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

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            draw his Breath. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6742" xml:space="preserve">Another cauſe may be, for that Cold calleth the Spiritsto
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            ſuccor; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6743" xml:space="preserve">and therefore they cannot ſo well cloſe, and go together in the
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            Head, which is ever requiſite to Sleep And for the ſame cauſe, Pain and
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            noiſe hinder ſleep, and darkneſs (contrariwiſe) furthereth ſleep.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6745" xml:space="preserve">Some noiſes (whereof we ſpake in the 112 Experiment) help Sleep; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6746" xml:space="preserve">as
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            the blowing of the Wind, the trickling of Water, humming of Bees, ſoft
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            ſinging reading, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6747" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6748" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that they move in the Spirits a gen-
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            tle attention; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6749" xml:space="preserve">and whatſoever moveth attention, without too much labor,
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            ſtilleth the natural and diſcurſive motions of the Spirits.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6751" xml:space="preserve">Sleep nouriſheth, or at leaſt preſerveth, Bodies a long time, without
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            other nouriſhment. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6752" xml:space="preserve">Beaſts that ſleep in Winter, (as it is noted of wilde
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            Bears) during their ſleep wax very fat, though they eat nothing. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6753" xml:space="preserve">Bats
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            have been found in Ovens, and other hollow cloſe places, matted one
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            upon another; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6754" xml:space="preserve">and therefore it is likely that they ſleep in the VVinter
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            time, and eat nothing. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6755" xml:space="preserve">Quare whether Bees do not ſleep all VVinter, and
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            ſpare their Honey. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6756" xml:space="preserve">Butter-flies, and other Flies, do not onely ſleep, but
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            lie as dead all VVinter; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6757" xml:space="preserve">and yet with a little heat of Sun or Firerevive again.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6758" xml:space="preserve">A Dormouſe, both VVinter and Summer will ſleep ſome days together,
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            and eat nothing.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6760" xml:space="preserve">TO reſtore Teeth in Age, were Magnale Naturæ, it may be thought
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0191-03" xlink:href="note-0191-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching
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              Teeth and
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              hard subſton.
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              @es in the
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              Bodies of Li-
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              ving Crea.
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              tures.</note>
            of; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6761" xml:space="preserve">but howſoever, thenature of the Teeth deſerveth to be enquired
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            of, as well as the other parts of Living Creatures Bodies.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6763" xml:space="preserve">There be five parts in the Bodies of Living Creatures that are of hard ſub-
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            ſtances; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6764" xml:space="preserve">the Skull, the Teeth, the Bones, the Horns, and the Nails. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6765" xml:space="preserve">The greateſt
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            quantity of hard ſubſtance continued, is towards the Head; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6766" xml:space="preserve">for there is the
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            Skull of one entire Bone, there are the Teeth, there are Maxillary Bones,
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            there is the hard Bone that is the Inſtrument of Hearing, and thence iſſue
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            the Horns. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6767" xml:space="preserve">So that the building of Living Creatures Bodies is like the build-
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            ing of a Timber-houſe, where the VValls and other parts have Columns
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            and Beams; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6768" xml:space="preserve">but the Roof is in the better ſort of Houſes, all Tile, or Lead,
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            or Stone. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6769" xml:space="preserve">As for Birds, they have three other hard ſubſtances proper to them;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6770" xml:space="preserve">the Bill, which is of the like matter with the Teeth, for no Birds have Teeth; </s>
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            the Shell of the Egg, and their Quills; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6772" xml:space="preserve">for as for their Spur, it is but a
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            Nail. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6773" xml:space="preserve">Butno Living Creatures that have Shells very hard (as Oyſters, Cockles,
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            Muſtles, Shalops, Crabs, Lobſters, Craw-fish, Shrimps, and eſpecially the Tortoiſe)
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            have Bones within them, but onely little Griſtles.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6775" xml:space="preserve">Bones, after full growth, continue at a ſtay, and ſo doth the Skull. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6776" xml:space="preserve">Horns,
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            in ſome Creatures, are caſt and renewed: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6777" xml:space="preserve">Teeth ſtand at aftay, except their
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            wearing. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6778" xml:space="preserve">As for Nails, they grow continually, and Bills and Beaks will over-
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            grow, and ſometimes be caſt, as in Eagles and Parrots.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6780" xml:space="preserve">Moſt of the hard ſubſtances flie to the extreams of the Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6781" xml:space="preserve">as Skull,
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            Horns, Teeth, Nails, and Beaks; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6782" xml:space="preserve">onely the Bones are more inward, and clad
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            with Fleſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6783" xml:space="preserve">As for the Entrails, they are all without Bones, ſave that a Bone
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            is ſometimes found in the Heari of a Stag, and it may be in ſome other
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            Creatures.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6785" xml:space="preserve">The Skull hath Brains, as a kinde of Marrow within it. </s>
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            hath one kinde of Marrow, which hath an affinity with the Brain; </s>
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            other Bones of the Body have another. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6788" xml:space="preserve">The Faw-bones have no Marrow fe-
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            vered, but a little Pulp of Marrow diffuſed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6789" xml:space="preserve">Teeth likewiſe are thought to
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            have a kinde of Marrow diffuſed, which cauſeth the Senſe and Pain: </s>
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