I —]/he Dialogue of Iron 1 
then the Emraldes, foꝛ that theſe things concerning ffones 
are no other thing, but an opinion which men haue olkthem 
and we haue ſeene very fewe wonders that they do by any 
thing that is wꝛitten of them, except it bee to take money 
dut of one purſe, and conueigh it into an other. J knowe 
na other vertue that they haue. And the Golde and Siluer 
is na other thing but a duſt and earth of that colour, whiche 
Nature did bꝛeede in the bowelles of the Earth, as thee did 
other Detalles , Trueth it is, that the people haue put 
moꝛe eſtimation in theſe twoo, then in the ref: info much 
= that ſuche as haue aboundaunce of them are called rich :and 
Sccrater, khat is called riches, whereof Socrates ſapth, that they dons 
== ſeruice to the wife man, but to trouble his mind, as the long 
a apparell dooth trouble the bodie . And nowe ſeeing wee 
esta are come to the houle ‘where the nietall iez that is moze pꝛe⸗ 
tious then Golde, Siluer, and Emeraldes, let vs goe in, 
far 9 Ortuno will giue vs leaue: the Poꝛche o the 
Dose is frethe, and the heate is create, foꝛ here wee hall 
paſſe well away a part of the hot aſternoone. 
Ortuno. Mhat deo pou lacke maſter Doctour? Doctour. 
Wee wouldbe merry and reſt vs a little inthis pour porch 
ol your booze,’ Ortuno Fant very glad thereof. Till it 
pleate pour wooꝛſhips to fit downe, foʒ heere are chayies 
Doctour. Baker Ortuno the holte afiernane is better to 
paſſe in Biskey then heere in Seull. Ortuno. Shere is als 
ſo heate at this tyme of the peare, as there is here, but here 
is a Difference, that inthis cittie the houſes art made verpe 
well to defende the heate: and there the moſte parte of the 
houſes are made of boozdes, to defende the greate colde, 
And at thys time ol the peare they are verpe hot. It is well 
ſpoken ot ſuche as faye, that inthe Ginter tyme it is good 
oe to dwell. ftyBurgus.and in the Sommer in Seuill, foz be⸗ 
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