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cure of diseases, and the restoring of man s body from arefaction; and 

 others for the confirming of it in strength of sinews, vital parts, and 

 the very juice and substance of the body. 



&quot; We have also large and various orchards and gardens, wherein 

 we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground and soil, propel 

 for divers trees and herbs ; and some very spacious, where trees and 

 berries are set, whereof we make divers kinds of drinks, besides the 

 vineyards. In these we practise likewise all conclusions of grafting 

 and inoculating, as well of wild trees as fruit-trees, which produceth 

 many effects. And we make, by art, in the same orchards and gardens, 

 trees and flowers to come earlier or later than their seasons, and to 

 come up and bear more speedily than by their natural course they do ; 

 we make them also, by art, much greater than their nature, and their 

 fruit greater and sweeter, and of differing taste, smell, colour, and 

 figure from their nature ; and many of them we so order that they 

 become of medicinal use. 



&quot; We have also means to make divers plants rise by mixtures of 

 earths without seeds ; and likewise to make divers new plants differing 

 from the vulgar, and to make one tree or plant turn into another. 



&quot; We have also parks and inclosures of all sorts of beasts and 

 birds; which we use not only for view or rareness, but likewise for 

 dissections and trials, that thereby we may take light what may be 

 wrought upon the body of man ; wherein we find many strange effects , 

 as, continuing life in them, though divers parts, which you account 

 vital, be perished and taken forth ; resuscitating of some that seem 

 dead in appearance, and the like. We try also poisons and other 

 medicines upon them, as well of surgery as physic. By art likewise 

 we make them greater or taller than their kind is, and contrariwise 

 dwarf them and stay their growth ; we make them more fruitful and 

 bearing than their kind is, and contrariwise barren and not generative. 

 Also we make them differ in colour, shape, activity, many ways. We 

 find means to make commixtures and copulations of divers kinds, 

 which have produced many new kinds, and them not barren, as the 

 general opinion is. We make a number of kinds of serpents, worms, 

 flies, fishes, of putrefaction ; whereof some are advanced in effect to 

 be perfect creatures, like beasts or birds, and have sexes, and do pro 

 pagate. Neither do we this by chance, but we know beforehand of 

 what matter and commixture, what kind of those creatures will arise. 



&quot; We have also particular pools where we make trials upon fishes, 

 as we have said before of beasts and birds. 



&quot; We have also places for breed and generation of those kinds of 

 worms and flies which are of special use, such as are with you, your 

 silkworms and bees. 



&quot; I will not hold you long with recounting of our brewhouses, bake 

 houses, and kitchens, where are made divers drinks, breads, and meats, 

 rare and of special effects. Wines we have of grapes, and drinks of 

 other juice, of fruits, of grains, and of roots ; and of mixtures with 

 honey, sugar, manna, and fruits dried and decocted ; also of the tears, 

 or woundings of trees, and of the pulp of canes. And these drinks 



