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therefore in diffufed and open afpc&s, 

 men hollow their hand above their eye, 

 and make an artificiall brow, whereby 

 they direft the difperfed rayes of fight, 

 and by this fhade prefcrve a moderate 

 light in the chamber of the eye ; keep 

 ing the pupitia plump and fair, and not 

 contracted or fhrunk as in light and va 

 grant vifion. 



And therefore providence hath ar 

 ched and paved the great houfe of ihe 

 world, with colours or mediocrity,that 

 is, blew and green, above and below the 

 fight, moderately terminating the acics 

 of the eye. For moft plants, though 

 green above-ground, maintain their Ori- 

 girall white below it, according to the 

 candour of their feminall pulp, and the 

 rudimental leaves do firft appear in that 

 colour 5 obfervable in Seeds fprouting 

 in water upon their firft foliation. Green 

 feeming to be the firft fupervenient, or 

 above-ground complexion of Vegeta 

 bles., feparable in many upon ligature 

 or inhumation, as Succory, Endive, 

 Articboaks, and which is alfo loft upon 

 fading in the Autumn. 



And 



