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

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            periment made of putting Sea fish into Freſh-water, Ponds, and Pools. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6364" xml:space="preserve">It is
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            a thing of great uſe and pleaſure; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6365" xml:space="preserve">for ſo you may have them new at ſome
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            good diſtance from the Sea: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6366" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, it may be the Fiſh will eat the
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            pleaſanter, and may fall to breed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6367" xml:space="preserve">And it is ſaid, that Coliheſler Oyſters,
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            which are put into Pits, where the Sea goeth and cometh, (but yet ſo that
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            there is a Freſh-water coming alſo to them when the Sea voideth) become
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            by that means ſatter, and more grown.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6369" xml:space="preserve">THe Turkish Bow giveth a very forcible Shoot, inſomuch as it hath been
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0182-01" xlink:href="note-0182-01a" xml:space="preserve">704.</note>
            known, that the Arrow hath pierced a Steel Target, or apiece of Braſs
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0182-02" xlink:href="note-0182-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Attraction by
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              Similitude of
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              Subſtance.</note>
            of two Inches thick: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6370" xml:space="preserve">But that which is more ſtrange, the Arrow, if it be
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            headed with Wood, hath been known to pierce through a piece of Wood of
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            eight Inches thick. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6371" xml:space="preserve">And it is certain, that we hadin uſe at one time, for Sea-
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            fight, ſhort Arrows, which they called Sprights, without any other Heads,
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            ſave Wood ſharpned; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6372" xml:space="preserve">which were diſcharged out of Muskets, and would
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            pierce through the ſides of Ships, where a Bullet would not pierce. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6373" xml:space="preserve">But
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            this dependeth upon one of the greateſt ſecrets in all Nature; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6374" xml:space="preserve">which is, that
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            Similitude of Subſtance will cauſe Attraction, where the Body is wholly freed
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            from the Motion of Gravity: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6375" xml:space="preserve">Forif that were taken away, Lead would draw
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            Lead, and Gold would draw Gold, and iron would draw Iron without the help
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            of the Load-ſtone. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6376" xml:space="preserve">But this ſame Motion of Weight or Gravity (which is
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            a meer Motion of Matter, and hath no affinity with the Form or Kinde)
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            doth kill the other Motion, except it ſelf be killed by a violent Motion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6377" xml:space="preserve">and
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            in theſe inſtances of Arrows, for then the Motion of Attraction by Simili-
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            tude of Subſtance beginneth to ſhew it ſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6378" xml:space="preserve">But we ſhall handle this point
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            of Nature fully in due place.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6380" xml:space="preserve">THey have in Turky, and the Eaſt, certain Confections, which they call
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            Servets, which are like to Candid Conſerves, and are made of Sugar and
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Certain drinks
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              in Turkey.</note>
            Lemmons, or Sugar and Citrons, or Sugar and Violets, and ſome other Flowers;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6381" xml:space="preserve">and ſome mixture of Amber for the more delicate perſons: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6382" xml:space="preserve">And thoſe they
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            diſſolve in Water, and there of make their Drink, becauſe they are for bidden
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            Wine by their Law. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6383" xml:space="preserve">But I do much marvel, that no Englishman, or Dutchman,
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            or German, doth ſet up Brewing in Conſtantinople, conſidering they have ſuch
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            quantity of Barley. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6384" xml:space="preserve">For as ſor the general ſort of Men, frugality may be the
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            cauſe of Drinking Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6385" xml:space="preserve">ſor that it is no ſmall ſaving to pay nothing for
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            ones drink: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6386" xml:space="preserve">But the better ſort might well be at the coſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6387" xml:space="preserve">And yet I wonder
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            the leſs at it, becauſe I ſee France, Italy, or Spain, have not taken into uſe Beer
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            or Ale; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6388" xml:space="preserve">which (perhaps) if they did, would better both their Healths and
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            their Complexions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6389" xml:space="preserve">It is likely it would be matter of great gain to any that
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            ſhould begin it in Turkey.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6391" xml:space="preserve">IN Bathing in hot water, ſweat (nevertheleſs) cometh not in the parts un-
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            der the Water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6392" xml:space="preserve">The cauſeis, firſt, for that ſweat is a kinde of Colliqua-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0182-06" xlink:href="note-0182-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching
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              Sweat.</note>
            tion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6393" xml:space="preserve">And that kinde of Colliquation is not made either by an over-dry
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            Heat, or an over-moiſt Heat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6394" xml:space="preserve">For over-moiſture dothſome what extinguiſh
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            the Heat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6395" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee, that even hot water quencheth Fire, and over dry Heat
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            fhutteth the Pores. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6396" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Men will ſooner ſweat covered before
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            the Sun or Fire, then if they ſtood naked: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6397" xml:space="preserve">And Earthen Bottles filled
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            with hot water, do provoke in Bed a Sweat more daintily then Brick-bats
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            hot. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6398" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, Hot water doth cauſe Evaporation from the Skin, ſo as
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            it ſpendeth the matter in thoſe parts under the Water, beſore it iſſueth </s>
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