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have some of them so beaten and made tender and 

 mortified, yet without all corrupting, as a weak heat 

 of the stomach will turn them into good chylus, as 

 well as a strong heat would meat otherwise pre 

 pared. We have some meats also and breads and 

 drinks, which taken by men enable them to fast 

 long after ; and some other, that used make the very 

 flesh of men s bodies sensibly more hard and tough, 

 and their strength far greater than otherwise it 

 would be. 



&quot; We have dispensatories, or shops of medicines. 

 Wherein you may easily think, if we have such va 

 riety of plants and living creatures more than you 

 have in Europe, (for we know what you have,) the 

 simples, drugs, and ingredients of medicines, must like 

 wise be in so much the greater variety. We have 

 them likewise of divers ages, and long fermentations. 

 And for their preparations, 1 we have not only all 

 manner of exquisite distillations and separations, and 

 especially by gentle heats and percolations through 

 divers strainers, yea and substances ; 2 but also exact 

 forms of composition, whereby they incorporate almost, 

 as they were natural simples. 



&quot; We have also divers mechanical arts, which you 

 have not ; and stuffs made by them ; as papers, linen, 

 silks, tissues ; dainty works of feathers of wonderful 

 lustre ; excellent dyes, and many others ; and shops 

 likewise, 3 as well for such as are not brought into vul 

 gar use amongst us as for those that are. For you 

 must know that of the things before recited, many of 



1 medicinarum prteparationes. 



2 per diversa lintea, lanea, ligna, imh et substantias solidiore$. 

 8 officinas etiam aliquarum artium prcedictarum. 



