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
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
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