Colores autem, udo tectorio cum diligenter sunt inducti, ideo non remittunt sed sunt perpetuo permanentes, quod calx, in fornacibus excocto liquore facta raritatibus et evanida, ieiunitate coacta corripit in se quae res forte contigerunt, mixtionibusque ex aliis potestatibus conlatis seminibus seu principis una solidescendo, in quibuscumque membris est formata cum fit arida, redigitur, uti sui generis proprias videatur habere qualitates.
When the colours are carefully laid upon the wet plaster, they do not fail but are permanently durable, because the lime has its moisture removed in the kilns, and becoming attenuated and porous, is compelled by its dryness to seize upon whatever happens to present itself. It gathers seeds or elements by mixture with other potencies, and becoming solid with whatever parts it is formed, it dries together so that it seems to have the qualities proper to its kind.
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