THE 



ENTRY INTO THE HISTORY OF WINDS. 



THE winds gave wings to men; for by their assistance men 

 are carried up through the air and fly; not through the air 

 indeed, but upon the sea ; and a wide door is laid open to 

 commerce, and the world is made pervious. They are the 

 besoms which sweep and make clean the earth, which is 

 the seat and habitation of mankind, and they cleanse both 

 it and the air; but they make the sea hurtful, which other 

 wise is harmless, neither are they some other ways also free 

 from doing hurt. They are, without help of man, able to 

 stir up great and vehement motions, and like hirelings, serve 

 both to sail and grind, and would be useful for many other 

 things, if human care were not wanting. Their natures are 

 reckoned amongst secret and hidden things. Neither is that 

 to be wondered at, seeing the nature and power of the air is 

 unknown, whom the winds do serve and flatter, as Eolus 

 doth Juno in the Poets. They are not primary creatures, 

 nor any of the six days works, no more than the rest of the 

 meteors actually, but afterborn, by the order of the Crea 

 tion. 



VOL. xiv. 



