A thousand notable things, of sundry sortes Wherof some are wonderfull, some straunge, some pleasant, diuers necessary, a great sort profitable and many very precious. ...

❧The syxt Booke of Notable thinges. (Book 6)

[ 1] IF you would haue a∣ny Beast, or any parte of the same, (of what cullour soeuer he be) to be turned into white, shaue of the heairs, & smoake the same that is shauen, with the fume of Brymstone: and whyte heayres wyll growe there. You may proue the same in flowres. Mizaldus.

[ 2] THe berryes of Whyt thorne, taken with whyte Wine: is of great force, for destroying or expelling of the stone. It is knowne by the practise or experi∣ence of the countrey men. Mizaldus.

[ 3] (IN a question of a vision, or dreame:) marke the Lorde, or the Alumten of the Ascendent, and the Moone, and consider if thou findest eyther of them in the ninth, or the thyrde house: but if you finde none of them there, then marke, if you finde eyther of them in the Ascendent or fyrst house, or in any of his Angles: and if you so finde eyther of them, and the same be se∣perate from a good Planet, & applyed to a good Pla∣net: It sygnifyes that the dreame is good & pleasant, and of a good sygnifycation, and is of the condition of that good Planet, to whom he applyes: and the pro∣fyt or cōmodity of his dreame, shalbe of the condition of the house where he is in the figure, and of the con∣dition of y^e house which he doth beholde with a good Asspect. But if he be seperate from an euyll Planet, and applyes also to an euyll Planet: Then the vision

or dreame, is euyl & to be feared, and is of an euyl sig∣nification. Which euyll & harme shal be, according to the nature of the Planet, to whom the same applyes, and according to the nature of the house wherin he is in the fygure, & according to the nature of that euyll Planet. But if he be seperate from a good Planet, and applyes to an euyll Planet: saye that the vision or dreame was good and pleasaunt, but he hath an euil sygnification. But if he be seperate from an euyl Pla∣net, and doth apply to a good Planet: say that the vi∣sion or dreame was fowle & euyll, but it hath a good sygnifycation, and the profyt or successe thereof, wyll be according to the nature of the Planet, to whom he doth applye, and according to the nature of the house wherein he is, in the fygure. (As we haue sayde.) Therefore according to this waye and rule, consyder the visions or dreames: and confer one to another, & thou shalt be certified, (God wylling.) Haly Abenra.

[ 4] IT is proued, and a secrete: that if you geue to them that haue the hyckop, euery morning three howres before meate, one roote of greene Gynger, and im∣mediatly after drinking two draughts of Malmesey: you shall see that he wyll be soone cured. Emperici be∣nedicti victorij.

[ 5] AS word wherwith a man is kylled, y^e bloud being cleane wypt from it, & put into a hotte fyre, which being taken out of the same, doth manifestly shew the murther, for so farre as the sword was in the woun∣ded person: so farre it wyll be of a contrary cullour to the sword. It was told me that a Byshop dyd trye it to be true, by one of his men.

[ 6] IF the bloud of a Cocke be dryed, and made in pow∣der, and myxt in Wyne, wherin there is water: it makes the water swym aboue. This was of the re∣lation of a learned Moonke. Mizaldus.

[ 7] PLanteyn hath a maruelous vertue, to deliuer them of the Plague, that are infected therwith: geuen any manner of way. Proued.

[ 8] THe more lyuely and quick that a Horse is, the more deeper he wyl thrust his nose into the water, when he drynkes. Plinius.

[ 9] SWyne and Elephants doo hate whyte garments, Bulles and Oxen hates maruelously garmentes that be of purple cullour: which many vnder such ap∣parel haue some tymes proued to theyr great griefe. Plinius.

[ 10] IF the Lord of the eight house, be in the eyght house, or beholde the same happely: the chyld then borne wyll dye in his countrey, or nye the same. Taisnier.

[ 11] THe white of an Egge, and the iuyce of Perytory of the wall, well beaten together and scummed, and then one droppe of that lycquor put into the eye: doth heale the webbe in the eye. This is true, and pro∣ued.

[ 12] A Proued Oyle which is very good for the dropsie, called Ascites, if all the belly or paunche be annoin∣ted therwith. Take of Turpentine one pounde, of Frankynsence, Mastick, Myrre, of each two drams,

Landanum, one dram, Nutmugs, Cloues, Galenga, Zedoary, of each one dram and a halfe, of the iuyce of Walwoort, and the iuyce of Cucumber, (called Cu∣cumis asinimus) of either one ounce: Let them be pou∣dred that are to be powdred, and let thē be all myxed together, & put them in a Lymbeck, and let an Oyle be distylled therof, and it is a most secrete thing, not onely to take awaye the swelling of the bellye in the dropsie, called Ascites: but also any flegmatyke swel∣ling of any other member of mans body, & it is mar∣uelous for the paynes of ioyntes and members, of a colde cause. Emperica benedicti.

[ 13] A Certayne Butchers wyfe being with chylde, as she was sturring the bloud of a Beast newlye kyl∣led, a lytle therof dyd chaunce to sprinckle or spurt on her face: which, she with her hād suddenly wiped off, & then wyped the same hande on her left thygh: Who after being brought to bedde of a boy, the same boy had and hath the lyke marke, or bloud spot on his left thygh. They that knew both the Father, Mother, and the chylde, tolde this for a very trueth. Therfore it is not good to hyt a woman suddenly, being with chylde, on the face or otherwyse: least the chylde she is with all, be so marked, as is declared in other pla∣ces of this booke.

[ 14] THe sycke person can not escape, when the lyght of the tyme, (that is,) the Sunne in the daye, and the Moone in the nyght, and the Alumten of the Ascendent, are both impedyte, or euyll affected of the Lord of the eyght house, or of the Lord of the fowrth house. Iatromath. Guat. Ryff.

[ 15] IF you wyll take the heair from any place of the bo∣dy, and woulde haue it to growe there no more: stampe Antes egges with the iuyce of Henbane and Humlockes, or with the bloud of a Backe, or Rere∣mowse: and annoynt the place therewith. Mizal∣dus.

[ 16] IF you cutte the Lyuer of a Beast, in peeces: and put into the same peeces, the powder of Nux vomica, called the Spuing Nutte, (which is to be had at the Apothecaryes,) the same peeces being strowed or layde in an open place, where Rauens or Crowes maye resort thereto: the Crowes or Rauens that eates thereof, can not flye away: whereby you maye take them easelye. This I knowe to be certayne and true.

[ 17] THe lytle Byrde, called Linaria, begynnes to leaue synging, and also to be sycke, when the Starre cal∣led the lytle Dogge, doth ryse, and wyll plucke off her fethers. Which chaunceth about the myddes of Iuly: as we haue proued by one and other, (sayeth Mizaldus) the space of tenne yeares. And therevpon haue shewed to many, that then that Starre dyd sur••ly ryse. And in a Larke we haue obserued the same, (sayth hee:) in the rysing of Arcture wyth the Sunne. And it is not to be doubted, but that other Byrdes, and lyuing thinges, haue theyr peculyar Starre, wherby they are mooued to syng, or to hold theyr peace, to sadnesse or gladnesse: which I desyre the dillygent searchers of secretes to obserue. Thus much Mizaldus.

[ 18] THe Lorde of the Ascendent in the twelfth house, in a humaine sygne, without the beames of good Starres: the Chylde then borne wyll be imprisoned. This is true and often proued: and also Taisnier af∣fyrmes it.

[ 19] THis following is a sure and proued medicine for the toothe ache. Take a handfull of ground Iuy, as much of Spere Mint, and as much of Salt, stamp them all a lytle together, then put all the same into a pynt of vynegar, and seethe all wel ouer the fyre: then streyne it well, and put the same into a close glasen vessell, or bottell: and when you wyll occupy it, take a spoonefull thereof, and put it into that syde of the mouth that aketh, and holde downe your cheeke that it may descende to the rootes of the aking teeth: and it wyll take the ache and payne away presently. This was taught mee by a woman, to whome ma∣ny resorted for helpe: who vsed onely this medicine therfore.

[ 20] AN oyntment made of the oyle of bytter Almonds, Honny, the rootes of Lyllies, and of waxe: Is an excellent thing to annoynt the face withall,to get awaye wrinckles, spottes, and other deformyties of the face. Mizaldus.

[ 21] YOu maye take Foxes with this wyle following. Annoynt the soles of your shoes, with a peece of fatte Swynes fleshe as broade as your hand, newly tosted, or a lytle broyled at the fyre, when you go out of the wood homewarde. And in euery of your st••ppes cast a peece of the Lyuer of a Swyne rosted,

and dypt in honny: and drawe after your backe, the dead carkas of a Catte, and when the Foxe folowing thee, comes neare vnto the steppes: be sure to haue a man nye thee with bow and shafts to shoote at him: or by some other meanes to hyt him. Mizaldus had this of an expert Hunter.

[ 22] WOmen that haue double apples in theyr eyes, or strales: do euery where hurt with their looking. (Which is called of some ouerlooking.) Cicero.

[ 23] BOdyes that are strucken with lyghtning, doo re∣mayne vncorrupt: therfore in auncient tyme they dyd neyther burne nor burye the bodyes of such as were strucken or kylled with lyghtning, whervpon it is playne to all men, that the same bodyes are not corrupt as others. Mizaldus.

[ 24] IF the Lorde of the eyght house, be in the thyrde or nynth house: (it sygnifyes) the chylde then borne, shall dye among Straungers, or out of his natyue soyle. Taisnier.

[ 25] WOormewood newly stamped with the whyte of an Egge, and layde ouer the eyes, taketh awaye the bloud and readnes therof: of what humor soeuer it come. This hath bene often proued.

[ 26] IF one do take this confection following fasting, he shall neuer fall into the paynes of collycke nor Ily∣acke. Take the outwarde ryndes of Radyshes, being taken or pared thycke, two pounde, whyte Honny, fowre pound, let thē boyle together vnto y^e consump∣tion

of halfe the Honny, then put therto of the pow∣ders of Cynamom, Cloues, Nutmugs, Mace, blacke Pepper, of each two drams, mixe them together, and let them be put vp in a cleare vessell, and let the pati∣ent take & eate euerye morning halfe an ounce of the sayde ryndes of the Radishes. Benedictus victorius Fauentinus.

[ 27] IF you take the powder of Brasell, & myngle it well with mylke, but so that it be very red, & put therin eyther staffe, wood, or bone, letting it lye therin eight dayes: it wyll make the same wood or bone red, for euer. I had this out of an olde written booke.

[ 28] TO dreame that you go ouer a broken Brydge, be∣tokens feare: to haue your head cutte off for a hey∣nous offence, sygnifyes the death of friends: to make cleane the handes, betokens trouble: to see hands fyl∣thy or fowle, doth sygnify losse and daunger: to feede Lambes, sygnifies griefe, or payne: to take flyes, syg∣nifyes wrong or iniury. Mizaldus.

[ 29] A Garlande made of Iuy leaues, and layd vpon wo∣mens paps, or dugs, that hangs flagging down: it gathers them together, and makes them rounde. Iuy leaues stampt and applyed thereto, workes the lyke effect. Mizaldus.

[ 30] A Tode being strucken of a Spyder, or of a Serpēt: doth helpe herselfe by eating of Planten. Plinius. For confyrmation whereof, a Tode being on the ground hard by a wall, a Spyder dyd suddenly strike the sayde Tode on the backe: Which when the Tode

felt, begynning to swell, dyd eate of Planten nye vn∣to the place. Wherof being well, the Spyder againe, dyd poyson the Tode, with her venome as before. Which done, the Tode preserued her selfe with the sayde Planten as before. But one that chaunst to beholde the same, dyd then cutte vp the sayde Plan∣ten, and tooke it away from that place. Which Tode the thyrde tyme being strucken, or rather poysoned of the spyder, as before: Immediatly searching for the sayde Planten, (for as it shoulde seeme there was no more Planten nye to that place:) which when she coulde not fynde, dyd swell so sore, that soone after she dyd burst withall. The party that dyd take away the same Planten, and dyd see this straunge & mar∣uelous matter, dyd tell me this for a verye trueth. Whose credyte I knewe to be such, that I am bolde here to place the same hauing such good occasion. And I hearde that a noble man of this Realme, dyd see the lyke.

WHosoeuer is sore grieued with the stone, and can not make water, let them drinke a spoonefull of the powder called Puluis duiriticus, in a draught of whyte Wyne: (which you maye haue made at the Apothecaries,) and vse it three or fowre morninges together, or something lesse, if you lyste. Geue halfe so much to a chylde, and without doubt, it wyll make them auoyde the stone, and to make water presently. I haue proued it often tymes to be a souereyne thing in this case. And there was one from whom I had it, that got therewith aboue an hundreth pound by the yeare. If it be truely and well made. You wyll praise it as wel as I haue done, and because it is such

a notable thing, I would haue it better knowne, and more vsed.

[ 32] MAke oyle of Paper, by burning fayre cleane Pa∣per on a cleane pewter dyshe or sawcer: or holde a peece of fayre Paper folded on a knyues poynt, and set fyre on the nethermost ende thereof, and holde the same nye vnto the sawcer: and out thereof wyll come a lyttle moyst Oyle, and be on the sawcer. Take a lyttle thereof on a cleane fether, and put it into the eye that is sore or dymme of syght: and it wyll helpe the same maruellouslye. It hath bene proued in ma∣ny to be excellent. And Euonimus doth prayse it therefore.

[ 33] IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be in the eyght house Infortunate, it sygnifyes that the sycke party wyll kyll him selfe through euyll guyding of himselfe. Ia∣tromathematica. Guat. Ryff.

[ 34] A Spryte came nye vnto M. Brutus, leading an ar∣my of men from Asia: when, Brutus asked him who he was: he aunswered, I am thy euyll Angell, whom thou shalt see in the fieldes of Philoppis in Thessaly, and there Brutus dyed in conflyct. Plutarchus.

[ 35] A Grymony sodden in redde wyne, wherewith if woundes be washt, it cleanseth all fylths and cor∣ruption from them. And the leaues of Agremony beaten, or stampte, and tyed vpon woundes that bee euyll ioyned, or knytte together: by and by it doth open them. A certayne Spanyarde tolde this to Mizaldus.

[ 36] HE that receyues a summe of money, in the howre of Venus: he wyll spende the same with women, in pleasures and wantonnes. Haly.

[ 37] THe iuyce of Rew myxt with Honny, that hath ben skummed, & a lytle therof put into the eye at once, ryddeth them that vse it, of an auncient dymnes of the syght. Proued often.

[ 38] IF a Woman hath not conceaued, and thou wylt knowe whether she shall conceaue or not: let her be well couered with cloathes, and beneath let a fumy∣gation be made of hotte thinges, and odoriferous, or sweete smelling: for if the smell come vp through her body to the nose, and mouth: be sure that she is not barren of her selfe. Hidpocrates Aphor.

[ 39] WHosoeuer is greued & tormented with the stone, let them take one ounce of the rootes of Radishe, cut in slyces: and lay the same to stiepe in halfe a pint of good whyte Wine all night, then streyne the same well, and put therto of the Electuary, called Lithon∣tripon, of the description of Nicholas: and also Iusti∣num, one dram: myxe them with the sayde whyte Wine, wherein the Radish was infused, and let him that is grieued with the stone, receyue all the same at one tyme: and you shall see a maruelous wo••ke thereof. If neede be, let him receyue the lyke quanti∣tie thereof three or fowre dayes together. This is proued to be a sure & an excellent thing, for breaking and auoyding the stone, and grauell. Be sure that the Apothecaries make it of good stuffe.

[ 40] A Head of Garlycke, (the skyns pulled off, and a lytle brused,) layde by equall partes, to the hollowe partes of the soles of theyr feete, that are grieuously tormented with the toothe ache: especially, if it come of a colde cause, and be on the neather iawe: it wyll helpe them with speede, by drawing the humors out of the soles of the feete. I haue knowne them that haue taken this medicine, and haue not ben troubled with the tooth ache of seuen yeares after.

[ 41] THat man is lyke to haue fewe Chyldren, in whose Natiuity Saturne is in the Ascendent, opposyte to Venus: or if Venus be in a barraine signe, infortunate of Saturne: or if Venus be in the house of Saturne, espe∣cially, Infortunate of him. Iatromathematica. Guat. Ryff.

[ 42] IF you rubbe or touch Wartes with the leaues of a Fygge tree, the Warts wyll consume and vanish a∣way: so that the sayde leaues be buryed within the earth or grounde. Some ascribes the same to the harte of a Pigion. Mizaldus.

[ 43] ELephants of all other Beastes, do chiefly hate the Mowse. So that if they shall see or perceyue, that a Mowse hath once touched their meate that is be∣fore them, they loathe the same, and wyll not eate a bytte therof. Plinius.

[ 44] IF the Lorde of the Ascendent, be Combust in the twelfth house, he that is then borne, wyll dye in pri∣son, or in captiuitie. Taisnier.

[ 45] THe powder of the berries of Bryony▪ drunke in the water wherein water Cresses are sod: doth mar∣uelously heale the Strangury.

[ 46] IF any Woman great with chylde, shall take this drinke following, euery other day in the morning, three howres before she eate any meate, begynning the same about tenne dayes or a fortnight before the tyme of the byrth: the byrth shall not onely be made more easye, but also she shall bring forth her chylde without payne. Take of the great Treackle, one scruple, (which is the weyght of .xxiiii. barly cornes,) the powder of Lycquerys, and the powder of Cyna∣mom, of eyther three graynes, of good whyte Wine, one ounce and a halfe, myxe all together, and make there of a drynke, and let it be geuen to the Woman with Chylde, in such manner as is before sayde. Benedictus victorius fauentinus, in his Booke called Emperica.

[ 47] THis following wyll stoppe the bloudy fluxe. Take Yarrowe and Planten, of eyther a lyke muche, stampe them well together, and put thereto redde Wyne, and streyne it well, and drinke a good draught thereof, fyrst and last, three or sowre dayes together: and certaynly it wyll stay it. It is an easy and preci∣ous thing.

[ 48] IF you wyll prooue whether a Woman bee with chylde or not, let her make water in a copper, or brasen vessell, and let a Needle lye therein a whole nyght, that is bryght and cleane: and if she be with chylde, the Needle wyl haue redde spots on it. If not,

then it wyll be blackish or rusty. It is proued as Mi∣zaldus was enformed.

[ 49] IF a Crowe chaunce to eate of the rest of the fleshe wherof a Woolfe hath eaten before: the same Crow wyll dye soone after. Aclianus and Philes.

[ 50] NEyther falling sycknes, neyther deuyll, wyll infest or hurt one in that place: wheras a Bay tree is. The Romaynes calles it the Plant of the good An∣gell. &c. Mizaldus.

[ 51] WRyting Inke tempered with water, wyne, or vinegar, wherein Woormwood hath bene stie∣ped: Myse wyl not eate the Papers or Letters writ∣ten with that Inke. And also cloathes wherein Woormwood is layde or wrapt, is safe from mothes: and if there be any there, it wyll driue them awaye. Diascorides.

[ 52] THe howre of Mars is to be abhord, in all thinges, bothe in the begynning, and when the thing is done. Haly Abenragel. Therefore you were best to take heede, that you take no notable thyng, or great matter in hande, or beginne any long iourney, in the howre of Mars: if you can by any meanes knowe when it is. But whosoeuer puttes theyr whole trust in GOD, and guides theyr lyfe by the rule of his holye woorde: (be they neuer so symple and vn∣learned:) hee wyll so guyde them, and so instructe them, that they shall auoyde all such daungers, and p••rryllous tymes. And contrarye, the wyc∣ked, learned, (yea though they know the tymes, shall

not haue power to auoyde them. As I haue seene in many: which afterwarde they dyd well consyder, though to late. And as I haue sayde of Mars: so I say of Saturne. For there is neuer a good of them both. Y••t I doo not thinke, that Saturne or Mars shewes such harme to them, in whose Natiuities they are Sygnifyers, or beares rule in the Ascendent: but chiefly to such in whose Natiuitie they are Lords of the .xii.vii.v. or .viii. house. But surely I haue markt it long, and yet I neuer sawe any notable thing be∣gunne in the howre of Mars or Saturne: that came to a good ende. Which they shall well finde, that begins to set forwarde towards the Sea, in Saturnes howre. I speake by tryall as well as Haly doth: which I shoulde not haue consydred so much, but by his coun∣sayle and proofe.

[ 53] OXen, Kyne, Bullocks, or Horsses, shall not be trou∣bled with any disease: if you hang a Harts horne vpon them. Absyrtus.

[ 54] IF you ioyne a Lyons skyn, to the skyn of a Woolfe, of any other Beast: it wyll make them without heayre, or cause theyr heayre to fal or consume away. Mizaldus.

[ 55] CO••ewoorts, and Rew (called hearbe Grace,) are so contrary in nature the one to the other: that they ought not to be sowne nye together. Fracasto∣rius.

[ 56] IF any Sheepe, or else heayry Beasts, or els Man or Woman, be full of woormes in any wound or sore:

take of the wooll of the same Sheepe, or heair of that Beast, or some of the heair of that Man or Woman, and hyde the same before the rysing of the Sun, vn∣der the barke of a tree, called Trembla, (which is a kinde of black Popler tree.) Do thus certayn dayes, and thou shalt see the woormes fall out of the wound or sore myraculously: or else they wyll dye, or leaue that place. There be that ascribes the same to the Byrch tree, and also to the roote of wylde Succorye hanged at the necke, in manner of a Crosse. Which Mizaldus saw obserued in a Dog, one of whose eares was almost eaten off with woormes.

[ 57] IT is proued oftentymes by experiment, that many being borne in the coniunction of the Sunne and Moone, doo dye in the opposition: (that is in the full Moone:) and they that bee borne in the full of the Moone, are dead in the coniunction, (that is in the new Moone.) Taisnier.

[ 58] PUt two or three of the seedes of Oculus christi, into your eye: and within a whyle after you shall not feele them. Whereby you wyll thinke they are not there. But at the last they wyll droppe or fall out of them selues: compassed about with slymye matter, which hynders the syght. Which if you vse, thy wyll cleanse and cleare your eyes maruelously. This I knowe to be very true.

[ 59] IF one doth buye Wartes of them that haue them, and geue them a pin therfore: if the party that hath the Warts, pricke the same pyn vpon some garment that he weares daylye, or commonly, the Warte or

Wartes without doubte wyll demynish and weare away priuely, and be cleane gone in short time. This was tolde me for an often tryed and prooued thing: yea, and by such a one as had seene the experyence thereof. Also Wartes rubbed with a peece af rawe Beefe, and the same Beefe being buryed within the grounde: the Wartes wyll weare and consume, as the Beefe doth rotte in the ground. Proued.

[ 60] SAlt Armoniacke stampte, and myxt with water, doth make whyte Letters nothing dyffering from the cullour of Payer. But if you holde the same Pa∣per to the fyre, the Letters wyll waxe blacke. Mi∣zaldus.

[ 61] A Thing to be marueled at, and woorthy to be re∣membred doth followe, declared by Iouianus Pon∣tanus. A certaine Caietane Woman, (sayth he) was marryed to a Fysher, whome he dyd vse as his Wife, according to the order of Marriage, many yeares (as Anthonius Panthormita, being a friende of the same Fysher, was woont to tell to the sayde Iouianus Pon∣tanus, when he was young:) which Woman after she had bene marryed fowreteene yeares, dyd be∣came to be a Man, and suddenly, there sprung out the members of a Man, in the naturall place of the Wo∣man. Which being so ashamed of her condition, as one that thought she shoulde be mockt or laught to scorne both of Men and Women, became a Religi∣ous Woman, and lyued in a Monastary, where he kn••we her the rest of her lyfe. And she was buryed

at Rome, in the Temple of Marie to Minerua. And an other Woman called Aemilia, was marryed to one Anthony a Citizen of Ebula, and after she was marryed twelue yeares, shee was chaunged into a Man, and was conuersaunt with Men: vsing then the artes and trades of men, in that Countreye, and marryed a Wyfe. This wrytes he in the tenth booke De rebus celestibus. &c. Mizaldus.

[ 62] IF the Lorde of the Ascendent, be Combust in the Ascendent, or in the fyrst house: it sygnifyes short lyfe to the chylde then borne. Taisnier.

[ 63] TAke the inner rynde of an Oake tree, and seethe it well in fayre water, and then bathe any sore, olde or newe therewith, halfe a dosen tymes together, twyse euery daye: and at euery tyme when it is thus bathed, then annoynt it with Butter and Brymstone myxt well together: and within nyne or ten dayes it wyll be whole, (God wylling.) A true and tryed me∣dicine.

[ 64] THis following wyll helpe the yallowe Iaundies with speede. Take a Burre roote, the greater, the better, scrape it cleane: then take a potte of new Ale, and put your roote therein, and the Ale wyll boyle, and let it be therein one daye and one nyght well stopped, then lette the patient drynke a good draught, two or three tymes: and he wyll be whole certaynly. Proued.

[ 65] THe sycke is much to be feared, if in the Ascendent, or in the eyght house, or with their Lordes, there be euyll Starres or Planets. But if good Planets be there: It is safe inough. Iatromath. Guat. Ryff.

[ 66] ARystotle and Auycen do affyrme, that of the round and short Egge, the Cocke chycken doth come: of the long and sharpe Egge, the Henne chycken. Mi∣zaldus.

[ 67] YF you put yallowe Amber, into hotte melted waxe, (before well skymmed:) it wyll be then as softe as claye, so that you may make thinges therof, in what forme or fashion you wyll: it wyll be so trac∣table and soft. Mizaldus had this secrete of a certaine cunning Lapidary.

[ 68] THere is nothing better to driue away Serpentes, or Snakes, then the smoake of olde Leather, or olde shoes burned, or else to bring them out of ones body, before crept into them by sleeping open mou∣thed. Wherof Marc. Gatinarica (an excellent Phisiti∣on) doth wryte, that the lyke dyd happen to a certain man in his tyme: to whome when many medicines were geuen in vaine, the sayd man receiued y^e smoake of olde leather at his mouth by a funnell, (so that it went into his body,) and as soone as the venemous thing in his body, felt the sayd smoake: he came out at his fundament. Which was a maruelous great Uy∣per, to the great maruayle and feare of all them that were present.

[ 69] SEethe the inner rynde of the young braunches of a Hasell tree in small Ale, vntyll halfe be consumed,

and let them that haue the Strāgury, drinke a good draught thereof fyrst and last, for the space of eyght or nyne dayes together: and it wyll helpe them certain∣ly, for it neuer fayles. Therefore proue it, and prayse it.

[ 70] IN the fyrst beginning of any sicknes, or at the time of a question, for the state of the sycke person, if the Moone be corrupt (or afflicted) of Saturne in the three fyrst degrees of Scorpio: it betokens death. Iohannes Ganiuetus.

[ 71] A Notable medicine for the Sciatica, doth followe. Take Oxe dung, and Pigions dung, of eyther one pounde, and myxe them well together with one pot∣tell of white Wine, and let them boyle together vntyl halfe the Wyne be consumed, then streyne it through a lynnen cloath, then put thereto halfe a pounde of Honny, and twelue yolkes of Egs, and halfe a pound of melted waxe: and myxe all together with as much barly meale as wyll suffice for the making of it in a plaster, and put it hotte to the paynfull place. This was proued by King Henry the fyft, as the wryting dyd wytnes, out of the which I had this. Besydes, it hath bene synce proued.

[ 72] LEt the Phisition take heede of his fyrst visiting of the sycke in the howre of Saturne, and Mars, if he come to him in the howre of Saturne: eyther the sicke wyll dye, or else the Phisition shal haue great labour, doubtes, and slacknes in the curing of him. Neyther shall he helpe him, except it be euen to desperation, or out of all hope. And if he be sent for, or go to him fyrst

in the howre of Mars: there wyll be ••hydinges and brawlings betwixt him and the sick party, and small gayne. The howres of Iupiter and Venus are much praysed. The howres of the other Planets are in∣dyfferent. Iotromathematica. Guat. Ryff.

[ 73] A Greene Lyserd hath a great delyght to beholde a Man in the face, for he wyll louingly fawne vpon him as a Dog, with the mouing of his tayle. And as much as in him lyes, wyll defende him from a Ser∣pent, that lyes lurking in the hearbes to hurte him. Lemnius.

[ 74] THe iuyce, or water, streyned out of Radish rootes, (before stamped) myxt with whyte Wine, and the powder of Turpentine burned, or dryed in the Sun, and so receyued: is an excellent medicine to breake and dryue forth the stone. And it is geuen with hap∣py successe. A thing proued, much better then golde. Mizaldus.

[ 75] IF the Lorde of the Ascendent, be founde in the nynth house: he that is then borne, shall of his owne free wyll go farre and long iourneyes. And if there be a good Planet in the same nynthe house with him, or else doth beholde him with a happye Aspect: then it shall happen well to him in his iour∣neyes. If an euyll Planet, then contrarye. Tais∣nier.

[ 76] LAye a thynne peece of rawe Beefe, to the forehead of them that haue lost theyr voyce, and let it lye thereto all nyght vnremoued: and it wyll helpe them

presently, or at the least within three or fowre seue∣rall applications.

[ 77] TAke the bones of Beastes which be founde in the fyeldes, and chiefly of Horsses, (because they be best therefore,) and let them be well washed: after let them be dryed at the Sunne, then put them into a great Cawdren with water, & let them seethe long, and gather the fatte that swyms aboue, wherewith annoynt the gowte or palsey, of whatsoeuer cause they come: and it wyll be helped.

[ 78] SEethe Iuie, Mugwoort, Walwoort, and the inner rynde of Elderne, in water with much Salt, and bathe therewith any Sciatica, twyse or thryse a day, for eyght or nyne dayes together: and the partye grieued wyll be made hole. This I had out of an olde wrytten booke, wherin was many excellent thinges.

[ 79] IF you sprynckle the powder of Saffern, rounde a∣bout the weake, vpon the Oyle in a fayre greene and bryght Lampe of glasse, and let the same burne, (so that there be none other lyght in the same Cham∣ber:) it wyll beawtifye all thinges in the same place, with a fayre yallowe cullour. You may proue it by o∣ther cullours lykewise.

[ 80] THe dung of a Woolfe, being hydden in a Stable or house, where Cattell be, especially Sheepe: It wyll not onely make them leaue from eating of theyr meate: but also it wyll cause them to sturre vp and

downe, and to blate, or to make a noyse, and also to quake and tremble, as though their deuowring ene∣mye the Woolfe were thert present. Neyther wyll they cease from doing thus, vntyll they feele or per∣ceyue, that the sayde dung is taken away. Mizaldus.

[ 81] THere is nothing better to drawe forth Thornes, prickes, or any other thing whatsoeuer, in any part of the body whersoeuer it be, then blacke Sope applyed to the place: letting the same lye▪ thereto twelue howres without remouing of the same.

[ 82] A Certaine noble Matrone in the parts of Spaine, had a strong Imagination of a great Etheopyan, paynted in her Chamber, with other, in the tyme of the act of generation. Which Lady afterward was delyuered of a Boye, lyke to that great Etheopyan paynted, before named. Which chylde being borne, e∣uery one beleeued, that she had leyne with some one of the slaues of the Sarseyns. For that the chyld was like none of his Parents. Whervpon the ministers of Iustice, with consent of her Husbande, and other, dyd decree, that she shoulde be burned after the monthes ende. But before the mynistration of this Iustice or execution: certaine wyse men were called, whereof one desyred, that he might see the place where the chylde was begotte: which when he had seene, he consydred, that that generation was, by the strength of the Imagynatiue vertue. And then he sayde, that that great Etheopyan was the father of the chylde. Brynging forth for the confyrmation thereof, that place of the Byble, where Iacob put speckled Roddes before the Sheepe: by which Imaginatiō, the Ewes

brought forth speckled Lambes. Which when he had spoken, the Lady was delyuered from burning. Wherfore as I haue wrytten in other places of this Booke, men ought not rashly to mislyke their Wiues, (hauing none other occasion,) because theyr chyldren are vnlyke to theyr Parentes. For as you see here, and in Iacobs Lambes, Imagination is of maruel∣lous force in the tyme of generation. Which doth not onely worke in men, but in Beasts. Ganiuetus writes this Hystorye, who as it should seeme, hath it out of Lyra.

[ 83] THe flowres of Marygooldes, as also of Succory, and of certayne other hearbes, do begyn to open at the rysing of the Sunne, at noone they are fully and wholy opened: But they are closed, or are shutte, when the Sunne doth sette. Therfore some calles it, and such other, Sponsus solis, the Spowse of the Sunne. Because they sleepe, and are awakened with him. &c. Mizaldus. And the dayly tryall thereof, affyrmes it.

[ 84] IF Asses do eate much of Hemlockes, they wyll be cast thereby into a deepe and dead sleepe, that they wyll seeme to be dead. Which hath deceyued the countrey men being ignoraunt therof: for as they haue bene fleying of theyr skyns, (thynking that they were dead,) the sely Asses haue sturred and wakened out of their sleepe: to the great terror of them that dyd flea them, or cutte of their skyns, and to the great laughing of them that dyd behold them. As Andreas Matthiolus, (that learned Phisition,) hath wrytten in his commentaries vpon Diascorides.

[ 85] PUt the ashes of a burnt Snayle, vpon the spotte in the eye: and within three dayes it wyll take it a∣waye. Barth.

[ 86] IF one come to aske or enquyre the Astrologian, for any thing in the howre of an euyll Planet, that is: of Saturne or Mars, it is a suspicion rather to euyll then to good. And chiefly, if that euyll Planet be any where impedyte, Retograde, or Combust, or in his fall, or Cadent from an Angle. And this is to be vn∣derstanded lykewise of the comming of any on the behalfe of any that is sycke, or brynging the vryne of the sycke, or of any that doth aske counsayle, or en∣quire of the estate of the sycke, (though the vryne be not seene,) it is a suspicion of euyll for the sick: though it be not a full testimony therof. Ganiuetus.

[ 87] IF a Woman, that is too much weakened with her monthly course, doth cast the same, or let the same runne into a hoale, made in the grounde with a three squared stake, (the same stake immediatly after be∣ing put or driuen into the same hole, and so remayne therin vnremoued:) her sayd fluxe wyll staye or cease, being thought before to be vncurable. An honest Woman reuealed this straunge secrete to me. Which proued the same to be true: and she learned it of a poore Woman, that requyred almose of her at her doore.

[ 89] IN the Lake called Larius, (which nowe is called Comensis,) certayne Fyshers in the wynter, dyd drawe with theyr nettes to the drye lande, a great sort of Seamewes, (seeming to be dead,) which were

ioynde together with theyr bylles or nebbes in ano∣thers tayle or fundament: and being warmed with theyr guttes, were founde a lyue. Garuas. Tibellesius.

[ 90] THe leaues of Dockes do lowse the belly, & makes one laxatiue: But the seedes being taken, do binde and are restryctiue. Galen.

[ 91] IF Wyne haue gotten any tartnes, or sowrenes: take a potte fylled with good water, and let it be well couered, then set the same potte with water in the vessell with Wyne: (so that the potte stande vnder, or within the Wyne,) and at the three dayes ende, if the Wyne haue gotten his former strength, the water wyll smell, and then the Wyne wyll lyke thee. Tarentinus.

[ 92] A Peece of raw Beefe, (not too thyck nor too thin,) being layde or stieped all the nyght before in good Aqua Composita, and applyed to the temples or the foreheade, without remouing all the nyght: (and thus doing three or fowre nyghtes,) doth helpe the watring and paynes of the eyes, and all distyllations and rewmes that comes from the heade or brayne. One tolde mee this which had often proued it to be most true, as a great secrete.

[ 93] WHen Mercury is in the tenth house not impedyte: the chylde then borne, wyll be mighty, wyse, and a great Philosopher. Celi enarrant.

[ 94] ANnoint young Swallowes with saffern, & soone after the old Swallowes wyll bring a stone vnto

them: wherwith the Dropsie wyll be cured. This I had out of a booke of Secretes.

[ 94] AN Egge layde on a Thursdaye, and emptied, and fylled with Salt, and lo set in the fyre, remayning there vntyll it maye be made in powder, and then cankred teethe rubbed with the powder thereof: it both kylles the cankar, and the woormes that eates the teethe, and destroyes them. Proued for trueth.

[ 95] THis following wyll destroy Ringwoormes, Tet∣ters, and Scales in the hands. Take whyte Cop∣rose, the quantity of two beanes, & put it into a pynt of cleare water, tyll it be resolued, or melted: and with that water washe the place or handes, tyll they be whole. Proued.

[ 96] STampe Pearceley in whyte Wine, then streyne it well, and drinke a good draught therof: and it wyll cause thee to make water, and breake the stone, vse it fyue or syxe tymes. This hath bene well proued.

[ 97] THe wyse and learned men in olde tyme, dyd think, that a Tode put into a new earthen potte, and set within the ground, and so couered with earth, in the myddes of a fyelde: wyll dryue away Crowes or Byrds from Corne that ts sowne there. But about Haruest tyme, they wyll that it be dygged vp, and to be cast forth of the lymmyts of the same fyelds, least the Corne be bytter therby. Plin.

[ 98] A Lytle peece of the Nauell string of a Chylde, that is newly borne, enclosed in a Ryng, and so borne

that it maye touch the flesh, or bare skynne: is a most sure helpe and remedy, against the great paynes and tormentes of the collycke. Mizaldus.

[ 99] THey whose heaire of the eye browes doo touch or meete together, of all other are the woorst. They doo shewe that he or she is a wicked personne, and an intyser of seruauntes, and geuen to vnlawfull and naughty artes: which Iohannes Indagnies sayth, hee hath obserued in olde Women being Wytches, which were ledde to be burned, whose eye browes were such. As Thaddeus Hageccius hath also noted.

[ 100] SAturne in the nynth house, doth sygnifye feares in iourneyes: but more in the Sea, chiefly, in a wate∣rye sygne: and in Cancer the house of the Moone. Taisnier.

FINIS. Lib. 6.