The jewell house of art and nature. Conteining divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experimentes in the art of husbandry, distillation and moulding / [Sir Hugh Plat].

  • Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608
Date:
1594
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Credit: The jewell house of art and nature. Conteining divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experimentes in the art of husbandry, distillation and moulding / [Sir Hugh Plat]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tome one ofthefe more fitlie then the other. Your feconde place maiebee your Bed-fteed,fif that do • happily ftande next your doore) at the hcade where¬ of, you maieby a fir ong imagination place an ex- treeme burning fire, and at thefeete thereof a great andfmoaking Dunghill. In your Chimney (if that like wife bee next your bed, and of a competent di- fiaunce from the bedded you male imagine a Tubbe full 6f.water. Then in your window beeing the next fitteplaceyou may imagine Bellona flaring with her fierie eies,andportraied in all points according to the vfual defeription of the Poets, Then vpon your court Cubbarde, you may place an Ape with herclogge, and in an other Window(if your Chamber haue two windowesja Shippevnder faile with all her tackle. Vpon your Chaire you may imagine a nighc-gowne furred with Foxe skinne, hauing wide fieeues, and -great pockets belonging to the lame. Then vppon your Table Handing m the middeft of the roome, you may place a Milftone, or a DrumYfie, and in the top of the feeling ouer your Table, a Target,afword, or a Lute hanging downwarde. And ifyou want pla¬ ces, you may make cither fide of your windows to be -one,and fo of your ChimneyBut hecreyou muff haue an efpeciall care beginning at the doore of your chamber to take the places round about the chamber accordingas they lie, and that before you fall to the pra&ize of this arte you may perfitely (as your Par ter nofler ) remember: euery places and what fub- ?ie<& you haue placed therein, which) ybu Thai! the better perfourme if you ipake a full and aliuer lie defeription of eueric fubieofe in your minde •before you place the fame. Nowe hauing got- . ten. all thefe fubiedfes, with their feuerall pla- N2 ces,