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thers, who were not a little fur- hahel^at , juvA^atque eventur. 
pris'd and pleafed at the event, jit que hoc ip}um pluries quam 
And this I did more than once or femel bijve feci ; uJtde mthi 
twice ; by which means I had, tefics [uppetunt Ejtferime^tti 
^nd ftill have, divers Witneffes veritntis affertores , probntA 
of the truchof iheExperimenr, fid.d viri^ qmrum mus erat 
whereof fome are noted Perfons, Ert^ditus Socieratis Regis 
and efpeciail y him to whom I laft Secretarius , quern), exhihitis ei 
fbewed ir^ which yoH will eafily hgredientibus , rogabam , ut 
believe when 1 tell you 'tis the fuu met mambus Experimen- 
Learned Secretary of the Royal turn caperet\ in quibus op- 
Society ; to whom having given tatum fuccejfum mimri quam 
the Ingredients, 1 defied him to unius minuti fpatio finieba- 
make the Experiment in and tur-f, 
with his own handS) in which it 
proved fuccefsfl]] -!* Ex quo tempore hoc Uteris fult 
Since this :.t^: rnmpu;har coirfignarum. Illunrifllmus & Judi- 
written, Wltnin lOmCWnat cioflfll.nus Regime Secietatls Pr^Us. 
the Noble and lef$ thaD-a mlnUte or Dom. Vicecomcs Brcur.chr , idem 
fiidicioifs m- aj^[5oUr ^ E^xperimenrum fua cum cjufdem 
/tdent of the Mei cuuii portionc-, manu cum fuc- 
Royal Society, the Lord f^i [count Brounc* ceiTu peregir. 
r, made the fame Experimtnt with fome 
of the fame Mercury y in his, own hand with 
^ocd fucctfs, 
I o And that which makes this Atque , quod hcalefientiam 
Incalefcence the more confide- ham injigmorem reddit^ ej}^ quod, 
rable is, that being willing to cum pane iiti i!Mercurio meo cu- 
husband my Mercury , a great per em, quippe cujus magna pars 
part of which had been , as 1 iutconpcio ) furrepta mihi fue- 
ghefs^d, ftolen from me befi^ire I rat , prtufquam eum adhiberem^ 
employed it, I made thefe trials expcrimenta fingula mnniji cum 
but with a drachm at a time, nna drachma per age bam ^ qua 
which fcarce amounts in quanti- vix faba mediocris dimidia mag- 
ty to the bignefs of half a mid- nitudinem aquat , cum^ Ji copia 
die fiz'd Bean 5 whereas, if I mihifuijfet capiendi Experimen" 
couM have made the Experiment turn cum^ cochleari mo altetove 
with a fpoonful or two of <^ercmiiplem,fHpparique quan- 
Quickfiiver, and a due proper- titate Juri, probabilejity calorem 
tionofGoId, 'tis probable the inde oriturum fuijfe fati's inten' 
beat would have been intenfe e- fum, ut mn modu ureret manum^ 
Bough , not only to burn ones fed fir fan in Phiala vitrea 
hand, , rimas 
