uncleanness, because its coldness stands outwards as _Luna_ doth, and its heat is internal, fluxible as wax, and sweet as sugar Candy. _Why is it as white as Snow?_ Because it is purified from all its impurities, and because its coldness stands external as _Luna_ doth, and its heat is internal. _Why is it sweet?_ Because the four Elements in it are pure, and separated from all sulphurous stink and blackness, which _Saturn_ received in the Mine; it is almost Medicinal, and like unto Nature: And because it is so pure, it affords some of its internal virtue outwardly, as that of Sweetness; but the heat is so covered with the cold, that it cannot put forth its power externally by reason of the cold which is external (the heat of _Saturn_ lies internal, even as in _Salt-Nitre_) as doth the Taste, the Spirit of Tasting is the most subtile in all things, as is taught more at large in the Book of Vegetables, how the Air doth dilate it self from all Herbs and Flowers externally; for the Spirit of the Air lies in the inward part of all things; for God created nothing in this world but it hath its peculiar Taste or Air, the Air and the Taste are one Spirit, the Taste goes out of the Air, as Smoke from the Fire. But how comes it to pass, that a thing which hath a sweet Air, is bitter in Taste? The cause is, because the _Faeces_ of that thing are putrid and stinking in the Elements, that is the Choler or Heat; for whatsoever is unnaturally hot, hath a bitter Taste; the Air and the Taste are both one Spirit, and as the Spirit of the Air presses outwards through a hot thing, so doth the Air embrace the Taste about, and descends the subtile Taste, that it should not be burnt by the vehement burning Choler, as in the Herbal is at large express'd. But the cause why _Saturn_ is sweet in Taste is, that it is almost pure and clean, having scarce any unnatural heat in it, which can burn the subtile Tast, therefore it hath the Taste externally, and the Taste hath the Spirit of the Air lock'd up in it.