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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53065	The worlds olio written by the Right Honorable, the Lady Margaret Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1655 (1655)	Wing N873; ESTC R17513	193,895	242

Water-Mills draw up Vapours from the Sea and the Sun as the hottest Planet doth by his heat as it were Calcine the Salt Vapour although the Vapour cannot be so salt as the Sea-Water because the Gross Salt is not so light to be drawn up but rather remains as fixt but when the Sun hath Calcined it the Volatil part flyes up to the Body of the Sun or else staies in the middle Region and there meeting with a Sulphurous and Bitumenous Matter mixeth therwith and makes a Matter of the nature of Gunpowder which shoots Thunder flashes Lightning the Watry part distills back again on the Earth in Showres of Rain and that fresh Water distilled which falls upon the Earth soaks into the Earth and fills the Veins therein causing fresh Springs to rise where the Veins are too full But in Egypt or the like where it seldome Rains because the Sun is there fierce and heady that it hath not patience to draw by degrees as in Vapour but draws up a Sea at once which they call Nilus for the Appetite and the Strength joining together draws up so great a quantity that the Strength being not able to draw it up high makes it only swell up which heaves no higher than to cover the Earth some small depth as some few Yards or Feet high and the Reason why it riseth but twice a year is that the Sun is gathering his Forces half a Year to make a sufficient Strength to compass that Work and the Reason that it seldome or never faileth is because it is the Nature of the Sun in those Parts to draw Moisture after that manner and what is Natural is a constant Habit or Custome Of the Sea-water running thorow the Veins of the Earth SOme are of opinion That the Sea runs thorow the Veins of the Earth as the Blood thorow the Body of an Animal as a Man which to my reason is very unlikely for then there must be much more Water than Earth if so the Earth would be drowned with a superabundant quantity what with the Sea that runs about it and the Rain that falls upon it and the Water that runs thorow it perpetually For put the Case it be as they say that it runs out at some places as fast as it comes in at others yet it would wash and moulder away the Earth by the perpetual concourse and recourse if not the Solidst part yet the most Porous part Besides if it were so the Earth would not be so dry as in many places it is unless they hold that some parts of he Earth have Veins and other parts none But if they say that the Earth being so much greater in quantity than the Sea which is the Watry part of the World it hath not alwaies a sufficient quantity to satisfie the Drought which causes the Veins to be dry that Reason would make me think that there should not be a sufficient Quantity of Water to keep in a Body to make a Sea so large to run about it especially of that depth the Sea is of and to run through the vast Earth besides feeding the Air with Vapours Thus if there were less Water than Earth the Earth-Ball would be burnt up or at least so dry as to bear nothing and if the Water were more than the Earth the Earth would be drowned Wherefore in my opinion the Ingredients of the World are equally mix'd and proportionably made as Earth Water Air and Fire so the Sun proportionable to the rest of the Planets and the Planets proportionable to the Sun so that the whole Globe is in equal temper and the whole Body sound and though we who know not the Constitution of the World may think sometimes the Elements are distempered which is their natural temper to be so but not in our knowledge to know how The Sun peirceth not deep into the Earth IT is not the Sun that is the Cause of the Elixar in the Earth or the Golden Mines nor yet of other Metals which are in the Bowels of the Earth as for example all Cellars and Vaults are cold in the Summer when all the surface of the Earth is soultry hot and if the Sun cannot peirce thorow a little Vault or Cellar sure it cannot pass so far as into a deep Mine This sheweth if Heat maketh Metals it must be in the Bowels of the Earth Autumn is warmer than the Spring AUtumn is warmer than the Spring by reason of Sun-beams which beat hotter and longer upon the Earth in the Summer when as Winter is cold and hath frozen the Earth which cannot suddenly be thawed Besides the Sun hath not onely drawn forth the raw and undigested Vapours out of the Earth but hath incorporated his Heat into her all the Summer long for though the Earth hath a Heat in her self a Sun as we may say in the Center yet towards the Circumference it is so weak as it is not sufficient to bring things to Maturity without the help of the Sun Thus the Autumn is as much to be preferred before the Spring as Maturity to Immaturity Of Heat and Cold. SOme say that Fire is onely sensible to that which hath Heat in it self and by a Similitude is forced thereunto but there is nothing more contrary than Ice and Fire yet Ice is sensible of Fire which is proved by the melting and the Water thereof will be scalding hot Thus what is Cold will grow Hot. Of the Moon THere may be an Opinion that the Moon is all Water for we find that Planet cold and moyst and why may not the inequalities of that we see in the Moon by Perspective-glasses be the Reflexion of the Earth on that Watry Body the Moon And as we see our Image in a Pond or Pail of Water so do we see Mountains Rocks and Valleys of the Earth in the Face of the Moon Some may say this Opinion may be contradicted in the Eclipses of the Sun for if the Moon were all Water it could not shadow the Sun from the Earth by reason the Sun would shine thorow it but this is not a sufficient Contradiction for a little Cloud will shadow the Sun wherefore so great a Body of Water must needs darken it Then some may say the Figure must needs be weak and not subject to our Eyes because the Distance is so great it may be answered though the Distance be great the Depth of the Moon is so also and the deeper the Water is the fuller and perfecter it represents the Image that is set to the view besides it may be like a Magnifying Glass or like those Glasses that cast forth the Image as Concaves and Convexes do and for Experience what a way will a Figure come out wherefore how far will the Convex Moon or Earth as may be both cast or draw out the Image of the Earth And why may not the Moon be thought all Water as well as the Sun all Fire since the Effects of the Moon

I mean those that are Studious and Learned such as have been bred in the Famous Universities and have received the Honour of Learning as Batchellers and Masters of Art or Doctors by which Honourable Title they are allow'd to practice as having arrived to the height of that Science To these Honourable and Learned Persons I offer up that Work to their Grave Judgements knowing from them it shall never receive Injury nor Affronts of Scorn nor Rudeness for those that are Learned and Understanding are Just and Civil not wresting the words crookedly nor reading them impatiently but weighing the Rational Probabilities justly measuring the Sense rightly applying the Use aptly esteeming the Owners respectfully and commending them civilly When those that are Ignorant condemn and cry down all they understand not and the rudely spightfull or the spightfully rude strive to detract and disgrace all those they think worthy of Praise or Commendation Of Fruits MOST are of Opinion that Fruits are cold which we find contrary by the Effect for Wine which is made of Fruits is hot as of Grapes Rasberies Cherries StrawberrieWine and Sider and Perry which are made of Apples and Pears is hot like Wine too for it will make a man drunk if he drink enough of it as well as Grape-wine or of any other Fruit but some will say it is the spirits that are prest out which are in the Liquor and by lying the spirits grow stronger and so become hot which otherwise were not but I answer to that that the pressing with the Teeth makes the Liquor not less hot than another Press doth and for the Age it may grow the hotter for being sharpened but we find that it is very hot in the Press or Vat for the very Steam where they are prest will make men drunk and they will go into the Liquor new prest finding a benefit in curing cold Diseases but no question some Fruits are hotter than others though none are cold by having more or less spirits but all spirits have a sufficiency of spirits to heat and the spirits lye in the Liquor not in the Solid parts for all spirits dwell in the thinnest Bodies or Parts and are the subtillest in Operation now may the solid part of Fruit be cooling when the spirits which are the thinnest Juice are hot as being baked roasted or boiled where the effect of the Fire hath evapourated that Heat But this Opinion is begot by seeing many women which eat much Fruit become pale and sickly so men by drinking much Wine will become pale and full of Diseases and many times will have the contrary operation of Complexions and become very Red though the inward cause is all one for in some it soaks and dries up all the Blood or rarifies too thin which makes the Face pale and in others it burns and crusts the Blood which makes the Face Red and Pimpled so that it dries the Body by the Vitriol Humour and burns the Body by the unnatural Heat therein Another Opinion why they hold them cold is by the often Surfets many fall into by the much eating of it and the reason they give is because it is so cold it cannot digest I answer that Surfets are caused by the Quantity and not so much by the Quality for there are many that surfet of strong Wines by over-charging their Stomacks therewith and so in all Meats which otherwise are good and wholsome if not immoderately taken but according to their digesting Stomacks for some will surfet of that Quantity as others shall not with ten times more such difference is in the Natures and Constitutions of Men. There are many things by the effect cooling by being applyed outwardly which applying inwardly work the contrary for Vinegar cooleth outward Inslammations but shal increase an inward one being too tender for so sharp a Medicine and all things that corrode make too much Motion and all Motion heats All Limmons Citrons Oranges Pomegranates Barberies Currans and the like are accounted very cooling being inwardly taken and also very wholsome which may be very good and effectual being applyed to such Diseases as require a sharp Medicin thogh not cooling But if they were cooling by their nature as there is no great reason to believe it having as much Spirits as other Fruits have by reason of their fulness of Liquor though I do not say that all sorts of Liquor are full of Spirits but such Liquors of such Natures yet by the effect inwardly it heats for the very corroding Quality inflames the Blood more than the Nature can cool for all things that are sharp have an ingraving Quality or Faculty not onely to cut away Rotten and Superfluous Humours but to eat upon the Noble Parts Of Roots ROots are more nourishing than Fruits by reason they have in a degree as much moysture as Fruit and have not that acuteness which Fruits have which cause not so many Spirits but are soberer in their operations and firmer for whatsoever hath much Spirits can never nourish much because it grows too near the nature of Fire but it fits and prepares for Nourishment knitting clensing and strengthening the Digestive Parts but those things nourish most where Heat and Moysture are equally mix'd which Roots come nearer to than Fruits Of Herbs ONE would think there should be but little nourishment in Herbs by reason they are so much inclining to the nature of the Earth which is of a drying Quality but we find it otherwise by the feeding and fatning of Beasts which live upon the Herbs of the Field But some may say that that which will nourish Beasts will starve Men as Hay and the Leaves of Trees and the like But I answer It is onely Custome which hath made it not agreeable with the Stomacks of Men and by that reason maketh ill digestion and so nourisheth not But it is not alwaies the Meat that causeth ill or no nourishment but sometimes the Stomack for an Ill Stomack shall corrupt Wholsome Meats and a Good digestive-Stomack shall convert Unwholsome Meat to Good Nourishment but may endanger the Stomack in using it often not being accustomed to it before But of all Vegetables there are none that have so many and so excellent Qualities as Herbs not onely for curing both inward and outward Diseases but in preventing Diseases besides the nourishment of Men and Beasts But there are many that will choose places for their Habitations to live in for the Air though they be incommoded much otherwise and want the Varieties of Pleasures to entertain their Lives withall for many think Long-life though it be spent dully Pleasure enough But the Trouble and Care to keep Health and the Fear to lose it makes the Life not onely dull having their Thoughts onely imployed upon that but troublesome and full of vexation with barring themselves of those things that otherwise they would willingly enjoy Thus we make Life worse than Death if truly considered for Death frights more than