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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS: JOHN HEYDON. 379
and have sexes and propagate. Neither do we this by
chance, but know beforehand of what matter and commix-
ture what kinde of creatures will arise. We have also
particular pooles where we make trialls upon fishes.
" We have also places for breed and generation of those
kinds of worms and flies which are of speciall use, such as
are with you your silkworms and bees.
" I will not hold you long with recounting of our brew-
houses, bake-houses, and kitchins, where are made divers
drinks, breads, and meats, rare and of speciall effects.
Wines we have of grapes, and drinks of other juyces of
fruits, graines, and roots; also of mixtures with honey, sugar,
manna, and fruits dryed and decocted ; also of the teares
or wounding of trees, and of the pulp of canes. These
drinks are of several ages, some to the age or last of forty
yeares. We have drinkes also brewed with severall herbs,
roots, and spices, yea, with severall fleshes and white meats;
some of the drinks are in effect meat and drink both, so
that divers, especially in age, do desire to live with them,
with little or no meat or bread. Above all we strive to
have drinks of extream thin parts, to insinuate into the
body without biting sharpnesse, or fretting,
insomuch as
some of them put upon the back of your hand, will, with a
little stay, passe through to the palm and yet taste milde to
the mouth. We have waters which we ripen in that fashion
as they become nourishing. Breads we have of severall
grains, roots, and kernels, some of flesh and fish dried with
divers kindes of leavenings and seasonings so that some doe
extreamly more appetite, some nourish so as divers doe
live of them very long without any other meat. For
meats, we have some of them so beaten, made tender, and
mortified, yet without corrupting, as a weake heat of the