Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde ...
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Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde ...
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[Westminster :: Printed by William Caxton,
1481 (after 8 March; ca. Oct.)]
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Vincent, -- of Beauvais, d. 1264, -- attributed name.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1600.
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"Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68843.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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How the water of the see becometh salt / capitulo xxiijo
NOw I wyll recounte and telle to yow how the wa∣ter of the see becometh salt / whiche is so bittre that no persone may drynke ne the beestis in lyke wyse / hit co∣meth by the sonne on hye / ffor it maketh so grete hete in somme place / that the see is chauffed so strongly that therthe whiche is vnder draweth to hym a moysture bit∣tre / whiche taketh away all his sauour / ffor in the see ben right grete and hye montaynes / and depe valeyes whiche ben ful of bitternesses greuous and infected / And the erthe whiche is in the bottom of thise valeyes scumeth for the heete of the sonne vpward / whiche medleth with the water in the depe in suche wyse that it draweth the saltnes vp by the hete of the sonne / so longe til it be medlyd with that other / And thus is the water of the see salt with that
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other Thenne we shall here fynysshe to speke ony more of the watres fressh or salt / And shall recounte to you of the Ayer whiche is one of the iiij Elementis and of his propretees /
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