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

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            am apt enough to think, that this ſame Binarium of a ſtronger and a weaker,
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            like unto Maſculine and Feminine, doth hold in all Living Bodies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5494" xml:space="preserve">It is con-
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            founded ſometimes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5495" xml:space="preserve">as in ſome Creatures of Putrefaction, wherein no marks
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            of diſtinction appear; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5496" xml:space="preserve">and it is doubled ſometimes, as in Hermaphrodites:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5497" xml:space="preserve">but generally there is a degtee of ſtrength in moſt Species.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5499" xml:space="preserve">The Participles or Confiners between Plants and Living Creatures, are
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0161-01" xlink:href="note-0161-01a" xml:space="preserve">609.</note>
            ſuch chiefly as are fixed, and have not Local Motion of remove; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5500" xml:space="preserve">though
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            they have a Motion in their parts, ſuch as are Oyſters, Cockles, and ſuch like,
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            There is a fabulous Narration, That in the Northern Countreys there ſhould be
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            an Herb that groweth in the likeneſs of a Lamb, and feedethupon the Graſs,
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            in ſuch ſort, as it will bear the Graſs round about. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5501" xml:space="preserve">But, I ſuppoſe, that the
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            Figure maketh the Fable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5502" xml:space="preserve">for ſo weſee there be Bee-flowers, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5503" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5504" xml:space="preserve">And as
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            for the Graſs, it ſeemeth the Plant, having a greatſtalk and top, doth prey
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            upon the Graſs a good way about, by drawing the Juyce of the Earth
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            from it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5506" xml:space="preserve">THe Indian Fig boweth his Roots down ſolow in one year, as of it ſelf it
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0161-02" xlink:href="note-0161-02a" xml:space="preserve">610.</note>
            taketh Rootagain; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5507" xml:space="preserve">and ſo multiplieth from Root to Root, making of
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0161-03" xlink:href="note-0161-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              Promiſcuous
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              touching
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              Plants.</note>
            one Tree a kinde of Wood. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5508" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, the plenty of the Sap, and the
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            ſoftneſs of the ſtalk, which maketh the Bough, being over-loaden, and not
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            ſtiffly upheld, weigh down. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5509" xml:space="preserve">It hath Leaves as broad as a little Target, but
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            the Fruitno biggerthan Beans. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5510" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the continual ſhade in-
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            creaſeth the Leaves, and abateth the Fruit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5511" xml:space="preserve">which nevertheleſs is of a plea-
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            ſant taſte. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5512" xml:space="preserve">And that (no doubt) is cauſed, by the ſuppleneſs and gentleneſs
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            of the Juyce of that Plant, being that which maketh the Boughs alſo ſo
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            flexible.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5514" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by one of the Ancients, that there is a certain Indian Tree,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0161-04" xlink:href="note-0161-04a" xml:space="preserve">611.</note>
            having few, but very great Leaves, three cubits long, and two broad; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5515" xml:space="preserve">and
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            that the Fruit being of good taſte, groweth out of the Bark. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5516" xml:space="preserve">It may be, there
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            be Plants that pour out the Sap ſo faſt, as they have no leiſure, either to divide
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            into many Leaves, or to put forth Stalks to the Fruit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5517" xml:space="preserve">With us Trees gene-
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            rally have ſmall Leaves in compariſon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5518" xml:space="preserve">The Fig hath the greateſt, and next
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            it the Vine, Mulberry, and Sycamore, and the leaſt are thoſe of the Willow, Birch,
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            and Thorn. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5519" xml:space="preserve">But there be found Herbs with far greater Leaves than any Tree;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5520" xml:space="preserve">as the Bur, Gourd, Cucumber, and Colewort. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5521" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, (like to that of the in-
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            dian Fig) the haſty and plentiful putting forth of the Sap.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5523" xml:space="preserve">There be three things in uſe for ſweetneſs, Sugar, Honey, Manna. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5524" xml:space="preserve">For
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0161-05" xlink:href="note-0161-05a" xml:space="preserve">612.</note>
            Sugar, to the Ancients it was ſcarce known, and little uſed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5525" xml:space="preserve">It is found in
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            Canes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5526" xml:space="preserve">Quære, whether to the firſt Knuckle, or further up? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5527" xml:space="preserve">and whether the
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            very Bark of the Cane it ſelf do yield Sugar, or no? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5528" xml:space="preserve">For Honey, the Bee
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            maketh it, or gathereth it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5529" xml:space="preserve">but I have heard from one, that was induſtrious
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            in Husbandry, that the labor of the Bee is about the Wax, and that he hath
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            known in the beginning of May, Honey-Combs empty of Honey, and within
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            a fortnight, when the ſweet Dews fall, filled like a Cellar. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5530" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by
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            ſome of the Ancients, that there is a Tree called Occhus, in the Valleys of Hyr-
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            cania, that diſtilleth Honey in the Mornings. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5531" xml:space="preserve">It is not unlike, that the Sap
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            and Tears of ſome Trees may be ſweet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5532" xml:space="preserve">It may be alſo, that ſome ſweet Juy-
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            ces, fit for many uſes, may be concocted out of Fruits, to the thickneſs of
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            Honey, or perhaps of Sugar; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5533" xml:space="preserve">the likelieſt are Raſins of the Sun, Figs, and
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            Corrans: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5534" xml:space="preserve">The Means may be enquired.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5536" xml:space="preserve">The Ancients report of a Tree, by the Perſian Sea, upon the Shore-ſands,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0161-06" xlink:href="note-0161-06a" xml:space="preserve">613.</note>
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