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A Digression wherein Doctor Flud, his reasons are examined and answered.
DOctor Flud hath written some Folio pa∣ges, * 1.1 for defence of the Weapon-Salve! Well he may. He writes himselfe Armi∣ger & medicinae Doctor, is called by Fran∣ciscus Lanovius Medico-miles, a souldier Physitian; and being a Weapon-bearing Doctor, may well teach the Weapon-curing medicine: especially setting the Armiger before the Doctor, the Gunne before the Gowne, and the Pike before the Penne. I have read some dispute, whether a Knight or * 1.2 Doctor should take place: never of an ordinary Esquire. Herauld I am none. But I suppose that the worthy Gentlemen which professe it, will be∣twixt these two, decide the controversie with that of Tully,
Cedant armatogae, concedat laurea Lingua. * 1.3
But the quarrell is not betwixt the Doctor and me for his Weapon, but for his Weapon-Salve: whether that be Witchcraft or no? Surely his very defence of it is enough to make it suspected, him∣selfe being accused for a Magician, by Marinus Mersennus, with a wonder that King Iames (of bles∣sed * 1.4 memory) would suffer such a man to live and write in his Kingdome. But if to be accused were to be guilty, who could be innocent? Master Do∣ctor hath excused himselfe in his booke, entituled,