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? ? ? ? "We have also houses of deceits of the senses, where we represent all manner of feats of juggling, false apparitions, impostures and illusions, and their fallacies. And surely you will easily believe that we, that have so many things truly natural which induce admiration, could in a world of particulars deceive the senses if we would disguise those things, and labor to make them more miraculous. But we do hate all impostures and lies, insomuch as we have severely forbidden it to all our fellows, under pain of ignominy and fines, that they do not show any natural work or thing adorned or swelling, but only pure as it is, and without all affectation of strangeness.
? ? ? ? "These are, my son, the riches of Salomon's House.
? ? ? ? "For the several employments and offices of our fellows, we have twelve that sail into foreign countries under the names of other nations (for our own we conceal), who bring us the books and abstracts, and patterns of experiments of all other parts. These we call merchants of light.
? ? ? ? "We have three that collect the experiments which are in all books. These we call depredators.
? ? ? ? "We have three that collect the experiments of all mechanical arts, and also of liberal sciences, and also of practices which are not brought into arts.
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