518 3 The foure and thirtieth Booke 
adorne and-garnifhin that manner their chartiots, waggons, and coaches, Butour vaine and G 
waftfull wantons not herewith contented, are come now totheir ftirrops andwaggon feats, not 
of filver onely but alfo of gold. And that which in times paft was condemned as monftrous pros. 
digalitic,co be putinto drinking veflels ;the {ame to tread upon now with the feet; and toweare 
and confume about waggons and chartiots, is commended for finenefle,neatnefle, and elegan- 
ciey But to returne againe unto our white lead, if you wouldknow whether itbe right and good 
orno, the proofeis to be made in paper: for put it melted intoa fheet of paper, ifitbenotfalfis 
fied it will feeme' to breake andrend the paper with the weight, andnot with the fcalding heat 
thereof.’ AGGR bt SI9ds C2 0 L a9 soLatos ih 
‘Moreover, itis worth the obfervation, that the Indians have no mines among them either of | 
braffe or lead, but they are content to part with their pearlsandpretiousftonesunto merchants yy 
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by way of counterchaunge for thefe mettals. - : Adio” TOnGR 
~ Blacke lead or common lead is much ufed with us for fheets to make conduit pipessalfoie _ 
is driven with the hammer into thin plates and leaves, This mettall-requireth:much labour and 
toile in Spaine and Fraunce, before it bee gotten out of the mine, fo déepeitlieth; whereas in 
Britaine 1crunneth ebb in the uppermoft coat of the ground, andthatinfuch abundanée, that 
byati exprefle act among the Iflanders themfelves, it is not lawfull to digg and gather ore above 
fuchia proportion, fet downeby ftint. Furthermore, all the blacke lead which ‘now men have in 
requett, isknowne by thefe names, to wit, lovetanum, Caprarienfe, and Oleaftrenfe, As forthe 
drofle andrefufe that is purged fromit, there is no ditlerence at all, fo that it have the due¢lean- 
fing by the fire as it ought. Thefe mines alone of lead have one woonderfull andadmirable gift 
above all others, That if they be forleta time and fuffered to reft, they will prow againeand be 
more fettile of ore by thatmeans. And intruth, this feemeth to be the reafon thereof, For that 
the aire hath good means andlibertie to infufe it felfe, and to enter in at the pores and paflages 
+ which it findeth enlarged and open: much like as we obferve in certaine women, who upon their 
flips of abortive fruit, proove thereby more fruizfulland apter to conceive, And that thisistrue 
that I fay of lead mines, it was found of late by good experience in the mines of Santariain the 
province of Boetica in Spaine : for whereas in times pattfor two huudred yeeres togither it was 
woont tobe fet for.a rent of ten pound weight, after it hadraken repofe and was openedagaine, 
it yeelded for everie ten, five and fiftie. Likewife, the lead mine named Antonianum within the 
faid province, which paidin old time but a cheife.of tenpound weight, iscomenowtoayeerely “K- 
* revenew’of foure hundred pound.To conclude,one marveilous qualitielead hath befides; That 
noveflell made thereof, will melt over the fire, if there bee water in it:and yet caftintothe faid 
water a little ftone, or a {mall peece of braffecoine,although it be nomorethan a quadrant, you 
fhall{eeit mele, anda hole burnt through itby and by. : SfROO' 
Cuar. Xviit 
& The medecines thatwvee bave from Lead, andthe refufe or droffe of Lead of’ 
the veine of Lead called Molybdena or Galena: of Cerufe, white , 
ts Laad,or Spanifhiwhite; called Pfimmythium sand oglib iby a 
lay nig / 0 0 of Sandaracha. : ES | 
> Reat ufethere is in Phyficke of Lead applied by it felfe alone, andnamely, toreprefleand 
Xp keepe downe the skarres and cicatrices that rife above the other skin :alfo by the refrigera- 
<=. tive qualitie that it hath; to coolethe heat of flefhly luft, if there be boundunto theloines 
and region of the reines,a thin plate or leafe thereof. And verely Ca/vws the oratour(who by 
‘occafion of much dreaming in his {leepe of vencreous fports, fellinto mightie pollutions, and | 
fo fartherintoshe grievous maladie of Gonorrhza orrunning ofthe reins) withwearing ordi- 
marily thefe leaden plates, ftaied (by report) all fuch vaine and wanton fantafies and-imaginati- 
eons : by which means hee preferved alfohis ftrength, andhada bodieableto endure the labour yg 4 
-of much ftudie and fitting athis booke. And Nero the Emperour (fince the gods would haveig 
fo) ufed ordinarily to weareaplate of Jead to his breaft, underwhich hee wouldchaunroutluftie = 
ly-with a wide throat and:-{trong voiceyhis filthie fonnetsand beaftly ballads;but heefhewed = 
thereby that lead was a fingular meanes to maintaineagood voice. But to ferveotherwifein = 
ant0h, PROS ie . | Phyficke, 
