A discourse of natural bathes, and mineral waters wherein, the original of fountains in general is declared, the nature and difference of minerals with examples of particular bathes, the generation of minerals in the earth, from whence both the actual heat of bathes, and their virtues proceed, by what means mineral waters are to be discover'd, and lastly, of the nature and uses of bathes, but especially of our bathes at Bathe, in Someerset-shire
Jorden, Edward, 1569-1632., Guidott, Thomas, fl. 1698. Appendix concerning Bathe.
COme hither Reader, bathe thy tender eye•
In Jordans streams which out of Bath do rist
They'l clear thy sight, and make thee clearly se•
Choice secrets, which in earths deep bosom be
Closely laid up, and choicely secret kept,
Where unobserv'd they many ages slept.
Here come & Bathe in Jordans streams thy mind
Thou there a strange yet certain cure shalt find,
Of old ore-spreading errors leprosie,
Which these clear streams do sweetly mundifie.
Here are two miracles of nature met,
Here are two miracles of England set;
Page [unnumbered]Our English Bathes, our English Jordans streams
Are gathered here as natures choicest creams,
Produc'd by her, by learned Art refin'd
For th• universal good of humane kind.
May much good hence be rais'd, & may it raise
As well first Authors as Inventors praise.
Nicol. Stoughton, of Stoughton, Esq
