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TIn after his Greeke name, is called a deui∣der and distinguisher of one thing from an∣other, for all adulterous and counterfayted Mettals it doth betray, and setteth them seue∣rally asunder. It also discerneth Brasse & Lead from Gold & Siluer. Tin being rarely powred vppon Brasen Uesselles, maketh their sauour more pleasant, and bridleth & kepeth vnder the poysonous rust. Aristotle sayth, in his fourth booke of Meteores, yt it is compound of Quick∣siluer
indifferent good, but of very base Brim∣stone, and therfore this kinde of Mettall is no∣thing proporcionably mixt, but al out of square compound, for the which it looketh so raw, and hath Siluer his verie colour, but not his good∣nesse. Cardane saith, that Tin descrieth and reueleth if any poyson be hid, for both it hisseth and cracketh if it be so, and also sheweth thin stripes in maner like to a bow. I haue séene it my selfe when as this kinde of Mettall being molten in the pit and but a sponefull of water being cast into, it hath floushed and leapt vp to the top of the house: but a whole Potfull of Béere or Ale being cast in, it hath not once moued, but laughed by and by. The cause I may giue that, that Cardane doth, applying it to all Mettals onely Golde excepted: for sayth he all other (onely Golde excepted) are fertile and fat. And being thus, laffe at their like, and refuse the residue. And thus much of Tin.