Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            themſelves, but they pounce and raſe their skin, that the Painting may not
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            be taken forth, and make it into Works: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6706" xml:space="preserve">So do the Weſt-Indians; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6707" xml:space="preserve">and ſo did
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            the ancient Picts and Britons. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6708" xml:space="preserve">So that it ſeemeth Men would have the colours
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            of Birds Feathers, if they could tell how, or at leaſt they will have gay Skins in
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            ſtead of gay Cloaths.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6710" xml:space="preserve">IT is ſtrange that the uſe of Bathing as a part of Diet is left. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6711" xml:space="preserve">With the Ro-
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            mans and the Grecians it was as uſual as Eating or Sleeping; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6712" xml:space="preserve">and ſo is it
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Uſe of Bath-
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              ing and An-
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              ointing.</note>
            amongſt the Turks at this day; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6713" xml:space="preserve">whereas with us it remaineth but as a part of
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            Phyſick. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6714" xml:space="preserve">I am of opinion, that the uſe of it as it was with the Romans, was
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            hurtful to health; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6715" xml:space="preserve">for that it made the Body ſoft and eaſie to waſte. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6716" xml:space="preserve">For the
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            Turks it is more proper, becauſe their drinking Water, and feeding upon
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            Rice, and other Food of ſmall nouriſhment, maketh their Bodies ſo ſolid
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            and hard, as you need not fear that Bathing ſhould make them frothy. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6717" xml:space="preserve">Be-
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            ſides, the Turks are great ſitters, and ſeldom walk; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6718" xml:space="preserve">whereby they ſweat leſs,
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            and need Bathing more. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6719" xml:space="preserve">But yet certain it is, that Bathing, and eſpecially An-
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            ointing, may be ſo uſed, as it may be a great help to Health, and Prolongation
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            of Life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6720" xml:space="preserve">But here of we ſhall ſpeak in due place, when we come to handle
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            Experiments Medicinal.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6722" xml:space="preserve">THe Turks have a pretty Art of Chamoletting of Paper, which is not with
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            us in uſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6723" xml:space="preserve">They take divers Oyled Colours, and put them ſeverally (in
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Cha
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              moletting
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              of Paper.</note>
            drops) upon Water, and ſtir the Water lightly, and then wet their Paper
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            (being of ſome thickneſs) with it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6724" xml:space="preserve">and the Paper will be waved and veined
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            like Chamolet or Marble.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6726" xml:space="preserve">IT is ſome what ſtrange, that the Blood of all Birds, and Beaſts, and Fiſhes,
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            ſhould be of a Red colour, and onely the Blood of the Cuttle ſhould be
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Cuttle-Ink.</note>
            as black as Ink. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6727" xml:space="preserve">A man would think that the cauſe ſhould be the high Con-
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            coction of that Blood; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6728" xml:space="preserve">for we ſee in ordinary Puddings, that the Boyling
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            urneth the Blood to be black; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6729" xml:space="preserve">and the Cuttle is accounted a delicate Meat,
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            and is much in requeſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6731" xml:space="preserve">IT is reported of credit, That if you take Earth from Land adjoyning to the
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            River of Nile, and preſerve it in that manner, that it neither come to be
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              Solitary,
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              Encreaſe of
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              Weight in
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              Earth.</note>
            wet nor waſted, and weigh it daily, it will not alter weight until the Se-
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            venteenth of June, which is the day when the River beginneth to riſe,
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            and then it will grow more and more ponderous till the River cometh to
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            his height. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6732" xml:space="preserve">Which if it be true, it cannot be cauſed but by the Air,
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            which then beginneth to condenſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6733" xml:space="preserve">and ſo turneth within that ſmall
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            Mould into a degree of Moiſture, which produceth weight. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6734" xml:space="preserve">So it hath
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            been obſerved, that Tobacco cut and weighed, and then dryed by the
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            Fire, loſeth weight; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6735" xml:space="preserve">and after being laid in the open Air, recovereth
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            weight again. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6736" xml:space="preserve">And it ſhould ſeem, that as ſoon as ever the River beginneth
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            to increaſe, the whole Body of the Air there abouts ſuffereth a change: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6737" xml:space="preserve">For
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            (that which is more ſtrange) it is credibly affirmed, that upon that very
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            day, when the River firſt riſeth, great Plagues in Cairo uſe ſuddenly to
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            break up.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6739" xml:space="preserve">THoſe that are very cold, and eſpecially in their Feet, cannot get to Sleep.
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            The cauſe may be, for that in Sleep is required a free reſpiration, which
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              in Conſort,
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              touching
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              Sleep.</note>
            cold doth ſhut in and hinder: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6741" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee, that in great Colds, one can </s>
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