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

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              <pb o="8" file="0286" n="286" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
            the Kernels of Nuts, which after they are dried, are too little for the Shells; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9531" xml:space="preserve">and in Beams
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            and Planchers of Houſes, which at firſt lay cloſetogether, but after they are dried, give; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9532" xml:space="preserve">and
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            likewiſe in Bowls, which through drought, grow full of cranies, the parts of the Bowl con-
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            tracting themſelves together, and after contraction muſt needs be empty spaces. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9533" xml:space="preserve">Secondly,
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            It appears by the wrinkles of Bodies dryed: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9534" xml:space="preserve">For the endeavor of contracting it ſelf is ſuch,
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            that by the contraction it brings the parts nearer together, and ſo lifts them up; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9535" xml:space="preserve">for what-
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            ſoever is contracted on the ſides, is lifted up in the midſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9536" xml:space="preserve">And this is to be ſeen in Papers
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            and old Parchments, and in the Skins of Living Creatures, and in the Coats of ſoft Cheeſes,
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            all which, with age, gatber wrinkles. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9537" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, This Contraction ſhews it ſelf moſt in thoſe
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            things, which by heat are not onely wrinkled, but ruffled, and plighted, and, as it were, rouled
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            together; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9538" xml:space="preserve">as it is in Papers, and Parchments, and Leaves, brought near the fire: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9539" xml:space="preserve">For Con-
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            traction by Age, which is more ſlow, commonly cauſeth wrinkles; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9540" xml:space="preserve">but Contraction by the
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            Fire, which is more ſpeedy, cauſeth plighting. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9541" xml:space="preserve">Now in moſt things where it comes not to
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            wrinkling or plighting, there is ſimple Contraction, and anguſtiation or ſtreightning,
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            and induration or hardning, and deſiccation, as was ſisewed in the firſt place. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9542" xml:space="preserve">But if the
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            iſſuing forth of the Spirit, and abſumption or waſte of the Moiſture be ſo great, that
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            there is not left body ſufficient to unite and contract it ſelſ, then of neceſſity Contraction
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            muſt ceaſe, and the Body becomeputrid, and nothing elſe but a little duſt cleaving together,
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            which with æ light touch is disperſed and falleth aſunder; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9543" xml:space="preserve">as it is in Bodies that are
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            rotten, and in Paper burnt, and Linnen made into Tinder, and Carkaſes embalmed after
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            many ages. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9544" xml:space="preserve">And this is the third Action, the Contraction of the groſſer parts after the
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            Spirit iſſueth forth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9546" xml:space="preserve">It is to be noted, that Fire and Heat dry onely by accident; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9547" xml:space="preserve">for their proper work is to
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            attenuate and dilate the Spirit and Moiſture; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9548" xml:space="preserve">and then it follows by accident, that the other
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            parts ſhould contract themſelves, either for the flying of Vacuum alone, or for ſome other
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            motion withal, whereof we now speak not.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9550" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that Putrefaction taketh its original from the Native Spirit, no leſs then
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0286-02" xlink:href="note-0286-02a" xml:space="preserve">8.</note>
            Arefaction; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9551" xml:space="preserve">but it goeth on afar different way: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9552" xml:space="preserve">For in Putrefaction, the Spirit is not ſimply
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            vapored forth, but being detained in part, works ſtrange garboils; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9553" xml:space="preserve">and the groſſer parts are
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            not ſo much locally contracted, as they congregate themſelves to parts of the ſame nature.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1164" type="section" level="1" n="52">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head75" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Length and Shortneß of Life in Living Creatures.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head76" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9555" xml:space="preserve">TOuching the Length and Shortneſs of Life in Living Creatures, the Information
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0286-03" xlink:href="note-0286-03a" xml:space="preserve">To the firſt
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              Article.</note>
            which may be had, is but ſlender, Obſervation is negligent, and Tradition fabu-
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            lous. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9556" xml:space="preserve">In Tame Creatures, their degenerate life corrupteth them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9557" xml:space="preserve">in Wilde Crea-
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            tures, their expoſing to all weathers, often inter cepteth them Neither do thoſe things
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            which may ſeem concomitants, give any furtherance to this Information, (the greatneſs of
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            their Bodies, their time of Bearing in the Womb, the number of their young ones, the
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            time of their growth, and the reſt) inregard that theſe things are intermixed, and ſometimes
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            they concur, ſometimes they ſever.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9559" xml:space="preserve">Mans age (as far as can be gathered by any certain Narration) doth exceed the age
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0286-04" xlink:href="note-0286-04a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note>
            of all other Living Creatures, except it be of a very few onely; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9560" xml:space="preserve">and the Concomitants in
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            him are very equally diſpoſed, his ſtature and proportion large, his bearing in the womb
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            nine moneths, his fruit commonly one at a birth, his puberty at the age of fourteen years,
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            his time of growing till twenty.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9562" xml:space="preserve">The Elephant by undoubted relation, exceeds the ordinary race of Mans life;
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0286-05" xlink:href="note-0286-05a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note>
            but his bearing in the Womb the ſpace of Ten years, is fabulous; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9564" xml:space="preserve">of two years, or at
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            leaſt above one, is certain. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9565" xml:space="preserve">Now his bulk is great, his time of growth until the thirti-
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            eth year, his teeth exceeding hard; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9566" xml:space="preserve">neither hath it been obſerved, that his blood is the
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            coldeſt of all Creatures: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9567" xml:space="preserve">His age hath ſometimes reached to Two hundred years.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9569" xml:space="preserve">Lions are accounted long livers, becauſe many of them have been found Toothleſs,
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            a ſign not ſo certain, for that may be cauſed by their ſtrong breath.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9571" xml:space="preserve">The Bear is a great ſleeper, a dull beaſt, and given to eaſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9572" xml:space="preserve">and yet not noted
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0286-07" xlink:href="note-0286-07a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note>
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