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A68420	A thousand notable things, of sundry sortes Wherof some are wonderfull, some straunge, some pleasant, diuers necessary, a great sort profitable and many very precious. ...	Lupton, Thomas.	1579 (1579)	STC 16955; ESTC S104926	182,300	330

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 cōposita 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 ba●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 ●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 ●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

quicke Lyme and Brimstone of both equall porcions and then the hole well stopt that no ayre nor any thing may go out and so put into some standing water or a litle pit of water or into some cesterne full of water it wyll keepe the sayd water hotte a long tyme or for many daies Proued of many sayth Mizaldus And I founde the same also in an olde written booke HEns dunge mixt with meate that is geuen to be eaten of madde Dogs wyl take away their madnes from them As it is thought Mizaldus IF a Woorme that is founde in the grasse before it touch the grounde be hanged alyue at a womans necke that is with childe it is thought she shal keepe the chylde vntyll the due tyme of the byrth Plinius As Mizaldus sayth IF one geue any thing for Warts to them that haue them be it neuer so small a thing as three or fowre heayrs a rag of a lynnen cloath or some other thinge of no value the sooner it wyll rotte so much the better and let the party that would be ryd of the warts wrappe the same in some thing and put it into the ground and couer the same with earth againe truly as the same thing doth rotte in the earth so wyll the warts weare and consume away This is perfectly proued IF Mars be in Gemini and the Sunne in Pisces in a quartyle aspect in the daye tyme or the Moone in the night tyme it doth sygnify that the chylde then borne wyll be hangde Taisnier THey that vse to receyue three Pyls made of Aloes De succo citrino made in powder which is to bee had at the Apothecaries and mixt with the iuyce of Colewoorts of the bygnes of a beane shall neuer be troubled with paine in the head Petr. Hisp. A Straunge medicine for the gowte Take a good handfull of Arsemart and wrap and tye the same in a Burre leafe and laye it first in olde ashes then compasse the same with hotte embers coales so rost the same wel thē apply the same rosted Arsmart to the grieued place and do thus euening and morning for two or three dayes and thou shalt fynde a present helpe thereof This was tolde me for a great secrete and as a proued thing IF you put or stop fast within a Nutte quicke brimstone Saltpeter and Quicksyluer the same being put into a loafe of bread and then the same loafe of bread put into some hotte place where it may heate as soone as it waxeth hot you shal see the loafe of bread so leape that it wyll bee a very pretye sport to them that sees it Mizaldus had this of one that proued it A Most excellēt oyle of Saint Iohns Woort is made as followeth Infuse or stiepe for the space of three dayes the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in pure and excellent Wine then in a double vessel let them 〈◊〉 easily ouer the fire and then straine them easily then agayne put as many of the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in that strayned lycquor as you had before and let them stiepe therin three dayes three nights as before then heate strayne them as before then adde thereto three ounces of Turpentine and syxe ounces of olde Oyle and of Safferue the weyght of xxiiii Barly cornes myxe all together and then seeth all together in a double vessell vntyll the wyne be consumed and that that remaynes put it into a glased or leaded vessel keepe it safely for your vse This Oyle is of a maruelous vertue and propertie as wel chieflye against venemous Ulcers as many other diseases and colde griefes Well knowne to many women Mizaldus IF you rubbe sleyghtly any kinde of Beastes or Cattell with the iuyce of goordes in hotte wether no kinde of Flyes wyll then hurt or molest them nor yet come nye them A thing desyred of many and very necessary for such as rydes in the hotte wether Mizaldus IF Mars be opposite to Iupiter and the one of them bee the Lorde of the eyght house it is lyke the chylde then borne shall dye by the commaundement of the Iudge Taisnier THe leaues of wylde Iuie sodde in wine and layde vpon any Cankar doeth kyll and heale the same Trotula THis water following is very precious for frantick and madde men proued very often Take of the flowres of Rosemarie of Burrage and of the rootes of Buglosse of each halfe a pounde of Saffern two drams of Quinces fowre ounces of the best whyte Wine two pintes mixe them all together and then let them stande so the space of a naturall daye after that bury the glasse body wherein all the same is in horse dung for fifteene daies and then take it out and distyll a water therof according to arte two or three times ouer Keepe this water as the Aple of your eye for it is very precious and well proued in all Melancholy sicknesses very effectuously and in the paine and trembling of the harte the quantity to be geuen at one time is a dram Which is the weyght of .lxxii. barly cornes If you proue it you wyll prayse it And this is in the new Iuell of Health with many other mo excellent thinges THey are not lyke to lose their senses nor their vnderstanding in whose Natiuity the Moone doth apply to Mercury eyther by coniunction or by aspect Iatromath Guat Ryff Argent SEt a rounde glasse full of water against the hotte Sunne that it maye stande fast and then holde something that is very drie and wyll take fyre easely nye to the same glasse betweene the glasse and the Sunne and it wyll set the same thing there holden on fyre Which is very straunge to beholde And the rather because fyre a hotte and drye element is procured out of water a colde and moyst element Iohan. Baptist. Porta DIdimus wrytes that Sheepe are woont to follow them that stoppes their eares with their wooll IF any doth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie what he dyd see in his dreame marke the Ascendent when the question is made And if thou doest finde Saturne in the Ascendent or fyrst house tell him that he dyd see in his dreame Religious persons as Fryers Heremytes or such lyke or places of Prayer c. But if thou finde Mars in the Ascendent saye that he saw in his dreame Captaines Knights Murtherers Theeues Harnes or Battelles or such lyke If the Sunne be in his first house he dyd see Gardins Trees with fruites Golde or a king If Venus be in the Ascendent he dyd see a fayre Uirgin or some eating or drinking or one lying with a Woman or that haue things wherin they are delighted or else to playe or to walke abroade or whyte or red garmentes If Mercury be in the first house then he dyd see handsome eloquent men reasoning or Pallaces decked with Curtens and rytch hanginges or cloathes bookes or wrytings of salutation or of accoumpts If the Moone be in the first house he dyd