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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head78" xml:space="preserve">Alimentation, or Nouriſhment: and the way of Nouriſhing.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head79" xml:space="preserve">The History.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9805" xml:space="preserve">N Ouriſhment ought to be of an inferiour nature, and more ſimple ſubſtance
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-01" xlink:href="note-0291-01a" xml:space="preserve">To the
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              fourth Ar-
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              ticle.</note>
            than the thing nouriſhed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9806" xml:space="preserve">Plants are nouriſhed with the Earth and Water,
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            Living Creatures with Plants, Man with living Creatures. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9807" xml:space="preserve">There are alſo
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            certain Creatures feeding upon Fleſh, and Man himſelf takes Plants into
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-02" xlink:href="note-0291-02a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note>
            a part of his Nouriſhment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9808" xml:space="preserve">but Man and Creatures feeding upon Fleſh are ſcarcely nou-
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            riſhed with Plants alone: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9809" xml:space="preserve">perhaps Fruit or Grains, baked or boiled, may, with long
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            uſe, nouriſh them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9810" xml:space="preserve">but Leaves or Plants or Herbs will not do it, as the Order of the Fo-
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            liatanes ſhewed by Experience.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9812" xml:space="preserve">Over-great Affinity or Conſubſtantiality of the Nouriſhment to the thing nouriſhed
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            proveth not well: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9813" xml:space="preserve">Creatures feeding upon Herbs touch no Fleſh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9814" xml:space="preserve">and of Creatures
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            feeding upon Fleſh, few of them eat their own kind: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9815" xml:space="preserve">Asfor Men, which are Cannibals,
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            they feed not ordinarily upon Mens fleſh, but reſerve it as a Dainty, either to ſerve
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            their reveng upon their enemies, or to ſatisfie their appetite at ſome times. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9816" xml:space="preserve">So the
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            Ground is beſt ſown with Seed growing elſewhere, and Men do not uſe to Graft or Ino
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            culate upon the ſame Stock.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9818" xml:space="preserve">By how much the more the Nouriſhment is better prepared, and approacheth Hearer in
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            likeneſs to the thing nouriſhed, by ſo much the more are Plants more fruitful, and living
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            Creatures in better liking and plight: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9819" xml:space="preserve">for a young Slip or cion is not ſo well nouriſhed
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            if it be pricked into the ground, as if it be grafted into a Stock agreeing with it in
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            Nature, and where it finds the nouriſhment already digeſted and prepared: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9820" xml:space="preserve">neither (as
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            is reported, will the Seed of an Onion, or ſome ſuch like, ſown in the bare earth, bring
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            forth ſo large a fruit as if it be put into another Onion, which is a new kind of Grafting,
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            into the root, or under ground. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9821" xml:space="preserve">Again, it hath been found out lately, that a Slip of a
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            Wild Tree, as of an Elm, Oak, Aſh, or ſuch like, grafted into a Stock of the ſame kind,
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            will bring forth larger leaves then thoſe that grow without grafting: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9822" xml:space="preserve">Alſo Men are not
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            nouriſhed ſo well with raw fleſh as with that which hath paſſed the fire.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9824" xml:space="preserve">Living Creatures are nouriſhed by the Mouth, Plants by the Root, γoung ones in
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            the womb by the Navel: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9825" xml:space="preserve">Birds for a while are nouriſhed with the rolk in the Egge,
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            whereof ſome is found in their Crops after they are hatched.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9827" xml:space="preserve">All Nouriſh ment moveth from the centre to the Circumference, or from the Inward
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            to the utward: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9828" xml:space="preserve">yet it is to be noted, that in Trees and Plants the Nouriſhment paſ-
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            ſeth rather by the Bark and Outward parts then by the Pith and Inward parts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9829" xml:space="preserve">for if the
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            Bark be pilled off, though but for a ſmall breadth, round, they live no more: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9830" xml:space="preserve">and the
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            Bloud in the Veins of living Creatures doth no leſs nouriſh the Fleſh beneath it then the
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            Fleſh above it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9832" xml:space="preserve">In all Alimentation or Nouriſhment there is a two-fold Action, Extuſion and
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            t-
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            traction; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9833" xml:space="preserve">whereof the former proceeds from the In ward Function, the latter from the
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            Outward.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9835" xml:space="preserve">Vegetables aſſimulate their Nouriſhment ſimply, without Excerning: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9836" xml:space="preserve">For Gums and
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0291-08" xlink:href="note-0291-08a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note>
            Tears of Trees are rather Exuberances then Excrements, and Knots or knobs are nothing
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            but Diſeaſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9837" xml:space="preserve">But the ſubſtance of living Creatures is more perceptible of the like;
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            and thereſore it is conjoyned with a kind of diſdain, whereby it rejecteth the bad, and
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            aſſimulateth the good.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9840" xml:space="preserve">It is a ſtrange thing of the ſtalks of Fruits, that all the Nouriſhment which produceth
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            ſometimes ſuch great Fruits, ſhould be forced to paſs through ſo narrow necks; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9841" xml:space="preserve">for the
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            Fruit is never joyn’d to the Stock without ſome ſtalk.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9843" xml:space="preserve">It is to be noted, that the Seeds of living Creatures will not be fruitful but when they
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            are new ſhed, but the Seeds of Plants will be fruitful a long time after they are gathered;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9844" xml:space="preserve">yet the Slips or Cions of Trees will not grow unleſs they be grafted green; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9845" xml:space="preserve">neither will
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            the roots keep long freſh unleſs they be covered with earth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9847" xml:space="preserve">In living creatures there are degrees of Nouriſh ment according to their Age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9848" xml:space="preserve">in the
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            womb, the young one is nourished with the Mother’s blood; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9849" xml:space="preserve">when it is new-born,
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            with Milk; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9850" xml:space="preserve">afterwards with Meats and Drinks; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9851" xml:space="preserve">and in old age the moſt nourishing and
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            ſavoury Meats pleaſe beſt.</s>
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