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A04632
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The workes of Beniamin Ionson; Works. Vol. 1.
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.; Hole, William, d. 1624, engraver.
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his magazines stuft with moscadelli or of the purest grape when his physitians prescribe him on paine of death to drinke nothing but water cocted with anise-seeds O health health the blessing of the rich the riches of the poore who can buy thee at too deare a rate since there is no enioying this world without thee Be not then so sparing of your purses honorable gentlemen as to abridge the naturall course of life PER. You see his end POL. I is 't not good VOLP. For when a humide fluxe or catarrhe by the mutability of aire falls from your head into an arme or shoulder or any other part take you a duckat or your cecchine of gold and apply to the place affected see what good effect it can worke No no 't is this blessed vnguento this rare extraction that hath only power to disperse all malignant humours that proceed either of hot cold moist or windy causes PER. I would he had put in drie to POL. 'Pray you obserue VOLP. To fortifie the most indigest and crude stomack I were it of one that through extreme weakenesse vomited bloud applying only a warme napkin to the place after the vnction and fricace for the vertigine in the head putting but a drop into your nostrills likewise behind the eares a most soueraigne and approued remedie the mal-caduco crampes conuulsions paralysies epilepsies tremor-cordia retyred-nerues ill vapours of the spleene stoppings of the liuer the stone the strangury hernia ventosa iliaca passio stops a disenteria immediately easeth the torsion of the small guts and cures melancolia hypocondriaca being taken and applyed according to my printed receipt For Pointing to his bill and his glasse this is the physitian this the medicine this counsells this cures this giues the direction this workes the effect and in summe both together may bee term'd an abstract of the theorick and practick in the Aesculapian arte 'T will cost you eight crownes And ZAN FRITADA 'pray thee sing a verse extempore in honour of it POL. How doe you like him sir PER. Most strangely I POL. Is not his language rare PER. But Alchimy I neuer heard the like or BROVGHTONS bookes SONG HAd old HIPPOCRATES or GALEN That to their bookes put med'cines all in But knowne this secret they had neuer Of which they will be guiltie euer Beene murderers of so much paper Or wasted many a hurtlesse taper No Indian drug had ere beene famed Tabacco sassafras not named Ne yet of guacum one small stick sir Nor RAYMVND LVLLIES great elixir Ne had beene knowne the Danish GONSWART Or PARACELSVS with his long-sword PER. All this yet will not doe eight crownes is high VOLP. No more Gentlemen if I had but time to discourse to you the miraculous effects of this my oile surnamed oglio del SCOTO with the count-lesse catalogue of those I haue cured of th' aforesaid and many more diseases the pattents and priuiledges of all the Princes and common-wealths of Christendome or but the depositions of those that appear'd on my part before the signiory of the Sanitâ and most learned colledge of physitians where I was authorized vpon notice taken of the admirable vertues of my medicaments and mine owne excellency in matter of rare and vnknowne secrets not onely to disperse them publiquely in this famous citie but in all the territories that happily ioy vnder the gouernement of the most pious and magnificent states of Italy But may some other gallant fellow say O there be diuers that make profession to haue as good and as experimented receipts as yours Indeed very many haue assay'd like apes in imitation of that which is really and essentially in mee to make of this oyle bestow'd great cost in furnaces stilles alembeks continuall fires and preparation of the ingredients as indeede there goes to it sixe hundred seuerall simples besides some quantity of humane fat for the conglutination which we buy of the anatomistes but when these practitioners come to the last decoction blow blow puff puff and all flies in fumo ha ha ha Poore wretches I rather pittie their folly and indiscretion then their losse of time and money for those may be recouered by industrie but to bee a foole borne is a disease incurable For my selfe I alwaies from my youth haue indeuour'd to get the rarest secrets and booke them either in exchange or for money I spared nor cost nor labour where any thing was worthy to bee learned And gentlemen honourable gentlemen I will vndertake by vertue of chymicall art out of the honourable hat that couers your head to extract the foure elements that is to say the fire ayre water and earth and returne you your felt without burne or staine For whil'st others haue beene at the balloo I haue beene at my booke and am now past the craggie pathes of studie and come to the flowrie plaines of honour and reputation POL. I doe assure you sir that is his ayme VOLP. But to our price PER. And that withall sir POL VOLP. You all know honourable gentlemen I neuer valu'd this ampulla or viall at lesse then eight crownes but for this time I am content to be depriu'd of it for sixe sixe crownes is the price and lesse in courtesie I know you cannot offer me take it or leaue it howsoeuer both it and I am at your seruice I aske you not as the value of the thing for then I should demand of you a thousand crownes so the Cardinals MONTALTO FERNESE the great duke of Tuscany my gossip with diuers other princes haue giuen me but I despise money onely to shew my affection to you honourable gentlemen and your illustrous state here I haue neglected the messages of these princes mine owne offices fram'd my iourney hither onely to present you with the fruits of my trauels Tune your voices once more to the touch of your instruments and giue the honourable assembly some delightfull recreation PER. What monstrous and most painefull circumstance Is here to get some three or foure gazets Some three-pence i' th whole for that 't will come to SONG YOu that would last long list to my song Make no more coyle but buy of this oyle Would you be euer faire and yong Stout of teeth and strong of tongue Tart of palat quick of eare Sharpe of sight of nostrill cleare Moist of hand and light of foot Or I will come neerer to 't Would you liue free from all diseases Doe the act your mistris pleases Yet fright all aches from your bones Here 's a med'cine for the nones VOLP. Well I am in a humour at this time to make a present of the small quantitie my coffer containes to the rich in courtesie and to the poore for Gods sake Wherefore now marke I ask'd you sixe crownes and sixe crownes at other times you haue paid me you shall not giue me sixe crownes nor fiue nor foure nor three nor two nor one nor halfe a duckat no nor a muccinigo sixe pence it