and ofthe vertues thereof. 
ny other effects, which are al done by meanes of the coldnes 
that it bath, in ſuch ſoꝛt that as by the aloꝛeſaide is frene, the 
effets are contrarie which the Jron doth: the cauſe wherol 
is by reaſon it is compounded of thinges that haue contrary 
qualities, which are roted in it, and do wozke confozmably 
to the fubtect where they doe woꝛke. Foꝛ where it is nerd to 
open, it openeth: and where it is nerde ta ſhutte, it ſhutteth. 
SCrueth it is, that beũdes theſe qualities, the yon hath an a⸗ 
ther moſt pꝛincipall which is, that it is moſt dꝛie, moze then 
all other metals, by meanes whereof it doeth many oktheſe 
effcctes and woozkes, which wee haue ſpoken at, and alſo it 
bath vertue to heate, to csole, and to dꝛy by. And or this it 
tommeth, that ſome doe fay it is hat, bycauſe thep ſe that it 
maketh woꝛkes of heate, and others fay that it is cole, by⸗ 
tauſe they fe that it doeth woꝛkes to make cold, the reaſen 
whereol is, that itis compounded of twos contrary begin⸗ 
ninges, the one hot, and the other calde, and thereby it ſe⸗ 
meth that they may verie wel defend themſelues, who ſaid 
that pꝛon is colde, and woꝛketh cold effectes: And lxke wise 
they that ſayde, it was hot, and doth hot effecces. MAhereby 
if both appeare that which the one and the other haue ſpokt 
and treated thereof, to be true. B. alter Dodo; hath te- 
ry wel ended the controuerſis, and cOtrariety that is in this 
matter diſtreetly and wiſelp, wherby we are ſatiſſtied: but 
there remaineth a doubt, if the quickſiluer bee tolde. as het 
ſapeth that ſame doe fay that it is, and fo pꝛocue it, they fap 
that it the weth by his ſtrength, colour, and taſte, and the ef 
fectes Which it doeth, to make colde, ſeeing that ſuch as das 
vle ofit,it maketh impatent, they faffer weakeneſſe, and 
trembling of ne wes, and are btterly bode of the bie of 
their members, and they die all together of a diſeaſe cal⸗ 
led Apoplexie, and all this doeth came of colde tauſes. They 
which (ay that the quickſiluer is hot, doe pꝛocue it with his 
etlectes, for anointing the isynt es and other partes, ef the 
boby ther with it maketh great woꝛkes, and etcas ol he ‘2 
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