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A19026	A prooued practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke, launce, or such other Wherein, is deliuered with all faithfulnesse, not onely the true receipts of such medicines as shall make them bolde, but also sundry familiar examples, such, as may leade them as it were by the hand, to the doyng of the lyke. Heereto is adioyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes, written by Iohn Almenar, a Spanish physition. Also, a commodious collection of aphorismes both English and Latin, taken out of an old written coppy. Published for the benefyte of his countrey, by Wylliam Clowes, mayster in chirurgery. Seene, and allowed, according to the order appoynted.; Prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder	Clowes, William, ca. 1540-1604.; Almenar, Juan de. De morbo Gallico. English. aut	1588 (1588)	STC 5444; ESTC S108101	163,640	298

and knowledge in the arte he was very earnest with me for it and for diuers speciall occasions I was the more willing to giue it him but I would not deliuer it vnto him as then till he had seene with his owne eyes first the experience and profe of it Not many daies after the woorshipfull Maisters of the sayd Hospitall requested me with the rest of the Surgions to goe to Hygate to take off a maydes legge which they had seene in the visitation of those poore houses The sayd legge was so greeuously corrupted that we were driuen vpon necessitie to cut it off aboue the knee which wee did performe by this order here before prescribed and he did see we stayed the fluxe and lost not much aboue ℥ iiii of bloud and so cured her after within a very short time Then I gaue him the order and making of the sayd powder Only this I am to giue you to vnderstand that I haue since my first collection added other Simples which profite it greatly And I haue also giuen it vnto many good Surgions who were men both sober wise and learned as well in London as in the Countrie that haue bene thankfull for it But I must needes say agayne some other there are whose tongues can vnfoulde secretes and their capable heads vnderstand great misteries vnto whō I haue likewise friendly giuen it These men were not onely vnlearned but also shamelesse and such haue rewarded me agayne euen like vnto the churlish Curre vnto whom reliefe was offered whose malice is such that he neuer respecteth the goodnesse of the gift nor the courtesie of the giuer but snarleth and snatcheth at him that offereth reliefe to helpe to satisfie his hunger a slender recompence for so great a courtesie To speake hereof I am taught by experience for hauing bestowed on them not only this profitable powder the which now most willingly I present vnto all the young professors of Chirurgerie c. and I knowe they haue vsed the same vnto the profite of their patients and credite of themselues yet neuerthelesse some could finde in their hearts behinde my backe to render me no other thankes than did the churlish Curre who rewarded euill for good In steade of thankes I haue bene backbitten and thus I reape for my labour but chaffe for corne ill will and priuat grudge for courtesies and friendship offered I doe not here compare any good man vnto any such had persons neither will I compare any such bad persons vnto any good man But now gentle and courteous Reader I doe craue pardon for that I doe here with the Macedonian call a spade a spade a backbiter a backbiter And so I ende wishing all good Artistes to take heede and beware vnto whom they impart their secretes least they also enter into the gappe of vngratefulnesse or the vnsauerie dunghill of their despightfull tongues Now followe very good approued remedies for wounds made with gunshot which may bee vsed with Flamula if the bullet haue passed through or els with tents according to the depth and greatnesse of the wound Chap. 9. Rec. Mercurij precipitati biscalcinati ℥ j. Butyri recentis ℥ iiij Vnguenti basilicon ℥ iij. ana ℥ j. Olei liliaci Lini Camphyr ʒ ij dissolued in Aqua vitae q. s. Misce fiat vnguentum Or this Rec. Vnguentum Basilicon ℥ ij Butyri recentis ℥ j. Mercurij praecipitati ʒ ij ss Misce fiat vnguentum Or this Digestiue Clowes Rec. Terebinthinae lotae in Aqua vitae ℥ iiij Vitellor ouorum nu ij Vnguenti Populeon simplic ℥ ij Olei rosarum ℥ ss Mercurij precipitati ʒ ij Croci ℈ j. Misce This Digestiue being vsed with Oleum catulorum of Maister Ambrose Parries description hath a certaine league and soctetie or facultie to appease paynes and to alter and chaunge the contused substance of flesh made by the bullet into perfect matter but if the part affected be possessed with any distemper or inordinate accidents which often followe such wounds sometimes by reason the bodie is replenished with thinne and seirrous humours called of the learned Cachochimia and other distemperatures specially in such bodies as abound in choler flegme and melancholie then it is conuenient to make euacuation by purging the humour most molesting and abounding which is to bee done with great discretion There are other noysome causes which followe these wounds and do as it were excruciat and torment the patient with great inflammations fluxes of blond feuers and conuoltions which sodainly inuade the bodie which if they bee not with spéede cured it wasteth the strength and the recouerie of the patient is to be lamented and death speedily ensueth So these things being foreknowne diligently weigh and considered may by Gods assistaunce be preuented where Reason and Experience are copartners and partakers together This Oyle is also good for wounds made with gunshot Landrada Rec. Oleilini lib. ij Terebinthinae lib. ij Viridis aeris pul ʒ ij Misce Or this which is called Oleum catulorum Rec. Olei viol lib. iiij Catulos duos Verminum terrestrium lib. j. Boyle these ouer a gentle fire of coales till the flesh bee separated from the bones then strayne it and adde thereto Terebinthinae Venetae ℥ iiij Aquae vitae ℥ j. Some of late haue added vnto this Oyle the leaues of Nicosiana or Peto with other herbes and they say it profiteth greatly but I haue vsed it without any addition as Maister Ambrofe Parrie hath himselfe published and for the worthinesse thereof I can speake by experience for being sent for by letters from Right Honorable and also by her Maiesties commaundement to goe into the Low Countries to attende vpon the Right Honorable Earle of Leicester Lord Lieuteuant and Captaine Generall of her Maiesties forces in those Countries and shortly after my comming thether I was commaunded by his Excellencie to haue a great regarde vnto the hurt and wounded Souldiers and there was likewise in that seruice Maister Goodrouse one of her Maiesties Surgions who was also employed about the curing of the wounded Souldiers and without praise of my selfe or flatterie to others here nominated but onely I speake it to the praise of almightie God there did not dye to my remembrance one man that was then hurt with gunshot so that he was not first wounded to death but he was shortly after perfectly cured for our method and waies of curing did greatly differ from the bitter practises of a sort of straglers which did thrust them selues into Captaines bands for principall Chirurgions and there without either knowledge or skill seduced many with their rude obseruations and vndiscret practises which at randon they had gotten and partly by tradition from their foolish maisters of whom also they had learned bedroulles of errors with a fewe experiments passed from hand to hand such as sayth Guido followe one another as it were a sort of Geese or Cranes I

amisse With heart I craue reade viewe and see If better you haue impart it with me Nowe slaunderer say thy worst with malice and defame In God I onely trust all glory to his name A TREATISE OF THE FRENCH POCKS WRITTEN by Iohn Almenar a Spanish Phisition Chap. 1. Of the beginning and definition of this disease IT is concluded by certaine wise men that this disease which amongst the Italians is called Gallicus that is to say the French disease should now bée named Patursa which is by interpretation a disease filthie and Saturnall It is a filthie disease because it maketh women to bee estéemed vnchast and irreligious It is Saturnall because it tooke the beginning from Saturne when he entred into Aries hauing the rest of the heauenly aspects helping thereunto And albeit that influence haue ceassed it is not necessarie that the disease should ceasse because many infected bodies remayned whereby others haue bene infected Hereof it may be concluded that this disease shall continue many yeeres and therefore let men take heede that by other mens example it may bee sayd of them Happie is he whom others daunger make warie The disposition which proceeded of the celestiall influence making impression into the bodies did burne the humours in respect of Aries which signe is hot and drie and after this burning cold and drie humours were engendred on Saturnes part which signe is by nature colde and drie These colde and drie or melancholike humours caried to diuers places bring diuers paines and in the skinne bring forth diuers kinds of pustles or wheales It may be thus defined The French Pockes or Patursa is an vniuersall or popular ill disposition in the parts of the bodie consisting principally in the liuer and veynes and their humors whereof ensue these accidents to wit paynes and wheales in all the bodie The efficient cause is touched when it is called vniuersall or popular that is proceeding from the influence of the heauens the formall when it is called an euill disposition the materiall when it is sayd to be in the parts Also the difference is touched when it is sayd that paynes doe ensue it c. Concerning the ende the bodily Phisition intermedleth not but the spirituall Phisitions affirme them to bee sent for the punishment of sinne Wherefore they which would bee deliuered and escape this let them take heede of sinne and applye their mindes to God for only God cureth infirmities as Mesues sayth in his treatise de Appropriatis Of this definition doe followe many and profitable consequences First that this disease is one and not many as some haue insufficiently affirmed because there could not be giuen one definition of it neither had it alwaies one only efficient cause neither would one kinde of cure agree neither had it one name which is absurd as partly hath appeared alreadie and shall more plainly be shewed hereafter The second consequence is that they are deceiued which thinke they haue found the head or fountaines of this disease to bee the paine in the ioynts and pustles in the face because the former definition agreeth not vnto them Moreouer all the paynes are not in the ioynts neither are all the wheales like red pustles in the face Therefore neither this disease nor the cure of it can be referred vnto them as it shall be hereafter shewed The third consequence that they which cure onely wheales or onely looke to the paynes doe cure imperfectly For who can cure perfectly the h●ada●h or the drinesse of the tongue or thirst which come from a Feauer vnlesse he first ●●●e the Feauer For the accident followeth the disease as the shadow doth the bodie Gal. lib. 3. de accident And therefore the paynes cannot bee cured as the pustles except the disease be first cured because these are either accidents or conioyned sicknesses which follow the principall and doe presuppose it must be first cured as Auicen testifieth tract 1. sen 3. and in many places The fourth consequent if any doe ioyne the cure of the Empiricks with those which thinke they cure orderly as the annoynting of the Empiricks and the purging of the Phisitions yet the cure is insufficient because by those medicines the il complexion which is fixed in the parts cannot be remoued And this was the cause that many haue thought themselues cured when they were not And if any haue bene cared it was by reason that the humors were throughly purged by solutiue medicines and vnctions which auoyded nature was stronger and superiour to the disease and that euill complexion and expelled it This had not so fallen out except the nature had bin strong and the impression little but where the strength was weake and the impression strong this disease could not be expelled This difference in the strength of nature and the impression hath bene the cause that some haue bene cured without medicines some with medicines others could not by any meanes be cured Now wee will shewe that way which both reason and experience hath taught to heale all not onely by remouing with medicines the humor which procureth actuall payne and pustles and hath abilitie prepared to the same but also that euill complexion which infecteth the humors they being first purged as order requireth wherin the treasure of this cure consisteth I could inferre many other consequences but because it is tedious to vse many words in things not auaileable to the cure as Galen sayth 1. de regim acut This shal be sufficient It remayneth to determine of the causes Of the causes of the french Pockes Chap. 2. THere is a twofold kinde of causes because some are first some corporall and those of two sorts partly antecedent partly conioyned That which is first or originall in this disease is twofold whereof the first is the onely influence or corruption of the aire from whence we must charitably thinke that it infected those which were religious The second is conuersation as by kissing and sucking as appeareth in children or by carnall copulation as it hath happened to many very often but by other meanes and chiefly by the influence or corruption of the aire very seldome It may be also caused by other meanes of conuersatiō which I leaue to thy consideration It is sufficient to knowe by experience that this disease is contagious and by probabilitie of reason wherin it is like to other contagious diseases it may be so accōpted Hereupon Auicen saith in the 2. of his 1. concluding his treatise of the dispositions of sicknesses Some there are which passe from one to another as the Leprosye Seabs Pocks pestilent Feuers rotten apostemes Now of the autecedent causes there are foure kindes as there are foure humors which may be the matter of this disease through their ill disposition whereby they are apt to receiue the impression heereof to wit blood choler fleame melancholy The conioyned cause is double one is the cause of the disease and it is the humor which

â„¥ ss Boyle together your Minium and Waxe til they be black then put in your Waxe and last your Camphyr And thus within the space of tenne weekes he was safely cured and his bone was agayne vnited and knit his splints and roullers were taken also away and the plasters that did remaine about his legge for the curing of the fractured bone was likewise remoued and thus I finished this cure as effectually as though he had neuer receiued hurt But if the Gangraene should yet haue increased as oftentimes I haue seene notwithstanding these and such like good remedies then the last helpe will be miserable that is to cut off the corrupt member in the whole and sound parts c. The maner and order of the taking or cutting off a mortified corrupt legge or arme which commeth oftentimes by reason of wounds made with Gunshot c. Chap. 8. SIth as I haue sayd that oftentimes it happeneth by reason of euill accidents which followe wounds made with Gunshot the whole member doth come to Gangraene Sideratio or Sphacelus so that we are many times constrayned forthwith to make a speedie dispatch to cut off the member which shal be done as Maister Gale verie skilfully hath appoynted in the whole and sound parts And if it so fall out or happen that a legge is to be cut off beneath the knee then let it be distant from the ioynt iiii inches and iii. inches aboue the knee and so likewise in the arme as occasion is offered These things being obserued and noted then through the assistance of almightie God you shall luckelie accomplish this work by your good industrie and diligence But you must bee very circumspect and carefull of all things which concerne the methodicall perfection of this worke that is you shall haue a great regard to the state of his bodie as also for euacuation and dyeting And after his bodie is prepared and purged then the same morning you doe attempt to cut off the member be it legge or arme let him haue two houres before some good comfortable Caudle or other broth according vnto the discretion of the learned Phisition or Chirurgion only to corroborate and strengthen his stomacke And in any wise omit not but that he haue ministred vnto him some good exhortation by the Minister or Preacher And you shall aduertise the friends of the patient that the worke you goe about is great and not without daunger of death for that many accidents or syntomies doe runne and flocke together vnto such great wounds which desperat euilles in such causes will many times admit no cure All which being considered then ordeyne the night before some good defensiue and let it be applyed two or three times about the member Rec. Emplastrum Diachalcitheos lib. j. ss ana â„¥ j. Succi semperuiui Succi plantaginis Succi Solani Olei ros â„¥ ij ss Olei myrtini â„¥ j. Ouorum albumin nu ij Aceti ros â„¥ j. Misce And oftentimes I haue vsed this with good successe An other defensiue Gale Rec. Boli armeniaci â„¥ viij Farinae hordei â„¥ iiij ana â„¥ ij Sanguinis Draconis Terrae sigillatae Olibani â„¥ j. ss Aceti â„¥ iiij Albumin ouorum q. s. Misce All which being well considered you shall haue in a readinesse a good strong fourme and a stedie and set the patient at the very ende of it then shall there bestride the fourme behinde him a man that is able to hould him fast by both his armes which done if the legge be to be taken of beneath the knee let there bee also an other strong man appoynted to bestride the legge that is to be taken of and he must hould fast the member aboue the place where the incision is to be made very stedily without shaking and he that doth so hould should haue a large hand and a good gripe whose hand may the better stay the bleeding but in some bodies it will not bee amisse to admit bleeding specially in such bodies as are of hot complexions and doe abound in bloud And I haue knowne through the skilfulnesse of the houlder not much aboue â„¥ iiii of bloud lost at a time but in weake bodies it may not bee suffered to loose much bloud for bloud is sayd to be the treasure of life for which cause a good houlder is not to be spared In like maner there must be an other skilfull man that hath good experience and knowledge to hould the legge belowe for the member must not be held too high for staying and choking of the saw neither must hee hould downe his hande too lowe for feare of fracturing the bones in the time it is a sawing off and he that doth cut off the member must bee sure to haue a sharpe sawe a very good catlin and an incision knife and then boldly with a stedie and quick hand cut the flesh round about to the bones without staying being sure that the Periostium or Panicle that couereth the bones bee also incised cut with the Nerue that runneth betweene the two bones of the legge which shall be done with your incision knife all this being orderly performed then set your sawe as neere the sound flesh as easely you may not touching it and with a light hand speedily sawe it off then hauing prepared also in a readines this restrictiue pouder to stay the fluxe of bloud The restrictiue powder Clowes Rec. Boli armeniaci â„¥ iij. ana â„¥ j. Sanguinis Draconis Aloes Olibani â„¥ j. ss ana â„¥ ss Terrae sigillatae Masticis Croci martis â„¥ ij Lapidis hematites â„¥ ss ana â„¥ j. Calcis ex testis ouorum Mummiae Gypsi â„¥ vj. Farinae volatilis â„¥ iiij Misce Take of this powder as will serue your turne and mixe with the sayd powder Pilorum leporis terrefact ouorum albumin ana quantum sufficet and let the Hare haires I say bee cut as fine as possible may bee so much as will bring it all to a reasonable thicknesse and when the powder is thus prepared before you cut off the member let there bee in like maner made for the purpose three or foure small boulsters or buttons fashioned in the top or vpper part like a Doues egge or as a Sugar lofe button flat in the bottome to the compasse of a French Crowne and round vpwards as aforesayd and these you shall make of fine Towe according to arte wrought vp in water and vineger wherevpon you shall applie some part of the restrictiue And when the boulder of the member aboue doth partly release the fast holding of his hand by little and little by which meanes you may the better perceiue see the mouthes of the veynes that are incised and cut and vpon the endes of those large veynes that are incised and cut you shall place the round endes of these three or foure small buttons and vpon them presently without tariance place a round thicke bed of Tow made vp in

Rec. ana m. j. Flo. Camo●illae Melliloti Anethi Ros rub pul ana m. ss Foliorum mal Absynthij Furfuris m. i. Boyle all these together in Lixiuio vino rub then adde thereto ana q. s. Medullae panis Farinae fab ana ℥ ij Olei ros Myrtini Misce A lyniment for wyndy tumors Re. ana ℥ i● Oleorū Camomil Anethi Lauri ana q. s. Cerae albae Aquae vitae A present remedy to take away Warts Rec. ana q. s. Aceti fort Thymi Hisopi Stampe them in the vineger and strongly strayned make therof a lixiuium with the ashes of willowes and often wash ●he Warts c. A common Powder to take away Warts that growe about Praputium Rec. ana ℥ ss Auri pigmenti Sulphuris viui Calcis viui Sabini ʒ j. Misce fiat pul secundum artem A very good spiced playster which my maister M. Keble often vsed and hee did therewith much good for paynes and aches Rec. Cerae ℥ xii Resinae ℥ viii Picis ℥ i. ss Olibani ℥ iiii Resinae pini lib. i. Adipis ceruini ℥ ii Croci ʒ ii ana ℥ ss Mac●ris Garsophilorum Vini rub lib. ii Misce fiat Emplastrum A good medicin for a pinne and a webbe in the eyes Re. ana q. s. Succorū Saluiae rub Feniculi rub Trifolii Mellis com Ouorum album Let all these be well beaten together and reserue it to your vse Or this Rec. ana q. s. Mellis com Succi Semperuiui Aquae Ros Then take tenne or twelue streines of new layd egges of a white Hen as néere as you can then let them be well beaten in a swéete morter till they be vnited in manner of an oyntment then let all these be beaten together and a little relented and reserue it to your vse and sometimes you may adde to it Aquae celidoniae eufragiae q. s. This receit was giuen me for a secrete of one I suppose to be a good occulist and some triall I haue had of late of these foresayd remedies c. The white Mucilage plaster Rec. Cerussae lib. v. Lithargiri auri lib. ij Olei com lib. viij Rad. altheae being clensed and picked from the pith m. iiij ana m. j. Sem. lini Foenigraeci contus Aquae q. s. And make hereof a Mucilage then take of it lib. iij. Misce fiat Emplastrum secundum artem An vnguent good for the Hemeroyds Rec. Vnguenti ros ℥ ij Vnguenti populeon com ℥ j. ss Vitellum oui .j. Opij ʒ ss Misce A very good resolutiue Cerot Rec. ana ℥ ij ss Olei Liliacei Amigdal dul Medul cruris cerui ana ℥ j. Mucilag sem lini Foenigraeci Altheae Cerae q. s. A mellilot plaster greatly vsed of the common Chirurgions Rec. Resinae lib. viii Cerae lib. ij Seui ouini lib. ss Succi meliloti lib. viij Vini rub lib. ij Misce fiat emplastrum Maister Francis Rasius Mundificatiue the which he vsed here when he had the Earle of Sussex in cure and he did sweare vnto me it was his Fathers practise afore his time Rec. Butyri rec lib. ij ana lib. ss Cerae citrinae Resinae Resinae pini Picis Graec. Viridis aeris ℥ ss Misce A plaster agaynst inueterat vlcers Rec. Emplastride Cerussa optimè cocti lib. ss Mercurij extincti in aoua vitae ℥ iij. Fiat Emplastrum bonae constitutionis secun art A Liniment to ceasse payne and cause sleepe being applyed vnto the temples Rec. Opij extracti cum aceto ros ℥ j. Sem Hyosciami albi ʒ vj. Nucis musc ʒ v. pul subtiliss Vnguenti ros ℥ ij ss Olei nucis musc gut Fiat Linimentum A most pretious Oyle against all inflammations and to cause sleepe also and it will cease the paines of the Goute in any part of the body Rec. Olei com lib. viij Vini albi lib. ij Summitatum Hyosciami Sem. eius virid lib. iij. ss ana ℥ iiij Vermium terrestr Gariophill Croci ℥ j. Opii ℥ ss Let these be brused and mixed together and let it stand s● in the Sunne twelue daies then boyle them to the consumption of the Wyne and the iuice then straine it and kéepe it to your vse But if you will make of this Oyle a liniment for wounds in the ioynts and to ceasse payne and for bruses or any sharp and biting paine of virulent vlcers then Rec. Olei Praedic ℥ iiii Olei Hyperic ℥ i. Olei Lumbricorum ℥ ss Gum. Elemni ʒ vi Terebinthinae lotae in lacte mulieris ʒ vii Misce Mixe all these together and make it in forme of a liniment and if you will haue it more thicker to the forme of an vnguent adde thereto ana ʒ iii. Resinae pini Resinae Vnguenti Ros ʒ vi Cerae albae ℥ ss Misce A Plaster good to resolue knobs and hard swellings Rec. ana lib. i. Terebinthinae puriss Aphronitri ana ℥ iiii Galbani Propolis Guttarum ammoniaci ℥ viii Lixiuij q. s. Fiat Emplastrum secundum artem A Plaster for the hard swellings in womens Breasts Rec. Mellis despumati ℥ ix Olei rosarum ℥ vi Cerae citrinae ℥ iiii Misce secundum artem An Oyle for Convulsions proceeding through wounds in the nerues or otherwise Rec. Olei com lib. iiii Olei terebin lib. i. ss Saluiae m. ii Florum Rorismarini m. i. ss Vermium terrestrium preparat ℥ iiii Euphorbij ʒ iii. Gum. Hederae ℥ iiii Radic Brioniae ℥ i. Iridis ℥ ss Olibani ℥ iii. ss ana ʒ ij Masticis Cinamomi Cariophilorum Croci ʒ i. Vini maluatici lib. ii Bruse the Sage with Rosemary flowers and powder the rest that are to be powdered mixe all together and put them into an earthen vessell well glazed being close stopt and set them to macerate for tenne dayes in Horse dung or in Balneo according to arte then boyle them to the consumption of the Wine c. Vnguentum pro Spasmo Rec. ana ℥ i. Axungiae cerui Taxi Vrsi Olei Laurini ℥ i. ss ana ℥ ss Olei vulpini Castorei Therebinthinae Iuniperi Lumbricorum ana ℥ ii Vnguēt Agrippoe Dialtheae The Terebinthine washe in the water of Lylyes then take Euphorbij ℈ i. Cum modico cerae fiat vnguentum These Oyles following are also very good for a convulsion comming by repletion and fulnesse Oleum Vulpinum Oleum Laurinum Oleum Rutaceum Oleum Chamomillinum Oleum Iuniperinum Oleum Terebinthinae Oleum Benedictum Oleum Philosophorum These vnguents and Oyles do partly warme ate●uate and dissolue cold and glutinous humors that often followe sharpe sicknesse which perillous accident commeth by reason the sinewes is offended and hurt which doth torment the patient as I haue séene in woundes made with Gunshot and also in the cutting and pricking of them by reason of repletion and vchement paine that draweth matter to the part affected the which matter Vigo noteth

being first infected or altered by the originall causes infecteth the partes and other humors and therefore it is sayd the first originall causes moue the antecedē● But the couioyned cause of the accidents is that h●●●● which immediately procureth paynes and whea●es But h●ere it may be demaunded whether the euill ●●●litie in the humor which is the autecedent cause may be a disease It seemeth it cannot sith a disease affecteth a li●●●g thing but the humor liueth not Whereto it may be answered that the humor which is in the lyuer and veynes infected with this euill quality may be the subiect of a disease so it be graunted that that ill qualitie haue not attaynted the part because it may hinder digestion in the liuer and veines and ingender corrupt humors therefore by the definition of a disease it appeareth to be a disease Now to the argument it is answered that it is sufficient that a liuing thing be the subiect of denomination or be that which is named diseased it must not be that wherein the disease is settled yea that is most stable that the humor is the subiect wherein the disease is settled And if it be sayd how can the humor be an antecedent cause and yet a disease be in it as in a subiect I answere it is an antecedent in respect of the paynes and pustles because it is apt to flowe to the places of paine and pustles it is a conioyned cause in as much as it causeth an ill complexion in the member it is the subiect of a disease in respect it hath a disposition whereby the action of the member is hurt wherevpon it is called diseased If you consider these things well you shall comprehend all the difficulties which may be incident to the definition Of the signes of the french Pocks Chap. 3. THe signes are hurt in the yard especially corroding heauinesse of the head and payne in the necke which by little and little are spread towards the shoulders and spade bones to the ioynts first in the armes then in the legges and sometime in the muscles and sinewes which are in those parts the payne increaseth in the night and decreaseth in the day The cause is that nature is then retyred home and stronger as also in regard of the moistnesse and coldnesse of the night the matter is increased In the day nature is drawne from the sense heereof and doth not so much moue the humors partly being weake partly occupied in other actions I will shew the signes of the causes respecting the payne and pustles as others also in the tree of signes heereafter set downe If the payne be sharpe and quickly arising and the pustles little of a citron colour vlcerated and the skinne rough they come of choller If the paine do slowly come forth the pustles broade whitish they are of fleame If they haue great itching and some heate they proceed of salt flegme If they be black and small not very paynefull they are of melancholy If they be red and not paynefull they are of blood You shall find these sigues intermedled if you view others for as corruption seldome happeneth in one onely humour sayth Galen 1. regim acut euen so you shall seldome finde the signes foretelling one onely humor Therefore you must gather all the signes in your minde and comparing them together attayne to that which is principall and according to that humor dispose your cure The Prognostications MElancholick persons are most fit for this disease in regard of their likenesse according to Aristotle 2. de generat Things which haue affinitie do easily change Auicenna sayth 21. There is an easier conuersion into proportionable things then into contraries They especially are apter which are melancholick by burnt choler then cholerick thirdly sanguine persons through the abundance of their humors Phlegmatick persons are least subiect Amongst these they which haue thinne bodies are apt but especially such as are full of ill humors and vse melancholick meates as pulse olde flesh and such like When this disease is new it is curable but when it is old it is hardly cured and the older the worse because that ill disposition taketh déeper roote Therefore they which haue this disease let thē séeke present remedie They which haue many pustles and little paynes are more easily cured then they which haue the contrarie They which haue nodes or knots are more hardly healed Yong persons if other things concurre are more easily cured then others wherevpon Galen sayth It is not possible that the aged should be healed rather then youth 2. prognost It remayneth to speake of the ture Of the cure of the French Pocks Chap. 4. WE suppose the cure of this disease to consist in these 7. things First in solublenesse second by diminutiue purging thirdly digestion of the matter fourthly perfect purging fiftly alteration of the parts sixtly comforting of them seauenthly correcting the accidents But because an error committed in the sixe things not natural doth more hurt according to Serapion 5. practicae 2. Cap. And Auicen sayth that euery ill complexion is not cured by the contrarie but good dyet many times sufficeth therefore first wee must set downe the order in the ●●xe things not naturall Wherevpon albeit they which are sound keepe order yet that is called conseruatine and this curatiue Sithens therefore all cure is by contraries according to Galen 3. Artis and Auicen 4. 1. and this disease is very drie the order of diet must be inclyning to moystnesse And because in regarde of the essence it is hot comming of adustion and in respect of the humors colde because the humors are colde and drie the order in things actiue must be temperate and in passiue must incline to moysture And although in consideration of opening digesting and attenuating the humors it is requisite to appoynt hot things neuerthelesse there must be mingled with them colde and comfortable to the liuer and veynes Therefore in actiue things let the ayre incline to heate but in passiue let it be wholly moyst Let it be sweete and moued with the winde In Sommer this may be done by strowing the leaues of Willow Umes ●lagges Rushes Roses Uiolets mingling Bayes with them and other sweete herbes and sprinckling them with water In meate and drinke the dyet must not be slender For Hippoc. sayth Thinne and strayt diet in long diseases are hardly endured Let therefore his bread be neither hote nor aboue thrée dayes old well sodden and leauened His Wine white cleare of a meane temper betweene swéet and harsh mixed with sodden water or with the water of Buglosse Borrage and such like especially in the declining of the disease for at other times much matter might be caried to the places affected Therefore if there be variable paines let him drinke Claret Wine vntill the declining Let his flesh be Capenets fleshy but not fat and Chickens ●idde Veale Lamb of a yeare olde the flesh of Pheasant Partridge and little

incrassatas difficillimè absque incisione sanatur Hernia varicosa by reason of the swelled veynes that are puffed vp and thickned about the testicle is hard to be cured without incision Hernia zirbialis inueterata rarò aut nunquam sine incisione curatur Hernia zirbialis of long continuance is hardly or neuer cured without incision Hernia intestinalis in senibus difficilè curatur Hernia intestinalis in old persons is hard to be cured Hernia humoralis inueterata testem putrescit ideoque non nisi per incisionem curatur Hernia humoralis of continuance doth putrifie the testicle therefore it can not be cured without incision Hernia inguinalis saepenumero in apostemationem degenerat in fine quoque si non celeriter succuratur in fistulam vel vlcus cancrosum vadit Hernia inguinalis turneth oftentimes into impostumation and in the end if it be not speedely cured it either becommeth to be a fistula or a canckrous vlcer Hernia saniosa difficillimè nisi in principio auxiliatur quoniam materia eius venenosa non solum vnum testiculum in quo oritur verum etiam alterū corrumpit Hernia saniosa is hardly cured except it be taken in time for the poysoned matter therein conteined doth not onely corrupt the testicle which it began in but also put●●fieth the other Hernia zirbialis intestinalis ventosa semper si tempestiuè accipiantur victus ratione ligatura conuenienti aut leuantur aut penitus sanantur Hernia zirbialis intestinalis ventosa are alwayes eased or cured by trusses in time and by good dyet Hernia ventosa medicamentis calefacientibus slatum discutientibus curatur Hernia ventosa is cured by medicines warming and dissoluing winde Hernia aquosa per actuale cauterium inter bursam testiculum optimè curatur Hernia aquosa is best cured by an actuall cautery betwéene the codde and the testicle Omnis hernia initio praesertim in pueris facillime curatur Euery rupture in the beginning especially in children is easie to be cured Omnis hernia cum dolore ac inguinum tumore difficilè curatur Euery rupture with payne and swelling of the flancks is hard to be cured Hernia cum Hydrope let hale est A rupture with a dropsey is deadly Hernia nulla per incisionem sine vnius testiculi amissione curatur There is no rupture cured by incision but that one of the testicles is taken away Hernia vltra septem dies antiquata appellatur quoniam tunc labia vulneris interius indurata sunt A rupture after seauen dayes is called old because then the lips of the breach in wardly are hardned Relaxatio sine incisione in principio facilè curatur A relaxation is easily cured in the beginning without incision Relaxatio facilius quam hernia completa curatur A relaxation is easier cured then a rupture complete Differentia inter relaxationem rupturam hoc modo cognoscitur si aliquis stet supra pedes suos impellat anhelitum versus inferiora si de facili tunc descendant intestina inferius ruptus est si non relaxatus est The difference betweene a relaxation and a rupture is thus knowne let him that doubteth by reason of some strayne whether he be broken or no stand vpon his feete and force his breath towards the inferior parts if then the entrailes do easily descend downewards he is broken if not he is but relaxed Lues venerea se omnibus coniungit aegritudinibus aegritudinesque omnes in genere secum associat Lucs vencrea ioyneth with all diseases and all diseases do ioyne with it Lucs venerea con●agiosa est si cum mulieribus immundis coitu accidit This disease is contagious if it chanceth through carnall copulation with vncleane women Causa antecedens est quando humores per malignitatem morbi contagiosi venenosam qualitatem corripiuntur The antecedent cause is when the humors are defiled by the malignitie and venemous qualitie of the disease being contagious Causa primitiua est coitus cum mulieribus immundis atque foedis pustulas venenosas in vtero habentibus The primitiue cause of this disease is carnall company with vncleane and filthy women hauing venemous pustles in their secret partes Postquam lues venerea in secretis partibus oritur adeò venenosa est vt per totum corpus transit a capite ad pedes After lues venerea hath begun in the secret parts it is so venemous that it spreadeth through the whole body from the head to the foote Sanguis in lue venerea vniuersaliter corrumpitur ideoque pustulas scabies venenosas squamasque crustosas producit In lues venerea the bloud is corrupted through the whole body and so produceth pustles venemous scabbes and crusty scales In luis venereae curatione neque anodina neque paliatiua medicamenta adhibeantur In the cure of lues venerea neyther asswaging nor palliatiue medicines are to be vsed Lentigines sunt infectiones cutis faciei vt plurimum aliquando cutis totius corporis Freckles are infections for the most part of the skinne of the face and sometimes of the skinne of the whole bodie In lentiginibus si corpus fuerit vniuersaliter multum repletum siat phlebotomia de basilica In a sreckled bodie if the bodie be much replete vniuersally it is good to open the basilica veyne Si autem non fuerit tanta repletio infectio fuerit in toto corpore fiat de Mediana si in facie fiat de Cephalica But if there be no such repletion and the infection be through the whole bodie then open Mediana but if it be only in the face open Cephalica Scarificationes in tibijs aut inter spatulas aut sub mento multum valent in lentiginibus For freckles scarifications of the legs or betwixt the shoulderblades or vnder the chinne doe greatly profite Lepra est morbus consimilis corrumpens figuram formam compositionem membrorum finaliter soluens continuum proueniens de materia melancholica sparsa per totum corpus The Leprosie is a disease of like maners corrupting the figure forme and composition of the members and finally making breach of continuitie it commeth of melancholike matter dispersed through the whole bodie Lepra postquam venit ad manifestam corruptionem formae figurae non curabitur sed vitam prolongare possumus impedire cū medicaminibus ne materia venenosa melancholica ad cor membra principalia vadat After that the Lepro●e commeth to manifest corruption of the forme and figure it is vncurable but we may prolong life and hinder by medicines that the venimous and melancholike matter come not to the heart and principall members Lepra incipit primò ab interioribus postea manifestabitur in facie extremitatibus iterata reuertitur ad interiora tunc est mors quia membra nobilia ruinam sustinere non possunt The

paruum Mesuae Defensiue Clowe● In hot complexions we are many times constrained the second or third day to open a veyne only to preuent a feuer and in bodies of euill constitutiō It is also very necessary to emptie or loose the bellie by suppositories or Clisters if cause so require c. Also he must haue a good quicke eye a strong arme and a stout heart Emplastrum de Peto or Hyosciami lutei Clowes If you adde to of Cerae one ounce it is not amisse The yron is most excellēt but that it is offensiue to the eye and bringeth the patient to great sorowe and dread of the burning and smart Am. Parrie A note or obseruation This oyle doth appease paynes and also remoueth the brused or contused flesh Am. Parrie It is more tollerable in him that praiseth his owne vertues than he that bosteth of other mens deedes Stealing of same credit is the onely marke such shoote at Clowes Obseruatio There was ioyned with me in this cure Maister Clowe a very expert skilful Chirurgiō Note Madame Danueil● B 〈…〉 Obseruatio Vnguentum consolidati●● De●ensiu● Balme Am. Pa●●ie Balme A●de●●a●●● Balme 〈…〉 Note Emplastrum sticticum Paracelst I. B. I. B. I. B. Franciscus Rasius Chirurgion to the French King Calmetheus Valeniola Maister Gal● powder Pul. Galen● Tagaltius A drinke for a Fistula Master Keble Maister Keble Odo●phus O 〈…〉 Vigo I. B. Iosephus Quirsitanus Maister Keble Vnguentum populeon 〈…〉 Weeken Weckerus Maister Keble Maister Keble A good powder to take away ●pungious flesh P●●●sh●e pare Iohannes A deu Emplastrum flos vngue●●o●●● ●●psium Vnguentum in frigidans Galeni Vnguentum resinae which doth mund fi● incarne and sta●●th the mucilage or gleeting humour specially about the 〈…〉 〈…〉 Maister Keble Mundificatiuum Franciscus Rasius Franciscus Rasius I. B. P●●n●● I. B. Vnguentum pro Spasmo I. B. M●●●● Good●●●●● A●●●●● Ar●●us 〈…〉 A plaster for wounds in the head Vigo Quercetani Rex Angliae I. B. Andernacu● 〈◊〉 Many good Ships are as it were become e●ges for such vncleane birds the more is th● pitie 〈…〉 Quercetanus N. 〈◊〉 Paracelsus Vigo Clow●● Ignorance engendereth error The more the worse He hath me●● selowes that will poynt at other mens faults and forget their own Reasons according to his rudenes Note that old things bee enemies vnto the sinewes 〈◊〉 Vigo Valeriola Weck●● Vnguentum aureum Heben Mesu● He was a yong Phisitō scarse skilfull in the arte of Chirurgerie though otherwise well learned They 〈◊〉 neither ●●oroydes nor P 〈…〉 es vi●let his correction but the F. P. Such wounds are sildom voyd of accidents vntill the 〈◊〉 be perfectly di●ested Vnguentun● Capri●olij Wecker Emplastru● Betonicae It is supposed not to be good for to ouer busie our selues in these wounds of the head in the full of the Moone without great cause constrayne vs. Strong 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 i. ●c 〈◊〉 ●ie in strong bodies but 〈◊〉 weake person● it is ●o 〈…〉 de●●●ed according to the● strength 〈…〉 Sp●●nts also made with the ●●abbards of swords I haue ●●●d with like ●●●●ite vnto 〈…〉 ent In matters ● danger sh●● not to aske counsell least when it is too late thou do then repent thee Some dead and some aliue Keble Note This manifest 〈…〉 needeth no witnesses Potus Antiochiae Guido Wecker Bloud may not be suffered in a wound specially if it be congealed Many good men are subiect to iniurious reports the subtile seedes of enuy Commendations of certaine trauellers and of their traueiling Neuer trust a warrenter Nor a bosting bragger A runnagate fugitiue Nor a lying quack saluer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must stand as ●●awe for his countenance 〈◊〉 credite Cast away your Chirurgicall Instruments your plaister boxes and saluatories if Chirurgerie may as it were thus bee ●ent o● thrust vp in a bottle 〈◊〉 a bagge He learned it of slaunderers like vnto himselfe only to discredite some persons enuied The fruites of shameles malice Beware of ●●aude in frendly lookes Note To be hated for doing of good is not to be esteemed but to be reprooued for euill is the reward of euill A singular decocted Oyle or Balme Emplastrum T●●●pharmacum M●s●● Cataplasma Clowes Dolor and pa●nesis as it were a ventose or cupping glasse in drawing matter to the affected place Vnguentum Basilicon magistrale Oleū Aparisij Note this for a speciall Oyle for all wounds generally Such 〈◊〉 〈…〉 cannot be enough ●poke● of Disordred shifters and abusers of Chirurgerie The Defini●●●● 〈◊〉 The Oyn●ment O● 〈…〉 An oyntment A good caueat of a bawdie Spanyard Doubt 1. Doubt ● In this and perhaps some poynt or two moe the Authors iudgment fayled him as in some things we fayle all Signes of Choler Signes of Fleagme Signes of Melancholie ●eware none of our blinde or common practizers that brag of euery new inuented medi●en which they gleane or steale from others do with vnwashed hands presume to giue or minister this worthy remedy without the counsell of the learned Georg. Melich Augeri●s Ferrari●● Auger Fe 〈…〉 ●●●●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 F●●● ●ug●r F●●r ● ● Botallus Andreas Matthiol Note this vnguent for a secret of mi●e owne experience Andr. Matth. Andr. Matth. Nicholaus Massa I. P. Rondolet I. B. I. B. Ambrosius P●●●us 〈◊〉 Ambros P●●●us 558 Initium Apostematis Augmentum Status Declinatio Intentiones 4. in apostematibus curandis Ad suppurationem vel declinationem ●●rde prou●●entia Rubri coloris Ad suppurationem iam peruenta Suppurationem recusan●● In augment● vtenda Pulsationem habentia Apostematis corruptio Apostematum Terminatio Apostematum materia Apostematum febre De materia adusta Apostematum morbi Me●brorum 〈…〉 In declinatione●●●ine quae fug●enda Repercutiētia In augmento statu res vtendae Materi● fluctuante Cerebri Apo●tema 〈…〉 Apostema Cordis Apost ●●●●● Apost Fluxus 〈…〉 ●●ium Apostema liepatis 〈…〉 〈…〉 Renum Apostem Intestinis gracilibus Vesicae Apost Colli Apost In oculis Apost In Ano. Virgae Apost In pectore senum Circa iuacturam In spina Circa linguae radices Pa●tibus carnosis Emunctorijs A venenosi 〈…〉 I 〈…〉 Apostematis in via matu●a 〈…〉 e●●● cog 〈…〉 Apostematibus cal●●is resolu●●tia tug●enda sunt Repercutientia locis emü c●●●is nō●unt adiubenda Imma●ura rep●●●●t 〈…〉 Apostematibus calidis qu● vtenda sunt ●ugienda Alopecia Alopecia a lepra Bronchocele Cancer in pectore vel collo Acuta medicamina Cancer qui in propatulo grassatur Cancer non vlceratus Cancer vlceratus Cancer anti quatus Canis rabidi morsus Carbunc●l●s Calid● Calor Dislocatio in grossis pinguibus teneris corporibus Dislocatio cum apostemate Dislocatio cum fractura Coxae dislocatio Iuncturarum dislocatio D●●●ocatio cum ligam●●ti 〈…〉 Iunctura non dislocata neque separata esse cognoscitur Mandibulae dislocatio ad interiora Ad exteriora Dislocatio ● me●i Anchae dislocatio ad ante●iora Ad interiora Ad exteriora Cubi●i dislocatio intrors●● Dextrorsum a●● sinistrorsum Pulsus b●achij Manus di●●oc●tu●

had sayd he esteemed it little if the hurt were no worse then he could conceiue and gather by their talke and information he would warrant to cure him so that the marrowe of the bone were not touched with the weapon Al these words were pleasant vnto them and very thankfully receiued But to come vnto the substaunce of this cure may it please the friendly Reader here to commit to thy memorie that in my absence before I did come vnto the second dressing of this wounded man as after it was reported vnto me he did in scornfull maner take off all my medicines from the wound and likewise did most foolishly cut open all the stitches which I had made saying vnto them all I was in a wrong boxe as concerning this cure forsooth colouring his opinion vpon Marianus his author for the fellowe will be oftentimes breathles with alleadging of authors whē his mouth is full of lyes who would haue all wounds lye open without stitching I answere that all good Authors generally commaunde to stitch wounds of necessitie otherwise it would cause a great deformitie But if he had ment smal wounds in the face c. or brused wounds where the stitches will rot out or in venimous bitings or where the wound that is stitched tendeth to impostumation there to cut open the stitches I holde it profitable But to proceede shortly after he repented when it was too late and he was constrayned to confesse his fault and as it is sayd of a learned man to excuse himselfe with noddies had I wist So he proceeded about his busines and did powre into the wound his Oyle or Balme and next applyed his plaister and then did bolster and roule it vp after his owne fashion and good liking which being thus finished he gaue him in the morning to drinke a most rare Quintisence the incredible vertues of it and the rest of his onely remedies shortly you shall heare After his dressing was thus finished then I was sent for vnto the patient and forthwith without delay they did signifie vnto me what he had done and that I should not neede to prepare any thing for the patient for that was done already by one that had warranted to cure him and that without any mayme and in a short time for he was one that by his great learning and long trautile had attayned to such rare and singular remedies as no other man in this part of the world had the like for their wonderfull vertues And new say they sith neither you nor other more could not warrant him wee thanke you for your paynes and that you tould vs so and therefore wée will trouble you no further at this time Well sayd I if that be the cause I care the lesse but he that is now your Chirurgeon whatsoeuer he bee that hath made you all these great promises he might yet haue stayed till I had come vnto you for that you were without payne or any other griefe so that I might haue taken off mine owne medicines and to haue scene in what state and manner I had left it Then riseth out of his Chayre flering and gering this myraculous Surgeon gloriously glittering like the man in the Moone with his bracelets about his armes therein many precious Jewels and stones of Sainct Vincent his Rockes his fingers full of rings a siluer case with Instruments hanging at his girdle and a gilt Spatula sticking in his hat with a Rose and a Crowne fixed on the same standing vpon his comparisons and sayd vnto me that he would open the wound and if it were before my face for sayd he my busines lyeth not in London but abroade in the Countrie and with such persons that I cannot nor will not tarrie for you nor for no other whatsoeuer And now here he did begin to bragge and boast as though al the keyes of knowledge did hang at his girdle For he sayd he had attayned vnto the deepe knowledge of the making a certaine Quintisence which he learned beyond the Seas of his Maister one Bomelious a great Magitian This shamelesse beast letted not to say that if a man did drinke of his Quintisence continually euery day a certayne quantitie the vertues thereof was such that a man should not dye before the day of the great Judgement and that it would preserue a man in that state he was in at thirtie yéeres of age and in the same strength and force of witt although a man were a hundred or sixe score yeeres of age Moreouer his plaister was aunswerable vnto this and forsooth hée called it the only plaister of the world and that he attayned vnto it by his great traueile cost and charge and that it was first sent from God by an Angell vnto a red hill in Almayne wherewas in times past a holie man which wrought great merueiles only with this plaister and he neuer vsed any other medicine but only this His precious Balme or Oyle he says no man had but only he and t●●● it was as rare a thing to bee had or found as to see a blacke Swanne or a winter Swallowe And he called it the secrete of the world which is his common vaunting phraze but God knowes the medicines were no such things but only shadowed vnder the vizard of deceipt and a bayte to steale fame and credite and to catch or scrape vp monie or ware for all is fish that commeth into his net Then this gawdie fellowe with his peerles speeches sayd that he had done more good cures with his sayd Quintisence his only plaister and his precious Balme then any one Surgeon in England had done or could do with all the best medicines and remedies they haue And moreouer sayd that he had spoken nothing but that which he would stand to and proue it And that he did knowe that it was not necessarie for vs that be common Surgeons as it pleased the bragger to call vs to vse such a number of medicines as we do for the best manner of curing sayd he consisteth not in the number and multitude of medicines c. In deede said I I know the best manner of curing consisteth not in the number and multitude of bragging words and therefore I tould him in his infected iudgement he did followe Thessalus the ringleader of these rude and rusticall reasons For he sayd in like maner if all those things which Galen had superfluously written were omitted the arte might be learned in sixe moneths But if that said I were true that you speake I suppose then the arte might be learned in sixe dayes if it did consist but only of your drinke your plaister and Balme And therefore I tould him he was deceiued in his superexcellent skill and that he was contrary vnto all the best learned Authors both old and newe who haue published many excellent and approued inuentions according vnto the cause and nature of the effects which daylie do afflict the bodie of

man for which causes they haue set forth great varietie of many singular and approoued medicines Some of them haue propertie to repell and some do atract some will appease paynes and some do resolue some do mollifie some do suppurare and some which do mundisie some incarnate and some that doe cicatrise and conglutinate Tush sayd he it is not your manuists nor your old basillicon mens practise that is as playn as a packstaffe can be answerable vnto mine I will neuer vse any other remedies but as I haue before spoken of Then I tolde him moreouer that Basillicon made after some mens description is as good an Vnguent as could be vsed in the arte of Chirurgerie for so●ne causes And here further I asked him what his meaning was by old basillicon men He answered it was a word which he had learned amongst some Chirurgeons about London Then I told him agayn that there were in London many reuerent skilfull Chirurgeons although perhaps some of thē haue been greatly abused and defaced with false accusations by certayne noysome Serpents lewd Sycophants and also slaunderous libelling knaues who haue béen rubbed on the gall for their vild tungs and abuses Amongst which sort of gald backt Jades one ragged colt of the same breede which neuer wise man thought to be worth the drawing out of the myre hauing as he openly shewed a guiltie conscience and would needes forsooth thrust himselfe in to make one of that number and being somewhat poreblind played the part of Will Sommer taking Rowland for Oliuer did strike him that was next him But of this motlicote and the rest who now like scrich Owles hide themselues in dennes and deserts for feare of the light and so to bée knowne And of such wicked and vngodly false speakers and backbyters wee shall say more of them at large hereafter if time serueth The which to do I would be loth if the persons were modest but here is no hope in them because they are impudent and yet God doth knowe I had rather derogate from my owne labours then I would deface others without iust cause for that charitie forbiddeth to publish any man in print to the hurt of his good name and credite But as for these factious fellowes possessed with the cursed spirit of enuie scornefulnes and disdaine Notwithstanding their picked speeches as smooth as a Slickstone I think them whatsoeuer they be ●●fi● members to shroude themselues vnder the ro●ffe of any good or godly societie for all such hatefull persons with their deuouring tongues may bee compared vnto furious Dogs which alwaies bite and barke at stones But these despightfull and enuious persons haue neuer spared any whatsoeuer For I reade that Plato though he were a great learned Philosopher doth confesse that he was neuer at any time in such hazard and perrill of his life being in armes at the beseeging of Corinth amongst his knowne enemies as he was in Greece by Xenophon and other his owne schollers his supposed friends And the only cause hereof as it is sayd was hatred and enuie truely it had been good for such vntimely fruite if they had perished in the blossome But all those whose vngodly behauiour is so trecherous vnto their good friends can by no meanes possible bee trustie and faithfull vnto men of whom they haue neuer been beholding vnto for benefites receiued This may seeme straunge chiefly vnto those godly persons which haue neuer been vexed troubled or molested with the perilous stormes and tempestes of such vnknowne pernicious libellours which haue opposed themselues and haue priuilie spred abroad false libels rumors and slaunderous reportes hoping to inioy the fruites of their labours They haue ventured to make shipwracke of other mens good names and credite so that it is vnknowne vnto me as yet what thing a man can so well do or what life he should leade but that these beastlike men would take occasion by surmising of euill to quarrell or cauell at it And I suppose if time and oportunitie did serue their cunning conueiance is such though now perhaps they will for a time lurke and ●●ere like fraudulent Foxes and disemble with the craftie Crocodile yet is their naturall inclination at all tymes comparable in crueltie vnto the furious and mercilesse Tiger or Tigers whelps which euilles are infinite and hard to be auoyded as histories witnesse of the one so experience daylie manifesteth the other A matter of such importance and in my iudgement a thing not to bee permitted or suffered in any good gouernment or Christian common wealth But to leaue these pestilent wée●● and ofscommes of the earth and to returne vnto my former matter from the which I haue digressed And here it is to bée noted that I departed from the aforesayd bragging counterfeyt and fountayne of mischiefe and as I thinke the only scoffer and scorner of the world who defaced some good men that were absent and extolled such as was like vnto himselfe but within seauen dayes after where he promised a mountayne it prooued a molehill And his precious medicines of such great admiration that would do all things did here receiue a merueilous disgrace For they could not worke that effect he looked for and he that was afore a secrete supporter of the Trumpets of sedition a deceiuer of others by procuring of domesticall hatred now he is as it were glad to creepe craule away by owle light praying thē most humbly to hold him excused to speake the best of him And why forsooth he was presently to go into the countrie to attend vpon no small personage there of force he must remayne during pleasure A stale blind shift hatched vp in the dungeon of deceipt as easie to be espied as the nose on a mans face Now agayne he whose ignorance was shadowed with impudencie and maliciously hidden vnder smooth and fayre promises and glorious boastings and by that meanes at his owne pleasure would lay heauie slaunderous burthens vpon other mens shoulders is himselfe found out and his owne doings hath bewrayed himselfe what he is But it is a most true saying of a learned man If our auncient fathers in times past should haue been abashed at the ingratitude and ill disposition of such hatefull abusers wee should at this day haue been in profound ignorance and little difference betweene vs and brute bea●●es To make here an end of this cousoner it was giuen me to vnderstand that shortly after his departure out of London he had intelligence by some of his straglers that the cure was committed agayne into my hands and he also hearing by them that I had promised to note his abuses and did meane to display his doings vnto the world For which cause he was malcontent conceiued a great displeasure indignation against me sayd I did but heape coales vpon myne owne head and therefore he or some other of his bréed should very shortly either by