Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation.

A Table of the principall and most remarkable matters contained in this book.

• ABraham: he had skill in the signes of heaven, and taught the same to the Egyptians 347 The second age of the world was from the floud to Abraham 16
• Achates the Eagles stone 295
• Adam: he fell soon after his creation 36, 37
• Adamant or Diamond, the most precious of all stones: and how to soften it 292
• Adder and his properties 490
• Adulterie. An embleme against it by an example taken from the Sargon 381. Adulterous men like to the Cuckoe 406
• Aeschynomen, a strange kinde of herb 273
• Affliction opens the eyes of securitie 480. One patient in trouble like to the stone Amiantus 299. False friends flie away in afflicti∣on 293. 405. Affliction ought to be taken patiently, by an embleme from the Camel 444
• Ages of the world 15. There be six ages, but not of equall thousands 16
• Agnus castus, and the properties 274
• Aire. From the earth to the highest Firmament nothing but aire 116. See more in the word Re∣gions.
• ...Alabaster 291
• Alborach a beast frequent in Tur∣kie, on which they fable Maho∣met was carried into heaven 457
• Alexander deceived by Apes 472
• Alpine-mouse, and the strange pro∣perties of it 468
• Alume and the severall kindes thereof 304
• Amber 303, 304. Amber-greese 368
• America. A conjecture how Ame∣rica came at the first to be un∣known 233
• Amethyst, a stone of power to resist drunkennesse 294
• Amiantus, a stone which the fire cannot hurt 299
• Amphisbena, a serpent with two heads 489
• Ampelite, a black pitchie earth of

• the same nature with our coals 301
• Amphitane, a stone of neare nature to the load-stone 298
• Anacrampseros, an herb causing love 272. Sowbread is of the same qualitie ibid.
• Androdamas is a stone stopping an∣ger and furie 299
• Angels, when they were created 53. How Manna is said to be Angels food 157. The oath of the 7^th Angel in the Revelation 27
• Angelica, and the vertues thereof 261
• Anger restrained by the Sardius 295. as also by the Androdamas 299
• Antiperistasis, what it is 92
• Apes and their kindes 471
• Arbore de Rais, or the tree of roots growing in India, and called the Indian fig-tree 280
• Arbore triste, or the sad tree 281
• Arguments to prove that the world began and must also end 2, 3
• Arions storie how to be credited 379
• Aristotle 1. he drowned himself in Euripus 210
• Armadill, an Indian beast 457
• Arsmart, or Water-pepper 259
• Arsnick rightly described, and the kindes thereof 300
• ...Artichoke 264
• Asbestos, a strange stone which be∣ing once fired, cannot be quench∣ed 298
• ...Asp 492
• Asphaltus or black Bitumen 302
• Asterite, a stone bearing in it the image of the sunne 294
• Astrologers many times too busie 10. bold and wicked 351, 352, & sequent.
• Atheists kick against the pricks 4
• Atlantick island was once, and had kings raigning in it, but now it is a sea 233
• Autumne described 356. The world was made in Autumne 32▪ 41, 42, 43, &c.

B

• BAck. Good against strains in the back 268
• ...Badger 482
• Balaena, a kinde of whale. Their love to their young; with an in∣struction from thence 368
• Barble a warie fish 383
• Barnacles or Geese which grow up∣on a tree 282
• Barrennesse. Good against barren∣nesse 262
• Bartas a divine Poet 4. His opinion of the worlds end 9. His descri∣ption of the worlds ages 17. His opinion of the worlds beginning 4. His opinion of the Chaos 49.

• His opinion of the waters above the heavens 63, 64. His opinion of the Regions 85. His opinion of wheat rained 147. His opinion of strange waters 227. His com∣mendation of the vertues of herbs 267. His opinion opposite to those who make the starres living creatures 322
• Basil and the vertues thereof 244
• Basilisk or Cockatrice 486
• ... Bat 404
• Baum or Balm 245. It is good to close wounds 246. Bees are much delighted with Baum ibid.
• Beam, a burning Meteor 90
• Beams or streams seeming to burn 133
• Beard. Good to make the beard grow 254
• Bear 475. A storie of a man saved by a Bear ibid. Bears love ho∣ny 476
• Beasts. Brute beasts not to be re∣newed in the end of the world 6
• Beaver and his properties 452
• Beautie. The beautie of the heaven∣ly bodies after the world is pur∣ged by fire 7
• Bees 420. They lose their life with their sting ibid. Difference of bees ibid. Their king and com∣mon-weal 421. They never breathe ibid. The female bee sup∣posed to be the drone 422. Their order of going to rest and work ibid. Their physick 423. The manner of their swarming ibid. How to keep them from stinging 244. See more in Thyme and Baum. Good against their sting∣ing 425
• Beggars. How cunning beggars use to blister their arms and legs 260
• Bellie. The bellie destroyeth many, by an embleme taken from the mouse 467
• Bermuda-birds and their proper∣ties 418
• Betonie and the sundry vertues thereof 266
• ... Birds of Paradise 418
• Bitumen and the kindes 302
• ... Black-bird 402
• Blasting Dew 158
• Bleeding. A bleeding herb 272 For bleeding at the nose 255
• Bloud. Times when it rained bloud, together with the cause 149
• Bloud-stone or the Haematite 297 Spitting of bloud, and how to help it 247. 303
• Boas and the properties 488
• Bodie. Our bodies follow the tem∣per of the aire 104. 341. The parts of the bodie 497, 498, 499
• Boldnesse. We must not be too bold in things above our reach 9
• ...

• Bole-armoniack what it is, and what it is good for 300
• Bombyx, or the Silk-worm 425
• ...Borage 245
• Boy. A storie of a Boy and a Dol∣phin 380
• Brain. Things good for the brain 247. A Scorpion bred in the brain 244. The animall spirits go from the brain 497
• Brasse and Copper 288
• ...Bream 388
• Breath. Good against a stinking breath 250
• Brionie and the properties 256
• ...Brown Umber 301
• Bruises. Good against bruises 269
• Bubo or the great Owl 402. He is thought to be an ominous bird 403
• Buffe and his properties 478
• Bugill and Byson described 477
• Buglosse. See Borage.
• Bulls and their natures 477, 478
• Burstnings: good against them in children 260. Good against them in old folks 269
• Butterwort and the properties thereof 252

C

• CAjetane confuted, together with Bellarmine, concern∣ing Noahs Floud 75
• Calamarie, being a fish called the Sea-clerk 384
• Calcedon is a stone which expelleth sadnesse 294
• Callicia, an herb turning water in∣to ice 272
• Camel 443. The Horse & the Ca∣mel great enemies 444. Stuffes made of Camels hair ibid. The Cameleopard 445
• Cantharus a chaste fish, between whom and the Sargon there is great enmitie 381
• Cantharides, what they are, and how they be dangerous 425
• Captivitie. The fourth Age of the world from David to the capti∣vitie 16
• Carbuncle and the properties there∣of 294
• Carp described and his goodnesse 388
• Carret roots and their qualitie, to∣gether with the parsnep and tur∣nep 263
• Castor and Pollux. See Helena.
• Cat. Why the male-cat eateth up the young kitlings 464. A storie concerning the danger of cats ib.
• Cedar. Some are perswaded there be cedars yet in mount Lebanon first planted by King Solomon 278, 279
• ...Celandine 261
• Cerastes a kinde of Serpent 489
• Chalk and the nature thereof 301
• ...

• Chameleon described, and why he changeth colour so often 493
• Changing of qualities and not con∣suming of substance at the end of the world 5
• Chaos, and how we may consider of it 48, 49
• Chaps, or gapings in the skie, how they are caused 141
• Charadrion, a bird that cureth the Iaundise 416, 417
• Charms unlawfull 166
• Chaste. Rue makes men chaste, and provokes women to lust 248
• Chastitie. Medicines to procure chastitie 269. 274. 293. Sma∣radge. See more in Cantharus, as also 295
• Chevin and its vertues 388
• Children. See Parents.
• Chiliasts expect terrene pleasures in the Resurrection, as did also Ce∣rinthus 8
• Choler. A medicine against it 256
• Crystall, what it is 296. 162
• Christ. The fifth Age of the world from the captivitie to Christ 16. The last Age and times after Christ 17. An embleme of Christs curing us, taken from the Charadrion 417
• Christians wiser then Philosophers 4
• Chrysolite, and the vertues of it. It is good against Melancholy 294
• Cinnamon, where and how it grow∣eth 277
• Cinoper and Vermilion 300
• Cypresse tree 278
• Circles about the Sunne, Moon, and starres. Their causes 134. Their derivation ibid. Their significa∣tions 135
• Clouds 143. Colours in the Clouds 130. 143. Their height 144. Why they hang in the Aire 145. Why red clouds are seen onely in the Morning and Evening 130. Why they be of differing colours 144. What they signifie ibid.
• Cloves, how and where they grow 278
• Clyster. From whence men first learned to purge by Clyster 399
• Coals, or black pitchie earth, how it is generated 301, 302
• Cock 410. Cock-fightings 411. The Lion daunted by the Cock ibid.
• Cocus, a very strange tree in India 279, 280.
• Comets, what they are 98. Their colours 99. Their fashions ibid. Their strange effects 100. Why Warres, Famines, Deaths, &c. be the effects of Comets 103. How to guesse at the signification

• of Comets 105. Their severall ends 106. They be often above the Moon 80, 81. 99. 115, 116
• Comfrey and the vertues of it 268
• Conger and his goodnesse 387
• Conie. The Conie described 458
• Copper 288. Copperas ibid.
• Corcuta a kinde of Hyaena 446
• Corns. How to cure them 270. As also how to take away Warts 244
• Corrall and the properties thereof 296, 297
• Costivenesse, and how to cure it 269
• Covetousnesse, and Covetous. The covetous like to the Swam-fisk 373. Covetous rich men often slain by their heirs, shewed by an embleme from the Torpedo 383. They often destroy one another, shewed by an embleme taken from the Kite and Raven 394. They are many times lesse fruit∣full in children then the poore 395. The Ferret is an embleme of their weeping and unwilling∣nesse to depart with their riches 459. A storie of an usurer dying ibid. & 460. The folly of a co∣vetous man is shewed by an embleme taken from the Ape 474
• Cow. Sea-cow and Calf 374
• Crane 412. He teacheth Pastours, Magistrates, and Governours, the dutie of their places ibid.
• Crocodile and his properties 371
• Crow. See Raven. Sea-crow 414
• Cuckoe and his qualities 404. Who are like unto the Cuckoe 405, 406
• Cucuios, a creature whose wings shine like fire 419

D

• DAce, or the Dare-fish 388
• Daniel was learned in the learning of the Chaldeans 347
• Darnell. The vertues of red Darnell 264
• Dart, a kinde of Serpent 489
• David. The third Age of the World from Abraham to David 16
• Day. The naturall beginning of the Day from whence 358, 359. Di∣vers beginning of Dayes ibid. The kindes of Dayes 358. The in∣tercourse between Day and Night 58, 59
• Death ought to be cheerfull 413. A sinner hath his eyes opened in Death, shewed in an embleme taken from the Mole 462
• Deere and their kindes 478, 479
• Dendritis, a stone which being put under a tree, keepeth the ax that

• cutteth it, from dulling 298
• Derogation. No derogation to the perfection of things created, al∣though the Starres incline some men to ill 343
• Devil. He worketh many times in the Aire 153. His knowledge is more excellent then Mans knowledge: and why ibid.
• Dew, what it is, and why it falleth but in the Morning and Evening 154. No Dew a signe of Rain: and why 155. Dew hurteth Sheep ibid. What may hinder Dew from falling 156. Three kindes of Dew: Common, Sweet, and Blasting Dew ibid. In those who are blessed like Ia∣cob, the dew of heaven goes before the fatnesse of the earth: but in those who are blessed like Esau, the earths fatnesse goes before the dew of heaven 475
• Digression. A digression touch∣ing the new-found World 232, 233
• Dill and the qualities thereof 249. An old custome concerning Dill 250
• Diogenes mocketh Croesus amongst the dead 240
• Dipsas, a serpent so called 489
• Dissembling, and Dissemblers. They be like unto the Crocodile 371. See more in Flattery: as also pag. 455
• Dittanie, and the vertues of it 254
• Dogs and their kindes 469. They have sometimes shewed extra∣ordinarie love to their masters 470, 471
• Dolphin described: he is very lo∣ving to man 379
• Dormouse and the kindes 467
• Dove or Pigeon described 408
• Dragon. The herb Dragon 262. A Meteor of the same name 93. A serpent so called 488. Dragons in Congo 492
• Dromedarie, what kinde of beast it is 445
• Drowsinesse. A medicine to cure it 245. 250. 256
• Drunkard, and Drunkennesse. See Gluttonie. How to make a Drunkard loath his liquour 404

E

• EAgle, King of birds 390. The Poets feigne that she carrieth Jupiters armour 127. Where she buildeth her nest: and how the young Eagles deal with a dead carcase 391. The Eagle is a pattern of domesticall discipline ibid. Seducing Hereticks like to the young Eagle ibid. See more 295
• Earth. The Earth made solid and

• conspicuous both at once 227. The Earth the Worlds centre 228. It signifieth a thing troden on ibid. The earth nothing in re∣spect of the heavens 224. The earth hath no circular motion, with a confutation of the contra∣ry opinion 211, 212. The true Motus terrae is Germinatio ter∣rae 214. How it hath sometimes rained earth 151. Earth of Lemnos what it is 300. As also earth of Samos 301
• Earthquakes and their causes 229, 230. Signes of Plague & Earth∣quake 185. 234. The kindes of Earthquakes 231. The attend∣ants of Earthquakes, or the An∣tecedentia 234. The effects of Earthquakes or the Consequen∣tia 235, 236
• East-winde 183. Why it often bloweth up rain for a whole day. See North.
• Ebbes. See Sea.
• Eeles, how they are bred, and to whom they are dangerous meat 388
• Ebone described 276. The smoke of it is good for the eyes ibid.
• Elecampane, or Enula-campana, together with the vertues of it 264
• Elephant. The Sea-Elephant, and how he is taken 370. The Land-Elephant, and how to catch him 429. The Mouse an enemie to the Elephant 432. And so are the Dragon and Rhinoceros ibid. The manner of their fight 432, 433. The Elephant teacheth two very good lessons; the one for married folks, the other for great men 433, 434. As also a third, concerning those who fall in striving to overcome others ibid.
• Elias the Rabbin: he was much deceived in his computation of 6000 yeares for the time of the Worlds continuance 11, 12
• Elk and his properties; he can∣not live but in a cold countrey pag. 478
• Emerald, and the vertues of it 296
• Enemy. A man may sometimes make use of an Enemie 461
• Envie shadowed forth 410. The Peacock a pattern of Envy ibid. So also is the Lynx 451, 452. Some hurt themselves because they cannot hurt others, shewed by an embleme taken from the wilde Bulls of Prussia 478
• Ermin described 462
• Ethnicks, and of their most anci∣ent stories 2
• Euripus ebbes and flowes seven

• times in a day 210. Aristotle was drowned there ibid.
• Exhalations and their kindes 87. Earthie Exhalations may some∣times climbe into the Starrie heaven 115, 116, 117. 121
• Eyes 498. A water good for the eyes 249. Another medicine for the same purpose 248. A smoke good for the eyes 276. A stone good for the same 298. 263.

F

• FAce. To make the face fair 250. Another for the same 253. Another 255. Another 257
• Falling sicknesse. A medicine to cure it 259, 260. Fall of man in Autumne 35, 36
• Farmers. An excellent herb for far∣mers to cure the dugs of their cattell 252
• Fasting. How fasting is good and commendable 491. 467
• ...Fennel 249
• ...Ferret 459
• ...Feverfew 260▪ 261
• ...Finch 402
• Fire. What place the element of fire possesseth 118. Fire-drakes 93. The heavens seemed to burn 9•…•…, 93.
• Firmament. The making of the Firmament 60, 61, 64. Waters above the Firmament. See Wa∣ters.
• Fishes, their kindes, &c. 365, 366 Fishes rained, and how 147
• Flashing Streams or Darts, a burn∣ing Meteor 91
• ...Flatterers, &c. 385. 401. 443. 451. 455, 456. 494.
• Flea-bane is an herb good to drive away gnats and fleas 252
• Flesh rained, and how 148
• Floud of Noah, in what yeare of the world it came 20, 21. The first Age from the creation to the Floud 16, 17. How farre this Floud was naturall, and how farre supernaturall 73, 74
• Flux. How to stop fluxes 268, 269, 270. How to provoke fluxes 271
• Flying sparks a Meteor 91. Flying launces 92
• Foolish fire, or Ignis fatuus, com∣monly called Will with a wisp 93, 94
• Fountains of oyl 225. Of the foun∣tain Dodone 226. The originall of fountains and rivers 204.
• Fox and his subtilties 448. How the Fox catcheth fleas 450. A cunning trick of a tame Fox 451. The Sea-fox 380
• Freckles. A medicine to cure them 257
• Friendship. Friends must not be left in danger, by an example ta∣ken from the Gilt-head 386, 387. False friends like to the

• ... Cuckoe 404, 405. Like to the Fox 451. Like to the Hyacinth 293
• Fret. Good against the fret in chil∣dren 267
• Frogs rained, and how 147
• ...Frost 159
• Fullers earth 301
• Fumes and their natures 87

G

• GAlactites, a stone sweating out a liquour like milk 298
• Galaxia no Meteor 128. It yeeld∣eth a part of that matter which is in New starres 121. What the Galaxia is 129
• Gardeners. A note for those who weed gardens 249
• Garlands. From whence came the first use of willow garlands 274. Garlands made of myrtle 275
• Garlick and the properties 263
• Goat and his nature 482. Dancing Goats a Meteor 91
• Ginger, and how it groweth 277
• Gluttonie and drunkennesse made odious by that beastly practise of the Jerf, or Gulon 48•…•…. 467
• God. How God speaketh to men without the tongues of men 102▪ How his providence worketh in the course of nature 350
• Gogion a daintie fish 388
• Gold the purest of metals, where it grows, and how 285
• Gorgon, a terrible beast 486
• Government. An embleme con∣cerning good government 412. Another concerning bad govern∣ment 489. The bees have a com∣mon-wealth and admirable go∣vernment 421, 422
• Gout. Good against Choler and the Gout 256. Eels hurtfull for those who are subject to the Gout 388
• Groning of creatures to be deliver∣ed 5
• Great. Why great men die (for the most part) sooner then other men 103. A pattern for great men 434
• Green sicknesse, and what will help it 254
• Groundsell, and the vertues of it 267
• Griffon, what kinde of creature it is 393
• Gilt-head a prettie fish 386
• Gunnes and gunpowder when, and by whom invented 306. How some have censured the use and invention of gunnes ibid. & 307
• Gurnard a good wholesome fish 387

H

• HAil, what it is 162, 163. Win∣ter hail how and where it is

• made ibid. The sundry fashions of hailstones 164. Harm by hail ibid. How the heathens used to secure their fields from hail 165
• ... Hand 499
• Hare and his properties 457
• Harm watch, harm catch; as is shewed by a certain example ta∣ken from that bird which watch∣eth to catch the flying fish 382
• Hawks and their kindes 400, 401
• Head 498. The head a seat for all the senses excepting one ibid.
• Hearing. A man should heare more then he speaketh 498
• Heart. The heart is the seat of the passions 497. It liveth first and dieth last 498
• Heavens and their derivation 76, 77. Not of a quint-essence 77▪ & sequent. Heavens work upon man, and how 341. 104. How to understand the words Heaven and Earth mentioned in the first of Genesis pag. 48. 83. The heavens are not to be consumed according to their substance in the latter day 5. We look for new heavens and a new earth at the worlds end, and how 6, 7
• Heaven and the wayes thither de∣scribed; as also the wayes to hell 458. They which preferre earth before heaven, are like to the Ca∣mel which chooseth muddie wa∣ter rather then cleare 444. An embleme concerning those who sorrow to part with earth al∣though they may gain heaven 481
• Heavinesse. There is an herb which first taketh a man with an heavi∣nesse, then with sleeping, and last of all with death 272
• Hedge-hog and his properties 455. A deceitfull man like to the Hedge-hog ibid. Other emblemes taken from the Hedge-hog 456. The Porcupine or mountain Hedge-hog ibid. & 457
• Helena, Castor and Pollux, with what the Poets write of them 95, 96
• Hemerois a kinde of serpent which procureth unstanchable bleeding 489
• Hemlock and the properties thereof 272
• Herbs of more then ordinary quali∣ties 271
• Heron described, together with the nature of his dung, how it infest∣eth the Hawk, &c. 399
• Herring and his properties 387. The red herrings and red sprats have little wholesomenesse in them 387, 388
• Hills. High hills 68. Hills before the Floud 71. 73
• Hippurin, an herb which is admi∣rable

• in stanching of bloud 271
• Hoga, a fish with wings; with an embleme concerning thriving, ta∣ken from the flying and swim∣ming of this fish 382
• Hog. The Sea-hog 372. Another kinde of Sea-hog described 378
• Hony. See Bees.
• Hony-dew 157. At what time of the yeare Hony-dews are most common 158
• Hore-hound and his properties 252
• Hornet. A strange fight between a Sparrow and an Hornet 424. The Badger an enemie to the Hornet 425
• Horse. The properties of the Horse and Mare 483. The marks of a good Horse ibid. How to know the age of an Horse 484
• Hot things cooled are soonest con∣gealed 160
• Housleek or Sen-green is alwayes green, and therefore called sem∣per vivens. It is good against Corns 270
• Houswives. A note for good hous∣wives 255
• Humours. The Passions are seated in the heart, and stirred up by the Humours 497, 498
• Hyacinth and the vertues of it 293
• Hyaena and his subtilties 445
• Hypanall a serpent so called 489
• Hyssop and the vertues of it 253

J. I.

• JAde. An herb to refresh a tired Iade 259
• Janus. Whom the Poets pointed at in their fiction of Ianus with two faces 2
• Jasper stone, and the vertues there∣of 295
• Ibis, a kinde of Stork 394. He doth much good in destroying serpents ibid.
• Jerf or Gulon, a strange beast whose delight is onely in feeding 484
• Jet and the properties of it 303
• Jews; their computation of 6000 yeares confuted 11, 12, 13, &c.
• Ignis fatuus, or foolish fire 93
• Infection. Sorrell good against in∣fection 270
• Innocencie taught from the Dove or Pigeon, or Turtle rather 408
• Iron, and how it groweth 289
• Israelites. The Manna of the Israelites 156. The Egyptians did not cause the Israelites to forget their ancient customes 38
• Iulus, his head on a flame 97
• ...

• June. Noahs floud began to cease about the beginning of Iune, or end of May 33

K.

• KIng-fisher and his properties 417
• King of Sweden. His Starre 108, 109. The time of his birth ibid. His speech to his souldiers 112. His speech three dayes before his death 113. A Memento of him for after-times ibid.
• Kite and his properties 394
• Knowledge in Devils. See Devils.

L.

• LAdanum a sweet dew 158
• Ladies mantle, an herb so cal∣led, the vertues whereof are de∣scribed 252
• Ladies threads, a Meteor like un∣to cobwebs 167. Why there be spiders in it 168
• Lamia a beast so called, and descri∣bed: she hath paps, a face, head, and hair like a woman 472
• Lapis Thracius a strange stone; it sparkles and burns in water, but is quenched in oyl 299
• Lapwings and their properties 416
• ...Lark 402
• Latona delivered by help of the Palm-tree 276
• Lavender an herb, and why so call∣ed 262
• Lead, and how it is generated 289
• Leeks, and the properties thereof. Nero had a nick-name given him for eating of Leeks 262. Leeks are not good for hot chole∣rick bodies ibid.
• Leopard, how he is begotten 442
• Lettice. Harm in too much Let∣tice 268
• Licking lights, or ignis lambens 97
• Lights. Why two lights shew fair weather, and one light foul 96
• Light. The creation of Light, from pag. 53 to 58. and pag. 327, 328, 329, &c.
• Lightning. The kindes of Light∣ning 124. Why we see the Light∣ning before we heare the thun∣der ibid. The worst kinde of Lightning 125. Three kindes of Fulmen 126. Not wholesome to gaze on the Lightning 127
• Lilies and their vertues▪ 268
• ...Linot 402
• Lion and his properties 438
• Load-stone and the vertues of it 297, 298
• ...

• Locks. An herb which will open any thing lockt 273
• Love. A pattern of Matrimoniall love, taken from the Swan 413
• Loyaltie. The fish called Cantha∣rus is a pattern of true Loyaltie 381
• Lungs. The Lungs are the bellows of the voice, and seated next the heart: they teach us to tell the truth 498. Hyssop purgeth the breast 253. A cure for a cough of the Lungs 252. Another for the same 253. Good to make one sing cleare 256. Mists are bad for the Lungs 167
• Lynx and his properties 451
• Lyzzard what kinde of creature it is 494

M.

• MAce. See Nutmeg.
• Mad. Good against the biting of a mad dog 266. 258
• Madder is good for bruises, and of a strange propertie 269
• Maids. An herb for great-breasted maids 252
• Mallard better for sport then food 401, 402
• Mallows and their vertues 244
• Man and his creation 496. The world made to serve Man, and Man made to serve God 495. The fall was soon after the cre∣ation 36, 37
• Manna what it is, and whether the Manna of the Israelites were al∣together miraculous 156, 157. How it is Angels food 157
• Mantichora, a very strange kinde of beast 446
• Marriage. The Marriage bed must not be abused 433. See also 413
• Martins and Ermins 462
• ...Mavis 402
• Mean. The meanest ought not to be contemned 369
• Megrim. A medicine for to cure the Megrim or pain in the head 453. 261
• Melancholy. A medicine to cure Melancholy 245. 250▪ 26•…•…
• Mermaids and Mermen, with strange stories to the same pur∣pose 375
• Merry. Good to make one merrie 245
• ...Metalls 284, & sequent.
• Meteors and their kindes 86, 87, 88, &c.
• Milk. Good to ingender Milk in nurses breasts 249. See more in the word Nurses. Milk rained, and how 148
• Minde. The Minde doth somewhat sympathise with the body 104, 341. Good against a trou∣bled

• minde 259
• Mint, an wholesome herb 255. It is good to kill worms ibid.
• Mists; they be of two kindes 166. Why they use to stink ibid. They be very bad for the lungs 167. and a speedie rot for cattell ibid. How to judge of the weather by a mist ibid.
• Miracles, or waters of miraculous vertues 220, & sequent.
• Mole and his properties 462
• Moneth. The Hebrew moneths had no names (excepting fours of them) untill after the captivitie 39. The signification of the names belonging to those foure 40
• Moon-wort or Mad-wort, and the strange properties thereof 257, 258.
• Moses skilfull in the learning of the Egyptians 347
• Mother. A medicine for those who are troubled with the Mother 246
• Mouse described, as also the kindes of mice 465, & sequent.
• Mouseare or Pilosella 261. It is good to harden edge-tools ibid.
• Mufloa a Sardinian beast 446
• Mullet and his properties 381
• Multitude. An embleme concern∣ing those who perish by following the multitude 482
• Mummie 302. Counterfeit Mum∣mie 303
• Musculus, a little fish, and a friend to the whale 369
• Musk-cat 463
• Mustard and the properties thereof 256
• Myrrhina what it is 157
• Myrtle 275. The Romane captains made garlands of it for triumph ibid. It was consecrated to Venus ibid. Myrtle berries have been used sometimes in the stead of pepper 276

N

• NApeir his opinion concerning the time of the worlds end∣ing 24, 25, 26
• Naphtha a liquid Bitumen, with the kindes and properties thereof 303, 304
• Nature. The course of nature first set, then followed 35
• Natures of the starres may be known 347
• Nepenthe, an herb which expelleth sadnesse 271
• New-found world, how it first grew out of knowledge 232
• Nightingale, and her commendati∣ons 402
• Noah had knowledge in the starres and signes of heaven 347
• North-winde 182▪ Why the North

• and East windes sometimes bring rain for a whole day 183
• Nose. The nose purgeth the brain, and conducteth smells thither 499. Good against bleeding at the nose 255
• Nothing. How the world was made out of Nothing 47, 48
• November. The fifth of November not to be forgotten 307
• Nurses. An herb for Nurses to in∣crease their milk and make their children faire 267. With the Nurses milk the children some∣times suck the Nurses vices 394. Women who will not nurse their children, are like unto the Ostrich ibid.
• Nutmeg and Mace, how and where they grow 278
• Nyctilops, an herb that shines 271

O

• OCtober. The World made in October, about the 26 or 27 day: at which time the sunne en∣tred into Libra 40, 41
• ...Oker 300
• Olive. The Olive tree is green all the yeare 30
• One-berrie an herb, called also Herba Paris, or herb True-love 254
• Onions and their qualities 262
• Opall, a precious stone of divers co∣lours 269
• Ophiusta an herb dangerous to be looked on 272
• Ork. The Ork dares fight with the Whale 370
• Osprey, aravenous bird 416
• Ostrich and his properties 394
• Otter described 453
• Ovassom a Virginia beast 446
• Owl and his kindes 402, & se∣quent.

P

• PAlm. The Palm or Date tree described; together with the branches, which are tokens of victorie 276
• Palsie. A medicine for the Palsie 256. Other medicines for the same purpose 416. 447
• Panther, what manner of beast it is 442
• Paradise. Birds of Paradise 418
• Paradox maintained by Aristotle 1
• Parents. They ought to love their children, by an embleme from the Balaena 368. They must not use their children too harshly in their minoritie 396. They ought not to bring up their children in idle∣nesse, by an example taken from

• the Eagle 391. They ought not to be too fond over their children, by an example from the foolish Ape 473, 474. They must teach their children betimes, by an ex∣ample from the Hart 480
• Parsley and the kindes thereof 258, 259
• ... Parsnep 263
• ... Partridge 401
• Passions, where they be seated 497
• Patience and humilitie may be learnt from beasts 444
• Peacock 410. Men who make peacocks of their wives, make woodcocks of themselves ibid.
• Pearch and Pike 388
• Pearl and Prawn are emblemes of cheating 386
• Peevishnesse. A medicine against it 254
• Peionie and the vertues thereof 259
• Pelican 398. She teacheth that po∣licie is better then strength ibid.
• Penie-ryall and the vertues of it 256
• Pepper, where and how it groweth 277. Myrtle berries were some∣times used in the stead of pepper 276
• Persons. The persons in the Trini∣tie 45, 46, 47
• Peter. S. Peter explained concern∣ing one day as a thousand yeares, &c. 13, 14
• Philosophers opinions concerning the beginning & end of the world 1
• ... Phesant 401
• ... Phenix 391, & sequent.
• Picea, or the Pitch tree 279
• Pigeon or Dove 408
• Pillars, burning Meteors of two kindes, round and pyramidall 90
• ... Pine-tree 278
• Pissasphaltus. See Mummie.
• Pissing of bed. A medicine to help it 264
• Plaice, and from whence it is so call∣ed 387
• Plague. Signes of plague and earth∣quake 185. Good against the plague 270. 300
• Plane, a fair goodly tree. The old Romanes used to keep banquets under it 277. Xerxes was strangely enamoured on this tree 278
• Plantain, or Lambes tongue, toge∣ther with the vertues of it 271
• Platea a bird which killeth Sea∣crows 414, 415
• Plato pag. 1. He calleth the sea a great gulf 206. His opinion part∣ly followed concerning the fierie matter of the starres 320
• Pleasure. How we should use our pleasures 372
• Plover and his wholesomenesse 415
• ...

• Poets. Whom they pointed at by their two-faced Ianus 2
• Policie better then strength, proved by an example taken from the Pelican 398. as also by an ex∣ample taken from the bird Pla∣tea 415
• Polypus a fish with many feet, with an embleme of treacherous per∣sons 385
• Pontarof a monstrous fish 378
• Porcupine. See Hedgehog.
• Porphyrio, a strange bird 417
• Poulcar, together with their cun∣ning 460
• Poison. Things good against poison. 248. An incurable poison 251
• Predictions, and how they are war∣rantable 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, &c.
• Prester a serpent, &c. 489
• Ptissick. A medicine to cure it; as also for a stuffing in the head 250, 251
• Purple, a fish whose juice is very precious 385
• Purslain and the qualities thereof 269
• Pyrausta, a flie which liveth in the fire 425

Q

• QUick-silver; what it is, and why so called 285
• Quint-essence. See Heavens

R

• RAbbin. The Rabbins conceit of six thousand yeares is ve∣ry unsound 10, 11, 12
• Rape and his vertues 264
• Rain 145. Ordinary and extraor∣dinarie rains 146. The causes of prodigious rains 147, 148, 149, &c. Why it useth to rain when the winde is down 174
• Rain-bow 135. His causes 136. His colours & cause of their dif∣ferences ibid. The finall cause of Rain-bows 137. How to progno∣sticate of weather by the Rain∣bow ibid. The derivation of Iris, a word signifying the Rain-bow 138. There was a Rain-bow be∣fore the Floud ibid. What the Iews used to do upon sight of the Rain-bow 140. Wittie applicati∣ons from the colours in the Rain∣bow 141. A grosse opinion con∣cerning the Rain-bow 139
• Rangifer a beast to ride on with horns like a Deer 481
• Rashnesse condemned, by an exam∣ple from the Barble 383. and by an example from the hastening bitch 469
• Rats and their kindes ibid.
• Raven 395. An embleme from the

• Fox and Raven concerning com∣panions in ill ibid. The Ravens skinne helps digestion 396. The Night-Raven 403
• Ray or Thornback 387. His pricks afford a good medicine against the stone ibid.
• Red-lead what it is, &c. 301
• Red-gumme. Good to cure it 267
• Region. No middle Region untill the third day 67. The severall Regions of the aire, and their qualities 84, 85, 86, &c. The cause of those differing Regions 68. 86.
• Remora, a little fish called the Stop∣fish, because he is said to stay a ship under sail 382
• ...Rhinoceros 434
• Rib. See Woman.
• Rivers, and from whence they pro∣ceed 204, 205, &c. A river that breedeth flies 222. A river which resteth every seventh day 224
• ...Robbin-red-breast 402
• ...Roch 388
• Romulus and Remus not nursed by a Wolf 448
• Rosemary and the many properties thereof 250, 251
• Roses. The temper and vertue of Roses, together with a conserve of Roses, and how to make it 275
• Rubie what it is, and for what it is good; viz. to cleare the sight, to expell sadnes and fearfull dreams 294
• Rue and the vertues thereof 248
• Rupture. See Burstnings.

S

• SAdnesse. Good against it 294, 295. 261. 271.
• ...Saffron 252, 253
• Sage 246. It is good for childe∣bearing women; good for the brain; good against spitting of bloud; good for a stitch in the side, and good against the pal∣sie 247
• ...Sagoin 472
• ...Salamander 494
• ...Salmon 387
• Salt and the kindes 304, 305, 306
• ...Saphir 293
• Sardius a kinde of Onyx 295
• Sardonyx healeth ulcers about the nails, and preserveth chastitie 295. Some call it a Corneoll ibid.
• Sargon an adulterous fish 381
• Saw-fish and Sword-fish 370
• Scolopendra a fish of a strange pro∣pertie; and how we ought to re∣semble this fish 384
• Scorpion described 492. How to

• cure his sting ibid. A Scorpion hath sometimes been bred in the brain 244
• ... Scriech-owl 403
• Sea. Why seas be salt and rivers fresh 201. Why Springs be fresh 206. Why the Sea ebbeth and floweth 208, 209, & sequent. Why fresh Waters and all Seas do not ebbe 218
• ... Seasons of the yeare 354
• Securitie. Small securitie on earth, by an example from the Squirrell 454
• Selenite, a stone which follows the course of the Moon 294, 295
• Sentida, an herb of a strange pro∣pertie 273
• Servius Tullius, his head burning as he slept 97
• Sethim. It was that wood whereof Noah made the Ark 276
• Seven a number of rest 21
• ... Shad 388
• ... Shark 378
• Sheep and their natures 482. How sheep may catch 〈◊〉〈◊〉 rot 155. 252
• ... Shepherds purse 270
• Shooting starres a Meteor 92
• Shrew. A medicine to be used at the death of a Shrew 263
• Shrew-mouse and his properties shewed 467
• Sight. Sight dulled by Leeks 262. Rue eaten fasting, is ve∣ry good for the sight 248. See Eyes.
• Signes. Signes of heaven must not be abused 351, & se∣quent.
• Silver the best mettall next to Gold 288
• Sinne. We should weep for sinne, by an example taken from the Hart 481. We should not sleep in sinne, by an example taken from the Sea-Elephant 371. When the baits of sinne are swallowed they must be vomited up again, by an embleme from the Scolopendra 384. The sweet∣nesse of sinne in the end is bitter, by an example from the Beare eating hony 477. Those who are taken away in the very act of sinne, what they are like unto 485
• Sinner. A sinner, though blinde in life, seeth in death, by an ex∣ample taken from the Mole 462
• Sivet-cat or the Zibeth 463
• ... Skirret 264
• Sleet and the cause thereof 162
• ... Slow-worm 490
• Smaradge. Plinie makes many kindes of this stone 293
• Snapdragon, an herb of a strange

• propertie 272
• Snow 160. The matter of Snow 161. Why Snow is white ibid. Snow in the mountains and rain in the valleys, both out of one cloud; together with the cause thereof 162
• Societie ought to be amongst men, by an example taken from the Stork 399
• Sole and Whiting 387
• Sorrell and the vertues thereof 270
• Sorrow. An embleme concerning those who sorrow to part with earth for heaven 459. 481
• Sothernwood and the qualities thereof 254
• Soul. The Soul breathed into man, infused in the creation, and cre∣ated in the infusion 499. God stampt his image in the Soul ibid. & 500.
• Souls. Souls cannot appeare after death 94, 95
• ... South-winde 182
• Sowbread an herb of a strange pro∣pertie 262. 272
• Sow-thistle and the vertues there∣of 267
• Sparrow and his nature 409
• Speare-wort the beggars herb 260
• Spheres▪ A figure shewing their motion 317
• Sphinx, and the meaning of Aenig∣ma 472
• Splene. A medicine for the splene 274
• Spring. The Spring described 355. The creation was not in the Spring 30. 32
• Squirrell described with his proper∣ties 453
• Starling 402
• Starres 311, 312, & sequent. The Starres not to be worshipped 312. Their matter and moti∣on 315, 320. They be nou∣rished by the waters above the heavens, and how 321, 322, 323, 324. The reason of their dif∣fering heights 324, 325. Their offices 327. 334. 354. Why they seem to twinkle 332. They work upon this inferiour world 334, & sequent. New Starres 107. 114, 115. 119. The signification of Cassiopea's Starre 108. 114
• Steel, and what it is 289
• Stitch. Good to give ease to one troubled with a stitch in the side 247
• Stomack. Good to strengthen the Stomack 250. Good to help di∣gestion 396
• Stone in the body, with •…•… medicine for it 387. 254
• Stones; what they are, their kindes

• &c. 290, & sequent. They live not a vegetative life 291. Com∣mon Stones ibid. Precious Stones 292. A Stone which followes the course of the Moon 294. A Stone which will cool seething water 296. A compassionate Stone and the reason thereof ibid. 297. A Stone of power to draw gold 299. The Load∣stone 297. The Bloud-stone ibid.
• Stories. A Storie of a Sea-woman 375. A storie of a Boy and a Dolphin 380. A storie of a Sparrow 409. A storie concern∣ing Cock-fighting 411. A sto∣rie of a Lion 438. Another of a Lion 440. A storie of a dying Usurer 459. A storie of two much familiaritie amongst Cats 464. A storie of a Bishop eaten up with Mice 466. A storie of a loving Dog 470. Another ibid. Another 471. A sto∣rie shewing how Alexander was deceived by Apes 472. A storie of a Man saved from death by a Beare 475
• Stork 399. Lessons to be learnt from the stork ibid.
• Strange. A rule to be observed in Strange sights 131
• Students. Mint good for stu∣dents 255
• ...Sturgeon 384
• Su, a strange beast in the new-found world 454
• Sulphurwort; it is good for young children 260
• Summer described 356
• Sunne. Whether the Sunne be the fountain of light 329. Why the Sunne hath sometimes seem∣ed to dance 333. The appea∣rance of many Sunnes 130. Their cause 131. What they signifie ibid.
• Swallow 406. What strange things some have written of the swal∣low 407. It is said that she taught men first to build 408. They cure the blinde eyes of their young ones with an herb; viz. Celandine 261
• Swam-fisk, a fish so called, being the most greedy of all fishes 372, 373
• Swanne. The nature and qua∣lities of the Swanne 413, 414
• Swine eat no Turneps 263
• ...Sword-fish 370

T

• TAmarisk. It is of great ver∣tue for the hardnesse of

• the splene or milt 274
• Tanners. An herb for Tanners in the dressing of Leather 257
• ... Tarragon 264
• Tarantula and his strange proper∣ties 425
• Teeth. Good against the tooth-ach 261. 267. How to scoure the Teeth and kill the worms in them 251
• Temper. Waters of a strange tem∣per 220, 221
• ... Tench 388
• Terebinth or the Turpentine tree 279
• Thirst. An herb very good for the thirstie 269
• Thrive. The thriving of a man that (upon occasion) is of two▪ trades. The embleme is taken from the flying fish 382. Some men thrive in a course which to the vulgar seems contrary, by an example taken from the Stur∣geon 384
• Throat. Good for a sore throat 253
• ... Thrush 402
• Thunder, what it is 122. A differ∣ence in Cracks 123. Thunder sometimes without Lightning, and so on the contrarie ibid. How this may be 124. The making of the Thunder-stone 125. See more in the word Lightning.
• Thyme, and the vertues thereof 259
• Time, what it is 45. Times when the World should have ended ac∣cording to some mens foolish fan∣cies 18. 22, 23, 24, &c.
• ... Tinne 290
• Toad. An antipathie between the Toad and Rue 248
• Tobacco and the kindes thereof: Where it was first found, together with the names, qualities and vertues thereof 264, 265. The Indian women take no Tobacco 266. The time when it came first into England, and by whom it was first brought ibid. A precious salve to be made of the green leaves 265. A lesson for quaffers ibid.
• Tongue 498. The Tongue hath brought many to mischief 413. Fair tongues & false hearts 443
• Topaz, a very strange stone which stancheth bloud 295, 296
• ... Tophus 292
• Torch, a burning Meteor 89
• Torpedo, a benumming fish 383
• ... Tortoise 374
• ... Tragelaphus 481
• Treacherie. Treacherous persons like to the Polypus 385. Like to the Ape 401. Like to the Hawk ibid.
• ...

• Trees and their properties 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282.
• Trinitie 46, 47. The Trinitie shewed in making of Man 496
• Trouble. One patient in trouble what he is like 299
• Trout. The Trout commended 388. The Trout like one that loves to be flattered 389. Wanton Wenches like to the Trout ibid.
• Troy and the ruines thereof la∣mented 240
• Turcois, a precious stone good for weak eyes: it will also shew whe∣ther he that weareth it be well in health 296
• ...Turnep 263
• ...Turtle 408
• Tyger and his properties 441

V

• VAliant. He is truely valiant that can overcome himself 441
• Vapours; their nature, and why they be warm 87
• Veins and Arteries how they differ 497
• Vermilion 300. The Romanes used to paint their gods with Vermili∣on ibid.
• Vertigo. How to cure it 261
• Violets and their vertues 269
• ...Viper 490
• ...Virginia Dogs 447
• ...Vitriol 304
• Unicorn of the sea 370
• Unicorn of the land 435. That there is such a beast 436. A de∣scription of the Unicorns horn ibid. How to catch the Unicorns 437
• Urine. Dill is good to provoke Urine 249
• Use of things is often times turned into an abuse 265. We ought to make the best uses of the stran∣gest things 227▪ 131, 132

W

• WArts and their cure 244. 263
• ...Wasps 423
• ...Watery Meteors 142
• Water-cresses and their vertues 253
• ...

  Waters. Waters above the heavens 62, 63, 64, 65, & sequent. Their use and profit 322, 323. The Waters gathered together 190. How they were gathered together 191. How to one place, seeing there be many Seas, Lakes and Rivers 192. Whether they be higher then the earth 194. Whether there be more Water

• ...

  then earth 199. The benefit and use of Waters 207. Why fresh Waters do not ebbe and flow 218

  Water used in stead of Vineger 220. Water used in stead of burnt wine ibid. Water making drunk ibid. A Water deadly to beasts, and not to men 221. A killing and a purging Water ibid. A Water making horses m•…•…d ibid. A cold Water setting cloth on fire ibid. A Water which is hot enough either to boil, rost, •…•…r bake ibid. A Water which maketh oxen white 222. A Water which changeth the co∣lours either of sheep or horses ibid. A Water cold in the day and hot in the night 223. A Wa∣ter which turueth wood into stone 224. Poyso•…•…ing Waters ibid. A Water which makes cattell give black milk 224. A Water which makes men mad 225. A Water which spoils the memorie ibid. A Water procuring lust ibid. A Water causing barrennesse ibid.

• Weasell and his properties 460, 461
• Well. A strange w•…•…ll in Idumea 224
• West-winde•…•… qualitie 183
• Whale 366. Their kindes 367, &c
• Wheat rained 147
• Whirle-windes, Storm-windes, and fired Whirle-windes 185, 186
• Willow and Willow-garlands 274
• Willow-wort and his properties: it is of a contrary nature to the herb Betonie 270
• Winde in the bodie, how to expell it 249
• Winde. Divers opinions concerning Winde 168, 169. W•…•…nde is more then the motion of the aire 171. Poets fictions concerning Winde 172. How God bringeth the Windes out of his treasures 169. The Winde not moved by Angels 170. Why it useth to rain when the winde is down 174. What Winde is, upon what causes it de∣pendeth, and how it is moved 173. Why we cannot see the mat∣ter of Winde 177. How that place is to be understood in the 3 of John concerning the blowing of the Winde 178. Aire moved augments the Winde 174. How the Windes are moved, and by what 175. In what place the mo∣tion the Winde beginneth 176. Particular windes 177. Why the winde bloweth not alwayes one way ibid. Opposit•…•… ibid. Ob∣lique windes ibid. Whisking windes ibid. The division, names, and number of the Windes 178.

• Mariners reckon two and thir∣tie Windes 179. The nature and qualitie of the Windes 181. The effects of a long-continuing Winde 184. Why the East and North windes bring rain some∣times for a whole day together 183
• Windows of heaven opened in the Floud, and what they were 69
• Winter described 357. A warm Winter hurtfull 161
• Witches; they sell windes to sea-men 153
• Wood-pecker; how she useth to un∣wedge the hole of her nest 258
• Wolf and his properties 447
• Wolf-bane and the strange proper∣ties thereof 251
• Wooll rained, and how 152
• Woman. She was made after the image of God as well as the man 500. How she is said to be the glorie of the Man ibid. Why she was made out of a Rib 501. Wherein a womans rule ought to consist 501, 502. Childe-bear∣ing women. Sage is good for them 247. The smell of Dragon very bad for those who are newly conceived with childe 262. The herb Sow-bread is also very hurtfull, and causeth instant abor∣tion ibid. How a doubting wo∣man may know whether she be with childe 263. How a woman burying her husband may save her credit 256
• World. The World not eternall, and must also end 2. The manner how it must end 4. Impostours con∣cerning the end 18, & sequent. When it was created 28, & se∣quent. Why it was not made per∣fect in an instant 50, 51. It de∣cayeth daily 78, 79
• Worms in the belly, with means to cure them 253. 255
• Worms rained, and how 147
• ...Wren 402

Y

• YArrow and the properties thereof 267
• Yeares. The examination of the name, length, divers beginning, and kinde of Yeares 360, 361, 362, 363

Z

• ZAnchie: his opinion of the Iew∣ish tradition which they take from the Rabbin Elias 13. His opinion of certain strange and prodigious rains 154
• Zebra, a beast of an excellent come∣linesse 446
• Zibeth or the Sivet-cat 463

FINIS.