friendly companions of sleepe Century 4. Of Plants Qu. WHerefore is it that very hot things as Water cresses Arsmart and the like doe grow in cold places and dry things as Reeds c. grow in moyst places An. Because nature would preserve a conveniency for every thing and agreeable to all which could not be unlesse one contrary in a contrary seate as hot in cold and cold in hot had beene situated As for example the juyce of an Orange which is cold to bee enclosed in a rinde of a very hot quality and the dry earth to bee encompassed with the moyst element of water and the cold ayre to be environed with the hot element of fire Qu. Wherefore is it that those Plants which grow wild are of longer continuance than those which are manured and cultivated by ingenious industry An. Because the cultivated spend their naturall vigour in the production of their fruite the other in the branch and extension of limbes in so much that Art seemeth rather to effeminate than encourage Nature Qu. Wherefore is it that those Plants which soone grow doe likewise soone decay A. Theophrastus indeed writes so but experience proves the contrary For Withyes Poplars Apple-trees Cherry-trees and Plumme-trees by cultivation attaine soone their full growth but then they as speedily decay But the garden Olive the Elme and others grow apace and yet are of a long continuance Qu. Wherefore is it that those Plants that now begin to decline bring forth a fruite more tastfull and sooner enripened An. Because the younger that have not yet attained their fulnesse of growth doe either suppeditate a crude and undigested humour to the fruite which hindereth it or else by the conversion of that humour to their growth but the ancient having now growne to their full quantity infuse not such a plentifull quantity of humour whereby the fruite may as it were be surfeited which it may more easily digest Qu. Wherefore is it that sower fruits are seldome worme-eaten and doe not so soone rot as other fruite An. Because all sower things are cooling piercing and extenuating by nature which qualities doe all resist putrefaction and therefore decayed Venison being steeped in Vinegar not onely resists the increase of a further putrefaction thereof but regaines to it its former sweetnesse Qu. Wherefore is it that grafted Plants bring forth more plentifully if the graft be againe grafted upon the same tree from whence it was cut An. Because Nature alwayes endeavours to comfort and cure a wound given not onely to sensitive Animals but also to the insensitive with a larger portion of aliment so that if a bone bee broken and carefully handled Nature sends it marrow in such plenty that the fracture is forthwith covered with a callous or thicke and hard skinne and afterwards becomes stronger in that part than before So also a Tree being cut in any part supplies it in like manner with such a quantity of sappe that in the place there groweth an exuberant knob or bunch Of Fishes Qu. VVHerefore is it that Oysters Cockles and the like shell-fish doe open against the Tyde although they bee farre from the Sea An. Either out of custome which they had when they were in their maritime habitacles at the certainty of the Tydes so to doe or else that naturally they feele in themselves the motion of the Sea by which they by their opening desire to feed and refresh themselves Qu. Wherefore is it that Sea-fish is usually better than that of fresh water An. The same may be demanded why River-fish is better than Pond-fish and Pond-fish better than Fen-fish and this better than Dike-fish Because these taste more of muddy impurity than those of the Sea for the Sea working admits no mudde and this appeares in River-mussels Vulgo Horse-mussels which savour of ranknesse of filth and the Sea-mussels are admitted for humane food the other rejected Qu. Wherefore is it that fresh water Fishes have windbladders the Sea fish none An. Because was necessary for the fresh Fish for its better navigation as I may say to have in it an ayery vessell to beare its body floating by the reason of the tenuity of the fresh water but the sult water Fish not by the reason of a grosser and stronger nature of the Sea and more apt for their swift and gliding supportation Of petty animals Q. VVHerefore is that unnecessary frogs and Mice doe breed as I may say of their owne accord seeing other animals for Mans use breed not but by propagation An. Even as the High Procurator of the great World provides store of all manner of Viands for his little world Man so also he chastiseth this neglecting Man when he subtracts and withdrawes from him the fruits of water earth Ayre and beasts for mans owne faults wherefore sometimes waters either abound by inundations sometimes by drought are extenuated and scarce sometimes the Ayre by contagion infects sometimes fire rageth so that from whence these breed it can no more be certainely affirmed than whence the swarmes of these Animals and the innumerable diseases of man doe also breed Qu. Wherefore is it that a Dormouse sleepeth so long without food An. Because fatnesse the pores being occluded or stopped by cold is condensed and when Animals remaine immote humours are lesse dissipated whereby it is that that fatnesse maintaines and sustaines them for naturall heate having no food to worke upon fasteneth upon superfluities and sleepe quencheth the appetite of thirst and hunger as it is very well said of the Dormouse by the Poet Tota mihi dormitur hyems pinguior illo Tempore sum quo me nil nisi somnus alit In English thus The tedious VVinter sleepe I then I batten And sleeping lose no flesh but rather fatten Qu. If the Dormouse sleepes so long is it not also necessary that it must make as long An. What else and that three Moneths or a quarter of a yeeres sleepe seemes to be shaped by the little beast for an example to man that he should sleepe likewise no more than the fourth part of 24 houres viz. 6 which by the circumference of the yeere doe containe one quarter Infants and children sleepe more the agedlesse for in them sleepe is sound in these slight as an argument of a longer shortly to ensue Of Major Animals Qu. VVHerefore is it that the Lyon is called the King of beasts An. Not because he is either stronger or more active than any other but for his Majestick courage because he seornes to lurke cowardly for his prey and feares no foure-footed fellow beast and rather spares a more imbecile creature than himselfe than tyrannically and basely expresse himselfe Qu. Wherefore is it that a Mare is more subject to abortion and miscarriage than a female Asse or Cow or any other beast An. Either because the courage of that kind of beast is animous and free and apt for running and leaping or that the Mare already great with
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
away out in the day time by the Sunne are warmed and subtiliated and in the night are againe grossened by the cold and being moved by both these meanes seeking a vent they shake the sides of the earth and cavernes or hollow places and many times breake it and make it tremble but oftener in the night And if they finde no issue many times they raise the earth in the manner of a hill where if a rupture be made they cast out ashes and stones and cause as it were Abysses and bottomlesse places which happening neare unto Rivers they swallow them up for a certaine distance but if these vapours happen under the current it selfe they force the water over the bankes and cause a particular deluge and inundation Qu. Wherefore is it that generally the Pestilence follows Earth quakes An. These vapours and spirits thus enclosed if they be venemous and break out they infect and corrupt the Ayre whence in the places where this happeneth a particular Pestilence must of necessity follow and mortality Of Windes Q. VVHence hath the winde its production An. The Winde is a cold and dry exhalation moved up and downe laterally about the earth For when it is hot it strives to passe through the regions of the ayre but the cold of the middle region of the ayre meeting with it beares it downe which exhalation by reason of the heat that is detained in it by its earthinesse reascends and is againe by the cold with violence cast down towards the earth But through the heate by which it alwayes tends upward likewise through the meeting of other exhalations it is not moved directly towards the face of the earth but side-long and that is called Winde Q. Whence is the whirlwind An. When two opposite Winds equall in force doe meete oppose each other either the one is repercussed or driven backe or descending from above downward and hath another wind in encounter which is ascending and so by their contention turne round and take up with them wooll straw leaves the like By the opposite winds are meant those that have their beginning frō divers parts of the earth as East West c. which are the foure principall And by the encounter of an East and South-winde a South-east winde blowes and so of the rest Of Thunder and Lightning Qu. VVHerefore is it that thunder maketh a sound so terrible An. By the reason of the violent eruption through the clouds in this manner when by the vertue of the Sunne and other Astres a vapour is drawne up and with that an exhalation even to the middle Region of the Ayre the vapour including or encompassing the exhalation thickens it into a cloud The exhalation included being pincht with the coldnesse thereof remaines within and fortifies it selfe and forcing it selfe against the sides of the ambient cloud by motion to an fro is kindled and not finding a way out it violently breakes the cloud and especially when another cloud is above it and that lower resisteth more strongly for then the exhalation being not fired cleaves the cloud and in the going out by the vehemency of the motion enkindles and so causeth the noise and sound and this noise is called Thunder and the coruscation or glittering is the Lightning although this bee at one instant yet we see the Lightning a good while before we heare the crack by reason of the subtilty of the sight and we many times see the fire and heare no sound especially in the evening in summer Q. What is the reason of that A. Because unlesse the sound bee very great before it comes to the eares it failes by the way of multiplication as it comes through the ayre or by its weaknesse informes not the aire nor the aire our eares and that the cloud is broken by the heating of the exhalation and by the violence of the eruption through the cloud the sound or noyse is made which is manifested by Chest-nuts roasting in the fire and by a bladder blowne full of winde which beeing violently pressed breakes and gives a cracke Q. Wherefore is it usually said Winters thunder and summers flood Never brings to England good A. Because that either of them in the clymate being unnaturall and out of season are hurtfull For in hotter clymates thunder is frequent by reason of the heate there abounding frō whēce it is generated but Northerne clymates as England is are of a cold temperature and so not apt in Winter to breed such vapours and exhalations by which it is caused and that happening which is rare with us no question but it portendeth an ill disposition of the aire which produceth divers effects according to the qualities thereof But for the summer-floods it is aparant that they bring with them their inconveniences as the decaying of grasse hay corn and the like and sometimes bears before it edifices bridges mills trees and many other very prejudiciall accidents Q. Wherefore is it that the lightning is said to goe with the thunder A. The Lightning is said to be oftententimes an exhalation very sulphury and venemous which violently breaking out of the cloud by its force penetrative power and subtilty tears down trees and sometimes fires them and steeples as Paules was by the melting of the Lead destroying cattle demolishing and consuming metalls and whatsoever resisteth it and sometimes a bolt comes with it which by the power of the fire and influences being decocted out of a vapour and an exhalation both terrestriall and mineral breaking through the cloud is as it were shot directly downewards and sometimes breakes downe Walls and bringing with it many sorts of disastres The Whiteway Qu. VVHat is that which in a faire night is seen in the heaven like a broad path A. To omit the erroneous opinions of the Ancients it is now generally held that that whitenesse which appeares in a bending length in cleare nights and faire proceedes from a confused light of many little stars which are in a small part of the heaven and the weaknesse of our sight being not able to perceive them by reason of the great distance of the Firmament where they are fixed we discerne not them but their confused light and then it can be no Meteor as some held Of Apparitions in the Aire Q. WHerefore is it that sometimes there appear strange colors in the aire A. The diversity of colors which seeme in the aire proceed by reason of a thick and dark cloud which is interposed betweene our view and certaine burning exhalations so that when wee see these flames through the cloude it seemes to us to be of divers colors but most commonly red and sometimes blew when the cloud is more moyst which colours are caused by the confusion of light and darknes as we ordinarily see by experience in our fires for if the smoak be grosse thick the flame passing through it shewes us the like colors It appears also in the necke of a Pigeon
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
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