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

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            when the Dew of other Herbs is breathed away: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4548" xml:space="preserve">For it hath a ſmooth and
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            thick Leaf that doth not diſcharge the Dew ſo ſoon as other Herbs, that are
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            more Spungy and Porous. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4549" xml:space="preserve">And it may be Purſlane, or ſome other Herb doth
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            the like, and is not marked. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4550" xml:space="preserve">But if it be ſo, that it hath more Dew at Noon
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            than in the Morning, then ſure it ſeemeth to be an exudation of the Herb it
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            ſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4551" xml:space="preserve">As Plums ſweat when they are ſet into the Oven: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4552" xml:space="preserve">For you will not (I
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            hope) think, that it is like Gideons Fleece of Wooll, that the Dew ſhould fall
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            upon that, and no whereelſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4554" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that the Hony-dews are found more upon Oak Leaves, than
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            upon Ash, or Beech, or the like: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4555" xml:space="preserve">But whether any cauſe be from the Leaf it
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            ſelf, to concoct the Dew; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4556" xml:space="preserve">or whether it be onely, that the Leaf is cloſe and
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            ſmooth (and therefore drinketh not in the Dew, but preſerveth it) maybe
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            doubted. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4557" xml:space="preserve">It would be well inquired, whether Manna the Drug, doth fall
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            but upon certain Herbs or Leaves onely. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4558" xml:space="preserve">Flowers that have deep Sockets, do
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            gather in the bottom, a kinde of Honey; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4559" xml:space="preserve">as Honey-Suckles (both the Woodbine,
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            and the Trifoil) Lillies, and the like. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4560" xml:space="preserve">And in them certainly the Flower beareth
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            part with the Dew.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4562" xml:space="preserve">The Experience is, That the Froth, which they call Woodſare, (being
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0138-02" xlink:href="note-0138-02a" xml:space="preserve">497.</note>
            like a kinde of Spittle is found but upon certain Herbs, and thoſe hot ones;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4563" xml:space="preserve">as Lavender, Lavender-cotton, Sage, Hyſſope, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4564" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4565" xml:space="preserve">Of the cauſe of this enquire
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            further, for it ſeemeth a ſecret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4566" xml:space="preserve">There falleth alſo Mildew upon Corn, and
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            ſmutteth it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4567" xml:space="preserve">But it may be, that the ſame falleth alſo upon other Herbs, and
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            is not obſerved.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4569" xml:space="preserve">It were good, Tryal were made, whether the great conſent between
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0138-03" xlink:href="note-0138-03a" xml:space="preserve">498.</note>
            Plants and Water, which is a principal nouriſhment of them, will make an
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            Attraction or Diſtance, and not at touch onely. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4570" xml:space="preserve">Therefore take a Veſſel,
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            and in the middle of it make a falſe bottom of courſe Canvas; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4571" xml:space="preserve">fill it with
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            Earth above the Canvas, and let not the Earth be watred, then ſow ſome
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            good Seeds in that Earth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4572" xml:space="preserve">But under the Canvas, ſome half a foot in
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            the bottom of the Veſſel, lay a great Spunge, thorowly
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            wet in Water, and
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            let it lie ſome ten days; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4573" xml:space="preserve">and ſee whether the Seeds will ſprout, and the Earth
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            become more moiſt, and the Spunge more dry. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4574" xml:space="preserve">The Experiment for merly
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            mentioned of the Cucumber, creeping to the Pot of Water, is far ſtranger
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            than this.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4576" xml:space="preserve">THe altering of the Sent, Colour, or Taſte of Fruit, by Infuſing, Mixing,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0138-04" xlink:href="note-0138-04a" xml:space="preserve">499.</note>
            or Letting into the Bark, or Root of the Tree, Herb, or Flower, any
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0138-05" xlink:href="note-0138-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Making herbs
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              and fruits
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              Medicinable.</note>
            Coloured, Aromatical, or Medicinal Subſtance, are but fancies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4577" xml:space="preserve">The caufe
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            is, for that thoſe things have paſſed their period, and nouriſh not; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4578" xml:space="preserve">and all
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            alteration of Vegetables, in thoſe qualities, muſt be by ſome what that is apt
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            to go into the nouriſhment of the Plant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4579" xml:space="preserve">But this is true, that where Kine
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            feed upon Wilde Garlick, their Milk taſted plainly of the Garlick. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4580" xml:space="preserve">And the
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            Fleſh of Muttons is better taſted where the Sheep feed upon Wilde Thyme,
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            and other wholſome Herbs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4581" xml:space="preserve">Galen alſo ſpeaketh of the curing of the Scirrus
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            of the Liver, by Milk of a Cow, that feedeth upon certain Herbs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4582" xml:space="preserve">and Honey
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            in Spain ſmelleth (apparently) of the Roſemary, or Orenge, from whence the
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            Beegather it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4583" xml:space="preserve">And there is an old Tradition of a Maiden that was fed with
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            Napellus, (which is counted the ſtrongeſt poyſon of all Vegetables) which
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            with uſe, did not hurt the Maid, but poyſoned ſome thathad carnal com-
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            pany with her. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4584" xml:space="preserve">So it is obſerved by ſome, that there is a vertuous BeZoar,
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            and another without vertue, which appear to the ſhew alike; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4585" xml:space="preserve">but the ver-
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            tuous is taken from the Beaſt, that feedeth upon the Mountains, </s>
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