Page 236, l. 160. And with new Physicke: i.e. the new mineral drugs of the Paracelsians.
Page 237, l. 190. Be more then man, or thou'rt lesse then an Ant. Compare To Mr Rowland Woodward, p. [185], ll. 16-18 and note.
l. 205. The new Philosophy calls all in doubt, &c. The philosophy of Galileo and Copernicus has displaced the earth and discredited the concentric arrangement of the elements,—earth, water, air, fire. Norton quotes: 'The fire is an element most hot and dry, pure, subtill, and so clear as it doth not hinder our sight looking through the same towards the stars, and is placed next to the Spheare of the Moon, under the which it is turned about like a celestial Spheare'. M. Blundeville His Exercises, 1594.
When the world was formed from Chaos, then—
Earth as the Lees, and heavie dross of All
(After his kinde) did to the bottom fall:
Contrariwise, the light and nimble Fire
Did through the crannies of th'old Heap aspire
Unto the top; and by his nature, light