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aot. | ® AfEtals give orient and fine Colours in Diffolution; asGoldgivethan | 
| Experiment, M excellent Yellow, Quick-filver an excellent Green, Tingiveth an} 
poe the | excellent Azure. Likewife in their Putrefactions, or Rufts ; as Vermilion, 
vials Gites Verdegreafe, Bites Cirrus, &c, And likewife in their Vitrifications. The} 
in Diffolutios | caufe is, for that by their ftrength of Body, they are able to endure thé Firé,| 
oO hing or Strong-waters,and to be put into an equal pofture, and again, toretain | 
| part of their principal Spirit: Which two things (equal pofture, and quick | 
Spirits) are required chicfly, to make Colours lightfome. ink 
2 ge: T conduceth unto longLife, andtothe more placide Motionof the Spi- 
Experiment rits, which thereby do lefs prey and confume the Juyce of the Body: 
Sole either that Mens actions befree aud voluntary, that nothing be done invita minerya, | 
| ial econ but fecandum genium; or, on the other fide, that the 4aions of Asen be full of Re- | 
| of Life. gulation, and commands within themfelves: For thenthe victory and performing | 
| of the command, giveth a good difpofition to the Spirits, efpecially if} 
| there be® proceeding from degree to degree, for then thefenfe of wictory |” 
| is the greater. Anexample of the former of thefe, is ina Countrey life; | 
| and of the latter, in (Monks and Philofophers, and {uch asdo continually enjoy | 
| themfelves. ‘ 
| j T is certain, that in all Bodies, there is an eA ppetite of Vuion, and Evitation i 
Wee of Solution of Continuity: And of this Appetite there be many degrees, | 
Solitary; but the moft remarkable, and ficto be diftinguifhed, are three. The firft | 
| ouching in Liquors, the fecond in hardBodies, and the third in Bodies cleaving | 
| Aopesite of ious. In Li this Appetite is weak ; we fee in Li he} 
teehee or tenacious. In Liquors pp s ; ee in Liquors, the} 
| Bodies. Threding of them in Stillicides (as hath been faid) the falling of them in | 
round drops (whichis the form of Union) and the ftaying-of them for a lit | 
tle time in Bubbles and Froth. Incthefecond degree or kinde, this Appetite | 
is trong; as inIron,in Stone,in Wood,&c. Inthe third, this Appetiteis in | 
a Medium between the other two: For fuch Bodies do partly follow the|” 
touch of another Body, and partly ftick and continue to themfelves; and | 
therefore they rope and draw themfelves in threds, as we fee in Pitch, Glew, | 
‘Birdlime, @c. Buinote, that all folid Bodies are cleaving moreor lefs; and|_ 
that they love better the touch of fomewhat that istangible, than of Air. | 
For Water in {mall quantity cleavethto any thing that.is folid, and fo would | 
| Metal too, if the weight drewit notoff. And therefore Gold Foliate, or | 
any Metal Foliate, cleaveth : But thofe Bodies which are noted to be} 
clammy,and cleaving,arefuch as have a more indifferent Appetite (atonce) |” 
to follow another Body, andto hold to themfelves. And therefore they are | 
commonly Bodies illmixed, and which take more pleafure ina Foreign Body, | 
that in preferving there own confiftence,and which have little predominance | 
in Drought or Moifture. | cig 
Dw and Heat are fellows in many effects. Hear drieth Bodies that do 
Tia ase | & cafily expire 3. as Parchment, Leaves. Roots, Clay, &c. And fo} 
Solitary, doth Time or U%ge arefe; as in the fame Bodies, Gc. Heat diflolyeth and | 
joushing the | melteth Bodies that keep in their. Spirits, as in divers Liquefattions ; an 
fete and. doth Time, in fome Bodies of afofter confiftence: As ismanifeftin Ho 
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which by 4ge waxeth more liquid, and the like in Sugar; and foi 
Oyl, which isever more clear and more hot in medicinable ufe. 
_, | caufeth the Spirits to fearch fome iffue out’ of the Body, as inthe Hols 
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