Natural Magick. Doo^ 18

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Chap. VI.

How light is mingled in heavy ,or heavy in light,

W\7E can easily know whtther my light matter is mingled with heavy, or any^ ' heavy matter wit h Hghc: And I will expound the manner out of Archimedeshis Book, concerning tiling that iwim above water j the cause whereof is, that ifWood,Hone, or any heavy Metal, be equal in weight to the fame quantity of wa-ter , the utmost supetficies o the body will be equal with the superficies of the wa-ter ; if it wtigh beavior, it will sirk to the bottom • if it be lighter, the lighter it isthen the water , so much of it will Iwim above the water. Since therefore this istrue, and wine is heavior then water, one and the same thing will sink more inwine, than in Water, and in thick* r wa*er the less. Wherefore vessels are moredrown’d in River*, than in the S- a ; tor Sea water is thicker and more heavy, by rea-son of iu fait mir gled with it; as also We have it in Jlexander. If therefore youwould know

Whether water be mingled with wine.

Pur the wine you suspect robe mini led with water, into some vessel, and put anApple or Pear into it; if the Apple sink, the wine i pure; but isit stoic, the winehath water mingled with it, because water is thicker than wine: Which Democri-ttu faith is contrary and false. He faith it is necessary sometimes to commit the Careof the wine of new wine to Stewards and Servants, also the Merchant hath the likereason to try, whether his wine be pure. They use to cad an Apple into the vessel,but wilde Pears are the best; others cast in a Locust ; others a Grafhopper, and ifthey swim, it is pure wine, but if they sink, it is mingled with water, But if youseek to know

If new wine have any water mingled with it ,

it will be the contrary for the contrary reason. For wine that is pure and sincere isthin, but new wine at first is thick fecu'em, gross, clammy, because the feces arenot yet funk down, but in time it wist grow dear and thin. Wherefore if you putApples or Pears into new wine, and the new wine be most pure, the Apples willstore above it; but if there be water minded with it, the Apples will sink to thebottoms for freeze-warer is thinner than new wine, and lighter, it cfrusetb the Ap-ple to sink, which is excellent well described by Sotian , and very curiously. He faith,That we may know whether new wine be mingle d with water, cast wilde Pear , rhacis green ones, into new wine, and if there bt - oy water, they will sink to the bot-tom. For when you fill the vessel with new wine , if you cast in Services or Pearsthey will swim, the more water you put to it, the more will the Apple sink. But weshall adde this for an addition,

When new wine is mingled with water y to knew which fart is the befi y the upper or

lower part.

The Country people use after the pressing forth of the wine , when the clusters arepressed forth, to cast in a certain quaintity of water, and so they make drirk for la-borers in the Countrey. This new wine they divide, the Country m. n h th half,and the Landlord the other half: The question is which parr is the best , the first, orlast, that runs forth of the press. But if you well remember What I said before, thewine being the lightest will come uppermost, and the water being heaviest, will al-ways sink to the bottom. Wherefore the first that comes forth is the wine , thatwhich remains, and is pressed from the clusters, is watrv. When water is cast on theclusters, it goes into the inmost parts of the Grapes , and draws forth the wine thatis in them, and so they mingle; but being lighter, it choofeth the upper place, th -re-fpre the upper part is best, because it contains most wine : but if you turn the Cockbeneath, the water will first run forth, and the wine la"

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