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

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            flower a little; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3813" xml:space="preserve">whereas that under Water did not; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3814" xml:space="preserve">though it were freſh.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3815" xml:space="preserve">The Milk ſoured, and began to putrifie. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3816" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs it is true, that there is a
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            Village near Blois, where in deep Caves they do thicken Milk, in ſuch ſort,
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            that it becometh very pleaſant; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3817" xml:space="preserve">which was ſome cauſe of this tryal of hang-
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            ing Milk in the Well: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3818" xml:space="preserve">But our proof was naught, neither do I know, whe-
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            ther that Milk in thoſe Caves be firſt boyled. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3819" xml:space="preserve">It were good therefore to try
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            it with Milk ſodden, and with Cream; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3820" xml:space="preserve">for that Milk of it ſelf, is ſuch a Com-
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            pound Body of Cream, Cruds, and Whey, as it is eaſily turned and diſſolved. </s>
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            It were good alſo to try the Beer, when it is in Wort, that it may be ſeen,
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            whether the hanging in the Well, will accelerate the ripening and clariſying
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            of it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3823" xml:space="preserve">DIvers, we ſee, do Stut. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3824" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be (in moſt) the Refrigeration of
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0119-01" xlink:href="note-0119-01a" xml:space="preserve">386.</note>
            the Tongue, whereby it is leſs apt to move; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3825" xml:space="preserve">and therefore we ſee,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0119-02" xlink:href="note-0119-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Stutting.</note>
            that Naturals do generally Stut: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3826" xml:space="preserve">And we ſee, that in thoſe that Stut, if they
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            drink Wine moderately, they Stut leſs, becauſe it heateth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3827" xml:space="preserve">And ſo we ſee,
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            that they that Stut, do Stut more in the firſt offer to ſpeak, than in continuance;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3828" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the Tongue is, by motion, ſome what heated. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3829" xml:space="preserve">In ſome alſo, it may
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            be (though rarely) the dryneſs of the Tongue, which likewiſe maketh it
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            leſs apt to move as well as cold; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3830" xml:space="preserve">for it is an affect that cometh to ſome wiſe
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            and great Men, as it did unto Moſes, who was Linguæ Præpeditæ: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3831" xml:space="preserve">And many
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            Stutters (we finde) are very Cholerick Men, Choler enducing a dryneſs in
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            the Tongue.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3833" xml:space="preserve">SMells, and other Odors, are ſweeter in the Air, at ſome diftance, than near
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0119-03" xlink:href="note-0119-03a" xml:space="preserve">387.</note>
            the Noſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3834" xml:space="preserve">as hath been partly touched heretofore. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3835" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is double,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0119-04" xlink:href="note-0119-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Smells.</note>
            firſt, The finer mixture, or incorporation of the Smell. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3836" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee, that in
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            Sounds like wiſe, they are ſweeteſt, when we cannot hear every part by it ſelf.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3837" xml:space="preserve">The other reaſon is, For that all ſweet Smells have joyned with them ſome
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            Earthy or Crude Odors; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3838" xml:space="preserve">and at ſome diſtance the Sweet, which is the more
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            ſpiritual, is perceived; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3839" xml:space="preserve">and the Earthy reacheth not ſo far.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3841" xml:space="preserve">Sweet Smells are moſt forcible in dry Subſtances, when they are broken;
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0119-05" xlink:href="note-0119-05a" xml:space="preserve">388.</note>
            and ſo like wiſe in Orenges or Lemmons, the nipping off their Rinde, giveth out
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            their ſmell more: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3843" xml:space="preserve">And generally, when Bodies are moved or ſtirred, though
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            not broken, they ſmell more, as a Sweet-Bag waved. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3844" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is double;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3845" xml:space="preserve">the one, for that there is a geater emiſſion of the Spirit, when way is made: </s>
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            And this holdeth in the Breaking, Nipping, or Cruſhing; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3847" xml:space="preserve">it holdeth alſo,
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            (in ſome degree) in the Moving. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3848" xml:space="preserve">But in this laſt, there is a concurrence of
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            the ſecond cauſe, which is the Impulſion of the Air, that bringeth the ſent
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            faſter upon us.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3850" xml:space="preserve">The daintieſt ſmells of Flowers, are out of thoſe Plants whoſe Leaves
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0119-06" xlink:href="note-0119-06a" xml:space="preserve">389.</note>
            ſmell not; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3851" xml:space="preserve">as Violets. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3852" xml:space="preserve">Roſes, Wall-flowers, Gilly-flowers, Pincks, Wood-bine, Vine-
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            flowers, Apple-blooms, Limetree blooms, Bean-blooms, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3853" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3854" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that
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            where there is heat and ſtrength enough in the Plant to make the Leaves
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            odorate, there the ſmell of the Flower is rather evanide and weaker, than
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            that of the Leaves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3855" xml:space="preserve">as it is in Roſemary-flowers, Lavender-flowers, and Sweet-Brier
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            Roſes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3856" xml:space="preserve">But where there is leſs heat, there the Spirit of the Plant is digeſted
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            and refined, and ſevered ſrom the groſſer Juyce in the Effloreſcence, and not
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            before.</s>
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