they have also many wise and excellent law touch marriage they allow no  polygamy they have ordain that none do intermarry or contract until a month be  pass from their first interview marriage without consent of parent they do not  make void but they mulct it in the inheritor for the child of such marriage be  not admit to inherit above a three part of their parent inheritance I have  read in a book of one of your man of a feign commonwealth where the marry  couple be permit before they contract to see one another naked this they  dislike for they think it a scorn to give a refusal after so familiar  knowledge but because of many hide defect in man and woman body they have a  more civil way for they have near every town a couple of pool which they call  Adam and eve pool where it be permit to one of the friend of the man and  another of the friend of the woman to see they several bath naked and as we be  thus in conference there come one that seem to be a messenger in a rich huke  that speak with the Jew whereupon he turn to I and say you will pardon I for I  be command away in haste the next morning he come to I again joyful as it seem  and say there be word come to the governor of the city that one of the father  of Salomon house will be here this day seven night we have see none of they  this dozen year his come be in state but the cause of his come be secret I  will provide you and your fellow of a good stand to see his entry I thank he  and tell he I be most glad of the news the day be come he make his entry he be  a man of middle stature and age comely of person and have a aspect as if he  pity man he be cloth in a robe of fine black cloth with wide sleeve and a cape  his under garment be of excellent white linen down to the foot gird with a  girdle of the same and a sindon or tippet of the same about his neck he have  glove that be curious  and set with stone and shoe of peach colour velvet his  neck be bear to the shoulder his hat be like a helmet or Spanish montera and  his lock curl below it decent they be of colour brown his beard be cut round  and of the same colour with his hair somewhat light he be carry in a rich  chariot without wheel litter wise with two horse at either end rich trap in  blue velvet embroider and two footman on each side in the like attire the  chariot be all of cedar gild and adorn with crystal save that the fore-end  have panel of sapphire set in border of gold and the hinder-end the like of  emerald of the Peru colour there be also a sun of gold radiant upon the top in  the amid and on the top before a small cherub of gold with wing display the  chariot be cover with cloth of gold tissue upon blue he have before he fifty  attendant young man all in white satin lose coat to the mid leg and stocking  of white silk and shoe of blue velvet and hat of blue velvet with fine plume  of diverse colour set round like hatband next before the chariot go two man  bear head in linen garment down the foot gird and shoe of blue velvet who  carry the one a crosier the other a pastoral staff like a sheep hook neither  of they of metal but the crosier of balm wood the pastoral staff of cedar  horseman he have none neither before nor behind his chariot as it seem to  avoid all tumult and trouble behind his chariot go all the officer and  principal of the company of the city he sit alone upon cushion of a kind of  excellent plush blue and under his foot curious carpet of silk of diverse  colour like the Persian but far fine he hold up his bear hand as he go as  blessing the people but in silence the street be wonder well keep so that  there be never any army have their man stand in better battle array than the  people stand the window likewise be not crowd but every one stand in they as  if they have be place when the show be pass the Jew say to I I shall not be  able to attend you as I will in regard of some charge the city have lie upon I  for the entertain of this great person three day after the Jew come to I again  and say you be happy man for the father of Salomon house take knowledge of  your be here and command I to tell you that he will admit all your company to  his presence and have private conference with one of you that you shall choose  and for this have appoint the next day after tomorrow and because he mean to  give you his blessing he have appoint it in the forenoon we come at our day  and hour and I be choose by my fellow for the private access we find he in a  fair chamber rich hang and carpet under foot without any degree to the state  he be set upon a low throne rich adorn and a rich cloth of state over his head  of blue satin embroider he be alone save that he have two page of honour on  either hand one fine attire in white his under garment be the like that we see  he wear in the chariot but instead of his gown he have on he a mantle with a  cape of the same fine black fasten about he when we come in as we be teach we  bow low at our first entrance and when we be come near his chair he stand up  hold forth his hand ungloved and in posture of blessing and we every one of we  stoop down and kiss the hem of his tippet that do the rest depart and I remain  then he warn the page forth of the room and cause I to sit down beside he and  speak to I thus in the Spanish tongue God bless thou my son I will give thou  the great jewel I have for I will impart unto thou for the love of God and man  a relation of the true state of Salomon house son to make you know the true  state of Salomon house I will keep this order first I will set forth unto you  the end of our foundation second the preparation and instrument we have for  our work three the several employment and function whereto our fellow be  assign and fourthly the ordinance and rite which we observe the end of our  foundation be the knowledge of cause and secret motion of thing and the  enlarge of the bind of human empire to the effect of all thing possible the  preparation and instrument be these we have large and deep cave of several  depth the deep be sink six hundred fathom and some of they be dig and make  under great hill and mountain so that if you reckon together the depth of the  hill and the depth of the cave they be some of they above three mile deep for  we find that the depth of a hill and the depth of a cave from the flat be the  same thing both remote alike from the sun and heaven beam and from the open  air these cave we call the low region and we use they for all coagulations  indurations refrigerations and conservations of body we use they likewise for  the imitation of natural i and the produce also of new artificial metal by  composition and material which we use and lie there for many year we use they  also sometime which may seem strange for cure of some disease and for  prolongation of life in some hermit that choose to live there well accommodate  of all thing necessary and indeed live very long by who also we learn many  thing we have burial in several earth where we put diverse cement as the  chinese do their porcellain but we have they in great variety and some of they  more fine we have also great variety of compost and soil for the make of the  earth fruitful we have high tower the high about half a mile in height and  some of they likewise set upon high mountain so that the vantage of the hill  with the tower be in the high of they three mile at least and these place we  call the Upper region account the air between the high place and the low as a  middle region we use these tower accord to their several height and situation  for insolation refrigeration conservation and for the view of diverse meteor  as wind rain snow hail and some of the fiery meteor also and upon they in some  place be dwell of hermit who we visit sometime and instruct what to observe we  have great lake both salt and fresh whereof we have use for the fish and fowl  we use they also for burial of some natural body for we find a difference in  thing bury in earth or in air below the earth and thing bury in water we have  also pool of which some do strain fresh water out of salt and other by be do  turn fresh water into salt we have also some rock in the amid of the sea and  some bay upon the shore for some work wherein be require the air and vapour of  the sea we have likewise violent stream and cataract which serve we for many  motion and likewise engine for multiply and enforce of wind to set also on go  diverse motion we have also a number of artificial well and fountain make in  imitation of the natural source and bath as tincted upon vitriol sulphur steel  brass lead nitre and other mineral and again we have little well for infusion  of many thing where the water take the virtue quick and better than in vessel  or basin and among they we have a water which we call water of paradise be by  that we do to it make very sovereign for health and prolongation of life we  have also great and spacious house where we imitate and demonstrate meteor as  snow hail rain some artificial rain of body and not of water thunder lightning  also generation of body in air as frog fly and diverse other we have also  certain chamber which we call chamber of health where we qualify the air as we  think good and proper for the cure of diverse disease and preservation of  health we have also fair and large bath of several mixture for the cure of  disease and the restore of man body from arefaction and other for the confirm  of it in strength of sinew vital part and the very juice and substance of the  body we have also large and various orchard and garden wherein we do not so  much respect beauty as variety of ground and soil proper for diverse tree and  herb and some very spacious where tree and very be set whereof we make diverse  kind of drink beside the vineyard in these we practice likewise all conclusion  of graft and inoculate as well of wild tree as fruit tree which produce many  effect and we make by be in the same orchard and garden tree and flower to  come early or late than their season and to come up and bear more speedy than  by their natural course they do we make they also by be great much than their  nature and their fruit great and sweet and of differ taste smell colour and  figure from their nature and many of they we so order as they become of  medicinal use we have also mean to make diverse plant rise by mixture of earth  without seed and likewise to make diverse new plant differ from the vulgar and  to make one tree or plant turn into another we have also park and enclosure of  all sort of beast and bird which we use not only for view or rareness but  likewise for dissection and trial that thereby we may take light what may be  wrought upon the body of man wherein we find many strange effect as continue  life in they though diverse part which you account vital be perish and take  forth resuscitate of some that seem dead in appearance and the like we try  also all poison and other medicine upon they as well of chirurgery as physic  by be likewise we make they great or tall than their kind be and contrariwise  dwarf they and stay their growth we make they more fruitful and bear than  their kind be and contrariwise barren and not generative also we make they  differ in colour shape activity many way we find mean to make commixture and  copulation of different kind which have produce many new kind and they not  barren as the general opinion be we make a number of kind of serpent worm fly  fish of putrefaction whereof some be advance in effect to be perfect creature  like best or bird and have sex and do propagate neither do we this by chance  but we know beforehand of what matter and commixture what kind of those  creature will arise we have also particular pool where we make trial upon fish  as we have say before of beast and bird we have also place for breed and  generation of those kind of worm and fly which be of special use such as be  with you your silk worm and be I will not hold you long with recount of our  brewhouse bake house and kitchen where be make diverse drink breed and meat  rare and of special effect wine we have of grape and drink of other juice of  fruit of grain and of root and of mixture with honey sugar manna and fruit dry  and decoct also of the tear or wound of tree and of the pulp of cane and these  drink be of several age some to the age or last of forty year we have drink  also brew with several herb and root and spice yea with several flesh and  white meat whereof some of the drink be such as they be in effect meat and  drink both so that diverse especial in age do desire to live with they with  little or no meat or breed and above all we strive to have drink of extreme  thin part to insinuate into the body and yet without all bite sharpness or  fret insomuch as some of they put upon the back of your hand will with a  little stay pass through to the palm and yet taste mild to the mouth we have  also water which we ripen in that fashion as they become nourish so that they  be indeed excellent drink and many will use no other Breads we have of several  grain root and kernel yea and some of flesh and fish dry with diverse kind of  leaven and season so that some do extreme move appetite some do nourish so as  diverse do live of they without any other meat who live very long so for meat  we have some of they so Beatrice and make tender and mortify yet without all  corrupt as a weak heat of the stomach will turn they into good  extracted juice  as well as a strong heat will meat otherwise prepare we have  some meat also and breed and drink which take by man enable they to fast long  after and some other that use make the very flesh of man body sensibly more  hard and tough and their strength far great than otherwise it will be we have  dispensatories or shop of medicine wherein you may easy think if we have such  variety of plant and live creature more than you have in Europe for we know  what you have the simples drug and ingredient of medicine must likewise be in  so much the great variety we have they likewise of diverse age and long  fermentation and for their preparation we have not only all manner of  exquisite distillation and separation and especial by gentle heat and  a straining through through diverse strainer yea and substance but also exact  from of composition whereby they incorporate almost as they be natural simples  we have also diverse mechanical be which you have not and stuff make by they  as paper linen silk tissue dainty work of feather of wonder lustre excellent  die and many other and shop likewise as well for such as be not bring into  vulgar use among we as for those that be for you must know that of the thing  before recite many of they be grow into use throughout the kingdom but yet if  they do flow from our invention we have of they also for pattern and principal  we have also furnace of great diversity and that keep great diversity of heat  fierce and quick strong and constant soft and mild blow quiet dry moist and  the like but above all we have heat in imitation of the sun and heavenly  bodies heat that pass diverse inequality and as it be orb progress and return  whereby we produce admirable effect beside we have heat of dung and of belly  and maw of live creature and of their blood and body and of hays and herb lie  up moist of lime unquenched and such like instrument also which generate heat  only by motion and far place for strong insulations and again place under the  earth which by nature or be yield heat these diverse heat we use as the nature  of the operation which we intend require we have also perspective house where  we make demonstration of all light and radiation and of all colour and out of  thing uncoloured and transparent we can represent unto you all several colour  not in rain bow as it be in gem and prism but of themselves single we  represent also all multiplication of light which we carry to great distance  and make so sharp as to discern small point and line also all colourations of  light all delusion and deceit of the sight in figure magnitude motion colour  all demonstration of shadow we find also diverse mean yet unknown to you of  produce of light original from diverse body we procure mean of see object afar  off as in the heaven and remote place and represent thing near as afar off and  thing afar off as near make feign distance we have also help for the sight far  above spectacle and glass in use we have also glass and mean to see small and  minute body perfect and distinct as the shape and colour of small fly and worm  grain and flaw in gem which can otherwise be see observation in urine and  blood not otherwise to be see we make artificial rain bow halo's and circle  about light we represent also all manner of reflection refraction and  multiplication of visual beam of object we have also precious stone of all  kind many of they of great beauty and to you unknown crystal likewise and  glass of diverse kind and among they some of metal vitrificated and other  material beside those of which you make glass also a number of fossil and  imperfect mineral which you have not likewise loadstone of prodigious virtue  and other rare stone both natural and artificial we have also sound house  where we practice and demonstrate all sound and their generation we have  harmony which you have not of quarter sound and lesser slide of sound diverse  instrument of music likewise to you unknown some sweet than any you have  together with bell and ring that be dainty and sweet we represent small sound  as great and deep likewise great sound extenuate and sharp we make diverse  tremble and warble of sound which in their original be entire we represent and  imitate all articulate sound and letter and the voice and note of beast and  bird we have certain help which set to the ear do further the hear great we  have also diverse strange and artificial echo reflect the voice many time and  as it be toss it and some that give back the voice loud than it come some  shrill and some deep yea some render the voice differ in the letter or  articulate sound from that they receive we have also mean to convey sound in  trunk and pipe in strange line and distance