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of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 
pulpit called Roftra : Made he is (whofoever didir) with a grim, flerne,and fower countenance, 
and fuch indeed as doth bewray and feele thofe intollerable torments which the bodie fuftained 
by that poifoned fhitt [fent unto him frony Desanira.] Vpon this ftatue there ftand three titles or 
infcriptions: the firtt is this; Z.Zacwlli Imperatoris de Manubyjs, i... Lucullus lord Generall ere- 
_ Ged this ftatue our of the {poile of the enemies :the fecond, Pugillus Luculli filrws ex S.C. dedi- 
cavity 7. The fonne of L,Lucullus,being orphan or ward, dedicated this, by an order or act from 
the Senat: the third, 7. Septimins Sabinus Aidilis Carulisyex privato in publeum reft.tuit,t.T S¢p- 
timius Sabinus, ZEdile Curule for thetime being hath froma privat houfe cauled it to ftand a- 
gaine in publicke place. This is the image of that worthie Hercules that fought{o many batrails, 
endured fucli hard conflicts and labours, and was fo highly honoured. 
Now is it time ro return to the differentkinds and{undry temperatures of braffe,from which 
I have digreffed : firft and foremoft therefore this is to bee noted, Phat in Cyprian brafle or cop- 
per there isto be confidered,one fort which is named Coronarium, andthe other that they call 
Regulare; and both the one and the other will abide the hammer & be broughtinto thin plates. 
As for the Coronarium or Laton,when itis reduced into thin leaves or plates, and then colou- 
red or rubbed over with the gall of an oxe, it looketh|:ke gold and maketh a faire fhew in thofe 
coronets that players weare ; whereupon it tooke the name Coronarium ;the fame, afterthatto 
everie ounce of it there be put fix {crupuls of gold,and be reduced into averie thin foile,refem- 
bleth the colour of fire, like a rubie or carbuncle ftone.As touching this brafle,it is found alfo in 
other mines of mettall, like as the pot-braffle Caldarium : this onely isthe difference, that this 
Caldarium will melt only,for under the hammer it will breake; whereas the other fort of copper 
named Regulare,yeeldeth to the hammer and will be drawne out, whereupon fome there be who 
call it Ductile,z. battable ; and fuch is all thekind of copper or Cyprian brafle. That alfo which 
is found in the mines of other mettals, by art refined, differeth from the forefaid pot-mettall, for 
out of what mine foeveritcommeth, after that the drofle and imperfections therof be through- 
ly purged by the fire, being thus (I fay) cleanfed, itbecommeth Regulare and will abide the ham- 
inet. As for all other forts befides the Cyprian brafle abovenamed, the Campane braffe is coun- 
_ ted bett: like unto which, there is much in other parts alfo of Italie, and in the provinces: butte 
everie [hundred pound of brafle] they put eight pound of lead :then they boile it as itwere and 
melt it againe witha foft fire,for want and {carfitie of wood and fuel]. And what difference there 
may be in that regard, it is moft of all feene in the heart of Fraunce, where it iscommonly mel- 
ted (tor lacke of other fuell)among {tones made red hot: for by reafon that thisisa {wift & {cor- 
ching fire,it becommeth blacke and brittle withall :befides, they melt it but once: but furely to 
doe fo oftener, maketh verie much for the goodneffe theréot. 
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a The d:fferencein Brafve: the divers mixtures thereof: and how 
- Braffe fhould be kept. 
“ N Oreover, it were not amniffe tonote thus much alfo, that all kind of braffe melreth bet 
in coldeft weather. Now there is another temperature of brafle which ferveth for foun- 
ders, imageurs, and brafen tables, called thereupon in Latine, Statnariaand Tabularis, 
which is made in this nsanner following : Firft, the mafle, ore, orftone as itcommeth out of the 
mine, is meltedin the bloome-finithie sand {o foone as it is melted, they put theretoa third pare 
of the braffe Colleaneum, thatisto fay, broken peeces or old veffels that have been ufed, and 
bought up here and there. In the choice whereof, this care would bee had, that for to give unto 
this temperature the kind feafoning as it were, which peculiarly it requireth, there would be got- 
tenfuch pottain or old mettall which is overworne, and by ordinarie occupying and ufing to the 
hand, brig ht-fhining, and as one would fay tamed,made gentle,and pliable, It would not be for- 
gotten alfo,to everie hundred pound weight of the {aid melted ore, to mixtwelve poundand a 
halfe of tin. Butto havea kind of braffe mettall that is moft tender and foft, there mutt be given 
unto it that mixture or temperature which is called Forimall namely,by putting thereto of ordi- 
nari¢leada tenth part, and of tin a twentith part 5 and bythat means efpecially it taketh that co- 
Jour which they call Grecanicke, The laft temperature is that, which in Latine they call Ollaria, 
as one would fay the pot-brafle,for it taketh the name of that veflell wherto itis moft emploied : 
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