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preparations, we have not only all manner of exquisite 

 distillations and separations, and especially by gentle 

 heats, and percolations through divers strainers, yea, 

 and substances ; but also exact forms of composition, 

 whereby they incorporate almost as they were natural 

 simples. 



' We have also divers mechanical arts, which you 

 have not ; and stuffs made by them, as papers, linen, 

 silks, tissues, dainty works of feathers of wonderful 

 lustre, excellent dyes, and many others : and shops 

 likewise, as well for such as are not brought into vulgar 

 use amongst us, as for those that are. For you must 

 know, that of the things before recited, many of them 

 are grown into use throughout the kingdom, but yet, 

 if they did flow from our invention, we have of them 

 also for patterns and principles. 



' We have also furnaces of great diversities, and that 

 keep great diversity of heats : fierce and quick, strong 

 and constant, soft and mild ; blown, quiet, dry, moist, 

 and the like. But above all we have heats, in imitation 

 of the sun's and heavenly bodies' heats, that pass divers 

 inequalities, and (as it were) orbs, progresses, and 

 returns, whereby we produce admirable eflfects. Besides, 

 we have heats of dungs, and of bellies and maws of 

 living creatures and of their bloods and bodies, and of 

 hays and herbs laid up moist, of lime unquenched, and 

 such like. Instruments also which generate heat only 

 by motion. And farther, places for strong insulations ; 

 and again, places under the earth, which by nature or 

 art yield heat. These divers heats we use as the nature 

 of the operation which we intend requireth. 



' We have also perspective houses, where we make 

 demonstrations of all lights and radiations, and of all 

 colours ; and out of things uncoloured and transparent, 

 we can represent unto you all several colours, not in 

 rainbows (as it is in gems and prisms), but of them- 

 selves single. We represent also all multiplications of 

 light, which we carry to great distance, and make so 

 sharp, as to discern small points and lines. Also all 

 colourations of light ; all delusions and deceits of the 



