a certaine couering Notwithstanding all styrpes or Plants whereon Oyle is powred or effused do putrifie As Plynie reportes THe Coales of a Byrch tree made in powder put into a wounde or great sore healeth it perfectly without any other thing It was crediblie tolde me that the Muscouits vse it much esteemes it greatly A Robbyn read breast fynding the dead body of a Man or Woman wyll couer the face of the same with Mosse And as some holdes opinion he wyll couer also the whole body AN Italian through the ofte smelling of an herbe called Basyll had a Scorpion bred in his braine ▪ which dyd not onely a long tyme grieue him but also at the last kylled him Iacobus Hollerius a learned Phisition affirmes it for trueth Take heede therefore ye smellers of Basyll IF the Nauell string of a chylde after it is cut doeth chaunce to touche the grounde before it be burned the same childe wyll not be able to keepe or holde his or her water neyther night nor daye A thing verie true and well knowne A Flayne Mouse rosted or made in powder drunk at one tyme doeth perfectly helpe such as can not holde or keepe their water especially if it be vsed three dayes in this order This is verie true and often proued IT was credibly reported to me for a verie trueth that a certaine Inkeeper in Ware dyed which had a Dogge that loued him so well that certaine dayes after he mourned and sought for his sayde Maister without eating of any thing And when he could not finde his sayde Maister he layd himselfe among the hotte coales in a chymney who though he was pulled out of the fire yet he went in againe burned him selfe to death A rare straunge thing as hath bene heard of I thinke it is harde to finde a seruant so louing to his Lord as this Dog was to his Maister ASsoone as a child is borne especially a boy their ought to bee great heede taken in the cutting of the Nauell string for the member of generatiō doth followe the proporcion of the Nauell string and if it be tyed to short in a Wenche it maye be a hynderaunce to her in bringing forth her chylde Therfore it is meete that Mydwiues haue a great regarde therein This is gathered out of Mathias Cornace an excellent Phisition FOr the helping of the Coddes or Stones that bee swolne or pained The auncient learned did graue in a plate of copper the fygure of a Scorpion in the howre of Saturne the thirde face of Aquary then ascēding or rysing with Saturne and for the Gowte the Seale of Pisces and also for the helping or bettering of memory they made a Ring of pure golde wherein was closed a Diamonde vnder the coniunction of Saturne and Iupiter in Aries Hermes EGidius Herthoge wrytes a straunge maruell of a woman which caryed a dead chyld in her wombe thirtene yeares which was perceyued of many that handled her bellye but he wrytes not what successe she had therwith for whyles he wrote the same the woman was well and dyd her busynes with her husbande abrode and also at home DYtany drunke with water or wine doth cause a woman to be easily and speedily be delyuered yea though the chylde be dead or if it be turned contrary to a ryght course also it bringes forth the after burthen the lyke effect hath Peniryall as some affirmes And it hath bene proued as sayth Myzaldus PYgeons do so loue the Castrell that if one enclose young Castrels in a potte and stop and couer the same close and shall hang them in fowre corners of the Doouehouse it wyll procure such a loue to the Pygions of that place that for the desyre of them being so inclosed in the sayde Pottes they wyll neuer chaunge that place so much they loue the Castrelles their friendes after their death Columella reports this as Mizaldus affirmes THe Woort leafe layde on the crowne of the heade draweth vp the Vuula or the flap in the throate M. Cato by the report of Mizaldus IF a peece of fine golde or the leaues of pure golde be put into the iuyce of Lymons and taken out of it after it haue leyne therein a whole daye and the same iuice then geuen to one that is sicke of the plague with a lytle Wine and the powder of the roote of Angelica or of the decoction of the same roote it is maruayle to bee tolde what helpe it bringes them yea though they be past all hope or thought past recouerie This Mizaldus wrytes as proued IF a Man be the first that a Woman meetes after she comes out of the Church when she is newlye Churched it sygnifies that her next chylde wyll be a boye If she meete a Woman then a wench is lyke to be her next chyld This was credibly reported to me to be true But prayse it as it proues A Lytle baye Salt stamped small myxt with the yolke of an egge and applyed to a Fellon and so vsed diuerse tymes doth not only perfectly heale the same with speede but also drawes out all the payne out of the arme and ceases the swelling therof if any such be by the meanes of the same This is perfectly proued CHildren are not alwayes lyke vnto their Parēts as it maye appeare in Helides which dyd begette a Daughter of an Ethiopian which Daughter was not of the cullour of her Mother but after the sayde Daughter had a Sonne which was blacke and lyke to his grandmother So Niceus the Poet dyd degenerate in cullour from his Father and his Mother and was lyke his grandfather being an Ethyopian Which thing ought well to be considered of such that suspectes their Wiues when they bring forth chyldren vnlyke to eyther of them for it happens many tymes that the chylde is lyke to the Grandfather or great Grandfather and neyther lyke the father nor mother Mizaldus A Tode stone called Crapandina touching any part be venomed hurte or stung with Ratte Spider Waspe or any other venemous Beast ceases the paine or swelling thereof Lemnius THe iuyce of Broome myxt with the oyle of Radish or of Mustarde is a very safe remedy for the kylling or destroying of Lyse IF a Woman annoint often her Dugges or Pappes with the iuyce of Succorie it wyll make them litle round and hard For if they be hanging or flagging it wyl draw them together wherby they shal seeme as the Dugges of a mayde Mizaldus IF you shall enclose within a peece of thinne Sylke Galbanum made sofe and shall laye it to the mouth of the Matrix all a night the head of that woman hauing then no fowle nor stinking cloathes vpon it but onely couered with a Caule and a cleane or thyn Keyrchyffe without any kinde of Odors in the morning when the same are losed from her heade if the crowne of her head smell of Galbanum it is a sure token that that woman is apt to haue chyldren Hyppocrates IF
Sarcacol of each halfe an ounce the gall of a Capon Chickin or Cocke two drams Nutmegs Cloues and Saffern of eache one dram Sugar candie syxe drams Put all into a Lymbeck of glasse and dystyll it and put of this water into your eies once in the day two or three drops at a tyme And there can not be a more precious thing for the eyes then this I knowe it by proofe and therefore I am the bolder both to prayse it and publysh it abroade to the great comfort of other THe three score thyrde yeare of ones age is counted to be a daungerous and peryllous tyme for that it doth passe seldome without daunger of lyfe or without some other great mysfortune As it is obserued in many examples Hereof Augustus Caesar as Gellius reporteth was maruellous glad that he had escaped that yeare of his age The cause may be that the seuenth yeare and the nynthe yeare being Anni climacterici et critici which are Iudicial yeares multyplyed together makes the sayde number of .63 This Mizaldus describes SEethe Iuie berryes in vineger or in whyte wine and when they be well sodde suppe of the same hotte lyccour and when it is colde spytte it out and suppe more therof Whosoeuer doth thus it helpeth the toothe ache THey in whose Natiuitie Venus is impedite or Infortunate of Saturne Are lyke to haue paynes or griefes in theyr stones especially if she be in the Ascendent And lykewise if Venus be with Mars in the eyght house or if the Moone Venus and Mars be coniunct or in the euyll aspect of Saturne Iatromath Guat Ryff WHosoeuer is lame and can neyther go nor styrre their ioynts Let them take of good Aqua coÌ„posita and oyle of Roses of eyther a lyke much myxe them both together and annoynt the grieued place therewith morning and euening vntyll he be well Which wyll be within a whyle after but rubbe the place with warme cloathes well before A thing often proued WHosoeuer hath Mars in the Horoscope or the Ascendent at the tyme of his byrth certainly he wyll haue a speciall scarre or marke in his face Pro. Which I haue tryed in many and yet neuer haue founde it false THe cyrcles of cart wheeles emptie cartes and the combe on a Cocks head do maruelouslie feare a Lyon being a most hardy or fierce beast but of all things he feares fyres torches lyght or fyrebrands Plynius Aelianus et alij THat Pygions be not hunted or kylled of Cats at the windowes euery passage and at euery Pygions hole hang or put lytle braunches of Rew for Rew hath a maruellous strength agaynst wylde Beasts As Didimus doth saye IF the tayle of a Woolfe be hanged in a house no Woolfe wyll enter therein neyther any Flyes wyll flye into the same Rasis et Alb. IF a mad man vse to laughe it is a laudible sygne but if he be verie sadde it it is peryllous Aphor. Hippocratis THis medicine folowing wyll procure a good stomacke to meate Take three drams of good Synamon one dram of Mastick one dram of the parings of Pomegranets and halfe a dram of Galingale and stampe all these together and temper it with claryfied Honny and then vse to eate as much of thereof as a Nut euery day during ten dayes fasting and it wyll procure a good stomacke and also preserue and keepe the same from any euil humors to breede therin This is an excellent medicine and often proued and easie to be made IF you marke where your right foote doth stand at the fyrst tyme that you do heare the Cuckoo and then graue or take vp the earth vnder the same whersoeuer the same is sprinckled about there wyll no fleas breede Plynie by Mizaldus report And I knowe that it hath bene proued true TO make the counterfeat Mandrag which hath bene sold by deceyuers for much money Do thus as foloweth Take the great double roote of Bryonie newly taken out of the grounde and with a fyne sharpe knife frame the shape of a Man or Woman of the same with his stones and cods and other members therto And when it is cleane done pricke all these places with a sharpe steele as the head the eye browes the chyn and the priuities and put into the sayde holes the seedes of Myllet or any other that bringes foorth lytle small rootes that doo resemble heayrs which leeke seedes wyll do very well or els baâ—ly after this put it in the ground and let it be couered with earth vntyl it haue gotten vpon it a certayne lytle skyn and then thou shalt see a monstruous Idoll and heairie which wyll become the parts well if it be workmanlie or cunningly made or figured Mizaldus Another trym waye for the lyke is in the naturall and artificiall conclusions Englished by Thomas Hyll WHosoeuer annoynts his feete or hands with the grease of a Woolfe he shall not be hurt with any colde of his handes or feete so annointed Mizaldus FIue leaued grasse through Iupiters force doth resyst venym or poyson Wherof if one leafe twyse euery daye morning and euening be drunken with wine It is sayde to put away the Quotidian â—gue Three leaues the Tercian ague And fowre leaues the Quarten ague Marcilius Ficinus IF in the beginning of the sicknesse or at the tyme of asking of the question for the sicke the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone be in the fowrth or eight house Combust or Cadent or conuinct with the Lord of the eyght house they geue a certaine testimony of death And if one of them onely that is the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone be so it is a testimony of death as is before sayde Iohan. Ganiuet VArueyn stampt and streyned with wine water or vineger and then geuen to a woman that trauels or is in her labour and can not be delyuered it causeth speedy delyueraunce Trotula de passionibus mulierum And Gysbertus affyrmes the lyke if it be drunke with water A Straunge medicine and a rare secrete for consuming the webbe in the eye oftentymes proued Take nyne lytle woormes with many feete of some called Swyne lyse if they be touched they become rounde as a button they are to be founde betwene the barke and the woodde of olde tymber or trees stampe them with a lytle iuyce of Woodbynde or Betony then streyne the same well and let the partie that hath the webbe in his eye drinke it in a morning something warmed Do thus three mornings together and it wyl cure it perfectly God wylling This was tolde me for a very trueth by one that had proued it dyuers tymes THis that followeth is a speciall medicine for them that swoonds or are faint at the hart Take Rosemarie Sage Betony and Margerom of â—ache one handfull and seethe them in a gallon or more of fayre water tyll halfe the water be consumed then take awaye the hearbes and put to the sayde water a good pynt of Honny and then skymme
or other place or rowme wyl geue such a light in the darke as the Moone doth when she shines in a bright night Iohannes Baptist. A Peece of a chyldes Nauell string borne in a ring is good against the falling sicknes the paynes of the head and of the collyck Mizaldus BAptista Fulgosus reports that nie to Sirminū a Citie of Pamony sometymes there hath bene Tendrals of Gold found in the Uines wherof there hath bene money coynd Which many haue seene sayth Gandeut Meruba in his tyme And Alexander Neapolitanus sayth that he hath founde in Germany within Daunby Uines that dyd beare lytle nayles and leaues of pure golde which was geuen for presentes to Kings and Dukes Mizaldus IF any doeth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astronomie whether that place where he dwelles is better for him then that to which hee meanes to go beholde and if thou dost finde the Moone seperate from Infortunes that is from an euyll Planette or from an Infortunate Planette tell him that his going is better then his tarying But if you finde the Moone seperate from a good or fortunate Planet then it is better for him to tarry there styl then to go from thēce to dwel And to be briefe if one shall aske thee saying thus I must needes doo a certaine thing or I haue certayne busynesse to doo whether maye I doo it or not then marke thou the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone and if thou finde them seperate from euyll Planets or euyll fortunes applying to good or fortunate Planets byd him do that that he is determined to do and spare not But if thou finde them seperate from good Planets or fortunate and applying to euyll Planets byd him that he doo it not neyther take it in hande Haly Abenragell THat Woman is lyke to be barreyn in whose Natiuitye the Moone and Venus being in barreyne signes are Infortunate of Mars and Saturne Or if Saturne be in the seuenth or tenth house Infortunating 〈◊〉 and the Moone or if Venus be with Saturne and the Moone then in the syxt or twelfth house Infortunate Iatromath Guat Ryff THe seedes of Roses with Mustarde seede and the foote of a Wesell all together tyde in some thing hangde among the bowes or branches of a tree that beares but lytle fruite It is sayde that it wyll make that tree to beare well and to be maruelous fruitfull Mizaldus PAre the nailes of one that hath the quarteyn ague which being put into a lynnen cloath and so tyed about the necke of a quicke Eele and the same Eele put into the water thereby the ague wyll be dryuen away Geber et Alb. IF any lyst to sleepe and laye by him the braunches of moyst Hempe Gnats wyll not trouble him nor come neare him Myzaldus IF the Lorde of the twelfth house be in the twelfth house many debates and enemities wyll happen vpon the day belonging to that Planet to the childe then borne Taisnier COoluer dunge stampt and vsed for a plaster with strong Uineger and applyed to the Nauell byndeth incontinent all Fluxes of the belly Macer THe roote of a Goorde tyed to the reynes of the backe of Women that is in labour or trauell of chylde doth cause speedy delyueraunce thereof But let it be taken away as soone as the chyld doth come foorth least the Matrix go out after the chylde Trotula de passionibus mulierum HEre foloweth an Electuary of a wonderfull vertue in the tyme of Pestilence this Electuary is of so great a vertue in them that do receyue it once in .xxiiii. howres that they may be sure from all euyl infections of corrupt and contagious ayres all the daye after But in them that are infect already and are taken with the Pestilence if they drinke of it but one spoonefull as shall be sayde hereafter especially after letting of bloud if it be conuenient to the patient and laye him downe and sweate vpon the same if the venyme hath not vtterlie ouercome the hart he shall vndoubtedlie recouer It hath bene lately proued that after drynking of the same medicine when the patient made his water in an vrinall the glasse hath burst in peeces by reason of the venime that it purged out This is the making of the sayde Electuary Take Cynamom elect one ounce Terra sigillata sixe drams fyue Myrre three drams Unycornes horne one dram the seede rynde of Cytron rootes of Dyptanny Burnet Turmentyl Zedoary red Currall of each two drams yellow Saunders fowre scruples red Saunders two scruples whyte Been and red flowres of Marygooldes of each one dram Yuery rased Scabius Veroincitunici seede of Basyll the bone of a Stags harte Saffron of each two scruples make a syne powder and ad vnto it of bole Armoniacke preparate two ounces whyte sugar three pound and with a syrrup of Acetositate citri make a goodly Electuary and keepe it in a glasse If the Pestilence commeth with great excesse of heate drinke it in Rose water Uineger but if you feele it colde take it in a draught of Wine and couer you with cloathes so that you maye sweate as long as is possible for without doubt it is a present remedy as I my selfe haue nowe of late proued Thus much Thomas Phayre in his Treatyse of the Pestylence THe teethe of a mad Dogge that hath bytten a man or woman tyed in leather and then hangde at the shoulder doeth preserue and keepe the partye that beares it from being bytten of any madde Dogge Diascorides by the report of Mizaldus THe Seedes of Carduus Benedictus stamped and drunke doth helpe the griefe paynes prickings and stitches of the syde and the gryping in the guts and the lower parte of the belly This is proued for trueth IF any doth sprinckle his head with the powder of the skinne that a Snake doth cast off gotten or gathered when the Moone is in the ful being also in the fyrst part of Aries the Ram he shall see terryble and fearefull dreames And if he shall haue it vnder the plant of his foote he shal be acceptable before Magistrates and Princes Cardanus WHosoeuer beginnes theyr iourney in the howre of Venus he shall haue good and profyte on the behalfe of Women or some such lyke thing Haly Abenragell IF Woormes gnawe vpon or hurt the mouth of the stomacke put Honny combes into the mouth fasting and holde them there and the Woormes wyll draw vnto the Honny and so voyde by the mouth It hath bene proued IN the fyrst beginning of any sycknes or at the time of any question for the sycke if the Moone be Orientall nye to the Sunne within twelue degrees it is sygne of death and the nearer to the Sun and in Combusyon the woorse Iohannes Ganiuetus WIth this Secrete following Benedictus victorius had alwayes good successe in passions and griefes of the harte Take of the iuyce of Buglosse cleansed or putrified at the fyre two ounces of white Sugar two drams myxe them
sure that she is not barren of her selfe Hidpocrates Aphor. 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 Lithontripon of the description of Nicholas and also Iustinum 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 woâ—ke thereof If neede be let him receyue the lyke quantitie 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 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 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 especially Infortunate of him Iatromathematica Guat Ryff IF you rubbe or touch Wartes with the leaues of a Fygge tree the Warts wyll consume and vanish away so that the sayde leaues be buryed within the earth or grounde Some ascribes the same to the harte of a Pigion Mizaldus 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 before them they loathe the same and wyll not eate a bytte therof Plinius IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the twelfth house he that is then borne wyll dye in prison or in captiuitie Taisnier THe powder of the berries of Bryony â–ª drunke in the water wherein water Cresses are sod doth maruelously heale the Strangury 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 Cynamom 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 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 precious thing 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 Mizaldus was enformed 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 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 Angell c. Mizaldus WRyting Inke tempered with water wyne or vinegar wherein Woormwood hath bene stieped Myse wyl not eate the Papers or Letters written 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 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 vnlearned hee wyll so guyde them and so instructe them that they shall auoyde all such daungers and pâ—rryllous tymes And contrarye the wycked 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 Yâ—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 begunne 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 counsayle and proofe OXen Kyne Bullocks or Horsses shall not be troubled with any disease if you hang a Harts horne vpon them Absyrtus 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 COâ—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 Fracastorius 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 vnder 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
so it fastneth and byndeth the stronger and in such sort that it fastneth peeces of glasse together IF you woulde destroye Caterpyllers do thus Annoynt all the bottom of the trree round about with Tarre then get a great sort of Antes or Pyssemyres and put them in some bagge and drawe the same vp by a corde into the tree and so let it hang there so that it touch the body of the tree and the Ants letted to go downe from the tree by the meanes of the Tar wyll for want of foode eate and destroye all the Caterpyllers there without hurting any of the fruite This was tolde me for a very trueth MAke a hoale in the ende of a Goose egge and put all the whyte and yolke out of it then put into the shell a Backe that flyes about in the euening and then glew or close it fast on the toppe and you shal see the Backe flye away with the same Egge shell to the great maruayle of them that knowes it not IT is verye euyll for them that falles sycke when the Moone is applying in coniunction to the Sun and woorse when she is within syxe degrees of the Sunne This I know to be true by often proofe and tryall And Abraham Auenezra affyrmes the same wryting De criticis diebus RUbbe any precious Stone vpon Lead and if then it chaunge the cullour then it is a counterfeyte Stone If it chaunge not then it is a naturall and good Stone STampe Celondyne and laye it to any Tetter or Ryngwoorme or any other such lyke called Imipetigo or Serpigo shyfting it twise euery day with new for the space of a fortnyght and it wyll quyte destroy and kyll them And also it wyll put away any black spottes with the lyke vsyng thereof in what part of the body so euer they be TAke pure Waxe and fyne Brymstone puryfyed of eache a lyke much melte them together making therof a Candle and after take the powder of a coale fynely beaten and as much of Brymstone in powder These syfte through a Searse or a lynnen cloath and after heatyng the sayde Candle smeare it about with this powder so long vntyll it haue as it were a thycke cruste rounde about the same lyke vnto the thycknesse of a backe of a knyfe Which after couer about the head of it with a Paper and then hange the same at the mouth of a gutter that droppeth faste in a frostie euening vntyll it be couered with yse a fynger thycke then lyght the same and it wyll burne lyke as it were all Waxe This is taken out of the naturall and Artifyciall conclusyons of the Schollers of Padua Translated into Englyshe by Thomas Hyll THe coniunction of the Moone with Saturne in the fyrst begynning of sycknesse doth sygnify euyll and long sicknes But if Saturne be of a slow course it augmenteth the euyll If of a swyft course then it dimynisheth of the euyll If he be Retrograde applying by opposition to the Sunne after he is cured he wyl fall sycke againe but if he be Retrograde and seperate by opposition from the Sun the euyll is dimynished Abraham Auenesra de criticis diebus A Uery good laxatiue Dredgepowder whereof you may take a spooneful when you neede in your pottage or broath it wyll make you to go to the stoole Take of pure Turbyt one ounce Gynger Cynamō Mastick Annes seedes Hermodactyls Diagredyon of each half an ounce of the leaues of Sene two ounces of Sugar fowre ounces beate them al into powder and let them be myxed together Leonardus Fuchsius THat sygne and degree wherin the Moone is in the howre and time of the byrth of any the same signe and degree dyd ascende at the verye tyme of the conception of the same Chylde And that sygne degree wherin the moone is at the tyme of the conception the same sygne and degree or the opposyte to the same doth ascend at the very tyme of the byrth Hermes et Ptolomeus Therfore according to this rule of these auncient and famous Authors whereto Guido Bonatus Iohannes Ganiuetus Sconerus and Taisnerus notable learned Astronomers with dyuers other do consent and agree Dyuers Women haue dyuers times betweene the conception byrth of their chyldren For the place of the moone at the tyme of the conception her vncertayne course after doth plainly manifest that some Women goes with Chylde not aboue seuen and thyrty weekes some others eyght and thyrty weekes and vnder some nyne and thyrty weekes and something lesse some againe goes forty weekes and a few dayes lesse and somtymes certain dayes more yea and somtymes forty and one weeke and one day which is the longest time as the learned in the same Science can perfectly finde out Wherefore they are much deceyued that thinkes euery woman goes but iust forty weekes with chylde which fonde and false opinion hath made many an honest woman falsely suspected wrongfully slaundered and without iust cause from theyr husbande 's seperated Therfore it were good and very meete for euery one not to geue too much credyte to this fonde reckoning of iust forty weekes which is more cōmon then true Which fore discrybed excellent rule according to the mynde of the worthy and learned Mizaldus is of no small weyght for the tryall of the fydelytie honesty of women to theyr husbandes and to fynde out the very right tyme of the Natiuity or byrth so that the very day and howre of the conception be certen TAke the stones out of Reisens of the Sunne then stampe the same Reysens and apply a plaster therof to any griefe or ache and it wyll cease it presently and if you vse it fyue or syx tymes in such order it wyl throughly helpe and cure the same I haue seene this well proued IF you gather greene Beanes from the stalkes whē they be rype fully growne and ready to eate and then immediatly cutte of the sayde stalkes within a handful of the roote then new and moe branches wyll shortlye after spryng out of the same Which wyll bring forth new Beanes and more plentyfully then before and as good as the fyrst Whereby you maye haue more then double encrease and two seuerall gatherings of Beanes in one yeare But in anywyse take heede that the fyrst gathering and cutting away of the stalks be when the said stalks be greene I haue seene it proued therefore I wryte and publysh it for an vndoubted trueth It is credibly tolde mee that if you vse Peason in the same order the lyke effect wyl follow Which I beleeue to be true as well in the one as in the other LAye a dysh ouer hotte sodden milke and there wyl a water be on the insyde of the dyshe which water keepe in some glasse whereof if a lytle be put into sore payned or dymme eyes it wyll helpe them maruelously This was affyrmed to mee for trueth HEre followeth the discription of a notable Oyle of Balme Take of Turpentyne
away and then the woman by some meanes did teare or vnloose the sheete wherein she was wrapt and then she went straight home to her Husbande and called vpon him to let her into the howse whom when he harde hee thoughte it had beene a Sprite But at last through her importunate calling he receyued her into the house and thus woonderfully she recouered and lyued which Woman after that had three or fowre chyldren of whome it is sayde there is a Monument at this present in the sayde Citie of Cullen Therfore too hasâ—y or quick buryall is not to be vsed as not onely this rare example maye sufficiently teach vs But also for such causes as I haue alleadged in another place of this booke IF you graft the slyps of a Wylding or sowre Aple vpon the stock of a Hawthorne you shal haue Medlers grow therof This I haue seene proued therfore I affyrme it for trueth A Lytle Byrde called the Kings Fysher being hanged vp in the ayre by the neck his nebbe or byll wyll be alwayes dyrect or strayght against the winde This was tolde mee for a very trueth by one that knew it by proofe as he sayde WHosoeuer shall weare about theyr mydle such a gyrdle as followeth tying it fast that it fall not away they shall not neede to feare drowning though the boate they are in should myscarie whereby they may passe ouer any water safely without any dauÌ„ger though it be neuer so deepe For so long as it is about them they can not synke Take two peeces of good Neates lether well tand and drest such as foote balles be made of eyther peece being of the breadth of fyue or sixe fyngars And of such a length as wyll make a sufficient gyrdle for you let a shoomaker sew them very strongly thycke stytched and surely together and lykewise at both the endes and in the myds therof fasten a Pype lyke to a Bagpype wherewith blow the same gyrdle as ful of winde as you can possyble then vnder the nether ende of the Pype tye the lether very fast and sure that ioygnes the pype the gyrdle together with a strong packthred or with some other sure strong thing least the winde should come out of the gyrdle whereof you must take great heede Also blowe three Oxe bladders full of wind and tye them hard that the winde go not forth of the same and sew ech of them strongly and surelye within good strong Neates lether rounde lyke vnto a foote ball and make three strong lowpes vpon the sayde gyrdle one against the middes of the backe and against eyther of the sydes one and then tye fast and surely one of the sayde bladders sewed in the lether to euery of the sayde lowpes and then tye the same gyrdle about your mydle very fast and sure And then you can not synke into the water And so you maye passe safely ouer if the water be not too broade and too rough Nicholaus Michauel hath wrytten of such a lyke gyrdle in his excellent Booke of the Arte of Warres for the saueing of Souldiours and Fyshers ouer waters In which Booke there are other notable Engynes and worthy matter besyde concerning warres A Ladle made of the wood of a Fygge tree hath a maruelous propertie for if Fleshe in the seething therof be often sturred therwith or if it be in the Pot whyle it is seething it makes the Flesh to be sooner sodden Mizaldus A Partrych wyll crye alowde and will teare or breake the Cage or Coope where she is fedde if there be any deadly medcyn or poyson prepared within the same house which shee dooth feele presentlye and also hath knowledge thereof through a woonderfull speciall and rare gift of nature Actius ex pisone GEllius wrytes that the Hedgehogge makes the mouth of her hoale Cabban or Caue alwayes contrary to the winde for through a meruelous natural gyfte shee hath foreknowledge in what quarter the wynde wil be and thereupon shee chaungeth the mouth or entringe in of her hoale or caue whereby Marryners haue learned aforehand the place of the wynde The ende of the tenth and last Booke FINIS ¶ A speciall Table for the finding out of any matter in this Booke whereof the Table of the first Booke doth folowe A Straung Historie of two louers that were poysoned by eating of Sage pag. 1 â—ph 1. A 〈◊〉 Poct dyd weare leaden soles pag. 2. â—ph 2. A straunge thyng of Mullen pag 2.3 To encrease mylke in Nurses pag. 2.4 Aqua vite helpes synewes and muscles pag. 2.5 To make rough or chapped lippes smoth pag. 2.6 To knowe who shal be crooke backt or halt pag. 3.7 Earth wormes helpe deafenes pag. 3.8 A notable cure of one that had the griefe of the splene seuen yeres pag. 3.9 A rare thyng to make a horse â—all as dead and after to make him lyuely pag. 3.10 To get a precious stone out of a snake pag. 4.11 A way to keepe wine safe from thunder pag. 4.12 To knowe who shall haue the palsie pag. 4.13 To take away a Wen. pag. 4.14 To make wood of the cullour of Hebenus pag. 4.15 An excellent vertue of Mullen in helping of bruses and sores pag. 5.16 Ualerian wyl drawe out any wood or yron out of the fleshe pag. 5.17 To make a barren vine beare grapes pag. 6.18 To preserue the teeth froÌ„ rotting pag. 6.19 The teeth of a Bore newely killed wyll burne brysâ—ies or haires pag. 6.20 A present casâ— for the gowte pag. 6.21 The Citie of Tornace wâ—s marueylously deliuered from the plague by the shooting oâ—f of gunnes pag. 6.22 To make common Azure pag. 7.23 A Cocke feares not a Serpent yet he is afrayde of a glead pag. 7.24 To maâ—e amber clearer better pag. 7.25 A â—are way to staye the fluxe of spaâ—â—e pag. 8.26 Cantarides applied made one to pyssâ— blood pag. 8.27 A straunge vertue of y buâ— leafe pag. 8.28 A salue made of ale helpes sores and aches pag. 8.29 Docks makes toughe fleshe to be tender pag. 8.30 A way to knowe whether one be sicke in body or in minde or in both pag. 9.31 To know who is enfect with the pluresye pag. 9.32 They that haue the quarteyn shal not haue the falling sicknes pag. 9 33. To cullour bones with a greene cullour pag. 9.34 Oile keepes wine froÌ„ corrupting pa. 10.35 The coles of a birch tree healeth woundes pag. 10.36 A Robin red breast will couer the face of a dead body with mosse pag. 10.37 A straunge example of the heathe basyll pag. 10.38 Great heede ought to be taken of childrens nauels strings wheÌ„ they be cut pag. 10.39 To helpe them that can not holde theyr water pag. 10.40 An incredible tâ—le of a louyng dogge pag. 11.41 The member of generation dooth folow the proportion of the nauell string cutte pag. 11.42 A straung way for the helping of the cods pag. 11.43 A woman caried a dead child in her wombe thirteene yeres pag.