Of flatters Experiments,

heavior , is then it should fall down it would be against the first action. The samewould fall out if both vessels were filled with wine or water. For if the water con-tained in the vessel A B, should descend into the place of C D, there would remainvacuity in A being there is no place for the air to come in; and that were against thesecond axiom: wherefore by reason of vacuum, and because the body is no heavior,it falls not into the bowl beneath. But should one make a hole in the bottom of thevessel A, that the air might come in, no doubt the water would not fall down intothe baron: Also, if the vessel A B were filled with any light liquor, and the broadbaron with one that is heavior, they would not stir from their places. Let there-fore the vessel A B be filled with wine , and the mouth of it turned dowr wards intoa baron full ok water; I fay both liquors will keep their places, and will not min-gle; for should the wine descend, either vacuum must needs be in the body A, ora heavy body must ascend out of the vessel C D, which would be against the Natureof Gravity: and the second axiom, namely, that heavy should ascend, and light de-scend: Wherefore they will not remove from their places. Hence comes that whichis often done by great drinkers and gluttons,who pour by dropslinco a cuphalf full ofwater, o much wine as will fill the cup, they come so close together, that onely a lineparts those liquors. And those that would sooner cool their wine,they dip aVial full ofwine into a vessel full of water,with the mouth turned downward, and hold it downunder the water: for when the water toucheth the superficies of the wine, they can-not mingle , and the wine grows sooner cool, though it is necessary that the Vialshould be lifted up to the superficies of the water, and suddenly turned about, pour-ed forth and drank; then fill them ag?in, and set in the bottle as before. From thisadvantage I complain of those, who first drink water, then pour in wine, for winebeing the lighter, and water the heavior, they can hardly mingle: wherefore somedrink at first the strongest wine, then mingled, and last of all, water. At great mensTables they first bring wine in a Glass, then they pour in water, that the water byits weight may mingle with the wine, and get to the bottom, and cast equally. Thea-fhr/tsiu* bids men first pour in wine, then water.

Chap. II.

How we t»ny by drinki»gi make sport with those that fit at Table with us,

\7'\7Hen friends drink together, if we would by such a merry deceit delude the^ * guests that are ignorant of the cause hereof, we may provoke them to drinkwith such a Cup ; Let there be a great Cup made like a tunnel, let the mouth bebroad above, and beneath narrow Pyramidally , and let it be joyn’d to a Glass-Ball,by a narrow month; First pour in water, till the whole Ball be filled ; then pat inwine by degrees, which by reason of the narrowness of the mouth will not mingle,aud the water is heavy,and the wine lighter; He that drinks first,(hall drink the wine;then give it your frind to drink, for he (hall drink nothing but water. But if yourfriend (hall challenge you to drink thus with him, and will have you drink first; fillthe Ball of the Cup with wine, and pout water upon it, and stay awhile , and holdhim in discourse; for the water will sink down by the narrow mouth, and the wineby degrees will ascend as much, and you (hall fee the wine come up through themiddle of the water, and the water descend through the middle of the wine, andsink to the bottom ; so they change their places: when you know that the water isgone down, and the wine come up, then drink, for you (hall drink the wine , andyour friend (hall drink the water. Hence it is, that to great inconvenience of thosethat'drink it, when we plunge our wine into a well in vessels of earth, or brass, illstopt, to cool it, the water being the heavior comes in at the least chink, and for-ceth out the wine , so in a little time the vessel is full of water, and the wine is gone,ihtt there is not the least taste of wine in it: wherefore stop the mouth very clole.

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