affirme) after many trials, and Serenus also expresseth in this distichon:
Seminecis cerut lachryman miscere liquori
Conuenit, atque artus illine miscere calentes.
The liuer of this beast helpeth all sores in the feete, being worne in the shooes, the same dried to pouder with the throat or wind-pipe of the beast, and mingled with Hony, and so eaten helpeth the Cough, Ptisicke, sighing, and short breathing.
Pliny and
Sextus af∣firme, that when a Hind perceiueth her selfe to be with young, she deuoureth or eateth vp a certaine stone, which is afterward found either in her excrements or ventricle, and is profitable for all Women with childe and in trauell, for by that onely fact, the Hinde is
[ 10] most speedily deliuered without great paine, and sildome or neuer suffering abortment; and there is also a little bone found in the heart of euery one of these beastes, which per∣formeth the same qualities, instead whereof they haue such a thinge to sell at
Venice, hol∣ding it at a great price: but
Brasauola affirmeth, that he opened the hearts of two Harts, and found in them a little gristle not much vnlike to a crosse, whereof the one being of a Beast new killed, was very soft, but the other was much harder, because the beast was slain about six daies before.
This bone is in the left side of the Hart, vpon which, the Spleene moueth and sendeth forth her excrements by vapours, which by reason of their drines are there turned into a bone, and being firste of all of the substaunce of the Hartes bloode; and it is good [ 20] against the trembling of the Hart, and the Haemorrhoides, but this bone cannot bee found in any, except he be killed betwixt the middle of August and the twelfth of Sep∣tember.
The skinny seed of the hind-Calfe, is aboue all other commended against poison, and the bitings of Serpents and of mad Dogges; likewise it stayeth al fluxes of blood, and spit∣ting of blood, and egestion of blood: & it being eaten with Beets and Lentils, is profita∣ble against the paine of the belly. The genitall part and stones, are wholsome (being taken in wine) against all bitings of Vipers, Adders, and Snakes, and the same vertue hath the na∣turall seed supped vp in a rere Egge.
The genitall hath also a vertue to encrease lust in euery creature, it being either dryed and drunke; or else bounde fast to their priuy parts. Likewise being washed in water, [ 30] and afterward dried to pouder, and so drunk, helpeth the chollick, and the difficulty of making water, if you put it into a little Triacle.
The dung of Harts cureth the dropsie, especially of a Subulon or young Hart: the v∣rine easeth the paine in the Spleene, the wind in the ventricle and bowels, and infvsed in∣to the eares, healeth their vlcers. In the tip of the taile lieth poyson, which being drunke, causeth extasie and death, if it be not holpe by a vomit made of Butter, Annise, and oyle of Sesamine, or as Cardinall Ponzettus saith, that the Harts eie is an Antidote to this euill: It may be knowne by a yellowish-greene-colour, and therefore it is called the gall, for nature hath appointed that place to receiue all the venome of the whole Bo∣die.
[ 40] I should heere end the discourse of this beast, after the method already obserued in the precedents: but seeing the manner of the taking heereof (being a sport for princes) hath yet bin touched but very little, it shall not be tedious vnto me, to abstaine from the ne∣cessary relation of the subsequent stories, for the delightfull narration of the hunting of the Hart: to the end that as the former treatise hath but taught how to know a Birde in a bush, that which insueth may declare the seueral waies of catching and bringing the same to hand.
This is a beast standing amazed at euery strange sight, euen at the hunters bow and Ar∣rowe, comming behind a stalking Horsse (as is already declared▪) and moreouer, like as [ 50] the Roes are deceiued by the hissing of a leafe in the mouth of the hunter, so also is this Beast, for while she harkeneth to a straunge noyse, imitating the cry of a Hind-Calfe, and proceeding from one man, shee receiueth a deadly stroke by the other: so also if they heare any musicall pipings, they stand still to their owne destruction: for which cause the