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A11816	Naturall philosophy: or A description of the vvorld, and of the severall creatures therein contained viz. of angels, of mankinde, of the heavens, the starres, the planets, the foure elements, with their order, nature and government: as also of minerals, mettals, plants, and precious stones; with their colours, formes, and vertues. By Daniel Widdovves.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English. Abridgments	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583. Rerum physicarum juxta leges logicas methodica explicatio. aut; Woodhouse, John.	1631 (1631)	STC 22112; ESTC S117038	44,731	82

to consume these vapours The shape in the cloudes opposed to the Sunne is A raine-bow how occasioned the raine-bow of divers colours in a hollow thin and in an unequall cloud fashioned by reflection of the Suns beames and the raine-bow is greater the nearer it commeth to the Horizon If many raine-bowes be seene the latter is made by the shining of the other and are more obscure than the former The colours of the Raine-bow be light red green A description of the rainebow and the signes os it sky colour and yeallow the raine-bow is a foreteller of raine it sheweth that many vapours are dissolued which will shortly be raine The hayle is like this but it is alwayes under the Sunne Meteors of dissolved cloudes are either hardened Meteors of dissolued cloudes or moyst as raine which is as it were a cloude melted and turned unto water if the cloude bee neare the earth the drops are great if hie the drops are smaller The rayning of frogges fish milke flesh and such like come of such matter being carried up which doth againe Reason of it fall with the raine as wormes c. are begotten of dead carkases in summer time Meteors made harde after the cloud hath beene melted are snow and Haile Snow is a cloude prepared for raine before it fall Snow what it is and how occasioned being congealed by cold is by the motion of the windes dispersed into fleakes and falleth onely in winter Hayle is rayne made hard in the fall the higher the Hayle what it is and how occasioned fall the rounder and lesser because in the fall it melteth It hayleth most in Autumne and in the Spring for then the sharpe ayre hath most power over the drops and in winter the extreame cold maketh it snow being yet in the cloudes In the lowest region of the Ayre are dew and frost Dew what it is and how occasioned Dew is a vapour thickned with some earthly matter which in falling is presently turned into water Dew falleth onely in summer for then the vapour is dissolved with the Sunne A fat kind of dew like melting hony especially at the shining of Syrius being gathered from leaves of trees is Manna called also wilde honey or meldewes This Manna hardened by the heate of ☉ into Manna what it is lumpes is called Tereniabin Frost is a dewish vapour made very hard by cold in Frost what it is and how winter before it be dissolved Meteors made of both kindes of smoake joyned together Of Meteors caused by both kinds of smoake and the reason of them Winde what it is and the diverse kinds of it are windes and such like Winde is a subtile smoke beaten downeward by the cold in the middle of the ayre and is moved sideling on the earth Auncients noted out 12. principall windes all which in regard of matter are hot and dry but differ for their situation of their qualities The winde being great carried with force darkens Storme Whirlewinde the Ayre and is called a storme If it doe roll about it is a Whirle-winde if it be but small it is called Ayre An Earthquake is a fume contained in the earth Earthquake when it findeth no vent it shaketh it is made acoording to the breadth or depth of the earth In breadth it causeth sometime such trembling that it shaketh downe whole Citties That in depth causeth a gaping or swelling A Gaping is when the Earth openeth as it were her mouth and doth swallow downe trees walles c. A Swelling is when the earth being lifted up like a mountaine either remaineth so or else falleth downe againe CHAP. V. Of mixed living Natures NAtures mixed perfectly are living and corporall essences indued with a Vegetative soule A Vegetative soule is a facultie giving life to bodyes What a vegetative soule is Therefore so long as any part of this shall exercise her power in any body so long is that alive and remaineth safe But her chiefe operation and so life it selfe The nature office of it consisteth either in preserving severall bodies or whole kinds Nourishment is the preserving of severall bodies What nourishment is and is the making of foode received like to the body nourished Vnder that name is every thing which is received to sustaine our bodyes of which sort is the ayre it selfe Some other faculties are required to perfection of nourishment as concoction and his companions Concoction What cócoction is with the necessity of it is a working or framing of nourishment and it is made either of temperate or increased heate of the parts to be nourished By temperate heate is made ripening which is a The necessity of temperate heate for nourishment cleared by comparison concoction of nourishment with moisture by how much therefore the moisture shall be better tempered with heate by so much is the ripening sooner and more perfect as in a summer too moyst the increase of the earth is later made ripe Concoction arising from greater store of heate is either elixation or assation Elixation is a concoction more perfectly working the thicke or watrish moysture with a strong moyst heate As flesh is sod in water whose moyst heate altereth consumeth the fomy moystnes of meate if this Elixation remaine unperfect it is called rawnesse and the nourishment is not refined for want of moyst heate For it was not of power to finish concoction Assation is concoction by meanes of dryer heate fully strengthening the moysture of nourishment If The benefit of good and the hurt of bad concoction this strength of bodyes be somewhat weake it is called thickning if concoction bee vicious it is turned unto putrifaction Moyst and hote things doe most easily corrupt if the bodyes be not open to the Ayre In stopped bodyes heate having no vent is increased Whence inflammation ariseth Whence commeth inflammation which putrifaction doth follow causing greater heate This of concoction The Companions of concoction are Faculties fitly The companions of concoction serving for the perfection of it Of these one goeth before the other followeth The former is Attraction and Retention Attraction is a facultie supplying matter of convenient 1. Attraction what it is nourishment as is seene in things drawing our of the flesh Arrow-heads or thornes deepely fastned So wheat draweth water out of on earthen pot it being set upon the heape Retention which retayneth 2. Retention what it is nourishment untill it be concocted doth nourish the body Nourishment is first put to and afterward united The companion following concoction is expulsion Expulsion is a driving backe of unprofitable matter 3. Expulsion what it is when concoction is once made it is within or without the body Within when the stronger thrust superfluities to the weaker untill they come to the weakest of all Encrease which is joyned to the nourishment is continued but to a certaine age then the

nourishing growing weake it ceaseth Now followeth conservation of the whole stocke Generation is a facultie of the body procreating any What generation is thing like it selfe This faculty preserveth all kindes of things in their estate though continually they doe perish The object of generation is the procreating seede What is the object of it of every thing The changing faculty altereth the seede into parts of the body to be begotten The ministeriall vertues of this facultie of generation doe change or forme The forming faculty fashioneth the thing into distinct forme CHAP. VI. Of Minerals and Mettals THe Vegetative soule being explained now follow the kindes of such natures as have perfect or unperfect growth Those of unperfect growth are Mettals which are decocted in the veines of the earth Mettals are to be melted easily or hardly Those that are easie to bee dissolved are either first or such as spring from them Principall or first are of themselves from the originall Brimstone what it is and the nature of it as Brimstome and Quicksilver Brimstone is the fat of the earth with fiery heate decocted unto his hardnesse which is the cause that it so speedily is enflamed and burneth even in water yea sooner than the fat of the beasts which though it bee fatter than brimstone yet it is farre colder So that for his fat drinesse it helpeth scabbes of all kinds and the leprie That Brimstone is counted the best which is greene and cleare Quicksilver is a slimy water mixt with a pure white Quicksilver what it is earth which mettall for the matter whereof it doth consist is thinne cold and heavie It is in continuall motion and his thinnesse causeth The nature of it that it pierceth mettals Mettals derived from the first are more or lesse Gold what it is pure purer are Gold and Silver Gold is a mettall made of most subtile and pure red brimstone and of the like quicksilver Gold hath the most perfect mixture as it is most thin so it is most solide whose substance is not corrupted with either earth water or ayre nor consumed with fire but is more purged in it The nature of it And for his thin solidnesse it is most soft and easie to be melted So that is most worth which is most red and glistering and soft that easily it may be wrought Experience teacheth that the 3 part of one graine of gold can gild a wyre of 134 foote long upon plates of silver one ounce of gold will suffice to gild eight pound waight of silver His nature is to bee marvelled at It waxeth cold towards day light so that those that weare rings of it may perceive it when it waxeth day Where it is found It is found in the mountaines of Arabia and else where and the best in the mountaine Terrat neare the Citie Corbachiam Siluer is a mettall begotten of pure white Mercury Silver what it is The difference betwixt it and gold and the like cleare white Brimstone It differeth from Gold almost onely in colour it being Gold not perfectly refined yet in purenesse firme solidnesse and thinnesse it is next to Gold and one ounce of it may be drawne 3200. foote long so that it can scarce be discerned from Gold Yet it is thicker an hundreth fold When it is found it hath the shape of haires twigs fishes serpents and such like Mettals lesse pure consist of greater store of Brimstone or Quicksilver of greater store of Brimstone come Brasse and Iron Brasse is a mettall begotten of thicke red Brimstone Brasse what it is and Mercury somewhat impure that comming from Cyprus is called Copper the matter of Brasse is more burnt than that of other mettals and indureth long and is fit in any worke For it is without all moysture whether it be kept in earth or water Minerals neare Brasse are Copperasse c. Copperasse is a minerall mixed of humours strained Copperasse what it is by droppes into small holes and it shineth like glasse It is hot and dry in the 4. degree vehemently binding The nature of it being of great force to season and preserve raw flesh It also begetteth sound flesh in festered sores and stancheth blood It is of a greene yellow and a skye colour the best hath in it white spots his kinde are Romane vitrioll and red vitrioll or the fome of Copperasse Iron is of store of Mercury and of thicke sulphur Iron what it is impure and adust It may be softened by quenching in The nature of it juyce of beane shuls or mallowes It being red hot and cooling of himselfe becommeth plyable But if it be often quenched in cold water it becommeth thereby very hard and brittle Mettalls of greater store of Mercury are Lead and Tynne Lead is an unpure mettall begot of much unpure Lead what it is thicke and drossie Mercury and likewise of unpure Brimstone his impurity causeth blacknesse which by refining is made whiter It increaseth in waight if it lie in moyst ground Yea it is thought to increase with raine It is of a The nature of it cold and binding nature and therefore scarce wholsome for mans use Tynne is a mettall mixed of Mercury white without Tynne what it is and red within and of Brimstone not well mixed as it were Lead whited with silver Thus farre of mettalls pliable Mettals lesse plyable are those which are not easily wrought or melted and are hard or brittle Those that bee altogether hard are stones These Stones whereof they are c the variety of them are ingendred of a watry moysture and fat earth mixed hard togeather Of stones some be rare some common Of the rare and strange some are of more estimation than others The more esteemed are precious stones which are Precious stones more beautifull and fine in regard of their pure and subtile matter Of Gemmes some are of one coullour some of sundry colours More or lesse transparent be either white or of other colours White are Crystall or Adamant Crystall is a Crystall gem bright through begot of a most pure stony moysture The nature of it and is found in mines of Marble c. His qualitie is binding therefore his oyle or powder is helpefull in Laxes and increaseth milke in womens brests The Adamant or Diamant is a gem cleare and most Adamant hard it can scarce be broken and thence it is named The nature of it unlesse steeped in the warme bloud of a Goat that hath drunke Wine or eaten Parsley Transparent Gemmes not white as the Saphir Sardonix and Smaragde have the same coullour in all their kindes Saphir The Saphir is a gem cleare through of a skie coullour growing in the East and specially in India The nature of it Being drunke it helpeth against the stinging of Serpents poyson c. as some affirme The Smaragde is of a greene coullour making Smaragde

nerve stretched like a Net upon the flesh of the tong which is full of little pores His meanes is a temperate salt humour which if it doe exceed the just quantitie it doth not exactly perceive tastes but if it be altogether consumed no tastes are perceived Smelling judgeth qualities fit for smell his instrument Smelling is the entrance into the first ventricle covered with a small skin the dryer it is the quicker of smell as in Dogs and Vultures but man for the moystnosse of his braine hath but a dull smell Now follow the inward sences which beside things Sences inward presently offered doe know formes of many absent things By these the creature doth not onely perceive but also understandeth that which hee doth perceive These have their seate in the braine They are either conceiving or preserving Conceiving exerciseth his Conceiving facultie by discerning or more fully judging it is called Common sence and the other is Phantasie Common sence more fully distinguisheth sensible things his instrument is the former ventricle of the braine made by drynesse sit to receive Phantasie is an inward sence more diligently examining the forms of things This is the thought and judgement of creatures his place is the middle part of the braine being through drynesse apt to retaine The preserving sence is Memory which according Preserving to the constitution of the braine is better or worse It is weaker in a moyst braine than in the dry braine His instrument is the hinder part of the braine Memorie calling backe images preserved in former time is called Remembrance but this is not without the use of reason and therefore is onely attributed to man The wittie excell in remembrance the dull in memorie Sleepe is the resting of the feeling facultie his cause Sleepe how caused is a cooling of the brayne by a pleasant abounding vapour breathing forth of the stomacke and ascending to the braine When that vapour is concoct and turned Waking how caused into spirits the heate returneth and the sences recovering their former function cause waking There be certaine appointed courses for watch and sleepe lost creatures languish with overmuch motion Affections of sleepe are Dreames Night-mare and Dreames Extasie c. A dreame is an inward act of the minde the bodie What they be sleeping and the quieter that sleepe is the easier bee dreames but if sleepe bee unquiet then the minde is troubled Varietie of dreames is according to the divers constitution Their variety of the body The cleare and pleasant dreames are when the spirits of the braine which the soule useth to imagine with are most pure and thin as towardes morning when concoction is perfected But troublesome dreames are when the spirits bee thicke and unpure All naturall dreames are by images either before proffered to memorie or conceived by temperature alone or by some influence from the starres as some thinke From dreames many things may be collected touching the constitution of the body The Night-mare is a seeming of being choked or The night-mare strangled by one leaping upon him feare following this compression the voyce is taken away This affection How occasioned commeth when the vitall spirits in the braine are darkened by vapours ascending from melancholy and phlegme insomuch that that facultie being oppressed some heavie thing seemeth to bee layd upon us Therefore this disease is familiar to those who through age or sexe are much inclined unto these humours An Extasie or traunce is a vehement imagination A trance of the departure for a time of the soule from the bodie A deepe sleepe lasting some dayes enseweth for What it is the foule giving over it selfe to cogitation ceaseth to serve the body Wherefore men wanting motion and sence seeme to be dead And with what humours the braine shall be compassed such phansies doth it conceive although sometime spirits working on such phatasies imprint other things Now followeth Motion which accompanieth sence and is caused either by appetite or change of place for we desiring things perceived in sence cannot attaine unto them withour moving our body to that thing Appetite What it is Appetite is a facultie desiring such things as are objects to our sense It chiefly followeth touching or thinking Delight followeth touching Delight is a desire of an agreeing Object Griefe is his contrary which is a turning from the hurtfull object or from that we count unpleasant Appetites following cogitation are all the motions of the heart which be called affections and are either good or bad The good cherish and preserve the nature of our sensitive facultie as mirth love hope which come of heate when the heart dilating it selfe desireth to enjoy the thing with which it is delighted Motion is a facultie of living creatures stirring a bodie Motion what it is entised by appetite from one place to another It is either of the whole body or of partes Of the whole body as by going c. Of partes as breathing which is made either by enlarging of the parts which serve for the taking in of the ayre or by the closing of them for the expelling of corrupt ayre Now followeth to intreat Of the bodies of living Of the bodies of living creatures What the matter of the body is creatures The matter of the body in which the foresaid faculties be is the seede of both sexes Seede is most pure bloud perfectly concocted in the testicles and it is gathered from the whole bodie For the testicles lacking nourishment draw bloud from the hollow veyne and change it Conception is the action of the wombe by which Conception what it is the power is stirred up to execute his inbred gift Then that power being stirred up doth diversly distract the matter separating his divers partes and thus all parts alike get together their shape Likewise all of them together are adorned with the faculties of the vegetative or sensitive soule Amongst the naturall faculties of the partes of the body if there be putrifaction a fault of the concocting facultie there is made a certaine generation of matter This is naturall or extraordinary Naturall is by an inbred heate not altogether subdued Naturall but slackly exercising force through disposition of the mattter Such is to be seene in inflamations botches and impostumes For in these nature so farre as it can laboureth to bring this his subject matter to the best forme Therefore such suppuration is wont to argue a certaine strength of nature wherefore often with convenient helpes it is carefully encreased In this kinde especially is praysed white thicke smooth equall and least smelling matter Extraordinary mattering is when nature altogether Extraordinary subdued the humors or parts themselves are made full of corrupt matter through store of rottennesse But nature or the concocting facultie is overcome either through proper weaknesse or by corrupt matter this is observed in all rotten malignant and stinking botches in

which according to the diverse fashioning of abounding matter are found diverse sorts of solid bodyes as haires and such other like Of partes of the body which appertaine to the Of the parts of the body making up of the whole body some are containing and some contained The contained for their fluent nature are sustained by helpe of others Such are humours and spirits Humors are moyst partes begot of the first mixture of nourishment in the liver These are in the seede of creatures and are called the beginning of things endued with bloud Any of these if they fayle of their proper nature are not fit to be in the bodie but are become unnaturall Humours are of the first the second sort The first Humors are hot or colde and moyst and dry Bloud is hot and Blood moyst and it is a thin red humour and sweete With this the other partes be chiefly nourished amongst whom this is the chiefe The faults of this is in substance as putrifaction or mixture of vicious humors or in qualitie as too thicke or too thin or is affected with some other badnesse The humour that is hot and dry is choller this is a thinne yellow pale and bitter humour His use is to helpe the expelling facultie and chiefly in the Guts Gall besides nature through adustion is yellow like an egges yolke in the stomacke it is like rustic brasse The colde and moyst is phlegme which is a tough Phlegme slimie and whitish humour and tastlesse If this have a fuller concoction it is turned into bloud His use is to moysten the joynts When it declineth from his proper nature it is salt or tart according to his mixture The colde and dry humour is blacke choller This is a thicke blackish tart bitter humour It serveth to strengthen the stomacke that it may more easily retaine and receive meate When it declineth from his proper nature by immoderate burning it hath divers kindes Humors of the second sort are begotten of the first being wrought with concoction they are like dew or glew Dew is a humor contained in the hollownesse of the members and joyned to their substance like dew with which they are nourished Glew is a humour immoderately congealed and being Glew firmely fastned to the members beginneth to bee changed unto their substance of which change it is called Cambium and carniformis like the flesh Now follow the spirits which are a fluent part of Spirits the body most thin and begotten of the bloud of the heart The spirits are the chiefe instrument and as it were the Chariot of the soules faculties for with most speedie and swift motion it carrieth them over all the body Spirits having roote in the heart be either absolute Vitall What they are or rude and to be finished in other parts Vitall spirits be absolute in the heart and are of a firie nature and from the heart by arteries are spred in the bodie by whose communication all parts doe live Spirits to be perfected in other parts bee Animall Animall which from the heart be carried into the braine and What they are there made subtile by nerves flowing unto all the other parts and this is the Chariot of functions or faculties of all living Creatures Parts containing are more solid which are sustained by themselves all these either are as a stay or covering The stay to other parts is either bone or gristle Bone is the hardest and dryest part and stay to all the bodie Bones are knit together by ligaments which are like hard and thicke threeds being as bandes to the bones of the bodie Gristles are somewhat softer than the bones and Gristles sustaine all other partes The covering of the other What they are parts is the skin which is tender without bloud and covereth the whole body The membrane is a tender skin covering some parts There is yet in these parts a common excrement of Sweat concoction which is sweat and is a moystnesse of the What it is veynes expelled by secret pores of this is to be seene a diverse colour according to the die of the moystnesse or matter thereof the usuall is watrish through the white substance of the channels through which it runneth But if the pores be large and open that without delay and long change it may slide through them especially if for some affection of minde or disease it become thinner then is it speedily expelled and tainted with some other colour c. Therefore from the colour of sweate the bodyes constitution may be knowne Colde sweate is worse to bee liked than hot but either is bad if they be unequall Also the containing parts afore-named are animall or vitall and each of these are more or lesse principall Animall parts are in which the animall parts are most exercised as sence and motion together or alone The chiefe member of motion and sence is the braine contained in the head whose substance being hurt it is in danger to lose both sence and motion The Braine is softer than the other parts white Braine what it is and covered with a double skinne closely The skinne of the brayne is either called Pia or Dura mater The scalpe is a thicke bone covering the whole head and hath up on it a skin with hayres The scalpe is distinguished with certaine seames in certaine parts which are true or fayned c. The excrements of the braine are either thicke or Excrements of the braine thin The thin are teares bursting from the braine by the angles of the eyes The greater the flesh of those angles be so much more plentifull be teares chiefly if the complexion bee colde and moyst as of women Teares be caused by heate which openeth or colde which presseth the flesh and causeth teares The thicker excrements which are expelled from the brayne eyther are by the eares or nose In the eares is a moyst excrement of the brayne gathering Of the eares and rotting in their hollownesse That of the nose is a thicker excrement than that of Of the nose the braine which although it be like flegme yet it is altogether of another nature The pithe of the backe bone is neare to the nature of the braines excrement save that it is harder and something hotter The backe is bonie round and in his length hath twentie foure joynts The Nerves are lesse principall parts of sence and motion which if they be out of order the parts in which these be become unfit to move Nerves or sinewes are thin parts round c. white much like to thicke threeds Some are softer some harder The softer are of more use of which are six paire by two and two from the braine arriving to other parts First to the eyes Secondly To moove the eyes Thirdly to the tongue and taste Fourthly to the pallet and skin of the mouth Fiftly to the hearing The sixt to the mouth of the stomacke

is made of Camels stale and because store of Camels be in Armenia it is called Armeniack Salt Peter is found in dry places under the ground Salt Peter and in hollow Rockes It is sometime called Nitre of a Region in Egypt Of this kinde is the salt called Borax Salt Gem is a white kinde of Even-salt shining like Salt Gem. Crystall It is also called Stonic marbly salt Sarmaticke or Dacian Salt of Indie is blackish Salt or ruddy It is in clods Salt of Indie cut out of mount Oremen Salt of Water is taken on the Sea coast or from some Salt of water lakes and springs and it is sod and congealed of the Sunne or by fire Allo me is a salt sweat of the earth it is either liquid Allome or hard Liquid Allome is called Roch or Rock-Allome Liquid Allome with it is paper washed c. Hard Allome or Allome Scissile is thicke and Hard Allome cleaveth It is as it were gray Bitume is a fat and tough moysture like pitch and Bitume is called Earthy pitch Liquid is like an oylely moysture flowing and is of Liquid Bitume divers colours after the varietie of the place of which Naphtha is a white fat of Bitumen which enflamed by water doth easily draw to it fire through store of oyle that is in it Naphtha Petreolum Naphtha Petreolum is found in rockes It is for his fatnesse of some called Oyle Ambar of Arabia is Bitume of an Ash colour Ambar of Arabia Hard Bitume Hard Bitume is tough like foam swimming on the water but being taken forth it waxeth hard of this kinde is Asphaltus which is blacke Bitume hard like stone pitch The best is gotten in the dead Sea of Iudea c. Pissaphaltus Pissaphaltus Asphaltus smelling of Pitch mingled with Bitume It is called Mummie Where this wants they sell us counterfeit of Syria for poore men that die there be stuffed with Bitume but the rich are dressed with Mirrh Alloes c. It also is found in clods rolling from mount Ceravine into the Sea Succinum Succinum is Bitume like a stone exceeding hard named Ex succo the Iuyce of the earth It is white or yellow which is called Ambar or blacke as Iet His fatnesse is so great that it burneth like a Candle and smelleth like the Pine tree It draweth to it chaffe and such other light stuffe by a certaine hid nature Metallar Earths which are digged forth of mines Terra Lemnia Terra Lemnia an exceeding red Earth of Lemnos I le digged in a red hill It is sometime used for Armenian In old time this had Dianaes seale upon it printed by her Priests who were onely wont to wash this earth It is of force to expell poyson it healeth wounds The nature of it festred and old and poysoned Bole Armenian is earth of Armenia it is of a pale Bole Armenian red colour smooth and easie to breake as chalke It is The nature of it a dryer and profiteth against all fluxes Terra Samia is white stiffe and tough comming Terra Samia from the I le Samos Ampelite is a pitchie earth cleaving and blacke it Ampelite is named of annoynting Vines to kill the wormes This earth is like that we call Stone or Sea coale Chalke is white earth of Creete and there is found Chalke of it in many other places There is also some found that is blacke which is Black Chalke called Pignitis CHAP. VII Of Natures perfectly living SO farre of Minerals Now follow Natures perfectly living What natures perfectly living are Natures perfectly-living are Plantes or bodies endowed with a soule In all these bodies are sundry vertues according to the temperature of the principall qualities For the forme useth their qualities as Instruments Whence come diverse distinct degrees of those qualities as some are hot cold dry moyst in the first second third and fourth degree The qualities in the first are obscure and scarce to be perceived in the second they are apparant and manifest in the third they be vehement and in the fourth immoderate and not to be indured And againe each of these hath a beginning middle and end Plants grow from a stalke or a trunke Those from a Plants stalke have but one stalke or many Trees are Plants having but one stalke full of Boughs and rising on high from the earth Some grow onely in hot Countries others grow indifferently in all places those that prosper best in hot Regions are Frankincense Mace Pepper Palme Balsame Pomegranet Lemmon Ceder The Frankincense tree groweth chiefly in Arabia Frankincense tree it is tall and hath leaves like the Mastike tree his gum The nature of it is soft white fat and round and is apt to perfume and the stiffer and liker Rosen it is so much the better This perfume was used for sacrifice Myrrhe is a tree in India of hard wood wrythen Myrrhe towardes the earth with a smooth barke the leaves The nature of it sharpe poynted towardes the end his gum is fat like Rosen thicke and shining red The distilled liquor of fresh Myrrh was once called Stact but now it is named Storax It is hot and dry in the second degree It dryeth closeth wounds it expelleth the wormes it is of force against an old cough and short winde It is bitter It is good to heale wounds of the head Mace is an Indian tree grown in the I le of Banda It Mace is almost like the Peach tree it hath narrow and short leaves whose fruit is the Nut-meg covered with Mace The Nut-meg hath an huske like a Filberd the Nutmeg fruit is covered with a rinde like our Wal-nut which with ripenesse openeth and sheweth the Mace which doth cover the Nut-meg c. The new and best Nut-meg is full of juyce or oyle smelling sweete It dryeth and heateth in the ende of the second degree with a kindely binding Pepper Pepper groweth in India Of it be two sorts of trees and two sorts of fruits one long the other round The round groweth on branches like vines which imbraceth trees that stand by it and his fruit is in clusters first greene then being dryed it turneth blacke and rough it is gathered in October Long Pepper groweth like the long bud on Nut-trees The nature of it It is hot and dry Palme tree groweth most in Egypt and Arabia alwayes Palme tree greene with a long round bodie his barke is like scales of a Fish and the more it is pressed the better it groweth therefore was it used as a reward for the Conquerour The wild Palme in India is called Thamarind Wilde Palme tree The nature of it the Date is his fruit it being ripe is blacke and sweete Of these bee three kindes Our Dates come from Egypt they are hot temperately Balsame is a low tree his trunke is not much unlike