Lastly, The conceit promoteth it self: for concerning an effect whose trial must cost so dear, it fortifies it self in that invention; and few there are whose experiment it need to fear. For (what is most contemptible) although not only the reason of any head, but experience of every hand may well convict it, yet will it not by divers be rejected; for prepossessed heads will ever doubt it, and timorous beliefs will never dare to trie it. So these Traditions how low and ridiculous soever, will find suspition in some, doubt in others, and serve as tests or trials of Melancholy and superstitious tempers for ever. [Sidenote: _That Cinamon, Ginger, Clove, etc., are not of the same tree._] 2. That Cinamon, Ginger, Clove, Mace, and Nutmeg, are but the several parts and fruits of the same tree, is the common belief of those which daily use them. Whereof to speak distinctly, Ginger is the root of neither Tree nor Shrub, but of an herbaceous Plant, resembling the Water Flower-De-luce, as _Garcias_ first described; or rather the common Reed, as _Lobelius_ since affirmed. Very common in many parts of _India_, growing either from Root or Seed, which in _December_ and _January_ they take up, and gently dried, roll it up in earth, whereby occluding the pores, they conserve the natural humidity, and so prevent corruption. Cinamon is the inward bark of a Cinamon Tree, whereof the best is brought from _Zeilan_; this freed from the outward bark, and exposed unto the Sun, contracts into those folds wherein we commonly receive it. If it have not a sufficient isolation it looketh pale, and attains not its laudable colour; if it be sunned too long, it suffereth a torrefaction, and descendeth somewhat below it. Clove seems to be either the rudiment of a fruit, or the fruit it self growing upon the Clove tree, to be found but in few Countries. The most commendable is that of the Isles of _Molucca_; it is first white, afterward green, which beaten down, and dried in the Sun, becometh black, and in the complexion we receive it. Nutmeg is the fruit of a Tree differing from all these, and as _Garcias_ describeth it, somewhat like a Peach; growing in divers places, but fructifying in the Isle of _Banda_, The fruit hereof consisteth of four parts; the first or outward part is a thick and carnous covering like that of a Wal-nut. The second a dry and flosculous coat, commonly called Mace. The third a harder tegument or shell, which lieth under the Mace. The fourth a Kernel included in the shell, which is the same we call Nutmeg. All which both in their parts and order of disposure, are easily discerned in those fruits, which are brought in preserves unto us. Now if because Mace and Nutmegs proceed from one Tree, the rest must bear them company; or because they are all from the _East Indies_, they are all from one Plant: the Inference is precipitous, nor will there such a Plant be found in the Herbal of Nature. [Sidenote: _What the Misseltoe in some Trees is._]