natural history IV century acceleration of time in work of nature may well be  esteem Inter magnalia nature and even in divine miracle accelerate of the time  be next to the create of the matter we will now therefore proceed to the  enquiry of it and for acceleration of germination we will refer it over unto  to the place where we shall handle the subject of plant general and will now  begin with other acceleration liquor be many of they at the first thick and  trouble as must wort juice of fruit or herb express c and by time they settle  and clarify but to make they clear before the time be a great work for it be a  spur to nature and put her out of her pace and beside it be of good use for  make drink and sances potable and serviceable speedy but to know the of  accelerate clarification we must first know the cause of clarification the  first Cause be by the separation of the Gresser part of the liquor from the  fine the second by the equal distribution of the spirit of the liquor with the  letter part for that represent body clear and untroubled the three by the  resign the spirit it self which thereby give to the liquor more splendour and  more lustre first for separation it be wrought by weight as in the ordinary  residence or settlement of liquor by heat by motion by precipitation or  sublimation that be a call of the several part either up or down which be a  kind of attraction by adhesion as when a body more viscous be mingle and  agitate with the liquor which viscous body afterward sever draw with it the  gross part of the liquor and last by percolation or passage second for the  even distribution of the spirit it be wrought by gentle heat and by agitation  or motion for of time we speak not because it be that we will anticipate  represent and it be wrought also by mixture of some other body which have a  virtue to open the liquor and to make the spirit the better pass through three  for the refine of the spirit it be wrought likewise by heat by motion and by  mixture of some body which have virtue to attenuate so therefore have show the  cause for the accelerate of clarification in general and the induce of it take  these instance and trial it be in common practice to draw wine or beer from  the lees which we call rack whereby it will clarify much the soon for the lees  though they keep the drink in heart and make it last yet withal they cast up  some spissitude and this instance be to be refer to separation on the other  side it be good to try what the add to the liquor more lees than his own will  work for think the lees do make the liquor full of confusion yet they refine  the spirit take therefore a vessel of new beer and take another vessel of new  beer and rack the one vessel from the lees and pour the lees of the rack  vessel into the unracked vessel and see the effect this instance be refer to  the refine of the spirit take new beer and put in some quantity of stale beer  into it and see whether it will not accelerate the clarification by open the  body of the beer and cut the gross part whereby they may fall down into lees  and this instance again be refer to separation the long malt or herb or the  like be infuse in liquor the more thick and trouble the liquor be but the long  they be decoct in the liquor the clear it be the reason be plain because in  infusion the long it be the great be the part of the gross body that go into  the liquor but in decoction though more go forth yet it either purge at the  top or fettles at the bottom and therefore the most exact way to clarify be  first to infuse and then to take off the liquor and decoct it as they do in  beer which have malt first infuse in the liquor and be afterward boil with the  hop this also be refer to separation take hot ember and put they about a  bottle fill with new beer almost to the very neck let the bottle be well stop  lest it fly out and continue it renew the ember every day by the space of ten  day and then compare it with another bottle of the same beer set-by take also  lime both quench and unquenched and set the bottle in they ut above this  instance be refer both to the even distribution and also to the refine of the  spirit by heat take bottle and swing they or carry they in a wheel barrow upon  rough ground twice in a day but then you may not fill the bottle full but  leave some air for if the liquor come close to the stopple it can play nor  flower and when you have shake they well either way pour the drink into  another bottle stop close after the usual manner for if it stay with much air  in it the drink will pall neither will it settle so perfect in all the part  let it stand source hour then take it and put it again into a bottle with air  ut above and thence into a bottle stop ut above and so repeat the same  operation for seven day note that in the empty of one bottle into another you  must do it swift lest the drink pall it be good also to try it in a bottle  with a little air below the neck without empty this instance be refer to the  even distribution and refine of the spirit by motion as for percolation inward  and outward which belong to separation trial will be make of clarify by  adhesion with milk put into new beer and stir with it for it may be that the  Grossar part of the beer will cleave to the milk the doubt be whether the milk  will fever ell again which be soon try and it be usual in clarify Ippoerasse  to put in milk which after sever and carry with it the gross part of the  Ippoerasse as have be say elsewhere also for the better clarification by  Persolation when they run new beer they use to let it pass through a strainer  and it be like the fine the strainer be the clear it will be the accelerate of  maturation we will now inquire of and of maturation it self it be of three  nature the maturation of fruit the maturation of drink and the maturation of  impostume and ulcer this last we refer to another place where we shall handle  experiment medicinal there be also other maturations as of metal c whereof we  will speak as occasion serve but we will begin with that of drink because it  have such a affinity with the clarification of liquor for the maturation of  drink it be wrought by the congregation of the spirit together whereby they  digest more perfect the gross part and it be effect partly by the same mean  that clarification be whereof we speak before but then more that a extreme  clarification do spread the spirit so smooth as they become dull and the drink  dead which ought to have a little flower and therefore all your clear amber  drink be flat we see the degree of maturation of drink in must in wine as it  be drink and in vinegar whereof must have not the spirit well congregate wine  have they well unite so as they make the part somewhat more oily vinegar have  they congregate but more Ieiune and in small quantity the great and fine  spirit and part be exhale for we see vinegar be make by set the vessel of wine  against the hot sun and therefore vinegar will not burn for that much of the  fine part be exhale the refresh and quicken of drink pall or dead be by  enforce the motion of the spirit so we see that open weather relax the spirit  and make it more lively in motion we see also bottle of beer or ale while it  be new and full of spirit so that it spirit when the stopple be take forth  make the drink more quick and windy a pan of coal in the cellar do likewise  good and make the drink work again new drink put to drink that be dead provoke  it to work again nay which be more as some affirm a brew of new beer set by  old beer make it work again it be good also to enforce the spirit by some  mixture that may excite and quicken they as by put into the bottle nitre chalk  lime c we see cream be mature and make to rise more speedy by put in cold  water which as it seem get down the whey it be try that the bury of bottle of  drink well stop either in dry earth a good depth or in the bottom of a well  within water and best of all the hang of they in a deep well somewhat above  the water for some forthnights space be a excellent mean of make drink fresh  and quick for the cold do not cause my breathe out of the spirit at all as  heat do though it rarefy the rest that remain but cold make the spirit  vigorous and irritate they whereby they incorporate the part of the liquor  perfect as for the maturation of fruit it be wrought by the call forth of the  spirit of the body outward and so spread they more smooth and likewise by  digest in some degree the gross part and this be effect by heat motion  attraction and by a rudiment of putrefaction for the inception of putrefaction  have in it a maturation there be take apple and lie in straw in hay in flower  in chalk in lime cover over with onion cover over with crab close up in wax  shut in a box c there be also a apple hang up in smoke of all which the  experiment sort in this manner after a month space the apple enclose in wax be  as green and fresh as at the first put in and the kernel continue white the  Cause be for that all exclusion of open air which be ever predatory maintain  the body in his first freshness and moisture but the inconvenience be that it  taste a little of the wax which I suppose in a pomgranate or some such thick  coat fruit it will not do the apple hang in the smoke turn like a old mellow  apple wrinkle Drle soft sweet Yellow within the Cause be for that such a  degree of heat which do neither melt nor scorch for we see that in a great  heat a roast apple soften and melt and big foot make of quarter of warden  scorch and have a skin of coal do mellow and not adure the smoke also make the  apple as it be sprinkle with soot which help to mature we see than in dry of  Pears and prune in the oven and remove of they often as they begin to sweat  there be a like operation but that be with a far more intense degree of heat  the apple cover in the lime and ash be well mature as appear both in their  yellowness and sweetness the Cause be for that that degree of heat which be in  lime and ash be a smother heat be of all the rest most proper for it do  neither liquefy nor Atefie and that be true maturation n that the taste of  those apple be good and therefore it be the experiment fit for use the apple  Conered with crab and onion be likewise well mature the Cause be not any heat  but for that the crab and the onion draw forth the of the apple and spread  they equal through out the which away Hatdnesse see f one Appleath against  another and therefore in make of cider they turn the apple first upon a heap  so one cluster of grape that touch another it grow ripen fast the apple and  the S apparent though in the more the Cause be for that the hay and straw have  a very low degree of heat but yet close and smother and which dry nor the  apple in the close box be ripen also the Cause be for that all Alfe keep close  have a degree of warmth as we see in wonder plus c note that all these be  compare with another apple of the same kind that lie of it self and in  comparison of that be more sweet and more Yellow and so appear to be most ripe  take apple or p or other like fruit and row it upon a table hard we see in  common experience that the do soften and sweeten the fruit present which be  nothing but the S of the spirit into the part for the d of the spirit make the  Haishnesse but this hard row be between concoction and a simple maturation  therefore if you shall Rowle they but gentle perhaps twice a day and some  seven day it be like they will mature more fine and like unto the natural  maturation take a apple and cut out a piece of the top and cover it to see  whether that solution of continuity will not hasten a maturation we see that  where a Wasp or a fly or a worm have bite in a grape or any fruit it will  sweeten hasty take a apple c and prick it with a Prinne full of hold not deep  and smeare it a little with sack or cinnamon water or spirit of wine every day  for ten day to see if the virtual heat of the wine or strong water will not  mature it in these trial also as be use in the first set another of the same  fruit by to compare they and try they by their yellowness and by their  sweetness the world have be much abuse by the opinion of make of gold the work  it self I judge to be possible but the mean hitherto propound to effect it be  in the practice full of error and imposture and in the theory full of unsound  imagination for to say that nature have a intention to make all metal gold and  that if she be deliver from impediment she will perform her own work and that  if the crudity impurity and Leprosities of metal be cure they will become gold  and that a little quantity of the medicine in the work of projection will turn  a sea of the base metal into gold by multiply all these be but dream and so be  many other ground of alchemy and to help the matter the alchemist call in  likewise many vanity out of astrology natural magic superstitious  interpretation of scripture auricular tradition feign testimony of ancient  author and the like it be true on the other side they have bring to light not  a few profitable experiment and thereby make the world some amends but we when  we shall come to handle the Version and transmutation of body and the  experiment concern metal and mineral will lie open the true way and passage of  nature which may lead to this great effect and we commend the wit of the  chinese who despair of make of gold but be mad upon the make of silver for  certain it be that it be more difficult to make gold which be the most  ponderous and materiate among metal of other metal less ponderous and less  materiate than way line to make silver of lead or quick silver both which be  more ponderous than silver so that they needs rather a further degree of  fixation than any condensation in the meantime by occasion of handle the axiom  touch maturation we will direct a trial touch the mature of metal and thereby  turn some of they into gold for we conceive indeed that a perfect good  concoction or digestion or maturation of some metal will produce gold and here  we call to mind that we know a dutchman that have wrought himself into the  belief of a great person by undertake that he can make gold who discourse be  that gold may be make but that the alchemist over fire the work for he say the  make of gold do require a very temperate heat as be in nature a subterrany  work where little heat come but yet more to the make of gold than of any other  metal and therefore that he will do it with a great lamp that shall carry a  temperate and equal heat and that it be the work of many month the device of  the lamp be folly but the over fire now use and the equal heat to be require  and the make it a work of some good time be no ill discourse we resort  therefore to our axiom of maturation in effect touch before the first be that  there be use a temperate heat for they be ever temperate heat that digest and  mature wherein we mean temperate accord to the nature of the subject for that  may be temperate to fruit and liquor which will not work at all upon metal the  second be that the spirit of the metal be quicken and the tangible part open  for without those two operation the spirit of the metal wrought upon will not  be able to digest the part the three be that the spirit do spread themselves  even and move not Subsultorily for that will make the part close and pliant  and this require a heat that do not rise and fall but continue as equal as may  be the four be that no part of the spirit be emit but detain for if there be  emission of spirit the body of the metal will be hard and churlish and this  will be perform partly by the temper of the fire and partly by the closeness  of the vessel the five be that there be choice make of the likely and best  prepare metal for the Version for that will facilitate the work the six be  that you give time enough for the work not to prolong hope as the alchemist do  but indeed to give nature a convenient space to work in these principle be  most certain and true we will now derive a direction of trial out of they  which may perhaps by further meditation be improve let there be a small  furnace make of a temperate heat let the heat be such as may keep the metal  perpetual moult and no more for that above all import to the work for the  material take silver which be the metal that in nature symbolizes most with  gold put in also with the silver a ten part of quick silver and a twelve part  of nitre by weight both these to quicken and open the body of the metal and so  let the work be continue by the space of six month at the least I wish also  that there be at some time a injection of some oil substance such as they use  in the recover of gold which by vex with separation have be make churlish and  this be to lie the part more close and smooth which be the main work for gold  as we see be the close and therefore the heavy of metal and be likewise the  most flexible and tensible note that to think to make gold of quick silver  because it be the heavy be a thing not to be hope for quick silver will not  endure the manage of the fire next to silver I think copper be fit to be the  material gold have these nature greatness of weight closeness of part fixation  pliantesse or softness immunity from rust colour or tincture of Yellow  therefore the sure way though most about to make gold be to know the cause of  the several nature before rehearse and the axiom concern the same for if a man  can make a metal that have all these property let man dispute whether it be  gold or no the induce and accelerate of putrefaction be a subject of a very  iversal enquiry for corruption be a reciprocal to generation and they two be  as nature two term or Bundaries and the guide to life and death putrefaction  be the work of the spirit of body which ever be unquiet to get forth and  congregate with the air and to onioy the sunbeam the get forth or spread of  the spirit which be a degree of get forth have fine differ operation if the  spirit be detain within the body and move more violent there follow  colliquation as in metal c if more mild there follow digestion or maturation  as in drink and fruit if the spirit be not mere detain but protrude a little  and that motion be confuse and inordinate there follow putrefaction which ever  dissolve the consistence of the body into much inequality as in flesh rot  fruit shine wood c and also in the rust of metal but if that motion be in a  certain order there follow vivification and figuration as both in live  creature breed of putrefaction and in live creature perfect but if the spirit  issue out of the body there follow Deficcation induration consumption c as in  Bricke evaporation of body liquid c the mean to induce and accelerate  putrefaction be first by add some Crude bring watery moisture as in wet of any  flesh fruit wood with water c for contrariwise unctuous and oily substance  preserve the second be by invitation or excitation as when a rot apple lie  close to another apple that be sound or when dung which be a substance already  putrify be add to other body and this be also notable see in church yard where  they bury much where the earth will consume the corpse in far short time than  other earth will the three be by closeness and stop which detain the spirit in  prison more than they will and thereby irritate they to seek issue as in corn  and clothes which wax musty and therefore open air which they call Aer  perstabilis do preserve and this do appear more evident in Agnes which come  most of they of obstruction and pen the humour which thereupon putrify the  four be by solution of continuity as we see a apple will rot soon if it be cut  or pierce and so will wood c and so the flesh of creature alive where they  have receive any wound the five be either by the breathe out or by the drive  back of the principal spirit which preserve the consistence of the body so  that when their government be dissolve every part return to his nature or  homogeny and this appear in urine and blood when they cool and thereby break  it appear also in the gangrene or mortification of flesh either by opiate or  by intense cold I conceive also the same effect be in pestilence for that the  malignity of the infect vapour dance the principal spirit and make they fly  and leave their regiment and then the humour flesh and secondary spirit do  dissolve and break as in a anarchy the six be when a foreign spirit strong and  more eager than the spirit of the body enter the body as in the sting of  serpent and this be the Cause general that upon all poison follow swell and we  see swell follow also when the spirit of the body it self congregate too much  as upon blow and bruise or when they be pen in too much as in swell upon cold  and we see also that the spirit come of putrefaction of humour in ague c which  may be count as foreign spirit though they be breed within the body do  extinguish and suffocate the natural spirit and heat the seven be by such a  weak degree of heat as set the spirit in a little motion but be not able  either to digest the part or to issue the spirit as be see in flesh keep in a  room that be not cool whereas in a cool and Wet larder it will keep long and  we see that Viuisication whereof putrefaction be the bastard brother be effect  by such soft heat as the Hatching of egg the heat of the womb c the eight be  by the release of the spirit which before be close keep by the solidness of  their coverture and thereby their appetite of issue check as in the artificial  rust induce by strong water in iron lead c and therefore wet hasten rust or  putrefaction of any thing because it soften the crust for the spirit to come  forth the nine be by the interchange of heat and cold or Wet and dry as we see  in the mould of earth in frost and sun and in the more hasty Rotting of wood  that be sometime wet sometime dry the ten be by time and the work procedure of  the spirit themselves which can keep their station especial if they be lose to  themselves and there be not agitation or local motion as we see in corn not  stir and man body not exercise all mould be inception of putrefaction as the  mould of pie and flesh the mould of orange and lemon which mould afterward  turn into worm or more odious putrefaction and therefore common prove to be  ill odour and if the body be liquid and not apt to putrify total it will cast  up a mother in the top as the mother of distil water moss be a kind of mould  of the earth and tree but it may be better sort as a rudiment of germination  to which we refer it it be a enquiry of excellent use to inquire of the mean  of prevent or stay putrefaction for therein consist the mean of conservation  of body for body have two kind of dissolution the one by consumption and  Deficcation the other by putrefaction but as for the putrefaction of the body  of man and live creature as in ague worm consumption of the lung impostume and  ulcer both inward and outward they be a great part of physic and surgery and  therefore we will reserve the enquiry of they to the proper place where we  shall handle medicinal experiment of all sort of the rest we will now enter  into a enquiry wherein much light may be take from that which have be say of  the mean to induce or accelerate putrefaction for the remove that which cause  putrefaction do prevent and avoid putrefaction the first mean of prohibit or  check putrefaction be cold for so we see meat and drink will last long  unpurified or unsoured in winter than in summer and we see that flower and  fruit put in conservatory of snow keep fresh and this work by the detention of  the spirit and constipation of the tangible part the second be astriction for  astriction prohibit dissolution as we see general in medicine whereof such as  be astringent do inhibit putrefaction and by the same reason of astringency  some small quantity of oil of vitriol will keep fresh water long from putrefy  and this astriction be in a substance that have a virtual cold and it work  partly by the fame mean that cold do the three be the exclude of the air and  again the expose to the air for these contrary as it come often to pass work  the same effect accord to the nature of the subject matter so we see that beer  or wine in bottle close stop last long that the garner under ground keep come  long than those above ground and that fruit close in wax keep fresh and  likewise body put in honey and flower keep more fresh and liquor drink and  juice with a little oil cast on the top keep fresh Contratiwise we see that  Cloth and apparel not Aired do breed moth and mould and the diversity be that  in body that needs Detenties of spirit the Excluston of the air do good as in  drink and c but in body that needs emission of spirit to discharge some of the  superfluous moisture it do hurt for they require atring the four be motion and  stir for putrefaction ask rest for the subtle motion which putrefaction  require be disturb by any agitation and all local motion keep body integral  and their part together as we see that turn over of corn in a garner or let it  run like a hour glass from a upper room into a low do keep it sweet and run  water putrefy not and in man Bodles exercise hinder putrefaction and  contrariwise rest and want of motion or stop whereby the run of humour or the  motion of perspiration be stay further putrefaction as we part partly touch a  little before the five be the breathe forth of the adventitious moisture in  body for as wet do hasten putrefaction so Connenient dry whereby the more  radical moisture be only keep in put back putrefaction so we see that herb and  flower if they be dry in the shade or dry in the hot sun for a small time keep  best for the emission of the lose and adventitious moisture do betray the  radical moisture and carry it out for company the six be the strengthen of the  spirit of body for as a great heat keep body from putrefaction but a  moderately warm heat incline they to putrefaction so a strong spirit likewise  preserve and a weak or faint spirit dispose to corruption so we find that salt  water corrupt not so soon as fresh and salt of oyster and powder of meat keep  they from putrefaction it will be try also whether chalk put into water or  drink do not preserve it from putrefy or speedy sour so we see that strong  beer will last long than small and all thing that be hot and aromatical do  help to preserve liquor or powder c which they do as well by strengthen the  spirit as by soak out the lose moisture the seven be separation of the crude  part and thereby make the body more equal for all unperfect mixture be apt to  putrefy and watery substance be more apt to putrefy than oily so we see distil  water will last long than raw water and thing that have pass the fire do last  long than those that have not pass the fire as dry Pears c the eight be the  draw forth continual of that part where the putrefaction begin which be common  the lose and watery moisture not only for the reason before give that it  provoke the radical moisture to come forth with it but because be detain in  the body the putrefaction take hold of it insect the rest as we see in the  embalm dead body and the same reason be of preserve herb or fruit or flower in  bran or meal the nine be the Commixiture of any thing that be more oily or  sweet for such body be least apt to putrefy the air work little upon they and  they not putrefy preserve the rest and therefore we see syrup and ointment  will last long than juice the ten be the commixture of somewhat that be dry  for putrefaction begin first from the spirit and then from the moisture and  that that be dry be unapt to puttrefie and therefore smoke preserve flesh as  we see in Bacon and neat tongue and Martlemas Beese c the opinion of some of  the ancient that blow air do preserve body long than other air seem to I  probable for that the blow air be over charge and compress will hardly receive  the breathe out of any thing but rather repulse it it be try in a blow bladder  whereinto flesh be put and likewise a flower and it sort not for dry bladder  will not blow and new bladder rather further putrefaction the way be therefore  blow strong with a pair of bellows into a hogshead put into the hogshead  before that which you will have preserve and in the instant that you withdraw  the bellows stop the hold close the experiment of wood that shine in the dark  we have diligent drive and pursue the rather for that of all thing that give  light here below it be the most durable and have least apparent motion fire  and flame be in continual expense sugar shine only while it be in scrape and  salt water while it be in dash glow es have their shine while they live or a  little after only scale of fish putrify seem to be of the same nature with  shine wood and it be true that all putrefaction have with it a inward motion  as well as fire or light the trial sort thus the shine be in some piece more  bright in some more of but the most bright of all do not attain to the light  of a glow-w the wood that have be try to shine be chief sallow and willow also  the a and Husle it may be it hold in other both root and body do shine but the  root better the colour of the shine part by daylight be in some piece white in  some piece incline to read which in the country they call the white and read  garret the part that shine be for the most part somewhat safe and moist to  feel to but some be sound to be firm and hard so as it may be figure into a  cross or into bead c but you must not look to have a image or the like in any  thing that be lightsome for even a face in iron read hot will not be see the  light confound the small difference of lightsome and darksome which show the  figure there be the shine part pare off till you come to that that do not  shine but within two day the part contiguous begin also to shine be lie abroad  in the due so as it seem the putrefaction spread there be other dead wood of  like kind that be lie abroad which shine not at the first but after a night  lie abroad begin to shine there be other wood that do first shine and be lie  dry in the house within five or six day lose the shine and lie abroad again  recover the shine shine wood be lie in a dry room within a seven night lose  their shine but be lie in a cellar or dark room keep the shine the boar of  hold in that kind of wood and then lie it abroad seem to conduce to make it  shine the Cause be for that all solution of continuity do help on putrefaction  as be touch before no wood have be yet try to shine that be cut down alive but  such as be rot both in stock and root while it grow part of the wood that  shine be steep in oil and retain the shine a fortnight the like succeed in  some steep in water and much better how long the shine will continue if the  wood be lie abroad every night and take in and sprinkle with water in the day  be not yet try trial be make of lie it abroad in frosty weather which hurt it  not there be a great piece of a root which do shine and the shine part be cut  off till no more shine yet after two night though it be keep in a dry room it  get a shine the bring forth of live creature may be accelerate in two respect  the one if the embryon ripen and perfect soon the other if there be some Cause  from the mother body of expulsion or put it down whereof the former be good  and argue strength the latter be ill and come by accident or disease and  therefore the ancient observation be true that the child bear in the seven  moth do common well but bear in the eight month do for the most part die but  the Cause assign be fabulous which be that in the eight month shall be the  return of the reign of the planet Saturn which as they say be a planet malign  whereas in the seven be the reign of the moon which be a planet propitious but  the true Cause be for that where there be so great a prevention of the  ordinary time it be the lustiness of the child but when it be less it be some  indisposition of the mother to accelerate growth or stature it must proceed  either from the plenty of the nourishment or from the nature of the  nourishment or from the quicken and excite of the natural heat for the first  excess of nourishment be hurtful for it make the child corpulent and grow in  breadth rather than in height and you may take a experiment from plant which  if they spread much be seldom tall as for the nature of the nourishment first  it may not be too dry and therefore child in dairy country do wax more tall  than where they feed more upon breed and flesh there be also a receive Tale  that boil of Dasie root in milk which it be certain be great driers will make  dog little but so much be true that a over dry nourishment in childhood put  back stature second the nourishment must be of a open nature for that  attenuate the juice and further the motion of the spirit upward neither be it  without cause that Xenophon in the nourriture of the Persian child do so much  commend their feed upon cardamon which he say make they grow better and be of  a more active habit cardamon be in Latin nasturtium and with we water cress  which it be certain be a herb that while it be young be friendly to life as  for the quicken of natural heat it must be do chief with exercise and  therefore no doubt much go to school where they sit so much hinder the growth  of child whereas country people that go not to school be common of better  stature and again man must beware how they give child any thing that be cold  in operation for even long suck do hinder both wit and stature this have be  try that a whelp that have be feed with nitre in milk have become very little  but extreme lively for the spirit of nitre be cold and though it be a  excellent medicine in strength of year for prolongation of life yet it be in  child and young creature a enemy to growth and all for the same reason for  heat be requisite to growth but after a man be come to his middle age heat  consume the spirit which the coldness of the spirit of nitre do help to  condense and correct there be two great family of thing you may term they by  several name sulphureous and mercurial which be the chemist word for as for  their sal which be their three principle it be a compound of the other two  inflammable and not inflammable mature and Crude oily and watery for we see  that in Subterranies there be as the father of their tribe brimstone and  Mercury in vegetable and live creature there be water and oil in the inferior  order of Pneumaticalls there be air and flame and in the superior there be the  body of the star and the pure sky and these pair though they be unlike in the  primitive difference of matter yet they seem to have many consent for Mercury  and sulphur be principal material of metal water and oil be principal material  of vegetable and animal and seem to differ but in maturation or concoction  flame in vulgar opinion be but air incense and they both have quickness of  motion and facility of session much alike and the interstellar sky though the  opinion be vain that the star be the denser part of his orb have  notwithstanding so much affinity with the star that there be a rotation of  that as well as of the star therefore it be one of the great magnalia nature  to turn water or watery juice into oil or oily juice great in nature than to  turn silver or quick silver into gold the instance we have wherein Crude and  watery substance turn into fat and oily be of four kind first in the mixture  of earth and water which mingle by the help of the sun gather a nitrous  fatness more than either of they have several as we see in that they put forth  plant which needs both juice the second be in the assimilation of nourishment  make in the body of plant and live creature where of plant turn the juice of  mere water and earth into a great deal of oily matter live creature though  much of their fat and flesh be out of oily aliment as meat and breed yet they  assimilate also in a measure their drink of water c but these two way of  Version of water into oil namely by mixture and by assimilation be by many  passage and a straining through and by long continuance of soft heat and by  circuit of time the three be in the inception of putrefaction as in water  corrupt and the mother of water distil both which have a kind of fatness or  oil the four be in the dulcoration of some metal as saccharum Saturni c the  intention of Version of water into a more oily substance be by digestion for  oil be almost nothing else but water digest and this digestion be principal by  heat which heat must be either outward or inward again it may be by  provocation or excitation which be cause by the mingle of body already oily or  digest for they will somewhat communicate their nature with the rest digestion  also be strong effect by direct assimilation of body Crude into body digest as  in plant and live creature who nourishment be far more Crude than their body  but this digestion be by a great compass as have be say as for the more full  handle of these two principle whereof this be but a taste the enquiry of which  be one of the profound inquiry of nature we leave it to the Title of Version  of body and likewise to the Title of the first congregation of matter which  like a general assembly of estate do give law to all body a chameleon be a  creature about the bigness of a ordinary lizard his head unproportionable big  his eye great he move his head without the Writhen of his neck which be  Inflexible as a hog do his back crooked his skin spot with little tumour less  eminent near the belly his tail slender and long on each foot he have five  finger three on the outside and two on the inside his tongue of a marvelous  length in respect of his body and hollow at the end which he will launch out  to prey upon Flses of colour green and of a dusky Yellow bright and white  towards the belly yet spot with blue white and read if he be lie upon green  the green predominate if upon Yellow the Yellow not so if he be lie upon blue  or read or white only the green spot receive a more orient lustre lie upon  black he look all black though not without a mixture of green he feed not only  upon air though that be his principal sustenance for sometime he take fly as  be say yet some that have keep chameleon a whole year together can never  perceive that ever they feed upon any thing else but air and may observe their  belly to swell after they have exhaust the air and close their jaw which they  open common against the ray of the sun they have a foolish tradition in magic  that if a chameleon be burn upon the top of a house it will raise a tempest  suppose accord to their vain dream of sympathy because he nourish with air his  body shall have great virtue to make impression upon the air it be report by  one of the ancient that in part of media there be eruption of flame out of  plain and that those flame be clear and cast not forth such smoke and ash and  pummice as mountain flame do the reason no doubt be because the flame be not  pen as it be in mountain and earth quake which cast flame there be also some  blind fire under stone which flame not out but oil be pour upon they they  flame out the Cause whereof be for that it seem the fire be so choke as not  able to remove the stone it be heat rather than flame which nevertheless be  sufficient to inflame the oil it be report that in some lake the water be so  nitrous as if foul clothes be put into it it scour they of it self and if they  stay any whit long they moulder away and the scour virtue of nitre be the more  to be note because it be a body cold and we see warm water scour better than  cold but the Cause be for that it have a subtle spirit which sever and divide  any thing that be soul and viscous and stick upon a body take a bladder the  great you can get fill it full of wind and tie it about the neck with a silk  thread wax and upon that put likewise wax very close so that when the neck of  the bladder dry no air may possible get in nor out then bury it three or four  foot under the earth in a vault or in a Conferuatory of snow the snow be make  hollow about the bladder and after some fortnight distance see whether the  bladder be shrink for if it be then it be plain that the coldness of the earth  or snow have condense the air and bring it a degree near to water which be a  experiment of great consequence it be a report of some good credit that in  deep cave there be pensile crystal and degree of crystal that drop from above  and in some other though more rare that rise from below which though it be  chief the work of cold yet it may be that water that pass through the earth  gather a nature more clammy and fit to congeal and become solid than water of  it self therefore trial will be make to lie a heap of earth in great frost  upon a hollow vessel put a canvas between that it fall not in and pour water  upon it in such quantity as will be sure to soak through and see whether it  will not make a hard ice in the bottom of the vessel and less apt to dissolve  than ordinary I suppose also that if you make the earth narrow at the bottom  than at the top in fashion of a sugar loaf reverse it will help the experiment  for it will make the ice where it issue less in bulk and evermore smallness of  quantity be a help to Version take damask rise and pull they then dry they  upon the top of a house upon a lead or terrace in the hot sun in a clear day  between the hour only of twelve and two or there about then put they into a  sweet dry earthen bottle or a glass with narrow mouth stuff they close  together but without bruise stop the bottle or glass close and these rise will  retain not only their smell perfect but their colour fresh for a year at least  note that nothing do so much destroy any plant or other body either by  putrefaction or arefaction as the adventitious moisture which hang lose in the  body if it be not draw out for it betray and toll forth the innate and radical  moisture along with it when it self go forth and therefore in live creature  moderate sweat do preserve the juice of the body note that these rise when you  take they from the dry have little or no smell so that the smell be a second  smell that issue out of the flower afterward the continuance of flame accord  unto the diversity of the body inflame and other circumstance be worthy the  enquiry chief for that though flame be almost of a momentany last yet it  receive the more and the less we will first therefore speak at large of body  inflame whole and immediate without any wick to help the inflammation a  spoonful of spirit of wine a little heat be take and it burn as long as come  to pulse the same quantity of spirit of wine mix with the six part of a  spoonful of nitre burn but to the space of pulse mix with the like quantity of  bay-salt pulse mix with the like quantity of gunpowder which dissolve into a  black water pulse a cube or pellet of Yellow wax be take as much as half the  spirit of wine and set in the amid and it burn only to the space of pulse mix  with the six part of a spoonful of milk it burn to the space of pulse and the  milk be curdle mix with the six part of a spoonful of water it burn to the  space of pulse with a equal quantity of water only to the space of pulse a  small pebble be lie in the amid and the spirit of wine burn to the space of  pulse a piece of wood of the bigness of a arrow and about a finger length be  set up in the amid and the spirit of wine burn to the space of pulse so that  the spirit of wine simple endure the long and the spirit of wine with the  bay-salt and the equal quantity of water be the short consider well whether  the more speedy go forth of the flame becaused by the great vigour of the  flame in burn or by the resistance of the body mix and the aversion thereof to  take flame which will appear by the quantity of the spirit of wine that remain  after the go out of the flame and it seem clear to be the latter for that the  mixture of thing least apt to burn be the speedy in go out and note by the way  that spirit of wine burn till it go out of it self will burn no more and taste  nothing so hot in the mouth as it do no nor yet sour as if it be a degree  towards vinegar which burn wine do but flat and dead note that in the  experiment of wax aforesaid the wax dissolve in the burn and yet do not  incorporate it self with the spirit of wine to produce one flame but  wheresoever the wax float the flame forsake it till at last it spread all over  and put the flame quite out the experiment of the mixture of the spirit of  wine inflame be thing of discovery and not of use but now we will speak of the  continuance of flame such as be use for candle lamp or taper consist of  inflammable matter and of a wick that provoke inflammation and this import not  only discovery but also use and profit for it be a great save in all such  light if they can be make as fair and bright as other and yet last long wax  pure make into a candle and wax mix several into candle stuff with the  particular that follow videlicet water water vitae milk bay-salt oil butter  nitre brimstone sawdust every of these bear a six part to the wax and every of  these candle mix be of the same weight and wick with the wax pure prove thus  in the burn and last the swift in consume be that with sawdust which first  burn fair till some part of the candle be consume and the Dust gather about  the snaste but then it make the snaste big and long and to burn duskishly and  the candle waste in half the time of the wax pure the next in swiftness be the  oil and butter which consume by a five part swift than the pure wax then  follow in swiftness the clear wax it self then the bay-salt which last about a  eight part long than the clear wax then follow the water vita which last about  a five part long than the clear wax then follow the milk and water with little  difference from the water vita but the water slow and in these four last the  wick will spit forth little spark for the nitre it will not hold light above  some twelve pulse but all the while it will spit out portion of flame which  afterward will go out into a vapour for the brimstone it will hold light much  about the same time with the nitre but then after a little while it will  harden and cake about the snaste so that the mixture of bay-salt with wax will  win a eight part of the time of last and the water a five after the several  material be try trial be likewise make of several wicks as of ordinary cotton  sow thread rush silk straw and wood the silk straw and wood will flame a  little till they come to the wax and then go out of the other three the thread  consume fast than the cotton by a six part of time the cotton next then the  rush consume flower than the cotton by at least a three part of time for the  bigness of the flame the cotton and thread cast a flame much alike and the  rush much less and dimmer quare whether wood and wick both as in torch consume  fast than the wick simple we have speak of the several material and the  several wick but to the last of the flame it import also not only what the  material be but in the same material whether it be hard soft old new c good  Housewines to make their candle burn the long use to lie they one by one in  bran or flower which make they hard and so they consume the flower insomuch as  by this mean they will outlast other candle of the same stuff almost half in  half for bran and flower have a virtue to harden so that both age and lie in  the bran do help to the last and we see that wax candle last long than tallow  candle because wax be more firm and hard the last of flame also depend upon  the easy draw of the nourishment as we see in the court of England there be a  service which they call all-night which be as it be a great cake of wax with  the wick in the amid whereby it come to pass that the wick fetch the  nourishment further off we see also that lamp last long because the vessel be  far broad than the breadth of a taper or candle take a turret lamp of tin make  in the from of a squire the height of the turret be thrice as much as the  length of the low part whereupon the lamp stand make only one hold in it at  the end of the return further from the turret reverse it and fill it full of  oil by that hold and then set it upright again and put a wick in at the hold  and lighten it you shall find that it will burn flow and a long time which be  cause as be say last before for that the flame fetch the nourishment a far off  you shall find also that as the oil waste and descend so the top of the turret  by little and little fill with air which be cause by the rarefaction of the  oil by the heat it be worthy the observation to make a hold in the top of the  turret and to try when the oil be almost consume whether the air make of the  oil if you put to it a flame of a candle in the let of it forth will inflame  it be good also to have the lamp make not of tin but of glass that you may see  how the vapour or air gather by degree in the top a four point that import the  last of the flame be the closeness of the air wherein the flame burn we see  that if wind blow upon a candle it waste apace we see also it last long in a  lantern than at large and there be tradition of lamp and candle that have burn  a very long time in cave and tomb a five point that import the last of the  flame be the nature of the air where the flame burn whether it be hot or cold  moist or dry the air if it be very cold irritate the flame and make it burn  more fierce as fire scorch in frosty weather and so further the consumption  the air once heat I conceive make the flame burn more mild and so help the  continuance the air if it be dry be indifferent the air if it be moist do in a  degree quench the flame as we see light will go out in the dump of i and  howsoever make it burn more dull and so help the continuance burial in earth  serve for preservation and for condensation and for induration of body and if  you intend condensation or induration you may bury the body so as earth may  touch they as if you will make artificial porcellane c and the like you may do  for conservation if the body be hard and solid as clay wood c but if you  intend preservation of body more soft and tender then you must do one of these  two either you must put they in case whereby they may not touch the earth or  else you must vault the earth whereby it may hang over they and not touch they  for if the earth touch they it will do more hurt by the moisture cause they to  putrify than good by the virtual cold to conserve they except the earth be  very dry and sandy a orange limon and apple wrap in a linen Cloth be bury for  a fortnight space four foot deep within the earth though it be in a moist  place and a rainy time yet come forth no way mouldy or rot but be become a  little hard than they be otherwise fresh in their colour but their juice  somewhat flat but with the burial of a fortnight more they become putrify a  bottle of beer bury in like manner as before become more lively better taste  and clear than it be and a bottle of wine in like manner a bottle of vinegar  so bury come forth more lively and more odoriferous smell almost like a violet  and after the whole month burial all the three come forth as fresh and lively  if not better than before it be a profitable experiment to presrue orange  lemon and pomegranate till summer for then their price will be mighty increase  this may be do if you put they in a pot or vessel well cover that the moisture  of the earth come not at they or else by put they in a conservatory of snow  and general whosoever will make experiment of cold let he be provide of three  thing a conservatory of snow a good large vault twenty foot at least under the  ground and a deep well there have be a tradition that pearl and Cora and  TurchoisStone that have lose their colour may be recover by bury in the earth  which be a thing of great profit if it will sort but upon trial of six week  burial there follow no effect it be good to try it in a deep well or in a  conservatory of snow where the cold may be more constringent and so make the  body more unite and thereby more resplendent man bodier be heavy and less  dispose to motion when sther wind blow than when Northern the Cause be for  that when the southern wind blow the humour do in some degree melt and wax  fluid and so flow into the part as it be see in wood and other body which when  the southern wind blow do swell beside the motion and activity of the body  consist chief in the sinew which when the southern wind blow be more relax it  be common see that more be sick in the summer and more die in the winter  except it be in Peslilent disease which common reign in summer or autumn the  reason be because disease be breed indeed chief by heat but then they be cure  most by sweat and purge which in the summer come on or be provoke more easy as  for pestilent disease the reason why most die of they in summer be because  they be breed most in the summer for otherwise those that be touch be in most  danger in the winter the general opinion be that year hot and moist be most  pestilent upon the superficial ground that heat and moisture cause  putrefaction in England it be find not true for many time there have be great  plague in dry year whereof the Cause may be for that drought in the body of  islander habituate to moist air do exasperate the humour and make they more  apt to putrify or inflame beside it taint the water common and make they less  wholesome and again in Barbary the plague break up in the summer month when  the weather be hot and dry many disease both epidemical and other break forth  at particular time and the Cause be false impute to the constitution of the  air at that time when they break forth or reign whereas it proceed indeed from  a precedent sequence and series of the season of the year and therefore  Hippocrates in his prognostic do make good observation of the disease that  ensue upon the nature of the precedent four season of the year trial have be  make with earthen bottle well stop hang in a well of twenty fathom deep at the  least and some of the Bettles have be let down into the water some other have  hang above within about a fathom of the water and the liquor so try have be  beer not new but ready for drink and wine and milk the proof have be that both  the beer and the wine as well within water as above have not be pall or deaden  at all but as good or somewhat better than bottle of the same drink and  staleness keep in a cellar but those which do hang above water be apparent the  best and that beer do flower a little whereas that under water do not though  it be fresh the milk sour and begin to purify Neuerthelosse it be true that  there be a village near Blois where in deep cane they do thicken milk in such  sort that it become very pleasant which be some Cause of this trial of hang  milk in the well but our proof be nought neither do I know whether that milk  in those cave be first hoist it be good therefore to try it with milk sodden  and with cream for that milk of it self be such a compound body of cream cure  and whey as it be easy turn and dissolve it be good also to try the beer when  it be in wort that it may be see whether the hang in the well will accelerate  the ripen and clarify of it diverse we see do stut the Cause may be in most  the refrigeration of the tongue whereby it be less apt to move and therefore  we see that natural do general stut and we see that in those that stut if they  drink wine moderate they stut less because it heat and so we see that they  that stut do stut more in the first offer to speak than in continuance because  the tongue be by motion somewhat heat in some also it may be though rare the  dryness of the tongue which likewise make it less apt to move as well as cold  for it be a affect that come to some wise and great man as it do unto Moses  who be Lingepr apedita and many stutter we find be very choleric man choler  induce a dryness in the tongue smell and other odour be sweet in the air at  some distance than near the nose as have be partly touch heretofore the Cause  be double first the fine mixture or incorporation of the smell for we see that  in sound likewise they be sweet when we can hear every part by it self the  other reason be for that all sweet smell have join with they some earthy or  Crude odour and at some distance the sweet which be the more spiritual be  perceive and the earthy reach not so far sweet smell be most forcible in dry  substance when they be break and so likewise in orange or lemon the nip of  their rind give out their smell more and general when body be move or stir  though not break they smell more as a SweetBagge wave the Cause be double the  one for that there be a great emission of the spirit when way be make and this  hold in the break nip or crush it hold also in some degree in the move but in  this last there be a Conurrence of the second Cause which be the impulsion of  the air that bring the send fast upon we the dainty smell of flower be out of  those plant who leave smell not as violet rise wall flower gilly flower pink  woodbine vine flower apple bloom lime tree bloom bean bloom c the Cause be for  that where there be heat and strength enough in the plant to make the leave  odorate there the smell of the flower be rather Euanide and weak than that of  the leave as it be in rise mary flower lavender flower and sweet Briar rose  but where there be less heat there the spirit of the plant be digest and  refine and fever from the gross juice in the Esstorescence and not before most  odour smell best break or crush as have be say but flower press or Beatrice do  lose the freshness and sweetness of their odour the Cause be for that when  they be crush the gross and more earthy spirit come out with the fine and  trouble it whereas in strong odour there be no such degree of the issue of the  smell it be a thing of very good use to discover the goodness of water the  taste to those that drink water only do somewhat but other experiment be more  sure first try water by weight wherein you may find some difference though not  much and the light you may account the better second try they by boil upon a  equal fire and that which consume away fast you may account the best three try  they in several bottle or open vessel match in every thing else and see which  of they last long without stench or corruption and that which hold unpurified  long you may likewise account the best fourthly try they by make drink strong  or small with the same quantity of malt and you may conclude that that water  which make the strong drink be the more concoct and nourish though perhaps it  be not so good for medicinal use and such water common be the water of large  and Nanigable river and likewise in large and clean pond of stand water for  upon both they the sun have more power than upon fountain or small river and I  concelue that chalk water be next they the best for go further in drink for  that also help concoction so it be out of a deep well for then it cure the  rawness of the water but chalky water towards the top of the earth be too fret  as it appear in laundry of clothes which wear out apace if you use such water  five the housewife do find a difference in water for the bear or not bear of  soap and it be likely that the more fat water will bear soap best for the  hungry water do kill the unctuous nature of the soap six you may make a  judgement of water accord to the place whence they spring or come the rain  water be by the physician esteem the fine and the best but yet it be say to  putrify soon which be likely because of the fineness of the spirit and in  conservatory of rain water such as they have in Venice c they be and not so  choice water the worse perhaps because they be cover aloft and keep from the  sun snow water be hold unwholesome in so much as the people that dwell at the  foot of the SnowMountaines or otherwise upon the ascent especial the woman by  drink of snow water have great bag hang under their throat well water except  it be upon chalk or a very plentiful spring make meat read which be a ill sign  spring on the top of high hill be the best for both they seem to have a  lightness and appetite of mount and beside they be most pure and unmingled and  again be more percolated through a great space of earth for water in valley  join in effect under ground with all water of the same level whereas spring on  the top of hill pass through a great deal of pure earth with less mixture of  other water seven judgement may be make of water by the soil whereupon the  water run as pebble be the clean and best taste and next to that clay water  and three water upon chalk fourthly that upon sand and Worst of all upon mud  neither may you trust water that taste sweet for they be common find in rise  ground of great city which must needs take in a great deal of filth in Peru  and diverse part of the west Indies though under the line the heat be not so  intolerable as they be in Barbary and the skirt of the torrid zone the cause  be first the great Brizes which the motion of the air in great circle such as  be under the girdle of the world produce which do refrigerate and therefore in  those part noon be nothing so hot when the Brizes be great as about nine or  ten of the clock in the before noon another Cause be for that the length of  the night and the due thereof do compense the heat of the day a three Cause be  the stay of the sun not in respect of day and night for that we speak of  before but in respect of the season for under the line the sun cross the line  and make two summer and two winter but in the skirt of the torrid zone it  double and go back again and so make one long summer the heat of the sun make  man black in some country as in Ethiopia and ginny c fire do it not as we see  in GlasseMen that be continual about the fire the reason may be because fire  do lick up the spirit and blood of the body so as they exhale so that it ever  make man look pale and sallow but the sun which be a gentle heat do but draw  the blood to the outward part and rather concoct it than soak it and therefore  we see that all Aethiapes be fleshy and plump and have great lip all which  betoken moisture retain and not draw out we see also that the negro be breed  in country that have plenty of water by river or otherwise for Meroe which be  the metropolis of Ethiopia be upon a great lake and Congo where the negro be  be full of river and the confine of the river Niger where the negro also be be  well water and the region about Capo Verde be likewise moist in so much as it  be pestilent through moisture but the country of the Abyssenes and Barbary and  Peru where they be Tawney and Oliuaster and pale be general more sandy and dry  as for the ethiop as they be plump and fleshy so it may be they be sanguine  and ruddy colour if their black skin will suffer it to be see some creature do  move a good while after their head be off as bird some a very little time as  man and all beast some move though cut in feuerall piece as snake eel worm fly  c first therefore it be certain that the immediate Cause of death be the  resolution or extinguishment of the spirit and that the destruction or  corruption of the organ be but the mediate Cause but some organ be so  peremptory necessary that the extinguishment of the spirit do speedy follow  but yet so as there be a interim of a small time it be report by one of the  ancient of credit that a sacrifice beast have low after the heart have be  fever and it be a report also of credit that the head of a big have be open  and the brain put into the palm of a man hand tremble without break any part  of it or fevering it from the marrow of the back bone during which time the  big have be in all appearance stark dead and without motion and after a small  time the brain have be replace and the skull of the big close and the big have  a little after go about and certain it be that a eye upon revenge have be  thrust forth so as it hang a pretty distance by the visual nerve and during  that time the eye have be without any power of sight and yet after be replace  recover sight now the spirit be chief in the head and cell of the brain which  in man and beast be large and therefore when the head be off they move little  or nothing but bird have small head and therefore the spirit be a little more  disperse in the sinew whereby motion remain in they a little long in so much  as it be extant in story that a emperor of Rome to show the certainty of his  hand do shoot a great fork arrow at a ostrich as she run swift upon the stage  and strike off her head and yet she continue the race a little way with the  head off as for worm and fly and eel the spirit be diffuse almost all over and  therefore they move in their several piece