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ample ; take orange pills, or rosemary, or cinnamon, 

 or what you will ; and let them infuse half an hour 

 in water ; then take them out, and infuse them again 

 in other water ; and so the third time : and then 

 taste and consider the first water, the second, and 

 the third ; and you will find them differing, not only 

 in strength and weakness, but otherwise in taste or 

 odour ; for it may be the first water will have more 

 of the scent, as more fragrant ; and the second more 

 of the taste, as more bitter or biting, &c. 



22. Infusions in air, for so we may well call 

 odours, have the same diversities with infusions in 

 water ; in that the several odours, which are in one 

 flower, or other body, issue at several times ; some 

 earlier, some later : so we find that violets, wood 

 bines, strawberries, yield a pleasing scent, that 

 cometh forth first ; but soon after an ill scent quite 

 differing from the former. Which is caused, not so 

 much by mellowing, as by the late issuing of the 

 grosser spirit. 



23. As we may desire to extract the finest spirits 

 in some cases ; so we may desire also to discharge 

 them, as hurtful, in some other. So wine burnt, by 

 reason of the evaporating of the finer spirit, in- 

 flameth less, and is best in agues : opium loseth some 

 of its poisonous quality, if it be vapoured out, ming 

 led with spirit of wine, or the like : sena loseth some 

 what of its windiness by decocting ; and generally, 

 subtile or windy spirits are taken off by incension, 

 or evaporation. And even in infusions in things 

 that are of too high a spirit, you were better pour 



