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A13217	Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation.	Swan, John, d. 1671.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 23516; ESTC S118043	379,702	552

heat of the upper Region it is fired and so consumeth by degrees even as by degrees it ascendeth or peepeth into that hot place 2. Trabs ardens a burning Beam is an exhalation hot drie drawn beyond the middle Region of the aire the matter of which exhalation being long not very broad makes it seem like a beam or logge and because it is more grosse and heavie on the under part from the one end unto the other and on the upper part hath much aspiring matter equally dispersed it is transversly carried up and so being fired it lieth at length and standeth not upright 3. Round Pillars are of the same nature unlesse perhaps their light and heavie matter is not so equally or in like order disposed but rather heavier towards the one end then the other which makes it be carried up or presented in perpendicular fashion and also having the hottest and driest and most combustible matter driven to the superficies or out-side of it by reason of a contrary qualitied substance within it which makes it therefore be fired on all sides alike and appeare like a burning Pillar 4. Pyramidall Pillars are nothing differing from the other unlesse that the exhalation have more earthly matter in it below and not so much above for when the lighter and thinner parts are ascended to the top then the grosser heavier and thicker are left in the bottome which makes it therefore of fashion great beneath and small above 5. Burning Streams Spears or Darts is that Meteor which is called Bolis or Iaculum and is an Exhalation hot and drie meanly long whose thick and thinner parts are equally mixt and thereupon being fired in the highest Region it flameth on the thin or subtil part which neverthelesse because the matter is well mixed doth also send fire to the other parts insomuch that it seems to runne like a dart from the one unto the other Or if you will this Meteor or one very like it is thus generated viz. when a great quantitie of hot and drie Exhalations which indeed may fitly be called a drie cloud is set on fire in the midst and because the cloud is not so compact that it should suddenly rend as when thunder is caused the fire breaks out at the edges of it kindling the thin Exhalations which shoot out in great number like to fierie spears or darts the streaming or flashing being so much the whiter by how much the Exhalation is the thinner Such like coruscations as these we use to see many nights in the North and North-east parts of the skie 6. Caprae saltantes or dancing Goats are caused when an Exhalation hot and drie is so compact that on the one side or other it hath some parts which appeare as the appendices of it or joyned to the main Exhalation by an other kinde of Exhalation farre thinner then the main one so that the fire running on the main part and as it were outright by the way it cannot but seem to skip unto those parts on the sides inflaming them also which because it is variously and nimbly performed makes the flame seem to leap or dance just as wanton goats use to do when they are dancing or playing 7. Scintillae volantes or flying Sparks are caused when the matter of the Exhalation is not onely thin but in all parts thin alike but not compacted or knit together and not being closely joyned but interrupted by small spaces those parts which come up first into the highest Region are fired before the other that follow and thereupon they flie abroad like sparks out of a chimney even as when saw-dust or any such like matter is cast into the fire This Meteor by some is called Stipula ardens or Burning stubble 8. Stellae cadentes Shooting or Falling starres are caused when an Exhalation hot and drie is gathered as it were on a round heap but not throughly compacted nor yet so apt to ascend as other Exhalations which makes it therefore be beaten back again when it comes neare the cold confines of the middle Region and so hovering aloft by an Antiperistasis or repulsion by the contrary to it on every part it is set on fire and then sliding away it appeares as if a starre fell down or were thrown to the earth For shooting starres these some do fondly call As if those heavenly lamps from heaven could fall Moreover sometimes it is generated after another manner which is but in respect of the disposing of the matter and then the Exhalation is more long and narrow which being kindled at the one end burneth swiftly to the other even like a piece of waxed thread being lighted in a fire or candle Again some think that this Meteor is not so much set on fire as directly under some starre or other which gives it a shining But how this can be I cannot well perceive seeing it shooteth obliquely as oft as directly downwards 9. Lancea ardens or volans A burning or flying Launce is another fiery Meteor kindled in like sort that the former was and hath this name because the matter of it is so disposed that when it is fired it seems to be like a Launce 10. Illuminations or Fires scattered in the Aire and appearing in the highest part of the lowest Region are caused when very dry and hot Exhalations are drawn up and meeting with cold clouds are sent back again which motions to and fro do set them on fire and then their parts not being thick in equall proportion but as it were unjoyned together do seem as though Fires were scattered in the Aire Thus one way But sometimes the matter of this Exhalation is more nearely conjoyned and then if the Exhalation be large it is as if the whole Aire were on fire as appeared on the 15 day of November in the yeare of our Lord God 1574 in which yeare about the last day of March the strange star in Cassiopea's chair vanished and disappeared 11. Draco volans or a flying Dragon called by some a Fire-drake is a Fierie Exhalation whose matter is thick and as it were hard tempered together or rather not so hard as conglutinously conjoyned which lump ascending to the Region of cold is forcibly beaten down or back again by the force of which motion it is set on fire and not onely fired but also bent and violently made crooked For as hath been said the matter of it hangeth so conglutinously together that the repulse divides it not but by a strange encounter moulds it into such a fashion as seen afarre off looks much like a Dragon This is the opinion of the most But some say that it is done into this fashion between two clouds of differing natures the one hot the other cold and so perhaps it is sometimes made 12. Ignis fatuus or foolish Fire so called not that it hurteth but feareth or scareth fools is a fat and oily

semper ago In which regard the distilled water of Borage or Buglosse with the leaves and flowers being drunk with wine cannot but be good comfortable and pleasant for the brain and heart it increaseth wit and memorie engendreth good bloud and putteth away melancholy and madnesse as the authour of the haven of health affirmeth The herbs following are hot and dry NExt unto Buglosse I mention Balm or Baum because the water of it also being drunk in wine is good to comfort the heart to drive away all melancholy and sadnesse in which regard it is not amisse to have them all distilled together Moreover I finde it recorded that the hives of bees being rubbed with the leaves of this herb causeth the bees to keep well together and allureth others to come unto them For saith Plinie they delight in no herb or flower more and therefore they fly not away from such hives as are either rubbed with the leaves or anointed with the juice of this herb and hereupon it cometh to be called Apiastrum which is as much as to say The bees starre or guide For when they are strayed farre from home by the help of this herb they finde their way again But the common Latine name is Melissa or Citrago It is also called in some authours Melissophyllum and Meliphyllon This is an herb which is hot and dry in the second degree good to be either eaten or smelled unto by them who are subject to the Mother Gerard. Plinie writeth a strange secret in a kinde of Balm which he calleth Iron-wort viz. that the leaves close up wounds without any perill of inflammation and also that it is of so great vertue which you may beleeve as you list that though it be but tied to his sword which gave the wound it stancheth the bloud Sage called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Salvia in the Latine and amongst the many kindes which some observe there are principally two the greater and the lesser Some say it is hot and dry in the third degree some name not the third so much as the end of the second others determine that it is hot in the first degree and dry in the second This is an herb which hath many and singular properties insomuch that the Salern school makes this demand Cur moriatur homo cui Salvia crescit in horto As if it should be said such is the vertue of Sage that if it were possible it would cause Clotho evermore to hold the distaffe and Lachesis to spin perpetually yea Atropos must forbear to cut in two the thread of life such a desire hath Sage to make a man immortall The Latine and English names speak greatly for the commendation of it For Salvia takes the name of safety and Sage is a name of wisdome Sith then the name betokens wise and saving We count it natures friend and worth the having Beside these names some call it the Holy herb because women with childe if they be like to come before their time and are troubled with abortments do eat thereof to their great good For it maketh them fruitfull retaineth the birth and giveth life unto it Ger. in his Herball Moreover Sage is singular good for the brain and head quickeneth the memorie and senses strengtheneth the sinews is good against the palsie and stayeth a shaking in any part of the body The most of which properties are expressed in these two verses following Salvia confortat nervos manuúmque tremorem Tollit ejus ope febris acuta fugit Sage makes the sinews strong the palsie cures And by its help no ague long endures Also the juice of this herb drunk with honie is good for those that spit and vomit bloud for it stoppeth the flux thereof incontinently And last of all although I omit many vertues in this herb yet one thing must not be forgotten The leaves of the red Sage put into a wooden dish wherein are put very quick coals with some ashes in the bottome of the dish to keep the same from burning and a little vineger sprinkled upon the leaves lying upon the coals and so wrapped in a linnen cloth and holden very hot unto the side of those that are troubled with a grievous stitch they take away the pain presently and also greatly help the extremitie of a plurisie Ger. Rue or Herb-grace in Latine is called Ruta in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is quòd caliditate suā 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 semen quasi congelat If it be wilde Rue and not such as groweth in gardens then it is hot and dry in the fourth degree but garden Rue is a degree cooler and moister Plinie writeth that there is such friendship between it and the fig-tree that it prospereth no where so well as under that tree delighting also as he affirmeth to grow in funnie places It is an enemie to the Toad as being a great enemie to poyson And excellent is that medicine approved by Mithridates King of Pontus in Asia who lived in the dayes of Pompey viz. that if any do eat fasting two dry wall-nuts as many figs and twentie leaves of Rue with one grain of salt nothing which is venimous may that day hurt him it being also an excellent preservative against the pestilence Which also the Salern school teacheth in these words Allia Ruta Pyra Raphanus cum Theriaca Nux Praestant antidotum contra lethale venenum Garlick Rue Pears and Radishes will make With Triacle and Nut An antidote which will fell poyson slake And doore of danger shut Moreover Schola Salerni setteth down some other properties of it thus Ruta comesta recens oculos caligine purgat Ruta viris coitum minuit mulieribus auget Upon which occasion one once gave it this commendation Rue is a noble herb to give it right For chew it fasting it will purge the sight One qualitie thereof yet blame I must It makes men chaste and women fills with lust Which last propertie is caused in regard that the nature of women is waterish and cold now Rue we know heateth and drieth whereupon it stirreth them the more to carnall lust but it diminisheth the nature of men which is of temperature like to the aire viz. hot and moist working thereupon a contrary effect from that which it doth in women Also for those who are feeble in their sight let them distill Rue and white roses together and putting the water thereof into their eyes it will open their windows and let in more light To which joyn also this other experiment taken out of Schola Salerni Feniculus Verbena Rosa Chelidonia Ruta Ex istis fit aqua quae lumina reddit acuta Fennell Vervine Rose Celandine and Rue Do water make which will the sight renew What other properties are pertinent to it may be seen at large in Plinie lib. 19. cap. 8. lib. 20.

cap. 13. As also in Gerard and such others as have set forth herballs I will adde therefore but one thing more namely that the weeding of this herb with bare hands whilest the dew hangeth on the leaves doth cause dangerous blisters and sores which may again be helped with sallet oyl or the juice of hemlock as Mr Thomas Hill in his art of gardening hath declared Dill is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Anethum and Anetum and in English sometimes Anet as well as Dill. It bringeth forth flowers and seeds in August and as some write it is hot and drie in the second degree but Gerard out of Galen affirmeth that it is hot in the end of the second degree and drie in the beginning of the same or in the end of the first degree The decoction of the tops of this herb dried together with the seed being drunk provoketh urine allayeth gripings hickets and windinesse engendreth milk in nurses breasts with such like other secrets And of the green herb it is said that it procureth fleep sound and secure according to which we have an old saying that Whosoever wearetb Vervine or Dill May be bold to sleep on every hill And from hence haply it was that garlands made of this herb were used to be worn at riotous feasts that thereby they might not onely sleep but sleep without danger Rosemarie which some call the garland rose or in Latine Rosmarinus coronaria because in times past women have been accustomed to make garlands or crowns of it is an herb which is hot and drie in the second degree and of an astringent or binding qualitie The Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus or arbor thurifera and so also Plinie nameth it because it hath a root like to the frankincense tree or because the flowers smell much like to turpentine or frankincense which flowers if they be distilled and if a few cloves mace cinamon and a little anniseed be steeped in their water for a few dayes together and drunk at morning and evening first and last it taketh away the stench of the mouth and breath and maketh it very sweet quickening the senses and memorie strengtheneth the sinewie parts and is best for those who have a cold moist brain The same wine that Rosemarie and the flowers have been sodden in is good to wash the face and hands that they may look fair and cleare Also the conserve of Rosemarie flowers taken every morning fasting is good against tremblings faintings palsies c. helping those who have a trembling at the heart or are troubled with a dumbe palsie or are subject to vomit up their meat And for dull melancholy men take the flowers and make them into powder binde them to the right arm in a linen cloth and this powder by working upon the veins shall make a man more merrie and lightsome then ordinary Take also the rinde of the Rosemarie and make powder thereof then drink it in a little wine and it helpeth you of the pose or stuffing in the head if it proceed from the coldnesse of your brain Also the wood of the stalk burnt to coals and made into powder and put into a linen cloth is excellent to rubbe the teeth that they may look white and to kill the worms in them if there be any or to keep them from breeding if there be none These and sundry other are the properties of Rosemarie I could wish that there were a greater plentie of this herb in England then there is France hath great store insomuch that at Provence it is used for a common fuell the unlaboured grounds do so abound with it Of Aconite or Wolf-bane there be many kindes and the forces of them all are extreamly pernicious and poisonsome for it is reported that if either man or beast be wounded with an arrow knife sword or any other instrument dipped in the juice of this herb they die incurably within half an houre after And know that it is called Wolf-bane because men hunting for wolves used to poison pieces of raw flesh with the juice of this herb and lay them as baits on which the wolves eating die presently It hath a root like a scorpion shining within like alabaster Poets feigne because it is such a venimous herb that Cerberus the three-headed dog of hell being dragged up in a chain of Adamant by Hercules did cast some of his venime upon it whereby it became so venimous Yet neverthelesse as great and deadly a poisoner as it is the juice of it cures the burning bite of stinging serpents if it be taken and applied to the place grieved Whereupon Du Bartas calleth it A valiant venime and couragious plant Disdainfull poison noble combatant That scorneth aid and loves alone to fight That none partake the glorie of his might For if he finde our bodies ' fore-possest With other poison th●…n he lets us rest And with his rivall entreth secret strife By both whose deaths man keeps his wished life Mullet or Flea-bane in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Conyza is hot and drie in the third degree This herb burned and smoked where flies gnats fleas or any venimous things are doth drive them away Ladies mantle or great Sanicle is an herb of a drying nature It is good to keep down maidens paps or dugs and when they be great and flaggie it maketh them lesser and harder Ger. Herb. pag. 803. Butterwort is a kinde of Sanicle and it is hot and drie in the third degree It is reported that when sheep eat of this herb which is but when the want of other meat compells them they then catch a rot Yet neverthelesse if it be bruised the juice makes a good ointment for the dugs of cattel or kine when they be either bitten by any venimous worm chapped rifted or hurt by other means It is requisite that farmers and husbandmens wives should be well acquainted with this herb as also that shepherds should know what ground aboundeth with it that thereby they may prevent a mischief in their flock Horehound called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Marrubium is an herb hot in the second degree and drie in the third The syrupe of this herb doth wonderfully and above credit ease such as have lien sick very long of a cough or consumption of the lungs the like doth Saffron bringing breath again when one is even at deaths doore if ten or twentie grains at the most for too much is hurtfull be given in new or sweet wine Saffron is hot in the second degree and dry in the first And of it thus writeth the Salern school Take Saffron if your heart make glad you will But not too much for that the heart may kill Hyssop in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

growing in Ethiopia it is of a wannish colour dangerous to be looked on and being drunk it doth so terrifie the minde with a fight of angry and dreadfull serpents that through the fear of them men have sometimes killed themselves 6. H●…mlock as some relate out of Gal●…n in his book De temperamentis is meat to storks and poyson to men 7. Sardonia or Crow-foot as some write out of Solinus is an herb which moveth laughter 8. Upon a mountain of Cypres called Arcadi●… is an herb or plant growing which if a man cut there issueth a liquour like warm bloud if with this bloud thus warm one man should touch another he would love him affectionately whom he toucheth Contrariwise if the bloud be cold the touch will ingender hatred My authour calleth this plant Flabia See Du Bart. Summarie 9. Moreover in the same authour I finde as he hath it from one Rhamnusius in his Navigations that in the island called Australle there is an herb found upon which whosoever lieth down he is first taken with an heavinesse of the head then wi●…h sleeping and consequently with death 10. Magicians make use of the herb Anacrampseros which as I finde in Plinie by the very touch thereof causeth love to grow between man and man abolishing all former hatred 11. The like is reported in a manner of the herb Sowbread which being made into little flat cakes and taken inwardly is a good amorous medicine and will make one in love Ger. 12. Also they report saith Dioscorides that the herb Snap-draggon or Calves-snout being hanged about one preserveth a man from being bewitched maketh him gracious in the sight of the people Gerard. ex Dioscor 13. Enchanters also make great brags of the herb Ethiopis which I think some call by the name of Moly 14. And of the herb Achimedis the first whereof being cast into rivers will drie them up or being applied to any thing lockt or shut will presently open it the other being cast into an armie in the time of battel causeth the souldiers to be in fear and runne away Thus say some Neither hath Plinie forgotten these two last herbs but he mentions them with a kinde of derision as in the 26 book and 4 chapter of his naturall historie is apparent where he wondereth why enchanters would not make use of them in time of danger and extremitie And for mine own part this I cannot but say that it is great pitie the secrets of nature should be soiled by infamous magick and by the superstitious ignorance of sorcerers 15. Unto these Apollodorus hath added the herb Aeschynomen which draweth in the leaves when the hand of any one approacheth to touch it 16. Like unto which is the herb Sentida growing in India for if any one come neare and touch it or throw sand or any thing else upon it presently it becometh as if it were withered and closeth up the leaves so continuing as long as the man standeth by but so soon as he is gone it openeth fresh and fair and touching it again it withereth as before These you see are rarities and being now ready to passe away from them I should come to speak something of grain as wheat rie barley lintels oats peas beans rice with such other like and gladly would I do it but that me thinks I am called another way for lo I have discovered the tops of yonder trees and one by one I mean to view them Vitex or the chaste tree which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because saith Plinie certain matrons among the Athenians desirous to live chaste did lay the leaves of it in their beds under them is called in the Latine Salix marina or Salix amerina or Piper agreste or Agnus castus And as Plinie writeth it is of two kindes the greater and the lesser The first groweth up much like a willow tree but the other brancheth out and spreadeth more having whiter and downier leaves then the former Our countreyman and an excellent Herbalist saith that it groweth up after the manner of a bushie shrubbe or hedge tree having many twiggie branches very pliant and easie to be bent like unto the willow the flowers are of a light blew colour and very sweet in smell the leaves long and narrow and the fruit small and round like unto the grains of pepper And note that the flowers grow at the uppermost end of the branches ●…lustering close together Some say that it is a plant hot and drie in the second degree others name the third It is a singular medicine for such as would live chaste in what sort soever it be taken whether in powder or decoction or the leaves worn about the bodie Also it driveth away windinesse of the stomack openeth and cureth the stoppings of the liver and splene with sundry such other needfull cures Willow is of a much like nature and therefore it is yet a custome that he which is deprived of his love must wear a willow garland Also the green boughs with their leaves may well be brought into chambers and set about the beds of those who are sick of agues for they do mightily cool the heat of the aire which thing cannot but be a wonderfull refreshing to the sick patient Tamarisk is a little tree well known the decoction of whose branches being drunk in wine and a little vineger is of great vertue against the hardnesse or stopping of the splene or milt for this tree doth by nature so waste the milt that swine which have been daily fed out of a vessel made thereof have been found to have no milt at all Rose is cold in the first degree and drie in the second somewhat binding especially the white Rose The red is lesse cold more drie c. As for the damask and musk Rose it is hot and moist withall The damask water is sweetest but the red is wholesomest And of the red Rose leaves a conserve may be made which is good not onely to cool but also to comfort the principall parts of the bodie viz. the head heart stomack liver splene and reins Thus you may make it Take the buds of red Roses somewhat before they be ready to spread cut the red part of the leaves from the white shake out the yellow seeds then take the red leaves and beat them very small in a stone mortar with a pestle of wood and unto every ounce of Roses put three ounces of sugar by little and little in the time of the beating and beat them all together untill they be perfectly incorporated then put it in a glasse or gallipot stop it close and set it in the sunne for a season and it is made And know that it will remain in full vertue for a yeare or two but then it decayeth Myrtle is a little low tree growing in

Aire in it being cold because it is hindred from following the circular motion of the heavens But as I said it is not absolutely cold but respectively For if it were extream cold then the heat of the Sunne would never passe through it to this Region here below neither would there be grasse herbs and such high trees as are upon the tops of the mountains But to proceed 1. In the highest Region and oft times above it be generated Comets or Blazing starres and such like fiery Meteors of divers sorts 2. In the middle Region Clouds Thunder Rain Windes Storms c. 3. In the lowest Region we have Dews Mists Hoar-frost Ice and Frost As also here is your Ignis fatuus or foolish fire with other Lights burning about graves or such like fattie places where there is store of clammie or fat oylie substance for their matter These Lights are seen also in fields and are driven by a gentle winde to and fro untill their matter be consumed Now these and every one of these seeing they have their causes in nature let us a little view them both how and what they are For they who send us to God and his decree in nature have indeed said what is the true cause but not how it is by naturall means effected For the manner of producing these things doth no lesse amplifie the power and providence of God then the things themselves when they are produced Sect. 2. Parag. 2. Of Meteors first in generall then how they are divided in particular ANd these things of which we now speak seen in any of the Regions by a generall name are called Meteors And the matter of Meteors as it is remote is from the Elements but as it is propinque or neare it consisteth of Exhalations And Exhalations are of two kindes 1. There is Fumus 2. Vapor If it come from the earth or some sandy place it is Fumus a Fume or a kinde of Smoke If it come from the water or some watry place it is Vapor For this is a rule that A Fume hath a certain earthly nature in it and yet is not earth and a Vapour hath a certain watry nature in it and yet it is not water Or if you had rather take it thus Fumus est mediae naturae inter terram ignem Vapor verò inter aquam aërem That is A Fume is of a middle nature between earth and fire but a Vapour is of a middle nature between water and aire And further all vapours are warm and moist and will easily be resolved into water much like the breath that proceedeth out of a mans mouth or out of a pot of water standing on the fire and these are never drawn higher then the middle Region of the Aire for there they are thickened and conglomerated by the cold into clouds And why vapours are warm being drawn from that which is cold is not from any internall propertie of their own but they receive this qualitie from the power and influence of the stars For after that the matter is by them attenuated or made thin their beams cannot but warm it although it proceed from that which is cold Again all fumes are as smokes which be hot and dry which because they be thin and lighter then vapours they often passe the lowest and middle Regions of the Aire being sometimes carried even beyond the highest Region it self And thus we see how there are two kindes of Exhalations Th' one somewhat hot but heavy moist and thick The other light drie burning pure and quick Moreover these Exhalations being the matter of Meteors as hath been said are either from the Earth or Water As for the Fire and Aire they are mixed with this matter as with all other things but not so abundantly that they may be said to be the materiall cause of any Meteor although without them none can be effected And thus much generally But now more particularly And in coming to particulars it may be found that these kinde of Meteors concerning which I speak are of three sorts either Fierie Waterie or Aierie Fierie are of two sorts either such as are in very deed fired or else such as onely seem to burn which are therefore called Phasmata In which regard it may be said that these Fierie ones are either Flames or Apparitions And again in respect of their matter if they be such as burn in very deed then they be either more or lesse pure Their place where we see them is according to the abundance and scarcitie or rather qualitie of the matter whereof they consist for if it be heavie and grosse it cannot be carried high but if it be not so grosse but rather light and more full of heat then it aspires and transcends so much the higher by how much it is the lighter sometimes above the highest Region of the Aire even into the starry heaven it self which is witnessed by our best modern Astronomers who have observed many Comets above the Moon Furthermore these Fiery impressions according to the diverse disposing of their matter are of severall fashions and thereupon they have severall appellations being called according unto the names of those things unto which they seem to be like As 1. Torches 2. Burning Beams 3. Round Pillars 4. Pyramidall Pillars 5. Burning Spears Streams or Darts 6. Dancing or leaping Goats 7. Flying Sparks 8. Shooting Starres 9. Flying Launces 10. Fires either scattered or else as if all the aire burned 11. Flying Dragons or Fire-drakes 12. Wandring Lights 13. And also licking or cleaving fire sticking on the hairs of men or beasts Now all these kindes of which I have mentioned thirteen I take to be such fierie Meteors as are said to be pure and not mixt Then again have you those which are said to be mixt and lesse pure As 1. Comets of all sorts 2. All kindes of lightening 3. Unto which must be joyned thunder as an adjunct And now of these severally before I mention any more of another kinde whether waterie or aierie Sect. 2. Parag. 3. Of such fierie Meteors as are pure and not mixt 1. FAx which is a Torch or Fire-brand or as a lighted candle is an exhalation hot and drie drawn beyond the middle Region of the aire where being arrived it is set on fire as are all exhalations that come there partly by their own heat and partly by the heat of that place and because the matter of the exhalation is long and not broad and being equally compact and fired at the one end it burneth like a torch or candle untill the whole whereof it consisteth be consumed And why it should burn at the one end rather then at the other is found to be because it is long and standeth upright having the most of its aspiring matter in the top and in this station ascending up it comes to passe that when the upper end doth present it self to the