436 NATURAL HISTORY. 



827. The trefoil against rain swelleth in the 

 stalk ; and so standeth more upright ; for by wet, 

 stalks do erect, and leaves Jbow down. There is 

 a small red flower in the stubble-fields, which 

 country-people call the wincopipe ; which if it open 

 in the morning, you may be sure of a fair day to 

 follow. 



828. Even in men, aches, and hurts, and corns, 

 do engrieve either towards rain, or towards frost : 

 for the one maketh the humours more to abound ; 

 and the other maketh them sharper. So we see 

 both extremes bring the gout. 



829. Worms, vermin, &c. do foreshew likewise 

 rain : for earthworms will come forth, and moles 

 will cast up more, and fleas bite more, against 

 rain. 



830. Solid bodies likewise foreshew rain. As 

 Atones and wainscot, when they sweat: and boxes 

 and pegs of woods, when they draw and wind hard ; 

 though the former be but from an outward cause ; 

 for that the stone, or wainscot, turneth and beateth 

 back the air against itself; and the latter is an 

 inward swelling of the body of the wood itself. 



Experiment solitary touching the nature of appetite 

 in the stomach. 



831. Appetite is moved chiefly by things that 

 are cold and dry ; the cause is, for that cold is a 

 kind of indigence of nature, and calleth upon supply ; 

 and so is dryness : and therefore all sour things, as 

 vinegar, juice of lemons, oil of vitriol, &c. provoke 



