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❧ The fyfth Booke of Notable thinges.

[ 1] A Mare wyl bring forth a Fole of diuers cullours: if she be couered with a cloth of dy∣uers cullours, whyles she is taking the Horse. For such cul∣lours 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.

[ 2] THe berryes of Halicacabus (called wynter Cher∣ries) 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 can∣not make water, and also to them that haue y^e Drop∣sie,) it wyll prouoke vrine, or dryue forth the water, and also expell the Hydropycall humors. Mizaldus.

[ 3] 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.

[ 4] IF the Moone and Venus be ioyned together, and both be Combust: He that is then borne, shall Page  109 lacke a wyfe, (or neuer marrie.) Ptolomeus.

[ 5] 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.

[ 6] 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 ther∣to the Opium grinded: incorporate these well toge∣ther: 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.)

[ 7] 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.

[ 8] TO see Moonks in ones dreame, doth portēd death or calamity: to see fatte Oxen, betokens plenty of thinges: to loose an eye or a toothe, sygnifies y^e death of a friende, or of a kynseman, or some other euyll Page  110 lucke: to dreame to be dumme, foreshewes speedie gladnes: to see Oxen plowe, betokens gaine: to en∣ter into waters, betokens euyll. Artemidorus.

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

[ 10] 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 ther∣fore.

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

[ 12] THe brayne of a Wesell dryed, and drunke with Ui∣negar: doth helpe them that haue the falling sick∣nes. Mizaldus.

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

Page  111 [ 14] 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, (hol∣ding 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 re∣medy 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.

[ 15] MIrabolanes chebuli, preserued with his syrruppe, vsed daylye, and eaten: preserueth youth ex∣cellently well.

[ 16] 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 Page  112 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 aboundant∣ly. Use this dayly vntill you thinke your head be wel purged.

[ 17] 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. Ia∣tromath. Guat. Ryff.

[ 18] 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 thē, 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 pro∣ued. It hath helpt some in fowre or fyue dayes.

[ 19] 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 Page  113 from Lyce. This is better and more safe, then to vse oyntments mixt with quicksyluer, which is very daungerous: therefore let Mothers or Nursses, ra∣ther vse this.

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

[ 21] 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.

[ 22] 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 eue∣ry euyll affection of the stomacke. Emperica bened.

[ 23] WIne of the decoction of Tormentyll, drunke day∣lye 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: re∣storeth 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.

[ 24] ANdreas Mattheolus, knewe a Woman, that euery daye for a whole yeares space, was greeuously troubled with y^e paynes of the moother, which was Page  114 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.

[ 25] 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.

[ 26] 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.

[ 27] MArs in the eyght house, with the head of the Dra∣gon: betokens that the chylde then borne, shal die of a roape, (or be hangd.) Taisnier.

[ 28] THe iuyce of Colewoorts, put or snuft into y^e nosth∣rylles: doth purge the head maruelous well, and helps the auncient payne of the head. Often proued.

[ 29] BLacke sieges lyke to fylthy bloud, are wonderfull euyll. Whether they be with an ague, or without Page  115 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 al∣though they be of dyuers cullours, they be not euyll. Hippocrates.

[ 30] THis following is an excellent, and often proued thing for the Collycke, Strangurie, and the stone. Take the seedes of Careaway, Fennell seede, Spick∣narde, 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 no∣table operation. This was taken out of a learned practysers booke: besydes synce it hath bene many tymes proued.

[ 31] 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.

[ 32] 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.

[ 33] IF a rounde large vessell, with one hole in the toppe thereof, be fylled full with quicke Lyme and Brim∣stone, Page  116 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 wa∣ter, 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.

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

[ 35] 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.

[ 36] 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 bet∣ter,) and let the party that would be ryd of y^e warts, wrappe the same in some thing, and put it into the ground, and couer the same with earth againe: tru∣ly, as the same thing doth rotte in the earth, so wyll the warts weare and consume away. This is per∣fectly proued.

[ 37] 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.

Page  117 [ 38] 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 [ 39] in a Burre leafe: and laye it first in olde ashes, then compasse the same with hotte embers & coales, & so rost the same wel: thē apply the same rosted Arsmart to the grieued place, and do thus euening and mor∣ning 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.

[ 40] IF you put or stop fast within a Nutte, quicke brim∣stone, 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 y^e 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.

[ 41] A Most excellēt 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 Page  118 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 gla∣sed 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.

[ 42] IF you rubbe sleyghtly any kinde of Beastes or Cat∣tell, 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. Mi∣zaldus.

[ 43] 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.

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

[ 45] 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 Page  119 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 Me∣lancholy 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.

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

[ 47] 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 ease∣ly, 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 pro∣cured out of water, a colde and moyst element. Iohan. Baptist. Porta.

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

[ 49] IF any doth aske thee (hauing knowledge in Astro∣logie) what he dyd see in his dreame: marke the Page  120 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 per∣sons: 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 Wo∣man, 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 Pal∣laces decked with Curtens, and rytch hanginges or cloathes, bookes or wrytings of salutation, or of ac∣coumpts. 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 sygnificati∣on of the Sunne, (that is, if the Sun be in the ninthe house,) that he dyd see him selfe flying betweene hea∣uen 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: Page  121 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 wyl∣ling. Haly Abenragell.

[ 50] 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 Itali∣an, by the report of Mizaldus.

[ 51] WHosoeuer desyres to see the Sun eclipsed with∣out 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 [ 52] 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 wysh∣eth that the same plate be beaten and made of pure Page  122 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.

[ 53] IF the Lord of the Horoscope, be in the seuenth house Combust, and the Sunne hath no essentiall dygni∣tye in the same: then he (that is then borne,) shall pe∣rish 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 commaun∣dement. Taisnier.

[ 54] 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.

[ 55] 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 to∣gether▪ 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.

[ 56] TO dreame that Eagles flyes ouer your head: doth betoken euil fortune. To dreame that you see your face in y^e water: sygnifyes long lyfe. To follow Bees: Page  123 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.

[ 57] IF you would haue Copper to melt quickly, and run easely: put the hooues of a Horse into the same, be∣tweene the melting and powring out therof. Mizal∣dus had this secrete of an expert Italyan.

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

[ 59] 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 tem∣pestes or stormes there. As Archibius dyd wryte to Antiochus King of Siria. Plinio Authore.

[ 60] 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 a∣way. Taisnier.

[ 61] WHosoeuer annoynts their belly with this oynt∣ment folowing, it easeth the paine of the head, it purgeth the stomack, it comforteth y^e appetyte, & cla∣rifieth the eyes. Take of y^e iuice of smallach two oun∣ces, of the iuice of Mercury, fowre ounces, of goose grease & Hens grease, of either of thē a pound, of Rosē Page  124 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 ve∣ry good thing.

[ 62] 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.

[ 63] TAke a pynt of whyte Wine, one handfull of wood∣binde leaues, or two or three ounces of the water of Woodbinde, and a quarter of a pounde of the pow∣der 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.

[ 64] LVdonicus Viues doth wryte, that within the me∣mory 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 Page  125 was touched or handled: by and by it was resolued into powder. Iohannes Langius.

[ 65] 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 immediat∣ly after,) for then through the great heate, and dry∣nes of the Sommer: the earth wants rayne. Mizal∣dus had this of one that was skylfull in such thinges. Which was a maister Carpentar.

[ 66] 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.

[ 67] 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.

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

[ 69] WHosoeuer is brought weake, either by some gre∣uous sicknes, or disease, of long continuaunce, or by woundes receyued, or any other waye: and ther∣vppon haue a syege of Melancholy, lyke to blacke bloud: he shall doubtles dye the next daye after. Hip∣pocrates in suis Aphor.

Page  126 [ 70] A Sausfleame or redde pympled face, is helped with this medicine following. Take Enula Campana, fowre ounces, and seethe it with vinegar, tyll the vi∣negar 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.

[ 71] THe fyrst seedes, that y^e Hee, or Male Pyony brings forth (being round and black,) do maruelously re∣create or helpe them that haue the fallyng sycknes: If some therof be stampt and taken with Oximel scil∣litick, 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.

[ 72] 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, vn∣tyl they be perfectly whole. For the Hebrew Phisiti∣ons 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.

[ 73] 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.

Page  127 [ 74] IF the Lorde of the eyght house, be afflicted in the fowrth house, (it sygnifyes,) the chylde then borne, shall dye in pryson. Taisnier.

[ 75] WIne wherin the rynde of an Ashe tree hath bene sodden, drunke fasting, sixe or seuen morninges together: doth perfectly helpe thē 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 mor∣ning and euening. It is an excellent thing lykewise.

[ 76] BEholde a syngular Oyle or Baulme drawne out of waxe and Turpentine, which dryeth and mighte∣ly 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 odori∣ferous, 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 ga∣thered, distyll the seconde tyme in a glasse body with an heade & receauer, putting vnto it before the distyl∣ling 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 Page  128 of rewme proceeded of a colde cause, it helpeth be∣sydes the cough, by annointing the region of y^e breast therewith: and it is also of great importaunce vnto many other griefes, inuented and proued by the a∣boue sayde Author many tymes. This excellent oyle I had out of that worthy Booke, called y^e 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.

[ 77] 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 some∣thing 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 vnre∣moued 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.

Page  129WHen the Lord of the Ascendēt is impedite or In∣fortunate of the Lord of the second house: It syg∣nifies [ 78] 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 Ascē∣dent. 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.

[ 79] EGge shelles dryed and beaten to powder, and ge∣uen in whyte Wine: breaketh the stone. It is a tryed medicine, as one affyrmed to me.

[ 80] 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 [ 81] her byrth, dyd begyn to eate earth, stones, bricke, and grauell. And so continued therin, (hauing all her de∣lyght 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 mo∣ther 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 y^e dysh Page  130 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.

[ 82] IT is sayde that Myse dung, with the ashes of bur∣ned 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.

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

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

[ 85] THe troublesome, or vnpleasaunt noyse of Frogges in the night, wyll cease: if you set a Candle bur∣ning 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 Pre∣sydent there, that therewith was troubled. Mizal∣dus.

Page  131 [ 86] 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 lyght∣ning, nor is not touched with any euyl from heauen. Mizaldus.

[ 87] ZAel sayth, that he hath proued in many Natiui∣ties, where the Moone is in Virgo, opposite with the Sun: that the chyld thē borne, hath ben drownd.

[ 88] 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 ex∣cellent tryed medicine: if you take it three dayes.

[ 89] 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.

[ 90] TAke Horseleaches, and burne thē 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.

[ 91] 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.

Page  132 [ 92] 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 be∣hold the Ascendent: and wheras in the day tyme Sa∣turne is the sygnifyer of the qualyties of the mynde: and being then in an Angle, and Mars in natiuityes of the night.

[ 93] 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. Mizal∣dus.

[ 94] 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.

[ 95] AS a certayne countrey man, dyd sleepe open mou∣thed in y^e 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.

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

Page  133 [ 97] IF thou would know whether a Woman be concea∣ued 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.

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

[ 99] 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 Trotu∣la affyrmes it also for the lyke purpose.

[ 100] GReene nettels layd in the vryne of one that is sick, and so stieped therin for y^e 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.