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THe tode is a poyson worme or ••∣myn & is be kowen of euery man and of a fowle worme it is one of the moste coldest / and it hathe his harte in his throte / therfor it can nat lightly be kylled except it be thrust in the throte / And some saye that they be bred of the fowle humours of therthe / ye tode hath a poyson pestilent syght and defynge and he eteth erthe be mesure & weght
forasmoche as the tode may take in .i of his fore fete / that is his mete all that day / the tode fereth that the erth shall fayle hym / & therfore ouer night he ta¦keth his pawe or fore full because yt he sholde nat mysse to haue erth ynough for to ete the next daye. Sotyme they feght wt spyders and other serpentis & if he be bitten of any other venymo{us} serpētis than eteth he an erbe named plātago or plantayn and therwith he helith him selfe / & he eteth gladly sage but the roote of it is his dethe. A tode stone found in the hede of the tode and borne about a naturall creature / sub∣dueth many venymes and poysons. A tode brent to asshes and those asshes abydinge vpon the grounde / of those asshes engendereth very many yong and quicke ••obes.