flowers, fruit, the form, colour, smell, seed and all. The like reason is of other seeds; so Apple-grafts engrafted in the stock of a Pear-tree, bear Apples; and we do alwaies finde and see by experience, that the tree (by virtue of grafting) that is grafted, doth convert it self into the nature of the Siens wherewith it is grafted. But although the childe that is born doth resemble or is very like unto the Father or Mother, as his or her seed exceedeth in the mixture; yet for the most part it happeneth that the children are more like unto the father then mother, because that in the time of copulation, the minde of the woman is more fixed on her husband, then the minde of the husband on, or towards his wife: for in the time of copulation or conception, the forms, or the likenesse of those things that are conceived or kept in minde, are transported and impressed in the childe or issue; for so they affirm that there was a certain Queen of the Aethiopians who brought forth a white childe, the reason was (as shee confessed) that at the time of copulation with her King, she thought on a marvelous white thing, with a very strong imagination. There∣fore Hesiod advertiseth all married people not to give themselves to carnal copulation when they return from burials, but when they come from feasts and plaies, left that their said, heavy, and pensive cogitations, should be so transfused and engraften in the issue, that they should con∣taminate or infect the pleasant joyfulness of his life with sad, pensive or passionate thoughts. Some∣times it happeneth, although very seldome, the childe is neither like the father nor the mother, but in favor resembleth his Grandfather, or any other of his kindred; by reason that in the inward parts of the parents, the engrafted power and nature of the Grandfather lieth hidden: which when it hath lurked there long, not working any effect, at length breaks forth by means of some hid∣den occasion: wherein nature resembleth the Painter, making the lively portraiture of a thing, which as far as the subject matter will permit, doth form the issue like unto the parents in every habit; so that often-times the diseases of the parents are transferred or participated unto the chil∣dren, as it were by a certain hereditary title: for those that are crook-backt, get crook-backt chil∣dren; those that are lame, lame; those that are leprous, leprous; those that have the stone, chil∣dren having the stone; those that have the ptisick, children having the ptisick; and those that have the gout, children having the gout: for the seed follows the power, nature, temperature and complexion of him that engendreth it. Therefore of those that are in health and sound, healthie and sound; and of those that are weak and diseased, weak and diseased children are begotten, unless happily the seed of one of the parents that is sound doth correct or amend the diseased impression of the other that is diseased, or else the temperate and sound womb as it were by the gentle and pleasant breath thereof.