Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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of the Sun increaſing, than the hot Herbs have, as a cold hand will ſooner
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finde a little warmth, than a hot. </
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meat, are ripe laſt; </
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ſooneſt; </
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ment, whereby after one period, before the Sun waxeth too weak, they
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ſoms, and young fruit, and ripe fruit, almoſt all the year, ſucceeding one
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Summer, and ſo alſo hath the Fig. </
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