A thousand notable things, of sundry sortes Wherof some are wonderfull, some straunge, some pleasant, diuers necessary, a great sort profitable and many very precious. ...

¶ A Thousand Notable things , of sundry sortes . Wherof some are wonderfull , some straunge , some pleasant , diuers necessary , a great sort profitable and many very precious .

This Booke bewrayes that some had rather hide , which who so buyes , their money is not lost : For many a thing therin , if truely tride , wil gaine much more , than twenty such wil cost . And diuers else great secretes will detect , and other moe of rare or straunge effect . It is not made to please some one degrée , no , no , nor yet to bring a gaine to few : For each therby , how ritch or poore they bée , may reape much good , & mischiefes great eschew . The paines and trauell hethertoo is mine : the gaine and pleasure hence forth will be thine .

❧ Imprinted at London by Iohn Charlewood , for Hughe Spooner , dwelling in Lumbardstreete at the signe of the Cradle .

❧ To the Right Honorable , vertuous and affable Lady Margaret Countesse of Darby .

AS I haue taken some paines and trauell ( Right Honorable ) to pleasure and profit manye , by the publishing such rare , straung & excellent thinges , as many could haue byn content to hide and keepe secrete : Euen so I haue byn carefull , to dedicate the same to some worthy and meete Personage , that woulde take the same th●●kfullye , peruse the same willingly , and imbrace it accordingly . And though I am acquainted with som , know diuerse , and heare of many , to whome I might well and worthely present the same : yet amongst all other , I haue chosen your good Ladishippe of goodwill and zeale ( pardon my rude rashnesse I beseech you ) to haue the first smell of these sweete , pleasant , straung , beautifull and precious Flowers , not growing in one Garden : but in sundry Soyles , not quickly found , but long agathering , and not all of one property , but of diuerse quallities . Whose Affabillitie hath allurde mee : whose Curtesie hath compelde mee , and whose Fame hath inforst me , thus boldely or rather presumptuously to offer you the same . And though at the firste it maye seeme too simple for you , yet I am certaine , that diuers thinges therin will delight you , some will also satisfy you , part therof will peasure you , sundry from harmes may shielde you , plenty of them may preserue you , and a number besides needefull for you . Beseeching your Honor not to respect the Geuer , but the Gyft : not the Man , but the Matter : not the Skill , but the Will . Whiche if you accept as willinglye , as I offerre faythfully : I shall thinke my long paynes and trauell therein fully recompenst . Thus ceasing herein any further to trouble your Honor , do commit you to the custody of him , whose wisdome first framd vs , whose fauor dooth feede vs , whose might dooth maintaine vs , whose goodnes dooth guide vs , and whose power dooth protect vs .

Your Honorable L. most humble to commaund Thomas Lupton .

The Preface of the Author to the Reader .

YF some thinke no shame to displeasure many , for the pleasuring of a fewe ( gentle Reader ) then I néede not blush nor feare to profit manye by hurting of none : Whiche I hope I haue done by the publishing of this my Booke abrode , not pend without paine , nor drawne without diligence , not ended with ease . Wherein are such and so manye notable , rare , pleasaunt , profitable and precious thinges ( meaning one with an other ) as neuer wer● yet set forth in anye volume in our vulgar or English tongue , nay diuers of of them were neuer hetherto printed , nor written , that euer I knew : but onely that I writ them at such tyme as I hearde them credibly reported . Thinking them such rare thinges , as was worthy to be regestred . Marry I must confesse , I haue selected and pycked a great sorte out of Latine Wryters , the Authors or Wryters whereof , I haue named most commonly at the ende of the same . And some notable and precious thinges I gathered out of some olde Englishe wrytten bookes , and some also not long since printed , vnworthy to be hyd , and great pittie but they should bee knowne : which purposesly I haue placed herein , whereby I thinke verelye , manye will reade them , heare them and haue profit by them , that otherwise should neuer haue known them . For manye ( I suppose ) will buye this Booke for thinges whereto they are affectioned , that neuer coulde or would haue bought , or looked on the bookes , wherein all they are . So that by this meanes , they are like to winne against theyr willes . Perhappes you will meruell , that I haue not placed them in better order , and that thinges of like matter are not ioygned together . Truely there are so many of so diuerse and sundry sortes and contrary effectes , that it could not be altogether obserued . And in my iudgement through the straungenesse and varietie of matter , it will be more desirously and delightfully read : knowing we are made of such a moulde , that delicate Daintinesse delightes vs much : but we loathe to bee fed too long with one foode : And that long wandring in straunge , peasant and contrary places , will lesse wery vs , then short trauell in often troden ground .

This worke might haue béene framed with finer Phrases ( more dilectable to some , though not so meete for many ) but that it is better to profit a great sorte , then to feede the fancies of a few , well assured , that the learned and eloquent can better perceiue plaine speeches : then the slenderlye learned and common sorte can vnderstand eloquent Discourses . Therfore as I haue written it to all indifferently , so wish I to manifest the meaning thereof accordingly : especially of such as are to be conceaued . Not ignorant , that there are diuierse and sundry Astrologicall Aphorismes , and some other practises besides in this booke , that many both wise , learned and eloquent , cannot attaine to the vnderstanding thereof , ( much lesse the common sort : ) the meaning wherof I commit to the learned therin . But because the Planeticall power and effect in theyr howres , ( whereof I haue noted some maruelous matters in this woork ) should not be hidde or vnknowne , I hope shortly there will be set forth such a Rule or Platforme , that they may be thought simple witted , or slenderly learned , that therby cannot finde out and know quickly , what howre or time any planet dooth raigne or beare rule , and at what instant the same begins , and how long the force therof dooth last : which once knowne , the thinges that I haue written herein concerning the same ( well marked and obserued ) will not onely auoyde much mischiefe and harme : but also will procure great pleasure and profit . Untyll the publishing whereof , I referre you to a little Booke , intituled or called , A briefe Treatise concerning many proper Tables &c. Wherein is the Computacion of yeeres with the raignes of the Kinges of England : in which litle Booke , is a briefe and exact Table and Rule , wherby any may finde iustly and truly , when and how long any Planet dooth raigne , especiallye such as be of good capacitie and haue pregnant wittes . As for the duller sorte , I thinke it is too briefe and too busie .

I haue deuided this into ten bookes , euery one wherof , containes a hundreth of the intituled Notable thinges : which are in all a thousand . Wishing that they may be accepted as thankfully & willingly , as I haue bestowed them friendly and freely . Being bould to affirme this much , that a great deale of golde cannot counteruaile this Gyft : if but some twenty of the sayd thousand , be dilligently marked , faythfullye followed , and perfectlye practised . And thus in fewe wordes , I byd you farewell .

Thomas Lupton .

❧ The first Booke of Notable thinges .

IN the first beginning hereof , a rare & straunge matter shal appeare , worthy to be marked , especially of such as loues or vse Sage . A certaine man being in a Garden with his Louer , dyd take ( as he was walking ) a few leaues of Sage , who rubbing his teeth and gums therewith , immediatly fell downe and dyed : whervpon his said Louer being examined howe he dyed , she sayde : she knew nothing that he ayled , but that he rubbed his teeth with Sage : and she went with the Iudge and other into the same Garden & place , where the same thing hapned : and then she tooke of the sayde Sage to shewe them how he dyd , and lykewise rubbed her teeth and gums therwith , and presently she dyed also , to the great maruayle of all them that stoode by : wherevpon the Iudge suspecting the cause of their deathes to be in the Sage , caused the sayde bedde of Sage to be plucked and digged vp , and to be burned , least other might haue the lyke harme thereby . And at the rootes , or vnder the sayde Sage , there was a great Tode founde , which had infected the same Sage with his venemous breath . Anthonius Myzaldus hath written of this maruelous matter . This may be a warning to such as rashly vse to eate rawe & vnwasht Sage : Therfore it is good to plant Rew rounde about Sage , for Todes by no meanes wyll come nye vnto Rew , ( as it is thought of some . )

A Certayne Poet by the report of Mizaldus , dyd weare leaden Soles vnder his shoes , least the winde shoulde ouerblow him , his body was so light and so lytle .

IF any do myldlie or softlie beate the plant or stalkes of an herbe called Mullen ( some calles it Hedge taper ) in the morning , when the flowers thereof beginnes to open , all the flowers by lytle and lytle wyl ●all and come to one : as though the plant were wythered , or blasted , which the ignorant haue thought to be done by Magicall artes , or by some Inchauntment , specially : if he that doth stryke the same Mullen , doth seeme to mumble some wordes whyles he doth it . Mizaldus .

THe hooues of the forefeete of a Cowe dryed , and made in fine powder , encreaseth mylke in Nurses , if they eate it in their Pottage , or vse it in theyr drinke : and being cast on burning coales , the smoke thereof doth kyll Myse , or at the least doth dryue them away . This Mizaldus wrytes of the experyment of a certayne Spaniarde .

AQua vite being outwardly applyed , doth helpe very well the Synewes and Muscles , and all other parts of the body tormented or payned of a cold cause , with his heating strength and swift penetration .

IF one vse to rubbe chapped or rough lyppes , with the sweat behinde their eares , it wyll make them fyne , smothe , and well culloured : a thing proued .

WHen Infortunate Planets be in Angles , and the Sunne or Moone applyes vnto them corporallye , or by opposition , it sygnifyes that the partie then borne wyll be eyther croackbackt , or wyll halte , or it sygnifyes the destruction or losse of some member , especiallye : if the Moone bee with the Dragons tayle in these sygnes , Aries , Taurus , Cancer , Scorpius , or Capricornus , or in the begynning or ende of the Sygne . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

EArth woormes fryed with Goose greese , then streynde , and a lytle therof dropt warme into the deaffe or payned eare , doeth helpe the same : you must vse it halfe a dosen tymes at the least . This is true .

ANthonius Beneuenius an excellent Phisytion , doth glorie , that he with the water wherein Smithes dyd quench their hote and burning yrons , geuing the same often to drinke , and with the eating of Cappares , dyd perfectly heale a Citizen of Florence , that had the griefe and swelling of the Splene seuen yeares .

ADdars tongue , wrapt in Uirgin Waxe , and put into the lefte eare of any Horse , it makes the Horse to fall downe to the grounde , as though hee were deade : and when it is taken out of his eare , it doeth not onely waken him , or reyse him , but also it makes him more lyuely or quicke . Myzaldus wrytes this of the report of an Englysh man .

IF a water Snake be tyed by the tayle with a cord , & hanged vp , and a vessel full of water set vnder the sayd Snake , after a certaine tyme he wyl auoyde out of his mouth a stone , which stone being taken out of the vessell , he drinkes vp all the water : let this stone be tyed to the belly of them that haue the dropsie , and the water wyll be exhausted or drunke vp , and it fullie and wholie helpes the partie that hath the sayde Dropsie . Iacobus Hollerius .

OFt thunder doth turne and chaunge Wines maruelouslie , but if the Wines be then in Cellers , being paued , and the walles of stone , they take lesse harme then in boorded Cellers : therfore it is good before such tempest or thunder , to lay a plate of yron with salt , or flint stones vpon the sayde vessels with Wine . Leuinius Lemnius by Mizaldus report .

THey wyll haue the palsey or be so that they cannot moue themselues , or wyll be geuen to tremble , in whose Natiuities , the Moone is in an Angle with Saturne : Saturne then being vnder the beames of the Sunne combust . Lykewise if the syxt house , and the Lorde thereof be infortunate of Saturne without the aspect of a good planet . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

MAke powder of vnslackt Lyme , and mixe it with black Sope , and annoynt any Men therwith , & the Men wyl fall away , and when the roote is come out , annoynt it with oyle of Balme , & it wyl heale it perfectly .

IF you wyll make wood of the cullour of the wood Hebenus , especially such as be harde , as Boxe and Peare tree and such lyke , do as followeth : laye the wood you meane to cullour in Allam water , so that it be couered with the layde water , and let it rest so three dayes : then laye the sayd wood against the hote Sunne , or the fyre , that it may onely waxe warme : then seethe the same wood in common oyle , wherin put asmuch of Uytryol Romaine , and Brimstone , as a Hasel nutte , let it be dyssolued , the longer you seeth it , the blacker the wood wyll be , so that you keepe a measure therin , and it wyl be fayre & elegant . Mizaldus had this of an Italian , a professor of many experimentes .

THe iuice of Mullen leaues ( of som called Hedgetaper , & of some Lungwoort , ) put to any part that is brused , or that hath had a strooke , and the stamped leaues thereof : then put vpon the same , and tyed fast on with a cloath , if you let it lye so a whole daye and night vnremoued , it wyll heale it finely : yea , though it be a wounde , but the sore must be first washt with whyte Wine a lyttle warmed , and the iuice and the leaues must be put to it , and you wyll maruel at the effect . Mizaldus had this of one that proued it , and I also haue tryed it to be excellent .

IF any wood or yron be deepe in the flesh , and cannot wel be gotten out , dip a tent in the iuice of Ualeryan , and put it into the wound or sore as deepe as you can , and tye the herbe Ualeryan stamped vpon the same with some linnen cloath , that it remoue not away : and by this meanes , the wood , yron , or other thing whatsoeuer , wyll not onely be drawen foorth , but also the wound wyl be healed . Mizaldus writes it vpon the report of an Italian . Alexis also affirmes it .

A Barren Uine wyll beare grapes , if you cast olde and sowre vrine theron , or if you burie the leefe of Wine at the rootes therof : but you must take heede that you cast not soot that is swept from chymneys , or Lyme , to the roote of the sayd barren Uine , which with their burning heate kyls the Uine , and makes the same to wyther before his tyme . Mizaldus .

IN the morning if salt be holden in the mouth , vnder the tongue , vntyll it melt or consume into water , and the teeth being rubbed therewith , it wyll preserue the teeth safe and sounde : and it wyll keepe them from rotting , and that they shall not be worm-eaten : a thing often proued true .

THe teeth of a Bore newly kylled , are so hotte , that if one then put them to heairs or brystles , they wyll burne them : which seemes that the Bore is so inflamed with yre against them that kyls him , that hee woulde be reuenged on them with his tuskes . Xenophon is the author , and Myzaldus the reporter therof .

THere is no presenter helpe to ease the tormentes of the Gowte , both in the handes , and in the feete , then a yong whelpe , especially of one collour , if the same be put to the griefe : Leuinus Leminus . But the whelpe ought to be cut out , or clouen in two partes thorow the myds of the back : and the one halfe with the inner side hotte , to be layde vnto the grieued place : and this I know to be an excellent thing .

MAny stinking things do driue away the contagious and pestiferous ayre , as Castorum , Galbanum , Sagapenum , Brimstone , ( all which are to be had at the Apothecaries ) the smoke of burned Lether , and of Hornes , and especially the smell of Gonpowder . For sayth Lemnius , the whole Citie of Tornace enfected with the plague , the Rulars of the Towre or Castel there , caused their Gons to be layde and leuelled at the Citie charged with Gonpouder , without pellets or shotte : and then morning and euening in the twye lyght , they shotte of the layde peeses or Gons , so that through the stynking smell of the sayd smoke ▪ and the great and violent noyse of the Gons , the infectious and contagious ayre was quite put awaye , and the Citie delyuered from the plague .

COmmon Azure is made as followeth , take of Salt Armoniack , three ounces , of Uerdigreece , syxe ounces , let them be made in powder , and mixe them with water of Tartar , so that it maye be somthing thick , then put the same into a glasse , and let it be well stopped that no ayre may get forth , & let it be layde in very hotte Horsedung , for the space of eyght dayes : and then when you take it out , you shall finde it excellent Azure . Mizaldus .

IT is to be marueled , that a Cocke or Cockrell , which doth not feare a Serpent , or a Dragon , is so afrayde of the shadowe of a Gleade , when he is flying , that sodainlie he seekes a place of refuge , and hydes himselfe . Mizaldus .

ANy kind of Aumber being sodden in the greese of a Sow that geues suck to young pygs , is not only therby the clearer , but also much the better . Mizal.

IF any carye vpon him the seede of Sorrell , gathered of a boye , being a virgin , his sparme or nature shall not go from him , neyther sleeping nor waking : therfore it is sayde to be good against any pollution in the night . Gilbertus Anglicus .

A Certaine Citizen of Padua , hauing Cautharides , that is to saye : French Flees , applyed to one of his knees , dyd pysse aboue fiue ounces of bloud , the lyke hapned to one , to whose great toe of the foote , the same was applyed . Bartholomeus Montegnanus , a notable Phisition affirmes this : therfore Cautharides is perillous to be taken both inwarde & outwarde .

THe leafe of the greater Burre , borne or layd on the top of the head , doth draw the Matrix vpwarde : But layd vnder the sole of the foote , it draweth downwarde , which is a notable and excellent remedie against the suffocations , falling , and displasing of the Matrix . This Mizaldus wryteth .

ALe sod tyll it be thyck lyke a salue , helpes all sores and aches applyed therto , maruelously : a thing often proued .

ALl kind of Docks haue this propertie , that what flesh or meate is sodde therwith , though they be neuer so olde , harde , or tough , they wyl become tender and meete to be eaten : herevpon it comes that they were so vsed in the olde tyme , for that therby the meate was more sooner concoct and easelyer disgested , and the wombe more soluble . Mizaldus .

WHen the ascendent and the Moone are both impedyte , and their Lords or Sygnifers safe , then the sicknesse is in the body and not in the minde . And if the Ascendent and the Moone be safe , and their Lordes or sygnifiers impedite or hyndered , then the sicknesse is in the minde , and not in the body . And if they all be impedyte , then it sygnifyes both sicknesse of the body , & griefe of mind . Likewise if an Infortunate planet beholde the Ascendent & not the Moone : then the disease or griefe is in the minde , & not in the body . And if contrary , then the disease is in the body , & not in the minde . But if an Infortunate planet behold them both , then the disease and griefe is in them both . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

IF one suspect him selfe to be infect with the Pluresie , let the partie holde in his breath as long as he can , and then if he can let his breath go without coughing , he hath not the Pluresie . If not , he hath the Pluresie , or is in daunger therof .

WHosoeuer hath the Quarteyn ague , shall not be troubled with the falling sicknes , for if one haue the falling sycknes fyrst , & after shall haue the Quarteyn ague , the falling sycknes wyll leaue him . Hippocrates .

ONe may cullour Iuery or any other bones with an excellent greene cullour as followeth , take strong water called Aqua Fortis , wherein dyssolue asmuch copper as the sayde water is able : then let the bones that you would haue culloured , lye in the same all night , and they wyll be lyke a Smaragdine cullour . Mizaldus .

IF Oyle be powred vpon wine or any other lycour , it makes that the same shall not waxe mustie , nor be corrupted . For it excludes or driues forth all ayre that maye breede corruption , onely with the outward ayre of the Oyle , as with a certaine couering . Notwithstanding , all styrpes or Plants , whereon Oyle is powred or effused , do putrifie . As Plynie reportes .

THe Coales of a Byrch tree made in powder , & put into a wounde or great sore , healeth it perfectly without any other thing . It was crediblie tolde me that the Muscouits vse it much , & esteemes it greatly .

A Robbyn read breast , fynding the dead body of a Man or Woman , wyll couer the face of the same with Mosse . And as some holdes opinion , he wyll couer also the whole body .

AN Italian , through the ofte smelling of an herbe called Basyll , had a Scorpion bred in his braine ▪ which dyd not onely a long tyme grieue him : but also at the last kylled him . Iacobus Hollerius a learned Phisition , affirmes it for trueth . Take heede therefore ye smellers of Basyll .

IF the Nauell string of a chylde after it is cut , doeth chaunce to touche the grounde before it be burned : the same childe wyll not be able to keepe or holde his or her water , neyther night nor daye . A thing verie true , and well knowne .

A Flayne Mouse rosted , or made in powder , & drunk at one tyme , doeth perfectly helpe such as can not holde or keepe their water : especially , if it be vsed three dayes in this order . This is verie true and often proued .

IT was credibly reported to me for a verie trueth , that a certaine Inkeeper in Ware dyed , which had a Dogge that loued him so well , that certaine dayes after he mourned and sought for his sayde Maister without eating of any thing . And when he could not finde his sayde Maister , he layd himselfe among the hotte coales in a chymney : who though he was pulled out of the fire , yet he went in againe & burned him selfe to death . A rare & straunge thing as hath bene heard of . I thinke it is harde to finde a seruant so louing to his Lord , as this Dog was to his Maister .

ASsoone as a child is borne , ( especially a boy ) their ought to bee great heede taken in the cutting of the Nauell string : for the member of generation doth followe the proporcion of the Nauell string : and if it be tyed to short in a Wenche , it maye be a hynderaunce to her in bringing forth her chylde . Therfore it is meete that Mydwiues haue a great regarde therein . This is gathered out of Mathias Cornace , an excellent Phisition .

FOr the helping of the Coddes or Stones that bee swolne or pained . The auncient learned did graue in a plate of copper , the fygure of a Scorpion , in the howre of Saturne , the thirde face of Aquary then ascending or rysing with Saturne , and for the Gowte , the Seale of Pisces , and also for the helping or bettering of memory , they made a Ring of pure golde : wherein was closed a Diamonde , vnder the coniunction of Saturne and Iupiter in Aries . Hermes .

EGidius Herthoge wrytes a straunge maruell of a woman which caryed a dead chyld in her wombe thirtene yeares , which was perceyued of many , that handled her bellye : but he wrytes not what successe she had therwith , for whyles he wrote the same , the woman was well , and dyd her busynes with her husbande abrode and also at home .

DYtany drunke with water or wine , doth cause a woman to be easily and speedily be delyuered , yea , though the chylde be dead , or if it be turned contrary to a ryght course : also it bringes forth the after burthen , the lyke effect hath Peniryall , as some affirmes . And it hath bene proued as sayth Myzaldus .

PYgeons do so loue the Castrell , that if one enclose young Castrels in a potte , and stop and couer the same close , and shall hang them in fowre corners of the Doouehouse , it wyll procure such a loue to the Pygions of that place , that for the desyre of them being so inclosed in the sayde Pottes , they wyll neuer chaunge that place , so much they loue the Castrelles their friendes after their death . Columella reports this as Mizaldus affirmes .

THe Woort leafe layde on the crowne of the heade , draweth vp the Vuula , or the flap in the throate . M. Cato by the report of Mizaldus .

IF a peece of fine golde , or the leaues of pure golde be put into the iuyce of Lymons , and taken out of it after it haue leyne therein a whole daye , and the same iuice then geuen to one that is sicke of the plague , with a lytle Wine , and the powder of the roote of Angelica , or of the decoction of the same roote : it is maruayle to bee tolde what helpe it bringes them , yea , though they be past all hope , or thought past recouerie . This Mizaldus wrytes as proued .

IF a Man be the first that a Woman meetes after she comes out of the Church , when she is newlye Churched , it sygnifies that her next chylde wyll be a boye . If she meete a Woman , then a wench is lyke to be her next chyld . This was credibly reported to me to be true . But prayse it as it proues .

A Lytle baye Salt stamped small , myxt with the yolke of an egge and applyed to a Fellon , and so vsed diuerse tymes , doth not only perfectly heale the same with speede : but also drawes out all the payne out of the arme and ceases the swelling therof , if any such be by the meanes of the same . This is perfectly proued .

CHildren are not alwayes lyke vnto their Parents , as it maye appeare in Helides , which dyd begette a Daughter of an Ethiopian , which Daughter was not of the cullour of her Mother : but after , the sayde Daughter had a Sonne , which was blacke and lyke to his grandmother . So Niceus the Poet dyd degenerate in cullour from his Father and his Mother , and was lyke his grandfather being an Ethyopian . Which thing ought well to be considered of such that suspectes their Wiues when they bring forth chyldren vnlyke to eyther of them : for it happens many tymes that the chylde is lyke to the Grandfather , or great Grandfather , and neyther lyke the father nor mother . Mizaldus .

A Tode stone ( called Crapandina ) touching any part be venomed , hurte or stung with Ratte , Spider , Waspe , or any other venemous Beast , ceases the paine or swelling thereof . Lemnius .

THe iuyce of Broome myxt with the oyle of Radish or of Mustarde , is a very safe remedy for the kylling or destroying of Lyse .

IF a Woman annoint often her Dugges or Pappes with the iuyce of Succorie , it wyll make them litle , round and hard . For if they be hanging or flagging , it wyl draw them together , wherby they shal seeme as the Dugges of a mayde . Mizaldus .

IF you shall enclose within a peece of thinne Sylke , Galbanum made sofe , and shall laye it to the mouth of the Matrix all a night , ( the head of that woman ) hauing then no fowle nor stinking cloathes vpon it : but onely couered with a Caule , and a cleane or thyn Keyrchyffe , without any kinde of Odors ) in the morning when the same are losed from her heade , if the crowne of her head smell of Galbanum , it is a sure token that , that woman is apt to haue chyldren . Hyppocrates .

IF a stone called an Hematist , wherein a man is grauen with bended knees , gyrded about with a Serpent , holding the Serpents head in his right hande , and his tayle in the left hande : be set in a golde ryng with one leafe of an herbe called Draggons put vnder the sayde stone , it doth make the bearer thereof safe from all poyson and plague . Hollerius a notable Phisition wrytes it .

THe fasting spytle of a whole and founde personne , doth quyte take awaye all scuruines , sawsfleame , or readnes of the face , Ringwormes , Tetters , and all kind of Pustules or wheales , by smearing or rubbing the infected place therewith . And lykewise it cleane puts away therby all painefull swellinges by the meanes of any venemous thing . As of Hornets , Spyders , Byttles , Todes , and such lyke . Mizaldus .

NEw cheese wrapt or folded in the drye leaues of Draggons , preserues the same from being mowly or from putrifying . Gallenus et Plin.

IT is certaynlie and constantlye affyrmed that on Mydsomer Eue , that is the daye before the Natiuitie of Saynt Iohn Baptist : there is founde vnder the roote of Mugwoort a cole , which preserues or keepes them safe from Plague , the Carbuncle , lightning , the Quarteyn ague , and from burning , that beares the same vpon them . And Mizaldus , the wryter hereof sayth , that he doeth heare that it is to bee founde the same daye vnder the roote of Planten . Which I knowe to be of a trueth , for I haue founde them the same day vnder the roote of Planten . Which is especially and chiefly to be found & had , at noone .

THe drosse , or that that is left after the pressing out of the Oyle of Lynseede , is maruelous profitable for the feeding of Beastes , and if you shall let a handfull or two therof styepe a whyle in rayne water , and therwith wash your hands , it wyll not onely amend the spottes or other deformitie of the skynne : but also you shall thereby perceyue that the same and other members , if they be lykewise washt therewith , wyll be made much fayrer and more cleane . Mizaldus sayth that this is proued .

ALl things that comes out of the earth wyl swym vpon Quicksyluer , though they be heauy , except golde : and golde though neuer so lytle wyll sinke into it and be swallowed thereof , and his cullour wyll be turned into syluer , which can not be reduced into the forme of golde againe , but with fyre , nor can not be gotten out . And the Quicksyluer through the fyre wyll be resolued in a smoke , with a most perillous smell . Mizaldus affirmes this .

SAlt fynely stamped and mixed with fasting spytle , layde on a fyllette ( and applyed certaine tymes ) to the place where superfluous heair is , doth cause that heair wyll growe their no more . A thing certainly proued . Pygions doong doth worke the lyke effect applyed in such sort .

AQua vite mixt with whyte Sugercandy finely powdred , so that it be not too thick therof , but indifferent , and a spoonefull therof taken last at nyght for the space of three or fowre nights , doth presentlie helpe the cough , and horsenes , & breakes the f●eame , maruelouslye . This is a tryed thing . The lyke effect hath the powder of the roote of Enulacampana mixt with the powder of Lyqueris and of whyte Sugar candy , if it be oftentymes vsed and eaten a spoonefull at one time . Which I haue often proued .

THey are lyke to be gowtie , or to haue the Sciatica , or paines in the ioynts , in whose Natiuitie Saturne or Mars is in the syxt house , or in the twelfth house infortunating the Lord of the sixt house . Especially , if the sygne of the sixt house be Capricorne , Aquari , or Pisces . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

WHosoeuer haue their feete smell strongly , if they put the scales of yron in their shoes , wherein they vse to goe , it takes cleane awaye the euyll smell thereof . Georg. Fabricius .

YOu shall stay the bleeding of the nose , if you write with the same bloud in the forehead of the partie that bleedes , these wordes following . Consummatum est . A thing proued with many . Mizaldus .

IF boyes or youngmen doo vse mylke and exercyse from the Cradle , they are thereby more hygher or taller of body , and of more cumly and bewtyfull stature . Mizaldus .

THe powder of the tooth of a Bore mixte with the oyle of Lynseede , doth presently cure the Squynancie , ( which is a payne or swelling in the throate , ) if the grieued place be touched with the ende of a fether or pen , smeared with the same mixture . Mizald.

THe outwarde part of the nettle , doth styng , prickle or burne , but the inward part ( being the iuice ) annoynted on the arters , doth mytigate & amende the feuerly heate of the harte . Auicenna . et Arnold . de Villa noua .

IF the corners of the eyes bee annoynted with an oyntment of Saffern , if after the spetle doth sauer therof , the partie is not barren : but apt to haue chyldren . Plynius .

A Medicine made of a lytle hony and of a cole made of a Uine , which neuer bare grapes . If the teeth be often rubbed therewith , doeth so clense them , and makes them so whyte , that they wyll be iudged to be of Iuory . Mizaldus .

THe bloud of a whyte Hen smered on a freckled , or a spotted face , and thereon suffred to drye , and after wyped away : doeth clearly take awaye all spots from the same . Myzaldus had this of a certaine Italyan .

CAutharides wrapt in a spyders webbe , and hanged ouer one that hath the Quarteyn ague , it is sayde it cures or delyuers him or her thereof perfectly . Mizaldus .

THe decoction of Hollyocke , with hony & butter being drunke , doth maruelouslie cease the paynes of the collycke , and of the backe . I haue proued this to be verie excellent and true .

A Plaster made of the powder of burned Swalowes and of their nest : doeth helpe effectually the swelling of the throate or the Sqinancie .

IF the pyse of a Bul that is al read , be made in powder , and a dram therof ( that is , the weight of .lxxij. bar●y cornes ) be geuen to a woman in a draught of wine : it wyll make her loath to haue to doo with a man . ( As Basis wrytes . ) And the same powder geuen in meete medicines to a man , doth contrary sturre and make him haue lust therin . Marcellus Empericus .

IF Dogs chaunce to finde a Cats skyn , they wyl rub and rowle themselues vpon it . And they wyll doo so lykewise where it is buried : they delyght so much of the thing dead , which they hated aliue . Cardanus .

YOu shal know good & pure Azure , from sofisticate & naughty Azure . If some of it be layd vpon a hotte burning yron , & if then it wyll not be burned , neither any lytle stone is found therin , then it is pure & perfect . Mizaldus had this out of an old written booke .

THe white of an egge wel & long beaten , mixt with quick Lyme : wyll ioyne surely broken glasses , and broken earthen cups , and make them holde fast and surely together . But it would be the better if a lytle of very olde cheese be wel mixt therwith . This is very true , and proued .

PLanten is iudged by Hermes , to bee the herbe of Mars , and therefore good against the diseases and paines of the head : because that the signe Aries which is one of the houses of Mars , doth gouerne the head . And also Planten is very good against the griefe & diseases of the stones , and the Ulcers of the bladder : and also Gonorrha passio , and Hemerods , because Scorpio the other house of Mars , doth rule that parte of the body . Lyke iudgement maye be had of other herbes of the planets . Myzaldus .

IF the ryght knee of a Bull be very streyte tyed , hee cannot bull a Cowe , although before his eyes shee allure him therto with her moowing . Mizaldus .

IF a marryed man bee let or hyndered through Inchauntment , Sorcery or Witchcraft , from the acte of generation , let him make water through his maryage Ring , and he shal be lowsed from the same , and their doinges shall haue no further power in him . Guilel . Varignana , and Arnoldus de villa noua affyrmes the same .

WHo vse to rubbe their fingers betweene theyr toes of their feete when they go to bed , especially , when they smell most , and then to smell the same at their nose : it is a perfect remedy to put awaye the crampe . This was affyrmed to me as a tryed thing .

A Candle burning , holden or put to a hole or place wherein a peece of Saltpeter is put , the sayde Candle wyll soddenly be blowne out . And the same Candle immediatly put to another place wherin is Brimstone , wyll be lyght and burne againe , to the great maruayle of them that standes by , if they bee ignoraunt of the secrete . Mizaldus . But the snuffe of the Candle must not be cleane out .

THat wrytings shall not burne in the fyre , take very strong Uineger and the whytes of egges , and put them together , and put therto Quicksyluer mixting and sturring the Quicksyluer well therein , and with the same mixture annoynt Paper three times , and after euery time , drye the same well : and after that wryte what you lyst on the same paper , & then cast the same writing into the fyre , and you shal see it leape out of the fyre without burning . This Mizaldus had out of an olde booke .

CUt or breake a whyte loafe in the myds when it comes hotte out of the ouen , and laye it to the eare of such as haue any quicke thing in their head , and it wyll bring it out , shyfting it styll with hotte breade vntyll all the quicke thinges be come foorth . This is proued to be true .

THe lytle bone in the knee ioynt of the hinder legge of an Hare , doth presently helpe the crampe if you touch the grieued place therwith . Often proued .

A Lytle peece of the tongue of a Foxe , being moystned and made soft in vineger , ( if it be drye ) draweth out a thorne or any other thing deepe in the flesh , if it be layde vpon the place where it is . It is an excellent and true thing .

WHen the sygne of the sixt house is Libra , & Mars in the same house : it sygnifies griefe and paines of the eyes . Iatromathematica . Guat . Ryff .

IVlius Vyator a Knight of Rome , ( Plynie being the Author ) who in his chyldhoode had the Dropsie , therfore then forbidden of the Phisicions to vse moyst thinges : dyd so ouercome Nature through continuaunce or long vse , that all the tyme of his lyfe after he lyued without drinking of any thing .

THe three corned stone of a Carpe , which is to bee found in the hinder part of the head , nye vnto the necke , beaten small , and blowne into the nose , doeth staye the bleeding of the nose , by his binding faculty : which may be perceyued by the tasting therof . This hath bene proued , and I knowe it to be true . Mizaldus also affyrmes it .

THe head of a Catte that is all blacke , burned in a newe potte , and fine ashes or powder made therof , and some of the same , thrise euerie day , blowne out of a quyl into the eye that hath eyther Web or Perle , or any other euyll or griefe in the same , is a most excellent helpe and remedy therfore . But if the party feele any burning in his or her eye ( especially in the night ) let three or fowre Oken leaues styeped or moystned in water , be layde together vpon the sore or grieued eye , and let the same be afterwarde turned and layd on againe . The Author of this secrete , sayd : that the syght is restored with this remedy , after a whole yeres blindnesse . This was tolde to Mizaldus .

THat Salt wyll helpe Fecunditie , or make women more apt to bring forth chyldren . It maye be an argument : because of the great number of Myse and Rattes that are wont to breede in Ships of the sea . And because women that are louers of Salt & Salt-meates , are more prone , and haue mo children . Lemnius .

ASses that are much cumbred with Melancholy , do gladly eate Cytterache , or Scaleferne , that they maye mende & helpe the diseases of the Splene : Gold●inches , Eybright , and Uipers , Fennell , for the mending of their syght . So Goates by a certayne propertie of Nature , do hate or can not abyde mans spytle , nor they wyl eate any thing wherof man hath first tasted . But the nature of Lyserdes is contrarie : for they lycke vp the same greedily . Plynius . Theophrast .

ANnyball , made a passage for him & his Souldiers through the harde rockes of the Alpes to passe into Italy . For by heating & burning the stones with fyre , and sprinckling vineger thereon , he made them so softe , that they might fall easily in peeces , and that they might be sooner broken a sunder . Titus Liuius . Plutarchus , with other reports it .

HEre followes an excellent remedie for al wounds and easie to be made . Take greeke Pytch , Brimstone , and whyte Olybanum , which is a kinde of Frankencense , of all a lyke quantitie : let them be stamped and mixt with the whytes of egges , then ( the wound being first washt , and the lyppes therof well ioyned together ) laye the same mixture on a lynnen cloath , and apply it to the wounde , and tye the same fast on with cloathes , or broade bandes : and let it lye so certaine dayes vnremoued . A maruelous thing , and proued sayth Mizaldus .

WHyte Lyllies wyll waxe redde , as Florentinus hath taught : if warely and dilygently you open the clyfts of the rootes , and fyll the same with any redde cullour : and so then set the same in a fat dunged earth . Mizaldus .

WOmen that vse to lye & sleepe on the right syde , seldome or neuer bring forth any wenches . Rasis writes this .

WHosoeuer is annoynted for the Neopolytane disease ( commonly called the French pocks ) if he hold in his mouth a Ryng of golde , or els an other peece of gold , and rowles the same about in his mouth with his tongue , the quicksyluer that is in his body by the meanes of the oyntment , is drawne of the sayde gold , and is so wrapt about the sayd Ryng , or golde : that when the same is taken out of his mouth , it shall seeme as though it were all Syluer . And the same Ring or other golde wyll not be restored to his former brightnesse or cullour , except it be put into the fyre . Lemnius wrytes this .

SNayles without their shelles , or otherwyse with their shels stamped & myxed somtimes with Chesleppe or Rennet , do drawe out thornes or any other thing out of the fleshe though neuer so deepe , if they be applyed to the place . And also being layde to the bellye of them that haue the Dropsie they sucke out the water . But the same must not bee lowsed from the bellye , vntyll all the humour or water bee sweat foorth , or else the same plaster of Snayles doth fall away of him selfe . Iacob . Hollerius .

FINIS . Lib. 1.

❧ The seconde Booke of Notable things .

WHen the Moone is in coniunction with the Sunne , or in any euyll aspecte with him , and in any Angle , and beholden of euyl planets with an euyll aspect , in any bodyes Natiuitie . It sygnifies that the Childe that is then borne , shal haue inseperable diseases , or griefes in the eyes . Iatromath . Guat . H. Ryff . Argent .

IT is manifest by experience that the seuenth Male Chyld by iust order ( neuer a Gyrle or Wench being borne betweene ) doth heale onely with touching through a naturall gyft , the Kings Euyll : which is a speciall gyft of God geuen to Kings or Queenes . As daylye experience doth witnesse . Mizaldus .

ERastratus a Phisition , dyd perceyue by the feeling of the pulse , that Antiochus the sonne of king Seleucus , dyd so pyne for the loue of Stratonices , his mother in lawe , that vnlesse he might haue his desyre , with the good wyll or pardon of his Father , he woulde dye . These are Authors thereof . Valerius Maximus , and Galenus . Which also by the lyke , did know that Iusta the Wyfe of Boetius , a councellor of Rome , dyd languish for the loue of one Pilas daunsing in the Theatre . Mizaldus .

CElendine with the harte of a Woont , or a Mould-warpe , layde vnder the head of one that is grieuouslye sicke , if he be in daunger of death . Immediatly he wyll crye with a lowde voyce , or syng : if not , he wyll weepe . Mizaldus .

THe iuyce of Henbane , mixte with the bloud of a Hare , and sodde within the skynne of a Hare : it is sayd that all the Hares wyll gather together which be within that tract where it is buryed . As the Matrix of a Bytche wyll gather Dogges together . This was affirmed for trueth to Mizaldus .

MAny women with childe of the sodaine or vnlooked for , meeting , or sodaine seeing of an Hare , or for the desyre or longing to eate of the same : do bring forth chyldren with a clouen ouerlyppe , and forkedwyse , called a Hare lyppe . Daylie experience confyrmes it . Mizaldus .

THat disease or sicknesse wyll be great which takes one when the Moone is in that signe , wherin an euil Planet was in the time of his byrth , eyther in a quarryle or opposite aspect : and if an euyll planet doth them beholde her , it wyll be very perillous . But then if the Moone be in a place where a good Planet was in the tyme of the birth , that sicknes wyl be without any daunger . Hermes . Trismegistus . Ptolomeus , & Claudius Galenus . Authors .

AN Egge layde in strong Uineger , three dayes or a lytle longer : it makes the shell thereof so tender and soft , that one may draw it through a Ring . Cast the same into a warme water , and let it lye therein , and it wyll be harde againe . Mizaldus .

A Flynt stone lying in Uineger the space of seuen dayes : maye be resolued into powder by rubbing betweene the fyngers . Therefore it is no maruayle though Annybal dyd dissolue the stones of the Alpes with vineger . Mizaldus .

WAter wherin the leaues and seedes of H●mpe is sodden : being cast or sprinckled on the earth , wyl make the woormes to come out of the ground : if any be there . Mizaldus .

THe oyle of Tartar , made of the leese of excellent Wine , doth take the spottes from yron , the yron being clens●d from all rustinesse , and doth make him of an excellent bryghtnes : if the yron be rubbed therwith . Mizaldus .

THe roote o● Henbane stampt and applyed warme to the payne of the Gowte of the feete or Sciatica . It is sayde , that ( it helpes maruelouslie ) because this herbe belonges to Iupiter , which is onely Lorde of Sagitarie , which gouernes the huckle bone . And of Pisces which chal●ngeth the feete . Mizaldus had this out of an olde booke of secreetes .

IF some droppes of Aqua vite , be myxt with wryting ynke , the same ynke wyl neuer be frosen . Proued .

WHosoeuer is apt to any thing : hath certaynlie the Starre or Planet , by whom that thing is sygnified very strong in his byrth . Myzaldus . As thus for example ( I may say by the way . ) He that is apt to Martial feates , or Warlyke affayres , hath vndoubtedly Mars strong in his byrth . And whosoeuer is apt or enclined to planting , drawing , wryting , syphering , or to the science of Arithmatike , or to any wyttie or notable inuencions , without all doubte hath Mercurie verie strong in his byrth . Which by dayly proofe is infallyble . And so you may know of the rest .

THe woodde of the Sicamore tree , is neuer drye in the ayre , or hye grounde , and in the bankes of ryuers , and where waters runne ouer , it dryes verye quicklie . Mizaldus .

THe soles of the feete annoynted with the fatte of a Dormouse , doth procure sleepe . As Actius doth saye .

THey wyl haue paines in the stomack , or be weake stomackt , in whose Natiuities , Mars and Saturne are in the sixt house , or in the twelfth house , infortunating the Moone , or the Lord of the Ascendent . Especially if the sygne of the syxt house be Cancer . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

THis following is an excellent remedie for them that be broken bellyed , or brusten . Take nine redde Snayles , and put them betwene two tyle stones , so that they slyde not away , & drye them in an Ouen , so that you make them in powder : then geue to the diseased the powder of one of them in whyte wine euerie other daye in the morning , tyll all be done , which wyll be in .xviii. dayes . The partie must take it fasting , and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after . And if the disease be so long rooted , that these nine times wyl not suffice : then begin immediatly againe with other nine Snayles , & do as before is declared in all points . I had this out of an old Booke wherin was many excellent Secretes , & I heard one affirme it to be a true and tryed thing .

HEmpe seede geuen to Hens in wynter , wyll make them laye egges a pace . Cardanus .

THe oyle of Tartare , doth take awaye cleane all spottes , freckles , and fylthy wheales of the face , chyn , or forehead , with his cleansing strength . This is well proued .

WHen thou wylt driue away Flyes from any place , that there shal none be seene there againe , make the image of a Flye in the stone of a Ring : or as my booke sayth Mizaldus , in a plate of brasse or copper , or of Tyn , make the image of a Flye , of a Spyder , & of a Serpent , the second face of Pisces then ascending . And whyles you are making or grauing of them , saye : This is the Image which doth cleane ryd all Flyes for euer . Then burie the same in the myds of the house , or hang it in any place of the house , ( but if thou hast fowre such plates , and burie or hang them in fowre corners of the house , or hyde them within the walles , that no body take them awaye , it were farre better . ) But this laying of them must be when the first face of Taurus doth ascend . And so no Flie wyl come in there , nor tary there . Ptolomie sayth , that he sawe the tryall hereof in the house of King Adebarus : who was verie wyse , and was maruelous expert in naturall Magicke , in whose Pallace or Place , there was neyther Flye , nor any other hurting worme . and that I might search it out , sayth he : I brought in thyther lyue Flyes , which presently dyed . Mizaldus .

SIxe or seuen whytes of Egs , put into troubled or thicke Wine , and the same being well moued or styrred with a stycke : makes the Wyne ●ayre and cleare .

IT is daungerous to stryke : especially , to cut that part of the body , when the Moone is in that signe that gouernes the same , as daily experience sheweth by many , and a thing euery where feared & doubted , through the daungers that folowes therof . And it was credibly tolde me that one that was by chaunce prickt in the finger with a thorne : the Moone then in Gemini , dyed without any remedy thereof . And I knewe a tall man and a stowt , that in fighting had a lytle cutte with a sword vnder the ancle : ( as it seemd to me , seeing the same , a thing of small harme : ) yet notwithstanding , he dyed within halfe an howre after the stroke was geuen . This maye be verified by many examples . So that by this , and by many other things it is manifest that the Moone and other Celestiall bodies , haue maruelous power in our earthly bodies . As in this booke and in diuers and many places , the same is manifest .

IF a Ratte , Mowse , or Wesell , or any other thing , sodenlye leape or fall on the body of a Woman with chylde : or else any Cheryes , or a cluster of Grapes , or other thing whatsoeuer chaunce to fal or hyt any part of her body : by and by it haps that the chylde is marked with some speciall noate or marke on that part , wheron they did fall or hyt : ( except happely the woman on whose body the same did chaunce , ) wipe with her hande sodainly the parte or member therewith touched , and laye her sayd hande on some other part further of . Lemnius . There are fewe women but knowes this to be true , & many haue found it to true . As two or three straunge examples in this booke doth shew most wonderfully .

BUrning water called Aqua vite is of maruaylous force , in preseruing of thinges and keeping them from putrifying . For fleshe or meates whatsoeuer moystned therwith , wyl be safe from corruption and woormes .

IF young Beasts eate of the leaues of an Ywe tree , they dye . But if they that chawes the cud do eate thereof , they feele no harme . This is the opinion of Theophrastus . But Plynie doth ascribe it to the Ashe tree . But the lykelyhood and neerenes of the words might deceyue him . For the Ashe tree in the Greeke tongue is , Milean , and the Ywe tree is Milon . Mizaldus .

A Maruelous matter , and a thing worthy to be remembred , is written by Aelinus : that a great mighty Woolfe dyd come to a schoole , and dyd snatche the wryting Tables out of the handes of a Boye called Gelon of Syracusa . Whereat the sayde chylde Gelon rysing from his seate , dyd dillygently and sharplie without any feare followe the sayde wylde Beaste earnestly to pluck the sayd Tables from his mouth . But after that Gelon was out of the schoole , the same with a sodaine ruine fel vpon the rest of the schoollers , & kylled , and opprest with the Schoolemaster , aboue a hundreth Boyes . Only Gelon by Gods prouidence of all his fellowes remayning alyue . And because he was not kylled of the Woolfe , but rather reserued : it cannot be without great admiration , partly by foreshewing his kingdome and rule , and partly that he was preserued from so imminent a peryll .

WHosoeuer wyll preserue Chesnuttes , and keepe them safe and sounde ▪ let them laye & mixe them with Walnuts : for they wyll drinke vp and consume such humors whereby they corrupt . And they wyll not suffer them to waxe mowly . Mizaldus .

KNotgrasse is thought to be the herbe of the Sun , wherevpon it helpes greatly all the diseases of the harte , and the mouth of the stomacke . Whereof Leo , the Lyon is gouernour , which is the house of the Sunne . And it is very good against the great griefes of the backe , the Stone and the Collicke , by drinking of it , or by infection . It was affyrmed to Mizaldus , that it was founde true by experience .

AN herbe called Hoūdstonge , ioyned with the Matrix of a Bytch , being so tyed to the neck of a Dog , that he can not get it away : you shall see him turne about so long , that he wyll fall downe , and seeme to be halfe dead . Albertus .

WHen the Scithians were constrayned to susteyn hunger for any certaine matter or vrgent cause : they gyrded in their bellyes with broade bands , that no emptines left in their bellye or guttes , their hunger might the lesse grieue them . For through the harde bynding in of the bellye , hunger is the more tollerable . Whervpon it is seene that they that eates much , do loose or vnbutton their dublettes , and loose their garters . Phauorinus .

THe Elephant seeing a Ram , is by & by tame , and leaues his fiercenes . With which pollecie the Romaines caused the Elephantes of King Pyrhus to returne and go backwarde . And so the Romaines obteyned a worthy victory . Mizaldus .

THe paring of an Apple cutte something thicke , the insyde wherof layde to hotte burning or running eyes , at night when the partie goes to bedde , & tyde or bounde to the same : doth helpe the same verie spedelie , and contrary to expectation . An excellent secrete .

A Certayne Priest hauing a louing Dogge , was kylled for his money , and throwne among bushes or some other priuie place . Which Dog so mourned for his sayd Maister , that he would not depart from him , but howled : so that the dead body was founde . Which dead body was brought afore certayne men to be viewed , to which place diuers people resorted . Amongste whome the murtherer woulde needes shewe him selfe ( lamenting outwardlie the matter , with the rest of the standers by , as though hee had bene as guyltlesse as the best , ) whome when the sayde Dogge perceyued : he barkt and dyd runne at him fiercely , and by no meanes would leaue his barking , howling and running at him . And following after him , and at none other : shewing ( in his manner ) that , that was hee that kylled his Mayster . Wherevpon being suspected , he was examined , who forthwith confessed his wicked fact : and therefore was executed . Saint Austine affyrmes this ( as I do remember . )

IF both the lyghts , ( that is to say , the Sun and the Moone ) be in the sixt house Infortunate , they that be then borne , without doubt wyll be blinde . And if but one of them be there and Infortunate : then the chylde wyll be blinde but of one eye . And lykewyse it wyll be , if eyther the sayde lyghts be Lorde of the sixt house Infortunate . And vniuersally , their eyes can not escape great hurt , in whose Natiuitie the sayde lyghts are impedite . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

THis following wyll presentlie ease the paynes of the gowte . Frye out the grease of Shoomakers spetches , or peeces of Lether : and lay some of it vpon a browne paper , warming it a lytle at the fyre : then applie the same to the griefe , and it wyll take awaye the paines in one night . I had this of them that haue proued it often to be true .

IF Sheepe chaunce to eate of an herbe called Knotgrasse , it wyll make their bellyes swell : and they wyll auoyde out of their mouthes a thynne stynking froth : therfore they must be let bloud vnder the tayle next to the buttocke . Columella .

THere is many do the thinges in their sleepe , that they that be awake vse to do . For they wyl walke about the house and chamber , and wyll go to other folkes beddes , and dare do any thing without feare . Whereof there are many daylye examples . But one among all the rest ( which was credibly told me ) was maruelous straunge , and almost incredible . Which was : that two men lying in bed together , the one of them being fast a sleepe , tooke the keyes and vnlocked the doores and the gate of the house , and so took his Bowe & Arrowes , and went to a wood or chase aboue a myle from thence , and kylled a Bucke or a Doe , and then dyd couer and hyde the same in the wood : and then came home againe vnlocking and locking the gates and doores againe , and layde the keyes where he had them , and so went to bed . The other man that lay with him being awake , folowed him and dyd see all that he dyd . But he would not go to bed , but stayde a whyle in another place , to see the ende thereof . And assoone as the other was in his bedde , he tooke his dagger , stabbing and thrusting therwith in the bedde , where the other man dyd lye , and by and by after awaking , sayde : alas what haue I done , I haue kylled him . The other answered , nay , I am not kylled yet , thankes be to God . Then sayde he : for I was a dreamed that I kylled a Bucke in such a place , & that thou dyd see me where I dyd kyl him , and hyd him : and thinking thou would bewray me , I thought to kyll thee . But I am glad sayde he , that it was but a dreame . Then the other sayde : if it were a Dreame , thy Dreame is then true . For thou hast performed all the Dreame : except the kylling of me . Which he would not beleeue vntyll the next day : when , he that laye with him , caryed him to the place where he him selfe tolde that he dyd hyde the sayde Bucke . Where in deede they founde the Bucke kylled , as he before tolde in his Dreame . A maruelous matter if it were true .

THe Greekes and Romaines dyd keepe snowe tyll Somer in caues of the earth , couered with Oken bowes or chaffe . Which made Saint Austine saye : who gaue chaffe such a colde strength to keepe and preserue snowe , or such a hotte strength , to heate and rypen vnrype Aples .

WIne wyll be pleasant in taste and in sauour , and cullour : it wyll much please thee if an Orenge , or a Lymon ( stickt round about with Cloaues ) be hanged within the vessell that it touche not the Wyne . And so the Wyne wyll be preserued from foystines and euyll sauor . Mizaldus .

THey wil haue paines or diseases in their Liuer , in whose Natiuitie Iupiter is Lord of the sixt house , being euyl aspected of an Infortunate planet . Iatromath .

IF shell Snayles be rosted and dryed at the fyre , or in an Ouen , and made in powder : and a spoonefull thereof drunke in Ale at one tyme , and so taken nine or ten daies together : it doth perfectly helpe and cure the blacke Iaundies . Proued .

IF you stampe earth woormes , & then streyne them through a cloath , and then put to the same as much of the iuyce of Radish rootes , and betwene the beating or framing of Swords , Kniues , or Daggers , when they be hotte : you do quenche them twyse or thryse therein , the same shall cutte yron after , as though it were lead . This Mizaldus had of a Phisition that was cunning in that art .

STinking and corrupt Wine wyll be marueylouslie mended , if according to the bygnes of the vessell , a sufficient quantitie of cleane Wheate in a bagge , be hanged in the sayde vessell , and after be taken out of the same . For whatsoeuer is vncleane or naught in the Wine , the Wheate wyll drawe the same to it , and so wyll leaue the Wine pure and cleare . Pistorius .

THe vttermost or last ioynt of the tayle of a young whelpe , after he is fortie dayes olde , being wrythen of : the same Dogge wyll neuer be mad . Besides that his tayle wyll be thereby of a comelye lengthe . Mizaldus .

IF you bore holes in Bay berries , & put into euerie hole the seedes of Artychokes , and wrap them with dung , and so put them into the earth , thou shalt haue so sweete & pleasaunt smelling Artychokes : that nothing can be of a more sweete & pleasant smel . Varro . The same wyll happen , if you do styepe seedes three dayes in sweete smelling water . Mizaldus .

BUtter , Aqua vitie , and Beast gall , of eache a lyke quantity mixt together . And any ache or stytche annointed therwith somthing hotte , euery morning and euening , for seuen or eyght dayes : doth perfectly helpe the same . Proued .

ALl Wheate that is sowne in continual moyst ground , after the thirde sowing , wyll become the purest Wheate that makes the synest & best bread that can be made . Columella .

GAlene saith , that he knew certain men in his time ▪ that gaue the pouder of mans bones burned , to them that had the falling sycknesse : they not knowing of it , least their minde should stande against the medicine , and many was cured with the same . Gesuerus hath proued it with the scull .

IF the lytle Nerue vnder a Whelpes tongue ( commonly called the greedy worme ) be taken away , it keepes the same sa●e after from being madde : and he wyl not be geuen so much to barking after . And also it is thought they wyll not be geuen to greedines after .

IF you pricke the head of a Leeke , with a reede or a sticke sharped , and put within the same , the seedes of rape , or of Cucumbers , the sayd Leekes head wyl so swell : that it wyll seeme monstrous .

AEtites , called the Eagles stone , tied to the left arme or syde : it bringes this benefite to Women with chylde , that they shall not be delyuered before their tyme . Besydes that , it bringes loue betwene the man and the wyfe . And if a woman hane a painefull trauayle in the byrth of her chylde , this Stone tyed to her thygh , bringes an easie & lyght birth : but you must take it away quicklie after the byrth . The same Stone as the Caldeans reportes , if it be mixt with meates enuenomed : it forbyds or lets that the same meate be swalowed downe . Euax. et Alb.

THe people of Astomores ( as Plynie reportes ) haue no mouth : and are clad with a woolly mosse growing in India , and lyues onely with smelling of Odours at their nose , of Rootes ▪ and of Flowres , and of Aples that growes in the woods : which they carrie with them in their long iourneys to susteyne and nourish them withall , least they should want wherof to smell .

THe powder of Stone pitch , dronke in small drinke once euerie daye , for the space of fowre or fiue dayes : is a very good remedie for them that are brused through falling , or otherwayes .

WHen the Sun in the day tyme , and the Moone in the night , in an Natiuitie is corporally conuinct with any euyll Planet : the chylde that is then borne wyl be blinde . And if this be in an Angle , or if the Lorde of the Ascendent be with them , then they wyl be blinde in their youth . And if the sayd lyght so Infortunate be not in an Angle , nor with the Lorde of the Ascendent : then such wyll be blinde in their age . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

THree Nayles made in the vigyll of the Natiuitie of Saint Iohn Baptist , called Midsomer Eue , and driuen in so deepe that they can not be seene , in the place where the party doth fall that hath the Falling sycknes , and naming the sayde parties name whyle it is a doing : doth dryue awaye the disease quyte . Which Mizaldus wrytes of the reporte of one that proued it .

IF you wyl presently turne Wine into Uineger , cast therein salt with pepper , mixt with sowre leuen , and it wyll performe it quickly . Mizaldus .

THe roote of Uaruayn hanged at the necke of such as haue the Kings Euyll : it brings a maruelous and an vnhoped helpe . Which is Venus herbe , that hath power of the necke : because of Taurus the Bull , being her house . Mizaldus .

WHosoeuer falles sicke in that yere wherein there is an Eclipse , and the Signifiers of the sayd Eclipse be in the Ascendent of the Natiuity of him that so falles sicke , or in the Ascendent of his Reuolucion , or in the place of his Hilech , or of the Signifyer of his Lyfe . That disease then taken , wyl be very perillous and deathly . Mizaldus cum alijs .

GEese , Ducks , and other water fowles , helps their diseases with wall Sage , Hens with Withwind , Geese with Haryth , the Cranes with Sqynant , the Panther with Mans dunge , the Boores with Iuie , the Hartes with Arthechokes , the Dogges with Grasse . Also Plynie sayth : that the linell of Crabbes wyll kyll Bees , especially : if one seethe them nye vnto their Hiues . For they abhorre stinking smels . Therfore they followe them fiercely that smelles of stynking oyntmentes .

IF chyldren eate Rasins fasting , that haue woorms without any other meate , it wyll kyll and auoyde the woormes . For as bytter things are noysom vnto them : euen so is sweete thinges . For with the ofte eating of sweete thinges , it makes them to swel and brust .

IF the tender hornes of young Bucks , that is couered with a thyn heayrie skyn , be cut in peeces , and then put into a newe potte well couered , and set in an ouen or other place that is hotte : whereby the same maye be made in powder , and some of the same geuen with Pepper & Myrre , to them that are tormented with the Collick , in good wine : it wyll helpe them maruelouslie of the same disease . Scribonius Largus .

PElletory of the Wall stamped , and so layde to the Coddes , & vnder the Nauell . And so vsed fowre or fiue tymes , helpes the collicke , and the paines of the bladder and coddes . A thing often proued .

THey wyl be diseased in the Splene , in whose Natiuitie the Moone is Lady of the sixt house , being Infortunate of Saturne . Or if the Lord of the Ascendent be Infortunate in the seuenth house : or if Saturne be Lorde of the Ascendent , and Infortunate of Mars : or if Saturne bee Infortunate by any meanes vnder the earth . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

GOordes , Peares , Aples , Quinses , Cytrins , Wardens , or such lyke fruite : whereon you desyre to haue some pretie , or other forme on the outsyde . If when they haue cast the flowers , & begyns to haue any forme or proportion : enclose them within some wood , or other thing of stone , or of any other thing , & within of what forme you lyst : and tye the same fast about the sayd fruite . But make not the sayd instrument on the insyde bygger , then the fruite wyll be within it . And when you thinke that the fruite is ful rype : take the same with the fruit in it from the tree , and the fruite wyll be of that fashion & forme as you desyre . Mizaldus .

IT is sayde that Alphons King of Castile , gaue to certaine Mathematicians a hundreth thousand peeces of golde : which were called or sent for out of Araby , Affricke , and other places for the making & framing of the Astronomical Tables ( which shewes the continuall course and place of the Starres & Planets ) which worke is to be had euery where through his great lyberality , to his perpetuall praise .

GAlbanum made softer , and spread vpon a lynnen cloath , and so applyed & layde vpon a plague sore : if the disease be curable , it wyll so sticke and cleaue to the same , that it cannot be pluckt away : vnlesse it bring away the roote of the sore with it . But if the disease be incurable , it wyl cleaue to it . Arnold . de villa noua .

THe lytle Sparowe hath a strength & vertue worthy of great maruaile . For if the Sparow be condyte or well powdered with salt , and eaten rawe , it doth expel and driue forth the stone , by the vrine , and cures the disease so perfectly : that the same shall neuer breede againe . The Sparowes may be condite very wel , if when their fethers be pluckt off : that then they be powdred & couered wel with salt , and so dryed & eaten : if you haue many sparowes , they may be sodden as other byrds be . And also they may be burned in a pot close couered with the fethers & all : and the powder of one of them so burned with a lyttle pepper & Sinamon , may be geuen to them that are grieued with the stone . There be which do condite them ( their fethers being pluckt off a lyue ) with Salt , which is better . Some do eate them rosted whole , so that they cast nothing away of them , but their fethers . They that wyll know more hereof : let them take counsayle of Actius , and Paulus Egeneta . Mizaldus .

IF any wyll make theyr handes whyte , let them myxe the dunge of Sparowes in warme water , and wash them therwith : or let them seeth the roots of nettels in that water , and therewith washe theyr handes . Proued .

AElianus wrytes , that the quylles or pennes of an Eagle , myxt with the quylles or pennes of other fowles or byrdes , doth consume or waste them with theyr odour , smell or ayre .

THe rootes of Lyllies sodden in water , doth take awaye the rednesse of the face : if certayne mornings and euenings , the same be washt and rubbed therwith . This hath bene often proued .

BEastes that be stubborne or wylde , and also Horses that wyll wynce or kycke , or otherwyse be vnrulye , wyll suffer them selues to be drest , or else to be shodde : If you put into one of their eares a lyttle round flynt stone , and then holde the eare harde with your hand , and it wyl make them quiet , though they be fierce . But if you put into eyther eare one , you shall haue them as mylde as a Sheepe . Mizaldus had this as proued , of one of the King of Nauarres stable .

ANy stones wyll easely be made softe , if you laye them all night in the hotte bloud of an Oxe , the fatte of a Wether , and strong vineger mixt together Iohan. Baptista porta , de Magia Naturali . As Mizaldus wrytes .

APples that are frosen , if they be put or cast into colde water , and suffred to lye therein a whyle : wyll come to their owne nature againe . For thereby all their frosen congealing wyll be resolued . Lemnius .

WHen you see the Mulberie tree begyn to budde , then thinke that the chiefe colde is past . Plinius , as Mizaldus affyrmes .

TO seperate Golde from Siluer , do thus . Annoynt the Syluer that is guilted with the oyle of Lynseede , and sprinckle thereon the powder of Roch Allom , and salt Armoniacke mixt together : which being well heated in the fire , quenche in water : and the seperate Golde wyll remaine therein . Mizaldus had this of a cunning Goldsmith .

A Greene Iasper stone hangd at the necke , doth helpe and strengthen the stomack , and the mouth of the stomack very wel . Which Galen affirmes by the report of Mizaldus . If they behangd like a cheyne about the necke : so that the same stones do touch the mouth of the stomack .

IF the head of a Woolfe be hangd in a Doouehouse , neither Cats , Wesels , nor any thing that wyl hurt the Pigions , wyll enter therin . Rasis et Albertus .

THey are lyke to haue paynes or diseases in theyr Lyghts , or Lungs : or wyll haue the Tysick , or be short breathed : that haue in their Natiuitie , the Moone in the Angle of the earth ( which is the fowrth house ) in coniunction with Mars or Saturne , or is Infortunate by them . And lyke wise if Venus be the Lady of the sixt house , and Infortunate in a fiery sygne . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

IF you stampe Hariffe a lytle , and laye it in fayre spring water for the space of .xxiiii. howres , and then wash any sore or scabby place therewith : it wyll heale it wonderfully . This hath bene often proued to be true .

A Precious and a proued medicine for the Stone . Seethe in white wine , Tyme and Parcely verye well , then streyne it , and into a good draught therof , shaue a spoonefull of whyte sope , and geue it to them that are grieued with the Stone : and it wyll make them make water with speede .

THe great number of Spyders do foreshew , that the Somer folowing wyl be pestiferous and plaguie . Mizaldus .

THere were seene two Brethren at one byrthe in Austria , that if they dyd set the sydes of their bodies towards gates or doores that were lockt , the lockes would then open . Iohannes Langius .

CArduus benedictus stamped , and then well sodden with snet or Swynes grease , wine and wheate flowre , vntyll it be lyke an oyntment : is an excellent medicine for sores and vlcers whatsoeuer . Yea , though the bones there with be bare , but you must annoynt the sores twyse euerie daye : washing first the corruption from the sores , with white wine . Arnoldus .

SAint Austine reportes that he dyd heare whyles he trauelled in Italie , that certayne women was transformed into young Beasts of certayne trauellors , by the the eating of cheese , that they might carrie their burthens .

TAke one handfull of Mugwoort , and seethe it in sweete oyle Olyffe , vntyll the thyrde parte of the oyle be consumed : then annoynt there with any part that is tormented or pained with the gowte , and the paine therof wyl be quickly gone or put away . This is an experiment of a Kinges Surgeon , against the gowte of the feete and the handes . Mizaldus .

IT is founde by obeseruation , that Rats and Dormyse , wyll forsake olde and ruinous houses , three monthes before they fall : for they perceyue by an instinct of nature , that the ioynts & fastening together of the postes and tymber of the houses , by lyttle and lytle wyl be lowsed : and so therby that all wyll fall to the grounde . Plinius , et Lemnius .

IF one bleede on the right syde of the nose , bow and presse hard the parties right lytle finger that bleedes : if on the left syde , then the lytle finger in lyke case , for therwith the bleeding wyll cease . This is a common and proued remedie . Mizaldus .

IF you geue halfe a scruple ( which is the weight of xii . barly cornes ) of pure corrall , made first in fyne powder , with the nurse mylke , to a childe that is newly borne , before it taste any other thing : the same chylde shall neuer haue the falling sycknes . Arnoldus de villa nou● .

ONne Baldus of Trydent , Doctor of both Lawes , as hee was playing with a lyttle Whelpe of his owne , the same dyd byte him a lytle in the nether lyp , who being ignoraunt that his sayd Dogge was infect with madnesse : he himselfe within fowre monthes after , became mad , and at the last being past remedy dyd dye miserably . Andreas Matheolus , in diascoridem . Which let them marke & consider that haue such pleasure in lytle Puppyts . Mizaldus .

WHosoeuer is tormented with the Sciatica , or the gowte : Let them take an herbe called Speregrasse and stampe it , and laye a lytle therof vpon the griefe : but put vpon it a cockle , or a walnut sh●ll , and tye something on it , that the herbe be not remoued : and within sixe or eyght howres at the most , it wyll make a great blyster on the same place . Then laye a Clot leafe , or else a Woort leafe on the same : but first let the water out of the blyster with a pynne , and it wyll drawe out all the water that causeth the paine or griefe . This helpt one that was payned therewith twentie yeares .

BOetins after Oppianum doth affyrme , that Belles couered with the skynne of a Woolfe , do drownde the sound of other Belles that are couered with the skynne of a Lambe .

PUt two or mo quicke Myse in a long or deepe earthen potte , and set the same nye vnto a fyre made of Ashe woodde : and when the potte beginnes to waxe hotte , the Myse therein wyll chyrpe or make a noyse : whereat all the Myse that are nye them wyll runne towardes them , and so wyll leape into the fyre , as though they shoulde come to helpe their poore imprisoned friends or neyghbours . The cause whereof Mizaldus ascribes to the smoke of the Ashe wood .

IF you seethe the dregges or mother , or fome of Oyle , to the halfe : and therewith annoint the bottome corners and feete of any chest or presse , the cloathes that you laye therein , shall neuer be hurte with mothes . So that it be drye before you put therein your cloathes . M. Varro , and Cato .

IF one aske the Astrologian , which parte of his lyfe is lyke to be the most fortunate . Let him geue the fyrst quarter of his life to the Ascendent : the seconde quarter of his lyfe to the tenth house : the thirde quarter to the seuenth house : and the fowrth parte of his lyfe , to the fowrth house . And marke in which of them there is fortunate Planets , and the parte Fortune , and the Moone free from Infortunate Planets , and not combust . Iudge that , that part of the lyfe is or wyll be most fortunate . Haly Abenragel .

IF you woulde not haue heairs to growe , plucke them first vp by the rootes , then vse to rub the same place with Aqua fortis dyuers times , a lytle at once : and it wyll staye the heair from growing there any more . A woman tolde me this for a great secrete .

MAke a plaster of potters clay mixt with vineger , & the whyte of an egge : and apply it to the cods of him that bleedes at the nose , and streight way his bleeding wyll stay or ceasse . This is a sure proued medicine , and an excellent secrete .

GEue to a woman , that suspects her selfe to be with chylde , at nyght when she goes to bed , a cloue of Garlyke to eate : and if she feele any sauor thereof in the morning when she ryseth , then shee is not with chylde . If she feele no sauor thereof , then she is with chylde . This I had out of an olde written booke .

THey wyll haue weake or feeble hartes , or wyll be much geuen to sounding : In whose Natiuitie the Sunne is Lorde of the sixt house , or Lord of the part of infyrmitie , being impedite , or Infortunate . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

AN excellent & approued thing to make them slender , that are grosse . Let them eate three or fowre cloues of Garlyke , with asmuch of bread and butter euery morning and euening , first and last : neyther eating nor drinking of three or fowre howers after their taking of it in the morning , for the space of fouretene dayes at the least : and drinke euery daye three good draftes of the decoction of Fennel , that is : of the water wherein Fennell is sodde , and well streyned , fowretene daies after at the least , at morning , noone and night . I knewe a man that was maruelous grosse , and could not go a quarter of a myle , but was enforst to rest him a doosen tymes at the least : that with this medicine tooke away his grosnes , and after coulde iourney very well on foote .

FINIS . Lib. 2.

❧ The thirde Booke of Notable things .

FYue Egs layde in the euening , in strong and tarte Uineger , and taken out of the same the next morning : so that you perceyue theyr shels therwith to be somthing sost , else let them lye longer therin : and then put or thrust them downe into the throate of a Horsse that hath the coughe , hys tongue being holden all that whyle out of hys mouth : wyll helpe him perfectlie of the same .

THe Turtle Dooue hath such a loue one to another being makes , that when one of them is dead : the other wyll neuer after haue any other make . Aristot.

IF one aske the Astrologian , which part of the lande or countrey is best for him : Or if one would go out of the place he dwelles in , to dwell in another , and doth aske into what quarter or parte were best for him to go . Marke in what part of the Heauens , the good Planettes bee , from his Ascendent , and iudge that , that part where they are found is best for him : but consider that from the degree ascending , to the beginning of the tenth house , is for the East part : and from the Cuspe of the tenth house , to the beginning of the seuenth house , is for the South part : and from the Cuspe of the seuenth house , to the beginning of the fowrth house , is for the West part : and from the Cuspe , or begynning of the fowrth house , to the Cuspe of the Ascendent , is for the North parte . Haly Abenragel . And as these quarters and partes are good to remoue vnto , where the good Planets are placed : euen so those quarters where euyll Planets are placed , are euyll to dwell in .

A Certayne woman , a Florentine , was so pulled and gryped in her stomacke with such torments , that no Phisitions coulde helpe : which woman of a suddaine , dyd vomytte long and croked nayles , needles of brasse , with waxe , and lumpes of heair : and at last shee auoyded out of her mouth , a great fleshie peece , such a one as a Gyaunt coulde not swalowe . The Author hereof is Beniuenius de admirandis morborum causis . But hee sayth , that the sayde woman was possest of a wicked spyrite . Mizaldus . ( Which I beleeue was done by the deuyl . )

PLynie reportes , that men in auncient tyme , dyd fasten vpon the gates of their Townes , the heads of Woolues : thereby to put away Wytcherie , Sorcery , or Enchauntment . Which many hunters obserues , or do at this daye : but to what vse they know not .

A Mowle or a Woont enclosed in an earthen pot : If you set then the powder of Brymstone on fyre , she wyll call other Mowles or Woonts to helpe her with a verie mourning voyce . Mizaldus .

IF you take an Oake Aple from an Oake tree , and open the same : you shall finde a lytle woorme therin , which if it doth flye away , it sygnifies warres : if it creepe , it betokens scarcenes of Corne : if it run about , then it foreshewes the plague . This is the countrymans Astrologie : which they haue long obserued for trueth . Mizaldus .

IF a man be sicke , marke his eyes when he sleepeth , for if any whyte thing appeare betwixte the eye lyddes , and the patient haue no great laxe , nor receiued any purgation before : it is a terrible and deadly sygne . Aphor. Hippocr .

WHosoeuer is troubled with the coughe , or shortnesse of breath : let them drinke a good drafte something warmed , of this folowing , thryse euerie daye fyrst and last , and one howre after dynner , for the space of seuen or eyght dayes : and it wyll helpe them ( God wylling : ) for it is an excellent and often proued thing . Take of the rootes of Enulacampana , cut in small peeces , of Hysop and Peniryall , and also of good scraped Lyqueris , of each two handfull . Seethe them all in a gallon of pure and fayre water , vntyll the water come to one pottell , then streyne it well , and keepe it in a cleane vessell , close stopte or couered , and vse it as is before sayde .

SOpe myxt with a lytle salt , healeth perfectly a Fellon , Uncome , or other sore or swolne fynger , with speede . I knowe that this hath bene well proued .

THe whyte of an egge wall be●ten and mixed with the powder of Masticke , helpes chapt handes : if they be annoynted therewith .

MOwseare , any manner of way ministred to Horses : bringes this helpe vnto them , that they cannot be hurt whyles the Smith is shooing of them . Therefore it is called of many , Herba clauorum , the herbe of nayles . Mizaldus .

IF a Fyrre tree be touched , wythered , or burned with lyghtning : it sygnifies , that the maister or mistresse therof shall shortly dye . Seruius .

GAlen sayeth , that he hath founde by experiences , ( folowing the opinions of many ) when any shall fall sicke , and the Moone then be in the sygne wherin a good Starre ( or planet ) was founde in the tyme of his byrth , without doubte he shall escape from such sycknesse . If in the place of an euyll Starre ( or Planet ) he wyll not escape . Iohannes . Taysnier .

SEethe the leaues of an Oake , and the mydle rinde therof in water , and wash the head that is sore , or full of Pustules therewith : and it wyll helpe it presently . This hath bene often and well proued .

GAniuetus sayth , that in the yeare of our Lord. 1418 the .xxiiii. daye of August , before fowre a clocke at after noone , in the howre of Saturne : A certaine priest called Iohannes Morterius ▪ dyd aske him for a certaine brother of his , which was sicke : what shoulde be the ende of his disease , death or health ? Who after he had erected the celestiall fyg●re therefore , espying Mars within one degree of the Ascendent in a moueable sygne , beholding also the parte fortune of a quartyle aspect , with dyuers other testymonies and euyll sygnes . And also Mercurie being the Lorde of the house of the Moone , in the eyght house , both Retrograde and Combust . Iudgde that the party woulde be madde , and so dye within a daye after : which the messenger dyd declare vnto his friendes , and to the Maister of him that was sycke , being his brother . Which happened so . For about fowre of the clock the next morning , he was so franticke , that he had lyke to haue kylled his Maister and others . But they were preserued through Gods speciall gyfte . And after being close in a chamber , dyd breake a post , and so cast him selfe headlong downe , and dyed .

THe roote of Pelleter of Spaine , chewed betwene the teeth a good whyle : wyll purge the heade and gummes verie well , and fasten the teeth . So that it wyll helpe the head ache and toothe ache : if it be vsed fowre or fiue times in a day , two or three dayes together . It is very true and often proued .

MAke that , that is shorne from Scarlet , into powder by drying it at the fyre , or in an Ouen , and then geue to the partye that hath the blouddye fluxe to drynke : halfe a spoonefull thereof in redde wine . Use this fiue or sixe tymes , and it wyll helpe him , or her shortlie : and certaynlie ( God wylling . ) This is well proued .

THe gall of a Partriche , annointed once in a month on the Artyres of the temples of the heade : So that it may penetrate and syncke in , doth profyte verie much for the confyrming of the memory . Simeon Sethi .

IF the tayle of a woolfe be buried or put in the ground of any Towne or Uylledge : no woolfe wyl enter in that Towne or Uylledge . Rasis .

ALbertus makes mencion of a Well , that whatsoeuer is throwne into the same : is turned into a stone . Whereof proofe was made by Frederick the fyrst , who : because he woulde not be deceyued , he threw into the same one of his gloues , wherto fyrst : he put waxe and sealed it with his owne Ring , and the one halfe of the gloue which was vnder the water , became stone : the other part aboue the water remayned as it was before .

IF one go to any body , and doth aske them , being learned in Astrologie , whether he shall fynde him or speake with him or not . Marke the Lorde of the seuenth house , whome if thou finde in an Angle : saye that he is at home . If in a Succedent house , then he is nye home . And marke if betwene the Lorde of the Ascendent , and the Lorde of the seuenth house , there be any applycation , or if there be any Planet beholding the seuenth house , and carryes the lyght of the one to the other , or that doth ioyne their two lyghts , and it be thus : then tell him that he shal finde him . If not , then he shall not ▪ Haly Abenragel . Which is true , so that the partie doth go to his Wife , or to his enemie , or to any other common person , But according to Guido Bonatus : if he go to a king , or to his maister : then you must take the tenth house , and the Lorde thereof : if to a Priest , a Prelate , or a Byshop : then you must consider of the ninth house , as Haly byddes you . Do by the seuenth house : if to your sonne or daughter , then the first house : if to your Father , the fowrth house : if to your brother , then you must iudge as before , by the thirde house . And so of the rest , according to the significations of euery house . Wherefore the learned in Astrologie are not ignoraunt : and this is a verye true rule throughly ▪ and many times obserued . And if the Lord of the seuenth house , or the house , that the partie trauels vnto , doth signifie , be in a Cadent house : then the partie is farre from home , so that hee is not lyke to speake with him .

MAny haue proued that a Saphire tied to the Artyer , doth put away the heat in an ague . And the same stone borne against thy hart , doth preserue the bearer thereof from the plague , and from venemous thinges . Rasis , et Albertus . And other .

IF one that hath eaten Garlyke or Coomynfeede , breath on the face of a woman that is paynted , the cullour wyll vanish away strayght , if not : then her cullour remaynes as it dyd before . Lang.

THe leaues of an Elme tree , or of a Peach tree , falling before their time : doth foreshewe or betokens a murrian , or death of Cattell . Cardanus .

TYberius Caesar , ( who was Emperour of Rome when Christe suffered , ) when he awaked out of sleepe : dyd see in the darke as Cats do . Suetonius .

WHosoeuer eateth two Walnuts , two Fygs , twentie leaues of Rew , and one graine of Salt , all stampt and mixt together , fasting : shal be safe from poyson and plague that daye . Which Antidote King Mithridates had vsed so much , that when he drunke poyson purposely to kyll him selfe : it coulde not hurte him . Plynius .

IF you shall enclose seedes of diuers kindes , eyther in ware , or in some other fast matter , made something thyn or small , shooting out of length , ( that is : ) as long as you woulde haue the same to growe , and then putting the same in the grounde well dunged : a marueylous hedge wyll spring therof . This is the workmanshyppe and experiment of the Kings Gardyner . Mizaldus .

THe Elephants haue sence and vnderstanding next vnto man , and it seemes they knowe , and keepe the course of the Starres : for at the chaunge of the Moone they breake downe bowes from the trees , & holdes them then mouing them vp and downe , and they are maruelous docible . Gellius , and Plynie hath left it wytnessed by Mutianus that was thryse Consull , as also Plutarch : that an Elephant dyd wryte the Greek Letters . And Aelianus sayth , that an Elephant dyd wryte all the Latten Letters in order , with other thinges incredible ▪

GRinde Mustarde with vineger , and rubbe it well and harde on the plants or soles of the feete : and it wyll helpe and quicken forgetfull personnes . Petrus Hispanus .

A Most notable and proued Water , to claryfie the dymnes of the eyes , or syght , doth followe . Take the iuyce of Fennell , of Celendyne , of Rewe , and of Eybright , of each two ounces : Honny one ounce and a halfe , Aloes , Tutie , and Sarcacol , of each halfe an ounce : the gall of a Capon , Chickin , or Cocke , two drams : Nutmegs , Cloues , and Saffern , of eache one dram , Sugar candie , syxe drams : Put all into a Lymbeck of glasse , and dystyll it : and put of this water into your eies once in the day , two or three drops at a tyme : And there can not be a more precious thing for the eyes then this . I knowe it by proofe , and therefore I am the bolder both to prayse it , and publysh it abroade to the great comfort of other .

THe three score & thyrde yeare of ones age , is counted to be a daungerous and peryllous tyme : for that it doth passe seldome without daunger of lyfe , or without some other great mysfortune . As it is obserued in many examples . Hereof Augustus Caesar , ( as Gellius reporteth ) was maruellous glad , that he had escaped that yeare of his age . The cause may be , that the seuenth yeare , and the nynthe yeare ( being Anni climacterici et critici , which are Iudicial yeares ) multyplyed together : makes the sayde number of .63 . This Mizaldus describes .

SEethe Iuie berryes in vineger , or in whyte wine : and when they be well sodde , suppe of the same hotte lyccour : and when it is colde spytte it out , and suppe more therof . Whosoeuer doth thus , it helpeth the toothe ache .

THey in whose Natiuitie Venus is impedite or Infortunate of Saturne : Are lyke to haue paynes or griefes in theyr stones , especially , if she be in the Ascendent . And lykewise , if Venus be with Mars in the eyght house : or if the Moone Venus and Mars be coniunct , or in the euyll aspect of Saturne . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

WHosoeuer is lame , and can neyther go nor styrre their ioynts : Let them take of good Aqua composita , and oyle of Roses , of eyther a lyke much , myxe them both together , and annoynt the grieued place therewith morning and euening , vntyll he be well . ( Which wyll be within a whyle after ) but rubbe the place with warme cloathes well before . A thing often proued .

WHosoeuer hath Mars in the Horoscope , or the Ascendent , at the tyme of his byrth : certainly , he wyll haue a speciall scarre or marke in his face . Pro. Which I haue tryed in many , and yet neuer haue founde it false .

THe cyrcles of cart wheeles , emptie cartes , and the combe on a Cocks head : do maruelouslie feare a Lyon , ( being a most hardy , or fierce beast : ) but of all things he feares fyres , torches lyght , or fyrebrands . Plynius , Aelianus et alij .

THat Pygions be not hunted or kylled of Cats , at the windowes & euery passage , and at euery Pygions hole , hang or put lytle braunches of Rew : for Rew hath a maruellous strength agaynst wylde Beasts . ( As Didimus doth saye . )

IF the tayle of a Woolfe be hanged in a house , no Woolfe wyll enter therein : neyther any Flyes wyll flye into the same . Rasis et Alb.

IF a mad man vse to laughe , it is a laudible sygne : but if he be verie sadde , it it is peryllous . Aphor. Hippocratis .

THis medicine folowing , wyll procure a good stomacke to meate . Take three drams of good Synamon , one dram of Mastick , one dram of the parings of Pomegranets , and halfe a dram of Galingale , and stampe all these together , and temper it with claryfied Honny : and then vse to eate as much of thereof , as a Nut euery day , during ten dayes , fasting : and it wyll procure a good stomacke , and also preserue and keepe the same from any euil humors to breede therin . This is an excellent medicine , and often proued , and easie to be made .

IF you marke where your right foote doth stand at the fyrst tyme that you do heare the Cuckoo : and then graue or take vp the earth vnder the same , whersoeuer the same is sprinckled about : there wyll no fleas breede . Plynie by Mizaldus report . And I knowe that it hath bene proued true .

TO make the counterfeat Mandrag , which hath bene sold by deceyuers , for much money : Do thus as foloweth . Take the great double roote of Bryonie , newly taken out of the grounde , and with a fyne sharpe knife , frame the shape of a Man or Woman of the same , with his stones and cods , and other members therto . And when it is cleane done , pricke all these places with a sharpe steele , as the head , the eye browes , the chyn , and the priuities , and put into the sayde holes the seedes of Myllet , or any other that bringes foorth lytle small rootes , that doo resemble heayrs : ( which leeke seedes wyll do very well ) or els ba●ly , after this put it in the ground , and let it be couered with earth , vntyl it haue gotten vpon it a certayne lytle skyn : and then thou shalt see a monstruous Idoll , and heairie , which wyll become the parts well : if it be workmanlie , or cunningly made , or figured . Mizaldus . Another trym waye for the lyke , is in the naturall and artificiall conclusions , Englished by Thomas Hyll .

WHosoeuer annoynts his feete or hands , with the grease of a Woolfe : he shall not be hurt with any colde of his handes , or feete so annointed . Mizaldus .

FIue leaued grasse , through Iupiters force , doth resyst venym or poyson . Wherof , if one leafe twyse euery daye , morning and euening be drunken with wine : It is sayde to put away the Quotidian ●gue . Three leaues the Tercian ague . And fowre leaues the Quarten ague . Marcilius Ficinus .

IF in the beginning of the sicknesse , or at the tyme of asking of the question for the sicke : the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone , be in the fowrth or eight house , Combust or Cadent , or conuinct with the Lord of the eyght house : they geue a certaine testimony of death . And if one of them onely , that is the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone be so , it is a testimony of death : as is before sayde . Iohan. Ganiuet .

VArueyn stampt and streyned with wine , water , or vineger , and then geuen to a woman that trauels , or is in her labour , and can not be delyuered : it causeth speedy delyueraunce . Trotula de passionibus mulierum . And Gysbertus affyrmes the lyke , if it be drunke with water .

A Straunge medicine and a rare secrete , for consuming the webbe in the eye : oftentymes proued . Take nyne lytle woormes with many feete , of some called Swyne lyse , ( if they be touched , they become rounde as a button , they are to be founde betwene the barke and the woodde of olde tymber or trees : ) stampe them with a lytle iuyce of Woodbynde , or Betony , then streyne the same well : and let the partie that hath the webbe in his eye , drinke it in a morning something warmed . Do thus three mornings together , and it wyl cure it perfectly , ( God wylling . ) This was tolde me for a very trueth , by one that had proued it dyuers tymes .

THis that followeth is a speciall medicine for them that swoonds , or are faint at the hart . Take Rosemarie , Sage , Betony , and Margerom , of ●ache one handfull , and seethe them in a gallon , or more of fayre water , tyll halfe the water be consumed : then take awaye the hearbes , and put to the sayde water a good pynt of Honny , and then skymme it well , and then put thereto an ounce of Stycados , tyde in a fayre lynnen cloath , and let it seethe a lytle whyle , and then take it out of the sayde water , and then put thereto one ounce of Synamon , three quarters of an ounce of Nutmegges , and as much of Gynger in powder : And vse to drinke a good draught thereof twyse euery day something warme , fyrst and last : for the space of syxe or seuen dayes : And then it helpes perfectlie .

THat Chylde wyll be deaffe , that is borne when Mercurie is Lorde of the syxt house , and Infortunate by an euyll aspect with Saturne , chiefly : if he be in the syxt house . Lykewise , they wyll haue great impediment in their hearing : in whose Natiuitie , Iupiter and Saturne be both impedite or Infortunate aboue the earth . That is : if they be Retrograde , or Combust in euyll places . Iatro .

THey that haue any paynes , or swelling in the throate : let them take a Iewes eare , ( which is to be had at the Apothecaries ) & lay it to stiepe in Ale , a whole night , and let the party drinke a good draught therof euery daye , once or twyse , vntyll they perceyue them selues amended . A proued thing .

A Straunge matter , and a thing followeth worthy of memorye . Whosoeuer hath the Kinges Euyll , and lookes vpon a certaine Byrde , called Galgulus , of a maruelous shape and quicke sight , by and by the same byrde doth drawe to her the yallow vapors of choller , & heales the party perfectly through a certaine great benefite of nature . But where as through a secrete gyfte of Nature she doth perceyue or smell the diseased party to come towarde her , shee wyl close her eyes , & hyde her head vnder her wings , not that she doth enuie the parties health , or lothe to helpe him of his disease : But because she doth greatly feare the sharpnes of the humor , which the nearer the party infected comes to her , the more it wyl pain her , & he the more eased . Therfore they were wont to sel this Byrd to such as had this disease , in some close thing , or couered : least the party should be healed for nothing . The Authors hereof are Hilodorus , Plutarchus , Aelianus , Suidas , and Plynie , with other . And Kirannides , and after him Albertus reportes : that if this Byrde refuse to looke vpon the diseased party , it is a token that he shall dye thereof . But if he looke euen vpon him , she drawes the disease to her self , and then by and by or soone after , ( she flying against the Sunne , ) doth vomit it out of her . And thus she doth both cure the sycke party , and delyuer her selfe from the same , through a certaine maruelous benefite of Nature . But learned men do much dyscent in taking of this Byrde . Plynie contends that it is Icterus , some do thinke that it is Chloreus , or Chlorio , which the French men calles Lorion and Loriot . The best part of the Phisitions defends that it is Charadrius : some affyrmes that it is Oriolus : others say that it is Galbulus , or Galbula , or Chloris : which Gesner lykes not . And Mizaldus leaues it to the iudgement of the Doctors or learned vntyll experience shal trye the trueth th●r●of . Mizaldus in 〈◊〉 Mirabilibus seu arcanis .

ORpheus and Archelaus 〈◊〉 , by the report of Plynie : that if the 〈◊〉 of them be smeared with mans bloud , that are fallen of the falling sycknes , by & by they wyll be delyuered from the traunce or ●yt : or if their great todes be then next pulled or pincht .

THe mydle rynde of a Cherie tree , stamped & streyned , & the sayde iuyce put into a lytle whyte wyne warmed , and then geuen to drinke to them that haue the stone : or can not make water , it auoydes the grauell or stone , and makes them to make water presentlye . Use it three or fowre tymes .

ONe may make beyond sea Azure , as followeth , & counterfeyt it very well . Take common Azure , and beate or stampe it well with Uineger , & annoynt therewith a thyn plate of pure syluer , and put the same ouer a vessell full of vrine : which set ouer hotte ashes and coales , and let it be moued & sturred , vntyll it be lyke beyond sea Azure . This is the best way . Mizaldus affyrmes that he had this out of an olde written booke .

IF you do put quick syluer into a potte amongst seething or hotte pease , the pease wyll leape out of the potte : except the brym or mouth of the potte be to hyghe , or the fyre to small . Mizaldus sayth , that this is proued .

BArly halfe sodde , geuen to Hens to be eaten , makes them laye often , and their egs to be greater . This is affyrmed for trueth .

IF any doubt , or feare any thing whatsoeuer it bee , and asketh thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie thereof : marke and consider the Lorde or Almuten of the Ascendent , whom if thou dost finde pure and safe from infortunes , and he be holding the Ascendent , the feare is needeles . For no harme shall happen according to the feare . Haly Abenragel .

SAuery beaten and sodden in vineger , and layde in manner of a plaster , to the hynder part of the head : doeth merrelye awaken those that are heauy with sleepe .

HEre followeth the making of a pleasaunt oyle of Cloues . Take of Cloues one pound , which beate to powder in a brasen morter : then adde thereto three pounde of Almondes scraped and beaten in a morter : and when they be well myxed together ▪ sprinkle theron fowre ounces of the best white wine : letting it so lye in a masse , for the spare of eight dayes at the least ▪ after that stampe the whole ouer againe , & then put it into a new earthen panne , which heate ouer the fyre so long , that you can not suffer your hand in it : then put it vp into square bagges , and wring the same harde in a presse , vntyll all the whole substaunce of the oyle become .

TAke a Frogge , and cutte her through the myddes of the backe with a knife , and take out the Lyuer , and foulde it in a Colewoort leafe , and burne it in a newe earthen potte well closed : and geue the ashes thereof vnto him or her , that hath the falling sycknesse to drinke with Wyne , and it wyll helpe him . And if the partye be not healed at once : then do so by another Frogge , and so doo styll , and without doubte it wyll heale him : if he vse it . This was tolde me for a sure experiment : And it is also affyrmed by Petrus Hispanus .

A Wonderfull thyng , passing all credite , chaunced in the Byshopricke , or Dyoces of they of Eistettence , in Germany : but that it was seene of dyuers credyble wytnesses . A certaine husbandman there called Vlricke Neucesser , being tormented with cruell paynes , in one of his sydes , soddainly tooke holde of a nayle that was vnder the skynne vnhurt : which cutte by a Surgion , he tooke out the nayle : yet for all that the paynes dyd not cease . Wherefore the myserable man suspectinge that there was no remedye to bee had for his payne , but by death : hee tooke a knyfe and cutte his throate . And the thyrde daye after he being ●arryed to burying , there was three present , one Eucharius , Rosenbader , of Wessemburge , and Iohn of Ettenstet ▪ Surgions , in the presence of many , which dyd cutte or open the bellye and Mawe of the sayde dead Husbandman . Wherein was founde ( being maruaylous and prodigious ) a long and rounde peece of woodde , fowre knyues of Steele , partlye sharpe , and partlye nyckte lyke a Sawe , and two sharpe instrumentes of yron , that was longer then a spanne : and they had therin also , heair rowled together as it were a round Bowle or Ball. This was layde or put in his Mawe , by none other arte , but onely by the crafte and subtyltye of he Deuyll . This hath Iohannes Langius wrytten in the fyrst parte , of his medcinal Epistles . Epistol. 38. de prodigijs et prestigijs demonum in morbis . Mizaldus reportes it also .

IN many Pondes , all the water & wood taken out , by and by Eeles do breede : if rayne water come into them , for that with the dewe , they do lyue and are nourished . Aristo . Plutarch . And other .

IF the ryght knee of a Bull be tyde with a broade bande , it wyll make him tame . Aelianus .

LEt the partie that bleedes , chawe the roote of a Netle in his mouth , but swallowe it not downe : and without doubte the bloud wyll stanche : for if one keepe it in his mouth , he can lose no bloud . Petrus Hisp.

IF a mad man finde ease in sleeping , it is good : but if his rage encrease , it is to be feared . Hippocrates in suis Aphor.

IF the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone , or the Lorde of the syxt house , be Combust , or Retrograde , & the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eyght house conuinct to Mars , or Saturne : the sicke must dye of that disease . Iohannes Ganiuetus . ( But God can restore health past all hope . )

THis medicine folowing doth maruelouslie breake winde in the bellye . Take Coomyn seede , Fennell seede , and Annes seede , of each a like much : beat them to powder , then seeth the same in wyne , and drinke a good draught therof fyrst & last , fowre or fyue dayes together , & you shall finde a great helpe thereby : for it hath bene often proued to their great ease & comfort that tooke the same .

TAke a spoonefull of Aqua vite , and two spoonefull of the water of Arsemarte , and annoynt any ache therwith twyse euery day , morning and euening : for the space of fyue or sixe dayes at the most , and it wyll heale it for euer . I had this out of an olde wrytten booke .

HE wyll be weake in the act of generation , in whose Natiuitie Venus is ioyned with Saturne , especially in the tenth or eight house : or that the Moone is ioyned with Saturne , in an euyll aspect of Venus : or if Saturne be in the syxt , or twelfth house , in a moyst sygne Infortunating Venus . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

THis folowing is an excellent medicine for the stone . Seethe an handfull of Holly berryes , in a pynt of good Ale , tyll halfe the Ale be consumed : then streyne it , putting then a lytle butter to it , and let the partie drinke therof fiue or sixe spoonefull : and within halfe an howre after , the party wyll make water : ( if euer any medicine wyl cause it . ) This was tolde me for a very true secrete .

THe learned and wise men among the Persians affyrme , that if Sage be putrefied or layde to rot in horse dung , whyles the Sunne and Moone do both occupy the seconde face of Leo : thereon wyll breede a Byrde lyke an Owsell , or blacke Byrde : the ashes wherof being burned , and strowed or cast into a burning Lampe , wyll make the house seeme to be full of Serpentes . Hermes .

IF the eares of Cattes be stowde or cutte off , it wyl make them keepe home the better . For that , then the water ( which they can not abyde ) wyll drop into their eares being open . And if they be gelded , especially the male Catte , they wyll not onely be more tamer and fatter : but also thereby they wyll raunge abroade the lesse . Mizaldus .

IT is sayde that Cockles & Oysters , in great thunders , do vomitte and cast out then Pearles . Whervpon many are founde in the sandes . Mizaldus .

WHen any drawes nye towarde their death , and that their members lackes bloud & vytal heate : Then Fleas and Lyse leaues them quyte , or else drawes to that parte of the bodye where the sayde heate tarryes the longest : which is in the hole in the necke vnder the chyn . &c. This is a token that death is at hande . Lemnius .

THe leaues of Walwoort sodde with Wine , doth maruelouslye mytigate the paynes of them that are tormented with the gowte : if they be applyed to the place where the griefe or payne is . There be that preferres and extolles with maruelous praises : The iuyce expressed out of the leaues & rootes therof , sodden with Wine and May butter : and in the steede of a Lynyment , annointed styll on the grieued member . That is three or fowre tymes euerie daye . Mizaldus learned this of one that proued it .

A Ryshe dryed , and put into Wyne , if there be any water therein , it drawes it to it . The Wine left alone , or together : ) Which is good and profytable for trying of Wine . Mizaldus .

A Notable medicine to heale lame members , doeth folowe . Take of oyle Olyffe , Aqua vite , ole of Exetor , and of a Beasts gall , of each a lyke much , myxe all together , and annoynt the lame members therewith twyse euerie daye , morning and euening , the space of a fortnight , being well rubbed before : and it wyll helpe the same of a certayntie . An olde Woman in Worcester shyr● , dyd helpe many therewith .

IF out of one pounde of excellent Wyne , with as much Salt as you can holde in your hande , and the leefe of pure Wyne , you do distyll a water : You shall finde that it wyll be the whottest water of all other . Mizaldus had this of a certaine Alchemyst .

IT is sayd that Hartes in Crete , being stroken with Dartes enuenomed : do eate of a certayne hearbe called Dyttanie : and thereby the pricke or any other thyng that styckes in them is dryuen foorth . Mizaldus .

THere was a certaine Woman great with chyld in Pago , not farre from Andernacus , a Towne of the Byshoppe of Cullen : Desyring or longing to eate , or to feede on her Husbandes fleshe , and although she loued him intirely , she killed him in the night , & being satisfied with the halfe of his flesh , she powdred the rest with Salt : but after when her great longing dyd cease , and that she dyd repent the deede : she dyd confesse it to her friendes that sought for her husbande . Iohannes Langius , in his medcynall Epistles . Therfore it is good for the husbands to take heede , whiles theyr wyues haue such inordinate longyng vppon them .

MAny haue bene helped that haue had fowle and leprous faces , onely with the washing the same with the distilled water of Strawberies : the Strawberies fyrst put into a close glasse , and so putrifyed in horse dung . Conradus Gesnerus .

IF , at the time of the byrth of any , Mercurie be Occidentall from the Sun , not vnder his lyght , or his beames : ( except in Aries , or Leo ) nor Retrograde : being then in any of the fowre Angles , strong , & well affected : doth shew that the chylde then borne , shall be hye minded , strong , and famed for his strength , & lyberallity : and shewes also that he shal be an Astronomer . For Mercurie Occidental in Leo , is woont to make Astronomers . And Mercurie Orientall of the Sun , and strong , doth shew , great knowledge , wisedome of handy workes , chiefly : if hee be with the Moone , or in the house of the Moone , that is Cancer : and if he be in a moueable sygne : it sygnifies inconstantnesse both of deede and minde . But in a fyxed sygne , inconstancie . Taisnier .

PRymrose leaues stampt , and layd in the place that bleedeth , stancheth the bloud . This hath bene proued .

TAke black Sope , and almost as much of Ginger in powder , and mixe them well together : then annoynt therwith any Tetter or Ringwoorme euerie day , for the space of fowre or fiue daies together , and it wyll heale it certaynly . Proued .

TAke Aloes Epatcū fowre drams , Briony , Mastick , Myrre , Asarrabaccha , Scamony , of each a dram : myxe the same made in powder , with the iuyce of Fennel , and a lytle clarifyed Honny to preserue them : Take a dram therof , which is the weyght of .lxxii. barly cornes at the most , earlie in the morning , & neyther eate nor drink of three or fowre howres after : If they be geuen nine dayes together , they help maruelously : and they are very excellent for all maner of head ache , approued ( though neuer so long rooted . ) They purge al humors , they bring gladnesse , they are good for the eye syght , they preserue the mind , letting or hyndring the horenes of heayrs , they helpe the swymming of the head , and the migrim , and heales the sounding of the eares . But to the weaker persons ▪ geue the lesser quantitie . Make it in fiue or sixe lytle round pyls or bals , and swallowe them one after another at one tyme . They are proued to be very good . I founde this in a very olde written booke .

IF Mercurie be impedite of Saturne in a chylds Natiuitie , it doth hynder the tongue . But it is woorse when they be corporally coniunct together , especially , in the Ascendent , or in the seuenth house , and in the same sygne with the Sun , ( Mercury being then occidentall : ) or if Mercury be aboue the earth corporally coniunct with Saturne , or els in an euyll aspect of Saturne , and in a dum sygne called Signum mutum , and also is Infortunate , that is to saye : in an euyll place . Retrograde or combust , and peregrene : That party then borne , wil haue great impediment in his tonge , or else wyll be dum , and cannot speake . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

IOhannes Langius an excellent Phisition sayth , that he hearde it reported of certayne Horsemen of the countrey Palentine , that they dyd see in Austria , a man , which with barking , and with swyft running , contended and stryued with Dogs , and was hunted of them vnhurt in the woods .

THe eyes of young Swallowes being in the nest , prickt with an needle or a pynne , & so made blinde : within fowre or fiue dayes after , they wyl see again . Which is very true , for I haue proued it . But howe they recouer their syght I knowe not : But dyuers wryte , if their eyes be hurt , the olde Swallowes restores their sight againe with the iuyce of Celendin .

WHite Poppie and Henbane seede , a litle stamped , and tempered with the whyte of an egge & layd to the foreheade : prouoketh sleepe . This hath bene often proued .

THis following wyll heale lame members . See the Rew , & Rosemary , of each two handful , with common Oile , & Malmesey , of either one quart together , for the space of halfe an howre : Then let the lame members be washt and bathed therewith , ( but before the sayde member or geieued place must be well chafed with a hotte cloath , ) then when it is well bathed ( which wyll be within halfe an howre ) wrappe & keepe the member or place so bathed with a lambe skynne ( the wooll syde inwarde , ) and do thus euerie night before , or at his going to bedde , three weekes at the least , and he wyll be hole and sounde thereof . Doctor Owen helpt one herewith , and with none other thing , that could neyther stand nor go : but was very lame . They that sawe the proofe therof tolde it to mee : which was and is a man of good credite .

IT was a heynous offence with the Egiptians , eyther wyllingly , or by chaunce to kyll a Catte . And Diodorus telles a pretie story therof , least it might be thought to be a fable . In the time of Ptolomie , a league or amity being begun betwene him & the Romains : A certaine Romaine then against his wyl , had killed a Cat : whervpon the Egiptians gathered together , and dyd beset the house where he was , requyring to haue him to be executed for his great offence , ( no whit regarding the power of the Romaines , nor yet their lague or friendshippe with them : ) When , had not the King and Rulars bene , they would haue drawn him out of the house , and kylled him . Diodorus .

TO keepe Harnes , or any other thing made of yron or steele from rusting . Let the same be rubd ouer with Vineger mixt with Ceruse , or the marrowe of a Hart , ( which is farre better then Oyle , ) and it wyl keepe them fayre and bright .

IF the Lord of the second house , be in the first house , & Fortunate ( the chyld then borne , ) shal possesse Ryches without labour . And by the nature of the Planet thou maist know wherby the ryches wyl come . As if it be the Sunne , it wyll come to him by power , that is , the rytches wyll happen by helpe or fauour of great men : if Mars , then by warres , or by theft : if Saturne , of the enheritaunce of the dead : if Iupiter , of fayth ( relygion ) or of Masters of fayth , ( or of the lawe , and such lyke ) appertayning to Iupiter : if Venus , by women : if Mercury , by learning , wisedome , or marchandize : if the Moone , by the workes of hands , or by iournyes ▪ but if the Lorde of the seconde house ( so placed ) be not fortunate , and an euyll planet beholding him , he shal lose all his goodes . Taisnier .

A Notable oyle or medicine for the Gowte , & ioynt aches , very true and often proued . Take the iuyce of Sage , of Aqua vite , of oyle Debaye , of Uineger , Mustarde , and of a Beasts gall , of each a lyke much : put them all together into a great blather , and chafe it well vp and downe with your hands , for the space of an howre and a halfe , and keepe it then to your vse , and annoynt the grieued place therwith , euery morning and euening : and you shall finde your selfe healed within a short tyme . This is a sure and often proued thing .

THis precious medicine following , doth preserue & keepe them that takes it , safe from poyson or plague . Take of Iumper berryes two drams , of Earth of Lemnie , called of the Phisitions , Terre Lemnie , as much , and one scruple more , which i● the weyght of xxiiii . barly cornes . When you haue made them in fine powder , mixe them with Honny , and keepe it ●o your vse in a cleane vessell : geue as much thereof at one tyme as a Hasell nutte , in three ounces of Aqua Mulsa ( which is made with water and Honny , that is of one pounde of Honny , and eyght pounde of water sodden and skimmed ouer an easie fyre : vntyll the fowrth parte be consumed . ) This excellent Antidote dyd King Necomedes vse , when any dyd byd him to banket , or any other cheare , that he dyd suspect . If there be no poyson taken before it , it wyll remayne quietly in the stomacke : but if there be any poyson , it wyll procure vomyt : so that thereby the poyson and medicine wyll both come forth . Myzaldus .

A Notable thing to cause one to sleepe immediatly . Take of the iuyce of Henbane , of Lettes , of Planteyn , of Poppie , of the leaues of Mandrag , of Iuie leaues , of Mulbery leaues , and of Humlocke , of each one dram , of Opium , and of Iuie berries , of eather as much : stampe the Iuie berryes and the Opium together , and myxe the iuyces & them well together : then dyp a spunge into the same , and let it drinke it all vp , and then laye the same spunge in the Sun to drye : after laye the sayde spunge to the parties nose whome you woulde haue to sleepe , and he wyll sleepe quicklie . And when you wyll awake him , dyppe another spunge in Uinegar , and holde it to his nose , and hee wyll awake within a whyle after . This is an excellent thing and true .

BEware that nothing bynde thy body harde , when thou bleedes , and then holde thy handfull of shepheards Purse , and st●dfastlie looke vp to the Sunne , and the bleeding wyll cease . This is proued .

TO make a powder that wyll drawe out a toothe without any instrument . Take Spurge , Pellyter of Spaine , Smalledge , the dunge of a Rauen , or of a Crowe , Galbanum , the brayne of Partreches , and also a Frogge , of each a lyke much : burne all these together in a newe earthen potte , all to powder , and with a lytle of the same powder , touch the tooth that you woulde haue fall out : and doubtles within a quarter of an howre it wyll fall out . But you must take heede that you touche none other teeth therewith . This I had out of an old written booke , wherin was many excellent true things .

SEethe Mallowes and redde Nettles together in fayre water , and let the partie that is costyffe , or can not go to the stoole , sytte close ouer the same , and receyue the fume thereof vp into his fundement : and it wyll helpe him certaynlie , and spedely , ( God wylling . ) A thing often proued .

FINIS . Lib. 3.

❧ The fowrth Booke of Notable things .

MAke Dwale as followeth , which makes one to sleepe , whyles he be cutte or burned by Cawterizing , as followeth . Take the gall of a Barrowe swyne , or the gall of a Bore , the iuyce of Humlocks three spoonefull , of the iuyce of wylde Neppe , three spoonefull , of the iuyce of Lettys , of the iuyce of Poppie , of the iuyce of Henbane , and Asell , of each three spoonefull : myxe them all together , and boyle them well , and doo them in a glasen vessell well stopped , and put three spoonefulles therof in a quart of good wine or Ale , and mixe them well together : And let him that shal be cut or Cawterized syt against a good fyre , and geue him drynke thereof tyll he fall a sleepe . This I had also out of an olde wrytten booke . Use it warely , and proue it aduisedly : if you begyn with a lytle quantitie ▪ you maye encrease it when you wyll : but if you geue too much at once , you can not dyminish it when you lyst .

THey wyll be hyndered in their smell , or wyll haue diseases or griefes in theyr noses : In whose Natiuity Mars and Venus are impedite aboue the earth . Iatromath .

DRye the rootes of 〈◊〉 ●●●tles , and make them in powder , & 〈…〉 of the powder therof in a draught of whyte Wine somthing warme , and it wyll breake the stone though it be neuer so great , & that with speede . Use it euery daye vntyll the stone and grauell be all broken and consumed . A thing of small pryce and great vertue .

A Combe made of the ryght horne of a Ram , doth take away the head ache , being on the right syde of the head : if the pained head be combed therewith . If the paine be on the left side of the head , then a combe made of the left horne of a Ram , doth take it awaye : if the pained head be combed therwith . This I had out of an olde booke .

THebit the Philosopher , doth teach that to get the vertue of any Starre : you must make a ryng when the Moone doth behold happily by a Tryne or Sextyle aspect ( the same Starre placed in the myddes of the Heauens , or in the Ascendent : ) but the matter or substaunce of the Ryng must be made of that mettal , that belongs to that Starre : and lyke wise an hearb ascribed to the sayde Starre , must be included or put vnder that Ryng .

DYppe a sylken thread in the bloud of a Mowse , and then let the patient swallow it that hath the Squynancie , or swellinges , or paines in the throate , and it wyll helpe him .

THis folowing is a notable medicine for the gowt . Take the roote of wylde Neppe , and the roote of the wylde Docke , fyrst sodden by them selues : then pare of the skyns , and cut them into peeces & stampe them both together , as smal as can be : then put therto a quantity of soote of a chymney , and temper them with the mylke of a Cowe that hath the heair of one cullour : then take vrine of a man that is fasting , and make a plaster therof , & boile al together , and as hot as the partie can suffer it , laye it to the place payned or grieued , and a daye & a night without remouing , and then lay another plaster of the same to it , and let it lye therto as long as the other . And do thus nine tymes , and it wyll helpe him on warrantyes ( God wylling . ) Proued .

IF yron ( that is made cleane or polished ) be tyncted or rubbed ouer with Aqua fortis , wherein the fylinges , or scrapings of brasse is dyssolued : That yron wyll haue the cullour of brasse . Bap. Porta .

A Horse that castes , or holdes his cares backward , for the most part is deaffe . And that Horse that doth not ney in the company of a great number of other Horsses , is doom . Simoneta Cardinalis .

THe best thing of all other to keepe Harnes , or any other thing made of yron or steele from rustines , is this . Stampe the fyling or dust of lead , finely in a leaden or yron mortar , putting thereto a lytle oyle of Spyke , ( which besydes makes it smell trymlie ) and therwith rubbe ouer the Harnes or any other thing as is beforesayde made of yron or steele . By this meanes you may carry your Harnes or other things so rubbed therewith , in watery places , and in moyst ayres safe from rusting . Mizaldus had this of a cunning Armaror .

IF one come to geue thee counsayle , and thou would knowe whether hee meane well , or be a deceauer : Mark the tenth house , and if a good & fortunate planet be found there , his counsayle is good , and true : But if there be an euyl or an vnfortunate planet ther , he is a deceyuer & a lyar . Which I ( sayth Haly , as one that haue proued it ) do confirme , & do say : if one come to counsayl thee , & the Ascendent be of common signes , or the Lord of the Ascendent , & the Moone be in common signes : do say , that he is then a deceiuer , & wyl deceiue thee . Therfore hearken not to him . Haly Abenragell .

ONe knot of the roote of a Mullen , geuen to drink , doth binde the losenes of the bellie . Proued .

HE that waxeth deaffe through an ague & bleedeth at the nose , shall recouer his hearing . Hippocrate● in Aphor.

THis medicine following , is proued by experience , and as a certayne diuine thing , doth cure euerie plurisie , and doth relieue the sicke from death : which ought not to be applyed vnto the sicke partie , vntyll the fowrth daye be past . Take of Dealtha two ounces , ( which is to be had at the Apothecaries : ) the oyle of sweete Almondes halfe an ounce , myxe them together : with which oyntment ( being warme , ) let the grieued place be annointed : then sprinkle vpon the annointed place half an ounce of powder of Coomin , finelie fearced , ( which done : ) take a Colewoort leafe , made hotte vpon burning ashes , and annoint it with olde butter ( not salted , ) and laye it hotte vpon the annoynted & powdred place ( tying it on with cloathes that it remoue not , ) and a maruelous affect wyll appeare vnto you in the ceasying of the paine of the plurysie : and in resoluing of the matter of the impostume . This remedie wyl bring honor vnto thee , and great profyte vnto the sicke person . And knowe that this remedie is good in any other great payne , in all the body , from the head vnder . Emperica benedicti victorij . And also I haue seene this proued , which helped one of the plurisye without letting of bloud .

IF a Woman with chylde haue her smocke , that she weares , slyt at the neather ende or skyrt thereof , or not sowed there rounde about , but that one syde or seame thereof , be a lytle left vnclosed , or vnsowed together : the same chylde that she then goeth withall , shal be safe from hauing a clouen or hare lyppe . Yea , though she chaunce to meete suddenly a Hare , or though a hare doth leape ouer her , or suddenly touch her . Which happens to many Chyldren by such meanes , as is mencioned in an other parte of this booke . This was very credibly told me for a trueth . Therfore I haue placed it here , as worthy the name of a notable thing .

WHosoeuer shall vse dayly to take in a draught of small Ale , a spoonful of the powder of Matfellon or Scabius : the same wyll destroye any impostume within them . It hath bene often proued . And Anthonius Musa doth praise it for the lyke effect .

IF the Lord of the sixt house be in the Ascendent , or tenth house , it showes that the disease is open & manifest : if in the seuenth or fowrth house , then the disease is priuy or hyd : if in the ninth or eleuenth house , then it is open & manifestly knowne : in the other places , the disease is priuy hyd , or vnknowne . Iatromath . Guat . Gryff .

CLeopatra , the last Queene of Egipt , and Wyfe to Marcus Antonius Consull of Roome , ( a prowde Princesse , and too dainty a Dame ) dyd drinke one so voluptuous draught , as neuer any dyd before , ( nor I thinke wyll hereafter : ) for she dissolued in Tarte and strong Uineger , the greatest and beutifullest Pearle that euer was seene in the East parte of the worlde : and drunke the same at one draught , to satisfye her prowde presumptuous pleasure withall . Which Pearle was woorth two hundreth and fifty thousand crownes . Plinius , Macrob. And other .

OUt of the Figge tree , there comes such a sharpe vapor , that if a Hen be hanged thereon , it wyll so prepare her , that she wil be soone and easily rosted . Plut. And the lyke wyll be if the fethers be pluckt off from Fowles or Byrds , & the skyns pulled off from Beasts , and then layde or couered a day or two in a heape of Wheate . It is confirmed by experience , sayth Mizaldus .

THe professors of naturall Magicke , affirmes , that Uarueyn being taken vp or gathered , when the Sunne is in Aries , the Ram : and stampt with the seedes of Pyonie , and streyned with whyte Wine & drunke : doth maruelously heale them that haue the falling sicknesse . Oftentimes proued sayth Mizaldus . Which he had out of a verye olde booke of the seuen hearbes of the planets , written to Hermes .

WHen any of the three higher planets , & the Sun , is in any of the Angles , the chyld then borne ( being a boye ) shal be chiefe of his brethren . Or if there be any borne before him , they wyll dye : and he shall holde the chiefe rule in his fathers house . Taisnier .

SAlt dyssolued in water , or brine , presently with his strength , doth both put away the paynes , and the heate of any burning , whether it be with Gunpowder , or with oyle , pytche , scalding water , burning coales , burning yron , or by any other meanes whatsoeuer , especially : if it be bathed with lynnen cloathes , wet or dypt in the same , and a lynnen cloath therein wet , layde or applyed to the place burned . Lemnius .

TAke Salarmoniacke , Roch allom , Allom plume , Sal gem , Tartar , and Romaine Uitriall , of each equall partes , all which seuerally made in fine powder , myxe together , and dissolue it in fayre cleare water : then put syluer or syluer plate therein , and let it lye , and set it ouer the fyre that it may be very hotte : and you shal see that your siluer or plate wil be maruelous whyte and fayre . Mizaldus .

THe roote of Zedoary ( but be sure it be perfect and good ) mixt with Reysons , and a lytle Lycqueris , champed with the teeth and swallowed : preserues them that doo so , vnhurt or without daunger of the plague : if they go to any that are infected with the plague , or that are constrayned to speake with them that haue the plague . Mizaldus .

THe roote of Pyonie , ( which is the hearbe of the Sun ) being pulled out of the earth on a Sonday , in the howre of the Sun , the Sunne then being in Leo , called the Lyon : and the Moone encreasing in light , ( which is from her chaunge to the full , ) delyuereth them of the falling sycknesse , that beares it vppon them . Marcilius Ficinus .

IF at the tyme of the fyrst falling sycke of one , or at the time of the question for the sycke , the Moone be in the fowrth house , with Mars , and good Planettes be Cadent : It is sygne of death . Iohannes Ganiuerus .

LEt the Woman that trauels of her chylde , ( or is in her labour , ) be gyrded with the skynne that a Serpent or Snake castes off : and then she wil quicklye be delyuered . Trotula .

A Maruelous rare Secrete , to drawe out the oyle of Cynamom after an easie manner : which oyle preserueth the stomacke from corruption , by taking of it by the mouth , and applying of it to the stomack . Take of Cynamom one pounde , which stampe and beate finelye : then myxe and impast it with the oyle of sweete Almondes , vnto the forme of an oyntment , then heate the same in an earthen panne somewhat , which after let stande ( close couered ) for fowreteene dayes or twelue at the least : At the ende of which tyme , heate the whole againe sufficiently , ( that is , vntyll it be very hotte : ) then put it into a bagge , and wryng out the oyle in a presse , vntyll the whole Cynamom remayne through drye in the bagges : and then that which is come foorth , wyll be of the cullour , sauour , and taste of the Cynamom . A Secrete , and knowne to fewe to bee wrought in thys order .

THe powder of Pellyter of Spaine , mixt with the mylke of Wartwoort , or Spurge , and Galbanum , and a lyttle thereof applyed to any rotten or aking tooth : wyl breake it , or plucke it out : and so the paine thereof wyll cease . This I had out of an olde wrytten booke .

IF you wyll knowe whether one shall escape or not , that is infected with the plague , ( hauing the plague Sore , ) geue the partie some excellent Treacle with whyte Wyne , ( so that hee be not troubled with an ague , for then geue the Treacle with Scabyus or Planten water , ) and also annoynt the plague Sore with the lyke Treacle : and if the same be dryed or burned , and remayne fyxed , ( the partie thereby not relieued or eased ) it is a verie euyll sygne : but contrarie , if the partie be eased , it is a great sygne that the party shall escape . Arnoldus .

IN the common place where the Censors of Uenys syttes , there neuer enters any Flyes . Gandeut . Merula . And in the fleshe Shamble of Toledo , a Cittie in Spayne , is not seene but one Flye in all the whole yeare . As Leo Paptist . sayeth And in Westminster Hall , in the Tymber worke there , is not to bee founde one Spyder , nor a Spyder webbe . Because ( as it is thought ) the Tymber wherewith the rooffe is buylded , was brought out of Irelande , and dyd growe there . In all which Countrey of Irelande , I haue not onely hearde it credibly tolde , that there is neyther Spyder , Tode , nor any other venemous thing : but also that some of the earth of that country hath bene brought hether , wheron a Tode being layd , she hath dyed presently . Though this be maruelous & strange : yet it is true .

IT is proued ( sayth Taisnier ) if Iupiter be in the fift or the twelfth house , whether hee be Orientall , or Occidentall , of the Sunne , or whether hee be in a Masculine sygne or Femynine sygne ) the fyrst chylde of him or her then borne , wyll be a boye .

THe iuyce of ground Iuie , snuft vp into the nose out of a spoone , or a sawcer : purgeth the head maruelouslie , and takes away the greatest and eldest paine therof , that is . This medicine is worth gold : though it be very cheape . I haue knowne them that haue had maruelous payne in their head , almost intollerable , for the space of a dosen yeares : and this hath helpt them presently , and neuer had the paine synce they tooke this medicine .

THis medicine following wyll kyll woormes in the bellie . Take the gall of an Oxe or of a Cowe , and so much of the flowre of Lupynes ( which are to be had at the Apothecaries ) as wyll thycken the same , myxe them well together , and laye it on wooll , and so plaster it to his bellie where the griefe is , and about the nauell : and after twelue howres lay theron another plaster . Do thus fowre or fiue dayes , and it wyll helpe him .

HOw greatly is the sicke party to be feared ( or iudged ) not to escape , i● in the tyme of the question , or the fyrst beginning of the sycknesse , both the Lumynaryes are vnder the earth . &c. Iatromath . M. Guat . H. Ryff . argent .

IF hotte burning golde be quenched in pure Wine , ( the same Wine being drunke ) it procures strength to the chiefe members , and to the vytall partes . And it makes strong the natural faculties , and doth helpe the diseased parte , with strength and vytall spyrite . And this lycquour is thought to be very good in the tyme of Plague . And if the same be mixed with a lytle Tarter , it doth quyte put away from any part of the body , all spots though they be neuer so fowle . Yea , it helps a leprous face , a red nose , and any other deformity of the same : If the place infected be washt and rubbed often tymes therwith . Lemnius .

THe water that drops out of the Uine , or the goom that is founde there , ( being drunke with whyte Wyne : ) doth breake & expell the stones in the reynes maruelously . And also being rubbed vpon Ryngwoormes , Tetters , and leprous places , it doth cure them . But they must be rubbed before with Niter . This was tolde to Mizaldus , as a proued thing .

IF his spyttle which hath a consumption , ( being cast vpon the coales ) doth styncke , and the heair fall from his head : It is sygne of death . Hippocrates in Aphor.

THere is a certayne Electuary of lyfe , of Arnoldus de villa noua , in a lytle booke of his , of the putting back of olde age : described of the fiue kindes of Myrabolanes , made for the conceruing or keeping of health , and prolonging of lyfe . And it is a perfyt & approued thing . For it doth not onely comfort , but also it doth purge superfluous humors remaining of nutriment past : And the vse thereof doth let or hynder graye heairs , and it makes one come to the last olde age : It strengthneth the stomacke , and the vse therof maketh a good cullour in all the body . And this is the description therof . Take of great Reysons cleansed of their stones and stalkes , two pounde , Lycquerys made cleane and beaten , one ounce : Let these be put into two pounde and a halfe of fayre water , and let them seethe well , and let them then be strayned well : And in that that is streined , let there be put of Mirabolanes , Kebule , Citrine , and Indy , beaten in a Morter , their stones taken away , of each two ounces : of Embelyck , & Bellerick , of either of them two drams : Let them be sodde , streined & pressed , or wel wroong , then put therto whyte sugar , one pounde : and seethe altogether to the thycknes of a Syrup , and in the ende adde therto of good Cynamom halfe an ounce , Cloues & Galengaye , of each two drams , two Nutmugs , Maratrum , and Annes seede , of eyther one ounce : and make therof a Lectuary , and keepe it in a pure vessell . In this Electuary , be medicines of the principall members ( that is to say : ) of the hart , head , stomacke , Lyuer , Spe●n . And of the generatiue members : and it is fyrst hotte , after moyst , then cold : and the last drie . Iohannes Ganiuetus lykewise describes it .

CErtaine woormes that shines in the night , called Glo woorms , being wel stopped in a glasse , & couered within hootte horse dung , standing there a certaine time , wyll be resolued into a lycquor : which being mixt with lyke porcion of quicksyluer , first clensed & purged : ( which wyl be with halfe a dosen times washing in pure vineger , myxt with bay salt , which after euery washing & rubbing , must be cast away , and then hotte water put to the quicksyluer , & therewith washed ) and then put & closed in a fayre bright and pure glasse , and so hanged vp in the myddes of a house , or other place , or rowme : wyl geue such a light in the darke , as the Moone doth : when she shines in a bright night . Iohannes Baptist.

A Peece of a chyldes Nauell string , borne in a ring , is good against the falling sicknes , the paynes of the head , and of the collyck . Mizaldus .

BAptista Fulgosus reports , that nie to Sirminum , a Citie of Pamony , sometymes there hath bene Tendrals of Gold found in the Uines : wherof there hath bene money coynd . Which many haue seene sayth Gandeut . Meruba , in his tyme . And Alexander Neapolitanus sayth : that he hath founde in Germany , within Daunby , Uines , that dyd beare lytle nayles , and leaues of pure golde : which was geuen for presentes to Kings and Dukes . Mizaldus .

IF any doeth aske thee ( hauing knowledge in Astronomie , ) whether that place where he dwelles , is better for him , then that to which hee meanes to go : beholde , and if thou dost finde the Moone seperate from Infortunes , ( that is from an euyll Planette , or from an Infortunate Planette ) tell him that his going is better then his tarying : But if you finde the Moone seperate from a good or fortunate Planet , then it is better for him to tarry there styl : then to go from thence to dwel . And to be briefe , if one shall aske thee , saying thus : I must needes doo a certaine thing , ( or I haue certayne busynesse to doo , ) whether maye I doo it or not : then marke thou the Lorde of the Ascendent , and the Moone , and if thou finde them seperate from euyll Planets , or euyll fortunes , applying to good or fortunate Planets , byd him do that , that he is determined to do , and spare not . But if thou finde them seperate from good Planets or fortunate , and applying to euyll Planets : byd him that he doo it not , neyther take it in hande . Haly Abenragell .

THat Woman is lyke to be barreyn , in whose Natiuitye the Moone and Venus being in barreyne signes , are Infortunate of Mars and Saturne . Or if Saturne be in the seuenth or tenth house , Infortunating 〈◊〉 and the Moone : or if Venus be with Saturne , and the Moone then in the syxt , or twelfth house Infortunate . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

THe seedes of Roses with Mustarde seede , and the foote of a Wesell , all together tyde in some thing , & hangde among the bowes or branches of a tree that beares but lytle fruite : It is sayde , that it wyll make that tree to beare well , and to be maruelous fruitfull . Mizaldus .

PAre the nailes of one that hath the quarteyn ague , which being put into a lynnen cloath , and so tyed about the necke of a quicke Eele , and the same Eele put into the water : thereby the ague wyll be dryuen away . Geber et Alb.

IF any lyst to sleepe , and laye by him the braunches of moyst Hempe : Gnats wyll not trouble him , nor come neare him . Myzaldus .

IF the Lorde of the twelfth house , be in the twelfth house : many debates and enemities wyll happen vpon the day belonging to that Planet : to the childe then borne . Taisnier .

COoluer dunge stampt , and vsed for a plaster with strong Uineger , and applyed to the Nauell : byndeth incontinent all Fluxes of the belly . Macer .

THe roote of a Goorde , tyed to the reynes of the backe of Women , that is in labour or trauell of chylde : doth cause speedy delyueraunce thereof . But let it be taken away as soone as the chyld doth come foorth : least the Matrix go out , after the chylde . Trotula de passionibus mulierum .

HEre foloweth an Electuary of a wonderfull vertue in the tyme of Pestilence : this Electuary is of so great a vertue , in them that do receyue it once in .xxiiii. howres , that they may be sure from all euyl infections of corrupt and contagious ayres , all the daye after . But in them that are infect already , and are taken with the Pestilence , if they drinke of it but one spoonefull , as shall be sayde hereafter , ( especially after letting of bloud , if it be conuenient to the patient , ) and laye him downe and sweate vpon the same , if the venyme hath not vtterlie ouercome the hart : he shall vndoubtedlie recouer . It hath bene lately proued , that after drynking of the same medicine , when the patient made his water in an vrinall , the glasse hath burst in peeces , by reason of the venime that it purged out . This is the making of the sayde Electuary . Take Cynamom elect one ounce , Terra sigillata , sixe drams , fyue Myrre , three drams , Unycornes horne , one dram , the seede & rynde of Cytron , rootes of Dyptanny , Burnet , Turmentyl , Zedoary , red Currall , of each two drams , yellow Saunders , fowre scruples , red Saunders , two scruples , whyte Been and red , flowres of Marygooldes , of each one dram , Yuery rased , Scabius , Veroincitunici , seede of Basyll , the bone of a Stags harte , Saffron , of each two scruples : make a syne powder , and ad vnto it , of bole Armoniacke preparate , two ounces , whyte sugar three pound , and with a syrrup of Acetositate citri : make a goodly Electuary , and keepe it in a glasse . If the Pestilence commeth with great excesse of heate , drinke it in Rose water & Uineger : but if you feele it colde , take it in a draught of Wine , and couer you with cloathes , so that you maye sweate as long as is possible : for without doubt it is a present remedy , as I my selfe haue nowe of late proued . Thus much Thomas Phayre in his Treatyse of the Pestylence .

THe teethe of a mad Dogge , that hath bytten a man or woman , tyed in leather , and then hangde at the shoulder : doeth preserue and keepe the partye that beares it from being bytten of any madde Dogge . Diascorides , by the report of Mizaldus .

THe Seedes of Carduus Benedictus stamped , and drunke , doth helpe the griefe , paynes , prickings , and stitches of the syde : and the gryping in the guts , and the lower parte of the belly . This is proued for trueth .

IF any doth sprinckle his head , with the powder of the skinne that a Snake doth cast off : gotten or gathered when the Moone is in the ful , being also in the fyrst part of Aries , the Ram : he shall see terryble and fearefull dreames . And if he shall haue it vnder the plant of his foote , he shal be acceptable before Magistrates and Princes . Cardanus .

WHosoeuer beginnes theyr iourney , in the howre of Venus : he shall haue good and profyte on the behalfe of Women , or some such lyke thing . Haly Abenragell .

IF Woormes gnawe vpon , or hurt the mouth of the stomacke : put Honny combes into the mouth fasting , and holde them there : and the Woormes wyll draw vnto the Honny , and so voyde by the mouth . It hath bene proued .

IN the fyrst beginning of any sycknes , or at the time of any question for the sycke : if the Moone be Orientall , nye to the Sunne within twelue degrees : it is sygne of death , and the nearer to the Sun , and in Combusyon , the woorse . Iohannes Ganiuetus .

WIth this Secrete following , Benedictus victorius , had alwayes good successe , in passions and griefes of the harte . Take of the iuyce of Buglosse , cleansed or putrified at the fyre two ounces , of white Sugar two drams , myxe them together , and let the pacient ( or diseased party ) drinke it euery night going to bed : and there wyll not ten dayes passe , but the patient wyll be cured of the passion or griefe of the harte .

THis following is a notable tryed medicine for the gowte , and for the swelling of ioynts , & for knobs or knots comming of the French pocks . Take May butter a quarter of a pound , halfe a pound of coomyn seede , beaten in fyne powder , a quarter of a pound of blacke Sope , one handfull of Hearbe grace , halfe a handfull of clarifyed sheepe suet : stampe all these together in a morter , then take the gall of an Oxe , and a spoonefull of bay Salt , and frye them all together , tyll it be thycke : then laye it on a woollen cloath , and so apply it to the ache , as hotte as it maye be suffred , and let it lye vnremoued a whole weeke : and then laye another plaster thereof to it , and let it lye vnremoued as long : then lay the thyrd plaster therto , and let it lye therto as long , as the other , ( which wyll be in the whole three weekes : ) and without doubt it wyll helpe him . I haue seene it proued . This I had out of a verie olde booke .

THere be ( and truly with proued successe ) that doo hang the rootes of Sorrell , at theyr neckes , for the Swyne pockes : and also in lyke case , of Planten . Mizaldus .

WHosoeuer hath the bloudy Flyxe , ( be it neuer so great nor greeuous : ) let them drinke the wine , wherin the rootes of Hollyocks cut in peeces , is sodden and streined , ( if the party haue an ague : ) for then let the rootes be sodde in water with some Planten leaues , and so streyned , which is an approued & sure medicine for that disease : whether the party haue an ague or not .

A Ring made of an Oxe , or Cowes horne , & worne or carryed vpon them that haue the crampe : It puts the same away . This is proued to be true of many . And Mizaldus affyrmes it .

IF the Lorde of the seuenth house , be in the thyrd or nynth house , and any euyll Planet beholde him : ( he that is then borne wyll fall from some buylding , or else hee wyll dye of some thing that shall fall vppon him . Ptolomeus .

IF you seethe Bryonie in water , and vse to drinke the same : It helpes and cureth them that haue the Dropsie . Proued .

MAruelous and notable vertues of the Eybright , do followe . Let the leaues , stalkes , and flowres , with the whole substaunce , be distylled , when it beareth flowres , the water wherof stylled , dropped , and streaked about the eyes , causeth cleare eyes , & sharpneth the syght , and seaseth the paynes of the eyes . The water dropped into the eyes an howre before night , and stryked about them , and drunke to the quantitie of three ounces at one tyme : comforteth , strengthneth , and preserueth the syght , especially , in aged persons , and in stematick complections . The hearbe dried , and brought to powder , & eaten euery day in a po●ched Egrere , for a certain time together : restoreth sight lost , the water mixed with half a dram of the powder , and drunk euery euening , for a month or forty dayes together : recouereth a weake syght .

THis precious medicine folowing , wyll bring forth a Canka● , and plucke it vp by the rootes , out of any sore where 〈◊〉 bee , eyther in man or woman . Take Bos●alger , and make powder therof : then take B●rrowes , or Hogges grease , that is new and fresh , ( fyrst melted and a●ter colde ) then my●e the powder there with very well : then put therof vpon a peece of whyte lether , which may couer the ●ore : them sprinckle on the sayd plaster , fyne flowre of pure wheete : then vpon the same spreade Honny , and then put vpon the sayd Honny , womans mylke : and wh●n all this is done , put the sayde plaster vpon the sore , where the canker is , and put the neather crust of a new whyte loa●e vpon the sayde plaster , and tye it fast vpon the same , that it remoue ●●t : And in the morning , thou shall finde the cankar dead , on the said plaster : this is most true . This I coppyed out of an olde wrytten Booke .

LEt a woman make water , in an Urinall that is ●ayre and cleane , or rather newe , vppon certaine cornes of Barly : and set the same in a colde place for the space of eighte dayes , and if t●e sayde Barlye cornes wyll growe agayne , or bring foorth newe corne : then the fault is not in the woman that shee conceaues not , but rather in the man . Yf otherwyse , then the lette of conception is in her .

STampe Crystall in a stone Morter of Marble , and make thereof a very fyne powder , then put thereto so much of the white of an egge that you may write therewith , mixte them well together with a little goome or goome water , then write therewith in paper what you wyll , then rubbe the same Letters with what mettall you wyll : and the wrytynge wyll bee of the coullour of that mettall wherewith you rubbed them . This I had out of an olde booke and Mizaldus affyrmes it withoute the Goome water .

THe iuyce of Lylly Rootes , and Uynegar , of eyther lyke much mixed togeather , and the sawse f●eame or redde pympled face annoynted therewyth euerye euenyng for the space of nyne or tenne dayes : dooth helpe it perfectly .

YOu shall knowe whether the dropsye be hotte or colde , by this that followeth : Yf the swellynge beginne fyrst at the feete , and go vpwarde , then it comes of a hotte cause : If the swellynge begynne fyrst in the face , and goe downewarde , then it comes of a colde cause . This lykewise I had out of an olde wrytten Booke wherein were many things credyble .

CAst the water of any sicke person newly made at night , on red nettels , & if the nettels be withered or dead in the morning after : then the sicke party is lyke to dye of that disease , if they be greene styll : then he is lyke to lyue .

A Certayne wicked fellowe that kylled his Father , dyd syt in company with his companions , eating & drinking : ouer whose heads , there was a swalowes nest , with young swallowes in the same : at which time the sayd swallowes made a great noyse , & chittering : when , suddenly the sayd wicked fellow , got a long powle , & brust the swallowes nest : wherby the swallowes fel down , & he trode on them , and crushed them in peeces . Being asked of one of them , why he dyd so : I haue good cause so to doo , sayde he : for dyd you not heare , sayde he , how they tolde that I kylled my Father . Whervpon he was suspected , examined , and so confessed , and therfore executed . Plutarchus .

DRye a Gotes , Sheeps , or Neates blather , & make powder therof , & let them drinke therof with Uineger or water , when they go to bed , that cannot hold their water : and it wyll helpe them . Galen affyrmes this .

IF the Sun , the Moone , the Alumten , or the Lorde of the Ascendent , be all safe , and not with the Lord of the eyght house , or in his aspect : without doubt the sicke person shal be ryd of his diseases , and recouer the same . If two of them be so , he is like to escape lykewise . If contrary , then he is lyke to dye thereof . Iatromathematica . M. Guat . Ryff .

TO kyll Serpents in your dreame , sygnifies victorie : to see sayles of shyppes , is euyl : to dreame that all your teeth are blouddy , it sygnifies the death of the dreamer : but , that the teeth is drawne out , signifies the death of another : that byrds enters into a house , sygnifies losse : to weepe , betokens ioye : to handle money , sygnifies anger : to see dead horsses , sygnifies a lucky euent of thinges . Artemidorus .

YOu shall make a Swoord , Knife , or any other Instrument , to haue an excellent edge : if you doo as followeth . Put into a pounde of the vrine of a young Man , as much soote as you may take in your hand , putting thereto fowre ounces of the oyle of Lynne seede : All being mixt together , let them seethe on the fyre , & betwene the beating , or stryking of the sword or the knife whiles it is red or burning hotte , quench it in this myxture : and according to arte , let it be wel tempered . Mizaldus .

IF you stampe Lupynes ( which are to be had at the Apothecaries , ) and therewith rubbe round about the bottome or lower part of any tree : no Antes , or Pyssemyres , wyll go vp and touch the same Tree . Mizaldus .

IF Mercury ( being Lorde of the syxt house ) be impedyte of Saturne , doth threa●●n to the chylde then borne , continuall blyndnesse : and so much the more , if the Moone beholde the Sunne and Saturne in that sort . Taisnier .

RUb the leafe of a Marygoold betweene your fyngers , and put the same into your nose , and let it staye there a pretie whyle : and it wyll bring forth aboundaunce of humors out of your head , and it wyll help the rewine , within a little whyle if you vse it . This I had of a friende as an excellent secrete .

THe eating of two drams of great Reasons ( the Stones taken out ) in the mornyng fastyng , doth profyte for conceruing of youth : because they make better dygestion , and fleame is dymynished by them , they comfort the Lyuor , and makes it fatte , because they are friendes of the stomacke , and of the Lyuor , and they encrease bloud , and makes it thycke , and when they are taken after meate , they strengthen and moystens the belly . Iohannes Gan●uctus .

THe eyes be not onely instrumentes of Inchauntment , but also the voyce and euyll tongues of certaine persons . For there are found in Africke , as Gellius sayth : Families of men , that if they chaunce exceedingly to prayse , fayre Trees , pure seedes , goodly chyldren , excellent horsses , fayre and well lyking cattell : soone after they wyll wyther and pyne away , & so dye . ( No cause or hurt knowne of their withering or death . ) Therupon the custome came , that when any do praise any thing , that we should say God blesse it or keepe it . Aristot. in Probl. By the report of Mizaldus .

STop both your eares with your fyngers , and the hyckop wyl go away within a whyle after . Proued .

MAny that are borne at that tyme , when the earth doth quake , are alwayes fearefull : in the tyme of thunder , they are for the most part saynt & fearfull : in the time of the change of the Moone , eyther they liue not long , or else they be weake : And oftentimes as Aristotle sayth , haue Melancholicke diseases , or els are out of measure Melancholicke : which makes them to be wayward , ●reating , & seldome mery . Mizaldus .

THere is a maruelous strength in Sperma ceti , for if it be pure & right : it wyll penetrate & go through the boxes or things wherin it is kept , with a certain moysture or sweating droppes . Mizaldus .

IF Mercury be coniunct with Saturne , or in any euyll aspect of him , & neyther Iupiter nor any other good Planet doth beholde Mercury . it doth note , that they then borne , shal haue an impediment in their tongue , or shall stut : chiefly , if he be founde aboue the earth . Taisnier .

THe rootes of Eldern sodde and streyned , & drunke thirtie dayes together , thryse euery daye , at morning , noone , and night : doth cure the dropsy perfectly . Proued .

IF the pappes of a woman , which is with childe of two , do waxe lytle , she shall lose one of them : and if it be the ryght pappe , it is a man chylde that wyll be lost : and if it be the lest , a woman chylde . Hippocrates in Aphor.

TAke Garlyck , and Houslyck , of each lyke much , & stampe them both together , and plaster the same eyther to a hotte or colde gowte : and it wyll helpe or ease it maruelously . This was reported to me to be excellent therfore .

THe Flower of oyntments , called Flos vnguentorum , is made as followeth . Take of Rosen , and Perrosy● , of each halfe a pounde , Uirgin waxe , and Olybanum , of eyther a quarter of a pounde , Masticke one ounce , Hartes tallowe , or els Sheepes tallow , a quarter of a pounde , Camphere two drams : make your gooms in fyne powder , and searce them : then melt the waxe and tallowe , and myxe the powders there with well , and boyle them well together , then streyne it through a canuas bagge into a pottell of white Wine : then let it keele vntyl it be bloud warm , then put thereto the Camphere , and a quarter of a pounde of Turpentyne , by lytle and lytle , euermore styrring it well , tyll it be through colde : Then make it vp in rowles , & keepe it to your vse , for the best salue for all things following , that euer was made , by the sufferaunce of God . Wherfore esteeme of this salue aboue any other , for it hath bene put in experience and substantially proued : It heales wounds , olde & new , it cleanseth very well , and gathereth good fleshe : It heal●th head ache , & impostume in the head , or in the body : Swolne eares or cheekes , sawsfleame in the face , Synewes cutte , starke or sprayned in trauell : It drawes out yron and thorne : it helpes venemous byting and pricking : it heales all manner of botche : all swelling and ache in the coddes , and all other members : it s●ases the fluxe of the Emrods , and it is speciall good to make a seare cloath , for all manner of griefes . This was wrytten and cast into the Recluse or Anker , at the Red hyll in Almaine : wherewith he wrought many maruels , and neuer vsed any other medicine but this . This I copied out of a very olde booke : and I haue proued it many tymes to be precious .

WHen the Alumten , or the Lorde of the Ascendent is Infortunate , in his fall or combust with three other testimonies , or else two : It sygnifies that the sick person shall dye . And it is so much the worse , if he be vnder the beames of the Sunne . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

WHosoeuer hath the griefe or swelling of the splene neuer so much , & hath had it of a long tyme : and doth heate the endes of a payre of tonges in the fyre , vntyl they be glowing and red hotte , and then quencheth the same in halfe a pynt of white Wine , & drynk the same Wine : It wyll helpe them therof perfectly . This was credibly tolde me for very trueth . But it is more certaine , if they be so heated and quenched fiue or sixe tymes , and then drunke : and to take the same fowre or fiue morninges together . Which I know to be excellent : the lyke vnto this is affyrmde to be most true , and proued by Anth. Beneuenius .

IT is a great token of health , when the stones or coddes begyns to ytche : though the other parts of the body be weake . But then take heede of Uenerius actes , least you pay for your pleasure . This out of Mizaldus .

COryander seede made in powder , and mixt with Honny , and unplastred vpon a Carbuncle , or other grieuous byles : destroyes the same quite . Arnold . de villa noua .

THe black Sea coale , mixed with oyle : wyl be made soft . Wherwith if one annoynt Uines , it wyll destroye the woormes : which destroyes or eates the buddes of the Uines . Seuerinus Gebelius .

THe goom of a Chery tree dissolued in white wine , and so geuen to them that are grieued with the stone : it wyll helpe them maruelously . Mizaldus affyrmes that it is certainly proued .

IT was credibly told me for a very truth , that there was a very poore woman , being brought to bed of a chylde , hauing many chyldren before , to whome a syster of hers ( being rytch , and that neuer as yet had any childe ) came to see her : who sayd vnto her as followeth . Ah syster syster , here are many mouthes and lytle meate . To whom her poore syster answered , content your selfe syster : God neuer sends mouth , but he sendeth meate . After it chaunst the rytch syster to be with chylde : which , when it was borne , had neuer a mouth . So that , ther was much meate , & no mouth . A worthy & rare example to make al couetous greedy & carefull worldlinges to cast their whole care on the Lord . And not so to depend on their own prouision or worldly wealth . If it were not for the great goodnes of God , we should haue no more meate for our mouthes , then this womans chyld had a mouth for meate . But if we haue both mouthes and meate , and lacke good stomacks for the same : what are we the neare ? So that both mouth meate and stomack , are not in our wylles to haue when welyst : but are Gods gyfts to bestowe as he wyll .

HErmes sayth , ( if in the Natiuitie of the Husband , ) Venus be Combust : the wyfe shall dye before the husbande . If in the Natiuity of the wyfe , Mars be Combust : the husband shall dye before the wife .

WAter or wine wherin Walwoort is sodde ( if a good draught thereof be drunke euery day fyrst and last , for the space of twentye dayes at the most , ) doth perfectly helpe them that haue the dropsy . It is an excellent medicine for the same .

CAst or instyl certaine drops of Baulme into cleare water , and then with a stick labour well the water , and if the water then be troubled , the baulme is not perfect . But if the water abyde cleare : then the same is good and perfect baulme . For the good and true baulme , doth gather it selfe , alwayes into one place . And thus you may trye a true & good baulme : from a false , and sofysticate baulme .

IF the roote of Pyony ( especialy , of the male Pyony ) be hangde at the necke of a chylde or a boye , that hath the falling sycknes : it doth helpe very much . Lykewise , doth Pellyter , and the heaire of a Dogge that is all blacke . Lemnius .

FINIS . Lib. 4.

❧ The fyfth Booke of Notable thinges .

A Mare wyl bring forth a Fole of diuers cullours : if she be couered with a cloth of dyuers cullours , whyles she is taking the Horse . For such cullours as be before the eyes of of the Horse , whyles he doth horse her : without doubt the Fole wyll be of the same cullours . The same may be proued with Dogs and other Beasts . Mizaldus .

THe berryes of Halicacabus ( called wynter Cherries ) being stampt , and the iuyce , prest or wroong out of the same , and then dryed in the shaddow : the same , ( if it be geuen to such as haue the stone , or cannot make water , and also to them that haue the Dropsie , ) it wyll prouoke vrine , or dryue forth the water , and also expell the Hydropycall humors . Mizaldus .

HOrus Apollo doth saye , that a Woolfe doth feare greatly stones : therfore when he is constrayned , to go by stony places , he treades very demurely or softly . For being hurt with a very lytle stroke of a stone : it breedes woormes , wherof at length he is consumed , or brought to his death . Therfore he doth flye from a trauellor : that layes wayte to stryke him with stones .

IF the Moone and Venus be ioyned together , and both be Combust : He that is then borne , shall lacke a wyfe , ( or neuer marrie . ) Ptolomeus .

IF the leaues of Elderne , fyrst made hotte between two Tyle stones , and then applyed hotte to the forehead and the temples , if any painelye there : It helpeth the ache of the head maruelously . This is very good and well proued .

HEre followeth a maruellous water to prouoke sleepe . Take of Opium thebaicum , and Garlicke heads pylled , of each two ounces : beate the Garlicke heads in a morter with a woodden pestel , & put therto the Opium grinded : incorporate these well together : that it maye be lyke a Sawce : Distyll this in a Retorte , with a most soft & slowe fyre in ashes . With this water distilled when neede shal require , annoint the temples , the forehead , and pulses of the wrestes . And beware you mynister nor vse this , but vppon a great necessity , as in franticke persons , ( as you shall thinke it good . )

THe iuyce of the buddes , leaues , inner rynde , or of the young braunches of Elderne , ( something warme ) put into the eare : doth not onely breake the impostume thereof , within sowre or fiue tymes : but also doth maruelously helpe the deafnes . This was tolde me for a great secrete : and I haue tryed it to be an excellent thing in such a case .

TO see Moonks in ones dreame , doth portend death or calamity : to see fatte Oxen , betokens plenty of thinges : to loose an eye or a toothe , sygnifies the death of a friende , or of a kynseman , or some other euyll lucke : to dreame to be dumme , foreshewes speedie gladnes : to see Oxen plowe , betokens gaine : to enter into waters , betokens euyll . Artemidorus .

THis following makes a soft beard , and doth beautifie the chynne with a fyne heaire . Take butter witstout salt , the iuyce of a redde Onion , the grease of a Gray or a Badger , the roote of Bryony , of Beetes , of Radysh , and of whyte Lyllies : whereof make a Lynyment , and annoint the chyn often therewith , being shauen . Mizaldus .

PUt vp an olde Gander into a house , and let him be there three dayes without meate , then cast vnto him peeces of an Eele newlie kylled , then gather the dunge that comes from him , after he hath eaten the peeces of the Eele : which dung being layde to any impostume or swelling : Is a present remedy therfore .

HE that sleepeth in a sheepes skynne : shall see true dreames , or dreame of things that be true . Mizaldus .

THe brayne of a Wesell dryed , and drunke with Uinegar : doth helpe them that haue the falling sicknes . Mizaldus .

IVpiter and Venus , or the one of them in the eyght house , not Combust , nor Retrograde : doth sygnifie the chyld then borne , shall dye a naturall , ( and no violent death . ) Taisnier .

TAke a lytle sticke , and tye about the ende thereof olde Oken leaues , then cutte them something rounde , and holde the same leaues in your mouth as deepe and as farre in as you may suffer it well , ( holding the stycke betweene your teethe , ) & so hold your mouth ouer a porrenger or a dysh : and there wyll great aboundaunce of humors auoyde out of your mouth : and within a whyle , washe in fayre water the sayde leaues on the stycke : and then holde it in your mouth so againe . Doo thus for the space of halfe an howre , and vse this three or fowre tymes a daye , for three or fowre dayes together : or vntyll you haue auoyded as much waterie humors as you thinke good . This is the best and the presentest remedy for helping of the rewme , that euer I knewe , or hearde of . I had it of a Gentleman , that esteemed it as a Treasure . And whosoeuer proues it , shall fynde it an excellent thyng .

MIrabolanes chebuli , preserued with his syrruppe , vsed daylye , and eaten : preserueth youth excellently well .

THis followinge is an excellent Gargarisme , to purge the head and the brest . Take of Stauesacre , three drams , Pellyter of Spaine , and mustard seede , of eyther two drams , long Pepper , Gynger , and A●lomgem , of each one dram : Make powder of them that are to be powdred , and stampe the rest , & myxe all well together , and put as much therof as a beane in a little lynnen cloath , and tye the same fast with a threde , that it may be rounde : then houlde the same in your mouth , & champe it softly betweene your teeth : and it wil bring forth water and fleame aboundantly . Use this dayly vntill you thinke your head be wel purged .

YF the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eight house , receyued of the Lord of the eight house , so that he receyue not the Lorde of the eight house : It sygnifies that the sycke party shall escape , without all hope . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

EArth woormes slyt , and cleansed , and washt from their slymye and earthye matter ( halfe a dosen of them , at the least ) and cut in peeces or chopped , and a good messe of pottage made thereof with otemeale and water , and so much euerye daye eaten by them that haue the black Iaundies , for the space of twelue dayes or longer : no doubt it will perfectly cure them therof , though it be neuer so long rooted , or thought to be past cure . Or else a spoonefull of the powder made of them in March , or any other time , when you can get than , taken euery day so long in a litle draught of any drinke : doth likewise perfectly cure the same . This is very true , and hath bene often tymes proued . It hath helpt some in fowre or fyue dayes .

OL●banum ( which is a kinde of Frankencence ) in powder mixte with as much of Swines grease , and boyled together , wherewith if childrens heades that are full of Lyce , or that are geuen to breede lyce , be annoynted : they shall afterwardes be free from Lyce . This is better and more safe , then to vse oyntments mixt with quicksyluer , which is very daungerous : therefore let Mothers or Nursses , rather vse this .

WHereas euery Beast ( the act of generation ended or done ) is woont to be sadde : onely the Cock reioyseth , for he sheweth his gladnes then by crowing .

IF Mars be in the eyght house , & in a humaine signe , or in the seconde face of Taurus , or in the first face of Leo : It doth shew the child then borne , shall dye of yron . Taisnier .

IT is proued by experience , that to vse customablie in the dynner , and immediatly before the Supper , halfe an ounce of the flowre of Cassia newly drawne : doth forbyd the engendring of the impostumation of the stomacke . Truly I saye vnto thee , that who doth vse , such taking of Cassia , shal be preserued from euery euyll affection of the stomacke . Emperica bened .

WIne of the decoction of Tormentyll , drunke daylye without any other drinke , and the hearbe thereof sodden , and euery euening plastred ouer the eyes , the space of three or fowre monthes or more : restoreth the syght , yea , to those that haue their eyes as though they dyd see , and yet are blinde , and sees nothing at all . Petrus Hispanus .

ANdreas Mattheolus , knewe a Woman , that euery daye for a whole yeares space , was greeuously troubled with the paynes of the moother , which was helped verye well of that disease , by drinking once a weeke at her going to bed , o● white Wine , wherein an ounce of the roote of Bryony was heated : and she vsing this medicine a whole yeare in such sort , she felt no more harme therof .

IF you wyll destroye or put away Warts , cut of the head of a quyck Eele , and rubbe the Warts all ouer well with the same bloud , then as it runnes from the Eele : then bury the head of the sayd Eele deepe in the ground , and when the head is rotten , then they wyll fall away . I thinke the Author hereof is Iohannes Baptista Porta . Mizaldus .

ABout the rysing of the lytle Dogge , ( being in the Sommer : ) an olde Cock doth lay an Egge , round , speckled , and of dyuers cullours : where of many doo thinke that the Basylike , or Cockatryse doth come , ( which is a most pernicious and venemous serpent , ) especially : if that egge be syt vpon and hatched by a Tode . Which whether it be a fable or not , let other iudge . Mizaldus .

MArs in the eyght house , with the head of the Dragon : betokens that the chylde then borne , shal die of a roape , ( or be hangd . ) Taisnier .

THe iuyce of Colewoorts , put or snuft into the nosthrylles : doth purge the head maruelous well , and helps the auncient payne of the head . Often proued .

BLacke sieges lyke to fylthy bloud , are wonderfull euyll . Whether they be with an ague , or without an ague . And the darker cullour they haue , the woorse they bee : but if these sygnes come through a Purgation , they be more laudable . And although they be of dyuers cullours , they be not euyll . Hippocrates .

THis following is an excellent , and often proued thing for the Collycke , Strangurie , and the stone . Take the seedes of Careaway , Fennell seede , Spicknarde , Annes seede , Coomyn seede , Cynamom , and Galyngale : of eache halfe an ounce , Gromell seede , and Lycores , of eyther of them an ounce , and beate them all to powder , and drinke halfe a spoonefull of the same powder in Ale , a lytle warmed , and walke vppe and downe one howre after , before you eate or drinke any other thing . Doo thus fiue or sixe dayes together at the least , and you shall finde it of a notable operation . This was taken out of a learned practysers booke : besydes synce it hath bene many tymes proued .

YOung Chyldren , whose gummes are annoynted with the brayne of an Hare , doo breede their teeth easylie . Mizaldus . And it hath bene proued with the brayne of a Conie .

A Walnutte put fast into a Chycken , that it fall not out in the roastyng thereof : It makes that the same Chycken wyll be the sooner roasted . Mizaldus .

IF a rounde large vessell , with one hole in the toppe thereof , be fylled full with quicke Lyme and Brimstone , of both equall porcions : and then the hole well stopt , that no ayre nor any thing may go out , and so put into some standing water , or a litle pit of water , or into some cesterne full of water : it wyll keepe the sayd water hotte a long tyme , or for many daies . Proued of many , sayth Mizaldus . And I founde the same also in an olde written booke .

HEns dunge mixt with meate that is geuen to be eaten of madde Dogs , wyl take away their madnes from them : ( As it is thought . ) Mizaldus .

IF a Woorme , that is founde in the grasse , before it touch the grounde , be hanged alyue at a womans necke that is with childe : it is thought she shal keepe the chylde vntyll the due tyme of the byrth . Plinius . As Mizaldus sayth .

IF one geue any thing for Warts , to them that haue them , be it neuer so small a thing , as three or fowre heayrs ( a rag of a lynnen cloath , or some other thinge of no value the sooner it wyll rotte , so much the better , ) and let the party that would be ryd of the warts , wrappe the same in some thing , and put it into the ground , and couer the same with earth againe : truly , as the same thing doth rotte in the earth , so wyll the warts weare and consume away . This is perfectly proued .

IF Mars be in Gemini , and the Sunne in Pisces , in a quartyle aspect , in the daye tyme : or the Moone in the night tyme : ( it doth sygnify that ) the chylde then borne wyll be hangde . Taisnier .

THey that vse to receyue three Pyls made of Aloes De succo citrino , made in powder , ( which is to bee had at the Apothecaries , ) and mixt with the iuyce of Colewoorts , of the bygnes of a beane : shall neuer be troubled with paine in the head . Petr. Hisp.

A Straunge medicine for the gowte . Take a good handfull of Arsemart , and wrap and tye the same in a Burre leafe : and laye it first in olde ashes , then compasse the same with hotte embers & coales , & so rost the same wel : them apply the same rosted Arsmart to the grieued place , and do thus euening and morning for two or three dayes : and thou shalt fynde a present helpe thereof . This was tolde me for a great secrete , and as a proued thing .

IF you put or stop fast within a Nutte , quicke brimstone , Saltpeter , and Quicksyluer : the same being put into a loafe of bread , and then the same loafe of bread put into some hotte place , where it may heate : as soone as it waxeth hot , you shal see the loafe of bread so leape , that it wyll bee a very pretye sport to them that sees it . Mizaldus had this of one that proued it .

A Most excellent oyle of Saint Iohns Woort , is made as followeth . Infuse or stiepe for the space of three dayes , the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort , in pure and excellent Wine , then in a double vessel let them 〈◊〉 easily ouer the fire , and then straine them easily : then agayne put as many of the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in that strayned lycquor , as you had before : and let them stiepe therin three dayes & three nights as before : then heate & strayne them as before , then adde thereto three ounces of Turpentine , and syxe ounces of olde Oyle , and of Safferue the weyght of xxiiii . Barly cornes : myxe all together , and then seeth all together in a double vessell , vntyll the wyne be consumed : and that that remaynes put it into a glased or leaded vessel , & keepe it safely for your vse . This Oyle is of a maruelous vertue and propertie , as wel chieflye against venemous Ulcers , as many other diseases and colde griefes : Well knowne to many women . Mizaldus .

IF you rubbe sleyghtly any kinde of Beastes or Cattell , with the iuyce of goordes , in hotte wether : no kinde of Flyes wyll then hurt or molest them , nor yet come nye them . A thing desyred of many , and very necessary for such as rydes in the hotte wether . Mizaldus .

IF Mars be opposite to Iupiter , and the one of them bee the Lorde of the eyght house : ( it is lyke ) the chylde then borne , shall dye by the commaundement of the Iudge . Taisnier .

THe leaues of wylde Iuie sodde in wine , and layde vpon any Cankar : doeth kyll and heale the same . Trotula .

THis water following is very precious for frantick and madde men : proued very often . Take of the flowres of Rosemarie , of Burrage , and of the rootes of Buglosse , of each halfe a pounde , of Saffern two drams , of Quinces fowre ounces , of the best whyte Wine , two pintes : mixe them all together , and then let them stande so the space of a naturall daye : after that bury the glasse body wherein all the same is , in horse dung for fifteene daies : and then take it out and distyll a water therof , according to arte , two or three times ouer . Keepe this water as the Aple of your eye , for it is very precious and well proued in all Melancholy sicknesses very effectuously : and in the paine and trembling of the harte , the quantity to be geuen at one time is a dram . ( Which is the weyght of .lxxii. barly cornes . ) If you proue it , you wyll prayse it . And this is in the new Iuell of Health : with many other mo excellent thinges .

THey are not lyke to lose their senses , nor their vnderstanding : in whose Natiuity the Moone doth apply to Mercury , eyther by coniunction or by aspect . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff . Argent .

SEt a rounde glasse full of water against the hotte Sunne , that it maye stande fast : and then holde something that is very drie , and wyll take fyre easely , nye to the same glasse , betweene the glasse and the Sunne : and it wyll set the same thing there holden , on fyre . Which is very straunge to beholde . And the rather , because fyre a hotte and drye element , is procured out of water , a colde and moyst element . Iohan. Baptist. Porta .

DIdimus wrytes , that Sheepe are woont to follow them : that stoppes their eares with their wooll .

IF any doth aske thee ( hauing knowledge in Astrologie ) what he dyd see in his dreame : marke the Ascendent , when the question is made : And if thou doest finde Saturne in the Ascendent ( or fyrst house , ) tell him that he dyd see in his dreame Religious persons : as Fryers , Heremytes , or such lyke , or places of Prayer , &c. But if thou finde Mars in the Ascendent , saye that he saw in his dreame , Captaines , Knights , Murtherers , Theeues , Harnes or Battelles , or such lyke . If the Sunne be in his first house : he dyd see Gardins , Trees , with fruites , Golde , or a King . If Venus be in the Ascendent : he dyd see a fayre Uirgin , or some eating or drinking , or one lying with a Woman , or that haue things wherin they are delighted , or else to playe , or to walke abroade , or whyte or red garmentes . If Mercury be in the first house : then he dyd see handsome & eloquent men reasoning , or Pallaces decked with Curtens , and rytch hanginges or cloathes , bookes or wrytings of salutation , or of accoumpts . If the Moone be in the first house : he dyd see ryuers , or water , or precious stones , or some that dyd eate or drinke , or his Mother , or his Awnt , or his Mothers Syster . This sayth Haly Abenragel . But Messahala , and Alhayhat , and Abrier Farsal , haue sayde : looke in the sygne of the ninth house from the Ascendent , and if thou doest finde in the same house , any of the seuen Planettes , iudge that the vision or dreame was of them , as is before , when they are founde in the first house . And adde to the sygnification of the Sunne , ( that is , if the Sun be in the ninthe house , ) that he dyd see him selfe flying betweene heauen and earth , or that he dyd see a great lyght : and if there be no Planets in the ninth house : then marke him that is in the first house : if none be there : then marke who is in the thirde house : if none be there : then looke in the fowrth house : if none be there : looke in the seuenth house : if none be there : then looke in the tenth house . And iudge according to the sygnification of euery Planet : and thou shalt be certified , God wylling . Haly Abenragell .

AGainst the quarten ague , take the vrine that the partie makes at one tyme in his fytte , and kneade flowre therewith : and when the same is baked , then geue it to a Dogge of the same house . And when you haue done thus thryse : the partie wyll be whole and ryd of the disease . And in his steade the Dogge wil be sicke . But for a man that is sicke , a Dogge must be chosen . If a woman , a bytch must be had . This was taken out of an often proued experiment of an Italian , by the report of Mizaldus .

WHosoeuer desyres to see the Sun eclipsed without hurting their eyes : Let them beholde the shadow therof in a vessel , wherin oyle is put : Where , they may beholde and see it without daunger . For a fatty humor is not easely troubled . And what shapes or fourmes it doth receyue : It representeth the same truely . Mizaldus .

A Lamen , or thyn plate of Gold , borne on the seame of the brayne , doth strengthen the brayne . The same hanged against the region or place of the harte : doth helpe the beating of the harte , and encreaseth gladnes . And if it be put vpon the reynes of the back : it strengthens the reynes , and cooles the same , and ceaseth the paynes of the backe . But Mizaldus wysheth that the same plate be beaten and made of pure and fyne Golde , when the Sunne is in Leo , called the Lion : And Iupiter & the Moone beholding each other happely . Hermes . Arnoldus Villa nouanus . &c. Alij .

IF the Lord of the Horoscope , be in the seuenth house Combust , and the Sunne hath no essentiall dygnitye in the same : then he ( that is then borne , ) shall perish by the handes of many , which wyll ryse against him . But if the Sunne haue then any power in the seuenth house : he shall dye by the Kings commaundement . Taisnier .

IT is proued and a secrete : that if three graynes of Masticke be geuen to the patient to be swalowed , euery night at his going to bed : it doth preserue him from the paynes of the stomacke , and doth cure him . Emperica benedicti victorij . I knowe by proofe , it helpes the stomack maruelously .

THis water following , breakes the Stone in the bladder , and in the reynes . Take of the iuyce of Saxisrage , two pyntes , of Gromell , and of the iuyce of Perceley , of eyther one pynt , of the best Uinegar of a pleasaunt Wine , eyght ounces : dystyll all these together ▪ and let the lycquor distylled be kept in a glasse with a narrow mouth : Of which mynister in the morning one ounce at a tyme , as much at noone , and as much at euening going to bed . This is a proued water , as sayth Fumanellus .

TO dreame that Eagles flyes ouer your head : doth betoken euil fortune . To dreame that you see your face in the water : sygnifyes long lyfe . To follow Bees : betokens gaine or profyt . To be marryed : sygnifies that some of your kynsfolkes is dead . To dreame that you worshyp God : sygnifyes gladnes . To looke in a glasse : doth portende some yssewe , or a chylde . To haue oyle powred vpon you : sygnifyes ioy . Michael Scotus , et Artemidorus .

IF you would haue Copper to melt quickly , and run easely : put the hooues of a Horse into the same , betweene the melting and powring out therof . Mizaldus had this secrete of an expert Italyan .

GOates wyl not stray , or wander : if you cut of their beards . Florentinus Geoponicus , and Zoroaster .

IF you put a Tode in a new earthen potte , and the same be couered in the grounde : in the myddes of a corne fyelde : it is sayde there wyll be no hurtfull tempestes or stormes there . As Archibius dyd wryte to Antiochus King of Siria . Plinio Authore .

IF the Lorde of the eyght house , be founde in the twelfth house , with an euyll Planet , or in his euyll Aspect : ( it showes , ) the chylde then borne wyll dye a captiue , ( that is ) in pryson , or as one that doth flye away . Taisnier .

WHosoeuer annoynts their belly with this oyntment folowing , it easeth the paine of the head , it purgeth the stomack , it comforteth the appetyte , & clarifieth the eyes . Take of the iuice of smallach two ounces , of the iuice of Mercury , fowre ounces , of goose grease & Hens grease , of either of them a pound , of Rosē two ounces , of Masticke , and Frankyncence , of either fyue drams , of Cassia Fistula , two drams : and put therto iuyce of Walwoort , and of the inner rynde of Elderne , and myxe them all well together , and make therof an oyntment . This if it be well made , is a very good thing .

THe Squyncie , or any other payne of the throate , wyll be helpt with this following . Marke where a Swine doth rubbe him , and then rubbe your hand on the same woodde , post , or stone : with which hande rubbe your sore or swolne throate . And as some saye that haue proued it : cut of a peece of the same wood , where the Swine dyd rubbe himselfe , and rubbe the swolne or grieued place therwith . But the rubbing of the Swines necke , is the best for the necke : the legge for the legge : and so that part of the Swine , for the lyke part of the personne grieued or diseased . This is a very true and often proued thing .

TAke a pynt of whyte Wine , one handfull of woodbinde leaues , or two or three ounces of the water of Woodbinde , and a quarter of a pounde of the powder of Ginger , seethe them all together vntyll they be something thycke : And annoynt a red pympled face therwith fiue or sixe tymes , and it wyl make it faire . This is proued .

LVdonicus Viues doth wryte , that within the memory of his Auncestors , or Fathers , there was a Sepulchre or Toombe pluckt vp : wherin a burning Candle was founde , made ( as was wytnessed by wryting ) fyue hundreth yeares before . And when it was touched or handled : by and by it was resolued into powder . Iohannes Langius .

IF you woulde haue a deepe Well made , it is best to dygge the same when the Sun is in the last partes of Virgo , before the Autumnall equinoctiall : ( which is about the beginning of September , or immediatly after , ) for then through the great heate , and drynes of the Sommer : the earth wants rayne . Mizaldus had this of one that was skylfull in such thinges . Which was a maister Carpentar .

IF any be bytten or stricken of a Scorpion , which shall eate Basyll the same daye : he shall be made whole therof . Aphri . reports it .

IF any fall sicke in the howre of the Sunne : he wyll haue a strong Feuer or ague . And many times shall be vexed in his minde : which wyll bring no small hurt vnto him . Haly Abenragel .

THe iuyce of Coryander , geuen to them that haue the falling Euyll to drinke : wyll not suffer the humor to ascende into the head , and it worketh great helpe to the diseased . This was written in an olde booke .

WHosoeuer is brought weake , either by some greuous sicknes , or disease , of long continuaunce , or by woundes receyued , or any other waye : and thervppon haue a syege of Melancholy , lyke to blacke bloud : he shall doubtles dye the next daye after . Hippocrates in suis Aphor.

A Sausfleame or redde pympled face , is helped with this medicine following . Take Enula Campana , fowre ounces , and seethe it with vinegar , tyll the vinegar be sodden in : then stampe it small , and then put thereto quycksyluer and brymstone , of eyther fowre drams , and Barrowes grease , fowre ounces : & beate them all together , and make therof a plaster , and laye it to the enfected or spotted place in the face , all night : and on the morrowe wash it of with warme water . Doo thus sixe or seuen nightes , and it wyll helpe it without doubt .

THe fyrst seedes , that the Hee , or Male Pyony brings forth ( being round and black , ) do maruelously recreate or helpe them that haue the fallyng sycknes : If some therof be stampt and taken with Oximel scillitick , which is to be had at the Apothecaries : and with the syrrup of Sticados , & a lytle Nutmug : which Lemnius doth wytnes for a very trueth .

WHosoeuer is stricken or hurte of any venemous woorme , or other thing : or else bytten of a madde Dogge . Let them take heede dillygently that the same thing that dyd hurt them , see them not , vntyl they be perfectly whole . For the Hebrew Phisitions saye , that the party hurt , shall then dye , or els be in peryll afresh : yea though they begynne to waxe whole when they see them . Mizaldus .

ONe handful of Basyll , with ten sea Crabs , stampt or beaten together : doth make all the Scorpions to come to that place , that are nye to the same . Aphri . as Mizaldus sayth .

IF the Lorde of the eyght house , be afflicted in the fowrth house , ( it sygnifyes , ) the chylde then borne , shall dye in pryson . Taisnier .

WIne wherin the rynde of an Ashe tree hath bene sodden , drunke fasting , sixe or seuen morninges together : doth perfectly helpe them that are tormented with the paines of the splene . ( Which makes one to haue a great payne in the left syde , & there most griefe is after meate . ) And if you annoynt the grieued place so long with an oyntment called Deathea , euery morning and euening . It is an excellent thing lykewise .

BEholde a syngular Oyle or Baulme drawne out of waxe and Turpentine , which dryeth and mightely perseth where the same is applyed : taken out of the secretes of Fallopius . Take of the purest and clearest Turpentine that can be gotten , one pounde and two ounces , of new yellowe waxe that is odoriferous , twelue ounces , of Nutmugges and Cloues , of eyther one ounce , of common ashes , syxe ounces : beate all these wel together , then put the same into a Retorte , fenced with Lute of Wisedome , and set in ashes , and distyll it with a slowe fyre at the fyrst , and after encrease the fyre vntyl all be distilled : which gathered , distyll the seconde tyme in a glasse body with an heade & receauer , putting vnto it before the distylling fowre ounces of the powder of brycke or Tyles . Which dyllygently luted in the ioyntes , maynteyne fyre vnder it , vntyll no more wyll come , then haue you purchased an Oyle of a rubyne cullour , which worketh myracles in woundes , especially : where synnues be harmed . This also helpeth any manner of rewme proceeded of a colde cause , it helpeth besydes the cough , by annointing the region of the breast therewith : and it is also of great importaunce vnto many other griefes , inuented and proued by the aboue sayde Author many tymes . This excellent oyle I had out of that worthy Booke , called the new Iewell of Health : which many perhappes should neuer haue read in this my booke , that neuer shall heare tell of that which makes me describe herein some notable thinges therein vttered .

A Notable and often proued plaster , to destroy any impostume , swelling , and stytche , in what place of the body soeuer it be : is now described as followeth . Take of the roote of Hollyocke , ( cleane washed and cutte in peeces , ) two good handfull , and seethe the same in fayre water , vntyll the sayde roote be something tender . Then take out the sayde roote , and put into the same water , of Fenecreeke , and Lyn seede , of eyther one handfull , ( something stamped or brused , ) & seethe them together vntyll the water be ropeing like byrdlime : then stampe the sayd roote of Hollyock before sodde . And put it therto with an handfull of Barly meale , and frye them together with Bores grease , or Barrowes grease : ( and if neede be , you maye take sheepe suet , ) then laye a plaster thereof to the sore , or grieued place , as hotte as the party maye suffer it : and let the same lye twelue howres vnremoued at the least , and after applye another plaster of the same therto , in such order : and within nyne plasters it wyll worke the full effect . It hath helpt & dyssolued the Pluresy , with the applying of three or fowre plasters . A thing of smal cost , and great vertue .

WHen the Lord of the Ascendent is impedite or Infortunate of the Lord of the second house : It sygnifies that the syck shal not be healed , but with great expences of money , or els dye . And vniuersally , marke what Planet doth Infortunate the Lord of the Ascendent . The sycke is lyke to haue harme or hynderance by such things , as that house doth sygnifie , whereof that Infortunating Planet is Lord , or Sygnifyer . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

EGge shelles dryed and beaten to powder , and geuen in whyte Wine : breaketh the stone . It is a tryed medicine , as one affyrmed to me .

SUgar ( especially , Ualencia sugar , ) made in pouder , and put into a wound or cutte : doth not onely clense all corruption from it , and consumes all superfluous flesh or matter in it : but also heales it maruelously . If you lyst you may mixe a lytle fresh butter therewith : wherby it wyll not be of the lesse vertue . This is a sure , excellent , easye , and a ready medicine : who lyst to trye it , shall finde it a syngular thing .

A Certaine Wench was borne within sixteen miles of London : who within a yeare and a halfe after her byrth , dyd begyn to eate earth , stones , bricke , and grauell . And so continued therin , ( hauing all her delyght in eating of such baggage : ) also she dyd eate the woollen sleeues that were on her armes , besydes that she dyd eate a gloue . And on a tyme as her mother dyd feede her with mylke : there chaunst to fall a great peece of soote out of the chymney , into the sayd mylke : which soote , the sayd chyld tooke out of the dysh with her fyngers , and dyd eate it most greed●ly . She abhorred then bread & butter , and other such natural foode . Wherby she was maruelously consumed with a fluxe , and she yet lyueth , hauing nothing on her but skyn and bone . I sawe her in Iune . 1577. She was borne in Chayrsey , within two or three myles of Stanes , at which tyme she was full three yeares of age .

IT is sayde that Myse dung , with the ashes of burned Waspes , and of hasel Nuts , and a lytle vinegar of Roses put therto : doth trymly decke a bauld place with heayrs : if the same place be often tymes rubbed or annoynted therwith . Mizaldus .

IF any Beast of the female kinde , doth pisse vpon the vrine of a Woolfe newly made : the same Beast shal neuer conceaue . Pithagoras .

AEtius geues counsayle , that that Dogge be buried or put into the ground in any wyse , which is dead by taking his disease from a man : for it is certain , ( saith he , ) that daungerous and many effects , ( the man being escaped , ) are turned , or ouerpowred into him .

THe troublesome , or vnpleasaunt noyse of Frogges in the night , wyll cease : if you set a Candle burning on the bancke syde nye the water where they be . Or els many lyghtes , according to the greatnes of the place where they be . Africanus Geopon . And this was proued at Parys , by the meanes of a Presydent there , that therewith was troubled . Mizaldus .

IT is the opinion of many , that an hearbe ( called Leucacanthus , ) that is Whyt thorne : ( euen as the Bay tree , ) is neuer strucken nor touched with lyghtning , nor is not touched with any euyl from heauen . Mizaldus .

ZAel sayth , that he hath proued in many Natiuities , where the Moone is in Virgo , opposite with the Sun : that the chyld then borne , hath ben drownd .

SIxe cloues of Garlycke , stampt and strayned into a draught of Rennish Wine , & so drunke : is a present remedy for the collyck , stone , & the strangury . An excellent tryed medicine : if you take it three dayes .

MAke powder of the flowres of Elderne , gathered on Mydsomer daye , being before well dryed , and vse a spoonefull therof in a good draught of Burrage water , morning & euening , fyrst and last , for the space of a month : and it wyl make you seeme young a great whyle . This I had out of an olde wrytten booke , as proued .

TAke Horseleaches , and burne them to powder , and myxe it with Eysell , then vse to rubbe the place therwith , where you would haue heaire to grow no more : and there wyll no heaire growe in that place . This was a secrete of a notable Practyser .

WHosoeuer vses to drinke butter mylke , they wyll be laratiue , although they be very much bound , and can not go to the stoo●e . Proued .

THey are lyke to haue the falling sycknes , in whose natiuities the Moone and Mercury do not behold the one the other . Or where neither of them do behold the Ascendent : and wheras in the day tyme Saturne is the sygnifyer of the qualyties of the mynde : and being then in an Angle , and Mars in natiuityes of the night .

THat young Beasts be not hurt of their fetters , or that being hurt of them , they may be cured : Tye vnto their necks a Date stone bored through . Mizaldus .

IF you geue to them that haue the falling sycknes , this medicine or Antidote following three dayes , whiles the Moone is coniunct to Iupiter : it wyl helpe him . Take of Mase , the seedes of Pyony & the rootes of the same , halfe a dram , the leaues of Gelyuors , and of Prymroses , ( which some takes to be the Daysie ) one dram : stampe them , and geue it to drinke with whyte Wine . ( The party being fasting . ) Mizaldus .

AS a certayne countrey man , dyd sleepe open mouthed in the fieldes : a Serpent crept in at his mouth , and so into his body : but after the sayde man cured him selfe therof , with the eating of Garlyke . But he enfected his wife with poyson : by hauing to do with her carnally : wherof she dyed , which was very rare and straunge . Volateranus .

POwder made of the stone of a Swallow , geuen in drinke to them that haue the falling sycknes : healeth them without doubt , for it is a sure experiment . Petrus Hispanus .

IF thou would know whether a Woman be conceaued with chyld , or not : geue to her two spoonefuls of water , and one spooneful of clarified Honny , mingled together to drink , when she goeth to sleepe : and if she feele grypings and paynes in her belly in the nyght , she is with chylde : if she feele none , she is not . This is very true and often proued .

HE wyll neuer be poore , of whose Natiuity Iupiter is rular , or Lorde . Celi enarrant : The Author of which worke is vnknowne .

THis following wyll take spots out of the face , and bewtify the same . Put seuen whole Egs , in most pure and strong Uineger , and let them lye therein so long , vntyll theyr shelles be as soft as theyr inwarde skynnes : and myxe therto fowre ounces of mustarde seede , before made in powder ( or stampt : ) then stampe or grinde them together , and therwith let the face be often annoynted . This hath bene proued : and Trotula affyrmes it also for the lyke purpose .

GReene nettels layd in the vryne of one that is sick , and so stieped therin for the space of .xxiiii. howres : if after the same tyme they be taken out greene and fresh : it betokens that the syck party wyll recouer of that sycknes : if they be wythered : it is a great token of death . Mizaldus .

FINIS . Lib. 5.

❧ The syxt Booke of Notable thinges .

IF you would haue any Beast , or any parte of the same , ( of what cullour soeuer he be ) to be turned into white , shaue of the heairs , & smoake the same that is shauen , with the fume of Brymstone : and whyte heayres wyll growe there . You may proue the same in flowres . Mizaldus .

THe berryes of Whyt thorne , taken with whyte Wine : is of great force , for destroying or expelling of the stone . It is knowne by the practise or experience of the countrey men . Mizaldus .

( IN a question of a vision , or dreame : ) marke the Lorde , or the Alumten of the Ascendent , and the Moone , and consider if thou findest eyther of them in the ninth , or the thyrde house : but if you finde none of them there , then marke , if you finde eyther of them in the Ascendent or fyrst house , or in any of his Angles : and if you so finde eyther of them , and the same be seperate from a good Planet , & applyed to a good Planet : It sygnifyes that the dreame is good & pleasant , and of a good sygnifycation , and is of the condition of that good Planet , to whom he applyes : and the profyt or commodity of his dreame , shal be of the condition of the house where he is in the figure , and of the condition of the house which he doth beholde with a good Asspect . But if he be seperate from an euyll Planet , and applyes also to an euyll Planet : Then the vision or dreame , is euyl & to be feared , and is of an euyl signification . Which euyll & harme shal be , according to the nature of the Planet , to whom the same applyes , and according to the nature of the house wherin he is in the fygure , & according to the nature of that euyll Planet . But if he be seperate from a good Planet , and applyes to an euyll Planet : saye that the vision or dreame was good and pleasaunt , but he hath an euil sygnification . But if he be seperate from an euyl Planet , and doth apply to a good Planet : say that the vision or dreame was fowle & euyll , but it hath a good sygnifycation , and the profyt or successe thereof , wyll be according to the nature of the Planet , to whom he doth applye , and according to the nature of the house wherein he is , in the fygure . ( As we haue sayde . ) Therefore according to this waye and rule , consyder the visions or dreames : and confer one to another , & thou shalt be certified , ( God wylling . ) Haly Abenra .

IT is proued , and a secrete : that if you geue to them that haue the hyckop , euery morning three howres before meate , one roote of greene Gynger , and immediatly after drinking two draughts of Malmesey : you shall see that he wyll be soone cured . Emperici benedicti victorij .

AS word wherwith a man is kylled , the bloud being cleane wypt from it , & put into a hotte fyre , which being taken out of the same , doth manifestly shew the murther , for so farre as the sword was in the wounded person : so farre it wyll be of a contrary cullour to the sword . It was told me that a Byshop dyd trye it to be true , by one of his men .

IF the bloud of a Cocke be dryed , and made in powder , and myxt in Wyne , wherin there is water : it makes the water swym aboue . This was of the relation of a learned Moonke . Mizaldus .

PLanteyn hath a maruelous vertue , to deliuer them of the Plague , that are infected therwith : geuen any manner of way . Proued .

THe more lyuely and quick that a Horse is , the more deeper he wyl thrust his nose into the water , when he drynkes . Plinius .

SWyne and Elephants doo hate whyte garments , Bulles and Oxen hates maruelously garmentes that be of purple cullour : which many vnder such apparel haue some tymes proued to theyr great griefe . Plinius .

IF the Lord of the eight house , be in the eyght house , or beholde the same happely : the chyld then borne wyll dye in his countrey , or nye the same . Taisnier .

THe white of an Egge , and the iuyce of Perytory of the wall , well beaten together and scummed , and then one droppe of that lycquor put into the eye : doth heale the webbe in the eye . This is true , and proued .

A Proued Oyle which is very good for the dropsie , called Ascites , if all the belly or paunche be annointed therwith . Take of Turpentine one pounde , of Frankynsence , Mastick , Myrre , of each two drams , Landanum , one dram , Nutmugs , Cloues , Galenga , Zedoary , of each one dram and a halfe , of the iuyce of Walwoort , and the iuyce of Cucumber , ( called Cucumis asinimus ) of either one ounce : Let them be poudred that are to be powdred , and let them be all myxed together , & put them in a Lymbeck , and let an Oyle be distylled therof , and it is a most secrete thing , not onely to take awaye the swelling of the bellye in the dropsie , called Ascites : but also any flegmatyke swelling of any other member of mans body , & it is maruelous for the paynes of ioyntes and members , of a colde cause . Emperica benedicti .

A Certayne Butchers wyfe being with chylde , as she was sturring the bloud of a Beast newlye kylled , a lytle therof dyd chaunce to sprinckle or spurt on her face : which , she with her hand suddenly wiped off , & then wyped the same hande on her left thygh : Who after being brought to bedde of a boy , the same boy had and hath the lyke marke , or bloud spot on his left thygh . They that knew both the Father , Mother , and the chylde , tolde this for a very trueth . Therfore it is not good to hyt a woman suddenly , being with chylde , on the face or otherwyse : least the chylde she is with all , be so marked , as is declared in other places of this booke .

THe sycke person can not escape , when the lyght of the tyme , ( that is , ) the Sunne in the daye , and the Moone in the nyght , and the Alumten of the Ascendent , are both impedyte , or euyll affected of the Lord of the eyght house , or of the Lord of the fowrth house . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

IF you wyll take the heair from any place of the body , and woulde haue it to growe there no more : stampe Antes egges with the iuyce of Henbane and Humlockes , or with the bloud of a Backe , or Reremowse : and annoynt the place therewith . Mizaldus .

IF you cutte the Lyuer of a Beast , in peeces : and put into the same peeces , the powder of Nux vomica , called the Spuing Nutte , ( which is to be had at the Apothecaryes , ) the same peeces being strowed or layde in an open place , where Rauens or Crowes maye resort thereto : the Crowes or Rauens that eates thereof , can not flye away : whereby you maye take them easelye . This I knowe to be certayne and true .

THe lytle Byrde , called Linaria , begynnes to leaue synging , and also to be sycke , when the Starre called the lytle Dogge , doth ryse , and wyll plucke off her fethers . Which chaunceth about the myddes of Iuly : as we haue proued by one and other , ( sayeth Mizaldus ) the space of tenne yeares . And therevpon haue shewed to many , that then that Starre dyd sur●ly ryse . And in a Larke we haue obserued the same , ( sayth hee : ) in the rysing of Arcture wyth the Sunne . And it is not to be doubted , but that other Byrdes , and lyuing thinges , haue theyr peculyar Starre , wherby they are mooued to syng , or to hold theyr peace , to sadnesse or gladnesse : which I desyre the dillygent searchers of secretes to obserue . Thus much Mizaldus .

THe Lorde of the Ascendent in the twelfth house , in a humaine sygne , without the beames of good Starres : the Chylde then borne wyll be imprisoned . This is true and often proued : and also Taisnier affyrmes it .

THis following is a sure and proued medicine for the toothe ache . Take a handfull of ground Iuy , as much of Spere Mint , and as much of Salt , stamp them all a lytle together , then put all the same into a pynt of vynegar , and seethe all wel ouer the fyre : then streyne it well , and put the same into a close glasen vessell , or bottell : and when you wyll occupy it , take a spoonefull thereof , and put it into that syde of the mouth that aketh , and holde downe your cheeke that it may descende to the rootes of the aking teeth : and it wyll take the ache and payne away presently . This was taught mee by a woman , to whome many resorted for helpe : who vsed onely this medicine therfore .

AN oyntment made of the oyle of bytter Almonds , Honny , the rootes of Lyllies , and of waxe : Is an excellent thing to annoynt the face withall , to get awaye wrinckles , spottes , and other deformyties of the face . Mizaldus .

YOu maye take Foxes with this wyle following . Annoynt the soles of your shoes , with a peece of fatte Swynes fleshe as broade as your hand , newly tosted , or a lytle broyled at the fyre , when you go out of the wood homewarde . And in euery of your st●ppes cast a peece of the Lyuer of a Swyne rosted , and dypt in honny : and drawe after your backe , the dead carkas of a Catte , and when the Foxe folowing thee , comes neare vnto the steppes : be sure to haue a man nye thee with bow and shafts to shoote at him : or by some other meanes to hyt him . Mizaldus had this of an expert Hunter .

WOmen that haue double apples in theyr eyes , or strales : do euery where hurt with their looking . ( Which is called of some ouerlooking . ) Cicero .

BOdyes that are strucken with lyghtning , doo remayne vncorrupt : therfore in auncient tyme they dyd neyther burne nor burye the bodyes of such as were strucken or kylled with lyghtning , whervpon it is playne to all men , that the same bodyes are not corrupt as others . Mizaldus .

IF the Lorde of the eyght house , be in the thyrde or nynth house : ( it sygnifyes ) the chylde then borne , shall dye among Straungers , or out of his natyue soyle . Taisnier .

WOormewood newly stamped with the whyte of an Egge , and layde ouer the eyes , taketh awaye the bloud and readnes therof : of what humor soeuer it come . This hath bene often proued .

IF one do take this confection following fasting , he shall neuer fall into the paynes of collycke nor Ilyacke . Take the outwarde ryndes of Radyshes , being taken or pared thycke , two pounde , whyte Honny , fowre pound , let them boyle together vnto the consumption of halfe the Honny , then put therto of the powders of Cynamom , Cloues , Nutmugs , Mace , blacke Pepper , of each two drams , mixe them together , and let them be put vp in a cleare vessell , and let the patient take & eate euerye morning halfe an ounce of the sayde ryndes of the Radishes . Benedictus victorius Fauentinus .

IF you take the powder of Brasell , & myngle it well with mylke , but so that it be very red , & put therin eyther staffe , wood , or bone , letting it lye therin eight dayes : it wyll make the same wood or bone red , for euer . I had this out of an olde written booke .

TO dreame that you go ouer a broken Brydge , betokens feare : to haue your head cutte off for a heynous offence , sygnifyes the death of friends : to make cleane the handes , betokens trouble : to see hands fylthy or fowle , doth sygnify losse and daunger : to feede Lambes , sygnifies griefe , or payne : to take flyes , sygnifyes wrong or iniury . Mizaldus .

A Garlande made of Iuy leaues , and layd vpon womens paps , or dugs , that hangs flagging down : it gathers them together , and makes them rounde . Iuy leaues stampt and applyed thereto , workes the lyke effect . Mizaldus .

A Tode being strucken of a Spyder , or of a Serpent : doth helpe herselfe by eating of Planten . Plinius . For confyrmation whereof , a Tode being on the ground hard by a wall , a Spyder dyd suddenly strike the sayde Tode on the backe : Which when the Tode felt , begynning to swell , dyd eate of Planten nye vnto the place . Wherof being well , the Spyder againe , dyd poyson the Tode , with her venome as before . Which done , the Tode preserued her selfe with the sayde Planten as before . But one that chaunst to beholde the same , dyd then cutte vp the sayde Planten , and tooke it away from that place . Which Tode the thyrde tyme being strucken , or rather poysoned of the spyder , as before : Immediatly searching for the sayde Planten , ( for as it shoulde seeme there was no more Planten nye to that place : ) which when she coulde not fynde , dyd swell so sore , that soone after she dyd burst withall . The party that dyd take away the same Planten , and dyd see this straunge & maruelous matter , dyd tell me this for a verye trueth . Whose credyte I knewe to be such , that I am bolde here to place the same hauing such good occasion . And I hearde that a noble man of this Realme , dyd see the lyke .

WHosoeuer is sore grieued with the stone , and can not make water , let them drinke a spoonefull of the powder called Puluis duiriticus , in a draught of whyte Wyne : ( which you maye haue made at the Apothecaries , ) and vse it three or fowre morninges together , or something lesse , if you lyste . Geue halfe so much to a chylde , and without doubt , it wyll make them auoyde the stone , and to make water presently . I haue proued it often tymes to be a souereyne thing in this case . And there was one from whom I had it , that got therewith aboue an hundreth pound by the yeare . If it be truely and well made . You wyll praise it as wel as I haue done , and because it is such a notable thing , I would haue it better knowne , and more vsed .

MAke oyle of Paper , by burning fayre cleane Paper on a cleane pewter dyshe or sawcer : or holde a peece of fayre Paper folded on a knyues poynt , and set fyre on the nethermost ende thereof , and holde the same nye vnto the sawcer : and out thereof wyll come a lyttle moyst Oyle , and be on the sawcer . Take a lyttle thereof on a cleane fether , and put it into the eye that is sore or dymme of syght : and it wyll helpe the same maruellouslye . It hath bene proued in many to be excellent . And Euonimus doth prayse it therefore .

IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be in the eyght house Infortunate , it sygnifyes that the sycke party wyll kyll him selfe through euyll guyding of himselfe . Iatromathematica . Guat . Ryff .

A Spryte came nye vnto M. Brutus , leading an army of men from Asia : when , Brutus asked him who he was : he aunswered , I am thy euyll Angell , whom thou shalt see in the fieldes of Philoppis in Thessaly , and there Brutus dyed in conflyct . Plutarchus .

A Grymony sodden in redde wyne , wherewith if woundes be washt , it cleanseth all fylths and corruption from them . And the leaues of Agremony beaten , or stampte , and tyed vpon woundes that bee euyll ioyned , or knytte together : by and by it doth open them . A certayne Spanyarde tolde this to Mizaldus .

HE that receyues a summe of money , in the howre of Venus : he wyll spende the same with women , in pleasures and wantonnes . Haly.

THe iuyce of Rew myxt with Honny , that hath ben skummed , & a lytle therof put into the eye at once , ryddeth them that vse it , of an auncient dymnes of the syght . Proued often .

IF a Woman hath not conceaued , and thou wylt knowe whether she shall conceaue or not : let her be well couered with cloathes , and beneath let a fumygation be made of hotte thinges , and odoriferous , or sweete smelling : for if the smell come vp through her body to the nose , and mouth : be sure that she is not barren of her selfe . Hidpocrates Aphor.

WHosoeuer is greued & tormented with the stone , let them take one ounce of the rootes of Radishe , cut in slyces : and lay the same to stiepe in halfe a pint of good whyte Wine all night , then streyne the same well , and put therto of the Electuary , called Lithontripon , of the description of Nicholas : and also Iustinum , one dram : myxe them with the sayde whyte Wine , wherein the Radish was infused , and let him that is grieued with the stone , receyue all the same at one tyme : and you shall see a maruelous wo●ke thereof . If neede be , let him receyue the lyke quantitie thereof three or fowre dayes together . This is proued to be a sure & an excellent thing , for breaking and auoyding the stone , and grauell . Be sure that the Apothecaries make it of good stuffe .

A Head of Garlycke , ( the skyns pulled off , and a lytle brused , ) layde by equall partes , to the hollowe partes of the soles of theyr feete , that are grieuously tormented with the toothe ache : especially , if it come of a colde cause , and be on the neather iawe : it wyll helpe them with speede , by drawing the humors out of the soles of the feete . I haue knowne them that haue taken this medicine , and haue not ben troubled with the tooth ache of seuen yeares after .

THat man is lyke to haue fewe Chyldren , in whose Natiuity Saturne is in the Ascendent , opposyte to Venus : or if Venus be in a barraine signe , infortunate of Saturne : or if Venus be in the house of Saturne , especially , Infortunate of him . Iatromathematica . Guat . Ryff .

IF you rubbe or touch Wartes with the leaues of a Fygge tree , the Warts wyll consume and vanish away : so that the sayde leaues be buryed within the earth or grounde . Some ascribes the same to the harte of a Pigion . Mizaldus .

ELephants of all other Beastes , do chiefly hate the Mowse . So that if they shall see or perceyue , that a Mowse hath once touched their meate that is before them , they loathe the same , and wyll not eate a bytte therof . Plinius .

IF the Lorde of the Ascendent , be Combust in the twelfth house , he that is then borne , wyll dye in prison , or in captiuitie . Taisnier .

THe powder of the berries of Bryony ▪ drunke in the water wherein water Cresses are sod : doth maruelously heale the Strangury .

IF any Woman great with chylde , shall take this drinke following , euery other day in the morning , three howres before she eate any meate , begynning the same about tenne dayes or a fortnight before the tyme of the byrth : the byrth shall not onely be made more easye , but also she shall bring forth her chylde without payne . Take of the great Treackle , one scruple , ( which is the weyght of .xxiiii. barly cornes , ) the powder of Lycquerys , and the powder of Cynamom , of eyther three graynes , of good whyte Wine , one ounce and a halfe , myxe all together , and make there of a drynke , and let it be geuen to the Woman with Chylde , in such manner as is before sayde . Benedictus victorius fauentinus , in his Booke called Emperica .

THis following wyll stoppe the bloudy fluxe . Take Yarrowe and Planten , of eyther a lyke muche , stampe them well together , and put thereto redde Wyne , and streyne it well , and drinke a good draught thereof , fyrst and last , three or sowre dayes together : and certaynly it wyll stay it . It is an easy and precious thing .

IF you wyll prooue whether a Woman bee with chylde or not , let her make water in a copper , or brasen vessell , and let a Needle lye therein a whole nyght , that is bryght and cleane : and if she be with chylde , the Needle wyl haue redde spots on it . If not , then it wyll be blackish or rusty . It is proued as Mizaldus was enformed .

IF a Crowe chaunce to eate of the rest of the fleshe wherof a Woolfe hath eaten before : the same Crow wyll dye soone after . Aclianus and Philes .

NEyther falling sycknes , neyther deuyll , wyll infest or hurt one in that place : wheras a Bay tree is . The Romaynes calles it the Plant of the good Angell . &c. Mizaldus .

WRyting Inke tempered with water , wyne , or vinegar , wherein Woormwood hath bene stieped : Myse wyl not eate the Papers or Letters written with that Inke . And also cloathes wherein Woormwood is layde or wrapt , is safe from mothes : and if there be any there , it wyll driue them awaye . Diascorides .

THe howre of Mars is to be abhord , in all thinges , bothe in the begynning , and when the thing is done . Haly Abenragel . Therefore you were best to take heede , that you take no notable thyng , or great matter in hande , or beginne any long iourney , in the howre of Mars : if you can by any meanes knowe when it is . But whosoeuer puttes theyr whole trust in GOD , and guides theyr lyfe by the rule of his holye woorde : ( be they neuer so symple and vnlearned : ) hee wyll so guyde them , and so instructe them , that they shall auoyde all such daungers , and p●rryllous tymes . And contrarye , the wycked , learned , ( yea though they know the tymes , shall not haue power to auoyde them . As I haue seene in many : which afterwarde they dyd well consyder , though to late . And as I haue sayde of Mars : so I say of Saturne . For there is neuer a good of them both . Y●t I doo not thinke , that Saturne or Mars shewes such harme to them , in whose Natiuities they are Sygnifyers , or beares rule in the Ascendent : but chiefly to such in whose Natiuitie they are Lords of the . xii.vii.v . or .viii. house . But surely I haue markt it long , and yet I neuer sawe any notable thing begunne in the howre of Mars or Saturne : that came to a good ende . Which they shall well finde , that begins to set forwarde towards the Sea , in Saturnes howre . I speake by tryall as well as Haly doth : which I shoulde not haue consydred so much , but by his counsayle and proofe .

OXen , Kyne , Bullocks , or Horsses , shall not be troubled with any disease : if you hang a Harts horne vpon them . Absyrtus .

IF you ioyne a Lyons skyn , to the skyn of a Woolfe , of any other Beast : it wyll make them without heayre , or cause theyr heayre to fal or consume away . Mizaldus .

CO●ewoorts , and Rew ( called hearbe Grace , ) are so contrary in nature the one to the other : that they ought not to be sowne nye together . Fracastorius .

IF any Sheepe , or else heayry Beasts , or els Man or Woman , be full of woormes in any wound or sore : take of the wooll of the same Sheepe , or heair of that Beast , or some of the heair of that Man or Woman , and hyde the same before the rysing of the Sun , vnder the barke of a tree , called Trembla , ( which is a kinde of black Popler tree . ) Do thus certayn dayes , and thou shalt see the woormes fall out of the wound or sore myraculously : or else they wyll dye , or leaue that place . There be that ascribes the same to the Byrch tree , and also to the roote of wylde Succorye hanged at the necke , in manner of a Crosse. Which Mizaldus saw obserued in a Dog , one of whose eares was almost eaten off with woormes .

IT is proued oftentymes by experiment , that many being borne in the coniunction of the Sunne and Moone , doo dye in the opposition : ( that is in the full Moone : ) and they that bee borne in the full of the Moone , are dead in the coniunction , ( that is in the new Moone . ) Taisnier .

PUt two or three of the seedes of Oculus christi , into your eye : and within a whyle after you shall not feele them . Whereby you wyll thinke they are not there . But at the last they wyll droppe or fall out of them selues : compassed about with slymye matter , which hynders the syght . Which if you vse , thy wyll cleanse and cleare your eyes maruelously . This I knowe to be very true .

IF one doth buye Wartes of them that haue them , and geue them a pin therfore : if the party that hath the Warts , pricke the same pyn vpon some garment that he weares daylye , or commonly , the Warte or Wartes without doubte wyll demynish and weare away priuely , and be cleane gone in short time . This was tolde me for an often tryed and prooued thing : yea , and by such a one as had seene the experyence thereof . Also Wartes rubbed with a peece af rawe Beefe , and the same Beefe being buryed within the grounde : the Wartes wyll weare and consume , as the Beefe doth rotte in the ground . Proued .

SAlt Armoniacke stampte , and myxt with water , doth make whyte Letters nothing dyffering from the cullour of Payer . But if you holde the same Paper to the fyre , the Letters wyll waxe blacke . Mizaldus .

A Thing to be marueled at , and woorthy to be remembred doth followe , declared by Iouianus Pontanus . A certaine Caietane Woman , ( sayth he ) was marryed to a Fysher , whome he dyd vse as his Wife , according to the order of Marriage , many yeares ( as Anthonius Panthormita , being a friende of the same Fysher , was woont to tell to the sayde Iouianus Pontanus , when he was young : ) which Woman after she had bene marryed fowreteene yeares , dyd became to be a Man , and suddenly , there sprung out the members of a Man , in the naturall place of the Woman . Which being so ashamed of her condition , as one that thought she shoulde be mockt or laught to scorne both of Men and Women , became a Religious Woman , and lyued in a Monastary , where he kn●we her the rest of her lyfe . And she was buryed at Rome , in the Temple of Marie to Minerua . And an other Woman called Aemilia , was marryed to one Anthony a Citizen of Ebula , and after she was marryed twelue yeares , shee was chaunged into a Man , and was conuersaunt with Men : vsing then the artes and trades of men , in that Countreye , and marryed a Wyfe . This wrytes he in the tenth booke De rebus celestibus . &c. Mizaldus .

IF the Lorde of the Ascendent , be Combust in the Ascendent , or in the fyrst house : it sygnifyes short lyfe to the chylde then borne . Taisnier .

TAke the inner rynde of an Oake tree , and seethe it well in fayre water , and then bathe any sore , olde or newe therewith , halfe a dosen tymes together , twyse euery daye : and at euery tyme when it is thus bathed , then annoynt it with Butter and Brymstone myxt well together : and within nyne or ten dayes it wyll be whole , ( God wylling . ) A true and tryed medicine .

THis following wyll helpe the yallowe Iaundies with speede . Take a Burre roote , the greater , the better , scrape it cleane : then take a potte of new Ale , and put your roote therein , and the Ale wyll boyle , and let it be therein one daye and one nyght well stopped , then lette the patient drynke a good draught , two or three tymes : and he wyll be whole certaynly . Proued .

THe sycke is much to be feared , if in the Ascendent , or in the eyght house , or with their Lordes , there be euyll Starres or Planets . But if good Planets be there : It is safe inough . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

ARystotle and Auycen do affyrme , that of the round and short Egge , the Cocke chycken doth come : of the long and sharpe Egge , the Henne chycken . Mizaldus .

YF you put yallowe Amber , into hotte melted waxe , ( before well skymmed : ) it wyll be then as softe as claye , so that you may make thinges therof , in what forme or fashion you wyll : it wyll be so tractable and soft . Mizaldus had this secrete of a certaine cunning Lapidary .

THere is nothing better to driue away Serpentes , or Snakes , then the smoake of olde Leather , or olde shoes burned , or else to bring them out of ones body , before crept into them by sleeping open mouthed . Wherof Marc. Gatinarica ( an excellent Phisition ) doth wryte , that the lyke dyd happen to a certain man in his tyme : to whome when many medicines were geuen in vaine , the sayd man receiued the smoake of olde leather at his mouth by a funnell , ( so that it went into his body , ) and as soone as the venemous thing in his body , felt the sayd smoake : he came out at his fundament . Which was a maruelous great Uyper , to the great maruayle and feare of all them that were present .

SEethe the inner rynde of the young braunches of a Hasell tree in small Ale , vntyll halfe be consumed , and let them that haue the Strangury , drinke a good draught thereof fyrst and last , for the space of eyght or nyne dayes together : and it wyll helpe them certainly , for it neuer fayles . Therefore proue it , and prayse it .

IN the fyrst beginning of any sicknes , or at the time of a question , for the state of the sycke person , if the Moone be corrupt ( or afflicted ) of Saturne in the three fyrst degrees of Scorpio : it betokens death . Iohannes Ganiuetus .

A Notable medicine for the Sciatica , doth followe . Take Oxe dung , and Pigions dung , of eyther one pounde , and myxe them well together with one pottell of white Wine , and let them boyle together vntyl halfe the Wyne be consumed , then streyne it through a lynnen cloath , then put thereto halfe a pounde of Honny , and twelue yolkes of Egs , and halfe a pound of melted waxe : and myxe all together with as much barly meale as wyll suffice for the making of it in a plaster , and put it hotte to the paynfull place . This was proued by King Henry the fyft , as the wryting dyd wytnes , out of the which I had this . Besydes , it hath bene synce proued .

LEt the Phisition take heede of his fyrst visiting of the sycke in the howre of Saturne , and Mars , if he come to him in the howre of Saturne : eyther the sicke wyll dye , or else the Phisition shal haue great labour , doubtes , and slacknes in the curing of him . Neyther shall he helpe him , except it be euen to desperation , or out of all hope . And if he be sent for , or go to him fyrst in the howre of Mars : there wyll be ●hydinges and brawlings betwixt him and the sick party , and small gayne . The howres of Iupiter and Venus are much praysed . The howres of the other Planets are indyfferent . Iotromathematica . Guat . Ryff .

A Greene Lyserd hath a great delyght to beholde a Man in the face , for he wyll louingly fawne vpon him as a Dog , with the mouing of his tayle . And as much as in him lyes , wyll defende him from a Serpent , that lyes lurking in the hearbes to hurte him . Lemnius .

THe iuyce , or water , streyned out of Radish rootes , ( before stamped ) myxt with whyte Wine , and the powder of Turpentine burned , or dryed in the Sun , and so receyued : is an excellent medicine to breake and dryue forth the stone . And it is geuen with happy successe . A thing proued , much better then golde . Mizaldus .

IF the Lorde of the Ascendent , be founde in the nynth house : he that is then borne , shall of his owne free wyll go farre and long iourneyes . And if there be a good Planet in the same nynthe house with him , or else doth beholde him with a happye Aspect : then it shall happen well to him in his iourneyes . If an euyll Planet , then contrarye . Taisnier .

LAye a thynne peece of rawe Beefe , to the forehead of them that haue lost theyr voyce , and let it lye thereto all nyght vnremoued : and it wyll helpe them presently , or at the least within three or fowre seuerall applications .

TAke the bones of Beastes which be founde in the fyeldes , and chiefly of Horsses , ( because they be best therefore , ) and let them be well washed : after let them be dryed at the Sunne , then put them into a great Cawdren with water , & let them seethe long , and gather the fatte that swyms aboue , wherewith annoynt the gowte or palsey , of whatsoeuer cause they come : and it wyll be helped .

SEethe Iuie , Mugwoort , Walwoort , and the inner rynde of Elderne , in water with much Salt , and bathe therewith any Sciatica , twyse or thryse a day , for eyght or nyne dayes together : and the partye grieued wyll be made hole . This I had out of an olde wrytten booke , wherin was many excellent thinges .

IF you sprynckle the powder of Saffern , rounde about the weake , vpon the Oyle in a fayre greene and bryght Lampe of glasse , and let the same burne , ( so that there be none other lyght in the same Chamber : ) it wyll beawtifye all thinges in the same place , with a fayre yallowe cullour . You may proue it by other cullours lykewise .

THe dung of a Woolfe , being hydden in a Stable or house , where Cattell be , especially Sheepe : It wyll not onely make them leaue from eating of theyr meate : but also it wyll cause them to sturre vp and downe , and to blate , or to make a noyse , and also to quake and tremble , as though their deuowring enemye the Woolfe were thert present . Neyther wyll they cease from doing thus , vntyll they feele or perceyue , that the sayde dung is taken away . Mizaldus .

THere is nothing better to drawe forth Thornes , prickes , or any other thing whatsoeuer , in any part of the body whersoeuer it be , then blacke Sope applyed to the place : letting the same lye ▪ thereto twelue howres without remouing of the same .

A Certaine noble Matrone in the parts of Spaine , had a strong Imagination of a great Etheopyan , paynted in her Chamber , with other , in the tyme of the act of generation . Which Lady afterward was delyuered of a Boye , lyke to that great Etheopyan paynted , before named . Which chylde being borne , euery one beleeued , that she had leyne with some one of the slaues of the Sarseyns . For that the chyld was like none of his Parents . Whervpon the ministers of Iustice , with consent of her Husbande , and other , dyd decree , that she shoulde be burned after the monthes ende . But before the mynistration of this Iustice or execution : certaine wyse men were called , whereof one desyred , that he might see the place where the chylde was begotte : which when he had seene , he consydred , that that generation was , by the strength of the Imagynatiue vertue . And then he sayde , that that great Etheopyan was the father of the chylde . Brynging forth for the confyrmation thereof , that place of the Byble , where Iacob put speckled Roddes before the Sheepe : by which Imagination , the Ewes brought forth speckled Lambes . Which when he had spoken , the Lady was delyuered from burning . Wherfore as I haue wrytten in other places of this Booke , men ought not rashly to mislyke their Wiues , ( hauing none other occasion , ) because theyr chyldren are vnlyke to theyr Parentes . For as you see here , and in Iacobs Lambes , Imagination is of maruellous force in the tyme of generation . Which doth not onely worke in men , but in Beasts . Ganiuetus writes this Hystorye , who as it should seeme , hath it out of Lyra.

THe flowres of Marygooldes , as also of Succory , and of certayne other hearbes , do begyn to open at the rysing of the Sunne , at noone they are fully and wholy opened : But they are closed , or are shutte , when the Sunne doth sette . Therfore some calles it , and such other , Sponsus solis , the Spowse of the Sunne . Because they sleepe , and are awakened with him . &c. Mizaldus . And the dayly tryall thereof , affyrmes it .

IF Asses do eate much of Hemlockes , they wyll be cast thereby into a deepe and dead sleepe , that they wyll seeme to be dead . Which hath deceyued the countrey men being ignoraunt therof : for as they haue bene fleying of theyr skyns , ( thynking that they were dead , ) the sely Asses haue sturred and wakened out of their sleepe : to the great terror of them that dyd slea them , or cutte of their skyns , and to the great laughing of them that dyd behold them . As Andreas Matthiolus , ( that learned Phisition , ) hath wrytten in his commentaries vpon Diascorides .

PUt the ashes of a burnt Snayle , vpon the spotte in the eye : and within three dayes it wyll take it awaye . Barth .

IF one come to aske or enquyre the Astrologian , for any thing in the howre of an euyll Planet , that is : of Saturne or Mars , it is a suspicion rather to euyll then to good . And chiefly , if that euyll Planet be any where impedyte , Retograde , or Combust , or in his fall , or Cadent from an Angle . And this is to be vnderstanded lykewise of the comming of any on the behalfe of any that is sycke , or brynging the vryne of the sycke , or of any that doth aske counsayle , or enquire of the estate of the sycke , ( though the vryne be not seene , ) it is a suspicion of euyll for the sick : though it be not a full testimony therof . Ganiuetus .

IF a Woman , that is too much weakened with her monthly course , doth cast the same , or let the same runne into a hoale , made in the grounde with a three squared stake , ( the same stake immediatly after being put or driuen into the same hole , and so remayne therin vnremoued : ) her sayd fluxe wyll staye or cease , being thought before to be vncurable . An honest Woman reuealed this straunge secrete to me . Which proued the same to be true : and she learned it of a poore Woman , that requyred almose of her at her doore .

IN the Lake called Larius , ( which nowe is called Comensis , ) certayne Fyshers in the wynter , dyd drawe with theyr nettes to the drye lande , a great sort of Seamewes , ( seeming to be dead , ) which were ioynde together with theyr bylles or nebbes in anothers tayle or fundament : and being warmed with theyr guttes , were founde a lyue . Garuas . Tibellesius .

THe leaues of Dockes do lowse the belly , & makes one laxatiue : But the seedes being taken , do binde and are restryctiue . Galen .

IF Wyne haue gotten any tartnes , or sowrenes : take a potte fylled with good water , and let it be well couered , then set the same potte with water in the vessell with Wyne : ( so that the potte stande vnder , or within the Wyne , ) and at the three dayes ende , if the Wyne haue gotten his former strength , the water wyll smell , and then the Wyne wyll lyke thee . Tarentinus .

A Peece of raw Beefe , ( not too thyck nor too thin , ) being layde or stieped all the nyght before in good Aqua Composita , and applyed to the temples or the foreheade , without remouing all the nyght : ( and thus doing three or fowre nyghtes , ) doth helpe the watring and paynes of the eyes , and all distyllations and rewmes that comes from the heade or brayne . One tolde mee this which had often proued it to be most true , as a great secrete .

WHen Mercury is in the tenth house not impedyte : the chylde then borne , wyll be mighty , wyse , and a great Philosopher . Celi enarrant .

ANnoint young Swallowes with saffern , & soone after the old Swallowes wyll bring a stone vnto them : wherwith the Dropsie wyll be cured . This I had out of a booke of Secretes .

AN Egge layde on a Thursdaye , and emptied , and fylled with Salt , and lo set in the fyre , remayning there vntyll it maye be made in powder , and then cankred teethe rubbed with the powder thereof : it both kylles the cankar , and the woormes that eates the teethe , and destroyes them . Proued for trueth .

THis following wyll destroy Ringwoormes , Tetters , and Scales in the hands . Take whyte Coprose , the quantity of two beanes , & put it into a pynt of cleare water , tyll it be resolued , or melted : and with that water washe the place or handes , tyll they be whole . Proued .

STampe Pearceley in whyte Wine , then streyne it well , and drinke a good draught therof : and it wyll cause thee to make water , and breake the stone , vse it fyue or syxe tymes . This hath bene well proued .

THe wyse and learned men in olde tyme , dyd think , that a Tode put into a new earthen potte , and set within the ground , and so couered with earth , in the myddes of a fyelde : wyll dryue away Crowes or Byrds from Corne that t s sowne there . But about Haruest tyme , they wyll that it be dygged vp , and to be cast forth of the lymmyts of the same fyelds , least the Corne be bytter therby . Plin.

A Lytle peece of the Nauell string of a Chylde , that is newly borne , enclosed in a Ryng , and so borne that it maye touch the flesh , or bare skynne : is a most sure helpe and remedy , against the great paynes and tormentes of the collycke . Mizaldus .

THey whose heaire of the eye browes doo touch or meete together , of all other are the woorst . They doo shewe that he or she is a wicked personne , and an intyser of seruauntes , and geuen to vnlawfull and naughty artes : which Iohannes Indagnies sayth , hee hath obserued in olde Women being Wytches , which were ledde to be burned , whose eye browes were such . As Thaddeus Hageccius hath also noted .

SAturne in the nynth house , doth sygnifye feares in iourneyes : but more in the Sea , chiefly , in a waterye sygne : and in Cancer the house of the Moone . Taisnier .

FINIS . Lib. 6.

❧ The seuenth Booke of Notable thinges .

THe water wherein the leaues of Planten , ( that growes close to the grounde , and neare the roote ) is sodde , being droonke twyse euery day , morning and euening , fyrst & last , halfe a pynt at a tyme , for the space of fowre or fiue dayes : helpes perfectly all griefes and diseases of the bladder . A true medicine and often proued .

A Notable water for breaking of the stone . Take of the iuyce of Saxifrage , two pound , of the iuyce of Gromell , and of the iuyce of Pearslye , of eyther one pounde , of the iuyce of Bettony , of the iuyce of Nettelles , and of the iuyce of Ramsens , of each halfe a pound , of strong whyte Uinegar , ten ounces , of the flowres and seedes of Broome , and of the rootes of Radish , of each two handfulles , stampe the last rehearsed well : then myxe the same with all the iuyces before mencioned , and therof destyll a water , with a gentle fyre : of which water geue to them that haue the stone , one ounce at one tyme , with Oxinell Diuretycke , ( which you may haue at the Apothecaries , ) vsing the same nyne or ten dayes , ( if neede be : ) and it wyll breake & auoyde the stone wonderfully . There can not be a better medicine for the stone : proue it when you wyll .

IN the Ilandes of Irelande , and Orcades , in certayne places there , there be certaine Trees there , much lyke vnto Wyllowe trees , out of which coms forth certayne lytle heayres , encreasing by lytle and lytle into Byrdes , hauing shape of Duckes , hanging vpon the bowes by theyr nebs or bylles : and when they are comd to full perfectnesse , they flye away of themselues , and falles into the next Seas , ( which Byrds we call Barnacles . ) This is related by the people that dwell there . Mizaldus .

YF one be bewytched of any , put quycksyluer into a quyll and stoppe it , or els into a hollowe Nut shel , enclosed fast with waxe : and laye the same vnder the pyllowe of the partye bewytched , or vnder the threshold of the doore where he enters into the house or Chamber . Iohannes Weckerus .

HE that shall delyuer a summe of Money in the howre of the Moone : he shall haue much a doo to get it againe . And at last he shall mystrust of the recouering therof : but at the length he shall recouer it , but not all . Abablez filius Zaed .

BEttony stampt and made in a plaster , and layde to the eye , healeth a strype in the eye . And if the eyes be washed wyth the water wherein Bettony is sodden , they wyll be hole without dymnesse , or other blemysh . And if you drynke a dramme of the powder of Betony , with the water of Betony , it wyll brynge downe and heale the clowdynesse , and blouddynesse of the eyes . And if Betony be eaten , it dryeth vp the teares of the eyes . All this and more hath bene proued of Betony .

MArke on what day any doth fall sycke , and number the dayes from the syxt Calendes of Iuly , ( which is the .xxvi. day of Iune ) vntyll the day when the party dyd fyrst beginne to be sycke : and deuyde that whole number by three , and then if at the last , one remayne , he wyll quickly escape , if two remayne , he wyll be long sicke , if one remayne , then it is to be feared he wyll dye of that sycknes . This I had out of a booke of Secretes .

A Maruelous cure of a Woman , that was swolne , done by one Iohn Ardern , whose wordes thereof were these . I Iohn Ardern dyd see a certaine Woman at Newarke , whose whole body was suddenlye swolne , and also the face , necke , and legges , who dyd lye , as though she were halfe dead : to whome I gaue the rootes of Daffadyll stampt , and myxt with water and saffern , which being drunke , she was quickly hole . I wrote this ●ut of an olde written booke .

TAke heede in letting of bloud or geuing of Purgacions , or strong medicines , that the Lorde of the eyght house be not with the Moone , or with the Lorde of the Ascendent . Lykewise that the Moone , nor the Lorde of the Ascendent be in the fowrth or eyght house , nor that the Lord of the eyght house be in any Angle , and it is not good that the Moone be in the Ascendent . Iatromathematica . Guat . Ryff .

A Winde rysing in the North , in the begynning of the nyght , or in the twye lyght , by and by he ceaseth and leaueth his place . Therfore it is , that the Shypmen or Marryners ( hauing iust tryall therof , ) wyll not set forth in that wynde , vnlesse it hath continued three dayes . The South winde is contrary , which if it ryse or begyn in the beginning of the day , it bringes hope to the Marryners that it wyll continew , and not quickly depart out of that place . Mizaldus .

THe skynne of the ryght heele , of a Uultar layde to the ryght foote , and of the lefte heele , to the lefte foote , of them that are payned with the gowte : It is sayde that it doth mytygate the griefe , and ease the paynes . Mizaldus .

LUte stringes or Harpe strynges cutte in lytle peeces , and cast vpon flesh newly sodden or rosted : wyl seeme to be woormes . Whereby they that knowes not thereof , wyll refuse the same meate . Mizaldus .

IF the Yarde doth swell and be grieuously payned , myngle Waxe , Oyle , and the iuyce of Purslane together , and apply it to the swolne Yarde : and it wyll helpe it . It is often proued .

IOhannes Ganiuetus wrytes , that in the yeare of the Lorde .1431 . the seuenth daye of August ( being Tewsday , ) about seuen of the clocke in the morning , one Maister Henricus Amici , a Doctor of Phisicke , borne at Bruxelles in Brabant , dyd aske him for the Lord Deane of Viennens . then being sycke , whether he should dye or recouer of that sycknes . In the fygure of which question , he founde that the Moone was going in coniunction to the Sunne , vnder the beames of the Sun , which was a testimony of death . With dyuers other lykelyhoods of the same . But espying Mercury beginning to be Retrograde , within one degree of the Ascendent , ( corrupting the degree ascending , ) dyd iudge that he woulde shortly fall into a frensye , at the furthest , within a naturall daye : although he was a very wyse man . And so it came to passe . For within lesse then a naturall daye , he became franticke . And so dyed within two dayes after .

TAke cloues of Garlycke , and burne them in a potte all to powder , and if you vse to eate of that powder in your pottage : doubtles it wyll procure you to make water , if you are troubled with the stone . This I had out of a very olde booke .

IF you put the powder of Allom in water , whatsoeuer you wryte therwith , the wryting or Letters wyl not appeare : vnlesse you put the same paper in water , and then you shall reade it perfectly . Bapt. porta .

THis that followeth , is a most excellent , true & sure proued medicine , for a great and olde griefe , and payne of the head . Take of bay Salt stamped by it selfe , as much of Coomyn seede stamped lykewyse by it selfe , as much browne Fennell , and then stampe or beate them all together then with as much pure vynegar & also a lytle Rosewater : mixe & sturre them all together in a dyshe ouer a 〈◊〉 dyshe with hotte coales , and then laye some of the same hotte vpon a cloath , and apply it so to the hynder part of the heade at nyght , and tye it fast thereto , that it fall not away . And also laye an other plaster therof hotte therto the next nyght , and so do nyne nyghts together , one after another : and it wyll not onely helpe the same , ( perhaps within three or fowre tymes so doing : ) but also it wyll cleare the syght , and draw the humors cleane away , that runnes out of the head into the eyes , and drye vp the same . This medicine neuer fayles . Therfore it is a precious thing , and worthy to be estemed .

A Good waye to get the stone called Craupaudina , out of the Tode . Put a great or ouergrowne Tode , ( fyrst brused in dyuers places ) into an earthen potte , and put the same in an Antes hyllocke , & couer the same with earth , which Tode at length the Antes wyll eate : So that the bones of the Tode and stone , wyll be left in the potte . Which Mizaldus and many other ( as he sayth ) haue often tymes proued .

IT is sayde , that the female Uyper doth open her mouth , to receyue the generatyue sparme of the male Uyper , ( which he doth , by putting his mouth into her mouth , ) which receyued , she doth byte off his head . This is the maner of the froward generating of Uipers . And after that , the young Uipers the springs of the same , do eate or gnaw a sunder theyr mothers belly , therby 〈◊〉 or bursting forth . And so they , ( being reuengers of theyr Fathers iniurye ) do kyll theyr owne mother . Galen . de Theriaca ad Pi●onem . You may see , they were a towardly kynde of people , that Christ called the ●eneration of Uypers .

SEethe Sage and drinke it , eyther stampe it , and lay it to the Matrix , for both wayes it prouoketh the flowres and after burthens . Petrus Hispanus .

THe gyrdle worne of a Chylde , being vnder seuen yeares of age , ( some sayes twelue yeares of age , ) taken and tyde about the mydle of one that hath the fallyng sycknes : and then presently taken from the sayde party , and cutte in nyne peeces , and euery peece throwne nyne seuerall wayes , is a present and perfect remedy to heale and helpe the same party therof , without saying of any wordes . They that tolde it to me did see it proued : a thing no doubt very straunge , and almost incredyble . Some thinkes that this wyll not preuayle , but at the fyrst falling of the party .

THe tongue of a Dogge layde vnder the great toe within the shoe : doth cease the barking of Dogs at the party that so weares the same . Mizaldus .

THe skyn of an Asse being tande , and shooes made of that part of the hyde , wheron the burthens dyd lye that the Asse caryed : they wyll neuer teare nor be worne . No , although you go continually among stones and thornes , and with the oldnes therof , they wyll waxe so harde , that one can not suffer to weare them : as Cardanus hath written .

TO stoppe the bleeding of the nose : take nine or ten fresh new Leekes , and put a threede thorowe the myds of them , ( but cut of the toppes of the leaues , ) then hang them about the parties neck that bleedes , so that the leaues be vpward to the nose , & the heads of them downward . It is good also to smell to Camphere dyssolued in vynegar , and also to put the roote of Pyony vnder the tongue . Iacobus Holleri●s .

IF you take of Mouth glue & Allom , equall pa●tes , myxing them together , and then powre vinegar to them : what thing soeuer you shal cast into the fire , being rubbed , or all ouer annoynted therwith : it wyl not be burned . Mizaldus .

MArs in the nynth house , doth threaten in long iourneyes , chiefly on the lande , feare ( and euyll hap or successe : ) but not in Capricorne , seeing it is his exaltation . Taisnier .

IT is credibly reported , that whosoeuer is sycke , and at the poynt of death , ( though they be maruelous olde , ) lying or being in a certayne place in Irelande : the same partye can not dye , vntyll he or she shall be remoued out of that place . And many that haue bene there , ( being very olde and weary of their lyues , ) haue earnestlye desyred to be remoued from thence : who as soone as they haue bene out of the same place , haue dyed presently . A very straunge thing , if it be true .

STampe Rew with oyle of Roses , and laye the same some thing thycke vpon the crowne of the head , of one that is sycke , ( the same being fyrst shauen , ) and if the same partie do neese within syxe howres after , hee wyll escape that sycknesse . If not , he wyll dye thereof .

TO make a greene that wyll not vade away . Take the flowres of Flowredeluse , stampe them and streyne them , then put the iuyce thereof into goom water , and drye it in the Sunne .

TO make Letters of gold : Take goom of Almonds and temper it with Uermylyon finely grounde , let the goom be dyssolued in the whyte of an Eeg , then wryte therwith , and it wyll be lyke golde . Proued .

IF you wyll knowe in what yeare Wheate wyll be deare or cheape , and what tyme of the yeare , and what month the same wyll chaunce : Elect or thuse twelue fayre cornes of Wheate , in the kalends of Ianuary , ( which is the first day of Ianuary , ) then sweepe the fyre harth cleane , and make a fyre : then take a young wench , or a boy of the house , or els one that dwels nye you , and byd the same boye or wench laye one of the sayde Cornes on the same harth , being hotte and made cleane : and when that is done , marke dilligently , whether the sayde Corne abyde styll in the place , or leape : If it be styl , then saye that the price wyll contynew : If it leape a lytle , the pryce wyll abate a lytle : If it leape much , then perswade thy selfe , that it wyll wa●e very cheape : If it leape towards the fire , it wyll be dearer in the fyrst month , and so more or lesse , for the greater or lesser accesse of the same to the fyre . Doo so with the seconde Corne , and it wyll presayge for the seconde month , that is , for February : And so you maye iudge of all the rest . That is , the thyrde Corne for March : the fowrth , for Aprill : and so of the other . Mizaldus hath heard that it hath bene proued of many .

THe Lyon is more fierce against Men , then Women : for Nature hath taught him that Women are to be more myldlye vsed then Men : as Pliny affyrmes . And Aristotle sayth , that it is more wycked to kyll a Woman , then a Man . &c. And the Poet sayth : Quód faeminea in pena nullum est memorabile nomen : Which is true . A man also can get no prayse nor honesty by beating of a woman . Which let butcherly beaters , and cruel tormentors of theyr wiues , marke well and consyder . Mizaldus .

A Spoonefull or more of the powder of the Nettell seede , droonke in good Wyne : doth asswage all paynes of the Matrix , and takes away the wyndenes thereof , or the griefe of the Moother . Petrus Hispan .

BY this meanes following , you maye put an Egge into a narrowe mouthed glasse . Laye an Egge in strong vinegar , tyl it be tender : then fyll the glasse almost ful with water , then put the wyndie Egge into the glasse : and anon it wyll be harde . Thys is proued .

TO roaste a dyshe of Butter . Take fyne grated whyte breade , and myxe the same well with Sugar , then put a lumpe of Butter vppon a spytte , and turne the spytte at the fyre , and styll cast the grated breade and the Sugar vppon the Butter , and it wyll be a fyne and trymme dyshe of meate . Proued .

IF a certaine Woorme with many feete , ( which wyl become rounde lyke a pease , if she be touched , of some called a swyne lowse , ) be prickt with a needle , & then any aking toothe touched with the same needle : the payne therof wyll cease immediatly . This I got hardly out of an olde booke .

THey are possest with diuels , that haue not in theyr natiuities Mercury , with the Moone in some aspect , if neyther of them beholde the Ascendent . Which is the more certaine , if Saturne be there in the Natiuity of the daye , and if Mars be there in the nyghtly Natiuity : and if eyther of them be in an Angle , such is the natiuity of Diuelles . Albohazen . And they are or wyl be madde , that haue Mercury and the Moone in this sort , except that Saturne contrary must be in an angle in the Natiuitie of the night , and Mars in an angle in a Natiuity of the daye . Iatromath .

THere is a certayne Well at Gratianapolis , which although it hath not hotte or warme water therin : yet oftentymes there coms out of the same together with the water flames of fyre . Two contrary Elements at one tyme , out of one place flowing out together . Mizaldus wrytes this of the report of the Inhabytaunts of that place .

IF you stampe Hollyocks with the whytes of Egs , and therewith annoynt your handes , and throwe then vpon the same the powder of Allom : you maye handle fyre without any harme . Albertus . Prayse it , as it prooues .

DRinke no medicine in the howre of Saturne : neyther enter or begyn then any iourney on the Sea. Haly Abenragel .

WHyte Wine , wherein Lapis Calaminaris is seuen tymes quenched , ( fyrst made very hotte in the fyre , ) doth maruelously stop the running of the eyes , and cleareth the syght : if you put a few drops therof into them , and vse to wash them therwith . This is a tryed thing .

IF you would allure or bring Pigions to a Doouehouse . Take a fatte Dog and flea him , and fyll his bellye full of the seedes of Coomyn , then rost him dry , wash also the Pygion hoales in the Doouecote with water wherwith Coomyn is sodde : but fyrst cleanse the sayde hoales from all fylthynesse , then laye the rosted Dog vpon a broade stone in the Doouehouse , and hang a great glasse in the top of the Louor , and three or fowre lytle looking glasses within the Doouehouse , by some of the hoales . Also take good claye , and myngle it with bay Salt & Coomyn , and make therof a great lumpe lyke a Sugar loafe , then put it into an Ouen & bake it harde , and set it by the deade Dogge . Beware of Owles , Buszardes , and Starlynges , see the house be close that no vermyne come therein , as Pollecattes , Weselles , or Ferryttes , and you shall haue Pygions enowe . Also make a shrape by the Doouehouse , strawe chaffe there , then laye therein a good quantitie of Barlye , ( but it must fyrst be laide to stiepe in Honny three dayes , ) and then cast it among the chaffe , and then a great sort of Pygions wyll resort to that Doouehouse .

LYn seede put into the rootes of Radyshe , and by and by put into fatte or dunged earth : it wyl bring forth an hearbe lyke Dragons , whose taste wyll seeme lyke vynegar and Salt : therefore it is maruelously desyred in Sawses : for hauing this , you neede neither vynegar nor Salt : as one that is chiefe of the Kings gardens tolde me , sayth Mizaldus .

FOxes being sodde , and cutte in peeces , and then geuen to Hens or Geese amongst theyr meate : it makes them safe from being hurt of any Foxes after , for the space of two monthes . Mizaldus .

THe seedes of Docks , tyde to the left arme of a Woman , doth helpe barrennes , or sterilyty . Africanus .

THe Moone and the Ascendent , are generally Signifyers of the hole shyppe , & of the state therof : and the Lorde of the Ascendent is the Sygnifyer of them that sayles in the same : wherof if all they be Infortunate , the Shyp is broken , and they that sayled in her are drownde , vnlesse some one of them be receyued , ( that is of the sayd Sygnifyers , ) and then the Impedyment wyll chaunce in the drowning , and some clymers of the Shyppe , wyll escape : but if all they be Fortunate , all shall escape and be saued , ( that is both Shyp and men ) chiefly : if there be any reception . Furthermore : if the Ascendent & the Moone be both fortunate , & the Lord of the Ascendent Infortunate , the Shyp is safe , & the Saylers in her are destroyed : but if the Ascendent & the Moone be Infortunate , and the Lord of the Ascendent fortunate , the shyp is ouerwhelmed , ( or lost , ) & the saylers in her are safe . Haly Aben.

GOates dung mingled with Uynegar & bran , and applyed as a plaster to a sore breast , looseth wonderfully all swellings of the breast . It hath bene proued .

BEttony stampt and applyed to any wounde of the heade , doth not onely draw out the broken bones : but also doth heale the same with speede .

A Speciall medicine to strengthen the back . Take a quart of whyte Wine , and the pythe that runneth in an Oxe backe , and halfe a quarter of a pounde of Dates , and of Marygooldes , Planten , Bettony , Pearsley rootes , and Fennel rootes , of all two handfulles : boyle all these together , vntyll the Wyne bee halfe wasted away : and then streyne them through a cloath , and drynke nyne or tenne spoonefull thereof euerye morning and euenyng , for the space of nyne or tenne dayes : and it wyll strengthen the backe maruelouslye .

FYue leaued grasse sod in water , which water if it be droonke , and gulpt vp & downe into the throte : is an excellent helpe for sore throtes .

THey are diuellysh or possest with Diuels , in whose Natiuityes Saturne is Lorde of the place of the Moone , and the Moone then vnder the beames of the Sunne : or if Mars be Lorde of the place of the Moone opposyte to the Sunne , especially in Sagitary . Haly Abenragel .

TO keepe Beastes safe that the blynde mowse , called a Shrew , do not byte them . Enclose the same Mowse quicke in chalke , which when it is hard , hang the same about the necke of the Beast , that you woulde keepe safe from such byting . And it is most certayne , that he shall not be toucht nor bytten : as is before sayde . Vegetius .

I Heare ( sayth Mizaldus , ) that it is obserued & proued , that a Cowe , an Ewe , a she Asse , a Bitche , a she Catte , and such other domesticall and tame Beastes of the Female kinde , wyll cast theyr Calfe , Lambe , Colte , or that that they go withall : if the Male , by whome they conceaued , be kylled , whyle they went with the same . Such a strong and vehement concord or agreement , ( of nature ) is betweene , or among them .

IF the nynth house begynne in a fyxed sygne , or if Saturne be founde in the same , ( except it be Aries , ( they that be then borne , ) shall for the most parte see true Dreames : but if in a moueable sygne , his Dreames wyll be without effect . &c. Taisnier .

A Notable oyntment for the head ache , comming of any cause , wherwith you must annoynt the pulses of the temples , and all the forehead . Take of the iuyce of new or fresh Camamyle , fowre ounces , of the iuyce of new and fresh Roses , two ounces , of the iuyces of fresh Rew and Bettony , of eyther one ounce and a halfe , of the iuyce of the rootes of Hollyock , two ounces , of oyle Rosate Omphacine , one pound and a halfe , of the best and purest Alablaster , three ounces , powder the Alablaster finely , and put it into the sayd oyle , and let it lye therein a daye , and a nyght , then myxe them all together , and with sufficient whyte waxe , make it into an oyntment : which oyntment is good for any payne of the head , proceeding of any matter , or cause . And it may be vsed at any tyme of the fytte or payne , except the begynning . Emperica benedicti victorij fauenti .

AN excellent distilled water for hearing , foloweth . Take of the iuyce of Bettony , of the iuyce of Onions , of eyther of them syxe ounces , of the leaues of Rosemary stamped , one handfull , of the oyle of bitter Almondes , three ounces , and one whyte grosse Eele chopt and cutte in small peeces : myxe them all together , and destyll them , and the lycquor which commeth therof , keepe in a cleane glasse , droppe two or three droppes therof into your eare , fowre or fyue nyghts together : and it wyll helpe and amende the deaffnes .

IT is much to be marueled at , that the lytle Byrde , called a Wren , being fastned to a lytle stycke of Hasell , newly gathered : doth turne about and rost him selfe . Cardanus and Mizaldus .

THou mayst make fayre Pictures , Uesselles , and many other fyne thinges with small coast , and expences , as followeth . Seethe the barke of the Elme tree , and the toppes of the Populer tree , and whyles they are very hotte , put thereto most pure and fyme Lyme , vntyll all the same be lyke cruddes of milke . Afterwards put therto the whytest marble that is , well and fynely beaten into powder and searced : and then cast the same in what fourme you wyll : then drie them in the shadow . Hieronimus Gardanus .

HErmes doth saye , that an euyll Planet in Gancer : doth threaten short lyfe , and continual sycknes to the mother of the chylde then borne .

BRymstone stampt with Wyne , and plastered ouer the Dugs or Paps of Women : breakes the hardnes of them . Isac .

WAter Myntes stamped and layde to the myds of the browe , and to the nape of the necke of one that is madde : wyll much helpe and relieue him . But fyrst tyckle him on the browe , and it wyll dyspose him to sleepe : and then apply it to him as is beforesayde . But if he be farre gone , that it wyll not helpe him : then take a Tenche , and cleaue the Tenche in the myddes , and so warme , lay the one part to his brow , and the other to the nape of his necke : and without doubt it wyll helpe him , if euer he shall haue helpe . This I tooke out of an excellent written booke .

FOr burning with syre . Take oyle Olyffe , and put it into colde water , and sturre it well together , tyll it be well myxed : then annoint the burned place therwith , and laye a woort leafe vpon it , and it wyll helpe it speedely . Proued .

STampe Mallowes and Garlycke together , and myngle it well with whyte Wyne , then streyne it well , and drynke a good draught therof nyne tymes : and it wyll make thee make water , of what occasion soeuer the same is stopte . Thys is affyrmed for trueth .

IF you wyll bring forth or hatch Egges without a Hen , couer your Egges in hotte Horse dung : ( so that the bygger part of the Egge be vpwarde , ) but euery fyft or syxt daye , shyfte them with newe Horse dung , with a temperate heate , as the heate of a Hen. But remember that the Egs must be turned : and about the tyme of the hatching , or when they shoulde come forth of the shell : put them vnder a Hen. Mizaldus .

ALthough the fruite of a Medler tree by nature be restryctiue or bynding , neuerthelesse the powder of him doth vehementlye breake the Stones in the reynes , and dryues them forth . Which Anthonius Musa an excellent Phisition doth wytnesse , that hee hath proued with most happy successe on him selfe . Mizaldus .

THe bloud of an Hare dryed & made in powder , and throwne vpon flesh newly roasted or sodden : makes the same flesh seeme to be blouddy and corrupt . So that they that be present , and sees the same , ( vnlesse such as knowes the secrete therof , ) wyll loath to eate therof . Mizaldus .

THe auncient Wyse men haue sayde , that he that is taken prisoner in the howre of the Sun : shal escape within the space of one month : and in the howre of Venus , he shall escape at the ende of forty dayes : and in the howre of Mercury , he shal haue long imprisonment : and he that is taken prisoner in the howre of the Moone , his busines & state shal be changed , according to the applications which the moone hath with fortunate and Infortunate Planets : whereby the easynes and slownes of his delyuering shall be esteemed . Also , he that is taken prisoner in the howre of Saturne , he shal endure long imprisonment : and he that is taken prysoner in the howre of Iupiter , he shall be delyuered quickly . And they that be taken prysoner in the howre of Mars , many sorrowes and troubles shall happen to them during theyr imprisonment . For he shall be put in setters , and shall be beaten , and he shall suffer great sorrowes and labours . Haly Abenragel .

THis medicine following , wyll surely heale a scalde heade . Take oyle Olyffe , and put it into a dyshe with fayre water , and beate or sturre them well together , as you woulde make butter : then take it vp , and put it into a vessell , and put powder of Brimstone and May Butter thereto , & make an oyntment therof : wherwith annoynt the sore head , and doubtles it wyll heale it .

WOodbinde leaues stampt , and layd vpon Warts , ( vsing the same halfe a dosen tymes , ) wyll quyte destroye them .

FRaunces Marques of Mantua , did so instruct or teach a Dogge , that he vsed him as a very good seruant , in calling of such of the Court as he would . Blondus .

A Benzoar , an excellent Phisition among the Arabians : declares that once there was such a famyne in his countrey : that the people was dryuen to pluck out the dead bodyes out of theyr graues , & dyd sucke the marrowe of theyr bones . A thing horrible to be heard , but more horryble to be done : from which neede or hunger , I beseech God keepe vs .

IF the seedes that are founde in the round knobs , of the lesser Burre leafe , be made in very fyne powder , and so geuen with a lytle good and pure whyte Wyne : it purgeth the sande maruelous effectually from the reynes , but more speedely : if it be droonke with Aqua vite . Mizaldus had this of one that proued it .

IF you seethe Mugwoort in water , and plaster it hotte vpon the Nauell and thyghes of a Woman labouring with chylde : it causeth both chylde , byrth , and the after burthen also : but if it tarry long there , it wyll cause the Matrix to follow . Rogerius .

FOr scalding and burning that it be not seen . Take sheepes suet , and sheepes dung , and the inner rinde of Elderne , and boyle them all together , then streyne them through a course canuas cloath , and so keepe it in some cleane vessell : which , when you do occupy , you must melt it in a sawcer , or some other thing , and laye it on the burned place with a fether . proued .

TO drawe out a toothe : fyll an earthen potte with Emets or Ants , and theyr Egs , and set the same potte in hotte embers so long , vntyll all be burned in to ashes : and when any toothe doth ake , which you would drawe forth without paine : then take of the same Ants and theyr egs made in fyne powder , and touch the tooth therwith : and it wyll fall out .

ANnoint the freckled face with the bloud of a Hare , or of a Bull : and it wyll do them away , and make the skyn fayre . Proued .

THis following wyll helpe the hardnes of the syde , called the Elfe cake . Take the roote of Gladen , and make powder therof , and geue the diseased party halfe a spoonefull therof to drynke in white Wine , and let him eate so much thereof in his Pottage at one tyme : & it wyll helpe him within a whyle . This was tolde me for a very trueth .

MUgwoort stieped in Rose water , doth helpe trembling or shaking hands : if they be washt therwith . Mizaldus .

YOu shall knowe whether the Tode stone called , Crapaudina , be the ryght and perfect stone or not . Holde the stone before a Tode , so that he maye see it , and if it be a ryght & true stone : the Tode wyll leape towarde it , and make as though he woulde snatch it from you . ( He enuieth so much that man should haue that stone . ) This was credibly tolde Mizaldus for trueth , by one of the French Kings Phisitions , which affyrmed that he dyd see the tryall therof .

GArlycke being sowne when the Moone is vnder the earth , and pluckt vp when the Moone is aboue the earth : it is sayde , that then his stynking smell wyll be gone . Sotion Grecus . And Palladius reports , that Garlicke wyll be made the sweeter : if in the planting therrof , you do set the stones of Olyues round about it . Or els if you set the Garlicke brused .

LAye a Spunge vpon any ache or gowte , dypte in warme wyne of the decoction of Coomyn : and it wyll drawe out the hurtfull humors . It hath bene proued . Petrus Hisp.

IF in the degree of the Ascendent , or nye vnto it , within two degrees , there is an euyll Planet : It is an argument of the death of the party that dyd fal sycke at that tyme : or for whome the question is then asked , for the state of his sycknesse . And if it be in a moueable sygne , it betokens that the sycke shall dye within so many dayes , as the sayde euyll Planette is degrees , from the degree of the Ascendent : if in a fyxed signe , then it sygnifyes a long tyme : ( that is , as I haue tryed , euerye degree a month , ) if in a common signe : it signifyes a meane time betweene both , ( that is as I haue founde , euerye degree a weeke . ) Iohannes Ganiuetus . But you must beware , ( if the sayde Planet be dyrect ) that he doth apply to the degree ascending .

IF you take the outward rynde of the Radish roote , and the hearbe Marcury , of eyther one ounce , of Saffern three graynes , of Cassia Lignea , fynely powdred , one dram , the iuyce of Sauine , two drammes , and then myxe them , and let them all be beaten together , and then tye the same in a fyne lynnen cloath , that is thynne , and then ioyne it to the necke of the Matryx of a Woman that is in her trauell , and in the howre of the byrth : ( which els should bring forth her chylde with dyffycultie , ) by and by shee wyll be brought to bedde . It is a secrete . Benedictus victorius fauent .

HE in whose Natiuity Venus is coniunct , or ioynd with Mercury , and they both being vnder the beames of the Sun , shal be gelded . Iotromath . Guat . Ryff .

YF you plucke out one of the eyes of a blacke Dog , whyles he is lyuing , and wyll carrye it with you : it wyll make that no Dogs shall barke at you : yea , though you walke among them . But it wyl be more sure , if you put therto a lytle of the harte of a Woolfe . Sextus Platonicus , and Albertus .

THe iuyce of Knotgrasse , drunke with the powder of seuen Pepper cornes , before the fytte : doth quite put away the quarten ague . But it is sayde , that the hearbe must be gathered vpon a Thursday , and the iuyce then lykewise there of must be gotten and streyned , ( the Moone discreasing , which is betweene the ful Moone and the change . ) Mizaldus had this out of an olde booke of Secretes , wrytten with the hande of one called Ianus , or Faunus .

A Bathe wherein Emets , or Antes and theyr Egs , ( being stampt ) haue bene sodden : doth quycklye heale an olde , and almost incurable ioynt sycknesse . Proued .

YF they that haue the fallyng sicknesse , do vse to receyue twyse or thryse in the weeke , at theyr going to bedde , one of these lytle pylles following : without doubt they wyll be hole thereof howsoeuer it coms . Take of the best Castoreum , Assafetida , of eyther halfe a dram ▪ of the roote of Pyony fynely powdred , one dram , Aromaticum Rosatum , two drams , myxe them together with the syrrup of Mynts , and make therof seuen pylles , ( you may haue al this at the Apothecaries . ) This is a proued secrete . Emperica benedicti .

AN excellent oyntment for the gowte . Take three pound of Walwoort , and stampe it well , then melt one pound of May butter , & put therto : and let them stande so nyne dayes together , then boyle the same halfe an howre on the fyre , then streyne it through a canuas , and so annoynt the payned place therewith . It is a notable and proued thing , not much vnlyke to one in this booke , to that effect , discribed by Mizald.

THis medicine following wyll destroy the ytche in any part of the body . Take of oyle Debay , one ounce , and one ounce of quicksyluer , fyrst kylled with fasting spettle , which must be a kylling therein with sturring of them together , halfe an howre : Then therwith annoint the palmes of your hands , and the soles of the feete , and within three or fowre tymes so doing , it wyll kyll the ytch . Proued .

IF you wyl make a Candle , that wyl not be put out : Fyll a Cane with the powder of brimstone , & with lynnen cloath broken in very lytle peeces , then couer the same with waxe , and so set it on fyre : and then it wyl not be put out , neyther with bellowes nor wind .

OYle wherin Frogges be sodden , vntyll the flesh be gone from the bones , doth maruelously helpe all affectes of the synewes , and the ioynts , and also all parts of the body that is colde or benumd : If the places affected be annoynted therwith , being fyrst made warme . This is gotten out of the secretes of Ianus .

IF you wyll bring into one place , or else kylle all Woormes , and Beastes that are hurtfull in a garden . Take the bellye or paunch of a Wether newly kylled , with all the fylth or dung that is in it , and bury the same in the place where they be , and couer it a lytle with earth : and then within two dayes thou shalt see all the Woorms and vermyne gathered thether : if you do thus twyse or thryse , you shall make all the hurtfull Woormes and thinges to gather together there . And then you maye cast earth vpon them , or else kyll them as you lyst . Mizaldus dyd vnderstand that this was proued .

AN euyll Planet in Leo , doth shewe or betoken short lyfe , of the Father of that Chyld then borne . Taisnier .

THe iuyce of Bettony , put into the eare something hotte , or lew warme : wyll both put away paynes and the draffnes of the eares , ( if there be any , ) and also other impedymentes of the same . I haue proued this diuers tymes , and founde it excellent good , in this case .

THis water folowing is both proued , & precious against Fistulaes : and also it so hardneth yron , that you maye cutte an other peece of yron therewith , as easely as if the same were wood . Take of earth woormes , and draw of them a water by distyllation , and lykewise drawe water of Radishe rootes , both which waters myxed together , then put therein an edged yron knyfe , made redde hotte : the same thus heated and quenched for three or fowre tymes by an equall quantity , vsed at each tyme , and the knife tempred with an edge : then dyp it redde hotte againe into the sayd water , and then after you may cutte any yron safely , and easely therewith : and this water is also maruelous in Fystulaes .

IT is sayd , that if Horsses be shodde with that yron wherewith any hath bene before kylled : it makes the same Horsses very lyuely and quicke . And if of the same you make a bytte or a snaffle , that Horse that hath it in his mouth , wyl be made tame & easy to be handled , yea : though he be neuer so wylde , stubborne , or geuen to byting . Rasis et Albertus .

IF a Horse can not stale or pysse , or else doth the same hardely , or with much griefe or payne : beate his body all aboutes , easely , myldly , or gently , with the bowes of Elderne full of leaues : then after couer his head , neck , and all the body with the same leaues , and it wyll helpe him very much . Simoneta Cardinalis .

A Water whereby the Phisicion doth maruelles , and is reputed as a Prophet . Take the fylinges of Syluer , of Brasse , of Yron , of Leade , of Steele , of Golde , of Spume of Syluer and Golde , of Storax , according to the rytches and pouerty of the patient : fyrst of all let them bee put in the vryne of a Boy that is a virgin , the second day in warme white Wyne , the thyrde daye in the iuyce of Fennell , the fowrth daye in the whytes of Egges , the fyft daye in Womans mylke , that geues sucke to a boye , the syxt daye in redde Wyne , the seuenth daye in seuen whytes of Egs , and put that onely into a Styll at an easy fyre , and that that shall distyll , keepe in a vessell of Gold or Syluer . Sylens is to be kept of the prayse of this water : because it may not be bought . For his vertue doth pallyfie leprous persons : it heales and destroyes a pure leprie : it wypes away , or takes away euery spot , it conserues youth , it makes the eye fayre . I cease to speake of the secretes of this water : for because I feare , least they that haue it , should be puft vp with pryde . Trotula de pass. Mulier .

THis following is a proued thing , for the sounding of the eares or wynde in the same . Take Almonds and the kernelles of Peches , and let them be cleane pylled in hotte water , then stampe them , and get oyle out of them , and put of the same oyle with tents wet in the same into the sounding eares , or otherwise grieued , which tents must be made of fyne lynnen cloath , and do thus with new tents euery daye once , for the space of nyne or ten dayes : and it wyll put away the sounding , and other paines of the eares . This I learned of one that came out of Spaine . And I proued it to be very true .

FINIS . Lib. 7.

❧ The eyght Booke of Notable thinges .

YOu shal make Vinegar by and by , if you powre pure & good Wine halfe sodde , into a newe earthen vessell , then well couered and stopte : and so the same Potte set in hotte scalding water .

A Woolfe fyrst seeing a Man , doth lyfte vp his voyce , and as a vyctor , doth despyse him . But if he perceyue that the Man hath espyed him fyrst , he laies away his fiercenes , and can not run . D. Ambrosius . Virgil. Plato . Sextus . Platon . And other .

THere is deadlye warre betweene the Hawke and the Eagle , who , sometymes are so fast together in theyr fyght : that they are both taken or catcht therby . Plynius .

TO take the Byrdes that eates the seedes that are sowne . Seethe Garlicke , that it may not growe againe : for it is sayde to profyte maruelously , if it be throwne vnto them : for they that shall eate of it , wyl be taken with your hand . Mizaldus .

HE that takes his iourney on the Sea , in the houre of Saturne : he shall haue many waues , and diuers wyndes , which wyll cast him to vnknowen places . Haly Abenragel .

YF you geue one of these Pylles following euerye nyght going to bed , to him that hath the palsey : it wyll helpe him , for it is proued . Take of hearbe Iue , Cowslops , Bettony , of the flowres of Sticados arabici , of each one dram : let them be dryed in the shadow , and make them in fyne powder , then take good Turbyth , one dram , of the best Agarick , two drams , Coloquyntyda , halfe a dram , Gynger , Salgem , of eyther ten graynes , good and chosen Rewbarbe , one dram and a halfe , Spykenarde , seuen graines , the powder of Hiera simplex galeni . halfe an ounce , Scamony prepared , one dram : let them all be made in fyne powder , and with the iuyce of hearbe Iue , make a masse of Pylles . The weyght to be geuen at one tyme is , one Pyll of one scruple . And marke , if he that hath the palsey , take this ordinary Pylle , ( not once euerie day , but ) twyse in the weeke at the least : you shall see a sudden helpe in the palsey . These Pylles maye worthely bee called gloryous Pylles in the palsey . Emperica benedicti victorij fauentini .

A Certaine man fynding or catching a Mowse , dyd hyt his wife therwith on the left cheeke , being with chylde , who after was delyuered of a Wench : which Wench had , and yet hath , the marke of a Mowse on her left cheeke . This was tolde by a credible woman , who sayd moreouer , that the name of this Wenches Father was , Thomas Bucknam , dwelling at the tyme in Northfolke , in a certayne Towne called Dysse . This affyrmes my other wryting hereof .

YOu may turne white Wine into redde , without any hurt or detryment , by and by , if the powder of Honny , ( that is fyrst sod vnto a stony substaunce , and then dryed , & so made in powder , ) be cast into whyte Wyne , and myxing it well in the same with rowlyng it vp and downe together . The rootes of any kinde of Dockes , eyther new or dryed , put into the Wine : wyll perfourme the same with lesse busynes .

GArlycke being stampt with Hogs , or Barrowes grease , and made something thycke lyke an oyntment : doth maruelously helpe them that haue the coughe , and haue taken colde : if theyr soles of theyr feete , and theyr backe bone before the fyre , be annointed therewith .

WHosoeuer hath any fyxed Starre of the fyrst honor , or magnitude , in the degree of theyr Horoscope , or in the degree of theyr Cuspe of the tenthe house , or in the degree of the Sunne by day , or in the degree of the Moone by nyght : he shall possesse great rytches , and honors , then his Auncestors haue done : of the Nature of that fyxed Starre . In deede this is true , if that fyxed Starre be of a small Latitude : but if it be of a great Latitude , his strength wyll smallie appeare in the Natiuitie of the Chylde . Thus much Taisnier .

THis water following is excellent good to cleare a dym syght , if two or three drops therof be put into the eyes at a tyme , vsyng it certayne dayes together . Take of the water of Uarueyn , the water of Roses , and the water of Fennell , of eache fowre ounces , whyte strong wine , three ounces , Tuty preparate , & Sugar candy , of either three drams , Aloes Hepatick , two drams : let al them be beaten in fine powder that are to be powdred , and put them into the waters & Wine , mixing all together , and let them remaine and stand a whole day , then streine them easely , and keepe that lycquor in a fayre glasse , & vse it as is before said . This is a precious thing for the syght and the eyes .

A Maruelous medicine for woundes & sores . Take a handfull of Arsmart , wette in fayre water : then laye it in the wounde or sore . After burye the same Arsemart in some moyst ground : and the said wound or sore , wyll afterwarde myraculously heale , as the same hearbe doth rotte , and consume . This I had of one that affyrmed it to be true . I thinke it is written by Paracellus .

THe bodyes of drownd or dead men , do fleete on the water with theyr faces and bellies vpward : but dead Women , do fleete on the water grouelyng , or with theyr faces downward : contrary to theyr procreation . But they do not fleete or swym aboue the water : out of whome the Lunges is taken . &c. Mizaldus .

THe water of Marygooldes doth helpe all diseases of the eyes , and takes away all paines of the head . And the smoake of the flowres therof taken or receyued by a Fundyble into the secrete partes of a Woman , or else otherwyse taken : doth bring forth easelie the after burthen . This secrete , Mizaldus dyd get of an olde Mydwyfe , which had neede of his helpe otherwyse .

THe heade of a Gleade vnfeathered , burned , and so much thereof taken with water , and droonke , as you maye take vp with three fyngers : helpes them that haue the gowte . Galenus .

IF any come or send to thee in the howre of Iupiter , it is for no harme : but rather for good . Therefore doubt it not , and though it should seeme to be some harme or losse at the fyrst : yet at length it wyll turne to good . The oftner one tryes it , the truer he shall fynde it : so that he be not Retrograde or Combust .

OKe ferne , ( called Polipodium , ) stampt and plastred vpon the feete of the Woman traueling of chylde : causeth the byrth of the chylde , eyther a lyue or dead . This was tolde me for a great secrete .

TAke the grease of a Swyne or a Hogge , and rubbe therewith the body of any that is sycke , against the harte , or the soles of his feete : then geue that grease to a Dogge , which if he eate , the partye wyll escape : if not , it is a token that he wyll dye thereof .

THis following , wyll helpe them that be deaffe . Take a peece of greene Elme , or Ashe , and laye it in the fyre , and receyue the water that commeth out of the endes thereof : and take also a spoonefull of the iuyce of Syngreene , and a spoonefull of Aqua vite , and a spoonefull of the grease of an Eele that is redde beneathe the nauell : boyle all these together a lytle on the fyre , and put it into a glasse , and when he goeth to bedde , put some thereof into his eare luke warme , and in two or three dayes , he wyll be hole , and heare well . This is proued .

TO drawe out a toothe without any payne . Take the goom of Iuy , and greene Iuy leaues , of each a lyke weyght , and burne them to powder , in a newe earthen potte , and when it is made in fyne powder , myxe it together with the mylke of Spurge , and put some thereof into the toothe that you woulde haue out , if it be hollow , if not , touch the toothe therwith , and it wyll fall out : but beware you touch none other toothe therwith .

AElianus dooth report , that no sycke person of the Locrenses , should vpon payne of death : drynke any Wyne without the consent & knowledge of the Phisition , or any other geue it them , without the commaundement of the Phisition .

IF you wyll proue whether there be any water mixed with Wyne or not , put an Egge into the Wyne : and if the Egge synke into it , there is water myxt with it : if the Egge swym , then it is pure Wyne .

IF the scull of an aged man , be hanged in a Doouehouse : Pygions wyll be encreased there , and wyl lyue quietly . Albertus , as Mizaldus doth wryte .

THe iuyce of Baye leaues distylled into the cares : doth not permytte deafnesse , nor other straunge soundes to abyde in the eares . Petrus Hispanus .

A Question was asked of the state of a certayn person being sycke , & of what condition the disease was , and whether they should recouer therof , or not . &c : It seemed at the fyrst syght , that the party was hole for whome the question was made , because the Sunne was in the tenth house , and the parte Fortune in the Ascendent , but many other testymonies shewed the contrary : And also Mars dyd corrupt Venus , Lady or Alumten of the Ascendent , and Venus also was vnder the beames of the Sunne , and began to be Combust , distaunt from the Sun ten degrees : for Venus was in the .xxviii. degree of Sagitary , and the Sun in the .viii degree of Capricorne : which two degrees in Sagitary dyd sygnify two monthes , ( being a common sygne , ) and the .viii. degrees in Capricorne being a moueable sygne , dyd sygnify .viii. dayes : therfore it was to be doubted of the death of the sicke personne , about two monthes and .viii. daies after the question was made : as God would ordaine , and so it hapned ryght by the appoyntment of God , to whome it belonges onely to cure , infyrmities & griefes , to raise vp the dead , and to moderate the earthly bodies , by the heauenly bodies : and to dispose inferyor thinges by meanes : to whom be glory . Amen . Guilelmus Anglicus in suo tractatu de vrina non visa .

AN excellent medicine for the ache in the bones , or armes , or any other place of the body . Annoynt the place where the payne or ache is , with good and pure Aqua Composita by the fyre , and let it drinke in : doo thus three or fowre tymes together , then at the last tyme whyle it is wette , cast vpon the wette place where the ache is , the powder of Olibanum , ( which is the fairest and the whitest of the Frankensence , ) and so laye a lynnen cloath vpon the powder , and sowe it fast , and so let it lye three or fowre dayes , vntyll it be well and whole . ( Which wyll be by that tyme , God wylling . ) Proued .

ENuches , ( that is , they that be gelded , ) be neuer balde nor gowtye . Hippocr .

IT is a thing worthy of memory , that Lampridius wrytes of Heliogabalus , the Romaine Emperour : who sayth , he had fowre Hartes in his Charret that carryed him : and so many Dogges , calling him selfe Diana : and fowre Tygers , calling himselfe Bacchus : and fowre Lyons , calling him selfe Cibel : and he ioygned fowre Women to his Charret , as Sesostris King of Egipt , dyd with fowre Kings . O prowde , presumptuous Prince : he might ryde a good whyle in that Charret , ere it woulde bring him to heauen .

IT is not good to burye any too hastely , especially : such as haue had the Apoplexy , the falling sycknes , and that are suffocate with the Strangulation of the wombe , called the moother . For such may seeme to be deade , and yet reuyue againe within three dayes : for it was the fowrth daye after Lazarus dyed , ere Christe dyd rayse him from death to lyfe : least any should falsely report , that Lazarus had had the Apoplexy , or the falling sycknes , or such lyke , and therfore but in a traunce , or not perfectly dead : whereby the iust meryte of Christes maruelous myracle thereof myght be darkned . This is the meaning of Lemnius in his seconde Booke of the secrete myracles of Nature . Therefore it is very meete to know , whether any such be perfectly dead or not , which you may doo by holding a lytle burning candle at the parties nose , whose mouth is open : or else by setting some lytle cuppe or glasse full of water to the brymme , vpon the sayde partyes belly or nauell , for by the mouing of the flame of the candle , or of the vessell with water : you shall perceyue his secrete breathing , and whether there be any lyfe in him or not . Camillus .

AN approued medicine dooth follow for the shortnes of breath , & doth maruelously helpe the same : for if halfe an ounce thereof be geuen to the patient , thryse in a naturall daye , that is three howres before dynner , two howres before supper , and about mydnyght : continewing the same three or fowre dayes and no moe : you shall see the diseased healed . Take of Manna elect or chosen , called Manna Granata , two ounces , the flowre of Cassia newly drawne , halfe an ounce , Penyedes three ounces , oyle of sweete Almondes being new , one ounce , the Lyghts or Lungs of a Foxe , fynely beaten and powdred , two ounces , ( make the rest in powder that are to be powdred , ) then myxe all together , and make therof a Lectuary with the syrrup of Hysop . Emperica benedicti victori● fauent . You maye haue it well made at the Apothecaryes . I haue tryed it to be an excellent thing in this case .

YF you wyll breake the great heate of Wyne in the vessell , cast into the same a lytle peece of cheese : and then you shall see a maruelous thing . And why that is , Georgius valla placentinus , doth teache .

YF you annoynt your hands , or other parts of your body with a Linement made of Nettels , oyle , and a lytle Salt : it wyll defende the party therwith annoynted , from the bytterest colde that is . Mizaldus .

THere be braunches of a Bay tree , wrapt vp or layd among cloathes and bookes : wyll keepe the same safe from mothes , woormes , and other corrupcion . Dioscorides .

IF you stampe Ants egges , & strayne them through a cloath , and put therevnto the iuyce of Swynes grasse , or Knot grasse , and distyll it into the eares : it helpes a long continewed deafnes .

A Powder to conserue the syght . Take Bettony , Rewe , Celondine , Saxifrage , Louache , Annyse seedes , Cynamom , Eyebryght , of each one handfull , Cardamomum , Gynger , Fennell , Petroselyne , Hysop , Organy , Syler mountaine , of each one dram , Galinga , one ounce , Sugar , one ounce : Let a powder be made of these , and let it be taken continually with meate , and the syght wyll be restored and kept . This powder was ordeyned by Maister Geralde : whose tryall an olde man dyd proue , which vsed spectacles twelue yeares , so that without them he could not see great letters : but after he had vsed this powder onely one forty dayes , he was free , in so much that all the tyme of his lyfe , he dyd see , and read the least letter that was . This Trotula hath written in the later ende of his Booke , De passionibus mul●erum .

AN excellent way to get out the water out of swolne legges , wherby to make them as slender as they were before . Seethe Otes in water vntyll they be tender : then let the party diseased , hold his legge that is swolne ouer the vessell , that it maye receyue the fume or smoake of the sodde Otes , and couer the partye with some thing that it may go downe rounde about the vessell , and then blysters wyll come vpon the legge or swolne place : out of which wyll runne much water and corruption , then after annoynt the place with butter . Doo thus fowre or fyue seuerall tymes if neede be . This is well proued .

TWo or three drops of pure Aqua Composita , put into the eyes , morning and euening , euery other daye , for the space of fowre or fyue dayes : wyll cleare the syght , and helpe the eyes , of a colde cause maruelously . An olde Gentlewoman that tryed it on her selfe , dyd reueale it to me .

THe hearbe Dandelyon , well sodde in water , is counted to be a chiefe helpe for the ioygning , or knytting of woundes . It is good for Ruptures , or for them that be broken or brusten . &c. Mizaldus .

A Maruelous Water that soone and easily may be prepared , more precious then Golde , is made as followeth . Put fayre and cleare water into a vessell wherein there was neuer before any lycquor , or before neuer occupyed : and when the water is verye hotte , powre it to quicke Lyme , being before in another newe and cleane vessell : and let it remayne , and rest so long , vntyll you haue taken all the fowle spume that fleetes aboue from the same : and that all the Lyme bee settled to the bottome , and the water verye cleare : then powre out the water very softlye , without mouing the Lyme in the bottome , and keepe the same water in a fayre cleane glasse , or some other cleane vessell well couered , or stopt vntyll you vse the same . It wyll scantly be beleeued , what a myraculous vertue and power it hath in all kynde of Ulcers , and chiefly , such as springes of the Frenche Pockes : For the same being bathed or moystned with a lynnen cloath dypt or wet in the sayde water something warme , a prety whyle : and then a lynnen cloath well wet in the same , and so layde vpon the Ulcer or sore in manner of a plaster , and after renewed againe : it wypes cleane away all the fylthe or corruption : it ceaseth the paynes : it fylles the Ulcer with flesh : and it quyte quencheth the heate or inflamations in a small tyme . Not without a great myracle , for otherwyse quicke Lyme dooth burne with vehemencie of his heate . Let them enioye this most excellent secrete : which for great prayer and pryse to many , I haue refused to vtter . Thus much Mizaldus .

MYrre geuen to drynke in warme Wyne , the quantity of a bygge Nut : causeth the delyueraunce of the the chylde , eyther quicke or dead . Petrus Hispanus .

HEre followeth a blessed water for the Gowte . Take of Romaine Uitryall , two poundes , of distylled Honny , fowre pyntes : distyll these together , ( making the Uitryall fyrst in powder , ) and when it is distylled , adde to the same the thyrde part thereof , of Aqua vite rectifyed : which dillygently my●ed , keepe to your vse , and annoynt the sore or grieued place therwith : Doo thus morning and euening , vntyll you feele your selfe well , which wyl be ( God wyllyng , ) within seuen or eyght dayes at the furthest . I wrote this out of an olde Booke . I thinke it be also in the new Iewell of Health : which is a worthy booke and full of many straunge and excellent things .

THe smoake of Iuy burned , doth driue away Backs or Reremyse , from that place , where the same smoake is . Anatolius .

IF any doth aske thee , ( hauing knowledge in Astrologie ) for any thing wherin he hath a hope to haue : marke if the Lorde of the eleuenth house , apply to the Lorde of the Ascendent , or the Lord of the fyrst house , to the Lord of the eleuenth house : Iudge that he shall haue the thing , which he hopes to get or haue , and he shall come to it . And if the Aspect be of a Tryne or Sextyle , he shall quickly and easilye , and by a good meane obtayne it : but if it be by a quartyle or opposyte Aspect , he shall get it with tediousnes and labor . Furthermore , if thou doost fynde the Lorde of the eleuenth house in an Angle & receyued : then iudge that he shall haue the thing which he so hopes to haue , euen as he desyres . Haly Abenragel .

A Peece of the roote of Craw foote , eyther put into the hollowe toothe ( if there be any , ) or applyed to the toothe that aketh : wyll helpe the same presently . A sure proued , and often tryed medicine .

WHosoeuer hath a sorenes in the throate , or else any harde swelling there , called the Squinancie , or Angina , and perhappes thereby doth hardly draw his breath : let them apply this following often times in a day , and it wyll soften it and resolue it . For it is proued . Take of the rootes of Hollyock cut in small peeces , and made cleane , Camamell , the flowres of Uyolets , the flowres of Mallowes , with the rootes , of each one handfull , let them boyle all in a sufficient quantitye of water , vntyll the water be consumed : then put to the same , the flowre of barley , Lynseede , and Fenecreeke , well stampt and beaten , of each one handfull , the grease of a Hen , one ounce , oyle of Camamell , and oyle of sweete Almonds , of eyther a lyke much : which wyl be inough to make the plaster ●atte . This I knowe to be an excellent remedy in this case : which I learned of Benedictus victorius ●auentinus , in his booke called Emperica benedicti .

THis medicine following , wyll helpe any paynes or weaknes of the backe . Take a quart of Malmsey , of Balme , Neppe and Maydweede , ( which Maydweede is a stynking hearbe , hauing a flowre lyke a Daysie , ) of eache one handfull : stampe the hearbes well , and strayne them well into the Malmsey , or put some of the Malmsey in the stamping , to them , and strayne it into the rest of the Malmsey , and drinke a good draught therof euery morning fasting , and at night when you go to bed : and within three or fowre dayes , it wyl helpe you perfectly , ( God wylling . ) A notable and often proued medicine .

DRinke the iuyce of Centorie , once euery morning , fowre dayes together , and it wyll make thee syng cleare , and speake with a good voyce . It cleanseth the breast maruelously . Often proued .

MYntes doth abhorre yron , as Rew doth Basyll : for if Mynt be geuen to one that is wounded , he wyll not easily waxe hole : if Myntes be myxt with mylke : and after taken from the same , and the Rennet or Cheslyp put to the same mylke , the same mylke wyll neuer gather together , or come to crudde . Florentinus in suo Georgico .

WHosoeuer falles sicke in the howre of Saturne , his infirmity or disease wyl be prolonged , ( or he wyll be long sycke , ) and after wyll dye : ( of the same sycknes . ) Haly Abenragel .

FYll a hollowe toothe with Crowes dung : and it wyll breake the toothe , and take away the payne . Petrus Hispanus .

GVido Bonatus , wrytes a straunge thing , which he founde out by the science of Astrology , in the Reuolution of Henry the Emprour : who had of the sayd Emprour a yearely stypende , for that he was a man of famous knowledge : which Emprour had many Astrologyans , as well Phisitions , as other in his owne house . Who for a certayne yeare dyd trauell for the Calculation of the Reuolution of the sayde Natiuity of the sayde Emprour . And euery one of them dyd draw out a Fygure therof a lyke , and they found Mars in the same Fygure of the Reuolution in the Angle of the earth , which is the fowrth house vnder the earth : and they iudged Mars then to be of an euyll influence , and thereby they iudged that the Emprour that yeare shoulde haue hotte Feuers of the nature of Mars . And they agreed all in that opinion to the Emprour . Guydo Bonatus being there , had drawn the Emprours Reuolucion lykewise , & he found Mars going towards the fourth house , being then of an euyll influence : iudged thereby the poyson should be mynistred to the Emprour to kyll him . Therfore he counsayled the Emprour , that if any dyd whysper , or had any priuie talke together , or were found meeting or hauing conference together in his Court , they should be apprehended : Or if any should come to the Kytchin not woont , or appoynted , that some faythfull man of his Court should watche the same . Which charge , was commytted to the Maister of the Emprours housholde : which being very dillygent therin , espyed and founde two Knights of the Emprours Court , that were very busye in talke together , and had not only mutuall conference together , more then they were woont : but also oftentymes requyred to come into the Kytchin . Whervpon the Maister of the housholde committed them to prison , and then one of them called Iohannes Franciscus , was sore tormented : but yet he would confesse nothing . So that they deuised a letter in the name of the sayde Iohannes Franciscus , confessing therin the matter , and shewed it to his fellowe : which when he saw , strayte way sayde , that the sayd Iohannes Franciscus was the chiefe procurer therof , & entysed him to it . Which vttered , they had theyr desyre : wherfore they were secretly executed . Iohannes Ganiuetus , lykewise discribes it .

A Certaine Woman that vsed Mizaldus for her Phisition , had a belly dyd so swell , that it seemed shee was not able to carry her burthen : from whome ( about the ende of nyne monthes , ) there came an euyll shapen masse or peece : wherevnto were two eares lyke the handles of a cuppe fastned , lyke armes , with feeling : after that there dyd fall from her wombe , a monster with a crooked byll or beake , with a long & rounde necke , with brandishing eyes , a sharpe tayle , maruelous quicke of foote : and as soone as it sawe any light , it filled the Parlor or place with noyse , and so it dyd runne from place to place : but at the last , the Women following it , dyd smoolder or chooke it to death with pyllowes . After the woman almost werryed , not without great daunger of her lyfe , did bring forth a Boye , which was so tormented of the Monster : that they had much to doo to christen it with lyfe . Leuinus Lemnius is the Author .

IF Saturne be in the tenth house , in a watry sygne , and hath any dignity in the Ascendent : the Chylde then borne wyll be a Shypman , or a Sayler , or else he wyll abyde gladly on the water , and wyll delyght in fyshing . Taisnier .

CUluer dung sodden in Wyne , tyll the Wyne be consumed , and then emplastred hotte to the gowte : healeth the same perfectly . Use it morning & euening fowre or fyue dayes together . Petrus Hispanus .

TO restore the deaffe to hearing . Take the roote of Houndstung out of the earth , and make a hoale in the roote , as long and deepe as you can , and fyll the same hoale with Salt , and couer it wel that nothing can come within it : then set it in the earth againe as it was , and couer it with earth , and let it be there so three dayes : and at the thyrde dayes ende , take it vp , and that which you finde therein , keepe it in some cleane glasse , and put some therof into the deaffe eare . Let him vse it euery euening at his going to bedde , vntyll he heare clearly : which wyll be within a fortnyght at the furthest , ( God wylling . ) And when you do it into his eare , let him lye in his bedde , that the lycquor may enter . This I had out of an olde wrytten booke . Prayse it as it proues .

TAke two lytle peeces of good Lycqueres ( the bark scraped awaye , ) of the length of a pyn , and of the bygnes of two barley strawes , & put eyther of them into your mouth , betweene your gooms and your cheekes , that is on eyther syde one , and so let them lye all the whole nyght . Use this euery nyght for a fortnyght at the least : and without doubt it wyll stop or stay the rewme . For it conieales the thyn rewme into thyck fleame : so that you may spyt it out . This helpt one that was without all hope to be helpt .

TO helpe the Pocks in the eyes . Take Saffern , and lay it in a ●awcer with fayre water , and let it stande whyles it be yallow , and then droppe some of it into the eye with a sether : and it wyll destroye the Pockes , and saue the sight . This I had out of an olde booke .

WHen thou doost fynde the seuenth house , and the Lorde of the same to be afflicted or Impedite , in the tyme of the question for the sycke : chaunge the Phisition , for he shall not profyte the sicke party , eyther through his owne error , or through the neclygence of the sycke person , or through them that be about the sycke body . The house is afflicted , if Saturne or Mars be therin , or being beholden of theyr quartyle or opposyte Aspect : and contrary , if the seuenth house be well affected , as if Iupiter or Venus is there , take the Phisition to whome you make the question , or whome you are determined to take : for he shall profyt the syck much , and he wyll quickly cure the sycke to his great prayse . Therfore marke the fyrst , or soddayne calling or sending for the Phisition , for if at that tyme the seuenth house , and the Lord therof be euyll affected , the Phisition then called , or sent for , wyll not profyt the sicke : But it followes not therefore that the sycke shall dye . But the Phisition if he take him in hande , shall go away without honour . Therefore as soone as thou art called to go to the sycke , take counsayle of thy Ephemerides , and the celestiall Fygure being erected , marke where the seuenth house be well or euyll affected : and so thou mayst eyther refuse , or take the sycke in hande . Iatromath . Guat . Ryff .

PUt the powder of redde Corrall , in the hoale of the toothe : and it wyll fall out by the roote . Petr. Hisp.

AN excellent medicine , and a noble restoratyue for Man or Woman , that is brought very lowe with sycknes . Take two pounde of Dates , and washe them cleane in fayre Ale , then cutte them , and take out the stones , and the whyte skynnes , then cutte them small , and beate them in a morter , tyll they begynne to woorke lyke waxe : then take a quarte of claryfyed Honny , or Sugar , and halfe an ounce of the powder of long Pepper , as much of Mace , of Cloaues , Nutmugges , and Cynamom , of each one dram , as much of the powder of Lignum Aloes : beate all these spyces together , and seethe the Dates with the Sugar or Honny with an easy fyre , and let it seethe , and as it seethes , cast in thereto a lytle of the powder , by lytle & lytle : and sturre it with a Splatter of wood , and so do vntyll it come to an Electuary , and then eate euery morning and euening therof , one ounce at one tyme , and it wyll renew and restore againe his complexion : be he neuer so lowe brought . This hath bene proued , and it hath done good to many a man and woman .

A Noble Receyte for the blacke Iaundise . Take a gallon of Ale , a pynt of Honny , and two handful of redde Nettelles , and take a penny worth or two of Saffern , and boyle it in the Ale , ( the Ale being fyrst skymmed , ) and then boyle the Honny , and the Nettels therin altogether , and strayne it well : and drinke euery morning a good draught thereof , for the space of a fortnight . For in that space ( God wylling , ) it wyll cleane and perfectly cure the black Iaundyse .

WHosoeuer in the fyrst nine dayes in May , drinks euery morning fasting , a lytle dyshe full of the iuyce of Bettony : it wyll doo him maruelous much good for the gowte . Which he shall perceyue the next yeare following , ( if he lyue so long . )

YF any that hath the Pluresie , or is stuffed in the stomacke , with tough or harde fleame : Let him take a s●ru●le , ( that is the weyght of .xxiiii. barlye 〈◊〉 of the powder of the seed●s of Nettels , with the 〈◊〉 of Uyolets , and swallow the same , as by lycking it by litle & lytle : and he shal spyt out the Uyscus and tough humor easily . A secrete of a Parisian Phisition .

GOates wyll geue much mylke : if you tye Dyttany about theyr bellyes . Africanus .

IF Saturne be in the tenth house , in an earthy sygne , and hath power or dygnity in the Ascendent , and is Orientall of the Sunne : he that is then borne , wyll be a Maister Carpenter , or else he wyll delyght in Carpenter shyp : but if he be Occidentall , he wyll be a cleanser of Welles or pyts , or else a dygger . Taisnier .

IF the griefe of the gowte , or ache be too outragious , Take of Opium , one dram , of Saffern , three drams , myngle them with fowre or fyue yolkes of Egs , and plaster the same vpon the griefe : for it mightely asswageth the paines , and restrayneth the corruption .

A Most approued medicine for the Emrods or Pyles . Take two or three brycks , and burne them redde hotte , and put them in some pan vnder a close stoole , and sprinckle them with vineger , & let the party grieued syt vpon the sayd stoole , that the fume therof may ascend vpward to his fundament . Doo thus three or fowre times if neede be : and certainly it wyll helpe it .

IF you wyll make Byrdes drunke , that you maye catch them with your hands . Take such meate as they loue , as Wheate , or Beanes , or such lyke : and laye the same to stiepe in leese of Wine , or in the iuyce of Humlocks , and sprinckle the same in the place where the Byrdes vse to haunt : and if they do eate thereof , strayght wayes they wyll be so gyddy , that you may take them with your handes . I wrote this out of an olde wrytten booke , wherein I knowe many true things was written .

A Present helpe for a Woman that trauelleth of chyld . Take Hysop , Uerueyn , and Dyttany , of eache one handfull , stampe them small , and temper them with olde Ale , then straine it , and wryng out the iuyce , and geue a good draught therof , to her that trauelleth of chyld to drinke : and she wil be deliuered with speede , and the chyld saued and she both : so that the chyld be alyue when she drynkes it .

A True medicine for the gowte . Take the iuyce of the flowres of Broome , and the iuyce of Scali celi , and Honny , as much of one as of an other , and seethe it all together , tyll it be of the thycknes of Honny , and annoynt the gowty place therwith . I knew ( sayth the wryter hereof , ) a good Priest in London that healed all men and women therwith : for the most part that came to him . And truely I wyst it neuer fayle . This , for the great good lykelyhood of the medicine , and for the faythful affyrming : I thought good to regester it among the rest .

IF one pound of Waxe , two ounces of quicke Brymstone , and as much of quicke Lyme , ( putting therto a lytle ounce of the oyle of Nuts : ) a Candle be made with a week of Bumbase , & so put into the water , as soone as euer the quick Lime begins to burne : it wyl moue the rest of things apt for the fyre , to burne , euen in the myddes of the water . Mizaldus .

A Ram wyl not put or runne at one : if his hornes be boorde through , nye vnto his eares . Mizaldus .

WHo soeuer falles sycke in the howre of Iupiter , he wyll recouer his health quickly . Haly Abenragel . This haue I proued to be true many tymes : and the howre of Iupiter is an excellent howre to doo any thing , or to take any good thing in hande .

A Lytle Gunpowder put into a peece of fyne lynnen cloath , and the same put into the hollowe toothe , or holden betweene the teethe , so that it touch the aking toothe : It puts away the toothe ache presently . This is very true .

IF you distyll hearbe Iue , and geue the water therof to be drunken of them that are grieued , or tormented with the gowte , annoynting also therewith the gowty or grieued place : it wyll heale or helpe them assuredly . Great warrantyse was made of this medicine : where I had it .

A Speciall medicine for all suddayne sycknes , and especiall of the stomack or breast . Take a spoonefull of Aqua vite , and put therein halfe a spoonefull of the powder of Lycqueres , and let it remayne therin three howres , & drynke it fasting , or at euen when you go to bedde . It is a soueraigne thing for the stomacke , or breast .

LAye Saffern on the Nauell of them that haue the yallowe Iaundyse : and it wyll helpe them . This was affy●med to me as proued .

THis following is an excellent medicine to purge the head of naughty humors , & to helpe the headache , the swymming of the head , and the mygrym . Washe the rootes of Beetes , and cutte away the vppermost backe , then stampe the same , and wryng out the iuyce therof , then snuffe some of it out of a spoone into your nose : and a maruelous effect wyll followe , and a speedy remedy therof . A Gentleman a friende of myne tolde mee this , as a most sure and proued thing in this case .

COckes that eates Garlycke , are made stoute to fyght : therefore trauellors do often byte thereof , and also such as followes warres : because it encreaseth agylytie , strengthneth them , and makes them bolde . It is geuen to Horsses with bread and Wyne , at the howre of the battell or conflyct : to make them more fierce , lyuely , and to suffer more easily theyr labour and trauayle . Mizaldus .

THere were young Mise found with the Persians , in the bellyes of Myse , that had young Myse in theyr bellyes . Aristoteles , as Mizaldus wrytes .

IF the feete of a great lyuing Tode be cutte off , the Moone voide of course , that is aspecting none , and hastens towards the coniunction of the Sunne , and hangd about the necke of him or her that hath the Kings Euyll : it so profytes , that oftentymes it delyuers the party from the disease . Hieronimus Cardan .

IF Iupiter be in the eleuenth house well affected , and not Retrograde , nor Combust , nor in his fall , ( as in Capricorne ) but in Cancer , Sagitary , or Pisces : it sygnifyes ( the Chylde then borne , ) shall be fortunate , happy , and haue a common loue in all thinges , chiefly : if he haue any dignity in the Ascendent , or in the place of the Sunne , in the Natiuity of the daye , or in the place of the Moone in the Natiuitie of the night . Taisnier .

THis maruelous Water following , wyll recouer the syght againe , hyndred of any cause : wherwith Constantine the Emprour receyued his syght . Take three drams of Tutie , made in very small powder , as much of Aloe Epaticum in powder , two drams of fyne Sugar , syxe ounces of Rosewater , as much of pure whyte Wyne , myxe all together , and put it in some cleane vessell of glasse , and being well closed and stopt , set it in the Sunne a month together , sturring it together once euery daye : Then take of the same water fowre or fyue droppes in your eyes morning and euening , and with thus continewing a certayne space : it wyll cause the syght to come againe as fayre as euer it was before . This I knowe is proued for an excellent water for the eyes , for it cleareth them maruelously . I knew one that coulde not threede a needle without spectacles , which put not past two or three drops of the same into theyr eyes at nyght : and the next morning , the same partie dyd see well to threede a needle without spectacles .

TO make a lyght that neuer shall fayle . Take the Woormes that shynes in the nyght , called Gloowoormes , stampe them , and let them stande tyll the shyning matter be aboue : then , with a fether take of the same shyning matter , and myngle it with some quycksyluer , and so put it into a Uyall , and hang the same in a darke place : and it wyll geue lyght . This I had out of an olde booke , which is not much vnlike to the discription of Mizaldus .

IF the Lyuer of a Mowse be geuen in a Fygge , to a Swyne : that Swyne wyll follow the geuer therof . Mizaldus .

THe sounde of an Eccho , is thought to dryue away Bees . Therefore theyr Hyues ought to be plaste , where the Eccho or the voyce doth not sound againe . M. Varro .

WHosoeuer takes his iourney , in the howre of Iupiter , he shall haue good gaine in his substaunce , and in his busynes : and he shal haue profyt and gladnes in things vnlooked for . Haly.

IF a Spider be put in a lynnen cloath a lytle brused , and holden to the nose that bleedes , ( but touch not the nose therwith , but smell to the same , ) by & by the bloud wil stay , and the nose will leaue bleeding . This is very true . For the venemous Spyder is so contrary , and such an enemie to mans bloud , that the bloud drawes backe , and shunnes the Spyder presently . A maruelous thing .

WRyte what you wyl , on fayre whyte paper , with the iuyce of a redde Onion , well myxed and tempered with the whyte of an Egge , which being drie : wyll appeare as though it were onely playne paper , without any wryting . But if you holde it against the fyre , you maye then easilye reade it , or perceyue the letters .

TO gylde Yron or Copper . Take the gall of a Bull , and rubbe the Yron or Copper well therwith , ( so that the same before be well burnished ) all about , that you woulde haue gylded , and let it after drye in the Sunne , foreseeing that there come no dust therto : and when it is drye , gylde vpon it as you would doo vpon Syluer .

SEethe an Egge in strong Uinegar vntyll it be very harde , then let the same Egge lye three dayes in Urine , then drye it : and it wyll be maruelous harde . Or let an Egge lye three dayes in Uinegar , then drie the same at the Sunne three dayes , and it wyll be very harde .

CAst Brymstone into a Chafyngdysh , with hotte burning coales , and holde a redde Rose ouer the smoake therof : and it wyll be whyte .

TO seperate Golde from any thing gylded . Seethe pure Sulphurevyue , ( called quicke Brymstone , ) in water , vntyll halfe the water be consumed , then wette the parte gylded with that water , then drye it at the fyre , then stryke the same gylded place , with a lytle Yron : and the Golde wyll fall from it . This I had out of an olde wrytten Booke : but howe true it is , I knowe not . Therefore as you trye it , so take it .

TO proue or finde out the euent of any that is sycke . Count the daies from the beginning of his , or her sycknes : and take the roote of an hearbe which hath so many leaues , as the number of the same dayes be : tye it , or hang it vp , and if the disease be curable : the partye wyll be much recreated . If not , then the party wyl be sadde . But if you can not fynde an hearbe that hath so many leaues , put the rootes of diuers hearbs together , the leaues whereof together doo perfectly make vp the number of the sayde dayes , from the begynning of the partyes sycknes , and vse them as before . This Mizaldus had of a certaine Italyan , which profest that it is true .

THe bloud of a Hare dryed , dooth helpe and stay the blouddy fluxe , or any other laske : though it be neuer so sore or extreame . So doth the bones of a Man or Woman made into fyne powder , and taken in red Wyne .

AN easye plaster for the Gowte , but not a lytle effectuall , because I , sayth Iohn Arderne , haue often tymes applyed it as well to Women as to Men , and haue taken away theyr great paynes , with once applying it as well in the feete as in the knees , & other ioyntes . But take heede it be not perceyued of the patient , nor of any other : but it ought to be kept more secrete , and deare : and let it be reuealed to none : but to thy sonne , or to thy wel beloued friend . I do thinke it preuailes aboue all other medicines for the gowte , & easeth the paine sooner : and it ought to lye fyue or sixe daies without any mouing of it : if it can be so applyed . It is made thus . Take of blacke sope as much as is sufficient , wherevnto adde of the yolkes of raw Egges , halfe as much as the Sope , and myxe them well together in a dyshe , vntyll the Sope hath lost his proper cullour : which done , laye thereof vpon fyne flaxe , and spreade it lyke a plaster , and then apply it to the grieued place , then take the whytes of Egs myxed with Wheate flowre , and wet a lynnen cloath well in the same , & lay the same vpon the sayd plaster , and tye it well vpon it , that the plaster remoue not away of all the sayde tyme : vnlesse there be some great occasion . This I founde in an olde wrytten booke . Which synce I haue oftentymes proued true , for aches .

YF you seethe Barlye , drye Beanes , and Lycqueres cutte in peeces , of each a lyke much , all together in fayre water , and drynke a good draught therof with some Sugar , euerye morning fasting , and at nyght when you go to bedde , fyue or syxe dayes together , or more : It wyll destroye any Impostume , and shall thereby auoyde or cast out the same . This was taken out of a Booke of a learned man that had often practised the same to be true . A medicine of smal coast , and easie to be made at all tymes .

HE wyll be a good Phisition , in whose Natiuitye Mars and Venus are corporally : or by any good Aspect coniunct. Euen so if Venus and Mercury be ioygned , or in coniunction together . Also he wyll be a perfect Phisition , in whose Natiuitie Mars & Venus are coniunct in the syxt house . Iatromath .

A Uery lytle Byrde called Aegithus , doth maruelously dysagree with the Asse , who in thorny places doth scratche or rubbe his vlcers or sores : wherby he doth destroy or breake the nestes of this Byrd : wherevpon it comes , that as soone as this Byrde heares the voyce of the Asse , she doth not onely cast the egges out of her nest : but also her young ones ( if she haue any , ) do fall from the same , astonyed wyth feare . So that the said Byrde flyes vnto the vlcers or sores of the Asse , and pryckes or thrust at them with her byll : that she maye dryue him away from thence . Aristotil . Plin. et Oppianus .

IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the fowrth house , or in the eyght house : it sygnifyes , that he that is then borne , shall dye in pryson . And if he be Combust in the fyft house , in a watry sygne : it shewes he wyll be geuen to be droonken . In the syxt house ( it showes , ) that he wyll dye of a long sycknes . Taisnier .

FINIS . Lib. 8.

¶ The nynth Booke of Notable thinges .

FYll an Egge shell full of the iuyce of Egremony , and geue it vnto the patient to drink , whome you suspecte to haue droonken poyson : and it wyll myghtely purge vpwarde all the poyson , and with a wonder facilytie healeth the byting of Serpentes , and other venemous Beastes . Petrus Hispanus .

THis Oyle or Balme following is of a maruelous vertue against trembling , and the palsey , and it helpeth the memory : annoynting the hynder part of the head therwith . Which a most syngular Phisition kept priuie to him selfe for a tyme , as a most precious secrete : which in the ende reuealed it to the Author , wherof the making followeth . Take of Galbanum , one pound , ( in another place I haue read it half a pound , ) of gum of Iuye , three ounces : these fynely beaten a parte , myxe together : Which after put into a glasse body with an head , and distyll it in Balneo Marie . After it is distylled , myxe therewith one ounce of the oyle of Bayes , and one pounde of good Turpentyne : then let the whole be distylled , and seperate the water from the oyle , and keepe the oyle as a precious Balme . The vse of this is , that the patient vexed with the Palsey , conuulcons , the crampe and trembling of members , be layde vpryght , and the oyle temperatly hotte , must be powred vpon the the belly , into the hollow and bottome of the Nauell , & you shall see after a maruelous working , that may rather be coumpted diuine , then naturall , and very much helpeth the palsey , and strengthneth the memory : vsed as before . A certaine Practysioner applyed one droppe of this Oyle on the patientes forehead that had the Palsey , and another on his Nauell , and he incontinent arose as amased : and was after one howre delyuered of the greuous payne of a wounde , in a certayne place of his body , and the shrunken synewes he annointed with this Oyle , and the patient was suddaynly healed . &c. This Oyle helpeth deafenes , and any sycknes proceeding of a colde cause : and helpeth besydes the losse of smelling . Arnoldus de villa noua , I take to be the Author hereof .

THe Hoofe of a Beast called Alces , ( which is a wyld Beast lyke a fallowe Deere , hauing no ioyntes in his legges , ) hath a maruelous vertue and strength against the Falling Euyll : for a lytle peece therof enclosed in a Ryng , and so the same Ryng put vpon the fynger next the lytle fynger : so that the same peece of the Hoofe be turned towarde the palme of the hand : it doth recreate them maruelous much , that are fallen , and immediatly makes them rise vp . A lytle peece of the same bare , and put in the hand , by and by closed into a fyst , suddainly it dryues away the disease , and rayseth the party that is fallen therewith . Which Lemnius sayth he proued once or twyse . And Mizaldus sayth that he proued it : putting in a lytle peece of the same in the left eare , ( mouing it , as scratching a lytle , ) of one that had the falling sycknes , and it had very good successe , & it was coumpted for a myracle . Iohannes Agricola dooth say the lyke is done , if a lytle peece of the same Hoofe be hanged vppon one that hath the same disease : so that it may touche the skyn . I doo heare sayth Mizaldus , that the scrapings or fylings therof , is geuen in Polonia for the same disease . The Hoofe of the ryght hinder foote is to be chosen . But you must take heede of false deceyuers , which sels the Hoofes of Oxen or Kyne , for the true Hoofes of Alces .

IT is a most sure and proued remedy , as well in curying of spitting of bloud , as also in preseruing from the same : euery day in the morning fasting , to eate a scruple ( which is the weyght of .xxiiii. Barly cornes ) of Rubarbe tosted at the fyre . Emperica benedicti fauentini .

BAye Salt well beaten into powder and syfted , and incorporated , or myxed well with the yolke of an Egge , and so layde vpon any Carbuncle , plague sore , botche , byle , or impostume : assuredly ( by the grace of God , ) it wyll drawe to it selfe all the venome of the plague , or the sore : and breake any byle , or other thing . So that in short tyme the same wyl be healed . A tryed thing .

IF the foreheade of the sycke , waxe redde , and his browes fall downe , and his nose waxe sharpe and colde , and if his left eye become lytle , and the corner of his eye runne , if he turne to the wall , if his eares be colde , or if he maye suffer no bryghtnes , and if his wombe fall , if he pull strawes , or the cloathes of his bedde , or if he picke often his nosthryls wich his fyng●●s , and if he wake much , being a young man : or ●●ing an olde man sleepe much . These are most cer●ayne tokens of death .

POttage made of the leaues and rootes of Strawberies , being eaten fasting , certayne dayes of them that haue the Iaundise : doth helpe them perfectly . This was the secrete of a certayne Moonke , wherwith he got maruelous much money .

A Serpente doth so hate the Ashe tree , that she wyll not come nye the shadowe of them . And therefore shee goes farre from them , both morning and euening : because then they geue the longest shadowes . And Pliny sayth , that he hath proued it , that if one compasse a place about with the braunches of an Ashe tree , so that there be a fyre , and a Serpent enclosed in the same , the Serpent wyll rather go into the fyre : then she wyl seeke to escape ouer , or through the sayd Ashen braunches . &c. Mizaldus .

YF the Lord of the Ascendent be found in the twelft house : he that is then borne , shal procure his owne enemity . Taisnier .

IUmper berryes are medicinable against poysons : for there is none of lyke operation vnto it . And Dioscorides sayth also , that they do helpe against poysons , and styngings of Serpents . Petr. Hispanus .

TO trye whether precious Stones be pure or not . Heate a plate of Yron on the fyre , then annoynt the same with Oyle , and cast or strowe on the same , the powder of glasse , wherevpon saye qucke bu●ning coales , and then holde the stone that you would trie , a good whyle ouer the same coales : ( that the stone maye be hotte , not touching the fyre ) and then i● the stone lose his cullour : he is not good or pure . But if he keepe his cullour : he is then perfect and right .

AS principall a medicine as euer was ordained for the bone ache , eyther in Woman or Man , in what place so euer it bee . Take a penny woorth of Aqua vite , and an other of oyle Debaye , and myxe them well together , and annoynt the grieued place therewith , ( not by the fyre , ) and it wyll doo awaye the payne for euer : vsyng it often . But you must warme the Oyntment a lytle in a Sawcer before you laye it on , and chafe it well vntyll it be dryed in , and couer it warme at all tymes , vntyll it be hole . Thus I founde it wrytten .

EGremony , Mugwoort , and Bettony , both leaues and rootes stampte with olde grease and vynegar or veriuyce , and a plaster thereof applyed to the grieued or sore payned backe : wyll quyte put away the paynes and griefe therof . So that you vse it three or fowre tymes . A sure and proued medicine .

IF you wyll catche Mowles or Woontes , put Garlycke , Leekes , or an Onion in the mouthes of theyr hoales , or in theyr entringes into the grounde : and you shall see them come , or leape out quycklye , as though they were amased or astonied . Albertus .

IF the Fystula be outwarde , put into it the iuyce of Culuerfoote : for it healeth it . If it be inward , drink it : and it healeth also . This is true , for it hath bene proued .

FOr them that haue surfeyted , or eaten too much , let them stampe Bettony , and temper it with hote water and a lytle Wine , then strayne it well , & drinke a good draught thereof morning & euening , fyrst and last three dayes together : and it wyl throughly helpe him ( God wylling . ) This was told me for a trueth .

THe two hornes of a Snayle borne vppon a man : wyll plucke away carnall or fleshly lust from the bearer thereof . I had this out of an olde wrytten booke . But howe true it is I knowe not .

FOr all euyls of the stomacke , and for them that can not eate . Take an hearbe called Centory , & seethe it well in stale Ale , & when it is wel sodden , then stampe it , after that seethe it againe in the same Ale , let there be two handfull of Centory , to three quartes of Ale , and let them seethe as is before sayde , to three pynts : then put thereto one pynt of pure Honny , and boyle them together , and keepe it in some cleane vessell , and geue to the party grieued , three spoonefull therof fasting euery daye , tyll he be hole and well : for it driues away all the fleame & corruption from the stomacke , & makes him haue a great desyre to his meate , within fowre or fiue dayes . Often proued .

THe powder of Bettony put in Wyne , ( that is a spoonefull of the powder to a draught of Wyne , ) a lytle boyled on the fyre , being drunke : doth presently helpe such as haue drunk poyson before . And whosoeuer drinks the same in a morning fasting , no poyson taken after the same day , can hurt him . This is a proued and tryed medicine .

THe dung of a Catte dryed , & so myxed with strong vynegar , that it may be something thycke , & therwith any heayrye place rubbed often tymes , or annoynted in a day : it wyll cause that heair wyll grow no more in that place . Proued of a countrey man . Mizaldus .

IF the Lapwing doo syng before the Uynes doo budde : it is sayde that it foreshewes great plentie of Wyne . Mizaldus .

WHosoeuer deliuers a sum of Money in the howre of Iupiter : he shall receyue it againe well , with gayne . Haly Abenragel .

THis pocyon or drinke following is wonderful , and very often proued of me sayth Petrus Hispanus : for it kylleth the Fystula , in what place so euer it be , and draweth out the corrupt and broken bones . Take the rootes & leaues of Planten , Strawbery leaues , the leaues or seedes of Hempe , the leaues or seedes of Mustarde , the tops of sharpe Docke , red Colewoort leaues , and Tansey , let them all seethe in a good quantity of whyte Wine : after strayne all the whole , & put into the streyning , as much Honny as shall be thought meete : geue therof vnto the patient early & late , vntil such tyme as the cleare pocyon or drynke come forth by the mouth of the Fystula : which must alwayes be kept open with a syluer Pype put into it , and keepe vppon it alwayes a redde colewoort leafe . It is of a wonderfull operation . Petrus Hispanus . And I my selfe haue proued it : and it healed in such manner as is before declared . It is a precious thing .

DRagans bounde to the priuities of a Woman in labour : causeth her to be delyuered incontynent . But there must be heede taken that it be quickly remoued , least it drawe forth the Matrix with all . Petrus Hispanus .

HEre followeth an excellent Oyle , which maketh a fayre cullour in the face . Take of Almonds scraped , ten poundes , of redde Saunders in powder , sixe ounces , of Cloues , one ounce , of whyte Wyne , fowre ounces , of Rosewater , three ounces : these after they be groslye beaten together , let them lye in a marble Morter close couered , for eyght or nyne dayes , beating the same ouer once a daye : then heate it all in an earthen vessell , vntyll it begynne to fume and be through hotte , and after that put it into a newe square bagge of lynnen cloath , then put the same bagge into a presse , betweene two smoothe plates of Yron , something hotte ▪ for out wyll come a redde oyle wherewith Women maye annoynt theyr faces : for it causeth a comly redde , and bewtyfull skynne . A secrete , and practysed of fewe . This is in the newe Iewell of Health : a Booke of muche value , and small pryce .

THe grease of an Eele , and the iuyce of Syngreene mixed together , of each a lyke much , boyled a lytle , and a lytle therof put into the deafe eare , nyne nights together : wyll bring the hearing agayne , as well as euer it was .

TAke Salt Armoniacke , Allom , and Salt Niter , of eache a lyke quantitie , with a lytle fylings of Syluer , let all be myxt together , then put them vnto the fyre , that they maye be hotte : and when they shall cease to smoake , then with the same powder , alone , or else myxte or moystened , with the spettell of your mouth , let Copper or Brasse be rubbed therewith : and strayght way it wyll haue the cullour of Siluer .

SErpentes being within a cyrcle made of Byttony : they can not go out of the same . But rather wyll dye with beating them selues . Plinius .

IF the Lorde of the seconde house , be in the twelfth house : enemyties wyll come many tymes to him that is then borne : for money , or through money . Taisnier .

PLanten stampte , and the iuyce wroong out , & put into the hollownesse of an Ulcer , with a spowte : healeth the same . So doth Bettony stampte , and applyed to a Fystula , healeth it . Petrus Hispanus ▪ The iuyce of Cinquefoyle , doth heale the Fistula lykewise : if it be put into the same with a spowte .

TO seperate Golde from any thing that is gylded . Take Borace and temper it in water , them boyle it ouer the fyre , and with the same water , annoynt the thing that is gylded , & cast theron a lytle of the powder of quick Brymstone : after put it into the fyre that it may be made red , then quench it in running water , & you shall finde the gold in the bottome of the vessell .

FOr any paynes of the eares , and for them that cannot heare . Take a great Onion , cutte a hoale therin , and set it in the embers to roast , then fyll it full of oyle Olyffe , and euer as it dryeth , fyll it vp againe , tyl it be roasted well , then take away the vppermost skin therof , then strayne the Onion through a cloath , and keepe it in some close glasse : and when you wyll occupy thereof , put some of it into the hole eare , and let him lye on his sore eare when he goes to bedde : and if he vse this nyne nyghts , at the furthest : it wyll helpe him . Proued .

FOr the fundament that goeth forth . Take the tops of redde Nettelles , and stampe them in a morter , then put it into an earthen potte , then put thereto a good porcion of whyte Wyne , and set it ouer the fyre , and let it seethe tyll halfe the lycquor be concōsumed , and geue the party diseased a good draught thereof something hotte to drinke , morning and euening , fyrst and last : for the space of ten dayes . And also apply the hearbes something warme to his fundament : and it wyll helpe him perfectly . Proued .

FOr eyes that be chafed , and the lyddes turned vp , or bleared eyes . Take Arnement , Honny , and the whytes of Egges , of each a lyke much , temper them well together : then take flaxe & laye the same theron , then applye the same vpon the sore eyes , and it wyll draw the euyll bloud out of them , and perfectly heale them . This medicine hath bene proued .

IT is sayd that a Hart doth so abhorre a Ram : that he can not abyde the syght of him . Aristotil . Plin. And other .

WHen fowre or fiue Planets be coniunct or ioygned together in the Ascendent , or fyrst house , of any chylde that is borne : that chyld wyll not lyue long . Expositor doth say , the King of our Cittie dyd cal me , because one of his Women had borne a Son , & the Ascendent was the eyght degree of Libra , the terme of Mercury , and Iupiter was in the same , & also Venus , Mars & Mercury : and the company of the Astrologyans dyd meete together there : and euery one of them dyd tell his opinion , and I heald my peace : The King sayde vnto me , saye what thou can : why doost thou not speake ? To whome I aunswered , geue mee respyte for three dayes , for if your Sonne shall passe the thyrd daye : you shall see a great myracle of him . And after xxiiii . howres was ended , the Chylde dyd ryse vp to sytte , and he spake , and gaue sygnes with his hande , wherof the King was greatly afrayde : And I sayde , that he woulde speake some Prophesie , or some myracle . Then the King went to the Chylde , and wee with him , to heare what he would saye . And the Infant sayde , I am the Infortunate borne Chyld , and I am borne to shew the losse of the kingdome of Azdexit : and the destruction of the people of Almanaz . And strayght way the Chylde fell downe , and dyed . Haly Abenragel .

THis following is a Secrete , and proued thing for the Palsey , whereof if you geue thryse in the daye to him that hath the Palsey , halfe an ounce , that is in the morning three howres before meate , and two howres before supper , and at his going to bedde : it wyll helpe him thereof . Take of the new and fresh brayne of an Hare , broyled or fryed , one pounde , the iuyces of Sage , of hearbe Iue , and the iuyce of the roote of Acorus , of each three drams , of pure Cynamom , Cloaues , blacke Pepper , of each halfe a dram , Turpentyne washt with the water of hearbe Iue , three ounces , Sugar dyssolued in the water of hearb Iue , as much as doth suffice : And thereof make a Lectuary , according to art , and know that it is maruelous . Emperica benedicti victorij fauentini .

TO helpe swolne legges . Take Mallowes & seethe them in water , then stampe them well , & strayne them : then put therto Barrowes grease , & frye them together , vntyl it he something thyck , & lyke an oyntment : lay some therof vpon a cloath , and make a plaster , and apply it to the sore & swolne legge , and lay a new plaster therto twyse euery day , morning and euening , three or fowre dayes together : and by that tyme it wyll be asswaged , and as small as the other . This was tolde mee by a Woman that had tryed it many tymes .

ONe neuer hath the gowte , vntyll he hath knowne a woman ( carnally . ) Hippocrates .

ALexandrinus Iouianus Pontanus , doth say : that he saw a man was grieuously stung or stricken of a Scorpion , which presently was deliuered & helped therof , with drynking of Frankensence , wherein was sealed the sygne of Scorpij , or of a Scorpion : being after made in powder . But it must be grauen in the stone of a Ryng , ( Scorpio ascending ) the Moone then being there , and plaste in the Angle , ) and the Frankensence must be sealed with that seale when the Moone is in Scorpio , and founde in an Angle . And let it be geuen in powder as is before sayde , eyther in water , or in whyte wyne , or in any other meete lycquor .

HEre ensueth the making of a myraculous Oyle , called oyle Incombustyble . Take of whyte Sope the best that maye be gotten : and after you haue beaten it well and fyne , put it into a great Retorte , on which powre so much weyght of Aqua vite , seuen tymes distylled ouer , then set the Retorte into ashes , fyxing a large receyuer to it , and very well luted in the ioyntes : this done , make vnder it a soft fyre in the begynning , and encrease the fyre by lytle and lytle , vntyll all be yssued forth that wyll come . Which together wyll be an Oyle and Water , then drawe away the receyuer , and seperate the Water from the Oyle , which oyle is Incombustle and myraculous in sundrie matters , in the worke of Alkemy : for this greatly avayleth in fyxing the medicine Uolatyle , and serueth well to incorporate with all mettalles , and ceasneth such as be crude , and lykewise sweetneth when they beegar . This also dissolueth all paynes & swellings caused of grosse and clammy humors , and healeth in a manner all sortes of wicked Ulcers . And in this ( sayth the Author ) I conceyued a great delight , as to worke such a maistrie , to see so many straunge fumes and varyeties : but a more pleasure I tooke in the practyse , as to see how the same auayled in euery matter wherto it was applyed . By which I proue this to be a diuine substaunce , and an oyle worthy of eternal memory . And this was the greatest secrete , with which that syngular Matheus the Hungaryan , dyd so many great maruels in Padua : for he heald with it the gowte , the quarten ague , the payne of the French disease , and the drye scab on the head , with sundry other griefes , for which whyle he remained in Padua , he was highly esteemed and wondred at . And at the last in his departure from Padua , he reuealed it to mee , that the onely medicine which he vsed to all the griefes , was this oyle and none other . The making of which , he fully vttered vnto mee at his departing : which before he would not teach to any man . And the same I haue many tymes made , & haue also seene such straunge practises of it , that to repeate them , I should scantly be beleeued . Hec de secretis Fallopij .

TO put a Shedule , or lytle wryting into an Egge , lay an Egge certaine dayes in strong vynegar , vntyl it be soft , and wryte your name or what you lyst in a lytle peece of paper , and folde the paper as harde together as you can : then with a Raser cut the sayd Egge in the toppe fynely , and aduisedly : through the which , put the litle paper into the Egge cyrcumspectly , and then put the Egge into cold water , and immediatly the shell wyl be hard as it was before . A proper secrete .

THe quieter Beasts , haue the lesser galles : the fearefuller , the greater hartes : the lyghter or more leaping , the more Lyuer : the meryar , or more pleasant , the greater Splene : and the greater voyce , the more Lyghts . Much like to these verses folowing .

Cor ardet , Pulmo loquitur , Fel commouet Iras : Splen ridere facit , cogit amare Iecur .

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The Hart doth burne , the Lungs do speake , the Gall to yre doth mooue : The Splene or Mylt doth make vs laugh , the Lyuer makes vs looue . Mizaldus .

CAuda Draconis , in the seconde house , ( called the house of Substaunce : ) sygnifyes the chylde then borne , shall wastfully consume and spend his goodes , or sygnifyes the losse therof . And that he shall come to pouerty and open mysery . Haly Abenragel .

A Grymony is of woonderfull profyte in medicines , especially : against hollow woundes & vlcers . Petr. Hispanus . And Trotula saith , that though the Fystula that penetrates to the eyes , is incurable : yet some do wytnes that such a Fystula may be cured , by Agremony alone , by often vsing it , eyther in drynke , or in powder . Filipendula is good for the same , and the graines ( o● lytle round things , ) that are found in the ende of the roote . Gordonius alleadgeth Egremony to be the best and surest medicine , for the curing of a Fystula .

FOr the webbe or spotte in the eye . Take the great bone of the Goose wing , ( the elder the better , for though it be a yeare old it is not the woorse , ) breake it , & take out the marrowe that is within it : then put some of it vpon the webbe , or in the spotte , and it wyl breake it , and saue the syght . Proued .

THe vertues of Tormentyl . This hearbe conforteth the sight , & cleanseth the body of dyuers maladies : the powder therof is good to clarify the syght of the eyes , though one be blinde . And this hearbe is drest on this manner . Take the hearbe with the roote , & seethe i● with whyte Wine , tyl the thyrd part be sodden away : and geue him that is blynde to drinke of this lycquor nine dayes in the morning colde , and at night bloud warme : and within that tyme he wyll recouer his syght ( by Gods grace . ) But if the syght of the eye be hurte , take also the hearbe and stampe it , and seeth it in whyte Wyne , with a lytle water put into the Wyne , then laye or spreade the hearbes on a lynnen cloath , & bynde it vpon his eye or eyes : and it brings a woonderful helpe . If thou stampe this hearbe with the roote , a good quantitie , and put it into a lytle vessell full of Wyne , and let it remaine therin three monthes . Whosoeuer drinkes often of this Wyne , though he hath bene blynd nyne yeares : he wyll recouer his sight againe . This I had out of an old written booke , which doth much agree with Petrus Hispanus , in this case : whose minde thereof I haue mencioned , in another place of this booke .

IF the part of Fortune be Cadent from the Ascendent , and doth not behold there the lyght or Lumynary of the time , and his Lord be weake , and Infortunate , & remoued from an angle , not beholding the part of Fortune , & the Lord of the house of substaunce be euyll affected of euyll Planets , or of the beames of the Sun : ( which destroyes & scatters , ) it sygnifyes that he or she that is then borne , shal be poore , a wretch , & that he wyl not be able to get his owne liuing , and that is lyke to lyue of almos . Haly Abenragel .

THis following is a secrete , and approued medicine for them that are short breathed : very good for the poore ( because it is not coastly . ) Take of the rootes of Hollyocke dryed in the shaddow , one pound , ( made in fyne powder , ) clarifyed Honny , fowre pounde : set them ouer a fyre , and styrre them together , vntyll it be in the fourme of a Lectuary , wherof let the patient take often : and he wyll be whole . Emperica benedicti victorij Fauent .

A Perfect and most sure and proued remedy , and a rare secrete , for the helping of womens sore brests that be swolne & ful of paine : which was reuealed vnto me by an old woman : who sayd that the Lady Owen , Doctor Owens wife , vsed it to women in this case very much , who kept it as a great secrete . The medicine foloweth . Stampe or bruse nine litle woorms , of som called Swyne lyce , ( which commonly wyll be founde betweene the barke and wood of olde or drye trees , which haue many feete , and being touched , they become round as a button , ) in eight or nyne spoonefuls of drinke , let them remayne therin all night , and the next morning streyne the same drinke , and let the diseased woman drinke the same a lytle warmed , at one draught , and then let her laye to her breast , a two or three foulde lynnen cloath warmed : the next morning , let her take eyght of the same lytle woormes in drynke , in such order as before , & the thyrde morning seuen , & the fowrth morning syxe , & so euery morning following one lesse : discreasing one euery morning , vntyl nyne mornings be ended , on which nynth morning she must take but one of them , as it wyll fall out by the discreasyng one euery day . And if she be not then throughly hole of her breast , let her encrease euery morning one immediatly following : vntyll she hath receyued nyne at one tyme , according to the order before appoynted . A rare and notable thing , if it be true : for I neuer proued it .

FOr the swelling of armes , legges , or feete . Take Lyn seede , Wheate bran , Brockleme , Chicken weed , Groundsell , of each one handfull , and one pottell of whyte Wyne : seethe them all together , tyl it be thick , and lay a plaster therof to the place that is swolne , as hotte as the partye can suffer the same : and it wyll take it away , and helpe him within three or fowre plasters . Proued .

TO helpe a stynking breath that coms from the stomacke . Take two handfull of Coomyn seede , and beate it into powder , then seeth it in a pottel of white Wyne , vntyll a quart thereof be wasted away : then geue the party a good draught thereof fyrst and last , as hotte as he maye suffer it , and it wyll make him haue a sweete breath within fyfteene dayes . This is proued .

MArke what Planet is ruler of the twelft house , & the day that beares the name of that Planet , wyl be vnlucky to the Chylde borne at that tyme . And many tymes wyll haue myshaps of that day : Which by long experience is found true .

PUt the feete of Hens in hotte embers , tyl the scales or skyn thereof be seperated and shrunke from the legs : and with the same skyn warme , rubbe Wartes three or fowre tymes or more , and it wyl dryue them away . Petrus Hispanus .

IF you wyll do away or consume a Wen , do as followeth . Bynd fast the Wen , then take Uerdygrease , Brimstone , Sope , oyle of Egs , Allom and Honny , of each a lyke much , and temper them together , and lay it thereto : and it wyll do away the Wen , and heale it without doubt .

A Syngular oyle & very rare , which causeth a comly face , and maketh the person mery which vseth it , yea , strong & hardy to fyght : the making whereof doth follow . Take one pound or two of Hempe seede , which after the fynely beating therof , sprinckle & wet it with a lytle Wyne , then put all the same into a new earthen pan glased , and set it ouer the fyre : heate it so long , vntyll you can not suffer your hande in it , after put the same substaunce hotte into square bagges , which wryng harde out , in a presse , and an oyle wyll come forth very profitable : wherof if any drinketh to the quantitie of an ounce at a tyme , it maketh him pleasaunt and merry : and if a Souldior drinke it , it wyll make him both fierce and hardy to fyght , without any feare or doubt of his enemy . And also it is profitable to Women , in that it maketh them merry , & coomly to see too : and in this maner you may draw out an oyle out of all seedes . This is in the newe Iewell of Health .

A Notable and often proued medicine for a Sciatica , ache , gowte , or other payne or griefe . Take a pynt of pure Aqua Composita , one Beastes gall , and one ounce o●●epper beaten into powder , boile them all together ●nt●ll halfe the Aqua vite be consumed : then laye so●e thereo● on a cloath lyke a plaster , and apply it something hotte to the grieued place , and let it lye twelue howres vnremoued , and do thus fowre or fyue tymes if neede be : for it is a present helpe .

A Precious Water for eyes that be fayre & cleare , and yet are blinde . Take Smalladge , redde Fennell , Rew , Uarueyn , Bettany , Egremony , fyue leaued Grasse , Pympernel , Eybright , Sage , Celendyne , of each one quarter of a pounde , washe them cleane , and stampe them in a fayre brasen mortar , or in a pan , then take the powder of fyfteene Pepper cornes fynely searced , and a pynt of good whyte Wyne , and do them to the hearbes , and also take three spoonefull of lyfe Honny , and fyfteene spoonefull of the vrine of a Boy that is an innocent : and mixe them all together , and boyle them ouer the fyre a lytle whyle : and strayne all through a cloath , and keepe it in a glasse well stopt , vntyll you occupy it : and with a fether do it into the sore eyes , and if it drye awaye , temper it with whyte Wyne againe . This is a medicine for all manner of euylles of sore eyes , to make a man see , if euer he shall see , within fyfteene dayes on warrantyse : by the grace of God . This I tooke out of an auncient wrytten booke .

EUerye one that is borne , whose degree of the seuenth house is the terme of an euyl Planet , he shal d●e a fowle death . And if it be the terme of a good Planet , he shall dye a fayre and good death . Haly Abenragell .

IF you rubbe Wartes with Egremony , stampt and myxt with vinegar , and also plastred vpon them : it taketh them away cleane . And also if Purslane be rubbed vpon them : it pulleth them vp dy the rootes . Petr. Hispanus .

FOr the Coddes that be swolne . Take the powder of Coomyn seede , Barly meale , and Honny , of each a lyke much , frye them together with a lytle Sheepe suet , and bynde the same as a plaster all about the Cods : and it wyll helpe it . Proued .

THis following wyll breake a Byle , Botche , or a Fellon . Lay fyrst thertoo some posset crudde , and let it not be remoued of twelue howres , and that wil gather the matter together and make it tender . But if once applying of the posset crudde do it not , then apply therof to it twyse or thryse : then take vnquencht Lyme , and cast vpon it some fayre spring water , and myxe the same with blacke Sope , and lay to the sore a peece thereof , according to the greatnes that you woulde haue the hoale of the sore , and when it is brooke , then washe it with whyte Wyne a lytle heated : and so heale it with Butter & powder of Sugar mixed together . This is a sure and approued thing .

A Notable secrete for all incurable aches & paynes in the ioyntes where euer they be . Take all the whole horne that a Buck castes off ( the later the better , ) cast away the scawpe , take nothing but the horne , cut the same in shyuers or peeces , then seethe the same in a gallon of fayre water , vntyll all be comd to a pynt , or some thing more : then cast away the peeces of the horne , and then let that in the vessell stand vntyll it be colde , which then wyll be lyke a ielly . And when you wyll occupy therof , warme some of it in a sawcer , or some other conuenient thing , & then annoint the grieued place therwith by the fyre morning and euening , & let it drynk in by the heate of the fyre : and it wyl helpe and heale it throughly for euer , ( God wylling , ) within nyne or ten dressings . This is very true , and well proued : which a friend of mine tolde me , that helped him selfe of such an ache therwith , that neyther counsell of Phisitions , practise of Surgeons , nor yet the long vsing of the Bathes , could ease : wherby he spent much money in vayne , vntyll a Wenche by chaunce tolde him this excellent remedy . Which as she sayde a noble man of this Realme , dyd learne beyonde the Seas : who hath reuealed it synce to the great commodity and helpe of many .

FOr swolne or sore throtes , a rare and sure remedy . Rubbe your hand on the bare earth or ground , and then therwith rubbe the sore or swoolne throote : if presently you do thus three seuerall tymes , the swelling & payne wyll myraculously go away . This was taught me by a friende of myne , that dyd knowe it to be true by proofe .

AN excellent remedy for a great heate , & pricking in the eyes . Fyl an Egge she l newly emptyed , with the iuyce of Syngreene , & set it in the hotte embers , and skym of the greene baggage from it , and then it wyll be a water , then straine it , and keepe it in a glasse , and put some of it into the hotte eies , fowre or fiue nights together : and it wyll cease the burning and pricking therof quickly . Often proued .

HE shall scantly or neuer dye an euyll death : that hath a good Planet in his .viii. house . Haly Aben.

A Woonderfull drinke against brusings , and it helpeth such maruelously that are brused through falling . Take Egremony , Bettony , Sage , Planten , Iuy leaues , Rosepearslie , stampe them together , and mixe Wyne therto : geue the patient it often to drinke , tyll he be hole . A true and tried medicine . I thinke that Petrus Hispanus hath the same .

IF you burne fowre ounces of Turpentine , vpon a hotte or burning plate of Yron , vntyll it maye be made in powder , and then myxe two drams there of , with fowre ounces of the water of Saxifrage , and geue it twyse in a weeke , early in a morning to th●m that haue the stone in theyr blather , and so continew it two monthes : he shall not onely be preserued from breeding of the stone in the blather : but also it wyll burst and dryue forth the stone bred there already . This is proued , and a secrete , and is to be kept well in minde . Benedictus victorius Fauentinus .

IF Lauender be well sodde in water , and then strayned , and halfe a pynt therof droonke dayly fyrst and last , for the space of a fortnight : it wyll heale them that haue the Palsey . This was founde in an olde written booke .

AN excellent and speedy remedy for many diseases , and chiefly for the stomacke . Myxe two spoonefull of Sallet oyle , with two spooneful of pure Aqua vite , and drynke all the same in the morning at one tyme , doo so syxe or seuen morninges together . It is a notable and often proued remedy .

FOr the Strangury , a straunge medicine . Take a pynt of good Aqua composita , and put a good handfull of Iuy leaues therin , & keepe the vessell wel stopt , & the Iuy leaues wyll consume therin , vse to drink of the same three or fowre spoonefuls at one tyme , morning and euening , fyrst & last , fiue or sixe dayes together : and you shall see a maruelous helpe therof .

THis following is a proued medicine for the ache in the huckle bone , called the Sciatica . Take a pounde of good black Sope , one pint of good Aqua vite , halfe a pynt of Sallet oyle , and a quarter of a pynt of the iuyce of Rew , seethe them and sturre them all together ouer an easie fyre , vntyll it be something thycke , and that it maye be made in a plaster : then spreade some therof vpon a peece of lether , and apply it to the ache or payned place , and let it lye thereon vnremoued , three dayes and three nyghts : and if the payne be not then gone , then applye such an other plaster thertoo , and remoue it not of so long , and it wyl helpe it certainly . This was tolde me by one that knew it often proued .

THe powder of whyte harde Sugar , put into a bloudshotten eye , or that is some thing dymme of syght : It helpes the same , and mendes the syght very well . Especiallye , if you put afterwarde a lytle Rose water into the eye . This I haue proued dyuers tymes to be true . Yea , and I thinke if it were vsed , it woulde consume the webbe of the eye , at length .

HAly sayth , that he that begyns to set forewarde his iourney in sayling , or enters to go to the Sea in the howre of Saturne , he wyll be drowned : or else wyll be lost by the inuasion of Pyrates or other : or else the fiercenes or great raginge of the Sea wyll throw him to the land , where he shal suffer shipwrack . Or else into farre Ilands he shal be caryed , ( perhaps vnknowne to him . ) Which of trueth hath alwayes hapned to that Shyp , ( that then sets forewarde , ) as the booke of Natures dyd contayne : which as he hath dillygently proued , and read , which chiefly entreates of the iudgements of howres . And the sayde Haly saith further , as foloweth : when a certaine shyp dyd set forth or forwarde in the howre of Saturne , I sayde to one of my fellowes , which vnderstoode some thing in this Science : all these men are geuen to be lost , and within a while after they all perished . Thus much sayth Haly. And in beginning of long iourneys as well by Lande as by Sea , in this howre I haue knowne much harme and mischiefe to follow : Which although many doo not , nor wyl beleeue to be true , because they know neither this excellent Science , neither the proofe of these things : yet many that be wise and learned , and that haue payed full dearely for the prouing thereof : doth thinke this no lye . But if some of them dyd know the same howre , and should practise some such lyke thing therein : the euent thereof would teach them I thinke , not to be so incredulous . I know ( I thanke God therfore ) that no harme shall happen to the chyldren of God : for he wyll so guyde them , that neither man nor deuil , nor any other thing can destroye them , though in this world they maye seeme to hurt them . And as he doth preserue them from harme , euen so he appoynts them theyr tymes to walke in , & the very beginning of theyr iourneyes : Assured and am fully satis●yed , that he by his diuine prouidence , makes them auoyde that howre , & other euyll tymes : and the wicked and vngodly haue hapned of that tyme , to theyr destruction . Therefore for my part , I attribute nothing to the tyme , but all honour to God that made the tyme : whose glory and power is to be extolde , that foreshewes such things to man , by such howres or tyme .

BLack Sheepes wooll , myxt and chafed by the fyre , with freshe butter , and the deaffe eare stopt therewith at night , and thus vsed nyne or ten nyghts together : it helpeth deafnes perfectly , and speedely . A proued thing .

HEre followeth a notable and excellent Aqua vite . Take Galengale , Cucubarum , Ginger , Nutmugs Cloues , Cynamom , of euery one an ounce , fresh sage , fowre ounces , water that is distilled sixe times out of pure & good Wine , ten ounces : put them all together , and let them remayne so in a close cleane vessell three dayes : then distyll the same , & keepe that that is distylled in a cleane & close vessell . Whosoeuer drinkes a nutte shell ful of this water euery day : it wyl preserue theyr bodyes maruelously , and keepe them from many diseases , and bring them to olde age . It is sayde that M. Gallus , Phisition to Charles the Emprour , vsed this water , and liued a hundreth and fowre and twenty yeares . Georg. Alapide deuised this water .

IF you desyre to haue sweete water forthwith , or by and by : put two or three drops of oyle of Spyke , in a good deale of pure water , and chafe it together in a glasse with a narrow mouth . Euonymus .

AN excellent oyle for colde aches . Take the wood of Iuie dryed , cutte the wood in lytle peeces , and of the berryes , and gum of Iuye , of each a lyke weyght : let them be put in an earthen vessell , boored through in the bottome , in two or three places : and then let an other pot be set vnder it in the earth , and ioygne the bottome of the vpper potte vnto the mouth of the nether with claye or paste , & the vpper potte must stand wholly aboue the ground : then make a fyre on euery syde , and the oyle wyll distyll blacke into the nether vessell . This oyle before all oyles , healeth the griefes of the ioyntes of a colde cause . This is proued to be a notable oyle in this case . Rogerius seemes to be the Author hereof . As appeares in Euonymus .

IF you put out the whyte of a Hens egge , and fyll vp the same egge with the iuyce of Flower deluce , and myxe the yolke and it well together , then warming it a lytle in the hotte ashes , and so geue it in the morning to them that haue the dropsie : it wyll auoyde downward the dropsie water aboue measure . This is proued to be true . Much lyke vnto this , Benedictus victorius Fauentinus wrytes for the same cause : but he appoynts the iuyce to be geuen with Mellicrate .

A Proper practyse to make a Capon to bring vp young Chickens . Take a Capon and pull his belly bare of fethers , & after rubbe the naked place with Nettels , then setting young Chyckens vnder him , he wyl maruelously cherish them then , and bring them kyndly vp . And the rather if you vse him thus for a time : for by that meanes he is moued the more wyllingly , to cherysh , bring vp , and feede : yea , & to loue them , as the Hen would do naturally . And the reason therof is , for that by the pricking of the nettels , he is the rather desyrous to coutch on the softe downe & fethers of the young Chickins , sytting vnder him . This I had out of the natural and Artificial conclusions of the Schollers of Padua . Translated into English by Th. Hyl.

ONe Aeschilus was foretolde by an Astronomer , that he should be kylled by some ruyne , or something that should fal vpon him , vpon a certaine day or tyme : who ( to preuent the same , ) did walk abroade a certain space about the warned time , & would by no meanes come into any house , thinking therby to auoyde that daunger , vnles the heauens should chaunce to fal : but marke how hard it is to auoyde Fate or Gods determined appointment , about the same tyme foretold by the Astronomer , an Eagle dyd flye ouer his head , from whome a stone dyd fal vpon Aeschilus head , & kylled him . Wherby we may not onely see the mans wisdome and pollicy is not able to frustrate Gods prouidence : but also that there is a maruelous certenty in the Astrological foreshewing of euents , especially , by directions : which Ciprianus Leouitius seemes to affirme by this & other notable examples . And sure I am by many proofes & tryals , that the euents wyl assuredly happen at the time promised by dyrections , that is : when the Signifyer coms to the very place & minute of the Promissor , accoumpting for euery degree betweene them one yeere , & euery minute , about six daies , if the Signifyer be to be dyrected by the dyrect Ascencions : but if the Signifier be to be directed by the obliqu● Ascencions , ( or els Intermixtim ) which is not very easily or soone done , then they sygnify sometimes more , sometymes lesse , according to their swift or slow ascending . Which dyrections to be infallible , the learned & expert herein cannot chuse but affirme . For that they are found as perfect by proofe , & as true by tryal : as the breake of the day , doth assure vs of the rysing of the Sunne .

IN Lamberge a Towne of Schlesia , as Iohannes Langius wrytes , a certaine Woman great with chylde did folow a Priest that had newly washed or bathed his feete : who being taken with such a longing or lust with the sudden sight of his bare feete , that she priuely behynde his backe , dyd holde his legge with her hands , and out of the same pluckt a peece of flesh with her teethe : Nothing regarding the crye of the poore Priest , which cryed out both of God and man .

IF the foote or leg of an Oxe , Cow or horse be swoln by chaunce , marke the ground where the same swoln leg or foote doth stand , & take or graue vp with a knyfe or dagger , a turfe or peece of earth in the same place where the same foote dyd stand , & hang the same turfe or peece of earth vpon the bough of a white thorn , or of som other tree , ( if it be fayre or dry wether , ) if not : them hang it in some chimney where fire is made : and after as the turfe or earth doth drie , so wil the swelling cease and the payne go away . This I haue proued to be true dyuers tymes . And it is practised of many , especially : for Oxen or Kyne . But the suddaine swelling & griefe of my horse legge hath bene helpt therwith , within two or three dayes , & by none other meanes . Who lystes to proue it , shall finde it true : although it be farre vnlykely .

THe water wherin Lauender is sod , doth quite put away any spotte or steyning in any cloath , Cap or Hat : if the steyned place or spotted , be washed or rubbed therwith . It is very true , proue it who wyll .

TO make any fowle of what condition the same be , to haue the fethers all whyte . Take the Egges of what Byrde or fowle you wyll , rowle them in the iuyce of the hearbe called Mowse eare , or in the iuyce of Housleeke , or otherwyse in oyle ( after the minde of Cardanus , ) and after put the Egs againe in the nest : for after the hatching , the fethers wyll grow whyte . This is taken out of the naturall and artificial Conclucations of the Schollers of Padua . Translated in Englysh by Thomas Hyll .

YF the figure of a Lyon be graued in a thyn plate of Golde , when the Sunne is in Leone , ( that is the sygne called the Lyon : ) So that the Moone beholde not then the syxt house , nor the Lord of the Ascendent behold Saturne or Mars , and the Moone then seperate or rather free from them : it doth put away the intollerable paynes and tormentes of the backe : if it hang at the raynes of the backe , or touch the same . And if 〈◊〉 be made of the powder of pure Olibanum and Goates bloud , and after sealed with the same Lyon , and after dryed , and then being dyssolued in whyte Wyne and droonke fasting : it workes a maruelous effect against the stone of the reynes & of the blather . Andreas Cordubensis to Gregory the Bishop of Rome .

THis confection following is a most excellent medicine and remedy for many inward effectes , especially : for all fluxes of bloud from whence soeuer they flowe , and also other fluxes , moreouer for them that haue great paynes in theyr backs , and also paynes in theyr Lyuer , or whose Lyuer is not all together wel : And Galen the Author hereof sayth , ( belyke for the excellencie therof , ) geue not this before thou hast receyued a rewarde therfore , the making wherof doth followe . Take of Cynamom , Cassialignea opium , of each two drams , Myrre , both Peppers , Galbanum , of each one dram : let them be stamped , & then myxed with a lytle clarifyed Honny , and made in a lumpe or masse , geue therof at night two round pyls , somthing bygger then peason , in the soft of a roasted apple , and let not the party drinke of two howres after , and if his griefe and paines be neuer so great , he wyll be in maruelous ease , and quietnes within an howre or two after , & so remaine the most part of all the night : yea , and perhaps sleepe soundly and well . You maye geue it two or three nightes together , if the party be strong , but if he be very weake , geue it euery other nyght , three or fowre tymes : and if the party be in extreame payne , then geue it when you lyst . But if the stomacke be full of meate or fleame , it wyll shew the lesse effect . Who euer shal proue it , shal fynd it a worthy thing . I haue proued it aboue a hundreth tymes .

A Fine way to make Corral by art , which foloweth . Make the hornes of Goates ( first shauen or scraped ) into powder , and let the same stiepe in strong Lee , made of the Ashes of the wood of an Ashe , fy●teene dayes together : afterwarde take it out of the sayde Lee , and mixe it with Cinabrium , dyssolued in water , and hang it ouer an easie fyre , vntyll it be thycke , and if it haue then the cullour of right Corrall : make it in the forme or fashion you thinke good , drye it , and polysh it according to arte . This doth Mizaldus discribe .

THe iuyce gotten out of a red Onion , & three or fowre drops therof put into the deaffe eare colde , three or fowre nyghts when the party goes to bed , helpeth the deafnes : be it neuer so great or auncient . Feare not though it put you to some paine at the fyrst time : for at the seconde tyme it wyll be more easie . This was taught mee by one that knewe it by proofe .

TO make a Woman that hath a dead chyld within her , immediatly to be delyuered therof . Take the quantity of an Al●on , of a Bulles gall , myxe it with two spoonefull of Wine , and let her drinke it : and she shall auoyde it strayght . Iac. Veckerus .

DEuyde an Aple in the myddes , and in the one halfe of the Aple in the myds of it , make a round hoale , by cutting a peece out of it , then into the same hoale , put a blacke Betle , and so laye the flatte syde on the table : and the Aple wyll moue , by the meanes of the Betle , to the maruaile of them that behold it .

TAke an Aple of Coloquintida , and laye the same to stiepe in water , a whole night , and after boyle woormwood in that water : which water being cast about the chamber , kylleth all the fleas therin . Also annoint a staffe with the grease of a Hedghogge , and laye the same in the myddes of the chamber , and all the fleas there wyll come and cleaue to that staffe .

A Certaine young Gentlewoman or Lady , trymming and dressing her selfe , holding then in her mouth , a few pyns , was suddenly & priuily strucken between the shoulders , by a certaine Rular or Prince ( being her Louer , ) wherewith she was so suddenly feared & amased , that she swallowed the pyns which she did hold in her mouth : which pyns she auoyded in her vrine within two dayes after without an harm . Ioh. Langius a learned Phisition , is the reporter herof .

IF Roses & Lyllyes be sowne nye together , or that they touch one another , the flowers of them wyll smell the more pleasauntly , & wyll grow the better . Mizal.

ONe Apisius got much money , with this most excellent Oyle following , and was maruelously esteemed therfore : after whose death the King of Spaine dyd geue vnto his wife , fiue hundreth Crowns , for the vttering & disclosing the making therof , as is manifest in a booke made of the same at large by one George Baker , in the English tongue : which hath manifestly shewed his honest hart & natural loue to his Country . The same Apisius in his life time , & his wife after his death , did helpe all wounds , old vlcers , aches , paines of the back , & emroddes therewith , & it is maruelous good for the gowte : the making of the oyle is thus . Take of the most purest and oldest whyte Wine , one quart , of the oldest oyle Olyffe , three pound , Carduus benedictus ( called the blessed Thistle , ) Ualerian , & the lesser Sage , with the flowres if you can get them , of each a quarter of a pounde , of the leaues & flowres of S. Iohns Woort , halfe a pounde : let the hearbs and flowres be infused or stieped in the sayd Wine & oyle xxiiii . howres : then the next day let all be put into an earthen vessell leaded , or a vessell of brasse vpon an easy fyre , vntyll the Wyne be consumed , moouing it styl being ouer the fire , then being taken from the fire & streyned , put therto of Uenys Turpentine , a pound and a halfe : then let all boyle together a quarter of an howre , then put therto Olibanum , fiue ounces , Myrre , three ounces , Sanguis Draconis , one ounce , and let all boyle vntyl the Myrre be dyssolued : then put it into a vessell of glasse stopped , & let it stand in the hotte Sun ten daies : before you vse this oyle , you must wash the sores or wounds with whyte Wine , wherin must be the powder of Olibanum . I haue written this here , because I thinke thereby many shall haue knowledge of this precious Oyle : which otherwyse should neuer haue heard of it .

A Sweete water & an vnknowen , wherof one part mixt with ten quartes of pure water , maketh the whole most sweet . Take Nutmugs , Cloues , Galingale , Spiknard , graines of Paradise , Mase , Cinamon , of euery one an ounce , pound or stamp them all , ad therto twenty graines of Musk , or lesse , as you delyght in the smell therof , powre into them a pound & a halfe of Rosewater : let them so remayne together in a close vessell fowre or fyue dayes , then put therto thryse as much Rosewater , and distyl all the same in a potte or kettel ful of water , seething as in Balneo marie , & keep the distylled water in a glasse wel stopt : to the vse before sayd . Euoni .

IF an Eg be painted with sundry cullors , & the same set vnder a Hen , which syts to bring forth chickens : she wyll hatche therof a Chycken , hauing the lyke fethers vnto the cullors paynted on the Egge . Thomas Hyll out of the naturall and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua affyrmes this .

IF one make a lytle rope of the guts of a Woolf , and then bury the same vnder sand or earth , there wyll neither Horse nor Sheepe go that way : though you beate them with a staffe . Albertus .

IT is sayd that a Hare doth lyue ten yeeres , the age of a Cat is so much , a Goate doth liue eight yeeres , an Asse thirty yeeres , a Sheepe ten yeeres , but the Belwether many times doth liue .xv. yeeres , a Dog. xiiii and somtymes .xx. a Bull .xv. but an Oxe because he lacks his stones , doth lyue .xx. a Swine and a Peycocke .xxv. a Horse .xx. and oftentimes .xxx. there haue bene Horses that lyued fifty yeeres , Pygeons lyues naturally .viii. yeeres , a Turtle & a Partrech .xxv. yeeres , & also a Ryngdooue , which oftentimes lyues xl . yeeres . Mizal.

THe body of a Byrch tree , cut or scortched , ( the spring time going before , ) doth yeeld great plenty of water , which water being droonke , hath a maruelous strength to breake the stone in the raynes . Matheolus vpon Dioscorides , wrytes it .

FINIS . Lib. 9.

¶ The tenth Booke of Notable things .

THere is an euident familiarity betweene the Oliue tree , and the Myrte tree , for as Andronicus reportes , the branches of the Myrt tree do pleasauntly extende or spreade by the Olyue tree , and the rootes of them do mutuallye embrace each other , nor any other plant : but the Myrt tree wyll grow well nye the Olyue tree . This also Mizaldus doth affyrme .

THe smell of Bitumen rawe , or the smoake thereof burned , receyued by the nose of such as are grieuously tormented with the paynes of the moother , is a present helpe or remedy . It is most certainly proued . Wherfore many Women which are grieued with the disease , do hang it about theyr necks in wooll , that they maye driue away theyr fyt , by the oft smelling therof . Mizaldus wrytes this . And the learned Doctor Monardus affyrmes the lyke therof .

THe sparrowe Hawke is a fierce enemie to all Pygions , but they are defended of the Castrell , whose syght and voyce the Sparhawke doth feare , which the Pygions or Dooues knowes well inough : for where the Castrell is , from thence wyll not the Pigions go ( if the Sparhawke be nye ) through the great trust she hath in the Castrell her defendor . Iohannes Baptista Porta hath written this .

THe leaues of a Wyllow tree , as also the bark therof sodde in Wine : doth helpe them that haue the gowte : if they be fomented or bathed therwith . Mizal.

SToflerus an excellent Astronomer , knowing by his Natiuity , that he should be in daunger to be hurte about a certaine day or tyme : kept him self then within his own house , assured that it was strong inough . The same day or very nye vnto it , that the euent should happe , certayne of his learned friends and he , as they were reasoning together , dyd vary in some certayne opynion , about the tryall wherof as it should seeme , he reached to take downe one of his bookes , ( being placed among dyuers other , ) when through the lacke of a nayle , the whole classe or shelfe where the booke was , fell vpon his head , and wounded his head very sore . Which doth not onely shew the worthynes and excellencie of Astrology , especially , in a learned and skylfull person therin : but also our folly in flying from Fate for that , our wisdome doth leade vs into it , when most of all we meane for to shun it . Therfore perfect prayer passeth pollecie , in preuenting of peryls .

THree halfe penny weyght of the powder of the Adamant stone , droonke with the iuyce of Fennell , drawes the water from them that haue the dropsie . And the same stone put to the head , takes away quite all the paynes therof . Iacobus Hollerus an excellent Phisition affyrmes it .

IT is a manifest thing , and proued by dayly experience , that the bodies of them that be murthred , when they be founde , if any of theyr kynred be then present , or the party or partyes that kylled or murthered them , or was the cause therof : Immediatly bloud wil burst forth suddenly , either out of the wound , or nose , or out of some other part of theyr body . I could aleadge here a great sort of examples for the verifying thereof , but I omyt them : for it is a thing found true by dayly experience . Besydes that Lucretius , Philip. Melancton . Iohannes Langius , and Lauinius Lemnius haue written therof .

PEeces of Amber being put or tyed to the hynder part of the head : doth helpe the running or watrines of the eyes with a maruelous successe : and hanged about the necke doth hynder distyllations , that they go not downe by the throate . Mizaldus . Besides that , it is proued to be true .

A Certayne Woman went with a dead Chylde in her wombe aboue fowre yeeres , which by the counsayle of learned Phisitions , and expert Surgeons , was drawne from her peecemeale : and the mother dyd not onely lyue , but also conceaued an other Chylde , as Mathy Cornace , a notable & learned Phisicion hath affyrmed : who was present when the sayd Woman was cutte for the getting out of the sayde dead Chylde . Mizaldus reports this .

IF Eeles be suffocated in wyne , whosoeuer shall drynke of that wyne , ( though they haue bene very much geuen to wyne before , & could scantly abstayne from the same , ) they wyl loothe wyne , and not be desyrous to drinke wine after . The greene Frogges which vse or leapes about sprynges , if they be suffocated in wyne , workes the lyke effect . Mizaldus .

IF Musaraneus , called a Shrew , ( I take it to be the blinde Mowse , ) doth chaunce to go ouer any part of any Beast : that part of the Beast wyll after be lame . This is knowne to be true .

WHo so would haue a very whyte & delycate skyn . Let them boyle or heate Lytarge of Syluer in vinegar distylled : and wash therewith theyr skynne which they desyre to haue fayre , trym and whyte . This I tooke out of Mizaldus .

IN the tyme of Traiane the Emprour , a certayne man hauing a disease , called the Dissury , dyd pysse with much a doo , a knotted Barly straw . Anthonius Mizaldus hath written this . And I knew a Gentleman that after his death being opened , had a Pygions fether stycking in his harte : which fether was shewed me by the Surgeon that dyd cutte and open him .

OTes sodden and the hotte fume therof close receyued on any lame members , eyther armes , legs or any other : and then the sayde members put & holden , a good whyle in the same sodden Otes , when they may be suffred therin , and the same order vsed fowre or fyue tymes , ( if neede be ) doth helpe them perfectly that be lame . This was tolde me for a very trueth by them that knew it , and saw it tryed .

THe toothe of a man hanged at the necke of the partye that is tormented with toothe ache , doth take away the payne therof , especially : if a Beane be put thereto , wherin there is a hoale bored , and a lowse put therin , and the same beane wrapt in a peece of sylk , and then hanged about the parties neck , as is before sayde . Anthonius Mizaldus .

THe most whytest Frankensense made in very fyne powder , and droonke with Wine , ( if it be in colde wether or in wynter , ) or in water wherin Reysens are sodde , if it be hotte wether , or in Sommer , ) in the encreasing of the Moone , at the rysing of the Sun , at noone , & at the setting of the Sun : doth maruelously helpe and encrease the memory . And is very profytable for the brayne and the stomack . Rasis is the Author hereof , by the report of Mizaldus .

ANy parte or a peece of the bone of a Mans arme , with the hyghest parte or ende of a Goose wyng , being carryed or borne of them that haue the quarten ague : doth cure the same . Mizaldus fathers this of Geber .

IF one that hath the Dropsy or the Iaundise , shal drink theyr owne vryne for certayne dayes together , it wyl helpe maruelously . Thus Hermes sayth . But Benedictus victorius Fauentinus in his practises , affirms for trueth : and sayth it is certaynly proued , that fyue ounces of the vryne of a Boye not polluted , and of a sanguyne complection , myxt with hal●e an ounce of good whyte Sugar , being droonke euery morning early , ●asting for the space of ten daies : doth helpe certaynly the Iaundyse , and also so much droonk at once , a month together in such order , doth helpe the Dropsye perfectly .

STiepe a threede in oyle & brimstone myxt together , and compasse a glasse with that threede in the place where you would haue it broken euen , or parted , and after kyndle the same threede with fyre , and do thus so often vntyll that place of the glasse be hotte , and after compasse the same with a threede wet in cold water : and it wyll part so cleane a sunder , as though it had bene cut with a sharpe poynted Diamonde .

IF they that be swolne and are full of the Dropsy , do lye three dayes and nyghts in theyr beds wel couered rounde about in sodden Barley : it helpes & cures them perfectly . This was proued by them that came vexy swolne from Gynny . And one of them that was helpt therwith , reuealed it vnto me : which I am content to publysh , to the common commodity of many .

THe earnest searchers of naturall things , saye and set forth : that certayne woormes are bredde in the vowels or guts of the Harte , & they are destroyed by the eating of Serpents , which the Harte doth allure with the breath of his nose to come out of theyr heale or denne : and least the poyson of them should hurte him , he goes a pace to some fayre Spryng of water , and whyles all his whole body is therein vnto the lyppes , lytle drops or teares distylles out of his eyes , which at length encreaseth to a thyng , as bygge as a Walnutte , and are in manner of a stone , and when he perceyues he hath therby auoyded all the poyson , and being comd forth of the water : with the rubbing of his eyes at a tree , the same lumpe or Stone , ( being a hynderaunce to his syght , ) he gets away . Which matter or Stone is a thing most effectuall against any venome or poyson . Many Phisitions of great aucthority and antiquitie , are witnesses herof . Iulius Scaliger , and Amatus Lucitanus do boast , that they saw such a thing , and they affyrme that it maye be geuen effectually with a lytle wine to them that are infected with the plague : for by the strength and help therof , so much sweate wyl come forth of the body , that you would thinke the whole body , wyll turne or consume into moysture , with which once geuing all the poyson or venom is thrust out of the body . The Arabyan Phisitions calles this Stone Besoard . And therof Alexipharmaca , a remedy against venoms , Bezoardica . This Anthonius Mizaldus wryteth . These Besaar stones , being of a most excellent , notable and precious vertue , are now gotten in Peru , in the west Indyans , and found about ten yeares past , in certayne kynd of Beasts that goeth in the mountaines of that Countrey , which are much lyke to Sheepe or Kyds that are in the Portingal Indyas , by a worthy Spanish Gentleman , called Peter de Osma , who killed som of those Beastes purposely , for the sayd Besaar stones , which he thought to finde in them : but although he looked and searched therfore in the belly , and in other places of one of the eldest and greatest of them : yet he could find none of them , neither would the Indyans tel him in what place of the Beast they were , saying they knew no such Stones : being loath he should know that secrete . But at the last an Indian Boy , of twelue yeares of age , tolde him where to finde them . Wherfore the other Indyans would haue kylled the Boy , because the Indyans do much esteeme those Stones : for they doo offer them vnto their Gods , or before their Idols , as one of the most precious things they haue . So that by the sayde Boyes reuealing , the sayde Gentleman found the Stones in a certaine lytle purse that the mawe of the Beast hath : wherin the hearbs doth lye when he chaweth the cudde . The sayd Gentlman geues a maruelous commendation of them in a letter , which he wrote to Doctor Monardus an excellent learned Phisition of Ciuil in Spaine , saying : that they are maruelous good against all venom , and against all sorts of poyson , as well in meates as otherwyse , and in euylles of the harte , and to expell and kyl woormes , and that they haue healed such diseases with this Stone , that it is woonderfull to be seene , both of Ladies , Gentlemen , and many other : naming many of theyr names in that letter , saying further : That as a new thing , all such takes it in powder , as haue diseases which can not be healed by medicine , & many do heale : and so with many other thinges he prayseth God , for the great benefyts receyued by the vertues of this Besaar Stone . And the sayde Doctor Monardus hauing receyued of the sayd Stones from the sayd Gentleman , doth maruelously prayse & extol the sayde Stones in a worthy worke or booke made by him of certayne trees , oyles , plants , and stones of woonderfull great and maruelous effects , whose very wordes thereof , ( as much as shall seeme needefull therfore : ) I here do vtter . If I would ( sayth he ) put here the great effectes , and the diseases which the Stones of Peru haue healed , that they which do com from thence do tell me , & that Gentleman doth wryte merit would make a great booke . I wyll put that only which I haue experymented , and the effectes that I haue vnderstoode that they do , and these that haue past by my handes , wherby all credyte may be geuen vnto it , and as a thing certayne : seeing that there is experience of it , with all assurance and trust , it maye be vsed . Our Occidental Besaar Stones haue great vertues , principally they do remedy many persons which be sycke of the harte , for the which I haue geuen great quantitie of them that haue bene brought mee , and they haue made maruelous effectes : so much that to many persons which dyd swounde , by taking it away from them , they were delyuered from death . It must be geuen when they do swound , and before it come , taking it in the morning fasting with Rosewater , if the party haue great heate : if not , then with the water of flowres of Orrenges , the quantity of fowre graines , euery tyme made in powder . In all kinde of venom , it is the most principall remedy that we know now , & that which hath done best effect , in many that haue bene poysned , which haue taken it , as well by venom taken at the mouth , as by byting of venemous woormes , which are full of poyson . It doth truly a maruelous and a manifest worke , vnto them that haue droonke water standing in a stinking lake : being infected with Beasts or varment , which are full of poyson , and being swolne immediatly after they had droonke it : by taking of this Stone two or three tymes , they were remedyed , as I haue seene them after . &c.

In pestilent Feuers I haue geuen it many times , & surely it doth extinguish and kyl the mallyce of them ▪ which is the principall thing that the Phisitions should procure in the lyke diseases . And although he doth take away the cause , & doth withdraw the putrifaction . And if he do not extinguish & take away the mallyce , the cure is neuer at an ende . For that is it which kylleth , & doth the principall hurt . And where there is certaine spots in the body lyke to fle bytinges , which do appeare in the lyke Feuers , the Besaar Stone of our Indians , doth make maruelous effects . Of those which they haue brought mee , I haue spent the most parte , geuing them in the lyke diseases , and surely it hath remedyed many with maruelous successe , and in that which some of them haue bene spent by me , hath bene in swoundings : and surely I haue seene in these Stones the effectes so great , that it seemeth a thing of woonder . And especially , I haue seene these causes more remedyed in women , then in men : it is a maruelous thing to be taken , & it hath done manifest effectes , where there is melancholy humor , it doth repayre him much . And it doth in him & in all thinges which do result of him a great worke , be it vniuersall or perticular , in the head , or that as they cal Mirarchia , & also in them that haue Leprosie : of the Arabienssor , Elephanciacis , of the Greekes . It doth profyt much in Scabs , in Itchings , in Scuruines , & in all partes of the body that is infected . It maketh a very good work : and doth remedy the euyls manifestly . For that this Stone hath property , to heale them . I haue geuen it in quarten agues , & although it taketh not away the quarten , it taketh away the accidents of it , the fayntnes and sadnes , and the griefe of the harte : which in these Feuers are common . Surely they do feele with the vse of it notable profyt , in all large & importunate diseases . &c. It is good to cast into purges , som grains of it , that if the purge do carry venemous medicines , it may rectify and amend them . And if not , it geueth force & strength to the hart , & they worke the better . In the Oryental Indyas , they haue a custom to purge them selues two tymes euery yeare : and especially , the noble people of estymation . And after they haue purged them selues , they take euery morning fasting , fowre graines of the Besaar Stone with Rosewater , or with water made for the purpose , and they say that this doth concerue the youth , and doth strengthen the members , & doth preserue them from diseases . And it is a good vse , for it can not but do them much good . I haue geuen it to many people , & especially to chyldren and Boyes that are tormented with Woorms : and I haue seene such workes as are not to be beleeued : if they were not seene . This & more hath Doctor Monardus wrytten in his sayde Booke of this Stone , and other worthy and woonderfull thinges . Which booke is dillygently and truly translated into our Englyshe tongue , by one Iohn Frampton Marchaunt . Which booke is tytled and called , Ioyfull Newes out of the new found World : who deserueth great thankes , and continuall commendations for publishing such a common commodity to his Countrey .

A Water which certainly wyll heale the Fystulaes . Take two pounde of water that is distylled out of good whyte Wyne , as you styll Aqua vite : put therto of the water of Sage , and of the water of Rosemary , of eyther fyue pounde , Sugar two pound : distyl them all together , and when they are distylled , put too the water distylled , one ounce of Sage , and as much of Rosemary , and when they are stiept together eyght dayes , strayne it and vse it in curing of Fystulaes . Euonymus . In which booke is many excellent things .

IF you lay the wieke of a Candle to infuse or stiepe in the oyle of Hempseede , and after make a tallowe Candle therof , which if you do lyght after it be colde : the same Candle wyll not go out with any winde , so long as the whole Candle lasteth . And in lyke sorte may lyghts be made to serue in the night time , if that fyne lynnen rags be fyrst soked in the Oyle of Hempseede , & dipped into mowlten tallow , which so bound or wrought on a staffes ende : or otherwyse lying in an Yron or plate at the ende of a staffe . This is taken out of the naturall and Artificiall clonclusions of the Schollers of Padua . &c.

THe young Swallowes of the fyrst broode , that a Swallow hath , being cut and opened before the full of the Moone : two Stones wyll be found in their mawes , wherof one is of one cullour , the other is of dyuers cullours : if these Stones ( so that it be before they touch any grounde , ) be wrapt or enclosed in a Harte skynne , and be tyed to the arme or about the necke of them that haue the falling sycknes : it doth heale them of the same disease . Mizaldus wrytes this by the report of an Italyan , which affyrmed to him that he had proued it to be true .

WHosoeuer shall , especially , the fyrst Frydaye in May , and euery other Frydaye in May , before the rysing of the Sunne : graue vp two turfes of new growne grasse with the dew vpon the same , & then doth tye the grasse sydes of them together , and shall then laye the same in a water in the syde of a ponde , or in some other water , so that the vehemencie of the water dooth not remoue the sayde turfes from the place where they be layde , & so letting them lye there vnremoued nyne or tenne dayes : if at the ten dayes ende , he shall take vp the sayde turfes , and vntye or loose the same , he shal finde a great sort of young Eeles within the same : although there be not one Eele in the same water at the laying there , of the sayde turfes . And then if he tye the sayde turfes with the young Eeles together againe , & lay them againe in the same water , a great encrease of Eeles wyl after come therof . This was credibly tolde me for a very trueth , of one that dyd trye the same . I thinke they breede of the same dew .

THe Uine tree dooth not agree with the Bay tree : for with his odor or smell , he is the woorse , wherfore when the branches of the Uine drawes neere to the Bay tree , he wyl draw backward , flying the smel of his enemy . Euen so the Burre is enemy or doth not agree with Lentyls . Iohan. Bap. Por.

AN Image of a Ram grauen or molten in Gold , the fyrst degree of Aries ascending , and Iupiter plaste in the same , not impedite by any euyll Starre or Planet , so that the Moone and Venus beholde him friendly : is a maruelous helpe & remedy to them that haue a continuall headache , ( if they weare the same Image of golde . ) Laurentius Miniatus , by the report of Iouianus Pontanus , dyd with the same help a friend of his of a continuall head ache . Mizaldus .

IF you wyl cullour or paynt the brystles of a Swine with dyuers cullours , when they be well washte , and sodde in Allom water , let them be put whyles they be warme , in water cullored with Saffern , if you wyl haue them yallow : or in the iuyce of Elderne or Walwoort berries , if you wyl haue them of a blew cullour : or in water myxt with Flos eris or Uergdygrease : if you wyll haue them of a greene cullour , and so of other cullours . You maye proue the same with the fethers of Byrds . Mizaldus .

THe powder of Earthwoormes , of Myce dung , or of a Hartes toothe , put into the hoales of teethe , that be woormeaten : doth plucke them vp by the rootes , or makes them fal out without any other Instrument . Mizaldus .

IF the Stone that is founde in the heade of a long Snayle , be made in fyne powder , and blowne in the eye , it puttes quyte away all the spottes therof , and it destroyes the webbe in the eye , and any other euyll in the same . Mizaldus affyrmes this .

IN the wynter tyme , a spooneful of Aqua vite sweetned with good Sugar , with a lytle peece of the purest whyte bread put into it , least it shoulde trouble the braine , or do some harme to the Liuer , is healthfully geuen to grosse and flegmatyke bodyes , that it may concoct the humors , and defende theyr bodyes from the Lethargie , ( which is a forgetfulnes , and a losing almost of all the sences ) and from the Apoplexie , ( which is a ceassing as well of the inwarde sences as of the outwarde , ) and from colde diseases . Lemnius .

TO make a Candle burne vnder the water . Take waxe , brymstone , & vynegar , of each a lyke much , boyle all these together ouer the fyre , vntyll the vinegar appeare all consumed , and then after of that that remaynes make a Candle : and you shall see the proper effect as aboue is wrytten . This is taken out of the natural and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua . Translated by Thomas Hyll .

TAke a Ryng that is hollowe rounde about , into which put quicksyluer and stop the same fast , that it runne not forth , after heate the Ryng somewhat in the fyre , which being hotte , laye on a table or stoole , and soone after it wyll leape or daunce of it selfe , vntyl it be colde . It is proued .

QUenche hotte Yron in the iuyce of Hemlockes , three or fowre tymes , letting it remayne therin euery tyme vntyl it be colde , & the Yron wyl be soft . Also Cardane wryteth , that if you take Oyle , putting into it mowlten leade , seuen tymes together , and after quench Yron red hotte in that Oyle fowre or fyue tymes together , it wyll make the same Yron soft to worke vpon .

A Certayne Woman with Chyld , seeing a Bakers shoulder naked or bare , whyles he dyd put bread into the Ouen , dyd long or desyre so much to eate of the sayde Bakers shoulder , that she abhord or lothed all other meate . Her husband hauing pitty of his louing wyfe , dyd agree to geue the Baker certaine money for euery bytte that his sayd wyfe should byte of his shoulder , and the same Baker suffered the sayde woman to haue two byts at his shoulder : but when she beganne to byte at it the thyrde tyme , he was so grieued with paine , that he would suffer her no more to byte at his shoulder . Immediatly after the woman traueyled , and brought forth three children , two of them a lyue , and the thyrd dead . Iohannes Langius is the Author hereof .

A Notable distylled water as followeth , worthy to be compared to golde . Take one part of Gentyan , and two partes of Centory , stampe them together , then put Wyne to them , and let them sooke together fyues dayes , then distyll them , keepe the water distilled in a close cleane vessell : this water droonke , morning and euening , preserueth the body from all kinde of diseases , it putteth away all impostumations , it maketh good cullour , it resysteth the plague , it healeth the sycke of the Ptysicke , it auoydeth the stuffed stomacke , it breaketh the stones in the reynes , it seperateth and putteth away the watrye humors of the Splene , it helpeth forwarde the flowers , if it be droonke nyne dayes together in the morning , & purgeth the belly : also it purgeth all chollor and all corrupt bloud , it healeth all wounds within the belly , it cleareth the sight , it cureth poysoned bytings . To the healing of wounds , the powder of Centory ought to be put to them . Lullius in his booke of waters . Euonymus descrybes this , which is a worthy worke .

PUt quicksyluer in a bladder , and lay the bladder in a hotte place : and it wyll skyp from place to place , without handling .

AN excellent water for purifying or cleansyng the skyn of the face or other parts of the body , which is secrete & vnknowne . Take syx new layd Egs , half a pound of Malmsey , a young Pigion not wholly fethered , halfe a pounde of new Cheese , comming from the presse made of vnskymmed mylke : eyght Orrenges , Oyle of Tartare , three ounces , one ounce of Ceruse made in powder , gum Arabick , and Mastick , of eyther halfe an ounce , water of Beane flowres , eight ounces , Ryce , fowre ounces , stieped fyrst a whole day and a nyght in halfe a pynt of Creame : cut the Orrenges in peeces , and stampe them a lytle , then put all together with the Creame & Ryce also . And distyll the same also with an easy fyre : and keepe the water dystylled therof in a cleane close stopped glasse , and vse to rubbe and wette the face therwith euery euening before you go to bedde : and euery morning wash it cleane with water distylled of Beane flowres . Use this a fortnight or three weekes together ; and you shall find it a notable thing .

TO make a Glew to hold ( or ioygne thinges ) together as hard ( or fast ) as a stone , an excellent secret . Take vnslackt Lyme , & quench the same with wine , & beate the same into fine powder , myxing therwith both Fygs & Swynes grease , and after labour them well together : for this ( as Pliny wryteth ) passeth the hardnes of a stone : with which ioygne broken pots or any thing together . Also take greeke Pytch , Rosē , and the powder of lytle stones , these myxe together , & when you wyll occupy of the same , then heate it ouer the fyre , & worke therwith , ( that is , ioygne any thing therwith , ) and it holdeth them together as harde as any nayle . Also take of Spuma ferri , one pound , of tyle shardes ( in powder ) two pounde , of vnslackt Lyme , fowre pound , of oyle of Lynne seede , as much as shall suffice to prepare , myxe & worke them together : this Glewe is maruelous strong , which neyther feareth nor yeeldeth to water nor fyre . This is of the natural and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua . Translated into Englysh by Thomas Hyll .

AN Angelike water of a maruelous vertue against blearednes of the eyes , Canker , and burning with fyre . Take three ounces of vnslackt Lime , and halfe a pounde of rayne water , let them stande together in a vessell of glasse or tyn , three dayes , then mixe & styrrre them together , and let them setle againe a whole day & a night , in a vessell well couered , afterward strayne them tenderly through a lynnen cloath , vntyll it be cleare , then put into it ten drams of Sal Armoniack , the whytest you can get , beate it finely , & let it be dyssolued with long standing , and oft mouing in the sayd water : After when it is setled , strayne the cleane water that standeth aboue certaine times , or else distyl it by a fylter . This water healeth the spot and web in the eye , if you drop three drops thryse euery day into them , continewing so vntyll the eyes be whole : it taketh away also the teares of the eyes , the rednes , and the blearednes of the eyes . And also the Canker and burning : It taketh away all spots and staynes of cloath , both of Sylke and Woollen : if they be washed with it , a lytle warmed . Furnerius by the report of Euonymus . Besydes I haue proued it in the lyke case : therfore I am bold to say it is an excellent thing .

AN excellent water called the golden water , a balme & a blacke oyle doth follow . Take of cleare Turpentine , seuen ounces , wash it wel with whyte wine , after take good whyte Honny three pound , clarify it with a lytle whyte wine , ouer an easy fyre , and take of the scoom styll from it : then put the Turpentyne to it , myxing them well together : Then powre therto of Aqua vite , fowre pound , and myxe them well in a body of glasse , luting it ( or stopping it well , ) then take Buglosse , Borrage , Bawme , Sage , Lauender , of each one handfull , Hysop , Camamyle , Yarrow , red Roses , of each one handfull , Woormwood , one dram , Rosemary , two handfulles . Then take wood of Aloes , Xilobalsamum , the three Saunders , of eache one dram , Mace , Nutmugge , Cynamom , Galanga , Cloues , Cucubes , whyte and long Pepper , Saffern , Spyknarde , Graynes of Paradise , Cardamomum , of each three drammes , Zedoarye , halfe an ounce , Squynant , halfe a dram , the pylles or ryndes of Lymons , the seedes of Lymons , Scicados Arabike , of eache one dram , Calamus Aromaticus , halfe a dram , Carlinae cardopacij , two ounces , Bistorte , two drams , the roote of Flowre Deluce , halfe an ounce , Bay berryes , Ualeryan , Polypode , of each half an ounce , Licqueres , Annes seedes , of eyther halfe a dram , of Radyshe , two ounces , of Coryander correct , halfe an a● ounce , Syler mounten , one dram , blaunched Almondes , halfe a pound , small Reysens , halfe a pound , being washt with Wyne . All these ( being beaten or strayned , ) put into the sayd body of glasse , to the Honny and other thinges : and if there be not inough of Aqua vite , put therto more , and let them stande so seuen dayes , well couered and stopt : then after distyll the same in ashes with an easy fyre , ( all being wel luted , ) for the space of fowre howres , ( least the Honny boyle , ) and there wyll come out a cleare water . Then encrease the fire , and when you see the water yallow , then put too another receyuer of glasse , which you must lute also with the beake of the Styll : and keepe the fyrst water by it selfe , & encrease the fyre vntyl there come no more yallowe water , and when you see it come blacke , then take away the receyuer , and put an other thertoo , and lute it lykewise , and when you see a smoake come , then it is inough , and keepe all these three seuerally , and let the Styll stande vntyll it bee colde . In the fyrst water put Folij Indi , fyue drams , Amber , halfe a dram , Mosche , halfe a scruple , which is twelue graynes , and also fyfteene leaues of Gold. If you wyl vse it for the head , take one ounce of the water of Bettony , and of the fyrst water one spoonefull : myxe them together & drinke it all fasting . The vertue of this doth strengthen all the members . Take one ounce of Malmsey , or of other good Wyne in a lytle glasse , and put one spoonefull of this fyrst whyte water thertoo , myxe them together , and it wyll be whyte as mylke : which , drynke with a fasting stomacke , and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after : and it wyll preserue all thy members . For a colde Lyuer , take a spoonefull of the whyte water , with an ounce of the water of Sage . For the breast , and the cough of a cold Rewme , take it with the water of Isope , Louathe , or Fennell . For the harte , with the water of Buglosse , Burrage or Balme . For the stomacke , with the water of Woormwood . For the Lyghts , with the water of mayden heair , or Polypode . For the Splen , with the water of Hartstongue . For the Vertigo ( a gyddynes of the head ) or the Apoplexie , with the water of Pyony , of Fennell , or of S. Iohns Woort . For the Stone , with the water of Radysh , or winter Cherries . For the retayning or holding of the water , with the water of Cresses , some Pearsley , or Saxifrage . For the eyes , with the water of Fennell , or Eybright . For the retayning or withholding of Menstrues , with the water of Mugwoort , or with water of Radysh . For the too much fluxe of the Menstrues , with the water of Planteyn , or of Nightshade . For the Matrix hurt by the mydwyle , or of any colde cause , whereby she doth conceyue no more : let it be vsed with the water of Ualeryan or Bettony . Against the spottes of the face , take of the water of Pympernell , fowre partes , of this whyte or fyrst water , one parte , myxe them together , and annoynt the face morning and euening : and drynke it twyse or thryse in the weeke with Endyue water . It cures the Cankar , being annoynted therewith , and the Fystula : if a droppe thereof many tymes put into it . It helpes a colde gowte : if it be annoynted therwith . For the payne of the Matryx , let this water be taken with the water of Mugwoort . Also it is good against the quarten and quotidian Feuers . The Cytryne oyle hath many vertues , as the oyle of Balme : if any griefe be annoynted therwith . The blacke Oyle is of great vertue in the gowte : if it be annoynted therwith , as the moother of Balme being whyte , called the golden Water . Gratarolus .

HEre followeth an excellent medycine that wyll heale olde , rotten & incurable Ulcers , very quickly . Take of Turpentyne , three tymes washt , fyrst in fayre spring or well water , & after in Rose or Planteyn water , three ounces , the yolke of an Eg , Oyle of Roses , an ounce & a halfe , Mercury sublymate made in powder , halfe a dram , & let them all be myxed well together , and make therof an oyntment , & washe the Ulcers or sores with whyte Wine : then spreade some of that oyntment or salue vpon flaxe , & apply it to the sore , and dresse it with new salue twise euery day : but before euery dressing , annoynt with this following , three or fowre fyngers bredth about the sore . Take of the oyle of Roses , two ounces , of Uineger , halfe an ounce , of the powder of bole Armoniack , a lytle , myxe them together , and annoynt it as is before sayd . And when all the rotten or putrified flesh is eaten out : then annoynt the Ulcer with butter , and you shall see a woonderfull effect . Proued .

FOr the burning or great intollerable heat of the vryne . Take of the seedes of Purslane , of the seedes of Lettys , of the seedes of Endiue , of the seedes of white Poppy , two ounces of euery of them , of the seedes of Hembane , half a dram , Sebasten two ounces , Saffern , one dram , Licqueres , fiue drams , Pineaple kernels , ten drams , fountaine or spring water , six pound , myx them all together , & let them be sod vntyll the consuming of the thyrde part of the water : then let it be strayned . Wherof take one ounce in the morning mixed with one ounce of Inle● , of Uyolets , and the fowrth day the effect worthy of maruell , wyl appeare . This is proued .

A Notable & an excellent Balme . Take of Turpentine , one pound & a half , Galbanum , two ounces , Aloes cicotrin , Mastick , Cloues , Galangale , Cynamon , Nutmugs , Cubebs , of euery one of them an ounce , gum of Iuy , halfe an ounce : when all is well beaten , myxe them together , and distyl them in glasse , with a slowe fyre fyrst , and receyue the fyrst water by it selfe seuerally , then encrease the fyre , & a water more reddyshe wyll come , then encrease the fyre more , and an oyle wyl come of a redde cullour , receiue that as long as any wyll come : you must chaunge the receyuer thryse . This oyle hath all the vertues of true Balme , for it burneth in the water , and curddeth mylke by & by : for if one droppe of it warme , be put into a pynt of mylke , it wyll forthwith become curdded . The fyrst lycquor is called the water of Balme , the seconde , oyle of Balme , the thyrde , Balme artificiall . The fyrst is profytable against the running of the eares , if two drops morning and euening be put into them : dropt into the eyes , it amendeth the blearednes , and consumeth the teares : it doth maruelously restrayne superfluous humors in any parte of the body : it taketh away the tooth ache , if they be washt therewith , and kylleth the woormes , if there be any in them . The thyrd lycquor wyl suffer no venom , it is an vtter enemy and destruction to Spiders and Serpents . Two or three drops thereof layde vpon any venemous byting , doth make it whole strayght . If thou drawe a cyrcle with this lycquor , and shut a venemous Beast therin , it wyl dye there , rather then go out of it . To be short , it doth all the same things that Treacle doth , but all things more effectually : being powred or put vpon any Impostume , within nyne dayes it healeth them , and lykewise a Fistula be it neuer so euyll , and also Noli me tangere . All diseases bred of fleame , and of colde humors , it healeth : if a lynnen cloath dypped in it , be layde vpon the place , where the griefe is . It putteth away vtterly the Palsey , and all trembling of members : it strengthneth maruelously the Sinewes , it is hotter then the fyrst , or the seconde . If a man put a drop of it in his hande , it pierceth straight without griefe . To conclude , it doth many other things , and all diseases rysen of a colde cause it healeth : if they vse it ryght . Lullius in his booke of waters . But this is taken out of Euonymus .

IF you take the gall of an Oxe , mans vrine , Ueriuyce , and the iuyce of Nettelles , of each a lyke quantity , and myxe them very dillygently together , and after quenche steele red hotte therin , fowre or fyue tymes together : the same steele wyll after become as soft as paste . This is affyrmed by the Schollers of Padua in theyr natural and Artificial conclusions . &c.

A Most present remedy for them that are infect with the plague , for Carbuncles , pestelenticall Puslles , holy Fyre , and other of that kinde . Take the ripe berryes of Iuy , being dryed in the shaddow , then stampe them and make them in powder , of which powder take half a dram in two or three ounces of the water of Planteyn : and remayne styl in the bed , vntyl you haue sweat very well , and after you haue sweat , put on a cleane shert wel ayred at the fyre : and if you may conueniently , let the sheetes and the cloathes of the bed be shyfted . There hath bene some healed with this order in one nyght . This is proued . Alexis of Pyemount sawe one helped with taking this powder twyse , that is : at morning and euening , hauing two Sores appearing , which with this powder , broke the next day after , and so recouered .

DOctor Monardus in his booke before mencioned among other maruelous matters , hath declared at large of two woonderful and straunge Stones , in these words following . They do bring ( saith he ) from the newe Spaine , two Stones of great vertue , the one is called the Stone of the bloud , and the other is a Stone for the disease of the Stone in the kydneys & raynes . The bloud Stone is a kind of a Iasper of dyuers cullours , somewhat darke , full of sprinckles lyke to bloud , being of cullour red : of the which Stones the Indyans do make certayne Hartes , both great and small . The vse therof , both here and there , is for all fluxe of bloud , of what parts so euer it be , of the Nose , or of the Menstrues , or of the Pyles , and of wounds , or of that which is cast out of the mouth . The Stone must be wette in colde water , and the sycke man must take it in his ryght hand , and from tyme to tyme wet it in cold water . In this sort the Indyans do vse them . And as touching the Indyans , they haue it for certayne , that touching the same Stone in some parte where the bloud runneth , that it doth restrayne : and in this they haue great trust , for that the effect hath bene seene . It doth profyte also , hauing it holden , hanged or tyed in the same parte , where the bloud runneth , so that it touch on the fleshe . Of this Stone we haue seene great effectes , in staunching of bloud . And some that do suffer the Hemeroidall fluxe , haue remedyed them selues with making Rynges of this Stone , and wearing them continually on theyr fyngers , and also in Menstruall fluxe of Women .

The other Stone which is for the disease of the Stone in the kydneys or raynes , the fynest of them are lyke vnto Plasina of Esmeraldes , which is lykened to greene , with a mylkishe cullour , the greatest is the best , they bring them made in dyuers fourmes and fashions : for so the Indyans had them in olde tyme , some lyke to Fyshes , other lyke to heads of Byrdes , other lyke to bylles of Popageys , other lyke to round Beade stones : but all pierced through , for that the Indyans dyd vse to weare them hanging , for the effect of the griefe of the stone or stomacke : for in these two sycknesses it doth maruelous effects .

The chiefe vertue that it hath , is in the paine of the stone in the kydneys and raynes , and in expellyng of sande and stone . Insomuch that a Gentleman which had one of them here , the best of them that I haue seene , hauing put it to his arme , it doth make him to expell and cast out much sande , that many tymes he doth take it away : for that he thynketh that it doth hurte him for to put out so much , and in taking it awaye , he ceaseth to cast any from him . When he feeleth the payne of the Stone , and puttyng it too againe , it dooth take awaye incontinent , with expellyng of much Sande and small Stones . I haue seene it carryed to personnes , that haue bene grieued with great griefe and paynes of the sayd disease , and puttyng it to them , they doo forthwith expell the Sande and the lytle Stones : and remayne cleare thereof . The Stone hath a propertye hydden , by the which meanes , he dooth great effectes , to preserue that they fall not into the payne of the sayde diseases .

And after it is come , it taketh it away , or diminisheth it . It doth make the sande to be expelled with great abundaunce , and lykewise stones . It taketh away the heate from the raynes of the backe : it profyteth in griefes of the stomacke , put to it , and aboue all it preserueth from the sayde griefe . My Lady the Dutches ( a Dutches in Spaine ) for that she had in short time , three tymes , exceeding paynes of the stone , she made a bracelet of them , & she vsed to weare it at her arme , and sythence she put them to her arme , she neuer had more paynes of the stone . And so it hath happened to many other that had the lyke benefyte , for the which they are much esteemed , & nowe they be not so soone had as at the beginning : for that these Stones only the Gentlemen & Ritch men haue them . And with reason : because they do such maruelous effects . Thus much hath the learned Doctor Monardus declared of the excellencies of the two afore named Stones , which are brought from the West Indyas , with dyuers other precious Oyles , Woods , Gooms , & other things , as are most playnly & largely set forth in his sayd booke with many credible proofes : lately Englished and publyshed in print by the sayde Iohn Frampton , therfore worthy of great commendations , called , Ioyfull Newes out of the new found World. Which is of a smal pryce , but yet very precious : for in my iudgement , whosoeuer doth bye it , doth not pay therfore the hundreth part that it is woorth .

THe making of a stone which moisted with spettle , wyl burne . Take of quick Lyme , pure Salnyter , Tutye Alexandrine , not preparate , Calamita , of each one parte , quick Brymstone , and Camphire , of eyther two partes , let them all be made in very fyne powder and searced , then tye the same powder harde in a lynnen cloath , then put it into a Crucyble , and couer the same with an other Crucyble , & wrap it fast with wyars , and close it well with lute of wisedome , that nothing maye respyer out , then let it be dryed at the Sunne : which done , cast the same Crucybles into the fyre of a bryck Kyll , vntyll the matter be well burned , which taken out , you shal find a perfect matter of the cullour of a Tyle : which if it be wet or moistned with a drop of water , or with spettle , putting Brymstone to it , then it wyll burne : which with blowing , or a blast is put out . Iacobus Weckerus .

TO make an Eg ascend into the ayre . In the month of May , fyll an Eg shell cleane emptied , with dew , and stop the hoale well , wherin you dyd put the dew , then lay the Eg in the hotte Sunne about noone : and it wyll be lyft vp . But if you set a staffe by it , it wyll ascende the more easylye . Iacob . Weckerus .

TO make a thyn Glew , a trym secrete . Take the Glew made of Fyshes , and beate the same strongly on an Anuyle , vntyll it be thyn : which after laye to soke in water , vntyll it become very softe and tender , which wyll be within fyue or syxe howres , and then worke it lyke paste , to make small rowles thereof , which being lyke paste , stretch it , or draw it out very thynne : and when you wyll worke with it , then put some of it into an earthen potte with a litle fayre water ouer hotte embers , & s●ym the same very cleane , and let it so seethe a lytle whyle , then after work with the same , keeping it styll ouer the hotte embers , vntyl you haue done with it , for so it fastneth and byndeth the stronger : and in such sort , that it fastneth peeces of glasse together .

IF you woulde destroye Caterpyllers , do thus . Annoynt all the bottom of the trree round about with Tarre , then get a great sort of Antes or Pyssemyres , and put them in some bagge , and drawe the same vp by a corde into the tree , and so let it hang there , so that it touch the body of the tree , and the Ants letted to go downe from the tree by the meanes of the Tar , wyll ( for want of foode ) eate and destroye all the Caterpyllers there , without hurting any of the fruite . This was tolde me for a very trueth .

MAke a hoale in the ende of a Goose egge , and put all the whyte and yolke out of it , then put into the shell , a Backe that flyes about in the euening , and then glew or close it fast on the toppe , and you shal see the Backe flye away with the same Egge shell : to the great maruayle of them that knowes it not .

IT is verye euyll ( for them that falles sycke ) when the Moone is applying in coniunction to the Sun , and woorse , when she is within syxe degrees of the Sunne . This I know to be true by often proofe and tryall . And Abraham Auenezra affyrmes the same , wryting De criticis diebus .

RUbbe any precious Stone vpon Lead , and if then it chaunge the cullour : then it is a counterfeyte Stone . If it chaunge not : then it is a naturall and good Stone .

STampe Celondyne , and laye it to any Tetter or Ryngwoorme , or any other such lyke , called Imipetigo or Serpigo , shyfting it twise euery day with new , for the space of a fortnyght : and it wyll quyte destroy and kyll them . And also it wyll put away any black spottes with the lyke vsyng thereof , in what part of the body so euer they be .

TAke pure Waxe and fyne Brymstone puryfyed , of eache a lyke much , melte them together , making therof a Candle , and after take the powder of a coale fynely beaten , and as much of Brymstone in powder . These syfte through a Searse , or a lynnen cloath , and after heatyng the sayde Candle , smeare it about with this powder , so long vntyll it haue ( as it were ) a thycke cruste rounde about the same , lyke vnto the thycknesse of a backe of a knyfe . Which after couer about the head of it , with a Paper , and then hange the same at the mouth of a gutter that droppeth faste , in a frostie euening , vntyll it be couered with yse a fynger thycke : then lyght the same , and it wyll burne lyke as it were all Waxe . This is taken out of the naturall and Artifyciall conclusyons of the Schollers of Padua . Translated into Englyshe by Thomas Hyll .

THe coniunction of the Moone with Saturne ( in the fyrst begynning of sycknesse ) doth sygnify euyll and long sicknes . But if Saturne be of a slow course , it augmenteth the euyll . If of a swyft course : then it dimynisheth of the euyll . If he be Retrograde applying by opposition to the Sunne , after he is cured , he wyl fall sycke againe : but if he be Retrograde , and seperate by opposition from the Sun , the euyll is dimynished . Abraham Auenesra de criticis diebus .

A Uery good laxatiue Dredgepowder , whereof you may take a spooneful when you neede in your pottage , or broath : it wyll make you to go to the stoole . Take of pure Turbyt , one ounce , Gynger , Cynamon , Mastick , Annes seedes , Hermodactyls , Diagredyon , of each half an ounce , of the leaues of Sene , two ounces , of Sugar , fowre ounces , beate them al into powder , and let them be myxed together . Leonardus Fuchsius .

THat sygne and degree wherin the Moone is in the howre and time of the byrth of any : the same signe and degree dyd ascende at the verye tyme of the conception of the same Chylde . And that sygne & degree wherin the moone is , at the tyme of the conception : the same sygne and degree , or the opposyte to the same , doth ascend at the very tyme of the byrth . Hermes et Ptolomeus : Therfore according to this rule of these auncient and famous Authors , ( whereto Guido Bonatus , Iohannes Ganiuetus , Sconerus and Taisnerus , notable & learned Astronomers , with dyuers other , do consent and agree . ) Dyuers Women , haue dyuers times , betweene the conception & byrth of their chyldren : For the place of the moone at the tyme of the conception , & her vncertayne course after , doth plainly manifest that some Women goes with Chylde not aboue seuen and thyrty weekes : some others eyght and thyrty weekes and vnder : some nyne and thyrty weekes , and something lesse : some againe goes forty weekes and a few dayes lesse , and somtymes certain dayes more , yea : and somtymes forty and one weeke , and one day , which is the longest time , as the learned in the same Science , can perfectly finde out . Wherefore they are much deceyued , that thinkes euery woman goes but iust forty weekes with chylde : which fonde and false opinion , hath made many an honest woman falsely suspected , wrongfully slaundered , and without iust cause from theyr husbandes seperated . Therfore it were good and very meete for euery one , not to geue too much credyte to this fonde reckoning of iust forty weekes : which is more common then true . Which fore discrybed excellent rule , ( according to the mynde of the worthy and learned Mizaldus , ) is of no small weyght , for the tryall of the fydelytie & honesty of women to theyr husbandes , and to fynde out the very right tyme of the Natiuity or byrth , so that the very day and howre of the conception be certen .

TAke the stones out of Reisens of the Sunne , then stampe the same Reysens , and apply a plaster therof to any griefe or ache : and it wyll cease it presently , and if you vse it fyue or syx tymes in such order , it wyl throughly helpe and cure the same . I haue seene this well proued .

IF you gather greene Beanes from the stalkes , when they be rype , fully growne and ready to eate , and then immediatly cutte of the sayde stalkes within a handful of the roote : then new and moe branches wyll shortlye after spryng out of the same . Which wyll bring forth new Beanes , and more plentyfully then before : and as good as the fyrst . Whereby you maye haue more then double encrease , and two seuerall gatherings of Beanes in one yeare . But in anywyse , take heede that the fyrst gathering and cutting away of the stalks be , when the said stalks be greene . I haue seene it proued , therefore I wryte and publysh it for an vndoubted trueth . It is credibly tolde mee , that if you vse Peason in the same order : the lyke effect wyl follow . Which I beleeue to be true , as well in the one as in the other .

LAye a dysh ouer hotte sodden milke , and there wyl a water be on the insyde of the dyshe , which water keepe in some glasse : whereof if a lytle be put into sore payned or dymme eyes , it wyll helpe them maruelously . This was affyrmed to mee for trueth .

HEre followeth the discription of a notable Oyle of Balme . Take of Turpentyne , one pounde , and put it into a body of Glasse , and warme it at a softe and easye fyre , vntyll it waxe lyquyd , and put therein by lytle and lytle , with myxting or sturring it , the powder of Frankensense , fyue drams , of Lygnum Aloes , Mastycke , Cloues , Galynga , Cynamom , Mace , Quibybs , of each one dramme , all well powdred together , goom of a Fygge tree , syxe drammes , lykewyse made in powder and all myxed together , and myxe them all wyth the sayde Turpentyne made lyquyd as is before sayde , and when they be well incorporated together , set on the head of the Lymbeck , and lute all the ioyntes of the same well , and set it in ashes , and put vnder it an easye fyre . And when it begynnes to distyl , let it droppe away a lytle , for the fyrst droppes are lytle woorth : then put the receyuer to the nose of the Lymbecke , and close and lute them well together that no ayre go forth : for then the vertue of it woulde go awaye . Then knowe that at the fyrst wyll come forth a whyte and cleare water , which keepe by it selfe . Then wyll come forth the seconde water , which is better , of a heauenlye and ayrie cullour : which keepe by it selfe . Then receyue the thyrde , which is the best , which wyll be yallowe and thycke as Honny : keepe this also by it selfe . The fyrst of these is called the water of Balme : the second , the Oyle of Balme : the thyrd , is called Balme . His proofe to all examynations is , that you take one droppe of the same , and let it be put in a vessell full of water , as you doo of naturall Balme , for the sayde droppe wyll go to the bottome of the water : and it wyll stande theyr whole , as though it were pure Balme . This is maruelous , and is of great vertues , which is called of some , moother of Balme .

The fyrst vertue thereof is , that it burnes : the seconde is , that if thou washe thy face and nose therewith , and that thryse in a daye , it cures and helpes the rewme . It cleareth the syght , and it comforteth the Synnewes : and if thou washe therewith the hynder parte of thy heade , then it comfortes the memorye , and all the vertues of the mynde .

This doth purify both Fysh and Flesh , and if they be putrifyed or corrupt , whatsoeuer therof is corrupt or putrifyed : it takes and consumes it away . And it keepes that that is good and sound : so that you maye eate them as though they were new and fresh . It bringes againe an appetite , it conforteth the stomack , and if you take thereof morning and euening : it consumes the fleame in the stomacke . It helpes or cures a stynking breath , as well comming of the stomacke as of the brayne : if you take fowre or fyue drops therof once a daye in a lytle Wine . No colde venemous thing may come neare it , as Frogs , Todes , Serpents and Scorpions : if a cloath dypt in the same , and compasse a Tode or Serpent , compassed therwith , they wyll dye , although they touch it not , and so it doth in all kinde of colde venoms : as the byting of a Tode , or of a Serpent . For it heales it , if you wash oftentimes therwith the grieued place . And if you seethe an Eg in it , it wyl sooner be sodde therin , then in any boyling water . It heales and dryes vp any kinde of scabbe or Tetter quickly : if you wash it therewith twyse in a day : and if you put three or fowre drops of this into the eare , and suffers it there as long as you maye : it helpes and cures all noyse and soundings of the eares . If you myxe with this equall porcion of the iuyce of Germander , & puts therof into the eare three or fowre drops , fowre tymes in the day , then it helpes & cures all deafnes : of what cause soeuer it comes . Watryng eyes and bleared eyes it doth cure , clarify , restrayne and comforts : if you wash them therwith twyse or thryse . All Impostumes , Ulcers , & all other superfluityes it doth restrayne , cure , and rectify . And it is a thing more repercussyue & consumptiue against colde humors , them the Saphyre or Planteyn . All paynes of the teethe , or running humors , it doth helpe , restrain , fortify : and it makes the teethe whyte , if therwith you do wash the rootes of the teethe . All woundes of the head , though they be deepe , are cured with this same Oyle : if therwith you wash it twyse or thryse a daye . Yea , though the braine panne be broken , so that Pia mater be not hurt . It heales and cures all Fystulaes , Cancers , Noli me tangere , the Kings Euyll , and euery other eating Sore : if you wash the same therwith twyse or thryse a day . It heales and cures all kynde of Gowtes , if you wash or annoynt them therwith , so that they come of a colde cause : and laying also a lynnen cloath dypt therein vppon the grieued place . It helpes also all strokes with staues or other brusinges , eyther by falles or otherwyse , if you annoynt the brused or grieued place therwith , & heales them perfectly and well . It helpes the Emrodes and the fundament that goes forth , and makes it tarry in his place : if you annoynt the same therwith . It helps the Palsey , and all weaknes of the members , it doth strengthen : if you annoint the same therwith . Know that it is most hotte , and is of such penetration and heate , that if you put one drop therof in your hand , by and by it penetrates the hand without any hurt . And you shall not feele any swelling of the feete or of the legges , or any payne of the ioyntes : if you washe or annoynt the same therwith , and it wyll helpe it , if you dyp a lynnen cloath therin and plaster it therto . And briefly , if you wyll vse it , it profites , helpes and cures all colde griefes , and all diseases comming of a colde cause , of fleame , or of putrifyed or corrupt bloud . It hath yet many other vertues here left out , and it is called the moother of Balme , because it is better then Balme in many of his effects . And if you wyll proue that it be a true Balme : take a Chycken ( the fethers pluckt off , and the guttes taken away , ) and see that it be well washt & made as cleane as can be , and drye the same at a soft fyre , so long as you may well holde it in your hande , then annoynt the same Chycken wel both within & without , with the sayde Balme , twyse or thryse : then afterwards laye the sayde Chycken against the Sun , for the space of two howres , suffring it a lytle to drye at the Sun , and afterwards laye vp the sayd Chycken where you wyll : for it wyll neuer putrifye nor receyue any corruption , so long as the worlde shall endure . And knowe further that this Oyle hath eyghteene other vertues , which are written : but not here . This notable Oyle of Balme , I coppied out of a very old written booke , which came out of the Abbey of Elsam in Lyncolnshyre . And now by me conuerted out of Latin into English , to the profyt of many , I hope .

A Flye drowned in water , Wine , Ale , or Beere , and so throughly dead , being layde in warme Ashes : ( but they must not be burning or verye hotte , ) the same Flye wyll recouer and lyue againe . This is very true .

IF you do gather Roses when they be fully ripe , and immediatly cut away the new springes , tops , and the vppermost branches of that yeere : you shall haue new & fresh Roses grow againe out of the same , the same yeere , about Mighelmas . I know this to be true , and for trueth I haue published it abroade .

THe Indians do vse the Tabaco ( a notable hearbe ) for to suffer the dreyth , & also for to suffer hungar , and to passe dayes without , hauing neede eyther to eate or drinke , by any desart or dyspeopled countrey , where they shal find neyther water nor meate . They do vse of these litle balles , which they do make of this Tabaco , they take the leaues of it , and do chew it , and as they go chewing of them , they myngle with them certaine powder made of the shelles of Cockles burned , and they myngle it in their mouth all together , vntyll they make it lyke to dowe , of the which they make certaine lytle balles , lytle greater then Peason : and they put them to drye in the shadowe , and after they keepe them & vse them , for the auoyding of hunger & thyrst , in theyr trauell without any meate and drinke : for the space of three or fowre dayes . This Doctor Monardus hath wrytten , with many other woonders and notable vertues therof , in his booke before mencioned : intituled , Ioyfull Newes out of the new found Worlde . This Tabaco is a maruelous & woonderfull hearbe , growing in the west Indyas , called the new Spaine : and through the brynging of the seedes therof from thence , it growes nowe both in Spayne and Fraunce .

WOormes and other venemous Beasts are dryuen away from any place , with the smoake or fume of other Beasts of the same kinde , as Rasis wrytes .

QUick syluer kylled , burned Leade , the scales of Yron , or black Hellebor , mixed with some pleasaunt meate that Mice loues : if any Mice eate therof , it wyll kyll them . Mizaldus .

THere is a certaine Goom is brought from the firme ●●nde of the Peru , which helpes the gowte with purging the cause therof , if you put of it as much as a Nut in distylled water , which water ought to be the quantity of two ounces , and geue the same to the patient , ( the same partye forbearing meate vntyll the myddest of the day . ) This Monardus affyrmes to be proued , manifesting the same at large in his sayde booke called , the Ioyfull Newes out of the new found World. The name of the Goom he names not .

THe rootes of Roses or their slips with their knots , remoued and set amongst broome , wyl bring forth yallow Roses . Iohan. Bap. Por.

THat Cheese that is made with cheslep or rennet , wherein a lytle of the brayne of a Wesell is put or myxt : wyll not putrifye , neyther be eaten of Myce. Pictorius .

THere is a certaine Tree growing in Peru , a boowe wherof , if one doth hold fast in his left hand , a good whyle , that would knowe whether one that is sycke shall lyue or dye ( of that disease , or at that tyme , ) if the sycke shall lyue and escape : the party that holdes the same , shall shewe much gladnes . If the sycke shall dye , then the party that holdes the same shall be verye sad . Monardus wrytes of this Tree in his sayd booke , and shewes that the same was proued true by a Gentlewoman that was maruelous sad , whiles shee dyd holde the same , whose husbande dyed soone after accordingly .

A Rare and straunge kynde of fruite , as great as a Nutte , with maruelous rounde and harde b●●cke stones in them , is brought out of the new Spaine , by the report of the sayde worthy Doctor Monardus , whereof two or three , with hotte water , doth more effect for to wash and to make cleane cloathes , then one pound of Sope doth : wherof as well as of many other straunge and most excellent thinges you maye reade , discrybed at large in his sayde booke , called the Ioyfull Newes out of the new founde Worlde . A Booke no doubte worthy of great estymation , and commendation .

IF a handfull of Fygs be stampt , tyll the kernelles be broken , then tempered with a lytle fresh grease , and so a plaster therof layde to a Womans breast that is sore , as hotte as she may suffer the same : it wyll take away the swelling and paine therof , and if it be ready to breake , it wyll breake it , or else not . This is an excellent and a sure tryed thing .

TAke two ounces of Sulphur vyue , called quycke Brimstone , beate it in powder , and mixe the same well with as much of blacke Sope , that is of the most stinking smel , and tye the same in a lynnen cloath , and let it hang in a pynt of strong Wyne Uinegar , for the space of nyne dayes , and then vse to wash any kinde of skuruynes , or morphew therwith , though neuer so olde or rooted , being eyther on the face , or on any other parte of the body , with a lynnen cloath , dypt or wet therin , and so let the same Uinegar drye in of it selfe , and do thus as long as the sayd Uinegar lastes : and therwith the deformity or morphew wyl be perfectly healed . And whosoeuer vses to drynke the water of Strawberyes distylled : it wyll certaynly kyll the roote of any morphew that is within the body . All this is well proued

AN excellent preseruatiue against the Plague , which was proued and vsed in the great Plague in Englande , in the yeare of our Lorde . 1548. For euery one that vsed it then , escaped . Take Aloes Hepatick , pure Cynamom , Myrre , of each three drammes , Cloues , Mace , wood of Aloes , called Lignum Aloes , Mastick , Bole Armoniacke , of each halfe an ounce , myxe them all together , and make thereof a very fyne powder , wherof take early in the morning with whyte Wine myxt with a lytle water : and by the grace of God , you shall be preserued safe from the Plague . Weckerus .

IF you burne the shelles of Snailes with Styracks , and then sprinckle therof vpon an Antes hyll : therby they wyll be driuen forth of the grounde , or place where they are .

TAke of English Saffern beaten in fyne powder , and as much of pure & good blacke Sope : which , when they be well myngled together , spreade it vpon the fleshie syde of a peece of Leather , then laye it vppon the Nauell of them , whose vryne or water is stopte : and it wyll procure the water to come forth , and therby they shall make water within one howre . This was tolde mee for a true and tryed secrete , whereof I dare make no warrantyze : but fauour it as you fynde it .

MAke lute or claye with the dregges or moother of Oyle , and myxe therewith a lytle chaffe , then let it lye so two or three dayes , then dawbe with the sayde thycke lute or claye , your Garner or rowme , where you wyll laye your Corne , then sprynckle the dregges or moother of Oyle , al ouer where you haue dawbed : and when it is drye , laye Wheate therein , and there shal neyther Weuell nor Myce , hurt , touch , or come neere that Wheate . This I had out of an olde Booke . And Iacobus Weckerus also affyrmes the same .

WHen you first see the Cuckoo , marke well where your right foote doth stande : for you shall fynde there an heair . Which if it be black , it sygnifyes that you shall haue very euyll lucke all that yeare after . If it be whyte , then very good lucke : But if it be graye , then indyfferent . It is sure that such a heair hath bene founde accordingly , but what euent dyd follow therof I am yet vncertayne . But this was affyrmed to mee for a very trueth . It was also credibly reported vnto mee , that the lyke heair wyll be founde vnder the ryght foote , at the fyrst seeing of the Swallowe , after they are comd at the spring tyme : so that you looke after the sayde Swallowe , as long as you can see her .

A Quantitie of Hempe seede stampt , and strayned through a cloath when it is wel sodden with running water , and a good draught thereof droonk last , going to bed , and so vsed : wyll make one laxatiue and loose bellyed . This is a proued thing therfore .

THe great Alexander being desirous , that the long lyfe of Hartes might be knowne to his posterity : caused golden Chaynes to be made fast vnto many Harts ( about theyr neckes I thinke : ) the tyme when the same was done , being exprest or marked in the same , and they which were taken of the same Harts , an hundreth yeares after : dyd not yet seeme to be of the age of olde Hartes . Mizaldus wrytes this : who affyrmes that Pliny is the Author therof .

QUicke Lyme mixt with olde Cheese , and well beaten together , wyll fasten and glew strongly together , broken stone vessels , and also broken glasses . This was very credibly tolde me for a very great secrete , by one that proued it many tymes , as he sayde .

WHosoeuer hath an extreame heate , or sore burning Feuer , let them vse to drinke fowre or fyue tymes in one day , a good draught of the distylled water of wylde Poppy , that is , Papauer erraticum , which growes among Corne , with a red flowre , much lyke the leafe of a Rose , it is called of some , red corne Rose . This haue I tryed to be true .

THey in whose Natiuitie Saturne is Lord of the seuenth house , are not lyke to marry before they be thyrty yeares of age : or else vntyll Saturne ( from that tyme , ) hath compassed the whole Zodiack , ( which differs not much . ) This is proued true by long experience , & I haue seene many , whose seuenth house is Capricorne or Aquary ( the houses of Saturne , ) and yet I neuer knew any of them , but either dyed vnmaried , or else married after they were thyrtie yeares of age . And as I remember Cardanus agrees herein .

IF the bottom of a seething potte with meate newly taken from the fyre , may be touched or felt without harme or daunger of burning : then certaynly the same meate is boyled inough . But if it be hotte and not sufferable : then it is not sufficiently sodde . This I know to be true : for I haue seene the tryall thereof .

LAy a greene Iuy leafe in a dyshe , or other vessell of fayre water , eyther for your selfe or for any other , on Newyeares euen at night , and couer the water in the sayd vessel , and set it in a sure or safe place , vntyl Twelfe euen next after ( which wyll be the fyft day of Ianuary , ) and then take the sayd Iuy leafe out of the sayd water , and marke well if the sayde leafe be fayre and greene as it was before : for then you or the party for whom you layd it into the water , wyl be whole and sound and safe from any sicknes all the next yeare following . But if you fynde any black spots theron , then you or the party for whome you layde it into the water , wyll be sicke that same yeare following . And if the spots be on the vpper part of the leafe towards the stalke , then the sycknes or paine wyll be in the head , or in the neck , or there about . And if it be spotted nye the myds of the leafe , then the sycknes wyll be about the stomack or hart . And lykewise iudge that the disease or griefe wyll be in that part of the body , according as you see the black spots vnder the same in the leafe . Accoumpting the spots in the nether or sharpe end of the leafe , to sygnify of the paynes or diseases in the feete . And if the leafe be spotted all ouer , then it signifies , that you or the partie shall dye that yeare following . You may prooue this for many , or fewe , at one time , by putting in the water , for euery one a leafe of greene Iuy , ( so that euery leafe be noted or marked to whom it doth belong . ) This was crediblye tolde me to be very certaine , who affyrmed to me faithfully that it was diuers times proued for a verye trueth . But because I neuer tryed it : therefore I refer euery one that shall reade it to the tryall thereof .

BRusonious wryghtes , and Georgius Fabricus affyrmes the same , that the bones of Hens , myxed with melted Golde : doo consume the same Golde in to themselfe .

THe water distilled of Honny , makes faire and comly cullored Heyre , if it be often moystned , or spunged therewith . This is prooued .

THe rootes of Hollyockes , stampt and myxt with the Grease of an olde Hogge , and plastred to the Gowte , healpeth it in three dayes . Petrus Hispanus .

VEriuyce sodde , vntill it be very hot , and then put into a t●●nen Bottell with a narrow mouth , and then holden too , or in the eare , that the fume thereof may enter into the head : it will helpe the head ache meruelously , and the sounding of the eares . And if there be any quick thinges in the head , it wyll bringe them forthwith great speede . A Gentleman taught this to a woman that was sore tormented in her head , esteeming it as a precious secret : but I neuer tryed it , therefore as it prooues so prayse it .

IF one be wounded that hath the dropsye , it is hard to heale him . Hippocrates . Therefore this is worth the marking .

YOu shall knowe how many dayes old the Moone is , if you do as followeth , ( especially shee being in the fyrst quarter ) holde before your eyes a peece of fyne Lawne , and looke through it straight vpon the Moone , and so many dayes old as the Moone is , so many Moones shall you see , or at the least , they wyll seeme so many in your sight . Assoone as you try it , you wyll saye it is true : For I haue seene the proofe thereof .

I Hard it tolde for a very truth by diuers persons , that in a plague time , in the Citty of Cullen , there was a certaine woman dyed , and was buryed with a Ring of golde on her fynger , for the greedines whereof , a couetous fellow within a whyle after she was buryed : digged her Graue , and opened the coffyn wherein shee did lye , thinking thereby to take away the Ringe from her fynger , but immediatly the sayd woman did soddainly sturre and mooue , and began to syt vp : which when the sayd fellow sawe , with great feare he did runne away , and then the woman by some meanes , did teare or vnloose the sheete , wherein she was wrapt , and then she went straight home to her Husbande , and called vpon him , to let her into the howse : whom , when he harde , hee thoughte it had beene a Sprite .

But at last , through her importunate calling , he receyued her into the house , and thus woonderfully she recouered and lyued : which Woman after that , had three or fowre chyldren , of whome it is sayde , there is a Monument at this present , in the sayde Citie of Cullen . Therfore too has●y or quick buryall is not to be vsed , as not onely this rare example maye sufficiently teach vs : But also for such causes as I haue alleadged in another place of this booke .

IF you graft the slyps of a Wylding or sowre Aple , vpon the stock of a Hawthorne : you shal haue Medlers grow therof . This I haue seene proued : therfore I affyrme it for trueth .

A Lytle Byrde called the Kings Fysher , being hanged vp in the ayre by the neck : his nebbe or byll wyll be alwayes dyrect or strayght against the winde . This was tolde mee for a very trueth , by one that knew it by proofe : as he sayde .

WHosoeuer shall weare about theyr mydle such a gyrdle as followeth , tying it fast that it fall not away , they shall not neede to feare drowning : though the boate they are in should myscarie , whereby they may passe ouer any water safely & without any daunger , though it be neuer so deepe . For so long as it is about them , they can not synke . Take two peeces of good Neates lether well tand and drest , such as foote balles be made of , ( eyther peece being of the breadth of fyue or sixe fyngars : ) And of such a length as wyll make a sufficient gyrdle for you , let a shoomaker sew them very strongly , thycke stytched , and surely together , and lykewise at both the endes : and in the myds therof fasten a Pype lyke to a Bagpype , wherewith blow the same gyrdle as ful of winde as you can possyble : then vnder the nether ende of the Pype , tye the lether very fast and sure , that ioygnes the pype & the gyrdle together , with a strong packthred , or with some other sure & strong thing , least the winde should come out of the gyrdle , ( whereof you must take great heede . ) Also blowe three Oxe bladders full of wind , and tye them hard that the winde go not forth of the same , and sew ech of them strongly and surelye within good strong Neates lether , rounde lyke vnto a foote ball , and make three strong lowpes vpon the sayde gyrdle , one against the middes of the backe , and against eyther of the sydes one , and then tye fast and surely one of the sayde bladders sewed in the lether , to euery of the sayde lowpes , and then tye the same gyrdle about your mydle very fast and sure . And then you can not synke into the water . And so you maye passe safely ouer : if the water be not too broade and too rough . Nicholaus Michauel hath wrytten of such a lyke gyrdle in his excellent Booke of the Arte of Warres : for the saueing of Souldiours and Fyshers ouer waters . In which Booke there are other notable Engynes , and worthy matter besyde , concerning warres .

A Ladle made of the wood of a Fygge tree , hath a maruelous propertie , for if Fleshe in the seething therof , be often sturred therwith , or if it be in the Pot whyle it is seething : it makes the Flesh to be sooner sodden . Mizaldus .

A Partrych wyll crye alowde , and will teare or breake the Cage or Coope where she is fedde , if there be any deadly medcyn or poyson prepared within the same house , which shee dooth feele presentlye , and also hath knowledge thereof , through a woonderfull speciall and rare gift of nature . Actius ex pisone .

GEllius wrytes that the Hedgehogge makes the mouth of her hoale , Cabban , or Caue alwayes contrary to the winde : for through a meruelous natural gyfte , shee hath foreknowledge in what quarter the wynde wil be , and thereupon shee chaungeth the mouth or entringe in of her hoale or caue , whereby Marryners haue learned aforehand , the place of the wynde .

The ende of the tenth and last Booke . FINIS .

¶ A speciall Table for the finding out of any matter in this Booke , whereof the Table of the first Booke doth folowe . A Straung Historie of two louers that were poysoned by eating of Sage . pag. 1 ●ph. 1. A 〈◊〉 Poct dyd weare leaden soles . pag. 2. ●ph. 2. A straunge thyng of Mullen . pag 2.3 . To encrease mylke in Nurses . pag. 2.4 . Aqua vite helpes synewes and muscles . pag. 2.5 . To make rough or chapped lippes smoth . pag. 2.6 . To knowe who shal be crooke backt or halt . pag. 3.7 . Earth wormes helpe deafenes . pag. 3.8 . A notable cure of one that had the griefe of the splene seuen yeres . pag. 3.9 . A rare thyng to make a horse ●all , as dead , and after to make him lyuely . pag. 3.10 . To get a precious stone out of a snake . pag. 4.11 . A way to keepe wine safe from thunder . pag. 4.12 . To knowe who shall haue the palsie . pag. 4.13 . To take away a Wen. pag. 4.14 . To make wood of the cullour of Hebenus . pag. 4.15 . An excellent vertue of Mullen in helping of bruses and sores . pag. 5.16 . Ualerian wyl drawe out any wood or yron out of the fleshe . pag. 5.17 . To make a barren vine beare grapes . pag. 6.18 . To preserue the teeth from rotting . pag. 6.19 . The teeth of a Bore newely killed wyll burne brys●ies or haires . pag. 6.20 . A present cas● for the gowte . pag. 6.21 . The Citie of Tornace w●s marueylously deliuered from the plague , by the shooting o●f of gunnes . pag. 6.22 . To make common Azure . pag. 7.23 . A Cocke feares not a Serpent , yet he is afrayde of a glead . pag. 7.24 . To ma●e amber clearer & better . pag. 7.25 . A ●are way to staye the fluxe of spa●●e . pag. 8.26 . Cantarides applied made one to pyss● blood pag. 8.27 . A straunge vertue of y bu● leafe . pag. 8.28 . A salue made of ale helpes sores and aches . pag. 8.29 . Docks makes toughe fleshe to be tender . pag. 8.30 . A way to knowe whether one be sicke in body or in minde , or in both . pag. 9.31 . To know who is enfect with the pluresye . pag. 9.32 . They that haue the quarteyn , shal not haue the falling sicknes . pag. 9 33. To cullour bones with a greene cullour . pag. 9.34 . Oile keepes wine from corrupting . pa. 10.35 . The coles of a birch tree healeth woundes . pag. 10.36 . A Robin red breast will couer the face of a dead body with mosse . pag. 10.37 . A straunge example of the heathe basyll . pag. 10.38 . Great heede ought to be taken of childrens nauels strings when they be cut . pag. 10.39 To helpe them that can not holde theyr water . pag. 10.40 . An incredible t●le of a louyng dogge . pag. 11.41 . The member of generation dooth folow the proportion of the nauell string cutte . pag. 11.42 . A straung way for the helping of the cods . pag. 11.43 . A woman caried a dead child in her wombe thirteene yeres . pag. 12.44 . To make a woman be speedilye delyuered . pag. 12 ▪ 45. A straung effect of the loue of Pigeons with the Castrell . pag. 12.46 . A rare secret of the woort leafe . pag. 12.47 . A perfect and precious medecine for the plague . pag. 12.48 . A straunge way to know , whether the next childe of a woman wyll be a boye or a wenche . pag. 13.49 . A sure medcin to destroy a fellon . pa. 13.50 . A good proo●● that children are not alwaies lyke their Parents . pag. 13.51 . A Tode stone ceases the paines comming by the byting of any venemous beast . pa. 14.52 . A try●● way to kyll Lyce . pag. 14.53 . To make womans dugs round and harde . pag. 14.54 . To knowe whether a woman ●e barren or not . pag. 14.55 . A Ryng which makes the bearer thereof safe from poyson and plagu● . pag. 14.56 . The excellent vertues of fasting spe●●le . pag. 15.57 . To keepe Cheese from putrifying . pa. 15.58 To ●nde a precious coale on Mydsommer euen . pag. 15.59 . A good thing to feede Beasts , and to make the handes whyte . pag. 15.60 . All thinges wyll swyne vpon quicksyluer , except golde . pag. 16.61 . An excellent waye to staye the growing of hea●● . pag. 16.62 . A present remedy for horsenes & the cough . pag. 16.63 . To 〈◊〉 who are lyke to haue the gowte . pag. 17.64 . To take awaye the euyll smell of the feete . pag. 17.65 . A straunge waye to cease the bleeding of the nose . pag. 17.66 . Mylke and exercise from the cradle , makes tall and 〈◊〉 persons . pag. 17.67 . A present remedy for the S●uinācy , pa. 17.68 Two contrary natures in the netle . pa. 17.69 To know whether a woman is lyke to haue chyldren or not . pag. 18.70 . To make teeth as white as Iuory . pa. 18.71 To take spots out of the face . pag. 18.71 . A straunge waye to helpe the qu●rteyn a●ue . pag. 18.73 . A proued waye to helpe the Collyc●e and paines of the backe . pag. 18.74 . To helpe the swellinges of the throate . pag. 18.75 . To make a woman loathe the company of man , & a man to desyre a woman . pa. 18.76 The straunge nature of dogs . pag. 19.77 . To know good & pure 〈◊〉 . pag. 19.78 . To ioygne broken glasses and broken cups . pag. 19.79 . The great vertue of Planteyn , being the hearbe of Mars . pag. 19.80 . To cause a Bull vnable to bull a Cowe . pag. 20.81 . A straunge waye to loose a man that is enchaunted or bewytched , therby vnable to the act of generation . pag. 20.82 . A straunge waye to put awaye the crampe . pag. 20.83 . A pretie deuise to put out and lyght a candle , to make them maruayle that sees it . pa. 20.84 To make a writing , being cast into the fire , to leape out of the same . pag. 20.85 . To gette any quicke thing out of the head . pag. 21.86 . A rare helpe for the crampe . pag. 21.87 . A straunge secrete to plucke out a thorne out of the fleshe . pag. 21.88 . Sygnifycations when the paines be in the eyes . pag. 21.89 . One through vse dyd forbeare drinke all his lyfe after . pag. 21.90 The three corned bon● of a Ca●p ceaseth the bleeding of the nose . pag. 22.91 . A straunge medicine for curing the webbe , and the blindnes of the eye . pag. 22.92 . Salt wyll make women apt to haue chyldren . pag. 22.93 . Dyuers Beastes and Byrdes , do dyuersly helpe theyr diseases according to theyr nature . pag. 22.94 . Annyball made a passage through the harde rocks of the Alpes , with vinegar . pa. 23.95 A notable remedy for all wounds . pa. 23.96 To make whyte ●yllies re● . pag. 23.97 . A hynderaunce for women to bring forth wenches . pag. 23.98 . A notable waye to get quicksyluer out of such as are annoynted with oyntmentes my●t with the same . pag. 24.99 . To draw out thornes , and to help the drops●e , a rare and straunge secrete . pag. 24.100 .

The Table of the second booke . FOr knowledge of griefs and diseases in in the eyes . pag. 25.1 . A maruelous vertue geuen to the s●u●th male Childe . pag. 25.2 . A learned Phisition knew ●one was sicke for loue , by the feeling of his pulse . pa. 25.3 A straunge way to know whether one that is sycke , be in daunger of death , or not . pag. 25.4 . To gather Har●s together into one place . pag. 26.5 . Why chyldren haue clouen ouerlyps , called Hartlyps , a wonderful thing . pag. 26.6 . What tyme the disease taken wyll be daungerous , or not . pag. 26.7 . To draw an Eg through a ring . pa. 26.8 . To resolue Flynt stones into powder . pag. 27.9 . To cause woorms come out of the ground . pag. 27.10 . To take spottes and rustynes from Yron . pag. 27.11 . An excellent helpe for the gowte . pa. 27.12 . That Inke shal neuer be frosen . pa. 27.13 . The Starres are strong in the byrth , according to the aptnes of them that be borne . pag. 27.14 . A straunge nature of the Sycamore tree . pag. 28.15 . A rare thing to procure sleepe . pag. 28.16 . To foreknow who shall haue paines in the stomacke . pag. 28.17 . A very straunge way to helpe them that be broken bellyed . pag. 28.18 . To make Hens laye Egs apace . pa. 29.19 . To clense the face from all spots and other deformities . pag. 29.20 . To driue away Flyes , that neuer , there be seene any there after . pag. 29.21 . To make troubled Wyne , fayre and cleare . pag. 30.22 . What tyme is daunger to wounde or cutte any body . pag. 30.23 . A straunge cause of the notable markes of chyldren before they be borne . pag. 30.24 . To keepe things from putrifying . pa. 31.25 . Beasts of one kind , wyl be hurt , & not hurt , with eating of one thing . pag. 31.26 . A chyld maruelously preserued by a woolf . pag. 31.27 . A straunge waye to preserue Chesnuttes . pag. 32.28 . The great vertue of Knotgrasse . pa. 32.29 . A straunge thing to make a Dogge turne round about , and to fall downe as dead . pag. 32.30 . A way wherby hungar was the lesse greuous to the Scithians . pag. 32.31 . A notable Pollicie whereby the Romains got a worthy victory . pag. 33.33 . A louing Dog to his maister . pag. 33.34 . A sygnification of blindnes . pag. 34.35 . A present case for the gowte . pag. 34.36 . Knotgrasse dangerous for sheepe . pa. 34.37 An incredible matter doon in ones sleep● . pag. 34.38 . The straunge nature of chaffe . pag. 36.39 . To make wine pleasant in cullour and taste . pag. 36.40 . Who shal haue pains in their Liuer . p. 36.41 A proued medicine to cure the black Iaundies . pag. 36.42 . To make a sword , dagger , or knife to cutte yron , as though it were steele . pag. 36.43 . An excellent way to purify wine . pa. 37.44 . To keepe a dog from being mad . pa. 37.45 . To make sweete & pleasaunt Arthychokes . pag. 37.46 . A sure medicine to help the stitch . pa. 37.47 What ground wyl breede the fyne●● wheat . pag. 37.48 . A straunge medicine wherwith Galen cured the ●allyng sycknes . pag. 37.49 . To keepe Dogges from madnes , and from much barking . pag. 38.50 . To make a Leeke haue a monstruous head . pag. 38.51 . The maruelous properties of the stone A●tites . pag. 38.52 . Certayne people without mouthes , lyues by smelling of Flowres , apples & rootes . pag. 38.53 . A speciall remedye for falling or bruses . pag. 39.54 . Children borne at some tyme wyll be blind . pag. 39.55 . A straunge cu●ing of the falling sycknesse . pag. 39.56 . To turne Wyne into vinegar presentlie . pag. 39.57 . A rare helping of the Kings euyl . pa. 39.58 A daungerous time to fal sick in . pa. 40.59 Byrdes helpes theyr diseases diuerslye . pag. 40.60 . Reysens wyl auoyde and kyl the woorms . pag. 40. ●1 . An excellent help for the collick . pa. 40.62 . To help the paynes of the bladder . p. 41.63 Children borne at such a time wyll haue the deseas of the s●len . pag. 41.64 . To make fruit● growe with what forme you ly●t . pag. 41.65 . The great liberalitye of Alphons for making of the Astronomycall Tables . pag. 41.66 . To know whether the plague be curable or not . pag. 42.67 . A maruelous proffitable vse of sparrowes . pag. ●2 . 68 . To make white handes . pag. 43.69 . A straunge matter of the quilles , or pennes of an Eagle . pag. 43.70 . To help the readnes of the face . pa. 43.71 . To make vn●uly beasts tame . pag. 43.72 . To make stones soft . pag. 43.73 . To make frosen Apples come to there first nature . pag. 44.74 . An excellent thinge to be knowne by the mulbery tree . pag. 44.75 . To seperate golde from syluer . pag. 44.76 . A notable vertue of the Iasper stone . pag. 44.77 . To keepe Pigeons from being hurt of any Cats Wesels or of anye other v●rmen pag. 44.78 . Who are like to haue the p●ysyck . p. 44.79 A notable medicine to helpe itchinges or scabbes . pag. 45.80 . A prooued medicine for the stone . p. 45.81 . A foreknowledge of the plague . pa. 45.82 . Two straunge brethren borne in 〈◊〉 . pag. 45.83 . An excellent medicine for all sores . p. 45.84 Women transformed into young beastes . pag. 45.85 . To cease quicklye the gr●efe of the gowte . pag. 46.86 . A wonderfull gyft giuen to Rats and dormice . pag , 46 . 8● . To cease the bleeding of the nose . pag. 46.83 . To preserue children from the falling sicknesse . pag. 46 . 8● . One becam mad by play●●g with a whe●p . pag. 46. ●0 . To helpe the 〈◊〉 or the gowte . pag. 47.91 . A straunge matter of a Woolues skinne . pag. 47.92 . To make mice run into the fyre . pag. 47.93 To keepe clothes from mothes . pag. 48.94 To know which parte of ones lyfe is moste fortunate . pag. 48.95 . To stay hayres from growing . pag. 48.96 A straunge secret to stop the bleeding of the nose . pag. 48.97 . To know whether a woman be with child or not . pag. 49.98 . They shal be faint and geuen to swounding being borne at such a time . pag. 49.99 . To make them slender that are grosse . pag. 49.100 .

The Table of the third booke . TO helpe a Horse of the Coughe . pag. 50.1 . The loyal loue of the Turtle Dowue . pag. 50.2 . To knowe in what quarter it is best for one to dwell in . pag. 50.3 . A woonderfull thing of a woman tormented . pag. 51.4 . Wytchery or Sorcery put away . pa. 51.5 . A straunge thing of Moules or woontes . pag. 51.6 . 〈◊〉 pre●●yge of wars scarsenes or plague . pag. 52.7 . The signe of death of a sick body . pa. 52.8 . To help the Cough or shortnes of breath . pag. 52.9 . A sure remedy for a fellon . pag. 52.10 To help chapt handes . pag. 53.11 . That Horses shall not be hurt with shooing . pag. 53.12 . A straunge thing of a Ferre tree . pa. 53.13 . A good time to fall syck in . pag. 53.14 . To heale the sores or postules of the head . pag. 53.15 . One foreto●de the death of one that was s●ck by Astrologye . pag. 53.16 . To purge the head and gooms , and to fasten the teeth . pag. 54.17 . A straunge medicine to helpe the blody flux . pag. 54.18 . To confyrme the memorye . pag. 55.19 . To make no woolues enter into any towne pag. 55.20 . Things throwne to a certaine well , was conuerted into a stone . pag. 55.21 To know whether one shall fynde the partye at home or not . pag. 55.22 . An excellent property of the sapher . pag. 56 23. To bewray whether a woman be paynted or not . pag. 56.24 . Tokens of the murryan or death of catell . pag. 56.25 . Tyberuis the Emperour did see as Cats doo in the night . pag. 57.26 . A preseruatiue from the plague . pag. 57.27 . To make a meruelous hedge . pag. 57.28 . A woonderfull of the Elephauntes . pag. 57.29 . To quicken forgetfull persons . pag. 58.30 . A notable water for the eyes . pag. 58.31 . The threescore and thirde yeare of ones age a part daungerous time . pag. 58.32 . An excellent remedye for the tooth ache . pag. 59.33 . They that are borne at a certaine tyme , shal haue paines in their stones . pag. 59.34 A true medicine for la●enes . pag. 59.35 They shall haue a specyall marke in there face , that are borne at a certaine tyme . pag. 59.36 . Thinges that feares Lions . pag. 59.37 To keepe Pigions safe from Cattes . pag. 60.38 . To make any place safe from woolues and flyes . pag. 60.39 Good and euyll sygnes in a madde man . pag. 60.40 . To procure a good stomack . pag. 60.41 . A straunge waye to let Fleas from breeding . pag. 60.42 . To make the counterfeyte Mandrag . pag. 61.43 . To keepe handes from feeling any colde . pag. 61.44 . To resyst venome or poyson . pag. 61.45 . Testemonies of death by the Planettes . pag. 62.46 . To make a woman speedely to be delyuered . pag. 62.47 . A rare secrete for consuming the webbe in the eye . pag. 62.48 . A speciall medicyne for swounding . pag. 62.49 . To●ens of deaf●es by Astrologye . pag. 63.50 . A precious thing for swelling of the throte . pag. 63.51 . The Kings E●ell , helped by a woonderfull meane . pag. 63.52 . A straunge thing to r●yse them that haue the falling sicknes . pag. 65.53 . To auoyde the stone or grauell . pag. 65.54 . To make beyonde sea Azure . pag. 65.55 . To make Pease leape out of the Potte . pag. 65.56 . To ma●e Hens to lay great Egges and often . pag. 65.57 . To knowe whether they feare needles or not . pag. 65.58 . For them that bee much geuen to sleepe . pag. 66.59 . A pleasaunt oyle of Cloues . pag. 66.60 . A straunge curing of the falling sycknesse . pag. 66.61 . A woonderfull thing passing all credyte . pag. 67.62 . Eeles breedes in cleansed Ponds . pag. 68.63 To make a Bull tame . pag. 68.64 . An excellent propertye of the Nettle . pag. 68.65 . Good and euill signes in a mudde man . pag. 68.66 . Astrologycall demonstrations of death . pag. 68.67 . A notable medicine for breaking the winde in the bellye . pag. 68.68 . A speciall helpe for any ache . pag. 69.69 . They that be borne at a certaine time , will be weake in the act of generation . pag. 69.70 . A notable remedye for the stone . pag. 69.71 . A straunge thing like a black Birde , wyl breede of Sage . pag. 69.72 . To make that ●a●s shall not stray abrode . pag. 70.73 . When and where to get Pearles . pag. 70.74 . Fleas and Lyes leau●s sicke persons before their death . pag. 70.75 . An excellent medicine for the gowt . pa. 70.76 ●o draw water from Wine . pag. 70.77 . A notable medicine to heale lame members . pag. 70.78 . To styll a most hotte water . pag. 71.79 . The maruellous knowledge of Hartes . pag. 71.80 A Woman longed to eate of her husbands flesh . pag. 71.81 . Leprous faces cured . pag. 72.82 . They shall be hy● minded , strong , & fam●d for their strength and lyberality , that are borne at a certaine tyme . pag 72.83 . An caste way to stynche bloud . pa. 72.84 . A sure remedy to put away ●etters or ringwoormes . pag. 73.85 . Excellent Pylles that helpes the headache , brings gladnes , and are good for the eyesyght . 〈◊〉 . pag. 73.86 . A Chylde borne at a certaine tyme shall be hyndred in his speech or tonge . pa. 73.87 A man dyd barke lyke hounds . pa. 74.88 . The eyes of young Swallowes put out , wyll see againe by a maruellous meanes . pag 74.89 . To prouoke sleepe . pag. 74.90 . A perfect waye to heale lame members . pag. 74.91 . It was a maruelous offence with the Egiptians to kyll a Cat. pag. 75.92 . To keepe Harnes or Yron from rusting . pag. 75.93 . They shall haue ryches without labor , that are borne at a certaine tyme . pag. 75.94 . A notable oyle for the gowte . pag. 75.95 . An excellent thing to keepe one safe from p●yson . pag. 76.96 . A thing to make one sleepe presently . pag. 76.97 . A rare secrete to cease bleeding . pag. 76.98 . To draw out a toothe with ease and without any instrument . pag. 78.99 . A sure medicine for them that bee costy 〈◊〉 . pag. 78.100 .

The Table of the fourth booke . TO make Dwale that wyll cause one to sleepe , whyles they are cut , whereby they shall feele no payne al the while . pag. 79.1 . They that be borne at a certaine tyme , wyll haue grief●s in their noses . &c. pag. 79.2 . A precious thing to breake the stone . pag. 79.3 . To make a combe that wyll helpe heade ache . pag. 80.4 . A Ryng procuryng the vertue of st●rres . pag. 80.5 . A straunge help for the pains of the throte . pag. 80.6 . An excellent thing for the gowte . pa. 80.7 . To make Yron of the cullour of Brasse . pag. 81.8 . What Horsses are deafe and doom . pa. 81.9 To keepe Harnes or Yron from rusting . pag. 81.10 . To know whether one com to deceyue thee or meane well or not . pag. 82.11 . To loose the belly . pag. 82.12 . The good effect of deafenes in an ague , and bleeding at the nose . pag. 82.13 . A diuine medicine for the pluresie . pa. 82.14 A straunge waye to keepe a woman from hauing a chyld with a Hare lyp . pa. 83.15 . To destroy any Impostu●e . pag. 83.16 . To knowe Astrologicallye where any disease is eyther in the body or in the minde . pag. 83.17 . A Queen● droonke at one draught , the value of two hundreth and fyftie thousande pounde . pag. 84.18 . The straunge propertye of a Fygge tree . pag. 84.19 . The excellent vertue of Uarueyne in helping the falling sycknes . pa. 84.20 . A Chylde borne in a certayne constellation , wyll be chiefe of his brethren . pag. 84.21 . A notable waye to put away the paynes of s●aldng or burning with gunne powder . pag. 85.22 . To make syluer Plate fayre and whyte . pag. 85.23 . A sure preseruatiue from the Plague . pag. 85.24 . A notable vertue of Pyony , in curing the falling sycknes . pag. 86.25 . Astrologicalles tokens of death of the sick . pag. 86.26 . A rare waye to make a woman be spedilye delyuered . pag. 86.27 . To drawe out the Oyle of Cynamom . pag. 86.28 . To plucke out a rotten or aking tooth with ease . pag. 87.29 . An excellent proofe whether one that hath the plague shall escape or not . pag. 87.30 . The place where the Censors of Uenys syt● , is free from flyes . &c. pag. 87.31 . The first Chylde borne at a certayne tyme , wyll be a boye . pag. 88.32 . A sure medicine to take away the greatest & eldest paine of the head that is . pag. 88.33 . A perfect medicine to kyll woormes in the belly . pag. 88.34 . A daungerous tyme for the syck . pa. 88.35 . The excellent vertue of golde . pag. 89.36 . The nature of the water or goomme of the vine . pag. 89.37 . The sygnes of death of such as haue a consumption . pag. 89.38 . An excellent Electuary preseruing lyfe , and hindring olde age . pag. 89.39 . A Lampe without fyre to geue lyght in the nyght . pag. 90.40 . Excellent vertues of the Nauell stryng . pag. 91.41 . Golde found in vines . pag. 91.42 . To knowe what place is best to dwell in . pag. 91.43 . Women lyke to be barren that are borne at a certaine tyme . pag. 92.44 . To make barren trees fruitful . pag. 92.45 . A straunge waye to put awaye the quarten ague . pag. 92.46 . That Gna●tes shall not trouble them that sleepes . pag. 93.47 . Troubles and debates what day they shall happen . pag. 93.48 . An excellent waye to staye the Fluxe . pag. 93.49 . To cause a woman bee spedilye delyuered . pag. 93.50 . A woonderfull medicine in the tyme of pestilence . pag. 93.51 . To keepe one from being bytten with a mad dog . pag. 94.52 . To helpe the griefes or stitches in the side . pag. 95.53 . To see terrible and fearefull Dreames . pag. 95.54 . The howre of Uenus good to take iourney in . pag. 95.55 . To draw out woormes out of the stomack . pag. 95.56 . A great token of death when the Moone is nye the Sunne . &c. pag. 95.57 An excellent medicine for paines of the hart . pag. 96.58 . For the gowte and swellings of the ioynts . pag. 96.59 . A straunge helping of the Swyne pockes . pag. 96.60 . A perfecte medicine for the bloody fluxe . pag. 97.61 . A rare helpe for the cr●mpe . pag. 97.62 . They that are borne at a certayne tyme , shal fall from some hye place . &c. pag. 97.63 . To cure the Dropsie . pag. 97.64 . The great vertues of Eybright . pag. 97.65 To pluck vp a Cankar by the rootes . pag. 98.66 . To knowe whether a woman be barren or not . pag. 98.67 . To make Letters of the cullour of what mettal you rub the same withal . pa. 99.68 To helpe the red & pympled face . pa. 99.69 . To knowe whether the dropsie be hotte or colde . pag. 99.70 . To knowe whether the sycke shall dye of that sicknesse or not . pag. 99.71 . An horible murder bewrayed by young Swallowes . pag. 100.72 . For them that can not holde theyr water . pag. 100.73 . A sygne of recouery or health . pag. 100.74 . Significations of dreames . pag. 100.75 . To make a Swoorde haue a sharpe edge . pag. 101.76 . To make that Antes go not vp on trees . pag. 101.77 . A chylde borne at a certaine tyme , is lyke to be blinde . pag. 101.78 . To helpe the Re●●me . pag. 101.79 . To conserue youth . pag. 102.80 . Thinges prospers not after the woordes of some . pag. 102.81 . To cease the Hyckop . pag. 102.82 . Chyldren borne in the earthquake . What followes . pag. 102.83 . The nature of Sperma ceti . pag. 103.84 . They that are borne in a certayne constellation shal haue impedun●e in their tongue . pag. 103.85 . To cure the dropsie . pag. 103.86 . Signes when a woman with two children , is lyke to lose one . pag. 103.87 . To helpe or ease a hotte or colde gowte . pag. 103.88 . The making of the flowre of oyntmentes . pag. 104.89 . Signes of death by Astrology . pa. 105.90 . A perfect way to cure the Splen . pa. 105.91 Tokens of health in a sick body . pa. 105.92 . To destroy a Carbuncle . pag. 105.93 . To make the blac● sea coale soft . pa. 106.94 . To helpe the stone . pag. 106.95 . A straunge example of a chylde borne without a mouth . pag. 106.96 . The Wyfe shall dye before the Husbande . pag. 107.97 . To helpe the Dropsie . pag. 107.98 . To know perfect Bal●e . pa. 107.99 . To help the falling sycknes . pag. 107.100 .

¶ The Table of the fyft booke . TO make a Mare bring forth a F●ale of dyuers cullours . pag. 108.1 . To helpe the stone and the Dropsie . pag. 108.2 . A Woolfe feares to go in 〈◊〉 wayes . pag. 108.3 . They that are borne in a certayne constellation , shall neuer marry . pag. 108.4 . A helpe for the head ache . pag. 109.5 . A water to prouoke sleepe . pag. 109.6 . To destroye an Impostume in the head . pag. 109.7 . Signifycations of dreames . pag. 109.8 . To cause softe heairs to grow on the chyn . pag. 110.9 . A straunge medicine for the swellynges . pag. 110.10 . To see true dreames . pag. 110.11 . A helpe for the falling sycknes . pa. 110.12 . One borne at a certaine time , shall dye a naturall death . pag. 110.13 . A precious helpe for the Re●●m . pa. 111.14 . To preserue youth . pag. 111.15 . An excellent Garga●●●ne to cleanse the head and the breast . pag. 111.16 . The syck party shall escape death without all hope . pag. 112.17 . To cure perfectlye the blacke Iaundyes . pag. 112.18 . To keepe Chyldren from breeding of Lyce . pag. 112.19 . The Cocke reioyceth contrary to all other Byrds or Beasts . &c. pag. 113.20 . A Chylde borne at a certaine tyme wyl die of yron . pag. 113.21 . To forbyd the engendring of the Impostumation of the stomack . pag. 113.22 . To restore syght to the blind . pag. 113.23 . A Woman helped of the moother with the roote of Bryony . pag. 113.24 . A straunge waye to put awaye Wartes . pag. 114.25 . A maruelous thing of a Cockes Egge . pag. 114.26 . A Chylde borne at a certaine time wyll be hangd . pag. 114.27 . An excellent purginge of the head . pag. 114.28 . Blacke s●eges an euyll sygne . pag. 114.29 . A notable medicine for the Collyck , Strangury and the stone . pag. 115.30 . To breede Childrens teeth ●as●ly . pa. 115.31 A straunge nature of the Walnut . pa. 115.32 To keepe water hotte without fyre . pag. 115.33 . To take madnes from Dogs . pag. 116.34 . To keepe a Chyld safe vntyll the due tyme of the byrth , a rare secrete . pag. 116.35 . A straunge thing to put awaye Wartes . pag. 116.36 . Sygnification that a Chyld wyl be hangd . pag. 116.37 . To preserue one from head ache . pa. 117.38 A straunge medicine for the gowte . pag. 117.39 . To make a hotte loafe leape . pag. 117.40 . A notable oyle of Saint Iohns Woort . pag. 117.41 . That no Flyes shall touch any Beasts in the hotte wether . pag. 118.42 . One borne at a certaine tyme wyll dye by the commaundement of the Iudge . pag. 118.43 . To kyll and heale any Can●er . pag. 118.44 A precious water for mad men . pa. 118.45 . They shall neuer lose theyr sences nor vnderstanding , borne at a certaine tyme . pag. 119.46 . To make a glasse with water burn a thing nye to it . pag. 119.47 . To make a sheepe follow one . pag. 119.48 . To know what one shall see in his dreame . pag. 120.49 . A straunge way to help the quarteyn ague . pag. 121.50 . To see the Sunne Eclipsed without hurting of the eyes . pag. 121.51 . Excellent vertues of plates of gold worne . pag. 121.52 . A Chylde borne at a certayne tyme , is lyke to perish by the hands of many . pag. 122.53 . To preserue the stomacke from any paine . pag. 122.54 . A precious water that breakes the stone in the reynes and in the blader . pag. 122.55 . Significations of dreames . pag. 122.56 . To make Copper melt quickly . pa. 123.57 . To keepe Goates from straying . pag. 123.58 . To keepe Corne from hurtfull stormes . pag. 123.59 . They wyll dye in captiuitie that are borne at a certaine tyme . pag. 123.60 . An excellent oyntment . pag. 123.61 . A maruelous waye to helpe any paines of the throate . pag. 124.62 . A precious medicine for a redde face . pag. 124.63 . A burning candle founde in an olde tombe . pag. 124.64 . What tyme is best to dygge or make a wel . pag. 125.65 . A notable vertue of Basyll . pag. 125.67 . The great vertue of Coriandar . pa. 125.68 . A sygne that the sicke wyll dye the nexte yeare after . pag. 125.69 . To helpe a red pympled face . pag. 126.70 . For the falling sycknes . pag. 126.71 . A daungerous thing to suffer a venemous woorme or a mad Dog to lyue after one is hurt by the fame . pag. 126.72 . To make Scorpions come into one place . pag. 126.73 . One borne at a certaine tyme , wyll dye in prison . pag. 127.74 . A notable help for the Splen . pag. 127.75 . A precious oyle of Balme . pag. 127.76 . An excellent proued plaster , to destroye any Impostume , stytche , or swelling . pag. 127.77 . Astrologicall lykelyhoods when the sycke cannot be cured , but with great expences . pag. 129.78 . The great vertue of Egshels . pag. 129.79 . The great vertue of Sugar . pag. 129.80 . A straunge thing of a young Wenche . pag. 129.81 . To decke a balde head with heairs . pag. 130.82 . A Beast shal neuer conceyue . pag. 130.83 . A Dogge that takes his disease of a man ought to be buried . pag 130.84 . To cease the noyse of Frogs . pag. 130.85 . The whyt thorne is neuer touched with lyghtning . pag. 131.86 . Chyldren borne at a certaine tyme wyll be drownde . pag. 131.87 . A present helpe for the stone . pag. 131.88 . To make one looke young a great whyle . pag. 131.89 . To let heair from growing . pag. 131.90 . To make one laxatiue . pag. 131.91 . They are lyke to haue the falling sicknes that are borne at a certayne time . pag. 132.92 . That Fetters hurte not young Beastes . pag. 132.93 . A notable medicine for the falling sycknes . pag. 132.94 . Garlicke brought out a Serpent out of a man . pag. 132.95 . A stone founde in a Swallowe , helpes the falling sycknes . pag 132.96 . To knowe if a woman be conceaued . pag. 133.97 . Who shall be poore . pag. 133.98 . To beawtify the face . pag. 133.99 . To knowe whether the sicke shall dye or lyue . pag. 133.100 .

¶ The Table of the syxt booke . TO turne anye beast into a whyte cullour . pag. 134.1 . A precious thinge to expell the stone . pag. 134.2 . To knowe whether a Dreame be good or not . pag. 134.3 . A quick cure for the Hyckop . pag. 135.4 . To fynde out him that hath doan a murther . pag. 135.5 . To know whether water be in Wine or not . pag. 136.6 . Planteyn is meruelous for the Plague . pag. 136.7 . To know a liuely or quick house . pa. 136.8 . Diuers beasts , hates diuers colloured garmentes . pag. 136.9 . They that be borne at a certayne time wyll dye in the countrey . pag. 136.10 . To heale the web in the eye . pag. 136.11 . A pro●ued oyle which healeth the dropsye . pag. 136.12 . A straunge thinge of a Butchers wyfe . pag. 137.13 . They that falles syck at a certaine time are not like to escape . pag. 137.14 . To take the hayre away , and that it growe no more . pag. 138.15 . To catche easelye Rauens or Crowes . pag. 138.16 . Byrdes leaues their singing or are syck , according to the Starres . pag. 138.17 . The chylde borne at a certaine time wyl be imprisoned . pag. 139.18 . A sure and prooued medicyne for the tooth-ache . pag. 139.19 To take awaye wrincles , and spots in the face . pag. 139.20 An excellent way to take foxes . pag. 139.21 What women doo hurt with their looking . pag. 140.22 . What dead bodyes remaine vncorrupt . pag. 140.23 . They shall dye among straungers , that are borne in a certaine constellacion . pa. 140.24 To take the bloud or readnes out of the eyes . pag. 140.25 . They shall neuer haue the Collick , that vseth a certaine confection described . pag. 140.26 . To make wood or bones red . pag. 141.27 Sygnifycations of Dreames . pag. 141.28 . To make ●lagging or hanging paps round . pag. 141.29 . A woonderfull thing of a Tode and a spider . pag. 141.30 . A notable and approued powder for breaking ● consuming of the stone . pa. 142.31 . A great vertue for the eyes , of the Oyle of Paper . pag. 143.32 . Signifycations that the sick party wyl kyl him selfe . pag. 143.33 . A spreete came to M. Brutus . pa. 143.34 . The great vertue of Egremony for wounds pag. 143.35 . Money receyued in Uenus , howe it wyll be spent . pag. 144.36 . To ryd one of an auncient dymnes of sight . pag. 144.37 . Whether a woman bee conceaued or not . pag. 144.38 . A notable medicine for the stone . pa. 144.39 A rare and true medicine for the tooth ach . pag. 145.40 . Who shall haue few chyldren . pag. 145.41 . To consume Wartes , a straunge thing . pag. 145.42 . Myce wyll make Elephantes refuse theyr meate . pag. 145.43 . Who shall dye in pryson . pag. 145.44 . A notable medicine for to heale the Strangury . pag. 146.45 . To make a woman bring forth her childe without paine . pag. 146.46 . To stop the bloudy Fluxe . pag. 146.47 . To proue whether a woman be with chyld or not . pag. 146.48 . A Crowe wyll dye , if he eate of the meate whereof the Woolfe hath eaten before . pag. 147.49 . The great power and vertue of a Baye tree . pag. 147.50 . That Myce eate not wrytten Papers . pag. 147.51 . The howre of Mars is to be abhorred . pag. 147.52 . To make Cattell safe from diseases . pag. 147.53 . A straunge matter of the skynne of a Lyon . pag. 148.54 . Colewoortes and Rew ought not to bee sowne nye together . pa. 148.55 . A myraculous thing for the destroying of woorms in man or beast . pa 148.56 . They that bee borne at the con●unction of the Sun and Moone . pag. 149.57 . The maruelous vertue of the seedes of Oculus Christi . pag. 149.58 . A maruelous straunge waye to destroye Wartes . pag. 149.59 . To make the Letters of the cullour of paper . pag. 150.60 . A woonderful matter of a woman transformed into a man . pag. 150.61 . What chyldren are lyke to haue short life . pag. 151.62 . A notable thing to heale olde sores . pag. 151.63 . An excellent helpe for the yallowe Iaundyes . pag. 151.64 . When the sick is to be feared . pag. 152.65 . What kind of Chycken coms of the Egge . pag. 152.66 . To make Amber as soft as clay . pa. 152.67 The force of olde lether in expelling Serpents . pag. 152.68 . A precious thing for the Strangury . pag. 153.69 . When the sycke personne is lyke to dye . pag. 153.70 . A notable medicine for the Sciatica . pag. 153.71 . A good lesson for Phisitions . pag. 153.72 . The loue of a Lyzard to a man . pa. 153.73 . A notable medicine to breake the stone . pag. 154.74 . Who shall go farre and long iourneyes . pag. 154.75 . A straunge thing for them that haue lost their voyce . pag. 154.76 . An excellent thing for the Palsey and the gowte . pag. 155.77 . To heale the Sciatica . pag. 155.78 . To make a lyght to make the beholders yallowe . pag. 155.79 . The straunge nature of the dunge of a Woolfe . pag. 155.80 . To plucke out thornes , an excellent thing . pag. 156.81 . A maruelous Hystorie of a Lady that had by Imagination a Chyld lyke an Ethyopian . pag. 156.82 . The straunge propertie of certain flowres . pag. 157.83 . 〈◊〉 thought to be dead with the eating of He●locks . pag. 157.84 . To take away the spotte in the eye in three dayes . pag. 158.85 . Things askt in the howres of Saturne or Mars , is a suspicion of euyl . pa. 158.86 . A maruelous way to helpe women , weakned their monthly disease . pag. 158.87 . The straunge breeding of Synnewes . pag. 158.88 . The great dyuersitye betweene the leaues and seedes of Docks . pag. 159.89 . To amende sowrenes or tartnes of Wine . pag. 159.90 . A straunge medicine to helpe all Rewmes , distyllations and watrines of the eyes . pag. 159.91 . A Chylde borne in a certayne constellation , wyll be mighty , wyse , and a great Philosopher . pag. 159.92 . To gette a stone that wyll cure the dropsie . pag. 159.93 . A maruelous medicine to kyll the Cankar . pag. 160.94 . To destroy Tetiers and Ringwoormes . pag. 160.95 . To breake the stone . pag. 160.96 . To dryue away Crowes or Byrdes from Corne that is sowne . pag. 160.97 . A straunge helpe for the Collick . pa. 160.98 . What people are euyll . pag. 161.99 . When beares shall aryse in iourneyes . pag. 161.100 .

The Table of the seuenth Book . A Helpe for all griefes of the bladder . pag. 162.1 . A notable water for breaking of the stone . pag. 162.2 . The straunge breeding of Barnacles . pag. 163.3 . To helpe them that are bewytched . pag. 163.4 . Mony delyuered in the howre of the Moone . pag. 163.5 . Great vertues of Bettony . pag. 163.6 . To know whether one that is sick , wyl liue or dye . pag. 164.7 . A great cure of one that was swolne . pag. 164.8 . A good warning for purginge or letting of bloud . pag. 164.9 . Good knowledge for the certaintye of the winde . pag. 165.10 . A straunge helpe for the gowte . pa. 165.11 . A straunge thing of Harpe stringes . pag. 165.12 To cease the swelling of the yarde . pag. 165.13 . One fortold by Astrologie , the speedy death of one that was sicke . pag. 165.14 . For the Stone an easie medicine . pag. 166.15 . That wrytinges shall not be read , vnlesse the same be put first in the water . pag. 166.16 . A notable medicine for an olde paine in the head . pag. 166.17 . To get the Tode stone . pag. 167.18 . The straunge generating of U●pers . pag. 167.19 . To prouoke the Flowres and after burthen . pag. 168.20 . An incredible helpe for the falling sycknes . pag. 168.21 . To cease the barking of Dogs . pag. 168.22 S●●oes that wyl neuer be worn . pa. 168.23 A straunge thing to stoppe the bloud . pag. 168.24 . The fyre shall not burne a thing cast into it . pag. 169.25 . Feare or daunger in long iourneyes . pag. 16● . 26 . A myraculous thing in Ireland . pa. 169.27 Whether the sicke shall escape or not . pag. 169.28 . To make a greene that wyl last pa. 170.29 To make Letters of golde . pa. 170.30 . To know when Wheate wyll be ch●ape or deere . pag. 170.31 . The Lyon is more fierce against men ▪ then women . pag. 171.32 . The great vertue of nettle seede . pa. 171.33 . To put a● Egge into a narrowe mouthed g●asse . pag. 171 3● . To roast a dysh of B●tter . pag. 171.35 . To put awaye the tooth ache , a straunge thing . pag. 172.36 . They that are borne at a certaine time , wyl be possest with Deuyls . pag. 172.37 . A straunge well . pag. 172.38 . To handle fyre without harme . pa. 172.39 . An excellent tyme to take medicine . pag. 173.40 . An excellent thing to cleare the sight . pag. 173.41 . To bring Pigions to a Doouehouse . pag. 173.42 . To make an hearb like Dragons . pa. 174.43 To keepe Hens safe from Foxes . pa. 174.44 To helpe barrennes . pag. 174.45 To knowe in what case a Shippe with the men in her is , being absent . pag. 174.46 . For swellings in a sore breast . pag. 175.47 . To helpe a wound in the hand . pa. 175.48 A speciall medicine to strengthen the back . pag. 175.49 . For sore throates . pag. 175.50 . They are diuellishe that are borne at a certaine tyme . pag. 175.51 . That Beastes be not bytten of the blynde Mowse . pag. 175.52 . A good lesson to be obserued in Beastes that are with young . pag. 176.53 . Who are lyke to see true dreames . pag. 176.54 . A notable oyntment for ●ny payne in the head . pag. 176.55 . An excellent water for hearing . pa. 177.56 . A Wren wyll turne at the fyre by it selfe . pag. 177.57 . To make fyne pictures and vesselles with smal coast . pag. 177.58 . When the mother shall be of short lyfe . pag. 178.59 . To take awaye the hardnes of Womens p●ps . pag. 178.60 . To helpe mad ●●en . pag. 178.61 . A precious thing for burning . pag. 178.62 . To cause one make water . pag. 178.63 . To hatche Chycke●s without a Hen. pag. 179.64 . The straunge vertue of the Medler . pag. 179.65 . That toasted or sodden flesh seeme bloody . pag. 179.66 . Of quicke and slowe deliuering out of pryson . pag. 179.67 . To heale a scalde head . pag. 180.68 . To destroy Wartes . pag. 180.69 . A Dogge taught to do the offyce of a seruaunt . pag. 180.70 . A most extreeme famine . pag. 180.71 . To dryue forth sande out of the reynes . pag. 181.72 . To cause speedy delyueraunce of a Chylde . pag. 181.73 . That scalding be not seene . pag. 181.74 To drawe out a tooth eas●ly . pag. 181.75 . To put away freckles in the face . pag. 182.76 . To helpe the Elfe cake in the syde . pa. 182.77 . To helpe shaking hands . pag. 182.78 . To know a ryght Tode stone . pa. 182.79 . To make that Garlicke shall not smell . pag. 182.80 . An easie medicine for the gowte . pa. 183.81 . An argument of death . pa. 183.82 . To make a Woman be speedely delyuered . pag. 183.83 . To know who shal be gelded . pag. 184.84 . To make that no Dogge bark at you . pag. 184.85 . To put away the quarten ag●● . pa. 184.86 To helpe ●●●olde and incurable gow●e . pag. 184.87 . A notable medicine for the falling sicknes . pag. 184.88 . An excellent oyntment for the gowte . pag. 185.89 . To destroy an Itche . pag. 185.90 . To make a candle that wyll not be put out . pag. 185.91 . An excellent oyle for the Synewes and ach of the ioyntes . pag. 185.92 . To bring woormes and hurtfull things in a garden , into one place . pag. 186.93 . A token of the fathers short life . pa. 186.94 . To helpe paynes and deafnes of the eares . pag. 186.95 . A proued water to heale the Fystula . pag. 186.96 . That horses be liuely & quick . pag. 187.97 . To make a horse pysse . pa. 187.98 . A maruelous & precious water . pa. 187.99 . For winde or sounding in the eares . pag. 188.100 .

The Table of the eyght booke . TO make vineger presently . pag. 189.1 . The straunge propertie of the Woolfe . pag. 189.2 . Deadlye w●●re betweene the Hawke and the Eagle . pag. 189.3 . To take Byrdes that eates seedes that are sowne . pag. 189.4 . An euyll howre to take iourney on the seas . pag. 189.5 . Approued Pyls for the Palsey . pa. 190.6 . A straunge thing of a woman with chylde . pag. 190.7 . To turne whyte wine into red . pag. 190.8 . A rare medicine for the cough . pag. 191.9 . Who shall possesse greater rytches and honours , then their Auncestors . pa. 191.10 . To cleare a dym syght . pag. 191.11 . A maruelous medicine for woundes and sores . pag. 192.12 . A straunge diuersitie betweene dead men , and dead women . pag. 192.13 . The great vertue of Marygooldes . pag. 192.14 . A rare thing to helpe the gowte . pa. 193.15 . If one doo come or sende to thee in a good howre . pag. 193.16 . To cause a speedy byrth of a Chylde . pag. 193.17 . To knowe whether one that is sycke , wyll lyue or dye . pag. 193.18 . To helpe them that be deaffe . pag. 193.19 . To drawe out a toothe without any paine . pag. 194.20 . A ●awe that no syck person shoulde drinke Wine . pag. 194.21 . Whether any water be myxt with Wyne or not . pag. 194.22 . To encrease Pigions in a Doouehouse . pag. 194.23 . An excellent thing for deafnesse . pag. 1●4 . 24 . One dyd foretell of the tyme of the death of one that was sycke , by Astrologie . pag. 194.25 . For ache in the bones or in any other place . pag. 195.26 . They that bee gelded are neuer gowtie . pag. 196.27 . A prowde and vaine glorious Emperour . pag. 196.28 . It is not good to burie any too hastelye . pag. 196.29 . A notable medicine for shortnes of breath . pag. 197.30 . To breake the great heate of Wine in the vessell . pag. 197.31 . To keepe any parte of the body from colde . pag. 197.32 . To keepe cloathes & bookes from moaths . pag. 198.33 . To helpe a long continewed deafnesse . pag. 198.34 . A precious powder to concerue the syght . pag. 198.35 . To gette out the water out of swolne legs . pag. 198.36 . Aqua vite good for the eyes . pag. 199.37 . To ioygne or knyt wounds . pag. 199.38 . A water more precious then golde . pag. 199.39 . To cause a woman bee speedily delyuered . pag. 200.40 . A blessed water for the gowte . pa. 200.41 . To driue awaye Backes or Rearemyce . pag. 201.42 . To knowe whether you shall obtaine that thing you hope for , or not . pag. 201.43 . A present helpe for the toothache . pag. 201.44 . To resolue the sorenes , and swellings of the throate . pag. 201.45 . For the weaknes and paines in the backe . pag. 202.46 . To make one syng cleare , and to haue a cleare voyce . pag. 202.47 . The straunge property of mints . pa. 203.48 A daungerous howre to fall sycke in . pag. 203.49 . To breake a tooth and to take awaye the paine . pag. 203.50 ●uido bonatus , learnedly foretold a great daunger to the Emperour , by his reuolucion . pag. 203.51 A meruelous matter of a woman with ch●●de . pag. 204.52 . A child borne in a certaine time , wyll be a Shypman or a Sayler . pag. 205.53 . A perfet helpe for the Gowte . pag. 205.54 . To restore the deaffe to hearing . pa. 205.55 . A notable thing to stop the rewine . p. 206.56 To help the Pocks in the eyes . pa. 206.57 When the Phisition shall not profit the sick . pag. 206.58 . To make a toothe to fall out by the roote . pag. 207.59 . To restore one that is brought lowe pag. 207.60 . A noble receate for the black Iaundyes . pag. 208.61 . Bettonye is meruelous good for the gowte . pag. 208.62 . An excellent thing for the pluresye and the stuffed stomack . pag. 208.63 To make gotes giue much milk . p. 209.64 He that is borne at a certaine time , wil be a maister Carpenter . pag. 209.65 . To cease the outragious paine of the gowt . pag. 209.66 . A most approoued medicine for the Gowt . pag. 209.67 . To catch Byrdes with your handes . pag. 209.68 . To make a woman be speedelye deliuered . pag. 210.69 . A true medicine for the Gowte . pa. 210.70 To kindle a Candle and to burne in the water . pag. 210.71 . To make that a Ram shall not putte . pag. 211.72 . A good howre to fall syck in . pag. 211.73 . A present help for the tooth ache . pa. 211.74 A warranted medicine for the Gowte . pag. 211.75 . A specyall medicine for all suddaine sicknesse . pag. 211.76 . A straunge medicine for the yellow Iaundye● . pag. 211.77 . To helpe the ●●ad ache and swymming of the head . pag. 212.78 . To make a Cock stowte to fight . p. 212.79 A straunge thing of Myce. pag. 212.80 . For the Kinges Euell a rare thing . pag. 212.81 . Who shal be fortunate and happy . &c. pag. 212.82 . A meruelous water to recouer the sight . pag. 213.83 . To make ● light that neuer shall fayl● . pag. 213.84 . To make a swine follow one . pag. 214.85 . What thing dryues away Bees . pag. 214.86 . A good howre to take iourney in , for getting of vnlooked profit . pag. 214.87 . To stay the bleeding of the nose presently . pag. 214.88 . That wrytinges appeare of the cullour of the paper , and not to be read vnlesse it bee holden against the fyre . pag. 214.89 . To gylde Yron or Copper . pag. 215.90 . To make an Eg very harde . pag. 215.91 . To make a red Rose whyte . pag. 215.92 . To seperate golde from any thing gylded . pag. 215.93 . To knowe whether the sycke wyll lyue or dye : a straunge practize . pa. 216.94 . To stay the bloody Fluxe . pag. 216.95 . An easye plaster for the gowte , but of great effect . pag. 216.96 . To destroye any Impostumation , and to auoyde the same . pag. 217.97 . He that is borne in a certayne constellation , wyll be a good Phisition . pag. 217.98 . A straung thing of a lytle Bird. pa. 218.99 . He wyll dye in prison , that is borne at a certaine tyme . pag. 218.100 .

The Table of the nynth booke . THe woonderfull vertue of Egremony , in helping them that be poysoned . &c. pag. 219.1 . A maruelous Oyle of Balme for trembling and the Palsey , and for helping the memory . pag. 219.2 . The hoofe of a certayne Beast , wyll cure perfectly the falling Euell , a maruelous thing . pag. 220.3 . A proued thing for the spytting of bloud . pag. 221.4 . A precious and an easie medicine for the Ca●●uncle , Plague sore , Botch , Byle , &c. pag. 221.5 . Tokens of death in the sycke person . pag. 221.6 . Pottage that wyll helpe perfectly the yallow Iaundies . pag. 222.7 . Serpents hates maruelously the A●h tree . pag. 222.8 . Who wyll procure their owne enemytie . pag. 222.9 . Ienuper be●ryes maruelous against poysons . pag. 222.10 . To trye whether precious stones be pure or not . pag. 222.11 . A principall medicine for the bone ache . pag. 223.12 . To helpe the paynes in the back . pa. 223.13 To catch Mowles or Woonts . pa. 223.14 . To helpe the Fystula outward or inward . pag. 224.15 . For them that haue surfeyted . pag. 224.16 . To plucke away carnall and fleshly lust , a very straunge thing . pag. 224.17 . For them that cannot eate . pag. 224.18 . A present helpe for such as haue droonken poyson . pag. 224.19 . To let heair from growing . pag. 225.20 . The Lapwing foreshowes the great plentie of Wine . pag. 225.21 . A good howre to delyuer money in . pag. 225.22 . A precious drinke which cureth the Fystula . pag. 225.23 . To make a woman bee delyuered incontynent . pag. 226.24 . To make a fayre cullour in the face . pag. 226.25 . To make one heare againe . pa. 227.26 . To make Copper or Brasse of the cullour of Syluer . pag. 227.27 . That Serpents can not go out of the place where they are . pag. 227.28 . Anger or enemities wyll come to them through money , that are borne at a certayne tyme . pag. 227.29 . To heale a hollowe Ulcer . pag. 227.30 . To seperate golde from any thing that is gylded . pag. 227.31 . For them that can not heare . pag. 228.32 . For the fundament that goeth forth . pag. 228.33 . For blea●ed eyes . pag. 228.34 . A Harte can not abide the syght of a Ram. pag. 229.35 . A straunge thing foretolde by a Chylde newly borne . pag. 229.36 . A proued thing for the Palsey . pag. 230.37 . To helpe s●olne legs . pag. 230.38 . What makes men be without the gowte . pag. 230.39 . A straung cure of one bitten with a Scorpion . pag. 230.40 . A myraculous oyle . pag. 231.41 . To put a wryting into an Eg. pa. 232.42 Beast● are according to the pr●porcion of the inwarde parts . pag. 232. ●3 . He that is borne at a certaine time shal co●sume his goods or come to pouerty or miserye . pag. 233.44 . The great vertue of Egruno●y . pag. 233 45. For the webbe or spot in the eye . pa. 233.46 The great vertue of Tormentyll . pag. 234.47 . Who shal be poore and a wretch . pag. 234.48 . A good medicine for them that are shorte breathed . pag. 235.49 . A straunge medicine for helping womens sore brestes . pag. 235.50 , To helpe swolne armes , legges or 〈◊〉 . pag. 236.51 . To helpe a stinking breath , a tryed medicine . pag. 236.52 . What daye is vnluckie to a childe borne . pag. 236.53 . To destroy Wartes . pag. 236.54 To put away or consume a W●n . pag. 237.55 . A s●nguler oyle to bewty●ye the face . pag. 237.56 . A notable medicine for ache or the Gowte . pag. 237.57 . A precious water for eyes . pag. 238.58 Who shall dye a fowle or euyll death . pag. 238.59 . To take Wartes cleane away . pag. 239.60 The coddes that are swolne . pag. 239.61 To breake a Byle , Botch , or a Fellon . pag. 239.62 . A notable secret for all incurable aches . pag. 239.63 . For swolne or sore throates , a rare remedy . pag. 240.64 . For a great heate and pricking in the eyes . pag. 240.65 . He that is borne at a certaine time , shall neuer dye an euill death . pag. 241.66 A wonderfull drinke for brusynges . pag. 241.67 . To driue forth the stone in the bladder . pag. 241.68 . To helpe the Palsey . pag. 241.69 . An excellent remedye for many deseases . pag. 242.70 . For the strangury , a straunge medicine . pag. 242.71 . A prooued medicine for the Sciatica . pag. 242.72 . The great vertue of Sugar , for eyes . pag. 242.73 . They that sets forward to the Sea , in a certaine hower are like to be drownde . pag. 243.74 . For to helpe deafnes , a tryed medicine . pag. 244.75 . The making of an excellent Aqua vite . pag. 244.76 . To make sweete water forth with . pag. 245.77 . A precious oyle for cold aches . pa. 245.78 . To auoyde the dropsye water . pa. 245.79 . To make a Ca●on bring vp young Chyckens . pag. 246.80 . A learned Astronomer foretolde one of his death . pag. 246.81 A straunge longing of a woman with childe . pag. 247.82 . A meruelous straunge helpe for swolne legges of beasts or horses . pag. 247.83 . To put away any spottes or steyninges . pag. 248.84 . To make any byrd to haue white fethers . pag. 248.85 . A maruelous straunge helpe for the stone . pag. 248.86 . An excellent ●ryed secret for diuers inward greefes . pag. 249.87 . To make Corrall by arte . pag. 250.88 . An excellent thing for deaf●es . pag. 250.89 To deliuer a woman of a dead Chylde . pag. 250.90 . To make an Apple mooue . pag. 250.91 To kyll all the fleas in a chamber . pag. 251.92 . A Lady swallowed pins without harme . pag. 251.93 . That Roses smell more pleasantlye and grow the better . pag. 251.94 . A notable oyle wherewith one got much money . pag. 251.95 . An excellent sweete water . pag. 252.96 To make that Chyckens be hatched of diuers culloures . pag. 253.97 . To make that Horse nor sheepe shall goe forward though you beate them . p. 253.98 The age of certaine Bea●●es and Byrdes . pag. 253.99 . The great vertue of the water that comes out of the Byrtch tree . pag. 253.100 .

The Table of the tenth Booke . A Sraunge thing of the Myrt tree and the Oliue tree . pag. 254.1 . A sure helpe for the moother pa. 254.2 Pygeons defended from the spar Hawke . their enemy . pag. 254.3 . An easy helpe for the Gowt . pag. 255.4 A learned prediction of an Astronomer . pag. 255.5 . The great vertue of the Adamant stone , ● or the Dropsie . pag. 255.6 . A myraculous thing of them that be murthered . pag. 255.7 . The great vertue of Amber , for the w●trines of the eyes . pag. 256.8 . A woman went with a dead Childe aboue fowre yeares . pag. 256.9 . To make one loath wine . pag. 256.10 How beastes chaunces to become ●ame . pag. 257.11 . To make a white and delicate ski●ne . pag 257.12 . One did pysse a knotted barlye strawe . pag. 257.13 . To helpe lame members . pag. 257.14 A straunge th●●ge to helpe the tooth ache . pag. 257.15 . A notable helpe for the memory . pa. 258.16 A rare helpe for the quarten ague . pag. 258.17 . For the ●aund●se and the dropsye . pag. 258.18 . To part any glasse a sunder . pag. 259.19 . To help the dropsye , a tryed thinge . pag. 259.20 . A straunge discription of the Besaar stone . pag. 259.21 . A water which certainelye wyll heale the Fystul● . pag. 264.22 A Candle that will not be put out with the winde . pag. 265.23 . The getting of the stones out of younge Swallowes , and of their excellent vertues . pag. 265.24 . A meruelous straunge wa●e to breede Eeles . pag. 265.25 . The Uine agrees not with the Baye tree . pag. 266.26 . An Image of golde helpes the head ache . pag. 266.27 . To cullour brystles . pag. 266.28 . To make the teeth fal easily out . pa. 267.29 To destroy the web in the eye . pa. 267.30 Aqua vite , with Sugar and pure whyte bread , is good for grosie bodyes . pa. 267.31 To make a Candle burne vnder the water ▪ pag. 268.32 . To make a Ring leape by it selfe . pag. 268.33 . To make yron soft . pag. 268.34 . A straung longing of a woman with child . pag. 268.35 . A precious water distylled of Centorye . pag. 269.39 . To make a bladder ●●ape from place to place . pag. 269.37 . A notable water for bewtifying the face . pag. 270.38 . To fasten things hard together . pag. 270.39 An Angelyke water for the eyes . pag. 271.40 . An excellent water , called the golden water . pag. 27● . 41 . To heale incurable vlcers . pag. 274.42 . For the great heate of the vryne . pag. 275.43 . A notable and excellent Balme . pa. 275.44 To make steele as soft as paste . pa. 277.45 A present helpe for the plague . pa. 277.46 . T●o woonderful Stones . pag. 278.47 . To make a Stone that wyll ●urne , by moystning it with spettle . pag. 280.48 . To make an Egge ascende into the ayre . pag. 281.49 . A Glue that fastneth glasse together . pag. 281.50 . To destroy Caterpyllers . pag. 283.51 . To make 〈…〉 in the 〈◊〉 . pag. 28● . 5● . A daungerous time to fal 〈◊〉 in . p. 282.53 To know a 〈◊〉 stone . pag. 282.54 To destroye a 〈◊〉 or Ringworme . pag. 283.55 . To make a Candle of Ise to burne . pag. 283.56 . Yf 〈◊〉 fall syck at a certaine time , it sygnyfyes 〈◊〉 sycknesse . pag. 183.57 . A good 〈◊〉 dredge powder . pa. 284.58 Euery woman doo not go a like tim● with theyr children . pag. 284.59 An excellent thing for any ache . pa. 285.60 To haue Bea●●●●●yse of once se●ting pag. 285.61 . To help dim eyes . pa. 286.62 . A most excellent oyle of balme , which wyll helpe all colde diseases . pag. 286.63 A straunge reuiuing of flyes . pag. 290.64 . To hau● Roses twyse in one Sommer . pag. 290.65 . A straunge Herbe that keepes one from hunger . pag. 291.66 Uenemous be●sts driuen away . p. 291.67 To kyll mice . pag. 292.68 . A 〈◊〉 that helpes the gowt . pa. 292.69 . To haue y●llow Roses . pag. 292.70 . That mice shal not eate Cheese . p. 292.71 . A 〈◊〉 which wyll show whether the syck wyll liue or dye . pag. 292.72 〈…〉 better to wash withall then sope . pag. 293.73 . For womens breastes swolne or sore . pag. 293.74 . For the M●rphew and scumines of the face . pag. 293.75 . A preseruatiue against the Plague . pag. 294.76 . To bringe Antes out of the grounde . pag. 294.77 . To cause 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 Water , a straunge medicine . pag. 294.78 . To keepe 〈◊〉 from We●elles or ●ice . pag. 295.79 . When you 〈◊〉 see the Cuc●●● , marke where your right foote dooth stande . &c. pag. 295.80 . To make one soluble . pag. 295.81 The great age of Hartes . pag. 295.82 To glew fast together broken Glasses . pag. 296.83 . For them that haue an extreame heate and burning Feuer . pag. 296.84 . Who are not lyke to marry before they be thirtye yeeres of age . pag. 296.85 . To knowe when fleshe is sodde enough . pag. 297.86 . A meruelous thinge of Iuye 〈◊〉 . pag. 297.87 . The ●ones of Hens consumes golde . pag. 298.88 . To make fayre culloured h●yre . pa. 298.89 A notable helpe for the gow● . pa. 298.90 . ● meruelous help for the head . pa. 298.91 . A thing worth the marking . pa. 299.92 . To know how many dayes olde the 〈◊〉 is , a very straunge thing . pag. 299.93 . A meruelous matter of a woman that was burye● . pag. 299.94 . To bring forth Medlers out of a Hawthorne . pag. 300.95 . A straunge thinge of the lyttle byrde called the Kings fysher . pag. 300.96 A gyrdle that will keepe one from drowning . pag. 300.97 . A Ladie that makes flesh sooner to be sod . pag. 301.98 . Poyson is discribed by a Partritche . pag. 302.99 . To know where the winde wyll be . pag. 302.100 .

FINIS .