THE THIRD ROW.
And in the third row a Turkeys, an Agate, and an Amethyst.
FEw there are but know the Turkeys, tanquam ungues digitosque su∣os, wearing it usually in the pale of their rings. An excellent pro∣perty it is said to have of changing colour with the sick party that weareth it, and thereby expressing a kinde of sympathy. Rueus a great Lapidary a∣verres upon his owne knowledge as much: I was acquainted (saith hee) with a man whose Turkeys suddenly upon his death changed colour,* 1.1 and fell in the price. The Agate is a gemme of divers colours, spots and lines, the con∣curse whereof is sometimes so happy, that it representeth the lineaments of men, beasts, and other naturall bodies:
Nunc formas rerum dans, nunc simulachra deorum.Of all, that of Pyrrhus was held by him in greatest estimation, of others in admiration, wherein the lines and spots were so drawne by nature,* 1.2 that Apollo with the nine Muses and their severall instruments were conspicuous in it. As for the Amethyst, it is a gemme of a middle colour, between wine and vio∣lets, so named either because applyed to the navell it is a remedy against drunkennesse, ab 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 steretico & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or (as saith Pliny) quod ad vini colorem accedens priusquam degustet in violam desinat. Of this third ranke of stones this may suffice for the application to the third Speaker, and his doctrine: himself, touching the infirmities of the Clergy & Laity, so feelingly resem∣bled the Turkeys, which the Jewelists make the emblem of compassion. His Sermon, for the variety of good learning in it, was a curious Agat, & most like