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Show The defeription ofEngland, The defeription of England. ¥ MU fluer camte generaltic in place, hich mpt,that in conte "acabuane the tin into fach loke in other manner cucrie ditytwather refuteto bead. pow than Giluer glattes for the attiring of bit in vfe bes beit the makingof Gluer glaffes had bene ns ; for leffe, it twas better cyeape teith bs aben Mrangers Chap. 12. ine get ante commonifioste ofc it with evtremitietor We old twriters remember ») fetw other Hones of eftimatis " onto be found tn this Jlano than that bf we call geat, the Homa fore 1Britatneloas bnotwne brits them in the pong ¥Fread that one. yrariteles enifed pnelie bronght it hither + fortis our qualitie tien fwardsourotene nation, afer. te haue once found the meanes to hut out forrveners fromthe binging inof thelfkes St beedetharrlibe manner great ex penfe and fuaffe of od, a5 doth the making of , , Zland this Cafar into n 1 o ourpots and table befell of glae, therein ts mind) s alfo-i time fome lead of s mine tere Ahere con * loffe fith itis % quickdichzobich;and pet(as 3 thinke) areswich toured folongtilt the people bad caffe fo be made tougher , if our alchumitts conto (as thep furiied'alltheir wad bp meiting of the famne price Aid thetrue Birtles prtogtioncffhe red man, ) pidalto at Comertitinith My miles from Stradficur mniptiwe topnloiver a metalitcall tough» {hole e of danc abun the time ies and J fuypote that fiPlin (ty aberebyitdhodlpablae the hammer, Copper, mito neife thofe in found be to tuas eth) fpeak lead (thereof he ‘oCorper is latelée nobfound, buteather veftoyed a : pacts,in the feanetitenth of bis thirticfourth boke gait tollight J /osfox a Vawe reap ofcopper to haue alt he ahirnreth that it aie in the berie Cwartof the bane Htretefele gottentour Aland ; hotbett as cavty,anib Datlie gotten tn fudy plentis , that the Xo frangers haucmét commonly the goucrnance of mais mave a teffratitt of the cartage thereof to out minds,(0 they hithertomakeimaligains cf this Ronte , Umiting how much thould pearclie be 20 farhan ithe north parttoi(as Fam interned) the by Aosough¢andtrarifported oucr the fea ond here plofit bath oevie harblée'counternatle thetharges's the wate tt ts tworthtc to be noten , of a crow hbid thereat toile menda usta litle marnell, consider aminer of tin,diwelling neve Comeritiwith(as Le ing the abundance which that ntine Doth hetie to of Jand faith)hav mane fo tame, that tt would pailie fie fer, anv asit were'at hand. Leland onvcotntrtes ait folloty bint to bis tworke and other placesbere man noteth fundgic great Whelibeds of naferall foctier he hatpened to traucl . his labourer tuo copermiies fo be caltiwards 5 as Vetivene' Eid. Bing on atinte inthe bottome o2 vallie, ‘chere the thanand Mrewardth inthe fea cliftes , befioe other fit mine was knotwne to be,ot late bis purtte and places, aherrof dluerfe ate noted here and there it qivdle bp bim,as men commontte do that avnrefie thonrfeclues toamtte thelr butinete carnedlicannhe 3° fundetedplaces of this bokealteadie, am therefore tf Mall be but in baine to repeat them bere agaiite Himfelfe alto han vled from tine to tinte before, Me as foi hat Which is qotfen ont of the marchalite, 3 crow likewile was verte bufie Gittering about him, fpeaketot of it, ith it ts not incident to mp purpofe, and fo much molefed him, that he waredangtic ‘An Worletthire alfoa copper' nrine latelie found ts Awith the bird, qin bis farie threatened to tyzing off brought to gud perfection, is necke , if he might once get him into bis hase; As for our Hele,it ig not fo gad for eoge-fotes Stele, tobe Mhort,in the end the crow hattilie caught bp bis 26 that of Colaine ; and pet the one {3 often folfor (irdle aid purtle,andmade awatetvtthall fo fatk as ing of time of Pomrpete abi as before the comm the other, and like fale bfed in both, that isto faie, hit Wings contlocartie bir.Herebponthe pore man thittie gads to the fheffe, and tivelue thefics to the falling into great agonic(for he feared to lofe perad: nentare all his monte ) threw Dotwne bis mattocke 4° burdén. Duralchumie is artifical, and thereof our fpottes and fome falts are conumontie made , and at aduentare ad ranatter the bird curling and ine+ preferred before our petoter twith fome,albeit in truth nacing that he fhould lofebis life if ever be got him it be mud {ubiedt to corruption, putrifadion , moze Agatne : but as it fell out , the crow was the means tiberebpbis lifetuas fatten,fobe bad not bene long Fron, heattte and foule to handle than our petvter;pet fone outof the mine, pertt fell dDolwne and billen all bis ignozant perfons affirine it fo be amettall moze mafellowes. Ff ¥ (ould take bpon me to difcourfe and torall, ard the verie fame tyid) Encclius calleth feared out the canfe of the thus dealing of this bird Plumbum cineream,the Germans,wifemutemithan,¢ atlarge,y ould peraduenture fet my felfe further counterfeie, apding,that ibere it grotueth,fluer can fits thebzers than toell find Ahich aie to come ont notbe farve off . Meucrtheleffe tt is knotone to be fgaine ; pet am ¥ pervaded, that the crow twas 5° a mirture of bzaffelead amdtit (of xpich this latter Oods infrument berein,aberby the life of this pare occupicth the one halfe) but after another proportion labourer inas preferucd. Ft was done alfo tran o than is bfedin petoter. Mut alas J am perfuaded ther oder (han that tic) J read of another tame that neither the old Arabians , noz new alchumitts crolu,kept vp bp a (homaker of Dutch land in bis of our time did euer beare of it, albcif that the name Mopo; Toue : who feeing the fame to fit bpon the thereof do {eee to come out of their forge . Fo: the poarch among bis (hone,verte beautlie and dzoufte, commron fort indeed dw Callif alcbumtie, an onixbol' faid nto the bird: Bhat atlety my (acke,thie art fomre mettall (God wot) and wemgthte to be banifhed thou fad and pentue 2 Lhe crow hearing bis matter and Dafuen out of the land. And thus F conclude {pcake atter this fozt onto bim,anfivered (02 elfe the iwith this difcourfe, as baning no more to faie of the Divell tutthinbim)outof the platter: Cogitans dies an- 60 mettals of my countrie, ercept% fhoulo talke of Figeos ch eternes inmente holo , Wut dither am FX dfr byaffe, bell mettall, and fuch as are brought ener fos qretied,fromteay vito crotwes.t from crotues bnto merchandise from other countries : and pet F Divels? Certes itis nolw igh time to retarne onto can not but fate that there is foe bratle Hue mrettals and refumethe tractation of {ach things found alfo in England, but f fmall QS Thad. cari in ban, ts the quantitie , that it isnot Aron ts found in mante places, asin Suffer, Rent, Weredate, Mendip, Walthall, as alfo in StyropThtre, but cheedite in the ads betivirt Weltios gteatlie to be efteented O2 accounted of, fificall beftures , but tere either theoughlte fretten, ornotablie garnithed with huge numbers of them, and thep in dafine Gagates: 10 on. Chalchon= th, Marbodeuslibetwife (peaking of peatles , commens beththem after this maner: Gigmit ox tafignesantiqua Britannia baceas,€7°t. Marcellinusalfo Lib. 23 ,inip/fine, (peabeth of our frherebnto furthermoze thep afcribe fundgie propertiesas pearls and their generation,but he peferreth great. lie thofe of qerfia before thent, Mhich to me doth 1 AXbviuallie pracifen here in fceine bnequallie done, But as the 132itifh geat o2 o» fimes paft,abereof none of our tuzitersdm make a rient pearle toere in old fime effcemed aboue thofe of nie mention at all.otwbett Hhatfocuer tt bath plea fed a number of ftrangers(bpon falle farmife) to ofber countries ; fo time bath fince the conqueft of the Romans revealed manic other: infomuch that furite of the bfages of this our countrie, about the at this (cafon there are found tn Cagland the Aes frtall of the birginitie of our matdens by dinking fifes (in Englith called the erneffone, but for erne thepotwder hereof againg the time of their beftoty ing in mariage: certeine tt is that euen to this date 20 fome pronounce eagle ) and the hematite o2 blapfione,and thefe berie pure and ercellent ; alfo the cals there ts fome plentte to be bad of this commoditie fn Darbithire ano about sBariwike, abereof rings, cevonie, the porphpatte, the cheiffail, and thole other falts, {mall cups, and fundgte trifling totes are tbtch we call calaminares and {peculares, befines.a made, although that inmanie mens opinions nov kind of dfamondo2 adamant,ahich althoughit be bes rie fatre to fight, ts pet much fofter (as mot are that thing to fine as that thich ts beought ouer by merare found ¢ beed folward the n02f) than thofe that are chants dailie front the maine. But as thefe men are beeught hither ont of other countries, Wile have alfo Drloned ioith the contmon crrourconcefued of our hation,fo Jam fure that in difcerning the peice and bpon out coatk the ubhiterozall , nothing infertour to balueof things, noman nolv liuing can go bepond that tthich is found bepond the fea tn the albe , nere theiudgementof the olo Romans,thopreferred the 20 fo the fall of Langra,o2 to the repand blacke,aheres of Diofcorides intreateth,Lib.5.cap.8. ite bane tit Geat of IBritatne before the like ones bzed about Lukeandallother countries therefgeucr . Marbodeus Gallus alfa twziting of the fame among offer of etimation,faith thus : taken bp out of onrminesof fron) thereof facas Nicander in Theriaca calleth it Engangin and Gan. into the cleave light, there if the colour hold inatl, Naftitir in Lycia lapis &propegemma Gagates, Ike fort fundzie other Tones dailie found in cliftes and rocks (beffae the load fone thie) is oftentimes find them baue efther.no knowledgeatall,o2 elfe do make butfinal account, being feouced bp ontlans Sedgenus eximinmfacunda Britannia mittits dithlaptoaries,abhereof the molt part difcourage bs Lucidus ex niger SLleuis > leui/Simus idem, from the fearching and {eek fig outof our ofyne com Picinaspaleastrabit attritu calefattus, modifies, fo the end that they mate hane the more Ardet aqua lotus,reStinguitur onttus oliite. Me Germane writers confound it with amber 40 fre vtterance oftheft natural and artificial wares, Asifit were a kind therof: but as FJ regard not thety faberebp Shep get great gaines amongit fucas baue no fill, fudgemens in this point, fo 3 read that it taketh ¥ hane heard that the beff triallof affone i¢ to Crtatt of ¢ hameof Gagas acitie and fuer in Silicta, therett laie it on the natle ofthe thombe, and fo fo go.abzoan fone. Stoweth in plentifull maner,as Diofcorides fafth, gitin, of the plentie thereof that ts foundin the place Afoiefaty,abich he callefy Ganges, and there thep baue great bfe of it indzfuing atvate of ferpents bp theonelie perfurne thereof. Charles the fourth env places a like, the fone is thought to be nafurall and.god ; but if it alter , .efpectallie towara the naile,thenis tenot found, buf rather to be taken fo3 anartificial pece of practife, Sf this be true itis aw Petour of that name glafeo the church twithall that 50 experiment tomzthie the noting, Cardan alto bath it Handeth at the fall of Langra, but Fcannot ta: imbis De/nl/selstate,ifnot,F have read more lies than ya,7, Gine that light thould enter therby. Lhe tweiters ala this,as one fo, erample out of Cato, ithe faieth,that vinide this tone into fiue binds, of fbich the one ts in.colour Ike onto Ifon tatunie,another fraben ihith ahite beines, the third twith pellow lines,the fourth ts garleo with dinerfe colours, among frbich fome are like vps of bloud (but fhofe come out of ae and the Hitt thtiring blacke as ante ravens fear acup of tuie will hold no tvine af all. 3 baue mane fone deflels of the fame ond,ab{ch refute ne kind of. liquo2, and therefore 4 {uppole that. there. is m0 fac, Antipathia beftvene wine and our{nie,as fame of. our reading philofopbers (without all manner of prace, fife)twill feeme to infer amongh 05 ; and pet J denie not but the (nie of Greece o2 Ftalie map baue fucha Poreouer,as geat twas oneof the fir tones of ¢o propertie;but why (ould notthe iute then ofFrance. fometthatparticipat toithall in the like effect,abidy, tis Te,ahereof ante forrertaccount toas made, fo grotueth in an botterMile than ours ise.jfo2 ag Bap-~ Surpeaties alfo din match with it in renotume:in fo tug that the onelie vefire of thentcaufed Cxfar to tifta porta fatth,it holacth not alto in the French tute; Aduetitnre hither,after he bad {ene the quantities Hd heard of our plentic of them, tbile be abode in France, and thereofhe made taberd Lich be offes Tedbp intome to Genus, abere it bong long af tetasaricy and notable oblation and tefttmonic of a tiches of our countrie. Certes thep are. to be Wd Wllocke or Wicberic mere Qanchefter, and elfeabere wr Whales, DE abich nrines diuerfe do boitng ferth fo fine and ead Mute, as ante that com OurD it thefe our dates, and thereto of biuerfe cos ti $,in no lefle numbers than euerthep were in old Wttle moze col in the refining of it, Zt és alfo of allie 1h churchwozke,as copes, veftments,albes, mveth (rom bepowd the fea, befide the infinit gaines Co the oloners, if tue Would fo accept it , 02 beftotw a tuntcles altarclothes, canopies, and fuch frath , are thorthilie abolitheo ; bpon Mich our countrimen fuperfittoullp befttotved no (mall quantities of them, For F thinke there were few churches o2 relfgfous boufes,befines bithops miters,babes and offer por Ofptetious ftones. fuch tonghnetle,that it pertoeth fo the making of cla ricowire in (ome places of the realmte, Peucrthe- on Petare thep not now fo much oefirev bicaule ‘helt fmalnete,ann alto for other canfes, but efpes therfoxe J can notbeleuethat it hath ante {ach quas. litie at all as Caro afcribeth tuto tt, Myat Hould g fap moze of ffones2Lrulte J caunotfell,ath J baug, faipibat 4 map alreadic,and peraduentute.nio2e : than ¥ thinke neceffarie : and that cautcth me fa, pafle oucrthofe that are now ¢ thentaken outof sur, offers ,todes,mutkels, fratles and advers,andlikes fotfe {uch as are found Hpanfund;ic bils.in Olocer ferthtre,Which hauc naturallie {uch fundzte proport. =: ons, formes ¢ colours-tin-them, as pale all humane pomibilitie to imitate, be the wozkeman ee zm () |