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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3194" xml:space="preserve">Note, That all theſe were compared with another Apple of the ſame kinde that lay of
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            # it ſelf; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3195" xml:space="preserve">and in compariſon of that, were more ſweet, and more yellow, and ſo
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            # appeared to be more ripe</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3196" xml:space="preserve">Take an Apple, or Pear, or other like Fruit, and roul it upon a Table
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0105-01" xlink:href="note-0105-01a" xml:space="preserve">324.</note>
            hard: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3197" xml:space="preserve">We ſee in common experience, that the rouling doth ſoften and
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            ſweeten the Fruit preſently, which is nothing but the ſmooth diſtribution
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            of the Spirits into the parts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3198" xml:space="preserve">for the unequal diſtribution of the Spirits
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            maketh the harriſhneſs: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3199" xml:space="preserve">But this hard rouling is between Concoction,
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            and a ſimple Maturation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3200" xml:space="preserve">therefore, if you ſhould roul them but gently
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            perhaps twice a day, and continue it ſome ſeven days, it is like they would
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            Mature more finely, and like unto the Natural Maturation.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3202" xml:space="preserve">Take an Apple, and cut out a piece of the top and cover it, to ſee
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            whether that Solution of Continuity will not haſten a Maturation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3203" xml:space="preserve">We ſee that
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            where a Waſp, or a Fly, or a Worm, hath bitten in a Grape or any Fruit, it will
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            ſweeten haſtily.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3205" xml:space="preserve">Take an Apple, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3206" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3207" xml:space="preserve">and prick it with a Pin full of Holes, not deep,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0105-03" xlink:href="note-0105-03a" xml:space="preserve">326.</note>
            and ſmear it a little with Sack, or Cinnamon Water, or Spirit of Wine,
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            every day for ten days, to ſee if the Virtual Heat of the Wine, or Strong-
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            Waters, will not Mature it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3209" xml:space="preserve">In theſe Tryals alſo as was uſed in the firſt, ſet another of the ſame Fruits by, to compare
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            # them, and try them by their r
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            ellowneſs, and by their Sweeineſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3211" xml:space="preserve">THe World hath been much abuſed by the opinion of Making of Gold.
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Making of
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              Gold.</note>
            The Work it ſelf, I judge to be poſſible; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3213" xml:space="preserve">but the Means (hitherto pro-
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            pounded) to effect it, are in the Practice, full of Error and Impoſture;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3214" xml:space="preserve">and in the Theory, full of unſound Imaginations. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3215" xml:space="preserve">For to ſay, that Nature
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            hath an in ention to make all Metals Gold; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3216" xml:space="preserve">and that, if ſhe were delivered
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            from Impediments, ſhe would perform her own work; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3217" xml:space="preserve">and that, if the
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            Crudities, Impurities, and Leproſies of Metals were cured, they would
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            become Gold, and that a little quantity of the Medicine in the Work of
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            Projection, will turn a Sea of the Baſ@r Metal into Gold by multiplying. </s>
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            All theſe are but dreams, and ſo are many other Grounds of Alchymy. </s>
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            And to help the matter, the Alchymiſts call in likewiſe many vanities,
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            out of Aſtrology, Natural Magick, Superſtitious Interpretations of Scri
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            ptures, Auricular Traditions, Feigned Teſtimonies of Ancient Authors,
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            and the like. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3220" xml:space="preserve">It is true, on the other ſide they have brought to light not a
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            few profitable Experiments, and thereby made the World ſome amends: </s>
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            But we, when we ſhall come to handle the Verſion and Tranſmutation of
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            Bodies, and the Experiments concerning Metals and Minerals; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3222" xml:space="preserve">will lay
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            open the true Ways and Paſſages of Nature, which may lead to this great
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            effect. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3223" xml:space="preserve">And we commend the wit of the Chineſes, who deſpair of making
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            of Gold, but are mad upon the making of Silver. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3224" xml:space="preserve">For certain it is, That
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            it is more difficult to make Gold, (which is the moſt ponderous and ma-
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            teriate amongſt Metals) of other Metals, leſs ponderous and leſs mate-
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            riate, than (Via versâ) to make Silver of Lead, or Quick-ſilver; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3225" xml:space="preserve">both
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            which are more ponderous than Silver: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3226" xml:space="preserve">So that they need rather a further
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            degree of Fixation, than any Condenſation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3227" xml:space="preserve">In the mean time, by occaſion of
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            handling the Axioms touching Maturation, we will direct a tryal touching
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            the Maturing of Metals, and thereby turning ſome of them into Gold; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3228" xml:space="preserve">for
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            we conceive indeed, that a perfect good Concoction, or Diſgeſtion, or Ma
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            turation of ſome Metals will produce Gold. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3229" xml:space="preserve">And here we call to minde,
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            that we knew a Dutchman that had wrought himſelf into the belief of </s>
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