. Chap. 25. 



different motions that the filver or the gold paflcd before they 

 came to that ftate. But if he go on the other fide of the wall, into 

 the room where the other machines ftand and arc at work, he 

 Will then difcern that every one of them, which coufidered by it 

 ft-] f might fecm a diftinft complete engme> is but a ferving part 

 ofthe whole; whofe office is, to make money . and that for thi 

 work, any one of them fepa rated from the reft, ceafeth to be the 

 part of a mint, and the whole is maimed and deftroyed. 

 6- Now let us apply the consideration ofthefe different kinds of 



T ICT en^r/ '" cn g' mc6 ' to tne natl ' rc$ of the bodies we treat of. Which I doubt 

 a^d feme other not, would fit much better, were they lively and exactly defcri- 

 appS f "o f cx. bed. But it is fo longfmcc I faw them, and I was then fo very 

 prerfc the two young,that I retain but aconfufed and clowdy remembrance of 

 livipg a crcatur. the/n: efpccially of the mint at Segovia, in the which there are 

 many more particulars then I have touched; asconveniency for 

 refining the ore or metall and then carting it into ingots; and 

 driving them into rods, and fuch like : unto all which, there is 

 Jittlc help of hands requifite, more then to apply the matter du- 

 ly at the firft . But what I have faid of them? is enough to illu- 

 itrate what I aim at: and though I fhould crre in the particulars, 

 it is no great matter, for I intend not to deliver the hiftory of 

 them : but onely out ofthe remembrance of fuch notcfull and 

 artificiall mafterpieccs, to frame a modell in their phancies that 

 fhall rcade this,oflomething like them;whcreby they may wkh 

 moreeafe,make a right conception of what we are handling. 



Thus then; all forts of plants, both great and fmall, may be 

 compared to our firft engine of the waterwork at Toledo, for 

 in them all the motion we can difcern, is of one part tranfmit- 

 ti ng unto the next to it,the juice which it received from thar im- 

 mcdiatly before it r fo that it hath one conftant courlc from the 

 root (which fucketh it from the earth} unto the top ofthe high- 

 eft iprigge : in which ifit fliould be intercepted and ftopped by 

 any maiming of thebarkfthe channell it aicendeth by Jit would 

 there break out and turn into drops, or guinme, or fome fuch 

 other ftibfiance as the nature ofthe plant requireth ; and ill that 

 pnrt of it unto which none of this juice can afcend would dric 

 and wither and grow dead. 



But fcnfible Jiving creatures, we may fitly compare to the fe- 

 cond machine ofthe mint at Segovia. For in thcnvhough every 



part 



