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

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            Semper-vive, which will put out Branches, two or three years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s754" xml:space="preserve">But it is true,
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            that commonly they wrap the Root in a cloth beſmeared with Oyl; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s755" xml:space="preserve">and
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            renew it once in a half year. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s756" xml:space="preserve">The like is reported by ſome of the An-
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            cients of the ſtalks of Lillies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s757" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that theſe Plants have a
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            ſtrong denſe, and ſucculent moiſture, which is not aptto exhale; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s758" xml:space="preserve">and ſo
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            is able, from the old ſtore, without drawing help from the Earth, to ſuffice
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            the ſprouting of the Plant: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s759" xml:space="preserve">And this ſprouting is chiefly in the late Spring,
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            or early Summer; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s760" xml:space="preserve">which are the times of putting forth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s761" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo,
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            that ſtumps of Trees, lying out of the Ground, will put forth Sprouts for
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            a time. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s762" xml:space="preserve">But it is a noble tryal, and of very great conſequence, to try
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            whether theſe things, in the ſprouting, do encreaſe weight; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s763" xml:space="preserve">which muſt be
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            tryed, by weighing them before they be hanged up; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s764" xml:space="preserve">and afterwards again,
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            when they are ſprouted. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s765" xml:space="preserve">For if they increaſe not in weight, then it is no
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            more but this, That what they ſend forth in the ſprout, they leeſe in ſome
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            other part; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s766" xml:space="preserve">but if they gather weight, then it is Magnale Naturæ: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s767" xml:space="preserve">For it
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            ſheweth, that Air may be made ſo to be condenſed, as to be converted in-
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            to a denſe Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s768" xml:space="preserve">whereas the race and period of all things, here above the
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            Earth, is to extenuate and turn things to be more pneumatical, and rare;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s769" xml:space="preserve">and not to be retrograde, from pneumatical to that which is denſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s770" xml:space="preserve">It
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            ſheweth alſo, that Air can nouriſh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s771" xml:space="preserve">which is another great matter of con-
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            ſequence. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s772" xml:space="preserve">Note, that to try this, the Experiment of the Semper-vive, muſt
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            be made without oyling the cloth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s773" xml:space="preserve">for elſe, it may be, the Plant receiveth
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            nouriſhment from the Oyl,</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s774" xml:space="preserve">FLame and Air do not mingle, except it be in an inſtant; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s775" xml:space="preserve">or in the Vital
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0042-01" xlink:href="note-0042-01a" xml:space="preserve">30.</note>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0042-02" xlink:href="note-0042-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Commixture of
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              Flame and
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              Air, and the
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            Spirits of vegetables, and living Creatures. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s776" xml:space="preserve">In Gunpowder, the force of
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            it hath been aſcribed to rarefaction of the earthly ſubſtance into Flame.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s777" xml:space="preserve">And thus far it is true; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s778" xml:space="preserve">and then (forſooth) it is become another Element; </s>
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            the form where
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            of occupieth more place; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s780" xml:space="preserve">and ſo, of Neceſſity, followeth
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            a Dilatation: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s781" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, leſt two Bodies ſhould be in one place,
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            there muſt needs alſo follow an Expulſion of the Pellet, or blowing up
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            of the Mine. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s782" xml:space="preserve">But theſe are crude and ignorant ſpeculations: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s783" xml:space="preserve">For Flame,
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            if there were nothing elſe, except it were in a very great quantity, will be
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            ſuffocate with any hard body, ſuch as a Pellet is, or the Barrel of a Gun; </s>
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            ſo as the flame would not expel the hard body, but the hard body would kill
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            the flame, and notſuffer it to kindle, or ſpred. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s785" xml:space="preserve">But the cauſe of this ſo po-
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            tent a motion is the Nitre (which we call otherwiſe Salt-Peter) which
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            having in it a notable crude and windy Spirit, firſt by the heat of the Fire
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            ſuddenly dilateth it ſelf; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s786" xml:space="preserve">(and we know that ſimple Air, being preterna-
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            turally attenuated by heat, will make it ſelf room, and break, and blow
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            up that which reſiſteth it.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s787" xml:space="preserve">And ſecondly, when the Nitre hath dilated it
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            ſelf, it blo weth abroad the flame as an in ward Bellows. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s788" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we
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            ſee that Brimſtone, Pitch, Camphire, U ildfire, and divers other inflamable
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            matters; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s789" xml:space="preserve">though they burn cruelly, and are hard to quench, yet they make
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            no ſuch fiery wind, as Gunpowder doth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s790" xml:space="preserve">And on the other fide, we ſee that
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            Quick-ſilver (which is a moſt crude and watry Body) heated, and pent in,
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            hath the like force with Gunpowder. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s791" xml:space="preserve">As for living Creatures, it is certain,
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            their Vital Spirits are a ſubſtance compounded of an airy and flamy mat-
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            ter; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s792" xml:space="preserve">and though Air and Flame, being free, will not well mingle; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s793" xml:space="preserve">yet
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            bound in by a Body that hath ſome fixing, they will. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s794" xml:space="preserve">For that you may beſt ſee
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            in thoſe two Bodies (which are their Aliments) Water and Oyl; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s795" xml:space="preserve">for they
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            likewiſe will not well mingle of themſelves, but in the Bodies of </s>
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