menta Fructifera, and Experimenta\Lueiféra, 
|| Experiments of Ule; and Experiments of 
Light: e4nd he reporteth bimfelf, whether be were not 
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aud vice pleim, things V Konders\; \ and that experience like... 
wiferimft be broken and\ grinded 5 and .notinbolessonascét °° 
ligrometh ,\and for Vfe , his Lordhip, hath often jasbis 
| eALouth,. the two kindes of Rxperimentss Ex peri= 0. 
a range Man, that fhoald think, that Light bah no Ue, 
becaufe it hath no Maiter. Further hus Lordhip thought 
work of Interpreting Nature, and Framing Axi-. 
oms, all things may be in more readinef. eAnd for the 
| Canfes herein by him afiigned ,_ his Lovdfhip perfwadesh: 
| bimfelf, they-are far more certain, than thofe that are ren- 
dred by others ; not for any excellency of his own wit, (as 
converjation with Nature and Experience. He did 
tconfider likewife , That by this Addition of Caufes, 
eMens mindes (which make fo much hafte to fide out the 
| caujes of things 5) would not think themfelves utterly loft 
| in a val Wood of Experience , but ftay upon thefe 
may be more fully difcovered. TI have heard his Lordfhip | 
| many would have defpaired to attain by Imitation. eA 
fog his Lordfbips love of Order, I can refer any Man to 
‘¢ Lordfhips Latin Book, De Augmentis Scien- | 
tiarum ; ich, if my pee be any thing, 1 written in 
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| good alfa, to add unto many of the Experiments them- | 
| felves , fome glof of the Caufes, that in the fucceeding | 
| bis Lordhip is wont to fay ) but in vefpett of bis continual 
Caufes (fuch as they are’) alittle, tlltrne Axioms!) 
| fay allo, That one great realon, why he would not put thefe | 
‘Particulars into any exatt Method, (though he, that look- | 
‘eth attentively into them, fhall finde, that they have a fe- | 
| oret order) was, Becaufe he conceived that other men would | 
| now think that they coulddothe like; and fo go on with a | 
| further ( ollettion , which, if the Method had been exatt, | 
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