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A08437	The anatomyes of the true physition, and counterfeit mounte-banke wherein both of them, are graphically described, and set out in their right, and orient colours. Published in Latin by Iohn Oberndorff, a learned German: and translated into English by F.H. fellow of the Coll. of Physitions in London. Hereunto is annexed: A short discourse, or, Discouery of certaine stratagems, whereby our London-empericks, haue bene obserued strongly to oppugne, and oft times to expugne their poore patients purses.; De veri et falsi medici cognitione. English	Oberndorf, Johann.; Herring, Francis, d. 1628.	1602 (1602)	STC 18759; ESTC S120711	37,471	55

gaines for three or foure Visitations which if you had giuen the most learned Phisition in the Citie you would haue scratched your Elbow and thought your selfe vndone Yet he fayled in his first conceit which notwithstanding is commonly their Rest For not long after the shamelesse Companion faigned a necessary and vrgent occasion of going into the Countrey and before he went down desired to haue so much of those Commodities wherein his Patient dealt as came to three Pound The Citizen knowing that by his meanes he had got in the Citie of diuers honest Men through his Hyberbolicall Commendation twentie Nobles at the least was content to lay them aside for him But when he expected his present payment he phopped him thus Syr we agreeed for your Cure for fiue pound I haue receiued alreadie fortie shilling now this three pound maketh vp the iust summe Nay by your leaue said the Marchant I looke for readie money for my Ware You haue had on me alreadie foure Angels and I am no whit better then I was but rather in worse State Performe your vndertaken Cure and you shall be assured of your money without faile If it be so said hee I must leaue it behinde me til I return or send you vp money for I haue sent downe my money before me But neither Man nor Mony returned in haste This was an old-beaten Souldier a good Proficient well trained vp in this Schoole of Couzenage and Coney-catching hee had learned his lesson perfectly and was able to runne it ouer vpon his fingers Ends. For if you compare his Story with our present Discourse you shall see that he neither failed nor faltered in any one Point of his Portuse Thus I haue spent as you see some fewe successiue and Idle-vagant houres in vnfolding and laying open the Packe and Fardle of these circumferanious Iuglers and pedling Pettifoggers in Physicke who by these Adulterate and Sophsticate Wares deceiue abuse pray and feed vpon the ruder and simpler sort of People Yea and by your leaue sometimes ouerreach circumuēt those who think themselues iolly fellowes and great wise Men to the great blemish and disgrace of that auncient worthy and honourable Profession of Physick discredit obloquie and contempt of learned and good Phisitions and to the great damage and detriment of her Maiesties Subiects both in their Bodies and outward Estates My hope is that this Cursorie and Rapsodicall Discourse for to haue ransacked euery Corner and Creuise in this Budget would require a longer Tractat and may hereafter be performed if this Labor proue plausible and grateful may do good to some and hurt none except the intruding and shifting Mounte-banke whose prosequution and persequution both I and all the learned Gentlemen of our Colledge haue in our Initiation and Inanguratiō solemnly vowed and protested It being the very ground and Originall of all those large and bountifull Immunities and Priuiledges graunted first to our Societie by that puissant Prince of famous memorie Henry the eight and afterward ratified and confirmed by his Peerlesse Daughter Queene Elizabeth the Mirrour of all Heroicall and Princely vertues the Assertor and Protector of true Relion the Maule of Antichrist the Astonishment and Wonder of Christendome and the whole World that we should Videre prospicere ne quid in Rebus Med. Resp. Detrimenti caperet That is that we should foresee and take order that the Common-wealth be not wronged in Matters appertaining to Phisicke It is therefore an odious Calumnie and slaunderous vntruth which these base and out-cast Companions giue out when they are punished by the Colledge for theyr grosse Sottishnesse shamelesse Intrusion and vnsufferable and pernicious Offences and Disorders that they are therefore onely pursued by vs because they take away our profit when as in truth they eft-soones make worke for vs and doo more good then the Colledge of Phisitions whereas the great Acts they do may appeare partly by this present Discourse and yet more euidently by those lamentable Accidents and miserable Ends of many poore soules in London in a yeare falling into these Hucsters or rather Hacksters hands Our Consciences toward God our Dutie toward our Prince our Loue to our Countrey the honour of our Profession the Oath we haue taken in our Admission do all binde vs as by a double or triple cord or band Ad persequendum indoctos Empericos Impostores To pursue vnlearned Emperickes and Impostors In conclusion therefore I desire them who haue occasion to vse Physicke to remember alwayes his saying who affirmeth that Plus mali a medico quam a Morbo imminet si aut audacia aut Imperitia Poccet There is more Daunger to bee feared from the Physition then from the Disease if he offend either in blockish Ignorance or rash Temeritie and thinke it safe for them to be of the same minde with a great Learned Clarke in our Land who in a daungerous sicknesse being moued by some friends to vse an vnlettered Empericke Nay quoth he I haue liued all my Life by the Booke and I will now God-willing likewise dye by the Booke And so I wish from my heart to euery one of them in Tyme of Health a sound faithfull and constant friend who is called Medicamentum vitae and that they may auoyd the Silken and Oylye Tongues of the flattering Sycophant and in Time of Sicknesse an honest and learned Physition and that they may not fall into the butcherly hands of the mercilesse Carnifex I would but because it is out and not amisse let it goe haue said Quack-saluer Carpere vel noli Nostra veledae Tua FINIS Diuers faults haue escaped the Printer which as they are easily discerned so I entreat thee friendly Reader to amend with thy Pen as thou goest along and to pardon me who by occasion of some Businesse haue not looked so narrowly to them as I should and otherwise would haue done

Dyet of the sicke the second Chyrurgery the third Pharmacentice So that the Physition as a great Commaunder hath as subordinate to him the Cookes for Dyet the Surgions for manuall Operation the Apothecaries for confecting and preparing Medicines You see then how goodly large and ample Patrimony Physick hath and that all her Store and Skill consisteth not in compounding and mingling of a Medicine If that were all thē all our skilful Chirurgions and Apothecaries of whom we haue many in this Citie should be absolute and compleat Physitions who I dare boldly affirme knowe moe and better Medicines then the brauest and Crakingest Mounte-banke in the Land And yet how farre the cunningest of them are from being able to giue counsell in Physicke both themselues will ingeniously and freely acknowledge and all men of Iudgement may easily discerne But who so bolde as blind Bayard who seeing not the Daunger and Diche before him rusheth on without feare and plungeth himselfe ouer Head and Eares ere hee be aware Herophilus calleth Medicines Manus Deorum being prescribed and accommodated by the learned Physition but flat Poysons if they come thorow the handes of vnlearned and venterous Quack-saluers Nullus Morbus idem omnibus No Disease is of the same Nature in all Constitutions Nullum Remedium evndem vim habet in singulis No Remedie hath the lyke Operation in euery particular Patient A good Remedie in the Head or Closet of an vnskilfull and venterous Periclitator is as a Sword in the handes of a mad-Man Or as the blinde Mans staffe which may so fall as it may kill the Hare So theyr misapplyed and mishapen Remedies may sometime quell the Disease but by as great chaunce and misfortune as that good Fellow had who being drunke and on horsebacke ridde in the night safely ouer a foote-bridge crossing a broad and deepe Riuer it beeing a thousand pounde to a Nut-shell that both hee and his Horse should haue come short Home Natura est Curatrix Morborum Nature her selfe is the Curer of diuers Diseases into whose haruest these intruding Copes mates do thrust theyr Sickle reaping oft times her due Praise and Commendations To conclude this Poynt wherein I haue beene content to dwell the longer because it is the strongest Castle and Hold wherein our Maister-Emperickes doo most trust and wherevnto they haue continuall Resuge and Retreat in all assaultes I dare boldly set downe this Maxime and Theorem and maintaine the same against all Commers that Morbi curantur magis Methodo quam Medicina Diseases are rather cured by a Rationall Methode grounded vpon Arts Indications then by force of any Remedie though neuer so soueraigne The Indications whereby Iudiciall and Rationall Physitions are guided and directed as by Ariadnaees threed in the Curation of Diseases are many and not to be stood vpon at this Tyme all of them neglected and vnknowne to the poore blinde Emperickes And yet the Poet could say speaking but of one of them Temporibus medicina valet data Tempore prosunt Sed data non apto Tempore Vina nocent But hauing as I hope sufficiently battered this Fort and ferrited these Coney-catching Companions from their Sanctuarie or rather Fox-hole I will proceed or rather post vnto their third Topicall Place or Latebra Sophistica whereby they seeke to mount vpon the Banke of Fame and raise vp Themselues in the Conceit of their simple Patients When they perceiue the Patient to haue swallowed the two former Flyes then they begin to stand vpon theyr Typtoes and with a composed Countenance and Stagge-like gesture to relate such straunge vncouth lowde ringing and Paradoxicall Narrations as a man would suppose they were solemnly set to lye for the Whetstone Vbi adbibit plus paulò sua mihi quae narrat Facinora When they are set vpon theyr Ale-bench for it is worth noting by the way that eyther at the Ale-house or Tauerne where is their chiefe Haunt theyr matches for Cures are vsually made and are a little whitled it is wonderfull what fabulous Tales and Stories what vnsauorie and odious Leasings they will tell of theyr incredible and admirable Curations performed vppon most desperate and deadly Sicknesses and such Persons as were altogether giuen ouer and forsaken as forlorne and past helpe by the Physitions There you shall heare of Dropsies dead Palsies as they tearme them olde and knottie Gouts Apoplexies great and growne Stones in the Bladder a great rabble moe of Churlish and Sturdie Companions all bowing the knee vayling the Bonnet and dooing lowe obeysance to our grand Seignior Magnifico Mounsier Mountebanke And least you should call in Question the credit of those good old Gentlemen or doubt of the Truth of their Poeticall Hyberbolicall and extrauagant Discourses you shall haue them name the Cities and Townes Parties and Places where their great myraculous Workes and Wonders were acted and executed Marry they wil be sure not to name any Parties or Places too neare at hand for that might peraduenture marre all the fooles are more wise then so But if you would finde out the cettaintie of these Matters you may perhaps ryde your horse out of breath Some of them will haue for their Associate an old Weather-beaten Broking Cōpaniō somewhat known to the Patient as very a c. as themselues who shall play Gnathos part soothing them vp in all their loud Leasings His maner is to scratch and clawe our Magnifico by the Elbow and to tolle on the silly Patient in this sort Syr vpon my credit this is an honest and simple-meaning Gentleman if he say the word you may be bold to build and write vpon it He would not tell you an vntruth I dare say and sweare too for a need if he might gaine thereby an hundred pounds Though he goe but plaine yet his Reputation is good in the Towne and Countrey where he dwelleth He is sought vnto farre and neare He is acquainted with diuers Noble men and great Personages and hath accesse vnto them and is admitted into Ladies Chambers when your gay Doctors with their veluet Ierkins are shut out of Doores to coole their heeles He hath bene a Traueller in his Dayes and hath thereby attained such deepe and profound skill in Physicke and such rare and precious Medicines that hee putteth downe all the Doctors where euer he commeth Vpon my knowledge he hath cured them which had bene with all the Doctors in London and spent great summes of money without receiuing any good till they met with him I may say to you he is the oddest Man in a Land If he vndertake you I will bee his warrant that hee will cure you I neuer knew him yer to faile in any He hath the Luckyest hand in a Countrey I neuer knew any miscarrie vnder it Doth not this slye and subtill Pricker tell a smooth Tale to couer and colour this pack of cloaked Knauery And no maruell For he speaketh and pleadeth for his Fee and Shareth with his Maister Thraso

vertuous Man hee carrieth not two faces vnder one Hood but his Heart and Tongue his words and actions agree and goe hand in hand together For he endeuoreth by all meanes to shew himselfe prudent bashfull trustie graue modest constant couragious courteous and affable For all these faire Vertues do vsually attend them who haue bene rightly conuersant and trained vp in Apolloes Schoole Among other Vertues hee greatly embraceth Taciturnitie and Secresie For there are many Misteries of the Art many Diseases of Patients which to blab abroad were neither seemly nor expedient Many things are said and done by these like parties many Accidents fall out in their houses which are to be concealed as Secrets and not to be carried out of doores and cryed at the Crosse For it is a Signe and argument of a Gentleman-like Disposition and amiable Discretion to keepe close things to be secreted least all our Wit seeme to lie in our tongues end and not to be lodged in the Head or Heart And as he is secret and discreet so is he likewise Sober and Temperate that he may be fit readie to visite his Patients at any houre of the day or night being as good an afternoones-man as a mornings-man For as Galen witnesseth a good Phisition ought to bee as studious of Sobrietie as of Veritie So in his attire there is no superfluous Curiositie Courtlike Pomp far-fetched foolish Finicallitie no nor Diogenicall nastinesse and Lazerlike slouenie but therein he laboureth to be decent comely and frugall Moreouer he is contented with a mediocritie and ioyeth in a meane Estate not greedily gaping and breathing after Riches being sufficient to himselfe and knowing that they of their owne accord follow an industrious and laborious Hand vnlesse a Mans lot fall among such as are altogether Clownes and Sowters And that he may auoyd all sinister Cogitations and Suspitions of euill and vnhonest dealing he cautelously shunneth and shutteth out all churlish malignant new-found suspected medicines admitting those onely in his Practise which are easie safe benigne vndoubted secure and approued by long Vse and certaine Experience of the ancient Worthies and great Maisters in Phisicke And in all these things hee carrieth himselfe discreetly ingenuously without Cunning and Deceit not refusing to submit his Prescripts and Formes if need require to the Censure and Iudgement of learned Phisitions willingly yealding to conferre with them and to vse great Hippocrates words embracing willingly any learned Colloquie least by any meanes he should seeme to play the Coward or Flincher For Truth being of that Nature that she neuer hideth her Face or feareth to behold the Light so the true Philosopher or Phisitiō for those two in our Age make one is sociable readie to communicate hearing other mens Opinions and Iudgement with great delight only to this intent that by this friendly Conference and diligent Inuestigation he may be confirmed and incouraged in his good Course and the Patient receiue more assured and certaine Benefites 2. Antithesis 2. Part. NOw if you compare with him our suborned and masking Mounte-barke whose wits are as dull as a doore nale they will be found as farre different and distant as Michaels Mount and Cheuen Hills For where shal you finde any one in this Crew who hath any spark of Religion or drop of Charitie where one that hath any right sence of Compassion or common Humanitie But to speake plaine though it be horrible so much as to thinke the greatest part of this Packe are no better then ranke and arrant Atheists And to speake within compasse you shall sooner finde a blacke Swan then an honest man in this Bunch but if you prye narrowly into them you shall discerne notorious Impostores olde beaten Foxes and Cozeners not Friends and Fauorites but sworne Enemies to Nature and Man-kinde laughing in their sleeues at their Budget full of wyles which they carrie in their bosome most basely and wickedly prostituting both Themselues and the Art For this lost Companion hauing a Foxes Head and an whorish and wainscotted Face considering that nothing is set by in this Age but that which is profitable that wealth is more esteemed then Honestie and that Riches make the Gentleman and that Money maketh Vertue stand behinde the doore he setteth this downe as a Maxime and Conclusion that wealth must be had though with the Iniurie and wracke of Pietie Equitie Humanitie and common Honestie therfore prising Man that immortall and excellent Creature the grand Myracle of the Eternall at naught hee carrieth himselfe Impiously Desperately and Craftily in all his Courses casting as it were the Dice vpon his Patients Herevpon he pronounceth all Things darkly and doubtfully as if Apollo should gaue Oracles from his Threefooted stoole And if he happen at any Time on a Truth you must pardon him it was more then he was aware of Now all is Cocke sure hee will pawne his Life and Credit not both worth a Rush all shall bee well By and by with a Stoicall Countenance he threatneth Daunger and Death breathing at once both cold and hotte and all to this End that which way so euer the World waggeth hee may bee thought by his great Wisedome and deepe reach in Diuining to haue foreseene and presaged the Euent which he foreknew as much as a Woodcocke So that beeing himselfe more variable then the Polyp hee is in twentie seuerall Mindes in an houre turning and winding too and fro like a Tragedians Buskin and vttering quite Contraryes Thus doth this base and lewd Couzener mocke God and despise Man for whose cause the Eternall created the goodly and beautifull Frame of the World and in whose Bodie whatsoeuer is more largely in that Spatious and Gorgious Pallace and Theater delineated is more briefly comptised and as it were Epitomised and represented a short Summe or Viewe Against this Noble Creature the small Counterfeit of the Great GOD hee dooth oft times rage more sauagely then any wilde Beare or Tygar refusing all good safe and wholsome Medicines and purposely making Choise of them which were inuented by Sathan or his Imps for the ruine and Destruction of Mankind Now his Manners and Conditions the liuely Characters of the Minde wherein there is no one graine of Honestie declare plainly what a sweet Companion this is For if a man consider his Person he shall finde him Lewd Shamelesse a Hater mortall of all Good Men well seene and practised in all Couzening Legerdemaine Coney-catching and all other cunning Shifts Sleights a cracking Boaster Proud Insolent a secret Back-biter a cotentious Wrangler a common Iester a Lyar a Busie-body a Runnagate Wanderer a Cogging Sycophant and Trencher-Chaplaine a couetous Exactor and Wringer of his Patients in a word a Man or rather Monster made of a Mixture of all Vices For hauing spent all his Tyme in learning these Feates and long Custome hauing bred an Habit or second Nature it cannot bee but that in Vertues Place there succeedeth

a whole Troupe and as it were a bottomelesse Whirlepoole of all Vice and odious Naughtinesse and Filthinesse Herevpon hee neither Fearing God nor Caring for the good Lawes of Man I am ashamed to speake that which they shame not to commit refuseth not to giue Horrible and Detestable Counsell for the murthering of Poore Infants in their mothers bellyes procuring them to fall from the Tree like vntimely Fruite And being as lasciuious as a Sparrow in the Spring hee maketh no bones to corrupt and sollicite to vncleannesse young beautifull Maidens hauing a speciall Facultie in Curing the Greene Sicknesse yea and comely Matrons and Wiues if he may handsomely come into their Chambers blushing no whit to spend many houres in Carowsing in Tauernes and dallyance among Curtemans And according to the diuers Dispositions and Humours of Men that hee may fit and Please all he layeth aside the Behauiour and Grauitie of a Phisition and putteth vpon Him the Person of a Sycophant and Parasite making account as the World goeth to thriue better thereby then by his profession refusing no Seruitude or Drudgery how base so euer that hee may creepe into Fauour with his Good Maisters and Mistresses and get into that Great Lord or Rich Ladies Bookes One while hee playeth the Apothecarie an other while the Cooke an other while the Seruing Man other whiles serueth in stead of Mother Midnight and sometime hee is content to carrie the Pisse pot abasing Himselfe to euery Seruile and Slauish Office Nay by your leaue Sometimes which is of all other most vnworthy and vnbefitting hee playeth the Foole and Iester and now and then which is worst of all the Bawd and Pandore And he is so farre from being thought worse for all this by the Vulgars that he is counted an Obsequious Officious Neat Necessary Man a Merry and good Fellow and the Onely Phisition Among other things hee laboureth to excell in Garrulitie and much Babling his Tongue being like a Lambs Tale or Aspen leafe which neuer lyeth still but is alwayes wagging And since he cannot come neare others in sound Learning Iudgement and Skil in his Art he will be sure to goe farre beyond them in Childish Foolish Vnsauourie Tedious and Tiersome Loquacitie So that by a vaine and fond boasting of Learning and impudent promising and vndertaking many and great Matters he is accounted a great and profound Doctor among the rude and ignorant Multitude especially among simple credulous Women who through their weaknesse of Iudgement shallownesse of Conceit and Leuitie of Minde are of all other most readie to embrace old wiues Tales Lyes and Forgeries he keepeth a foule Coyle playing the Champion and Warriour with his Tongue vaunting aboue measure of his great and noble Acts in killing I know not how many Chymaeras despising that with a Grace all the Learned Phisitions of the Place and sometimes Age wherein he liueth barking and byting reuiling and calumniating them at his Pleasure as not worthy to carry his Bookes or once to be named or compared with his sweete Selfe our great Magnifico and all to the end that he might alienate Mens Minds from Them by his shamelesse Cauils and Slaunders impaire their Reputation and brand them with the blacke Coale of Infamy and Reproach Now if by these cunning sleights vnsauourie Pratling secret Calum●●…ation he haue scraped together a few Crownes that he may trauel● into some forraine Countrey hee will make sure to fawne vpon the Female kinde and to purchase the Fauour of honourable Ladies and Dianaes with some rare and pretious Gifts suppose a peece of Counterfeit Vnicomes-horne or a Bezoat-stone made of Powder of Post or glassie Sand the Onely and Soueraigne Antidote and Medicine if you will beleeue my great Maister of all Maladie Treacle Diatessaron or some Counterfeit Drugge closed hard with the Venetian Seale or a litle white Clay which hee calleth Terra Lemnia or some such like precious Iewell not worth a button Now he impudently with a whole streame of prittle prattle setteth out to the vttermost his goodly Gifts that they are worth twise their waight in Gold that they must be laid vp in their Caskets amōg their most costly Ornaments and kept as their Life Thus with these cunning sleights fawnings and flattering words and Gifts not worth a strawe which notwithstanding silly Women haue not the wit to reiect but take them with both hands and locke them vp for Treasures extolling and praising them to the Skyes among their Gossips he winneth the Spurres among the Multitude and being in high Admiration Credit and renowme with my Gossip Prittle Prattle his Fame is by by spread through the whole Town as with Bell and Clapper and hee reckoned the onely Learned and profound Doctor For he cannot possibly make so loud and impudent a Lye but it straight way runneth for currant among these credulous and poore Soules For among Blinde the Blinker easily ruleth the Rost So that by his lewd and lowd Lyes and other pretie Shifts and nimble Sleights he bringeth to passe that hee is applauded in euery Corner and magnified by the common sort as an other Apollo For they delighting altogether in Noueltie and loathing their old accustomed Physitions though neuer so learned if there come any straunge Beast or Monster out of Barbary or Iacke an Apes from Cataia they doo gaze vpon him with Admiration flocke after him by whole Troupes and set him out in highest Degrees of Commendations And being compassed with this Crew of Idiots and sitting in his Chaire of State with his Cap of Maintenance by his silly Patient it is a world to heare how his Tongue rowleth and walketh at randome but not one wise word or any way appertaining to the matter if he might gaine thereby a Kingdome One while with magnificall bombasted and ell-long words he boasteth of his straunge and admirable Cures you may take time to beleeue them an other while he telleth endlesse long and headlesse Stories of his rare and hard Aduentures in Trauailes and Perigrinations vttering oft times and that with great arrogancie and shamelesse Impudencie as many Lyes as words Otherwhile he taketh vp the Person of a leaster and playeth the Foole in the Play very singularly For that Part of all other as it pleaseth himselfe and his fond Fauourites the best so it becommeth him right well But he hath one propertie which by the way is worthy of speciall Commendation If he see or heare any Thing in the House of his Patient it were as good to haue bene cryed at the Crosse He cannot abide to keepe Counsell For it is not possible that a Man of many words should haue any Truth or Secrecie in him And as he is a Babler so is he likewise a good Trencher man or Good fellow as they call them louing company and good cheare passing well and the Chesse the Dice a Cup of neat Wine better a great deale then his Booke For if you misle him

skill be singular and supereminent yet their Desire is rather to doo Good then to heape vp Gold for if they had bene of that humour they might haue bene worth thousands and ●umbled themselues in siluer before this time and therfore for the good liking they conceiue of the Patient and his gentle and courteous Nature and behauiour they will require nothing vntill they haue performed and perfited the Cure Herevpon the Patient is so well appayed that he thinketh he hath gotten the Popes holownesse by the Toe met with the plainest kindest honestest and friendlyest Gentleman in the World But you must know that though our craftie Copsemate and old beaten Veterator gloze and glauer thus yet hee meaneth nothing lesse For hauing by this meanes entered into worke with the Patient after three or foure Dayes all which while he will shewe himselfe double Diligent and tell him many a fayre Tale and loud Lesing hee will spying his opportunitie breake with him thus Syr you discerne I hope that I haue a speciall care of you you see what continuall paines I take beside the expence and laying out of my money out of my purse for your Medicines I trust you will haue some consideration hereof and allow me money for to pay the Apothecarie The Patient if he be of any good or kinde Nature being ouercome with kindnesse cannot but yeeld to this equall Motion and vsually wil out with his purse and giue him foure or fiue Angels to buy Poticary Ware as they vse to speake This our broking Mounte-banke receiueth with a right good will saying to himselfe that hee shall not now loose all but that hee is reasonable well payde for fiue or sixe or at most tenne shillings bestowed in Drugges And for the most part when they haue gotten possession of this money they haue attained the end and toppe of theyr drifts For you must vnderstand that the greatest part of them tarry not out the processe of theyr Cures But hauing made foure or fiue such like Markets in seuerall places of the Towne wherevnto they arriue they betake themselues faire and roundly to their heeles giuing theyr Patients the bagge and leauing them in the lurch in the middest of their Foole-conceited Hopes And although I might say His facient exemola fidem for Examples of these notorious Couzenages doo abound and are too plentifull in all Places yet because I feare least I haue tarried too long in this base Argument and spent too much time in stirring this filthy Dunghill I will hasten to an ende and exemplifie my Discourse with one onely Store That base vnlettered and vnmannered Thick-skin of whom mentiō by the way was formerly made B. of H. by the Thames side comming to London and noysing abroad by his Trumpettors his singular and admirable Skill and Dexteritie in curing diuers daungerous desperate and in truth incurable Diseases was brought by some of his Brokers to a graue and honest Cittizen afflicted with that Maladie wherein the learned Physitions flye to Solus Culter Solus Cultellus This noble Swanne this vaine and vaunting Clowne bragging of sundrie great and wonderfull Cures by him performed vpon Gentlemen and others in the Countrey whom he blushed not to name knowing that the Parties being absent he could not be controlled professed to cure him absolutely without cutting and that in three weekes space The Cittizen though hee gaue too listening an eare to these goodly Tales of our cracking Mounte-banke and was somewhat tickled to heare of Health and Recouery and that with such celeritie and expedition yet hauing a tollerable and good conceit of a Phisition whom formerly he vsed sent vnto him desiring him to conferre with our deepe and profound Artist to ioyne with him in the Curation The Physition repayring to the Patients house and entering Parlee with our Mounsier Magnifico Signior Rusticus requested him to know what Course he would take in the Cure I quoth he will giue him no Physicke How will you then replyed the Physition remoue the Disease I will do it saith our Quack-saluer by a certaine Gift giuen mee and by a rare and precious secret Medicine which I vse No maruel answered the Phisitiō if your Medicine being no Phisick be straunge and rare indeed aboue all I euer heard But will you declare and shewe your Medicine that wee may discerne and Iudge of the fitnesse and efficacie thereof to performe this great and strange effect Nay by your leaue said hee you shall pardon me the foole is wiser then so If I would haue discouered my Secret two great Doctors of Oxford would haue assured me an Annuitie of fortie pound yearely during my life I am sufficiently knowne I tell you Syr and that to no Babes or base Persons but to diuers of the greatest Noblemen in the Land and am admitted to their Speech and Presence when Veluet Coates daunce attendance without The Phisition perceiuing by this small Conference Mounsier Mounte-banke to bee of the right stampe taking the Patient aside and shewing him the grosse Ignorance and intollerable Arrogancie of the Sottish Asse perswaded him in many words to shake him off if he respected his Life Health or Credit as a meere Couzener and Impostor But he though otherwise of sufficient wisedome was so inueigled or rather bewitched with the great bragges and sencelesse Tales of this braggadocian Quack-saluer that he would admit of nothing sounding to his Disgrace or Disparagement affirming that by dealing with him he could receiue no detriment since hee required no money vntill he had absolued and finished his Cure The Physition answered that though hee made that goodly pretence to drawe him on and himselfe into the Cure yet it was like that by one meanes or other hee would get into possession some peece of mony for sure hee was that was the whyte and marke hee aymed at and then bidde him farewell This proued afterwards a very shrewd and perillous Prediction For within fewe Dayes passing by the Citizens House he called in to see how the world went and was by him saluted thus Syr I doubt you will proue a Prophet my Cunning Man the last Day complaining that he layed out his money at the Apothecaries to buy Simples to compound my Medicines I thinking it no reason hee should bee at such charge for me opened my Purse and gaue him foure Angels But I haue wished them since twise in it againe for I feare hee will make your words good he hath cast me once or twise by his tamperings and Drugges into the fit of an Ague so that I was readie but for shame to haue sent for you I beleeue when all is done hee will shewe himselfe a Couzening Companion The Physition smyling answered who then I perceiue your deepe Doctor will not loose all his labour He hath now as much money as he will looke for at your hands and you as much Good as you must expect from his Hee hath cleared three Angels at the least sheare