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spirit, they are stronger whilst the spirit is inclosed 

 in the root, and the spirits do but weaken and dissi 

 pate when they come to the air and sun ; as we see 

 it in onions, garlick, dragon, &c. Nay, there be 

 plants that have their roots very hot and aromatical, 

 and their seeds rather insipid, as ginger. The cause 

 is, as was touched before, for that the heat of those 

 plants is very dissipable ; which under the earth is 

 contained and held in ; but when it cometh to the 

 air it exhaleth. 



633. The juices of fruits are either watery or 



oily. I reckon among the watery, all the fruits out 



of which drink is expressed ; as the grape, the apple, 



the pear, the cherry, the pomegranate, &c. And 



there are some others which, though they be not in 



use for drink, yet they appear to be of the same 



nature ; as plums, services, mulberries, rasps, oranges, 



lemons, &c. and for those juices that are so fleshy, as 



they cannot make drink by expression, yet, perhaps, 



they may make drink by mixture of water. 



Poculaque admistis imitantur vitea sorbis. 



And it may be hips and brier-berries would do 



the like. Those that have oily juice, are olives, 



almonds, nuts of all sorts, pine-apples, c. and their 



juices are all inflammable. And you must observe 



also, that some of the watery juices, after they have 



gathered spirit, will burn and inflame ; as wine. 



There is a third kind of fruit that is sweet, without 



either sharpness or oiliness : such as is the fig and the 



date. 



634. It hath been noted, that most trees, and 



