natural history century there be mineral and Fossiles in great variety but of  vein of earth medicinal but few the chief be land of Lemnos land sigillata  common and bolus Arminus whereof land of Lemnos be the chief the virtue of  they be for cure of wound staunch of blood stop of flaxes and rheum and arrest  the spread of poison infection and putrefaction and they have of all other  simples the perfect and pure quality of dry with little or no mixture of any  other quality yet it be true that the bowl Arminicke be the most cold of they  and that land of Lemnos be the most hot for which Cause the island Lemnos  where it be dig be in the old fabulous age consecrate to Vulcan about the  bottom of the straight be gather great quantity of sponge which be gather from  the side of rock be as it be a large but tough moss it be the more to be note  because that there be but few substance plant like that grow deep within the  sea for they be gather sometime fifteen fathom deep and when they be lie on  shore they seem to be of great bulk but crush together will be transport in a  very small room it seem that fish that be use to the salt water do  nevertheless delight more in fresh we see that salmon and smell love to get  into river though it be against the stream at the haven of Constantinople you  shall have great quantity of fish that come from the Euxine-Sea that when they  come into the fresh water do inebriate and turn up their belly so as you may  take they with your hand I doubt there have not be sufficient experiment make  of put sea-fish into fresh water pond and pool it be a thing of great use and  pleasure for so you may have they new at some good distance from the sea and  beside it may be the fish will eat the pleasant and may fall to breed and it  be say that Colchester oyster which be put into pit where the sea go and come  but yet so that there be a fresh water come also to they when the sea void  become by that mean fat and more grow the Turkish-Bow give a very forcible  shoot insomuch as it have be know that the arrow have pierce a Stecle target  or a piece of brass of two inch thick but that which be more strange the arrow  if it be head with wood have be know to pierce through a piece of wood of  eight inch thick and it be certain that we have in use at one time for  sea-fight short arrow which they call spirit without any other head save wood  sharpen which be discharge out of musket and will pierce through the side of  ship where a bullet will not pierce but this depend upon one of the great  secret in all nature which be that similitude of substance will cause  attraction where the body be whole free from the motion of gravity for if that  be take away lead will draw lead and gold will draw gold and iron will draw  iron without the help of the load stone but this same motion of weight or  gravity which be a mere motion of the matter and have no affinity with the  from or kind do kill the other motion except it self be kill by a violent  motion as in these instance of arrow for then the motion of attraction by  similitude of substance begin to show it self but we shall handle this point  of nature full in due place they have in Turkey and the east certain  confection which they call Seruetts which be like to candy conserves and be  make of sugar and lemon or sugar and citron or sugar and violet and some other  flower and some mixture of amber for the more delicate person and those they  dissolve in water and thereof make their drink because they be forbid wine by  their law but I do much marvel that no Englishman or Dutehman or germane do  set up brew in Constantinople consider they have such quantity of barley for  as so the general sort of man frugality may be the Cause of drink water for  that it be no small save to pay nothing for one drink but the better sort may  well be at the cost and yet I wonder the less at it because I see France Italy  or Spain have not take into use beer or ale which perhaps if they do will  better both their health and their complexion it be likely it will be matter  of great gain to any that shall begin it in Turkey in bath in hot water sweat  nevertheless come not in the part under the water the Cause be first for that  sweat be a kind of colliquation and that kind of colliquation be not make  either by a over dry heat or a over moist heat for over moisture do somewhat  extinguish the heat as we see that even hot water quench fire and over dry  heat shut the poor and therefore man will soon sweat cover before the sun or  fire than if they stand naked and earthen bottle fill with hot water do  provoke in bed a sweat more dainty than Bricke bat hot second hot water do  cause evaporation from the skin so as it spend the matter in those part under  the water before it issue in sweat again sweat come more plentiful if the heat  be increase by degree than if it be great at first or equal the Cause be for  that the poor be better open by a gentle heat than by a more violent and by  their open the sweat issue more abundant and therefore physician may do well  when they provoke sweat in bed by bottle with a decoction of Sudorisicke herb  in hot water to make two degree of heat in the bottle and to lie in the bed  the less heat first and after half a hour the more heat sweat be salt in taste  the Cause be for that that part of the nourishment which be fresh and sweet  turn into blood and flesh and the sweat be only that part which be separate  and excern blood also raw have some saltness more than flesh because the  assimilation into flesh be not without a little and subtle excretion from the  blood sweat come forth more out of the Upper part of the body than the low the  reason be because those part be more replenish with spirit and the spirit be  they that put forth sweat beside they be less fleshy and sweat issue chief out  of the part that be less fleshy and more dry as the forehead and breast man  sweat more in sleep than wake and yet sleep do rather stay other fluxion than  cause they as rheum looseness of the body c the Cause be for that in sleep the  heat and spirit do natural move inward and there rest but when they be collect  once within the heat become more violent and irritate and thereby expel sweat  cold sweat be many time mortal and near death and always ill and suspect as in  great fear Hypochondricall passion c the Cause be for that cold sweat come by  a relaxation or forsake of the spirit whereby the moisture of the body which  heat do keep firm in the part sever and issue out in those disease which can  be discharge by sweat sweat be ill and rather to be stay as in disease of the  lung and flux of the belly but in those disease which be expel by sweat it  ease and lighten as in ague pestilence c the Cause be for that sweat in the  latter sort be partly critical and send forth the matter that offend but in  the former it either proceed from the labour of the spirit which show they  oppress or from motion of consent when nature not able to expel the disease  where it be seat move to a expulsion indifferent over all the body the nature  of the Glo-wormexs be hitherto not well observe thus much we see that they  breed chief in the hot month of summer and that they breed not in champagne  but in bush and hedge whereby it may be conceive that the spirit of they be  very fine and not to be refine but by summer heat and again that by reason of  the fineness it do easy exhale in Italy and the hot country there be a fly  they call Lucciole that shine as the glow worm do and it may be be the fly  glow worm but that fly be chief upon fen and Marrishes but yet the two former  observation hold for they be not see but in the heat of summer and sedge or  other green of the fen give as good shade as bush it may be the glow-worm of  the cold country ripen not so far as to be wing the passion of the mind work  upon the body the impression follow fear cause paleness tremble the stand of  the hair upright start and scritching the paleness be cause for that the blood  run inward to succour the heart the tremble be cause for that through the  flight of the spirit inward the outward part be destituted and not sustain  stand upright of the hair be cause for that by the shut of the poor of the  skin the hair that lie asloape must needs rise start be both a apprehension of  the thing fear and in that kind it be a motion of shrink and likewise a  inquisition in the beginning what the matter shall be and in that kind it be a  motion of erection and therefore when a man will listen sudden to any thing he  start for the start be a erection of the spirit to attend scritching be a  appetite of expel that which sudden strike the spirit for it must be note that  many motion though they be unprofitable to expel that which hurt yet they be  offer of nature and cause motion by consent as in groan or cry upon pain grief  and pain cause sigh sob groan scream and roar tear distort of the face grind  of the tooth sweat sigh be cause by the draw in of a great quantity of breath  to refresh the heart that labour like a great draught when one be thirsty sob  be the same thing strong groan and scream and roar be cause by a appetite of  expulsion as have be say for when the spirit can expel the thing that hurt in  their strife to do it by motion of consent they expel the voice and this be  when the spirit yield and give over to resist for if one do constant resist  pain he will not groan tear be cause by a contraction of the spirit of the  brain which contraction by consequence astringe the moisture of the brain and  thereby send tear into the eye and this contraction or compression cause also  wring of the hand for wring be a gesture of expression of moisture the distort  of the face be cause by a contention first to bear and resist and then to  expel which make the part knit first and afterward open grind of the tooth be  cause likewise by a gather and serring of the spirit together to resist which  make the tooth also to set hard one against another sweat be also a compound  motion by the labour of the spirit first to resist and then to expel joy cause  a cheerfulness and vigour in the eye sing leap dance and sometime tear all  these be the effect of the dilatation and come forth of the spirit into the  outward part which make they more linely and stir we know it have be see that  excessive sudden joy have cause present death while the spirit do spread so  much as they can not retire again as for tear they be the effect of  compression of the moisture of the brain upon dilatation of the spirit for  compression of the spirit work a expression of the moisture of the brain by  consent as have be say in grief but then in joy it work it diverse videlicet  by Prepulsion of the moisture when the spirit dilate and occupy more room  anger cause paleness in some and the go and come of the colour in other also  tremble in some swell foam at the month stamp bend of the fist paleness and go  and come of the colour be cause by the burn of the spirit about the heart  which to refresh themselves call in more spirit from the outward part and if  the paleness be alone without send forth the colour again it be common join  with some fear but in many there be no paleness at all but contrariwise  redness about the cheek and gills which be by the send forsh of the spirit in  a appetite to revenge tremble in anger be likewise by a call in of the spirit  and be common when anger be join with fear swell be cause both by a dilatation  of the spirit by over heat and by a liquefaction or boil of the humour  thereupon foam at the mouth be from the same Cause be a ebullition stamp and  bend of the fist be cause by a imagination of the Act of revenge light  displeasure or dislike cause shake of the head frown and knit of the bes these  effect arise from the same cause that tremble and horror do namely from the  retire of the spirit but in a less degree for the shake of the head be but a  slow and definite tremble and be a gesture of slight refusal and we see also  that a dislike cause often that gesture of the hand which we use when we  refuse a thing or warn it away the frown and knit of the brow be a gather or  serring of the spirit to resist in some measure and we see also this knit of  the brow will follow upon earnest study or cogitation of any thing though it  be without dislike shame cause blush and cast down of the eye blush be the  resort of blood to the face which in the passion of shame be the part that  labour most and although the blush will be see in the whole breast if it be  naked yet that be but in passage to the face as for the cast down of the eye  it proceed of the reverence a man bear to other man whereby when he be ashamed  he can endure to look firm upon other and we see that blush and the cast down  of the eye both be more when we come before many over Pompeii quid calmly  never non in person more to grow red and likewise when we come before great or  reverend person pity cause sometime tear and a flexion or cast of the eye  aside tear come from the same Cause that they do in grief for pity be but  grief in another behalf the cast of the eye be a gesture of aversion or  loathness to behold the object of pity wonder cause astonishment or a  immovable posture of the body cast up of the eye to heaven and lift up of the  hand for astonishment it be cause by the fix of the mind upon one object of  cogitation whereby it do not spatiate and to run over as it use for in wonder  the spirit fly not as in fear but only settle and be make less apt to move as  for the cast up of the eye and lift up of the hand it be a kind of appeal to  the deity which be the author by power and providence of strange wonder laugh  cause a dilatation of the mouth and lip a continue expulsion of the breath  with the loud noise which make the interjection of laugh shake of the breast  and side run of the eye with water if it be violent and continue wherein first  it be to be understand that laugh be scarce proper a passion but have his  source from the intellect for in laugh there ever precede a conceit of  somewhat ridiculous and therefore it be proper to man second that the Cause of  laugh be but a light touch of the spirit and not so deep a impression as in  other passion and therefore that which have no affinity with the passion of  the mind it be move and that in great vehemency only by tickle some part of  the body and we see that man even in a grieve state of mind yet can sometime  forbear laugh three it be ever join with some degree of delight and therefore  exhilaration have some affinity with joy though it be a much light motion res  seneraest yes Gandium fourthly that the object of it be deformity absurdity  shrew turn and the like now to speak of the cause of the effect before mention  whereunto these general note give some light for the dilatation of the mouth  and lip continue expulsion of the breath and voice and shake of the breast and  side they proceed all from the dilatation of the spirit especial be sudden so  likewise the run of the eye with water as have be former touch where we speak  of the tear of joy and grief be a effect of dilatation of the spirit and for  suddenness it be a great part of the matter for we see that any shrew turn  that light upon another or any deformity c move laughter in the instant which  after a little time it do not so we can laugh at any thing after it be stale  but while it be new and even in tickle if you tickle the side and give warning  or give a hard or continue touch it do not move laughter so much lust cause a  flagrancy in the eye and priapism the Cause of both these be for that in lust  the sight and the touch be the thing desire and therefore the spirit resort to  those part which be most affect and note well in general for that great use  may be make of the observation that evermore the spirit in all passion resort  most to the part that labour most or be most affect as in the last which have  be mention they resort to the eye and venereous part in fear and anger to the  heart in shame to the face and in light dislike to the head it have be observe  by the ancient and be yet believe that the sperm of Drunken man be unfruitful  the Cause be for that it be over moisten and want spissitude and we have a  merry say that they that go drink to bed get daughter Drunken man be take with  a plain defect or destitution in voluntary motion they ele they tremble they  can stand nor speak strong the be for that the spirit of the wine oppress the  spirit animal and pate part of the place where they be and so make they weak  to move and therefore Drunken man be apt to fall asleep and opiate and  Stupefactines as poppy henbane hemlock c induce a kind of drunkenness by the  grossness of their vapour as wine do by the quantity of the vapour beside they  rob the spirit animal of their matter whereby they be nourish for the spirit  of the wine prey upon it as well as they and so they make the spirit less  supple and apt to move Drunken man imagine every thing turn round they imagine  also that thing come upon they they see not well thing a far off those thing  that they see near hand they see out of their place and sometime they see  thing double the Cause of the imagination that thing turn round be for that  the spirit themselves turn be compress by the vapour of the wine for any  liquid body upon compression turn as we see in water and it be all one to the  sight whether the visual spirit move or the object move or the medium move and  we see that long turn round breed the same imagination the Cause of the  imagination that thing come upon they be for that the spirit visual themselves  draw back which make the object seem to come on and beside when they see thing  turn round and move fear make they think they come upon they the Cause that  they can see thing a far off be the weakness of the spirit for in every megrim  or Vertige there be a obtenebration join with a semblance of turn round which  we see also in the light sort of Swonnings the Cause of see thing out of their  place be the refraction of the spirit visual for the vapour be as a unequal  medium and it be as the sight of thing out of place in water the Cause of see  thing double be the swift and unquiet motion of the spirit be oppress to and  from for as be say before the motion of the spirit visual and the motion of  the object make the same appearance and for the swift motion of the object we  see that if you fillip a lute string it show double or Triple man be soon  drink with small draught than with great and again wine sugar inebriate less  than wine pure the Cause of the former be for that the wine descend not so  fast to the bottom of the stomach but make long stay in the Upper part of the  stomach and send vapour fast to the head and therefore inebriate soon and for  the same reason sop in wine quantity for quantity inebriate more than wine of  it self the Cause of the latter be for that the sugar do inspissate the spirit  of the wine and make they not so easy to resolve into vapour nay further it be  think to be some remedy against inebriate if wine sugar be take after wine  pure and the same effect be wrought either by oil or milk take upon much drink  the use of wine in dry and consume body be hurtful in moist and full body it  be good the Cause be for that the spirit of the wine do prey upon the due or  radical moisture as they term it of the body and so deceive the animal spirit  but where there be moisture enough or superfluous there wine help to digest  and desiccate the moisture the Catterpiller be one of the most general of worm  and breed of due and leave for we see infinite number of caterpillar which  breed upon tree and hedge by which the leave of the tree or hedge be in great  part consume as well by their breed out of the leaf as by their feed upon the  leaf they breed in the spring chief because then there be both due and leaf  and they breed common when the east wind have much blow the Cause whereof be  the dryness of that wind for to all vivification upon putrefaction it be  requisite the matter be not too moist and therefore we see they have cobweb  about they which be a sign of a slimy dryness as we see upon the ground  whereupon by due and sun cobweb breed all over we see also the green  Catterpiller breed in the inward part of rise especial not blow where the due  stick but especial caterpillar both the great and the most breed upon cabbage  which have a fat leaf and apt to putrify the Catterpiller towards the end of  summer wax volatile and turn to a butterfly or perhaps some other fly there be  a Catterpiller that have a fur or down upon he and seem to have affinity with  the silk worm the fly cantharides be breed of a worm or Catterpiller but  peculiar to certain fruit tree as be the figtree the pine tree and the wild  Briar all which bear sweet fruit and fruit that have a kind of secret bite or  sharpness for the fig have a milk in it that be sweet and corrosive the pine  apple have a kernel that be strong and Absterside the fruit of the Briar be  say to make child or those that eat they scab and therefore no marvel though  cantharides have such a corrosive and cauterize quality for there be not any  other of the insecta but be breed of a dull matter the body of the cantharides  be bright colour and it may be that the delicate colour dragon fly may have  likewise some corrosive quality lassitude be remedy by bath or anoint with oil  and warm water the Cause be for that all lassitude be a kind of contusion and  compression of the part and bath and anoint give a relaxation or emollition  and the mixture of oil and water be better than either of they alone because  water enter better into the poor and oil after entry soften better it be find  also that the take of tobacco do help and discharge lassitude the reason  whereof be partly because by cheer or comfort of the spirit it open the part  compress or contuse and chief because it refresh the spirit by the opiate  virtue thereof and so discharge weariness as sleep likewise do in go up a hill  the knee will be most weary in go down a hill the thigh the Cause be for that  in the lift of the foot when a man Goeth up the hill the weight of the body  bear most upon the knee and in go down the hill upon the thigh the cast of the  skin be by the ancient compare to the break of the secundine or call but not  right for that be to make every cast of the skin a new birth and beside the  secundine be but a general cover not shape accord to the part but the skin be  shape accord to the part the creature that cast their skin be the snake the  viper the grasshopper the lizard the silk worm c those that cast their shell  be the lobster the crab the crayfish the hodmandod or deadman the tortoise c  the old skin be find but the old shell never so as it be like they scale off  and crumble away by degree and they be know by the extreme tenderness and  softness of the new shell and somewhat by the freshness of the colour of it  the Cause of the cast of skin and shell shall seem to be the great quantity of  matter in those creature that be fit to make skin or shell and again the  looseness of the skin or shell that stick not close to the flesh for it be  certain that it be the new skin or shell that put off the old so we see that  in deer it be the young horn that put off the old and in bird the young  feather put off the old and so bird that have much matter for their beak cast  their beak the new beak put off the old lie not erect but hollow which be in  the make of the bed or with the leg gather up which be in the posture of the  body be the more wholesome the reason be the better comfort of the stomach  which be by that less pensile and we see that in weak stomach the lie up of  the leg high and the knee almost to the mouth help and comfort we see also  that galley slave notwithstanding their misery otherwise be common fat and  fleshy and the reason be because the stomach be support somewhat in sit and be  pensile in stand or go and therefore for prolongation of life it be good to  choose those exercise where the limb move more than the stomach and belly as  in row and in see be set migraine and giddiness be rather when we rise after  long sit than while we sit the Cause be for that the vapour which be gather by  sit by the sudden motion fly more up into the head lean long upon any part  make it numb and as we call it asleep the Cause be for that the compression of  the part suffer not the spirit to have free access and therefore when we come  out of it we feel a sting or king which be the re-entrance of the spirit it  have be note that those year be pestilential and unwholesome when there be  great number of frog fly locust c the Cause be plain for that those creature  be engender of putrefaction when they abound show a general disposition of the  year and constitution of the air to disease of putrefaction and the same  Prognesticke as have be say before hold if you find worm in OakeApples for the  constitution of the air appear more subtle in any of these thing than to the  sense of man it be a observation among country people that year of store of  haw and Heps do common portend cold winter and they ascribe it to God  providence that as the scripture say reach even to the fall of a sparrow and  much more be like to reach to the preservation of bird in such season the  natural Cause also may be the want of heat and abundance of moisture in the  summer precedent which put forth those fruit and must needs leave great  quantity of cold vapour not dissipate which cause the cold of the winter  follow they have in Turkey a drink call coffa make of a very of the same name  as black as soot and of a strong send but not aromatical which they take  Beatrice into powder in water as hot as they can drink it and they take it and  sit at it in their coffa house which be like our tavern this drink comfort the  brain and heart and help digestion certain this very coffa the root and leaf  Betel the leaf tobacco and the tear of poppy opium of which the turk be great  taker suppose it expel all fear do all condense the spirit and make they  strong and alleger but it seem they be take after several manner for coffa and  opium be take down tobacco but in smoke and Betel be but champ in the mouth  with a little lime it be like there be more of they if they be well find out  and well correct quare of henbane seed of mandrake of saffron root and flower  of folium ivory of amber grice of the Assyrian amomum if it may be have and of  the scarlet powder which they call Kermez and general of all such thing as do  inebriate and provoke sleep note that tobacco be not take in root or seed  which be more forcible ever than leave the turk have a black powder make of a  mineral call alcohol which with a fine long pencil they lie under their eyelid  which do colour they black whereby the white of the eye be set off more white  with the same powder they colour also the hair of their eyelid and of their  eyebrow which they draw into embow arch you shall find that Xenophon make  mention that the I use to paint their eye the turk use with the same tincture  to colour the hair of their head and beard black and diverse with we that be  grow grey and yet will appear young find mean to make their hair black by comb  it as they say with a leaden comb or the like as for the chinese who be of a  ill complexion be Oliuaster they paint their cheek scarlet especial their king  and loudly general barbarous people that go naked do not only paint themselves  but they pownce and raze their skin that the paint may not be take forth and  make it into work so do the west Indian and so do the ancient picts and briton  so that it seem man will have the colour of bird feather if they can tell how  or at least they will have gay skin instead of gay clothes it be strange that  the use of bath as a part of diet be leave with the Roman and grease it be as  usual as eat or sleep and so be it among the turk at this day whereas with we  it remain but as a part of physic I be of opinion that the use of it as it be  with the Roman be hurtful to health for that it make the body soft and easy to  waste for the turk it be more proper because that their drink water and feed  upon rise and other food of small nourishment make their body so solid and  hard as you needs not fear that bath shall make they frothy beside the turk be  great sitter and seldom walk whereby they sweat less and needs bath more but  yet certain it be that bath and especial anoint may be so use as it may be a  great help to health and prolongation of life but hereof we shall speak in due  place when we come to handle experiment medicinal the turk have a pretty be of  Chamoletting of paper which be not with we in use they take diverse oil colour  and put they several in drop upon water and stir the water light and then wet  their paper be of some thickness with it and the paper will be wave and vein  like Chamolet or marble it be somewhat strange that the blood of all bird and  beast and fish shall be of a read colour and only the blood of the cuttle  shall be as black as ink a man will think that the Cause shall be the high  concoction of that blood for we see in ordinary pudding that the boil turn the  blood to be black and the cuttle be account a delicate meat and be much in  request it be report of credit that if you take earth from land adjoin to the  river of Nile and preserve it in that manner that it neither come to be Wet  nor waste and weigh it daily it will not alter weight until the seventeenth of  June which be the day when the river begin to rise and then it will grow more  and more ponderous till the river come to his height which if it be true it  can be cause but by the air which then begin to condense and so turn within  that small mould into a degree of moisture which produce weight so it have be  observe that tobacco cut and weigh and then dry by the fire lose weight and  after be lie in the open air recover weight again and it shall seem that as  soon as ever the river begin to increase the whole body of the air thereabouts  suffer a change for that which be more strange it be credible affirm that upon  that very day when the river first rise great plague in Cairo use sudden to  break up those that be very cold and especial in their foot can get to sleep  the Cause may be for that in sleep be require a free respiration which cold do  shut in and hinder for we see that in great cold one can scarce draw his  breath another Cause may be for that cold call the spirit to succour and  therefore they can so well close and go together in the head which be ever  requisite to sleep and for the same Cause pain and noise hinder sleep and  darkness contrariwise further sleep some noise whereof we speak in the  experiment help sleep as the blow of the wind the trickle of water humh of be  soft sing read c the Cause be for that they move in the spirit a gentle  attention and whatsoever move attention without too much labour still the  natural and discursive motion of the spirit sleep nourish or at least preserve  body a long time without other nourishment beast that sleep in winter as it be  note of wild bear during their sleep wax very fat though they eat nothing bat  have be find in oven and other hollow close place mat one upon another and  therefore it be likely that they sleep in the winter time and eat nothing  quare whether be do not sleep all winter and spare their honey butterfly and  other fly do not only sleep but lie as dead all winter and yet with a little  heat of sun or fire reuine again a Dormonse both winter and summer will sleep  some dayes together and eat nothing to restore tooth in age be magnale nature  it may be think of but howsoever the nature of the tooth deserve to be inquire  of as well as the other part of live creature body there be five part in the  body of live creature that be of hard substance the skull the tooth the bone  the horn and the nail the great quantity of hard substance continue be towards  the head for there be the skull of one entire bone there be the tooth there be  the maxillary bone there be the hard bone that be the instrument of hear and  thence issue the horn so that the building of live creature body be like the  building of a timber house where the wall and other part have column and beam  but the roof be in the better sort of house all tile or lead or stone as for  bird they have three other hard substance proper to they the bill which be of  like matter with the tooth for no bird have tooth the shell of the egg and  their quill for as for their spur it be but a nail but no live creature that  have shell very hard as oyster cockle Mussles scallop crab lobster Cra-fish  shrimp and especial the tortoise have bone within they but only little gristle  bone after full growth continue at a stay and so do the skull horn in some  creature be cast and renew tooth stand at a stay except their wear as for nail  they grow continual and bill and beak will over grow and sometime be cast as  in eagle and parrot most of the hard substance fly to the extreme of the body  as skull horn tooth nail and beak only the bone be more inward and clad with  flesh as for the entrail they be all without bone save that a bone be sometime  find in the heart of a Stag and it may be in some other creature the skull  have brain as a kind of marrow within it the back bone have one kind of marrow  which have a affinity with the brain and other bone of the body have another  the jawbone have no marrow sever but a little pulp of marrow diffuse tooth  likewise be think to have a kind of marrow diffuse which cause the sense and  pain but it be rather Sinnew for marrow have no sense no more than blood horn  be alike throughout and so be the nail none other of the hard substance have  sense but the tooth and the tooth have sense not only of pain but of cold but  we will leave the inquiry of other hard substance unto their several place and  now inquire only of the tooth the tooth be in man of three kind sharp as the  before tooth broad as the back tooth which we call the molar tooth or grinder  and point tooth or canine which be between both but there have be some man  that have have their tooth undivided as of one whole bone with some little  mark in the place of the division as Pyrrhus have some creature have over long  or outgrowing tooth which we call fang or tusk as boar pike salmon and dog  though less some live creature have tooth against tooth as man and horse and  some have tooth especial their master tooth indent one within another like see  as lion and so again have dog some fish have diverse row of tooth in the roof  of their mouth as pike salmon trout c and many more in salt water snake and  other serpent have venomous tooth which be sometime mistake for their sting no  beast that have horn have Upper tooth and no beast that have tooth above want  they below but yet if they be of the same kind it follow not that if the hard  matter go not into Upper tooth it will go into horn not yet converse for do  that have no horn have no Upper tooth horse have at three year old a tooth put  forth which they call the colt tooth and at four year old there come the mark  tooth which have a hold as big as you may lie a pea within it and that wear  short and short every year till that at eight year old the tooth be smooth and  the hold go and then they say that the mark be out of the horse mouth the  tooth of man breed first when the child be about a year and half old and then  they cast they and new come about seven year old but diverse have backward  tooth come forth at twenty yea some at thirty and forty quare of the manner of  the come of they forth they tell a Tale of the old countess of Desmond who  live till she be seven score year old that she do Dentire twice or thrice cast  her old tooth and other come in their place tooth be much hurt by sweet meat  and by paint with Mercury and by thing overhot and by thing over cold and by  rheum and the pain of the tooth be one of the sharp of pain concern tooth  those thing be to be consider the preserve of they the keep of they white the  draw of they with least pain the stay and Easing of the toothache the bind in  of artificial tooth where have be strike out and last of all that great one of  restore tooth in age the instance that give any likelihood of restore tooth in  age be the late come of tooth in some and the renew of the beak in bird which  be Commateriall with tooth quare therefore more particular how that come and  again the renew of horn but yet that have not be know to have be provoke by be  therefore let trial be make whether horn may be procure to grow in beast that  be not horn and how and whether they may be procure to come large than usual  as to make a ox or a deer have a great head of horn and whether the head of a  deer that by age be more spit may be bring again to be more branch for those  trial and the like will show whether by be such hard matter can be call and  provoke it may be try also whether bird may not have some thing do to they  when they be young whereby they may be make to have great or long bill or  great and long talon and whether child may not have some wash or something to  make their tooth better and strong coral be in use as a help to the tooth of  child some live creature generate but at certain season of the year as deer  sheep wild Conneyes c and most sort of bird and fish other at any time of the  year as man and all domestic creature as horse hog dog cat c the Cause of  generation at all season seem to be fullness for generation be from redundance  this fullness arise from two cause either from the nature of the creature if  it be hot and moist and sanguine or from plenty of food for the first man  horse dog c which breed at all season be full of heat and moisture gift be the  full of heat and moisture among bird and therefore breed often the Tame dove  almost continual but deer be a melancholy dry creature as appear by their  fearfulness and the hardness of their flesh sheep be a cold creature as appear  by their mildness and for that they seldom drink most sort of bird be of a dry  substance in comparison of beast fish be cold for the second Cause fullness of  food man Kine swine dog c seed full and we see that those creature which be  wild generate seldom be Tame generate often which be from warmth and fullness  of food we find that the time of go to Rut of deore be in September for that  they needs the whole summer feed and grass to make they fit for generation and  if rain come early about the middle of September they go to Rut somewhat the  soon if drought somewhat the late so sheep in respect of their small neat  generate about the same time or somewhat before but for the most part creature  that generate at certain season generate in the spring as bird and fish for  that the end of the winter and the heat and comfort of the spring prepare they  there be also another reason why some creature generate at certain season and  that be the relation of their time of bear to the time of generation for no  creature go to generate while the female be full nor while she be busy in sit  or rear her young and therefore it be find by experience that if you take the  egg or young one out of the nest of bird they will fall to generate again  three or four time one after another of live creature some be long time in the  womb and some short woman go common nine month the cow and the ewe about six  month do go about nine month mere eleven month bitch nine week elephant be say  to go two year for the receive tradition of ten year be fabulous for bird  there be double enquiry the distance between the tread or couple and the lie  of the egg and again between the egg lie and the disclose or Hetching and  among bird there be less diversity of time than among other creature yet some  there be for the Henry sit but three week the Turky-Hen goose and duck a month  quare of other the Cause of the great difference of time among live creature  be either from the nature of the kind or from the constitution of the womb for  the former those that be long in come to their maturity or growth be long in  the womb as be chief see in man and so elephant which be long in the womb be  long time in come to their full growth but in most other kind the constitution  of the womb that be the hardness or dryness thereof be concurrent with the  former Cause for the lt have about four year of growth and so the fawn and so  the calf but whelp which come to their growth common within three quarter of a  year be but nine week in the womb as for bird as there be less diversity among  they in the time of their bring forth so there be less diversity in the time  of their growth most of they come to their growth within a twelve month some  creature bring forth many young one at a burden as bitch hare Conneyes c some  ordinatily but one as woman lioness c this may be cause either by the quantity  of sperm require to the produce one of that kind which if less be require may  admit great number if more few or by the partition and cell of the womb which  may fever the sperm there be no doubt but light by refraction will show great  as well as thing colour for like as a shilling in the bottom of the water will  show great so will a candle in a lantern in the bottom of the water I have  hear of a practice that glow-worm in glass be put in the water to make the  fish come but I be not yet inform whether when a diver dive have his eye open  and swim upon his back whether I say he see thing in the air great or less for  it be manifest that when the eye stand in the fine medium and the object be in  the gross thing show great but contrariwise when the eye be place in the gross  medium and the object in the fine how it work I know not it will be well bolt  out whether great refraction may not be make upon reflection as well as upon  direct beam for example we see that take a empty Basen put a angel of gold or  what you will into it then go so far from the Basen till you can see the angel  because it be not in a right line then fill the Basen with water and you shall  see it out of his place because of the reflection to proceed therefore put a  look glass into a Basen of water I suppose you shall not see the image in a  right line or at equal Angles but aside I know not whether this experiment may  not be extend so as you may see the image and not the glass which for beauty  and strangeness be a fine proof for then you shall see the image like a spirit  in the air as for example if there be a cistern or pool of water you shall  place over against it a picture of the devil or what you will so as you do not  see the water then put a look glass in the water now if you can see the devil  picture aside not see the water it will look like a devil indeed they have a  old Tale in Oxford that friar Bacon walk between two steeple which be think to  be do by glass when he walk upon the ground a weighty body put into motion be  more easy impel than at first when it rest the Cause be partly because motion  do discuss the Torpour of solid body which beside their motion of gravity have  in they a natural appetite not to move at all and partly because a body that  rest do get by the resistance of the body upon which it rest a strong  compression of part than it have of it self and therefore needs more force to  be put in motion for if a weighty body be pensile and hang but by a thread the  percussion will make a impulsion very near as easy as if it be already in  motion a body over great or over small will not be throw so far as a body of a  middle six so that it seem there must be a commensuration or proportion  between the body move and the force to make it move well the Cause be because  to the impulsion there be requisite the force of the body that move and the  resistance of the body that be move and if the body be too great it yield too  little and if it be too small it resist too little it be common experience  that no weight will press or cut so strong be lie upon a body as fall or  strike from above it may be the air have some part in further the percussion  but the chief Cause I take to be for that the part of the body move have by  impulsion or by the motion of gravity continue a compression in they as well  downward as they have when they be throw or shoot through the air forward I  conceive also that the quick lose of that motion prevent the resistance of the  body below and priority of the force always be of great efficacy as appear in  infinite instance tickle be most in the sole of the foot and under the arm  hold and on the side the Cause be the thinness of the skin in those part join  with the rareness of be touch there for all tickle be a light motion of the  spirit which the thinness of the skin and suddenness and rareness of touch do  further for we see a feather or a rush draw along the lip or cheek do tickle  whereas a thing more obtuse or a touch more hard do not and for suddenness we  see no man can tickle himself we see also that the palm of the hand though it  have as thin a skin as the other part mention yet be not ticklish because it  be accustom to be touch tickle also cause laughter the Cause may be the  emission of the spirit and so of the breath by a flight from titillation for  upon tickle we see there be ever a start or shrink away of the part to avoid  it and we see also that if you tickle the nostril with a feather or straw it  procure sneeze which be a sudden emission of the spirit that do likewise expel  the moisture and tickle be ever painful and not well endure it be strange that  the river of Nilus over flow as it do the country of Egypt there shall be  nevertheless little or no rain in that country the Cause must be either in the  nature of the water or in the nature of the air or of both in the water it may  be ascribe either unto the long of the water for swift run water vapour not so  much as stand water or else to the concoction of the water for water well  concoct vapour not so much as water raw no more than water upon the fire do  vapour so much after some time of boil as at the first and it be true that the  water of Nilus be sweet than other water in taste and it be excellent good for  the stone and hypochondriacal melancholy which show it be Lenefying and it run  through a country of a hot climate and flat without shade either of wood or  hill whereby the sun must needs have great power to concoct it as for the air  from whence I conceive this want of shower come chief the Cause must be for  that the air be of it self thin and thirsty and as soon as ever it get any  moisture from the water it imbibe and dissipate it in the whole body of the  air and suffer it not to remain in vapour whereby it may breed rain it have be  touch in the Title of a straining through namely such as be inward that the  white of egg and milk do clarify and it be certain that in Egypt they prepare  and clarify the water of Nile by put it into great jar of stone and stir it  about with a few stamp almond wherewith they also besmear the mouth of the  vessel and so draw it off after it have rest some time it be good to try this  clarify with almond in new beer or must to hasten and perfect the clarify  there be scarce to be find any vegetable that have branch and no leave except  you allow coral for one but there be also in the desert of S macario in Egypt  a plant which be long leafless brown of colour and branch like coral save that  it close at the top this be set in water within house spread and display  strange and the people thereabouts have a superstitious belief that in the  labour of woman it help to the easy deliverance the crystalline Venice glass  be report to be a mixture in equal portion of stone bring from pavia by the  river a city in and the ash of a weed call by the Arab Kall which be gather in  a desert between Alexandria and rosetta and be by the Egyptian use first for  fuel and then they crush the ash into lump like a stone and so sell they to  the venetians for their glass work it be strange and well to be note how long  carcase have continue uncorrupt and in their former dimension as appear in the  mummy of Egypt have lafted as be conceive some of they three thousand year it  be true they find mean to draw forth the brain and to take forth the entrail  which be the part apteft to corrupt but that be nothing to the wonder for we  see what a soft and corruptible substance the flesh of all the other part of  the body be but it shall seem that accord to our observation and Axiorne in  our hundred experiment putrefaction which we conceive to be so natural a  period of body be but a accident and that matter make not that haste to  corruption that be conceive and therefore body in shine amber in quick silver  in balm whereof we now speak in wax in honey in gum and it may be in  conservatory of snow c be preserve very long it needs not go for repetition if  we resume again that which we say in the aforesaid experiment concern  annihilation namely that if you provide against three cause of putrefaction  body will not corrupt the first be that the air be exclude for that undermine  the body and conspire with the spirit of the body to dissolve it the second be  that the body adjacent and ambiens be not Commateriall but mere heterogeneal  towards the body that be to be presured for if nothing can be receive by the  one nothing can issue from the other such be quick silver white amber to herb  and fly and such body the three be that the body to be preserve be not of that  grass that it may corrupt within it self although no part of it issue into the  body adjacent and therefore it must be rather thin and small than of bulk  there be a four remedy also which be that if the body to be preserve be of  bulk as a corpse be then the body that enclose it must have a virtue to draw  forth and dry the moisture of the inward body for else the putrefaction will  play within though nothing issue forth I remember livy do relate that there be  find at a time two coffin of lead in a tomb whereof the one contain the body  of king Numa it be some four hundred year after his death and the other his  book of sacred rite and ceremony and the discipline of the Pontises and that  in the coffin that have the body there be nothing at all to be see but a  little light cinder about the side but in the coffin that have the book they  be find as fresh as if they have be but new write be write in parchment and  cover over with watch candle of wax three or four fold by this it seem that  the Roman in Numa time be not so good embalmer as the Egyptian be which be the  Cause that the body be utter consume but I find in plutarch and other that  when Augustus Caesar visit the sepulchre of Alexander the great in Alexandria  he find the body to keep his dimension but withal that notwithstanding all the  embalm which no doubt be of the best the body be so tender as Caesar touch but  the nose of it deface it which make I find it very strange that the Egyptian  mummy shall be report to be as hard as stone pitch for I find no difference  but one which indeed may be very material namely that the ancient Egyptian  mummy be shroud in a number of fold of linen besmear with gum in manner of  fear Cloth which it do not appear be practice upon the body of Alexander near  the castle of Catie and by the well of a dry nurse in the land of idumea a  great part of the way you will think the sea be near hand though it be a good  distance off and it be nothing but the shine of the nitre upon the Sea-Sands  such abundance of nitre the shore there do put forth the Dead-Sea which vomit  up bitumen be of that crassitude as live body bind hand and foot cast into it  have be bear up and not sink which show that all sink into water be but a over  weight of the body put into the water in respect of the water so that you may  make water so strong and heavy of quick silver perhaps or the like as may bear  up iron of which I see no use but imposture we see also that all metal except  gold for the same reason swim upon quick silver it be report that at the foot  of a hill near the more corpse there be a black stone whereof pilgrim make  fire which burn like a coal and diminish not but only wax bright and white  that it shall do so be not strange for we see iron read hot burn and consume  not but the strangeness be that it shall continue any time so for iron as soon  as it be out of the fire dead straight way certain it be a thing of great use  and profit if you can find out fuel that will burn hot and yet last long  neither be I altogether incredulous but there may be such candle as they say  be make of salamander wool be a kind of mineral which whiten also in the burn  and consume not the question be this flame must be make of somewhat and common  it be make of some tangible body which have weight but it be not impossible  perhaps that it shall be make of spirit or vapour in a body which spirit on  vapour have no weight such as be the matter of fire S but then you will say  that that vapour also can last but a short time to that it may be answer that  by the help of oil and wax and other candle stuff the flame may continue and  the wick not burn sea-coal last long than Char coal and Char coal of root be  coaled into great piece last long than ordinary Char coal turf and Peat and  Cow-Sheards be cheap fuel and last long small coal or Briar coal pour upon  Char coal make they last long sedge be a cheap fuel to brew or bake with the  rather because it be good for nothing else trial will be make of some mixture  of sea-coal with earth or Chalko for if that mixture be as the Sea-Coale-Men  use it privy to make the bulk of the coal great it be deceit but if it be use  purposely and be make know it be save it be at this day in use in g to couch  Pat-Sheards or vessel of earth in their wall to gather the wind from the top  and to pass it down in spout into room it be a device for freshness in great  heat and it be say there be some room in Italy and Spain for freshness and  gather the wind and air in the heat of summer but they be but Pennings of the  wind and enlarge they again and make they reverberate and go round in circle  rather than this device of spout in the wall there will be use much diligence  in the choice of some body and place as it be for the test of air to discover  the wholesomeness or unwholesomeness as well of season as of the seat of dwell  it be certain that there be some heuses wherein Confitures and pie will gather  mould more than in other and I be persuade that a piece of raw flesh or fish  will soon corrupt in some air than in other they be noble experiment that can  make this discovery for they serve for a natural divination of season better  than the astronomer can by their figure and again they teach man where to  choose their dwell for their better health there be a kind of stone about  Bethles which they grind to powder and put into water whereof cattle drink  which make they give more milk sure there will be some better trial make of  mixture of water in pond for cattle to make they more milk or to fatten they  or to keep they from murrain it may be chalk and nitre be of the best it be  report that in the valley near the mountain Carmel in judea there be a sand  which of all other have most affinity with glass insomuch as other mineral lie  in it turn to a glassy substance without the fire and again glass put into it  turn into the mother sand the thing be very strange if it be true and it be  likely to be cause by some natural furnace or heat in the earth and yet they  do not speak of any eruption of flame it be good to try in glass work whether  the Crude material of glass mingle with glass already make and Re-moulten do  not facilitate the make of glass with less heat in the sea upon the south west  of Sicily much coral be find it be a submarine Plan it have no lean it branch  only when it be under water it be soft and green of colour but be bring into  the air it become hard and shine read as we see it be say also to have a white  very but we find it not bring over with the coral belike it be cast away as  nothing worth inquire better of it for the Difcouerie of the nature of the  plant the man of Calabria be the best and in most plenty they gather it from  the leaf of the mulberry tree but not of such mulberry tree as grow in the  valley and man fall upon the leave by night as other due do it shall seem that  before those due come upon tree in the valley they dissipate and can hold out  it shall seem also the mulberry leaf it self have some coagulate virtue which  inspissates the due for that it be not find upon other tree and we see by the  silk worm which feed upon that leaf what be dainty smooth juice it have and  the leave also especial of the black mulberry be somewhat bristly which may  help to preserve the due certain it be not amiss to observe a little better  the due that fall upon tree or herb grow on mountain for it may be many due  fall that spend before they come to the valley and I suppose that he that will  gather the best May-Deaw for medicine shall gather it from the hill it be say  they have a manner to prepare their Greek wine to keep they from fume and  inebriate by add some sulphur or allome whereof the one be Vnctnous and the  other be astringent and certain it be that those two nature do best repress  fume this experiment will be transfer unto other wine and strong beer by put  in some like substance while they work which may make they both to fume less  and to inflame less it be conceive by some not improbably that the reason why  wild fire whereof the principal ingredient be bitumen do not quench with water  be for that the first concretion of bitumen be a mixture of a fiery and watery  substance so be not sulphur this appear for that in the place near Puteoli  which they call the court of Valcan you shall hear under the earth a horrible  thunder of fire and water conflict together and there break forth also spout  of boil water now that place yield great quantity of bitumen whereas Aetna and  vesuvius and the like which consist upon sulphur shoot forth smoke and ash and  pumice but no water it be report also that bitumen mingle with lime and put  under water will make as it be a artificial rock the substance become so hard  there be a cement compound of flower white of egg and stone powder that become  hard as marble wherewith pool mirabilis near spring shoots of cabbage be say  to have the wall plaster and it be certain and try that the powder of load  stone and flint by the addition of white of egg and gumm dragon make into pass  will in a few day harden to the hardness of a stone it have be note by the  ancient that in full or impure body ulcer or hurt in the leg be hard to cure  and in the head more easy the Cause be for that ulcer or hurt in the leg  require Deficcation which by the defluxion of humour to the low part be hinder  whereas hurt and ulcer in the head require it not but contrariwise dryness  make they more apt to consolidate and in modern observation the like  difference have be find between Frenchman and englishmen where of the one  constitution be more dry and the other more moist and therefore a hurt of the  head be hard to cure in a Frenchman and of the leg in a englishman it have be  note by the ancient that southern wind blow much without rain do cause a  Feuourous disposition of the year but with rain not the Cause be for that  southern wind do of themselves qualify the air to be apt to cause fever but  when shower be join they do refrigerate in part and check the sultry heat of  the southern wind therefore this hold not in the seacoasts because the vapour  of the sea without shower do refresh it have be note by the ancient that wound  which be make with brass heal more easy than wound make with iron the Cause be  for that brass have in it self a sanative virtue and so in the very instant  help somewhat but iron be corrosive and not sanative and therefore it be good  that the instrument which be use by chirurgeon about wound be rather of brass  than iron in the cold country when man nose and ear be mortify and as it be  gangrene with cold if they come to a fire they rot off present the Cause be  for that the few spirit that remain in those part be sudden draw forth and so  putrefaction be make complete but snow put upon they help for that it preserve  those spirit that remain till they can revive and beside snow have in it a  secret warmth as the monk prove out of the text who that snow as wool frost as  ashes to strew whereby he do infer that snow do warm like wool and frost do  fret like ash warm water also do good because by little and little it open the  poor without any sudden work upon the spirit this experiment may be transfer  unto the cure of gangrene either come of themselves or induce by too much  apply of opiate wherein you must beware of dry heat and resort to thing that  be refrigerant with a inward warmth and virtue of cherish weigh iron and water  fortis several then dissolve the iron in the water fortis and weigh the  dissolution and you shall find it to bear as good weight as the body do  several notwithstanding a good deal of be by a thick vapour that issue during  the work which show that the open of a body do increase the weight this be try  once or twice but I know not whether there be any error in the trial take of  water fortis two ounce of quick silver two drachma for that charge the water  fortis will bear the dissolution will not bear a flint as big as a nutmeg yet  no doubt the increase of the weight of water will increase his power of bear  as we see Broine when it be salt enough will bear a egg and I remember well a  physician that use to give some mineral bath for the gout c and the body when  it be put into the bath can not get down so easy as in ordinary water but it  seem the weight of the quick silver more than the weight of a stone do not  compense the weight of a stone more than the weight of the water fortis let  there be a body of unequal weight as of wood and lead or bone and lead if you  throw it from you with the Light-End forward it will turn and the weighty end  will recover to be forward unless the body be over long the Cause be for that  the more dense body have a more violent pressure of the part from the first  impulsion which be the Cause though heretofore not find out as have be often  say of all violent motion and when the hinder part move swift for that it less  endure pressure of part than the forward part can make way for it it must  needs be that the body turn over for turn it can more easy draw forward the  light part Galaeus note it well that if a open trough wherein water be be  drive fast than the water can follow the water gather upon a heap towards the  hinder end where the motion begin which he suppose hold confident the motion  of the earth to be the Cause of the ebb and flow of the ocean because the  earth over run the water which theory though it be false yet the first  experiment be true as for the inequality of the pressure of part it appear  manifest in this that if you take a body of stone or iron and another of wood  of the same magnitude and shape and throw they with equal force you can  possible throw the wood so far as the stone or iron it be certain as it have  be former in part touch that water may be the medium of sound if you dash a  stone against a stone in the bottom of the water it make a sound so a long  pole strike upon gravel in the bottom of the water make a sound nay if you  shall think that the sound come up by the pole and not by the water you shall  find that a anchor let down by a rope make a sound and yet the rope be no  solid body whereby the sound can ascend all object of the sense which be very  offensive do cause the spirit to retire and upon their flight the part be in  some degree destitute and so there be induce in they a trepidation and horror  for sound we see that the grate of a see or any very Harsh noise will set the  tooth on edge and make all the body shiver for taste we see that in the take  of a potion or peel the head and the neck shake for odious smell the like  effect follow which be less perceive because there be a remedy at hand by stop  of the nose but in horse that can use no such help we see the smell of a  carrion especial of a dead horse make they fly away and take on almost as if  they be mad for feel if you come out of the sun sudden into a shade there  follow a chillness or shiver in all the body and even in sight which have in  effect no odious object come into sudden darkness induce a offer to shiver  there be in the city of a city in in Italy a church that have Windownes only  from above it be in length a hundred foot in breadth twenty foot and in height  near fifty have a door in the amid it report the voice twelve or thirteen time  if you stand by the close End-Wall over against the door the echo fade and die  by little and little as the echo at pont charenton do and the voice sound as  if it come from above the door and if you stand at the low end or on either  side of the door the echo hold but if you stand in the door or in the amid  just over against the door not note that all echo sound better against old  wall than new because they be more dry and hollow those effect which be  wrought by the percussion of the sense and by thing in fact be produce  likewise in some degree by the imagination therefore if a man see another eat  sour or unpleasantly thing which set the tooth on edge this object taint the  imagination so that he that see the thing do by another have his own tooth  also set on edge so if a man see another turn swift and long or if he look  upon wheel that turn himself wax turn sick so if a man be upon a high place  without rail or good hold except he be use to it he be ready to fall for  imagine a fall it put his spirit into the very action of a fall so many upon  the see of other bleed or strangle or torture themselves be ready to faint as  if they bleed or be in strife take a stock gillyflower and tie it gentle upon  a stick and put they both into a stoop glass full of quick silver so that the  flower be cover then lie a little weight upon the top of the glass that may  keep the stick down and look upon they after four or five day and you shall  find the flower fresh and the stalk hard and less flexible than it be if you  compare it with another flower gather at the same time it will be the more  manifest this show that body do preserve excellent in quick silver and not  preserve only but by the coldness of the quick silver indurate for the  freshness of the flower may be mere conservation which be the more to be  observe because the quick silver press the flower but the stiffness of the  stalk can be without induration from the cold as it seem of the quick silver  it be report by some of the ancient that in Cyprus there be a kind of iron  that be cut into little piece and put into the ground if it be well water will  increase into great piece this be certain and know of old that lead will  multiply and increase as have be see in old Statua's of stone which have be  put in cellar the foot of they be bind with leaden band where after a time  there appear that the lead do swell insomuch as it hang upon the stone like  wart I call drown of metal when that the base metal be so incorporate with the  more rich as it can by no mean be separate again which be a kind of Version  though false as if silver shall be inseparable incorporate with gold or copper  and lead with silver the ancient electrum have in it a five of silver to the  gold and make a compound metal as fit for most use as gold and more  resplendent and more qualify in some other property but then that be easy  separate this to do privy or to make the compound pass for the rich metal  simple be a adulteration or counterfeit but if it be do avow and without  disguise it may be a great save of the rich metal I remember to have hear of a  man skilful in metal that a fifteen part of silver incorporate with gold will  not be recover by any water of separation except you put a great quantity of  silver to draw to it the less which he say be the last refuge in separation  but that be a tedious way which no man almost will think on this will be  better inquire and the quantity of the fifteen turn to a twenty and likewise  with some little additional that may further the intrinsic incorporation note  that silver in gold will be detect by weight compare with the dimension but  lead in silver lead be the weighty metal will not be detect if you take so  much the more silver as will countervail the over weight of the lead gold be  the only substance which have nothing in it volatile and yet melt without much  difficulty the melt show that it be not Ieiune or scarce in spirit so that the  fix of it be not want of spirit to fly out but the equal spread of the  tangible part and the close coacervation of they whereby they have the less  appetite and no mean at all to issue forth it be good therefore to try whether  glass Re-moulten do lose any weight for the part in glass be even spread but  they be not so close as in gold as we see by the easy admission of light heat  and cold and by the smallness of the weight there be other body fix which have  little or no spirit so as there be nothing to fly out as we see in the stuff  whereof Coppells be make which they put into furnace upon which fire work not  so that there be three cause of fixation the even spread both of the spirit  and tangible part the closeness of the tangible part and the Ieiunenesse or  extreme comminution of spirit of which three the two first may be join with a  nature liquefiable the last not it be profound contemplation in nature to  consider of the emptiness as we may call it or insatisfaction of several body  and of their appetite to take in other air take in light and sound and smell  and vapour and it be most manifest that it do it with a kind of thirst as not  satisfy with his own former consistence for else it will never receive they in  so sudden and easy water and all liquor do hasty receive dry and more  terrestrial body proportionable and dry body on the other side drink in water  and liquor so that as it be well say by one of the ancient of earthy and  watery substance one be a glue to another parchment skin Cloth c drink in  liquor though themselves be entire body and not comminute as sand and ash nor  apparent porous metal themselves do receive in ready strong water and strong  water likewise do ready pierce into metal and stone and that strong water will  touch upon gold that will not touch upon silver and e turning and gold which  seem by the weight to be the close and most solid body do greedy drink in  quick silver and it seem that this reception of other body be not violent for  it be many time reciprocal and as it be with consent of the Cause of this and  to what axiom it may be refer consider attentive for as for the pretty  assertion that matter be like a common strumpet that desire all from it be but  a wander notion only flame do not content it self to take in any other body  but either to overcome and turn another body into it self as by victory or it  self to die and go out