be drunk cureth the pain in the back gotten by any violent motion as wrastling and the like to which some adde the overmuch use of Venus for in foure or five dayes they are perfectly healed although there be an involuntarie fluxus seminis gotten thereby In Greek it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Symphytum and Solidago or Consolida major The Water-lilies are also highly esteemed for their vertues in curing some of the like infirmities for those which are skilfull do affirm that a decoction of the white or yellow Water-lilie made of the seeds roots or leaves is singular good against nocturnall pollutions caused by dreams or otherwise The same cure is also wrought by the green leaves laid upon the region of the back in the small and two or three times a day removed and fresh applied Ger. The Greeks call this Water-lilie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines Nymphâ—…a because it takes such delight to grow in the water Lactuoa in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in English Lettice is temperately hot and moist in the second degree It cooleth a hot stomack called heart-burning and in nurses that are hot and drie it procureth milk otherwise not But it must never be eaten immoderately for ancient authors affirm that generally it hindereth conception by wasting of sperm and if it be not eschewed of women with childe it is a great means to make them bring forth children either raging in minde or foolish in wit Also the use of Lettice is to be avoided of all that be short-winded and spit bloud or be â—…legmatick they may not eat it often Yet he that would live honestly unmarried let him not refuse this medicine set forth by Dioscorides and Galen as the authour of the haven of health affirmeth viz. let him bruise Lettice seeds and often put them in his drink c. Purslain is cold in the third degree and moist in the second The Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines Portulaca The juice of this herb is good against fluxes for it greatly stoppeth them And note that the very herb holden under the tongue putteth away thirst and drinesse Violet in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Viola is cold and moist being cold in the first degree and moist in the second The leaves inwardly taken do greatly cool moisten and make the body loose or soluble or outwardly applied do â—…itigate all kinde of hot inflammations These herbs following are cold and dry MAdder is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Rubia and of its temperature the learned are not fully agreed yet Mr Gerard saith it is cold and dry It is good to give the decoction of the roots to bursten and bruised folks which roots do also plentifully provoke urine and as some affirm the very holding of the root or handling of it dieth the handlers urine into a perfect red colour appearing as if he pissed bloud Whereupon saith Du Bartas O wondrous Woad which touching but the skinne Imparts his colour to the parts within But note that this must be understood of the root held long in the hand and freshly gathered for being kept and transported it hath not this vertue Plinie attributeth more unto it for saith he the onely sight of this herb healeth the Jaundise But in this last propertie let the reader use his libertie Willow-wort or Loose-strife is an herb cold and dry whose first vertues were found out by Lysimachus the sonne of Agathocles and one of Alexanders captains from whom it is called Lysimachium or Lysimachia Plinie writeth of this herb that it is of such strange vertue that when Oxen at the plough are striving and unrulie let it be put into their yokes and presently they are appeased and quieted This herb is contrary to Betonie which in these two verses you may remember As Betonie breaks friendships ancient bands So Willow-wort makes wonted hate shake hands Shepherds purse or Bursa pastoris is cold and dry the leaves bruised are good to heal green bleeding wounds And also the decoction of it doth stop the lask the spitting and pissing of bloud and all other bloudie fluxes Sen-green or Housleek is alwayes green both in summer and winter Whereupon it is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is as much as Semper vivens or alwayes living It is cold in the third degree and somewhat drying The juice hereof taketh away corns from the toes and feet better then any thing that you can easily get Let them be washed and bathed therewith and as it were day and night emplastred with the skin of the said Housleek and you shall finde remedie Sorrell or soure-Dock in Latine Acida in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is cold and dry being cold in the third degree and dry in the second The seeds of Sorrell drunk in grosse red wine stop the lask and bloudie flux Also if one fasting do chew some of the leaves and suck down the juice it marvellously preserveth from infections Eliots castle of Health Plantain called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is Lambestongue and in Latine Plantago is cold and dry in the third degree The juice of Plantain drunk like unto Housleek stoppeth the bloudie flux or spitting or pissing of bloud And the leaves stamped and made into a Tansie with the yelks of eggs stay the inordinate flux of terms although it hath continued many yeares Ger. pag. 341. But on the contrary the decoction of Cammomill or Germander made in wine and drunk voideth winde and procureth them to flow And thus also I have given you a taste of some cool as well as hot herbs And in most of these as in such other things of the same nature I must confesse that as I have seen a description of the world set forth by such whose reading was their furthest travell so out of good Authours and skilfull Herbalists I have both learned and taught these secrets Unto which I have yet a few more that I intend to adde and because these are the most strange I have reserved them unto the last place These herbs which follow are herbs of more then ordinarie properties AS first the noble Nepenthe an herb which being steeped and drunk in wine expelleth sadnesse 2. Then is there the herb Hippurin or Hippice of which Plinie writeth that it is admirable in stenching bloud insomuch that the cure is performed by the very touch of it being also very good to keep one from hunger and thirst while it is kept in the mouth 3. Also there is Nyctilops or Nyctegretum an herb which in the night shineth a farre off and above all other creatures at the first sight it scareth Geese 4. Pythagoras telleth of the herb Callicia which will turn water into ice 5. Ophiusta is an herb
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
Scorpion hath sometimes been bred in the brain 244 Scriech-owl 403 Sea Why seas be salt and rivers fresh 201. Why Springs be fresh 206. Why the Sea ebbeth and floweth 208 209 sequent Why fresh Waters and all Seas do not ebbe 218 Seasons of the yeare 354 Securitie Small securitie on earth by an example from the Squirrell 454 Selenite a stone which follows the course of the Moon 294 295 Sentida an herb of a strange propertie 273 Servius Tullius his head burning as he slept 97 Sethim It was that wood whereof Noah made the Ark 276 Seven a number of rest 21 Shad 388 Shark 378 Sheep and their natures 482. How sheep may catch 〈◊〉 rot 155. 252 Shepherds purse 270 Shooting starres a Meteor 92 Shrew A medicine to be used at the death of a Shrew 263 Shrew-mouse and his properties shewed 467 Sight Sight dulled by Leeks 262. Rue eaten fasting is very good for the sight 248. See Eyes Signes Signes of heaven must not be abused 351 sequent Silver the best mettall next to Gold 288 Sinne. We should weep for sinne by an example taken from the Hart 481. We should not sleep in sinne by an example taken from the Sea-Elephant 371. When the baits of sinne are swallowed they must be vomited up again by an embleme from the Scolopendra 384. The sweetnesse of sinne in the end is bitter by an example from the Beare eating hony 477. Those who are taken away in the very act of sinne what they are like unto 485 Sinner A sinner though blinde in life seeth in death by an example taken from the Mole 462 Sivet-cat or the Zibeth 463 Skirret 264 Sleet and the cause thereof 162 Slow-worm 490 Smaradge Plinie makes many kindes of this stone 293 Snapdragon an herb of a strange propertie 272 Snow 160. The matter of Snow 161. Why Snow is white ibid. Snow in the mountains and rain in the valleys both out of one cloud together with the cause thereof 162 Societie ought to be amongst men by an example taken from the Stork 399 Sole and Whiting 387 Sorrell and the vertues thereof 270 Sorrow An embleme concerning those who sorrow to part with earth for heaven 459. 481 Sothernwood and the qualities thereof 254 Soul The Soul breathed into man infused in the creation and created in the infusion 499. God stampt his image in the Soul ibid. 500. Souls Souls cannot appeare after death 94 95 South-winde 182 Sowbread an herb of a strange propertie 262. 272 Sow-thistle and the vertues thereof 267 Sparrow and his nature 409 Speare-wort the beggars herb 260 Spheres A figure shewing their motion 317 Sphinx and the meaning of Aenigma 472 Splene A medicine for the splene 274 Spring The Spring described 355. The creation was not in the Spring 30. 32 Squirrell described with his properties 453 Starling 402 Starres 311 312 sequent The Starres not to be worshipped 312. Their matter and motion 315 320. They be nourished by the waters above the heavens and how 321 322 323 324. The reason of their differing heights 324 325. Their offices 327. 334. 354. Why they seem to twinkle 332. They work upon this inferiour world 334 sequent New Starres 107. 114 115. 119. The signification of Cassiopea's Starre 108. 114 Steel and what it is 289 Stitch. Good to give ease to one troubled with a stitch in the side 247 Stomack Good to strengthen the Stomack 250. Good to help digestion 396 Stone in the body with â—… medicine for it 387. 254 Stones what they are their kindes c. 290 sequent They live not a vegetative life 291. Common Stones ibid. Precious Stones 292. A Stone which followes the course of the Moon 294. A Stone which will cool seething water 296. A compassionate Stone and the reason thereof ibid. 297. A Stone of power to draw gold 299. The Loadstone 297. The Bloud-stone ibid. Stories A Storie of a Sea-woman 375. A storie of a Boy and a Dolphin 380. A storie of a Sparrow 409. A storie concerning Cock-fighting 411. A storie of a Lion 438. Another of a Lion 440. A storie of a dying Usurer 459. A storie of two much familiaritie amongst Cats 464. A storie of a Bishop eaten up with Mice 466. A storie of a loving Dog 470. Another ibid. Another 471. A storie shewing how Alexander was deceived by Apes 472. A storie of a Man saved from death by a Beare 475 Stork 399. Lessons to be learnt from the stork ibid. Strange A rule to be observed in Strange sights 131 Students Mint good for students 255 Sturgeon 384 Su a strange beast in the new-found world 454 Sulphurwort it is good for young children 260 Summer described 356 Sunne Whether the Sunne be the fountain of light 329. Why the Sunne hath sometimes seemed to dance 333. The appearance of many Sunnes 130. Their cause 131. What they signifie ibid. Swallow 406. What strange things some have written of the swallow 407. It is said that she taught men first to build 408. They cure the blinde eyes of their young ones with an herb viz. Celandine 261 Swam-fisk a fish so called being the most greedy of all fishes 372 373 Swanne The nature and qualities of the Swanne 413 414 Swine eat no Turneps 263 Sword-fish 370 T TAmarisk It is of great vertue for the hardnesse of the splene or milt 274 Tanners An herb for Tanners in the dressing of Leather 257 Tarragon 264 Tarantula and his strange properties 425 Teeth Good against the tooth-ach 261. 267. How to scoure the Teeth and kill the worms in them 251 Temper Waters of a strange temper 220 221 Tench 388 Terebinth or the Turpentine tree 279 Thirst. An herb very good for the thirstie 269 Thrive The thriving of a man that upon occasion is of two trades The embleme is taken from the flying fish 382. Some men thrive in a course which to the vulgar seems contrary by an example taken from the Sturgeon 384 Throat Good for a sore throat 253 Thrush 402 Thunder what it is 122. A difference in Cracks 123. Thunder sometimes without Lightning and so on the contrarie ibid. How this may be 124. The making of the Thunder-stone 125. See more in the word Lightning Thyme and the vertues thereof 259 Time what it is 45. Times when the World should have ended according to some mens foolish fancies 18. 22 23 24 c. Tinne 290 Toad An antipathie between the Toad and Rue 248 Tobacco and the kindes thereof Where it was first found together with the names qualities and vertues thereof 264 265. The Indian women take no Tobacco 266. The time when it came first into England and by whom it was first brought ibid. A precious salve to be made of the green leaves 265. A lesson for quaffers ibid. Tongue 498. The Tongue hath brought many to mischief 413. Fair tongues false hearts 443 Topaz a very strange stone which stancheth bloud 295 296 Tophus 292 Torch a burning Meteor 89 Torpedo a
semper ago In which regard the distilled water of Borage or Buglosse with the leaves and flowers being drunk with wine cannot but be good comfortable and pleasant for the brain and heart it increaseth wit and memorie engendreth good bloud and putteth away melancholy and madnesse as the authour of the haven of health affirmeth The herbs following are hot and dry NExt unto Buglosse I mention Balm or Baum because the water of it also being drunk in wine is good to comfort the heart to drive away all melancholy and sadnesse in which regard it is not amisse to have them all distilled together Moreover I finde it recorded that the hives of bees being rubbed with the leaves of this herb causeth the bees to keep well together and allureth others to come unto them For saith Plinie they delight in no herb or flower more and therefore they fly not away from such hives as are either rubbed with the leaves or anointed with the juice of this herb and hereupon it cometh to be called Apiastrum which is as much as to say The bees starre or guide For when they are strayed farre from home by the help of this herb they finde their way again But the common Latine name is Melissa or Citrago It is also called in some authours Melissophyllum and Meliphyllon This is an herb which is hot and dry in the second degree good to be either eaten or smelled unto by them who are subject to the Mother Gerard. Plinie writeth a strange secret in a kinde of Balm which he calleth Iron-wort viz. that the leaves close up wounds without any perill of inflammation and also that it is of so great vertue which you may beleeve as you list that though it be but tied to his sword which gave the wound it stancheth the bloud Sage called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Salvia in the Latine and amongst the many kindes which some observe there are principally two the greater and the lesser Some say it is hot and dry in the third degree some name not the third so much as the end of the second others determine that it is hot in the first degree and dry in the second This is an herb which hath many and singular properties insomuch that the Salern school makes this demand Cur moriatur homo cui Salvia crescit in horto As if it should be said such is the vertue of Sage that if it were possible it would cause Clotho evermore to hold the distaffe and Lachesis to spin perpetually yea Atropos must forbear to cut in two the thread of life such a desire hath Sage to make a man immortall The Latine and English names speak greatly for the commendation of it For Salvia takes the name of safety and Sage is a name of wisdome Sith then the name betokens wise and saving We count it natures friend and worth the having Beside these names some call it the Holy herb because women with childe if they be like to come before their time and are troubled with abortments do eat thereof to their great good For it maketh them fruitfull retaineth the birth and giveth life unto it Ger. in his Herball Moreover Sage is singular good for the brain and head quickeneth the memorie and senses strengtheneth the sinews is good against the palsie and stayeth a shaking in any part of the body The most of which properties are expressed in these two verses following Salvia confortat nervos manuúmque tremorem Tollit ejus ope febris acuta fugit Sage makes the sinews strong the palsie cures And by its help no ague long endures Also the juice of this herb drunk with honie is good for those that spit and vomit bloud for it stoppeth the flux thereof incontinently And last of all although I omit many vertues in this herb yet one thing must not be forgotten The leaves of the red Sage put into a wooden dish wherein are put very quick coals with some ashes in the bottome of the dish to keep the same from burning and a little vineger sprinkled upon the leaves lying upon the coals and so wrapped in a linnen cloth and holden very hot unto the side of those that are troubled with a grievous stitch they take away the pain presently and also greatly help the extremitie of a plurisie Ger. Rue or Herb-grace in Latine is called Ruta in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is quòd caliditate suā 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 semen quasi congelat If it be wilde Rue and not such as groweth in gardens then it is hot and dry in the fourth degree but garden Rue is a degree cooler and moister Plinie writeth that there is such friendship between it and the fig-tree that it prospereth no where so well as under that tree delighting also as he affirmeth to grow in funnie places It is an enemie to the Toad as being a great enemie to poyson And excellent is that medicine approved by Mithridates King of Pontus in Asia who lived in the dayes of Pompey viz. that if any do eat fasting two dry wall-nuts as many figs and twentie leaves of Rue with one grain of salt nothing which is venimous may that day hurt him it being also an excellent preservative against the pestilence Which also the Salern school teacheth in these words Allia Ruta Pyra Raphanus cum Theriaca Nux Praestant antidotum contra lethale venenum Garlick Rue Pears and Radishes will make With Triacle and Nut An antidote which will fell poyson slake And doore of danger shut Moreover Schola Salerni setteth down some other properties of it thus Ruta comesta recens oculos caligine purgat Ruta viris coitum minuit mulieribus auget Upon which occasion one once gave it this commendation Rue is a noble herb to give it right For chew it fasting it will purge the sight One qualitie thereof yet blame I must It makes men chaste and women fills with lust Which last propertie is caused in regard that the nature of women is waterish and cold now Rue we know heateth and drieth whereupon it stirreth them the more to carnall lust but it diminisheth the nature of men which is of temperature like to the aire viz. hot and moist working thereupon a contrary effect from that which it doth in women Also for those who are feeble in their sight let them distill Rue and white roses together and putting the water thereof into their eyes it will open their windows and let in more light To which joyn also this other experiment taken out of Schola Salerni Feniculus Verbena Rosa Chelidonia Ruta Ex istis fit aqua quae lumina reddit acuta Fennell Vervine Rose Celandine and Rue Do water make which will the sight renew What other properties are pertinent to it may be seen at large in Plinie lib. 19. cap. 8. lib. 20.
good to be drunk for pissing the bed Of Tabaco or as it is commonly called Tobacco there be principally two kindes saith Mr Gerard one greater the other lesse The greater was first found in those provinces of America which we call the West Indies The lesser comes from Trinidada an island neare unto the continent of the said Indies To which some have added a third sort And since the first discovery there have been plantations made in other places The people of America call it Petum Others Sacra herba Sancta herba and Sanasancta Indorum The reason being as I take it because when the Moores and Indians have â—…ainted either for want of food or rest this hath been a present remedie unto them to supply the one and help them to the other And some have called it Hyosoyamus Peruvianus or Henbane of Peru which also Mr Gerard assenteth unto verily thinking that it is a Species Hyoscyami for there be more kindes of Henbane then one chiefly in regard of the qualitie because it bringeth drowâ—…inesse troubleth the senses and maketh a man as it were drunk by taking of the fume onely Of some it is named Nicâ—…tiana exotica and by Nicholas Monardis it is named Tabaco Which said Monardis witnesseth that it is hot and drie in the second degree The Physicall chirurgicall uses of it are not a few and being taken in a pipe it helpeth aches in any part of the bodie being good also for the kidneys by expelling winde But beware of cold after it neither take it wantonly nor immoderately And know that some commend the syrupe before the smoke yet the smoke say they physically taken is to be tolerated and may do some good for rheums and the forenamed maladies which whilest some might cure they make them worse For we see that the use is too frequently turned into an abuse and the remedie is proved a disease and all through a wanton and immoderate use For Omne nimium vertitur in vitium To quaffe roar swear and drink Tobacco well Is fit for such as pledge sick healths in hell Where wanting wine and ale and beer to drink Their cups are fill'd with smoke fire fume and stink I remember an excellent salve which I am taught to make of green Tobacco the receipt whereof is thus Take the leaves of Tobacco two pounds hogges grease one pound stamp the herb small in a stone mortar putting thereto a small cup full of red or claret wine stirre them well together cover the mortar from filth and so let it rest untill the morning then put it to the fire and let it boil gently continually stirring it untill the wine be consumed then strain it and set it to the fire again putting thereto one pound of the juice of the herb of Venice turpentine 4 ounces boil them all together to the consumption of the juice then adde thereto two ounces of round Aristochia or Birthwort in most fine powder with wax sufficient to give it a bodie and so thou hast made an accurate salve for wounds or for old filthie ulcers of the legs c. The women of America as Gerard mentions in his Herball do not use to take Tobacco because they perswade themselves it is too strong for the constitution of their bodies and yet some women of England use it often as well as men And questionlesse those natives amongst whom it groweth may take more at once then any one of us It is said that Sir Francis Drakes mariners brought the first of this herb into England in the yeare 1585 which was in the 28 yeare of Q. Elizabeth and 3 yeares before Tilburie camp Betonie in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Betonica and Vetonica is hot and drie in the second degree This herb hath an infinite number of soveraigne vertues being very good for the head taken by some in a pipe as Tobacco and not seldome mixed with Tobacco it helpeth also the bitings of mad dogs by drinking the juice or powder of it and by binding the green leaves to the bitten place Plinie relateth a strange propertie pertinent to this herb for saith he if fell serpents be enclosed round about with it they fall at such oddes that they kill each other presently This herb is also good to help women in their travail And thus hitherto I have spoken of such parcels of dame Tellus store as are onely hot of temper unto which I might adde yet thousands more whether they be such as are pleasant in shew sweet in smell delicate in taste wholesome in operation and the like but the earth you know is large and because I am to see something every where I cannot stay long any where lest the fourth day dawn before the third be finished These herbs following are cold and moist IN the next place therefore I must bring to your admirations some other parcels of another temper wherein you may likewise see Gods wisdome flourishing for at which soever we look there is a secret vertue that he hath infused into every one In which regard divine Du Bartas thus Good Lord how many gasping souls have scap't By th' aid of herbs for whom the grave hath gap't Who even about to touch the Stygian strand Have yet beguil'd grim Pluto's greedie hand Oh sacred simples that our life sustain And when it flies can call it back again 'T is not alone your liquour inly tane That oft defends us from so many a bane But even your savour yea your neighbourhood For some diseases is exceeding good As for example Yarrow as most men say when the leaves are green and chewed doth help the tooth-ach Also the leaves being put into the nose do make it bleed and is a remedie for the megrim a pain in the head It is an herb meanly cold in temper and called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Achillea because it was first found out by Achilles the disciple of Chiron and with it he cured his wounds Vide Plin. lib. 25. cap. 5. Sowthistle is cold the Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines Sonchi If it be given in broth it increaseth milk in nurses breasts causing the children nursed by them to have a good colour and cleare complexion Groundsell is said to have mixt faculties for it cooleth and withall digesteth The Latines call it Senecio because it quickly waxeth old some also call it Herbutum The leaves of this herb stamped and strained into milk and drunk are good against the Red-gum and frets in children Comfrey is somewhat cold of qualitie and of a clammie and gluing moisture It is highly commended of the learned for curing of wounds especially of the intrals and inward parts and for burstings and ruptures insomuch that they affirm the slimie substance of the root made in a posset of ale and given to
it appeareth that the matter of stones is a watrie humour and a thick unctuous earth which is not so to be understood as if the other two elements were separated from their mixture but because they have not such precedencie as the former And for their efficient causes besides the minerall vertue it is said to be heat and cold Heat bringeth the slow humid unctuous matter through the thin parts of the earth as the Philosophers affirm and cold condenseth it and makes it thick They live not with a vegetative life as plants and trees which have their nourishment from within but their augmentation proceeds from an outward accretion by the 〈◊〉 of particulars adhering to them when they lie in place convenient and in time their vertues may be abated by being long out of their right Ubi in which regard some supposed that they had life and died The common stones are of a more impure and grosse matter then the other Some whereof are solid some more full of pores In the solid the parts are more continued and better compacted yet so as some have a kinde of shining in them others are dark and dull The shining solid stones are chiefly all kinde of marbles of which I finde three sorts 1. Alabaster which is of colour very cleare and white The Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and about Thebes in Egypt it is especially found there being the greatest plentie of it 2. Ophites which is a kinde of marble having spots like a serpent 3. Porphyrites which is the red marble mixed or interlaced with white spots The not shining solid stones are these and the like 1. The Flint 2. The Marchasite or that whereof they make milstones which being struck with Steel procures fire like to the Flint 3. Cos which is of power to sharpen edgetools wherefore we commonly call it a whetstone 4. Corticula or Lydius lapis which is of force to trie the truth in metalls we therefore call it a touch-stone 5. Smiris which is an hard stone wherewith glasiers cut their glasse some call this an Emery 6. Those which we name wheaten stones or any kinde of rockie stone or such as may be comprehended under the word Saxum Common stones lesse solid are the Pumex and Tophus 1. The Pumex is of a spungie nature and is apt to swimme by reason of the light matter whereof it consisteth 2. The Tophus is a sand or gravell stone that may easily be rubbed to crumbes But come now to precious stones and amongst them we have the noble and the lesse noble both which sorts are begotten of a more subtil and thin matter then common stones and fostered with a more singular influence of the heavens My task were in a manner endlesse to reckon all sorts yet some must be remembred The more noble precious stones are 1. The Adamant or Diamond the most precious of all stones and the hardest insomuch as it cutteth glasse and yeeldeth not either to stroke of hammer or fire notwithstanding it is softened with Goats bloud being warm soon after she hath eaten paâ—…sley or drunken wine Plinie maketh 6 kindes of Adamant The 1. is Adamas Indicus being neare akin to crystall for in colour and clearenesse it is much like it and in quantitie it is in bignesse as a filbert or hasell nut The 2. is Adamas Arabicus like to the other excepting that it is something lesse The 3. is called Cenchros answering in bignesse to the grain of Millet The 4. kinde is Adamas Macedonicus and this is like to the seed of a Cucumber The 5. is Adamas Cypricus this is found in Cyprus and tendeth somewhat to the colour of brasse The 6. is called the Siderite which although it be heavier then the other yet it is of lesse vertue and esteem the colour whereof is like to the colour of iron And this as also that of Cyprus are tearmed by Plinie degenerate kindes because they will be broken by the hammer or otherwise with blowes and may also be cut or rased by other Adamants All these kindes the two first onely excepted are said to have their place of generation amongst the Gold and in golden Mines 2. The Saphire is a very cleare gem very hard and of a skie colour growing in the East and specially in India the best sort hath in it as it were cloves enclining to a certain rednesse This stone is said to be of a cold nature and being drunk it preserveth chastitie corroborateth the heart helpeth against the stinging of serpents poyson and pestilence 3. The Smaradge is of a green transparent colour making the aire green neare about it The qualitie of this stone in physick is much like to the former or of more vertue for it is said to defend the wearer from the falling sicknesse And so greatly doth it favour chastitie that if it be worn whilest the man and the woman accompanie themselves together it breaketh in the very act 4. The Hyacinth is of a watrish colour or rather something blew like a violet It is exceeding hard and cloudy in the dark but pure and cleare by day like unto a false flattering friend whose blithe looks are onely seen in time of prosperitie but gone when the cloudie night of dark adversitie beginneth to approach For where true friends are knit in love there sorrows are shared equally and best are they perceived in a doubtfull matter Si fueris felix multos numerabis amicos Tempora si fuerint nubila solus eris Whil'st thou art happy many friends thou hast But cloudie times those many friends do waste Moreover this stone is of a cold qualitie moderating the spirits of the heart and of the other parts also it causeth mirth and being worn obtaineth favour as some report 5. The Amethyst is a gem or precious stone which in colour resembleth a deep claret-wine and as some suppose it hath power to resist drunkennesse 6. The Carbuncle of which Plinie writeth in his 37 book and 7 chapter is a gem shining with a light like fire representing a flame Some say it is the noblest and hath most vertues of any precious stone 7. The Calcedon is of neare nature to the Carbuncle it is of a purple colour and shineth like a star it is said to expell sadnesse and fear by purging and chearing the spirits it also hindreth ill and fearfull visions or dreams in a mans sleep 8. The Rubie is a red gem shining in dark like a spark of fire it cleareth the sight and expelleth sad and fearfull dreams 9. The Chrysolite is a stone of a golden colour and shining but brightest in the morning It is good against melancholy and fire is much hurtfull unto it 10. The Astarite is a cleare shining Crystalline stone having in the midst the image of a full moon or
parts of the same IF I should expound the words of Moses so nicely as some have done the starres must then either signifie nothing in the course of nature or else be for signes onely of seasons as Spring Summer Autumne Winter and of dayes and yeares Which exposition doth certainly tie up the sense in too strait bands For it is plain enough that Moses very positively setteth down as a distinct office by it self that they were made for signes And then he proceedeth adding therewithall And let them be for seasons and for dayes and for yeares In consideration whereof the sentence certainly must be divided And first let us observe out of it that the starres by a divine ordination were set in the heavens to be for signes of future events wherefore it is said Let them be for signes Secondly they were appointed to be as it were heavenly clocks and remarkable measures by their motions defining and discerning Time and the parts thereof as dayes weeks moneths and yeares And therefore it is also added And let them be for seasons and for dayes and for yeares Of which two offices I purpose to discourse a while beginning with the first as being most pertinent to this Paragraph And lest it may be thought that Moses his meaning is here mistaken by me besides other things that I purpose to remember I would have him compared with the Prophet Jeremie in the 10 chap. at the 2 vers where when the Prophet commands the people that they should not learn the way of the Heathen he calleth the starres like unto Moses in this very text The signes of heaven From whence Melancthon gathereth that the Prophet doth not onely name them signes but also sheweth that they were set to be signes of portending something For Non ait Ieremias nihil esse signa coeli sed A signis nolite timere Imò cùm nominat signa portendi aliquid affirmat And Luther also affirmeth in his commentarie upon the words of Moses Simpliciter lunam cum sole stellis in firmamento coeli Moses dicit positas ut essent signa futurorum eventuum sicut experientia de Eclipsibus magnis conjunctionibus aliis quibusdam Meteoris docet Which is Moses plainly saith that the moon with the sunne and starres were placed in the firmament of heaven that they should be for signes of future events as experience teacheth us in Eclipses great conjunctions Meteors and the like To which may be also joyned the testimonie of learned Philo alledged by Sr Christapher Heidon in his defence of Judiciall Astrologie This man saith he was familiar with Peter the Apostle and with Mark and in divers places but specially in his book De Mundi fabricatione in his exposition of that in the 1 of Genesis viz. LET THEM BE FOR SIGNES he thus speaketh saying They were created not onely that they might fill the world with their light but also that they might be for signes of future things For by their rising setting defections apparitions occultations and other differences of motion they teach men to conjecture of the event of things as of plentie and dearth of the growing up or decay of creatures animate of cleare weather and storms of calms and windes of overflowings and of droughts of the quiet motion of the sea and the boisterous times of waves of the anniversarie changes of times either when the Summer shall be tossed with tempests or the Winter scorched with heat or when the Spring shall be clothed with the nature of Autumne or Autumne imitate the Spring Yea saith he by these some have foreshewed when there should be a shaking or trembling of the earth with infinite other things which have certainly come to passe insomuch that it may be truely said The starres were appointed for signes and seasons Thus farre Philo then which what can be plainer Neither are we to take them as bare naked and simple signes onely but as causes also of worldly events which whilest some have denied what do they but runne mad with reason and plainly oppose themselves to more then common sense For it is certain that the same thing may be both a signe and a cause a cause as it worketh to an effect and a signe as being presented to the sense it leadeth us to the knowledge of the effect And therefore when the starres are called signes their causalitie is not excluded Howbeit in some things when they work upon a subject not immediately but by accident they be then occasions rather then causes But let me enlarge my self upon this discourse a little more and because some have denied that the starres have any vertue at all or that we ought to attribute no more power to them then to the signes at an Inne-keepers post or tradesmans shop I purpose to shew the vanitie of that errour as plainly as I can both by Scripture and also by daily experience And first for Scripture Those oracles tell us that great is the force and dominion which the starres have heaven being the admired instrument of the glorious God whereby he governeth the frame of this corruptible world For had the heavens and starres no force at all the Scriptures would never distinguish between the sweet influences of the Pleiades and the binding vertues of Orion but the Scripture makes such a distinction therefore the starres have their power The minor is proved out of the book of Job chap. 38. 31. where the words are these Canst thou binde the sweet influences of Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion by which speech the Almighty doth not onely shew that the starres have their vertues but also declare that their power and vertue is such as no man on earth is able to restrain unloose or binde it and here S. Austin also teacheth us that God comprehendeth all the rest of the starres by the figure Synechdoche putting the part for the whole which is an intimation that the rest have their severall vertues as well as these For further proof whereof see concerning some of the other in Deuteronomie chap. 33. 14. Of Ioseph he said Blessed of the Lord be his land for the precious things of heaven for the dew and for the deep that coucheth beneath and for the precious things brought forth by the sunne and for the precious things put forth by the moon where we see that the sunne and moon have power to thrust forth the fruits of the earth And again I will heare the heavens and the heavens shall heare the earth where see last of all that the vegetation of the fruits of the earth dependeth not upon one or two constellations but upon the whole heavens Also were the starres and lights without power the Scriptures would never tell us of their dominion over the earth but the Scripture speaketh of their dominion therefore they be not destitute of power and vertue The minor is proved in Genesis chap. 2. 1. and in the second book
Dragon and powerfully defendeth the helplesse man who is not able to defend himself So ought it to be chiefly amongst great men and those who are mightie they should not injure strangers and travellers as many do when they come into their territories but rather by themselves or theirs they should direct and succour them from the hurts and harms of evil men The Rhinoceros is a beast every way admirable both for the outward shape quantitie and greatnesse and also for the inward courage disposition and mildenesse For this beast is next to the Elephant every way as strange and in a manner exceeding him unlesse it be in his quantitie or height of stature for although he may be as long or perhaps longer then an Elephant yet he is not so tall neither are his legges so long and for the length it must be a large Rhinoceros which can measure with the Elephant for ordinarily the Elephant exceedeth according to the testimonie of Strabo alledged by Mr Topsell In the kingdome of Bengala great numbers of these beasts may be found their colour is like the rinde or bark of a box-tree their skinne upon the upper part is all wrinkled and of such firmnesle and hardnesse that no dart is able to pierce it and being wrinkled it appeareth as if they were armed with shields or set over with scales which go also down along their legs to the very hoofs which are parted into foure distinct claws Moreover upon the nose of this beast there groweth a hard and sharp horn crooking a little towards the crown of his head but not so high it is flat and not round and so sharp and strong that it will pierce through things of exceeding hardnesse and from hence it is that he is called a Rhinoceros in the Greek by which word is signified a Nose-horned beast He is headed somewhat like to a wilde Boar and hath again another horn growing upon his withers but it is a small one The manner of his fight with the Elephant I have alreadie mentioned and as for his horn teeth flesh bloud claws whatsoever he hath without and within his bodie it is good against poyson and as authours write is much accounted of throughout all India The reason of which vertue is thought to proceed from the soveraigne powers which are in those herbs that Bengala yeeldeth for in other places they are nothing so precious Some have thought this to be the right Unicorn but of that fancie see more as followeth Monoceros is a beast with one horn called therefore by the name of an Unicorn and albeit there be many horned beasts which may improperly be called Unicorns yet that which is the right Unicorn indeed is like unto a colt of two yeares a half old which hath naturally but one horn and that a very rich one which groweth out of the middle of his forehead being a horn of such vertue as is in no beasts horn besides which whilest some have gone about to denie they have secretly blinded the eyes of the world from their full view of the greatnesse of Gods great works For were it not said that the horn were excellent and of surpassing power I perswade my self it would never be doubted whether there were an Unicorn or no. But that there is such a peculiar beast the Scripture both in Deuteronomie Isaiah Job and the book of Psalmes doth bear us witnesse In all which places how do Expositours translate the originall word but thus Unicornis or Monoceros which in English is an Unicorn And again it is the testimonie of Ludovicus Vertomannus alledged by Gesner Topsell and others that he himself saw a couple of the true Unicorns at Mecha in Arabia one whereof had a horn of three cubits being of the bignesse of a colt two yeares and an half old the other was much lesse and his horn shorter about a spanne long for he was but young and both these were sent to the Sultan of Mecha for a rare present by the King of Ethiopia who ever desireth to be in league with the said Sultan thinking nothing too deare to maintain his amitie And certainly he could not send him a gift more welcome especially this being a beast so rare and seldome seen which may be in regard that it is a creature delighting in nothing more then in a remote and solitarie life The colour of these thus sent was like a weasel-coloured Horse the head like the head of a Hart the neck not very long and the mane growing all on one side their legges slender and lean like the legs of an hinde the hoofs on the forefeet cloven and the hinder legges somewhat shaggie The nearest of any beast better known is the Indian Asse and Indian Horse excepting that their hoofs are whole and not cloven and their colour somewhat differing for there is a horn grows out between their two eyes like to the true Unicorn By which it appeareth that of Unicorns there is one principall kinde onely the rest are lesse principall and subordinate to him whose horn is the strongest sharpest and of the greatest vertue For in granting more kindes then one I do not understand every beast with one horn but onely such Monocerots as have in their horns vertue against poison like unto those horses of India mentioned but even now and of which Mr Topsell writeth that they have Harts heads and one horn of which their Kings and Princes make cups to drink their drink against poison finding a great preservative to be in the said horn Munster saith that the King of Ethiopia hath some store of these beasts and Mr Topsell nameth two kingdomes in India the one called Niem the other Lamber which be likewise stored with them Moreover concerning the horn it is neither light nor hollow nor yet smooth like other horns but hard as iron rough as any file revolved into many plaits sharper then any dart straight and not crooked and every where black except at the top or point It hath many soveraigne vertues and with an admirable dexteritie expelleth poison insomuch that being put upon a table furnished with many junkets and banqueting dishes it will quickly descrie whether there be any poison or venime amongst them for if there be then presently the horn is covered with a kinde of sweat or dew And as it is reported when this beast cometh to drink he first dippeth his horn in the water that thereby he may drive away the poison when venimous beasts have drunk before him And again I finde it recorded that the Indian and Ethiopian hunters catch of those Unicorns which be in their countrey after this manner They take a goodly strong and beautifull young man whom they clothe in the apparell of a woman besetting him with divers flowers and odoriferous spices setting him where the Unicorns use to come and when they see this young man whom they take to be a woman they
a chaste fish between whom and the Sargon there is great enmitie 381 Cantharides what they are and how they be dangerous 425 Captivitie The fourth Age of the world from David to the captivitie 16 Carbuncle and the properties thereof 294 Carp described and his goodnesse 388 Carret roots and their qualitie together with the parsnep and turnep 263 Castor and Pollux See Helena Cat. Why the male-cat eateth up the young kitlings 464. A storie concerning the danger of cats ib. Cedar Some are perswaded there be cedars yet in mount Lebanon first planted by King Solomon 278 279 Celandine 261 Cerastes a kinde of Serpent 489 Chalk and the nature thereof 301 Chameleon described and why he changeth colour so often 493 Changing of qualities and not consuming of substance at the end of the world 5 Chaos and how we may consider of it 48 49 Chaps or gapings in the skie how they are caused 141 Charadrion a bird that cureth the Iaundise 416 417 Charms unlawfull 166 Chaste Rue makes men chaste and provokes women to lust 248 Chastitie Medicines to procure chastitie 269. 274. 293. Smaradge See more in Cantharus as also 295 Chevin and its vertues 388 Children See Parents Chiliasts expect terrene pleasures in the Resurrection as did also Cerinthus 8 Choler A medicine against it 256 Crystall what it is 296. 162 Christ. The fifth Age of the world from the captivitie to Christ 16. The last Age and times after Christ 17. An embleme of Christs curing us taken from the Charadrion 417 Christians wiser then Philosophers 4 Chrysolite and the vertues of it It is good against Melancholy 294 Cinnamon where and how it groweth 277 Cinoper and Vermilion 300 Cypresse tree 278 Circles about the Sunne Moon and starres Their causes 134. Their derivation ibid. Their significations 135 Clouds 143. Colours in the Clouds 130. 143. Their height 144. Why they hang in the Aire 145. Why red clouds are seen onely in the Morning and Evening 130. Why they be of differing colours 144. What they signifie ibid. Cloves how and where they grow 278 Clyster From whence men first learned to purge by Clyster 399 Coals or black pitchie earth how it is generated 301 302 Cock 410. Cock-fightings 411. The Lion daunted by the Cock ibid. Cocus a very strange tree in India 279 280. Comets what they are 98. Their colours 99. Their fashions ibid. Their strange effects 100. Why Warres Famines Deaths c. be the effects of Comets 103. How to guesse at the signification of Comets 105. Their severall ends 106. They be often above the Moon 80 81. 99. 115 116 Comfrey and the vertues of it 268 Conger and his goodnesse 387 Conie The Conie described 458 Copper 288. Copperas ibid. Corcuta a kinde of Hyaena 446 Corns How to cure them 270. As also how to take away Warts 244 Corrall and the properties thereof 296 297 Costivenesse and how to cure it 269 Covetousnesse and Covetous The covetous like to the Swam-fisk 373. Covetous rich men often slain by their heirs shewed by an embleme from the Torpedo 383. They often destroy one another shewed by an embleme taken from the Kite and Raven 394. They are many times lesse fruitfull in children then the poore 395. The Ferret is an embleme of their weeping and unwillingnesse to depart with their riches 459. A storie of an usurer dying ibid. 460. The folly of a covetous man is shewed by an embleme taken from the Ape 474 Cow Sea-cow and Calf 374 Crane 412. He teacheth Pastours Magistrates and Governours the dutie of their places ibid. Crocodile and his properties 371 Crow See Raven Sea-crow 414 Cuckoe and his qualities 404. Who are like unto the Cuckoe 405 406 Cucuios a creature whose wings shine like fire 419 D DAce or the Dare-fish 388 Daniel was learned in the learning of the Chaldeans 347 Darnell The vertues of red Darnell 264 Dart a kinde of Serpent 489 David The third Age of the World from Abraham to David 16 Day The naturall beginning of the Day from whence 358 359. Divers beginning of Dayes ibid. The kindes of Dayes 358. The intercourse between Day and Night 58 59 Death ought to be cheerfull 413. A sinner hath his eyes opened in Death shewed in an embleme taken from the Mole 462 Deere and their kindes 478 479 Dendritis a stone which being put under a tree keepeth the ax that cutteth it from dulling 298 Derogation No derogation to the perfection of things created although the Starres incline some men to ill 343 Devil He worketh many times in the Aire 153. His knowledge is more excellent then Mans knowledge and why ibid. Dew what it is and why it falleth but in the Morning and Evening 154. No Dew a signe of Rain and why 155. Dew hurteth Sheep ibid. What may hinder Dew from falling 156. Three kindes of Dew Common Sweet and Blasting Dew ibid. In those who are blessed like Iacob the dew of heaven goes before the fatnesse of the earth but in those who are blessed like Esau the earths fatnesse goes before the dew of heaven 475 Digression A digression touching the new-found World 232 233 Dill and the qualities thereof 249. An old custome concerning Dill 250 Diogenes mocketh Croesus amongst the dead 240 Dipsas a serpent so called 489 Dissembling and Dissemblers They be like unto the Crocodile 371. See more in Flattery as also pag. 455 Dittanie and the vertues of it 254 Dogs and their kindes 469. They have sometimes shewed extraordinarie love to their masters 470 471 Dolphin described he is very loving to man 379 Dormouse and the kindes 467 Dove or Pigeon described 408 Dragon The herb Dragon 262. A Meteor of the same name 93. A serpent so called 488. Dragons in Congo 492 Dromedarie what kinde of beast it is 445 Drowsinesse A medicine to cure it 245. 250. 256 Drunkard and Drunkennesse See Gluttonie How to make a Drunkard loath his liquour 404 E EAgle King of birds 390. The Poets feigne that she carrieth Jupiters armour 127. Where she buildeth her nest and how the young Eagles deal with a dead carcase 391. The Eagle is a pattern of domesticall discipline ibid. Seducing Hereticks like to the young Eagle ibid. See more 295 Earth The Earth made solid and conspicuous both at once 227. The Earth the Worlds centre 228. It signifieth a thing troden on ibid. The earth nothing in respect of the heavens 224. The earth hath no circular motion with a confutation of the contrary opinion 211 212. The true Motus terrae is Germinatio terrae 214. How it hath sometimes rained earth 151. Earth of Lemnos what it is 300. As also earth of Samos 301 Earthquakes and their causes 229 230. Signes of Plague Earthquake 185. 234. The kindes of Earthquakes 231. The attendants of Earthquakes or the Antecedentia 234. The effects of Earthquakes or the Consequentia 235 236 East-winde 183. Why it often bloweth up rain for a whole day See North. Ebbes See Sea Eeles how they
whole day 183 Nose The nose purgeth the brain and conducteth smells thither 499. Good against bleeding at the nose 255 Nothing How the world was made out of Nothing 47 48 November The fifth of November not to be forgotten 307 Nurses An herb for Nurses to increase their milk and make their children faire 267. With the Nurses milk the children sometimes suck the Nurses vices 394. Women who will not nurse their children are like unto the Ostrich ibid. Nutmeg and Mace how and where they grow 278 Nyctilops an herb that shines 271 O OCtober The World made in October about the 26 or 27 day at which time the sunne entred into Libra 40 41 Oker 300 Olive The Olive tree is green all the yeare 30 One-berrie an herb called also Herba Paris or herb True-love 254 Onions and their qualities 262 Opall a precious stone of divers colours 269 Ophiusta an herb dangerous to be looked on 272 Ork. The Ork dares fight with the Whale 370 Osprey aravenous bird 416 Ostrich and his properties 394 Otter described 453 Ovassom a Virginia beast 446 Owl and his kindes 402 sequent P PAlm The Palm or Date tree described together with the branches which are tokens of victorie 276 Palsie A medicine for the Palsie 256. Other medicines for the same purpose 416. 447 Panther what manner of beast it is 442 Paradise Birds of Paradise 418 Paradox maintained by Aristotle 1 Parents They ought to love their children by an embleme from the Balaena 368. They must not use their children too harshly in their minoritie 396. They ought not to bring up their children in idlenesse by an example taken from the Eagle 391. They ought not to be too fond over their children by an example from the foolish Ape 473 474. They must teach their children betimes by an example from the Hart 480 Parsley and the kindes thereof 258 259 Parsnep 263 Partridge 401 Passions where they be seated 497 Patience and humilitie may be learnt from beasts 444 Peacock 410. Men who make peacocks of their wives make woodcocks of themselves ibid. Pearch and Pike 388 Pearl and Prawn are emblemes of cheating 386 Peevishnesse A medicine against it 254 Peionie and the vertues thereof 259 Pelican 398. She teacheth that policie is better then strength ibid. Penie-ryall and the vertues of it 256 Pepper where and how it groweth 277. Myrtle berries were sometimes used in the stead of pepper 276 Persons The persons in the Trinitie 45 46 47 Peter S. Peter explained concerning one day as a thousand yeares c. 13 14 Philosophers opinions concerning the beginning end of the world 1 Phesant 401 Phenix 391 sequent Picea or the Pitch tree 279 Pigeon or Dove 408 Pillars burning Meteors of two kindes round and pyramidall 90 Pine-tree 278 Pissasphaltus See Mummie Pissing of bed A medicine to help it 264 Plaice and from whence it is so called 387 Plague Signes of plague and earthquake 185. Good against the plague 270. 300 Plane a fair goodly tree The old Romanes used to keep banquets under it 277. Xerxes was strangely enamoured on this tree 278 Plantain or Lambes tongue together with the vertues of it 271 Platea a bird which killeth Sea-crows 414 415 Plato pag. 1. He calleth the sea a great gulf 206. His opinion partly followed concerning the fierie matter of the starres 320 Pleasure How we should use our pleasures 372 Plover and his wholesomenesse 415 Poets Whom they pointed at by their two-faced Ianus 2 Policie better then strength proved by an example taken from the Pelican 398. as also by an example taken from the bird Platea 415 Polypus a fish with many feet with an embleme of treacherous persons 385 Pontarof a monstrous fish 378 Porcupine See Hedgehog Porphyrio a strange bird 417 Poulcar together with their cunning 460 Poison Things good against poison 248. An incurable poison 251 Predictions and how they are warrantable 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 c. Prester a serpent c. 489 Ptissick A medicine to cure it as also for a stuffing in the head 250 251 Purple a fish whose juice is very precious 385 Purslain and the qualities thereof 269 Pyrausta a flie which liveth in the fire 425 Q QUick-silver what it is and why so called 285 Quint-essence See Heavens R RAbbin The Rabbins conceit of six thousand yeares is very unsound 10 11 12 Rape and his vertues 264 Rain 145. Ordinary and extraordinarie rains 146. The causes of prodigious rains 147 148 149 c. Why it useth to rain when the winde is down 174 Rain-bow 135. His causes 136. His colours cause of their differences ibid. The finall cause of Rain-bows 137. How to prognosticate of weather by the Rainbow ibid. The derivation of Iris a word signifying the Rain-bow 138. There was a Rain-bow before the Floud ibid. What the Iews used to do upon sight of the Rain-bow 140. Wittie applications from the colours in the Rainbow 141. A grosse opinion concerning the Rain-bow 139 Rangifer a beast to ride on with horns like a Deer 481 Rashnesse condemned by an example from the Barble 383. and by an example from the hastening bitch 469 Rats and their kindes ibid. Raven 395. An embleme from the Fox and Raven concerning companions in ill ibid. The Ravens skinne helps digestion 396. The Night-Raven 403 Ray or Thornback 387. His pricks afford a good medicine against the stone ibid. Red-lead what it is c. 301 Red-gumme Good to cure it 267 Region No middle Region untill the third day 67. The severall Regions of the aire and their qualities 84 85 86 c. The cause of those differing Regions 68. 86. Remora a little fish called the Stopfish because he is said to stay a ship under sail 382 Rhinoceros 434 Rib. See Woman Rivers and from whence they proceed 204 205 c. A river that breedeth flies 222. A river which resteth every seventh day 224 Robbin-red-breast 402 Roch 388 Romulus and Remus not nursed by a Wolf 448 Rosemary and the many properties thereof 250 251 Roses The temper and vertue of Roses together with a conserve of Roses and how to make it 275 Rubie what it is and for what it is good viz. to cleare the sight to expell sadnes and fearfull dreams 294 Rue and the vertues thereof 248 Rupture See Burstnings S SAdnesse Good against it 294 295. 261. 271. Saffron 252 253 Sage 246. It is good for childe-bearing women good for the brain good against spitting of bloud good for a stitch in the side and good against the palsie 247 Sagoin 472 Salamander 494 Salmon 387 Salt and the kindes 304 305 306 Saphir 293 Sardius a kinde of Onyx 295 Sardonyx healeth ulcers about the nails and preserveth chastitie 295. Some call it a Corneoll ibid. Sargon an adulterous fish 381 Saw-fish and Sword-fish 370 Scolopendra a fish of a strange propertie and how we ought to resemble this fish 384 Scorpion described 492. How to cure his sting ibid. A