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for drinking, and wine, and milk. The proof hath 

 been, that both the beer and the wine, as well within 

 the water as above, hath not been palled or deaded at 

 all ; but as good or somewhat better than bottles of 

 the same drinks and staleness kept in a cellar. But 

 those which did hang above water were apparently 

 the best ; and that beer did flower a little ; whereas 

 that under water did not, though it were fresh. The 

 milk soured and began to putrify. Nevertheless it 

 is true, that there is a village near Blois, where in 

 deep caves they do thicken milk, in such sort that it 

 becometh very pleasant : which was some cause of 

 this trial of hanging milk in the well : but our proof 

 was naught ; neither do I know whether that milk 

 in those caves be first boiled. It were good there 

 fore to try it with milk sodden, and with cream ; for 

 that milk of itself is such a compound body, of 

 cream, curds, and whey, as it is easily turned and 

 dissolved. It were good also to try the beer when 

 it is in wort, that it may be seen whether the hang 

 ing in the well will accelerate the ripening and cla 

 rifying of it. 



Experiment solitary touching stuffing. 

 386. Divers, we see, do stut. The cause may 

 be, in most the refrigeration of the tongue ; whereby 

 it is less apt to move. And therefore we see that 

 naturals do generally stut : and we see that in those 

 that stut, if they drink wine moderately, they stut 

 less, because it heateth : and so we see, that they 

 that stut do stut more in the first offer to speak than 



