. Sylva sylvarum: or, A naturall history. In ten centuries; whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or, Of the prolongation of life . doe receive in readily Strong-Waters • AndStrong-waters likewife doe readily pierce into Metals, and Stones: And thatStrong-water will touch upon Gold, that will not touch upon Silver; Ande Converfo. And Gold, which feemeth by the Weight, to be the Clofeft, andmoft Solid Body, doth greedily drink in Quick-Silver. And it feemeth,thatthis Reception of other Bodits,is not Violent: For it is (many times ) Reci-procal , and


. Sylva sylvarum: or, A naturall history. In ten centuries; whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or, Of the prolongation of life . doe receive in readily Strong-Waters • AndStrong-waters likewife doe readily pierce into Metals, and Stones: And thatStrong-water will touch upon Gold, that will not touch upon Silver; Ande Converfo. And Gold, which feemeth by the Weight, to be the Clofeft, andmoft Solid Body, doth greedily drink in Quick-Silver. And it feemeth,thatthis Reception of other Bodits,is not Violent: For it is (many times ) Reci-procal , and as it were with Confent. Of the Caufeof this,and to what Ax-iomeit may be referred, confider attentively*, For as for the Pretty Af-fertion, that Matter is like a Common Strumpet, that defireth all Formes,it is\$tion. Onely Flame doth not content it felf to takein any other Body; But either to overcome and turn ano-ther Body into it Self, as by Vi&ory; OritSelftodye, andgoe our. CL NATU- ExperimentSolitray tou-ching Fixati-on of B(dy. 199 ExperimentSolitary tou-ching theRe filefe Matureof Things itThemfelvcsznitheir Defire IV* i \ \\ »7*. aft o ft


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