begotten which we commonly terme Monsters but this is not ordinary but rather extraordinary for Nature doth never produce any of these Monsters but by some extraordinary and lascivious thoughts in the very act or else after the act which bringeth sleepe there to continue in the body of the Female which I thinke and some other learned are of my opinion is a maine cause of these Monsters called Hermophrodites and sometimes Nature hath given them that are thus luxurious no comfort of their issue for if not Hermophrodites then they proove fooles and ideots Qu. Why doe some children resemble sometime their Father more than the Mother which breeds them in their body and sometime like the Grandsir or some other of their kinred Ans It is according to their youth whether it bee father or mother which hath more seed in their vessels than the other which overflowes the lesser and being more desirous of lust which causeth the same likenesse And againe it is when in the very act the man remembers the visage of the Woman which is a great matter having it in his thought at that time sometimes it is like the Grand-father when hee is thought upon or remembred in the like action Qu. Why doe those infants which come out of the wombe at the eight Moneths end most commonly become weake and sometimes in danger of death A. Because nature is weak in those women and not able in regard of their burden to hold out any longer by reason of the watery and cold Planet the Moone which hath rule in every body whatsoever and by reason the Moon is retrograde ill desposed at that time is the cause of its death Q. Why doth the infant open the wombe at forty weekes end A. The reason is as wee may see in divers fruites when they be ripe they easily fal and so likewise when the childe is at full growth then the vessell doth breake or open and the tendons or ligaments easily broken and therefore those women which hold out their full time without their terms falling down in that time haue strong and lusty children and live long Q. Why doth either excessive ioy or griefe cause a woman to miscarry A. Sometime extraordinary joy doth take away the naturall heat which causeth and giveth life to the seede in the wombe and so causeth miscarrying and the very same reason is given for griefe conceived which taketh away the natural heat from the wombe to comfort the heart Q. Why doth the tongue sometimes lose the use of speaking A. The learned Physitian Hypocrates saith sometime it doth happen through a Palsie or Apoplexy which is by a violent effusion of blood and of other thicke humours and againe it is the infection spiritus animalis in the Median part of the braine which is an hinderāce that the vigor or spirit is not carryed unto the tongue which is the maine cause why the tongue sometimes is not able to expresse those actions which its office ought to make manifest Q. Why did nature make rather the braine cold than hot A. For this maine reason onely to temper and moderate the heate of the heart to the end it might serve in stead of a Fan or cooler Q. Wherefore made Nature Man naked and without weapons onely his armes to defend him A. Nature having bestowed wisedome upon man hath given him meanes enough to arme himselfe at his owne pleasure as well against the cold and heate of the aire as against the blowes of his enemies Q. What is the cause that children who are moyst by nature are not bald notwithstanding A. Because their humidity is intermingled with a temperate heate Q. Why doth Rue being planted under a fig-tree grow the better and receiveth more nourishment A. Because it drawes unto it selfe the sweetnesse of the Fig-tree or else the Fig-tree suckes away from the Rue a part of his bitternesse and so being somewat sweetned it groweth the better Q. Why doe old men dye almost without paine A. By reason that all their sences are debilitated and their rudicall moysture and naturall heate consumed Q. Why doth sorrow and care make some men to look old and gray before their time Answ Because they dry up the moysture of their bodie by their Cholericke humour which is too predominant in them and indeede Age is no thing but a kind of drynesse Q. Wherefore are womens counsailes which they give upon the suddaine commonly esteeemed happy and prosperous in effect and those which they give upon long deliberation unlucky and disastrous A. Erasmus is of opinion that their mindes are for the most part employed with what they most affect and upon a pinch if they bee put to it they shew much and a quicke wittinesse for Women are naturally farre more witty than men but more prone to affect and sometimes make use of it to extreame wickednesse Q. VVherefore is it said what 's a VVoman but her tongue A. Because antienly they had no other defence nor weapon but that but now they have better fortified themselves with tongue tooth and nayles Q. VVhat kinde of people are those that doe not sleepe in their owne faces A. Women that paint which put on other faces than nature gave them under which fained fairenesse there is a foule pretence of concealing age and wrinkles but not their desire of youthfull actions Justice Sph. Ph. pa. 683. Dialogismus What Goddesse Justice Why thy lookes so sterne Not to be wonne from what I once discerne VVhence born From heaven Thē say who was thy father Measure he 's cald and true-faith is my mother Why one eare open and the other shut To th' good thats ope to th'bad that 's closed up Why sword i' th right hand in the left a scales These weigh each act ' gainst th' guilty that prevailes Why art alone Good company is rare These times conduct mee not where good men are Why poorely clad Cause hee that will be iust Refraine to purchase wealth and treasure must Q. What doe you iudge to be most fit for the tranquility of of a marryed life A. No married life can be peaceable and quiet except the man be deafe and the woman blind for either of them must conceale somethings that she being blind may not be peeping prying into every action of her husband he deafe that he may not heare his wife brawling continually at home Altera luminihus quando caret auribus alter Improba coniugium tale querela fugit In English thus Where Wives want eyes and Husbands want good eares That Wedlocke seldome causeth jarres and teares Of a widow Q. Wherefore is it that no Spaniard of what meane quality soever will marry a widdow bee shee very young and wealthy A. It hath beene a resolution of theirs from Antiquity and continueth to this day and to this effect one of them made this answer I will no Widow wed my reason's sound I 'le drinke no water wherein one was
cabbages nought for the eyes An. By reason of the melancholy blood and sharpe rhume they ingender in the stomacke which flyes into the braine and distills inthe eyes Qu. Wherefore is it held dangerous to fast long An. By reason that by too much fasting a company of ill humors are ingendred and so will beget diseases and cause vomit Qu. What is the cause that wee have better stomacks to our meate when the winde is in the North than at other times An. By reason of his coldnesse which knits together and holds within us the natural heat of our bodies which causeth a quick digestion Qu. What is the reason that Vinegar is very wholesome to those that are cholerick and is of contrary operation to those that are melancholy An. Because it asswageth choler by his coldnesse and by his heate dryes up melancholy Qu. What is the reason that some men have hard haire and some againe have soft An. The greatnesse and smalnesse of the pores of the body is the cause of it for soft haire commeth by reason of the smalnesse of them and hard haire for the contrary And therefore women have commonly softer haire than men because their naturall cold doth restraine and close the pores Qu. Why is a dead body heavier than that which hath life within An. A body alive is full of ayre and fire which doe hold it upright for their nature is alwayes to mount upwards and a dead body is nothing but a lumpe of earth whose nature is heavy and melancholy and alwayes tending downwards Qu. VVhat is the cause that some dye for very joy and some againe with griefe and sadnesse An. Because great joy doth coole and refrigerate too much at that time the inward and vitall parts of man and too much sorrow and pensivenesse doth as it were suffocate and choake them Qu. Why hath Nature made the lungs of all creatures spungeous or full of holes like unto a spunge An. To the end it might receive the ayre the better to coole and qualifie the heart and to drive away from it all such vapours as are hurtfull unto it Qu. VVhy is our heart placed in the middest of the body A. To quicken equally all the members thereof even as the Sunne giveth heat equally to all vegetable things being in the middest of the Heaven Qu. VVhat is the cause that men doe neese and the benefit of it A. Some say by extreame cold taken from the feete which presently ascends into the braine and the braine being so pure that it will not suffer the pia mater to suffer wrong makes men to neese and because that the expulsive vertue or power and the sight should there by be purged and the braine also from super fluities which oppresse it so much which if they did not purge either by the counsell or advice of a Physitian or else by neesing will prove very dangerous And those which neese oft are held to have a strong and an able braine and those that cannot neese which are sicke or diseased dye suddenly because it is a manifest token that their braine or pia mater is stuffed with humor and nature hath lost her naturall office or function Qu. VVhy have men more teeth than women An. By reason of aboundance of heate and blood in the male kind which is not so hot in the female kind Qu. VVhat is the reason that wine mingled with water provoketh urine An. Because water being mingled with wine hurts the stomack weakens the retaining vertue or strength of the wine whereas wine alone doth cherish and comfort the heart Qu. Why doe ancient men and women neese with great difficulty An. Because of the decay of nature and the narrownesse of the pores of their body which wants that vigour which youth enjoyes Qu. Why is man of all other creatures whatsoever more subject to diseases infirmities than any other creature An. By reason of his intemperance and likewise being composed of the foure Elements and having blood choler phlegme and melancholy and one of these more predominant than the other causeth sicknesse and therefore Schola Salerni saith Esse cupis sanus sit tibi parcamanus That is If thou wilt live in health have a niggardly hand that is Use temperance of Dyet Qu. Why doe Physitians hold it a dangerous matter to let a fat man blood An. Because those that are grosse and fat have smaller veines and the veines are more hidden and appeare not so much Moreover they have but little blood and as small an appetite and are no way able to digest that meate which the retentive part requires Qu. VVhat is the reason that the beast called a Camelion changeth so often his colours An. By reason of his great feare and timorousnesse and by reason hee maketh much of his blood but hee will change the oftner and with greater delight to the beholder if you lay a cloath of that colour under him which you desire to see him change to Qu. VVherefore is it that an Orenge being roasted and put hot into a glasse of wine gathers about it a kinde of pearly froth An. Because the heate of the fire piercing the pores of the rinde of the Orenge by which heate those pores are opened as the nature of heate is proper to that effect and the property of cold to shut up or close them which being roasted and put hot into wine a liquor naturally cold but operatively hot the ambient cold suddenly stopping the pores of the rinde and the incident heat striving by the way of Antipathy to make a way out is restrayned by the over domineering cold and moysture which are the opposites of fire and so appeares in small bubbles like pearles Qu. VVherefore is it that it never snoweth in Summer An. Because although the cloud bee frozen yet the Snow cannot come Snow to us but resolved into water and by reason that passing the inferiour region of the Ayre which is hot it is melted although it falls and lyes upon high Mountaines because in high places it is alwayes cold Qu. Why doe men use to lay lime or chalke at the roote of Cherry-trees and other fruit-trees An. Because the Lime is hot and dry and in the winter season doth as it were nourish and heate the roote as the Sun doth in Summer and by thus doing you may have ripe fruite before the time Qu. Why is a storme said to follow presently when a company of Hogges runne crying home An. Some say that a Hog is most dull and of a melancholy nature and so by reason doth fore-see the raine that commeth And in time of raine indeed I have observed that most cattell doe pricke up their eares As for example an Asse will when hee perceiveth a storme of raine or haile doth follow Qu. Why did nature give all living creatures Eares An. For two maine reasons for so saith Galen because that with those eares they should heare any thing comming to
instant But I rather suppose that this happeneth not but to faint-hearted and weake cowards which are stricken into a maze and astonishment which is a cause that the naturall heate retires inward neare about the heart so that the outward parts being destitute of heate become as it were benumb'd and shake as those doe through extreame cold in the winter Q. Whence comes it to passe that the flesh of a sheepe bitten by a wolfe eates farre tenderer than others the wool is more apt to breed lice vermin A. It is because the breath of the wolfe is very hot and attenuating the flesh by his heate makes it more tender and by the same cause the wool participates the alteration of the flesh and is more subject and apt to putrefaction and to breed vermin This is the solution of Plutarch Q. Whence is it that the wolfe is sayd never to see his syre nor whelpe A. Because the Wolfe after his coupling with the female smells very ranke and strong farre more than before the smell being augmented by the motions of the humors which are in the coupling wherefore the other wolves in a rage fall upon him and worry him to death and teare him peece-meale and by that meanes he shal never see his whelps nor they him nor their owne which they shall beget The generall opinion of Hunters is that the Bitch-wolfe never couples with the Male but once in her life which is the cause that many Malewolves follow her when she is proud and fight and while they are all fighting if any one of them couple with her all the rest fall upon him and kill him Of Mules Male and Female Qu. VVHy is it that the Mulets beget not nor the Mules can conceive A. Some are of opinion that this proceedeth from their being ingendred of two divers and very different species or kinds of animals for the Horse is of a very hot and the Asse of a very cold temperament by nature they have not a disposition requisite for generation and conception Or rather because Nature doth abhorre the generation and propagation of monsters and Animals being engendered of two different creatures as these are being monsters Nature will not permit that their generation shall extend or enlarge it selfe any farther This reason is generall and the precedent is particular but both probable neverthelesse it is observed that Mules have sometimes conceived brought forth Quest Wherefore is it that Mulets are stronger sounder and longer-liv'd than Horses or asses being they participate of both natures A. Because by the providence of nature the defect of generation which is in them is recompensed by their other qualities or rather because of the great heate of the horse and the coldnesse of the Asse being mixed together doe make a good temperameÌ„t by the strength healthinesse livelinesse and long continuance of the Mulet which partakes of both Species Q. Wherefore is it that the Mulets participate more of the nature of the Asse than of the Horse being that the Horse is greater both in courage and fiercenesse and more generous than the Asse A. Because the Asse is of a melancholicke constitution and by consequence more desirous of copulation lust and venery by the reason whereof her feede is predominant in the generation of the Mulet or rather it is because the seede of the Asse being of a colder temper than that of the Horse is more tenacious or retayning Of Drunkards Q. WHerefore is it that great drinkers are said to gather death whence others gather life A. By the reason of excesse for Plures enecat inteÌ„perantia quaÌ„ gladius Excesse killeth more than the sword and by this meanes their foreheads oreshew to the world their more than brutish affection by the variety of pimples the rubies on their noses the rednesse of their eyes the trembling of their hands their stinking breath and as their bodies batten so their soules wither and themselves accelerate their deaths as immature by their intemperance As Saint Austine noteth Multi manducant bibunt in hac vita quod postea in inferno digerant Many eate and drinke that in this life which they must afterwards digest in Hell And Diogenes called these men the Charyhdes of life For the Charybdis swallows what the sea brings to it and casts it up againe but these swallow up rivers and lands but never cast them up againe Q. VVherefore is it that teares are frequent and usefull to your Maudlin drunkards A. The reason is that the shedding of teares is a great ease to them by the effusion of the superabundant humours in the head for the braine is filled with vapours which is much eased by such teares and by consequence they as Tibullus acknowledgeth thus Sape ego tentavi curas depellere vino At dolor in lachrymas verterat omne merum In English thus By wine I oft have try'd t' expell my cares But they converted all my wine to teares Qu. Wherefore is it that to a drunken man every thing seemes two A. These questions are not for a triviall understanding to resolve but I will doe my endeavour to enucleate what you propose The reason then is that by the abundance of humectation or moistning the tender muscles of the eyes more than ordinary affected and contracted they divert and distract the eyes the one being forced upwards and the other downewards Therefore both the eyes doe not direct themselves to one marke or object which causeth the sight to be double each eye directing it selfe differently Qu. How doe these pot-companions excuse themselves An. Certainly I thinke out of Anacreon thus Faecunda terra potat Hanc arboresque potant Et potat aequor auras Ipsumque Luna Phaebum Quid ergo vos sodales Pâ—â—â—â—â—… me vetatis In English thus The fruitfull Earth doth drinke The Trees drink earth I thinke The Sea drinkes Ayre I weene The Moone drinks Sol agen Then Blades why should wee fall From drinking Knock and call Qu. What kind of life is most fit for these kinde of Animals An. In my conceite the life of Frogs for they having liquor enough yet croake for more that is for fresh raine Quest How is it that Wine workes contrary and different effects in the drinkers An. The Sunne melts the Ice and hardens 〈◊〉 by the diversity of the subject whereon it operateth So Wine not of its owne Nature but by the nature of the bodies into which it is powred they being not all of one temper workes divers and different effects The melancholy man becomes fearefull without any manifest cause and steales away and starts as fearefull at every noise hee talkes of nothing but Ghosts and dead men or on the Scripture and is never more religious than when hee hath got a cup or two The phlegmaticke becomes heavy dull and stupid The sanguine hee laughes sings dances and spends himselfe in mirth The Cholericke hee puts all the rest in a confusion and quarrels
to requite a good with good is evill Bad to requite with bad 's a tricke o' th' Devill Bad to requite for good is most unjust Good to requite for good is good and just But good for ill is best so judge we must Q. Which of the two is more sufferable a Tyrant or hangman A. It is an easie question and yet a question Antisthenes the Philosopher was of opinion in behalfe of the Hangman For saith hee the Hangman kills the nocent but the Tyrant the innocent Of Money Qu. VVHat and whence is money A. Let her speak her selfe for when shee speakes all mouths are stopt nay can perswade more by silence than Cicero could with his Eloquence yet this she sayes of her selfe Terra fui primum latebris abscondita diris Nunc aliud regnum flamma nomenque dederunt Nec jam terra vocor licet en me terra paretur In English thus I first was earth enclosed deepe in ground The fire for me another name hath found Through earth the earth I sway where I abound Of Meteors Qu. VVHat is the reason of the Meteors An. The word Meteor signifies a thing drawne or lifted up on high because these imperfect bodies are engendred of exhalations or of vapors of the earth water and those are called Meteors and seeing that they are engendred not onely on high but also below and within the concavities of the earth those that write of this subject are very different in opinion Qu. Wherefore is it that sometimes we seeme to see the Starres fall An. Those are not Stars but Meteors caused of exhalations which being not great in quantity and drawne up to the lower Region of the Ayre taking fire fall in the likenesse of a Starre Q. What is the cause of the Ignis fatuus that either goes before or follows a man in the night An. It is caused of a great and well compacted exhalation and being kindled it stands in the aire and by the mans motion the Ayre is moved and the fire by the Ayre and so goes before or follows a man and these kind of fires or Meteors are bred neare Execution places or Church-yards or great Kitchins where viscous or slimy matter and vapours abound in great quantity Of Hayle Q. VVHat is to be thought the cause of Hayle Ans When by vertue of the Sunne and Starres a vapour is elevated it ascends to the middle Region of the Ayre but enters no farther which the environing cold by reason of its thinnesse penetrateth and driving out the warmth beginnes to turne the parts of the vapour into water and to thicken it but the cold because it is great congeleth those parts already turned into drops and fluide into a hardnesse and generates a greater or lesser Hayle according to the diversity of the cold and the vapour Sometimes also a vapour in the middle Region of the Ayre is converted into drops which in falling are congeled in the lowest Region of the Ayre by Antiperistasis and those drops by meeting together in their falling are congeled into a three-squar'd or angular haile and not sphericall or round Q. Wherefore is it that this watry impression is more frequent in the Spring than in any other time of the yeere A. Because the Spring is hot and moist by its temperature and by consequence most apt for the generating and elevating of vapors For Summer being hot and dry dryeth up and exhausteth the vapors Winter is cold and dry Autumne likewise cold but moist and these two last Quarters of the yeere many times permit not the vapors to bee dissolved For the materia of the hayle is very hot and therefore thinne and rare and is the sooner penetrable and convertible by the encompassing cold By the same reason it is that warme water in Winter will sooner be frozen than cold Of the small Hayle and Snow Q. VVHerefore is it that in March the Haile is usually smaller than at other times A. Their generation is the same but in quantity of heate different for being elevated up into the middle middle region of the Aire but in a lower place than the greater Hayle and by the cold being converted into droppes which are congealed extrinsecally before their fall into the forme of Haile but intrinsecally or inwardly by reason of the defect of cold they are softer and of the nature and quality of snow Q. Whence then proceedes the snow A. Out of a hot and moyst vapour drawne up to the lower part of the middle Region of the aire into which vapour the encompassing cold entereth by the reason of the vapors thinnenesse melts it into water and congeleth it in time into the similitude of tosed Wooll yet many times the snow while it falls through the lowest part of the aire is dissolved into raine by reason of warmth being then there and thence it happeneth that at one and the selfe same time snow falls on the hills and raine in the valleyes Of Raine Qu. WHence is the raine produced and generated A. When by the vertue of the Sunne and other Astres or Starres a hot moyst fumous and grosse vapour is drawne up to the upper part of the lower or to the lower part of the middle Region of the ayre and is dissolved into a cloud and the cloud into water and by its weightinesse tending to its center fals as being of a watry substance and falls in drops upon the earth and falling in greater drops it is commonly called a shower but falling in a lesse ponderous manner and with longer continuation we cal it raine Q. Whence is it that sometimes the raine seemeth to be red A. By the reason of anadust and dry earthlinesse which is mingled with the vapours that are elevated in a time of warmth Of Dew Qu. VVHence then hath the dew its causes A. The Dew is generated by a vapour weakly hot grosse and moyst which is elevated not much from the lowest part of the ayre and condensated or thickned by the nightly cold and dissolved into a water even as in an Alembicke the vapour a seending is converted into a water But the Dew most commonly falleth in the evening for at that time the lowest region of the aire is of a colder temperature Q. Wherefore is it that sheepefeeding on a Dew fallen on the grasse dye of the rot A. When a vapour participates much of the ayry moysture which is slimy and sweete and is dissolved into a Dew and falling upon the grasse and hearbs by the operation of the Sunne the watry part is exhaled leaving a kinde of mealy substance like a Sugar upon the leaves of trees and herbage and that is our now Manna And by the selfe same causes Laudanum is also generated in the Aire The sheepe then being much taken with the sweetnesse eate beyond their measure and surfet whereupon the gall being over-filled with choler this kinde of dew breeding it in them so abundantly breakes and that bile or
choler gnawes and corrupts the Liver the Liver the Blood and the Blood the whole Body Sometimes by the meanes of this Dew the Liver is oppilated obstructed or stopped which is the cause of a generall disease and death in the flock Albertus Magnus testifieth himselfe to have seene these experiences Of Frost Q. WHence proceedes the Frost A. Almost in the same manner it is generated as the Dew I say almost because a greater and more intense cold is required for the production of the frost than of the Dew that it may not onely dissolve the hot vapour into water but also congeale it when it is dissolved Of Springs and Fountaines Qu. WHence have Fountains and Springs their beginnings A. The earth in its womb hath many concavityes and hollow veines and passages in which because nothing can be empty certaine vapours being raised from the earth are dissolved into water and sticking to the sides of those veines destill into drops cause little streams which meeting together from all those parts in a lower place make a current and breaking forth make a spring Qu. Wherefore is it that some springs are constant and some increase in the Winter and decay in Summer An. By the reason of the disposition of the place of their beginning and mutation of the qualities For the more solid Hills whose secret passages the exteriour ayre cannot easily penetrate doe utter more constantly their waters for the former vapours being dissolved into a fluent liquor and that there may not bee a vacuum or emptinesse other vapours succeed and are likewise dissolved But the Hills that are porous that have open orifices or passages for the exterior ayre to penetrate especially in Summer doe not containe the vapors for they are dryed up by the exsiccating quality of the Ayre Q. Wherefore is it that the springs are warme in winter and cooler in summer A. The cause is from the fortification of the coldnesse of the cavernes and holes within the earth For in winter when the pores of the earth are stopped up by the exterior cold and the hot exhalations not finding a way out are there detained and warme the vapours the vapours consequently the waters in so much that they are usually seene reake smoake but in Summer the pores being open the exhalations easily passe and are drawne out And the coldnes of the cavernes kept in by Antiperistasis by the exteriour heate cooleth the vapours and waters Q. Wherefore is it that the Bath is so warme and coole and so different in qualities A. The reason and resolution of this question Philosophy gives affirming in generall that those Baths which are warme receive their heate by passing through the veines of sulphury and burning Mineralls But the diversity of the Springs proceeds from the various and divers permixtion of the first qualities by the concurse of the influences also by reason of the diversity of the Minerals and earths by which they passe But to give a reason for the strange effects and qualities of some waters it is very difficult referring that to the hand Omnipotent Qu. Which kind of waters are thought to bee purest and best An. Those that are lighter in weight purer in substance not standing but continually running over a pure earth towards the East and therefore these kind of waters are more usefull in medicine than any other by reason of their purity and vertue Q. Whence then are the Rivers caused An. The causes of Rivers in respect of their beginnings are the same with the springs A River is made by the concourse of divers waters as from the spring Ior and Dan which issue out at the foote of Libanus the river Iordan is produced so likewise many famous rivers have their like beginnings and denominations and all these run into the vast body of the devouring sea Of the Sea Qu. WHerefore is it that the water of the sea is so salt A. It is a generall opinion that the saltnesse of the sea proceedeth from the mixture of the adust terrene drynesse elevated by the power of the Sunne and mingled with the moyst vapours that fall into the Sea and by the same reason the water that is streined dreaned through ashes becomes bitter moreover the heate of the Sunne continually raiseth the sweeter and lighter Waters leaving the terrestriall earthinesse But the Rivers that runne out of the Sea and as it were are streyned through sands and earth flow not to us salt or bitter but become sweet leaving their salt qualitie in the earth and sand behinde them and returning againe into the sea do much temper and abate the saltnes thereof but many are of opinion that it was salt in its first creation Q. Wherefore is it that the sea ebs and flowes A. The cause hereof is attributed to the Mistresse of moysture the Moone for at her increase or decrease it is certaine that the humours almost of all things doe change and alter Wherupon the Moon running under the Sun which happeneth in her change the light of both being hindred cannot subtiliate the ayre which being grossened is turned to water and the encrease of the Sea is augmented in substance a flowing must necessarily follow but the Moone being in opposition of the Sunne which happeneth in her ful disperseth her light all over the inferiour bodies neither is she a hindrance to the Sun for the imparting his light and power to the Sea and hereupon the water of the Sea which by the reason of its grossenesse contayneth vapours becomes thinne ascends and flowes like the droppes of warme Milke and this encrease is not in substance but by accident by the rarefaction But in the interposed quartiles of the Moone the Sea encreaseth and decreaseth by the like causes In the first quartile the Sea decreaseth in the second it increaseth accidentally by the way of rarefaction In the third it decreaseth by the rarefaction by the decreasing of the light In the fourth the Moone comming nearer the Sunne the substance of the Sea againe increaseth by the thickenning of the ayre As for the foure quarters of the day naturall the Sea imitates the motion of the Moone For while the Moone upon the Horizon ascends towards the middle of the Heaven the Sea increaseth and floweth But the Moone declining from the middle of the Heaven towards the West the Sea decreaseth and ebbes Againe the Moone going forward to the West-ward towards the corner of the night the Sea increaseth and flowes but the Moone ascending from the corner of the night towards the East it decreaseth and ebbes Which when the Grand Syre of Philosophy Aristotle could not comprehend and conceive cast himselfe into the Sea saying If Aristotle cannot comprehend Euripe Euripe shall comprehend Aristotle Of the Earthquake Qu. VVHerefore is it that the Earth many times trembles which we cōmonly call Earthquakes An. When in the bowels and entrailes of the Earth a great abundance of vapours being included cannot finde
or a Peacocke or in mingled colourd silke for al these things seem of another different colour according to the reflection of the light Q. Wherefore is it that the Heaven sometimes seeme to be all of a flame A. Because of the fiery matter which is above the cloud through which we looke be great in quantity and thinne it seemes to us also that the whole heaven is flaming and if it bee very crasse and thicke it appeares to us to be like blood Q. Wherefore is it that sometimes wee heare divers noyses and sounds above in the Aire A. Without doubt that happeneth in the aire when the exhalation detained enclosed in the cold clouds makes a way out by breaking and tearing the cloud as wee said before of thunder Neverthelesse fearful ignorant and superstitious people beleeve that it is the very sound of a Trumpet or Drumme as the true messengers of great warres presently to ensue and seeme to see certaine troupes of Horsemen ranged in Batallia and many other terrible things according to the feare or apprehension which they conceive Qu. Wherefore is it that circles are often seene about the Moone and other Astres An. The circle that is many times seene about the Sunne and Moone and other Starres proceeds from a cloud which is equally condensed or thickened but somewhat thinne and being justly interposed betweene the Moone and our view the Moone darting her rayes through the cloud causeth an apparition of a round circle in a similitude of her owne rotundity which the Greekes call Halo but if the interposed mist or cloud doe not cover as it were the whole face of the Astre it appeares but as a semicircle Qu. Wherefore is it that sometimes a plurality of Suns and Moones doe appeare An. The reason of this is that when a cloud is obliquely and not directly opposed being humide very watry and disposed to be dissolved into raine and by this meanes being of an equality united and susceptible of the impression of the figures as a Looking-glasse upon which the Sunne or Moone giving a reflection makes a native resemblance and figure of them so that likewise by the reflection against the cloud wee can hardly discerne which is which or the one from the other But this can not be without a great disposition in the cloud for if it be too thicke the rayes of the Astres could not illuminate it and if it be too thinne and rare they would penetrate and dissipate it Pliny writes that sometimes there appeare three Sunnes and Moones without any raine at all in the manner aforesayd Qu. Wherefore is it that these circles are seene oftener about the Moone than the Sunne An. Because the rayes of the Sunne being of a greater vigour and power than those of the Moone doe more easily dissipate and disperse those kind of mists or clouds Of the Raine-bow Qu. VVHence is the Rain-bow so called An. The Greeks tearme it Iris which name the Latins also use and as by isidore it is Etymologised quasiaëris and by us it is by the reason of similitude or likenesse tearmed a Raine-bow quasi Rainy-bow which seemed so admirable that the Ancients called it The daughter of Admiration But never thelesse it will not seeme so strange if wee remember what is said before touching the diversity of colour which oftentimes appeare in the aire for the variety of the colours in the Raine-bow appeare to us as produced from the like causes Q. What is the cause of the Raine bow and diversity of its colours A. The Raine-bow presents it selfe in the aire when we perceive the Sun through a somewhat thicke but a transparant cloud towards us by the reason it is dewy and disposed to bee melted into raine but grosse towards the Sunne so that his raies cannot penetrate it for in this manner wee see three principall colours Orange colour green and purple and by the mixture and confusion of these colors by reason of the reflection of the light of the Sun and our aspect others confusedly likewise are represented even as I said before in the Apparitions in the ayre that upon the neck of a Pigeon or Peacock or of a changeable Taffety according to the postures they are in in the way of reflection of the light Q. Wherefore is it that sometimes two or three Raine-bowes are seene at one time A. Because when the cloud is very cleare and Christalline it accidentally happens that by the reflection of the light two opposite and variegate Raine-bowes also appeare in the Ayre but this happens rather when the Sunne darts his splendour upon two Cloudes and both disposed to receive the same impressions so that sometimes a third Raine-bow is seene meerely by the reflection of the first or second or both But those that take their reflections from the first have their colours far more dimme nothing so quick norlively as that which takes its first reflection from the Sunne Q. Wherefore is it that the Raine-bow appeare but in a semicircle and not wholly round A. Because the Sunne illuminates the cloud circularly and in the way of rotundity but not so that it may perfect a circle by the reason of the connexity of the Heaven so that by how much the Sun is higher upon our Horizon so much the lesse the Raine-bow seemes but morning and evening it appeares greatest And by the same cause wee set our shadowes longer in the morning and evening than at noone-day Q. Whether doth the Raine-bow presage faire or foule weather A. The opinions concerning this point are so divers and different that it is hard to judge Seneca is of opinion that in the morning it portends a faire day at noone raine at night Thunder Pliny who in my conceit was a more curious observer of the incertainty writes that it neither promiseth certainely raine nor certainely faire weather but if it be double or two it will bee attended with raine And the reason hereof I guesse is that the cloud being very humid and moist then when a second Bow appeares by reflexion so that it is ready to melt into raine Qu. Wherefore is it that many mountaines in Sicily as Aetna Naxus Lipara and Brocano are burning and many Fountaines also An. The cause of such fires is that the hot exhalations being enclosed and shut up in the cavernes or dennes of the earth seeking to breake out by force kindle by their allision and attrition of the earth and such hard bodies as they meete with and so breake out in flames through the crannies and chinks of the earth which of it selfe being sulphury slimy and oyly and capable of fire is the cause of the continuance of the fire a long time casting up fire smoake and ashes As for the Fountaines we must presuppose that they dreane through a sulphury earth and matter apt to burne so that the more subtile exhalations issuing through the hollow concaves of the earth kindle as afore-said and heate the
liver and afterwards the appurtenances as the Navell Stomacke and Testicles afterwards the limbes neare them lastly the hands feet and the rest for mans body consisteth of many and divers limbes and members viz. veines nerves muscles bones cartilages fat flesh skin and the 4 humours viz. Blood Phlegme Choler and Melancholy Q. VVherefore is it that some are born in the 10 month when the ninth is the legitime A. Because the motion of organization and also the time of the birth doe vary especially if heate bee the stronger and the complexion better whence it is that the body of the male is sooner formed than the body of the female And againe there is a diversity in either of both Marg. Phil. Q. Wherein consisteth that diversity A. In this that the body of a Male-childe in formed in thirty dayes at least and 〈◊〉 him the vitall motion beginneth the 70 day and is totally finished and borne in the seventh moneth But if the body be formed the fortieth day it is quickned the eightieth and born the 8 month but they live not But if the body be compleat the forty fifth day it quickneth the ninetieth and is borne the ninth moneth after the conception Q. Wherefore is it that the Female is not so soone formed as the Male A. By the reason of the frigidity which is alwaies slower in motion than heat for the body of the Female is not formed before the fortieth day but is compleate ordinarily in the forty fifth and that quickneth the ninetieth day and is borne the ninth moneth which is the usuall and more convenience moneth for the birth But if the body bee not compleatly formed before the fiftieth day it quickneth in the one hundreth and is borne in the tenth moneth But all creatures have a certainety of bringing forth but onely man Q. Whence doth the Infant receive its nutriment in the wombe A. Immediately after conception the wonted monethly sicknesse of the mother is stayed and is divided into three parts the one wherof passeth into the Pappes in which it is decocted into a substance of milke the second is perfectly digested in the liver of the Mother the third which remaineth superfluous remains about the wombe untill the time of birth comes when it is evacuated From the first the infant borne is nourished from the second from the time of quickning it begins to be fed and nutrified but not by the mouth but by the passages of the Navel by which it is knit to the mother it receives its nutriment Q. Wherefore is it that some have red blemishes in their faces or other parts of their bodie which no Art can take away A. Because in the birth of the infant if any quantity of that which I said before was retayned untill the birth chanceth to touch or fall upon any part of the body of the infant wheresoever it leaveth such a stayne and blemish which cannot be taken away even by the excoriation or flaying the place Q. Wherefore have not men that kinde of Purgation A. By the reason they are of a greater heate that digesteth more easily superfluities and that which remaineth indigested turnes to haire Qu. Whence is it that in generation there is a diversity of sexe An. The reason of that is that the wombe having two Receptacles right and left the right parts are naturally hotter than the left Likewise the sperme of the right testicle is hotter than that of the left if then the seed of the right testicle happen into the right receptacle of the Matrix a Male is conceived if in the left a Female And if the sperme of the right testicle happen into the left receptacle a Virago or manly Female is generated and if that of the left testicle happens into the right of the wombe an effeminate Male towards But if the seed be promiscuously scattered and dispersed into both receptacles an Hermaphrodite is produced Qu. Whence is it then that twinnes are generated An. If the seed bee copious and abundant and separated into both receptacles twinnes are generated Although some are of opinion that they are conceived by a second conflict which very seldome happeneth Mar. Phil. Qu. Wherefore or whence is it that sometimes humane monsters are generated An. That happeneth when the seed aboundeth or is defective more than ordinary or is conceived by a disordinate way of conjunction or also if the copulation be too frequent with a fruitfull subject Qu. Wherefore is it that Mothers being pregnant and having conceived many times miscarry An. This happeneth many wayes sometimes in those that are single and unmarryed by suppression which is execrable as streight lacing and other detestable and unspeakeable wayes but in legitimate Mothers it may unadvisedly happen as by over-reaching running dancing by surfeiting with meate or drinke by frights and many other causes either before or after the membring limbing or organization of the fruite which being rejected and cast out of the wombe is lost and that is an abortion or miscarrying Qu. Wherefore is it that some are borne Leprous and some infected with the grand P. An. The first happeneth when the conjunction is the Mother having her monethly sicknesse as St. Hierome saith upon Ezekiel not excluding other causes the second may happen when either Parent or both being able and capable for generation conception yet one of them being contagiously toucht with the notorious and too frequent disease brings forth a blemished fruite rotten before it was ripe Qu. Wherefore is it that the infant resembleth sometimes one of the Parents sometimes the other and sometimes neither A. Touching this question all are not of one opinion but if we truely consider the matter we shall finde that the cause of likenesse proceeds from the vigour heat ablenesse and imagination of the generatour or conceiver the last of which the Patriarch Iacob made use of by colouring his rods in severall colours So likewise there have beene Parents in complexion faire which neverthelesse have conceived and brought forth Black-moores which were conceived by having sundry pictures of Aethiopians in their Chambers which may give a fancie or impression to the conceit of the conceiver or generator in the time of that act And Aristotle affirmeth Lib. de Animalib that heate and ayrinesse are contayned in the seed of the Man and cold and earthinesse in that of the Woman and that of the Man is congruent to the quality and that of the Mother to the quantity of the fruite Qu. Whether doth the fruite now ripe force the Mother to the Birth or the Mother it A. The fruite no question for beeing by nature perfected and mature forceth it selfe into this miserable World through the same passage wherein it was conceived with the head forward the Male with the face upwards the Female downewards the hands stretched forth to the thighes But many times it happeneth that it is turned on one side or the feeth forwards not without danger of both Mother
her Yet some Nurses are of a more plentifull temper than others which is primely to bee considered For the well-coloured give alwayes more milke than the pale Qu. VVherefore is it that the Childe cryes when the absent Nurses brests doe pricke an ake An. That by dayly experience is found to bee so so that by that the Nurse is hastened home to the Infant to supply the defect and the reason is that either at that very instant that the Infant hath finished its concoction the breasts are replenished and for want of drawing as it is seene likewise in milch-cattell Or rather the good Genius of the Infant seemeth by that meanes to sollicite or trouble the Nurse in the Infants behalfe Which Reason seemeth the more firme and probable because sometimes sooner sometimes later the child cryeth neither is the state of nurse Infant alwayes the same Extravagants Metalls Qu. WHerefore is it that melted metalls doe burne more vehemently than the fire it selfe An. Nothing burneth more strongly than fire but it burneth more vehemently in char-coale than in any other fuell and more in liquid metalls than in charcoale and by how much every solid body is more dense so much the more forcibly it is inflamed For it was alwayes Natures pleasure that a greater force should bee in the efficient cause than in the effect Qu. VVherefore is it that the heate of the fire is feebled by the Sunne shining upon it and hot water is sooner cooled standing in the Sunne than in a coole shade An. By the reason that contraries doe contend for supereminence and predominance of power and force Qu. VVherefore is it easier to overthrow false opinions than to establish true ones An. The reason is two-fold the first because it is easier to pull downe than to build secondly falsehood may be pronounced upon any thing many wayes and truth but one Qu. VVherefore is it that wee gather those fruits which wee desire should be faultlesse in the wane of the Moone and gueld cattell more safely in the wane than in the increase An. Because in that season bodies have lesse humour and heate by which an innated putrefaction is wont to make them faulty and unsound Qu. Wherefore is it that a stone being throwne into the Dalmaticke Denne or Cave or into the Pyrenaean Lake or the stones of the Altar upon the Mount Sacon which is one of the Pyrenaean presently strange Tempests stormes of Haile Thunder and Lightning doe ensue An. Because the wofull experience of the Inhabitants hath proved it but Philosophy at this question is silent insomuch that it is death for any man to fling a stone into those places or to touch the stones of that Altar in Sacon whereon these words are written in Latin NE QVID IN MONTE SACONE But the causes of the many detriments which have immediately ensued upō the neglect of some travellers therein is ascribed to the worker of all evill Qu. VVherefore is it that the Northerly windes blowing beyond the Tropicke of Cancer men neither sowe plant plough nor open a wound or cancor without losse and detriment An. Because the Ayre of its owne nature being cold especially in a Northerne winde it cooles more and more those things which by being destitute of heate to cherish and relieve them by the intense cold are utterly lost Of Physitians and many other severall things Qu. VVHy doe Physitians hold that a surfeit of meate is more dangerous than a furfeit of drink An. Because drinke is sooner digested than meate for meate is of greater substance and more materiall than drinke and therefore meate is harder of digestion especially when it is ingurgitated Qu. Why doe Physitians forbid us to read or write or to use any violent labour presently after dinner or supper An. Because any violent motion doth jogge or hinder the stomacke when the meat is in it of its digestion and by that reason doth not turne to nutriment but rather breeds crudities and rawnesse of the stomacke but rather let any one walke gently that the meate may descend to the bottome of the stomacke that the vertue of the meate may cherish the other parts of the body Qu. Why doe the Physitians hold it bad for any one to lye in their beds with their faces upwards An. Because they say it doth engender not onely a Dropsie but also the Vertego in the braine and causeth the humours to runne crosse his stomacke and heart which maketh a stop in some by the grossenesse of their humours and evill imaginations and that is termed the Night-mare which humours lye so heavy upon his stomacke by this reason that it makes rather a destraction then any naturall repose Therefore it is good to lye sometimes on the right and then againe on the left side Qu. Why is it held wholesome to vomite when the stomacke is oppressed An. Because it doth cleanse the stomack of such grosse humours which otherwise would breed diseases in the body and cause Catarhs in the head therefore vomiting naturally is held very good because then nature doth helpe to evacuate that which formerly was oppressed by excesse Therefore after vomiting to settle the stomacke againe it is good to have a little Mithridate mixt with conserves of Roses and to eate that and sweate upon it if occasion will give you leave Qu. Why doth sleepe comfort for t and refresh the stomacke of man An. Because that in sleepe our naturall heate doth repaire inward and so doth helpe to concoct and digest what wee have formerly eaten and so doth dilate it selfe into every veine of man which is the nourishment Qu. Why hath not a Horse or a Camell or a Pigeon or a Dove no gall An. Many affirme that all these creatures have galls although the gall bee not contayned in a vessel by it selfe as other Animals have yet they have a veine in which the gall is dispersed into the severall parts of the body for none of these but can and doe remember an injury and is desirous of revenge which argues they have a gall though not so apparent as others have Qu. Why doe all living creatures desire sleepe An. For necessity because the instruments of nature by their severall actions in the day are wearied being so long awake and by their sleepe they receive againe comfort and vigour Qu. VVhy doe most men desire sleepe after their meate An. Because when the stomacke is full and overcharged with meate the pores are stopped and cannot have so suddainly a passage which heate of the stomacke ascendeth by fumes into the braine and to causeth heavinesse and sleepe therefore it is good to leave alwayes with an appetited and to abstaine from excesse which will breed infirmities Qu. VVhy doe men willingly sleepe after their labour An. Because that through continuall motion of our bodies the naturall heate is dispersed to the outward parts of the body the which after that the labour is past gathereth together againe to the
inward parts there to helpe nature to digest that meate we have formerly received And from digestion fumes doe arise from the heart to the braine the which vapours doe stop the pores of the body by which the naturall heate should be dispersed to the outward parts and then the said outward parts being cold and humid by reason of the coldnesse of the braine sleep is procured and that sleepe prooves sweet which is got by labour Qu. Wherefore is it that a man may sleepe more soundly in some one house than in another An. Because the situation of the one may be more proper to that effect than that of the other and according to the nature of the clymate as by being elongated and remote from any obstreperous noises and the like Also in cold humid and moist places the inhabitant is more apt to sleepe than hee in the hot and dry for as I sayd cold and moysture doe enduce sleepe Qu. Wherefore is it that the disposition or indisposition to sleepe is more or lesse at some times of the yeere An. By reason of the different vicissitudes of times As in rainy weather generally men incline to be sleepy by the reason of the moysture of the Ayre which the braine participates of In hot and faire weather not so But generally all covet it more in the Winter than in Summer by the reason aforesaid Qu. Why are most creatures sad after the act of generation An. Galen saith speaking in a divine way because the act in it selfe is uncleane and by that reason when the spirit is spent or when it is thought upon by man hee is ashamed and at that time heavy and sad and withall it causeth sleepe the better to hearten and cherish man againe when he awakens Qu. Why doth it appeare unto some in their sleepe that they eate and drinke sweete things and also smell flowers and heare Musicke An. Because the rhume exhaled from the stomacke doth ascend to the braine which causeth pleasant fancies to be thought upon and more especially we dreame of such thing that we least thought of when sleepe doth seaze us and againe when the rhume doth distill down againe it doth to our imagination taste sweet Qu. How many severall waies is the braine purged of their humours An. Many wayes the watry humours are evacuated by the eyes which if too violent causeth blindnesse melancholy by the eares if too violent causeth ill swets choler by the nose which if it be much causeth vexation and phlegme that is by the haire whichif too violēt causeth the haire to shed and baldnesseth then ensues Qu. Whereupon doth it proceed that men become pale when they are seased with feare A. Because the blood retires to the vitall parts of the body on a suddaine Qu. Why hath a Serpent his poyson in the tayle An. Because the poyson is in his excrement and the malignity of the venemous humor doth still abide there Qu. Why did the learned Hypocrates permit those to drinke wine that had a burning Ague An. It was sayd hee to helpe digestion and to strengthen the vitall parts Qu. Why are the feet hands face and other parts of the body more cold than any other parts of the body An. Because they are not so solid or so well knit together and are farther removed from the heart and liver Qu. Why doe sharpe things provoke appetite An. Because they dry up the crude humours and so consequently close up the mouth of the stomacke faster which doth cause appetite Qu. Why doe Lettuce and Poppy provoke sleepe An. Because they engender and breed grosse and thicke humours Qu. Why is Ivy alwayes greene An. Because the heate of it is tempered and mixt with humidity and viscosity Q. Why doe men neese sooner being in the Sunne than being neare the fire An. Because the heate of the Sun doth onely dissolve the humour and not consume it but the Fire doth both dissolve and consume it therefore observe it well that the wisest Physitians though it be very cold will not come very neare the fire for this reason Qu. Why doe the eyes of a Cat or of a Wolfe shine in the night and not in the day An. Because the greater light which is the Sunne doth darken the lesser as it may appeare by a Torch held in the day which giveth no light to that of the Sunne Qu. Why is the white of an Egge of so hard a digestion if it be sod or rosted too much seeing that it is the body of the Chicken if it came to perfection and the yelke onely the intrailes An. Because of the great coldnesse of it being taken before it came to perfection Qu. Why doth Burrage layd in wine and Marygold drunk in wine rejoyce those that drinke it An. Because Burrage doth increase blood and the Marygolds comfort and strengthen the heart Qu. Why doe those that oftentimes weepe pisse seldome An. Because the humidity taking his passage or current by the eyes doth ease so much the more the other parts and members of the body but it is very hurtfull to the sight for the rhume being salt issuing out by the eyes causeth the eyes in time to want their cleare sight and grow dimme Qu. Why doe some Men drinke water which notwithstanding doth not nourish A. Water doth run through quickly and doth spend the digestion of the meate through al parts of the body Qu. Why are those that are drunke cold An. By reason of the wine taken immoderately which quencheth and qualifieth the naturall heate of the body Qu. Why doe Physitians not minister Physicke when the sicknesse or disease is at the chiefest but onely cordials An. Because they should not oppresse or hinder Nature but rather comfort and helpe it Qu. Why are fat things not subject so soone to corruption as leane An. Because they participate so much of the ayre and of the fire being hot and dry Qu. What is the reason that some men are more able to endure longer travaile than other An. Because some men are more cholericke and some more phlegmaticke and choler doth sooner destroy nature than phlegme Qu. What is the reason that when we are an hungry our spettle is more salter than at other times An. Because hunger increaseth choler which easily becometh bitter by reason of his sharpnesse which gnaweth upon the mouth of the stomacke Qu. Why are Women commonly fatter than men An. Because they are colder of complexion and doe lesse exercise Qu. VVhat is the cause that the milke of a white haired woman is not held so wholesome as that of them that are browne An. Because blacke and browne women are hotter of constitution and nature and therefore by consequence their milk is better digested Qu. VVherefore are those that have great heads more given to sleepe than those that have little Heads An. The greater the thing is the more vapours it doth containe and humidity and moystnesse doth cause sleep Q. Why are leekes and
drown'd Qu. Which is rather to bee chosen for marriage a Maide or a Widow An. Herein I for my part am put to it Hesiod perswaded his brother to marry a Maide that hee might traine her up in the path of honesty but by your leave good old Poet I like it not for I had rather chuse a Widow who having beene vertuously matched already knows how to tread that path and that labour is saved in the other it were to come Centuary 2. Of Physicke Qu. WHat 's the reason that many things as bitter as the medicine yet purge not in effect so forcibly as the medicine it selfe An. Because it is not the onely quality of bitternesse that causeth purgation but also the resistance to the concoction For the medicine cannot be digested nor concocted by naturall heate or if it could it would not purge but its principall vertue consists in attracting the humors of the whole body or from some part thereof according to their severall vertues being insuperable in contention against the naturall heat of the body it retires to it selfe drawing with it and forcing all out that it meetes withall Of Cabage or Coleworts Qu. WHence is it that Coleworts are hurtfull to them that are aguish A. By the reason they are hot and cause the head-ach dreames and slumbers through their fumes and vapours Q. Wherefore is it that Rue and Coleworts are two plants that the one cannot thrive by the other A. Because they are both hot and attracting or drawing unto them an abundance of moysture from the earth for their aliment and refreshment they one starve the other through drought and for want of sufficient moysture Marmalade HOw can it possible bee that Marmalad being taken before meate bindes the body after meat loosneth it A. To say the truth it is all times restringent but it looseneth by accident because it is heavy and by that meanes it beares downe the meate and drives it downeward being eaten after meat Of contayning HOw can it bee that one glasse full of ashes can receive and containe another glasse of the same measure full of water An. It is because that the ashes being not a continuate and solid body containe much ayre which giving place to the water as to a grosse body the water fills and takes up the place Moreover for the receiving of as much water as ashes the ashes must bee reasonable warme or tepide at the least to the end that the Ayre by this meanes and the spirit therein inclosed may be exhaled by the infusion of the water and a part of the water it selfe may be â—vaporated by the heate of â—he ashes The same may be sayd of â—uicke Lime which will receive a great quantity of water and sand the heape knowing never the bigger because I say the spirits 〈◊〉 it are exhaled in smoake â—â—d the water also evaporaâ—th and the sand comming 〈◊〉 fill up their places the â—ape becomes more solid and heavy but very little or â—â—thing bigger Q. But how is it that a glasse â—â—…full of water will receive â—â—ny pieces of money without spilling one drop of water A. For this experiment the brim of the Glasse must bee dry and not moyst at all and and then the water giving place to the money that shal be put in will rise up above the brim of the glasse in the middle in a sphericall manner But if the brim be moist it will not containe so many peeces of money but presently runne over meeting its fellow moysture Of Beards Qu. HOw happeneth it that some have their Beards thicke and bushy and other some very thinne A. Even as saith Calen those trees become greater more branched and full of boughes that are planted in a fat and moyst ground than those in a sandy and drie by the same reason the beard becomes more bushy in them that are of a tender and moyst temperament and contrary wise thinne to those that have a flesh more hard and dry Neverthelesse it may happen also through a greatnesse of heate which much opens the pores that the matter of the haire is exhaled sometimes and comes forth and by that means the beard becomes very thinne for the haire proceedes of certaine fuliginous or smutty exhalations which become thicke and hard and taking root in the flesh bud out as it were through the pores and are nourished by the humidity and excrements of the body if then this matter cannot issue forth at the Pores they being stopped up or closed or on the contrary they being very open the beard growes very thinne Q. Wherefore is it that wee are ill conceited of them that have their haire of one colour and their beard of another Witnesse Martial against Zoilus Zoilus red headed and blacke bearded too What squint-eyd and stump-footed in thy shooe Thus markt thou art a knave or else there 's none If thou art good ten thousand 't is to one A. Because the diversity of colour of haire proceeds from the diversity of humours one and the selfe same man having divers humours predominant in him is commonly inconstant dissembling and mutable I speak of him as by nature so who neverthelesse by grace and discretion may overcome his constitution and maugre his ilnesse of temperature as Socrates said of himselfe Of Maids Q. WHerefore is it that Maidens having past the age of ripenesse and loosing that time of marriage become pale-coloured and yellowish A. By the reason of the retention of the superfluous humours which are evacuated by the consummation of Matrimony and those corrupting within them vitiates the blood and brings them into great and dangerous diseases which can very hardly be cured but by marriage Of Hares Qu. HOw is it that the Hare sleepes with her â—yes open A. Because her eye-â—â—ds are not large enough to â—over her eyes The like â—â—so is it as many doe â—eport with many other Aâ—imals as the Lyon himâ—â—lfe Of Lyons Q. WHerefore is it that the Lyon hates the Ape so extreamly A. It is because the Lyon is generous free couragious and without deceit the Ape contrariwise is a beast full of deceit and trickes which antipathy is the cause of the Lyons extraordinary hatred against him Some are of opinion that the flesh of the Ape is very medicinable to the Lyon which the Lyon knowing by a naturall instinct as many other beasts doe naturally know remedies fittest for them hee suddainly falls upon him and devoures him Of Wolves Qu. WHerefore is it that the VVolfe discovering a man before the man him is said to take away the mans breath A. I saith the Author have divers times found this to bee false by experience although some are of opinion that it is done not by being first perceived by the Wolfe or perceiving him first as the Poet saith Lupi Marim videre priores but because hee hath a kinde of a charming breath to stop our breath by corrupting the ambient aire that we are in for that