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
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
drown'd Qu. Which is rather to bee chosen for marriage a Maide or a Widow An. Herein I for my part am put to it Hesiod perswaded his brother to marry a Maide that hee might traine her up in the path of honesty but by your leave good old Poet I like it not for I had rather chuse a Widow who having beene vertuously matched already knows how to tread that path and that labour is saved in the other it were to come Centuary 2. Of Physicke Qu. WHat 's the reason that many things as bitter as the medicine yet purge not in effect so forcibly as the medicine it selfe An. Because it is not the onely quality of bitternesse that causeth purgation but also the resistance to the concoction For the medicine cannot be digested nor concocted by naturall heate or if it could it would not purge but its principall vertue consists in attracting the humors of the whole body or from some part thereof according to their severall vertues being insuperable in contention against the naturall heat of the body it retires to it selfe drawing with it and forcing all out that it meetes withall Of Cabage or Coleworts Qu. WHence is it that Coleworts are hurtfull to them that are aguish A. By the reason they are hot and cause the head-ach dreames and slumbers through their fumes and vapours Q. Wherefore is it that Rue and Coleworts are two plants that the one cannot thrive by the other A. Because they are both hot and attracting or drawing unto them an abundance of moysture from the earth for their aliment and refreshment they one starve the other through drought and for want of sufficient moysture Marmalade HOw can it possible bee that Marmalad being taken before meate bindes the body after meat loosneth it A. To say the truth it is all times restringent but it looseneth by accident because it is heavy and by that meanes it beares downe the meate and drives it downeward being eaten after meat Of contayning HOw can it bee that one glasse full of ashes can receive and containe another glasse of the same measure full of water An. It is because that the ashes being not a continuate and solid body containe much ayre which giving place to the water as to a grosse body the water fills and takes up the place Moreover for the receiving of as much water as ashes the ashes must bee reasonable warme or tepide at the least to the end that the Ayre by this meanes and the spirit therein inclosed may be exhaled by the infusion of the water and a part of the water it selfe may be â—vaporated by the heate of â—he ashes The same may be sayd of â—uicke Lime which will receive a great quantity of water and sand the heape knowing never the bigger because I say the spirits 〈◊〉 it are exhaled in smoake â—â—d the water also evaporaâ—th and the sand comming 〈◊〉 fill up their places the â—ape becomes more solid and heavy but very little or â—â—thing bigger Q. But how is it that a glasse â—â—…full of water will receive â—â—ny pieces of money without spilling one drop of water A. For this experiment the brim of the Glasse must bee dry and not moyst at all and and then the water giving place to the money that shal be put in will rise up above the brim of the glasse in the middle in a sphericall manner But if the brim be moist it will not containe so many peeces of money but presently runne over meeting its fellow moysture Of Beards Qu. HOw happeneth it that some have their Beards thicke and bushy and other some very thinne A. Even as saith Calen those trees become greater more branched and full of boughes that are planted in a fat and moyst ground than those in a sandy and drie by the same reason the beard becomes more bushy in them that are of a tender and moyst temperament and contrary wise thinne to those that have a flesh more hard and dry Neverthelesse it may happen also through a greatnesse of heate which much opens the pores that the matter of the haire is exhaled sometimes and comes forth and by that means the beard becomes very thinne for the haire proceedes of certaine fuliginous or smutty exhalations which become thicke and hard and taking root in the flesh bud out as it were through the pores and are nourished by the humidity and excrements of the body if then this matter cannot issue forth at the Pores they being stopped up or closed or on the contrary they being very open the beard growes very thinne Q. Wherefore is it that wee are ill conceited of them that have their haire of one colour and their beard of another Witnesse Martial against Zoilus Zoilus red headed and blacke bearded too What squint-eyd and stump-footed in thy shooe Thus markt thou art a knave or else there 's none If thou art good ten thousand 't is to one A. Because the diversity of colour of haire proceeds from the diversity of humours one and the selfe same man having divers humours predominant in him is commonly inconstant dissembling and mutable I speak of him as by nature so who neverthelesse by grace and discretion may overcome his constitution and maugre his ilnesse of temperature as Socrates said of himselfe Of Maids Q. WHerefore is it that Maidens having past the age of ripenesse and loosing that time of marriage become pale-coloured and yellowish A. By the reason of the retention of the superfluous humours which are evacuated by the consummation of Matrimony and those corrupting within them vitiates the blood and brings them into great and dangerous diseases which can very hardly be cured but by marriage Of Hares Qu. HOw is it that the Hare sleepes with her â—yes open A. Because her eye-â—â—ds are not large enough to â—over her eyes The like â—â—so is it as many doe â—eport with many other Aâ—imals as the Lyon himâ—â—lfe Of Lyons Q. WHerefore is it that the Lyon hates the Ape so extreamly A. It is because the Lyon is generous free couragious and without deceit the Ape contrariwise is a beast full of deceit and trickes which antipathy is the cause of the Lyons extraordinary hatred against him Some are of opinion that the flesh of the Ape is very medicinable to the Lyon which the Lyon knowing by a naturall instinct as many other beasts doe naturally know remedies fittest for them hee suddainly falls upon him and devoures him Of Wolves Qu. WHerefore is it that the VVolfe discovering a man before the man him is said to take away the mans breath A. I saith the Author have divers times found this to bee false by experience although some are of opinion that it is done not by being first perceived by the Wolfe or perceiving him first as the Poet saith Lupi Marim videre priores but because hee hath a kinde of a charming breath to stop our breath by corrupting the ambient aire that we are in for that
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
Q. Wherefore is it that one Cocko is sufficient for many Hens A. Because the Hens naturally covet not coupling so greatly as the Cocke as it may appear by her shunning him shee being of a colder and he of a hotter temperament Q. Wherefore is it that in some one egge there are two yelks A. Because it may happen that two Cocks may tread one and the selfe same Hen one immediately after the other and by the aggregation of two severall spermes two yelkes are conceived and if there by a partition between the yelkes it is likely there will be at winne-chicke if not a defective or a something monstrous bird Q. Wherefore is it that foule and brids make no water or excretion by Vrine A. Because they drinke little and what is superfluous is converted to the nutriment of Plumage of feathers and moreover what Animal soever that never sucketh maketh no excretion by urine Of Aquaticks of watry Animals Qu. WHat doth Philosophy hold concerning the generation of Fishes A. This that those which are of the same kinde couple not in the way of generation with any other of another different kinde as the Perch not with the Roath nor the Roach with the Perch c. But when they engender it is by glyding their bellies one against the other with such a celerity that humane eye cannot perceive it yet they all abserve the sex and kinde excepting the Lamprey which at the hissing of the Viper comes of shore and engenders with it As Saint Ambrose saith Lib. 5 in Hexam cap. 7. Q. Wherefore is it that the Female fish devoureth a great part of her spawne A. Because Nature wisely so decreed it least the the waters should bee overcharged and pestered with the infinite swarmes of increase and it is also observed that fishes of great bodies bring forth but a few young Q. Wherefore is it that some doe increase that have no distinction of Sex A. It is true that the Eele hath no distinction of sexe yet multiplyeth exceedingly not by coupling but out of a matter terrene very grosse and fat and lye as it were in beddes in which such a matter aboundeth prepared and aptned for their generation but the Sea-Eele or Conger is said to breede of some small strings growing at the feet of Rockes which by often and frequent attrition against the Rocks caused by the motion of the water at length conceiveth life some shel fish like wise as Oysters Mustles Cockles and the like are conceived out of mud and putrefaction and quickned by the Moone whom they follow in increase decrease Mar. Phil. Q. Wherefore is it commonly held that fishes doe breath seeing there is no Aire in the Waters A. That opinion may bee common but very erroneous for although by opening and shutting their Gills they seeme so to doe yet they onely receive in the water at the mouth and put it out againe at their Gills as we draw the aire in at the mouth and breath it up againe for the water to them is as aire to us and it appeares that if they breathed they would live longer out of the water than they doe Neither have they any lungs Q. Wherefore is it that they have blood A. They seeme to have blood which indeed is but a humour proportionated to blood which by its being cold affirmes it to be no blood for all blood is warm which concludeth them to bee no wayes participant of the highest element Q. Wherfore is it that seeing the water is their chiefe and principall food they have teeth A. Because there is a difference as there are in birds and heasts some of prey and some not and those that have no teeth are fed most by water but such as partake of grossenesse such as passe by houses of Office and the like also worms and grasse Those that have teeth are of prey as the Pike Perch Eele c. and alwaies the lesser fish is food for the greater so that in spawning time the Eele followeth them and devoures what he can Q. Wherefore is it that they live so confusedly and hant altogether A. That is not so for as St. Ambrose Vbi supra one kinde of fish breedeth in one part which is not found in another and what kinde is found in one place is wanting in another but for the nourishing and breeding up of their young they choose the convenient'st hants and places Of creeping animals or Reptibles Qu. WHerefore is it that some creepers doe breed without conjunction An. Those which doe so are generally bred at first out of corruption but afterwards multiply by generation excepting the Salamander which hath no distinction of sexe likewise the Lizard Crocodile Tortuce or Turtle and the Cameleon doe lay Egges without any conjunction although they are foure-footed as the Inquisitors of nature doe affirme Of the procreation of Man Qu. VVHerefore is it that Celestiall influences are necessarily concurring to the generation of Man An. Because as the Philosopher saith Home Sol generat hominem Man and the Sunne beget man who if he in a time manner place and naturall order doth couple with his mate and the Celestiall influences aptening and disposing them to that purpose begetteth his like because if the seed of either be not by the supernal influences prepared to that effect for Astra regunt homines sed regit astra Deus the conjunction is void as to sow Corne in a season improper and in a land already imprepared or by nature inept the hope of fruite can be none Qu. Wherefore is it that the seed of the male is onely necessary An. Not so for that of the Female must also concurre and by the mixture of both in the Matrix conception ensueth For the seed is a prime part of the last and purest aliment or nourishing separated after the third digestion and preserved in the seminary vessells which are the testicles for the preservation of the species or kind Qu. Wherefore is it that those that embrace Venus inordinately are abbreviated of life An. Because Nullum violentum perpetuum Nothing violent is of long continuance And because the seed is derived from the principall parts as the brayne chiefly the heart the liver and generally from all the parts of the body it must needs being forcibly and frequently provoked leave those parts destitute and in the end debilitate the whole body and deprive that of life which by temperance the Moderatrix of humane actions might have longer subsisted which too many in these dayes into more then a temporall ruine doe fall As it is likewise observed in those Animals as Sparrowes and the like that are eager in that kinde are not long-lived Q. What are after conception which is by union of seedes first formed A. The first that nature undertaketh in the shaping or forming of the fruit in the wombe of the mother are three of the principall members as first the brain second the heart third the