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

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            of all, the hanging of them in a deep Well ſomewhat above the Water, for
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            ſome fortnights ſpace, is an cxcellent means of making Drink freſh and
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            quick: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3150" xml:space="preserve">For the cold doth not cauſe any exhaling of the Spirits at all, as heat
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            doth, though it rarifieth the reſt that remain: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3151" xml:space="preserve">But cold maketh the Spirits
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            vigorous, and irritateth them, whereby they incorporate the parts of the
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            Liquor perfectly.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3153" xml:space="preserve">As for the Maturation of Fruits, it is wrought by the calling forth of
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            the Spirits of the Body outward, and ſo ſpreading them more ſmoothly;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3154" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe by digeſting, in ſome degree, the groſſer parts: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3155" xml:space="preserve">And
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            this is eſſected by Heat, Motion, Attraction, and by a Rudiment of
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            Putrefaction: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3156" xml:space="preserve">For the Inception of Putrefaction hath in it a Mate-
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            ration.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3158" xml:space="preserve">There were taken Apples, and laid in Straw, in Hay, in Flower, in
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            Chalk, in Lime, covered over with Onions, covered over with Crabs,
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            cloſed up in Wax, ſhut in a Box, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3159" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3160" xml:space="preserve">There was alſo an Apple hanged up
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            in ſmoak. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3161" xml:space="preserve">Of all which the Experiment ſorted in this manner.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3163" xml:space="preserve">After a moneths ſpace, the Apple, encloſed in Wax, was as Green
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            and freſh as at the firſt putting in, and the Kernels continued White. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3164" xml:space="preserve">The
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            cauſe is, for that all excluſion of open Air, (which is ever predatory) main-
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            taineth the Body in his firſt freſhneſs and moiſture; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3165" xml:space="preserve">but the inconvenience
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            is, that it taſteth a little of the Wax, which, I ſuppoſe, in a Pomegranate, or
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            ſome ſuch thick coated fruit, it would not do.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3167" xml:space="preserve">The Apple hanged in the ſmoak, turned like an old Mellow-Apple
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            wrinkled, dry, ſoft, ſweet, yellow within. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3168" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that ſuch
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            a degree of heat, which doth neither melt nor ſcorch (for we ſee that
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            in a greater heat, a roaſt Apple ſoftneth and melteth, and Pigs feet
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            made of quarters of Wardens, ſcortch and have a skin of coal) doth
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            Mellow, and not adure: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3169" xml:space="preserve">The ſmoak alſo maketh the Apple (as it were)
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            ſprinkled with Soot, which helpeth to mature. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3170" xml:space="preserve">Weſee, that in drying of
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            Pears and Prunes, in the Oven, and removing of them often as they begin
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            to ſweat, there is a like operation: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3171" xml:space="preserve">but that is with a far more intenſe de-
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            gree of heat.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3173" xml:space="preserve">The Apples covered in the Lime and Aſhes, were well matured as ap-
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            peared both in their yellowneſs and ſweetneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3174" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, forthat that
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            Degree of Heat, which is in Lime and Aſhes, (being a ſmoothering heat) is
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            of all the reſtmoſt proper; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3175" xml:space="preserve">for it doth neither Liquefie nor Arefie, and that
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            is true Maturation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3176" xml:space="preserve">Note, that the taſte of thoſe Apples was good, and
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            therefore it is the Experiment fitteſt for uſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3178" xml:space="preserve">The Apples covered with Crabs and Onions, were like wiſe well matu-
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            red. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3179" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is not any heat, but for that the Crabs and the Onions draw
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            forth the Spirits of the Apple, and ſpred them equally thoro wout the Body;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3180" xml:space="preserve">which taketh away hardneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3181" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee one Apple ripeneth againſt another. </s>
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            And therefore in making of Cider, they turn the Apples firſt upon a heap; </s>
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            ſo one Cluſter of Grapes, that toucheth another whileſt it groweth, ripen-
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            eth faſter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3184" xml:space="preserve">Botrus contra Botrum citius matureſcit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3186" xml:space="preserve">The Apples in Hay and the Straw, ripened apparently, though notſo
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            much as the other, but the Apple in the Straw, more. </s>
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            the Hay and Straw have a very low degree of Heat, but yet cloſe and
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            ſmoothering, and which dryeth not.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3189" xml:space="preserve">The Apple in the cloſe Box was ripened alſo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3190" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that
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            all Air kept cloſe, hath a degree of warmth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3191" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in Wool, Fur,
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            Pluſh, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3192" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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