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Of Greene.
Our English word greene is fetched from the high Dutch ••••un, in the Belgick Groen, in French it is cal∣led Coleur verde, in Italian and Spanish Verde, from the Latine Vi••••ais, and that from vires, quia viribus maxime pollent in virente aetate vigentia, in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is, grasse or the greene herbe, which is of this colour, why the earth hath this colour a∣boue others Aristotle sheweth which is by reason of the much and often falling of raine, and setting vpon the same, for saith hee, all water or moisture that standeth long, and receiueth the beames of the Sun at the fi••st groweth greenish, afterward more blacke, after that receiuing as it were another g••••ene, they become of a grasse colour, for all moisture dried vp of it selfe becommeth blacke, as we see in old wels and cesternes, and if any thing hath lien long vnder water, and afterwards lying drie, may receiue the heate of the Sunne (the moisture being exhaled and drawne away) it becommeth greene, because that yealow proceeding from the Sunne beames mixed with black doe turne into a greene, for where the moisture doth not participate with the beames of the Sunne, there remaines whitenesse, as wee see in most rootes and stalkes of herbes, which grow neere or within the earth, now when t•••• moisture hath spent it selfe farre in the stalke, leafe, and flower, that it cannot ouercome the heat of the ayre and Sunne, it changeth and giueth place to yealow, which heat afterward being well concocted