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dy, that it may imbibe the moifture; this latter way doth, as 

 well as the former, condenic a body: for by the clo/c flicking 

 of wet to dry, the moft part ofcondenfation is effected in com- 

 pounded bodies. 



The firft of thele wayes.doth properly and immediately pro- 

 ceed from heat ; for heat cntring into a body, incorporated! ic 

 felf with the moift and vifcuous parts it findeth there: as purging 

 medicines do with the humours they work upon ; which when 

 the flomack can no longer entertain ( by reafon of their unruly 

 motions in \vreftling together ) they are both ejected grappling 

 with one another; and the place of their contention is thus, by 

 the fupcrvenience of a guefl of a contrary nature ( that will noc 

 flay long there ) purged from the fuperabundancc of the for- 

 mer ones that annoyed it. Even fo,thc fire that is greedily drunk 

 up by the watry and vifcuous parts of a compounded bodyjand 

 whole a$ivity and reftlefle nature will not endure to belong 

 imprifoned there, quickly pierceth quite through the body it en- 

 tereth into, and after a while flreameth out at the oppofite fide, 

 as fad as it entered on the fide next to it, and carrieth away 

 w ith it thole glewy parts it is incorporated with : and by their 

 ablence, leaveth the body they part from, dryer then at the firll 

 it was. 



Which courfe we may observe in firrups that are boyled to 

 a confiftence ; and in broths that are confumed unto a jelly: over 

 which, whiles they are making by the fire under them, you fee 

 a great fleam; which is, the watry parts that being incorporated 

 with fire, flie away in irnoke. Likewile when the lea-water is 

 condenfed into fait, you fee it is an effect of thel'imne or fi:c 

 that exhaleth or boylcth away all the palpable moi/rurc. A:d 

 fo when wet cloches are handed cither in the funnc cr at the 



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fire, we fee a iinoke about the clothes^and heat within them; 

 which being all drawn out from them, they become dry. 



And this deferveth a particular note, that although they 

 fhould be nor quire dry, when you take them from the fire; ye: 

 by then they arc cool. they will bedryrfbr the fire that is in them 

 when they are removed from the main fleck of fire.ilyinqaway 

 carriech with ic the moiflure that was incorporated with it; and 

 thcicfore whiles they were hor,that is, whiles the fire was in them 

 they mud alfo b? njoiir; bccau.'c.d.c fire and the mj;(lure were 



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