(77) when the sweet Quality perceives the Taste of the bitter Quality, it checks or stops at it, and gives back, as a Man when he tastes astringent, harsh or bitter Gall, he opens both the Gums of his Palate in his Mouth in his Cheeking, and widens his Palate more than it is of itself; and just so does the sweet Quality against the Bitter. [Throat or Jaws.] And

(79) Now when the astringent or harsh and bitter Quality get their Light from the Heat, then they see the sweet Quality, and taste of its sweet Water, and then they continually make haste after the sweet Water, and drink it up, for they are very hard, rough, and thirsty, and the Heat dries them quite up.

(23) And this Stirring in the Hardness, is the Tone, so that it sounds, and the Light or Flash makes the Ringing, and the sweet Water mitigates the Ringing: So that a Man can use it to the Distinction of Speech, or Articulation of Syllables. Here observe the Nativity or Birth of the bitter Quality, yet more plainly.

(78) when the sweet Quality thus stretches or widens itself, and retires from the Bitter, then the astringent always presses after it, and would also fain taste of the Sweet: and always makes the Body that is behind it, and in it, to be dry; for the sweet Quality is the Mother of the Water, and is very meek, mild, soft and gentle.

(84) therein the Astringent, the Sweet, the Bitter, and the Heat, struggle together, and the astringent Quality in its Coldness continually makes its Dryness, and so the Sweet withdraws on the Sides, and the other hasten after it.

(23) First there is the astringent Quality, then the Sweet, next, the Bitter: The Sweet is in the Midst between the Astringent and Bitter. Now the Astringent causes Things to be hard, cold, and dark; and the Bitter tears, drives, rages, and divides or distinguishes. These two Qualities rub and drive one another to hard, and move so eagerly, that they generate the Heat, which now in these two Qualities is dark, even as Heat in a Stone is.

(45) The astringent or harsh Quality is the Kernel or Stock, is four or attractive; and the Sweet is the light mollifying and softening; and the Bitter is penetrating or triumphing, which rises up and triumphs in the astringent or harsh, and sweet Quality.

(85) so when this is done, then the Bitterness is also together captivated or imprisoned in the Body of the sweet Water, and becomes also together dried up, and then the Astringent, Sweet and Bitter are one in another, and struggle so strongly in the dried Mass or Lump, till the Mass be quite dry: For the astringent Quality always contracts it together, and dries it more and more.

(11) For the astringent Quality now attracted the Salitter very strongly together, and dried it, whence the bitter Earth is proceeded; but the Stones are from the Salitter which at that Time stood in the Power of the Tone or Tune.

(28) When the astringent and bitter Quality rub themselves so hard one upon another, that they generate Heat, and now the sweet Quality, the sweet Fountain-water, is therein in the Midst or Center between the astringent and bitter Quality, and the Heat becomes generated between the astringent and bitter Quality, in the sweet Fountain-water, through the astringent and bitter Quality;

(9) For the Harshness is as hard as a Stone [or Flint,] and the Bitterness rushes and rages like a P breaking Wheel, which breaks the Hardness, and stirs up the Fire, so that all comes to be a terrible Crack of Fire, and flies up; and the Harshness or Astringency breaks in Pieces, whereby the dark Tartness is terrified and sinks back, and becomes as it were feeble or weak, or as if it were killed and dead, and runs out, becomes thin, and yields itself to be overcome: But when the strong Flash of Fire shines back again upon or into the Tartness, and is mingled therein, and finds the Harshness so thin and overcome, then it is much more terrified; for it is as if Water was thrown upon the Fire, which makes a Crack: Yet when the Crack or Terror is thus made in the overcome Harshness, thereby it gets another Source, [Condition or Property,] and a Crack, or Noise of great Joy proceeds out of the wrathful Fierceness, and rises up in fierce Strength, as a kindled Light: For the Crack in the Twinkling of an Eye becomes white, clear, and light; for thus the Kindling of the Light comes in that very Moment as soon as the Light (that is, the new Crack of the Fire) is infected or impregnated with the Harshness, the Tartness or Astringency kindles, and shrieks, or is affrighted by the great Light that comes into it in the Twinkling of an Eye, as if it did awake from Death, and becomes soft or tmeek, lively and joyful; it presently loses its dark, rough, harsh, and cold Virtue, and leaps or springs up for Joy, and rejoices in the Light; and its Sting or Prickle, which is the Bitterness, that triumphs in the turning Wheel for great Joy.

(60) The astringent or harsh, four, and sweet Quality, is the Salitter, which belongs to the Body, out of which the Body is framed.

(80) And the sweet Quality always flies from the Bitter and Astringent, and stretches its Palate always wider, and the Bitter and Astringent continually hasten after the Sweet, and refresh themselves from the Sweet, and dry up the Body.

(61) For Coldness and Hardness stand in the astringent Quality, and are a Contraction and Drying; and in the sweet Quality stand the Water, and the Light or Shining, and the whole Matter of the Body.