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making all smells to breathe out of other mixtures than those that 

 give them. We make divers imitation of taste likewise, so that they 

 will deceive any man s taste. And in this house we contain also a 

 confiture-house, where we make all sweetmeats dry and moist, and 

 divers pleasant wines, milks, broths, and salads, in far greater variety 

 than you have. 



&quot; We also have engine-houses, where arc prepared engines and 

 instruments for all sorts of motions. There we imitate and practise to 

 make swifter motions than any you have, either out of your muskets, 

 or any engine that you have ; and to make them and multiply them 

 more easily, and with small force, by wheels and other means ; and to 

 make them stronger and more violent than yours are, exceeding your 

 greatest cannons and basilisks. We represent also ordnance and 

 instruments of war, and engines of all kinds ; and likewise new 

 mixtures and compositions of gunpowder, wildfires burning in water, and 

 unquenchable ; also fireworks of all variety, both for pleasure and use. 

 We imitate also flights of birds : we have some degrees of flying in 

 the air : we have ships and boats for going under water, and brooking 

 of seas : also swimming-girdles and supporters. We have divers 

 curious clocks, and other like motions of return, and some perpetual 

 motions. We imitate also motions of living creatures by images of 

 men, beasts, birds, fishes, and serpents: we have also a great 

 number of other various motions, strange for quality, fineness, and 

 subtilty. 



&quot; We have also a mathematical house, where are represented all 

 instruments, as well of geometry as astronomy, exquisitely made. 



&quot; We have also houses of deceit of the senses, where we represent 

 all manner of feats of juggling, false apparitions, impostures, and illu 

 sions and their fallacies. And surely you will easily believe that we 

 that have so many things truly natural, which induce admiration, could 

 in a world of particulars deceive the senses, if we would disguise those 

 things, and labour to make them more miraculous. But we do hate 

 all impostures and lies, insomuch as we have severely forbidden it to 

 all our fellows, under pain of ignominy and fines, that they do not 

 show any natural work or thing adorned or swelling, but only pure 

 as it is, and without all affectation of strangeness. 



&quot; These are, my son, the riches of Solomon s House. 



&quot; For the several employments and offices of our fellows, we have 

 twelve that sail into foreign countries under the names of other 

 nations, for our own we conceal, who bring us the books and abstracts, 

 and patterns of experiments of all other parts. These we call 

 merchants of light. 



&quot; We have three that collect the experiments which arc in all books. 

 These we call depredators. 



&quot; We have three that collect the exj&amp;gt;crimcnts of all mechanical arts, 

 and also of liberal sciences, and also of practices which are not brought 

 into arts. These we call mystery men. 



We have three that try new experiment!, such as themselves think 

 good. These we call pioneers or miners. 



