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<p>moved article</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>This is the entry for [[lead]] from Maplet&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[A Greene Forest]]&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> ===Of Lead===<br /> Led saith &#039;&#039;[[Aristotle]]&#039;&#039;, cometh and ariseth of Brimstone, bothe grosse, unpure, &amp; full of dregges: and of [[Quicksilver]] also, waterie and in manner like to an humor. &#039;&#039;Isidore&#039;&#039; sayth, it was called &#039;&#039;Lead&#039;&#039; at the first for that at the beginning with it was found forth and tried the Sea, his depth and bottome. There are two sortes of Lead, the one white, &amp; the other black: but the whitest is best, which kindes was the first found in the Iles of the Sea &#039;&#039;Atlantike&#039;&#039;. But is now found in &#039;&#039;Lusitania&#039;&#039; and in &#039;&#039;[[Gallicia]]&#039;&#039;, &amp; in many other places. It is found also in &#039;&#039;Mineries&#039;&#039; in maner like to Gravell and Sande, which afterwards is sodden and molten to greater quantities in fire and fornace. That other black &#039;&#039;Lead&#039;&#039; is found most in &#039;&#039;[[Canterbury|Cantabrie]]&#039;&#039; whose origin or being is after two sortes, for eyther it procedeth of a vaine by it selfe, or else it groweth next by [[silver]], and overcrosseth his vaines with it. Therefore his first lyquor running when as it is molten is almost [[Tin]]: the second, in a maner Silver: that which is then left and remaineth (adding also to it his vaine and so entermedled) becommeth black &#039;&#039;Lead&#039;&#039;. In &#039;&#039;[[India|Indie]]&#039;&#039; saith &#039;&#039;Isidore&#039;&#039;, there is neyther &#039;&#039;Lead&#039;&#039; nor [[brass|Brasse]] of his owne, therefore it chaungeth for his own Marchandise (as with [[gemstones|Gemmes]] and &#039;&#039;[[margaret (gem)|Margarets]]&#039;&#039;) wherein it is most plentifull. In &#039;&#039;[[Spain]]e&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;[[France|Fraunce]]&#039;&#039; it is very hardly hewen out: In &#039;&#039;[[Brittany|Britannie]]&#039;&#039; with very much ease. &#039;&#039;Hermes&#039;&#039; sayth, that Lead being boyled, looseneth al other sound bodies and weakneth their hardnesse, as also it enfeebleth the &#039;&#039;[[Adamantium|Adamant]]&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Maplet]]</div>

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