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ground and any thing sowed in it, the other biteth and 

 killeth. 



Stone and metal exceeding cold to the feeling more 

 than wood, yea more than jet or amber or horn which 

 are no less smooth. 



The snow is ever in the winter season, but the hail 

 which is more of the nature of ice is ever in the sum- 

 mer season ; whereupon it is conceived that as the 

 hollows of the earth are warmest in the winter, so 

 that region of the air is coldest in the summer, as if 

 they were a fugue of the nature of either from the 

 contrary, and a collecting itself to an union and so to 

 a further strength. 



So in the shades under trees in the summer which 

 stand in an open field, the shade noted to be colder 

 than in a wood. 



Cold effecteth congelation in liquors so as they do 

 consist and hold together which before did run. 



Cold breaketh glasses if they be close stopped in 

 frost, when the liquor freezeth within. 



Cold in extreme maketh metals that are dry and 

 brittle cleft and crack, ^Eraque dissiliunt ; so of pots of 

 earth and glass. 



Cold maketh bones of living creatures more frag- 

 ile. 



Cold maketh living creatures to swell in the joints 

 and the blood to clot and turn more blue. 



Bitter frosts do make all drinks to taste more dead 

 and flat. 



Cold maketh the arters and flesh more asper and 

 rough. 



Cold causes rheums and distillations by compress- 

 ing the brain, and laxes by like reason. 



