causeth Opilations,
because _Cacao_ is astringent; as if that astriction were not
corrected, by the intimate mixing of one part with another, by meanes
of the grinding, as is said before. Besides, it having so many
ingredients, which are naturally hot, it must of necessity have this
effect; that is to say, to open, attenuate, and not to binde; and,
indeed, there is no cause of bringing more examples, or producing more
reasons, for this truth, then that which we see in the _Cacao_ it
self: which, if it be not stirred, and compounded, as aforesaid, to
make the _Chocolate_. But eating of it, as it is in the fruite, as the
_Criollas_ eate it in the _Indies_, it doth notably obstruct, and
cause stoppings; for no other cause but this, that the divers
substances which it containes, are not perfectly mingled by the
mastication onely, but require the artificiall mixture, which we have
spoken of before.

Besides, our Adversary should have considered, and called to his
memory, the first rudiments of Philosophy, that _a dicto secundum
quid, ad dictum simpliciter, non valet consequentia_; As it is not
enough to say, the Black-a-Moore is white, because his teeth are
white; for he may be blacke, though he hath white teeth; and so it is
not enough to say, that the _Cacao_ is stopping; and therefore the
Confection, which is made of it, is also stopping.

The Tree, which beares this fruit, is so delicate; and the earth,
where it growes, is so extreme hot, that to keepe the tree from being
consumed by the Sun, they first plant other trees; and when they are
growne up to a good height, then they plant the _Cacao_ trees; that
when it first shewes it selfe above the ground, those trees which are
already growne, may shelter it from the Sunne; and the fruit doth not
grow naked, but ten or twelve of them are in one Gorde or Cod, which
is of the bignesse of a greate black Figge, or bigger, and of the same
forme, and colour.

There are two sorts of _Cacao_; the one is common, which is of a gray
colour, inclining towards red; the other is broader and bigger, which
they call _Patlaxte_, and this is white, and more drying; whereby it
causeth watchfulnesse, and drives away sleepe, and therefore it is not
so usefull, as the ordinary. This shall suffice to be said of the
_Cacao_.

And as for the rest of the ingredients, which make our _Chocolaticall_
Confection, there is notable variety; because some doe put into it
black Pepper, and also _Tauasc