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a partof his Nourifhment $ but Aan and (reatures feeding upon Fieth are fearcely nou- 
rithed with Plants alone: perhiaps Frat or Grains, baked or boiled, may, with long 
| ufe,; nourith them; but Leaves or Plants or Herbi will not do it, asthe Order of the Fo 
| fiatanes fhewed by EXperience, veer fs bes die 
_ Over-great Affinity or Confubffantiality of the Nourifhment to the thing nourifhed 
-proveth not well : Creatures feeding upon Herbs touch noFleth ; and of Creatures 
feeding upon Flefh, few of them eat their own kind: Asfor Aden,which are Canntbais, 
they feed not ordinarily upon «Aten fleth, but referve it as a Dainty , cither to ferve 
their reveng upon their enemies; or to fatisfie their appetite at fome times. So thc 
Ground is belt fown with Seed growing elfewhere,and A4en do not ufe to Graft or Ino. 
c#late upon the fame Stock. — 3 
By how much the more the Nours/hment is better prepared, and approacheth ncarer in 
likenefsto the thing nourifhed, by fo much themore are Plaats more fruitfuljand Lvzne | 
Creatares in better liking and plight: fora young Sip or czon is not fo well mourithed 
if it be pricked into the proufid, as if it be grafted into a Stock agreeing with it in | 
Nature, and where it finds the nouri{himentalready digefted and prepared : neither (as 
is reported, will the Seedof an Ovton; or fome fuch like, fown in the bare earth, bring | 
forth fo large a fruit as if it be put intoanother Onion, whichis 4 new kind of Grafting, 
into the root, or under ground. Again, it hathbeenfound out lately, that a Shp of a 
Wild Tree; as of an Elm, Oak, é4/h, or fuchlike, grafted intoa Stock of the famekind, | 
will bring forth lars o 
nourifhed fo well with raw fleth as withthat which hath pafled the fire, 
_ Living Creatures are nourifhed by the Afouth, Plants by the Roget, Young ones in 
the womb by the Navel: Birds for a while are nourifhed with the %o/k inthe Egee, | 
whereof fome is found in their Crops aftertheyare hatched. 
All Nourifhment moveth from the centre to the Circumférence, or from the Iaward 
fo the‘ utward: yet it is to be noted, thatin Zrees and Plants the Nourifhment paf- 
feth rather by the Bark and Outward parts then by the Pith and Inward parts ; for if the | 
Bark be pilled off, though butfora{mall breadth, round, they liveno more: and the 
Bioudin the Veins of living Creatures doth no lefs nouri(h the Fleffy beneath it then the 
| Fleth above 1t. 
In all shimentation. ot Nourifbment there is atwo-fold AGtion; Extufion and e4t- 
_ tratton ; whereof the former proceeds from the Inward Funétion, the latter from the 
| Outward. ° 
Vegetables affimulate their Nourifhment fimply, without Excetning: For Gumsand- 
Tears of Treesare rather Exuberances then Excrements,and Knotsor knobs arenothing 
but Difeafes. But the fubftance of living Creatures is more perceptible of the like; 
and therefore it is conjoyned with akind of difdain, whereby it reje@eth the bad, and 
| affimulateth the good, 
It isa ftrange thing of the fRalks of Fruits, that alt the Nourishment which produceth 
fometimes fuch great Fruits, fhould be forced to pafs through fo narrow necks ; for the 
Fruit is ncver joyn’d to the Stock withoutfome ftalk, 10.94 
It is to be noted, that the Seeds of living Creatures will not be fruitfulbut when they 
are new {hed, but the Seeds of Plants will be fruitful a long time after they are gathered ; 
yet the Ships or Cions of Trees will not growunlefs they be grafted green; neither will 
the roots keep long frefh unlefs they be covered withearth: . 
In being Creaturesthere are degrees of Noutifhment according to their Age: inthe 
womb, the young one is nourished with the Mother's blood ; when it is new-born, 
favoury Meats pleafe beft. 
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ser leaves then thofe that grow without grafting: Alfo Men arenot | 
with Milk ; afterwards with Meatsand-Drinks ; and inold age the moft nourishing and | 
Above | — 
r Ourifhment ought to be of an inferiout nature, and more fimple fubftance | To ¢/e 
thanthething nourifhed. Plants are nourifhed with the Earth and Water, | fourth r- 
eAlitentation; or Nourt{biment : andthe way of Nour tfbing. 
The History. 
r Living Creatures with Plants, AZan with living Creatures, “There are alfo | rele. 
| certain Creatures feeding upon Fleth, and Maz himfelf takes Plants into A 
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