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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3858" xml:space="preserve">Moſt Odors ſmell beſt, broken, or cruſht, as hath been ſaid; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3859" xml:space="preserve">but Flowers
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            preſſed or beaten, do loſe the freſhneſs and ſweetneſs of their Odor. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3860" xml:space="preserve">The
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            cauſe is, for that when they are cruſhed, the groſſer and more earthy Spirit
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            cometh out with the Finer, and troubleth it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3861" xml:space="preserve">whereas in ſtronger Odors there
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            are no ſuch degrees of the iſſue of the ſmell.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3863" xml:space="preserve">IT is a thing of very good uſe, to diſcover the goodneſs of Waters. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3864" xml:space="preserve">The
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0120-02" xlink:href="note-0120-02a" xml:space="preserve">391.</note>
            taſte to thoſe that drink Water onely doth ſomewhat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3865" xml:space="preserve">But other Expe-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0120-03" xlink:href="note-0120-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Goodneſs and
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              Choice of
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              Water.</note>
            riments are more ſure. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3866" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, try Waters by weight, wherein you may
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            finde ſome difference, though not much: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3867" xml:space="preserve">And the lighter, you may account
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            the better.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3869" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, Try them by boiling upon an equal fire; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3870" xml:space="preserve">and that which con-
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            ſumeth away faſteſt, you may account the beſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3872" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, Try them in ſeveral Bottles or open Veſſels, matches in every
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            thing elſe, and ſee which of them laſt longeſt without ſtench or corruption;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3873" xml:space="preserve">and that which holdeth unputrified longeſt, you may like wiſe account the
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            beſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3875" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, Try them by making Drinks, ſtronger or ſmaller, with the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0120-06" xlink:href="note-0120-06a" xml:space="preserve">394.</note>
            ſame quantity of Malt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3876" xml:space="preserve">and you may conclude, that that Water, which
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            maketh the ſtronger Drink, is the more concocted and nouriſhing; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3877" xml:space="preserve">though
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            perhaps it be not ſo good for Medicinal uſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3878" xml:space="preserve">And ſuch VVater (commonly)
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            is the VVater of large and navigable Rivers; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3879" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe in large and clean
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            Ponds of ſtanding VVater: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3880" xml:space="preserve">For upon both them, the Sun hath more power
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            than upon Fountains, or ſmall Rivers. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3881" xml:space="preserve">And I conceive, that Chalk-water is
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            next them the beſt, for going furtheſt in Drink. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3882" xml:space="preserve">For that alſo helpeth con-
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            coction, ſo it be out of a deep VVell; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3883" xml:space="preserve">for then it cureth therawneſs of the
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            VVater; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3884" xml:space="preserve">but Chalky-water towards the top of the Earth, is too fretting,
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            as it appeareth in Laundry of Cloaths, which wear out apace, if you uſe ſuch
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            VVaters.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3886" xml:space="preserve">Fifthly, The Houſwives do finde a difference in Waters, for the bear-
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            ing or not bearing of Soap; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3887" xml:space="preserve">and it is likely, that the more fat water will
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            bear Soap beſt, for the hungry water doth kill the unctuous nature of the
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            Soap.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3889" xml:space="preserve">Sixthly, You may make a judgment of Waters according to the place,
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            whence they ſpring or come. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3890" xml:space="preserve">The Rain-water is by the Phyſitians eſteemed
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            the fineſt and the beſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3891" xml:space="preserve">but yet it is ſaid to putrifie ſooneſt, which is
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            likely, becauſe of the fineneſt of the Spirit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3892" xml:space="preserve">and in Conſervatories of
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            Rain-water, (ſuch as they have in Venice, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3893" xml:space="preserve">c) they are found not ſo
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            choice Waters; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3894" xml:space="preserve">(the worſe perhaps) becauſe they are covered aloſt,
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            and kept from the Sun. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3895" xml:space="preserve">Snow-water is held unwholeſome, inſomuch, as
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            the people that dwell at the Foot of the Snow Mountains, or otherwiſe
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            upon the aſcent, (eſpecially the VVomen) by drinking of Snow-water,
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            have great bags hanging under their Throats. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3896" xml:space="preserve">VVell VVater, except it be
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            upon Chalk, or a very plentiſul Spring maketh Meat red, which is an ill ſign.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3897" xml:space="preserve">Springs on the tops of high Hills are the beſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3898" xml:space="preserve">for both they ſeem to have
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            a Lightneſs and Appetite of Mounting; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3899" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, they are moſt pure and
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            unmingled: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3900" xml:space="preserve">And again are more percolated through a great ſpace of Earth. </s>
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            For VVaters in Valleys, joyn in effect under ground with all VVaters of the
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            ſame Level; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3902" xml:space="preserve">whereas Springs on the tops of Hills, paſs through a great deal
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            of pure Earth with leſs mixture of other VVaters.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3904" xml:space="preserve">Seventhly, Judgment may be made of Waters by the Soyl whereupon
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            the VVater runneth, as Pebble is the cleaneſt and beſt taſted; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3905" xml:space="preserve">and next to </s>
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