <lb/>motion never ſo great or ſwift.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1708" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div149" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0066-1" xlink:href="hd-0066-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1709" xml:space="preserve">Air open and at large, maketh no noiſe, except it be ſharply percuſſed; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1710" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0067-01a" xlink:href="note-0067-01"/> as in the ſound of a ſtring, where Air is purcuſſed by a hard and ſtiff Body, and <lb/>with a ſharp looſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1711" xml:space="preserve">For it the ſtring be not ſtrained, it maketh no noiſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1712" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>where the Air is pent and ſtraitned, there breath or other blowing (which <lb/>carry but a gentle percuſſion) ſuffice to create ſound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1713" xml:space="preserve">as in Pipes and Wind <lb/>Inſtruments. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1714" xml:space="preserve">But then you muſt note, that in Recorders which go with a <lb/>gentle breath, the Concave of the Pipe (were it not for the Fipple that ſtrait-<lb/>neth the Air much more then the ſimple Concave) would yield no ſound. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1715" xml:space="preserve">For, as for other Wind-Inſtruments, they require a forcible breath, as Trum-<lb/>pets, Cornets, Hunters, Horns, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1716" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1717" xml:space="preserve">Which appeareth by the blown Cheeks of <lb/>him that windeth them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1718" xml:space="preserve">Organs alſo are blown with a ſtrong wind by the <lb/>Bellows. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1719" xml:space="preserve">And note again, that ſome kinde of Wind-Inſtruments are blown <lb/>at a ſmall hole in the ſide, which ſtraineth the breath at the firſt entrance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1720" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>the rather, in reſpect of their traverſe, and ſtop above the hole which per-<lb/>formeth the Fipples part; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1721" xml:space="preserve">as it is ſeen in Flutes and Fifes, which will not give <lb/>ſound by a blaſt at the end, as Recorders do, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1722" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1723" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe in all Whiſtling, <lb/>you contract the Mouth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1724" xml:space="preserve">and to make it more ſharp, Men ſometimes uſe their <lb/>finger.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1725" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div150" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0067-01" xlink:href="note-0067-01a" xml:space="preserve">116.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1726" xml:space="preserve">But in open Air, if you throw a Stone or a Dart, they give no ſound: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1727" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0067-02a" xlink:href="note-0067-02"/> No more do Bullets, except they happen to be a little hollowed in the caſt-<lb/>ing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1728" xml:space="preserve">which hollowneſs penneth the Air: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1729" xml:space="preserve">Nor yet Arrows, except they be <lb/>ruffled in their Feathers, which like wiſe penneth the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1730" xml:space="preserve">As for ſmall Whi <lb/>ſtles or Shepherds Oaten-Pipes, they give a ſound, becauſe of their extream <lb/>ſlenderneſs, whereby the Air is more pent than in a wider Pipe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1731" xml:space="preserve">Again, the <lb/>voices of Men and Living Creatures, paſs through the Throat, which pen. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1732" xml:space="preserve">neth the breath. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1733" xml:space="preserve">As for the Jews-Harp, it is a ſharp percuſſion, and beſides hath <lb/>the vantage of penning the Air in the Mouth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1734" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div151" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0067-02" xlink:href="note-0067-02a" xml:space="preserve">117.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1735" xml:space="preserve">Solid Bodies, if they be very ſoftly percuſſed, give no ſound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1736" xml:space="preserve">as when a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0067-03a" xlink:href="note-0067-03"/> Man treadeth very ſoftly upon Boards. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1737" xml:space="preserve">So Cheſts or Doors in fair weather, <lb/>when they open eaſily, give no ſound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1738" xml:space="preserve">And Cart-wheels ſqueek not when <lb/>they are liquored.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1739" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div152" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0067-03" xlink:href="note-0067-03a" xml:space="preserve">118.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1740" xml:space="preserve">The Flame of Tapers or Candles, though it be a ſwift motion and breaketh <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0067-04a" xlink:href="note-0067-04"/> the Air, yet paſſeth without ſound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1741" xml:space="preserve">Air in Ovens, though (no doubt) it doth <lb/>(as it were) boil, and dilate it ſelf, and is repercuſſed, yet it is without noiſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1742" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div153" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0067-04" xlink:href="note-0067-04a" xml:space="preserve">119.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1743" xml:space="preserve">Flame percuſſed by Air, giveth a noiſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1744" xml:space="preserve">As in blowing of the Fire by Bel-<lb/>lows, greater than if the Bellows ſhould blow upon the Air it ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1745" xml:space="preserve">And ſo <lb/>likewiſe Flame percuſſing the Air ſtrongly (as when Flame ſuddenly taketh <lb/>and openeth) giveth a noiſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1746" xml:space="preserve">So great Flames, whiles the one impelleth the <lb/>other, give a bellowing ſouud.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1747" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="34" file="0068" n="68" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1748" xml:space="preserve">There is a conceit runneth abroad, that there ſhould be a White Powder, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0068-01a" xlink:href="note-0068-01"/> which will diſcharge a piece without noiſe, which is a dangerous experi-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0068-1a" xlink:href="hd-0068-1"/> ment, if it ſhould be true: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1749" xml:space="preserve">For it may cauſe ſecret Murthers, but it ſeemeth <lb/>to me unpoſſible; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1750" xml:space="preserve">for if the Air pent, be driven forth and ſtrike the Air open, <lb/>it will certainly make a noiſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1751" xml:space="preserve">As for the White Powder, (if any ſuch <lb/>thing be that may extinguiſh or dead the noiſe) it is like to be a mixture <lb/>of Petre and Sulphure, without Coal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1752" xml:space="preserve">For Petre alone will not take Fire. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1753" xml:space="preserve">And if any Man think, that the ſound may be extinguiſhed or deaded, by <lb/>diſcharging the pent Air, before it cometh to the Mouth of the Peece, and <lb/>to the open Air, that is not probable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1754" xml:space="preserve">for it will make more divided ſounds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1755" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>As if you ſhould make a Croſs-barrel hollow, thorow the Barrel of a <lb/>Peece, it may be it would give ſeveral ſounds, both at the Noſe and the <lb/>ſides. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1756" xml:space="preserve">But I conceive, that if it were poſſible to bring to paſs, that there <lb/>ſhould be no Air pent at the Mouth of the Peece, the Bullet might flie <lb/>with ſmall or no noiſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1757" xml:space="preserve">For firſt it is certain, there is no noiſe in the Per-<lb/>cuſſion of the Flame upon the Bullet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1758" xml:space="preserve">Next the Bullet, in piercing tho-<lb/>row the Air, maketh no noiſe, as hath been ſaid; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1759" xml:space="preserve">and then, if there be no <lb/>pent Air, that ſtriketh upon open Air, there is no cauſe of noiſe, and yet the <lb/>flying of the Bullet will not be ſtaid. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1760" xml:space="preserve">For that motion (as hath been oft <lb/>ſaid) is in the parts of the Bullet, and not in the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1761" xml:space="preserve">So as tryal muſt be <lb/>made by taking ſome ſmall Concave of Minal, no more than you mean to <lb/>fill with Powder, and laying the Bullet in the Mouth of it half out in the <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0068-1a" xlink:href="hd-0068-1"/> open Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1762" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div154" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0068-01" xlink:href="note-0068-01a" xml:space="preserve">120.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0068-1" xlink:href="hd-0068-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0068-1" xlink:href="hd-0068-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1763" xml:space="preserve">I heard it affirmed by a Man that was a great dealer in Secrets, but he <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0068-02a" xlink:href="note-0068-02"/> was but vain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1764" xml:space="preserve">That there was a Conſpiracy (which himſelf hindred) to have <lb/>killed Queen Mary, Siſter to Queen Elizabeth, by a Burning-Glaß, when ſhe <lb/>walked in St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1765" xml:space="preserve">James Park, from the Leads of the Houſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1766" xml:space="preserve">But thus much, no <lb/>doubt, is true, That if Burning-Glaſſes could be brought to a great ſtrength, <lb/>(as they talk generally of Burning-Glaſſes, that are able to burn a Navy) the <lb/>Percuſſion of the Air alone, by ſuch a Burning-Glaß, would make no <lb/>noiſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1767" xml:space="preserve">no more than is found in Corruſcations, and Lighinings without <lb/>T<unsure/>hunders.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1768" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div155" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0068-02" xlink:href="note-0068-02a" xml:space="preserve">121.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1769" xml:space="preserve">I ſuppoſe that Impreßion of the Air with Sounds, asketh a time to be con-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0068-03a" xlink:href="note-0068-03"/> veighed to the Senſe, as well as the Impreßion of Species viſible, or elſe they will <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0068-1a" xlink:href="hd-0068-1"/> not be heard. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1770" xml:space="preserve">And thereſore, as the Bullet moveth ſo ſwiſt, that it is inviſible, <lb/>ſo the ſame ſwiftneſs of motion maketh it inaudible; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1771" xml:space="preserve">for we ſee that the ap-<lb/>prehenſion of the Eye, is quicker then that of the Ear.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1772" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div156" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0068-03" xlink:href="note-0068-03a" xml:space="preserve">122.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0068-1" xlink:href="hd-0068-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1773" xml:space="preserve">All Eruptions of Air, though fmall and ſlight, give an entity of ſound, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0068-04a" xlink:href="note-0068-04"/> which we call Crackling, Puffing, Spiting, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1774" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1775" xml:space="preserve">As in Bay ſalt, and Bay-leaves <lb/>caſt into the fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1776" xml:space="preserve">ſo in Cheſnuts, when they leap forth of the Aſhes, ſo in <lb/>green wood laid upon the fire, eſpecially Roots; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1777" xml:space="preserve">ſo in Candles that ſpit <lb/>flame, if they be wet; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1778" xml:space="preserve">ſoin Raſping, Sneezing, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1779" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1780" xml:space="preserve">Soin a R oſe leaf gather-<lb/>ed together into the faſhion of a Purſe, and broken upon the Forehead, or <lb/>Back of the Hand, as Children uſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1781" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div157" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0068-04" xlink:href="note-0068-04a" xml:space="preserve">123.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1782" xml:space="preserve">THe cauſe given of Sound, that it ſhould be an Eliſion of the Air (where-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0068-05a" xlink:href="note-0068-05"/> by, if they mean any thing, they mean Cutting or Dividing, or elſe an <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0068-06a" xlink:href="note-0068-06"/> Attenuating of the Air) is but a term of Ignorance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1783" xml:space="preserve">and the motion is <lb/>but a catch of the Wit upon a few Inſtances, as the manner is in the <lb/>Philoſophy received. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1784" xml:space="preserve">And it is common with Men, that if they have gotten <lb/>a pretty expreſſion by a word of Art, that expreſſion goeth currant, though <lb/>it be empty of matter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1785" xml:space="preserve">This conceit of Eliſion, appeareth moſt manifeſtly <pb o="35" file="0069" n="69" rhead="Century II."/> to be falſe, in that the Sound of a Bell, ſtring, or the like, continueth melting, <lb/>ſometime after the Percuſſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1786" xml:space="preserve">but ceaſeth ſtraight-ways, if the Bell or <lb/>String be touched and ſtayed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1787" xml:space="preserve">whereas, if it were the Eliſion of the Air, that <lb/>made the Sound, it could not be that the touch of the Bell or String, ſhould <lb/>extinguiſh ſo ſuddenly that motion, cauſed by the eliſion of the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1788" xml:space="preserve">This <lb/>appeareth yet more manifeſtly, by Chiming with a Hammer upon the out-<lb/>ſide of a Bell; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1789" xml:space="preserve">for the Sound will be according to the in ward Concave <lb/>of the Bell: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1790" xml:space="preserve">Whereas the Eliſion or Attenuation of the Air cannot be, <lb/>but onely between the Hammer, and the outſide of the Bell. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1791" xml:space="preserve">So again, <lb/>if it were an Eliſion, a broad Hammer, and a Bodkin, ſtruck upon Metal, <lb/>would give a diverſe Tone, as well as a diverſe Loudneſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1792" xml:space="preserve">But they do not <lb/>ſo; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1793" xml:space="preserve">for though the Sound of the one be louder, and of the other ſofter, yet <lb/>the Tone is the ſame. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1794" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, in Eccho’s (where of ſome are as loud as the <lb/><gap/>iginal Voice) there is no new Elyſion, but a Repercuſſion onely. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1795" xml:space="preserve">But that, <lb/><gap/>nich convinceth it moſt of all, is, That Sounds are generated, where there <lb/><gap/> no Air at all. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1796" xml:space="preserve">But theſe, and the like conceits, when Men have cleared <lb/><gap/>eir Underſtanding, by the light of Experience, will ſcatter and break up <lb/><gap/>ea Miſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1797" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div158" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0068-05" xlink:href="note-0068-05a" xml:space="preserve">124.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0068-06" xlink:href="note-0068-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Con ſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Production, <lb/>Conſervation, <lb/>and Delation <lb/>of Sounds; and <lb/>the office of the <lb/>Air thersin.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1798" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that Sounds is not produced at the firſt, but with ſome <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0069-01a" xlink:href="note-0069-01"/> <gap/>cal Motion of the Air or Flame, or ſome other Medium; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1799" xml:space="preserve">nor yet without <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0069-1a" xlink:href="hd-0069-1"/> <gap/>me reſiſtance, either in the Air, or the Body percuſſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1800" xml:space="preserve">For if there be a <lb/><gap/>er yielding or ceſſion, it produceth no Sound, as hath been ſaid. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1801" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/><gap/>erein Sounds differ from Light or Colours which paſs through the Air, <lb/><gap/> other Bodies, without any Local Motion of the Air, either at the firſt, or <lb/><gap/>er. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1802" xml:space="preserve">But you muſt attentively diſtinguiſh between the Local Motion of <lb/><gap/>e Air (which is but Vehiculum cauſæ, A Carrier of the Sounds) and the Sounds <lb/><gap/>emſelves conveighed in the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1803" xml:space="preserve">For as to the former, we ſee manifeſtly, <lb/><gap/>at no Sound is produced (no not by Air it ſelf againſt other Air, as in <lb/><gap/>rgans, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1804" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1805" xml:space="preserve">but with a perceptible Blaſt of the Air, and with ſome re-<lb/><gap/>ance of the Air ſtrucken. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1806" xml:space="preserve">For, even all Speeth, (which is one of the <lb/><gap/>entleſt Motions of Air,) is with expulſion of a little Breath. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1807" xml:space="preserve">And all Pipes <lb/>have a blaſt, as well as a Sound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1808" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo manifeſtly, that Sounds are car-<lb/>ried with Wind: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1809" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Sounds will be hard further with the Wind, <lb/>than againſt the Wind; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1810" xml:space="preserve">and like wiſe, do riſe and fall with the intenſion or <lb/>remiſſion of the Wind: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1811" xml:space="preserve">But for the Impreſſion of the Sound, it is quite an-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0069-1a" xlink:href="hd-0069-1"/> other thing, and is utterly without Local Motion of the Air, perceptible; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1812" xml:space="preserve">and in that reſembleth the ſpecies viſible: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1813" xml:space="preserve">For after a Man hath lured, or a <lb/>Bell is rung, we cannot diſcern any Perceptible Motion (at all) in the Air, as <lb/>long as the ſound goeth, but onely at the firſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1814" xml:space="preserve">Neither doth the Wind (as far <lb/>as it carrieth a Voice) with the Motion there of, confound any of the deli-<lb/>cate, and Articulate Figurations of the Air, in variety of Words. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1815" xml:space="preserve">And if a <lb/>Man ſpeak a good loudneſs againſt the flame of a Candle, it will not make it <lb/>tremble much; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1816" xml:space="preserve">though moſt, when thoſe Letters are pronounced, which <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0069-1a" xlink:href="hd-0069-1"/> contract the mouth, as F, S, V, and ſome others, But gentle breathing, or <lb/>blowing without ſpeaking, will move the Candle far more. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1817" xml:space="preserve">And it is the <lb/>more probable, that Sound is without any Local Motion of the Air, becauſe <lb/>as it differeth from the ſight, in that it needeth a Local Motion of the Air at <lb/>firſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1818" xml:space="preserve">Soit paralleleth in ſo many other things with the ſight, and radiation of <lb/>things inviſible, which (without all queſtion) induce no Local Motion in <lb/>the Air, as hath been ſaid.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1819" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div159" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0069-01" xlink:href="note-0069-01a" xml:space="preserve">125.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0069-1" xlink:href="hd-0069-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0069-1" xlink:href="hd-0069-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0069-1" xlink:href="hd-0069-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1820" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs it is true, that upon the noiſe of Thunder, and great Ord-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0069-02a" xlink:href="note-0069-02"/> nance, Glaſs Windows will ſhake, and Fiſhes are thought to be frayed with <pb o="36" file="0070" n="70" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> the Motion, cauſed by noiſe upon the Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1821" xml:space="preserve">But theſe effects are from <lb/>the local motion of the Air, which is a concomitant of the Sound (as hath <lb/>been ſaid) and not from the Sound.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1822" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div160" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0069-02" xlink:href="note-0069-02a" xml:space="preserve">126.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1823" xml:space="preserve">It hath been anciently reported, and is ſtill received, that extream ap-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0070-01a" xlink:href="note-0070-01"/> plauſes, and ſhouting of people, aſſembled in great multitudes, have ſo rari-<lb/>fied, and broken the Air, that Birds flying over, have faln down, the Air be-<lb/>ing not able to ſupport them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1824" xml:space="preserve">And it is believed by ſome, that great Ring-<lb/>ing of Bells in populous Cities, hath chaſed away Thunder; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1825" xml:space="preserve">and alſo diſ-<lb/>ſipated peſtilent Air: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1826" xml:space="preserve">All which may be alſo from the concuſſion of the Air, <lb/>and not from the Sound.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1827" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div161" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0070-01" xlink:href="note-0070-01a" xml:space="preserve">127.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1828" xml:space="preserve">A very great ſound near hand, hath ſtrucken many deaf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1829" xml:space="preserve">and at the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0070-02a" xlink:href="note-0070-02"/> inſtant they have found, as it were, the breaking of a Skin of Parchmentin <lb/>their Ear: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1830" xml:space="preserve">And my ſelf, ſtanding near one that lured loud and ſhrill, had <lb/>ſuddenly an offence, as if ſome what had broken, or been diſlocated in my <lb/>Ear, and immediately after a loud Ringing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1831" xml:space="preserve">(not an ordinary Singing, or <lb/>Hiſſing, but far louder, and differing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1832" xml:space="preserve">ſo as I feared ſome Deafneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1833" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>after ſome half quarter of an hour, it vaniſhed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1834" xml:space="preserve">This effect may be truly <lb/>referred unto the Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1835" xml:space="preserve">for (as is commonly received) an over potent <lb/>Object doth deſtroy the Senſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1836" xml:space="preserve">and Spiritual Species, (both Viſible and <lb/>Audible,) will work upon the ſenſories, though they move not any other <lb/>Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1837" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div162" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0070-02" xlink:href="note-0070-02a" xml:space="preserve">128.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1838" xml:space="preserve">In Delation of Sounds, the encloſure of them preſerveth them, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0070-03a" xlink:href="note-0070-03"/> cauſeth them to be heard further. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1839" xml:space="preserve">And we finde in Rowls of Parchment, or <lb/>Truncks, the Mouth being laid to the one end of the Rowl of Parchment, <lb/>or Trunck, and the Ear to the other, the Sound is heard much further then <lb/>in the open Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1840" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Sound ſpendeth, and is diſſipated <lb/>in the open Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1841" xml:space="preserve">but in ſuch Conc<unsure/>aves, it is conſerved and contracted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1842" xml:space="preserve">So <lb/>alſo in a Piece of Ordnance, if you ſpeak in the Touch-hole, and another <lb/>lay his Ear to the Mouth of the Piece, the Sound paſleth, and is far better <lb/>heard than in the open Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1843" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div163" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0070-03" xlink:href="note-0070-03a" xml:space="preserve">129.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1844" xml:space="preserve">It is further to be conſidered, how it proveth and worketh when the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0070-04a" xlink:href="note-0070-04"/> Sound is not encloſed, all the length of his way, but paſſeth partly through <lb/>open Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1845" xml:space="preserve">as where you ſpeak ſome diſtance from a Trunck, or where the <lb/>Ear is ſome diſtance from the Trunck, at the other end; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1846" xml:space="preserve">or where both <lb/>Mouth and Ear are diſtant from the Trunck. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1847" xml:space="preserve">And it is tryed, that in a long <lb/>Trunck of ſome Eight or ten foot, the ſound is holpen, though both the <lb/>Mouth, and the Ear be a handful or more, from the ends of the Trunck; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1848" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>ſomewhat more holpen, when the Ear of the Hearer is near, than when the <lb/>Mouth of the Speaker. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1849" xml:space="preserve">And it is certain, that the Voice is better heard in a <lb/>Chamber from abroad, than abroad from within the Chamber.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1850" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div164" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0070-04" xlink:href="note-0070-04a" xml:space="preserve">130.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1851" xml:space="preserve">As the Encloſure that is round about and entire, preſerveth the Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1852" xml:space="preserve">ſo <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0070-05a" xlink:href="note-0070-05"/> doth a Semi-concave, though in a leſs degree. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1853" xml:space="preserve">And thereſore, if you divide <lb/>a Trunck, or a Cane into two, and one ſpeak at the one end, and you lay <lb/>your Ear at the other, it will carry the Voice further, than in the Air<unsure/> at large. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1854" xml:space="preserve">Nay further, if it be not a full Semi-concave; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1855" xml:space="preserve">but if you do the like upon the <lb/>Maſt of a Ship, or a long Pole, or a Piece of Ordnance (though one ſpeak <lb/>upon Surface of the Ordnance, and not at any of the Bores) the Voice will <lb/>be heard further then in the Air at large.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1856" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div165" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0070-05" xlink:href="note-0070-05a" xml:space="preserve">131.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1857" xml:space="preserve">It would be tryed, how, and with what proportion of diſadvantage, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0070-06a" xlink:href="note-0070-06"/> the Voice will be carried in an Horn, which is a Line Arched; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1858" xml:space="preserve">or in a <lb/>Trumpet, which is a Line Retorted; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1859" xml:space="preserve">or in ſome Pipe that were Si-<lb/>nuous.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1860" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div166" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0070-06" xlink:href="note-0070-06a" xml:space="preserve">132.</note> </div> <pb o="37" file="0071" n="71" rhead="Century II."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1861" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, (howſoever it croſs the received opinion) that Sounds may <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0071-01a" xlink:href="note-0071-01"/> be created without Air, though Air be the moſt favorable defferent of <lb/>Sounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1862" xml:space="preserve">Take a Veſſel of Water, and knap a pair of Tongs ſome depth <lb/>within the Water, and you ſhall hear the Sound of the Tongs well, and not <lb/>much diminiſhed, and yet there is no Air at all preſent.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1863" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div167" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0071-01" xlink:href="note-0071-01a" xml:space="preserve">133.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1864" xml:space="preserve">Take one Veſſel of Silver, and another of Wood, and fill each of them <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0071-02a" xlink:href="note-0071-02"/> full of water, and then knap the Tongs together as before, about an handful <lb/>from the bottom, and you ſhall finde the Sound much more reſounding <lb/>from the Veſſel of Silver, than from that of Wood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1865" xml:space="preserve">and yet if there be no <lb/>Water in the Veſſel, ſo that you knap the Tongs in the Air, you ſhall finde <lb/>no difference between the Silver, and the Wooden Veſſel, whereby beſide <lb/>the main point of creating ſound without Air, you may collect two things; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1866" xml:space="preserve">the one, that the ſound communicateth with the bottom of the Veſſel; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1867" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>other, that ſuch a communication paſſeth far better thorow Water than <lb/>Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1868" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div168" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0071-02" xlink:href="note-0071-02a" xml:space="preserve">134.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1869" xml:space="preserve">Strike any hard Bodies together in the midſt of aflame, and you ſhall <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0071-03a" xlink:href="note-0071-03"/> hear the ſound with little difference, from the ſound in the Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1870" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div169" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0071-03" xlink:href="note-0071-03a" xml:space="preserve">135.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1871" xml:space="preserve">The Pneumatical part, which is in all Tangible Bodies, and hath ſome <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0071-04a" xlink:href="note-0071-04"/> affinity with the Air, performethin ſome degree, the parts of the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1872" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/>when you knock upon an empty Barrel, the ſound is (in part) created by the <lb/>Air on the outſide, and (in part) by the Air in the inſide; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1873" xml:space="preserve">for the ſound will <lb/>be greater or leſſer, as the Barrel is more empty, or more full; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1874" xml:space="preserve">but yet the <lb/>ſound participateth alſo with the Spirit in the Wood, thorow which it paſs-<lb/>eth from the outſide to the inſide; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1875" xml:space="preserve">and ſo it cometh to paſs in the chiming <lb/>of Bells on the outſide, where alſo the ſound paſſeth to the inſice; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1876" xml:space="preserve">and a <lb/>number of other like inſtances, whereof we ſhall ſpeak more when we <lb/>handle the Communication of Sounds.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1877" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div170" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0071-04" xlink:href="note-0071-04a" xml:space="preserve">136.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1878" xml:space="preserve">It were extream groſneſs to think (as we have partly touched before) <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0071-05a" xlink:href="note-0071-05"/> that the ſound in Strings is made, or produced between the Hand and the <lb/>String, or the Quill and the String, or the Bow and the String: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1879" xml:space="preserve">For thoſe <lb/>are but Vehicula motus, paſſages to the Creation of the ſound, the ſound being <lb/>produced between the String and the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1880" xml:space="preserve">and that not by any impulſion of <lb/>the Air, from the fir<unsure/>ſt Motion of the String; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1881" xml:space="preserve">but by the return or reſult of <lb/>the String, which was ſtrained by the touch to his former place; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1882" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>Motion of Reſult is quick and ſharp, whereas the firſt Motion is ſoft and <lb/>dull. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1883" xml:space="preserve">So the Bow tortureth the String continually, and thereby holdeth it <lb/>in a continual Irepidation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1884" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div171" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0071-05" xlink:href="note-0071-05a" xml:space="preserve">137.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1885" xml:space="preserve">TAke a Trunk, and let one whiſtle at the one end, and hold your ear at <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0071-06a" xlink:href="note-0071-06"/> the other and you ſhall finde the ſound ſtrike ſo ſharp, as you can ſcarce <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0071-07a" xlink:href="note-0071-07"/> endure it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1886" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that ſound diffuſeth it ſelf in round, and ſo <lb/>ſpendeth it ſelf: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1887" xml:space="preserve">But if the ſound, which would ſcatter in open Air, be made <lb/>to go all in to a Canalo; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1888" xml:space="preserve">it muſt needs give greater force to the ſound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1889" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>ſo you may note, that incloſures do not onely preſerve ſound, but alſo en-<lb/>creaſe and ſharpen it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1890" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div172" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0071-06" xlink:href="note-0071-06a" xml:space="preserve">138.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0071-07" xlink:href="note-0071-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Magnitude <lb/>and Exility, <lb/>and Damps of <lb/>Sountls.</note> </div> <handwritten/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1891" xml:space="preserve">A Hunters Horn, being greater at one end, than at the other, doth en-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0071-08a" xlink:href="note-0071-08"/> creaſe the ſound more, than if the Horn were all of an equal bore. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1892" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe is, for that the Air and Sound, being firſt contracted at the leſſer end, <lb/>and afterwards having more room to ſpred at the greater end, do dilate <lb/>the mſelves, and in coming out, ſtrike more Air, whereby the ſound is <lb/>the greater, and baſer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1893" xml:space="preserve">And even Hunters Horns, which are ſometimes <pb o="38" file="0072" n="72" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> made ſtraight, and not obli<unsure/>e<unsure/>k, are ever greater at the lower end. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1894" xml:space="preserve">It would <lb/>be tryed alſo in Pipes, being made far larger at the lower end, or being <lb/>made with a Belly towards the lower end, and then iſſuing in to a ſtraight con-<lb/>cave again.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1895" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div173" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0071-08" xlink:href="note-0071-08a" xml:space="preserve">139.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1896" xml:space="preserve">There is in St<unsure/>. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1897" xml:space="preserve">Jameſes Fields, a Conduit of Brick, unto which joyneth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0072-01a" xlink:href="note-0072-01"/> a low Vault; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1898" xml:space="preserve">and at the end of that, a round Houſe of Stone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1899" xml:space="preserve">and in the <lb/>Brick Conduit there is a Window, and in the round Houſe a Slit or Rift of <lb/>ſome little breadth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1900" xml:space="preserve">if you cry out in the Rift, it will make a fearſul roaring <lb/>at the Window. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1901" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is the ſame with the former: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1902" xml:space="preserve">For that all Con-<lb/>caves that proceed from more narrow to more broad, do amplifie the Sound <lb/>at the coming out.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1903" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div174" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-01" xlink:href="note-0072-01a" xml:space="preserve">140.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1904" xml:space="preserve">Hawks Bells that have holes in the ſides, give a greater ring, than if the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0072-02a" xlink:href="note-0072-02"/> Pellet did ſtrike upon Braſs in the open Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1905" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is the ſame with <lb/>the firſt inſtance of the Trunck: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1906" xml:space="preserve">Namely, for that the Sound, encloſed <lb/>with the ſides of the Bell, cometh forth at the holes unſpent and more <lb/>ſtrong.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1907" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div175" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-02" xlink:href="note-0072-02a" xml:space="preserve">141.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1908" xml:space="preserve">In Drums, the cloſeneſs round about, that preſerveth the Sound <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0072-03a" xlink:href="note-0072-03"/> from diſperſing, maketh the noiſe come forth at the Drum-hole, far <lb/>more loud and ſtrong, than if you ſhould ſtrike upon the like skin, ex-<lb/>tended in the open Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1909" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is the ſame with the two prece-<lb/>dent.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1910" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div176" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-03" xlink:href="note-0072-03a" xml:space="preserve">142.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1911" xml:space="preserve">Sounds are better heard, and further off in an Evening, or in the Night, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0072-04a" xlink:href="note-0072-04"/> than at the Noon or in the Day. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1912" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that in the Day, when the <lb/>Air is more thin (no doubt) the Sound pierceth better; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1913" xml:space="preserve">but when the Air is <lb/>more thick (as in the Night) the Sound ſpendeth and ſpredeth abroad leſs; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1914" xml:space="preserve">and ſo it is a degree of Encloſure. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1915" xml:space="preserve">As for the night, it is true alſo, that the <lb/>general ſilence helpeth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1916" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div177" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-04" xlink:href="note-0072-04a" xml:space="preserve">143.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1917" xml:space="preserve">There be two kindes of Reflections of Sounds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1918" xml:space="preserve">the one at Diſtance, which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0072-05a" xlink:href="note-0072-05"/> is the Eccho, wherein the original is heard diſtinctly, and the Reflexion <lb/>alſo diſtinctly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1919" xml:space="preserve">of which, we ſhall ſpeak hereafter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1920" xml:space="preserve">The other in Concur-<lb/>rence; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1921" xml:space="preserve">when the Sound reflecting (the Reflexion being near at hand) re-<lb/>turneth immediately upon the original, and ſo iterateth it not, but am-<lb/>plifieth it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1922" xml:space="preserve">Therefore we ſee, that Muſick upon the Water ſoundeth <lb/>more; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1923" xml:space="preserve">and ſo likewiſe, Muſick is better in Chambers Wainſcotted than <lb/>Hanged.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1924" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div178" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-05" xlink:href="note-0072-05a" xml:space="preserve">144.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1925" xml:space="preserve">The Strings of a Lute, or Viol, or Virginals, do give a far greater Sound, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0072-06a" xlink:href="note-0072-06"/> by reaſon of the Knot, and Board, and Concave underneath, than if there <lb/>were nothing but onely the Flat of a Board, without that Hollow and Knot, <lb/>to let in the upper Air into the lower. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1926" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, the Communication of <lb/>the upper Air with the lower, and penning of both ſ<unsure/>rom expence or diſper-<lb/>ſing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1927" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div179" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-06" xlink:href="note-0072-06a" xml:space="preserve">145.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1928" xml:space="preserve">An Iriſh Harp hath open Air on both ſides of the Strings; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1929" xml:space="preserve">and it hath <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0072-07a" xlink:href="note-0072-07"/> the Concave or Belly, not a long the Strings, but at the end of the Strings. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1930" xml:space="preserve">It maketh a more reſounding Sound, than a Bandora, Orpharion, or Cittern, <lb/>which have like wiſe Wire-ſtrings. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1931" xml:space="preserve">I judge the cauſe to be, ſor that open Air <lb/>on both ſides helpeth, ſo that there be a Concave; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1932" xml:space="preserve">which is therefore beſt <lb/>placed at the end.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1933" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div180" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-07" xlink:href="note-0072-07a" xml:space="preserve">146.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1934" xml:space="preserve">In a Virginal, when the Lid is down, it maketh a more exile Sound than <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0072-08a" xlink:href="note-0072-08"/> when the Lid is open. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1935" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that all ſhutting in of Air, where <lb/>there is no competent Vent, dampeth the Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1936" xml:space="preserve">which maintaineth like-<lb/>wiſe the former inſtance: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1937" xml:space="preserve">For the Belly of the Lute, or Viol, doth pen the <lb/>Air ſomewhat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1938" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div181" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-08" xlink:href="note-0072-08a" xml:space="preserve">147.</note> </div> <pb o="39" file="0073" n="73" rhead="Century II."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1939" xml:space="preserve">There is a Church at Gloceſter, (and as I have heard, the like is in ſome <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0073-01a" xlink:href="note-0073-01"/> other places) where if you ſpeak againſt a Wall ſoftly, another ſhall hear <lb/>your voice better a good way off, than near hand. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1940" xml:space="preserve">Inquire more particu-<lb/>larly of the fame of that place. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1941" xml:space="preserve">I ſuppoſe there is ſome Vault, or Hollow, <lb/>or lſle, behinde the Wall, and ſome paſſage to it, to wards the further end of <lb/>that Wall againſt which you ſpeak: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1942" xml:space="preserve">So as the voice of him that ſpeaketh <lb/>ſlideth along the Wall, and then entreth at ſome paſſage, and communi-<lb/>cateth with the Air of the Hollow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1943" xml:space="preserve">for it is preſerved ſomewhat by the <lb/>plain Wall; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1944" xml:space="preserve">but that is too weak to give a Sound audible, tillit hath com-<lb/>municated with the back Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1945" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div182" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0073-01" xlink:href="note-0073-01a" xml:space="preserve">148.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1946" xml:space="preserve">Strike upon a Bow-ſtring, and lay the Horn of the Bow near your Ear, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0073-02a" xlink:href="note-0073-02"/> and it will increaſe the Sound, and make a degree of a Tone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1947" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is <lb/>for that the ſenſory, by reaſon of the cloſe holding is percuſſed, before the <lb/>Air diſperſeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1948" xml:space="preserve">The like is, if you hold the Horn betwixt your Teeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1949" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>that is a plain Dilation of the Sound, from the Teeth to the Inſtrument of Hear-<lb/>ing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1950" xml:space="preserve">for there is a great entercourſe between thoſe two parts, as appeareth <lb/>by this, that a harſh grating Tuneſetteth the Teeth one edge. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1951" xml:space="preserve">The like <lb/>falleth out, if the Horn of the Bow be put upon the Temples; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1952" xml:space="preserve">but that is but <lb/>the ſlide of the Sound from thence to the ear.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1953" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div183" type="float" level="2" n="51"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0073-02" xlink:href="note-0073-02a" xml:space="preserve">149.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1954" xml:space="preserve">If you take a Rod of Iron or Braſs, and hold the one end to your ear <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0073-03a" xlink:href="note-0073-03"/> and ſtrike upon the other, it maketh a far greater Sound, than the like ſtroke <lb/>upon the Rod, not made ſo contiguous to the Ear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1955" xml:space="preserve">By which, and by ſome <lb/>other inſtances that have been partly touched, it ſhould appear; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1956" xml:space="preserve">that Sounds <lb/>do not onely ſlide upon the ſurface of a ſmooth Body, but do alſo commu-<lb/>nicate with the Spirits that are in the Pores of the Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1957" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div184" type="float" level="2" n="52"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0073-03" xlink:href="note-0073-03a" xml:space="preserve">150.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1958" xml:space="preserve">I remember in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge, there was an upper Cham-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0073-04a" xlink:href="note-0073-04"/> ber, which being thought weak in the Roof of it, was ſupported by a Pillar <lb/>of Iron, of the bigneſs of ones arm, in the midſt of the Chamber, which, <lb/>if you had ſtruck, it would make a little flat noiſe in the Room where it was <lb/>ſtruck; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1959" xml:space="preserve">but it would make a great bomb in the Chamber beneath.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1960" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div185" type="float" level="2" n="53"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0073-04" xlink:href="note-0073-04a" xml:space="preserve">151.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1961" xml:space="preserve">The ſound which is made by Buckets in a Well, when they touch upon <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0073-05a" xlink:href="note-0073-05"/> the Water, or when they ſtrike upon the ſide of the Well, or when two <lb/>Buckets daſh the one againſt the other. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1962" xml:space="preserve">Theſe Sounds are deeper and fuller, <lb/>than if the like Percuſſion were made in the open Air: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1963" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is the <lb/>penning and encloſure of the Air in the Concave of the Well,</s> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div186" type="float" level="2" n="54"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0073-05" xlink:href="note-0073-05a" xml:space="preserve">152.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1964" xml:space="preserve">Barrels placed in a Room under the Floor of a Chamber, make all <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0073-06a" xlink:href="note-0073-06"/> noiſes in the ſame Chamber more full and reſounding.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1965" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div187" type="float" level="2" n="55"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0073-06" xlink:href="note-0073-06a" xml:space="preserve">153.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1966" xml:space="preserve">So that there be five ways (in general) of Majoration of Sounds, Encloſure <lb/>Simple, Encloſure in the Dilatation, Communication, Reflexion, Concurrent, and Ap-<lb/>proach to the Senſory.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1967" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1968" xml:space="preserve">For Exility of the Voice, or other Sounds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1969" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that the Voice <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0073-07a" xlink:href="note-0073-07"/> doth paſs thorow ſolid and hard Bodies, if they be not too thick; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1970" xml:space="preserve">and thorow <lb/>Water, which is likewiſe a very cloſe Body, and ſuch an one as letteth not <lb/>in Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1971" xml:space="preserve">But then the Voice or other Sound is reduced, by ſuch paſſage to a <lb/>great weakneſs or exility. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1972" xml:space="preserve">If therefore you ſtop the Holes of a Haw<unsure/>ks Bell, <lb/>it will make no ring, but aflat noiſe or rattle. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1973" xml:space="preserve">And ſo doth the Ætities or <lb/>Eagles Stone, which hath a little ſtone within it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1974" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div188" type="float" level="2" n="56"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0073-07" xlink:href="note-0073-07a" xml:space="preserve">154.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1975" xml:space="preserve">And as for Water, it is a certain Tryal: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1976" xml:space="preserve">Let a man go into a Bath, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0073-08a" xlink:href="note-0073-08"/> take a Pail and turn the bottom upward, and carry the mouth of it <lb/>(even) down to the level of the Water, and ſo preſs it down under the <lb/>Water ſome handful and an half, ſtill keeping it even, that it may not tilt <lb/>on either ſide, and ſo the Air get out: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1977" xml:space="preserve">T<unsure/>hen let him that is in the Bath, dive <pb o="40" file="0074" n="74" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> with his head ſo ſar under Water, as he may put his head into the Pail, and <lb/>there will come as much Air bubbling forth, as will make room for his <lb/>head. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1978" xml:space="preserve">Then let him ſpeak, and any that ſhall ſtand without, ſhall hear his <lb/>voice plainly, but yet made extream ſharp and exile, like the voice of <lb/>Puppets: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1979" xml:space="preserve">But yet the Articulate Sounds of the words will not be confound-<lb/>ed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1980" xml:space="preserve">Note, that it may be much more handſomly done, if the Pail be put <lb/>over the Mans head above Water, and then he cowre down, and the <lb/>Pail be preſſed down with him. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1981" xml:space="preserve">Note, that a man muſt kneel or ſit, that <lb/>he may be lower than the Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1982" xml:space="preserve">A man would think, that the Sici-<lb/>lian Poet had knowledge of this Experiment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1983" xml:space="preserve">for he ſaith, that Hercules’s <lb/>Page Hylas went with a Water-pot, to fill it at a pleaſant Fountain that was <lb/>near the ſhore, and that the Nymphs of the Fountain fell in love with the <lb/>Boy, and pulled him under the Water, keeping him alive; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1984" xml:space="preserve">and that Her-<lb/>cules miſſing his Page, called him by his name aloud, that all the ſhore rang <lb/>of it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1985" xml:space="preserve">and that Hylas from within the Water anſwered his Maſter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1986" xml:space="preserve">but (that <lb/>which is to the preſent purpoſe) with ſo ſmall and exile a voice, as Hercules <lb/>thought he had been three miles off, when the Fountain (indeed) was <lb/>faſt by.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1987" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div189" type="float" level="2" n="57"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0073-08" xlink:href="note-0073-08a" xml:space="preserve">155.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1988" xml:space="preserve">In Lutes and Inſtruments of Strings, if you ſtop a ſtring high, where-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0074-01a" xlink:href="note-0074-01"/> by it hath leſs ſcope to tremble, the Sound is more Trebble, but yet more <lb/>dead.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1989" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div190" type="float" level="2" n="58"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0074-01" xlink:href="note-0074-01a" xml:space="preserve">156.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1990" xml:space="preserve">Take two Sawcers, and ſtrike the edge of the one againſt the bottom <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0074-02a" xlink:href="note-0074-02"/> of the other, within a Pail of Water, and you ſhall finde that as you put <lb/>the Sawcers lower and lower, the Sound groweth more flat, even while <lb/>part of the Sawcer is above the Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1991" xml:space="preserve">but that flatneſs of Sound is joyned <lb/>with a harſhneſs of Sound, which, no doubt, is cauſed by the inequality of <lb/>the Sound, which cometh from the part of the Sawcer under the Water, and <lb/>from the part above. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1992" xml:space="preserve">But when the Sawcer is wholly under the Water, the <lb/>ſound becometh more clear, but far more low, and as if the ſound came <lb/>from a far off.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1993" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div191" type="float" level="2" n="59"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0074-02" xlink:href="note-0074-02a" xml:space="preserve">157.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1994" xml:space="preserve">A ſoft body dampeth the ſound, much more than a hard; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1995" xml:space="preserve">and if a Bell <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0074-03a" xlink:href="note-0074-03"/> hath cloth or ſilk wrapped about it, it deadeth the ſound more than if it were <lb/>Wood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1996" xml:space="preserve">And therefore in Clericals, the Keyes are lined, and in Colledges they <lb/>uſe to line the Table-men.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1997" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div192" type="float" level="2" n="60"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0074-03" xlink:href="note-0074-03a" xml:space="preserve">158.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s1998" xml:space="preserve">Tryal was made in a Recorder after theſe ſeveral manners. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s1999" xml:space="preserve">The bottom <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0074-04a" xlink:href="note-0074-04"/> of it was ſet againſt the Palm of the Hand, ſtopped with Wax round about, <lb/>ſet againſt a Damask Cuſhion, thruſt into Sand, into Aſhes, into Water, <lb/>(half an inch under the Water) cloſe to the bottom of a Silver Baſin, <lb/>and ſtill the Tone remained: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2000" xml:space="preserve">But the bottom of it was ſet againſt <lb/>a Woollen Carpet, a Lining of Pluſh, a Lock of Wool, (though looſly <lb/>put in;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2001" xml:space="preserve">againſt Snow, and the ſound of it was quite deaded, and but <lb/>breath.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2002" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div193" type="float" level="2" n="61"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0074-04" xlink:href="note-0074-04a" xml:space="preserve">159.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2003" xml:space="preserve">Iron hot produceth not ſo full a ſound, as when it is cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2004" xml:space="preserve">for while it is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0074-05a" xlink:href="note-0074-05"/> hot, it appeareth to be more ſoft, and leſs reſounding. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2005" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe warm Wa-<lb/>ter, when it faileth maketh not ſo full a ſound as cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2006" xml:space="preserve">and I conceive it is <lb/>ſofter, and nearer the nature of Oyl; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2007" xml:space="preserve">for it is more ſlippery, as may be per-<lb/>ceived, in that it ſco wreth better.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2008" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div194" type="float" level="2" n="62"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0074-05" xlink:href="note-0074-05a" xml:space="preserve">160.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2009" xml:space="preserve">Let there be a Recorder made with two Fipples at each end one; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2010" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0074-06a" xlink:href="note-0074-06"/> Trunck of it of the length of two Recorders, and the holes anſwerable to-<lb/>wards each end, and let two play the ſame Le<unsure/>ſſon upon it, at an Uniſon; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2011" xml:space="preserve">and let it be noted, whether the ſound be confounded, or amplified, or <lb/>dulled. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2012" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe let a Croſs be made of two Truncks (thorowout) <pb o="41" file="0075" n="75" rhead="Century II."/> hollow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2013" xml:space="preserve">and let two ipeak or ſing, the one long ways the other traverſe. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2014" xml:space="preserve">And let two hear at the oppoſite ends; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2015" xml:space="preserve">and note, whether the Sound be <lb/>confounded, amplified, or dulled. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2016" xml:space="preserve">Which two inſtances will alſo give light <lb/>to the mixture of Sounds, whereof we ſhall ſpeak hereafter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2017" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div195" type="float" level="2" n="63"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0074-06" xlink:href="note-0074-06a" xml:space="preserve">161.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2018" xml:space="preserve">A Bellows, blown into the hole of a Drum, and the Drum then ſtrucken, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0075-01a" xlink:href="note-0075-01"/> maketh the Sound a little flatter, but no other apparent alteration. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2019" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is manifeſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2020" xml:space="preserve">partly for that it hindreth the iſſue of the Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2021" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>and partly for that it maketh the Air being blown together, leſs move-<lb/>able.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2022" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div196" type="float" level="2" n="64"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-01" xlink:href="note-0075-01a" xml:space="preserve">162.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2023" xml:space="preserve">THe Loudneſs and Softneſs of Sounds, is a thing diſtinct from the Mag-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0075-02a" xlink:href="note-0075-02"/> nitude and Exility of Sounds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2024" xml:space="preserve">for a Baſe-ſtring, though ſoftly ſtrucken, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0075-03a" xlink:href="note-0075-03"/> giveth the greater Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2025" xml:space="preserve">but a Trebble ſtring, if hard ftrucken, will be <lb/>heard much further off. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2026" xml:space="preserve">And the cauſe is, for that the Baſe-ſtring ſtriketh <lb/>more Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2027" xml:space="preserve">and the Trebble leſs Air, but with a ſharper percuſſion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2028" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div197" type="float" level="2" n="65"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-02" xlink:href="note-0075-02a" xml:space="preserve">163.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-03" xlink:href="note-0075-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Loudneſs or <lb/>Softneß of <lb/>Sounds, and <lb/>their Carriage <lb/>at longer or <lb/>ſhorter diſtance.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2029" xml:space="preserve">It is therefore the ſtrength of the Percuſſion, that is a principal cauſe <lb/>of the loudneſs or ſoftneſs of Sounds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2030" xml:space="preserve">As in knocking, harder or ſofter; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2031" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0075-04a" xlink:href="note-0075-04"/> Winding of a Horn, ſtronger or weaker; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2032" xml:space="preserve">Ringing of an Hand bell, harder <lb/>or ſoftcr, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2033" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2034" xml:space="preserve">And the ſtrength of this Percuſſion conſiſteth, as much or <lb/>more, in the hardneſs of the Body percuſſed, as in the force of the Body <lb/>percuſſing: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2035" xml:space="preserve">For if you ſtrike againſt a Cloth, it will give a leſs ſound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2036" xml:space="preserve">if <lb/>againſt Wood, a greater; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2037" xml:space="preserve">if againſt a Metal, yet a greater; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2038" xml:space="preserve">and in Metals, <lb/>if you ſtrike againſt Gold, (which is the more pliant) it giveth the flatter <lb/>ſound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2039" xml:space="preserve">if againſt Silver or Braſs, the more ringing ſound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2040" xml:space="preserve">As for Air, where <lb/>it is ſtrongly pent, it matcheth a hard Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2041" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we ſee in diſ-<lb/>charging of a piece, what a great noiſe it maketh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2042" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that the <lb/>Charge with Bullet, or with Paper wet, and hard ſtopped; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2043" xml:space="preserve">or with Pow-<lb/>der alone rammed in hard, maketh no great difference in the loudneſs of the <lb/>report.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2044" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div198" type="float" level="2" n="66"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-04" xlink:href="note-0075-04a" xml:space="preserve">164.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2045" xml:space="preserve">The ſharpneſs or quickneſs of the Percuſſion, is a great cauſe of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0075-05a" xlink:href="note-0075-05"/> loudneſs, as well as the ſtrength: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2046" xml:space="preserve">As in a Whip or Wand, if you ſtrike <lb/>the Air with it, the ſharper and quicker you ſtrike it, the louder ſound it <lb/>giveth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2047" xml:space="preserve">And in playing upon the Lute or Virginals, the quick ſtroke or <lb/>touch is a great life to the Sound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2048" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the quick ſtrik-<lb/>ing cutteth the Air ſpeedily, whereas the ſoft ſtriking, doth rather beat <lb/>than cut.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2049" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div199" type="float" level="2" n="67"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-05" xlink:href="note-0075-05a" xml:space="preserve">165.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2050" xml:space="preserve">THe Communication of Sounds (as in Bellies of Lutes, empty Veſſels, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2051" xml:space="preserve">c.) <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2052" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0075-06a" xlink:href="note-0075-06"/> hath been touched obiter, in the Majoration of Sounds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2053" xml:space="preserve">But it is fit alſo to <lb/>make a Title of it apart.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2054" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div200" type="float" level="2" n="68"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-06" xlink:href="note-0075-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Communicati-<lb/>on of Sounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2055" xml:space="preserve">The Experiment, for greateſt Demonſtration of Communication of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0075-07a" xlink:href="note-0075-07"/> Sounds, is the Chiming of Bells; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2056" xml:space="preserve">where, if you ſtrike with a Hammar <lb/>upon the upper part, and then upon the midſt, and then upon the lower, <lb/>you ſhall finde the ſound to be more Trebble, and more Baſe, according <lb/>unto the Concave on the inſide, though the Percuſſion be onely on the <lb/>outſide.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2057" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div201" type="float" level="2" n="69"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-07" xlink:href="note-0075-07a" xml:space="preserve">166.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2058" xml:space="preserve">When the Sound is created between the Blaſt of the Mouth, and the Air <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0075-08a" xlink:href="note-0075-08"/> of the Pipe, it hath nevertheleſs ſome communication with the matter of the <lb/>ſides of the Pipe, and the ſpirits in them contained: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2059" xml:space="preserve">For in a Pipe or Trum-<lb/>pet of Wood and Braſs, the ſound will be diverſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2060" xml:space="preserve">ſo if the Pipe be covered <pb o="42" file="0076" n="76" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> with Cloth or Silk, it will give a diverſe Sound from that it would do of it <lb/>ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2061" xml:space="preserve">ſo if the Pipe be a little wet on the inſide, it will make a differing <lb/>Sound, from the ſame Pipedry.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2062" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div202" type="float" level="2" n="70"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-08" xlink:href="note-0075-08a" xml:space="preserve">167.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2063" xml:space="preserve">That Sound made within Water, doth communicate better with a hard <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0076-01a" xlink:href="note-0076-01"/> Body thorow Water, than made in Air, it doth with Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2064" xml:space="preserve">Vide Experimentum, <lb/>134.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2065" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div203" type="float" level="2" n="71"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-01" xlink:href="note-0076-01a" xml:space="preserve">168.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2066" xml:space="preserve">WE have ſpoken before (in the Inquiſition touching Muſick) of Mu-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0076-02a" xlink:href="note-0076-02"/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0076-1a" xlink:href="hd-0076-1"/> ſical Sounds, whereunto there may be a Concord or Diſcord in two <lb/>Parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2067" xml:space="preserve">which Sounds we call Tones, and likewiſe of Immuſical Sounds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2068" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>have given the cauſe, that the Tone proceedeth of Equality, and the other <lb/>of Inequality. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2069" xml:space="preserve">And we have alſo expreſſed there, what are the Equal <lb/>Bodies that give Tones, and what are the Unequal that give none. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2070" xml:space="preserve">Butnow <lb/>we ſhall ſpeak of ſuch Incquality of Sounds, as proceedeth not from the <lb/>Nature of the Bodies themſelves, but is accidental, Either from the Rough-<lb/>neſs or Obliquity of the Paſſage, or from the Doubling of the Percuticnt, <lb/>or from the Trepidation of the Motion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2071" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div204" type="float" level="2" n="72"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-02" xlink:href="note-0076-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Equality and <lb/>In’quality of <lb/>Sounds.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0076-1" xlink:href="hd-0076-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2072" xml:space="preserve">A Bell if it have a Rift in it, whereby the ſound hath not a clear paſſage, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0076-03a" xlink:href="note-0076-03"/> giveth a hoarſe and jarring ſound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2073" xml:space="preserve">ſo the Voice of Man, when by cold <lb/>taken, the Weſil groweth rugged, and (as we call it) furred, becometh <lb/>hoarſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2074" xml:space="preserve">And in theſe two inſtances, the Sounds are ingrate, becauſe they <lb/>are meerly unequal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2075" xml:space="preserve">but if they be unequal in equality, then the Sound is <lb/>Grateful, but Purling.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2076" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div205" type="float" level="2" n="73"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-03" xlink:href="note-0076-03a" xml:space="preserve">169.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2077" xml:space="preserve">All Inſtruments that have either Returns, as Trumpets; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2078" xml:space="preserve">or Flexions, as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0076-04a" xlink:href="note-0076-04"/> Cornets; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2079" xml:space="preserve">or are drawn up, and putfrom, as Sackbuts, have a Purling Sound; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2080" xml:space="preserve">But the Recorder or Flute that have none of theſe Inequalities, give a clear <lb/>Sound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2081" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs, the Recorderit ſelf or Pipe, moiſtened a little in the <lb/>inſide, ſoundethmore ſolemnly, and with a little Purling or Hiſſing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2082" xml:space="preserve">Again, <lb/>a Wreathed String, ſuch as are in the Baſe Strings of Bandoraes, giveth alſo <lb/>a Purling Sound.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2083" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div206" type="float" level="2" n="74"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-04" xlink:href="note-0076-04a" xml:space="preserve">170.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2084" xml:space="preserve">Lut a Lute-ſtring, if it be meerly unequal in his parts, giveth a harſh <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0076-05a" xlink:href="note-0076-05"/> and untuneable Sound, which ſtrings we call falſe, being bigger in one <lb/>place, than in another; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2085" xml:space="preserve">and therefore Wire-ſtrings are never falſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2086" xml:space="preserve">Weſee <lb/>alſo, that when we try a falſe Lute-ſtring, we uſe to extend it hard between <lb/>the Fingers, and to fillip it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2087" xml:space="preserve">and if it giveth a double ſpecies, it is true; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2088" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>if it giveth a trebble or more, it is falſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2089" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div207" type="float" level="2" n="75"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-05" xlink:href="note-0076-05a" xml:space="preserve">171.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2090" xml:space="preserve">Waters, in the noiſe they make as they run, repreſent to the Ear a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0076-06a" xlink:href="note-0076-06"/> trembling noiſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2091" xml:space="preserve">and in Regals (where they have a Pipe, they call the <lb/>Nightingale-Pipe, which containeth Water) the Sound hath a continual <lb/>trembling. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2092" xml:space="preserve">And Children have alſo little things they call Cocks, which <lb/>have water in them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2093" xml:space="preserve">and when they blow, or whiſtle in them, they yield <lb/>a trembling noiſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2094" xml:space="preserve">which Trembling of Water, hath an affinity with the <lb/>Letter L. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2095" xml:space="preserve">All which Inequalities of Irepidation, are rather pleaſant, than <lb/>other wiſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2096" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div208" type="float" level="2" n="76"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-06" xlink:href="note-0076-06a" xml:space="preserve">172.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2097" xml:space="preserve">All Baſe Notes, or very Trebble Notes, give an Aſper Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2098" xml:space="preserve">for that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0076-07a" xlink:href="note-0076-07"/> the Baſe ſtriketh more Air, than it can well ſtrike equally; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2099" xml:space="preserve">and the Trebble <lb/>cutteth the Air ſo ſharp, as it returneth too ſwift, to make the Sound equal; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2100" xml:space="preserve">and therefore a Mean or Tenor is the ſweeteſt part.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2101" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div209" type="float" level="2" n="77"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-07" xlink:href="note-0076-07a" xml:space="preserve">173.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2102" xml:space="preserve">We know nothing, that can at pleaſure make a Muſical or Immuſical <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0076-08a" xlink:href="note-0076-08"/> Sound by voluntary Motion, butthe Voice of Man and Birds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2103" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is <lb/>(no doubt) in the Weſil or Wind-Pipe, (which we call Aſperia Arteria,) <pb o="43" file="0077" n="77" rhead="Century II."/> which being well extended, gathered equality; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2104" xml:space="preserve">as a Bladder that is <lb/>wrinckled, if it be extended, becometh ſmooth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2105" xml:space="preserve">The extenſion is always, <lb/>more in Tones, than in Speech; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2106" xml:space="preserve">therefore the inward voice or whiſper, <lb/>can never give a Tone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2107" xml:space="preserve">And in ſinging, there is (manifeſtly) a greater <lb/>working and labor of the Throat, than in ſpeaking; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2108" xml:space="preserve">as appeareth in the <lb/>thruſting out, or drawing in of the Chin, when we ſing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2109" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div210" type="float" level="2" n="78"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-08" xlink:href="note-0076-08a" xml:space="preserve">174.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2110" xml:space="preserve">The Humming of Bees is an unequal buzzing, and is conceived by ſome <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0077-01a" xlink:href="note-0077-01"/> of the Ancients, not to come forth at their Mouth, but to bean inward <lb/>Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2111" xml:space="preserve">but (it may be) it is neither, but from the motion of their Wings; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2112" xml:space="preserve">for it is not heard, but when they ſtir.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2113" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div211" type="float" level="2" n="79"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0077-01" xlink:href="note-0077-01a" xml:space="preserve">175.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2114" xml:space="preserve">All Metals quenchedin Water, give a ſibillation or hiſſing ſound (which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0077-02a" xlink:href="note-0077-02"/> hath an affinity with the Let er Z.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2115" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding the Sound be created <lb/>between the Water or Vapor, and the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2116" xml:space="preserve">Seething alſo, if there be but <lb/>ſmall ſtore of Water in a Veſſel, giveth a hiſſing ſound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2117" xml:space="preserve">but boyling in a <lb/>full Veſſel, givetha bubbling ſound, drawing ſomewhat near to the Cocks <lb/>uſed by Children.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2118" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div212" type="float" level="2" n="80"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0077-02" xlink:href="note-0077-02a" xml:space="preserve">176.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2119" xml:space="preserve">Tryal would be made, whether the Inequality, or interchange of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0077-03a" xlink:href="note-0077-03"/> Medium, will not produce an Inequality of Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2120" xml:space="preserve">as if three Bells were <lb/>made one within another, and Air betwixt each; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2121" xml:space="preserve">and then the outermoſt <lb/>Bell were chimed with a Hammer, how the Sound would differ from a <lb/>ſimple Bell. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2122" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe takea Plate of Braſs, and a Plank of Wood, and <lb/>joyn them cloſe together, and knock upon one of them, and ſee if they do <lb/>not give an unequal Sound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2123" xml:space="preserve">So make two or three Partitions of Wood in <lb/>a Hogſhead, with holes or knots in them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2124" xml:space="preserve">and mark the difference of their <lb/>ſound, from the ſound of an Hogſhead, without ſuch partitions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2125" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div213" type="float" level="2" n="81"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0077-03" xlink:href="note-0077-03a" xml:space="preserve">177.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2126" xml:space="preserve">IT is evident, that the Percuſſion of the greater quantity of Air, cauſeth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0077-04a" xlink:href="note-0077-04"/> the baſer Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2127" xml:space="preserve">and the leſs quantity, the more trebble Sound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2128" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0077-05a" xlink:href="note-0077-05"/> Percuſſion of the greater quantity of Air, is produced by the greatneſs of <lb/>the Body percuſſing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2129" xml:space="preserve">by the Latitude of the Concave, by which the Sound <lb/>paſſeth, and by the Longitude of the ſame Concave. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2130" xml:space="preserve">Therefore weſee, that <lb/>a Baſe-ſtring is greater than a Trebble, a Baſe-pipehath a greater bore than <lb/>a Trebble: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2131" xml:space="preserve">And in Pipes, and the like, the lower the Note holes be, and the <lb/>further off from the Mouth of the Pipe, the more Baſe ſound they yield; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2132" xml:space="preserve">and the nearer the Mouth, the more Trebble. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2133" xml:space="preserve">Nay more, if you ſtrike an <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0077-06a" xlink:href="note-0077-06"/> entire Body, as an Andiron of Braſs, at the top it maketh a more Trebble <lb/>ſound, and at the bottom a Baſer.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2134" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div214" type="float" level="2" n="82"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0077-04" xlink:href="note-0077-04a" xml:space="preserve">178.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0077-05" xlink:href="note-0077-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>more Trebble, <lb/>and the more <lb/>Baſe Tones or <lb/>Muſical <lb/>Sounds.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0077-06" xlink:href="note-0077-06a" xml:space="preserve">Q</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2135" xml:space="preserve">It is alſo evident, that the ſharperor quicker Percuſſion of Air, cauſeth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0077-07a" xlink:href="note-0077-07"/> the more Trebble ſound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2136" xml:space="preserve">and the ſlower or heavier, the more Baſe ſound. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2137" xml:space="preserve">So weſee in Strings, the more they are wound up and ſtrained (and thereby <lb/>give a more quick ſtart back) he more Trebble is the ſound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2138" xml:space="preserve">and the ſlacker <lb/>they are, or leſs wound up, the Baſer is the ſound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2139" xml:space="preserve">And therefore a bigger <lb/>String more ſtrained, and a leſſer String leſs ſtrained, may fall into the ſame <lb/>Tone.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2140" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div215" type="float" level="2" n="83"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0077-07" xlink:href="note-0077-07a" xml:space="preserve">179.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2141" xml:space="preserve">Children, Women, Eunuchs, have more ſmall and ſhrill Voices than Men; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2142" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0077-08a" xlink:href="note-0077-08"/> The reaſon is, not for that Men have greater heat, which may make the <lb/>voice ſtronger, (for the ſtrength of a Voice or Sound, doth make a difference <lb/>in the loudneſs or ſoftneſs, but not in the Tone) but from the dilatation of <lb/>the Organ, which (it is true) is likewiſe cauſed by heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2143" xml:space="preserve">but the cauſe of <lb/>changing the voice at the years of puberty, is moſt obſcure. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2144" xml:space="preserve">Itſeemeth to be <lb/>for that, when much of the moiſture of the Body, which did beforeirregate <pb o="44" file="0078" n="78" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> the Parts, is drawn down to the Spermatical Veſiels, it leaveth the Body <lb/>more hot than it was; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2145" xml:space="preserve">whence cometh the dilatation of the Pipes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2146" xml:space="preserve">For we <lb/>ſee plainly all effects of Heat do then come on; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2147" xml:space="preserve">as Piloſity, more rough-<lb/>neſs of the skin, hardneſs of the fieſh, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2148" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2149" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div216" type="float" level="2" n="84"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0077-08" xlink:href="note-0077-08a" xml:space="preserve">180.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2150" xml:space="preserve">The induſtry of the Muſitian, hath produced two other means of Strain-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0078-01a" xlink:href="note-0078-01"/> ing, or Intenſion of Strings, beſides their Winding up. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2151" xml:space="preserve">The one is the Stopping of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0078-02a" xlink:href="note-0078-02"/> the String with the Fingtr; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2152" xml:space="preserve">as in the Necks of Lutes, Viols, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2153" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2154" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0078-03a" xlink:href="note-0078-03"/> other is the Shortneß of the String; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2155" xml:space="preserve">as in Harps, Virginals, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2156" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2157" xml:space="preserve">Both theſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0078-04a" xlink:href="note-0078-04"/> have one and the ſame reaſon, for they cauſe the String to give a quicker <lb/>ſtart.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2158" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div217" type="float" level="2" n="85"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0078-01" xlink:href="note-0078-01a" xml:space="preserve">181.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0078-02" xlink:href="note-0078-02a" xml:space="preserve">1</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0078-03" xlink:href="note-0078-03a" xml:space="preserve">2</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0078-04" xlink:href="note-0078-04a" xml:space="preserve">3</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2159" xml:space="preserve">In the ſtraining of a String, the further it is ſtrained, the leſs ſuperſtrain-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0078-05a" xlink:href="note-0078-05"/> ing goeth to a Note: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2160" xml:space="preserve">For it requireth good winding of a String, beſore it <lb/>will make any Note at all. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2161" xml:space="preserve">And in the ſtops of Lutes, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2162" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2163" xml:space="preserve">the higher they <lb/>go, the leſs diſtance is between the Frets.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2164" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div218" type="float" level="2" n="86"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0078-05" xlink:href="note-0078-05a" xml:space="preserve">182.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2165" xml:space="preserve">If you fill a Drinking Glaß with Water, (eſpecially one ſharp below, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0078-06a" xlink:href="note-0078-06"/> and wide above) and fillip upon the Brim, or outſide; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2166" xml:space="preserve">and aſter, empty <lb/>part of the Water, and ſo more and more, and ſtill try the Tone by fillip-<lb/>ing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2167" xml:space="preserve">you ſhall finde the Tone fall, and be more Baſe as the Glaſs is more <lb/>empty.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2168" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div219" type="float" level="2" n="87"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0078-06" xlink:href="note-0078-06a" xml:space="preserve">183.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2169" xml:space="preserve">THe juſt and meaſured Proportion of the Air percuſſed, towards the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0078-07a" xlink:href="note-0078-07"/> Baſeneſs or Trebbleneſs of Tones, is one of the greateſt ſecrets in the <lb/>Contemplation of Sounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2170" xml:space="preserve">For it diſcovereth the true Coincidence of <lb/>Tones into Diapaſons, which is the return of the ſame Sound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2171" xml:space="preserve">And ſo of <lb/>the Concords and Diſcords, between the Uniſon and Diapaſon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2172" xml:space="preserve">which we <lb/>have touched before in the Experiments of Muſick, but think fit to reſume it <lb/>here as a principal part of out Inquiry, touching the Nature of Sounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2173" xml:space="preserve">It may <lb/>be found out in the Proportion of the Winding of Strings, in the Proportion <lb/>of the Diſtance of Frets, and in the Proportion of the Concave of Pipes, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2174" xml:space="preserve">c. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2175" xml:space="preserve">But moſt commodiouſly in the laſt of theſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2176" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div220" type="float" level="2" n="88"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0078-07" xlink:href="note-0078-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Proportion of <lb/>Trebble and <lb/>Baſe Tones.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2177" xml:space="preserve">Try therefore the Winding of a String once about, as ſoon as it is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0078-08a" xlink:href="note-0078-08"/> brought to that extenſion as will give a Tone, and then of twice about, and <lb/>thrice about, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2178" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2179" xml:space="preserve">And mark the ſcale or difference of the Rice of the Tone, <lb/>whereby you ſhall diſcover in one, two effects; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2180" xml:space="preserve">both the proportion of the <lb/>Sound to wards the Dimenſion of the Winding, and the proportion likewiſe <lb/>of the Sound towards the Stting, as it is more or leſs ſtrained. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2181" xml:space="preserve">But notethat <lb/>to meaſure this, the way will be to take the length in a right line of the String, <lb/>upon any Winding about of the Peg.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2182" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div221" type="float" level="2" n="89"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0078-08" xlink:href="note-0078-08a" xml:space="preserve">184.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2183" xml:space="preserve">As for the Stops, you are to take the number of Frets, and principally <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0078-09a" xlink:href="note-0078-09"/> the length of the Line, from the firſt ſtop of the String, unto ſuch a ſtop as <lb/>ſhall produce a Diapaſon to the former ſtop, upon the ſame String.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2184" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div222" type="float" level="2" n="90"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0078-09" xlink:href="note-0078-09a" xml:space="preserve">185.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2185" xml:space="preserve">But it will beſt (as it is ſaid) appear in the Bores of Wind-Inſtruments; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2186" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0078-10a" xlink:href="note-0078-10"/> therefore cauſe ſome half dozen Pipes to be made in length, and all things <lb/>elſe a like, with a ſingle double, and ſo one to a ſextuple Bore; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2187" xml:space="preserve">and ſo mark <lb/>what fall of Tone every one giveth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2188" xml:space="preserve">But ſtill in theſe three laſt inſtances <lb/>you muſt diligently obſerve, what length of String, or diſtance of Stop, or <lb/>concave of Air, maketh what riſe of Sound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2189" xml:space="preserve">As in the laſt of theſe (which, <lb/>as we ſaid, is that which giveth the apteſt demonſtration) you muſt ſet down <lb/>what increaſe of Concave goeth to the making of a Note higher, and what <lb/>of two Notes, and what of three Notes, and ſo up to the Diapaſon: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2190" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>then the great ſecret of Numbers and Proportions will appear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2191" xml:space="preserve">It is not <pb o="45" file="0079" n="79" rhead="Century II."/> unlikely, that thoſe that make Recorders, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2192" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2193" xml:space="preserve">know this already; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2194" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>that they make them in Sets. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2195" xml:space="preserve">And likewiſe Bell-Founders in fitting the <lb/>tune of their Bells: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2196" xml:space="preserve">So that enquiry may ſave tryal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2197" xml:space="preserve">Surely, it hath been <lb/>obſerved by one of the Ancients, that an empty Barrel knocked upon wi h <lb/>the finger, giveth a Diapaſon to the Sound of the like Barrel full: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2198" xml:space="preserve">But how <lb/>that ſhould be, I do not well underſtand, for that the knocking of a Barrel <lb/>full or empty, doth ſcarce give any Tone.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2199" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div223" type="float" level="2" n="91"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0078-10" xlink:href="note-0078-10a" xml:space="preserve">186.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2200" xml:space="preserve">There is required ſome ſenſible difference in the Proportion of creat-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0079-01a" xlink:href="note-0079-01"/> ing a Note towards the Sound it ſelf, which is the Paſſive; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2201" xml:space="preserve">and that it <lb/>be not too near, but at a diſtance: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2202" xml:space="preserve">For in a Recorder, the three upper-<lb/>moſt holes yield one Tone, which is a Note lower than the Tone of the <lb/>firſt three. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2203" xml:space="preserve">And the like (no doubt) is required in the winding or ſtopping <lb/>of Strings.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2204" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div224" type="float" level="2" n="92"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0079-01" xlink:href="note-0079-01a" xml:space="preserve">187.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2205" xml:space="preserve">THere is another difference of Sounds, which we will call Exterior and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0079-02a" xlink:href="note-0079-02"/> Interior. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2206" xml:space="preserve">It is not Softinor Loud; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2207" xml:space="preserve">nor it is not Baſe, nor Trebble; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2208" xml:space="preserve">nor <lb/>it is not Muſical, nor Immuſical. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2209" xml:space="preserve">Though it be true, that there can be no <lb/>Tone in an Interior Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2210" xml:space="preserve">but on the other ſide, in an Exterior Sound, there <lb/>may be both Muſical and Immuſical. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2211" xml:space="preserve">We ſhall therefore enumerate them <lb/>rather than preciſely diſtingulſh them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2212" xml:space="preserve">thobgh to make ſome adumbration <lb/>of (that we mean) the Interior, is rather an Impulſion or Contuſion of <lb/>the Air, than an Elyſion or Section of the ſame; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2213" xml:space="preserve">ſo as the Percuſſion of the <lb/>one towards the other, diffsreth as a Blow differeth from a Cut.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2214" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div225" type="float" level="2" n="93"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0079-02" xlink:href="note-0079-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Exterior and <lb/>Interior <lb/>Sounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2215" xml:space="preserve">In Speech of Man, the Whiſpering, (which they call Suſurrus in La-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0079-03a" xlink:href="note-0079-03"/> tin,) whether it be louder or ſofter, is an Interior Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2216" xml:space="preserve">but the Speak-<lb/>ing out, is an Exterior Sound: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2217" xml:space="preserve">And therefore you can never make a Tone, <lb/>nor ſing in Whiſpering; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2218" xml:space="preserve">but in Speech you may. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2219" xml:space="preserve">So Breathing, or Blow-<lb/>ing by the Mouth, Bellows, or Wind (thoughloud) is an Interior Sound; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2220" xml:space="preserve">but the blowing thorow a Pipe, or Concave (though ſoft) is an Exterior. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2221" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>So likewiſe, the greateſt Winds, it they have no coarctation, or blow not <lb/>hollow, give and<unsure/> Interior Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2222" xml:space="preserve">the whiſtling or hollow Wind, yieldeth <lb/>a ſinging, or Exterior Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2223" xml:space="preserve">the former being pent by ſome other <lb/>Body, the latter being pent in by his own Denſity: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2224" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we ſee, <lb/>That when the Wind bloweth hollow, it is a ſign of Rain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2225" xml:space="preserve">the flame, as it <lb/>moveth withinit ſelf, or is blown by a Bellows, giveth a murmur or Interior <lb/>Sound.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2226" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div226" type="float" level="2" n="94"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0079-03" xlink:href="note-0079-03a" xml:space="preserve">188.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2227" xml:space="preserve">There is no hard Body, but ſtruck againſt another hard Body, will yield <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0079-04a" xlink:href="note-0079-04"/> an Exterior Sound, greater or leſſer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2228" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as if the Percuſſion be over-<lb/>ſoft, it may induce a nullity of ſound, but never an Interior Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2229" xml:space="preserve">as when <lb/>onetreadeth ſo ſoftly, that he is not heard.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2230" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div227" type="float" level="2" n="95"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0079-04" xlink:href="note-0079-04a" xml:space="preserve">189.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2231" xml:space="preserve">Where the Air is the Percutient, pent or not pent, againſt a hard Body, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0079-05a" xlink:href="note-0079-05"/> it never giveth an Exterior Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2232" xml:space="preserve">as if you blow ſtrongly with a Bellows <lb/>againſt a Wall.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2233" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div228" type="float" level="2" n="96"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0079-05" xlink:href="note-0079-05a" xml:space="preserve">190.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2234" xml:space="preserve">Sounds (both Exterior and Interior) may be made as well by Suction, as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0079-06a" xlink:href="note-0079-06"/> by emiſſion of the Breath; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2235" xml:space="preserve">as in Whiſtling, or Breathing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2236" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div229" type="float" level="2" n="97"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0079-06" xlink:href="note-0079-06a" xml:space="preserve">191.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2237" xml:space="preserve">IT is evident, and it is one of the ſtrangeſt ſecrets in Sounds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2238" xml:space="preserve">that the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0079-07a" xlink:href="note-0079-07"/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0079-08a" xlink:href="note-0079-08"/> whole Sound is not in the whole Air onely, but the whole Sound is <lb/>alſo in evety ſmall part of the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2239" xml:space="preserve">So that all the curious diverſity of Arti- <pb o="46" file="0080" n="80" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> culate ſounds of the voice of Man or Birds, will cnter into a ſmall crany, <lb/>inconfuſed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2240" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div230" type="float" level="2" n="98"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0079-07" xlink:href="note-0079-07a" xml:space="preserve">192.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0079-08" xlink:href="note-0079-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Articulations <lb/>of Sounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2241" xml:space="preserve">The unequal agitation of the Winds, and the like, though they be ma-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0080-01a" xlink:href="note-0080-01"/> terial to the carriage of the Sounds, further or leſs way; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2242" xml:space="preserve">yet they do not <lb/>conſound the Articulation of them at all, within that diſtance that they can <lb/>be heard, thoughit may be, they make them to be heard leſs way, than in <lb/>a ſtill, as hath been partly touched.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2243" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div231" type="float" level="2" n="99"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-01" xlink:href="note-0080-01a" xml:space="preserve">193.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2244" xml:space="preserve">Over-great diſtance confoundeth the Articulation of Sounds, as we <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0080-02a" xlink:href="note-0080-02"/> ſee, that you may hear the ſound of a Preachers voice, or the like, when <lb/>you cannot diſtinguiſh what he ſaith. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2245" xml:space="preserve">And one Articulate ſound will con-<lb/>found another, as when many ſpeak at once.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2246" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div232" type="float" level="2" n="100"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-02" xlink:href="note-0080-02a" xml:space="preserve">194.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2247" xml:space="preserve">In the Experiment of ſpeaking under VVater, when the voice is re-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0080-03a" xlink:href="note-0080-03"/> duced to ſuch an extream exhility, yet the Articulate ſounds (which are the <lb/>words) are not confounded, as hath been ſaid.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2248" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div233" type="float" level="2" n="101"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-03" xlink:href="note-0080-03a" xml:space="preserve">195.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2249" xml:space="preserve">I conceive that an extream ſmall, or an extream great ſound, can-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0080-04a" xlink:href="note-0080-04"/> not be Articulate, but that the Articulation requireth a mediocrity of <lb/>ſound: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2250" xml:space="preserve">For that the extream ſmall ſound confoundeth the Articulation <lb/>by contracting, and the great ſound by diſperſing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2251" xml:space="preserve">and although <lb/>(as was formerly ſaid) a Sound Articulate, already created, will be con-<lb/>tracted into a ſmall crany; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2252" xml:space="preserve">yet the firſt Articulation requireth more di-<lb/>menſion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2253" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div234" type="float" level="2" n="102"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-04" xlink:href="note-0080-04a" xml:space="preserve">196.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2254" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved, that in a Room, or in a Chappel, Vaulted <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0080-05a" xlink:href="note-0080-05"/> below, and Vaulted likewiſe in the Roof, a Preacher cannot be heard ſo <lb/>well, as in the like places not ſo Vaulted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2255" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the ſub-<lb/>ſequent words come on, before the precedent words vaniſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2256" xml:space="preserve">and there-<lb/>fore the Articulate Sounds are more confuſed, though the groſs of the Sound <lb/>be greater.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2257" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div235" type="float" level="2" n="103"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-05" xlink:href="note-0080-05a" xml:space="preserve">197.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2258" xml:space="preserve">The motions of the Tongue, Lips, Throat, Palate, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2259" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2260" xml:space="preserve">which go to the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0080-06a" xlink:href="note-0080-06"/> making of the ſeveral Alphabetical Letters are worthy inquiry, and perti-<lb/>nent to the preſent Inquiſition of Sounds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2261" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe they are ſubtil and <lb/>long to deſcribe, we will refer them over, and place them amongſt the <lb/>Experiments of Speech. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2262" xml:space="preserve">The Hebrews have been diligent in it, and have <lb/>aſſigned which Letters are Labial, which Dental, which Guttural, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2263" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2264" xml:space="preserve">As <lb/>for the Latins and Grecians, they have diſtinguiſhed between Semi-vowels <lb/>and Mutes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2265" xml:space="preserve">and in Mutes, between Mutæ Tenues, Mediæ and Aſpiratæ, not <lb/>amiſs, but yet not diligently cnough. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2266" xml:space="preserve">For the ſpecial ſtrokes and moti-<lb/>tions that create thoſe Sounds, they have little enquired; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2267" xml:space="preserve">as that the <lb/>Letters, B. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2268" xml:space="preserve">P. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2269" xml:space="preserve">F. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2270" xml:space="preserve">M. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2271" xml:space="preserve">are not expreſſed, but with the contracting, or ſhut-<lb/>ting of the Mouth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2272" xml:space="preserve">that the Letters N. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2273" xml:space="preserve">and B. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2274" xml:space="preserve">cannotbe pronounced, but <lb/>that the Letter N. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2275" xml:space="preserve">will turn into M. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2276" xml:space="preserve">as Hecatonba will be Hecatomba. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2277" xml:space="preserve">That <lb/>M. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2278" xml:space="preserve">and T. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2279" xml:space="preserve">cannot be pronounced together, but P. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2280" xml:space="preserve">will come between; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2281" xml:space="preserve">as Emtus, is pronounced Emptus, and a number of the like: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2282" xml:space="preserve">So that if <lb/>you enquire to the full, you will finde, that to the making of the whole <lb/>Alphabet, there will be fewer ſimple Motions required, than there are <lb/>Letters.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2283" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div236" type="float" level="2" n="104"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-06" xlink:href="note-0080-06a" xml:space="preserve">198.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2284" xml:space="preserve">The Lungs are the moſt ſpongy part of the Body, and therefore ableſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0080-07a" xlink:href="note-0080-07"/> to contract and dilate it ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2285" xml:space="preserve">and where it contracteth it ſelf, it expcllcth <lb/>the Air, which thorow the Artire, Throat, and Mouth, maketh the Voice: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2286" xml:space="preserve">But yet Arciculation is notmade, but with the help of the Tongue, Pallate, and the <lb/>reft of thoſe they call Inſtruments of Voice.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2287" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div237" type="float" level="2" n="105"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0080-07" xlink:href="note-0080-07a" xml:space="preserve">199.</note> </div> <pb o="47" file="0081" n="81" rhead="Century II."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2288" xml:space="preserve">There is found a Similitude between the Sound that is made by Inani-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0081-01a" xlink:href="note-0081-01"/> mate Bodies, or by Animate Bodies, that have no Voice Articulate, and di-<lb/>vers Letters of Articulate Voices; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2289" xml:space="preserve">and commonly Men have given ſuch <lb/>names to thoſe Sounds as do allude unto the Articulate Letters. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2290" xml:space="preserve">As Trem-<lb/>bling of Water hath reſemblance with the Letter L. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2291" xml:space="preserve">Quenching of Hot Metals <lb/>with the Letter Z. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2292" xml:space="preserve">Snarling of Dogs with the Letter R. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2293" xml:space="preserve">The Noiſe of Scritch-<lb/>Owls with the Letters Sh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2294" xml:space="preserve">Voice of Cats with the Dipthong Eu. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2295" xml:space="preserve">Voice of <lb/>Chucko s with the Dipthong Ou. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2296" xml:space="preserve">Sounds of Strings with the Letters Ng. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2297" xml:space="preserve">So <lb/>thatif a Man (for curioſity or ſtrangeneſs ſake) would make a Puppet, or <lb/>other dead Body, to pronounce a word: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2298" xml:space="preserve">Lethim conſider on the one part, <lb/>the Motion of the Inſtruments of Voice; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2299" xml:space="preserve">and on the other part, the like Sounds <lb/>made in Inanimate Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2300" xml:space="preserve">and what Conformity there is, that cauſeth the <lb/>Similitude of Sounds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2301" xml:space="preserve">and by that he may miniſter light to that effect.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2302" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div238" type="float" level="2" n="106"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0081-01" xlink:href="note-0081-01a" xml:space="preserve">200</note> </div> <pb file="0082" n="82"/> <pb o="49" file="0083" n="83"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div240" type="section" level="1" n="22"> <head xml:id="echoid-head31" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL <lb/>HISTORY</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head32" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Century III.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2303" xml:space="preserve">ALL Sounds (whatſoever) move round, that is to ſay, On <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0083-01a" xlink:href="note-0083-01"/> allſides, Upwards, Downwards, Forewards, and Back-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0083-02a" xlink:href="note-0083-02"/> wards: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2304" xml:space="preserve">This appeareth in all Inſtances.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2305" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div240" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0083-01" xlink:href="note-0083-01a" xml:space="preserve">201.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0083-02" xlink:href="note-0083-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Motions of <lb/>Sounds, in <lb/>what Lines <lb/>they are Cir-<lb/>cular, Oblick, <lb/>Straight, Vp-<lb/>wards, Down-<lb/>wards, For-<lb/>wards, Back-<lb/>wards.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2306" xml:space="preserve">Sounds do not require to be conveighed to the Senſe <lb/>in a right Line, as Viſibles do, but may be arched, though <lb/>it be true they move ſtrongeſt in a right Line; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2307" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>neverthelels is not cauſed by the rightneſs of the Line, <lb/>but by the ſhortneſs of the diſtance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2308" xml:space="preserve">Linearectea brevißi-<lb/>ma. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2309" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, we ſee if a Wallbe between, and you ſpeak on the one <lb/>ſide, vou hear it on the other; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2310" xml:space="preserve">which is not b@cauſe the ſound paſſeth thorow <lb/>the Wall, but arched over the Wall.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2311" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">202.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2312" xml:space="preserve">If the Sound be ſtopped and repercuſſed, it cometh about on the other <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0083-04a" xlink:href="note-0083-04"/> ſide, in an oblick Line: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2313" xml:space="preserve">So, if in a Coach, one ſide of the Boot be down, and <lb/>the other up, and a Begger beg on the cloſe ſide, you would think that he <lb/>were on the open ſide. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2314" xml:space="preserve">So like wiſe, if a Bell or Clock, be (for example) <lb/>on the North-ſide of a Chamber, and the Window of that Chamber be <lb/>upon the South; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2315" xml:space="preserve">he that is in the Chamber, will think the ſound came from <lb/>the South.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2316" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div241" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0083-04" xlink:href="note-0083-04a" xml:space="preserve">203.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2317" xml:space="preserve">Sounds, though they ſpred round, ſo that (there is an orb, or ſpherical <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0083-05a" xlink:href="note-0083-05"/> Area of the Sound) yet they move ſtrongeſt, and go furtheſt in the Fore-<lb/>Lines, from the firſt Local Impulſion of the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2318" xml:space="preserve">And therefore in Preach-<lb/>ing, you ſhall hear the Preachers voice better before the Pulpit than be-<lb/>hinde it, or on the ſides, though it ſtand open. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2319" xml:space="preserve">So a Harqucbuz or Ordnance <lb/>will be further heard forwards, from the mouth of the Piece, than back-<lb/>wards, or on the ſides.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2320" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div242" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0083-05" xlink:href="note-0083-05a" xml:space="preserve">204.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2321" xml:space="preserve">It may be doubted, that Sounds do move better do wnwards, than up-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0083-06a" xlink:href="note-0083-06"/> wards. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2322" xml:space="preserve">ſulpits are placed high above the people: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2323" xml:space="preserve">And when the Ancient <pb o="50" file="0084" n="84" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Generals ſpake to their Armies, they had ever a Mount of Turff caſt up, <lb/>where upon they ſtood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2324" xml:space="preserve">But this may be imputed to the ſtops and obſtacles <lb/>which the voice meeteth with, when one ſpeaketh upon the level. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2325" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>there ſeemeth to be more in it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2326" xml:space="preserve">for it may be, that Spiritual Species, both of <lb/>things viſible, and Sounds, do move better down wards than up wards. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2327" xml:space="preserve">It is <lb/>a ſtrange thing, that to Men ſtanding below on the ground, thoſe that be on <lb/>the top of Pauls, ſeem much leſs than they are, and cannot be known: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2328" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>to Men above thoſe below, ſeem nothing ſo much leſſened, and may be <lb/>known; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2329" xml:space="preserve">yet it is true, That all things to them above, ſeem alſo ſomewhat <lb/>contracted and better collected into figure; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2330" xml:space="preserve">as Knots in Gardens ſhew beſt <lb/>from an upper Window or Tarras.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2331" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div243" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0083-06" xlink:href="note-0083-06a" xml:space="preserve">205.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2332" xml:space="preserve">But to make an exact tryal of it, let a Man ſtand in a Chamber. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2333" xml:space="preserve">not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0084-01a" xlink:href="note-0084-01"/> much above the Ground, and ſpeak out at the Window thorow a Trunck, to <lb/>one ſtanding on the Ground as ſoftly as he can, the other laying his Ear cloſe <lb/>to the Trunck: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2334" xml:space="preserve">Then Via verſa, let the other ſpeak below keeping the ſame <lb/>proportion of ſoftneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2335" xml:space="preserve">and let him in the Chamber lay his Ear to the Trunck. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2336" xml:space="preserve">And this may be the apteſt means to make a Judgment, whether Sounds <lb/>deſcend or aſcend better.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2337" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div244" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0084-01" xlink:href="note-0084-01a" xml:space="preserve">206.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2338" xml:space="preserve">AFter that Sound is created (which is in a moment) we finde it continueth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0084-02a" xlink:href="note-0084-02"/> ſome ſmall time, melting by little and little. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2339" xml:space="preserve">In this there is a wonder-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0084-03a" xlink:href="note-0084-03"/> ful error amongſt Men, who take this to be a continuance of the firſt Sound; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2340" xml:space="preserve">whereas (in truth) it is a Renovation, and not a Continuance: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2341" xml:space="preserve">For the Body <lb/>percufſed, hath by reaſon of the Percuſſion, a Tripidation wrought in the mi-<lb/>nute parts, and ſo reneweth the Percuſſion of the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2342" xml:space="preserve">This appeareth <lb/>manifeſtly, becauſe that the Melting ſound of a Bell, or of a ſtring ſtrucken, <lb/>which is thought to be a Continuance, ceaſeth as ſoon as the Bell or ſtring are <lb/>touched. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2343" xml:space="preserve">As in a Virginal, as ſoon as ever the Jack falleth, and toucheth the <lb/>ſtring, the ſound ceaſeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2344" xml:space="preserve">and in a Bell, after you have chimed upon it, if you <lb/>touch the Bell, the ſound ceaſeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2345" xml:space="preserve">And in this you muſt diſtinguiſh, that there <lb/>are two Trepidations, The one Manifeſt and Local; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2346" xml:space="preserve">as of the Bell, when it <lb/>is Penſile; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2347" xml:space="preserve">the other Secret, of the Minute parts, ſuch as is deſcribed in the <lb/>ninth Inſtance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2348" xml:space="preserve">But it is true, that the Local helpeth the Secret greatly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2349" xml:space="preserve">We <lb/>ſee like wiſe, that in Pipes, and other Wind Inſtruments, the ſound laſteth no <lb/>longer than the breath bloweth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2350" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that in Organs there is a confuſed <lb/>murmur for a while, after you have played, but that is but while the Bellows <lb/>are in falling.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2351" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div245" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0084-02" xlink:href="note-0084-02a" xml:space="preserve">207.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0084-03" xlink:href="note-0084-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Lacting and <lb/>Periſhing of <lb/>Sounds; and <lb/>touching the <lb/>time they re-<lb/>quire to the <lb/>Generation or <lb/>Delation.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2352" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that in the noiſe of great Ordnance, where many are ſhot <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0084-04a" xlink:href="note-0084-04"/> off together, the ſound will be carried (at the leaſt) twenty miles upon the <lb/>Land, and much further upon the Water, but then it will come to the Ear; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2353" xml:space="preserve">not in the inſtant of the ſhooting off, but it will come an hour, or more later: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2354" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>This muſt needs be a Continuance of the firſt Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2355" xml:space="preserve">for there is no Trepi-<lb/>dation which ſhould renew it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2356" xml:space="preserve">And the touching of the Ordnance would <lb/>not extinguiſh the ſound the ſooner: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2357" xml:space="preserve">So that in great Sounds, the Continu-<lb/>ance is more than Momentany.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2358" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div246" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0084-04" xlink:href="note-0084-04a" xml:space="preserve">208.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2359" xml:space="preserve">To try exactly the time wherein Sound is delated, Let a Man ſtand in a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0084-05a" xlink:href="note-0084-05"/> Steeple, and have with him a Taper, and let ſome Veil be put before the <lb/>Taper, and let another Man ſtand in the Field a mile off; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2360" xml:space="preserve">then let him in the <lb/>Steeple ſtrike the Bell, and in the ſame inſtant withdraw the Veil, and ſo let <lb/>him in the Field tell by his Pulſe, what diſtance of time there is between the <lb/>Light ſeen, and the Sound heard: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2361" xml:space="preserve">For it is certain, That the Delation of <pb o="51" file="0085" n="85" rhead="Century III."/> Light is in an inſtant. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2362" xml:space="preserve">This may be tried in far greater diſtances, allowing <lb/>greater Lights and Sounds.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2363" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div247" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0084-05" xlink:href="note-0084-05a" xml:space="preserve">209.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2364" xml:space="preserve">It is generally known and obſerved, that Light and the object of Sight, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0085-01a" xlink:href="note-0085-01"/> move ſwifter than Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2365" xml:space="preserve">for we ſee the flaſh of a piece is feen ſooner, <lb/>than the noiſe is heard. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2366" xml:space="preserve">And in hewing Wood, if one ſome diſtance off, he <lb/>ſhall ſee the Arm lifted up for a ſecond ſtroke, before he hear the noiſe of the <lb/>firſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2367" xml:space="preserve">and the greater the diſtance, the greater is the prevention: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2368" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee in <lb/>Thunder, which is far off, where the Lightning precedeth the crack a good ſpace.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2369" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div248" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0085-01" xlink:href="note-0085-01a" xml:space="preserve">210.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2370" xml:space="preserve">Colours, when they repreſent themſelves to the Eye, fade not nor melt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0085-02a" xlink:href="note-0085-02"/> not by degrees, but appear ſtill in the ſame ſtrength; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2371" xml:space="preserve">but Sounds melt, and <lb/>vaniſh, by little and little. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2372" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Colours participate nothing <lb/>with the motion of the Air, but Sounds do. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2373" xml:space="preserve">And it is a plain argument that <lb/>Sound participateth of ſome Local Motion of the Air, (as a cauſe Sine quâ <lb/>non) in that it periſheth ſo ſuddenly: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2374" xml:space="preserve">For in every Section, or Impulſion of <lb/>the Air, the Air doth ſuddenly reſtore and reunite it ſelf, which the Water <lb/>alſo doth, but nothing ſo ſwiftly.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2375" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div249" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0085-02" xlink:href="note-0085-02a" xml:space="preserve">211.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2376" xml:space="preserve">IN the Tryals of the Paſſage, or not Paſſage of Sounds, you muſt take heed <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0085-03a" xlink:href="note-0085-03"/> you miſtake not the paſſing by the ſides of a Body, for the paſſing thorow <lb/>a Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2377" xml:space="preserve">and therefore you muſt make the Intercepting Body very cloſe; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2378" xml:space="preserve">for Sound will paſs thorow a ſmall chinck.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2379" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div250" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0085-03" xlink:href="note-0085-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſotr, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Paſſage and <lb/>Interceptions <lb/>of Sounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2380" xml:space="preserve">Where Sound paſſeth thorow a hard, or cloſe Body (as thorow Water, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0085-04a" xlink:href="note-0085-04"/> thorow a Wall, thorow Metal, as in Hawks Bells ſtopped, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2381" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2382" xml:space="preserve">the hard <lb/>or cloſe Body, muſt be but thin and ſmall; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2383" xml:space="preserve">for elſe it deadeth and extinguiſh-<lb/>eth the Sound utterly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2384" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, in the Experiment of Speaking in <lb/>Air under Water, the voice muſt not be very deep within the Water, for then <lb/>the Sound pierceth not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2385" xml:space="preserve">So if you ſpeak on the further ſide of a cloſe Wall, <lb/>if the Wall be very thick, you ſhall not be heard; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2386" xml:space="preserve">and if there were an Hogs-<lb/>head empty, where of the ſides were ſome two foot thick, and the Bung-<lb/>hole ſtopped. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2387" xml:space="preserve">I conceive, the reſounding ſound by the Communication of <lb/>the outward Air with the Air within, would be little or none, but onely you <lb/>ſhall hear the noiſe of the outward knock, asif the Veſſel were full.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2388" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div251" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0085-04" xlink:href="note-0085-04a" xml:space="preserve">212.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2389" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that in the paſſage of Sounds thorow hard Bodies, the Spirit <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0085-05a" xlink:href="note-0085-05"/> or Pneumatical part of the hard Body it ſelf doth co-operate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2390" xml:space="preserve">but much <lb/>better, when the ſides of that hard Body are ſtruck, than when the percuſſi-<lb/>on is onely within, withouttouch of the ſides. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2391" xml:space="preserve">Take therefore a Hawks-Bell, <lb/>the holes ſtopped up, and hang it by a thred within a Bottle-Glaſs, and ſtop <lb/>the Mouth of the Glaſs very cloſe with Wax, and then ſhake the Glaſs, and ſee <lb/>whether the Bell give any ſound at all, or how weak? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2392" xml:space="preserve">But note, that you muſt <lb/>inſtead of Thred take a Wire, or elſe let the Glais have a great Belly, leſt <lb/>when you ſhake the Bell, it daſh upon the ſides of the Glaſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2393" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div252" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0085-05" xlink:href="note-0085-05a" xml:space="preserve">213.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2394" xml:space="preserve">It is plain that a very long and down right arch for the Sound to paſs, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0085-06a" xlink:href="note-0085-06"/> will extinguiſh the Sound quite, ſo that that Sound, which would be heard <lb/>over a Wall, will not be heard over a Church; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2395" xml:space="preserve">nor that Sound, which will <lb/>be heard, if you ſtand ſome diſtance from the Wall, will be heard if you <lb/>ſtand cloſe under the Wall.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2396" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div253" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0085-06" xlink:href="note-0085-06a" xml:space="preserve">214.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2397" xml:space="preserve">So tand Foraminous Bodies in the firſt creation of the Sound, will dead <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0085-07a" xlink:href="note-0085-07"/> it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2398" xml:space="preserve">for the ſtriking againſt Cloth or Fur, will make little ſound, as hath been <lb/>ſaid: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2399" xml:space="preserve">But in the paſſage of the ſound, they will admit it better than harder <lb/>Bodies, as we ſee, that Curtains and Hangings will not ſtay the ſound much, <lb/>but Glaſs windows, if they be very cloſe, will check a ſound more, than the <lb/>like thickneſs of Cloth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2400" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo in the rumbling of the Belly, how <lb/>caſily the Sound paſſeth thorow the Guts and Skin.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2401" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div254" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0085-07" xlink:href="note-0085-07a" xml:space="preserve">215.</note> </div> <pb o="52" file="0086" n="86" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2402" xml:space="preserve">It is worthy the inquiry, whether great Sounds (as of Ordnance or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0086-01a" xlink:href="note-0086-01"/> Bells) become not more Weak and Exile, when they paſs thorow ſmall <lb/>Cranies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2403" xml:space="preserve">For the Subtilties of Articulate Sounds, (it may be) may paſs <lb/>thorow ſmall Cranies, not conſuſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2404" xml:space="preserve">but the magnitude of the Sound (per-<lb/>haps) not ſo well.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2405" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div255" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0086-01" xlink:href="note-0086-01a" xml:space="preserve">216.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2406" xml:space="preserve">THe Mediums of Sounds, are Air, ſoft and porous Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2407" xml:space="preserve">alſo Water, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0086-02a" xlink:href="note-0086-02"/> and hard Bodies reſuſe not altogether to be Mediums of Sounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2408" xml:space="preserve">But all <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0086-03a" xlink:href="note-0086-03"/> oſ<unsure/> them are dull and unapt differents, except the Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2409" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div256" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0086-02" xlink:href="note-0086-02a" xml:space="preserve">217.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0086-03" xlink:href="note-0086-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Medium of <lb/>Sounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2410" xml:space="preserve">In Air, the thinner or drier Air, carrieth not the Sound ſo well, as the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0086-04a" xlink:href="note-0086-04"/> more denſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2411" xml:space="preserve">as appeareth in Night Sounds, and Evening Sounds, and <lb/>Sounds in moiſt Weather, and Southern Winds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2412" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon is already <lb/>mentioned in the Title of Majoration of Sounds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2413" xml:space="preserve">being, for that thin Air is <lb/>better pierced, but thick Air preſerveth the Sound better from waſte: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2414" xml:space="preserve">Let <lb/>further Tryal be made by hollowing in Miſts, and gentle Showers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2415" xml:space="preserve">for (it <lb/>may be) that will ſome what dead the Sound.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2416" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div257" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0086-04" xlink:href="note-0086-04a" xml:space="preserve">218</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2417" xml:space="preserve">How far forth Flame may be a Medium of Sounds, (eſpecially of ſuch <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0086-05a" xlink:href="note-0086-05"/> Sounds as are created by Air, and not bet wixt hard Bodies) lebit be tried <lb/>in ſpeaking, where a Bonefire is between; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2418" xml:space="preserve">but then you muſt allow for ſome <lb/>diſturbance, the noiſe that the Flame it ſelf maketh.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2419" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div258" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0086-05" xlink:href="note-0086-05a" xml:space="preserve">219.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2420" xml:space="preserve">Whether any other Liquors being made Mediums, cauſe a diverſity of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0086-06a" xlink:href="note-0086-06"/> Sound from Water, it may be tryed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2421" xml:space="preserve">As by the knapping of the Tongs, or <lb/>ſtriking the bottom of a Veſſel filled either with Milk or with Oyl; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2422" xml:space="preserve">which though they be more light, yet are they more une qual Bodies than <lb/>Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2423" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div259" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0086-06" xlink:href="note-0086-06a" xml:space="preserve">220.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s2424" xml:space="preserve">Of the Natures of the Mediums, we have now ſpoken; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2425" xml:space="preserve">as for the Diſpoſi-<lb/># tion of the ſaid Mediums, it doth confiſt in the Penning, or not Penning <lb/># of the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2426" xml:space="preserve">of which, we have ſpoken before in the Title of Delation of <lb/># Sounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2427" xml:space="preserve">It conſiſteth alſo in the Figure of the Concave, through which <lb/># it paſſeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2428" xml:space="preserve">Of which, we will ſpeak next.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2429" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2430" xml:space="preserve">HOw the Figures of Pipes or Concaves, through which Sounds paſs, or of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0086-07a" xlink:href="note-0086-07"/> other Bodies different; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2431" xml:space="preserve">conduce to the variety and alteration of the <lb/>Sounds, either in reſpect of the greater quantity, or leſs quantity of Air, <lb/>which the Concaves receive; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2432" xml:space="preserve">or in reſpect of the carrying of Sounds longer <lb/>or ſhorter way; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2433" xml:space="preserve">or in reſpect of many other Circumſtances, they have been <lb/>touched, as falling into other Titles. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2434" xml:space="preserve">But thoſe Figures which we now are <lb/>to fpeak of, we intend to be, as they concern the Lines, through which <lb/>Sound paſſeth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2435" xml:space="preserve">As Straight, Crooked, Angular, Circular, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2436" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2437" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div260" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0086-07" xlink:href="note-0086-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>what the Fi-<lb/>gures of the <lb/>Pipes or Con-<lb/>caves, or the <lb/>Bodies diffe-<lb/>rens, conduce <lb/>to the Sounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2438" xml:space="preserve">The Figure of a Bell partaketh of the Pyramis, but yet coming off, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0086-08a" xlink:href="note-0086-08"/> dilating more ſuddenly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2439" xml:space="preserve">The Figure of a Hunters Horn, and Cornet, is oblick, yet <lb/>they have likewiſe ſtraight Horns; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2440" xml:space="preserve">which if they be of the ſame bore with <lb/>the oblick, differ little in Sound, ſave that the ſtraight require ſome what a <lb/>ſtronger blaſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2441" xml:space="preserve">The Figure of Recorders, and Flutes, and Pipes, are ſtraight; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2442" xml:space="preserve">but the Recorder hath a leſs bore, and a greater, above and below. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2443" xml:space="preserve">The Trumpet <lb/>hath the Figure of the Letter S. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2444" xml:space="preserve">which maketh that Purling Sound, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2445" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2446" xml:space="preserve">Gene-<lb/>rally, the ſtraight Line hath the cleaneſt and roundeſt Sound, and the crooked <lb/>the more Hoarſe, and Jarring.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2447" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div261" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0086-08" xlink:href="note-0086-08a" xml:space="preserve">221.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2448" xml:space="preserve">Of a Sinuous Pipe that may have ſome four Flexions, tryal would be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0086-09a" xlink:href="note-0086-09"/> made. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2449" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe of a Pipe made like a Croſs, open in the midſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2450" xml:space="preserve">and ſo <pb o="53" file="0087" n="87" rhead="Century III."/> likewiſe of an Angular Pipe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2451" xml:space="preserve">and ſee what will be the effects of theſe ſeveral <lb/>Sounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2452" xml:space="preserve">And ſo again of a Circular Pipe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2453" xml:space="preserve">As if you take a Pipe perfect <lb/>round, and make a hole whereinto you ſhall blow, and another hole not <lb/>far from that; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2454" xml:space="preserve">but with a traverſe or ſtop between them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2455" xml:space="preserve">So that your <lb/>breath may go the Round of the Circle, and come forth at the ſecond hole. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2456" xml:space="preserve">You may try likewiſe Percuſſions of ſolid Bodies of ſeveral Figures: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2457" xml:space="preserve">As <lb/>Globes, Flats, Cubes, Croſſes, Triangles, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2458" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2459" xml:space="preserve">And their Combinations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2460" xml:space="preserve">as Flat <lb/>againſt Flat, and Convex againſt Convex, and Convex againſt Flat, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2461" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2462" xml:space="preserve">And mark <lb/>well the diverſities of the Sounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2463" xml:space="preserve">Try alſo the difference in ſound of ſeve-<lb/>ral Craſſitudes of hard Bodies percuſſed, and take knowledge of the diver-<lb/>ſities of the ſounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2464" xml:space="preserve">I my ſelf have tried, That a Bell of Gold yieldeth an ex-<lb/>cellent ſound, not inferior to that of Silver or Braß, but rather better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2465" xml:space="preserve">Yet <lb/>we ſee that a piece of money of Gold, ſoundeth far more flat than a piece of <lb/>money of Silver.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2466" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div262" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0086-09" xlink:href="note-0086-09a" xml:space="preserve">222.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2467" xml:space="preserve">The Harp hath the concave, not along the ſtrings, but acroſs the ſtrings; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2468" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0087-01a" xlink:href="note-0087-01"/> and no Inſtrument hath the ſound ſo melting and prolonged, as the Iriſh Harp. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2469" xml:space="preserve">So as I ſuppoſe, that if a Virginal were made with a double Concave; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2470" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>one all the length as the Virginal hath, the other at the end of the ſtrings, as <lb/>the Harp hath; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2471" xml:space="preserve">it muſt needs make the ſound perfecter, and not ſo ſhallow, <lb/>and jarring. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2472" xml:space="preserve">You may try it without any Sound-board along, but onely <lb/>Harp wiſe, at one end of the ſtrings; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2473" xml:space="preserve">or laſtly, with a double concave, at <lb/>each end of the ſtrings one.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2474" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div263" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0087-01" xlink:href="note-0087-01a" xml:space="preserve">223.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2475" xml:space="preserve">THere is an apparent diverſity between the Species Viſible and Audible, in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0087-02a" xlink:href="note-0087-02"/> this. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2476" xml:space="preserve">That the Viſible doth not mingle in the Medium, but the Audible <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0087-03a" xlink:href="note-0087-03"/> doth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2477" xml:space="preserve">For if we look abroad, we ſee Heaven, a number of Stars, Trees, <lb/>Hills, Men, Beaſts, at once; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2478" xml:space="preserve">and the Species of the one, doth not confound <lb/>the other: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2479" xml:space="preserve">But if ſo many Sounds come from ſeveral parts, one of them <lb/>would utterly confound the other. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2480" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee, That Voices or Conſorts of <lb/>Muſick do make a harmony by mixture, which Colours do not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2481" xml:space="preserve">It is true <lb/>nevertheleſs, that a great light drowno<unsure/>th a ſmaller, that it cannot be ſeen; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2482" xml:space="preserve">as the Sun that of a Gloworm, as well as a great ſound drowneth a leſſer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2483" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And I ſuppoſe likewiſe, that if there were two Lanthorns of Glaſs, the <lb/>one a Crimſio, and the other an Azure, and a Candle within either of <lb/>them, thoſe coloured lights, would mingle and caſt upon a White Paper, a <lb/>Purple colour. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2484" xml:space="preserve">And even in colours, they yield a faint and weak mixture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2485" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>for White Walls make rooms more lightſome, than Black, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2486" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2487" xml:space="preserve">But the <lb/>cauſe of the Confuſion in Sounds, and the Inconfuſion in Species Viſible, is, <lb/>For that the Sight worketh in right Lines, and maketh ſeveral Cones; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2488" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>ſo there can be no Coincidencein the Eye, or Viſual Point: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2489" xml:space="preserve">But Sounds that <lb/>move in oblick and arcuate Lines, muſt needs encounter, and diſturb the one <lb/>the other.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2490" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div264" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0087-02" xlink:href="note-0087-02a" xml:space="preserve">224.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0087-03" xlink:href="note-0087-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Mixture of <lb/>Sounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2491" xml:space="preserve">The ſweeteſt and beſt Harmony is, when every Part or Inſtrument is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0087-04a" xlink:href="note-0087-04"/> not heard by it ſelf, but a conflation of them all, which requireth to ſtand <lb/>ſome diſtance off. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2492" xml:space="preserve">Even as it is in the mixture of perfumes, or the taking of <lb/>the ſmells of ſeveral Flowers in the Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2493" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div265" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0087-04" xlink:href="note-0087-04a" xml:space="preserve">225.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2494" xml:space="preserve">The diſpoſition of the Air, in other qualities, except it be joyned with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0087-05a" xlink:href="note-0087-05"/> Sound, hath no great operation upon Sounds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2495" xml:space="preserve">For whether the Air be <lb/>lightſome or dark, hot or cold, quiet or ſtirring, (except it be with noiſ<unsure/>e) <lb/>ſweet ſmelling, or ſtinking, or the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2496" xml:space="preserve">it importeth not much. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2497" xml:space="preserve">Some petty <lb/>alteration or difference it may make.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2498" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div266" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0087-05" xlink:href="note-0087-05a" xml:space="preserve">226.</note> </div> <pb o="54" file="0088" n="88" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2499" xml:space="preserve">But Sounds do diſturb and alter the one the other: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2500" xml:space="preserve">Sometimes the one <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0088-01a" xlink:href="note-0088-01"/> drowning the other, and making it not heard; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2501" xml:space="preserve">ſometimes the one jarring and <lb/>diſcording with the other, and making a conſuſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2502" xml:space="preserve">ſometimes the one ming-<lb/>ling and compounding with the other, and making an harmony.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2503" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div267" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0088-01" xlink:href="note-0088-01a" xml:space="preserve">227.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2504" xml:space="preserve">Two Voices of like loudneſs, will not be heard twice as far, as one of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0088-02a" xlink:href="note-0088-02"/> them alone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2505" xml:space="preserve">and two Candles of like light, will not make things ſeem twice <lb/>as far off, as one. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2506" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is profound, but it ſeemeth, that the Impreſſi-<lb/>ons from the objects of the Senſes, do mingle reſpectively, every one with <lb/>his kinde; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2507" xml:space="preserve">but not in proportion, as is before demonſtrated: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2508" xml:space="preserve">And the reaſon <lb/>may be, becauſe the firſt impreſſion, which is from Privative to Active, (as <lb/>from Silence to Noiſe, or from Darkneſs to Light,) is a greater degree, than <lb/>from leſs noiſe, to more noiſe, or from leſs light, to more light. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2509" xml:space="preserve">And the <lb/>reaſon of that again may be, For that the Air, after it hath received a charge, <lb/>doth not receive a ſurcharge, or greater charge, with like appetite, as it <lb/>doth the firſt charge. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2510" xml:space="preserve">As for the increaſe of Vertue generally, what propor-<lb/>tion it beareth to the increaſe of the Matter, it is a large Field, and to be <lb/>handled by it ſelf.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2511" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div268" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0088-02" xlink:href="note-0088-02a" xml:space="preserve">228.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2512" xml:space="preserve">ALL Reflexions Concurrent, do make Sounds greater; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2513" xml:space="preserve">but if the Body <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0088-03a" xlink:href="note-0088-03"/> that createth, either the original Sound, or the Reflexion, be clean and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0088-04a" xlink:href="note-0088-04"/> ſmooth it maketh them ſweeter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2514" xml:space="preserve">Tryal may be made of a Lute or Vial, with <lb/>the Belly of poliſhed Braſs in ſtead of Wood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2515" xml:space="preserve">We ſee, that even in the open <lb/>Air, the Wire-ſtring is ſweeter than the ſtring of Guts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2516" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee, that for Re-<lb/>flexion, Water excelleth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2517" xml:space="preserve">as in Muſick near the Water, or in Eccho’s.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2518" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div269" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0088-03" xlink:href="note-0088-03a" xml:space="preserve">229.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0088-04" xlink:href="note-0088-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Meloration of <lb/>Sounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2519" xml:space="preserve">It hath been tryed, that a Pipe, a little moiſtned on the inſide, but yet <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0088-05a" xlink:href="note-0088-05"/> ſo as there be no drops leſt, maketh a more ſolemn ſound, than if the Pipe <lb/>were dry; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2520" xml:space="preserve">but yet with a ſweet degree of Sibilation or Purling, as we touched <lb/>it before in the Title of Equality. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2521" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that all things porous, be-<lb/>ing ſuperficially wet, and (as it were) between dry and wet, become a little <lb/>more even and ſmooth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2522" xml:space="preserve">but the Purling (which muſt needs proceed of In-<lb/>equality) I take to be bred between the ſmoothneſs of the inward Surſace <lb/>of the Pipe which is wet, and the reſt of the Wood of the Pipe, unto which <lb/>the wet cometh not, but it remaineth dry.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2523" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div270" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0088-05" xlink:href="note-0088-05a" xml:space="preserve">230.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2524" xml:space="preserve">In Froſty weather, Muſick within doors ſoundeth better; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2525" xml:space="preserve">which may <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0088-06a" xlink:href="note-0088-06"/> be, by reaſon not of the diſpoſition of the Air, but of the Wood or String of <lb/>the Inſtrument, which is made more criſp, and ſo more porous and hollow; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2526" xml:space="preserve">and we ſee that Old Lutes ſound better than New, for the ſame reaſon: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2527" xml:space="preserve">And ſo <lb/>do Lute-ſtrings that have been kept long.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2528" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div271" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0088-06" xlink:href="note-0088-06a" xml:space="preserve">231.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2529" xml:space="preserve">Sound is like wiſe meliorated by the mingling of open Air with pent Air: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2530" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0088-07a" xlink:href="note-0088-07"/> Therefore tryal may be made of a Lute or Vial with a double Belly, making <lb/>another Belly with a knot over the ſtring; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2531" xml:space="preserve">yet ſo, as there be room enough <lb/>for the ſtrings, and room enough to play below that Belly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2532" xml:space="preserve">Tryal may be <lb/>alſo made of an Irish Harp, with a concave on both ſides, whereas it uſeth to <lb/>have it but on one ſide. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2533" xml:space="preserve">The doubt may be, leſt it ſhould make too much re-<lb/>ſounding, whereby one Note would overtake another.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2534" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div272" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0088-07" xlink:href="note-0088-07a" xml:space="preserve">232.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2535" xml:space="preserve">If you ſing in the hole of a Drum, it maketh the ſinging more ſweet. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2536" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0088-08a" xlink:href="note-0088-08"/> And ſo I conceive it would, if it were a Song in Parts ſung into ſeveral Drums; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2537" xml:space="preserve">and for handſomneſ<unsure/>s and ſtrangeneſs ſake, it would not be amiſs to have a <lb/>Curtain between the place where the Drums are, and the hearers.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2538" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div273" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0088-08" xlink:href="note-0088-08a" xml:space="preserve">233.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2539" xml:space="preserve">When a ſound is created in the Wind-Inſtrument, between the Breath and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0088-09a" xlink:href="note-0088-09"/> Air, yet if the ſound be communicate with a more equal Body of the Pipe, <pb o="55" file="0089" n="89" rhead="Century III."/> it meliorateth the ſound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2540" xml:space="preserve">For (no dobut) there would be a differing ſound <lb/>in a Trumpet or Pipe of Wood, and again, in a Trumpet or Pipe oſ Braſs. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2541" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try Recorders and Hunters Horns of Braß, what the ſound <lb/>would be.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2542" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div274" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0088-09" xlink:href="note-0088-09a" xml:space="preserve">234.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2543" xml:space="preserve">Sounds are meliorated by the Intenſion of the Senſe, where the common <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0089-01a" xlink:href="note-0089-01"/> Senſe is collected moſt to the particular Senſe of Hearing, and the Sight ſuſ-<lb/>pended: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2544" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Sounds are ſweeter, as well as greater, in the Night <lb/>than in the Day; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2545" xml:space="preserve">and I ſuppoſe, they are ſweeter to blinde men, than to <lb/>others: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2546" xml:space="preserve">And it is manifeſt, that between ſleeping and waking, (when all the <lb/>Senſes are bound and ſuſpended) Muſick is far ſweeter than when one is fully <lb/>waking.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2547" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div275" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0089-01" xlink:href="note-0089-01a" xml:space="preserve">235</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2548" xml:space="preserve">IT is a thing ſtrange in Nature, when it is attentively conſidered, How <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0089-02a" xlink:href="note-0089-02"/> Children and ſome Birds learn to imitate Speech. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2549" xml:space="preserve">They take no mark at <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0089-03a" xlink:href="note-0089-03"/> all of the Motion of the Mouth of him that ſpeaketh, for Birds are as well <lb/>taught in the dark, as by light. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2550" xml:space="preserve">The ſounds of Speech are very curious and <lb/>exquiſite; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2551" xml:space="preserve">ſo one would think it were a Leſſon hard to learn. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2552" xml:space="preserve">It is true, <lb/>that it is done with time, and by little and little, and with many eſſays and <lb/>proffers: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2553" xml:space="preserve">But all this diſchargeth not the wonder. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2554" xml:space="preserve">It would make a Man <lb/>think (though this, which we ſhall ſay, may ſeem exceeding ſtrange) that <lb/>there is ſome tranſmiſſion of Spirits, and that the Spirit of the Teacher put <lb/>in motion, ſhould work with the Spirits of the Learner, a prediſpoſition to <lb/>offer to imitate, and ſo to perfect the imitation by degrees. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2555" xml:space="preserve">But touching <lb/>Operations by Tranſmiſſions of Spirits (which is one of the higheſt ſecrets in <lb/>Nature) we ſhall ſpeak in due place, chiefly when we come to inquire of <lb/>Imagination. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2556" xml:space="preserve">But as for Imitation, it is certain, That there is in Men, and <lb/>other Creatures, a prediſpoſition to imitate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2557" xml:space="preserve">We ſee how ready Apes and <lb/>Monkies are to imitate all motions of Man: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2558" xml:space="preserve">And in the catching of Dot-<lb/>trels, we ſee how the fooliſh Bird playeth the Ape in geſtures: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2559" xml:space="preserve">And no Man <lb/>(in effect) doth accompany with others, but he learneth (ere he is aware) <lb/>ſome Geſture, or Voice, or Faſhion of the other.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2560" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div276" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0089-02" xlink:href="note-0089-02a" xml:space="preserve">236.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0089-03" xlink:href="note-0089-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Imitation of <lb/>Sounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2561" xml:space="preserve">In Imitation of Sounds, that Man ſhould be the Teacher, is no part of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0089-04a" xlink:href="note-0089-04"/> matter: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2562" xml:space="preserve">For Birds will learn one of another, and there is no reward by feed-<lb/>ing, or the like, given them for the imitation: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2563" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, you ſhall have <lb/>Parrets that will not onely imitate Voices, but Laughing, Knocking, Squeak-<lb/>ing of a Door upon the Hinges, or of a Cart wheel, and (in effect) any other <lb/>noiſe they hear.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2564" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div277" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0089-04" xlink:href="note-0089-04a" xml:space="preserve">237.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2565" xml:space="preserve">No Beaſt can imitate the Speech of Man, but Birds onely: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2566" xml:space="preserve">For the Ape <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0089-05a" xlink:href="note-0089-05"/> it ſelf, that is ſo ready to imitate other wiſe, attaineth not any degree of imi-<lb/>tation of Speech. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2567" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that I have known a Dog, that if one howled <lb/>in his ear, he would fall a howling a great while. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2568" xml:space="preserve">What ſhould be the aptneſs <lb/>of Birds, in compariſon of Beaſts, to imitate the Speech of Man, may be fur-<lb/>ther inquired. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2569" xml:space="preserve">We ſee that Beaſts have thoſe parts, which they count the <lb/>Inſtruments of Speech, (as Lips, Teeth, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2570" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2571" xml:space="preserve">liker unto Man than Birds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2572" xml:space="preserve">As for <lb/>the Neck, by which the Throat paſſeth, we ſee many Beaſts have it for the <lb/>length, as much as Birds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2573" xml:space="preserve">What better gorge or attire Birds have, may be <lb/>further inquired. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2574" xml:space="preserve">The Birds that are known to be ſpeakers, are Parrets, Pyes, <lb/>Jays, Daws, and Ravens: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2575" xml:space="preserve">Of which, Parrets have an adunck Bill, but the <lb/>reſt not.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2576" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div278" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0089-05" xlink:href="note-0089-05a" xml:space="preserve">238.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2577" xml:space="preserve">But I conceive, that the aptneſs of Birds is not ſo much in the confor-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0089-06a" xlink:href="note-0089-06"/> mi<unsure/>ty of the Organs of Speech, as in their Attention. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2578" xml:space="preserve">For Speech muſt come <lb/>by Hearing and Learning; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2579" xml:space="preserve">and Birds give more heed, and mark Sounds <pb o="56" file="0090" n="90" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> more than Beaſts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2580" xml:space="preserve">becauſe naturally they are more delighted with them, <lb/>and practiſe them more, as appeareth in their Singing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2581" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that <lb/>thoſe that teach Birds to ſing, do keep them waking, to increaſe their <lb/>attention. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2582" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that Cock-Birds, amongſt Singing-Birds, are ever <lb/>the better ſingers, which may be, becauſe they are more lively, and liſten <lb/>more.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2583" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div279" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0089-06" xlink:href="note-0089-06a" xml:space="preserve">239.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2584" xml:space="preserve">Labor and Intention to imitate Voices, doth conduce muchto Imitation: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2585" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0090-01a" xlink:href="note-0090-01"/> And therefore we ſee, that there be certain Pantomimi, that will repreſent <lb/>the Voices of Players of Interludes, ſo to life, as if you ſee them not, you <lb/>would think they were thoſe Players themſelves, and ſo the Voices of other <lb/>men that they hear.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2586" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div280" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0090-01" xlink:href="note-0090-01a" xml:space="preserve">240.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2587" xml:space="preserve">There have been ſome that could counterfeit the diſtance of Voices, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0090-02a" xlink:href="note-0090-02"/> (which is a ſecondary object of Hearing) in ſuch ſort; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2588" xml:space="preserve">as when they ſtand <lb/>faſt by you, you would think the Speech came from afar off, in a fearful <lb/>manner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2589" xml:space="preserve">How this is done, may be further enquired; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2590" xml:space="preserve">but I ſee no greatuſe <lb/>of it, but for Impoſture, in counterfeiting ghoſts or ſpirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2591" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div281" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0090-02" xlink:href="note-0090-02a" xml:space="preserve">241.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2592" xml:space="preserve">THere be three kindes of Reflexions of Sounds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2593" xml:space="preserve">a Reflexion Concurrent, a Re-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0090-03a" xlink:href="note-0090-03"/> flexion Iterant, which we call Eccho, and a Super-reflexion, or an Eccho of an <lb/>Eccho, whereof the firſt hath been handled in the Title of Magnitude of <lb/>Sounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2594" xml:space="preserve">The latter two we will now ſpeak of.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2595" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div282" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0090-03" xlink:href="note-0090-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Reflexion of <lb/>Sounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2596" xml:space="preserve">The Reflexion of Species Viſible by Mirrors, you may command, becauſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0090-04a" xlink:href="note-0090-04"/> paſſing it Right Lines, they may be guided to any point: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2597" xml:space="preserve">But the Reflexion <lb/>of Sounds, is hard to maſter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2598" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the ſound filling great ſpaces in arched <lb/>Lines, cannot be ſo guided. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2599" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, we ſee there hath not been <lb/>practiſed any means to make Artificial Eccho’s. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2600" xml:space="preserve">And no Eccho already <lb/>known, returneth in a very narrow room.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2601" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div283" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0090-04" xlink:href="note-0090-04a" xml:space="preserve">242.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2602" xml:space="preserve">The Natural Eccho’s are made upon Walls, Woods, Rocks, Hills, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0090-05a" xlink:href="note-0090-05"/> Banks: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2603" xml:space="preserve">As for Waters being near, they make a Concurrent Eccho; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2604" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>being further off, (as upon a large River) they make an Interant Eccho: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2605" xml:space="preserve">Forthere is no difference between the Concurrent Eccho, and the Iterant, <lb/>but the quickneſs or ſlowneſs of the return. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2606" xml:space="preserve">But there is no doubt, but Wa-<lb/>ter doth help the Delation of Eccho, as well as it helpeth the Delation of <lb/>Original Sounds.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2607" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div284" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0090-05" xlink:href="note-0090-05a" xml:space="preserve">243.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2608" xml:space="preserve">It is certain (as hath been formerly touched,) that if you ſpeak thorow <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0090-06a" xlink:href="note-0090-06"/> a Trunck, ſtopped at the further end, you ſhall finde a blaſt return upon your <lb/>mouth, but no ſound at all. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2609" xml:space="preserve">The cauſeis, for that the cloſeneſs, which pre-<lb/>ſerveth the original, is not able to preſerve the reflected ſound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2610" xml:space="preserve">beſides that, <lb/>Eccho’s are ſeldom created, but by loud Sounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2611" xml:space="preserve">And therefore there is <lb/>leſs hope of Artificial Eccho’s in Air, pentin a narrow concave. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2612" xml:space="preserve">Neverthe-<lb/>leſs it hath been tryed, that one leaning over a Well of Twenty five fathom <lb/>deep, and ſpeaking, though but ſoftly, (yet not ſo ſoft as a whiſper) the <lb/>Water returned a good audible Eccho. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2613" xml:space="preserve">It would be tryed, whether ſpeaking <lb/>in Caves, where there is no iſſue, ſave where you ſpeak, will not yield Eccho’s <lb/>as Wells do.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2614" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div285" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0090-06" xlink:href="note-0090-06a" xml:space="preserve">244.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2615" xml:space="preserve">The Eccho cometh as the Original Sound doth in a round orb of Air: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2616" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0090-07a" xlink:href="note-0090-07"/> It were good to try the creating of the Eccho, where the Body repercuſſing <lb/>maketh an Angle: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2617" xml:space="preserve">As againſt the Return of a Wall, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2618" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2619" xml:space="preserve">Alſo we ſee that <lb/>in Mirrors, there is the like Angle of Incidence, from the Object to the <lb/>Glaſs, and from the Glaſs to the Eye. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2620" xml:space="preserve">And if you ſtrike a Ball ſide-long, not <lb/>full upon the Surface, the rebound will be as much the contrary way; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2621" xml:space="preserve">whe- <pb o="57" file="0091" n="91" rhead="Century III."/> ther there be any ſuch reſilience in Eccho’s (that is, Whether a Ma<unsure/>n ſhall <lb/>hear better, if he ſtand aſide the Body repercuſſing, than iſ he ſtand where <lb/>he ſpeaketh, or any where in a right Line between) may betried; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2622" xml:space="preserve">Tryal like-<lb/>wiſe would be made, by ſtanding nearer the place of repercuſſing, than he <lb/>that ſpeaketh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2623" xml:space="preserve">and again, by ſtanding further off, than he that ſpeaketh, and <lb/>ſo knowledge would be taken, whether Eccho’s, as well as Original Sounds, <lb/>be not ſtron geſt near hand.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2624" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div286" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0090-07" xlink:href="note-0090-07a" xml:space="preserve">245.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2625" xml:space="preserve">There be many places, where you ſhall hear a number of Eccho’s one <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0091-01a" xlink:href="note-0091-01"/> after another; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2626" xml:space="preserve">and it is, when there is variety of Hills or Woods, ſome nearer, <lb/>ſome ſurther off: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2627" xml:space="preserve">So that the return from the further, being laſt created, will <lb/>be likewiſe laſt heard.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2628" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div287" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0091-01" xlink:href="note-0091-01a" xml:space="preserve">246.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2629" xml:space="preserve">As the Voice goeth round, as well towards the back, as towards the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0091-02a" xlink:href="note-0091-02"/> front of him that ſpeaketh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2630" xml:space="preserve">ſo likewiſe doth the Eccho, for you have many <lb/>Back-eccho’s to the place where you ſtand.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2631" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div288" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0091-02" xlink:href="note-0091-02a" xml:space="preserve">247.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2632" xml:space="preserve">To make an Eccho that will report three, or four, or five words <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0091-03a" xlink:href="note-0091-03"/> dinſtinctly, it is requiſite, that the Body repercuſſing be a good diſtance <lb/>off: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2633" xml:space="preserve">For if it be near, and yet not ſo near, as to make a Concurrent <lb/>Eccho, it choppeth with you upon the ſudden. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2634" xml:space="preserve">It is requifite likewiſe, <lb/>that the Air be not much pent: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2635" xml:space="preserve">For Air, at great diſtance, pent, work-<lb/>eth the ſame effect with Air at large, in a ſmall diſtance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2636" xml:space="preserve">And there-<lb/>ſore in the Tryal of Speaking in the Well, though the Well was deep, <lb/>the Voice came back ſuddenly, and would bear the report but of two <lb/>words.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2637" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div289" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0091-03" xlink:href="note-0091-03a" xml:space="preserve">248.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2638" xml:space="preserve">From Eccho’s upon Eccho’s, there is a rare inſtance thereof in a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0091-04a" xlink:href="note-0091-04"/> place, which I will now exactly deſcribe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2639" xml:space="preserve">It is ſome Three or four <lb/>Miles from Paris, near a Town called Pont-Carenton; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2640" xml:space="preserve">and ſome Bird-<lb/>bolt ſhot or more from the River of Sean. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2641" xml:space="preserve">The Room is a Chappel, <lb/>or ſmall Church; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2642" xml:space="preserve">the Walls all ſtanding, both at the ſides, and at the <lb/>ends; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2643" xml:space="preserve">two rows of Pillars after the manner of Iſles of Churches, alſo <lb/>ſtanding; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2644" xml:space="preserve">the Roof all open, not ſo much as any Embowment near <lb/>any of the Walls left. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2645" xml:space="preserve">There was againſt every Pillar, a ſtack of Bil-<lb/>lets above a Mans height, which the Watermen, that bring Wood <lb/>down the Sean, in Stacks, and not in Boats, laid there (as it ſeemeth) <lb/>for their eaſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2646" xml:space="preserve">Speaking at the one end, I did hear it return the Voice <lb/>Thirteen ſeveral times; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2647" xml:space="preserve">and I have heard of others, that it would re-<lb/>turn Sixteen times; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2648" xml:space="preserve">for I was there about three of the Clock in the After-<lb/>noon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2649" xml:space="preserve">and it is beſt, (as all other Eccho’s are) in the Evening. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2650" xml:space="preserve">It is <lb/>manifeſt, that it is not Eccho’s from ſeveral places, but a toſſing of the <lb/>Voice, as a Ball too and fro; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2651" xml:space="preserve">like to Reflexions in Looking-Glaſſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2652" xml:space="preserve">where <lb/>if you place one Glaſs before, and another behinde, you thall ſee the Glaſs <lb/>behinde with the Image, within the Glaſs before; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2653" xml:space="preserve">and again, the Glaſs <lb/>before in that: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2654" xml:space="preserve">And divers ſuch Super-Reflexions, till the Species ſpeciei at <lb/>laſt die: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2655" xml:space="preserve">For it is every return weaker, and more ſhady. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2656" xml:space="preserve">In like manner, <lb/>the Voice in that Chappel, createth Speciem ſpeciei, and maketh ſucceeding <lb/>Super-Reflexions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2657" xml:space="preserve">for it melteth by degrees, and every Reflexion is <lb/>weaker than the former: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2658" xml:space="preserve">So that, if you ſpeak three words, it will (per-<lb/>haps) ſome three times report you the whole three words; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2659" xml:space="preserve">and then the <lb/>two latter words for ſometimes, and then the laſt word alone for ſome-<lb/>times, ſtill fading and growing weaker. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2660" xml:space="preserve">And whereas in Eccho’s of <lb/>one return, it is much to hear Four or five words. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2661" xml:space="preserve">In this Eccho of <lb/>ſo many Returns, upon the matter, you hear above Twenty words for <lb/>three.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2662" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div290" type="float" level="2" n="51"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0091-04" xlink:href="note-0091-04a" xml:space="preserve">249.</note> </div> <pb o="58" file="0092" n="92" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2663" xml:space="preserve">The like Eccho upon Eccho, but onely with two reports, hath been <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0092-01a" xlink:href="note-0092-01"/> obſerved to be, if you ſtand between a Houſe and a Hill, and lure towards <lb/>the Hill; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2664" xml:space="preserve">for the Houſe will give a Back Eccho: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2665" xml:space="preserve">One taking it from the <lb/>other, and the latter the weaker.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2666" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div291" type="float" level="2" n="52"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-01" xlink:href="note-0092-01a" xml:space="preserve">250.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2667" xml:space="preserve">There are certain Letters, that an Eccho will hardly expreſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2668" xml:space="preserve">As S for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0092-02a" xlink:href="note-0092-02"/> one, eſpecially being principal in a word. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2669" xml:space="preserve">I remember well, that when <lb/>I went to the Eccho at Pont-Carenton, there was an old Pariſian that took it <lb/>to be the Work of Spirits, and of good Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2670" xml:space="preserve">For (ſaid he) call Satan, <lb/>and the Eccho will not deliver back the Devils name: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2671" xml:space="preserve">But will ſay, Vat’en, <lb/>which is as much in French, as Apage, or Avoid. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2672" xml:space="preserve">And thereby I did hap to <lb/>finde, that an Eccho would not return S, being but a Hiſſing and an Interior <lb/>Sound.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2673" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div292" type="float" level="2" n="53"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-02" xlink:href="note-0092-02a" xml:space="preserve">251.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2674" xml:space="preserve">Eccho’s are ſome more ſudden, and chap again as ſoon as the Voice is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0092-03a" xlink:href="note-0092-03"/> delivered, as hath been partly ſaid; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2675" xml:space="preserve">others are more deliberate, that is, give <lb/>more ſpace between the Voice and the Eccho, which is cauſed by the Local <lb/>nearneſs or diſtance: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2676" xml:space="preserve">Some will report a longer train of words,<unsure/> and ſome <lb/>a ſhorter: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2677" xml:space="preserve">Some more loud (full as loud as the Original, and ſometimes <lb/>more loud) and ſome weaker and fainter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2678" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div293" type="float" level="2" n="54"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-03" xlink:href="note-0092-03a" xml:space="preserve">252.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2679" xml:space="preserve">Where Eccho’s come from ſeveral parts, at the ſame diſtance they muſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0092-04a" xlink:href="note-0092-04"/> needs make (as it were) a Quire of Eccho’s, and ſo make the Report greater, <lb/>and even a continued Eccho; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2680" xml:space="preserve">which you ſhall finde in ſome Hills that ſtand <lb/>encompaſſed, Theatre-like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2681" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div294" type="float" level="2" n="55"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-04" xlink:href="note-0092-04a" xml:space="preserve">253.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2682" xml:space="preserve">It doth not yet appear, that there is Refraction in Sounds, as well as in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0092-05a" xlink:href="note-0092-05"/> Species Viſible. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2683" xml:space="preserve">For I do notthink, that if a Sound ſhould paſs through di-<lb/>vers Mediums, as Air, Cloth, Wood, it would deliver the Sound in a differing <lb/>place, from that unto which it is deferred; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2684" xml:space="preserve">which is the proper effect of <lb/>Refraction. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2685" xml:space="preserve">But Majoration, which is alſo the Work of Refraction, appear-<lb/>eth plainly in Sounds, (as hath been handled at full) but it is not by diverſity <lb/>of Mediums.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2686" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div295" type="float" level="2" n="56"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-05" xlink:href="note-0092-05a" xml:space="preserve">254.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2687" xml:space="preserve">WE have Obiter, for Demonſtrations ſake, uſed in divers Inſtances, the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0092-06a" xlink:href="note-0092-06"/> Examples of the Sight, and Things Viſible, to illuſtrate the Nature of <lb/>Sounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2688" xml:space="preserve">But we think good now to proſecute that Compariſon more <lb/>fully.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2689" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div296" type="float" level="2" n="57"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-06" xlink:href="note-0092-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Conſent and <lb/>Diſſent be-<lb/>tween Viſibles <lb/>and Audibles.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div298" type="section" level="1" n="23"> <head xml:id="echoid-head33" xml:space="preserve">Conſent of Viſibles and Audibles.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2690" xml:space="preserve">BOth of them ſpred themſelves in Round, and fill a whole Flore or Orb <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0092-07a" xlink:href="note-0092-07"/> unto certain Limits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2691" xml:space="preserve">and are carried a great way, and do languiſh and <lb/>leſſen by degrees, according to the Diſtance of the Objects from the <lb/>Senſories.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2692" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div298" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-07" xlink:href="note-0092-07a" xml:space="preserve">255.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2693" xml:space="preserve">Both of them have the whole Species in every ſmall portion of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0092-08a" xlink:href="note-0092-08"/> Air or Medium, ſo as the Species do paſs through ſmall Cranies, without <lb/>confuſion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2694" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee ordinarily in Levels, as to the Eye; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2695" xml:space="preserve">and in Cranies, <lb/>or Chinks, as to the Sound.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2696" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div299" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-08" xlink:href="note-0092-08a" xml:space="preserve">256.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2697" xml:space="preserve">Both of them are of a ſudden and eaſi e Generation and Delation, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0092-09a" xlink:href="note-0092-09"/> likewiſe periſh ſwiftly and ſuddenly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2698" xml:space="preserve">as if y ou remove the Light, or touch <lb/>the Bodies that give the Sound.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2699" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div300" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-09" xlink:href="note-0092-09a" xml:space="preserve">257.</note> </div> <pb o="59" file="0093" n="93" rhead="Century III."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2700" xml:space="preserve">Both of them do receive and carry exquiſite, and accurate differences; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2701" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0093-01a" xlink:href="note-0093-01"/> as of Colours, Figures, Motions, Diſtances, in Viſibles; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2702" xml:space="preserve">and of Articulate <lb/>Voices, Tones, Songs, and Quaverings, in Audibles.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2703" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div301" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-01" xlink:href="note-0093-01a" xml:space="preserve">258</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2704" xml:space="preserve">Both of them in their Vertue and Working, do not appear to emit any <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0093-02a" xlink:href="note-0093-02"/> Corporal Subſtance into their Mediums, or the Orb of their Vertue; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2705" xml:space="preserve">neither <lb/>again to riſe or ſtir any evident Local Motion in their Mediums as they paſs, <lb/>but onely to carry certain Spiritual Species. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2706" xml:space="preserve">The perfect knowledge of the <lb/>cauſe whereof, being hitherto ſcarcely attained, we ſhall ſearch and handle <lb/>in due place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2707" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div302" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-02" xlink:href="note-0093-02a" xml:space="preserve">259.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2708" xml:space="preserve">Both of them ſeem not to generate or produce any other effect in Na-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0093-03a" xlink:href="note-0093-03"/> ture, but ſuch as appertaineth to their proper Objects and Senſes, and are <lb/>otherwiſe barren.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2709" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div303" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-03" xlink:href="note-0093-03a" xml:space="preserve">260.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2710" xml:space="preserve">But both of them in their own proper action, do work three manifeſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0093-04a" xlink:href="note-0093-04"/> effects. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2711" xml:space="preserve">The firſt, in that the ſtronger pieces drowneth the leſſer: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2712" xml:space="preserve">As the <lb/>light of the Sun, the light of a Gloworm, the report of an Ordnance, the <lb/>Voice. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2713" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond, in that an Object of ſurcharge or exceſs, deſtroyeth the <lb/>Senſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2714" xml:space="preserve">As the light of the Sun the eye, a violent ſound (near the Ear) the <lb/>Hearing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2715" xml:space="preserve">The third, in that both of them will be reverberate: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2716" xml:space="preserve">As in Mir-<lb/>rors, and in Eccho’s.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2717" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div304" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-04" xlink:href="note-0093-04a" xml:space="preserve">261.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2718" xml:space="preserve">Neither of them doth deſtroy or hinder the Species of the other, al-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0093-05a" xlink:href="note-0093-05"/> though they encounter in the ſame Medium: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2719" xml:space="preserve">As Light or Colour hinder not <lb/>ſound, nor è contrà.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2720" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div305" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-05" xlink:href="note-0093-05a" xml:space="preserve">262.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2721" xml:space="preserve">Both of them affect the Senſe in Living Creatures, and yield Objects of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0093-06a" xlink:href="note-0093-06"/> Pleaſure and Diſlike; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2722" xml:space="preserve">yet nevertheleſs, the Objects of them do alſo (if it <lb/>be well obſerved) affect and work upon dead things; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2723" xml:space="preserve">namely ſuch, as have <lb/>ſome conformity with the Organs of the two Senſes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2724" xml:space="preserve">As Viſibles work up-<lb/>on a Looking-glaß, which is like the Pupil of the Eye; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2725" xml:space="preserve">and Audibles upon the <lb/>places of Eccho, which reſemble, in ſome ſort, the cavern and ſtructure of <lb/>the Ear.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2726" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div306" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-06" xlink:href="note-0093-06a" xml:space="preserve">263.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2727" xml:space="preserve">Both of them do diverſly work, as they have their Medium diverſly <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0093-07a" xlink:href="note-0093-07"/> diſpoſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2728" xml:space="preserve">So a Trembling Medium (as ſmoak) maketh the object ſeem to trem-<lb/>ble; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2729" xml:space="preserve">and Riſing or Falling Medium (as Winds) maketh the Sounds to riſe or <lb/>fall.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2730" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div307" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-07" xlink:href="note-0093-07a" xml:space="preserve">264.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2731" xml:space="preserve">To both, the Medium, which is the moſt propitious and conducible, is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0093-08a" xlink:href="note-0093-08"/> Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2732" xml:space="preserve">For Glaſs or Water, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2733" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2734" xml:space="preserve">are not compairable.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2735" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div308" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-08" xlink:href="note-0093-08a" xml:space="preserve">265.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2736" xml:space="preserve">In both of them, where the object is fine and accurate, it conduceth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0093-09a" xlink:href="note-0093-09"/> much to have the Senſe intentive, and erect; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2737" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as you contract <lb/>youreye, when you would ſee ſharply, and erect your ear, when you would <lb/>hear attentively; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2738" xml:space="preserve">which in Beaſts<unsure/> that have ears moveable, is moſt <lb/>manifeſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2739" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div309" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-09" xlink:href="note-0093-09a" xml:space="preserve">266.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2740" xml:space="preserve">The Beams of Light, when they are multiplied and conglomerate, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0093-10a" xlink:href="note-0093-10"/> generate heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2741" xml:space="preserve">which is a different action, from the action of Sight: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2742" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>the Multiplication and Conglomeration of Sounds, doth generate an ex-<lb/>tream Rarefaction of the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2743" xml:space="preserve">which is an action materiate, differing from <lb/>the action of Sound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2744" xml:space="preserve">If it betrue (which is anciently reported) that Birds, <lb/>with great ſhouts, have faln down.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2745" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div310" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0093-10" xlink:href="note-0093-10a" xml:space="preserve">267.</note> </div> <pb o="60" file="0094" n="94" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div312" type="section" level="1" n="24"> <head xml:id="echoid-head34" xml:space="preserve">Diſſent of Viſibles and Audibles.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2746" xml:space="preserve">THe Species of Viſibles, ſeem to be Emißions of Beams ſrom the Object ſeen, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0094-01a" xlink:href="note-0094-01"/> almoſt like Odors, ſave that they are more incorporeal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2747" xml:space="preserve">but the Species <lb/>of Audibles, ſeem to participate more with Local Motion, like Peroußions or Im-<lb/>preßions made upon the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2748" xml:space="preserve">So that whereas all Bodies do ſeem to work in <lb/>two manners, Either by the Communication of their Natures, or by the Im <lb/>preßions and Signatures of their Motions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2749" xml:space="preserve">The Diffuſion of Species Viſible, <lb/>ſeemeth to participate more of the ſormer Operation, and the Species Audible <lb/>of the latter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2750" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div312" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0094-01" xlink:href="note-0094-01a" xml:space="preserve">268.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2751" xml:space="preserve">The Species of Audibles ſeem to be carried more maniſeſtly thorow the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0094-02a" xlink:href="note-0094-02"/> Air, than the Species of Viſibles: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2752" xml:space="preserve">For (I conceive) that a contrary ſtrong <lb/>Wind will not much hinder the fight of Viſibles, as it will do the hearing of <lb/>Sounds.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2753" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div313" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0094-02" xlink:href="note-0094-02a" xml:space="preserve">269.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2754" xml:space="preserve">There is one difference above all others, between Viſibles and Audibles, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0094-03a" xlink:href="note-0094-03"/> that is the moſt remarkable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2755" xml:space="preserve">as that whereupon many ſmaller differences <lb/>do depend; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2756" xml:space="preserve">Namely, that Viſibles (except Lights) are carried in Right Lines, <lb/>and Audibles in Arcuate Lines. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2757" xml:space="preserve">Hence it cometh to paſs, that Viſibles do <lb/>not intermingle and confound one another, as hath been ſaid before, but <lb/>Sounds do. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2758" xml:space="preserve">Hence it cometh, that the ſolidity of Bodies doth not much <lb/>hinder the ſight, ſo that the Bodies be clear, and the Pores in a Right Line, <lb/>as in Glaſs, Cryſtal, Diamonds, Water, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2759" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2760" xml:space="preserve">But a thin Scarf or Handker-<lb/>chief, though they be Bodies nothing ſo ſolid, hinder the ſ<unsure/>ight: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2761" xml:space="preserve">Whereas <lb/>(contrariwiſe) theſe Porous Bodies do not much hinder the Hearing, but <lb/>ſolid Bodies do almoſt ſtop it, or at leaſt attenuate it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2762" xml:space="preserve">Hence alſo it <lb/>cometh, that to the Reflexion of Viſibles, ſmall Glaſſes ſuffice, but to the <lb/>Reverberation of Audibles, are required greater ſpaces, as hath like wiſe been <lb/>ſaid before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2763" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div314" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0094-03" xlink:href="note-0094-03a" xml:space="preserve">270.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2764" xml:space="preserve">Viſibles are ſeen further off, than Sounds are heard; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2765" xml:space="preserve">allowing neverthe-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0094-04a" xlink:href="note-0094-04"/> leſs the rate of their bigneſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2766" xml:space="preserve">For other wiſe, a great Sound will be heard <lb/>further off, than a ſmall Body ſeen.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2767" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div315" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0094-04" xlink:href="note-0094-04a" xml:space="preserve">271.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2768" xml:space="preserve">Viſibles require (generally) ſome diſtance between the object, and the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0094-05a" xlink:href="note-0094-05"/> Eye to be better ſeen; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2769" xml:space="preserve">whereas in Audibles, the nearer the approach of the <lb/>Sound is to the Senſe the better; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2770" xml:space="preserve">but in this, there may be a double error. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2771" xml:space="preserve">The one, becauſe to Seeing there is required Light, and any thing that touch-<lb/>eth the Pupil of the Eye (@ll over) excludeth the Light. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2772" xml:space="preserve">For I have heard <lb/>of a perſon very credible, (who himſelf was cured of a Cataract in one of <lb/>his Eyes) that while the Silver-needle did work upon the ſight of his Eye, to <lb/>remove the Film of the Cataract, he never ſaw any thing more clear or per-<lb/>fect, than that white Needle: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2773" xml:space="preserve">Which (no doubt) was, becauſe the Needle <lb/>was leſſer than the Pupil of the Eye, and ſo took not the light from it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2774" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>other error may be, For that the object of Sight doth ſtrike upon the Pupil <lb/>of the Eye, directly without any interception; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2775" xml:space="preserve">whereas the Cave of the Ear <lb/>doth hold off the Sound a little from the Organ: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2776" xml:space="preserve">And ſo nevertheleſs th@re<unsure/> <lb/>is ſome diſtance required in both.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2777" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div316" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0094-05" xlink:href="note-0094-05a" xml:space="preserve">272.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2778" xml:space="preserve">Viſibles are ſwifter carried to the Senſe, than Audibles; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2779" xml:space="preserve">as appeareth in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0094-06a" xlink:href="note-0094-06"/> Thunder and Lightning; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2780" xml:space="preserve">Flame, and Report of a Piece; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2781" xml:space="preserve">Motion of the <lb/>Air, in hewing of Wood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2782" xml:space="preserve">All which have been ſet down heretofore, but <lb/>are proper for this Title.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2783" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div317" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0094-06" xlink:href="note-0094-06a" xml:space="preserve">273.</note> </div> <pb o="61" file="0095" n="95" rhead="Century III."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2784" xml:space="preserve">I conceive alſo, that the Species of Audibles, do hang longer in the Air than <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0095-01a" xlink:href="note-0095-01"/> thoſe of Viſibles: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2785" xml:space="preserve">For although even thoſe of Vifibles do hang ſome time, <lb/>as we ſee in Rings turned, that ſhew like ſpheres. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2786" xml:space="preserve">In Lute-ſtrings fillipped, a Fire-<lb/>brand carried a long, which leaveth a train of light behinde it, and in the Twi <lb/>light, and the like: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2787" xml:space="preserve">Yet I conceive that Sounds, ſtay longer becauſe they are <lb/>carried up and down with the Wind; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2788" xml:space="preserve">and becauſe of the diſtance of the <lb/>time in Ordnance diſcharged, and heard twenty miles off</s> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div318" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0095-01" xlink:href="note-0095-01a" xml:space="preserve">274.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2789" xml:space="preserve">In Viſibles there are not found Objects ſo odious and ingrate to the Senſe, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0095-02a" xlink:href="note-0095-02"/> as in Audibles. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2790" xml:space="preserve">For ſoul Sights do rather diſpleaſe, in that they excite the memory <lb/>of ſoul things, than in the immediate Objects. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2791" xml:space="preserve">And therefore in Pictures, thoſe <lb/>foul Sights do not much offend; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2792" xml:space="preserve">but in Audibles, the grating of a Saw when <lb/>it is ſharpned, doth offend ſo much, as it ſetteth the Teeth on edge; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2793" xml:space="preserve">and any <lb/>of the hat<unsure/>ſh Diſcords in Muſicks, the Ear doth ſtraight ways refuſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2794" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div319" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0095-02" xlink:href="note-0095-02a" xml:space="preserve">275.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2795" xml:space="preserve">In Viſibles, after great light, if you come ſuddenly into the dark, or con-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0095-03a" xlink:href="note-0095-03"/> trariwiſe out of the dark into a glaring Light. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2796" xml:space="preserve">The eye is dazled for a time, <lb/>and the Sight confuſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2797" xml:space="preserve">but whether any ſuch effect be after great Sounds, or <lb/>after a deeper ſilence may be better enquired. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2798" xml:space="preserve">It is an old Tradition, that <lb/>thoſe that dwell near the Cataracts of Nilus, are ſtrucken deaf: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2799" xml:space="preserve">But we finde <lb/>no ſuch effect in Cannoniers, nor Millers, nor thoſe that dwell upon Bridges.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2800" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div320" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0095-03" xlink:href="note-0095-03a" xml:space="preserve">276.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2801" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth, that the Impreßion of Colour is ſo weak, as it worketh not, but <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0095-04a" xlink:href="note-0095-04"/> by a Cone of direct Beams, or right Lines, whereof the Baſis is in the Object <lb/>and the Vertical point in the Eye: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2802" xml:space="preserve">So as there is a corradiation and conjuncti-<lb/>on of Beams; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2803" xml:space="preserve">and thoſe Beams ſo ſent forth, yet are not of any force to beget <lb/>the like borrowed or ſecond Beams, except it be by Reflexion, whereof we <lb/>ſpeak not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2804" xml:space="preserve">For the Beams paſs and give little tincture to that Air which is ad-<lb/>jacent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2805" xml:space="preserve">which if they did, we ſhould ſee Colours out of a right line. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2806" xml:space="preserve">But as <lb/>this in Colours, ſo other wiſe it is in the Body of Light. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2807" xml:space="preserve">For when there is a <lb/>skreen between the Candle and the Eye, yet the light paſſeth to the Paper <lb/>whereon one writeth, ſo that the light is ſeen where the body of the flame <lb/>is not ſeen; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2808" xml:space="preserve">and where any Colour (if it were placed where the body of the <lb/>flame is) would not be ſeen. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2809" xml:space="preserve">I judge that Sound is of this latter nature: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2810" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>when two are placed on both ſides of a Wall, and the voice is heard, I judge <lb/>it is not onely the original ſound, which paſſeth in an Arched line; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2811" xml:space="preserve">but the ſound, <lb/>which paſſeth above the Wall in a Right line, begetteth the like Motion round <lb/>about it, as the firſt did, though more weak.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2812" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div321" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0095-04" xlink:href="note-0095-04a" xml:space="preserve">277.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2813" xml:space="preserve">ALl Concords and Diſcords of Muſick (no doubt) Sympathies and Antipathies of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0095-05a" xlink:href="note-0095-05"/> Sounds, and ſo (likewiſe) in that Muſick, which we call Broken Muſick, or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0095-06a" xlink:href="note-0095-06"/> Conſort Muſick; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2814" xml:space="preserve">ſome Conſorts of Inſtruments are ſweeter than others, (a thing <lb/>not ſufficiently yet obferved;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2815" xml:space="preserve">as the Irish-Harp and Baſe-Vial agree well; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2816" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>Recorder and Stringed Muſick agree well; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2817" xml:space="preserve">Organs and the Voice agree well, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2818" xml:space="preserve">c. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2819" xml:space="preserve">But the Virginals and the Lute, or the Welsh-Harp and Irish-Harp, or the Voice <lb/>and Pipes alone, agree not ſo well; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2820" xml:space="preserve">but for the Melioration of Muſick, there is <lb/>yet much left (in this Point of Exquiſite Conſorts) to try and enquire.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2821" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div322" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0095-05" xlink:href="note-0095-05a" xml:space="preserve">278.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0095-06" xlink:href="note-0095-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſott, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Sympathy or <lb/>Antipathy of <lb/>Sounds, one <lb/>with another.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2822" xml:space="preserve">There is a common obſervation, That if a Lute or Vial be laid upon the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0095-07a" xlink:href="note-0095-07"/> back with a ſmall ſtraw upon one ſide of the ſtrings, and another Lute or Vial be <lb/>laid by it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2823" xml:space="preserve">and in the other Lute or Vial the Vniſon to that ſtring be ſtrucken, it <lb/>will make the ſtring move; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2824" xml:space="preserve">which will appear both to the Eye, and by the <lb/>ſtraws falling off. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2825" xml:space="preserve">The like will be if the Diapaſon or Eight to that ſtring be ſtruck-<lb/>en, either in the ſame Lute or Vial, or in others lying by: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2826" xml:space="preserve">But in none of theſe <lb/>there is any report of Sound that can be diſcerned, but onely Motion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2827" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div323" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0095-07" xlink:href="note-0095-07a" xml:space="preserve">279.</note> </div> <pb o="62" file="0096" n="96" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2828" xml:space="preserve">It was deviſed, That a Vial ſhould have a Lay of Wire-ſtrings below, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0096-01a" xlink:href="note-0096-01"/> as cloſe to the Belly as a Lute, and then the Strings of Guts mounted upon <lb/>a Bridge, as in ordinary Vials; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2829" xml:space="preserve">to the end, that by this means, the upper <lb/>Strings ſtrucken, ſhould make the lower reſound by Sympathy, and ſo make <lb/>the Muſick the better; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2830" xml:space="preserve">which, if it be to purpoſe, than Sympathy worketh as <lb/>well by report of Sound, as by Motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2831" xml:space="preserve">But this device, I conceive, to be <lb/>of no uſe, becauſe the upper Strings which are ſtopped in great variety, can-<lb/>not maintain a Diapaſon or a Vniſon with the lower, which are never ſtopped, <lb/>But if it ſhould be of uſe at all, it muſt be in Inſtruments which have no ſtops, <lb/>as Virginals and Harps; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2832" xml:space="preserve">wherein tryal may be made of two rows of Strings, <lb/>diſtant the one from the other.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2833" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div324" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-01" xlink:href="note-0096-01a" xml:space="preserve">280</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2834" xml:space="preserve">The Experiment of Sympathy may be transferred (perhaps) from In-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0096-02a" xlink:href="note-0096-02"/> ſtruments of Strings, to other Inſtruments of Sound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2835" xml:space="preserve">Astotry, if there were <lb/>in one Steeple two Bells of Uniſon, whether the ſtriking of the one would <lb/>move the other, more than if it were another accord: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2836" xml:space="preserve">And ſo in Pipes, if they <lb/>be of equalbore and ſound,) whether a little Straw or Feather would move <lb/>in the one Pipe, when the other is blown at an Vniſon.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2837" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div325" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-02" xlink:href="note-0096-02a" xml:space="preserve">281.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2838" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth both in Ear and Eye, the Inſtrument of Senſe hath a Sympathy <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0096-03a" xlink:href="note-0096-03"/> or Similitude with that which giveth the Reſlexion (as hath been touched be-<lb/>fore.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2839" xml:space="preserve">For as the ſight of the Eye is like a Chryſtal, or Glaſs, or Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2840" xml:space="preserve">ſo is <lb/>the Ear a ſinuous Cave with a hard Bone, to ſtop and reverberate the Sound: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2841" xml:space="preserve">Which is like to the places that report Eccho’s.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2842" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div326" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-03" xlink:href="note-0096-03a" xml:space="preserve">282.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2843" xml:space="preserve">WHen a Man yawneth, he cannot hear ſo well. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2844" xml:space="preserve">The cauſeis, ſor that the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0096-04a" xlink:href="note-0096-04"/> Membrane of the Ear is extended; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2845" xml:space="preserve">and ſo rather caſteth oſſ the Sound, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0096-05a" xlink:href="note-0096-05"/> than draweth it to.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2846" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div327" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-04" xlink:href="note-0096-04a" xml:space="preserve">283.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-05" xlink:href="note-0096-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Hindring or <lb/>Helping of the <lb/>Hearing.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2847" xml:space="preserve">We Hear better when we hold our Breath, than contrary, inſomuch, as <lb/>in all liſtening to attain a Sound a ſar off, Men hold their Breath. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2848" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0096-06a" xlink:href="note-0096-06"/> is, for that in all Expiration, the motion is outwards, and thereſore rather <lb/>driveth away the voice than draweth it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2849" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, we ſee that in all labor <lb/>to do things with any ſtrength, we hold the Breath; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2850" xml:space="preserve">and liſtening after any <lb/>Sound that is heard with difficulty, is a kinde of labor.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2851" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div328" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-06" xlink:href="note-0096-06a" xml:space="preserve">284.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2852" xml:space="preserve">Let it betryed, for the help of the Hearing, (and I conceive it likely to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0096-07a" xlink:href="note-0096-07"/> ſucceed) to make an Inſtrument like a Tunnel; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2853" xml:space="preserve">the narrow part whereof <lb/>may be of the bigneſs of the hold of the Ear; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2854" xml:space="preserve">and the broader end much <lb/>larger; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2855" xml:space="preserve">like a Bell at theskirts, and the length half a foot or more. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2856" xml:space="preserve">And let <lb/>the narrow end of it be ſet cloſe to the Ear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2857" xml:space="preserve">And mark whether any Sound <lb/>abroad in the open Air, will not be heard diſtinctly, from further diſtance, <lb/>than without that Inſtrument; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2858" xml:space="preserve">being (as it Were) an Ear ſpectacle. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2859" xml:space="preserve">And I have <lb/>heard there is in Spain, an Inſtrument in uſe to be ſet to the Ear, that helpeth <lb/>ſomewhat thoſe that are Thick of Hearing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2860" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div329" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-07" xlink:href="note-0096-07a" xml:space="preserve">285.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2861" xml:space="preserve">If the Mouth be ſhut cloſe, nevertheleſs there is yielded by the Roof <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0096-08a" xlink:href="note-0096-08"/> of the Mouth, a Murmur; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2862" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as is uſed by Dumb men: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2863" xml:space="preserve">Butif the Noſtrils <lb/>be like wiſe ſtopped, no ſuch Murmur can be made, except it be in the bottom <lb/>of the Pallate to Wards the Throat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2864" xml:space="preserve">Where by it appeareth manifeſtly, that a <lb/>Sound in the Mouth, except ſuch as aforeſaid, if the Mouth be ſtopped, <lb/>paſſeth from the Pallate through the Noſtrils.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2865" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div330" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-08" xlink:href="note-0096-08a" xml:space="preserve">286.</note> </div> <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">287.</note> <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Spiritual and <lb/>Fine Nature <lb/>of Sounds.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2866" xml:space="preserve">THe Repercußion of Sounds, (which we call Eccho) is a great Argument <lb/>of the Spiritual Eſſence of Sounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2867" xml:space="preserve">For if it were Corporeal, the Reper-<lb/>cuſſing ſhould be created in the ſame manner, and by like Inſtruments, with <pb o="63" file="0097" n="97" rhead="Century III."/> the original Sound: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2868" xml:space="preserve">But we ſee what a number of exquiſite Inſtruments <lb/>muſt concur in ſpeaking of words, whereof there is no ſuch matter in the <lb/>returning oſ them, but onely a plain ſtop, and repercuſſion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2869" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2870" xml:space="preserve">The exquiſite Differences of Articulate Sounds, carried along in the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0097-01a" xlink:href="note-0097-01"/> Air, ſhew that they cannot be Signatures or Impreſſions in the Air, as hath <lb/>been well reſuted by the Ancients. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2871" xml:space="preserve">For it is true, that Seals make excellent <lb/>Impreſſions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2872" xml:space="preserve">and ſo it may be thought of Sounds in their firſt generation: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2873" xml:space="preserve">But then the Delation and Continuance of them, without any new ſealing, <lb/>ſhew apparently they cannot be Impreſſions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2874" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div331" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0097-01" xlink:href="note-0097-01a" xml:space="preserve">288.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2875" xml:space="preserve">All Sounds are ſuddenly made, and do ſuddenly periſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2876" xml:space="preserve">but neither that, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0097-02a" xlink:href="note-0097-02"/> nor the exquiſite Differences of them, is matter of ſo great admiration: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2877" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>the Quaverings, and Warblings of Lutes, and Pipes are as ſwift; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2878" xml:space="preserve">and the <lb/>Tongue (which is no very fine Inſtrument) doth in ſpeech, make no fewer <lb/>motions, than there be letters in all the words which are uttered. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2879" xml:space="preserve">But that <lb/>Sounds ſhould not onely be ſo ſpeedily generated, but carried ſo far every <lb/>way, in ſuch a momentany time, deſerveth more admiration. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2880" xml:space="preserve">As for ex-<lb/>ample, If a man ſtand in the middle of a Field, and ſpeak aloud, he ſhall be <lb/>heard a Furlong in round, and that ſhall be in articulate Sounds, and thoſe <lb/>ſhall be entire in every little portion of the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2881" xml:space="preserve">and this ſhall be done in the <lb/>ſpace of leſs than a minute.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2882" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div332" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0097-02" xlink:href="note-0097-02a" xml:space="preserve">289.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2883" xml:space="preserve">The ſudden Generation and Periſhing of Sounds, muſt be one of theſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0097-03a" xlink:href="note-0097-03"/> two ways: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2884" xml:space="preserve">Either, that the Air ſuffereth ſome force by Sound, and then re-<lb/>ſtoreth it ſelf as Water doth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2885" xml:space="preserve">which being divided, maketh many circles, <lb/>tillit reſtore it ſelf to the Natural conſiſtence; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2886" xml:space="preserve">or other wiſe, that the Air doth <lb/>willingly imbibe the Sound as grateful, but cannot maintain it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2887" xml:space="preserve">for that the <lb/>Air hath (as it ſhould ſeem) a ſecret and hidden Appetite of receiving the <lb/>Sound at the firſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2888" xml:space="preserve">but then other groſs and more materiate qualities of the <lb/>Air ſtraight ways ſuffocate it, like unto Flame which is generated with <lb/>alacrity, but ſtraight quenched by the enmity of the Air, or other Ambient <lb/>Bodies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2889" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div333" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0097-03" xlink:href="note-0097-03a" xml:space="preserve">290.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2890" xml:space="preserve">There be theſe differences (in general) by which Sounds are divided: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2891" xml:space="preserve"># 1. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2892" xml:space="preserve">Muſical, Immuſical. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2893" xml:space="preserve"><lb/># 2. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2894" xml:space="preserve">Trebble, Baſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2895" xml:space="preserve"><lb/># 3. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2896" xml:space="preserve">Flat, Sharp. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2897" xml:space="preserve"><lb/># 4. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2898" xml:space="preserve">Soft, Loud. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2899" xml:space="preserve"><lb/># 5. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2900" xml:space="preserve">Exterior, Interior. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2901" xml:space="preserve"><lb/># 6. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2902" xml:space="preserve">Clean, Harſh, or Purling. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2903" xml:space="preserve"><lb/># 7. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2904" xml:space="preserve">Articulate, Inarticulate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2905" xml:space="preserve"><lb/></s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2906" xml:space="preserve">We have labored (as may appear) in this Inquiſition of Sounds diligently; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2907" xml:space="preserve"># both becauſe Sound is one of the moſt hidden portions of Nature, (as <lb/># we ſaid in the beginning) and becauſe it is a Vertue which may be called <lb/># Incorporeal and Immateriate, whereof there be in Nature but few. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2908" xml:space="preserve">Be-<lb/># ſides, we were willing (now in theſe our firſt Centuries) to make a pattern <lb/># or preſident of an Exact Inquiſition; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2909" xml:space="preserve">and we ſhall do the like hereafter in <lb/># ſome other ſubjects which require it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2910" xml:space="preserve">For we deſire that Men ſhould <lb/># learn and perceive how ſevere a thing the true Inquiſition of Naturs is; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2911" xml:space="preserve"><lb/># and ſhould accuſtom themſelves by the light of particulars, to enlarge <lb/># their mindes to the amplitude of the World; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2912" xml:space="preserve">and not to reduce the <lb/># World to the narrowneſs of their Mindes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2913" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="64" file="0098" n="98" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2914" xml:space="preserve">MEtals give orient and fine Colours in Diſſolution; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2915" xml:space="preserve">as Gold giveth an <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0098-01a" xlink:href="note-0098-01"/> excellent Yellow, Quick-ſilver an excellent Green, Tingiveth an <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0098-02a" xlink:href="note-0098-02"/> excellent Azure. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2916" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe in their Putrefactions, or Ruſts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2917" xml:space="preserve">as Vermilion, <lb/>Verdegreaſe, Biſe, Cirrus, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2918" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2919" xml:space="preserve">And likewiſe in their Vitrifications. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2920" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe is, for that by their ſtrength of Body, they are able to endure the Fire, <lb/>or Strong-waters, and to be put into an equal poſture, and again, to retain <lb/>part of their principal Spirit: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2921" xml:space="preserve">Which two things (equal poſture, and quick <lb/>Spirits) are required chiefly, to make Colours lightſome.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2922" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div334" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-01" xlink:href="note-0098-01a" xml:space="preserve">291.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-02" xlink:href="note-0098-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Orient Colours <lb/>in Diſſolution <lb/>of Metals.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2923" xml:space="preserve">IT conduceth unto long Life, and to the more placide Motion of the Spi-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0098-03a" xlink:href="note-0098-03"/> rits, which thereby do leſs prey and conſume the Juyce of the body: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2924" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0098-04a" xlink:href="note-0098-04"/> either that Mens actions be free and voluntary, that nothing be done invitâ minerva, <lb/>but ſecundum genium; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2925" xml:space="preserve">or, on the other ſide, that the Actions of Men be full of Re-<lb/>gulation, and commands within themſelves: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2926" xml:space="preserve">For then the victory and performing <lb/>of the command, giveth a good diſpoſition to the Spirits, eſpecially if <lb/>there be aproceeding from degree to degree, for then the ſenſe of victory <lb/>is the greater. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2927" xml:space="preserve">An example of the former of theſe, is in a Countrey life; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2928" xml:space="preserve">and of the latter, in Monks and Philoſophers, and ſuch as do continually enjoyn <lb/>themſelves.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2929" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div335" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-03" xlink:href="note-0098-03a" xml:space="preserve">292.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-04" xlink:href="note-0098-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Prelongation <lb/>of Life.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2930" xml:space="preserve">IT is certain, that in all Bodies, there is an Appetite of Vnion, and Evitation <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0098-05a" xlink:href="note-0098-05"/> of Solution of Continuity: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2931" xml:space="preserve">And of this Appetite there be many degrees, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0098-06a" xlink:href="note-0098-06"/> but the moſt remarkable, and fit to be diſtinguiſhed, are three. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2932" xml:space="preserve">The firſt <lb/>in Liquors, the ſecond in hard Bodies, and the third in Bodies cleaving <lb/>or tenacious. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2933" xml:space="preserve">In Liquors this Appetite is weak; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2934" xml:space="preserve">we ſee in Liquors, the <lb/>Threding of them in Stillicides (as hath been ſaid) the falling of them in <lb/>round drops (which is the form of Union) and the ſtaying of them for a lit-<lb/>tle time in Bubbles and Froth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2935" xml:space="preserve">In the ſecond degree or kinde, this Appetite <lb/>is ſtrong; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2936" xml:space="preserve">as in Iron, in Stone, in Wood,&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2937" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2938" xml:space="preserve">In the third, this Appetite is in <lb/>a Medium between the other two: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2939" xml:space="preserve">For ſuch Bodies do partly follow the <lb/>touch of another Body, and partly ſtick and continue to themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2940" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>therefore they rope and draw themſelves in threds, as we ſee in Pitch, Glew, <lb/>Birdlime, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2941" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2942" xml:space="preserve">But note, that all ſolid Bodies are cleaving more or leſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2943" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>that they love better the touch of ſome what that is tangible, than of Air. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2944" xml:space="preserve">For Water in ſmall quantity cleaveth to any thing that is ſolid, and ſo would. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2945" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Metal too, if the weight drew it notoff. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2946" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Gold Foliate, or <lb/>any Metal Foliate, cleaveth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2947" xml:space="preserve">But thoſe Bodies which are noted to be <lb/>clammy, and cleaving, are ſuch as have a more in different Appetite (at once) <lb/>to follow another Body, and to hold to themſelves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2948" xml:space="preserve">And therefore they are <lb/>commonly Bodies ill mixed, and which take more pleaſure in a Foreign Body, <lb/>that in preſerving there own conſiſtence, and which have little predominance <lb/>in Drought or Moiſture.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2949" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div336" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-05" xlink:href="note-0098-05a" xml:space="preserve">293.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-06" xlink:href="note-0098-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Appetite of <lb/>Vnion in <lb/>Bodies.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2950" xml:space="preserve">TIme and Heat are fellows in many effects. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2951" xml:space="preserve">Heat drieth Bodies that do <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0098-07a" xlink:href="note-0098-07"/> eaſily expire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2952" xml:space="preserve">as Parchment, Leaves, Roots, Clay, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2953" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2954" xml:space="preserve">And ſo <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0098-08a" xlink:href="note-0098-08"/> doth Time or Age areſie; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2955" xml:space="preserve">as in the ſame Bodies, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2956" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2957" xml:space="preserve">Heat diſſolveth and <lb/>melteth Bodies that keep in their Spirits, as in divers Liquefactions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2958" xml:space="preserve">and ſo <lb/>doth Time, in ſome Bodies of a ſofter conſiſtence: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2959" xml:space="preserve">As is manifeſt in Honey, <lb/>which by Age waxeth more liquid, and the like in Sugar; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2960" xml:space="preserve">and ſo in old <lb/>Oyl, which is ever more clear and more hot in medicinable uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2961" xml:space="preserve">Heat <lb/>cauſeth the Spirits to ſearch ſome iſſue out of the Body, as in the Volatility <pb o="65" file="0099" n="99" rhead="Century III."/> of Metals; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2962" xml:space="preserve">and ſo doth Time, as in the Ruſt of Metals. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2963" xml:space="preserve">But generally Heat <lb/>doth that in ſmall time, which Age doth in long.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2964" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div337" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-07" xlink:href="note-0098-07a" xml:space="preserve">294.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-08" xlink:href="note-0098-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>like Operations <lb/>of Heat and <lb/>Time.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2965" xml:space="preserve">SOme things which paſs the Fire, are ſoft eſt at ſirſt, and by Time grow <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0099-01a" xlink:href="note-0099-01"/> hard, as the Crum of Bread. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2966" xml:space="preserve">Some are harder when they comeſrom the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0099-02a" xlink:href="note-0099-02"/> Fire, and after wards give again, and grow ſoſt as the Cruſt of Bread, Bisker; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2967" xml:space="preserve">Sweet-Meats, Salt, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2968" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2969" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that in thoſe things which wax <lb/>hard with Time, the work of the Fire is a kinde of melting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2970" xml:space="preserve">and in thoſe <lb/>that wax ſoſt with Time, (contrariwiſe) the work of the Fire is a kinde <lb/>of Baking; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2971" xml:space="preserve">and whatſoever the Fire baketh, Time doth in ſome degree <lb/>diſſolve.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2972" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div338" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-01" xlink:href="note-0099-01a" xml:space="preserve">295.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-02" xlink:href="note-0099-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Differing Ope-<lb/>rations of Fire, <lb/>and Time.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2973" xml:space="preserve">MOtions paſs from one Man to another, not ſo much by exciting Ima-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0099-03a" xlink:href="note-0099-03"/> gination as by Invitation, eſpecially iſ there be an Aptneſs or Incli-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0099-04a" xlink:href="note-0099-04"/> nation before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2974" xml:space="preserve">Therefore Gaping, or Yawning, and Stretching, do paſs <lb/>from Man to Man; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2975" xml:space="preserve">for that that cauſeth Gaping or Stretching is, when the <lb/>Spirits are a little Heavy, by any Vapor, or the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2976" xml:space="preserve">For then they ſtrive (as <lb/>it were) to wring out, and expel that which loadeth them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2977" xml:space="preserve">So Men drowzy <lb/>and deſirous to ſleep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2978" xml:space="preserve">or before the ſit of an Ague, do uſe to yawn and <lb/>ſtretch, and do likewiſe yield a Voice or Sound, which is an Interjection <lb/>of Expulſion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2979" xml:space="preserve">So that if another be apt and prepared to do the like, he <lb/>ſolloweth by the ſight of another. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2980" xml:space="preserve">So the Laughing of another maketh to <lb/>laugh.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2981" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div339" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-03" xlink:href="note-0099-03a" xml:space="preserve">296.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-04" xlink:href="note-0099-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Motions by I-<lb/>mitation.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2982" xml:space="preserve">THere be ſome known Diſeaſes that are Infectious, and others that are <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0099-05a" xlink:href="note-0099-05"/> not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2983" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe that are inſectious, are ſirſt, Such as are chieſly in the Spi-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0099-06a" xlink:href="note-0099-06"/> rits, and not ſo much in the Humors, and therefore paſs eaſily from Body to <lb/>Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2984" xml:space="preserve">ſuch are Peſtilences Lippitudes, and ſuch like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2985" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, ſuch as taint <lb/>the breath, which we ſee paſſeth manifeſtly from Man to Man, and not in-<lb/>viſible as the affects of the Spirits do; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2986" xml:space="preserve">ſuch are Conſumptions of the Lungs, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2987" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2988" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, Such as come forth to the skin, and therefore taint the Air, <lb/>or the Body adjacent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2989" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially, if they conſiſt in an unctuous ſubſtance, <lb/>not apt to diſſipate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2990" xml:space="preserve">ſuch are Scabs, and Leproſie. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2991" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, ſuch as are <lb/>meerly in the Humors, and not in the Spirits, Breath, or Exhalations: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2992" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>thereſore they never infect, but by touch onely; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2993" xml:space="preserve">and ſuch a touch alſo, as <lb/>cometh within the Epidermis, as the venome of the French Pox, and the biting <lb/>of a Mad-Dog.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2994" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div340" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-05" xlink:href="note-0099-05a" xml:space="preserve">297.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-06" xlink:href="note-0099-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching In-<lb/>fectious diſ-<lb/>eaſes.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s2995" xml:space="preserve">MOſt Powders grow more cloſe and coherent by mixture of Water, than <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0099-07a" xlink:href="note-0099-07"/> by mixture of Oyl, though Oyl be the thicker Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2996" xml:space="preserve">as Meal, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2997" xml:space="preserve">c. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2998" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0099-08a" xlink:href="note-0099-08"/> The reaſon is the Congruity of Bodies, Which if it be more, maketh aper-<lb/>ſecter imbibition, and incorporation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s2999" xml:space="preserve">which in moſt Powders is more between <lb/>them and Water, than between them and Oyl: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3000" xml:space="preserve">But Painters colours <lb/>ground, and aſhes, do better incorporate with Oyl.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3001" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div341" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-07" xlink:href="note-0099-07a" xml:space="preserve">298.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-08" xlink:href="note-0099-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Incorporation <lb/>of Powders <lb/>and Liqnors.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3002" xml:space="preserve">MUch Motion and Exerciſe is good for ſome Bodies, and ſitting and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0099-09a" xlink:href="note-0099-09"/> leſs motion, ſor others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3003" xml:space="preserve">If the Body be hot, and void of ſuperſluous <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0099-10a" xlink:href="note-0099-10"/> Moiſtures, too much Motion hurteth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3004" xml:space="preserve">and it is an error in Phyſitians, to <lb/>call too much upon Exerciſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3005" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe, Men ought to beware, that they <lb/>uſe not Exerciſe, and a ſpare diet, both; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3006" xml:space="preserve">but if much Exerciſe, then a plenti-<lb/>ſul diet; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3007" xml:space="preserve">and if ſparing diet, then little Exerciſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3008" xml:space="preserve">The Beneſits that come of <lb/>Exerciſe are. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3009" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, that it ſendeth nouriſhment into the parts more forcibly.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3010" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="66" file="0100" n="100" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Secondly, That it helpeth to excern by Sweat, and ſo maketh the parts <lb/>aſſimilate the more perſectly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3011" xml:space="preserve">T<unsure/>hirdly, that it maketh the ſubſtance of the <lb/>Body more ſolid and compact; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3012" xml:space="preserve">and ſo leſs apt to be conſumed and depre-<lb/>dated by the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3013" xml:space="preserve">The Evils that come of Exerciſe, are, Firſt, That it <lb/>maketh the Spirits more hot and predatory. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3014" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, That it doth abſorbe <lb/>like wiſe, and altenuate too much the moiſture of the Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3015" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, That <lb/>it maketh too great Concuſſion, (eſpecially, if it be violent) of the in ward <lb/>parts, which delight more in reſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3016" xml:space="preserve">But generally Exerciſe, if it be much, is <lb/>no friend to prolongation of life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3017" xml:space="preserve">which is one cauſe, Why Women live <lb/>longer then Men, becauſe they ſtir leſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3018" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div342" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-09" xlink:href="note-0099-09a" xml:space="preserve">299.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0099-10" xlink:href="note-0099-10a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching Ex-<lb/>erciſe of the <lb/>Body.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3019" xml:space="preserve">SOme Food we may uſe long, and much, without glutting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3020" xml:space="preserve">as Bread, Fleſh <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0100-01a" xlink:href="note-0100-01"/> that is not Fat, or Rank, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3021" xml:space="preserve">c, Some other (though pleaſant) glutteth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0100-02a" xlink:href="note-0100-02"/> ſooner, as Sweet-Meats, Fat-Meats, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3022" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3023" xml:space="preserve">The cauſeis, for that Appetite con-<lb/>ſiſteth in the emptineſs of the Mouth, of the Stomach, or poſſeſſing it with <lb/>ſomewhat that is aſtringent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3024" xml:space="preserve">and therefore, cold and dry: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3025" xml:space="preserve">But things that <lb/>are ſweet and fat, are more filling, and do ſwim and hang more about the <lb/>Mouth of the Stomach, and go not down ſo ſpeedily; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3026" xml:space="preserve">and again turn ſooner <lb/>to Choler, which is hot, and ever abateth the appetite. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3027" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that <lb/>another cauſe of Satiety, is an Over-cuſtom; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3028" xml:space="preserve">and of Appetite, is Novelty. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3029" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Meats, if the ſame be continually taken, induce Loathing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3030" xml:space="preserve">To <lb/>give the reaſon of the diſtaſte of Satiety, and of the pleaſure in Novelty, and <lb/>to diſtinguiſh not onely in Meats and Drinks, but alſo in Motions, Loves, <lb/>Company, Delight, Studies, what they be that Cuſtom maketh more grate-<lb/>ful; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3031" xml:space="preserve">and what more tedious, were a large Field. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3032" xml:space="preserve">But for Meats, the cauſe <lb/>is Attraction, which is quicker, and more excited towards that which is <lb/>new, than towards that whereof there remaineth a reliſh by former uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3033" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And (generally) it is a rule, That whatſoever is ſomewhat ingrate at firſt, is <lb/>made grateful by Cuſtom; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3034" xml:space="preserve">but whatſoever is too pleaſing at firſt, groweth <lb/>quickly to Satiate.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3035" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div343" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0100-01" xlink:href="note-0100-01a" xml:space="preserve">300.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0100-02" xlink:href="note-0100-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Meats that in-<lb/>duce Satiate.</note> </div> <pb o="67" file="0101" n="101"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div345" type="section" level="1" n="25"> <head xml:id="echoid-head35" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL <lb/>HISTORY.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head36" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Century IV.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3036" xml:space="preserve">ACceleration of Time, in Works of Nature, may well be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0101-01a" xlink:href="note-0101-01"/> eſteemed Inter Magnalia Natura. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3037" xml:space="preserve">And even in Divine <lb/>Miracles Accelerating of the Time, is next to the Creating <lb/>of the Matter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3038" xml:space="preserve">We will now therefore proceed to the <lb/>enquiry of it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3039" xml:space="preserve">and for Acceleration of Germination, we <lb/>will refer it over unto the place, where we ſhall handle <lb/>the Subject of Plants, generally; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3040" xml:space="preserve">and will now begin with <lb/>other Accelerations.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3041" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div345" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0101-01" xlink:href="note-0101-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Clariſication of <lb/>Liquors, and <lb/>the Accelara-<lb/>ting thereof.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3042" xml:space="preserve">Liquors are (many of them) at the firſt, thick and troubled; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3043" xml:space="preserve">As Muſt, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0101-02a" xlink:href="note-0101-02"/> Wort, Fuyce of Fruits, or Herbs expreſſed, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3044" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3045" xml:space="preserve">And by Time, they ſettle and <lb/>clarifie. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3046" xml:space="preserve">But to make them clear, before the Time, is a great work; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3047" xml:space="preserve">for it is a <lb/>Spur to Nature, and putteth her out of her pace: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3048" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, it is of good <lb/>uſe for making Drinks, and Sauces, Potable, and Serviceable, ſpeedily. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3049" xml:space="preserve">But to know the Means of Accelerating Clarification, we muſt firſt know <lb/>the cauſes of Clarification. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3050" xml:space="preserve">The firſt cauſe is, by the Separation of the <lb/>groſſer parts of the Liquor, from the finer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3051" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond, by the equal diſtri-<lb/>bution of the Spirits of the Liquor, with the tangible parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3052" xml:space="preserve">for that ever re-<lb/>preſenteth Bodies clear and untroubled. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3053" xml:space="preserve">The third, by the refining the <lb/>Spirit it ſelf, which thereby giveth to the Liquor more ſplendor, and more <lb/>luſtre.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3054" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div346" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0101-02" xlink:href="note-0101-02a" xml:space="preserve">301</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3055" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, For Separation: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3056" xml:space="preserve">It is wrought by weight; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3057" xml:space="preserve">as in the ordinary <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0101-03a" xlink:href="note-0101-03"/> reſidence or ſettlement of Liquors. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3058" xml:space="preserve">By Heat, by Motion, by Precipitation, or <lb/>Sublimation, (that is, a calling of the ſeveral parts, either up or down, which <lb/>is a kinde of Attraction,) by Adheſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3059" xml:space="preserve">as when a Body, more viſcous, is <lb/>mingled and agitated with the Liquor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3060" xml:space="preserve">which vifcous Body (afterwards ſe- <pb o="68" file="0102" n="102" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> vered) draweth with it the groſſer parts of the Liquor: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3061" xml:space="preserve">And laſtly, by Perco-<lb/>lation or Paſſage.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3062" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div347" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0101-03" xlink:href="note-0101-03a" xml:space="preserve">302.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3063" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, For the even Diſtribution of the Spirits, it is wrought by <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0102-01a" xlink:href="note-0102-01"/> gentle heat, and by Agitation of Motion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3064" xml:space="preserve">(for of Time we ſpeak not, be-<lb/>cauſe it is that we would anticipate and repreſent:) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3065" xml:space="preserve">And it is wrought alſo, <lb/>by mixture of ſome other Body, which hath a vertue to open the Liquor, and <lb/>to make the Spirits the better paſs thorow.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3066" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div348" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0102-01" xlink:href="note-0102-01a" xml:space="preserve">303.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3067" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, For the refining of the Spirit, it is wrought likewiſe by Heat, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0102-02a" xlink:href="note-0102-02"/> by motion, and by mixture of ſome Body which hath vertue to attenuate. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3068" xml:space="preserve">So therefore (having ſhewed the cauſes) for the accelerating of Clarification <lb/>in general, and the enducing of it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3069" xml:space="preserve">take theſe Inſtances and Tryals.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3070" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div349" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0102-02" xlink:href="note-0102-02a" xml:space="preserve">304.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3071" xml:space="preserve">It is in common practice, to draw Wine or Beer, from the Lees, (which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0102-03a" xlink:href="note-0102-03"/> we call Racking) whereby it will clarifie much the ſooner: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3072" xml:space="preserve">For the Lees, <lb/>though they keep the drink in heart, and make it laſting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3073" xml:space="preserve">yet withal <lb/>they caſt up ſome ſpiſſitude; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3074" xml:space="preserve">and this Inſtance is to be referred to Separa-<lb/>tion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3075" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div350" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0102-03" xlink:href="note-0102-03a" xml:space="preserve">305.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3076" xml:space="preserve">On the otherſide, it were good to try, what, the adding to the Liquor, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0102-04a" xlink:href="note-0102-04"/> more Lees than his own, will work; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3077" xml:space="preserve">for though the Lees do make the Liquor <lb/>turbide, yet they refine the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3078" xml:space="preserve">Take therefore a Veſſel of new Beer, and <lb/>take another Veſſel of new Beer, and rack the one Veſſel from the Lees, and <lb/>pour the Lees of theracked Veſſel into the unracked Veſſel, and ſee the effect. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3079" xml:space="preserve">This Inſtance is referred to the Refining of the Spirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3080" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div351" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0102-04" xlink:href="note-0102-04a" xml:space="preserve">306.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3081" xml:space="preserve">Take new Beer, and put in ſome quantity of ſtale Beer into it, and ſee <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0102-05a" xlink:href="note-0102-05"/> whether it will not accelerate the Clarification, by opening the Body of the <lb/>Beer, and cutting the groſſer parts, whereby they may fall down into Lees. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3082" xml:space="preserve">And this Inſtance again is referred to Separation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3083" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div352" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0102-05" xlink:href="note-0102-05a" xml:space="preserve">307.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3084" xml:space="preserve">The longer Molt or Herbs, or the like, are infuſed in Liquor, the more <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0102-06a" xlink:href="note-0102-06"/> thick and troubled the Liquor is; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3085" xml:space="preserve">but the longer they be decocted in the Liquor, <lb/>the clearer it is. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3086" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon is plain, becauſe in Infuſion, the longer it is, the <lb/>greater is the part of the groſs Body that goeth into the Liquor: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3087" xml:space="preserve">But in De-<lb/>coction, though more goeth forth, yet it either purgeth at the top, or ſettleth <lb/>at the bottom. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3088" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the moſt exact way to clarifie is, firſt, to In-<lb/>ſuſe, and then to take off the Liquor and decoct it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3089" xml:space="preserve">as they do in Beer, which <lb/>hath Molt firſt infuſed in the Liquor, and is afterwards boiled with the Hop. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3090" xml:space="preserve">This alſo is referred to Separation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3091" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div353" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0102-06" xlink:href="note-0102-06a" xml:space="preserve">308.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3092" xml:space="preserve">Take hot Embers, and put them about a Bottle filled with new Beer, al-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0102-07a" xlink:href="note-0102-07"/> moſt to the very neck; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3093" xml:space="preserve">let the Bottle be well ſtopped, leſt it flie out: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3094" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>continue it, renewing the Embers every day by the ſpace of ten days, and then <lb/>compare it with another Bottle of the ſame Beer ſet by. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3095" xml:space="preserve">Take alſo Lime, <lb/>both quenched and unquenched, and ſet the Bottles in them ut ſuprà. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3096" xml:space="preserve">This <lb/>Inſtance is referred, both to the even Diſtribution, and alſo to the Refining <lb/>of the Spirits by Heat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3097" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div354" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0102-07" xlink:href="note-0102-07a" xml:space="preserve">309.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3098" xml:space="preserve">Take Bottles and ſwing them, or carry them in a Wheel-Barrow upon <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0102-08a" xlink:href="note-0102-08"/> rough Ground, twice in a day: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3099" xml:space="preserve">But then you may not fill the Bottles full, <lb/>but leave ſome Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3100" xml:space="preserve">for if the Liquor come cloſe to the ſtopple, it cannot <lb/>play nor flower: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3101" xml:space="preserve">And when you have ſhaken them well either way, pour <lb/>the Drink in another Bottle, ſtopped cloſe after the uſual manner; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3102" xml:space="preserve">for if it <lb/>ſtay with much Air in it, the Drink will pall, neither will it ſettle ſo per-<lb/>fectly in all the parts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3103" xml:space="preserve">Let it ſtand ſome Twenty four hours, then take it, and <lb/>put it again into a Bottle with Air, ut ſuprà; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3104" xml:space="preserve">and thence into a Bottle ſtopped, <lb/>ut ſuprà; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3105" xml:space="preserve">and ſo repeat the ſame operation for ſeven days. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3106" xml:space="preserve">Note, that in the <lb/>emptying of one Bottle into another, you muſt do it ſwiftly, leſt the Drink <pb o="69" file="0103" n="103" rhead="Century IV."/> pall. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3107" xml:space="preserve">It were good alſo to try it in a Bottle with a little air below the Neck <lb/>without emptying. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3108" xml:space="preserve">This Inſtance is referred to the even Diſtribution and <lb/>Refining of the Spirits by Motiòn.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3109" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div355" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0102-08" xlink:href="note-0102-08a" xml:space="preserve">310.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3110" xml:space="preserve">As for Percolation, inward, and outward (which belongeth to separa-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0103-01a" xlink:href="note-0103-01"/> tion,) Tryal would be made of Clarifying by Adheſion, with Milk put into <lb/>new Beer, and ſtirred with it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3111" xml:space="preserve">For it may be, that the groſſer part of the <lb/>Beer will cleave to the Milk; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3112" xml:space="preserve">the doubt is, whether the Milk will ſever <lb/>well again, which is ſoon tried. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3113" xml:space="preserve">And it is uſual in clariſying Ippocraſſe to <lb/>put in Milk, which aſter ſevereth and carrieth with it the groſſer parts <lb/>of the Ippocraſs, as hath been ſaid elſwhere. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3114" xml:space="preserve">Alſo for the better Clariſica-<lb/>tion by Percolation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3115" xml:space="preserve">when they Tun new Beer, they uſe to let it paſs <lb/>through a Strainer, and it is like the finer the Strainer is, the clearer it <lb/>will be.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3116" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div356" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0103-01" xlink:href="note-0103-01a" xml:space="preserve">311.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3117" xml:space="preserve">THe Accelerating of Maturation, we will now enquire of, and of Ma-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0103-02a" xlink:href="note-0103-02"/> turation it ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3118" xml:space="preserve">It is of three natures, the Maturation of Fruits, the Ma-<lb/>turation of Drinks, and the Maturation of Impoſthumes and Vlcers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3119" xml:space="preserve">This laſt we <lb/>reſer to another place, where weſhall handle Experiments Medicinal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3120" xml:space="preserve">There <lb/>be alſo other Maturations, as of Metals, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3121" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3122" xml:space="preserve">whereof weſpeak as occaſion <lb/>ſerveth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3123" xml:space="preserve">But we will begin with that of Drinks, becauſe it hath ſuch affinity <lb/>with the Clarification of Liquors.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3124" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div357" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0103-02" xlink:href="note-0103-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Maturation, <lb/>and the Acce-<lb/>lerating there-<lb/>of. And <lb/>firſt touching <lb/>the Maturati-<lb/>on and Quick-<lb/>ning of drinks, <lb/>and next <lb/>touching the <lb/>Maturation of <lb/>Fruits.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3125" xml:space="preserve">For the Maturation of Drinks, it is wrought by the Congregation of <lb/>the Spirits together, whereby they digeſt more perfectly the groſſer parts; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3126" xml:space="preserve">and it is effected, partly by the ſame means that Clarification is (whereof <lb/>we ſpake before:) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3127" xml:space="preserve">But then note, that an extream Clarification doth ſpred <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0103-03a" xlink:href="note-0103-03"/> the Spirits ſo ſmooth, as they become dull, and the drink dead, which <lb/>ought to have a little flowring. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3128" xml:space="preserve">And therefore all your clear Amber drink <lb/>is flat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3129" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div358" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0103-03" xlink:href="note-0103-03a" xml:space="preserve">312.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3130" xml:space="preserve">We ſee the degrees of Maturation of Drinks, in Muſt, in Wine, as it is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0103-04a" xlink:href="note-0103-04"/> drunk, and in Vinegar. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3131" xml:space="preserve">Whereof Muſt hath not the Spirits well congrega-<lb/>ted, Wine hath them well united, ſo as they make the parts ſomewhat <lb/>more Oyly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3132" xml:space="preserve">Vinegar hath them congregated, but more Jejune, and in <lb/>ſmaller quantity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3133" xml:space="preserve">the greateſt and fineſt Spirit and part being exhaled: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3134" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>we ſee Vinegar is made by ſetting the Veſſel of Wine againſt the hot Sun. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3135" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Vinegar will not burn, for that much of the finer part is ex-<lb/>haled.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3136" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div359" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0103-04" xlink:href="note-0103-04a" xml:space="preserve">313.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3137" xml:space="preserve">The refreſhing and quickning of Drink palled or dead, is by enforcing <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0103-05a" xlink:href="note-0103-05"/> the motion of the Spirit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3138" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee that open weather relaxeth the Spirit, <lb/>and maketh it more lively in Motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3139" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo Bottelling of Beer or<unsure/> <lb/>Ale, while it is new and full of Spirit, (ſo that it ſpirteth when the ſtopple <lb/>is taken forth) maketh the Drink more quick and windy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3140" xml:space="preserve">A Pan of Coals <lb/>in the Cellar, doth likewiſe good, and maketh the Drink work again. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3141" xml:space="preserve">New <lb/>Drink put to Drink that is dead, provoketh it to work again: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3142" xml:space="preserve">Nay, which <lb/>is more (as ſome affirm) a Brewing of new Beer, ſet by old Beer, maketh <lb/>it work again: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3143" xml:space="preserve">It were good alſo to enforce the Spirits by ſomemixtures, <lb/>that may excite and quicken them, as by the putting into the Bottles, Nitre <lb/>Chalk, Lime, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3144" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3145" xml:space="preserve">Weſee Cream is matured, and made to riſe more ſpeedi-<lb/>ly by putting in cold Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3146" xml:space="preserve">which, as it ſeemeth, getteth down the <lb/>Whey.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3147" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div360" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0103-05" xlink:href="note-0103-05a" xml:space="preserve">314.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3148" xml:space="preserve">It is tryed, that the burying of Bottles of Drink wellſtopped, either in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0103-06a" xlink:href="note-0103-06"/> dry Earth, a good depth, or in the bottom of a Well within Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3149" xml:space="preserve">and beſt <pb o="70" file="0104" n="104" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> of all, the hanging of them in a deep Well ſomewhat above the Water, for <lb/>ſome fortnights ſpace, is an cxcellent means of making Drink freſh and <lb/>quick: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3150" xml:space="preserve">For the cold doth not cauſe any exhaling of the Spirits at all, as heat <lb/>doth, though it rarifieth the reſt that remain: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3151" xml:space="preserve">But cold maketh the Spirits <lb/>vigorous, and irritateth them, whereby they incorporate the parts of the <lb/>Liquor perfectly.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3152" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div361" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0103-06" xlink:href="note-0103-06a" xml:space="preserve">315.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3153" xml:space="preserve">As for the Maturation of Fruits, it is wrought by the calling forth of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0104-01a" xlink:href="note-0104-01"/> the Spirits of the Body outward, and ſo ſpreading them more ſmoothly; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3154" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe by digeſting, in ſome degree, the groſſer parts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3155" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>this is eſſected by Heat, Motion, Attraction, and by a Rudiment of <lb/>Putrefaction: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3156" xml:space="preserve">For the Inception of Putrefaction hath in it a Mate-<lb/>ration.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3157" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div362" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0104-01" xlink:href="note-0104-01a" xml:space="preserve">316.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3158" xml:space="preserve">There were taken Apples, and laid in Straw, in Hay, in Flower, in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0104-02a" xlink:href="note-0104-02"/> Chalk, in Lime, covered over with Onions, covered over with Crabs, <lb/>cloſed up in Wax, ſhut in a Box, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3159" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3160" xml:space="preserve">There was alſo an Apple hanged up <lb/>in ſmoak. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3161" xml:space="preserve">Of all which the Experiment ſorted in this manner.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3162" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div363" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0104-02" xlink:href="note-0104-02a" xml:space="preserve">317.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3163" xml:space="preserve">After a moneths ſpace, the Apple, encloſed in Wax, was as Green <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0104-03a" xlink:href="note-0104-03"/> and freſh as at the firſt putting in, and the Kernels continued White. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3164" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe is, for that all excluſion of open Air, (which is ever predatory) main-<lb/>taineth the Body in his firſt freſhneſs and moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3165" xml:space="preserve">but the inconvenience <lb/>is, that it taſteth a little of the Wax, which, I ſuppoſe, in a Pomegranate, or <lb/>ſome ſuch thick coated fruit, it would not do.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3166" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div364" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0104-03" xlink:href="note-0104-03a" xml:space="preserve">318.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3167" xml:space="preserve">The Apple hanged in the ſmoak, turned like an old Mellow-Apple <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0104-04a" xlink:href="note-0104-04"/> wrinkled, dry, ſoft, ſweet, yellow within. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3168" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that ſuch <lb/>a degree of heat, which doth neither melt nor ſcorch (for we ſee that <lb/>in a greater heat, a roaſt Apple ſoftneth and melteth, and Pigs feet <lb/>made of quarters of Wardens, ſcortch and have a skin of coal) doth <lb/>Mellow, and not adure: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3169" xml:space="preserve">The ſmoak alſo maketh the Apple (as it were) <lb/>ſprinkled with Soot, which helpeth to mature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3170" xml:space="preserve">Weſee, that in drying of <lb/>Pears and Prunes, in the Oven, and removing of them often as they begin <lb/>to ſweat, there is a like operation: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3171" xml:space="preserve">but that is with a far more intenſe de-<lb/>gree of heat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3172" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div365" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0104-04" xlink:href="note-0104-04a" xml:space="preserve">319.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3173" xml:space="preserve">The Apples covered in the Lime and Aſhes, were well matured as ap-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0104-05a" xlink:href="note-0104-05"/> peared both in their yellowneſs and ſweetneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3174" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, forthat that <lb/>Degree of Heat, which is in Lime and Aſhes, (being a ſmoothering heat) is <lb/>of all the reſtmoſt proper; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3175" xml:space="preserve">for it doth neither Liquefie nor Arefie, and that <lb/>is true Maturation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3176" xml:space="preserve">Note, that the taſte of thoſe Apples was good, and <lb/>therefore it is the Experiment fitteſt for uſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3177" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div366" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0104-05" xlink:href="note-0104-05a" xml:space="preserve">320.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3178" xml:space="preserve">The Apples covered with Crabs and Onions, were like wiſe well matu-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0104-06a" xlink:href="note-0104-06"/> red. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3179" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is not any heat, but for that the Crabs and the Onions draw <lb/>forth the Spirits of the Apple, and ſpred them equally thoro wout the Body; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3180" xml:space="preserve">which taketh away hardneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3181" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee one Apple ripeneth againſt another. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3182" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And therefore in making of Cider, they turn the Apples firſt upon a heap; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3183" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>ſo one Cluſter of Grapes, that toucheth another whileſt it groweth, ripen-<lb/>eth faſter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3184" xml:space="preserve">Botrus contra Botrum citius matureſcit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3185" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div367" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0104-06" xlink:href="note-0104-06a" xml:space="preserve">321.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3186" xml:space="preserve">The Apples in Hay and the Straw, ripened apparently, though notſo <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0104-07a" xlink:href="note-0104-07"/> much as the other, but the Apple in the Straw, more. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3187" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that <lb/>the Hay and Straw have a very low degree of Heat, but yet cloſe and <lb/>ſmoothering, and which dryeth not.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3188" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div368" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0104-07" xlink:href="note-0104-07a" xml:space="preserve">322.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3189" xml:space="preserve">The Apple in the cloſe Box was ripened alſo. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3190" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0104-08a" xlink:href="note-0104-08"/> all Air kept cloſe, hath a degree of warmth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3191" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in Wool, Fur, <lb/>Pluſh, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3192" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3193" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div369" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0104-08" xlink:href="note-0104-08a" xml:space="preserve">323.</note> </div> <pb o="71" file="0105" n="105" rhead="Century IV."/> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s3194" xml:space="preserve">Note, That all theſe were compared with another Apple of the ſame kinde that lay of <lb/># it ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3195" xml:space="preserve">and in compariſon of that, were more ſweet, and more yellow, and ſo <lb/># appeared to be more ripe</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3196" xml:space="preserve">Take an Apple, or Pear, or other like Fruit, and roul it upon a Table <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0105-01a" xlink:href="note-0105-01"/> hard: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3197" xml:space="preserve">We ſee in common experience, that the rouling doth ſoften and <lb/>ſweeten the Fruit preſently, which is nothing but the ſmooth diſtribution <lb/>of the Spirits into the parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3198" xml:space="preserve">for the unequal diſtribution of the Spirits <lb/>maketh the harriſhneſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3199" xml:space="preserve">But this hard rouling is between Concoction, <lb/>and a ſimple Maturation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3200" xml:space="preserve">therefore, if you ſhould roul them but gently <lb/>perhaps twice a day, and continue it ſome ſeven days, it is like they would <lb/>Mature more finely, and like unto the Natural Maturation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3201" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div370" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0105-01" xlink:href="note-0105-01a" xml:space="preserve">324.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3202" xml:space="preserve">Take an Apple, and cut out a piece of the top and cover it, to ſee <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0105-02a" xlink:href="note-0105-02"/> whether that Solution of Continuity will not haſten a Maturation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3203" xml:space="preserve">We ſee that <lb/>where a Waſp, or a Fly, or a Worm, hath bitten in a Grape or any Fruit, it will <lb/>ſweeten haſtily.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3204" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div371" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0105-02" xlink:href="note-0105-02a" xml:space="preserve">325.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3205" xml:space="preserve">Take an Apple, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3206" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3207" xml:space="preserve">and prick it with a Pin full of Holes, not deep, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0105-03a" xlink:href="note-0105-03"/> and ſmear it a little with Sack, or Cinnamon Water, or Spirit of Wine, <lb/>every day for ten days, to ſee if the Virtual Heat of the Wine, or Strong-<lb/>Waters, will not Mature it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3208" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div372" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0105-03" xlink:href="note-0105-03a" xml:space="preserve">326.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s3209" xml:space="preserve">In theſe Tryals alſo as was uſed in the firſt, ſet another of the ſame Fruits by, to compare <lb/># them, and try them by their r<unsure/>ellowneſs, and by their Sweeineſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3210" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3211" xml:space="preserve">THe World hath been much abuſed by the opinion of Making of Gold. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3212" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0105-04a" xlink:href="note-0105-04"/> The Work it ſelf, I judge to be poſſible; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3213" xml:space="preserve">but the Means (hitherto pro-<lb/>pounded) to effect it, are in the Practice, full of Error and Impoſture; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3214" xml:space="preserve">and in the Theory, full of unſound Imaginations. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3215" xml:space="preserve">For to ſay, that Nature <lb/>hath an in ention to make all Metals Gold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3216" xml:space="preserve">and that, if ſhe were delivered <lb/>from Impediments, ſhe would perform her own work; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3217" xml:space="preserve">and that, if the <lb/>Crudities, Impurities, and Leproſies of Metals were cured, they would <lb/>become Gold, and that a little quantity of the Medicine in the Work of <lb/>Projection, will turn a Sea of the Baſ@r Metal into Gold by multiplying. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3218" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>All theſe are but dreams, and ſo are many other Grounds of Alchymy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3219" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And to help the matter, the Alchymiſts call in likewiſe many vanities, <lb/>out of Aſtrology, Natural Magick, Superſtitious Interpretations of Scri <lb/>ptures, Auricular Traditions, Feigned Teſtimonies of Ancient Authors, <lb/>and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3220" xml:space="preserve">It is true, on the other ſide they have brought to light not a <lb/>few profitable Experiments, and thereby made the World ſome amends: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3221" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>But we, when we ſhall come to handle the Verſion and Tranſmutation of <lb/>Bodies, and the Experiments concerning Metals and Minerals; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3222" xml:space="preserve">will lay <lb/>open the true Ways and Paſſages of Nature, which may lead to this great <lb/>effect. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3223" xml:space="preserve">And we commend the wit of the Chineſes, who deſpair of making <lb/>of Gold, but are mad upon the making of Silver. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3224" xml:space="preserve">For certain it is, That <lb/>it is more difficult to make Gold, (which is the moſt ponderous and ma-<lb/>teriate amongſt Metals) of other Metals, leſs ponderous and leſs mate-<lb/>riate, than (Via versâ) to make Silver of Lead, or Quick-ſilver; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3225" xml:space="preserve">both <lb/>which are more ponderous than Silver: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3226" xml:space="preserve">So that they need rather a further <lb/>degree of Fixation, than any Condenſation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3227" xml:space="preserve">In the mean time, by occaſion of <lb/>handling the Axioms touching Maturation, we will direct a tryal touching <lb/>the Maturing of Metals, and thereby turning ſome of them into Gold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3228" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>we conceive indeed, that a perfect good Concoction, or Diſgeſtion, or Ma <lb/>turation of ſome Metals will produce Gold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3229" xml:space="preserve">And here we call to minde, <lb/>that we knew a Dutchman that had wrought himſelf into the belief of a <pb o="72" file="0106" n="106" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> greatperſon, by undertaking, that he could make Gold: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3230" xml:space="preserve">Whoſe diſcourſe <lb/>was, That Gold might be made, but that the Alchymiſts over-fired the work: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3231" xml:space="preserve">For (he ſaid) the making of Gold did require avery temperate Heat, asbe-<lb/>ing in Nature a ſubterrany work, where little Heat cometh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3232" xml:space="preserve">but yet more <lb/>to the making of Gold, than of any other Metal: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3233" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, that he <lb/>would do it with a great Lamp, that ſhould carry a temperate and equal <lb/>Heat, and that it was the work of many Moneths. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3234" xml:space="preserve">The deviſe of the Lamp <lb/>was folly, but the overſiring now uſed, and the equal Heat to be required, <lb/>and the making it a work of ſome good time, are no ill diſcourſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3235" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div373" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0105-04" xlink:href="note-0105-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Making of <lb/>Gold.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3236" xml:space="preserve">We reſort therefore to our Axioms of Maturation, in effect touched be-<lb/>fore.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3237" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3238" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is, That there be uſed a Temperate Heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3239" xml:space="preserve">ſor they are ever <lb/>Temperate Heats that Diſgeſts, and Mature; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3240" xml:space="preserve">wherein we mean Temperate, <lb/>according to the Nature of the Subject: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3241" xml:space="preserve">For that may be Temperate to <lb/>Fruits and Liquors, which will not work at all upon Metals.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3242" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3243" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is, That the Spirit of the Metal be quickned, and the <lb/>Tangible Parts opened: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3244" xml:space="preserve">For without thoſe two operations, the Spirit of the <lb/>Metal, wrought upon, will not be able to diſgeſt the Parts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3245" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3246" xml:space="preserve">The third is, That the Spirits do ſpred themſelves even, and move not <lb/>ſubſultorily, ſor that will make the parts cloſe and pliant. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3247" xml:space="preserve">And this requireth <lb/>a Heat that doth not riſe and ſall, but continue as equal as may be.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3248" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3249" xml:space="preserve">The fourth is, That no part of the Spirit be emitted but detained: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3250" xml:space="preserve">For if there be Emiſſion of Spirit, the Body of the Metal will be hard and <lb/>churliſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3251" xml:space="preserve">And this will be performed, partly by the temper of the Fire, and <lb/>partly by the cloſeneſs of the Veſſel.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3252" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3253" xml:space="preserve">The fifth is, That there be choice made of the likelieſt and beſt pre-<lb/>pared Metal for the Verſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3254" xml:space="preserve">for that will facilitate the Work.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3255" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3256" xml:space="preserve">The ſixthis, That you give time enough for the Work, not to prolong <lb/>hopes (as the Alchymiſts do, but indeed to give Nature a convenient ſpace to <lb/>work in.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3257" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3258" xml:space="preserve">Theſe principles moſt certain and true, we will now derive a direction <lb/>of Tryal out of them, which may (perhaps) by further Meditation be <lb/>improved.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3259" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3260" xml:space="preserve">Let there be a ſmall Furnace made of a Temperate Heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3261" xml:space="preserve">let the heat be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0106-01a" xlink:href="note-0106-01"/> ſuch as may keep the Metal perpetually molten, and no more; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3262" xml:space="preserve">for that above <lb/>all, importeth to the Work: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3263" xml:space="preserve">For the Material, take Silver, which is the <lb/>Metal, that in Nature, ſymbolizeth moſt with Gold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3264" xml:space="preserve">put in alſo, with the Sil-<lb/>ver a tenth part of Quick-ſilver, and a twelſth part of Nitre by weight: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3265" xml:space="preserve">Both theſe to quicken and open the Body of the Metal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3266" xml:space="preserve">and ſo let the Work <lb/>be continued by the ſpace of Six Moneths, at the leaſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3267" xml:space="preserve">I wiſh alſo, That <lb/>there be as ſometimes an Injection of ſome Oyled Subſtance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3268" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as they <lb/>uſe in the recovering of Gold, which by vexing with Separations hath <lb/>been made churliſh: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3269" xml:space="preserve">And this is, to lay the parts more cloſe and ſmooth, <lb/>which is the main work. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3270" xml:space="preserve">For Gold (as we ſee) is the cloſeſt (and there-<lb/>fore the heavieſt) of Metals; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3271" xml:space="preserve">and is likewiſe the moſt flexible and tenſible. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3272" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Note, That to think to make Gold of Quick-ſilver becauſe it is the heavieſt, <lb/>is a thing not to be hoped; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3273" xml:space="preserve">for Quick-ſilver will not endure the mannage <lb/>of the Fire: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3274" xml:space="preserve">Next to Silver, I think Copper were fitteſt to be the Ma-<lb/>terial.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3275" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div374" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0106-01" xlink:href="note-0106-01a" xml:space="preserve">327.</note> </div> <pb o="73" file="0107" n="107" rhead="Century IV."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3276" xml:space="preserve">GOld hath theſe Natures: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3277" xml:space="preserve">Greatneſs of VVeight, Cloſeneſs of Parts, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0107-01a" xlink:href="note-0107-01"/> Fixation, Pliantneſs or Softneſs, Immunity from Ruſt, Colour or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0107-02a" xlink:href="note-0107-02"/> Tincture of Yellow. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3278" xml:space="preserve">Therefore the ſ<unsure/>ure way (though moſt about) to <lb/>make GOld, is to know the cauſes of the ſeveral Natures before rehearſed, <lb/>and the Axioms concerning the ſame. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3279" xml:space="preserve">For if a Man can make a Metal <lb/>that hath all theſe Properties, let Men diſpute, whether it be Gold, <lb/>or no?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3280" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div375" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-01" xlink:href="note-0107-01a" xml:space="preserve">328.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-02" xlink:href="note-0107-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Nature of <lb/>Gold.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3281" xml:space="preserve">THe Enducing and Accelerating of Putrefaction, is a ſubject of avery <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0107-03a" xlink:href="note-0107-03"/> Univerſal Enquiry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3282" xml:space="preserve">For Corruption is a Reciprocal to Generation; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3283" xml:space="preserve">and they two are as Natures to Terms or Boundaties; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3284" xml:space="preserve">and the Guides to Life <lb/>and Death, Putrefaction is the VVork of the Spirits of Bodies, which ever <lb/>are unquiet to get forth and congregate with the Air, and to enjoy the <lb/>Sun-Beams. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3285" xml:space="preserve">The getting forth, or ſpreding of the Spirits, (which is a <lb/>degree of getting forth) have five differing operations. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3286" xml:space="preserve">If the Spirits be <lb/>detained within the Body, and move more violently, there followeth Colli-<lb/>quation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3287" xml:space="preserve">as in Metals, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3288" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3289" xml:space="preserve">If more mildely, there followeth Digeſtion or <lb/>Maturation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3290" xml:space="preserve">as in Drinks and Fruits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3291" xml:space="preserve">If the Spirits be not meetly detained, <lb/>but Protrude a little, and that Motion be conſuſed, and inordinate, there <lb/>followeth Putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3292" xml:space="preserve">which ever diſſolveth the Conſiſtence of the Body <lb/>into much inequality; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3293" xml:space="preserve">as in Fleſh, Rotten Fruits, Shining VVood, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3294" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3295" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>and alſo in the Ruſt of Metals. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3296" xml:space="preserve">But if that Motion be in a certain order, <lb/>there followeth Vivification and Figuration; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3297" xml:space="preserve">as both in Living Creatures <lb/>bred of Putrefaction, and in Living Creatures perfect. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3298" xml:space="preserve">But if the Spirits <lb/>iſſue out of the Body, there followeth Deſiccation, Induration, Conſump-<lb/>tion, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3299" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3300" xml:space="preserve">As in Brick, evaporation of Bodies Liquid, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3301" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3302" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div376" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-03" xlink:href="note-0107-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Enducing and <lb/>Accelerating <lb/>of Putrefacti-<lb/>on.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3303" xml:space="preserve">The Means to enduce and accelerate Putreſaction, are, Firſt, By add-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0107-04a" xlink:href="note-0107-04"/> ing ſome crude or watry moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3304" xml:space="preserve">as in VVetting of any Fleſh, Fruit, <lb/>Wood, with Water, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3305" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3306" xml:space="preserve">For contrariwiſe, Unctuous and Oyly Subſtances <lb/>preſerve.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3307" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div377" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-04" xlink:href="note-0107-04a" xml:space="preserve">329.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3308" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is, By Invitation or Excitation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3309" xml:space="preserve">as when a rotten Apple <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0107-05a" xlink:href="note-0107-05"/> lieth cloſe to another Apple that is ſound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3310" xml:space="preserve">or when Dung (which is a ſub-<lb/>ſtance already putrified) is added to other Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3311" xml:space="preserve">And this is alſo notably <lb/>ſeen in Church-yards, where they bury much; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3312" xml:space="preserve">where the Earth will con-<lb/>ſume the Corps, in far ſhorter time than other Earth will.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3313" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div378" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-05" xlink:href="note-0107-05a" xml:space="preserve">330.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3314" xml:space="preserve">The third is, By Cloſeneſs and Stopping, which detaineth the Spirits <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0107-06a" xlink:href="note-0107-06"/> in Priſon, more then they would, and thereby irritateth them to ſeek iſſue; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3315" xml:space="preserve">as in Corn and Cloaths which wax muſty; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3316" xml:space="preserve">and therefore open Air (which <lb/>they call Aer perflabilis) doth preſerve: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3317" xml:space="preserve">And this doth appear more evident-<lb/>ly in Agues, which come (moſt of them) of obſtructions and penning the <lb/>Humors, which thereupon Putrifie.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3318" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div379" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-06" xlink:href="note-0107-06a" xml:space="preserve">331.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3319" xml:space="preserve">The fourth is, By Solution of Continuity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3320" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee an Apple will rot <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0107-07a" xlink:href="note-0107-07"/> ſooner, if it be cut or pierced, and ſo will Wood, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3321" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3322" xml:space="preserve">And ſo the Fleſh of <lb/>Creatures alive, where they have received any wound.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3323" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div380" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-07" xlink:href="note-0107-07a" xml:space="preserve">332.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3324" xml:space="preserve">The fifth is, Either by the Exhaling, or by the driving back of the prin-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0107-08a" xlink:href="note-0107-08"/> cipal Spirits, which preſerve the conſiſtence of the Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3325" xml:space="preserve">ſo that when their <lb/>Government is diſſolved every partreturneth to his Nature, or Homogeny. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3326" xml:space="preserve">And this appeareth in Urine and Blood, when they cool and thereby <lb/>break. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3327" xml:space="preserve">It appeareth alſo in the Gangreen or Mortification of Fleſh, <lb/>either by Opiates, or by Intenſe Colds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3328" xml:space="preserve">I conceive alſo, the ſame effect <pb o="74" file="0108" n="108" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> is in Peſtilences, for that the malignity of the infecting vapor, d<unsure/>aunteth the <lb/>principal Spirits, and maketh them flie, and leave their Regiment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3329" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>then the Humors, Fleſh, and Secondary Spirits, do diſſolve and break, as in <lb/>an Anarchy.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3330" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div381" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-08" xlink:href="note-0107-08a" xml:space="preserve">333.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3331" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth is, VVhen a Forreign Spirit, ſtronger and more eager than <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0108-01a" xlink:href="note-0108-01"/> the Spirit of the Body, entreth the Body, as in the ſtinging of Serpents<unsure/>. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3332" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>this is the cauſe (generally) that upon all Poyſons followeth Swelling; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3333" xml:space="preserve">and we <lb/>ſee Swelling followeth alſo, when the Spirits of the Body it ſelf congregate <lb/>too much; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3334" xml:space="preserve">as upon blows and bruiſes, or when they are pent in too much, <lb/>as in Swelling upon Cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3335" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee alſo, that the Spirits coming of Pu-<lb/>trefaction of Humors in Agues, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3336" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3337" xml:space="preserve">which may be counted as Foreign Spi-<lb/>rits, though they be bred within the Body, do extinguiſh and ſuffocate the <lb/>Natural ſpirits and heat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3338" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div382" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0108-01" xlink:href="note-0108-01a" xml:space="preserve">334.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3339" xml:space="preserve">The ſeventh is, By ſuch a weak degree of heat, as ſetteth the Spirits in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0108-02a" xlink:href="note-0108-02"/> a little Motion, but is not able either to digeſt the parts, or to iſſue the Spirits, <lb/>as is ſeen in Fleſh kept in a room that is not cool; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3340" xml:space="preserve">whereas in a cool and wet <lb/>Larder it will keep longer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3341" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee, that Vivification (whereof Putre-<lb/>faction is the Baſtard Brother) is effected by ſuch ſoft heats; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3342" xml:space="preserve">as the hatching <lb/>of Eggs, the heat of the VVomb, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3343" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3344" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div383" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0108-02" xlink:href="note-0108-02a" xml:space="preserve">335.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3345" xml:space="preserve">The eighth is, By the releaſing of the Spirits, which before were cloſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0108-03a" xlink:href="note-0108-03"/> kept by the ſolidneſs of their coverture, and thereby their apperite of iſſuing <lb/>checked; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3346" xml:space="preserve">as in the artificial ruſts induced by Strong waters in Iron, Lead, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3347" xml:space="preserve">c. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3348" xml:space="preserve">And therefore wetting haſtneth Ruſt or Putrefaction of any<unsure/>hing, becauſeit <lb/>ſoſtneth the Cruſt, for the Spirits to come forth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3349" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div384" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0108-03" xlink:href="note-0108-03a" xml:space="preserve">336.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3350" xml:space="preserve">The ninth is, By the enter change of heat and cold, or wet and dry; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3351" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0108-04a" xlink:href="note-0108-04"/> we ſee in the Mouldring of Earth in Froſts, and Sun; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3352" xml:space="preserve">and in the more haſty <lb/>rotting of VVood, that is ſometimes wet, ſometimes dry.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3353" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div385" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0108-04" xlink:href="note-0108-04a" xml:space="preserve">337.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3354" xml:space="preserve">The tenth is, By time, and the work, and procedure of the Spirits them-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0108-05a" xlink:href="note-0108-05"/> ſelves, which cannot keep their ſtation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3355" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially, if they be leſt to them-<lb/>ſelves, and there be not Agitation or Local Motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3356" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee in Corn not <lb/>ſtirred, and Mens Bodies not exerciſed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3357" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div386" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0108-05" xlink:href="note-0108-05a" xml:space="preserve">338.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3358" xml:space="preserve">All Moulds are Inceptions of Putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3359" xml:space="preserve">as the Moulds of Pyes and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0108-06a" xlink:href="note-0108-06"/> Fleſh the Moulds of Orenges and Lemmons, which Moulds aſterwards turn <lb/>into VVorms, or more odious Putrefactions: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3360" xml:space="preserve">And thereſore (commonly) <lb/>prove to be of ill odor. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3361" xml:space="preserve">And if the Body be liquid, and not apt to putrifie to-<lb/>tally, it will caſt up a Mother in the top, as the Mothers of Di<unsure/>ſtilled waters.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3362" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div387" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0108-06" xlink:href="note-0108-06a" xml:space="preserve">339.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3363" xml:space="preserve">Moſs is a kinde of Mold of the Earth and Trees: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3364" xml:space="preserve">But it may be better <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0108-07a" xlink:href="note-0108-07"/> ſorted as a Rudiment of Germination, to which we referit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3365" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div388" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0108-07" xlink:href="note-0108-07a" xml:space="preserve">340.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3366" xml:space="preserve">IT is an Enquiry of excellent uſe to enquire of the Means of Preventing or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0108-08a" xlink:href="note-0108-08"/> Staying of Putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3367" xml:space="preserve">ſor therein conſiſteth the Means of Conſervation <lb/>of Bodies: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3368" xml:space="preserve">For Bodies have two kindes of Diſſolutions, the one by Con-<lb/>ſumption and Diſiccation, the other by Putrefaction. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3369" xml:space="preserve">But as for the Putre-<lb/>factions of the Bodies of Men and Living Creatures (as in Agues, VVorms, <lb/>Conſumptions of the Lungs, Impoſthums, and Ulcers, both in wards and out-<lb/>wards) they are a great part of Phyſick and Surgery: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3370" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we will <lb/>reſerve the Enquiry of them to the proper place, where we ſhall handle Me-<lb/>dicinal Experiments of all ſorts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3371" xml:space="preserve">Of the reſt, we will now enter into an En-<lb/>quiry, wherein much light may be taken from that which hath been ſaid of <lb/>the Means to enduce or accelerate Putreſaction: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3372" xml:space="preserve">For the removing that which <lb/>cauſed Putrefaction, doth prevent and avoid Putreſaction.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3373" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div389" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0108-08" xlink:href="note-0108-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Prohibiting <lb/>and Prevent-<lb/>ing Putr. <lb/>faction.</note> </div> <pb o="75" file="0109" n="109" rhead="Century IV."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3374" xml:space="preserve">The ſirſt Means of prohibiting or checking Putrefaction is cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3375" xml:space="preserve">for ſo <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0109-01a" xlink:href="note-0109-01"/> we ſee that Meat and Drink will laſt longer, unputrified, or unſowred, in <lb/>Winter, than in Summer: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3376" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee that Flowers, and Fruits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3377" xml:space="preserve">put in <lb/>conſervatories of Snow, keep freſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3378" xml:space="preserve">And this worketh by the Detention of <lb/>the Spirits, and conſtipation of the Tangible parts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3379" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div390" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0109-01" xlink:href="note-0109-01a" xml:space="preserve">341.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3380" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is Aſtriction: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3381" xml:space="preserve">For Aſtriction prohibiteth Diſſolution; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3382" xml:space="preserve">as We <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0109-02a" xlink:href="note-0109-02"/> ſee (generally) in Medicines, whereof ſuch as are Aſtringents do inhibit Putre-<lb/>faction: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3383" xml:space="preserve">And by the ſame reaſon of Aſtringency, ſome ſmall quantity of Oyl <lb/>of Vitriol, will keep fro<unsure/>ſh water long from putrifying. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3384" xml:space="preserve">And this Aſtriction <lb/>is in aſubſtance that hath a virtual cold, and it worketh (partly) by the ſame <lb/>means that cold doth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3385" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div391" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0109-02" xlink:href="note-0109-02a" xml:space="preserve">342.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3386" xml:space="preserve">The third is, The e<unsure/>xc<unsure/>luding of the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3387" xml:space="preserve">and again, the expoſing to the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0109-03a" xlink:href="note-0109-03"/> Air: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3388" xml:space="preserve">For theſe contraries, (as it cometh often to paſs) work the ſame <lb/>effect, according to the nature of the Subject matter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3389" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee, that <lb/>Beer or Wine in Bottles cloſe ſtopped, laſt long; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3390" xml:space="preserve">that the Garners under <lb/>Ground keep Corn longer, than thoſe above Ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3391" xml:space="preserve">and that Fruit <lb/>cloſed in Wax, keepeth freſh: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3392" xml:space="preserve">And likewiſe, Bodies put in Honey, and <lb/>Flower, keep more freſh: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3393" xml:space="preserve">And Liquors, Drinks, and Juyces, with a little <lb/>Oyl caſt on the top, keep ſreſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3394" xml:space="preserve">Contrari wiſe, we ſee that Cloath and Ap-<lb/>parel, not aired, do breed Moaths and Mould; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3395" xml:space="preserve">and the Diverſity is, that <lb/>in Bodies that need Detention of Spirits, the Excluſion of the Air doth <lb/>good; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3396" xml:space="preserve">as in Drinks, and Corn: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3397" xml:space="preserve">But in Bodies that need Emiſſion of Spirits, <lb/>to diſcharge ſome of the ſuperfluous moiſture, it doth hurt, for they require <lb/>airing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3398" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div392" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0109-03" xlink:href="note-0109-03a" xml:space="preserve">343.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3399" xml:space="preserve">The fourth is Motion, and Stirring; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3400" xml:space="preserve">for Putrefaction asketh Reſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3401" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0109-04a" xlink:href="note-0109-04"/> the ſubtil Motion which Putrefaction requireth, is diſturbed by any Agi-<lb/>tation, and all Local Motion keepeth Bodies integral, and their parts <lb/>together: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3402" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee, that turning over of Corn in a Garner, or Let-<lb/>ting it run like an Hour-Glaſs, from an upper Room into a lower, doth <lb/>keep it ſweet: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3403" xml:space="preserve">And running Waters putrifie not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3404" xml:space="preserve">and in Mens Bodies, <lb/>exerciſe hindreth Putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3405" xml:space="preserve">and contrary wiſe Reſt, and want of Mo-<lb/>tion or ſtoppings (whereby the running of Humors, or the Motion of <lb/>Perſpiration, is ſtayed) further Putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3406" xml:space="preserve">as we partly touched a little <lb/>before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3407" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div393" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0109-04" xlink:href="note-0109-04a" xml:space="preserve">344.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3408" xml:space="preserve">The fifth is, The Breathing ſorth of the Adventitious Moiſture in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0109-05a" xlink:href="note-0109-05"/> Bodies, for as wetting doth haſten Putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3409" xml:space="preserve">ſo convenient drying <lb/>(whereby the more Radical Moiſture is onely kept in) putteth back Putre-<lb/>foction: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3410" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee that Herbs and Flowers, if they be dried in the ſhade, or <lb/>dried in the hot Sun, for a ſmall time keep beſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3411" xml:space="preserve">For the Emiſſion of the <lb/>looſe and adventitious Moiſture, doth betray the Radical Moiſture, and car-<lb/>ryeth it out for company.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3412" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div394" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0109-05" xlink:href="note-0109-05a" xml:space="preserve">345.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3413" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth is, The ſtrengthning of the Spirits of Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3414" xml:space="preserve">for as a great <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0109-06a" xlink:href="note-0109-06"/> heat keepeth Bodies from Putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3415" xml:space="preserve">but a tepide heat enclineth them to <lb/>Putrefaction: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3416" xml:space="preserve">So a ſtrong Spirit like wiſe preſerveth, and a weak or faint <lb/>Spirit diſpoſeth to corruption. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3417" xml:space="preserve">So we finde, that Salt-water corrupteth not <lb/>ſo ſoon as freſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3418" xml:space="preserve">and ſalting of Oyſters, and powdring of Meat, keepeth <lb/>them from Putrefaction. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3419" xml:space="preserve">It would be tryed alſo, whether Chalk, put in-<lb/>to Water, or Drink, doth not preſerve it from Putrifying, or ſpeedy Sour-<lb/>ing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3420" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee that Strong-Beer will laſt longer than ſmall, and all things, that <lb/>are hot and aromatical, do help to preſerve Liquors, or Powders, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3421" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3422" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>they do, as well by ſtrengthning the Spirits, as by ſoaking out the looſe <lb/>Moiſture.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3423" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div395" type="float" level="2" n="51"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0109-06" xlink:href="note-0109-06a" xml:space="preserve">346.</note> </div> <pb o="76" file="0110" n="110" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3424" xml:space="preserve">The ſeventh is, Separation of the cruder parts, and thereby making the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0110-01a" xlink:href="note-0110-01"/> Body more equal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3425" xml:space="preserve">for all unperfect mixture is apt to putrifie, and Watry <lb/>ſubſtances are more apt to putrifie, than oily. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3426" xml:space="preserve">So, we ſee diſtilled Waters <lb/>will laſt longer than raw Waters, and things that have paſſed the Fire, <lb/>do laſt longer than thoſe that have not paſſed the Fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3427" xml:space="preserve">as dried Pears, <lb/>& </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3428" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3429" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div396" type="float" level="2" n="52"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-01" xlink:href="note-0110-01a" xml:space="preserve">347.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3430" xml:space="preserve">The eighth is, The drawing forth continually of that part, where the Putre-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0110-02a" xlink:href="note-0110-02"/> faction beginneth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3431" xml:space="preserve">Which is (commonly) the looſe and watry moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3432" xml:space="preserve">not onely <lb/>for the reaſon before given, that it provoketh the radical moiſture to come <lb/>forth with it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3433" xml:space="preserve">but becauſe being detained in the Body, the Putrefaction <lb/>taking hold of it, infecteth the reſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3434" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee in the Embalming of Dead <lb/>Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3435" xml:space="preserve">And the ſame reaſon is, of preſerving Herbs, or Fruits, or Flowers, <lb/>in Bran or Meal.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3436" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div397" type="float" level="2" n="53"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-02" xlink:href="note-0110-02a" xml:space="preserve">348.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3437" xml:space="preserve">The ninth is, The commixture of any thing that is more oyly or ſweet: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3438" xml:space="preserve">For ſuch <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0110-03a" xlink:href="note-0110-03"/> Bodies are leaſt apt to putrifie, the Air working little upon them, and they <lb/>not putrifying preſerve the reſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3439" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we ſee Syrrups and Oynt-<lb/>ments will laſt longer than Juyces.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3440" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div398" type="float" level="2" n="54"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-03" xlink:href="note-0110-03a" xml:space="preserve">349.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3441" xml:space="preserve">The tenth is, The commixture of ſome what that is dry; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3442" xml:space="preserve">for Putrefaction <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0110-04a" xlink:href="note-0110-04"/> beginneth firſt from the Spirits, and then from the moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3443" xml:space="preserve">and that <lb/>that is dry, is unapt to putrifie. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3444" xml:space="preserve">And therefore ſmoak preſerveth fleſh; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3445" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in Bacon, and Neats-Tongues, and Martlemas-Beef, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3446" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3447" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div399" type="float" level="2" n="55"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-04" xlink:href="note-0110-04a" xml:space="preserve">350.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3448" xml:space="preserve">The opinion of ſome of the Ancients, That blown Airs do preſerve <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0110-05a" xlink:href="note-0110-05"/> Bodies longer than other Airs, ſeemeth to me probable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3449" xml:space="preserve">for that the <lb/>blown Airs, being over-charged and compreſſed, will hardly receive the <lb/>exhaling of any thing, but rather repulſe it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3450" xml:space="preserve">It was tryed in a blown <lb/>Bladder, whereinto fleſh was put, and likewiſe a Flower, and it ſorted not: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3451" xml:space="preserve">For dry Bladders will not blow, and new Bladders rather further Putrefacti-<lb/>on. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3452" xml:space="preserve">The way were therefore, to blow ſtrongly with a pair of Bellows, into <lb/>a Hogſhead, putting into the Hogſhead (before) that which you would <lb/>have preſerved; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3453" xml:space="preserve">and in the inſtant that you withdraw the Bellows, ſtop the <lb/>hole cloſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3454" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div400" type="float" level="2" n="56"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-05" xlink:href="note-0110-05a" xml:space="preserve">351.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3455" xml:space="preserve">THe Experiment of Wood that ſhineth in the dark, we have diligently <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0110-06a" xlink:href="note-0110-06"/> driven and purſued: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3456" xml:space="preserve">The rather, for that of all things that give light <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0110-07a" xlink:href="note-0110-07"/> here below, it is the moſt durable, and hath leaſt apparent motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3457" xml:space="preserve">Fire <lb/>and Flame are in continual expence; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3458" xml:space="preserve">Sugar ſhining onely while it is in ſcra-<lb/>ping; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3459" xml:space="preserve">and Salt-water while it is in daſhing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3460" xml:space="preserve">Gloworms have their ſhining <lb/>while they live, or a little after; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3461" xml:space="preserve">onely Scales of Fiſhes (putrified) ſeem to <lb/>be of the ſame nature with ſhining Wood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3462" xml:space="preserve">And it is true, that all Putre-<lb/>faction hath with it an in ward motion, as well as Fire or Light. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3463" xml:space="preserve">The tryal <lb/>ſorted thus.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3464" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div401" type="float" level="2" n="57"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-06" xlink:href="note-0110-06a" xml:space="preserve">352.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0110-07" xlink:href="note-0110-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Wood Shining <lb/>in the Dark.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3465" xml:space="preserve">1. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3466" xml:space="preserve">The ſhining is in ſome pieces more bright, in ſome more dim; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3467" xml:space="preserve">but the moſt bright of all doth not attain to the light of a Gloworm. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3468" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>2. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3469" xml:space="preserve">The Woods that have been tryed to ſhine, are chiefly Sallow and Wil-<lb/>low; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3470" xml:space="preserve">alſo, the Aſh and Haſle, it may be, it holdeth in others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3471" xml:space="preserve">3. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3472" xml:space="preserve">Both <lb/>Roots, and Bodies do ſhine but the Roots better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3473" xml:space="preserve">4. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3474" xml:space="preserve">The colour of the <lb/>ſhining part, by day-light, is in ſome pieces white, in ſome pieces inclining <lb/>to red; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3475" xml:space="preserve">which in the Country they call the White and Red Carret. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3476" xml:space="preserve">5. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3477" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>part that ſhineth, is (for the moſt part) ſome what ſoft, and moiſt to feel <lb/>to; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3478" xml:space="preserve">but ſome was found to be firm and hard; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3479" xml:space="preserve">ſo as it might be figured into <lb/>a Croſs, or into Beads, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3480" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3481" xml:space="preserve">But you muſt not look to have an Image, or <lb/>the like, in any thing that is Lightſom; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3482" xml:space="preserve">for even a Face in Iron red hot, <pb o="77" file="0111" n="111" rhead="Century IV."/> will not be ſeen; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3483" xml:space="preserve">the light confounding the ſmall differences of lightſome <lb/>and darkſome, which ſhew the figure. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3484" xml:space="preserve">6. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3485" xml:space="preserve">There was the ſhining part <lb/>pared off, till you came to that, that did not ſhine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3486" xml:space="preserve">but within two days the <lb/>part contiguous began alſo to ſhine, being laid abtoad in the Dew; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3487" xml:space="preserve">ſo as it <lb/>ſeemeth the putrefaction ſpredeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3488" xml:space="preserve">7. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3489" xml:space="preserve">There was other dead Wood of <lb/>like kinde that was laid abroad, which ſhined not at the firſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3490" xml:space="preserve">but after a <lb/>nights lying abroad, begin to ſhine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3491" xml:space="preserve">8. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3492" xml:space="preserve">There was other Wood that did <lb/>firſt ſhine, and being laid dry in the Houſe, within five or ſix days loſt <lb/>the ſhining; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3493" xml:space="preserve">and laid abroad again, recovered the ſhining. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3494" xml:space="preserve">9. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3495" xml:space="preserve">Shining <lb/>Woods being laid in a dry room, within a ſeven night loſt their ſhining; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3496" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>being laid in a Cellar, or dark room, kept the ſhining. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3497" xml:space="preserve">10. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3498" xml:space="preserve">The boring of <lb/>holes in that kinde of Wood, and then laying it abroad, ſeemeth to conduce <lb/>to make it ſhine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3499" xml:space="preserve">the cauſe is, for that all ſolution of continuity, doth help <lb/>on putrefaction, as was touched before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3500" xml:space="preserve">11. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3501" xml:space="preserve">No Wood hath been yet <lb/>tryed to ſhine that was cut down alive, but ſuch as was rooted both in Stock <lb/>and Root while it grew. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3502" xml:space="preserve">12. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3503" xml:space="preserve">Part of the Wood that ſhined, was ſteeped <lb/>in Oyl and retained the ſhining a fortnight. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3504" xml:space="preserve">13. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3505" xml:space="preserve">The like ſucceeded in <lb/>ſome ſteeped in Water, and much better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3506" xml:space="preserve">14. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3507" xml:space="preserve">How long the ſhining will <lb/>continue, it the Wood be laid abroad every night, and taken in and ſprinkled <lb/>with Water in the day, is not yet tryed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3508" xml:space="preserve">16. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3509" xml:space="preserve">Tryal was made of laying it <lb/>abroad in froſty weather, which hurt it not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3510" xml:space="preserve">16. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3511" xml:space="preserve">There was a great piece <lb/>of a Root, which did ſhine, and the ſhining part was cut off, till no more <lb/>ſhined; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3512" xml:space="preserve">yet aſter two nights, though it were kept in a dry Room, it got a <lb/>ſhining.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3513" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3514" xml:space="preserve">THe bringing ſorth of Living Creatures may be accelerated in two re-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0111-01a" xlink:href="note-0111-01"/> ſpects: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3515" xml:space="preserve">The one, if the Embryon ripeneth and perfecteth ſooner; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3516" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0111-02a" xlink:href="note-0111-02"/> the other, if there be ſome cauſe from the Mothers Body of Expulſion <lb/>or putting it down: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3517" xml:space="preserve">Where of the former is good, and argueth ſtrength; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3518" xml:space="preserve">the latter is ill, and cometh by accident or diſeaſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3519" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the <lb/>Ancient obſervation is true, that the Childe born in the Seventh Moneth, doth <lb/>commonly well; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3520" xml:space="preserve">but Born in the Eighth Moneth, doth (for the moſt part) <lb/>die. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3521" xml:space="preserve">But the cauſe aſſigned is fabulous, which is, That in the Eighth <lb/>Moneth ſhould be the return of the reign of the Planet Saturn, which <lb/>(as they ſay) is a Planet malign; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3522" xml:space="preserve">whereas in the Seventh is the reign <lb/>of the Moon, which is a Planet propitious. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3523" xml:space="preserve">But the true cauſe is, for <lb/>that where there is ſo great a prevention of the ordinary time, it is the <lb/>luſtineſs of the Childe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3524" xml:space="preserve">but when it is leſs, it is ſome indiſpoſition of the <lb/>Mother.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3525" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div402" type="float" level="2" n="58"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0111-01" xlink:href="note-0111-01a" xml:space="preserve">353.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0111-02" xlink:href="note-0111-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Acceleration <lb/>of Birth.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3526" xml:space="preserve">TO Accelerate Growth or Stature, it muſt proceed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3527" xml:space="preserve">Either from the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0111-03a" xlink:href="note-0111-03"/> Plenty of the Nouriſhment, or from the Nature of the Nourifhment, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0111-04a" xlink:href="note-0111-04"/> or from the Quickning and Exciting of the Natural heat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3528" xml:space="preserve">For the firſt, Exceſs <lb/>of Nouriſhment, is hurtſul; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3529" xml:space="preserve">for it maketh the Childe corpulent, and grow-<lb/>ing in breadth, rather than in height. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3530" xml:space="preserve">And you may take an Experiment <lb/>from plants, which if they ſpred much, are ſeldom tall. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3531" xml:space="preserve">As for the Nature <lb/>of the Nouriſhment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3532" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, it may not be too dry, and therefore Children <lb/>in Dairy Countreys do wax more tall, than where they feed more upon <lb/>Bread and Fleſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3533" xml:space="preserve">There is alſo a received tale, that boyling of Dafie-Roots <lb/>in Milk (which it is certain are great dryers) will make Dogs little. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3534" xml:space="preserve">But ſo much is true, That an over-dry Nouriſhment in Childhood <lb/>putteth back Stature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3535" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, The Nouriſhment muſt be of an opening <pb o="78" file="0112" n="112" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Nature; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3536" xml:space="preserve">for that attenuateth the Juyce, and furthereth the Motion of the <lb/>Spirits upwards. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3537" xml:space="preserve">Neither is it without cauſe, that Xenophon in the Nouriture <lb/>of the Perſian Children, doth ſo much commend their feeding upon Cardamon, <lb/>which (he ſaith) made them grow better, and be of a more active habit. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3538" xml:space="preserve">Cardamon is in Latin, Naſturtium, and with us Water-creſſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3539" xml:space="preserve">which, it is cer-<lb/>tain, is an Herb, that whilſt it is young, is friendly to Life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3540" xml:space="preserve">As for the <lb/>quickning of Natural Heat, it muſt be done chiefly with exerciſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3541" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>therefore (no doubt) much going to School, where they ſit ſo much, <lb/>hindereth the growth of Children; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3542" xml:space="preserve">whereas Countrey-People, that go <lb/>not to School, are commonly of better ſtature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3543" xml:space="preserve">And again, Men muſt <lb/>beware how they give Children any thing that is cold in operation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3544" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>even long ſucking doth hinder both Wit and Stature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3545" xml:space="preserve">This hath been <lb/>tryed, that a Whelp that hath been fed with Nitre in Milk, hath be-<lb/>come very little, but extream lively: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3546" xml:space="preserve">For the Spirit of Nitre is cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3547" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And though it be an excellent Medicine in ſtrength of years for Pro-<lb/>longation of Life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3548" xml:space="preserve">yet it is in Children and young Creatures an enemy <lb/>to growth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3549" xml:space="preserve">and all for the ſame reaſon, For Heat is requiſite to Growth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3550" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>But after a Man is come to his middle age, Heat conſumeth the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3551" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>which the coldneſs of the Spirit of Nitre doth help to condence and <lb/>correct.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3552" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div403" type="float" level="2" n="59"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0111-03" xlink:href="note-0111-03a" xml:space="preserve">354.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0111-04" xlink:href="note-0111-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Acceleration <lb/>of Growth and <lb/>Stature.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3553" xml:space="preserve">THere be two great Families of Things, you may term them by <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0112-01a" xlink:href="note-0112-01"/> ſeveral names, Sulphureous and Mercureal, which are the Chymists <lb/>words: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3554" xml:space="preserve">(For as for their Salt, which is their third Principle, it is a Com-<lb/>pound of the other two,) Inflamable, and Not Inflamable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3555" xml:space="preserve">Mature and Crude, <lb/>Oily and Watry: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3556" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee that in Subterranies there are, as the Fathers of <lb/>their Tribes, Brimſtone and Mercury; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3557" xml:space="preserve">In Vegetables and Living Crea-<lb/>tures, there is Water and Oyl; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3558" xml:space="preserve">in the Inferior order of Pneumaticals, <lb/>there is Air and Flame; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3559" xml:space="preserve">and in the Superior, there is the Body of the <lb/>Star, and the Pure Skey. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3560" xml:space="preserve">And theſe Pairs, though they be unlike in the <lb/>Primitive Differences of Matter, yet they ſeem to have many conſents; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3561" xml:space="preserve">for Mercury and Sulphure are principal materials of Metals; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3562" xml:space="preserve">Water and <lb/>Oyl are principal materials of Vegetables and Animals, and ſeem to differ <lb/>but in Maturation or Concoction. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3563" xml:space="preserve">Flame (in Vulgar Opinion) is but <lb/>Air incenſed, and they both have quickneſs of Motion, and facility of <lb/>Ceſſion, much alike: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3564" xml:space="preserve">And the Interſtellar Skey, (though the opinion be <lb/>vain, that the Star is the Denſer Part of his Orb,) hath not withſtanding <lb/>ſo much affinity with the Star, that there is a rotation of that, as well as <lb/>of the Star. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3565" xml:space="preserve">Therefore, it is one of the greateſt Magnalia Naturæ, to turn <lb/>Water or Watry Juyce into Oyl or Oyly Juyce: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3566" xml:space="preserve">Greater in Nature, than <lb/>to turn Silver or Quick-ſilver into Gold.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3567" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div404" type="float" level="2" n="60"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0112-01" xlink:href="note-0112-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Sulphure and <lb/>Mercury, two <lb/>of Paracelſus <lb/>Principles.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3568" xml:space="preserve">The Inſtances we have wherein Crude and Watry Subſtance, turneth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0112-02a" xlink:href="note-0112-02"/> into Fat and Oyly, are of four kindes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3569" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, In the Mixture of Earth and <lb/>Water, which mingled by the help of the Sun, gathered a Nitrous Fat-<lb/>neſs, more than either of them have ſeverally; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3570" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee, in that they put <lb/>forth Plants, which need both Juyces.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3571" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div405" type="float" level="2" n="61"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0112-02" xlink:href="note-0112-02a" xml:space="preserve">355.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3572" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is in the Aſſimilation of Nouriſhment, made in the Bodies <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0112-03a" xlink:href="note-0112-03"/> of Plants, and Living Creatures; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3573" xml:space="preserve">whereof Plants turn the Juyce of meer <lb/>Water and Earth, into a great deal of Oyly matter: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3574" xml:space="preserve">Living Creatures, <lb/>though much of their Fat, and Fleſh, are out of Oyly Aliments, (as Meat, <lb/>and Bread,) yet they aſſimilate alſo in a meaſure their Drink of Water, <pb o="79" file="0113" n="113" rhead="Century IV."/> &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3575" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3576" xml:space="preserve">But theſe two ways of Verſion of Water into Oyl, (namely, by <lb/>Mixture and by Aſſimilation) are by many Paſſages, and Percolations, and <lb/>by continuance of ſoft Heats, and by circuits of Time.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3577" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div406" type="float" level="2" n="62"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0112-03" xlink:href="note-0112-03a" xml:space="preserve">356.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3578" xml:space="preserve">The third is in the Inception of Putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3579" xml:space="preserve">as in Water corrupted, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0113-01a" xlink:href="note-0113-01"/> and the Mothers of Waters diſtilled, both which have a kinde of Fatneſs <lb/>or Oyl.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3580" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div407" type="float" level="2" n="63"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0113-01" xlink:href="note-0113-01a" xml:space="preserve">357</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3581" xml:space="preserve">The fourth is in the Dulcoration of ſome Metals; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3582" xml:space="preserve">as Saccharum Sa-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0113-02a" xlink:href="note-0113-02"/> turni, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3583" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3584" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div408" type="float" level="2" n="64"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0113-02" xlink:href="note-0113-02a" xml:space="preserve">358.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3585" xml:space="preserve">The Intenſion of Verſion of Water into a more Oyly ſubſtance is by <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0113-03a" xlink:href="note-0113-03"/> Digeſtion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3586" xml:space="preserve">For Oyl is almoſt nothing elſe but Water digeſted and this <lb/>Digeſtion is principally by Heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3587" xml:space="preserve">which Heat muſt be either out ward or <lb/>inward. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3588" xml:space="preserve">Again, It may be by Provocation or Excitation, which is cauſed <lb/>by the mingling of Bodies already Oyly or Digeſted, for they will ſome-<lb/>what communicate their Nature with the reſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3589" xml:space="preserve">Digeſtion alſo is ſtrongly <lb/>effected by direct Aſſimilation of Bodies Crude into Bodies digeſted; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3590" xml:space="preserve">as in <lb/>Plants and Living Creatures, whoſe nouriſhment is far more Crude than <lb/>their Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3591" xml:space="preserve">But this Digeſtion is by a great compaſs as hath been ſaid. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3592" xml:space="preserve">As <lb/>for the more full handling of theſe two principles, whereof this is but a <lb/>taſte; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3593" xml:space="preserve">(the enquiry of which, is one of the profoundeſt enquiries of Na-<lb/>ture,) we leave it to the title of Verſion of Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3594" xml:space="preserve">and like wiſe to the title <lb/>of the Firſt Congregations of Matter, which like a General Aſſembly of <lb/>Eſtates, doth give Law to all Bodies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3595" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div409" type="float" level="2" n="65"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0113-03" xlink:href="note-0113-03a" xml:space="preserve">359.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3596" xml:space="preserve">AChamelion is a Creature about the bigneſs of an ordinary Lizard, his <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0113-04a" xlink:href="note-0113-04"/> Head unproportionably big, his eyes great; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3597" xml:space="preserve">he moveth his Head <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0113-05a" xlink:href="note-0113-05"/> without the writhing of his Neck (which is inflexible) as a Hog doth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3598" xml:space="preserve">His <lb/>Back crooked, his Skin ſpotted with little Tumors, leſs eminent nearer <lb/>the Belly, his Tail ſlender and long; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3599" xml:space="preserve">on each Foot he hath five Fingers; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3600" xml:space="preserve">three on the outſide, and two on the inſide; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3601" xml:space="preserve">his Tongue of a marvellous <lb/>length, in reſpect of his Body, and hollow at the end, which he will <lb/>lanch out to prey upon Flies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3602" xml:space="preserve">Of colout Green, and of a dusky Yal-<lb/>low, brighter and whiter towards the Belly, yet ſpotted with Blew, <lb/>White, and Red. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3603" xml:space="preserve">If he be laid upon Green, the Green predominateth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3604" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>if upon Yellow, the Yellow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3605" xml:space="preserve">not ſo, if he be laid upon Blew, or Red, or <lb/>White, onely the Green ſpots receive a more orient luſtre; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3606" xml:space="preserve">laid upon <lb/>Black, he looketh all Black, though not without a mixture of Green. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3607" xml:space="preserve">He <lb/>feedeth not onely upon Air, (though that be his principal ſuſtenance;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3608" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>ſometimes he taketh Flies, as was ſaid; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3609" xml:space="preserve">yet ſome that have kept Chamelions <lb/>a whole year together, could never perceive that ever they fed upon any <lb/>thing elſe but Air, and might obſerve their Bellies to ſwell after they had <lb/>exhauſted the Air, and cloſed their Jaws, which they open commonly <lb/>againſt the Rayes of the Sun. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3610" xml:space="preserve">They have a fooliſh Tradition in Magick, <lb/>that if a Chamelion be burnt upon the top of an Houſe, it will raiſe a Tempeſt, <lb/>ſuppoſing (according to their vain Dreams of Sympathies) becauſe he nou-<lb/>riſheth with Air, his Body ſhould have great vertue to make impreſſion <lb/>upon the Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3611" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div410" type="float" level="2" n="66"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0113-04" xlink:href="note-0113-04a" xml:space="preserve">360.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0113-05" xlink:href="note-0113-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Chamelions.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3612" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported by one of the Ancients, that in part of Media, there are e-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0113-06a" xlink:href="note-0113-06"/> ruptions of Flames out of Plains, and that thoſe Flames are clear, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0113-07a" xlink:href="note-0113-07"/> caſt not forth ſuch ſmoak, and aſhes, and pumice, as Mountain Flames do. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3613" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon (no doubt) is, becauſe the Flame is not pent, as it is in Moun-<lb/>tains, and Earthquakes which caſt Flame. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3614" xml:space="preserve">There be alſo ſome blinde Fires, <pb o="80" file="0114" n="114" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> under Stone, which flame not out, but Oyl being poured upon them, they <lb/>flame out. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3615" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe whereof is, for that it ſeemeth the Fire is ſo choak ed, <lb/>as not able to remove the Stone, it is heat rather than flame, which never-<lb/>theleſs is ſufficient to enflame the Oyl.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3616" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div411" type="float" level="2" n="67"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0113-06" xlink:href="note-0113-06a" xml:space="preserve">361.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0113-07" xlink:href="note-0113-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Subterrany <lb/>Fires.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3617" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported, that in ſome Lakes the Water is ſo Nitrous as if foul <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0114-01a" xlink:href="note-0114-01"/> Cloaths be put into it, it ſcoureth them of it ſelf: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3618" xml:space="preserve">And if they ſtay any <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0114-02a" xlink:href="note-0114-02"/> whit long they moulder away. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3619" xml:space="preserve">And the ſcouring Vertue of Nitre is the <lb/>more to be noted, becauſe it is a Body cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3620" xml:space="preserve">and weſee warm Water <lb/>ſcoureth better than cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3621" xml:space="preserve">But the cauſe is, for that it hath a ſubtil Spirit, <lb/>which ſevereth and divideth any thing that is foul, and viſcous, and ſticketh <lb/>upon a Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3622" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div412" type="float" level="2" n="68"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0114-01" xlink:href="note-0114-01a" xml:space="preserve">362.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0114-02" xlink:href="note-0114-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Nitre.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3623" xml:space="preserve">TAke a Bladder, the greateſt you can get; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3624" xml:space="preserve">full it full of Wind, and tye <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0114-03a" xlink:href="note-0114-03"/> it about the Neck with a Silk thred waxed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3625" xml:space="preserve">and upon that like wiſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0114-04a" xlink:href="note-0114-04"/> W ax very cloſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3626" xml:space="preserve">ſo that when the Neck of the Bladder drieth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3627" xml:space="preserve">no Air may <lb/>poſſibly get in nor out. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3628" xml:space="preserve">Then bury it three or four foot under the Earth, in <lb/>a Vault, or in a Conſervatory of Snow, the Snow being made hollow about <lb/>the Bladder; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3629" xml:space="preserve">and after ſome fortnights diſtance, ſee whether the Bladder <lb/>be ſhrunk: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3630" xml:space="preserve">Forif it be, then it is plain, that the coldneſs of the Earth or <lb/>Snow, hath condenſed the Air, and brought it a degree nearer to Water: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3631" xml:space="preserve">Which is an Experiment of great conſequence.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3632" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div413" type="float" level="2" n="69"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0114-03" xlink:href="note-0114-03a" xml:space="preserve">363.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0114-04" xlink:href="note-0114-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Congealing of <lb/>Air.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3633" xml:space="preserve">IT is a report of ſome good credit, that in deep Caves there are Penſile <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0114-05a" xlink:href="note-0114-05"/> Chryſtal, and degrees of Chryſtal that drop from above, and in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0114-06a" xlink:href="note-0114-06"/> ſome other (though more rarely) that riſe from below. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3634" xml:space="preserve">Which though <lb/>it be chiefly the work of cold, yet it may be, that Water that paſſeth <lb/>thorow the Earth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3635" xml:space="preserve">gathereth a Nature more clammy, and fitter to con-<lb/>geal, and become ſolid than Water of it ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3636" xml:space="preserve">Therefore tryal would be <lb/>made to lay a heap of Earth in great Froſts, upon a hollow Veſſel, put-<lb/>ting a Canvaſe between, that it falleth not in; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3637" xml:space="preserve">and pour Water upon it, <lb/>in ſuch quantity as will be ſure to ſoak thorow, and ſee whether it <lb/>will not make an harder Ice in the bottom of the Veſſel, and leſs apt to <lb/>diſſolve than ordinarily. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3638" xml:space="preserve">I ſuppoſe alſo, that if you make the Earth nar-<lb/>rower at the bottom than at the top, in faſhion of Sugar Loaf reverſed, <lb/>it will help the Experiment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3639" xml:space="preserve">For it will make the Ice, where it <lb/>iſſueth, leſs in bulk; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3640" xml:space="preserve">and evermore ſmallneſs of quantity is a help to <lb/>Verſion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3641" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div414" type="float" level="2" n="70"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0114-05" xlink:href="note-0114-05a" xml:space="preserve">364.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0114-06" xlink:href="note-0114-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Congealing of <lb/>Water into <lb/>Chryſtal.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3642" xml:space="preserve">TAke Damask Roſes and pull them, then dry them upon the top of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0114-07a" xlink:href="note-0114-07"/> an Houſe, upon a Lead or Tarras in the hot Sun, in a clear day, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0114-08a" xlink:href="note-0114-08"/> between the hours (onely) of Twelve and two or thereabouts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3643" xml:space="preserve">Then <lb/>put them into a ſweet dry Earthen Bottle or a Glaſs with narrow <lb/>mouths, ſtuffing them cloſe together, but without bruiſing: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3644" xml:space="preserve">Stop the <lb/>Bottle or Glaſs cloſe, and theſe Roſes will retain, not onely their ſmell <lb/>perfect, but their colour ſreſh for a year at leaſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3645" xml:space="preserve">Note, that nothing doth <lb/>ſo much deſtroy any Plant, or other Body, either by Putrefaction, or Are-<lb/>faction, as the Adventitious Moiſture, which hangeth looſe in the Body, <lb/>if it be not drawn out. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3646" xml:space="preserve">For it betrayeth and tolleth forth the Innate and <lb/>Radicall Moiſture along with it when it ſelf goeth forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3647" xml:space="preserve">And therefore <lb/>in Living Creatures, moderate ſweat doth preſerve the Juyce of the Body. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3648" xml:space="preserve">Note, that theſe Roſes when you take them from the drying, have little <pb o="81" file="0115" n="115" rhead="Century IV."/> or no ſmell; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3649" xml:space="preserve">ſo that the ſmell is a ſecond ſmell that iſſueth out of the Flower <lb/>after wards.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3650" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div415" type="float" level="2" n="71"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0114-07" xlink:href="note-0114-07a" xml:space="preserve">365.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0114-08" xlink:href="note-0114-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Preſerving of <lb/>Roſe Leaves, <lb/>both in Colour <lb/>and Smell.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3651" xml:space="preserve">THe continuance of Flame, according unto the diverſity of the Body en-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0115-01a" xlink:href="note-0115-01"/> flamed, and other circumſtances, is worthy the enquiry; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3652" xml:space="preserve">chiefly, for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0115-02a" xlink:href="note-0115-02"/> that though Flame be (almoſt) of a momentany laſting, yet it receiveth the <lb/>More, and the Leſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3653" xml:space="preserve">We will firſt therefore ſpeak (at large) of Bodies en-<lb/>flamed, wholly, and immediately, without any Wiek to help the Inflamma-<lb/>tion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3654" xml:space="preserve">A ſpoonful of Spirit of Wine, a little heated was taken, and it burnt <lb/>as long as came to 116 Pulſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3655" xml:space="preserve">The ſame quantity of Spirit of Wine, mixed <lb/>with the ſixth part of a ſpoonful of Nitre, burnt but to the ſpace of 94 <lb/>Pulſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3656" xml:space="preserve">Mixed with the like quantity of Bay-Salt 83 Pulſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3657" xml:space="preserve">Mixed with the <lb/>like quantity of Gun-powder, which diſſolved into a Black-water 110 <lb/>Pulſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3658" xml:space="preserve">A Cube or Pellet of Yellow Wax, was taken, as much as half the <lb/>Spirit of Wine, and ſet in the midſt, and it burnt onely to the ſpace of 87 <lb/>Pulſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3659" xml:space="preserve">Mixed with the ſixth part of a ſpoonful of Milk, it burnt to the <lb/>ſpace of 100 Pulſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3660" xml:space="preserve">and the Milk was crudled. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3661" xml:space="preserve">Mixed with the ſixth part <lb/>of a ſpoonful of Water, it burnt to the ſpace of 86 Pulſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3662" xml:space="preserve">with an equal <lb/>quantity of Water, onely to the ſpace of four Pulſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3663" xml:space="preserve">A ſmall Pebble <lb/>was laid in the midſt, and the Spirit of Wine burnt to the ſpace of 94 <lb/>Pulſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3664" xml:space="preserve">A piece of Wood of the bigneſs of an Arrow, and about a Fingers <lb/>length, was ſet up in the midſt, and the Spirit of Wine burnt to the ſpace <lb/>of 94 Pulſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3665" xml:space="preserve">So that the Spirit of Wine Simple, endureth the longeſt, and <lb/>the Spirit of Wine with the Bay-ſalt, and the equal quantity of Water, were <lb/>the ſhorteſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3666" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div416" type="float" level="2" n="72"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0115-01" xlink:href="note-0115-01a" xml:space="preserve">366.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0115-02" xlink:href="note-0115-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Continuance <lb/>of Flame.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3667" xml:space="preserve">Conſider well, whether the more ſpeedy going forth of the Flame, be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0115-03a" xlink:href="note-0115-03"/> cauſed by the greater vigor of the Flame in burning; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3668" xml:space="preserve">or by the reſiſtance of <lb/>the Body mixed, and the averſion thereof to take Flame: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3669" xml:space="preserve">Which will appear <lb/>by the quantity of the Spirit of Wine, that remaineth after the going out of <lb/>the Flame. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3670" xml:space="preserve">An<unsure/>d it ſeemeth clearly to be the latter, for that the mixture of <lb/>things leaſt apt to burn, is the ſpeedieſt in going out, and note by the <lb/>way, that Spirit of Wine burned, till it go out of it ſelf, will burn no more, <lb/>and taſteth nothing ſ<unsure/>o hot in the mouth as it did; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3671" xml:space="preserve">no nor yet ſour, (as <lb/>if it were a degree to wards Vinegar) which burnt Wine doth, but flat and <lb/>dead.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3672" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div417" type="float" level="2" n="73"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0115-03" xlink:href="note-0115-03a" xml:space="preserve">367.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3673" xml:space="preserve">Note, that in the Experiment of Wax aforeſaid, the Wax diſſolved in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0115-04a" xlink:href="note-0115-04"/> the burning, and yet did not incorporate it ſelf with the Spirit of Wine, to <lb/>produce one Flame; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3674" xml:space="preserve">but whereſoever the Wax floated, the Flame ſorſook <lb/>it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3675" xml:space="preserve">@ill at laſt it ſpred all over and put the Flame quite out.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3676" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div418" type="float" level="2" n="74"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0115-04" xlink:href="note-0115-04a" xml:space="preserve">368.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3677" xml:space="preserve">The Experiments of the Mixtures of the Spirit of Wine enflamed, are <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0115-05a" xlink:href="note-0115-05"/> things of diſcovery, and not of uſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3678" xml:space="preserve">But now we will ſpeak of the continu <lb/>ance of Flames, ſuch as are uſed for Candles, Lamps, or Tapers, conſiſting <lb/>of Inflamable Matters, and of a Wiek that provoketh Inflamation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3679" xml:space="preserve">And this <lb/>importeth not onely diſcovery, but alſo uſe and profit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3680" xml:space="preserve">for it is a great <lb/>ſaving in all ſuch Lights, if they can be made as fair and right as others, and <lb/>yet laſt longer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3681" xml:space="preserve">Wax pure made into a Candle, and Wax mixed ſeverally <lb/>into Candle-ſtuff with the particulars that follow, (Viz. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3682" xml:space="preserve">Water, Aqua-vitæ, <lb/>Milk, Bay-ſalt, Oyl, Butter, Nitre, Brimſtone, Saw duſt,) every of theſe bear-<lb/>ing a ſixth part to the Wax; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3683" xml:space="preserve">and every of theſe Candles mixed, being <lb/>of the ſame weight and wiek, with the Wax pure, proved thus in the <lb/>burning, and laſting. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3684" xml:space="preserve">The ſwifteſt in conſuming was that with Saw-<lb/>duſt, which firſt burned fair till ſome part of the Candle was conſumed, <pb o="82" file="0116" n="116" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> and the duſt gathered about the ſnaſte; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3685" xml:space="preserve">but then it made the ſnaſte big, <lb/>and long, and to burn duskiſhly, and the Candle waſted in half the time of <lb/>the Wax pure. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3686" xml:space="preserve">The next in ſwiftneſs, were the Oyl and Butter, which <lb/>conſumed by a fifth part ſwifter than the pure Wax. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3687" xml:space="preserve">Then followed in <lb/>ſwiftneſs the clear Wax it ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3688" xml:space="preserve">then the Bay-ſalt, which laſted about <lb/>an eight part longer than the clear Wax; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3689" xml:space="preserve">then followed the Aqua-vitæ, <lb/>which laſted about a fifth part longer than the clear Wax; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3690" xml:space="preserve">then follow <lb/>the Milk and Water, with little difference from the Aqua-vitæ, but the <lb/>Water ſloweſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3691" xml:space="preserve">And in theſe four laſt, the VViek would ſpit ſorth little <lb/>ſparks: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3692" xml:space="preserve">For the Nitre, it would not hold lighted above ſome twelve <lb/>Pulſes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3693" xml:space="preserve">But all the while it would ſpit out portions of Flame, which <lb/>afterwards would go outinto a vapor. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3694" xml:space="preserve">For the Brimſtone, it would hold <lb/>lighted much about the ſame with the Nitre; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3695" xml:space="preserve">but then after a little while, <lb/>it would harden and cake about the ſnaſte: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3696" xml:space="preserve">So that the mixture of Bay-ſalt <lb/>with VVax, will win an e ghth part of the time of laſting, and the VVater <lb/>a fifth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3697" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div419" type="float" level="2" n="75"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0115-05" xlink:href="note-0115-05a" xml:space="preserve">369.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3698" xml:space="preserve">After the ſeveral materials were tryed, Tryal was likewiſe made of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0116-01a" xlink:href="note-0116-01"/> ſeveral VVieks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3699" xml:space="preserve">as of ordinary (otten, Sowing Thred, Ruſh, Silk, Straw, and <lb/>Wood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3700" xml:space="preserve">The Silk, Straw, and Wood, would flame a little, till they came to <lb/>the Wax, and then go out; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3701" xml:space="preserve">of the other three, the Thred conſumed faſter <lb/>than the Cotten, by a ſixth part of time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3702" xml:space="preserve">the Cotten next; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3703" xml:space="preserve">then the Ruſh <lb/>conſumed ſlower than the Cotton, by at leaſt a third part of time. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3704" xml:space="preserve">For the <lb/>bigneſs of the Flame, the Cotton, and Thred, caft a Flame much alike, and <lb/>the Ruſh much leſs and dimmer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3705" xml:space="preserve">Quære, whether VVood and VVieks <lb/>both, as in Torches conſume faſter, than the VVieks Simple?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3706" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div420" type="float" level="2" n="76"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0116-01" xlink:href="note-0116-01a" xml:space="preserve">370.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3707" xml:space="preserve">VVe have ſpoken of the ſeveral Materials, and the ſeveral VVieks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3708" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0116-02a" xlink:href="note-0116-02"/> to the laſting of the Flame, it importeth alſo, not onely, what the material <lb/>is, but in the ſame material, whether it be hard, ſoft, old, new, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3709" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3710" xml:space="preserve">Good <lb/>Houſwives to make their Candles burn the longer, uſe to lay them (one by <lb/>one) in Bran or Flower, which make them harder, and ſo they conſume the <lb/>ſlower. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3711" xml:space="preserve">Inſomuch, as by this means they will out-laſt other Candles of the <lb/>ſame ſtuff, almoſt half in half. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3712" xml:space="preserve">For Bran and Flower have a vertue to <lb/>harden, ſo that both age, and lying in the Bran doth help to the laſting. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3713" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee that VVax Candles laſt longer then Tallow-Candles, becauſe <lb/>VVax is more firm and hard.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3714" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div421" type="float" level="2" n="77"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0116-02" xlink:href="note-0116-02a" xml:space="preserve">371.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3715" xml:space="preserve">The laſting of Flame alſo dependeth upon the eaſie drawing of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0116-03a" xlink:href="note-0116-03"/> Nouriſhment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3716" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in the Court of England, there is a ſervice which they <lb/>call All-Night; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3717" xml:space="preserve">which is (as it were) a great Cake of Wax, with the Wiek <lb/>in the midſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3718" xml:space="preserve">whereby it cometh to paſs, that the Wiek fetcheth the Nou-<lb/>tiſhment further off. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3719" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alfo, that Lamps laſt longer, becauſe the Veſſel <lb/>is fat broader than the breadth of a Taper or Candle.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3720" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div422" type="float" level="2" n="78"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0116-03" xlink:href="note-0116-03a" xml:space="preserve">372.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3721" xml:space="preserve">Take a Turreted Lamp of Tin made in the form of a Square; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3722" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0116-04a" xlink:href="note-0116-04"/> height of the Turret, being thrice as much as the length of the lower part, <lb/>whereupon the Lamp ſtandeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3723" xml:space="preserve">make onely onehole in it, at the end of the <lb/>return furtheſt from the Turret. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3724" xml:space="preserve">Reverſe it, and fill it full of Oyl, by that <lb/>hole; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3725" xml:space="preserve">and then ſet it upright again, and put a Wiek in at the hole, and <lb/>lighten it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3726" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall finde that it will burn ſlow, and a long time: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3727" xml:space="preserve">Which <lb/>is cauſed (as was ſaid laſt before) for that the Flame fetcheth the Nouriſh <lb/>ment a far off. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3728" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall finde alſo, that as the Oyl waſteth and deſcend. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3729" xml:space="preserve">eth, ſo the top of the Turret, by little and little filleth with Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3730" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>is cauſed by the Rarefaction of the Oyl by the heat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3731" xml:space="preserve">It were worthy <lb/>the obſervation to make a hole, in the top of the Turret, and to try, when <pb o="83" file="0117" n="117" rhead="Century IV."/> the Oyl is almoſt conſumed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3732" xml:space="preserve">whether the Air made of the Oyl, if you put <lb/>to it a flame of a Candle, in the letting of it forth, will enflame. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3733" xml:space="preserve">It were good <lb/>alſo to have the Lamp made, not of Tin, but of Glaſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3734" xml:space="preserve">that you may ſee <lb/>how the Vapor or Air gathereth by degrees in the top.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3735" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div423" type="float" level="2" n="79"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0116-04" xlink:href="note-0116-04a" xml:space="preserve">373.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3736" xml:space="preserve">A fourth point, that importeth the laſting of the Flame, is the cloſe-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0117-01a" xlink:href="note-0117-01"/> neſs of the Air, wherein the Flame burneth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3737" xml:space="preserve">Weſee, that if Wind blow-<lb/>eth upon a Candle, it waſteth apace; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3738" xml:space="preserve">we ſee alſo, it laſteth longer in a Lan-<lb/>thorn, than at large. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3739" xml:space="preserve">And there are Traditions of Lamps and Candles, that <lb/>have burnt a very long time in Caves and Tombs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3740" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div424" type="float" level="2" n="80"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0117-01" xlink:href="note-0117-01a" xml:space="preserve">374.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3741" xml:space="preserve">A fifth point, that importeth the laſting of the Flame, is the Nature <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0117-02a" xlink:href="note-0117-02"/> of the Air where the Flame burneth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3742" xml:space="preserve">whether it be hot or cold, moiſt or <lb/>dry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3743" xml:space="preserve">The Air, if it be very cold, irritateth the Flame, and maketh it burn <lb/>more fiercely, (as Fire ſcor heth in Froſty weather) and ſo furthereth the <lb/>Conſumption. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3744" xml:space="preserve">The Air once heated, (I conceive) maketh the Flame burn <lb/>more mildly, and ſo helpeth the continuance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3745" xml:space="preserve">The Air, if it be dry, is in-<lb/>different; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3746" xml:space="preserve">the Air, if it be moiſt, doth in a degree quench the Flame, (as we <lb/>ſee Lights will go out in the Damps of Mines;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3747" xml:space="preserve">and howloever maketh it <lb/>burn more dully, and ſo helpeth the continuance.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3748" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div425" type="float" level="2" n="81"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0117-02" xlink:href="note-0117-02a" xml:space="preserve">375.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3749" xml:space="preserve">BUrials in Earth ſerve for Preſervation, and for Condenſation, and for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0117-03a" xlink:href="note-0117-03"/> Induration of Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3750" xml:space="preserve">And if you intend Condenſation or Induration, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0117-04a" xlink:href="note-0117-04"/> you may bury the Bodies ſo, as Earth may touch them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3751" xml:space="preserve">as if you would <lb/>make Artificial Procellane, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3752" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3753" xml:space="preserve">And the like you may do for Conſerva-<lb/>tion, if the Bodies be hard and ſolid, as Clay, Wood, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3754" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3755" xml:space="preserve">But if you <lb/>intend Preſervation of Bodies, more ſoft and tender, then you muſt do <lb/>one of theſe two: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3756" xml:space="preserve">Either you muſt put them in caſes, whereby they may <lb/>not touch the Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3757" xml:space="preserve">or elſe you muſt Vault the Earth, whereby it <lb/>may hang over them, and not touch them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3758" xml:space="preserve">For if the Earth touch them, <lb/>it will do more hurt by the moiſture, cauſing them to putrifie, than good <lb/>by the virtual cold, to conſerve them, except the Earth be very dry and <lb/>ſandy.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3759" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div426" type="float" level="2" n="82"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0117-03" xlink:href="note-0117-03a" xml:space="preserve">376.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0117-04" xlink:href="note-0117-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Burials or In-<lb/>ſuſions of di-<lb/>vers Bedies in <lb/>Earth.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3760" xml:space="preserve">An Orenge, Lemmon, and Apple, wrapt in a Linning Cloth, being buried <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0117-05a" xlink:href="note-0117-05"/> for a fortnights ſpace four foot deep within the Earth, though it were in a <lb/>moiſt place, and a rainy time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3761" xml:space="preserve">yet came forth no ways mouldy or rotten, <lb/>but were become a little harder than they were, otherwiſe freſh in their <lb/>colour, but their Juyce ſomewhat flatted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3762" xml:space="preserve">But with the Burial of a fortnight <lb/>more, they become putrified.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3763" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div427" type="float" level="2" n="83"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0117-05" xlink:href="note-0117-05a" xml:space="preserve">377.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3764" xml:space="preserve">A Bottle of Beer buried in like manner as before, became more <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0117-06a" xlink:href="note-0117-06"/> lively, better taſted, and clearer than it was: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3765" xml:space="preserve">And a Bottle of Wine, <lb/>in like manner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3766" xml:space="preserve">A Bottle of Vinegar ſo buried, came forth more lively <lb/>and more odoriferous, ſmelling almoſt like a Violet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3767" xml:space="preserve">And after the whole <lb/>Moneths Burial, all the three came forth as freſh and lively, if not better <lb/>than before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3768" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div428" type="float" level="2" n="84"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0117-06" xlink:href="note-0117-06a" xml:space="preserve">378.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3769" xml:space="preserve">It were a profitable Experiment, to preſerve Orenges, Lemmons, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0117-07a" xlink:href="note-0117-07"/> and Pomgranates, till Summer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3770" xml:space="preserve">for then their price will be mightily <lb/>encreaſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3771" xml:space="preserve">This may be done, if you put them in a Pot or Veſſel well <lb/>covered, that the moiſture of the Earth come not at them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3772" xml:space="preserve">or elſe by put-<lb/>ting them in a Conſervatory of Snow. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3773" xml:space="preserve">And generally, whoſoever will make <lb/>Experiments of Cold, let him be provided of three things, a Conſervatory <lb/>of Snow, a good large Vault, twenty foot at leaſt under the Ground, and <lb/>a deep Well.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3774" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div429" type="float" level="2" n="85"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0117-07" xlink:href="note-0117-07a" xml:space="preserve">379.</note> </div> <pb o="84" file="0118" n="118" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3775" xml:space="preserve">There hath been a Tradition, that Pearl, and Coral, Surchois-Stone, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0118-01a" xlink:href="note-0118-01"/> that have loſt their Colours, may be recovered by burying in the Earth; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3776" xml:space="preserve">which is a thing of great profit, if it would ſort: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3777" xml:space="preserve">But upon tryal of ſix <lb/>weeks Burial, there followed no effect. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3778" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try it in a deep <lb/>Well, or in a Conſervatory of Snow, where the cold may be more con-<lb/>ſtringent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3779" xml:space="preserve">and ſo make the Body more united, and thereby more reſplen-<lb/>dent.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3780" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div430" type="float" level="2" n="86"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-01" xlink:href="note-0118-01a" xml:space="preserve">380.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3781" xml:space="preserve">MEns Bodies are heavier and leſs diſpoſed to Motion when Southern <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0118-02a" xlink:href="note-0118-02"/> Winds blow, then when Northern. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3782" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that when the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0118-03a" xlink:href="note-0118-03"/> Southern Winds blow, the Humors do (in ſome degree) melt, and wax <lb/>fluide, and ſo flow into the parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3783" xml:space="preserve">as it is ſeen in Wood, and other Bodies, <lb/>which when the Southern Winds blow, doſwell. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3784" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, the Motion and <lb/>Activity of the Body conſiſteth chiefly in the ſinews, which, when the <lb/>Southern Wind bloweth, are more relax.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3785" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div431" type="float" level="2" n="87"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-02" xlink:href="note-0118-02a" xml:space="preserve">381.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-03" xlink:href="note-0118-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Affects in <lb/>Mens Bodies <lb/>from ſeveral <lb/>Winds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3786" xml:space="preserve">IT is commonly ſeen, that more are ſick in the Summer, and more dye in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0118-04a" xlink:href="note-0118-04"/> the Winter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3787" xml:space="preserve">except it be in Peſtilent Diſeaſes, which commonly reign in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0118-05a" xlink:href="note-0118-05"/> Summer or Autumn. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3788" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon is, becauſe Diſeaſes are bred (indeed) <lb/>chiefly by Heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3789" xml:space="preserve">but then they are cured moſt by Sweat and Purge, which <lb/>in the Summer cometh on, or is provoked more eaſily: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3790" xml:space="preserve">As for Peſtilent <lb/>Diſeaſes, the Reaſon why moſt dye of them in Summer, is becauſe they are <lb/>bred moſt in the Summer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3791" xml:space="preserve">for other wiſe, thoſe that are touched are in moſt <lb/>danger in the Winter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3792" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div432" type="float" level="2" n="88"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-04" xlink:href="note-0118-04a" xml:space="preserve">382.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-05" xlink:href="note-0118-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Winter and <lb/>Summers Sick-<lb/>neſſes.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3793" xml:space="preserve">THe general opinion is, That Years hot and moiſt, are moſt Peſtilent; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3794" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0118-06a" xlink:href="note-0118-06"/> upon the ſuperficial Ground, that Heat and Moiſture cauſe Putrefacti-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0118-07a" xlink:href="note-0118-07"/> on. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3795" xml:space="preserve">In England it is found not true; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3796" xml:space="preserve">for, many times, there have been great <lb/>Plagues in dry years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3797" xml:space="preserve">VVhereof the cauſe may be, for that drought in the <lb/>Bodies of Iſlanders, habituate to moiſt Airs, doth exaſperate the Humors, <lb/>and maketh them more apt to Putrifie or Enflame; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3798" xml:space="preserve">beſides, it tainteth the <lb/>VVaters (commonly) and maketh them leſs wholſome. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3799" xml:space="preserve">And again in <lb/>Barbary, the Plagues break up in the Summer Moneths, when the VVeather <lb/>is hot and dry.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3800" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div433" type="float" level="2" n="89"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-06" xlink:href="note-0118-06a" xml:space="preserve">383.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-07" xlink:href="note-0118-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Peſtilential <lb/>Seaſons.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3801" xml:space="preserve">MAny Diſeaſes, (both Epidemical and others) break forth at particular <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0118-08a" xlink:href="note-0118-08"/> times. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3802" xml:space="preserve">And the cauſe is falſly imputed to the conſtitution of the Air, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0118-09a" xlink:href="note-0118-09"/> at that time, when they break forth or reign; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3803" xml:space="preserve">whereas it proceedeth (indeed) <lb/>from a Precedent Sequence, and Series of the Seaſons of the Year: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3804" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>therefore Hippocrates, in his Prognoſticks, doth make good obſervations of <lb/>the Diſeaſes, that enſue upon the Nature of the precedent four Seaſons of <lb/>the Year.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3805" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div434" type="float" level="2" n="90"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-08" xlink:href="note-0118-08a" xml:space="preserve">384.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-09" xlink:href="note-0118-09a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching An <lb/>Error received <lb/>about Epide-<lb/>mical Diſeaſes.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3806" xml:space="preserve">TRyal hath been made with Earthen Bottles, well ſtopped, hanged in a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0118-10a" xlink:href="note-0118-10"/> VVell of Twenty Fathom deep, at the leaſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3807" xml:space="preserve">and ſome of the Bottles <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0118-11a" xlink:href="note-0118-11"/> have been let down into the VVater, ſome others have hanged above, with-<lb/>in about a Fathom of the VVater; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3808" xml:space="preserve">and the Liquors ſo tryed have been, Beer, <lb/>(not new, but ready for drinking) and VVine, and Milk. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3809" xml:space="preserve">The proof hath <lb/>been, that both the Beer, and the VVine, (as well within VVater, as above) <lb/>have not been palled or deaded at all; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3810" xml:space="preserve">but as good, or ſomewhat better <lb/>than Bottles of the ſame Drinks and ſtaleneſs, kept in a Celler. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3811" xml:space="preserve">But thoſe <lb/>which did hang above VVater, were apparently the beſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3812" xml:space="preserve">and that Beer did <pb o="85" file="0119" n="119" rhead="Century V."/> flower a little; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3813" xml:space="preserve">whereas that under Water did not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3814" xml:space="preserve">though it were freſh. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3815" xml:space="preserve">The Milk ſoured, and began to putrifie. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3816" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs it is true, that there is a <lb/>Village near Blois, where in deep Caves they do thicken Milk, in ſuch ſort, <lb/>that it becometh very pleaſant; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3817" xml:space="preserve">which was ſome cauſe of this tryal of hang-<lb/>ing Milk in the Well: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3818" xml:space="preserve">But our proof was naught, neither do I know, whe-<lb/>ther that Milk in thoſe Caves be firſt boyled. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3819" xml:space="preserve">It were good therefore to try <lb/>it with Milk ſodden, and with Cream; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3820" xml:space="preserve">for that Milk of it ſelf, is ſuch a Com-<lb/>pound Body of Cream, Cruds, and Whey, as it is eaſily turned and diſſolved. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3821" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>It were good alſo to try the Beer, when it is in Wort, that it may be ſeen, <lb/>whether the hanging in the Well, will accelerate the ripening and clariſying <lb/>of it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3822" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div435" type="float" level="2" n="91"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-10" xlink:href="note-0118-10a" xml:space="preserve">385.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0118-11" xlink:href="note-0118-11a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Alteration or <lb/>Preſervation <lb/>of Liquors in <lb/>Wells, or deep <lb/>Vaults.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3823" xml:space="preserve">DIvers, we ſee, do Stut. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3824" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be (in moſt) the Refrigeration of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0119-01a" xlink:href="note-0119-01"/> the Tongue, whereby it is leſs apt to move; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3825" xml:space="preserve">and therefore we ſee, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0119-02a" xlink:href="note-0119-02"/> that Naturals do generally Stut: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3826" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee, that in thoſe that Stut, if they <lb/>drink Wine moderately, they Stut leſs, becauſe it heateth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3827" xml:space="preserve">And ſo we ſee, <lb/>that they that Stut, do Stut more in the firſt offer to ſpeak, than in continuance; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3828" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the Tongue is, by motion, ſome what heated. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3829" xml:space="preserve">In ſome alſo, it may <lb/>be (though rarely) the dryneſs of the Tongue, which likewiſe maketh it <lb/>leſs apt to move as well as cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3830" xml:space="preserve">for it is an affect that cometh to ſome wiſe <lb/>and great Men, as it did unto Moſes, who was Linguæ Præpeditæ: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3831" xml:space="preserve">And many <lb/>Stutters (we finde) are very Cholerick Men, Choler enducing a dryneſs in <lb/>the Tongue.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3832" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div436" type="float" level="2" n="92"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0119-01" xlink:href="note-0119-01a" xml:space="preserve">386.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0119-02" xlink:href="note-0119-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Stutting.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3833" xml:space="preserve">SMells, and other Odors, are ſweeter in the Air, at ſome diftance, than near <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0119-03a" xlink:href="note-0119-03"/> the Noſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3834" xml:space="preserve">as hath been partly touched heretofore. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3835" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is double, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0119-04a" xlink:href="note-0119-04"/> firſt, The finer mixture, or incorporation of the Smell. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3836" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee, that in <lb/>Sounds like wiſe, they are ſweeteſt, when we cannot hear every part by it ſelf. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3837" xml:space="preserve">The other reaſon is, For that all ſweet Smells have joyned with them ſome <lb/>Earthy or Crude Odors; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3838" xml:space="preserve">and at ſome diſtance the Sweet, which is the more <lb/>ſpiritual, is perceived; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3839" xml:space="preserve">and the Earthy reacheth not ſo far.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3840" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div437" type="float" level="2" n="93"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0119-03" xlink:href="note-0119-03a" xml:space="preserve">387.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0119-04" xlink:href="note-0119-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Smells.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3841" xml:space="preserve">Sweet Smells are moſt forcible in dry Subſtances, when they are broken; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3842" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0119-05a" xlink:href="note-0119-05"/> and ſo like wiſe in Orenges or Lemmons, the nipping off their Rinde, giveth out <lb/>their ſmell more: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3843" xml:space="preserve">And generally, when Bodies are moved or ſtirred, though <lb/>not broken, they ſmell more, as a Sweet-Bag waved. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3844" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is double; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3845" xml:space="preserve">the one, for that there is a geater emiſſion of the Spirit, when way is made: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3846" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And this holdeth in the Breaking, Nipping, or Cruſhing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3847" xml:space="preserve">it holdeth alſo, <lb/>(in ſome degree) in the Moving. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3848" xml:space="preserve">But in this laſt, there is a concurrence of <lb/>the ſecond cauſe, which is the Impulſion of the Air, that bringeth the ſent <lb/>faſter upon us.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3849" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div438" type="float" level="2" n="94"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0119-05" xlink:href="note-0119-05a" xml:space="preserve">388.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3850" xml:space="preserve">The daintieſt ſmells of Flowers, are out of thoſe Plants whoſe Leaves <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0119-06a" xlink:href="note-0119-06"/> ſmell not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3851" xml:space="preserve">as Violets. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3852" xml:space="preserve">Roſes, Wall-flowers, Gilly-flowers, Pincks, Wood-bine, Vine-<lb/>flowers, Apple-blooms, Limetree blooms, Bean-blooms, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3853" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3854" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that <lb/>where there is heat and ſtrength enough in the Plant to make the Leaves <lb/>odorate, there the ſmell of the Flower is rather evanide and weaker, than <lb/>that of the Leaves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3855" xml:space="preserve">as it is in Roſemary-flowers, Lavender-flowers, and Sweet-Brier <lb/>Roſes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3856" xml:space="preserve">But where there is leſs heat, there the Spirit of the Plant is digeſted <lb/>and refined, and ſevered ſrom the groſſer Juyce in the Effloreſcence, and not <lb/>before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3857" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div439" type="float" level="2" n="95"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0119-06" xlink:href="note-0119-06a" xml:space="preserve">389.</note> </div> <pb o="86" file="0120" n="120" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3858" xml:space="preserve">Moſt Odors ſmell beſt, broken, or cruſht, as hath been ſaid; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3859" xml:space="preserve">but Flowers <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0120-01a" xlink:href="note-0120-01"/> preſſed or beaten, do loſe the freſhneſs and ſweetneſs of their Odor. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3860" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe is, for that when they are cruſhed, the groſſer and more earthy Spirit <lb/>cometh out with the Finer, and troubleth it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3861" xml:space="preserve">whereas in ſtronger Odors there <lb/>are no ſuch degrees of the iſſue of the ſmell.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3862" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div440" type="float" level="2" n="96"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0120-01" xlink:href="note-0120-01a" xml:space="preserve">390.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3863" xml:space="preserve">IT is a thing of very good uſe, to diſcover the goodneſs of Waters. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3864" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0120-02a" xlink:href="note-0120-02"/> taſte to thoſe that drink Water onely doth ſomewhat: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3865" xml:space="preserve">But other Expe-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0120-03a" xlink:href="note-0120-03"/> riments are more ſure. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3866" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, try Waters by weight, wherein you may <lb/>finde ſome difference, though not much: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3867" xml:space="preserve">And the lighter, you may account <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0120-1a" xlink:href="hd-0120-1"/> the better.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3868" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div441" type="float" level="2" n="97"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0120-02" xlink:href="note-0120-02a" xml:space="preserve">391.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0120-03" xlink:href="note-0120-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Goodneſs and <lb/>Choice of <lb/>Water.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0120-1" xlink:href="hd-0120-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3869" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, Try them by boiling upon an equal fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3870" xml:space="preserve">and that which con-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0120-04a" xlink:href="note-0120-04"/> ſumeth away faſteſt, you may account the beſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3871" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div442" type="float" level="2" n="98"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0120-04" xlink:href="note-0120-04a" xml:space="preserve">392.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3872" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, Try them in ſeveral Bottles or open Veſſels, matches in every <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0120-05a" xlink:href="note-0120-05"/> thing elſe, and ſee which of them laſt longeſt without ſtench or corruption; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3873" xml:space="preserve">and that which holdeth unputrified longeſt, you may like wiſe account the <lb/>beſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3874" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div443" type="float" level="2" n="99"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0120-05" xlink:href="note-0120-05a" xml:space="preserve">393.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3875" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, Try them by making Drinks, ſtronger or ſmaller, with the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0120-06a" xlink:href="note-0120-06"/> ſame quantity of Malt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3876" xml:space="preserve">and you may conclude, that that Water, which <lb/>maketh the ſtronger Drink, is the more concocted and nouriſhing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3877" xml:space="preserve">though <lb/>perhaps it be not ſo good for Medicinal uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3878" xml:space="preserve">And ſuch VVater (commonly) <lb/>is the VVater of large and navigable Rivers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3879" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe in large and clean <lb/>Ponds of ſtanding VVater: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3880" xml:space="preserve">For upon both them, the Sun hath more power <lb/>than upon Fountains, or ſmall Rivers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3881" xml:space="preserve">And I conceive, that Chalk-water is <lb/>next them the beſt, for going furtheſt in Drink. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3882" xml:space="preserve">For that alſo helpeth con-<lb/>coction, ſo it be out of a deep VVell; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3883" xml:space="preserve">for then it cureth therawneſs of the <lb/>VVater; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3884" xml:space="preserve">but Chalky-water towards the top of the Earth, is too fretting, <lb/>as it appeareth in Laundry of Cloaths, which wear out apace, if you uſe ſuch <lb/>VVaters.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3885" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div444" type="float" level="2" n="100"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0120-06" xlink:href="note-0120-06a" xml:space="preserve">394.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3886" xml:space="preserve">Fifthly, The Houſwives do finde a difference in Waters, for the bear-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0120-07a" xlink:href="note-0120-07"/> ing or not bearing of Soap; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3887" xml:space="preserve">and it is likely, that the more fat water will <lb/>bear Soap beſt, for the hungry water doth kill the unctuous nature of the <lb/>Soap.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3888" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div445" type="float" level="2" n="101"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0120-07" xlink:href="note-0120-07a" xml:space="preserve">395.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3889" xml:space="preserve">Sixthly, You may make a judgment of Waters according to the place, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0120-08a" xlink:href="note-0120-08"/> whence they ſpring or come. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3890" xml:space="preserve">The Rain-water is by the Phyſitians eſteemed <lb/>the fineſt and the beſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3891" xml:space="preserve">but yet it is ſaid to putrifie ſooneſt, which is <lb/>likely, becauſe of the fineneſt of the Spirit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3892" xml:space="preserve">and in Conſervatories of <lb/>Rain-water, (ſuch as they have in Venice, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3893" xml:space="preserve">c) they are found not ſo <lb/>choice Waters; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3894" xml:space="preserve">(the worſe perhaps) becauſe they are covered aloſt, <lb/>and kept from the Sun. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3895" xml:space="preserve">Snow-water is held unwholeſome, inſomuch, as <lb/>the people that dwell at the Foot of the Snow Mountains, or otherwiſe <lb/>upon the aſcent, (eſpecially the VVomen) by drinking of Snow-water, <lb/>have great bags hanging under their Throats. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3896" xml:space="preserve">VVell VVater, except it be <lb/>upon Chalk, or a very plentiſul Spring maketh Meat red, which is an ill ſign. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3897" xml:space="preserve">Springs on the tops of high Hills are the beſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3898" xml:space="preserve">for both they ſeem to have <lb/>a Lightneſs and Appetite of Mounting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3899" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, they are moſt pure and <lb/>unmingled: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3900" xml:space="preserve">And again are more percolated through a great ſpace of Earth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3901" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>For VVaters in Valleys, joyn in effect under ground with all VVaters of the <lb/>ſame Level; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3902" xml:space="preserve">whereas Springs on the tops of Hills, paſs through a great deal <lb/>of pure Earth with leſs mixture of other VVaters.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3903" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div446" type="float" level="2" n="102"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0120-08" xlink:href="note-0120-08a" xml:space="preserve">396.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3904" xml:space="preserve">Seventhly, Judgment may be made of Waters by the Soyl whereupon <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0120-09a" xlink:href="note-0120-09"/> the VVater runneth, as Pebble is the cleaneſt and beſt taſted; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3905" xml:space="preserve">and next to that <pb o="87" file="0121" n="121" rhead="Century IV."/> Clay-water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3906" xml:space="preserve">and thirdly, Water upon Chalk; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3907" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, that upon Sand; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3908" xml:space="preserve">and worſt of all, upon Mud. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3909" xml:space="preserve">Neither may you truſt Waters that taſte ſweet, <lb/>for they are commonly found in Riſing grounds of great Cities, which muſt <lb/>needs take in a great deal of filth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3910" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div447" type="float" level="2" n="103"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0120-09" xlink:href="note-0120-09a" xml:space="preserve">396.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3911" xml:space="preserve">IN Pera, and divers parts of the Weſt-Indies, though under the Line, the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0121-01a" xlink:href="note-0121-01"/> Heats are not ſo intolerable, as they be in Barbary, and the Skirts of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0121-02a" xlink:href="note-0121-02"/> Torrid Zone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3912" xml:space="preserve">The cauſes are, firſt, the great Brizes which the motion of the <lb/>Airin great Circles (ſuch as are under the Girdle of the World) produceth, <lb/>which do refrigerate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3913" xml:space="preserve">and therefore in thoſe parts, Noon is nothing ſo hot <lb/>when the Brizes are great, as about nine or ten of the clock in the Fore-<lb/>noon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3914" xml:space="preserve">Another cauſe is, for that the length of the Night, and the Dews <lb/>thereof, do compence the Heat of the day. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3915" xml:space="preserve">A third cauſe is, the ſtay of the <lb/>Sun; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3916" xml:space="preserve">not in re pect of day and night (for that we ſpake of before) but in <lb/>reſpect of the Seaſon: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3917" xml:space="preserve">For under the Line, the Sun croſſeth the Line, and <lb/>maketh two Summers and two Winters; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3918" xml:space="preserve">but in the skirts of the Torrid <lb/>Zone, it doubleth and goeth back again, and ſo maketh one long <lb/>Summer.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3919" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div448" type="float" level="2" n="104"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0121-01" xlink:href="note-0121-01a" xml:space="preserve">398.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0121-02" xlink:href="note-0121-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Temperate <lb/>Heat under <lb/>the Æqui-<lb/>noctial.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3920" xml:space="preserve">THe heat of the Sun maketh Men black in ſome Countreys, as in c<unsure/> Æ-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0121-03a" xlink:href="note-0121-03"/> thiopia and Guinny, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3921" xml:space="preserve">c Fire doth it not as we ſee in Glaſs-Men, that are <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0121-04a" xlink:href="note-0121-04"/> continually about the Fire. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3922" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon may be, becauſe Fire doth lick up <lb/>the Spirits and Blood of the Body, ſo as they exhale; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3923" xml:space="preserve">ſo that it ever maketh <lb/>Men look Pale and Sallow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3924" xml:space="preserve">but the Sun which is a gentler heat, doth but <lb/>draw the Blood to the out ward parts, and rather concocteth it, then ſoaketh <lb/>it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3925" xml:space="preserve">And thereſore, we ſee that all Æthiopes are fleſhly, plump, and have <lb/>great Lips. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3926" xml:space="preserve">All which betoken moiſture retained, and not drawn out. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3927" xml:space="preserve">We <lb/>ſee alſo, that the Negroes are bred in Countreys that have plenty of Water, <lb/>by Rivers or otherwiſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3928" xml:space="preserve">For Mero, which was the Metropolis of Æthiopia, <lb/>was upon a great Lake; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3929" xml:space="preserve">and Congo, where the Negroes are, is full of Rivers. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3930" xml:space="preserve">And the confines of the River Niger, where the Negroes alſo are, are <lb/>well watered; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3931" xml:space="preserve">and the Region about Capo Verde is likewiſe moiſt, inſo-<lb/>much, as it is peſtilent through moiſture: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3932" xml:space="preserve">But the Countreys of the Abyſ-<lb/>ſenes, and Barbary, and Peru, where they are Tawney and Olivaſter, and Pale, <lb/>are generally more ſandy and dry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3933" xml:space="preserve">As for the Æthiopes, as they are plump <lb/>and fleſhly, ſo (it may be) they are Sanguine and Ruddy coloured, if their <lb/>Black Skin would ſuffer it to be ſeen.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3934" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div449" type="float" level="2" n="105"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0121-03" xlink:href="note-0121-03a" xml:space="preserve">399.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0121-04" xlink:href="note-0121-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Coloration of <lb/>Black and <lb/>Tawny Mocrs.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3935" xml:space="preserve">SOme Creatures do move a good while after their head is off, as Birds. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3936" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0121-05a" xlink:href="note-0121-05"/> Some a very little time, as Men and all Beaſts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3937" xml:space="preserve">Some move, though cut <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0121-06a" xlink:href="note-0121-06"/> in ſeveral pieces, as Snakes, Eels, Worms, Flies, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3938" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3939" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, therefore it is <lb/>certain, that the immediate cauſe of Death, is the reſolution or extinguiſh-<lb/>ment of the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3940" xml:space="preserve">and that the deſtruction or corruption of the Organs, <lb/>is but the mediate cauſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3941" xml:space="preserve">But ſome Organs are ſo peremptorily neceſſary, <lb/>that the extinguiſhment of the Spirits doth ſpeedily follow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3942" xml:space="preserve">but yet ſo, as <lb/>there is an in terim of a ſmall time. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3943" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by one of the Ancients, of <lb/>credit, That a Sacrificed Beaſt hath lowed after the Heart hath been ſevered; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3944" xml:space="preserve">and it is a report alſo of credit, That the Head of a Pig hath been opened, <lb/>and the Brain put into the Palm of a Mans Hand, trembling, without <lb/>breaking any part of it, or ſevering it from the Marrow of the Back-bone: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3945" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>during which time, the Pig hath been, in all appearance, ſtark dead, and <lb/>without motion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3946" xml:space="preserve">And after a ſmall time the Brain hath been replaced <pb o="88" file="0122" n="122" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> and the Skull of the Pig cloſed, and the Pig hath a little after gone about. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3947" xml:space="preserve">And certain it is, that an Eye upon Revenge, hath been thruſt forth, ſo as it <lb/>hanged a pretty diſtance by the Viſual Nerve; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3948" xml:space="preserve">and during that time, the Eye <lb/>hath been without any power of Sight; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3949" xml:space="preserve">and yet after (being replaced) re-<lb/>covered Sight. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3950" xml:space="preserve">Now the Spirits are chiefly in the Head, and Cells of the <lb/>Brain, which in Men and Beaſts are large; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3951" xml:space="preserve">and therefore, when the Head is <lb/>off, they move little or nothing: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3952" xml:space="preserve">But Birds have ſmall Heads, and there-<lb/>fore the Spirits are a little more diſperſed in the Sinews, where by Motion re-<lb/>maineth in them a little longer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3953" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as it is extant in ſtory, that an <lb/>Emperor of Rome, to ſhew the certainty of his hand, did ſhoot a great Forked <lb/>Arrow at an Eſtrich, as ſhe ran ſwiftly upon the Stage, and ſtroke off her <lb/>Head; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3954" xml:space="preserve">and yet ſhe continued the race a little way with her Head off. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3955" xml:space="preserve">As <lb/>for Worms, and Flies, and Eels, the Spirits are diffuſed almoſt all over; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3956" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>therefore they move in their ſeveral pieces.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3957" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div450" type="float" level="2" n="106"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0121-05" xlink:href="note-0121-05a" xml:space="preserve">400.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0121-06" xlink:href="note-0121-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Motion afier <lb/>the Inſtant of <lb/>Death.</note> </div> <pb o="89" file="0123" n="123"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div452" type="section" level="1" n="26"> <head xml:id="echoid-head37" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL <lb/>HISTORY</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head38" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Century V.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3958" xml:space="preserve">WE will now enquire of Plants or Vegetables; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3959" xml:space="preserve">and we ſhall <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0123-01a" xlink:href="note-0123-01"/> do it with diligence. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3960" xml:space="preserve">They are the principal part of <lb/>the Third days Work; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3961" xml:space="preserve">they are the firſt Producat, which <lb/>is the word of Animation, for the other words are but <lb/>the words of Eſſence; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3962" xml:space="preserve">and they are of excellent and <lb/>generaluſe, For Food, Medicine, and a number of Medi-<lb/>cinal Arts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3963" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div452" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0123-01" xlink:href="note-0123-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Acceleration <lb/>of Germinati-<lb/>on.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3964" xml:space="preserve">There were ſown in a Bed, Turnip ſeed, Raddiſh-ſeed, Wheat, Cucumber-ſeed, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0123-02a" xlink:href="note-0123-02"/> and Peaſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3965" xml:space="preserve">The Bed we call a Hot-bed, and the manner of it is this. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3966" xml:space="preserve">There <lb/>was taken Horſe-dung, old, and well rotted; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3967" xml:space="preserve">this was laid upon a Bank <lb/>half a foot high, and ſupported round about with Planks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3968" xml:space="preserve">and upon the <lb/>top was caſt ſifred Earth, ſome two fingers deep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3969" xml:space="preserve">and then the Seed <lb/>ſprinkled upon it, having been ſteeped all night in Water mixed with Cow-<lb/>dung. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3970" xml:space="preserve">The Turnip-ſeed, and the VVneat, came up half an inch above ground, <lb/>within two days after, without any watering; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3971" xml:space="preserve">the reſt the third day. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3972" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>Experiment was made in October, and (it may be) in the Spring, the Accele-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0123-1a" xlink:href="hd-0123-1"/> rating would have been the ſpeedier. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3973" xml:space="preserve">This is a noble Experiment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3974" xml:space="preserve">for, <lb/>without this help, they would have been four times as long in coming up. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3975" xml:space="preserve">But there doth not occur to me, at this preſent, any uſe thereof, for pro-<lb/>fit, except it ſhould be for Sowing of Peaſe, which have their price very <lb/>much increaſed by the early coming. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3976" xml:space="preserve">It may be tryed alſo with Cher-<lb/>ries, Strawberries, and other Fruit which are deareſt, when they come <lb/>early.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3977" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div453" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0123-02" xlink:href="note-0123-02a" xml:space="preserve">401.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0123-1" xlink:href="hd-0123-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s3978" xml:space="preserve">There was Wheat ſteeped in Water mixed with Cow dung, other in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0123-03a" xlink:href="note-0123-03"/> Water mixed with Horſe-dung, other in Water mixed with Pigeon-dung, <pb o="90" file="0124" n="124" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> other in Urine of Man, other in Water mixed with Chalk powdred, other <lb/>in Water mixed with Soot, other in Water mixed with Aſhes, other in <lb/>Water mixed with Bay-Salt, other in Claret Wine, other in Malmſey, other <lb/>in Spirit of Wine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3979" xml:space="preserve">The proportion of the mixture was, a fourth part of <lb/>the ingredients to the Water, ſave that there was not of the Salt above an <lb/>eight part. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3980" xml:space="preserve">The Urine, and Winds, and Spirit of Wine, were ſimple without <lb/>mixture of Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3981" xml:space="preserve">the time of ſteeping was twely<unsure/>e hours; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3982" xml:space="preserve">the time of the <lb/>year October. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3983" xml:space="preserve">There was alſo other Wheat ſown unſteeped, but watred twice a <lb/>day with warm Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3984" xml:space="preserve">there was alſo other Wheat ſown ſimple, to com-<lb/>pare it with the reſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3985" xml:space="preserve">The event was, that thoſe that were in the mixture of <lb/>Dung, and Urine, Soot, Chalk, Aſhes, and Salt, came up within ſix days; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3986" xml:space="preserve">and thoſe that after wards proved the higheſt, thickeſt, and moſt luſty, were, <lb/>firſt the Urine, and then the Dungs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3987" xml:space="preserve">next the Chalk, next the Soot, next <lb/>the Aſhes, next the Salt, next the Wheat ſimple of it ſelf unſteeped and <lb/>unwatered, next the watered twice a day with warm Water next the Claret <lb/>Wine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3988" xml:space="preserve">So that theſe three laſt were ſlower than the ordinary Wheat of it <lb/>ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3989" xml:space="preserve">and this Culture did rather retard than advance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3990" xml:space="preserve">As for thoſe that <lb/>were ſteeped in Malmſey, and Spirit of Wine, they came not up at all. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3991" xml:space="preserve">This <lb/>is a rich Experiment for profit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3992" xml:space="preserve">for the moſt of the ſteepings are cheap <lb/>things, and the goodneſs of the crop is a great matter of gain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3993" xml:space="preserve">if the <lb/>goodneſs of the crop anſwer the earlineſs of the coming up, as it is like it <lb/>will, both being from the vigor of the Seed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3994" xml:space="preserve">which alſo partly appeared <lb/>in the former Experiment, as hath been ſaid. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3995" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment would be <lb/>tryed in other Grains, Seeds, and Kernels; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3996" xml:space="preserve">for it may be ſome ſteeping will <lb/>agree beſt with ſome Seeds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3997" xml:space="preserve">It would be alſo tryed with Roots ſteeped as <lb/>before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3998" xml:space="preserve">but for longer time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s3999" xml:space="preserve">it would be tryed alſo in ſeveral ſeaſons of the <lb/>Year, eſpecially in the Spring.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4000" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div454" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0123-03" xlink:href="note-0123-03a" xml:space="preserve">402.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4001" xml:space="preserve">Stra wberries watered now and then (as once in three days) with Water, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0124-01a" xlink:href="note-0124-01"/> wherein hath been ſteeped Sheeps-dung, or Pigeons-dung, will prevent and <lb/>come early. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4002" xml:space="preserve">And it is like the ſame effect would follow in other Berries, Herbs, <lb/>Flowers, Grains, or Trees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4003" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it is an Experiment, though vulgar in <lb/>Strawberries, yet not brought into uſe generally: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4004" xml:space="preserve">For it is uſual to help the <lb/>Ground with Muck, and like wiſe to recomfort it ſometimes with Muck put <lb/>to the Roots, but to water it with Muck-water, which is like to be more <lb/>forcible, is not practiſed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4005" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div455" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0124-01" xlink:href="note-0124-01a" xml:space="preserve">403.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4006" xml:space="preserve">Dung, or Chalk, or Blood, applied in ſubſtance (ſeaſonably) to the Roots <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0124-02a" xlink:href="note-0124-02"/> of Trees, doth ſet them forwards. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4007" xml:space="preserve">But to do it unto Herbs, without mixture <lb/>of Water or Earth, it may be theſe helps are too hot.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4008" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div456" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0124-02" xlink:href="note-0124-02a" xml:space="preserve">404.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4009" xml:space="preserve">The former means of helping Germination, are either by the goodneſs <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0124-03a" xlink:href="note-0124-03"/> and ſtrength of the Nouriſhment, or by the comforting and exciting the <lb/>Spirits in the Plant, to draw the Nouriſhment better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4010" xml:space="preserve">And of this latter kinde <lb/>concerning the comforting of the Spirits of the Plant, are alſo the experi-<lb/>ments that follow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4011" xml:space="preserve">though they be not applications to the Root or Seed. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4012" xml:space="preserve">The planting of Trees warm upon a Wall, againſt the South or South-Eaſt <lb/>Sun, doth haſten their coming on and ripening; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4013" xml:space="preserve">and the South-Eaſt <lb/>is ſound to be better than the South-Weſt, though the South-Weſt be the <lb/>hotter Coaſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4014" xml:space="preserve">But the cauſe is chiefly, for that the heat of the morning <lb/>ſucceedeth the cold of the night; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4015" xml:space="preserve">and partly, becauſe (many times) the <lb/>South-Weſt Sun is too parching. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4016" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe planting of them upon the <lb/>Back of a Chimney where a fire is kept, doth haſten their coming on, and <lb/>ripening: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4017" xml:space="preserve">Nay more, the drawing of the Boughs into the inſide of a <lb/>room, where a Fire is continually kept, worketh the ſame effect; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4018" xml:space="preserve">which <pb o="91" file="0125" n="125" rhead="Century V."/> hath been tryed with Grapes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4019" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as they will come a Moneth earlier, <lb/>then the Grapes abroad.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4020" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div457" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0124-03" xlink:href="note-0124-03a" xml:space="preserve">405.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4021" xml:space="preserve">Beſides the two Means of Accelerating Germination, formerly deſcribed; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4022" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0125-01a" xlink:href="note-0125-01"/> that is to ſay, the mending of the Nouriſhment, comforting of the Spirit of <lb/>the Plant; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4023" xml:space="preserve">there is a third, which is the making way for the eaſie coming to <lb/>the Nouriſhment, and drawing it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4024" xml:space="preserve">And therefore gentle digging and looſning <lb/>of the Earth about the Roots of Trees, and the removing Herbs and Flowers <lb/>into new Earth, once in two years (which is the ſame thing, for the new Earth <lb/>is ever looſer) doth greatly further the proſpering and earlineſs of Plants.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4025" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div458" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0125-01" xlink:href="note-0125-01a" xml:space="preserve">406.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4026" xml:space="preserve">But the moſt admirable Acceleration by facilitating the Nouriſhment, is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0125-02a" xlink:href="note-0125-02"/> that of Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4027" xml:space="preserve">For a Standard of a Damask Roſe with the Root on, was ſet <lb/>in a Chamber, where no Fire was, upright in an Earthen Pan, full of fair <lb/>Water, without any mixture, half a foot under the Water, the Standard be-<lb/>ing more than two foot high above the Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4028" xml:space="preserve">Within, in the ſpace of ten <lb/>days, the Standard did put forth a fair green Leaf, and fome other little <lb/>Buds, which ſtood at a ſtay without any ſhew of decay or withering, more <lb/>then ſeven days. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4029" xml:space="preserve">But afterwards that Leaf faded, but the young Buds did <lb/>ſprout on, which afterward opened into fair Leaves, in the ſpace of three <lb/>Moneths, and continued ſo a while after, till upon removal we left the tryal. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4030" xml:space="preserve">But note, that the Leaves were ſome what paler, and light-coloured then the <lb/>Leaves uſe to be abroad. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4031" xml:space="preserve">Note, that the firſt Buds were in the end of October, <lb/>and it is likely, that if it had been in the Spring time, it would have put forth <lb/>with greater ſtrength, and (it may) be to have grown on to bear Flowers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4032" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>By this means, you may have (as it ſeemeth) Roſes ſetin the midſt of a Pool, <lb/>being ſupported with ſome ſtay; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4033" xml:space="preserve">which is matter of rareneſs and pleaſure, <lb/>though of ſmall uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4034" xml:space="preserve">This is the more ſtrange, for that the like Roſe Stand-<lb/>ard was put at the ſame time, into Water mixed with Horſe-dung, the Horſe-<lb/>dung about the fourth part to the Water, and in four Moneths ſpace (while it <lb/>was obſerved) put not forth any Leaf, though divers Buds at the firſt, as the <lb/>other.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4035" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div459" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0125-02" xlink:href="note-0125-02a" xml:space="preserve">407.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4036" xml:space="preserve">A Dutch Flower that had a Bulbons Root, was like wiſe put at the ſame time <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0125-03a" xlink:href="note-0125-03"/> all under Water, ſome two or three fingers deep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4037" xml:space="preserve">and within ſeven days <lb/>ſprouted, and continued long after further growing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4038" xml:space="preserve">There were alſo put in, <lb/>a Beet-root, a Borrage-root, and a Raddish-root, which had all their Leaves cut al-<lb/>moſt cloſe to the Roots; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4039" xml:space="preserve">and within ſix weeks had fair Leaves, and ſo con-<lb/>tinued till the end of November.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4040" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div460" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0125-03" xlink:href="note-0125-03a" xml:space="preserve">408.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4041" xml:space="preserve">Note, that if Roots, or Peaſe, or Flowers may be accelerated in their <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0125-04a" xlink:href="note-0125-04"/> coming and ripening, there is a double profit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4042" xml:space="preserve">the one in the high price that <lb/>thoſe things bear when they come early; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4043" xml:space="preserve">the orher in the ſwiftneſs of their <lb/>returns: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4044" xml:space="preserve">For in ſome Grounds which are ſtrong, you ſhall have a Raddiſh, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4045" xml:space="preserve">c. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4046" xml:space="preserve">come in a moneth, that in other Grounds will not come in two, and ſo make <lb/>double returns.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4047" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div461" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0125-04" xlink:href="note-0125-04a" xml:space="preserve">409.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4048" xml:space="preserve">Wheat alſo was put into the Water, and came not for that all; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4049" xml:space="preserve">ſo as it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0125-05a" xlink:href="note-0125-05"/> ſeemeth there muſt be ſome ſtrength and bulk in the Body, put into the Wa <lb/>ter, as it is in Roots; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4050" xml:space="preserve">for Grains, or Seeds, the cold of the Water will morti-<lb/>fie. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4051" xml:space="preserve">But caſually ſome Wheat lay under the Pan, which was ſome what moi-<lb/>ftened by the ſuing of the Pan, which in fix weeks (as aforeſaid) looked <lb/>mouldy to the eye, but it was ſprouted forth half a fingers length.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4052" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div462" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0125-05" xlink:href="note-0125-05a" xml:space="preserve">410.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4053" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth by theſe In ſtances of Water, that for nouriſhment the Water <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0125-06a" xlink:href="note-0125-06"/> is almoſt all in all, and that the Earth doth but keep the Plant upright, and <lb/>ſave it from over-heat, and over-cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4054" xml:space="preserve">and therefore is a comfortable <lb/>Experiment for good Drinkers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4055" xml:space="preserve">It proveth alſo that our former opinion, that <pb o="92" file="0126" n="126" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Drink incorporate with Fleſh or Roots (as in Capon-Beer, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4056" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4057" xml:space="preserve">will nouriſh <lb/>more eaſily than Meat and Drink taken ſeverally.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4058" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div463" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0125-06" xlink:href="note-0125-06a" xml:space="preserve">411.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4059" xml:space="preserve">The Houſing of Plants (I conceive) will both Accelerate Germination, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0126-01a" xlink:href="note-0126-01"/> and bring forth Flowers and Plants in the colder Seaſons: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4060" xml:space="preserve">And as we Houſe-<lb/>hot Countrey Plants, as Lemmons, Orenges, Myrtles, to ſave them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4061" xml:space="preserve">ſo we may <lb/>Houſe our own Country Plants to forward them, and make them come in <lb/>the cold Seaſons, in ſuch ſort, that you may have Violets, Strawberries, Peaſe, <lb/>all Winter: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4062" xml:space="preserve">So that you ſow or remove them at fit times. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4063" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment <lb/>is to be referred unto the comforting of the Spirit of the Plant by warmth as <lb/>well as Houſing their Boughs, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4064" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4065" xml:space="preserve">Sothen the means to Accelerate Germi-<lb/>nation, are in particular eight, in general three.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4066" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div464" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-01" xlink:href="note-0126-01a" xml:space="preserve">412.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4067" xml:space="preserve">TO make Roſes orother Flowers come late, it is an Experiment of Pleaſure. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4068" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0126-02a" xlink:href="note-0126-02"/> For the Ancients eſteemed much of Roſa Sera, and indeed the November <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0126-03a" xlink:href="note-0126-03"/> Roſe is the ſweeteſt, having been leſs exhaled by the Sun. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4069" xml:space="preserve">The Means are <lb/>theſe, Firſt, Thecutting off their tops immediately after they have done bear-<lb/>ing, and then they will come again the ſame year about November; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4070" xml:space="preserve">but they <lb/>will not come juſt on the tops where they were cut, but out of thoſe Shoots <lb/>which were (as it were) Water-boughs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4071" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Sap, <lb/>which otherwiſe would have ſed the top, (though after bearing) will, by <lb/>the diſcharge of that, divert unto the Side ſprouts, and they will come to <lb/>bear, but later.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4072" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div465" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-02" xlink:href="note-0126-02a" xml:space="preserve">413.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-03" xlink:href="note-0126-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Putting back <lb/>or Retardation <lb/>of Gern.ina-<lb/>tion.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4073" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is the Pulling of the Buds of the Roſe, when they are newly <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0126-04a" xlink:href="note-0126-04"/> knotted, for then the ſide Branches will bear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4074" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is the ſame with the <lb/>former: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4075" xml:space="preserve">For cutting off the Tops, and pulling off the Buds, work the ſame effect, in <lb/>Retenſion of the Sap for a time, and Diverſion of it to the Sprouts that were <lb/>not ſo forward.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4076" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div466" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-04" xlink:href="note-0126-04a" xml:space="preserve">414.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4077" xml:space="preserve">The third is the cutting off ſome few of the Top-boughs in the Spring <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0126-05a" xlink:href="note-0126-05"/> time but ſuffering the lower Boughs to grow on. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4078" xml:space="preserve">The cauſeis, for that the <lb/>Boughs do help to draw up the Sap more ſtrongly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4079" xml:space="preserve">and we ſee that in <lb/>Pouling of Trees, many do uſe to leave a Bough or two on the top to <lb/>help to draw up the Sap. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4080" xml:space="preserve">And it is reported alſo, That if you graft upon <lb/>the Bough of a Tree, and cut off ſome of the old Boughs, the new Cions <lb/>will periſh.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4081" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div467" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-05" xlink:href="note-0126-05a" xml:space="preserve">415.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4082" xml:space="preserve">The fourth is by laying the Roots bare about Chriſtmas ſome days. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4083" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0126-06a" xlink:href="note-0126-06"/> cauſe is plain, for that it doth arreſt the Sap from going up wards for a time; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4084" xml:space="preserve">which arreſt, is after wards releaſed by the covering of the Root again with <lb/>Earth, and then the Sap getteth up, but later.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4085" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div468" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-06" xlink:href="note-0126-06a" xml:space="preserve">416.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4086" xml:space="preserve">The fifth is theremoving of the Tree ſome Moneth before it Buddeth. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4087" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0126-07a" xlink:href="note-0126-07"/> The cauſe is, for that ſome time will be required after the Remove, for the <lb/>Reſetling, before it can draw the Juyce; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4088" xml:space="preserve">and that time being loſt, the bloſſom <lb/>muſt needs come forth later.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4089" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div469" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-07" xlink:href="note-0126-07a" xml:space="preserve">417.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4090" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth is the Grafting of Roſes in May, which commonly Gardiners <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0126-08a" xlink:href="note-0126-08"/> do not till July, and then they beat not till the next year; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4091" xml:space="preserve">but if you graft <lb/>them in May, they will bear the ſame year, but late.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4092" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div470" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-08" xlink:href="note-0126-08a" xml:space="preserve">418.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4093" xml:space="preserve">The ſeventh is the Girding of the Body of the Tree about with ſome <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0126-09a" xlink:href="note-0126-09"/> Packthred; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4094" xml:space="preserve">for that alſo in a degree reſtraineth the Sap, and maketh it come <lb/>up morelate, and more ſlowly.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4095" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div471" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-09" xlink:href="note-0126-09a" xml:space="preserve">419.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4096" xml:space="preserve">The eighth is the Planting of them in a Shade orin a Hedge. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4097" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0126-10a" xlink:href="note-0126-10"/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0126-1a" xlink:href="hd-0126-1"/> is, partly the keeping out of the Sun, which haſtneth the Sap to riſe, and <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0126-1a" xlink:href="hd-0126-1"/> partly the robbing of them of Nouriſhment by the ſtuff in the Hedge;</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4098" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="93" file="0127" n="127" rhead="Century V."/> theſe means may be practiſed upon other, both Trees, and Flowers, Mutatis <lb/>mutandis.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4099" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div472" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-10" xlink:href="note-0126-10a" xml:space="preserve">420.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0126-1" xlink:href="hd-0126-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0126-1" xlink:href="hd-0126-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4100" xml:space="preserve">Men have entertained a conceit that ſheweth prettily, namely, That if <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0127-01a" xlink:href="note-0127-01"/> you graft a Late coming Fruit, upon a Stock of a Fruit-tree that cometh ear-<lb/>ly, the Graft willbear Fruit early, as a Peach upon a Cherry: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4101" xml:space="preserve">And contrari-<lb/>wiſe, if an Early coming-Fruit upon a Stock of a Fruit-tree that cometh late, <lb/>the Graſt will bear Fruit late; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4102" xml:space="preserve">as a Cherry upon a Peach. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4103" xml:space="preserve">But theſe are but <lb/>imaginations, and untrue. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4104" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Cions over-ruleth the <lb/>Stock quite, and the Stock is but Paſſive onely, and giveth Aliment, but no <lb/>Motion to the Graft.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4105" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div473" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0127-01" xlink:href="note-0127-01a" xml:space="preserve">421.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4106" xml:space="preserve">WE will ſpeak now, how to make Fruits, Flowers, and Roots larger, in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0127-02a" xlink:href="note-0127-02"/> more plenty and ſweeter than they uſe to be; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4107" xml:space="preserve">and how to make the <lb/>Trees themſelves more tall, more ſpred, and more haſty and ſudden, than <lb/>they uſe to be. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4108" xml:space="preserve">Wherein there is no doubt, but the former Experiments <lb/>of Acceleration will ſerve much to theſe purpoſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4109" xml:space="preserve">And again, that theſe <lb/>Experiments which we ſhall now ſet down, do ſerve alſo for Acceleration, be-<lb/>cauſe both Effects proceeds from the encreaſe of Vigor in the Tree; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4110" xml:space="preserve">but yet <lb/>to avoid confuſion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4111" xml:space="preserve">And becauſe ſome of the Means are more proper for the <lb/>one effect, and ſome for the other. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4112" xml:space="preserve">We will handle them aparr.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4113" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div474" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0127-02" xlink:href="note-0127-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Malioration <lb/>of Fruit Trees, <lb/>and Plants.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4114" xml:space="preserve">It is an aſſured Experience, That an heap of Flint or Stone, laid about the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0127-03a" xlink:href="note-0127-03"/> bottom of a wilde Tree, (as in Oak, Elm, Aſh, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4115" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4116" xml:space="preserve">upon the firſt planting, <lb/>doth make it proſper double as much as without it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4117" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that <lb/>it retaineth the moiſture which falleth at any time upon the Tree, and ſuffer-<lb/>eth it not to be exhaled by the Sun. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4118" xml:space="preserve">Again, it keepeth the Tree warm from <lb/>cold Blaſts and Froſts, as it were in an Houſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4119" xml:space="preserve">It may be alſo, there is ſome-<lb/>what in the keeping of it ſteady at the firſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4120" xml:space="preserve">Quare, if laying of Straw ſome <lb/>height about the Body of a Tree, will not make the Tree for wards: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4121" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>though the Root giveth the Sap, yet it is the Body that draweth it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4122" xml:space="preserve">But you <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0127-1a" xlink:href="hd-0127-1"/> muſt note, that if you lay Stones about the Stalk of Lettuce, or other Plants <lb/>that are more ſoft, it will over-moiſten the Roots, ſo as the Worms will eat <lb/>them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4123" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div475" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0127-03" xlink:href="note-0127-03a" xml:space="preserve">422.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0127-1" xlink:href="hd-0127-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4124" xml:space="preserve">A Tree at the firſt ſetting, ſhould not be ſhaken, until it hath taken Root <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0127-04a" xlink:href="note-0127-04"/> fully; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4125" xml:space="preserve">And therefore ſome have put too little Forks about the bottom of <lb/>their Trees, to keep them upright; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4126" xml:space="preserve">but after a years rooting, then ſhaking <lb/>doth the Tree good by looſning of the Earth, and (perhaps) by exer ciſing <lb/>(as it were) and ſtirring the Sap of the Tree.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4127" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div476" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0127-04" xlink:href="note-0127-04a" xml:space="preserve">423</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4128" xml:space="preserve">Generally, the cutting away of Boughs and Suckers at the Root and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0127-05a" xlink:href="note-0127-05"/> Body, doth make Trees grow high; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4129" xml:space="preserve">and contrariwiſe, the Poling and Cut-<lb/>ting of the top, maketh them grow, ſpred, and buſhy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4130" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in Pol-<lb/>lords, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4131" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4132" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div477" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0127-05" xlink:href="note-0127-05a" xml:space="preserve">424.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4133" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That to make haſty growing Coppice wood, the way is, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0127-06a" xlink:href="note-0127-06"/> to take Willow, Sallow, Popler, Alder, of ſome ſeven years growth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4134" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>to ſet them, not upright, but a-ſlope, a reaſonable depth under the Ground; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4135" xml:space="preserve">and then inſtead of one Root they will put forth many, and ſo carry more <lb/>ſhoots upon a Stem.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4136" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div478" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0127-06" xlink:href="note-0127-06a" xml:space="preserve">425.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4137" xml:space="preserve">When you would have many new Roots of Fruit-Trees, take alow <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0127-07a" xlink:href="note-0127-07"/> Tree, and bow it, and lay all his Branches a flat upon the ground, and caſt <lb/>Earth upon them, and every twig will take Root. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4138" xml:space="preserve">And this is a very proſitable <lb/>Experiment for coſtly Trees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4139" xml:space="preserve">(for the Boughs will make Stocks without <lb/>charge) ſuch as are Apricots, Peaches, Almonds, Cornelians, Mulberries, Figs, <pb o="94" file="0128" n="128" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4140" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4141" xml:space="preserve">The like is continually practiſed with Vines, Roſes, Musk-Roſes, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4142" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4143" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div479" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0127-07" xlink:href="note-0127-07a" xml:space="preserve">426.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4144" xml:space="preserve">From May to July you may take off the Bark of any Bough, being of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0128-01a" xlink:href="note-0128-01"/> the bigneſs of Three or four Inches, and cover the bare place, ſomewhat <lb/>above and below with Loam, well tempered with Horſe-dung, binding it <lb/>faſt down. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4145" xml:space="preserve">Then cut off the Bough about Alhollantide in the bare place, and <lb/>ſet it in Ground, and it will grow to be a fair Tree in one year. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4146" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe <lb/>may be, for that the Bearing from the Bark, keepeth the Sap from deſcend-<lb/>ing towards Winter, and ſo holdeth it in the Bough; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4147" xml:space="preserve">and it may be alſo, that <lb/>Loam and Horſe-dung applied to the bare place, do moiſten it and cheriſh <lb/>it, and make it more apt to put forth the Root. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4148" xml:space="preserve">Note, that this may be a <lb/>general means for keeping up the Sap of Trees in their Boughs, which may <lb/>ſerve to other effects.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4149" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div480" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0128-01" xlink:href="note-0128-01a" xml:space="preserve">427.</note> </div> <handwritten/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4150" xml:space="preserve">It hath been practiſed in Trees that ſhew fair and bear not, to bore a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0128-02a" xlink:href="note-0128-02"/> hole thorow the Heart of the Tree, and thereupon it will bear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4151" xml:space="preserve">Which may <lb/>be, for that the Tree before hath too much Repletion, and was oppreſſed <lb/>with his own Sap; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4152" xml:space="preserve">for Repletion is an enemy to Generation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4153" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div481" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0128-02" xlink:href="note-0128-02a" xml:space="preserve">428.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4154" xml:space="preserve">It hath been practiſed in Trees that do notbear, to cleave two or three <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0128-03a" xlink:href="note-0128-03"/> of the chief Roots, and to put into the Cleft a ſmall Pebble which may <lb/>keep it open, and then it will bear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4155" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that a Root of <lb/>a Tree may be (as it were) hide-bound, no leſs then the Body of the Tree; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4156" xml:space="preserve">but it will not keep open without ſomewhat put into it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4157" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div482" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0128-03" xlink:href="note-0128-03a" xml:space="preserve">429.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4158" xml:space="preserve">It is uſually practiſed to ſet Trees that require much Sun, upon Walls <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0128-04a" xlink:href="note-0128-04"/> againſt the South; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4159" xml:space="preserve">as Apricots, Peaches, Plumbs, Vines, Figs, and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4160" xml:space="preserve">It <lb/>hath a double commodity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4161" xml:space="preserve">the one, the heat of the Wall by reflexion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4162" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>other, the taking away of the ſhade: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4163" xml:space="preserve">For when a Tree groweth round, the <lb/>upper Boughs over ſhaddow the lower, but when it is ſpred upon a Wall, <lb/>the Sun cometh alike upon the upper and lower Branches.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4164" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div483" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0128-04" xlink:href="note-0128-04a" xml:space="preserve">430.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4165" xml:space="preserve">It hath alſo been practiſed (by ſome) to pull ſome Leaves from the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0128-05a" xlink:href="note-0128-05"/> Trees ſo ſpred, that the Sun may come upon the Bough and Fruit the bet-<lb/>ter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4166" xml:space="preserve">There hath been practiſed alſo a curioſity, to ſeta Tree upon the North <lb/>ſide of a Wall, and at a little height, to draw him through the Wall, and <lb/>ſpred him upon the South ſide; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4167" xml:space="preserve">conceiving, that the Root and lower part <lb/>of the Stock ſhould enjoy the freſhneſs of the ſhade, and the upper Boughs <lb/>and Fruit, the comfort of the Sun; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4168" xml:space="preserve">but it ſorted not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4169" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that <lb/>the Root requireth ſome comfort from the Sun, though under Earth, as well <lb/>as the Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4170" xml:space="preserve">and the lower part of the Body more than the upper, as we <lb/>ſee in compaſſing a Tree below with ſtraw.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4171" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div484" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0128-05" xlink:href="note-0128-05a" xml:space="preserve">431.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4172" xml:space="preserve">The lowneſs of the Bough, where the Fruit cometh, maketh the Fruit <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0128-06a" xlink:href="note-0128-06"/> greater, and to ripen better; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4173" xml:space="preserve">for you ſhall ever ſee in Apricotes, Peaches, or <lb/>Melo-Cotones upon a Wall, the greateſt Fruits towards the bottom. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4174" xml:space="preserve">And in <lb/>France the Grapes that make the Wine, grow upon the low Vines, bound to <lb/>ſmall Stakes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4175" xml:space="preserve">and the raiſed Vines in Arbors, make but Verjuyce. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4176" xml:space="preserve">It is <lb/>true, that in Italy, and other Countreys where they have hotter Sun, they <lb/>raiſe them upon Elms and Trees: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4177" xml:space="preserve">But I conceive, that if the French man-<lb/>ner of Planting low, were brought in uſe, their Wines would be ſtronger <lb/>and ſweeter: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4178" xml:space="preserve">But it is more chargeable in reſpect of the Props. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4179" xml:space="preserve">It were <lb/>good to try whether a, Tree grafted ſomewhat near the ground, and the <lb/>lower Boughs onely maintained, and the higher continually proyned off, <lb/>would not make a larger Fruit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4180" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div485" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0128-06" xlink:href="note-0128-06a" xml:space="preserve">432.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4181" xml:space="preserve">To have Fruit in greater Plenty, the way is to graft, not onely upon <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0128-07a" xlink:href="note-0128-07"/> young Stocks, but upon divers Boughs of an old Tree; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4182" xml:space="preserve">for they will bear <pb o="95" file="0129" n="129" rhead="Century V."/> great numbers of Fruit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4183" xml:space="preserve">whereas if you graft but upon one Stock, the Tree <lb/>can bear but few.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4184" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div486" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0128-07" xlink:href="note-0128-07a" xml:space="preserve">433.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4185" xml:space="preserve">The digging yearly about the Roots of Trees, which is a great means; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4186" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0129-01a" xlink:href="note-0129-01"/> both to the Acceleration and Melioration of Fruits, is practiſed in nothing <lb/>but in Vines; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4187" xml:space="preserve">which, if it were transferred unto other Trees and Shrubs, (as <lb/>Roſes, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4188" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4189" xml:space="preserve">I conceive, would advance them likewiſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4190" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div487" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0129-01" xlink:href="note-0129-01a" xml:space="preserve">434.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4191" xml:space="preserve">It hath been known, that a Fruit-tree hath been blown up (almoſt) by <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0129-02a" xlink:href="note-0129-02"/> the Roots, and ſet up again, and the next year bare exceedingly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4192" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe of this was nothing but the looſening of the Earth, which comforteth <lb/>any Tree, and is fit to be practiſed more than it is in Fruit-trees: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4193" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>Trees cannot be ſo fitly removed into new Grounds, as Flowers and Herbs <lb/>may.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4194" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div488" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0129-02" xlink:href="note-0129-02a" xml:space="preserve">435.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4195" xml:space="preserve">To revive an old Tree, the digging of it about the Roots, and applying <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0129-03a" xlink:href="note-0129-03"/> new Mould to the Roots, is the way. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4196" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo that Draught-Oxen put <lb/>into freſh Paſture, gather new and tender fleſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4197" xml:space="preserve">and in all things, better <lb/>nouriſhment than hath been uſed, doth help to renew, eſpecially, if it be <lb/>not onely better but changed, and differing from the former.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4198" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div489" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0129-03" xlink:href="note-0129-03a" xml:space="preserve">436.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4199" xml:space="preserve">If an Herb be cut off from the Roots in the beginning of Winter, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0129-04a" xlink:href="note-0129-04"/> then the Earth be trodden and beaten down hard with the Foot and Spade, <lb/>the Roots will become of very great magnitude in Summet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4200" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon is, <lb/>for that the moiſture being forbidden to come up in the Plant, ſtayeth longer <lb/>in the Root, and ſo dilateth it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4201" xml:space="preserve">And Gardiners uſe to tread down any looſe <lb/>Ground after they have ſown Onions, or Turnips, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4202" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4203" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div490" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0129-04" xlink:href="note-0129-04a" xml:space="preserve">437.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4204" xml:space="preserve">If Panicum be laid below, and about the bottom of a Root, it will cauſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0129-05a" xlink:href="note-0129-05"/> the Root to grow to an exceſſive bigneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4205" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that being it <lb/>ſelf of a ſpungy ſubſtance, it draweth the moiſture of the Earth to it, and ſo <lb/>feedeth the Root. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4206" xml:space="preserve">This is of greateſt uſe for Onions, Turnips, Parſnips, and <lb/>Carreis.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4207" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div491" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0129-05" xlink:href="note-0129-05a" xml:space="preserve">438.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4208" xml:space="preserve">The ſhifting of Ground is a means to better the Tree and Fruit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4209" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0129-06a" xlink:href="note-0129-06"/> with this Caution, That all things do proſper beſt, when they are advanced <lb/>to the better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4210" xml:space="preserve">Your Nurſery of Stocks ought to be in a more barren Ground, <lb/>than the Ground is whereunto you remove them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4211" xml:space="preserve">So all Graſiers prefer their <lb/>Cattle from meaner Paſtures to better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4212" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that hardneſs in youth <lb/>lengthneth life, becauſe it leaveth a cheriſhing to the better of the Body in <lb/>Age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4213" xml:space="preserve">Nay, in exerciſes it is good to begin with the hardeſt, as Dancing in <lb/>thick Shooes, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4214" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4215" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div492" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0129-06" xlink:href="note-0129-06a" xml:space="preserve">439.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4216" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved that hacking of Trees in their Bark, both down-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0129-07a" xlink:href="note-0129-07"/> right, and a croſs, ſo as you make them rather in ſlices, than in continued <lb/>Hacks, doth great good to Trees, and eſpecially delivereth them from being <lb/>Hide-bound, and killeth their Moſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4217" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div493" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0129-07" xlink:href="note-0129-07a" xml:space="preserve">440.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4218" xml:space="preserve">Shade to ſome Plants conduceth to make them large and proſperous <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0129-08a" xlink:href="note-0129-08"/> more than Sun; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4219" xml:space="preserve">as in Strawberries, and Bays, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4220" xml:space="preserve">c Therefore amongſt Straw-<lb/>berries, ſow here and there ſome Borrage-Seed, and you ſhall finde the Straw-<lb/>berries under thoſe Leaves, fat more large than their fellows. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4221" xml:space="preserve">And Bays you <lb/>muſt plant to the North, or defend them from the Sun by a Hedg Row; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4222" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>when you ſow the Berries, weed not the Borders for the firſt half year; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4223" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>the Weed giveth them Shade.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4224" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div494" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0129-08" xlink:href="note-0129-08a" xml:space="preserve">441.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4225" xml:space="preserve">To increaſe the Crops of Plants, there would be conſidered, not onely <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0129-09a" xlink:href="note-0129-09"/> the increaſing the Luſt of the Earth, or of the Plant, but the ſaving alfo of <lb/>that which is ſpilt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4226" xml:space="preserve">So they have lately made a tryal to ſet VVheat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4227" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>nevertheleſs hath been left off, becauſe of the trouble and pains; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4228" xml:space="preserve">yet ſo <lb/>much is true, that there is much ſaved by the Setting, in compariſon of <pb o="96" file="0130" n="130" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> that which is Sown; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4229" xml:space="preserve">both by keeping it from being picked up by Birds, and <lb/>by avoiding the ſhallow lying of it, whereby much that is ſown, taketh no <lb/>Root.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4230" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div495" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0129-09" xlink:href="note-0129-09a" xml:space="preserve">442.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4231" xml:space="preserve">It is preſcribed by ſome of the Ancients, that you take ſmall Trees, upon <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0130-01a" xlink:href="note-0130-01"/> which Figs or other Fruit grow, being yet unripe, and cover the Trees in <lb/>the middle of Autumn with Dung until the Spring, and then take them <lb/>up in a warm day, and replant them in good Ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4232" xml:space="preserve">and by that means, <lb/>the former years Tree will be ripe, as by a new Birth, when other Trees of <lb/>the ſame kinde do but bloſſom. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4233" xml:space="preserve">But this ſeemeth to have no great pro-<lb/>bability.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4234" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div496" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0130-01" xlink:href="note-0130-01a" xml:space="preserve">443.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4235" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That if you take Nitre, and mingle it with VVater, to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0130-02a" xlink:href="note-0130-02"/> the thickneſs of Honey, and there with anoint the Bud, after the Vine is cut, <lb/>it will ſprout forth within eight days. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4236" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is like to be (if the <lb/>Experiment be true) the opening of the Bud, and of the parts contigu-<lb/>ous, by the Spirit of the Nitre; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4237" xml:space="preserve">for Nitre is (as it were) the life of Vege-<lb/>tables.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4238" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div497" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0130-02" xlink:href="note-0130-02a" xml:space="preserve">444.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4239" xml:space="preserve">Take Seed or Kernels of Apples, Pears, Orenges; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4240" xml:space="preserve">or a Peach, or a Plumb-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0130-03a" xlink:href="note-0130-03"/> Stone, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4241" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4242" xml:space="preserve">And put them into a Squill, (which is like a great Onion) and they <lb/>will come up much eatlier than in the Earth it ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4243" xml:space="preserve">This I conceive to be as <lb/>a kinde of Grafting in the Root; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4244" xml:space="preserve">for as the Stock of a Graſt yieldeth better <lb/>prepared nouriſhment to the Graft, than the Crude Earth, ſo the Squill doth <lb/>the like to the Seed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4245" xml:space="preserve">and, I ſuppoſe, the ſame would be done, by putting <lb/>Kernels into a Turnip, or the like, ſave that the Squill is more vigorous <lb/>and hot. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4246" xml:space="preserve">It may be tryed alſo, with putting Onion-Seed into an Onion-<lb/>Head, which thereby (perhaps) will bring forth a larger and earlier <lb/>Onion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4247" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div498" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0130-03" xlink:href="note-0130-03a" xml:space="preserve">445.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4248" xml:space="preserve">The pricking of a Fruit in ſeveral places, when it is almoſt at his big <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0130-04a" xlink:href="note-0130-04"/> neſs, and before it ripeneth, hath been practiſed with ſucceſs, to ripen the <lb/>Fruit more ſuddenly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4249" xml:space="preserve">We ſee the example of the biting of Waſ<unsure/>ps or Worms <lb/>upon Fruit (whereby it manifeſtly) ripeneth the ſooner.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4250" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div499" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0130-04" xlink:href="note-0130-04a" xml:space="preserve">446.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4251" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That Alga Marina (Sea-Weed) put under the Roots of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0130-05a" xlink:href="note-0130-05"/> Colworts, and (perhaps) of other Plants, will ſurther their growth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4252" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>vert<unsure/>ue (no doubt) hath relation to Salt, which is a great help to Fer-<lb/>tility.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4253" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div500" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0130-05" xlink:href="note-0130-05a" xml:space="preserve">447.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4254" xml:space="preserve">It hath been practiſed to cut off the Stalks of Cucumbers, immediately <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0130-06a" xlink:href="note-0130-06"/> after their bearing cloſe by the Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4255" xml:space="preserve">and then to caſt a pretty quantity of <lb/>Earth upon the Plant that remaineth, and they will bear the next year Fruit <lb/>long before the ordinary time. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4256" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that the Sap goeth <lb/>down the ſooner, and is not ſpent in the Stalk or Leaf, which remaineth <lb/>after the Fruit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4257" xml:space="preserve">Where note, that the Dying in the Winter, of the Roots or <lb/>Plants that are Annual, ſeemeth to be pattly cauſed by the over-expence of <lb/>the Sap into Stalk and Leaves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4258" xml:space="preserve">which being prevented, they will ſuper annu-<lb/>ate, if they ſtand warm.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4259" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div501" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0130-06" xlink:href="note-0130-06a" xml:space="preserve">448.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4260" xml:space="preserve">The pulling off many of the Bloſſoms from a Fruit-tree, doth make the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0130-07a" xlink:href="note-0130-07"/> Fruit fairer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4261" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is manifeſt, for that the Sap hath the leſs to nouriſh. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4262" xml:space="preserve">And it is a common experience, That if you do not pull off ſome Bloſſoms, <lb/>the firſt time a Tree bloometh, it will bloſſom it ſelf to death.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4263" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div502" type="float" level="2" n="51"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0130-07" xlink:href="note-0130-07a" xml:space="preserve">449.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4264" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try what would be the effect, if all the Bloſſoms were <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0130-08a" xlink:href="note-0130-08"/> pulled from a Fruit-tree, or the Acorns and Cheſnut-buds, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4265" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4266" xml:space="preserve">from a wilde <lb/>Tree, for two years together. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4267" xml:space="preserve">I ſuppoſe, that the Tree will either put forth <lb/>the third year bigger, and more plentiful Fruit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4268" xml:space="preserve">or elſe, the ſame years, larger <lb/>Leaves, becauſe of the Sap ſtored up.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4269" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div503" type="float" level="2" n="52"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0130-08" xlink:href="note-0130-08a" xml:space="preserve">450.</note> </div> <pb o="97" file="0131" n="131" rhead="Century V."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4270" xml:space="preserve">It hath been generally received, that a Plant watred with warm Water, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0131-01a" xlink:href="note-0131-01"/> will come up ſooner and better, than with cold Water, or with Showers. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4271" xml:space="preserve">But the Experiment of watering Wheat with warm Water (as hath been <lb/>ſaid) ſucceeded not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4272" xml:space="preserve">which may be, becauſe the tryal was too late in <lb/>the Year, viz. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4273" xml:space="preserve">in the end of October. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4274" xml:space="preserve">For the Cold then coming upon the <lb/>Seed, after it was made more tender by the warm Water, might <lb/>check it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4275" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div504" type="float" level="2" n="53"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0131-01" xlink:href="note-0131-01a" xml:space="preserve">451.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4276" xml:space="preserve">There is no doubt, but that Grafting (for the moſt part) doth meliorate <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0131-02a" xlink:href="note-0131-02"/> the Fruit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4277" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is manifeſt, for that the nouriſhment is better prepared <lb/>in the Stock, than in the Crude Earth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4278" xml:space="preserve">But yet note well, that there be ſome <lb/>Trees that are ſaid to come up more happily from the Kernel, than from the <lb/>Graft; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4279" xml:space="preserve">as the Peach, and Melocotone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4280" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe, I ſuppoſe to be, for that <lb/>thoſe Plants require a nouriſhment of great moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4281" xml:space="preserve">and though the nou-<lb/>riſhment of the Stock be finer, and better prepared, yet it is not ſo moiſt and <lb/>plentiful, as the nouriſhment of the Earth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4282" xml:space="preserve">And indeed we ſee thoſe Fruits <lb/>are very cold Fruits in their Nature.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4283" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div505" type="float" level="2" n="54"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0131-02" xlink:href="note-0131-02a" xml:space="preserve">452.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4284" xml:space="preserve">It hath been received, that a ſmaller Pear grafced upon a Stock that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0131-03a" xlink:href="note-0131-03"/> beareth a greater Pear, will become great. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4285" xml:space="preserve">But I think it is as true, as that of <lb/>the Prime-Fruit upon the late Stock, and è Controverſo, which we rejected <lb/>before; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4286" xml:space="preserve">for the Cions will govern. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4287" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs, it is probable enough, <lb/>that if you can get a Cions to grow upon a Stock of another kinde, that is <lb/>much moiſter than his own Stock, it may make the Fruit greater, becauſe it <lb/>will yield more plentiful nouriſhment, though it is like it will make the Fruit <lb/>baſer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4288" xml:space="preserve">But generally the grafting is upon a dryer Stock; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4289" xml:space="preserve">as the Apple upon <lb/>a Crab, the Pear upon a Thorn, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4290" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4291" xml:space="preserve">Yet it is reported, that in the Low-<lb/>Countreys they will graft an Apple-Cions upon the Stock of a Colewort, and <lb/>it will bear a great flaggy Apple; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4292" xml:space="preserve">the Kernel of which, if it be ſet, will be a <lb/>Colewort, and not an Apple. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4293" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try, whether an Apple-Cions <lb/>will proſper, if it be grafted upon a Sallow or upon a Poplar, or upon an Alder, <lb/>or upon an Elm, or upon an Horſe-Plum, which are the moiſteſt of Trees. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4294" xml:space="preserve">I <lb/>have heard that it hath been tryed upon an Elm, and ſucceeded.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4295" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div506" type="float" level="2" n="55"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0131-03" xlink:href="note-0131-03a" xml:space="preserve">453.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4296" xml:space="preserve">It is manifeſt by experience, That Flowers removed, wax greater, be-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0131-04a" xlink:href="note-0131-04"/> cauſe the nouriſhment is more eaſily come by in the looſe Earth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4297" xml:space="preserve">It may be, <lb/>that oft regrafting of the ſame Cions, may likewiſe make Fruit greater; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4298" xml:space="preserve">as if <lb/>you take a Cions, and graft it upon a Stock the firſt year; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4299" xml:space="preserve">and then cut it off, <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0131-1a" xlink:href="hd-0131-1"/> and graft it upon another Stock the ſecond year, and ſo for a third, or fourth <lb/>year, and then let it reſt, it will yield afterward, when it beareth, the greater <lb/>Fruit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4300" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div507" type="float" level="2" n="56"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0131-04" xlink:href="note-0131-04a" xml:space="preserve">454.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0131-1" xlink:href="hd-0131-1a"/> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s4301" xml:space="preserve">Of Grafting, there are many Experiments worth the noting, but thoſe we reſerve <lb/># to a proper place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4302" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4303" xml:space="preserve">It maketh Figs better, if a Fig-tree, when it beginneth to put forth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0131-05a" xlink:href="note-0131-05"/> Leaves, have his top cut off. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4304" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is plain, for that the Sap hath the leſs <lb/>to feed, and the lefs way to mount: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4305" xml:space="preserve">But it may be the Fig will come fome-<lb/>what later, as was formerly touched. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4306" xml:space="preserve">The ſame may be tried likewiſe in other <lb/>Trees.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4307" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div508" type="float" level="2" n="57"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0131-05" xlink:href="note-0131-05a" xml:space="preserve">455.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4308" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That Mulberries will be fairer, and the Tree more fruit-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0131-06a" xlink:href="note-0131-06"/> ful, if you bore the Trunk of the Tree thorow in ſeveral places, and thruſt <lb/>into the places bored, Wedges of ſome hot Trees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4309" xml:space="preserve">as Turpentine, Maſtick-tree, <lb/>Guaiacum, Juniper, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4310" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4311" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that Adventive heat doth chear <lb/>up the Native Juyce of the Tree.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4312" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div509" type="float" level="2" n="58"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0131-06" xlink:href="note-0131-06a" xml:space="preserve">456.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4313" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That Trees will grow greater and bear better Fruit, if <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0131-07a" xlink:href="note-0131-07"/> you put Salt, or Lees of Wine, or Blood to the Root. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4314" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be the en- <pb o="98" file="0132" n="132" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> creaſing the Luſt or Spirit of the Root: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4315" xml:space="preserve">Theſe things being more forcible <lb/>than ordinary compoſts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4316" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div510" type="float" level="2" n="59"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0131-07" xlink:href="note-0131-07a" xml:space="preserve">457.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4317" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by one of the Ancients, that Artichoaks will be leſs prick-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0132-01a" xlink:href="note-0132-01"/> ly, and more tender, if the Seeds have their tops dulled or grated off upon <lb/>a Stone.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4318" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div511" type="float" level="2" n="60"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0132-01" xlink:href="note-0132-01a" xml:space="preserve">458.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4319" xml:space="preserve">Herbs will be tenderer, and fairer, if you take them out of Beds when <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0132-02a" xlink:href="note-0132-02"/> they are newly come up, and remove them into Pots with better Earth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4320" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>remove from Bed to Bed was ſpoken of before; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4321" xml:space="preserve">but that was in ſeveral <lb/>years, this is upon the ſudden. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4322" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is the ſame with other removes, <lb/>ſormerly mentioned.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4323" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div512" type="float" level="2" n="61"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0132-02" xlink:href="note-0132-02a" xml:space="preserve">459.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4324" xml:space="preserve">Coleworts are reported by one of the Ancients, to proſper exceedingly, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0132-03a" xlink:href="note-0132-03"/> and to be better taſted, if they be ſometimes watred with Salt-water, and <lb/>much more with Water mixed with Nitre; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4325" xml:space="preserve">the Spirit of which is leſs Adu-<lb/>rent than Salt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4326" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div513" type="float" level="2" n="62"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0132-03" xlink:href="note-0132-03a" xml:space="preserve">460.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4327" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That Cucumbers will prove more tender and dainty, if <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0132-04a" xlink:href="note-0132-04"/> their Seeds be ſteeped (little) in Milk; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4328" xml:space="preserve">the cauſe may be, for that the Seed <lb/>being mollified with the Milk, will be too weak to draw the groſſer Juyce of <lb/>the Earth, but onely the finer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4329" xml:space="preserve">The ſame Experiment may be made in Arti-<lb/>choaks, and other Seeds, when you would take away, either their Flaſhi-<lb/>neſs or Bitterneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4330" xml:space="preserve">They ſpeak alſo, that the like effect followeth of ſteep-<lb/>ing in Water mixed with Honey; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4331" xml:space="preserve">but that ſeemeth to me not ſo probable, <lb/>becauſe Honey hath too quick a Spirit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4332" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div514" type="float" level="2" n="63"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0132-04" xlink:href="note-0132-04a" xml:space="preserve">461.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4333" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That Cucumbers will be leſs Watry, and more Melon-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0132-05a" xlink:href="note-0132-05"/> like, if in the Pit where you ſet them, you fill it (half way up) with Chaff, or <lb/>ſmall Sticks, and then power Earth upon them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4334" xml:space="preserve">for Cucumbers, as it ſeemeth, <lb/>do extreamly affect moiſture, and over-drink themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4335" xml:space="preserve">which this Chaff, <lb/>or Chips forbiddeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4336" xml:space="preserve">Nay it is further reported, That if when a Cucumber <lb/>is grown, you ſet a Pot of water about five or ſix inches diſtance from it, <lb/>it will in Four and twenty hours ſhoot ſo much out as to touch the Pot; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4337" xml:space="preserve">which if it be true, it is an Experiment of an higher nature than belongeth <lb/>to this Title: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4338" xml:space="preserve">Forit diſcovereth Perception in Plants to move towards that <lb/>which ſhould help and comfort them, though it be at a diſtance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4339" xml:space="preserve">The ancient <lb/>Tradition of the Vine is far more ſtrange: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4340" xml:space="preserve">It is, that if you ſet a ſtake, or <lb/>prop, ſome diſtance from it, it will grow that way, which is far ſtranger (as <lb/>is ſaid) than the other: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4341" xml:space="preserve">For that Water may work by a Sympathy of At-<lb/>traction: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4342" xml:space="preserve">But this of the Stake ſeemeth to be a reaſonable diſcourſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4343" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div515" type="float" level="2" n="64"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0132-05" xlink:href="note-0132-05a" xml:space="preserve">462.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4344" xml:space="preserve">It hath been touched before, that Terebration of Trees doth make them <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0132-06a" xlink:href="note-0132-06"/> proſper better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4345" xml:space="preserve">But it is found alſo, that it maketh the Fruit ſweeter, and <lb/>better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4346" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that not withſtanding the Terebration, they may <lb/>receive Aliment ſufficient, and yet no more than they can well turn, and <lb/>diſgeſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4347" xml:space="preserve">and withal do ſweat out the courſeſt and unprofitableſt Juyce, even <lb/>as it is in Living Creatures; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4348" xml:space="preserve">which, by moderate feeding, and exerciſe, and <lb/>ſweat, attain the ſound eſt habit of Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4349" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div516" type="float" level="2" n="65"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0132-06" xlink:href="note-0132-06a" xml:space="preserve">463.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4350" xml:space="preserve">As Terebration doth meliorate Fruit, ſo, upon the like reaſon, doth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0132-07a" xlink:href="note-0132-07"/> Letting of Plants Blood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4351" xml:space="preserve">as Pricking Vines, or other Trees, aſ<unsure/>ter they be of <lb/>ſome growth, and thereby letting forth Gum or Tears, though this be not to <lb/>continue, as it is in Terebration, but at ſome Seaſons. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4352" xml:space="preserve">And it is reported, <lb/>that by<unsure/> this artifice, Bitter Almonds have been turned into ſweet.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4353" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div517" type="float" level="2" n="66"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0132-07" xlink:href="note-0132-07a" xml:space="preserve">464.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4354" xml:space="preserve">The Ancients for the Dulcorating of Fruit, do commend Swines dung <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0132-08a" xlink:href="note-0132-08"/> above all other Dung, which may be, becauſe of the moiſture of that Beaſt, <lb/>whereby the Excrement hath leſs Acrimony, for we ſee Swines and Pigs <lb/>Fleſh is the moiſteſt of fleſhes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4355" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div518" type="float" level="2" n="67"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0132-08" xlink:href="note-0132-08a" xml:space="preserve">465.</note> </div> <pb o="99" file="0133" n="133" rhead="Century V."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4356" xml:space="preserve">It is obſerved by ſome, that all Herbs wax ſweeter, both in ſmell and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0133-01a" xlink:href="note-0133-01"/> taſte, if after they be grown up ſome reaſonable time, they be cut, and ſo <lb/>you take the latter Sprout. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4357" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that the longer the Juyce <lb/>ſtayeth in the Root and Stalk, the better it concocteth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4358" xml:space="preserve">For one of the chief <lb/>cauſes, why Grains, Seeds, and Fruits, are more nouriſhing than Leaves, is <lb/>the length of time, in which they grow to Maturation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4359" xml:space="preserve">It were not amiſs to <lb/>keep back the Sap of Herbs, or the like, by ſome fit means till the end of <lb/>Summer, whereby (it may be) they will be more nouriſhing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4360" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div519" type="float" level="2" n="68"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0133-01" xlink:href="note-0133-01a" xml:space="preserve">466.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4361" xml:space="preserve">As Grafting doth generally advance and Meliorate Fruits, above that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0133-02a" xlink:href="note-0133-02"/> which they would be, if they where ſet of Kernels or Stones, in regard the <lb/>nouriſhment is better concocted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4362" xml:space="preserve">So (no doubt) even in Grafting, for the ſame <lb/>cauſe the choice of the Stock doth much; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4363" xml:space="preserve">always provided, that it be ſome-<lb/>what inferior to the Cions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4364" xml:space="preserve">For other wiſe it dulleth it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4365" xml:space="preserve">They commend <lb/>much the Grafting of Pears, or Apples, upon a Quince.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4366" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div520" type="float" level="2" n="69"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0133-02" xlink:href="note-0133-02a" xml:space="preserve">467.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4367" xml:space="preserve">Beſides the Means of Melioration of Fruits before-mentioned, it is ſet <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0133-03a" xlink:href="note-0133-03"/> down as tryed, that a mixture of Bran and Swines Dung or Chaff and Swines <lb/>Dung (eſpecially laid up together for a moneth to rot) is a very great nouriſh-<lb/>er and comforter to a Fruit-tree.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4368" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div521" type="float" level="2" n="70"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0133-03" xlink:href="note-0133-03a" xml:space="preserve">468.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4369" xml:space="preserve">It is delivered, that Onions wax greater if they be taken out of the Earth, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0133-04a" xlink:href="note-0133-04"/> and laid a drying twenty days, and then ſet again; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4370" xml:space="preserve">and yet more, if the outer-<lb/>moſt Pill be taken off all over.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4371" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div522" type="float" level="2" n="71"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0133-04" xlink:href="note-0133-04a" xml:space="preserve">469.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4372" xml:space="preserve">It is delivered by ſome, that if one take the Bough of a low Fruit-tree, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0133-05a" xlink:href="note-0133-05"/> newly budded, and draw it gently, without hurting it, into an Earthen pot <lb/>perforate at the bottom to let in the Plant, and then cover the Pot with Earth, <lb/>it will yield a very large Fruit within the Ground. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4373" xml:space="preserve">Which Experiment is no-<lb/>thing but potting of Plants, without removing and leaving the Fruit in the <lb/>Earth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4374" xml:space="preserve">The like (they ſay) will be effected by an empty Pot without Earth in <lb/>it, put over a Fruit, being propped up with a ſtake as it hangeth upon the Tree, <lb/>and the better, if ſome few Pertuſions be made in the Pot. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4375" xml:space="preserve">VVherein, beſides <lb/>the defending of the Fruit from extre mity of Sun or VVeather, ſome give a <lb/>reaſon, that the Fruit loving and covering the open Air and Sun, is invited <lb/>by the Pertuſions to ſpred and approach as near the open Air as it can, and ſo <lb/>inlargeth in Magnitude.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4376" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div523" type="float" level="2" n="72"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0133-05" xlink:href="note-0133-05a" xml:space="preserve">470.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4377" xml:space="preserve">All Trees in high and Sandy Grounds, are to be ſet deep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4378" xml:space="preserve">and in VVatry <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0133-06a" xlink:href="note-0133-06"/> Grounds more ſhallow. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4379" xml:space="preserve">And in all Trees when they be removed (eſpecially <lb/>Fruit-trees) care ought to be taken, that the ſides of the Trees be coaſted, <lb/>(North and South, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4380" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4381" xml:space="preserve">as they ſtood before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4382" xml:space="preserve">The ſame is ſaid alſo of Stone <lb/>out of the Quarry, to make it more durable, though that ſeemeth to have <lb/>leſs reaſon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4383" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the Stone lyeth not ſo near the Sun, as the Tree grow-<lb/>eth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4384" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div524" type="float" level="2" n="73"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0133-06" xlink:href="note-0133-06a" xml:space="preserve">471.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4385" xml:space="preserve">Timber Trees in a Coppice-wood, do grow better than in an open Field; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4386" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0133-07a" xlink:href="note-0133-07"/> both, becauſe they offer not to ſpred ſo much, but ſhoot up ſtill in height, <lb/>and chieſly, becauſe they are defended from too much Sun and Wind, which <lb/>do check the growth of all Fruit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4387" xml:space="preserve">and ſo (no doubt) Fruit-trees, or Vines, <lb/>ſet upon a Wall, againſt the Sun, between Elbows and Butriſſes of Stone, <lb/>ripen more than upon a plain Wall.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4388" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div525" type="float" level="2" n="74"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0133-07" xlink:href="note-0133-07a" xml:space="preserve">472.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4389" xml:space="preserve">It is ſaid, that if Potado Roots be ſet in a Pot filled with Earth, and then <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0133-08a" xlink:href="note-0133-08"/> the Pot with Earth be ſet likewiſe within the Ground, ſome two or three <lb/>inches, the Roots will grow greater than ordinary. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4390" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for <lb/>that having Earth enough within the Pot to nouriſh them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4391" xml:space="preserve">and then being <lb/>ſtopped by the bottom of the Pot from putting ſtrings downward, they <lb/>muſt needs grow greater in breadth and thickneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4392" xml:space="preserve">And it may be <pb o="100" file="0134" n="134" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> that all Seeds, Roots, potted, and ſo ſet into the Earth, will proſper the <lb/>better.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4393" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div526" type="float" level="2" n="75"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0133-08" xlink:href="note-0133-08a" xml:space="preserve">473.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4394" xml:space="preserve">The cutting off the Leaves of Raddiſh, or other Roots, in the beginning <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0134-01a" xlink:href="note-0134-01"/> of Winter before they wither; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4395" xml:space="preserve">and covering again the Root, ſomething <lb/>high with Earth, will preſerve the Root all Winter, and make it bigger in <lb/>the Spring following, as hath been partly touched before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4396" xml:space="preserve">So that there is <lb/>a double uſe of this cutting off the Leaves: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4397" xml:space="preserve">For in Plants, where the Root is <lb/>the Eſculent, as Raddiſh, and Parſnips, it will make the Root the greater; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4398" xml:space="preserve">and ſo it will do to the Heads of Onions, and where the Fruit is the Eſculent, <lb/>by ftrengthning the Root, it will make the Fruit alſo the greater.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4399" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div527" type="float" level="2" n="76"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0134-01" xlink:href="note-0134-01a" xml:space="preserve">474.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4400" xml:space="preserve">It is an Experiment of great pleaſure to make the Leaves of ſhaddy <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0134-02a" xlink:href="note-0134-02"/> Tre@s, larger than ordinary. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4401" xml:space="preserve">It hath been tryed (for certain) that a Cions <lb/>of a Weech Elm, grafted upon the ſtock of an ordinary Elm, will put forth <lb/>Leaves, almoſt as broad as the brim of ones Hat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4402" xml:space="preserve">And it is very likely, <lb/>that as in Fruit-Trees, the Graft maketh a greater Fruit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4403" xml:space="preserve">ſo in Trees that <lb/>bear no Fruit, it will make the greater Leaves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4404" xml:space="preserve">It would be tryed therefore <lb/>in Trees of that kinde chiefly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4405" xml:space="preserve">as Birch, Aſh, Willow, and eſpecially the <lb/>Shining Willow, which they call Swallow-Tail, becauſe of the pleaſure of the <lb/>Leaf.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4406" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div528" type="float" level="2" n="77"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0134-02" xlink:href="note-0134-02a" xml:space="preserve">475.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4407" xml:space="preserve">The Barrenneſs of Trees by accident (beſi@es the weakneſs of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0134-03a" xlink:href="note-0134-03"/> Soil Seed, or Root, and the injury of the Weather) coming either of their <lb/>overgrowing with Moſs, or their being hide bound, or their planting too <lb/>deep, or by iſſuing of the Sap too much into the Leaves: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4408" xml:space="preserve">For all theſe three <lb/>are remedies mentioned before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4409" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div529" type="float" level="2" n="78"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0134-03" xlink:href="note-0134-03a" xml:space="preserve">476.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4410" xml:space="preserve">WE ſee that in Living Creatures that have Male and Female, there is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0134-04a" xlink:href="note-0134-04"/> copulation of ſeveral kindes, and ſo Compound Creatures; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4411" xml:space="preserve">as the <lb/>Mule, that is generated betwixt the Horſe and Aß; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4412" xml:space="preserve">and ſome other <lb/>Compounds which we call Monſters, though more rare: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4413" xml:space="preserve">And it is held, <lb/>that that Proverb, Africa ſemper aliquid Monſtri parit, cometh, for that the <lb/>Fountains of Waters there being rare, divers ſorts of Beaſts come from <lb/>ſeveral parts to drink, and ſo being refreſhed fall to couple, and many <lb/>times with ſeveral kindes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4414" xml:space="preserve">The compounding or mixture of Kindes in <lb/>Plants is not found out; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4415" xml:space="preserve">which nevertheleſs, if it be poſſible is more at <lb/>command than that of Living Creatures, for that their luſt requireth a <lb/>voluntary motion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4416" xml:space="preserve">wherefore it were one of the moſt notable Experiments <lb/>touching Plants, to finde it out, for ſo you may have great variety of now <lb/>Fruits, and flowers yet unknown. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4417" xml:space="preserve">Grafting doth it not, that mendeth the <lb/>Fruit, or doubleth the Flowers, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4418" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4419" xml:space="preserve">But it hath not the power to make a <lb/>new Kind. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4420" xml:space="preserve">For the Cions ever over-ruleth the Stock.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4421" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div530" type="float" level="2" n="79"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0134-04" xlink:href="note-0134-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Compound <lb/>Fruits and <lb/>Flowers.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4422" xml:space="preserve">It hath been ſet down by one of the Ancient, That if you take two <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0134-05a" xlink:href="note-0134-05"/> Twigs of ſeveral Fruit Trees, and flat them on the ſides, and then binde <lb/>them cloſe together, and ſet them in the ground, they will come up in one <lb/>Stock; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4423" xml:space="preserve">but yet they will put forth in their ſeveral Fruits without any com-<lb/>mixture in the Fruit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4424" xml:space="preserve">Wherein note (by the way) that Unity of Continu-<lb/>ance, is eaſier to procure, than Unity of Species. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4425" xml:space="preserve">It is reported alſo, That <lb/>Vines of Red and White Grapes, being ſet in the Ground, and the upper <lb/>parts being flatted, and bound cloſe together, will put forth Grapes of the <lb/>ſeveral colours, upon the ſame Branch; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4426" xml:space="preserve">and Grape-ſtones of ſeveral co-<lb/>lours within the ſame Grape: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4427" xml:space="preserve">But the more, after a year or two, the unity <lb/>(as it ſeemeth) growing more perfect. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4428" xml:space="preserve">And this will likewiſe help, if from <pb o="101" file="0135" n="135" rhead="Century V."/> the firſt uniting, they be often watred; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4429" xml:space="preserve">for all moiſture helpeth to Union. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4430" xml:space="preserve">And it is preſcribed alſo to binde the Bud, as ſoon as it cometh forth, as we<unsure/>ll <lb/>as the Stock, at the leaſt for a time.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4431" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div531" type="float" level="2" n="80"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0134-05" xlink:href="note-0134-05a" xml:space="preserve">477.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4432" xml:space="preserve">They report, that divers Seeds put into a Clout, and laid in Earth well <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0135-01a" xlink:href="note-0135-01"/> dunged, will put up Plants contiguous; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4433" xml:space="preserve">which (after wards) being bound in, <lb/>their Shoots will incorporate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4434" xml:space="preserve">The like is ſaid of Kernels put into a Bottle, <lb/>with a narrow mouth, filled with Earth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4435" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div532" type="float" level="2" n="81"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0135-01" xlink:href="note-0135-01a" xml:space="preserve">478.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4436" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that young Trees of ſeveral kindes ſet contiguous with-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0135-02a" xlink:href="note-0135-02"/> out any binding and very oſten watred in a fruitful ground, with the very <lb/>luxury of the Trees, will incorporate and grow together. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4437" xml:space="preserve">Which ſeemeth <lb/>to me the likelieſt means that hath been propounded; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4438" xml:space="preserve">for that the binding <lb/>doth hinder the natural ſwelling of the Tree, which, while it is in motion, <lb/>doth better unite.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4439" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div533" type="float" level="2" n="82"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0135-02" xlink:href="note-0135-02a" xml:space="preserve">479.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4440" xml:space="preserve">THere are many ancient and received Traditions and Obſervations, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0135-03a" xlink:href="note-0135-03"/> touching the Sympathy and Antipathy of Plants; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4441" xml:space="preserve">for that ſome will <lb/>thrive beſt growing near others, which they impute to Sympathy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4442" xml:space="preserve">and ſome <lb/>worſe which they impute to Antipathy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4443" xml:space="preserve">But theſe are idle and ignorant con-<lb/>ceits, and forſake the true indication of the cauſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4444" xml:space="preserve">as the moſt part of Ex-<lb/>periments, that concern Sympathies and Antipathies do. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4445" xml:space="preserve">For as to Plants, neither <lb/>is there any ſuch ſecret Friendſhip, or Hatred, as they imagine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4446" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>if we ſhould be content to call it Sympathy and Antipathy, it is utterly miſtaken; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4447" xml:space="preserve">for their Sympathy is an Antipathy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4448" xml:space="preserve">and their Antipathy is a Sympathy: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4449" xml:space="preserve">For it is <lb/>thus, whereſoever one Plant draweth ſuch a particular Juyce out of the <lb/>Earth, as it qualifieth the Earth, ſo as that Juyce which remaineth is fit for <lb/>the other Plant, there the Neighborhood doth good. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4450" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the nouriſh-<lb/>ments are contrary, or ſeveral: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4451" xml:space="preserve">But where two Plants draw (much) the <lb/>ſame Juyce, there the Neighborhood hurteth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4452" xml:space="preserve">for the one deceiveth the <lb/>other.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4453" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div534" type="float" level="2" n="83"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0135-03" xlink:href="note-0135-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Sympathy and <lb/>Antipathy of <lb/>Plants.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4454" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, therefore, all Plants that do draw much nouriſhment from the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0135-04a" xlink:href="note-0135-04"/> Earth, and ſo ſoak the Earth, and exhauſt it, hurt all things that grow by <lb/>them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4455" xml:space="preserve">as great Trees, (eſpecially Aſhes) and ſuch Trees, as ſpred their <lb/>Roots near the top of the ground. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4456" xml:space="preserve">So the Cole wort is not an enemy (though <lb/>that were anciently received) to the Vine onely; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4457" xml:space="preserve">but it is an enemy to any <lb/>other Plant, becauſe it draweth ſtrongly the fatteſt Juyce of the Earth. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4458" xml:space="preserve">And if it be true, that the Vine, when it creepeth near the Cole wort, will turn <lb/>away: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4459" xml:space="preserve">This may be, becauſe there it findeth worſe nouriſhment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4460" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>though the Root be where it was, yet (I doubt) the Plant will bend as it <lb/>nouriſheth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4461" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div535" type="float" level="2" n="84"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0135-04" xlink:href="note-0135-04a" xml:space="preserve">480.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4462" xml:space="preserve">Where Plants are of ſeveral Natures, and draw ſeveral Juyces out of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0135-05a" xlink:href="note-0135-05"/> the Earth, there as hath been ſaid) the one ſet by the other helpeth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4463" xml:space="preserve">Asit <lb/>is ſet down by divers of the Ancients, that Rew doth profper much, and be-<lb/>cometh ſtronger, if it be ſet by a Fig-Tree: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4464" xml:space="preserve">Which (we conceive) is cauſed <lb/>not by reaſon of Friendſhip, but by Extraction of contrary Juyces; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4465" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>one drawing Juyce fit to reſult ſweet, the other bitter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4466" xml:space="preserve">So they have ſet down <lb/>likewiſe, that a Roſe ſet by Garlick is ſweeter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4467" xml:space="preserve">which likewiſe may be, becauſe <lb/>the more Fetide Juyce of the Earth goeth into the Garlick, and the more <lb/>oderate into the Roſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4468" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div536" type="float" level="2" n="85"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0135-05" xlink:href="note-0135-05a" xml:space="preserve">481.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4469" xml:space="preserve">This we ſee manifeſtly, That there be certain Corn-Flowers which come <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0135-06a" xlink:href="note-0135-06"/> ſeldom or never in other places, unleſs they be ſet, but onely amongſt <pb o="102" file="0136" n="136" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Corn: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4470" xml:space="preserve">As the blew Bottle a kinde of yellow Mary-Gold, Wilde Poppey, <lb/>and Fumitory. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4471" xml:space="preserve">Neither can this be by reaſon of the culture of the Ground, <lb/>by Ploughing or Furrowing, as ſome Herbs and Flowers will grow but in <lb/>Ditches new caſt, for if the ground lye fallow and unſown, they will not <lb/>come: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4472" xml:space="preserve">So as it ſhould ſeem to be the Corn that qualifieth the Earth, and pre-<lb/>pareth it for their growth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4473" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div537" type="float" level="2" n="86"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0135-06" xlink:href="note-0135-06a" xml:space="preserve">482.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4474" xml:space="preserve">This obſervation if it holdeth (as it is very probable) is of great uſe, for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0136-01a" xlink:href="note-0136-01"/> the meliorating of taſte in Fruits, and Eſculent Herbs, and of the ſent of <lb/>Flowers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4475" xml:space="preserve">For I do not doubt, but if the Fig-tree do make the Rew more <lb/>ſtrong and bitter, (as the Ancients have noted) good ſtore of Rew planted <lb/>about the Fig-tree, will make the Fig more ſweet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4476" xml:space="preserve">Now the taſtes that do <lb/>moſt offend in Fruits, and Herbs, and Roots, are bitter, harſh, ſour, and watriſh, <lb/>or flaſhy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4477" xml:space="preserve">It were good therefore to make the Tryals following.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4478" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div538" type="float" level="2" n="87"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-01" xlink:href="note-0136-01a" xml:space="preserve">483.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4479" xml:space="preserve">Take Wormwood or Rew, and ſet it near Lettuce, or Coleflory, or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0136-02a" xlink:href="note-0136-02"/> Artichoak; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4480" xml:space="preserve">and ſee whether the Lettuce, or the Coleflory, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4481" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4482" xml:space="preserve">become not <lb/>the ſweeter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4483" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div539" type="float" level="2" n="88"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-02" xlink:href="note-0136-02a" xml:space="preserve">484.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4484" xml:space="preserve">Take a Service-tree, or a Cornelian-tree, or an Elder-tree, which we <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0136-03a" xlink:href="note-0136-03"/> know have Fruits of harſh and binding Juyce, and ſet them near a Vine or <lb/>Fig tree, and ſee whether the Grapes or Figs will not be the ſweeter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4485" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div540" type="float" level="2" n="89"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-03" xlink:href="note-0136-03a" xml:space="preserve">485.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4486" xml:space="preserve">Take Cucumbers or Pumpions, and ſet them (here and there) amongſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0136-04a" xlink:href="note-0136-04"/> Musk-Melons, and ſee whether the Melons will not be more winy, and better <lb/>taſted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4487" xml:space="preserve">Set Cucumbers (like wiſe) amongſt Raddiſh, and ſee whether the <lb/>Raddiſh will not be made the more biting.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4488" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div541" type="float" level="2" n="90"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-04" xlink:href="note-0136-04a" xml:space="preserve">486.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4489" xml:space="preserve">Take Sorrel and ſet it amongſt Raſps, and ſee whether the Raſps will not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0136-05a" xlink:href="note-0136-05"/> be the ſweeter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4490" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div542" type="float" level="2" n="91"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-05" xlink:href="note-0136-05a" xml:space="preserve">487.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4491" xml:space="preserve">Take Common Bryar, and ſet it amongſt Violets or Wall-flowers, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0136-06a" xlink:href="note-0136-06"/> ſee whether it will not make the Violets or Wall-flowers ſweeter, and leſs <lb/>earthy in their ſmell. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4492" xml:space="preserve">So ſet Lettuce or Cucumbers, amongſt Roſemary or <lb/>Bays, and ſee whether the Roſemary or Bays, will not be the more oderate or <lb/>aromatical.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4493" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div543" type="float" level="2" n="92"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-06" xlink:href="note-0136-06a" xml:space="preserve">488.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4494" xml:space="preserve">Contrariwiſe, you muſt take heed how you ſet Herbs together that draw <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0136-07a" xlink:href="note-0136-07"/> much the like Juyce. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4495" xml:space="preserve">And therefore I think Roſemary will leeſe in ſweetneſs, <lb/>if it be ſet with Lavender or Bays, or the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4496" xml:space="preserve">Butyer, if you will correct the <lb/>ſtrength of an Herb, you ſhall do well to ſet other like Herbs by him, to take <lb/>him down; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4497" xml:space="preserve">and if you would ſet Tanſey by Angelica, it may be the Ange-<lb/>lica would be the weaker and fitter for mixture in perfume. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4498" xml:space="preserve">And if you <lb/>ſhould ſet Rew by Common Wormwood, it may be, the Wormwood <lb/>would turn to be liker Roman Wormwood.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4499" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div544" type="float" level="2" n="93"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-07" xlink:href="note-0136-07a" xml:space="preserve">489.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4500" xml:space="preserve">This Axiom is of large extent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4501" xml:space="preserve">and thereſore would be ſevered, and re-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0136-08a" xlink:href="note-0136-08"/> fined by Tryal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4502" xml:space="preserve">Neither muſt you expect to have a groſs difference by this <lb/>kinde of Culture, but onely further Perfection.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4503" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div545" type="float" level="2" n="94"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-08" xlink:href="note-0136-08a" xml:space="preserve">490.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4504" xml:space="preserve">Tryal would be alſo made in Herbs, Poyſonous, and Purgative, whoſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0136-09a" xlink:href="note-0136-09"/> ill quality (perhaps) may be diſcharged or attempted, by ſetting ſtronger <lb/>Poyſons or Purgatives by them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4505" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div546" type="float" level="2" n="95"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-09" xlink:href="note-0136-09a" xml:space="preserve">491.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4506" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That the Shrub called Our Ladies Seal, (which is a kinde <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0136-10a" xlink:href="note-0136-10"/> of Briony) and Coleworts, ſet near together, one or both will die. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4507" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe is, for that they be both great Depredators of the Earth, and one of <lb/>them ſtarveth the other. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4508" xml:space="preserve">The like is ſaid of Reed, and a Brake, both which <lb/>are ſucculent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4509" xml:space="preserve">and therefore the one deceiveth the other. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4510" xml:space="preserve">And the like of <lb/>Hemlock and Rew, both which draw ſtrong Juyces.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4511" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div547" type="float" level="2" n="96"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-10" xlink:href="note-0136-10a" xml:space="preserve">492.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4512" xml:space="preserve">Some of the Ancients, and like wiſe divers of the Modern Writers, that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0136-11a" xlink:href="note-0136-11"/> have labored in Natural Magick, have noted a Sympathy between the Sun, <pb o="103" file="0137" n="137" rhead="Century V."/> Moon, and ſome principal Stars, and certain Herbs, and Plants. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4513" xml:space="preserve">And ſo <lb/>they have denominated ſome Herbs Solar, and ſome Lunar, and ſuch like <lb/>toys put into great words. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4514" xml:space="preserve">It is manifeſt, that there are ſome Flowers that <lb/>have reſpect to the Sun in two kindes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4515" xml:space="preserve">the one by opening and ſhutting, and <lb/>the other by bowing and inclining the Head. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4516" xml:space="preserve">For Mary golds, Tulippas, Pim-<lb/>pernel, and indeed moſt flowers do open or ſpred their Leaves abroad, when <lb/>the Sun ſhineth ſerene and fair: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4517" xml:space="preserve">And again, (in ſome part) cloſe them, or <lb/>gather them in ward, either to ward night, or when the Sky is overcaſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4518" xml:space="preserve">Of <lb/>this, there needeth no ſuch ſolemn Reaſon to be aſſigned, as to ſay, That they <lb/>rejoyce at the preſence of the Sun, and mourn at the abſence thereof. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4519" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>it is nothing elſe, but a little loading of the Leaves, and ſwelling them at the <lb/>bottom, with the moiſture of the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4520" xml:space="preserve">whereas the dry Air doth extend them. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4521" xml:space="preserve">And they make it a piece of the wonder, That Garden Claver will hide the <lb/>Stalk, when the Sun ſheweth bright, which is nothing but a full expanſion <lb/>of the Leaves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4522" xml:space="preserve">for the bowing and inclining the Head, it is found in the <lb/>great Flower of the Sun, in Marygolds, Wartwort, Mallow flowers, and <lb/>others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4523" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is ſome what more obſcure than the former: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4524" xml:space="preserve">But I take <lb/>it to be no other, but that the part, againſt which the Sun beateth, waxeth <lb/>more faint and flaccide in the Stalk, and thereby leſs able to ſupport the <lb/>Flower.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4525" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div548" type="float" level="2" n="97"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-11" xlink:href="note-0136-11a" xml:space="preserve">493.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4526" xml:space="preserve">What a little Moiſture will do in Vegetables, even though they be dead, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0137-01a" xlink:href="note-0137-01"/> and ſevered from the Earth, appeareth well in the Experiment of Juglers. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4527" xml:space="preserve">They take the Beard of an Oat, which (if you mark it well) is wreathed at <lb/>the bottom, and one ſmooth entire ſtraw at the top. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4528" xml:space="preserve">They take onely the <lb/>part that is wreathed, and cut off the other, leaving the Beard half the <lb/>bredth of a finger in length. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4529" xml:space="preserve">Then they make a little Croſs of a Quill long-<lb/>ways, of that part of the Quill which hath the Pith; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4530" xml:space="preserve">and Croſs-ways of <lb/>that piece of the Quill without Pith, the whole Croſs being the bredth of a <lb/>finger high: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4531" xml:space="preserve">Then they prick the bottom where the Pith is, and thereinto <lb/>they put the Oaten-Beard, leaving half of it ſticking forth of the Quill: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4532" xml:space="preserve">Then <lb/>they take a little white Box of Wood to deceive men, as if ſome what in the <lb/>Box did work the feat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4533" xml:space="preserve">in which, with a Pin, they make a little hole, enough <lb/>to take Beard, but not to let the Croſs ſink down, but to ſtick: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4534" xml:space="preserve">Then like-<lb/>wiſe, by way of Impoſture, they make a queſtion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4535" xml:space="preserve">As, who is the faireſt <lb/>Woman in the company? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4536" xml:space="preserve">or who hath a Glove or Card? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4537" xml:space="preserve">and cauſe an-<lb/>other to name divers perſons; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4538" xml:space="preserve">and upon every naming, they ſtick the Croſs <lb/>in the Box, having firſt put it towards their Mouth, as if they charmed it, <lb/>and the Croſs ſtirreth not: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4539" xml:space="preserve">But when they come to the perſon that they <lb/>would take, as they hold the Croſs to their Mouth, they touch the Beard <lb/>with the tip of their Tongue, and wet it, and ſo ſtick the Croſs in the Box, <lb/>and then you ſhall ſee it turn finely and ſoftly, three or four turns, which is <lb/>cauſed by the untwining of the Beard by the moiſture. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4540" xml:space="preserve">You may ſee it <lb/>more evidently if you ſtick the Croſs between your fingers, inſtead of the <lb/>Box: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4541" xml:space="preserve">And therefore you may ſee, that this Motion, which is effected by <lb/>ſo little wet, is ſtronger than the cloſing or bending of the Head of a Mary-<lb/>gold.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4542" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div549" type="float" level="2" n="98"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0137-01" xlink:href="note-0137-01a" xml:space="preserve">494.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4543" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by ſome, That the Herb called Roſa-Solis (whereof they <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0137-02a" xlink:href="note-0137-02"/> make Strong-waters) will at the Noon-day, when the Sun ſhineth hot and <lb/>bright, have a great Dew upon it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4544" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, that the right name is <lb/>Ros Solis; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4545" xml:space="preserve">which they impute to a delight and ſympathy that it hath with <lb/>the Sun. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4546" xml:space="preserve">Men favor wonders. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4547" xml:space="preserve">It were good firſt to be ſure, That the <lb/>Dew that is found upon it, be not the Dew of the Morning preſerved, <pb o="104" file="0138" n="138" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> when the Dew of other Herbs is breathed away: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4548" xml:space="preserve">For it hath a ſmooth and <lb/>thick Leaf that doth not diſcharge the Dew ſo ſoon as other Herbs, that are <lb/>more Spungy and Porous. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4549" xml:space="preserve">And it may be Purſlane, or ſome other Herb doth <lb/>the like, and is not marked. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4550" xml:space="preserve">But if it be ſo, that it hath more Dew at Noon <lb/>than in the Morning, then ſure it ſeemeth to be an exudation of the Herb it <lb/>ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4551" xml:space="preserve">As Plums ſweat when they are ſet into the Oven: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4552" xml:space="preserve">For you will not (I <lb/>hope) think, that it is like Gideons Fleece of Wooll, that the Dew ſhould fall <lb/>upon that, and no whereelſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4553" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div550" type="float" level="2" n="99"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0137-02" xlink:href="note-0137-02a" xml:space="preserve">495.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4554" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that the Hony-dews are found more upon Oak Leaves, than <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0138-01a" xlink:href="note-0138-01"/> upon Ash, or Beech, or the like: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4555" xml:space="preserve">But whether any cauſe be from the Leaf it <lb/>ſelf, to concoct the Dew; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4556" xml:space="preserve">or whether it be onely, that the Leaf is cloſe and <lb/>ſmooth (and therefore drinketh not in the Dew, but preſerveth it) maybe <lb/>doubted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4557" xml:space="preserve">It would be well inquired, whether Manna the Drug, doth fall <lb/>but upon certain Herbs or Leaves onely. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4558" xml:space="preserve">Flowers that have deep Sockets, do <lb/>gather in the bottom, a kinde of Honey; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4559" xml:space="preserve">as Honey-Suckles (both the Woodbine, <lb/>and the Trifoil) Lillies, and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4560" xml:space="preserve">And in them certainly the Flower beareth <lb/>part with the Dew.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4561" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div551" type="float" level="2" n="100"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0138-01" xlink:href="note-0138-01a" xml:space="preserve">496.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4562" xml:space="preserve">The Experience is, That the Froth, which they call Woodſare, (being <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0138-02a" xlink:href="note-0138-02"/> like a kinde of Spittle is found but upon certain Herbs, and thoſe hot ones; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4563" xml:space="preserve">as Lavender, Lavender-cotton, Sage, Hyſſope, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4564" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4565" xml:space="preserve">Of the cauſe of this enquire <lb/>further, for it ſeemeth a ſecret. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4566" xml:space="preserve">There falleth alſo Mildew upon Corn, and <lb/>ſmutteth it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4567" xml:space="preserve">But it may be, that the ſame falleth alſo upon other Herbs, and <lb/>is not obſerved.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4568" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div552" type="float" level="2" n="101"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0138-02" xlink:href="note-0138-02a" xml:space="preserve">497.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4569" xml:space="preserve">It were good, Tryal were made, whether the great conſent between <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0138-03a" xlink:href="note-0138-03"/> Plants and Water, which is a principal nouriſhment of them, will make an <lb/>Attraction or Diſtance, and not at touch onely. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4570" xml:space="preserve">Therefore take a Veſſel, <lb/>and in the middle of it make a falſe bottom of courſe Canvas; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4571" xml:space="preserve">fill it with <lb/>Earth above the Canvas, and let not the Earth be watred, then ſow ſome <lb/>good Seeds in that Earth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4572" xml:space="preserve">But under the Canvas, ſome half a foot in <lb/>the bottom of the Veſſel, lay a great Spunge, thorowly<unsure/> wet in Water, and <lb/>let it lie ſome ten days; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4573" xml:space="preserve">and ſee whether the Seeds will ſprout, and the Earth <lb/>become more moiſt, and the Spunge more dry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4574" xml:space="preserve">The Experiment for merly <lb/>mentioned of the Cucumber, creeping to the Pot of Water, is far ſtranger <lb/>than this.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4575" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div553" type="float" level="2" n="102"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0138-03" xlink:href="note-0138-03a" xml:space="preserve">498.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4576" xml:space="preserve">THe altering of the Sent, Colour, or Taſte of Fruit, by Infuſing, Mixing, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0138-04a" xlink:href="note-0138-04"/> or Letting into the Bark, or Root of the Tree, Herb, or Flower, any <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0138-05a" xlink:href="note-0138-05"/> Coloured, Aromatical, or Medicinal Subſtance, are but fancies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4577" xml:space="preserve">The caufe <lb/>is, for that thoſe things have paſſed their period, and nouriſh not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4578" xml:space="preserve">and all <lb/>alteration of Vegetables, in thoſe qualities, muſt be by ſome what that is apt <lb/>to go into the nouriſhment of the Plant. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4579" xml:space="preserve">But this is true, that where Kine <lb/>feed upon Wilde Garlick, their Milk taſted plainly of the Garlick. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4580" xml:space="preserve">And the <lb/>Fleſh of Muttons is better taſted where the Sheep feed upon Wilde Thyme, <lb/>and other wholſome Herbs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4581" xml:space="preserve">Galen alſo ſpeaketh of the curing of the Scirrus <lb/>of the Liver, by Milk of a Cow, that feedeth upon certain Herbs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4582" xml:space="preserve">and Honey <lb/>in Spain ſmelleth (apparently) of the Roſemary, or Orenge, from whence the <lb/>Beegather it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4583" xml:space="preserve">And there is an old Tradition of a Maiden that was fed with <lb/>Napellus, (which is counted the ſtrongeſt poyſon of all Vegetables) which <lb/>with uſe, did not hurt the Maid, but poyſoned ſome thathad carnal com-<lb/>pany with her. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4584" xml:space="preserve">So it is obſerved by ſome, that there is a vertuous BeZoar, <lb/>and another without vertue, which appear to the ſhew alike; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4585" xml:space="preserve">but the ver-<lb/>tuous is taken from the Beaſt, that feedeth upon the Mountains, where <pb o="105" file="0139" n="139" rhead="Century V."/> there are Theriacel Herbs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4586" xml:space="preserve">and that without vertue, from thoſe that fed in <lb/>the Valleys, where no ſuch Herbs are. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4587" xml:space="preserve">Thus far I am of opinion, that as <lb/>ſteeped Wines and Beers are very Medici@al, and likewiſe Bread tempered <lb/>with divers powders; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4588" xml:space="preserve">ſo of Meat alſo, (as Flesh, Fish, Milk, and Eggs) that <lb/>they may be made of great uſe for Medicine and Diet, if the Beaſt, Fowl, <lb/>or Fish, be fed with a ſpecial kinde of food, fit for the diſeaſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4589" xml:space="preserve">It were a dan-<lb/>gerous thing alſo for ſecret empoyſonments. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4590" xml:space="preserve">But whether it may be ap-<lb/>plied unto Plants, and Herbs, I doubt more, becauſe the nouriſhment of <lb/>them is a more common Juyce; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4591" xml:space="preserve">which is hardly capable of any ſpecial <lb/>quality until the Plant do aſſimilate it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4592" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div554" type="float" level="2" n="103"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0138-04" xlink:href="note-0138-04a" xml:space="preserve">499.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0138-05" xlink:href="note-0138-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Making herbs <lb/>and fruits <lb/>Medicinable.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4593" xml:space="preserve">But leſt our incredulity may prejudice any profitable operations in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0139-01a" xlink:href="note-0139-01"/> this kinde (eſpecially ſince many of the Ancients have ſet them down) we <lb/>think good briefly to p@opound the four Means, which they have deviſed of <lb/>making Plants Medicinable. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4594" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is by ſlitting of the Root, and infuſing <lb/>into it the Medicine, as Hellebore, Opium, Scammomy, Triacle &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4595" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4596" xml:space="preserve">and then <lb/>binding it up again. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4597" xml:space="preserve">This ſeemeth to me the leaſt probable, becauſe the Root <lb/>draweth immediately from the Earth, and ſo the nouriſhment is the more <lb/>common and leſs qualified; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4598" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, it is a long time in going up, ere <lb/>it come to the Fruit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4599" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond way is, to perforate the Body of the Tree, <lb/>and there to infuſe the Medicine, it hath the leſs way, and the leſs time to go <lb/>up. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4600" xml:space="preserve">The third is, the ſteeping of the Seed or Kernel in ſome Liquor <lb/>wherein the Medicine is infuſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4601" xml:space="preserve">which I have little opinion of, becauſe <lb/>the Seed (I doubt) will not draw the parts of the matter which have the <lb/>propriety; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4602" xml:space="preserve">but it will be far the more likely, if you mingle the Medicine <lb/>with Dung, for that the Seed, naturally drawing the moiſture of the Dung, <lb/>may call in withal ſome of the propriety. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4603" xml:space="preserve">The fourth is, the Watering of <lb/>the Plant oft, with an infuſion of the Medicine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4604" xml:space="preserve">This, in one reſpect may <lb/>have more force than the reſt, becauſe the Medication is oft renewed, <lb/>whereas the reſt are applied, but at one time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4605" xml:space="preserve">and therefore the vertue may <lb/>the ſooner vaniſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4606" xml:space="preserve">But ſtill I doubt, that the Root is ſomewhat too ſtubborn <lb/>to receive thoſe fine Impreſſions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4607" xml:space="preserve">and beſides (as I have ſaid before) they <lb/>have a great Hill to go up. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4608" xml:space="preserve">I judge therefore the likelieſt way to be the <lb/>perforation of the Body of the Tree, in ſeveral places, one above the other, <lb/>and the filling of the Holes with Dung mingled with the Medicine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4609" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>the Watring of thoſe Lumps of Dung, with Squirts of an Infuſion of the <lb/>Medicine in dunged Water, once in three or four days.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4610" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div555" type="float" level="2" n="104"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0139-01" xlink:href="note-0139-01a" xml:space="preserve">500.</note> </div> <pb file="0140" n="140"/> <pb o="107" file="0141" n="141"/> <figure> <image file="0141-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0141-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div557" type="section" level="1" n="27"> <head xml:id="echoid-head39" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL <lb/>HISTORY.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head40" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Century VI.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4611" xml:space="preserve">OUr Experiments we take care to be (as we have often <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0141-01a" xlink:href="note-0141-01"/> ſaid,) either Experimenta Fractifera, or Lucifera; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4612" xml:space="preserve">either <lb/>of Uſe, or of Diſcovery: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4613" xml:space="preserve">For we hate Impoſtures, <lb/>and deſpiſe Curioſities. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4614" xml:space="preserve">Yet becauſe we muſt apply <lb/>our ſelves ſome what to others, we will ſet down ſome <lb/>Curioſities touching Plants.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4615" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div557" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0141-01" xlink:href="note-0141-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Curioſities <lb/>about Fruits <lb/>and Plants.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4616" xml:space="preserve">It is a Curioſity to have ſeveral Fruits upon one Tree; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4617" xml:space="preserve">and the more, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0141-02a" xlink:href="note-0141-02"/> when ſome of them come early, and ſome come late: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4618" xml:space="preserve">So that you may <lb/>have, upon the ſame Tree, ripe Fruits all Summer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4619" xml:space="preserve">This is eaſily done by <lb/>Grafting of ſeveral Cions upon ſeveral Boughs of a Stock, in a good ground, <lb/>plentifully fed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4620" xml:space="preserve">So you may have all kindes of Cherries, and all kindes of <lb/>Plumbs, and Peaches, and Apricots upon one Tree: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4621" xml:space="preserve">But, I conceive the <lb/>Diverſity of Fruits muſt be ſuch, as will graft upon the ſame Stock. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4622" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>therefore, I doubt, whether you can have Apples, or Pears, or Orenges, <lb/>upon the ſanie Stock, upon which you graft Plumbs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4623" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div558" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0141-02" xlink:href="note-0141-02a" xml:space="preserve">501.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4624" xml:space="preserve">It is a Curioſity to have Fruits of divers Shapes and Figures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4625" xml:space="preserve">This is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0141-03a" xlink:href="note-0141-03"/> eaſily performed by Moulding them, when the Fruit is young, with Moulds <lb/>of Earth or Wood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4626" xml:space="preserve">So you may have Cucumbers, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4627" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4628" xml:space="preserve">as long as a <lb/>Cane, or as round as a Sphere, or formed like a Croſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4629" xml:space="preserve">You may have <lb/>alſo Apples in the form of Pears or Lemmons. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4630" xml:space="preserve">You may have alſo Fruit <lb/>in more accurate Figures; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4631" xml:space="preserve">as we ſaid of Men, Beaſts, or Birds, according <lb/>as you make the Moulds, where in you muſt underſtand, that you make <lb/>the Mould big enough to contain the whole Fruit, when it is grown to the <lb/>greateſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4632" xml:space="preserve">for elſe you will choak the ſpreding of the Fruit, which other-<lb/>wiſe would ſpred it ſelf, and fill the Concave, and ſo be turned into the ſhape <lb/>deſired; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4633" xml:space="preserve">as it is in Mould-works of Liquid things. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4634" xml:space="preserve">Some doubt may be con- <pb o="108" file="0142" n="142" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> ceived, that the keeping of the Sun from the Fruit, may hurt it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4635" xml:space="preserve">But there <lb/>isordinary experience of Fruit that gro weth covered. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4636" xml:space="preserve">Quare alſo, whether <lb/>ſome ſmall holes may not be made in the Wood to let in the Sun. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4637" xml:space="preserve">And note, <lb/>that it were beſt to make the Moulds partible, glued, or cemented together, <lb/>that you may open them when you take out the Fruit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4638" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div559" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0141-03" xlink:href="note-0141-03a" xml:space="preserve">502.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4639" xml:space="preserve">It is a curioſity to have Inſeriptions or Engravings, in Fruit or Trees. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4640" xml:space="preserve">This <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0142-01a" xlink:href="note-0142-01"/> is eafily performed, by writing with a Needle, or Bodkin, or Knife, or the like, <lb/>when the Fruit or Trees are young; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4641" xml:space="preserve">for as they grow, ſo the Letters will <lb/>grow more large, and graphical.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4642" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div560" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0142-01" xlink:href="note-0142-01a" xml:space="preserve">503.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div562" type="section" level="1" n="28"> <head xml:id="echoid-head41" style="it" xml:space="preserve">--Teneriſque meos incidere Amores <lb/>Arboribus, creſcent illæ, creſcetis Amores.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4643" xml:space="preserve">You may have Trees apparelled with Flowers or Herbs by boring holes <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0142-02a" xlink:href="note-0142-02"/> in the Bodies of them, and putting into them Earth holpen with Muck, and <lb/>ſetting Seeds or Slips, of Violets, Stra wberries Wilde Time, Camomil, and ſuch <lb/>like in the Earth, wherein they do but grow in the Tree, as they do in Pots, <lb/>though (perhaps) with ſome feeding from the Trees. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4644" xml:space="preserve">As it would be tryed <lb/>alſo with Shoots of Vines, and Roots of Red-Roſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4645" xml:space="preserve">for it may be they being <lb/>of a more Ligneous Nature, will incorporate with the Tree it ſelf.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4646" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div562" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0142-02" xlink:href="note-0142-02a" xml:space="preserve">504.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4647" xml:space="preserve">It is an ordinary curioſity to form Trees and Shrubs (as Roſemary, Juni-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0142-03a" xlink:href="note-0142-03"/> per, and the like) into ſundry ſhapes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4648" xml:space="preserve">which is done by moulding them <lb/>within, and cutting them without. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4649" xml:space="preserve">But they are but lame things, being <lb/>too ſmall to keep Figure; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4650" xml:space="preserve">great Caſtles made of Trees upon Frames of <lb/>Timber, with Turrets and Arches, were anciently matters of magnifi-<lb/>cence.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4651" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div563" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0142-03" xlink:href="note-0142-03a" xml:space="preserve">505.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4652" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt curioſities, I ſhall place Colouration, though it be ſome what <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0142-04a" xlink:href="note-0142-04"/> better; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4653" xml:space="preserve">for Beauty in Flowers is their pre-eminence. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4654" xml:space="preserve">It is obſerved by ſome, <lb/>that Gilly-Flowers, Sweet-Williams, Violess, that are coloured, if they be neg-<lb/>lected, and neither Watered, nor new Moulded, nor Tranſplanted, will <lb/>turn White. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4655" xml:space="preserve">And it is probable, that the White, with much culture, may <lb/>turn coloured, for this is certain, That the white colour cometh oſ ſcarcity <lb/>of Nouriſhment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4656" xml:space="preserve">except in Flowers that are onely white, and admit no <lb/>other colours.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4657" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div564" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0142-04" xlink:href="note-0142-04a" xml:space="preserve">506.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4658" xml:space="preserve">It is good therefore to ſee what Natures do accompany what colours; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4659" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0142-05a" xlink:href="note-0142-05"/> for by that you ſhall have light, how to induce colours, by producing <lb/>thoſe Natures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4660" xml:space="preserve">Whites are more inodorate (for the moſt part) than Flowers <lb/>of the ſame kinde coloured; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4661" xml:space="preserve">as is found in ſingle White Violets, White <lb/>Roſes, White Gilly-Flowers, White Stock Gilly-Flowers, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4662" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4663" xml:space="preserve">We finde al-<lb/>ſo, that Bloſſoms of Trees that are White, are commonly inodorate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4664" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/>Cherries, Pears, Plums, whereas thoſe of Apples, Crabs, Almonds, and <lb/>Peaches, are bluſhy, and ſmell ſweet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4665" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the ſubſtance <lb/>that maketh the Flower, is of the thinneſt and fineſt of the Plant; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4666" xml:space="preserve">which alſo <lb/>maketh Flowers to be of ſo dainty Colours. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4667" xml:space="preserve">And if it be too ſparing and <lb/>thin, it attaineth no ſtrength of odor, except it be in ſuch Plants as are <lb/>very ſucculent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4668" xml:space="preserve">whereby they need rather to be ſcanted in their nouriſh-<lb/>ment, than repleniſhed, to have them ſweet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4669" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee in White Satyrion, <lb/>which is of a dainty ſmell; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4670" xml:space="preserve">and in Bean-flowers, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4671" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4672" xml:space="preserve">And again, if the <lb/>Plant be of Nature to put forth White Flowers onely, and thoſe not thin or <lb/>dry, they are commonly of rank and fulſome ſmell; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4673" xml:space="preserve">as May-Flowers and <lb/>White Lillies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4674" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div565" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0142-05" xlink:href="note-0142-05a" xml:space="preserve">507.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4675" xml:space="preserve">Contrariwiſe, in Berries, the White is commonly more delicate and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0142-06a" xlink:href="note-0142-06"/> ſweet in taſte, than the Coloured; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4676" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in white Grapes, in white <lb/>Raſpes, in white Strawberries, in white Currans, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4677" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4678" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is for that <pb o="109" file="0143" n="143" rhead="Century VI."/> the coloured are more juyced, and courſer juyced; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4679" xml:space="preserve">and therefore not ſo <lb/>well and equally concocted, but the white are better proportioned to the <lb/>diſgeſtion of the Plant.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4680" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div566" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0142-06" xlink:href="note-0142-06a" xml:space="preserve">508.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4681" xml:space="preserve">Butin Fruits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4682" xml:space="preserve">the white commonly is meaner, as in Pear-Plumbs, Damo-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0143-01a" xlink:href="note-0143-01"/> ſins, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4683" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4684" xml:space="preserve">and the choiceſt Plumbs are black; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4685" xml:space="preserve">the Mulberry, (which though <lb/>they call it a Berry, is a Fruit) is better the Black, than the White. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4686" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>Harveſt White-Plumb, is a baſe Plumb, and the Verdoccio and White Date-<lb/>Plumb, are no very good Plumbs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4687" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that they are all <lb/>over-watry: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4688" xml:space="preserve">Where as an higher Concoction is required for ſweetneſs, or <lb/>pleaſure of taſte; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4689" xml:space="preserve">and therefore all your dainty Plumbs, are a little dry, <lb/>and come from the Stone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4690" xml:space="preserve">as the Muskle-Plumb, the Damoſin-Plumb, the <lb/>Peach, the Apricot, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4691" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4692" xml:space="preserve">Yet ſome Fruits which grow not to be Black, <lb/>are of the Nature of Berries, ſweeteſtſuch as are paler, as the Cæur-Cherry, <lb/>which inclineth more to White, is ſweeter than the Red; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4693" xml:space="preserve">but the Egriot is <lb/>more ſowre.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4694" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div567" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0143-01" xlink:href="note-0143-01a" xml:space="preserve">509.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4695" xml:space="preserve">Take Gilliſtowers Seed, of one kinde of Gilliflowers (as of the Clove-Gilli-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0143-02a" xlink:href="note-0143-02"/> flower which is the moſt common) and ſow it, and there will come up <lb/>Gilliflowers, ſome of one colour, and ſome of another, caſually, as the <lb/>Seed meeteth with nouriſhment in the Earth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4696" xml:space="preserve">So that the Gardiners finde, <lb/>that they may have two or three Roots amongſt an hundred that are rare, <lb/>and of great price, as Purple Carnation of ſeveral ſtripes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4697" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is (no <lb/>doubt) that in Earth, though it be contiguous, and in one Bed there are very <lb/>ſeveral Juyces; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4698" xml:space="preserve">and as the Seed doth caſually meetwith them, ſo it cometh <lb/>forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4699" xml:space="preserve">And it is noted eſpecially, that thoſe which do come up Purple, do <lb/>always come up ſingle; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4700" xml:space="preserve">the Juyce, as it ſeemeth, not being able to ſuffice a <lb/>ſucculent colour, and a double Leaf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4701" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment of ſeveral colours, <lb/>coming up from one Seed, would be tryed alſo in Larks-foot, Monk-hood, <lb/>Poppy, and Hollioak.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4702" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div568" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0143-02" xlink:href="note-0143-02a" xml:space="preserve">510.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4703" xml:space="preserve">Few Fruits are coloured Red within; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4704" xml:space="preserve">the Queen-Apple is, and another <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0143-03a" xlink:href="note-0143-03"/> Apple, called the Roſe-Apple; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4705" xml:space="preserve">Mulberries likewiſe, and Grapes, though moſt to-<lb/>ward the skin. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4706" xml:space="preserve">There is a Peach alſo, that hath a circle of Red to wards the <lb/>ſtone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4707" xml:space="preserve">and the Fgriot-Cherry is ſomewhat Red within: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4708" xml:space="preserve">But no Pear, nor <lb/>Warden, nor Plumb, nor Apricot, although they have (many times) Red <lb/>ſides, are coloured Red within. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4709" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be enquired.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4710" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div569" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0143-03" xlink:href="note-0143-03a" xml:space="preserve">511.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4711" xml:space="preserve">The general colour of Planis is Green, which is a colour that no Flower <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0143-04a" xlink:href="note-0143-04"/> is of. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4712" xml:space="preserve">There is a greeniſh Prime-Roſe, but it is pale, and ſcarce a green; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4713" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>Leaves of ſome Trees turn a little Murrey or Reddiſh, and they be com-<lb/>monly young Leaves that do ſo; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4714" xml:space="preserve">as it is in Oaks and Vines. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4715" xml:space="preserve">And Haſle-<lb/>Leaves rot into a Yellow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4716" xml:space="preserve">and ſome Hollies had part of their Leaves Yellow, <lb/>that are (to all ſeeming) as freſh and ſhining as the Green. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4717" xml:space="preserve">I ſuppoſe alſo, <lb/>that Yellow is a leſs ſucculent colour than Green, and a degree nearer <lb/>White. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4718" xml:space="preserve">For it hath been noted, that thoſe Yellow Leaves of Holly, ſtand <lb/>ever to ward the North or North-Eaſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4719" xml:space="preserve">Some Roots are Yellow, as Carrets; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4720" xml:space="preserve">and ſome Planis, Blood-red, Stalk and Leaf, and all; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4721" xml:space="preserve">as Amaranthus. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4722" xml:space="preserve">Some <lb/>Herbs incline to Purple and Red; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4723" xml:space="preserve">as a kinde of Sage doth, and a kinde of <lb/>Mint, and Roſa Solis, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4724" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4725" xml:space="preserve">And ſome have White Leaves, as another kinde <lb/>of Sage, and another kinde of Mint: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4726" xml:space="preserve">But Azure and a fair Purple are <lb/>never found in Leaves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4727" xml:space="preserve">This ſheweth, that Flowers are made of a refined <lb/>Juyce of the Earth, and ſo are Fruits, but Leaves of a more courſe and <lb/>common.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4728" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div570" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0143-04" xlink:href="note-0143-04a" xml:space="preserve">512.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4729" xml:space="preserve">It is a curioſity alſo to make Flowers double, which is effected by often <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0143-05a" xlink:href="note-0143-05"/> removing them into new Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4730" xml:space="preserve">as on the contrary part, double Flowers, <pb o="110" file="0144" n="144" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> by neglecting, and not removing, prove ſingle. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4731" xml:space="preserve">And the way to do it ſpeedily, <lb/>is to ſow or ſet Seeds, or Slips of Flowers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4732" xml:space="preserve">and as ſoon as they come up, to <lb/>remove them into new ground that is good: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4733" xml:space="preserve">Enquire alſo, whether inocu-<lb/>lating oſ Flowers, (as Stock-Gilliflowers, Roſes, Musk-Roſes, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4734" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4735" xml:space="preserve">doth <lb/>not make them double. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4736" xml:space="preserve">There is a Cherry-Tree that hath double Bloſſoms, <lb/>but that Tree beareth no Fruit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4737" xml:space="preserve">and, it may be, that the ſame means which <lb/>applied to the Tree, doth extreamly accelerate the Sap to riſe and break <lb/>forth, would make the Tree ſpend it ſelf in Flowers, and thoſe to become <lb/>double, which were a great pleaſure to ſee, eſpecially in Apple-trees, Peach-<lb/>trees, and Almond-trees, that have Bloſſoms Bluſh coloured.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4738" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div571" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0143-05" xlink:href="note-0143-05a" xml:space="preserve">513.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4739" xml:space="preserve">The making of Fruits without Core or Stone, is likewiſe a curioſity, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0144-01a" xlink:href="note-0144-01"/> and ſomewhat better; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4740" xml:space="preserve">becauſe whatſoever maketh them ſo, is like to make <lb/>them more tender and delicate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4741" xml:space="preserve">If a Cions or Shoot fit to be ſet in the <lb/>Ground, have the Pith finely taken forth (and not altogether, but ſome of it <lb/>left, the better to ſave the life) it will bear a Fruit with little or no Core or <lb/>Stone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4742" xml:space="preserve">And the like is ſaid to be of dividing a quick Tree down to the Ground, <lb/>and taking out the Pith, and then binding it up again.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4743" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div572" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0144-01" xlink:href="note-0144-01a" xml:space="preserve">514.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4744" xml:space="preserve">It is reported alſo, that a Citron grafted upon a Quince will have ſmall <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0144-02a" xlink:href="note-0144-02"/> or no Seeds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4745" xml:space="preserve">and it is very probable, that any ſowre Fruit grafied upon a <lb/>Stock that beareth a ſweeter Fruit, may both make the Fruit ſweeter, and <lb/>more void of the harſh matter of Kernels or Seeds.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4746" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div573" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0144-02" xlink:href="note-0144-02a" xml:space="preserve">515.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4747" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that not onely the taking out of the Pith, but the ſtopping <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0144-03a" xlink:href="note-0144-03"/> of the Juyce of the Pith from riſing in the midſt, and turning it to riſe on the <lb/>outſide, will make the Fruit without Core or Stone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4748" xml:space="preserve">as if you ſhould bore a <lb/>Tree clean thorow, and put a wedge in. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4749" xml:space="preserve">It is true, there is ſome affinity be-<lb/>tween the Pith and the Kernel, becauſe they are both of a harſh ſubſtance, <lb/>and both placed in the midſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4750" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div574" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0144-03" xlink:href="note-0144-03a" xml:space="preserve">516.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4751" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that Trees watered perpetually with warm Water, will <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0144-04a" xlink:href="note-0144-04"/> make a Fruit with little or no Core or Stone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4752" xml:space="preserve">And the rule is general, That <lb/>whatſoever will make a wilde Tree, a Garden Tree, will make a Garden Tree <lb/>to have leſs Core or Stone.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4753" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div575" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0144-04" xlink:href="note-0144-04a" xml:space="preserve">517.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4754" xml:space="preserve">THe Rule is certain, That Plants for want of Culture, degenerate to be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0144-05a" xlink:href="note-0144-05"/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0144-06a" xlink:href="note-0144-06"/> baſer in the ſame kinde; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4755" xml:space="preserve">and ſome times ſo far, as to change into another <lb/>kinde. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4756" xml:space="preserve">1. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4757" xml:space="preserve">The ſtanding long, and not being removed, maketh them dege-<lb/>nerate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4758" xml:space="preserve">2. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4759" xml:space="preserve">Drought, unleſs the Earth of it ſelf be moiſt, doth the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4760" xml:space="preserve">3. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4761" xml:space="preserve">So <lb/>doth removing into worſe Earth, or forbearing to compoſt the Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4762" xml:space="preserve">as we <lb/>ſee, that Water-Mint turneth into Field Mint, and the Colewort into Rape by <lb/>neglect, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4763" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4764" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div576" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0144-05" xlink:href="note-0144-05a" xml:space="preserve">518.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0144-06" xlink:href="note-0144-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Degenerating <lb/>of Plants, and <lb/>of the Tranſ-<lb/>mutation of <lb/>them, one into <lb/>another.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4765" xml:space="preserve">What ſoever Fruit uſeth to be ſet upon a Root, or a Slip, if it be ſown, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0144-07a" xlink:href="note-0144-07"/> will degenerate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4766" xml:space="preserve">Grapes ſown, Figs, Almonds, Pomegranate Kernels ſown, <lb/>make the Fruits degenerate, and become wilde. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4767" xml:space="preserve">And again, moſt of thoſe <lb/>Fruits that uſe to be grafted, if they be ſet of Kernels, or Stones degenerate. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4768" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that Peaches (as hath been touched before) do better upon Stones <lb/>ſet, than upon grafting: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4769" xml:space="preserve">And the rule of Exception ſhould ſeem to be this, <lb/>That whatſoever Plant requireth much moiſture, proſpereth better upon the <lb/>Stone or Kernel, than upon the Graft. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4770" xml:space="preserve">For the Stock, though it giveth a finer <lb/>nouriſhment, yet it giveth a ſcanter, than the Earth at large.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4771" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div577" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0144-07" xlink:href="note-0144-07a" xml:space="preserve">519.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4772" xml:space="preserve">Seeds, if they be very old, and yet have ſtrength enough to bring forth a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0144-08a" xlink:href="note-0144-08"/> Plant, make the Plant degenerate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4773" xml:space="preserve">And therefore skilful Gardiners make tryal <lb/>of the Seeds, before they buy them, whether they be good or no, by putting <pb o="111" file="0145" n="145" rhead="Century VI."/> them in Water gently boiled; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4774" xml:space="preserve">and if they be good, they will ſprout within half <lb/>an hour.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4775" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div578" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0144-08" xlink:href="note-0144-08a" xml:space="preserve">520.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4776" xml:space="preserve">It is ſtrange which is reported, That Baſil too much expoſed to the Sun, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0145-01a" xlink:href="note-0145-01"/> doth turn into Wilde Time: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4777" xml:space="preserve">Although thoſe two Herbs ſeem to have ſmall <lb/>Affinity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4778" xml:space="preserve">but Baſil is almoſt the onely hot Herb that hath fat and ſucculent <lb/>Leaves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4779" xml:space="preserve">which Oylineſs if it be drawn forth by the Sun, it is like it will make <lb/>a very great change.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4780" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div579" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0145-01" xlink:href="note-0145-01a" xml:space="preserve">521.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4781" xml:space="preserve">There is an old Tradition, that Boughs of Oak put into the Earth, will put <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0145-02a" xlink:href="note-0145-02"/> ſorth Wilde Vines; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4782" xml:space="preserve">which if it be true, (no doubt) it is not the Oak that turneth <lb/>into a Vine, but the Oak-bough putrifying, qualifieth the Earth to put forth a <lb/>Vine of it ſelf.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4783" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div580" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0145-02" xlink:href="note-0145-02a" xml:space="preserve">522.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4784" xml:space="preserve">It is not impoſſible, and I have heard it verified, that upon cutting down <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0145-03a" xlink:href="note-0145-03"/> of an old Timber-Tree, the Stub hath put out ſometimes a Tree of another <lb/>kinde; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4785" xml:space="preserve">as that Beech hath put ſorth Birch: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4786" xml:space="preserve">Which if it be true, the cauſe may <lb/>be, for that the old Stub is too ſcant of Juyce to put forth the former Tree; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4787" xml:space="preserve">and therefore putteth forth a Tree of ſmaller kinde, that needeth leſs Nou-<lb/>riſhment.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4788" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div581" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0145-03" xlink:href="note-0145-03a" xml:space="preserve">523.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4789" xml:space="preserve">There is an opinion in the Countrey, That if the ſame Ground be oft <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0145-04a" xlink:href="note-0145-04"/> ſown with the Grain that grew upon it, it will, in the end, grow to be of a <lb/>baſer kinde.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4790" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div582" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0145-04" xlink:href="note-0145-04a" xml:space="preserve">524.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4791" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that in Sterile Years, Corn ſown will grow to an other <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0145-05a" xlink:href="note-0145-05"/> kinde.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4792" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div583" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0145-05" xlink:href="note-0145-05a" xml:space="preserve">525.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div585" type="section" level="1" n="29"> <head xml:id="echoid-head42" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Grandia ſæpe quibus mandavimus Hordea Sulcis, <lb/>Infœlix Lolium, & ſteriles dominatur Avenæ.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4793" xml:space="preserve">And generally it is a Rule, that Plants that are brought forth by Culture, <lb/>as Corn, will ſooner change into other Species, than thoſe that come of them-<lb/>ſelves: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4794" xml:space="preserve">For that Culture giveth but an Adventitious Nature, which is more <lb/>eaſily put off.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4795" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4796" xml:space="preserve">This work of the Tranſmutation of Plants, one into another, is inter Mag-<lb/>nalia Naturæ: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4797" xml:space="preserve">For the Tranſmu<unsure/>tation of Species is, in the vulgar Philoſophy, pro-<lb/>nounced impoſſible: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4798" xml:space="preserve">And certainly, it is a thing of difficulty, and requireth <lb/>deep ſearch into Nature: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4799" xml:space="preserve">But ſeeing there appear ſome manifeſt inſtances of <lb/>it, the opinion of impoſſibility is to be rejected, and the means there of to <lb/>be found out. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4800" xml:space="preserve">We ſee that in Living Creatures, that come of Putrefaction, <lb/>there is much Tranſmutation of one into another. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4801" xml:space="preserve">As Caterpillers turn into <lb/>Flies, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4802" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4803" xml:space="preserve">And it ſhould ſeem probable, that what ſoever Creature having <lb/>life, is generated without Seed, that Creature will change out of one Spe-<lb/>cies into another; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4804" xml:space="preserve">for it is the Seed, and the Nature of it, which locketh <lb/>and boundeth in the Creature, that it doth not expatiate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4805" xml:space="preserve">So as we may <lb/>well conclude, that ſeeing the Earth of it ſelf, doth put forth Plants with-<lb/>out Seed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4806" xml:space="preserve">therefore Plants may well have a Tranſmigration of Species. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4807" xml:space="preserve">Wherefore wanting Inſtances, which do occur, we ſhall give Directions of <lb/>the moſt likely tryals: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4808" xml:space="preserve">And generally, we would not have thoſe that read <lb/>this work of Sylva Sylvarum, account if ſtrange, or think that it is an over-<lb/>haſte, that we have let down particulars untried: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4809" xml:space="preserve">For contratiwiſe, in our <lb/>own eſtimation, we account ſuch particulars more worthy than thoſe that <lb/>are already tryed and known. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4810" xml:space="preserve">For theſe latter muſt be taken as you <lb/>finde them, but the other do level point blank at the inventing of cauſes, <lb/>and Axioms.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4811" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="112" file="0146" n="146" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4812" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, therefore you muſt make account, that if you will have one Plant <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0146-01a" xlink:href="note-0146-01"/> change into another, you muſt have the Nouriſhment over rule the Seed: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4813" xml:space="preserve">And therefore you are to practi@e it by Nouriſhments as contraty as may be, <lb/>to the Nature of the Herb; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4814" xml:space="preserve">ſonevertheleſs as the Herb may grow, and like-<lb/>wiſe with Seeds that are of the weakeſt ſort, and have leaſt vigor. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4815" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall <lb/>do well therefore to take Marſh Herbs, and plant them upon tops of Hills <lb/>and Champaigns; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4816" xml:space="preserve">and ſuch Plants as require much moiſture, upon Sandy <lb/>and very dry grounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4817" xml:space="preserve">As for example, Marſh Mallows, and Sedge upon <lb/>Hills, Cucumber and Lettuce Seeds, and Coleworts upon a Sandy Plat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4818" xml:space="preserve">ſo <lb/>contrariwiſe plant Buſhes, Heath, Ling, and Brakes upon a Wet or Marſh <lb/>Ground. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4819" xml:space="preserve">This I conceive alſo, that all Eſculent and Garden Herbs, ſet upon <lb/>the tops of Hills, will prove more Medicinal, though leſs Eſculent, than they <lb/>were before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4820" xml:space="preserve">And it may be like wiſe, ſome Wilde Herbs you may make <lb/>Salet Herbs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4821" xml:space="preserve">This is the firſt Rule for Tranſmutation of Plants.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4822" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div585" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0146-01" xlink:href="note-0146-01a" xml:space="preserve">526.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4823" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond Rule ſhould be to bury ſome few Seeds of the Herb you <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0146-02a" xlink:href="note-0146-02"/> would change amongſt other Seeds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4824" xml:space="preserve">and then you ſhall ſee whether the Juyce <lb/>of thoſe other Seeds do not ſo qualifie the Earth, as it will alter the Seed <lb/>whereupon you work. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4825" xml:space="preserve">As for example, Put Parſly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4826" xml:space="preserve">ſeed amongſt Onion-ſeed, <lb/>or Lettuce-ſeed amongſt Parſly ſeed, or Baſil-ſeed amongſt Thyme-ſeed, <lb/>and ſee the change of taſte or otherwiſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4827" xml:space="preserve">But you ſhall do well to put the <lb/>Seed you would change into a little Linnen Cloth, that it mingle not with <lb/>the Foreign Seed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4828" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div586" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0146-02" xlink:href="note-0146-02a" xml:space="preserve">527.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4829" xml:space="preserve">The third Rule ſhall be the making of ſome medly, or mixture of Earth, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0146-03a" xlink:href="note-0146-03"/> with ſome other Plants bruiſed, or ſhaved, either in Leaf or Root: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4830" xml:space="preserve">As for ex-<lb/>ample make Earth, with a mixture of Colewort Leaves ſtamped, and ſet in <lb/>it Artichoaks, or Parſnips: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4831" xml:space="preserve">So take Earth made with Majoram, or Origannum, <lb/>or Wilde Thyme, bruiſed, or ſtamped, and ſet in it Fennel-ſeed, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4832" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4833" xml:space="preserve">In which <lb/>operation, the Proces of Nature ſtill will be, (as I conceive,) not that the Herb <lb/>you work upon, ſhould draw the Juyce of the Foreign Herb; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4834" xml:space="preserve">(for that <lb/>opinion we have formerly rejected) but there will be a new confection <lb/>of mould, which perhaps will alter the Seed, and yet not to the kinde of the <lb/>former Herb.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4835" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div587" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0146-03" xlink:href="note-0146-03a" xml:space="preserve">528.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4836" xml:space="preserve">The fourth Rule ſhall be to mark what Herbs ſome Earths do put ſorth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0146-04a" xlink:href="note-0146-04"/> of themſelves, and to take that Earth, and to Pot it, or to Veſſel it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4837" xml:space="preserve">and into <lb/>that, ſet the Seed you would change: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4838" xml:space="preserve">As for Example, take from under <lb/>Walls, or the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4839" xml:space="preserve">where Nettles put forth in abundance, the Earth which <lb/>you ſhall there finde, without any String or Root of the Nettles; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4840" xml:space="preserve">and pot <lb/>that Earth, and ſet in it Stock-Gilly-flowers, or Wall-flowers, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4841" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4842" xml:space="preserve">Or ſow <lb/>in the Seeds of them, and ſee what the event will be; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4843" xml:space="preserve">or take Earth, that you <lb/>have prepared to put forth Muſhrooms of it ſelf, (where of you ſhall finde <lb/>ſome inſtances following,) and ſow it in Purſlane-ſeed, or Lettuce. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4844" xml:space="preserve">ſeed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4845" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>in theſe Experiments, it is likely enough, that the Earth being accuſtomed to <lb/>ſend forth one kinde of Nouriſhment, will alter the new Seed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4846" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div588" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0146-04" xlink:href="note-0146-04a" xml:space="preserve">529.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4847" xml:space="preserve">The fifth Rule ſhall be, to make the Herb grow contrary to his nature, as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0146-05a" xlink:href="note-0146-05"/> to make Ground Herbs riſe in height: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4848" xml:space="preserve">As for example. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4849" xml:space="preserve">Carry Camomile, or <lb/>Wilde Thyme, or the Green Strawberry, upon ſticks, as you do Hops upon <lb/>Poles, and ſee what the event will be.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4850" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div589" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0146-05" xlink:href="note-0146-05a" xml:space="preserve">530.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4851" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth Rule ſhall be to make Plants grow out of the Sun, or open <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0146-06a" xlink:href="note-0146-06"/> Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4852" xml:space="preserve">for that is a great mutation in Nature, and may induce a change in the <lb/>Seed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4853" xml:space="preserve">As barrel up Earth, and ſow ſome Seed in it, and put in the bottom <lb/>of a Pond, or put it in ſome great hollow Tree; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4854" xml:space="preserve">try alſo the ſowing <pb o="113" file="0147" n="147" rhead="Century VI."/> of Seeds in the bottoms of Caves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4855" xml:space="preserve">and Pot<unsure/>s with Seeds ſown, hanged <lb/>up in Wells, ſome diſtance from the Water, and ſee what the event <lb/>will be.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4856" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div590" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0146-06" xlink:href="note-0146-06a" xml:space="preserve">531.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4857" xml:space="preserve">IT is certain, that Timber-Trees in Coppice Woods, grow more upright, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0147-01a" xlink:href="note-0147-01"/> more free from under Boughs, than thoſe that ſtand in the Fields. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4858" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0147-02a" xlink:href="note-0147-02"/> cauſe whereof is, for that Plants have a natural motion to get to the <lb/>Sun: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4859" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, they are not glutted with too much nouriſhment; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4860" xml:space="preserve">for that the Coppice ſhareth with them, and Repletion ever hindreth <lb/>ſtature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4861" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, they are kept warm, and that ever in Plants helpeth <lb/>mounting.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4862" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div591" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0147-01" xlink:href="note-0147-01a" xml:space="preserve">532.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0147-02" xlink:href="note-0147-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Procerity, and <lb/>Lowneſs, and <lb/>Artificial <lb/>Dwarfing of <lb/>Trees.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4863" xml:space="preserve">Trees that are of themſelves full of Heat, (which heat appeareth by <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0147-03a" xlink:href="note-0147-03"/> their in flamable Gums) as Firrs, and Pines, mount of themſelves in heighth <lb/>without Side-boughs, till they come towards the top. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4864" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is partly <lb/>heat, and partly tenuity of Juyce; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4865" xml:space="preserve">both which ſend the Sap upwards. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4866" xml:space="preserve">As for <lb/>Juniper, it is but a Shrub, and groweth not big enough in Body to maintain a <lb/>tall Tree.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4867" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div592" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0147-03" xlink:href="note-0147-03a" xml:space="preserve">533.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4868" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that a good ſtrong Canvas, ſpred over a Tree graſt-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0147-04a" xlink:href="note-0147-04"/> ed low, ſoon after it putteth forth, will dwarf it, and make it ſpred. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4869" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is plain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4870" xml:space="preserve">for that all things that grow, will grow as they finde <lb/>room.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4871" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div593" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0147-04" xlink:href="note-0147-04a" xml:space="preserve">534.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4872" xml:space="preserve">Trees are generally ſet of Roots or Kernels; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4873" xml:space="preserve">but if you ſet them of Slips, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0147-05a" xlink:href="note-0147-05"/> (as of ſome Trees you may, by name the Mulberry) ſome of the Slips will <lb/>take; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4874" xml:space="preserve">and thoſe that take, (as is reported) will be Dwarf-trees The cauſe <lb/>is, for that a Slip draweth nouriſhment more weakly, than either a Root or <lb/>Kernel.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4875" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div594" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0147-05" xlink:href="note-0147-05a" xml:space="preserve">535.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4876" xml:space="preserve">All Plants that put forth their Sap haſtily, havetheir Bodies not propor-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0147-06a" xlink:href="note-0147-06"/> tionable to their length, and therefore they are Winders and Creepers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4877" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/>Ivy, Briony, Hops, Woodbine: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4878" xml:space="preserve">Whereas Dwarfing requiteth a ſlow putting <lb/>forth, and leſs vigor of mounting.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4879" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div595" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0147-06" xlink:href="note-0147-06a" xml:space="preserve">536.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4880" xml:space="preserve">THe Scripture ſaith, That Solomon wrote a Natural Hiſtory, from the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0147-07a" xlink:href="note-0147-07"/> Cedar of Libanus, to the Moß growing upon the Wall; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4881" xml:space="preserve">for ſo the beſt <lb/>Tranſlations have it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4882" xml:space="preserve">And it is true, that Moß is but the Rudiment of a Plant, and <lb/>(as it were) the Mould of Earth or Bark.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4883" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div596" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0147-07" xlink:href="note-0147-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Rudiments of <lb/>Plants, and of <lb/>the Excreſcen-<lb/>ces of Plants, <lb/>or Super-<lb/>Plants.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4884" xml:space="preserve">Moß groweth chiefly upon Ridges of Houſes, tiled or thatched, and <lb/>upon the Creſts of Walls, and that Moſs is of a lightſome and pleaſant <lb/>Green. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4885" xml:space="preserve">The growing upon Slopes is cauſed for that Moſs, as on the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0147-08a" xlink:href="note-0147-08"/> one ſide it cometh of Moiſture and Water, ſo on the other ſide the <lb/>Water muſt but ſlide, and not ſtand or pool. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4886" xml:space="preserve">And the growing upon <lb/>Tiles, or Walls, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4887" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4888" xml:space="preserve">is cauſed, for that thoſe dried Earths, having not <lb/>moiſture ſufficient to put forth a Plant, do practice Germination by put-<lb/>ting forth Moſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4889" xml:space="preserve">though when by age, or otherwiſe, they grow to re-<lb/>lent and reſolve, they ſometimes put forth Plants, as Wall flowers. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4890" xml:space="preserve">And almoſt all Mofs hath here and there little Stalks, beſides the low <lb/>Thrum.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4891" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div597" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0147-08" xlink:href="note-0147-08a" xml:space="preserve">537.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4892" xml:space="preserve">Moß groweth upon Alleys, eſpecially ſuch as lye cold, and upon the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0147-09a" xlink:href="note-0147-09"/> North; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4893" xml:space="preserve">as in divers Tarraſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4894" xml:space="preserve">And again, if they be much trodden; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4895" xml:space="preserve">or if <lb/>they were at the firſt gravelled: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4896" xml:space="preserve">For whereſoever Plants are kept down, the <lb/>Earth putteth forth Moſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4897" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div598" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0147-09" xlink:href="note-0147-09a" xml:space="preserve">538.</note> </div> <pb o="114" file="0148" n="148" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4898" xml:space="preserve">Old Ground, that hath been long unbroken up, gathereth Moſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4899" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0148-01a" xlink:href="note-0148-01"/> therefore Husbandmen uſe to cure their Paſture-Grounds, when they grow <lb/>to Moſs, by Tilling them for a year, or two: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4900" xml:space="preserve">Which alſo dependeth upon <lb/>the ſame cauſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4901" xml:space="preserve">for that the more ſparing and ſtarving Juyce of the Earth, <lb/>inſufficient for Plants, doth breed Moſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4902" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div599" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0148-01" xlink:href="note-0148-01a" xml:space="preserve">539.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4903" xml:space="preserve">Old Trees are more Moſſie, (far) than young; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4904" xml:space="preserve">for that the Sap is not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0148-02a" xlink:href="note-0148-02"/> ſo frank as to riſe all to the Boughs, but tireth by the way, and putteth out <lb/>Moß.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4905" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div600" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0148-02" xlink:href="note-0148-02a" xml:space="preserve">540.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4906" xml:space="preserve">Fountains have Moß growing upon the Ground about them; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4907" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0148-03a" xlink:href="note-0148-03"/> # Muſcoſi Fontes--</s> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div601" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0148-03" xlink:href="note-0148-03a" xml:space="preserve">541.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4908" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Fountains drain the Water from the Ground adja-<lb/>cent, and leave but ſufficient moiſture to breed Moß; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4909" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, the cold-<lb/>neſs of the Water conduceth to the ſame.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4910" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4911" xml:space="preserve">The Moß of Trees, is a kinde of Hair; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4912" xml:space="preserve">for it is the Juyce of the Tree, that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0148-04a" xlink:href="note-0148-04"/> is excerned, and doth not aſſimilate, and upon great Trees the Moſs gather-<lb/>eth a figure, like a Leaf.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4913" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div602" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0148-04" xlink:href="note-0148-04a" xml:space="preserve">542.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4914" xml:space="preserve">The moiſture ſort of Trees yield little Moſs, as weſeein Aſps, Poplars, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0148-05a" xlink:href="note-0148-05"/> Willows, Beeches, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4915" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4916" xml:space="preserve">Which is partly cauſed for the reaſon that hath been <lb/>given of the frank putting up of the Sap into the Boughs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4917" xml:space="preserve">and partly, for <lb/>that the Barks of thoſe Trees are more cloſe and ſmooth, than thoſe of <lb/>Oaks, and Aſhes, whereby the Moſs can the hardlier iſſue out.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4918" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div603" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0148-05" xlink:href="note-0148-05a" xml:space="preserve">543.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4919" xml:space="preserve">In Clay Grounds, all Fruit Trees grow full of Moſs, both upon Body <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0148-06a" xlink:href="note-0148-06"/> and Boughs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4920" xml:space="preserve">which is cauſed, partly by the coldneſs of the Ground, whereby <lb/>the Plants nouriſh leſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4921" xml:space="preserve">and partly by the toughneſs of the Earth, whereby <lb/>the Sap is ſhut in, and cannot get up, to ſpred ſo frankly as it ſhould <lb/>do.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4922" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div604" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0148-06" xlink:href="note-0148-06a" xml:space="preserve">544.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4923" xml:space="preserve">We have ſaid heretofore, that if Trees be hide-bound, they wax leſs <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0148-07a" xlink:href="note-0148-07"/> fruitful and gather Moſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4924" xml:space="preserve">and that they are holpen by hacking, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4925" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4926" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>therefore by the reaſon of contraries, if Trees be bound in with Cords or <lb/>ſome out ward Bands, they will put forth more Moſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4927" xml:space="preserve">Which (I think) <lb/>hapneth to Trees that ſtand bleak, and upon the cold Winds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4928" xml:space="preserve">It would <lb/>alſo be tried, whether, if you cover a Tree, ſome what thick upon the <lb/>top, after his powling, it will not gather more Moſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4929" xml:space="preserve">I think allo, the <lb/>Watring of Trees with cold Fountain Water will make them grow full of <lb/>Moſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4930" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div605" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0148-07" xlink:href="note-0148-07a" xml:space="preserve">545.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4931" xml:space="preserve">There is a Moſs the Perfumers have, which cometh out of Apple-Trees, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0148-08a" xlink:href="note-0148-08"/> that hath an excellent ſent. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4932" xml:space="preserve">Quare, particularly for the manner of the <lb/>growth, and the nature of it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4933" xml:space="preserve">And for this Experiments ſake, being athing <lb/>of price, I have ſet down the laſt Experiments, how to multiply and call on <lb/>Moſſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4934" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div606" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0148-08" xlink:href="note-0148-08a" xml:space="preserve">546.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4935" xml:space="preserve">Next unto Moſs, I will ſpeak of Mushromes, which are likewiſe an <lb/>unperfect Plant. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4936" xml:space="preserve">The Muſhromes have two ſtrange properties; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4937" xml:space="preserve">the one, <lb/>that they yield ſo delicious a Meat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4938" xml:space="preserve">the other, that they come up ſo haſtily, <lb/>as in a night, and yet they are unſown. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4939" xml:space="preserve">And therefore ſuch as are Upſtarts <lb/>in State, they call in reproach, Mushromes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4940" xml:space="preserve">It muſt needs be therefore, that <lb/>they be made of much moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4941" xml:space="preserve">and that moiſture fat, groſs, and yet <lb/>ſomewhat concocted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4942" xml:space="preserve">And (indeed) we finde, that Mushromes cauſe the <lb/>accident, which we call Incubus, or the Mare in the Stomach. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4943" xml:space="preserve">And there-<lb/>fore the Surfeit of them may ſuffo cate and empoyſon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4944" xml:space="preserve">And this ſhe weth, <lb/>that they are windy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4945" xml:space="preserve">and that windineſs is groſs, and ſwelling, not <lb/>ſharp or griping. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4946" xml:space="preserve">And upon the ſame reaſon Mushromes are a venereous <lb/>Meat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4947" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="115" file="0149" n="149" rhead="Century V I."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4948" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that the Bark of white or Red Poplar, (which are of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0149-01a" xlink:href="note-0149-01"/> moiſteſt of Trees) cut ſmall, and caſt into Furrows well dunged, will cauſe <lb/>the ground to put forth Mushromes, at all ſeaſons of the year fit to beeaten, <lb/>ſome add to the mixture Leaven of Bread, reſolved in Water.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4949" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div607" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0149-01" xlink:href="note-0149-01a" xml:space="preserve">547.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4950" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that if a Hilly-field, where the ſtubble is ſtanding, be ſet on <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0149-02a" xlink:href="note-0149-02"/> fire, in the ſhowry ſeaton, it will put forth great ſtore of Mushromes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4951" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div608" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0149-02" xlink:href="note-0149-02a" xml:space="preserve">548.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4952" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that Harts-Horn ſhaken, or in ſmall pieces, mixed with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0149-03a" xlink:href="note-0149-03"/> Dung, and watred, putteth up Mushromes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4953" xml:space="preserve">And we know that Harts-Horn is <lb/>of a fat and clammy ſubſtance: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4954" xml:space="preserve">And it may be Ox-Horn would do the <lb/>like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4955" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div609" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0149-03" xlink:href="note-0149-03a" xml:space="preserve">549.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4956" xml:space="preserve">It hath been reported, though it be ſcarce credible, that Ivy hath grown <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0149-04a" xlink:href="note-0149-04"/> out of a Stags-Horn; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4957" xml:space="preserve">which they ſuppoſe did rather come from a confrica-<lb/>tion of the Horn upon the Ivy, than from the Horn it ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4958" xml:space="preserve">There is not <lb/>known any ſubſtance, but Earth, and the Procedeurs of Earth, (as Tile-<lb/>Stone, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4959" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4960" xml:space="preserve">that yieldeth any Moſs, or Herby ſubſtance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4961" xml:space="preserve">There may betryal <lb/>made of ſome Seeds, as that Fennel-Seed, Muſtard-Seed, and Rape-Seed, <lb/>put into ſome little holes made in the Horns of Stags, or Oxen, to ſee if they <lb/>will grow.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4962" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div610" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0149-04" xlink:href="note-0149-04a" xml:space="preserve">550.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4963" xml:space="preserve">There is alſo another unperſect Plant, that (in ſhew) is like a great Muſh <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0149-05a" xlink:href="note-0149-05"/> rome: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4964" xml:space="preserve">And it is ſometimes as broad as ones Hat, which they call a Toads-<lb/>ſtool; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4965" xml:space="preserve">but it is not Eſculent, and it groweth (commonly) by a dead Stub of <lb/>a Tree, and like wiſe about the Roots of rotten Trees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4966" xml:space="preserve">and therefore ſeemeth <lb/>to take his Juyce from Wood putrified. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4967" xml:space="preserve">Which ſheweth by the way, that <lb/>Wood putrified yieldeth a frank moiſture.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4968" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div611" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0149-05" xlink:href="note-0149-05a" xml:space="preserve">551.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4969" xml:space="preserve">There is a Cake that groweth upon the ſide of a dead Tree, that hath <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0149-06a" xlink:href="note-0149-06"/> gotten no name, but it is large and of a Cheſnut colour. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4970" xml:space="preserve">and hard and pithy; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4971" xml:space="preserve">whereby it ſhould ſeem, that even dead Trees forget not their putting forth, <lb/>no more than the Carcaſſes of Mens Bodies that put forth Hair and Nails for <lb/>a time.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4972" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div612" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0149-06" xlink:href="note-0149-06a" xml:space="preserve">552.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4973" xml:space="preserve">There is a Cod or Bag that groweth commonly in the Fields; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4974" xml:space="preserve">that at <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0149-07a" xlink:href="note-0149-07"/> firſt is hard like a Tennis-Ball, and white; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4975" xml:space="preserve">and after growth of a Muſhrome <lb/>colour, and full of light duſt upon the breaking; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4976" xml:space="preserve">and is thought to be dan-<lb/>gerous for the eyes, if the Powder get into them, and to be good for Kibes. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4977" xml:space="preserve">Belike it hath a Corroſive, and ſretting Nature.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4978" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div613" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0149-07" xlink:href="note-0149-07a" xml:space="preserve">553.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4979" xml:space="preserve">There is an Herb called Fews-Ear, that groweth upon the Roots, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0149-08a" xlink:href="note-0149-08"/> lower parts of the Bodies of Trees, eſpecially of Elders, and ſometimes Aſhes. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4980" xml:space="preserve">It hath a ſtrange propriety; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4981" xml:space="preserve">for in warm Water, it ſwelleth, and openeth ex-<lb/>treamly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4982" xml:space="preserve">It is not green, but of a dusky brown colour. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4983" xml:space="preserve">And it is uſed for <lb/>ſquinancies, and inflamations in the Throat, whereby it ſeemeth to have a <lb/>mollifving, and lenifying vertue.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4984" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div614" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0149-08" xlink:href="note-0149-08a" xml:space="preserve">554.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4985" xml:space="preserve">There is a kinde of Spongy excreſcence, which groweth chiefly upon <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0149-09a" xlink:href="note-0149-09"/> the Roots of the Laſer-Tree, and ſometimes upon Cedar, and other Trees. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4986" xml:space="preserve">It is very white, and light, and fryable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4987" xml:space="preserve">which we call Agarick. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4988" xml:space="preserve">It is famous in <lb/>Phyſick for the purging of tough Flegm. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4989" xml:space="preserve">And it is alſo an excellent open o<unsure/>r <lb/>for the Liver, but offenſive to the Stomach; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4990" xml:space="preserve">and in taſte it is, at the firſt <lb/>ſweet and after bitter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4991" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div615" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0149-09" xlink:href="note-0149-09a" xml:space="preserve">555.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s4992" xml:space="preserve">We finde no Super-Plant, that is a formed Plant, but Miſſeltoe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4993" xml:space="preserve">They <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0149-10a" xlink:href="note-0149-10"/> have an idle Tradition, that there is a Bird called a Miſſel-Bird, that feedeth <lb/>upon a Seed, which many times ſhe cannot diſgeſt, and ſo expelleth it <lb/>whole with her Excrement; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4994" xml:space="preserve">which falling upon a Bough of a Tree, that <lb/>hath ſome rift, putteth forth Miſſeltoe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4995" xml:space="preserve">But this is a Fable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4996" xml:space="preserve">for it is not <lb/>probable, that Birds ſhould ſeed upon that they cannot diſgeſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4997" xml:space="preserve">But allow <pb o="116" file="0150" n="150" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> that, yet it cannot be for other Reaſons: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4998" xml:space="preserve">For firſt, it is found but upon <lb/>certain Trees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s4999" xml:space="preserve">and thoſe Trees bear no ſuch Fruit, as may allure that B rd to <lb/>ſit and feed upon them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5000" xml:space="preserve">It may be, that Bird feedeth upon the Miſſeltoe-<lb/>Berries, and ſo is often ſound there; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5001" xml:space="preserve">which may have given occaſion to the <lb/>tale. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5002" xml:space="preserve">But that which maketh an end of the queſtion is, that Miſſeltoe hath <lb/>been found to put forth under the Boughs, and not (onely) above the Boughs; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5003" xml:space="preserve">ſo it cannot be any thing that falleth upon the Bough. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5004" xml:space="preserve">M@ſſeltoe groweth <lb/>chiefly upon Crab-trees, Apples-trees, ſometimes upon H@ſles, and rarely <lb/>upon Oaks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5005" xml:space="preserve">the Miſſeltoe where of is counted very Medicinal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5006" xml:space="preserve">It is ever <lb/>green, Winter and Summer, and beareth a white gliſtering Berry; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5007" xml:space="preserve">and it is a <lb/>Plant, utterly differing from the Plant, upon which it groweth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5008" xml:space="preserve">Two things <lb/>therefore may be certainly ſet down: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5009" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, that Superfætation muſt be by <lb/>abundance of Sap, in the Bough that putteth it forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5010" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, that that <lb/>Sap muſt be ſuch as the Tree doth excern, and cannot aſſimilare, for elſe it <lb/>would go into a Bough; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5011" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, it ſeemeth to be more fat and unctuous, <lb/>than the ordinary Sap of the Tree; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5012" xml:space="preserve">both by the Berry which is clammy, and <lb/>by that it continueth green Winter and Summer, which the Tree doth <lb/>not.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5013" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div616" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0149-10" xlink:href="note-0149-10a" xml:space="preserve">556.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5014" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment of Miſſeltoe may give light to other practices; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5015" xml:space="preserve">therefore <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0150-01a" xlink:href="note-0150-01"/> tryal would be made, by tipping of the Bough of a Crab-tree in the Ba@k, and <lb/>watering of the Wound every day, with warm water dunged, to ſee if it <lb/>would bring forth Miſſeltoe, or any fuch like thing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5016" xml:space="preserve">But it were yet more <lb/>likely, to try it with ſome other watering or anointing, that were not ſonatu-<lb/>ral to the Treeas Water is; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5017" xml:space="preserve">as Oyl, or Barm of Drink, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5018" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5019" xml:space="preserve">So they be ſuch <lb/>things as kill not the Bough.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5020" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div617" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0150-01" xlink:href="note-0150-01a" xml:space="preserve">557.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5021" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try, what Plants would put forth, if they be forbidden <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0150-02a" xlink:href="note-0150-02"/> to putforth their natural Boughs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5022" xml:space="preserve">Powl thereſore a Tree, and cover it, ſome <lb/>thickneſs with Clay on the top, and ſee what it will put forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5023" xml:space="preserve">I ſuppoſe it <lb/>will put forth Roots; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5024" xml:space="preserve">for ſo will a Cions, being turned down into Clay. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5025" xml:space="preserve">Therefore in this Experimentalſo, the Tree would be cloſed with ſomewhat <lb/>that is not ſo natural to the Plant as Clay is; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5026" xml:space="preserve">try it with Leather, or Cloth, or <lb/>Painting, ſo it be not hurtſul to the Tree. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5027" xml:space="preserve">And it is certain, that a Brake hath <lb/>been known to grow out of a Pollard.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5028" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div618" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0150-02" xlink:href="note-0150-02a" xml:space="preserve">558.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5029" xml:space="preserve">A Man may count the Prickes of Trees to be a kinde of Excreſcence, for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0150-03a" xlink:href="note-0150-03"/> they will never be Boughs, nor bear Leaves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5030" xml:space="preserve">The Plants that have Prickles, <lb/>are Thorns, Black and White; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5031" xml:space="preserve">Bryer, Roſe, Lemmon-trees, Crab-trees, <lb/>Goosberry, Berberry; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5032" xml:space="preserve">theſe have it in the Bough. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5033" xml:space="preserve">The Plants that have <lb/>Prickles in the Leaf are, Holly, Juniper, Whin buſh, Thiſtle; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5034" xml:space="preserve">Nettles alſo <lb/>have a ſmall venemous Prickle; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5035" xml:space="preserve">ſo hath Borrage, but harmleſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5036" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe <lb/>muſt be, haſty putting forth, want of moiſture, and the cloſeneſs of the Bark: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5037" xml:space="preserve">For the haſte of the Spirit to put forth, and the want of nouriſhment to put <lb/>forth a Bough, and the cloſeneſs of the Bark, cauſe Prickles in Boughs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5038" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>therefore they are ever like a Pyramis, for that the moiſture ſpendeth after a lit-<lb/>tle putting forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5039" xml:space="preserve">And for Prickles in Leaves, they come alſo of putting forth <lb/>more Juyce into the Leaf that can ſpred in the Leaf ſmooth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5040" xml:space="preserve">and therefore <lb/>the Leaves other wiſe are rough, as Burrage and Nettles are. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5041" xml:space="preserve">As for the Leaves <lb/>of Holly, they are ſmooth, but never plain, but as it were with folds for the <lb/>ſame cauſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5042" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div619" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0150-03" xlink:href="note-0150-03a" xml:space="preserve">559.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5043" xml:space="preserve">There be alſo Plants, that though they have no Prickles, yet they have a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0150-04a" xlink:href="note-0150-04"/> kinde of Downey or Velvet Rine upon their Leaſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5044" xml:space="preserve">as Roſe-Campion Stock-<lb/>Gilliflowers, Colts-foot; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5045" xml:space="preserve">which Down or Nap cometh of a ſubtile Spirit, in a <lb/>ſoft or fat ſubſtance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5046" xml:space="preserve">For it is certain, that both Stock-Gilliflowers, and Roſe- <pb o="117" file="0151" n="151" rhead="Century V I."/> Campions, ſtamped, have been applied (with ſucceſs) to the Wreſts of <lb/>thoſe that have had Tertian or Quartan Agues; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5047" xml:space="preserve">and the Vapor or Colts-foot <lb/>have a ſanative vertue towards the Lungs, and the Leaf alſo is healing in <lb/>Surgery.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5048" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div620" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0150-04" xlink:href="note-0150-04a" xml:space="preserve">560.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5049" xml:space="preserve">Another kinde of Fxcreſcence is an Exudation of Plants, joyned with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0151-01a" xlink:href="note-0151-01"/> Putrefaction, as we ſee in Oak-Apples, which are found chiefly upon the <lb/>Leaves of Oaks, and the like upon Willows: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5050" xml:space="preserve">And Countrey people have a <lb/>kinde of Prediction, that if the Oak-Apple, broken, be full of Worms, it is <lb/>a ſign of a peſtilent year; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5051" xml:space="preserve">which is a likely thing, becauſe they grow of cor-<lb/>ruption.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5052" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div621" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-01" xlink:href="note-0151-01a" xml:space="preserve">561.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5053" xml:space="preserve">There is alſo upon Sweet, or other Bryer, a fine Tuft, or Bruſh of Moſs <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0151-02a" xlink:href="note-0151-02"/> of divers colours; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5054" xml:space="preserve">which if you cut, you ſhall ever finde full of little white <lb/>Worms.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5055" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div622" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-02" xlink:href="note-0151-02a" xml:space="preserve">562.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5056" xml:space="preserve">ITis certain, that Earth taken out of the Foundations of Vaults and Houſes <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0151-03a" xlink:href="note-0151-03"/> and bottoms of Wells, and then put into Pots, will put forth ſundry kinde <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0151-04a" xlink:href="note-0151-04"/> of Herbs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5057" xml:space="preserve">But ſome time is required for the Germination; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5058" xml:space="preserve">for if it be taken <lb/>but from a Fathom deep, it will put forth the firſt year, if much deeper, not <lb/>till after a year or two.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5059" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div623" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-03" xlink:href="note-0151-03a" xml:space="preserve">563.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-04" xlink:href="note-0151-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Producing of <lb/>perfect Plants <lb/>without Seeds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5060" xml:space="preserve">The nature of the Plants growing out of the Earth ſo taken up, doth fol-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0151-05a" xlink:href="note-0151-05"/> low the nature of the Mould it ſelf, as if the Mould be ſoft and fine, it put-<lb/>teth forth ſoft Herbs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5061" xml:space="preserve">as Graß, Plantine, and the like: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5062" xml:space="preserve">If the Earth be <lb/>harder and courſer, it putteth forth Herbs more rough, as Thiſtles, Firs, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5063" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5064" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div624" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-05" xlink:href="note-0151-05a" xml:space="preserve">564.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5065" xml:space="preserve">It is common Experience, that where Alleys are cloſe gravelled, the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0151-06a" xlink:href="note-0151-06"/> Earth putteth forth the firſt year Knot Graß, and after Spire Graß. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5066" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe <lb/>is, for that the hard Gravel or Pebble at the firſt laying, will not ſuffer the <lb/>Graß to come forth upright, but turneth it to finde his way where it can; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5067" xml:space="preserve">but after that the Earth is ſome what looſened at the top, the ordinary Graſs <lb/>cometh up.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5068" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div625" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-06" xlink:href="note-0151-06a" xml:space="preserve">565.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5069" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that Earth being taken out of ſhady and watry Woods, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0151-07a" xlink:href="note-0151-07"/> ſome depth, and potted, will put forth Herbs of a fat and juycy ſubſtance; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5070" xml:space="preserve">as Penny-wort, Purſlane, Houſleek, Penny Royal, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5071" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5072" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div626" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-07" xlink:href="note-0151-07a" xml:space="preserve">566.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5073" xml:space="preserve">The Water alſo doth ſend forth Plants that have no Roots fixed in the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0151-08a" xlink:href="note-0151-08"/> bottom; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5074" xml:space="preserve">butthey are leſs perfect Plants being almoſt but Leaves, and thoſe <lb/>ſmall ones: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5075" xml:space="preserve">Such is that we call Duck weed, which hath a Leaf no bigger <lb/>then a Thyme Leaf, but of a freſher Green, and putteth forth a little <lb/>ſtring into the Water, far from the bottom. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5076" xml:space="preserve">As for the Water-Lilly, it hath <lb/>a Root in the Ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5077" xml:space="preserve">and ſo have a number of other Herbs that grow in <lb/>Ponds.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5078" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div627" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-08" xlink:href="note-0151-08a" xml:space="preserve">567.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5079" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by ſome of the Ancients, and ſome Modern Teſtimony like-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0151-09a" xlink:href="note-0151-09"/> wiſe, that there be ſome Plants, that grow upon the top of the Sea; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5080" xml:space="preserve">being <lb/>ſuppoſed to grow of ſome concretion of Slime from the Water, where the <lb/>Sun heateth hot, and where the Sea ſtirreth little. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5081" xml:space="preserve">As for the Alga Matina, <lb/>(Sea-weed) and Eringium (Sea-Thiſtle) both the Roots; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5082" xml:space="preserve">but have Sea-weed un-<lb/>der the Water, the Sea Thiſtle but upon the Shore.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5083" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div628" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-09" xlink:href="note-0151-09a" xml:space="preserve">568.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5084" xml:space="preserve">The Ancients have noted, that there are ſome Herbs that grow out of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0151-10a" xlink:href="note-0151-10"/> Snow, laid up cloſe together, and putrified; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5085" xml:space="preserve">and that they are all bitter, and <lb/>they name one eſpecially, Flomus, which we call Moth-Mollein. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5086" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, <lb/>that Worms are found in Snow commonly, like Earth-worms; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5087" xml:space="preserve">and there-<lb/>fore it is not unlike, that it may like wiſe put forth Plants.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5088" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div629" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-10" xlink:href="note-0151-10a" xml:space="preserve">569.</note> </div> <pb o="118" file="0152" n="152" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5089" xml:space="preserve">The Ancients have affirmed, that there are ſome Herbs that grow out <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0152-01a" xlink:href="note-0152-01"/> of Stone, which may be, for that it is certain, that Toads have been found <lb/>in the middle of a Freeſtone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5090" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that Flints lying above ground <lb/>gather Moſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5091" xml:space="preserve">and Wall-flowers, and ſome other Flowers grow upon Walls. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5092" xml:space="preserve">But whether upon the main Brick or Stone, or whether out of the Lime, or <lb/>Chinks, is not well obſerved. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5093" xml:space="preserve">For Elders and Aſhes have been ſeen to grow <lb/>out of Steeples; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5094" xml:space="preserve">but they manifeſtly grow out of Clefts, inſomuch as, when <lb/>they grow big, they will disjoyn the Stone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5095" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, it is doubtful, whe-<lb/>ther the Mortar it ſelf putteth it forth, or whether ſome Seeds be not let <lb/>fall by Birds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5096" xml:space="preserve">There be likewiſe Rock-Herbs, but I ſuppoſe thoſe are, <lb/>where there is ſome Mould or Earth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5097" xml:space="preserve">It hath likewiſe been found, that <lb/>great Trees, growing upon Quarries, have put down their Root into the <lb/>Stone.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5098" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div630" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0152-01" xlink:href="note-0152-01a" xml:space="preserve">570.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5099" xml:space="preserve">In ſome Mines in Germany, as is reported, there grow in the bottom <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0152-02a" xlink:href="note-0152-02"/> Vegetables; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5100" xml:space="preserve">and the Workfolks uſeto ſay, Th<unsure/>ey have Magical Vertue, and <lb/>will not ſuffer men together them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5101" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div631" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0152-02" xlink:href="note-0152-02a" xml:space="preserve">571.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5102" xml:space="preserve">The Sea-ſands ſeldom bear Plants. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5103" xml:space="preserve">Whereof the cauſe is yielded by <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0152-03a" xlink:href="note-0152-03"/> ſome of the Ancients, for that the Sun exhaleth the Moiſture, before it can <lb/>incorporate with the Earth, and yield a Nouriſhment for the Plant. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5104" xml:space="preserve">And it is <lb/>affirmed alſo, that Sand hath (always) his Root in Clay; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5105" xml:space="preserve">and that there be <lb/>no Veins of Sand, any great depth within the Earth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5106" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div632" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0152-03" xlink:href="note-0152-03a" xml:space="preserve">572.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5107" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that ſome Plants put forth for a time of their own ſtore, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0152-04a" xlink:href="note-0152-04"/> without any Nouriſhment from Earth, Water, Stone, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5108" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5109" xml:space="preserve">Of which, vide the <lb/>Experiment 29.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5110" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div633" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0152-04" xlink:href="note-0152-04a" xml:space="preserve">573.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5111" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported, That Earth that was brought out of the Indies, and other <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0152-05a" xlink:href="note-0152-05"/> remote Countreys for Ballaſt for Ships, caſt upon ſome Grounds in Italy, did <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0152-06a" xlink:href="note-0152-06"/> put forth Foreign Herbs, to us in Europe not known; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5112" xml:space="preserve">and, that which is more, <lb/>that of their Roots, Barks, and Seeds, contuſed together, and mingled with <lb/>other Earth, and well watred with warm Water, there came forth Herbs <lb/>much like the other.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5113" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div634" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0152-05" xlink:href="note-0152-05a" xml:space="preserve">574.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0152-06" xlink:href="note-0152-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Foreign Plants</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5114" xml:space="preserve">Plants, brought out of hot Countreys, will endeavor to put forth at the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0152-07a" xlink:href="note-0152-07"/> ſame time, that they do uſually do in their own climate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5115" xml:space="preserve">and therefore to <lb/>preſerve them, there is no more required than to keep them from the injury <lb/>of putting back by Cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5116" xml:space="preserve">It is reported alſo, that Grain out of the hotter <lb/>Countreys tranſlated into the Colder, will be more foreward than the ordi-<lb/>nary Grain of the cold Countrey. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5117" xml:space="preserve">It is likely, that this will prove better in <lb/>Grains, than in Trees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5118" xml:space="preserve">for that Grains are but Annual, and ſo the vertue of <lb/>the Seed is not worn out; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5119" xml:space="preserve">whereas in a Tree, it is embaſed by the Ground, to <lb/>which it is removed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5120" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div635" type="float" level="2" n="51"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0152-07" xlink:href="note-0152-07a" xml:space="preserve">575.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5121" xml:space="preserve">Many Plants, which grow in the hotter Countreys, being ſet in the colder, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0152-08a" xlink:href="note-0152-08"/> will nevertheleſs, even in thoſe cold Countreys, being ſown of Seeds <lb/>late in the Spring come up and abide moſt part of the Summer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5122" xml:space="preserve">as we <lb/>finde it in Orenge, and Lemmon Seeds, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5123" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5124" xml:space="preserve">The Seeds whereof, ſown <lb/>in the end of April, will bring forth excellent Sallets, mingled with other <lb/>Herbs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5125" xml:space="preserve">And I doubt not, but the Seeds of Clove Trees, and Pepper-<lb/>Seeds, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5126" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5127" xml:space="preserve">If they could come hither Green enough to be ſown, would <lb/>do the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5128" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div636" type="float" level="2" n="52"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0152-08" xlink:href="note-0152-08a" xml:space="preserve">576.</note> </div> <pb o="119" file="0153" n="153" rhead="Century V I."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5129" xml:space="preserve">THere be ſome Flowers, Bloſſems, Grains, and Fruits, which come more <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0153-01a" xlink:href="note-0153-01"/> early, and others which come more late in the year. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5130" xml:space="preserve">The Flowers <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0153-02a" xlink:href="note-0153-02"/> that come early with us, are, Prime-Roſes, Violets, Anemonies, Water-Daffa-<lb/>dillies, Crocus Vernus, and ſome early Tulippa’s. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5131" xml:space="preserve">And they are all cold Plants, <lb/>which therefore (as it ſhould ſeem) have a quicker Perception of the heat <lb/>of the Sun increaſing, than the hot Herbs have, as a cold hand will ſooner <lb/>finde a little warmth, than a hot. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5132" xml:space="preserve">And thoſe that come next after, are Wall-<lb/>Flowers, Cowſlips, Hyacinths, Roſemary-flowers, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5133" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5134" xml:space="preserve">And after them <lb/>Pinks, Roſes, Flower deluces, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5135" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5136" xml:space="preserve">And the lateſt are, Gilly flowers, Holly-<lb/>Oaks, Larks-Foot, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5137" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5138" xml:space="preserve">The earlieſt Bloſſoms are, the Bloſſoms of Peaches, <lb/>Almonds, Cornelians, Mezerions, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5139" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5140" xml:space="preserve">And they are of ſuch Trees, as have <lb/>much moiſture, either Watery, or Oyly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5141" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Crocus Vernus alſo, <lb/>being an Herb that hath an Oyly Juyce, putteth forth early. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5142" xml:space="preserve">For thoſe alſo <lb/>finde the Sun ſooner than the dryer Trees. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5143" xml:space="preserve">The Grains are, firſt Rye and <lb/>Wheat, then Oats and Barley, then Peaſe and Beans; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5144" xml:space="preserve">for though Green <lb/>Peaſe and Beans be eaten ſooner, yet the dry ones that are uſed for Horſe-<lb/>meat, are ripe laſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5145" xml:space="preserve">and it ſeemeth, that the fatter Grain cometh firſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5146" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>earlieſt Fruits are, Strawberries, Cherries, Gooſeberries, Corrans; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5147" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>after them early Apples, early Pears, Apricots, Raſps; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5148" xml:space="preserve">and after them, Da-<lb/>moſins, and moſt kinde of Plumbs, Peaches, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5149" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5150" xml:space="preserve">And the lateſt are, Apples, <lb/>Wardens, Grapes, Nuts, Quinces, Almonds, Sloes, Brier-berries, Heps, <lb/>Medlars, Services, Cornelians, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5151" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5152" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div637" type="float" level="2" n="53"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0153-01" xlink:href="note-0153-01a" xml:space="preserve">577.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0153-02" xlink:href="note-0153-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Seaſons in <lb/>which Plants <lb/>come forth.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5153" xml:space="preserve">It is to be noted, That (commonly) Trees that ripen lateſt, bloſſom <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0153-03a" xlink:href="note-0153-03"/> ſooneſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5154" xml:space="preserve">as Peaches, Cornelians, Sloes, Almonds, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5155" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5156" xml:space="preserve">And it ſeemeth to be <lb/>a work of providence that they bloſſom ſo ſoon, for otherwiſe they could <lb/>not have the Sun long enough to ripen.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5157" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div638" type="float" level="2" n="54"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0153-03" xlink:href="note-0153-03a" xml:space="preserve">578.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5158" xml:space="preserve">There be Fruits (but rarely) that come twice a year; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5159" xml:space="preserve">as ſome Pears, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0153-04a" xlink:href="note-0153-04"/> Strawberries, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5160" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5161" xml:space="preserve">And it ſeemeth, they are ſuch as abound with nouriſh-<lb/>ment, whereby after one period, before the Sun waxeth too weak, they <lb/>can endure another. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5162" xml:space="preserve">The Violet alſo, amongſt Flowers, cometh twice a <lb/>year, eſpecially the double White, and that alſo is a Plant full of moi-<lb/>ſture. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5163" xml:space="preserve">Roſes come twice, but it is not without cutting, as hath been formerly <lb/>ſaid.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5164" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div639" type="float" level="2" n="55"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0153-04" xlink:href="note-0153-04a" xml:space="preserve">579.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5165" xml:space="preserve">In Muſcovia, though the Corn come not up till late Spring, yet their <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0153-05a" xlink:href="note-0153-05"/> Harveſt is as early as ours. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5166" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the ſtrength of the Ground <lb/>is keptin with the Snow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5167" xml:space="preserve">and we ſee with us, that if it be a long Winter, it <lb/>is commonly a more plentiful year: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5168" xml:space="preserve">And after thoſe kinde of Winters like-<lb/>wife, the Flowers and Corn which are earlier and later, do come com-<lb/>monly at once, and at the ſame time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5169" xml:space="preserve">which troubleth the Husbandman <lb/>many times: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5170" xml:space="preserve">For you ſhall have Red-Roſes and Damask-Roſes come toge-<lb/>ther, and likewiſe the Harveſt of Wheat and Barley. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5171" xml:space="preserve">But this hapneth <lb/>ever, for that the earlier ſtayeth the later, and not that the later cometh <lb/>ſooner.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5172" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div640" type="float" level="2" n="56"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0153-05" xlink:href="note-0153-05a" xml:space="preserve">580.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5173" xml:space="preserve">There be divers Fruit Trees, in the hot Countreys, which have Bloſ-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0153-06a" xlink:href="note-0153-06"/> ſoms, and young fruit, and ripe fruit, almoſt all the year, ſucceeding one <lb/>another. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5174" xml:space="preserve">And it is ſaid, the Orenge hath the like with us, for a great part of <lb/>Summer, and ſo alſo hath the Fig. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5175" xml:space="preserve">And no doubt, the Natural Motion of <lb/>Plants is to have ſo: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5176" xml:space="preserve">But that either they want Juyce to ſpend, or they meet <lb/>with the cold of the Winter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5177" xml:space="preserve">And therefore this Circle of ripening cannot <lb/>be, but in ſucculent Plants, and hot Countreys.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5178" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div641" type="float" level="2" n="57"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0153-06" xlink:href="note-0153-06a" xml:space="preserve">581.</note> </div> <pb o="120" file="0154" n="154" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5179" xml:space="preserve">Some Herbs are but Annual, and die Root and all once a year; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5180" xml:space="preserve">as Bor-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0154-01a" xlink:href="note-0154-01"/> rage, Lettuce, Cucumbers, Musk-Melons, Baſil, Tohacco, Muſtard-ſeed, and all kindes <lb/>of Corn; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5181" xml:space="preserve">ſome continue many years, as Hyſſope, Germander, Lavender, Fennel, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5182" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5183" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the Dying is double; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5184" xml:space="preserve">the firſt is, the tenderneſs and <lb/>weakneſs of the Seed, which maketh the period in a ſmall time, as it is in <lb/>Borrage, Lettuce, Cucumbers, Corn, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5185" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5186" xml:space="preserve">And therefore none of theſe are hot. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5187" xml:space="preserve">The other cauſe is, for that ſome Herbs can worſe endure cold, as Baſil, <lb/>Tobacco, Maſtard ſeed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5188" xml:space="preserve">and theſe have (all) much heat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5189" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div642" type="float" level="2" n="58"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0154-01" xlink:href="note-0154-01a" xml:space="preserve">582.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5190" xml:space="preserve">THe laſting of Plants, is moſt in thoſe that are largeſt of Body, as Oaks, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0154-02a" xlink:href="note-0154-02"/> Elm, Cheſnut. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5191" xml:space="preserve">the Loat-tree, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5192" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5193" xml:space="preserve">And this holdeth in Trees, but in Herbs <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0154-03a" xlink:href="note-0154-03"/> it is often contrary; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5194" xml:space="preserve">for Borrage, Coleworts, Pompions, which are Herbs <lb/>of the largeſt ſize, are of ſmall durance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5195" xml:space="preserve">whereas Hyſſope, Winter-Savory, <lb/>Germander, Time, Sage, will laſt long. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5196" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Trees laſt ac-<lb/>cording to the ſtrength, and quantity of their Sap and Juyce, being <lb/>well munited by their Bark, againſt the injuries of the Air: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5197" xml:space="preserve">But Herbs <lb/>draw a weak Juyce, and have a ſoft Stalk; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5198" xml:space="preserve">and therefore thoſe a-<lb/>mongſt them which laſt longeſt, are Herbs of ſtrong ſmell, and with a <lb/>ſticky ſtalk.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5199" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div643" type="float" level="2" n="59"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0154-02" xlink:href="note-0154-02a" xml:space="preserve">583.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0154-03" xlink:href="note-0154-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Laſting of <lb/>Herbs and <lb/>Trees.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5200" xml:space="preserve">Trees that bear Maſt and Nuts, are commonly more laſting than thoſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0154-04a" xlink:href="note-0154-04"/> that bear Fruits, eſpecially the moiſter Fruits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5201" xml:space="preserve">as Oaks, Beeches, Cheſnuts, <lb/>Walnuts, Almonds, Pine trees, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5202" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5203" xml:space="preserve">laſt longer than Apples, Pears, Plumbs, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5204" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5205" xml:space="preserve">The cauſeis, the fatneſs, and oylineſs of the Sap; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5206" xml:space="preserve">which ever waſteth <lb/>leſs, than the more Watry.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5207" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div644" type="float" level="2" n="60"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0154-04" xlink:href="note-0154-04a" xml:space="preserve">584.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5208" xml:space="preserve">Trees that bring forth their Leaves late in the year, and caſt them like-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0154-05a" xlink:href="note-0154-05"/> wiſe late, are more laſting than thoſe that ſprout their Leaves early, or ſhed <lb/>them betimes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5209" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the late coming forth, ſheweth a moi-<lb/>ſture more fixed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5210" xml:space="preserve">and the other looſe, and more eaſily reſolved. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5211" xml:space="preserve">And the <lb/>ſame cauſe is, that wilde Trees laſt longer than Garden-trees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5212" xml:space="preserve">and in the <lb/>ſame kinde, thoſe whoſe Fruit is acide more than thoſe whoſe Fruit is <lb/>ſweet.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5213" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div645" type="float" level="2" n="61"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0154-05" xlink:href="note-0154-05a" xml:space="preserve">585.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5214" xml:space="preserve">Nothing procureth the laſting of Trees, Buſhes, and Herbs, ſo much <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0154-06a" xlink:href="note-0154-06"/> as often cutting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5215" xml:space="preserve">for every cutting cauſeth a renovation of the Juyce <lb/>of the Plant; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5216" xml:space="preserve">that it neither goeth ſo far, nor riſeth ſo faintly, as when <lb/>the Plant is not cut: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5217" xml:space="preserve">Inſomuch, as Annual Plants, if you cut them ſea-<lb/>ſonably, and will ſpare the uſe of them, and ſuffer them to come up ſtill <lb/>young, will laſt more years than one, as hath been partly touched; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5218" xml:space="preserve">ſuch <lb/>as is Lettuce, Purſlane, Cucumber, and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5219" xml:space="preserve">And for great Trees, <lb/>we ſee almoſt all overgrown Trees in Church-yards, or near ancient <lb/>Building, and the like, are Pollards or Dottards, and not Trees at their <lb/>full height.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5220" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div646" type="float" level="2" n="62"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0154-06" xlink:href="note-0154-06a" xml:space="preserve">586.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5221" xml:space="preserve">Some Experiment would be made, how by Art to make Plants more <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0154-07a" xlink:href="note-0154-07"/> laſting than their ordinary period; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5222" xml:space="preserve">as to make a Stalk of Wheat, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5223" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5224" xml:space="preserve">laſt a <lb/>whole year. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5225" xml:space="preserve">You muſt ever preſuppoſe, that you handle it ſo, as the Winter <lb/>killeth it not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5226" xml:space="preserve">for we ſpeak onely of prolonging the Natural Period. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5227" xml:space="preserve">I con-<lb/>ceive, that the Rule will hold, That whatſoever maketh the Herb come later, <lb/>than at his time will make it laſt longer time: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5228" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try it in a Stalk <lb/>of Wheat, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5229" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5230" xml:space="preserve">ſet in the ſhade, and encomp aſſed with a caſe of Wood, not <lb/>touching the Straw, to keep out open Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5231" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div647" type="float" level="2" n="63"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0154-07" xlink:href="note-0154-07a" xml:space="preserve">587.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5232" xml:space="preserve">As for the Preſervation of Fruits, as well upon the Tree or Stalk, as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0154-08a" xlink:href="note-0154-08"/> gathered, we ſhall handle it under the Title of Conſervation of Bodies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5233" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div648" type="float" level="2" n="64"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0154-08" xlink:href="note-0154-08a" xml:space="preserve">588.</note> </div> <pb o="121" file="0155" n="155" rhead="Century V I."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5234" xml:space="preserve">THe Particular Figures of Plants we leave to their deſcriptions, but ſome <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0155-01a" xlink:href="note-0155-01"/> few things in general, we will obſerve. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5235" xml:space="preserve">Trees and Herbs, in the grow-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0155-02a" xlink:href="note-0155-02"/> ing forth of their Boughs and Branches, are not figured, and keep no order. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5236" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Sap, being reſtrained in the Rinde and Bark, break-<lb/>eth not forth at all, (as in the Bodies of Trees, and Stalks of Herbs,) till <lb/>they begin to branch, and then, when they make an eruption, they break <lb/>forth caſually, where they finde beſt way in the Bark or Rinde. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5237" xml:space="preserve">It is true, <lb/>that ſome Trees are more ſcattered in their Boughs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5238" xml:space="preserve">as Sallow trees, Warden-<lb/>trees, Quince-trees, Medlar-trees, Lemnion trees, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5239" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5240" xml:space="preserve">Some are more in the <lb/>form of a Pyramis, and come almoſt to tod; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5241" xml:space="preserve">as the Pear-trees (which the C i-<lb/>ticks will have to borrow his name of ῶῖς Fire) Orenge-trees, Fir-trees, Service <lb/>trees, Lime-trees, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5242" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5243" xml:space="preserve">And ſome are more ſpred and broad, as Beeches, Horn-<lb/>beam, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5244" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5245" xml:space="preserve">The reſt are more indifferent. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5246" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of ſeattering the Boughs <lb/>is, the haſty breaking forth of the Sap; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5247" xml:space="preserve">and therefore thoſe Trees riſe not <lb/>in a Body of any height, but Branch near the Ground. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5248" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the <lb/>Pyramis is, the keeping in of the Sap, long before it branch, and the ſpend-<lb/>ing of it, when it beginneth to branch, by equal degrees: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5249" xml:space="preserve">The ſpreding is <lb/>cauſed, by the carrying up of the Sap plentifully, without expence, and then <lb/>putting it forth ſpeedily, and at once.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5250" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div649" type="float" level="2" n="65"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0155-01" xlink:href="note-0155-01a" xml:space="preserve">588.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0155-02" xlink:href="note-0155-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>ſeveral Fi-<lb/>gures of <lb/>Plants.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5251" xml:space="preserve">There be divers Herbs, but no Trees, that may be ſaid to have ſome <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0155-03a" xlink:href="note-0155-03"/> kinde of order, in the putting forth of their Leaves: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5252" xml:space="preserve">For they have Joynts, <lb/>or Knuckles, as it were ſtops in their Germination; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5253" xml:space="preserve">as have Gilliflowers, Pinks, <lb/>Fennel, Corn, Reeds, and Canes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5254" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe whereof is, for that the Sap aſcend-<lb/>eth unequally, and doth (as it were) tire and ſtop by the way. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5255" xml:space="preserve">And it ſeem-<lb/>eth, they have ſome cloſeneſs and hardneſs in their Stalk, which hindereth <lb/>the Sap from going up, until it hath gathered into a knot, and ſo is more urged <lb/>to put forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5256" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, they are moſt of them hollow, when the Stalk <lb/>is dry; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5257" xml:space="preserve">as Fennel Stalks, Stubble, and Canes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5258" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div650" type="float" level="2" n="66"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0155-03" xlink:href="note-0155-03a" xml:space="preserve">589.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5259" xml:space="preserve">Flowers have (all) exquiſite Figures, and the Flower numbers are <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0155-04a" xlink:href="note-0155-04"/> (chiefly) five and four; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5260" xml:space="preserve">as in Prime-Roſes, Bryer-Roſes, ſingle Musk-Roſes, ſingle <lb/>Pinks, and Gilliflowers, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5261" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5262" xml:space="preserve">which have five Leaves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5263" xml:space="preserve">Lillies, Flower-de-luces, <lb/>Borage, Bugloß &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5264" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5265" xml:space="preserve">which have four Leaves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5266" xml:space="preserve">But ſome put forth Leaves not <lb/>numbred, but they are ever ſmall ones; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5267" xml:space="preserve">as Marigolds, Trifole, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5268" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5269" xml:space="preserve">We ſee <lb/>alſo, that the Sockets, and Supporters of Flowers, are Figured; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5270" xml:space="preserve">as in the <lb/>five Brethren of the Roſe, Sockets of Gilliflo wers, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5271" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5272" xml:space="preserve">Leaves alſo are all figured, <lb/>ſome round, ſome long, none ſquare, and many jagged on the ſides; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5273" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>Leaves of Flowers ſeldom are. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5274" xml:space="preserve">For, I account, the jagging of Pinks, and Gil-<lb/>liflowers, to be like the inequality of Oak-leaves, of Vine-leaves, or the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5275" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>they ſeldom or never have any ſmall Purls.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5276" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div651" type="float" level="2" n="67"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0155-04" xlink:href="note-0155-04a" xml:space="preserve">590.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5277" xml:space="preserve">OF Plants ſome few put forth their Bloſſoms before their Leaves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5278" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0155-05a" xlink:href="note-0155-05"/> Almonds, Peaches, Cornelians, Black-Thorn, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5279" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5280" xml:space="preserve">But moſt put forth ſome <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0155-06a" xlink:href="note-0155-06"/> Leaves before their Bloſſoms; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5281" xml:space="preserve">as Apples, Pears, Plumbs, Cherry, White-Thorn, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5282" xml:space="preserve">c The cauſe is for that thoſe that put forth their Bloſſoms firſt, have either <lb/>an acute and ſharp ſpirit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5283" xml:space="preserve">(and therefore commonly they all put forth early <lb/>in the Spring, and ripen very late, as moſt of the particulars before mention-<lb/>ed) or elſe an oyly Juyce, which is apter to put out Flowers than Leaves.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5284" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div652" type="float" level="2" n="68"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0155-05" xlink:href="note-0155-05a" xml:space="preserve">591.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0155-06" xlink:href="note-0155-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Some principal <lb/>differences in <lb/>Plants.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5285" xml:space="preserve">Of Plants ſome are Green all Winter, others caſt their Leaves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5286" xml:space="preserve">There <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0155-07a" xlink:href="note-0155-07"/> are Green all Winter, Holly, Ivy, Box, Firr, Eugh, Cypreß, Juniper, Bays, Roſe-<lb/>mary, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5287" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5288" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the holding Green, is the cloſe and compact ſub- <pb o="122" file="0156" n="156" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> ſtance of their Leaves, and the Pedicles of them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5289" xml:space="preserve">And the cauſe of that again, <lb/>is, either the tough and viſcous Juyce of the Plant, or the ſtrength and heat <lb/>thereof. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5290" xml:space="preserve">Of the firſt ſort, is Holly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5291" xml:space="preserve">which is of ſo viſcous a Juyce, as they <lb/>make Birdlime of the Bark of it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5292" xml:space="preserve">The Stalk of Ivy is tough, and not ſragile, <lb/>as we ſee it in other ſmall Twigs dry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5293" xml:space="preserve">Firr yieldeth Pitch. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5294" xml:space="preserve">Box is a faſt and heavy <lb/>Wood, as we ſee it in Bowls. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5295" xml:space="preserve">Eugh is a ſtrong and tough Wood, as we ſee it <lb/>in Bows. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5296" xml:space="preserve">Of the ſecond ſort, is Juniper, which is a Wood odorate, and maketh <lb/>a hot Fire. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5297" xml:space="preserve">Bays is likewiſe a hot and aromatical Wood, and ſo is Roſemary for <lb/>a Shrub. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5298" xml:space="preserve">As for the Leaves, their denſity appeareth in that, either they are <lb/>ſmooth and ſhining, as in Bays, Holly, Ivy, Box, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5299" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5300" xml:space="preserve">or in that they are hard and <lb/>ſpiry, as in the reſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5301" xml:space="preserve">And tryal would be made of Grafting of Roſemary, and <lb/>Bays, and Box, upon a Holly Stock, becauſe they are Plants that come all Winter. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5302" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try it alſo with Graſts of other Trees, either Fruit trees, or <lb/>Wild-trees, to ſee whether they will not yield their Fruit, or bear their Leaves <lb/>later, and longer in the Winter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5303" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the Sap of the Holly putteth forth <lb/>moſt in the Winter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5304" xml:space="preserve">It may be alſo a Mezerion-tree grafted upon a Holly, will <lb/>prove both an earlier, and a greater Tree.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5305" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div653" type="float" level="2" n="69"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0155-07" xlink:href="note-0155-07a" xml:space="preserve">592.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5306" xml:space="preserve">There be ſome Plants that bear no Flower, and yet bear Fruit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5307" xml:space="preserve">there be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0156-01a" xlink:href="note-0156-01"/> ſome that bear Flowers, and no Fruit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5308" xml:space="preserve">there be ſome that bear neither <lb/>Flowers nor Fruit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5309" xml:space="preserve">Moſt of the great Timber-trees, (as Oaks, Beeches, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5310" xml:space="preserve">c.) <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5311" xml:space="preserve">bear no apparent Flowers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5312" xml:space="preserve">ſome few (likewiſe) of the Fruit-trees, as Mul-<lb/>berry, Walnuts, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5313" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5314" xml:space="preserve">And ſome Shrubs, (as Juniper, Holly, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5315" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5316" xml:space="preserve">bear no <lb/>Flowers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5317" xml:space="preserve">Divers Herbs alſo bear Seeds, (which is as the Fruit,) and yet bear <lb/>no Flowers, as Purſlane, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5318" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5319" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe that bear Flowers, and no Fruit, are few, <lb/>as the double Cherry, the Sallow, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5320" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5321" xml:space="preserve">But for the Cherry, it is doubtſul, <lb/>whether it be not by Art or Culture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5322" xml:space="preserve">for if it be by Art, then tryal would be <lb/>made, whether Apples and other Fruits Bloſſoms may not be doubled. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5323" xml:space="preserve">There <lb/>are ſome few, that bear neither Fruit, nor Flower; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5324" xml:space="preserve">as the Elm, the Poplars, <lb/>Box, Braks, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5325" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5326" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div654" type="float" level="2" n="70"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0156-01" xlink:href="note-0156-01a" xml:space="preserve">593.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5327" xml:space="preserve">There be ſome Plants that ſhoot ſtill upwards, and can ſupport them-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0156-02a" xlink:href="note-0156-02"/> ſelves, as the greateſt part of Trees and Plants: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5328" xml:space="preserve">There be ſome other, that <lb/>creep along the Ground, or wind about other Trees, or props, and cannot <lb/>ſupport themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5329" xml:space="preserve">as Vines, Ivy, Bryar, Briony, Wood-bines, Hops, <lb/>Climatis, Camomil, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5330" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5331" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, (as hath been partly touched) for that <lb/>all Plants, (naturally) move up wards; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5332" xml:space="preserve">but if the Sap put up too faſt, it maketh <lb/>a ſlender Stalk, which will not ſupport the weight; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5333" xml:space="preserve">and therefore theſe latter. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5334" xml:space="preserve">ſort are all ſwift and haſty comers.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5335" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div655" type="float" level="2" n="71"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0156-02" xlink:href="note-0156-02a" xml:space="preserve">594.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5336" xml:space="preserve">THe firſt and moſt ordinary help is Stercoration. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5337" xml:space="preserve">The Sheeps-dung is one of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0156-03a" xlink:href="note-0156-03"/> the beſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5338" xml:space="preserve">and next, the Dung of Kine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5339" xml:space="preserve">and thirdly, that of Horſes; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5340" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0156-04a" xlink:href="note-0156-04"/> which is held to be ſome what too hot, unleſs it be mingled; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5341" xml:space="preserve">that of Pigeons <lb/>for a Garden, as a ſmall quantity of Ground, excelleth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5342" xml:space="preserve">The ordering of <lb/>Dung is, if the Ground be Arable, to ſpred it immediately before the Plough-<lb/>ing and Sowing, and ſo to Plough it in: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5343" xml:space="preserve">For if you ſpred it long before, the <lb/>Sun will draw out much of the fatneſs of the Dung: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5344" xml:space="preserve">If the Ground be Grazing <lb/>Ground, to ſpred it ſomewhat late to wards Winter, that the Sun may have <lb/>the leſs power to dry it up. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5345" xml:space="preserve">As for ſpecial Composts for Gardens (as a Hot Bed, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5346" xml:space="preserve">c.) <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5347" xml:space="preserve">we have handled them before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5348" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div656" type="float" level="2" n="72"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0156-03" xlink:href="note-0156-03a" xml:space="preserve">595.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0156-04" xlink:href="note-0156-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching all <lb/>Manner of <lb/>Compoſts and <lb/>Help of <lb/>Ground.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5349" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond kinde of Compoſt is, the ſpreding of divers kindes of Earth; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5350" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0156-05a" xlink:href="note-0156-05"/> as Marl, Chalk, Sea Sand, Earth upon Earth, Pond-Earth, and the mixtures of <lb/>them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5351" xml:space="preserve">Marl is thought to be the beſt, as having moſt fatneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5352" xml:space="preserve">And not <pb o="123" file="0157" n="157" rhead="Century VI."/> heating the Ground too much. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5353" xml:space="preserve">The next is Sea-ſand, which (no doubt) <lb/>obtained a ſpecial vertue by the Salt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5354" xml:space="preserve">for Salt is the firſt rudiment of life. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5355" xml:space="preserve">Chalk over-heateth the Ground a little; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5356" xml:space="preserve">and therefore is beſt upon cold <lb/>Clay Grounds, or moiſt Grounds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5357" xml:space="preserve">But I heard a great Husband ſay, that it was <lb/>a common error to think that Chalk helpeth Airable Grounds, but helpeth <lb/>not Grazing Grounds, whereas (indeed) it helpeth Graſs as well as Corn. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5358" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>But that which breedeth the error is, becauſe after the chalking of the <lb/>Ground, they wear it out with many Crops, withoutreſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5359" xml:space="preserve">and then (indeed) <lb/>afterwards it will bear little Graſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5360" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the Ground is tired out. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5361" xml:space="preserve">It were <lb/>good to try the laying of Chalk upon Airable Grounds, a little while before <lb/>Ploughing, and to Plough it in, as they do the Dung; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5362" xml:space="preserve">but then it muſt be <lb/>Friable firſt, by Rain or Lying: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5363" xml:space="preserve">As for Earth it compaſſeth it ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5364" xml:space="preserve">for I <lb/>knew a great Garden, that had a Field (in a manner) poured upon it, and it <lb/>did bear Fruit excellently the firſt year of the Planting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5365" xml:space="preserve">for the Surface of <lb/>the Earth is ever the fruitfulleſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5366" xml:space="preserve">And Earth ſo prepared hath a double Sur-<lb/>face. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5367" xml:space="preserve">But it is true, as I conceive, that ſuch Earth as hath Salt-Peter bred in it, <lb/>if you can procure it without too much charge, doth excel. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5368" xml:space="preserve">The way to <lb/>haſten the breeding of Salt-Peter, is to forbid the Sun, and the growth of <lb/>Vegetables. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5369" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, if you make a large Hovel, thatched, over ſome <lb/>quantity of Ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5370" xml:space="preserve">nay, if you do but planck the Ground over, it will <lb/>breed Salt-Peter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5371" xml:space="preserve">As for Pond-earth or River-earth, it is a very good compoſt, <lb/>eſpecially, if the Pond have been long uncleanſed, and ſo the Water be not <lb/>too hungry; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5372" xml:space="preserve">and I judge it will be yet better, if there be ſome mixture of <lb/>Chalk.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5373" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div657" type="float" level="2" n="73"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0156-05" xlink:href="note-0156-05a" xml:space="preserve">596.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5374" xml:space="preserve">The third help of Ground is, by ſome other Subſtances that have ver-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0157-01a" xlink:href="note-0157-01"/> tue to make Ground Fertile, though they be not meerly Earth, wherein Aſhes <lb/>excel; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5375" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch as the Countreys about Ætna and Veſuvius have a kinde of <lb/>amends made them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5376" xml:space="preserve">for the miſchief the eruptions (many times) do, by <lb/>the exceeding fruitfulneſs of the ſoyl, cauſed by the Aſhes ſcattered about. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5377" xml:space="preserve">Soot alſo, though thin, ſpred in a Field or Garden, is tryed to be a very good <lb/>compoſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5378" xml:space="preserve">For Salt it is too coſtly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5379" xml:space="preserve">but it is tryed, that mingled with Seed-<lb/>corn, and ſown together, it doth good: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5380" xml:space="preserve">And I am of opinion, that Chalk in <lb/>Powder, mingled with Seed-corn, would do good; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5381" xml:space="preserve">perhaps as much as Chalk-<lb/>ing the Ground all over. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5382" xml:space="preserve">As for the ſteeping of the Seeds in ſeveral mixtures <lb/>with Water, to give them vigor, or watring Grounds with Compoſt-water, <lb/>we have ſpoken of them before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5383" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div658" type="float" level="2" n="74"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0157-01" xlink:href="note-0157-01a" xml:space="preserve">597.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5384" xml:space="preserve">The fourth help of Ground is, the ſuffering of Vegetables to die into <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0157-02a" xlink:href="note-0157-02"/> the Ground, and ſo to fatten it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5385" xml:space="preserve">as the Stubble of Corn, eſpecially Peaſe. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5386" xml:space="preserve">Brakes caſt upon the Ground in the beginning of Winter, will make it very <lb/>fruitful. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5387" xml:space="preserve">It were good (alſo) to try whether Leaves of Trees ſwepttogether, <lb/>with ſome Chalk and Dung mixed, to give them more heart, would not <lb/>make a good Compoſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5388" xml:space="preserve">For there is nothing loſt, ſo much as Leaves of <lb/>Trees, and as they lie ſcattered, and without mixture, they rather make the <lb/>Ground ſour, than other wiſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5389" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div659" type="float" level="2" n="75"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0157-02" xlink:href="note-0157-02a" xml:space="preserve">598.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5390" xml:space="preserve">The fth help of Ground is, Heat and Warmth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5391" xml:space="preserve">It hath been an ciently <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0157-03a" xlink:href="note-0157-03"/> practiſed to burn Heath, and Ling. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5392" xml:space="preserve">and Sedge, with the vantage of the Wind, <lb/>upon the Ground. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5393" xml:space="preserve">We ſee, that Warmth of Walls and Incloſures, mendeth <lb/>Ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5394" xml:space="preserve">we ſee alſo, that lying open to the South, mendeth Ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5395" xml:space="preserve">we ſee <lb/>again that the Foldings of Sheep help Gound as well by their warmth, as by <lb/>their compoſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5396" xml:space="preserve">And it may be doubted, whether the covering of the Ground <lb/>with Brakes, in the beginning of the Winter (whereof we ſpake in the laſt <lb/>Experiment) helpeth it not, by reaſon of the Warmth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5397" xml:space="preserve">Nay, ſome very good <pb o="124" file="0158" n="158" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Husbands do ſuſpect, that the gathering up of Flints in Flinty Ground, and <lb/>laying them on heaps (which is much uſed) is no good Husbandry for that <lb/>they would keep the Ground warm.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5398" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div660" type="float" level="2" n="76"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0157-03" xlink:href="note-0157-03a" xml:space="preserve">599.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5399" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth help of Ground is, by Watring and Irrigation, which is in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0158-01a" xlink:href="note-0158-01"/> two manners; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5400" xml:space="preserve">The one by Letting in, and Shutting out Waters, at ſeaſon-<lb/>able times; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5401" xml:space="preserve">for Water, at ſome ſeaſons, and with reaſonable ſtay, doth good; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5402" xml:space="preserve">but at ſome other ſeaſons, and with too long ſtay, doth hurt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5403" xml:space="preserve">And this <lb/>ſerveth onely for Meadows, which are along ſome River. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5404" xml:space="preserve">The other way <lb/>is to bring Water from ſome hanging Grounds, where there are Springs <lb/>into the lower Grounds, carrying it in ſome long Furrows; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5405" xml:space="preserve">and from thoſe <lb/>Furrows, drawing it traverſe to ſpred the Water: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5406" xml:space="preserve">And this maketh an excel-<lb/>lent improvement, both for Corn and Graſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5407" xml:space="preserve">It is the richer, if thoſe hang-<lb/>ing Grounds, be fruitful, becauſe it waſheth off ſome of the fatneſs of the <lb/>Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5408" xml:space="preserve">but howſoever it profiteth much. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5409" xml:space="preserve">Generally where there are great <lb/>overflows in Fens, or the like, the drowning of them in the Winter, maketh <lb/>the Summer following more fruitful: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5410" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be for, that it keepeth <lb/>the Ground warm, and nouriſheth it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5411" xml:space="preserve">But the Fen-men hold, that the Sewers <lb/>muſt be kept ſo, as the Water may not ſtay too long in the Spring, till the <lb/>Weeds and Sedge be grown up; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5412" xml:space="preserve">for then the Ground will be like a Wood <lb/>which keepeth out the Sun, and ſo continueth the wet; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5413" xml:space="preserve">whereby it will <lb/>never graze (to purpoſe) that year. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5414" xml:space="preserve">Thus much for Irrigation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5415" xml:space="preserve">but for <lb/>Avoidances, and Drainings of Water, where there is too much, and the <lb/>helps of Ground in that kinde, weſhall ſpeak of them in another place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5416" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div661" type="float" level="2" n="77"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0158-01" xlink:href="note-0158-01a" xml:space="preserve">600.</note> </div> <pb o="125" file="0159" n="159"/> <figure> <image file="0159-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0159-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div663" type="section" level="1" n="30"> <head xml:id="echoid-head43" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL <lb/>HISTORY</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head44" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Century VII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5417" xml:space="preserve">THe differences between Animate and Inanimate Bodies, we <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0159-01a" xlink:href="note-0159-01"/> ſhall handle fully under the Title of Life, and Living <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0159-02a" xlink:href="note-0159-02"/> Spirits, and Powers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5418" xml:space="preserve">We ſhall therefore make but a brief <lb/>mention of them in this place. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5419" xml:space="preserve">The main differences <lb/>are two. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5420" xml:space="preserve">All Bodies have Spirits, and Pneumatical parts <lb/>within them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5421" xml:space="preserve">but the main differences between Ani-<lb/>mate and Inanimate are two. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5422" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is, that the Spirits <lb/>of things animate, are all contined with themſelves, <lb/>and are branched in Veins, and ſecret Sanales, as Blood is: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5423" xml:space="preserve">And in Living <lb/>Creatures, the Spirits have not onely Branches, but certain Sells or Seats, <lb/>where the principal Spirits do reſide, and whereunto thereſt do reſort: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5424" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>the Spirits in things Inanimate are ſhut in, and cut off by the Tangible parts; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5425" xml:space="preserve">and are not pervious one to another, as Air is in Snow. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5426" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond main <lb/>difference is, that the Spirits of Animate Bodies are all in ſome degree (more <lb/>or leſs) kindled and in flamed, and have a fine commixture of Flame, and <lb/>an Ærial ſubſtance: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5427" xml:space="preserve">But Inanimate Bodies have their Spirits no whit in-<lb/>flamed or kindled. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5428" xml:space="preserve">And this difference conſiſteth not in the Heat or Cool-<lb/>neſs of Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5429" xml:space="preserve">for Cloves and other Spices, Naptha and Petroleum, have ex-<lb/>ceeding hot Spirits (hotter a great deal than Oyl, Wax, or Tallow, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5430" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5431" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>not inflamed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5432" xml:space="preserve">And when any of thoſe weak and temperate Bodies come to <lb/>be in flamed, than they gather a much greater heat, than others have unin-<lb/>flamed, beſides their light and motion, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5433" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5434" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div663" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0159-01" xlink:href="note-0159-01a" xml:space="preserve">601.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0159-02" xlink:href="note-0159-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Affinities and <lb/>Differences, <lb/>between Plants <lb/>and Inanimate <lb/>Bodies.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5435" xml:space="preserve">The differences which are ſecondary, and proceed from theſe two ra-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0159-03a" xlink:href="note-0159-03"/> dical differences are, firſt, Plants are all figurate and determinate, which <lb/>inanimate Bodies are not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5436" xml:space="preserve">for look how far the Spirit is able to ſpred and <lb/>continue it ſelf, ſo far goeth the ſhape or figure, and then is determined. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5437" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, Plants do nouriſh, inanimate Bodies do not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5438" xml:space="preserve">they have an Accre-<lb/>tion, but no Alimentation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5439" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, Plants have a period of life, which in-<lb/>animate Bodies have not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5440" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, they have a ſucceſſion and propagation <lb/>of their kinde, which is not in Bodies inanimate.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5441" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div664" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0159-03" xlink:href="note-0159-03a" xml:space="preserve">602.</note> </div> <pb o="126" file="0160" n="160" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5442" xml:space="preserve">The differences between Plants, and Metals, or Foßiles beſides thoſe four <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0160-01a" xlink:href="note-0160-01"/> beforementioned, (for Metals I hold inanimate) are theſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5443" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, Metals <lb/>are more durable than Plants: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5444" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, they are more ſolid and hard: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5445" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, they are wholly ſubterrany; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5446" xml:space="preserve">whereas Plants are part above Earth, <lb/>and part under Earth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5447" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div665" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0160-01" xlink:href="note-0160-01a" xml:space="preserve">603.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5448" xml:space="preserve">There be very few Creatures that participate of the Nature of Plants, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0160-02a" xlink:href="note-0160-02"/> Metals both; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5449" xml:space="preserve">Coral is one of the neareſt of both kindes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5450" xml:space="preserve">another is Vitriol, <lb/>for that is apteſt to ſprout with moiſture.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5451" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div666" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0160-02" xlink:href="note-0160-02a" xml:space="preserve">604.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5452" xml:space="preserve">Another ſpecial Affinity is between Plants and Mould, or Purrefaction: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5453" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0160-03a" xlink:href="note-0160-03"/> For all Putrefaction, (if it diſſolve notin Arefaction) will in the end iſſue in-<lb/>to Plants or Living Creatures bred of Putrefaction. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5454" xml:space="preserve">I account Moß, and Muſh-<lb/>romes, and Agarick, and other of thoſe kindes, to be but Moulds of the Ground, <lb/>Walls, and Trees, and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5455" xml:space="preserve">As for Flesh, and Fish, and Plants themſelves, <lb/>and a number of other things, after a Mouldineß, or Rottenneß, or Corrupting, <lb/>they will fall to breed Worms. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5456" xml:space="preserve">Theſe Putrefactions, which have Affinity with <lb/>Plants, have this difference from them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5457" xml:space="preserve">that they have no ſucceſſion or pro-<lb/>pagation, though they nouriſh, and have a period of Life, and have like wiſe <lb/>ſome Figure.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5458" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div667" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0160-03" xlink:href="note-0160-03a" xml:space="preserve">605.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5459" xml:space="preserve">I left once, by chance, a Citron cut in a cloſe room, ſor three Summer-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0160-04a" xlink:href="note-0160-04"/> moneths, that I was abſent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5460" xml:space="preserve">and at my return, there were grown forth out <lb/>of the Pith cut, Tufts of Hairs, an inch long, with little black Heads, as if they <lb/>would have been ſome Herb.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5461" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div668" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0160-04" xlink:href="note-0160-04a" xml:space="preserve">606.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5462" xml:space="preserve">THe Affinities and Differences between Plants and Living Creatures, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0160-05a" xlink:href="note-0160-05"/> theſe that follow. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5463" xml:space="preserve">They have both of them Spirits continued and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0160-06a" xlink:href="note-0160-06"/> branched, and alſo inflamed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5464" xml:space="preserve">But firſtin Living Creatures the Spirits have a Cell <lb/>or Seat, which Plants have not, as was alſo formerly ſaid. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5465" xml:space="preserve">And ſecondly, the <lb/>Spirits of Living Creatures hold more of Flame, than the Spirits of Plants do; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5466" xml:space="preserve">and theſe two are the Radical difterences. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5467" xml:space="preserve">For the Secondary differences, <lb/>they are as follow. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5468" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, Plants are all fixed to the Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5469" xml:space="preserve">where as all Living <lb/>Creatures are ſevered, and of themſelves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5470" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, Living Creatureshave <lb/>Local Motion, Plants have not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5471" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, Living Creatures nouriſh from <lb/>their upper parts by the Mouth chiefly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5472" xml:space="preserve">Plants nouriſh from below, namely <lb/>from the Roots. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5473" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, Plants have their Seed and Seminal parts upper-<lb/>moſt, Living Creatures have them lowermoſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5474" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it was ſaid, <lb/>not Elegantly alone, but Philoſophically: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5475" xml:space="preserve">Home eſt Planta inverſa. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5476" xml:space="preserve">Man is like <lb/>a Plant turned upwards; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5477" xml:space="preserve">For the Root in Plants, is as the Head in Living Crea-<lb/>tures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5478" xml:space="preserve">Fiſthly, Living Creatures have a more exact Figure than Plants. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5479" xml:space="preserve">Sixthly, <lb/>Living Creatures have more diverſity of Organs within their Bodies and (as <lb/>it were) in ward Figures than Plants have. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5480" xml:space="preserve">Seventhly, Living Creatures have <lb/>Senſe, which Plants have not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5481" xml:space="preserve">Eightly, Living Creatures have Voluntary <lb/>Motion, which Plants have not.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5482" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div669" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0160-05" xlink:href="note-0160-05a" xml:space="preserve">607.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0160-06" xlink:href="note-0160-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Affinities and <lb/>Differences of <lb/>Plants, and <lb/>Living Crea-<lb/>tures: And <lb/>the Confines <lb/>and Participles <lb/>of them.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5483" xml:space="preserve">For the difference of Sexes in Plants, they are oftentimes by name diſtin-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0160-07a" xlink:href="note-0160-07"/> guiſhed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5484" xml:space="preserve">as Male-Piony, Female. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5485" xml:space="preserve">Piony; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5486" xml:space="preserve">Male-Roſemary, Female-Roſemary; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5487" xml:space="preserve">He-<lb/>Holly, She-Holly, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5488" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5489" xml:space="preserve">But Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth <lb/>not to Plants. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5490" xml:space="preserve">The neareſt approach of it, is between the He-Palm, and the <lb/>She-Palm, which (as they report) if they grow near, incline the one to the <lb/>other; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5491" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch as, (that which is more ſtrange) they doubt not to report, <lb/>that to keep the Trees upright from bending, they tye Ropes or Lines from <lb/>the one to the other, that the contact might be enjoyned by the contact of a <lb/>middle Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5492" xml:space="preserve">But this may be feigned, or at leaſt amplified. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5493" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs, I <pb o="127" file="0161" n="161" rhead="Century VII."/> am apt enough to think, that this ſame Binarium of a ſtronger and a weaker, <lb/>like unto Maſculine and Feminine, doth hold in all Living Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5494" xml:space="preserve">It is con-<lb/>founded ſometimes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5495" xml:space="preserve">as in ſome Creatures of Putrefaction, wherein no marks <lb/>of diſtinction appear; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5496" xml:space="preserve">and it is doubled ſometimes, as in Hermaphrodites: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5497" xml:space="preserve">but generally there is a degtee of ſtrength in moſt Species.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5498" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div670" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0160-07" xlink:href="note-0160-07a" xml:space="preserve">608.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5499" xml:space="preserve">The Participles or Confiners between Plants and Living Creatures, are <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0161-01a" xlink:href="note-0161-01"/> ſuch chiefly as are fixed, and have not Local Motion of remove; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5500" xml:space="preserve">though <lb/>they have a Motion in their parts, ſuch as are Oyſters, Cockles, and ſuch like, <lb/>There is a fabulous Narration, That in the Northern Countreys there ſhould be <lb/>an Herb that groweth in the likeneſs of a Lamb, and feedethupon the Graſs, <lb/>in ſuch ſort, as it will bear the Graſs round about. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5501" xml:space="preserve">But, I ſuppoſe, that the <lb/>Figure maketh the Fable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5502" xml:space="preserve">for ſo weſee there be Bee-flowers, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5503" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5504" xml:space="preserve">And as <lb/>for the Graſs, it ſeemeth the Plant, having a greatſtalk and top, doth prey <lb/>upon the Graſs a good way about, by drawing the Juyce of the Earth <lb/>from it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5505" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div671" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0161-01" xlink:href="note-0161-01a" xml:space="preserve">609.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5506" xml:space="preserve">THe Indian Fig boweth his Roots down ſolow in one year, as of it ſelf it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0161-02a" xlink:href="note-0161-02"/> taketh Rootagain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5507" xml:space="preserve">and ſo multiplieth from Root to Root, making of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0161-03a" xlink:href="note-0161-03"/> one Tree a kinde of Wood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5508" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, the plenty of the Sap, and the <lb/>ſoftneſs of the ſtalk, which maketh the Bough, being over-loaden, and not <lb/>ſtiffly upheld, weigh down. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5509" xml:space="preserve">It hath Leaves as broad as a little Target, but <lb/>the Fruitno biggerthan Beans. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5510" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the continual ſhade in-<lb/>creaſeth the Leaves, and abateth the Fruit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5511" xml:space="preserve">which nevertheleſs is of a plea-<lb/>ſant taſte. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5512" xml:space="preserve">And that (no doubt) is cauſed, by the ſuppleneſs and gentleneſs <lb/>of the Juyce of that Plant, being that which maketh the Boughs alſo ſo <lb/>flexible.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5513" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div672" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0161-02" xlink:href="note-0161-02a" xml:space="preserve">610.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0161-03" xlink:href="note-0161-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>Promiſcuous <lb/>touching <lb/>Plants.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5514" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by one of the Ancients, that there is a certain Indian Tree, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0161-04a" xlink:href="note-0161-04"/> having few, but very great Leaves, three cubits long, and two broad; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5515" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>that the Fruit being of good taſte, groweth out of the Bark. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5516" xml:space="preserve">It may be, there <lb/>be Plants that pour out the Sap ſo faſt, as they have no leiſure, either to divide <lb/>into many Leaves, or to put forth Stalks to the Fruit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5517" xml:space="preserve">With us Trees gene-<lb/>rally have ſmall Leaves in compariſon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5518" xml:space="preserve">The Fig hath the greateſt, and next <lb/>it the Vine, Mulberry, and Sycamore, and the leaſt are thoſe of the Willow, Birch, <lb/>and Thorn. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5519" xml:space="preserve">But there be found Herbs with far greater Leaves than any Tree; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5520" xml:space="preserve">as the Bur, Gourd, Cucumber, and Colewort. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5521" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, (like to that of the in-<lb/>dian Fig) the haſty and plentiful putting forth of the Sap.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5522" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div673" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0161-04" xlink:href="note-0161-04a" xml:space="preserve">611.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5523" xml:space="preserve">There be three things in uſe for ſweetneſs, Sugar, Honey, Manna. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5524" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0161-05a" xlink:href="note-0161-05"/> Sugar, to the Ancients it was ſcarce known, and little uſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5525" xml:space="preserve">It is found in <lb/>Canes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5526" xml:space="preserve">Quære, whether to the firſt Knuckle, or further up? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5527" xml:space="preserve">and whether the <lb/>very Bark of the Cane it ſelf do yield Sugar, or no? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5528" xml:space="preserve">For Honey, the Bee <lb/>maketh it, or gathereth it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5529" xml:space="preserve">but I have heard from one, that was induſtrious <lb/>in Husbandry, that the labor of the Bee is about the Wax, and that he hath <lb/>known in the beginning of May, Honey-Combs empty of Honey, and within <lb/>a fortnight, when the ſweet Dews fall, filled like a Cellar. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5530" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by <lb/>ſome of the Ancients, that there is a Tree called Occhus, in the Valleys of Hyr-<lb/>cania, that diſtilleth Honey in the Mornings. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5531" xml:space="preserve">It is not unlike, that the Sap <lb/>and Tears of ſome Trees may be ſweet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5532" xml:space="preserve">It may be alſo, that ſome ſweet Juy-<lb/>ces, fit for many uſes, may be concocted out of Fruits, to the thickneſs of <lb/>Honey, or perhaps of Sugar; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5533" xml:space="preserve">the likelieſt are Raſins of the Sun, Figs, and <lb/>Corrans: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5534" xml:space="preserve">The Means may be enquired.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5535" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div674" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0161-05" xlink:href="note-0161-05a" xml:space="preserve">612.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5536" xml:space="preserve">The Ancients report of a Tree, by the Perſian Sea, upon the Shore-ſands, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0161-06a" xlink:href="note-0161-06"/> <pb o="128" file="0162" n="162" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> which is nouriſhed with the Salt-water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5537" xml:space="preserve">and when the Tide ebbeth, you ſhall <lb/>ſee the Roots, as it were, bare without Bark (being, as it ſeemeth, corroded by <lb/>the Salt) and graſping the Sands like a Crab, which nevertheleſs beareth a <lb/>Fruit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5538" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try ſome hard Trees, as a Service-Tree or Fit- Tree, <lb/>by ſetting them within the Sands.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5539" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div675" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0161-06" xlink:href="note-0161-06a" xml:space="preserve">613.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5540" xml:space="preserve">There be of Plants which they uſe for Garments, theſe that follow, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0162-01a" xlink:href="note-0162-01"/> Hemp, Flax, Cotton, Nettles, (whereof they make Nettle Cloth) Sericum, which <lb/>is a growing Silk; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5541" xml:space="preserve">they make alſo Cables of the Bark of Lime-Trees. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5542" xml:space="preserve">It is the <lb/>Stalk that maketh the Filaceous matter commonly, and ſometimes the Down <lb/>that groweth above.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5543" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div676" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-01" xlink:href="note-0162-01a" xml:space="preserve">614.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5544" xml:space="preserve">They have in ſome Countreys, a Plant of a Roſie-colour, which ſhurteth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0162-02a" xlink:href="note-0162-02"/> in the Night, openeth in the Morning, and openeth wide at Noon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5545" xml:space="preserve">which the <lb/>Inhabitants of thoſe Countreys ſay, is a Plant that ſleepeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5546" xml:space="preserve">There be Sleep-<lb/>ers enough then; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5547" xml:space="preserve">for almoſt all Flowers do the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5548" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div677" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-02" xlink:href="note-0162-02a" xml:space="preserve">615.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5549" xml:space="preserve">Some Plants there are, but rare, that have a Moſſie or Downy Root, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0162-03a" xlink:href="note-0162-03"/> likewiſe that have a number of Threds like Beards, as Mandrakes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5550" xml:space="preserve">whereof <lb/>Witches and Impoſtors make an ugly Image, giving it the form of a face at the <lb/>top of the Root, and leave thoſe ſtrings to make a broad Beard down to the <lb/>foot. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5551" xml:space="preserve">Alſo there is a kinde of Nard in Creet (being a kinde of Phu) that hath <lb/>a Root hairy, like a Rough-footed Doves foot. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5552" xml:space="preserve">So as you may ſee, there are <lb/>of Roots, Bulbous Roots, Fibrous Roots, and Hirſute Roots. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5553" xml:space="preserve">And, I take it, in the <lb/>Bulbous, the Sap haſtneth moſt to the Air and Sun: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5554" xml:space="preserve">In the Fibrous, the Sap de-<lb/>lighteth more in the Earth, and thereſore putteth downward; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5555" xml:space="preserve">and the Hir-<lb/>ſute is a middle between both, that beſides the putting forth upwards and <lb/>downwards, putteth forth in round.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5556" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div678" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-03" xlink:href="note-0162-03a" xml:space="preserve">616.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5557" xml:space="preserve">There are ſome Tears of Trees, which are kembed from the Beards of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0162-04a" xlink:href="note-0162-04"/> Goats; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5558" xml:space="preserve">for when the Goats bite and crop them, eſpecially in the Mornings, <lb/>the Dew being on, the Tear cometh forth, and hangeth upon their Beards: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5559" xml:space="preserve">Of this ſort is ſome kinde of Ladanum.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5560" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div679" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-04" xlink:href="note-0162-04a" xml:space="preserve">617.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5561" xml:space="preserve">The irrigation of the Plane-tree by Wine, is reported by the Ancients, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0162-05a" xlink:href="note-0162-05"/> to make it fruitſul. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5562" xml:space="preserve">It would be tryed likewiſe with Roots; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5563" xml:space="preserve">ſor upon Seeds <lb/>it worketh no great effect.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5564" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div680" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-05" xlink:href="note-0162-05a" xml:space="preserve">618.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5565" xml:space="preserve">The way to carry Foreign Roots, a long way, is to veſſel them cloſe in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0162-06a" xlink:href="note-0162-06"/> Earthen veſſels; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5566" xml:space="preserve">but if the Veſſels be not very great, you muſt make ſome <lb/>holes in the bottom, to give ſome refreſhment to the Roots; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5567" xml:space="preserve">which other-<lb/>wiſe (as it ſeemeth) will decay, and ſuffocate.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5568" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div681" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-06" xlink:href="note-0162-06a" xml:space="preserve">619.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5569" xml:space="preserve">The ancient Cinnamon, was, of all other Plants, while it grew, the diyeſt; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5570" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0162-07a" xlink:href="note-0162-07"/> and thoſe things which are known to comfort other Plants, did make <lb/>that more ſteril; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5571" xml:space="preserve">for in ſhowers it proſpered worſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5572" xml:space="preserve">It grew alſo amongſt <lb/>Buſhes of other kindes, where commonly Plants do not thrive, neither did <lb/>it love the Sun. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5573" xml:space="preserve">There might be one cauſe of all thoſe effects, namely, <lb/>the ſparing nouriſhment, which that Plant required. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5574" xml:space="preserve">Quære, how far <lb/>Caßia, which is now the ſubſtitute of Cinnamon, doth participate of theſe <lb/>things.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5575" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div682" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-07" xlink:href="note-0162-07a" xml:space="preserve">620.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5576" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by one of the Ancients, that Caßia, when it is gathered, is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0162-08a" xlink:href="note-0162-08"/> put into the Skins of Beaſts newly fleyed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5577" xml:space="preserve">and that the Skins corrupting, <lb/>and breeding Worms, the Worms do devour the Pith and Marrow of it, <lb/>and ſo make it hollow, but meddle not with the Bark, becauſe to them it is <lb/>bitter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5578" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div683" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-08" xlink:href="note-0162-08a" xml:space="preserve">621.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5579" xml:space="preserve">There were in ancient time, Vines of far greater Bodies, then we know <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0162-09a" xlink:href="note-0162-09"/> any; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5580" xml:space="preserve">forthere have been Cups made of them, and an Image of Fupiter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5581" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>it is like they were wilde Vines; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5582" xml:space="preserve">for the Vines that they uſe for Wine, are ſo <pb o="129" file="0163" n="163" rhead="Century VII."/> often cut; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5583" xml:space="preserve">and ſo much digged and dreſſed, that their Sap ſpendeth into the <lb/>Grapes, and ſo the Stalk cannot increaſe much in bulk. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5584" xml:space="preserve">The Wood of Vines <lb/>is very durable, without rotting. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5585" xml:space="preserve">And that which is ſtrange, though no Tree <lb/>hath the Twigs, while they are green, ſo brittle, yet the Wood dried is ex-<lb/>tream tough, and was uſed by the Captains of Armies amongſt the Romans <lb/>for their Cudgels.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5586" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div684" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-09" xlink:href="note-0162-09a" xml:space="preserve">622.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5587" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That in ſome places, Vines are ſuffered to grow like <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0163-01a" xlink:href="note-0163-01"/> Herbs ſpreding upon the Ground, and that the Grapes of thoſe Vines are <lb/>very great. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5588" xml:space="preserve">It were good to maketryal, whether Plants that uſe to be born <lb/>up by props, will putforth greater Leaves, and greater Fruits, if they be laid <lb/>along the Ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5589" xml:space="preserve">as Hops, Ivy, Woodbine, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5590" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5591" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div685" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0163-01" xlink:href="note-0163-01a" xml:space="preserve">623.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5592" xml:space="preserve">Quinces or Apples, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5593" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5594" xml:space="preserve">if you will keep them long, drown them in Honey; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5595" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0163-02a" xlink:href="note-0163-02"/> but becauſe Honey (perhaps) will give them a taſte over-luſhious, it were <lb/>good to make tryal in Powder oſ Sugar, or in Syrrup of Wine onely boiled <lb/>to height. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5596" xml:space="preserve">Both theſe would likewife be tried in Orenges, Lemmons, and <lb/>Pomegranates; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5597" xml:space="preserve">for the Powder of Sugar, and Syrrup of Wine, will ſerve <lb/>for times more than once.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5598" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div686" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0163-02" xlink:href="note-0163-02a" xml:space="preserve">624.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5599" xml:space="preserve">The Conſervation of Fruit would be alſo tried in Veſſels, filled with fine <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0163-03a" xlink:href="note-0163-03"/> Sand, or with Powder of Chalk, or in Meal and Flower, or in Duſt of <lb/>Oak-wood, or in Mill.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5600" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div687" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0163-03" xlink:href="note-0163-03a" xml:space="preserve">625.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5601" xml:space="preserve">Such Fruits as you appoint for long keeping, you muſt gather before <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0163-04a" xlink:href="note-0163-04"/> they be full ripe, and in a fair and dry day, towards Noon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5602" xml:space="preserve">and when the <lb/>Wind bloweth not South, and when the Moon is under the Earth, and in <lb/>decreaſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5603" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div688" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0163-04" xlink:href="note-0163-04a" xml:space="preserve">626.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5604" xml:space="preserve">Take Grapes, and hang them in an empty Veſſel, well ſtopped; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5605" xml:space="preserve">and ſet <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0163-05a" xlink:href="note-0163-05"/> the Veſſel not in a Cellar, but in ſome dry place, and it is ſaid, they will laſt <lb/>long. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5606" xml:space="preserve">But it is reported by ſome, they will keep better in a Veſſel half full <lb/>of Wine, ſo that the Grapes touch not the Wine.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5607" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div689" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0163-05" xlink:href="note-0163-05a" xml:space="preserve">627.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5608" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that the preſerving of the Stalk, helpeth to preſerve the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0163-06a" xlink:href="note-0163-06"/> Grape; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5609" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially, if the Stalk be put into the Pith of Elder, the Elder not <lb/>touching the Fruit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5610" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div690" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0163-06" xlink:href="note-0163-06a" xml:space="preserve">628.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5611" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by ſome of the Ancients, that Fruit put into Bottles, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0163-07a" xlink:href="note-0163-07"/> the Bottles let down into Wells under water, will keep long.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5612" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div691" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0163-07" xlink:href="note-0163-07a" xml:space="preserve">629.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5613" xml:space="preserve">Of Herbs and Plants, ſome are good to eat Raw; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5614" xml:space="preserve">as Lettuce, Endive, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0163-08a" xlink:href="note-0163-08"/> Purſlane, Tarragon, Creſſes, Cucumbers, Musk-Melons, Radiſh, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5615" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5616" xml:space="preserve">Others <lb/>onely after they are boiled, or have paſſed the Fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5617" xml:space="preserve">as Parſley, Clary, Sage, <lb/>Parſnips, Turnips, Aſparagus, Artichoaks, (though they alſo beingyoung <lb/>are eaten raw.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5618" xml:space="preserve">But a number of Herbs are not eſculent at all; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5619" xml:space="preserve">as Worm-<lb/>wood, Graſs, Green-Corn, Centory, Hyſſope, Lavender, Balm, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5620" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5621" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſes are, for that the Herbs that are not eſculent, do want the two taſtes, <lb/>in which nouriſhmentreſteth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5622" xml:space="preserve">which are fat and ſweet, and have (contrari-<lb/>wiſe) bitter and over-ſtrong taſtes, or a juyce ſo crude, as cannot be ripened <lb/>to the degree of Nouriſhment, Herbs, and Plants, that are Eſculent raw, have <lb/>fatneſs, or ſweetneſs (as all Eſculent Fruits) ſuch are Onions, Lettuce, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5623" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5624" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>then it muſt be ſuch a fatneſs (for as for ſweet things, they are in effect al-<lb/>ways eſculent) as is not over-groſs, as loading of the Stomack; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5625" xml:space="preserve">for Parſnips <lb/>and Leeks have fatneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5626" xml:space="preserve">but it is too groſs and heavy without boiling. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5627" xml:space="preserve">It <lb/>muſt be alſo in a ſubſtance ſomewhattender; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5628" xml:space="preserve">for we ſee Wheat, Barley, Arti-<lb/>choaks, are no good Nouriſhment, till they have paſſed the Fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5629" xml:space="preserve">but the <lb/>Fire doth ripen, and maketh them ſoft and tender, and ſo they become <lb/>eſculent. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5630" xml:space="preserve">As for Raddiſh, and Tarragon, and the like, they are for Condi-<lb/>ments, and not for Nouriſhment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5631" xml:space="preserve">and even ſome of thoſe Herbs, which are <pb o="130" file="0164" n="164" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> not eſculent, are notwithſtanding poculent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5632" xml:space="preserve">as Hops, Broom, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5633" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5634" xml:space="preserve">Quare, what <lb/>Herbs are good for Drink, beſides the two aforenamed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5635" xml:space="preserve">for that it may <lb/>(perhaps) eaſe the charge of Brewing, if they make Beer to require leſs Malt, <lb/>or make it laſt longer.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5636" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div692" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0163-08" xlink:href="note-0163-08a" xml:space="preserve">630.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5637" xml:space="preserve">Parts fit for the nouriſhment of Man in Plants, are Seeds, Roots, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0164-01a" xlink:href="note-0164-01"/> Fruits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5638" xml:space="preserve">but chiefly Seeds and Roots. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5639" xml:space="preserve">For Leaves, they give no nouriſhment at all, <lb/>or very little; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5640" xml:space="preserve">no more do Flowers, or Bloſſoms, or Stalks. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5641" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon is, for <lb/>that Roots, and Seeds, and Fruits, (in as much as all Plants conſiſt of an Oyly, <lb/>and Watry ſubſtance commixed) have more of the Oyly ſubſtance, and <lb/>Leaves, Flowers, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5642" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5643" xml:space="preserve">of the Watry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5644" xml:space="preserve">And ſecondly, they are more concocted, <lb/>for the Root, which continueth ever in the Earth, is ſtill concocted by the <lb/>Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5645" xml:space="preserve">and Fruits and Grains (we ſee) arehalf a year, or more in concocting; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5646" xml:space="preserve">whereas Leaves are out, and perfect in a Moneth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5647" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div693" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0164-01" xlink:href="note-0164-01a" xml:space="preserve">631.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5648" xml:space="preserve">Plants (for the moſt part) are more ſtrong, both in taſte and ſmell in the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0164-02a" xlink:href="note-0164-02"/> Seed, than in the Leaf and Root. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5649" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that in Plants that are not <lb/>of a fierce and eager ſpirit, the vertue is increaſed by Concoction and Ma-<lb/>turation, which is ever moſt in the Seed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5650" xml:space="preserve">but in Plants that are of a fierce and <lb/>eager ſpirit, they are ſtronger whileſt the ſpirit is incloſed in the Root; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5651" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>the ſpirits do but weaken and diſſipate, when they come to the Air and Sun; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5652" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in Onions, Garlick, Dragon &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5653" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5654" xml:space="preserve">Nay, there be Plants that have their <lb/>Roots very hot and aromatical, and their Seeds rather inſipide as Ginger. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5655" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe is (as was touched before) for that the heat of thoſe Plants is very diſſi-<lb/>pable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5656" xml:space="preserve">which under the Earth is contained and held in, but when it cometh <lb/>to the Air, it exhaleth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5657" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div694" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0164-02" xlink:href="note-0164-02a" xml:space="preserve">632.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5658" xml:space="preserve">The Juyces of Fruits, are either Watry or Oyly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5659" xml:space="preserve">Ireckon amongſt the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0164-03a" xlink:href="note-0164-03"/> Watry, all the Fruits, out of which, Drink is expreſſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5660" xml:space="preserve">as the Grape, the Ap-<lb/>ple, the Peer, the Cherry, the Pomegranate, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5661" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5662" xml:space="preserve">And there areſome others, whic<unsure/>h <lb/>though they be not in uſe for Drink, yet they appear to be of the ſame nature; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5663" xml:space="preserve">as Plums, Services Mulberries, Raſps, Orenges, Lemmons, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5664" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5665" xml:space="preserve">And for thoſe Juyces <lb/>that are ſo fleſhy, as they cannot make Drink by Expreſſion, yet perhaps) <lb/>they may make Drink by mixture of Water.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5666" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div695" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0164-03" xlink:href="note-0164-03a" xml:space="preserve">633.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div697" type="section" level="1" n="31"> <head xml:id="echoid-head45" xml:space="preserve">Poculaque admiſtis imitantur vitea Sorbis.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5667" xml:space="preserve">And it may be Heps and Brier-Berries would do the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5668" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe that have Oyly <lb/>Juyces, are Olives. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5669" xml:space="preserve">Almonds, Nuts of all ſorts, Pine-Apples, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5670" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5671" xml:space="preserve">and their Juyces <lb/>are all inflamable. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5672" xml:space="preserve">And you muſt obſerve alſo, that ſome of the Watry Juyces, <lb/>after they have gathered ſpirit, will burn and enflame, as Wine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5673" xml:space="preserve">There is a <lb/>third kinde of Fruit that is ſweet, with out either ſharpneſs or oylineſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5674" xml:space="preserve">ſuch <lb/>as is the Fig and the Date.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5675" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5676" xml:space="preserve">It hath been noted, that moſt Trees, and eſpecially thoſe that bear Maſt, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0164-04a" xlink:href="note-0164-04"/> are fruitful but once in two years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5677" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe, no doubt, is the expence of <lb/>Sap; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5678" xml:space="preserve">for many Orchard Trees well cultured, will bear divers years toge-<lb/>ther.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5679" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div697" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0164-04" xlink:href="note-0164-04a" xml:space="preserve">634.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5680" xml:space="preserve">There is no Tree, which beſides the Natural Fruit, doth bear ſo many <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0164-05a" xlink:href="note-0164-05"/> Baſtard Fruits as the Oak doth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5681" xml:space="preserve">for beſides the Acorn, it beareth Galls, <lb/>Oak-Apples, and certain Oak-Nuts, which are inflamable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5682" xml:space="preserve">and certain <lb/>Oak-Berries ſticking cloſe to the Body of the Tree without Stalk. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5683" xml:space="preserve">It beareth <lb/>alſo Miſſeltee, though rarely. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5684" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of all theſe may be, the cloſeneſs, <lb/>and ſolidneſs of the Wood, and Pithe of the Oak; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5685" xml:space="preserve">which maketh ſeveral <lb/>Juyces finde ſeveral Eruptions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5686" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, if you will deviſe to make <lb/>any Super-Plants, you muſt ever give the Sap plentiful riſing, and hard <lb/>iſſue.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5687" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div698" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0164-05" xlink:href="note-0164-05a" xml:space="preserve">635.</note> </div> <pb o="131" file="0165" n="165" rhead="Century VII."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5688" xml:space="preserve">There are two Excreſcences which grow upon Trees, both of them <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0165-01a" xlink:href="note-0165-01"/> in the nature of Musbromes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5689" xml:space="preserve">the one the Romans called Boletus, which grow-<lb/>eth upon the Roots of Oaks, and was one of the dainties of their Table: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5690" xml:space="preserve">The other is Medicinal, that is called Agarick (whereof we have ſpoken <lb/>before) which groweth upon the tops of Oaks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5691" xml:space="preserve">though it be affirmed <lb/>by ſome, that it groweth alſo at the Roots. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5692" xml:space="preserve">I do conceive, that many Ex-<lb/>creſcences of Trees grow chiefly, where the Tree is dead or faded; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5693" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>that the Natural Sap of the Tree, corrupteth into ſome Prenatural ſub-<lb/>ſtance.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5694" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div699" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0165-01" xlink:href="note-0165-01a" xml:space="preserve">636.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5695" xml:space="preserve">The greater part of Trees bear moſt, and beſt on the lower Boughs, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0165-02a" xlink:href="note-0165-02"/> as Oaks, Figs, Walnuts, Pears, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5696" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5697" xml:space="preserve">But ſome bear beſt on the top Boughs, as <lb/>Crabs, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5698" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5699" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe that bear beſt below, are ſuch, as ſhade doth more good to <lb/>than hurt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5700" xml:space="preserve">For generally all Fruits bear beſt loweſt, becauſe the Sap itreth, <lb/>not having but a ſhort way. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5701" xml:space="preserve">And therefore in Fruits ſpred upon Walls, the <lb/>loweſt are the greateſt, as was formely ſaid: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5702" xml:space="preserve">So it is, the ſhade that hindreth <lb/>the lower Boughs, except it be in ſuch Trees as delight in ſhade, or at leaſt <lb/>bear it well. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5703" xml:space="preserve">And therefore they are either ſtrong Trees, as the Oak, or elſe <lb/>they have large Leaves, as the Walnut and Fig, or elſe they grow in Pyramis <lb/>as the Pear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5704" xml:space="preserve">But if they require very much Sun, they bear beſt on the top; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5705" xml:space="preserve">as it is Crabs, Apples, Plumbs, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5706" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5707" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div700" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0165-02" xlink:href="note-0165-02a" xml:space="preserve">637.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5708" xml:space="preserve">There be Trees that bear beſt when they begin to be old; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5709" xml:space="preserve">as Almonds, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0165-03a" xlink:href="note-0165-03"/> Pears, Vines, and all Trees that give Maſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5710" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that all Trees that <lb/>bear Maſt have an oyly Fruit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5711" xml:space="preserve">and young Trees have a more watry Juyce, and <lb/>leſs concocted; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5712" xml:space="preserve">and of the ſame kinde alſo is the Almond. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5713" xml:space="preserve">The Pear like wiſe <lb/>though it be not oyly, yet it requireth much Sap, and well concocted; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5714" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>we ſee it is a heavy Fruit and ſolid, much more than Apples, Plumbs, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5715" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5716" xml:space="preserve">As <lb/>for the Vine, it is noted that it beareth more Grapes when it is young; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5717" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>Grapes that make better Wine when it is old, for that the Juyce is the better <lb/>concocted: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5718" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee, that Wine is inflamable, ſo as it hath a kinde of oyli-<lb/>neſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5719" xml:space="preserve">But the moſt part of Trees, amongſt which are Apples, Plumbs, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5720" xml:space="preserve">c. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5721" xml:space="preserve">bear beſt when they are young.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5722" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div701" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0165-03" xlink:href="note-0165-03a" xml:space="preserve">638.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5723" xml:space="preserve">There be Plants that have a Milk in them when they are cut; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5724" xml:space="preserve">as Figs, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0165-04a" xlink:href="note-0165-04"/> Old Lettuce, Sow-thiſtles, Spurge, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5725" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5726" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be an Inception of <lb/>Putrefaction: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5727" xml:space="preserve">For thoſe Milks have all an Acrimony, though one would think <lb/>they ſhould be Lenitive. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5728" xml:space="preserve">For if you write upon Paper with the Milk of the <lb/>Fig, the Letters will not be ſeen, until you hold the Paper before the fire, <lb/>and then they wax brown; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5729" xml:space="preserve">which ſheweth, that it is a ſharp or fretting <lb/>Juyce. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5730" xml:space="preserve">Lettucè is thought poyſonous, when it is ſo old as to have Milk: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5731" xml:space="preserve">Spurge is a kinde of poyſon in it ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5732" xml:space="preserve">and as for Sow-thiſtles, though Coneys <lb/>eat them, yet Sheep and Cattel will not touch them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5733" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, the Milk <lb/>of them, rubbed upon Warts, in ſhort time weareth them away: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5734" xml:space="preserve">Which <lb/>ſheweth the Milk of them to be Corrowſive. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5735" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that Wheat and <lb/>other Cornſown, if you take them forth of the Ground, before they ſprout, <lb/>are full of Milk; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5736" xml:space="preserve">and the beginning of Germination is ever a kinde of Pu-<lb/>trefaction of the Seed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5737" xml:space="preserve">Euphorhium alſo hath a Milk, though not very white, <lb/>which is of a great Acrimony. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5738" xml:space="preserve">And Saladine hath a yellow Milk, which hath <lb/>likewiſe much Acrimony, for it cleanſeth the Eyes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5739" xml:space="preserve">it is good alſo for <lb/>Cataracts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5740" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div702" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0165-04" xlink:href="note-0165-04a" xml:space="preserve">639.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5741" xml:space="preserve">Mushromes are reported to grow, as well upon the Bodies of Trees, as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0165-05a" xlink:href="note-0165-05"/> upon their Roots, or upon the Earth, and eſpecially upon the Oak. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5742" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe is, for that ſtrong Trees are towards ſuch Excreſcences in the nature <lb/>of Earth, and therefore put forth Moß, Mushromes, and the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5743" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div703" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0165-05" xlink:href="note-0165-05a" xml:space="preserve">640.</note> </div> <pb o="132" file="0166" n="166" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5744" xml:space="preserve">There is hardly found a Plant that yieldeth a red Juyce in the Blade or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0166-01a" xlink:href="note-0166-01"/> Ear, except it be the Tree that beareth Sanguis Draconis; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5745" xml:space="preserve">which gr weth <lb/>chiefly in the Iſland Soquotra: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5746" xml:space="preserve">The Herb Aramanthus (indeed) is red all <lb/>over; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5747" xml:space="preserve">and Braſrt is red in the Wood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5748" xml:space="preserve">and ſo is Red Sanders. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5749" xml:space="preserve">The Tree oſ <lb/>Sanguis Draconis groweth in the form of a Sugar-Loaf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5750" xml:space="preserve">it is like the Sap of <lb/>that Plant concocteth in the Body of the Tree. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5751" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee, that Grapes <lb/>and Pomegranatesare red in the Juyce, but are Green in the Tear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5752" xml:space="preserve">And this <lb/>maketh the Tree of Sanguis Draconis leſſer to wards the top, becauſe the Juyce <lb/>haſtneth not up; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5753" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, it is very Aſtringent, and therefore of ſlow <lb/>motion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5754" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div704" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0166-01" xlink:href="note-0166-01a" xml:space="preserve">641.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5755" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that Sweet Moſs, beſides that upon the Apple-trees, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0166-02a" xlink:href="note-0166-02"/> groweth likewiſe (ſometimes) upon Poplars, and yet (generally) the Poplar <lb/>is a ſmooth Tree of Bark, and hath little Moſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5756" xml:space="preserve">The Moſs of the Larix-tree <lb/>burneth alſo ſweet, and ſparkleth in the burning. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5757" xml:space="preserve">Quære, of the Moſſes of <lb/>Odorate Trees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5758" xml:space="preserve">as Cedar, Cypreß, Lignum, Aloes &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5759" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5760" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div705" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0166-02" xlink:href="note-0166-02a" xml:space="preserve">642.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5761" xml:space="preserve">The Death, that is moſt without pain, hath been noted to be upon the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0166-03a" xlink:href="note-0166-03"/> taking of the Potion of Hemlock; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5762" xml:space="preserve">which in Humanity was the ſorm of exe-<lb/>cution oſ capital offenders in Athens. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5763" xml:space="preserve">The Poyſon of the Aſpe, that Cleopatra <lb/>uſed, hath ſome affinity with it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5764" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the torments of Death <lb/>are chiefly raiſed by the ſtriſe of the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5765" xml:space="preserve">and theſe Vapors quench the <lb/>Spirits by degrees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5766" xml:space="preserve">like to the death of an extream old Man. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5767" xml:space="preserve">I con-<lb/>ceive it is leſs painful then Opium, becauſe Opium hath parts of heat <lb/>mixed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5768" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div706" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0166-03" xlink:href="note-0166-03a" xml:space="preserve">643.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5769" xml:space="preserve">There be Fruits that are ſweet before they ripen, as Mirabolanes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5770" xml:space="preserve">ſo <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0166-04a" xlink:href="note-0166-04"/> Fennel-ſeeds are ſweet before they ripen, and after grow ſpicy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5771" xml:space="preserve">and ſome <lb/>never ripen to be ſweet; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5772" xml:space="preserve">as Tamarinds, Barberries, Crabs, Sloes, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5773" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5774" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe <lb/>is, for that the former kinde have much and ſubtile heat, which cauſeth early <lb/>ſweetneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5775" xml:space="preserve">the latter have a cold and acide Juyce, which no heat of the <lb/>Sun can ſweeten. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5776" xml:space="preserve">But as for the Mirabolane, it hath parts of contrary natures, <lb/>for it is ſweet and aſtringent.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5777" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div707" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0166-04" xlink:href="note-0166-04a" xml:space="preserve">644.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5778" xml:space="preserve">There be few Herbs that have a Salt taſte; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5779" xml:space="preserve">and contrariwiſe, all Blood <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0166-05a" xlink:href="note-0166-05"/> of Living Creatures hath a ſaltneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5780" xml:space="preserve">the cauſe may be, for that Salt, though <lb/>it be the Rudiment of Life, yet in Plants the original taſte remaineth not; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5781" xml:space="preserve">for you ſhall have them bitter, ſowre, ſweet biting, but ſeldom ſalt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5782" xml:space="preserve">Butin <lb/>Living Creatures, all thoſe high taſtes may happen to be (ſometimes) in the <lb/>humors, but are ſeldom in the fleſh, or ſubſtance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5783" xml:space="preserve">becauſe it is of a more <lb/>oyly Nature, which is not very ſuſceptible of thoſe taſtes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5784" xml:space="preserve">and the ſaltneſs <lb/>it ſelf of Blood, is but a light and ſecret ſaltneſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5785" xml:space="preserve">And even among Plants, <lb/>ſome do participate of ſaltneſs, as Alga Marina, Samphire, Scurvy Graß, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5786" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5787" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And they report there is in ſome of the Indian Seas, a Swiming Plant, which <lb/>they call Salgazus, ſpreding over the Sea, in ſort, as one would think it were <lb/>a Meadow. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5788" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that out of the Aſhes of all Plants, they extra ct a <lb/>Salt which they uſe in Medicines.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5789" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div708" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0166-05" xlink:href="note-0166-05a" xml:space="preserve">645.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5790" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by one of the Ancients, that there is an Herb, growing in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0166-06a" xlink:href="note-0166-06"/> the Water, called Lincostis, which is full of Prickles: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5791" xml:space="preserve">This Herb putteth forth <lb/>another ſmall Herb out of the Leaf, which is imputed to ſome moiſture, that <lb/>is gathered bet ween the Prickles, which putrified by the Sun, germinateth. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5792" xml:space="preserve">But I remember alſo, I have ſeen, for a great rarity, one Roſe grow out of <lb/>another, like Honey Suckles, that they call Top and Top-gallants.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5793" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div709" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0166-06" xlink:href="note-0166-06a" xml:space="preserve">646.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5794" xml:space="preserve">Barley (as appeareth in the Malting) being ſteeped in Water three days, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0166-07a" xlink:href="note-0166-07"/> and afterwards the Water drained ſrom it, and the Barley turned upon a dry <lb/>Floar, will ſprout half an inch long, at leaſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5795" xml:space="preserve">And if it be let alone, and <pb o="133" file="0167" n="167" rhead="Century VII."/> not turned, much more, until the heart be out. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5796" xml:space="preserve">Wheat will do the ſame; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5797" xml:space="preserve">try it alſo with Peaſe and Beans. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5798" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment is not like that of the <lb/>Orpin and Semper-vive; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5799" xml:space="preserve">for there it is of the old ſtore, for no Water is added, <lb/>but here it is nouriſhed from the Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5800" xml:space="preserve">The Experiment would be further <lb/>driven; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5801" xml:space="preserve">for it appeareth already, by that which hath been ſaid, that Earth <lb/>is not neceſſary to the ſirſt ſpr outing of Plants, and we ſee, that Roſe-Buds <lb/>ſet in Water, will blow: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5802" xml:space="preserve">Therefore try whether the Sprouts of ſuch Grains <lb/>may not be raiſed to a further degree, asto an Herb or Flower, with Water <lb/>onely, or ſome ſmall commixture of Earth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5803" xml:space="preserve">For if they will, it ſhould ſeem <lb/>by the Experiments before, both of the Malt, and of the Roſes, that they <lb/>will come far faſter on in Water then in Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5804" xml:space="preserve">for the nouriſhment is eaſi-<lb/>lier drawn out of Water then out of Earth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5805" xml:space="preserve">It may give ſome light alſo that <lb/>Drink infuſed with Fleſh, as that with the Capon, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5806" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5807" xml:space="preserve">will nouriſh faſter <lb/>and eaſilier, then Meat and Drink together. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5808" xml:space="preserve">Try the ſame Experiment with <lb/>Roots, as well as with Grains. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5809" xml:space="preserve">As for example, take a Turnip and ſteep it a <lb/>while, and then dry it, and ſee whether it will fprout.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5810" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div710" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0166-07" xlink:href="note-0166-07a" xml:space="preserve">647.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5811" xml:space="preserve">Malt in the Drenching will ſwell, and that in ſuch a manner, as after <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0167-01a" xlink:href="note-0167-01"/> the putting forth in ſprouts, and the drying upon the Kiln, there will be gain-<lb/>ed, at leaſt, a Buſhel in eight, and yet the ſprouts are rubbed off, and there <lb/>will be a Buſhel of Duſt beſides the Malt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5812" xml:space="preserve">which I ſuppoſe to be, not onely <lb/>by the looſe and open laying of the Parts, but by fome addition oſ ſubſtance <lb/>drawn from the Water, in which it was ſteeped.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5813" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div711" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0167-01" xlink:href="note-0167-01a" xml:space="preserve">648.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5814" xml:space="preserve">Malt gathereth a ſweetneſs to the taſte, which appeareth yet more in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0167-02a" xlink:href="note-0167-02"/> the Wort. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5815" xml:space="preserve">The Dulcoration of things is worthy to be tryed to the ſull; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5816" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>that Dulcoration importeth a degree to nouriſhment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5817" xml:space="preserve">And the making of <lb/>things inalimental to become alimental, may be an Experiment of great <lb/>proſit for making new victual.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5818" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div712" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0167-02" xlink:href="note-0167-02a" xml:space="preserve">649.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5819" xml:space="preserve">Moſt Seedsin the growing, leave their Husk or Rind about the Root; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5820" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0167-03a" xlink:href="note-0167-03"/> but the Onion will carry it up, that it will be like a cap upon the top of <lb/>the young Onion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5821" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that the Skin or Husk is not eaſie <lb/>to break; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5822" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee by the pilling of Onions, what a holding ſubſtance the <lb/>Skin is.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5823" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div713" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0167-03" xlink:href="note-0167-03a" xml:space="preserve">650.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5824" xml:space="preserve">Plants that have curled Leaves, do all abound with moiſture, which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0167-04a" xlink:href="note-0167-04"/> cometh ſo faſt on, as they cannot ſpred themſelves plain, but muſt needs <lb/>gather together. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5825" xml:space="preserve">The weakeſt kinde of curling is roughneſs, as in Clary and <lb/>Bur. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5826" xml:space="preserve">Theſecond is, curling on the ſides; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5827" xml:space="preserve">as in Lettuce and young Cabbage. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5828" xml:space="preserve">And the third is, folding into an Head, as in Cabbage full grown, and Cab-<lb/>bage Lettuce.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5829" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div714" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0167-04" xlink:href="note-0167-04a" xml:space="preserve">651.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5830" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that Firr and Pine, eſpecially if they be old and putrefied, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0167-05a" xlink:href="note-0167-05"/> though they ſhine not as ſome rotten Woods do, yet in the ſudden breaking <lb/>they will ſpark le like hard Sugar.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5831" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div715" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0167-05" xlink:href="note-0167-05a" xml:space="preserve">652.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5832" xml:space="preserve">The Roots of Trees do (ſome of them) put down wards deep into the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0167-06a" xlink:href="note-0167-06"/> Ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5833" xml:space="preserve">as the Oak, Pine, Firr, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5834" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5835" xml:space="preserve">Some ſpred more to wards the Surface <lb/>of the Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5836" xml:space="preserve">as the Ash, Cypreß-tree, Olive, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5837" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5838" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of this latter <lb/>may be, for that ſuch Trees as love the Sun, do not willingly deſc<unsure/>end <lb/>far into the Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5839" xml:space="preserve">and therefore they are (commonly) Trees that ſhoot <lb/>up much; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5840" xml:space="preserve">for in their Body their deſire of approach to the Sun maketh <lb/>them ſpred the lels. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5841" xml:space="preserve">And the ſame reaſon, under Ground, to avoid receſs <lb/>from the Sun, maketh them ſpred the more, And we ſee it cometh to <lb/>paſs in ſome Trees which have been planted to deep in the Ground, that <lb/>for love of approach to the Sun, they forſake their firſt Root, and put <lb/>out another more towards the top of the Earth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5842" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee alſo, that <pb o="134" file="0168" n="168" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> the Olive is full of Oily Juyce, and Aſh maketh the beſt Fire, and <lb/>Cypreſs is an hot Tree. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5843" xml:space="preserve">As for the Oak, which is of the former ſort, it <lb/>loveth the Earth, and thereſore groweth ſlowly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5844" xml:space="preserve">And for the Pine, and <lb/>Firr likewiſe, they have ſo much heat in themſelves, as they need leſs the <lb/>heat oſ the Sun. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5845" xml:space="preserve">There be Herbs alſo, that have the ſame difference; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5846" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/>the Herb they call Morſus Diaboli, which putteth the Root down ſo low, as <lb/>you cannot pull it up without breaking; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5847" xml:space="preserve">which gave occaſion to the name <lb/>and fable, ſor that it was ſaid it was ſo wholeſome a Root, That the Devil <lb/>when it was gathered, bit it for envy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5848" xml:space="preserve">And ſome of the Ancients do report, <lb/>that there was a goodly Firr (which they deſired to remove whole) <lb/>that had a Root under ground eight cubits deep, and ſo the Root came up <lb/>broken.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5849" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div716" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0167-06" xlink:href="note-0167-06a" xml:space="preserve">653.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5850" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved, that a Branch of a Tree being unbarked ſome <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0168-01a" xlink:href="note-0168-01"/> ſpace at the bottom, and ſo ſet into the Ground, hath grown even of ſuch <lb/>Trees, as if the Branch were ſet with the Bark on, they would not grow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5851" xml:space="preserve">yet <lb/>contrariwiſe we ſee, that a Tree pared round in the Body above Ground will <lb/>die. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5852" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that the unbarkt part dra weth the nouriſhment <lb/>beſt, but the Bark continueth it onely.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5853" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div717" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0168-01" xlink:href="note-0168-01a" xml:space="preserve">654.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5854" xml:space="preserve">Grapes will continue freſh and moiſt all Winter long, if you hang them <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0168-02a" xlink:href="note-0168-02"/> cluſter by cluſter in the Roof of a warm Room, eſpecially, iſ when you ga-<lb/>ther the cluſter, you take off with the cluſter ſome of the ſtock.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5855" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div718" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0168-02" xlink:href="note-0168-02a" xml:space="preserve">655.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5856" xml:space="preserve">The Reed or Cane is a watry Plant, and groweth not but in the Water. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5857" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0168-03a" xlink:href="note-0168-03"/> It hath theſe properties, That it is hollow, that it is knuckled, both Stalk <lb/>and Root, that being dry it is more hard and fragile then other Wood, that <lb/>it putteth forth no Boughs, though many Stalks out of one Root, It differ-<lb/>eth much in greatneſ, the ſmalleſt being fit for thatching of Houſes, and <lb/>ſtopping the chinks of Ships better then Glew or Pitch. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5858" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond bigneſs <lb/>is uſed ſor Angle rods and Staves, and in China for beating of offenders upon <lb/>the Thighs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5859" xml:space="preserve">The differing kindes of them are, the common Reed, the <lb/>Caßia Fiſ<unsure/>tula, and the Sugar-Reed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5860" xml:space="preserve">Of all Plants it boweth the eaſieſt, and <lb/>riſeth again. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5861" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth, that amongſt Plants which are nouriſhed with <lb/>mixture of Earth and Water, it dra weth moſt nouriſhment from Water; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5862" xml:space="preserve">which maketh it the ſmootheſt of all others in Bark, and the holloweſt in <lb/>Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5863" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div719" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0168-03" xlink:href="note-0168-03a" xml:space="preserve">656.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5864" xml:space="preserve">The Sap of Trees, when they are let Blood, is of differing Natures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5865" xml:space="preserve">Some <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0168-04a" xlink:href="note-0168-04"/> more watry and clear, as that of Vines, of Beeches, of Pears; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5866" xml:space="preserve">ſome thick, <lb/>as Apples; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5867" xml:space="preserve">ſome Gummy, as Cherries; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5868" xml:space="preserve">ſome frothy, as Elms; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5869" xml:space="preserve">ſome milky, <lb/>as Figs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5870" xml:space="preserve">In Mulberries, the Sap ſeemeth to be (almoſt) towards the Bark <lb/>onely; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5871" xml:space="preserve">for if you cut the Tree a little into the Bark with a Stone, it will come <lb/>forth, if you pierce it deeper with a tool, it will be dry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5872" xml:space="preserve">The Trees which <lb/>have the moiſteſt Juyces in their Fruit, have commonly the moiſteſt Sap in <lb/>their Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5873" xml:space="preserve">for the Vines and Pears are very moiſt, Apples ſome what <lb/>more ſpongy: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5874" xml:space="preserve">the Milk of the Fig hath the quality of the Rennet, to ga-<lb/>ther Cheeſe, and ſo have certain ſour Herbs where with they make Cheeſe <lb/>in Lent.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5875" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div720" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0168-04" xlink:href="note-0168-04a" xml:space="preserve">657.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5876" xml:space="preserve">The Timber and Wood are in ſome Trees more clean, in ſome more knotty; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5877" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0168-05a" xlink:href="note-0168-05"/> and it is a good tryal, to try it by ſpeaking at one end, and laying the <lb/>Ear at the other: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5878" xml:space="preserve">For if it be knotty, the voice will not paſs well. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5879" xml:space="preserve">Some <lb/>have the Veins more varied and Chamloted; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5880" xml:space="preserve">as Oak, whereof Wainſcot <lb/>is made; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5881" xml:space="preserve">Maple, whereof Trenchers are made: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5882" xml:space="preserve">Some more ſmooth, as <lb/>Firr and VValnut; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5883" xml:space="preserve">ſome do more eaſily breed Worms and Spiders; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5884" xml:space="preserve">ſome <lb/>more hardly, as it is ſaid of Iriſh Trees. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5885" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, there be a number of <pb o="135" file="0169" n="169" rhead="Century VII."/> differences that concern their uſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5886" xml:space="preserve">As Oak, Cedar, and Cheſſnut, are <lb/>the beſt builders. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5887" xml:space="preserve">Some are beſt for Plough-timber, as Aſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5888" xml:space="preserve">ſome for Peers, <lb/>that are ſometimes wet and ſometimes dry, as Elm; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5889" xml:space="preserve">ſome for Planchers, as <lb/>Deal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5890" xml:space="preserve">ſome for Tables, Cupboards and Desks, as Walnuts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5891" xml:space="preserve">ſome for Ship-<lb/>timber, as Oaks that grow in moiſt Grounds, for that maketh the Timber <lb/>tough, and not apt to rift with Ordnance, wherein Engliſh and Iriſh Timber <lb/>are thought to excel) ſome for Maſts of Ships, as Firr and Pine, becauſe of <lb/>their length, ſtraightneſs, and lightneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5892" xml:space="preserve">ſome for Pale, as Oak; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5893" xml:space="preserve">ſome for <lb/>Fuel, as Aſh: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5894" xml:space="preserve">And ſo of the reſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5895" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div721" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0168-05" xlink:href="note-0168-05a" xml:space="preserve">658.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5896" xml:space="preserve">The coming of Trees and Plants in certain Regions, and not in others, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0169-01a" xlink:href="note-0169-01"/> is ſometimes caſual; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5897" xml:space="preserve">for many have been tranſlated, and have proſpered <lb/>well; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5898" xml:space="preserve">as Damask Roſes, that have not been known in England above an <lb/>hundred years, and now are ſo common. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5899" xml:space="preserve">But the liking of Plants in <lb/>certain Soyls more then in others, is meerly Natural; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5900" xml:space="preserve">as the Firr and <lb/>Pine love the Mountains; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5901" xml:space="preserve">the Poplar, Willow, Sallow, and Alder, love <lb/>Rivers and moiſt places; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5902" xml:space="preserve">the Aſh loveth Coppices, but is beſt in Standards <lb/>alone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5903" xml:space="preserve">Juniper loveth Chalk, and ſo do moſt Fruit-trees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5904" xml:space="preserve">Sampire <lb/>groweth but upon Rocks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5905" xml:space="preserve">Reeds and Oſiers grow where they are waſhed <lb/>with Winter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5906" xml:space="preserve">the Vine loveth ſides of Hills turning upon the South Eaſt <lb/>Sun, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5907" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5908" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div722" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0169-01" xlink:href="note-0169-01a" xml:space="preserve">659.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5909" xml:space="preserve">The putting forth of certain Herbs, diſcovereth of what nature the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0169-02a" xlink:href="note-0169-02"/> Ground where they put forth is; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5910" xml:space="preserve">as wilde Thyme ſheweth good Feeding <lb/>Ground for Cattel; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5911" xml:space="preserve">Bettony and Strawberries ſhew Groundsfit for Wood; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5912" xml:space="preserve">Camomile ſheweth mellow Grounds fit for Wheat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5913" xml:space="preserve">Muſtard-ſeed growing <lb/>after the Plough, ſheweth a good ſtrong Ground alſo for Wheat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5914" xml:space="preserve">Burnet <lb/>ſheweth good Meadow, and the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5915" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div723" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0169-02" xlink:href="note-0169-02a" xml:space="preserve">660.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5916" xml:space="preserve">There are found in divers Countreys, ſome other Plants that grow out <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0169-03a" xlink:href="note-0169-03"/> of Trees and Plants, beſides Miſſeltoe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5917" xml:space="preserve">As in Syria there is an Herb called <lb/>Caſſytas, that groweth out of tall Trees, and windeth it ſelf about the ſame <lb/>Tree where it groweth, and ſometimes about Thorns. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5918" xml:space="preserve">There is a kinde <lb/>of Polypode that groweth out of Trees, though it windeth not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5919" xml:space="preserve">So like-<lb/>wiſe an Herb called Faunos upon the Wilde Olive; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5920" xml:space="preserve">and an Herb called Hip-<lb/>pophæſton upon the Fullers Thorn, which, they ſay, is good for the Falling-<lb/>ſickneſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5921" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div724" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0169-03" xlink:href="note-0169-03a" xml:space="preserve">661.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5922" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved by ſome of the Ancients, that howſoever cold <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0169-04a" xlink:href="note-0169-04"/> and Eaſterly winds are thought to be great enemies to Fruit, yet neverthe-<lb/>leſs South-winds are alſo found to do hurt, eſpecially in the Bloſſoming <lb/>time, and the more, if ſhowers follow. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5923" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth they call forth the <lb/>moiſture too ſaſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5924" xml:space="preserve">The Weſt winds are the beſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5925" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved alſo, <lb/>that green and open Winters do hurt Trees, inſomuch, as if two or three <lb/>ſuch Winters come together, Almond-Trees, and ſome other Trees will die. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5926" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is the ſame with the former, becauſe the Luſt of the Earth over-<lb/>ſpendeth it ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5927" xml:space="preserve">howſoever ſome other of the Ancients have commended <lb/>warm Winters.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5928" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div725" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0169-04" xlink:href="note-0169-04a" xml:space="preserve">662.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5929" xml:space="preserve">Snows lying long cauſe a fruitful year. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5930" xml:space="preserve">For ſirſt, they keep in the ſtrength <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0169-05a" xlink:href="note-0169-05"/> of the Earth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5931" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, they water the Earth better then Rain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5932" xml:space="preserve">for in <lb/>Snow the Earth doth (as it were) ſuck the Water as out of the Teat: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5933" xml:space="preserve">Third-<lb/>ly, the moiſture of Snow is the fineſt moiſture, for it is the Froth of the <lb/>Cloudy Waters.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5934" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div726" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0169-05" xlink:href="note-0169-05a" xml:space="preserve">663.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5935" xml:space="preserve">Showers, if they come a little beſore the ripening of Fruits, do good to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0169-06a" xlink:href="note-0169-06"/> all ſucculent and moiſt Fruits, as Vines, Olives, Pomegranates; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5936" xml:space="preserve">yet it is rather <lb/>for plenty then for goodneſs, for the beſt Wines are in the dryeſt Vintages.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5937" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="136" file="0170" n="170" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Small ſhowers are likewiſe good for Corn, ſo as parching hear<unsure/>s come <lb/>not upon them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5938" xml:space="preserve">Generally, Night-ſhowers are better then Day ſhowers; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5939" xml:space="preserve">for that the Sun followeth not ſo ſal<unsure/>t upon them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5940" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee, even <lb/>in watering by the Hand, it is beſt in Summer time to water in the <lb/>Evening.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5941" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div727" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0169-06" xlink:href="note-0169-06a" xml:space="preserve">664.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5942" xml:space="preserve">The differences of Earths, and the tryals oſ them, are worthy to be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0170-01a" xlink:href="note-0170-01"/> diligently enquired. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5943" xml:space="preserve">The Earth that with ſhowers dotheaſily ſoften, is com <lb/>mended; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5944" xml:space="preserve">and yet ſome Earth of that kinde will be very dry and hard before <lb/>the ſhowers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5945" xml:space="preserve">The Earth that caſteth up from the Plough a great clod, is not <lb/>ſo good as that which caſteth up a ſmaller clod. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5946" xml:space="preserve">The Earth that putteth forth <lb/>Moſs eaſily, and may be called Mouldy, is not good. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5947" xml:space="preserve">The Earth that ſmel-<lb/>leth well upon the Digging, or Ploughing, is commended; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5948" xml:space="preserve">as containing <lb/>the Juyce of Vegetables almoſt already prepared. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5949" xml:space="preserve">It is thought by ſome, that <lb/>the ends of low Rain-bows fall more upon one kinde of Earth then upon <lb/>another: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5950" xml:space="preserve">As it may well be, for that Earth is moſt roſcide; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5951" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it <lb/>is commended for a ſign of a good Earth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5952" xml:space="preserve">The poorneſs of the Herbs (it is <lb/>plain) ſheweth the poorneſs of the Earth, and eſpecially, if they be in colour <lb/>more dark: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5953" xml:space="preserve">But if the Herbs ſhew withered or blaſted at the top, it ſheweth <lb/>the Earth to be very cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5954" xml:space="preserve">and ſo doth the Moſſir eſs oſ Trees. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5955" xml:space="preserve">The Earth <lb/>whereoſ the Graſs is ſoon parched with the Sun and toaſted, is commonly <lb/>forced Earth, and barren in his own nature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5956" xml:space="preserve">The tender, cheſſom, and mellow <lb/>Earth is the beſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5957" xml:space="preserve">being meer Mould, between the two extreams of Clay <lb/>and Sand, eſpecially, if it be not Loamy and Binding. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5958" xml:space="preserve">The Earth that aſter <lb/>Rain will ſcarce be Ploughed, is commonly ſruitſul; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5959" xml:space="preserve">ſor it is cleaving, and <lb/>full of Juyce.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5960" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div728" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0170-01" xlink:href="note-0170-01a" xml:space="preserve">665.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5961" xml:space="preserve">It is ſtrange, which is obſerved by ſome of the Ancients, that Duſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0170-02a" xlink:href="note-0170-02"/> helpeth the fruitſulneſs of Trees, and of Vines by name; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5962" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as they <lb/>caſt Duſt upon them of purpoſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5963" xml:space="preserve">It ſhould ſeem that that powdring, when <lb/>a ſhower cometh, maketh a kinde of ſoyling to the Tree, b@ing Earth and <lb/>Water finely laid on. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5964" xml:space="preserve">And they note, that Countreys where the Fields and <lb/>Ways are duſty, bear the beſt Vines.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5965" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div729" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0170-02" xlink:href="note-0170-02a" xml:space="preserve">666.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5966" xml:space="preserve">It is commended by the Ancients ſor an excellent help to Trees, to lay <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0170-03a" xlink:href="note-0170-03"/> the Stalks and Leaves of Lupines about the Roots, or to Plough them into <lb/>the Ground, where you will ſow Corn. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5967" xml:space="preserve">The burning alſo of the cuttings of <lb/>Vines, and caſting them upon Land, doth much good. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5968" xml:space="preserve">And it was general-<lb/>ly received of old, that dunging of Grounds whenthe Weſt-wind bloweth, <lb/>and in the decreaſe of the Moon, doth greatly help; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5969" xml:space="preserve">the Earth (asit ſeemeth) <lb/>being then more thirſty, and open to receive the Dung.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5970" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div730" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0170-03" xlink:href="note-0170-03a" xml:space="preserve">667.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5971" xml:space="preserve">The Graffing of Vines upon Vines (as Itake it) is not now in uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5972" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0170-04a" xlink:href="note-0170-04"/> Ancients had it, and that three ways; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5973" xml:space="preserve">the firſt was Inſition, which is the <lb/>ordinary manner of Graffing: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5974" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond was Terebration, through the <lb/>middle of the Stock, and putting in the Cions there: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5975" xml:space="preserve">And the third was <lb/>Paring of two Vines that grow together to the Marrow, and binding them <lb/>cloſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5976" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div731" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0170-04" xlink:href="note-0170-04a" xml:space="preserve">668.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s5977" xml:space="preserve">The Diſeaſes and ill Accidents of Corn, are worthy to be enquired, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0170-05a" xlink:href="note-0170-05"/> would be more worthy to be enquired, if it were in Mens power to help <lb/>them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5978" xml:space="preserve">whereas many of them are not to be remedied. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5979" xml:space="preserve">The Mildew is one <lb/>of the greateſt, which (out of queſtion) cometh by cloſeneſs of Air; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5980" xml:space="preserve">and therefore in Hills, or large Champain Grounds, it ſeldom cometh, <lb/>ſuch as is with us York’s Woald. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5981" xml:space="preserve">This cannot be remedied, otherwiſe <lb/>then that in Countreys of ſmall encloſure the Grounds be turned into <lb/>larger Fields: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5982" xml:space="preserve">Which I have known to do good in ſome Farms.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5983" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="137" file="0171" n="171" rhead="Century VII."/> Another Diſeaſe is the putting forth of Wilde Oats, whereinto Corn often-<lb/>times (eſpecially Barley) doth degenerate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5984" xml:space="preserve">It hapneth chiefly from the <lb/>weakneſs of the Grain that is ſown; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5985" xml:space="preserve">for if it be either too old or mouldy, <lb/>it will bring forth wilde Oats. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5986" xml:space="preserve">Another diſeaſe is the ſatiety of the <lb/>Ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5987" xml:space="preserve">for if you ſow one Ground ſtill with the ſame Corn (I mean not <lb/>the ſame Corn that grew upon the ſame Ground, but the ſame kinde of <lb/>Grain, as Wheat, Barley, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5988" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5989" xml:space="preserve">it will proſper but poorly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5990" xml:space="preserve">therefore be-<lb/>ſides the reſting of the Ground, you muſt vary the Seed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5991" xml:space="preserve">Another ill Accid ent <lb/>is from the Winds, which hurt at two times; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5992" xml:space="preserve">at the flowring by ſhaking off <lb/>the Flowers, and at the full ripening by ſhaking out the Corn. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5993" xml:space="preserve">Another ill <lb/>Accident is Drought at the ſpindling of the Corn, which with us is rare, but <lb/>in hotter Countreys common, inſomuch as the word Calamitas was firſt <lb/>derived from Calamus, when the Corn could not get out of the ſtalk. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5994" xml:space="preserve">Another ill Accident is Over-wet at ſowing time, which with us breedeth <lb/>much Dearth, inſomuch as the Corn never cometh up; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5995" xml:space="preserve">and (many times) <lb/>they are forced to re-ſow Summer-Corn, where they ſowed Winter-Corn. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5996" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Another ill Accident is bitter Froſts, continued without Snow, eſpecially in <lb/>the beginning of the Winter, after the Seed is new ſown. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5997" xml:space="preserve">Another Diſeaſe <lb/>is Worms, which ſometimes breed in the Root, and happen upon hot Suns <lb/>and ſhowers immediately after the ſowing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5998" xml:space="preserve">and another Worm breedeth in <lb/>the Ear it ſelf, eſpecially when hot Suns break often out of Clouds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s5999" xml:space="preserve">An-<lb/>other Diſeaſe is Weeds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6000" xml:space="preserve">and they are ſuch, as either choak and over-ſhadow <lb/>the Corn, and bear it down, or ſtarve the Corn, and deceive it of nouriſh-<lb/>ment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6001" xml:space="preserve">Another Diſeaſe is, over-rankneſs of the Corn, which they uſe to <lb/>remedy by Mowing it after it is come up, or putting Sheep into it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6002" xml:space="preserve">An-<lb/>other ill Accident is, laying of Corn with great Rains near or in Harveſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6003" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Another ill Accident is, if the Seed happen to have touched Oyl, or any <lb/>thing that is fat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6004" xml:space="preserve">for thoſe ſubſtances have an antipathy with nouriſhment of <lb/>Water.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6005" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div732" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0170-05" xlink:href="note-0170-05a" xml:space="preserve">669.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6006" xml:space="preserve">The remedies oſ the Diſeaſes of Corn have been obſerved as followeth. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6007" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0171-01a" xlink:href="note-0171-01"/> The Steeping of the Grain before Sowing, a little time in Wine, is thought a <lb/>preſervative; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6008" xml:space="preserve">the Mingling of Seed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6009" xml:space="preserve">Corn with Aſhes, is thought to be good; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6010" xml:space="preserve">the Sowing at the wane of the Moon, is thought to make the Corn ſound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6011" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>It hath not been practiſed, but it is thought to be of uſe to make ſome Miſſel-<lb/>lane in Corn; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6012" xml:space="preserve">as if you ſow a few Beans with Wheat, your Wheat will be the <lb/>better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6013" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved, that the ſowing of Corn with Houſleek doth <lb/>good. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6014" xml:space="preserve">Though Grain that toucheth Oyl or Fat receiveth hurt, yet the <lb/>ſteeping of it in the Dregs of Oyl, when it beginneth to putrefie, (which they <lb/>call Amurca) is thought to aſſure it againſt Worms. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6015" xml:space="preserve">It is reported alſo, that <lb/>if Corn be moved, it will make the Grain longer, but emptier, and having <lb/>more of the Husk.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6016" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div733" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0171-01" xlink:href="note-0171-01a" xml:space="preserve">670.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6017" xml:space="preserve">It hath been noted, that Seed of a year old is the beſt, and of two or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0171-02a" xlink:href="note-0171-02"/> three years is worſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6018" xml:space="preserve">and that which is more old is quite barren, though <lb/>(no doubt) ſome Seed and Grain laſt better then others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6019" xml:space="preserve">The Corn <lb/>which in the Vanning lieth loweſt is the beſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6020" xml:space="preserve">and the Corn which broken <lb/>or bitten, retaineth a little yellowneſs, is better then that which is very <lb/>white.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6021" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div734" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0171-02" xlink:href="note-0171-02a" xml:space="preserve">671.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6022" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved, that of all Roots of Herbs, the Root of Sorrel <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0171-03a" xlink:href="note-0171-03"/> goeth the furtheſt into the Earth, inſomuch as it hath been known to go three <lb/>cubits deep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6023" xml:space="preserve">and that it is the Root that continueth fit (longeſt) to be ſet <lb/>again, of any Root that groweth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6024" xml:space="preserve">It is a cold and acide Herb, that (as it ſeem-<lb/>eth) loveth the Earth, and is not much drawn by the Sun.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6025" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div735" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0171-03" xlink:href="note-0171-03a" xml:space="preserve">672.</note> </div> <pb o="138" file="0172" n="172" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6026" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved, that ſome Herbs like beſt being watered with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0172-01a" xlink:href="note-0172-01"/> Salt-water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6027" xml:space="preserve">as Radiſh, Beet, Rue, Penny royal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6028" xml:space="preserve">This tryal would be extended <lb/>to ſome other Herbs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6029" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially ſuch as are ſtrong, as Tarragon, Muſtard-<lb/>ſeed, Rocket, and the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6030" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div736" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0172-01" xlink:href="note-0172-01a" xml:space="preserve">673.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6031" xml:space="preserve">It is ſtrange, that it is generally received, how ſome poyſonous Beaſts <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0172-02a" xlink:href="note-0172-02"/> affect odorate and wholſome Herbs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6032" xml:space="preserve">as, that the Snake loveth Fennel, that <lb/>the Toad will be much under Sage, that Frogs will be in Cinquefoil. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6033" xml:space="preserve">It may be <lb/>it is rather the Shade, or other Coverture, that they take liking in, then the <lb/>virtue of the Herb.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6034" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div737" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0172-02" xlink:href="note-0172-02a" xml:space="preserve">674.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6035" xml:space="preserve">It were a matter of great profit, (ſave that I doubt it is too conjectural <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0172-03a" xlink:href="note-0172-03"/> to venture upon) if one could diſcern what Corn, Herbs, or Fruits, are like <lb/>to be in Plenty or Scarcity, by ſome Signs and Prognoſticks in the begin-<lb/>ning of the year: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6036" xml:space="preserve">For as for thoſe that are like to be in Plenty, they may be <lb/>bargai<unsure/>ned for upon the Ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6037" xml:space="preserve">as the old relation was of Thales, who to <lb/>ſhew how eaſie it was for a Philoſopher to be rich, when he foreſaw a great <lb/>plenty of Olives, made a Monopoly of them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6038" xml:space="preserve">And for Scarcity, Men may <lb/>make profit in keeping better the old ſtore. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6039" xml:space="preserve">Long continuance of Snow is <lb/>believed to make a fruitful year of Corn; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6040" xml:space="preserve">an early Winter, or a very late <lb/>Winter, a barren year of Corn, an open and ſerene Winter, an ill year of <lb/>Fruit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6041" xml:space="preserve">Theſe we have partly touched before; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6042" xml:space="preserve">but other Prognoſticks of like <lb/>nature are diligently to be enquired.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6043" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div738" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0172-03" xlink:href="note-0172-03a" xml:space="preserve">675.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6044" xml:space="preserve">There ſeem to be in ſome Plants ſingularities, wherein they differ from <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0172-04a" xlink:href="note-0172-04"/> all other. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6045" xml:space="preserve">The Olive hath the oyly part onely on the outſide, whereas all <lb/>other Fruits have it in the Nut or Kernel. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6046" xml:space="preserve">The Firr hath (in effect) no Stone, <lb/>Nut, nor Kernel; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6047" xml:space="preserve">except you will count the little Grains, Kernels. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6048" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>Pomegranate and Pine-Apple have onely, amongſt Fruits, Grains, diſtinct in <lb/>ſeveral Cells. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6049" xml:space="preserve">No Herbs have curled Leaves, but Cabbage and Cabbage-<lb/>Lettuce. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6050" xml:space="preserve">None have double Leaves, one belonging to the Stalk, another to <lb/>the Fruit or Seed, but the Artichoak. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6051" xml:space="preserve">No Flower hath that kinde of ſpred <lb/>that the Wood-bine hath. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6052" xml:space="preserve">This may be a large Field of Contemplation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6053" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>it ſhe weth, that in the Frame of Nature there is, in the producing of ſome <lb/>Species, a compoſition of Matter, which hapneth oft, and may be much <lb/>diverſified; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6054" xml:space="preserve">in others, ſuch as hapneth rarely, and admitteth little variety. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6055" xml:space="preserve">For ſo it is likewiſe in Beaſts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6056" xml:space="preserve">Dogs have a reſemblance with Wolves and <lb/>Foxes, Horſes with Aſſes, Kine with Bufles, Hares with Coneys, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6057" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6058" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>ſo in Birds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6059" xml:space="preserve">Kites and Keſtrels have a reſemblance with Hawks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6060" xml:space="preserve">Common <lb/>Doves with Ring-Doves and Turtles; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6061" xml:space="preserve">Black-Birds with Thruſhes and Ma-<lb/>viſſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6062" xml:space="preserve">Crows with Ravens, Daws, and Choughs, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6063" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6064" xml:space="preserve">But Elephants and <lb/>Swine amongſt Beaſts, and the Bird of Paradiſe, and the Peacock amongſt <lb/>Birds, and ſome few others, have ſcarce any other Species that have affinity <lb/>with them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6065" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div739" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0172-04" xlink:href="note-0172-04a" xml:space="preserve">676.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6066" xml:space="preserve">We leave the Deſcription of Plants and their Virtues to Herbals, and <lb/>other like Books of Natural Hiſtory wherein Mens diligence hath been <lb/>great even to Curioſity. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6067" xml:space="preserve">For our Experiments are onely ſuch, as do ever <lb/>aſcend a degree to the deriving of Cauſes, and extracting of Axioms, which <lb/>we are not ignorant, but that ſome, both of the Ancient and Modern VVriters <lb/>have alſo labored; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6068" xml:space="preserve">but their Cauſes and Axioms are ſo ſull of Imagination, <lb/>and ſo infected with the old received Theories, as they are meer Inquinati-<lb/>ons of Experience, and concoct it not.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6069" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="139" file="0173" n="173" rhead="Century VII."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6070" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been obſerved by ſome of the Ancients, that Skins, eſpecially of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0173-01a" xlink:href="note-0173-01"/> Rams newly pulled off, aed applied to the Wounds of Stripes, do keep <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0173-02a" xlink:href="note-0173-02"/> them from ſwelling and exulcerating, and likewiſe heal them, and cloſe <lb/>them up; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6071" xml:space="preserve">and that the Whites of Eggs do the ſame. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6072" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, a tem-<lb/>perate Conglutination; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6073" xml:space="preserve">for both Bodies are clammy and viſcous, and do <lb/>bridle the Deflux of Humors to the hurts, without penning them in too <lb/>much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6074" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div740" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0173-01" xlink:href="note-0173-01a" xml:space="preserve">677.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0173-02" xlink:href="note-0173-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Healing of <lb/>Wounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6075" xml:space="preserve">YOu may turn (almoſt) all Fleſh into a fatty ſubſtance, if you take Fleſh <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0173-03a" xlink:href="note-0173-03"/> and cut it into pieces, and put the pieces into a Glaſs covered with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0173-04a" xlink:href="note-0173-04"/> Parchment, and ſo let the Glaſs ſtand ſix or ſeven hours in boyling Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6076" xml:space="preserve">It <lb/>may be an experiment of profit, for making of Fat or Greaſe for many uſes: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6077" xml:space="preserve">But then it muſt be of ſuch Fleſh as is not edible; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6078" xml:space="preserve">as Horſes, Dogs, Bears, Foxes, <lb/>Badgers, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6079" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6080" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div741" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0173-03" xlink:href="note-0173-03a" xml:space="preserve">678.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0173-04" xlink:href="note-0173-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Fat diffisſed in <lb/>Fleſh.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6081" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported by one of the Ancients, that new Wine put into Veſſels <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0173-05a" xlink:href="note-0173-05"/> well ſtopped, and the Veſſels let down into the Sea, will accelerate very <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0173-06a" xlink:href="note-0173-06"/> much the making of them ripe and potable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6082" xml:space="preserve">the ſame would be tryed in <lb/>Wort.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6083" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div742" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0173-05" xlink:href="note-0173-05a" xml:space="preserve">679.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0173-06" xlink:href="note-0173-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Ripening of <lb/>Drink before <lb/>the time.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6084" xml:space="preserve">BEaſts are more Haity then Men; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6085" xml:space="preserve">and Savage Men more then Civil; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6086" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0173-07a" xlink:href="note-0173-07"/> the Plumage of Birds exceedeth the Piloſity of Beaſts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6087" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0173-08a" xlink:href="note-0173-08"/> ſmoothneſs in Men, is not any abundance of Heat and Moiſture, though that <lb/>indeed cauſeth Piloſity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6088" xml:space="preserve">but there is requiſite to Piloſity, not ſo much Heat <lb/>and Moiſture, as Excrementitious Heat and Moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6089" xml:space="preserve">(for whatſoever aſſi-<lb/>milateth goeth not into the Hair) and Excrementitious Moiſture aboundeth <lb/>moſt in Beaſts, and Men that are more ſavage. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6090" xml:space="preserve">Much the ſame Reaſon is <lb/>there of the Plumage of Birds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6091" xml:space="preserve">for Birds aſſimilate leſs, and excern more <lb/>then Beaſts, for their Excrements are ever aliquid, and their Fleſh (generally) <lb/>more dry; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6092" xml:space="preserve">beſide, they have not Inſtruments for Urine, and ſo all the Excre-<lb/>mentitious Moiſture goeth into the Feathers: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6093" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it is no mar-<lb/>vel though Birds be commonly better Meat then Beaſts, becauſe their fleſh <lb/>doth aſſimilate more finely, and ſe-cerneth more ſubtilly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6094" xml:space="preserve">Again, the Head <lb/>of Man hath Hair upon the firſt Birth, which no other part of the Body hath. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6095" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be want of Perſpiration; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6096" xml:space="preserve">for much of the matter of Hair, in <lb/>the other parts of the Body goeth forth by inſenſible Perſpiration. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6097" xml:space="preserve">And be-<lb/>ſides, the Skull being of a more ſolid ſubſtance, nouriſheth and aſſimilateth <lb/>leſs, and excerneth more; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6098" xml:space="preserve">and ſo likewiſe doth the Chin. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6099" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo that <lb/>Hair cometh not upon the Palms of the Hands, nor Soals of the Feet, which <lb/>are parts more perſpirable. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6100" xml:space="preserve">And Children likewiſe are not Hairy, for that <lb/>their Skins are more perſpirable.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6101" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div743" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0173-07" xlink:href="note-0173-07a" xml:space="preserve">680.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0173-08" xlink:href="note-0173-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Piloſity and <lb/>Plumage.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6102" xml:space="preserve">BIrds are of ſwifter motion then Beaſts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6103" xml:space="preserve">for the flight of many Birds is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0173-09a" xlink:href="note-0173-09"/> ſwifter then the race of any Beaſts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6104" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Spirits in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0173-10a" xlink:href="note-0173-10"/> Bi<unsure/>rds are in greater proportion, in compariſon of the bulk of their Body, <lb/>then in Beaſts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6105" xml:space="preserve">For as for thereaſon that ſome give, that they are partly car-<lb/>ried, whereas Beaſts go, that is nothing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6106" xml:space="preserve">for by that reaſon, ſwimming ſhould <lb/>be ſwifter then running: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6107" xml:space="preserve">And that kinde of carriage alſo, is not without labor <lb/>of the Wing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6108" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div744" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0173-09" xlink:href="note-0173-09a" xml:space="preserve">681.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0173-10" xlink:href="note-0173-10a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Quickneß of <lb/>Motion in <lb/>Birds.</note> </div> <pb o="140" file="0174" n="174" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6109" xml:space="preserve">THe Sea is clearer when the North-wind bloweth, then when the South-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0174-01a" xlink:href="note-0174-01"/> wind. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6110" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Salt-water hath a little Oylineſs in the Surface <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0174-02a" xlink:href="note-0174-02"/> there of, as appeareth in very hot days: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6111" xml:space="preserve">And again, for that the Southern-<lb/>wind relaxeth the Water ſomewhat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6112" xml:space="preserve">as no Water boyling, is ſo clear as cold <lb/>Water.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6113" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div745" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-01" xlink:href="note-0174-01a" xml:space="preserve">682.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-02" xlink:href="note-0174-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Different <lb/>clearneß of the <lb/>Sea.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6114" xml:space="preserve">FIre burneth Wood, making it firſt Luminous, then black and brittle, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0174-03a" xlink:href="note-0174-03"/> laſtly, broken and incinerate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6115" xml:space="preserve">ſcalding Water doth none of theſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6116" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0174-04a" xlink:href="note-0174-04"/> cauſe is, for that by Fire the Spirit of the Body is firſt refined, and then emit-<lb/>ted; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6117" xml:space="preserve">where of the refining or attenuation cauſeth the light, and the emiſſion; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6118" xml:space="preserve">firſt the fragility, and after the diſſolution into Aſhes, neither doth any other <lb/>Body enter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6119" xml:space="preserve">But in Water, the Spirit of the Body is not refined ſo much; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6120" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>and beſides, part of the Water entreth, which doth increaſe the Spirit, and <lb/>in a degree extinguiſh it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6121" xml:space="preserve">therefore we ſee that hot Water will quench Fire. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6122" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And again, we ſee that in Bodies wherein the Water doth not much enter, <lb/>but onely the heat paſſeth, hot Water worketh the effects of Fire: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6123" xml:space="preserve">As in <lb/>Eggs boiled and roaſted, (into which the Water entreth not at all) there is <lb/>ſcarce difference to be diſcerned; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6124" xml:space="preserve">but in Fruit and Fleſh, where into the Wa-<lb/>ter entreth in ſome part, there is much more difference.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6125" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div746" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-03" xlink:href="note-0174-03a" xml:space="preserve">683.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-04" xlink:href="note-0174-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Different <lb/>Heats of Fire <lb/>and Boiling <lb/>Water.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6126" xml:space="preserve">THe bottom of a Veſſel of boyling Water (as hath been obſerved) is not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0174-05a" xlink:href="note-0174-05"/> very much heated, ſo as men may put their hand under the Veſſel, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0174-06a" xlink:href="note-0174-06"/> remove it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6127" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the moiſture of Water, as it quencheth <lb/>Coals where it entreth, ſo it doth allay heat where it toucheth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6128" xml:space="preserve">And there-<lb/>fore note well, that moiſture, although it doth not paſs through Bodies with-<lb/>out Communication of ſome ſubftance (as heat and cold do) yet it worketh <lb/>manifeſt effects; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6129" xml:space="preserve">not by entrance of the Body, but by qualifying of the heat <lb/>and cold, as we ſee in this inſtance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6130" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee likewiſe, that the water of <lb/>things diſtilled in water, (which they call the Bath) differeth not much from <lb/>the water of things diſtilled by Fire. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6131" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that Pewter-Diſhes with <lb/>Water in them will not melt eaſily, but without it they will. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6132" xml:space="preserve">Nay, we ſee <lb/>more, that Butter or Oyl, which in them ſelves are inflamable, yet by the vir-<lb/>tue of their moiſture will do the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6133" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div747" type="float" level="2" n="51"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-05" xlink:href="note-0174-05a" xml:space="preserve">684.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-06" xlink:href="note-0174-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Qualification <lb/>of Heat by <lb/>Moiſturo.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6134" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been noted by the Ancients, that it is dangerous to pick ones Ear <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0174-07a" xlink:href="note-0174-07"/> whileſt he Yawneth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6135" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that in Yawning, the inner Parch-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0174-08a" xlink:href="note-0174-08"/> ment of the Ear<unsure/> is extended by the drawing in of the Spirit and Breath; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6136" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>in Yawning and Sighing both, the Spirit is firſt ſtrongly drawn in, and then <lb/>ſtrongly expelled.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6137" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div748" type="float" level="2" n="52"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-07" xlink:href="note-0174-07a" xml:space="preserve">685.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-08" xlink:href="note-0174-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>tuoching <lb/>Yawning.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6138" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been obſerved by the Ancients, that Sneezing doth ceaſe the Hic-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0174-09a" xlink:href="note-0174-09"/> cough. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6139" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Motion of the Hiccough is a lifting up of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0174-10a" xlink:href="note-0174-10"/> the Stomach; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6140" xml:space="preserve">which Sneezing doth ſome what depreſs, and divert the moti-<lb/>on another way. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6141" xml:space="preserve">For firſt, we ſee that the Hiccough cometh of fulneſs of <lb/>Meat, (eſpecially in Children) which cauſeth an extenſion of the Stomach: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6142" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, it is cauſed by acide Meats or Drinks, which is by the pricking <lb/>of the Stomach. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6143" xml:space="preserve">And this motion is ceaſed, either by Diverſion, or by Deten-<lb/>tion of the Spirits: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6144" xml:space="preserve">Diverſion, as in Sneezing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6145" xml:space="preserve">Detention, as we ſee holding <lb/>of the Breath doth help ſome what to ceaſe the Hiccough, and putting a Man <lb/>into an earneſt ſtudy doth the like, as is commonly uſed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6146" xml:space="preserve">And Vinegar put to <lb/>the Noſtrils or Gargarized doth it alſo; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6147" xml:space="preserve">ſor that it is Aſtringent, and inhibiteth <lb/>the motion of the Spirit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6148" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div749" type="float" level="2" n="53"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-09" xlink:href="note-0174-09a" xml:space="preserve">686.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0174-10" xlink:href="note-0174-10a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Hiccough.</note> </div> <pb o="141" file="0175" n="175" rhead="Century VII."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6149" xml:space="preserve">LOoking againſt the Sun doth induce Sneezing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6150" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, not the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0175-01a" xlink:href="note-0175-01"/> heating of the Noſtrils; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6151" xml:space="preserve">for then the holding up of the Noſtrils againſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0175-02a" xlink:href="note-0175-02"/> the Sun, though one wink, would do it, but the drawing down of the moi-<lb/>ſture of the Brain: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6152" xml:space="preserve">For it will make the Eyes run with water, and the draw-<lb/>ing of moiſture to the Eyes, doth draw it to the Noſtrils by Motion of Con-<lb/>ſent, and ſo followeth Sneezing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6153" xml:space="preserve">As contrariwiſe, the Tickling of the <lb/>Noſtrils within doth draw the moiſture to the Noſtrils, and to the Eyes by <lb/>conſent, for they alſo will water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6154" xml:space="preserve">But yet it hath been obſerved, that if one <lb/>be about to ſneeze, the rubbing of the Eyes till they run with water, will <lb/>prevent it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6155" xml:space="preserve">Where of the cauſe is, for that the humor which was deſcending <lb/>to the Noſtrils, is diverted to the Eyes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6156" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div750" type="float" level="2" n="54"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0175-01" xlink:href="note-0175-01a" xml:space="preserve">687</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0175-02" xlink:href="note-0175-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Sneezing.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6157" xml:space="preserve">THe Teeth are more by cold drink, or the like, affected, then the other <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0175-03a" xlink:href="note-0175-03"/> parts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6158" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is double; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6159" xml:space="preserve">the one, for that the reſiſtance of Bone to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0175-04a" xlink:href="note-0175-04"/> cold, is greater then of Fleſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6160" xml:space="preserve">for that the Fleſh ſhrinketh, but the Bone re-<lb/>ſiſteth, where by the Cold becometh more eager. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6161" xml:space="preserve">The other is, for that the <lb/>Teeth are parts without Blood, whereas Blood helpeth to quali e the cold. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6162" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we ſee, that the Sinews are much affected with Cold, for that <lb/>they are parts without Blood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6163" xml:space="preserve">So the Bones in ſharp Colds wax brittle; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6164" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>therefore it hath been ſeen, that all contuſions of Bones in hard weather, are <lb/>more difficult to cure.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6165" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div751" type="float" level="2" n="55"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0175-03" xlink:href="note-0175-03a" xml:space="preserve">688</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0175-04" xlink:href="note-0175-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Tenderneß of <lb/>the Teeth.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6166" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been noted, that the Tongue receiveth more eaſily tokens of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0175-05a" xlink:href="note-0175-05"/> Diſeaſes then the other parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6167" xml:space="preserve">as of heats within, which appear moſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0175-06a" xlink:href="note-0175-06"/> in the blackneſs of the Tongue. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6168" xml:space="preserve">Again, Pied Cattel are ſpotted in their <lb/>Tongues, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6169" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6170" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is (no doubt) the tenderneſs of the part, which <lb/>thereby receiveth more eaſily all alterations then any other parts of the <lb/>Fleſh.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6171" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div752" type="float" level="2" n="56"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0175-05" xlink:href="note-0175-05a" xml:space="preserve">689.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0175-06" xlink:href="note-0175-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Tongue.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6172" xml:space="preserve">WHen the Mouth is out of taſte, it maketh things taſte ſometimes ſalt, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0175-07a" xlink:href="note-0175-07"/> chiefly bitter, and ſometimes loathſome, but never ſweet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6173" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0175-08a" xlink:href="note-0175-08"/> cauſe is, the corrupting of the moiſture about the Tongue, which many <lb/>times turneth bitter, and ſalt, and loathſome, but ſweet never; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6174" xml:space="preserve">for the reſt <lb/>are degrees of corruption.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6175" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div753" type="float" level="2" n="57"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0175-07" xlink:href="note-0175-07a" xml:space="preserve">690.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0175-08" xlink:href="note-0175-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Taſte.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6176" xml:space="preserve">IT was obſerved in the Great Plague of the laſt year, that there were ſeen in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0175-09a" xlink:href="note-0175-09"/> divers Ditches, and low Grounds about London, many Toads that had <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0175-10a" xlink:href="note-0175-10"/> Tails two or three inches long at the leaſt, whereas Toads (uſually) have no <lb/>Tails at all; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6177" xml:space="preserve">which argueth a great diſpoſition to putrefaction in the Soil <lb/>and Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6178" xml:space="preserve">It is reported likewiſe, that Roots (ſuch as Carrots and Parſnips) are <lb/>more ſweet and luſcious in infectious years then in other years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6179" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div754" type="float" level="2" n="58"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0175-09" xlink:href="note-0175-09a" xml:space="preserve">691.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0175-10" xlink:href="note-0175-10a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Some Progno-<lb/>ſticks of Peſti-<lb/>lential Sea-<lb/>ſons.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6180" xml:space="preserve">WIſe Phyſicians ſhould with all diligence inquire what Simples Nature <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0175-11a" xlink:href="note-0175-11"/> yieldeth, that have extream ſubtile parts without any Mordication <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0175-12a" xlink:href="note-0175-12"/> or Acrimony; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6181" xml:space="preserve">for they undermine that which is hard, they open that which <lb/>is ſtopped and ſhut, and they expel that which is offenſive gently, without <lb/>too much perturbation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6182" xml:space="preserve">Of this kinde are Elder-flowers, which therefore <lb/>are proper for the Stone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6183" xml:space="preserve">of this kinde is the Dwarf-pine, which is <lb/>proper for the Jaundies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6184" xml:space="preserve">of this kinde is Harts-horn, which is proper<unsure/> <lb/>or Agues and Infections; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6185" xml:space="preserve">of this kinde is Piony, which is proper for Stop-<lb/>pings in the Head; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6186" xml:space="preserve">of this kinde is Fumitory which is proper for the Spleen;</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6187" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="142" file="0176" n="176" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> and a number of others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6188" xml:space="preserve">Generally, divers Creatures bred of Putrefaction, <lb/>though they be ſomewhat loathſome to take, are of this kinde; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6189" xml:space="preserve">as Earth-<lb/>worms, Timber-ſows, Snails, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6190" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6191" xml:space="preserve">And I conceive, that the Trochiſcs of Vipers, <lb/>(which are ſo much magnified) and the fleſh of Snakes ſome ways condited <lb/>and corrected (which of late are grown into ſome credit) are of the ſame <lb/>nature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6192" xml:space="preserve">So the parts of Beaſts putrefied (as Caſtoreum and Musk, which have <lb/>extream ſubtil parts) are to be placed amongſt them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6193" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that <lb/>putrefaction of Plants (as Agarick and Jews-Ear) are of greateſt vertue. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6194" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that putrefaction is the ſubtileſt of all motions in the parts <lb/>of Bodies, And ſince we cannot take down the lives of Living Creatures <lb/>(which ſome of the Paracelſians ſay, if they could be taken down, would <lb/>make us Immortal,) the next is, for ſubtilty of operation to take Bodies <lb/>putreſied, ſuch as may be ſafely taken.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6195" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div755" type="float" level="2" n="59"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0175-11" xlink:href="note-0175-11a" xml:space="preserve">692.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0175-12" xlink:href="note-0175-12a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Special Sim-<lb/>ples for Medi-<lb/>cines.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6196" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been obſerved by the Ancients, that much uſe of Venus doth dim the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0176-01a" xlink:href="note-0176-01"/> ſight, and yet Eunuchs, which are unable to generate, are (nevertheleſs) <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0176-02a" xlink:href="note-0176-02"/> alſo dim-ſighted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6197" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of dimneſs of ſight in the former, is the ex <lb/>pence of Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6198" xml:space="preserve">in the latter, the over-moiſture of the Brain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6199" xml:space="preserve">for the over-<lb/>moiſture of the Brain doth thicken the Spirits viſual, and obſtructeth their <lb/>paſſages, as we ſee by the decay in the ſight in Age, where alſo the dimi-<lb/>nution of the Spirits concurreth as another cauſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6200" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that blind-<lb/>neſs cometh by Rheums and Cataracts Now in Eunuchs there are all the <lb/>notes of moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6201" xml:space="preserve">as the ſwelling of their Thighs, the looſneſs of their <lb/>Belly, the ſmoothneſs of their skin, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6202" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6203" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div756" type="float" level="2" n="60"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0176-01" xlink:href="note-0176-01a" xml:space="preserve">693.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0176-02" xlink:href="note-0176-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Venus.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6204" xml:space="preserve">The pleaſure in the Act of Venus, is the greateſt of the pleaſures of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0176-03a" xlink:href="note-0176-03"/> Senſes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6205" xml:space="preserve">the matching of it with Itch is improper, though that alſo be plea-<lb/>ſing to the touch, but the cauſes are profound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6206" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, all the Organs of the <lb/>Senſes qualifie the motions of the Spirits, and make ſo many ſeveral ſpecies <lb/>of motions, and pleaſures or diſpleaſures thereupon, as there be diverſities <lb/>of Organs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6207" xml:space="preserve">The Inſtruments of Sight, Hearing, Taſte, and Smell, are of ſeveral <lb/>frame, and ſo are the parts for Generation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6208" xml:space="preserve">therefore Scaliger doth well to <lb/>make the pleaſure of Generation a ſixth Senſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6209" xml:space="preserve">And if there were any other <lb/>differing Organs, and qualified Perforations for the Spirits to paſs, there <lb/>would be more then the Five Senſes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6210" xml:space="preserve">Neither do we well know, whether ſome <lb/>Beaſts and Birds have not Senſes that we know not, and the very Sent of <lb/>Dogs is almoſt a ſenſe by it ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6211" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, the Pleaſures of the Touch are <lb/>greater and deeper then thoſe of the other Senſes, as we ſee in Warming up-<lb/>on Cold, or Refrigeration upon Heat: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6212" xml:space="preserve">For as the Pains of the Touch are greater <lb/>then the offences of other Senſes, ſo like wiſe are the Pleaſures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6213" xml:space="preserve">It is true, <lb/>that the affecting of the Spirits immediately, and (as it were) without an <lb/>Organ, is of the greateſt pleaſure; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6214" xml:space="preserve">which is but in two things, Sweet ſmells <lb/>and Wine and the like Sweet vapors. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6215" xml:space="preserve">For Smells, weſee their great and ſudden <lb/>effectin fetching Men again when they ſwown; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6216" xml:space="preserve">for Drink, it is certain, that <lb/>the pleaſure of Drunkenneſs is next the pleaſure of Venus; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6217" xml:space="preserve">and great Joyes <lb/>(likewiſe) make the Spirits move and touch themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6218" xml:space="preserve">and the pleaſure <lb/>of Venus is ſomewhat of the ſame kinde.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6219" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div757" type="float" level="2" n="61"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0176-03" xlink:href="note-0176-03a" xml:space="preserve">694.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6220" xml:space="preserve">It hath been always obſerved, that Men are more inclined to Venus in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0176-04a" xlink:href="note-0176-04"/> the Winter, and Women in the Summer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6221" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Spirits in <lb/>a Body more hot and dry, (as the Spirits of Men are) by the Summer are <lb/>more exhaled and diſſipated, and in the Winter more condenſed and kept <lb/>entire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6222" xml:space="preserve">but in Bodies that are cold and moiſt, (as Womens are) the Summer <pb o="143" file="0177" n="177" rhead="Century VII."/> doth cheriſh the Spirits, and calleth them forth, the Winter doth dull them. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6223" xml:space="preserve">Furthermor@, the Abſtinence or Intermiſſion of the uſe of Venus, in moiſt and <lb/>well habituate Bodies, breedeth a number of Diſeaſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6224" xml:space="preserve">and eſpecially danger-<lb/>ous impoſthumat ons. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6225" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon is evident, for that it is a principal evacua-<lb/>tion, eſpecially of the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6226" xml:space="preserve">ſor of the Spirits, there is ſcarce any evacua-<lb/>tion, but in Venus and exerciſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6227" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the omiſſion of either of them <lb/>breedeth all diſeaſes of Repletion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6228" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div758" type="float" level="2" n="62"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0176-04" xlink:href="note-0176-04a" xml:space="preserve">695.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6229" xml:space="preserve">THe nature of Vivification is very worthy the enquiry; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6230" xml:space="preserve">and as the Nature <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0177-01a" xlink:href="note-0177-01"/> of things is commonly better perceived in ſmall then in great, and in <lb/>unperfect then in perfect, and in parts then in whole; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6231" xml:space="preserve">ſo the Nature of Vi-<lb/>vification is beſt enquired in Creatures bred of Putrefaction. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6232" xml:space="preserve">The contem-<lb/>plation whereof hath many excellent Fruits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6233" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, in diſcloſing the original <lb/>of Vivification. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6234" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, in diſcloſing the original of Figuration. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6235" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, <lb/>in diſcloſing many things in the nature of perfect Creatures, which in them <lb/>lie more hidden. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6236" xml:space="preserve">And fourthly, in traducing by way of operation, ſome <lb/>obſervations in the Inſecta, to work effects upon perfect Creatures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6237" xml:space="preserve">Note, that <lb/>the word Inſecta agreeth not with the matter, but we ever uſe it for brevities <lb/>ſake, intending by it Creatures bred of Putrefaction.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6238" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div759" type="float" level="2" n="63"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0177-01" xlink:href="note-0177-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Inſecta.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6239" xml:space="preserve">The Inſecta are ſound to breed out of ſeveral matters: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6240" xml:space="preserve">Some breed of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0177-02a" xlink:href="note-0177-02"/> Mud or Dung; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6241" xml:space="preserve">as the Earth-worms, Eels, Snakes, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6242" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6243" xml:space="preserve">For they are both <lb/>Putrefactions: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6244" xml:space="preserve">For Water in Mud do putrefie, as not able to preſerve it ſelf; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6245" xml:space="preserve">and for Dung, all Excrements are the refuſe and putrefactions of nouriſh-<lb/>ment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6246" xml:space="preserve">Some breed in Wood, both growing and cut down. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6247" xml:space="preserve">Quære, in what <lb/>Woods moſt, and at what ſeaſons. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6248" xml:space="preserve">We ſee that the Worms with many feet, <lb/>which round themſelves into Balls, are bred chiefly under Logs of Timber, <lb/>but not in the Timber, and they are ſaid to be found alſo (many times) in <lb/>Gardens where no Logs are. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6249" xml:space="preserve">But it ſeemeth their Generation requireth a <lb/>coverture both from Sun, and Rain or Dew, as the Timber is; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6250" xml:space="preserve">and therefore <lb/>they are not venemous, but (contrariwiſe) are held by the Phyſitians to <lb/>clarifie the Blood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6251" xml:space="preserve">It is obſerved, that Cimices are found in the holes of Bed-<lb/>ſides. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6252" xml:space="preserve">Some breed in the Hair of Living Creatures; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6253" xml:space="preserve">as Lice and Tikes, which <lb/>are bred by the ſweat cloſe kept, and ſomewhat airified by the Hair. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6254" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>Excrements of Living Creatures do not onely breed Inſecta when they are <lb/>excerned, but alſo while they are in the Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6255" xml:space="preserve">as in Worms, whereto Chil-<lb/>dren are moſt ſubject, and are chiefly in the Guts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6256" xml:space="preserve">And it hath been lately <lb/>obſerved by Phyſitians, that in many Peſl<unsure/>ilent Diſeaſes there are Worms <lb/>found in the upper parts of the Body, where Excrements are not, but onely <lb/>humors putrefied. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6257" xml:space="preserve">Fleas breed principally of Straw or Mats, where there hath <lb/>been a little moiſture, or the Chamber and Bed-ſtraw kept cloſe, and not <lb/>aired. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6258" xml:space="preserve">It is received, that they are killed by ſtrewing Worm wood in the Rooms. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6259" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And it is truly obſerved, that bitter things are apt rather to kill then en-<lb/>gender Putrefaction, and they be things that are fat or ſweet that are apteſt <lb/>to putrefie. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6260" xml:space="preserve">There is a Worm that breedeth in Meal of the ſhape of a large <lb/>white Maggot, which is given as a great dainty to Nightingales. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6261" xml:space="preserve">The Moth <lb/>breedeth upon Cloth, and other Lanifices, eſpecially iſ they be laid up dankiſh <lb/>and wet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6262" xml:space="preserve">It delighteth to be about the flame of a Candle. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6263" xml:space="preserve">There is a Worm <lb/>called a VVevil, bred under Ground, and that feedeth upon Roots, as Parſnips, <lb/>Carrots, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6264" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6265" xml:space="preserve">Some breed in Waters, eſpecially ſhaded, but they muſt be by <lb/>ſtanding Waters; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6266" xml:space="preserve">as the Water-Spider that hath ſix Legs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6267" xml:space="preserve">The Fly called the <lb/>Gad flie breedeth of ſomewhat that ſwimeth upon the top of the Water, and <pb o="144" file="0178" n="178" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> is moſt about Ponds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6268" xml:space="preserve">There is a Worm that breedeth of the Dregs of Wine <lb/>decayed, which aſter wards (as is obſerved by ſome of the Ancients) turneth in-<lb/>to a Gnat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6269" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved by the Ancients, that there is a Worm that <lb/>breedeth in old Snow, and is of colour reddiſh, and dull of motion, and dieth <lb/>ſoon after it cometh out of Snow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6270" xml:space="preserve">which ſhould ſhew that Snow hath in it a <lb/>ſecret warmth, for elſe it could hardly vivifie. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6271" xml:space="preserve">And the reaſon of the dying <lb/>of the Worm may be the ſudden exhaling of that little Spirit, as ſoon as it <lb/>cometh out of the cold, which had ſhut it in. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6272" xml:space="preserve">For as Butter-flies quicken with <lb/>heat, which were benummed with cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6273" xml:space="preserve">ſo Spirits may exhale with heat, <lb/>which were preſerved in cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6274" xml:space="preserve">It is affirmed, both by the Ancient and Modern <lb/>obſervation, that in Furnaces of Copper and Braſs, where Chalcites is (which <lb/>is Vitriol) often caſt in to mend the working, there riſeth ſuddenly a Fly which <lb/>ſometimes moveth, as if it took hold on the Walls of the Furnace; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6275" xml:space="preserve">ſome-<lb/>times is ſeen moving in the fire below, and dieth preſently as ſoon as it is out <lb/>of the Furnace. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6276" xml:space="preserve">Which is a noble inſtance, and worthy to be weighed, for it <lb/>ſheweth that as well violent heat of fire, as the gentle heat of Living Crea-<lb/>tures will viviſie, if it have matter proportionable. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6277" xml:space="preserve">Now the great axiom <lb/>of Vivification is, that there muſt be heat to dilate the Spirit of the Body, an <lb/>Active Spirit to be dilated, matter viſcous or tenacious to hold in the Spirit, <lb/>and that matter to be put forth and figured. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6278" xml:space="preserve">Now a Spirit dilated by ſo ardent <lb/>a fire as that of the Furnace, as ſoon as ever it cooleth never ſo little, congeal-<lb/>eth preſently. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6279" xml:space="preserve">And (no doubt) this action is furthered by the Chalcites, which <lb/>hath a Spirit that will put forth and germinate, as we ſee in Chymical Tryals. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6280" xml:space="preserve">Briefly, moſt things putrefied bring forth Inſecta of ſeveral names, but we will <lb/>not take upon us now to enumerate them all.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6281" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div760" type="float" level="2" n="64"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0177-02" xlink:href="note-0177-02a" xml:space="preserve">696.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6282" xml:space="preserve">The Inſecta have been noted by the Ancients to feed little: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6283" xml:space="preserve">But this hath <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0178-01a" xlink:href="note-0178-01"/> not been diligently obſerved; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6284" xml:space="preserve">for Graſhoppers eat up the Green of whole <lb/>Countreys, and Silk-worms devour Leaves ſwiftly, and Ants make great pro-<lb/>viſion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6285" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that Creatures that ſleep and reſt much, eat little, as Dor-<lb/>mice and Bits, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6286" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6287" xml:space="preserve">they are all without Blood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6288" xml:space="preserve">which may be, for that the <lb/>Juyce of their Bodies is almoſt all one; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6289" xml:space="preserve">not Blood, and Fleſh, and Skin, and <lb/>Bone, as in perfect Creatures: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6290" xml:space="preserve">The integral parts have extream variety, but <lb/>the ſimilar parts little. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6291" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that they have (ſome of them) Diaphragm, <lb/>and an Inteſtine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6292" xml:space="preserve">and they have all Skins, which in moſt of the Inſecta, are <lb/>caſt oſten. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6293" xml:space="preserve">They are not (generally) of long life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6294" xml:space="preserve">yet Bees have been known <lb/>to live ſeven years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6295" xml:space="preserve">and Snakes are thought, the rather for the caſting of their <lb/>ſpoil, to live till they be old; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6296" xml:space="preserve">and Eels, which many times breed of putre-<lb/>faction, will live and grow very long; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6297" xml:space="preserve">and thoſe that enterchange from Worms <lb/>to Flies in the Summer, and from Flies to Worms in the Winter, have been <lb/>kept in Boxes four years at the leaſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6298" xml:space="preserve">yet there are certain Flies that are called <lb/>Ephemera that live but a day. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6299" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, the exility of the Spirit, or per-<lb/>haps the abſence of the Sun; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6300" xml:space="preserve">for that if they were brought in, or kept cloſe, <lb/>they might live longer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6301" xml:space="preserve">Many of the Inſecta (as Butter-flies and other Flies) <lb/>revive eaſily, when they ſeem dead, being brought to the Sun or Fire. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6302" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe whereof is, the diffuſion of the Vital Spirit, and the eaſie dilating of it <lb/>by a little heat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6303" xml:space="preserve">They ſtir a good while after their heads are off, or that they be <lb/>cut in pieces; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6304" xml:space="preserve">which is cauſed alſo, for that their Vital Spirits are more dif-<lb/>fuſed through out all their parts, and leſs confined to Organs then in perfect <lb/>Creatures.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6305" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div761" type="float" level="2" n="65"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0178-01" xlink:href="note-0178-01a" xml:space="preserve">697.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6306" xml:space="preserve">The Inſecta have voluntary Motion, and therefore imagination. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6307" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0178-02a" xlink:href="note-0178-02"/> whereas ſome of the Ancients have ſaid, that their Motion is indeterminate, and <lb/>their imagination indeſinite, it is negligently obſerved; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6308" xml:space="preserve">for Ants go right <pb o="145" file="0179" n="179" rhead="Century VII."/> forwards to their Hills; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6309" xml:space="preserve">and Bees do (admirably) know the way from a <lb/>Floury Heath, two or three miles off to their Hi<unsure/>ves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6310" xml:space="preserve">It may be Gnats and <lb/>Flies have their Imagination more mutable and giddy, as ſmall Birds like-<lb/>wiſe have. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6311" xml:space="preserve">It is ſaid by ſome of the Ancients, that they have onely the Senſe <lb/>of Feeling, which is manifeſtly untrue; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6312" xml:space="preserve">for if they go forth right to a place, <lb/>they muſt needs have Sight: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6313" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, they delight more in one Flower or <lb/>Herb, then in another, and therefore have taſte. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6314" xml:space="preserve">And Bees are called with <lb/>ſound upon Braſs, and therefore they have hearing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6315" xml:space="preserve">Which ſheweth like-<lb/>wiſe, that though their Spirits be diffuſed, yet there is a Seat of their Senſes in <lb/>their Head.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6316" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div762" type="float" level="2" n="66"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0178-02" xlink:href="note-0178-02a" xml:space="preserve">698.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s6317" xml:space="preserve">Other obſervations concerning the Inſecta, together with the Enumeration of them, <lb/># we refer to that place where we mean to handle the Title of Animals in general.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6318" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6319" xml:space="preserve">AMan leapeth better with weights in his hands, then without. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6320" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0179-01a" xlink:href="note-0179-01"/> is, for that the weight (if it be proportionable) ſtrengthneth the Si-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0179-02a" xlink:href="note-0179-02"/> news, by contracting them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6321" xml:space="preserve">for otherwiſe, where no contraction is needful, <lb/>weight hindreth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6322" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee in Horſe Races, Men are curious to foreſee that <lb/>there be not the leaſt weight upon the one Horſe more then upon the other. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6323" xml:space="preserve">In Leaping with Weights, the Arms are firſt caſt backwards, and then forwards, <lb/>with ſo much the greater force; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6324" xml:space="preserve">for the hands go backward before they <lb/>take their raiſe, Quære, if the contrary motion of the Spirits, immediately <lb/>before the Motion we intend, doth not cauſe the Spirits as it were to break <lb/>forth with more force; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6325" xml:space="preserve">as Breath alſo drawn, and keptin, cometh forth more <lb/>forcibly: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6326" xml:space="preserve">And in caſting of any thing, the Arms, to make a greater ſwing, are <lb/>firſt caſt back ward.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6327" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div763" type="float" level="2" n="67"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0179-01" xlink:href="note-0179-01a" xml:space="preserve">699.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0179-02" xlink:href="note-0179-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Leaping.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6328" xml:space="preserve">OF Muſical Tones and unequal Sounds, we have ſpoken before, but touch-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0179-03a" xlink:href="note-0179-03"/> the pleaſure and diſpleaſure of the Senſes not ſo fully. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6329" xml:space="preserve">Harſh Sounds, as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0179-04a" xlink:href="note-0179-04"/> of a Saw when it is ſharpned, Grinding of one Stone againſt another, ſqueak-<lb/>ing or ſcrieching noiſes, make a ſhivering or horror in the Body, and ſet the <lb/>Teeth on edge. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6330" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the objects of the Ear do affect the <lb/>Spirits (immediately) moſt with pleaſure and offence. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6331" xml:space="preserve">We ſee there is no <lb/>colour that affecteth the Eye much with diſpleaſure. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6332" xml:space="preserve">There be ſights that <lb/>are horrible, becauſe they excite the memory of things that are odious or <lb/>fearful; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6333" xml:space="preserve">but the ſamethings painted, do little affect. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6334" xml:space="preserve">As for Smells, Taſtes, and <lb/>Touches, they be things that do affect by a Participation or Impulſion of the <lb/>body of the Object. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6335" xml:space="preserve">So it is Sound alone that doth immediately and incorpo-<lb/>really affect moſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6336" xml:space="preserve">This is moſt maniſeſt in Muſick, and Concords, and Diſcords <lb/>in Muſick: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6337" xml:space="preserve">For all Sounds, whether they be ſharp or flat, if they beſweet, <lb/>have a roundneſs and equality; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6338" xml:space="preserve">and if they be harſh, are unequal: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6339" xml:space="preserve">For a Diſ-<lb/>cord it ſelf, is but a harſhneſs of divers ſounds meeting. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6340" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that in-<lb/>equality, not ſtaid upon, but paſſing, is rather an increaſe of ſweetneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6341" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/>in the Purling of a Wreathed String, and in the raucity of a Trumpet, and <lb/>in the Nightingale-Pipe of a Regal, and in a Diſoord ſtraight falling upon a <lb/>Concord: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6342" xml:space="preserve">But if you ſtay upon it, it is offenſive. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6343" xml:space="preserve">And therefore there be theſe <lb/>three degrees of pleaſing and diſpleaſing in Sounds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6344" xml:space="preserve">Sweet ſounds, Diſcords, <lb/>and Harſh ſounds, which we call by divers names, as Scrieching, or Grating, ſuch <lb/>as we now ſpeak of. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6345" xml:space="preserve">As for the ſetting of the Teeth on edge, we plainly ſee <lb/>what an intercourſe there is bet ween the Teeth, and the Organ of the Hearing, <lb/>by the taking of the end of a Bow between the Teeth, and ſtriking upon the <lb/>String.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6346" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div764" type="float" level="2" n="68"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0179-03" xlink:href="note-0179-03a" xml:space="preserve">700.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0179-04" xlink:href="note-0179-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Pleaſures and <lb/>Diſpleaſures <lb/>of the Senſes, <lb/>eſpecially of <lb/>Hearing.</note> </div> <pb file="0180" n="180"/> <pb o="147" file="0181" n="181"/> <figure> <image file="0181-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0181-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div766" type="section" level="1" n="32"> <head xml:id="echoid-head46" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL <lb/>HISTORY.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head47" xml:space="preserve">Century VIII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6347" xml:space="preserve">THere be Minerals and Foßiles in great variety, but of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0181-01a" xlink:href="note-0181-01"/> Veins of Earth Medicinal but few. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6348" xml:space="preserve">The chief are, Terra <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0181-02a" xlink:href="note-0181-02"/> Lemnia, Terra Sigillata communis, and Bolus Arminus; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6349" xml:space="preserve">whereof Terra Lemnia is the chief. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6350" xml:space="preserve">The Vertues of <lb/>them are for Curing of Wounds, Stanching of Blood, <lb/>Stopping of Fluxes and Rheums, and Arreſting the Spred-<lb/>ing of Poyſon, Infection, and Putrefaction: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6351" xml:space="preserve">And they have of <lb/>all other Simples the perfecteſt and pureſt quality of <lb/>Drying, with little or no mixture of any other quality. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6352" xml:space="preserve">Yet it is true, that <lb/>the Bole Arminick is the moſt cold of them, and that Terra Lemnia is the moſt <lb/>hot; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6353" xml:space="preserve">for which cauſe the Iſland Lemnos where it is digged, was in the old <lb/>Fabulous Ages conſecrated to Vulcan.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6354" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div766" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0181-01" xlink:href="note-0181-01a" xml:space="preserve">701.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0181-02" xlink:href="note-0181-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Veins of Me-<lb/>dicinal Earth.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6355" xml:space="preserve">ABout the Bottom of the Sereights are gathered great quantities of Spouges, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0181-03a" xlink:href="note-0181-03"/> which are gathered from the ſides of Rocks, being as it were a large, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0181-04a" xlink:href="note-0181-04"/> but tough Moß. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6356" xml:space="preserve">It is the more to be noted, becauſe that there be but few <lb/>Subſtances, Plant-like, that grow deep within the Sea, for they are gathered <lb/>ſometime Fifteen fathom deep: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6357" xml:space="preserve">And when they are laid on Shore, they ſeem <lb/>to be of great Bulk; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6358" xml:space="preserve">but cruſhed together, will be tranſported in a very <lb/>ſmall room.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6359" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div767" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0181-03" xlink:href="note-0181-03a" xml:space="preserve">702.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0181-04" xlink:href="note-0181-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Growth of <lb/>Sponges.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6360" xml:space="preserve">IT ſeemeth that Fish that are uſed to the Salt-water, do nevertheleſs de-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0181-05a" xlink:href="note-0181-05"/> light more in freſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6361" xml:space="preserve">We ſee that Salmons and Smelts love to get into Rivers, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0181-06a" xlink:href="note-0181-06"/> though it be againſt the Stream. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6362" xml:space="preserve">At the Haven of Conſtantinople you ſhall <lb/>have great quantities of Fish that come from the Euxine Sea, that when they <lb/>come into the Freſh-water, do inebriate and turn up their Bellies, ſo as you <lb/>may take them with your hand. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6363" xml:space="preserve">I doubt there hath not been ſufficient Ex- <pb o="148" file="0182" n="182" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> periment made of putting Sea fish into Freſh-water, Ponds, and Pools. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6364" xml:space="preserve">It is <lb/>a thing of great uſe and pleaſure; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6365" xml:space="preserve">for ſo you may have them new at ſome <lb/>good diſtance from the Sea: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6366" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, it may be the Fiſh will eat the <lb/>pleaſanter, and may fall to breed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6367" xml:space="preserve">And it is ſaid, that Coliheſler Oyſters, <lb/>which are put into Pits, where the Sea goeth and cometh, (but yet ſo that <lb/>there is a Freſh-water coming alſo to them when the Sea voideth) become <lb/>by that means ſatter, and more grown.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6368" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div768" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0181-05" xlink:href="note-0181-05a" xml:space="preserve">703.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0181-06" xlink:href="note-0181-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Sea-Fiſh put <lb/>in Freſh wa-<lb/>ters.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6369" xml:space="preserve">THe Turkish Bow giveth a very forcible Shoot, inſomuch as it hath been <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0182-01a" xlink:href="note-0182-01"/> known, that the Arrow hath pierced a Steel Target, or apiece of Braſs <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0182-02a" xlink:href="note-0182-02"/> of two Inches thick: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6370" xml:space="preserve">But that which is more ſtrange, the Arrow, if it be <lb/>headed with Wood, hath been known to pierce through a piece of Wood of <lb/>eight Inches thick. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6371" xml:space="preserve">And it is certain, that we hadin uſe at one time, for Sea-<lb/>fight, ſhort Arrows, which they called Sprights, without any other Heads, <lb/>ſave Wood ſharpned; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6372" xml:space="preserve">which were diſcharged out of Muskets, and would <lb/>pierce through the ſides of Ships, where a Bullet would not pierce. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6373" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>this dependeth upon one of the greateſt ſecrets in all Nature; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6374" xml:space="preserve">which is, that <lb/>Similitude of Subſtance will cauſe Attraction, where the Body is wholly freed <lb/>from the Motion of Gravity: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6375" xml:space="preserve">Forif that were taken away, Lead would draw <lb/>Lead, and Gold would draw Gold, and iron would draw Iron without the help <lb/>of the Load-ſtone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6376" xml:space="preserve">But this ſame Motion of Weight or Gravity (which is <lb/>a meer Motion of Matter, and hath no affinity with the Form or Kinde) <lb/>doth kill the other Motion, except it ſelf be killed by a violent Motion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6377" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0182-1a" xlink:href="hd-0182-1"/> in theſe inſtances of Arrows, for then the Motion of Attraction by Simili-<lb/>tude of Subſtance beginneth to ſhew it ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6378" xml:space="preserve">But we ſhall handle this point <lb/>of Nature fully in due place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6379" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div769" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0182-01" xlink:href="note-0182-01a" xml:space="preserve">704.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0182-02" xlink:href="note-0182-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Attraction by <lb/>Similitude of <lb/>Subſtance.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0182-1" xlink:href="hd-0182-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6380" xml:space="preserve">THey have in Turky, and the Eaſt, certain Confections, which they call <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0182-03a" xlink:href="note-0182-03"/> Servets, which are like to Candid Conſerves, and are made of Sugar and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0182-04a" xlink:href="note-0182-04"/> Lemmons, or Sugar and Citrons, or Sugar and Violets, and ſome other Flowers; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6381" xml:space="preserve">and ſome mixture of Amber for the more delicate perſons: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6382" xml:space="preserve">And thoſe they <lb/>diſſolve in Water, and there of make their Drink, becauſe they are for bidden <lb/>Wine by their Law. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6383" xml:space="preserve">But I do much marvel, that no Englishman, or Dutchman, <lb/>or German, doth ſet up Brewing in Conſtantinople, conſidering they have ſuch <lb/>quantity of Barley. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6384" xml:space="preserve">For as ſor the general ſort of Men, frugality may be the <lb/>cauſe of Drinking Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6385" xml:space="preserve">ſor that it is no ſmall ſaving to pay nothing for <lb/>ones drink: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6386" xml:space="preserve">But the better ſort might well be at the coſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6387" xml:space="preserve">And yet I wonder <lb/>the leſs at it, becauſe I ſee France, Italy, or Spain, have not taken into uſe Beer <lb/>or Ale; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6388" xml:space="preserve">which (perhaps) if they did, would better both their Healths and <lb/>their Complexions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6389" xml:space="preserve">It is likely it would be matter of great gain to any that <lb/>ſhould begin it in Turkey.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6390" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div770" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0182-03" xlink:href="note-0182-03a" xml:space="preserve">705.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0182-04" xlink:href="note-0182-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Certain drinks <lb/>in Turkey.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6391" xml:space="preserve">IN Bathing in hot water, ſweat (nevertheleſs) cometh not in the parts un-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0182-05a" xlink:href="note-0182-05"/> der the Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6392" xml:space="preserve">The cauſeis, firſt, for that ſweat is a kinde of Colliqua-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0182-06a" xlink:href="note-0182-06"/> tion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6393" xml:space="preserve">And that kinde of Colliquation is not made either by an over-dry <lb/>Heat, or an over-moiſt Heat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6394" xml:space="preserve">For over-moiſture dothſome what extinguiſh <lb/>the Heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6395" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee, that even hot water quencheth Fire, and over dry Heat <lb/>fhutteth the Pores. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6396" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Men will ſooner ſweat covered before <lb/>the Sun or Fire, then if they ſtood naked: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6397" xml:space="preserve">And Earthen Bottles filled <lb/>with hot water, do provoke in Bed a Sweat more daintily then Brick-bats <lb/>hot. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6398" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, Hot water doth cauſe Evaporation from the Skin, ſo as <lb/>it ſpendeth the matter in thoſe parts under the Water, beſore it iſſueth in <pb o="149" file="0183" n="183" rhead="Century VIII."/> Sweat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6399" xml:space="preserve">Again, Sweat cometh more plentifully, if the Heat beincreaſed by <lb/>degrees, then if it be greateſt at firſt, or equal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6400" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the <lb/>Pores are better opened by a gentle Heat, then by a more violent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6401" xml:space="preserve">and by <lb/>their opening the Sweat, iſſueth more abundantly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6402" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Phyſicians <lb/>may do well, when they provoke Sweat in Bed by Bottles, with a Decoction <lb/>of Sudorifick Herbs in Hot Water, to make two degrees of Heat in the Bottles, <lb/>and to lay in the Bed the leſs-heated firſt, and after half an hour the more-<lb/>heated.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6403" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div771" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0182-05" xlink:href="note-0182-05a" xml:space="preserve">706.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0182-06" xlink:href="note-0182-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Sweat.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6404" xml:space="preserve">Sweat is ſalt in taſte. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6405" xml:space="preserve">The cauſeis, for that that part of the Nouriſhment <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0183-01a" xlink:href="note-0183-01"/> which is freſh and ſweet, turneth into Blood and Fleſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6406" xml:space="preserve">and the Sweat is <lb/>onely that part which is ſeparate and excerned. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6407" xml:space="preserve">Blood alſo raw, hath ſome <lb/>ſaltneſs more then Fleſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6408" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the Aſſimilation into Fleſh, is not without <lb/>a little and ſubtile excretion from the Blood.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6409" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div772" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-01" xlink:href="note-0183-01a" xml:space="preserve">707.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6410" xml:space="preserve">Sweat cometh forth more out of the upper parts of the Body then the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0183-02a" xlink:href="note-0183-02"/> lower. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6411" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon is, becauſe thoſe parts are more repleniſhed with Spirits, <lb/>and the Spirits are they that put forth Sweat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6412" xml:space="preserve">beſides, they are leſs fleſhy, <lb/>and Sweat iſſueth (chiefly) out of the parts that are leſs fleſhy and more dry, <lb/>as the Forehead and Breſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6413" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div773" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-02" xlink:href="note-0183-02a" xml:space="preserve">708.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6414" xml:space="preserve">Men ſweat more in ſleep then waking, and yet ſleep doth rather ſtay <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0183-03a" xlink:href="note-0183-03"/> other Fluxions, then cauſe them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6415" xml:space="preserve">as Rheums, Looſneß of the Body, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6416" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6417" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe is, for that in Sleep the Heat and Spirits do naturally move inwards, <lb/>and there reſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6418" xml:space="preserve">But when they are collected once within, the Heat becometh <lb/>more violent and irritate, and thereby expelleth Sweat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6419" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div774" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-03" xlink:href="note-0183-03a" xml:space="preserve">709.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6420" xml:space="preserve">Cold Sweats are (many times) Mortal and near Death, and always ill and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0183-04a" xlink:href="note-0183-04"/> ſuſpected; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6421" xml:space="preserve">as in great Fears, Hypochondriacal Paßions, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6422" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6423" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for <lb/>that Cold Sweats come by a relaxation or forſaking of the Spirits, whereby the <lb/>Moiſture of the Body, which Heat did keep firm in the parts, ſevereth and <lb/>iſſueth out.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6424" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div775" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-04" xlink:href="note-0183-04a" xml:space="preserve">710.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6425" xml:space="preserve">In thoſe Diſeaſes which cannot be diſcharged by Sweat, Sweat is ill, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0183-05a" xlink:href="note-0183-05"/> rather to be ſtayed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6426" xml:space="preserve">as in Diſeaſes of the Lungs, and Fluxes of the Belly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6427" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>in thoſe Diſeaſes which are expelled by Sweat, it eaſeth and lightneth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6428" xml:space="preserve">as in <lb/>Agues, Peſtilences, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6429" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6430" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Sweat in the latter ſort is partly <lb/>Critical, and ſendeth forth the Matter that offendeth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6431" xml:space="preserve">But in the former, <lb/>it either proceedeth from the Labor of the Spirits, which ſheweth them <lb/>oppreſſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6432" xml:space="preserve">or from Motion of Conſent, when Nature notable to expel the <lb/>Diſeaſe where it is ſeated, moveth to an Expulſion indifferent over all the <lb/>Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6433" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div776" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-05" xlink:href="note-0183-05a" xml:space="preserve">711.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6434" xml:space="preserve">THe Nature of the Gloworm is hitherto not well obſerved. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6435" xml:space="preserve">Thus much <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0183-06a" xlink:href="note-0183-06"/> weſee, that they breed chiefly in the hotteſt Moneths of Summer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6436" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0183-07a" xlink:href="note-0183-07"/> that they breed not in Champaign, but in Bushes and Hedges. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6437" xml:space="preserve">Whereby it may <lb/>be conceived, that the Spirit of them is very fine, and not to be refined but <lb/>by Summer heats. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6438" xml:space="preserve">And again, that by reaſon of the fineneſs, it doth eaſily ex-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0183-1a" xlink:href="hd-0183-1"/> hale. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6439" xml:space="preserve">In Italy, and the Hotter Countreys, there is a Flie they call Lucciole, <lb/>that ſhineth as the Gloworm doth, and it may be is the Flying-Gloworm; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6440" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>that Flie is chiefly upon Fens and Marisbes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6441" xml:space="preserve">But yet the two former obſerva-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0183-08a" xlink:href="note-0183-08"/> tions hold, for they are not ſeen but in the heat of Summer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6442" xml:space="preserve">and Sedge, or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0183-09a" xlink:href="note-0183-09"/> other Green of the Fens give as good ſhade as Buſhes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6443" xml:space="preserve">It may be the Gloworms <lb/>of the Cold Countreys ripen not ſo far as to be winged.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6444" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div777" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-06" xlink:href="note-0183-06a" xml:space="preserve">712.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-07" xlink:href="note-0183-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Gloworm.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0183-1" xlink:href="hd-0183-1a"/> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-08" xlink:href="note-0183-08a" xml:space="preserve">713.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0183-09" xlink:href="note-0183-09a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Impreßions <lb/>which the Paſ-<lb/>ſions of the <lb/>Minde make <lb/>upon the Body.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6445" xml:space="preserve">THe Paſſions of the Minde work upon the Body the impreſſions fol-<lb/>lowing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6446" xml:space="preserve">Fear, cauſeth Paleneß, Trembling, the Standing of the Hair up- <pb o="150" file="0184" n="184" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> right, Starting, and Scrieching. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6447" xml:space="preserve">The Paleneſs is cauſed, for that the Blood <lb/>runneth in ward to ſuccor the Heart. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6448" xml:space="preserve">The Trembling is cauſed, for that <lb/>through the flight of the Spirits in ward, the out ward parts are deſtituted, and <lb/>not ſuſtained. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6449" xml:space="preserve">Standing upright of the Hair is cauſed, for that by ſhutting <lb/>of the Pores of the Skin, the Hair that lyeth aſloap muſt needs riſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6450" xml:space="preserve">Starting <lb/>is both an apprehenſion of the thing feared, (and in that kinde it is a motion <lb/>of ſhrinking;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6451" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe an Inquiſition in the beginning what the matter <lb/>ſhould be, (and in that kinde it is a motion of Erection;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6452" xml:space="preserve">and therefore <lb/>when a Man would liſten ſuddenly to any thing, he ſtarteth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6453" xml:space="preserve">for the ſtart-<lb/>ing is an Erection of the Spirits to attend. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6454" xml:space="preserve">Scrieching is an appetite of ex-<lb/>pelling that which ſuddenly ſtriketh the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6455" xml:space="preserve">For it muſt be noted, that <lb/>many Motions, though they be unprofitable to expel that which hurteth, <lb/>yet they are Offers of Nature, and cauſe Motions by Conſent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6456" xml:space="preserve">as in Groan-<lb/>ing, or Crying upon Pain.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6457" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6458" xml:space="preserve">Grief and Pain, cauſe Sighing, Sobbing, Groaning, Screaming, and Roar-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0184-01a" xlink:href="note-0184-01"/> ing, Tears, Diſtorting of the Face, Grinding of the Teeth, Sweating. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6459" xml:space="preserve">Sighing <lb/>is cauſed by the drawing in of a greater quantity of Breath to reſreſh the <lb/>Heart that laboreth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6460" xml:space="preserve">like a great draught when one is thirſty. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6461" xml:space="preserve">Sobbing is <lb/>the ſame thing ſtronger. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6462" xml:space="preserve">Groaning, and Screaming, and Roaring, are cauſed <lb/>by an appetite of Expulſion, as hath been ſaid; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6463" xml:space="preserve">for when the Spirits cannot <lb/>expel the thing that hurteth in their ſtrife to do it, by Motion of Conſent <lb/>they expel the Voice. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6464" xml:space="preserve">And this is when the Spirits yield, and give over to <lb/>reſiſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6465" xml:space="preserve">for if one do conſtantly reſiſt Pain, he will not groan. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6466" xml:space="preserve">Tears are cauſed <lb/>by a Contraction of the Spirits of the Brain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6467" xml:space="preserve">which Contraction by conſe-<lb/>quence aſtringeth the Moiſture of the Brain, and thereby ſendeth Tears into <lb/>the Eyes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6468" xml:space="preserve">And this Contraction or Compreſſion cauſeth alſo Wringing of <lb/>the Hands; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6469" xml:space="preserve">for Wringing is a Geſture of Expreſſion of Moiſture. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6470" xml:space="preserve">The Diſ-<lb/>torting of the Face is cauſed by a Contention, firſt, to bear and reſiſt, and then <lb/>to expel; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6471" xml:space="preserve">which maketh the Parts knit firſt, and after wards open. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6472" xml:space="preserve">Grinding <lb/>of the Teeth is cauſed (likewife) by a Gathering and Serring of the Spirits <lb/>together to reſiſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6473" xml:space="preserve">which maketh the Teeth alſo to ſet hard one againſt an-<lb/>other, Sweating is alſo a Compound Motion by the Labor of the Spirits, firſt <lb/>to reſiſt, and then to expel.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6474" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div778" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0184-01" xlink:href="note-0184-01a" xml:space="preserve">714.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6475" xml:space="preserve">Joy cauſeth a Chearſulneſs and Vigor in the Eyes, Singing, Leaping, Dan-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0184-02a" xlink:href="note-0184-02"/> cing, and ſometimes Tears. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6476" xml:space="preserve">All theſe are the effects of the Dilatation and <lb/>coming forth of the Spirits into the outward parts, which maketh them <lb/>more lively and ſtirring. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6477" xml:space="preserve">We know it hath been ſeen, that Exceſſive ſud-<lb/>den Joy hath cauſed preſent Death, while the Spirits did ſpred ſo much as <lb/>they could not retire again. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6478" xml:space="preserve">As for Tears, they are the effects of Compreſ-<lb/>ſion of the Moiſture of the Brain, upon Dilatation of the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6479" xml:space="preserve">For Com-<lb/>preſſion of the Spirits worketh an Expreſſion of the Moiſture of the Brain by <lb/>conſent, as hath been ſaid in Grief: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6480" xml:space="preserve">But then in Joy it worketh it diverſly, <lb/>viz. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6481" xml:space="preserve">By Propulſion of the Moiſture, when the Spirits dilate, and occupy more <lb/>room.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6482" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div779" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0184-02" xlink:href="note-0184-02a" xml:space="preserve">715.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6483" xml:space="preserve">Anger cauſeth Paleneſs in ſome, and the going and coming of the colour <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0184-03a" xlink:href="note-0184-03"/> in others; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6484" xml:space="preserve">alſo Trembling in ſome, Swelling, Foaming at the Mouth, Stamp-<lb/>ing, Bending of the Fiſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6485" xml:space="preserve">Palenels, and Going, and Coming of the Colour, <lb/>are cauſed by the Burning of the Spirits about the Heart; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6486" xml:space="preserve">which to reſreſh <lb/>themſelves, call in more Spirits from the out ward parts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6487" xml:space="preserve">And if the Paleneſs <lb/>be alone, without ſending forth the colour again, it is commonly joyned <lb/>with ſome fear: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6488" xml:space="preserve">But in many there is no Paleneſs at all, but contrariwiſe <lb/>Redneſs about the Cheeks and Gils; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6489" xml:space="preserve">which is by the ſending forth of the <pb o="151" file="0185" n="185" rhead="Century VIII."/> Spirits, in an appetite to Revenge. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6490" xml:space="preserve">Trembling in Anger is likewiſe by a call-<lb/>ing in of the Spirits, and is commonly when Anger is joy ned with Fear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6491" xml:space="preserve">Swel-<lb/>ling is cauſed both by a Dilatation of the Spirits by over-heating, and by a <lb/>Liquefaction or Boiling of the Humors thereupon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6492" xml:space="preserve">Foaming at the Mouth <lb/>is from the ſame cauſe, being an Ebullition. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6493" xml:space="preserve">Stamping and Bending of the Fiſt <lb/>are cauſed by an Imagination of the Act of Revenge.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6494" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div780" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0184-03" xlink:href="note-0184-03a" xml:space="preserve">716.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6495" xml:space="preserve">Light Diſpleaſure or Diſlike cauſeth ſhaking of the Head, Frowning, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0185-01a" xlink:href="note-0185-01"/> Knitting of the Brows. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6496" xml:space="preserve">Theſe effects ariſe from the ſame cauſe that Trem-<lb/>bling and Horror do; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6497" xml:space="preserve">namely, from the Retiring of the Spirits, but in a leſs <lb/>degree. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6498" xml:space="preserve">For the Shaking of the Head, is but a ſlow and definite Trembling; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6499" xml:space="preserve">and is a Geſture of ſlight reſuſal: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6500" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee alſo, that a diſlike cauſeth often <lb/>that Geſture of the Hand, which we uſe when we refuſe a thing, or warni it <lb/>away. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6501" xml:space="preserve">The Frowning and Knitting of the Brows, is a Gathering or Setting <lb/>of the Spirits, to reſiſt in ſome meaſure. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6502" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee alſo, this Knitting of the <lb/>Brows will follow upon earneſt Studying, or Cogitation of any thing, though <lb/>it be without diſlike.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6503" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div781" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0185-01" xlink:href="note-0185-01a" xml:space="preserve">717.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6504" xml:space="preserve">Shame cauſeth Bluſhing, and caſting down of the Eyes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6505" xml:space="preserve">Bluſhing is the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0185-02a" xlink:href="note-0185-02"/> Reſort of Blood to the Face, which in the Paſſion of Shame, is the part that <lb/>laboreth moſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6506" xml:space="preserve">And although the Bluſhing will be ſeen in the whole Breſt. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6507" xml:space="preserve">if it be naked, yet that is but in paſſage to the Face. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6508" xml:space="preserve">As for the caſting <lb/>down of the Eyes, it proceedeth of the Reverence a Man beareth to other <lb/>Men, whereby, when he is aſhamed, he cannot endure to look firmly upon <lb/>others: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6509" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee, that Bluſhing and the Caſting down of the Eyes both, <lb/>are more when we come before many; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6510" xml:space="preserve">Ore Pompeii quid mollius? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6511" xml:space="preserve">Nunquam non <lb/>coram pluribus erubuit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6512" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe, when we come before Great or Reverend <lb/>Perſons.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6513" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div782" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0185-02" xlink:href="note-0185-02a" xml:space="preserve">718.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6514" xml:space="preserve">Pity cauſeth ſometimes Tears, and a Flexion or Caſt of the Eye aſide. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6515" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0185-03a" xlink:href="note-0185-03"/> Tears come from the cauſe, that they do in Grief; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6516" xml:space="preserve">For Pity is but Grief in <lb/>anothers behalf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6517" xml:space="preserve">The Caſt of the Eye, is a Geſture of Averſion or Lothneſs <lb/>to behold the object of Pity.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6518" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div783" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0185-03" xlink:href="note-0185-03a" xml:space="preserve">719.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6519" xml:space="preserve">Wonder cauſeth Aſtoniſhment, or an Immovable Poſture of the Body, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0185-04a" xlink:href="note-0185-04"/> Caſting up of the Eyes to Heaven, and Liſting up of the Hands. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6520" xml:space="preserve">For Aſtoniſh-<lb/>ment, it is cauſed by the Fixing of the Minde upon one object of Cogitation, <lb/>whereby it doth not ſpatiate and tranſcur as it uſeth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6521" xml:space="preserve">For in Wonder the <lb/>Spirits flie not, as in Fear; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6522" xml:space="preserve">but onely ſettle, and are made leſs apt to move. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6523" xml:space="preserve">As for the Caſting up of the Eyes, and Lifting up of the Hands, it is a kinde <lb/>of Appeal to the Deity, which is the Author, by Power and Providence of <lb/>ſtrange Wonders.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6524" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div784" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0185-04" xlink:href="note-0185-04a" xml:space="preserve">720.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6525" xml:space="preserve">Laughing cauſeth a Dilatation of the Mouth and Lips; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6526" xml:space="preserve">a continued Ex-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0185-05a" xlink:href="note-0185-05"/> pulſion of the Breath, with the loud Noiſe, which maketh the Interjection <lb/>of Laughing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6527" xml:space="preserve">Shaking of the Breſt and Sides; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6528" xml:space="preserve">Running of the Eyes with <lb/>Water, if it be violent and continued. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6529" xml:space="preserve">Wherein firſt it is to be underſtood, <lb/>that Laughing is ſcarce (properly) a Paſſion, but hath his Source from the In-<lb/>tellect; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6530" xml:space="preserve">for in Laughing, there ever precedeth a conceit of ſome what ridicu-<lb/>lous. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6531" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it is proper to Man. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6532" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, that the cauſe of Laugh-<lb/>ing, is but a light touch of the Spirits, and not ſo deep an Impreſſion as in <lb/>other Paſſions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6533" xml:space="preserve">And thereſore (that which hath no Affinity with the Paſſi-<lb/>ons of the Minde) it is moved, and that in great vehemency, onely by Tick-<lb/>ling ſome parts of the Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6534" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee, that Men even in a grieved ſtate of <lb/>Minde, yet cannot ſometimes forbear Laughing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6535" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, it is ever joyned <lb/>with ſome degree of Delight: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6536" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Exhilaration hath ſome Affinity <lb/>with Joy, though it be much Lighter Motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6537" xml:space="preserve">Res ſevera eſt vera<unsure/>m Gaudium.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6538" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="152" file="0186" n="186" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Fourthly, That the object of it is Deformity, Abſurdity, Shrewd turns, and the like. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6539" xml:space="preserve">Now to ſpeak of the cauſes of the effects before mentioned, whereun to theſe <lb/>general Notes give ſome light. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6540" xml:space="preserve">For the Dilatation of the Mouth and Lips, <lb/>continued Expulſion of the Breath and Voice, and Shaking of the Breſts and <lb/>Sides, they proceed (all) from the Dilatation of the Spirits, eſpecially being <lb/>ſudden. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6541" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe the Running of the Eyes with Water, (as hath been for-<lb/>merly touched, where we ſpake of the Tears of Joy and Grief) is an offect of <lb/>Dilatation of the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6542" xml:space="preserve">And for Suddenneß, it is a great part of the Matter: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6543" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>For we ſee that any Shrewd turn that lighteth upon another, or any Deformity, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6544" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6545" xml:space="preserve">moveth Laughter in the inſtant, which after a little time it doth not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6546" xml:space="preserve">So <lb/>we cannot Laugh at any thing after it is ſtale, but whileſt it is new. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6547" xml:space="preserve">And even <lb/>in Tickling, if you tickle the ſides, and give watning, or give a hard or con-<lb/>tinued touch, it doth not move Laughter ſo much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6548" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div785" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0185-05" xlink:href="note-0185-05a" xml:space="preserve">721.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6549" xml:space="preserve">Luſt cauſeth a Flagrancy in the Eys, and Priapiſm. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6550" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of both <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0186-01a" xlink:href="note-0186-01"/> theſe is, for that in Luſt the Sight and the Touch, are the things defired; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6551" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>therefore the Spirits reſort to thoſe parts which are moſt affected. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6552" xml:space="preserve">And note <lb/>well in general, (for that great uſe may be made of the obſervation) that <lb/>(evermore) the Spirits in all Paßions reſort moſt to the parts that labor moſt, or <lb/>are moſt affected. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6553" xml:space="preserve">As in the laſt, which hath been mentioned, they reſort to <lb/>the Eyes and Venereous parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6554" xml:space="preserve">in Fear and Anger to the Heart; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6555" xml:space="preserve">in Shame to the <lb/>Face; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6556" xml:space="preserve">and in Light diſlikes to the Head.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6557" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div786" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0186-01" xlink:href="note-0186-01a" xml:space="preserve">722.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6558" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been obſerved by the Ancients, and is yet believed, That the Sperm <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0186-02a" xlink:href="note-0186-02"/> of Drunken-men is unfruitful. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6559" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that it is over-moiſtned, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0186-03a" xlink:href="note-0186-03"/> wanteth Spiſſitude. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6560" xml:space="preserve">And we have a merry ſaying, That they that go drunk to Bed, <lb/>get Daughters.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6561" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div787" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0186-02" xlink:href="note-0186-02a" xml:space="preserve">723.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0186-03" xlink:href="note-0186-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Drunkenneß.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6562" xml:space="preserve">Drunken-men are taken with a plain Deſect or Deſtitution in Voluntary <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0186-04a" xlink:href="note-0186-04"/> Motion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6563" xml:space="preserve">they reel, they tremble, they cannot ſtand, nor ſpeak ſtrongly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6564" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe is, for that the Spirits of the Wine oppreſs the Spirits Animal, and oc-<lb/>cupate part of the place where they are, and ſo make them weak to move; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6565" xml:space="preserve">and therefore Drunken-men are apt to fall aſleep. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6566" xml:space="preserve">And Opiates and Stupefactives <lb/>(as Poppy, Henbane, Hemlock, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6567" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6568" xml:space="preserve">induce a kinde of Drunkenneß by the groſsneſs <lb/>of their Vapor, as Wine doth by the quantity of the Vapor. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6569" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, they rob <lb/>the Spirits Animal of their Matter where by they are nouriſhed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6570" xml:space="preserve">for the Spirits <lb/>of the Wine, prey upon it as well as they, and ſo they make the Spirits leſs <lb/>ſupple and apt to move.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6571" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div788" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0186-04" xlink:href="note-0186-04a" xml:space="preserve">724.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6572" xml:space="preserve">Drunken-men imagine every thing turneth round; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6573" xml:space="preserve">they imagine alſo, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0186-05a" xlink:href="note-0186-05"/> that things come upon them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6574" xml:space="preserve">they ſee not well things afar off; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6575" xml:space="preserve">thoſe things <lb/>that they ſee near hand, they ſee out of their place; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6576" xml:space="preserve">and (ſometimes) they <lb/>ſee things double. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6577" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the imagination that things turn round is, <lb/>for that the Spirits them ſelves turn, being compreſſed by the Vapor of the <lb/>Wine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6578" xml:space="preserve">(for any Liquid Body upon Compreſſion turneth, as we ſee in Water:) <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6579" xml:space="preserve">And it is all one to the ſight, whether the Viſual Spirits move, or the Object <lb/>moveth, or the Medium moveth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6580" xml:space="preserve">and we ſee, that long turning round breed-<lb/>eth the ſame imagination. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6581" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the imagination that things come <lb/>upon them is, for that the Spirits Viſual themſelves draw back, which maketh <lb/>the Object ſeem to come on; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6582" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, when they ſee things turn <lb/>round and move, Fear maketh them think they come upon them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6583" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe that they cannot ſee things afar off, is the weakneſs of the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6584" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>in every Megrim or Vertigo, there is an Obtenebration joyned with a ſem-<lb/>blance of Turning round, which we ſee alſo in the lighter ſort of Swoonings.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6585" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="153" file="0187" n="187" rhead="Century VIII."/> The cauſe of ſeeing things out of their place, is the refraction of the Spirits <lb/>viſual; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6586" xml:space="preserve">for the va por is as an unequal Medium, and it is as the ſight of things <lb/>out of place in Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6587" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of ſeeing things double, is the ſwift and <lb/>unquiet motion of the Spirits (being oppreſſed) to and ſro; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6588" xml:space="preserve">for (as was ſaid <lb/>beſore) the motion of the Spirits viſual, and the motion of the object make <lb/>the ſame appearances; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6589" xml:space="preserve">and for the ſwift motion of the object, we ſee that if <lb/>you fillip a Lute ſtring, it ſheweth double or trebble.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6590" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div789" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0186-05" xlink:href="note-0186-05a" xml:space="preserve">725.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6591" xml:space="preserve">Men are ſooner Drunk with ſmall draughts then with great. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6592" xml:space="preserve">And again, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0187-01a" xlink:href="note-0187-01"/> Wine ſugared, inebriateth leſs then Wine pure. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6593" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the former is, <lb/>for that the Wine deſcendeth not ſo faſt to the Bottom of the Stomack, but <lb/>maketh longer ſtay in the upper part of the Stomack, and ſendeth Vapors <lb/>faſter to the Head, and therefore inebriateth ſooner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6594" xml:space="preserve">And for the ſame reaſon, <lb/>Sops in Wine (quantity for quantity) inebriate more then Wine of it ſelf. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6595" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the latter is, for that the Sugar doth inſpiſſate the Spirits of the <lb/>Wine, and maketh them not ſo eaſie to reſolve into Vapor. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6596" xml:space="preserve">Nay further, it <lb/>is thought to be ſome remedy againſt inebriating, if Wine ſugared be taken <lb/>after Wine pure. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6597" xml:space="preserve">And the ſame effect is wrought, either by Oyl or Milk taken <lb/>upon much Drinking.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6598" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div790" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0187-01" xlink:href="note-0187-01a" xml:space="preserve">726.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6599" xml:space="preserve">THe uſe of Wine in dry and conſumed Bodies is hurtful, in moiſt and ſull <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0187-02a" xlink:href="note-0187-02"/> Bodies it is good. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6600" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Spirits of the Wine do prey <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0187-03a" xlink:href="note-0187-03"/> upon the Dew or radical moiſture (as they term it) of the Body, and ſo deceive <lb/>the Animal Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6601" xml:space="preserve">But where there is moiſture enough, or ſuper fluous, there <lb/>Wine helpeth to digeſt and deſiccate the moiſture.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6602" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div791" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0187-02" xlink:href="note-0187-02a" xml:space="preserve">727.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0187-03" xlink:href="note-0187-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Help or hurt <lb/>of Wine, <lb/>though Mode-<lb/>rately uſed.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6603" xml:space="preserve">THe Caterpiller is one of the moſt general of Worms, and breedeth of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0187-04a" xlink:href="note-0187-04"/> Dew and Leaves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6604" xml:space="preserve">for we ſee infinite number of Catterpillers which breed <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0187-05a" xlink:href="note-0187-05"/> upon Trees and Hedges, by which the Leaves of the Trees or Hedges are in <lb/>great part conſumed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6605" xml:space="preserve">as well by their breeding out of the Leaf, as by their <lb/>feeding upon the Leaf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6606" xml:space="preserve">They breed in the Spring chiefly, becauſe then there <lb/>is both Dew and Leaf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6607" xml:space="preserve">And they breed commonly when the Eaſt Winds <lb/>have much blown: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6608" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe whereof is, the dryneſs of that Wind; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6609" xml:space="preserve">for to <lb/>all Vivification upon Putrefaction, it is requiſite the matter be not too moiſt: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6610" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we ſee they have Cobwebs about them, which is a ſign of a <lb/>ſlimy dryneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6611" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee upon the Ground, whereupon by Dew and Sun <lb/>Cobwebs breed all over. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6612" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo the Green Catterpiller breedeth in the in-<lb/>ward parts of Roſes, eſpecially not blown where the Dew ſticketh: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6613" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>eſpecially Catterpillers, both the greateſt and the moſt, breed upon Cabbages, <lb/>which have a fat Leaf, and apt to putrifie. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6614" xml:space="preserve">The Catterpiller toward the end of <lb/>Summer waxeth volatile, and turneth to a Butterflie, or perhaps ſome other <lb/>Flie. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6615" xml:space="preserve">There is a Catterpiller that hath a Fur or Down upon him, and ſeemeth to <lb/>have affinity with the Silk worm.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6616" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div792" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0187-04" xlink:href="note-0187-04a" xml:space="preserve">728.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0187-05" xlink:href="note-0187-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Catterpillers.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6617" xml:space="preserve">THe Flies Cantharides, are bred of a Worm or Catterpiller, but peculiar to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0187-06a" xlink:href="note-0187-06"/> certain Fruit-trees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6618" xml:space="preserve">as are the Fig-tree, the Pine-tree, and the Wilde <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0187-07a" xlink:href="note-0187-07"/> Bryar; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6619" xml:space="preserve">all which bear ſweet Fruit, and Fruit that hath a kinde of ſecret biting <lb/>or ſharpneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6620" xml:space="preserve">For the Fig hath a Milk in it that is ſweet and corroſive; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6621" xml:space="preserve">the Pine Apple hath a Kernel that is ſtrong and abſterſive; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6622" xml:space="preserve">the Fruit of the <lb/>Bryar is ſaid to make Children, or thoſe that eat them, ſeabbed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6623" xml:space="preserve">And there-<lb/>fore no marvel though Cantharides have ſuch a Corroſive and Cauteri-<lb/>zing quality; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6624" xml:space="preserve">for there is not one other of the Inſecta, but is bred of a <lb/>duller matter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6625" xml:space="preserve">The Body of the Cantharides is bright coloured; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6626" xml:space="preserve">and it may <pb o="154" file="0188" n="188" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> be, that the delicate coloured Dragon Flies may have likewiſe ſome Cor-<lb/>roſive quality.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6627" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div793" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0187-06" xlink:href="note-0187-06a" xml:space="preserve">729.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0187-07" xlink:href="note-0187-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Flies Cantha-<lb/>rides.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6628" xml:space="preserve">LAßitude is remedied by Bathing or Anointing with Oyl and warm Wa-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0188-01a" xlink:href="note-0188-01"/> ter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6629" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that all Laßitude is a kinde of Contuſion and Com-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0188-02a" xlink:href="note-0188-02"/> preſſion of the Parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6630" xml:space="preserve">and Bathing and Anointing give a Relaxion or Emol-<lb/>lition: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6631" xml:space="preserve">And the mixture of Oyl and Water is better then either of them a-<lb/>lone, becauſe Water entreth better into the Pores, and Oyl after entry ſoft-<lb/>neth better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6632" xml:space="preserve">It is found alſo, that the taking of Tobacco doth help and diſcharge <lb/>Laßitude. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6633" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon whereof is partly, becauſe by chearing or comfort-<lb/>ing of the Spirits, it openeth the Parts compreſſed or contuſed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6634" xml:space="preserve">And chiefly, <lb/>becauſe it refreſheth the Spirits by the Opiate Vertue thereof, and ſo diſ-<lb/>chargeth Wearineſs, as Sleep likewiſe doth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6635" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div794" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0188-01" xlink:href="note-0188-01a" xml:space="preserve">730.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0188-02" xlink:href="note-0188-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>tuoching <lb/>Laßitude.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6636" xml:space="preserve">In going up a Hill the Knees will be moſt weary; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6637" xml:space="preserve">in going down a Hill, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0188-03a" xlink:href="note-0188-03"/> Thighs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6638" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that in the Lift of the Feet, when a man goeth up <lb/>the Hill, the weight of the Body beareth moſt upon the Knees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6639" xml:space="preserve">and in going <lb/>down the Hill, upon the Thighs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6640" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div795" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0188-03" xlink:href="note-0188-03a" xml:space="preserve">731.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6641" xml:space="preserve">THe caſting of the Skin, is by the Ancients compared to the breaking of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0188-04a" xlink:href="note-0188-04"/> the Secundine or Call, but not rightly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6642" xml:space="preserve">for that were to make every caſt-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0188-05a" xlink:href="note-0188-05"/> ing of the Skin a new Birth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6643" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, the Secundine is but a general <lb/>Cover, not ſhaped according to the Parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6644" xml:space="preserve">but the Skin is ſhaped according <lb/>to the Parts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6645" xml:space="preserve">The Creatures that caſt their Skin are, the Snake, the Viper, <lb/>the Grashopper, the Lizard, the Silk-worm, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6646" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6647" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe that caſt their Shell are, <lb/>the Lobſter, the Crab, the Cra-fish, the Hodmandod or Dodman, the Tortoiſe, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6648" xml:space="preserve">c. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6649" xml:space="preserve">The old Skins are found, but the old Shells never: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6650" xml:space="preserve">So as it is like they ſcale <lb/>off, and crumble away by degrees. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6651" xml:space="preserve">And they are known by the extream <lb/>tenderneſs and ſoftneſs of the new Shell; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6652" xml:space="preserve">and ſomewhat by the freſhneſs of <lb/>the colour of it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6653" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the caſting and Skin and Shell ſhould ſeem <lb/>to be the great quantity of matter in thoſe Creatures, that is fit to make <lb/>Skin or Shell: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6654" xml:space="preserve">And again, the looſnefs of the Skin or Shell, that ſticketh <lb/>not cloſe to the Fleſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6655" xml:space="preserve">For it is certain, that it is the new Skin or Shell <lb/>that putteth off the old. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6656" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee that in Deer, it is the young Horn that <lb/>putteth off the old. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6657" xml:space="preserve">And in Birds, the young Feathers put off the old; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6658" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>ſo Birds that have much matter for their Beak, caſt their Beaks, the new <lb/>Beak putting off the old.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6659" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div796" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0188-04" xlink:href="note-0188-04a" xml:space="preserve">732.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0188-05" xlink:href="note-0188-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Casting of the <lb/>Skin and Shell <lb/>in ſome Crea-<lb/>tures.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6660" xml:space="preserve">LYing not Frect but Hollow, which is in the making of the Bed, or with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0188-06a" xlink:href="note-0188-06"/> the Legs gathered up, which is in the poſture of the Body, is the more <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0188-07a" xlink:href="note-0188-07"/> wholeſome, @hereaſon is the better comforting of the Stomack, which is <lb/>by that leſs penſile; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6661" xml:space="preserve">and we ſee, that in weak Stomacks, the laying up of the <lb/>Legs high, and the Knees almoſt to the Mouth, helpeth and comforteth. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6662" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo that Gally-ſlaves, not with ſtanding their miſery other wiſe, are <lb/>commonly fat and fleſhy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6663" xml:space="preserve">and the reaſon is, becauſe the Stomack is ſup-<lb/>ported ſome what in ſitting, and is penſile in ſtanding or going. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6664" xml:space="preserve">And there-<lb/>fore for Prolongation of Life, it is good to chuſe thoſe Exerciſes where the <lb/>Limbs move more then the Stomack and Belly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6665" xml:space="preserve">as in Rowing and in Saw-<lb/>ing, being ſet.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6666" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div797" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0188-06" xlink:href="note-0188-06a" xml:space="preserve">733.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0188-07" xlink:href="note-0188-07a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Poſtures of the <lb/>Body.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6667" xml:space="preserve">Megrims and Giddineß are rather when we Riſe, after long ſitting, then <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0188-08a" xlink:href="note-0188-08"/> while we ſit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6668" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Vapors which were gathered by <lb/>ſitting, by the ſudden Motion flie more up in to the Head.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6669" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div798" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0188-08" xlink:href="note-0188-08a" xml:space="preserve">734.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6670" xml:space="preserve">Leaning upon any Part maketh it Num, and, as we call it, Aſleep. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6671" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0188-09a" xlink:href="note-0188-09"/> <pb o="155" file="0189" n="189" rhead="Century VIII."/> The cauſeis, for that the Compreſſion of the Parts ſuffereth not the Spirits <lb/>to have free acceſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6672" xml:space="preserve">and therefore, when we come out of it, we feel a ſting <lb/>ing or pricking, which is the re entrance of the Spirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6673" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div799" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0188-09" xlink:href="note-0188-09a" xml:space="preserve">735.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6674" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been noted, That thoſe Years are peſtilential and unwholſome, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0189-01a" xlink:href="note-0189-01"/> when there are great numbers of Frogs, Flies, Locuſts, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6675" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6676" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0189-02a" xlink:href="note-0189-02"/> plain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6677" xml:space="preserve">for that thoſe Creatures being ingendred of Putrefaction, when they <lb/>abound, ſhew a general diſpoſition of the Year, and conſtitution of the Air <lb/>to Diſeaſes of Putrefaction. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6678" xml:space="preserve">And the ſame Prognoſtick (as hath been ſaid <lb/>before) holdeth, if you finde Worms in Oak Apples. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6679" xml:space="preserve">For the Conſtitution <lb/>of the Air appeareth more ſubtilly in any of theſe things, then to the ſenſe of <lb/>Man.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6680" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div800" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0189-01" xlink:href="note-0189-01a" xml:space="preserve">736.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0189-02" xlink:href="note-0189-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Peſtilential <lb/>Years.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6681" xml:space="preserve">IT is an obſervation amongſt Country people, that Years of ſtore of Haws <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0189-03a" xlink:href="note-0189-03"/> and Heps, do commonly portend cold Winters; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6682" xml:space="preserve">and they aſcribe it to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0189-04a" xlink:href="note-0189-04"/> Gods Providence, that (as the Soripture ſaith) reacheth even to the falling of a <lb/>Sparrow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6683" xml:space="preserve">and much more is like to reach to the Preſervation of Birds in ſuch <lb/>Seaſons. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6684" xml:space="preserve">The Natural cauſe alſo may be the want of Heat, and abundance of <lb/>Moiſture in the Summer precedent, which putteth forth thoſe Fruits, and <lb/>muſt needs leave great quantity of cold Vapors not diſſipate, which cauſeth <lb/>the cold of the Winter following.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6685" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div801" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0189-03" xlink:href="note-0189-03a" xml:space="preserve">737.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0189-04" xlink:href="note-0189-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Pro<unsure/>gnoſticks of <lb/>Hard Winters.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6686" xml:space="preserve">THey have in Turkey a Drink ealled Coffee, made of a Berry of the ſame <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0189-05a" xlink:href="note-0189-05"/> name, as black as Soot, and of a ſtrong ſent, but not aromatical, which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0189-06a" xlink:href="note-0189-06"/> they take, beaten into powder, in Water as hot as they can drink it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6687" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>they take it, and ſit at it in their Coffee-Houſes, which are like our Taverns. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6688" xml:space="preserve">This Drink comforteth the Brain and Heart, and helpeth Digeſtion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6689" xml:space="preserve">Cer-<lb/>tainly this Berry Coffee, the Root and Leaf Betel, the Leaf Tobacco, and the <lb/>Teare of Poppy, (Opium) of which, the Turks are great takers (ſuppoſing it <lb/>expelleth all fear; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6690" xml:space="preserve">do all condence the Spirits, and make them ſtrong and <lb/>aleger. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6691" xml:space="preserve">But it ſeemeth they are taken after ſeveral manners; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6692" xml:space="preserve">for Coffee and <lb/>Opium are taken down, Tobacco but in Smoak, and Betel is but champed in <lb/>the Mouth with a little Lime. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6693" xml:space="preserve">It is like, there are more of them, if they were <lb/>well found out, and well corrected. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6694" xml:space="preserve">Quære, of Henbane-ſeed, of Mandrake, <lb/>of Saffron, Root and Flower, of Folium Indum, of Ambergreece, of the Aſ-<lb/>ſyrian Amomum, if it may be had; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6695" xml:space="preserve">and of the Scarlet Powder which they <lb/>call Kermez; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6696" xml:space="preserve">and (generally) of all ſuch things as do inebriate and provoke <lb/>ſleep. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6697" xml:space="preserve">Note, that Tobacco is not taken in Root or Seed, which are more forci-<lb/>ble ever then Leaves.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6698" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div802" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0189-05" xlink:href="note-0189-05a" xml:space="preserve">738.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0189-06" xlink:href="note-0189-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Medicines that <lb/>Condence and <lb/>Relieve the <lb/>Spirits.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6699" xml:space="preserve">THe Turks have a black Powder made of a Mineral called Alcohole, which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0189-07a" xlink:href="note-0189-07"/> with a fine long Pencil they lay under their Eye-lids, which doth colour <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0189-08a" xlink:href="note-0189-08"/> them black, whereby the White of the Eye is ſet off more white. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6700" xml:space="preserve">With <lb/>the ſame Powder they colour alſo the Hairs of their Eye-lids, and of their <lb/>Eye-brows, which they draw into embowed Arches. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6701" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall finde that <lb/>Xenophon maketh mention, that the Medes uſed to paint their Eyes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6702" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>Turks uſe with the ſame Tincture to colour the Hair of their Heads and Beards <lb/>black: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6703" xml:space="preserve">And divers with us that are grown Gray, and yet would appear young, <lb/>finde means to make their Hair black, by combing it (as they ſay) with a <lb/>Leaden Comb, or the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6704" xml:space="preserve">As for the Chineſes, who are of an ill Complexion, <lb/>(being Olivaſter) they paint their Cheeks Scarlet, eſpecially their King and <lb/>Grandees. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6705" xml:space="preserve">Generally, Barbarous People that go naked, do not onely paint <pb o="156" file="0190" n="190" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> themſelves, but they pounce and raſe their skin, that the Painting may not <lb/>be taken forth, and make it into Works: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6706" xml:space="preserve">So do the Weſt-Indians; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6707" xml:space="preserve">and ſo did <lb/>the ancient Picts and Britons. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6708" xml:space="preserve">So that it ſeemeth Men would have the colours <lb/>of Birds Feathers, if they could tell how, or at leaſt they will have gay Skins in <lb/>ſtead of gay Cloaths.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6709" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div803" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0189-07" xlink:href="note-0189-07a" xml:space="preserve">739.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0189-08" xlink:href="note-0189-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Paintings of <lb/>the Body.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6710" xml:space="preserve">IT is ſtrange that the uſe of Bathing as a part of Diet is left. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6711" xml:space="preserve">With the Ro-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0190-01a" xlink:href="note-0190-01"/> mans and the Grecians it was as uſual as Eating or Sleeping; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6712" xml:space="preserve">and ſo is it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0190-02a" xlink:href="note-0190-02"/> amongſt the Turks at this day; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6713" xml:space="preserve">whereas with us it remaineth but as a part of <lb/>Phyſick. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6714" xml:space="preserve">I am of opinion, that the uſe of it as it was with the Romans, was <lb/>hurtful to health; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6715" xml:space="preserve">for that it made the Body ſoft and eaſie to waſte. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6716" xml:space="preserve">For the <lb/>Turks it is more proper, becauſe their drinking Water, and feeding upon <lb/>Rice, and other Food of ſmall nouriſhment, maketh their Bodies ſo ſolid <lb/>and hard, as you need not fear that Bathing ſhould make them frothy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6717" xml:space="preserve">Be-<lb/>ſides, the Turks are great ſitters, and ſeldom walk; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6718" xml:space="preserve">whereby they ſweat leſs, <lb/>and need Bathing more. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6719" xml:space="preserve">But yet certain it is, that Bathing, and eſpecially An-<lb/>ointing, may be ſo uſed, as it may be a great help to Health, and Prolongation <lb/>of Life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6720" xml:space="preserve">But here of we ſhall ſpeak in due place, when we come to handle <lb/>Experiments Medicinal.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6721" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div804" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0190-01" xlink:href="note-0190-01a" xml:space="preserve">740.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0190-02" xlink:href="note-0190-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Uſe of Bath-<lb/>ing and An-<lb/>ointing.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6722" xml:space="preserve">THe Turks have a pretty Art of Chamoletting of Paper, which is not with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0190-03a" xlink:href="note-0190-03"/> us in uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6723" xml:space="preserve">They take divers Oyled Colours, and put them ſeverally (in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0190-04a" xlink:href="note-0190-04"/> drops) upon Water, and ſtir the Water lightly, and then wet their Paper <lb/>(being of ſome thickneſs) with it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6724" xml:space="preserve">and the Paper will be waved and veined <lb/>like Chamolet or Marble.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6725" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div805" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0190-03" xlink:href="note-0190-03a" xml:space="preserve">741.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0190-04" xlink:href="note-0190-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Cha<unsure/>moletting <lb/>of Paper.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6726" xml:space="preserve">IT is ſome what ſtrange, that the Blood of all Birds, and Beaſts, and Fiſhes, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0190-05a" xlink:href="note-0190-05"/> ſhould be of a Red colour, and onely the Blood of the Cuttle ſhould be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0190-06a" xlink:href="note-0190-06"/> as black as Ink. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6727" xml:space="preserve">A man would think that the cauſe ſhould be the high Con-<lb/>coction of that Blood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6728" xml:space="preserve">for we ſee in ordinary Puddings, that the Boyling <lb/>t<unsure/>urneth the Blood to be black; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6729" xml:space="preserve">and the Cuttle is accounted a delicate Meat, <lb/>and is much in requeſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6730" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div806" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0190-05" xlink:href="note-0190-05a" xml:space="preserve">742.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0190-06" xlink:href="note-0190-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Cuttle-Ink.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6731" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported of credit, That if you take Earth from Land adjoyning to the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0190-07a" xlink:href="note-0190-07"/> River of Nile, and preſerve it in that manner, that it neither come to be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0190-08a" xlink:href="note-0190-08"/> wet nor waſted, and weigh it daily, it will not alter weight until the Se-<lb/>venteenth of June, which is the day when the River beginneth to riſe, <lb/>and then it will grow more and more ponderous till the River cometh to <lb/>his height. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6732" xml:space="preserve">Which if it be true, it cannot be cauſed but by the Air, <lb/>which then beginneth to condenſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6733" xml:space="preserve">and ſo turneth within that ſmall <lb/>Mould into a degree of Moiſture, which produceth weight. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6734" xml:space="preserve">So it hath <lb/>been obſerved, that Tobacco cut and weighed, and then dryed by the <lb/>Fire, loſeth weight; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6735" xml:space="preserve">and after being laid in the open Air, recovereth <lb/>weight again. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6736" xml:space="preserve">And it ſhould ſeem, that as ſoon as ever the River beginneth <lb/>to increaſe, the whole Body of the Air there abouts ſuffereth a change: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6737" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>(that which is more ſtrange) it is credibly affirmed, that upon that very <lb/>day, when the River firſt riſeth, great Plagues in Cairo uſe ſuddenly to <lb/>break up.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6738" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div807" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0190-07" xlink:href="note-0190-07a" xml:space="preserve">743.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0190-08" xlink:href="note-0190-08a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Encreaſe of <lb/>Weight in <lb/>Earth.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6739" xml:space="preserve">THoſe that are very cold, and eſpecially in their Feet, cannot get to Sleep. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6740" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0190-09a" xlink:href="note-0190-09"/> The cauſe may be, for that in Sleep is required a free reſpiration, which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0190-10a" xlink:href="note-0190-10"/> cold doth ſhut in and hinder: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6741" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee, that in great Colds, one can ſcarce <pb o="157" file="0191" n="191" rhead="Century VIII."/> draw his Breath. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6742" xml:space="preserve">Another cauſe may be, for that Cold calleth the Spiritsto <lb/>ſuccor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6743" xml:space="preserve">and therefore they cannot ſo well cloſe, and go together in the <lb/>Head, which is ever requiſite to Sleep And for the ſame cauſe, Pain and <lb/>noiſe hinder ſleep, and darkneſs (contrariwiſe) furthereth ſleep.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6744" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div808" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0190-09" xlink:href="note-0190-09a" xml:space="preserve">744.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0190-10" xlink:href="note-0190-10a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Sleep.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6745" xml:space="preserve">Some noiſes (whereof we ſpake in the 112 Experiment) help Sleep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6746" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0191-01a" xlink:href="note-0191-01"/> the blowing of the Wind, the trickling of Water, humming of Bees, ſoft <lb/>ſinging reading, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6747" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6748" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that they move in the Spirits a gen-<lb/>tle attention; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6749" xml:space="preserve">and whatſoever moveth attention, without too much labor, <lb/>ſtilleth the natural and diſcurſive motions of the Spirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6750" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div809" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0191-01" xlink:href="note-0191-01a" xml:space="preserve">745.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6751" xml:space="preserve">Sleep nouriſheth, or at leaſt preſerveth, Bodies a long time, without <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0191-02a" xlink:href="note-0191-02"/> other nouriſhment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6752" xml:space="preserve">Beaſts that ſleep in Winter, (as it is noted of wilde <lb/>Bears) during their ſleep wax very fat, though they eat nothing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6753" xml:space="preserve">Bats <lb/>have been found in Ovens, and other hollow cloſe places, matted one <lb/>upon another; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6754" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it is likely that they ſleep in the VVinter <lb/>time, and eat nothing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6755" xml:space="preserve">Quare whether Bees do not ſleep all VVinter, and <lb/>ſpare their Honey. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6756" xml:space="preserve">Butter-flies, and other Flies, do not onely ſleep, but <lb/>lie as dead all VVinter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6757" xml:space="preserve">and yet with a little heat of Sun or Firerevive again. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6758" xml:space="preserve">A Dormouſe, both VVinter and Summer will ſleep ſome days together, <lb/>and eat nothing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6759" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div810" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0191-02" xlink:href="note-0191-02a" xml:space="preserve">746.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6760" xml:space="preserve">TO reſtore Teeth in Age, were Magnale Naturæ, it may be thought <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0191-03a" xlink:href="note-0191-03"/> of; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6761" xml:space="preserve">but howſoever, thenature of the Teeth deſerveth to be enquired <lb/>of, as well as the other parts of Living Creatures Bodies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6762" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div811" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0191-03" xlink:href="note-0191-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Teeth and <lb/>hard subſton. <lb/>@es in the <lb/>Bodies of Li-<lb/>ving Crea. <lb/>tures.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6763" xml:space="preserve">There be five parts in the Bodies of Living Creatures that are of hard ſub-<lb/>ſtances; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6764" xml:space="preserve">the Skull, the Teeth, the Bones, the Horns, and the Nails. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6765" xml:space="preserve">The greateſt <lb/>quantity of hard ſubſtance continued, is towards the Head; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6766" xml:space="preserve">for there is the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0191-04a" xlink:href="note-0191-04"/> Skull of one entire Bone, there are the Teeth, there are Maxillary Bones, <lb/>there is the hard Bone that is the Inſtrument of Hearing, and thence iſſue <lb/>the Horns. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6767" xml:space="preserve">So that the building of Living Creatures Bodies is like the build-<lb/>ing of a Timber-houſe, where the VValls and other parts have Columns <lb/>and Beams; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6768" xml:space="preserve">but the Roof is in the better ſort of Houſes, all Tile, or Lead, <lb/>or Stone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6769" xml:space="preserve">As for Birds, they have three other hard ſubſtances proper to them; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6770" xml:space="preserve">the Bill, which is of the like matter with the Teeth, for no Birds have Teeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6771" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>the Shell of the Egg, and their Quills; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6772" xml:space="preserve">for as for their Spur, it is but a <lb/>Nail. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6773" xml:space="preserve">Butno Living Creatures that have Shells very hard (as Oyſters, Cockles, <lb/>Muſtles, Shalops, Crabs, Lobſters, Craw-fish, Shrimps, and eſpecially the Tortoiſe) <lb/>have Bones within them, but onely little Griſtles.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6774" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div812" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0191-04" xlink:href="note-0191-04a" xml:space="preserve">747.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6775" xml:space="preserve">Bones, after full growth, continue at a ſtay, and ſo doth the Skull. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6776" xml:space="preserve">Horns, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0191-05a" xlink:href="note-0191-05"/> in ſome Creatures, are caſt and renewed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6777" xml:space="preserve">Teeth ſtand at aftay, except their <lb/>wearing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6778" xml:space="preserve">As for Nails, they grow continually, and Bills and Beaks will over-<lb/>grow, and ſometimes be caſt, as in Eagles and Parrots.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6779" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div813" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0191-05" xlink:href="note-0191-05a" xml:space="preserve">748.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6780" xml:space="preserve">Moſt of the hard ſubſtances flie to the extreams of the Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6781" xml:space="preserve">as Skull, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0191-06a" xlink:href="note-0191-06"/> Horns, Teeth, Nails, and Beaks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6782" xml:space="preserve">onely the Bones are more inward, and clad <lb/>with Fleſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6783" xml:space="preserve">As for the Entrails, they are all without Bones, ſave that a Bone <lb/>is ſometimes found in the Heari of a Stag, and it may be in ſome other <lb/>Creatures.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6784" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div814" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0191-06" xlink:href="note-0191-06a" xml:space="preserve">749.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6785" xml:space="preserve">The Skull hath Brains, as a kinde of Marrow within it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6786" xml:space="preserve">The Back-bone <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0191-07a" xlink:href="note-0191-07"/> hath one kinde of Marrow, which hath an affinity with the Brain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6787" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>other Bones of the Body have another. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6788" xml:space="preserve">The Faw-bones have no Marrow fe-<lb/>vered, but a little Pulp of Marrow diffuſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6789" xml:space="preserve">Teeth likewiſe are thought to <lb/>have a kinde of Marrow diffuſed, which cauſeth the Senſe and Pain: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6790" xml:space="preserve">But it <pb o="158" file="0192" n="192" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> is rather Sinew; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6791" xml:space="preserve">for Marrow hath no Senſe, no more then Blood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6792" xml:space="preserve">Horn is <lb/>alike throughout, and ſo is the Nail.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6793" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div815" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0191-07" xlink:href="note-0191-07a" xml:space="preserve">750.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6794" xml:space="preserve">None other of the hard ſubſtances have Senſe, but the Teeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6795" xml:space="preserve">and the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0192-01a" xlink:href="note-0192-01"/> Teeth have Senſe, not onely oſ Pain, but of Cold.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6796" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div816" type="float" level="2" n="51"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0192-01" xlink:href="note-0192-01a" xml:space="preserve">751.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6797" xml:space="preserve">But we will leave the Enquiries of other Hard Subſtances unto their ſeve-<lb/># ral places, and now enquire onely of the Teeth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6798" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6799" xml:space="preserve">The Teeth are in Men of three kindes, Sharp, as the Fore-teeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6800" xml:space="preserve">Broad, as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0192-02a" xlink:href="note-0192-02"/> the Back-teeth, which we call the Molar-teeth, or Grinders; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6801" xml:space="preserve">and Pointed-teeth, <lb/>or Canine, which are between both. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6802" xml:space="preserve">But there have been ſome Men that <lb/>have had their Teeth undivided, as of one whole Bone, with ſome little <lb/>mark in the place of the Diviſion, as Pyrrhus had. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6803" xml:space="preserve">Some Creatures have <lb/>over-long or out growing Teah, which we call Fangs or Tusks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6804" xml:space="preserve">as Boars, <lb/>Pikes, Salmons, and Dogs, though leſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6805" xml:space="preserve">Some Living Creatures have Teeth <lb/>againſt Teeth, as Men and Horſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6806" xml:space="preserve">and ſome have Teeth, eſpecially their Maſter-<lb/>teeth, indented one within another like Saws, as Lions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6807" xml:space="preserve">and ſo again have <lb/>Dogs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6808" xml:space="preserve">Some Fishes have divers Rows of Teeth in the Roofs of their Mouths; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6809" xml:space="preserve">as Pikes, Salmons, Trouts, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6810" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6811" xml:space="preserve">and many more in Salt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6812" xml:space="preserve">waters. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6813" xml:space="preserve">Snakes and other <lb/>Serpents have venemous Tee@h, which are ſometimes miſtaken for their <lb/>Sting.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6814" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div817" type="float" level="2" n="52"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0192-02" xlink:href="note-0192-02a" xml:space="preserve">752.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6815" xml:space="preserve">No Beaſt that hath Horns hath upper-teeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6816" xml:space="preserve">and no Beaſt that hath Teeth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0192-03a" xlink:href="note-0192-03"/> above, wanteth them below. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6817" xml:space="preserve">But yetif they be of the ſame kinde, it follow-<lb/>eth not, that if the hard matter goeth not into upper-teeth, it will go into <lb/>Horns; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6818" xml:space="preserve">nor yet è converſo, for Does that have no Horns, have no upper-<lb/>teeth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6819" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div818" type="float" level="2" n="53"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0192-03" xlink:href="note-0192-03a" xml:space="preserve">753.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6820" xml:space="preserve">Horſes have, at three years old, a Tooth put forth which they call the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0192-04a" xlink:href="note-0192-04"/> Colis-tooth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6821" xml:space="preserve">and at four years old, there cometh the Mark-tooth, which hath <lb/>a hole ſo big as you may lay a Peaſe within it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6822" xml:space="preserve">and that weareth ſhorter <lb/>and ſhorter every year, till that at eight years old the Tooth is ſmooth, <lb/>and the hole gone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6823" xml:space="preserve">and then they ſay, That the Mark is out of the Horſes <lb/>Mouth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6824" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div819" type="float" level="2" n="54"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0192-04" xlink:href="note-0192-04a" xml:space="preserve">754.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6825" xml:space="preserve">The Teeth of Men breed firſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6826" xml:space="preserve">when the Childe is about a year and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0192-05a" xlink:href="note-0192-05"/> half old, and then they caſt them, and new come about ſeven years old. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6827" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>divershave Backward-teeth come forth attwenty, yea, ſome at thirty, and <lb/>forty. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6828" xml:space="preserve">Quare of the manner of the coming of them forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6829" xml:space="preserve">They tell atale <lb/>of the old Counteſs of Deſmond, who lived till ſhe was Sevenſcore years <lb/>old, that ſhe did Dentire twice orthrice, caſting her old Teeth, and others <lb/>coming in their place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6830" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div820" type="float" level="2" n="55"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0192-05" xlink:href="note-0192-05a" xml:space="preserve">755.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6831" xml:space="preserve">Teeth are much hurt by Sweet-meats, and by Painting with Mercury, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0192-06a" xlink:href="note-0192-06"/> and by things over-hot, and by things over-cold, and by Rheums. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6832" xml:space="preserve">And the <lb/>pain of the Teeth, is one of the ſharpeſt of pains.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6833" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div821" type="float" level="2" n="56"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0192-06" xlink:href="note-0192-06a" xml:space="preserve">756.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6834" xml:space="preserve">Concerning Teeth, theſe things are to be conſidered. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6835" xml:space="preserve">1. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6836" xml:space="preserve">The preſerving <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0192-07a" xlink:href="note-0192-07"/> of them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6837" xml:space="preserve">2. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6838" xml:space="preserve">The keeping of them white. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6839" xml:space="preserve">3. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6840" xml:space="preserve">The drawing of them with <lb/>leaſt pain. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6841" xml:space="preserve">4. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6842" xml:space="preserve">The ſtaying and eaſing of the Tooth-ach. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6843" xml:space="preserve">5. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6844" xml:space="preserve">The binding in <lb/>of Artificial Teeth, where Teeth have been ſtrucken out. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6845" xml:space="preserve">6. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6846" xml:space="preserve">And laſt of <lb/>all, that great one, of reſtoring Teeth in Age. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6847" xml:space="preserve">The inſtances that give any <lb/>likelihood of reſtoring Teeth in Age, are, The late coming of Teeth in <lb/>ſome, and the renewing of the Beaks in Birds, which are commaterial with <lb/>Teeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6848" xml:space="preserve">Quare thereſore more particularly how that cometh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6849" xml:space="preserve">And again, <lb/>the renewing of Horns, But yet that hath not been known to have been <lb/>provoked by Art; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6850" xml:space="preserve">therefore let tryal be made, whether Horns may be pro-<lb/>cured to grow in Beaſts that are not horned, and how; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6851" xml:space="preserve">and whether they <lb/>may be procured to come larger then uſual, as to make an Ox or a Deer <pb o="159" file="0193" n="193" rhead="Century VIII."/> have a greater Head of Horns; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6852" xml:space="preserve">and whether the Head of a Deer, that by <lb/>age is more ſpitted, may be brought again to be more branched. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6853" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>theſe tryals and the like will ſhew, Whether by art ſuch hard matter can <lb/>be called and provoked. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6854" xml:space="preserve">It may be tryed alſo, whether Birds may not have <lb/>ſomething done to them when they are young, whereby they may be made <lb/>to have greater or longer Bills, or greater and longer Talons: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6855" xml:space="preserve">And whe-<lb/>ther Children may not have ſome Waſh, or ſomething to make their <lb/>Teeth better and ſtronger. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6856" xml:space="preserve">Coral is in uſe as an help to the Teeth of <lb/>Children.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6857" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div822" type="float" level="2" n="57"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0192-07" xlink:href="note-0192-07a" xml:space="preserve">757.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6858" xml:space="preserve">SOme Living Creatures generate but at certain ſeaſons of the year; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6859" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0193-01a" xlink:href="note-0193-01"/> Deer, Sheep, Wilde Coneys, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6860" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6861" xml:space="preserve">and moſt ſorts of Birds and Fishes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6862" xml:space="preserve">Others <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0193-02a" xlink:href="note-0193-02"/> at any time of the year, as Men; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6863" xml:space="preserve">and all Domeſtick Creatures, as Horſes, <lb/>Hogs, Dogs, Cats, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6864" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6865" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of Generation at all ſeaſons, ſeemeth to be <lb/>Fulneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6866" xml:space="preserve">for Generation is from Redundance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6867" xml:space="preserve">This Fulneſs ariſeth from two <lb/>cauſes, Either from the Nature of the Creature, if it be Hot, and Moiſt, and <lb/>Singuine, or from Plenty of Food. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6868" xml:space="preserve">For the firſt, Men, Horſes, Dogs, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6869" xml:space="preserve">c. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6870" xml:space="preserve">which breed at all ſeaſons, are full of Heat and Moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6871" xml:space="preserve">Doves are the full-<lb/>eſt of Heat and Moiſture amongſt Birds, and therefore breed often, the <lb/>Tame Dove almoſt continually. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6872" xml:space="preserve">But Deer are a Melancholick dry Creature, <lb/>as appeareth by their fearfulneſs, and the hardneſs of their Fleſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6873" xml:space="preserve">sheep are a <lb/>cold Creature, as appeareth by their mildneſs, and for that they ſeldom <lb/>drink. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6874" xml:space="preserve">Moſt ſorts of Birds are of a dry ſubſtance in compariſon of Beaſts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6875" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Fishes are cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6876" xml:space="preserve">For the ſecond cauſe, Fulneſs of Food, Men, Kine, Swine, <lb/>Dogs, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6877" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6878" xml:space="preserve">feed full. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6879" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee, that thoſe Creatures which, being Wilde, <lb/>generate ſeldom, being tame, generate often; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6880" xml:space="preserve">which is from warmth and <lb/>fulneſs of food. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6881" xml:space="preserve">Wefinde that the time of going to Rut of Deer is in Sep-<lb/>tember, for that they need the whole Summers Feed and Graſs to make them <lb/>fit for Generation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6882" xml:space="preserve">and if Rain come early about the middle of September, <lb/>they go to Rut ſomewhat the ſooner; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6883" xml:space="preserve">if Drought, ſomewhat the later. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6884" xml:space="preserve">So <lb/>Sheep, in reſpect of their ſmall heat, generate about the ſame time, or ſome-<lb/>what before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6885" xml:space="preserve">But for the moſt part, Creatures that generate at certain ſea-<lb/>ſons generate in the Spring; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6886" xml:space="preserve">as Birds and Fiſhes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6887" xml:space="preserve">For that the end of the <lb/>Winter, and the heat and comfort of the Spring prepareth them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6888" xml:space="preserve">There is <lb/>alſo another reaſon why ſome Creatures generate at certain ſeaſons, and that <lb/>is the Relation of their time of Bearing to the time of Generation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6889" xml:space="preserve">for no <lb/>Creature goeth to generate whileſt the Female is full, nor whileſt ſhe is buſie <lb/>in ſitting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6890" xml:space="preserve">or rearing her young; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6891" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it is found by experience, that <lb/>if you take the Eggs or Young-ones out of the Neſts of Birds, they will fall <lb/>to generate again three or four times one after another.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6892" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div823" type="float" level="2" n="58"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0193-01" xlink:href="note-0193-01a" xml:space="preserve">758.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0193-02" xlink:href="note-0193-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Generation <lb/>and Bearing <lb/>of Living <lb/>Creatures in <lb/>the Womb.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6893" xml:space="preserve">Of Living Creatures, ſome are longet time in the Womb, and ſome <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0193-03a" xlink:href="note-0193-03"/> ſhorter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6894" xml:space="preserve">Women go commonly nine Moneths, the Cow and the Ewe about <lb/>ſix Moneths, Doesgo about nine Moneths, Mares eleven Moneths, Bitches <lb/>nine Weeks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6895" xml:space="preserve">Elephants are ſaid to go two years, for the received Tra-<lb/>dition of ten years is fabulous. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6896" xml:space="preserve">For Birds there is double enquiry; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6897" xml:space="preserve">the di-<lb/>ſtance between the treading or coupling, and the laying of the Egg; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6898" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>again, between the Egglaid, and the diſcloſing or hatching. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6899" xml:space="preserve">And amongſt <lb/>Birds there is leſs diverſity of time then amongſt other Creatures, yet ſome <lb/>there is; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6900" xml:space="preserve">forithe Hen ſitteth but three weeks, the Turky-hen, Gooſe <lb/>and Duck, a moneth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6901" xml:space="preserve">Quære of others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6902" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the great difference <lb/>of times amongſt Living Creatures is, either from the nature of the Kind, <pb o="160" file="0194" n="194" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> or from the conſtitution of the Womb. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6903" xml:space="preserve">For the former, thoſe that are longer <lb/>in coming to their maturity or growth, are longer in the Womb, as is chiefly <lb/>ſeen in Men; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6904" xml:space="preserve">and ſo Elephants, which are long in the Womb, are long time <lb/>in coming to their full growth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6905" xml:space="preserve">But in moſt other Kinds, the conſtitution of <lb/>the Womb (that is, the hardneſs or dryneſs thereof) is concurrent with the <lb/>former cauſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6906" xml:space="preserve">Forthe Colt hath about four years of growth, and ſo the Fawn, <lb/>and ſo the Calf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6907" xml:space="preserve">but Whelps, which come to their growth (commonly) with-<lb/>in three quarters of a year, are but nine weeks in the Womb. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6908" xml:space="preserve">As for Birds, as <lb/>there is leſs diverfity amongſt them in the time of their bringing forth, ſo <lb/>there is leſs diverſity in the time of their growth, moſt of them coming to <lb/>their growth within a twelve-moneth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6909" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div824" type="float" level="2" n="59"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0193-03" xlink:href="note-0193-03a" xml:space="preserve">759.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6910" xml:space="preserve">Some Creatures bring forth many young ones at a Burthen; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6911" xml:space="preserve">as Bitches, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0194-01a" xlink:href="note-0194-01"/> Hares, Coneys, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6912" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6913" xml:space="preserve">ſome (ordinarily) but one; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6914" xml:space="preserve">as Women, Lioneſſes, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6915" xml:space="preserve">c. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6916" xml:space="preserve">This may be cauſed, either by the quantity of Sperm required to the pro-<lb/>ducing one of that Kind; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6917" xml:space="preserve">which if leſs be required, may admit greater num-<lb/>ber; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6918" xml:space="preserve">if more, fewer: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6919" xml:space="preserve">Or by the Partitions and Cells of the Womb, which <lb/>may ſever the Sperm.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6920" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div825" type="float" level="2" n="60"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-01" xlink:href="note-0194-01a" xml:space="preserve">760.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6921" xml:space="preserve">THere is no doubt but Light by Refraction will ſhew greater, as well as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0194-02a" xlink:href="note-0194-02"/> things coloured; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6922" xml:space="preserve">for like as a ſhilling in the bottom of the Water will <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0194-03a" xlink:href="note-0194-03"/> ſhew greater, ſo will a Candle in a Lanthorn in the bottom of the Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6923" xml:space="preserve">I <lb/>have heard of a practice, that Gloworms in Glaſſes were put in the Waterto <lb/>makethe Fiſh come. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6924" xml:space="preserve">But I am not yet informed, whether when a Diver <lb/>diveth, having his eyes open, and ſwimmeth upon his back, whether (I ſay) <lb/>he ſeeth things in the Air, greater or leſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6925" xml:space="preserve">For it is manifeſt, that when the <lb/>eye ſtandeth in the finer medium, and the object is in the groſſer, things ſhew <lb/>greater, but contrariwiſe, when the eye is placed in the groſſer medium, and <lb/>the object in the finer, how it worketh I know not.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6926" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div826" type="float" level="2" n="61"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-02" xlink:href="note-0194-02a" xml:space="preserve">761.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-03" xlink:href="note-0194-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſott, <lb/>touching <lb/>Species viſible.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6927" xml:space="preserve">It would be well boulted out, whether great Refractions may not be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0194-04a" xlink:href="note-0194-04"/> made upon Reflexions, as well as upon direct beams. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6928" xml:space="preserve">For example, we ſee, <lb/>that take an empty Baſon, put an Angel of Gold, or what you will into it; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6929" xml:space="preserve">then go ſo far from the Baſon till you cannot ſee the Angel, becauſe it is not <lb/>in a right Line; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6930" xml:space="preserve">then fill the Baſon with Water, and you ſhall ſee it out of <lb/>his place, becauſe of the Reflexion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6931" xml:space="preserve">To proceed therefore, put a Looking-<lb/>glaſs into a Baſon of Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6932" xml:space="preserve">I ſuppoſe you ſhall not ſee the Image in a right <lb/>Line, or at equal Angles, but aſide. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6933" xml:space="preserve">I know not whether this Experiment may <lb/>not be extended ſo, as you might ſee the Image, and not the Glaſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6934" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>for beauty and ſtrangeneſs were a fine proof, for then you ſhall ſee the Image <lb/>like a Spirit in the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6935" xml:space="preserve">As for example, if there be a Ciſtern or Pool of Water, <lb/>you ſhall place over againſt it a picture of the Devil, or what you will, ſo as <lb/>you do not ſee the Water, then put a Looking glaſs in the Water: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6936" xml:space="preserve">Now if <lb/>you can ſee the Devils picture aſide, not ſeeing the Water, it will look like a <lb/>Devil indeed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6937" xml:space="preserve">They have an old tale in Oxford, That Fryer Bacon walked be-<lb/>tween two Steeples; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6938" xml:space="preserve">which was thought to be done by Glafſes, when he <lb/>walked upon the Ground.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6939" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div827" type="float" level="2" n="62"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-04" xlink:href="note-0194-04a" xml:space="preserve">762.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6940" xml:space="preserve">AWeighty Body put into Motion, is more eaſily impelled then at firſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0194-05a" xlink:href="note-0194-05"/> when it reſteth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6941" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, partly becauſe Motion doth diſcuſs the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0194-06a" xlink:href="note-0194-06"/> Torpour of ſolid Bodies, which beſide their Motion of Gravity, have in them <lb/>a Natural Appetite not to move at all; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6942" xml:space="preserve">and partly, becauſe a Body that reſt-<lb/>eth doth get, by the reſiſtance of the Body upon which it reſteth, a ſtronger <pb o="161" file="0195" n="195" rhead="Century V III."/> comprcſſion of parts then it hat of it ſelf, and therefore needeth more force <lb/>to be put in motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6943" xml:space="preserve">For if a weighty Body be penſile, and hang but by a <lb/>thred, the percuſſion will make an impulſion very near as eaſily as iſ it were <lb/>already in motion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6944" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div828" type="float" level="2" n="63"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-05" xlink:href="note-0194-05a" xml:space="preserve">763.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-06" xlink:href="note-0194-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Impulſion and <lb/>Percußion.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6945" xml:space="preserve">A Body-over-great or over-ſmall, will not be thrown ſo far as a Body of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0195-01a" xlink:href="note-0195-01"/> a middle ſize; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6946" xml:space="preserve">ſo that (it ſeemeth) there muſt be a commenſuration or pro-<lb/>portion bet ween the Body moved, and the force, to make it move well. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6947" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe is, becauſe to the Impulſion there is requiſite the force of the Bo dy <lb/>that moveth, and the reſiſtance of the Body that is moved; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6948" xml:space="preserve">and if the <lb/>Body be too great, it yieldeth too little; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6949" xml:space="preserve">and if it be too ſmall, it reſiſterh <lb/>too little.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6950" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div829" type="float" level="2" n="64"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0195-01" xlink:href="note-0195-01a" xml:space="preserve">764.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6951" xml:space="preserve">It is common experience, that no weight will preſs or cut ſo ſtrong be-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0195-02a" xlink:href="note-0195-02"/> ing laid upon a Body, as falling or ſtrucken from above. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6952" xml:space="preserve">It may be the Air <lb/>hath ſome part in furthering the percufſion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6953" xml:space="preserve">But the chief cauſe I take to be, <lb/>for that the parts of the Body moved, have by impulſion, or by the motion <lb/>of gravity continued, a compreſſion in them as well downwards, as they have <lb/>when they are thrown or ſhot through the Air ſorwards. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6954" xml:space="preserve">I conceive alſo, <lb/>that the quick looſe of that motion preventeth the reſiſtance of the Body be-<lb/>low; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6955" xml:space="preserve">and priority of the force (always) is of great efficacy, as appeareth in <lb/>infinite inſtances.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6956" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div830" type="float" level="2" n="65"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0195-02" xlink:href="note-0195-02a" xml:space="preserve">765.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6957" xml:space="preserve">TIckling is moſt in the Soles of the Feet, and under the Arm-holes, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0195-03a" xlink:href="note-0195-03"/> on the Sides. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6958" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, the thinneſs of the Skin in thoſe parts, joyned <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0195-04a" xlink:href="note-0195-04"/> with the rareneſs of being touched there; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6959" xml:space="preserve">for all Tickling is a light motion <lb/>of the Spirits, which the thinneſs of the Skin, and ſuddenneſs and rareneſs <lb/>of touch do further: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6960" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee a Feather or a Ruſh drawn along the Lip <lb/>or Cheek, doth tickle; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6961" xml:space="preserve">whereas a thing more obtuſe, or a touch more <lb/>hard, doth not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6962" xml:space="preserve">And for ſuddenneſs, we ſee no man can ticklehimſelf: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6963" xml:space="preserve">We <lb/>ſee alſo, that the Palm of the Hand, though it hath as thin a Skin as the other <lb/>parts mentioned, yet is not tickliſh, becauſe it is accuſtomed to betouched. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6964" xml:space="preserve">Tickling alſo cauſeth Laughter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6965" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be the emiſſion of the Spirits, <lb/>and ſo of the Breath, by a flight from Titillation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6966" xml:space="preserve">for upon Tickling, we <lb/>ſee there is ever a ſtarting or ſhrinking away of the part to avoid it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6967" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>we ſee alſo, that if you tickle the Noſtrils with a Feather or Straw, it <lb/>procureth Sneezing, which is a ſudden emiſſion of the Spirits, that do <lb/>like wiſe expel the moiſture. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6968" xml:space="preserve">And Tickling is ever painſul, and not well <lb/>endured.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6969" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div831" type="float" level="2" n="66"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0195-03" xlink:href="note-0195-03a" xml:space="preserve">766.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0195-04" xlink:href="note-0195-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Titillation.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6970" xml:space="preserve">IT is ſtrange, that the River of Nilus overflowing, as it doth the Countrey <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0195-05a" xlink:href="note-0195-05"/> of Egypt, there ſhould be nevertheleſs little or no Rain in that Countrey. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6971" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0195-06a" xlink:href="note-0195-06"/> The cauſe muſt be, either in the Nature of the Water, or in the Nature <lb/>of the Air, or of both. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6972" xml:space="preserve">In the Water, it may be aſcribed either tinto <lb/>the long race of the Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6973" xml:space="preserve">for ſwiſt-running Waters vapor not ſo much <lb/>as ſtanding Waters, or elſe to the concoction of the Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6974" xml:space="preserve">for Waters well <lb/>concocted, vapor not ſo much as Waters raw, no more then Waters upon <lb/>the fire do vapor ſo much, after ſome time of boyling, as at the firſt. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6975" xml:space="preserve">And it is true, that the Water of Nilus is ſweeter then other Waters in taſte; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6976" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>and it is excellent good for the Stone, and Hypochondriacal Melancholy, <lb/>which ſheweth it is lenifying; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6977" xml:space="preserve">and it runneth through a Countrey of a <lb/>hot Climate, and flat, without ſhade either of Woods or Hills, whereby <lb/>the Sun muſt needs have great power to concoct ir. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6978" xml:space="preserve">As for the Air (from <lb/>whence I conceive this want of Showers cometh chiefly) the cauſe muſt be, <pb o="162" file="0196" n="196" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> for that the Air is of it ſelf thin and thirſty, and as ſoon as ever it getteth <lb/>any moiſture from the Water, it imbibeth, and d ſſipateth it in the whole <lb/>Body of the Air, and ſuffereth it not to romain in Vapor, where by it might <lb/>breed Rain.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6979" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div832" type="float" level="2" n="67"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0195-05" xlink:href="note-0195-05a" xml:space="preserve">767.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0195-06" xlink:href="note-0195-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Scarcity of <lb/>Rain in <lb/>Egypt.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6980" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been touched in the Title of Perlocations, (namely, ſuch as are in-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0196-01a" xlink:href="note-0196-01"/> wards) that the Whites of Eggs and Milk do clarifie; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6981" xml:space="preserve">and it is certain, <lb/>that in Egypt they prepare and clarifie the Water of Nile, by putting it into <lb/>great Jars of Stone, and ſtirring it about with a few ſtamped Almonds, where-<lb/>with they alſo beſmear the Mouth of the Veſſel; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6982" xml:space="preserve">and ſo draw it off, after it <lb/>hath reſted ſome time. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6983" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try this Clarifying with Almonds in <lb/>new Beer or Muſt, to haſten and perfect the Clarifying.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6984" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div833" type="float" level="2" n="68"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0196-01" xlink:href="note-0196-01a" xml:space="preserve">768. <lb/>Expetiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Clarification.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6985" xml:space="preserve">THere be ſcarce to be found any Vegetables that have Branches and no <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0196-02a" xlink:href="note-0196-02"/> Leaves, except you allow Coral for one. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6986" xml:space="preserve">But there is alſo in the Deſarts <lb/>of S. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6987" xml:space="preserve">Macario in Egypt, a Plant which is long, Leafle<unsure/>ſs, brown of colour, and <lb/>branched like Coral, fave that it cloſeth at the top. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6988" xml:space="preserve">This being ſet in Water <lb/>within Houſe, ſpredeth and diſplayeth ſtrangely; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6989" xml:space="preserve">and the people thereabout <lb/>have a ſuperſtitious belief, that in the Labor of Women it helpeth to the eaſie <lb/>Deliverance.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6990" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div834" type="float" level="2" n="69"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0196-02" xlink:href="note-0196-02a" xml:space="preserve">769. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Plants with-<lb/>out Leaves.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6991" xml:space="preserve">THe Cryſtalline Venice-Glaß is reported to be a mixture, in equal portions, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0196-03a" xlink:href="note-0196-03"/> of Stones brought from Pavia, by the River Ticinum, and the Aſhes of a <lb/>Weed called by the Arabs, Kall, which is gathered in a Deſart bet ween <lb/>Alexandria and Roſetta; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6992" xml:space="preserve">and is by the Egyptians uſed firſt for Fuel, and then <lb/>they cruſh the Aſhes into lumps like a Stone, and ſoſell them to the Venetians <lb/>for their Glaſs-works.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6993" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div835" type="float" level="2" n="70"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0196-03" xlink:href="note-0196-03a" xml:space="preserve">770. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Materials of <lb/>Glaß.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s6994" xml:space="preserve">IT is ſtrange, and well to be noted, how long Carcaſſes have continued <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0196-04a" xlink:href="note-0196-04"/> uncorrupt, and in their former Dimenſions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6995" xml:space="preserve">as appeareth in the Mummies <lb/>of Egypt, having laſted, as is conceived (ſome of them) three thouſand <lb/>years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6996" xml:space="preserve">It is true, they finde means to draw forth the Brains, and to take <lb/>forth the Entrails, which are the parts apteſt to corrupt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6997" xml:space="preserve">But that is no-<lb/>thing to the wonder; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6998" xml:space="preserve">for we ſee what a ſoft and corruptible ſubſtance the <lb/>Fleſh of all the other parts of the Body is. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s6999" xml:space="preserve">But it ſhould ſeem, that accord-<lb/>ing to our obſervation and axiom, in our hundredth Experiments, Putre. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7000" xml:space="preserve">faction, which we conceive to be ſo natural a Period of Bodies, is but an <lb/>accident, and that Matter maketh not that haſte to Corruption that is <lb/>conceived; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7001" xml:space="preserve">and therefore Bodies in ſhining Amber, in Quick-ſilver, in <lb/>Balms, (where of we now ſpeak) in Wax, in Honey, in Gums, and (it <lb/>may be) in Conſervatories of Snow, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7002" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7003" xml:space="preserve">are preſerved very long. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7004" xml:space="preserve">It need <lb/>not go for repetition, if we reſume again that which we ſaid in the afore-<lb/>ſaid Experiments concerning Annihilation, namely, That if you provide <lb/>againſt three cauſes of Putrefaction, Bodies will not corrupt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7005" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is, <lb/>that the Air be excluded; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7006" xml:space="preserve">for that undermineth the Body, and conſpireth <lb/>with the Spirit of the Body to diſſolveit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7007" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is, that the Body adja-<lb/>cent and ambient be not Commaterial, but meerly Heterogeneal to wards <lb/>the Body that is to be preſerved; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7008" xml:space="preserve">for if nothing can be received by the <lb/>one, nothing can iſſue from the other; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7009" xml:space="preserve">ſuch are Quick-ſilver and White Am-<lb/>ber to Herbs and Flies, and ſuch Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7010" xml:space="preserve">The third is, that the Body to be <lb/>preſerved, be not of that groſs that it may corrupt within it ſelf, although no <lb/>part of it iſſue into the Body adjacent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7011" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it muſt be rather thin <pb o="163" file="0197" n="197" rhead="Century VIII."/> and ſmall then of Bulk. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7012" xml:space="preserve">There is a fourth Remedy alſo, which is, That if <lb/>the Body to be preſerved, be of bulk, as a Corps is, then the Body that in-<lb/>cloſeth it muſt have a virtue to draw forth and dry the moiſture of the in-<lb/>ward Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7013" xml:space="preserve">for elſe the Putrefaction will play within, though nothing ifſue <lb/>forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7014" xml:space="preserve">I remember Livy doth relate, that there were found at a time two <lb/>Coffins of Lead in a Tomb, where of the one contained the Body of King <lb/>Numa, it being ſome Four hundred years after his death; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7015" xml:space="preserve">and the other, his <lb/>Books of Sacred Rites and Ceremonies, and the Diſcipline of the Pontiffs: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7016" xml:space="preserve">And that in the Coffin that had the Body, there was nothing (at all) to be ſeen <lb/>but a little light Cinders about the ſides; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7017" xml:space="preserve">but in the Coffin that had the <lb/>Books, they were found as freſh as if they had been but newly written, being <lb/>written in Parchment, and covered over with Watch-candles of Wax three <lb/>or four fold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7018" xml:space="preserve">By this it ſeemeth, that the Romans in Numa’s time were not <lb/>ſo good Embalmers as the Egyptians were; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7019" xml:space="preserve">which was the cauſe that the <lb/>Body was utterly conſumed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7020" xml:space="preserve">But I finde in Plutarch and others, that when <lb/>Auguſtus Caſar viſited the Sepulchre of Alexander the Great in Alexandria, <lb/>he found the Body to keep his Dimenſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7021" xml:space="preserve">but withal, that not with ſf<unsure/>anding <lb/>all the Embalming (which no doubt was of the beſt) the Body was ſo tender, <lb/>as Caſar touching but the Noſe of it, defaced it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7022" xml:space="preserve">Which maketh mefinde it <lb/>very ſtrange, that the Egyptian Mummies ſhould be reported to be as hard <lb/>as Stone-pitch: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7023" xml:space="preserve">For I finde no difference but one. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7024" xml:space="preserve">which indeed may be <lb/>very material; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7025" xml:space="preserve">namely, that the ancient Egyptian Mummies were ſhrowded <lb/>in a number of folds of Linnen, beſmeared with Gums, in manner of <lb/>Sear-cloth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7026" xml:space="preserve">which it doth not appear, was practifed upon the Body of <lb/>Alexander.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7027" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div836" type="float" level="2" n="71"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0196-04" xlink:href="note-0196-04a" xml:space="preserve">771. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Prohibition of <lb/>Putrefactiou, <lb/>and the long <lb/>Conſervation <lb/>of Bodies.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7028" xml:space="preserve">NEar the Caſtle of Catie, and by the Wells Aſſan, in the Land of Idumæa, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0197-01a" xlink:href="note-0197-01"/> a great part of the way, you would think the Sea were near hand, <lb/>though it be a good diſtance of: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7029" xml:space="preserve">And it is nothing, but the ſhining of the <lb/>Nitre upon the Sea-ſands; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7030" xml:space="preserve">ſuch abundance of Nitre the Shores there do put <lb/>forth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7031" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div837" type="float" level="2" n="72"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0197-01" xlink:href="note-0197-01a" xml:space="preserve">772. <lb/>Expetiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Abundance <lb/>of Nitre in <lb/>certain Sea. <lb/>ſhores.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7032" xml:space="preserve">THe Dead-Sea, which vomiteth up Bitumen, is of that Ctaſſitude, as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0197-02a" xlink:href="note-0197-02"/> Living Bodies, bound hand and foot, and caſt into it, have been borne <lb/>up and not ſunk: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7033" xml:space="preserve">Which ſheweth, that all ſinking into Water, is but an over-<lb/>weight of the Body put into the Water, in reſpect of the Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7034" xml:space="preserve">ſo that <lb/>you may make Water ſo ſtrong and heavy of Quick-ſilver, (perhaps) or the <lb/>like, as may bear up Iron; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7035" xml:space="preserve">of which I ſee no uſe, but Impoſture. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7036" xml:space="preserve">We <lb/>ſee alſo, that all Metals, except Gold, for the ſame reaſon ſwim upon <lb/>Quick ſilver.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7037" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div838" type="float" level="2" n="73"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0197-02" xlink:href="note-0197-02a" xml:space="preserve">773. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Bodies that <lb/>are born<unsure/>e up <lb/>by Water.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7038" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported, that at the Foot of a Hill near the Mare mortuum, there is a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0197-03a" xlink:href="note-0197-03"/> Black Stone (where of Pilgrims make Fires) which burneth like a Coal and <lb/>diminiſheth not, but onely waxeth brighter and whiter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7039" xml:space="preserve">That it ſhould do <lb/>ſo, is not ſtrange; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7040" xml:space="preserve">for we ſee Iron red hot burneth and conſumeth not. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7041" xml:space="preserve">But the ſtrangeneſs is, that it ſhould continue any time ſo; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7042" xml:space="preserve">for Iron, as <lb/>ſoon as it is out of the Fire, deadeth ſtraight-ways. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7043" xml:space="preserve">Certainly, it were a <lb/>thing of great uſe and profit, if you could finde out Fuel that would burn <lb/>hot, and yet laſt long: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7044" xml:space="preserve">Neither am I altogether incredulous, but there <lb/>may be ſuch Candles as (they ſay) are made of Salamanders Wool, being a <lb/>kinde of Mineral which whiteneth alſo in the burning, and conſumeth not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7045" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>The Queſtion is this. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7046" xml:space="preserve">Flame muſt be made of ſome what; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7047" xml:space="preserve">and commonly it <pb o="164" file="0198" n="198" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> is made of ſome tangible Body which hath weight; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7048" xml:space="preserve">but it is not impoſſible, <lb/>perhaps, that it ſhould be made of Spirit or Vapor in a Body, (which Spirit <lb/>or Vapor hath no weight) ſuch as is the matter of Ignis fatuus. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7049" xml:space="preserve">But then you <lb/>will ſay, that that Vapor alſo can laſt but a ſhort time. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7050" xml:space="preserve">To that it may be an-<lb/>ſwered, That by the help of Oyl and Wax, and other Candle ſtuff, the flame <lb/>may continue, and the wick not burnt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7051" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div839" type="float" level="2" n="74"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0197-03" xlink:href="note-0197-03a" xml:space="preserve">774. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Fucl that con-<lb/>ſumeth lit@le or <lb/>nothing.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7052" xml:space="preserve">SEa-coal laſt longer then Char-coal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7053" xml:space="preserve">and Char-coal of Roots, being coaled <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0198-01a" xlink:href="note-0198-01"/> into great pieces, laſt longer then ordinary Char-coal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7054" xml:space="preserve">Turf, and Peat, <lb/>and Cow-ſheards are cheap Fewels, and laſt long. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7055" xml:space="preserve">Small-coal or Char-coal pour-<lb/>ed upon Char-coal make them laſt longer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7056" xml:space="preserve">Sedge is a cheap Fewel to Brew <lb/>or Bake with, the rather, becauſe it is good for nothing elſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7057" xml:space="preserve">Tryal would <lb/>be made of ſome mixture of Sea-coal with Earth, or Chalk; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7058" xml:space="preserve">for if that mix-<lb/>ture be, as the Sea-coal-men uſe it privily, to make the Bulk of the Coal <lb/>greater, it is deceit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7059" xml:space="preserve">but if it be uſed purpoſely, and be made known, it is <lb/>ſaving.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7060" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div840" type="float" level="2" n="75"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0198-01" xlink:href="note-0198-01a" xml:space="preserve">775. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>Oeconomical <lb/>touching cheap <lb/>Fewel.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7061" xml:space="preserve">IT is at this day in uſe in Gaza, to couch Pot-sherds or Veſſels of Earth in their <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0198-02a" xlink:href="note-0198-02"/> Walls, to gather the Wind from the top, and to paſs it down in Spouts <lb/>into Rooms. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7062" xml:space="preserve">It is a device for ſreſhne ſs in great Heats. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7063" xml:space="preserve">And it is ſaid, there <lb/>are ſome Rooms in Italy and Spain for freſhneſs, and gathering the Winds and <lb/>Air in the Heats of Summer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7064" xml:space="preserve">but they be but Pennings of the Winds, and <lb/>enlarging them again, and making them reverberate, and go round in Cir-<lb/>cles, rather then this device of Spouts in the Wall.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7065" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div841" type="float" level="2" n="76"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0198-02" xlink:href="note-0198-02a" xml:space="preserve">776. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Gathering of <lb/>Wind for <lb/>Freſhneß.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7066" xml:space="preserve">THere would be uſed much diligence in the choice of ſome Bodies and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0198-03a" xlink:href="note-0198-03"/> Places (as it were) for the taſting of Air, to diſcover the wholeſomeneſs <lb/>or un wholeſomneſs as well of Seaſons, as of the Seats of Dwellings. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7067" xml:space="preserve">It is <lb/>certain, that there be ſome Houſes wherein Confitures and Pies, will gather <lb/>Mould more then in others; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7068" xml:space="preserve">and I am perſwaded, that a piece of raw Fleſh <lb/>or Fiſh, will ſooner corrupt in ſome Airs then in others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7069" xml:space="preserve">They be noble <lb/>Experiments that can make this diſcovery; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7070" xml:space="preserve">for they ſerve for a Natural <lb/>Divination of Seaſons, better then the Aſtronomers can by their Figures; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7071" xml:space="preserve">and again, they teach men where to chuſe their dwelling for their better <lb/>health.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7072" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div842" type="float" level="2" n="77"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0198-03" xlink:href="note-0198-03a" xml:space="preserve">777. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Tryals of <lb/>Airs.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7073" xml:space="preserve">THere is a kinde of Stone about Bethlehem which they grinde to powder, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0198-04a" xlink:href="note-0198-04"/> and put into Water, where of Cattel drink, which maketh them give <lb/>more Milk. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7074" xml:space="preserve">Surely, there would be ſome better Tryals made of Mixtures <lb/>of Water in Ponds for Cattel, to make them more Milch, or to fatten them, <lb/>or to keep them from Murrain. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7075" xml:space="preserve">It may be, Chalk and Nitre are of the <lb/>beſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7076" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div843" type="float" level="2" n="78"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0198-04" xlink:href="note-0198-04a" xml:space="preserve">778. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Increaſing of <lb/>Milk in <lb/>Milk-Beaſts.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7077" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported, that in the Valley near the Mountain Carmel in Judea, there <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0198-05a" xlink:href="note-0198-05"/> is a Sand, which of all other, hath moſt affinity with Glaſs, inſomuch, as <lb/>other Minerals laid in it, turn to a glaſſie ſubſtance without the fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7078" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>again, Glaſs put into it, turneth into the Mother-ſand. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7079" xml:space="preserve">The thing is very <lb/>ſtrange, if it be true; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7080" xml:space="preserve">and it is likelieſt to be cauſed by ſome natural Furnace <lb/>of Heat in the Earth, and yet they do not ſpeak of any Eruption of Flames. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7081" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try in Glaſs works, whether the crude Materials of Glaſs <lb/>mingled with Glaſs, already made and remoulten, do not facilitate the making <lb/>of Glaſs with leſs heat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7082" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div844" type="float" level="2" n="79"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0198-05" xlink:href="note-0198-05a" xml:space="preserve">779. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Sand of the <lb/>Nature of <lb/>Glaß.</note> </div> <pb o="165" file="0199" n="199" rhead="Century VIII."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7083" xml:space="preserve">IN the Sea, upon the South-Weſt of Sicily, much Coral is found. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7084" xml:space="preserve">It is a Sub-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0199-01a" xlink:href="note-0199-01"/> marine Plant, it hath no leaves, it brancheth onely when it is under Wa-<lb/>ter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7085" xml:space="preserve">it is ſoft, and green of colour; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7086" xml:space="preserve">but being brought into the Air, it be-<lb/>cometh hard, and ſhining red, as we ſee. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7087" xml:space="preserve">It is ſaid alſo to have a white <lb/>Berry, but we finde it not brought over with the Coral: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7088" xml:space="preserve">Belike it is caſt away <lb/>as nothing worth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7089" xml:space="preserve">Idquire better of it, for the diſcovery of the Nature of <lb/>the Plant.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7090" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div845" type="float" level="2" n="80"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0199-01" xlink:href="note-0199-01a" xml:space="preserve">780. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Growth of <lb/>Coral.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7091" xml:space="preserve">THe Manna of Calahria is the beſt, and in moſt plenty. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7092" xml:space="preserve">They gather it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0199-02a" xlink:href="note-0199-02"/> from the Leaf of the Mulberry-tree; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7093" xml:space="preserve">but not of ſuch Mulberry-trees as <lb/>grow in the Valleys: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7094" xml:space="preserve">And Manna fa@leth upon the Leaves by night, as other <lb/>Dews do. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7095" xml:space="preserve">It ſhould ſeem, that before thoſe Dews come upon Trees in the <lb/>Valleys, they diſſipate and cannot hold out. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7096" xml:space="preserve">It ſhould ſeem alſo, the Mul-<lb/>berry-leaf it ſelf hath ſome coagulating virtue, which inſpiſſateth the Dew, <lb/>for that it is not found upon other Trees: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7097" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee by the Silk worm, <lb/>which feedeth upon that Leaf, what a dainty ſmooth Juice it hath; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7098" xml:space="preserve">and the <lb/>Leaves alſo (eſpecially of the Black Mulberry) are ſome what briſtly, which <lb/>may help to preſerve the Dew. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7099" xml:space="preserve">Certainly, it were not amiſs to obſerve a lit-<lb/>tle better the Dews that fall upon Trees or Herbs growing on Mountains; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7100" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>it may be, many Dews fall that ſpend before they come to the Valleys. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7101" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>I ſuppoſe, that he that would gather the beſt May Dew for Medicine, ſhould <lb/>gather it from the Hills.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7102" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div846" type="float" level="2" n="81"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0199-02" xlink:href="note-0199-02a" xml:space="preserve">781. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Gathering of <lb/>Manna.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7103" xml:space="preserve">IT is ſaid, they have a manner to prepare their Greek Wines, to keep them <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0199-03a" xlink:href="note-0199-03"/> from Fuming and Inebriating, by adding ſome Sulphur or Allum; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7104" xml:space="preserve">where of <lb/>the one is Unctuous, and the other is Aſtringent. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7105" xml:space="preserve">And certain it is, that <lb/>thoſe two Natures do repreſs the Fumes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7106" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment would be tranſ-<lb/>ferred unto other Wine and Strong-Beer, by putting in ſome like Subſtances <lb/>while they work; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7107" xml:space="preserve">which may make them both to Fume leſs, and to inflame <lb/>leſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7108" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div847" type="float" level="2" n="82"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0199-03" xlink:href="note-0199-03a" xml:space="preserve">782. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Correcting of <lb/>Wine.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7109" xml:space="preserve">IT is conceived by ſome, (not improbably) that the reaſon why Wild-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0199-04a" xlink:href="note-0199-04"/> fires (where of the principal ingredient is Bitumen) do not quench with <lb/>Water, is, for that the firſt concretion of Bitumen, is a mixture of a fiery and <lb/>watry ſubſtance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7110" xml:space="preserve">ſo is not Sulphur. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7111" xml:space="preserve">This appeareth, for that in the place near <lb/>Puteoli, which they call the Court of Vulcan, you ſhall hear under the <lb/>Earth a horrible thundring of Fire and Water conflicting together; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7112" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>there break forth alſo Spouts of boiling Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7113" xml:space="preserve">Now that place yield-<lb/>eth great quantities of Bitumen; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7114" xml:space="preserve">whereas c<unsure/> Ætna, and Veſuvius, and the like, <lb/>which conſiſt upon Sulphur, ſhoot forth Smoak, and Aſhes, and Pumice, <lb/>but no Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7115" xml:space="preserve">It is reported alſo, that Bitumen mingled with Lime, and put <lb/>under Water, will make, as it were, an artificial Rock, the ſubſtance be cometh <lb/>ſo hard.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7116" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div848" type="float" level="2" n="83"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0199-04" xlink:href="note-0199-04a" xml:space="preserve">783. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Materials of <lb/>Wildfire.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7117" xml:space="preserve">THere is a Cement compounded of Flower, Whites of Eggs, and Stone <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0199-05a" xlink:href="note-0199-05"/> powdred, that becometh hard as Marble, where with Piſcina Mirabilis, <lb/>near Cuma, is ſaid to have the Walls plaiſtered. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7118" xml:space="preserve">And it is certain, and tried, <lb/>that the Powder of Load-ſtone and Flint, by the addition of Whites of Eggs <lb/>and Gum-dragon, made into Paſte, will in a few days harden to the hardneſs <lb/>of a Stone.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7119" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div849" type="float" level="2" n="84"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0199-05" xlink:href="note-0199-05a" xml:space="preserve">784. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Plaiſter grow-<lb/>ing as hard as <lb/>Marble.</note> </div> <pb o="166" file="0200" n="200" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7120" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been noted by the Antients, that in full or impure Bodies, U'cers <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0200-01a" xlink:href="note-0200-01"/> or Hurts in the Legs are hard to cure, and in the Head more eaſie. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7121" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe is, for that Ulcers or Hurts in the Legs require Deſiccation, which by <lb/>the defluxion of Humors to the lower parts is hindred, where as Hurts and <lb/>Ulcers in the Head require it not, but, contrariwiſe, Dryneſs maketh them <lb/>more apt to Conſolidate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7122" xml:space="preserve">And in Modern obſervation, the like difference <lb/>hath been found bet ween French-men and Engliſh men; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7123" xml:space="preserve">where of the ones <lb/>Conſtitution is more dry, and the others more moiſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7124" xml:space="preserve">And therefore a Hurt <lb/>of the Head is harder to cure in a French-man, and of the Leg in an Engliſh-<lb/>man.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7125" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div850" type="float" level="2" n="85"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0200-01" xlink:href="note-0200-01a" xml:space="preserve">785. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Iudgment of <lb/>the Curein <lb/>ſome Vlcers <lb/>and Hurts.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7126" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been noted by the Ancients, that Southern Winds blowing much <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0200-02a" xlink:href="note-0200-02"/> without Rain, do cauſe a Fevorous Diſpoſition of the Year; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7127" xml:space="preserve">but with Rain, <lb/>not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7128" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Southern Winds do of themſelves qualifie the Air <lb/>to be apt to cauſe Fevers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7129" xml:space="preserve">but when Showers are joyned, they do refrigerate <lb/>in part, and check the ſoultry Heat of the Southern Wind. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7130" xml:space="preserve">Therefore this <lb/>holdeth not in the Sea coaſts, becauſe the vapor of the Sea without Showers <lb/>doth refreſh.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7131" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div851" type="float" level="2" n="86"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0200-02" xlink:href="note-0200-02a" xml:space="preserve">786. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Healthfulneß <lb/>or Vnhealth-<lb/>fulneß of the <lb/>Southern <lb/>Wind.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7132" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been noted by the Ancients, that Wounds which are made with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0200-03a" xlink:href="note-0200-03"/> Braſs, heal more eaſily then Wounds made with Iron. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7133" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for <lb/>that Braſs hath in it ſelf a Sanative virtue, and ſo in the very inſtant helpeth <lb/>ſomewhat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7134" xml:space="preserve">but Iron is Corroſive, and not Sanative. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7135" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it were <lb/>good that the Inſtruments which are uſed by Chirurgions about Wounds <lb/>were rather of Braſs then Iron.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7136" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div852" type="float" level="2" n="87"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0200-03" xlink:href="note-0200-03a" xml:space="preserve">787. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Wounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7137" xml:space="preserve">IN the cold Countreys, when Mens Noſes and Ears are mortified, and (as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0200-04a" xlink:href="note-0200-04"/> it were) Gangrened with cold, if they come to a Fire, they rot off pre-<lb/>ſently. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7138" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the few Spirits that remain in tho ſe parts are <lb/>fuddenly drawn forth, and ſo Putrefaction is made compleat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7139" xml:space="preserve">But Snow put <lb/>upon them helpeth, for that it preſerveth thoſe Spirits that remain till they <lb/>can revive; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7140" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, Snow hath in it a ſecret warmth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7141" xml:space="preserve">as the Monk <lb/>proved out of the Texr, Qui dat Nivem ſicut Lanam, Gelu ſicut Cineres ſpargit; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7142" xml:space="preserve">whereby he did infer, that Snow did warm like Wool, and Froſt did fret like <lb/>Aſhes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7143" xml:space="preserve">Warm Water alſo doth good, becauſe by little and little it openeth <lb/>the pores, without any ſudden working upon the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7144" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment <lb/>may be transferred unto the cure of Gangrenes, either coming of them ſelves, <lb/>or induced by too much applying of Opiates; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7145" xml:space="preserve">wherein you muſt be ware of <lb/>dry Heat, and reſort to things that are Refrigerant, with an inward warmth <lb/>and virtue of cheriſhing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7146" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div853" type="float" level="2" n="88"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0200-04" xlink:href="note-0200-04a" xml:space="preserve">788. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Mortification <lb/>by Cold.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7147" xml:space="preserve">WEigh Iron and Aqua-fortis ſeverally, then diſſolve the Iron in the Aqua-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0200-05a" xlink:href="note-0200-05"/> fortis, and weigh the Diſſolution; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7148" xml:space="preserve">and you ſhall finde it to bear as good <lb/>weight as the Bodies did ſeverally, not with ſtanding a good deal of waſte <lb/>by a thick vapor that iſſueth during the working; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7149" xml:space="preserve">which ſheweth, that the <lb/>opening of a Body doth increaſe the weight. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7150" xml:space="preserve">This was tryed once or twice, <lb/>but I know not whether there were any Error in the Tryal.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7151" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div854" type="float" level="2" n="89"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0200-05" xlink:href="note-0200-05a" xml:space="preserve">789. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Weight.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7152" xml:space="preserve">TAke of Aqua-fortis two Ounces, of Quick-ſilver two Drachms, (for that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0200-06a" xlink:href="note-0200-06"/> charge the Aqua fortis will bear) the Diſſolution will not bear a Flint <lb/>as big as a Nutmeg; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7153" xml:space="preserve">yet (no doubt) the increaſing of the weight of <pb o="167" file="0201" n="201" rhead="Century VIII."/> Water will increate his power of bearing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7154" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee Broyn, when it is ſalt <lb/>enough, will bear an Egg. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7155" xml:space="preserve">And I remember well a Ph<unsure/>yſitian, that uſed to <lb/>give ſome M neral Baths for the Gout &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7156" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7157" xml:space="preserve">And the Body when it was put<unsure/> <lb/>into the Bath<unsure/>, could not get down ſo eaſily as in ordinary Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7158" xml:space="preserve">But it ſeem <lb/>eth, the weight of the Quickſilver, more then the weight of a Stone, doth <lb/>not compenſe the weight of a Stone, more then the weight of the Aqua-fortis.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7159" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div855" type="float" level="2" n="90"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0200-06" xlink:href="note-0200-06a" xml:space="preserve">790. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Supernation of <lb/>Bodies.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7160" xml:space="preserve">LEt there be a Body of unequal weight, (as of Wood and Lead, or Bone <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0201-01a" xlink:href="note-0201-01"/> and Lead;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7161" xml:space="preserve">it you throw it from you with the light end forward, it will <lb/>turn, and the weightier end will recover to be forwards, unleſs the Body be <lb/>over-long. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7162" xml:space="preserve">The cauſeis, for that the more Denſe Body hath a more violent <lb/>preſſure of the parts from the firſt impulſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7163" xml:space="preserve">which is the cauſe (though <lb/>heretofore not found out, as hath been often ſaid) of all Violent Motions: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7164" xml:space="preserve">And when the hinder part moveth ſwifter (for that it leſ, endur<unsure/>eth preſſure of <lb/>parts) then the for ward part can make way for it, it muſt needs be that the <lb/>Body turn over; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7165" xml:space="preserve">for (turned) it can more eaſily draw forward the lighter part. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7166" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Galilaus noteth it well, That if an open Trough, wherein Water is, be driven <lb/>faſter then the Water can follow, the Water gathereth upon an heap to-<lb/>wards the hinder end, where the motion began; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7167" xml:space="preserve">which he ſuppoſeth (hold-<lb/>ing confidently the motion of the Earth) to be the cauſe of the Ebbing and <lb/>Flowing of the Ocean, becauſe the Earth over runneth the Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7168" xml:space="preserve">Which <lb/>Theory though it be falſe, yet the firſt Experiment is true; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7169" xml:space="preserve">as for the inequa<unsure/>-<lb/>lity of the preſſure of parts, it appeareth manifeſtly in this, That if you take <lb/>a body of Stone or Iron, and another of Wood, of the ſame magnitude and <lb/>ſhape, and throw them with equal force, you cannot poſſibly throw the <lb/>Wood ſo far as the Stone or Iron.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7170" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div856" type="float" level="2" n="91"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0201-01" xlink:href="note-0201-01a" xml:space="preserve">791. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Flying of un-<lb/>equal Bodies <lb/>in the Air.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7171" xml:space="preserve">IT is certain (as it hath been formerly in part touched) that Water may be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0201-02a" xlink:href="note-0201-02"/> the Medium of Sounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7172" xml:space="preserve">If you daſh a Stone againſt a Stone in the bottom <lb/>of the Water, it makes a Sound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7173" xml:space="preserve">ſo a long Pole ſtruck upon Gravel, in the <lb/>bottom of the Water, maketh a Sound. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7174" xml:space="preserve">Nay, if you ſhould think that the <lb/>Sound cometh up by the Pole, and not by the Water, you ſhall finde that an <lb/>Anch or let down by a Rope maketh a Sonnd; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7175" xml:space="preserve">and yet the Rope is no ſolid <lb/>Body, where by the Sound can aſcend.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7176" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div857" type="float" level="2" n="92"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0201-02" xlink:href="note-0201-02a" xml:space="preserve">792. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Water, that it <lb/>may be the <lb/>Medium of <lb/>Sounds.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7177" xml:space="preserve">ALl objects of the Senſes which are very offenſive, do cauſe the Spirits <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0201-03a" xlink:href="note-0201-03"/> to retire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7178" xml:space="preserve">and upon their flight, the parts are (in ſome degree) deſtitute, <lb/>and ſo there is induced in them a trepidation and horror. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7179" xml:space="preserve">For Sounds, we <lb/>ſee, that the grating of a Saw, or any very harſh noiſe, will ſet the Teeth on <lb/>edge, and make all the Body ſhiver. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7180" xml:space="preserve">For Taſtes, we ſee, that in the taking of <lb/>a Potion, or Pills, the Head and the Neck ſhake. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7181" xml:space="preserve">For odious ſmells, the like <lb/>effect followeth, which is leſs perceived, becauſe there is a remedy at hand, <lb/>by ſtopping of the Noſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7182" xml:space="preserve">But in Horſes, that can uſe no ſuch help, we ſee <lb/>the ſmell of a Carrion, eſpecially of a dead Horſe, maketh them flie away, <lb/>and take on almoſt, as if they were mad. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7183" xml:space="preserve">For Feeling, if you come out of the <lb/>Sun ſuddenly into a ſhade, there followeth a chilneſs or ſhivering in all the <lb/>Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7184" xml:space="preserve">And even in Sight, which hath (in effect) no odious object, coming in-<lb/>to ſudden darkneſs, induceth an offer to ſhiver.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7185" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div858" type="float" level="2" n="93"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0201-03" xlink:href="note-0201-03a" xml:space="preserve">793. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>of the Flight <lb/>of the Spirits <lb/>upon odious <lb/>Objects.</note> </div> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">794. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Super-Refi<unsure/>exi-<lb/>on of Echo@@.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7186" xml:space="preserve">THere is in the City of Ticinum in Italy, a Church that hath Windows <lb/>onely from above; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7187" xml:space="preserve">it is in Length an hundred Feet, in Bredth twenty <lb/>Feet, and in Height near fifty, having a Door in the midſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7188" xml:space="preserve">It reporteth, <pb o="168" file="0202" n="202" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> the voice twelve or thirteen times. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7189" xml:space="preserve">If you ſtand by the cloſe e<unsure/>nd-wall over <lb/>againſt the Door, the Echo fadeth and dieth by little and little, as the Echo <lb/>at Pont-Charenton doth, and the voice ſounde<unsure/>th as if it came from above the <lb/>Door; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7190" xml:space="preserve">and if you ſtand at the lower end, or on either ſide of the Door, the <lb/>Fcho holdeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7191" xml:space="preserve">but if you ſtand in the Door, or in the midſt juſt over againſt <lb/>the Door, not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7192" xml:space="preserve">Note, that all Echoes ſound better againſt old Walls then <lb/>new, becauſe they are more dry and hollow.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7193" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7194" xml:space="preserve">THoſe effects which are wrought by the percuſſion of the Senſe, and by <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0202-01a" xlink:href="note-0202-01"/> things in Fact, are produced likewiſe in ſome degree by the Imagina-<lb/>tion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7195" xml:space="preserve">Thereſore if a man ſee another eat ſour or acide things, which ſet the <lb/>Teeth on edge, this object tainteth the Imagination; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7196" xml:space="preserve">ſo that he that ſeeth <lb/>the thing done by another hath his own Teeth alſo ſet on edge. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7197" xml:space="preserve">So if a man <lb/>ſee another turn ſwiftly and long, or if he look upon Wheels that turn, him-<lb/>ſelf waxeth Turn-ſick. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7198" xml:space="preserve">So if a man be upon a high place, without Rails, or <lb/>good hold, except he be uſed to it, he is ready to fall; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7199" xml:space="preserve">for imagining a fall, <lb/>it putteth his ſpirits into the very action of a fall. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7200" xml:space="preserve">So many upon the ſeeing <lb/>of others Bleed, or Strangled, or Tortured, themſelves are ready to faint, <lb/>as if they bled, or were in ſtrife.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7201" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div859" type="float" level="2" n="94"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0202-01" xlink:href="note-0202-01a" xml:space="preserve">795. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>force of Imagi-<lb/>nation, Imi-<lb/>tating that of <lb/>the Senſe.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7202" xml:space="preserve">TAke a Stock-Gilliflower, and tie it gently upon a ſtick, and put them both <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0202-02a" xlink:href="note-0202-02"/> both into a Stoop-glaſs full of Quick-ſilver, ſo that the Flower be <lb/>covered; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7203" xml:space="preserve">then lay a little weight upon the top of the Glaſs, that may keep <lb/>the ſtick down; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7204" xml:space="preserve">and look upon them after four or five days, and you ſhall <lb/>finde the Flower freſh, and the Stalk harder and leſs flexible then it was. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7205" xml:space="preserve">If you compare it with another Flower, gathered at the ſame time, it will <lb/>be the more manifeſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7206" xml:space="preserve">This ſheweth, that Bodies do preſerve excellently in <lb/>Quick-ſilver; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7207" xml:space="preserve">and not preſerve onely, but by the coldneſs of the Quick-ſilver, <lb/>indurate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7208" xml:space="preserve">For the freſhneſs of the Flower may be meerly Conſervation, <lb/>(which is the more to be obſerved, becauſe the Quick-ſilver preſſeth the Flower) <lb/>but the ſtifneſs of the Stalk cannot be without Induration from the cold (as <lb/>it ſeemeth) of the Quick-ſilver.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7209" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div860" type="float" level="2" n="95"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0202-02" xlink:href="note-0202-02a" xml:space="preserve">796. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Preſervation <lb/>of Bodies.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7210" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported by ſome of the Ancients, That in Cyprus there is a kinde of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0202-03a" xlink:href="note-0202-03"/> Iron, that being cut into little pieces, and put into the ground, if it be well <lb/>watered, will encreaſe into greater pieces. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7211" xml:space="preserve">This is certain, and known of old, <lb/>that Lead will multiply and encreaſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7212" xml:space="preserve">as hath been ſeen in old Statues of <lb/>Stone, which have been put in Cellars, the Feet of them being bound with <lb/>Leaden bands; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7213" xml:space="preserve">where (after a time) there appeared, that the Lead did ſwell, <lb/>inſomuch, as it hanged upon the Stone like Warts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7214" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div861" type="float" level="2" n="96"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0202-03" xlink:href="note-0202-03a" xml:space="preserve">797. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Growth or <lb/>Multiplying <lb/>of Metals.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7215" xml:space="preserve">ICall that drowning of Metals, when the baſer Metal is ſo incorporate <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0202-04a" xlink:href="note-0202-04"/> with the more rich, as it can by no means be ſeparated again; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7216" xml:space="preserve">which is a <lb/>kinde of Verſion, though falſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7217" xml:space="preserve">as if Silver ſhould be inſeparably incorpo-<lb/>rated with Gold, or Copper and Lead with Silver. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7218" xml:space="preserve">The Ancient Electrum had <lb/>in it a fifth of Silver to the Gold, and made a Compound Metal, as fit for <lb/>moſt uſes as Gold, and more reſplendent, and more qualified in ſome <lb/>other properties; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7219" xml:space="preserve">but then that was eaſily ſeparated. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7220" xml:space="preserve">This to do privily, <lb/>or to make the Compound paſs for the rich Metal ſimple, is an adulteration <lb/>or counterfeiting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7221" xml:space="preserve">but if it be done avowedly and without diſguifing, it <lb/>may be a great ſaving of the richer Metal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7222" xml:space="preserve">I remember to have heard of <lb/>a man skilful in Metals, that a fifteenth part of Silver incorporate with</s> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div862" type="float" level="2" n="97"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0202-04" xlink:href="note-0202-04a" xml:space="preserve">798. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Drowning of <lb/>the more Baſe <lb/>Metal, in the <lb/>more Precious.</note> </div> <pb o="169" file="0203" n="203" rhead="Century VIII."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7223" xml:space="preserve">Gold is the onely Subſtance which hath nothing in it Volatile, and yet <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0203-01a" xlink:href="note-0203-01"/> melteth without much difficulty. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7224" xml:space="preserve">The Melting ſheweth, that it is not <lb/>jejune or ſcarce in Spirit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7225" xml:space="preserve">So that the fixing of it is not want of Spirit to flie <lb/>out, but the equal ſpreding of the Tangible parts, and the cloſe coacerva-<lb/>tion of them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7226" xml:space="preserve">where by they have the leſs appetite, and no means (at all) to <lb/>iſſue forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7227" xml:space="preserve">It were good therefore to try whether Glaſs Re-molten, do loſe <lb/>any weight; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7228" xml:space="preserve">for the parts in Glaſs are evenly ſpred, but they are not ſo cloſe <lb/>as in Gold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7229" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee by the eaſie admiſſion of Light Heat, and Cold, and <lb/>by the ſmalneſs of the weight. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7230" xml:space="preserve">There be other Bodies fixed, which have lit-<lb/>tle or no Spirit, ſo as there is nothing to flie out; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7231" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in the Stuff, where-<lb/>of Coppels are made, which they put into Furnaces, upon which Fire work-<lb/>eth not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7232" xml:space="preserve">So that there are three cauſes of Fixation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7233" xml:space="preserve">the Even-ſpreding both <lb/>of the Spirits and Tangible parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7234" xml:space="preserve">the Cloſeneß of the Tangible parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7235" xml:space="preserve">and the Fe-<lb/>junenß or Extream Comminution of Spirits: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7236" xml:space="preserve">Of which three, the two firſt may <lb/>be joyned with a Nature Liquefiable, the laſt not.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7237" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div863" type="float" level="2" n="98"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0203-01" xlink:href="note-0203-01a" xml:space="preserve">799. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Fixation of <lb/>Bodies.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7238" xml:space="preserve">IT is a profound Contemplation in Nature, to conſider of the Emptineſs (as we <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0203-02a" xlink:href="note-0203-02"/> may callit) or Inſatisfaction of ſeveral Bodies, and of their appetite to take <lb/>in others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7239" xml:space="preserve">Air taketh in Lights, and Sounds, and Smells, and Vapors: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7240" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>it is moſt manifeſt, that it doth it with a kinde of Thirſt, as not ſatisfied with <lb/>his own former Conſiſtence; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7241" xml:space="preserve">for elſe it would never receive them in ſo ſud-<lb/>denly and eaſily. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7242" xml:space="preserve">Water and all Liquors do haſtily receive dry and more Ter-<lb/>reſtrial Bodies proportionable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7243" xml:space="preserve">and Dry Bodies, on the other ſide, drink in <lb/>Waters and Liquors: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7244" xml:space="preserve">So that (as it was well ſaid by one of the Ancients, of <lb/>Earthy and Watry Subſtances) one is a Glue to another. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7245" xml:space="preserve">Parchments, Skins, <lb/>Cloth, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7246" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7247" xml:space="preserve">drink in Liquors; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7248" xml:space="preserve">though themſelves be entire Bodies, and not <lb/>comminuted, as Sand and Aſbes, nor apparently porous. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7249" xml:space="preserve">Metals themſelves <lb/>do receive in readily Strong waters, and Strong-waters likewiſe do readily pierce <lb/>into Metals and Stones; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7250" xml:space="preserve">and that Strong-water will touch upon Gold, that will <lb/>not touch upon Silver, and è converſo. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7251" xml:space="preserve">And Gold, which ſeemeth by the weight <lb/>to be the cloſeſt and moſt ſolid Body, doth greedily drink in Quick-ſilver. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7252" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>it ſeemeth, that this Reception of other Bodies is not violent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7253" xml:space="preserve">for it is (many <lb/>times) reciprocal, and, as it were with conſent. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7254" xml:space="preserve">Of the cauſe of this, and to <lb/>what Axiom it may be referred, conſider attentively; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7255" xml:space="preserve">for as for the pretty <lb/>aſſertion, That Matter is like a Common Strumpet that deſireth all Forms, it is <lb/>but a Wandring Notion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7256" xml:space="preserve">Onely Flame doth not content it ſelf to take in any <lb/>other Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7257" xml:space="preserve">but either to overcome, and turn another Body into it ſelf, as <lb/>by victory, or itſelf to die and go out.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7258" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div864" type="float" level="2" n="99"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0203-02" xlink:href="note-0203-02a" xml:space="preserve">800. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Reſtleſs Na-<lb/>ture of Things <lb/>in themſelves, <lb/>and their De-<lb/>fire to Change.</note> </div> <pb file="0204" n="204"/> <pb o="171" file="0205" n="205"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div866" type="section" level="1" n="33"> <head xml:id="echoid-head48" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL <lb/>HISTORY</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head49" xml:space="preserve">Century IX.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7259" xml:space="preserve">IT is certain, That all Bodies whatſoever, though they <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0205-01a" xlink:href="note-0205-01"/> have no Senſe, yet they have Perception: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7260" xml:space="preserve">For when <lb/>one Body is applied to another, there is a kinde of Electi-<lb/>on, to embrace that which is agreeable, and to exclude <lb/>or expel that which is ingrate: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7261" xml:space="preserve">And whether the Body <lb/>be alterantor altered, evermore a Perception precedeth <lb/>Operation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7262" xml:space="preserve">for elſe all Bodies would be alike one to an-<lb/>other. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7263" xml:space="preserve">And ſometimes this Perception in ſome kinde <lb/>of Bodies is far more ſubtilthen the Senſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7264" xml:space="preserve">ſo that the Senſe is but a dull thing <lb/>in compariſon of it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7265" xml:space="preserve">We ſee a Weather-glaß will finde the leaſt difference of <lb/>the Weather in Heat or Cold, when Men finde it not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7266" xml:space="preserve">And this Perception <lb/>alſo is ſometimes at diſtance, as well as upon the touch; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7267" xml:space="preserve">as when the Load-<lb/>ſtone draweth Iron, or Flame fireth Naphtha of Babylon a great diſtance off. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7268" xml:space="preserve">It is therefore a ſubject of a very Noble Enquiry, to enquire of the more ſubtil <lb/>Perceptions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7269" xml:space="preserve">for it is another Key to open Nature, as well as the Senſe, and <lb/>ſometimes better: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7270" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, it is a principal means of Natural Divination; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7271" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>for that which in theſe Perceptions appeareth early, in the great effects <lb/>cometh long after. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7272" xml:space="preserve">It is true alſo, that it ſerveth to diſcover that which is <lb/>hid, as well as to foretel that which is to come, as it is in many ſubtil Tryals: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7273" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>As to try whether Seeds be old or new, the Senſe cannotinform; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7274" xml:space="preserve">but if you <lb/>boil them in Water, the new Seeds will ſprout ſooner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7275" xml:space="preserve">And ſo of Water, <lb/>the taſte will not diſcover the beſt Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7276" xml:space="preserve">but the ſpeedy conſuming of it, <lb/>and many other means which we have heretofore ſet down, will diſcover it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7277" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>So in all Phyſiognomy, the Lineaments of the Body will diſcoverthoſe Natural <lb/>Inclinations of the Minde, which Diſſimulation will conceal, or Diſcipline <lb/>will ſuppreſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7278" xml:space="preserve">We ſhall therefore now handle onely thoſe two Perceptions <lb/>which pertain to Natural Divination and Diſcovery, leaving the handling of <pb o="172" file="0206" n="206" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Perception in other things to be diſpoſed elſ where. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7279" xml:space="preserve">Now it is true, that Di-<lb/>vination is attained by other means; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7280" xml:space="preserve">as if you know the cauſes, if you know <lb/>the Concomitants, you may judge of the effect to follow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7281" xml:space="preserve">and the like may be <lb/>ſaid of Diſcoper. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7282" xml:space="preserve">But we tye our ſelves here to that Divination and Diſcovery <lb/>chiefly, which is cauſed by an early or ſubtil Perception.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7283" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div866" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0205-01" xlink:href="note-0205-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Perception in <lb/>Bodies Inſen-<lb/>ſible, tending <lb/>to Natural <lb/>Divination or <lb/>Subiil Tryals.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7284" xml:space="preserve">The aptneſs or propenſion of Air or Water to corrupt or putrefie, <lb/>(no doubt) is to be found before it break forth into manifeſt effects of Dif-<lb/>eaſes, Blaſting, or the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7285" xml:space="preserve">We will therefore ſet down ſome Prognoſticks <lb/>of Peſtilential and unwholſome years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7286" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7287" xml:space="preserve">The Wind blowing much from the South without Rain, and Worms <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0206-01a" xlink:href="note-0206-01"/> in the Oak-Apple, have been ſpoken of before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7288" xml:space="preserve">Alſo the plenty of Frogs, <lb/>Graſhoppers, Flies, and the like Creatures bred of Putrefaction, doth portend <lb/>Peſtilential years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7289" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div867" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0206-01" xlink:href="note-0206-01a" xml:space="preserve">801.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7290" xml:space="preserve">Great and early Heats in the Spring, (and namely in May) without <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0206-02a" xlink:href="note-0206-02"/> Winds, portend the ſame. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7291" xml:space="preserve">And generally ſo do years with little Wind or <lb/>Thunder.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7292" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div868" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0206-02" xlink:href="note-0206-02a" xml:space="preserve">802.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7293" xml:space="preserve">Great Droughts in Summer, laſting till to wards the end of August, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0206-03a" xlink:href="note-0206-03"/> and ſome gentle ſhowers upon them, and then ſome dry weather again, do <lb/>portend a Peſtilent Summer the year following: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7294" xml:space="preserve">For about the end of <lb/>Auguſt, all the ſweetneſs<unsure/> of the Earth which goeth into Plants or Trees is <lb/>exhaled; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7295" xml:space="preserve">(and much more if the Auguſt be dry) ſo that nothing then <lb/>can breath forth of the Earth but a groſs vapor, which is apt to corrupt <lb/>the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7296" xml:space="preserve">and that vapor by the firſt ſhowers, if they begentle, is releaſed, <lb/>and cometh forth abundantly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7297" xml:space="preserve">Therefore they that come abroad ſoon <lb/>after thoſe ſhowers are commonly taken with ſickneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7298" xml:space="preserve">And in Africk no <lb/>Body will ſtir out of doors after the firſt ſhowers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7299" xml:space="preserve">But if the firſt ſhowers <lb/>come vehemently, then they rather waſh and fill the Earth, then give <lb/>it leave to breath forth preſently. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7300" xml:space="preserve">But if dry weather come again, then <lb/>it fixeth and continueth the corruption of the Air upon the firſt ſhowers <lb/>begun, and maketh it of ill influence even to the next Summer, ex-<lb/>cept a very Froſty Winter diſcharge it, which ſeldom ſucceedeth ſuch <lb/>Droughts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7301" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div869" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0206-03" xlink:href="note-0206-03a" xml:space="preserve">803.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7302" xml:space="preserve">The leſſer Infections of the Small-Pox, Purple Feavers, Agues in the Sum-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0206-04a" xlink:href="note-0206-04"/> mer precedent, and hovering all Winter, do portend a great Peſtilence <lb/>in the Summer following: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7303" xml:space="preserve">For Putrefaction doth not riſe to its height at <lb/>once.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7304" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div870" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0206-04" xlink:href="note-0206-04a" xml:space="preserve">804.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7305" xml:space="preserve">It were good to lay a piece of raw Fleſh or Fiſh in the open Air; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7306" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0206-05a" xlink:href="note-0206-05"/> and if it putrefie quickly, it is a ſign of a diſpoſition in the Air to Pu-<lb/>trefaction. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7307" xml:space="preserve">And becauſe you cannot be informed, whther the Putrefacti-<lb/>on be quick or Iate, except you compare this Experiment with the <lb/>like Experiment in another year; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7308" xml:space="preserve">it were not amifs in the ſame year, <lb/>and at the ſame time, to lay one piece of Fleſh or Fiſh in the open Air, <lb/>and another of the ſame kinde and bigneſs within doors: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7309" xml:space="preserve">For I judge, <lb/>that if a general di poſition be in the Air to putrefie, the Fleſh or Fiſh <lb/>will ſooner putrefie abroad, where the Air hath more power then in the <lb/>Houſe, where it hath leſs, being many ways corrected. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7310" xml:space="preserve">And this Experi-<lb/>ment would be made about the end of March; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7311" xml:space="preserve">for that ſeaſon is likeſt to <lb/>diſcover what the Winter hath done, and what the Summer following will <lb/>do upon the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7312" xml:space="preserve">And becauſe the Air (no doubt) receiveth greattincture <lb/>and infuſion from the Earth, it were good to try that expoſing of Fleſh <pb o="173" file="0207" n="207" rhead="Century IX."/> or Fiſh both upon a Stake of Wood, ſome height above the Earth, and <lb/>upon the flat of the Earth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7313" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div871" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0206-05" xlink:href="note-0206-05a" xml:space="preserve">805.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7314" xml:space="preserve">Take May Dew, and ſee whether it putrefie quickly, or no; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7315" xml:space="preserve">for that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0207-01a" xlink:href="note-0207-01"/> likewiſe may diſcloſe the quality of the Air, and vapor of the Earth, more <lb/>or leſs corrupted.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7316" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div872" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0207-01" xlink:href="note-0207-01a" xml:space="preserve">806.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7317" xml:space="preserve">A dry March, and a dry May, portend a wholeſome Summer, if there be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0207-02a" xlink:href="note-0207-02"/> a ſhowring April between; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7318" xml:space="preserve">but other wiſe it is a ſign of a Peſtilential year.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7319" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div873" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0207-02" xlink:href="note-0207-02a" xml:space="preserve">807.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7320" xml:space="preserve">As the diſcovery of the diſpoſition of the Air is good for the Prognoſticks <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0207-03a" xlink:href="note-0207-03"/> of wholeſome and unwholeſome years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7321" xml:space="preserve">ſo it is of much more uſe for the <lb/>choice of places to dwell in; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7322" xml:space="preserve">at the leaſt for Lodges and Retiring-places for <lb/>Health, (for Manſion Houſes reſpect proviſions as well as health) wherein <lb/>the Experiments above mentioned may ſerve.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7323" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div874" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0207-03" xlink:href="note-0207-03a" xml:space="preserve">808.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7324" xml:space="preserve">But for the choice of Places or Seats, it is good to make tryal, not onely <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0207-04a" xlink:href="note-0207-04"/> of aptneſs of Air to corrupt, but alſo of the moiſture and dryneſs of the <lb/>Air, and the temper of it in heat or cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7325" xml:space="preserve">for that may concern health diverſly. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7326" xml:space="preserve">We ſee that there be ſome Houſes wherein Sweet Meats will relent, and Baked <lb/>Meats will mould, more then in others; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7327" xml:space="preserve">and Wainſcots will alſo ſweat more, ſo <lb/>that they will almoſt run with Water: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7328" xml:space="preserve">All which (no doubt) are caufed chief-<lb/>ly by the moiſtneſs of the Air in thoſe Seats. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7329" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe it is better to know <lb/>it before a Man buildeth his Houſe, then to finde it after, take the Experiments <lb/>following.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7330" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div875" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0207-04" xlink:href="note-0207-04a" xml:space="preserve">809.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7331" xml:space="preserve">Lay Wool, or a Sponge, or Bread in the place you would try, comparing <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0207-05a" xlink:href="note-0207-05"/> it with ſome other places, and ſee whether it doth not moiſten, and make <lb/>the Wool or Sponge, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7332" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7333" xml:space="preserve">more ponderous then the other: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7334" xml:space="preserve">And if it do, you <lb/>may judge of that place, as ſituate in a groſs and moiſt Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7335" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div876" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0207-05" xlink:href="note-0207-05a" xml:space="preserve">810.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7336" xml:space="preserve">Becauſe it is certain that in ſome places<unsure/>, either by the Nature of the Earth, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0207-06a" xlink:href="note-0207-06"/> or by the ſituation of Woods and Hills, the Air is more unequal then in <lb/>others; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7337" xml:space="preserve">and inequality of Air is ever an enemy to health: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7338" xml:space="preserve">It were good to <lb/>take two Weather-Glaſſes, matches in all things, and to ſet them for the ſame <lb/>hours of one day in ſeveral places where no ſhade is nor encloſures, and to <lb/>mark when you ſet them, how far the Water cometh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7339" xml:space="preserve">and to compare them <lb/>when you come again, how the Water ſtandeth then. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7340" xml:space="preserve">And if you finde them <lb/>unequal, you may be ſure, that the place where the Water is loweſt is in the <lb/>warmer Air, and the other in the Colder. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7341" xml:space="preserve">And the greater the inequality is <lb/>of the aſcent or deſcent of the Water, the greater is the inequality of the <lb/>temper of the Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7342" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div877" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0207-06" xlink:href="note-0207-06a" xml:space="preserve">811.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7343" xml:space="preserve">The Predictions likewiſe of cold and long Winters, and hot and dry <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0207-07a" xlink:href="note-0207-07"/> Summers, are good to be known, as well for the diſcovery of the cauſes, <lb/>as for divers Proviſions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7344" xml:space="preserve">That of Plenty of Haws, and Heps, and Bryar-Berries, <lb/>hath been ſpoken of before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7345" xml:space="preserve">If Wainſcot or Stone, that have ufed to ſweat, be <lb/>more dry in the beginning of Winter, or the drops of the Eavs of Houſes <lb/>come more ſlowly down then they uſe, it portendeth a hard and froſty Win-<lb/>ter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7346" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that it ſheweth an inclination of the Air to dry Weather, <lb/>which in Winter is ever joyned with Froſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7347" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div878" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0207-07" xlink:href="note-0207-07a" xml:space="preserve">812.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7348" xml:space="preserve">Generally a moiſt and a cool Summer, portendeth a hard Winter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7349" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0207-08a" xlink:href="note-0207-08"/> cauſe is, for that the vapors of the Earth are not diſſipated in the Summer by <lb/>the Sun; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7350" xml:space="preserve">and ſo they rebound upon the Winter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7351" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div879" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0207-08" xlink:href="note-0207-08a" xml:space="preserve">813.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7352" xml:space="preserve">A hot and dry Summer and Autumn, and efpecially if the heat and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0207-09a" xlink:href="note-0207-09"/> drought extend far into September, portendeth an open beginning of Winter, <lb/>and colds to ſucceed to ward the latter part of the Winter, and the beginning <lb/>of the Spring. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7353" xml:space="preserve">For till then the former heat and drought bear the ſway, and <lb/>the vapors are not ſufficiently multiplied.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7354" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div880" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0207-09" xlink:href="note-0207-09a" xml:space="preserve">814.</note> </div> <pb o="174" file="0208" n="208" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7355" xml:space="preserve">An open and warm Winter portendeth a hot and dry Summer: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7356" xml:space="preserve">For the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0208-01a" xlink:href="note-0208-01"/> Vapors diſperſe into the Winter ſhowers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7357" xml:space="preserve">whereas Cold and Froſt keep-<lb/>eth them in, and tranſporteth them into the late Spring and Summer fol-<lb/>lowing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7358" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div881" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0208-01" xlink:href="note-0208-01a" xml:space="preserve">815.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7359" xml:space="preserve">Birds that uſe to change Countrevs at certain Seaſons, if they come <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0208-02a" xlink:href="note-0208-02"/> earlier, do ſhew the temperature of Weather according to that Countrey <lb/>whence they came: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7360" xml:space="preserve">As the Winter Birds, (namely, Woodcocks, Feldefares &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7361" xml:space="preserve">c.) <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7362" xml:space="preserve">if they come earlier, and out of the Northern Countreys, with us ſhew cold <lb/>Winters. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7363" xml:space="preserve">And if it be in the ſame Countrey, then they ſhew a temperature <lb/>of Seaſon, like unto that Seaſon in which they come; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7364" xml:space="preserve">as Swallows Bats, <lb/>Cucks<unsure/>es, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7365" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7366" xml:space="preserve">that come towards Summer, if they come early, ſhew a hot <lb/>Summer to follow.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7367" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div882" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0208-02" xlink:href="note-0208-02a" xml:space="preserve">816.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7368" xml:space="preserve">The Prognoſticks more immediate of Weather to ſollow ſoon after, are <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0208-03a" xlink:href="note-0208-03"/> more certain then thoſe of Seaſons: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7369" xml:space="preserve">The Reſounding of the Sea upon the <lb/>Shore, and the Murmur of Winds in the Woods, without apparent Wind, <lb/>ſhew Wind to follow. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7370" xml:space="preserve">For ſuch Winds, breathing chiefly out of the Earth, <lb/>are not at the firſt perceived, except they be pent by Water or Wood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7371" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>therefore a Murmur out of Caves like wiſe portendeth as much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7372" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div883" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0208-03" xlink:href="note-0208-03a" xml:space="preserve">817.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7373" xml:space="preserve">The Upper Regions of the Air, perceive the Collection of the matter of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0208-04a" xlink:href="note-0208-04"/> Tempeſt and Winds before the Air here below. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7374" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the obſcuring <lb/>of the ſmaller Stars, is a ſign of Tempeſts following. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7375" xml:space="preserve">And of this kinde you <lb/>ſhall finde a number of inſtances in our Inquiſition de Ventis.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7376" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div884" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0208-04" xlink:href="note-0208-04a" xml:space="preserve">818.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7377" xml:space="preserve">Great Mountains have a Perception of the diſpoſition of the Air to Tem-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0208-05a" xlink:href="note-0208-05"/> peſts ſooner, then the Valleys or Plains below. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7378" xml:space="preserve">And therefore they ſay in VVales, <lb/>VVhen certain Hills have their Night-caps on, they me@n miſchief. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7379" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that <lb/>Tempeſts which are for the moſt part bred above in the Middle Region, (as <lb/>they call it) are ſooneſt perceived to collect in the places next it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7380" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div885" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0208-05" xlink:href="note-0208-05a" xml:space="preserve">819.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7381" xml:space="preserve">The Air and Fire have ſubtil Perceptions of Wind riſing before Men <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0208-06a" xlink:href="note-0208-06"/> finde it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7382" xml:space="preserve">We ſee the trembling of a Candle will diſcover a Wind, that other-<lb/>wiſe we do not feel; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7383" xml:space="preserve">and the Flexious burning of Flames doth ſhew the Air <lb/>beginneth to be unquiet; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7384" xml:space="preserve">and ſo do Coals of fire, by caſting off the aſhes <lb/>more then they uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7385" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that no Wind at the firſt, till it hath <lb/>ſtruck and driven the Air, is apparent to the Senſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7386" xml:space="preserve">but flame is eaſier to <lb/>move then Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7387" xml:space="preserve">And for the Aſhes, it is no marvel though Wind unperceived <lb/>ſhake them off; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7388" xml:space="preserve">for we uſually try which way the Wind bloweth, by caſting <lb/>up Graſs or Chaff, or ſuch light things into the Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7389" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div886" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0208-06" xlink:href="note-0208-06a" xml:space="preserve">820.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7390" xml:space="preserve">When Wind expireth from under the Sea, as it cauſeth ſome reſound-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0208-07a" xlink:href="note-0208-07"/> ings of the Water, (whereof weſpake before) ſo it cauſeth ſome light mo-<lb/>tions of Bubbles, and white Circles of Froth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7391" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the <lb/>Wind cannot be perceived by the Senſe, until there be an Eruption of a great <lb/>quantity from under the Water, and ſo it getteth into a Body, whereas in the <lb/>firſt putting up, it cometh in little portions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7392" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div887" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0208-07" xlink:href="note-0208-07a" xml:space="preserve">821.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7393" xml:space="preserve">We ſpake of the Aſhes that Coals caſt off, and of Graſs and Chaff car-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0208-08a" xlink:href="note-0208-08"/> ried by the Wind; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7394" xml:space="preserve">ſo any light thing that moveth when we find no VVind, <lb/>ſheweth a VVind at hand: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7395" xml:space="preserve">As when Feathers or Down of Thiſtles flie to and <lb/>fro in the Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7396" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div888" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0208-08" xlink:href="note-0208-08a" xml:space="preserve">822.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7397" xml:space="preserve">For Prognoſticks of VVeather from Living Creatures, it is to be noted, That <lb/>Creatures that live in the open Air (ſub dio) muſt needs have a quicker <lb/>impreſſion from the Air, then Men that live moſt within doors; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7398" xml:space="preserve">and eſpe-<lb/>cially Birds who live in the Air freeſt and cleareſt, and are apteſt by their <lb/>voice to tell tales what they finde, and likewiſe by the motion of their <lb/>flight to expreſs the ſame.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7399" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="175" file="0209" n="209" rhead="Century IX."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7400" xml:space="preserve">VVater-fowls (at Sea-Gulls, Moor-Hens, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7401" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7402" xml:space="preserve">when they flock and flie <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0209-01a" xlink:href="note-0209-01"/> together from the Sea to wards the Shores; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7403" xml:space="preserve">and contrariwiſe Land Birds, (as <lb/>Crows Swallows, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7404" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7405" xml:space="preserve">when they flie from the Land to the VVaters, and beat <lb/>the VVaters with their VVings, do foreſhew Rain and VVind. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7406" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, <lb/>Pleaſure that both kindes take in the moiſtneſs and denſity of the Air, <lb/>and ſo deſire to be in motion, and upon the VVing, whither-ſoever they <lb/>would otherwiſe go: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7407" xml:space="preserve">For it is no marvel that VVater fowl do joy moſt <lb/>in that Air which is likeſt VVaters; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7408" xml:space="preserve">and Land Birds alſo (many of them) <lb/>delight in Bathing and moiſt Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7409" xml:space="preserve">For the ſame reaſon alſo, many Birds do <lb/>prune their Feathers, and Geeſe do gaggle, and Crows ſeem to call upon <lb/>Rain. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7410" xml:space="preserve">All which is but the comfort they ſeem to receive in the relenting of <lb/>the Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7411" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div889" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0209-01" xlink:href="note-0209-01a" xml:space="preserve">823.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7412" xml:space="preserve">The Heron when ſhe ſoareth high, (ſo as ſometimes ſhe is ſeen to paſs <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0209-02a" xlink:href="note-0209-02"/> over a Cloud) ſheweth VVinds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7413" xml:space="preserve">But Kites flying alofr, ſhew fair and dry <lb/>weather. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7414" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that they both mount moſt into the Air of <lb/>that temper wherein they delight, And the Heron, being a VVater-fowl, <lb/>taketh pleaſure in the Air that is condenſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7415" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, being but heavy <lb/>of VVing, needeth the help of the groſſer Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7416" xml:space="preserve">But the Kite afſecteth not <lb/>ſo much the groſſneſ, of the Air, as the cold and ſreſhneſs thereoſ; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7417" xml:space="preserve">for be-<lb/>ing a Bird of Prey, and therefore hot, ſhe delighteth in the freſh Air, and <lb/>(many times) flieth againſt the VVind; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7418" xml:space="preserve">as Trouts and Salmons ſwim againſt <lb/>the ſtream. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7419" xml:space="preserve">And yet it is true alſo, that all Birds finde an eaſe in the depth <lb/>of the Air, as Swimmers do in a deep VVater. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7420" xml:space="preserve">And therefore when they are <lb/>alſo, they can uphold themſelves with their VVings ſpred, ſcarce moving <lb/>them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7421" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div890" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0209-02" xlink:href="note-0209-02a" xml:space="preserve">824.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7422" xml:space="preserve">Fiſhes when they play to wards the top of the VVater, do commonly <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0209-03a" xlink:href="note-0209-03"/> foretel Rain. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7423" xml:space="preserve">The cauſeis, for that a Fiſh hating the dry, will not approach <lb/>the Air till it groweth moiſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7424" xml:space="preserve">and when it is dry will fl@e it, and ſwim <lb/>lower.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7425" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div891" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0209-03" xlink:href="note-0209-03a" xml:space="preserve">825.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7426" xml:space="preserve">Beasts do take comfort (generally) in a moiſt Air, and it maketh them <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0209-04a" xlink:href="note-0209-04"/> eat their Meat better; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7427" xml:space="preserve">and therefore Sheep will get up betimes in the <lb/>morning to ſeed againſt Rain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7428" xml:space="preserve">and Cattle, and Deer, and Coneys will feed <lb/>hard before Rain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7429" xml:space="preserve">and a Heifer will put up his Noſe, and ſnuff in the Air <lb/>againſt Rain.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7430" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div892" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0209-04" xlink:href="note-0209-04a" xml:space="preserve">826.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7431" xml:space="preserve">The Trifoil againſt Rain, fwelleth in the Stalk, and ſo ſtandeth more <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0209-05a" xlink:href="note-0209-05"/> uprig@t; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7432" xml:space="preserve">for by wet, Stalks do erect, and Leaves bow down. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7433" xml:space="preserve">There is a <lb/>ſmall Red Flower in the Stubble fields, which Countrey people call the <lb/>VVincopipe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7434" xml:space="preserve">which, if it open in the Morning, you may be ſure of a fair day <lb/>to follow.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7435" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div893" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0209-05" xlink:href="note-0209-05a" xml:space="preserve">827.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7436" xml:space="preserve">Even in Meu, Aches, and Hurts, and Corns, do engrieve either to wards <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0209-06a" xlink:href="note-0209-06"/> Rain, or towards Froſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7437" xml:space="preserve">for the one maketh the Humors more to abound, <lb/>and the other maketh them ſharper. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7438" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee both extreams bring the <lb/>Gout.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7439" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div894" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0209-06" xlink:href="note-0209-06a" xml:space="preserve">828.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7440" xml:space="preserve">VVorms, Vermine, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7441" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7442" xml:space="preserve">do ſoreſhew (likewiſe) Rain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7443" xml:space="preserve">for Earth-Worms <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0209-07a" xlink:href="note-0209-07"/> will come forth, and Moles will caſt up more, and Fleas bite more againſt <lb/>Rain.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7444" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div895" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0209-07" xlink:href="note-0209-07a" xml:space="preserve">829.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7445" xml:space="preserve">Solid Bodies likewiſe foreſhew Rain: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7446" xml:space="preserve">As Stones and Wainſcot when <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0209-08a" xlink:href="note-0209-08"/> they ſweat, and Boxes and Pegs of Wood when they draw and wind hard; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7447" xml:space="preserve">though the former be but from an outward cauſe, for that the Stone or <lb/>Wainſcot turneth and beateth back the Air againſt it ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7448" xml:space="preserve">but the latter is an <lb/>in ward ſwelling of the Body of the VVood it ſelf.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7449" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div896" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0209-08" xlink:href="note-0209-08a" xml:space="preserve">830.</note> </div> <pb o="176" file="0210" n="210" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7450" xml:space="preserve">APpetite is moved chiefly by things that are cold and dry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7451" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0210-01a" xlink:href="note-0210-01"/> for that Cold is a kinde of indigence of Nature, and calleth upon ſupply, <lb/>and ſo is Dryneſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7452" xml:space="preserve">And therefore all ſour things (as Vinegar, Juyce of Lemmons, <lb/>Oyl of Vitriol, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7453" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7454" xml:space="preserve">provoke Appetite. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7455" xml:space="preserve">And the Diſeaſe which they call <lb/>Appetitus Caninus, conſiſteth in the Matter of an Acide and Glaſſie Phlegm <lb/>in the Mouth of the Stomack. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7456" xml:space="preserve">Appetite is alſo moved by ſour things, for <lb/>that ſour things induce a contraction in the Nerves, placed in the Mouth of <lb/>the Stomack, which is a great cauſe of Appetite. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7457" xml:space="preserve">As for the cauſe why Oni-<lb/>ons, and Salt, and Pepper in Baked Meats move Appetite, it is by Vellication <lb/>of thoſe Nerves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7458" xml:space="preserve">for Motion whetteth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7459" xml:space="preserve">As for Wormwood, Olives, Capers, and <lb/>others of that kinde, which participate of Bitterneſs, they move Appetite <lb/>by Abſterſion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7460" xml:space="preserve">So as there be four principal cauſes of Appetite; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7461" xml:space="preserve">the Reſri-<lb/>geration of the Stomack joyned with ſome Dryneſs, Contraction, Vellicati-<lb/>on, and Abſterſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7462" xml:space="preserve">beſides Hunger, which is an emptineſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7463" xml:space="preserve">and yet over-<lb/>faſting doth (many times) cauſe the Appetite to ceaſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7464" xml:space="preserve">for that want of Meat <lb/>maketh the Stomack draw Humors, and ſuch Humors as are light and Cho-<lb/>lerick, which quench Appetite moſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7465" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div897" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0210-01" xlink:href="note-0210-01a" xml:space="preserve">831. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Nature of <lb/>Appetite in <lb/>the Stomack.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7466" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been obſerved by the Ancients, that where a Rainbow ſeemeth to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0210-02a" xlink:href="note-0210-02"/> hang over, or to touch, there breatheth forth a ſweet ſmell. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7467" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, <lb/>for that this happeneth but in certain matters which have in themſelves ſome <lb/>Sweetneſs, which the gentle Dew of the Rainbow doth draw forth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7468" xml:space="preserve">and the <lb/>like do ſoft Showers, for they alſo make the Ground ſweet: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7469" xml:space="preserve">But none are ſo <lb/>delicate as the Dew of the Rainbow where it falleth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7470" xml:space="preserve">It may be alſo, that the <lb/>Water it ſelf hath ſome Sweetneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7471" xml:space="preserve">for the Rainbow conſiſteth of a Glomera-<lb/>tion of ſmall drops, which cannot poſſibly fall but from the Air that is <lb/>very low, and therefore may hold the very Sweetneſs of the Herbs and <lb/>Flowers as a Diſtilled Water: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7472" xml:space="preserve">For Rain and other Dew that fall from high <lb/>cannot preſerve the ſmell, being diſſipated in the drawing up; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7473" xml:space="preserve">neither do we <lb/>know, whether ſome Water it lelf<unsure/> may not have ſome degree of Sweetneſs. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7474" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that we finde it ſenſibly in no Pool, River, nor Fountain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7475" xml:space="preserve">but good <lb/>Earth newly turned up, hath a freſhneſs and good ſent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7476" xml:space="preserve">which Water, iſ it be <lb/>not too equal, (for equal objects never move the Senſe) may alſo have. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7477" xml:space="preserve">Cer-<lb/>tain it is, that Bayſalt, which is but a kinde of Water congealed, will ſome-<lb/>times ſmell like Violets.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7478" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div898" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0210-02" xlink:href="note-0210-02a" xml:space="preserve">832. <lb/>Expetiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Sweetneß of <lb/>Odor from the <lb/>Rainbow.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7479" xml:space="preserve">TO ſweet Smells, heat is requiſite to concoct the Matter, and ſome Moy-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0210-03a" xlink:href="note-0210-03"/> ſture to ſpred the Breath of them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7480" xml:space="preserve">For heat, we ſeethat Woods and Spi-<lb/>ces are more odorate in the Hot Countreys, then in the Cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7481" xml:space="preserve">For Moiſture, <lb/>we ſee that things too much dryed loſe their Sweetneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7482" xml:space="preserve">and Flowers grow-<lb/>ing ſmell better in a Morning or Evening, then at Noon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7483" xml:space="preserve">Some ſweet ſmells <lb/>are deſtroyed by approach to the Fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7484" xml:space="preserve">as Violets, Wall-flowers, Gilliflowers, Pinks, <lb/>and generally all Flowers that have cool and delicate Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7485" xml:space="preserve">Some continue <lb/>both on the fire, and from the fire, as Roſe-Water, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7486" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7487" xml:space="preserve">Some do fcarce come <lb/>forth, or at leaſt not ſo pleaſantly, as by means of the fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7488" xml:space="preserve">as Juniper, Sweet <lb/>Gums, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7489" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7490" xml:space="preserve">and all ſmells that are encloſed in a faſt Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7491" xml:space="preserve">but (generally) <lb/>thoſe ſmells are the moſt grateful where the degree of heat is ſmall, or where <lb/>the ſtrength of the ſmell is allayed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7492" xml:space="preserve">for theſe things do rather wo the Senſe, <lb/>then ſatiate it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7493" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the ſmell of Violets and Roſes exceedeth in ſweet-<lb/>neſs that of Spices; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7494" xml:space="preserve">and Gums, and the ſtrongeſt ſort of ſmells, are beſt in a <lb/>weft afar off.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7495" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div899" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0210-03" xlink:href="note-0210-03a" xml:space="preserve">833. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Sweet Smells.</note> </div> <pb o="177" file="0211" n="211" rhead="Century IX."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7496" xml:space="preserve">IT is certain, that no ſmell iſſueth but w<unsure/>th emiſſion of ſome corporeal ſub-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0211-01a" xlink:href="note-0211-01"/> ſtance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7497" xml:space="preserve">not as it is in Light, and Colours, and Sounds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7498" xml:space="preserve">For weſee plainly <lb/>that ſmell doth ſpred nothing that diſtance that the other do. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7499" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that <lb/>ſome Woods of Orenges, and Heaths of Roſemary, will ſmell a great way into <lb/>the Sea, perhaps twenty Miles; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7500" xml:space="preserve">but what is that, ſince a peal of Ordnance <lb/>will do as much, which moveth in a ſmall compaſs, whereas thoſe Woods <lb/>and Heaths are of vaſt ſpaces? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7501" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, we ſee that ſmells do adhere to hard <lb/>Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7502" xml:space="preserve">as in perfuming of Gloves, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7503" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7504" xml:space="preserve">which ſheweth them corporeal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7505" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>do laſt a great while, which Sounds and Light do not.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7506" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div900" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0211-01" xlink:href="note-0211-01a" xml:space="preserve">834. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Corporeal <lb/>Subſtance of <lb/>Smells.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7507" xml:space="preserve">THe Excrements of moſt Creatures ſmell ill, chiefly to the ſame Creature <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0211-02a" xlink:href="note-0211-02"/> that voideth them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7508" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee, beſides that of Man, that Pigeons and <lb/>Hoiſes thrive beſt, if their Houſes and Stables be kept ſweet, and ſo of Cage-<lb/>Birds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7509" xml:space="preserve">and the Cat burieth that which ſhe voideth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7510" xml:space="preserve">And it holdeth chieſly in <lb/>thoſe Beaſts which feed upon Fleſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7511" xml:space="preserve">Dogs (almoſt) onely of Beaſts delight in <lb/>fetide odors; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7512" xml:space="preserve">which ſheweth there is ſome what in their ſenſe of ſmell differ-<lb/>ing from the ſmells of other Beaſts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7513" xml:space="preserve">But the cauſe why Excrements ſmell ill is <lb/>manifeſt, for that the Body it ſelf rejecteth them, much more the Spirits: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7514" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee, that thoſe Excrements that are of the firſt digeſtion ſmell the worſt, <lb/>as the Excrements from the Belly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7515" xml:space="preserve">thoſe that are from the ſecond digeſtion, leſs <lb/>ill, as Vrine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7516" xml:space="preserve">and thoſe that are from the third, yet leſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7517" xml:space="preserve">for Sweat is not ſo <lb/>bad as the other two, eſpecially of ſome perſons that are full of heat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7518" xml:space="preserve">Like-<lb/>wiſe moſt Putrefactions are of an odious ſmell, for they ſmell either fertile or <lb/>mouldy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7519" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that Putrefaction doth bring forth ſuch a <lb/>conſiſtence as is moſt contrary to the conſiſtence of the Body whileſt it is <lb/>ſound, for it is a meer diſſolution of that form. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7520" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, there is another rea-<lb/>ſor, which is profound: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7521" xml:space="preserve">And it is, That the objects that pleaſe any of the <lb/>ſenſes, have (all) ſome equality, and (as it were) order in their compoſition, <lb/>but where thoſe are wanting the object is ever ingrate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7522" xml:space="preserve">So mixture of many <lb/>diſagreeing colours is never unpleaſant to the Eye: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7523" xml:space="preserve">Mixture of diſcordant <lb/>Sounds is unpleaſant to the Ear; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7524" xml:space="preserve">mixture or hotch-potch of many taſtes is <lb/>unpleaſant to the taſte; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7525" xml:space="preserve">harſhneſs and ruggedneſs of Bodies is unpleaſant to <lb/>the touch. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7526" xml:space="preserve">Now it is certain, that all Putrefaction, being a diſſolution of the <lb/>firſt form, is a meer confuſion, and unformed mixture of the part. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7527" xml:space="preserve">Never-<lb/>theleſs, it is ſtrange, and ſeemeth to croſs the former obſervation, that ſome <lb/>Putrefactions and Excrements do yield excellent Odors; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7528" xml:space="preserve">as Civit and Mus<unsure/>k, and, <lb/>as ſome think, Amber-greece, for divers take it (though unprobably) to come <lb/>from the Sperm of Fi<unsure/>ſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7529" xml:space="preserve">and the Moſs we ſpake of from Apple-trees is little <lb/>better then an Excretion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7530" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon may be, for that there paſſeth in the <lb/>Excrements and remaineth in the Putrefactions, ſome good ſpirits, eſpecially <lb/>where they proceed from Creatures that are very hot. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7531" xml:space="preserve">But it may be alſo <lb/>joyned with a further cauſe, which is more ſubtil; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7532" xml:space="preserve">and it is, that the Senſes <lb/>love not to be over-pleaſed, but to have a commixture of ſome what that is <lb/>in it ſelf ingrate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7533" xml:space="preserve">Certainly, we ſee how Diſcords in Muſick, falling upon <lb/>Concords, make the ſweeteſt ſtrains: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7534" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee again what ſtrange taſtes <lb/>delight the taſte; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7535" xml:space="preserve">as Red-herrings, Caviare, Parmeſan, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7536" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7537" xml:space="preserve">And it may be the <lb/>ſame holdeth in ſmells. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7538" xml:space="preserve">For thoſe kinde of ſmells that we have mentioned <lb/>are all ſtrong, and do pull and vellicate the Senſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7539" xml:space="preserve">And we finde alſo, that <lb/>places where men Urine commonly have ſome ſmell of Violers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7540" xml:space="preserve">And Urine, <lb/>if one hath eaten Nutmeg, hath ſotoo.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7541" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div901" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0211-02" xlink:href="note-0211-02a" xml:space="preserve">835. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Fetide and <lb/>Fragrant O-<lb/>dors.</note> </div> <pb o="178" file="0212" n="212" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7542" xml:space="preserve">The ſlothful, general, and indefinite Contemplations and Notions of <lb/>the Elements, and their Conjugations of the Influences of Heaven, of Hot, <lb/>Cold, Moiſture, Drought, Qualities Active, Paßive. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7543" xml:space="preserve">and the like, have ſwallow-<lb/>ed up the true Paſſages, and Proceſſes, and Affects, and Conſiſtencies of Matter, and <lb/>Natural Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7544" xml:space="preserve">Therefore they are to be ſet aſide, being but notional, and ill <lb/>limited; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7545" xml:space="preserve">and definite axioms are to be drawn out of meaſured inſtances, <lb/>and ſo aſſent to be made to the more general axioms by Scale. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7546" xml:space="preserve">And of theſe <lb/>kindes of Proceſſes of Nature, and Characters of Matter, we will now ſet down <lb/>ſome inſtances.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7547" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7548" xml:space="preserve">ALl Putrefactions come chiefly from the inward Spirits of the Body, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0212-01a" xlink:href="note-0212-01"/> and partly alſo from the Ambient Body, be it Air, Liquor, or what-<lb/>ſoeverelſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7549" xml:space="preserve">And this laſt, by two means; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7550" xml:space="preserve">either by ingreſs of the ſubſtance <lb/>of the Ambient Body into the Body putrefied, or by excitation and ſolici-<lb/>tation of the Body putrefied, and the parts there of, by the Body Ambient. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7551" xml:space="preserve">As for the received opinion, that Putrefaction is cauſed either by Cold, or <lb/>Peregrine and Preternatural He<unsure/>at, it is but nugation: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7552" xml:space="preserve">For Cold in things <lb/>inanimate, is the greateſt enemy that is to Putrefaction, though it extin-<lb/>guiſheth Vivification, which ever conſiſteth in Spirits attenuate, which the <lb/>Cold doth congeal and coagulate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7553" xml:space="preserve">And as for the Peregrine head, it is thus <lb/>far true, That it the proportion of the Adventive heat, be greatly predomi-<lb/>nant to the Natural heat, and Spirits of the Body, it tendeth to diſſolution, or <lb/>notable alteration. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7554" xml:space="preserve">But this is wrought by Emiſſion, or Suppreſſion, or <lb/>Suffocation of the Native Spirits, and alſo by the Diſordination and Diſ-<lb/>compoſure of the Tangible parts, and other paſſages of Nature, and not <lb/>by a conflict of Heats.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7555" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div902" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0212-01" xlink:href="note-0212-01a" xml:space="preserve">836. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Cauſes of Pu-<lb/>trefaction.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7556" xml:space="preserve">IN verſions or main Alterations of Bodies, there is a Medium between the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0212-02a" xlink:href="note-0212-02"/> Body, as it is at firſt, and the Body reſulting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7557" xml:space="preserve">which Medium is Corpus im-<lb/>perfectè Miſtum, and is tranſitory, and not durable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7558" xml:space="preserve">as Miſts, Smoaks Vapors, <lb/>Chylus in the Stomack, Living Creatures in the firſt Vivification; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7559" xml:space="preserve">and the middle <lb/>action which producc<unsure/>th ſuch Imperfect Bodies, is fitly called (by ſome of the <lb/>Ancients) Inquination or Inconcoction, which is a kinde of Putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7560" xml:space="preserve">for the <lb/>parts are in confuſion till they ſettle one way or other.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7561" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div903" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0212-02" xlink:href="note-0212-02a" xml:space="preserve">837. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Bodies unper-<lb/>fectly mixt.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7562" xml:space="preserve">THe word Concoction or Digeſtion, is chiefly taken into uſe from Living <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0212-03a" xlink:href="note-0212-03"/> Creatures, and their Organs, and from thence extended to Liquors <lb/>and Fruits, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7563" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7564" xml:space="preserve">Therefore they ſpeak of Meat concocted, Urine and Excre-<lb/>ments concocted; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7565" xml:space="preserve">and the Four Digeſtions (in the Stomack, in the Liver, in <lb/>the Arteries and Nerves, and in the ſeveral parts of the Body) are likewiſe <lb/>called Concoctions, and they are all made to be the works of Heat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7566" xml:space="preserve">All which <lb/>notions are but ignorant catches of a few things, which are moſt obvious <lb/>to Mens obſervations. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7567" xml:space="preserve">The conſtanteſt notion of Concoction is, that it ſhould <lb/>ſignifie the degrees of alteration of one Body into another, from Crudity to <lb/>Perfect Concoction, which is the ultimity of that action or proceſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7568" xml:space="preserve">And while <lb/>the Body to be converted and altered is too ſtrong for the efficient that <lb/>ſhould convert or alter it, (whereby it reſiſteth, and holdeth faſt in ſome <lb/>degree the firſt Form or Conſiſtence) it is (all that while) Crude and <lb/>Inconcoct, and the Proceſs is to be called Crudity and Inconcoction. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7569" xml:space="preserve">It is true, <lb/>that Concoction is in great part the work of Heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7570" xml:space="preserve">but not the work of Heat <lb/>alone: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7571" xml:space="preserve">For all things that further the Converſion or Alteration (as Reſt, <lb/>Mixture of a Body already concocted, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7572" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7573" xml:space="preserve">are alſo means to Concoction. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7574" xml:space="preserve">And <pb o="179" file="0213" n="213" rhead="Century IX."/> there are of Concoction two Periods; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7575" xml:space="preserve">the one Aſſimilation, or abſolute <lb/>Converſion and Subaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7576" xml:space="preserve">the other Maturation: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7577" xml:space="preserve">Whereof, the ſormer is <lb/>moſt conſpicuous in the Bodies of Living Creatures, in which there is an Abſolute <lb/>Converſion and Aßimilation of the Nourishment into the Body, and likewiſe in <lb/>the Bodies of Plants; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7578" xml:space="preserve">and again, in Metals, where there is a full Tranſmu-<lb/>tation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7579" xml:space="preserve">The other (which is Maturation) is ſeen in Liquors and Fruits; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7580" xml:space="preserve">wherein there is not defired, nor pretended, an utter Converſion, but onely <lb/>an Alteration to that Form which is moſt ſought for Mans uſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7581" xml:space="preserve">as in Clari-<lb/>fying of Drinks, Ripening of Fruits, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7582" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7583" xml:space="preserve">But note, that there be two kindes <lb/>of Abſolute Converſions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7584" xml:space="preserve">The one is, when a Body is converted into another <lb/>Body which was before; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7585" xml:space="preserve">as when Nouriſhment is turned into Fleſh: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7586" xml:space="preserve">That is <lb/>it which we call Aßimilation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7587" xml:space="preserve">The otheris, when the Converſion is into a Body <lb/>meerly new, and which was not before; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7588" xml:space="preserve">as if Silver ſhould be turned to <lb/>Gold, or Iron to Copper. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7589" xml:space="preserve">And this Converſion is better called, by diſtinction ſake, <lb/>Tranſmutation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7590" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div904" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0212-03" xlink:href="note-0212-03a" xml:space="preserve">838. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Concoction and <lb/>Crudity.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7591" xml:space="preserve">THere are alſo divers other great alterations of Matter and Bodies, be-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0213-01a" xlink:href="note-0213-01"/> ſides thoſe that tend to Concoction and Maturation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7592" xml:space="preserve">for whatſoever doth <lb/>ſo alter a Body, as it returneth not again to that it was, may be called Alte-<lb/>ratio Major: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7593" xml:space="preserve">As when Meat is Boiled, or Roſted, or Fried, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7594" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7595" xml:space="preserve">or when <lb/>Bread and Meat are Baked; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7596" xml:space="preserve">or when Cheeſe is made of Curds, or Butter <lb/>of Cream, or Coals of Wood, or Bricks of Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7597" xml:space="preserve">and a number of others. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7598" xml:space="preserve">But to apply Notions Philoſophical to Plebeian Terms; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7599" xml:space="preserve">or to ſay, where the No-<lb/>tions cannot fitly be reconciled, that there wanteth a Term or Nomenclature for <lb/>it, (as the Ancients uſed) they be but ſhifts of Ignorance: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7600" xml:space="preserve">For Knowledge will <lb/>be ever a Wandring and Indigeſted thing, if it be but a commixture of a few <lb/>Notions that are at hand, and occur, and not excited from ſufficient number <lb/>of inſtances, and thoſe well collated.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7601" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div905" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0213-01" xlink:href="note-0213-01a" xml:space="preserve">839. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Alterations <lb/>which may be <lb/>called Majors.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7602" xml:space="preserve">The Conſiſtencies of Bodies are very divers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7603" xml:space="preserve">Denſe, Rare, Tangible, Pneu-<lb/>matical; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7604" xml:space="preserve">Volatile, Fixed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7605" xml:space="preserve">Determinate, not Determinate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7606" xml:space="preserve">Hard, Soft; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7607" xml:space="preserve">Cleaving, <lb/>not Cleaving; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7608" xml:space="preserve">Congelable, not Congelable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7609" xml:space="preserve">Liquefiable, not Liquefiable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7610" xml:space="preserve">Fragile, <lb/>Tough; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7611" xml:space="preserve">Flexihle, Inflexible; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7612" xml:space="preserve">Tractile, or to be drawn forth in length, Intractile; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7613" xml:space="preserve">Porous, Solide; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7614" xml:space="preserve">Equal and Smooth, Vnequal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7615" xml:space="preserve">Venous and Fibrous, and with Grains, <lb/>Entire, and divers others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7616" xml:space="preserve">All which to refer to Heat and Cold, and Moiſture <lb/>and Drought, is a Compendious and Inutile Speculation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7617" xml:space="preserve">But of theſe ſee prin-<lb/>cipally our Abecedarium Nature, and otherwife ſparſum in this our Sylva Syl-<lb/>varum. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7618" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs, in ſome good part, we ſhall handle divers of them <lb/>now preſently.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7619" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7620" xml:space="preserve">LIquefiable and not Liquefiable proceed from theſecauſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7621" xml:space="preserve">Liquefaction is ever <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0213-02a" xlink:href="note-0213-02"/> cauled by the Detention of the Spirits, which play within the Body, <lb/>and open it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7622" xml:space="preserve">Therefore ſuch Bodies as are more Turgid of Spirit, or that <lb/>have their Spirits more ſtreightly impriſoned, or again, that hold them bet-<lb/>ter pleaſed and co<unsure/>ntent, are Liquefiable: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7623" xml:space="preserve">For theſe three Diſpoſitions of Bodies <lb/>do arreſt the Emiſſion of the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7624" xml:space="preserve">An example of the firſt two Properties <lb/>is in Metals, and of the laſt in Greaſe, Pitch, Sulphur, Butter, Wax, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7625" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7626" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>Diſpoſition not to Liquefie, proceedeth from the eaſie Emiſſion of the <lb/>Spirits, whereby the groſſer parts contract; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7627" xml:space="preserve">and therefore Bodies jejune of <lb/>Spirits, or which part with their Spirits more willingly, are not Liquefiable; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7628" xml:space="preserve">as Wood, Clay, Freeſtone, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7629" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7630" xml:space="preserve">But yet even many of thoſe Bodies that will <lb/>not melt, or will hardly melt, will notwithſtanding ſoften; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7631" xml:space="preserve">as Iron in the <pb o="180" file="0214" n="214" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> Forge, and a Stick bathed in hot Aſhes, which thereby becometh more <lb/>Flexible. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7632" xml:space="preserve">Moreover, there are ſome Bodies which do Liquefie or diſſolve by <lb/>Fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7633" xml:space="preserve">as Metals, Wax, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7634" xml:space="preserve">c, and other Bodies which diſſolve in Water, as <lb/>Salt, Sugar, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7635" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7636" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the former proceedeth from the Dilatation of <lb/>the Spirits by Heat: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7637" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the latter proceedeth from the opening <lb/>of the Tangible Parts, which deſire to receive the Liquor. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7638" xml:space="preserve">Again, there are <lb/>ſome Bodies that diſſolve with both; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7639" xml:space="preserve">as Gum, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7640" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7641" xml:space="preserve">And thoſe be ſuch Bodies <lb/>as on the one ſide have good ſtore of Spirit, and on the other ſide have the <lb/>Tangible parts indigent of Moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7642" xml:space="preserve">for the former helpeth to the dilating <lb/>of the Spirits by the Fire, and the latter ſtimulateth the parts to receive the <lb/>Liquor.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7643" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div906" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0213-02" xlink:href="note-0213-02a" xml:space="preserve">840. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Bodies Lique-<lb/>fiable, and not <lb/>Liquefiable.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7644" xml:space="preserve">OF Bodies ſome are Fragile, and ſome are Tough and not Fragile; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7645" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0214-01a" xlink:href="note-0214-01"/> in the breaking, ſome Fragile Bodies break but where the forceis, ſome <lb/>ſhatter and flie in many pieces. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7646" xml:space="preserve">Of Fragility, the cauſe is an impotency to <lb/>be extended; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7647" xml:space="preserve">and therefore Stone is more Fragile then Metal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7648" xml:space="preserve">and ſo Fictile <lb/>Earth is more Fragile then Crude Earth, and Dry Wood then Green. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7649" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>the cauſe of this unaptneſs to Extenſion, is the ſmall quantity of Spirits (for it <lb/>is the Spirit that furthereth the Extenſion or Dilatation of Bodies;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7650" xml:space="preserve">and it <lb/>is ever concomitant with Poroſity, and with Drineſs in the Tangible parts. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7651" xml:space="preserve">Contrariwiſe, Tough Bodies have more Spirits, and fewer Pores, and <lb/>Moiſter Tangible parts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7652" xml:space="preserve">Therefore we ſee, that Parchment or Lea-<lb/>ther will ſtretch, Paper will not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7653" xml:space="preserve">Woollen-Cloth will tenter, Linnen <lb/>ſcarcely.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7654" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div907" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0214-01" xlink:href="note-0214-01a" xml:space="preserve">841. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Bodies Fragile <lb/>and Tough.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7655" xml:space="preserve">ALL ſolid Bodies conſiſt of Parts of two ſeveral Natures; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7656" xml:space="preserve">Pneumatical, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0214-02a" xlink:href="note-0214-02"/> and Tangible: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7657" xml:space="preserve">And it is well to be noted, that the Pneumatical Subſtance <lb/>is in ſome Bodies, the Native Spirit of the Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7658" xml:space="preserve">and in ſome other, <lb/>plain Air that is gotten in; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7659" xml:space="preserve">as in Bodies deſiccate, by Heat, or Age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7660" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>in them, when the Native Spirit goeth forth, and the Moiſture with it, the <lb/>Air with time getteth into the Pores. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7661" xml:space="preserve">And thoſe Bodies are ever the more <lb/>Fragile; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7662" xml:space="preserve">for the Native Spirit is more Yielding and Extenſive (eſpecial-<lb/>ly to follow the Parts) than Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7663" xml:space="preserve">The Native Spirits alſo admit great <lb/>diverſity, as Hot, Cold, Active, Dull, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7664" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7665" xml:space="preserve">Whence proceed moſt of <lb/>the Vertues, and Qualities (as we call them) of Bodies: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7666" xml:space="preserve">But the Air in-<lb/>termixt, is without Vertues, and maketh things inſipid, and without any <lb/>extimulat<unsure/>ion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7667" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div908" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0214-02" xlink:href="note-0214-02a" xml:space="preserve">842. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Two kindes of <lb/>Pneumaticals <lb/>in Bodies.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7668" xml:space="preserve">THe Concretion of Bodies is (commonly) ſolved by the contrary; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7669" xml:space="preserve">as Ice, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0214-03a" xlink:href="note-0214-03"/> which is congealed by Cold, is diſſolved by Heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7670" xml:space="preserve">Salt and Sugar, <lb/>which are excocted by Heat, are diſſolved by Cold and Moiſture. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7671" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>cauſe is, for thattheſe operations are rat<unsure/>her returns to their former Nature, <lb/>than alterations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7672" xml:space="preserve">ſo that the contrary cureth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7673" xml:space="preserve">As for Oyl, it doth neither <lb/>eaſily congeal with Cold, nor thicken with Heat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7674" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of both Effects, <lb/>though they be produced by contrary efficients ſeemeth to be the ſame; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7675" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>that is, becauſe the Spirit of the Oyl, by either means, exhaleth little: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7676" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>the Cold keepeth it in, and the Heat (except it be vehement) doth not call <lb/>it forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7677" xml:space="preserve">As for Cold, though it take hold of the Tangible Parts, yet as to the <lb/>Spirits, it doth rather make them ſwell, than congealthem: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7678" xml:space="preserve">As when Ice <lb/>is congealed in a Cup, the Ice will ſwell inſtead of contracting, and ſome-<lb/>times rift.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7679" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div909" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0214-03" xlink:href="note-0214-03a" xml:space="preserve">843. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Concretion and <lb/>Diſſolation of <lb/>Bodies.</note> </div> <pb o="181" file="0215" n="215" rhead="Century IX."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7680" xml:space="preserve">OF Bodies, ſome (weſee) are hard, and ſome ſoft: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7681" xml:space="preserve">The hardneſsis cauſed <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0215-01a" xlink:href="note-0215-01"/> (chiefly) by the Jejuneneſs of the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7682" xml:space="preserve">and their imparity with the <lb/>Tangible parts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7683" xml:space="preserve">Both which, if they be in a greater degree, maketh them <lb/>not onely hard, but fragile, and leſs enduring of preſſure; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7684" xml:space="preserve">as Steet, Stone, Glaß, <lb/>Dry Wood, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7685" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7686" xml:space="preserve">Softneſs cometh (contrariwiſe) by the greater quantity of <lb/>Spirits, (which ever helpeth to induce yielding and ceſſion;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7687" xml:space="preserve">and by the <lb/>more equal ſpreding of the Tangible parts, which thereby are more ſliding, <lb/>and following; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7688" xml:space="preserve">as in Gold, Lead, Wax, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7689" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7690" xml:space="preserve">But note, that ſoft Bodies (as we <lb/>uſe the word) are of two kindes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7691" xml:space="preserve">the one, that eaſily giveth place to an-<lb/>other Body, but altereth not Bulk by riſing in other places; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7692" xml:space="preserve">and therefore we <lb/>ſee that Wax, if you put any thing into it<unsure/>, doth not riſe in Bulk, but onely <lb/>giveth place: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7693" xml:space="preserve">For you may not think, that in Printing of Wax, the Wax riſeth <lb/>up at all; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7694" xml:space="preserve">but onely the depreſſed part giveth place, and the other remaineth <lb/>as it was. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7695" xml:space="preserve">The other that altereth Bulk in the Ceſſion, as Water, or other <lb/>Liquors, if you put a Stone, or any thing into them, they give place (in-<lb/>deed) eaſily, but then they riſe all over; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7696" xml:space="preserve">which is a falſe Ceſſion, for it is in <lb/>place, and not in Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7697" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div910" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0215-01" xlink:href="note-0215-01a" xml:space="preserve">844. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Hard and <lb/>Soft Bodies.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7698" xml:space="preserve">ALl Bodies Ductile, and Tenſile, (as Metals) that will be drawn into Wires; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7699" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0215-02a" xlink:href="note-0215-02"/> Wool, and Tow that will be drawn into Yarn or Thred; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7700" xml:space="preserve">have in them <lb/>the Appetite of Not diſcontinuing, ſtrong; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7701" xml:space="preserve">which maketh them follow the <lb/>force that pulleth them out; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7702" xml:space="preserve">and yet ſo, as not diſcontinue or forſake their <lb/>own Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7703" xml:space="preserve">Viſcous Bodies (likewiſe) as Pitch, VVax, Birdlime, Cheeſe toaſted, <lb/>will draw forth and roap. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7704" xml:space="preserve">But the difference between Bodies fibrous, and <lb/>Bodies viſcous, is plain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7705" xml:space="preserve">For all Wooll, and Tow, and Cotton, and Silk <lb/>(eſpecially raw Silk) have, beſides their deſire of continuance, in regard of <lb/>the tenuity of their Th<unsure/>red, a greedineſs of Moiſture, and by Moiſture to <lb/>joyn and incorporate with other Thred, eſpecially, if there be a little Wreath-<lb/>ing, as appeareth by the twiſting of Thred, and the practice of Twirling <lb/>about of Spindles. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7706" xml:space="preserve">And weſee alſo, that Gold and Silver Thred cannot be <lb/>made without Twiſting.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7707" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div911" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0215-02" xlink:href="note-0215-02a" xml:space="preserve">845. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Bodies Ductil<unsure/>e <lb/>and Tenſile.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7708" xml:space="preserve">THe differences of impreſſible, and not impreſſible; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7709" xml:space="preserve">figurable, and not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0215-03a" xlink:href="note-0215-03"/> figurable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7710" xml:space="preserve">mouldable, and not mouldable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7711" xml:space="preserve">ſciſſible, and not ſciſſible; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7712" xml:space="preserve">and many other Paſſions of Matter, are Plebeian Notions, applied unto the <lb/>Inſtruments and Ufe<unsure/>s which Men ordinarily practiſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7713" xml:space="preserve">but they are all but the <lb/>effects of ſome of theſe cauſes following, which we will enum erate without <lb/>applying them, becauſe that would be too long. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7714" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is the Ceſſion, or <lb/>not Ceſſion of Bodies, into a ſmaller ſpace, or room, keeping the out ward <lb/>Bulk, and not flying up. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7715" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is, the ſtronger or weaker Appetite, in <lb/>Bodies, to continuity, and to flie diſcontinuity. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7716" xml:space="preserve">The third is, the diſpoſition <lb/>of Bodies, to contract, or not contract; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7717" xml:space="preserve">and again, toextend, or not extend. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7718" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>The fourth is, the ſmall quantity, or great quantity of the Pneumatical in <lb/>Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7719" xml:space="preserve">The fifth is, the nature of the Pneumatical, whether it be Native <lb/>Spirit of the Body, or common Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7720" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth is, the Nature of the Native <lb/>Spirits in the Body, whether they be Active, and Eager, or Dull, and Gentle. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7721" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>The ſeventh is, the emiſſion or detenſion of the Spirits in Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7722" xml:space="preserve">The eighth <lb/>is, the dilatation or contraction of the Spirits in Bodies, while they are de-<lb/>tained. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7723" xml:space="preserve">Th<unsure/>e nineth is, the collocation of the Spirits in Bodies, vvhether the <lb/>collocation be equal or unequal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7724" xml:space="preserve">and again, vvhether the Spirits be coacer-<lb/>vate or diffuſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7725" xml:space="preserve">Thetenth is, the denſity or rarity of the Tangible parts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7726" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="182" file="0216" n="216" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> the eleventh is the Equality or Inequality of the Tangible parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7727" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>twelfth is the Diſgeſtion or Crudity of the Tangible parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7728" xml:space="preserve">the thirteenth <lb/>is the Nature of the Matter, whether Sulphureous, or Mercurial, or Watry, <lb/>or Oily, Dry, and Terreſtrial, or Moiſt and Liquid; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7729" xml:space="preserve">which Natures of <lb/>Sulphureous and Mercurial, ſeem to be Natures Radical and Principal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7730" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>fourteenth is the placing of the Tangible parts, in Length or Tranſverſe (as <lb/>it is in the Warp, and the Woof of Textiles;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7731" xml:space="preserve">more inward or more out-<lb/>ward, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7732" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7733" xml:space="preserve">The fifteenth is the Poroſity or Imporoſity betwixt the Tangible <lb/>parts, and the greatneſs or ſmallneſs of the Pores; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7734" xml:space="preserve">the ſixteenth is the Col-<lb/>location and poſture of the Pores. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7735" xml:space="preserve">There may be more cauſes, but theſe do <lb/>occur for the preſent.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7736" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div912" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0215-03" xlink:href="note-0215-03a" xml:space="preserve">846. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Other Paßi-<lb/>ons of Matter, <lb/>and Characters <lb/>of Bodies.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7737" xml:space="preserve">TAke Lead and meltit, and in the midſt of it, when it beginneth to con-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0216-01a" xlink:href="note-0216-01"/> geal, make a little dint or hole, and put Quick-ſilver wrapped in a <lb/>piece of Linnen into that hole, and the Quick-ſilver will fix, and run no <lb/>more, and endure the Hammer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7738" xml:space="preserve">This is a noble inſtance of Induration, <lb/>by conſent of one Body with another, and Motion of Excitation to imitate; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7739" xml:space="preserve">for to aſcribe it onely to the vapor of the Lead, is leſs probable. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7740" xml:space="preserve">Quære, <lb/>whether the fixing may be in ſuch a degree, as it will be figured like other <lb/>Metals? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7741" xml:space="preserve">For if ſo, you may make Works of it for ſome purpoſes, ſo they <lb/>come not near the Fire.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7742" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div913" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0216-01" xlink:href="note-0216-01a" xml:space="preserve">847. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Induration by <lb/>Sympathy.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7743" xml:space="preserve">SUgar hath put down the uſe of Honey, inſomuch, as we have loſt thoſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0216-02a" xlink:href="note-0216-02"/> obſervations and preparations of Honey, which the Ancients had, when <lb/>it was more in price. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7744" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, it ſeemeth, that there was in old time Tree-honey, <lb/>as well as Bee-honey, which was the Year or Blood iſſuing from the Tree; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7745" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as one of the Ancients relateth, that in Tribeſond, there was Honey <lb/>iſſuing from the Box trees, which made Men mad. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7746" xml:space="preserve">Again, in ancient time, <lb/>there was a kinde of Honey, which either of the own Nature, or by Art, <lb/>would grow as hard as Sugar, and was not ſo luſhious as ours; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7747" xml:space="preserve">they had <lb/>alſo a Wine of Honey, which they made thus. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7748" xml:space="preserve">They cruſhed the Honey in-<lb/>to a great quantity of Water, and then ſtrained the liquor, after they boil-<lb/>ed it in a Copper to the half; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7749" xml:space="preserve">then they poured it into Earthen Veſſels for <lb/>a ſmall time, and after turned it into Veſſels of Wood, and kept it for many <lb/>years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7750" xml:space="preserve">They have alſo, at this day in Rußia, and thoſe Northern Countreys, <lb/>Mead Simple, which (well made and ſeaſoned) is a good wholeſom <lb/>Drink, and very clear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7751" xml:space="preserve">They uſe alſo in Wales, a Compound Drink of <lb/>Mead, with Herbs and Spices. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7752" xml:space="preserve">But mean while it were good, in recompence <lb/>of that we have loſt in Honey, there were brought in uſe a Sugar-Mead (for <lb/>ſo we may call it) though without any mixture at all of Honey; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7753" xml:space="preserve">and to <lb/>brew it, and keep it ſtale, as they uſe Mead; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7754" xml:space="preserve">for certainly, though it would <lb/>not be ſo abſterſive, and opening, and ſolutive a Drink as Mead; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7755" xml:space="preserve">yet it will <lb/>bemore grateful to the Stomack, and more lenitive, and fit to be uſed in <lb/>ſharp Diſeaſes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7756" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee, that the uſe of Sugar in Beer and Ale, hath good <lb/>effects in ſuch caſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7757" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div914" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0216-02" xlink:href="note-0216-02a" xml:space="preserve">848. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Honey and <lb/>Sugar.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7758" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported by the Ancients, that there is a kinde of Steel, in ſome places, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0216-03a" xlink:href="note-0216-03"/> which would poliſh almoſt as white and bright as Silver. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7759" xml:space="preserve">And that <lb/>there was in India a kinde of Braſs, which (being poliſhed) could ſcarce be <lb/>diſcerned from Gold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7760" xml:space="preserve">This was in the Natural Ure, but I am doubtful, <lb/>whether Men have ſufficiently refined Metals, which we count Baſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7761" xml:space="preserve">As, <lb/>whether Iron, Braſs, and Tin, be refined to the height? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7762" xml:space="preserve">But when they <pb o="183" file="0217" n="217" rhead="Century IX."/> come to ſuch a fineneſs, as ſerveth the ordinary uſe, they try no <lb/>further.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7763" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div915" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0216-03" xlink:href="note-0216-03a" xml:space="preserve">849. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Finer ſort of <lb/>Baſe Metals.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7764" xml:space="preserve">THere have been found certain Cements under Earth, that are very ſoft, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0217-01a" xlink:href="note-0217-01"/> and yet taken forth into the Sun, harden as hard as Marble: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7765" xml:space="preserve">There are <lb/>alſo ordinary Quarries in Sommerſet-shire, which in the Quarry cut ſoft to <lb/>any bigneſs, and in the Building prove firm, and hard.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7766" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div916" type="float" level="2" n="51"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0217-01" xlink:href="note-0217-01a" xml:space="preserve">850. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Cements and <lb/>Quarries.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7767" xml:space="preserve">LIving Creatures (generally) do change their Hair with Age, turning to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0217-02a" xlink:href="note-0217-02"/> be Gray and White; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7768" xml:space="preserve">as is ſeen in Men, though ſome earlier, ſome <lb/>later; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7769" xml:space="preserve">in Horſes, that are Dappled and turn White; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7770" xml:space="preserve">in Old Squirrels, that turn <lb/>Griſly, and many others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7771" xml:space="preserve">So do ſome Birds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7772" xml:space="preserve">as Cygnets from Gray turn <lb/>White; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7773" xml:space="preserve">Hawks. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7774" xml:space="preserve">from Brown turn more White; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7775" xml:space="preserve">And ſome Birds there be, <lb/>that upon their Moulting, do turn Colour; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7776" xml:space="preserve">as Robin-Redbreſts, after their <lb/>Moulting grow to be Red again by degrees; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7777" xml:space="preserve">ſo do Gold-Finches upon the <lb/>Head. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7778" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Moiſture doth (chiefly) colour Hair, and Fea-<lb/>thers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7779" xml:space="preserve">and Dryneſs turneth them Gray and White; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7780" xml:space="preserve">now Hairin Age wax-<lb/>eth Dryer, ſo do Feathers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7781" xml:space="preserve">As for Feathers, after Moulting, they are young <lb/>Feathers, and ſo all one as the Feathers of young Birds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7782" xml:space="preserve">So the Beard is <lb/>younger than the Hair of the Head, and doth (for the moſt part) wax hoary <lb/>later. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7783" xml:space="preserve">Out of this ground, ´a Man may deviſe the Means of altering the co-<lb/>lour of Birds, and the Retardation of Hoary Hairs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7784" xml:space="preserve">But of this ſee the Fifth <lb/>Experiment.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7785" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div917" type="float" level="2" n="52"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0217-02" xlink:href="note-0217-02a" xml:space="preserve">851. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Altering of <lb/>the Colour of <lb/>Hairs and <lb/>Feathers.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7786" xml:space="preserve">THe difference between Male and Female, in ſome Creatures, is not to be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0217-03a" xlink:href="note-0217-03"/> diſcerned, otherwiſe than in the parts of Generation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7787" xml:space="preserve">as in Horſes and <lb/>Mares, Dogs and Bitches, Doves he and ſhe, and others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7788" xml:space="preserve">But ſome differ in <lb/>magnitude, and that diverſly: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7789" xml:space="preserve">Forin moſt the Male is the greater; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7790" xml:space="preserve">as in Man, <lb/>Pheaſants, Peacocks, Turkies, and the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7791" xml:space="preserve">and in ſome few, as in Hawks, the <lb/>Female. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7792" xml:space="preserve">Some differ in the Hair and Feathers, both in the quantity, criſpation, <lb/>and colours of them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7793" xml:space="preserve">as He-Lions are Hirſuite, and have great Mains; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7794" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>She’s are ſmooth like Cats. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7795" xml:space="preserve">Bulls are more criſp upon the Forehead than Cows; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7796" xml:space="preserve">the Peacock, and Pheſant-cock, and Goldfinch-cock, have glorious and fine colours; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7797" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>the Hens have not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7798" xml:space="preserve">Generally, the he’s in Birds have the faireſt Feathers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7799" xml:space="preserve">Some <lb/>differ in divers features; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7800" xml:space="preserve">as Bucks have Horns, Does none; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7801" xml:space="preserve">Rams have more <lb/>wreathed Horns than Evvs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7802" xml:space="preserve">Cocks have great Combs and Spurs, Hens little <lb/>or none; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7803" xml:space="preserve">Boars have great Fangs, Sovvs much leſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7804" xml:space="preserve">the Turkey-cock hath great <lb/>and ſwelling Gills, the Hen hath leſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7805" xml:space="preserve">Men have generally deeper and ſtronger <lb/>voices than VVomen. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7806" xml:space="preserve">Some differ in faculty, as the Cock amongſt Singing Birds, <lb/>are the beſt ſingers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7807" xml:space="preserve">The chief cauſe of all theſe (no doubt) is, for that the <lb/>Males have more ſtrength of heat than the Females; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7808" xml:space="preserve">which appeareth mani-<lb/>feſtly in this, that all young Creatures Males are like Females, and ſo are Eu-<lb/>nuchs, and Gelt Creatures of all kindes, liker Females. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7809" xml:space="preserve">Now heat cauſeth great-<lb/>neſs of growth, generally, where there is moiſture enough to work upon: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7810" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>But if there be found in any Creature (which is ſeen rarely) an over-great <lb/>heat in proportion to the moiſture, in them the Female is the greater; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7811" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/>in Havvks and Sparrovvs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7812" xml:space="preserve">And if the heat be ballanced with the moiſture, <lb/>then there is no difference to be ſeen between Male and Female; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7813" xml:space="preserve">as in the <lb/>inſtances of Horſes and Dogs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7814" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that the Horns of Oxen and Covvs, <lb/>for the moſt part, are larger than the Bulls which is cauſed by abundance <lb/>of moiſture, which in the Horns of the Bull faileth, Again, Heat cauſeth <lb/>Piloſity, and Criſpation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7815" xml:space="preserve">and ſo likewiſe Beards in Men. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7816" xml:space="preserve">It alſo expelleth <pb o="184" file="0218" n="218" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> finer moiſture, which want of heat cannot expel; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7817" xml:space="preserve">and that is the cauſe of <lb/>the beauty and variety of Feathers: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7818" xml:space="preserve">Again, Heat doth put forth many Ex-<lb/>creſcences, and much ſolid matter, which want of heat cannot do. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7819" xml:space="preserve">And this <lb/>is the cauſe of Horns, and of the greatneſs of them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7820" xml:space="preserve">and of the greatneſs of <lb/>the Combs<unsure/>, and Spurs of Cocks, Gills of Turkey. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7821" xml:space="preserve">Cocks, and Fangs of Boars. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7822" xml:space="preserve">Heat alſo dilateth the Pipes and Organs which cauſeth the deepneſs of the <lb/>Voice. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7823" xml:space="preserve">Again, heat refineth the Spirits, and that cauſeth the Cock-<unsure/>ſinging <lb/>Bird to excel the Hen.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7824" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div918" type="float" level="2" n="53"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0217-03" xlink:href="note-0217-03a" xml:space="preserve">852. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <unsure/> <lb/>touching the <lb/>Differences of <lb/>Living Crea-<lb/>tures, Male <lb/>and Female.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7825" xml:space="preserve">THere be Fiſhes greater than any Beaſts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7826" xml:space="preserve">as the Whale is far greater than <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0218-01a" xlink:href="note-0218-01"/> the Elephant. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7827" xml:space="preserve">And Beaſts are (generally) greater than Birds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7828" xml:space="preserve">For Fiſhes, <lb/>the cauſe may be, that becauſe they live not in the Air, they have not their <lb/>moiſture drawn, and ſoaked by the Air, and Sun-Beams. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7829" xml:space="preserve">Alſo they reſt al-<lb/>ways, in a manner, and are ſupported by the Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7830" xml:space="preserve">where as Motion and <lb/>Labor do conſume. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7831" xml:space="preserve">As for the greatneſs of Beaſts, more than of Birds, it is <lb/>cauſed, ſor that Beaſts ſtay longer time in the Womb than Birds, and there <lb/>nouriſh, and grow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7832" xml:space="preserve">whereas in Birds, after the Egg laid, there is no further <lb/>growth, or nouriſhment from the Female; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7833" xml:space="preserve">for the ſitting doth vivifie, and <lb/>not nouriſh.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7834" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div919" type="float" level="2" n="54"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0218-01" xlink:href="note-0218-01a" xml:space="preserve">853. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Comparative <lb/>Magnitude of <lb/>Living Crea-<lb/>tures.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7835" xml:space="preserve">WE have partly touched before the Means of producing Fruits, with-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0218-02a" xlink:href="note-0218-02"/> out Coars, or Stones. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7836" xml:space="preserve">And this we add further, that the cauſe muſt <lb/>be abundance of moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7837" xml:space="preserve">for that the Coar, and Stone, are made of a dry <lb/>Sap: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7838" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee, that it is poſſible to make a Tree put forth onely in Bloſſom <lb/>without Fruit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7839" xml:space="preserve">as in Cherries with double Flowers, much more in Fruit with-<lb/>out Stones, or Coars. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7840" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that a Cions of an Apple, grafted <lb/>upon a Colewort-ſtalk, ſendeth forth a great Apple without a Coar. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7841" xml:space="preserve">It is not <lb/>unlikely, that if the inward Pith of a Tree were taken out, ſo that the Juyce <lb/>came onely by the Bark, it would work the effect. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7842" xml:space="preserve">For it hath been obſerved, <lb/>that in Pollards, if the Water get in on the top, and they become hollow, <lb/>they put forth the more. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7843" xml:space="preserve">We add alſo, that it is delivered ſor certain by ſome, <lb/>that if the Cions be grafted, the ſmall ends down wards, it will make Fruit <lb/>have little or no Coars, and Stones.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7844" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div920" type="float" level="2" n="55"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0218-02" xlink:href="note-0218-02a" xml:space="preserve">854. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Exoſſation of <lb/>Fruits.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7845" xml:space="preserve">TObacco is a thing of great price, if it be in requeſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7846" xml:space="preserve">For an Acre of it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0218-03a" xlink:href="note-0218-03"/> will be worth (as is affirmed) Two hundred pounds by the year to-<lb/>wards charge. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7847" xml:space="preserve">The charge of making the Ground, and otherwiſe, is great, <lb/>but nothing to the proſit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7848" xml:space="preserve">But the English Tobacco hath ſmall credit, as be-<lb/>ing too dull and earthy: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7849" xml:space="preserve">Nay, the Virginian Tobacco, though that be in a <lb/>hotter climate, can get no credit for the ſame cauſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7850" xml:space="preserve">So that a tryal to <lb/>make Tobacco more Aromatical, and better concocted here in England, were <lb/>a thing of great proſit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7851" xml:space="preserve">Some have gone about to do it, by drenching the <lb/>English Tobacco, in a Decoction or Inl<unsure/>ufion of Indian Tobacco. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7852" xml:space="preserve">But thoſe are <lb/>but ſophiſtications and toyes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7853" xml:space="preserve">for nothing that is once perfect, and hath <lb/>run his race, can receive much amendment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7854" xml:space="preserve">you muſt ever reſort to the <lb/>beginnings of things for Melioration. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7855" xml:space="preserve">The way of Maturation of Tobacco <lb/>muſt (as in other Plants) be from the Heat, either of the Earth, or of the <lb/>Sun. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7856" xml:space="preserve">We ſee ſome leading of this in Musk-Melons, which are ſown <lb/>upon a hot Bed, dunged below, upon a Bank turned upon the south Sun, <lb/>to give Heat by Reflection; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7857" xml:space="preserve">laid upon Tiles, which increaſeth the Heat; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7858" xml:space="preserve">and covered with Straw, to keep them from Cold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7859" xml:space="preserve">they remove them alſo, <lb/>which addeth ſome Life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7860" xml:space="preserve">And by theſe helps they become as good in <pb o="185" file="0219" n="219" rhead="Century IX."/> England, as in Italy, or Provence. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7861" xml:space="preserve">Theſe and the like means may be tried in <lb/>Tobacco. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7862" xml:space="preserve">Enquire alſo of the ſteeping of Roots, in ſome ſuch Liquor, as may <lb/>give them Vigor to put forth ſtrong.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7863" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div921" type="float" level="2" n="56"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0218-03" xlink:href="note-0218-03a" xml:space="preserve">855. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Melioration of <lb/>Tobacco.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7864" xml:space="preserve">HEat of the Sun, for the Maturition of Fruits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7865" xml:space="preserve">yea, and the heat of Vi-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0219-01a" xlink:href="note-0219-01"/> vification of Living Creatures, are both repreſented and ſupplied by the <lb/>heat of Fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7866" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe, the heats of the Sun, and life, are repreſented <lb/>one by the other. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7867" xml:space="preserve">Trees, ſet upon the Backs of Chimneys, do ripen Fruit <lb/>ſooner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7868" xml:space="preserve">Vines, that have been drawn in at the Window of a Kitchin, have <lb/>ſent forth Grapes, ripe a moneth (at leaſt) before others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7869" xml:space="preserve">Stoves, at the Back <lb/>of Walls, bring forth Orenges here with us. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7870" xml:space="preserve">Eggs, as is reported by ſome, have <lb/>been hatched in the warmth of an Oven. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7871" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by the Ancients, that <lb/>the Eſtrich layeth her Eggs under Sand, where the heat of the Sun diſcloſeth <lb/>them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7872" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div922" type="float" level="2" n="57"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0219-01" xlink:href="note-0219-01a" xml:space="preserve">856. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Several Heats <lb/>working the <lb/>ſame Effects.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7873" xml:space="preserve">BArley in the Boyling ſwelleth not much; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7874" xml:space="preserve">Wheat ſwelleth more, Riz<unsure/>e ex-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0219-02a" xlink:href="note-0219-02"/> treamly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7875" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as a quarter of a Pint (unboiled) will ariſe to a Pint <lb/>boiled. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7876" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe (no doubt) is, for that the more cloſe and compact the <lb/>Body is, the more it will dilate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7877" xml:space="preserve">Now Barley is the moſt hollow, Wheas <lb/>more ſolid than that, and Rize moſt ſolid of all. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7878" xml:space="preserve">It may be alſo, that ſome <lb/>Bodies have a kinde of Lentor, and more depertible nature than others; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7879" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/>we ſee it evident in colouration; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7880" xml:space="preserve">for a ſmall quantity of Saffron, will tinct <lb/>more, than a very great quantity of Breſil, or Wine.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7881" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div923" type="float" level="2" n="58"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0219-02" xlink:href="note-0219-02a" xml:space="preserve">857. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Swelling and <lb/>Dilatation in <lb/>Boyling.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7882" xml:space="preserve">FRuit groweth ſweet by Rowling or Preffing them gently with the Hand; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7883" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0219-03a" xlink:href="note-0219-03"/> as Ro wling pears, Damaſins, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7884" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7885" xml:space="preserve">By Rottenneß; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7886" xml:space="preserve">as Medlars, Services, Sloes, <lb/>Heps, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7887" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7888" xml:space="preserve">By Time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7889" xml:space="preserve">as Apples, Wardens, Pomegranates, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7890" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7891" xml:space="preserve">By certain <lb/>ſpecial Maturations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7892" xml:space="preserve">as by laying them in Hay, Straw, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7893" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7894" xml:space="preserve">And by Fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7895" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/>in Roaſting, Stewing, Baking, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7896" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7897" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the ſweetneſs by Rowling, <lb/>and Preſſing is, Emollition, which they properly enduce; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7898" xml:space="preserve">as in beating of <lb/>Stock-fish, Flesh, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7899" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7900" xml:space="preserve">By Rottenneß is, for that the Spirits of the Fr<unsure/>uit, by Putre-<lb/>faction, gather heat, and thereby diſgeſt the harder part: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7901" xml:space="preserve">For in all Purrefacti-<lb/>ons there is a degree of hear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7902" xml:space="preserve">By Time and Keeping is, becauſe the Spirits of <lb/>the Body, do ever feed upon the tangible parts, and attenuate them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7903" xml:space="preserve">By <lb/>ſeveral Maturations is, by ſome degree of heat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7904" xml:space="preserve">And by Fireis, becauſe it is <lb/>the proper work of Heat to refine, and to incorporate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7905" xml:space="preserve">and all ſourneſs <lb/>conſiſteth in ſome groſsneſs of the Body: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7906" xml:space="preserve">And all incorporation doth make <lb/>the mixture of the Body, more equal, in all the parts, which ever enduceth <lb/>a milder taſte.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7907" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div924" type="float" level="2" n="59"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0219-03" xlink:href="note-0219-03a" xml:space="preserve">858. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Dulcoration of <lb/>Fruitt<unsure/>.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7908" xml:space="preserve">OF Fleshes, ſome are edible; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7909" xml:space="preserve">ſome, except it be in Famine, not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7910" xml:space="preserve">As <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0219-04a" xlink:href="note-0219-04"/> thoſe that are not edible, the cauſe is, for that they have (commonly) <lb/>too much bitterneſs of taſte; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7911" xml:space="preserve">and therefore thoſe Creatures, which are <lb/>fierce and cholerick, are not edible; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7912" xml:space="preserve">as Lions, VVolves, Squirrels, Dogs, Foxes, <lb/>Horſes, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7913" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7914" xml:space="preserve">As for Kine, Sheep, Goats, Deer, Swine, Conneys, Hares, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7915" xml:space="preserve">c. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7916" xml:space="preserve">We ſee they are milde, and fearful. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7917" xml:space="preserve">Yet it is true, that Horſes which are <lb/>Beaſts of courage, have been and are eaten by ſome Nations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7918" xml:space="preserve">as the Scythians <lb/>were called Hippophagi; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7919" xml:space="preserve">and the Chineſes eat Horſ-flesh at this day; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7920" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>ſome Gluttons have uſed to have Colts-fleſh baked. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7921" xml:space="preserve">In Birds, ſuch as are <lb/>Carnivoræ, and Birds of Prey, are commonly no good Meat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7922" xml:space="preserve">but the rea-<lb/>ſon is, rather the Cholerick Nature of thoſe Birds, than their Feeding up-<lb/>on Fleſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7923" xml:space="preserve">for Puits, Gulls, Shovelers, Ducks, do feed upon Fleſh, and yet are <pb o="186" file="0220" n="220" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> good Meat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7924" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee, that thoſe Birds which are of Prey, or feed <lb/>upon Fleſh, are good Meat, when they are very Young; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7925" xml:space="preserve">as Hau<unsure/>ks, Rooks, <lb/>out of the Neſt, Owls. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7926" xml:space="preserve">Mans fleſh is not eaten. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7927" xml:space="preserve">The Reaſons are three.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7928" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div925" type="float" level="2" n="60"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0219-04" xlink:href="note-0219-04a" xml:space="preserve">859. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Fleſh Edible, <lb/>and not Edi-<lb/>ble.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7929" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, Becauſe Men in Humanity do abhor it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7930" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7931" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, Becauſe no Living Creature, that dieth of it ſelf, is good to <lb/>eat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7932" xml:space="preserve">and therefore the Cannibals (themſelves) eat no Mans fleſh, of thoſe <lb/>that die of themſelves, but of ſuch as are ſlain.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7933" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7934" xml:space="preserve">The third is, Becauſe there muſt be generally) ſome diſparity between <lb/>the Nouriſhment, and the Body nouriſhed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7935" xml:space="preserve">and they muſt not be overnear, <lb/>or like: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7936" xml:space="preserve">Yet we ſee, that in great weakneſſes and Conſumptions, Men have <lb/>been ſuſtained with Womans Milk. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7937" xml:space="preserve">And Picinus fondly (as I conceive) ad-<lb/>viſeth, for the Prolongation of Life, that a Vein be opened in the Arm of <lb/>ſome wholſome young man, and the blood to be ſucked. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7938" xml:space="preserve">It is ſaid, that <lb/>Witches do greedily eat Mans fleſh, which if it betrue, beſides a devilliſh <lb/>Appetite in them, it is likely to proceed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7939" xml:space="preserve">for that Mans fleſh may ſend up <lb/>high and pleaſing Vapors, which may ſtir the Imagination, and Witches <lb/>felicity is chiefly in Imagination, ashath been ſaid.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7940" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7941" xml:space="preserve">THere is an ancient received Tradition of the Salamander, that it liveth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0220-01a" xlink:href="note-0220-01"/> in the Fire, and hath force alſo to extinguiſh the fire. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7942" xml:space="preserve">It muſt have two <lb/>things, if it betrue, to this operation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7943" xml:space="preserve">The one, a very cloſe skin, whereby <lb/>flame, which in the midſt is not ſo hot, cannot enter: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7944" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee, that if the <lb/>Palm of the Hand be anointed thick with White of Eggs, and then Aquavitæ <lb/>be poured upon it, and enflamed, yet one may endure the flame a pretty <lb/>while. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7945" xml:space="preserve">The other is ſome extream cold and quenching vertue, in the Body <lb/>of that Creature which choaketh the fire. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7946" xml:space="preserve">We ſee that Milk quencheth <lb/>Wildfire better than VVater, becauſe it entreth better.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7947" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div926" type="float" level="2" n="61"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0220-01" xlink:href="note-0220-01a" xml:space="preserve">860. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Salamander.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7948" xml:space="preserve">TIme doth change Fruit (as Apples, Pears, Pomegranates, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7949" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7950" xml:space="preserve">from more <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0220-02a" xlink:href="note-0220-02"/> ſour to more ſweet; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7951" xml:space="preserve">but contrariwiſe, Liquors (even thoſe that are of <lb/>the Juyce of Fruit) from more ſweet to more ſour; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7952" xml:space="preserve">as, Wort, Muſt, New <lb/>Verjuyce, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7953" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7954" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, the congregation of the Spirits together; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7955" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>in both kindes, the Spirit is attenuated by Time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7956" xml:space="preserve">but in the firſt kinde, it is <lb/>more diffuſed, and more maſt ered by the groſſer parts, which the Spirits do <lb/>but digeſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7957" xml:space="preserve">But in Drinks the Spirits do reign, and finding leſs oppoſition <lb/>of the parts, become themſelves more ſtrong, which cauſeth alſo more <lb/>ſtrength in the Liquor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7958" xml:space="preserve">ſuch, as if the spirits be of the hotter ſort, the Li-<lb/>quor becometh apt to burn; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7959" xml:space="preserve">but in time, it cauſeth likewiſe, when the higher <lb/>Spirits are evaporated more ſourneſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7960" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div927" type="float" level="2" n="62"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0220-02" xlink:href="note-0220-02a" xml:space="preserve">861. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Contrary ope-<lb/>rations of <lb/>Time, upon <lb/>Fruits and <lb/>Liquors.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7961" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been obſerved by the Ancients, that Plates of Metal, and eſpecially <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0220-03a" xlink:href="note-0220-03"/> of Braſs, applied preſently to a blow, will keep it down from ſwelling. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7962" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is Repercuſſion, without Humectation, or entrance of any Body: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7963" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>For the Plate hath onely a virtual cold, which doth not ſearch into the hurt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7964" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>whereas all Plaiſters and Oynments do enter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7965" xml:space="preserve">Surely, the cauſe that blows <lb/>and bruiſes induce ſwellings is, for that the Spirits reſorting to ſuccor the <lb/>part that laboreth, draw alſo the humors with them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7966" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee, that it is <lb/>not the repulſe, and the return of the humor in the part ſtrucken that cauſeth <lb/>it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7967" xml:space="preserve">for that Gouts, and Toothachs cauſe ſwelling, where there is no Per-<lb/>cuſſion at all.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7968" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div928" type="float" level="2" n="63"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0220-03" xlink:href="note-0220-03a" xml:space="preserve">862. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Blows and <lb/>Bruiſes.</note> </div> <pb o="187" file="0221" n="221" rhead="Century IX."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7969" xml:space="preserve">THe nature of the Orris Root, is almoſt ſingular, for there be few odo-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0221-01a" xlink:href="note-0221-01"/> riferous Roots; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7970" xml:space="preserve">and in thoſe that are in any degree ſweet, it is but the <lb/>ſame ſweetneſs with the Wood or Leaf: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7971" xml:space="preserve">But the Orris notſweet in the <lb/>Leaf, neither is the Flower any thing ſo ſweet as the Root. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7972" xml:space="preserve">The Root ſeem-<lb/>eth to have a tender dainty heat, which when it cometh above ground to <lb/>the Sun, and the Air, vaniſheth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7973" xml:space="preserve">For it is a great Mollifier, and hath a ſmell <lb/>like a Violet.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7974" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div929" type="float" level="2" n="64"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0221-01" xlink:href="note-0221-01a" xml:space="preserve">863. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Orris Root.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7975" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been obſerved by the Ancients that a great Veſſel full, drawn into <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0221-02a" xlink:href="note-0221-02"/> Bottles; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7976" xml:space="preserve">and then the Liquor put again into the Veſſel, will not fill the <lb/>Veſſel again, ſo full as it was, but that it may take in more Liquor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7977" xml:space="preserve">and that <lb/>this holdeth more in Wine, than in Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7978" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be trivial, name-<lb/>ly, by the expence of the Liquor, in regard ſome may ſtick to the ſides of <lb/>the Bottles: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7979" xml:space="preserve">But there may be a cauſe more ſubtil, which is, that the Liquor <lb/>in the Veſſel, is not ſo much compreſſed, as in the Bottle; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7980" xml:space="preserve">becauſe in the <lb/>Veſſel, the Liquor meeteth with Liquor chiefly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7981" xml:space="preserve">but in the Bottles, a ſmall <lb/>quantity of Liquor meeteth with the ſides of the Bottles, which compreſs it <lb/>ſo, that it doth not open again.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7982" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div930" type="float" level="2" n="65"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0221-02" xlink:href="note-0221-02a" xml:space="preserve">864 <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Compre ßion of <lb/>Liquors.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7983" xml:space="preserve">WAter being contiguous with Air, cooleth it, but moiſteneth it not, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0221-03a" xlink:href="note-0221-03"/> except it Vapor. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7984" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that Heat and Cold have a Virtual <lb/>Tranſition, without Communication of ſubſtance, but moiſture not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7985" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>to all madeſaction there is required an imbibition: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7986" xml:space="preserve">But where the Bodies <lb/>are of ſuch ſeveral Levity, and Gravity, as they mingle not, they can follow <lb/>no imbibition. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7987" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, Oyl likewiſe lieth at the top of the Water, <lb/>without commixture: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7988" xml:space="preserve">And a drop of Water running ſwiftly over a Straw <lb/>or ſmooth Body, wetteth not.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7989" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div931" type="float" level="2" n="66"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0221-03" xlink:href="note-0221-03a" xml:space="preserve">865. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Working of <lb/>Water upon <lb/>Air contiguo <lb/>ous.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s7990" xml:space="preserve">STarlight Nights, yea, and bright Moonshine Nights, are colder than Cloudy <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0221-04a" xlink:href="note-0221-04"/> Nights. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7991" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, the drineſs and Fineneſs of the Air, which thereby <lb/>becometh more piercing and ſharp; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7992" xml:space="preserve">and thereſore great Continents are <lb/>colder than Iſlands. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7993" xml:space="preserve">And as for the Moon, though it ſelf inclineth the Air to <lb/>moiſture, yet when it ſhineth bright, it argueth the Air is dry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7994" xml:space="preserve">Alſo cloſe <lb/>Air is warmer than open Air, which (it may be) is, for that the true cauſe of <lb/>cold, is an expiration from the Globe of the Earth, which in open places is <lb/>ſtronger. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7995" xml:space="preserve">And again, Air it ſelf, if it be not altered by that expiration, is <lb/>not withoutſome ſecret degree of heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7996" xml:space="preserve">as it is not likewiſe without ſome <lb/>ſecret degree of Light: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7997" xml:space="preserve">For otherwiſe Cats, and Owls, could not ſee in the <lb/>Night; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7998" xml:space="preserve">but that Air hath a little Light, proportionable to the Viſual Spirits <lb/>oſ thoſe Creatures.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s7999" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div932" type="float" level="2" n="67"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0221-04" xlink:href="note-0221-04a" xml:space="preserve">866. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Nature of <lb/>Air.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8000" xml:space="preserve">THe Eyes do move one and the ſame way; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8001" xml:space="preserve">for when one Eye moveth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0221-05a" xlink:href="note-0221-05"/> to the Noſtril, the other moveth from the Noſtril. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8002" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is Motion <lb/>of Conſent, which in the Spirits, and Parts Spiritual, is ſtrong. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8003" xml:space="preserve">But yet uſe will <lb/>induce the contrary; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8004" xml:space="preserve">for ſome can ſquint when they will. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8005" xml:space="preserve">And the common <lb/>Tradition is, that if Children be ſet upon a Table with a Candle behinde <lb/>them, both Eyes will move outwards, as affecting to ſee the Light, and ſo <lb/>induce Squinting.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8006" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div933" type="float" level="2" n="68"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0221-05" xlink:href="note-0221-05a" xml:space="preserve">867. <lb/>Experimeats <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Eyes and <lb/>Sight.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8007" xml:space="preserve">We ſee more exqu iſitely with one Eye ſhut, than with both open. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8008" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0221-06a" xlink:href="note-0221-06"/> cauſe is, for that the Spirits Viſual unite themſelves more, and ſo become <pb o="188" file="0222" n="222" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> ſtronger. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8009" xml:space="preserve">For you may ſee, by looking in a Glaſs, that when you ſhut one <lb/>Eye, the Pupil of the other Eye, that is open, dilateth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8010" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div934" type="float" level="2" n="69"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0221-06" xlink:href="note-0221-06a" xml:space="preserve">868.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8011" xml:space="preserve">The Eyes, if the ſight meet not in one Angle, ſee things double. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8012" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0222-01a" xlink:href="note-0222-01"/> cauſe is, for that ſeeing two things, and ſeeing one thing twice, worketh the <lb/>ſame effect: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8013" xml:space="preserve">And therefore a little Pellet, held between two Fingers, laid a <lb/>croſs, ſeemeth double.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8014" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div935" type="float" level="2" n="70"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0222-01" xlink:href="note-0222-01a" xml:space="preserve">869.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8015" xml:space="preserve">Pore-blind Men, ſee beſt in the dimmer light; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8016" xml:space="preserve">and like wiſe have their <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0222-02a" xlink:href="note-0222-02"/> ſight ſtronger near hand, than thoſe that are not Poreblind, and can read <lb/>and write ſmaller Letters. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8017" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Spirits Viſual, in thoſe <lb/>that are Poreblind, are thinner and rarer, than in others; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8018" xml:space="preserve">and therefore the <lb/>greater light diſperſeth them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8019" xml:space="preserve">For the ſame cauſe they need contracting; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8020" xml:space="preserve">but being contracted, are more ſtrong than the Viſual Spirits of ordinary eyes <lb/>are; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8021" xml:space="preserve">as when we ſee thorow a Level, the ſight is the ſtronger: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8022" xml:space="preserve">And ſo is it, <lb/>when you gather the Eye-lids ſome what cloſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8023" xml:space="preserve">And it is commonly ſeen in <lb/>thoſe that are Poreblind, that they do much gather the eye-lids together. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8024" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>But old Men, when they would ſee toread, put the Paper ſomewhat a ſar off. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8025" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>The cauſe is, for that old Mens Spirits Viſual, contrary to thoſe oſ Pore-<lb/>blind Men unite not, but when the object is at ſome good diſtance from their <lb/>Eyes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8026" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div936" type="float" level="2" n="71"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0222-02" xlink:href="note-0222-02a" xml:space="preserve">870.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8027" xml:space="preserve">Men ſee better when their Eyes are over againſt the Sun or a Candle, if <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0222-03a" xlink:href="note-0222-03"/> they put their Hand a little before their Eye. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8028" xml:space="preserve">The Reaſon is, for that the <lb/>Glaring of the Sun, or the Candle, doth weaken the Eye; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8029" xml:space="preserve">whereas the Light <lb/>circumfuſed is enough for the Perception. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8030" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee, that an over-light <lb/>maketh the Eyes dazel, inſomuch as perpetual looking againſt the Sun, <lb/>would cauſe Blindneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8031" xml:space="preserve">Again, if Men come out of a great light, into a <lb/>dark room; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8032" xml:space="preserve">and contrariwiſe, if they come out of a dark room into a light <lb/>room, they ſeem to have a Miſt before their Eyes, and ſee worſe than they <lb/>ſhall do after they have ſtaid a little while, either in the light, or in the dark. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8033" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Spirits Viſual, are upon a ſudden change diſturbed, <lb/>and put out of order; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8034" xml:space="preserve">and till they be recollected, do not perform their <lb/>Function well. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8035" xml:space="preserve">For when they are much dilated by light, they cannot con-<lb/>tract ſuddenly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8036" xml:space="preserve">and when they are much contracted by darkneſs, they cannot <lb/>dilate ſuddenly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8037" xml:space="preserve">And exceſs of both theſe, (that is, of the Dilatation, and <lb/>Contraction of the Spirits Viſual) if it be long, deſtroyeth the Eye. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8038" xml:space="preserve">For as <lb/>long looking againſt the Sun, or Fire, hurteth the Eye by Dilatation, ſo curi-<lb/>ous painting in ſmall Volumes, and reading of ſmall Letters, do hurt the Eye <lb/>by contraction.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8039" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div937" type="float" level="2" n="72"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0222-03" xlink:href="note-0222-03a" xml:space="preserve">871.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8040" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved, that in Anger the Eyes wax red; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8041" xml:space="preserve">and in Bluſh-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0222-04a" xlink:href="note-0222-04"/> ing, not the Eyes, but the Ears, and the parts behind them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8042" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for <lb/>that in Anger, the Spirits aſcend and wax eager; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8043" xml:space="preserve">which is moſt eaſily ſeen in <lb/>the Eyes, becauſe they are tranſlucide, though withal it maketh both the <lb/>Cheeks, and the Gils red; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8044" xml:space="preserve">but in Bluſhing, it is true, the Spirits aſeend like-<lb/>wiſe to ſuccor, both the Eyes and the Face, which are the parts that labor: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8045" xml:space="preserve">But when they are repulſed by the Eyes, for that the Eyes, in ſhame do put <lb/>back the Spirits that aſcend to them, as unwilling to look abroad: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8046" xml:space="preserve">For no <lb/>Man, in that paſſion, doth look ſtrongly, but dejectedly, and that repulſion <lb/>from the Eyes, diverteth the Spirits and heat more to the Ears, and the parts <lb/>by them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8047" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div938" type="float" level="2" n="73"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0222-04" xlink:href="note-0222-04a" xml:space="preserve">872.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8048" xml:space="preserve">The objects of the Sight, may cauſe a great pleaſure and delight in the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0222-05a" xlink:href="note-0222-05"/> Spirits, but no pain or great offence; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8049" xml:space="preserve">except it be by Memory, as hath been <lb/>ſaid. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8050" xml:space="preserve">The Glimpſes and Beams of Diamonds that ſtrike the Eye, Indian Fea-<lb/>thers, that have glorious colours, the coming into a fair Garden, the coming <pb o="189" file="0223" n="223" rhead="Century IX."/> into a fair Room richly furniſhed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8051" xml:space="preserve">a beautiſul perſon, and the like, do de-<lb/>light and exhilarate the Spirits much. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8052" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon, why it holdeth not in <lb/>the offence is, for that the Sight is moſt ſpiritual of the Senſes, whereby it <lb/>hath no object groſs enough to offend it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8053" xml:space="preserve">But the cauſe (chiefly) is, for <lb/>that there be no active objects to offend the Eye. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8054" xml:space="preserve">For Harmonical Sounds, <lb/>and Diſcordant Sounds, are both Active and Poſitive; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8055" xml:space="preserve">ſo are ſweet ſmells, <lb/>and ſtinks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8056" xml:space="preserve">ſo are bitter, and ſweets, in taſtes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8057" xml:space="preserve">ſo are over-hot, and over-<lb/>cold, in touch; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8058" xml:space="preserve">but blackneſs, and darkneſs, are indeed but privatives; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8059" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>therefore have little or no Activity. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8060" xml:space="preserve">Some what they do contriſtate, but very <lb/>little.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8061" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div939" type="float" level="2" n="74"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0222-05" xlink:href="note-0222-05a" xml:space="preserve">873.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8062" xml:space="preserve">WAter of the Sea, or otherwiſe, looketh blacker when it is moved, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0223-01a" xlink:href="note-0223-01"/> whiter when it reſteth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8063" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, ſor that by means of the Moti-<lb/>on, the Beams of Light paſs not ſtraight, and thereſore muſt be darkned; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8064" xml:space="preserve">whereas when it reſteth, the Beams do paſs ſtraight. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8065" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, ſplendor hath a <lb/>degree of whiteneſs, eſpecially, if there be alittle repercuſſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8066" xml:space="preserve">for a Look-<lb/>ing-Glaſs with the Steel behinde, looketh whiter than Glaſs ſimple. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8067" xml:space="preserve">This <lb/>Experiment deſerveth to be driven further, in trying by what means Motion <lb/>may hinder Sight.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8068" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div940" type="float" level="2" n="75"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0223-01" xlink:href="note-0223-01a" xml:space="preserve">874. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Colour of the <lb/>Sea, or other <lb/>Water.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8069" xml:space="preserve">SHell-fish have been by ſome of the Ancients, compared and ſorted with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0223-02a" xlink:href="note-0223-02"/> the Inſecta; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8070" xml:space="preserve">but I ſee no reaſon why they ſhould, for they have Male, <lb/>and Female, as other F@ſh have; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8071" xml:space="preserve">neither are they bred of Putrefaction, eſpe-<lb/>cially ſuch as do move. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8072" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs it is certain, that Oyſters, and Cockles, <lb/>and Muſſels, which move not, have not diſcriminate Sex. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8073" xml:space="preserve">Quœre, in what <lb/>time, and how they are bred? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8074" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth, that Shells of Oy@ters are bred <lb/>where none were beſore; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8075" xml:space="preserve">and it is tryed, that the great Horſe-Muſle, with the <lb/>fine ſhell, that breedeth in Ponds, hath bred within thirty years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8076" xml:space="preserve">But then, <lb/>which is ſtrange, it hath been tryed, that they do not onely gape and ſhut as <lb/>the Oyſters do, but remove from one place to another.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8077" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div941" type="float" level="2" n="76"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0223-02" xlink:href="note-0223-02a" xml:space="preserve">875. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Shelfiſh.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8078" xml:space="preserve">THe Senſes are alike ſtrong, both on the right ſide, and on the left; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8079" xml:space="preserve">but the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0223-03a" xlink:href="note-0223-03"/> Limbs on the right ſide are ſtronger. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8080" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that the <lb/>Brain, which is the Inſtrument of Senſe, is alike on both ſides; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8081" xml:space="preserve">but Motion, <lb/>and habilities of moving, are ſomewhat holpen from the Liver, which lieth <lb/>on the right ſide. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8082" xml:space="preserve">It may be alſo, for that the Senſes are putin exerciſe, in-<lb/>differently on both ſides from the time of our Birth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8083" xml:space="preserve">but the Limbs are uſed <lb/>moſt on the right ſide, whereby cuſtom helpeth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8084" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee, that ſome are <lb/>left-handed, which are ſuch as have uſed the left-hand moſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8085" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div942" type="float" level="2" n="77"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0223-03" xlink:href="note-0223-03a" xml:space="preserve">876. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Right-ſide and <lb/>the Leſt.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8086" xml:space="preserve">FRictions make the parts more fleſhy, and full; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8087" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee both in Men, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0223-04a" xlink:href="note-0223-04"/> in the Currying of Horſes, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8088" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8089" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that they draw greater <lb/>quantity of Spirits and Blood to the parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8090" xml:space="preserve">and again, becauſe they draw the <lb/>Aliment more forcibly from within; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8091" xml:space="preserve">and again, becauſe they relax the Pores, <lb/>and ſo make better paſſage for the Spirits, Blood, and Aliment: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8092" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, be-<lb/>cauſe they diſſipate, and diſgeſt any Inutile, or Excrementitious moiſture, <lb/>which lieth in the Fl@ſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8093" xml:space="preserve">all which help Aſſimulation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8094" xml:space="preserve">Frictions alſo do, <lb/>more fill and impinguate the Body, than Exerciſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8095" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that in <lb/>Frictions, the in ward parts are at reſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8096" xml:space="preserve">which in exerciſe are beaten (many <lb/>times) toomuch: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8097" xml:space="preserve">And for the ſame reaſon (as we have noted heretofore) <lb/>Galliſlaves are ſat and fleſhy, becauſe they ſtir the Limbs more, and the in-<lb/>ward parts leſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8098" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div943" type="float" level="2" n="78"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0223-04" xlink:href="note-0223-04a" xml:space="preserve">877. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Frictions.</note> </div> <pb o="190" file="0224" n="224" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8099" xml:space="preserve">ALl Globes a ſar off, appearflat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8100" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that diſtance, being a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0224-01a" xlink:href="note-0224-01"/> ſecundary object of ſight, is not otherwiſe diſcerned, than by more or <lb/>leſs light; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8101" xml:space="preserve">which diſparity, when it cannot be diſcerned, all ſeemeth one: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8102" xml:space="preserve">As it is (generally) in objects not diſtinctly diſcerned; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8103" xml:space="preserve">for ſo Letters, iſ they <lb/>be ſo far off, as they cannot be diſcerned, ſhew but as duskiſh Paper; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8104" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>all Engravings and Emboſſings (a far off) appear plain.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8105" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div944" type="float" level="2" n="79"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-01" xlink:href="note-0224-01a" xml:space="preserve">878. <lb/>Expetiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Globes ap-<lb/>pearing Flat <lb/>at diſtance.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8106" xml:space="preserve">THe uttermoſt parts of Shadows, ſeem ever to tremble. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8107" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0224-02a" xlink:href="note-0224-02"/> that the little Moats which we ſee in the Sun, do ever ſtir, though there <lb/>be no Wind; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8108" xml:space="preserve">and therefore thoſe moving, in the meeting of the Light and <lb/>the Shadow, ſrom the Light to the Shadow, and from the Shadow to the <lb/>Light, do ſhew the ſhadow to move, becauſethe Medium moveth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8109" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div945" type="float" level="2" n="80"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-02" xlink:href="note-0224-02a" xml:space="preserve">879. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Shadows.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8110" xml:space="preserve">SHallow and Narrow Seas, break more than deep and large. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8111" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0224-03a" xlink:href="note-0224-03"/> for that the Impulſion being the ſame in both; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8112" xml:space="preserve">where there is a greater <lb/>quantity of Water, and likewiſe ſpace enough, there the Water rouleth, <lb/>and moveth, both more ſlowly, and with a ſloper riſe and fall: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8113" xml:space="preserve">But where <lb/>there is leſs Water, and leſs ſpace, and the Water daſheth more againſt the <lb/>bottom; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8114" xml:space="preserve">there it moveth more ſwiftly, and more in Precipice: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8115" xml:space="preserve">For in the <lb/>breaking of the Waves, there is ever a Precipice.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8116" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div946" type="float" level="2" n="81"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-03" xlink:href="note-0224-03a" xml:space="preserve">880. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Rowling and <lb/>Briaking of <lb/>the Seas.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8117" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been obſerved by the Ancients, that Salt-water boiled, or boiled <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0224-04a" xlink:href="note-0224-04"/> and cooled again, is more potable, than of it ſelf raw; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8118" xml:space="preserve">and yet the taſte <lb/>of Salt, in Diſtillations by Fire, riſeth not: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8119" xml:space="preserve">For the Diſtilled Water will be <lb/>freſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8120" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that the Salt part of the Water, doth partly <lb/>riſe into a kinde of Scum on the top, and partly goeth into a Sediment in <lb/>the bottom; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8121" xml:space="preserve">and ſo is rather a ſeparation, than an evaporation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8122" xml:space="preserve">But it is too <lb/>groſs to riſe into a vapor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8123" xml:space="preserve">and ſo is a bitter taſte likewiſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8124" xml:space="preserve">For ſimple diſtil-<lb/>led Waters of Wormwood, and the like, are not bitter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8125" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div947" type="float" level="2" n="82"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-04" xlink:href="note-0224-04a" xml:space="preserve">881. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Dulcoration of <lb/>Salt water.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8126" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been ſet down before, that Pits upon the Sea-shores turn into freſh <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0224-05a" xlink:href="note-0224-05"/> Water, by Percolation of the Salt through the Sand: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8127" xml:space="preserve">But it is further <lb/>noted, by ſome of the Ancients, that in ſome places of Africk, after a time, <lb/>the Water in ſuch Pits will become brakiſh again. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8128" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that <lb/>after a time, the very Sands, thorow which the Salt-Water paſſeth, become <lb/>Salt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8129" xml:space="preserve">and ſo the Strainer it ſelf is tincted with Salt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8130" xml:space="preserve">The remedy therefore is <lb/>to dig ſtill new Pits, when the old wax brackiſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8131" xml:space="preserve">as if you would change <lb/>your Strainer.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8132" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div948" type="float" level="2" n="83"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-05" xlink:href="note-0224-05a" xml:space="preserve">882. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Return of <lb/>Saltneß in <lb/>Pits upon the <lb/>Seaſhore.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8133" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been obſerved by the Ancients, that Salt-Water will diſſolve Salt put <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0224-06a" xlink:href="note-0224-06"/> into it, in leſs time, than Freſh Water will diſſolve it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8134" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may <lb/>be, for that the Salt in the precedent Water, doth by ſimilitude of Subſtance, <lb/>draw the Salt new put in, unto it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8135" xml:space="preserve">whereby it diffuſeth in the Liquor more <lb/>ſpeedily. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8136" xml:space="preserve">This is a noble Experiment, if it be true; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8137" xml:space="preserve">for it ſheweth means of <lb/>more quick and eaſie In fuſions, and it is likewiſe a good in ſtance of Attracti-<lb/>on by Similitude of Subſtance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8138" xml:space="preserve">Try it with Sugar put into Water, formerly <lb/>ſugred, and into other VVater unſugred.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8139" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div949" type="float" level="2" n="84"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-06" xlink:href="note-0224-06a" xml:space="preserve">883. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Attraction by <lb/>Similitude of <lb/>Substance.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8140" xml:space="preserve">PUt Sugar into Wine, part of it above, part under the Wine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8141" xml:space="preserve">and you ſhall <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0224-07a" xlink:href="note-0224-07"/> finde (that which may ſeem ſtrange) that the Sugar above the VVine, will <lb/>ſoften and diſſolve ſooner than that within the Wine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8142" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that <pb o="191" file="0225" n="225" rhead="Century IX."/> the Wine entreth that part of the Sugar which is under the Wine, by ſim-<lb/>ple Infuſion or Spreding; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8143" xml:space="preserve">but that part above the Wine is likewiſe forced <lb/>by Sucking: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8144" xml:space="preserve">For all Spongy Bodies expel the Air, and draw in Liquor, if <lb/>it be contiguous; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8145" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee it alſo in Sponges, put part above the Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8146" xml:space="preserve">It <lb/>is worthy the inquiry, to ſee how you may make more accurate Inſuſions, <lb/>by help of Attraction.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8147" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div950" type="float" level="2" n="85"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-07" xlink:href="note-0224-07a" xml:space="preserve">884. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Attraction.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8148" xml:space="preserve">WAter in Wells is warmer in Winter than in Summer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8149" xml:space="preserve">and ſo Air in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0225-01a" xlink:href="note-0225-01"/> Caves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8150" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that in the higher parts, under the Earth, <lb/>there is a degree of ſome heat (as appeareth in ſulphureous Veins, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8151" xml:space="preserve">c.) <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8152" xml:space="preserve">which ſhut cloſe in (as in Winter) is the more; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8153" xml:space="preserve">but if it perſpire (as it doth <lb/>in Summer) it is the leſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8154" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div951" type="float" level="2" n="86"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0225-01" xlink:href="note-0225-01a" xml:space="preserve">885. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Heat upon <lb/>Earth.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8155" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported, that amongſt the Leucadians, in ancient time, upon a ſuper-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0225-02a" xlink:href="note-0225-02"/> ſtition, they did uſe to precipitate a Man from ahigh Cliff into the Sea; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8156" xml:space="preserve">tying about him with ſtrings, at ſome diſtance, many great Fowls; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8157" xml:space="preserve">and fix-<lb/>ing unto his Body divers Feathers ſpred, to break the fall. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8158" xml:space="preserve">Certainly many <lb/>Birds of good Wing (as Kites, and the like) would bear up a good weight <lb/>as they flie; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8159" xml:space="preserve">and ſpreding of Feathers thin and cloſe, and in great bredth, <lb/>will likewiſe bear up a great weight, being even laid without tilting upon <lb/>the ſides. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8160" xml:space="preserve">The further extenſion of this Experiment for Flying, may be <lb/>thought upon.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8161" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div952" type="float" level="2" n="87"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0225-02" xlink:href="note-0225-02a" xml:space="preserve">886. <lb/>Experimen <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Flying in the <lb/>Air.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8162" xml:space="preserve">THere is in ſome places (namely, in Cephalonia) a little Shrub, which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0225-03a" xlink:href="note-0225-03"/> they call Holy Oak, or Dwarf Oak. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8163" xml:space="preserve">Upon the Leaves whereof there <lb/>riſeth a Tumor, like a Bliſter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8164" xml:space="preserve">which they gather, and rub out of it, acer-<lb/>tain red duſt, that converteth (after a while) into Worms, which they kill <lb/>with Wine, (as is reported) when they begin to quicken: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8165" xml:space="preserve">With this Duſt <lb/>they Die Scarlet.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8166" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div953" type="float" level="2" n="88"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0225-03" xlink:href="note-0225-03a" xml:space="preserve">887. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Dye of Scar-<lb/>let.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8167" xml:space="preserve">IN Zant, it is very ordinary, to make Men impotent, to accompany with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0225-04a" xlink:href="note-0225-04"/> their Wives. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8168" xml:space="preserve">The like is practiſed in Gaſcony, where it is called Nover l’ <lb/>Eguillete. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8169" xml:space="preserve">It is practiſed alvvays upon the Wedding day. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8170" xml:space="preserve">And in Zant, the <lb/>Mothers themſelves do it by vvay of prevention, becauſe thereby they hinder <lb/>other Charms, and can undo their ovvn. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8171" xml:space="preserve">It is a thing the Civil Law taketh <lb/>knovvledge of, and therefore is of no light regard.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8172" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div954" type="float" level="2" n="89"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0225-04" xlink:href="note-0225-04a" xml:space="preserve">888. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Maleficiating.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8173" xml:space="preserve">IT is a common Experiment, but the cauſe is miſtaken. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8174" xml:space="preserve">Take a Pot, (or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0225-05a" xlink:href="note-0225-05"/> better a Glaſs, becauſe therein you may ſee the Motion) and ſet a Candle <lb/>lighted in the Bottom of a Baſon of Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8175" xml:space="preserve">and turn the Mouth of the Pot <lb/>or Glaſs over the Candle, and it vvill make the Water riſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8176" xml:space="preserve">They aſcribe it <lb/>to the dravving of heat, vvhich is not true: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8177" xml:space="preserve">For it appeareth plainly to be <lb/>but a Motion of Nexe, vvhich they call Nedetur vacuum, and it proceedeth <lb/>thus; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8178" xml:space="preserve">The Flame of the Candle as ſoon, as it is covered, being ſuffocated <lb/>by the cloſe Air, leſſeneth by little and little: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8179" xml:space="preserve">During vvhich time, there is <lb/>ſome little aſcent of Water, but not much; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8180" xml:space="preserve">for the Flame occupying leſs <lb/>and leſs room, as it leſſeneth, the Water ſucceedeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8181" xml:space="preserve">But upon the inſtant <lb/>of the Candles going out, there is a ſudden riſe of a greatdeal of Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8182" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>that that the Body of the Flame filleth no more place, and ſo the Air and <lb/>Water ſucceed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8183" xml:space="preserve">It vvorketh the ſame offect, if inſtead of Water, you put <lb/>Flovver, or Sand, into the Baſon: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8184" xml:space="preserve">Which ſhevveth, that it is not the Flames <lb/>dravving the Liquor, as Nouriſhment, as it is ſuppoſed, for all Bodies are <pb o="192" file="0226" n="226" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> alike unto it, as it is ever in motion of Nexe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8185" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as I have ſeen the <lb/>Glaſs, being held by the hand, hath lifted up the Baſon, and all: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8186" xml:space="preserve">The motion <lb/>of Nexe did ſo claſp the bottom of the Baſon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8187" xml:space="preserve">That Experiment, when the <lb/>Baſon was lifted up, was made with Oyl, and not with Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8188" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs <lb/>this this is true, that at the very firſt ſetting of the Mouth of the Glaſs, upon <lb/>the bottom of the Baſon, it draweth up the Water a little, and then ſtandeth <lb/>at a ſtay, almoſt till the Candles going out, as was ſaid. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8189" xml:space="preserve">This may ſhew ſome <lb/>Attraction at firſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8190" xml:space="preserve">but of this we will ſpeak more, when we handle Attracti-<lb/>ons by Heat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8191" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div955" type="float" level="2" n="90"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0225-05" xlink:href="note-0225-05a" xml:space="preserve">889. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Riſe of Water <lb/>by Means of <lb/>Flame.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8192" xml:space="preserve">OF the Power of the Celeſtial Bodies, and what more ſecret in ſlucences <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0226-01a" xlink:href="note-0226-01"/> they have, beſides the two manifeſt in fluences of Heat and Light, we <lb/>ſhall ſpeak, when we handle Experiments touching the Celeſtial Bodies: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8193" xml:space="preserve">Mean <lb/>while, we will give ſome Directions for more certain Tryals of the Vertue <lb/>and Influences of the Moon, which is our neareſt Neighbor.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8194" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div956" type="float" level="2" n="91"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0226-01" xlink:href="note-0226-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>tcuching the <lb/>Influences oſ <lb/>the Moon.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8195" xml:space="preserve">The Influences of the Moon (moſt obſerved) are four; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8196" xml:space="preserve">the drawing <lb/>forth of Heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8197" xml:space="preserve">the Inducing of Putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8198" xml:space="preserve">the increaſe of Moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8199" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>exciting of the Motions of Spirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8200" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8201" xml:space="preserve">For the drawing forth of Heat, we have ſormerly preſcribed to take <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0226-02a" xlink:href="note-0226-02"/> Water warm, and to ſet part of it againſt the Moon-beams, and part of it <lb/>with a Skreen between; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8202" xml:space="preserve">and to ſee whether that which ſtandeth expoſed to <lb/>the Beams will not cool ſooner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8203" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe this is but a ſmall interpoſition, <lb/>(though in the Sun we ſee a ſmall ſhade doth much) it were good to try it <lb/>when the Moon ſhineth, and when the Moon ſhineth not at all; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8204" xml:space="preserve">and with <lb/>Water warm in a Glaſs-bottle as well as in a Diſh, and with Cinders, and <lb/>with Iron red-hot, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8205" xml:space="preserve">c,</s> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div957" type="float" level="2" n="92"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0226-02" xlink:href="note-0226-02a" xml:space="preserve">890.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8206" xml:space="preserve">For the inducing of Putrefaction, it were good to try it with Fleſh or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0226-03a" xlink:href="note-0226-03"/> Fiſh expoſed to the Moon-beams, and again expoſed to the Air when the <lb/>Moon ſhineth not, for the liketime, to ſee whether will corrupt ſoor<unsure/>ter; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8207" xml:space="preserve">and try it alſo with Capon, or ſome other fowl laid abroad, to ſee whether it <lb/>will mortifie and become tenderſooner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8208" xml:space="preserve">Try it alſo with dead Flies or dead <lb/>Worms, having a little Water caſt upon them, to ſee whether will putrefie <lb/>ſooner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8209" xml:space="preserve">Try it alſo with an Apple or Orenge, having holes made in their <lb/>tops, to ſee whether will rot or mould ſooner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8210" xml:space="preserve">Try it alſo with Holland <lb/>Cheeſe, having Wine put into it, whether it will breed Mites ſooner or <lb/>greater.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8211" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div958" type="float" level="2" n="93"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0226-03" xlink:href="note-0226-03a" xml:space="preserve">891.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8212" xml:space="preserve">For the increafe of Moiſture, the opinion received is, that Seeds will <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0226-04a" xlink:href="note-0226-04"/> grow ſooneſt, and Hair, and Nails, and Hedges, and Herbs, cut, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8213" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8214" xml:space="preserve">will <lb/>grow ſooneſt, if they be ſet or cut in the increaſe of the Moon: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8215" xml:space="preserve">Alſo, that <lb/>Brains in Rabits, Wood-cocks, Calves, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8216" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8217" xml:space="preserve">are ſulleſt in the Full of the <lb/>Moon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8218" xml:space="preserve">and ſo of Marrow in the Bones, and fo of Oyſters and Cockles; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8219" xml:space="preserve">which of all the reſt are the eaſieſt tried, if you have them in Pits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8220" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div959" type="float" level="2" n="94"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0226-04" xlink:href="note-0226-04a" xml:space="preserve">892.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8221" xml:space="preserve">Take ſome Seeds or Roots (as Onions, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8222" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8223" xml:space="preserve">and ſet ſome of them im-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0226-05a" xlink:href="note-0226-05"/> mediately after the Change, and others of the ſame kinde immediately after <lb/>the Full: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8224" xml:space="preserve">Let them be as like as can be, the Earth alſo the ſame as near as <lb/>may be, and therefore beſt in Pots: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8225" xml:space="preserve">Let the Pots alſo ſtand where no Rain <lb/>or Sun may come to them, leſt the difference of the Weather conſound the <lb/>Experiment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8226" xml:space="preserve">And then ſee in what time the Seeds ſet, in the increaſe of the <lb/>Moon, come to a certain height, and how they differ from thoſe that are ſet <lb/>in the decreaſe of the Moon.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8227" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div960" type="float" level="2" n="95"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0226-05" xlink:href="note-0226-05a" xml:space="preserve">893.</note> </div> <pb o="193" file="0227" n="227" rhead="Century IX."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8228" xml:space="preserve">It is like, that the Brain of Man waxeth moiſter and fuller upon the Full <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0227-01a" xlink:href="note-0227-01"/> of the Moon; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8229" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it were good for thoſe that have moiſt Brains, <lb/>and are great Drinkers, to take fume of Lignum Aloes, Roſemary, Frankincenſe, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8230" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8231" xml:space="preserve">about the Full of the Moon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8232" xml:space="preserve">It is like alſo, that the Humors in Mens <lb/>Bodies increaſe and decreaſe, as the Moon doth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8233" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it were good <lb/>to purge ſome day or two after the Full, for that then the Humors will not <lb/>repleniſh ſo ſoon again.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8234" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div961" type="float" level="2" n="96"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0227-01" xlink:href="note-0227-01a" xml:space="preserve">894.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8235" xml:space="preserve">As for the exciting of the motion of the Spirits, you muſt note, that the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0227-02a" xlink:href="note-0227-02"/> growth of Hedges, Herbs, Hair, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8236" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8237" xml:space="preserve">is cauſed from the Moon, by exciting of <lb/>the Spirits, as well as by increaſe of the moiſture. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8238" xml:space="preserve">But for Spirits in particular, <lb/>the great inſtance is in Lunacies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8239" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div962" type="float" level="2" n="97"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0227-02" xlink:href="note-0227-02a" xml:space="preserve">895.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8240" xml:space="preserve">There may be other ſecret effects of the influence of the Moon, which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0227-03a" xlink:href="note-0227-03"/> are not yet brought into obſervation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8241" xml:space="preserve">It may be, that if it ſo fall out, that the <lb/>Wind be North or North Eaſt, in the Full of the Moon, it increaſeth Cold; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8242" xml:space="preserve">and if South or South-Weſt, it diſpoſeth the Air for a good while to warmth <lb/>and rain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8243" xml:space="preserve">which would be obſerved.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8244" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div963" type="float" level="2" n="98"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0227-03" xlink:href="note-0227-03a" xml:space="preserve">896.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8245" xml:space="preserve">It may be that Children and young Cattel that are brought forth in the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0227-04a" xlink:href="note-0227-04"/> Full of the Moon, are ſtronger and larger then thoſe that are brought forth <lb/>in the Wane; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8246" xml:space="preserve">and thoſe alſo which are begotten in the Full of the Moon: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8247" xml:space="preserve">So that it might be good Husbandry, to put Rams and Bulls to their Females <lb/>ſomewhat before the Full of the Moon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8248" xml:space="preserve">It may be alſo, that the Eggs <lb/>laid in the Full of the Moon, breed the better Bird; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8249" xml:space="preserve">and a number of the <lb/>like effects, which may be brought into obſervation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8250" xml:space="preserve">Quare alſo, whe-<lb/>ther great Thunders and Earth-quakes be not moſt in the Full of the <lb/>Moon.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8251" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div964" type="float" level="2" n="99"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0227-04" xlink:href="note-0227-04a" xml:space="preserve">897.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8252" xml:space="preserve">THe turning of Wine to Vinegar, is a kinde of Putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8253" xml:space="preserve">and in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0227-05a" xlink:href="note-0227-05"/> making of Vinegar, they uſe to ſet Veſſels of Wine over againſt the <lb/>Noon Sun, which calleth out the more Oily Spirits, and leaveth the Liquor <lb/>more ſour and hard. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8254" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that Burnt-Wine is more hard and aſtrin-<lb/>gent then Wine unburnt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8255" xml:space="preserve">It is ſaid, that Cider in Navigations under the Line <lb/>ripeneth, when Wine or Beer ſoureth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8256" xml:space="preserve">It were good to ſet a Rundlet of Ver-<lb/>juice over againſt the Sun in Summer, as they do Vinegar, to ſee whether it <lb/>will ripen and ſweeten.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8257" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div965" type="float" level="2" n="100"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0227-05" xlink:href="note-0227-05a" xml:space="preserve">898. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Vinegar.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8258" xml:space="preserve">THere be divers Creatures that ſleep all Winter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8259" xml:space="preserve">as the Bear, the Hedg-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0227-06a" xlink:href="note-0227-06"/> hog, the Bat, the Bee, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8260" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8261" xml:space="preserve">Theſe all wax fat when they ſleep, and egeſt <lb/>not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8262" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of their fattening, during their ſleeping time, may be the <lb/>want of aſſimilating; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8263" xml:space="preserve">for whatſoever aſſimilateth not to Fleſh, turneth either <lb/>to ſweat or fat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8264" xml:space="preserve">Theſe Creatures, for part of their ſleeping time, have been <lb/>obſerved not to ſtir at all; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8265" xml:space="preserve">and for the other part, to ſtir, but not to remove, <lb/>and they get warm and cloſe places to ſleep in. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8266" xml:space="preserve">When the Flemmings wintred <lb/>in Nova Zembla, the Bears about the middle of November went to ſleep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8267" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>then the Foxes began to comeforth, which durſt not before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8268" xml:space="preserve">It is noted by <lb/>ſome of the Ancients, that the She Bear breedeth, and lieth in with her <lb/>young during that time of Reſt, and that a Bear big with young, hath ſeldom <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0227-07a" xlink:href="note-0227-07"/> been ſeen.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8269" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div966" type="float" level="2" n="101"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0227-06" xlink:href="note-0227-06a" xml:space="preserve">899. <lb/>Expetiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Creatures that <lb/>Sleep all Win-<lb/>ter.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0227-07" xlink:href="note-0227-07a" xml:space="preserve">900. <lb/>Expetiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Generation of <lb/>Creatures by <lb/>Copulating, <lb/>and by Putre-<lb/>faction.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8270" xml:space="preserve">SOme Living Creatures are procreated by Copulation between Male and <lb/>Female, ſome by Putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8271" xml:space="preserve">and of thoſe which come by Putrefaction, <lb/>many do (nevertheleſs) after wards procreate by Copulation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8272" xml:space="preserve">For the cauſe <lb/>of both Generations: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8273" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, it is moſt certain, that the cauſe of all Vivi- <pb o="194" file="0228" n="228" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> fication is a gentle and proportionable heat, working upon a gluttinous and <lb/>yielding ſubſtance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8274" xml:space="preserve">for the heat doth bring forth Spirit in that ſubſtance, <lb/>and the ſubſtance being gluttinous, produceth two effects; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8275" xml:space="preserve">the one, That <lb/>the Spirit is detained, and cannot break forth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8276" xml:space="preserve">the other That the matter <lb/>being gentle and yielding, is driven forwards by the motion of the Spirits, <lb/>after ſome ſwelling into ſhape and members. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8277" xml:space="preserve">Therefore all Sperm, all Men-<lb/>ſtruous ſubſtance, all matter whereof Creatures are produced by Putrefacti-<lb/>on, have evermore a Cloſeneſs, Lentor, and Sequacity. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8278" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth therefore <lb/>that the Generation by Sperm onely, and by Putrefaction, have two diffe-<lb/>rent cauſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8279" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is, for that Creatures which have a definite and exact <lb/>ſhape (as thoſe have which are procreated by Copulation) cannot be produ-<lb/>ced by a weak and caſual heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8280" xml:space="preserve">nor out of matter, which is not exactly pre-<lb/>pared according to the Species, The ſecond is, for that there is a greater <lb/>time required for Maturation of perfect Creatures; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8281" xml:space="preserve">for if the time required <lb/>in Vivification be of any length, then the Spirit will exhale before the Crea-<lb/>ture be mature; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8282" xml:space="preserve">except it be incloſed in a place where it may have continu-<lb/>ance of the heat, acceſs of ſome nouriſhment to maintain it, and cloſeneſs <lb/>that may keep it from exhaling; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8283" xml:space="preserve">and ſuch places, or the Wombs and Matri-<lb/>ces of the Females: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8284" xml:space="preserve">And therefore all Creatures made of Putrefaction, are <lb/>of more uncertain ſhape, and are made in ſhorter time, and need not ſo per-<lb/>fect an encloſure, though ſome cloſeneſs be commonly required. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8285" xml:space="preserve">As for <lb/>the Heathen opinion, which was, That upon great mutations of the World, <lb/>perfect Creatures were firſt ingendred of Concretion, as well as Frogs, and <lb/>Worms, and Flies, and ſuch like, are now; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8286" xml:space="preserve">we know it to be vain: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8287" xml:space="preserve">But if <lb/>any ſuch thing ſhould be admitted, diſcourſing according to ſenſe, it cannot <lb/>be, except you admit of a Chaos firſt, and commixture of Heaven and Earth; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8288" xml:space="preserve">for the Frame of the World once in order, cannot effect it by any exceſs or <lb/>caſualty.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8289" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="197" file="0229" n="229"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div968" type="section" level="1" n="34"> <head xml:id="echoid-head50" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL <lb/>HISTORY.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head51" xml:space="preserve">Century X.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8290" xml:space="preserve">THe Philoſophy of Pythagoras (which was full of Super-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0229-01a" xlink:href="note-0229-01"/> ſtition) did firſt plant a Monſtrous Imagination, which <lb/>afterwards was, by the School of Plato, and others, <lb/>watred and nouriſhed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8291" xml:space="preserve">It was, That the World was one <lb/>entire perfect Living Creature; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8292" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as Apollonius of <lb/>Iyana, a Pythagorean Prophet, affirmed, That the Ebb-<lb/>ing and Flowing of the Sea was the Reſpiration of the <lb/>World, drawing in Water as Breath, and putting it <lb/>forth again. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8293" xml:space="preserve">They went on, and inferred, That if the World were a Living <lb/>Creature, it had a Soul and Spirit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8294" xml:space="preserve">which alſo they held, calling it Spiritus <lb/>Mundi, the Spirit or Soul of the World; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8295" xml:space="preserve">by which, they did not intend God, <lb/>(for they did admit of a Deity beſides) but onely the Soul, or Eſſential Form <lb/>of the Univerſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8296" xml:space="preserve">This Foundation being laid, they might build upon it what <lb/>they would; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8297" xml:space="preserve">for in a Living Creature, though never ſo great (as for example, <lb/>in a great Whale) the Senſe and the Affects of any one part of the Body <lb/>inſtantly make a Tranſcurſion throughout the whole Body: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8298" xml:space="preserve">So that by this <lb/>they did inſinuate, that no diſtance of place, nor want orindiſpoſition of <lb/>Matter, could hinder Magical Operations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8299" xml:space="preserve">but that (for example) we <lb/>might here in Europe have Senſe and Feeling of that which was done in <lb/>China; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8300" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe, we might work any effect without and againſt Matter: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8301" xml:space="preserve">And this not holden by the co-operation of Angels or Spirits, but onely by <lb/>the Unity and Harmony of Nature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8302" xml:space="preserve">There were ſome alſo that ſtaid not <lb/>here, but went further, and held, That if the Spirit of Man (whom they <lb/>call the Microcoſm) do give a fit touch to the Spirit of the World, by ſtrong <lb/>Imaginations and Beliefs, it might command Nature; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8303" xml:space="preserve">for Paracelſus, and <lb/>ſome darkſome Authors of Magick, do aſcribe to Imagination exalted the <lb/>Power of Miracle-working Faith. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8304" xml:space="preserve">With theſe vaſt and bottomleſs Follies <lb/>Men have been (in part) entertained.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8305" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div968" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0229-01" xlink:href="note-0229-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments <lb/>in Conſott, <lb/>touching <lb/>Tranſmißion <lb/>and Influx of <lb/>Immateriate <lb/>Virtues, and <lb/>the Force of <lb/>Imagination.</note> </div> <pb o="198" file="0230" n="230" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8306" xml:space="preserve">Butwe, that hold firm to the Works of God, and to the Senſe, which <lb/>is Gods Lamp, (Lucerna Dei Spiraculum Hominis) will enquire with all So-<lb/>briety and Severity, whether there be to be found in the Foot-ſteps of Na-<lb/>ture any ſuch Tranſmiſſion and Influx of Immateriate Virtues; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8307" xml:space="preserve">and what <lb/>the force of Imagination is, either upon the Body Imaginant, or upon <lb/>another Body: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8308" xml:space="preserve">Wherein it will be like that labor of Hercules in purging the <lb/>Stable of Augeas, to ſeparate from Superſtitious and Magical Arts and Ob-<lb/>ſervations, any thing that is clean and pure Natural, and not to be either <lb/>contemned or condemned. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8309" xml:space="preserve">And although we ſhall have occaſion to <lb/>ſpeak of this in more places then one, yet we will now make ſome entrance <lb/>thereinto.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8310" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8311" xml:space="preserve">MEn are to be admoniſhed, that they do not withdraw credit from the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0230-01a" xlink:href="note-0230-01"/> Operations by Tranſmiſſion of Spirits and Force of Imagination, <lb/>becauſe the effects fail ſometimes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8312" xml:space="preserve">For as in Infection and Contagion from <lb/>Body to Body, (as the Plague, and the like) it is moſt certain, that the In-<lb/>fection is received (many times) by the Body Paſſive, but yet is by the <lb/>ſtrength and good diſpoſition thereof repulſed, and wrought out, before it <lb/>be formed into a Diſeaſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8313" xml:space="preserve">ſo much more in Impreſſions from Minde to <lb/>Minde, or from Spirit to Spirit, the Impreſſion taketh, but is encountred <lb/>and overcome by the Minde and Spirit, which is Paſſive, before it work any <lb/>manifeſt effect: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8314" xml:space="preserve">And therefore they work moſt upon weak Mindes and <lb/>Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8315" xml:space="preserve">as thoſe of Women, Sick Perſons, Superſtitious and fearful Per-<lb/>ſons, Children, and young Creatures.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8316" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div969" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0230-01" xlink:href="note-0230-01a" xml:space="preserve">901. <lb/>Experiments <lb/>in Conſort <lb/>Menitory, <lb/>touching <lb/>Tranſmißion <lb/>of Spirits, and <lb/>the Force of <lb/>Imagination.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div971" type="section" level="1" n="35"> <head xml:id="echoid-head52" xml:space="preserve">Neſcio quis teneros oculus mihi faſcinat Agnos:</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8317" xml:space="preserve">The Poet ſpeaketh not of Sheep, but of Lambs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8318" xml:space="preserve">As for the weakneſs of the <lb/>Power of them upon Kings and Magiſtrates, it may be aſcribed (beſides the <lb/>main, which is the Protection of God over thoſe that execute his place) to <lb/>the weakneſs of the Imagination of the Imaginant; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8319" xml:space="preserve">for it is hard for a <lb/>Witch or a Sorcerer to put on a belief, that they can hurt ſuch perſons.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8320" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8321" xml:space="preserve">Men are to be admoniſhed on the other ſide, that they do not eaſily give <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0230-02a" xlink:href="note-0230-02"/> placeand creditto theſe operations, becauſe they ſucceed many times: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8322" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>the cauſe of this ſucceſs is (oft) to be truly aſcribed unto the force of Affecti-<lb/>on and Imagination upon the Body Agent, and then by a ſecondary means it <lb/>may work upon a diverſe Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8323" xml:space="preserve">As for example, If a man carry a Planets Seal <lb/>or a Ring, or ſome part of a Beaſt, believing ſtrongly that it will help him to <lb/>obtain his Love, or to keep him from danger of hurt in Fight, or to prevail in <lb/>a Sute, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8324" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8325" xml:space="preserve">it may make him more active and induſtrious; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8326" xml:space="preserve">and again more <lb/>confident and perſiſting, then otherwiſe he would be. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8327" xml:space="preserve">Now the great effects <lb/>that may come of Induſtry and Perſeverance (eſpecially in civil buſineſs) who <lb/>knoweth not? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8328" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee audacity doth almoſt binde and mate the weaker <lb/>ſort of Mindes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8329" xml:space="preserve">and the ſtate of Humane Actions is ſo variable, that to try <lb/>things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8330" xml:space="preserve">Therefore it were a meer <lb/>fallacy and miſtaking to aſcribe that to the Force of Imagination upon an-<lb/>other Body, which is but the Force of Imagination upon the proper Body; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8331" xml:space="preserve">for there is no doubt but that Imagination and vehement Affection work <lb/>greatly upon the Body of the Imaginant, as we ſhall ſhew in due place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8332" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div971" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0230-02" xlink:href="note-0230-02a" xml:space="preserve">902.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8333" xml:space="preserve">Men are to be admoniſhed, that as they are not to miſtake the cauſes of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0230-03a" xlink:href="note-0230-03"/> theſe Operations, ſo much leſs they are to miſtake the Fact or Effect, <lb/>and raſhly to take that for done which is not done. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8334" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, as di-<lb/>vers wiſe Judges have preſcribed and cautioned, Men may not too raſhly <pb o="199" file="0231" n="231" rhead="Century X."/> believe the Confeſſion of Witches, nor yet the evidence againſt them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8335" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>the Witches themſelves are Imaginative, and believe oſ<unsure/>t-times they do that <lb/>which they do not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8336" xml:space="preserve">and people are credulous in that point, and ready to <lb/>impute Accidents and Natural operations to Witchcraft. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8337" xml:space="preserve">It is worthy the <lb/>obſerving, that both in ancient and late times, (as in the Theſſalian Witches, <lb/>and the meetings of Witches that have been recorded by ſo many late Con-<lb/>feſſions) the great wonders which they tell of carrying in the Air, trans-<lb/>forming them ſelves into other Bodies, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8338" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8339" xml:space="preserve">are ſtill reported to be wrought, <lb/>not by Incantation or Ceremonies, but by Ointments and Anointing them-<lb/>ſelves all over. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8340" xml:space="preserve">This may juſtly move a Man to think, that theſe Fables are <lb/>the effects of Imagination; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8341" xml:space="preserve">for it is certain, that Ointments do all (if they be <lb/>laid on any thing thick) by ſtopping of the Pores, ſhut in the Vapor, and <lb/>ſend them to the head extreamly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8342" xml:space="preserve">And for the particular Ingredients of <lb/>thoſe Magical Ointments, it is like they are opiate and ſoporiferous. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8343" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>Anointing of the Forehead, Neck, Feet, Back-bone, we know is uſed for <lb/>procuring dead ſleeps. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8344" xml:space="preserve">And if any Man ſay, that this effect would be bet-<lb/>ter done by in ward potions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8345" xml:space="preserve">anſwer may be made, that the Medicines which <lb/>go to the Ointments are ſo ſtrong, that if they were uſed in wards, they would <lb/>kill thoſe that uſe them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8346" xml:space="preserve">and therefore they work potently, though out-<lb/>wards.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8347" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div972" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0230-03" xlink:href="note-0230-03a" xml:space="preserve">903.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8348" xml:space="preserve">We will divide the ſeveral kindes of the operations by tranſmiſſion of <lb/>Spirits and Imagination, which will give no ſmall light to the Experiments <lb/>that follow. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8349" xml:space="preserve">All operations by tranſmiſſion of Spirits and Imagination have <lb/>this, that they work at diſtance, and not at touch; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8350" xml:space="preserve">and they are theſe being <lb/>diſtinguiſhed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8351" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8352" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is, The Tranſmiſſion or Emiſſion of the thinner and more <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0231-01a" xlink:href="note-0231-01"/> airy parts of Bodies, as in Odors and Infections; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8353" xml:space="preserve">and this is, of all the <lb/>teſt, the moſt corporeal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8354" xml:space="preserve">But you muſt remember withal, that there <lb/>be a number of thoſe Emiſſions, both unwholeſome and wholeſome, that <lb/>give no ſmell at all: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8355" xml:space="preserve">For the Plague many times when it is taken giveth <lb/>no ſent at all, and there be many good and healthful Airs, as they appear <lb/>by Habitation, and other proofs, that differ not in Smell from other Airs. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8356" xml:space="preserve">And under this head you may place all Imbibitions of Air, where the ſub-<lb/>ſtance is material, odor-like, whereof ſome nevertheleſs are ſtrange, and <lb/>very ſuddenly diffuſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8357" xml:space="preserve">as the alteration which the Air receiveth in Egypt al-<lb/>moſt immediately upon the riſing of the River of Nilus, whereof we have <lb/>ſpoken.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8358" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div973" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0231-01" xlink:href="note-0231-01a" xml:space="preserve">904.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8359" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is, the Tranſmiſſion or Emiſſion of thoſe things that we call <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0231-02a" xlink:href="note-0231-02"/> Spiritual Species, as Vi<unsure/>ſibles and Sounds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8360" xml:space="preserve">the one whereof we have hand-<lb/>led, and the other we ſhall handle in due place. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8361" xml:space="preserve">Theſe move ſwiftly and at <lb/>great diſtance, but then they require a Medium well diſpoſed, and their Tranſ-<lb/>miſſion is eaſily ſtopped.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8362" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div974" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0231-02" xlink:href="note-0231-02a" xml:space="preserve">905.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8363" xml:space="preserve">The third is, the Emiſſions which cauſe Attraction of certain Bodies at <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0231-03a" xlink:href="note-0231-03"/> diſtance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8364" xml:space="preserve">wherein though the Loadſtone be commonly placed in the firſt <lb/>rank yet we think good to except it, and refer it to another Head: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8365" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>the drawing of Amber, and Fet, and other Electrick Bodies, and the At-<lb/>traction in Gold of the Spirit of Quick-ſilver at diſtance, and the Attraction <lb/>of Heat at diſtance, and that of fire to Naphtha, and that of ſome Herbs <lb/>to Water, though at diſtance, and divers others, we ſhall handle; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8366" xml:space="preserve">but <lb/>yet not under this preſent title, but under the title of Attraction in <lb/>general.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8367" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div975" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0231-03" xlink:href="note-0231-03a" xml:space="preserve">906.</note> </div> <pb o="200" file="0232" n="232" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8368" xml:space="preserve">The fourth is, the Emiſſion of Spirits, and Immateriate Powers and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0232-01a" xlink:href="note-0232-01"/> Vi<unsure/>rt<unsure/>ues, in thoſe things which work by the univerſal configuration and Sym-<lb/>pathy of the World; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8369" xml:space="preserve">not by Forms, or Celeſtial Influxes, (as is vainly taught <lb/>and received) but by the Primitive Nature of Matter, and the ſeeds of <lb/>things. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8370" xml:space="preserve">Of this kinde is (as we yet ſuppoſe) the working of the Loadſtone, <lb/>which is by conſent with the Globe of the Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8371" xml:space="preserve">of this kinde is the motion <lb/>of Gravity, which is by conſent of denſe Bodies with the Globe of the Earth: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8372" xml:space="preserve">Of this kinde is ſome diſpoſition of Bodies to Rotation, and particularly <lb/>from Eaſtro Weſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8373" xml:space="preserve">of which kinde, we conceive the Main Float and Refloat <lb/>of the Sea is, which is by conſent of the Univerſe, as part of the Diurnal <lb/>Motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8374" xml:space="preserve">Theſe Immateriate Virtues have this property differing from others, <lb/>that the diverſity of the Medium hindreth them not, but they paſs through all <lb/>Mediums, yet at determinate diſtances. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8375" xml:space="preserve">And of theſe we ſhall ſpeak, as they <lb/>are incident to ſeveral Titles.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8376" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div976" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0232-01" xlink:href="note-0232-01a" xml:space="preserve">907.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8377" xml:space="preserve">The fifth is, the Emiſſion of Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8378" xml:space="preserve">and this is the principal in our in-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0232-02a" xlink:href="note-0232-02"/> tention to handle now in this place, namely, the operation of the Spirits of <lb/>the minde of Man upon other Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8379" xml:space="preserve">and this is of a double nature; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8380" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>operation of the Affections, if they be vehement; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8381" xml:space="preserve">and the operation of the <lb/>Imagination, if it be ſtrong. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8382" xml:space="preserve">But theſe two are ſo coupled, as we ſhall handle <lb/>them together; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8383" xml:space="preserve">for when an envious or amorous aſpect doth inſect the Spi-<lb/>rits of another, there is joyned both Affection and Imagination.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8384" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div977" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0232-02" xlink:href="note-0232-02a" xml:space="preserve">908.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8385" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth is, the influxes of the Heavenly Bodies, beſides thoſe two mani-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0232-03a" xlink:href="note-0232-03"/> ſeſt ones of Heat and Light. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8386" xml:space="preserve">But theſe we will handle, where we handle the <lb/>Celeſtial Bodies and Motions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8387" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div978" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0232-03" xlink:href="note-0232-03a" xml:space="preserve">909.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8388" xml:space="preserve">The ſeventh is, the operations of Sympathy, which the Writers of Na-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0232-04a" xlink:href="note-0232-04"/> tural Magick have brought into an Art or Precept; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8389" xml:space="preserve">and it is this, That if <lb/>you deſire to ſuper-induce any Virtue or Diſpoſition upon a Perſon, you <lb/>ſhould take the Living Creature, in which that Virtue is moſt eminent and in <lb/>perfection; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8390" xml:space="preserve">of that Creature you muſt take the parts wherein that Virtue <lb/>chiefly is collocate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8391" xml:space="preserve">Again, you muſt take the parts in the time, and act <lb/>when that Virtue is moſt in exerciſe, and then you muſt apply it to that part <lb/>of Man, wherein that Virtue chiefly conſiſteth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8392" xml:space="preserve">As if you would ſuper-<lb/>induce Courage and Fortitnde, take a Lion, or a Cock; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8393" xml:space="preserve">and take the Heart, Tooth, <lb/>or Paw of the Lion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8394" xml:space="preserve">or the Heart, or Spur of the Cock: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8395" xml:space="preserve">Take thoſe parts im-<lb/>mediately after the Lion or the Cock have been in fight, and let them be worn <lb/>upon a Mans heart or wriſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8396" xml:space="preserve">Of theſe and ſuch like Sympathies we ſhall ſpeak <lb/>under this preſent Title.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8397" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div979" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0232-04" xlink:href="note-0232-04a" xml:space="preserve">910.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8398" xml:space="preserve">The eighth and laſt is, an Emiſſion of Immateriate Virtues, ſuch as we <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0232-05a" xlink:href="note-0232-05"/> are a little doubtful to propound it is ſo prodigious, but that it is ſo con-<lb/>ſtantly avouched by many: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8399" xml:space="preserve">And we have ſet it down as a Law to our ſelves, <lb/>to examine things to the bottom; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8400" xml:space="preserve">and not to receive upon credit, or reject <lb/>upon improbabilities, until there hath paſſed a due examination. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8401" xml:space="preserve">This is the <lb/>Sympathy of Individuals; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8402" xml:space="preserve">for as there is a Sympathy of Species, ſo (it may be) there <lb/>is a Sympathy of Individuals; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8403" xml:space="preserve">that is, that in things, or the parts of things that <lb/>have been once contiguous or entire, there ſhould remain a tranſmiſſion of <lb/>Virtue from the one to the other, as between the Weapon and the Wound. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8404" xml:space="preserve">Whereupon is blazed abroad the operation of Vnguentum Teli, and ſo of a <lb/>piece of Lard, or ſtick of Elder, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8405" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8406" xml:space="preserve">That if part of it be conſumed or pu-<lb/>tre<unsure/>fied, it will work upon the other parts ſevered. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8407" xml:space="preserve">Now we will purſue the <lb/>inſtances themſelves.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8408" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div980" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0232-05" xlink:href="note-0232-05a" xml:space="preserve">911.</note> </div> <pb o="201" file="0233" n="233" rhead="Century X."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8409" xml:space="preserve">THe Plague is many times taken without manifeſt ſenſe, as hath been <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0233-01a" xlink:href="note-0233-01"/> ſaid; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8410" xml:space="preserve">and they report, that where it is found it hath a ſent of the ſmell <lb/>of a Mellow Apple, and (as ſome ſay) of May-flowers: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8411" xml:space="preserve">And it is alſo re-<lb/>ceived, that ſmells of Flowers that are Mellow and Luſhious, are ill for the <lb/>Plague; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8412" xml:space="preserve">as White Lilies, Covvſlips, and Hyacinths.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8413" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div981" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0233-01" xlink:href="note-0233-01a" xml:space="preserve">912. <lb/>Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Emiſsion of <lb/>Spirits in Va-<lb/>por or Exha-<lb/>lation Odor-<lb/>like.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8414" xml:space="preserve">The Plague is not eaſily received by ſuch as continually are about them <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0233-02a" xlink:href="note-0233-02"/> that have the Plague, as Keepers of the Sick, and Phyſicians; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8415" xml:space="preserve">nor again by <lb/>ſuch as take Antidetes, either in ward (as Mithridate, Juniper-berries, Rue, Leaf, <lb/>and Seed, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8416" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8417" xml:space="preserve">or outward (as Angelica, Zedoary, and the like in the Mouth; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8418" xml:space="preserve">Tar, Galbanum, and the like in Perfume:) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8419" xml:space="preserve">Nor again, by old people, and ſuch <lb/>as are of a dry and cold complexion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8420" xml:space="preserve">On the other ſide, the Plague taketh <lb/>ſooneſt hold of thoſe that come out of a freſh Air, and of thoſe that are faſt-<lb/>ing, and of Children; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8421" xml:space="preserve">and it is likewiſe noted to go in a Blood more then <lb/>to a ſtranger.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8422" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div982" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0233-02" xlink:href="note-0233-02a" xml:space="preserve">913.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8423" xml:space="preserve">The moſt pernicious Infection, next the Plague, is the ſmell of the Goal, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0233-03a" xlink:href="note-0233-03"/> when Priſoners have been long, and cloſe, and naſtily kept; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8424" xml:space="preserve">whereof we <lb/>have had in our time, experience twice or thrice, when both the Fudges that <lb/>ſat upon the Goal, and numbers of thoſethat attended the buſineſs, or were <lb/>preſent, ſickned upon it, and died. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8425" xml:space="preserve">Therefore it were good wiſdom, that in <lb/>ſuch caſes the Goal were aired before they be brought forth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8426" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div983" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0233-03" xlink:href="note-0233-03a" xml:space="preserve">914.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8427" xml:space="preserve">Out of queſtion, if ſuch foul ſmells be made by Art, and by the Hand, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0233-04a" xlink:href="note-0233-04"/> they conſiſt chiefly of Mans fleſh, or ſweat, putrefied; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8428" xml:space="preserve">for they are not thoſe <lb/>ſtinks which the Noſtrils ſtraight abhor and expel, that are moſt pernicious, <lb/>but ſuch Airs as have ſome ſimilitude with Mans body, and ſo inſinuate them-<lb/>ſelves, and betray the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8429" xml:space="preserve">There may be great danger in uſing ſuch Com-<lb/>poſitions in great Meetings of People within Houſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8430" xml:space="preserve">as in Churches, at Ar-<lb/>raignments, at Plays and Solemnities, and the like: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8431" xml:space="preserve">For poyſoning of Air is no <lb/>leſs dangerous, then poyſoning of Water, which hath been uſed by the Turks <lb/>in the Wars, and was uſed by Emanuel Comnenus to wards the Chriſtians, when <lb/>they paſſed through his Countrey to the Holy Land. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8432" xml:space="preserve">And theſe empoyſon-<lb/>ments of Air are the more dangerous in Meetings of People, becauſe the <lb/>much breath of People doth further the reception of the Infection. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8433" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>therefore when any ſuch thing is feared, it were good thoſe publick places <lb/>were perfumed before the Aſſemblies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8434" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div984" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0233-04" xlink:href="note-0233-04a" xml:space="preserve">915.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8435" xml:space="preserve">The empoy ſonment of particular perſons by Odors, hath been reported <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0233-05a" xlink:href="note-0233-05"/> to be in perfumed Gloves, or the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8436" xml:space="preserve">And it is like they mingle the poyſon <lb/>that is deadly with ſome ſmells that are ſweet, which alſo maketh it <lb/>the ſooner received. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8437" xml:space="preserve">Plagues alſo have been raiſed by Anointings of the <lb/>Chinks of Doors, and the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8438" xml:space="preserve">not ſo much by the touch, as for that it is <lb/>common for men, when they finde any thing wet upon their fingers, to <lb/>put them to their Noſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8439" xml:space="preserve">which men therefore ſhould take heed how they <lb/>do. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8440" xml:space="preserve">The beſt is, that theſe Compoſitions of Inſectious Airs cannot be made <lb/>without dangers of death to them that make them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8441" xml:space="preserve">but then again, they <lb/>may have ſome Antidotes to ſave themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8442" xml:space="preserve">ſo that men ought not to be <lb/>ſecure of it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8443" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div985" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0233-05" xlink:href="note-0233-05a" xml:space="preserve">916.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8444" xml:space="preserve">There have been in divers Countreys great Plagues by the putrefaction of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0233-06a" xlink:href="note-0233-06"/> great ſwarms of Grashoppers and Locuſts, when they have been dead and caſt <lb/>upon heaps.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8445" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div986" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0233-06" xlink:href="note-0233-06a" xml:space="preserve">917.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8446" xml:space="preserve">It hapneth oft in Mines, that there are Damps which kill either by <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0233-07a" xlink:href="note-0233-07"/> Suffocation, or by the poyſonous nature of the Mineral; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8447" xml:space="preserve">and thoſe that <pb o="202" file="0234" n="234" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> deal much in Refining, or other works about Metals and Minerals, have <lb/>their Brains hurt and itupefied by the Metalline Vapors. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8448" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt which, it <lb/>is noted, that the Spirits of Quick-ſilver ever flie to the Skull, Teeth, or <lb/>Bones; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8449" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as Gilders uſe to have a piece of Gold in their Mouth to <lb/>draw the Spirits of<unsure/> Quick-ſilver; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8450" xml:space="preserve">which Gold aſterwards they finde to be <lb/>whitned. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8451" xml:space="preserve">There are alſo certain Lakes and Pits, ſuch as that of Avernus, that <lb/>poyſon Birds (as is ſaid) which flie over them, or Men that ſtay too long <lb/>about them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8452" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div987" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0233-07" xlink:href="note-0233-07a" xml:space="preserve">918.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8453" xml:space="preserve">The Vapor of Char-coal or Sea-coal in a cloſe room, hath killed <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0234-01a" xlink:href="note-0234-01"/> many; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8454" xml:space="preserve">and it is the more dangerous, becauſe it cometh without any ill ſmell, <lb/>but ſtealeth on by little and little, inducing onely faintneſs, without any <lb/>manifeſt ſtrangling. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8455" xml:space="preserve">When the Dutchmen wintred at Nova Zembla, and <lb/>that they could gather no more ſticks, they fell to make fire of ſome Sea-<lb/>coal they had, wherewith (at firſt) they were much refreſhed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8456" xml:space="preserve">but a little <lb/>after they had ſat about the fire, there grew a general ſilence and lothneſ, <lb/>to ſpeak amongſt them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8457" xml:space="preserve">and immediately after, one of the weakeſt of <lb/>the Company fell down in a ſwoon: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8458" xml:space="preserve">Whereupon, they doubting what it <lb/>was, opened their door to let in Air, and ſo ſaved themſelves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8459" xml:space="preserve">The effect <lb/>(no doubt) is wrought by the inſpiffition of the Air, and ſo of the <lb/>Breath and Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8460" xml:space="preserve">The like enſueth in Rooms newly Plaiſtred, if a fire <lb/>be made in them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8461" xml:space="preserve">whereof no leſs Min then the Emperor Jovinianus <lb/>died.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8462" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div988" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0234-01" xlink:href="note-0234-01a" xml:space="preserve">919.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8463" xml:space="preserve">Vide the Experiment 803. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8464" xml:space="preserve">Touching the Infectious Nature of the Air upon <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0234-02a" xlink:href="note-0234-02"/> the firſt Showers aſter long Drought.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8465" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div989" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0234-02" xlink:href="note-0234-02a" xml:space="preserve">920.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8466" xml:space="preserve">It hath come to paſs, that ſome Apothecaries. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8467" xml:space="preserve">upon ſtamping of Colo-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0234-03a" xlink:href="note-0234-03"/> quintida, have been put into a great Scouring by the Vapor onely.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8468" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div990" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0234-03" xlink:href="note-0234-03a" xml:space="preserve">921.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8469" xml:space="preserve">It hath been a practice to burn a Pepper they call Guinny-Pepper, which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0234-04a" xlink:href="note-0234-04"/> hath ſuch a ſtrong Spirit, that it provoketh a continual SneeZing in thoſe that <lb/>are in the Room.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8470" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div991" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0234-04" xlink:href="note-0234-04a" xml:space="preserve">922.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8471" xml:space="preserve">It is an Ancient Tradition, that Blear Eyes infect Sound Eyes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8472" xml:space="preserve">and that a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0234-05a" xlink:href="note-0234-05"/> Menſtruous Woman looking in a Glaſs doth ruſt it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8473" xml:space="preserve">Nay, they have an opinion, <lb/>which ſeemeth fabulous, That Menſtruous Women going over a Field or Garden, <lb/>do Corn and Herbs good by killing the Worms.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8474" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div992" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0234-05" xlink:href="note-0234-05a" xml:space="preserve">923.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8475" xml:space="preserve">The Tradition is no leſs ancient, that the Baſilisk killeth by aſpect; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8476" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0234-06a" xlink:href="note-0234-06"/> that the Woolf, if he ſeeth a Man firſt, by aſpect ſtriketh a Man hoarſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8477" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div993" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0234-06" xlink:href="note-0234-06a" xml:space="preserve">924.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8478" xml:space="preserve">Perfumes convenient do dry and ſtrengthen the Brain, and ſtay Rheums <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0234-07a" xlink:href="note-0234-07"/> and Defluxions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8479" xml:space="preserve">as we finde in Fume of Roſemary dried, and Lignum Aloes, <lb/>and Calamus taken at the Mouth and Noſtrils. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8480" xml:space="preserve">And no doubt, there be other <lb/>Petfumes that do moiſten and refreſh, and are fit to be uſed in Burning Agues, <lb/>Conſumptions, and too much wakefulneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8481" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as are Roſe-Water, Vinegar, <lb/>Lemmon-pills, Violets, the Leaves of Vines ſprinkled with a little Roſe-water, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8482" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8483" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div994" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0234-07" xlink:href="note-0234-07a" xml:space="preserve">925.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8484" xml:space="preserve">They do uſe in ſudden Faintings and Swoonings, to put a Handkerchief <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0234-08a" xlink:href="note-0234-08"/> with Roſe-water, or a little Vinegar to the Noſe, which gathereth together <lb/>again the Spirits, which are upon point to reſolve and fall away.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8485" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div995" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0234-08" xlink:href="note-0234-08a" xml:space="preserve">926.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8486" xml:space="preserve">Tobacco comforteth the Spirits, and diſchargeth wearineſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8487" xml:space="preserve">which it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0234-09a" xlink:href="note-0234-09"/> worketh, partly by opening, but chiefly by the opiate virtue, which con-<lb/>denſeth the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8488" xml:space="preserve">It were good therefore to try the taking of Fumes by <lb/>Pipes (as they do in Tobacco) of other things, as well to dry and comfort, as <lb/>for other intentions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8489" xml:space="preserve">I wiſh tryal be made of the drying Fume of Roſemary <lb/>and Lignum Aloes, before mentioned in Pipe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8490" xml:space="preserve">and ſo of Nutmegs and Folium <lb/>indum, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8491" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8492" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div996" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0234-09" xlink:href="note-0234-09a" xml:space="preserve">927.</note> </div> <pb o="203" file="0235" n="235" rhead="Century X."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8493" xml:space="preserve">The following of the Plough hath been approved for refreſhing the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0235-01a" xlink:href="note-0235-01"/> Spirits, and procuring Appetite; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8494" xml:space="preserve">but to do it in the Ploughing for Wheat <lb/>or Rye is not ſo good, becauſe the Earth hath ſpent her ſweet breath in Vege-<lb/>tables put forth in Summer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8495" xml:space="preserve">It is better therefore to do it when you ſow <lb/>Barley. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8496" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe Ploughing is tied to Seaſons, it is beſt to take the Air <lb/>of the Earth new turned up by digging with the Spade, or ſtanding by him <lb/>that diggeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8497" xml:space="preserve">Gentlewomen may do themſelves much good by kneeling upon <lb/>a Cuſhion, and Weeding. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8498" xml:space="preserve">And theſe things you may practiſe in the beſt Sea-<lb/>ſons; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8499" xml:space="preserve">which is ever the early Spring, before the Earth putteth forth the <lb/>Vegetables, and in the ſweeteſt Earth you can chuſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8500" xml:space="preserve">It would be done alſo <lb/>when the Dew is a little off the Ground, leſt the Vapor be too moiſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8501" xml:space="preserve">I Knew <lb/>a great Man that lived long, who had a clean Clod of Earth brought to <lb/>him every morning as he ſate in his Bed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8502" xml:space="preserve">and he would hold his head <lb/>over it a good preety while. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8503" xml:space="preserve">I commend alſo ſometimes in digging of <lb/>new Earth, to pour in ſome Malmſey or Greek Wine, that the Vapor of <lb/>the Earth and Wine together may comfort the Spirits the more; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8504" xml:space="preserve">pro-<lb/>vided always it be not taken for a Heathen Sacrifice or Libation to the <lb/>Earth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8505" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div997" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0235-01" xlink:href="note-0235-01a" xml:space="preserve">928.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8506" xml:space="preserve">They have in Phyſick uſe of Pomanders, and knots of Powders for drying <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0235-02a" xlink:href="note-0235-02"/> of Rheums, comforting of the Heart, provoking of Sleep, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8507" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8508" xml:space="preserve">for though <lb/>thoſe things be not ſo ſtrong as Perfumes, yet you may have them continu-<lb/>ally in your hand, whereas Perfumes you can take but at times; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8509" xml:space="preserve">and be-<lb/>ſides, there be divers things that breath better of themſelves then when <lb/>they come to the Fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8510" xml:space="preserve">as Nigella Romana, the Seed of Melanthium, Amo-<lb/>mum, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8511" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8512" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div998" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0235-02" xlink:href="note-0235-02a" xml:space="preserve">929.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8513" xml:space="preserve">There be two things which (inwardly uſed) do cool and condenſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0235-03a" xlink:href="note-0235-03"/> the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8514" xml:space="preserve">and I wiſh the ſame to be tried outwardly in Vapors. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8515" xml:space="preserve">The one <lb/>is Nitre; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8516" xml:space="preserve">which I would have diſſolved in Malmſey, or Greek Wine, and ſo <lb/>the ſmell of the Wine taken; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8517" xml:space="preserve">or, if you would have it more forcible, pour <lb/>of it upon a Fire-pan well heated, as they do Roſe-water and Vinegar. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8518" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>other is, the diſtilled Water of Wilde Poppey; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8519" xml:space="preserve">which I wiſh to be mingled <lb/>at half with Roſe-water, and ſo taken with ſome mixture of a few Cloves in a <lb/>Perfuming pan. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8520" xml:space="preserve">The like would be done with the diſtilled Water of Saffron-<lb/>Flowers.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8521" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div999" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0235-03" xlink:href="note-0235-03a" xml:space="preserve">930.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8522" xml:space="preserve">Smells of Musk, and Amber, and Civit, are thought to further Vene-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0235-04a" xlink:href="note-0235-04"/> reous Appetite; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8523" xml:space="preserve">which they may do by the refreſhing and calling forth of <lb/>the Spirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8524" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1000" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0235-04" xlink:href="note-0235-04a" xml:space="preserve">931.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8525" xml:space="preserve">Incenſe and Niderous ſmells (ſuch as were of Sacrifices) were thought to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0235-05a" xlink:href="note-0235-05"/> intoxicate the Brain, and to diſpoſe men to devotion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8526" xml:space="preserve">which they may do <lb/>by a kinde of ſadneſs and contriſtation of the Spirits, and partly alſo by <lb/>Heating and Exalting them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8527" xml:space="preserve">We ſee that amongſt the Jews, the principal <lb/>perfume of the Sanctuary was forbidden all common uſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8528" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1001" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0235-05" xlink:href="note-0235-05a" xml:space="preserve">932.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8529" xml:space="preserve">There be ſome Perfumes preſcribed by the Writers of Natural Magick, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0235-06a" xlink:href="note-0235-06"/> which procure pleaſant Dreams; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8530" xml:space="preserve">and ſome others (as they ſay) that procure <lb/>Prophetical Dreams, as the Seeds of Flax, Fleawort, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8531" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8532" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1002" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0235-06" xlink:href="note-0235-06a" xml:space="preserve">933.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8533" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that Odors do in a ſmall degree, nouriſh, eſpecially the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0235-07a" xlink:href="note-0235-07"/> Odor of Wine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8534" xml:space="preserve">and we ſee Men an hungred do love to ſmell hot Bread. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8535" xml:space="preserve">It is related, that Democritus when he lay a dying, heard a Woman in the <lb/>Houſe complain, that ſhe ſhould be kept from being at a Feaſt and Solemni-<lb/>ty (which ſhe much deſired to ſee) becauſe there would be a Corps in the <lb/>Houſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8536" xml:space="preserve">Whereupon he cauſed Loaves of new Bread to be ſent for, and open-<lb/>ed them, and poured a little Wine into them, and ſo kept himſelf alive with <pb o="204" file="0236" n="236" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> the Odor of them till the Feaſt was paſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8537" xml:space="preserve">I knew a Gentleman that would <lb/>faſt (ſometimes) three or four, yea, five days, without Meat, Bread, or <lb/>Drink; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8538" xml:space="preserve">but the ſame Man uſed to have continually a great Wiſp of Herbs <lb/>that he ſmelled on, and amongft thoſe Herbs ſome eſculent Herbs of ſtrong <lb/>ſent, as Onions, Garlick, Leeks, and the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8539" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1003" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0235-07" xlink:href="note-0235-07a" xml:space="preserve">934.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8540" xml:space="preserve">They do uſe for the Accident of the Mother to burn Feathers, and other <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0236-01a" xlink:href="note-0236-01"/> things of ill Odor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8541" xml:space="preserve">and by thoſe ill ſmells the riſing of the Mother is put <lb/>down.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8542" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1004" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0236-01" xlink:href="note-0236-01a" xml:space="preserve">935.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8543" xml:space="preserve">There be Airs which the Phyſicians adviſe their Patients to remove <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0236-02a" xlink:href="note-0236-02"/> unto in Conſumptions, or upon recovery of long ſickneſſes, which (common-<lb/>ly) are plain Champaigns, but Graſing, and not over grown with Heath, <lb/>or the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8544" xml:space="preserve">or elſe Timber-ſhades, as in Foreſts, and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8545" xml:space="preserve">It is noted al-<lb/>ſo, that Groves of Bays do forbid Peſtilent Airs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8546" xml:space="preserve">which was accounted a <lb/>great cauſe of the wholeſome Air of Antiochia. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8547" xml:space="preserve">There be alſo ſome Soyls <lb/>that put forth Odorate Herbs of themſelves, as VVilde Thyme, VVilde Marjoram, <lb/>Penny-royal, Camomile; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8548" xml:space="preserve">and in which, the Bryar-Roſes ſmell almoſt like Musk-<lb/>Roſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8549" xml:space="preserve">which (no doubt) are ſigns that do diſcover an excellent Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8550" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1005" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0236-02" xlink:href="note-0236-02a" xml:space="preserve">936.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8551" xml:space="preserve">It were good for men to think of having healthful Air in their Houſes; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8552" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0236-03a" xlink:href="note-0236-03"/> which will never be, if the Rooms be low-roofed, or full of Windows and <lb/>Doors; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8553" xml:space="preserve">for the one maketh the Air cloſe, and not freſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8554" xml:space="preserve">and the other, <lb/>maketh it exceeding unequal, which is a great enemy to health. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8555" xml:space="preserve">The Win-<lb/>dows alſo ſhould not be high up to the Roof (which is in uſe for Beauty and <lb/>Magnificence) but low. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8556" xml:space="preserve">Alſo Stone-walls are not wholeſome; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8557" xml:space="preserve">but Timber is <lb/>more wholeſome, and eſpecially Brick; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8558" xml:space="preserve">nay, it hath been uſed by ſome <lb/>with great ſucceſs, to make their Walls thick, aed to put a Lay of Chalk <lb/>between the Bricks to take away all dampiſhneſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8559" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1006" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0236-03" xlink:href="note-0236-03a" xml:space="preserve">937.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8560" xml:space="preserve">THeſe Emiſſions (as we ſaid before) are handled, and ought to be hand-, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0236-04a" xlink:href="note-0236-04"/> led by themſelves, under their proper Titles; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8561" xml:space="preserve">that is, Viſibles, and <lb/>Audibles, each apart: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8562" xml:space="preserve">In this place it ſhall ſuffice to give ſome general Ob-<lb/>ſervations common to both. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8563" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, they ſeem to be Incorporeal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8564" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, <lb/>they work ſwiftly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8565" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, they work at large diſtances. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8566" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, in <lb/>curious varieties. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8567" xml:space="preserve">Fifthly, they are not effective of any thing, nor leave any <lb/>work behinde them, but are energies meerly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8568" xml:space="preserve">for their working upon mir-<lb/>rors and places of Echo doth not alter any thing in thoſe Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8569" xml:space="preserve">but it is <lb/>the ſame Action with the Original, onely repercuſſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8570" xml:space="preserve">And as for the ſhaking <lb/>of Windows, or rarifying the Air by great noiſes, and the Heat cauſed by <lb/>Burning Glaſſes, they are rather Concomitants of the Audible and Viſible <lb/>Species, then the effects of them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8571" xml:space="preserve">Sixthly, they ſeem to be of ſo tender and <lb/>weak a Nature, as they affect onely ſuch a Rare and Attenuate Subſtance <lb/>as is the Spirit of Living Creatures.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8572" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1007" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0236-04" xlink:href="note-0236-04a" xml:space="preserve">938. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>Emißions of <lb/>Spiritual Spe-<lb/>cies, which <lb/>affect the <lb/>Senſes.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8573" xml:space="preserve">IT is mentioned in ſome Stories, that where Children have been expoſed <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0236-05a" xlink:href="note-0236-05"/> or taken away young from their Parents, and that afterward they have <lb/>approached to their Parents preſence, the Parents (though they have not <lb/>known them) have had a ſecret Joy, or other Alteration thereupon.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8574" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1008" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0236-05" xlink:href="note-0236-05a" xml:space="preserve">939. <lb/>Experiments <lb/>in Conſort, <lb/>touching <lb/>Emißion of <lb/>Immateriate <lb/>Virtues from <lb/>the Mindes <lb/>and Spirits of <lb/>Men, either by <lb/>Affections, or <lb/>by Imaginati-<lb/>ons, or by other <lb/>Impreßsons.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8575" xml:space="preserve">There was an Egyptian Soothſayer that made Antonius believe, that his <lb/>genius (which otherwiſe was brave and confident) was, in the preſence of <lb/>Octavianus Cæſar, poor and cowardly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8576" xml:space="preserve">and therefore, he adviſed him to abſent <lb/>himſelf (as much as he could) and remove far from him. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8577" xml:space="preserve">The Soothſayer was <lb/>thought to be ſuborned by Cleopatra, to make him live in Egypt, and other <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0236-06a" xlink:href="note-0236-06"/> <pb o="203" file="0237" n="237" rhead="Century X."/> remote places from Rome. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8578" xml:space="preserve">Howſoever, the conceit of a predominant or <lb/>maſtering Spirit of one Man over another is ancienr, and received ſtill, even <lb/>in vulgar opinion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8579" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1009" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0236-06" xlink:href="note-0236-06a" xml:space="preserve">940.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8580" xml:space="preserve">There are conceits, that ſome Men that are of an ill and melancholly <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0237-01a" xlink:href="note-0237-01"/> nature, do incline the company into which they come, to be ſad and ill diſ-<lb/>poſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8581" xml:space="preserve">and contrariwiſe, that others that are of a jovial nature do diſpoſe <lb/>the company to be merry and chearful: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8582" xml:space="preserve">And again, that ſome Men are lucky <lb/>to be kept company with, and employed, and others unlucky. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8583" xml:space="preserve">Certainly it <lb/>is agreeable to reaſon, that there are at the leaſt ſome light effluxions from <lb/>Spirit to Spirit when Men are in preſence one with another, as well as from <lb/>Body to Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8584" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1010" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0237-01" xlink:href="note-0237-01a" xml:space="preserve">941.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8585" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved, that old Men have loved young company, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0237-02a" xlink:href="note-0237-02"/> been converfa<unsure/>nt continually with them, have been of long life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8586" xml:space="preserve">their Spirits <lb/>(as it ſeemeth) being recreated by ſuch company. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8587" xml:space="preserve">Such were the Ancient <lb/>Sophiſts and Rhetoricians, which ever had young Auditors and Diſciples; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8588" xml:space="preserve">as Gorgias, Protagoras, Iſocrates, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8589" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8590" xml:space="preserve">who lived till they were an hundred years <lb/>old; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8591" xml:space="preserve">and ſo like wiſe did many of the Grammarians and School-maſters: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8592" xml:space="preserve">Such as <lb/>was Orbilius, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8593" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8594" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1011" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0237-02" xlink:href="note-0237-02a" xml:space="preserve">942.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8595" xml:space="preserve">Audacity and confidence doth, in civil buſineſſes, ſo great effects, as a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0237-03a" xlink:href="note-0237-03"/> Man may (reaſonably) doubt, that beſides the very daring, and earneſtneſs, <lb/>and perſiſting, and importunity, there ſhould be ſome ſecret binding and <lb/>ſtooping of other Mens ſpirits to ſuch perſons.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8596" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1012" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0237-03" xlink:href="note-0237-03a" xml:space="preserve">943.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8597" xml:space="preserve">The Affections (no doubt) do make the Spirits more powerful and active, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0237-04a" xlink:href="note-0237-04"/> and eſpecially thoſe Affections which draw the Spirits into the Eyes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8598" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>are two, Love and Envy, which is called Oculus Malus. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8599" xml:space="preserve">As for Love, the <lb/>Platoniſts (ſome of them) go ſo far, as to hold, That the Spirit of the Lover <lb/>dorh paſs into the Spirits of the perſon loved, which cauſeth the de<unsure/>ſire of <lb/>return into the Body whence it was emitted, whereupon followeth that ap-<lb/>petite of contract and conjunction which is in Lovers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8600" xml:space="preserve">And this is obſerved <lb/>likewiſe, that the Aſpects that procure Love, are not gazings, but ſudden <lb/>glances and dartings of the Eye. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8601" xml:space="preserve">As for Envy, that emitteth ſome malign <lb/>and poiſonous Spirits, which take hold of the Spirit of another; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8602" xml:space="preserve">and is like-<lb/>wiſe of greateſt force, when the Caſt of the Eye is oblique. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8603" xml:space="preserve">It hath been no <lb/>ted alſo, That it is moſt dangerous, where the envious Eye is caſt upon per-<lb/>ſons in glory, and triumph, and joy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8604" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon whereof is, for that at ſuch <lb/>times the Spirits come forth moſt into the outward parts, and ſo meet the <lb/>percuſſion of the envious eye more at hand; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8605" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it hath been no-<lb/>ted, That after great triumphs, Men have been ill diſpoſed for ſome days <lb/>following. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8606" xml:space="preserve">We ſee the opinion of Faſcination is ancient for both effects, of <lb/>procuring Love, and ſickneſs cauſed by Envy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8607" xml:space="preserve">and Faſcination is ever by <lb/>the Eye. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8608" xml:space="preserve">But yet if there by any ſuch infection from Spirit to Spirit, there <lb/>is no doubt, but that it worketh by preſence, and not by the Eye alone, yet <lb/>moſt forcibly by the Eye.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8609" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1013" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0237-04" xlink:href="note-0237-04a" xml:space="preserve">944.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8610" xml:space="preserve">Fear and Shame are like wiſe infective: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8611" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee that the ſtarting of one, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0237-05a" xlink:href="note-0237-05"/> will make another ready to ſtarr, and when one man is out of countenance <lb/>in a company, others do like wiſe bluſh in his behalf.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8612" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1014" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0237-05" xlink:href="note-0237-05a" xml:space="preserve">945.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8613" xml:space="preserve">Now we will ſpeak of the Force of Imagination upon other Bodies, and <lb/>of the means to exalt and ſtrengthen it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8614" xml:space="preserve">Imagination, in this place, I under-<lb/>ſtand to be the repreſentation of an Individual Thought. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8615" xml:space="preserve">Imagination is of <lb/>three kindes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8616" xml:space="preserve">the firſt, joyned with Belief of that which is to come; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8617" xml:space="preserve">the ſe-<lb/>cond, joyned with Memory of that which is paſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8618" xml:space="preserve">and the third is, of Things <lb/>preſent, or as if they were preſent: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8619" xml:space="preserve">For I comprehend in this, Imagination <pb o="204" file="0238" n="238" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> feigned, and at pleaſure: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8620" xml:space="preserve">As if one ſhould imagine ſuch a Min to bein the <lb/>Veſtments of a Pope, or to have Wings. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8621" xml:space="preserve">I ſingle out for this time that which <lb/>is with Faith or Belief of that which is to come. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8622" xml:space="preserve">The Inquiſition of this <lb/>Subject in our way (which is by Induction) is wonderful hard, for the things <lb/>that are reported are full of Fables; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8623" xml:space="preserve">and new Experiments can hardly be <lb/>made but with extream Caution, for the Reaſon which we will after de-<lb/>clare.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8624" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8625" xml:space="preserve">The Power of Imagination is in three kindes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8626" xml:space="preserve">The firſt, upon the Body of <lb/>the imaginant, including like wiſe the Childe in the Mothers Womb. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8627" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>ſecond is, the power of it upon dead bodies, as Plants, Wood, Stone, Me<unsure/>tal, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8628" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8629" xml:space="preserve">The third is, the power of it upon the Spirits of Men and Living Crea-<lb/>tures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8630" xml:space="preserve">And with this laſt we will onely meddle.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8631" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8632" xml:space="preserve">The Probleme therefore is, Whether a Man conſtantly and ſtrongly be-<lb/>lieving that ſuch a thing ſhall be, (as that ſuch an one will love him, or that <lb/>ſuch an one will grant him his requeſt, or that ſuch an one ſhall recover a <lb/>ſickneſs, or the like) it doth help any thing to the effecting of the thing it <lb/>ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8633" xml:space="preserve">And here again we muſt warily diſtinguiſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8634" xml:space="preserve">for it is not meant (as <lb/>hath been partly ſaid beſore) that it ſhould help by making a man more ſtout, <lb/>or more induſtrious; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8635" xml:space="preserve">(in which kinde, conſtant belief doth much) but <lb/>meerly by a ſecret operation, or binding, or changing the Spirit of another. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8636" xml:space="preserve">And in this it is hard (as we began to ſay) to make any new experiment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8637" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>I cannot command my ſelf to believe what I will, and ſo no tryal can be <lb/>made. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8638" xml:space="preserve">Nay it is worſe, for whatſoever a Man imagineth doubtingly, or with <lb/>fear, muſt needs do hurt, if Imagination have any power at all; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8639" xml:space="preserve">ſor a Man <lb/>repreſenteth that ofther that he feareth, then the contrary.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8640" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8641" xml:space="preserve">The help therefore is, for a Man to work by another, in whom he <lb/>may create belief, and not by himſelf, until himſelf have found by experi-<lb/>ence, that Imagination doth prevail; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8642" xml:space="preserve">for then experience worketh in himſelf <lb/>Belief, if the Belief that ſuch a thing ſhall be joyned with a Belief, that his <lb/>Imagination may procure it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8643" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8644" xml:space="preserve">For example, I related one time to a Man that was curious and vain <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0238-01a" xlink:href="note-0238-01"/> enough in theſe things, That I ſaw a kinde of Jugler that had a Pair of Cards, and <lb/>vvould tell a man vvhat Card he thought. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8645" xml:space="preserve">This pretended Learned Man told me, it <lb/>was a miſtaking in me. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8646" xml:space="preserve">For (ſaid he) it vvas not the knovvledge of the Mans thought <lb/>(for that is proper to God) but it vvas the inforcing of a thought upon him, and binding his <lb/>Imagination by a ſtronger, that he could think no other Card. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8647" xml:space="preserve">And thereupon he asked <lb/>me a Queſtion or two, which I thought he did but cunningly, knowing be-<lb/>fore what uſed to be the feats of the Jugler. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8648" xml:space="preserve">Sir, (ſaid he) do you remember vvhe-<lb/>ther he told the Card the Man thought himſelf, or bad another to tell it? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8649" xml:space="preserve">I anſwered, <lb/>(as was true) That he bad another tell it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8650" xml:space="preserve">Whereunto he ſaid, So I thought: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8651" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>(ſaid he) himſelf could not have put on ſo ſtrong an Imagination, but by telling the other <lb/>the Card (vvho believed, that the Jugler vvas ſome ſtrange man, and could do ſtrange things) <lb/>that other man caught a ſtrong Imagination. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8652" xml:space="preserve">I hearkned unto him, thinking for a <lb/>vanity he ſpake prettily. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8653" xml:space="preserve">Then he asked me another Queſtion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8654" xml:space="preserve">Saith he, Do <lb/>you remember vvhether he bad the Man think the Card firſt, and aftervvards told the other <lb/>Man in his Ear whæt he should think; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8655" xml:space="preserve">or elſe, that he did whiſper firſt in the Mans Ear <lb/>that ſhould tell the Card, telling, That ſuch a Man ſhould think ſuch a Card, and after <lb/>bad the Man think a Card? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8656" xml:space="preserve">I told him, (as was true) That he did firſt whiſper the <lb/>Man in the Ear, thatſuch a Man ſhould think ſuch a Card. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8657" xml:space="preserve">Upon this, the Learned <lb/>Man did much exuit and pleaſe himſelf, ſaying, Lo, you may ſee that my opinion <lb/>is right: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8658" xml:space="preserve">For if the Man had thought firſt, his thought had been fixed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8659" xml:space="preserve">but the other imagi-<lb/>ning firſt, hound his thought. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8660" xml:space="preserve">Which though it did ſome what ſink with me, yet I <pb o="205" file="0239" n="239" rhead="Century X."/> made it lighter then I thought, and ſaid, I thought it was confederacy between the <lb/>Jugler, and the two Servants; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8661" xml:space="preserve">though (indeed) I had no reaſon ſo to think, for <lb/>they were both my Fathers ſervants, and he had never plaid in the Houſe <lb/>before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8662" xml:space="preserve">The Jugler alſo did cauſe a Garter to be held up, and took upon <lb/>him to know that ſuch an one ſhould point in ſuch a place of the Garter, as <lb/>it ſhould be near ſo many Inches to the longer end, and ſo many to the ſhort-<lb/>er; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8663" xml:space="preserve">and ſtill he did it by firſt telling the imaginer, and after bidding the actor <lb/>think.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8664" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1015" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0238-01" xlink:href="note-0238-01a" xml:space="preserve">946.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8665" xml:space="preserve">Having told this Relation, not for the weight thereof, but becauſe it <lb/>doth handſomly open the nature of the Queſtion, I return to that I ſaid, <lb/>That Experiments of Imagination muſt be practiſed by others, and not by a Mans <lb/>ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8666" xml:space="preserve">For there be three means to fortifie Belief; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8667" xml:space="preserve">the firſt is Experience, the <lb/>ſecond is Reaſon, and the third is Authority. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8668" xml:space="preserve">And that of theſe which is <lb/>far the moſt potent, is Authority: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8669" xml:space="preserve">For Belief upon Reaſon or Experience <lb/>will ſtagger.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8670" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8671" xml:space="preserve">For Authority, it is of two kindes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8672" xml:space="preserve">Belief in an Art, and Belief in a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0239-01a" xlink:href="note-0239-01"/> Man. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8673" xml:space="preserve">And for things of Belief in an Art, a Man may exerciſe them by him-<lb/>ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8674" xml:space="preserve">but for Belief in a Man, it muſt be by another. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8675" xml:space="preserve">Therefore if a Man be-<lb/>lieve in Aſtrology, and finde a figure proſperous; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8676" xml:space="preserve">or believe in Natural Ma-<lb/>gick, and that a Ring with ſuch a Stone, or ſuch a piece of a Living Creature <lb/>carried, will do good, it may help his Imagination; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8677" xml:space="preserve">but the Belief in a Man <lb/>is far the more active. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8678" xml:space="preserve">But howſoever all Authority muſt be out of a Mans <lb/>ſelf, turned (as was ſaid) either upon an Art, or upon a Man; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8679" xml:space="preserve">and where <lb/>Authority is from one Man to another, there the ſecond muſt be Ignorant, <lb/>and not learned, or full of thoughts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8680" xml:space="preserve">And ſuch are (for the moſt part) all <lb/>Witches and ſuperſtitious perſons, whoſe beliefs, tied to their Teachers and <lb/>Traditions, are no whit controlled either by Reaſon or Experience: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8681" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>upon the fame reaſon, in Magick they uſe (for the moſt part) Boys and young <lb/>People, whoſe ſpirits eaſilieſt take Belief and Imagination.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8682" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1016" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0239-01" xlink:href="note-0239-01a" xml:space="preserve">947.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8683" xml:space="preserve">Now to fortifie Imagination, there be three ways: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8684" xml:space="preserve">The Authority <lb/>whence the Belief is derived; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8685" xml:space="preserve">Means to quicken and corroborate the Imagi-<lb/>nation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8686" xml:space="preserve">and Means to repeat it and refreſh it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8687" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8688" xml:space="preserve">For the Authority we have already ſpoken. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8689" xml:space="preserve">As for the ſecond, namely, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0239-02a" xlink:href="note-0239-02"/> the Means to quicken and corroborate the Imagination, we ſee what hath been <lb/>uſed in Magick, (if there be in thoſe practices any thing that is purely Na-<lb/>tural) as Veſtments, Characters, Words, Seals, ſome parts of Plants, or Li-<lb/>ving Creatures, Stones, choice of the Hour, Geſtures and Motions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8690" xml:space="preserve">alſo In-<lb/>cenſes and Odors, choice of Society, which increaſeth Imagination, Diets <lb/>and Preparations for ſome time before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8691" xml:space="preserve">And for Words, there have been <lb/>ever uſed, either barbarous words of no ſenſe, leſt they ſhould diſturb the <lb/>Imagination; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8692" xml:space="preserve">or words of ſimilitude, that may ſecond and feed the Imagi-<lb/>nation: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8693" xml:space="preserve">And this was ever as well in Heathen Charms, as in Charms of later <lb/>times. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8694" xml:space="preserve">There are uſed alſo Scripture words, for that the Belief that Religious <lb/>Texts and Words have power, may ſtreng then the Imagination. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8695" xml:space="preserve">And for the <lb/>ſame reaſon He brew words (which amongſt us is counted the holy Tongue, <lb/>and the words more my ſtical) are often uſed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8696" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1017" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0239-02" xlink:href="note-0239-02a" xml:space="preserve">948.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8697" xml:space="preserve">For the refreſhing of the Imagination (which was the third Means of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0239-03a" xlink:href="note-0239-03"/> Exalting it) we ſee the practices of Magick; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8698" xml:space="preserve">as in Images of Wax, and the <lb/>like, that ſhould melt by little and little, or ſome other things buried in <lb/>Muck, that ſhould putrefie by little and little, or the like: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8699" xml:space="preserve">For ſo oft as the <lb/>Imaginant doth think of thoſe things, ſo oft doth he repreſent to his Imagina-<lb/>tion the effect of that he deſireth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8700" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1018" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0239-03" xlink:href="note-0239-03a" xml:space="preserve">949.</note> </div> <pb o="206" file="0240" n="240" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8701" xml:space="preserve">If there be any power in Imagination, it is leſs credible that it ſhould <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0240-01a" xlink:href="note-0240-01"/> be ſo incorporcal and immateriate a Virtue, as to work at great diſtances, or <lb/>through all Mediums, or upon all Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8702" xml:space="preserve">but that the diſtance muſt be com-<lb/>petent, the Medium not adverſe, and the Body apt and proportionate. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8703" xml:space="preserve">Therefore if there be any operation upon Bodies in abſence by Nature, it <lb/>is like to be conveyed ſrom Man to Man, as Fame is: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8704" xml:space="preserve">As if a Witch by Imagi-<lb/>nation ſhould hurt any afar off, it cannot be naturally, but by working upon <lb/>the Spirit of ſome that cometh to the Witch, and from that party upon the <lb/>Imagination of another, and ſo upon another, till it come to one that hath <lb/>reſort to the party intended; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8705" xml:space="preserve">and ſo by him, to the party intended himſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8706" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And although they ſpeak, that it ſufficeth to take a Point, or a piece of the <lb/>Garment, or the Name of the party, or the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8707" xml:space="preserve">yet there is leſs credit to <lb/>be given to thoſe things, except it be by working of evil ſpirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8708" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1019" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0240-01" xlink:href="note-0240-01a" xml:space="preserve">950.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8709" xml:space="preserve">The Experiments which may certainly demonſtrate the power of Imagi-<lb/>nation upon other Bodies, are few or none; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8710" xml:space="preserve">for the Experiments of Witchcraft <lb/>are no clear proofs, for that they may be by a tacite operation of malign <lb/>Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8711" xml:space="preserve">we ſhall therefore be forced in this Inquiry, to reſort to new Ex-<lb/>periments, wherein we can give onely Directions of Tryals, and not any Poſi-<lb/>tive Experiments. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8712" xml:space="preserve">And if any man think that we ought to have ſtaid till we <lb/>had made Experiment of ſome of them our ſelves, (as we do commonly in <lb/>other Titles) the truth is, that theſe Effects of Imagination upon other Bodies, <lb/>have ſo little credit with us, as we ſhall try them at leiſure: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8713" xml:space="preserve">But in the mean <lb/>time we will lead others the way.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8714" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8715" xml:space="preserve">When you work by the Imagination of another, it is neceſſary that he by <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0240-02a" xlink:href="note-0240-02"/> whom you work have a precedent opinion of you that you can do ſtrange <lb/>things, or that you are a Man of Art, as they call it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8716" xml:space="preserve">for elſe the ſimple affir-<lb/>mation to another, that this or that ſhall be, can work but a weak impreſſion <lb/>in his Imagination.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8717" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1020" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0240-02" xlink:href="note-0240-02a" xml:space="preserve">951.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8718" xml:space="preserve">It were good, becauſe you caunot diſcern fully of the ſtrength of Ima-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0240-03a" xlink:href="note-0240-03"/> gination in one Man, more then another, that you did uſe the Imagination <lb/>of more then one, that ſo you may light upon a ſtrong one. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8719" xml:space="preserve">As if a Phyſician <lb/>ſhould tell three or four of his Patients ſervants that their Maſter ſhall ſurely <lb/>recover.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8720" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1021" type="float" level="2" n="51"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0240-03" xlink:href="note-0240-03a" xml:space="preserve">952.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8721" xml:space="preserve">The Imagination of one that you ſhall uſe (ſuch is the variety of Mens <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0240-04a" xlink:href="note-0240-04"/> mindes) cannot be always alike conſtant and ſtrong; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8722" xml:space="preserve">and if the ſucceſs follow <lb/>not ſpeedily, it will faint and loſe ſtrength. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8723" xml:space="preserve">To remedy this, you muſt pretend <lb/>to him whoſe Imagination you uſe ſeveral degrees of Means by which to <lb/>operate: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8724" xml:space="preserve">As to preſcribe him, that every three days, if he finde not the ſuc-<lb/>ceſs apparent, he do uſe another Root, or part of a Beaſt, or Ring, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8725" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8726" xml:space="preserve">as be-<lb/>ing of more force; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8727" xml:space="preserve">and if that ſail, another; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8728" xml:space="preserve">and if that, another, till ſeven <lb/>times. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8729" xml:space="preserve">Alſo you muſt preſcribe a good large time for the effect you promiſe; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8730" xml:space="preserve">as if you ſhould tell a ſervant of a ſick man, that his Maſter ſhall recover, but <lb/>it will be fourteen days ere he findeth it apparently, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8731" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8732" xml:space="preserve">All this to entertain <lb/>the Imagination, that it waver leſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8733" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1022" type="float" level="2" n="52"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0240-04" xlink:href="note-0240-04a" xml:space="preserve">953.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8734" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that potions or things taken into the Body, Incenſes and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0240-05a" xlink:href="note-0240-05"/> Perfumes taken at the Noſtrils, and oyntments of ſome parts, do (naturally) <lb/>work upon the Imagination of him that taketh them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8735" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it muſt <lb/>needs greatly cooperate with the Imagination of him whom you uſe, if you <lb/>preſcribe him, before he do uſe the Receit for the Work which he deſireth, <lb/>that he do take ſuch a Pill, or a ſpoonful of Liquor, or burn ſuch an Incenſe, <lb/>or anoint his Temples, or the Soles of his Feet, with ſuch an Oyntment or <lb/>Oyl: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8736" xml:space="preserve">And you muſt chuſe for the Compoſition of ſuch Pill, Perfume, or <pb o="207" file="0241" n="241" rhead="Century X."/> Oyntment, ſuch Ingredients as do make the Spirits a little more groſs or <lb/>muddy, whereby the Imagination will fix the better.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8737" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1023" type="float" level="2" n="53"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0240-05" xlink:href="note-0240-05a" xml:space="preserve">954.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8738" xml:space="preserve">The Body Paſſive, and to be wrought upon, (I mean not of the Ima-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0241-01a" xlink:href="note-0241-01"/> ginant) is better wrought upon (as hath been partly touched) at ſome times <lb/>then at others; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8739" xml:space="preserve">As if you ſhould preſcribe a ſervant about a ſick perſon, <lb/>(whom you have poſſeſſed that his Maſter ſhall recover) when his Maſter is <lb/>faſt afleep, to uſe ſuch a Root, or ſuch a Root. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8740" xml:space="preserve">For Imagination is like to <lb/>work better upon fleeping men, then men awake; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8741" xml:space="preserve">as we ſhall ſhew when we <lb/>handle Dreams.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8742" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1024" type="float" level="2" n="54"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0241-01" xlink:href="note-0241-01a" xml:space="preserve">955.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8743" xml:space="preserve">We finde in the Art of Memory, that Images viſible work better then other <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0241-02a" xlink:href="note-0241-02"/> conceits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8744" xml:space="preserve">As if you would remember the word Philoſophy, you ſhall more <lb/>ſurely do it by imagining that ſuch a Ma<unsure/>n (for Men are beſt places) is read-<lb/>ing upon Ariſtotles Phyſicks, then if you ſhould imagine him to ſay, I w<unsure/>ill <lb/>go ſtudy Philoſophy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8745" xml:space="preserve">And therefore this obſervation would be tranſlated to the <lb/>ſubject we now ſpeak of; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8746" xml:space="preserve">for the more luſtrous the Imagination is, it filleth <lb/>and fixeth the better. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8747" xml:space="preserve">And therefore I conceive, that you ſhall in that Experi-<lb/>ment (whereof we ſpake before) of binding of thoughts, leſs fail, if you tell <lb/>one that ſuch an one ſhall name one of twenty men, then if it were one of <lb/>twenty Cards. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8748" xml:space="preserve">The Experiment of binding of thoughts would be diverfified <lb/>and tried to the full: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8749" xml:space="preserve">And you are to note, whether it hit for the moſt part, <lb/>though not always.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8750" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1025" type="float" level="2" n="55"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0241-02" xlink:href="note-0241-02a" xml:space="preserve">956.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8751" xml:space="preserve">It is good to conſider upon what things Imagination hath moſt force: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8752" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0241-03a" xlink:href="note-0241-03"/> And the rule (as I conceive) is, that it hath moſt force upon things that have <lb/>the lighteſt and eaſieſt motions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8753" xml:space="preserve">and therefore above all upon the Spirits of <lb/>Men, and in them upon ſuch affections as move lighteſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8754" xml:space="preserve">As upon procuring <lb/>of Love, binding of Luſt, which is ever with Imagination upon Men in <lb/>fear, or Men in irreſolution, and the like: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8755" xml:space="preserve">Whatſoever is of this kinde <lb/>would be throughly enquired. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8756" xml:space="preserve">Tryals like wiſe would be made upon Plants, <lb/>and that diligently: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8757" xml:space="preserve">As if you ſhould tell a man that ſuch a Tree would die <lb/>this year, and will him at theſe and theſe times to go unto it, to ſee how it <lb/>thriveth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8758" xml:space="preserve">As for inanimate things, it is true, that the motions of ſhuffling <lb/>of Cards, or caſting of Dice, are very light motions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8759" xml:space="preserve">and there is a folly <lb/>very uſeſul, That Gameſters imagine, that ſome that ſtand by them, bring <lb/>them ill luck. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8760" xml:space="preserve">There would be tryal alſo made, of holding a Ring by a <lb/>thred in a Glaſs, and telling him that holdeth it before, that it ſhall ſtrike ſo <lb/>many times againſt the ſide of the Glaſs, and no more; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8761" xml:space="preserve">or of holding a Key <lb/>between two Mens fingers without a charm; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8762" xml:space="preserve">and to tell thoſe that hold it, <lb/>that at ſuch a name it ſhall go off their fingers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8763" xml:space="preserve">For theſe two are extream <lb/>light motions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8764" xml:space="preserve">And how ſoever, I have no opinion of theſe things, yet ſo <lb/>much I conceive to be true, That ſtrong Imagination hath more force upon <lb/>things living, or that have been living, then things meerly inanimate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8765" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>more force like wiſe upon light and ſubtil motions, then upon motions vehe-<lb/>ment or ponderous.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8766" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1026" type="float" level="2" n="56"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0241-03" xlink:href="note-0241-03a" xml:space="preserve">957.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8767" xml:space="preserve">It is an uſual obſervation, That if the Body of one murthered be brought <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0241-04a" xlink:href="note-0241-04"/> before the Murtherer, the wounds will bleed afreſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8768" xml:space="preserve">Some do affirm, That <lb/>the dead Body, upon the preſence of the Murtherer hath opened the eyes; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8769" xml:space="preserve">and that there have been ſuch like motions as well where the party murthered <lb/>hath been ſtrangled or drowned, as where they have been killed by wounds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8770" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>It may be that this participateth of a miracle, by Gods juſt judgment, who <lb/>uſually brings murthers to light. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8771" xml:space="preserve">But if it be Natural, it muſt be referred to <lb/>Imagination.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8772" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1027" type="float" level="2" n="57"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0241-04" xlink:href="note-0241-04a" xml:space="preserve">958.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8773" xml:space="preserve">The tying of the point upon the day of Marriage, to make Men impo-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0241-05a" xlink:href="note-0241-05"/> <pb o="208" file="0242" n="242" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> tent to wards their Wives, which (as we have formerly touched) is ſo fre-<lb/>quent in Zant and Gaſcony, if it be Natural, muſt be referred to the Imagi-<lb/>nation of him that tieth the Point. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8774" xml:space="preserve">I conceive it to have the lefs affinity <lb/>with Witchcraft, becauſe not peculiar perſons onely, (ſuch as Witches are) <lb/>but any Body may do it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8775" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1028" type="float" level="2" n="58"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0241-05" xlink:href="note-0241-05a" xml:space="preserve">959.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8776" xml:space="preserve">THere be many things that work upon the Spirits of Men by Secret Sympa-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0242-01a" xlink:href="note-0242-01"/> thy and Antipathy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8777" xml:space="preserve">The virtues of Precious Stones worn, have been an-<lb/>ciently and generally received, and curiouſly aſſigned to work ſeveral effects. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8778" xml:space="preserve">So much is true, that Stones have in them fine Spirits, as appeareth by their <lb/>ſplendor: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8779" xml:space="preserve">And therefore they may work by conſent upon the Spirits of Men, <lb/>to comfort and exhilarate them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8780" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe that are the beſt for that effect, are the <lb/>Diamond, the Emerald, the Facynth Oriental, and the Gold-ſtone, which is the <lb/>yellow Topaz. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8781" xml:space="preserve">As for their particular Proprieties, there is no credit to be gi-<lb/>ven to them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8782" xml:space="preserve">But it is manifeſt, that Light above all things, excelleth in com-<lb/>forting the Spirits of Men; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8783" xml:space="preserve">and it is very probable, that Light varied doth the <lb/>ſame effect with more novelty. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8784" xml:space="preserve">And this is one of the cauſes why Precious <lb/>Stones comfort. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8785" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it were good to have Tincted Lanthorns, or <lb/>Tincted Skreens of Glaß coloured into Green, Blue, Carnation, Crimſon, Purple, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8786" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8787" xml:space="preserve">and<unsure/> to uſe them with Candles in the night. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8788" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe to have round <lb/>Glaſſes, not onely of Glaß coloured through, but with Colours laid between <lb/>Cryſtals, with handles to hold in ones hand. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8789" xml:space="preserve">Priſms are alſo comfortable <lb/>things. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8790" xml:space="preserve">They have of Paris-work, Looking. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8791" xml:space="preserve">Glaſſes, bordered with broad Borders <lb/>of ſmall Cryſtal, and great counterfeit Precious Stones of all Colours, that are <lb/>moſt glorious and pleaſant to behold, eſpecially in the night. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8792" xml:space="preserve">The Pictures <lb/>of Indian Feathers are likewiſe comfortable and pleaſant to behold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8793" xml:space="preserve">So alſo <lb/>fair and clear Pools do greatly comfort the Eyes Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8794" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially when the <lb/>Sun is not glaring but overcaſt, or when the Moon ſhineth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8795" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1029" type="float" level="2" n="59"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0242-01" xlink:href="note-0242-01a" xml:space="preserve">960. <lb/>Experiments <lb/>in Conſort <lb/>touching the <lb/>Secret Virtue <lb/>of Sympathy <lb/>and Anti-<lb/>pathy.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8796" xml:space="preserve">There be divers ſorts of Bracelets fit to comfort the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8797" xml:space="preserve">and they be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0242-02a" xlink:href="note-0242-02"/> of three Intentions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8798" xml:space="preserve">Refrigerant, Corroborant, and Aperient. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8799" xml:space="preserve">For Refrigerant I <lb/>wiſh them to be of Pearl, or of Coral, as is uſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8800" xml:space="preserve">And it hath been noted <lb/>that Coral, if the party that weareth it be ill diſpoſed, will wax pale; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8801" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>I believe to be true, becauſe other wiſe diſtemper of heat will make Coral <lb/>lofe colour. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8802" xml:space="preserve">I commend alſo Beads or little Plates of Lapis Lazuli, and Beads <lb/>of Nitxe, either alone, or with ſome Cordial mixture.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8803" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1030" type="float" level="2" n="60"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0242-02" xlink:href="note-0242-02a" xml:space="preserve">961.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8804" xml:space="preserve">For Corroboration and Comfortation, take ſuch Bodies as are of Aſtringent <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0242-03a" xlink:href="note-0242-03"/> quality without manifeſt cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8805" xml:space="preserve">I commend Bead. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8806" xml:space="preserve">Amber, which is full of A-<lb/>ſtriction, but yet is unctuous, and not cold, and is conceived to impinguate <lb/>thoſe that wear ſuch Beads. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8807" xml:space="preserve">I commend alſo Beads of Harts-Horn and Ivory, <lb/>which are of the like nature; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8808" xml:space="preserve">alſo Orenge-Beads, alſo Beads of Lignum Aloes, <lb/>macerated firſt in Roſe-water and dried.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8809" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1031" type="float" level="2" n="61"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0242-03" xlink:href="note-0242-03a" xml:space="preserve">962.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8810" xml:space="preserve">For opening, I commend Beads, or pieces of the Roots of Carduus <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0242-04a" xlink:href="note-0242-04"/> Benedictus; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8811" xml:space="preserve">alſo of the Roots of Peony the Male, and of Orras, and of Calamus <lb/>Aromatious, and of Rew.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8812" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1032" type="float" level="2" n="62"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0242-04" xlink:href="note-0242-04a" xml:space="preserve">963.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8813" xml:space="preserve">The Cramp (no doubt) cometh of contraction of Sinews; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8814" xml:space="preserve">which is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0242-05a" xlink:href="note-0242-05"/> manifeſt in that it cometh either by cold or drineſs, as after Conſumptions and <lb/>long Agues; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8815" xml:space="preserve">for Cold and Drineſs do (both of them) contract and cor-<lb/>rugate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8816" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that chafing a little above the place in pain, caſeth <lb/>the Cramp; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8817" xml:space="preserve">which is wrought by the Dilatation of the contracted Sinews <lb/>by heat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8818" xml:space="preserve">There are in uſe for the prevention of the Cramp, two things: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8819" xml:space="preserve">The one, Rings of Sea-Horſe Teeth worn upon the Fingers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8820" xml:space="preserve">the other, Bands <pb o="209" file="0243" n="243" rhead="Century X."/> of Green Perwinckle (the Herb) tied about the Calf of the Leg, or the <lb/>Thigh, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8821" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8822" xml:space="preserve">where the Cramp uſeth to come. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8823" xml:space="preserve">I do finde this the more <lb/>ſtrange, becauſe neither of theſe have any Relaxing Virtue, but rather the <lb/>contrary. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8824" xml:space="preserve">I judge therefore that their working is rather upon the Spirits <lb/>within the Nerves to make them ſtrive leſs, then upon the Bodily ſubſtance <lb/>of the Nerves.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8825" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1033" type="float" level="2" n="63"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0242-05" xlink:href="note-0242-05a" xml:space="preserve">964.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8826" xml:space="preserve">I would have tryal made of two other kindes of Bracelets for com-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0243-01a" xlink:href="note-0243-01"/> forting the Heart and Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8827" xml:space="preserve">The one of the Trochiſch of Vipers made into <lb/>little pieces of Beads; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8828" xml:space="preserve">for ſince they do great good inwards (eſpecially for <lb/>Peſtilent Agues) it is like they will be effectual outwards, where they may be <lb/>applied in greater quantity. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8829" xml:space="preserve">There would be Trchiſchs likewiſe made of <lb/>Snakes, whoſe fleſh dried is thought to have a very opening and Cordial <lb/>Virtue. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8830" xml:space="preserve">The other is of Beads made of the Scarlet Powder, which they call <lb/>Kermes, which is the principal Ingredient in their Cordial-Confection Alkermen. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8831" xml:space="preserve">The Beads would be made up with Amber-Griece, and ſome Pomander.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8832" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1034" type="float" level="2" n="64"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0243-01" xlink:href="note-0243-01a" xml:space="preserve">965.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8833" xml:space="preserve">It hath been long received, and confirmed by divers tryals, that the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0243-02a" xlink:href="note-0243-02"/> Root of the Male-Peony dried, tied to the Neck, doth help the Falling-<lb/>ſickneß; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8834" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe the Incubus, which we call the Mare. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8835" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of both <lb/>theſe Diſeaſes, and eſpecially of the Epilepſie from the Stomack, is the groſs-<lb/>neſs of the Vapors which riſe and enter into the Cells of the Brain: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8836" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>therefore the working is by extream and ſubtil Attenuation, which that <lb/>Simple hath. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8837" xml:space="preserve">I judge the like to be in Caſtoreum, Musk, Ren-Seed, Agnus <lb/>Caſtus Seed &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8838" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8839" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1035" type="float" level="2" n="65"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0243-02" xlink:href="note-0243-02a" xml:space="preserve">966.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8840" xml:space="preserve">There is a Stone which they call the Blood-Stone, which worn, is thought <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0243-03a" xlink:href="note-0243-03"/> to be good for them that bleed at the Noſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8841" xml:space="preserve">which (no doubt) is by aſtricti-<lb/>on and cooling of the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8842" xml:space="preserve">Quare, if the Stone taken out of the Toads <lb/>Head, be not of the like virtue, for the Toad loveth Shade and Coolneſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8843" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1036" type="float" level="2" n="66"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0243-03" xlink:href="note-0243-03a" xml:space="preserve">967.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8844" xml:space="preserve">Light may be taken from the Experiment of the Horſe-tooth Ring, and the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0243-04a" xlink:href="note-0243-04"/> Garland of Perwinckle, how that thoſe things which aſſwage the ſtrife of the <lb/>Spirits, do help diſeaſes, contrary to the Intention deſired; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8845" xml:space="preserve">for in the curing <lb/>of the Cramp, the Intention is to relax the Sinews; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8846" xml:space="preserve">but the contraction of <lb/>the Spirits, that they ſtrive leſs, is the beſt help: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8847" xml:space="preserve">So to procure eaſie Tra-<lb/>vails of Women, the Intention is to bring down the Childe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8848" xml:space="preserve">but the help is, <lb/>to ſtay the coming down too ſaft; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8849" xml:space="preserve">whereunto they ſay the Toad-ſtone like-<lb/>wiſe helpeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8850" xml:space="preserve">So in Peſtilent Fevers, the Intention is to expel the Infection by <lb/>Sweat and Evaporation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8851" xml:space="preserve">but the beſt means to do it, is by Nitre, Diaſcordium, <lb/>and other cool things, which do for a time arreſt the Expulſion, till Nature <lb/>can do it more quietly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8852" xml:space="preserve">For as one ſaith prettily, In the quenching of the flame <lb/>of a Peſtilent Ague, Nature is like People that come to quench the Fire of an Houſe; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8853" xml:space="preserve">which are ſo buſie, as one of them letteth another. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8854" xml:space="preserve">Surely it is an excellent Axiome <lb/>and of manifold uſe, that whatſoever appeaſeth the contention of Spirits <lb/>furthereth their action.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8855" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1037" type="float" level="2" n="67"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0243-04" xlink:href="note-0243-04a" xml:space="preserve">968.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8856" xml:space="preserve">The Writers of Natural Magick commend the wearing of the ſpoil of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0243-05a" xlink:href="note-0243-05"/> a Snake, for preſerving of Health. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8857" xml:space="preserve">I doubt it is but a conceit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8858" xml:space="preserve">for that the <lb/>Snake is thought to renew her youth by caſting her ſpoil. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8859" xml:space="preserve">They might as <lb/>well take the Beak of an Eagle, or a piece of a Harts-horn, becauſe thoſe <lb/>renew.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8860" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1038" type="float" level="2" n="68"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0243-05" xlink:href="note-0243-05a" xml:space="preserve">969.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8861" xml:space="preserve">It hath been anciently received, (for Pericles the Athenian uſed it) and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0243-06a" xlink:href="note-0243-06"/> it is yet in uſe, to wear little Bladders of Quick-ſilver, or Tablets of Arſe-<lb/>nick, as preſervatives againſt the Plague: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8862" xml:space="preserve">Not, as they conceive, for any <lb/>comfort they yield to the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8863" xml:space="preserve">but for that being poyſons themſelves, <lb/>they draw the venome to them from the Spirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8864" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1039" type="float" level="2" n="69"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0243-06" xlink:href="note-0243-06a" xml:space="preserve">970.</note> </div> <pb o="210" file="0244" n="244" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8865" xml:space="preserve">Vide the Experiments 95, 96, and 97. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8866" xml:space="preserve">touching the ſeveral Sympathies and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0244-01a" xlink:href="note-0244-01"/> Antipathies for Medicinal uſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8867" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1040" type="float" level="2" n="70"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-01" xlink:href="note-0244-01a" xml:space="preserve">971.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8868" xml:space="preserve">It is ſaid, that the Guts or Skin of a Woolf being applied to the Belly <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0244-02a" xlink:href="note-0244-02"/> do cure the Colick. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8869" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that the Woolf is a Beaſt of great Edacity and <lb/>Digeſtion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8870" xml:space="preserve">and ſo it may be the parts of him comfort the Bowels.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8871" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1041" type="float" level="2" n="71"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-02" xlink:href="note-0244-02a" xml:space="preserve">972.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8872" xml:space="preserve">We ſee Scare-crows are ſet up to keep Birds from Corn and Fruit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8873" xml:space="preserve">It is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0244-03a" xlink:href="note-0244-03"/> reported by ſome, that the Head of a Woolf<unsure/>, whole, dried and hanged up in <lb/>a Dove-houſe, will ſcare away Vermin, ſuch as are Weaſils, Pole-cats, and the <lb/>like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8874" xml:space="preserve">It may be the Head of a Dog will do as much; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8875" xml:space="preserve">for thoſe Vermin with <lb/>us, know Dogs better then Wolves.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8876" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1042" type="float" level="2" n="72"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-03" xlink:href="note-0244-03a" xml:space="preserve">973.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8877" xml:space="preserve">The Brains of ſome Creatures, (when their Heads are roſted) taken in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0244-04a" xlink:href="note-0244-04"/> Wine, are ſaid to ſtrengthen the Memory; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8878" xml:space="preserve">as the Brains of Hares, Brains of <lb/>Hens, Brains of Deer, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8879" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8880" xml:space="preserve">And it ſeemeth to be incident to the Brains of <lb/>thoſe Creatures that are fearful.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8881" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1043" type="float" level="2" n="73"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-04" xlink:href="note-0244-04a" xml:space="preserve">974.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8882" xml:space="preserve">The Oyntment that Witches uſe, is reported to be made of the Fat of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0244-05a" xlink:href="note-0244-05"/> Children digged out of their Graves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8883" xml:space="preserve">of the Juices of Smallage, Woolf-<lb/>bane, and Cinquefoil, mingled with the Meal of Fine Wheat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8884" xml:space="preserve">But I ſuppoſe, <lb/>that the Soporiferous Medicines are likeſt to do it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8885" xml:space="preserve">which are Henbane, Hem-<lb/>lock, Mandrake, Moonſhade, Tobacco, Opium, Saffron, Poplar leaves, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8886" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8887" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1044" type="float" level="2" n="74"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-05" xlink:href="note-0244-05a" xml:space="preserve">975.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8888" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by ſome, that the affections of Beaſts when they are in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0244-06a" xlink:href="note-0244-06"/> ſtrength, do add ſome virtue unto inanimate things: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8889" xml:space="preserve">As that the Skin of a <lb/>Sheep devoured by a Woolf moveth itching; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8890" xml:space="preserve">that a ſtone bitten by a Dog in <lb/>anger, being thrown at him, drunk in Powder provoketh Choler.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8891" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1045" type="float" level="2" n="75"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-06" xlink:href="note-0244-06a" xml:space="preserve">976.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8892" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerved, that the diet of Women with Childe, doth work <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0244-07a" xlink:href="note-0244-07"/> much upon the Infant. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8893" xml:space="preserve">As if the Mother eat Quinces much, and Coriander-<lb/>feed (the nature of both which, is to repreſs and ftay vapors that aſcend to <lb/>the Brain) it will make the Childe ingenious: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8894" xml:space="preserve">And on the contrary ſide, if <lb/>the Mother eat (much) Onions or Beans, or ſuch vaporous food, or drink <lb/>Wine or ſtrong drink immoderately, or faſt much, or be given to much <lb/>muſing, (all which ſend or draw vapors to the Head) it indangereth the <lb/>Childe to become Lunatick, or of imperfect memory: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8895" xml:space="preserve">And I make the ſame <lb/>judgment of Tobacco of en taken by the Mother.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8896" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1046" type="float" level="2" n="76"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-07" xlink:href="note-0244-07a" xml:space="preserve">977.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8897" xml:space="preserve">The Writers of Natural Magick report, that the Heart of an Ape worn <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0244-08a" xlink:href="note-0244-08"/> near the Heart, comforteth the Heart, and increaſeth audacity. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8898" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that <lb/>the Ape is a merry and bold Beaſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8899" xml:space="preserve">And that the ſame Heart likewiſe of an Ape <lb/>applied to the Neck or Head, helpeth the Wit, and is good for the Falling <lb/>ſickneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8900" xml:space="preserve">The Ape alſo is a witty Beaſt, and hath a dry Brain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8901" xml:space="preserve">which may <lb/>be ſome cauſe of attenuation of Vapors in the Head. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8902" xml:space="preserve">Yet it is ſaid to move <lb/>Dreams alſo. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8903" xml:space="preserve">It may be the Heart of a Man would do more, but that it is <lb/>more againſt Mens mindes to uſe it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8904" xml:space="preserve">except it be in ſuch as wear the Reliques <lb/>of Saints.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8905" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1047" type="float" level="2" n="77"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-08" xlink:href="note-0244-08a" xml:space="preserve">978.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8906" xml:space="preserve">The Fleſh of a Hedghog dreſſed and eaten, is ſaid to be a great dryer. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8907" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0244-09a" xlink:href="note-0244-09"/> It is true, that the Juice of a Hedghog muſt needs be harſh and dry, becauſe <lb/>it putteth forth ſo many Prickles: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8908" xml:space="preserve">For Plants alſo that are full of Prickles are <lb/>generally dry; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8909" xml:space="preserve">as Bryars, Thorns, Barberries. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8910" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the aſhes of a <lb/>Hedghog are ſaid to be a great deſiccative of Fiſtula’s.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8911" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1048" type="float" level="2" n="78"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-09" xlink:href="note-0244-09a" xml:space="preserve">979.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8912" xml:space="preserve">Mummy hath great force in ſtanching of Blood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8913" xml:space="preserve">which as it may be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0244-10a" xlink:href="note-0244-10"/> aſcribed to the mixture of Balms that are Glutenous, ſo it may alſo partake <lb/>of a ſecret propriety, in that the Blood draweth Mans fleſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8914" xml:space="preserve">And it is ap-<lb/>proved, that the Moſs which groweth upon the Scull of a Dead Man unburied <lb/>will ſtanch Blood potently. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8915" xml:space="preserve">And ſo do the dregs or powder of Blood, ſevered <lb/>from the Water and dried.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8916" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1049" type="float" level="2" n="79"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0244-10" xlink:href="note-0244-10a" xml:space="preserve">980.</note> </div> <pb o="211" file="0245" n="245" rhead="Century X."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8917" xml:space="preserve">It hath been practiſed to make White Swallaws, by anointing of the Eggs <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0245-01a" xlink:href="note-0245-01"/> with Oyl. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8918" xml:space="preserve">Which effect may be produced by the ſtopping of the Pores of <lb/>the Shell, and making the Juice that putteth forth the Feathers after wards <lb/>more penurious, And it may be, the anointing of the Eggs will be as effectu-<lb/>al as the anointing of the Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8919" xml:space="preserve">Of which, Vide the Experiment 93.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8920" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1050" type="float" level="2" n="80"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0245-01" xlink:href="note-0245-01a" xml:space="preserve">981.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8921" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that the White of an Egg or Blood mingled with Salt-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0245-02a" xlink:href="note-0245-02"/> water, doth gather the ſaltneſs, and maketh the water ſweeter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8922" xml:space="preserve">This may be <lb/>by Adheſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8923" xml:space="preserve">as in the Sixth Experiment of Clarification. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8924" xml:space="preserve">It may be alſo, that <lb/>Blood, and the White of an Egg, (which is the matter of a Living Creature) <lb/>have ſome Sympathy with Salt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8925" xml:space="preserve">for all Life, hath a Sympathy with Salt. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8926" xml:space="preserve">We ſee that Salt laid to a cut finger, healeth it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8927" xml:space="preserve">ſo, as it ſeemeth, Salt draw-<lb/>eth Blood, as well as Blood draweth Salt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8928" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1051" type="float" level="2" n="81"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0245-02" xlink:href="note-0245-02a" xml:space="preserve">982.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8929" xml:space="preserve">It hath been anciently received, that the Sea-Hare hath an antipathy <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0245-03a" xlink:href="note-0245-03"/> with the Lungs, (if it cometh near the Body) and erodeth them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8930" xml:space="preserve">Whereof <lb/>the cauſe is conceived to be a quality it hath of heating the Breath and Spi-<lb/>rits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8931" xml:space="preserve">as Cantharides have upon the watry parts of the Body, as Urine and Hy-<lb/>dropical Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8932" xml:space="preserve">And it is a good rule, That whatſoever hath an operation <lb/>upon certain kindes of Matters, that in Mans Body worketh moſt upon <lb/>thoſe parts wherein that kinde of matter aboundeth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8933" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1052" type="float" level="2" n="82"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0245-03" xlink:href="note-0245-03a" xml:space="preserve">983.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8934" xml:space="preserve">Generally that which is Dead, or Corrupted, or Excerned, hath antipa-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0245-04a" xlink:href="note-0245-04"/> thy with the ſame thing when it is alive, and when it is ſound, and with thoſe <lb/>parts which do excern: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8935" xml:space="preserve">As a Carcaſs of Man is moſt infectious and odious to <lb/>Man, a Carrion of an Horſe to an Horſe, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8936" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8937" xml:space="preserve">Purulent matter of Wounds <lb/>and Ulcers, Carbuncles, Pox, Scabs, Leproſie, to ſound Fleſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8938" xml:space="preserve">and the Ex-<lb/>crements of every Species to that Creature that excerneth them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8939" xml:space="preserve">But the <lb/>Excrements are leſs pernicious then the corruptions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8940" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1053" type="float" level="2" n="83"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0245-04" xlink:href="note-0245-04a" xml:space="preserve">984.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8941" xml:space="preserve">It is a common experience, That Dogs know the Dog-killer, when as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0245-05a" xlink:href="note-0245-05"/> in times of Infection ſome pety fellow is ſent out to kill the Dogs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8942" xml:space="preserve">and that <lb/>though they have never ſeen him before, yet they will all come forth, and <lb/>bark, and flie at him.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8943" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1054" type="float" level="2" n="84"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0245-05" xlink:href="note-0245-05a" xml:space="preserve">985.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8944" xml:space="preserve">The Relations touching the Force of Imagination, and the Secret Inſtincts <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0245-06a" xlink:href="note-0245-06"/> of Nature, are ſo uncertain, as they require a great deal of Examination ere <lb/>we conclude upon them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8945" xml:space="preserve">I would have it firſt throughly inquired, whether <lb/>there be any ſecret paſſages of Sympathy between Perſons of near Blood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8946" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/>Parents, Children, Brothers, Siſters, Nurſe-children, Husbands, Wives, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8947" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8948" xml:space="preserve">There <lb/>be many reports in Hiſtory, that upon the death of Perſons of ſuch nearneſs, <lb/>Men have had an in ward feeling of it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8949" xml:space="preserve">I my ſelf remember, that being in <lb/>Paris, and my Father dying in London, two or three days before my Fathers <lb/>death, I had a dream, which I told to divers Engliſh Gentlemen, that my Fa-<lb/>thers Houſe in the Countrey was Plaiſtered all over with Black Mortar. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8950" xml:space="preserve">There <lb/>is an opinion abroad, (whether idle, or no I cannot ſay) That loving and <lb/>kinde Husbands have a ſenſe of their Wives breeding Childe by ſome acci-<lb/>dent in their own Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8951" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1055" type="float" level="2" n="85"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0245-06" xlink:href="note-0245-06a" xml:space="preserve">986.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8952" xml:space="preserve">Next to thoſe that are near in Blood, there may be the like paſſage and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0245-07a" xlink:href="note-0245-07"/> inſtincts of Nature between great Friends and Enemies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8953" xml:space="preserve">And ſometimes the <lb/>revealing is unto another perſon, and not to the party himſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8954" xml:space="preserve">I remember <lb/>Philippus Comineus (a grave Writer) reporteth, That the Archbiſhop of Vienna <lb/>(a Reverend Prelat) ſaid (one day) after Maſs to King Lewis the Eleventh of <lb/>France, Sir, rour Mortal Enemy is dead; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8955" xml:space="preserve">what time, Charles Duke of Burgundy <lb/>was ſlain at the Battel of Granſon againſt the Switzers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8956" xml:space="preserve">Some tryal alſo would <lb/>be made, whether Pact or Agreement do any thing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8957" xml:space="preserve">as if two Friends ſhould <lb/>agree, That ſuch a day in every Week, they being in far diſtant places, <pb o="212" file="0246" n="246" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> ſhould pray one for another, or ſhould put on a Ring or Tablet one for an-<lb/>others ſake; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8958" xml:space="preserve">whether, if one of them ſhould break their Vow and Promiſe, <lb/>the other ſhould have any feeling of it in abſence.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8959" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1056" type="float" level="2" n="86"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0245-07" xlink:href="note-0245-07a" xml:space="preserve">987.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8960" xml:space="preserve">If there be any force in Imaginations and Affections of ſingular Per-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0246-01a" xlink:href="note-0246-01"/> ſons, it is probable the force is much more in the Joynt-Imaginations and <lb/>Affections of Multitudes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8961" xml:space="preserve">as if a victory ſhould be won or loſt in remote <lb/>parts, Whether is there not ſome ſenſe thereof in the people whom it con-<lb/>cerneth, becauſe of the great joy or grief that many men are poſſeſſed with <lb/>at once? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8962" xml:space="preserve">Pius Quintus, at the very time when that memorable victory was <lb/>won by the Chriſtians againſt the Turks, at the Naval Battel of Lepanto, being <lb/>then hearing of Cauſes in the Conſiſtory, brake off ſuddenly, and ſaid to <lb/>thoſe about him, It is now more then time we ſhould give thanks to God for the great <lb/>Victory he hath granted us againſt the Turks. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8963" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that Victory had a Sympa-<lb/>thy with his Spirit, for it was meerly his work to conclude the League: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8964" xml:space="preserve">It <lb/>may be that Revelation was Divine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8965" xml:space="preserve">But what ſhall we ſay then to a number <lb/>of Examples amongſt the Grecians and Romans, where the People being in <lb/>Theatres at Plays, have had news of Victories and Overthrows ſome few <lb/>days, before any Meſſenger could come?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8966" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1057" type="float" level="2" n="87"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0246-01" xlink:href="note-0246-01a" xml:space="preserve">988.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8967" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that that may hold in theſe things which is the general Root <lb/>of Superſtition; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8968" xml:space="preserve">namely, that men obſerve when things hit, and not when <lb/>they miſs, and commit to Memory the one, and forget and paſs over the <lb/>other. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8969" xml:space="preserve">But touching Divination and the miſgiving of Mindes, we ſhall <lb/>ſpeak more when we handle in general the Nature of Mindes, and Souls, and <lb/>Spirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8970" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8971" xml:space="preserve">We having given formerly ſome Rules of Imagination, and touching <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0246-02a" xlink:href="note-0246-02"/> the fortifying of the ſame; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8972" xml:space="preserve">we have ſet down alſo ſome few Inſtances and <lb/>Directions of the force of Imagination upon Beaſts, Birds, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8973" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8974" xml:space="preserve">upon plants, <lb/>and upon Inanimate Bodies: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8975" xml:space="preserve">Wherein you muſt ſtill obſerve, that your Tryals <lb/>be upon Subtil and Light Motions, and not the contrary; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8976" xml:space="preserve">for you will <lb/>ſoonerby Imagination bind a Bird from Singing then from Eating or Flying; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8977" xml:space="preserve">and I leave it to every man to chuſe Experiments which himſelf thinketh <lb/>moſt commodious, giving now but a few Examples of every of the three <lb/>kindes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8978" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1058" type="float" level="2" n="88"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0246-02" xlink:href="note-0246-02a" xml:space="preserve">989.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8979" xml:space="preserve">Uſe ſome Imaginant (obſerving the Rules formerly preſcribed). </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8980" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0246-03a" xlink:href="note-0246-03"/> binding of a Bird from ſinging, and the like of a Dog from barking. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8981" xml:space="preserve">Try <lb/>alſo the Imagination of ſome, whom you ſhall accommodate with things to <lb/>fortifie it in Cock-fights, to make one Cock more hardy, and the other <lb/>more cowardly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8982" xml:space="preserve">It would be tried alſo in flying of Hawks, or in courſing <lb/>of a Deer or Hart with Grey-hounds, or in Horſe-races, and the like com-<lb/>parative Motions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8983" xml:space="preserve">for you may ſooner by Imagination, quicken or ſlack a <lb/>motion, then raiſe or ceaſe it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8984" xml:space="preserve">as it is eaſier to make a Dog go ſlower, then <lb/>to make him ſtand ſtill, that he may notrun.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8985" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1059" type="float" level="2" n="89"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0246-03" xlink:href="note-0246-03a" xml:space="preserve">990.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8986" xml:space="preserve">In Plants alſo you may try the force of Imagination upon the lighter <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0246-04a" xlink:href="note-0246-04"/> ſort of Motions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8987" xml:space="preserve">as upon the ſudden fading or lively coming up of Herbs; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8988" xml:space="preserve">or upon their bending one way or other, or upon their cloſing and open-<lb/>ing, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8989" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8990" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1060" type="float" level="2" n="90"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0246-04" xlink:href="note-0246-04a" xml:space="preserve">991.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8991" xml:space="preserve">For Inanimate things, you may try the force of Imagination upon ſtay-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0246-05a" xlink:href="note-0246-05"/> ing the working of Beer, when the Barm is put in; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8992" xml:space="preserve">or upon the coming of <lb/>Butter or Cheeſe, after the Churning, or the Rennet be put in.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8993" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1061" type="float" level="2" n="91"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0246-05" xlink:href="note-0246-05a" xml:space="preserve">992.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8994" xml:space="preserve">It is an ancient Tradition, every where alleaged, for example of ſecret <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0246-06a" xlink:href="note-0246-06"/> Proprieties and Influxes, That the Torpedo Marina, if it be touched with a <lb/>long ſtick, doth ſtupefie the hand of him that touchethit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8995" xml:space="preserve">It is one degree of <pb o="213" file="0247" n="247" rhead="Century X."/> working at diſtance, to work by the continuance of a ſit Medium; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8996" xml:space="preserve">as Sound <lb/>will be conveyed to the Ear by ſtriking upon a Bow-ſtring, iſ the Horn of the <lb/>Bow be held to the Ear.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8997" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1062" type="float" level="2" n="92"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0246-06" xlink:href="note-0246-06a" xml:space="preserve">993.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s8998" xml:space="preserve">The Writers of Natural Magick do attribute much to the Virtues that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0247-01a" xlink:href="note-0247-01"/> come from the parts of Living Creatures, ſo as they be taken from them, the <lb/>Creatures remaining ſtill alive; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s8999" xml:space="preserve">as if the Creature ſtill living did infuſe ſome <lb/>immateriate Virtue and Vigor into the part ſevered. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9000" xml:space="preserve">So much may be true, <lb/>that any part taken from a Living Creature newly ſlain, may be of greater <lb/>force, then if it were taken from the like Creature dying of it ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9001" xml:space="preserve">becauſe <lb/>it is fuller of Spirit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9002" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1063" type="float" level="2" n="93"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0247-01" xlink:href="note-0247-01a" xml:space="preserve">994.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9003" xml:space="preserve">Tryal would be made of the like parts of Individuals in Plants and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0247-02a" xlink:href="note-0247-02"/> Living Creatures; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9004" xml:space="preserve">as to cut off a Stock of a Tree, and to lay that which you <lb/>cut off to putrefie, to ſee whether it will decay the reſt oſ the Stock; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9005" xml:space="preserve">or if <lb/>you ſhould cut off part of the Tail, or Leg of a Dog, or a Cat, and lay it to <lb/>putrefie, to ſee whether it wili feſter, or keep from healing, the part which <lb/>remaineth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9006" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1064" type="float" level="2" n="94"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0247-02" xlink:href="note-0247-02a" xml:space="preserve">995.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9007" xml:space="preserve">It is received, that it helpeth to continue love, if one wear a Ring or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0247-03a" xlink:href="note-0247-03"/> a Bracelet of the Hair of the party beloved. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9008" xml:space="preserve">But that may be by the exciting <lb/>of the Imagination; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9009" xml:space="preserve">and perhaps a Glove, or other like Favor, may as well <lb/>do it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9010" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1065" type="float" level="2" n="95"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0247-03" xlink:href="note-0247-03a" xml:space="preserve">996.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9011" xml:space="preserve">The Sympathy of Individuals that have been entire, or have touched, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0247-04a" xlink:href="note-0247-04"/> is of all others, the moſt incredible; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9012" xml:space="preserve">yet according unto our faithful manner <lb/>of Examination of Nature, we will make ſome little mention of it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9013" xml:space="preserve">The taking <lb/>away of Warts, by rubbing them with ſomewhat that after wards is put to <lb/>waſte and conſume, is a common Experiment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9014" xml:space="preserve">and I do apprehend it the <lb/>rather, becauſe of mine own experience. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9015" xml:space="preserve">I had ſrom my Childhood a Wart <lb/>upon one of my Fingers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9016" xml:space="preserve">afterwards, when I was about ſixteen years old, <lb/>being then at Paris, there grew upon both my hands anumber of Warts (at <lb/>leaſt an hundred) in a moneths ſpace. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9017" xml:space="preserve">The Engliſh Ambaſſadors Lady, who <lb/>was a Woman far from Superſtition, told me one day ſhe would help me a-<lb/>way with my Warts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9018" xml:space="preserve">Whereupon ſhe got a piece of Lard with the skin on, <lb/>and rubbed the Warts all over with the fat ſide, and amongſt the reſt that <lb/>Wart which I had from my Childhood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9019" xml:space="preserve">then ſhe nailed the piece of Lard, <lb/>with the fat to wards the Sun, upon a poſt of her Chamber window, which <lb/>was to the South. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9020" xml:space="preserve">The ſucceſs was, that within five weeks ſpace all the Warts <lb/>went quite away, and that Wart which I had ſolong endured, for company. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9021" xml:space="preserve">But at the reſt I did little marvel, becauſe they came in a ſhort time, and might <lb/>go away in a ſhort time again; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9022" xml:space="preserve">but the going of that which had ſtaid ſo long <lb/>doth yet ſtick with me. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9023" xml:space="preserve">They ſay the like is done by rubbing of Warts with <lb/>a green Elder-ſtick, and then burying the ſtick to rot in muck. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9024" xml:space="preserve">It would be <lb/>tried with Corns and Wens, and ſuch other Excreſcences: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9025" xml:space="preserve">I would have it <lb/>alſo tried with ſome parts of Living Creatures that are neareſt the nature of <lb/>Excreſcences; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9026" xml:space="preserve">as the Combs of Cocks, the Spurs of Cocks, the Horns of <lb/>Beaſts, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9027" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9028" xml:space="preserve">and I would have it tried both ways; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9029" xml:space="preserve">both by rubbing thoſe parts <lb/>with Lard or Elder as before; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9030" xml:space="preserve">and by cutting off ſome piece of thoſe parts, <lb/>and laying it to conſume, to ſee whether it will work any effect towards the <lb/>Conſumption of that part which was once joyned with it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9031" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1066" type="float" level="2" n="96"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0247-04" xlink:href="note-0247-04a" xml:space="preserve">997.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9032" xml:space="preserve">It is conſtantly received and avouched, that the anointing of the Wea-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0247-05a" xlink:href="note-0247-05"/> pon that maketh the Wound, will heal the Wound it ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9033" xml:space="preserve">In this Experiment, <lb/>upon the relation of men of credit, (though my ſelf, as yet, am not ſully <lb/>inclined to believe it) you ſhall note the Points following. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9034" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, the Oynt-<lb/>ment wherewith this is done, is made of divers Ingredients; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9035" xml:space="preserve">where of the <pb o="214" file="0248" n="248" rhead="Natural Hiſtory;"/> ſtrangeſt and hardeſt to come by, are the Moſs upon the Skull of a dead Man <lb/>unburied, and the Fats of a Boar, and a Bear killed in the act of generation. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9036" xml:space="preserve">Theſe two laſt I could eaſily ſuſpect to be preſeribed as a ſtartling hole, that <lb/>if the Experiment proved not, it might be pretended, that the Beaſts were not <lb/>killed in the due time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9037" xml:space="preserve">for as for the Moſs, it is certain there is great quan-<lb/>tity of it in Ireland, upon ſlain Bodies laid on heaps unburied. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9038" xml:space="preserve">The other In-<lb/>gredients are the Blood-ſtone in Powder, and ſome other things which ſeem <lb/>to have a virtue to ſtanch blood, as alſo the Moſs hath. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9039" xml:space="preserve">And the deſcription <lb/>of the whole Oyntment is to be found in the Chymical Diſpenſatory of Crollius. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9040" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Secondly, The ſame kinde of Oynment applied to the hurt it ſelf, worketh <lb/>not the effect, but onely applied to the weapon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9041" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, (which I like well) <lb/>they do not obſerve the confecting of the Oyntment under any certain Con-<lb/>ſtellation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9042" xml:space="preserve">which commonly is the excuſe of Magical Medicines when they <lb/>fail, that they were not made under a fit figure of Heaven. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9043" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, it may <lb/>be applied to the Weapon, though the party hurt be at great diſtance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9044" xml:space="preserve">Fiſth-<lb/>ly, it ſeemeth the Imagination of the party to be cured is not needſul to con-<lb/>cur, for it may be done without the knowledge of the party wounded: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9045" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And thus much hath been tried, that the Oyntment (for Experiments ſake) <lb/>hath been wiped off the Weapon without the knowledge of the party hurt, <lb/>and preſently the party hurt hath been in great rage of pain, till the weapon <lb/>was reanointed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9046" xml:space="preserve">Sixthly, it is affirmed, That if you cannot get the weapon, <lb/>yet if you put an Inſtrument of Iron or Wood, reſembling the weapon <lb/>into the Wound, whereby it bleedeth, the anointing of that Inſtrument will <lb/>ſerve and work the effect. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9047" xml:space="preserve">This I doubt ſhould be a device to keep this <lb/>ſtrange form of Cure in requeſt and uſe, becauſe many times you cannot <lb/>comeby the Weapon it ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9048" xml:space="preserve">Seventhly, the Wound muſt be at firſt waſhed <lb/>clean with White-wine, or the parties own Water, and then bound up cloſe <lb/>in fine Linnen, and no more dreſſing renewed till it be whole. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9049" xml:space="preserve">Eighthly, the <lb/>Sword it ſelf muſt be wrapped up cloſe as far as the Oyntment goeth, that it <lb/>take no wind. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9050" xml:space="preserve">Ninthly, the Oyntment, if you wipe it off from the Sword <lb/>and keep it, wil ſerve again, and rather increaſe in vertue then diminiſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9051" xml:space="preserve">Tenth-<lb/>ly, it will cure in far ſhorter time, then Oyntments of Wounds commonly do. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9052" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Laſtly, it will cure a Beaſt as well as a Man; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9053" xml:space="preserve">which I like beſt of all the reſt, <lb/>becauſe it ſubjecteth the matter to an eaſie tryal.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9054" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1067" type="float" level="2" n="97"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0247-05" xlink:href="note-0247-05a" xml:space="preserve">998.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9055" xml:space="preserve">IWould have Men know, that though Ireprehend the eaſie paſſing over of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0248-01a" xlink:href="note-0248-01"/> the cauſes of things, by aſcribing them to ſecret and hidden virtues and <lb/>proprieties (for this hath arreſted and laid aſleep all true Inquiry and Indica-<lb/>tions;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9056" xml:space="preserve">yet I do not underſtand, but that in the practical part of knowledge <lb/>much will be left to Experience and Probation, whereunto Indication cannot <lb/>ſo ſully reach; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9057" xml:space="preserve">and this is not onely in Specie, but in Individuo. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9058" xml:space="preserve">So in Phyſick, <lb/>if you will cure the Faundies, it is not enough to ſay, that the Medicine muſt <lb/>not be cooling, forthat will hinder the opening which the diſeaſe requireth; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9059" xml:space="preserve">that it muſt not be hot, for that will exaſperate Choler; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9060" xml:space="preserve">that it muſt go to <lb/>the Gall, for there is the obſtruction which cauſeth the diſeaſe, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9061" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9062" xml:space="preserve">But you <lb/>muſt receive from Experience, that Powder of Chamæpytis, or the like, drunk <lb/>in Beer, is good for the Faundies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9063" xml:space="preserve">So again, a wiſe Phyſician doth not continue <lb/>ſtill the ſame Medicine to a Patient, but he will vary, if the firſt Medicine <lb/>doth not apparently ſucceed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9064" xml:space="preserve">ſor of thoſe Remedies that are good for the <lb/>Faundies, Stone, Agues, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9065" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9066" xml:space="preserve">that will do good in one Body, which will not <lb/>do good in another, according to the correſpondence the Medicine hath to <lb/>the Individual Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9067" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1068" type="float" level="2" n="98"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0248-01" xlink:href="note-0248-01a" xml:space="preserve">999. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching <lb/>Secret Proprie-<lb/>ties.</note> </div> <pb o="215" file="0249" n="249" rhead="Century X."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9068" xml:space="preserve">THe delight which Men have in Popularity, Fame, Honor, Submiſsion, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0249-01a" xlink:href="note-0249-01"/> Subjection of other Mens Mindes, Wills, or Affections (although theſe things <lb/>may be deſired for other ends) ſeemeth to be athing in it ſelf, without con-<lb/>templation of conſequence, grateſul, and agreeable to the Nature of Man. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9069" xml:space="preserve">This thing (ſurely) is not without ſome ſignification, as if all Spirits and <lb/>Souls of Men came forth out of one Divine Limbus; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9070" xml:space="preserve">elſe, why be Men ſo <lb/>much affected with that which others think or ſay? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9071" xml:space="preserve">The beſt temper of <lb/>Mindes, deſireth good Name and true Honor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9072" xml:space="preserve">the lighter, Popularity and <lb/>Applauſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9073" xml:space="preserve">the more depraved, Subjection and Tyranny; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9074" xml:space="preserve">as is ſeen in great <lb/>Conquerors and Troublers of the World, and yet more in Arch-Herencks, <lb/>for the introducing of new Doctrines, is like wiſe an affectation oſ Tyranny <lb/>over the Underſtandings and Beliefs of Men.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9075" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1069" type="float" level="2" n="99"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0249-01" xlink:href="note-0249-01a" xml:space="preserve">1000. <lb/>Experiment <lb/>Solitary, <lb/>touching the <lb/>General Sym-<lb/>pathy of Mens <lb/>Spirits.</note> </div> <handwritten/> <pb file="0250" n="250"/> <pb file="0251" n="251"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1071" type="section" level="1" n="36"> <head xml:id="echoid-head53" xml:space="preserve">ATABLE <lb/>Of the chief Matters containedin the <lb/>CENTURIES</head> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>A. <lb/>ACceleration of time in Works <lb/># of Nature, 67. In Clarifi-<lb/># cation of Liquor, 68. In ſe-<lb/># ueral Maturations, 69. As <lb/># of Fruits, ibid. Of Drinks, ibid. <lb/># Impoſthumes and Ulcers, ibid. Of <lb/># Metals, ibid. Of Clarification in wine, <lb/># 165. Acctleration of Putrefaction, <lb/># 73. Acceleration of Birth, 78. Of <lb/># Growth or Stature, ibid. Three means <lb/># of it # ibid. <lb/>Acceleration of Germination, 89. By <lb/># three means, viz. Mending the Non-<lb/># riſhment, 90. Comforting the Spirits <lb/># of the Plant, ibid. Eaſie coming to <lb/># the Nouriſhment, 91. Several inſtances <lb/># thereof # 89,90,91 <lb/>Aches in Mens Bodies foreſhew rain, # 176 <lb/>Egypt ſcarce hath any rain, 161. Egypti-<lb/># an conſerving of bodies, 163. Their <lb/># Mummies # ibid. <lb/>Equinoctial more tolerable for heat, then <lb/># the Zones, 87. Three cauſes thereof # ibid. <lb/>Æthiopes # 87 <lb/>Ætna # 165 <lb/>Affectation of Tyranny over Mens un-<lb/># derſtandings andbeliefs # 213 <lb/>Affections of Beaſts impreſſed upon inani-<lb/># mate things # 214 <lb/>Agarick # 116,131 <lb/>Air turnedinto water, 6. # By four ſeve-<lb/># ralways, ibid. Inſtances tending there-<lb/># to, 20, 21. Converted into a denſe <lb/># body, a rarity in Nature, 7. Hath an <lb/># antipathy with tangible bodies, 21. <lb/># Converted into water by repercnßion <lb/># from hard bodies, ibid. Air turned into <lb/># water by the ſame means that Ice, ibid. <lb/># Congealing of air, 80. Air condenſed <lb/># into weight # 156 <lb/>Air pent the cauſe of Sounds, # 32, 33, 34. <lb/># Eruptions thereof, cauſe Sounds, ibid. <lb/># Air not always neceſſary to Sounds, # 36 <lb/>Air excluded in ſome Bodies, prohibiteth <lb/># putrefaction, 75. In ſome cauſeth it, <lb/># 76. The cauſes of each, ibid. Air com-<lb/># preſſed and blown, prohibiteth putre-<lb/># faction # 77 <lb/>Airs wholeſome, how found out, 164. The <lb/># putrefaction of air, to be diſcerned a-<lb/># forchand, 173. Airs good to recover Con-<lb/># ſumptions, 204. Air healthful within <lb/># doors, how procured # ibid. <lb/>Air and Fire, foreſhew winds # 274 <lb/>Air, 21. The cauſes of heat, and cold in it, <lb/># ibid. Hath ſome degree of light in it, # ibid. <lb/>Air poyſoned by art # 202 <lb/>Alchymiſts # 71 <lb/>Alexanders Body preſerved till Ceſars time, # 163 <lb/>Aliments changed good # 18 <lb/>Alleys cloſe gravelled, what they bring <lb/># forth # 117 <lb/>All Night # 83 <lb/>Almond Putter for nouriſhing ſick bodies <lb/># better then Cullices # 13 <lb/>Alterations of bodies # 179 <lb/>Altering the colours of Hairs and Feathers # 183 <lb/>Amber ſmell # 203 <lb/>Anger, 150. The impreßion thereof, 151. <lb/># Cauſeth the eyes to look red, 189. The <lb/># cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Animate and inanimate, wherein they differ, # 125 <lb/>Annihilation, not poſsible in Nature # 28 <lb/>Anointing of the Weapon # 213 <lb/>Annual Herbs # 120 <lb/>Antonius his genius weak before Auguſtus, # 204 <lb/>Antipathy and Sympathy, 25. Of Plants, <lb/># 101, 102, 103, 104, 105. Inſtances of</note> <pb file="0252" n="252" rhead="A Table of the chief Matters"/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"># Antipathy in other kindes, 209, 210, <lb/># 211, 212, 213. Antipathy between ene-<lb/># mies in abſence # ib. <lb/>Appetite of continuation in liquid bodies # 5, 6 <lb/>Appetite in the ſtomach, 176. what quali-<lb/># ties provcke it, ibid. Four cauſes thereof <lb/># ibid. <lb/>Apple incloſed in VV ax for speedy ripening, <lb/># 70, 71. Hanged in ſm@ak, ibid. Covered <lb/># in Lime and Aſhes, ibid. Covered with <lb/># Crabs and Onions, ib. Apple in Hay and <lb/># Straw, ibid. In a cloſe box, ibid. Apple <lb/># rolled, ib. Apple inpart cut, beſmeared <lb/># with ſack # ibid. <lb/>Apple-cions grafted on the ſtock of a Cole-<lb/># wort # 97 <lb/>Apple-trees, ſome of them bring forth a <lb/># ſweet Moſs # 114 <lb/>Aqua-fortis diſſelving Iron # 166 <lb/>Archbiſhop of Vienna his revelation to <lb/># Lewis the Eleventh # 211 <lb/>Arrows with wooden-heads ſharpned, pierce <lb/># wood ſooner, then with iron heads # 148 <lb/>Artichokes made leſs prickly # 98 <lb/>Art of memory # 27 <lb/>Aſhes in a veſſel, will not admit equal quan-<lb/># tity of water, as in the veſſel cmpty # 10 <lb/>Aſhes an excellent compoſt # 123 <lb/>Asp eauſeth eaſie death # 132 <lb/>Aſſimilation in bodies in animate, 24. In <lb/># vegetables # ib. 79, 179 <lb/>Aftriction prohibiteth putrefaction # 75 <lb/>Attraction by ſmilitude of ſubſtance # 148, 191 <lb/>Audibles mingle in the medium, which viſi-<lb/># bles do not, 53. The cauſe thereof. ibid. <lb/># Several Conſents of audibles and viſibles, <lb/># 58, 59. Several Diſſents of thcm, 60, 61. <lb/># Audibles and Viſibles # 204 <lb/>Authority ſtrengthneth Imagination # 206 <lb/>B. <lb/>BAg growing in the fields # 115 <lb/>Barrel empty knocked, ſaid to give a <lb/># Diapaſon to the ſame Barrel full # 45 <lb/>Barrenneſs of Trees, the cauſe # 100 <lb/>Baſil turned into VVilde Thj<unsure/>me # 111 <lb/>Baſilisk # 202 <lb/>Bathing the body, 156. VVould not be <lb/># healthful for us, if it were in uſe, ibid. <lb/># For the Tuiks good # ib. <lb/>Bearing in the womb, in ſome creatures <lb/># longer, in ſome ſhorter # 159 <lb/>Beaſts do not imitate Mans ſpeech as Birds <lb/># do, 55. The cauſe, ibid. Beaſts commu-<lb/># nicating in ſpecies with one another, 138. <lb/># Likewiſe ſome Birds, ibid. Beaſts in their <lb/># kindes, leſſer then F ſhes, 184. Greater <lb/># then Birds, the cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Beasts that yield the taste or virtue of the <lb/># the Herb they feed on # 104 <lb/>Beaſts foreſhew Rain # 175 <lb/>Capon. Becr, how made, 13. Averynouriſh-<lb/># ing drink # ibid. <lb/>Bees humming an uneqnal ſound # 43 <lb/>Birds have another manner in their quick-<lb/># ning, then Men or Beaſts, 25. Birds <lb/># communicating in ſpecies with one an-<lb/># other, 138. Swifter in motion then Beaſts, <lb/># ibid. The cauſe, ibid. In their kindes, <lb/># leſſer then Beaſts or Fiſhes, 184. The <lb/># cauſe, ibid. Imitate Mans ſpeech, which <lb/># Beasts do not, 55. Thecanſe # ibid. <lb/>Birth of living creatnres # 78 <lb/>Black the beſt colour in Plumbs # 109 <lb/>Blear-eyes infectious # 202 <lb/>Bleeding of the body, at the approach of the <lb/># murtherer # 207 <lb/>Blood, five means of ſtanching it # 18 <lb/>Blood drawethſalt # 211 <lb/>Blood of the Cuttle-fi<unsure/>ſh # 156 <lb/>Blood-stone # 210 <lb/>Blows and bruiſes induce ſwelling, 187. The <lb/># cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Bluſhing cauſeth redneß in the ears, not in <lb/># theeyes, as anger doth, 189. The cauſe <lb/># of each # ibid. <lb/>Boaring an hol@ through a Tree, helpeth it # 94 <lb/>Body brittle ſtrucken, 3. Bodies natural <lb/># moſt of them have an appetite of admit-<lb/># ting others into them, 169. Except flame, <lb/># ibid. Bodies unperf@ctly mixt # 178 <lb/>Bodies in nature that give no ſounds, and <lb/># that give ſounds # 32, 33, 34 <lb/>Bodies, to which, VVine is hurtful, and to <lb/># which, good # 153 <lb/>Bodies conſerved a long time # 162, 163 <lb/>Boldneſs and ind@ſiry, the power of them in <lb/># civil buſineſs # 190, 203 <lb/>Boletus # 131 <lb/>Bolus Armenus # 147 <lb/>Bones, 141, 157. The moſt ſenſible of cold, <lb/># 141. In what Fiſhes none, 157. One in <lb/># the Heart of a Stag # ib. <lb/>Boiling cauſeth Grains to ſwell in difference # 185 <lb/>Bracelets worn which comfort the ſpirits, <lb/># 219. Their three ſcveral operations, # ibid. <lb/>Brains of ſome Beoſts ſtrengthen the memory, # 210 <lb/>Brain increaſed in the Full Moon # 193 <lb/>Braſs ſanative of wounds # 166 <lb/>Braſ -plates oſſw age ſwelling # 187 <lb/>Breath held, helpeth hearing, 62. The cauſe # ibid.</note> <pb file="0253" n="253" rhead="contained in theſe Centuries."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve">Bryer-buſh # 117 <lb/>Bringing forth many at a birth, and but one, <lb/># 160. The cauſe of each # ibid. <lb/>Burning-glaſſes rare # 34 <lb/>Burning ſome Vegetables upon the ground, <lb/># enricheth it # 122 <lb/>Borage, leaf infuſed # 4 <lb/>C. <lb/>CAke growing on the ſide of a dead Tree # 139 <lb/>Calamitas # 137 <lb/>Candles of ſeveral mixtures, 82. Of ſeveral <lb/># wicks, 83. Laid in Bran for laſting # ibid. <lb/>Cantharides, whereſoever applied, affect the <lb/># Bladder, 25, 211. The Flies Cantha-<lb/># rides, 153. Of what ſubſtance they are <lb/># bred # ibid. <lb/>Carrying of foreign Roots ſafe # 128 <lb/>Caſſia # ibid. <lb/>Caſting of the skin or ſhell, 154. The crea-<lb/># tures that caſt either # ibid. <lb/>Caterpillars # 153 <lb/>Cements that grow hard # 183 <lb/>Chalk, a good compoſt, 122, 123. Good for <lb/># Paſture, as well as for Arable # ibid. <lb/>Chameleons, 80. Their nouriſhment, ibid. <lb/># A fond Tradition of them # ibid. <lb/>Chamelotted Paper # 156 <lb/>Change in Medicines and Aliments good, <lb/>18. The cauſe why # ibid. <lb/>Charcoal vapor in a cloſe room, mortal # 202 <lb/>Charms # 205 <lb/>Cheap fuel # 164 <lb/>Children born in the ſeventh moneth, vital, <lb/># in the eighth, not, 78. The cauſe why, <lb/># ibid. Over-much nouriſhment, ill for <lb/># children, ibid. Dry nouriſhment, hurt-<lb/># ful, ibid. Nouriſhment of an opening <lb/># nature, good for them, ibid. Sitting much, <lb/># hurtful for them, ibid. Cold things, <lb/># hurtful, ibid. Long ſucking, hurtful, # ibid. <lb/>Chineſes # 71 <lb/>Cions over-rule the Stock, 93. Muſt be <lb/># ſuperior to it, 99. Cionsregrafted # 97 <lb/>Cinnamon, 128. The Proprieties of that <lb/># Tree # ibid. <lb/>Citron grafted on a Quince # 110 <lb/>Clammy Bodies # 64, 65 <lb/>Clarifying of Liquors by Adheſion, 2. Of <lb/># water running # ibid. <lb/>Clarification of Liquors, 67. Three cauſes <lb/># thereof, ibid. 80. Clarification of them <lb/># by Separation, ibid. By even diſtribution <lb/># of the Spirits, ibid. By Refining the Spi-<lb/># rit, ibid. Several inſtances of Clarifica-<lb/># tion, ibid. 68. Clarification of Drinks, <lb/># ibid. 69. Of Wine # 137 <lb/>Clarification # 162 <lb/>Cloves, attractive of Water # 21 <lb/>Coaſting of Plants # 99 <lb/>Coffee, a Berry making Drink in Turky # 155 <lb/>Cold, 19. Production of it, a very noble <lb/># work, ibid. Seven means to produce it, <lb/># ibid. 20. Primum Frigidum, the Earth, <lb/># 19. Tranſitive into Bodies adjacent, as <lb/># well as Heat, ibid. All tangible bodies <lb/># of themſelves, cold, ibid. Denſity, cauſe <lb/># of cold, ibid. Quick ſpirit in a cold body, <lb/># increaſeth cold, ibid. 20. Chaſing away <lb/># of the warm ſpirits, increaſe of cold, ib. <lb/># Exhaling of the warm ſpirits, doth the <lb/># like, ibid. Cold prohibiteth Putrefacti-<lb/># on, 75. Irritateth Flame # 83 <lb/>Cold having mortified any part, how to help <lb/># it # 166 <lb/>Coleworts furthered intheir growth by Sea-<lb/># weed, 96. By being watered with Salt-<lb/># water, 98. Hurt Neighbor Plants # 101 <lb/>Colick cured by application of woolfs-guts # 210 <lb/>Colliquation # 73 <lb/>Coloquintida # 202 <lb/>Coloration of Flowers, 108. Colours of <lb/># Flowers different from the ſame Seed, <lb/># 109. Colours of Herbs # ibid. <lb/>Colours vaniſh not by degrees, as Sounds do, <lb/># 51. The cauſes thereof, ibid. colours of <lb/># Metal Orient in their diſſolutions, 64. <lb/># The cauſes # ibid. <lb/>Comforting of the Spirits of Men by ſeveral <lb/># things # 209 <lb/>Compoſts to inrich ground, 122, 123, 124. <lb/># The ordering of them for ſeveralgrounds, <lb/># 222. Six kindes of them # ibid. <lb/>Compound fruits, 100. How they may be <lb/># made # ibid. <lb/>Compreſſion in ſolid bodies, 2. Cauſe of all <lb/># violent motion, 3. Not hitherto inquired, <lb/># ibid. worketh firſt in round, then in pro-<lb/># greß, ibid. Eaſily diſcernable in Liquors, <lb/># in ſolid bodies not, ibid. Compreſſion in a <lb/># brittle body, ibid. In powder, in Shot, <lb/># ibid. To a preternatural extent, 16, In <lb/># Sounds, ib. Compreſſion of Liquors # 187 <lb/>Concoction, 179. The word leſs reſtrained <lb/># then formerly, ibid. Not the work of <lb/># Heat alone, ibid. The two periods of it # ibid. <lb/>Concords in Muſick # 30 <lb/>Concretion of Bodies, 181. Diſſolved by the <lb/># coxtrary # ibid. <lb/>Condenſing Medicines to relieve the Spirits # 155 <lb/>Condenſing of Air into weight # 156</note> <pb file="0254" n="254" rhead="A Table of the chief Matters"/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve">Congealing of Air # 80 <lb/>Conſervation of Bodies long time, 162, 163. <lb/># The cauſes and helps thereof # ibid. <lb/>Conſervation of Bodies in Quick-ſilver # 168 <lb/>Conſiſtence of Bodies # 180 <lb/>Conſumptions in what Airs recovered # 204 <lb/>Contiguous things their operations # 201 <lb/>Coppice-woods haſtned # 93 <lb/>Coral # 126, 165 <lb/>No Core in Fruits # 110 <lb/>Corn changed by ſowing often in the ſame <lb/># ground, 111. Changed into a baſer kinde <lb/># by the ſterility of the year, ibid. The <lb/># Diſeaſes thereof, 136. The remedy of <lb/># the Diſeaſes, ibid. 137. Choice of the <lb/># beſt Corn # ibid. <lb/>Corruptions # 73 <lb/>Court of Vulcan, near Puteoli # 165 <lb/>Cramp, 211, 212. Twocures of it # ibid. <lb/>Creatures moving after the ſevering of the <lb/># head, 88. The cauſes there of # ibid. <lb/>Crudity # 179 <lb/>Cryſtal in C@ves, 81. Deſignation of atryal <lb/># for making of it # ibid. <lb/>Cucumbers made to grow ſooner, 96. To <lb/># bear two years, ibid. By ſteeping their <lb/># Seeds in Milk, prove more dainty, 98. <lb/># Made more delicate by throwing in chaff <lb/># when they are ſet, ibid. They exceedingly <lb/># affect moiſture, ibid. VVill grow towards <lb/># a pot of water. # ibid. <lb/>Cure by cuſtom, 17. Caution to be uſed in <lb/># diſeaſes counted incurable, ibid. cure by <lb/># exceſs, ibid. The cauſe of it, ibid. Cure <lb/># by motion of conſent, ibid. Phyſicians, <lb/># how to make uſe of this motion # ibid. <lb/>Curioſities touching Plants, # 107, 108, 109, 110 <lb/>Curled leaves in Plants # 133 <lb/>Cutting Trees often, cauſeth their long laſt-<lb/># ing # 120 <lb/>Cuttles blood # 156 <lb/>D. <lb/>DAmps from Mines and Minerals # 202 <lb/>Day ſhowers, not ſo good for Fruits as <lb/># night-ſhowers # 135 <lb/>Death without pain # 232 <lb/>Decoction maketh Liquors clearer, Infuſion <lb/># thicker, 68. The cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Deer, 159. Their generating # ibid. <lb/>Degenerating of Plants, 110, 111. The ſe-<lb/># veralcauſes thereof # ibid. <lb/>Democritus # 203 <lb/>Deſiccation # 74 <lb/>Dew upon Hills, better then upon Valleys # 165 <lb/>Diamonds Corniſh # 2 <lb/>Diapaſon, the ſweeteſt of Sounds, 30. The <lb/># Diapaſon or number of Eight, rather a <lb/># thing received, then atrue computation, <lb/># ibid. Half Notes of Neceßity between <lb/># the vniſon and Diapaſon # ibid. <lb/>Diet-drinks, 19. Moſt troubleſome at firſt # ibid. <lb/>Differences of Plants # 121, 122 <lb/>Differences of ſeveral paſsions in matter # 182 <lb/>Digging of the Earth healthful # 203 <lb/>Diſcords in Miſick # 30, 31 <lb/>Diſeaſes contrary to predispoſition, 17. What <lb/># the Phyſician is to do in ſuch caſes, ibid. <lb/># Diſeaſes infectious, 65. Diſeaſes eßide-<lb/># mical # 85 <lb/>Diſpleaſures and pleaſures of the ſenſes # 145 <lb/>Diſpleaſure light, 151. The impreſsions <lb/># thereof # ibid. <lb/>Diſſolution of Iron in Aqua-fortis # 166 <lb/>Divination Natural # 172 <lb/>Dogsknow the Dog-killer # 211 <lb/>Double flowers # 109, 110 <lb/>Down upon the leaves of Plants, 117. The <lb/># virtue of ſuch leaves # ibid. <lb/>Drean s pleaſant and prophetical procured <lb/># by ſome ſmells # 204 <lb/>Driz<unsure/>ks, 69. The maturation of them, ibid. <lb/># How it is wrought, ibid. VVherein it <lb/># differeth from clarification, ibid. Degrees <lb/># of Maturation in ſeveral Liquors, ibid. <lb/># Maturation by ixforcing the motions of <lb/># the Spirits, ibid. Quickning of drixkthat <lb/># is dead # ibid. <lb/>Drowning of Metals # 168, 169 <lb/>Drunken men, 152. Their Sperm unfruitful, <lb/># 153. They are unapt for voluntary moti-<lb/># on, ibid. Imagine falſe things as to the <lb/># eye, ibid. Distempered ſooner with ſmall <lb/># draughts, then with great # ibid. <lb/>Drying the adventitious moiſture, prohibi-<lb/># teth putrefaction, 76. Mixture of dry <lb/># things prohibits it # ibid. <lb/>Ductible Bodies # 181, 182 <lb/>Dulcoration of things, 133. of Metals, 79. <lb/># Of Fruits by ſeveral ways, 186. The <lb/># cauſes of them # ibid. <lb/>Dungs of Beaſts to inrich grounds, 122. <lb/># VVhich of them the beſt # ibid. <lb/>Dnst maketh Trees fruitfub # 136 <lb/>Dwarfing of Trees # 113 <lb/>E. <lb/>EAr dangerous to be picked in yawning # 140 <lb/>Early Flowers and Plants # 119 <lb/>Earth and sand differ, 1. Earth Primum <lb/># Frigldum, 19. Infuſions in Earth, 83. The <lb/># effects thereof, ibid. Cautions to be uſed <lb/># therein, ibid. Several inſtances thereof,</note> <pb file="0255" n="255" rhead="contained in theſe Centuries."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"># ibid. Earthtaken out of the Vaislts will <lb/># put forth Herbs, 117. The nature of <lb/># thoſe Herbs, ibid. what Earth taken <lb/># out of ſhady and watry woods will put <lb/># forth, ibid. Earth upon Earth, a good <lb/># Compost, 123. Earths good and bad, <lb/># 136. Earths Medicinal, 147. Earth <lb/># taken near the River Nilus, 156. Earth <lb/># pure, the healthfulleſt ſmell of all # 203 <lb/>Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea # 200 <lb/>Ecchoes, 56. Artificial Ecchoes not known, <lb/># ibid. Natural Ecchoes where found, ibid. <lb/># The differences between the Concurrent <lb/># Eccho and Iterant, ibid. No Eccho from <lb/># a Trunck, ſtopped at one end, ibid. The <lb/># cauſe, ibid. Eccho from within a Well, <lb/># ibid. whether Ecchoes move in the ſame <lb/># angle with the original Sounds, ibid. <lb/># Plurality of Ecchoes in one place, ibid. <lb/># Back-ecchoes, ibid. Ecchoes returning <lb/># many words, 58. Eccho upon Eccho, 167, <lb/># 168. The like betwixt an Houſe, and an <lb/># Hill, 58. Eccho will not return the Let-<lb/># ter S, ibid. Difference of Ecchoes, ibid. <lb/># Mixture of Ecchoes # ibid. <lb/>Edible fieſh, and not Edible, 186. The cauſes <lb/># of each # ibid. <lb/>Eggs, the yolks of them great nouriſhers, 14. <lb/># How to be uſed, ibid. rolk conduceth <lb/># more to the nouriſhment. white to the <lb/># generation of the Bird # 25 <lb/>Eight, the ſweeteſt Concord in Muſick # 30 <lb/>Elder ſtick put to conſume, taketh away <lb/># warts # 213 <lb/>Electrum # 168 <lb/>Electrick Bodies # ibid. <lb/>Elm grafred # 100 <lb/>Enforcing a thought upon another, 204. In-<lb/># ſtance thereof, in a fuglers trick, ibid. <lb/># Three means by which it muſt be wrought # 204, 205 <lb/>Engliſhman hurt in the Leg, hard to cure # 166 <lb/>Envy # 203, 204 <lb/>Epidemical Diſeaſes # 85 <lb/>Eſculent Plants, 129. Eſculent raw, ibid. <lb/># Having po<unsure/>ſſed the fire, ibid. Not Eſcu-<lb/># lent at all # ibid. <lb/>Eunuchs # 142 <lb/>Excrements of living creaiures ſmell ill, 177. <lb/># The canſe, 178. Some ſmell well, ibid. <lb/># The cauſe, ibid. Moſt odious to a creature <lb/># of the ſame kinde <lb/>Excreſcences of Plants, 113, 114, &c. Two <lb/># tryals for Excreſcences, 116. Excreſcences <lb/># joyned with Putref action # 117 <lb/>Exerciſe, 66. In what Bodies hurtful, ibid. <lb/># Not to be uſed with a ſpare diet, ibid. Be-<lb/># nefits of exerciſe, ibid. Evils of exer-<lb/># ciſe, ibid. Exerciſe imping uateth not ſo <lb/># much as frictions, 190. The cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Eye of the Underſtanding, like the Eye of <lb/># Senſe # 24 <lb/>The Eyes, 188. Both move one way, ibid. See <lb/># better one eye ſhut, ibid. Thecauſe, ibid. <lb/># why ſome ſee one thing double, ibid. <lb/># Pore-blinde men ſee beſt near-hand, ibid. <lb/># The cauſe, ibid. Old men at ſome diſtance # ibid. <lb/>Eyes are offended by over-great Lights, 189. <lb/># By enterchange of Light and Darkneß on <lb/># the ſudden, ibid. By ſmall Prints, ibid. <lb/># wax red in Anger, in Bluſhing not, ibid. <lb/># The cauſe of each, ibid. Eye re-placed, <lb/># hath recovered ſight # 88 <lb/>F. <lb/>FAble of Hercules and Hylas # 40 <lb/>Falling-ſickneſs, how helped # 210 <lb/>Faſcination # 203 <lb/>Fat extracted out of fleſh # 139 <lb/>Fear, 149, 206. The impreſsions thereof # 149, 150 <lb/>Feathers of Birds, why of ſuch fine colours, <lb/># 2. How the colour of them may be chan-<lb/># ged, 24, 25. Age changeth them # 183 <lb/>Feathers burnt, ſuppreſs the Mother # 204 <lb/>Female and Male in Plants, 126. The differ-<lb/># ences of Female and Male in ſeveral li-<lb/># ving creatures, 184. The cauſes thereof # ibid. <lb/>Fetid ſmells # 177, 178 <lb/>Fibrows Bodies # 181, 182 <lb/>Figs in the Spring, 96. Indian Fig # 127 <lb/>Figurable, and not Figurable # 182 <lb/>Figures of Plants # 121 <lb/>Figures or Tropes in Muſick, have an agree-<lb/># ment with the Figures of Rhetorick # 31 <lb/>Fire Tanneth not as the Sun doth # 87, 88 <lb/>Fire and hot water, heat differently, 140. <lb/># Fires ſubterrany # 80 <lb/>Fire and Air foreſhew winds # 174 <lb/>Fiſh of the Sea, put into freſh water # 147, 148 <lb/>Fiſhes foreſhew rain # 175 <lb/>Fiſhes greater then any Beaſts, 184. The <lb/># cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Fixation of Bodies # 169 <lb/>Flame and Air mix not, 8. Except in the <lb/># Spirits of Vegetables, ibid. And of living <lb/># creatures, ibid. Their wonderful effects <lb/># mixed, 9. Form of Flame would be Glo-<lb/># bular, and not Pyramidal, ibid. VVould <lb/># be a laſting Body, if not extinguiſhed by <lb/># Air, ibid. Mixeth not with Flame, ibid. <lb/># Burns ſtronger on the ſides, then in the <lb/># midſt, ibid. Is irritated by the Air am-<lb/># bient, ibid. Opinion of the Peripateticks <lb/></note> <pb file="0256" n="256" rhead="A Table of the chief Matters"/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> # of the Element of Fire, ibid. Preyeth # upon Oil, as Air upon VVater, 24. Taketh # in no other body into it, but converteth it, # 169. Flame cauſing water to riſe, 192. # Flame, 81. Thecontinuance of it accord- # ing to ſeveral Bodies, ibid. Obſervation # about going out of Flame, ibid. 82. Laſt- # ing thereof, in Candles of ſeveral mix- # tures, ibid. Of ſeveral VVicks, ibid. 83. # In Candles laid in Bran, ibid. In Lamps, # ibid. VVhere it draweth the nouriſhment # far, ibid. In a Turretted Lamp, ibid. # VVhere it is kept cloſe from Air, 83. Ac- # cording to the temper of the Air, ibid. 84. # Irritated by cold # ibid. Fleſh diſſ olved into Fat, 139. Fleſh edible and # not edible, 186. The cauſes of each, ibid. # Horſes fleſh ſometimes eaten, ibid. Mans # fleſh likewiſe, ib. Eaten by VVitches # ib. Flies in exceß, ſign of a Pestilential year, # 155, The cauſe # ibid. Flights of Birds, the ſwiftest motion, 139. # The cauſethereof # ibid. Flint laid at the bottom of a Tree, hath help- # edthe growth, 93. The cauſe # ibid. Flowers ſmell beſt whoſe Leaves ſmell not, 86. # Flowers growing amongſt the Corn, and no # where elſe, 108. To have Flowers grow # upon Trees, 102. To induce colour into # Flowers, ibid. Flowers double, 109. To # make them ſo in fruitful Trees, ibid. # Flowers, 121. All exquiſitely figured, # ibid. Numbers of their Leaves # ibid. Flying in the Air of a Body unequal, 167. # Of a Body ſupported with Feathers # 191 Forming of parts in young Creatures # 7 Foreign Plants # 118, 119 Fowls, VVater-fowls foreſhew Rain # 175 Fragile Bodies, 180. The cauſe of their fr a- # gility # ibid. French-man hurt in the head, hard to cure # 166 Fryer Bacons Illuſion # 160 Friction, a furtherer of nouriſhment, 16. # Maketh the parts morefreſhly, 190. The # cauſe, ibid. Impinguateth more then # Exerciſe, ibid. The cauſe # ibid. Frogs in exceß, a ſign of a peſtilential year, # 155. The cauſe # ibid. Fruits, their maturation, 70. The cauſes # thereof, ibid. Several inſtances thereof, # ibid. 71. The dulcoration thereof, by # other means, 186. The ſeveral cauſes # ib. Fruit pricked as it groweth, ripens ſooner, 96. # Fruit-tree grafted upon a wild tree, 97. # Fruit dulcorated, by applying of Swines # dung, 98. The cauſe, ibid. Alſoby Choff # and Swines dung mingled, ibid. Enlarged # bybeing covered with a Pot as it groweth, # ibid. Fruits compound, 100, 101. Fruits # of divers kindes upon one Tree, 107. Fruits # if divers ſhapes and figuers, ibid. 108. # Fruits with inſcriptions upon them, ibid. # Fruits that are red within, 109. Fruits # coming twice a year, 119. Fruits made # without core or ſtone, 110. Fruits that # have juyces fit for drink, 130. Unfit, ibid. # The cauſe of each, ibid. Fruits ſweet before # they beripe, 132. which never ſweeten, ibid. # Fruit bl@ſſoming, hurt by South-winds # 135 Fuel not conſuming, 163, 164. Fuel con- # ſuming faſt, ibid. Fuel cheap # ibid. Full of the Moon, 193. Several eſfects of it, # ibid. Tryals for further obſervations # 194 Fumes taken in Pipes # 202 G. GAlilæus his opinion of the Ebbing and # Flowing of the sea # 167 Gaping a motion of Imitation # 65 Garments, of what Plants they maybe made # 128 Gathering of wind for freſhneß # 164 Generation, oppoſed to corruption # 73 Generating of ſome Creatures at ſet times # onely, of ſome at all times, 159. The cauſe # of each # ibid. 160 Genius over-mastering # 204 Germination accelerated by ſeveral means, # 90, 91, 92. Retarded by ſeveral means # 92 Guinny-Pepper cauſeth ſneezing # 202 Glaſs, the materials thereof in Venice # 162 Glaſs out of Sand, 164. Glaſs, whether re- # moulten, it keepeth weight # 169 Globes at diſtance appearing flat # 190 Gloworm # 149 Gold, 71. The making of it, ibid. A work # poſſible, but not rightly purſued, ibid. # Diſcourſe of a Stranger, touching the # making of it, 72. Directions for the making # of it, ibid. 73. Direction of a Tryal, ibid. # Several properties of Gold, ibid. Gold # hath in it the least volatile of any Metal # 169 Gout, order incuring it # 16 Grafting, 92. A late-coming fruit upon an # early Fruit-tree, 93. Grafts in great plen- # ty, 95. Grafting meliorateth the Fruit, # 97. Grafting of Trees that bear no Fruit, # enlargeth the Leaves, 100. Grafting of # ſeveral kindes, maketh not Compound # fruits # ibid. Grafting Vine upon Vine # 136 Grapes, bow they may be kept long, 129. Al- # ſo by preſerving of the ſtalk # ibid. Gravity, 10. Motion of Gravity, ibid. 148.</note> <pb file="0257" n="257" rhead="contained in theſe Centuries."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> # Opinion of moving to the Centre, avanity # 10 Greatneſs, comparative of living Creatures # 184 Greenneſs in ſome Plants all winter, 121, # 122. The cauſe # ibid. Grief and pain, 150. The impreſſions there- # of # ibid. Growing of certain Fruits and Herbs, after # they are gathered, 7, 8. The cauſe, ibid. # Tryal, whether they increaſe in weight # ib. Growing or multiplying of Metals # 168 Gum of Trees # 2 Gum-powder, 8. The cauſe of the great noiſe # it yieldeth, ibid. white giveth no ſound # 130 H. HAirs of Beaſts, not of ſo freſh colours # as Birdsfeathers, 2. How the colour of # them may be changed, 24, 25. Hair on # the Head of Children new born, 139. # Hair changing colour, 183. Hair of the # party, 5. Beloved worn, exciteth love # 213 Hands have a ſympathy with the head and # other parts # 25, 26 Hard ſubſtances in the Bodies of living crea- # tures, 157. Moſt about the head, ibid. # Some of them ſtand at a ſtay, ſome con- # tinually grow, ibid. All of them without # Senſe, but the Head # 158 Hard Bodies, 181. The cauſe # ibid, Heart of an Ape worn, increaſeth audacity # 210 Haws and Heps in ſtore, portend cold Winters # 155 Head cut off in ſome creatures leaveth a # little ſpace of motion, 88. The cauſes # ibid. Healthful Airs oft times without ſent # 199, # 200 Hearing hathmore operation upon the Man- # ners and Spirits of Men, then other Senſes, # 31, 32. Hinderances of Hearing, 62. # Hearing hindred by Yawning, ibid. The # cauſe, ibid. Helped by holding the breath, # ibid. The cauſe, ibid. Inſtruments to help # the Hearing, ibid. Uſed in Spain # ibid. Heat the chiefest power in Nature # 27 How to make tryal of the highest operation of # it, ibid. Heat and time work the like effects, # 65. Their different operation in many # things, ibid. Heat being qualified by # Moiſture, the effect, 140. Heat cauſeth # the differences of Male and Female, 184. # Alſo many other differences thereupon, # ibid. The ſame tempered with moiſture, # ibid. The ſever al effects of Heat, in the # Sun, Fire, and Living Creatures, ibid. # Heat within the Earth, 191. Tryal of # drawing it forth by the Moon-beams # 193 Heats under the Æquinoctial, leſs then under # the Torrid Zones, 87. Three cauſes thereof # ibid. Heathen opinion touching the Generation of # Creatures, perfect by Concretion, refell’d # 194 Heavenly Bodies, true Fires # 195 Hedg-hogs fleſh, a good dryer # 113 Heliotropia, 114. The cauſes of their open- # ing and ſhutting, or bending towards the # Sun # ibid. Hemlock cauſeth eaſie death # 132 Herbs removed from Beds into Pots, prosper # better, 98. Grow ſweeter by cutting off # the firſt Sprout, 99. The cauſe thereof, # ibid. Inquiry, whether they be made Me- # dicinable, and how, 105. Four deſignati- # ons of it, ibid. Their ordinary colours, 109. # Herbs growing out of the water without # Roots, 117. Growing out of the top of # the Seawithout Roots, ibid. 118. Grow- # ing out of Snow, ibid. Growing out of # Stone, ibid. Growing in the bottoms of # Mikes, ibid. None growing out of Sea- # ſands, ibid. Herbs dying yearly, ibid. That # last many years, ibid. The largeſt laſt, not # longeſt, as the largest Trees do, ibid. The # cauſe, ibid. Herb in likeneſs of a Lamb, # 127. The Fable of it, ibid. Herbs will # ſhew the nature of the ground, 135. Herbs # which like to be watered with Salt-water, # 137. Herbs foreſhew rain # 176 Hiccough, 140. The cauſe of it, ibid. Means # to ceaſe it # ibid. Honey, 127, 183. Several ways how it is # uſed # ibid. Honey-dews upon certain Leaves and Flowers # 104 Horns, 157. Horn’d Beaſts have no upper # Teeth # 158 Horſes fleſh eaten, 186. Horſes Tooth the mark # of their age, 158. Horſe-tooth Ring, good # for the Cramp # 111, 112 Hot Bread nouriſhing in the odors thereof # 203 Humorsill lodged, very dangerous # 18 I. IAol, a moſt pernicious ſmell # 201 # Jews-ear # 115 Image, whether it might be ſeen without ſee- # ing the Glaſs # 160 Imagination exalted, 198. Force of it, ibid. # 199. Three Cautions about the ſame; # VVorketh moſt upon weak perſons, ibid.</note> <pb file="0258" n="258" rhead="A Table of the chief Matters"/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> # Imagination, 206. The kindes of it, ibid. # The farce of it upon another Body, ibid. # 207. Several inst ances of it, ibid. & in # ſeq. An inſtance thereof by a Pair of # Cards, ibid. Three means to impoſe a # Thought, 206, 207. Deſignation for tryal # of the operations in this kinde, ibid. 207. # To work by one that hath a good opinion # of you, ibid. To work by many, ibid. # Means to preſerve Imagination in the # ſtrength, ibid. It worketh more at ſome # times, then others, ibid. It hath moſt # force upon the higheſt motions, ibid. 208, # 209, 210. effects of the Senſe # 168 Imaginations imitating the imitations of # Nature, 1. Imitation in Men, and other # Creatures, 55. A thing to be wondred # at, ibid. Several motions in Men of Imi- # tation # 65 Impreſſible, and not impreſſible # 182 Impulſion and percuſsion of Bodies, 160, 161. # Impulſion of a Body unequal # 167 Inanimate and Animate, wherein they differ # 125 Incenſe, thought to dispoſe to devotion by the # operation of the ſmell # 204 Incubus, how helped # 210 Indian Earth brought over, hath produced # Indian Plants, 118. Indian Fig # 127 Indian Tree with Leaves of great largeneſs, # and Fruit without ſtalks # ibid. Induration of Bodies, 22. Three means to # effect it, ibid. Examples thereof, ibid. 23. # Indurations by Snow or Ice, ibid. By Me- # talline waters, ibid. In ſome natural # Spring-waters, ibid. Of Metals by heat- # ing and quenching, ibid. By fire, ibid. # By Decoctions within water, the water not # touching, ibid. 24. Induration by Sym- # pathy # 182 Infant in the VVomb, ſuffering from the Mo- # thers diet # 113 Infectious Diſeaſes # 65 Influences of the Moon, 192, 193, 194. In # number four # ibid. Influxes of the heavenly Bodies. # 200 Infuſion in Liquors, 4. A ſhort ſtay beſt, # ibid. Infuſions to be iterated, ibid. Uſe- # ful ſor Medicinal operations, ibid. Tryal # which parts iſſue ſooneſt, which ſloweſt, 5. # Evaporations of the finer Spirits, ſome- # times uſeful # ibid. Infuſion maketh Liquors thick, but Decocti- # on clearer, 68. The cauſe # ibid. Infuſions in Air, 5. The ſeveral odors iſſue # at ſeveral times # ibid. Infuſion in εarth, 83, 84. The effects of it, # ibid. Cautions to be uſed in it, ibid. Se- # veral inſtances thereof # ibid. Inquination or Inconcoction # 179 Inſcriptions upon Fruits # 108 Inſecta, 143. The name communicated to all # Creatures, bred of Putrefaction, ibid. # The difference of them according to the # ſeveral matters they are bred of, 143, # 144, 145. The enumeration of many of # them, ibid. Several properties in them, # ibid. They have voluntary motion, ibid. # Other Senſes, beſide Taſte # ibid. Inviſibles in Bodies ought to be better inqui- # red # 26 Jovinianus the εmperor # 202 Joy, 150. The impreſſions thereof # ibid. Joynts in ſome Plants, 121. The cauſe there- # of # ibid. Ippocraſs clarified # 2 Iron Inſtruments, hurtful for wounds # 166 Iſlanders Bodies # 85 Ivy growing out of a Stags Horn # 115 Juices of Fruit fit for Drinks, 120. Unfit # for them, ibid. The cauſe of each # ibid. L. LAdanum # 128 # Lard put to waſte, taketh away Warts # 213 Laſſitude # 154 Laſting Trces and Herbs, 120. Deſignation # to make Plants more lasting then ordina- # ry # ibid. Late Flowers and Plants # 119 Laughing, 151, 152. The impreſſions there- # of # ibid. Leaning long upon any part # 154, 155 Leaping, 145. Helped by weights in the # hands # ibid. Leaves nouriſh not, 12. The cauſe 130. # Leaves of Trees and Herbs, 127. Plant # without Leaves # 192 Left-ſide and Right, 190. Senſes alike, ſtrong # on each ſide, Limbs ſtrongeſt on the Right, # ibid. The cauſe of each # ibid. Life, by what courſes prolonged # 64 Lights over-great offend the eyes # 188, 189 Light comforteth the Spirits, 211. Especi- # ally Light varied # ibid. Lincoſtis # 132 Liquefiable, and not Liquefiable, 180. Bodies # that Liquefie by Fire, ibid. Others that # by water, ibid. Some that by both # ibid. Liquors, their Clarification, 67. Three # cauſes thereof, ibid. 68. Preſervation of # Liquors in Wells or Vaults, 85. Liquors # compreſſed, 187. Their incorporation with # Powders # 65 Living Creatures that generate at certain # ſeaſons onely, 159. Others that at all # ſeaſons, ibid. The cauſe of each, ibid.</note> <pb file="0259" n="259" rhead="contained in theſe Centuries."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> # Their ſeveral times of bearing in the # VVomb, ibid. 160. The cauſes thereof, # ibid. The ſeveral numbers which they # bring forth at a Burthen, ibid. The cauſes, # ibid. Living creatures that will be tranſ- # muted into another ſpecies, 111. Living # creatures foreſhew weather # 175 Love # 203 Lucciole in Italy # 149 Lupines # 136 Luſt, 152. The impreſsions thereof # ibid. Lying, in what kinde of poſture healthful # 154 M. MAgical operations # 128, 200, 204 # Maiz # 13 Male and Female, the difference of them # in ſeveral living creatures, 84. The # cauſes thereof, ib. 185. Male and Female # in Plants, 126. Male-peony, good for # the Falling ſickneſs and Incubus # 209 Maleficiating, 192. Practiſed in Gaſ- # cony # ibid. Malt, 123. The ſwelling thereof, ibid. # The ſweetneſs thereof # ibid. Mans-fleſh eaten, 6. Breedeth the French # Diſeaſe, ibid. Cauſeth high imaginati- # ons, ibid. Not in it ſelf edible, 186. # The cauſe, ibid. How eaten by Cannibals, # ibid. VVherefore by VVitches # ibid. Mandrakes # 128 Manna # 165 March, towards the end, the beſt diſcoverer # of Summer ſickneſſes # 173 Marl, a good Compoſt # 122, 123 Marrow # 157, 158 Maturation, 179. Of Drinks, 69, 70. Of # Fruits, ibid. Maturation of Digestion, # 71, 73 Meats inducing ſatiety # 66 Medicines changed helpſul, 18. Medicines # which effect the Bladder, 25. Medicines # condenſing, which relieve the Spirits, 155. # Medicinal Herbs # 104, 105 Megrims come upon riſing, not during the # ſitting # 154 Melancholly perſons diſpoſe the company to # the like # 26 Melioration of Fruits, Trees, and Plants, # 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 Melc-cotones grow best without grafting, # 97. The cauſe thereof # ibid. Memory the Art, 207. Men, better places # then words, ibid. Memory ſtrengthned by # the Brains of ſome creatures # 210 Menstruous women # 202 Mercurial and Sulphurous # 78 Metals and Plants whercin they diſfer, 126. # Growing of metals, 168. Drowning of # metals, ibid. 169. Refining of metals, # 183. Metalline Vapors hurtful to the # Brain, 202. Metals give orient colours # in their diſſolutions, 64. The cauſes # ibid. Milk warm from the Cow, a great nouriſh- # er, 14. How to be uſed, ibid. Cows Milk # better then Aſſes Milk, or then womens # Milk, ibid. Milk in Beaſts, how to be in- # creaſed, 164. Milk uſed for Clarification # of Liquors, 69. Good to ſteep divers Seeds # in, 98. Preſerving of Milk, 85. Milk # in Plants # 131 Mildew # 104, 136 Minced meat, a great nouriſher, 14. How to # be uſed # ibid. Miſletoe # 116 Mixture of Earth and Water in Plants # 79 Moiſt Air, how diſcovered # 173 Moiſture adventitious, cauſe of putrefaction, # 68. Moiſture qualifying heat, the effect, # 140. Moiſture increaſed by the Moon, # 193. Tryal of it in Seeds, ibid. In mens # bodies, ibid. Force of it in Vegetables # 103, 104 Monſters # 100 Moon attractive of heat out of Bodies # 20 Moones influences, 192, 193, 194. In num- # ber four, ibid. It increaſeth moiſture # ibid. Morſus Diaboli, an Herb # 134 Mortified parts by cold, 166. Muſt not ap- # proach the fire, ibid. Cured, by applying # Snow, ibid. Orwarm water # ibid. Moß, 75, 113. where it groweth moſt, # ibid. The cauſe of it, ibid. What it is, # ibid. Moſs ſweet, 114. In Apple-trees # ſweet, ibid. In ſome other Trees # 132 Mother ſuppreſſed by burning Feathers # 204 Mothers diet affecteth the Infant in the # womb # 210 Motion hindreth putrefactions # 75 Motion of Bodies, 161. Motion of Liberty # 3 Motion of Nexe, 192. Motion of Conſent in # mans body, 10, 17. Motion of Attraction # would prevail if Motion of Gravity hin- # dred not # 148 Motions in men by Imitation # 65 Moulding of Fruits # 108 Moulds # 75 Mountains great foreſhew Tempeſts early # 174 Mouth out of taſte, 141. what taſtes it will # not have # ibid. Mulberry-leaf # 161 Mummy ſtancheth Blood # 210 Murthered body, bleeding at the approach of # the murtherer # 207</note> <pb file="0260" n="260" rhead="A Table of the chief Matters"/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> Muſcovia hath a late Spring, and early Har- # veſt, 119. The cauſe # ibid. Muſhrooms, 115. Their proprieties, ibid. # Sever al productions of them, ibid. where # they grow moſt # 131 Muſick, 29. Muſical and Immuſical ſounds, # ibid. Bodies producing Muſical ſounds, # ibid. 30. Diapaſon the ſweeteſt of ſounds, # ibid. Fall of Half-notes neceſſary in # Muſick, ibid. Conſent of Notes to be a- # ſcribed to the Ante-notes, not Entire # Notes, 30. Concords Perfect, and Semi- # perfect, which they are, ibid. The moſt # odious Diſcords of all other, ibid. Diſ- # cords of the Baſe, moſt diſturbeth the # Muſick, ibid. 31. No Quarter-notes in # Muſick, ibid. Pleaſing of ſingle Tones, # anſwereth to the pleaſing of Colour, and # of Harmony to the pleaſing of Order, ibid. # Figures or Tropes in Muſick have an agree- # ment with the Figures in Rhetorick, ibid. # Muſick hath great operation upon the # manners and ſpirits of Men, ibid. 31, 32. # Concords and Diſcords in Muſick, ar e # Sympathies and Antipathies of Sounds, # 61. Inſtruments that agree beſt in Con- # ſort, ibid. Inſtruments with a double # Lay of Strings, VVire, and Lute-ſtrings # 62 N. NAture, 63. Advice for the true in- # quiſition thereof # ibid. 64 Natural Divination # 172 Negroes # 88 Night-ſhowres better for Fruit, then Day # ſhowres # 135, 136 Nights Star-light, or Moon-ſhine, colder # then cloudy # 188 Nilus, the virtues thereof, 161. How to cla- # rifie the water of it # ibid. Nitre, good for men grown, ill for children, # 78. Nitrous water, 80. Scoureth of it # ſelf, ibid. Nitre mingled with water, # maketh Vines sprout, 96. Nitre upon the # sea-ſands # 163 Nouriſhing Meats and Drinks # 12, 13 Nouriſhing parts in Plants # 14, 130 Nouriſhment, 14. Five ſeveral Means to # help it # ibid. 15, 16 Nouriſhment mended, a great help # 95 Numa’s two Couſins # 163 O. OAk-leaves gather Honey-dews # 104 # Oak-boughs put into the Earth, bring # forth wilde Vines. 111. Oak-apples # 117 Oak bears the moſt fruit among Trees, 157, # 158. The cauſe # ibid. Objects of the ſight, cauſe great delight in # the Spirits, but no great offence, 189. The # cauſe # ibid. Occhus, a Tree in Hyrcania # 127 Odious objects, cauſe the ſpirits to flie # 167 Odors in ſome degree, nouriſh # 204 Oyntment uſed by VVitches # 210 Old Trees bearing better then the ſame new # 131 Old men converſing with young company, # live long # 203 Onions made to wax greater, 99. In grow- # ing, carry the ſeeds to the top # 193 Operations of ſympathy # 200 Opium # 20 Order in curing of diſeaſes # 16, 17 Orenge-flowers infuſed, 4, Orenge-ſeeds # ſown in April, will bring forth an excel- # lent Sallet-herb # 119 Orris-root # 187 Ox-horn bringeth forth Ivy # 115 Oyly ſubſtances and watry, 76. Commix- # ture of oyly ſubſtances, prohibiteth # putrefaction, ibid. Turning of watry # ſubſtances into oyly, 79. A great work # in Nature, ibid. Some inſtances thereof # ibid. Oyl of sweet-Almonds, a great nouriſher, # 14. How to be uſed # ibid. P. PAlliation in Diſeaſes # 17 # Pain and grief, 150. The impreſ sions # thereof # ibid. Paintings of the Body, 155. Barbarous peo- # ple much given to it # 156, ibid. Panicum # 95 Pantomimi # 56 Paper chamoletted # 156 Paracelſus’s Principles # 78, 79 Parents finding an alteration upon the ap- # proach of their children, though unknown # to them # 204 Parts in living creatures eaſily reparable, # and parts hardly reparable, 16. Parts of # living creatures ſevered, 216. Their vir- # tues in Natural Magick # ibid. Paßions of the minde, 150, 151, 152. Their # ſeveral impreſsions # ibid. Peaches prove beſt without grafting, 97. # The cauſe thereof # ibid. 110 Pearl, ſaid to recover the colour by burial # in the Earth # 84</note> <pb file="0261" n="261" rhead="contained in theſe Centuries."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>Pepper-Gainny, cauſeth ſneezing # 202 <lb/>Perception in all bodies, 171. More ſubtil <lb/># then the ſenſe, ibid. It worketh alſo at <lb/># diſtance, ibid. The beſt means of prog-<lb/># noſticating. # ibid. 172 <lb/>Percolation, inward and outward # 1, 2 <lb/>Percuſſion and impulſion of bodies # 160, 161 <lb/>Perfumes Dryers, and Perfumes Moiſtners <lb/># of the Brain,203. Perfumes procure <lb/># pleaſant and prophetical Dreams # 204 <lb/>Perſons near in blood, or other Relations, <lb/># have many ſecret paſſages of ſympathy <lb/># 211 <lb/>Peſtilential years, 85. Their prognoſticks <lb/># 155, 172, 173 <lb/>Philoſophy received # 178 <lb/>Piloſity in Men and Beaſts, 139. The cauſes <lb/># thereof # ibid. <lb/>Piſtachoes # 13 <lb/>Pituponthe Sea-ſbore, 1. Filled with water <lb/># potable, ibid. Practiſed in Alexandria, <lb/># ibid. And by Ceſar, ibid. Who miſtook <lb/># the cauſe, ibid. Intime will become Salt <lb/># again # 191 <lb/>Pity, 151. The impreſſions thereof # ibid. <lb/>Pius Quintus his revelation, touching the <lb/># victory at Leßanto # 212 <lb/>Plague tranſmitted withont ſent, 200, 201. <lb/># The ſuppoſed ſent of it, ibid. Perſons <lb/># leaſt apt to take it, and perſons moſt, ibid. <lb/># Plagues cauſed by great putrefactions, <lb/># 202. Preſervatives againſt it # 209 <lb/>Plane-tree watered with wine # 128 <lb/>Plants, why of greater age then li-<lb/># ving creatures, 15, 16. Dignity of <lb/># Plants, 89. Acceleration of their Ger-<lb/># mination, ibid. 90, 91, 92. Retarding <lb/># of their Germination, ibid. The Melio-<lb/># ration of them divers ways, 93, 94, 95, <lb/># 96, 97, 98, 99, 100. Cauſe why ſome <lb/># die in Winter, 96. Sympathy and Anti-<lb/># pathy of Plants, 101, 102, 103, 104. <lb/># Plants drawing the ſame juyces out of <lb/># the earth, thrive not together, 101. <lb/># Drawers of much nouriſbment, hurt <lb/># their neighbor-plants, ibid. Drawing <lb/># ſeveral juyces, thrive well together, 102. <lb/># Several inſtances of each, ibid. Deſig-<lb/># nations of further tryals hereof, ibid. <lb/># Tryals in Herbs, poyſonous or purgative, <lb/># 103. Plants that die placed together, <lb/># ibid. Tryal whether Plants will attract <lb/># water at ſome diſtance, 104. Curioſities <lb/># touching plants, 107, 108, 109, 110. <lb/># Plants will degenerate, 110, 111. The <lb/># ſeveral cauſes thereof, ibid. Tranſmu-<lb/># tation of Plants, ibid. Six deſignations <lb/># thereof, ibid. 112, 113. Their ſeveral <lb/># excreſcences, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117. <lb/># Prickles of Trees, 116. Plants growing <lb/># without ſeed, 117, 118. Growing out of <lb/># ſtone, ibid. Plants foreign, ibid. 119. <lb/># Removed out of hot Countreys willkeep <lb/># their ſeaſons, ibid. Set in the Summer <lb/># ſeaſons will proſper in colder Countreys, <lb/># ibid. Seaſons of ſeveral Plants, ibid. <lb/># Plants bearing bloſſoms, and young fruit, <lb/># and ripe fruits together, 119, 120. <lb/># Plants with joynts or knuckles in the <lb/># ſtalks, 121. The cauſes thereof,ibid. <lb/># Differences of Plants, ibid. 122. Some <lb/># putting forth bloſſoms before leaves, 121. <lb/># Others, leaves before bloſſoms, ibid. The <lb/># cauſe of each, ibid. Plants green all <lb/># winter, 121, 122. The cauſe, ibid. Plants <lb/># not ſupporting themſelves, ib. The cauſe <lb/># of their ſlenderneß, ibid. Plants and in-<lb/># animate bodies differ in four things, 125, <lb/># 126. Plants and Metals in three, ibid. <lb/># Plants and Moulds, or Putrefactions, <lb/># wherein they differ, ibid. Plants and li-<lb/># ving Creatures their differences, 126, <lb/># 127. Male and Female in Plants, ibid. <lb/># Plants whereof Garments are made, 128. <lb/># Plant ſleeping, ibid. Plants with bearded <lb/># Roots, ibid. Plants eſculent, 129, 130. <lb/># Eſculent raw, ibid. Having paſſed the <lb/># fire, ibid. Parts in Plants that are nouriſh-<lb/># ing, ibid. Seeds in Plants, more ſtrong <lb/># then either Leaf or Root, ibid. Thecauſe, <lb/># ibid. In ſome not, ibid. Plants with <lb/># Milk in them, 131. Plants with red <lb/># jnyce, 132. No Plants have a ſalt taſte, <lb/># ibid. Plants with curled Leaves, 133. <lb/># Plants may be tranſlated into other Regi-<lb/># ons, 135. Yet they like ſome ſoils, more <lb/># then other, ibid. Several inſtances there-<lb/># of, ibid. Plant without leaves, 162. Sin-<lb/># gularities in ſeveral Plants # 138 <lb/>Plaſter hardned like Marble # 165 <lb/>Plaſtered room green, dangerous # 202 <lb/>Places of Metals aſſwage ſwelling # 187 <lb/>Pleaſures and diſpleaſures of the Senſes <lb/># 145 <lb/>Plough followed, healthful # 103 <lb/>Plumoſity in Birds, 139. The cauſe thereof <lb/># ibid. <lb/>Plums of what colour the beſt, 109. The <lb/># dryer, the better ſort # ibid. <lb/>Pneumaticals in Bodies # 181 <lb/>Pomanders # 203 <lb/>Pont-Charenton, the εccho there # 57 <lb/>Pore-blinde men ſee beſt near hand, 188. <lb/># The cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Potado roots potted, grow greater # 90 <lb/>Powder in Shot # 3 <lb/>Powders and Liquors, their Incorporation <lb/># 65 <lb/></note> <pb file="0262" n="262" rhead="A Table of the chief Matters"/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>Poyſoning of air # 201 <lb/>Poyſoning by ſmells, ibid. 202. Caution <lb/># touehing poyſoning # ib. <lb/>Poyſonous Creatures love to lie under Odo-<lb/># rate Herbs # 138 <lb/>Precious ſtones comfort the ſpirits # 208 <lb/>Preſervation of bodies from corruption # 28 <lb/>Preſervation of Fruits in Sirrups, 129. <lb/># Alſo in powders, ibid. when to gather <lb/># fruits for preſervation, ibid. Alſo in <lb/># Bottles in a well, ib. Preſerving Grapes <lb/># long, ib. Another waythereof # 134 <lb/>Prickles of Trees # 116, 117 <lb/>Procreations by copulation, and by putre. <lb/># faction, 194. The cauſe of each # ibid. <lb/># 195 <lb/>Prognoſticks for plenty or ſcarcity, 138. of <lb/># peſtilential years, 141, 155, 172, 173. <lb/># Of cold and long winters, 174. By Bir<unsure/> ds, <lb/># 175. Of an hot and dry ſummer, ib. By <lb/># the Birds alſo, ib. of winds, ib. Of great <lb/># tempeſts, ib. Of rain, ib. From living <lb/># creatures, ibid. From water fowls and <lb/># land fowls, 176. From fiſhes, ibid. From <lb/># beaſts, ib. From herbs, ibid. From aches <lb/># in mens bodies, ibid. From worms, ibid. <lb/># From the ſweating of ſolid bodies # ibid. <lb/>Proprieties ſecret # 117, 214 <lb/>Purging Medicines, 5. Have their virtue <lb/># in a fine ſpirit. Endure not boiling, ibid. <lb/># Taking away their unpleaſant taſte, ibid. <lb/># Several ways of the operations of purg-<lb/># ing Medicines, 10, 11, 12. They work <lb/># upon their proper Humors, 11. Medi-<lb/># cines that purge by ſtool, and that purge <lb/># by urine, 12. Their ſeveral cauſes, ibid. <lb/># work in theſe ways as they are given in <lb/># quantity, ib. Preparations before purg-<lb/># ing, 18. want of preparatives, what <lb/># hurt it doth, both in purging, ibid. and <lb/># after purging # ibid. <lb/>Putrefaction, 73. Acceleration of it, ibid. <lb/># The cauſe of putrefaction, ibid. Putre-<lb/># faction, whence, 74. Ten means of in-<lb/># ducing putrefactions, ibid. Prohibiting <lb/># of putrefaction, 75. Ten means of pro-<lb/># hibiting it, ibid. 76. Inceptions of pu-<lb/># trefaction, 79. Putrefactions for the <lb/># moſt part ſmellill, 177. The cauſe, ibid. <lb/># Putrefaction from what cauſes it com-<lb/># eth, 178. Putrefaction induced by the <lb/># Moon-beams # 192 <lb/>Putrefactions of living creatures, have <lb/># cauſed Plagues # 102 <lb/>Putrefied bodies moſt odious to a creature of <lb/># the ſame kinde # ibid. <lb/>Pyrrhus had his Teeth undivided # 158 <lb/>Pythagoras his Philoſophy # 197 <lb/>Q <lb/>QVarries that grow hard # 183 <lb/>Quick-ſilver will conſerve Bodies <lb/># 168 <lb/>Quick-ſilver fixed to the hardneſs of Lead <lb/># 182 <lb/>R. <lb/>RAcking of Wine or Beer # 68 <lb/>Rain in Egyßt ſcarce, 161. The canſe <lb/>thereof, ibid. Several prognoſticks of Rain <lb/># 175, 176 <lb/>Rainbow ſaid to bring ſweetneſs of odor to <lb/># Plants under it # 176, 177 <lb/>Rams skins good to be applied to wounds <lb/># 139 <lb/>Red within ſome few fruits # 109 <lb/>Red juyce in Plants # 132 <lb/>Reeds # 134 <lb/>Refining of Metals # 183 <lb/>Refraction cauſeth the ſpecies viſible to <lb/># appear bigger, 160. Other obſervations <lb/># about Refractions # ibid. <lb/>Repletion hindreth Generation # 94 <lb/>Reſt cauſeth Putrefaction # 75 <lb/>Retardation of Germination # 92 <lb/>Rew helpeth the Fig-tree # 102 <lb/>Rheumes, how cauſed # 11 <lb/>Rice a nouriſhing meat # 13 <lb/>Right-ſide and left, 190. Senſes alike ſtrong <lb/># on both ſides, Limbs ſtrongeſt on the <lb/># Right, ibid. The cauſe of each # ibid. <lb/>Rooms built for health # 20 <lb/>Roots of fruit trees multiplied, 93, 94. <lb/># Root made great, 95. By applying Pani-<lb/># cum about it, ibid. Roots potted, grow <lb/># greater, 99, 100. Roots preſerved all <lb/># winter, ibid. Roots of Trees that deſcend <lb/># deep, 133, 134. Others that ſpred more, <lb/># ibid. The cauſe of each, ibid. Roots of <lb/># Plants of three ſorts, Bulbous, Fibrous, <lb/># Hirſute # 128 <lb/>Roſa Solis the Herb # 104 <lb/>Roſes Damask how conſerved # 81 <lb/>Rubarb infuſed, 4, 5. Fora ſhort time beſt, <lb/># ibid. Repeated may be as ſtrong as Scam-<lb/># momy, ibid. A Benedict Medicine, 5. <lb/># caution in the taking thereof # 11 <lb/>Ruſt of Metals # 74 <lb/>S. <lb/>SAtiety in Meats # 66 <lb/>Salamander, 186, 187. The cauſe that <lb/># it endureth the fire # ib. <lb/>Salt a good Compoſt, 133. Salt in Plants, 132. <lb/></note> <pb file="0263" n="263" rhead="contained in theſe Centuries."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/># Salt hath aſymp at hy with Blood, 211. It <lb/># is an healer, ibid. It riſeth not in Diſtil-<lb/># lations # 190, 191 <lb/>Salt-petre, how it may be bred # 123 <lb/>Salt-water paſſed through Earth, becomes <lb/># freſh, 1. Four differences between the paſs-<lb/># ing it in Veſſels and in Pits, 2. Salt-water <lb/># good for to water ſome Herbs, 137, 138. <lb/># Salt-water boiled, becometh more potable, <lb/># 190, 191. Salt-water ſooner diſſolving <lb/># Salt, then Freſh-water, ibid. The cauſe <lb/># ibid. <lb/>Sand turning Minerals into a Glaſſy ſub. <lb/># ſtance # 164 <lb/>Sanguis Draconis, the Tree that bears it <lb/># 132 <lb/>Sap of Trees, 134. The differing nature <lb/># thereof in ſeveral Trees # ibid. <lb/>Scarlet-dye # 191, 192 <lb/>Sciſſible, and not ſciſſible # 182 <lb/>Sea clearer the North-wind blowing, then <lb/># the South, 139. Sea, by the bubbles fore. <lb/># ſheweth wind, 175. Sea-water looketh <lb/># black, moved; white, resting, 139. The <lb/># cauſe, ibid. Seas ſhallow and narrow, <lb/># break more then deep and large # 190 <lb/>Sea-fiſh put into Freſh-waters # 147 <lb/>Sea-hare coming near the Body, hurteth the <lb/># Lungs # 211 <lb/>Sea-ſand a good Compost, 123. Sea-ſands <lb/># produce no Plant # 118 <lb/>Seaſons of Plants # 119 <lb/>Secret proprieties # 214, 215 <lb/>Secundine # 154 <lb/>Seeds in Plants, more ſtrong then either Leaf <lb/># or Root, 130. The cauſe, ibid. In ſonse <lb/># not, ibid. Seeds, their choice, 137. Plants <lb/># growing without Seeds # 117, 118 <lb/>Senſes, their pleaſures and diſpleaſures, 145. <lb/># Their instruments have a ſimilitude with <lb/># that which giveth the reflexion of the ob-<lb/># ject # 62 <lb/>Separation of ſeveral Natures by ſtraining, <lb/># 2. Of ſeveral Liquors by weight, 3. And <lb/># of the ſame kinde of Liquors thickned, 4. <lb/># Of Metals # 169 <lb/>Separation of the cruder parts prohibiteth <lb/># Putrefaction # 76 <lb/>Servets uſed in Turky # 148 <lb/>Setting of Wheat # 95, 96 <lb/>Setting of Trees, higher or lower # 99 <lb/>Several Fruits upon one Tree # 107 <lb/>Shade helpeth ſome Plants # 95 <lb/>Shadows ſeeming ever to tremble # 190 <lb/>Shame, 151, 206. The impreſſions thereof <lb/># 151 <lb/>Shell-fiſh have no Bones within 157, 189, 190 <lb/>Shifting for the better, helpeth Plants and <lb/># Living Creatures # 95 <lb/>Shining wood # 77, 78 <lb/>Showres good for fruits, 135. For ſome not, <lb/># ibid. Night-ſhowres better then Day-<lb/># ſhowres # 136 <lb/>Showres after along drought, cauſe ſickneſſes <lb/># if they be gentle, 172. If great, not <lb/># ibid. <lb/>Sickneſſes of the Summer and the Winter # 84 <lb/>Sight the object thereof, quicker then of <lb/># Hearing, 50, 51. Sight, 188, 189. Ob-<lb/># jects thereof, cauſe great delight in the <lb/># Spirits, but no great offence, ibid. The <lb/># cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Silver more eaſily made then Gold # 71, 72 <lb/>Simples ſpecial for Medicines, 141, 142. Such <lb/># as have ſubtile parts without Acrimony, <lb/># ibid. Many creatures bred of Putre-<lb/># faction, are ſo, ibid. Alſo Putref actions <lb/># of Plants # ibid. <lb/>Singularicies in ſeveral Plants # 138 <lb/>Sinking of Bodies, 163. The cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Sitting healthful # 154 <lb/>Skull # 157 <lb/>Sleep agreat nouriſher, 15. Sleep, 156, 157. <lb/># Hindred by cold in the Feet, ibid. Fur-<lb/># thered by ſome kinde of noiſes, ibid. Nou-<lb/># riſheth in many Beasts aud Birds, ibid. <lb/># Sleeping creatures all Winter # 194 <lb/># Sleeping Plants # 128 <lb/># Smells and Odors, 86. Beſt at ſome diſtance, <lb/># ibid. Best where the Body is cruſhed, ibid. <lb/># Not ſo in Flowers cruſhed, ibid. Best in <lb/># Flowers, whoſe Leaves ſmell not, ibid. <lb/># Smells ſweet, 177. Have all a corporeal <lb/># ſubſtance, ibid. Smells fetide, ibid. 178. <lb/># Smell of the Faol moſt pernicious, 201. <lb/># Smells that are moſt dangerous # ibid. <lb/>Snake-skin worn # 209 <lb/>Sneezing ceaſeth the Hiccough, 104. Induced <lb/># by looking againſt the Sun, ibid. The cauſe <lb/># thereof # ibid. <lb/>Snow-water, 87. Snows cauſe fruitfulneſs, <lb/># ibid. Three cauſesthereof, ibid. Snow good <lb/># to be applied to a mortified part, 166. The <lb/># cauſe thereof, ibid. Snow bringing forth <lb/># Herbs # 118 <lb/>Soals of the Feet, hive aſympathy with the <lb/># Head # 25 <lb/>Soft Bodies,181. The cauſe, ibid. They are <lb/># of two ſorts # ibid. <lb/>Solid Bodies ſweating foreſhew Rain # 176 <lb/>Soot a good Compoſt # 123 <lb/>Sorel, 137. The Root thereof # ibid. <lb/>Soul of the World # 197, 198 <lb/>Sounds Muſical and Immuſical # 29 <lb/>Sounds more apt to procure ſleep then tones, <lb/># 31. The cauſe, ibid. Nature of Sounds, <lb/># not ſufficiently inquired, 32. Motions <lb/># great in Nature without Sounds, ibid. <lb/></note> <pb file="0264" n="264" rhead="A Table of the chief Matters"/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/># Nullity and εntity of Sounds, ibid. 33, <lb/># 34. Swiftneſs of Motion, may make <lb/># Sounds inaudible, ibid. Sounds not an E-<lb/># liſion of the Air, ibid. The reaſons there-<lb/># of, 35. Sound not produced without ſome <lb/># local motion of the Medium, ibid. Yet <lb/># diſtinction to be made betwixt the motion <lb/># of the Air, and the Sounds themſelves, <lb/># ibid. 36. Great Sounds, cauſe great mo-<lb/># tions in the Air, and other Bodies, ibid. <lb/># Have rarefied the Air much, ibid. Have <lb/># cauſed Deafneſs, ibid. Encloſure of Sounds <lb/># conſerveth them, ibid. Sounds partly in-<lb/># cloſed, and partly in open Air, ibid. Bet-<lb/># ter heard ſrom without, then from within, <lb/># ibid. A Semi-cave will convey Sound, <lb/># betic<unsure/>r then open Air, ibid. Any long Pole <lb/># will do the like, ibid. Tryal to be made in <lb/># a crooked Concave, ibid. Sounds may be <lb/># created without Air, 37. Differekce of <lb/># Sounds in different Veſſels filled with water, <lb/># ibid. Sound within a Flame, ibid. Sound <lb/># upon a Barrel emptier or fuller, ibid. <lb/># Sound not created betwixt the Bow and <lb/># the String, but betwixt the String and <lb/># the Air # ibid. <lb/>Magnitude of Sound, 45. In a Trunck, ibid. <lb/># The cauſe thereof, ibid. In an Hunters <lb/># Horn bigger at the lower end, 38. The <lb/># cauſe thereof, ibid. In a Vault under the <lb/># Earth, ibid. The cauſe thereof, ibid. In <lb/># Hawks Bells, rather then upon a piece of <lb/># Braſs in the open Air, ibid. In a Drum, <lb/># ibid. Further beard by night, then by <lb/># day, ibid. The cauſe thereof, ibid. In-<lb/># creaſed by the concurrent reflexion, ibid. <lb/># Increaſed by the Sound-board in Inſtru-<lb/># ments, ibid. In an Iriſh Harp, ibid. The <lb/># cauſe of the loud ſound thereof, ibid. In <lb/># a Virginal the Lid ſhut, ibid. In a Con-<lb/># cave within a wall, ibid. 38, 39. In a <lb/># Bow-ſtring, the Horn of the Bow laid to <lb/># the ear, ibid. 39. The like in a Rod of <lb/># Ironor Braſs, ibid. The like conveyed by a <lb/># Pillar of Wood, from an upper Chamber <lb/># to a lower, ibid. The like from the bottom <lb/># of a well, ibid. Five ways of Major ation <lb/># of Sounds # ibid. <lb/>Exility of Sounds through any porous Bodies, <lb/># ibid. 39. Through water, ibid. 40. Strings <lb/># ſtopped ſhort # ibid. <lb/>Damping of Sounds, ibid. With a ſoft Body, <lb/># ibid. Iron hot, not ſo ſounding as cold, ib. <lb/># water warm, not ſo ſounding in the fall as <lb/># cold # ibid. <lb/>Loudneſs and ſoftneſs of Sounds, differ from <lb/># Magnitude and Exility, 41. Loudneſs of <lb/># Sounds, ibid. Quickneſs of Percuſſion, <lb/># cauſe of the loudneſs # ibid. <lb/>Communication of Sounds # 41 <lb/>Inequality of Sounds, 42. Unequal Sounds <lb/># ingrate, ibid. Grateful, ibid. Muſical <lb/># and Immuſical Sounds, at pleaſure onely in <lb/># Men and Birds, ibid. Humming of Bees <lb/># an unequal Sound, 43. Metals quenched <lb/># give an hiſſing Sound # ibid. <lb/>Baſe and Treble Sounds, ibid. Two cauſes of <lb/># Treble in Strings, ibid. Proportion of the <lb/># Air perciſſed in Treble and Baſe, 53. <lb/># Tryal hereof to be made in the winding up <lb/># of a String, ibid. 44. In the diſtances of <lb/># Frets, ibid. In the Bores of Wind-Inſtru-<lb/># ments # ibid. <lb/>Interior and Exterior Sounds, 45. Their dif-<lb/># ference, ibid. Several kindes of each ibid. <lb/>Articulation of Sounds, 46. Articulate <lb/># Sounds in every part of the Air, ibid. <lb/># VVinds hinder not the Articulation, ibid. <lb/># Diſtance hindreth, ibid. Speating under <lb/># water hindreth it not, ibid. Articulation <lb/># requireth a Mediocrity of Sound, ibid. <lb/># Confounded in a Room over an arched <lb/># Vault, ibid. Motions of the Instruments <lb/># of Speech, towards the forming of the Let-<lb/># ters, ib. Inſtruments of Voice, which they <lb/># are, ibid. 46, 47. Inarticulate Voices and <lb/># Inaimate Sounds have a ſimilitude with <lb/># divers Letters # ibid. <lb/>Motions of Sounds, 49. They move in <lb/># round, ibid. May move in an arched Line, <lb/># ibid. Suppoſed that Sounds move better <lb/># downwards then upwards, ibid. 50. Tryal <lb/># of it # ibid. <lb/>Laſting of Sounds, ibid. Sounds continue not, <lb/># but renew, ibid. Great Sounds heard at <lb/># far diſtance, ibid. Not in the inſtant of <lb/># the Sound, but long after, ibid. Object of <lb/># Sight, quicker then Sound, 50, 51. Sounds <lb/># Vaniſh by degrees, which the Objects of <lb/># ſight do not, ibid. The cauſe thereof ibid. <lb/>Paſſage of Sounds through other Bodies, 51. <lb/># The Body intercepting, muſt not be very <lb/># thick, ibid. The spirits of the Body inter-<lb/># cepting, whether they co-operate in the <lb/># Sound, ibid. Sound not heard in a long <lb/># down-right Arch, ibid. Peſſeth eaſily <lb/># through Foraminous Bodies, ibid. VVhe-<lb/># ther diminiſhed in the paſſage through <lb/># ſmall Crannies # 52 <lb/>Medium of Sounds, ibid. Air the beſt Me-<lb/># dium, ibid. Thin Air not ſo good as thick <lb/># Air, ibid. VVhether Flame be a fit Me-<lb/># dium, ibid. VVhether other Liquors be-<lb/># ſide water # ibid. <lb/>Figures of the differents of Sounds, 52. Se-<lb/># veral tryals of them # ibid. <lb/>Mixtures of Sounds, 53. Audibles mingle <lb/># in the Medium, which Viſibles do not, ibid. <lb/></note> <pb file="0265" n="265" rhead="contained in theſe Centuries."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/># The cauſe thereof, ibid. Mixture without <lb/># distinction, makes the best Harmony, ibid. <lb/># Qualities in the Air, have no operations <lb/># upon Sounds, ibid. Sounds in the Air <lb/># alter one another, 54. Two Sounds of like <lb/># loudneß, will not be heard as far again as <lb/># one, ibid. The cauſe thereof # ibid. <lb/>Melioration of Sounds, 55. Poliſhed Bodies, <lb/># created Sounds meliorate them, ibid. wet <lb/># on the inſide of a Pipe doth the like, ibid. <lb/># Frosty weather cauſeth the ſame, ibid. <lb/># Mingling of open Air with pent Air, doth <lb/># the ſame, ibid. From a Body equal, ſound <lb/># better, 55. Intenſion of the Senſe of Hear-<lb/># ing, melior ateth them # ibid. <lb/>Imitarion of Sounds, ibid. The wonder there-<lb/># of in Children and Birds # ibid. <lb/>Re<unsure/>flexion of Sounds, 56. The ſeveral kindes, <lb/># ibid. No refraction in Sounds obſerved, 58. <lb/># Sympathy and antipathy of Sounds, 61. <lb/># Concords and Diſcords in Muſick, are ſym-<lb/># pathies and antipathies of Sounds, ibid. <lb/># Strings that best agree in Conſort, ibid. <lb/># Strings tuned to an Uniſon or a Diapaſon, <lb/># ſhew a Sympathy, 62. Sympathy conceived, <lb/># to cauſe no report, ibid. εxperiment of <lb/># Sympathy to be transferred to Wind-Inſtru. <lb/># ments # ibid. <lb/>Eſſence of Sounds Spiritual, 63. Sounds not <lb/># Impreſſions in the Air # ibid. <lb/>Cauſes of the ſudden Generation and Periſh-<lb/># ing of Sounds # ibid. <lb/>Concluſiontouching Sounds # 63 <lb/>Sourneſs in Fruits and Liquors, 187. The <lb/># cauſe of each, ibid. Souring of Liquors <lb/># in the Sun # ibid. <lb/>South winds diſpoſe Mens Evdies to heavi-<lb/># neſs, 64, South-winds hurtful to Fruit <lb/># bloſſoming, 135. South-winds without <lb/># Rain, breed Peſtilence, with Rain not, <lb/># 166. The cauſes, ibid. On the Sea-coasts <lb/># not ſo # ibid. <lb/>South-East, Sun better then the South-west <lb/># for ripening Fruit # ibid. <lb/>Sparkling woods # 133 <lb/>Species Viſible # 160 <lb/># Spirits in Bodies, ſcarce known, 26. Seve-<lb/># ral opinions of them, ibid. They are Na-<lb/># tural Bodies rarified, ibid. Cauſes of <lb/># moſt of the effects in Nature, ibid. They <lb/># have five differing operations, 73. Spirits <lb/># in Bodies, 125. How they differ in animate <lb/># and inanimate, ibid. How in Plants and <lb/># Living Creatures # 126 <lb/>Again of Spirits in Bodies, 181. They are <lb/># of two ſorts, ibid. Motion of the Spirits <lb/># excited by the Moon, 193. The ſtrength-<lb/># ning of them prohibiteth Putrefaction <lb/># 76 <lb/>Spirits of Men flie upon odious objects, 167. <lb/># The Tranſmiſſion of Spirits, 198. & in <lb/># ſequentib. Tranſmiſſion of them from the <lb/># mindes of Men, 203, 204, 206, 207, 208, <lb/># 209. Such things as comfort the Spirits <lb/># by ſympathy, 208, 209. The ſtrife of the <lb/># Spirits, beſt helped by arreſting them for a <lb/># time # ibid. <lb/>Sponges # 147 <lb/>Springs of water made by art # 6 <lb/>Spring-water # 87 <lb/>Sprouting of Plants with water onely # 133 <lb/>Squill, good to ſet Kernels or Plumb-ſtones <lb/># in # 96 <lb/>Stags Hart with a Bone in it # 157 <lb/>Stanchers of Blood # 210 <lb/>Stars leſſer obſcured, a ſign of Tempeſts <lb/># 174 <lb/>Sterility of the year, changeth Corn into an-<lb/># other kinde # 111 <lb/>Stomach, the appetite thereof, 176. The <lb/># qualities that provoke appetite, ibid. The <lb/># four cauſes of appetite # ibid. <lb/>Stone wanting in Plumbs # 110 <lb/>Stretching, a motion of imitation # 65 <lb/>Stub old, putting forth a Tree of a better <lb/># kinde # 111 <lb/>Stutting, 85. Two cauſes thereof # ibid. <lb/>Subterrany Fires # 78 <lb/>Sucking long, ill for Children # ibid. <lb/>Sugar, 127, 183. The uſe of it,ibid. <lb/># Draweth Liquor, higher then the Liquor <lb/># cometh # 21 <lb/>Sulphureous and Mercurial # 78, 79 <lb/>Summer and Winter ſick neſſes, 84. The Prog-<lb/># noſticks of a dry Summer # 174 <lb/>Sun Tanneth, which Fire doth not, 87, 88. <lb/># The cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Superfetation, the cauſe of it # 116 <lb/>Super-Plants beſide Miſletoe # 135 <lb/>Supporting Plants of themſelves, and not <lb/># ſupporters # 122 <lb/>Swallows made white, by anointing the Eggs <lb/># with Oyl # 211 <lb/>Sweat, 148. Parts under the water, though <lb/># hot ſweat not, ibid. Salt in taſte, ibid. <lb/># cometh more from the upper parts then <lb/># from the lower, ibid. More in ſleep then <lb/># waking, ibid. Cold ſweat commonly mor-<lb/># tal, ibid. 149. Sweat, in what diſeaſes <lb/># good, in what bad, ibid. In ſome men <lb/># have been ſweet # 2 <lb/>Sweet Moſs, 114, 132. Sweetneſs of odor <lb/># from the Rainbow, 176. Sweetneſs of <lb/># odor, whether not in ſome water, ibid. In <lb/># Earth found, ibid. Sweet ſmells, 177. <lb/># Several properties of them, ibid. They <lb/># have a Corporeal ſubſtances. # ibid. <lb/>Sweetneſs in Fruits and Liquors,187. The <lb/></note> <pb file="0266" n="266" rhead="A Table of the chief Matters"/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/># cauſe of cach, ibid. Sweet things commix-<lb/># ed, prohibit Putrefaction # 76 <lb/>Swelling, how cauſed in the Body, 74. How <lb/># it may be kept down, 187. why it follow-<lb/># et h upon Blows and Bruiſes # ibid. <lb/>Swelling of Grains upon Boiling, 185. The <lb/># cauſe of the different ſwelling them # ibid. <lb/>Swimming of Bodies, 163, 166, 167. The <lb/># cauſe # 163 <lb/>Swines Dung dulcorateth Fruit, 98. The <lb/># cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Swinging of Bottles, 68. The uſe of it # ibid. <lb/>Swoundings # 203 <lb/>Sylva Sylvarum, the intention of it # 24, 25 <lb/>Sympathy and Antipathy, 25. Sympathy in <lb/># Plants, 98. Sympathy and Antipathy of <lb/># Plants # 101, 102, 103, 104 <lb/>Sympathy, 211. Inſtances thereof, ibid. 208, <lb/># 209. Sympathy, ſecret between Perſons, <lb/># nearin blood, 210. Between great friends <lb/># in abſence, ibid. Sympathybetwixt Mul-<lb/># titudes, ibid. Sympathy of Individuals <lb/># 213 <lb/>T. <lb/>TEars of Trees # 128 <lb/>Teeth, 141, 157. Their tenderneſs, 128. <lb/># Teeth ſet on edge by harſh ſounds, 145. <lb/># The cauſe, ibid. Sinews inthem, the cauſe <lb/># of their pain, not the Marrow, 158, 159. <lb/># Their ſeveral kindes, ibid. Difference in <lb/># ſeveral Creatures, ibid. Horned Beacts <lb/># have no upper teeth, ibid. Tooth, the mark <lb/># of Horſes age, ibid. At what age they <lb/># come forth in Men, ibid. VVhat things <lb/># hurt them, ibid. Chiefest conſiderations <lb/># about the Teeth, 158. Restitution of Teeth <lb/># in age, ibid. VVhether it may be done or <lb/># no # ibid. <lb/>Tempeſts, their predictions # 174 <lb/>Tenſile Bodies # 181, 182 <lb/>Terra Lemnia # 147 <lb/>Terra Sigillara communis # ibid. <lb/>Thales # 138 <lb/>Thiſtle-down flying in the Air, foreſheweth <lb/># wind # 175 <lb/>Timber, 134. The ſeveral natures thereof, <lb/># ibid. The ſeveral uſes according to the <lb/># nature of the Trees # 135 <lb/>Time and heat work the like effects, 65. Their <lb/># different operations in many things # ibid. <lb/>Titillation, 161. The cauſe of it, ibid. In-<lb/># duceth laughing, ibid. Of the Noſtrils, <lb/># cauſeth ſneezing # ibid. <lb/>Toad-ſtool # 115 <lb/>Tobacco, 185, 203. Engliſh Tobacco, how <lb/># it may be mended # 185 <lb/>Tones, 29. Leſs apt to procure ſleep, then <lb/># Sounds, 31. The cauſe why # ibid. <lb/>Tongue ſheweth readily inward Diſeaſes # 141 <lb/>Torpedo Marina # 212 <lb/>Tough Bodies, 180, 181. The cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Tranſmiſſion of Spirits, 198. & in ſeq. Eight <lb/># kindes of tranſmiſsion of ſpirits, 199, <lb/># 200, 201. As of the airy parts of bodies, <lb/># ibid. Of ſpiritual species, ibid. Of ſpi-<lb/># rits cauſing Attraction, ibid. Of ſpirits <lb/># working by the Primitive Nature of Mat-<lb/># ter, ibid. Of the ſpirits of the Minde of <lb/># Man, ibid. Of the Inftuxes of the Hea-<lb/># venly bodies, ibid. In operations of Sym-<lb/># pathy, ibid. By ſympathy of individuals <lb/># ibid. <lb/>Trees planted warm, 90. Houſing of them, <lb/># 92. Heap of Flint laid at the bottom, <lb/># helpeth the growth, 93. Shaking hurteth <lb/># the young Tree, a grown Tree not, ibid. <lb/># Cutting away of Suckers, helpeth them, <lb/># ibid. How to plant a Tree that may grow <lb/># fair in one year, 94. Helped by boring a <lb/># hole through the beart of the Stock, ibid. <lb/># By ſlitting the Roots, ibid. By spreding <lb/># upon a wall, ibid. By plucking off ſome <lb/># Leaves, ibid. By digging yearly about the <lb/># Root, 95. By applying new Moulds, ibid. <lb/># Byremoving to better Earth, ibid. By ſli-<lb/># cing their Bark, ibid. In ſome kindes by <lb/># ſhade, ibid. By ſetting the Kernels or <lb/># Stones in a Squil growing, ibid. 96. By <lb/># pulling off ſome Bloſſoms, ibid. By cutting <lb/># off the top, when they begin to bud, 97. By <lb/># boaring them through the Trunck, and <lb/># putting in wedges of hot Woods, ibid. By <lb/># ſeveral applications to the Roots, ibid. By <lb/># Terebration again. 98. The cauſe thereof, <lb/># ibid. By letting them blood, ibid. Grow <lb/># beſt fenced from Sun and Wind, 99. Cauſes <lb/># of their Barrenneſs, ibid. Helps to make <lb/># Trees fruitful, 100. Tree blown up by the <lb/># Roots, and replaced, proved fruitful, 95. <lb/># Tryal of watering a Tree with warm wa-<lb/># ter, 97. Trees that grow beſt without graft-<lb/># ing, ibid. Fruit-tree grafted upon a moi-<lb/># ſter ſtock, will grow larger, 97. Trees re-<lb/># moved to be coafted as before, ibid. Lower <lb/># Boughs bring the bigger Fruit # ibid. <lb/>Trees apparelled with Flowers, 108. Form-<lb/># ing of Trees into ſeveral ſhapes # ibid. <lb/>Tranſmutation of Trees and Plants, 110. <lb/># Six deſignations thereof # ibid. 112, 113 <lb/>Trees in Copice-woods grow more ſtraight, <lb/># 113. The cauſe thereof # ibid. <lb/>Trees full of heat, grow tall,ibid. Thecauſe, <lb/># ibid. How to Dwarf Trees # ibid. <lb/>Trees that are VVinders, 113. The cauſe <lb/># thereof # ibid. <lb/></note> <pb file="0267" n="267" rhead="contained in theſe Centuries."/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>Trees moiſter yield leſs Moſs, 114. The cauſe <lb/># ibid. <lb/>Trees in Clay-grounds apt to gather Moſs, <lb/># ibid. The cauſe # ibid. <lb/>Trees Hide-bound bring forth Moſs # ibid. <lb/>Treesthat ripen lateſt bloſſom earlieſt # 119 <lb/>Trees that laſt longeſt, 120. viz. The largeſt <lb/># of body, ibid. such as bring Maſt or Nuts, <lb/># ibid. Such as bring forth Leaves late, <lb/># and ſhed them late, ibid. Such as are often <lb/># cut # ibid. <lb/>Trees with ſcattered bough@, 121. with up-<lb/># right boughs, ibid. The cauſe of each <lb/># ibid. <lb/>Tree Indian with Leaves of great largeneſs, <lb/># and Fruit without ſtalks # 127 <lb/>Tree in Perſia nouriſhed with Salt-water <lb/># ibid. 128 <lb/>Trees commonly fruitful, but each other <lb/># year # 130 <lb/>Trees bearing beſt on the lower boughs, 131. <lb/># others on the higher boughs, ibid. The <lb/># cauſe of each, ibid. Such as bear beſt when <lb/># they are old, 131. Others when they are <lb/># young, ibid. The cauſe of each # ibid. <lb/>Trembling in ſhadows # 190 <lb/>Tryals for wholeſome Airs # 164 <lb/>Tuft of Moſs on a Briar-buſh # 117 <lb/>Tuiks great ſitters, 156. to them, Bathing <lb/># good # ibid. <lb/>Twice a year Fruits # 119 <lb/>Tying of the Point # 192, 193 <lb/>Tyranny over Mens Underſtandings and Be-<lb/># liefs much affected # 215 <lb/>V. <lb/>VApor of Charl-coal, or of Sea coal, or of <lb/># a Room new plaſtred, mortal # 202 <lb/>Vapors which taken outwaraly, would con-<lb/># denſe the Spirits # 203 <lb/>Vegetables rotting upon the ground, a good <lb/># Compoſt, 223. Several inſtances thereof <lb/># ibid. <lb/>Venous Bodies # 180 <lb/>Venus, 142. Inexceſs dimeththe ſight, ibid. <lb/># The Act of it. Men more inclined in <lb/># winter, women in Summer # 143 <lb/>Vermine frighted with the Head of a VVoolf <lb/># 210 <lb/>Veſuvius # 165 <lb/>Vines made fruitful by applying the Kernels <lb/># of Grapes to the Roots, 10. The cauſe <lb/># thereof, ibid. Made to ſprout ſuddenly <lb/># with Nitre, 96. Love not the Colewort, <lb/># 110. Vine-Trees, 128, 129. Anciently <lb/># of great bodies, ibid. Atough wood dry, <lb/># ibid. Vines in ſome places, not propped <lb/># 125 <lb/>Vine grafted upon Vine # 136 <lb/>Vinegar # 194 <lb/>Violet-Vinegar # 4 <lb/>Viſibles hitherto, the ſubject of Knowledge, <lb/># 26. Mingle not in the Medium as Au-<lb/># dibles do, 53. The cauſe thereof, ibid. se-<lb/># veral conſents of Viſibles and Audibles, <lb/># 58. Several Diſſents of Viſibles and Au-<lb/># dibles, 60, 61. Viſible Species, 160. Vi-<lb/># ſibles and Audibles, 204. Two Lights of <lb/># the ſame bigneſs, will not make things be <lb/># ſeen as far again as one, 54. The cauſe <lb/># thereof # ibid. <lb/>Viſual Spirits infecting # 202, 203 <lb/>Vitrial # 127 <lb/>Vivification, 73, 74. The ſeveral things re-<lb/># quired to Vivification, 143. The Proceſs <lb/># of it # ibid. 194, 195 <lb/>Vlcers in the Leg, harder to cure then in the <lb/># Head, 166. The cauſe, ib. Difference of <lb/># curing them in a French-man, and an <lb/># Engliſh-man # ibid. <lb/>Unbarkt Branch of a Tree being ſet, hatb <lb/># grown, 134. Barkt will not # ib. <lb/>Unguentum Teli # 200 <lb/>Union, the force thereof in Natural Bodies, <lb/># 24. Appetite of Union in Natural Bodies, <lb/># 64. Appeareth in three kindes of Bodies <lb/># ibid. <lb/>Voice, the ſhrilneſs thereof, 43. In whom <lb/># eſpecially, ibid. VVhy changed at years of <lb/># Puberty, ibid. Labor and Intention, con-<lb/># duceth much to imit ate Voices, 56. Imi-<lb/># tation of Voices, as if they were at diſtance <lb/># ibid. <lb/>Vrine in quantity, a great hinderer of Nou-<lb/># riſhment # 14 <lb/>W. <lb/>WArmth, a ſpecial means to make <lb/># ground fruitful # 123, 124 <lb/>Warts taken away by Lard or an Elder ſtick <lb/># conſuming # 213 <lb/>Water thickned in a Cave, 20. Changed <lb/># ſuddenly into Air, 24. Choice of waters, <lb/># 86. By weight, ibid. By boiling, ibid. By <lb/># longest lasting, imputrefied, ibid. By <lb/># making Drinks ſtronger, ibid. By bearing <lb/># Soap, ibid. By the places where they are <lb/># congregated, 87. By the Soil, ibid. wa-<lb/># ters ſweet, not to be tructed, ibid. well-<lb/># water, ibid. water putteth forth Herbs <lb/># without Roots, 117. water alone will <lb/># cauſe Plants to ſprout, ibid. well-water <lb/># warmer in winter then in Summer, 191. <lb/># water riſing in a Baſon by means of Flames <lb/># 192 <lb/>Water hot, and Fire, heat differently, # 104. <lb/></note> <pb file="0268" n="268" rhead="A Table of the chief Matters"/> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/># Water cooleth Air, and moiſteneth it not <lb/># 187, 188 <lb/>Water may be the Medium of Sounds, 167. <lb/># watry moiſture enduceth Putrefaction, 74. <lb/># Turning watry ſubſtances into oily, 79. A <lb/># great work in Nature, ibid. Four inſtan-<lb/># ces thereof, ibid. 80. wrought by Digeſti-<lb/># on, ibid. watering of Grounds, a great <lb/># help to fruitfulneſs, 123, 124. Cautions <lb/># therein, ibid. Means to water them # ibid. <lb/>Water-Creſſes # 78 <lb/>Weapon anointed # 213 <lb/>Weight of the Diſſolution of Iron in Aqua-<lb/># fortis # 166 <lb/>Wheat ſet # 95, 96 <lb/>White, a penurious colour, 24, 25. In Flow-<lb/># ers, 108. commonly more inodorate then <lb/># other colours, ibid. The cauſe, ibid. white <lb/># more delicate in Berries, 109. The eauſe <lb/># thereof, ibid. Not ſo commonly in Fruits, <lb/># ibid. The cauſe thereof # ibid. <lb/>White Gunpowder # 42, 43 <lb/>Wholeſome ſeats, 164. Tryal for them, 173. <lb/># Moist Air, not good, ibid. Inequality of <lb/># Air, naught # ibid. <lb/>Wilde-fires, why water will not quench them <lb/># 165 <lb/>Wilde Herbs ſhew the nature of the Ground <lb/># 135 <lb/>Winds southern, diſpoſe Mens bodies to hea-<lb/># vineſs, 81. winds Southern without Rain <lb/># fevoriſh # 166 <lb/>Winds gathered for freſhneſs, 164. Prog-<lb/># noſticks of winds # 174 <lb/>Winding Trees # 113 <lb/>Wine burnt, 5. Wine how to be uſed in Con-<lb/># ſumptions, 14. Wine, for what Bodies <lb/># good, for what burtful, 153. wine cor-<lb/># rected, that it may not fume # 165 <lb/>Wine new, preſently made potable # 139 <lb/>Wine and water, ſeparated by weight, 3, 4. <lb/># Tryal hereof in two Glaſſes, ibid. When <lb/># it will operate, and when not, ibid. Spirit <lb/># of wine burnt, 82. Mingled with wax, <lb/># the operation of it # ibid. <lb/>Winter and summer ſukneſſes, 84. Signs of <lb/># a cold winter, 155, 174. winter Sleepers <lb/># 194 <lb/>Witches, 198, 199. work most by Imagi-<lb/># nation and Fancy, ibid. 203. Witches <lb/># Oyntment # 210 <lb/># Woolf-guts applied to the belly, care the <lb/># Collick, ibid. Head hanged up frighteth <lb/># Vermin # ibid. <lb/>Wonder, 151. The Impreſſions thereof # ibid. <lb/>Wood ſhining in the dark # 77, 78 <lb/>Wood-ſear # 104 <lb/>Wool attractive of Water, 20, 25. Through <lb/># a Veßel # ibid. <lb/>World, ſuppoſed by ſome to be a Living Crea-<lb/># ture # 197, 198 <lb/>Worms foretel Rain # 176 <lb/>Wounds, ſome applications to them,139 <lb/># wounds made with Braſs, eaſier to cure <lb/># then thoſe made with Iron # 166 <lb/>Wriſts have a ſympathy with the Head, and <lb/># other parts # 25 <lb/>Y. <lb/>YAwning hindereth Hearing, 62. The <lb/># cauſe, ibid. It is a motion of Imitation, <lb/># 65. In yawning, dangerous to pick the <lb/># Ear # 140 <lb/>Years ſteril, cauſe Corn to degenerate # 111 <lb/>Yellow colour in Herbs # 109 <lb/>Young Trees, which bear beſt # 131 <lb/>Z. <lb/>ZOne Torrid, leß tolerable for Heats then <lb/># the Æquinoctial, 87. Three cauſes <lb/># thereof # ibid. <lb/></note> <pb file="0269" n="269"/> <figure> <image file="0269-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0269-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1072" type="section" level="1" n="37"> <head xml:id="echoid-head54" style="it" xml:space="preserve">His Lordſhips uſual Receipt for the Gout (to which, the <lb/>Sixtieth Experiment hath reference) wasthis.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head55" xml:space="preserve">Tobe taken in this order.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head56" style="it" xml:space="preserve">1. The Poultice.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9076" xml:space="preserve">℞. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9077" xml:space="preserve">Of Manchet, about three Ounces, the Crum onely, thin cut; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9078" xml:space="preserve">let it be boiled <lb/># in Milk till it grow to a Pulp; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9079" xml:space="preserve">add in the end, a Dram and a half of the Powder <lb/># of Red Roſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9080" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9081" xml:space="preserve">Of Saffron ten Grains.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9082" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9083" xml:space="preserve">Of Oyl of Roſes an Ounce.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9084" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9085" xml:space="preserve">Let it be ſpred upon a Linnen Cloth, and applied luke-warm, and continued <lb/># for three hours ſpace.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9086" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1073" type="section" level="1" n="38"> <head xml:id="echoid-head57" style="it" xml:space="preserve">2. The Bath or Fomentation.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9087" xml:space="preserve">℞. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9088" xml:space="preserve">Of Sage-Leaves, half an handful.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9089" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9090" xml:space="preserve">Of the Root of Hemlock ſliced, ſix Drams.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9091" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9092" xml:space="preserve">Of Briony Roots, half an Ounce.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9093" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9094" xml:space="preserve">Of the Leaves of Red Roſes, two Pugils.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9095" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9096" xml:space="preserve">Let them be boiled in a Pottle of Water wherein Steel hath been quenched, <lb/># till the Liquor come to a Quart; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9097" xml:space="preserve">after the ſtraining, put in half an handful <lb/># of Bay-Salt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9098" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9099" xml:space="preserve">Let it be uſed with Scarlet-Cloth, or Scarlet-Wool, dipped in the Liquor <lb/># hot, and ſo renewed ſeven times; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9100" xml:space="preserve">all in the ſpace of a quarter of an hour <lb/># or little more.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9101" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1074" type="section" level="1" n="39"> <head xml:id="echoid-head58" style="it" xml:space="preserve">3. The Plaiſter.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9102" xml:space="preserve">℞. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9103" xml:space="preserve">Emplaſtrum Diacalcitbeos, as much as is ſufficient for the part you mean to <lb/># cover; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9104" xml:space="preserve">let it be diſſolved with Oyl of Roſes in ſuch a conſiſtence as will <lb/># ſtick, and ſpred upon a piece of Holland, and applied.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9105" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb file="0270" n="270"/> <pb file="0271" n="271"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1075" type="section" level="1" n="40"> <head xml:id="echoid-head59" xml:space="preserve">HISTORY <lb/>Natural and Experimental <lb/>OF <lb/>LIFE & DEATH: <lb/>OR, <lb/>Of the Prolongation of LIFE.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head60" xml:space="preserve">Written in Latin by the Right Honorable <lb/><emph style="sc">Francis</emph> Lord Verulam, <lb/>Viſcount St. Albans.</head> <figure> <image file="0271-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0271-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1076" type="section" level="1" n="41"> <head xml:id="echoid-head61" xml:space="preserve">LONDON, <lb/>Printed for VVilliam Lee at the Turks-head <lb/>in Fleetſtreet. 1669.</head> <pb file="0272" n="272"/> <pb file="0273" n="273"/> <figure> <image file="0273-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0273-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1077" type="section" level="1" n="42"> <head xml:id="echoid-head62" xml:space="preserve">TO THE READER.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9106" xml:space="preserve">IAm to give Advertiſement, that <lb/>there came forth of late a Tranſlation <lb/>of this Book by an unknown Perſon, <lb/>who though he wished well to the <lb/>propagating of his Lordſhips Works, <lb/>yet he was altogether unacquainted with his <lb/>Lordſhips ſtile and manner of Expreſſions, and <lb/>ſo published a Tranſlation lame and defective in <lb/>the whole. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9107" xml:space="preserve">Whereupon I thought fit to re-<lb/>commend the ſame to be tranſlated anew by a <lb/>more diligent and zealous Pen, which hath ſince <lb/>travelled in it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9108" xml:space="preserve">and though it ſtill comes short <lb/>of that lively and incomparable Spirit and Ex-<lb/>preſſion, which lived and died with the Author, <lb/>yet I dare avouch it to be much more warrant-<lb/>able and agreeable then the former. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9109" xml:space="preserve">It is true, <lb/>this Book was not intended to have been pub-<lb/>lished in Engliſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9110" xml:space="preserve">but ſeeing it hath been already <lb/>made free of that Language, whatſoever benefit <lb/>or delight may redound from it, I commend the <lb/>ſame to the Courteous and Judicious Reader.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9111" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9112" xml:space="preserve">W. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9113" xml:space="preserve">R.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9114" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb file="0274" n="274"/> <figure> <image file="0274-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0274-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1078" type="section" level="1" n="43"> <head xml:id="echoid-head63" xml:space="preserve">To the preſent Age and Poſterity, <lb/>Greeting.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9115" xml:space="preserve">ALthough I had ranked the Hiſtory of <lb/>Life and Death as the laſt among ſt my <lb/>Six Monethly Deſignations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9116" xml:space="preserve">yet I <lb/>have thought fit, in reſpect of the prime uſe <lb/>thereof, (in which the leaſt loß of time ought <lb/>to be eſteemed precious) to invert that order, and to ſend it <lb/>forth in the ſecond place. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9117" xml:space="preserve">For I have hope, and wiſh, that it <lb/>may conduce to a common good; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9118" xml:space="preserve">and that the Nobler ſort of <lb/>Phyſicians will advance their thoughts, and not employ their <lb/>times wholly in the ſordidneß of Cures, neither be honored <lb/>for Neceſſity onely, but that they will become Coadju-<lb/>tors and Inſtruments of the Divine Omnipotence <lb/>and Clemency in Prolonging and Renewing the <lb/>Life of Man; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9119" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially ſeeing I preſcribe it to be done by <lb/>ſafe, and convenient, and civil ways, though hitherto unaſſayed. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9120" xml:space="preserve">For though we Chriſtians do continually aſpire and pant <lb/>after the Land of Promiſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9121" xml:space="preserve">yet it will be a token of <lb/>Gods favor towards us, in our journeyings through this <lb/>Worlds Wilderneſs, to have our Shoes and Gar-<lb/>ments (I mean thoſe of our frail Bodies) little worn or <lb/>impaired.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9122" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9123" xml:space="preserve"><emph style="sc">Fr</emph>. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9124" xml:space="preserve">St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9125" xml:space="preserve"><emph style="sc">Albans</emph>.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9126" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb file="0275" n="275"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1079" type="section" level="1" n="44"> <head xml:id="echoid-head64" xml:space="preserve">THE <lb/>HISTORY <lb/>OF <lb/>Life and Death.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head65" xml:space="preserve">The Preface.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9127" xml:space="preserve">IT is an ancient ſaying and complaint, That Life is <lb/>ſhort and Art long; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9128" xml:space="preserve">wherefore it behoveth us, who <lb/>make it our chiefeſt aim to perfect Arts, to take up-<lb/>on us the conſideration of Prolonging Mans Life, <lb/>G O D, the Author of all Truth and Life, proſper-<lb/>ing our Endeavors. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9129" xml:space="preserve">For though the Life of Man be <lb/>nothing elſe but a maſs and accumulation of ſins and <lb/>ſorrows, and they that look for an Eternal Life ſet but <lb/>light by a Temporary: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9130" xml:space="preserve">Yet the continuation of VVorks of Charity ought <lb/>not to be contemned, even by us Christians. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9131" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, the beloved Diſciple <lb/>of our Lord ſurvived the other Diſciples; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9132" xml:space="preserve">and many of the Fathers of the <lb/>Church, eſpecially of the holy Monks and Hermits, were long-lived: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9133" xml:space="preserve">VVhich ſhews, that this bleſsing of long life, ſo often promiſed in the Old <lb/>Law, had leſs abatement after our Saviours days then other earthly bleſs-<lb/>ings had; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9134" xml:space="preserve">but to eſte<unsure/>em of this as the chiefeſt good, we are but too <lb/>prone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9135" xml:space="preserve">Onely the enquiry is difficult how to attain the ſame; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9136" xml:space="preserve">and ſo <lb/>much the rather, becauſe it is corrupted with falſe opinions and vain re-<lb/>ports: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9137" xml:space="preserve">For both thoſe things which the vulgar Phyſitians talk of, Radical <lb/>Moiſture and Natural Heat, are but meer Fictions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9138" xml:space="preserve">and the immoderate <pb file="0276" n="276" rhead="The Preface."/> praiſes of Chymical Medicines, firſt puff up with vain hopes, and then fail <lb/>their admirers.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9139" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9140" xml:space="preserve">And as for that Death which is cauſed by Suffocation, Putrefaction, and <lb/>ſeveral Diſeaſes, weſpeak not of it now, for that pertains to an Hiſtory oſ <lb/>Phyſick; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9141" xml:space="preserve">but onely oſ that Death which comes by a total decay of the <lb/>Body, and the Inconcoction of old Age. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9142" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs the laſt act of <lb/>Death, and the very extinguiſhing of Life it ſelf, which may ſo many <lb/>ways be wrought outwardly and inwardly (which notwithſtanding have, <lb/>as it were, one common Porch beſore it comes to the point of death) will <lb/>be pertinent to beinquired of in this Treatiſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9143" xml:space="preserve">but we reſerve that for the <lb/>laſt place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9144" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9145" xml:space="preserve">That which may be repaired by degrees, without a total waſte of the <lb/>firſt ſtock, is potentially eternal, as the Veſtal Fire. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9146" xml:space="preserve">Thereſore when Phy-<lb/>ſicians and Philoſophers ſaw that living Creatures were nouriſhed and their <lb/>Bodies repaired, but that this did laſt onely for a time, and afterwards <lb/>came old age, and in the end diſſolution; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9147" xml:space="preserve">they ſought Death in ſomewhat <lb/>which could not properly be repaired, ſuppoſing a Radical Moiſture in-<lb/>capable of ſolid reparation, and which, from the firſt infancy, received <lb/>a ſpurious addition, but no true reparation, whereby it grew daily worſe <lb/>and worſe, and, in the end, brought the bad to none at all. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9148" xml:space="preserve">This con-<lb/>ceit of theirs was both ignorant and vain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9149" xml:space="preserve">for all things in living Crea-<lb/>tures are in their youth repaired entirely; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9150" xml:space="preserve">nay, they are for a time in-<lb/>creaſed in quantity, bettered in quality, ſo as the Matter of reparation <lb/>might be eternal, if the Manner of reparation did not fail. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9151" xml:space="preserve">But this is <lb/>the truth of it, There is in the declining of age an unequal reparation; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9152" xml:space="preserve">ſome parts are repaired eaſily, others with difficulty and to their loſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9153" xml:space="preserve">ſo <lb/>as from that time the Bodies of Men begin to endure the torments of Me <lb/>zentius, That the living die in the embraces of the dead; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9154" xml:space="preserve">and the parts eaſily repair-<lb/>able, through their conjunction with the parts hardly repairable, do de-<lb/>cay: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9155" xml:space="preserve">For the Spirits, Blood, Flesh, and Fat are, even after the decline of <lb/>years, eaſily repaired; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9156" xml:space="preserve">but the drier and more porous parts (as the <lb/>Membranes, all the Tunicles, the Sinews, Arteries, Veins, Bones, Cartilages, <lb/>moſt of the Bowels, in a word, almoſt all the Organical Parts) are hardly <lb/>repairable, and to their loſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9157" xml:space="preserve">Now theſe hardly-repairable parts, when they <lb/>come to their office of repairing the other which are eaſily repairable, <lb/>finding themſelves deprived of their wonted ability and ſtrength, ceaſe <lb/>to perſorm any longer their proper Functions: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9158" xml:space="preserve">By which means it comes <lb/>to paſs, that in proceſs of time the whole tends to diſſolution; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9159" xml:space="preserve">and even <lb/>thoſe very parts which in their own nature are with much eaſe repair-<lb/>able, yet through the decay of the Organs of reparation can no more re-<lb/>ceive reparation, but decline, and in the end utterly fail. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9160" xml:space="preserve">And the cauſe of <lb/>the termination of Life is this, for that the Spirits, like a gentle flame, <lb/>continually preying upon Bodies, conſpiring with the outward Air, which <lb/>is ever ſucking and drying of them, do, in time, deſtroy the whole Fa-<lb/>brick of the Body, as alſo the particular Engines and Organs thereof, <lb/>and make them unable for the work of Reparation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9161" xml:space="preserve">Theſe are the true <lb/>ways of Natural Death, well and faithfully to be revolved in our mindes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9162" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>for he that knows not the ways of Nature, how can he ſuccor her, or turn <lb/>her about?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9163" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9164" xml:space="preserve">Therefore the Inquiſition ought to be twofold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9165" xml:space="preserve">the one touching the <lb/>Conſumption or Depredation of the Body of Man; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9166" xml:space="preserve">the other touching the <lb/>Reparation and Renovation of the ſame: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9167" xml:space="preserve">To the end, that the former may, <pb file="0277" n="277" rhead="The Preface."/> as much as is poſſible, be forbidden and reſtrained, and the latter com-<lb/>forted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9168" xml:space="preserve">The former of theſe pertains, eſpecially to the Spirits and outward <lb/>Air, by which the Depredation and Waſte is committed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9169" xml:space="preserve">the latter to the <lb/>whole race of Alimentation or Nourishment, whereby the Renovation or <lb/>Reſtitution is made. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9170" xml:space="preserve">And as for the former part touching Conſumption, <lb/>this hath many things common with Bodies Inanimate, or without life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9171" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>ſuch things as the Native Spirit (which is in all tangible Bodies, whether <lb/>living or without life) and the ambient or external Air worketh upon <lb/>Bodies Inanimate, the ſame it attempteth upon Animate or Living Bodies; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9172" xml:space="preserve">although the Vital Spirit ſuperadded, doth partly break and bridle thoſe <lb/>operations, partly exalt and advance them wonderſully. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9173" xml:space="preserve">For it is moſt <lb/>manifeſt that Inanimate Bodies (moſt of them) will endure a long time <lb/>without any Reparation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9174" xml:space="preserve">but Bodies Animate without Food and Repara-<lb/>tion ſuddenly fall and are ektinguiſhed, as the Fire is. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9175" xml:space="preserve">So then, our Inquiſition <lb/>ſhall be double. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9176" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, we will conſider the Body of Man as Inanimate, and <lb/>not repaired by Nourishment: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9177" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, as Animate and repaired by Nourish-<lb/>ment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9178" xml:space="preserve">Thus having Prefaced theſe things, we come now to the Topick places <lb/>of Inquiſition.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9179" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb file="0278" n="278"/> <pb o="1" file="0279" n="279"/> <handwritten/> <figure> <image file="0279-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0279-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1080" type="section" level="1" n="45"> <head xml:id="echoid-head66" xml:space="preserve">THE <lb/>Particular Topick Places; <lb/>OR, <lb/>ARTICLES of INQUISITION <lb/>TOUCHING <lb/>LIFE and DEATH.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9180" xml:space="preserve">FIrſt, inquire of Nature durable, and Not durable, in Bodies Inani-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0279-01a" xlink:href="note-0279-01"/> mate or without Life, as alſo in Vegetables; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9181" xml:space="preserve">but that not in a <lb/>large or juſt Treatiſe, but as in a Brief or Summary onely.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9182" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1080" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0279-01" xlink:href="note-0279-01a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9183" xml:space="preserve">Alſo inquire diligently of Deſiccation, Arefaction, and Con-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0279-02a" xlink:href="note-0279-02"/> ſumption of Bodies Inanimate, and of Vegetables; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9184" xml:space="preserve">and of the <lb/>ways and proceſſes, by which they are done; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9185" xml:space="preserve">and further, of <lb/>Inhibiting and Delaying of Deſiccation, Arefaction, and Con-<lb/>ſumption, and of the Conſervation of Bodies, in their proper ſtate; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9186" xml:space="preserve">and again, of the Inteneration, Emollition, and Recovery of Bodies to their former freſh-<lb/>neſs, after they be once dryed and withered.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9187" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1081" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0279-02" xlink:href="note-0279-02a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9188" xml:space="preserve">Neither need the Inquiſition touching theſe things, to be full or exact, ſeeing they <lb/>pertain rather to their proper Title of Nature durable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9189" xml:space="preserve">ſeeing alſo, they are not Princi-<lb/>pals in this Inquiſition, but ſerve onely to give light to the Prolongation and Instauration <lb/>of Life in Living creatures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9190" xml:space="preserve">In which (as was ſaid before) the ſame things come to paſs, <lb/>but in a particular manner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9191" xml:space="preserve">So from the Inquiſition touching Bodies Inanimate and Vege-<lb/>tables, let the Inquiſition paſs on to other Living Creatures beſides Man.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9192" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9193" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the length and ſhortneſs of Life in Living Creatures, with the due <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0279-03a" xlink:href="note-0279-03"/> circumſtances which make moſt for their long or ſhort lives.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9194" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1082" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0279-03" xlink:href="note-0279-03a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9195" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe the Duration of Bodies is twofold, One in Identity, or the ſelf ſame <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0279-04a" xlink:href="note-0279-04"/> ſubſtance, the other by a Renovation or Reparation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9196" xml:space="preserve">whereof the former hath place onely <lb/>in Bodies Inanimate, the latter in Vegetables and Living Creatures, and is perfected by <lb/>Alimentation or Nouriſhment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9197" xml:space="preserve">therefore it will be fit to inquire of Alimentation, and <lb/>of the ways and progreſſes thereof; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9198" xml:space="preserve">yet this not exactly, (becauſe it pertains properly <lb/>to the Titles of Aſſimilation and Alimentation) but, as the reſt, in progreſs onely.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9199" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1083" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0279-04" xlink:href="note-0279-04a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9200" xml:space="preserve">From the Inquiſition touching Living Creatures, and Bodies repaired by Nouriſh-<lb/>ment, paſs on to the Inquiſition touching Man. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9201" xml:space="preserve">And now being come to the principal <lb/>ſubject of Inquiſition, the Inquiſition ought to be in all points more preciſe and accu-<lb/>rate.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9202" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9203" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the length and ſhortneſs of Life in Men, according to the Ages of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0279-05a" xlink:href="note-0279-05"/> the World, the ſeveral Regions, Climates, and Places of their Nativity and Habitation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9204" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1084" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0279-05" xlink:href="note-0279-05a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9205" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the length and ſhortneſs of Life in Men, according to their Races <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0279-06a" xlink:href="note-0279-06"/> and Families, as if it were a thing hereditary; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9206" xml:space="preserve">alſo according to their Complexions, Con-<lb/>ſtitutions, and Habits of Body, their Statures, the manner and time of their growth, and <lb/>the making and compoſition of their Members.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9207" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1085" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0279-06" xlink:href="note-0279-06a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9208" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the length and ſhortneſs of Life in Men, according to the times of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0279-07a" xlink:href="note-0279-07"/> their Nativity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9209" xml:space="preserve">but ſo, as you omit for the preſent all Aſtrological obſervations, and the <lb/>Figures of Heaven, under which they were born; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9210" xml:space="preserve">onely inſiſt upon the vulgar and <pb o="2" file="0280" n="280" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> manifeſt Obſervations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9211" xml:space="preserve">as whether they were born in the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, or <lb/>Tenth Moneth, alſo, whether by Night or by Day, and in what Moneth of the Year.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9212" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1086" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0279-07" xlink:href="note-0279-07a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9213" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the Length and Shortneſs of Life in Men, according to their Fare, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0280-01a" xlink:href="note-0280-01"/> Diet, Government of their Life, Exerciſes, and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9214" xml:space="preserve">For as for the Air, in which <lb/>Men live and make their abode, we account that proper to be inquired of in the above-<lb/>ſaid Article, touching the places of their Habitation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9215" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1087" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-01" xlink:href="note-0280-01a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9216" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the Length and Shortneſs of Life in Men, according to their Stu-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0280-02a" xlink:href="note-0280-02"/> dies, their ſeveral Courſes of Life, the Affections of the Minde, and divers Accidents befal-<lb/>ling them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9217" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1088" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-02" xlink:href="note-0280-02a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9218" xml:space="preserve">Inquire apart touching thoſe Medicines which are thought to prolong Life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9219" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9220" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the Signs and Prognosticks of long and ſhort life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9221" xml:space="preserve">not thoſe which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0280-04a" xlink:href="note-0280-04"/> betoken Death at hand, (for they belong to an History of Phyſick) but thoſe which are <lb/>ſeen and may be obſerved even in Health, whether they be Phyſiognomical ſigns, or any <lb/>other.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9222" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1089" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-04" xlink:href="note-0280-04a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9223" xml:space="preserve">Hitherto have been propounded Inquiſitions touching Length and Shortneſs of Life, <lb/>beſides the Rules of Art, and in a confuſed manner; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9224" xml:space="preserve">now we think to add ſome, which <lb/>ſhall be more Art-like, and tending to practice, under the name of Intentions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9225" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe <lb/>Intentions are generally three: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9226" xml:space="preserve">As for the particular Diſtributions of them, we will pro-<lb/>pound them when we come to the Inquiſition it ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9227" xml:space="preserve">The three general Intentions are, <lb/>the Forbidding of Waſte and Conſumption, the Perfecting of Reparation, and the Renewing <lb/>of Oldneſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9228" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9229" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching thoſe things which conſerve and exempt the Body of Man ſrom <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0280-05a" xlink:href="note-0280-05"/> Arefaction and conſumption, at leaſt which put off and protract the inclination thereunto.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9230" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1090" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-05" xlink:href="note-0280-05a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9231" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching thoſe things which pertain to the whole proceſs of Alimentation, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0280-06a" xlink:href="note-0280-06"/> (by which the Body of Man is repaired) that it may be good, and with the beſt im-<lb/>provement.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9232" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1091" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-06" xlink:href="note-0280-06a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9233" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching thoſe things which purge out the old Matter, and ſupply with new; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9234" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0280-07a" xlink:href="note-0280-07"/> as alſo which do Intenerate and Moiſten th@ſe parts which are already dried and hardned.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9235" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1092" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-07" xlink:href="note-0280-07a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9236" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe it will be hard to know the Ways of Death, unleſs we ſearch out and <lb/>diſcover the Seat, or Houſe, or rather Den of Death, it will be convenient to make In-<lb/>quiſition of this thing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9237" xml:space="preserve">yet not of every kinde of Death, but of thoſe Deaths which <lb/>are cauſed by want and indigence of Nouriſhment, not by violence; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9238" xml:space="preserve">for they are thoſe <lb/>Deaths onely which pertain to a decay of Nature, and meer old Age.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9239" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9240" xml:space="preserve">Inquire touching the Point of Death, and the Porches of Death, leading thereun-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0280-08a" xlink:href="note-0280-08"/> to from all parts, ſo as that Death be cauſed by a decay of Nature, and not by Vio-<lb/>lence.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9241" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1093" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-08" xlink:href="note-0280-08a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9242" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, becauſe it is behoveful to know the Character and Form of Old Age, which <lb/>will then beſt be done, if you make a Collection of all the Differences, both in the State <lb/>and Functions of the Body, betwixt Youth and Old Age, that by them you may obſerve <lb/>what it is that produceth ſuch manifold Effects; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9243" xml:space="preserve">let not this Inquiſition be omitted.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9244" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9245" xml:space="preserve">Inquire diligently touching the Differences in the State of the Body and Faculties of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0280-09a" xlink:href="note-0280-09"/> the Minde in Youth and Old Age; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9246" xml:space="preserve">and whether there be any that remain the ſame with-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0280-10a" xlink:href="note-0280-10"/> out alteration or abatement in Old Age.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9247" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1094" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-09" xlink:href="note-0280-09a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-10" xlink:href="note-0280-10a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1096" type="section" level="1" n="46"> <head xml:id="echoid-head67" xml:space="preserve">Nature Durable, and not Durable.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head68" xml:space="preserve">The History.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9248" xml:space="preserve">MEtals are of that long laſting, that Men cannot trace the beginnings of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0280-11a" xlink:href="note-0280-11"/> them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9249" xml:space="preserve">and when they do decay, they decay through Ruſt, not through per-<lb/>ſpiration into Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9250" xml:space="preserve">yet Gold decays neither way.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9251" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1096" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-11" xlink:href="note-0280-11a" xml:space="preserve">To the firſt <lb/>Article.</note> </div> <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9252" xml:space="preserve">Quick-ſilver, though it be an humid and fluid Body, and eaſily made <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0280-13a" xlink:href="note-0280-13"/> volatile by Fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9253" xml:space="preserve">yet (as far as we have obſerved) by Age alone, without Fire, it neither <lb/>waſteth nor gathereth Ruſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9254" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1097" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-13" xlink:href="note-0280-13a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9255" xml:space="preserve">Stones, eſpecially the harder ſort of them, and many other Foſſiles, are of long <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0280-14a" xlink:href="note-0280-14"/> <pb o="3" file="0281" n="281" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> ing, and that though they be expoſed to the open air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9256" xml:space="preserve">much more if they be buried <lb/>in the earth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9257" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding Stones gather a kind of Nitre, which is to them inſtead <lb/>of Ruſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9258" xml:space="preserve">Precious Stones and Cryſtals exceed Metalls in long laſting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9259" xml:space="preserve">but then they <lb/>grow dimmer and leſs Orient, if they be very old.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9260" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1098" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0280-14" xlink:href="note-0280-14a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9261" xml:space="preserve">It is obſerved, that Stones lying to wards the North do ſooner decay with age than <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0281-01a" xlink:href="note-0281-01"/> thoſe that lie to ward the South; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9262" xml:space="preserve">and that appears manifeſtly in Pyramids, and Churches, <lb/>and other ancient Buildings: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9263" xml:space="preserve">contrariwiſe, in Iron, that expoſed to the South, gathers <lb/>Ruſt ſooner, and that to the North later; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9264" xml:space="preserve">as may be ſeen in the Iron-bars of windows. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9265" xml:space="preserve">And no marvel, ſeeing in all putrefaction (as Ruſt is) Moiſture haſtens Diſſolutions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9266" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>in all ſimple Arefaction, Drineſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9267" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1099" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0281-01" xlink:href="note-0281-01a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9268" xml:space="preserve">In Vegetables, (we ſpeak of ſuch as are fell’d, not growing) the Stocks or Bodies of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0281-02a" xlink:href="note-0281-02"/> harder Trees, and the Timber made of them, laſt divers ages. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9269" xml:space="preserve">Butthen there is diffe-<lb/>rence in the be<unsure/>dies of Trees: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9270" xml:space="preserve">ſome Trees are in a manner ſpongy, as the Elder, in which <lb/>the pith in the midſt is ſoft, and the outward part harder; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9271" xml:space="preserve">but in Timber-trees, as the <lb/>Oak, the inner part (which they call Heart of Oak) laſteth longer.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9272" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1100" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0281-02" xlink:href="note-0281-02a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9273" xml:space="preserve">The Leaves, and Flowers, and Stalks of Plants are but of ſhort laſting, but diſſolve into <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0281-03a" xlink:href="note-0281-03"/> duſt, unleſs they putrefie: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9274" xml:space="preserve">the Roots are more durable.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9275" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1101" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0281-03" xlink:href="note-0281-03a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9276" xml:space="preserve">The Bones of living Creatures laſt long, as we may ſee it of mens bones in Charnel-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0281-04a" xlink:href="note-0281-04"/> houſes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9277" xml:space="preserve">Horns alſo laſt very long; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9278" xml:space="preserve">ſo do Teeth, as it is ſeen in Ivory, and the Sea-horſe <lb/>Teeth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9279" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1102" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0281-04" xlink:href="note-0281-04a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9280" xml:space="preserve">Hides alſo and Skins endure very long, as is evident in old Parchment-books: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9281" xml:space="preserve">Paper <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0281-05a" xlink:href="note-0281-05"/> likewiſe will laſt many ages, though notſolong as Parchment.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9282" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1103" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0281-05" xlink:href="note-0281-05a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9283" xml:space="preserve">Such things as have paſſed the Fire laſt long, as Glaſs and Bricks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9284" xml:space="preserve">likewiſe Fleſh and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0281-06a" xlink:href="note-0281-06"/> Fruits that have paſſed the Fire laſt longer than Raw: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9285" xml:space="preserve">and that not onely becauſe the <lb/>Baking in the Fire forbids putrefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9286" xml:space="preserve">but alſo becauſe the watry humour being drawn <lb/>forth, the oily humour ſupports it ſelf the longer.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9287" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1104" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0281-06" xlink:href="note-0281-06a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9288" xml:space="preserve">Water of all Liquors is ſooneſt drunk up by Air, contrariwiſe Oil lateſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9289" xml:space="preserve">which we <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0281-07a" xlink:href="note-0281-07"/> may ſee not onely in the Liquors themſelves, but in the Liquors mixt with other Bodies: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9290" xml:space="preserve">for Paper wet with water, and ſo getting ſome degree of tranſparency, will ſoon after <lb/>wax white, and loſe the tranſparency again, the watry vapour exhaling; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9291" xml:space="preserve">but oiled Paper <lb/>will keep the tranſparency long, the Oil not being apt to exhale: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9292" xml:space="preserve">And therefore they <lb/>that counterfeit mens hands, will lay the oiled paper upon the writing they mean to <lb/>counterfeit, and then aſſay to draw the lines.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9293" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1105" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0281-07" xlink:href="note-0281-07a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9294" xml:space="preserve">Gums all of them laſt very long; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9295" xml:space="preserve">the like do wax and Honey. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9296" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0281-08a" xlink:href="note-0281-08"/> </s> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1106" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0281-08" xlink:href="note-0281-08a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9297" xml:space="preserve">But the equal or unequal uſe of things conduceth no leſs to long laſting or ſhort laſt-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0281-09a" xlink:href="note-0281-09"/> ing, than the things themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9298" xml:space="preserve">for Timber, and Stones, and other Bodies, ſtanding con-<lb/>tinually in the water, or continually in the air, laſt longer than if they were ſometimes <lb/>wet, ſometimes dry: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9299" xml:space="preserve">and ſo Stones continue longer, if they be laid towards the ſame <lb/>coaſt of Heaven in the Building that they lay in the Mine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9300" xml:space="preserve">The ſameis of Plants re-<lb/>moved, if they be coaſted juſt as they were before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9301" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1107" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0281-09" xlink:href="note-0281-09a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1109" type="section" level="1" n="47"> <head xml:id="echoid-head69" xml:space="preserve">Obſervations.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9302" xml:space="preserve">L Et this be laid for a Foundation, which is moſt ſure, That there is in every Tangible <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0281-10a" xlink:href="note-0281-10"/> body a Spirit, or body Pneumatical, encloſed and covered with the Tangible parts; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9303" xml:space="preserve">And that from this Spirit is the beginning of all Diſſolution and Conſumption, ſo as <lb/>the Antidote againſt them is the detaining of this Spirit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9304" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1109" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0281-10" xlink:href="note-0281-10a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9305" xml:space="preserve">This Spirit is detained two ways: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9306" xml:space="preserve">either by a ſtreight Incloſure, as it were in a Pri-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0281-11a" xlink:href="note-0281-11"/> ſon: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9307" xml:space="preserve">or by a kind of free and voluntary Detention. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9308" xml:space="preserve">Again, this voluntary ſtay is <lb/>perſwaded two ways: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9309" xml:space="preserve">either if the Spirit it ſelf be not to moveable or eager to depart; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9310" xml:space="preserve">or if the external Air importune it not too much to come forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9311" xml:space="preserve">So then, two ſorts of <lb/>Subſtances are durable, Hard Subſtances, and Oily: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9312" xml:space="preserve">Hard Subſtance binds in the <lb/>Spirits cloſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9313" xml:space="preserve">Oily partly enticeth the Spirit to stay, partly is of that nature that it is <lb/>not importuned by Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9314" xml:space="preserve">for Air is conſubſtantial to Water, and Flame to Oil. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9315" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>touching Nature Durable and not Durable in Bodies Inanimate, thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9316" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1110" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0281-11" xlink:href="note-0281-11a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1112" type="section" level="1" n="48"> <head xml:id="echoid-head70" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9317" xml:space="preserve">HErbs of the colder ſort die yearly both in Root and Stalk; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9318" xml:space="preserve">as Lettice, Purſtane; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9319" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0281-12a" xlink:href="note-0281-12"/> alſo VVheat and all kind of Corn: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9320" xml:space="preserve">yet there are ſome cold Herbs which will laſt <pb o="4" file="0282" n="282" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> three or four years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9321" xml:space="preserve">as the Violet, Straw-berry, Burnet, Prim-roſe, and Sorrel. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9322" xml:space="preserve">But Borage <lb/>and Bugloſ@, which ſeem ſo alike when they are alive, differ in their deaths; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9323" xml:space="preserve">for Borage <lb/>will laſt but one year, Bugloſs will laſt more.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9324" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1112" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0281-12" xlink:href="note-0281-12a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9325" xml:space="preserve">But many hot Herbs bear their age and years better; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9326" xml:space="preserve">Hyßop, Thyme, Savory, Pot-mar-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0282-01a" xlink:href="note-0282-01"/> joram, Balm, Wormwood, Germander, Sage, and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9327" xml:space="preserve">Fennel dies yearly in the ſtalk, <lb/>buds again from the root: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9328" xml:space="preserve">but Pulſe and Sweet-marjoram can better endure age than <lb/>winter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9329" xml:space="preserve">for being ſet in a very warm place and wel-fenced, they will live more than <lb/>one year. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9330" xml:space="preserve">It is known, that a knot of H@ſſop twice a year ſhorn hath continued forty <lb/>years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9331" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1113" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0282-01" xlink:href="note-0282-01a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9332" xml:space="preserve">Buſhes and Shrubs live threeſcore years, and ſome double as much. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9333" xml:space="preserve">A Vine may at-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0282-02a" xlink:href="note-0282-02"/> tain to threeſcore years, and continue fruitful in the old age. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9334" xml:space="preserve">Roſe-mary well placed <lb/>will come alſo to threeſcore years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9335" xml:space="preserve">but white Thorn and Ivy endure above an hundred <lb/>years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9336" xml:space="preserve">As for the Bramble, the age thereof is not certainly known, becauſe bowing <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0282-1a" xlink:href="hd-0282-1"/> the head to the ground it gets new roots, ſo as you cannot diſtinguiſh the old from <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0282-1a" xlink:href="hd-0282-1"/> the new.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9337" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1114" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0282-02" xlink:href="note-0282-02a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0282-1" xlink:href="hd-0282-1a"/> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0282-1" xlink:href="hd-0282-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9338" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt great Trees the longeſt livers are the Oak, the Holm, Wild aſh, the Elm, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0282-03a" xlink:href="note-0282-03"/> the Beech-tree, the Cheſ-nut, the Plane-tree, Ficus Ruminalis, the Lote tree, the wild-<lb/>olive, the Palm-tree and the Mulberry-tree, Of theſe, ſome have come to the age of <lb/>eight hundred years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9339" xml:space="preserve">but the leaſt livers of them do attain to two hundred.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9340" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1115" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0282-03" xlink:href="note-0282-03a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9341" xml:space="preserve">But Trees Odorate, or that have ſweet woods, and Trees Rozennie, laſt longer in their <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0282-04a" xlink:href="note-0282-04"/> Woods or Timber than thoſe above-ſaid, but they are not ſo long-liv’d; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9342" xml:space="preserve">as the Cypreſs-<lb/>tree, Maple, Pine, Box, Juniper. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9343" xml:space="preserve">The Cedar being born out by the vaftneſs of his body, <lb/>lives well-near as long as the former.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9344" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1116" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0282-04" xlink:href="note-0282-04a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9345" xml:space="preserve">The Aſh, fertile and forward in bearing, reacheth to an hundred years and ſomewhat <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0282-05a" xlink:href="note-0282-05"/> better; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9346" xml:space="preserve">which alſo the Birch, Maple, and Sirvice-tree ſometimes do: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9347" xml:space="preserve">but the <lb/>Poplar, Lime-tree, Willow, and that which they call the Sycomore, and walnut-tree, live <lb/>not ſolong.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9348" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1117" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0282-05" xlink:href="note-0282-05a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9349" xml:space="preserve">The Apple-tree, Pear-tree, Plum-tree, Pomegranate-tree, Citron-tree, Medlar-tree, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0282-06a" xlink:href="note-0282-06"/> Black cherry-tree, Cherry-tree, may attain to fifty or ſixty years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9350" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially if they be <lb/>cleanſed from the Moſs wherewith ſome of them are cloathed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9351" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1118" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0282-06" xlink:href="note-0282-06a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9352" xml:space="preserve">Generally, greatneſs of body in trees, if other things be equal, hath ſome congruity <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0282-07a" xlink:href="note-0282-07"/> with length of life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9353" xml:space="preserve">ſo hath hardneſs of ſubſtance: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9354" xml:space="preserve">and trees bearing Maſt or Nuts are <lb/>commonly longer livers than trees bearing Fruit or Berries: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9355" xml:space="preserve">like wiſe trees putting forth <lb/>their leaves late, and ſhedding them late again, live longer than thoſe that are early <lb/>either in leaves or fruit: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9356" xml:space="preserve">the like is of wild-trees in compariſon of Orchard-trees And <lb/>laſtly, in the ſame kind, trees that bear a ſowr fruit out-live thoſe that bear a ſweet <lb/>fruit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9357" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1119" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0282-07" xlink:href="note-0282-07a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1121" type="section" level="1" n="49"> <head xml:id="echoid-head71" style="it" xml:space="preserve">An Obſervation.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9358" xml:space="preserve">ARiſtotle noted well the difference between Plants and living Creatures, in reſpect of <lb/>their Nouriſhment and Reparation: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9359" xml:space="preserve">Namely, that the bodies of living Creatures <lb/>are confined within certain bounds, and that after they be come to their full growth they <lb/>are continued and preſerved by Nouriſhment, but they put forth nothing new except Hair <lb/>and Nails, whish are counted for no better than Excrements; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9360" xml:space="preserve">ſo as the juice of living <lb/>creatures muſt of neceſſity ſooner wax old: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9361" xml:space="preserve">but in Trees, which put forth yearly new boughs, <lb/>new ſhoots, new leaves, and new fruits, it comes to paſs that all theſe parts in Trees are <lb/>once a year young and renewed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9362" xml:space="preserve">Now it being ſo, that whatſoever is freſh and young <lb/>draws the Nouriſhment more lively and chearfully to it than that which is decayed andold, <lb/>it happens withall, that the ſtock and body of the tree, through which the ſap paſſeth to the <lb/>branches, is refreſhed and cheared with a more bountiful and vigorous nouriſh ment in the <lb/>paſſage than otherwiſe it would have been. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9363" xml:space="preserve">And this appears manifest (though Ariſtotle <lb/>noted it not, neither hath be expreſſed theſe things ſo clearly and perſpicuouſly) in Hedges, <lb/>Copſes, and Pollards, when the plaſhing, ſhedding, or lopping comforteth the old ſtem or <lb/>ſtock, and maketh it more flouriſhing and longer-liv’d.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9364" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="5" file="0283" n="283" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1122" type="section" level="1" n="50"> <head xml:id="echoid-head72" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Deſiccation, Prohibiting of Deſiccation, and In-teneration of that which <lb/>is deſiccated and dried.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head73" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9365" xml:space="preserve">FIre and ſtrong Heats dry ſome things, and melt others.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9366" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">To the ſe-<lb/>cond Arti-<lb/>cle.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9367" xml:space="preserve">Limus ut bic dureſcit, & </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9368" xml:space="preserve">hæc ut Cera liqueſcit, Vno eodemque Igne? <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9369" xml:space="preserve">How this Clay is hardned, and how this wax is melted, with one and the ſame thing, <lb/>Fire? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9370" xml:space="preserve">It drieth Earth, Stones, wood, Cloth, and Skins, and whatſoever is not liquefiable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9371" xml:space="preserve"><lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0283-02a" xlink:href="note-0283-02"/> and it melteth Metalls, wax, Gums, Butter, Tallow, and the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9372" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1122" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-02" xlink:href="note-0283-02a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9373" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding, even in thoſe things which the fire melteth, if it be very vehement <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0283-03a" xlink:href="note-0283-03"/> and continueth, it doth at laſt dry them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9374" xml:space="preserve">For metal in a ſtrong fire, (Gold onely ex-<lb/>cepted) the volatile part being gone forth, will become leſs ponderous and more brit-<lb/>tle; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9375" xml:space="preserve">and thoſe oily and fat ſubſtances in the like fire will burn up, and be dried and <lb/>parched.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9376" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1123" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-03" xlink:href="note-0283-03a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9377" xml:space="preserve">Air, eſpecially open Air, doth manifeſtly dry, but not melt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9378" xml:space="preserve">as High-ways, and the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0283-04a" xlink:href="note-0283-04"/> upper part of the Earth, moiſtned with ſhowers, are dried; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9379" xml:space="preserve">linnen clothes waſhed, if they <lb/>be hang’<unsure/>d out in the air, are like wiſe dried; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9380" xml:space="preserve">herbs, and leaves, and flowers, laid forth in <lb/>the ſhade, are dried. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9381" xml:space="preserve">But much more ſuddenly doth the Air this, if it be either en-<lb/>lightned with the Sun-beams, (ſo that they cauſe no putrefaction) or if the air be ſtir-<lb/>red, as when the wind bloweth, or in rooms open on all ſides.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9382" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1124" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-04" xlink:href="note-0283-04a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9383" xml:space="preserve">Age moſt of all, but yet ſlo weſt of all, drieth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9384" xml:space="preserve">as in all bodies which (if they be not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0283-05a" xlink:href="note-0283-05"/> prevented by putrefaction) are drie with Age. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9385" xml:space="preserve">But age is nothing of it ſelf, being <lb/>onely the meaſure of time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9386" xml:space="preserve">that which cauſeth the effect is the native Spirit of bodies, <lb/>which ſucketh up the moiſture of the body, and then, together with it, flieth forth; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9387" xml:space="preserve">and the air ambient, which multiplieth it ſelf upon the native ſpirits and juices of the bo-<lb/>dy, and preyeth upon them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9388" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1125" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-05" xlink:href="note-0283-05a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9389" xml:space="preserve">Cold of all things moſt properly drieth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9390" xml:space="preserve">for drying is not cauſed but by Contraction; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9391" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0283-06a" xlink:href="note-0283-06"/> now contraction is the proper work of cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9392" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe we Men have heat in a high <lb/>degree, namely, that of Fire, but cold in a very low degree, no other than that of <lb/>VVinter, or perhaps of Ice, or of Snow, or of Nitre; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9393" xml:space="preserve">therefore the drying cauſed by <lb/>cold is but weak, and caſily reſolved. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9394" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding we ſee the ſurface of the earth <lb/>to be more dried by Froſt, or by March-winds, than by the Sun, ſe@ing the ſame wind both <lb/>licketh up the moiſture and afſecteth with coldneſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9395" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1126" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-06" xlink:href="note-0283-06a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9396" xml:space="preserve">Smoak is a drier;</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9397" xml:space="preserve">as in Bacon and Neats tongues which are hanged up in the chimneys: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9398" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0283-07a" xlink:href="note-0283-07"/> Perfumes of Olibanum, or Lignum Aloes, and the like, dry the Brain, and cure Catarrhs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9399" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1127" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-07" xlink:href="note-0283-07a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9400" xml:space="preserve">Salt, after ſome reaſonable continuance, drieth, not onely on the out-ſide, but in the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0283-08a" xlink:href="note-0283-08"/> inſide alſo; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9401" xml:space="preserve">as in Fleſh and Fiſh ſalted, which if they have continued any long time have <lb/>a manifeſt hardneſs within.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9402" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1128" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-08" xlink:href="note-0283-08a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9403" xml:space="preserve">Hot Gums applied to the skin dry and wrinkle it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9404" xml:space="preserve">and ſome aſtringent waters alſo do <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0283-09a" xlink:href="note-0283-09"/> the ſame.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9405" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1129" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-09" xlink:href="note-0283-09a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9406" xml:space="preserve">Spirit of ſtrong waters imitateth the fire in drying; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9407" xml:space="preserve">for it will both potch an Egg put <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0283-10a" xlink:href="note-0283-10"/> into it, and toaſt Bread.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9408" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1130" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-10" xlink:href="note-0283-10a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9409" xml:space="preserve">Powders dry like Sponges by drinking up the moiſture, as it is in Sand thrown upon <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0283-11a" xlink:href="note-0283-11"/> Lines new written: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9410" xml:space="preserve">alſo ſmoothneſs and politeneſs of bodies, (which ſuffer not the va-<lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0283-1a" xlink:href="hd-0283-1"/> pour of moiſture to go in by the pores) dry by accident, becauſe it expoſeth it to the <lb/>air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9411" xml:space="preserve">as it is ſeen in precious Stones, Looking glaſſes, and Blades of Swords, upon which if you <lb/>breath, you ſhall ſee at firſt a little miſt, but ſoon after it vaniſheth like a cloud. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9412" xml:space="preserve">And thus <lb/>much for Deſiccation or Drying.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9413" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1131" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-11" xlink:href="note-0283-11a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0283-1" xlink:href="hd-0283-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9414" xml:space="preserve">They uſe at this day in the East parts of Germany Garners in Vaults under gronnd, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0283-12a" xlink:href="note-0283-12"/> wherein they keep VVheat and other grains, laying a good quantity of ſtraw both under <lb/>the grains and about them, to ſave them from the dampneſs of the Vault; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9415" xml:space="preserve">by which <lb/>device they keep their grains 20 or 30 years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9416" xml:space="preserve">And this doth not onely preſerve them <lb/>from fuſtineſs, but (that which pertains more to the preſ@nt inquiſition) preſerves them <lb/>alſo in that greenneſs that they are fit and ſerviceable to make bread. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9417" xml:space="preserve">The ſame is reported <lb/>to have been in uſe in Cappadocia and Thracia, and ſome parts of Spain.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9418" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1132" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-12" xlink:href="note-0283-12a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9419" xml:space="preserve">The placing of Garners on the tops of houſes, with windows to wards the Eaſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0283-13a" xlink:href="note-0283-13"/> and North, is very commodious. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9420" xml:space="preserve">Some alſo make two Sollars, an upper and a lower; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9421" xml:space="preserve">and the upper Sollar hath an hole it, through which the grain continually deſcen-<lb/>deth, like ſand in an hour-glaſs, and after a few dayes they throw it up again <lb/>with ſhovels, that ſo it may be in continual motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9422" xml:space="preserve">Now it is to be noted <pb o="6" file="0284" n="284" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> that this doth not only prevent the Fuſtineſs, but conſerveth the Greeneſs, and ſlack-<lb/>@th the Deſiccation of it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9423" xml:space="preserve">The Cauſe is that which we noted before, That the diſcharge-<lb/>ing of the VVatry humour, which is quickned by the Motion and the VVinds, preſerves <lb/>the Oily humour in his being, which otherwiſe would fly out together with the VVatry <lb/>humour. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9424" xml:space="preserve">Alſo in ſome Mountains, where the Air is very pure, dead Carkaſes may be <lb/>keptfor a good while without any great decay.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9425" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1133" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0283-13" xlink:href="note-0283-13a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9426" xml:space="preserve">Fruits, as Pomegranates, Citrons, Apples, Pears, and the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9427" xml:space="preserve">alſo Flowers, as @oſes and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-01a" xlink:href="note-0284-01"/> Lilies, may be kept a long time in Earthen Veſſels cloſe ſtopped: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9428" xml:space="preserve">howſoever, they are <lb/>not free from the injuries of the outward Air, which will affect them with his unequal <lb/>Temper through the ſides of the Veſſel, as it is manifeſt in heat and cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9429" xml:space="preserve">Therefore <lb/>it will be good to ſtop the mouths of the Veſſels carefully, and to bury them within <lb/>the Earth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9430" xml:space="preserve">and it will be as good not to bury them in the Earth, but to ſink them in the <lb/>VVater, ſo as the place be ſhady, as in VVells or Cisterns placed within doors: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9431" xml:space="preserve">but thoſe <lb/>that be ſunk in Water will do better in Glaſs veſſels than in Earthen.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9432" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1134" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-01" xlink:href="note-0284-01a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9433" xml:space="preserve">Generally thoſe things which are kept in the Earth, or in Vaults under ground, or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-02a" xlink:href="note-0284-02"/> in the bottom of a Well, will preſerve their freſhneſs longer than thoſe things that are <lb/>kept above ground.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9434" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1135" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-02" xlink:href="note-0284-02a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9435" xml:space="preserve">They ſay it hath been obſerved, that in Conſervatories of snow (whether they were <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-03a" xlink:href="note-0284-03"/> in Mountains, in natural Pits, or in Wells made by Art for that purpoſe) an Apple, or <lb/>(heſ-nut, or Nut, by chance falling in, after many months, when the Snow hath <lb/>melted, hath been found in the Snow as freſh and fair as if it had been gathered the day <lb/>before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9436" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1136" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-03" xlink:href="note-0284-03a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9437" xml:space="preserve">Country people keep Cluſters of Grapes in Meal, which though it makes them leſs <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-04a" xlink:href="note-0284-04"/> pleaſant to the taſte, yet it preſerves their moiſture and freſhneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9438" xml:space="preserve">Alſo the harder ſort <lb/>of Fruits may be kept long, not onely in Meal, but alſo in Saw-duſt, and in heaps of Corn.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9439" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1137" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-04" xlink:href="note-0284-04a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9440" xml:space="preserve">There is an opinion held, that Bodies may be preſerved freſh in Liquors of their own <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-05a" xlink:href="note-0284-05"/> kind, as in their proper Menſtrua; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9441" xml:space="preserve">as, to keep Grapes in Wine, Olives in Oil.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9442" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1138" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-05" xlink:href="note-0284-05a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9443" xml:space="preserve">Pomegranates and Quinces are kept long, being lightly dipped in Sea-water or Salt-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-06a" xlink:href="note-0284-06"/> water, and ſoon after taken out again, and then dried in the open Air, ſo it be in the Shade.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9444" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1139" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-06" xlink:href="note-0284-06a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9445" xml:space="preserve">Bodies put in wine, Oil, or the Lees of Oil, keep long; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9446" xml:space="preserve">much more in Hony or Spirit <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-07a" xlink:href="note-0284-07"/> of Wine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9447" xml:space="preserve">but moſt of all, as ſome ſay, in Quick-ſilver.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9448" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1140" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-07" xlink:href="note-0284-07a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9449" xml:space="preserve">Fruits incloſed in Wax, Pitch, Plaiſter, Paſte, or any the like Caſe or Covering, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-08a" xlink:href="note-0284-08"/> keep green very long.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9450" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1141" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-08" xlink:href="note-0284-08a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9451" xml:space="preserve">It is manifeſt that Flies, Spiders, Ants, or the like ſmall Creatures, falling by chance into <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-09a" xlink:href="note-0284-09"/> Amber, or the Gums of Trees, and ſo finding a burial in them, do never after corrupt or <lb/>rot, although they be ſoft and tender Bodies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9452" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1142" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-09" xlink:href="note-0284-09a" xml:space="preserve">21.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9453" xml:space="preserve">Grapes are kept long by being hanged up in Bunches: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9454" xml:space="preserve">the ſame is of other Fruits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9455" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-10a" xlink:href="note-0284-10"/> there is a two-fold Commodity of this thing: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9456" xml:space="preserve">the one, that they are kept without preſ-<lb/>ſing or bruiſing, which they muſt needs ſuffer if they were laid upon any hard ſubſtance; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9457" xml:space="preserve">the other, that the Air doth encompaſs them on every ſide alike.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9458" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1143" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-10" xlink:href="note-0284-10a" xml:space="preserve">22.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9459" xml:space="preserve">It is obſerved that Putrefaction, no leſs than Deſiccation in Vegetablès, doth not begin <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-11a" xlink:href="note-0284-11"/> in every part alike, but chiefly in that part where, being alive, it did attract nouriſh-<lb/>ment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9460" xml:space="preserve">Therefore ſome adviſe to cover the ſtalks of Apples or other Fruits with Wax <lb/>or Pitch.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9461" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1144" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-11" xlink:href="note-0284-11a" xml:space="preserve">23.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9462" xml:space="preserve">Great Wieks of Candles or L<unsure/>amps do ſooner conſume the Tallow or Oil than leſſer <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-12a" xlink:href="note-0284-12"/> Wieks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9463" xml:space="preserve">alſo Wieks of Cotton ſooner than thoſe of Ruſh, or Straw, or ſmall Twigs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9464" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>in Staves of Torches, thoſe of Juniper or Firre ſooner than thoſe of Aſh: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9465" xml:space="preserve">likewiſe <lb/>Flame moved and fanned with the Wind ſooner than that which is ſtill: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9466" xml:space="preserve">And therefore <lb/>Candles ſet in a Lanthorn will laſt longer than in the open Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9467" xml:space="preserve">There is a Tradition, that <lb/>Lamps ſet in Sepulchres will laſt an ncredible time.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9468" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1145" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-12" xlink:href="note-0284-12a" xml:space="preserve">24.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9469" xml:space="preserve">The Nature alſo and Preparation of the Nouriſhment conduceth no leſs to the laſting <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-13a" xlink:href="note-0284-13"/> of Lamps and Candles, than the nature of the Flame; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9470" xml:space="preserve">for Wax will laſt longer than <lb/>Tallow, and Tallow a little wet longer than Tallow day, and Wax candles old made <lb/>longer than Wax-candles new made.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9471" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1146" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-13" xlink:href="note-0284-13a" xml:space="preserve">25.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9472" xml:space="preserve">Trees, if you ſtir the Earth about their Root every year, will continue leſs time; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9473" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0284-14a" xlink:href="note-0284-14"/> if once in four, or perhaps in ten years, much longer: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9474" xml:space="preserve">alſo cutting off the Suckers and <lb/>young Shoots will make them live the longer: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9475" xml:space="preserve">but Dunging them, or laying of Marl <lb/>about their Roots, or much Watering them, adds to their fertility, but cuts off from <lb/>their long laſting. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9476" xml:space="preserve">And thus much touching the Prohibiting of Deſiccation or Con-<lb/>ſumption.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9477" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1147" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0284-14" xlink:href="note-0284-14a" xml:space="preserve">26.</note> </div> <pb o="7" file="0285" n="285" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9478" xml:space="preserve">The Inteneration or making tender of that which is dried (which is the chief Mat-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0285-01a" xlink:href="note-0285-01"/> ter) affords but a ſmall number of Experiments. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9479" xml:space="preserve">And therefore ſome few Experiments <lb/>which are found in Living Creatures, and alſo in Man ſhall be joyned together.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9480" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1148" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-01" xlink:href="note-0285-01a" xml:space="preserve">27.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9481" xml:space="preserve">Bands of Willow, wherewith they uſe to binde Trees, laid in Water, grow more <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0285-02a" xlink:href="note-0285-02"/> flexible; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9482" xml:space="preserve">likewiſe they put Boughs of Birch (the ends of them) in Earthen Pots filled <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0285-1a" xlink:href="hd-0285-1"/> with Water, to keep them from withering; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9483" xml:space="preserve">and Bowls cleft with dryneſs, ſteep’d in <lb/>Water, cloſe again.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9484" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1149" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-02" xlink:href="note-0285-02a" xml:space="preserve">28.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0285-1" xlink:href="hd-0285-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9485" xml:space="preserve">Boots grown hard and obſtinate with age, by greaſing them before the Fire with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0285-03a" xlink:href="note-0285-03"/> Tallow, wax ſoft, or being onely held before the Fire get ſome ſoftneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9486" xml:space="preserve">Bladders and <lb/>Parchments hardned alſo become tender with warm Water, mixed with Tallow or any <lb/>Fat thing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9487" xml:space="preserve">but much the better, if they be a little chafed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9488" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1150" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-03" xlink:href="note-0285-03a" xml:space="preserve">29.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9489" xml:space="preserve">Trees grown very old, that have ſtood long without any culture, by digging and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0285-04a" xlink:href="note-0285-04"/> opening the Earth about the Roots of them, ſeem to grow young again, and put forth <lb/>young Branches.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9490" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1151" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-04" xlink:href="note-0285-04a" xml:space="preserve">30.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9491" xml:space="preserve">Old Draught Oxen worn out with labor, being taken from the yoak, and put into <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0285-05a" xlink:href="note-0285-05"/> freſh Paſture, will get young and tender fleſh again, inſomuch, that they will eat as freſh <lb/>and tender as a Steer.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9492" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1152" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-05" xlink:href="note-0285-05a" xml:space="preserve">31.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9493" xml:space="preserve">A ſtrict Emaciating Diet of Guaiacum, Bisket, and the like, (wherewith they uſe to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0285-06a" xlink:href="note-0285-06"/> cure the French-Pox, Old catarrhs, and ſome kinde of Dropſies) doth firſt bring men to <lb/>great poverty and leanneſs, by waſting the Juices and Humors of the Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9494" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>after they begin to be repaired again, ſeem manifeſtly more vigorous and young. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9495" xml:space="preserve">Nay, <lb/>and I am of opinion, that Emaciating Diſeaſes afterwards well cured, have advanced <lb/>many in the way of long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9496" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1153" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-06" xlink:href="note-0285-06a" xml:space="preserve">32.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1155" type="section" level="1" n="51"> <head xml:id="echoid-head74" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Obſervations.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9497" xml:space="preserve">MEn ſee clearly, like Owls, in the Night of their own Notions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9498" xml:space="preserve">but in Experience, as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0285-07a" xlink:href="note-0285-07"/> in the Day-light they wink and are but half ſighted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9499" xml:space="preserve">They speak much of the Ele-<lb/>mentary quality of Siccity or Drineſs, and of things Deſiccating, and of the Natural Periods <lb/>of Bodies, in which they are corrupted and conſumed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9500" xml:space="preserve">But mean while, either in the begin-<lb/>nings, or middle paſſages, or laſts acts of Deſiccation and Conſumption, they obſerve no-<lb/>thing that is of moment.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9501" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1155" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-07" xlink:href="note-0285-07a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9502" xml:space="preserve">Deſiccation or Conſumption in the proceſs thereof, is finiſhed by three Actions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9503" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0285-08a" xlink:href="note-0285-08"/> all th@ſe (as was ſaid before) have their original from the Native Spirit of Bodies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9504" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1156" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-08" xlink:href="note-0285-08a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9505" xml:space="preserve">The firſt Action is, the Attenuation of the Moiſture into Spirit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9506" xml:space="preserve">the ſecond is, the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0285-09a" xlink:href="note-0285-09"/> Iſſuing forth or flight of the Spirit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9507" xml:space="preserve">the third is, the Contraction of the groſſer parts of <lb/>the Body immediately after the Spirit iſſued forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9508" xml:space="preserve">And this laſt is, that Deſic@ation and <lb/>Induration which we chiefly bandle; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9509" xml:space="preserve">the former two conſume onely.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9510" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1157" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-09" xlink:href="note-0285-09a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9511" xml:space="preserve">Touching Attenuation, the matter is manifeſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9512" xml:space="preserve">For the Spirit which is incloſed in every <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0285-10a" xlink:href="note-0285-10"/> Tangible Body forgets not its nature, but whatſoever it meets withal in the Body (in which <lb/>it is incloſed) that it can digeſt and maſter, and turn into it ſelf, that it plainly alters and <lb/>ſubdues, and multiplies it ſelf upon it, and begets new Spirit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9513" xml:space="preserve">And this evicted by one proof, <lb/>inſtead of many; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9514" xml:space="preserve">for that thoſe things which are throughly dryed are leßened in their weight, <lb/>and become hollow, porous, and reſounding from within. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9515" xml:space="preserve">Now it is moſt certain, that the in-<lb/>ward Spirit of any thing, confers nothing to the weight, but rather lig'tens it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9516" xml:space="preserve">and there-<lb/>fore it muſt needs be, that the ſame Spirit hath turned into it the moiſture and juyce of the <lb/>Body which weighed before, by which means the weight is leſſened. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9517" xml:space="preserve">And this is the firſt <lb/>Action, the Attenuation of the Moiſture, and Converting it into Spirit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9518" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1158" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-10" xlink:href="note-0285-10a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9519" xml:space="preserve">The ſ@cond Action, which is the lſſuing forth or Flight of the Spirit, is as manifeſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0285-11a" xlink:href="note-0285-11"/> alſo. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9520" xml:space="preserve">For that iſſuing forth, when it is in throngs, is apparent even to the ſenſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9521" xml:space="preserve">in Vapors to <lb/>the ſight, in Odors to the ſmelling; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9522" xml:space="preserve">but if it iſſueth forth ſlowly, (as when a thing is decayed <lb/>by age) then it is not apparent to the ſenſe, but the matter is the ſame. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9523" xml:space="preserve">Again, where the <lb/>compoſure of the Body is either ſo ſtreight or ſo tenacious, that the Spirit can finde no pores or <lb/>paſſages by which to depart, then, in the ſtriving to get out, it drives before it the groſſer parts <lb/>of the Body, and protrudes them beyond the ſuperficies or ſurface of the Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9524" xml:space="preserve">as it is in the <lb/>ruſt of Metals, and mould of all Fat things. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9525" xml:space="preserve">And this is the ſecond Action, the Iſſuing <lb/>forth or Flight of the Spirit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9526" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1159" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-11" xlink:href="note-0285-11a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9527" xml:space="preserve">The third Action is ſomewhat more obſcure, but full as certain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9528" xml:space="preserve">that is, the Con-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0285-12a" xlink:href="note-0285-12"/> traction of the groſſer parts after the Spirit iſſued forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9529" xml:space="preserve">And this appears, firſt, in that <lb/>Bodies after the Spirit iſſued forth, do manifeſtly ſhrink, and fill a leſs room; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9530" xml:space="preserve">as it is in <pb o="8" file="0286" n="286" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> the Kernels of Nuts, which after they are dried, are too little for the Shells; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9531" xml:space="preserve">and in Beams <lb/>and Planchers of Houſes, which at firſt lay cloſetogether, but after they are dried, give; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9532" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>likewiſe in Bowls, which through drought, grow full of cranies, the parts of the Bowl con-<lb/>tracting themſelves together, and after contraction muſt needs be empty spaces. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9533" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, <lb/>It appears by the wrinkles of Bodies dryed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9534" xml:space="preserve">For the endeavor of contracting it ſelf is ſuch, <lb/>that by the contraction it brings the parts nearer together, and ſo lifts them up; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9535" xml:space="preserve">for what-<lb/>ſoever is contracted on the ſides, is lifted up in the midſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9536" xml:space="preserve">And this is to be ſeen in Papers <lb/>and old Parchments, and in the Skins of Living Creatures, and in the Coats of ſoft Cheeſes, <lb/>all which, with age, gatber wrinkles. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9537" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, This Contraction ſhews it ſelf moſt in thoſe <lb/>things, which by heat are not onely wrinkled, but ruffled, and plighted, and, as it were, rouled <lb/>together; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9538" xml:space="preserve">as it is in Papers, and Parchments, and Leaves, brought near the fire: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9539" xml:space="preserve">For Con-<lb/>traction by Age, which is more ſlow, commonly cauſeth wrinkles; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9540" xml:space="preserve">but Contraction by the <lb/>Fire, which is more ſpeedy, cauſeth plighting. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9541" xml:space="preserve">Now in moſt things where it comes not to <lb/>wrinkling or plighting, there is ſimple Contraction, and anguſtiation or ſtreightning, <lb/>and induration or hardning, and deſiccation, as was ſisewed in the firſt place. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9542" xml:space="preserve">But if the <lb/>iſſuing forth of the Spirit, and abſumption or waſte of the Moiſture be ſo great, that <lb/>there is not left body ſufficient to unite and contract it ſelſ, then of neceſſity Contraction <lb/>muſt ceaſe, and the Body becomeputrid, and nothing elſe but a little duſt cleaving together, <lb/>which with æ light touch is disperſed and falleth aſunder; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9543" xml:space="preserve">as it is in Bodies that are <lb/>rotten, and in Paper burnt, and Linnen made into Tinder, and Carkaſes embalmed after <lb/>many ages. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9544" xml:space="preserve">And this is the third Action, the Contraction of the groſſer parts after the <lb/>Spirit iſſueth forth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9545" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1160" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0285-12" xlink:href="note-0285-12a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9546" xml:space="preserve">It is to be noted, that Fire and Heat dry onely by accident; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9547" xml:space="preserve">for their proper work is to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0286-01a" xlink:href="note-0286-01"/> attenuate and dilate the Spirit and Moiſture; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9548" xml:space="preserve">and then it follows by accident, that the other <lb/>parts ſhould contract themſelves, either for the flying of Vacuum alone, or for ſome other <lb/>motion withal, whereof we now speak not.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9549" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1161" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0286-01" xlink:href="note-0286-01a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9550" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that Putrefaction taketh its original from the Native Spirit, no leſs then <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0286-02a" xlink:href="note-0286-02"/> Arefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9551" xml:space="preserve">but it goeth on afar different way: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9552" xml:space="preserve">For in Putrefaction, the Spirit is not ſimply <lb/>vapored forth, but being detained in part, works ſtrange garboils; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9553" xml:space="preserve">and the groſſer parts are <lb/>not ſo much locally contracted, as they congregate themſelves to parts of the ſame nature.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9554" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1162" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0286-02" xlink:href="note-0286-02a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1164" type="section" level="1" n="52"> <head xml:id="echoid-head75" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Length and Shortneß of Life in Living Creatures.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head76" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9555" xml:space="preserve">TOuching the Length and Shortneſs of Life in Living Creatures, the Information <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0286-03a" xlink:href="note-0286-03"/> which may be had, is but ſlender, Obſervation is negligent, and Tradition fabu-<lb/>lous. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9556" xml:space="preserve">In Tame Creatures, their degenerate life corrupteth them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9557" xml:space="preserve">in Wilde Crea-<lb/>tures, their expoſing to all weathers, often inter cepteth them Neither do thoſe things <lb/>which may ſeem concomitants, give any furtherance to this Information, (the greatneſs of <lb/>their Bodies, their time of Bearing in the Womb, the number of their young ones, the <lb/>time of their growth, and the reſt) inregard that theſe things are intermixed, and ſometimes <lb/>they concur, ſometimes they ſever.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9558" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1164" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0286-03" xlink:href="note-0286-03a" xml:space="preserve">To the firſt <lb/>Article.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9559" xml:space="preserve">Mans age (as far as can be gathered by any certain Narration) doth exceed the age <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0286-04a" xlink:href="note-0286-04"/> of all other Living Creatures, except it be of a very few onely; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9560" xml:space="preserve">and the Concomitants in <lb/>him are very equally diſpoſed, his ſtature and proportion large, his bearing in the womb <lb/>nine moneths, his fruit commonly one at a birth, his puberty at the age of fourteen years, <lb/>his time of growing till twenty.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9561" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1165" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0286-04" xlink:href="note-0286-04a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9562" xml:space="preserve">The Elephant by undoubted relation, exceeds the ordinary race of Mans life; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9563" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0286-05a" xlink:href="note-0286-05"/> but his bearing in the Womb the ſpace of Ten years, is fabulous; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9564" xml:space="preserve">of two years, or at <lb/>leaſt above one, is certain. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9565" xml:space="preserve">Now his bulk is great, his time of growth until the thirti-<lb/>eth year, his teeth exceeding hard; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9566" xml:space="preserve">neither hath it been obſerved, that his blood is the <lb/>coldeſt of all Creatures: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9567" xml:space="preserve">His age hath ſometimes reached to Two hundred years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9568" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1166" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0286-05" xlink:href="note-0286-05a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9569" xml:space="preserve">Lions are accounted long livers, becauſe many of them have been found Toothleſs, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0286-06a" xlink:href="note-0286-06"/> a ſign not ſo certain, for that may be cauſed by their ſtrong breath.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9570" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1167" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0286-06" xlink:href="note-0286-06a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9571" xml:space="preserve">The Bear is a great ſleeper, a dull beaſt, and given to eaſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9572" xml:space="preserve">and yet not noted <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0286-07a" xlink:href="note-0286-07"/> <pb o="9" file="0287" n="287" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> for long life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9573" xml:space="preserve">nay, he hath this ſign of ſhort life, that his bearing in the womb is but <lb/>ſhort, ſcarce full forty days.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9574" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1168" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0286-07" xlink:href="note-0286-07a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9575" xml:space="preserve">The Fox ſeems to be well diſpoſed in many things for long life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9576" xml:space="preserve">he is well skinned, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-01a" xlink:href="note-0287-01"/> feeds on fleſh, lives in Dens; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9577" xml:space="preserve">and yet he is noted not to have that property. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9578" xml:space="preserve">Certainly <lb/>he is a kind of Dog, and that kind is but ſhort-liv’d.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9579" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1169" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-01" xlink:href="note-0287-01a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9580" xml:space="preserve">The Camel is a long liver, a lean Creature, and ſinewy, ſo that he doth ordinarily <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-02a" xlink:href="note-0287-02"/> attain to fifty, and ſometimes to an hundred years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9581" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1170" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-02" xlink:href="note-0287-02a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9582" xml:space="preserve">The Horſe lives but to a moderate age, ſcarce to forty years, his ordinary period <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-03a" xlink:href="note-0287-03"/> is twenty years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9583" xml:space="preserve">but perhaps he is beholden for this ſhortneſs of life to Man; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9584" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>we have now no Horſes of the Sun, that live freely, and at pleaſure, in good paſtures. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9585" xml:space="preserve">Not withſtanding the Horſe grows till he be ſix years old, and is able for generation <lb/>in his old age. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9586" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, the Mare goeth longer with her young one than a woman, <lb/>and brings forth, two at a burthen more rarely. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9587" xml:space="preserve">The Aſs lives commonly to the Horſe’s <lb/>age; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9588" xml:space="preserve">but the Mule out-lives them both.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9589" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1171" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-03" xlink:href="note-0287-03a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9590" xml:space="preserve">The Hart is famous amongſt men for long life, yet not upon any relation that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-04a" xlink:href="note-0287-04"/> is undoubted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9591" xml:space="preserve">They tell of a certain Hart that was found with a Collar about his neck, <lb/>and that Collar hidden with Fat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9592" xml:space="preserve">The long life of the Hart is the leſs credible, be-<lb/>cauſe he comes to his perfection at the fifth year; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9593" xml:space="preserve">and not long aſter his Horns <lb/>(which he ſheds and renews yearly) grow more narrow at the Root, and leſs <lb/>branched.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9594" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1172" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-04" xlink:href="note-0287-04a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9595" xml:space="preserve">The Dog is but a ſhort liver, he exceeds not the age of twenty years, and for the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-05a" xlink:href="note-0287-05"/> moſt part lives not to fourteen years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9596" xml:space="preserve">a Creature of the hotteſt temper, and living in ex-<lb/>treams; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9597" xml:space="preserve">for he is commonly either in vehement motion, or ſleeping: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9598" xml:space="preserve">beſides, the <lb/>Bitch bringeth forth many at a Burden, and goeth nine weeks.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9599" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1173" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-05" xlink:href="note-0287-05a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9600" xml:space="preserve">The Ox like wiſe, for the greatneſs of his body and ſtrength, is but a ſhort liver, about <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-06a" xlink:href="note-0287-06"/> ſome ſixteen years, and the Males live longer than the Females; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9601" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding they <lb/>bear uſually but one at a burden, and go nine months: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9602" xml:space="preserve">a Creature dull, fleſhy, and ſoon <lb/>fatted, and living onely upon Herby ſubſtances, without Grain.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9603" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1174" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-06" xlink:href="note-0287-06a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9604" xml:space="preserve">The Sheep ſeldom lives to ten years, though he be a creature of a moderate ſize, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-07a" xlink:href="note-0287-07"/> excellently clad; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9605" xml:space="preserve">and, that which may ſeem a wonder, being a creature with ſo little <lb/>a Gall, yet he hath the moſt curled Coat of any other, for the Hair of no Creature is ſo <lb/>much curled as Wool is. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9606" xml:space="preserve">The Rams generate not before the third year, and continue <lb/>able for generation until the eighth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9607" xml:space="preserve">The Ews bear young as long as they live. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9608" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>Sheep is a diſeaſed Creature, and rarely lives to his full age.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9609" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1175" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-07" xlink:href="note-0287-07a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9610" xml:space="preserve">The Goat lives to the ſame age with the Sheep, and is not much unlike in other <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-08a" xlink:href="note-0287-08"/> things; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9611" xml:space="preserve">though he be a Creature more nimble, and of ſomewhat a firmer fleſh, and <lb/>ſo ſhould be longer-liv’d; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9612" xml:space="preserve">but then he is much more laſcivious, and that ſhortens his <lb/>life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9613" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1176" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-08" xlink:href="note-0287-08a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9614" xml:space="preserve">The Sow lives to fifteen years, ſometimes to twenty: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9615" xml:space="preserve">and though it be a Creature <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-09a" xlink:href="note-0287-09"/> of the moiſteſt fleſh, yet that ſeems to make nothing to Length of Life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9616" xml:space="preserve">Of the Wild <lb/>Boar or Sow we have nothing certain.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9617" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1177" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-09" xlink:href="note-0287-09a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9618" xml:space="preserve">The Cat’s age is betwixt ſix and ten years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9619" xml:space="preserve">a creature nimble and full of ſpirit, whoſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-10a" xlink:href="note-0287-10"/> ſeed (as Ælian reports) burneth the Female; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9620" xml:space="preserve">whereupon it is ſaid, That the Cat con-<lb/>ceives with pain, and brings forth with eaſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9621" xml:space="preserve">A Creature ravenous in eating, rather <lb/>ſwallowing down his meat whole than feeding.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9622" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1178" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-10" xlink:href="note-0287-10a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9623" xml:space="preserve">Hares and Conies attain ſcarce to ſeven years, being both Creatures generative, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-11a" xlink:href="note-0287-11"/> with young ones of ſeveral conceptions in their bellies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9624" xml:space="preserve">In this they are unlike, that <lb/>the Coney lives under ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9625" xml:space="preserve">and the Hare above ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9626" xml:space="preserve">and again, that the Hare <lb/>is of a more duskiſh fleſh.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9627" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1179" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-11" xlink:href="note-0287-11a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9628" xml:space="preserve">Birds for the ſize of their bodies are much leſſer than Beaſts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9629" xml:space="preserve">for an Eagle or Swan <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-12a" xlink:href="note-0287-12"/> is but a ſmall thing in compariſon of an ox or Horſe, and ſo is an Eſtrich to an Ele-<lb/>phant.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9630" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1180" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-12" xlink:href="note-0287-12a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9631" xml:space="preserve">Birds are excellently well-clad: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9632" xml:space="preserve">for Feathers, for warmth and cloſe ſitting to the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-13a" xlink:href="note-0287-13"/> body, exceed Wooll and Hairs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9633" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1181" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-13" xlink:href="note-0287-13a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9634" xml:space="preserve">Birds, though they hatch many young ones together, yet they bear them not all in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-14a" xlink:href="note-0287-14"/> their bodies at once, but lay their Eggs by turns, whereby their Fruit hath the more <lb/>plentiful nouriſh ment whilſt it is in their bodies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9635" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1182" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-14" xlink:href="note-0287-14a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9636" xml:space="preserve">Birds chew little or nothing, but their meat is found whole in their crops, notwith-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0287-15a" xlink:href="note-0287-15"/> ſtanding they will break the ſhells of Fruits, and pick out the Kernels: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9637" xml:space="preserve">they are thought <lb/>to be of a very hot and ſtrong concoction.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9638" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1183" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0287-15" xlink:href="note-0287-15a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note> </div> <pb o="10" file="0288" n="288" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9639" xml:space="preserve">The motion of Birds in their flying is a mixt motion, conſiſting of a moving <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-01a" xlink:href="note-0288-01"/> of the limbs, and of a kind of carriage; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9640" xml:space="preserve">which is the moſt wholſome kind of Ex-<lb/>erciſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9641" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1184" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-01" xlink:href="note-0288-01a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9642" xml:space="preserve">Ariſtotle noted well touching the generation of Birds, (but he transferred it ill to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-02a" xlink:href="note-0288-02"/> other living Creatures) that the ſeed of the Male confers leſs to generation than the <lb/>Female, but that it rather affords Activity than Matter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9643" xml:space="preserve">ſo that fruitful Eggs and un-<lb/>fruitful Eggs are hardly diſtinguiſhed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9644" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1185" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-02" xlink:href="note-0288-02a" xml:space="preserve">21.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9645" xml:space="preserve">Birds (almoſt all of them) come to their full growth the firſt year, or a little after. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9646" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-03a" xlink:href="note-0288-03"/> It is true, that their Feathers in ſome kinds, and their Bills in others, ſhew their years, <lb/>but for the growth of their Bodies it is not ſo.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9647" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1186" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-03" xlink:href="note-0288-03a" xml:space="preserve">22.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9648" xml:space="preserve">The Eagle is accounted a long liver, yet his years are not ſet down; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9649" xml:space="preserve">and it is alledged <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-04a" xlink:href="note-0288-04"/> as a ſign of his long life, that he caſts his Bill, whereby he grows young again: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9650" xml:space="preserve">from <lb/>whence comes that old Proverb, The old age of an Eagle. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9651" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding perchance <lb/>the matter may be thus, That the renewing of the Eagle doth not caſt his bill, but the <lb/>caſting of his bill is the renewing ofthe Eagle, for after that his bill is grown to a great <lb/>crookedneſs, the Eagle feeds with much difficulty.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9652" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1187" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-04" xlink:href="note-0288-04a" xml:space="preserve">23.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9653" xml:space="preserve">Vultures are alſo affirmed to be long livers, inſomuch that they extend their life <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-05a" xlink:href="note-0288-05"/> well near to an hundred years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9654" xml:space="preserve">Kites likewiſe, and ſo all Birds that feed upon fleſh, <lb/>and Birds of prey live long. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9655" xml:space="preserve">As for Hawks, becauſe they lead a degenerate and ſervile <lb/>life for the delight of men, the term of their natural life is not certainly known: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9656" xml:space="preserve">not-<lb/>withſtanding amongſt Mewed Hawks ſome have been found to have lived thirty years, and <lb/>amongſt u<unsure/>ild Hawks forty years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9657" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1188" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-05" xlink:href="note-0288-05a" xml:space="preserve">24.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9658" xml:space="preserve">The Raven likewiſe is reported to live long, ſometimes to an hundred years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9659" xml:space="preserve">he <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-06a" xlink:href="note-0288-06"/> feeds on Carrion, and flies not often, but rather is a ſedentry and malanchollick Bird, <lb/>and hath very black fleſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9660" xml:space="preserve">But the crow, like unto him in moſt things, (except in <lb/>greatneſs and voice) lives not altogether ſolong, and yet is reckoned amongſt the long <lb/>livers.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9661" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1189" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-06" xlink:href="note-0288-06a" xml:space="preserve">25.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9662" xml:space="preserve">The Swan is certainly found to be a long liver, and exceeds not unfrequently an <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-07a" xlink:href="note-0288-07"/> hundred years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9663" xml:space="preserve">Hc is a Bird excellently plumed, a feeder upon fiſh, and is always car-<lb/>ried, and that in running waters.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9664" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1190" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-07" xlink:href="note-0288-07a" xml:space="preserve">26.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9665" xml:space="preserve">The Gooſe alſo may paſs amongſt the long livers, though his food be commonly <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-08a" xlink:href="note-0288-08"/> graſs, and ſuch kind of nouriſhment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9666" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially the Wild-Gooſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9667" xml:space="preserve">whereupon this <lb/>Proverb grew amongſt the Germans, Magis ſenex quam Anſer nivalis, Older than a <lb/>Wild Gooſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9668" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1191" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-08" xlink:href="note-0288-08a" xml:space="preserve">27.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9669" xml:space="preserve">Storks muſt needs be long livers, if that be true which was anciently obſerved of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-09a" xlink:href="note-0288-09"/> them, that they never came to Thebes, becauſe that City was often ſacked. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9670" xml:space="preserve">This if it <lb/>were ſo, then either they muſt have the knowledge of more ages than one, or elſe <lb/>the old ones muſt tell their young the Hiſtory. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9671" xml:space="preserve">But there is nothing more frequent than <lb/>Fables.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9672" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1192" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-09" xlink:href="note-0288-09a" xml:space="preserve">28.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9673" xml:space="preserve">For Fables do ſo abound touching the Phœnix, that the truth is utterly loſt if <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-10a" xlink:href="note-0288-10"/> any ſuch Bird there be. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9674" xml:space="preserve">As for that which was ſo much admired, That ſhe was <lb/>ever ſeen abroad with a great troop of Birds about her, it is no ſuch wonder; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9675" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>the ſame is uſually ſeen about an Owl flying in the day-time, or a Parrot let out of a <lb/>Cage.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9676" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1193" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-10" xlink:href="note-0288-10a" xml:space="preserve">29.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9677" xml:space="preserve">The Parro hath been certainly known to have lived threeſcore years in England, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-11a" xlink:href="note-0288-11"/> how old ſoever he was before he was brought over: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9678" xml:space="preserve">a Bird eating almoſt all kind of <lb/>meats, chewing his meat, and renewing his bill; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9679" xml:space="preserve">likewiſe curſt and miſchievous, and of <lb/>a black fleſh.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9680" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1194" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-11" xlink:href="note-0288-11a" xml:space="preserve">30.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9681" xml:space="preserve">The Peacock lives twenty years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9682" xml:space="preserve">but he comes not forth with his Argus Eyes before <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-12a" xlink:href="note-0288-12"/> he be three years old; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9683" xml:space="preserve">a Bird ſlow of pace, having whitiſh flew.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9684" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1195" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-12" xlink:href="note-0288-12a" xml:space="preserve">31.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9685" xml:space="preserve">The Dunghill-Cock is venerious, martial, and but of a ſhort life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9686" xml:space="preserve">a crank Bird, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-13a" xlink:href="note-0288-13"/> having alſo white fleſh.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9687" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1196" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-13" xlink:href="note-0288-13a" xml:space="preserve">32.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9688" xml:space="preserve">The Indian-Cock, commonly called the Turkey-Cock, lives not much longer than <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-14a" xlink:href="note-0288-14"/> the Dunghill-Cock: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9689" xml:space="preserve">an angry Bird, and hath exceeding white fleſh.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9690" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1197" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-14" xlink:href="note-0288-14a" xml:space="preserve">33.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9691" xml:space="preserve">The Ring-Doves are of the longeſt ſort of livers, inſomuch that they attain ſome-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-15a" xlink:href="note-0288-15"/> times to fifty years of age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9692" xml:space="preserve">an aiery Bird, and both builds and ſits on high. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9693" xml:space="preserve">But Doves <lb/>and Turtles are but ſhort-liv’d, not exceeding eight years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9694" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1198" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-15" xlink:href="note-0288-15a" xml:space="preserve">34.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9695" xml:space="preserve">But Pheaſants and Partiges may live to ſix<unsure/>teen years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9696" xml:space="preserve">They are great breeders, but <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0288-16a" xlink:href="note-0288-16"/> not ſo white of fleſh as the ordinary Pullen.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9697" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1199" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-16" xlink:href="note-0288-16a" xml:space="preserve">35.</note> </div> <pb o="11" file="0289" n="289" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9698" xml:space="preserve">The Black bird is reported to be, amongſt the leſſer birds, one of the longeſt livers; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9699" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-01a" xlink:href="note-0289-01"/> an unhappy bird, and a good ſinger.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9700" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1200" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-01" xlink:href="note-0289-01a" xml:space="preserve">36.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9701" xml:space="preserve">The Sparrow is noted to be of a very short life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9702" xml:space="preserve">and it is imputed in the Males to their <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-02a" xlink:href="note-0289-02"/> laſciviouſneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9703" xml:space="preserve">But the Linnet, no bigger in body than the Sparrow, hath been obſerved <lb/>to have lived twenty years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9704" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1201" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-02" xlink:href="note-0289-02a" xml:space="preserve">37.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9705" xml:space="preserve">Of the Eſtrich we have nothing certain: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9706" xml:space="preserve">thoſe that were kept here have been ſoun-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-03a" xlink:href="note-0289-03"/> fortunate, that no long life appeared by them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9707" xml:space="preserve">Of the bird Ibis we find onely that he <lb/>liveth long, but his years are not recorded.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9708" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1202" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-03" xlink:href="note-0289-03a" xml:space="preserve">38.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9709" xml:space="preserve">The age of Fiſhes is more uncertain than that of terreſtrial Creatures, becauſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-04a" xlink:href="note-0289-04"/> living under the water they are the leſs obſerved: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9710" xml:space="preserve">many of them breath not, by which <lb/>means their vital ſpirit is more cloſed in; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9711" xml:space="preserve">and therefore though they receive ſome re-<lb/>frigeration by their Gills, yet that refrigeration is not ſo continual as when it is by <lb/>breathing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9712" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1203" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-04" xlink:href="note-0289-04a" xml:space="preserve">39.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9713" xml:space="preserve">They are free from the Deſiccation and Depredation of the Air ambient, becauſe they <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-05a" xlink:href="note-0289-05"/> live in the water: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9714" xml:space="preserve">yet there is no doubt but the water ambient, and piercing, and received <lb/>into the pores of the body, doth more hurt to long life than the Air doth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9715" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1204" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-05" xlink:href="note-0289-05a" xml:space="preserve">40.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9716" xml:space="preserve">It is affirmed too that their blood is not warm. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9717" xml:space="preserve">Some of them are great devourers, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-06a" xlink:href="note-0289-06"/> even of their own kind. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9718" xml:space="preserve">Their fleſh is ſofter and more tender than that of terreſtrial <lb/>creatures: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9719" xml:space="preserve">they grow exceedingly fat, inſomuch that an incredible quantity of Oyl will <lb/>be extracted out of one Wh<unsure/>ale.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9720" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1205" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-06" xlink:href="note-0289-06a" xml:space="preserve">41.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9721" xml:space="preserve">Dolphins are reported to live about thirty years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9722" xml:space="preserve">of which thing a trial was taken in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-07a" xlink:href="note-0289-07"/> ſome of them by cutting off their tails: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9723" xml:space="preserve">they grow untill ten years of age.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9724" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1206" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-07" xlink:href="note-0289-07a" xml:space="preserve">42.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9725" xml:space="preserve">That which they report of ſome Fiſhes is ſtrange, that after a certain age their bodies <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-08a" xlink:href="note-0289-08"/> will waſte and grow very ſlender, onely their head and tail retaining their former <lb/>greatneſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9726" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1207" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-08" xlink:href="note-0289-08a" xml:space="preserve">43.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9727" xml:space="preserve">There were found in Cæſar’s Fiſh ponds Lampreys to have lived threeſcore years: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9728" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-09a" xlink:href="note-0289-09"/> they were grown ſo familiar with long uſe, that craſſus the Orator ſolemnly lamented <lb/>one of them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9729" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1208" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-09" xlink:href="note-0289-09a" xml:space="preserve">44.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9730" xml:space="preserve">The Pike amongſt Fishes living in fresh water is found to laſt longeſt, ſometimes to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-10a" xlink:href="note-0289-10"/> forty years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9731" xml:space="preserve">he is a Ravener, of a flesh ſome what dry and firm.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9732" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1209" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-10" xlink:href="note-0289-10a" xml:space="preserve">45.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9733" xml:space="preserve">But the Carp, Bream, Tench, Eel, and the like, are not held to live above ten <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-11a" xlink:href="note-0289-11"/> years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9734" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1210" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-11" xlink:href="note-0289-11a" xml:space="preserve">46.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9735" xml:space="preserve">Salmons are quick of growth, short of life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9736" xml:space="preserve">ſoare Trouts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9737" xml:space="preserve">but the Pearch is ſlow of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-12a" xlink:href="note-0289-12"/> growth, long of life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9738" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1211" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-12" xlink:href="note-0289-12a" xml:space="preserve">47.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9739" xml:space="preserve">Touching that monſtrous bulk of the Whale or Ork, how long it is weiled by vital <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-13a" xlink:href="note-0289-13"/> ſpirit, we have received nothing certain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9740" xml:space="preserve">neither yet touching the Sea-calf, and Sea-hog, <lb/>and other innumerable Fiſhes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9741" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1212" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-13" xlink:href="note-0289-13a" xml:space="preserve">48.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9742" xml:space="preserve">Crocodiles are reported to be exceeding long-liv’d, and are famous for the time of their <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-14a" xlink:href="note-0289-14"/> growth, for that they, amongſt all other Creatures, are thought to grow during their <lb/>whole life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9743" xml:space="preserve">They are of thoſe Creatures that lay Eggs, ravenous, cruel, and well-fenced <lb/>againſt the waters, Touching the other kinds of Shell-fiſh, we find nothing certain how <lb/>long they live.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9744" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1213" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-14" xlink:href="note-0289-14a" xml:space="preserve">49.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1215" type="section" level="1" n="53"> <head xml:id="echoid-head77" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Obſervations.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9745" xml:space="preserve">TO find out a Rule touching Length and Shortneſs of Life in Living Creatures is very <lb/>difſicult, by reaſon of the negligence of Obſervations, and the intermixing of Cauſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9746" xml:space="preserve">A <lb/>few things we will ſet down.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9747" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9748" xml:space="preserve">There are more kinds of Birds found to be long liv’d than of Beaſts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9749" xml:space="preserve">as the Eagle, the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0289-15a" xlink:href="note-0289-15"/> Vulture, the Kite, the Pelican, the Raven, the Crow, the Swan, the Gooſe, the Stork, the <lb/>Crane, the Birdcalled the Ibis, the Parrot, the Ring dove, with the reſt, though they come <lb/>to their full growth within a year, and are leſs of bodies: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9750" xml:space="preserve">ſurely their cloathing is excellent <lb/>good againſt the diſtemper atures of the weather; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9751" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, living for the moſt part in the <lb/>open Air, they are like the Inhabitants of pure Mountains, which are long-liv’d. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9752" xml:space="preserve">Again, <lb/>their Motion, which (as I elſe-where ſaid) is a mixt Motion, compounded of a moving of <lb/>their Limbs and of a carriage in the Air, doth leſs weary and wear them, and’tis more whol-<lb/>ſome. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9753" xml:space="preserve">Neither do they ſuffer any compreſſion or want of nouriſhmentin their mother’s bel-<lb/>lies, becauſe the Eggs are laid by turns. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9754" xml:space="preserve">But the chiefeſt cauſe of all I take to be this, that <lb/>Birds are made more of the ſubſtance of the Mother than of the Father, whereby their Spirits <lb/>are not ſo eager and hot.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9755" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1215" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0289-15" xlink:href="note-0289-15a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <pb o="12" file="0290" n="290" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9756" xml:space="preserve">It may be a Poſition, that Creatures which partake more of the ſubſtance of their Mother <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0290-01a" xlink:href="note-0290-01"/> than of their Father are longer-liv’d, as Birds are; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9757" xml:space="preserve">which was ſaid before Alſo that thoſe <lb/>which have a longer time of bearing in the womb, do partake more of the ſubſtance of their <lb/>Mother, leſs of the Father, and ſo are longer-liv’d: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9758" xml:space="preserve">Inſomuch that I am of opinion, that even <lb/>among ſt Men, (which I have noted in ſome) thoſe that reſemble their Mothers moſt are <lb/>longeſt-liv’d; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9759" xml:space="preserve">and ſo are the Children of Oldmen begotten of young V Vives, if the Fathers be <lb/>ſound, not diſeaſed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9760" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1216" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0290-01" xlink:href="note-0290-01a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9761" xml:space="preserve">The firſt breeding of Creatures is ever material, either to their hurt or benefit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9762" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0290-02a" xlink:href="note-0290-02"/> therefore it ſtands with reaſon, that the leſſer Compreſſion, and the more liberal Alimenta-<lb/>tion of the Young one in the womb, ſhould confer much to Long Life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9763" xml:space="preserve">Now this happens <lb/>when either the young ones are brought forth ſucceſſively; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9764" xml:space="preserve">as in Birds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9765" xml:space="preserve">or when they are ſingle <lb/>Births, as in Creatures bearing but one at a Burthen</s> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1217" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0290-02" xlink:href="note-0290-02a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9766" xml:space="preserve">But long Bearing in the Womb makes for Length of Life three ways. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9767" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, for that the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0290-03a" xlink:href="note-0290-03"/> young one partakes more of the ſubſtance of the Mother, as hath been ſaid. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9768" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, that <lb/>it comes forth more ſtrong and able. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9769" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, that it undergoes the predatory force of the Air <lb/>later, Beſides, it ſhews that Nature intendeth to finiſb her periods by larger Circles. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9770" xml:space="preserve">Now <lb/>though Oxen and Sheep, which are born in the womb about ſix months, are but ſhort-liv’d, that <lb/>happens for other cauſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9771" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1218" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0290-03" xlink:href="note-0290-03a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9772" xml:space="preserve">Feeders upon Graſs and mere Herbs are but ſoort livers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9773" xml:space="preserve">and Creatures feeding upon <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0290-04a" xlink:href="note-0290-04"/> Fleſh, or Seeds, or Fruits, long livers, as ſome Birds are. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9774" xml:space="preserve">As for Harts, which are long-liv’d, <lb/>they take the one half of their meat (as men uſe to ſay) from above their heads; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9775" xml:space="preserve">and the <lb/>Gooſe, beſides Graſs, findeth ſomething in the water, and stubble to feed upon.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9776" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1219" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0290-04" xlink:href="note-0290-04a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9777" xml:space="preserve">u e ſuppoſe that a good Cloathing of the Body maketh much to long life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9778" xml:space="preserve">for it fenceth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0290-05a" xlink:href="note-0290-05"/> and armeth againſt the intemper ances of the Air, which do wonderfully aſſail and decay the <lb/>body: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9779" xml:space="preserve">which benefit Birds eſpecially have. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9780" xml:space="preserve">Now that Sheep, which have ſo good Ft<unsure/>eeces, <lb/>ſhould be ſo ſhort-liv’d, that is to be imputed to Diſeaſes, where of that Creature is full, and to <lb/>the bare eating of Graſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9781" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1220" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0290-05" xlink:href="note-0290-05a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9782" xml:space="preserve">The ſeat of the Spirits, without doubt, is principally the Head; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9783" xml:space="preserve">which though it be uſual-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0290-06a" xlink:href="note-0290-06"/> ly underſtood of the Animal Spirits onely, yet this is all in all. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9784" xml:space="preserve">Again, it is not to be doubted <lb/>but the Spirits do moſt of all waſte and prey upon the Body, ſo that when they are either in <lb/>greater plenty, or in greater Inflamation and Acrimony, there the life is much ſhortned. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9785" xml:space="preserve">And therefore I conceive a great cauſe of long life in Birds to be the ſmalneſs of their <lb/>Heads in compariſon of their Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9786" xml:space="preserve">for even Men which have very great Heads I ſuppoſe <lb/>to be the ſhorter livers.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9787" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1221" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0290-06" xlink:href="note-0290-06a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9788" xml:space="preserve">I am of opinion that Carriage is of all other motions the moſt helpful to long life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9789" xml:space="preserve">which I <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0290-07a" xlink:href="note-0290-07"/> alſo noted before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9790" xml:space="preserve">Now there are carried Water-fowls upon the water, as Swans; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9791" xml:space="preserve">all Birds <lb/>in their flying, but with a ſtrong endeavour of their limbs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9792" xml:space="preserve">and Fiſhes, of the length of <lb/>wh<unsure/>oſe live we have no certainty.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9793" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1222" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0290-07" xlink:href="note-0290-07a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9794" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe Creatures which are long before they come to their perfection (not ſpeaking of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0290-08a" xlink:href="note-0290-08"/> growth in ſtature onely, but of other ſteps to maturity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9795" xml:space="preserve">as Man puts forth, firſt, his Teeth, <lb/>next the ſigns of Puberty, then his beard, and ſo forward) are long liv’d, for it ſhews that <lb/>Nature finiſhed her Periods by larger Circles,</s> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1223" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0290-08" xlink:href="note-0290-08a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9796" xml:space="preserve">Milder Creatures are not long-liv’d, as the Sheep and Dove; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9797" xml:space="preserve">for Choler is as the whet-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0290-09a" xlink:href="note-0290-09"/> ſtone and Spur to many Functions in the Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9798" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1224" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0290-09" xlink:href="note-0290-09a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9799" xml:space="preserve">Creatures whoſe Fleſh is more duskiſh are longer-liv’d than thoſe that have white Fleſh; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9800" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0290-10a" xlink:href="note-0290-10"/> for it ſheweth that the juice of the body is more firm, and leſs apt to diſſipate.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9801" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1225" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0290-10" xlink:href="note-0290-10a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s9802" xml:space="preserve">In every corruptible Body Quantity maketh much to the conſervation of the whole: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9803" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0290-11a" xlink:href="note-0290-11"/> a great Fire is longer in quenching, a ſmall portion of Water is ſooner evaporated, the Body <lb/>of a Tree withereth not ſo faſt as a Twig, And therefore generally (I ſpeak it of Species, not <lb/>of Individuals) Creatures that are large in body are longer-liv’d than thoſe that are ſmall, <lb/>unleſs there be ſome other potent cauſe to hinder it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9804" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1226" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0290-11" xlink:href="note-0290-11a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <pb o="13" file="0291" n="291" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1228" type="section" level="1" n="54"> <head xml:id="echoid-head78" xml:space="preserve">Alimentation, or Nouriſhment: and the way of Nouriſhing.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head79" xml:space="preserve">The History.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9805" xml:space="preserve">N Ouriſhment ought to be of an inferiour nature, and more ſimple ſubſtance <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0291-01a" xlink:href="note-0291-01"/> than the thing nouriſhed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9806" xml:space="preserve">Plants are nouriſhed with the Earth and Water, <lb/>Living Creatures with Plants, Man with living Creatures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9807" xml:space="preserve">There are alſo <lb/>certain Creatures feeding upon Fleſh, and Man himſelf takes Plants into <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0291-02a" xlink:href="note-0291-02"/> a part of his Nouriſhment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9808" xml:space="preserve">but Man and Creatures feeding upon Fleſh are ſcarcely nou-<lb/>riſhed with Plants alone: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9809" xml:space="preserve">perhaps Fruit or Grains, baked or boiled, may, with long <lb/>uſe, nouriſh them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9810" xml:space="preserve">but Leaves or Plants or Herbs will not do it, as the Order of the Fo-<lb/>liatanes ſhewed by Experience.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9811" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1228" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-01" xlink:href="note-0291-01a" xml:space="preserve">To the <lb/>fourth Ar-<lb/>ticle.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-02" xlink:href="note-0291-02a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9812" xml:space="preserve">Over-great Affinity or Conſubſtantiality of the Nouriſhment to the thing nouriſhed <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0291-03a" xlink:href="note-0291-03"/> proveth not well: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9813" xml:space="preserve">Creatures feeding upon Herbs touch no Fleſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9814" xml:space="preserve">and of Creatures <lb/>feeding upon Fleſh, few of them eat their own kind: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9815" xml:space="preserve">Asfor Men, which are Cannibals, <lb/>they feed not ordinarily upon Mens fleſh, but reſerve it as a Dainty, either to ſerve <lb/>their reveng upon their enemies, or to ſatisfie their appetite at ſome times. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9816" xml:space="preserve">So the <lb/>Ground is beſt ſown with Seed growing elſewhere, and Men do not uſe to Graft or Ino <lb/>culate upon the ſame Stock.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9817" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1229" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-03" xlink:href="note-0291-03a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9818" xml:space="preserve">By how much the more the Nouriſhment is better prepared, and approacheth Hearer in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0291-04a" xlink:href="note-0291-04"/> likeneſs to the thing nouriſhed, by ſo much the more are Plants more fruitful, and living <lb/>Creatures in better liking and plight: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9819" xml:space="preserve">for a young Slip or cion is not ſo well nouriſhed <lb/>if it be pricked into the ground, as if it be grafted into a Stock agreeing with it in <lb/>Nature, and where it finds the nouriſhment already digeſted and prepared: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9820" xml:space="preserve">neither (as <lb/>is reported, will the Seed of an Onion, or ſome ſuch like, ſown in the bare earth, bring <lb/>forth ſo large a fruit as if it be put into another Onion, which is a new kind of Grafting, <lb/>into the root, or under ground. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9821" xml:space="preserve">Again, it hath been found out lately, that a Slip of a <lb/>Wild Tree, as of an Elm, Oak, Aſh, or ſuch like, grafted into a Stock of the ſame kind, <lb/>will bring forth larger leaves then thoſe that grow without grafting: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9822" xml:space="preserve">Alſo Men are not <lb/>nouriſhed ſo well with raw fleſh as with that which hath paſſed the fire.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9823" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1230" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-04" xlink:href="note-0291-04a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9824" xml:space="preserve">Living Creatures are nouriſhed by the Mouth, Plants by the Root, γoung ones in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0291-05a" xlink:href="note-0291-05"/> the womb by the Navel: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9825" xml:space="preserve">Birds for a while are nouriſhed with the rolk in the Egge, <lb/>whereof ſome is found in their Crops after they are hatched.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9826" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1231" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-05" xlink:href="note-0291-05a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9827" xml:space="preserve">All Nouriſh ment moveth from the centre to the Circumference, or from the Inward <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0291-06a" xlink:href="note-0291-06"/> to the utward: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9828" xml:space="preserve">yet it is to be noted, that in Trees and Plants the Nouriſhment paſ-<lb/>ſeth rather by the Bark and Outward parts then by the Pith and Inward parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9829" xml:space="preserve">for if the <lb/>Bark be pilled off, though but for a ſmall breadth, round, they live no more: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9830" xml:space="preserve">and the <lb/>Bloud in the Veins of living Creatures doth no leſs nouriſh the Fleſh beneath it then the <lb/>Fleſh above it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9831" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1232" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-06" xlink:href="note-0291-06a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9832" xml:space="preserve">In all Alimentation or Nouriſhment there is a two-fold Action, Extuſion and <emph style="sub">A</emph>t-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0291-07a" xlink:href="note-0291-07"/> traction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9833" xml:space="preserve">whereof the former proceeds from the In ward Function, the latter from the <lb/>Outward.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9834" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1233" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-07" xlink:href="note-0291-07a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9835" xml:space="preserve">Vegetables aſſimulate their Nouriſhment ſimply, without Excerning: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9836" xml:space="preserve">For Gums and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0291-08a" xlink:href="note-0291-08"/> Tears of Trees are rather Exuberances then Excrements, and Knots or knobs are nothing <lb/>but Diſeaſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9837" xml:space="preserve">But the ſubſtance of living Creatures is more perceptible of the like; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9838" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0291-1a" xlink:href="hd-0291-1"/> and thereſore it is conjoyned with a kind of diſdain, whereby it rejecteth the bad, and <lb/>aſſimulateth the good.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9839" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1234" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-08" xlink:href="note-0291-08a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0291-1" xlink:href="hd-0291-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9840" xml:space="preserve">It is a ſtrange thing of the ſtalks of Fruits, that all the Nouriſhment which produceth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0291-09a" xlink:href="note-0291-09"/> ſometimes ſuch great Fruits, ſhould be forced to paſs through ſo narrow necks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9841" xml:space="preserve">for the <lb/>Fruit is never joyn’d to the Stock without ſome ſtalk.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9842" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1235" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-09" xlink:href="note-0291-09a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9843" xml:space="preserve">It is to be noted, that the Seeds of living Creatures will not be fruitful but when they <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0291-10a" xlink:href="note-0291-10"/> are new ſhed, but the Seeds of Plants will be fruitful a long time after they are gathered; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9844" xml:space="preserve">yet the Slips or Cions of Trees will not grow unleſs they be grafted green; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9845" xml:space="preserve">neither will <lb/>the roots keep long freſh unleſs they be covered with earth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9846" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1236" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-10" xlink:href="note-0291-10a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9847" xml:space="preserve">In living creatures there are degrees of Nouriſh ment according to their Age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9848" xml:space="preserve">in the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0291-11a" xlink:href="note-0291-11"/> womb, the young one is nourished with the Mother’s blood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9849" xml:space="preserve">when it is new-born, <lb/>with Milk; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9850" xml:space="preserve">afterwards with Meats and Drinks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9851" xml:space="preserve">and in old age the moſt nourishing and <lb/>ſavoury Meats pleaſe beſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9852" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1237" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-11" xlink:href="note-0291-11a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <pb o="14" file="0292" n="292" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9853" xml:space="preserve">Above all it maketh to the preſent Inquiſition, to inquire diligently and attentively whe-<lb/>ther a man may not receive Nouriſhment from without, at leaſt ſome other way beſide <lb/>the Mouth We know that Baths of Milk are uſed in ſome Hectick <emph style="sub">F</emph>evers, and when <lb/>the body is brought extream low, and Phyſicians do provide Nouriſhing clyſters. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9854" xml:space="preserve">This <lb/>matter would be well ſtudied; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9855" xml:space="preserve">for if Nouriſhment may be made either from without, <lb/>or ſome other way than by the ſtomach, then the weakneſs of Concoction, which is <lb/>incident to old men, might be recompenced by theſe helps, and Concoction reſtored to <lb/>them intire.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9856" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1239" type="section" level="1" n="55"> <head xml:id="echoid-head80" xml:space="preserve">Length and Shortneſs of Life in Man.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head81" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſt@ry.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9857" xml:space="preserve">BEfore the Floud, as the Sacred Scriptures relate, Men lived many hundred <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0292-01a" xlink:href="note-0292-01"/> years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9858" xml:space="preserve">yet none of the Fathers attained to a full thouſand. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9859" xml:space="preserve">Neither was this <lb/>Length of Life peculiar onely to Grace, or the Holy Line; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9860" xml:space="preserve">for there are reckon-<lb/>ed of the Fathers until the Floud eleven Generations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9861" xml:space="preserve">but of the ſons of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0292-02a" xlink:href="note-0292-02"/> Adam by cain onely eight Generations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9862" xml:space="preserve">ſo as the poſterity of Cain may ſeem the lon-<lb/>ger-liv’d. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9863" xml:space="preserve">But this Length of Life immediately after the Floud was reduced to a moiety, <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0292-1a" xlink:href="hd-0292-1"/> but in the Poſt-nati; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9864" xml:space="preserve">for Noah, who was born before, equalled the age of his Anceſtors, <lb/>and Sem ſaw the ſix hundredth year of his life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9865" xml:space="preserve">Afterwards, three Generations being <lb/>run from the Floud, the Life of Man was brought down to a fourth part of the pri-<lb/>mative Age, that was, to about two hundred years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9866" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1239" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0292-01" xlink:href="note-0292-01a" xml:space="preserve">To the 5, 6, <lb/>7, 8, 9, and <lb/>11 Articles.</note> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0292-02" xlink:href="note-0292-02a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0292-1" xlink:href="hd-0292-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9867" xml:space="preserve">Abraham lived an hundred ſeventy and five years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9868" xml:space="preserve">a man of an high courage, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0292-03a" xlink:href="note-0292-03"/> proſperous in all things. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9869" xml:space="preserve">Iſaac came to an hundred and eighty years of age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9870" xml:space="preserve">a chaſte <lb/>man, and enjoying more quietneſs than his Father. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9871" xml:space="preserve">But Jacob, after many croſſes <lb/>and a numerous progeny, laſted to the hundred forty ſeventh year of his life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9872" xml:space="preserve">a pa-<lb/>tient, gentle, and wiſe man. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9873" xml:space="preserve">Iſmael, a military man, lived an hundred thirty and <lb/>ſeven years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9874" xml:space="preserve">Sarah (whoſe years onely amongſt women are recorded) died in the <lb/>hundred twenty ſeventh year of her age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9875" xml:space="preserve">a beautifull and magnanimous woman; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9876" xml:space="preserve">a <lb/>ſingular good Mother and Wife; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9877" xml:space="preserve">and yet no leſs famous for her Liberty than Ob-<lb/>ſequiouſneſs towards her husband. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9878" xml:space="preserve">Joſeph alſo, a prudent and politick man, paſſing <lb/>his youth in affliction, afterwards advanced to the height of honour and proſperity, <lb/>lived an hundred and ten years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9879" xml:space="preserve">But his brother Levi, elder than himſelf, attained to <lb/>an hundred thirty ſeven years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9880" xml:space="preserve">a man impatient of contumely and revengeful. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9881" xml:space="preserve">Near <lb/>unto the ſame age attained the ſon of Levi@ alſo his grand-child, the father of Aaron <lb/>and Moſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9882" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1240" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0292-03" xlink:href="note-0292-03a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9883" xml:space="preserve">Moſes lived an hundred and twenty years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9884" xml:space="preserve">a ſtout man, and yet the meekest upon <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0292-04a" xlink:href="note-0292-04"/> the earth, and of a very ſlow tongue. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9885" xml:space="preserve">Howſoever Moſes in his Pſalm pronounceth <lb/>that the life of man is but ſeventy years, and if a man have ſtrength, then eighty; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9886" xml:space="preserve">which term of man’s life ſtandeth firm in many particulars even at this day. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9887" xml:space="preserve">Aaron, <lb/>who was three years the elder, died the ſame year with his Brother: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9888" xml:space="preserve">a man of a <lb/>readier ſpeech, of a more facile diſpoſition, and leſs conſtant. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9889" xml:space="preserve">But Phineas, grand-<lb/>child of Aaron, (perhaps out of extraordinary grace) may be collected to have <lb/>lived three hundred years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9890" xml:space="preserve">if ſo be the War of the Iſraelites againſt the Tribe of Ben-<lb/>jamin (in which Expedition Phineas was conſulted with) were performed in the <lb/>ſame order of time in which the Hiſtory hath ranked it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9891" xml:space="preserve">He was a man of a moſt emi-<lb/>nent Zeal. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9892" xml:space="preserve">Joſhua, a martial man, and an excellent Leader, and evermore victorious, <lb/>lived to the hundred and tenth year of his life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9893" xml:space="preserve">Caleb was his Contemporary, and <lb/>ſeemeth to have been of as great years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9894" xml:space="preserve">Ehud the Judge ſeems to have been no <lb/>leſs than an hundred years old, in regard that after the Victory over the N@oa-<lb/>bites the Holy Land had reſt under his Government eighty years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9895" xml:space="preserve">He was a man <lb/>fierce and undaunted, and one that in a ſort neglected his life for the good of his <lb/>People.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9896" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1241" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0292-04" xlink:href="note-0292-04a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9897" xml:space="preserve">Job lived, after the reſtauration of his happineſs, an hundred and forty years, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0292-05a" xlink:href="note-0292-05"/> being before his afflictions of that age that he had ſons at man’s eſtate: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9898" xml:space="preserve">a man po- <pb o="15" file="0293" n="293" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> litick, eloquent, charitable, and the Example of Patience. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9899" xml:space="preserve">Eli the Prieſt lived ninety <lb/>eight years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9900" xml:space="preserve">a corpulent man, calm of diſpoſition, and indulgent to his children. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9901" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>Elizæus the Prophet may ſeem to have died when he was above an hundred years old; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9902" xml:space="preserve">for he is found to have lived after the aſſumption of Elias ſixty years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9903" xml:space="preserve">and at the time <lb/>of that aſſumption he was of thoſe years, that the boys mocked him by the name of <lb/>Bald-head: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9904" xml:space="preserve">a man vehement and ſevere, and of an auſtere life, and a contemner of <lb/>riches. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9905" xml:space="preserve">Alſo @ſaiah the Prophet ſeemeth to have been an hundred years old: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9906" xml:space="preserve">for he is <lb/>found to have exerciſed the Function of a Prophet ſeventy years together, the years both <lb/>of his beginning to propheſie and of his death being uncertain: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9907" xml:space="preserve">a man of an admirable <lb/>eloquence, an Evangelical Prophet, full of the promiſes of God of the New Teſtament, <lb/>as a Bottle with ſweet Wine.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9908" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1242" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0292-05" xlink:href="note-0292-05a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9909" xml:space="preserve">Tobias the Elder lived an hundred fifty eight years, the Younger, an hundred twen-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0293-01a" xlink:href="note-0293-01"/> ty ſeven: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9910" xml:space="preserve">merciful men, and great alms-givers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9911" xml:space="preserve">It ſeems, in the time of the Cap-<lb/>tivity, many of the Jews who returned out of Babylon were of great years, ſeeing they <lb/>could remember both Temples, (there being no leſs than ſeventy years betwixt them) <lb/>and wept for the unlikeneſs of them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9912" xml:space="preserve">Many ages after that, in the time of our Saviour, <lb/>lived old Simeon, to the age of ninety; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9913" xml:space="preserve">a devoutman, and full both of hope and expe-<lb/>ctation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9914" xml:space="preserve">Into the ſame time alſo fell Anna the Propheteſs, who could not poſſibly be <lb/>leſs than an hundred years old; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9915" xml:space="preserve">for ſhe had been ſeven years a wife, about eighty <lb/>four years a widow, beſides the years of her virginity, and the time that ſhe lived after <lb/>her Prophecy of our Saviour: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9916" xml:space="preserve">She was an holy woman, and paſſed her days in faſtings <lb/>and prayers.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9917" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1243" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0293-01" xlink:href="note-0293-01a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9918" xml:space="preserve">The long Lives of Men mentioned in Heathen Authors have no great certainty in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0293-02a" xlink:href="note-0293-02"/> them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9919" xml:space="preserve">both for the intermixture of Fables, whereunto thoſe kind of relations were <lb/>very prone, and for their falſe calculation of years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9920" xml:space="preserve">Certainly of the Ægyptians we <lb/>find nothing of moment in thoſe works that are extant as touching long Life, for their <lb/>Kings which reigned longeſt did not exceed fifty or five and fifty years, which is no <lb/>great matter, ſeeing many at this day attain to thoſe years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9921" xml:space="preserve">But the Arcadian Kings <lb/>are fabulouſly reported to have lived very long. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9922" xml:space="preserve">Surely that Country was Mountainous, <lb/>full of flocks of Sheep, and brought forth moſt wholſome food; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9923" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding, <lb/>ſeeing Pan was their god, we may conceive that all things about them were Panick and <lb/>vain, and ſubject to fables.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9924" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1244" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0293-02" xlink:href="note-0293-02a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9925" xml:space="preserve">Numa King of the @omans lived to eighty years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9926" xml:space="preserve">a man peaceable, contemplative, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0293-03a" xlink:href="note-0293-03"/> and much devoted to Religion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9927" xml:space="preserve">Marcus Valerius Corvinus ſaw an hundred years <lb/>complete, there being betwixt his firſt and ſixth Conſulſhip forty ſix years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9928" xml:space="preserve">a man va-<lb/>lorous, affable, popular, and always fortunate.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9929" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1245" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0293-03" xlink:href="note-0293-03a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9930" xml:space="preserve">Solon of Athens, the Law giver, and one of the ſeven Wiſe-men, lived above eighty <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0293-04a" xlink:href="note-0293-04"/> years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9931" xml:space="preserve">a man of an high courage, but popular, and affected to his Country; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9932" xml:space="preserve">alſo learn-<lb/>ed, given to pleaſures and a ſoft kind of life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9933" xml:space="preserve">Epimenides the Cretian is reported to <lb/>have lived an hundred fifty ſeven years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9934" xml:space="preserve">the matter is mix’d with a prodigious Relation; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9935" xml:space="preserve">for fifty ſeven of thoſe years he is ſaid to have ſlept in a Cave. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9936" xml:space="preserve">Half an age after Xeno-<lb/>phon the Colophonian lived an hundred and two years, or rather more: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9937" xml:space="preserve">for at the age of <lb/>twenty five years he left his Country, ſeventy ſeven complete years he travelled, and <lb/>after that returned; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9938" xml:space="preserve">but how long he lived after his return appears not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9939" xml:space="preserve">a man no leſs <lb/>wandring in mind than in body, for his name was changed for the madneſs of his opi-<lb/>nions from Xenophanes to Xenomanes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9940" xml:space="preserve">a man no doubt of a vaſt conceit, and that minded <lb/>nothing but Infinitum.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9941" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1246" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0293-04" xlink:href="note-0293-04a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9942" xml:space="preserve">Anacreon the Poet lived eighty years and ſome what better: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9943" xml:space="preserve">a manlaſcivious, vo-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0293-05a" xlink:href="note-0293-05"/> luptuous, and given to drink. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9944" xml:space="preserve">Pindarus the Theban lived to eighty years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9945" xml:space="preserve">a Poet of <lb/>an high fancy, ſingular in his conceits, and a great adorer of the gods. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9946" xml:space="preserve">Sophocles the <lb/>Athenian attained to the like age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9947" xml:space="preserve">alofty Tragick Poet, given over wholly to Writing, <lb/>and neglectful of his Family.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9948" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1247" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0293-05" xlink:href="note-0293-05a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9949" xml:space="preserve">Artaxerxes King of Perſia lived ninety four years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9950" xml:space="preserve">a man of a dull wit, averſe to the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0293-06a" xlink:href="note-0293-06"/> diſpatch of buſineſs, deſirous of glory, but rather of eaſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9951" xml:space="preserve">At the ſame time lived Age-<lb/>ſilaus King of sparta to eighty four years of age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9952" xml:space="preserve">a moderate Prince, as being a Phi-<lb/>loſopher among Kings; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9953" xml:space="preserve">but not withſtanding ambitious, and a Warriour, and no leſs ſtout <lb/>in war than in buſineſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9954" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1248" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0293-06" xlink:href="note-0293-06a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9955" xml:space="preserve">Gorgias the Sicilian was an hundred and eight years old; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9956" xml:space="preserve">a Rhetorician, and a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0293-07a" xlink:href="note-0293-07"/> great boaſter of his faculty, one that taught Youth for profit: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9957" xml:space="preserve">he had ſeen many <pb o="16" file="0294" n="294" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> Countries, and a little before his death ſaid, That he had done nothing worthy of <lb/>blame ſince he was an old man. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9958" xml:space="preserve">Protagoras of Abdera faw ninety years of age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9959" xml:space="preserve">this <lb/>man was like wiſe a Rhetorician, but profeſſed not ſo much to teach the Liberal Arts, as <lb/>the Art of Governing Common-wealths and States: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9960" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding he was a great <lb/>wanderer in the world, no leſs than Gorgias. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9961" xml:space="preserve">Iſocrates the Athenian lived ninety <lb/>eight years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9962" xml:space="preserve">he was a Rhetorician alſo, but an exceeding modeſt man; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9963" xml:space="preserve">one that <lb/>ſhunned the publick light, and opened his School onely in his own houſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9964" xml:space="preserve">Democritus <lb/>of Abdera reached to an hundred and nine years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9965" xml:space="preserve">he was a great Philoſopher, and, if <lb/>ever any man amongſt the Grecians, a true Naturaliſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9966" xml:space="preserve">a Surveyor of many Coun-<lb/>tries, but much more of Nature; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9967" xml:space="preserve">alſo a diligent ſearcher into Experiments, and (as <lb/>Ariſtotle objected againſt him) one that followed Similitudes more than the Laws of <lb/>Arguments. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9968" xml:space="preserve">Diogenes the Sinopean lived ninety years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9969" xml:space="preserve">a man that uſed liberty to-<lb/>wards others, but tyranny over himſelf: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9970" xml:space="preserve">a courſe diet, and of much patience. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9971" xml:space="preserve">Zeno <lb/>of Citium lacked but two years of an hundred: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9972" xml:space="preserve">a man of an high mind, and a <lb/>contemner of other mens opinions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9973" xml:space="preserve">alſo of a great acuteneſs, but yet not trouble-<lb/>ſome, chuſing rather to take mens minds than to enforce them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9974" xml:space="preserve">The like whereof after-<lb/>ward was in Seneca. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9975" xml:space="preserve">Plato the Athenian attained to eighty one years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9976" xml:space="preserve">a man of a great <lb/>courage, but yet a lover of eaſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9977" xml:space="preserve">in his Notions ſublimed, and of a fancy, neat and <lb/>delicate in his life, rather calm than merry, and one that carried a kind of Majeſty <lb/>in his countenance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9978" xml:space="preserve">Theophraſtus the Ereſſian arrived at eighty five years of age; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9979" xml:space="preserve">a <lb/>man ſweet for his eloquence, ſweet for the variety of his matters, and who ſelected <lb/>the pleaſant things of Philoſophy, and let the bitter and harſh go. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9980" xml:space="preserve">Carneades of Cy-<lb/>rene many years after came to the like age of eighty five years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9981" xml:space="preserve">a man of a fluent <lb/>eloquence, and one who by the acceptable and pleaſant variety of his knowledge de <lb/>lighted both himſelf and others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9982" xml:space="preserve">But Orbilius, who lived in Cicero’s time, no Philo-<lb/>ſopher or Rhetorician, but a Grammarian, attained to an hundred years of age, he was <lb/>firſt a Souldier, then a Schoolmaſter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9983" xml:space="preserve">a man by nature tart both in his Tongue and Pen, <lb/>and ſevere towards his Scholars.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9984" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1249" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0293-07" xlink:href="note-0293-07a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9985" xml:space="preserve">Quintus Fabius Maximus was Augur ſixty three years, which ſhewed him to be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0294-01a" xlink:href="note-0294-01"/> above eighty years of age at his death; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9986" xml:space="preserve">though it betrue, that in the Augurſhip No-<lb/>bility was more reſpected then age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9987" xml:space="preserve">a wife man, and a great Deliberator, and in all <lb/>his proceedings moderate, and not without affability ſevere. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9988" xml:space="preserve">Maſiniſſa King of Nu-<lb/>midia lived ninety years, and being more than eighty five got a ſon: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9989" xml:space="preserve">a daring man, and <lb/>truſting upon his fortune, who in his youth had taſted of the inconſtancy of Fortune, <lb/>but in his fucceeding age was conſtantly happy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9990" xml:space="preserve">But Marcus Porcius Cato lived above <lb/>ninety years of age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9991" xml:space="preserve">a man of an Iron body and mind; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9992" xml:space="preserve">he had a bitter tongue, and loved <lb/>to cheriſh factions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9993" xml:space="preserve">he was given to Husbandry, and was to himſelf and his Family a <lb/>Phyſician.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9994" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1250" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0294-01" xlink:href="note-0294-01a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s9995" xml:space="preserve">Terentia Cicero’s wife, lived an hundred and three years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9996" xml:space="preserve">a woman afflicted with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0294-02a" xlink:href="note-0294-02"/> many croffes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9997" xml:space="preserve">firſt, with the baniſh ment of her Husband; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9998" xml:space="preserve">then with the difference <lb/>betwixt them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s9999" xml:space="preserve">laſtly, with his laſt fatal misfortune: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10000" xml:space="preserve">She was alſo oftentimes vexed <lb/>with the Gout. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10001" xml:space="preserve">Luceia muſt needs exceed an hundred by many years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10002" xml:space="preserve">for it is ſaid <lb/>that ſhe acted an whole hundred years upon the Stage, at firſt perhaps repreſenting <lb/>the perſon of ſome young Girl, at laſt of ſome decrepit old Woman. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10003" xml:space="preserve">But Galeria <lb/>Copiola, a Player alſo and a Dancer, was brought upon the Stage as a Novice, in what <lb/>year of her age is not known; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10004" xml:space="preserve">but ninety nine years after, at the Dedication <lb/>of the Theatre by Pompey the Great, ſhe was ſhewn upon the Stage, not now <lb/>for an Actreſs, but for a Wonder: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10005" xml:space="preserve">neither was this all, for after that, in the So-<lb/>lemnities for the health and life of Auguſtus, ſhe was ſhewn upon the Stage the <lb/>third time.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10006" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1251" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0294-02" xlink:href="note-0294-02a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10007" xml:space="preserve">There was another Actreſs, ſomewhat inferiour in age, but much ſuperiour in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0294-03a" xlink:href="note-0294-03"/> dignity, which lived well-near ninety years, I mean Livia Julia Auguſta, wife to <lb/>Auguſtus Cæſar, and mother to Tiberius. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10008" xml:space="preserve">For if Auguſtus his life were a Play, (as <lb/>himſelf would have it, whenas upon his death-bed he charged his friends they <lb/>ſhould give him a Plaudite after he was dead) certainly this Lady was an excellent <lb/>Actreſs, who could carry it ſo well with her husband by a diffembled obedience, <lb/>and with her ſon by power and authority: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10009" xml:space="preserve">a woman affable, and yet of a Ma-<lb/>tronal carriage, pragmatical, and upholding her power. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10010" xml:space="preserve">But Junia, the wife of Caius <lb/>Caſſius, and ſiſter of Marcus Brutus, was alſo ninety years old; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10011" xml:space="preserve">for ſhe ſurvived <lb/>the Philippick Battel ſixty four years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10012" xml:space="preserve">a magnanimous woman, in her great wealth <pb o="17" file="0295" n="295" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> happy in the calamity of her husband and near kinsfolks, and in a long widow-hood <lb/>unhappy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10013" xml:space="preserve">not withſtanding much honoured of all.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10014" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1252" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0294-03" xlink:href="note-0294-03a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10015" xml:space="preserve">The year of our Lord ſeventy ſix, falling into the time of Veſpaſian, is memorable; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10016" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0295-01a" xlink:href="note-0295-01"/> in which we ſhall find, as it were, a calendar of long liv’d men: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10017" xml:space="preserve">For that year there <lb/>was a Taxing, (now a Taxing is the moſt Authentical and trueſt Informer touching <lb/>the ages of men;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10018" xml:space="preserve">and in that part of Italy which lieth betwixt the Apennine Moun-<lb/>tains and the River Po, there were found an hundred and four and twenty perſons that <lb/>either equalled or exceeded an hundred years of age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10019" xml:space="preserve">namely, of an hundred years <lb/>juſt, fifty four perſons; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10020" xml:space="preserve">of an hundred and ten, fifty ſeven perſons; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10021" xml:space="preserve">of an hundred <lb/>and five and twenty, two onely; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10022" xml:space="preserve">of an hundred and thirty, four men; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10023" xml:space="preserve">of an hundred <lb/>and five and thirty, or ſeven and thirty, four more; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10024" xml:space="preserve">of an hundred and forty, three <lb/>men. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10025" xml:space="preserve">Beſides theſe, Parma in particular afforded five; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10026" xml:space="preserve">whereof three fulfilled an hun-<lb/>dred and twenty years, and two an hundred and thirty: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10027" xml:space="preserve">Bruxels afforded one of an hun-<lb/>dred and twenty five years old; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10028" xml:space="preserve">Placentia one, aged an hundred thirty and one; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10029" xml:space="preserve">Fa-<lb/>ventia one woman, aged one hundred thirty and two: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10030" xml:space="preserve">a certain Town, then called <lb/>Velleiatium, ſituate in the Hills about Placentia, afforded ten, whereof ſix fulfilled an <lb/>hundred and ten years of age; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10031" xml:space="preserve">four, an hundred and twenty: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10032" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, Rimini one of an <lb/>hundred and fifty years, whoſe name was Marcus Aponius.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10033" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1253" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0295-01" xlink:href="note-0295-01a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s10034" xml:space="preserve">That our catalogue might not be extended too much in length, we have thought fit, <lb/>as well in thoſe whom we have rehearſed, as in thoſe whom we ſhall rehearſe, to offer <lb/>none under eighty years of age. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10035" xml:space="preserve">Now we have affixed to every one a true and ſhort <lb/>Character or Elogy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10036" xml:space="preserve">but of that ſort whereunto, in our judgment, Length of Life <lb/>(which is not a little ſubject to the Manners and Fortunes of men) hath ſome relation, <lb/>and that in a two-fold reſpect: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10037" xml:space="preserve">either that ſuch kind of men are for the most part long-<lb/>liv’d; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10038" xml:space="preserve">or that ſuch men may ſometimes be of long life, though otherwiſe not well diſpoſed <lb/>for it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10039" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10040" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt the Roman and Grecian Emperors, alſo the French and Almain, to theſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0295-02a" xlink:href="note-0295-02"/> our dayes, which make up the number of well-near two hundred Princes, there <lb/>are onely four found that lived to eighty years of age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10041" xml:space="preserve">unto whom we may adde the <lb/>two firſt Emperors, Auguſtus and Tiberius; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10042" xml:space="preserve">whereof the latter fulfilled the ſeventy <lb/>and eighth year, the former the ſeventy and ſixth year of his age, and might both per-<lb/>haps have lived to fourſcore, if Livia and Caius had been pleaſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10043" xml:space="preserve">Auguſtus (as was <lb/>ſaid) lived ſeventy and ſix years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10044" xml:space="preserve">a man of moderate diſpoſition; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10045" xml:space="preserve">in accompliſhing <lb/>his deſigns vehement, but other wiſe calm and ſerene; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10046" xml:space="preserve">in meat and drink ſober, <lb/>in Venery intemperate, through all his life-time happy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10047" xml:space="preserve">and who about the thir-<lb/>tieth year of his life had a great and dangerons ſickneſs, inſomuch as they de-<lb/>ſpaired of life in him; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10048" xml:space="preserve">whom Antonius Muſa the Phyſician, when other Phyſicians <lb/>had applied hot Medicines, as moſt agreeable to his diſeaſe, on the contrar cured <lb/>with cold Medicines, which perchance might be ſome help to the prolonging of his <lb/>life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10049" xml:space="preserve">Tiberius lived to be two years older: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10050" xml:space="preserve">A man with lean chaps, as Augustus <lb/>was wont to ſay, for his ſpeech ſtuck within his jaws, but was weighty He was <lb/>bloudy, a drinker, and one that took Luſt into a part of his diet; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10051" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding <lb/>a great obſ@rver of his health, inſomuch that he uſed to ſay, That he was a fool <lb/>that after thirty years of| age took advice of a Phyſician. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10052" xml:space="preserve">Gordian the elder lived <lb/>eighty years, and yet died a violent death when he was ſcarce warm in his Empire: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10053" xml:space="preserve">a man of an high ſpirit and renowned, learned, and a Poet, and conſtantly hap-<lb/>py throughout the whole courſe of his life, ſave onely that he ended his dayes by a <lb/>violent death. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10054" xml:space="preserve">Valerian the Emperour was ſeventy ſix years of age before he was <lb/>taken priſoner by Sapor King of Perſia, after his Captivity he lived ſeven years in <lb/>reproaches, and then died a violent death alſo: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10055" xml:space="preserve">a man of a poor mind, and not va-<lb/>liant; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10056" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding liſted up in his own and the opinion of men, but falling <lb/>ſhort in the performance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10057" xml:space="preserve">Anaſtaſius, ſurnamed Dicorus, lived eighty eight years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10058" xml:space="preserve">he <lb/>was of a ſetled mind, but too abject, and ſuperſtitious, and fearful. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10059" xml:space="preserve">Anicius Juſti-<lb/>nianus lived to eighty three years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10060" xml:space="preserve">a man greedy of glory, performing nothing in his <lb/>own perſon, but in the valour of his Captains happy and renowned; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10061" xml:space="preserve">uxorious, and not <lb/>his own man, but ſuffering others to lead him. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10062" xml:space="preserve">Helena of Britain, mother of Con-<lb/>ſtantine the Great, was four@core years old: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10063" xml:space="preserve">a woman that intermedled not in matters of <lb/>State neither in her Husband’s nor ſons Reign, but devoted her ſelf wholly to Religion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10064" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>magnanimous, and perpetually flouriſhing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10065" xml:space="preserve">Theodora the Empreſs (who was ſiſter to Zoes, <pb o="18" file="0296" n="296" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> wife of Monomachus, and reigned alone after her deceaſe) lived above eighty years: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10066" xml:space="preserve">a pragmatical woman, and one that took delight in Governing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10067" xml:space="preserve">fortunate in the higheſt <lb/>degree, and through her good fortunes credulous,</s> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1254" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0295-02" xlink:href="note-0295-02a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10068" xml:space="preserve">We will proceed now from theſe Secular Princes to the princes in the Church. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10069" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0296-01a" xlink:href="note-0296-01"/> St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10070" xml:space="preserve">John, an Apoſtle of our saviour, and the Beloved Diſciple, lived ninety three years. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10071" xml:space="preserve">He was rightly denoted under the Emblem of the Eagle, for his piercing ſight into <lb/>the Divinity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10072" xml:space="preserve">and was a seraph amongſt the Apoſtles in reſpect of his burning Love. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10073" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10074" xml:space="preserve">Luke the Evangeliſt fulfilled fourſcore and four years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10075" xml:space="preserve">an eloquent man, and a <lb/>Traveller, St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10076" xml:space="preserve">Paul’s inſeparable Companion, and a Phyſician, Simeon the ſon <lb/>of Cleophas, called the Brother of our Lord, and Biſhop of feruſalem, lived an hun-<lb/>dred and twenty years though he was cut ſhort by Martyrdom: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10077" xml:space="preserve">a ſtout man, and <lb/>conſtant, and full of good works. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10078" xml:space="preserve">Polycarpus, Diſciple unto the Apoſtles, and <lb/>Biſhop of smyrna, ſeemeth to have extended his age to an hundred years and more; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10079" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>though he were alſo cut off by Martyrdom: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10080" xml:space="preserve">a man of an high mind, of an heroi-<lb/>cal patience, and unwearied with labours. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10081" xml:space="preserve">Dyoniſius Areopagita, Contemporary <lb/>to the Apoſtle St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10082" xml:space="preserve">Paul, lived ninety years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10083" xml:space="preserve">he was called the Bird of Heaven <lb/>for his high flying Divinity, and was famous as well for his holy life as for his <lb/>Meditations. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10084" xml:space="preserve">Aquilla and Priſcilla, firſt St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10085" xml:space="preserve">Paul the Apoſtle’s Hoſts, After ward <lb/>his Fellow helpers, lived together in a happy and famous Wedlock at leaſt to an <lb/>hundred years of age a piece; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10086" xml:space="preserve">for they were both alive under Pope Xiſtus the firſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10087" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>a noble Pair, and prone to all kind of charity, who amongſt other their com-<lb/>forts (which no doubt were great unto the firſt Founders of the Church) had this <lb/>added, to enjoy each other ſo long in an happy marriage. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10088" xml:space="preserve">St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10089" xml:space="preserve">Paul the Hermite <lb/>lived an hundred and thirteen years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10090" xml:space="preserve">now he lived in a Cave; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10091" xml:space="preserve">his diet was ſo flender <lb/>and ſtrict, that it was thought almoſt impoſſible to ſupport humane nature there-<lb/>withal: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10092" xml:space="preserve">he paſſed his years onely in Meditations and Soliloquies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10093" xml:space="preserve">yet he was notilli-<lb/>terate or an Idiot, but learned. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10094" xml:space="preserve">St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10095" xml:space="preserve">Anthony, the firſt Founder of Monks, or (as <lb/>ſome will have it) the Reſtorer onely, attained to an hundred and five years of age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10096" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>a man devout and contemplative, though not unfit for Civil affairs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10097" xml:space="preserve">his life <lb/>was auſtere and mortifying, notwithſtanding he lived in a kind of glorious ſoli-<lb/>tude; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10098" xml:space="preserve">and exerciſed a command, for he had his Monks under him. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10099" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, <lb/>many Chriſtians and Philoſophers came to viſit him as a living Image, from which <lb/>they parted not without ſome adoration. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10100" xml:space="preserve">St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10101" xml:space="preserve">Athanaſius exceeded the term of eighty <lb/>years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10102" xml:space="preserve">a man of an invincible conſtancy, commanding fame, and not yielding <lb/>to Fortune: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10103" xml:space="preserve">he was free to wards the Great ones, with the People gracious and <lb/>acceptable, beaten and practiſed to oppoſitions, and in delivering himſelf from them <lb/>ſtout and wiſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10104" xml:space="preserve">St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10105" xml:space="preserve">Hierom, by the conſent of moſt Writers, exceeded ninety years of <lb/>age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10106" xml:space="preserve">a man powerful in his Pen, and of a manly Eloquence, variouſly learned both <lb/>in the Tongues and Sciences, alſo a Traveller, and that lived ſtrictly towards his old <lb/>age, in an eſtate private, and not dignified; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10107" xml:space="preserve">he bore high Spirits, and ſhined far out of <lb/>obſcurity.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10108" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1255" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0296-01" xlink:href="note-0296-01a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10109" xml:space="preserve">The Popes of Rome are in number to this day two hundred forty and one. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10110" xml:space="preserve">Of ſo great <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0296-02a" xlink:href="note-0296-02"/> a number five onely have attained to the age of fourſcore years, or upwards. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10111" xml:space="preserve">But in <lb/>many of the firſt Popes their full age was intercepted by the Prerogative and Crown <lb/>of Martyrdom. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10112" xml:space="preserve">John the twenty third, Pope of Rome, fulfilled the ninetieth year oſ his <lb/>age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10113" xml:space="preserve">a man of an unquiet diſpoſition, and one that ſtudied novelty: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10114" xml:space="preserve">he altered ma-<lb/>ny things, ſome to the better, others onely to the new, a great accumulator of Riches <lb/>and Treaſures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10115" xml:space="preserve">Gregory, called the twelfth, created in Schiſm, and not fully acknow-<lb/>ledged pope, died at ninety years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10116" xml:space="preserve">of him, in reſpect of his ſhort Papacy, we find no-<lb/>thing to make a judgment upon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10117" xml:space="preserve">Paul the third lived eighty years and one: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10118" xml:space="preserve">a tempe-<lb/>rate man, and of a profound wiſdom: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10119" xml:space="preserve">he was Learned, an Aſtrologer, and one that <lb/>tended his health carefully; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10120" xml:space="preserve">but, after the example of old Eli the Prieſt, over-indul-<lb/>gent to his Family. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10121" xml:space="preserve">Paul the fourth attained to the age of eighty three years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10122" xml:space="preserve">a man of <lb/>an harſh nature and ſevere, of an haughty mind and imperious, prone to anger; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10123" xml:space="preserve">his <lb/>ſpeech was eloquent and ready. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10124" xml:space="preserve">Gregory the thirteenth fulſilled the like age of eighty <lb/>three years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10125" xml:space="preserve">an abſolute goodman, ſound in mind and body, politick, temperate, full of <lb/>good works, and an alms-giver.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10126" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1256" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0296-02" xlink:href="note-0296-02a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10127" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe that follow are to be more promiſcuous in their order, more doubtful in their <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0296-03a" xlink:href="note-0296-03"/> faith, and more barren of obſervation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10128" xml:space="preserve">King Arganthenius, who reigned at Cadiz in <pb o="19" file="0297" n="297" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> Spain lived an hundred and thirty, or (as ſome would have it) an hundred and for-<lb/>ty years, of which he reigned eighty. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10129" xml:space="preserve">Concerning his Manners, Inſtitution of his <lb/>Liſe, and the time wherein he reigned, there is a general ſilence. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10130" xml:space="preserve">Cyair as King of <lb/>Cyprus, living in the I ſland then termed the Happy and Pleaſant I ſland, is affirmed <lb/>to have attained to an hundred and fifty or ſixty years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10131" xml:space="preserve">Two Latin Kings in Italy, <lb/>the Father and the Son, are reported to have lived, the one eight hundred, the other <lb/>ſix hundred years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10132" xml:space="preserve">but this is delivered unto us by certain Philologiſts, who though <lb/>otherwiſe credulous enough, yet themſelves have ſuſpected the truth of this matter, <lb/>or rather condemned it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10133" xml:space="preserve">Others record ſome Arcadian Kings to have lived three han-<lb/>dred years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10134" xml:space="preserve">the Country, no doubt, is a place apt for long life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10135" xml:space="preserve">but the Relation <lb/>I ſuſpect to be fabulous. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10136" xml:space="preserve">They tell of one Dando in Illyrium, that lived without the <lb/>inconveniences of old age to five hundred years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10137" xml:space="preserve">They tell alſo of the Epians, a part <lb/>of Ætolia, that the whole Nation of them were excceding long liv’d, inſomuch <lb/>that many of them were two hundred years old; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10138" xml:space="preserve">and that one principal man amongſt <lb/>them, named Litorius, a man of a Giant-like ſtature, could have told three hundred <lb/>years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10139" xml:space="preserve">It is recorded, that on the top of the Mountain timolus, anciently called <lb/>Tempſis, many of the Inhabitants lived to an hundred and fifty years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10140" xml:space="preserve">We read that <lb/>the Sect of the Eſſeans amongſt the Jews did uſually extend their life to an hundred <lb/>years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10141" xml:space="preserve">Now that Sect uſed a ſingle or abſtemious diet, after the rule of Pythagoras. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10142" xml:space="preserve">Apollonius Tyaneus exceeded an hundred years, his face bewraying no ſuch age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10143" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>he was an admirable man, of the Heathens reputed to have ſomething Divine in him, <lb/>of the chriſtians held for a Sorcerer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10144" xml:space="preserve">in his diet Pythagorical, a great traveller, <lb/>much renowned, and by ſome adored as a god: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10145" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding, towards the end <lb/>of his life he was ſubject to many complaints againſt him, and reproaches, all which <lb/>he made ſhift to eſcape. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10146" xml:space="preserve">But leſt his long life ſhould be imputed to his Pythagorical <lb/>d et, and not rather that it was hereditary, his Grandfather before him lived an <lb/>hundred and thirty years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10147" xml:space="preserve">It is undoubted that Quintus Metellus lived above an <lb/>hundred years, and that after ſeveral Conſulſhips happily adminiſtred, in his old age <lb/>he was made Pontifex Maximus, and exerciſed thoſe holy duties full two and twenty <lb/>years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10148" xml:space="preserve">in the performance of which Rites his voice never failed, nor his hand trem-<lb/>bled. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10149" xml:space="preserve">It is moſt certain that Appius cæcus was very old, but his years are not extant, <lb/>the moſt part whereof he paſſed after he was blind; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10150" xml:space="preserve">yet this misfortune no whit <lb/>ſoftned him, but that he was able to govern a numerous Family, a great Retinue <lb/>and Dependance, yea, even the Commonwealth it ſelf, with great ſtoutneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10151" xml:space="preserve">In <lb/>his extream old age he was brought in a Litter into the Senate-houſe, and vehe-<lb/>mently diſſwaded the Peace with Pyrrhus: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10152" xml:space="preserve">the beginning of his Oration was very <lb/>memorable, ſhewing an invincible ſpirit and ſtrength of mind; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10153" xml:space="preserve">I have with great <lb/>grief of mind (Fathers conſcript) theſe many years born my blindneſs, but now I could <lb/>wiſh that I were deaf alſo, when I hear you ſpeak to ſuch diſ@onourable Treaties. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10154" xml:space="preserve">Marcus <lb/>Perpenna lived ninety eight years, ſurviving all thoſe whoſe Suffrages he had gather-<lb/>ed in the senate-houſe, being Conſul, I mean, all the Senators at that time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10155" xml:space="preserve">as al-<lb/>ſo all thoſe whom a little after, being Conſul, he choſe into the Senate, ſeven onely <lb/>being excepted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10156" xml:space="preserve">Hiero King of Sicily, in the time of the ſecond Punick War, lived <lb/>almoſt an hundred years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10157" xml:space="preserve">a man moderate both in his Government and in his Life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10158" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>a worſhiper of the gods, and a religious conſerver of Friendſhip: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10159" xml:space="preserve">liberal, and con-<lb/>ſtanſly fortunate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10160" xml:space="preserve">Statilia, deſcended of a noble Family in the days of Claudius, <lb/>lived ninety nine years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10161" xml:space="preserve">clodia, the daughter of Oſilius, an hundred and fifteen. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10162" xml:space="preserve">Xe-<lb/>nophilus, an ancient Philoſopher, of the Sect of Pythagoras, attained to an hundred <lb/>and ſix years, remaining healthful and vigorous in his old age, and famous amongſt <lb/>the vulgar for his learning. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10163" xml:space="preserve">The Iſlanders of Corcyra were anciently accounted <lb/>long liv’d, but now they live after the rate of other men, Hipocrates Cous, the fa-<lb/>mous Phyſician, lived an hundred and four years, and approved and credited his own <lb/>Art by ſo long a life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10164" xml:space="preserve">a man that coupled Learning and Wiſdom together, very <lb/>converſant in Experience and Obſervation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10165" xml:space="preserve">one that haunted not after Words or <lb/>Methods, but ſevered the very Nerves of Science, and ſo propounded them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10166" xml:space="preserve">Demo-<lb/>nax a Philoſoper, not onely in Profeffion but Practice, lived in the dayes of Adrian al-<lb/>moſt to an hundred years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10167" xml:space="preserve">a man of an high mind, and a vanquiſher of his own <lb/>mind, and that truly and without affectation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10168" xml:space="preserve">a contemner of the world, and yet <lb/>civil and courteous. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10169" xml:space="preserve">When his friends ſpake to him about his Burial, he ſaid, <lb/>Take no care for my Burial, for Stench will bury a Carcaſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10170" xml:space="preserve">They replied, Is it your <pb o="20" file="0298" n="298" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> mind than to be caſt out to Birds and Dogs? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10171" xml:space="preserve">He ſaid again, Seeing in my life-time I <lb/>endeavoured to my uttermoſt to benefit Men, what hurt is it if when I am dead I <lb/>benefit Beaſts? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10172" xml:space="preserve">Certain Indian People called Pandoræ are exceedingly long liv’d, <lb/>even to no leſs than two hundred years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10173" xml:space="preserve">They adde a thing more maryellous, That <lb/>having, when they are boys, an hair ſomewhat whitiſh, in their old age, before their <lb/>gray hairs, they grow coal black, though indeed this be every where to be ſeen, that <lb/>they which have white hair whilſt they are boys, in their man’s eſtate change <lb/>their hairs into a darker colour. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10174" xml:space="preserve">The Seres, another people of India, with their <lb/>Wine of Palms are accounted long livers, even to an hundred and thirty years. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10175" xml:space="preserve">Euphranor the Grammarian grew old in his School, and taught Scholars when <lb/>he was above an hundred years old. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10176" xml:space="preserve">The elder Ovid, father to the Poet, lived nine-<lb/>ty years, differing much from the diſpoſition of his ſon, for he contemned the <lb/>Muſes, and diſſwaded his ſon from Poetry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10177" xml:space="preserve">Aſinius Pollio, intimate with Au-<lb/>guſtus, exceeded the age of an hundred years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10178" xml:space="preserve">a man of an unreaſonable Profuſe-<lb/>neſs, Eloquent, and a lover of Learning; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10179" xml:space="preserve">but vehement, proud, cruel, and one <lb/>that made his private ends the centre of his thoughts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10180" xml:space="preserve">There was an opinion, that <lb/>Seneca was an extream old man, no leſs than an hundred and fourteen years of <lb/>age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10181" xml:space="preserve">which could not poſſibly be, it being as improbable that a decrepit old man <lb/>ſhould be ſet over Nero’s Youth, as, on the contrary, it was true, that he was <lb/>able to manage with great dexterity the affairs of State: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10182" xml:space="preserve">beſides, a little before, <lb/>in the midſt of Claudius his Reign, he was baniſhed Rome for Adulteries com-<lb/>mitted with ſome Noble Ladies, which was a Crime no way competible with ſo <lb/>extreme old age. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10183" xml:space="preserve">Johannes de Temporibus, among all the men of our later Ages, out <lb/>of a common fame and vulgar opinion, was reputed long-liv’d, even to a mira-<lb/>cle, or rather, even to a fable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10184" xml:space="preserve">his age hath been counted above three hundred <lb/>years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10185" xml:space="preserve">He was by Nation a French man, and followed the Wars under Charls <lb/>the Great. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10186" xml:space="preserve">Garcius Aretine, Great Grand-father to Petrarch, arrived at the age of <lb/>an hundred and four years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10187" xml:space="preserve">he had ever enjoyed the benefit of good health; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10188" xml:space="preserve">be-<lb/>ſides, at the laſt, he felt rather a decay of his ſtrength, than any ſickneſs or malady, <lb/>which is the true reſolution by old age. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10189" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt the Venetians there have been <lb/>found not a few long livers, and thoſe of the more eminent ſort: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10190" xml:space="preserve">Franciſcus Do-<lb/>natus, Duke; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10191" xml:space="preserve">Thomas Contarenus, Procurator of St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10192" xml:space="preserve">Mark; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10193" xml:space="preserve">Franciſcus Molinus, <lb/>Procurator alſo of St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10194" xml:space="preserve">Mark, and others. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10195" xml:space="preserve">But moſt memorable is that of cornarus <lb/>the Venetian, who being in his youth of a ſickly body, began firſt to eat and drink by <lb/>meaſure to a certain weight, thereby to recover his health: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10196" xml:space="preserve">this Cure turned by uſe <lb/>into a Diet, that Diet to an extraordinary long Life, even of an hundred years and bet-<lb/>ter, without any decay in his ſenſes, and with a conſtant enjoying of his health. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10197" xml:space="preserve">In <lb/>our age William Poſtel, a French-man, lived to an hundred and well-nigh twenty years, <lb/>the top of his beard on the upper-lip being black, and not gray at all: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10198" xml:space="preserve">a man crazed in <lb/>his brain, and of a fancy not altogether ſound; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10199" xml:space="preserve">a great Traveller, Mathematician, and <lb/>ſomewhat ſtained with Hereſie.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10200" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1257" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0296-03" xlink:href="note-0296-03a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10201" xml:space="preserve">I ſuppoſe there is ſcarce a Village with us in England, if it be any whit populous, but <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0298-01a" xlink:href="note-0298-01"/> it affords ſome Man or Woman of fourſcore years of age; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10202" xml:space="preserve">nay, a few years ſince there <lb/>was in the County of Hereforda May-game or Morrice dance, conſiſting of eight men, <lb/>whoſe age computed together made up eight hundred years, inſomuch that what ſome <lb/>of them wanted of an hundred, others exceeded as much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10203" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1258" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0298-01" xlink:href="note-0298-01a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10204" xml:space="preserve">In the Hoſpital of Bethlehem, corruptly called Bedlam, in the Suburbs of London, there <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0298-02a" xlink:href="note-0298-02"/> are found from time to time many mad perſons that live to a great age.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10205" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1259" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0298-02" xlink:href="note-0298-02a" xml:space="preserve">21.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10206" xml:space="preserve">The ages of Nymphs, Fauns, and Satyrs, whom they make to be indeed mortal, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0298-03a" xlink:href="note-0298-03"/> but yet exceedingly long-liv’d, (a thing which ancient Superſtition and the <lb/>late Credulity of ſome have admitted) we account but for Fables and Dreams; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10207" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially being that which hath neither conſent with Philoſophy nor with Divi <lb/>nity. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10208" xml:space="preserve">And as touching the Hiſtory of Long Life in Man by Individuals, or next <lb/>unto Individuals, thus much. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10209" xml:space="preserve">Now we will paſs on to Obſervations by certain <lb/>Heads.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10210" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1260" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0298-03" xlink:href="note-0298-03a" xml:space="preserve">22.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10211" xml:space="preserve">The Running on of Ages, and Succeſſion of Generations, ſeem to have no whit <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0298-04a" xlink:href="note-0298-04"/> abated from the length of Life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10212" xml:space="preserve">for we ſee that from the time of Moſes unto theſe <lb/>our dayes, the term of man’s life hath ſtood about fourſcore years of age, <lb/>neither hath it declined (as a man would have thought) by little and little. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10213" xml:space="preserve">No <lb/>doubt there are times in every Country wherein men are longer or ſhorter liv’d.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10214" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="21" file="0299" n="299" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> Longer, for the moſt part when the times are barbarous, and men fare leſs delici-<lb/>ouſly, and are more given to bodily exerciſes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10215" xml:space="preserve">Shorter, when the times are more <lb/>civil, and men abandon themſelves to luxury and eaſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10216" xml:space="preserve">But theſe things paſs on by <lb/>their turns, the ſucceſſion of Generations alters is not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10217" xml:space="preserve">The ſame, no doubt, is in <lb/>other living Creatus<unsure/>es; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10218" xml:space="preserve">for neither Oxen, nor Horſes, nor Sheep, nor any the <lb/>like, are abridged of their wonted ages at this day. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10219" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the Great <lb/>Abridger of Age was the Floud; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10220" xml:space="preserve">and perhaps ſome ſuch notable accidents (as <lb/>particular Inundations, long Droughts, Earthquakes, or the like) may do the ſame <lb/>again And the like reaſon is in the dimenſion and ſtature of Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10221" xml:space="preserve">for neither <lb/>are they leſſened by ſucceſſion of Generations, howſoever Virgil (following the <lb/>vulgar opinion) divined, that after Ages would bring forth leſſer Bodies than the <lb/>then preſent: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10222" xml:space="preserve">whereupon ſpeaking of ploughing up the Æmathian and Æmonen-<lb/>ſian Fields, he ſaith, Grandiáq; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10223" xml:space="preserve">effoſſis mirabitur oſſa Sepulchris, That after-ages ſhall <lb/>admire the great bones digged up in ancient Sepulchres. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10224" xml:space="preserve">For whereas it is manifeſted that <lb/>there were heretofore men of Gigantine Statures, (ſuch as for certain have been found <lb/>in Sicily, and elſe-where, in ancient Sepulchres and Caves) yet within theſe laſt <lb/>three thouſand years, a time whereof we have ſure memory, thoſe very places have <lb/>produced none ſuch: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10225" xml:space="preserve">although this thing alſo hath certain turns and changes, by the <lb/>Civilizing of a Nation, no leſs than the former. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10226" xml:space="preserve">And this is the rather to be noted, <lb/>becauſe men are wholly carried away with an opinion, that there is a continual <lb/>decay by Succeſſion of Ages, as well in the term of man’s Life as in the <lb/>ſtature and ſtrength of his Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10227" xml:space="preserve">and that all things decline and change to the <lb/>worſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10228" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1261" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0298-04" xlink:href="note-0298-04a" xml:space="preserve">23.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10229" xml:space="preserve">In Cold and Northern Countries men live longer commonly than in Hot: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10230" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0299-01a" xlink:href="note-0299-01"/> muſt needs be in reſpect the skin is more compact and cloſe, and the juices of <lb/>the body leſs diſſipable, and the Spirits themſelves leſs eager to conſume, and in <lb/>better diſpoſition to repair, and the Air (as being little heated by the Sun-beams) <lb/>leſs predatory: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10231" xml:space="preserve">And yet under the Æquinoctial Line, where the Sun paſſeth to and <lb/>fro, and cauſeth a double Summer and double Winter, and where the Days and <lb/>Nights are more cqual, (if other things be concurring) they live alſo very long; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10232" xml:space="preserve">as in Peru and Taprobane.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10233" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1262" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0299-01" xlink:href="note-0299-01a" xml:space="preserve">24.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10234" xml:space="preserve">Iſlanders are, for the moſtpart, longer-liv’d than thoſe that live in Continents: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10235" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0299-02a" xlink:href="note-0299-02"/> they live not ſo long in Ruſſia as in the Orcades; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10236" xml:space="preserve">nor ſo long in Africa, though <lb/>under the ſame Parallel, as in the Canaries and Tercera’s; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10237" xml:space="preserve">and the Japonians are <lb/>longer-liv’d than the Chineſes, though the Chineſes are made upon long life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10238" xml:space="preserve">And this <lb/>thing is no marvel, ſeeing the Air of the Sea doth heat and cheriſh in cooler Regi-<lb/>ons, and cool in hotter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10239" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1263" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0299-02" xlink:href="note-0299-02a" xml:space="preserve">25.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10240" xml:space="preserve">High Situations do rather afford long-livers than Low, eſpecially if they be not Tops <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0299-03a" xlink:href="note-0299-03"/> of Mountains, but Riſing Grounds, as to their general Situations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10241" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as was Ar-<lb/>cadia in Greece, and that part of Ætolia where we related them to have lived ſo long. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10242" xml:space="preserve">Now there would be the ſame reaſon for Mountains themſelves, becauſe of the pureneſs <lb/>and clearneſs of the Air, but that they are corrupted by accident, namely, by the <lb/>Vapours riſing thither out of the Valleys, and reſting there; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10243" xml:space="preserve">and therefore in Snowy <lb/>Mountains there is not found any notable long life, not in the Alps, not in the Pyre-<lb/>nean Mountains, not in the Apennine: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10244" xml:space="preserve">yet in the tops of the Mountains running <lb/>along towards Æthiopia and the Abyſſines, where by reaſon of the Sands beneath little <lb/>or no Vapour riſeth to the Mountains, they live long, even at this very day, attaining ma-<lb/>ny times to an hundred and fifty years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10245" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1264" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0299-03" xlink:href="note-0299-03a" xml:space="preserve">26.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10246" xml:space="preserve">Marſhes and Fens are propitious to the Natives, and malignant to Strangers, as touch-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0299-04a" xlink:href="note-0299-04"/> ing the lengthning and ſhortning of their lives: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10247" xml:space="preserve">and that which may ſeem more mar-<lb/>vellous, Salt-Marſhes, where the Sea Ebbs and Flows, areleſs wholſome than thoſe of <lb/>Freſh water.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10248" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1265" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0299-04" xlink:href="note-0299-04a" xml:space="preserve">27.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10249" xml:space="preserve">The Countries which have been obſerved to produce long-livers are theſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10250" xml:space="preserve">Arcadia, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0299-05a" xlink:href="note-0299-05"/> Ætolia, India on this ſide Ganges, Braſil, Taprobane, Britain, Ireland, with the Iſlands of <lb/>the Orcades and Hebrides: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10251" xml:space="preserve">for as for Æthiopia, which by one of the Ancients is re-<lb/>ported to bring forth long-Livers, ’tis but a toy,</s> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1266" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0299-05" xlink:href="note-0299-05a" xml:space="preserve">28.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10252" xml:space="preserve">It is a Secret; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10253" xml:space="preserve">The healthfulneſs of Air, eſpecially in any perfection, is better <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0299-06a" xlink:href="note-0299-06"/> found by Experiment than by Diſcourſe or Conjecture. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10254" xml:space="preserve">You may make a trial by <lb/>a lock of Wool expoſed for a few dayes in the open Air, if the weight be not much <pb o="22" file="0300" n="300" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> increaſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10255" xml:space="preserve">another by a piece of fleſh expoſed likewiſe, if it corrupt not over-ſoon; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10256" xml:space="preserve">another by a Weather-glaſs, if the Water interchange not too ſuddenly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10257" xml:space="preserve">Of theſe and <lb/>the like enquire further.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10258" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1267" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0299-06" xlink:href="note-0299-06a" xml:space="preserve">29.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10259" xml:space="preserve">Not onely the Goodneſs or Pureneſi of the Air, but alſo the Equality of the Air, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0300-01a" xlink:href="note-0300-01"/> is material to long life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10260" xml:space="preserve">Intermixture of Hills and Dales is pleaſant to the ſight, but <lb/>ſuſpected for long life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10261" xml:space="preserve">A Plain, moderately drie, but yet not over-barren or ſan-<lb/>dy, nor altogether without Trees and Shade, is very convenient for length of <lb/>life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10262" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1268" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0300-01" xlink:href="note-0300-01a" xml:space="preserve">30.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10263" xml:space="preserve">Inequality of Air (as was even now ſaid) in the place of our dwelling is naught; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10264" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0300-02a" xlink:href="note-0300-02"/> but Change of Air by travelling, after one be uſed unto it, is good; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10265" xml:space="preserve">and therefore <lb/>great Travellers have been long liv’d. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10266" xml:space="preserve">Alſo thoſe that have lived perpetually in a little <lb/>Cottage, in the ſame place, have been long-livers: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10267" xml:space="preserve">for air accuſtomed conſumeth leſs; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10268" xml:space="preserve">but air changed nouriſheth and repaireth more.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10269" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1269" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0300-02" xlink:href="note-0300-02a" xml:space="preserve">31.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10270" xml:space="preserve">As the continuation and number of Succeſſions (which we ſaid before) makes no-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0300-03a" xlink:href="note-0300-03"/> hing to the Length and Shortneſs of Life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10271" xml:space="preserve">ſo the immediate condition of the Parents, <lb/>(as well the Father as the Mother) without doubt availeth much. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10272" xml:space="preserve">For ſome are be <lb/>gotten of old men, ſome of young men, ſome of men of middle age; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10273" xml:space="preserve">again, ſome <lb/>are begotten of fathers healthful and well-diſpoſed, others of diſeaſed and languiſh-<lb/>ing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10274" xml:space="preserve">again, ſome of fathers immediately after repletion, or when they are <lb/>drunk, others after ſleeping, or in the morning; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10275" xml:space="preserve">again, ſome after a long inter-<lb/>miſſion of Venus, others upon the act repeated; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10276" xml:space="preserve">again, ſome in the fervency of the <lb/>father’s love, (as it is commonly in Baſtards) others after the cooling of it, as in <lb/>long-married couples. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10277" xml:space="preserve">The ſame things may be conſidered on the part of the Mother: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10278" xml:space="preserve">unto which muſt be added the condition of the Mother whilſt ſhe is with child, <lb/>as touching her health, as touching her diet, the time of her bearing in the womb, <lb/>to the tenth month, or earlier. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10279" xml:space="preserve">To reduce theſe things to a Rule, how far they <lb/>may concern Long Life, is hard; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10280" xml:space="preserve">and ſo much the harder, for that thoſe things <lb/>which a man would conceive to be the beſt, will fall out to the contrary: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10281" xml:space="preserve">For that <lb/>alacrity in the Generation which begets luſty and lively children, will be leſs <lb/>proſitable to long life, becauſe of the Acrimony and inflaming of the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10282" xml:space="preserve">We <lb/>ſaid before, That to partake more of the mother’s bloud conduceth to long life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10283" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>alſo we ſuppoſe all things in moderation to be beſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10284" xml:space="preserve">rather Conjugal love than <lb/>Meretricious; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10285" xml:space="preserve">the hour for Generation to be the morning; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10286" xml:space="preserve">a ſtate of body not too <lb/>luſty or full, and ſuch like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10287" xml:space="preserve">It ought to be well obſerved, that a ſtrong Conſtitu-<lb/>tion in the Parents is rather good for them then for the Child, eſpecially in the Mother: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10288" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And therefore Plato thought, ignorantly enough, that the virtue of Generations <lb/>halted, becauſe the Woman uſed not the ſame exerciſe both of mind and body <lb/>with the Men. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10289" xml:space="preserve">The contrary is rather true; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10290" xml:space="preserve">for the difference of virtue betwixt <lb/>the Male and the Female is moſt profitable for the Child; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10291" xml:space="preserve">and the thinner Wo-<lb/>men yield more towards the nouriſhment of the Child; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10292" xml:space="preserve">which alſo holds in <lb/>Nutſes. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10293" xml:space="preserve">Neither did the Spartan Women, which married not beforetwenty two, or, <lb/>as ſome ſay, twenty five, (and therefore were called Man-like women) bring forth a <lb/>more generous or long-liv’d Progeny than the Roman or Athenian, or Theban <lb/>women did, which were ripe for Marriage at twelve or fourteen years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10294" xml:space="preserve">and if there <lb/>were any thing eminent in the spartans, that was rather to be imputed to the Par-<lb/>ſimony of their Diet than to the late Marriages of their Women. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10295" xml:space="preserve">But this we are <lb/>taught by experience, that there are ſome Races which are long-liv’d for a few <lb/>Deſcents; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10296" xml:space="preserve">ſo that Life is like ſome Diſeaſes, a thing hereditary within certain <lb/>bounds.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10297" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1270" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0300-03" xlink:href="note-0300-03a" xml:space="preserve">32.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10298" xml:space="preserve">Fair in Face, or Skin, or Hair, are ſhorter livers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10299" xml:space="preserve">Black, or Red, or Freckled, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0300-04a" xlink:href="note-0300-04"/> longer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10300" xml:space="preserve">Alſo too freſh a colour in Youth doth leſs promiſe long life than paleneſs. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10301" xml:space="preserve">A hard skin is a ſign of long life rather that a ſoft; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10302" xml:space="preserve">but we underſtand not this of a rug-<lb/>ged skin, ſuch as they call the Gooſe skin, which is as it were ſpongy, but of that which <lb/>is hard and cloſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10303" xml:space="preserve">A Fore-head with deep furrows and wrinkles is a better ſign than a <lb/>ſmooth and plain Forehead.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10304" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1271" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0300-04" xlink:href="note-0300-04a" xml:space="preserve">33.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10305" xml:space="preserve">The Hairs of the Head hard and like briſtles, do betoken longer life than thoſe that are <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0300-05a" xlink:href="note-0300-05"/> ſoft and delicate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10306" xml:space="preserve">Curled Hairs betoken the ſame thing, if they be hard withal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10307" xml:space="preserve">but the <lb/>contrary if they be ſoft and ſhining: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10308" xml:space="preserve">the like if the curling be rather thick than in large <lb/>bunches.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10309" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1272" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0300-05" xlink:href="note-0300-05a" xml:space="preserve">34.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10310" xml:space="preserve">Early or late Baldneſs is an indifferent thing, ſeeing many which have been <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0300-06a" xlink:href="note-0300-06"/> <pb o="23" file="0301" n="301" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> Bald betimes have lived long. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10311" xml:space="preserve">Alſo early gray hairs (howſoever they may ſeem fore-<lb/>runners of old age approaching) are no ſure ſigns; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10312" xml:space="preserve">for many that have grown gray be-<lb/>times have lived to great years: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10313" xml:space="preserve">nay, haſty gray hairs without Baldneſs is atoken of long <lb/>life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10314" xml:space="preserve">contrarily, if they be accompanied with Baldneſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10315" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1273" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0300-06" xlink:href="note-0300-06a" xml:space="preserve">35.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10316" xml:space="preserve">Hairineſs of the upper parts is a ſign of ſhort life, and they that have extraordinary <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0301-01a" xlink:href="note-0301-01"/> much hair on their breaſts live not long: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10317" xml:space="preserve">but hairineſs of the lower parts, as of the Thighes <lb/>and Legs, is a ſign of long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10318" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1274" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0301-01" xlink:href="note-0301-01a" xml:space="preserve">36.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10319" xml:space="preserve">Talneſs of Stature (if it be notimmoderate) with convenient making, and not too <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0301-02a" xlink:href="note-0301-02"/> ſlender, eſpecially if the body be active withal, is a ſign of long life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10320" xml:space="preserve">Alſo on the con-<lb/>trary, men of low ſtature live long, if they be not too active and ſtirring.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10321" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1275" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0301-02" xlink:href="note-0301-02a" xml:space="preserve">37.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10322" xml:space="preserve">In the proportion of the body, they which are ſhort to the waſtes, with long Leggs, are <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0301-03a" xlink:href="note-0301-03"/> longer-liv’d than they which are long to the waſtes, and have ſhort Leggs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10323" xml:space="preserve">alſo they which <lb/>are large in the neather parts, and ſtreight in the upper, (the making of their body riſing, <lb/>as it were, into a ſharp figure) are longer-liv’d than they that have broad ſhoulders, and <lb/>are ſlender downwards.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10324" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1276" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0301-03" xlink:href="note-0301-03a" xml:space="preserve">38.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10325" xml:space="preserve">Leanneſs, where the affections are ſetled, calm, and peaceable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10326" xml:space="preserve">alſo a more fat ha-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0301-04a" xlink:href="note-0301-04"/> bit of body, joyned with Choler, and a diſpoſition ſtirring and peremptory, ſignifie <lb/>long life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10327" xml:space="preserve">but Corpulency in Youth foreſhews ſhort life, in Age it is a thing more <lb/>indifferent.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10328" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1277" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0301-04" xlink:href="note-0301-04a" xml:space="preserve">39.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10329" xml:space="preserve">To be long and ſlow in growing is a ſign of long life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10330" xml:space="preserve">if to a greaterſtature, the greater <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0301-05a" xlink:href="note-0301-05"/> ſign, if to a leſſer ſtature, yet a ſign though: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10331" xml:space="preserve">contrarily, to grow quickly to a great <lb/>ſtature is an evil ſign; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10332" xml:space="preserve">if to a ſmall ſtature, the leſs evil.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10333" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1278" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0301-05" xlink:href="note-0301-05a" xml:space="preserve">40.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10334" xml:space="preserve">Firm Fleſh, a raw-bone body, and veins lying higher than the fleſh, betoken long <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0301-06a" xlink:href="note-0301-06"/> life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10335" xml:space="preserve">the contrary to theſe, ſhort life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10336" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1279" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0301-06" xlink:href="note-0301-06a" xml:space="preserve">41.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10337" xml:space="preserve">A Head ſomewhat leſſer than to the proportion of the body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10338" xml:space="preserve">a moderate Neck, not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0301-07a" xlink:href="note-0301-07"/> long, nor ſlender, nor ſlat, nor too ſhort; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10339" xml:space="preserve">wide Noſtrils, whatſoever the form of the Noſe <lb/>be; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10340" xml:space="preserve">a large Mouth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10341" xml:space="preserve">and Ear griſtly, not fleſhy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10342" xml:space="preserve">Teeth ſtrong and contiguous, ſmall, or <lb/>thin-ſet, fore-token long liſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10343" xml:space="preserve">and much more if ſomenew Teeth put forth in our elder <lb/>years.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10344" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1280" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0301-07" xlink:href="note-0301-07a" xml:space="preserve">42.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10345" xml:space="preserve"><emph style="sc">A</emph> broad Breaſt, yet not bearing out, but rather bending inwards; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10346" xml:space="preserve">Shoulders ſome-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0301-08a" xlink:href="note-0301-08"/> what crooked, and (as they call ſuch perſons) round-back’d; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10347" xml:space="preserve">a flat Belly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10348" xml:space="preserve">a Handlarge, <lb/>and with few lines in the Palm; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10349" xml:space="preserve">a ſhortand round Foot, Thighs not fleſhy, and Calves <lb/>of the Leggs not hanging over, but neat, are ſigns of long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10350" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1281" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0301-08" xlink:href="note-0301-08a" xml:space="preserve">43.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10351" xml:space="preserve">Eyes ſomewhat large, and the Circles of them inclined to greenneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10352" xml:space="preserve">Senſes not too <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0301-09a" xlink:href="note-0301-09"/> quick; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10353" xml:space="preserve">the Pulſe in youth ſlower, towards old age quicker; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10354" xml:space="preserve">Facility of holding the <lb/>B<unsure/>reath, and longer than uſual; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10355" xml:space="preserve">the body in youth inclined to be bound, in the decline <lb/>of years more laxative, are alſo ſigns of long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10356" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1282" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0301-09" xlink:href="note-0301-09a" xml:space="preserve">44.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10357" xml:space="preserve">Concerning the Times of Nativity, as they refer to long life, nothing hath been ob-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0301-10a" xlink:href="note-0301-10"/> ſerved worthy the ſetting down, ſave onely Aſtrological Obſervations, which we reje-<lb/>cted in our opicks. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10358" xml:space="preserve">A Birth at the eighth month is not onely long-liv’d, but not likely <lb/>to live. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10359" xml:space="preserve">Alſo Winter births are accounted the longer-liv’d.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10360" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1283" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0301-10" xlink:href="note-0301-10a" xml:space="preserve">45.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10361" xml:space="preserve">A Pythagorical or Monaſtical Diet, according to ſtrict rules, and always exactly e-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0301-11a" xlink:href="note-0301-11"/> qual, (as that of Cornarus was) ſeemeth to be very effectual for long life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10362" xml:space="preserve">Yet on the <lb/>contrary, amongſt thoſe that live freely and after the common ſort, ſuch as have good <lb/>ſtomachs, and feed more plentifully, are often the longeſt-liv’d. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10363" xml:space="preserve">The middle diet, which <lb/>we account the temperate, is commended, and conduceth to good health, but not to <lb/>long life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10364" xml:space="preserve">for the spare diet begets few Spirits, and dull, and ſo waſteth the body leſs; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10365" xml:space="preserve">and the liberal diet yieldeth more ample nouriſhment, and ſo repaireth more: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10366" xml:space="preserve">but the <lb/>middle diet doth neither of both, for where the Extreamsare hurtful, there the Mean is <lb/>beſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10367" xml:space="preserve">but where the Extreams are helpful, there the Mean is nothing worth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10368" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1284" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0301-11" xlink:href="note-0301-11a" xml:space="preserve">46.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10369" xml:space="preserve">Now to that spare diet there are requiſite Watching, leſt the Spirits being few <lb/>ſhould be oppreſſed with much ſleep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10370" xml:space="preserve">little Exerciſe, leſt they ſhould exhale; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10371" xml:space="preserve">ab-<lb/>ſtinence from Venery, leſt they ſhould be exhauſted: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10372" xml:space="preserve">but to the liberal diet, on the <lb/>other ſide, are requiſite much Sleep, frequent Exerciſes, and a ſeaſonable uſe of Venery. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10373" xml:space="preserve">Baths and Anointings (ſuch as were anciently in uſe) did rather tend to delici-<lb/>ouſneſs than to prolonging of life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10374" xml:space="preserve">But of all theſe things we ſhall ſpcak more ex-<lb/>actly when we come to the Inquiſition according to Intentions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10375" xml:space="preserve">Mean while that of <lb/>celſus, who was not onely a learned Phyſician, but a wiſe man, is not to be omitted, <lb/>who adviſeth interchanging and alternation of the diet, but ſtill with an inclina-<lb/>tion to the more benign: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10376" xml:space="preserve">as that a man ſhould ſometimes accuſtom himſelf to <pb o="24" file="0302" n="302" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> watching, ſometimes to ſleep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10377" xml:space="preserve">but to ſleep oftneſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10378" xml:space="preserve">again, that he ſhould ſometimes <lb/>give himſelf to faſting, ſometimes to feaſting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10379" xml:space="preserve">but to feaſting oftneſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10380" xml:space="preserve">that he ſhould <lb/>ſometimes inure himſelf to great labours of the miud, ſometimes to relaxations of <lb/>the ſame; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10381" xml:space="preserve">but to relaxations oftmeſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10382" xml:space="preserve">Certainly this is withont all queſtion, that Diet <lb/>well ordered bears the greateſt part in the prolongation of life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10383" xml:space="preserve">neither did I ever meet <lb/>an extream long liv’d man, but beingasked of his courſe, he obſerved ſomething pe-<lb/>culiar; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10384" xml:space="preserve">ſome one thing, ſome another. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10385" xml:space="preserve">I remember an old man, above an hundred <lb/>years of age, who was produced as witneſs touching an ancient Preſcription. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10386" xml:space="preserve">When <lb/>he had finiſhed his teſtimony the Jugde familiarly asked him how he came to live ſo long. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10387" xml:space="preserve">He anſwered, beſide expectation, and not without the laughter of the hearers, By <lb/>eating before I was hungry, and drinking before I was dry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10388" xml:space="preserve">But of theſe things we ſhall <lb/>ſpeak hereafter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10389" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10390" xml:space="preserve">A Life led in Religion and in Holy Exerciſes ſeemeth to conduce to long life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10391" xml:space="preserve">There <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0302-01a" xlink:href="note-0302-01"/> are in this kind of life theſe things, Leiſure, Admiration and Contemplation of hea-<lb/>venly things, Joyes not ſenſual, noblehopes, wholſome Fears, ſweet Sorrows; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10392" xml:space="preserve">laſtly, <lb/>continual Renovations by Obſervances, Penances, Expiations: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10393" xml:space="preserve">all which are very pow-<lb/>erful to the prolongation of life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10394" xml:space="preserve">Unto which if you add that auſtere diet which hard-<lb/>neth the maſs of the Body, and humbleth the Spirits, no marvel if an extraordinary <lb/>length of life do follow; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10395" xml:space="preserve">ſuch was that of Paul the Hermite, Simeon Stelita the Columnar <lb/>Anchorite, and of many other Hermites and Anchorites.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10396" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1285" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0302-01" xlink:href="note-0302-01a" xml:space="preserve">47.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10397" xml:space="preserve">Next unto this is the life led in good Letters, ſuch as was that of Philoſophers, Rhe-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0302-02a" xlink:href="note-0302-02"/> toricians, Grammarians. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10398" xml:space="preserve">This life is alſo led in leiſure, and in thoſe thoughts, which, <lb/>ſeeing they are ſevered from the affairs of the world, bite not, but rather delight <lb/>throughtheir Variety and Impertinency: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10399" xml:space="preserve">They live alſo at their pleaſure, ſpending their <lb/>time in ſuch things as like them beſt, and for the moſt part in the company of young <lb/>men, which is ever the moſt chearful. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10400" xml:space="preserve">But in Philoſophies there is great difference <lb/>betwixt the Sects as touching long life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10401" xml:space="preserve">For thoſe Philoſophies which have in them a <lb/>touch of Superſtition, and are converſant in high Contemplations, are the beſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10402" xml:space="preserve">as the <lb/>Pytbagorical and Platonick: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10403" xml:space="preserve">alſo thoſe which did inſtitute a perambulation of the <lb/>world, and conſidered the variety of natural things, and had reachleſs, and high, and <lb/>magnanimous thoughts, (as of Infinitum, of the Stars, of the Heroical Vertues, and <lb/>ſuch like) were good for lengthning of life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10404" xml:space="preserve">ſuch were thoſe of Democritus Philolaus, <lb/>Xenophanes, the Aſtrologians and stoicks: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10405" xml:space="preserve">alſo thoſe which had no profound Specu-<lb/>lation in them, but diſcourſed calmly on both fides, out of common Senſe, and there-<lb/>ceived Opinions, without any ſharp Inquiſitions, were likewiſe good; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10406" xml:space="preserve">ſuch were thoſe <lb/>of Carneades and the Academicks, alſo of the Rhetoricians and Grammarians. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10407" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>contrary, Philoſophies converſant in perplexing Subtilties, and which pronounced pe-<lb/>remptorily, and which examined and wreſted all things to the Scale of Principles, laſtly, <lb/>which were thorny and narrow, were evil: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10408" xml:space="preserve">ſuch were thoſe commonly of the Peripa-<lb/>teticks, and of the school-men.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10409" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1286" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0302-02" xlink:href="note-0302-02a" xml:space="preserve">48.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10410" xml:space="preserve">The Country life alſo is well fitted for long life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10411" xml:space="preserve">it is much abroad, and in the open <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0302-03a" xlink:href="note-0302-03"/> air, it is not ſlothful, but ever in employment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10412" xml:space="preserve">it feedeth upon freſh Cates, and un-<lb/>bought; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10413" xml:space="preserve">it is without Cares and Envy.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10414" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1287" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0302-03" xlink:href="note-0302-03a" xml:space="preserve">49.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10415" xml:space="preserve">For the Military life, we have a good opinion of that whilſt a man is young. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10416" xml:space="preserve">Certain-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0302-04a" xlink:href="note-0302-04"/> ly many excellent Warriors have been long-liv’d; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10417" xml:space="preserve">Corvinus, camillus, Xenophon, Ageſi-<lb/>laus, with others both ancient and modern. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10418" xml:space="preserve">No doubt it furthereth long life to have <lb/>all things from our youth to our elder age mend, and grow to the better, that a Youth <lb/>full of croſſes may miniſter ſweetneſs to our Old age. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10419" xml:space="preserve">We conceive alſo that Military <lb/>affections, inflamed with a deſire of Fighting, and hope of Victory, do infuſe ſuch a <lb/>heat into the Spirits, as may be profitable for long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10420" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1288" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0302-04" xlink:href="note-0302-04a" xml:space="preserve">50.</note> </div> <pb o="25" file="0303" n="303" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1290" type="section" level="1" n="56"> <head xml:id="echoid-head82" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Medicines for Long Life.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s10421" xml:space="preserve">THe Art of Phyſick, which we now have, looks no further commonly than to Conſerva-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0303-01a" xlink:href="note-0303-01"/> tion of Health and Cure of Diſeaſes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10422" xml:space="preserve">As for thoſe things which tend properly to <lb/>Long Life, there is but ſlight mention, and by the way onely. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10423" xml:space="preserve">Notwith ſtanding we will <lb/>propound thoſe Medicines which are notable in this kind, I mean, thoſe which are Cordials. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10424" xml:space="preserve">For it is conſonant to reaſon, that thoſe things which being taken in Cures do defend and <lb/>fortifie the Heart, or, more truly, the Spirits, against Poyſons and Diſeaſes, being tranſ-<lb/>ferred with judgment and choice into Diet, ſhould have a good effect, in ſome ſort, towards <lb/>the Prolonging of Life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10425" xml:space="preserve">This we will do, not heaping them promiſcuouſly together, (as <lb/>the manner is) but ſelecting the beſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10426" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1290" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0303-01" xlink:href="note-0303-01a" xml:space="preserve">To the <lb/>tenth Ar-<lb/>ticle.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10427" xml:space="preserve">Gold is given in three forms; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10428" xml:space="preserve">either in that which they call Aurum potabile, or in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0303-02a" xlink:href="note-0303-02"/> Wine wherein Gold hath been quenched, or in Gold in the subſtance, ſuch as are Leaf <lb/>gold, and the Filings of Gold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10429" xml:space="preserve">As for Aurum potabile, it is uſed to be given in deſpe-<lb/>rate or dangerous diſeaſes, and that not without good ſucceſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10430" xml:space="preserve">But we ſuppofe that <lb/>the Spirits of the Salt, by which the Gold is diſſolved, do rather miniſter that vertue <lb/>which is found in it, than the Gold it ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10431" xml:space="preserve">though this ſecret be wholly ſuppreſſed. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10432" xml:space="preserve">Now if the body of Gold could be opened with theſe Corroſive waters, or by theſe <lb/>Corroſive waters (ſo the venomous quality were wanting) well waſhed, we conceive <lb/>it would be no unprofitable Medicine.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10433" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1291" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0303-02" xlink:href="note-0303-02a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10434" xml:space="preserve">Pearls are taken either in a fine Powder, or in a certain Maſs, or Diſſolution by the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0303-03a" xlink:href="note-0303-03"/> juice of ſour and new Limons; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10435" xml:space="preserve">and they are given ſometimes in Aromatical Confecti-<lb/>ons, ſometimes in Liquor. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10436" xml:space="preserve">The Pearl, nodoubt, hath ſome affinity with the Shell in <lb/>which it groweth, and may be of the ſame quality with the Shels of Cra-fijhes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10437" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1292" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0303-03" xlink:href="note-0303-03a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10438" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt the transparent precious Stones, two onely are accounted Cordial, the Eme-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0303-04a" xlink:href="note-0303-04"/> rauld and the Jacinth, which are given under the ſame forms that the Pearls are; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10439" xml:space="preserve">ſave <lb/>only that the diſſolutions of them, as far as we know, are not in uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10440" xml:space="preserve">But we ſuſpect <lb/>theſe Glaſſie Jewels, leſt they ſhould be cutting.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10441" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1293" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0303-04" xlink:href="note-0303-04a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s10442" xml:space="preserve">Of theſe which we have mentioned, how far and in what manner they are helpful, ſhall <lb/>be ſpoken hereafter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10443" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10444" xml:space="preserve">Bezoar-Stone is of approved vertue for refreſhing the Spirits, and procuring a gen <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0303-05a" xlink:href="note-0303-05"/> tle Sweat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10445" xml:space="preserve">As for the Vnicorn’s Horn, it hath loſt the credit with us; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10446" xml:space="preserve">yet ſo, as it <lb/>may keep rank with Hart’s Horn, and the Bone in the heart of a Hart, and Ivory, <lb/>and ſuch like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10447" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1294" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0303-05" xlink:href="note-0303-05a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10448" xml:space="preserve">Amber-griece is one of the beſt to appeaſe and comfort the Spirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10449" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10450" xml:space="preserve">Hereafter follow the names only of the Simple Cordials, ſeeing their Vertues are ſuf-<lb/>ficiently known.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10451" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/>Hot. # Hot. # Cold. # Cold. <lb/>Saffron. # Clove-Gilly-flowers. # Nitre. # Fuice of ſweet <lb/>Folium Indum. # Orenge flowers. # Roſes. Violets. # Orenges. <lb/>Lignum Aloes. # Roſemary. # Strawberry- \\ Leaves. # Fuice of Pearmains. <lb/>Citron Pill or \\ Rind. # Mint. # # Borage. <lb/># Betony. # Straw-berries. # Bugloſs. <lb/>Balm # Carduus Benedi- \\ Etus. # Fuice of ſweet \\ Limons. # Burnet. Sanders. <lb/>Baſil. # # Limons. # Camphire. <lb/></note> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s10452" xml:space="preserve">Seeing our ſpeecb now is of thoſe things which may be transferred into Diet, all hot <lb/>Waters and Chymieal Oiles, (which, as a certain Trifler ſaith, are under the Planet <lb/>Mars, and have a furious and deſtructive force) as alſo all hot and biting Spices are <lb/>to be rejected, and a Conſideration to be had, how waters and Liquors may be made of <lb/>the former Simples: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10453" xml:space="preserve">not thoſe phlegmatick diſtilled Waters, nor again thoſe burning Waters <lb/>of spirits of Wine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10454" xml:space="preserve">but ſuch as may be more temperate, and yet lively, and ſending forth <lb/>a benign Vapour.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10455" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10456" xml:space="preserve">I make ſome queſtion touching the frequent letting of Bloud, whether it conduceth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0303-08a" xlink:href="note-0303-08"/> to long life nor no; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10457" xml:space="preserve">and I am rather in the opinion that it doth, if it be turned into a <lb/>habit, and other things be well diſpoſed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10458" xml:space="preserve">for it letteth out the old Juice of the body, <lb/>and bringeth in new.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10459" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1295" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0303-08" xlink:href="note-0303-08a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <pb o="26" file="0304" n="304" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10460" xml:space="preserve">I ſuppoſe alſo, that ſome Emaciating Diſeaſes well cured, do profit to long life, for <lb/>they yield new Juice, the old being conſumed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10461" xml:space="preserve">and, as (as he ſaith) To recover a <lb/>ſickneſs is to renew youth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10462" xml:space="preserve">Therefore it were good to make ſome Artiſicial Diſeaſes, <lb/>which is done by ſtrict and Emaciating Diets, of which I ſhall ſpeak hereafter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10463" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1297" type="section" level="1" n="57"> <head xml:id="echoid-head83" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Intentions.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s10464" xml:space="preserve">HAving finiſhed the Inquiſition according to the Subjects, as namely, of Inanimate <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0304-01a" xlink:href="note-0304-01"/> Bodies, Vegetables, Living Creatures, Man; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10465" xml:space="preserve">I will now come nearer to the <lb/>matter, and order mine Inquiſitions by certain Intentions, ſuch as are true and proper, <lb/>(as I am wholly perſwaded) and which are the very paths to Mortal Life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10466" xml:space="preserve">For in <lb/>this part, nothing that is of worth hath hitherto been inquired, but the contemplations <lb/>of men have been but ſimple, and non-proficients. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10467" xml:space="preserve">For when I hear men on the one <lb/>ſide ſpeak of comforting Natural heat, and the Radical moiſture, and of Meats which <lb/>breed good Blood, ſuch as may neitber be burnt nor phlegmatick; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10468" xml:space="preserve">and of the cheering <lb/>and recreating the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10469" xml:space="preserve">I ſuppoſe them to be no bad men which ſpeak theſe things: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10470" xml:space="preserve">but none of theſe worketh effectually towards the end. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10471" xml:space="preserve">But when on the other ſide I hear <lb/>ſeveral diſcourſes touching Medicines made of Gold, becauſe Gold is not ſubject to cor-<lb/>ruption; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10472" xml:space="preserve">and touching Precious ſtones to refrefh the ſpirits by their hidden properties <lb/>and luſtre, and that if they could be taken and retained in Veſſels, the Balſoms, and <lb/>Quinteſſences of living Creatures, would make men conceive a proud hope of Immorta-<lb/>lity: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10473" xml:space="preserve">And that the Fleſh of Serpents and Harts, by a certain conſent, are powerful to <lb/>the Renovation of Life, becauſe the one caſteth his Skin, the other his Horns: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10474" xml:space="preserve">(they <lb/>ſhould alſo have added the Fleſh of Eagles, becauſe the Eagle changes bis Bill) And <lb/>that a certain Man, when he had found an Oyntment hidden under the ground, and <lb/>had anointed himſelf therewith from head to foot, (excepting onely the ſoles of his feet) <lb/>did, by his anointing, live three hundred years, without any diſeaſe, ſave onely ſome <lb/>Tumors in the ſoles of his feet: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10475" xml:space="preserve">and of Arteſius, who when he ſound his Spirit ready to <lb/>depart, drew into his body the ſpirit of a certain young man, and thereby made him <lb/>breathleſs, but himſelf lived many years by another mans Spirit: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10476" xml:space="preserve">And of Fortunate <lb/>Hours according to the Figures of Heaven, in which Medicines are to be gathered and <lb/>compounded for the prolongation of Life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10477" xml:space="preserve">And of the Seales of Planets, by which ver-<lb/>tuesmay be drawn and fetched down from Heaven to prolong Life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10478" xml:space="preserve">and ſuch like fabulous <lb/>and ſuperſtitious vanities: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10479" xml:space="preserve">I wonder exceedingly that men ſhould ſo much doat, as to <lb/>ſuffer themſelves to be deluded with theſe things. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10480" xml:space="preserve">And again, I do pity Mankind that they <lb/>ſhould have the hard fortune to be beſieged with ſuch frivolous and ſenceleſs apprehenſions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10481" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>But mine Intentions do both come home to the Matter, and are far from vain and cre-<lb/>dulous Imaginatious; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10482" xml:space="preserve">being alſo ſuch, as I conceive, poſterity may adde much to the <lb/>matters which ſatisfie theſe Intentions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10483" xml:space="preserve">but to the Intentions themſelves, but a little. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10484" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Notwith ſtanding there are a few things, and thoſe of very great moment, of which I <lb/>would have men to be forewarned.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10485" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1297" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0304-01" xlink:href="note-0304-01a" xml:space="preserve">To the 12, <lb/>13, and 14 <lb/>Articles.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s10486" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, we are of that opinion, that we eſteem the Offices of Life to be more worthy <lb/>than Ltfe it ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10487" xml:space="preserve">Therefore if there be any thing of that kind that may indeed exactly <lb/>anſwer our Intentions, yet fo, that the Offices and Duties of Life be thereby hin-<lb/>dred; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10488" xml:space="preserve">whatſoever it be of this kind, we reject it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10489" xml:space="preserve">Perhaps wemay make ſome light men-<lb/>tion of ſome things, but we inſiſt not upon them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10490" xml:space="preserve">For we make no ſerious nor diligent diſ <lb/>courſe, either of leading the life in Caves, where the sunbeams and ſeveral changes of the <lb/>Air pierce not, like Epimenides his Cave; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10491" xml:space="preserve">or of perpetual baths, made of Liquors pre-<lb/>pared; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10492" xml:space="preserve">or of shirts, and Sear cloths ſo applied, that the Body ſhould be always as it were <lb/>in a Box; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10493" xml:space="preserve">or of thick paintings of the body, after the manner of ſome Barbarous Na-<lb/>tions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10494" xml:space="preserve">or of an exact ordering of our Life and Diet, which aimeth onely at this, and <lb/>mindeth nothing elſe but that a man live, (as was that of Herodicus amongſt the An-<lb/>tients, and of Cornarus the Venetian in our days, but with greater moderation;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10495" xml:space="preserve">or <lb/>of any ſuch Prodigy, Tediouſneſs, or Inconvenience: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10496" xml:space="preserve">but we propound ſuch Remedies and <lb/>Precepts, by which the Offices of Life may neither be deſerted, nor receive any great <lb/>interr uptions or moleſtations.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10497" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="27" file="0305" n="305" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s10498" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, on the other ſide we denounce unto men that they will give over trifling, and <lb/>not imagine that ſo great a work as the ſtopping and turning back the powerful courſe of na-<lb/>ture, can be brought to paſs by ſome Morning-draught, or the taking of ſome precious <lb/>Drug, but that they would be aſſured that it muſt needs be, that this is a work of labour, <lb/>and conſisteth of many Remedies, and a fit connexion of them amongſt themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10499" xml:space="preserve">for no <lb/>man can be ſo ſtupid as to imagine, that what was never yet done, can be done, but by ſuch <lb/>ways as were never yet attempted.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10500" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s10501" xml:space="preserve">I hirdly, we ingeniouſly profeſs, that ſome of thoſe things which we ſhall propound have <lb/>not been tried by us by way of Experiment, (for our courſe of life doth not permit that) <lb/>but are derived (as we ſuppoſe) upon good reaſon, out of our Principles and Grounds, <lb/>(of which ſome we ſet down, others we reſerve in our mind) and are, as it were, cut and <lb/>digged out of the Rock and Mine of Nature her ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10502" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs we have been careful, <lb/>and that with all providence and circumſpection, (ſeeing the Scripture ſaith of the Body <lb/>of Man, that it is more worth than Raiment) to propound ſuch Remedies, as may at <lb/>leaſt be ſafe, if peradventure they be not fruitful.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10503" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s10504" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, we would have men rightly to obſerve and diſtinguiſh, that thoſe things which <lb/>are good for an Healthful Life, are not always good for a Long Life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10505" xml:space="preserve">for there are ſome <lb/>things which do further the alacrity of the Spirits, and the ſtrength and vigour of the <lb/>Functions, which notwithſtanding, do cut off from the ſum of Life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10506" xml:space="preserve">and there are other things <lb/>which are profitable to prolongation of Life, which are not without ſome peril of health, <lb/>unleſs this matter be ſalved by ſit Remedies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10507" xml:space="preserve">of which, notwithſtanding, as occaſion ſhall be <lb/>offered, we will not omit to give ſome Cautions and Monitions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10508" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s10509" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly we have thought good to propound ſundry Remedies, according to the ſeveral <lb/>Intentions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10510" xml:space="preserve">but the choice of thoſe Remedies, and the order of them, to leave to Diſ-<lb/>cretion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10511" xml:space="preserve">for to ſet down exactly which of them agreeth beſt, with which Conſtitution of <lb/>Body, which with the ſeveral courſes of Life, which with each mans particular Age, and <lb/>how they are to be taken one after another, and how the whole Practique of theſe things is to <lb/>be adminiſtred and governed, would be too long, neither is it ſit to be publiſbed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10512" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s10513" xml:space="preserve">In the Topicks we propunded three Intentions: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10514" xml:space="preserve">The Prohibiting of Conſumption, <lb/>The Peifecting of Reparation, and the Renewing of Oldneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10515" xml:space="preserve">But ſeeing thoſe things <lb/>which ſhall be ſaid are nothing leſs than words, we will deduce theſe three Intentions to ten <lb/>Operations.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10516" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10517" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is, the Operation upon the Spirits that they may renew their vigour.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10518" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10519" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond Operation is upon the Excluſion of Air.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10520" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10521" xml:space="preserve">The third Operation is upon the Bloud, and the Sanguifying Heat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10522" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10523" xml:space="preserve">The fourth Operation is upon the Juices of the Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10524" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10525" xml:space="preserve">The fifth Operation is upon the Bowels, for their Extruſion of Aliment.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10526" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10527" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth Operation is upon the Outward Parts, for their Attraction of Aliment.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10528" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10529" xml:space="preserve">The ſeventh Operation is upon the Aliment it ſelf, for the Inſinuation thereof.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10530" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10531" xml:space="preserve">The eighth Operation is upon the laſt Act of Aſſimilation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10532" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10533" xml:space="preserve">The ninth Operation is upon the Inteneration of the Parts, after they begin to be dried.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10534" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10535" xml:space="preserve">The tenth Operation is upon the Purging away of Old Juice, and Supplying of New <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0305-10a" xlink:href="note-0305-10"/> Juice.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10536" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1298" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0305-10" xlink:href="note-0305-10a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10537" xml:space="preserve">Of theſe Operations, the four firſt belong to the Firſt Intention, the four next to the se-<lb/>cond Intention, and the two laſt to the Third Intention.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10538" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10539" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe this part touching the Intenſions doth tend to Practice, under the name <lb/>of Hiſtory, we will not onely compriſe Experiments and Obſervations, but alſo Counſels, <lb/>Remedies, Explications of Cauſes, Aſſumptions, and whatſoever hath reference here-<lb/>unto.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10540" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="28" file="0306" n="306" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1300" type="section" level="1" n="58"> <head xml:id="echoid-head84" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Spirits that they may remain <lb/>Youthful, and renew their Vigour.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head85" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10541" xml:space="preserve">THE Spirits are the Maſter-workmen of all effects in the Body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10542" xml:space="preserve">This is ma-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-01a" xlink:href="note-0306-01"/> nifeſt by Conſent, and by infinite inſtances.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10543" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1300" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-01" xlink:href="note-0306-01a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10544" xml:space="preserve">If any man could procure that a young man’s Spirit could be conveyed into <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-02a" xlink:href="note-0306-02"/> an old man’s Body, it is not unlikely but this great Wheel of the Spirits might <lb/>turn about the leſſer Wheel of the Parts, and ſo the courſe of Nature become retro-<lb/>gade.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10545" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1301" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-02" xlink:href="note-0306-02a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10546" xml:space="preserve">In every Conſumption, whether it be by Fire or by Age, the more the Spirit of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-03a" xlink:href="note-0306-03"/> Body, or the Heat, preyeth upon the Moiſture, the leſſer is the duration of that thing. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10547" xml:space="preserve">This occurs every where, and is manifeſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10548" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1302" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-03" xlink:href="note-0306-03a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10549" xml:space="preserve">The Spirits are to be put into ſuch a temperament and degree of activity, that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-04a" xlink:href="note-0306-04"/> they ſhould not (as he ſaith) drink and guzzle the juices of the Body, but ſip them <lb/>onely.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10550" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1303" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-04" xlink:href="note-0306-04a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10551" xml:space="preserve">There are two kinds of Flames: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10552" xml:space="preserve">the one eager and weak, which conſumes ſlight <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-05a" xlink:href="note-0306-05"/> ſubſtances but hath little power over the harder; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10553" xml:space="preserve">as the flame of ſtraw, or ſmall Sticks: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10554" xml:space="preserve">the other ſtrong and conſtant, which converts hard and obſtinate ſubſtances; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10555" xml:space="preserve">as the <lb/>flame of hard wood, and ſuch like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10556" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1304" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-05" xlink:href="note-0306-05a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10557" xml:space="preserve">The eager flames, and yet leſs robuſt, do dry Bodies, and render them exhauſt and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-06a" xlink:href="note-0306-06"/> ſapleſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10558" xml:space="preserve">but the ſtronger flames do intenerate and melt them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10559" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1305" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-06" xlink:href="note-0306-06a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10560" xml:space="preserve">Alſo in Diſſipating Medicines, ſome vapour forth the thin part of the tumors <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-07a" xlink:href="note-0306-07"/> or ſwellings, and theſe harden the tumour; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10561" xml:space="preserve">others potently diſcuſs, and theſe ſof-<lb/>ten it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10562" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1306" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-07" xlink:href="note-0306-07a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10563" xml:space="preserve">Alſo in Purging and Abſterging Medicines, ſome carry away the fluid humors vio-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-08a" xlink:href="note-0306-08"/> lently, others draw the more obſtinate and viſcous.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10564" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1307" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-08" xlink:href="note-0306-08a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10565" xml:space="preserve">The Spirits ought to be inveſted and armed with ſuch a heat, that they may chuſe ra-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-09a" xlink:href="note-0306-09"/> ther to ſtir and undermine hard and obſtinate matters, than to diſcharge and carry away <lb/>the thin and prepared; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10566" xml:space="preserve">for by that means the Body becomes green and ſolid.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10567" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1308" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-09" xlink:href="note-0306-09a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10568" xml:space="preserve">The Spirits are ſo to be wrought and tempered, that they may be in Subſtance Denſe, not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-10a" xlink:href="note-0306-10"/> Rare; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10569" xml:space="preserve">in Heat strong, not Eager; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10570" xml:space="preserve">in Quantity Sufficient for the offices of Life, not Re-<lb/>dundant or Turgid; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10571" xml:space="preserve">in Motion Appeaſed, not Dancing or Unequal.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10572" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1309" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-10" xlink:href="note-0306-10a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10573" xml:space="preserve">That Vapours work powerfully upon the Spirits, it is manifeſt by Sleep, by Drunken-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-11a" xlink:href="note-0306-11"/> neſs, by Melancholick Paſſions, by letificant Medicines, by Odours, calling the Spirits <lb/>back again in Swounings and Faintings.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10574" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1310" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-11" xlink:href="note-0306-11a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10575" xml:space="preserve">The Spirits are condenſed four ways; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10576" xml:space="preserve">either by putting them to flight, or by refri-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-12a" xlink:href="note-0306-12"/> gerating and cooling them, or by ſtroaking them, or by quieting them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10577" xml:space="preserve">And firſt of their <lb/>Condenſation by putting them to flight.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10578" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1311" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-12" xlink:href="note-0306-12a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10579" xml:space="preserve">Whatſoever putteth to flight on all parts, driveth the body into his Centre, and ſo <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-13a" xlink:href="note-0306-13"/> Condenſeth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10580" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1312" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-13" xlink:href="note-0306-13a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10581" xml:space="preserve">To the Condenſation of the spirits by flight, the moſt powerful and effectual is Opi-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-14a" xlink:href="note-0306-14"/> um, and next Opiates, and generally all Sop<unsure/>or<unsure/>iferous things.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10582" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1313" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-14" xlink:href="note-0306-14a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10583" xml:space="preserve">The force of Opium to the condenſation of the Spirits is exceeding ſtrong, whenas <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-15a" xlink:href="note-0306-15"/> perhaps three grains thereof will in a ſhort time ſo coagulate the Spirits, that they re <lb/>turn no more, but are extinguiſhed, and become immoveable.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10584" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1314" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-15" xlink:href="note-0306-15a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10585" xml:space="preserve">Opium, and the like, put not the Spirits to flight by their coldneſs, for they <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-16a" xlink:href="note-0306-16"/> have parts manifeſtly hot; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10586" xml:space="preserve">but, on the contrary, cool by their putting the Spirits <lb/>to flight.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10587" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1315" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-16" xlink:href="note-0306-16a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10588" xml:space="preserve">The Flight of the Spirits by Opium and Opiate Medicines is beſt ſeen by applying the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-17a" xlink:href="note-0306-17"/> ſame outwardly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10589" xml:space="preserve">for the Spirits ſtraight with-draw themſelves, and will return no more, <lb/>but the part is mortified, and turns to a Gængrene.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10590" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1316" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-17" xlink:href="note-0306-17a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10591" xml:space="preserve">Opiates, in grievous pains, as in the Stone, or the cutting off of a Limb, mitigate pains <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-18a" xlink:href="note-0306-18"/> moſt of all, by putting the Spirits to flight.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10592" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1317" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-18" xlink:href="note-0306-18a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10593" xml:space="preserve">Opiates obtai<unsure/>n a good effect from a bad cauſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10594" xml:space="preserve">for the Flight of the Spirits is evil but <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0306-19a" xlink:href="note-0306-19"/> the Condenſation of them through their flight is good.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10595" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1318" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0306-19" xlink:href="note-0306-19a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note> </div> <pb o="29" file="0307" n="307" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10596" xml:space="preserve">The Grecians attributed much, both for health and for prolongation of life, as O-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-01a" xlink:href="note-0307-01"/> piates: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10597" xml:space="preserve">but the Arabians much more, inſomuch that their grand Medicines (which they <lb/>called the gods Hands) had Opium for their Baſis and principal Ingredient, other things <lb/>being mixed to abate and correct the noxious qualities thereof; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10598" xml:space="preserve">ſuch were Treacle, <lb/>Methridate, and the reſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10599" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1319" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-01" xlink:href="note-0307-01a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10600" xml:space="preserve">Whatſoever is given with good ſucceſs in the curing of Peſtilential and Malignant <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-02a" xlink:href="note-0307-02"/> Diſeaſes, to ſtop and bridle the Spirits, leſt they grow turbulent and tumultuate, may <lb/>very happily be transferred to the prolongation of life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10601" xml:space="preserve">for one thing is effectual unto <lb/>both, namely, the condenſation of the Spirits: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10602" xml:space="preserve">now there is nothing better for that <lb/>than Opiates.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10603" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1320" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-02" xlink:href="note-0307-02a" xml:space="preserve">21.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10604" xml:space="preserve">The Turks find Opium, even in a reaſonable good quantity, harmleſs and comfortable, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-03a" xlink:href="note-0307-03"/> inſomuch that they take it before their Battel to excite courage: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10605" xml:space="preserve">but to us, unleſs it be <lb/>in a very ſmall quantity, and with good Correctives, it is mortal.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10606" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1321" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-03" xlink:href="note-0307-03a" xml:space="preserve">22.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10607" xml:space="preserve">Opium and Opiates are manifeſtly found to excite Venus; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10608" xml:space="preserve">which ſhews them to have <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-04a" xlink:href="note-0307-04"/> force to corroborate the Spirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10609" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1322" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-04" xlink:href="note-0307-04a" xml:space="preserve">23.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10610" xml:space="preserve">Diſtilled Water of wilde Poppy is given with good ſucceſs in Surfeits, Agues, and divers <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-05a" xlink:href="note-0307-05"/> diſeaſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10611" xml:space="preserve">which no doubt is a temperate kind of Opiate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10612" xml:space="preserve">Neither let any man wonder <lb/>at the various uſe of it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10613" xml:space="preserve">for that is familiar to Opiates, in regard that the Spirits, cor-<lb/>roborated and condenſed, will riſe up againſt any diſeaſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10614" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1323" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-05" xlink:href="note-0307-05a" xml:space="preserve">24.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10615" xml:space="preserve">The Turks uſe a kind of Herb which they call Caphe, which they dry and powder, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-06a" xlink:href="note-0307-06"/> and then drink in warm water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10616" xml:space="preserve">which, they ſay, doth not a little ſharpen them, both <lb/>in their Courage, and in their Wits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10617" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding, if it be taken in a large quantity, <lb/>it affects and diſturbs the mind: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10618" xml:space="preserve">whereby it is manifeſt, that it is of the ſame nature <lb/>with Opiates.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10619" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1324" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-06" xlink:href="note-0307-06a" xml:space="preserve">25.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10620" xml:space="preserve">There is a Root much renowned in all the Eaſtern parts, which they call Betel, which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-07a" xlink:href="note-0307-07"/> the Indians and others uſe to carry in their mouths, and to champ it, and by that <lb/>champing they are wonderfully enabled both to endure labours, and to overcome <lb/>ſickneſſes, and to the act of carnal copulation: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10621" xml:space="preserve">It ſeems to be a kind of Stupefactive, <lb/>becauſe it exceedingly blacks the Teeth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10622" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1325" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-07" xlink:href="note-0307-07a" xml:space="preserve">26.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10623" xml:space="preserve">Tobacco in our age is immoderately grown into uſe, and it affects men with a ſe-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-08a" xlink:href="note-0307-08"/> cret kind of delight, inſomuch that they who have once inured themſelves unto it can <lb/>hardly afterwards leave it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10624" xml:space="preserve">and no doubt it hath power to lighten the body, and to <lb/>ſhake off wearineſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10625" xml:space="preserve">Now the vertue of it is commonly thought to be, becauſe it <lb/>opens the paſſages, and voids humors: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10626" xml:space="preserve">but it may more rightly be referred to the con-<lb/>denſation of the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10627" xml:space="preserve">for it is a kind of Henbane, and manifeſtly troubles the <lb/>Head, as Opiates do.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10628" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1326" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-08" xlink:href="note-0307-08a" xml:space="preserve">27.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10629" xml:space="preserve">There are ſometimes Humors engendred in the body, which are, as it were, Opiate <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-09a" xlink:href="note-0307-09"/> themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10630" xml:space="preserve">as it is in ſome kind of Melancholies, with which if a man be affected, it <lb/>is a ſign of very long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10631" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1327" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-09" xlink:href="note-0307-09a" xml:space="preserve">28.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10632" xml:space="preserve">The ſimple Opiates (which are alſo called Stupefactives) are theſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10633" xml:space="preserve">Opium it ſelf, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-10a" xlink:href="note-0307-10"/> which is the juice of Poppy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10634" xml:space="preserve">both the Poppies, as well in the Herb as in the Seed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10635" xml:space="preserve">Hen-<lb/>bane, Mandrake, Hemlock, Tobacco, Night-ſhade.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10636" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1328" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-10" xlink:href="note-0307-10a" xml:space="preserve">29.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10637" xml:space="preserve">The compound Opiates are, Treacle, Methridate, Trifera, Ladanum, Paracelſi, Diaco-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-11a" xlink:href="note-0307-11"/> nium, Diaſcordium, Philonium, Pills of Hounds-tongue.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10638" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1329" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-11" xlink:href="note-0307-11a" xml:space="preserve">30.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10639" xml:space="preserve">From this which hath been ſaid, certain Deſignations or Counſels may be deduced <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-12a" xlink:href="note-0307-12"/> for the prolongation of life, according to the preſent intenſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10640" xml:space="preserve">namely, of condenſing <lb/>the Spirits by Opiates.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10641" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1330" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-12" xlink:href="note-0307-12a" xml:space="preserve">31.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10642" xml:space="preserve">L<unsure/>et there be therefore every year, from Adult years of Youth, an Opiate diet; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10643" xml:space="preserve">let it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-13a" xlink:href="note-0307-13"/> be taken about the end of May, becauſe the Spirits in the Summer are more looſe and <lb/>attenuated, and there are leſs dangers from cold humours; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10644" xml:space="preserve">let it be ſome Magiſtral <lb/>Opiate, weaker than thoſe that are commonly in uſe, both in reſpect of a ſmaller quan-<lb/>tity of Opium, and of a more ſparing mixture of extreme hot things; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10645" xml:space="preserve">let it be taken in <lb/>the morning betwixt ſleeps. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10646" xml:space="preserve">The fare for that time would be more ſimple and ſpa-<lb/>ring than ordinary, without Wine, or Spices, or Vapourous things. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10647" xml:space="preserve">This Medicine to <lb/>be taken onely each other day, and to be continued for a fortnight. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10648" xml:space="preserve">This Deſignation in <lb/>our judgment comes home to the intenſion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10649" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1331" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-13" xlink:href="note-0307-13a" xml:space="preserve">32.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10650" xml:space="preserve">Opiates alſo may be taken, not onely by the mouth, but alſo by Fumes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10651" xml:space="preserve">but the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0307-14a" xlink:href="note-0307-14"/> Fumes muſt be ſuch as may not move the expulſive Faculty too ſtrongly, nor force <lb/>down humours, but onely taken in a Weft, may work upon the Spirits within the <lb/>brain. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10652" xml:space="preserve">And therefore a Suffumigation of Tobacco, Lignum-Aloes, Roſemary-leaves <pb o="30" file="0308" n="308" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> dried, and a little Myrrhe ſnuffed up in the morning at the mouth and noſtrils, would be <lb/>very good.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10653" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1332" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0307-14" xlink:href="note-0307-14a" xml:space="preserve">33.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10654" xml:space="preserve">In Grand Opiates, ſuch as are Treacle, Methridate, and the reſt, it would not be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0308-01a" xlink:href="note-0308-01"/> amiſs (eſpecially in youth) to take rather the diſtilled Waters of them than themſelyes <lb/>in their bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10655" xml:space="preserve">for the vapour in diſtilling doth riſe, but the heat of the Medicine com-<lb/>monly ſetleth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10656" xml:space="preserve">Now diſtilled Waters are good in thoſe vertues which are conveyed by <lb/>Vapours, in other things but weak.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10657" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1333" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-01" xlink:href="note-0308-01a" xml:space="preserve">34.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10658" xml:space="preserve">There are Medicines which have a certain weak and hidden degree, and therefore <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0308-02a" xlink:href="note-0308-02"/> ſafe to an Opiate vertue; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10659" xml:space="preserve">theſe ſend forth a ſlow and copious vapour, but not malig-<lb/>nant as Opiates do, therefore they put not the Spirits to flight; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10660" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding they <lb/>congregate them, and ſome what thicken them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10661" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1334" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-02" xlink:href="note-0308-02a" xml:space="preserve">35.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10662" xml:space="preserve">Medicines in order to Opiates are principally Saffron, next Folium Indum, Am-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0308-03a" xlink:href="note-0308-03"/> ber-greeſe, Coriander-ſeed prepared, Amomum, Pſeuda-momum, Lignum-Rh<unsure/>odium, <lb/>Orenge-flower water, and much more the Infuſion of the ſame Flowers new gathered <lb/>in the Oil of Almonds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10663" xml:space="preserve">Nutmegs pricked full of holes, and macerated in Roſe-<lb/>water.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10664" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1335" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-03" xlink:href="note-0308-03a" xml:space="preserve">36.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10665" xml:space="preserve">As Opiates are to be taken very ſparingly, and at certain times, as was ſaid, ſo theſe ſe-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0308-04a" xlink:href="note-0308-04"/> condaries may be taken familiarly, and in our daily diet, and they will be very effectual <lb/>to prolongation of life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10666" xml:space="preserve">Certainly an Apothecary of Calecute, by the uſe of Amber, <lb/>is ſaid to have lived an hundred and ſixty years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10667" xml:space="preserve">and the Noble-men of Barbary, through <lb/>the uſe thereof, are certifi’d to be very long liv’d, whereas the mean people are but <lb/>of ſhort life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10668" xml:space="preserve">And our Anceſtors, who were longer-liv’d than we, did uſe S<unsure/>affron <lb/>much in their Cakes, Broths, and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10669" xml:space="preserve">And touching the firſt way of condenſing <lb/>the Spirits of Opiates and the Subordinates thereto, thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10670" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1336" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-04" xlink:href="note-0308-04a" xml:space="preserve">37.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10671" xml:space="preserve">Now we will enquire of the ſecond way of condenſing the Spirits by Cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10672" xml:space="preserve">For the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0308-05a" xlink:href="note-0308-05"/> proper work of Cold is Condenſation, and it is done without any malignity, or adverſe <lb/>quality; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10673" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it is a ſafer operation than by Opiates, though ſomewhat leſs <lb/>powerful, if it be done by turns onely, as Opiates are. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10674" xml:space="preserve">But then again, becauſe it may <lb/>be uſed familiarly, and in our daily diet with moderation, it is much more powerful for <lb/>the prolongation of life than by Opiates.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10675" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1337" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-05" xlink:href="note-0308-05a" xml:space="preserve">38.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10676" xml:space="preserve">The Refrigeration of the Spirits is effected three ways, either by Respiration, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0308-06a" xlink:href="note-0308-06"/> or by Vapours, or by Aliment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10677" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is the beſt, but, in a ſort, out of our <lb/>power; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10678" xml:space="preserve">the ſecond is potent, but yet ready, and at hand; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10679" xml:space="preserve">the third is weak, and <lb/>ſomewhat about.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10680" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1338" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-06" xlink:href="note-0308-06a" xml:space="preserve">39.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10681" xml:space="preserve">Air clear and pure, and which hath no foggineſs in it, before it be received into the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0308-07a" xlink:href="note-0308-07"/> Lungs, and which is leaſt expoſed to the Sun-beams, condenſeth the Spirits beſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10682" xml:space="preserve">Such <lb/>is found either on the tops of dry Mountains, or in Champagnes open to the wind, and <lb/>yet not without ſome ſhade.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10683" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1339" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-07" xlink:href="note-0308-07a" xml:space="preserve">40.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10684" xml:space="preserve">As for the Refrigeration and Condenſation of the Spirits by Vapours, the Root of this <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0308-08a" xlink:href="note-0308-08"/> operation we place in Nitre, as a Creature purpoſely made and choſen for this end, be-<lb/>ing thereunto led, and perſwaded by theſe Arguments.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10685" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1340" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-08" xlink:href="note-0308-08a" xml:space="preserve">41.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10686" xml:space="preserve">Nitre is a kind of cool Spice: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10687" xml:space="preserve">this is apparent to the ſenſe it ſelf, for it bites the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0308-09a" xlink:href="note-0308-09"/> Tongue and Palate with cold, as Spices do with heat, and it is the onely thing, as far as <lb/>we know, that hath this property.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10688" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1341" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-09" xlink:href="note-0308-09a" xml:space="preserve">42.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10689" xml:space="preserve">Almoſt all cold things (which are cold properly, and not by accident, as Opium is) <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0308-10a" xlink:href="note-0308-10"/> are poor and jejune of Spirit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10690" xml:space="preserve">contrarily, things full of Spirit are almoſt all hot, onely <lb/>Nitre is found amongſt Vegetables, which aboundeth with Spirit, and yet is cold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10691" xml:space="preserve">As <lb/>for Camphire, which is full of Spirit, and yet performeth the actions of cold, it cooleth <lb/>by accident onely; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10692" xml:space="preserve">as namely, for that by the thinneſs thereof, without Acrimony, <lb/>it helpeth perſpiration in inflammations.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10693" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1342" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-10" xlink:href="note-0308-10a" xml:space="preserve">43.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10694" xml:space="preserve">In congealing and freezing of Liquors, (which is lately grown into uſe) by laying <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0308-11a" xlink:href="note-0308-11"/> Snow and Ice on the out-ſide of the Veſſel, Nitre is alſo added, and no doubt it ex-<lb/>citeth and fortifieth the Congelation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10695" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that they uſe alſo for this work ordinary <lb/>Bay-Salt, which doth rather give activity to the coldneſs of the Snow, than cool by it <lb/>ſelf: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10696" xml:space="preserve">But, as I have heard, in the hotter Regions, where Snow falls not, the congeal-<lb/>ing is wrought by Nitre alone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10697" xml:space="preserve">but this I cannot certainly affirm.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10698" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1343" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-11" xlink:href="note-0308-11a" xml:space="preserve">44.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10699" xml:space="preserve">It is affirmed that Gun powder, which conſiſteth principally of Nitre, being taken in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0308-12a" xlink:href="note-0308-12"/> drink, doth conduce to valour, and that it is uſed oftentimes by Mariners and Souldiers <lb/>before they begin their Battels, as the Turks do Opium.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10700" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1344" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0308-12" xlink:href="note-0308-12a" xml:space="preserve">45.</note> </div> <pb o="31" file="0309" n="309" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10701" xml:space="preserve">Nitre is given with good ſucceſs in burning Agues, and Peſtilential Fevers, to miti-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-01a" xlink:href="note-0309-01"/> gate and bridle their pernicious heats.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10702" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1345" type="float" level="2" n="46"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-01" xlink:href="note-0309-01a" xml:space="preserve">46.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10703" xml:space="preserve">It is manifeſt, that Nitre in Gun-powder doth mightily abhor the Flame, from <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-02a" xlink:href="note-0309-02"/> whence is cauſed that horrible Crack and puffing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10704" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1346" type="float" level="2" n="47"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-02" xlink:href="note-0309-02a" xml:space="preserve">47.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10705" xml:space="preserve">Nitre is found to be, as it were, the Spirit of the Earth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10706" xml:space="preserve">for this is moſt cer-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-03a" xlink:href="note-0309-03"/> tain, that any Earth, though pure and unmixt with Nitrous matter, if it be ſo laid up <lb/>and covered, that it be free from the Sun-beams, and putteth forth no Vegetable, <lb/>will gather Nitre, even in good abundance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10707" xml:space="preserve">By which it is clear, that the Spirit of <lb/>Nitre is not onely inferiour to the Spirit of living Creatures, but alſo to the Spirit <lb/>of Vegetables.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10708" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1347" type="float" level="2" n="48"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-03" xlink:href="note-0309-03a" xml:space="preserve">48.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10709" xml:space="preserve">Cattle which drink of Nitrous water do manifeſtly grow fat, which is a ſign of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-04a" xlink:href="note-0309-04"/> cold in Nitre.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10710" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1348" type="float" level="2" n="49"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-04" xlink:href="note-0309-04a" xml:space="preserve">49.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10711" xml:space="preserve">The manuring of the Soil is chiefly by Nitrous ſubſtances; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10712" xml:space="preserve">for all Dung is Nitrous, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-05a" xlink:href="note-0309-05"/> and this is a ſign of the Spirit in Nitre.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10713" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1349" type="float" level="2" n="50"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-05" xlink:href="note-0309-05a" xml:space="preserve">50.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10714" xml:space="preserve">From hence it appears, that the Spirits of Man may be cooled and condenſed <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-06a" xlink:href="note-0309-06"/> by the Spirit of Nitre, and be made more crude, and leſs eager. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10715" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, <lb/>as ſtrong Wines, and Spices, and the like, do burn the Spirits, and ſhorten life; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10716" xml:space="preserve">ſo on the contrary ſide, Nitre doth compoſe and repreſs them, and furthereth to <lb/>life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10717" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1350" type="float" level="2" n="51"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-06" xlink:href="note-0309-06a" xml:space="preserve">51.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10718" xml:space="preserve">Nitre may be uſed with meat, mixed with our Salt, to the tenth part of the Salt; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10719" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-07a" xlink:href="note-0309-07"/> in Broths taken in the morning, for three grains to ten, alſo in Beer: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10720" xml:space="preserve">but howſoever <lb/>it be uſed, with moderation, it is of prime force to long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10721" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1351" type="float" level="2" n="52"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-07" xlink:href="note-0309-07a" xml:space="preserve">52.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10722" xml:space="preserve">As Opium holds the preheminence in condenſing the Spirits, by putting them to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-08a" xlink:href="note-0309-08"/> flight, and hath withal his Subordinates, leſs potent, but more ſafe, which may be <lb/>taken both in greater quantity, and in more frequent uſe, of which we have for-<lb/>merly ſpoken: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10723" xml:space="preserve">ſo alſo Nitre, which condenſeth the Spirits by cold, and by a kind of <lb/>Freſcour, (as wenow a-days ſpeak) hath alſo his Subordinates.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10724" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1352" type="float" level="2" n="53"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-08" xlink:href="note-0309-08a" xml:space="preserve">53.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10725" xml:space="preserve">Subordinates to Nitre are all thoſe things which yield an Odour ſomewhat Ear-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-09a" xlink:href="note-0309-09"/> thy, like the ſmell of Earth, pure and good, newly digged or turned up; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10726" xml:space="preserve">of this ſort <lb/>the chief are, Borage, Bugloſs, Langue de Bœuf, Burnet, Strawberry leaves and <lb/>Strawberries, Frambois or Raſpis, raw Cucumers, raw Pearmains, Vine-leaves, and Buds; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10727" xml:space="preserve">alſo Violets.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10728" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1353" type="float" level="2" n="54"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-09" xlink:href="note-0309-09a" xml:space="preserve">54.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10729" xml:space="preserve">The next in order are thoſe which have a certain ft<unsure/>eſhneſs of ſmell, but ſomewhat <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-10a" xlink:href="note-0309-10"/> more inclined to heat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10730" xml:space="preserve">yet not altogether void of that vertue of refreſhing by cool-<lb/>neſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10731" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as are Balm, green Citrons, green Orenges, Roſe-water diſtilled, roasted Wardens; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10732" xml:space="preserve">alſo the Damask, Red, and Musk Roſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10733" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1354" type="float" level="2" n="55"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-10" xlink:href="note-0309-10a" xml:space="preserve">55.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10734" xml:space="preserve">This is to be noted, that Subordinates to Nitre do commonly confer more to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-11a" xlink:href="note-0309-11"/> this Intenſion, Raw, then having paſſed the Fire, becauſe that the Spirit of Cooling <lb/>is diſſipated by the Fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10735" xml:space="preserve">therefore they are beſt taken, either infuſed in ſome liquor, <lb/>or raw.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10736" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1355" type="float" level="2" n="56"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-11" xlink:href="note-0309-11a" xml:space="preserve">56.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10737" xml:space="preserve">As the condenſation of the Spirits by Subordinates to Opium is, in ſome ſort, per-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-12a" xlink:href="note-0309-12"/> formed by Odours, ſo alſo that which is by Subordinates to Nitre; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10738" xml:space="preserve">therefore the ſmell <lb/>of new and pure Earth, taken either by following the Plough, or by digging, or by <lb/>weeding, excellently refreſheth the Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10739" xml:space="preserve">Alſo the Leaves of Trees in Woods, or <lb/>Hedges, falling towards the middle of Autumn, yield a good refreſhing to the Spi-<lb/>rits, but none ſo good as Strawberry-leaves dying. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10740" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe the ſmell of Violets, or <lb/>Wall-flowers, or Bean-flowers, or Sweet-briar, or Hony-ſuckles, taken as they grow, in <lb/>paſſing by them onely, is of the ſame nature.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10741" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1356" type="float" level="2" n="57"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-12" xlink:href="note-0309-12a" xml:space="preserve">57.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10742" xml:space="preserve">Nay, and we know a certain great w<unsure/>ord who lived long, that had every morning <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-13a" xlink:href="note-0309-13"/> immediately after ſleep, a Clod of freſh Earth laid in a fair Napkin under his Noſe, that <lb/>he might take the ſmell thereof.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10743" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1357" type="float" level="2" n="58"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-13" xlink:href="note-0309-13a" xml:space="preserve">58.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10744" xml:space="preserve">There is no doubt, but the cooling and tempering of the blood by cool things, ſuch <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-14a" xlink:href="note-0309-14"/> as are Endive, Succory, Liver wort, Purſlain, and the like, do alſo by conſequent <lb/>cool the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10745" xml:space="preserve">but this is about, whereas vaponrs cool immediately.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10746" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1358" type="float" level="2" n="59"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-14" xlink:href="note-0309-14a" xml:space="preserve">59.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10747" xml:space="preserve">And as touching the condenſing of the Spirits by Cold, thus much: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10748" xml:space="preserve">The third way <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-15a" xlink:href="note-0309-15"/> of condenſing the Spirits, we ſaid to be by that which we call ſtroaking the Spirits: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10749" xml:space="preserve">The fourth, by quieting the alacrity and unrulineſs of them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10750" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1359" type="float" level="2" n="60"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-15" xlink:href="note-0309-15a" xml:space="preserve">60.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10751" xml:space="preserve">Such things ſtroke the Spirits as are pleaſing and friendly to them, yet they al-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0309-16a" xlink:href="note-0309-16"/> lure them not to go abroad; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10752" xml:space="preserve">but rather prevail, that the Spirits contented, as it were, <pb o="32" file="0310" n="310" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> in their own ſociety, do enjoy themſelves, and betake themſelves into their proper <lb/>Centre.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10753" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1360" type="float" level="2" n="61"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0309-16" xlink:href="note-0309-16a" xml:space="preserve">61.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10754" xml:space="preserve">For theſe, if you recollect thoſe things which were formerly ſet down, as Subor-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-01a" xlink:href="note-0310-01"/> dinates to Opium and Nitre, there will need no other Inquiſition.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10755" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1361" type="float" level="2" n="62"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-01" xlink:href="note-0310-01a" xml:space="preserve">61.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10756" xml:space="preserve">As for the quieting of the unrulineſs of the Spirits, we ſhall preſently ſpeak of that, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-02a" xlink:href="note-0310-02"/> when we enquire touching their Motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10757" xml:space="preserve">Now then, ſeeing we have ſpoken of that <lb/>Condenſation of the Spirits which pertaineth to their ſubſtance, we will come to the <lb/>temper of Heat in them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10758" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1362" type="float" level="2" n="63"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-02" xlink:href="note-0310-02a" xml:space="preserve">62.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10759" xml:space="preserve">The Heat of the Spirits, as we ſaid, ought to be of that kind that it may be robuſt, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-03a" xlink:href="note-0310-03"/> not eager, and may delight rather to maſter the tough and obſtinate, than to carry away <lb/>the thin and light humors.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10760" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1363" type="float" level="2" n="64"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-03" xlink:href="note-0310-03a" xml:space="preserve">63.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10761" xml:space="preserve">We muſt beware of Spices, wine, and ſtrong Drinks, that our uſe of them be very <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-04a" xlink:href="note-0310-04"/> temperate, and ſometimes diſcontinued; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10762" xml:space="preserve">alſo of Savory, Wild marjoram, Penny-royal, <lb/>and all ſuch as bite and heat the tongue; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10763" xml:space="preserve">for they yield unto the Spirits an heat not O-<lb/>perative, but Predatory.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10764" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1364" type="float" level="2" n="65"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-04" xlink:href="note-0310-04a" xml:space="preserve">64.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10765" xml:space="preserve">Theſe yield a robuſt heat, eſpecially Elecampane, Garlick, Carduus Benedictus, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-05a" xlink:href="note-0310-05"/> Water-creßes while they are young, Germander, Angelica, Zedoary, Vervin, Valerian, <lb/>Myrrhe, Pepper-wort, Elder flowers, Garden-Chervile;</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10766" xml:space="preserve"><unsure/> The uſe of theſe things with <lb/>choice and judgement, ſometimes in Sallads, ſometimes in Medicines, will ſatisfie this <lb/>Operation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10767" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1365" type="float" level="2" n="66"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-05" xlink:href="note-0310-05a" xml:space="preserve">65.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10768" xml:space="preserve">It falls out well that the Grand Opiates will alſo ſerve excellently for this Operation, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-06a" xlink:href="note-0310-06"/> in reſpect that they yield ſuch an heat by compoſition, which is wiſhed, but not to be <lb/>found, in Simples. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10769" xml:space="preserve">For the mixing of thoſe exceſſive hot things (ſuch as are En<unsure/>phor-<lb/>bium, Pellitory of Spain, stavis-acre, Dragon-wort, Anacordi, caſtoreum, Ariſtolochium, <lb/>Opponax, Ammoniachum, Galbanum, and the like, which of themſelves cannot be taken <lb/>inwardly) to qualifie and abate the Stupefactive virtue of the Opium, they do make <lb/>ſuch a conſtitution of a Medicament as we now require; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10770" xml:space="preserve">which is excellently ſeen in <lb/>this, That Treacle and Methridate, and the reſt, are not ſharp, nor bite the tongue, <lb/>but are onely ſomewhat bitter, and of ſtrong ſcent, and at laſt manifeſt their heat when <lb/>they come into the ſtomach, and in their ſubſequent operations.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10771" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1366" type="float" level="2" n="67"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-06" xlink:href="note-0310-06a" xml:space="preserve">66.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10772" xml:space="preserve">There conduce alſo to the robuſt heat of the Spirits Venus often excited, rarely <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-07a" xlink:href="note-0310-07"/> performed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10773" xml:space="preserve">and no leſs ſome of the affections, of which ſhall be ſpoken hereafter. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10774" xml:space="preserve">So touching the heat of the Spirits, Analogical to the prolongation of Life, thus <lb/>much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10775" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1367" type="float" level="2" n="68"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-07" xlink:href="note-0310-07a" xml:space="preserve">67.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10776" xml:space="preserve">Touching the Quantity of the Spirits, that they be not exuberant and boiling, but <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-08a" xlink:href="note-0310-08"/> rather sparing, and within a mean, (ſeeing a ſmall flame doth not devour ſo much as a <lb/>great flame) the Inquiſition will be ſhort.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10777" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1368" type="float" level="2" n="69"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-08" xlink:href="note-0310-08a" xml:space="preserve">68.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10778" xml:space="preserve">It ſeems to be approved by experience, that a spare Diet, and almoſt a Pythagori-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-09a" xlink:href="note-0310-09"/> cal, ſuch as is either preſcribed by the ſtrict Rules of a Monastical life, or practiſed <lb/>by Hermites, which have Neceſſity and Poverty for their Rule, rendreth a man long-<lb/>liv’d.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10779" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1369" type="float" level="2" n="70"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-09" xlink:href="note-0310-09a" xml:space="preserve">69.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10780" xml:space="preserve">Hitherto appertain drinking of water, a hard Bed, abſtinence from Fire, a ſlender <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-10a" xlink:href="note-0310-10"/> Diet, (as namely, of Herbs, Fruits, Fleſh, and Fiſh, rather powdred and ſalted than <lb/>freſh and hot) an Hair-ſhirt, frequent Faſtings, frequent Watchings, few ſenſual Plea-<lb/>ſures, and ſuch like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10781" xml:space="preserve">for all theſe diminiſh the Spirits, and reduce them to ſuch a quan-<lb/>tity as may be ſuffi<unsure/>cient onely for the Functions of Life, whereby the depredation is the <lb/>leſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10782" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1370" type="float" level="2" n="71"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-10" xlink:href="note-0310-10a" xml:space="preserve">70.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10783" xml:space="preserve">But if the Diet ſhall not be altogether ſo rigorous and mortifying, yet notwithſtand-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-11a" xlink:href="note-0310-11"/> ing ſhall be always equal and conſtant to it ſelf, it worketh the ſame effect. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10784" xml:space="preserve">We ſee <lb/>it in Flames, that a Flame ſomewhat bigger (ſo it be always alike and quiet) conſu-<lb/>meth leſs of the fuel than a leſſer Flame blown with Bellows, and by Guſts ſtronger <lb/>or weaker: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10785" xml:space="preserve">That which the Regiment and Diet of Cornarus the Venetian ſhewed <lb/>plainly, who did eat and drink ſo many years together by a juſt weight, where-<lb/>by he exceeded an hundred years of age, ſtrong in limbs, and intire in his <lb/>ſenſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10786" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1371" type="float" level="2" n="72"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-11" xlink:href="note-0310-11a" xml:space="preserve">71.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10787" xml:space="preserve">Care alſo muſt be taken, that a body plentifully nouriſhed, and not emaciated by <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-12a" xlink:href="note-0310-12"/> any of theſe aforeſaid Diets, omitteth not a ſeaſonable uſe of Venus, leſt the Spirits in-<lb/>creaſe too faſt, and ſoften and deſtroy the body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10788" xml:space="preserve">So then, touching a moderate quan-<lb/>tity of Spirits, and (as we may ſay) Frugal, thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10789" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1372" type="float" level="2" n="73"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-12" xlink:href="note-0310-12a" xml:space="preserve">72.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10790" xml:space="preserve">The Inquiſition touching bridling the motions of the Spirits followeth next. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10791" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0310-13a" xlink:href="note-0310-13"/> <pb o="33" file="0311" n="311" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> Motion doth manifeſtly attenuate and inſlame them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10792" xml:space="preserve">This bridling is done by three <lb/>means: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10793" xml:space="preserve">by Sleep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10794" xml:space="preserve">by avoiding of vehement Labours, immoderate Exerciſe, and in a word, <lb/>all Laſſitude; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10795" xml:space="preserve">and by refraining irk ſome Affections. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10796" xml:space="preserve">And firſt, touching Sleep.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10797" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1373" type="float" level="2" n="74"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0310-13" xlink:href="note-0310-13a" xml:space="preserve">73.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10798" xml:space="preserve">The Fable tells us, that Epimenides ſlept many years together in a Cave, and all that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-01a" xlink:href="note-0311-01"/> time needed no meat, becauſe the Spirits waſte not much in ſleep.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10799" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1374" type="float" level="2" n="75"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-01" xlink:href="note-0311-01a" xml:space="preserve">74.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10800" xml:space="preserve">Experience teacheth us that certaϊn Creatures, as Dormice and Bats, ſleep in ſome <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-02a" xlink:href="note-0311-02"/> cloſe places an whole Winter together; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10801" xml:space="preserve">ſuch is the force of ſleep to reſtrain all vital <lb/>Conſumption. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10802" xml:space="preserve">That which Bees and Drones are alſo thought to do, though ſometimes <lb/>deſtitute of Honey; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10803" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe Butter-flies, and other Flies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10804" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1375" type="float" level="2" n="76"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-02" xlink:href="note-0311-02a" xml:space="preserve">75.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10805" xml:space="preserve">Sleep after Dinner (the ſtomach ſending up no unpleaſing Vapours to the head, as <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-03a" xlink:href="note-0311-03"/> being the firſt Dews of our Meat) is good for the ſpirits, but derogatory and hurtſul <lb/>to all other points of health. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10806" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding in extream old age there is the ſame <lb/>reaſon of Meat and Sleep, for both our meals and our ſleeps ſhould be then frequent, <lb/>but ſhort and little; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10807" xml:space="preserve">nay, and towards the laſt period of old age, a mere Reſt, and, as <lb/>it were, a perpetual Repoſing doth beſt, eſpecially in Winter-time.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10808" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1376" type="float" level="2" n="77"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-03" xlink:href="note-0311-03a" xml:space="preserve">76.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10809" xml:space="preserve">But as moderate ſleep conſerreth to long life, ſo much more if it be quiet and not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-04a" xlink:href="note-0311-04"/> diſturbed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10810" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1377" type="float" level="2" n="78"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-04" xlink:href="note-0311-04a" xml:space="preserve">77.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10811" xml:space="preserve">Theſe procure quiet ſleep, Violets, Lettuce, eſpecially boiled, Sirrup of dried Roſes, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-05a" xlink:href="note-0311-05"/> Saffron, Balm, Apples, at our going to bed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10812" xml:space="preserve">a ſop of Bread in Malmſey, eſpecially <lb/>where Musk-Roſes have been firſt infuſed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10813" xml:space="preserve">therefore it would not be amiſs to make <lb/>ſome Pill, or a ſmall Draught of theſe things, and to uſe it familiarly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10814" xml:space="preserve">Alſo thoſe <lb/>things which ſhut the mouth of the ſtomach cloſe, as Coriander-ſeed prepared, Quinces <lb/>and Wardens roaſted, do induce ſound ſleep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10815" xml:space="preserve">but above all things in youth, and for <lb/>thoſe that have ſufficient ſtrong ſtomacks, it will be beſt to take a good draught of clear <lb/>cold Water when they go to bed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10816" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1378" type="float" level="2" n="79"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-05" xlink:href="note-0311-05a" xml:space="preserve">78.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s10817" xml:space="preserve">To ching voluntary and procured Trances, as alſo fixed and proſound Thoughts, ſo <lb/>as they be without irksomneſs, I have nothing certain: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10818" xml:space="preserve">no doubt they make to this Intenſion, <lb/>and condenſe the Spirits, and that more potently than Sleep, ſeeing they lay aſleep, and <lb/>ſuſpend the ſenſes as much or more. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10819" xml:space="preserve">Touching them, let further inquiry be made. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10820" xml:space="preserve">so far <lb/>touching Sleep.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10821" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10822" xml:space="preserve">As for Motion and Exerciſe, Laſſitude hurteth, and ſo doth all Motion and Exer-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-06a" xlink:href="note-0311-06"/> ciſe which is too nimble and ſwift; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10823" xml:space="preserve">as Running, Tennis, Fencing, and the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10824" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>again, when our ſtrength is extended and ſtrained to the uttermoſt, as Dancing, Wreſt-<lb/>ling, and ſuch like: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10825" xml:space="preserve">for it is certain, that the ſpirits being driven into ſtreights, either by <lb/>the ſwiftneſs of the motion, or by the ſtraining of the forces, do afterward become <lb/>more eager and predatory. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10826" xml:space="preserve">On the other ſide, Exerciſes which ſtir up a good ſtrong <lb/>motion, but not over-ſwift, or to our utmoſt ſtrength, (ſuch as are Leaping, Shooting, <lb/>Riding, Bowling, and the like) do not hurt, but rather benefit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10827" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1379" type="float" level="2" n="80"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-06" xlink:href="note-0311-06a" xml:space="preserve">79.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10828" xml:space="preserve">We muſt come now to the Affections and Paſſions of the Mind, and ſee which of them <lb/>are hurtful to long life, which profitable.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10829" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10830" xml:space="preserve">Great Joys attenuate and diffuſe the ſpirits, and ſhorten life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10831" xml:space="preserve">familiar Chearfulneſs <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-07a" xlink:href="note-0311-07"/> ſtrengthens the ſpirits, by calling them forth, and yet not reſolving them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10832" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1380" type="float" level="2" n="81"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-07" xlink:href="note-0311-07a" xml:space="preserve">80.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10833" xml:space="preserve">Impreſſions of Joy in the ſenſe are naught; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10834" xml:space="preserve">ruminations of Joy in the memory, or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-08a" xlink:href="note-0311-08"/> apprehenſions of them in hope or fancy, are good.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10835" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1381" type="float" level="2" n="82"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-08" xlink:href="note-0311-08a" xml:space="preserve">81.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10836" xml:space="preserve">Joy ſuppreſſed, or communicated ſparingly, doth more comfort the ſpirits than Joy <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-09a" xlink:href="note-0311-09"/> poured forth and publiſhed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10837" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1382" type="float" level="2" n="83"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-09" xlink:href="note-0311-09a" xml:space="preserve">82.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10838" xml:space="preserve">Grief and Sadneſs, if it be void of Fear, and afflict not too much, doth rather pro-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-10a" xlink:href="note-0311-10"/> longlife; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10839" xml:space="preserve">for it contracteth the ſpirits, and is a kind of condenſation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10840" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1383" type="float" level="2" n="84"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-10" xlink:href="note-0311-10a" xml:space="preserve">83.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10841" xml:space="preserve">Great Fears ſhorten the life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10842" xml:space="preserve">for though Grief and Fear do both ſtreighten the ſpirit, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-11a" xlink:href="note-0311-11"/> yet in Grief there is a ſimple contraction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10843" xml:space="preserve">but in Fear, by reaſon of the cares taken <lb/>for the remedy, and hopes intermixed, there is a turmoil and vexing of the ſpirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10844" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1384" type="float" level="2" n="85"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-11" xlink:href="note-0311-11a" xml:space="preserve">84.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10845" xml:space="preserve">Anger ſuppreſſed is alſo a kind of vexation, and cauſeth the ſpirit to feed upon the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-12a" xlink:href="note-0311-12"/> juices of the body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10846" xml:space="preserve">but let looſe and breaking forth, it helpeth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10847" xml:space="preserve">as thoſe Medicines do <lb/>which induce a robuſt heat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10848" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1385" type="float" level="2" n="86"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-12" xlink:href="note-0311-12a" xml:space="preserve">85.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10849" xml:space="preserve">Envy is the worſt of all Paſſions, and fecdeth upon the ſpirits, and they again <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-13a" xlink:href="note-0311-13"/> uponthe body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10850" xml:space="preserve">and ſo much the more becauſe it is perpetual, and, as it is ſaid, keepeth <lb/>no holidays.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10851" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1386" type="float" level="2" n="87"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-13" xlink:href="note-0311-13a" xml:space="preserve">86.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10852" xml:space="preserve">Pity of another man’s misfortune, which is not likely to befall our ſelves, is good. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10853" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0311-14a" xlink:href="note-0311-14"/> <pb o="34" file="0312" n="312" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> but Pity, which may reflect with ſome ſimilitude upon the party pitying, is naught, be-<lb/>canſe it exciteth Fear.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10854" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1387" type="float" level="2" n="88"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-14" xlink:href="note-0311-14a" xml:space="preserve">87.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10855" xml:space="preserve">Light shame hurteth not, ſeeing it contracteth the spirits a little, and then ſtraight <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0312-01a" xlink:href="note-0312-01"/> diffuſeth them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10856" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch that ſhamefac’d perſons commonly live long: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10857" xml:space="preserve">but Shame for <lb/>ſome great ignominy, and which afflicteth the mind long, contracteth the spirits even <lb/>to ſuffocation, and is pernicious.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10858" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1388" type="float" level="2" n="89"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0312-01" xlink:href="note-0312-01a" xml:space="preserve">88.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10859" xml:space="preserve">Love, if it be not unfortunate, and too deeply wounding, is a kind of Joy, and is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0312-02a" xlink:href="note-0312-02"/> ſubject to the ſame Laws which we have ſet down touching Joy.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10860" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1389" type="float" level="2" n="90"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0312-02" xlink:href="note-0312-02a" xml:space="preserve">89.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10861" xml:space="preserve">Hope is the moſt beneficial of all the Affections, and doth much to the prolonga <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0312-03a" xlink:href="note-0312-03"/> tion of life, if it be not too often fruſtrated, but entertaineth the Fancy with an ex-<lb/>pectation of good: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10862" xml:space="preserve">therefore they which fix and propound to themſelves ſome end, <lb/>as the mark and ſcope of their life, and continually and by degrees go for ward in <lb/>the ſame, are, for the moſt part, long-liv’d; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10863" xml:space="preserve">in ſo much that when they are come to <lb/>the top of their hope, and can go no higher therein, they commonly droop, and live <lb/>not long after: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10864" xml:space="preserve">So that Hope is a Leaf-joy, which may be beaten out to a great exten-<lb/>ſion, like Gold.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10865" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1390" type="float" level="2" n="91"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0312-03" xlink:href="note-0312-03a" xml:space="preserve">90.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10866" xml:space="preserve">Admiration and light contemplation are very powerful to the prolonging of life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10867" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0312-04a" xlink:href="note-0312-04"/> they hold the ſpirits in ſuch things as delight them, and ſuffer them not to tumultuate, <lb/>or to carry themſelves unquietly and waywardly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10868" xml:space="preserve">And therefore all the Contemplators <lb/>of Natural things, which had ſo many and eminent Objects to admire, (as Demo-<lb/>critus, Plato, Parmedides, Apollonius) were long liv’d: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10869" xml:space="preserve">alſo Rhetoricians, which ta-<lb/>ſted but lightly of things, and ſtudied rather Exornation of ſpeech than profundity of <lb/>matters, were alſo long-liv’d; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10870" xml:space="preserve">as Gorgias, Protagoras, Iſocrates, seneca. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10871" xml:space="preserve">And certain-<lb/>ly, as old men are for the moſt part talkative, ſo talkative men do often grow very old; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10872" xml:space="preserve">for it ſhews a light contemplation, and ſuch as doth not much ſtain the spirits, or vex <lb/>them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10873" xml:space="preserve">but ſubtil, and acute, and eager inquiſion ſhortens life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10874" xml:space="preserve">for it tireth the ſpirit, <lb/>and waſteth it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10875" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1391" type="float" level="2" n="92"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0312-04" xlink:href="note-0312-04a" xml:space="preserve">91.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10876" xml:space="preserve">And as touching the motion of the Spirits by the Affections of the Mind, thus much. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10877" xml:space="preserve">Now we will adde certain other general Obſervations touching the Spirits, beſide the <lb/>former, which fall not into the precedent diſtribution.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10878" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10879" xml:space="preserve">Eſpecial care muſt be taken that the Spirits be not too often reſolved; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10880" xml:space="preserve">for attenua-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0312-05a" xlink:href="note-0312-05"/> tion goeth before reſolution, and the spirit once attenuated doth not very eaſily retire, <lb/>or is condenſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10881" xml:space="preserve">Now Reſolution is cauſed by over-great labours, over-vebement affe-<lb/>ctions of the mind, over great ſweats, over great evacuations, hot Baths, and an un <lb/>temperate and unſeaſonable uſe of Venus; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10882" xml:space="preserve">alſo by over-great cares and carpings, and <lb/>anxious expectations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10883" xml:space="preserve">laſtly, by malignant diſeaſes, and intolerable pains and torments <lb/>of the body: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10884" xml:space="preserve">all which, as much as may be, (which our vulgar Phyſicians alſo adviſe) <lb/>muſt be avoided.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10885" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1392" type="float" level="2" n="93"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0312-05" xlink:href="note-0312-05a" xml:space="preserve">92.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10886" xml:space="preserve">The ſpirits are delighted both with wonted things, and with new. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10887" xml:space="preserve">Now it maketh <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0312-06a" xlink:href="note-0312-06"/> wonderfully to the conſervation of the ſpirits in vigour, that we neither uſe wonted <lb/>things to a ſatiety and glutting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10888" xml:space="preserve">nor new things, before a quick and ſtrong appetite. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10889" xml:space="preserve">And therfore both cuſtoms are to be broken off with judgment and care, before they <lb/>breed a fulneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10890" xml:space="preserve">and the appetite after new things to be reſtrained for a time until <lb/>it grow more ſharp and jocond: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10891" xml:space="preserve">and moreover, the life, as much as may be, ſo to <lb/>be ordered, that it may have many renovations, and the ſpirits by perpetual converſing <lb/>in the ſame actions may not wax dull. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10892" xml:space="preserve">For though it were no ill ſaying of Seneca’s, <lb/>The fool doth ever begin to live; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10893" xml:space="preserve">yet this folly, and many more ſuch, are good for <lb/>long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10894" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1393" type="float" level="2" n="94"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0312-06" xlink:href="note-0312-06a" xml:space="preserve">93.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10895" xml:space="preserve">It is to be obſerved touching the ſpirits, (though the contrary uſed to be done) <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0312-07a" xlink:href="note-0312-07"/> That when men perceive their ſpirits to be in good, placid, and healthful ſtate, <lb/>(that which will be ſeen by the tranquility of their Mind, and chearful diſpoſi-<lb/>tion) that they cheriſh them, and not change them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10896" xml:space="preserve">but when, in a turbulent <lb/>and untoward ſtate, (which will alſo appear by their ſadneſs, lumpiſhneſs, and <lb/>other indiſpoſition of their mind) that then they ſtraight overwhelm them, and <lb/>alter them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10897" xml:space="preserve">Now the ſpirits are contained in the ſame ſtate, by a reſtraining of the <lb/>affections, temperateneſs of diet, abſtinence from Venus, moderation in labour, <lb/>indifferent reſt and repoſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10898" xml:space="preserve">and the contrary to theſe do alter and overwhelm <lb/>the ſpirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10899" xml:space="preserve">as namely, vehement affections, profuſ<unsure/>e feaſtings, immoderate Venus, <lb/>difficult labours, earneſt ſtudies, and proſecution of buſineſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10900" xml:space="preserve">Yet men are wont, <lb/>when they are merrieſt and beſt diſpoſed, then to apply themſelves to ſeaſtings, <pb o="35" file="0313" n="313" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> Venus, Labours, Endeavours, Buſineſſes, whereas if they have a regard to long life, <lb/>(which may ſeem ſtrange) they ſhould rather practiſe the contrary. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10901" xml:space="preserve">For we ought <lb/>to cheriſh and preſerve good ſpirits, and for the evil-diſpoſed spirits to diſcharge and <lb/>alter them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10902" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1394" type="float" level="2" n="95"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0312-07" xlink:href="note-0312-07a" xml:space="preserve">94.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10903" xml:space="preserve">Ficinus ſaith not unwiſely, That old men, for the comforting of their ſpirits, ought <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0313-01a" xlink:href="note-0313-01"/> often to remember and ruminate upon the Acts of their Childhood and routh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10904" xml:space="preserve">Cer-<lb/>tainly ſuch a remembrance is a kind of peculiar Recreation to every old man: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10905" xml:space="preserve">and thet efore it is a delight to men to enjoy the ſociety of them which have been <lb/>brought up together with them, and to viſit the places of their education. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10906" xml:space="preserve">Veſpaſian <lb/>did attribute ſo much to this matter, that when he was Emperour he would by no <lb/>means be perſwaded to leave his Father’s houſe, though but mean, leſt he ſhould <lb/>loſe the wonted object of his eyes, and the memory of his childhood; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10907" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, <lb/>he would drink in a wooden Cup, tipped with ſilver, which was his Grandmother’s, <lb/>upon Feſtival dayes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10908" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1395" type="float" level="2" n="96"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0313-01" xlink:href="note-0313-01a" xml:space="preserve">95.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10909" xml:space="preserve">One thing above all is grateful to the Spirits, that there be a continual progreſs to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0313-02a" xlink:href="note-0313-02"/> the more benign; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10910" xml:space="preserve">therefore we ſhould lead ſuch a Youth and manhood, that our <lb/>Old age ſhould find new Solaces, whereof the chief is moderate eaſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10911" xml:space="preserve">And there-<lb/>fore old men in honourable places lay violent hands upon themſelves, who retire not <lb/>to their eaſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10912" xml:space="preserve">whereof may be found an eminent Example in caſſiodorus, who was <lb/>of that reputation amongſt the Gothiſh Kings of Italy, that he was as the Soul of their <lb/>affairs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10913" xml:space="preserve">afterwards, being near eighty years of age, he betook himſelfto a Monaſtery, <lb/>where he ended not his dayes before he was an hundred years old. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10914" xml:space="preserve">But this thing doth <lb/>require two Cautions: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10915" xml:space="preserve">one, that they drive not off till their bodies be utterly <lb/>worn out and diſeaſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10916" xml:space="preserve">for in ſuch bodies all mutation, though to the more benign, <lb/>haſteneth death: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10917" xml:space="preserve">the other, that they ſurrender not themſelves to a ſluggiſh eaſe, but <lb/>that they embrace ſomething which may entertain their thoughts and mind with con-<lb/>tentation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10918" xml:space="preserve">in which kind the chief delights are Reading and Contemplation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10919" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>then the deſires of Building and Planting.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10920" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1396" type="float" level="2" n="97"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0313-02" xlink:href="note-0313-02a" xml:space="preserve">96.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10921" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, the ſame Action, Endeavour and Labour undertaken chearfully and with a good <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0313-03a" xlink:href="note-0313-03"/> will doth refreſh the Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10922" xml:space="preserve">but with an averſation and unwillingneſs, doth fret and <lb/>deject them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10923" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it conferreth to long life, either that a man hath the art <lb/>to inſtitute his life ſo as it may be free and ſuitable to his own humour; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10924" xml:space="preserve">or elſe to lay <lb/>ſuch a command upon his mind, that whatſoever is impoſed by Fortune, it may rather <lb/>lead him than drag him.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10925" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1397" type="float" level="2" n="98"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0313-03" xlink:href="note-0313-03a" xml:space="preserve">97.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10926" xml:space="preserve">Neither is that to be omitted towards the government of the Affections, that eſpecial <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0313-04a" xlink:href="note-0313-04"/> care be taken of the mouth of the Stomach, eſpecially that it be not too much relaxed; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10927" xml:space="preserve">for r<unsure/>hat part hath a greater dominion over the affections, eſpecially the daily affections, <lb/>than either the Heart or Brain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10928" xml:space="preserve">onely thoſe things excepted which are wrought by po-<lb/>tent vapours, as in Drunkenneſs and Melancholly.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10929" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1398" type="float" level="2" n="99"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0313-04" xlink:href="note-0313-04a" xml:space="preserve">98.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10930" xml:space="preserve">Touching the Operation upon the Spirits, that they may remain youthful, and re-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0313-05a" xlink:href="note-0313-05"/> new their vigour, thus much: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10931" xml:space="preserve">which we have done the more accurately, for that <lb/>there is, for the moſt part, amongſt Phyſicians and other Authors touching theſe Ope-<lb/>rations a deep ſilence; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10932" xml:space="preserve">but eſpecially, becauſe the Operation upon the Spirits, and their <lb/>waxing green again, is the moſt ready and compendious way to long life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10933" xml:space="preserve">and that for a <lb/>two-fold compendiouſneſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10934" xml:space="preserve">one, becauſe the Spirits work compendiouſly upon the <lb/>body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10935" xml:space="preserve">the other, becauſe Vapours and the Affections work compendiouſly upon the <lb/>Spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10936" xml:space="preserve">ſo as theſe attain the end, as it were, in a right line, other things rather in <lb/>lines circular.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10937" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1399" type="float" level="2" n="100"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0313-05" xlink:href="note-0313-05a" xml:space="preserve">99.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1401" type="section" level="1" n="59"> <head xml:id="echoid-head86" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Excluſion of the Air. 2.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head87" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10938" xml:space="preserve">THE Excluſion of the Air ambient tendeth to length of life two wayes: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10939" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0313-06a" xlink:href="note-0313-06"/> Firſt for that the External Air, next unto the Native spirit, (how-<lb/>ſoever the Air may be ſaid to animate the Spirit of Man, and con-<lb/>ferreth not a little to health) doth moſt of all prey upon the juices of the body, <pb o="36" file="0314" n="314" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> and haſten the Deſiccation thereof; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10940" xml:space="preserve">and therefore the Excluſion of it is effectual to <lb/>length of life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10941" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1401" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0313-06" xlink:href="note-0313-06a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10942" xml:space="preserve">Another effect which followeth the Excluſion of Air is much more ſubtil and pro-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-01a" xlink:href="note-0314-01"/> found, namely, that the Body cloſed up, and not perſpiring by the pores, detaineth the <lb/>Spirits within, and turneth it upon the harder parts of the body, whereby the Spirit <lb/>mollifies and intenerates them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10943" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1402" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-01" xlink:href="note-0314-01a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10944" xml:space="preserve">Of this thing the reaſon is explained in the Deſiccation of Inanimate Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10945" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-02a" xlink:href="note-0314-02"/> it is an Axiom almoſt infallible, That the Spirit diſcharged and iſſuing forth, drieth <lb/>Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10946" xml:space="preserve">detained, melteth and intenerateth them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10947" xml:space="preserve">And it is further to be aſſumed, <lb/>That all Heat doth properly attenuate and moiſten, and contracteth and drieth onely by <lb/>Accident.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10948" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1403" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-02" xlink:href="note-0314-02a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10949" xml:space="preserve">Leading the Life in Dens and caves, where the Air receives not the Sun-beams, may <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-03a" xlink:href="note-0314-03"/> be effectual to long life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10950" xml:space="preserve">For the Air of it ſelf doth not much towards the depreda-<lb/>tion of the body, unleſs it be ſtirred up by heat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10951" xml:space="preserve">Certainly, if a man ſhall recal things <lb/>paſt to his memory, it will appear that the ſtatures of men have been anciently much <lb/>greater than thoſe that ſucceeded, as in Sicily, and ſome other places: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10952" xml:space="preserve">but this kind of <lb/>men led their lives, for the moſt part, in Caves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10953" xml:space="preserve">Now length of life and largeneſs of <lb/>limbs have ſome affinity. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10954" xml:space="preserve">The cave alſo of Epimenides walks among the Fables. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10955" xml:space="preserve">I <lb/>ſuppoſe likewiſe, that the life of Columnar Anchorites was a thing reſembling the life <lb/>in Caves, in reſpect the Sun-beams could not much pierce thither, nor the Air receive <lb/>any great changes or inequalities. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10956" xml:space="preserve">This is certain, both the Simeon Stelita’s, as well <lb/>Daniel as Saba, and other Columnar Anchorites, have been exceeding long-liv’d. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10957" xml:space="preserve">Like-<lb/>wiſe the Anchorites in our dayes, cloſed up and immured either within Walls or Pillars, <lb/>are often found to be long-liv’d.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10958" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1404" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-03" xlink:href="note-0314-03a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10959" xml:space="preserve">Next unto the life in Caves is the life on Mountains: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10960" xml:space="preserve">for as the beams of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-04a" xlink:href="note-0314-04"/> Sun do not penetrate into Caves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10961" xml:space="preserve">ſo on the tops of Mountains, being deſtitute of <lb/>Reflexion, they are of ſmall force. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10962" xml:space="preserve">But this is to be underſtood of Mountains where <lb/>the Air is clear and pure; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10963" xml:space="preserve">namely, whether by reaſon of the drineſs of the Vallies, Clouds <lb/>and Vapours do not aſcend; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10964" xml:space="preserve">as it is in the Mountains which encompaſs Barbary, where, <lb/>even at this day, they live many times to an hundred and fifty years, as hath been noted <lb/>before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10965" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1405" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-04" xlink:href="note-0314-04a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10966" xml:space="preserve">And this kind of Air of Caves and Mountains, of its own proper nature, is little or <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-05a" xlink:href="note-0314-05"/> nothing predatory; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10967" xml:space="preserve">but Air, ſuch as ours is, which is predatory through the heat of <lb/>the Sun, ought as much as is poſſible, to be excluded from the body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10968" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1406" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-05" xlink:href="note-0314-05a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10969" xml:space="preserve">But the Air is prohibited and excluded two ways: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10970" xml:space="preserve">firſt, by cloſing the Pores; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10971" xml:space="preserve">ſe-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-06a" xlink:href="note-0314-06"/> condly, by filling them up.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10972" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1407" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-06" xlink:href="note-0314-06a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10973" xml:space="preserve">To the cloſing of the Pores help coldneſs of the air, going naked, whereby the skin <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-07a" xlink:href="note-0314-07"/> is made hard, waſhing in cold water, Aſtringents applied to the skin, ſuch as are Ma-<lb/>ſtick, Myrrbe, Myrtle.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10974" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1408" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-07" xlink:href="note-0314-07a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10975" xml:space="preserve">But much more may we ſatisfie this Operation by Baths, yet thoſe rarely uſed, (eſpe-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-08a" xlink:href="note-0314-08"/> cially in Summer) which are made of Aſtringent Mineral Waters, ſuch as may ſafely be <lb/>uſed, as Waters participating of Steel and Coperas; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10976" xml:space="preserve">for theſe do potently contract the <lb/>skin.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10977" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1409" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-08" xlink:href="note-0314-08a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10978" xml:space="preserve">As for filling up the Pores, Paintings and ſuch like Vnctuous daubings, and (which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-09a" xlink:href="note-0314-09"/> may moſt commodiouſly be uſed) Oil and fat things, do no leſs conſerve the ſubſtance <lb/>of the body, than Oil-colours and Varniſh do preſerve Wood.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10979" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1410" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-09" xlink:href="note-0314-09a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10980" xml:space="preserve">The ancient Britains painted their bodies with Woad, and were exceeding long liv’d: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10981" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-10a" xlink:href="note-0314-10"/> the Picts alſo uſed paintings, and are thought by ſome to have derived their name from <lb/>thence.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10982" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1411" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-10" xlink:href="note-0314-10a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10983" xml:space="preserve">The Braſilians and Virginians paint themſelves at this day, who are (eſpecially the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-11a" xlink:href="note-0314-11"/> former) very long liv’d; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10984" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch that five years ago the French Jeſuites had ſpeech <lb/>with ſome who remembred the building of Fernambuck, which was done an hundred <lb/>and twenty years ſince; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10985" xml:space="preserve">and they were then at Man’s eſtate.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10986" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1412" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-11" xlink:href="note-0314-11a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10987" xml:space="preserve">Joannes de temporibus, who is reported to have extended his life to three hundred <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-12a" xlink:href="note-0314-12"/> years, being asked how he preſerved himſelf ſo long, is ſaid to have anſwered, By Oyl <lb/>without, and by Honey within.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10988" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1413" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-12" xlink:href="note-0314-12a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10989" xml:space="preserve">The Iriſh, eſpecially the Wild-Iriſh, even at this day live very long: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10990" xml:space="preserve">certainly they <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0314-13a" xlink:href="note-0314-13"/> report, that within theſe few years the counteſs of Deſmond lived to an hundred and <lb/>forty years of age, and bred Teeth three times. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10991" xml:space="preserve">Now the Iriſh have a faſhion to chafe, <lb/>and, as it were, to baſte themſelves with old Salt-butter againſt the fire.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10992" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1414" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0314-13" xlink:href="note-0314-13a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> </div> <pb o="37" file="0315" n="315" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10993" xml:space="preserve">The ſame Iriſh uſe to wear Saffroned Linen and Shirts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10994" xml:space="preserve">which though it were at <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0315-01a" xlink:href="note-0315-01"/> firſt deviſed to prevent Vermin, yet howſoever I take it to be very uſeful for length-<lb/>ning of life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10995" xml:space="preserve">for Saffron, of all things that I know, is the beſt thing for the skin, <lb/>and the comforting of the fleſh, ſeeing it is both notably Aſtringent, and hath beſides <lb/>an Oleoſity and ſubtle heat, without any Acrimony. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10996" xml:space="preserve">I remember a certain Engliſhman, <lb/>who when he went to Sea carried a bagg of Saffron next his ſtomack, that he might <lb/>conceal it, and ſo eſcape Cuſtom; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10997" xml:space="preserve">and whereas he was wont to be always exceed-<lb/>ing Sea-ſick, at that time he continued very well, and felt no provocation to <lb/>vomit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s10998" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1415" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-01" xlink:href="note-0315-01a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s10999" xml:space="preserve">Hippocrates adviſeth in Winter to wear clean Linen, and in Summer foul Linen and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0315-02a" xlink:href="note-0315-02"/> beſineared with Oil. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11000" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon may ſeem to be, becauſe in Summer the Spirits ex-<lb/>hale moſt, therefore the pores of the skin would be filled up.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11001" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1416" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-02" xlink:href="note-0315-02a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11002" xml:space="preserve">Hereupon we are of opinion, that the uſe of Oil, either of Olives or ſweet Al-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0315-03a" xlink:href="note-0315-03"/> monds, to anoint the skin therewith, would principally conduce to long life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11003" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>anointing would be done every morning when we riſe out of bed, with Oil in which a <lb/>little Bay-ſalt and Saffron is mixed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11004" xml:space="preserve">But this anointing muſt be lightly done with <lb/>Wool, or ſome ſoft ſponge, not laying it on thick, but gently touching and wet-<lb/>ting the skin.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11005" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1417" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-03" xlink:href="note-0315-03a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11006" xml:space="preserve">It is certain that Liquors, even the Oily themſelves, in great quantities draw ſome-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0315-04a" xlink:href="note-0315-04"/> what from the body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11007" xml:space="preserve">but contrarily, in ſmall quantities are drunk in by the body: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11008" xml:space="preserve">there-<lb/>fore the anointing would be but light, as we ſaid, or rather the ſhirt it ſelf would be be-<lb/>ſmeared with Oil.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11009" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1418" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-04" xlink:href="note-0315-04a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11010" xml:space="preserve">It may happily be objected, that this anointing with Oil, which we commend, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0315-05a" xlink:href="note-0315-05"/> (though it were never in uſe with us, and amongſt the Italians is caſt off again) <lb/>was anciently very familiar amongſt the Grecians and Romans, and a part of their Diet; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11011" xml:space="preserve">and yet men were not longer-liv’d in thoſe dayes than now. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11012" xml:space="preserve">But it may rightly be an-<lb/>ſwered, Oil was in uſe onely after Baths, unleſs it were perhaps amongſt Champi-<lb/>ons: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11013" xml:space="preserve">now hot Baths are as much contrary to our operation, as Anointings are <lb/>congruous, ſeeing the one opens the paſſages, the other ſtops them up: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11014" xml:space="preserve">therefore <lb/>the Bath, without the anointing following, is utterly bad; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11015" xml:space="preserve">the anointing without the <lb/>Bath is beſt of all. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11016" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, the anointing amongſt them was uſed onely for delicacy, <lb/>or (if you take it at the beſt) for health, but by no means in order to long life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11017" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>therefore they uſed them with all precious Ointments, which were good for deliciouſ-<lb/>neſs, but hurtful to our intention, in regard of their heat: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11018" xml:space="preserve">So that Virgil ſeemeth not to <lb/>have ſaid amiſs,</s> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1419" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-05" xlink:href="note-0315-05a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s11019" xml:space="preserve">----Nec Caſiâ liquidi corrumpitur uſus Olivi, <lb/>That odoriferous Caſia hath not ſupplanted the uſe of neat Oil-Olive.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11020" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11021" xml:space="preserve">Anointing with Oil conduceth to health, both in Winter, by the excluſion of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0315-06a" xlink:href="note-0315-06"/> cold Air, and in Summer, by detaining the ſpirits within, and prohibiting the Re-<lb/>ſolution of them, and keeping off the force of the air which is then moſt pre-<lb/>datory.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11022" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1420" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-06" xlink:href="note-0315-06a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11023" xml:space="preserve">Seeing the anointing with Oil is one of the moſt potent operations to long life, we <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0315-07a" xlink:href="note-0315-07"/> have thought good to add ſome cautions, left the health ſhould be endangered: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11024" xml:space="preserve">They <lb/>are four, according to the four Inconveniences which may follow thereupon.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11025" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1421" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-07" xlink:href="note-0315-07a" xml:space="preserve">21.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11026" xml:space="preserve">The firſt Ine<unsure/>onvenience is, that by repreſſing ſweats, it may ingender diſeaſes from <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0315-08a" xlink:href="note-0315-08"/> thoſe excrementitious humours. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11027" xml:space="preserve">To this a remedy muft be given by Purges and Cly-<lb/>ſters, that evacuation may be duly performed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11028" xml:space="preserve">This is certain, that evacuation by <lb/>ſweats commonly advanceth health, and derogateth from long life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11029" xml:space="preserve">butgentle Purgers <lb/>work upon the humours, not upon the ſpirits, as ſweat doth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11030" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1422" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-08" xlink:href="note-0315-08a" xml:space="preserve">22.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11031" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond Inconvenience is, that it may heat the body, and in time inflame it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11032" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0315-09a" xlink:href="note-0315-09"/> the ſpirits ſhut in, and not breathing forth, acquire heat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11033" xml:space="preserve">This inconvenience may be <lb/>prevented, if the Diet moſt uſually incline to the colder part, and that at times ſome <lb/>proper cooling Medicines be taken, of which we ſhall ſtraight ſpeak in the operation <lb/>upon the Bloud.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11034" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1423" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-09" xlink:href="note-0315-09a" xml:space="preserve">23.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11035" xml:space="preserve">The third is, that it may annoy the head; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11036" xml:space="preserve">for all Oppletion from without ſtrikes back <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0315-10a" xlink:href="note-0315-10"/> the vapours, and ſends them up unto the head. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11037" xml:space="preserve">This inconvenience is remedied by <lb/>Purgers, eſpecially Clyſters, and by ſhutting the mouth of the ſtomach ſtrongly with <lb/>Stipticks, and by combing and rubbing the head, and by waſhing it with convenient <lb/>Lies, that ſomething may exhale, and by not omitting competent and good exerciſes, <lb/>that ſomething alſo may perſpire by the skin.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11038" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1424" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0315-10" xlink:href="note-0315-10a" xml:space="preserve">24.</note> </div> <pb o="38" file="0316" n="316" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11039" xml:space="preserve">The fourth Inconvenience is a more ſubtil Evil, namely, that the Spirit being <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0316-01a" xlink:href="note-0316-01"/> detained by the cloſing up of the Pores, is likely to multiply it ſelf too much; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11040" xml:space="preserve">for when <lb/>little iſſueth forth, and new Spirit is continually ingendred, the Spirit in creaſeth too <lb/>faſt, and ſo preyeth upon the body more plentifully. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11041" xml:space="preserve">But this is not altogether ſo; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11042" xml:space="preserve">for all Spirit cloſed up is dull, (for it is blown and excited with motion as Flame is) <lb/>and therefore it is leſs active, and leſs generative of it ſelf: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11043" xml:space="preserve">Indeed it is thereby in-<lb/>creaſed in Heat, (as Flame is) but flow in Motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11044" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the remedy to <lb/>this inconvenience muſt be by cold things, being ſometimes mixed with Oil, ſuch <lb/>as are Roſes and Myrtles; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11045" xml:space="preserve">for we muſt altogether diſclaim hot things, as we ſaid of <lb/>Caſſia.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11046" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1425" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-01" xlink:href="note-0316-01a" xml:space="preserve">25.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11047" xml:space="preserve">Neither will it be unprofitable to wear next the body Garments that have in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0316-02a" xlink:href="note-0316-02"/> them ſome Unctuoſity or Oleoſity, not Aquoſity, for they will exhauſt the body <lb/>leſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11048" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as are thoſe of Woollen rather than thoſe of Linen. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11049" xml:space="preserve">Certainly it is <lb/>manifeſt in the Spirits of Odours, that if you lay ſwe@t powders amongſt Li-<lb/>nen, they will much ſooner loſe their ſmell than amongſt Woollen. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11050" xml:space="preserve">And there-<lb/>fore Linen is to be preferred for delicacy and neatneſs, but to be ſuſpected for our <lb/>Operation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11051" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1426" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-02" xlink:href="note-0316-02a" xml:space="preserve">26.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11052" xml:space="preserve">The Wild Iriſh, as ſoon as they fall ſick, the firſt thing they do is to take the ſheets <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0316-03a" xlink:href="note-0316-03"/> off their beds, and to wrap themſelves in the woollen cloaths.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11053" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1427" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-03" xlink:href="note-0316-03a" xml:space="preserve">27.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11054" xml:space="preserve">Some report, that they have found great benefit in the conſervation of their health <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0316-04a" xlink:href="note-0316-04"/> by wearing scarlet Waſcoats next their skin, and under their ſhirts, as well down to <lb/>the neather parts as on the upper.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11055" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1428" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-04" xlink:href="note-0316-04a" xml:space="preserve">28.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11056" xml:space="preserve">It is alſo to be obſerved, that Air accuſtomed to the body doth leſs prey upon it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0316-05a" xlink:href="note-0316-05"/> than new Air and often changed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11057" xml:space="preserve">and therefore poor people, in ſmall Cottages, who <lb/>live always within the ſmell of the ſame chimney, and change not their ſeats, are <lb/>commonly longeſt liv’d: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11058" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding, to other operations (eſpecially for them <lb/>whoſe Spirits are not altogether dull) we judge change of air to be very profitable; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11059" xml:space="preserve">but a mean muſt be uſed, which may ſatisfie on both ſides. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11060" xml:space="preserve">This may be done by re-<lb/>moving our habitation four times a year, at conſtant and ſet times, unto convenient <lb/>ſeats, that ſo the body may neither be in too much peregrination, nor in too much <lb/>ſtation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11061" xml:space="preserve">And touching the Operation upon the Excluſion of Air, and avoiding the <lb/>predatory force thereof, thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11062" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1429" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-05" xlink:href="note-0316-05a" xml:space="preserve">29.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1431" type="section" level="1" n="60"> <head xml:id="echoid-head88" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Bloud, and the <lb/>Sanguifying Heat. 3.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head89" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11063" xml:space="preserve">THE following Operations anſwer to the two precedent, and are in the re-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0316-06a" xlink:href="note-0316-06"/> lation of Paſfives and Actives: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11064" xml:space="preserve">for the two precedent intend this, that <lb/>the Spirits and Air in their actions may be the leſs depredatory; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11065" xml:space="preserve">and the <lb/>two latter, that the Bloud and Juice of the body may be the leſs depredable. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11066" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe the Bloud is an irrigation or watering of the Juices and Members, and a <lb/>preparation to them, therefore we will put the operation upon the Bloud in the firſt <lb/>place. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11067" xml:space="preserve">Concerning this Operation we will propound certain Counſels, few in number, <lb/>but very powerful in virtue. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11068" xml:space="preserve">They are three.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11069" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1431" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-06" xlink:href="note-0316-06a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11070" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, there is no doubt, but that if the bloud be brought to a cold temper, it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0316-07a" xlink:href="note-0316-07"/> will be ſo much the leſs diſſipable. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11071" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe the cold things which are taken <lb/>by the mouth agree but ill with many other Intentions, therefore it will be beſt <lb/>to find out ſome ſuch things as may be free from theſe inconveniences. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11072" xml:space="preserve">They <lb/>are two.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11073" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1432" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-07" xlink:href="note-0316-07a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11074" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is this: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11075" xml:space="preserve">Let there be brought into uſe, efpecially in youth, Clyſters, not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0316-08a" xlink:href="note-0316-08"/> purging at all, or abſterging, but onely cooling, and ſome what opening: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11076" xml:space="preserve">@hoſe are <lb/>approved which are made of the Juices of Lettuce, Purſlane, Liver-wort, Houſesleek, and <lb/>the Mucilage of the ſeed of Flea-wort, with ſome temperate opening decoction, and a <pb o="39" file="0317" n="317" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> little Camphire: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11077" xml:space="preserve">but in the declining age let the Housleek and Purslane be left out, and <lb/>the juices of Borrage and Endive, and the like, be put in their rooms. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11078" xml:space="preserve">And let theſe <lb/>Clyſters be retained, if it may be, for an hour or more.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11079" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1433" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0316-08" xlink:href="note-0316-08a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11080" xml:space="preserve">The other is this, Let there be in uſe, eſpecially in Summer, Baths of freſh water, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0317-01a" xlink:href="note-0317-01"/> and but luke-warm, altogether without Emollients, as Mallows, Mercury, Milk, and <lb/>the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11081" xml:space="preserve">rather take new Whey in ſome good quantity, and Roſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11082" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1434" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0317-01" xlink:href="note-0317-01a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11083" xml:space="preserve">But (that which is the principal in this intention, and new) we adviſe that before <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0317-02a" xlink:href="note-0317-02"/> the bathing of the body be anointed with Oil, with ſome thickneſs, whereby the quality <lb/>of the cooling may be received, and the water excluded: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11084" xml:space="preserve">yet let not the pores of the <lb/>body be ſhut too cloſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11085" xml:space="preserve">for when the outward cold cloſeth up the body too ſtrongly, it <lb/>is ſo far from furthering coolneſs, that it rather forbids, and ſtirs up heat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11086" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1435" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0317-02" xlink:href="note-0317-02a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11087" xml:space="preserve">Like unto this is the uſe of Bladders, with ſome decoctions and cooling juices, ap <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0317-03a" xlink:href="note-0317-03"/> plied to the inferiour region of the body, namely, from the ribbs to the privy parts; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11088" xml:space="preserve">for this alſo is a kind of bathing, where the body of the liquor is for the moſt part ex-<lb/>cluded, and the cooling quality admitted.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11089" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1436" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0317-03" xlink:href="note-0317-03a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11090" xml:space="preserve">The third counſel remaineth, which belongeth not to the quality of the blood, but <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0317-04a" xlink:href="note-0317-04"/> to the ſubſtance thereof, that it may be made more firm and leſs diſſipable, and ſuch, <lb/>as the heat of the ſpirit may have the leſs power over it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11091" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1437" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0317-04" xlink:href="note-0317-04a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11092" xml:space="preserve">And as for the uſe of Filings of Gold, Leaf-gold, Powder of Pearl, Precious ſtones, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0317-05a" xlink:href="note-0317-05"/> Coral, and the like, we have no opinion of them at this day, unleſs it be onely as they <lb/>may ſatisfie this preſent Operation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11093" xml:space="preserve">Certainly, ſeeing the Arabians, Grecians, and mo-<lb/>dern Phyſicians have attributed ſuch virtues to theſe things, it cannot be altogether <lb/>Nothing which ſo great men have obſerved of them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11094" xml:space="preserve">And therefore omitting all fan-<lb/>taſtical opinions about them, we do verily believe, that if there could be ſome ſuch <lb/>thing conveyed into the whole maſs of the bloud in minute and fine portions, over <lb/>which the ſpirits and heat ſhould have little or no power, abſolutely it would not only <lb/>reſiſt Putrefaction, but Arefaction alſo, and be a moſt effectual means to the prolonga-<lb/>tion of life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11095" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs in this thing ſeveral cautions are to be given. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11096" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, that <lb/>there be a moſt exact comminution. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11097" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, that ſuch hard and ſolid things be void <lb/>of all malignant qualities, leſt while they be diſperſed and lurk in the veins, they breed <lb/>ſome ill convenience. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11098" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, that they be never taken together with meats, nor <lb/>in any ſuch manner as they may ſtick long, leſt they beget dangerous obſtructions about <lb/>the Meſentery. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11099" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, that they be taken very rarely, that they may not congregate <lb/>and knot together in the veins.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11100" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1438" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0317-05" xlink:href="note-0317-05a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11101" xml:space="preserve">Therefore let the manner of taking them be fasting, in white wine, a little Oil of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0317-06a" xlink:href="note-0317-06"/> Almonds mingled therewith, Exerciſe uſed immediately upon the taking of them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11102" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1439" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0317-06" xlink:href="note-0317-06a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11103" xml:space="preserve">The Simples which may ſatisfie this Operation are, in ſtead of all, Gold, Pearls, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0317-07a" xlink:href="note-0317-07"/> Coral: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11104" xml:space="preserve">for all Mctalls, except Gold, are not without ſome malignant quality in the <lb/>diſſolutions of them, neither will they be beaten to that exquiſite fineneſs that Leaf-<lb/>gold hath. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11105" xml:space="preserve">As for all glaſſie and tranſparent Jewels, we like them not, (as we ſaid be-<lb/>fore) for fear of Corroſion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11106" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1440" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0317-07" xlink:href="note-0317-07a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11107" xml:space="preserve">But, in our judgment, the ſafer and more effectual way would be by the uſe of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0317-08a" xlink:href="note-0317-08"/> woods in Infuſions and Decoctions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11108" xml:space="preserve">for there is in them ſufficient to cauſe firmneſs of <lb/>bloud, and not the like danger for breeding obſtructions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11109" xml:space="preserve">but eſpecially, becauſe they <lb/>may be taken in meat and drink, whereby they will find the more eaſie entrance into the <lb/>veins, and not be avoided in excrements.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11110" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1441" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0317-08" xlink:href="note-0317-08a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11111" xml:space="preserve">The Woods fit for this purpoſe are Sanders, the Oak and Vine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11112" xml:space="preserve">As for all hot Woods <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0317-09a" xlink:href="note-0317-09"/> or ſomething Roſennie, we reject them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11113" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding you may adde the woody <lb/>ſtalks of Roſemary dried, for Roſemary is a Shrub, and exceedeth in age many Trees; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11114" xml:space="preserve">alſo the woody ſtalks of Ivy, but in ſuch quantity as they may not yield an unpleaſing <lb/>taſte.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11115" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1442" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0317-09" xlink:href="note-0317-09a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11116" xml:space="preserve">Let the Woods be taken either boiled in Broths, or infuſed in Muſt or Ale before <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0317-10a" xlink:href="note-0317-10"/> they leave working: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11117" xml:space="preserve">but in Broths (as the cuſtom is for Guaiacum and the like) they <lb/>would be infuſed a good while before the boiling, that the firmer part of the wood, and <lb/>not that onely which lieth looſely, may be drawn forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11118" xml:space="preserve">As for Aſh, though it be uſed <lb/>for Cups, yet we like it not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11119" xml:space="preserve">And touching the Operation upon the Bloud thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11120" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1443" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0317-10" xlink:href="note-0317-10a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> </div> <pb o="40" file="0318" n="318" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1445" type="section" level="1" n="61"> <head xml:id="echoid-head90" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Juices of the Body. 4.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head91" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11121" xml:space="preserve">THere are two kinds of Bodies (as was ſaid before in the Inquiſition touching In-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-01a" xlink:href="note-0318-01"/> animates) which are hardly conſumed, Hard things and Fat things; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11122" xml:space="preserve">as is <lb/>ſeen in Metalls and Stones, and in Oil and Wax.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11123" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1445" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-01" xlink:href="note-0318-01a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11124" xml:space="preserve">It muft be ordered therefore, that the juice of the body be ſomewhat hard, and that it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-02a" xlink:href="note-0318-02"/> be fatty or ſubroſcid.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11125" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1446" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-02" xlink:href="note-0318-02a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11126" xml:space="preserve">As for bardneſs, it is cauſed three ways: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11127" xml:space="preserve">by Aliment of a firm nature, by Cold con-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-03a" xlink:href="note-0318-03"/> denſing the skin and fleſh, and by Exerciſe, binding and compacting the juices of the <lb/>body, that they be not ſoft and frothy.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11128" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1447" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-03" xlink:href="note-0318-03a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11129" xml:space="preserve">As for the Nature of the Aliment, it ought to be ſuch as is not eaſily diſſipable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11130" xml:space="preserve">ſuch <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-04a" xlink:href="note-0318-04"/> as are Beef, Swine’s-fleſh, Dear, Goat, Kid, Swan, Gooſe, Ring-dove, eſpecially if they be a <lb/>little powdred; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11131" xml:space="preserve">Fiſh likewiſe ſalted and dried, Old Cheeſe, and the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11132" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1448" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-04" xlink:href="note-0318-04a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11133" xml:space="preserve">As for the Bread; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11134" xml:space="preserve">Oaten-bread, or bread with ſome mixture of Peaſe in it, or Rye-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-05a" xlink:href="note-0318-05"/> bread, or Barly-bread, are more ſolid than Wheat-bread, and in Wheat-bread, the <lb/>courſe Wheat-bread is more ſolid than the pure Manchet.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11135" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1449" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-05" xlink:href="note-0318-05a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11136" xml:space="preserve">The Inhabitants of the Orcades, which live upon ſalted fiſh, and generally all Fiſh-eaters, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-06a" xlink:href="note-0318-06"/> are long liv’d.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11137" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1450" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-06" xlink:href="note-0318-06a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11138" xml:space="preserve">The Monks and Hermites which fed ſparingly, and upon dry Aliment, attained com-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-07a" xlink:href="note-0318-07"/> monly to a great age.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11139" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1451" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-07" xlink:href="note-0318-07a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11140" xml:space="preserve">Alſo pure Water uſually drunk makes the juices of the body leſs frothy? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11141" xml:space="preserve">unto which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-08a" xlink:href="note-0318-08"/> if, for the dulneſs of the ſpirits, (which no doubt in VVater are but a little penetrative) <lb/>you ſhall adde a little Nitre, we conceive it would be very good. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11142" xml:space="preserve">And touching the <lb/>firmneſs of the Aliment thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11143" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1452" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-08" xlink:href="note-0318-08a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11144" xml:space="preserve">As for the Condenſation of the skin and fleſh by Cold: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11145" xml:space="preserve">They are longer-liv’d for the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-09a" xlink:href="note-0318-09"/> moſt part that live abroad in the open air, than they that live in Houſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11146" xml:space="preserve">and the Inha-<lb/>bitants of the cold Countries, than the Inhabitants of the hot.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11147" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1453" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-09" xlink:href="note-0318-09a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11148" xml:space="preserve">Great ſtore of clothes, either upon the bed or back, do reſolve the body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11149" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11150" xml:space="preserve">Waſhing the body in Cold Water is good for length of life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11151" xml:space="preserve">uſe of hot Baths is naught. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11152" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-11a" xlink:href="note-0318-11"/> Touching Baths of Aſtringent Mineral Waters we have ſpoken before.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11153" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1454" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-11" xlink:href="note-0318-11a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11154" xml:space="preserve">As for Exerciſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11155" xml:space="preserve">an idle life doth manifeſtly make the fleſh ſoft and diſſipable: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11156" xml:space="preserve">robuſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-12a" xlink:href="note-0318-12"/> exerciſe (ſo it be without over-much ſweating or wearineſs) maketh it hard and com-<lb/>pact. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11157" xml:space="preserve">Alſo exerciſe within cold Water, as ſwimming, is very good; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11158" xml:space="preserve">and generally <lb/>exerciſe abroad is better than that within houſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11159" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1455" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-12" xlink:href="note-0318-12a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11160" xml:space="preserve">Touching Frications, (which are a kind of exerciſe) becauſe they do rather call forth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-13a" xlink:href="note-0318-13"/> the Aliment than harden the fleſh, we will inquire hereafter in the due place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11161" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1456" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-13" xlink:href="note-0318-13a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11162" xml:space="preserve">Having now ſpoken of hardning the juices of the body, we are to come next to the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-14a" xlink:href="note-0318-14"/> Oleoſity and Fattineſs of them, which is a more perfect and potent Intention than Indu-<lb/>ration, becauſe it hath no inconvenience or evil annexed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11163" xml:space="preserve">For all thoſe things which <lb/>pertain to the hardning of the juices are of that nature, that while they prohibit the <lb/>abſumption of the Aliment, they alſo hinder the operation of the ſame; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11164" xml:space="preserve">whereby it <lb/>happens, that the ſame things are both propitious and adverſe to length of life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11165" xml:space="preserve">but thoſe <lb/>things which pertain to making the Juices Oily and Roſcid, help on both ſides, for they <lb/>render the Aliment both leſs diſſipable, and more reparable.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11166" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1457" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-14" xlink:href="note-0318-14a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11167" xml:space="preserve">But whereas we ſay that the Juice of the body ought to be Roſcid and Fat, it is to be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-15a" xlink:href="note-0318-15"/> noted that we mean it not of a viſible Fat, but of a Dewineſs diſperſed, or (if you will <lb/>call it) Radical in the very ſubſtance of the body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11168" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1458" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-15" xlink:href="note-0318-15a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11169" xml:space="preserve">Neither again let any man think, that Oil or the Fat of Meats or Marrow do engen-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-16a" xlink:href="note-0318-16"/> der the like, and ſatisfie our intention: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11170" xml:space="preserve">for thoſe things which are once perfect are <lb/>not brought back again; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11171" xml:space="preserve">but the Aliments ought to be ſuch, which after digeſtion <lb/>and maturation do then in the end engender Olcoſity in the Juices.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11172" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1459" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-16" xlink:href="note-0318-16a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11173" xml:space="preserve">Neither again let any man think, that Oil or Fat by it ſelf and ſimple is hard of diſſi-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0318-17a" xlink:href="note-0318-17"/> pation, but in mixture it doth not retain the ſame nature: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11174" xml:space="preserve">for as Oil by it ſelf is much <lb/>more longer in conſuming then VVater; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11175" xml:space="preserve">ſo in Paper or Linnen it ſticke<unsure/>th longer, and <lb/>is later dried, as we noted be<unsure/>fore.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11176" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1460" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0318-17" xlink:href="note-0318-17a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> </div> <pb o="41" file="0319" n="319" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11177" xml:space="preserve">To the Irroration of the body, roaſted meats or baked meats are more effectual than <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0319-01a" xlink:href="note-0319-01"/> boiled meats, and all preparation of meat with water is inconvenient: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11178" xml:space="preserve">beſides, Oil is <lb/>more plentifully extracted out of drie bodies than out of moiſt bodies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11179" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1461" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-01" xlink:href="note-0319-01a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11180" xml:space="preserve">Generally, to the Irroration of the body much uſe of ſweet things is profitable, as of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0319-02a" xlink:href="note-0319-02"/> Sugar, Honey, ſweet Almonds, Pine-Apples, Piſtachio’s, Dates, Raiſins of the Sun, Corans, <lb/>Figs, and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11181" xml:space="preserve">Contrarily, all ſour, and very ſalt, and very biting things are oppo-<lb/>ſite to the generation of Roſcid Juice.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11182" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1462" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-02" xlink:href="note-0319-02a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11183" xml:space="preserve">Neither would we be thought to favaur the Manichees, or their diet, though we com-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0319-03a" xlink:href="note-0319-03"/> mend the frequent uſe of all kinds of Seeds, Kernels, and Roots, in Meats or Sauces, <lb/>conſidering all Bread (and Bread is that which maketh the Meat firm) is made either <lb/>of Seeds or Roots.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11184" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1463" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-03" xlink:href="note-0319-03a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11185" xml:space="preserve">But there is nothing makes ſo much to the Irroration of the body, as the quality of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0319-04a" xlink:href="note-0319-04"/> the Drink, which is the convoy of the Meat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11186" xml:space="preserve">therefore let there be in uſe ſuch Drinks as <lb/>without all acrimony or ſowrneſs are notwithſtanding ſubtil: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11187" xml:space="preserve">ſuch are thoſe Wines <lb/>which are (as the old woman ſaid in Plautus) vetuſtate edentula, toothleſs with age, <lb/>and Ale of the ſame kind.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11188" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1464" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-04" xlink:href="note-0319-04a" xml:space="preserve">21.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11189" xml:space="preserve">Mead (as we ſuppoſe) would not be ill if it were ſtrong and old: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11190" xml:space="preserve">but becauſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0319-05a" xlink:href="note-0319-05"/> all Honey hath in it ſome ſharp parts, (as appears by that ſharp water which the Chy-<lb/>mists extract out of it, which will diſſolve metals) it were better to take the ſame por-<lb/>tion of Sugar, not lightly infuſed in it, but ſo incorporated as Honey uſeth to be in Mead, <lb/>and to keep it to the age of a year, or at leaſt ſix months, whereby the Water may loſe <lb/>the crudity, and the Sugar acquire ſubtilty.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11191" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1465" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-05" xlink:href="note-0319-05a" xml:space="preserve">22.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11192" xml:space="preserve">Now ancientneſs in Wine or Beer hath this in it, that it ingenders ſubtilty in the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0319-06a" xlink:href="note-0319-06"/> parts of the Liquor, and acrimony in the Spirits, where of the firſt is profitable, and the <lb/>ſecond hurtful. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11193" xml:space="preserve">Now to rectifie this evil commixture, let there be put into the veſſel, <lb/>before the Wine be ſeparated from the Muſt, Swines-fleſh or Deers-fleſh well boiled, <lb/>that the Spirits of the Wine may have whereupon to ruminate and feed, and ſo lay aſide <lb/>their mordacity.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11194" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1466" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-06" xlink:href="note-0319-06a" xml:space="preserve">23.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11195" xml:space="preserve">In like manner, if Ale ſhould be made not only with the grains of Wheat, Barly, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0319-07a" xlink:href="note-0319-07"/> Oates, Peaſe, and the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11196" xml:space="preserve">but alſo ſhould admit a part (ſuppoſe a third part to theſe <lb/>grains) of ſome fat roots, ſuch as are Potado-roots, Pith of Artichokes, Burre-roots, <lb/>or ſome other ſweet and eſculent roots; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11197" xml:space="preserve">we ſuppoſe it would be a more uſeful drink <lb/>for long life than Ale made of grains onely.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11198" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1467" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-07" xlink:href="note-0319-07a" xml:space="preserve">24.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11199" xml:space="preserve">Alſo ſuch things as have very thin parts, yet notwithſtanding are without all acri-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0319-08a" xlink:href="note-0319-08"/> mony or mordacity, are ve<unsure/>ry good Sallets: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11200" xml:space="preserve">which vertue we find to be in ſome few <lb/>of the Flowers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11201" xml:space="preserve">namely, Flowers of Ivy, which infuſed in Vinegar are pleaſant even <lb/>to the taſte; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11202" xml:space="preserve">Marigold leaves, which are uſed in Broths; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11203" xml:space="preserve">and Flowers of Betony. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11204" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>touching the operation upon the Juices of the Body thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11205" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1468" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-08" xlink:href="note-0319-08a" xml:space="preserve">25.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1470" type="section" level="1" n="62"> <head xml:id="echoid-head92" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Bowels for their Extruſion <lb/>of Aliment. 5.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head93" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11206" xml:space="preserve">WHat thoſe things are which comfort the Principal Bowels, whichare the foun-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0319-09a" xlink:href="note-0319-09"/> tains of Concoctions, namely, the Stomack, Liver, Heart and Brain, to <lb/>perform their functions well, (whereby Aliment is diſtributed into the parts, <lb/>Spirits are diſperſed, and the Reparation of the whole body is accompliſhed) may be <lb/>derived from Phyſitians, and from their Preſcripts and Advices.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11207" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1470" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-09" xlink:href="note-0319-09a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11208" xml:space="preserve">Touching the Spleen, Gall, Kidneys, Meſenteries, Guts and Lungs, we ſpeak not, for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0319-10a" xlink:href="note-0319-10"/> theſe are members miniſtring to the principal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11209" xml:space="preserve">and whereas ſpeech is made touching <lb/>health, they require ſometime a moſt ſpecial conſideration, becauſe each of theſe <lb/>have their diſeaſes, which unleſs they be cured, will have influence upon the Prin-<lb/>cipal Members. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11210" xml:space="preserve">But as touching the prolongation of life, and reparation by ali-<lb/>ments, and retardation of the incoction of old age; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11211" xml:space="preserve">if the Concoctions and <pb o="42" file="0320" n="320" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> thoſe principal Bowels be well diſpoſed, the reſt will commonly follow according to ones <lb/>wiſh.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11212" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1471" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0319-10" xlink:href="note-0319-10a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11213" xml:space="preserve">And as for thoſe things which, according to the different ſtate of every man’s body <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-01a" xlink:href="note-0320-01"/> may be transferred into his Diet and the regiment of his life, he may collect them out <lb/>of the Books of Phyſicians, which have written of the comforting and preſerving the <lb/>four Principal Members: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11214" xml:space="preserve">For conſervation of health hath commonly need of no more <lb/>than ſome ſhort courſes of Phyſick; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11215" xml:space="preserve">but length of life cannot be hoped without an or-<lb/>derly diet, and a conſtant race of ſoveraign Medicines. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11216" xml:space="preserve">But we will propound ſome few, <lb/>and thoſe the moſt ſelect and prime directions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11217" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1472" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-01" xlink:href="note-0320-01a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11218" xml:space="preserve">The Stomach (which, as they ſay, is the Maſter of the houſe, and whoſe ſtrength <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-02a" xlink:href="note-0320-02"/> and goodneſs is fundamental to the other concoctions) ought ſo to be guarded and <lb/>confirmed, that it may be without I<unsure/>ntemperateneſs hot; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11219" xml:space="preserve">next aſtricted or boúnd, <lb/>not looſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11220" xml:space="preserve">furthermore clean, not ſurcharged with foul Humours, and <lb/>yet (in regard it is nouriſhed from it ſelf, not from the veins) not altogether <lb/>empty or hungry: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11221" xml:space="preserve">laſtly, it is to be kept ever in appetite, becauſe appetite ſharpens <lb/>digeſtion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11222" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1473" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-02" xlink:href="note-0320-02a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11223" xml:space="preserve">I wonder much how that ſame Calidum bibere, to drink warm drink, (which was in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-03a" xlink:href="note-0320-03"/> uſe amongſt the Ancients) is laid down again. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11224" xml:space="preserve">I knew a Phyſician that was very fa <lb/>mous, who in the beginning of dinner and ſupper, would uſually eat a few ſpoonfulls <lb/>of very warm broth with much greedineſs, and then would preſently wiſh that it were <lb/>out again, ſaying, He had no need of the broth, but only of the warmth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11225" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1474" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-03" xlink:href="note-0320-03a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11226" xml:space="preserve">I do verily conceive it good, that the firſt draught either of Wine, or Ale, or any <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-04a" xlink:href="note-0320-04"/> other drink, (to which a man is moſt accuſtomed) be taken at ſupper warm.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11227" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1475" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-04" xlink:href="note-0320-04a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11228" xml:space="preserve">Wine in which Gold hath been quenched, I conceive, would be very good once in a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-05a" xlink:href="note-0320-05"/> meal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11229" xml:space="preserve">not that I believe the Gold conferreth any vertue thereunto, but that I know <lb/>that the quen ching of all Metals in any kind of liquor doth leave a moſt potent Aſtri-<lb/>ction: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11230" xml:space="preserve">Now I chuſe Gold, becauſe beſides that Aſtriction which I deſire, it leaveth <lb/>nothing elſe be<unsure/>hind it of a metalline impreſſion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11231" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1476" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-05" xlink:href="note-0320-05a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11232" xml:space="preserve">I am of opinion, that the ſops of bread dipped in wine, taken at the midſt of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-06a" xlink:href="note-0320-06"/> meal, are better than wine it ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11233" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially if there were infuſed into the wine in <lb/>which the ſops were dipped Roſemary and Citron-pill, and that with Sugar, that it <lb/>may not ſlip too faſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11234" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1477" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-06" xlink:href="note-0320-06a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11235" xml:space="preserve">It is certain that the uſe of Quinces is good to ſtrengthen the ſtomach; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11236" xml:space="preserve">but we <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-07a" xlink:href="note-0320-07"/> take them to be better if they be uſed in that which they call Quiddeny of Quinces, <lb/>than in the bodies of the Quinces themſelves, becauſe they lie heavy in the ſtomach. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11237" xml:space="preserve">But thoſe Quiddenies are beſt taken after meals, alone; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11238" xml:space="preserve">before meals, dipped in Vi-<lb/>negar.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11239" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1478" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-07" xlink:href="note-0320-07a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11240" xml:space="preserve">Such things as are good for the ſtomach above other Simples are theſe, Roſemary, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-08a" xlink:href="note-0320-08"/> Elecampane, Maſtick, Wormwood, Sage, Mint.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11241" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1479" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-08" xlink:href="note-0320-08a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11242" xml:space="preserve">I allow Pills of Aloes, Maſtick and Saffron in Winter time, taken before dinner; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11243" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-09a" xlink:href="note-0320-09"/> but ſo, as the Aloes be not only oftentimes waſhed in Roſe water, but alſo in Vinegar in <lb/>which Tragac<unsure/>anth hath been infuſed, and after that be macerated for a few hours in <lb/>Oil of ſweet Almonds new drawn, before it be made into Pills.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11244" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1480" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-09" xlink:href="note-0320-09a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11245" xml:space="preserve">Wine or Ale wherein Wormwood hath been infuſed, with a little Elecampane and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-10a" xlink:href="note-0320-10"/> yellow Sanders, will do well, taken at times, and that eſpecially in Winter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11246" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1481" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-10" xlink:href="note-0320-10a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11247" xml:space="preserve">But in Summer, a draught of White-wine allayed with Strawberry-water, in which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-11a" xlink:href="note-0320-11"/> Wine Powder of Pearls and of the ſhells of cra-fiſhes exquiſitely beaten and (which <lb/>may perhaps ſeem ſtrange) a little Chalk have been infuſed, doth excellently refreſh <lb/>and ſtrengthen the ſtomach.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11248" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1482" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-11" xlink:href="note-0320-11a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11249" xml:space="preserve">But generally, all Draughts in the morning (which are but too frequently uſed) of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-12a" xlink:href="note-0320-12"/> cooling things, as of Juices, Decoctions, Whey, Barly-waters, and the like) are to be <lb/>avoided, and nothing is to be put into the ſtomach faſting which is purely cold. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11250" xml:space="preserve">Theſe things are better given, if need require, either at five in the afternoon, or elſe an <lb/>hour after a light breakfaſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11251" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1483" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-12" xlink:href="note-0320-12a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11252" xml:space="preserve">Often faſtings are bad for long life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11253" xml:space="preserve">beſides, all thirſt is to be avoided, and the ſto-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-13a" xlink:href="note-0320-13"/> mach is to be kept clean, but al ways moiſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11254" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1484" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-13" xlink:href="note-0320-13a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11255" xml:space="preserve">Oil of Olives new and good, in which a little Methridate hath been diſfolved, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-14a" xlink:href="note-0320-14"/> anointed upon the back-bone, juſt againſt the mouth of the ſtomach, doth wonderfully <lb/>comfort the ſtomach.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11256" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1485" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-14" xlink:href="note-0320-14a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11257" xml:space="preserve">A ſmall bag filled with locks of Scarlet-wool ſteeped in Red-wine, in which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0320-15a" xlink:href="note-0320-15"/> <pb o="43" file="0321" n="321" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> Myrtle, and Citron-pill, and a little Saffron have been infuſed, may be always worn <lb/>upon the ſtomach. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11258" xml:space="preserve">And touching thoſe things wich comfort the ſtomach thus much, <lb/>ſeeing many of thoſe things alſo which ſerve for other operations are helpful to <lb/>this.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11259" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1486" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0320-15" xlink:href="note-0320-15a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11260" xml:space="preserve">The Liver, if it be preſerved from Torrefaction, or Deſiccation, and from Obſtruction, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0321-01a" xlink:href="note-0321-01"/> it needeth no more; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11261" xml:space="preserve">for that looſeneſs of it which begets Aquoſities is plainly a diſ-<lb/>eaſe, but the other two old age approaching induceth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11262" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1487" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0321-01" xlink:href="note-0321-01a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11263" xml:space="preserve">Hereunto appertain moſt eſpecially thoſe things which are ſet down in the Operation <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0321-02a" xlink:href="note-0321-02"/> upon the Bloud: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11264" xml:space="preserve">we will adde a very few things more, but thoſe ſelected.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11265" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1488" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0321-02" xlink:href="note-0321-02a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11266" xml:space="preserve">Principally let there be in uſe the Wine of ſweet Pomegranats, or, if that cannot be <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0321-03a" xlink:href="note-0321-03"/> had, the juice of them newly expreſſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11267" xml:space="preserve">let it be taken in the morning with a little <lb/>sugar, and into the glaſs into which the Expreſſion is made put a ſmall piece of Citron-<lb/>pill green, and three or four whole Cloves: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11268" xml:space="preserve">let this be taken from February till the end <lb/>of April.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11269" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1489" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0321-03" xlink:href="note-0321-03a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11270" xml:space="preserve">Bring alſo into uſe above all other Herbs Water-creßes, but young, not old; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11271" xml:space="preserve">they <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0321-04a" xlink:href="note-0321-04"/> may be uſed either raw in Sallets, or in Broths, or in Drinks: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11272" xml:space="preserve">and after that take <lb/>Spoon-wort.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11273" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1490" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0321-04" xlink:href="note-0321-04a" xml:space="preserve">21.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11274" xml:space="preserve">Aloes, however waſhed or corrected, is hurtful for the Liver, and therefore it is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0321-05a" xlink:href="note-0321-05"/> never to be taken ordinarily. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11275" xml:space="preserve">Contrariwiſe, Rhubarb is ſovereign for the Liver, ſo <lb/>that theſe three cautions be interpoſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11276" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, that it be taken before meat, leſt it dry <lb/>the body too much, or leave ſome impreſſions of the Stipicity thereof. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11277" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, that <lb/>it be macerated an hour or two in Oil of ſweet Almonds new drawn, with Roſe-water, <lb/>before it be infuſed in Liquor, or given in the proper ſubſtance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11278" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, that it be <lb/>taken by turns, one while ſimple, another while with Tartar, or a little Bay-ſalt, that <lb/>it carry not away the lighter parts onely, and make the maſs of the Humours more ob-<lb/>ſtinate.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11279" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1491" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0321-05" xlink:href="note-0321-05a" xml:space="preserve">22.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11280" xml:space="preserve">I allow Wine, or ſome decoction with Steel, to be taken three or four times in the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0321-06a" xlink:href="note-0321-06"/> year, to open the more ſtrong obſtructions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11281" xml:space="preserve">yet ſo, that a draught of two or three <lb/>ſpoonfuls of Oil of ſweet Almonds new drawn ever go before, and the motion of the <lb/>Body, eſpecially of the arms and ſides, conſtantly follow.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11282" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1492" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0321-06" xlink:href="note-0321-06a" xml:space="preserve">23.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11283" xml:space="preserve">Sweetned Liquors, and that with ſome fatneſs, are principally, and not a little effe-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0321-07a" xlink:href="note-0321-07"/> ctual to prevent the Arefaction, and Saltneſs, and Torrefaction, and in a word, the <lb/>Oldneſs of the Liver, eſpecially if they be well incorporated with age. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11284" xml:space="preserve">They are made <lb/>of ſweet Fruits and Roots, as namely, the Wines and Julips of Raiſins of the Sun new, <lb/>Jujubaes, dried Figs, Dates, Parſnips, Potatoes, and the like, with the mixture of Li-<lb/>coris ſometimes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11285" xml:space="preserve">alſo a Julip of the indian grain, (which they call Maiz) with the <lb/>mixture of ſome ſweet things, doth much to the ſame end. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11286" xml:space="preserve">But it is to be noted, <lb/>that the intention of preſerving the Liver in a kind of ſoftneſs and fatneſs, <lb/>is much more powerful than that other which pertains to the opening of the <lb/>Liver, which rather tendeth to health than to length of life, ſaving that that <lb/>Obſtruction which induceth Torrefaction is as oppoſite to long life as thoſe other <lb/>Arefactions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11287" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1493" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0321-07" xlink:href="note-0321-07a" xml:space="preserve">24.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11288" xml:space="preserve">I commend the Roots of succory, spinage and Beets cleared of their piths, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0321-08a" xlink:href="note-0321-08"/> boiled till they be tender in Water, with a third part of White-wine, for ordinary Sal-<lb/>lets, to be eaten with Oil and Vinegar: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11289" xml:space="preserve">alſo Aſparagus, pith of Artichokes, and <lb/>Burre-roots boiled and ſerved in after the ſame manner; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11290" xml:space="preserve">alſo Broths in the Spring-time <lb/>of Vine-buds, and the green blades of wheat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11291" xml:space="preserve">And touching the preſerving of the Li-<lb/>ver thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11292" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1494" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0321-08" xlink:href="note-0321-08a" xml:space="preserve">25.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11293" xml:space="preserve">The Heart receiveth benefit or harm moſt from the Air which we breath, from <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0321-09a" xlink:href="note-0321-09"/> Vapours, and from the Affections. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11294" xml:space="preserve">Now many of thoſe things which have been for-<lb/>merly ſpoken touching the Spirits may be transferred hither; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11295" xml:space="preserve">but that indigeſted maſs <lb/>of Cordials collected by @ byſicians avails little to our intention; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11296" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding <lb/>thoſe things which are found to be good againſt Poyſons may with good judgment <lb/>be given to ſtrengthen and fortifie the Heart, eſpecially if they be of that kind, that <lb/>they do not ſo much reſiſt the particular poyſons as arm the heart and ſpirits againſt poy-<lb/>ſon in general. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11297" xml:space="preserve">And touching the ſeveral Cordials, you may repair to the Table already <lb/>ſet down.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11298" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1495" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0321-09" xlink:href="note-0321-09a" xml:space="preserve">26.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11299" xml:space="preserve">The goodneſs of the Air is better known by experience than by ſigns. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11300" xml:space="preserve">We hold <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0321-10a" xlink:href="note-0321-10"/> that Air to be beſt where the Country is level and plain, and that lieth open <lb/>on all ſides, ſo that the ſoil be dry, and yet not barren or ſandy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11301" xml:space="preserve">which puts forth <pb o="44" file="0322" n="322" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> Wild Thyme, and Eye-bright, and a kind of Marjoram, and here and there ſtalks of Ca-<lb/>lamint; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11302" xml:space="preserve">which is not altogether void of wood, but conveniently ſet with ſome Trees <lb/>for ſhade; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11303" xml:space="preserve">where the Sweet-briar-reſe ſmelleth ſomething Musky and Aromatically. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11304" xml:space="preserve">If <lb/>there be Rivers, we ſuppoſe them rather hurtful than good, unleſs they be very ſmall, <lb/>and clear, and gravelly.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11305" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1496" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0321-10" xlink:href="note-0321-10a" xml:space="preserve">27.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11306" xml:space="preserve">It is certain that the morning air is more lively and refreſhing than the evening air, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0322-01a" xlink:href="note-0322-01"/> though the latter be preferr’d out of delicacy.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11307" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1497" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0322-01" xlink:href="note-0322-01a" xml:space="preserve">28.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11308" xml:space="preserve">We conceive alſo, that the air ſtirred with a gentle wind is more wholeſome than <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0322-02a" xlink:href="note-0322-02"/> the air of a ſerene and calm skie; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11309" xml:space="preserve">but the beſt is, the wind blowing from the Weſt in the <lb/>morning, and from the North in the afternoon.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11310" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1498" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0322-02" xlink:href="note-0322-02a" xml:space="preserve">29.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11311" xml:space="preserve">Odours are eſpecially profitable for the comforting of the heart, yet not ſo as though <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0322-03a" xlink:href="note-0322-03"/> ag oododour were the prerogative of a good air: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11312" xml:space="preserve">for it is certain, that as there are ſome <lb/>Peſtilential airs which ſmell not ſo ill as others that are leſs hurtful; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11313" xml:space="preserve">ſo, on the contra-<lb/>ry, there are ſome airs moſt wholſome and friendly to the ſpirits, which either ſmell <lb/>not at all, or are leſs pleaſing and fragrant to the ſenſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11314" xml:space="preserve">And generally, where the air is <lb/>good, odours ſhould be taken but now and then; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11315" xml:space="preserve">for a continual odour, though never <lb/>ſo good, is burthenſome to the ſpirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11316" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1499" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0322-03" xlink:href="note-0322-03a" xml:space="preserve">30.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11317" xml:space="preserve">We commend above all others (as we have touched before) odour of Plants, grow-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0322-04a" xlink:href="note-0322-04"/> ing, and not plucked, taken in the open air: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11318" xml:space="preserve">the principal of that kind are Violets, <lb/>Gilliflowers, Pinks, Bean-flowers, Lime-tree-bloſſoms, Vine-buds, Honey-ſuckles, yellow Wall-<lb/>flowers, Musk-Roſes, (for other Roſes growing are faſt of their ſmells) Strawberry-leaves, <lb/>eſpecially dying, Sweet-briar, principally in the early Spring, wild Mint, Lavender flowered; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11319" xml:space="preserve">and in the hotter Countries, Orenge-tree, Citron-tree, Myrtle, Laurel: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11320" xml:space="preserve">Therefore to walk <lb/>or ſit near the breath of theſe Plants would not be neglected.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11321" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1500" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0322-04" xlink:href="note-0322-04a" xml:space="preserve">31.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11322" xml:space="preserve">For the comforting of the Heart, we prefer cool ſmels before hot ſmells: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11323" xml:space="preserve">therefore <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0322-05a" xlink:href="note-0322-05"/> the beſt perfume is, either in the morning, or about the heat of the day, to take an equal <lb/>portion of Vinegar, Roſe-water, and claret-wine, and to pour them upon a Fire-pan ſome-<lb/>what heated.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11324" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1501" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0322-05" xlink:href="note-0322-05a" xml:space="preserve">32.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11325" xml:space="preserve">Neither let us be thought to ſacrifice to our Mother the E<unsure/>arth, though we adviſe, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0322-06a" xlink:href="note-0322-06"/> that in digging or ploughing the Earth for health, a quantity of claret-wine be poured <lb/>thereon.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11326" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1502" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0322-06" xlink:href="note-0322-06a" xml:space="preserve">33.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11327" xml:space="preserve">Orenge-flower-water, pure and good, with a ſmall portion of Roſe-water and brisk wine, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0322-07a" xlink:href="note-0322-07"/> ſnuffed up into the noſtrils, or put into the noſtrills with a springe, after the manner of an <lb/>Errhine, (but not too frequently) is very good.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11328" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1503" type="float" level="2" n="34"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0322-07" xlink:href="note-0322-07a" xml:space="preserve">34.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11329" xml:space="preserve">But champing (though we have no Betel) or holding in the mouth onely of ſuch <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0322-08a" xlink:href="note-0322-08"/> things as cheer the Spirits, (even daily done) is exceeding comfortable. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11330" xml:space="preserve">Therefore <lb/>for that purpoſe make Grains or little cakes of Amber-griece, Musk, Lignum-Aloes, <lb/>Lignum Rhodium, Orr as Powder, and Roſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11331" xml:space="preserve">and let thoſe Grains or Cakes be made up with <lb/>Roſe-water which hath paſſed through a little Indian Balſam.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11332" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1504" type="float" level="2" n="35"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0322-08" xlink:href="note-0322-08a" xml:space="preserve">35.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11333" xml:space="preserve">The Vapours which ariſing from things inwardly taken do fortifie and cheriſh the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0322-09a" xlink:href="note-0322-09"/> heart ought to have theſe three properties, that they be Friendly, Clear, and Cooling; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11334" xml:space="preserve">for hot vapours are naught, and wine it ſelf, which is thought to have onely an heating <lb/>vapour, is not altogether void of an Opiate quality, Now we call thoſe vapours Clear <lb/>which have more of the vapour than of the exhalation, and which are not ſmoaky. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11335" xml:space="preserve">or <lb/>fuliginous, or unctuous, but moiſt and equal.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11336" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1505" type="float" level="2" n="36"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0322-09" xlink:href="note-0322-09a" xml:space="preserve">36.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11337" xml:space="preserve">Out of that unprofitable rabble of cordials, a few ought to be taken into daily diet: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11338" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0322-10a" xlink:href="note-0322-10"/> inſtead of all, Amber-griece, Saffron, and the grain of Kermes, of the hotter ſort; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11339" xml:space="preserve">Roots <lb/>of Bugloſs and Borrage, Citrons, Sweet Limons, and Pearmains, of the colder ſort. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11340" xml:space="preserve">Alſo that <lb/>way which we ſaid, both Gold and Pearls work a good effect, not onely within the <lb/>veins, but in their paſſage, and about the parts near the heart; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11341" xml:space="preserve">namely, by cooling, with-<lb/>out any malignant quality.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11342" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1506" type="float" level="2" n="37"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0322-10" xlink:href="note-0322-10a" xml:space="preserve">37.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11343" xml:space="preserve">Of Bezoar-ſtone we believe well, becauſe of many trials: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11344" xml:space="preserve">but then the manner of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0322-11a" xlink:href="note-0322-11"/> taking it ought to be ſuch, as the vertue thereof may more eaſily be communicated to <lb/>the ſpirits: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11345" xml:space="preserve">therefore we approve not the taking of it in Broths or Syrups, or in Roſe-<lb/>water, or any ſuch like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11346" xml:space="preserve">but onely in wine, Cinnamon-water, or the like diſtilled water, <lb/>but that weak or ſmall, not burning or ſtrong.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11347" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1507" type="float" level="2" n="38"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0322-11" xlink:href="note-0322-11a" xml:space="preserve">38.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11348" xml:space="preserve">Of the Affections we have ſpoken before; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11349" xml:space="preserve">we onely adde this, That every Noble, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0322-12a" xlink:href="note-0322-12"/> Reſolute, and (as they call it) Heroical Deſire, ſtrengthneth and inlargeth the powers of <lb/>the Heart. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11350" xml:space="preserve">And touching the Heart thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11351" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1508" type="float" level="2" n="39"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0322-12" xlink:href="note-0322-12a" xml:space="preserve">39.</note> </div> <pb o="45" file="0323" n="323" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11352" xml:space="preserve">As for the Brain, where the Seat and Court of the Animal spirits is kept, thoſe things <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0323-01a" xlink:href="note-0323-01"/> which were inquired before touching Opium, and Nitre, and the Subor dinates to them <lb/>both, alſo touching the procuring of placid ſleep, may likewiſe be referred hither. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11353" xml:space="preserve">This <lb/>alſo is moſt certain, that the Brain is in ſome ſort in the cuſtody of the Stomach; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11354" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>therefore thoſe things which comfort and ſtrengthen the Stomach do help the Brain <lb/>by conſent, and may no leſs be transferred hither. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11355" xml:space="preserve">We will adde a few Obſervations, <lb/>three Outward, one Inward.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11356" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1509" type="float" level="2" n="40"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-01" xlink:href="note-0323-01a" xml:space="preserve">40.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11357" xml:space="preserve">We would have bathing of the Feet to be often uſed, at leaſt once in a week; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11358" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0323-02a" xlink:href="note-0323-02"/> the Bath to be made of Lye with Bay-ſalt, and a little Sage, chamomile, Fennel, Sweet-<lb/>marjoram, and Pepper-wort, with the leaves of Angellica green.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11359" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1510" type="float" level="2" n="41"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-02" xlink:href="note-0323-02a" xml:space="preserve">41.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11360" xml:space="preserve">We commend alſo a Fume or Suffumigation every morning of dried Roſemary, Bay-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0323-03a" xlink:href="note-0323-03"/> leaves dried, and Lignum-Aloes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11361" xml:space="preserve">for all ſweet Gums oppreſs the head.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11362" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1511" type="float" level="2" n="42"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-03" xlink:href="note-0323-03a" xml:space="preserve">42.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11363" xml:space="preserve">Eſpecially care muſt be taken that no bot things be applied to the Head outwardly; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11364" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0323-04a" xlink:href="note-0323-04"/> ſuch are all kind of Spices, the very Nutmeg not excepted: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11365" xml:space="preserve">for thoſe hot things we <lb/>debaſe them to the ſoles of the Feet, and would have them applied there onely; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11366" xml:space="preserve">but a <lb/>light anointing of the Head with Oil, mixed with Roſes, Myrtle, and a little Salt and Saf-<lb/>fron, we much commend.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11367" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1512" type="float" level="2" n="43"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-04" xlink:href="note-0323-04a" xml:space="preserve">43.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11368" xml:space="preserve">Not forgetting thoſe things which we have before delivered touching Opiates, Nitre, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0323-05a" xlink:href="note-0323-05"/> and the like, which ſo much condenſe the spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11369" xml:space="preserve">we think it not impertinent to that <lb/>effect, that once in fourteen days Broth be taken in the morning with three or four grains <lb/>of Caſtoreum, and a little Angelica-ſeed, and Calamus, which both fortifie the Brain, and <lb/>in that aforeſaid denſity of the ſubſtance of the ſpirits, (ſo neceſſary to long life) adde <lb/>alſo a vivacity of motion and vigour to them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11370" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1513" type="float" level="2" n="44"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-05" xlink:href="note-0323-05a" xml:space="preserve">44.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11371" xml:space="preserve">In handling the Comforters of the four principal Be<unsure/>wels, we have propounded thoſe <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0323-06a" xlink:href="note-0323-06"/> things which are both proper and choice, and may ſafely and conveniently be tranſ-<lb/>ferred into Diets and Regiment of Life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11372" xml:space="preserve">for variety of Medicines is the Daughter of <lb/>Ignorance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11373" xml:space="preserve">and it is not more true, that many Diſhes have cauſed many Diſeaſes, as the <lb/>Proverb is, than this is true, that many Medicines have cauſed few Cures. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11374" xml:space="preserve">And touch-<lb/>ing the Operation upon the principal Bowels for their Extruſion of Aliment, thus <lb/>much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11375" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1514" type="float" level="2" n="45"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-06" xlink:href="note-0323-06a" xml:space="preserve">45.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1516" type="section" level="1" n="63"> <head xml:id="echoid-head94" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Outward Parts for their <lb/>Attraction of Aliment. 6.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head95" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11376" xml:space="preserve">ALthough a good Concoction perſormed by the Inward Parts be the principal to-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0323-07a" xlink:href="note-0323-07"/> wards a perfect Alimentation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11377" xml:space="preserve">yet the Actions of the Outward Parts ought <lb/>alſo to concur; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11378" xml:space="preserve">that like as the Inward Faculty ſendeth forth and extrudeth the <lb/>Aliment, ſo the Faculty of the Outward Parts may call forth and attract the ſame: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11379" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>the more weak the Faculty of Concoction ſhall be, the more need is there of a concurring <lb/>help of the Attractive Faculty.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11380" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1516" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-07" xlink:href="note-0323-07a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11381" xml:space="preserve">A ſtrong Attraction of the outward parts is chiefly cauſed by the motion of the Body, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0323-08a" xlink:href="note-0323-08"/> by which the parts being heated and comforted, do more chearſully call forth and attract <lb/>the Aliment unto themſelves.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11382" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1517" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-08" xlink:href="note-0323-08a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11383" xml:space="preserve">But this is moſt of all to be foreſeen and avoided, that the ſame motion and heat which <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0323-09a" xlink:href="note-0323-09"/> calls the new juice to the members, doth not again deſpoil the member of that juice <lb/>wherewith it had been before refreſhed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11384" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1518" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-09" xlink:href="note-0323-09a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11385" xml:space="preserve">Frications uſed in the morning ſerve eſpecially to this Intention: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11386" xml:space="preserve">but this muſt <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0323-10a" xlink:href="note-0323-10"/> evermore accompany them, that after the Frication the part be lightly anointed with <lb/>Oil, leſt the Attrition of the outward parts make them by Perſpiration dry and <lb/>juiceleſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11387" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1519" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-10" xlink:href="note-0323-10a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11388" xml:space="preserve">The next is Exerciſe, (by which the parts confricate and chafe themſelves) ſo it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0323-11a" xlink:href="note-0323-11"/> <pb o="46" file="0324" n="324" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> be moderate, and which (as was noted before) is not ſwift, nor to the utmoſt ſtrength, <lb/>nor unto wearineſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11389" xml:space="preserve">But in Exerciſe and Frication there is the ſame reaſon and caution, <lb/>that the body may not perſpire or exhale too much: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11390" xml:space="preserve">Therefore Exerciſe is better in <lb/>the open air than in the houſe, and better in Winter than in Summer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11391" xml:space="preserve">and again, εxer-<lb/>ciſe is not onely to be concluded with Unction, as Frication is, but in vehement Ex-<lb/>erciſes Unction is to be uſed both in the beginning and in the end, as it was anciently <lb/>to Champions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11392" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1520" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0323-11" xlink:href="note-0323-11a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11393" xml:space="preserve">That Exerciſe may reſolve either the ſpirits or the juices as little as may be, it is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0324-01a" xlink:href="note-0324-01"/> neceſſary that it be uſed when the ſtomach is not altogether empty: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11394" xml:space="preserve">and therefore that <lb/>it may not be uſed upon a full ſtomach, (which doth much concern health) nor yet <lb/>upon an empty ſtomach, (which doth no leſs concern long life) it is beſt to take a <lb/>breakfaſt in the morning, not of any Phyſical Drugs, or of any Liquors or of Raiſins, <lb/>or of Figs, or the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11395" xml:space="preserve">but of plain Meat and Drink, yet that very light, and in moderate <lb/>quantity.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11396" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1521" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-01" xlink:href="note-0324-01a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11397" xml:space="preserve">Exerciſes uſed for the irrigation of the members, ought to be equal to all the mem <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0324-02a" xlink:href="note-0324-02"/> bers; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11398" xml:space="preserve">not (as Socrates ſaid) that the Legs ſhould move, and the Arms ſhould reſt, or <lb/>on the contrary; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11399" xml:space="preserve">but that all the parts may participate of the motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11400" xml:space="preserve">And it is alto <lb/>gether requiſite to long life, that the Body ſhould never abide long in one poſture, but <lb/>that every half hour, at leaſt, it change the poſture, ſaving onely in ſleep.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11401" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1522" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-02" xlink:href="note-0324-02a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11402" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe things which are uſed to Mortification may be transferred to Vivification; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11403" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0324-03a" xlink:href="note-0324-03"/> both Hair-ſhirts, and Scourgings, and all vexations of the outward parts, do fortifie the <lb/>Attractive force of them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11404" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1523" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-03" xlink:href="note-0324-03a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11405" xml:space="preserve">Cardan commends Nettling, even to let out Melancholly: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11406" xml:space="preserve">but of this we have no ex-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0324-04a" xlink:href="note-0324-04"/> perience; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11407" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, we have no good opinion of it, leſt, through the venemous <lb/>quality of the Nettle, it may with often uſe breed Itches and other diſeaſes of the skin. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11408" xml:space="preserve">And touching the Operation upon the Outward Parts for their Attraction of Aliment, <lb/>thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11409" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1524" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-04" xlink:href="note-0324-04a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1526" type="section" level="1" n="64"> <head xml:id="echoid-head96" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Aliment it ſelf for <lb/>the Inſinuation thereof. 7.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head97" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11410" xml:space="preserve">THe vulgar reproof touching many Diſhes doth rather become a ſevere Re-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0324-05a" xlink:href="note-0324-05"/> former than a Phyſician; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11411" xml:space="preserve">or howſoever it may be good for perſervation of <lb/>health, yet is is hurtful to length of life, by reaſon that a various mixture of <lb/>Aliments, and ſomewhat heterogeneous, finds a paſſage into the veins and juices of the <lb/>body more lively and chearfully than a ſimple and homogeneous diet doth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11412" xml:space="preserve">beſides, it <lb/>is more forcible to ſtir up Appetite, which is the ſpur of Digeſtion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11413" xml:space="preserve">Therefore we <lb/>allow both a full Table, and a continual changing of Diſhes, according to the Seaſons of <lb/>the year, or upon other occaſions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11414" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1526" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-05" xlink:href="note-0324-05a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11415" xml:space="preserve">Alſo that opinion of the Simplicity of Meats without Sawces is but a ſimplicity of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0324-06a" xlink:href="note-0324-06"/> judgment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11416" xml:space="preserve">for good and well-choſen Sawces are the moſt wholeſome preparation of <lb/>Meats, and conduce both to health and to long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11417" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1527" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-06" xlink:href="note-0324-06a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11418" xml:space="preserve">It muſt be ordered, that with Meats hard of digeſtion be conjoyned ſtrong Liquors <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0324-07a" xlink:href="note-0324-07"/> and Sawces that may penetrate and make way; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11419" xml:space="preserve">but with Meats more eaſie of digeſti-<lb/>on, ſmaller Liquors and fat Sawces.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11420" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1528" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-07" xlink:href="note-0324-07a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11421" xml:space="preserve">Whereas we adviſed before, that the firſt Draught at Supper ſhould be taken warm; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11422" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0324-08a" xlink:href="note-0324-08"/> now we adde, that for the preparation of the ſtomach, a good draught of that Liquor <lb/>(to which every man is moſt accuſtomed) be taken warm half an hour before meat <lb/>alſo, but a little ſpiced, to pleaſe the taſte.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11423" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1529" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-08" xlink:href="note-0324-08a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11424" xml:space="preserve">The preparation of Meats, and Bread, and Drinks, that they may be rightly hand-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0324-09a" xlink:href="note-0324-09"/> led, and in order to this Intention, is of exceeding great moment howſoever it may <lb/>ſeem a Mechanical thing, and ſavouring of the Kitchin and Buttery; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11425" xml:space="preserve">yet it is of more <lb/>conſequence than thoſe Fables of Gold and precious Stones, and the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11426" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1530" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-09" xlink:href="note-0324-09a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <pb o="47" file="0325" n="325" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11427" xml:space="preserve">The moiſtning of the juices of the body by a moiſt preparation of the aliment, is a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0325-01a" xlink:href="note-0325-01"/> childiſh thing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11428" xml:space="preserve">it may be ſomewhat available againſt the fervours of diſeaſes, but it is <lb/>altogether averſe to roſcid alimentation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11429" xml:space="preserve">Therefore boiling of meats, as concerning <lb/>our Intention, is far inſeriour to roaſting, and baking, and the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11430" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1531" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-01" xlink:href="note-0325-01a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11431" xml:space="preserve">Roaſting ought to be with a quick fire, and ſoon diſpatched; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11432" xml:space="preserve">not with a dull fire, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0325-02a" xlink:href="note-0325-02"/> in long time.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11433" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1532" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-02" xlink:href="note-0325-02a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11434" xml:space="preserve">All ſolid fleſhes ought to be ſerved in, not altogether freſh, but ſomewhat pow-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0325-03a" xlink:href="note-0325-03"/> dered or corned; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11435" xml:space="preserve">the leſs Salt may be ſpent at the table with them, or none at all: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11436" xml:space="preserve">for Salt incorporated with the meat before is better diſtributed in the body, then eaten <lb/>with it at the table.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11437" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1533" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-03" xlink:href="note-0325-03a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11438" xml:space="preserve">There would be brought into uſe ſeveral and good Macerations, and Infuſions of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0325-04a" xlink:href="note-0325-04"/> Meats in convenient Liquors, before the roaſting of them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11439" xml:space="preserve">the like whereof are ſome-<lb/>time in uſe before they bake them, and in the Pickles of ſome Fiſhes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11440" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1534" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-04" xlink:href="note-0325-04a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11441" xml:space="preserve">But beatings, and as it were ſcourgings, of fleſh-meats before they be boiled, would <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0325-05a" xlink:href="note-0325-05"/> work no ſmall matter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11442" xml:space="preserve">We ſee it is confeſſed that Partridges and Pheaſants killed with <lb/>an Hawk, alſo Bucks and Stags killed in Hunting, (if they ſtand not out too long, eat <lb/>better even to the taſte; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11443" xml:space="preserve">and ſome Fiſhes ſcourged and beaten, become more tender <lb/>and wholſome; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11444" xml:space="preserve">alſo hard and ſour Pears, and ſome other Fruits, grow ſweet with row-<lb/>ling them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11445" xml:space="preserve">It were good to practiſe ſome ſuch beating and bruiſing of the harder kinds <lb/>of Fleſhes before they be brought to the fire; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11446" xml:space="preserve">and this would be one of the beſt prepa-<lb/>rations of all.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11447" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1535" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-05" xlink:href="note-0325-05a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11448" xml:space="preserve">Bread a little levened, and very little ſalted, is beſt, and which is baked in an Oven <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0325-06a" xlink:href="note-0325-06"/> throughly heated, and not with a faint heat.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11449" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1536" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-06" xlink:href="note-0325-06a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11450" xml:space="preserve">The preparation of Drinks in order to long life ſh all not exceed one Precept. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11451" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0325-07a" xlink:href="note-0325-07"/> as touching water-drinkers we have nothing to ſay; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11452" xml:space="preserve">ſuch a diet (as we ſaid before) may <lb/>prolong life to an indifferent term, but to no eminent length: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11453" xml:space="preserve">but in other Drinks, that <lb/>are full of ſpirit, (ſuch as are wine, Ale, Mead, and the like) this one thing is to be ob-<lb/>ſerved and purſued, as the ſum of all, That the parts of the Liquor may be exceeding <lb/>thin and ſubtil, and the Spirit exceeding mild. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11454" xml:space="preserve">This is hard to be done by Age alone, <lb/>for that makes the parts a little more ſubtil, but the ſpirits much more ſharp and eager: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11455" xml:space="preserve">therefore of the Infuſions in the Veſſels of ſome fat ſubſtance, which may reſtrain the <lb/>acrimony of the ſpirits, counſel hath been given before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11456" xml:space="preserve">There is alſo another way <lb/>without Infuſion or Mixture: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11457" xml:space="preserve">this is, that the Liquor might be continually agitated, <lb/>either by carriage upon the Water, or by carriage by Land, or by hanging the veſ-<lb/>ſels upon lines, and daily ſtirring them, or ſome ſuch other way: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11458" xml:space="preserve">for it is certain that <lb/>this local motion doth both ſubtilize the parts, and doth ſo incorporate and compact the <lb/>ſpirits with the parts, that they have no leiſure to turn to ſowrneſs, which is a kind of <lb/>putrefaction.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11459" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1537" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-07" xlink:href="note-0325-07a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11460" xml:space="preserve">But in extream old age ſuch a preparation of meats is to be made as may be almoſt in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0325-08a" xlink:href="note-0325-08"/> the middle way to cl<unsure/>ylus. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11461" xml:space="preserve">And touching the Diſtillations of Meats, they are mere toys; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11462" xml:space="preserve">for the Nutritive part, at leaſt the beſt of it, doth not aſcend in Vapours.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11463" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1538" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-08" xlink:href="note-0325-08a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11464" xml:space="preserve">The incorporating of meat and drink before they meet in the ſtomach is a degree <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0325-09a" xlink:href="note-0325-09"/> to chylus: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11465" xml:space="preserve">therefore let Chickens, or Partridges, or Pheaſants, or the like, be taken <lb/>and boiled in water with a little ſalt, then let them be cleanſed and dried, after-<lb/>ward let them be infuſed in Muſt or Ale before it hath done working, with a little <lb/>Sugar.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11466" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1539" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-09" xlink:href="note-0325-09a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11467" xml:space="preserve">Alſo Grazies of meat, and the mincings of them ſmall well ſeaſon’d, are good for <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0325-10a" xlink:href="note-0325-10"/> old perſons; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11468" xml:space="preserve">and the rather, for that they are deſtituted of the office of their Teeth in <lb/>chewing, which is a principal kind of preparation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11469" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1540" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-10" xlink:href="note-0325-10a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11470" xml:space="preserve">And as for the helps of that defect, (namely, of the ſtrength of Teeth to grind the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0325-11a" xlink:href="note-0325-11"/> meat) there are three things which may conduce thereunto. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11471" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, that new Teeth may <lb/>put forth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11472" xml:space="preserve">that which ſeems altogether difficult, and cannot be accompliſhed without <lb/>an inward and powerful reſtauration of the body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11473" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, that the Jaws be ſo con-<lb/>firmed by due Aſtringents, that they may in ſome ſort ſupply the office of the Teeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11474" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>may poſſibly be effected. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11475" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, that the meat be ſo prepared, that there ſhall be no <lb/>need of chewing: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11476" xml:space="preserve">which remedy is ready at hand.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11477" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1541" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-11" xlink:href="note-0325-11a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11478" xml:space="preserve">We have ſome thought alſo touching the Quantity of the meat and drink, that the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0325-12a" xlink:href="note-0325-12"/> ſame taken in a larger quantity at ſome times is good for the irrigation of the body; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11479" xml:space="preserve">therefore both great Feaſtings and free Drinkings are not altogether to be inhibited. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11480" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And touching the Operation upon the Aliments and the Preparation of them, thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11481" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1542" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-12" xlink:href="note-0325-12a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> </div> <pb o="48" file="0326" n="326" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1544" type="section" level="1" n="65"> <head xml:id="echoid-head98" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the laſt Act of Aſsimilation. 8.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s11482" xml:space="preserve">TOuching the laſt A ct of Aſſimilation (unto which the three Operations immediately <lb/>preceeding chiefly tend) our advice ſhall be brief and ſingle: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11483" xml:space="preserve">and the thing it ſelf ra-<lb/>ther needs Explication, than any various Rules.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11484" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11485" xml:space="preserve">IT is certain, that all bodies are endued with ſome deſire of Aſſimilating thoſe things <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0326-01a" xlink:href="note-0326-01"/> which are next them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11486" xml:space="preserve">This the rare and pneumatical bodies, as Flame, Spirit, Air, <lb/>perform generouſly and with alacrity: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11487" xml:space="preserve">on the contrary, thoſe that carry a groſs and <lb/>tangible bulk about them, do but weakly, in regard that the deſire of aſſimilating other <lb/>things is boundin by a ſtronger deſire of Reſt, and containing themſelves from Motion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11488" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1544" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0326-01" xlink:href="note-0326-01a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11489" xml:space="preserve">Again, it is certain that the deſire of aſſimilating being bound, as we ſaid, in a Groſs <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0326-02a" xlink:href="note-0326-02"/> body, and made uneffectual, is ſome what freed and ſtirred up by the heat and neighbour-<lb/>ing ſpirit, ſo that it is then actuated: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11490" xml:space="preserve">which is the onely cauſe why Inanimates aſſimi-<lb/>late not, and Animates aſſimilate.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11491" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1545" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0326-02" xlink:href="note-0326-02a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11492" xml:space="preserve">This alſo is certain, that the harder the Conſiſtence of the body is, the more doth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0326-03a" xlink:href="note-0326-03"/> that body ſtand in need of a greater heat to prick forward the aſſimilation: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11493" xml:space="preserve">which falls <lb/>out ill for old men, becauſe in them the parts are more obſtinate, and the heat weaker; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11494" xml:space="preserve">and therefore either the obſtinacy of their parts is to be ſoftned, or their heat increaſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11495" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>And as touching the Malaciſſation or mollifying of the members, we ſhall ſpeak after ward, <lb/>having alſo formerly propounded many things which pertain to the prohibiting and <lb/>preventing of this kind of hardneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11496" xml:space="preserve">For the other, touching the increaſing of the <lb/>heat, we will now deliver a ſingle precept, after we have firft aſſumed this Axiom.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11497" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1546" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0326-03" xlink:href="note-0326-03a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11498" xml:space="preserve">The Act of Aſſimilation (which, as we ſaid, is excited by the heat circumfuſed) is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0326-04a" xlink:href="note-0326-04"/> a motion exceeding accurate, ſubtile, and in little; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11499" xml:space="preserve">now all ſuch motions do then <lb/>come to their vigour, when the local Motion wholly ceaſeth which diſturbeth it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11500" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>the Motion of Separation into homogeneal par ts, which is in Milk, that the Cream ſhould <lb/>ſwim above, and the Whey ſink to the bottom, will never work, if the Milk benever <lb/>ſo little agitated; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11501" xml:space="preserve">neither will any Putrefaction proceed in Water or mixt Bodies, if <lb/>the ſame be in continual Local Motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11502" xml:space="preserve">So then, from this Aſſumption we will conclude <lb/>this for the preſent Inquiſition.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11503" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1547" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0326-04" xlink:href="note-0326-04a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11504" xml:space="preserve">The Act it ſelf of Aſſimilation is chiefly accompliſhed in Sleep and Reſt, eſpecially <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0326-05a" xlink:href="note-0326-05"/> towards the morning, the diſtribution being finiſhed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11505" xml:space="preserve">Therefore we have nothing <lb/>elſe to adviſe, but that men keep themſelves hot in their ſleep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11506" xml:space="preserve">and further, that to wards <lb/>the morning there be uſed ſome Anointing, or ſhirt tincted with Oil, ſuch as may gently <lb/>ſtir up heat, and after that to fall aſleep again. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11507" xml:space="preserve">And touching the laſt Act of Aſſimilation <lb/>thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11508" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1548" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0326-05" xlink:href="note-0326-05a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1550" type="section" level="1" n="66"> <head xml:id="echoid-head99" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Inteneration of that which begins to <lb/>be Arefied, or the Malaciſſation of the Body. 9.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s11509" xml:space="preserve">VVE have inquired formerly touching the Inteneration from within, which is done by <lb/>many windings and Circuits, as well of Alimentation as of Detaining the Spirit <lb/>from iſſuing forth, and therefore is accompliſhed ſlowly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11510" xml:space="preserve">Now we are to inquire touching <lb/>that Inteneration which is from without, and is effected, as it were, ſuddenly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11511" xml:space="preserve">or touching <lb/>the Malaciſſation and Suppling of the Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11512" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1551" type="section" level="1" n="67"> <head xml:id="echoid-head100" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11513" xml:space="preserve">IN the Fable of reſtoring Peli<unsure/>as to youth again, Medea, when ſhe feigned to do it <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0326-06a" xlink:href="note-0326-06"/> propounded this way of accompliſhing the ſame, That the Old man’s body ſhould <lb/>be cut into ſeveral pieces, and then boiled in a Cauldron with certain Medicaments. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11514" xml:space="preserve">There may, perhaps, ſome boiling be required to this matter, but the cutting into pieces <lb/>is not needful.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11515" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1551" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0326-06" xlink:href="note-0326-06a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <pb o="49" file="0327" n="327" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11516" xml:space="preserve">Not withſtanding, this cutting into pieces ſeems, in ſome ſort, to be uſeful; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11517" xml:space="preserve">not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-01a" xlink:href="note-0327-01"/> with a knife, but with judgment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11518" xml:space="preserve">For whereas the Conſiſtence of the Bowels and <lb/>Parts is very diverſe, it is needfull that the Inteneration of them both be not effected the <lb/>ſame way, but that there be a Cure deſigned of each in particular, beſides thoſe things <lb/>which pertain to the Inteneration of the whole maſs of the Body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11519" xml:space="preserve">of which, notwith-<lb/>ſtanding, in the firſt place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11520" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1552" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-01" xlink:href="note-0327-01a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11521" xml:space="preserve">This Operation (if perhaps it be within our power) is moſt likely to be done by <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-02a" xlink:href="note-0327-02"/> Baths, Unctions, and the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11522" xml:space="preserve">concerning which theſe things that follow are to be <lb/>obſerved.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11523" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1553" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-02" xlink:href="note-0327-02a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11524" xml:space="preserve">We muſt not be too forward in hoping to accompliſh this matter from the Exam-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-03a" xlink:href="note-0327-03"/> ples of thoſe things which we ſee done in the Imbibitions and Macerations of I<unsure/>nani-<lb/>mates, by which they are intenerated, where of we introduced ſome inſtances before: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11525" xml:space="preserve">For this kind of operation is more eaſie upon Inanimates, becauſe they attract <lb/>and ſuck in the Liquor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11526" xml:space="preserve">but upon the bodies of Living creatures it is har-<lb/>der, becauſe in them the motion rather tendeth outward and to the Circum-<lb/>ference.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11527" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1554" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-03" xlink:href="note-0327-03a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11528" xml:space="preserve">Therefore the Emollient Baths which are in uſe do little good, but on the contrary <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-04a" xlink:href="note-0327-04"/> hurt, becauſe they rather draw forth than make entrance, and reſolve the ſtructure of <lb/>the body rather than conſolidate it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11529" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1555" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-04" xlink:href="note-0327-04a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11530" xml:space="preserve">The Baths and Unctions which may ſerve to the preſent Operation (namely, of Inte-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-05a" xlink:href="note-0327-05"/> nerating the body truly and really) ought to have three properties.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11531" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1556" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-05" xlink:href="note-0327-05a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11532" xml:space="preserve">The firſt and principal is, That they conſiſt of thoſe tlings which in their whole <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-06a" xlink:href="note-0327-06"/> ſubſtance are like unto the body and fleſh of man, and which have a feeding and nurſing <lb/>virtue from without.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11533" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1557" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-06" xlink:href="note-0327-06a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11534" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is, That they be mixed with ſuch things as through the ſubtilty of their <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-07a" xlink:href="note-0327-07"/> parts may make entrance, and ſo inſinuate and conveigh their nouriſhing virtue into the <lb/>body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11535" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1558" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-07" xlink:href="note-0327-07a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11536" xml:space="preserve">The third is, That they receive ſome mixture (though much inferiour to the reſt) <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-08a" xlink:href="note-0327-08"/> of ſuch things as are Aſtringent; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11537" xml:space="preserve">I mean not ſour or tart things, but unctuous and <lb/>comforting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11538" xml:space="preserve">that while the other two do operate, the exhaling out of the body, which <lb/>deſtroyeth the virtue of the things intenerating, may (as much as is poſſible) be pro-<lb/>hibited; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11539" xml:space="preserve">and the motion to the in ward parts, by the Aſtriction of the skin and cloſing <lb/>of the paſſages, may be promoted and furthered.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11540" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1559" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-08" xlink:href="note-0327-08a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11541" xml:space="preserve">That which is moſt conſubſtantial to the body of man is warm Bloud, either of man, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-09a" xlink:href="note-0327-09"/> or of ſome other living creature: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11542" xml:space="preserve">but the device of Ficinus, touching the ſucking of <lb/>bloud out of the arm of a wholeſome young man, for the reſtauration of ſtrength in <lb/>old men, is very frivolous; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11543" xml:space="preserve">for that which nouriſheth from within ought no way to <lb/>be equal or homogeneal to the body nouriſhed, but in ſome ſort inferiour and ſubor-<lb/>dinate, that it may be converted: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11544" xml:space="preserve">but in things applied out wardly, by how much the <lb/>ſubſtance is liker, by ſo much the conſent is better.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11545" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1560" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-09" xlink:href="note-0327-09a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11546" xml:space="preserve">It hath been anciently received, that a Bath made of the bloud of Infants will cure the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-10a" xlink:href="note-0327-10"/> Leproſie, and heal the fleſh already putrefi’d; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11547" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch that this thing hath begot envy <lb/>towards ſome Kings from the common people.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11548" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1561" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-10" xlink:href="note-0327-10a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11549" xml:space="preserve">It is reported that Heraclitus, for cure of the Dropſie, was put into the warmbelly of an <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-11a" xlink:href="note-0327-11"/> Ox newly ſlain.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11550" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1562" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-11" xlink:href="note-0327-11a" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11551" xml:space="preserve">They uſe the bloud of Kitlins warm to cure the diſeaſe called St. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11552" xml:space="preserve">Anthony’s Fire, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-12a" xlink:href="note-0327-12"/> to reſtore the fleſh and skin.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11553" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1563" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-12" xlink:href="note-0327-12a" xml:space="preserve">13.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11554" xml:space="preserve">An Arm or other Member newly cut off, or that upon ſome other occaſion will not <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-13a" xlink:href="note-0327-13"/> leave bleeding, is with good ſucceſs put into the belly of ſome creatures newly ripped up, <lb/>for it worketh potently to ſtanch the bloud; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11555" xml:space="preserve">the bloud of the member cut off by con-<lb/>ſent ſucking in, and vehemently drawing to it ſelf, the warm bloud of the creature ſlain, <lb/>where by it ſelf is ſtopped and retireth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11556" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1564" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-13" xlink:href="note-0327-13a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11557" xml:space="preserve">It is much uſed in extreme and deſperate diſeaſes to cut in two young Pigeons, yet <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-14a" xlink:href="note-0327-14"/> living, and apply them to the ſoles of the feet, and to ſhift them one after another, <lb/>where by ſometime there followeth a wonderful eaſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11558" xml:space="preserve">This is imputed vulgarly as if <lb/>they ſhould draw down the malignity of the diſeaſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11559" xml:space="preserve">but howſoever, this application <lb/>goeth to the Head, and comforteth the Animal Spirits.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11560" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1565" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-14" xlink:href="note-0327-14a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11561" xml:space="preserve">But theſe bloudy Baths and Unctions ſeem to us ſluttiſh and odious: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11562" xml:space="preserve">let us ſearch <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0327-15a" xlink:href="note-0327-15"/> out ſome others, which perhaps have leſs loathſomeneſs in them, and yet no leſs <lb/>benefit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11563" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1566" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0327-15" xlink:href="note-0327-15a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> </div> <pb o="50" file="0328" n="328" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11564" xml:space="preserve">Next unto warm Bloud, things alike in ſubstance to the Body of a man are nutritives: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11565" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0328-01a" xlink:href="note-0328-01"/> fat fleſhes of Oxen, Swine, Dear; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11566" xml:space="preserve">Oiſters amongſt Fiſhes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11567" xml:space="preserve">Milk, Butter, Yolks of <lb/>Eggs, Flower of Wheat, ſweet wine, either Sugred, or before it be fined.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11568" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1567" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-01" xlink:href="note-0328-01a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11569" xml:space="preserve">Such things as we would have mixed to make impreſſion are, inſtead of all, Salts, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0328-02a" xlink:href="note-0328-02"/> eſpecially Bay-ſalt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11570" xml:space="preserve">alſo Wine (when it is full of Spirit) maketh entrance, and is an <lb/>excellent Convoy.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11571" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1568" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-02" xlink:href="note-0328-02a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11572" xml:space="preserve">Aſtringents of that kind which we deſcribed, namely, unctuous and comfortable <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0328-03a" xlink:href="note-0328-03"/> things, are Saffron, Maſtick, Myrrhe, and Myrtle berries.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11573" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1569" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-03" xlink:href="note-0328-03a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11574" xml:space="preserve">Of theſe parts, in our judgment, may very well be made ſuch a Bath as we deſign: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11575" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0328-04a" xlink:href="note-0328-04"/> Phyſicians and Poſterity will find out better things hereafter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11576" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1570" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-04" xlink:href="note-0328-04a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11577" xml:space="preserve">But the Operation will be much better and more powerful, if ſuch a Bath as we have <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0328-05a" xlink:href="note-0328-05"/> propounded (which we hold to be the principal matter) be attended with a fourfold <lb/>Courſe and Order.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11578" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1571" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-05" xlink:href="note-0328-05a" xml:space="preserve">21.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11579" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, that there go before the Bath a Frication of the body, and an Anointing with <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0328-06a" xlink:href="note-0328-06"/> Oil, with ſome thickning ſubſtance, that the virtue and moiſtning heat of the Bath may <lb/>pierce the body, and not the watry part of the Liquor. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11580" xml:space="preserve">Then let the Bath follow, for <lb/>the ſpace of ſome two hours. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11581" xml:space="preserve">After the Bath, let the body be Emplaiſtered with Ma-<lb/>ſtick, Myrrhe, Tragacanth, Diapalma, and Saffron; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11582" xml:space="preserve">that the perſpiration of the body <lb/>may (as much as is poſſible) be inhibited, till the ſupple matter be by degrees turned <lb/>into ſolid: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11583" xml:space="preserve">This to be continued for the ſpace of twenty four hours or more. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11584" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, <lb/>the Emplaiſtering being removed, let there be an anointing with Oil mixed with salt and <lb/>Saffron. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11585" xml:space="preserve">And let this Bath, together with the Emplaistering and Unction, (as before) <lb/>be renewed every fifth day. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11586" xml:space="preserve">This Malaciſſation or ſuppling of the body be continued <lb/>for one whole month.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11587" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1572" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-06" xlink:href="note-0328-06a" xml:space="preserve">22.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11588" xml:space="preserve">Alſo during the time of this Malaciſſation, we hold it uſeful and proper, and accord-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0328-07a" xlink:href="note-0328-07"/> ing to our intention, that men nouriſh their bodies well, and keep out of the cold air, <lb/>and drink nothing but warm drink.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11589" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1573" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-07" xlink:href="note-0328-07a" xml:space="preserve">23.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11590" xml:space="preserve">Now this is one of thoſe things (as we warned in general in the beginning) <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0328-08a" xlink:href="note-0328-08"/> whereof we have made no trial by Experiment, but onely ſet it down out of our <lb/>aiming and levelling at the end: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11591" xml:space="preserve">For having ſet up the Mark, we deliver the Light to <lb/>others.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11592" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1574" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-08" xlink:href="note-0328-08a" xml:space="preserve">24.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11593" xml:space="preserve">Neither ought the warmths and cheriſhings of living bodies to be neglected. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11594" xml:space="preserve">Ficinus <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0328-09a" xlink:href="note-0328-09"/> ſaith, and that ſerioufly enough, That the laying of the young Maid in David’s boſom <lb/>was wholſome ſor him, but it came too late. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11595" xml:space="preserve">He ſhould alſo have added, That the young <lb/>Maid, after the manner of the Perſian Virgins, ought to have been anointed with Myrrhe, <lb/>and ſuch like, not for deliciouſneſs, but to increaſe the virtue of this cheriſhing by a <lb/>living body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11596" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1575" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-09" xlink:href="note-0328-09a" xml:space="preserve">25.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11597" xml:space="preserve">Barbaroſſa, in his extream old age, by the advice of a Phyſician, a Jew, did con-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0328-10a" xlink:href="note-0328-10"/> tinually apply young Boys to his ſtomach and belly, for warmth and cheriſhing: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11598" xml:space="preserve">alſo <lb/>ſome old men lay Whelps (creatures of the hotteſt kind) cloſe to their ſtomachs every <lb/>night.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11599" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1576" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-10" xlink:href="note-0328-10a" xml:space="preserve">26.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11600" xml:space="preserve">There hath gone a report, almoſt undoubted, and that under ſeveral names, of cer-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0328-11a" xlink:href="note-0328-11"/> tain men that had great Noſes, who being weary of the deriſion of people, have cut <lb/>ofſ the bunches or hillocks of their Noſes, and then making a wide gaſh in their arms, <lb/>have held their Noſes in the place for a certain time, and ſo brought forth fair and come-<lb/>ly Noſes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11601" xml:space="preserve">which if it be true, it ſhews plainly the conſent of fleſh unto fleſh, eſpecially <lb/>in live fleſhes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11602" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1577" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-11" xlink:href="note-0328-11a" xml:space="preserve">27.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11603" xml:space="preserve">Touching the particular Inteneration of the principal Bowels, the Stomach, Lungs, Liver, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0328-12a" xlink:href="note-0328-12"/> Heart, Brain, Marrow of the Back-bone, Guts, Reins, Gall, Veins, Arteries, Nerves, Carti-<lb/>Lages, Bones, the Inquiſition and Direction would be too long ſeeing we now ſet not forth <lb/>a Practick, but certain Indications to the Practick.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11604" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1578" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-12" xlink:href="note-0328-12a" xml:space="preserve">28.</note> </div> <pb o="51" file="0329" n="329" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1580" type="section" level="1" n="68"> <head xml:id="echoid-head101" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Purging away of old Juice, and Sup-<lb/>plying of new Juice; or of Renovation by Turns. 10. <lb/>The Hiſtory.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11605" xml:space="preserve">ALthough thoſe things which we ſhall here ſet down have been, for themoſt part, <lb/>ſpoken of before; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11606" xml:space="preserve">yet becauſe this Operation is one of the principal, we will <lb/>handle them over again more at large.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11607" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11608" xml:space="preserve">It is certain that Draught-Oxen which have been worn out with working, being put <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0329-01a" xlink:href="note-0329-01"/> into freſh and rich paſtures, will gather tender and young fleſh again: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11609" xml:space="preserve">and this will ap-<lb/>pear even to the taſte and palat; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11610" xml:space="preserve">ſo that the Inteneration of fleſh is no hard matter. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11611" xml:space="preserve">Now it is likely that this Inteneration of the fleſh being often repeated, will in time reach <lb/>to the Inteneration of the Bones and Membranes, and like parts of the body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11612" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1580" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0329-01" xlink:href="note-0329-01a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11613" xml:space="preserve">It is certain that Diets which are now much in uſe, principally of Guaiacum, and of <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0329-02a" xlink:href="note-0329-02"/> Sarſaperilla, China, and Saſſafras, if they be continued for any time, and according to <lb/>ſtrict rules, do firſt attenuate the whole juice of the body, and after conſume it and <lb/>drink it up. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11614" xml:space="preserve">Which is moſt manifeſt, becauſe that by theſe Diets the French-Pox, <lb/>when it is grown even to an hardneſs, and hath eaten up and corrupted the very mar-<lb/>row of the body, may be effectually cured. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11615" xml:space="preserve">And further, becauſe it is manifeft that <lb/>men who by theſe diets are brought to be extream lean, pale, and as it were ghoſts, <lb/>will ſoon after become fat, well-coloured, and apparently young again. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11616" xml:space="preserve">Wherefore <lb/>we are abſolutely of opinion, that ſuch kind of diets in the decline of age, being uſed <lb/>every year, would be very uſeful to our Intention; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11617" xml:space="preserve">like the old skin or ſpoil of Ser-<lb/>pents.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11618" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1581" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0329-02" xlink:href="note-0329-02a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11619" xml:space="preserve">We do confidently affirm, (neither let any man reckon us among thoſe Hereticks <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0329-03a" xlink:href="note-0329-03"/> which were called Cathari) that often Purges, and made even familiar to the body, are <lb/>more available to long life than Exerciſes and Sweats: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11620" xml:space="preserve">and this muſt needs be ſo, if that <lb/>be held, which is already laid for aground, That Unctions of the body, and Oppletion <lb/>of the paſſages from without, and Excluſion of air, and Detaining of the ſpirit within <lb/>the maſs of the body, do much conduce to long life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11621" xml:space="preserve">For it is moſt certain, that by <lb/>Sweats and outward Perſpirations not only the Humours and excrementitious vapours <lb/>are exhaled and conſumed, but together with them the juices alſo and good ſpirits, <lb/>which are not ſo eaſily repaired: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11622" xml:space="preserve">but in Purges (unleſs they be very immoderate) it is <lb/>not ſo, ſeeing they work principally upon the Humors. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11623" xml:space="preserve">But the beſt Purges for this <lb/>Intention are thoſe which are taken immediately beforemeat, becauſe they dry the body <lb/>leſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11624" xml:space="preserve">and therefore they muſt be of thoſe Purgers which do leaſt trouble the belly.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11625" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1582" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0329-03" xlink:href="note-0329-03a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s11626" xml:space="preserve">Theſe Intentions of the Operations which we have propounded (as we conceive) are <lb/>moſt true, the Remedies faithful to the Intentions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11627" xml:space="preserve">Neither is it credible to be told (al-<lb/>though not a few of theſe Remedies may ſeem but vulgar) with what care and choice they <lb/>have been examined by us, that they might be (the Intention not at all impeached) both <lb/>ſafe and effectual Experience, no doubt, will both verifie and promote theſe matters. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11628" xml:space="preserve">And ſuch, in all things, are the works of every prudent counſel, that they are Admi-<lb/>rable in their Effects, Excellent alſo in their Order, but ſeeming Vulgar in the Way <lb/>and Means.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11629" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1584" type="section" level="1" n="69"> <head xml:id="echoid-head102" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Porches of Death.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s11630" xml:space="preserve">WE are now to enquire touching the Porches of Death, that is, touching thoſe things <lb/>which happen unto men at the point of Death, both a little before and after; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11631" xml:space="preserve">that <lb/>ſeeing there are many Paths which lead to Death, it may be under ſtood in what Common <pb o="52" file="0330" n="330" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> way they all end, eſpecially in thoſe Deaths which are cauſed by Indigence of Nature <lb/>rather than by Violence: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11632" xml:space="preserve">although ſomething of this latter alſo muſt be inſerted, becauſe <lb/>of the connexion of things.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11633" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1585" type="section" level="1" n="70"> <head xml:id="echoid-head103" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11634" xml:space="preserve">THe living Spirit ſtands in need of three things that it may ſubſiſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11635" xml:space="preserve">Convenient <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-01a" xlink:href="note-0330-01"/> Motion, Temperate Refrigeration, and Fit Aliment. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11636" xml:space="preserve">Flame ſeems to ſtand in <lb/>need but of two of theſe, namely, Motion and Aliment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11637" xml:space="preserve">becauſe Flame is a <lb/>ſimple ſubſtance, the Spirit a compounded, inſomuch that if it approach ſome what too <lb/>near to a flamy nature, it overthroweth it ſelf.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11638" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1585" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-01" xlink:href="note-0330-01a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11639" xml:space="preserve">Alſo Flame by a greater and ſtronger Flame is extinguiſhed and ſlain, as Ariſtotle well <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-02a" xlink:href="note-0330-02"/> noted, much more the Spirit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11640" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1586" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-02" xlink:href="note-0330-02a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11641" xml:space="preserve">Flame, if it be much compreſſed and ſtreightned, is extinguiſhed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11642" xml:space="preserve">as we may ſee in. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11643" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-03a" xlink:href="note-0330-03"/> a Candle having a Glaſs caſt over it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11644" xml:space="preserve">for the Air being dilated by the heat, doth con-<lb/>trude and thruſt together the Flame, and ſo leſſeneth it, and in the end extinguiſheth it; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11645" xml:space="preserve">and fires on hearths will not flame if the fuel be thruſt cloſe together without any ſpace <lb/>for the flame to break forth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11646" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1587" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-03" xlink:href="note-0330-03a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11647" xml:space="preserve">Alſo things fired are extinguiſhed with compreſſion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11648" xml:space="preserve">as if you preſs a burning coal <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-04a" xlink:href="note-0330-04"/> hard with the Tongs or the foot, it is ſtreight extinguiſhed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11649" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1588" type="float" level="2" n="4"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-04" xlink:href="note-0330-04a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11650" xml:space="preserve">But to come to the Spirit: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11651" xml:space="preserve">if Bloud or Phlegm get into the Ventricles of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-05a" xlink:href="note-0330-05"/> Brain, it cauſeth ſudden death, becauſe the Spirit hath no room to move it <lb/>ſelf.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11652" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1589" type="float" level="2" n="5"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-05" xlink:href="note-0330-05a" xml:space="preserve">5.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11653" xml:space="preserve">Alſo a great blow on the head induceth ſudden death, the Spirits being ſtreightned <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-06a" xlink:href="note-0330-06"/> within the Ventricles of the Brain.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11654" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1590" type="float" level="2" n="6"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-06" xlink:href="note-0330-06a" xml:space="preserve">6.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11655" xml:space="preserve">Opium and other ſtrong Stupefactives do coagulate the Spirit, and deprive it of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-07a" xlink:href="note-0330-07"/> motion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11656" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1591" type="float" level="2" n="7"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-07" xlink:href="note-0330-07a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11657" xml:space="preserve">A venemous Vapour, totally abhorred by the ſpirit, cauſeth ſudden death: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11658" xml:space="preserve">as in deadly <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-08a" xlink:href="note-0330-08"/> poiſons, which work (as they call it) by a ſpecifical malignity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11659" xml:space="preserve">for they ſtrike a loath-<lb/>ing into the Spirit, that the ſpirit will no more move it ſelf, nor riſe againſt a thing ſo <lb/>much deteſted.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11660" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1592" type="float" level="2" n="8"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-08" xlink:href="note-0330-08a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11661" xml:space="preserve">Alſo extreme Drunkenneſs or extreme Feeding ſometime cauſe ſudden death, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-09a" xlink:href="note-0330-09"/> ſeeing the ſpirit is not onely oppreſſed with over much condenſing, or the malignity <lb/>of the vapour, (as in Opium and malignant poiſons) but alſo with the abundance of <lb/>the Vapours.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11662" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1593" type="float" level="2" n="9"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-09" xlink:href="note-0330-09a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11663" xml:space="preserve">Extreme Grief or Fear, eſpecially if they be ſudden, (as it is in a ſad and unexpected <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-10a" xlink:href="note-0330-10"/> meſſage) cauſe ſudden death.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11664" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1594" type="float" level="2" n="10"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-10" xlink:href="note-0330-10a" xml:space="preserve">10.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11665" xml:space="preserve">Not onely over-much Compreſſion, but alſo over-much Dilatation of the ſpirit, is <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-11a" xlink:href="note-0330-11"/> deadly.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11666" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1595" type="float" level="2" n="11"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-11" xlink:href="note-0330-11a" xml:space="preserve">11.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11667" xml:space="preserve">Joys exceſſive and ſudden have bereft many of their lives.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11668" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">12.</note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11669" xml:space="preserve">In greater Evacuations, as when they cut men for the Drepſie, the waters flow forth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-13a" xlink:href="note-0330-13"/> abundantly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11670" xml:space="preserve">much more in great and ſudden fluxes of bloud oftentimes preſent <lb/>death followeth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11671" xml:space="preserve">and this happens by the mere flight of Vacuum within the body, <lb/>all the parts moving to fill the empty placcs, and amongſt the reſt the ſpirits <lb/>themſelves. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11672" xml:space="preserve">For as for ſlow fluxes of blood, this matter pertains to the indigence <lb/>of nouriſhment, not to the diffuſion of the ſpirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11673" xml:space="preserve">And touching the motion <lb/>of the ſpirit ſo far, either compreſſed or diffuſed, that it bringeth death, thus <lb/>much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11674" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1596" type="float" level="2" n="12"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-13" xlink:href="note-0330-13a" xml:space="preserve">13</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11675" xml:space="preserve">We muſt come next to the want of Refrigeration. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11676" xml:space="preserve">Stopping of the breath cauſeth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-14a" xlink:href="note-0330-14"/> ſudden death, as in all ſuffocation or ſtrangling. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11677" xml:space="preserve">Now it ſeems this matter is not ſo <lb/>much to be referred to the impediment of Motion, as to the impediment of Refri-<lb/>geration; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11678" xml:space="preserve">for air over-hot, though attracted freely, doth no leſs ſuffocate than if <lb/>breathing were hindred; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11679" xml:space="preserve">as it is in them who have been ſometime ſuffocated with <lb/>burning coals, or with char-coal, or with walls newly plaiſtered in cloſe chambers <lb/>where a fire is made: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11680" xml:space="preserve">which kind of death is reported to have been the end of the <lb/>Emperor Jovinian. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11681" xml:space="preserve">The like happeneth from dry Baths over heated, which was pra-<lb/>ctiſed in the killing of Fauſta, wifeto Conſtantine the Great.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11682" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1597" type="float" level="2" n="13"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-14" xlink:href="note-0330-14a" xml:space="preserve">14.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11683" xml:space="preserve">It is a very ſmall time which Nature taketh to repeat the breathing, and in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0330-15a" xlink:href="note-0330-15"/> <pb o="53" file="0331" n="331" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> which ſhe deſireth to expel the foggy air drawn into the Lungs, and to take in new, <lb/>ſcarce the third part of a minute.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11684" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1598" type="float" level="2" n="14"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0330-15" xlink:href="note-0330-15a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11685" xml:space="preserve">Again, the beating of the Pulſe, and the motion of the Syſtole and Diaſtole of the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0331-01a" xlink:href="note-0331-01"/> heart, are three times quicker than that of breathing: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11686" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch that if it were poſſi-<lb/>ble that that motion of the heart could be ſtopped without ſtopping the breath, death <lb/>would follow more ſpedily there upon than by ſtrangling.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11687" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1599" type="float" level="2" n="15"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0331-01" xlink:href="note-0331-01a" xml:space="preserve">16.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11688" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding, uſe and cuſtom prevail much in this natural action of breathing; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11689" xml:space="preserve"> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0331-02a" xlink:href="note-0331-02"/> as it is in the Delian Divers and Fiſhers for Pearl, who by long uſe can hold their breaths <lb/>at leaſt ten times longer than other men can do.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11690" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1600" type="float" level="2" n="16"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0331-02" xlink:href="note-0331-02a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11691" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt living Creatures, even of thoſe that have Lungs, there are ſome that are able <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0331-03a" xlink:href="note-0331-03"/> to hold their breaths a long time, and others that cannot hold them ſo long, according <lb/>as they need more or leſs refrigeration.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11692" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1601" type="float" level="2" n="17"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0331-03" xlink:href="note-0331-03a" xml:space="preserve">18.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11693" xml:space="preserve">Fiſhes need leſs refrigeration that Terreſtrial Creatures, yet ſome they need, and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0331-04a" xlink:href="note-0331-04"/> take it by their Gills. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11694" xml:space="preserve">And as Terreſtrial Creatures cannot bear the air that is too <lb/>hot or too cloſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11695" xml:space="preserve">ſo Fiſhes are ſuffocated in waters if they be totally and long <lb/>frozen.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11696" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1602" type="float" level="2" n="18"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0331-04" xlink:href="note-0331-04a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11697" xml:space="preserve">If the Spirit be aſſaulted by another heat greater than it ſelf, it is diſſipated and de-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0331-05a" xlink:href="note-0331-05"/> ſtroyed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11698" xml:space="preserve">for it cannot bear the proper beat without refrigeration, much leſs can it <lb/>bear another heat which is far ſtronger. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11699" xml:space="preserve">This is to be ſeen in burning-Fevers, where <lb/>the heat of the putrefied humours doth exceed the native heat, even to extinction or <lb/>diſſipation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11700" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1603" type="float" level="2" n="19"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0331-05" xlink:href="note-0331-05a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11701" xml:space="preserve">The want alſo and uſe of Sleep is referred to Refrigeration. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11702" xml:space="preserve">For Motion doth atte-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0331-06a" xlink:href="note-0331-06"/> nuate and rarifie the ſpirit, and doth ſharpen and increaſe the heat thereof; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11703" xml:space="preserve">contra-<lb/>rily, sleep ſetleth and reſtraineth the motion and gadding of the ſame: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11704" xml:space="preserve">for though <lb/>Sleep doth ſtrengthen and advance the actions of the parts and of the liveleſs ſpi-<lb/>rits, and all that motion which is to the circumference of the body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11705" xml:space="preserve">yet it doth in <lb/>great part quiet and ſtill the proper motion of the living Spirit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11706" xml:space="preserve">Now ſleep regu-<lb/>larly is due unto humane nature once within four and twenty hours, and that for ſix <lb/>or five hours at the leaſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11707" xml:space="preserve">though there are, even in this kind, ſometimes miracles of <lb/>Nature; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11708" xml:space="preserve">as it is recorded of Mecanas, that he ſlept not for a long time before his <lb/>death. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11709" xml:space="preserve">And as touching the want of Refrigeration for conſerving of the Spirit thus <lb/>much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11710" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1604" type="float" level="2" n="20"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0331-06" xlink:href="note-0331-06a" xml:space="preserve">21.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11711" xml:space="preserve">As concerning the third Indigence, namely of Aliment, it ſeems to pertain rather to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0331-07a" xlink:href="note-0331-07"/> the parts than to the living Spirit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11712" xml:space="preserve">for a man may eaſily believe that the living Spirit <lb/>ſubſiſteth in Identity, not by ſucceſſion or renovation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11713" xml:space="preserve">And as for the reaſonable Soul <lb/>in man, it is above all queſtion that it is not engendred of the Soul of the Parents, nor is <lb/>repaired, nor can die, They ſpeak of the Natural spirit of living Creatures, and alſo <lb/>of Vegetables, which differs from that other Soul eſſentially and formally. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11714" xml:space="preserve">For out of <lb/>the confuſion of theſe that ſame tranſmigration of Souls, and innumerable other devices <lb/>of Heathens and Hereticks have proceeded.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11715" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1605" type="float" level="2" n="21"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0331-07" xlink:href="note-0331-07a" xml:space="preserve">22.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11716" xml:space="preserve">The Body of man doth regularly require Renovation by Aliment every day, and a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0331-08a" xlink:href="note-0331-08"/> body in health can ſcarce endure faſting three days together; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11717" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding uſe and <lb/>cuſtome will do much even in this caſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11718" xml:space="preserve">but in ſickneſs faſting is leſs grievous to the <lb/>body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11719" xml:space="preserve">Alſo Sleep doth ſupply ſomewhat to nouriſhment; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11720" xml:space="preserve">and on the other ſide <lb/>Exerciſe doth require it more abundantly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11721" xml:space="preserve">Likewiſe there have ſome been found <lb/>who ſuſtained themſelves (almoſt to a miracle in nature) a very long time without <lb/>meat or drink.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11722" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1606" type="float" level="2" n="22"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0331-08" xlink:href="note-0331-08a" xml:space="preserve">23.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11723" xml:space="preserve">Dead Bodies if they be not intercepted by putrefaction, will ſubſiſt a long time with-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0331-09a" xlink:href="note-0331-09"/> out any notable Abſumption; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11724" xml:space="preserve">but Living bodies not above three days, (as we ſaid) un-<lb/>leſs they be repaired by nouriſhment: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11725" xml:space="preserve">which ſheweth that quick Abſumption to be <lb/> <anchor type="handwritten" xlink:label="hd-0331-1a" xlink:href="hd-0331-1"/> the work of the living spirit, which either repairs it ſelf, or puts the parts into a ne-<lb/>ceſſity of being repaired, or both. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11726" xml:space="preserve">This is teſtified by that alſo which was noted a little <lb/>before, namely, that living creatures may ſubſiſt ſomewhat the longer without Aliment <lb/>if they ſleep: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11727" xml:space="preserve">now ſleep is nothing elſe but a reception and retirement of the living <lb/>Spirit into it ſelf.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11728" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1607" type="float" level="2" n="23"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0331-09" xlink:href="note-0331-09a" xml:space="preserve">24.</note> <handwritten xlink:label="hd-0331-1" xlink:href="hd-0331-1a"/> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11729" xml:space="preserve">An abundant and continual effluxion of blood, which ſometimes happeneth in <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0331-10a" xlink:href="note-0331-10"/> the Hæmorrhoides, ſometimes in vomitting of blood, the inward Veins being <lb/>unlocked or broken, ſometimes by wounds, cauſeth ſudden death, in regard that <lb/>the bloud of the Veins miniſtreth to the Arteries, and the bloud of the Arteries <lb/>to the Spirit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11730" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1608" type="float" level="2" n="24"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0331-10" xlink:href="note-0331-10a" xml:space="preserve">25.</note> </div> <pb o="54" file="0332" n="332" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11731" xml:space="preserve">The quantity of meat and drink which a man, eating two meals a day, receiveth into <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0332-01a" xlink:href="note-0332-01"/> his body is not ſmall; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11732" xml:space="preserve">much more than he voideth again either by ſtool, or by urine, <lb/>or by ſweating. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11733" xml:space="preserve">You will ſay, No marvel, ſeeing the remainder goeth into the juices <lb/>and ſubſtance of the body. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11734" xml:space="preserve">It is true; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11735" xml:space="preserve">but conſider then that this addition is made twice <lb/>a day, and yet the body aboundeth not much. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11736" xml:space="preserve">In like manner, though the ſpirit be re-<lb/>paired, yet it grows not exceſſively in the quantity.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11737" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1609" type="float" level="2" n="25"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0332-01" xlink:href="note-0332-01a" xml:space="preserve">26.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11738" xml:space="preserve">It doth no good to have the Aliment ready, in a degree removed, but to have it of that <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0332-02a" xlink:href="note-0332-02"/> kind, and ſo prepared and ſupplied that the ſpirit may work upon it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11739" xml:space="preserve">for the ſtaff of <lb/>a Torch alone will not maintain the flame, unleſs it be fed with wax, neither can men <lb/>live upon herbs alone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11740" xml:space="preserve">And from thence comes the Inconcoction of old age, that though <lb/>there be fleſh and bloud, yet the ſpirit is become ſo penurious and thin, and the <lb/>juices and bloud ſo heartleſs and obſtinate, that they hold no proportion to Ali-<lb/>mentation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11741" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1610" type="float" level="2" n="26"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0332-02" xlink:href="note-0332-02a" xml:space="preserve">27.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11742" xml:space="preserve">Let us now caſt up the accounts of the Needs and Indigences, according to the ordi <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0332-03a" xlink:href="note-0332-03"/> nary and uſual courſe of nature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11743" xml:space="preserve">The Spirit hath need of opening and moving it ſelf <lb/>in the Ventricles of the Brain and Nerves even continually, of the motion of the Heart <lb/>every third part of a moment, of breathing every moment, of ſleep and nouriſhment <lb/>once within three days, of the power of nouriſhment commonly till eighty years be <lb/>paſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11744" xml:space="preserve">And if any of theſe Indigences beneglected, Death enſueth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11745" xml:space="preserve">So there are plainly <lb/>three Porches of Death; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11746" xml:space="preserve">Deſtitution of the Spirit in the Motion, in the Refrigeration, <lb/>in the Aliment.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11747" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1611" type="float" level="2" n="27"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0332-03" xlink:href="note-0332-03a" xml:space="preserve">28.</note> </div> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s11748" xml:space="preserve">It is an error to think that the Living Spirit is perpetually generated and extinguiſhed, <lb/>as Flame is, and abideth not any notable time: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11749" xml:space="preserve">for even Flame it ſelf is not thus out of <lb/>its own proper nature, but becauſe it liveth amongst enemies, for Flame within Flame <lb/>endureth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11750" xml:space="preserve">Now the Living Spirit liveth amongſt friends, and all due obſequiouſneſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11751" xml:space="preserve">So <lb/>then, as Flame is a momentany ſubſtance, Air is a ſixed ſubſtance, the Living Spirit is <lb/>betwixt both.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11752" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s11753" xml:space="preserve">Touching the extinguiſhing of the Spirit by the deſtruction of the Organs (which is <lb/>cauſed by Diſeaſes and Violence) we enquire not now, as we foretold in the beginning, al-<lb/>though that alſo endeth in the ſame three Porches. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11754" xml:space="preserve">And touching the Form of Death it <lb/>ſelf thus much.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11755" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11756" xml:space="preserve">There are two great forerunners of Death, the one ſent from the Head, the other <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0332-04a" xlink:href="note-0332-04"/> from the Heart; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11757" xml:space="preserve">Convulſion, and the extreme labour of the Pulſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11758" xml:space="preserve">for, as for the deadly <lb/>Hiccough, it is a kind of Convulſion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11759" xml:space="preserve">But the deadly labour of the Pulſe hath that <lb/>unuſual ſwiftneſs, becauſe the Heart at the point of death doth ſo tremble, that <lb/>the Syſtole and Diaſtole thereof are almoſt confounded. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11760" xml:space="preserve">There is alſo conjoyned <lb/>in the Pulſe a weakneſs and lowneſs, and oftentimes a great intermiſſion, becauſe <lb/>the motion of the Heart faileth, and is not able to riſe againſt the aſſault ſtoutly or <lb/>conſtantly.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11761" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1612" type="float" level="2" n="28"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0332-04" xlink:href="note-0332-04a" xml:space="preserve">29.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11762" xml:space="preserve">The immediate proceeding ſigns of Death are, great unquietneſs and toſſing in the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0332-05a" xlink:href="note-0332-05"/> bed, fumbling with the hands, catching and graſping hard, gnaſhing with the teeth; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11763" xml:space="preserve">ſpeaking hollow, trembling of the neather lip, paleneſs of the face, the memory con-<lb/>fuſed, ſpeechleſs, cold ſweats, the body ſhooting in length, lifting up the white of <lb/>the eye, changing of the whole viſage, (as the noſe ſharp, eyes hollow, cheeks fallen) <lb/>contraction and doubling of the coldneſs in the extreme parts of the body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11764" xml:space="preserve">in ſome, <lb/>ſhedding of bloud or ſperm, ſhrieking, breathing thick and ſhort, falling of the nea-<lb/>ther chap, and ſuch like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11765" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1613" type="float" level="2" n="29"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0332-05" xlink:href="note-0332-05a" xml:space="preserve">30.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11766" xml:space="preserve">There follow Death a privation of all ſenſe and motion, as well of the Heart and <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0332-06a" xlink:href="note-0332-06"/> Arteries as of the Nerves and Joynts, an inability of the body to ſupport it ſelf upright, <lb/>ſtiffneſs of the Nerves and parts, extream coldneſs of the whole body; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11767" xml:space="preserve">after a little <lb/>while, putrefaction and ſtinking.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11768" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1614" type="float" level="2" n="30"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0332-06" xlink:href="note-0332-06a" xml:space="preserve">31.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11769" xml:space="preserve">Eeles, serpents and the Inſecta will move a long time in every part after they are cut <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0332-07a" xlink:href="note-0332-07"/> aſunder, inſomuch that Country people think that the parts ſtrive to joyn together <lb/>again. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11770" xml:space="preserve">Alſo Birds will flutter a great while after their heads are pulled off; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11771" xml:space="preserve">and the <lb/>hearts of living creatures will pant a long time after they are plucked out. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11772" xml:space="preserve">I remem-<lb/>ber I have ſeen the heart of one that was bowelled, as ſufſ<unsure/>ering for High Treaſon, that <lb/>being caſt into the fire, leaped at the firſt at leaſt a foot and half in height, and after <lb/>by degrees lower and lower, for the ſpace, as I remember, of ſeven or eight minutes. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11773" xml:space="preserve">There is alſo an ancient and credible Tradition of an O<unsure/>x lowing aſter his bowels were <lb/>plucked out. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11774" xml:space="preserve">But there is a more certain tradition of a man, who being under the <pb o="55" file="0333" n="333" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> Executioner’s hand for high Treaſon, after his Heart was plucked out and in the Exe-<lb/>cutioner’s hand, was heard to utter three or four words of prayer: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11775" xml:space="preserve">which therefore <lb/>we ſaid to be more credible than that of the Ox<unsure/> in sacrifice, becauſe the friends of the <lb/>party ſuffering do uſually give a reward to the Executioner to diſpatch his office with <lb/>the more ſpeed, that they may the ſooner be rid of their pain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11776" xml:space="preserve">but in Sacrifices we <lb/>ſee no cauſe why the Prieſt ſhould be ſo ſpeedy in his office.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11777" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1615" type="float" level="2" n="31"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0332-07" xlink:href="note-0332-07a" xml:space="preserve">32.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11778" xml:space="preserve">For reviving thoſe again which fall into ſudden Swooning and Catalepſes of aſtoniſh-<lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0333-01a" xlink:href="note-0333-01"/> ments, (in which Fits many, without preſent help, would utterly expire) theſe things <lb/>are uſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11779" xml:space="preserve">Putting into their mouths Water diſtilled of Wine, which they call Hot-<lb/>waters, and Cordial-Waters, bending the body forwards, ſtopping the mouth and noſtrils <lb/>hard, bending or wringing the fingers, pulling the hairs of the beard or head, rubbing <lb/>of the parts, eſpecially the face and legs, ſudden caſting of cold water upon the face, <lb/>ſhrieking out aloud and ſuddenly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11780" xml:space="preserve">putting Roſe-water to the noſtrills with Vinegar in <lb/>faintings; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11781" xml:space="preserve">burning of Feathers or Cloth in the ſuffocation of the Mother: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11782" xml:space="preserve">but eſpe-<lb/>cially a Frying-pan heated red hot is good in Apoplexies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11783" xml:space="preserve">alſo a cloſe embracing o<unsure/>f the <lb/>body hath helped ſome.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11784" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1616" type="float" level="2" n="32"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0333-01" xlink:href="note-0333-01a" xml:space="preserve">33.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11785" xml:space="preserve">There have been many examples of men in ſhew dead, either laid out upon the <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0333-02a" xlink:href="note-0333-02"/> cold floor, or carried forth to burial; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11786" xml:space="preserve">nay, of ſome buried in the earth, which not-<lb/>withſtanding have lived again, which hath been found in thoſe that were buried (the <lb/>earth being afterwards opened) by the bruiſing and wounding of their head, through <lb/>the ſtrugling of the body within the Coffin; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11787" xml:space="preserve">whereof the moſt recent and memo-<lb/>rable example was that of Foannes scotus, called the Subtil, and a School-man, who <lb/>being digged up again by his Servant, (unfortunately abſent at his burial, and who <lb/>knew his Maſters manner in ſuch fits) was found in that ſtate: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11788" xml:space="preserve">And the like happened <lb/>in our days in the perſon of a Player, buried at Cambridge. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11789" xml:space="preserve">I remember to have heard <lb/>of a certain Gentleman, that would needs make trial in curioſity what men did feel that <lb/>were hanged; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11790" xml:space="preserve">ſo he faſtened the Cord about his neck, raiſing himſelf upon a ſtool, and <lb/>then letting himſelf fall, thinking it ſhould be in his power to recover the ſtool at <lb/>his pleaſure, which he failed in, but was helped by a friend then preſent. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11791" xml:space="preserve">He was <lb/>asked aſterward what he felt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11792" xml:space="preserve">He ſaid he felt no pain, but firſt he thought he ſaw before <lb/>his eyes a great fire and burning; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11793" xml:space="preserve">then he thought he ſaw all black and dark; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11794" xml:space="preserve">laſtly <lb/>it turned to a pale blew, or Sea-water green; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11795" xml:space="preserve">which colour is alſo often ſeen by them <lb/>which fall into Swoonings. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11796" xml:space="preserve">I have heard alſo of a Phyſician, yet living, who reco-<lb/>vered a man to life which had hanged himſelf, and had hanged half an hour, by Fri-<lb/>cations and hot Baths: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11797" xml:space="preserve">And the ſame Phyſician did profeſs, that he made no doubt to <lb/>recover any man that had hanged ſo long, ſo his Neck were not broken with the firſt <lb/>ſwing.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11798" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1617" type="float" level="2" n="33"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0333-02" xlink:href="note-0333-02a" xml:space="preserve">34.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1619" type="section" level="1" n="71"> <head xml:id="echoid-head104" xml:space="preserve">The Differences of Youth and Old Age.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11799" xml:space="preserve">THe Ladder of Man’s Body is this, To be conceived, to be quickned in the womb, <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0333-03a" xlink:href="note-0333-03"/> to be born, to ſuck, to be weaned, to feed upon Pap, to put forth Teeth the <lb/>firſt time about the ſecond year of age, to begin to go, to begin to ſpeak, to <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0333-04a" xlink:href="note-0333-04"/> put forth Teeth the ſecond time about ſeven years of age, to come to Puberty about <lb/>twelve or fourteen years of age, to be able for generation and the flowing of the Men-<lb/>ſtrua, to have hairs about the legs and arm-holes, to put forth a Beard; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11800" xml:space="preserve">and thus long, <lb/>and ſometimes later, to grow in ſtature, to come to full years of ſtrength and agility, to <lb/>grow gray and bald; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11801" xml:space="preserve">the Menſtrua ceaſing, and ability to generation, to grow decrepit <lb/>and a monſter with three legs, to die. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11802" xml:space="preserve">Mean-while the Mind alſo hath certain periods, <lb/>but they cannot be deſcribed by years, as to decay in the Memory, and the like; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11803" xml:space="preserve">of <lb/>which hereafter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11804" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1619" type="float" level="2" n="1"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0333-03" xlink:href="note-0333-03a" xml:space="preserve">To the 16 <lb/>Article.</note> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0333-04" xlink:href="note-0333-04a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11805" xml:space="preserve">The differences of Youth and old Age are theſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11806" xml:space="preserve">A young man’s skin is ſmooth <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0333-05a" xlink:href="note-0333-05"/> and plain, an old man’s dry and wrinkled, eſpecially about the forehead and eyes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11807" xml:space="preserve">a <lb/>young man’s fleſh is tender and ſoft, an old man’s hard; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11808" xml:space="preserve">a young man hath ſtrength <lb/>and agility, an old man feels decay in his ſtrength and is ſlow of motion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11809" xml:space="preserve">a young man <pb o="56" file="0334" n="334" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> hath good digeſtion, an old man bad; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11810" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s bowels are ſoft and ſucculent, an <lb/>old man’s ſalt and parched; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11811" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s body is erect and ſtreight, an old man’s <lb/>bowing and crooked; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11812" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s limbs are ſteady, an old man’s weak and trem-<lb/>bling; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11813" xml:space="preserve">the humours in a young man are cholerick, and his bloud inclined to heat, in an <lb/>old man phlegmatick and melancholick, and his bloud inclined to coldneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11814" xml:space="preserve">a young <lb/>man ready for the act of Venus, an old man ſlow unto it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11815" xml:space="preserve">in a young man the juices <lb/>of his body are more roſcid, in an old man more crude and wateriſh; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11816" xml:space="preserve">the ſpirit in a <lb/>young man plentiful and boiling, in an old man ſcarce and jejune: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11817" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s ſpi-<lb/>rit is denſe and vigorous, an old man’s eager and rare; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11818" xml:space="preserve">a young man hath his ſenſes <lb/>quick and intire, an old man dull and decayed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11819" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s teeth are ſtrong and <lb/>entire, an old man’s weak, worn, and faln out; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11820" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s hair is coloured, an <lb/>old man’s (of what colour ſoever it were) gray; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11821" xml:space="preserve">a young man hath hair, an old man <lb/>baldneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11822" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s pulſe is ſtronger and quicker, an old man’s more confuſed <lb/>and ſlower; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11823" xml:space="preserve">the diſeaſes of young men are more acute and curable, of old men longer <lb/>and hard to cure; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11824" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s wounds ſoon cloſe, an old man’s later; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11825" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s <lb/>cheeks are of a freſh colour, an old man’s pale, or with a black bloud; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11826" xml:space="preserve">a young man <lb/>is leſs troubled with rheums, an old man more. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11827" xml:space="preserve">Neither do we know in what things <lb/>old men do improve as touching their body, ſave onely ſometime in fatneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11828" xml:space="preserve">whereof <lb/>the reaſon is ſoon given, Becauſe old men’s bodies do neither perſpire well, nor aſſimi-<lb/>late well: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11829" xml:space="preserve">now Fatneſs is nothing elſe but an exuberance of nouriſhment above that <lb/>which is voided by excrement, or which is perfectly aſſimilated. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11830" xml:space="preserve">Alſo ſome old men <lb/>improve in the appetite of feeding by reaſon of the acid humors, though old men digeſt <lb/>worſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11831" xml:space="preserve">And all theſe things which we have ſaid, Phyſicians negligently enough will <lb/>refer to the diminution of the Natural heat and Radical moiſture, which are things of no <lb/>worth for uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11832" xml:space="preserve">This is certain, Drineſs in the coming on of years doth forego Cold <lb/>neſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11833" xml:space="preserve">and bodies when they come to the top and ſtrength of heat do decline in Drineſs, <lb/>and after that follows Coldneſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11834" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1620" type="float" level="2" n="2"> <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0333-05" xlink:href="note-0333-05a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note> </div> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11835" xml:space="preserve">Now we are to conſider the Affections of the Mind. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11836" xml:space="preserve">I remember when I was a <lb/> <anchor type="note" xlink:label="note-0334-01a" xlink:href="note-0334-01"/> young man, at Poictiers in France I converſed familiarly with a certain French man, a <lb/>witty young man, but ſomething talkative, who afterwards grew to be a very eminent <lb/>man: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11837" xml:space="preserve">he was wont to inveigh againſt the manners of old men, and would ſay, That if <lb/>their Minds could be ſeen as their Bodies are, they would appear no leſs deformed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11838" xml:space="preserve">Be-<lb/>ſides, being in love with his own wit, he would maintain, That the vices of old men’s <lb/>Minds have ſome correſpondence and were parallel to the putrefactions of their Bo-<lb/>dies: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11839" xml:space="preserve">For the drineſs of their skin he would bring in Impudence; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11840" xml:space="preserve">for the hardneſs of <lb/>their bowels, unmercifulneſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11841" xml:space="preserve">for the lippitude of their eyes, an evil Eye and Envy: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11842" xml:space="preserve">for the caſting down of their eyes, and bowing their body towards the earth, <lb/>Atheiſm; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11843" xml:space="preserve">(for, ſaith he, they look no more up to Heaven as they are m<unsure/>ont) for the <lb/>trembling of their members, Irreſolution of their decrees and light inconſtancy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11844" xml:space="preserve">for the <lb/>bending of their fingers, as it were to catch, Rapacity and covetouſneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11845" xml:space="preserve">for the buck-<lb/>ling of their knees, Fearfulneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11846" xml:space="preserve">for their wrinkles, Craftineſs and Obliquity: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11847" xml:space="preserve">and other <lb/>things which I have forgotten. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11848" xml:space="preserve">But to be ſerious, a young man is modeſt and ſhame-<lb/>fac’d, an old man’s fore-head is hardned; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11849" xml:space="preserve">a young man is full of bounty and mercy, an <lb/>old man’s heart is brawny; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11850" xml:space="preserve">a young man is affected with a laudable emulation, an old <lb/>man with a malignant envy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11851" xml:space="preserve">a young man is inclined to Religion and Devotion, by <lb/>reaſon of his fervency and inexperience of evil, an old man cooleth in piety <lb/>through the coldneſs of his charity, and long converſation in evil, and likewiſe <lb/>through the difficulty of his belief; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11852" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s deſires are vehement, an old man’s <lb/>moderate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11853" xml:space="preserve">a young man is light and moveable, an old man more grave and conſtant; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11854" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>a young man is given to liberality, and beneficence, and humanity, an old man to co-<lb/>vetouſneſs, wiſdom for his own ſelf, and ſeeking his own ends; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11855" xml:space="preserve">a young man is <lb/>confident and full of hope, an old man diffident and given to ſuſpect moſt things; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11856" xml:space="preserve">a <lb/>young man is gentle and obſequious, an old man froward and diſdainful; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11857" xml:space="preserve">a young man <lb/>is ſincere and open-hearted, an old man cautelous and cloſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11858" xml:space="preserve">a young man is given <lb/>to deſire great things, an old man to regard things neceſſary; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11859" xml:space="preserve">a young man thinks <lb/>well of the preſent times, an old man preferreth times paſt before them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11860" xml:space="preserve">a young man <lb/>reverenceth his Superiours, an old man is more forward to tax them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11861" xml:space="preserve">And many other <lb/>things, which pertain rather to Manne<unsure/>rs than to the preſent Inquiſition. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11862" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtand-<lb/>ing old men, as in ſome things they improve in their Bodies, ſo alſo in their Minds, <lb/>unleſs they be altogether out of date: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11863" xml:space="preserve">namely, that as they are leſs apt for inven- <pb o="57" file="0335" n="335" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> tion, ſo they excel in judgment, and prefer ſafe things and ſound things before ſpe-<lb/>cious; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11864" xml:space="preserve">alſo they improve in Garrulity and Oſtentation, for they ſeek the fruit of ſpeech, <lb/>while they are leſs able for action: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11865" xml:space="preserve">So as it was not abſurd that the Poets feigned old <lb/>Tithon to be turned into a Graſhopper.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11866" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <div xml:id="echoid-div1621" type="float" level="2" n="3"> <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0334-01" xlink:href="note-0334-01a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note> </div> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1623" type="section" level="1" n="72"> <head xml:id="echoid-head105" xml:space="preserve">Moveable Canons of the Duration of Life and Form of Death.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head106" xml:space="preserve">Canon I.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11867" xml:space="preserve">COnſumption is not cauſed, unleſs that which is departed with by one body paſſeth into <lb/>another.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11868" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1624" type="section" level="1" n="73"> <head xml:id="echoid-head107" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11869" xml:space="preserve">THere is in Nature no Annihilating, or Reducing to Nothing: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11870" xml:space="preserve">therefore that which <lb/>is conſumed is either reſolved into Air, or turned into ſome Body adjacent. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11871" xml:space="preserve">So <lb/>we ſee a spider, or Fly, or Ant in Amber, entombed in a more ſtately Monument than <lb/>Kings are, to be laid up for Eternity, although they be but tender things, and ſoon <lb/>diſſipated: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11872" xml:space="preserve">But the matter is this, that there is no air by, into which they ſhould be <lb/>reſolved; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11873" xml:space="preserve">and the ſubſtance of the Amber is ſo hetero<unsure/>geneous, that it receives nothing <lb/>of them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11874" xml:space="preserve">The like we conceive would be if a Stick, or Root, or ſome ſuch thing were <lb/>buried in Quick-ſilver: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11875" xml:space="preserve">alſo Wax, and Honey, and Gums have the ſame Operation, but in <lb/>part onely.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11876" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1625" type="section" level="1" n="74"> <head xml:id="echoid-head108" xml:space="preserve">Canon II.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s11877" xml:space="preserve">THere is in every Tangible body a Spirit, covered and encompaſſed with the groſſer <lb/>parts of the body, and from it all Conſumption and Diſſolution hath the begin-<lb/>ning.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11878" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1626" type="section" level="1" n="75"> <head xml:id="echoid-head109" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11879" xml:space="preserve">NO Body known unto us here in the upper part of the Earth is without a Spirit, <lb/>either by Attenuation and Concoction from the heat of the Heavenly Bodies, or <lb/>by ſome other way: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11880" xml:space="preserve">for the Concavities of Tangible things receive not Vacuum, but <lb/>either Air, or the proper Spirit of the thing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11881" xml:space="preserve">And this spirit where of we ſpeak is not <lb/>ſome Virtue, or Energie, or Act, or a Trifle, but plainly a Body, rare and inviſible; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11882" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding circumſcribed by Place, Quantitative, Real. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11883" xml:space="preserve">Neither again is that <lb/>Spirit Air, (no more than Wine is Water) but a body rarefied, of kin to Air, though <lb/>much different from it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11884" xml:space="preserve">Now the groſſer parts of bodies (being dull things, and not <lb/>apt for motion) would laſt a long time; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11885" xml:space="preserve">but the Spirit is that which troubleth, and <lb/>plucketh, and undermineth them, and converte<unsure/>th the moiſture of the body, and what-<lb/>ſoever it is able to digeſt, into new Spirit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11886" xml:space="preserve">and then as well the pre-exiſting Spirit of the <lb/>body as that newly made flie away together by degrees. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11887" xml:space="preserve">This is beſt ſeen by the Di-<lb/>minution of the weight in bodies dried through Perspiration: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11888" xml:space="preserve">for neither all that which <lb/>is iſſued forth was Spirit when the body was ponderous, neither was it not Spirit when <lb/>it iſſued forth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11889" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1627" type="section" level="1" n="76"> <head xml:id="echoid-head110" xml:space="preserve">Canon III.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11890" xml:space="preserve">THe Spirit iſſuing forth Drieth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11891" xml:space="preserve">Detained and working within either Melteth, or Pu-<lb/>trefieth, or Vivifieth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11892" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1628" type="section" level="1" n="77"> <head xml:id="echoid-head111" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11893" xml:space="preserve">THere are four Proceſſes of the Spirit, to Arefaction, to Colliquation, Putre-<lb/>faction, to Generation of bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11894" xml:space="preserve">Arefaction is not the proper work of the Spirit, <lb/>but of the groſſer parts after the Spirit iſſued forth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11895" xml:space="preserve">for then they contract them-<lb/>ſelves partly by their flight of Vacuum, partly by the union of the Homogeneals: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11896" xml:space="preserve">as <lb/>appears in all things which are arefied by age, and in the drier ſort of bodies which <lb/>have paſſed the fire, as Bricks, Char-coal, Bread. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11897" xml:space="preserve">colliquation is the mere work of the <lb/>Spirit: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11898" xml:space="preserve">neither is it done but when they are excited by heat: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11899" xml:space="preserve">for when the Spirits <lb/>dilating themſelves, yet not getting forth, do inſinuate and diſperſe themſelves <lb/>among the groſſer parts, and ſo make them ſoft and apt to run, as it is in Metalls and <lb/>wax: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11900" xml:space="preserve">for Metalls and all tenacious things are apt to inhibit the Spirit, that being <pb o="58" file="0336" n="336" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> excited it iſſueth not forth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11901" xml:space="preserve">Putrefaction is a mixed work of the Spirits and of the <lb/>groſſer parts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11902" xml:space="preserve">for the Spirit (which before reſtrained and bridled the parts of the <lb/>thing) being partly iſſued forth and partly infeebled, all things in the body do diſſolve <lb/>and return to their Homogeneities, or (if you will) to their Elements: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11903" xml:space="preserve">that which was <lb/>Spirit in it is congregated to it ſelf, whereby things putrefied begin to have an ill ſa-<lb/>vour: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11904" xml:space="preserve">the Oily parts to themſelves, whereby things putrefied have that ſlipperineſs <lb/>and unctuoſity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11905" xml:space="preserve">the watry parts alſo to themſelves: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11906" xml:space="preserve">the Dregs to themſelyes: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11907" xml:space="preserve">whence <lb/>followeth that confuſion in bodies putrefied. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11908" xml:space="preserve">But Generation or Vivification is a work <lb/>alſo mixed of the Spirit and groſſer parts, but in a far different manner: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11909" xml:space="preserve">for the Spirit <lb/>is totally detained, but it ſwelleth and moveth locally: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11910" xml:space="preserve">and the groſſer parts are not <lb/>diſſolved, but follow the motion of the ſpirit, and are, as it were, blown out by it, <lb/>and extruded into divers figures, from whence cometh that Generation and Organiza-<lb/>tion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11911" xml:space="preserve">and therefore Vivification is always done in a matter tenacious and clammy, and <lb/>again, yielding and ſoft, that there may be both a detention of the ſpirit, and alſo a <lb/>gentle ceſſion of the parts, according as the ſpirit forms them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11912" xml:space="preserve">And this is ſeen in the <lb/>matter as well of all Vegetables as of living Creatures, whether they be engendred of <lb/>Putrefaction or of Sperm; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11913" xml:space="preserve">for in all theſe things there is manifeſtly ſeen a matter <lb/>hard to break through, eaſie to yield.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11914" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1629" type="section" level="1" n="78"> <head xml:id="echoid-head112" xml:space="preserve">Canon IV.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11915" xml:space="preserve">IN all living Creatures there are two kinds of Spirits: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11916" xml:space="preserve">Liveleſs Spirits, ſuch as are in bo-<lb/>dies Inanimate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11917" xml:space="preserve">and a Vital Spirit ſuperadded.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11918" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1630" type="section" level="1" n="79"> <head xml:id="echoid-head113" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11919" xml:space="preserve">IT was ſaid before, that to procure long life the Body of man muſt be conſidered, <lb/>firſt, as Inanimate, and not repaired by nouriſhment: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11920" xml:space="preserve">ſecondly, as Animate, and <lb/>repaired by nouriſhment: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11921" xml:space="preserve">for the former conſideration gives Laws touching (Conſump-<lb/>tion, the latter touching Reparation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11922" xml:space="preserve">Therefore we muſt know that there are in hu-<lb/>mane fleſh bones, M<unsure/>embranes, Organs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11923" xml:space="preserve">finally, in all the parts ſuch ſpirits diffuſed <lb/>in the ſubſtance of them while they are alive, as there are in the ſame things (Fleſh, <lb/>Bones, Membranes, and the reſt) ſeparated and dead: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11924" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as alſo remain in a Car-<lb/>kaſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11925" xml:space="preserve">but the Vital Spirit, although it ruleth them, and hath ſome conſent with them, <lb/>yet it is far differing from them, being integral, and ſubſiſting by it ſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11926" xml:space="preserve">Now there <lb/>are two ſpecial differences betwixt the Liveleſs Spirits and the Vital Spirits. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11927" xml:space="preserve">The one, <lb/>that the Liveleſs spirits are not continued to themſelves, but are, as it were, cut off, <lb/>and encompaſſed with a groſs body which intercepts them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11928" xml:space="preserve">as Air is mixed with <lb/>Snow or Froth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11929" xml:space="preserve">but the Vital Spirit is all continued to it ſelf by certain Conduit-pipes <lb/>through which it paſſeth, and is not totally intercepted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11930" xml:space="preserve">And this Spirit is two-fold <lb/>alſo: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11931" xml:space="preserve">the one branched, onely paſſing through ſinall pipes, and, as it were, ſtrings: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11932" xml:space="preserve">the other hath a Cell alſo, ſo as it is not onely continued to it ſelf, but alſo congre-<lb/>gated in an hollow ſpace in reaſonable good quantity, according to the Analogy of <lb/>the body, and in that Cell is the fountain of the Rivulets which branch from thence. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11933" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>That Cell is chiefly in the Ventricles of the Brain, which in the ignobler ſort of crea-<lb/>tures are but narrow, inſomuch that the ſpirits in them ſeem ſcattered over their whole <lb/>body rather than Celled; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11934" xml:space="preserve">as may be ſeen in Serpents, Eels and Flies, whereoſ every of <lb/>their parts move long after they are cut aſſunder. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11935" xml:space="preserve">Birds alſo leap a good while after <lb/>their heads are pulled off, becauſe they have little heads and little Cells. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11936" xml:space="preserve">But the nobler <lb/>ſort of creatures have thoſe Ventricles larger, and Man the largeſt of all. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11937" xml:space="preserve">The other <lb/>difference betwixt the Spirits is, that the Vital Spirit hath a kind of enkindling, and <lb/>is like a Wind or Breath compounded of Flame and Air, as the Juices of living <lb/>creatures have both Oil and water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11938" xml:space="preserve">And this enkindling miniſtreth peculiar motions <lb/>and faculties: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11939" xml:space="preserve">for the ſmoke which is inflamable, even before the flame conceived, is <lb/>hot, thin and movable, and yet it is quite another thing after it is become flame: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11940" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>but the enkindling of the vital ſpirits is by many degrees gentler than the ſofteſt flame, <lb/>as of Spirit of Wine, or otherwiſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11941" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, it is in great part mixed with an Aerial <lb/>ſubſtance, that it ſhould be a Myſtery or Miracle, both of a Flammeons and Aere-<lb/>ous nature.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11942" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1631" type="section" level="1" n="80"> <head xml:id="echoid-head114" xml:space="preserve">Canon V.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11943" xml:space="preserve">THe Natural A Etions are proper to the ſeveral Parts, but it is the Vital Spirit that excites <lb/>and ſharpens them.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11944" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="59" file="0337" n="337" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1632" type="section" level="1" n="81"> <head xml:id="echoid-head115" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11945" xml:space="preserve">THe Actions or Functions which are in the ſeveral Members follow the nature of <lb/>the Members themſelves, (Attraction, Retention, Digeſtion, Aſſimilation, Separation, <lb/>Excretion, Perspiration, even Senſe it ſelf) according to the propriety of the ſeveral <lb/>Organs, (the Stomach, Liver, Heart, Spleen, Gall, Brain, Eye, Ear, and the reſt:) <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11946" xml:space="preserve">yet none of theſe Actions would ever have been actuated but by the vigour and pre-<lb/>ſence of the Vital spirit and heat thereof: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11947" xml:space="preserve">as one Iron would not have drawn another <lb/>Iron, unleſs it had been excited by the Load ſtone, nor an Egge would ever have brought <lb/>forth a Bird, unleſs the ſubſtance of the Hen had been actuated by the treading of the <lb/>Cock.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11948" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1633" type="section" level="1" n="82"> <head xml:id="echoid-head116" xml:space="preserve">Canon VI.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11949" xml:space="preserve">THe liveleſs Spirits are next Conſa<unsure/>bſtantial to Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11950" xml:space="preserve">the vital Spirits approach more to the <lb/>ſubſtance of Flame.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11951" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1634" type="section" level="1" n="83"> <head xml:id="echoid-head117" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11952" xml:space="preserve">THe Explication of the precedent fourth Canon is alſo a declaration of this preſent <lb/>Canon: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11953" xml:space="preserve">but yet further, from hence it is that all fat and oily things continue <lb/>long in their Being; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11954" xml:space="preserve">For neither doth the Air much pluck them, neither do they <lb/>much deſire to joyn themſelves with Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11955" xml:space="preserve">As for that conceit it is altogether vain, <lb/>That Flame ſhould be Air ſet on fire, ſeeing Flame and Air are no leſs heterogeneal <lb/>than Oil and Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11956" xml:space="preserve">But whereas it is ſaid in the Canon, that the vital ſpirits approach <lb/>more to the ſubſtance of Flame; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11957" xml:space="preserve">it muſt be underſtood, that they do this more than <lb/>the liveleſs spirits, not that they are more Flamy than Airy.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11958" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1635" type="section" level="1" n="84"> <head xml:id="echoid-head118" xml:space="preserve">Canon VII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11959" xml:space="preserve">THe Spirit bath two Deſires; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11960" xml:space="preserve">one of multiplying it ſelf, the other of flying forth and <lb/>congregating it ſelf with the Connaturals.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11961" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1636" type="section" level="1" n="85"> <head xml:id="echoid-head119" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11962" xml:space="preserve">THe Canon is underſtood of the liveleſs spirits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11963" xml:space="preserve">for as for the ſecond Deſire, the <lb/>vital spirit doth moſt of all abhor flying forth of the body, for it finds no Con-<lb/>natural here below to joyn withal: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11964" xml:space="preserve">Perhaps it may ſometimes flie to the outward <lb/>parts of the body, to meet that which it loveth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11965" xml:space="preserve">but the flying forth, as I ſaid, it ab-<lb/>horreth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11966" xml:space="preserve">But in the liveleſs ſpirits each of theſe two Deſires holdeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11967" xml:space="preserve">For to the for-<lb/>mer this belongeth, Every ſpirit ſeated among ſt the groſſer parts dwelleth unhappily; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11968" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>therefore when it finds not a like unto it ſelf, it doth ſo much the more labour to cre-<lb/>ate and make a like, as being in a great ſolitude, and endeavour earneſtly to multiply it <lb/>ſelf, and to prey upon the volatile of the großer parts, that it may be encreaſed in quan-<lb/>tity. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11969" xml:space="preserve">As for the ſecond Deſire of flying forth, and betaking it ſelf to the Air, it is cer-<lb/>tain that all light things (which are ever movable) do willingly go unto their likes near <lb/>unto them, as a Dröp of water is carried to a Drop, Flame to Flame: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11970" xml:space="preserve">but much more <lb/>this is done in the flying forth of ſpirit into the Air ambient, becauſe it is not carried <lb/>to a particle like unto it ſelf, but alſo as unto the Globe of the Cannaturals. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11971" xml:space="preserve">Mean-while <lb/>this is to be noted, That the going forth and flight of the ſpirit into air is a redoubled <lb/>action, partly out of the appetite of the ſpirit, partly out of the appetite of the air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11972" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>the common air is a needy thing, and receiveth all things ſpeedily, as Spirits, Odours, B<unsure/>eams, <lb/>Sounds, and the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11973" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1637" type="section" level="1" n="86"> <head xml:id="echoid-head120" xml:space="preserve">Canon VIII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11974" xml:space="preserve">SPirit detained, if is<unsure/> have no poſſibility of begetting new ſpirits, itenerateth the groſſer <lb/>parts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11975" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1638" type="section" level="1" n="87"> <head xml:id="echoid-head121" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explicæ<unsure/>tion.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11976" xml:space="preserve">GEneration of new Spirit is not accompliſhed but upon thoſe things which are in <lb/>ſome degree near to ſpirit, ſuch as are humid bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11977" xml:space="preserve">And therefore if the groſſer <lb/>parts (amongſt which the Spirit converſeth) be in a remote degree, although the ſpirit <lb/>cannot convert them, yet (as much as it can) it weakneth, and ſoftneth, and ſubdueth <lb/>them, that ſeeing it cannot increaſe in quantity, yet it will d well more at large, and live <lb/>amongſt good neighbours and friends. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11978" xml:space="preserve">Now this Apheriſm is moſt uſeful to our <lb/>End, becauſe it tendeth to the Inteneration of the obſtinate parts by the detention of the <lb/>ſpirit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11979" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1639" type="section" level="1" n="88"> <head xml:id="echoid-head122" xml:space="preserve">Canon IX.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11980" xml:space="preserve">THe Inteneration of the harder parts cometh to good effect, when the Spirit neither fly-<lb/>eth forth, nor begetteth new Spirit.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11981" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="60" file="0338" n="338" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1640" type="section" level="1" n="89"> <head xml:id="echoid-head123" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11982" xml:space="preserve">THis Canon ſolveth the knot and difficulty in the Operation of Intenerating by the <lb/>Detention of the Spirit: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11983" xml:space="preserve">for if the Spirit not flying forth waſteth all within, there <lb/>is nothing gotten to the Inteneration of the parts in their ſubſiſtence, but rather they are <lb/>diſſolved and corrupted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11984" xml:space="preserve">Therefore together with the Detention the Spirits ought to <lb/>be cooled and reſtrained, that they may not be too active.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11985" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1641" type="section" level="1" n="90"> <head xml:id="echoid-head124" xml:space="preserve">Canon X.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11986" xml:space="preserve">THe heat of the Spirit to keep the body freſh and green, ought to be Robuſt, not <lb/>Eager.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11987" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1642" type="section" level="1" n="91"> <head xml:id="echoid-head125" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s11988" xml:space="preserve">ALſo this Canon pertaineth to the ſolving of the knot aforeſaid, but it is of a <lb/>much larger extent, for it ſetteth down of what temperament the heat in the <lb/>body ought to be for the obtaining of Long life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11989" xml:space="preserve">Now this is uſeful, whether the <lb/>spirits be detained, or whether they be not. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11990" xml:space="preserve">For howſoever the heat of the spirits <lb/>muſt be ſuch, as it may rather turn it ſelf upon the hard parts than waſte the ſoft; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11991" xml:space="preserve">for the one Deſiccateth, the other Intenerateth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11992" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, the fame thing is available <lb/>to the well perfecting of Aſſimilation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11993" xml:space="preserve">for ſuch an heat doth excellently excite the fa-<lb/>culty of Aſſimilation, and withall doth excellently prepare the matter to be Aſſimi-<lb/>lated. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11994" xml:space="preserve">Now the properties of this kind of heat ought to be theſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11995" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, that it be <lb/>ſlow, and heat not ſuddenly: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11996" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, that it be not very intenſe, but moderate: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11997" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Thirdly, that it be equal, not incompoſed, namely, intending and remitting it ſelf: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11998" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Fourthly, that if this heat meet any thing to reſiſt it, it be not eaſily ſuffocated or lan-<lb/>guiſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s11999" xml:space="preserve">This Operation is exceeding ſubtil, but ſeeing it is one of the moſt uſeful, it is not <lb/>to be deſerted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12000" xml:space="preserve">Now in thoſe Remedies which we propounded to inveſt the ſpirits with <lb/>a Robust heat, or that which we call Operative, not Predatory, we have in ſome ſort ſatiſ-<lb/>fied this matter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12001" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1643" type="section" level="1" n="92"> <head xml:id="echoid-head126" xml:space="preserve">Canon XI.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12002" xml:space="preserve">The Condenſing of the Spirits in their Subſtance is available to Long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12003" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1644" type="section" level="1" n="93"> <head xml:id="echoid-head127" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12004" xml:space="preserve">THis Canon is ſubordinate to the next precedent: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12005" xml:space="preserve">for the Spirit condenſed receiveth <lb/>all thoſe four properties of heat whereof we ſpeak; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12006" xml:space="preserve">but the ways of Condenſing <lb/>them are ſet down in the firſt of the Ten Operations.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12007" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1645" type="section" level="1" n="94"> <head xml:id="echoid-head128" xml:space="preserve">Canon XII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12008" xml:space="preserve">THe Spirit in great quantity haſtneth more to flying forth, and preyeth upon the body <lb/>more, than in ſmall quantity.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12009" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1646" type="section" level="1" n="95"> <head xml:id="echoid-head129" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12010" xml:space="preserve">THis Canon is clear of it ſelf, ſeeing mere Quantity doth regularly increaſe virtue. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12011" xml:space="preserve">Andit is to be ſeen in flames, that the bigger they are, the ſtronger they break forth, <lb/>and the more ſpeedily they conſume. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12012" xml:space="preserve">And therefore over-great plenty or exuber ance <lb/>of the ſpirits is altogether hurtful to Long life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12013" xml:space="preserve">neither need one wiſh a greater ſtore <lb/>of ſpirits than what is ſufficient for the function of life, and the office of a good Re-<lb/>paration.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12014" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1647" type="section" level="1" n="96"> <head xml:id="echoid-head130" xml:space="preserve">Canon XIII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12015" xml:space="preserve">THe Spirit equally diſperſed maketh leſs haſte to flie forth, and preyeth leſs upon the body, <lb/>than unequally placed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12016" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1648" type="section" level="1" n="97"> <head xml:id="echoid-head131" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12017" xml:space="preserve">NOt onely abundance of ſpirits in reſpect of the whole is hurtful to the Duration <lb/>of things, but alſo the ſame abundance unevenly placed is in like manner hurtful; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12018" xml:space="preserve">and therefore the more the ſpirit is ſhred and inſerted by ſmall portions, the leſs it prey-<lb/>eth for Diſſolution ever beginneth at that part where the ſpirit is looſer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12019" xml:space="preserve">And there-<lb/>fore both Exerciſe and Frications conduce much to long life, for Agitation doth fine-<lb/>lieſt diffuſe and commix things by ſmall portions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12020" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1649" type="section" level="1" n="98"> <head xml:id="echoid-head132" xml:space="preserve">Canon XIV.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12021" xml:space="preserve">THe inordinate and ſubſultory motion of the ſpirits doth more haſten to going forth, and <lb/>doth prey upon the body more, than the conſtant and equal.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12022" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1650" type="section" level="1" n="99"> <head xml:id="echoid-head133" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12023" xml:space="preserve">IN Inanimates this Canon holds for certain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12024" xml:space="preserve">for Inequality is the Mother of Diſſo-<lb/>lution: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12025" xml:space="preserve">but in Animates (becauſe not onely the Conſumption is conſidered, but the <pb o="61" file="0339" n="339" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> Reparation, and Reparation proceedeth by the Appetites of things, and Appetite is <lb/>ſharpned by variety) it holdeth not rigorouſly; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12026" xml:space="preserve">but it is ſo far forth to be received, that <lb/>this variety be rather an alternation or enterchange than a confuſion, and as it were con-<lb/>ſtant in inconſtancy.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12027" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1651" type="section" level="1" n="100"> <head xml:id="echoid-head134" xml:space="preserve">Canon XV.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12028" xml:space="preserve">The Spirit in a Body of a ſolid compoſure is detained, though unwillingly.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12029" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1652" type="section" level="1" n="101"> <head xml:id="echoid-head135" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12030" xml:space="preserve">ALl things do abhor a Solution of their Continuity, but yet in proportion to their <lb/>Denſity or Rarity: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12031" xml:space="preserve">for the more rare the bodies be, the more do they ſuffer <lb/>themſelves to be thruſt into ſmall and narrow paſſages; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12032" xml:space="preserve">for water will go into a paſſage <lb/>which duſt will not go into, and air which water will not go into, nay, flame and <lb/>spirit which air will not go into. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12033" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding of this thing there are ſome <lb/>bounds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12034" xml:space="preserve">for the spirit is not ſo much tranſported with the deſire of going forth, that <lb/>it will ſuffer it ſelf to be too much diſcontinued, or be driven into over-ſtreight pores <lb/>and paſſages; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12035" xml:space="preserve">and therefore if the ſpirit be encompaſſed with an hard body, or elſe <lb/>with an unctuous and tenæcious, (which is not eaſily divided) it is plainly bound, and, <lb/>as I may ſay, impriſoned, and layeth down the appetite of going out: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12036" xml:space="preserve">wherefore we <lb/>ſee that Metalls and Stones require a long time for their ſpirit to go forth, unleſs either <lb/>the ſpirit be excited by the fire, or the groſſer parts be diſſevered with corroding and <lb/>ſtrong waters. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12037" xml:space="preserve">The like reaſon is there of tenacious bodies, ſuch as are Gums, ſave onely <lb/>that they are melted by a more gentle heat: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12038" xml:space="preserve">and therefore the juices of the body hard, <lb/>a cloſe and compact skin, and the like, (which are procured by the drineſs of the Aliment, <lb/>and by Exerciſe, and by the coldneſs of the air) are good for long life, becauſe they <lb/>detain the ſpirit in cloſe priſon that it goeth not forth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12039" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1653" type="section" level="1" n="102"> <head xml:id="echoid-head136" xml:space="preserve">Canon XVI.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12040" xml:space="preserve">In Oily and Fat things the Spirit is detained willingly, though they be not tenacious,</s> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1654" type="section" level="1" n="103"> <head xml:id="echoid-head137" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12041" xml:space="preserve">THe ſpirit, if it be not irritated by the antipatby of the body encloſing it, nor fed by <lb/>the over-much likeneſs of that body, nor ſollicited nor invited by the external body, <lb/>it makes no great ſtir to get out: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12042" xml:space="preserve">all which are wanting to Oily bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12043" xml:space="preserve">for they are <lb/>neither ſo preſſing upon the ſpirits as hard bodies, nor ſo near as watry bodies, neither <lb/>have they any good agreement with the air ambient.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12044" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1655" type="section" level="1" n="104"> <head xml:id="echoid-head138" xml:space="preserve">Canon XVII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12045" xml:space="preserve">THe ſpeedy flying forth of the Watry humor conſerves the Oily the longer in his <lb/>being.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12046" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1656" type="section" level="1" n="105"> <head xml:id="echoid-head139" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12047" xml:space="preserve">WE ſaid before that the Watry humors, as being conſubſtantial to the Air, flie <lb/>forth ſooneſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12048" xml:space="preserve">the Oily later, as having ſmall agreement with the Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12049" xml:space="preserve">Now <lb/>whereas theſe two humors are in moſt bodies, it comes to paſs that the Watry doth in a <lb/>ſort betray the Oily, for thatiſſuing forth inſenſibly carrieth this together with it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12050" xml:space="preserve">There-<lb/>fore there is nothing more furthereth the conſervation of bodies than a gentle drying of <lb/>them, which cauſeth the watry humour to expire, and inviteth not the Oily; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12051" xml:space="preserve">for then <lb/>the Oily enjoyeth the proper nature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12052" xml:space="preserve">And this tendeth not onely to the inhibiting of <lb/>Putrefaction, (though that alſo followeth) but to the conſervation of Greenneſs. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12053" xml:space="preserve">Hence it is, that gentle Frications and moderate Exerciſes, cauſing rather Perſpiration than <lb/>Sweating, conduce much to long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12054" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1657" type="section" level="1" n="106"> <head xml:id="echoid-head140" xml:space="preserve">Canon XVIII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12055" xml:space="preserve">Air excluded conferreth to Long life, if other inconveniences be avoided.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12056" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1658" type="section" level="1" n="107"> <head xml:id="echoid-head141" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12057" xml:space="preserve">WE ſaid a little before, that the flying forth of the spirit is a redoubled action, <lb/>from the appetite of the ſpirit and of the air, and therefore if either of theſe be <lb/>taken out of the way, there is not a little gained. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12058" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding divers Inconve-<lb/>niences follow hereupon, which how they may be prevented we have ſhewed in the <lb/>ſecond of our Operations.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12059" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1659" type="section" level="1" n="108"> <head xml:id="echoid-head142" xml:space="preserve">Canon XIX.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12060" xml:space="preserve">YOuthful spirits inſerted into an old Body might ſoon turn Nature’s courſe back <lb/>again.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12061" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="62" file="0340" n="340" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1660" type="section" level="1" n="109"> <head xml:id="echoid-head143" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12062" xml:space="preserve">THe nature of the spirits is as the uppermoſt wheel, which turneth about the other <lb/>wheels in the body of man, and therefore in the Intention of Long life, that ought <lb/>to be firſt placed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12063" xml:space="preserve">Hereunto may be added, that there is an eaſier and more expedite <lb/>way to alter the ſpirits, than to other Operations. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12064" xml:space="preserve">For the Operation upon the spirits is <lb/>two-fold: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12065" xml:space="preserve">the one by Aliments, which is ſlow, and, as it were, about; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12066" xml:space="preserve">the other, (and <lb/>that two fold) which is ſudden, and goeth directly to the ſpirits, namely, by Vapours, <lb/>or by the Affections.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12067" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1661" type="section" level="1" n="110"> <head xml:id="echoid-head144" xml:space="preserve">Canon XX.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12068" xml:space="preserve">Juices of the Body hard and roſcid are good for Long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12069" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1662" type="section" level="1" n="111"> <head xml:id="echoid-head145" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12070" xml:space="preserve">THe reaſon i@ plain, ſeeing we ſhe wed before, that hard things, and oily or roſcid are <lb/>hardly diſſipated: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12071" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding there is difference, (as we alſo noted in the <lb/>tenth operation) That juice ſome what hard is indeed leſs diſſipable, but then it is withal <lb/>leſs reparable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12072" xml:space="preserve">therefore a Convenience is interlaced with an Inconvenience, and for this <lb/>cauſe no wonderful matter will be atchieved by this. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12073" xml:space="preserve">But roſcid juice will admit both <lb/>Operations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12074" xml:space="preserve">therefore this would be principally endeavoured.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12075" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1663" type="section" level="1" n="112"> <head xml:id="echoid-head146" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXI.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12076" xml:space="preserve">VVHatſoever is of thin parts to penetr ate, and yet hath no Acrimony to bite, begetteth <lb/>Roſcid Juices.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12077" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1664" type="section" level="1" n="113"> <head xml:id="echoid-head147" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12078" xml:space="preserve">THis Canon is more hard to practiſe than to underſtand. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12079" xml:space="preserve">For it is manifeſt, what-<lb/>ſoever penetrateth well, but yet with a ſting or tooth, (as do all ſharp and ſour <lb/>things) it leaveth behind it whereſoever it goeth ſome mark or print of drineſs and <lb/>cleaving, ſo that it hardneth the juices, and chappeth the parts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12080" xml:space="preserve">contrarily, whatſoever <lb/>things penetrate through their thinneſs merely, as it were by ſtealth, and by way of in-<lb/>ſinuation, without violence, they bedew and water in their paſſage. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12081" xml:space="preserve">Of which ſort we <lb/>have recounted many in the fourth and ſeventh Operations.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12082" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1665" type="section" level="1" n="114"> <head xml:id="echoid-head148" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12083" xml:space="preserve">Aſſimilation is beſt done when all Local Motion is expended.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12084" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1666" type="section" level="1" n="115"> <head xml:id="echoid-head149" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12085" xml:space="preserve">THis Canon we have ſufficiently explained in our Diſcourſe upon the eighth Ope-<lb/>ration.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12086" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1667" type="section" level="1" n="116"> <head xml:id="echoid-head150" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXIII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12087" xml:space="preserve">ALimentation from without, at leaſt ſome other way than by the Stomach, is most pro-<lb/>fitable for Long life, if it can be done.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12088" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1668" type="section" level="1" n="117"> <head xml:id="echoid-head151" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12089" xml:space="preserve">WE ſee that all things which are done by Nutrition, ask a long time, but thoſe which <lb/>are done by embracing of the like (as it is in Infuſions) require no long time. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12090" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>therefore Alimentation from without would be of principal uſe, and ſo much the more, <lb/>becauſe the Faculties of Concoction decay in old age: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12091" xml:space="preserve">ſo that if there could be ſome auxi-<lb/>liary Nutritions, by Bathings, Vnctions, or elſe by Clyſters, theſe things in conjunction <lb/>might do much, which ſingle are leſs available.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12092" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1669" type="section" level="1" n="118"> <head xml:id="echoid-head152" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXIV.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12093" xml:space="preserve">WHere the Concoction is weak to thruſt forth the Aliment, there the Outward parts <lb/>ſhould be strengthned to call forth the Aliment.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12094" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1670" type="section" level="1" n="119"> <head xml:id="echoid-head153" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12095" xml:space="preserve">THat which is propounded in this Canon is not the ſame thing with the former; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12096" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>it is one thing for the outward Aliment to be attracted inward, another for the in-<lb/>ward Aliment to be attracted outward: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12097" xml:space="preserve">yet herein they concur, that they both help <lb/>the weakneſs of the inward Concoctions, though by divers ways.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12098" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1671" type="section" level="1" n="120"> <head xml:id="echoid-head154" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXV.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12099" xml:space="preserve">ALL ſudden Renovation of the Body is wrought either by the Spirit, or by Malaciſſa-<lb/>tions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12100" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1672" type="section" level="1" n="121"> <head xml:id="echoid-head155" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12101" xml:space="preserve">THere are two things in the body, Spirits and Parts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12102" xml:space="preserve">to both theſe the way by Nu-<lb/>trition is long and about; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12103" xml:space="preserve">but it is a ſhort way to the Spirits by Vapours and by <lb/>the Affections, and to the Parts by Malaciſſations. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12104" xml:space="preserve">But this is diligently to be noted, <lb/>that by no means we confound Alimentation from without with Malaciſſation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12105" xml:space="preserve">for the <lb/>intention of Malaciſſation is not to nouriſh the parts, but onely to make them more fit <lb/>to be nouriſhed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12106" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="63" file="0341" n="341" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1673" type="section" level="1" n="122"> <head xml:id="echoid-head156" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXVI.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12107" xml:space="preserve">MAlaciſſation is wrought by Conſubſtantials, by Imprinters, and by Cloſers <lb/>up.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12108" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1674" type="section" level="1" n="123"> <head xml:id="echoid-head157" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12109" xml:space="preserve">THe reaſon is manifeſt, for that Conſubſtantials do properly ſupple the body, Im-<lb/>printers do carry in, Cloſers up do retain and bridle the Perspiration, which is a <lb/>motion oppoſite to Malaciſſation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12110" xml:space="preserve">And therefore (as we deſcribed in the ninth Ope-<lb/>ration) Malaciſſation cannot well be done at once, but in a courſe or order. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12111" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, by <lb/>excluding the Liquor by Thickners: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12112" xml:space="preserve">for an out ward and groſs Infuſion doth not well <lb/>compact the body: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12113" xml:space="preserve">that which entreth muſt be ſubtil, and a kind of vapour. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12114" xml:space="preserve">Second-<lb/>ly, by Intenerating by the conſent of Conſubstantials: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12115" xml:space="preserve">for bodies upon the touch of <lb/>thoſe things which have good agreement with them, open themſelves, and relax their <lb/>pores. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12116" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, Imprinters are Convoys, and inſinuate into the parts the Conſubſtan-<lb/>tials, and the mixture of gentle Aſtringents doth ſomewhat reſtrain the Perspiration. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12117" xml:space="preserve">But <lb/>then, in the fourth place, follows that great Aſtriction and Cloſure up of the body by <lb/>Emplaiſtration, and then afterward by Inunction, until the supple be turned into Solid, <lb/>as we ſaid in the proper place.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12118" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1675" type="section" level="1" n="124"> <head xml:id="echoid-head158" xml:space="preserve">Canon XxVII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12119" xml:space="preserve">FRequent Renovation of the Parts Repairable watereth and reneweth the leſs Reparable <lb/>alſo.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12120" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1676" type="section" level="1" n="125"> <head xml:id="echoid-head159" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12121" xml:space="preserve">WE ſaid in the Preface to this Hiſtory, that the way of Death was this, That the <lb/>Parts Reparable died in the fellowſhip of the Parts leſs Reparable: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12122" xml:space="preserve">ſo that in the <lb/>Reparation of theſe ſame leſs Reparable Parts all our forces would be employed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12123" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>therefore being admoniſhed by Ariſtotle’s obſervation touching Plants, namely, That <lb/>the putting forth of new ſhoots and branches refreſheth the body of the Tree in the paſſage; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12124" xml:space="preserve">we conceive the like reaſon might be, if the fleſh and bloud in the body of man were <lb/>often renewed, that thereby the bones themſelves, and membranes, and other parts <lb/>which in their own nature are leſs Reparable, partly by the chearful paſſage of the <lb/>juices, partly by that new cloathing of the young fleſh and bloud, might be w<unsure/>atered and <lb/>renewed.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12125" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1677" type="section" level="1" n="126"> <head xml:id="echoid-head160" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXVIII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12126" xml:space="preserve">REfrigeration or Cooling of the body, which paſſeth ſome other ways than by the Sto-<lb/>mach, is uſeful for Long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12127" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1678" type="section" level="1" n="127"> <head xml:id="echoid-head161" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12128" xml:space="preserve">THe reaſon is at hand: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12129" xml:space="preserve">for ſeeing a Refrigeration not temperate, but powerful, (eſpe-<lb/>cially of the bloud) is above all things neceſſary to Long life: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12130" xml:space="preserve">this can by no means <lb/>be effected from within as much as is requiſite, without the deſtruction of the sto-<lb/>mach and Bowels.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12131" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1679" type="section" level="1" n="128"> <head xml:id="echoid-head162" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXIX.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12132" xml:space="preserve">THat Intermixing or Intangling, that as well Conſumption as Reparation are the works <lb/>of Heat, is the greateſt obſtacle to Long life.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12133" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1680" type="section" level="1" n="129"> <head xml:id="echoid-head163" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12134" xml:space="preserve">ALmoſt all great works are deſtroyed by the Natures of things Intermixed, whenas <lb/>that which helpeth in one reſpect hurteth in another: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12135" xml:space="preserve">therefore men muſt proceed <lb/>herein by a ſound judgement, and a diſcreet practice. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12136" xml:space="preserve">For our part, we have done ſo <lb/>as far as the matter will bear, and our memory ſerveth us, by ſeparating benign heats <lb/>from hurtful, and the Remedies which tend to both.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12137" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1681" type="section" level="1" n="130"> <head xml:id="echoid-head164" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXX.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12138" xml:space="preserve">CUring of Diſeaſes is effected by Temporary Medicines; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12139" xml:space="preserve">but Lengthning of Life re-<lb/>quireth Obſervation of Diets.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12140" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1682" type="section" level="1" n="131"> <head xml:id="echoid-head165" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12141" xml:space="preserve">THoſe things which come by accident, as ſoon as the cauſes are removed ceaſe <lb/>again; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12142" xml:space="preserve">but the continued courſe of nature, like a running River, requires a con-<lb/>tinual rowing and ſailing againſt the ſtream: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12143" xml:space="preserve">therefore we muſt work regularly by Di-<lb/>ets. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12144" xml:space="preserve">Now Diets are of two kinds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12145" xml:space="preserve">Set Diets, which are to be obſerved at certain times; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12146" xml:space="preserve">and Familiar Diet, which is to be admitted into our daily repaſt, But the set Diets are <lb/>the more potent, that is, a courſe of Medicines for a time: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12147" xml:space="preserve">for thoſe things which are <lb/>of ſo great virtue that they are able to turn Nature back again, are, for the moſt part, <lb/>more ſtrong, and more ſpeedily altering, than thoſe which may without danger be re-<lb/>ceived into a continual uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12148" xml:space="preserve">Now in the Remedies ſet down in our Intentions you <pb o="64" file="0342" n="342" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/> ſhall find onely three Set Diets, the Opiate Diet, the Diet Malaciſſant or Suppling, and <lb/>the Diet Emaciant and Renewing. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12149" xml:space="preserve">But amongſt thoſe which we preſcribed for Familiar <lb/>Diet, and to be uſed daily, the moſt efficacious are theſe that follow, which alſo come <lb/>not far ſhort of the vertue of Set Diets: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12150" xml:space="preserve">Nitre and the ſubordinates to Nitre; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12151" xml:space="preserve">the Re-<lb/>giment of the Affections and Courſe of our Life; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12152" xml:space="preserve">Refrigeratours which paſs not by the <lb/>Stomach; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12153" xml:space="preserve">Drinks Roſcidating, or ingendring Oily Juices; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12154" xml:space="preserve">beſprinkling of the bloud with <lb/>ſome firmer Matter, as Pearls, certain Woods, competent Unctions to keep out the Air, <lb/>and to keep in the Spirit; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12155" xml:space="preserve">Heaters from without, during the Aſſimilation after ſleep; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12156" xml:space="preserve">avoiding of thoſe things which inflame the Spirit, and put it into an eager heat, as wine <lb/>and Spices; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12157" xml:space="preserve">laſtly, a moderate and ſeaſonable uſe of thoſe things which endue the Spi-<lb/>rits with a robust Heat, as Saffron, Croſſes, Garlick, Elecampane, and compound Opiates.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12158" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1683" type="section" level="1" n="132"> <head xml:id="echoid-head166" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXXI.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s12159" xml:space="preserve">THe Living Spirit is instantly extinguiſhed if it be deprived either of Motion, or of Re-<lb/>frigeration, or of Aliment.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12160" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1684" type="section" level="1" n="133"> <head xml:id="echoid-head167" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12161" xml:space="preserve">NAmely, theſe are thoſe three which before we called the Porshes of Death, and <lb/>they are the proper and immediate paſſions of the Spirit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12162" xml:space="preserve">For all the Organs of <lb/>the principal parts ſerve hereunto, that theſe three Offices be performed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12163" xml:space="preserve">and again, <lb/>all deſtruction of the Organs which is deadly brings the matter to this point, that one or <lb/>more of theſe three fail. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12164" xml:space="preserve">Therefore all other things are the divers ways to Death, but <lb/>they end in theſe three. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12165" xml:space="preserve">Now the whole Fabrick of the Parts is the Organ of the Spirit, <lb/>as the Spirit is the Organ of the Reaſonable Soul, which is Incorporeous and Divine.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12166" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1685" type="section" level="1" n="134"> <head xml:id="echoid-head168" xml:space="preserve">Canon XXXII.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12167" xml:space="preserve">FLame is a Momentany Subſtance, Air a Fixed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12168" xml:space="preserve">the Living Spirit in Creatures is of <lb/>a middle Nature.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12169" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1686" type="section" level="1" n="135"> <head xml:id="echoid-head169" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12170" xml:space="preserve">THis matter ſtands in need both of an higher Indagation and of a longer Explica-<lb/>tion than is pertinent to the preſent Inquiſition. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12171" xml:space="preserve">Mean-while we muſt know <lb/>this, that Flame is almoſt every moment generated and extinguiſhed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12172" xml:space="preserve">ſo that it is con-<lb/>tinued only by ſucceſſion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12173" xml:space="preserve">but Air is a fixed body, and is not diſſolved; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12174" xml:space="preserve">for though Air <lb/>begets new Air out of watery moiſture, yet notwithſtanding the old Air ſtill remains; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12175" xml:space="preserve">whence cometh that Super-oneration of the Air whereof we have ſpoken in the Title <lb/>De Ventis. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12176" xml:space="preserve">But Spirit is participant of both Natures, both of Flame and Air, even as <lb/>the nouriſhments thereof are, as well Oil, which is homogeneous to Flame, as <lb/>Water, which is homogeneous to Air: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12177" xml:space="preserve">for the Spirit is not nouriſhed either of Oily <lb/>alone, or of watry alone, but of both together; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12178" xml:space="preserve">and though Air doth not agree well <lb/>with Flame, nor Oil with water, yet in a mix’d body they agree well enough. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12179" xml:space="preserve">Alſo <lb/>the Spirit hath from the Air his eaſie and delicate impreſſions and yieldings, and from <lb/>the Flame his noble and potent motions and activities. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12180" xml:space="preserve">In like manner the Duration <lb/>of Spirit is a mixed thing, being neither ſo momentany as that of Flame, nor ſo fixed as <lb/>that of Air: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12181" xml:space="preserve">And ſo much the rather it followeth not the condition of Flame, for <lb/>that Flame it ſelf is extinguiſhed by accident, namely, by Contraries and Enemies envi-<lb/>roning it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12182" xml:space="preserve">but Spirit is not ſubject to the like conditions and neceſſities. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12183" xml:space="preserve">Now the <lb/>Spirit is repaired from the lively and florid bloud of the ſmall Arteries which are in-<lb/>ſerted into the Brain; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12184" xml:space="preserve">but this Reparation is done by a peculiar manner, of which we <lb/>ſpeak not now.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12185" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1687" type="section" level="1" n="136"> <head xml:id="echoid-head170" style="it" xml:space="preserve">FINIS.</head> <pb file="0343" n="343"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1688" type="section" level="1" n="137"> <head xml:id="echoid-head171" xml:space="preserve">ARTICLES <lb/>OF <lb/>ENQUIRY, <lb/>TOUCHING <lb/>METALS & MINERALS.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head172" xml:space="preserve">Written by the Right Honorable, <lb/><emph style="bf">FRANCIS BACON</emph>, <lb/>BARON of VERULAM, <lb/>Viſcount St. Alban.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head173" xml:space="preserve">Thought fit to be added, to this <emph style="sc">Work</emph> <lb/>OF HIS <lb/>NATURAL HISTORY. <lb/>Nevvly put forth in the Year, 1661. <lb/>By the former Publisher.</head> <figure> <image file="0343-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0343-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1689" type="section" level="1" n="138"> <head xml:id="echoid-head174" xml:space="preserve">LONDON, <lb/>Printed for VVilliam Lee at the Turks-head <lb/>in Fleetſtreet. 1669.</head> <pb file="0344" n="344"/> <pb o="221" file="0345" n="345"/> <figure> <image file="0345-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0345-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1690" type="section" level="1" n="139"> <head xml:id="echoid-head175" xml:space="preserve">ARTICLES <lb/>OF <lb/>ENQUIRY, <lb/>TOUCHING <lb/>METALS & MINERALS.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12186" xml:space="preserve">THe firſt Letter of the Alphabet is, the Compounding, <lb/>Incorporating, or Union, of Metals or Minerals.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12187" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12188" xml:space="preserve">With what Metals, Gold will incorporate, by Sim-<lb/>ple Colliqueſactions, and with what not? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12189" xml:space="preserve">And in what <lb/>quantity it will incorporate? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12190" xml:space="preserve">and what kinde of Body <lb/>the Compound makes?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12191" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12192" xml:space="preserve">Gold with Silver, which was the ancient Electrum.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12193" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/># # Gold with Quick-ſilver. <lb/># # Gold with Lead. <lb/># # Gold with Copper. <lb/># # Gold with Braſs. <lb/># # Gold with Iron. <lb/># # Gold with Tin. <lb/># So likewiſe of Silver. <lb/># # Silver with Quick-ſilver. <lb/># # Silver with Lead. <lb/># # Silver with Copper. <lb/># # Silver with Braſs. <lb/># # Siver with Iron. <lb/># # Silver with Tin. <lb/></note> <pb o="222" file="0346" n="346" rhead="Articles of Enquiry,"/> <note position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/># So likewiſe of Quick-ſilver. <lb/># # Quick-ſilver with Lead. <lb/># # Quick-ſilver with Copper. <lb/># # Quick-ſilver with Braſs. <lb/># # Quick-ſilver with Iron. <lb/># # Quick-ſilver with Tin. <lb/># So of Lead. <lb/># # Lead with Copper. <lb/># # Lead with Braſs. <lb/># # Lead with Iron. <lb/># # Lead with Tin. <lb/># So of Copper. <lb/># # Copper with Braſs. <lb/># # Copper with Iron. <lb/># # Copper with Tin. <lb/># So of Braß. <lb/># # Braſs with Iron. <lb/># # Braſs with Tin. <lb/># So of Iron. <lb/># # Iron with Tin. <lb/></note> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12194" xml:space="preserve">What are the Compound Metals, which are common, and known? <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12195" xml:space="preserve">And what are the Proportions of their mixtures? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12196" xml:space="preserve">As</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12197" xml:space="preserve">Lattin of Braſs, and the Calaminar-ſtone.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12198" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12199" xml:space="preserve">Bell-metal of, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12200" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12201" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12202" xml:space="preserve">The counterfeit Plate, which they call Alchumy.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12203" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12204" xml:space="preserve">The Decompoſites of three Metals, or more, are too long to enquire, <lb/>except there be ſome Compoſitions of them already obſerved.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12205" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12206" xml:space="preserve">It is alſo to be obſerved, Whether any two Metals which will not <lb/>mingle of themſelves, will mingle with the help of another; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12207" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>what?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12208" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12209" xml:space="preserve">What Compounds will be made of Metal, with Stone, and other <lb/>Foſſiles? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12210" xml:space="preserve">As Lattin is made with Braſs, and the Calaminar-ſtone. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12211" xml:space="preserve">As <lb/>all the Mettals with Vitriol: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12212" xml:space="preserve">All with Iron poudered. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12213" xml:space="preserve">All with Flint, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12214" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12215" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1691" type="section" level="1" n="140"> <head xml:id="echoid-head176" xml:space="preserve">Some few of theſe would be enquired of, to diſcloſe the Nature <lb/>of the reſt.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12216" xml:space="preserve">WHether Metals, or other Foſſiles, will incorporate with Molten <lb/>Glaſs? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12217" xml:space="preserve">And what Body it makes?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12218" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12219" xml:space="preserve">The quantity in the mixture would we well conſidered: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12220" xml:space="preserve">For ſome <lb/>ſmall quantity, perhaps, would incorporate; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12221" xml:space="preserve">as in the Allays of Gold, <lb/>and Silver Coyn.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12222" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12223" xml:space="preserve">Upon the Compound Body, three things are chiefly to be obſerved. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12224" xml:space="preserve">The Colour, the Fragility or Pliantneſs, the Volatility or Faxation, com-<lb/>pared with the Simple Bodies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12225" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12226" xml:space="preserve">For preſent uſe or profit, this is the Rule. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12227" xml:space="preserve">Conſider the price of the <lb/>two Simple`Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12228" xml:space="preserve">conſider again the Dignity of the one above the <pb o="223" file="0347" n="347" rhead="Touching Metals and Minerals."/> other, in uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12229" xml:space="preserve">Then ſee, if you can make a compound that will ſave more <lb/>in the price, then it will loſe in the dignity of the uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12230" xml:space="preserve">As for example, <lb/>Conſider the price of Braſs Ordnance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12231" xml:space="preserve">conſider again the price of Iron <lb/>Ordnance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12232" xml:space="preserve">and conſider, wherein the Braſs Ordnance doth excel the Iron <lb/>Ordnance in uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12233" xml:space="preserve">Then if you can make a Compound of Braſs and Iron <lb/>Ordnance, that will be near as good in uſe, and much cheaper in price, <lb/>there is profit both to the private and to the Commonwealth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12234" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12235" xml:space="preserve">So of Gold and Silver, the price is double of Twelve. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12236" xml:space="preserve">The dignity <lb/>of Gold above Silver is not much; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12237" xml:space="preserve">the ſplendor is alike, and more plea-<lb/>ſing to ſome eye, As in Cloth of Silver, Silver Lace, ſilvered Rapiers, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12238" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12239" xml:space="preserve">The main dignity is, that Gold bears the Fire, which Silver doth not; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12240" xml:space="preserve">but that is an excellency in Nature, but it is nothing at all in uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12241" xml:space="preserve">For any <lb/>dignity in uſe, I know none, but that Silvering will ſully and canker more <lb/>then Gilding; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12242" xml:space="preserve">which, if it may be corrected, with a little mixture of Gold, <lb/>there is profit: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12243" xml:space="preserve">And I do ſome what marvel, that the later ages have loft <lb/>the ancient Electrum, which was a mixture of Silver with Gold; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12244" xml:space="preserve">whereof, <lb/>I conceive, there may be much uſe both in Coyn, Plate, and Gilding.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12245" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12246" xml:space="preserve">It is to be noted, that there is in the Verſion of Metals, impoſſibility, <lb/>or at leaſt great difficulty; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12247" xml:space="preserve">as in making of Gold, Silver, Copper: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12248" xml:space="preserve">On the <lb/>other ſide, in the adulterating or counterfeiting of Metals there is de-<lb/>ceit and villainy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12249" xml:space="preserve">but it ſhould ſeem there is a middle way, and that is, <lb/>by new compounds, if the ways of incorporating were well known.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12250" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12251" xml:space="preserve">What Incorporation or Imbibition, Metals will receive from Veget-<lb/>ables, without being diſſolved mightbe inquired. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12252" xml:space="preserve">As when the Armorers <lb/>make their Steel more tough and plyant, by the aſperſion of Water, or <lb/>Juyce of Herbs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12253" xml:space="preserve">When Gold being grown ſome what churliſh by recover-<lb/>ing, is made more plyant by throwing in ſhreds of Tanned Leather, or <lb/>by Leather oyled.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12254" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12255" xml:space="preserve">Note, that in theſe, and the like ſhews of Imbibition, it were good to <lb/>try by the weight, whether the weight be increaſed, or no? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12256" xml:space="preserve">For if it be not, <lb/>it is to be doubted, that there is no Imbibition of Subſtance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12257" xml:space="preserve">but onely, <lb/>that the Application of the other Body, doth diſpoſe and invite the Metal <lb/>to another poſture of parts then of it ſelf, it would have taken.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12258" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12259" xml:space="preserve">After the Incorporation of Metals, by ſimple Colliquefaction, for the <lb/>better diſcovery of the Nature: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12260" xml:space="preserve">And Conſents and Diſſents of Metals by <lb/>incorporating oſ their Diſſolutions, it would be enquired.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12261" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12262" xml:space="preserve">What Metals being diſſolved by Strong-waters, will incorporate well <lb/>together, and what not? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12263" xml:space="preserve">which is to be inquired particularly, as it was in <lb/>Colliquefactions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12264" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12265" xml:space="preserve">There is to be obſerved in thoſe Diſſolutions, which will not incor-<lb/>porate what the effects are: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12266" xml:space="preserve">As the Ebullition, the Precipitation to the <lb/>bottom, the Ejaculation towards the top, the Suſpenſion in the midſt, and <lb/>the like.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12267" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12268" xml:space="preserve">Note, that the Diſſents of the Menſtrua, or Strong-waters, may <lb/>hinder the Incorporation, as well as the Diſſents of the Metals themſelves: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12269" xml:space="preserve">Therefore where the Menſtrua are the ſame, and yet the Incorporation <lb/>followeth not, you may conclude, the Diſſent is in the Metals, but where <lb/>the Menſtrua are ſeveral, not ſo certain.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12270" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="224" file="0348" n="348" rhead="Articles of Enquiry,"/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12271" xml:space="preserve">THe Second Letter of the Croſs Row, is the Separation of Metals, <lb/>and Minerals. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12272" xml:space="preserve">Separation is of three ſorts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12273" xml:space="preserve">the firſt is, The ſeparating <lb/>of the pure Metal from the Ure or Droſs, which we call Refining. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12274" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>ſecond is, The drawing one Metal or Mineral out of another, which we <lb/>may call Extracting. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12275" xml:space="preserve">The third, The ſeparating of any Metal into his <lb/>Original or Elements, or call them what you will) which work we call <lb/>Precipitation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12276" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12277" xml:space="preserve">For Refining, we are to enquire of it according to the ſeveral Metals; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12278" xml:space="preserve">As Gold, Silver, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12279" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12280" xml:space="preserve">Incidently, we are to enquire of the firſt Stone, or <lb/>Ure, or Spar, or Marcaſite of Metals ſeverally; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12281" xml:space="preserve">and what kinde of <lb/>Bodies they are; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12282" xml:space="preserve">and of the degrees of Richneſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12283" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12284" xml:space="preserve">Alſo, we are to enquire of the Means of ſeparating, whether by Fire, <lb/>parting Waters, or otherwiſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12285" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12286" xml:space="preserve">Alſo, for the manner of Refining, you are to ſee how you can multi-<lb/>ply the Heat, or haſten the Opening; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12287" xml:space="preserve">and to ſave charge, in the <lb/>Refining.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12288" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12289" xml:space="preserve">The means of this is in three manners; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12290" xml:space="preserve">that is to ſay, In the Blaſt <lb/>of the Fire: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12291" xml:space="preserve">In the manner of the Furnace to multiply Heat, by Union and <lb/>Reflexion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12292" xml:space="preserve">And by ſome Additament or Medicines, which will help the <lb/>Bodies to open them the ſooner:</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12293" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12294" xml:space="preserve">Note, the quickning of the Blaſt, and the multiplying of the Heat in <lb/>the Furnace, may be the ſame for all Metals; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12295" xml:space="preserve">but the Additaments muſt be <lb/>ſeveral accerding to the natures of the Metals.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12296" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12297" xml:space="preserve">Note again, That if you think the multiplying of the Additament in <lb/>the ſame Proportion that you multiply the Ure, the work will follow, <lb/>you may be deceived: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12298" xml:space="preserve">For quantity in the Paſſive will add more reſiſtance, <lb/>then the ſame quantity in the Active will add force.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12299" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12300" xml:space="preserve">For Extracting, you are to enquire what Metals contain others, and <lb/>like wiſe what not? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12301" xml:space="preserve">As Lead Silver, Copper Silver, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12302" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12303" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12304" xml:space="preserve">Note, although the charge of Extraction ſhould exceed the worth, <lb/>yet that is not the matter; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12305" xml:space="preserve">For, atleaſt, it will diſcover Nature and Poſſi-<lb/>bility, the other may be thought on afterwards.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12306" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12307" xml:space="preserve">We are likewiſe to enquire, what the differences are of thoſe Metals, <lb/>which contain more or leſs, other Metals; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12308" xml:space="preserve">and how that agrees with the <lb/>poorneſs or richneſs of the Metals, or Ure, in themſelves: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12309" xml:space="preserve">As the Lead, <lb/>that contains moſt Silver, is accounted to be more brittle; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12310" xml:space="preserve">and yet other-<lb/>wiſe poorer in it ſelf.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12311" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12312" xml:space="preserve">For Principiation, I cannot affirm, whether there be any ſuch thing, <lb/>or no. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12313" xml:space="preserve">And, I think, the Chymiſts make too much ado about it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12314" xml:space="preserve">But how-<lb/>ſoever it be, whether Solution or Extraction, or a kinde of Converſion <lb/>by the Fire, it is diligently to be enquired, What Salts, Sulphur, Vitriol, <lb/>Mercury, or the like Simple Bodies are to be found in the ſeveral Metals; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12315" xml:space="preserve">and in what quantity.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12316" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="225" file="0349" n="349" rhead="Touching Metals and Minerals."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12317" xml:space="preserve">THe third Letter of the Croſs-Row, is the variation of Metals into <lb/>ſeveral Shapes, Bodies, or Natures; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12318" xml:space="preserve">the particulars whereof ſol-<lb/>low.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12319" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12320" xml:space="preserve">Tincture.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12321" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12322" xml:space="preserve">Turning to Ruſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12323" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12324" xml:space="preserve">Calcination.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12325" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12326" xml:space="preserve">Sublimation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12327" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12328" xml:space="preserve">Precipitation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12329" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12330" xml:space="preserve">Amalgamàtizing, or turning into aſoft Body.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12331" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12332" xml:space="preserve">Vitrification.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12333" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12334" xml:space="preserve">Opening or Diſſolving into Liquor.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12335" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12336" xml:space="preserve">Sprouting, or Branching, or Arboreſcence.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12337" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12338" xml:space="preserve">Induration and Mollification.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12339" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12340" xml:space="preserve">Making tough or brittle.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12341" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12342" xml:space="preserve">Volatility and Fixation.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12343" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12344" xml:space="preserve">Tranſmutation or Verſion.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12345" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12346" xml:space="preserve">For Tincture, it is to be enquired how Metals may be tincted, through <lb/>and through; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12347" xml:space="preserve">and with what, and into what colours: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12348" xml:space="preserve">As Tincting-Silver <lb/>yellow, Tincting-Copper white, and Tincting red, green, blew, eſpecial-<lb/>ly with keeping the luſtre.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12349" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12350" xml:space="preserve">Item, Tincture of Glaſs.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12351" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12352" xml:space="preserve">Item, Tincture of Marble, Flint, or other Stone.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12353" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12354" xml:space="preserve">For turning to Ruſt, two things are chiefly to be enquired: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12355" xml:space="preserve">By what <lb/>Corroſives it is done, and into what colours it turns: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12356" xml:space="preserve">As Lead into white, <lb/>which they call Serus; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12357" xml:space="preserve">Iron into yellow, which they call Crocus Martis: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12358" xml:space="preserve">Quick-ſilver into Vermilion, Braſs into green, which they call Verdegraß, <lb/>&</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12359" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12360" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12361" xml:space="preserve">For Calcination, to enquire how every Metal is calcined? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12362" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>into what kinde of Body? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12363" xml:space="preserve">And what is the exquiſiteſt way of Calcina-<lb/>tion?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12364" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12365" xml:space="preserve">For Sublimation, to enquire the manner of Subliming; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12366" xml:space="preserve">and what <lb/>Metals endure Subliming; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12367" xml:space="preserve">and what Body the Sublimate makes?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12368" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12369" xml:space="preserve">For Precipitation likewiſe, By what ſtrong Waters every Metal will <lb/>precipitate? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12370" xml:space="preserve">or with what Additaments? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12371" xml:space="preserve">and in what time? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12372" xml:space="preserve">and into what <lb/>Body?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12373" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12374" xml:space="preserve">So for Amalgama, what Metals will endure it? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12375" xml:space="preserve">What are the means <lb/>to do it? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12376" xml:space="preserve">And what is the manner of the Body?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12377" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12378" xml:space="preserve">For Vitrification like wiſe, what Metals will endure it? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12379" xml:space="preserve">what are <lb/>the means to do it? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12380" xml:space="preserve">into what colour it turns? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12381" xml:space="preserve">and further, where the whole <pb o="226" file="0350" n="350" rhead="Articles of Enquiry,"/> Metal is turned into Glaſs? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12382" xml:space="preserve">and when the Metal doth but hang in the Glaſ-<lb/>ſie part? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12383" xml:space="preserve">alſo what weight the vitrified Body bears, compared with the <lb/>crude Body? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12384" xml:space="preserve">Alſo becauſe Vitrification is accounted, a kinde of death of <lb/>Metals, what Vitrification will admit, of turning back again, and what <lb/>not?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12385" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12386" xml:space="preserve">For Diſſolution into Liquor, we are to enquire, what is the proper <lb/>Menſtruum to diſſolve any Metal? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12387" xml:space="preserve">And in the Negative, what will touch <lb/>upon the one, and not upon the other? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12388" xml:space="preserve">And what ſeveral Menſtrua will <lb/>diſſolve any Metal? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12389" xml:space="preserve">And which moſt exactly? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12390" xml:space="preserve">Item, the proceſs or motion <lb/>of the Diſſolution? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12391" xml:space="preserve">The manner of Riſing, Boiling, Vaporing? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12392" xml:space="preserve">More <lb/>violent or more gentle? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12393" xml:space="preserve">Cauſing much heat, or leſs? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12394" xml:space="preserve">Item, the quan-<lb/>tity or charge the Strong-Water will bear, and then give over? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12395" xml:space="preserve">Item, <lb/>the colour into which the Liquor will turn? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12396" xml:space="preserve">Above all, it is to be enquired, <lb/>whether there be any Menſtruum, to diſſolve any Metal that is not fretting and <lb/>corroding; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12397" xml:space="preserve">but openeth the Body by ſympathy, and not by mordacity or <lb/>violent penetration?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12398" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12399" xml:space="preserve">For Sprouting or Branching, though it be a thing but tranſitory, and <lb/>a kinde of toy or pleaſure; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12400" xml:space="preserve">yet there is a more ſerious uſe oſ it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12401" xml:space="preserve">For that it <lb/>diſcovers the delicate motions of ſpirits, when they put forth, and cannot <lb/>get forth, like unto that which is in vegetables.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12402" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12403" xml:space="preserve">For Induration or Mollification, it is to be enquired, what will make <lb/>Metals harder and harder, and what will make them ſofter and ſofter? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12404" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>this Enquiry tendeth to two ends;</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12405" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12406" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, for Uſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12407" xml:space="preserve">As to make Iron ſoft by the Fire, makes it malle-<lb/>able.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12408" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12409" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, Becauſe Induration is a degree towards Fixation; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12410" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>Mollification towards Volatility: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12411" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the Inquiry of them, will <lb/>give light towards the other.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12412" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12413" xml:space="preserve">For tough and brittle, they are much of the ſame kinde with the <lb/>two former, but yet worthy of an Inquiry apart: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12414" xml:space="preserve">Eſpecially to joyn <lb/>Hardneſs to Toughneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12415" xml:space="preserve">as making Glaſs malleable, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12416" xml:space="preserve">c. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12417" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>making Blades, ſtrong to reſiſt, and pierce, and yet not eaſie to <lb/>break.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12418" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12419" xml:space="preserve">For Volatility and Fixation, it is a principal Branch to be en-<lb/>quired. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12420" xml:space="preserve">The utmoſt degree of Fixation is, That whereupon no Fire <lb/>will work, nor Strong-water joyned with Fire, if there be any ſuch <lb/>Fixation poſſible: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12421" xml:space="preserve">The next is, when Fire ſimply will not work with-<lb/>out Strong-waters: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12422" xml:space="preserve">The next is, when it will endure Fire not blown, <lb/>or ſuch a ſtrength oſ Fire: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12423" xml:space="preserve">The next is, when it will not endure Fire, <lb/>but yet is malleable: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12424" xml:space="preserve">The next is, when it is not malleable, but yet it <lb/>is not fluent, but ſtupified. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12425" xml:space="preserve">So of Volatility, the utmoſt degree is, <lb/>when it will flee away without returning: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12426" xml:space="preserve">The next is, when it will <lb/>flee up, but with eaſie return: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12427" xml:space="preserve">The next, when it will flee upwards, <lb/>over the Helm, by a kinde of Exufflation, without Vaporing:</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12428" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="227" file="0351" n="351" rhead="Articles of Enquiry, &c."/> The nekt is, when it will melt, though not riſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12429" xml:space="preserve">And the next, when it will <lb/>ſoften, though not melt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12430" xml:space="preserve">Of all theſe, diligent inquiry is to be made, in <lb/>ſeveral Metals; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12431" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially of the more extream degrees.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12432" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12433" xml:space="preserve">For Tranſmutation or Verſion, if it be real and true, it is the furtheſt <lb/>point of Art; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12434" xml:space="preserve">and would be well diſting uiſhed from Extraction, from Re-<lb/>ſtitution, and from Adulteration. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12435" xml:space="preserve">I hear much of turning Iron into Cop-<lb/>per; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12436" xml:space="preserve">I hear alſo of the growth of Lead in weight, which cannot be with-<lb/>out a Converſion of ſome Body into Lead: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12437" xml:space="preserve">But whatſoever is of this kinde, <lb/>and well approved, is diligently to be inquired, and ſet down.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12438" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12439" xml:space="preserve">THe fourth Letter of the Croſs Row, is Reſtitution. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12440" xml:space="preserve">Firſt therefore, <lb/>it is to be enquired in the Negative; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12441" xml:space="preserve">what Bodies will never return, <lb/>either by reaſon of their extream fixing, as in ſome Vitrifications, or by <lb/>extream Volatility.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12442" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12443" xml:space="preserve">It is alſo to be enquired of the two Means of Reduction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12444" xml:space="preserve">and firſt by <lb/>the Fire, which is but by Congregation of Homogeneal parts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12445" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12446" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is, by drawing them down, by ſome Body, that hath con-<lb/>ſent with them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12447" xml:space="preserve">As Iron draweth down Copper in Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12448" xml:space="preserve">Gold draweth <lb/>Quick-ſilver in vapor; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12449" xml:space="preserve">whatſoever is of this kinde, is very diligently to be <lb/>enquired.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12450" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12451" xml:space="preserve">Alſo it is to be enquired, what Time or Age will reduce without the <lb/>help of Fire or Body?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12452" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12453" xml:space="preserve">Alſo it is to be enquired, what gives Impediment to Union or Reſti-<lb/>tution, which is ſometimes called Mortification; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12454" xml:space="preserve">as when Quick-ſilver is <lb/>mortified with Turpentine, Spittle, or Butter.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12455" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12456" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, it is to be enquired how the Metal reſtored, differeth in any <lb/>thing from the Metal raw or crude? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12457" xml:space="preserve">As whether it becometh not more chur-<lb/>liſh, altered in colour, or the like?</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12458" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb file="0352" n="352"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1692" type="section" level="1" n="141"> <head xml:id="echoid-head177" xml:space="preserve">THE <lb/>BOOK-SELLER <lb/>UNTO THE <lb/>READER.</head> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s12459" xml:space="preserve">IReceived ſome Moneths ſince theſe Articles of Enquiry, touching <lb/>Metals and Minerals, from the hands of the Reverend Dr. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12460" xml:space="preserve">Rawley, <lb/>who hath published ſeveral of the Lord Verulams Works ſince his <lb/>Death (he having been his Lordships Chaplain) and who hath been careful to <lb/>Correct at the Preß this little Piece (an Addition to the Natural Hiſtory) <lb/>according to the Original Copy, remaining amongſt his Lordships Manuſcripts: <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12461" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt which there is nothing more of that ſubject to be found, ſo as no more <lb/>Additions can be expected.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12462" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12463" xml:space="preserve">W. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12464" xml:space="preserve">Lee.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12465" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1693" type="section" level="1" n="142"> <head xml:id="echoid-head178" xml:space="preserve">FINIS.</head> <pb file="0353" n="353"/> <pb file="0354" n="354"/> <pb file="0355" n="355"/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1694" type="section" level="1" n="143"> <head xml:id="echoid-head179" xml:space="preserve">NEW <lb/>ATLANTIS.</head> <handwritten/> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1695" type="section" level="1" n="144"> <head xml:id="echoid-head180" xml:space="preserve">A VVork unfinished.</head> <head xml:id="echoid-head181" xml:space="preserve">Written by the Right Honorable, <lb/>FRANCIS <lb/>Lord Verulam, Viſcount St. Albans.</head> <figure> <image file="0355-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0355-01"/> </figure> <pb file="0356" n="356"/> <pb o="3" file="0357" n="357"/> <figure> <image file="0357-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0357-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1696" type="section" level="1" n="145"> <head xml:id="echoid-head182" xml:space="preserve">TO THE <lb/>READER</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12466" xml:space="preserve">THis Fable my Lord deviſed, to the <lb/>end that hemight exhibit therein <lb/>a Model or Deſcription of a College, <lb/>inſtituted for the Interpreting of <lb/>Nature, and the producing of <lb/>great and marvellous Works for the benefit of <lb/>Men, under the name of Solomons Houſe, or, The <lb/>College of the Six days Works. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12467" xml:space="preserve">And even ſo far his <lb/>Lordship hath proceeded as to finish that Part. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12468" xml:space="preserve">Certainly, the Model is more vaſt and high, <lb/>than can poſſibly be imitated in all things, not-<lb/>withſtanding moſt things therein are within <lb/>Mens power to effect. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12469" xml:space="preserve">His Lordship thought <lb/>alſo in this preſent Fable to have compoſed a <lb/>Frame of Laws, or of the beſt State or Mould <lb/>of a Commonwealth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12470" xml:space="preserve">but fore-ſeeing it would be a <lb/>long Work, his deſire of Collecting the Natural <lb/>Hiſtory diverted him, which he preferred many <lb/>degrees before it.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12471" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12472" xml:space="preserve">This Work of the New Atlantis (as much as <lb/>concerneth the English Edition) his Lordship de-<lb/>ſigned for this place, in regard it hath ſo near <lb/>affinity (in one part of it) with the preceding <lb/>Natural Hiſtory.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12473" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12474" xml:space="preserve">W. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12475" xml:space="preserve">Rawley.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12476" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb file="0358" n="358"/> <pb o="5" file="0359" n="359"/> <figure> <image file="0359-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0359-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1697" type="section" level="1" n="146"> <head xml:id="echoid-head183" xml:space="preserve">NEW ATLANTIS.</head> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12477" xml:space="preserve">WE ſailed from Peru (where we had continued by the <lb/>ſpace of one whole year) for China and Japan by the <lb/>South Sea, taking with us Victuals for Twelve Moneths, <lb/>and had good Winds from the Eaſt, though ſoft and <lb/>weak, for Five Moneths ſpace and more; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12478" xml:space="preserve">but then the <lb/>Wind came about, and ſetled in the Weſt for many <lb/>days; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12479" xml:space="preserve">ſo as we could make little or no way, and were <lb/>ſometimes in purpoſe to turn back: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12480" xml:space="preserve">But then again, <lb/>there aroſe ſtrong and great Winds from the South, with a Point Eaſt, <lb/>which carried us up (for all that we could do) to wards the North; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12481" xml:space="preserve">by which <lb/>time our Victuals failed us, though we had made good ſpare of them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12482" xml:space="preserve">So <lb/>that finding our ſelves in the midſt of the greateſt Wilderneſs of Waters in <lb/>the World, without Victual, we gave our ſelves for loſt men, and prepared <lb/>for death. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12483" xml:space="preserve">Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, Who <lb/>ſheweth his wonders in the deep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12484" xml:space="preserve">beſeeching him of his mercy, That as in the <lb/>Beginning he diſcovered the Face of the deep, and brought forth dry-land; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12485" xml:space="preserve">ſo he <lb/>would now diſcover Land to us, that we might not periſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12486" xml:space="preserve">And it came to <lb/>paſs, that the next day about Evening, we ſaw within a Kenning before us, <lb/>towards the North, as it were thicker Clouds, which did put us in ſome <lb/>hope of Land; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12487" xml:space="preserve">knowing how that part of the South-Sea was utterly un-<lb/>known, and might have lſlands or Continents that hitherto were not come <lb/>to light. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12488" xml:space="preserve">Wherefore we bent our courſe thither, where we ſaw the ap-<lb/>pearance of Land all that night; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12489" xml:space="preserve">and in the dawning of the next day, we <lb/>might plainly diſcern that it was a Land flat to our ſight, and full of Boſcage, <lb/>which made it ſhew the more dark; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12490" xml:space="preserve">and after an hour and a halfs ſailing, <lb/>we entred into a good Haven, being the Port of a fair City, not great in-<lb/>deed, but well built, and that gave a pleafant view from the Sea: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12491" xml:space="preserve">And we <lb/>thinking every minute long, till we were on Land, came cloſe to the Shore <lb/>and offered to land; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12492" xml:space="preserve">but ſtraight-ways we ſaw divers of the people with <lb/>Baſtons in their hands, (as it were) forbidding us to land, yet without any <lb/>cries or fierceneſs, but onely as warning us off by ſigns that they made. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12493" xml:space="preserve">Whereupon being not a little diſcomforted, we were adviſing with our <lb/>ſelves, what we ſhould do. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12494" xml:space="preserve">During which time, there made forth to us a <lb/>ſmall Boat with about eight perſons in it, where of one of them had in his <lb/>hand a Tip-ſtaff of a Yellow Cane, t<unsure/>ipped at both ends with Blew, who <lb/>made aboard our Ship without any ſhew of diſtruſt at all: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12495" xml:space="preserve">And when he <lb/>ſaw one of our number preſent himſelf ſome what afore the reſt, he drew <lb/>forth a little Scroul of Parchment (ſomewhat yellower then our Parchment, <pb o="6" file="0360" n="360" rhead="New Atlantis."/> and ſhining like the Leaves of Writing-Tables, but other wiſe ſoft and flexi-<lb/>ble) and delivered it to our foremoſt man. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12496" xml:space="preserve">In which Scroul were written <lb/>in ancient Hebrew, and in ancient Greek, and in good Latine of the School, <lb/>and in Spaniſh, theſe words, “Land ye not, none of you, and provide to be <lb/>“gone from this Coaſt within ſixteen days, except you have fur ther time <lb/>“given you: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12497" xml:space="preserve">Mean while, if you want Freſh-water or Victual, or help for <lb/>“your Sick, or that your Ship needeth repair, write down your wants, and <lb/>“you ſhall have that which belongeth to Mercy. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12498" xml:space="preserve">This Scroul was ſigned <lb/>with a ſtamp of Cherubims VVings, not ſpred, but hanging down wards, and <lb/>by them a Croß. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12499" xml:space="preserve">This being delivered, the Officer returned, and left onely <lb/>a Servant with us to receive our anſwer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12500" xml:space="preserve">Conſulting hereupon amongſt our <lb/>ſelves, we were much perplexed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12501" xml:space="preserve">The denial of Landing, and haſty warn-<lb/>ing us away, troubled us much. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12502" xml:space="preserve">On the other ſide, to finde that the peo-<lb/>ple had Languages, and were ſo full of Humanity, did comfort us not a <lb/>little; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12503" xml:space="preserve">and above all, the Sign of the Croß to that Inſtrument, was to us a <lb/>great rejoycing, and, as it were, a certain preſage of good. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12504" xml:space="preserve">Our anſwer was <lb/>in the Spaniſh Tongue, “That for our Ship it was well, for we had rather <lb/>“met with Calms and contrary Winds then any Tempeſts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12505" xml:space="preserve">For our Sick, <lb/>“they were many, and in very ill caſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12506" xml:space="preserve">ſo that if they were not permitted to <lb/>“land, they ran in danger of their lives. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12507" xml:space="preserve">Our other wants we ſet down in <lb/>particular, adding, “That we had ſome little ſtore of Merchandize, which <lb/>“if it pleaſed them to deal for, it might ſupply our wants without being <lb/>“chargeable unto them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12508" xml:space="preserve">We offered ſome re ward in Piſtolets unto the <lb/>Servant, and a piece of Crimſon Velvet to be preſented to the Officer; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12509" xml:space="preserve">but the Servant took them not, nor would ſcarce look upon them, and <lb/>ſo leſt us, and went back in another little Boat which was ſent ſor <lb/>him.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12510" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12511" xml:space="preserve">About three hours after we had diſpatched our Anſwer, there came to-<lb/>wards us a perſon (as it ſeemed) of place: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12512" xml:space="preserve">He had on him a Gown with <lb/>wide Sleeves of a kinde of Water-Chamolet, of an excellent Azure colour, <lb/>far more gloſſie then ours; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12513" xml:space="preserve">his under apparel was green, and ſo was his Hat, <lb/>being in the form of a Turbant, daintily made, and not ſo huge as the <lb/>Turkiſh Turbants; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12514" xml:space="preserve">and the Locks of his Hair came down below the brims <lb/>of it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12515" xml:space="preserve">A Reverend Man was he to behold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12516" xml:space="preserve">He came in a Boat gilt in ſome <lb/>part of it, with four perſons more onely in that Boat, and was followed by <lb/>another Boat wherein were ſome twenty. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12517" xml:space="preserve">When he was come within a <lb/>flight-ſhot of our Ship, ſigns were made to us, that we ſhould ſend forth <lb/>ſome to meet him upon the Water; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12518" xml:space="preserve">which we preſently did in our Ship-<lb/>boat, ſending the principal Man amongſt us ſave one, and four of our num-<lb/>ber with him. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12519" xml:space="preserve">When we were come within ſix yards of their Boat, they <lb/>called to us to ſtay, and not to approach further; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12520" xml:space="preserve">which we did: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12521" xml:space="preserve">And there-<lb/>upon the Man whom I before deſcribed ſtood up, and with a loud voice in <lb/>Spaniſh, asked, Are ye Chriſtians? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12522" xml:space="preserve">We anſwered, VVe were; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12523" xml:space="preserve">fearing the leſs, <lb/>becauſe of the Croß we had ſeen in the Subſcription. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12524" xml:space="preserve">At which anſvver, the <lb/>ſaid perſon lift up his right hand tovvards Heaven, and drevvit ſoftly to his <lb/>mouth, (vvhich is the geſture they uſe vvhen they thank God) and then ſaid, <lb/>“If you vvill ſvvear (all of you) by the Merits of the Saviour that ye are no <lb/>“Pirates, nor have ſhed blood, lavvfully nor unlavvfully, vvithin forty <lb/>“days paſt, you may have Licenſe to come on Land. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12525" xml:space="preserve">VVe ſaid, “VVe vvere <lb/>“all ready to take that Oath. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12526" xml:space="preserve">VVhere upon one of thoſe that vvere vvith <lb/>him, being (as it ſeemed) a Notary, made an Entry of this Act. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12527" xml:space="preserve">VVhich <lb/>done, another of the attendants of the Great Perſon, vvhich vvas vvith <pb o="7" file="0361" n="361" rhead="New Atlantis."/> him in the ſame Boat, aſter his Lord had ſpoken a little to him, ſaid aloud, <lb/>“My Lord, would have you know, that it is not of Pride or Greatneſs that <lb/>“he cometh not aboard your Ship; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12528" xml:space="preserve">but for that, in your Anſwer, you de-<lb/>“clare, That you have many ſick amongſt you, he was warned by the Con-<lb/>“ſervator of Health of the City, that he ſhould keep a diſtance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12529" xml:space="preserve">VVe bowed <lb/>our ſelves towards him, and anſwered, “VVe were his humble Servants, <lb/>“and accounted for great Honor and ſingular Humanity to wards us, that <lb/>“which was already done; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12530" xml:space="preserve">but hoped well, that the nature of the ſickneſs <lb/>“of our Men was not infectious. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12531" xml:space="preserve">So he returned, and a while after came <lb/>the Notary to us aboard our Ship, holding in his hand a Fruit of that Coun-<lb/>trey like an Orenge, but of colour between Orenge-tawny and Scarlet, which caſt <lb/>a moſt excellent Odor: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12532" xml:space="preserve">He uſed it (as it ſeemeth) for a Preſervative againſt <lb/>Infection. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12533" xml:space="preserve">He gave us our Oath, By the Name of Jeſus, and his Merits; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12534" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>after told us, that the next day by ſix of the clock in the morning we ſhould <lb/>be ſent to, and brought to the Strangers Houſe, (ſo he called it) vvhere vve <lb/>ſhould be accommodated of things both for our vvhole and for our ſick. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12535" xml:space="preserve">So he left us; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12536" xml:space="preserve">and vvhen vve offered him ſome Piſtolets, he ſmiling, ſaid, <lb/>He muſt not be twice paid for one labor, meaning (as I take it) that he had ſalary <lb/>ſufficient of the State for his ſervice; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12537" xml:space="preserve">for (as I after learned) they call an <lb/>Officer that taketh revvards, Twice paid.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12538" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12539" xml:space="preserve">The next morning early, there came to us the ſame Officer that came to <lb/>us at firſt vvith his Cane, and told us, “He came to conduct us to the Strangers <lb/>“Houſe, and that he had prevented the hour becauſe we might have the whole <lb/>“day before us for our buſineſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12540" xml:space="preserve">For (ſaid he) if you vvill follovv my ad-<lb/>“vice, there ſhall firſt go vvith me ſome fevv of you, and ſee the place, and <lb/>“hovv it may be made convenient for you; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12541" xml:space="preserve">and then you may ſend for your <lb/>“ſick, and the reſt of your number which ye will bring on Land. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12542" xml:space="preserve">VVethanked <lb/>him, and ſaid, “That this care vvhich he took of deſolate Strangers, Ged <lb/>“vvould revvard. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12543" xml:space="preserve">And ſo ſix of us vvent on Land vvith him; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12544" xml:space="preserve">and vvhen <lb/>vve vvere on Land, he vvent before us, and turned to us, and ſaid, He was <lb/>but our Servant, and our Guide. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12545" xml:space="preserve">He led us through three fair streets, and all <lb/>the way we went there were gathered ſome people on both ſides, ſtanding <lb/>in a row, but in ſo civil a faſhion, as if it had been not to wonder at us, <lb/>but to welcome us; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12546" xml:space="preserve">and divers of them, as we paſſed by them, put their <lb/>arms a little abroad, which is their geſture when they bid any welcome. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12547" xml:space="preserve">The Strangers Houſe is a fair and ſpacious Houſe, built of Brick, of ſome-<lb/>what a bluer colour then our Brick, and with handſome Windows, ſome <lb/>of Glaſs, ſome of a kinde of Cambrick oiled. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12548" xml:space="preserve">He brought us firſt into a <lb/>fair Parlor above-ſtairs, and then asked us, “What number of perſons <lb/>“we were, and how many ſick. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12549" xml:space="preserve">VVe anſwered, “We were in all (ſick and <lb/>“whole) One and fiſty perſons, whereof our ſick were ſeventeen. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12550" xml:space="preserve">He <lb/>deſired us to have patience a little, and to ſtay till he came back to us, <lb/>which was about an hour after; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12551" xml:space="preserve">and then he led us to ſee the Chambers <lb/>which were provided for us, being in number Nineteen. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12552" xml:space="preserve">They having caſt <lb/>it (as it ſeemeth) that four of thoſe Chambers, vvhich vvere better then <lb/>the reſt, might receive four of the principal men of our company, and <lb/>lodge them alone by themſelves; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12553" xml:space="preserve">and the other fifteen Chambers vvere to <lb/>lodge us, tvvo and tvvo together; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12554" xml:space="preserve">the Chambers vvere handſome and <lb/>chearful Chambers, and furniſhed civilly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12555" xml:space="preserve">Then heled us to a long Gal-<lb/>lery, like a Dorture, vvhere he ſhevved us all along the one ſide (for the <lb/>other ſide vvas but Wall and Windovv) ſeventeen Cells, very neatones, <lb/>having Partitions of Cedar-vvood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12556" xml:space="preserve">VVhich Gallery and Cells, being in <pb o="8" file="0362" n="362" rhead="New Atlantis."/> all forty, (many more then we needed) were inſtituted as an Infirmary for <lb/>ſick perſons. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12557" xml:space="preserve">And he told us withal, that as any of our ſick waxed well, <lb/>he might be removed from his Cell to a Chamber; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12558" xml:space="preserve">for which purpoſe, <lb/>there were ſet forth ten ſpare Chambers, beſides the number we ſpake of <lb/>before. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12559" xml:space="preserve">This done, he brought us back to the Parlor, and lifting up his <lb/>Cane a little (as they do when they give any charge or command) ſaid to <lb/>us, “Ye are to know, that the Cuſtom of the Land requireth, that after this <lb/>“day and to morrow (which we give you for removing your People ſrom <lb/>“your Ship) you are to keep within doors for three days: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12560" xml:space="preserve">But let it not <lb/>“trouble you, nor do not think your ſelves reſtrained, but rather left to <lb/>“your Reſt and Eaſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12561" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall want nothing, and there are ſix of our <lb/>“people appointed to attend you for any buſineſs you may have abroad. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12562" xml:space="preserve">We gave him thanks with all affection and reſpect, and ſaid, God ſurely is <lb/>manifeſted in this Land. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12563" xml:space="preserve">We offered him alſo twenty Piſtolets; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12564" xml:space="preserve">but he ſmiled, <lb/>and onely ſaid, VVhat, twice paid? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12565" xml:space="preserve">and ſo he left us. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12566" xml:space="preserve">Soon after our Dinner <lb/>was ſerved in, which was right good Viands, both for Bread and Meat, <lb/>better then any Collegiate Diet, that I have known in Europe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12567" xml:space="preserve">VVe had <lb/>alſo drink of three ſorts, all wholeſome and good; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12568" xml:space="preserve">VVine of the Grape, <lb/>a Drink of Grain, ſuch as is with us our Ale, but more clear; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12569" xml:space="preserve">and a kinde <lb/>of Sider made of a Fruit of that Countrey, a wonderful pleaſing and re-<lb/>freſhing drink. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12570" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, there were brought in to us greatſtore of thoſe <lb/>Scarlet Orenges for our ſick, which (they ſaid) were an aſſured remedy <lb/>for ſickneſs taken at Sea. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12571" xml:space="preserve">There was given us alſo a Box of ſmall gray or <lb/>whitiſh Pills, which they wiſhed our ſick ſhould take, one of the Pills <lb/>every night before ſleep, which (they ſaid) would haſten their recovery. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12572" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>The next day, after that our trouble of carriage and removing of our <lb/>Men and Goods out of our Ship, was ſomewhat ſetled and quiet, I thought <lb/>good to call our company together, and when they were aſſembled, ſaid <lb/>unto them, “My dear Friends, let us know our ſelves, and how it ſtandeth <lb/>“with us. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12573" xml:space="preserve">VVe are Men caſt on Land, as Fonas was out of the VVhales <lb/>“Belly, when we were as buried in the deep; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12574" xml:space="preserve">and now we are on Land, <lb/>“we are but between Death and Life, for we are beyond both the Old <lb/>“VVorld and the New, and whether ever we ſhall ſee Europe, God onely <lb/>“knoweth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12575" xml:space="preserve">It is a kinde of miracle hath brought us hither, and it muſt be <lb/>“little leſs that ſhall bring us hence. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12576" xml:space="preserve">Therefore in regard of our deliver-<lb/>“ance paſt, and our danger preſent and to come, let us look up to God, <lb/>“and every man reform his own ways. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12577" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, we are come here amongſt <lb/>“a Chriſtian People, full of Piety and Humanity; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12578" xml:space="preserve">let us not bring that con-<lb/>“fuſion of face upon our ſelves, as to ſhew our vices or unworthineſs be-<lb/>“fore them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12579" xml:space="preserve">Yet there is more; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12580" xml:space="preserve">for they have by commandment (though <lb/>“in form of courteſie) cloiſtered us within theſe VValls for three days; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12581" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>“vvho knovveth vvhether it be not to take ſome taſte of our manners and <lb/>“conditions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12582" xml:space="preserve">and if they finde them bad, to baniſh us ſtraight-vvays; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12583" xml:space="preserve">if <lb/>“good, to give us further time? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12584" xml:space="preserve">For theſe men that they have given us ſor <lb/>“attendance, may vvithal have an eye upon us. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12585" xml:space="preserve">Therefore for Gods love, <lb/>“and as vve love the vveal of our Souls and Bodies, let us ſo behave our <lb/>“ſelves as vve may be at peace vvith God, and may finde grace in the eyes <lb/>“of this people. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12586" xml:space="preserve">Our Company vvith one voice thanked me for my good <lb/>admonition, and promiſed me to live ſoberly and civilly, and vvithout <lb/>giving any the leaſt occaſion of offence. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12587" xml:space="preserve">So vve ſpent our three days <lb/>joyfully and vvithout care, in expectation vvhat vvould be done vvith us <lb/>vvhen they vvere expired: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12588" xml:space="preserve">During vvhich time, vve had every hour joy <pb o="9" file="0363" n="363" rhead="New Atlantis."/> of the amendment of our ſick, who thought themſelves caſt into ſome di-<lb/>vine Pool of Healing, they mended ſo kindly and ſo faſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12589" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12590" xml:space="preserve">The morrow after our three days were paſt, there came to us a new Man <lb/>that we had not ſeen before, cloathed in blew as the ſormer was, ſave that <lb/>his Turbant was white with a ſmall Red Croſs on the top; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12591" xml:space="preserve">he had alſo a <lb/>Tippet of fine Linnen. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12592" xml:space="preserve">At his coming in he did bend to us a little, and put <lb/>his arms abroad. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12593" xml:space="preserve">We of our parts ſaluted him in a very lowly and ſubmiſſive <lb/>manner, as looking, that ſrom him we ſhould receive ſentence of Life or <lb/>Death. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12594" xml:space="preserve">He deſired to ſpeak with ſome ſew of us; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12595" xml:space="preserve">whereupon ſix of us <lb/>onely ſtaid, and the reſt avoided theroom. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12596" xml:space="preserve">He ſaid, “I am by office Go-<lb/>“vernor of this Houſe of Strangers, and by Vocation I am a Chriſtian Prieſt; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12597" xml:space="preserve">“and therefore am come to you to offer you my ſervice, both as Strangers, <lb/>“and chiefly as Chriſtians. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12598" xml:space="preserve">Some things I may tell you, which I think you <lb/>“will not be un willing to hear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12599" xml:space="preserve">The State hath given you licence to ſtay on <lb/>“Land for the ſpace of ſix weeks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12600" xml:space="preserve">and let it not trouble you, if your occa-<lb/>“ſions ask further time, for the Law in this Point is not preciſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12601" xml:space="preserve">and I do <lb/>“not doubt, but my ſelf ſhall be able to obtain for you ſuch ſurther time as <lb/>“ſhall be convenient. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12602" xml:space="preserve">Ye ſhall alſo underſtand, that the Strangers Houſe is at <lb/>“this time rich and much aforehand, for it hath laid up Revenue theſe Thir-<lb/>“ty ſeven years; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12603" xml:space="preserve">for ſo long it is ſince any Stranger arrived in this part: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12604" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>“there fore take ye no care, the State will deſray you all the time you ſtay, <lb/>“neither ſhall you ſtay one day leſs for that. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12605" xml:space="preserve">As for any Merchandize you <lb/>“have brought, ye ſhall be well uſed, and have your Return, either in Mer-<lb/>“chandize, or in Gold and Silver; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12606" xml:space="preserve">for to us it is all one. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12607" xml:space="preserve">And iſ you have <lb/>“any other requeſt to make, hide it not, for ye ſhall finde we will not make <lb/>“your countenance to fall by the anſwer ye ſhall receive. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12608" xml:space="preserve">Onely this I muſt <lb/>“tell you, that none of you muſt go above a Karan (that is with them a mile and <lb/>“an half) from the Walls of the City without ſpecial leave. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12609" xml:space="preserve">We anſwered, <lb/>after we had looked a while upon one another, admiring this gracious and <lb/>parent-like uſage, “That we could not tell what to ſay, for we wanted <lb/>“words to expreſs our thanks, and his noble free offers leſt us nothing to <lb/>“ask. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12610" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemed to us, that we had before us a Picture of our Salvation in <lb/>“Heaven; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12611" xml:space="preserve">for we that were a while ſince in the Jaws of Death, were now <lb/>“brought into a place where we found nothing but Conſolations. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12612" xml:space="preserve">For the <lb/>“Commandment laid upon us, we would not fail to obey it, though it <lb/>“was impoſſible but our hearts ſhould be inflamed to tread further upon <lb/>“this happy and holy Ground. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12613" xml:space="preserve">We added, “That our Tongues ſhould firſt <lb/>“cleave to the Roofs of our Mouths, ere we ſhould forget either this Re-<lb/>“verend Perſon, or this whole Nation, in our Prayers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12614" xml:space="preserve">We alſo moſt <lb/>humbly beſought him to accept of us as his true Servants, by as juſt a right <lb/>as ever Men on Earth were bounden, laying and preſenting both our per-<lb/>ſons and all we had at his feet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12615" xml:space="preserve">He ſaid, He was a Prieſt, and looked for a Prieſts <lb/>re ward, which was our Brotherly love, and the good of our Souls and Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12616" xml:space="preserve">So he <lb/>went from us, not without tears of tenderneſs in his eyes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12617" xml:space="preserve">and leſt us alſo <lb/>confuſed with joy and kindneſs, ſaying amongſt our ſelves, That vve vvere <lb/>come into a Land of Angels, which did appear to us daily, and prevent us with comforts <lb/>which we thought not of, much leß expected.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12618" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12619" xml:space="preserve">The next day about ten of the clock the Governor came to us again, <lb/>and after ſalutations, ſaid familiarly, That he vvas come to viſit us, and called for <lb/>a Chair, and ſate him down; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12620" xml:space="preserve">and we being ſome ten of us (the reſt were of <lb/>the meaner ſort, or elſe gone abroad) ſite down with him: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12621" xml:space="preserve">And when we <lb/>were ſet, he began thus, “We of this Iſland of Benſalem (for ſo they call it in <pb o="10" file="0364" n="364" rhead="New Atlantis."/> “their Language.) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12622" xml:space="preserve">have this, That by means of our ſolitary ſituatior, and of <lb/>“the Laws of Secrecy which we have for our Travellers, and our rare <lb/>“admiſſion of ſtrangers, we know well moſt part of the Habitable World, <lb/>“and are our ſelves unkrown. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12623" xml:space="preserve">Therefore, becauſe he that knoweth leaſt, <lb/>“is fitteſt to ask Queſtions, it is more reaſon, for the entertainment of the <lb/>“time, that ye ask me Queſtions, than that I ask you. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12624" xml:space="preserve">We anſvvered, That <lb/>“we humbly thanked him, that he would give us leave ſo to do, and that <lb/>“we conceived by the taſte we had already, that there was no worldly thing <lb/>“on Earth, more worthy to be known, then the ſtate of that happy Land. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12625" xml:space="preserve">“But above all (vve ſaid) ſince that vve vvere met from the ſeveral Ends of <lb/>“the World, and hoped aſſuredly, that vve ſhould meet one day in the <lb/>“Kingdom of Heaven, (for that vve vvere both parts Chriſtians) vve deſired <lb/>“to knovv (in reſpect that Land vvas ſo remote, and ſo divided by vaſt and <lb/>“unknovvn Seas, from the Land vvhere our Saviour vvalked on Earth) <lb/>“vvho vvas the Apoſtle of that Nation, and hovv it vvas converted to the <lb/>“Faith. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12626" xml:space="preserve">It appeared in his face, that he took great contentment in this our Queſtion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12627" xml:space="preserve">He <lb/>ſaid, “Ye knit my heart to you by asking this Queſtion in the firſt place, <lb/>“for it ſhevveth that you firſt ſeek the Kingdom of Heaven; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12628" xml:space="preserve">and I ſhill gladly and <lb/>“briefly ſatisfie your demand.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12629" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12630" xml:space="preserve">About tvventy years after the Aſcenſion of our Saviour, it came to <lb/>paſs, that there vvas ſeen by the people of Renfuſa (a City upon the <lb/>Eaſtern Coaſt of our lſland) vvithin night (the night vvas cloudy and <lb/>calm) as it might be ſome mile in the Sea, a great Pillar of Light, not ſharp, <lb/>but in form of a Column or Cylinder, riſing from the Sea a great vvay up <lb/>to vvards Heaven, and on the top of it was ſeen a large Croß of Light, more <lb/>bright and reſplendent then the Body of the Pillar: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12631" xml:space="preserve">Upon which ſo <lb/>ſtrange a ſpectacle the people of the City gathered apace to gether upon <lb/>the Sands to wonder, and ſo after put themſelves into a number of ſmall <lb/>Boats to go nearer to this marvellous ſight. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12632" xml:space="preserve">But when the Boats were <lb/>come within (about) ſixty yards of the Pillar, they found themſelves all <lb/>bound, and could go no further, yet ſo as they might move to go about, <lb/>but might not approach nearer; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12633" xml:space="preserve">ſo as the Boats ſtood all as in a Theatre, <lb/>beholding this Light as an Heavenly Sign. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12634" xml:space="preserve">It ſo ſell out<unsure/>, that there was in <lb/>one of the Boats, one of the wiſe Men of the Society of Solomens Houſe, <lb/>(which Houſe or College (my good Brethren) is the very Eye of this King-<lb/>dom) who having a while attentively and devoutly viewed and contem-<lb/>plated this Pillar and Croſs, fell down upon his face, and then raiſed him-<lb/>ſelf upon his knees, and liſting up his hands to Heaven made his Prayers <lb/>in this manner.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12635" xml:space="preserve">LOrd God of Heaven and Earth, thou haſt vouch-<lb/>ſafed of thy Grace to thoſe of our Order, to know thy <lb/>Works of Creation, and true Secrets of them, and to <lb/>diſcern (as far as appertaineth to the Generations of Men) <lb/>between Divine Miracles, VVorks of Nature, VVorks <lb/>of Art, and Impoſtures and Illuſions of all ſorts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12636" xml:space="preserve">I do here <lb/>acknowledge and teſtifie before this People, that the Thing <pb o="11" file="0365" n="365" rhead="New Atlantis."/> we now ſee before our eyes is thy Finger, and atrue Mi-<lb/>racle. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12637" xml:space="preserve">And foraſmuch as we learn in our Books, that thou <lb/>never workeſt Miracles but to a Divine and excellent End, <lb/>(for the Laws of Nature, are thine own Laws, and thou <lb/>exceedeſt them not but upon good cauſe) we moſt humbly be-<lb/>ſeech thee to proſper this great Sign, and to give us the Inter-<lb/>pretation, and uſe of it in mercy, which thou doſt in ſome part <lb/>ſecretly promiſe, by ſending it unto us.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12638" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12639" xml:space="preserve">When he had made his Prayer, he preſently found the Boat he was <lb/>in, moveable and unbound, whereas all the reſt remained ſtill fiſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12640" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>taking that for an aſſurance of leave to approach, he cauſed the Boat to be <lb/>ſoftly, and with ſilence, rowed towards the Pillar; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12641" xml:space="preserve">but ere he came near it, <lb/>the Pillar and Croß of Light brake up, and caſt it ſelf abroad, as it were, into <lb/>a Firmament of many Stars; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12642" xml:space="preserve">which alſo vaniſhed ſoon after, and there was <lb/>nothing leſt to be ſeen but a ſmall Ark or Cheſt of Cedar, dry, and not wet <lb/>at all with Water, though it ſwam; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12643" xml:space="preserve">and in thefore end of it, which was <lb/>towards him, grew a ſmall green Branch of Palm. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12644" xml:space="preserve">And when the Wire-<lb/>man had taken it with all reverence into his Boat, it opened of it ſelf, and <lb/>there was found in it a Book and a Letter, both written in fine Parchment, <lb/>and wrapped in Sindons of Linnen. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12645" xml:space="preserve">The Book contained all the Canonical <lb/>Books of the Old and New Teſtament, according as you have them, (for we <lb/>know well what the Churches with you receive;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12646" xml:space="preserve">and the Apocalypſe it ſel, <lb/>and ſome other Books of the New Teſtament, which were not at that time <lb/>written, were nevertheleſs in the Book. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12647" xml:space="preserve">And for the Letter, it was in theſe <lb/>words.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12648" xml:space="preserve">IBartholomew, a Servant of the Higheſt, and <lb/>Apoſtle of FESVS CHRIST, was warn-<lb/>ed by an Angel that appeared to me in a <lb/>Viſion of Glory, that I should commit this <lb/>Ark to the Flouds of the Sea. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12649" xml:space="preserve">Therefore I <lb/>do teſtifie and declare unto that People, where <lb/>GOD shall ordain this Ark to come to Land, <lb/>that in the ſame day is come unto them Salva-<lb/>tion, and Peace, and Good Will from the <lb/>FATHER, and from the LORD FESVS.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12650" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12651" xml:space="preserve">“There was alſo in both theſe Writings, as well the Book as the <lb/>“Letter, wrought a great Miracle, conform to that of the Apoſtles in the <lb/>“Original Gift of Tengues. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12652" xml:space="preserve">For there being at that time in this Land Hebrews, <lb/>“Perſians, and Indians, beſides the Natives, every one read upon the Book <pb o="12" file="0366" n="366" rhead="New Atlantis."/> “and Letter, as if they had been written in his own Language. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12653" xml:space="preserve">And thus <lb/>“was this Land ſaved from Infidelity (as the Remain of the old World <lb/>“was from Water) by an Ark, through the Apoſtolical and Miraculous <lb/>“Evangeliſm of S Bartholomevv. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12654" xml:space="preserve">And here he pauſed, and a Meſſenger <lb/>came and called him forth ſrom us. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12655" xml:space="preserve">So this was all that paſſed in that <lb/>Conference.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12656" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12657" xml:space="preserve">The next day the ſame Governor came again to us immediately aſter Din-<lb/>ner, and excuſed himſelf, ſaying, “That the day beſore he was called from us <lb/>“ſome what abruptly, but now he would make us amends, and ſpend time <lb/>“with us, if we held his Company and Conference agreeable. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12658" xml:space="preserve">We anſwered, <lb/>“That we held it ſo agreeable and pleaſing to us, as we forgot both dangers <lb/>“paſt and fears to come, for the time we heard him ſpeak, and that we <lb/>“thought an hour ſpent with him, was worth years of our former life. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12659" xml:space="preserve">He <lb/>bo vved himſelf alittle to us, and after vve vvere ſet again, heſaid, “Well, the Queſti-<lb/>“ons are on your part. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12660" xml:space="preserve">One of our number ſaid, after a little pauſe, “That there <lb/>“was a matter we were no leſs deſirous to know then fearful to ask, leſt we <lb/>“might preſume too far; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12661" xml:space="preserve">but encouraged by his rare Humanity to wards us, <lb/>“(that could ſcarce think our ſelves ſtrangers, being his vowed and profeſſed <lb/>“Servants) we would take the hardineſs to propound it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12662" xml:space="preserve">Humbly beſeech-<lb/>“ing him, if he thought it not fit<unsure/> to be anſwered, that he would pardon it, <lb/>“though he rejected it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12663" xml:space="preserve">VVe ſaid, We well obſerved thoſe his words <lb/>“which he formerly ſpake, That this happy Iſland where we now ſtood <lb/>“vvas knovvn to fevv, and yet knevv moſt of the Nations of the World; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12664" xml:space="preserve">“vvhich vve found to be true, conſidering they had the Languages of <lb/>“Europe, and knevv much of our ſtate and buſineſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12665" xml:space="preserve">and yet vve in Europe <lb/>“(notvvithſtanding all the remote Diſcoveries and Navigations of this laſt <lb/>“Age) never heard any of the leaſt inkling or glimpſe of this Iſland. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12666" xml:space="preserve">This <lb/>“vve found vvonderful ſtrange, for that all Nations have interknovvledge <lb/>“one of another, either by Voyage into Forein Parts, or by Strangers <lb/>“that come to them: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12667" xml:space="preserve">And though the Traveller into a Forein Countrey, <lb/>“doth commonly know more by the Eye, then he that ſtaid at home can <lb/>“by relation of the Traveller; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12668" xml:space="preserve">yet both ways ſuffice to make a mutual <lb/>“knowledge in ſome degree on both parts: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12669" xml:space="preserve">But for this Iſland, we never <lb/>“heard tell of any Ship of theirs that had been ſeen to arrive upon any <lb/>“ſhore of Europe, no nor of either the Eaſt or VVeſt-Indies, nor yet of any <lb/>“Ship of any other part of the World that had made return for them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12670" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>“yet the marvel reſted not in this; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12671" xml:space="preserve">for the ſituation of it (as his Lordſhip <lb/>“ſaid) in the ſecret Conclave of ſuch a vaſt Sea might cauſe it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12672" xml:space="preserve">But then, <lb/>“that they ſhould have knowledge of the Languages, Books, Affairs of <lb/>“thoſe that lie ſuch a diſtance from them, it was a thing we could not tell <lb/>“what to make of; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12673" xml:space="preserve">for that it ſeemed to us a condition and propriety of <lb/>“Divine Powers and Beings, to be hidden and unſeen to others, and yet <lb/>“to have others open, and as in a light to them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12674" xml:space="preserve">At this Speech the Go-<lb/>vernor gave a gracious ſmile, and ſaid, “That we did well to ask pardon <lb/>“for this Queſtion we now asked, for that it imported as if we thought <lb/>“this Land, a Land of Magicians, that ſent forth Spirits of the Air into all <lb/>“parts to bring them news, and intelligence of other Countreys. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12675" xml:space="preserve">It was <lb/>anſwered by us all, in all poſſible humbleneſs, but yet with a countenance <lb/>taking knowledge, that we knew, that he ſpake it but merrily, “That we <lb/>“were apt enough to think, there was ſomewhat ſupernatural in this <lb/>“Iſland, but yet rather as Angelical then Magical. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12676" xml:space="preserve">But to let his Lord-<lb/>“ſhip know truly what it was that made us tender and doubtful to ask this <pb o="13" file="0367" n="367" rhead="New Atlantis."/> “Queſtion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12677" xml:space="preserve">it was not any ſuch conceit, but becauſe we remembred he <lb/>“had given a touch in his former Speech, that this Land had Laws of Se-<lb/>“crecy, touching Strangers. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12678" xml:space="preserve">To this he ſaid, “You remember it right; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12679" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>“therefore in that, I ſhall ſay to you, I muſt reſerve ſome particulars which <lb/>“it is not lawful for me to reveal, but there will be enough left to give you <lb/>“ſatisfaction.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12680" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12681" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall underſtand (that which perhaps you will ſcarce think cre-<lb/>dible) that about Three thouſand years ago or ſomewhat more, the Na-<lb/>vigation of the VVorld (ſpecially for remote Voyages) was greater then <lb/>at this day. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12682" xml:space="preserve">Do not think with your ſelves, that I know not how much <lb/>it is increaſed with you within theſe threeſcore years, I know it well; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12683" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>yet I ſay, greater then then now. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12684" xml:space="preserve">VVhether it was, that the example of <lb/>the Ark that ſaved the remnant of Men from the Univerſal Deluge, gave <lb/>men confidence to adventure upon the VVaters, or what it was, but ſuch <lb/>is the truth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12685" xml:space="preserve">The Phœniciæns, and ſpecially the Tyrians, had great Fleets; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12686" xml:space="preserve">ſo had the Carthaginians their Colony, which is yet further VVeſt: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12687" xml:space="preserve">To-<lb/>ward the Eaſt the Shipping of Egypt and of Paleſtina was likewiſe great; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12688" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>China alſo, and the Great Atlantis (that you call America) which have now <lb/>but Junks and Canoaes, abounded then in tall Ships. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12689" xml:space="preserve">This Iſland (as <lb/>appeareth by faithful Regiſters of thoſe times) had then Fifteen hundred <lb/>ſtrong Ships of great content. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12690" xml:space="preserve">Of all this, there is with you ſparing memory <lb/>or none, but we have large know ledge thereof.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12691" xml:space="preserve">At that time this Land was known, and frequented by the Ships and <lb/>Veſſels of all the Nations beforenamed, and (as it cometh to paſs) they <lb/>had many times Men of other Countreys that were no Sailers, that came <lb/>with them, as Perſians, Chaldeans, Arabians; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12692" xml:space="preserve">ſo as almoſt all Nations of <lb/>might and fame reſorted hither, of whom we have ſome Stirps and little <lb/>Tribes with us at this day. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12693" xml:space="preserve">And for our own Ships, they went ſundry <lb/>Voyages, as well to your Streights, which you call the Pillars of Hercules, <lb/>as to other parts in the Atlantick and Meditterranean Seas; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12694" xml:space="preserve">as to Peguin (which <lb/>is the ſame with Cambalu) and Quinſay upon the Oriental Seas, as far as to <lb/>the Borders of the Eaſt Tartary.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12695" xml:space="preserve">At the ſame time, and an Age after or more, the Inhabitants of the <lb/>Great Atlantis did flouriſh. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12696" xml:space="preserve">For though the Narration and Deſcription <lb/>which is made by a great Man with you, of the Deſcendents of Neptune <lb/>planted there, and of the magnificent Temple, Palace, City, and Hill, <lb/>and the manifold ſtreams of goodly Navigable Rivers, which (as ſo many <lb/>Chains) invironed the ſame Site and Temple, and the ſeveral degrees of <lb/>aſcent, whereby men did climb up to the ſame, as if it had been a Scala <lb/>Cœli, be all Poetical and Fabulous; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12697" xml:space="preserve">yet ſo much is true. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12698" xml:space="preserve">That the ſaid <lb/>Countrey of Atlantis, as well that of Peru, then called Coya, as that of <lb/>Mexico then named Tyrambel; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12699" xml:space="preserve">were mighty and proud Kingdoms in <lb/>Arms, Shipping, and Riches; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12700" xml:space="preserve">ſo mighty, as at one time (or at leaſt with-<lb/>in the ſpace of ten years) they both made two great expeditions, they of <lb/>Tyrambel through the Atlantick to the Meditarranean Sea, and they of Coya <lb/>through the South-ſea upon this our Iſland. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12701" xml:space="preserve">And for the former of theſe, <lb/>which was into Europe, the ſame Author amongſt you (as it ſeemeth) had <lb/>ſome relation from the Egyptian Prieſt whom he citeth, for aſſuredly ſuch <lb/>a thing there was. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12702" xml:space="preserve">But whether it were the ancient Athenians that had <lb/>the glory of the repulſe and reſiſtince of thoſe Forces, I can ſay nothing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12703" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>but certain it is, there never came back either Ship or Man from that Voy-<lb/>age. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12704" xml:space="preserve">Neither had the other Voyage of thoſe of Coya, upon us, had better <pb o="14" file="0368" n="368" rhead="New Atlantis."/> fortune, if they had not met with enemies of greater clemency. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12705" xml:space="preserve">For the <lb/>King of this Iſland (by name Altabin) a wiſe Man, and a great Warrior, <lb/>knowing well both his own ſtrength, and that of his enemies, handled the <lb/>matter ſo, as he cut off their Land forces from their Ships, and entoiled <lb/>both their Navy and their Camp, with a greater power than theirs, both <lb/>by Sea and Land, and compelled them to render themſelves without <lb/>ſtriking ſtroke; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12706" xml:space="preserve">and after they were at his mercy, contenting himſelf one-<lb/>ly with their Oath, that they ſhould no more bear Arms againſt him, diſ-<lb/>miſſed them all in ſaſety. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12707" xml:space="preserve">But the Divine revenge overtook not long <lb/>after thoſe proud enterpriſes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12708" xml:space="preserve">for within leſs then the ſpace of One hun-<lb/>dred years the Great Atlantis was utterly loſt and deſtroyed, not by a great <lb/>Earthquake, as your Man ſaith, (for that whole Tract is little ſubject to <lb/>Earthquakes) but by a particular Deluge or Inundation, thoſe Countreys <lb/>having at this day far greater Rivers, and far higher Mountains to pour <lb/>down Waters, than any part of the Old World. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12709" xml:space="preserve">But it is true, that the <lb/>ſame Inundation was not deep, not paſt forty ſoot in moſt places from <lb/>the ground; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12710" xml:space="preserve">ſo that although it deſtroyed Man and Beaſt generally, <lb/>yet ſome ſew wilde Inhabitants of the Wood eſcaped: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12711" xml:space="preserve">Birds alſo were <lb/>ſaved by flying to the high Trees and Woods. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12712" xml:space="preserve">For as for Men, although <lb/>they had Buildings in many places higher then the depth of the VVater; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12713" xml:space="preserve">yet that Inundation, though it were ſhallow, had a long continuance, <lb/>whereby they of the Vale, that were not drowned, periſhed for want of <lb/>food, and other things neceſſary. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12714" xml:space="preserve">So as marvel you not at the thin Popu-<lb/>lation of America, nor at the Rudeneſs and Ignorance of the People; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12715" xml:space="preserve">for <lb/>you muſt account your Inhabitants of America as a young People, <lb/>younger a thouſand years at the leaſt than the reſt of the VVorld, for <lb/>that there was ſo much time between the Univerſal Flood, and their par-<lb/>ticular Inundation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12716" xml:space="preserve">For the poor remnant of Humane Seed which re-<lb/>mained in their Mountains peopled the Countrey again ſlowly, by little <lb/>and little: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12717" xml:space="preserve">And being ſimple and a ſavage people (not like Noah and his <lb/>Sons, which was the chief Family of the Earth) they were not able to <lb/>leave Letters, Arts, and Civility to their Poſterity. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12718" xml:space="preserve">And having like wiſe <lb/>in their Mountainous Habitations been uſed (in reſpect of the extream <lb/>Cold of thoſe Regions) to cloath themſelves with the skins of Tigers, <lb/>Bears, and great Hairy Goats, that they have in thoſe parts; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12719" xml:space="preserve">when after <lb/>they came down into the Valley, and found the intole<unsure/>rable Heats which <lb/>are there, and knew no means of lighter Apparel, they were ſorced to <lb/>begin the cuſtom of going naked, which continueth at this day; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12720" xml:space="preserve">onely <lb/>they take great pride and delight in the Feathers of Birds: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12721" xml:space="preserve">And this alſo <lb/>they took from thoſe their Anceſtors of the Mountains, who were in-<lb/>vited unto it by the infinite flight of Birds that came up to the high <lb/>Grounds, while the Waters ſtood below. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12722" xml:space="preserve">So you ſee by this main <lb/>accident of time, we loſt our Traffick with the Americans, with whom, <lb/>of all others, in regard they lay neareſt to us, we had moſt commerce. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12723" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>As for the other parts of the World, it is moſt manifeſt, that in the <lb/>Ages following (whether it were in reſpect of VVars, or by a Natural <lb/>revolution of time) Navigation did every where greatly decay, and <lb/>eſpecially far voyages (the rather by theuſe of Gallies, and ſuch Veſſels <lb/>as could hardly brook the Ocean) were altogether left and omitted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12724" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>So then, that part of entercourſe which could be from other Nations <lb/>to ſail to us, you ſee how it hath long ſince ceaſed, except it were by <lb/>ſome rare accident, as this of yours. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12725" xml:space="preserve">But now of the ceſſation of that <pb o="15" file="0369" n="369" rhead="New Atlantis."/> other part of enter courſe, which might be by our ſailing to other Nauons, <lb/>I muſt yield you ſome other cauſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12726" xml:space="preserve">For I cannot ſay (if I ſhould ſay traly) <lb/>but our ſhipping for number, ſtrength, Mariners, Pilon, and all things that <lb/>appertain to Navigation, is as great as ever; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12727" xml:space="preserve">and thereſore why we ſhould <lb/>ſit at home, I ſhall now give you an account by it ſalf, and it will draw nearer <lb/>to give you ſatisfaction to your principal Queſtion.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12728" xml:space="preserve">There reigned in this I ſland about One thouſand nine liundred years <lb/>“ago, a King, whoſe memory of all others we moſt adore, not ſuperſtitiouſly, <lb/>“but as a Divine Inſtrument, though a Mortal Man; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12729" xml:space="preserve">his name was Salomona, <lb/>“and we eſteem him as the Law-giver of our Nation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12730" xml:space="preserve">This King had alarge <lb/>“heart inſe<unsure/>rutable for good, and was wholly bent to make his Kingdom and <lb/>“People happy: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12731" xml:space="preserve">He therefore taking into conſideration, how ſufficient and <lb/>“ſubſtantive this Land was to maintain it ſelf with out any aid (at all) of the <lb/>“Foreigner, being Five thouſand ſix hundred miles in circuit, and of rare <lb/>“fertility of ſoil in the greateſt part thereof; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12732" xml:space="preserve">and finding alſo the ſhipping of <lb/>“this Countrey might be plentiſully ſet on work, both by Fiſhing, and by <lb/>“Tranſportations from Port to Port, and likewiſe by ſailing unto ſome ſmall <lb/>“Iſlands that are not far from us, and are under the Crown and Laws of this <lb/>“State; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12733" xml:space="preserve">and recalling into his memory the happy and flouriſhing eſtate <lb/>“wherein this Land then was, ſo as it might be a thouſand ways altered to <lb/>“the worſe, but ſcarce any one way to the better; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12734" xml:space="preserve">thought nothing wanted <lb/>“to his Noble and Heroical Intentions, but onely (as far as Humane fore-<lb/>“ſight might reach) to give perpetuity to that which was in his time ſo happily <lb/>“eſtabliſhed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12735" xml:space="preserve">therefore amongſt his other Fundamental Laws of this King-<lb/>“dom, he did ordain the Interdicts and Prohibitions which we have touch-<lb/>“ing entrance of ſtrangers, which at that time (though it was after the cala-<lb/>“mity of America) was ſrequent, doubting novelties and commixture of <lb/>“manners. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12736" xml:space="preserve">It is true, the like Law againſt the admiſſion of ſtrangers, with-<lb/>“out licence, is an ancient Law in the Kingdom of China, and yet continued <lb/>“in uſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12737" xml:space="preserve">but there it is a poor thing, and hath made them a curious, igno-<lb/>“rant, fearful, fooliſh Nation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12738" xml:space="preserve">But our Law-giver made his Law of another <lb/>“temper. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12739" xml:space="preserve">For firft, he hath preſerved all points of humanity, in taking or-<lb/>“der and making proviſion for the relief of ſtrangers diſtreſſed, whereof you <lb/>“have taſted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12740" xml:space="preserve">At which Speech (as reaſon was) we all roſe up and bowed our ſelves. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12741" xml:space="preserve">He went on. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12742" xml:space="preserve">“That King alſoſtill deſiring to joyn Humanity and Policy to-<lb/>“gether, and thinking it againſt Humanity to detain Strangers here againſt <lb/>“their Wills, and againſt Policy, that they ſhould return and diſcover their <lb/>“knowledge of this State, he took this courſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12743" xml:space="preserve">He did ordain, that of the <lb/>“Strangers that ſhould be permitred to Land, as many (at all times) might <lb/>“depart as would, but as many as would ſtay, ſhould have very good con-<lb/>“ditions and means to live from the State. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12744" xml:space="preserve">Wherein he ſaw ſo far, that <lb/>“now in ſo many Ages, ſince the Prohibition, we have memory not of one <lb/>“Ship that ever returned, and but of thirteen perſons onely at ſeveral times <lb/>“that choſe to return in our Bottoms. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12745" xml:space="preserve">What thoſe ſew that returned, may <lb/>“have reported abroad, I know not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12746" xml:space="preserve">but you muſt think, whatſoever they <lb/>“have ſaid, could be taken where they came, but ſor a dream. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12747" xml:space="preserve">Now for <lb/>“our travelling from hence into parts abroad, our Law-giver thought fit al-<lb/>“together to reſtrain it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12748" xml:space="preserve">So is it not in China, for the Chineſes fail where they <lb/>“will, or can; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12749" xml:space="preserve">which ſheweth, that their Law of keeping our Strangers, is <lb/>“a Law of puſillanimity and fear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12750" xml:space="preserve">But this reſtraint of ours hath one onely <lb/>“exception, which is admirable, preſerving the good which cometh by <lb/>“communicating with ſtrangers, and avoiding the hurt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12751" xml:space="preserve">and I will now <pb o="16" file="0370" n="370" rhead="New Atlantis."/> “open it to you. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12752" xml:space="preserve">And here I ſhall ſeem a little to digreſs, but you will by <lb/>“and by finde it pertinent. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12753" xml:space="preserve">Ye ſhall underſtand (my dear Friends) that <lb/>“amongſt the excellent acts of that King, one above all hath the preemi-<lb/>“nence: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12754" xml:space="preserve">It was the erection and inſtitution of an Order or Society which <lb/>“we call Solomons Houſe, the nobleſt Foundation (as we think) that ever <lb/>“was upon the Earth, and the Lanthorn of this Kingdom. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12755" xml:space="preserve">It is dedicated <lb/>“to the ſtudy of the Works and creatures of God. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12756" xml:space="preserve">Some think it beareth <lb/>“the Founders name a little corrupted, as if it ſhould be Solomons Houſe; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12757" xml:space="preserve">“but the Records write it as it is ſpoken, ſo as I take it to be denomi-<lb/>“nate of the King of the Hebrews, which is famous with you, and no ſtranger <lb/>“to us; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12758" xml:space="preserve">for we have ſome parts of his Works which with you are loſt, <lb/>“namely, that Natural Hiſtory which he wrote of all Plants, from the Cedar <lb/>“of Libanus to the Moß that grovveth out of the Wall, and of all things that have <lb/>“Life and Motion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12759" xml:space="preserve">This maketh me think that our King finding himſelf to <lb/>“ſymbolize in many things with that King of the Hebrevvs (which lived <lb/>“many years before him) honored him with the Title of this Foundation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12760" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>“And I am the rather induced to be of this opinion, for that I finde in an-<lb/>“cient Records this Order or Society is ſometimes called Solomons Houſe, <lb/>“and ſometimes The Colledge of the Six days VVorks; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12761" xml:space="preserve">whereby I am ſatisfied, <lb/>“that our Excellent King had learned from the Hebrevvs, that God had <lb/>“created the World, and all that therein is within Six days; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12762" xml:space="preserve">and therefore <lb/>“he inſtituting that Houſe for the finding out of the true Nature of all <lb/>“things (whereby God might have the more glory in the workmanſhip of <lb/>“them, and Men the more Fruit in their uſe of them) did give it alſo that <lb/>“ſecond name. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12763" xml:space="preserve">But now to come to our preſent purpoſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12764" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12765" xml:space="preserve">“When the King had forbidden to all his People Navigation in any <lb/>“part that was not under his Crown, he made nevertheleſs this Ordinance, <lb/>“That every twelve years there ſhould be ſet forth out of this Kingdom <lb/>“two Ships appointed to ſeveral Voyages; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12766" xml:space="preserve">that in either of theſe Ships, <lb/>“there ſhould be a Miſſion of three of the Fellows or Brethren of Solomons <lb/>“Houſe, whoſe errand was onely to give us knowledge of the affairs and <lb/>“ſtate of thoſe Countreys, to which they were deſigned, and eſpecially of the <lb/>“Sciences, Arts, Manufactures and Inventions of all the World; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12767" xml:space="preserve">and withal <lb/>“to bring unto us Books, Inſtruments, and Patterns in every kinde. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12768" xml:space="preserve">That <lb/>“the Ships after they had landed the Brethren ſhould return, and that the <lb/>“Brethren ſhould ſtay abroad till the new Miſſion. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12769" xml:space="preserve">The Ships are not other-<lb/>“wiſe fraught than with ſtore of Victuals, and good quantity of Treaſure, <lb/>“to remain with the Brethren for the buying of ſuch things, and rewarding <lb/>“of ſuch perlons as they ſhould think fit. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12770" xml:space="preserve">Now for me to tell you how the <lb/>“vulgar ſort of Mariners are contained from being diſcovered at Land, <lb/>“and how they that muſt be put on ſhore for any time colour themſelves <lb/>“under the names of other Nations, and to what places theſe Voyages have <lb/>“been deſigned, and what places of Rendezvous are appointed for the new <lb/>“Miſſions, and the like circumſtances of the practick, I may not do it, neither <lb/>“is it much to your deſire. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12771" xml:space="preserve">But thus you ſee we maintain a Trade, not for <lb/>“Gold, Silver, or Jewels, nor for Silks, nor for Spices, nor any other com-<lb/>“modity of Matter, but onely for Gods firſt Creature, which was Light; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12772" xml:space="preserve">to <lb/>“have Light (I ſay) of the growth of all parts of the World. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12773" xml:space="preserve">And when he <lb/>had ſaid this, he was ſilent, and ſo were we all; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12774" xml:space="preserve">for indeed, we were all aſtoniſh-<lb/>ed to hear ſo ſtrange things ſo probably told. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12775" xml:space="preserve">And he perceiving, that we <lb/>were willing to ſay ſome what, but had it not ready, in |great courteſie, <lb/>took us off, and deſcended to ask us Queſtions of our Voyage and Fortunes;</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12776" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="17" file="0371" n="371" rhead="New Atlantis."/> and in the end concluded, that we might do well to think with our <lb/>ſelves what time of ſtay we would demand of the State; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12777" xml:space="preserve">and bad us <lb/>not to ſcant our ſelves, for he would procure ſuch time as we deſired. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12778" xml:space="preserve">Whereupon we all roſe up and preſented our ſelves to skiſs the skirt of <lb/>his Tippet; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12779" xml:space="preserve">but he would not ſuffer us, and ſo took his leave. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12780" xml:space="preserve">But when <lb/>it came once amongſt our people, that the State uſed to offer conditions to <lb/>ſtrangers that would ſtay, we had work enough to get any of our men to <lb/>look to our Ship, and to keep them from going preſently to the Governor <lb/>to crave conditions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12781" xml:space="preserve">but with much ado, we refrained them till we might <lb/>agree what courſe to take.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12782" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12783" xml:space="preserve">We took our ſelves now for Freemen, ſeeing there was no danger of <lb/>our utter perdition, and lived moſt joyfully, going abroad, and ſeeing <lb/>what was to beſeen in the City and places adjacent within our Tedder, and <lb/>obtaining acquaintance with many of the City, not of the meaneſt qua-<lb/>lity, at whoſe hands we found ſuch humanity, and ſuch a freedom and <lb/>deſire to take ſtrangers, as it were into their boſom, as was enough to <lb/>make us forget all that was dear to us in our own Countreys, and con-<lb/>tinually we met with many things right worthy of obſervation and rela-<lb/>tion: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12784" xml:space="preserve">As indeed, if there be a Mirror in the World, worthy to hold mens <lb/>eyes, it is that Countrey. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12785" xml:space="preserve">One day there were two of our company <lb/>bidden to a Feaſt of the Family, as they call it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12786" xml:space="preserve">amoſt natural, pious and <lb/>reverend cuſtom it is, ſhewing that Nation to be compounded of all good-<lb/>neſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12787" xml:space="preserve">This is the manner of it. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12788" xml:space="preserve">It is granted to any man that ſhall live to <lb/>ſee thirty perſons deſcended of his body alivetogether, and all above three <lb/>years old, to make this Feaſt, which is done at the coſt of the State. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12789" xml:space="preserve">The Father of the Family, whom they call the Tirſan, two days before the <lb/>Feaſt taketh to him three of ſuch Friends as he liketh to chuſe, and is <lb/>aſſiſted alſo by the Governor of the City or place where the Feaſt is cele-<lb/>brated; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12790" xml:space="preserve">and all the Perſons of the Family of both Sexes are ſummoned to <lb/>attend him. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12791" xml:space="preserve">Theſe two days the Tirſan ſitteth in conſultation concern-<lb/>ing the good eſtate of the Family; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12792" xml:space="preserve">there, if there be any Diſcord or Suits <lb/>between any of the Family, they are compounded and appeaſed; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12793" xml:space="preserve">there, <lb/>if any of the Family be diſtreſſed or decayed, order is taken for their re-<lb/>lief and competent means to live; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12794" xml:space="preserve">there, if any be ſubject to vice or take <lb/>ill courſes, they are reproved and cenſured. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12795" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe, direction is <lb/>given touching Marriages, and the courſes of liſe which any of them <lb/>ſhould take, with divers other the like orders and advices. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12796" xml:space="preserve">The Go-<lb/>vernor aſſiſteth to the end, to put in execution by his publick Autho-<lb/>tity, the Decrees and Orders of the Tirſan, if they ſhould be diſobeyed, <lb/>though that ſeldom needeth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12797" xml:space="preserve">ſuch reverence and obedience they give <lb/>to the order of Nature. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12798" xml:space="preserve">The Tirſan doth alſo then ever chuſe one man <lb/>from amongſt his Sons to live in Houſe with him, who is called ever <lb/>after the Son of the Vine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12799" xml:space="preserve">the reaſon will hereafter appear. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12800" xml:space="preserve">On the Feaſt-<lb/>day, the Tather or Tirſan cometh forth after Divine Service into a large <lb/>Room where the Feaſt is celebrated; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12801" xml:space="preserve">which Room hath an Half-<lb/>pace at the upper end. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12802" xml:space="preserve">Againſt the Wall, in the middle of the Half-<lb/>pace, is a Chair placed for him, with a Table and Carpet before it: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12803" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Over the Chair is a State made round or oval, and it is of Ivy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12804" xml:space="preserve">an Ivy <lb/>ſome what whiter then ours, like the Leaf of a Silver Aſp, but more ſhi-<lb/>ning, for it is Green all Winter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12805" xml:space="preserve">And the State is curiouſly wrought with <lb/>S@lver and Silk of divers colours, broiding or binding in the Ivy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12806" xml:space="preserve">and is <lb/>ever of the work of ſome of the Daughters of the Family, and veiled <pb o="18" file="0372" n="372" rhead="New Atlantis."/> over at the top with a fine Net of Silk and Silver: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12807" xml:space="preserve">But the ſubſtance of it <lb/>is true Ivy, where of, after it is taken down, the Friends of the Family are <lb/>deſirous to have ſome Leaf or Sprig to keep. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12808" xml:space="preserve">The Tirſan cometh forth with <lb/>all his Generation or Lineage, the Males before him, and the Females fol-<lb/>lowing him. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12809" xml:space="preserve">And if there be a Mother, from whoſe body the whole Li-<lb/>neage is deſcended, there is a Traverſe placed in a Loft above on the right <lb/>hand of the Chair, with a Privy Door, and a carved Window of Glaſs, <lb/>leaded with Gold and Blew, where ſhe ſitteth, but is not ſeen. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12810" xml:space="preserve">When <lb/>the Tirſan is come forth, he ſitteth down in the Chair, and all the Li-<lb/>neage place themſelves againſt the Wall, both at his back, and upon the <lb/>return of the Half-pace, in order of their years, without difference of <lb/>Sex, and ſtand upon their Feet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12811" xml:space="preserve">When he is ſet, the room being always <lb/>full of company, but well kept, and without diſorder, after ſome paute <lb/>there cometh in from the lower end of the room a Taratan, (which is as <lb/>much as an Herauld) and on either ſide of him two young Lads, where-<lb/>of one carrieth a Scroul of their ſhining yellow Parchment, and the other <lb/>a cluſter of Grapes of Gold, with a long foot or ſtalk: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12812" xml:space="preserve">The Herauld <lb/>and Children are clothed with Mantles of Sea-water-green Sattin, but the <lb/>Heraulds Mantle is ſtreamed with Gold, and hath a Train. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12813" xml:space="preserve">Then the <lb/>Herauld, with three Courteſies, or rather Inclinations, cometh up as far <lb/>as the Half pace, and there firſt taketh into his hand the Scroul. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12814" xml:space="preserve">This <lb/>Scoul is the Kings Charter, containing Gift of Revenue, and many Pri-<lb/>viledges, Exemptions, and Points of Honor granted to the Father of <lb/>the Family; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12815" xml:space="preserve">and it is ever ſtiled and directed, To ſuch an one, Our wel-<lb/>beloved Friend and Creditor, which is a Title proper onely to this caſe: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12816" xml:space="preserve">For <lb/>they ſay, the King is Debtor to no Man, but for propagation of his Sub-<lb/>jects. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12817" xml:space="preserve">The Seal ſet to the Kings Charter, is the Kings Image imboſſed or <lb/>moulded in Gold. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12818" xml:space="preserve">And though ſuch Charters be expedited of courſe, <lb/>and as of right, yet they are varied by diſcretion, according to the num-<lb/>ber and dignity of the Family. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12819" xml:space="preserve">This Charter the Herauld readeth aloud; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12820" xml:space="preserve">and while it is read, the Father or Tirſan ſtandeth up, ſupported by two <lb/>of his Sons, ſuch as he chuſeth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12821" xml:space="preserve">Then the Herauld mounteth the Half-<lb/>pace, and delivereth the Charter into his hand, and with that there is an ac-<lb/>clamation by all that are preſent in their Language, which is thus much, <lb/>Happy are the People of Benſalem. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12822" xml:space="preserve">Then the Herauld taketh into his hand <lb/>from the other Childe the cluſter of Grapes, which is of Gold, both the <lb/>S@alk and the Grapes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12823" xml:space="preserve">but the Grapes are daintily enamelled: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12824" xml:space="preserve">And if the <lb/>Males of the Family be the greater number, the Grapes are enamelled <lb/>Purple, with a little Sun ſet on the top; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12825" xml:space="preserve">if the Females, then they are <lb/>enamelled into a greeniſh yellow, with a Creſcent on the top. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12826" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>Grapes are in number as many as there are Deſcendants of the Family. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12827" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>This Golden Cluſter the Herauld delivereth alſo to the Tirſan, who pre-<lb/>ſently delivereth it over to that Son that he had formerly choſen to be in <lb/>houſe with him; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12828" xml:space="preserve">who beareth it before his Father as an Enſign of Honor <lb/>when he goeth in publick ever aſter, and is thereupon called The Son of <lb/>the Vine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12829" xml:space="preserve">After this Ceremony ended, the Father or Tirſan retireth, and <lb/>after ſome time cometh ſorth again to Dinner, where he ſitteth alone <lb/>under the State as before; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12830" xml:space="preserve">and none of his Deſcendants ſit with him; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12831" xml:space="preserve">of <lb/>what degree or dignity ſoever, except he hap to be of Solomons Houſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12832" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>He is ſerved onely by his own Children, ſuch as are Male, who perform <lb/>unto him all ſervice of the Table upon the knee; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12833" xml:space="preserve">and the Women onely <lb/>ſtand about him, leaning againſt the Wall. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12834" xml:space="preserve">The Room below his Half pace <pb o="19" file="0373" n="373" rhead="New Atlantis."/> hath Tables on the ſides for the Gueſts that are bidden, who are ſerved <lb/>with great and comely order; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12835" xml:space="preserve">and toward the end of Dinner (which in <lb/>the greateſt Feaſts with them, laſteth never above an hour and a half) <lb/>there is an Hymn ſung, varied according to the Invention of him that com-<lb/>poſed it, (for they have excellent Poeſie;) </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12836" xml:space="preserve">but the ſubject of it is (always) <lb/>the praiſes of Adam, and Noah, and Abraham; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12837" xml:space="preserve">where of the former two <lb/>peopled the World, and the laſt was the Father of the Faithful; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12838" xml:space="preserve">concluding <lb/>ever with a Thankſgiving for the Nativity of our Saviour, in whoſe Birth <lb/>the Births of all are onely Bleſſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12839" xml:space="preserve">Dinner being done, the Tirſan retireth <lb/>again, and having with drawn himſelf alone into a place, where he maketh <lb/>ſome private Prayers, he cometh forth the third time to give the Bleſſing, <lb/>with all his Deſcendants, who ſtand about him as at the firſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12840" xml:space="preserve">Then he <lb/>calleth them forth, by one and by one, by name, as he pleaſeth, though <lb/>ſeldom the order of age be inverted. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12841" xml:space="preserve">The perſon that is called (the Table <lb/>being before removed) kneeleth down before the Chair, and the Father lay <lb/>eth his hand upon his head, or her head, and giveth the Bleſſing in theſe <lb/>words; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12842" xml:space="preserve">Son of Benſalem (or Daughter of Benſalem) thy Father ſaith it, the <lb/>Man by whom thou haſt breath and life ſpeaketh the word: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12843" xml:space="preserve">The Bleßing of the Ever-<lb/>laſting Father, the Prince of Peace, and the Holy Dove be upon thee, and make the <lb/>days of thy Pilgrimage good and many. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12844" xml:space="preserve">This he ſaith to every of them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12845" xml:space="preserve">and that <lb/>done, if there be any oſ his Sons of eminent Merit and Vertue, (ſo they <lb/>be not above two) he calleth for them again, and ſaith, laying his arm over <lb/>their ſhoulders, they ſtanding, Sons, it is well you are born; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12846" xml:space="preserve">give God the praiſe, <lb/>and perſevere to the end. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12847" xml:space="preserve">And withal delivereth to either of them a Jewel, <lb/>made in the figure of an Ear of Wheat, which they ever after wear in the <lb/>front of their Turbant or Hat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12848" xml:space="preserve">This done, they fall to Muſick and Dances <lb/>and other Recreations after their manner for thereſt of the day. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12849" xml:space="preserve">This is the <lb/>full order of that Feaſt.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12850" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12851" xml:space="preserve">By that time ſix or ſeven days were ſpent, I was faln into ſtraight ac-<lb/>quaintance with a Merchant of that City, whoſe name was Joabin; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12852" xml:space="preserve">he was <lb/>a Jew, and circum ciſed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12853" xml:space="preserve">For they have ſome few ſtirps of Jews yet re-<lb/>maining among them, whom they leave to their own Religion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12854" xml:space="preserve">which <lb/>they may the better do, becauſe they are of a far differing diſpoſition from <lb/>the Jews in other parts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12855" xml:space="preserve">For whereas they hate the Name of CHRIST, <lb/>and have a ſecret inbred rancor againſt the people, among whom they <lb/>live: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12856" xml:space="preserve">Theſe (contrariwiſe) give unto our SAVIOUR many high Attri-<lb/>bu@es, and love the Nation of Benſalem extreamly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12857" xml:space="preserve">Surely this Man, of <lb/>whom I ſpeak, would ever acknowledge that CHRIST was born of a <lb/>Virgin, and that he was more then a Man; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12858" xml:space="preserve">and he would tell how GOD <lb/>made him Ruler of the Seraphims which guard his Throne; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12859" xml:space="preserve">and they <lb/>call him alſo the Milken way, and the Eliah of the Meßiah, and many <lb/>other high Names; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12860" xml:space="preserve">which though they be inferior to his Divine Majeſty, <lb/>yet they are far from the Language of other Jews. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12861" xml:space="preserve">And for the Countrey <lb/>of Benſalem, this Man would make no end of commending it, being de-<lb/>ſirous, by Tradition among the Jews there, to have it believed, that the <lb/>people there of were of the Generations of Abraham by another Son, <lb/>whom they call Nachoran; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12862" xml:space="preserve">and that Moſes by a ſecret Cabala ordained the <lb/>Laws of Benſalem, which they now uſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12863" xml:space="preserve">and that when the Meßiah ſhould <lb/>come and ſit in his Throne at Jeruſalem, the King of Benſalem ſhould ſit <lb/>at his Feet, whereas other Kings ſhould keep agreat diſtance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12864" xml:space="preserve">But yet <lb/>ſetting aſide theſe Jewiſh Dreams, the Man was a wiſe man and learned, <lb/>and of great policy, and excellently ſeen in the Laws and Cuſtoms of that <pb o="20" file="0374" n="374" rhead="New Atlantis."/> Nation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12865" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt other diſcourſes, one day I told him, I was much <lb/>affected with the Relation I had from ſome of the company, of their <lb/>Cuſtorm in holding the Feaſt of the Family, for that (me thought) I had <lb/>never heard of a Solemnity wherein Nature did ſo much preſide. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12866" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>becauſe Propagation of Families proceedeth from the Nuptial Copulation, <lb/>I deſired to know of him what Laws and Cuſtoms they had concerning <lb/>Marriage, and whether they kept Marriage well, and whether they were <lb/>tied to one Wife. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12867" xml:space="preserve">For that where Population is ſo much affected and <lb/>ſuch as with them it ſeemed to be, there is commonly permiſſion of Plu-<lb/>rality of Wives. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12868" xml:space="preserve">To this he ſaid, “You have reaſon for to comm@nd <lb/>“that excellent Inſtitution of the Feaſt of the Family; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12869" xml:space="preserve">and indeed we <lb/>“have experience, that thoſe Families that are partakers of the Bleſſings <lb/>“of that Feaſt do flouriſh and proſper ever after in an extraordinary man-<lb/>“ner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12870" xml:space="preserve">But hear me now, and I will tell you what I know. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12871" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall un-<lb/>“derſtand, that there is not under the Heavens, ſo chaſte a Nation as this <lb/>“of Benſalem, nor ſo free from all pollution or foulneſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12872" xml:space="preserve">it is the Virgin <lb/>“of the World. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12873" xml:space="preserve">I remember I have read in one of your European Books <lb/>“of an holy Hermit amongſt you, that deſired to ſee the Spirit of Fornication, <lb/>“and there appeared to him a little foul ugly Æthiope: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12874" xml:space="preserve">But if he had <lb/>“deſired to ſee the Spirit of Chaſtity of Benſalem, it would have appeared to <lb/>“him in the likeneſs of a fair beautiful Cherubin; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12875" xml:space="preserve">for there is nothing <lb/>“amongſt Mortal Men more fair and admirable, then the chaſte Mindes <lb/>“of this People. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12876" xml:space="preserve">Know therefore, that with them there are no Stews, <lb/>“no diſſolute Houſes, no Courteſans, nor any thing of that kinde; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12877" xml:space="preserve">nay <lb/>“they wonder (with deteſtation) at you in Europe which permit ſuch <lb/>“things. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12878" xml:space="preserve">They ſay you have put Marriage out of office; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12879" xml:space="preserve">for Marriage <lb/>“is ordained a remedy for unlawful concupiſcence, and natural concu-<lb/>“piſcence ſeemeth as a ſpur to Marriage: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12880" xml:space="preserve">But when Men have at hand <lb/>“a remedy more agreeable to their corrupt will, Marriage is almoſt ex-<lb/>“pulſed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12881" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, there are with you ſeen infinite Men that mar-<lb/>“ry not, but chufe rather a Libertine, and impure ſingle life, then to be <lb/>“yoaked in Marriage; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12882" xml:space="preserve">and many that do marry, marry late, when the <lb/>“prime and ſtrength of their years is paſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12883" xml:space="preserve">and when they do marry, <lb/>“what is Marriage to them, but a very Bargain, wherein is ſought Alli-<lb/>“ance, or Portion, or Reputation, with ſome deſire (almoſt indifferent) <lb/>“of iſſue, and not the faithſul Nuptial Union of Man and Wife that was <lb/>“firſt inſtituted? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12884" xml:space="preserve">Neither is it poſſible, that thoſe that have caſt away ſo <lb/>“baſely ſo much of their ſtrength, ſhould greatly eſteem Children (be-<lb/>“ing of the ſame matter) as chaſt Men do. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12885" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe during Marriage, <lb/>“is the caſe much amended, as it ought to be, if thoſe things were tole-<lb/>“rated onely for neceſſity? </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12886" xml:space="preserve">No, but they remain ſtill as a very affront to <lb/>“Marriage; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12887" xml:space="preserve">the hunting of thoſe diſſolute places, orreſort to Courteſans, <lb/>“are no more puniſhed in Married men, then in Batchelors: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12888" xml:space="preserve">And the de-<lb/>“praved cuſtom of change, and the delight in meretricious embrace-<lb/>“ments, (where Sin is turned into Art) maketh Marriage a dull thing, and <lb/>“a kinde of Impoſition or Tax. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12889" xml:space="preserve">They hear you defend theſe things as <lb/>“done to avoid greater evils, as Advowtries, Deflouring of Virgins, <lb/>“Unnatural Luſt, and the like: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12890" xml:space="preserve">But they ſay this is a prepoſterous Wiſ <lb/>“dom; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12891" xml:space="preserve">and they call it Lots offer, who to ſave his Gueſts from abuſing <lb/>“offered his Daughters: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12892" xml:space="preserve">Nay, they ſay further, that there is little gained <lb/>“in this, for that the ſame Vices and Appetites do ſtill remain and abound, <lb/>“Unlawful Luſt being like a Furnace, that if you ſtop the Flames alto- <pb o="21" file="0375" n="375" rhead="New Atlantis."/> “gether, it will quench but if you give it any vent, it will rage. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12893" xml:space="preserve">As fo <lb/>“Maſculine Love, they have no touch of it, and yet there are not ſo faith-<lb/>“ful and inviolate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12894" xml:space="preserve">Friendſh ps in the World again as are there; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12895" xml:space="preserve">and to <lb/>“ſpeak generally (as I faid before) I have not read of any ſuch Chaſtity in <lb/>“any People as theirs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12896" xml:space="preserve">And their uſual ſaying is, That whoſoever is unchaſte, <lb/>“cannot reverence himſelf. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12897" xml:space="preserve">And they ſay, That the reverence of a Mans ſelſ <lb/>“is, next Religion, the chiefeſt Bricle of all Vices. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12898" xml:space="preserve">And when he had ſaid <lb/>this, the good Jevv pauſed a little. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12899" xml:space="preserve">Whereupon, I far more willing to hear <lb/>him ſpeak on, than to ſpeak my ſelf; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12900" xml:space="preserve">yet thinking it decent, that upon his <lb/>pauſe of Speech I ſhould not be altogether ſilent, ſaid onely this. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12901" xml:space="preserve">“That I <lb/>“would ſay to him, as the Widow of Sarepta ſaid to Elias, That he was <lb/>“come to bring to memory ourſins; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12902" xml:space="preserve">and that I confeſs the righteouſneſs of <lb/>“Benſalem was greater than the righteouſneſs of Europe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12903" xml:space="preserve">At vvhich Speech, he <lb/>bovved his Head, and vvent on in this manner. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12904" xml:space="preserve">“They have alſo many wiſe and <lb/>“excellent Lawstouching Marliage; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12905" xml:space="preserve">they allow no Polygamy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12906" xml:space="preserve">they have <lb/>“ordained, that none do intermarry or contract until a moneth be paſt from <lb/>“their firſt interview. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12907" xml:space="preserve">Marriage without conſent of Parents, they do not <lb/>“make void, but they mulct it in the Inheritors; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12908" xml:space="preserve">for the Children of ſuch <lb/>“Marriages are not admitted to inherit above a third part of their Parents <lb/>“Inheritance. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12909" xml:space="preserve">I have read in a Book of one of your Men, of a Feigned <lb/>“Common wealth, where the married couple are permitted before they <lb/>“contract to ſee one another naked. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12910" xml:space="preserve">This they diſſike, for they hink it a <lb/>“ſcorn to give a refuſal after ſo familiar knowledge; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12911" xml:space="preserve">but becauſe of many <lb/>“nidden defects in Men and Womens Bodies, they have a more civil way; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12912" xml:space="preserve">“for they have near every Town, a couple of Pools (which they call <lb/>“Adam and Eves Pools) where it is permitted to one of the Friends of the <lb/>“Man, and another of the Eriends of the Woman, to ſee them ſeverally <lb/>“bath naked.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12913" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12914" xml:space="preserve">And as we were thus in Conference, there came one that ſeemed to be <lb/>a Meſſenger, in a rich Huke, that ſpake with the Jevv; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12915" xml:space="preserve">whereupon he <lb/>turned to me, and ſaid, You vvill pardon me, for I am commanded avvay in haſte. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12916" xml:space="preserve">The nex@ morning he came to me again, joyful, as it ſeemed, and ſaid, <lb/>“There is word come to the Governor of the City, that one of the Fathers <lb/>“of Solomons Houſe will be here this day ſeven-night; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12917" xml:space="preserve">we have ſeen none of <lb/>“them this dozen years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12918" xml:space="preserve">His coming is in ſtate, but the cauſe of his coming <lb/>“is ſecret. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12919" xml:space="preserve">I will provide you and your Fellows of a good ſtanding to ſee <lb/>“his entry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12920" xml:space="preserve">I thanked him, and told him, I was moſt glad of the nevvs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12921" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>day being come, he made his entry. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12922" xml:space="preserve">He was a Man of middle ſtature and <lb/>age, comely of perſon, and had an aſpect as if he pitied men: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12923" xml:space="preserve">He was <lb/>cloathed in a @obe of fine black Cloth, with wide Sleeves, and a Cape; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12924" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>his under Garment was of excellent white Linnen down to the Foot, <lb/>girt with a Girdle of the ſame, and a Sindon or Tippet of the ſame about <lb/>his Neck; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12925" xml:space="preserve">he had Gloves that were curious, and ſet with Stone, and Shooes <lb/>of Peach-coloured Velvet; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12926" xml:space="preserve">his Neck was bare to the Shoulders; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12927" xml:space="preserve">his Hat <lb/>was like a Helmet or Spaniſh Montera, and his Locks curled below it de-<lb/>cently, they were of colour brown; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12928" xml:space="preserve">his Beard was cut round, and of the <lb/>ſame colour with his Hair, ſomewhat lighter. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12929" xml:space="preserve">He was carried in a rich <lb/>Chariot without Wheels, Litter-wife, with two Horſes at either end, <lb/>richly trapped in blew Velvet embroidered, and two Footmen on each <lb/>ſide in the like attire. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12930" xml:space="preserve">The Chariot was all of Cedar, gilt and adorned <lb/>with Cryſtal, ſave that the fore-end had Pannels of Saphires ſet in borders <lb/>of Gold, and the hinder-end the like of Emeralds of the Peru colour.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12931" xml:space="preserve"> <pb o="22" file="0376" n="376" rhead="New Atlantis."/> There was alto a Sun of Gold, radiant upon the top in the midſt; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12932" xml:space="preserve">and on <lb/>the top before a ſmall Cherub of Gold, with Wings diſplayed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12933" xml:space="preserve">The <lb/>Chariot was covered with Cloth of Gold tiſſued upon blew. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12934" xml:space="preserve">He had <lb/>beſore him fifty attendants, young men all, in white Satten looſe Coats, <lb/>up to the mid-leg, and Stockins of white Silk, and Shooes of blew Velvet, <lb/>and Hats of blew Velvet, with fine Plumes of divers colours ſet round like <lb/>Hatbands. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12935" xml:space="preserve">Next before the Chariot, went two men bare headed, in <lb/>Lichen Garments down to the Foot, girt, and Shooes of blew Velvet, <lb/>who carried, the one a Croſier, the other a Paſtoral Staff like a Sheep-<lb/>hook, neither of them of Metal, but the Croſier of Balm-wood, the <lb/>Paſtoral Staff of Cedar. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12936" xml:space="preserve">Hor<unsure/>ſemen he had none, neither before, nor be-<lb/>hinde his Chariot, as it ſeemeth, to avoid all tumult and trouble. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12937" xml:space="preserve">Be-<lb/>hinde his Chariot went all the Officers and Principals of the Companies <lb/>of the City. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12938" xml:space="preserve">He ſate alone upon Cuſhions, of a kinde of excellent Plufh, <lb/>blew, and under his Foot curious Carpets of Silk of divers colours; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12939" xml:space="preserve">like <lb/>the Perſian, but far finer. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12940" xml:space="preserve">He held up his barehand as he went, as bleſs-<lb/>ing the People, but in ſilence. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12941" xml:space="preserve">The Street was wonderfully well kept, <lb/>ſo that there was never any Army had their Men ſtand in better battel-<lb/>array, then the people ſtood. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12942" xml:space="preserve">The Windows likewiſe were not crouded, <lb/>but every one ſtood in them, as if they had been placed. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12943" xml:space="preserve">When the <lb/>ſhow was paſt, the Fevv ſaid to me, “I ſhall not be able to attend you as I <lb/>“would, in regard of ſome charge the City hath laid upon me for the en-<lb/>“tertaining of this great Perſon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12944" xml:space="preserve">Three a ays after the Jew came to me again, and ſaid, <lb/>“Ye are happy men, for the Father of Solomons Houſe taketh knowledge of <lb/>“your being here, and commanded me to tell you, that he will admit all <lb/>“your company to his preſence, and have private conference with one of <lb/>“you that ye ſhall chuſe; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12945" xml:space="preserve">and for this, hath appointed the next day after to <lb/>“morrow. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12946" xml:space="preserve">And becauſe he meaneth to give you his Bleſſing, he hath <lb/>“appointed it in the forenoon. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12947" xml:space="preserve">We came at our day and hour, and I <lb/>was choſen by my fellows for the private acceſs. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12948" xml:space="preserve">We found him in a fair <lb/>Chamber richly hanged, and carpeted under Foot, without any degrees to <lb/>the State: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12949" xml:space="preserve">He was ſet upon alow Throne, richly adorned, and a rich Cloth <lb/>of State over his head of blew Sattin embroidered. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12950" xml:space="preserve">He was alone, ſave <lb/>that he had two Pages of Honor on either hand one, finely attired in <lb/>white. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12951" xml:space="preserve">His under Garments were the like, that we ſaw him wear in the <lb/>Chariot; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12952" xml:space="preserve">but inſtead of his Gown, he had on him a Mantle with a Cape <lb/>of the ſame fine Black, faſtned about him. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12953" xml:space="preserve">When we came in, as we were <lb/>taught, we bowed low at our firſt entrance; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12954" xml:space="preserve">and when we were come <lb/>near his Chair, he ſtood up, holding forth his hand ungloved, and in <lb/>poſture of Bleſſing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12955" xml:space="preserve">and we every one of us ſtooped down and kiſſed the <lb/>hem of his Tippet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12956" xml:space="preserve">That done, the reſt departed, and I remained. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12957" xml:space="preserve">Then <lb/>he warned the Pages forth of the Room, and cauſed me to ſit down beſide <lb/>him, and ſpake to me thus in the Spaniſh Tongue.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12958" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="23" file="0377" n="377" rhead="New Atlantis."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12959" xml:space="preserve"><emph style="sc">God</emph> Bleſs thee, my Son, I will give thee the greateſt Jewel I <lb/>have; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12960" xml:space="preserve">for I will impart unto thee, for the love of God and Men, <lb/>a Relation of the true ſtate of Solomons Houſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12961" xml:space="preserve">Son, to make <lb/>you know the true ſtate of Solomons Houſe, I will keep this order. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12962" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, I will ſet ſorth unto you the End of our Foundation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12963" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, <lb/>The Preparations and Inſtruments we have for our Works. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12964" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, <lb/>The ſeveral Employments and Functions whereto our Fellows are aſſign-<lb/>ed: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12965" xml:space="preserve">And fourthly, The Ordinances and Rites which we obſerve.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12966" xml:space="preserve">The End of our Foundation, is the Knowledge of Cauſes and Secret <lb/>Motions of things, and the enlarging of the Bounds of Humane Empire, <lb/>to the effecting of all things poſſible.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12967" xml:space="preserve">The Preparations and Inſtruments, are theſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12968" xml:space="preserve">We have large and <lb/>deep Caves of ſeveral depths; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12969" xml:space="preserve">the deepeſt are ſunk Six hundred fathom, <lb/>and ſome of them are digged and made under great Hills and Mountains; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12970" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>ſo that if you reckon together the depth of the Hill, and the depth of the <lb/>Cave, they are (ſome of them) above three miles deep: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12971" xml:space="preserve">For we finde that <lb/>the depth of an Hill, and the depth of a Cave from the Flat, is the ſame <lb/>thing, both remote alike from the Sun and Heavens Beams, and from the <lb/>open Air. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12972" xml:space="preserve">Theſe Caves we call the Lower Region, and we uſe them for <lb/>all Coagulations, Indurations, Refrigerations, and Conſervations of <lb/>Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12973" xml:space="preserve">We uſe them likewiſe for the Imitation of Natural Mines, and <lb/>the producing alſo of new Artificial metals, by Compoſitions and Mate-<lb/>rials which we uſe and lay there for many years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12974" xml:space="preserve">We uſe them alſo ſome-<lb/>times (which may ſeem ſtrange) for curing of ſome Difeaſes, and for pro-<lb/>longation of life in ſome Hermits that chuſe to live there, well accommo-<lb/>dated of all things neceſſary, and indeed live very long; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12975" xml:space="preserve">by whom alſo we <lb/>learn many things.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12976" xml:space="preserve">We have Burials in ſeveral Earths, where we put divers Cements <lb/>as the Chineſes do their Porcellane; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12977" xml:space="preserve">but we have them in greater variety <lb/>and ſome of them more fine. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12978" xml:space="preserve">We alſo have great variety of Compoſts <lb/>and Soils for the making of the Earth fruitful.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12979" xml:space="preserve">We have high Towers, the higheſt about half a mile in height, and <lb/>ſome of them likewiſe ſet upon high Mountains, ſo that the vantage of the <lb/>Hill with the Tower, is in the higheſt of them, three miles at leaſt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12980" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>theſe places we call the Upper Region, accounting the Air between the <lb/>high places, and the Low as a Middle Region. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12981" xml:space="preserve">We uſe theſe Towers, <lb/>according to their ſeveral heights and ſituations, for Inſolation, Refrige-<lb/>ration, Confervation, and for the view of divers Metcors, as Winds, Rain, <lb/>Snow, Hail, and ſome of the Fiery Meteors alſo. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12982" xml:space="preserve">And upon them, in ſome <lb/>places, are dwellings of Hermits, whom we viſit ſometimes, and inſtruct <lb/>what to obſerve.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12983" xml:space="preserve">We have great Lakes, both ſalt and freſh, whereof we have uſe for <lb/>the F@ſh and Fowl. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12984" xml:space="preserve">Weuſe them alſo for Burials of ſome Natural Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12985" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>for we finde a differencein things buried in Earth, or in Air below the Earth, <lb/>and things buried in Water. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12986" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo Pools, of which ſome do ſtrain <lb/>Freſh Water out of Salt, and others by Art do turn Freſh Waterinto Salt. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12987" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>We have alſo ſome Rocks in the midſt of the Sea, and ſome Bays upon <lb/>the Shore for ſome Works, wherein is required the Air and Vapor of the <lb/>Sea. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12988" xml:space="preserve">We have likewiſe violent ſtreams and cataracts, which ſerve us for <lb/>many Motions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12989" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe Engins for multiplying and enforcing oſ <lb/>Winds, to ſet alſo on going divers Motions.</s> </p> <pb o="24" file="0378" n="378" rhead="New Atlantis."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12990" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo a number of attificial Wells and Fountains, made in <lb/>imitation of the Natural Sources and Baths; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12991" xml:space="preserve">as tincted upon Vitriol, Sul-<lb/>phur, Steel, Braſs, Lead, Nitre, and other Minerals. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12992" xml:space="preserve">And again we have <lb/>little Wells for Infuſions of many things, where the Waters take the vir-<lb/>tue quicker and better then in Veſſels or Baſins: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12993" xml:space="preserve">And amongſt them we have <lb/>a Water which we call Water of Paradiſe, being by that we do to it, made <lb/>very ſovereign for health, and Prolongation of Life.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12994" xml:space="preserve">We alſo great and ſpacious Houſes, where we imitate and demon-<lb/>ſtrate Meteors; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12995" xml:space="preserve">as Snow, Hail, Rain, ſome Artificial Rains of Bodies, and <lb/>not of Water, Thunders, Lightnings; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12996" xml:space="preserve">alſo Generations of Bodies in Air, <lb/>as Frogs, Flies, and divers others.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12997" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo certain Chambers which we call Chambers of Health, <lb/>where we qualifie the Air, as we think good and proper for the cure of di-<lb/>vers Diſeaſes, and preſervation of Health.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s12998" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo fair and large Barhs of ſeveral mixtures, for the cure of <lb/>Diſeaſes, and the reſtoring of Mans Body from Arefaction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s12999" xml:space="preserve">and other, for <lb/>the confirming of it in ſtrength of Sinews, Vital Parts, and the very Juice <lb/>and Subſtance of the Body.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13000" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo large and various Orchards and Gardens, wherein we <lb/>do not ſo much reſpect Beauty, as variety of ground and ſoyl, proper for <lb/>diver Treesand Herbs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13001" xml:space="preserve">and ſome very ſpacious, where Trees and Berries <lb/>are ſer, whereof we make divers kindes of Drinks, beſides the Vineyards. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13002" xml:space="preserve">In theſe we practiſe like wiſe all concluſions of Grafting and Inoculating, as <lb/>well of Wild-trees as Fruit-trees, which produceth many effects. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13003" xml:space="preserve">And we <lb/>make (by Art) in the ſame Orchards and Gardens, Trees and Flowers to <lb/>come earlier or later then their ſeaſons, and to come up and bear more <lb/>ſpeedily then by their natural courſe they do We make them alſo (by Art) <lb/>much greater then their nature, and their Fruit greater and ſweeter, and of <lb/>differing taſte, ſmell colcur and fgure from their nature; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13004" xml:space="preserve">and many of them <lb/>we ſo order, that they become of Medicinal uſe.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13005" xml:space="preserve">VVe have alſo means to make divers Plants riſe, by mixtures of <lb/>Earths without Seeds, and likewiſe to make divers new Plants differing <lb/>from the Vulgar, and to make one Tree or Plant turn into another.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13006" xml:space="preserve">VVe have alſo Parks and Encloſures of all ſorts of Beaſts and Birds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13007" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>which we uſe not onely for view or rareneſs, but like wiſe for Diſſections <lb/>and Tryals, that thereby we may take light, what may be wrought upon <lb/>the Body of Man, wherein we finde many ſtrange effects; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13008" xml:space="preserve">as continuing <lb/>life in them, though divers parts, which you account vital, be periſhed <lb/>and taken forth; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13009" xml:space="preserve">Reſuſcitating of ſome that ſeem dead in appearance, <lb/>and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13010" xml:space="preserve">VVe try alſo all poyſons and other medicines upon them, <lb/>as well of Chirurgery as Phyſick. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13011" xml:space="preserve">By Art likewiſe we make them greater <lb/>or taller then their kind is, and contrariwiſe dwarf them, and ſtay their <lb/>growth: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13012" xml:space="preserve">VVe make them more fruitful and bearing, then their kind <lb/>is, and contrariwiſe barren, and not generative. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13013" xml:space="preserve">Alſo we make them <lb/>differ in colour, ſhape, activity, many ways. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13014" xml:space="preserve">VVe finde means to make <lb/>commixtures and copulations of divers kinds, which have produced <lb/>many new kinds, and them not barren, as the general opinion is. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13015" xml:space="preserve">VVe <lb/>make a number of kindes of Serpents, VVorms, Flies, Fiſhes, of Putre-<lb/>faction; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13016" xml:space="preserve">whereof ſome are advanced (in effect) to be perfect Creatures, <lb/>like Beaſts or Birds, and have Sexes, and do propagate. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13017" xml:space="preserve">Neither do we <lb/>this by chance, but we know beforehand of what matter and commixture <lb/>what kind of thoſe Creatures will ariſe.</s> </p> <pb o="25" file="0379" n="379" rhead="New Atlantis."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13018" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo particular Pools where we make tryals upon Fiſhes, <lb/>as we have ſaid before of Beaſts and Birds.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13019" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo places for Breed and Generation of thoſe Kinds of <lb/>Worms and Flies which are of ſpecial uſe, ſuch as are with you, your <lb/>Silk-worms and Bees.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13020" xml:space="preserve">I will not hold you long with recounting of our Brew-houſes, Bake-<lb/>houſes and Kitchins, where are made divers Drinks Breads, and Meats, <lb/>rare and of ſpecial effects. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13021" xml:space="preserve">Wines we have of Grapes, and Drinks of <lb/>other Juice, of Fruits, of Grains and of Roots; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13022" xml:space="preserve">and of mixtures with <lb/>Honey, Sugar, Manna, and Fruits dried and decocted; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13023" xml:space="preserve">alſo of the Tears <lb/>or Woundings of Trees, and of the Pulp of Canes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13024" xml:space="preserve">and theſe Drinks are <lb/>of ſeveral Ages, ſome to the age or laſt of forty years. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13025" xml:space="preserve">VVe have Drinks <lb/>alſo brewed with ſeveral Herbs, and Roots, and Spices, yea, with ſeveral <lb/>Fleſhes, and VVhite-meats; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13026" xml:space="preserve">whereof ſome of the Drinks are ſuch as they <lb/>are in effect Meat and Drink both; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13027" xml:space="preserve">ſo that divers, eſpecially in Age, do <lb/>deſire to live with them with little or no Meat or Bread. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13028" xml:space="preserve">And above all, we <lb/>ſtrive to have Drinks of extream thin parts, to inſinuate into the Body, <lb/>and yet without all biting, ſharpneſs, or fretting; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13029" xml:space="preserve">inſomuch, as ſome of <lb/>them put upon the back of your hand, will, with a little ſtay, paſs through <lb/>to the palm, and yet taſte milde to the mouth. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13030" xml:space="preserve">VVe have alſo VVaters <lb/>which we ripen in that faſhion as they become nouriſhing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13031" xml:space="preserve">ſo that they <lb/>are indeed excellent Drink, and many will uſe no other. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13032" xml:space="preserve">Breads we have <lb/>of ſeveral Grains, Roots and Kernels, yea, and ſome of Fleſh and Fiſh <lb/>dried, with divers kinds of Levenings and Seaſonings; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13033" xml:space="preserve">ſo that ſome do <lb/>extreamly move Appetites; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13034" xml:space="preserve">ſome do nouriſh ſo, as divers do live of them <lb/>without any other Meat, who live very long. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13035" xml:space="preserve">So for Meats, we have ſome <lb/>of them ſo beaten, and made tender and mortified, yet without all cor-<lb/>rupting, as a weak heat of the Stomach will turn them into good Chylus, <lb/>as well as a ſtrong heat would meat otherwiſe prepared. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13036" xml:space="preserve">VVe have ſome <lb/>Meats alſo, and Breads, and Drinks, which taken by men, enable them to <lb/>faſt long after; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13037" xml:space="preserve">and fome other that uſed, make the very Fleſh of Mens <lb/>Bodies ſenſibly more hard and tough, and their ſtrength far greater then <lb/>other wiſe it would be.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13038" xml:space="preserve">VVe have Diſpenſatories or Shops of Medicines, wherein you may <lb/>eaſily think, if we have fuch variety of Plants and Living Creatures, more <lb/>then you have in Europe, (for we know what you have) the Simples, Drugs, <lb/>and Ingredients of Medicines, muſt likewiſe be in ſo much the geater <lb/>variety. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13039" xml:space="preserve">VVe have them like wiſe of divers Ages, and long Fermenta-<lb/>tions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13040" xml:space="preserve">And for their Preparations, we have not onely all manner of ex-<lb/>quiſit Diſtillations and Separations, and eſpecially by gentle Heats, and <lb/>Percolations through divers Strainers, yea and Subſtances; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13041" xml:space="preserve">but alſo exact <lb/>Forms of Compoſition, whereby they incorporate almoſt as they were <lb/>Natural Simples.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13042" xml:space="preserve">VVe have alſo divers Mechanical Arts, which you have not, and <lb/>Stuffs made by them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13043" xml:space="preserve">as Papers, Linnen, Silks, Tiſſues, dainty works of <lb/>Feathers of wonderful luſtre, excellent Dies, and many others; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13044" xml:space="preserve">and Shops <lb/>likewiſe as well for ſuch as are not brought into vulgat uſe amongſt us, <lb/>as for thoſe that are. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13045" xml:space="preserve">For you muſt know, that of the things before re-<lb/>cited, many are grown into uſe throughout the Kingdom; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13046" xml:space="preserve">but yet, if <lb/>they did flow from our Invention, we have of them alſo for Patterns and <lb/>Principals.</s> </p> <pb o="26" file="0380" n="380" rhead="New Atlantis."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13047" xml:space="preserve">VVe have alſo Furnaces of great div erſities, and that keep great di-<lb/>verſity of heats, fierce and quick, ſtrong and conſtant, ſoft and milde; <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13048" xml:space="preserve">blown, quiet, dry, moiſt, and the like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13049" xml:space="preserve">But above all we have heats, in <lb/>imitation of the Suns and Heavenly Bodies heats, that paſs divers Inequa-<lb/>lities, and (as it were) Orbs, Progreſſes and Returns, whereby we may <lb/>produce admirable effects. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13050" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, we have heats of Dungs, and of Bel-<lb/>lies and Maws of Living Creatures, and of their Bloods and Bodies; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13051" xml:space="preserve">and <lb/>of Hays and Herbs laid up moift; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13052" xml:space="preserve">of Lime unquenched, and ſuch like. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13053" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Inſtruments alſo which generate heat onely by motion; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13054" xml:space="preserve">and ſurther, places <lb/>for ſtrong Inſolations; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13055" xml:space="preserve">and again, places under the Farth, which by Na-<lb/>ture or Art yield Heat. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13056" xml:space="preserve">Theſe divers heats we uſe, as the nature of the ope-<lb/>ration which we intend, requireth.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13057" xml:space="preserve">VVe have alſo Perſpective Houſes where we make Demonſtration <lb/>of all Lights and Radiations, and of all Colours; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13058" xml:space="preserve">and out of things un-<lb/>coloured and tranſparent, we can repreſent unto you all ſeveral colours, <lb/>not in Rainbows (as it is in Gems and Priſms) but of themſelves ſingle. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13059" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>VVe repreſent alſo all Multiplications of Light, which we carry to great <lb/>diſtance, and make ſo ſharp as to diſcern ſmall Points and Lines; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13060" xml:space="preserve">alſo all <lb/>colourations of Light, all deluſions and deceits of the Sight, in Figures, <lb/>Magnitudes, Motions, Colours, all demonſtrations of Shadows. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13061" xml:space="preserve">VVe <lb/>finde alſo divers means yet unknown to you of producing of Light origi-<lb/>nally from divers Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13062" xml:space="preserve">VVe procure means of ſeeing objects afar off, <lb/>as in the Heaven, and remote places; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13063" xml:space="preserve">and repreſent things near as afar off, <lb/>and things afar off as near, making feigned diſtances. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13064" xml:space="preserve">VVe have alſo helps <lb/>for the Sight, far above Spectacles and Glaſſes in uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13065" xml:space="preserve">VVe have alſo <lb/>Glaſſes and Means to ſee ſmall and minute Bodies perfectly and diſtinctly, <lb/>as the ſhapes and colours of ſmall Flies and VVorms, grains and flaws in <lb/>Gems, which cannot otherwiſe be ſeen, obſervations in Urine and Blood, <lb/>not otherwiſe to be ſeen. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13066" xml:space="preserve">VVe make Artificial Rainbows, Halo’s, and <lb/>Circles about Light. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13067" xml:space="preserve">VVe repreſent alſo all manner of Reflexions, Re-<lb/>fractions, and Multiplication of Viſual Beams of Objects.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13068" xml:space="preserve">VVe have alſo Precious Stones of all kindes, many of them of great <lb/>beauty, and to you unknown; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13069" xml:space="preserve">Cryſtals likewiſe, and Glaſſes of divers <lb/>kindes, and amongſt them ſome of Metals vitrificated, and other Materi-<lb/>als, beſide thoſe of which you make Glaſs: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13070" xml:space="preserve">Alſo a number of Foſſiles <lb/>and imperfect Minerals, which you have not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13071" xml:space="preserve">likewiſe Loadſtones of pro-<lb/>digious virtue, and other rare Stones, both Natural and Artificial.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13072" xml:space="preserve">VVe have alſo Sound-houſes, where we practiſe and demonſtrate all <lb/>Sounds and their Generation. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13073" xml:space="preserve">We have harmonies which you have not, <lb/>of Quarter-ſounds, and leſſer Slides of Sounds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13074" xml:space="preserve">divers Inſtruments of <lb/>Muſick likewiſe to you unknown, ſome ſweeter then any you have, with <lb/>Bells and Rings that are dainty and ſweet. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13075" xml:space="preserve">We repreſent ſmall Sounds as <lb/>great and deep, like wiſe great Sounds extenuate and ſharp. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13076" xml:space="preserve">We make <lb/>divers tremblings and warblings of Sounds, which in their original are <lb/>entire. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13077" xml:space="preserve">We repreſent and imitate all articulate Sounds and Letters, and <lb/>the Voices and Notes of Beaſts and Birds. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13078" xml:space="preserve">VVe have certain helps, which <lb/>ſet to the Ear, do further the hearing greatly. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13079" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo divers ſtrange <lb/>and artificial Echo’s reflecting the voice many times, and as it were toſſing <lb/>it; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13080" xml:space="preserve">and ſome that give back the voice louder then it came, ſome ſhriller, <lb/>and ſome deeper, yea, ſome rendring the voice differing in the Letters or <lb/>articulate Sound ſrom that they receive. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13081" xml:space="preserve">We have all means to convey <lb/>Sounds in Trunks and Pipes in ſtrange lines and diſtances.</s> </p> <pb o="27" file="0381" n="381" rhead="New Atlantis."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13082" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo Perfume-houſes, where with we joyn alſo practices of <lb/>Taſte; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13083" xml:space="preserve">we multiply Smells, which may ſeem ſtrange; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13084" xml:space="preserve">we imitate Smells, <lb/>making all Smells to breath out of other mixtures then thoſe that give them. <lb/></s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13085" xml:space="preserve">We make divers imitations of Taſte like wiſe, ſo that they will deceive any <lb/>Mans taſte. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13086" xml:space="preserve">And in this Houſe we contain alſo a Confiture-houſe, where <lb/>we make all Sweet-meats, dry and moiſt, and divers pleaſant Wines, Milks, <lb/>Broths, and Sallets, far in greater variety then you have.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13087" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo Engine-houſes, where are prepared Engines and Inſtru-<lb/>ments for all ſorts of motions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13088" xml:space="preserve">There we imitate and practiſe to make <lb/>ſwifter motions then any you have, either out of your Muskets or any En-<lb/>gine that you have; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13089" xml:space="preserve">and to make them, and multiply them more eaſily, and <lb/>with ſmall force, by wheels and other means; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13090" xml:space="preserve">and to make them ſtronger <lb/>and more violent then yours are, exceeding your greateſt Cannons and <lb/>Baſilisks. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13091" xml:space="preserve">We repreſent alſo Ordnance and Inſtruments of War, and En-<lb/>gines of all kindes; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13092" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe new mixtures and compoſitions of Gun-<lb/>powder, Wildefires burning in Water and unquenchable; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13093" xml:space="preserve">alſo Fireworks <lb/>of all variety, both for pleaſure and uſe. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13094" xml:space="preserve">We imitate alſo flights of Birds; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13095" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>we have ſome degrees of flying in the Air; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13096" xml:space="preserve">we have Ships and Boats for <lb/>going under Water, and brooking of Seas; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13097" xml:space="preserve">alſo Swimming-girdles and <lb/>Supporters. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13098" xml:space="preserve">We have divers curious Clocks, and other like motions of <lb/>Return, and ſome perpetual motions. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13099" xml:space="preserve">We imitate alſo motions of Living <lb/>Creatures by Images of Men, Beaſts, Birds, Fiſhes, and Serpents; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13100" xml:space="preserve">we have <lb/>alſo a great number of other various motions, ſtrange for quality, fineneſs <lb/>and ſubtilty.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13101" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo a Mathematical-houſe, where are repreſented all Inſtru-<lb/>ments, as well of Geometry as Aſtronomy, exquiſitely made.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13102" xml:space="preserve">We have alſo Houſes of Deceits of the Senſes, where we repreſent <lb/>all manner of feats of Jugling, falſe Apparitions, Impoſtures and Illuſions, <lb/>and their Fallacies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13103" xml:space="preserve">And ſurely, you will eaſily believe that we that have ſo <lb/>many things truly Natural, which induce admiration, could in a world of <lb/>particulars deceive the Senſes, if we would diſguiſe thoſe things, and labor <lb/>to make them more miraculous: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13104" xml:space="preserve">But we do hate all Impoſtures and Lies <lb/>inſomuch, as we have ſeverely forbidden it to all our Fellows, under pain <lb/>of Ignominy and Fines, that they do not ſhew any natural work or thing, <lb/>adorned or ſwelling, but onely pure as it is, and without all affectation of <lb/>ſtrangeneſs.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13105" xml:space="preserve">Theſe are (my Son) the riches of Solomons Houſe.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13106" xml:space="preserve">For the ſeveral employments and offices of our Fellows; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13107" xml:space="preserve">we have <lb/>twelve that ſail into Foreign Countreys under the names of other Nations, <lb/>(for our own we conceal) who bring us the Books, and Abſtracts, and Pat-<lb/>terns of Experiments of all other Parts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13108" xml:space="preserve">Theſe we call Merchants of <lb/>Light.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13109" xml:space="preserve">We have three that collect the Experiments, which are in all Books. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13110" xml:space="preserve"><lb/>Theſe we call Depredators.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13111" xml:space="preserve">We have three that collect the Experiments of all Mechanical Arts, <lb/>and alſo of Liberal Sciences, and alſo of Practices which are not brought <lb/>into Arts. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13112" xml:space="preserve">Theſe we call Myſtery-men.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13113" xml:space="preserve">We have three that try new Experiments, ſuch as themſelves think <lb/>good. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13114" xml:space="preserve">Theſe we call Pioneers or Miners.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13115" xml:space="preserve">We have three that draw the Experiments of the former four into <lb/>Titles and Tables, to give the better light for the drawing of Obſervations <lb/>and Axioms out of them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13116" xml:space="preserve">Theſe we call Compilers.</s> </p> <pb o="28" file="0382" n="382" rhead="New Atlantis."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13117" xml:space="preserve">We have three that bend themſelves, looking into the Experiments <lb/>of their Fellows, and caſt about how to draw out of them things of uſe <lb/>and practice for Mans life and knowledge, as well for Works, as for plain <lb/>dem onſtration of Cauſes, means of Natural Divinations, and the eaſie <lb/>and clear diſcovery of the Virtues and Parts of Bodies. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13118" xml:space="preserve">Theſe we call <lb/>Dowry men or Benefactors.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13119" xml:space="preserve">Then after divers Meetings and Conſults of our whole number, to <lb/>conſider of the ſormer Labors and Collections, we have three that take <lb/>care out of them to direct new Experiments of a higher Light, more pene-<lb/>trating into Nature then the former. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13120" xml:space="preserve">Theſe we call Lamps.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13121" xml:space="preserve">VVe have three others that do execute the Experiment ſo directed, <lb/>and report them. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13122" xml:space="preserve">Theſe we call Inoculators.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13123" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, VVe have three that raiſe the former Diſcoveries by Experi-<lb/>ments into greater Obſervations, Axioms, and Aphoriſms. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13124" xml:space="preserve">Theſe we call <lb/>Interpreters of Nature.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13125" xml:space="preserve">VVe have alſo, as you muſt think, Novices and Apprentices, that <lb/>the ſucceſſion of the former employed Men do not fail; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13126" xml:space="preserve">beſides a great <lb/>number of Servants and Attendants, Men and VVomen. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13127" xml:space="preserve">And this we do <lb/>alſo, VVe have Conſultations which of the Inventions and Experiences, <lb/>which we have diſcovered ſhall be publiſhed, and which not; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13128" xml:space="preserve">and take all <lb/>an Oath of Secrecy for the concealing of thoſe which we think meet to keep <lb/>ſecret; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13129" xml:space="preserve">though ſome of thoſe we do reveal ſometime to the State, and <lb/>ſome not.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13130" xml:space="preserve">For our Ordinances and Rites; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13131" xml:space="preserve">we have two very long and fair Gal-<lb/>leries. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13132" xml:space="preserve">In one of theſe we place Patterns and Samples of all manner of the <lb/>more rare and excellent Inventions; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13133" xml:space="preserve">in the other we place the Statues of <lb/>all principal Inventors. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13134" xml:space="preserve">There we have the Statue of your Columbus, that <lb/>diſcovered the Weſt-Indies, alſo the Inventor of Ships; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13135" xml:space="preserve">your Monk that <lb/>was the Inventor of Ordnance, and of Gun-powder; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13136" xml:space="preserve">the Inventor of <lb/>Muſick; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13137" xml:space="preserve">the Inventor of Letters; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13138" xml:space="preserve">the Inventor of Printing; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13139" xml:space="preserve">the Inventor <lb/>of Obſervations of Aſtronomy; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13140" xml:space="preserve">the Inventor of Works in Metal; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13141" xml:space="preserve">the <lb/>Inventor of Glaſs; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13142" xml:space="preserve">the Inventor of Silk of the Worm; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13143" xml:space="preserve">the Inventor of <lb/>Wine; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13144" xml:space="preserve">the Inventor of Corn and Bread; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13145" xml:space="preserve">the Inventor of Sugars: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13146" xml:space="preserve">And <lb/>all theſe by more certain Tradition, then you have. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13147" xml:space="preserve">Then we have divers <lb/>Inventors of our own of excellent Works, which ſince you have not ſeen, <lb/>it were too long to make Deſcriptions of them; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13148" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, in the right <lb/>underſtanding of thoſe Deſcriptïons, you might eaſily err. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13149" xml:space="preserve">For upon every <lb/>Invention of value we erect a Statue to the Inventor, and give him a libe-<lb/>ral and honorable reward. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13150" xml:space="preserve">Theſe Statues are ſome of Braſs, ſome of Marble <lb/>and Touch-ſtone, ſome of Cedar, and other ſpecial Woods gilt and adorn-<lb/>ed, ſome of Iron, ſome of Silver, ſome of Gold.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13151" xml:space="preserve">We have certain Hymns and Services which we ſay daily, of Laud and <lb/>and Thanks to God ſor his marvellous Works; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13152" xml:space="preserve">and Forms of Prayers, im-<lb/>ploring his aid and bleſſing for the Illumination of our Labors, and the <lb/>turning them into good and holy uſes.</s> </p> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13153" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, We have Circuits or Viſits of divers principal Cities of the <lb/>Kingdom, where, as it cometh to paſs, we do publiſh ſuch new profitable <lb/>Inventions, as we think good. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13154" xml:space="preserve">And we do alſo declare Natural Divinati-<lb/>ons of Diſeaſes, Plagues, Swarms of hurtful Creatures, Scarcity, Tempeſt, <lb/>Earc<unsure/>h quakes, great Inundations, Comets, Temperature of the Year, and <lb/>divers other things; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13155" xml:space="preserve">and we give counſel thereupon, what the People ſhall <lb/>do ſor the prevention and remedy of them.</s> </p> <pb o="29" file="0383" n="383" rhead="New Atlantis."/> <p> <s xml:id="echoid-s13156" xml:space="preserve">And when he had ſaid this, he ſtood up: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13157" xml:space="preserve">And I, as I had been taught, <lb/>kneeled down, and he laid his right hand upon my head, and ſaid, God <lb/>bleß thee, my Son, and Ged bleß this Relation which I have made: </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13158" xml:space="preserve">I give thee leave to <lb/>publiſh it for the good of other Nations, for we here are in Gods Boſome, a Land un-<lb/>known. </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13159" xml:space="preserve">And ſo he left me, having aſſigned a value of about Two thouſand <lb/>Ducats for a Bounty to me, and my Fellows; </s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13160" xml:space="preserve">for they give great largeſſes <lb/>where they come upon all occaſions.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13161" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1698" type="section" level="1" n="147"> <head xml:id="echoid-head184" xml:space="preserve">The reſt was not perfected.</head> <figure> <image file="0383-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0383-01"/> </figure> <pb o="30" file="0384" n="384" rhead="New Atlantis."/> <figure> <image file="0384-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0384-01"/> </figure> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1699" type="section" level="1" n="148"> <head xml:id="echoid-head185" xml:space="preserve">Magnalia Naturæ præcipue quoad <lb/>uſus Humanos.</head> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/># {Prolongation of Life. <lb/># Reſtitution of Youth in ſome degree. <lb/>THe # Retardation of Age. <lb/># Curing of Diſeaſes, counted Incurable. <lb/># Mitigation of Pain. <lb/></note> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13162" xml:space="preserve">More eaſie and leß loathſome Purgings.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13163" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/># {increaſing of Strength and Activity. <lb/># increaſing of Ability, to ſuffer Torture or Pain. <lb/>The # altering of Complexions, and Fatneß, and Leanneß. <lb/># altering of Statures. <lb/># altering of Features. <lb/># increaſing and exalting of the Intellectual Parts. <lb/></note> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13164" xml:space="preserve">Verſion of Bodies into other Bodies.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13165" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13166" xml:space="preserve">Making of new Species.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13167" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13168" xml:space="preserve">Tranſplanting of one Species into another.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13169" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13170" xml:space="preserve">Inſtruments of Deſtruction, as of War and Poyſon.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13171" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13172" xml:space="preserve">Exhilaration of the Spirits, and putting them in good diſpo-<lb/>ſition.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13173" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13174" xml:space="preserve">Force of the Imagination, either upon another Body, or upon <lb/>the Body it ſelf.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13175" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <note style="it" position="right" xml:space="preserve"> <lb/># {Time in Maturations. <lb/># Time in Clarifications. <lb/>Acceleration of # Putrefaction. <lb/># Decoction. <lb/># Germination. <lb/></note> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13176" xml:space="preserve">Making rich Compoſts for the Earth.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13177" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <pb o="31" file="0385" n="385" rhead="New Atlantis."/> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13178" xml:space="preserve">Impreßions of the Air, and raiſing of Tempeſts.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13179" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13180" xml:space="preserve">Great alteration, as in Induration, Emollition, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13181" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13182" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13183" xml:space="preserve">Turning Crude and Watry Subſtances into Oyly and Unctu-<lb/>ous Subſtances.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13184" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13185" xml:space="preserve">Drawing of new Foods out of Subſtances not now in uſe.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13186" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13187" xml:space="preserve">Making new Threds for Apparel, and new Stuffs, ſuch as <lb/>are Paper, Glaß, &</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13188" xml:space="preserve">c.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13189" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13190" xml:space="preserve">Natural Divinations.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13191" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13192" xml:space="preserve">Deceptions of the Senſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13193" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13194" xml:space="preserve">Greater Pleaſures of the Senſes.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13195" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> <p style="it"> <s xml:id="echoid-s13196" xml:space="preserve">Artificial Minerals and Cements.</s> <s xml:id="echoid-s13197" xml:space="preserve"/> </p> </div> <div xml:id="echoid-div1700" type="section" level="1" n="149"> <head xml:id="echoid-head186" xml:space="preserve">FINIS.</head> <figure> <image file="0385-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0385-01"/> </figure> <pb file="0386" n="386"/> <handwritten/> <pb file="0387" n="387"/> <pb file="0388" n="388"/> </div></text> </echo>