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the fair. Talladitu where he speaks of seasoning of wines, faith, The G reeks bid menkeep sei-watcr that is dean, and taken out of the calm sea the year before, whoseNature is that in this time , it will lose its salt ness or bitterness, and smell sweet byage. It remains to shew

How sweet waters maj be mended•

let Baptista faith, If you place a glazed vessel full of salt, and well stopt with lime,putting oyl under that no water may penetrate into it, that it may hang in the mid-dle cf the waters of a Cistern; these waters will in no time corrupt. Others addealso Quick-silver. If water begin to corrupt, cast in salt to purge them . and if salt bewanting, put in some sea-water, for so at Venice they draw water from St 'NicolasWell, scr Marriners that go long voyages, because it stands so neer the sea, and salelyes hid in it, by communicating with those waters. We read in Scripture, that L7*.z,ctu did this, who at Jericho or Palestina, cast in salt into a Fountain, and made itpotable water, which was before bitter and corrupt. If water breeds worms cast inquick Lime, and they will dye. When we would make wine clear, beat the white ofan Egge , and the troubled wine will descend, if you put it in. Others cast in the dustthat is on the catlings of small nuts, and the Spaniards cast in Gyp, to make it,clearand all these we may use in waters.

Chap. II.

Hew towage water of Air.

I F all other means fail , we may make water of air onely by changing it into air, asNature doth ; for she makes water of air or vapors: Therefore when we want, wa-ter we may make it of air,and do as Nature doth. We know when the Sun heats theearth, it draws forth the thinnest vapors, and cirrieth them on high, to that regioncf the air where the cold is, those vapors are condensed into drops, and fall down inRain. Also we fee in summer, that in Glass vessels well rinced, and that are full ofcold water, the air by coming to the outermost superficies, will presently clow'd thethe Glass, and make it lose its cleanness; a little after it will be all in a dew andswell into bubbles, and by degrees these will turn to drops, and fall down, whichhave no other reason for them; but because the cold air sticking to the Glass, growsthick, and is changed into water. We fee also in Chambers at Venice, where therewindows are made of Glass, when a gross and thick vapor sticks to the Glass within,and a cold vapor prevails without, that within will turn to dew, and drop down.Again,in winter, in Brass Guns,which are always very cold, and are kept in Cellars,and vaulted places, where men also use to he, that the air will grow thick, and light-ing upon the cold superficies of them , they will he all of a dew, and drop with wa-ter. But tossy no mote: Make a large round vessel of Brass, and put into it Salt-peter, unrefined, what willfillit; men call it Solazzo mingled with Ice: for thesetwo mixed , as I said in this Book, make a mighty cold, and by shaking them, withthe wondesul force os the cold, they gather air about the vessel, and it will presentlydrop into a vessel underneath. A deligent Artist will adde more, that he may geta greater quantity of water. It sufficeth that I have shewed the way.

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Chap. III.

How one mi) so alter his face that not so mtteh as his friends shall know hint.

S Uch as are taken prisoners , cr shut up close and desire to escape , and such as dobusiness for great men , as spies , and others that would not be known , it is ofgreat moment for them to know how to change their Countenances : I will teachthem to do it so exactly , that their friends and wives shall not know them. Greatmen do not a little enquire for such secrets,because those that can dissemble theirownpersons, have done great matters, and lovers have served their Mistresses, and Parents

have