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

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            you ſhall ſee the Wine, as it were, in a ſmall vein, riſing through the Water.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s586" xml:space="preserve">For handſomneſs ſake (becauſe the working requireth ſome ſmall time)
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            it were good you hang the upper Glaß upon a Nail. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s587" xml:space="preserve">But as ſoon as there
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            is gathered ſo much pure and unmixed Water in the bottom of the lower
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            Glaß, as that the Mouth of the upper Glaß dippeth into it, the Motion
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            ceaſeth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s589" xml:space="preserve">Let the upper Glaß be Wine, and the lower Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s590" xml:space="preserve">there followeth no
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0038-01" xlink:href="note-0038-01a" xml:space="preserve">15.</note>
            Motion at all. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s591" xml:space="preserve">Let the upper Glaß be Water pure, the lower Water coloured,
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            or contrariwiſe there followeth no Motion at all. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s592" xml:space="preserve">But it hath been tryed,
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            that though the mixture of Wine and Water, in the lower Glaß, be three
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            parts Water, and but one Wine; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s593" xml:space="preserve">yet it doth not dead the Motion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s594" xml:space="preserve">This ſe-
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            paration of Water and Wine appeareth to be made by weight; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s595" xml:space="preserve">for it muſt
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            be of Bodies of unequal weight, or elſe it worketh not; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s596" xml:space="preserve">and the heavier
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            Body muſt ever be in the upper Glaß. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s597" xml:space="preserve">But then note withal, that the water
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            being made penſible, and there being a great weight of Water in the Belly
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            of the Glaß, ſuſtained by a ſmall Pillar of Water in the neck of the Glaß; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s598" xml:space="preserve">it
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            is that which ſetteth the Motion on work: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s599" xml:space="preserve">For Water and Wine in one Glaß,
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            with long ſtanding, will hardly ſever.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s601" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment would be extended from mixtures of ſeveral Liquors
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            to Simple Bodies, which conſiſt of ſeveral ſimiliar parts: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s602" xml:space="preserve">Try it therefore
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            with Broyn or Salt-vvater and Fresh-vvater, placing the Salt-vvater (which
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            is the heavier) in the upper Glaß, and ſee whether the freſh will come above.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s603" xml:space="preserve">Try it alſo with Water thick Sugred, and pure Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s604" xml:space="preserve">and ſee whether
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            the Water which cometh above, will loſe his ſweetneſs: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s605" xml:space="preserve">For which pur-
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            poſe, it were good there were a little Cock made in the Belly of the upper
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            Glaß.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s607" xml:space="preserve">IN Bodies containing fine Spirits, which do eaſily diſſipate when you make
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            Infuſions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s608" xml:space="preserve">the Rule is, A ſhort ſtay of the Body in the Liquor receiveth the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0038-04" xlink:href="note-0038-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching Iu-
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              dicious and
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              Accurate In-
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              fuſions, both
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              in Liquors, and
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              Air.</note>
            Spirit, and a longer ſtay confoundeth it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s609" xml:space="preserve">becauſe it draweth forth the
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            Earthy part withal, which embaſeth the finer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s610" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it is an Er-
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            ror in Phyſitians, to reſt ſimply upon the length of ſtay for encreaſing the
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            vertue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s611" xml:space="preserve">But if you will have the Infuſion ſtrong, in thoſe kinde of Bodies,
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            which have fine Spirits, your way is not to give longer time, but to repeat
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            the Infuſion of the Body oftner. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s612" xml:space="preserve">Take Violets, and infuſe a good Pugil of
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            them in a Quart of Vinegar, let them ſtay three quarters of an hour, and
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            take them forth, and refreſh the Infuſion with like quantity of new Violets
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            ſeven times, and it will make a Vinegar ſo freſh of the Flovver, as if a Twelve-
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            moneth after it be brought you in a Saucer, you ſhall ſmell it before it come
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            at you. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s613" xml:space="preserve">Note, that it ſmelleth more perſ
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            ectly of the Flower a good while
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            after, then at firſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s615" xml:space="preserve">This Rule which we have given, is of ſingular uſe for the preparations
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            of Medicines, and other Infuſions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s616" xml:space="preserve">As for example, the Leaf of Burrage hath
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            an excellent Spirit, to repreſs the fuliginous vapor of Dusky Melancholy,
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            and ſo to cure Madneſs: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s617" xml:space="preserve">But nevertheleſs, if the Leaf be infuſed long, it
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            yeildeth forth but a raw ſubſtance of no vertue: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s618" xml:space="preserve">Therefore I ſuppoſe, that
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            if in the Muſt of Wine or Wort of Beer, while it worketh before it be Tunned,
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            the Burrage ſtay a ſmall time, and be often changed with freſh, it vvill make
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            a ſoveraign Drink for Melancholy Paßions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s619" xml:space="preserve">And the like I conceive of Orange
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            Flovvers.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s621" xml:space="preserve">Rubarb hath manifeſtly in it Parts of contrary Operations: </s>
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            purge, and parts that binde the Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s623" xml:space="preserve">and the firſtlay looſer, and the latter </s>
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