as was once by a preacher at the black funerall of an usurer of whom there is this storie A great rich usurer having purchased a mighty estate was at the last sent for by death to leave the world and lying upon his bed the Doctours and Physicians finding his sicknesse to be mortall give him over Then do his friends about him send for a Divine to come and comfort him who willingly tells him of many comforts for his souls health and amongst other things puts him in minde of this viz. that he had been a great purchaser upon earth but now he must studie for another purchase which was the kingdome of heaven Now the usurer turning upon the other side at the hearing of the word purchase answered I will not give more then according to fifteen yeares for a purchase and so died Afterwards this gentleman preaching at his funerall in the conclusion of his sermon said onely thus Brethren it is now expected that I should speak something concerning our brother here deceased I will end it in few words namely these How he lived you know how he died I know and where his soul now is God Almightie knows The Poul-cat or Fitch in Latine is called Putorius à Putore because of his ill smell for when they are provoked or stirred they stink grievously Their delight is to suck egges kill and eat Hens and Chickens and it is worth observing that their craft in devouring their prey is singular for to the intent that the sillie creatures to be devoured may not betray them to the housekeepers the first part that they lay hold on with their mouthes is the head of the Hen or Chicken by which means they bite off their heads and so keep them from crying The Weasel in Latine is called Mustela from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of snatching up of mice for though an enemie to pullen she devoureth and destroyeth mice and because she hath been often seen to carrie her young ones in her mouth some have thereupon supposed that she conceived by the eare and brought forth by the mouth and for this cause Aristeas mentioned by Gesner and Topsell writeth that the Jews were forbidden to eat them for this their action is an embleme saith he of folly and foolish men which can keep no secrets but utter all that they heare for there be many who when they have heard tales with their eares enlarge them with their tongues and by adding to reports turn mole-hills into mountains sic crescit eundo because as many have itching eares so some have scratching and augmenting tongues desiring to be heard as the reporters of news But the Egyptians turn it into another signe and say that their copulation at the eare and generation at the mouth are emblemes of speech which is first taught to the eare and then uttered by the tongue All which are prettie fancies although they be founded upon a mistaken ground as before I shewed Howbeit this is recorded for a truth that whereas the Basilisk killeth all creatures with her poyson that approach unto her or contend with her the Weasell onely is found to match her witnessed not onely by Plinie but by others also who besides this Weasell know not of any other beast in the world which is able to stand in contention against the Cockatrice But note that Rue is hatefull to a Serpent and good against poyson the Weasel therefore useth to eat of this herb both before and after the battell so well hath nature taught her to finde a preservative against her venimous and hurtfull adversarie and on the contrarie so well is nature pleased that no beast should be without his match In a word seeing the Weasell as I said before will destroy mice as well as hurt pullen it serveth as an embleme to demonstrate that one sometime may make use of an enemie and though every thing be not good for one thing yet it doth not follow that it is therefore good for nothing But I leave the Weasell and come to the Mole The Mole is a creature well known the snout of it is like to the nose of a Shrew-mouse and as for eyes or sight she wanteth either onely the place where the eyes should stand have a little black spot like a millet or poppie seed In Latine she is therefore called Talpa from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 blinde And yet saith one by dissection of a Mole great with young it hath been proved that the young ones before birth have eyes but after birth living continually in the dark earth without light these their seeming eyes cease to grow to any perfection And some again have also witnessed that although the Mole be blinde all her life time yet she beginneth to open her eyes in dying which I finde thus applied and it is a prettie embleme This serveth to decipher the state of a worldly man who neither seeth heaven nor thinketh of hell in his life time untill he be dying and then beginning to feel that which before he either not beleeved or not regarded he looketh up and seeth For in morte velit nolit saith Geminianus even against his will he is then compelled to open his eyes and acknowledge his sinnes although before he could not see them It was the case of Dives to live and die in this black mistie blindenesse for he had no grace to look up till he was in torments and then alas it was too late Yet herein was that saying of Gregory plainly verified Oculos quos culpa claudit poena aperit The Martins and Ermins be small beasts as little or lesse then a Squirrell the furre of whose skins is precious and of great esteem worn onely by kings and noble personages although these beasts be not bred in England yet there be plentie of them in many places beyond the seas they are said to have a sweet smell in their dung or excrement like the Musk-cat which proceedeth rather from the nature of the beast then from the meat which she eateth and for an ease to gouty legs it is good to apply these Martins skinnes The Zibeth or Sivet-cat is a beast bigger then any Cat and lesser then a Badger having a sharp face like a Martin a short round blunt eare black without but pale within the eye of a blew skie-colour the foot and leg black and more broad or open then a Cats It hath black claws a black nose and is spotted all over the body but on the nose with certain other marks notably described by Gesner and Topsell in their book of beasts This is a beast given much to cleanlinesse and from this beast proceedeth that precious drug which we call Sivet It is an excrement not growing in the cod or secret part onely but in a peculiar receptacle by it self increasing every day to the weight of
large wide mouth but round This is a cruel fish to the marriners and will sometimes lift up his head above the sail-yard casting up so much water through certain pipes in his forehead that as the foresaid authour witnesseth great and strong ships are either compelled to sink or else are exposed to great and manifest danger Sometimes again by laying his head upon either end of the ship he drowns it by his over-loading weight Some call the Whirl-pool-whales Balaenae But howsoever Balaena is reckoned amongst the whales and is differing from the Prister or Physeter which before I called the Whirl-pool-whale Olaus Magnus speaking of the Balaena saith that it hath no gills but certain Fistulae are in stead thereof placed in the forepart of the head and that it is a fish which shews great love and affection towards her young ones For when they are little being faint and weak she takes them into her mouth to secure them from tempestuous surges and when the tempest is over she spues them again out into the sea A fit embleme this to teach all sorts of parents either in Church Commonwealth or private families to provide for and not destroy those under them as also to secure them from dangers whensoever they arise When this Balaena and her male-whale accompanie together for they increase by copulation they scatter much of their seed in the waters which being found by the marriners is taken and sold as a pretious drugge Some call it Ambra or Ambergreese affirming that it is good contra guttas and against the palsie and resolution of sinews if it be used as an oyntment good also to be drunk down against the falling sicknesse and swounding having also great power of strengthening the inward parts It is commonly white and sometimes counterfeited with the dust of Lignum aloes and the sweet gum Storax sea-mosse and the like but that which is sophisticated may be easily known because it will soon be dissolved like wax whereas that which is without sophistication is more solid lesse easie to be made liquid Thus affirmeth Olaus magnus howbeit others write that Ambergreese is the spawn of the whale But Avioen is perswaded that it grows in the sea and some again onely write that it is cast up on the shore and found cleaving to stones there the fume whereof is good against the falling sicknesse and comfortable to the brain Munster writeth that many in Iseland of the bones and ribbes of the biggest whales make posts and sparres for the building of their houses and how great profit proceedeth from the oyl of the whale no man is ignorant Plinie writeth of a little fish called Musculus which is a great friend to the whale for the whale being big would many times endanger her self between rocks and narrow straits were it not for this little fish which swimmeth as a guide before her Whereupon Du Bartas descants thus A little fish that swimming still before Directs him safe from rock from shelf and shore Much like a childe that loving leads about His aged father when his eyes be out Still wafting him through ev'ry way so right That reft of eyes he seems not reft of sight Which office of that little fish may serve as a fit embleme to teach great ones superiours that they ought not to contemne their inferiours for they are not alwayes able so to subsist of themselves that they never stand in need of their helps who are but mean and base in the eyes of greatnesse there may come a time when the meanest person may do some good and therefore there is no time wherein we ought to scorn such a one how mean soever he be Furthermore as the whale is befriended by the Musculus so also he is as much infested by the Ork for albeit the Ork be lesse then the whale yet it is a nimbler fish and cruell withall having sharp teeth with which as with an admired weapon she cruelly wounds the whale in the belly and then floating into a shallow place endangers the whale to follow after The Sword-fish called Xiphia is little like to any other fish he hath an horrid head like an owl a deep mouth as if it were some immensive pit ougly eyes with a back and a bill like a sword There is also another great fish called Serra or a Saw-fish having an hard copled head with teeth like a saw standing in manner of a combe upon the head of a cock with which the said fish when she wants a prey cutteth the bottome of ships that the men being cast away a prey may be provided by feeding on their carcases The Monoceros or fish with one horn may fitly be called the Sea-unicorn it is a sea-monster having a great horn in his forehead wherewith he is able to pierce through a ship Howbeit his crueltie is much hindered in regard that it hath pleased the Almighty to make him very slow in motion whereby those who fear him have advantage given them to flie away The Sea-elephant is a fish which often goes on shore and sleeps in the rocks hanging by his two Elephant-like teeth but both they and his bodie are farre bigger then the land-elephant and being espied by men at sea they call to others on the shore by whose help using nets and gins and other instruments for that purpose they together invelope his bodie and then suddenly assaulting and awaking him he leaps with a violent rush as if he would leap into the sea but being hampered and entangled by the fishers engines he cannot he is compelled therefore to yeeld himself to their mercie who having killed him do first skin him then take out his fat and of his skinne they make thongs which are sold for a great price as being very strong and such as will never rot Olaus magnus commendeth his teeth above the other parts of his bodie Lib. 21. This fish thus sleeping and caught suddenly may be as a fit embleme of those men who coming out of their right way do fall asleep in sinne and at last when death awakes them they think to go to heaven or leap into the wayes of godlinesse but then it is too late for they are taken as surely and as suddenly as was that fool in the Gospell who thought he had goods laid up for many yeares The Crocodile seeing it lives in the waters as well or rather then on land I reckon among the fishes They be commonly found about the river Nilus in Egypt and Ganges in India and as Munster writeth in his cosmographie it waxeth of a little thing to a very great beast For his egges are much like unto goose egges but the young which cometh of them taketh increase to 16 or 18 cubits in length He liveth almost as long as a man his back is hard and full of scales he wants a tongue but hath
we call the Ray. For whilest the devouring Crows be diving under water to catch their prey they themselves are caught by this fish and devoured suddenly lest otherwise they might want a revenger of their rapacitie even where and whilest they do the wrong Howbeit this Ray is a loving fish to man for swimming in the waters and being greedily pursued by the devouring Sea-dogs the Ray defends him and will not leave him untill he be out of danger There be also an abundance of other birds in those parts of strange properties and names scarce known of which they who have a desire may reade more in Olaus Magnus the nineteenth book of his Northern historie The Plover is Avis pluvialis and a fowl well known howbeit some have thought that they live onely by the winde and eat nothing at all but they deceive themselves in this opinion as experience teacheth For they have not onely been seen to feed but taken also with meat in their crops And that which first occasioned this errour was their quick digestion for they commonly eat things that are easily digested and soon consumed Plover saith one is thought to be a daintie dish and right wholesome yet it is slow of digestion nourisheth little and encreaseth melancholie The like he affirmeth of the Lapwing but the Teal he yeeldeth to be somewhat better Moreover the Plover flying high doth signifie rain which bird Olaus describeth after this manner There is saith he a bird which we call Avis Pluvialis about the bignesse of a Partridge supposed to live by nothing but aire because her bellie useth to be emptie of meat and yet she is very fat her feathers are diversly coloured some with white some with black and some with saffron colour and this bird the fowlers thus hunt by throwing up into the aire short heavie clubs for by so doing they cause her to descend and being descended they catch her in their nets laid readie for the same purpose Upupa or the Lapwing is a bastard-plover This is a querulous bird flying up and down lapping and clapping with her wings from whence she is called a Lapwing and in Latine she is named Upâ—…a from pu pu which is the crie that she maketh there y securing her nest and young ones from our finding Fâ—… by this practise she will draw us away from them 〈◊〉 farre as she can The combe or crest upon her head gâ—…ve Ovid a fit occasion to feigne a tale of a king turned into a Lapwing whose crown doth yet appeare upon the head of this bird The Lapwings fight often with the Swallows Jackdaws and Pies and by their much crying do signifie rain And as for their young being as it were half hatched they will runne from their nests with the shells on their heads The Osprey is a ravenous bird which hovereth over pools to take fish having one claw foot and another flat Galgulus-Icterus or the Charadrion is a bird unto which some ascribe this strange property viz. that if any who hath the Jaundise look upon him and the bird on him the bird then taketh the disease and dieth but the man is cured made sound and liveth Such are we by nature sick unto death but by Christ who died for our sinnes and rose again for our justification we are cured made sound and live Porphyrio is a bird drinking as though he did bite the water his bill and legs are red and long Haleyon or the King-fisher is a bird which maketh her nest in winter upon the sea during which time there is a calm and quiet season whereupon we call those dayes Halcyon dayes wherein we have peace rest and quietnesse They live also about rivers lay five egges and as Plinie witnesseth are seven dayes in preparing their nests and in the other seven they bring forth their young The Poets have a fiction of Alcyone and Ceyx who were turned into these birds For when Alcyone heard that her husband Ceyx was drowned in his way home from a certain voyage she cast her self into the sea and then for the pitie which the gods had of them they were both transformed into Halcyons But without any fiction this we are sure of that it is a strange bird and as it were natures dearest darling seeing that in favour of her nests and young the waters leave their raging the windes their blowing tempests have forgot to rise and dayes appeare with quiet calms The Pirate dwelling alwayes in his bark Her building dayes desiredly doth mark And the rich merchant resolutely venters So soon as th' Halcyon in her brood-bed enters For so long as her quiet couch she keeps The boyling sea exceeding calmly sleeps This is a bird which feedeth upon fish and by diving after them catcheth them as is not seldome seen In the Summer islands amongst other things we heare of varietie of fowls For upon the discovery of those parts by Sr. George Summers and Sr. Thomas Gates an abundance of fowl were taken They took a thousand of one sort in two or three houres being as big as a Pigeon and laying speckled egges upon the sand as big as hennes egges which they would daily come and lay although men sat down amongst them Purch There also is another fowl that liveth in holes like cony-holes their egges like to hen-egges both in quantitie and qualitie And other birds were there found so tame and gentle that whistling to them they would come and gaze on you while with your stick you might kill them Idem But in Asia in one of the Molucco islands named Tidore is a strange bird which they call Mamucos or birds of Paradise they have lesse flesh then the bodie maketh shew of their legs be in length about an hand-breadth their head small their bill long their feathers fair of a singular beauteous colour Authours write that they have no wings neither do they fly but are born up in the aire by the subtiltie of their plumes lightnesse of their bodies They are never seen saith my authour upon the ground but dead neither do they corrupt or rot in any â—…ort There is no man knoweth from whence they issue neither where they breed up their young ones nor whereupon they nourish themselves The islanders beleeve that they make their nests in Paradise and tell many fables thereupon which perswasion the Moores first put into their heads They call them Manucodiata or holy birds and have them in religious account insomuch that some of them have beleeved that souls are immortall by the consideration of such a bird And as for the sustenance which keeps this fowl alive although it be hard to say upon what it is maintained I do easily think that we may listen to them who suppose that they nourish themselves and maintain their lives by the dew that falleth and the flowers of the spices See Gesner de Avibus lib. 3.
call Ivory and of which many prettie things are cut by artists Munster reporteth how these beasts are taken namely by the cunning cutting down of a tree against which they use to lean and stay themselves For this beast saith he having fed till he is full betaketh himself to rest and leaning to a tree he sleepeth for he cannot bend his joynts as other beasts do not because he wanteth joynts but because his sinews are more strong and closely knit his joynts together or else because there is much flesh between the skinne and bones or because his skinne is so crustie like to armour and unfit to bend Now when the people perceive any such tree as is worn and made foul by the Elephants leaning against it they come in the absence of the said beast and cut it almost quite through close by the ground insomuch that being ready to fall it cannot stand when the Elephant cometh to rest against it but by giving way causeth him to fall together with it and then he lieth helplesse upon the ground all the night with his belly upward and not being able to bend his legs and arise he is caught in the morning by those who before had cut the tree with purpose to deceive him The said authour also mentions another way whereby they of India sometimes take and tame them For there be Elephants saith he in India which be very wilde and fierce but they are easily made tame namely thus The people intending to catch them compasse some clean place with a deep ditch of about foure or five furlongs in compasse and in one place onely they make a bridge very strait and narrow being the way to enter in then they set three or foure female Elephants which they have alreadie tamed and they themselves lie watching privily till the time that the wilde Elephants come and passe over the bridge then on the sudden do they stop the passage and afterward bring some of their strongest tame Elephants to fight with these wilde ones thus inclosed besides which they do likewise punish them with hunger and lack of meat and when they be wearied with fighting they which are bold hardie fellows by help of the tame Elephants to shelter them will privily creep under their bellies and suddenly chain and fetter them After this they move their tame Elephants again to beat the wilde untill their fetters cast them to the ground and then they yoke them to the necks of their tame ones and lay chains upon them that thereby they may passe on quietly and at last bringing them home they fasten their legs and necks to a strong pillar and so by hunger and societie tame them teaching them at the last when they begin to feed them to be obedient to their masters in such manner as best pleaseth them and then they will grow so loving gentle milde serviceable and docil as is indeed a wonder And if by chance any of them shall happen through fury to kill his keeper he will shew so much sorrow and take it so heavily that he abstaineth from his meat and sometimes even pineth to death like unto that Dolphin which in the former day I mentioned who using to carry a boy upon his back one day by meere accident hapned to kill him with one of his prickles not closely couched before the lad was mounted on his watery steed The little mouse is sometimes offensive to this beast and will strive to runne into the trunk of his nose neither can he endure to eat more of his meat if he see but a mouse runne over it But above all he hath two fierce enemies viz. the Dragon and the admired great Rhinoceros who coming to fight with the Elephant first whetteth his horn growing upon his snout and then grapling close he woundeth the Elephant into his belly for elsewhere the force of his fury cannot enter Plin. lib. 8. cap. 20. And as for the Dragon he likewise fighteth furiously because his delight is to suck the bloud of the Elephant which is cooling to his hot nature but drinking too largely of it as he will do if he can down falls the Elephant for lack of bloud and down likewise falls the Dragon because he hath sucked too much and so both die striving together Ibid. cap. 12. or as some say the Elephant dying falls upon the Dragon and so kills his foe who killed him And in this fight the Dragon deals most cunningly for first he sitteth watching upon a tree and when the Elephant is come neare unto that place he suddenly skips and cleaves round about him and if then the Elephant begin to beat him off against a rock or tree he claspeth close about his legges and seldome doth the combate cease without the death of both the fighters A fit embleme this of those who fall whilest they suck the bloud of others and perish in such gains as are purchased by the harms of those whom they strive to subvert Moreover the Elephants have such a kinde of modestie and shamefastnesse that the male never covereth the female but in secret and this never but once in two yeares and that when the male is five yeares old and the female ten From whence Geminianus gathers this instruction By this example saith he men are taught honestly to use the acts belonging to their conjugall or matrimoniall estate both according to the place and time Arise and let us pray saith young Tobias to his wife that God would have pitie on us And in praying he likewise said I take her not for lust but uprightly therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together And she said with him Amen Of which carefull continence Geminianus gives this reason why it ought to be in us because we are children of the light and may not do as the heathens who know not God Whereupon S. Augustine saith that they commit adulterie with their wives who in the use of wedlock have neither regard of seemlinesse nor honestie And Hierome likewise makes this assertion that nothing is more shamelesse then to make a strumpet of a wife meaning when they turn the remedie into a disease through a lustfull immodest and immoderate use of the marriage bed Furthermore the Elephants are long-lived they have great pleasure in good water are very impatient of cold and many of them live almost 200 yeares Also there is one singular propertie yet more to be observed in them viz. that even the wilde ones living in deserts will direct and defend strangers and travellers For if an Elephant shall finde a man wandering in his way first of all that he may not be affrighted the Elephant goeth a little wide out of the path and standeth still then by little and little going before him he shews him the way and if a Dragon chance to meet this man thus travelling the Elephant then opposeth himself to the
which is good against the stinging of Scorpions and so are love-sick youngsters cured for when nothing will help them they may again be healed by enjoying her who gave the wound The Asp is something like to a land-snake but with a broader back their eyes are red and flaming and out of their foreheads grow two pieces of flesh like an hard skinne and for their poison it is in a manner incurable Plinie writeth that they go alwayes two and two together and if one of them be slain the other will follow eagerly and seek up and down after him that slew his mate but it is the providence of God Almighty to give as many remedies against evil as there be evils in the world For the dulnesse of this serpents sight and slownesse of her pace doth keep her from many mischiefs which otherwise would be done The best way to cure their stings is presently to cut off the member bitten There be they who make three sorts of them that is to say the Terrestriall five handfulls long the Hirundiner coloured like a Swallow and is but a handfull long and last of all the Spitter greater then the other Their biting causeth death within few houres that of the Hirundiner is sudden of the Spitter somewhat slower beginning first with a dimnesse or trouble in the eyes then with a swelling in the face after that it proceedeth to a deafnesse and last of all it bringeth death Caelius Rhodiginus writeth that the Kings of Egypt did wear the pictures of Asps in their crowns whereby they signified the invincible power of principalitie in this creature whose wounds cannot easily be cured making it thereby an embleme of the power and wrath of a King and the priests of Egypt and those of Ethiopia did likewise wear very long caps having towards their top a thing like a navel about which were the forms of winding Asps to signifie to the people that those who resist God and the King shall perish by unresistable violence Topsell The Chameleons are admirable for their aierie subtance and for the changeablenesse of their colours 〈◊〉 if you will for their aierie sustenance although they sometimes hunt and eat flies He is of the form and greatnesse of a Lizzard but hath higher legs his ribs joyn in his bellie as in fishes his muzzle is long and his tail small towards the end and turning inwards his skinne is rough his eyes hollow and his nails crooked and when he moves himself he craâ—…leth slowly like a Tortoise See Plin. in his 8 book chap 33. Hâ—… tongue is almost half a foot long which he can dart â—…rth as swiftly as an arrow shot from a bow it hath a big â—…ot on the tip thereof and is as catching and holding as â—…lue which when he darteth forth he can fasten to the Grasse-hoppers Caterpillers and Flies thereby drawing them down into his throat He changeth into all and every colour excepting white and red whereof there be divers opinions some think that he changeth through fear but this is not like for though fear alter the colour as we when we are afraid wax wan and pale yet it will not change the bodie into every colour others think that by reason of his transparencie he taketh colour from those things which are neare him as the fish called Polypus taketh the similitude of the rocks stones where he lieth to deceive the fish and some again joyn both together for the Chameleon being in fear swelleth by drawing in the aire and then his skin being thereby pent is the smoother and the apter to receive the impression of the colours of things objected agreeing in this to that of Aristotle saying that his colour is changed being puft up with winde But be the cause from whence it will it affordeth a fit embleme or lively representation of flatterers and time-servers who fit themselves for all companies times occasions flattering any one thereby to make fit use of every one The Lizzard is a little creature much like the Eve but without poyson breeding in Italy and in many other countreys the dung of which beast cleareth the sight and taketh away spots in the eye the head thereof being bruised and applied will draw out a thorn or any other thing sticking in the flesh The Salamander is a small venimous beast with â—…ure feet and a short tail it doth somewhat resembâ—… the shape of a Lizzard according to Plinie lib. 10. câ—… 67. And as for his constitution it is so cold that like 〈◊〉 if he do but touch the fire he puts it out They be common in India in the isle of Madagascar as Mr Purchasâ—…lledgeth â—…lledgeth where he treateth of the creatures Plants and fruits of India But stay it is time to stop I know not how to mention every thing and yet there is nothing which is not worthy admiration I made I must confesse as much haste as I could and yet me thinks I see both these and thousands more runne from me flocking all together as if they meant to dance attendance now on Mans creation and not onely shew to him their due obedience and humble welcome into the world his stately palace but also wait to have their names according to their natures For whatsoever Adam called every living creature that was saith Moses the name thereof Let us now then come to him for whose sake all things else were made for God made the world for Man and Man for himself It was therefore a daintie fancie of one who brought in the World speaking to Man after this manner Vide homo dicit Mundus quomodo amavit te qui propter te fecit me Servio tibi quia factus sum propter te ut servias illi qui fecit me te me propter te te propter se. See oh man saith the World how he hath loved thee who made me for thee I serve thee because I am made for thee that thou maist serve him who made both me and thee me for thee and thee for himself This I will therefore adde Herbs cure our flesh for us the windes do blow The earth doth rest heav'n move and fountains flow United waters round the world about Ship us new treasures kingdomes to finde out The lower give us drink the higher meat By dropping on the ground nigh parcht with heat Night curtains draws the starres have us to bed When Phebus sets and day doth hide his head One world is Man another doth attend him He treads on that which oft times doth befriend him Grant therefore Lord that as the world serves me I may a servant to thy greatnesse be Sect. 2. The creation of Man being created male and female and made according to the image of God together with the institution of Marriage and blessing given to that estate THough Mankinde were the last yet not the least God onely spake his powerfull
wings with an embleme concerning thriving taken from the flying and swimming of this fish 382 Hog The Sea-hog 372. Another kinde of Sea-hog described 378 Hony See Bees Hony-dew 157. At what time of the yeare Hony-dews are most common 158 Hore-hound and his properties 252 Hornet A strange fight between a Sparrow and an Hornet 424. The Badger an enemie to the Hornet 425 Horse The properties of the Horse and Mare 483. The marks of a good Horse ibid. How to know the age of an Horse 484 Hot things cooled are soonest congealed 160 Housleek or Sen-green is alwayes green and therefore called semper vivens It is good against Corns 270 Houswives A note for good houswives 255 Humours The Passions are seated in the heart and stirred up by the Humours 497 498 Hyacinth and the vertues of it 293 Hyaena and his subtilties 445 Hypanall a serpent so called 489 Hyssop and the vertues of it 253 J. I. JAde An herb to refresh a tired Iade 259 Janus Whom the Poets pointed at in their fiction of Ianus with two faces 2 Jasper stone and the vertues thereof 295 Ibis a kinde of Stork 394. He doth much good in destroying serpents ibid. Jerf or Gulon a strange beast whose delight is onely in feeding 484 Jet and the properties of it 303 Jews their computation of 6000 yeares confuted 11 12 13 c. Ignis fatuus or foolish fire 93 Infection Sorrell good against infection 270 Innocencie taught from the Dove or Pigeon or Turtle rather 408 Iron and how it groweth 289 Israelites The Manna of the Israelites 156. The Egyptians did not cause the Israelites to forget their ancient customes 38 Iulus his head on a flame 97 June Noahs floud began to cease about the beginning of Iune or end of May 33 K. KIng-fisher and his properties 417 King of Sweden His Starre 108 109. The time of his birth ibid. His speech to his souldiers 112. His speech three dayes before his death 113. A Memento of him for after-times ibid. Kite and his properties 394 Knowledge in Devils See Devils L. LAdanum a sweet dew 158 Ladies mantle an herb so called the vertues whereof are described 252 Ladies threads a Meteor like unto cobwebs 167. Why there be spiders in it 168 Lamia a beast so called and described she hath paps a face head and hair like a woman 472 Lapis Thracius a strange stone it sparkles and burns in water but is quenched in oyl 299 Lapwings and their properties 416 Lark 402 Latona delivered by help of the Palm-tree 276 Lavender an herb and why so called 262 Lead and how it is generated 289 Leeks and the properties thereof Nero had a nick-name given him for eating of Leeks 262. Leeks are not good for hot cholerick bodies ibid. Leopard how he is begotten 442 Lettice Harm in too much Lettice 268 Licking lights or ignis lambens 97 Lights Why two lights shew fair weather and one light foul 96 Light The creation of Light from pag. 53 to 58. and pag. 327 328 329 c. Lightning The kindes of Lightning 124. Why we see the Lightning before we heare the thunder ibid. The worst kinde of Lightning 125. Three kindes of Fulmen 126. Not wholesome to gaze on the Lightning 127 Lilies and their vertues 268 Linot 402 Lion and his properties 438 Load-stone and the vertues of it 297 298 Locks An herb which will open any thing lockt 273 Love A pattern of Matrimoniall love taken from the Swan 413 Loyaltie The fish called Cantharus is a pattern of true Loyaltie 381 Lungs The Lungs are the bellows of the voice and seated next the heart they teach us to tell the truth 498. Hyssop purgeth the breast 253. A cure for a cough of the Lungs 252. Another for the same 253. Good to make one sing cleare 256. Mists are bad for the Lungs 167 Lynx and his properties 451 Lyzzard what kinde of creature it is 494 M. MAce See Nutmeg Mad. Good against the biting of a mad dog 266. 258 Madder is good for bruises and of a strange propertie 269 Maids An herb for great-breasted maids 252 Mallard better for sport then food 401 402 Mallows and their vertues 244 Man and his creation 496. The world made to serve Man and Man made to serve God 495. The fall was soon after the creation 36 37 Manna what it is and whether the Manna of the Israelites were altogether miraculous 156 157. How it is Angels food 157 Mantichora a very strange kinde of beast 446 Marriage The Marriage bed must not be abused 433. See also 413 Martins and Ermins 462 Mavis 402 Mean The meanest ought not to be contemned 369 Megrim A medicine for to cure the Megrim or pain in the head 453. 261 Melancholy A medicine to cure Melancholy 245. 250 26â—… Mermaids and Mermen with strange stories to the same purpose 375 Merry Good to make one merrie 245 Metalls 284 sequent Meteors and their kindes 86 87 88 c. Milk Good to ingender Milk in nurses breasts 249. See more in the word Nurses Milk rained and how 148 Minde The Minde doth somewhat sympathise with the body 104 341. Good against a troubled minde 259 Mint an wholesome herb 255. It is good to kill worms ibid. Mists they be of two kindes 166. Why they use to stink ibid. They be very bad for the lungs 167. and a speedie rot for cattell ibid. How to judge of the weather by a mist ibid. Miracles or waters of miraculous vertues 220 sequent Mole and his properties 462 Moneth The Hebrew moneths had no names excepting fours of them untill after the captivitie 39. The signification of the names belonging to those foure 40 Moon-wort or Mad-wort and the strange properties thereof 257 258. Moses skilfull in the learning of the Egyptians 347 Mother A medicine for those who are troubled with the Mother 246 Mouse described as also the kindes of mice 465 sequent Mouseare or Pilosella 261. It is good to harden edge-tools ibid. Mufloa a Sardinian beast 446 Mullet and his properties 381 Multitude An embleme concerning those who perish by following the multitude 482 Mummie 302. Counterfeit Mummie 303 Musculus a little fish and a friend to the whale 369 Musk-cat 463 Mustard and the properties thereof 256 Myrrhina what it is 157 Myrtle 275. The Romane captains made garlands of it for triumph ibid. It was consecrated to Venus ibid. Myrtle berries have been used sometimes in the stead of pepper 276 N NApeir his opinion concerning the time of the worlds ending 24 25 26 Naphtha a liquid Bitumen with the kindes and properties thereof 303 304 Nature The course of nature first set then followed 35 Natures of the starres may be known 347 Nepenthe an herb which expelleth sadnesse 271 New-found world how it first grew out of knowledge 232 Nightingale and her commendations 402 Noah had knowledge in the starres and signes of heaven 347 North-winde 182 Why the North and East windes sometimes bring rain for a