SECTIO ORDINIS. CARTA SUGGESTIONIS. 179 



The beams of the sun do disclose some flowers, as 

 the pimpernel, marigold, and almost all flowers else, 

 for they close commonly morning and evening or in 

 over-cast weather, and open in the brightness of the 

 sun ; which is but imputed to dryness and moisture 

 which doth make the beams heavy or erect, and not 

 to any other propriety in the sun-beams. So they re- 

 port not only a closing but a bending or inclining in 

 the heliotropiam and calendula. Qu. 



The sun-beams do ripen all fruits, and addeth to 

 them a sweetness or fatness, and yet some sultry hot 

 days overcast are noted to ripen more than bright days. 



The sun-beams are thought to mend distilled waters, 

 the glasses being well stopped, and to make them more 

 virtuous and fragrant. 



The sun-beams do turn wine into vinegar ; but quce. 

 whether they would not sweeten verjuice ? 



The sun-beams doth pall any wine or beer that is 

 set in them. 



The sun-beams do take away the lustre of any silks 

 or arras. 



There is almost no mine but lieth some depth in the 

 earth ; gold is conceived to lie highest and in the hot- 

 test countries ; yet Thracia and Hungary are cold, and 

 the hills of Scotland have yielded gold, but in small 

 grains or quantity. 



If you set a root of a tree too deep in the ground 

 that root will perish, and the stock will put forth a 

 new root nearer the superficies of the earth. 



Some trees and plants prosper best in the shade, as 

 the bayes, strawberries, some wood-flowers. 



Almost all flies love the sun-beams, so do snakes; 

 toads and worms contrary. 



