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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62395	Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire.; Discoverie of witchcraft	Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.	1651 (1651)	Wing S943; ESTC R19425	465,580	448

things are not now to be looked for in all respects as are written Howbeit Iannes and Iambres were living in that time and in no inconvenient place and therefore not unlike to have that help towards the abusing of Pharaoh Cardane saith that although men attribute no smal force unto such seales as to the seal of the Sun authorities honours and favours of princes of Iupiter riches and friends of Venus pleasures of Mars boldnesse of Mercurie diligence of Saturne patience and induring of labour of Luna favour of people I am not ignorant saith he that stones do good and yet I know the seales or figures do none at all And when Cardano had shewed fully that art and the folly thereof and the manner of those terrible prodigious and deceitfull figures of the 〈◊〉 with their characters c. he saith that those were deceitfull inventions devised by couseners and had no vertue indeed nor truth in them But because we spake somewhat even now of signets and seals I will shew you what I read reported by Vincentius in suo speculo where making mention of the Jasper stone whose nature and property Marbodeus Gallus describeth in the verses following Iaspides esse decem species septemque feruntur His multorum cognoscitur esse colorum Et multis naset perbibetur partibus orbis Optimus in viridi translucentique colore Et qui plus soleat virtutis habere pro batur Coste gestatus fibrem fugat arcet hydropem Adpositusque juvat mulierem parturientem Et tutamentum portants creditur esse Nam consecratus gratum facit abque potentem Et sicut perhibent phantasmata noxia p●llit Cuiusin argento visfortior esse putatur Seven kindes and ten of Jasper stones reported are to be Of many colours this is known which noted is by me And said in many places of the world for to be seen Where it is bred but yet the best is through shining green And that which proved is to have in it more vertue plaste For being borne about of such as are of living chaste It drives away their ague fist the dropsie thirsting dry And put upon a woman weak in travell which doth lie It helps assists and comforts her in pangs when she doth crie Again it is beleev'd to be a safegard frank and free To such as wear and bear the same and if it hallowed bee It makes the parties gratious and mighty too that have it And noisome fansies as they write that meant not to deprave it It doth displace out of the mind The force thereof is stronger In silver if the same he set and will endure the longer But as I said Vincentius making mention of the Iasper stone touching which by the way of a parenthesis I have inferred Marbodeus his verses he saith that some Iasper stones are found having in them the lively image of a naturall man with a shield at his neck and a spear in his hand and under his feet a serpent which stones so marked and signed he preferreth before all the rest because they are antidotaries or remedies notably resisting poison Othersome also are found figured and marked with the form of a man bearing on his neck a bundle of hearbs and flowers with the estimation and value of them noted that they have in them a faculty or power restrictive and will in an instant or moment of time stanch bloud Such a kind of stone as it is reported Galen wore on his finger Othersome are marked with a crosse as the same author writeth and these be right excellent against inundations or overflowings of waters I could hold you long occupied in declarations like unto these wherein I lay before you what other men have published and set forth to the world choosing rather to be an academical discourser than an universall determiner but I am desirous of brevity CHAP. VIII The sympathy and antipathy of natural and elementary bodies declared by divers examples of beasts birds plants c. IF I should write of the strange effects of Sympathia and Antipathia I should take great pains to make you wonder and yet you would scarse beleeve me And if I should publish such conclusions as are common and known you would not regard them And yet Empedocles thought all things were wrought hereby It is almost incredible that the grunting or rather the wheeking of a little pig of the sight of a simple sheep should terrifie a mighty Elephant and yet by that means the Romans did put to flight Pyr●hus and all his hoast A man would hardly beleeve that a cocks combe or his crowing should abash a puissant lion but the experience hereof hath satisfied the whole world Who would think that a serpent should abandon the shadow of an ash c But it seemeth not strange because it is common that some man otherwise hardy and stout enough should not dare to abide or endure the sight of a cat Or that a draught of drink should so overthrow a man that never a part or member of his body should be able to performe his duty and office and should also so corrupt and alter his senses understanding memorie and judgement that he should in every thing saving in shape become a very beast And herein the poets experiment of liquor is verified in these words following sunt qui non corpora tantum Verum animas etiam valeant mutare liquores Some waters have so powerfell been As could not only bodies change But even the very minds of men Their operation is so strange The friendly society betwixt a fox and a serpent is almost incredible how loving the lizzard is to a man we may read though we cannot see Yet some affirm that our newt is not only like to the lizzard in shape but also in condition From the which affection towards a man a spaniell doth not much differ whereof I could cite incredible stories The amity betwixt a castrell and a pigeon is much noted among writers and specially how the castrell defendeth her from her enemie the sparrow-hawke whereof they say the dove is not ignorant Besides the wonderfull operation and vertue of hearbs which to repeat were infinite and therefore I will only refer you to Mattheolus his herball or to Dodonaeus There is among them such naturall accord and discord as some prosper much the better for the others company stand some wither away being planted near unto the other The lillie and the rose rejoyce in each others neighbour-hood The flag and the fernebush abhorre each other so much that the one can hardly live besides the other The cowcumber loveth water and hateth oil to the death And because you shall not say that hearbs have no vertue for that in this place I cite none I am content to discover two or three small qualities and vertues which are affirmed to be in hearbs marry as simple as they be Iannes and Iambre's might have done much