together and let the pacient or diseased party drinke it euery night going to bed and there wyll not ten dayes passe but the patient wyll be cured of the passion or griefe of the harte THis following is a notable tryed medicine for the gowte and for the swelling of ioynts for knobs or knots comming of the French pocks Take May butter a quarter of a pound halfe a pound of coomyn seede beaten in fyne powder a quarter of a pound of blacke Sope one handfull of Hearbe grace halfe a handfull of clarifyed sheepe suet stampe all these together in a morter then take the gall of an Oxe and a spoonefull of bay Salt and frye them all together tyll it be thycke then laye it on a woollen cloath and so apply it to the ache as hotte as it maye be suffred and let it lye vnremoued a whole weeke and then laye another plaster thereof to it and let it lye vnremoued as long then lay the thyrd plaster therto and let it lye therto as long as the other which wyll be in the whole three weekes and without doubt it wyll helpe him I haue seene it proued This I had out of a verie olde booke THere be and truly with proued successe that doo hang the rootes of Sorrell at theyr neckes for the Swyne pockes and also in lyke case of Planten Mizaldus WHosoeuer hath the bloudy Flyxe be it neuer so great nor greeuous let them drinke the wine wherin the rootes of Hollyocks cut in peeces is sodden and streined if the party haue an ague for then let the rootes be sodde in water with some Planten leaues and so streyned which is an approued sure medicine for that disease whether the party haue an ague or not A Ring made of an Oxe or Cowes horne worne or carryed vpon them that haue the crampe It puts the same away This is proued to be true of many And Mizaldus affyrmes it IF the Lorde of the seuenth house be in the thyrd or nynth house and any euyll Planet beholde him he that is then borne wyll fall from some buylding or else hee wyll dye of some thing that shall fall vppon him Ptolomeus IF you seethe Bryonie in water and vse to drinke the same It helpes and cureth them that haue the Dropsie Proued MAruelous and notable vertues of the Eybright do followe Let the leaues stalkes and flowres with the whole substaunce be distylled when it beareth flowres the water wherof stylled dropped and streaked about the eyes causeth cleare eyes sharpneth the syght and seaseth the paynes of the eyes The water dropped into the eyes an howre before night and stryked about them and drunke to the quantitie of three ounces at one tyme comforteth strengthneth and preserueth the syght especially in aged persons and in stematick complections The hearbe dried and brought to powder eaten euery day in a poâ—ched Egrere for a certain time together restoreth sight lost the water mixed with half a dram of the powder and drunk euery euening for a month or forty dayes together recouereth a weake syght THis precious medicine folowing wyll bring forth a Cankaâ— and plucke it vp by the rootes out of any sore where 〈◊〉 bee eyther in man or woman Take Bosâ—alger and make powder therof then take Bâ—rrowes or Hogges grease that is new and fresh fyrst melted and aâ—ter colde then myâ—e the powder there with very well then put therof vpon a peece of whyte lether which may couer the â—ore theÌ„ sprinckle on the sayd plaster fyne flowre of pure wheete then vpon the same spreade Honny and then put vpon the sayd Honny womans mylke and whâ—n all this is done put the sayde plaster vpon the sore where the canker is and put the neather crust of a new whyte loaâ—e vpon the sayde plaster and tye it fast vpon the same that it remoue â—â—t And in the morning thou shall finde the cankar dead on the said plaster this is most true This I coppyed out of an olde wrytten Booke LEt a woman make water in an Urinall that is â—ayre and cleane or rather newe vppon certaine cornes of Barly and set the same in a colde place for the space of eighte dayes and if tâ—e sayde Barlye cornes wyll growe agayne or bring foorth newe corne then the fault is not in the woman that shee conceaues not but rather in the man Yf otherwyse then the lette of conception is in her STampe Crystall in a stone Morter of Marble and make thereof a very fyne powder then put thereto so much of the white of an egge that you may write therewith mixte them well together with a little goome or goome water then write therewith in paper what you wyll then rubbe the same Letters with what mettall you wyll and the wrytynge wyll bee of the coullour of that mettall wherewith you rubbed them This I had out of an olde booke and Mizaldus affyrmes it withoute the Goome water THe iuyce of Lylly Rootes and Uynegar of eyther lyke much mixed togeather and the sawse fâ—eame or redde pympled face annoynted therewyth euerye euenyng for the space of nyne or tenne dayes dooth helpe it perfectly YOu shall knowe whether the dropsye be hotte or colde by this that followeth Yf the swellynge beginne fyrst at the feete and go vpwarde then it comes of a hotte cause If the swellynge begynne fyrst in the face and goe downewarde then it comes of a colde cause This lykewise I had out of an olde wrytten Booke wherein were many things credyble CAst the water of any sicke person newly made at night on red nettels if the nettels be withered or dead in the morning after then the sicke party is lyke to dye of that disease if they be greene styll then he is lyke to lyue A Certayne wicked fellowe that kylled his Father dyd syt in coÌ„pany with his companions eating drinking ouer whose heads there was a swalowes nest with young swallowes in the same at which time the sayd swallowes made a great noyse chittering when suddenly the sayd wicked fellow got a long powle brust the swallowes nest wherby the swallowes fel down he trode on them and crushed them in peeces Being asked of one of them why he dyd so I haue good cause so to doo sayde he for dyd you not heare sayde he how they tolde that I kylled my Father Whervpon he was suspected examined and so confessed and therfore executed Plutarchus DRye a Gotes Sheeps or Neates blather make powder therof let them drinke therof with Uineger or water wheÌ„ they go to bed that cannot hold their water and it wyll helpe them Galen affyrmes this IF the Sun the Moone the Alumten or the Lorde of the Ascendent be all safe and not with the Lord of the eyght house or in his aspect without doubt the sicke person shal be ryd of his diseases and recouer the same If two of them be so he is like to escape lykewise If contrary
it seperateth and putteth away the watrye humors of the Splene it helpeth forwarde the flowers if it be droonke nyne dayes together in the morning purgeth the belly also it purgeth all chollor and all corrupt bloud it healeth all wounds within the belly it cleareth the sight it cureth poysoned bytings To the healing of wounds the powder of Centory ought to be put to them Lullius in his booke of waters Euonymus descrybes this which is a worthy worke PUt quicksyluer in a bladder and lay the bladder in a hotte place and it wyll skyp from place to place without handling AN excellent water for purifying or cleansyng the skyn of the face or other parts of the body which is secrete vnknowne Take syx new layd Egs half a pound of Malmsey a young Pigion not wholly fethered halfe a pounde of new Cheese comming from the presse made of vnskymmed mylke eyght Orrenges Oyle of Tartare three ounces one ounce of Ceruse made in powder gum Arabick and Mastick of eyther halfe an ounce water of Beane flowres eight ounces Ryce fowre ounces stieped fyrst a whole day and a nyght in halfe a pynt of Creame cut the Orrenges in peeces and stampe them a lytle then put all together with the Creame Ryce also And distyll the same also with an easy fyre and keepe the water dystylled therof in a cleane close stopped glasse and vse to rubbe and wette the face therwith euery euening before you go to bedde and euery morning wash it cleane with water distylled of Beane flowres Use this a fortnight or three weekes together and you shall find it a notable thing TO make a Glew to hold or ioygne thinges together as hard or fast as a stone an excellent secret Take vnslackt Lyme quench the same with wine beate the same into fine powder myxing therwith both Fygs Swynes grease and after labour them well together for this as Pliny wryteth passeth the hardnes of a stone with which ioygne broken pots or any thing together Also take greeke Pytch Rosē and the powder of lytle stones these myxe together when you wyll occupy of the same then heate it ouer the fyre worke therwith that is ioygne any thing therwith and it holdeth them together as harde as any nayle Also take of Spuma ferri one pound of tyle shardes in powder two pounde of vnslackt Lyme fowre pound of oyle of Lynne seede as much as shall suffice to prepare myxe worke them together this Glewe is maruelous strong which neyther feareth nor yeeldeth to water nor fyre This is of the natural and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated into Englysh by Thomas Hyll AN Angelike water of a maruelous vertue against blearednes of the eyes Canker and burning with fyre Take three ounces of vnslackt Lime and halfe a pounde of rayne water let them stande together in a vessell of glasse or tyn three dayes then mixe styrrre them together and let them setle againe a whole day a night in a vessell well couered afterward strayne them tenderly through a lynnen cloath vntyll it be cleare then put into it ten drams of Sal Armoniack the whytest you can get beate it finely let it be dyssolued with long standing and oft mouing in the sayd water After when it is setled strayne the cleane water that standeth aboue certaine times or else distyl it by a fylter This water healeth the spot and web in the eye if you drop three drops thryse euery day into thē continewing so vntyll the eyes be whole it taketh away also the teares of the eyes the rednes and the blearednes of the eyes And also the Canker and burning It taketh away all spots and staynes of cloath both of Sylke and Woollen if they be washed with it a lytle warmed Furnerius by the report of Euonymus Besydes I haue proued it in the lyke case therfore I am bold to say it is an excellent thing AN excellent water called the golden water a balme a blacke oyle doth follow Take of cleare Turpentine seuen ounces wash it wel with whyte wine after take good whyte Honny three pound clarify it with a lytle whyte wine ouer an easy fyre and take of the scoom styll from it then put the Turpentyne to it myxing them well together Then powre therto of Aqua vite fowre pound and myxe them well in a body of glasse luting it or stopping it well then take Buglosse Borrage Bawme Sage Lauēder of each one handfull Hysop Camamyle Yarrow red Roses of each one handfull Woormwood one dram Rosemary two handfulles Then take wood of Aloes Xilobalsamum the three Saunders of eache one dram Mace Nutmugge Cynamom Galanga Cloues Cucubes whyte and long Pepper Saffern Spyknarde Graynes of Paradise Cardamomum of each three drammes Zedoarye halfe an ounce Squynant halfe a dram the pylles or ryndes of Lymons the seedes of Lymons Scicados Arabike of eache one dram Calamus Aromaticus halfe a dram Carlinae cardopacij two ounces Bistorte two drams the roote of Flowre Deluce halfe an ounce Bay berryes Ualeryan Polypode of each half an ounce Licqueres Annes seedes of eyther halfe a dram of Radyshe two ounces of Coryander correct halfe an a◠ounce Syler mounten one dram blaunched Almondes halfe a pound small Reysens halfe a pound being washt with Wyne All these being beaten or strayned put into the sayd body of glasse to the Honny and other thinges and if there be not inough of Aqua vite put therto more and let them stande so seuen dayes well couered and stopt then after distyll the same in ashes with an easy fyre all being wel luted for the space of fowre howres least the Honny boyle and there wyll come out a cleare water Then encrease the fire and when you see the water yallow then put too another receyuer of glasse which you must lute also with the beake of the Styll and keepe the fyrst water by it selfe encrease the fyre vntyl there come no more yallowe water and when you see it come blacke then take away the receyuer and put an other thertoo and lute it lykewise and when you see a smoake come then it is inough and keepe all these three seuerally and let the Styll stande vntyll it bee colde In the fyrst water put Folij Indi fyue drams Amber halfe a dram Mosche halfe a scruple which is twelue graynes and also fyfteene leaues of Gold. If you wyl vse it for the head take one ounce of the water of Bettony and of the fyrst water one spoonefull myxe them together drinke it all fasting The vertue of this doth strengthen all the members Take one ounce of Malmsey or of other good Wyne in a lytle glasse and put one spoonefull of this fyrst whyte water thertoo myxe them together and it wyll be whyte as mylke which drynke with a fasting stomacke and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after and it wyll preserue all thy members
a certaine couering Notwithstanding all styrpes or Plants whereon Oyle is powred or effused do putrifie As Plynie reportes THe Coales of a Byrch tree made in powder put into a wounde or great sore healeth it perfectly without any other thing It was crediblie tolde me that the Muscouits vse it much esteemes it greatly A Robbyn read breast fynding the dead body of a Man or Woman wyll couer the face of the same with Mosse And as some holdes opinion he wyll couer also the whole body AN Italian through the ofte smelling of an herbe called Basyll had a Scorpion bred in his braine ▪ which dyd not onely a long tyme grieue him but also at the last kylled him Iacobus Hollerius a learned Phisition affirmes it for trueth Take heede therefore ye smellers of Basyll IF the Nauell string of a chylde after it is cut doeth chaunce to touche the grounde before it be burned the same childe wyll not be able to keepe or holde his or her water neyther night nor daye A thing verie true and well knowne A Flayne Mouse rosted or made in powder drunk at one tyme doeth perfectly helpe such as can not holde or keepe their water especially if it be vsed three dayes in this order This is verie true and often proued IT was credibly reported to me for a verie trueth that a certaine Inkeeper in Ware dyed which had a Dogge that loued him so well that certaine dayes after he mourned and sought for his sayde Maister without eating of any thing And when he could not finde his sayde Maister he layd himselfe among the hotte coales in a chymney who though he was pulled out of the fire yet he went in againe burned him selfe to death A rare straunge thing as hath bene heard of I thinke it is harde to finde a seruant so louing to his Lord as this Dog was to his Maister ASsoone as a child is borne especially a boy their ought to bee great heede taken in the cutting of the Nauell string for the member of generatiō doth followe the proporcion of the Nauell string and if it be tyed to short in a Wenche it maye be a hynderaunce to her in bringing forth her chylde Therfore it is meete that Mydwiues haue a great regarde therein This is gathered out of Mathias Cornace an excellent Phisition FOr the helping of the Coddes or Stones that bee swolne or pained The auncient learned did graue in a plate of copper the fygure of a Scorpion in the howre of Saturne the thirde face of Aquary then ascēding or rysing with Saturne and for the Gowte the Seale of Pisces and also for the helping or bettering of memory they made a Ring of pure golde wherein was closed a Diamonde vnder the coniunction of Saturne and Iupiter in Aries Hermes EGidius Herthoge wrytes a straunge maruell of a woman which caryed a dead chyld in her wombe thirtene yeares which was perceyued of many that handled her bellye but he wrytes not what successe she had therwith for whyles he wrote the same the woman was well and dyd her busynes with her husbande abrode and also at home DYtany drunke with water or wine doth cause a woman to be easily and speedily be delyuered yea though the chylde be dead or if it be turned contrary to a ryght course also it bringes forth the after burthen the lyke effect hath Peniryall as some affirmes And it hath bene proued as sayth Myzaldus PYgeons do so loue the Castrell that if one enclose young Castrels in a potte and stop and couer the same close and shall hang them in fowre corners of the Doouehouse it wyll procure such a loue to the Pygions of that place that for the desyre of them being so inclosed in the sayde Pottes they wyll neuer chaunge that place so much they loue the Castrelles their friendes after their death Columella reports this as Mizaldus affirmes THe Woort leafe layde on the crowne of the heade draweth vp the Vuula or the flap in the throate M. Cato by the report of Mizaldus IF a peece of fine golde or the leaues of pure golde be put into the iuyce of Lymons and taken out of it after it haue leyne therein a whole daye and the same iuice then geuen to one that is sicke of the plague with a lytle Wine and the powder of the roote of Angelica or of the decoction of the same roote it is maruayle to bee tolde what helpe it bringes them yea though they be past all hope or thought past recouerie This Mizaldus wrytes as proued IF a Man be the first that a Woman meetes after she comes out of the Church when she is newlye Churched it sygnifies that her next chylde wyll be a boye If she meete a Woman then a wench is lyke to be her next chyld This was credibly reported to me to be true But prayse it as it proues A Lytle baye Salt stamped small myxt with the yolke of an egge and applyed to a Fellon and so vsed diuerse tymes doth not only perfectly heale the same with speede but also drawes out all the payne out of the arme and ceases the swelling therof if any such be by the meanes of the same This is perfectly proued CHildren are not alwayes lyke vnto their Parēts as it maye appeare in Helides which dyd begette a Daughter of an Ethiopian which Daughter was not of the cullour of her Mother but after the sayde Daughter had a Sonne which was blacke and lyke to his grandmother So Niceus the Poet dyd degenerate in cullour from his Father and his Mother and was lyke his grandfather being an Ethyopian Which thing ought well to be considered of such that suspectes their Wiues when they bring forth chyldren vnlyke to eyther of them for it happens many tymes that the chylde is lyke to the Grandfather or great Grandfather and neyther lyke the father nor mother Mizaldus A Tode stone called Crapandina touching any part be venomed hurte or stung with Ratte Spider Waspe or any other venemous Beast ceases the paine or swelling thereof Lemnius THe iuyce of Broome myxt with the oyle of Radish or of Mustarde is a very safe remedy for the kylling or destroying of Lyse IF a Woman annoint often her Dugges or Pappes with the iuyce of Succorie it wyll make them litle round and hard For if they be hanging or flagging it wyl draw them together wherby they shal seeme as the Dugges of a mayde Mizaldus IF you shall enclose within a peece of thinne Sylke Galbanum made sofe and shall laye it to the mouth of the Matrix all a night the head of that woman hauing then no fowle nor stinking cloathes vpon it but onely couered with a Caule and a cleane or thyn Keyrchyffe without any kinde of Odors in the morning when the same are losed from her heade if the crowne of her head smell of Galbanum it is a sure token that that woman is apt to haue chyldren Hyppocrates IF
it well and then put thereto an ounce of Stycados tyde in a fayre lynnen cloath and let it seethe a lytle whyle and then take it out of the sayde water and then put thereto one ounce of Synamon three quarters of an ounce of Nutmegges and as much of Gynger in powder And vse to drinke a good draught thereof twyse euery day something warme fyrst and last for the space of syxe or seuen dayes And then it helpes perfectlie THat Chylde wyll be deaffe that is borne when Mercurie is Lorde of the syxt house and Infortunate by an euyll aspect with Saturne chiefly if he be in the syxt house Lykewise they wyll haue great impediment in their hearing in whose Natiuitie Iupiter and Saturne be both impedite or Infortunate aboue the earth That is if they be Retrograde or Combust in euyll places Iatro THey that haue any paynes or swelling in the throate let them take a Iewes eare which is to be had at the Apothecaries lay it to stiepe in Ale a whole night and let the party drinke a good draught therof euery daye once or twyse vntyll they perceyue them selues amended A proued thing A Straunge matter and a thing followeth worthy of memorye Whosoeuer hath the Kinges Euyll and lookes vpon a certaine Byrde called Galgulus of a maruelous shape and quicke sight by and by the same byrde doth drawe to her the yallow vapors of choller heales the party perfectly through a certaine great benefite of nature But where as through a secrete gyfte of Nature she doth perceyue or smell the diseased party to come towarde her shee wyl close her eyes hyde her head vnder her wings not that she doth enuie the parties health or lothe to helpe him of his disease But because she doth greatly feare the sharpnes of the humor which the nearer the party infected comes to her the more it wyl pain her he the more eased Therfore they were wont to sel this Byrd to such as had this disease in some close thing or couered least the party should be healed for nothing The Authors hereof are Hilodorus Plutarchus Aelianus Suidas and Plynie with other And Kirannides and after him Albertus reportes that if this Byrde refuse to looke vpon the diseased party it is a token that he shall dye thereof But if he looke euen vpon him she drawes the disease to her self and then by and by or soone after she flying against the Sunne doth vomit it out of her And thus she doth both cure the sycke party and delyuer her selfe from the same through a certaine maruelous benefite of Nature But learned men do much dyscent in taking of this Byrde Plynie contends that it is Icterus some do thinke that it is Chloreus or Chlorio which the French men calles Lorion and Loriot The best part of the Phisitions defends that it is Charadrius some affyrmes that it is Oriolus others say that it is Galbulus or Galbula or Chloris which Gesner lykes not And Mizaldus leaues it to the iudgement of the Doctors or learned vntyll experience shal trye the trueth thâ—râ—of Mizaldus in 〈◊〉 Mirabilibus seu arcanis ORpheus and Archelaus 〈◊〉 by the report of Plynie that if the 〈◊〉 of them be smeared with mans bloud that are fallen of the falling sycknes by by they wyll be delyuered from the traunce or â—yt or if their great todes be then next pulled or pincht THe mydle rynde of a Cherie tree stamped streyned the sayde iuyce put into a lytle whyte wyne warmed and then geuen to drinke to them that haue the stone or can not make water it auoydes the grauell or stone and makes them to make water preseÌ„tlye Use it three or fowre tymes ONe may make beyond sea Azure as followeth counterfeyt it very well Take common Azure and beate or stampe it well with Uineger annoynt therewith a thyn plate of pure syluer and put the same ouer a vessell full of vrine which set ouer hotte ashes and coales and let it be moued sturred vntyll it be lyke beyond sea Azure This is the best way Mizaldus affyrmes that he had this out of an olde written booke IF you do put quick syluer into a potte amongst seething or hotte pease the pease wyll leape out of the potte except the brym or mouth of the potte be to hyghe or the fyre to small Mizaldus sayth that this is proued BArly halfe sodde geueÌ„ to Hens to be eaten makes them laye often and their egs to be greater This is affyrmed for trueth IF any doubt or feare any thing whatsoeuer it bee and asketh thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie thereof marke and consider the Lorde or Almuten of the Ascendent whom if thou dost finde pure and safe from infortunes and he be holding the Ascendent the feare is needeles For no harme shall happen according to the feare Haly Abenragel SAuery beaten and sodden in vineger and layde in manner of a plaster to the hynder part of the head doeth merrelye awaken those that are heauy with sleepe HEre followeth the making of a pleasaunt oyle of Cloues Take of Cloues one pound which beate to powder in a brasen morter then adde thereto three pounde of Almondes scraped and beaten in a morter and when they be well myxed together â–ª sprinkle theron fowre ounces of the best white wine letting it so lye in a masse for the spare of eight dayes at the least â–ª after that stampe the whole ouer againe then put it into a new earthen panne which heate ouer the fyre so long that you caÌ„ not suffer your hand in it then put it vp into square bagges and wring the same harde in a presse vntyll all the whole substaunce of the oyle become TAke a Frogge and cutte her through the myddes of the backe with a knife and take out the Lyuer and foulde it in a Colewoort leafe and burne it in a newe earthen potte well closed and geue the ashes thereof vnto him or her that hath the falling sycknesse to drinke with Wyne and it wyll helpe him And if the partye be not healed at once then do so by another Frogge and so doo styll and without doubte it wyll heale him if he vse it This was tolde me for a sure experiment And it is also affyrmed by Petrus Hispanus A Wonderfull thyng passing all credite chaunced in the Byshopricke or Dyoces of they of Eistettence in Germany but that it was seene of dyuers credyble wytnesses A certaine husbandman there called Vlricke Neucesser being tormented with cruell paynes in one of his sydes soddainly tooke holde of a nayle that was vnder the skynne vnhurt which cutte by a Surgion he tooke out the nayle yet for all that the paynes dyd not cease Wherefore the myserable man suspectinge that there was no remedye to bee had for his payne but by death hee tooke a knyfe and cutte his throate And the thyrde daye after he being â—arryed to burying there was three present one
or other place or rowme wyl geue such a light in the darke as the Moone doth when she shines in a bright night Iohannes Baptist. A Peece of a chyldes Nauell string borne in a ring is good against the falling sicknes the paynes of the head and of the collyck Mizaldus BAptista Fulgosus reports that nie to Sirminū a Citie of Pamony sometymes there hath bene Tendrals of Gold found in the Uines wherof there hath bene money coynd Which many haue seene sayth Gandeut Meruba in his tyme And Alexander Neapolitanus sayth that he hath founde in Germany within Daunby Uines that dyd beare lytle nayles and leaues of pure golde which was geuen for presentes to Kings and Dukes Mizaldus IF any doeth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astronomie whether that place where he dwelles is better for him then that to which hee meanes to go beholde and if thou dost finde the Moone seperate from Infortunes that is from an euyll Planette or from an Infortunate Planette tell him that his going is better then his tarying But if you finde the Moone seperate from a good or fortunate Planet then it is better for him to tarry there styl then to go from thēce to dwel And to be briefe if one shall aske thee saying thus I must needes doo a certaine thing or I haue certayne busynesse to doo whether maye I doo it or not then marke thou the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone and if thou finde them seperate from euyll Planets or euyll fortunes applying to good or fortunate Planets byd him do that that he is determined to do and spare not But if thou finde them seperate from good Planets or fortunate and applying to euyll Planets byd him that he doo it not neyther take it in hande Haly Abenragell THat Woman is lyke to be barreyn in whose Natiuitye the Moone and Venus being in barreyne signes are Infortunate of Mars and Saturne Or if Saturne be in the seuenth or tenth house Infortunating 〈◊〉 and the Moone or if Venus be with Saturne and the Moone then in the syxt or twelfth house Infortunate Iatromath Guat Ryff THe seedes of Roses with Mustarde seede and the foote of a Wesell all together tyde in some thing hangde among the bowes or branches of a tree that beares but lytle fruite It is sayde that it wyll make that tree to beare well and to be maruelous fruitfull Mizaldus PAre the nailes of one that hath the quarteyn ague which being put into a lynnen cloath and so tyed about the necke of a quicke Eele and the same Eele put into the water thereby the ague wyll be dryuen away Geber et Alb. IF any lyst to sleepe and laye by him the braunches of moyst Hempe Gnats wyll not trouble him nor come neare him Myzaldus IF the Lorde of the twelfth house be in the twelfth house many debates and enemities wyll happen vpon the day belonging to that Planet to the childe then borne Taisnier COoluer dunge stampt and vsed for a plaster with strong Uineger and applyed to the Nauell byndeth incontinent all Fluxes of the belly Macer THe roote of a Goorde tyed to the reynes of the backe of Women that is in labour or trauell of chylde doth cause speedy delyueraunce thereof But let it be taken away as soone as the chyld doth come foorth least the Matrix go out after the chylde Trotula de passionibus mulierum HEre foloweth an Electuary of a wonderfull vertue in the tyme of Pestilence this Electuary is of so great a vertue in them that do receyue it once in .xxiiii. howres that they may be sure from all euyl infections of corrupt and contagious ayres all the daye after But in them that are infect already and are taken with the Pestilence if they drinke of it but one spoonefull as shall be sayde hereafter especially after letting of bloud if it be conuenient to the patient and laye him downe and sweate vpon the same if the venyme hath not vtterlie ouercome the hart he shall vndoubtedlie recouer It hath bene lately proued that after drynking of the same medicine when the patient made his water in an vrinall the glasse hath burst in peeces by reason of the venime that it purged out This is the making of the sayde Electuary Take Cynamom elect one ounce Terra sigillata sixe drams fyue Myrre three drams Unycornes horne one dram the seede rynde of Cytron rootes of Dyptanny Burnet Turmentyl Zedoary red Currall of each two drams yellow Saunders fowre scruples red Saunders two scruples whyte Been and red flowres of Marygooldes of each one dram Yuery rased Scabius Veroincitunici seede of Basyll the bone of a Stags harte Saffron of each two scruples make a syne powder and ad vnto it of bole Armoniacke preparate two ounces whyte sugar three pound and with a syrrup of Acetositate citri make a goodly Electuary and keepe it in a glasse If the Pestilence commeth with great excesse of heate drinke it in Rose water Uineger but if you feele it colde take it in a draught of Wine and couer you with cloathes so that you maye sweate as long as is possible for without doubt it is a present remedy as I my selfe haue nowe of late proued Thus much Thomas Phayre in his Treatyse of the Pestylence THe teethe of a mad Dogge that hath bytten a man or woman tyed in leather and then hangde at the shoulder doeth preserue and keepe the partye that beares it from being bytten of any madde Dogge Diascorides by the report of Mizaldus THe Seedes of Carduus Benedictus stamped and drunke doth helpe the griefe paynes prickings and stitches of the syde and the gryping in the guts and the lower parte of the belly This is proued for trueth IF any doth sprinckle his head with the powder of the skinne that a Snake doth cast off gotten or gathered when the Moone is in the ful being also in the fyrst part of Aries the Ram he shall see terryble and fearefull dreames And if he shall haue it vnder the plant of his foote he shal be acceptable before Magistrates and Princes Cardanus WHosoeuer beginnes theyr iourney in the howre of Venus he shall haue good and profyte on the behalfe of Women or some such lyke thing Haly Abenragell IF Woormes gnawe vpon or hurt the mouth of the stomacke put Honny combes into the mouth fasting and holde them there and the Woormes wyll draw vnto the Honny and so voyde by the mouth It hath bene proued IN the fyrst beginning of any sycknes or at the time of any question for the sycke if the Moone be Orientall nye to the Sunne within twelue degrees it is sygne of death and the nearer to the Sun and in Combusyon the woorse Iohannes Ganiuetus WIth this Secrete following Benedictus victorius had alwayes good successe in passions and griefes of the harte Take of the iuyce of Buglosse cleansed or putrified at the fyre two ounces of white Sugar two drams myxe them
together Which I know to be excellent the lyke vnto this is affyrmde to be most true and proued by Anth. Beneuenius IT is a great token of health when the stones or coddes begyns to ytche though the other parts of the body be weake But then take heede of Uenerius actes least you pay for your pleasure This out of Mizaldus COryander seede made in powder and mixt with Honny and unplastred vpō a Carbuncle or other grieuous byles destroyes the same quite Arnold de villa noua THe black Sea coale mixed with oyle wyl be made soft Wherwith if one annoynt Uines it wyll destroye the woormes which destroyes or eates the buddes of the Uines Seuerinus Gebelius THe goom of a Chery tree dissolued in white wine and so geuen to them that are grieued with the stone it wyll helpe them maruelously Mizaldus affyrmes that it is certainly proued IT was credibly told me for a very truth that there was a very poore woman being brought to bed of a chylde hauing many chyldren before to whome a syster of hers being rytch and that neuer as yet had any childe came to see her who sayd vnto her as followeth Ah syster syster here are many mouthes and lytle meate To whom her poore syster answered cōtent your selfe syster God neuer sends mouth but he sendeth meate After it chaunst the rytch syster to be with chylde which when it was borne had neuer a mouth So that ther was much meate no mouth A worthy rare example to make al couetous greedy carefull worldlinges to cast their whole care on the lord And not so to depend on their own prouision or worldly wealth If it were not for the great goodnes of God we should haue no more meate for our mouthes then this womans chyld had a mouth for meate But if we haue both mouthes and meate and lacke good stomacks for the same what are we the neare So that both mouth meate and stomack are not in our wylles to haue when welyst but are Gods gyfts to bestowe as he wyll HErmes sayth if in the Natiuitie of the Husband Venus be Combust the wyfe shall dye before the husbande If in the Natiuity of the wyfe Mars be Combust the husband shall dye before the wife WAter or wine wherin Walwoort is sodde if a good draught thereof be drunke euery day fyrst and last for the space of twentye dayes at the most doth perfectly helpe them that haue the dropsy It is an excellent medicine for the same CAst or instyl certaine drops of Baulme into cleare water and then with a stick labour well the water and if the water then be troubled the baulme is not perfect But if the water abyde cleare then the same is good and perfect baulme For the good and true baulme doth gather it selfe alwayes into one place And thus you may trye a true good baulme from a false and sofysticate baulme IF the roote of Pyony especialy of the male Pyony be hangde at the necke of a chylde or a boye that hath the falling sycknes it doth helpe very much Lykewise doth Pellyter and the heaire of a Dogge that is all blacke Lemnius FINIS Lib. 4. ⧠The fyfth Booke of Notable thinges A Mare wyl bring forth a Fole of diuers cullours if she be couered with a cloth of dyuers cullours whyles she is taking the Horse For such cullours as be before the eyes of of the Horse whyles he doth horse her without doubt the Fole wyll be of the same cullours The same may be proued with Dogs and other Beasts Mizaldus THe berryes of Halicacabus called wynter Cherries being stampt and the iuyce prest or wroong out of the same and then dryed in the shaddow the same if it be geuen to such as haue the stone or cannot make water and also to them that haue the Dropsie it wyll prouoke vrine or dryue forth the water and also expell the Hydropycall humors Mizaldus HOrus Apollo doth saye that a Woolfe doth feare greatly stones therfore when he is constrayned to go by stony places he treades very demurely or softly For being hurt with a very lytle stroke of a stone it breedes woormes wherof at length he is consumed or brought to his death Therfore he doth flye from a trauellor that layes wayte to stryke him with stones IF the Moone and Venus be ioyned together and both be Combust He that is then borne shall lacke a wyfe or neuer marrie Ptolomeus IF the leaues of Elderne fyrst made hotte between two Tyle stones and then applyed hotte to the forehead and the temples if any painelye there It helpeth the ache of the head maruelously This is very good and well proued HEre followeth a maruellous water to prouoke sleepe Take of Opium thebaicum and Garlicke heads pylled of each two ounces beate the Garlicke heads in a morter with a woodden pestel put therto the Opium grinded incorporate these well together that it maye be lyke a Sawce Distyll this in a Retorte with a most soft slowe fyre in ashes With this water distilled when neede shal require annoint the temples the forehead and pulses of the wrestes And beware you mynister nor vse this but vppon a great necessity as in franticke persons as you shall thinke it good THe iuyce of the buddes leaues inner rynde or of the young braunches of Elderne something warme put into the eare doth not onely breake the impostume thereof within sowre or fiue tymes but also doth maruelously helpe the deafnes This was tolde me for a great secrete and I haue tryed it to be an excellent thing in such a case TO see Moonks in ones dreame doth portēd death or calamity to see fatte Oxen betokens plenty of thinges to loose an eye or a toothe sygnifies the death of a friende or of a kynseman or some other euyll lucke to dreame to be dumme foreshewes speedie gladnes to see Oxen plowe betokens gaine to enter into waters betokens euyll Artemidorus THis following makes a soft beard and doth beautifie the chynne with a fyne heaire Take butter witstout salt the iuyce of a redde Onion the grease of a Gray or a Badger the roote of Bryony of Beetes of Radysh and of whyte Lyllies whereof make a Lynyment and annoint the chyn often therewith being shauen Mizaldus PUt vp an olde Gander into a house and let him be there three dayes without meate then cast vnto him peeces of an Eele newlie kylled then gather the dunge that comes from him after he hath eaten the peeces of the Eele which dung being layde to any impostume or swelling Is a present remedy therfore HE that sleepeth in a sheepes skynne shall see true dreames or dreame of things that be true Mizaldus THe brayne of a Wesell dryed and drunke with Uinegar doth helpe them that haue the falling sicknes Mizaldus IVpiter and Venus or the one of them in the eyght house not Combust nor Retrograde doth sygnifie the chyld then borne shall dye a naturall
of Seamewes seeming to be dead which were ioynde together with theyr bylles or nebbes in anothers tayle or fundament and being warmed with theyr guttes were founde a lyue Garuas Tibellesius THe leaues of Dockes do lowse the belly makes one laxatiue But the seedes being taken do binde and are restryctiue Galen IF Wyne haue gotten any tartnes or sowrenes take a potte fylled with good water and let it be well couered then set the same potte with water in the vessell with Wyne so that the potte stande vnder or within the Wyne and at the three dayes ende if the Wyne haue gotten his former strength the water wyll smell and then the Wyne wyll lyke thee Tarentinus A Peece of raw Beefe not too thyck nor too thin being layde or stieped all the nyght before in good Aqua Composita and applyed to the temples or the foreheade without remouing all the nyght and thus doing three or fowre nyghtes doth helpe the watring and paynes of the eyes and all distyllations and rewmes that comes from the heade or brayne One tolde mee this which had often proued it to be most true as a great secrete WHen Mercury is in the tenth house not impedyte the chylde then borne wyll be mighty wyse and a great Philosopher Celi enarrant ANnoint young Swallowes with saffern soone after the old Swallowes wyll bring a stone vnto them wherwith the Dropsie wyll be cured This I had out of a booke of Secretes AN Egge layde on a Thursdaye and emptied and fylled with Salt and lo set in the fyre remayning there vntyll it maye be made in powder and then cankred teethe rubbed with the powder thereof it both kylles the cankar and the woormes that eates the teethe and destroyes them Proued for trueth THis following wyll destroy Ringwoormes Tetters and Scales in the hands Take whyte Coprose the quantity of two beanes put it into a pynt of cleare water tyll it be resolued or melted and with that water washe the place or handes tyll they be whole Proued STampe Pearceley in whyte Wine then streyne it well and drinke a good draught therof and it wyll cause thee to make water and breake the stone vse it fyue or syxe tymes This hath bene well proued THe wyse and learned men in olde tyme dyd think that a Tode put into a new earthen potte and set within the ground and so couered with earth in the myddes of a fyelde wyll dryue away Crowes or Byrds from Corne that t s sowne there But about Haruest tyme they wyll that it be dygged vp and to be cast forth of the lymmyts of the same fyelds least the Corne be bytter therby Plin. A Lytle peece of the Nauell string of a Chylde that is newly borne enclosed in a Ryng and so borne that it maye touch the flesh or bare skynne is a most sure helpe and remedy against the great paynes and tormentes of the collycke Mizaldus THey whose heaire of the eye browes doo touch or meete together of all other are the woorst They doo shewe that he or she is a wicked personne and an intyser of seruauntes and geuen to vnlawfull and naughty artes which Iohannes Indagnies sayth hee hath obserued in olde Women being Wytches which were ledde to be burned whose eye browes were such As Thaddeus Hageccius hath also noted SAturne in the nynth house doth sygnifye feares in iourneyes but more in the Sea chiefly in a waterye sygne and in Cancer the house of the Moone Taisnier FINIS Lib. 6. ⧠The seuenth Booke of Notable thinges THe water wherein the leaues of Planten that growes close to the grounde and neare the roote is sodde being droonke twyse euery day morning and euening fyrst last halfe a pynt at a tyme for the space of fowre or fiue dayes helpes perfectly all griefes and diseases of the bladder A true medicine and often proued A Notable water for breaking of the stone Take of the iuyce of Saxifrage two pound of the iuyce of Gromell and of the iuyce of Pearslye of eyther one pounde of the iuyce of Bettony of the iuyce of Nettelles and of the iuyce of Ramsens of each halfe a pound of strong whyte Uinegar ten ounces of the flowres and seedes of Broome and of the rootes of Radish of each two handfulles stampe the last rehearsed well then myxe the same with all the iuyces before mencioned and therof destyll a water with a gentle fyre of which water geue to them that haue the stone one ounce at one tyme with Oxinell Diuretycke which you may haue at the Apothecaries vsing the same nyne or ten dayes if neede be and it wyll breake auoyde the stone wonderfully There can not be a better medicine for the stone proue it when you wyll IN the Ilandes of Irelande and Orcades in certayne places there there be certaine Trees there much lyke vnto Wyllowe trees out of which coms forth certayne lytle heayres encreasing by lytle and lytle into Byrdes hauing shape of Duckes hanging vpon the bowes by theyr nebs or bylles and when they are comd to full perfectnesse they flye away of themselues and falles into the next Seas which Byrds we call Barnacles This is related by the people that dwell there Mizaldus YF one be bewytched of any put quycksyluer into a quyll and stoppe it or els into a hollowe Nut shel enclosed fast with waxe and laye the same vnder the pyllowe of the partye bewytched or vnder the threshold of the doore where he enters into the house or Chamber Iohannes Weckerus HE that shall delyuer a summe of Money in the howre of the Moone he shall haue much a doo to get it againe And at last he shall mystrust of the recouering therof but at the length he shall recouer it but not all Abablez filius Zaed BEttony stampt and made in a plaster and layde to the eye healeth a strype in the eye And if the eyes be washed wyth the water wherein Bettony is sodden they wyll be hole without dymnesse or other blemysh And if you drynke a dramme of the powder of Betony with the water of Betony it wyll brynge downe and heale the clowdynesse and blouddynesse of the eyes And if Betony be eaten it dryeth vp the teares of the eyes All this and more hath bene proued of Betony MArke on what day any doth fall sycke and number the dayes from the syxt Calendes of Iuly which is the .xxvi. day of Iune vntyll the day when the party dyd fyrst beginne to be sycke and deuyde that whole number by three and then if at the last one remayne he wyll quickly escape if two remayne he wyll be long sicke if one remayne then it is to be feared he wyll dye of that sycknes This I had out of a booke of Secretes A Maruelous cure of a Woman that was swolne done by one Iohn Ardern whose wordes thereof were these I Iohn Ardern dyd see a certaine Woman at Newarke whose whole body was suddenlye
laide to stiepe in Honny three dayes and then cast it among the chaffe and then a great sort of Pygiōs wyll resort to that Doouehouse LYn seede put into the rootes of Radyshe and by and by put into fatte or dunged earth it wyl bring forth an hearbe lyke Dragons whose taste wyll seeme lyke vynegar and Salt therefore it is maruelously desyred in Sawses for hauing this you neede neither vynegar nor Salt as one that is chiefe of the Kings gardens tolde me sayth Mizaldus FOxes being sodde and cutte in peeces and then geuen to Hens or Geese amongst theyr meate it makes them safe from being hurt of any Foxes after for the space of two monthes Mizaldus THe seedes of Docks tyde to the left arme of a Woman doth helpe barrennes or sterilyty Africanus THe Moone and the Ascendent are generally Signifyers of the hole shyppe of the state therof and the Lorde of the Ascendent is the Sygnifyer of them that sayles in the same wherof if all they be Infortunate the Shyp is broken and they that sayled in her are drownde vnlesse some one of them be receyued that is of the sayd Sygnifyers and then the Impedyment wyll chaunce in the drowning and some clymers of the Shyppe wyll escape but if all they be Fortunate all shall escape and be saued that is both Shyp and men chiefly if there be any reception Furthermore if the Ascendent the Moone be both fortunate the Lord of the Ascendent Infortunate the Shyp is safe the Saylers in her are destroyed but if the Ascendent the Moone be Infortunate and the Lord of the Ascendent fortunate the shyp is ouerwhelmed or lost the saylers in her are safe Haly Aben. GOates dung mingled with Uynegar bran and applyed as a plaster to a sore breast looseth wonderfully all swellings of the breast It hath bene proued BEttony stampt and applyed to any wounde of the heade doth not onely draw out the broken bones but also doth heale the same with speede A Speciall medicine to strengthen the back Take a quart of whyte Wine and the pythe that runneth in an Oxe backe and halfe a quarter of a pounde of Dates and of Marygooldes Planten Bettony Pearsley rootes and Fennel rootes of all two handfulles boyle all these together vntyll the Wyne bee halfe wasted away and then streyne them through a cloath and drynke nyne or tenne spoonefull thereof euerye morning and euenyng for the space of nyne or tenne dayes and it wyll strengthen the backe maruelouslye FYue leaued grasse sod in water which water if it be droonke and gulpt vp downe into the throte is an excellent helpe for sore throtes THey are diuellysh or possest with Diuels in whose Natiuityes Saturne is Lorde of the place of the Moone and the Moone then vnder the beames of the Sunne or if Mars be Lorde of the place of the Moone opposyte to the Sunne especially in Sagitary Haly Abenragel TO keepe Beastes safe that the blynde mowse called a Shrew do not byte them Enclose the same Mowse quicke in chalke which when it is hard hang the same about the necke of the Beast that you woulde keepe safe from such byting And it is most certayne that he shall not be toucht nor bytten as is before sayde Vegetius I Heare sayth Mizaldus that it is obserued proued that a Cowe an Ewe a she Asse a Bitche a she Catte and such other domesticall and tame Beastes of the Female kinde wyll cast theyr Calfe Lambe Colte or that that they go withall if the Male by whome they conceaued be kylled whyle they went with the same Such a strong and vehement concord or agreement of nature is betweene or among them IF the nynth house begynne in a fyxed sygne or if Saturne be founde in the same except it be Aries they that be then borne shall for the most parte see true Dreames but if in a moueable sygne his Dreames wyll be without effect c. Taisnier A Notable oyntment for the head ache comming of any cause wherwith you must annoynt the pulses of the temples and all the forehead Take of the iuyce of new or fresh Camamyle fowre ounces of the iuyce of new and fresh Roses two ounces of the iuyces of fresh Rew and Bettony of eyther one ounce and a halfe of the iuyce of the rootes of Hollyock two ounces of oyle Rosate Omphacine one pound and a halfe of the best and purest Alablaster three ounces powder the Alablaster finely and put it into the sayd oyle and let it lye therein a daye and a nyght then myxe them all together and with sufficient whyte waxe make it into an oyntment which oyntment is good for any payne of the head proceeding of any matter or cause And it may be vsed at any tyme of the fytte or payne except the begynning Emperica benedicti victorij fauenti AN excellent distilled water for hearing foloweth Take of the iuyce of Bettony of the iuyce of Onions of eyther of them syxe ounces of the leaues of Rosemary stamped one handfull of the oyle of bitter Almondes three ounces and one whyte grosse Eele chopt and cutte in small peeces myxe them all together and destyll them and the lycquor which cōmeth therof keepe in a cleane glasse droppe two or three droppes therof into your eare fowre or fyue nyghts together and it wyll helpe and amende the deaffnes IT is much to be marueled at that the lytle Byrde called a Wren being fastned to a lytle stycke of Hasell newly gathered doth turne about and rost him selfe Cardanus and Mizaldus THou mayst make fayre Pictures Uesselles and many other fyne thinges with small coast and expences as followeth Seethe the barke of the Elme tree and the toppes of the Populer tree and whyles they are very hotte put thereto most pure and fyme Lyme vntyll all the same be lyke cruddes of milke Afterwards put therto the whytest marble that is well and fynely beaten into powder and searced and then cast the same in what fourme you wyll then drie them in the shadow Hieronimus Gardanus HErmes doth saye that an euyll Planet in Gancer doth threaten short lyfe and continual sycknes to the mother of the chylde then borne BRymstone stampt with Wyne and plastered ouer the Dugs or Paps of Women breakes the hardnes of them Isac WAter Myntes stamped and layde to the myds of the browe and to the nape of the necke of one that is madde wyll much helpe and relieue him But fyrst tyckle him on the browe and it wyll dyspose him to sleepe and then apply it to him as is beforesayde But if he be farre gone that it wyll not helpe him then take a Tenche and cleaue the Tenche in the myddes and so warme lay the one part to his brow and the other to the nape of his necke and without doubt it wyll helpe him if euer he shall haue helpe This I tooke out of an excellent written booke FOr burning with syre Take oyle
dyssolued in the water of hearb Iue as much as doth suffice And thereof make a Lectuary according to art and know that it is maruelous Emperica benedicti victorij fauentini TO helpe swolne legges Take Mallowes seethe them in water then stampe them well strayne them then put therto Barrowes grease frye them together vntyl it he something thyck lyke an oyntment lay some therof vpon a cloath and make a plaster and apply it to the sore swolne legge and lay a new plaster therto twyse euery day morning and euening three or fowre dayes together and by that tyme it wyll be asswaged and as small as the other This was tolde mee by a Woman that had tryed it many tymes ONe neuer hath the gowte vntyll he hath knowne a woman carnally Hippocrates ALexandrinus Iouianus Pontanus doth say that he saw a man was grieuously stung or stricken of a Scorpion which presently was deliuered helped therof with drynking of Frankensence wherein was sealed the sygne of Scorpij or of a Scorpion being after made in powder But it must be grauen in the stone of a Ryng Scorpio ascending the Moone then being there and plaste in the Angle and the Frankensence must be sealed with that seale when the Moone is in Scorpio and founde in an Angle And let it be geuen in powder as is before sayde eyther in water or in whyte wyne or in any other meete lycquor HEre ensueth the making of a myraculous Oyle called oyle Incombustyble Take of whyte Sope the best that maye be gotten and after you haue beaten it well and fyne put it into a great Retorte on which powre so much weyght of Aqua vite seuen tymes distylled ouer then set the Retorte into ashes fyxing a large receyuer to it and very well luted in the ioyntes this done make vnder it a soft fyre in the begynning and encrease the fyre by lytle and lytle vntyll all be yssued forth that wyll come Which together wyll be an Oyle and Water then drawe away the receyuer and seperate the Water from the Oyle which oyle is Incombustle and myraculous in sūdrie matters in the worke of Alkemy for this greatly avayleth in fyxing the medicine Uolatyle and serueth well to incorporate with all mettalles and ceasneth such as be crude and lykewise sweetneth when they beegar This also dissolueth all paynes swellings caused of grosse and clammy humors and healeth in a manner all sortes of wicked Ulcers And in this sayth the Author I conceyued a great delight as to worke such a maistrie to see so many straunge fumes and varyeties but a more pleasure I tooke in the practyse as to see how the same auayled in euery matter wherto it was applyed By which I proue this to be a diuine substaunce and an oyle worthy of eternal memory And this was the greatest secrete with which that syngular Matheus the Hungaryan dyd so many great maruels in Padua for he heald with it the gowte the quarten ague the payne of the French disease and the drye scab on the head with sundry other griefes for which whyle he remained in Padua he was highly esteemed and wondred at And at the last in his departure from Padua he reuealed it to mee that the onely medicine which he vsed to all the griefes was this oyle and none other The making of which he fully vttered vnto mee at his departing which before he would not teach to any man And the same I haue many tymes made haue also seene such straunge practises of it that to repeate them I should scantly be beleeued Hec de secretis Fallopij TO put a Shedule or lytle wryting into an Egge lay an Egge certaine dayes in strong vynegar vntyl it be soft and wryte your name or what you lyst in a lytle peece of paper and folde the paper as harde together as you can then with a Raser cut the sayd Egge in the toppe fynely and aduisedly through the which put the litle paper into the Egge cyrcumspectly and then put the Egge into cold water and immediatly the shell wyl be hard as it was before A proper secrete THe quieter Beasts haue the lesser galles the fearefuller the greater hartes the lyghter or more leaping the more Lyuer the meryar or more pleasant the greater Splene and the greater voyce the more Lyghts Much like to these verses folowing Cor ardet Pulmo loquitur Fel commouet Iras Splen ridere facit cogit amare Iecur That is The Hart doth burne the Lungs do speake the Gall to yre doth mooue The Splene or Mylt doth make vs laugh the Lyuer makes vs looue Mizaldus CAuda Draconis in the seconde house called the house of Substaunce sygnifyes the chylde then borne shall wastfully consume and spend his goodes or sygnifyes the losse therof And that he shall come to pouerty and open mysery Haly Abenragel A Grymony is of woonderfull profyte in medicines especially against hollow woundes vlcers Petr. Hispanus And Trotula saith that though the Fystula that penetrates to the eyes is incurable yet some do wytnes that such a Fystula may be cured by Agremony alone by often vsing it eyther in drynke or in powder Filipendula is good for the same and the graines o◠lytle round things that are found in the ende of the roote Gordonius alleadgeth Egremony to be the best and surest medicine for the curing of a Fystula FOr the webbe or spotte in the eye Take the great bone of the Goose wing the elder the better for though it be a yeare old it is not the woorse breake it take out the marrowe that is within it then put some of it vpon the webbe or in the spotte and it wyl breake it and saue the syght Proued THe vertues of Tormentyl This hearbe cōforteth the sight cleanseth the body of dyuers maladies the powder therof is good to clarify the syght of the eyes though one be blinde And this hearbe is drest on this manner Take the hearbe with the roote seethe i◠with whyte Wine tyl the thyrd part be sodden away and geue him that is blynde to drinke of this lycquor nine dayes in the morning colde and at night bloud warme and within that tyme he wyll recouer his syght by Gods grace But if the syght of the eye be hurte take also the hearbe and stampe it and seeth it in whyte Wyne with a lytle water put into the Wyne then laye or spreade the hearbes on a lynnen cloath bynde it vpon his eye or eyes and it brings a woonderful helpe If thou stampe this hearbe with the roote a good quantitie and put it into a lytle vessell full of Wyne and let it remaine therin three monthes Whosoeuer drinkes often of this Wyne though he hath bene blynd nyne yeares he wyll recouer his sight againe This I had out of an old written booke which doth much agree with Petrus Hispanus in this case whose minde thereof I haue mencioned in another
or forwarde in the howre of Saturne I sayde to one of my fellowes which vnderstoode some thing in this Science all these men are geuen to be lost and within a while after they all perished Thus much sayth Haly. And in beginning of long iourneys as well by Lande as by Sea in this howre I haue knowne much harme and mischiefe to follow Which although many doo not nor wyl beleeue to be true because they know neither this excelleÌ„t Science neither the proofe of these things yet many that be wise and learned and that haue payed full dearely for the prouing thereof doth thinke this no lye But if some of them dyd know the same howre and should practise some such lyke thing therein the euent thereof would teach them I thinke not to be so incredulous I know I thanke God therfore that no harme shall happen to the chyldren of God for he wyll so guyde them that neither man nor deuil nor any other thing can destroye them though in this world they maye seeme to hurt them And as he doth preserue them from harme euen so he appoynts them theyr tymes to walke in the very beginning of theyr iourneyes Assured and am fully satisâ—yed that he by his diuine prouidence makes them auoyde that howre other euyll tymes and the wicked and vngodly haue hapned of that tyme to theyr destruction Therefore for my part I attribute nothing to the tyme but all honour to God that made the tyme whose glory and power is to be extolde that foreshewes such things to man by such howres or tyme. BLack Sheepes wooll myxt and chafed by the fyre with freshe butter and the deaffe eare stopt therewith at night and thus vsed nyne or ten nyghts together it helpeth deafnes perfectly and speedely A proued thing HEre followeth a notable and excellent Aqua vite Take Galengale Cucubarum Ginger Nutmugs Cloues Cynamom of euery one an ounce fresh sage fowre ounces water that is distilled sixe times out of pure good Wine ten ounces put them all together and let them remayne so in a close cleane vessell three dayes then distyll the same keepe that that is distylled in a cleane close vessell Whosoeuer drinkes a nutte shell ful of this water euery day it wyl preserue theyr bodyes maruelously and keepe them from many diseases and bring them to olde age It is sayde that M. Gallus Phisition to Charles the Emprour vsed this water and liued a hundreth and fowre and twenty yeares Georg. Alapide deuised this water IF you desyre to haue sweete water forthwith or by and by put two or three drops of oyle of Spyke in a good deale of pure water and chafe it together in a glasse with a narrow mouth Euonymus AN excellent oyle for colde aches Take the wood of Iuie dryed cutte the wood in lytle peeces and of the berryes and gum of Iuye of each a lyke weyght let them be put in an earthen vessell boored through in the bottome in two or three places and then let an other pot be set vnder it in the earth and ioygne the bottome of the vpper potte vnto the mouth of the nether with claye or paste the vpper potte must stand wholly aboue the ground then make a fyre on euery syde and the oyle wyll distyll blacke into the nether vessell This oyle before all oyles healeth the griefes of the ioyntes of a colde cause This is proued to be a notable oyle in this case Rogerius seemes to be the Author hereof As appeares in Euonymus IF you put out the whyte of a Hens egge and fyll vp the same egge with the iuyce of Flowre deluce and myxe the yolke and it well together then warming it a lytle in the hotte ashes and so geue it in the morning to them that haue the dropsie it wyll auoyde downward the dropsie water aboue measure This is proued to be true Much lyke vnto this Benedictus victorius Fauentinus wrytes for the same cause but he appoynts the iuyce to be geuen with Mellicrate A Proper practyse to make a Capon to bring vp young Chickens Take a Capon and pull his belly bare of fethers after rubbe the naked place with Nettels then setting young Chyckens vnder him he wyl maruelously cherish them then and bring them kyndly vp And the rather if you vse him thus for a time for by that meanes he is moued the more wyllingly to cherysh bring vp and feede yea to loue them as the Hen would do naturally And the reasoÌ„ therof is for that by the pricking of the nettels he is the rather desyrous to coutch on the softe downe fethers of the young Chickins sytting vnder him This I had out of the natural and Artificial coÌ„clusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated into English by Th. Hyl. ONe Aeschilus was foretolde by an Astronomer that he should be kylled by some ruyne or something that should fal vpon him vpoÌ„ a certaine day or tyme who to preueÌ„t the same did walk abroade a certain space about the warned time would by no meanes come into any house thinking therby to auoyde that daunger vnles the heauens should chauÌ„ce to fal but marke how hard it is to auoyde Fate or Gods determined appointment about the same tyme foretold by the Astronomer an Eagle dyd flye ouer his head froÌ„ whome a stone dyd fal vpon Aeschilus head kylled him Wherby we may not onely see the mans wisdome and pollicy is not able to frustrate Gods prouidence but also that there is a maruelous certenty in the Astrological foreshewing of euents especially by directions which Ciprianus Leouitius seemes to affirme by this other notable examples And sure I am by many proofes tryals that the euents wyl assuredly happen at the time promised by dyrections that is when the Signifyer coms to the very place minute of the Promissor accouÌ„pting for euery degree betweene theÌ„ one yeere euery minute about six daies if the Signifyer be to be dyrected by the dyrect Ascencions but if the Signifier be to be directed by the obliquâ— AsceÌ„cions or els Intermixtim which is not very easily or soone done then they sygnify sometimes more sometymes lesse according to their swift or slow asceÌ„ding Which dyrectioÌ„s to be infallible the learned expert herein cannot chuse but affirme For that they are found as perfect by proofe as true by tryal as the breake of the day doth assure vs of the rysing of the Sunne IN Lamberge a Towne of Schlesia as IohaÌ„nes Langius wrytes a certaine Woman great with chylde did folow a Priest that had newly washed or bathed his feete who being taken with such a loÌ„ging or lust with the sudden sight of his bare feete that she priuely behynde his backe dyd holde his legge with her hands and out of the same pluckt a peece of flesh with her teethe Nothing regarding the crye of the poore Priest which cryed out both of God and man. IF
For a colde Lyuer take a spoonefull of the whyte water with an ounce of the water of Sage For the breast and the cough of a cold Rewme take it with the water of Isope Louathe or Fennell For the harte with the water of Buglosse Burrage or Balme For the stomacke with the water of Woormwood For the Lyghts with the water of mayden heair or Polypode For the Splen with the water of Hartstongue For the Vertigo a gyddynes of the head or the Apoplexie with the water of Pyony of Fennell or of S. Iohns Woort For the Stone with the water of Radysh or winter Cherries For the retayning or holding of the water with the water of Cresses some Pearsley or Saxifrage For the eyes with the water of Fennell or Eybright For the retayning or withholding of Menstrues with the water of Mugwoort or with water of Radysh For the too much fluxe of the Menstrues with the water of Planteyn or of Nightshade For the Matrix hurt by the mydwyle or of any colde cause whereby she doth conceyue no more let it be vsed with the water of Ualeryan or Bettony Against the spottes of the face take of the water of Pympernell fowre partes of this whyte or fyrst water one parte myxe them together and annoynt the face morning and euening and drynke it twyse or thryse in the weeke with Endyue water It cures the Cankar being annoynted therewith and the Fystula if a droppe thereof many tymes put into it It helpes a colde gowte if it be annoynted therwith For the payne of the Matryx let this water be taken with the water of Mugwoort Also it is good against the quarten and quotidian Feuers The Cytryne oyle hath many vertues as the oyle of Balme if any griefe be annoynted therwith The blacke Oyle is of great vertue in the gowte if it be annoynted therwith as the moother of Balme being whyte called the golden Water Gratarolus HEre followeth an excellent medycine that wyll heale olde rotten incurable Ulcers very quickly Take of Turpentyne three tymes washt fyrst in fayre spring or well water after in Rose or Planteyn water three ounces the yolke of an Eg Oyle of Roses an ounce a halfe Mercury sublymate made in powder halfe a dram let them all be myxed well together and make therof an oyntment washe the Ulcers or sores with whyte Wine then spreade some of that oyntment or salue vpon flaxe apply it to the sore and dresse it with new salue twise euery day but before euery dressing annoynt with this following three or fowre fyngers bredth about the sore Take of the oyle of Roses two ounces of Uineger halfe an ounce of the powder of bole Armoniack a lytle myxe them together and annoynt it as is before sayd And when all the rottē or putrified flesh is eaten out then annoynt the Ulcer with butter and you shall see a woonderfull effect Proued FOr the burning or great intollerable heat of the vryne Take of the seedes of Purslane of the seedes of Lettys of the seedes of Endiue of the seedes of white Poppy two ounces of euery of them of the seedes of Hēbane half a dram Sebasten two ounces Saffern one drā Licqueres fiue drams Pineaple kernels ten drams foūtaine or spring water six pound myx them all together let them be sod vntyll the consuming of the thyrde part of the water then let it be strayned Wherof take one ounce in the morning mixed with one ounce of Inle◠of Uyolets and the fowrth day the effect worthy of maruell wyl appeare This is proued A Notable an excellēt Balme Take of Turpētine one pound a half Galbanum two ounces Aloes cicotrin Mastick Cloues Galangale Cynamō Nutmugs Cubebs of euery one of them an ounce gum of Iuy halfe an ounce when all is well beaten myxe them together and distyl them in glasse with a slowe fyre fyrst and receyue the fyrst water by it selfe seuerally then encrease the fyre a water more reddyshe wyll come then encrease the fyre more and an oyle wyl come of a redde cullour receiue that as long as any wyll come you must chaunge the receyuer thryse This oyle hath all the vertues of true Balme for it burneth in the water and curddeth mylke by by for if one droppe of it warme be put into a pynt of mylke it wyll forthwith become curdded The fyrst lycquor is called the water of Balme the seconde oyle of Balme the thyrde Balme artificiall The fyrst is profytable against the running of the eares if two drops morning and euening be put into them dropt into the eyes it amendeth the blearednes and consumeth the teares it doth maruelously restrayne superfluous humors in any parte of the body it taketh away the tooth ache if they be washt therewith and kylleth the woormes if there be any in them The thyrd lycquor wyl suffer no venom it is an vtter enemy and destruction to Spiders and Serpents Two or three drops thereof layde vpon any venemous byting doth make it whole strayght If thou drawe a cyrcle with this lycquor and shut a venemous Beast therin it wyl dye there rather then go out of it To be short it doth all the same things that Treacle doth but all things more effectually being powred or put vpon any Impostume within nyne dayes it healeth them and lykewise a Fistula be it neuer so euyll and also Noli me tangere All diseases bred of fleame and of colde humors it healeth if a lynnen cloath dypped in it be layde vpon the place where the griefe is It putteth away vtterly the Palsey and all trembling of members it strengthneth maruelously the Sinewes it is hotter then the fyrst or the seconde If a man put a drop of it in his hande it pierceth straight without griefe To conclude it doth many other things and all diseases rysen of a colde cause it healeth if they vse it ryght Lullius in his booke of waters But this is taken out of Euonymus IF you take the gall of an Oxe mans vrine Ueriuyce and the iuyce of Nettelles of each a lyke quantity and myxe them very dillygently together and after quenche steele red hotte therin fowre or fyue tymes together the same steele wyll after become as soft as paste This is affyrmed by the Schollers of Padua in theyr natural and Artificial conclusions c. A Most present remedy for them that are infect with the plague for Carbuncles pestelenticall Puslles holy Fyre and other of that kinde Take the ripe berryes of Iuy being dryed in the shaddow then stampe them and make them in powder of which powder take half a dram in two or three ounces of the water of Planteyn and remayne styl in the bed vntyl you haue sweat very well and after you haue sweat put on a cleane shert wel ayred at the fyre and if you may conueniently let the sheetes and the cloathes of the bed be shyfted There hath bene some healed with this
dead being layde in warme Ashes but they must not be burning or verye hotte the same Flye wyll recouer and lyue againe This is very true IF you do gather Roses when they be fully ripe and immediatly cut away the new springes tops and the vppermost branches of that yeere you shall haue new fresh Roses grow againe out of the same the same yeere about Mighelmas I know this to be true and for trueth I haue published it abroade THe Indians do vse the Tabaco a notable hearbe for to suffer the dreyth also for to suffer hungar and to passe dayes without hauing neede eyther to eate or drinke by any desart or dyspeopled countrey where they shal find neyther water nor meate They do vse of these litle balles which they do make of this Tabaco they take the leaues of it and do chew it and as they go chewing of them they myngle with them certaine powder made of the shelles of Cockles burned and they myngle it in their mouth all together vntyll they make it lyke to dowe of the which they make certaine lytle balles lytle greater then Peason and they put them to drye in the shadowe and after they keepe them vse them for the auoyding of hunger thyrst in theyr trauell without any meate and drinke for the space of three or fowre dayes This Doctor Monardus hath wrytten with many other woonders and notable vertues therof in his booke before mencioned intituled Ioyfull Newes out of the new found Worlde This Tabaco is a maruelous woonderfull hearbe growing in the west Indyas called the new Spaine and through the brynging of the seedes therof from thence it growes nowe both in Spayne and Fraunce WOormes and other venemous Beasts are dryueÌ„ away from any place with the smoake or fume of other Beasts of the same kinde as Rasis wrytes QUick syluer kylled burned Leade the scales of Yron or black Hellebor mixed with some pleasaunt meate that Mice loues if any Mice eate therof it wyll kyll them Mizaldus THere is a certaine Goom is brought from the firme â—â—nde of the Peru which helpes the gowte with purging the cause therof if you put of it as much as a Nut in distylled water which water ought to be the quantity of two ounces and geue the same to the patient the same partye forbearing meate vntyll the myddest of the day This Monardus affyrmes to be proued manifesting the same at large in his sayde booke called the Ioyfull Newes out of the new fouÌ„d World. The name of the Goom he names not THe rootes of Roses or their slips with their knots remoued and set amongst broome wyl bring forth yallow Roses Iohan. Bap. Por. THat Cheese that is made with cheslep or rennet wherein a lytle of the brayne of a Wesell is put or myxt wyll not putrifye neyther be eaten of Myce. Pictorius THere is a certaine Tree growing in Peru a boowe wherof if one doth hold fast in his left hand a good whyle that would knowe whether one that is sycke shall lyue or dye of that disease or at that tyme if the sycke shall lyue and escape the party that holdes the same shall shewe much gladnes If the sycke shall dye then the party that holdes the same shall be verye sad Monardus wrytes of this Tree in his sayd booke and shewes that the same was proued true by a Gentlewoman that was maruelous sad whiles shee dyd holde the same whose husbande dyed soone after accordingly A Rare and straunge kynde of fruite as great as a Nutte with maruelous rounde and harde bâ—â—cke stones in them is brought out of the new Spaine by the report of the sayde worthy Doctor Monardus whereof two or three with hotte water doth more effect for to wash and to make cleane cloathes then one pound of Sope doth wherof as well as of many other straunge and most excellent thinges you maye reade discrybed at large in his sayde booke called the Ioyfull Newes out of the new founde Worlde A Booke no doubte worthy of great estymation and commendation IF a handfull of Fygs be stampt tyll the kernelles be broken then tempered with a lytle fresh grease and so a plaster therof layde to a Womans breast that is sore as hotte as she may suffer the same it wyll take away the swelling and paine therof and if it be ready to breake it wyll breake it or else not This is an excellent and a sure tryed thing TAke two ounces of Sulphur vyue called quycke Brimstone beate it in powder and mixe the same well with as much of blacke Sope that is of the most stinking smel and tye the same in a lynnen cloath and let it hang in a pynt of strong Wyne Uinegar for the space of nyne dayes and then vse to wash any kinde of skuruynes or morphew therwith though neuer so olde or rooted being eyther on the face or on any other parte of the body with a lynnen cloath dypt or wet therin and so let the same Uinegar drye in of it selfe and do thus as long as the sayd Uinegar lastes and therwith the deformity or morphew wyl be perfectly healed And whosoeuer vses to drynke the water of Strawberyes distylled it wyll certaynly kyll the roote of any morphew that is within the body All this is well proued AN excellent preseruatiue against the Plague which was proued and vsed in the great Plague in Englande in the yeare of our Lorde 1548. For euery one that vsed it then escaped Take Aloes Hepatick pure Cynamom Myrre of each three drammes Cloues Mace wood of Aloes called Lignum Aloes Mastick Bole Armoniacke of each halfe an ounce myxe them all together and make thereof a very fyne powder wherof take early in the morning with whyte Wine myxt with a lytle water and by the grace of God you shall be preserued safe from the Plague VVeckerus IF you burne the shelles of Snailes with Styracks and then sprinckle therof vpon an Antes hyll therby they wyll be driuen forth of the grounde or place where they are TAke of English Saffern beateÌ„ in fyne powder and as much of pure good blacke Sope which when they be well myngled together spreade it vpon the fleshie syde of a peece of Leather then laye it vppon the Nauell of them whose vryne or water is stopte and it wyll procure the water to come forth and therby they shall make water within one howre This was tolde mee for a true and tryed secrete whereof I dare make no warrantyze but fauour it as you fynde it MAke lute or claye with the dregges or moother of Oyle and myxe therewith a lytle chaffe then let it lye so two or three dayes then dawbe with the sayde thycke lute or claye your Garner or rowme where you wyll laye your Corne then sprynckle the dregges or moother of Oyle al ouer where you haue dawbed and when it is drye laye Wheate therein and there shal neyther Weuell nor Myce hurt touch or
thinges which are in all a thousand Wishing that they may be accepted as thankfully willingly as I haue bestowed them friendly and freely Being bould to affirme this much that a great deale of golde cannot counteruaile this Gyft if but some twenty of the sayd thousand be dilligently marked faythfullye followed and perfectlye practised And thus in fewe wordes I byd you farewell Thomas Lupton ⧠The first Booke of Notable thinges IN the first beginning hereof a rare straunge matter shal appeare worthy to be marked especially of such as loues or vse Sage A certaine man being in a Garden with his Louer dyd take as he was walking a few leaues of Sage who rubbing his teeth and gums therewith immediatly fell downe and dyed whervpon his said Louer being examined howe he dyed she sayde she knew nothing that he ayled but that he rubbed his teeth with Sage and she went with the Iudge and other into the same Garden place where the same thing hapned and then she tooke of the sayde Sage to shewe them how he dyd and lykewise rubbed her teeth and gums therwith and presently she dyed also to the great maruayle of all them that stoode by wherevpon the Iudge suspecting the cause of their deathes to be in the Sage caused the sayde bedde of Sage to be plucked and digged vp and to be burned least other might haue the lyke harme thereby And at the rootes or vnder the sayde Sage there was a great Tode founde which had infected the same Sage with his venemous breath Anthonius Myzaldus hath written of this maruelous matter This may be a warning to such as rashly vse to eate rawe vnwasht Sage Therfore it is good to plant Rew rounde about Sage for Todes by no meanes wyll come nye vnto Rew as it is thought of some A Certayne Poet by the report of Mizaldus dyd weare leaden Soles vnder his shoes least the winde shoulde ouerblow him his body was so light and so lytle IF any do myldlie or softlie beate the plant or stalkes of an herbe called Mullen some calles it Hedge taper in the morning when the flowers thereof beginnes to open all the flowers by lytle and lytle wyl â—all and come to one as though the plant were wythered or blasted which the ignorant haue thought to be done by Magicall artes or by some Inchauntment specially if he that doth stryke the same Mullen doth seeme to mumble some wordes whyles he doth it Mizaldus THe hooues of the forefeete of a Cowe dryed and made in fine powder encreaseth mylke in Nurses if they eate it in their Pottage or vse it in theyr drinke and being cast on burning coales the smoke thereof doth kyll Myse or at the least doth dryue them away This Mizaldus wrytes of the experyment of a certayne Spaniarde AQua vite being outwardly applyed doth helpe very well the Synewes and Muscles and all other parts of the body tormented or payned of a cold cause with his heating strength and swift penetration IF one vse to rubbe chapped or rough lyppes with the sweat behinde their eares it wyll make them fyne smothe and well culloured a thing proued WHen Infortunate Planets be in Angles and the Sunne or Moone applyes vnto them corporallye or by opposition it sygnifyes that the partie then borne wyll be eyther croackbackt or wyll halte or it sygnifyes the destruction or losse of some member especiallye if the Moone bee with the Dragons tayle in these sygnes Aries Taurus Cancer Scorpius or Capricornus or in the begynning or ende of the Sygne Iatromath Guat Ryff EArth woormes fryed with Goose greese then streynde and a lytle therof dropt warme into the deaffe or payned eare doeth helpe the same you must vse it halfe a dosen tymes at the least This is true ANthonius Beneuenius an excellent Phisytion doth glorie that he with the water wherein Smithes dyd quench their hote and burning yrons geuing the same often to drinke and with the eating of Cappares dyd perfectly heale a Citizen of Florence that had the griefe and swelling of the Splene seuen yeares ADdars tongue wrapt in Uirgin Waxe and put into the lefte eare of any Horse it makes the Horse to fall downe to the grounde as though hee were deade and when it is taken out of his eare it doeth not onely waken him or reyse him but also it makes him more lyuely or quicke Myzaldus wrytes this of the report of an Englysh man. IF a water Snake be tyed by the tayle with a cord hanged vp and a vessel full of water set vnder the sayd Snake after a certaine tyme he wyl auoyde out of his mouth a stone which stone being taken out of the vessell he drinkes vp all the water let this stone be tyed to the belly of them that haue the dropsie and the water wyll be exhausted or drunke vp and it fullie and wholie helpes the partie that hath the sayde Dropsie Iacobus Hollerius OFt thunder doth turne and chaunge Wines maruelouslie but if the Wines be then in Cellers being paued and the walles of stone they take lesse harme then in boorded Cellers therfore it is good before such tempest or thunder to lay a plate of yron with salt or flint stones vpon the sayde vessels with Wine Leuinius Lemnius by Mizaldus report THey wyll haue the palsey or be so that they cannot moue themselues or wyll be geuen to tremble in whose Natiuities the Moone is in an Angle with Saturne Saturne then being vnder the beames of the Sunne combust Lykewise if the syxt house and the Lorde thereof be infortunate of Saturne without the aspect of a good planet Iatromath Guat Ryff MAke powder of vnslackt Lyme and mixe it with black Sope and annoynt any Men therwith the Men wyl fall away and when the roote is come out annoynt it with oyle of Balme it wyl heale it perfectly IF you wyll make wood of the cullour of the wood Hebenus especially such as be harde as Boxe and Peare tree and such lyke do as followeth laye the wood you meane to cullour in Allam water so that it be couered with the layde water and let it rest so three dayes then laye the sayd wood against the hote Sunne or the fyre that it may onely waxe warme then seethe the same wood in common oyle wherin put asmuch of Uytryol Romaine and Brimstone as a Hasel nutte let it be dyssolued the longer you seeth it the blacker the wood wyll be so that you keepe a measure therin and it wyl be fayre elegant Mizaldus had this of an Italian a professor of many experimentes THe iuice of Mullen leaues of som called Hedgetaper of some Lungwoort put to any part that is brused or that hath had a strooke and the staÌ„ped leaues thereof then put vpon the same and tyed fast on with a cloath if you let it lye so a whole daye and night vnremoued it wyll heale it finely yea though it be a wounde but the
to the Ascendent the seconde quarter of his lyfe to the tenth house the thirde quarter to the seuenth house and the fowrth parte of his lyfe to the fowrth house And marke in which of them there is fortunate Planets and the parte Fortune and the Moone free froÌ„ Infortunate Planets and not combust Iudge that that part of the lyfe is or wyll be most fortunate Haly Abenragel IF you woulde not haue heairs to growe plucke them first vp by the rootes then vse to rub the same place with Aqua fortis dyuers times a lytle at once and it wyll staye the heair from growing there any more A woman tolde me this for a great secrete MAke a plaster of potters clay mixt with vineger the whyte of an egge and apply it to the cods of him that bleedes at the nose and streight way his bleeding wyll stay or ceasse This is a sure proued medicine and an excellent secrete GEue to a woman that suspects her selfe to be with chylde at nyght when she goes to bed a cloue of Garlyke to eate and if she feele any sauor thereof in the morning when she ryseth then shee is not with chylde If she feele no sauor thereof then she is with chylde This I had out of an olde written booke THey wyll haue weake or feeble hartes or wyll be much geuen to sounding In whose Natiuitie the Sunne is Lorde of the sixt house or Lord of the part of infyrmitie being impedite or Infortunate Iatromath Guat Ryff AN excellent approued thing to make them slender that are grosse Let them eate three or fowre cloues of Garlyke with asmuch of bread and butter euery morning and euening first and last neyther eating nor drinking of three or fowre howers after their taking of it in the morning for the space of fouretene dayes at the least and drinke euery daye three good draftes of the decoction of Fennel that is of the water wherein Fennell is sodde and well streyned fowretene daies after at the least at morning noone and night I knewe a man that was maruelous grosse and could not go a quarter of a myle but was enforst to rest him a doosen tymes at the least that with this medicine tooke away his grosnes and after coulde iourney very well on foote FINIS Lib. 2. ⧠The thirde Booke of Notable things FYue Egs layde in the euening in strong and tarte Uineger and taken out of the same the next morning so that you perceyue theyr shels therwith to be somthing sost else let them lye longer therin and then put or thrust them downe into the throate of a Horsse that hath the coughe hys tongue being holden all that whyle out of hys mouth wyll helpe him perfectlie of the same THe Turtle Dooue hath such a loue one to another being makes that when one of them is dead the other wyll neuer after haue any other make Aristot. IF one aske the Astrologian which part of the lande or countrey is best for him Or if one would go out of the place he dwelles in to dwell in another and doth aske into what quarter or parte were best for him to go Marke in what part of the Heauens the good Planettes bee from his Ascendent and iudge that that part where they are found is best for him but consider that from the degree ascending to the beginning of the tenth house is for the East part and from the Cuspe of the tenth house to the beginning of the seuenth house is for the South part and from the Cuspe of the seuenth house to the beginning of the fowrth house is for the West part and from the Cuspe or begynning of the fowrth house to the Cuspe of the Ascendent is for the North parte Haly Abenragel And as these quarters and partes are good to remoue vnto where the good Planets are placed euen so those quarters where euyll Planets are placed are euyll to dwell in A Certayne woman a Florentine was so pulled and gryped in her stomacke with such torments that no Phisitions coulde helpe which woman of a suddaine dyd vomytte long and croked nayles needles of brasse with waxe and lumpes of heair and at last shee auoyded out of her mouth a great fleshie peece such a one as a Gyaunt coulde not swalowe The Author hereof is Beniuenius de admirandis morborum causis But hee sayth that the sayde woman was possest of a wicked spyrite Mizaldus Which I beleeue was done by the deuyl PLynie reportes that men in auncient tyme dyd fasten vpon the gates of their Townes the heads of Woolues thereby to put away Wytcherie Sorcery or Enchauntment Which many hunters obserues or do at this daye but to what vse they know not A Mowle or a Woont enclosed in an earthen pot If you set then the powder of Brymstone on fyre she wyll call other Mowles or Woonts to helpe her with a verie mourning voyce Mizaldus IF you take an Oake Aple from an Oake tree and open the same you shall finde a lytle woorme therin which if it doth flye away it sygnifies warres if it creepe it betokens scarcenes of Corne if it run about then it foreshewes the plague This is the countrymans Astrologie which they haue long obserued for trueth Mizaldus IF a man be sicke marke his eyes when he sleepeth for if any whyte thing appeare betwixte the eye lyddes and the patient haue no great laxe nor receiued any purgation before it is a terrible and deadly sygne Aphor. Hippocr WHosoeuer is troubled with the coughe or shortnesse of breath let them drinke a good drafte something warmed of this folowing thryse euerie daye fyrst and last and one howre after dynner for the space of seuen or eyght dayes and it wyll helpe them God wylling for it is an excellent and often proued thing Take of the rootes of Enulacampana cut in small peeces of Hysop and Peniryall and also of good scraped Lyqueris of each two handfull Seethe them all in a gallon of pure and fayre water vntyll the water come to one pottell then streyne it well and keepe it in a cleane vessell close stopte or couered and vse it as is before sayde SOpe myxt with a lytle salt healeth perfectly a Fellon Uncome or other sore or swolne fynger with speede I knowe that this hath bene well proued THe whyte of an egge wall beâ—ten and mixed with the powder of Masticke helpes chapt handes if they be annoynted therewith MOwseare any manner of way ministred to Horses bringes this helpe vnto them that they cannot be hurt whyles the Smith is shooing of them Therefore it is called of many Herba clauorum the herbe of nayles Mizaldus IF a Fyrre tree be touched wythered or burned with lyghtning it sygnifies that the maister or mistresse therof shall shortly dye Seruius GAlen sayeth that he hath founde by experiences folowing the opinions of many when any shall fall sicke and the Moone then be in the sygne wherin a good Starre or planet was
founde in the tyme of his byrth without doubte he shall escape from such sycknesse If in the place of an euyll Starre or Planet he wyll not escape Iohannes Taysnier SEethe the leaues of an Oake and the mydle rinde therof in water and wash the head that is sore or full of Pustules therewith and it wyll helpe it presently This hath bene often and well proued GAniuetus sayth that in the yeare of our Lord. 1418 the .xxiiii. daye of August before fowre a clocke at after noone in the howre of Saturne A certaine priest called Iohannes Morterius â–ª dyd aske him for a certaine brother of his which was sicke what shoulde be the ende of his disease death or health Who after he had erected the celestiall fygâ—re therefore espying Mars within one degree of the Ascendent in a moueable sygne beholding also the parte fortune of a quartyle aspect with dyuers other testymonies and euyll sygnes And also Mercurie being the Lorde of the house of the Moone in the eyght house both Retrograde and Combust Iudgde that the party woulde be madde and so dye within a daye after which the messenger dyd declare vnto his friendes and to the Maister of him that was sycke being his brother Which happened so For about fowre of the clock the next morning he was so franticke that he had lyke to haue kylled his Maister and others But they were preserued through Gods speciall gyfte And after being close in a chamber dyd breake a post and so cast him selfe headlong downe and dyed THe roote of Pelleter of Spaine chewed betwene the teeth a good whyle wyll purge the heade and gummes verie well and fasten the teeth So that it wyll helpe the head ache and toothe ache if it be vsed fowre or fiue times in a day two or three dayes together It is very true and often proued MAke that that is shorne from Scarlet into powder by drying it at the fyre or in an Ouen and then geue to the partye that hath the blouddye fluxe to drynke halfe a spoonefull thereof in redde wine Use this fiue or sixe tymes and it wyll helpe him or her shortlie and certaynlie God wylling This is well proued THe gall of a Partriche annointed once in a month on the Artyres of the temples of the heade So that it may penetrate and syncke in doth profyte verie much for the confyrming of the memory Simeon Sethi IF the tayle of a woolfe be buried or put in the grouÌ„d of any Towne or Uylledge no woolfe wyl enter in that Towne or Uylledge Rasis ALbertus makes mencion of a Well that whatsoeuer is throwne into the same is turned into a stone Whereof proofe was made by Frederick the fyrst who because he woulde not be deceyued he threw into the same one of his gloues wherto fyrst he put waxe and sealed it with his owne Ring and the one halfe of the gloue which was vnder the water became stone the other part aboue the water remayned as it was before IF one go to any body and doth aske them being learned in Astrologie whether he shall fynde him or speake with him or not Marke the Lorde of the seuenth house whome if thou finde in an Angle saye that he is at home If in a Succedent house then he is nye home And marke if betwene the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Lorde of the seuenth house there be any applycation or if there be any Planet beholding the seuenth house and carryes the lyght of the one to the other or that doth ioyne their two lyghts and it be thus then tell him that he shal finde him If not then he shall not â–ª Haly Abenragel Which is true so that the partie doth go to his Wife or to his enemie or to any other common person But according to Guido Bonatus if he go to a king or to his maister then you must take the tenth house and the Lorde thereof if to a Priest a Prelate or a Byshop then you must consider of the ninth house as Haly byddes you Do by the seuenth house if to your sonne or daughter then the first house if to your Father the fowrth house if to your brother then you must iudge as before by the thirde house And so of the rest according to the significations of euery house Wherefore the learned in Astrologie are not ignoraunt and this is a verye true rule throughly â–ª and many times obserued And if the Lord of the seuenth house or the house that the partie trauels vnto doth signifie be in a Cadent house then the partie is farre from home so that hee is not lyke to speake with him MAny haue proued that a Saphire tied to the Artyer doth put away the heat in an ague And the same stone borne against thy hart doth preserue the bearer thereof from the plague and from venemous thinges Rasis et Albertus And other IF one that hath eaten Garlyke or Coomynfeede breath on the face of a woman that is paynted the cullour wyll vanish away strayght if not then her cullour remaynes as it dyd before Lang. THe leaues of an Elme tree or of a Peach tree falling before their time doth foreshewe or betokens a murrian or death of Cattell Cardanus TYberius Caesar who was Emperour of Rome when Christe suffered when he awaked out of sleepe dyd see in the darke as Cats do Suetonius WHosoeuer eateth two Walnuts two Fygs tweÌ„tie leaues of Rew and one graine of Salt all stampt and mixt together fasting shal be safe from poyson and plague that daye Which Antidote King Mithridates had vsed so much that when he drunke poyson purposely to kyll him selfe it coulde not hurte him Plynius IF you shall enclose seedes of diuers kindes eyther in ware or in some other fast matter made something thyn or small shooting out of length that is as long as you woulde haue the same to growe and then putting the same in the grounde well dunged a marueylous hedge wyll spring therof This is the workmanshyppe and experiment of the Kings Gardyner Mizaldus THe Elephants haue sence and vnderstanding next vnto man and it seemes they knowe and keepe the course of the Starres for at the chaunge of the Moone they breake downe bowes from the trees holdes them then mouing them vp and downe and they are maruelous docible Gellius and Plynie hath left it wytnessed by Mutianus that was thryse Consull as also Plutarch that an Elephant dyd wryte the Greek Letters And Aelianus sayth that an ElephaÌ„t dyd wryte all the Latten Letters in order with other thinges incredible â–ª GRinde Mustarde with vineger and rubbe it well and harde on the plants or soles of the feete and it wyll helpe and quicken forgetfull personnes Petrus Hispanus A Most notable and proued Water to claryfie the dymnes of the eyes or syght doth followe Take the iuyce of Fennell of Celendyne of Rewe and of Eybright of each two ounces Honny one ounce and a halfe Aloes Tutie and
Sarcacol of each halfe an ounce the gall of a Capon Chickin or Cocke two drams Nutmegs Cloues and Saffern of eache one dram Sugar candie syxe drams Put all into a Lymbeck of glasse and dystyll it and put of this water into your eies once in the day two or three drops at a tyme And there can not be a more precious thing for the eyes then this I knowe it by proofe and therefore I am the bolder both to prayse it and publysh it abroade to the great comfort of other THe three score thyrde yeare of ones age is counted to be a daungerous and peryllous tyme for that it doth passe seldome without daunger of lyfe or without some other great mysfortune As it is obserued in many examples Hereof Augustus Caesar as Gellius reporteth was maruellous glad that he had escaped that yeare of his age The cause may be that the seuenth yeare and the nynthe yeare being Anni climacterici et critici which are Iudicial yeares multyplyed together makes the sayde number of .63 This Mizaldus describes SEethe Iuie berryes in vineger or in whyte wine and when they be well sodde suppe of the same hotte lyccour and when it is colde spytte it out and suppe more therof Whosoeuer doth thus it helpeth the toothe ache THey in whose Natiuitie Venus is impedite or Infortunate of Saturne Are lyke to haue paynes or griefes in theyr stones especially if she be in the Ascendent And lykewise if Venus be with Mars in the eyght house or if the Moone Venus and Mars be coniunct or in the euyll aspect of Saturne Iatromath Guat Ryff WHosoeuer is lame and can neyther go nor styrre their ioynts Let them take of good Aqua coÌ„posita and oyle of Roses of eyther a lyke much myxe them both together and annoynt the grieued place therewith morning and euening vntyll he be well Which wyll be within a whyle after but rubbe the place with warme cloathes well before A thing often proued WHosoeuer hath Mars in the Horoscope or the Ascendent at the tyme of his byrth certainly he wyll haue a speciall scarre or marke in his face Pro. Which I haue tryed in many and yet neuer haue founde it false THe cyrcles of cart wheeles emptie cartes and the combe on a Cocks head do maruelouslie feare a Lyon being a most hardy or fierce beast but of all things he feares fyres torches lyght or fyrebrands Plynius Aelianus et alij THat Pygions be not hunted or kylled of Cats at the windowes euery passage and at euery Pygions hole hang or put lytle braunches of Rew for Rew hath a maruellous strength agaynst wylde Beasts As Didimus doth saye IF the tayle of a Woolfe be hanged in a house no Woolfe wyll enter therein neyther any Flyes wyll flye into the same Rasis et Alb. IF a mad man vse to laughe it is a laudible sygne but if he be verie sadde it it is peryllous Aphor. Hippocratis THis medicine folowing wyll procure a good stomacke to meate Take three drams of good Synamon one dram of Mastick one dram of the parings of Pomegranets and halfe a dram of Galingale and stampe all these together and temper it with claryfied Honny and then vse to eate as much of thereof as a Nut euery day during ten dayes fasting and it wyll procure a good stomacke and also preserue and keepe the same from any euil humors to breede therin This is an excellent medicine and often proued and easie to be made IF you marke where your right foote doth stand at the fyrst tyme that you do heare the Cuckoo and then graue or take vp the earth vnder the same whersoeuer the same is sprinckled about there wyll no fleas breede Plynie by Mizaldus report And I knowe that it hath bene proued true TO make the counterfeat Mandrag which hath bene sold by deceyuers for much money Do thus as foloweth Take the great double roote of Bryonie newly taken out of the grounde and with a fyne sharpe knife frame the shape of a Man or Woman of the same with his stones and cods and other members therto And when it is cleane done pricke all these places with a sharpe steele as the head the eye browes the chyn and the priuities and put into the sayde holes the seedes of Myllet or any other that bringes foorth lytle small rootes that doo resemble heayrs which leeke seedes wyll do very well or els baâ—ly after this put it in the ground and let it be couered with earth vntyl it haue gotten vpon it a certayne lytle skyn and then thou shalt see a monstruous Idoll and heairie which wyll become the parts well if it be workmanlie or cunningly made or figured Mizaldus Another trym waye for the lyke is in the naturall and artificiall conclusions Englished by Thomas Hyll WHosoeuer annoynts his feete or hands with the grease of a Woolfe he shall not be hurt with any colde of his handes or feete so annointed Mizaldus FIue leaued grasse through Iupiters force doth resyst venym or poyson Wherof if one leafe twyse euery daye morning and euening be drunken with wine It is sayde to put away the Quotidian â—gue Three leaues the Tercian ague And fowre leaues the Quarten ague Marcilius Ficinus IF in the beginning of the sicknesse or at the tyme of asking of the question for the sicke the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone be in the fowrth or eight house Combust or Cadent or conuinct with the Lord of the eyght house they geue a certaine testimony of death And if one of them onely that is the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone be so it is a testimony of death as is before sayde Iohan. Ganiuet VArueyn stampt and streyned with wine water or vineger and then geuen to a woman that trauels or is in her labour and can not be delyuered it causeth speedy delyueraunce Trotula de passionibus mulierum And Gysbertus affyrmes the lyke if it be drunke with water A Straunge medicine and a rare secrete for consuming the webbe in the eye oftentymes proued Take nyne lytle woormes with many feete of some called Swyne lyse if they be touched they become rounde as a button they are to be founde betwene the barke and the woodde of olde tymber or trees stampe them with a lytle iuyce of Woodbynde or Betony then streyne the same well and let the partie that hath the webbe in his eye drinke it in a morning something warmed Do thus three mornings together and it wyl cure it perfectly God wylling This was tolde me for a very trueth by one that had proued it dyuers tymes THis that followeth is a speciall medicine for them that swoonds or are faint at the hart Take Rosemarie Sage Betony and Margerom of â—ache one handfull and seethe them in a gallon or more of fayre water tyll halfe the water be consumed then take awaye the hearbes and put to the sayde water a good pynt of Honny and then skymme
Eucharius Rosenbader of Wessemburge and Iohn of Ettenstet â–ª Surgions in the presence of many which dyd cutte or open the bellye and Mawe of the sayde dead Husbandman Wherein was founde being maruaylous and prodigious a long and rounde peece of woodde fowre knyues of Steele partlye sharpe and partlye nyckte lyke a Sawe and two sharpe instrumentes of yron that was longer then a spanne and they had therin also heair rowled together as it were a round Bowle or Ball. This was layde or put in his Mawe by none other arte but onely by the crafte and subtyltye of he Deuyll This hath Iohannes Langius wrytten in the fyrst parte of his medcinal Epistles Epistol 38. de prodigijs et prestigijs demonum in morbis Mizaldus reportes it also IN many Pondes all the water wood taken out by and by Eeles do breede if rayne water come into them for that with the dewe they do lyue and are nourished Aristo Plutarch And other IF the ryght knee of a Bull be tyde with a broade bande it wyll make him tame Aelianus LEt the partie that bleedes chawe the roote of a Netle in his mouth but swallowe it not downe and without doubte the bloud wyll stanche for if one keepe it in his mouth he can lose no bloud Petrus Hisp. IF a mad man finde ease in sleeping it is good but if his rage encrease it is to be feared Hippocrates in suis Aphor. IF the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone or the Lorde of the syxt house be Combust or Retrograde the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eyght house conuinct to Mars or Saturne the sicke must dye of that disease Iohannes Ganiuetus But God can restore health past all hope THis medicine folowing doth maruelouslie breake winde in the bellye Take Coomyn seede Fennell seede and Annes seede of each a like much beat them to powder then seeth the same in wyne and drinke a good draught therof fyrst last fowre or fyue dayes together you shall finde a great helpe thereby for it hath bene often proued to their great ease comfort that tooke the same TAke a spoonefull of Aqua vite and two spoonefull of the water of Arsemarte and annoynt any ache therwith twyse euery day morning and euening for the space of fyue or sixe dayes at the most and it wyll heale it for euer I had this out of an olde wrytten booke HE wyll be weake in the act of generation in whose Natiuitie Venus is ioyned with Saturne especially in the tenth or eight house or that the Moone is ioyned with Saturne in an euyll aspect of Venus or if Saturne be in the syxt or twelfth house in a moyst sygne Infortunating Venus Iatromath Guat Ryff THis folowing is an excellent medicine for the stone Seethe an handfull of Holly berryes in a pynt of good Ale tyll halfe the Ale be consumed then streyne it putting then a lytle butter to it and let the partie drinke therof fiue or sixe spoonefull and within halfe an howre after the party wyll make water if euer any medicine wyl cause it This was tolde me for a very true secrete THe learned and wise men among the Persians affyrme that if Sage be putrefied or layde to rot in horse dung whyles the Sunne and Moone do both occupy the seconde face of Leo thereon wyll breede a Byrde lyke an Owsell or blacke Byrde the ashes wherof being burned and strowed or cast into a burning Lampe wyll make the house seeme to be full of Serpentes Hermes IF the eares of Cattes be stowde or cutte off it wyl make them keepe home the better For that then the water which they can not abyde wyll drop into their eares being open And if they be gelded especially the male Catte they wyll not onely be more tamer and fatter but also thereby they wyll raunge abroade the lesse Mizaldus IT is sayde that Cockles Oysters in great thunders do vomitte and cast out then Pearles Whervpon many are founde in the sandes Mizaldus WHen any drawes nye towarde their death and that their members lackes bloud vytal heate Then Fleas and Lyse leaues them quyte or else drawes to that parte of the bodye where the sayde heate tarryes the longest which is in the hole in the necke vnder the chyn c. This is a token that death is at hande Lemnius THe leaues of Walwoort sodde with Wine doth maruelouslye mytigate the paynes of them that are tormented with the gowte if they be applyed to the place where the griefe or payne is There be that preferres and extolles with maruelous praises The iuyce expressed out of the leaues rootes therof sodden with Wine and May butter and in the steede of a Lynyment annointed styll on the grieued member That is three or fowre tymes euerie daye Mizaldus learned this of one that proued it A Ryshe dryed and put into Wyne if there be any water therein it drawes it to it The Wine left alone or together Which is good and profytable for trying of Wine Mizaldus A Notable medicine to heale lame members doeth folowe Take of oyle Olyffe Aqua vite ole of Exetor and of a Beasts gall of each a lyke much myxe all together and annoynt the lame members therewith twyse euerie daye morning and euening the space of a fortnight being well rubbed before and it wyll helpe the same of a certayntie An olde Woman in Worcester shyrâ— dyd helpe many therewith IF out of one pounde of excellent Wyne with as much Salt as you can holde in your hande and the leefe of pure Wyne you do distyll a water You shall finde that it wyll be the whottest water of all other Mizaldus had this of a certaine Alchemyst IT is sayd that Hartes in Crete being stroken with Dartes enuenomed do eate of a certayne hearbe called Dyttanie and thereby the pricke or any other thyng that styckes in them is dryuen foorth Mizaldus THere was a certaine Woman great with chyld in Pago not farre from Andernacus a Towne of the Byshoppe of Cullen Desyring or longing to eate or to feede on her Husbandes fleshe and although she loued him intirely she killed him in the night being satisfied with the halfe of his flesh she powdred the rest with Salt but after when her great longing dyd cease and that she dyd repent the deede she dyd confesse it to her friendes that sought for her husbande Iohannes Langius in his medcynall Epistles Therfore it is good for the husbands to take heede whiles theyr wyues haue such inordinate longyng vppon them MAny haue bene helped that haue had fowle and leprous faces onely with the washing the same with the distilled water of Strawberies the Strawberies fyrst put into a close glasse and so putrifyed in horse dung Conradus Gesnerus IF at the time of the byrth of any Mercurie be Occidentall from the Sun not vnder his lyght or his beames except in Aries or Leo nor Retrograde being then in any of the
panne somewhat which after let stande close couered for fowreteene dayes or twelue at the least At the ende of which tyme heate the whole againe sufficiently that is vntyll it be very hotte then put it into a bagge and wryng out the oyle in a presse vntyll the whole Cynamom remayne through drye in the bagges and then that which is come foorth wyll be of the cullour sauour and taste of the Cynamom A Secrete and knowne to fewe to bee wrought in thys order THe powder of Pellyter of Spaine mixt with the mylke of Wartwoort or Spurge and Galbanum and a lyttle thereof applyed to any rotten or aking tooth wyl breake it or plucke it out and so the paine thereof wyll cease This I had out of an olde wrytten booke IF you wyll knowe whether one shall escape or not that is infected with the plague hauing the plague Sore geue the partie some excellent Treacle with whyte Wyne so that hee be not troubled with an ague for then geue the Treacle with Scabyus or Planten water and also annoynt the plague Sore with the lyke Treacle and if the same be dryed or burned and remayne fyxed the partie thereby not relieued or eased it is a verie euyll sygne but contrarie if the partie be eased it is a great sygne that the party shall escape Arnoldus IN the common place where the Censors of Uenys syttes there neuer enters any Flyes Gandeut Merula And in the fleshe Shamble of Toledo a Cittie in Spayne is not seene but one Flye in all the whole yeare As Leo Paptist sayeth And in Westminster Hall in the Tymber worke there is not to bee founde one Spyder nor a Spyder webbe Because as it is thought the Tymber wherewith the rooffe is buylded was brought out of Irelande and dyd growe there In all which Countrey of Irelande I haue not onely hearde it credibly tolde that there is neyther Spyder Tode nor any other venemous thing but also that some of the earth of that country hath bene brought hether wheron a Tode being layd she hath dyed presently Though this be maruelous strange yet it is true IT is proued sayth Taisnier if Iupiter be in the fift or the twelfth house whether hee be Orientall or Occidentall of the Sunne or whether hee be in a Masculine sygne or Femynine sygne the fyrst chylde of him or her then borne wyll be a boye THe iuyce of ground Iuie snuft vp into the nose out of a spoone or a sawcer purgeth the head maruelouslie and takes away the greatest and eldest paine therof that is This medicine is worth gold though it be very cheape I haue knowne them that haue had maruelous payne in their head almost intollerable for the space of a dosen yeares and this hath helpt them presently and neuer had the paine synce they tooke this medicine THis medicine following wyll kyll woormes in the bellie Take the gall of an Oxe or of a Cowe and so much of the flowre of Lupynes which are to be had at the Apothecaries as wyll thycken the same myxe them well together and laye it on wooll and so plaster it to his bellie where the griefe is and about the nauell and after twelue howres lay theron another plaster Do thus fowre or fiue dayes and it wyll helpe him HOw greatly is the sicke party to be feared or iudged not to escape iâ— in the tyme of the question or the fyrst beginning of the sycknesse both the Lumynaryes are vnder the earth c. Iatromath M. Guat H. Ryff argent IF hotte burning golde be quenched in pure Wine the same Wine being drunke it procures strength to the chiefe members and to the vytall partes And it makes strong the natural faculties and doth helpe the diseased parte with strength and vytall spyrite And this lycquour is thought to be very good in the tyme of Plague And if the same be mixed with a lytle Tarter it doth quyte put away from any part of the body all spots though they be neuer so fowle Yea it helps a leprous face a red nose and any other deformity of the same If the place infected be washt and rubbed often tymes therwith Lemnius THe water that drops out of the Uine or the goom that is founde there being drunke with whyte Wyne doth breake expell the stones in the reynes maruelously And also being rubbed vpon Ryngwoormes Tetters and leprous places it doth cure them But they must be rubbed before with Niter This was tolde to Mizaldus as a proued thing IF his spyttle which hath a consumption being cast vpon the coales doth styncke and the heair fall from his head It is sygne of death Hippocrates in Aphor. THere is a certayne Electuary of lyfe of Arnoldus de villa noua in a lytle booke of his of the putting back of olde age described of the fiue kindes of Myrabolanes made for the conceruing or keeping of health and prolonging of lyfe And it is a perfyt approued thing For it doth not onely comfort but also it doth purge superfluous humors remaining of nutriment past And the vse thereof doth let or hynder graye heairs and it makes one come to the last olde age It strengthneth the stomacke and the vse therof maketh a good cullour in all the body And this is the description therof Take of great Reysons cleansed of their stones and stalkes two pounde Lycquerys made cleane and beaten one ounce Let these be put into two pounde and a halfe of fayre water and let them seethe well and let them then be strayned well And in that that is streined let there be put of Mirabolanes Kebule Citrine and Indy beaten in a Morter their stones taken away of each two ounces of Embelyck Bellerick of either of them two drams Let them be sodde streined pressed or wel wroong then put therto whyte sugar one pounde and seethe altogether to the thycknes of a Syrup and in the ende adde therto of good Cynamom halfe an ounce Cloues Galengaye of each two drams two Nutmugs Maratrum and Annes seede of eyther one ounce and make therof a Lectuary and keepe it in a pure vessell In this Electuary be medicines of the principall members that is to say of the hart head stomacke Lyuer Speâ—n And of the generatiue members and it is fyrst hotte after moyst then cold and the last drie Iohannes Ganiuetus lykewise describes it CErtaine woormes that shines in the night called Glo woorms being wel stopped in a glasse couered within hootte horse dung staÌ„ding there a certaine time wyll be resolued into a lycquor which being mixt with lyke porcion of quicksyluer first clensed purged which wylbe with halfe a dosen times washing in pure vineger myxt with bay salt which after euery washing rubbing must be cast away and then hotte water put to the quicksyluer therewith washed and then put closed in a fayre bright and pure glasse and so hanged vp in the myddes of a house
quicke Lyme and Brimstone of both equall porcions and then the hole well stopt that no ayre nor any thing may go out and so put into some standing water or a litle pit of water or into some cesterne full of water it wyll keepe the sayd water hotte a long tyme or for many daies Proued of many sayth Mizaldus And I founde the same also in an olde written booke HEns dunge mixt with meate that is geuen to be eaten of madde Dogs wyl take away their madnes from them As it is thought Mizaldus IF a Woorme that is founde in the grasse before it touch the grounde be hanged alyue at a womans necke that is with childe it is thought she shal keepe the chylde vntyll the due tyme of the byrth Plinius As Mizaldus sayth IF one geue any thing for Warts to them that haue them be it neuer so small a thing as three or fowre heayrs a rag of a lynnen cloath or some other thinge of no value the sooner it wyll rotte so much the better and let the party that would be ryd of the warts wrappe the same in some thing and put it into the ground and couer the same with earth againe truly as the same thing doth rotte in the earth so wyll the warts weare and consume away This is perfectly proued IF Mars be in Gemini and the Sunne in Pisces in a quartyle aspect in the daye tyme or the Moone in the night tyme it doth sygnify that the chylde then borne wyll be hangde Taisnier THey that vse to receyue three Pyls made of Aloes De succo citrino made in powder which is to bee had at the Apothecaries and mixt with the iuyce of Colewoorts of the bygnes of a beane shall neuer be troubled with paine in the head Petr. Hisp. A Straunge medicine for the gowte Take a good handfull of Arsemart and wrap and tye the same in a Burre leafe and laye it first in olde ashes then compasse the same with hotte embers coales so rost the same wel thē apply the same rosted Arsmart to the grieued place and do thus euening and morning for two or three dayes and thou shalt fynde a present helpe thereof This was tolde me for a great secrete and as a proued thing IF you put or stop fast within a Nutte quicke brimstone Saltpeter and Quicksyluer the same being put into a loafe of bread and then the same loafe of bread put into some hotte place where it may heate as soone as it waxeth hot you shal see the loafe of bread so leape that it wyll bee a very pretye sport to them that sees it Mizaldus had this of one that proued it A Most excellēt oyle of Saint Iohns Woort is made as followeth Infuse or stiepe for the space of three dayes the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in pure and excellent Wine then in a double vessel let them 〈◊〉 easily ouer the fire and then straine them easily then agayne put as many of the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in that strayned lycquor as you had before and let them stiepe therin three dayes three nights as before then heate strayne them as before then adde thereto three ounces of Turpentine and syxe ounces of olde Oyle and of Safferue the weyght of xxiiii Barly cornes myxe all together and then seeth all together in a double vessell vntyll the wyne be consumed and that that remaynes put it into a glased or leaded vessel keepe it safely for your vse This Oyle is of a maruelous vertue and propertie as wel chieflye against venemous Ulcers as many other diseases and colde griefes Well knowne to many women Mizaldus IF you rubbe sleyghtly any kinde of Beastes or Cattell with the iuyce of goordes in hotte wether no kinde of Flyes wyll then hurt or molest them nor yet come nye them A thing desyred of many and very necessary for such as rydes in the hotte wether Mizaldus IF Mars be opposite to Iupiter and the one of them bee the Lorde of the eyght house it is lyke the chylde then borne shall dye by the commaundement of the Iudge Taisnier THe leaues of wylde Iuie sodde in wine and layde vpon any Cankar doeth kyll and heale the same Trotula THis water following is very precious for frantick and madde men proued very often Take of the flowres of Rosemarie of Burrage and of the rootes of Buglosse of each halfe a pounde of Saffern two drams of Quinces fowre ounces of the best whyte Wine two pintes mixe them all together and then let them stande so the space of a naturall daye after that bury the glasse body wherein all the same is in horse dung for fifteene daies and then take it out and distyll a water therof according to arte two or three times ouer Keepe this water as the Aple of your eye for it is very precious and well proued in all Melancholy sicknesses very effectuously and in the paine and trembling of the harte the quantity to be geuen at one time is a dram Which is the weyght of .lxxii. barly cornes If you proue it you wyll prayse it And this is in the new Iuell of Health with many other mo excellent thinges THey are not lyke to lose their senses nor their vnderstanding in whose Natiuity the Moone doth apply to Mercury eyther by coniunction or by aspect Iatromath Guat Ryff Argent SEt a rounde glasse full of water against the hotte Sunne that it maye stande fast and then holde something that is very drie and wyll take fyre easely nye to the same glasse betweene the glasse and the Sunne and it wyll set the same thing there holden on fyre Which is very straunge to beholde And the rather because fyre a hotte and drye element is procured out of water a colde and moyst element Iohan. Baptist. Porta DIdimus wrytes that Sheepe are woont to follow them that stoppes their eares with their wooll IF any doth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie what he dyd see in his dreame marke the Ascendent when the question is made And if thou doest finde Saturne in the Ascendent or fyrst house tell him that he dyd see in his dreame Religious persons as Fryers Heremytes or such lyke or places of Prayer c. But if thou finde Mars in the Ascendent saye that he saw in his dreame Captaines Knights Murtherers Theeues Harnes or Battelles or such lyke If the Sunne be in his first house he dyd see Gardins Trees with fruites Golde or a king If Venus be in the Ascendent he dyd see a fayre Uirgin or some eating or drinking or one lying with a Woman or that haue things wherin they are delighted or else to playe or to walke abroade or whyte or red garmentes If Mercury be in the first house then he dyd see handsome eloquent men reasoning or Pallaces decked with Curtens and rytch hanginges or cloathes bookes or wrytings of salutation or of accoumpts If the Moone be in the first house he dyd
see ryuers or water or precious stones or some that dyd eate or drinke or his Mother or his Awnt or his Mothers Syster This sayth Haly Abenragel But Messahala and Alhayhat and Abrier Farsal haue sayde looke in the sygne of the ninth house from the Ascendent and if thou doest finde in the same house any of the seuen Planettes iudge that the vision or dreame was of them as is before when they are founde in the first house And adde to the sygnification of the Sunne that is if the Sun be in the ninthe house that he dyd see him selfe flying betweene heauen and earth or that he dyd see a great lyght and if there be no Planets in the ninth house then marke him that is in the first house if none be there then marke who is in the thirde house if none be there then looke in the fowrth house if none be there looke in the seuenth house if none be there then looke in the tenth house And iudge according to the sygnification of euery Planet and thou shalt be certified God wylling Haly Abenragell AGainst the quarten ague take the vrine that the partie makes at one tyme in his fytte and kneade flowre therewith and when the same is baked then geue it to a Dogge of the same house And when you haue done thus thryse the partie wyll be whole and ryd of the disease And in his steade the Dogge wil be sicke But for a man that is sicke a Dogge must be chosen If a woman a bytch must be had This was taken out of an often proued experiment of an Italian by the report of Mizaldus WHosoeuer desyres to see the Sun eclipsed without hurting their eyes Let them beholde the shadow therof in a vessel wherin oyle is put Where they may beholde and see it without daunger For a fatty humor is not easely troubled And what shapes or fourmes it doth receyue It representeth the same truely Mizaldus A Lamen or thyn plate of Gold borne on the seame of the brayne doth strengthen the brayne The same hanged against the region or place of the harte doth helpe the beating of the harte and encreaseth gladnes And if it be put vpon the reynes of the back it strengthens the reynes and cooles the same and ceaseth the paynes of the backe But Mizaldus wysheth that the same plate be beaten and made of pure and fyne Golde when the Sunne is in Leo called the Lion And Iupiter the Moone beholding each other happely Hermes Arnoldus Villa nouanus c. Alij IF the Lord of the Horoscope be in the seuenth house Combust and the Sunne hath no essentiall dygnitye in the same then he that is then borne shall perish by the handes of many which wyll ryse against him But if the Sunne haue then any power in the seuenth house he shall dye by the Kings commaundement Taisnier IT is proued and a secrete that if three graynes of Masticke be geuen to the patient to be swalowed euery night at his going to bed it doth preserue him from the paynes of the stomacke and doth cure him Emperica benedicti victorij I knowe by proofe it helpes the stomack maruelously THis water following breakes the Stone in the bladder and in the reynes Take of the iuyce of Saxisrage two pyntes of Gromell and of the iuyce of Perceley of eyther one pynt of the best Uinegar of a pleasaunt Wine eyght ounces dystyll all these together ▪ and let the lycquor distylled be kept in a glasse with a narrow mouth Of which mynister in the morning one ounce at a tyme as much at noone and as much at euening going to bed This is a proued water as sayth Fumanellus TO dreame that Eagles flyes ouer your head doth betoken euil fortune To dreame that you see your face in the water sygnifyes long lyfe To follow Bees betokens gaine or profyt To be marryed sygnifies that some of your kynsfolkes is dead To dreame that you worshyp God sygnifyes gladnes To looke in a glasse doth portende some yssewe or a chylde To haue oyle powred vpon you sygnifyes ioy Michael Scotus et Artemidorus IF you would haue Copper to melt quickly and run easely put the hooues of a Horse into the same betweene the melting and powring out therof Mizaldus had this secrete of an expert Italyan GOates wyl not stray or wander if you cut of their beards Florentinus Geoponicus and Zoroaster IF you put a Tode in a new earthen potte and the same be couered in the grounde in the myddes of a corne fyelde it is sayde there wyll be no hurtfull tempestes or stormes there As Archibius dyd wryte to Antiochus King of Siria Plinio Authore IF the Lorde of the eyght house be founde in the twelfth house with an euyll Planet or in his euyll Aspect it showes the chylde then borne wyll dye a captiue that is in pryson or as one that doth flye away Taisnier WHosoeuer annoynts their belly with this oyntment folowing it easeth the paine of the head it purgeth the stomack it comforteth the appetyte clarifieth the eyes Take of the iuice of smallach two ounces of the iuice of Mercury fowre ounces of goose grease Hens grease of either of thē a pound of Rosē two ounces of Masticke and Frankyncence of either fyue drams of Cassia Fistula two drams and put therto iuyce of Walwoort and of the inner rynde of Elderne and myxe them all well together and make therof an oyntment This if it be well made is a very good thing THe Squyncie or any other payne of the throate wyll be helpt with this following Marke where a Swine doth rubbe him and then rubbe your hand on the same woodde post or stone with which hande rubbe your sore or swolne throate And as some saye that haue proued it cut of a peece of the same wood where the Swine dyd rubbe himselfe and rubbe the swolne or grieued place therwith But the rubbing of the Swines necke is the best for the necke the legge for the legge and so that part of the Swine for the lyke part of the personne grieued or diseased This is a very true and often proued thing TAke a pynt of whyte Wine one handfull of woodbinde leaues or two or three ounces of the water of Woodbinde and a quarter of a pounde of the powder of Ginger seethe them all together vntyll they be something thycke And annoynt a red pympled face therwith fiue or sixe tymes and it wyl make it faire This is proued LVdonicus Viues doth wryte that within the memory of his Auncestors or Fathers there was a Sepulchre or Toombe pluckt vp wherin a burning Candle was founde made as was wytnessed by wryting fyue hundreth yeares before And when it was touched or handled by and by it was resolued into powder Iohannes Langius IF you woulde haue a deepe Well made it is best to dygge the same when the Sun is in the last partes of Virgo before the Autumnall equinoctiall
also she dyd eate the woollen sleeues that were on her armes besydes that she dyd eate a gloue And on a tyme as her mother dyd feede her with mylke there chaunst to fall a great peece of soote out of the chymney into the sayd mylke which soote the sayd chyld tooke out of the dysh with her fyngers and dyd eate it most greedâ—ly She abhorred then bread butter and other such natural foode Wherby she was maruelously consumed with a fluxe and she yet lyueth hauing nothing on her but skyn and bone I sawe her in Iune 1577. She was borne in Chayrsey within two or three myles of Stanes at which tyme she was full three yeares of age IT is sayde that Myse dung with the ashes of burned Waspes and of hasel Nuts and a lytle vinegar of Roses put therto doth trymly decke a bauld place with heayrs if the same place be often tymes rubbed or annoynted therwith Mizaldus IF any Beast of the female kinde doth pisse vpon the vrine of a Woolfe newly made the same Beast shal neuer conceaue Pithagoras AEtius geues counsayle that that Dogge be buried or put into the ground in any wyse which is dead by taking his disease froÌ„ a man for it is certain saith he that daungerous and many effects the man being escaped are turned or ouerpowred into him THe troublesome or vnpleasaunt noyse of Frogges in the night wyll cease if you set a Candle burning on the bancke syde nye the water where they be Or els many lyghtes according to the greatnes of the place where they be Africanus Geopon And this was proued at Parys by the meanes of a Presydent there that therewith was troubled Mizaldus IT is the opinion of many that an hearbe called Leucacanthus that is Whyt thorne euen as the Bay tree is neuer strucken nor touched with lyghtning nor is not touched with any euyl from heauen Mizaldus ZAel sayth that he hath proued in many Natiuities where the Moone is in Virgo opposite with the Sun that the chyld theÌ„ borne hath ben drownd SIxe cloues of Garlycke stampt and strayned into a draught of Rennish Wine so drunke is a present remedy for the collyck stone the strangury An excellent tryed medicine if you take it three dayes MAke powder of the flowres of Elderne gathered on Mydsomer daye being before well dryed and vse a spoonefull therof in a good draught of Burrage water morning euening fyrst and last for the space of a month and it wyl make you seeme young a great whyle This I had out of an olde wrytten booke as proued TAke Horseleaches and burne theÌ„ to powder and myxe it with Eysell then vse to rubbe the place therwith where you would haue heaire to grow no more and there wyll no heaire growe in that place This was a secrete of a notable Practyser WHosoeuer vses to drinke butter mylke they wyll be laratiue although they be very much bound and can not go to the stooâ—e Proued THey are lyke to haue the falling sycknes in whose natiuities the Moone and Mercury do not behold the one the other Or where neither of them do behold the Ascendent and wheras in the day tyme Saturne is the sygnifyer of the qualyties of the mynde and being then in an Angle and Mars in natiuityes of the night THat young Beasts be not hurt of their fetters or that being hurt of them they may be cured Tye vnto their necks a Date stone bored through Mizaldus IF you geue to them that haue the falling sycknes this medicine or Antidote following three dayes whiles the Moone is coniunct to Iupiter it wyl helpe him Take of Mase the seedes of Pyony the rootes of the same halfe a dram the leaues of Gelyuors and of Prymroses which some takes to be the Daysie one dram stampe them and geue it to drinke with whyte Wine The party being fasting Mizaldus AS a certayne countrey man dyd sleepe open mouthed in the fieldes a Serpent crept in at his mouth and so into his body but after the sayde man cured him selfe therof with the eating of Garlyke But he enfected his wife with poyson by hauing to do with her carnally wherof she dyed which was very rare and straunge Volateranus POwder made of the stone of a Swallow geuen in drinke to them that haue the falling sycknes healeth them without doubt for it is a sure experiment Petrus Hispanus IF thou would know whether a Woman be conceaued with chyld or not geue to her two spoonefuls of water and one spooneful of clarified Honny mingled together to drink when she goeth to sleepe and if she feele grypings and paynes in her belly in the nyght she is with chylde if she feele none she is not This is very true and often proued HE wyll neuer be poore of whose Natiuity Iupiter is rular or Lorde Celi enarrant The Author of which worke is vnknowne THis following wyll take spots out of the face and bewtify the same Put seuen whole Egs in most pure and strong Uineger and let them lye therein so long vntyll theyr shelles be as soft as theyr inwarde skynnes and myxe therto fowre ounces of mustarde seede before made in powder or stampt then stampe or grinde them together and therwith let the face be often annoynted This hath bene proued and Trotula affyrmes it also for the lyke purpose GReene nettels layd in the vryne of one that is sick and so stieped therin for the space of .xxiiii. howres if after the same tyme they be taken out greene and fresh it betokens that the syck party wyll recouer of that sycknes if they be wythered it is a great token of death Mizaldus FINIS Lib. 5. ⧠The syxt Booke of Notable thinges IF you would haue any Beast or any parte of the same of what cullour soeuer he be to be turned into white shaue of the heairs smoake the same that is shauen with the fume of Brymstone and whyte heayres wyll growe there You may proue the same in flowres Mizaldus THe berryes of Whyt thorne taken with whyte Wine is of great force for destroying or expelling of the stone It is knowne by the practise or experience of the countrey men Mizaldus IN a question of a vision or dreame marke the Lorde or the Alumten of the Ascendent and the Moone and consider if thou findest eyther of them in the ninth or the thyrde house but if you finde none of them there then marke if you finde eyther of them in the Ascendent or fyrst house or in any of his Angles and if you so finde eyther of them and the same be seperate from a good Planet applyed to a good Planet It sygnifyes that the dreame is good pleasant and of a good sygnifycation and is of the condition of that good Planet to whom he applyes and the profyt or coÌ„modity of his dreame shal be of the condition of the house where he is in the figure and of the condition of
sure that she is not barren of her selfe Hidpocrates Aphor. WHosoeuer is greued tormented with the stone let them take one ounce of the rootes of Radishe cut in slyces and lay the same to stiepe in halfe a pint of good whyte Wine all night then streyne the same well and put therto of the Electuary called Lithontripon of the description of Nicholas and also Iustinum one dram myxe them with the sayde whyte Wine wherein the Radish was infused and let him that is grieued with the stone receyue all the same at one tyme and you shall see a maruelous woâ—ke thereof If neede be let him receyue the lyke quantitie thereof three or fowre dayes together This is proued to be a sure an excellent thing for breaking and auoyding the stone and grauell Be sure that the Apothecaries make it of good stuffe A Head of Garlycke the skyns pulled off and a lytle brused layde by equall partes to the hollowe partes of the soles of theyr feete that are grieuously tormented with the toothe ache especially if it come of a colde cause and be on the neather iawe it wyll helpe them with speede by drawing the humors out of the soles of the feete I haue knowne them that haue taken this medicine and haue not ben troubled with the tooth ache of seuen yeares after THat man is lyke to haue fewe Chyldren in whose Natiuity Saturne is in the Ascendent opposyte to Venus or if Venus be in a barraine signe infortunate of Saturne or if Venus be in the house of Saturne especially Infortunate of him Iatromathematica Guat Ryff IF you rubbe or touch Wartes with the leaues of a Fygge tree the Warts wyll consume and vanish away so that the sayde leaues be buryed within the earth or grounde Some ascribes the same to the harte of a Pigion Mizaldus ELephants of all other Beastes do chiefly hate the Mowse So that if they shall see or perceyue that a Mowse hath once touched their meate that is before them they loathe the same and wyll not eate a bytte therof Plinius IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the twelfth house he that is then borne wyll dye in prison or in captiuitie Taisnier THe powder of the berries of Bryony â–ª drunke in the water wherein water Cresses are sod doth maruelously heale the Strangury IF any Woman great with chylde shall take this drinke following euery other day in the morning three howres before she eate any meate begynning the same about tenne dayes or a fortnight before the tyme of the byrth the byrth shall not onely be made more easye but also she shall bring forth her chylde without payne Take of the great Treackle one scruple which is the weyght of .xxiiii. barly cornes the powder of Lycquerys and the powder of Cynamom of eyther three graynes of good whyte Wine one ounce and a halfe myxe all together and make there of a drynke and let it be geuen to the Woman with Chylde in such manner as is before sayde Benedictus victorius fauentinus in his Booke called Emperica THis following wyll stoppe the bloudy fluxe Take Yarrowe and Planten of eyther a lyke muche stampe them well together and put thereto redde Wyne and streyne it well and drinke a good draught thereof fyrst and last three or sowre dayes together and certaynly it wyll stay it It is an easy and precious thing IF you wyll prooue whether a Woman bee with chylde or not let her make water in a copper or brasen vessell and let a Needle lye therein a whole nyght that is bryght and cleane and if she be with chylde the Needle wyl haue redde spots on it If not then it wyll be blackish or rusty It is proued as Mizaldus was enformed IF a Crowe chaunce to eate of the rest of the fleshe wherof a Woolfe hath eaten before the same Crow wyll dye soone after Aclianus and Philes NEyther falling sycknes neyther deuyll wyll infest or hurt one in that place wheras a Bay tree is The Romaynes calles it the Plant of the good Angell c. Mizaldus WRyting Inke tempered with water wyne or vinegar wherein Woormwood hath bene stieped Myse wyl not eate the Papers or Letters written with that Inke And also cloathes wherein Woormwood is layde or wrapt is safe from mothes and if there be any there it wyll driue them awaye Diascorides THe howre of Mars is to be abhord in all thinges bothe in the begynning and when the thing is done Haly Abenragel Therefore you were best to take heede that you take no notable thyng or great matter in hande or beginne any long iourney in the howre of Mars if you can by any meanes knowe when it is But whosoeuer puttes theyr whole trust in GOD and guides theyr lyfe by the rule of his holye woorde be they neuer so symple and vnlearned hee wyll so guyde them and so instructe them that they shall auoyde all such daungers and pâ—rryllous tymes And contrarye the wycked learned yea though they know the tymes shall not haue power to auoyde them As I haue seene in many which afterwarde they dyd well consyder though to late And as I haue sayde of Mars so I say of Saturne For there is neuer a good of them both Yâ—t I doo not thinke that Saturne or Mars shewes such harme to them in whose Natiuities they are Sygnifyers or beares rule in the Ascendent but chiefly to such in whose Natiuitie they are Lords of the xii.vii.v or .viii. house But surely I haue markt it long and yet I neuer sawe any notable thing begunne in the howre of Mars or Saturne that came to a good ende Which they shall well finde that begins to set forwarde towards the Sea in Saturnes howre I speake by tryall as well as Haly doth which I shoulde not haue consydred so much but by his counsayle and proofe OXen Kyne Bullocks or Horsses shall not be troubled with any disease if you hang a Harts horne vpon them Absyrtus IF you ioyne a Lyons skyn to the skyn of a Woolfe of any other Beast it wyll make them without heayre or cause theyr heayre to fal or consume away Mizaldus COâ—ewoorts and Rew called hearbe Grace are so contrary in nature the one to the other that they ought not to be sowne nye together Fracastorius IF any Sheepe or else heayry Beasts or els Man or Woman be full of woormes in any wound or sore take of the wooll of the same Sheepe or heair of that Beast or some of the heair of that Man or Woman and hyde the same before the rysing of the Sun vnder the barke of a tree called Trembla which is a kinde of black Popler tree Do thus certayn dayes and thou shalt see the woormes fall out of the wound or sore myraculously or else they wyll dye or leaue that place There be that ascribes the same to the Byrch tree and also to the roote of wylde Succorye hanged at the necke in manner of
Olyffe and put it into colde water and sturre it well together tyll it be well myxed then annoint the burned place therwith and laye a woort leafe vpon it and it wyll helpe it speedely Proued STampe Mallowes and Garlycke together and myngle it well with whyte Wyne then streyne it well and drynke a good draught therof nyne tymes and it wyll make thee make water of what occasion soeuer the same is stopte Thys is affyrmed for trueth IF you wyll bring forth or hatch Egges without a Hen couer your Egges in hotte Horse dung so that the bygger part of the Egge be vpwarde but euery fyft or syxt daye shyfte them with newe Horse dung with a temperate heate as the heate of a Hen. But remember that the Egs must be turned and about the tyme of the hatching or when they shoulde come forth of the shell put them vnder a Hen. Mizaldus ALthough the fruite of a Medler tree by nature be restryctiue or bynding neuerthelesse the powder of him doth vehementlye breake the Stones in the reynes and dryues them forth Which Anthonius Musa an excellent Phisition doth wytnesse that hee hath proued with most happy successe on him selfe Mizaldus THe bloud of an Hare dryed made in powder and throwne vpō flesh newly roasted or sodden makes the same flesh seeme to be blouddy and corrupt So that they that be present and sees the same vnlesse such as knowes the secrete therof wyll loath to eate therof Mizaldus THe auncient Wyse men haue sayde that he that is taken prisoner in the howre of the Sun shal escape within the space of one month and in the howre of Venus he shall escape at the ende of forty dayes and in the howre of Mercury he shal haue long imprisonment and he that is taken prisoner in the howre of the Moone his busines state shal be changed according to the applicatiōs which the moone hath with fortunate and Infortunate Planets whereby the easynes and slownes of his delyuering shall be esteemed Also he that is taken prisoner in the howre of Saturne he shal endure long imprisonment and he that is taken prysoner in the howre of Iupiter he shall be delyuered quickly And they that be taken prysoner in the howre of Mars many sorrowes and troubles shall happen to them during theyr imprisonment For he shall be put in setters and shall be beaten and he shall suffer great sorrowes and labours Haly Abenragel THis medicine following wyll surely heale a scalde heade Take oyle Olyffe and put it into a dyshe with fayre water and beate or sturre them well together as you woulde make butter then take it vp and put it into a vessell and put powder of Brimstone and May Butter thereto make an oyntment therof wherwith annoynt the sore head and doubtles it wyll heale it WOodbinde leaues stampt and layd vpon Warts vsing the same halfe a dosen tymes wyll quyte destroye them FRaunces Marques of Mantua did so instruct or teach a Dogge that he vsed him as a very good seruant in calling of such of the Court as he would Blondus A Benzoar an excellent Phisition among the Arabians declares that once there was such a famyne in his countrey that the people was dryuen to pluck out the dead bodyes out of theyr graues dyd sucke the marrowe of theyr bones A thing horrible to be heard but more horryble to be done from which neede or hunger I beseech God keepe vs. IF the seedes that are founde in the round knobs of the lesser Burre leafe be made in very fyne powder and so geuen with a lytle good and pure whyte Wyne it purgeth the sande maruelous effectually from the reynes but more speedely if it be droonke with Aqua vite Mizaldus had this of one that proued it IF you seethe Mugwoort in water and plaster it hotte vpon the Nauell and thyghes of a Woman labouring with chylde it causeth both chylde byrth and the after burthen also but if it tarry long there it wyll cause the Matrix to follow Rogerius FOr scalding and burning that it be not seen Take sheepes suet and sheepes dung and the inner rinde of Elderne and boyle them all together then streyne them through a course canuas cloath and so keepe it in some cleane vessell which when you do occupy you must melt it in a sawcer or some other thing and laye it on the burned place with a fether proued TO drawe out a toothe fyll an earthen potte with Emets or Ants and theyr Egs and set the same potte in hotte embers so long vntyll all be burned in to ashes and when any toothe doth ake which you would drawe forth without paine then take of the same Ants and theyr egs made in fyne powder and touch the tooth therwith and it wyll fall out ANnoint the freckled face with the bloud of a Hare or of a Bull and it wyll do them away and make the skyn fayre Proued THis following wyll helpe the hardnes of the syde called the Elfe cake Take the roote of Gladen and make powder therof and geue the diseased party halfe a spoonefull therof to drynke in white Wine and let him eate so much thereof in his Pottage at one tyme it wyll helpe him within a whyle This was tolde me for a very trueth MUgwoort stieped in Rose water doth helpe trēbling or shaking hands if they be washt therwith Mizaldus YOu shall knowe whether the Tode stone called Crapaudina be the ryght and perfect stone or not Holde the stone before a Tode so that he maye see it and if it be a ryght true stone the Tode wyll leape towarde it and make as though he woulde snatch it from you He enuieth so much that man should haue that stone This was credibly tolde Mizaldus for trueth by one of the French Kings Phisitiōs which affyrmed that he dyd see the tryall therof GArlycke being sowne when the Moone is vnder the earth and pluckt vp when the Moone is aboue the earth it is sayde that then his stynking smell wyll be gone Sotion Grecus And Palladius reports that Garlicke wyll be made the sweeter if in the planting therrof you do set the stones of Olyues round about it Or els if you set the Garlicke brused LAye a Spunge vpon any ache or gowte dypte in warme wyne of the decoction of Coomyn and it wyll drawe out the hurtfull humors It hath bene proued Petrus Hisp. IF in the degree of the Ascendent or nye vnto it within two degrees there is an euyll Planet It is an argument of the death of the party that dyd fal sycke at that tyme or for whome the question is then asked for the state of his sycknesse And if it be in a moueable sygne it betokens that the sycke shall dye within so many dayes as the sayde euyll Planette is degrees from the degree of the Ascendent if in a fyxed signe then it sygnifyes a long tyme that is as I haue tryed euerye
an easy fyre and that that shall distyll keepe in a vessell of Gold or Syluer Sylens is to be kept of the prayse of this water because it may not be bought For his vertue doth pallyfie leprous persons it heales and destroyes a pure leprie it wypes away or takes away euery spot it conserues youth it makes the eye fayre I cease to speake of the secretes of this water for because I feare least they that haue it should be puft vp with pryde Trotula de pass Mulier THis following is a proued thing for the sounding of the eares or wynde in the same Take Almonds and the kernelles of Peches and let them be cleane pylled in hotte water then stampe them and get oyle out of them and put of the same oyle with tents wet in the same into the soūding eares or otherwise grieued which tents must be made of fyne lynnen cloath and do thus with new tents euery daye once for the space of nyne or ten dayes and it wyll put away the sounding and other paines of the eares This I learned of one that came out of Spaine And I proued it to be very true FINIS Lib. 7. ⧠The eyght Booke of Notable thinges YOu shal make Vinegar by and by if you powre pure good Wine halfe sodde into a newe earthen vessell then well couered and stopte and so the same Potte set in hotte scalding water A Woolfe fyrst seeing a Man doth lyfte vp his voyce and as a vyctor doth despyse him But if he perceyue that the Man hath espyed him fyrst he laies away his fiercenes and can not run D. Ambrosius Virgil. Plato Sextus Platon And other THere is deadlye warre betweene the Hawke and the Eagle who sometymes are so fast together in theyr fyght that they are both taken or catcht therby Plynius TO take the Byrdes that eates the seedes that are sowne Seethe Garlicke that it may not growe againe for it is sayde to profyte maruelously if it be throwne vnto them for they that shall eate of it wyl be taken with your hand Mizaldus HE that takes his iourney on the Sea in the houre of Saturne he shall haue many waues and diuers wyndes which wyll cast him to vnknowen places Haly Abenragel YF you geue one of these Pylles following euerye nyght going to bed to him that hath the palsey it wyll helpe him for it is proued Take of hearbe Iue Cowslops Bettony of the flowres of Sticados arabici of each one dram let them be dryed in the shadow and make them in fyne powder then take good Turbyth one dram of the best Agarick two drams Coloquyntyda halfe a dram Gynger Salgem of eyther ten graynes good and chosen Rewbarbe one dram and a halfe Spykenarde seuen graines the powder of Hiera simplex galeni halfe an ounce Scamony prepared one dram let them all be made in fyne powder and with the iuyce of hearbe Iue make a masse of Pylles The weyght to be geuen at one tyme is one Pyll of one scruple And marke if he that hath the palsey take this ordinary Pylle not once euerie day but twyse in the weeke at the least you shall see a sudden helpe in the palsey These Pylles maye worthely bee called gloryous Pylles in the palsey Emperica benedicti victorij fauentini A Certaine man fynding or catching a Mowse dyd hyt his wife therwith on the left cheeke being with chylde who after was delyuered of a Wench which Wench had and yet hath the marke of a Mowse on her left cheeke This was tolde by a credible womā who sayd moreouer that the name of this Wenches Father was Thomas Bucknam dwelling at the tyme in Northfolke in a certayne Towne called Dysse This affyrmes my other wryting hereof YOu may turne white Wine into redde without any hurt or detryment by and by if the powder of Honny that is fyrst sod vnto a stony substaunce and then dryed so made in powder be cast into whyte Wyne and myxing it well in the same with rowlyng it vp and downe together The rootes of any kinde of Dockes eyther new or dryed put into the Wine wyll perfourme the same with lesse busynes GArlycke being stampt with Hogs or Barrowes grease and made something thycke lyke an oyntment doth maruelously helpe them that haue the coughe and haue taken colde if theyr soles of theyr feete and theyr backe bone before the fyre be annointed therewith WHosoeuer hath any fyxed Starre of the fyrst honor or magnitude in the degree of theyr Horoscope or in the degree of theyr Cuspe of the tenthe house or in the degree of the Sunne by day or in the degree of the Moone by nyght he shall possesse great rytches and honors then his Auncestors haue done of the Nature of that fyxed Starre In deede this is true if that fyxed Starre be of a small Latitude but if it be of a great Latitude his strength wyll smallie appeare in the Natiuitie of the Chylde Thus much Taisnier THis water following is excellent good to cleare a dym syght if two or three drops therof be put into the eyes at a tyme vsyng it certayne dayes together Take of the water of Uarueyn the water of Roses and the water of Fennell of eache fowre ounces whyte strong wine three ounces Tuty preparate Sugar candy of either three drams Aloes Hepatick two drams let al them be beaten in fine powder that are to be powdred and put them into the waters Wine mixing all together and let them remaine and stand a whole day then streine them easely and keepe that lycquor in a fayre glasse vse it as is before said This is a precious thing for the syght and the eyes A Maruelous medicine for woundes sores Take a handfull of Arsmart wette in fayre water then laye it in the wounde or sore After burye the same Arsemart in some moyst ground and the said wound or sore wyll afterwarde myraculously heale as the same hearbe doth rotte and consume This I had of one that affyrmed it to be true I thinke it is written by Paracellus THe bodyes of drownd or dead men do fleete on the water with theyr faces and bellies vpward but dead Women do fleete on the water grouelyng or with theyr faces downward cōtrary to theyr procreation But they do not fleete or swym aboue the water out of whome the Lunges is taken c. Mizaldus THe water of Marygooldes doth helpe all diseases of the eyes and takes away all paines of the head And the smoake of the flowres therof taken or receyued by a Fundyble into the secrete partes of a Woman or else otherwyse taken doth bring forth easelie the after burthen This secrete Mizaldus dyd get of an olde Mydwyfe which had neede of his helpe otherwyse THe heade of a Gleade vnfeathered burned and so much thereof taken with water and droonke as you maye take vp with three fyngers helpes them that haue the gowte Galenus IF any come or send to thee
in the howre of Iupiter it is for no harme but rather for good Therefore doubt it not and though it should seeme to be some harme or losse at the fyrst yet at length it wyll turne to good The oftner one tryes it the truer he shall fynde it so that he be not Retrograde or Combust OKe ferne called Polipodium stampt and plastred vpon the feete of the Woman traueling of chylde causeth the byrth of the chylde eyther a lyue or dead This was tolde me for a great secrete TAke the grease of a Swyne or a Hogge and rubbe therewith the body of any that is sycke against the harte or the soles of his feete then geue that grease to a Dogge which if he eate the partye wyll escape if not it is a token that he wyll dye thereof THis following wyll helpe them that be deaffe Take a peece of greene Elme or Ashe and laye it in the fyre and receyue the water that commeth out of the endes thereof and take also a spoonefull of the iuyce of Syngreene and a spoonefull of Aqua vite and a spoonefull of the grease of an Eele that is redde beneathe the nauell boyle all these together a lytle on the fyre and put it into a glasse and when he goeth to bedde put some thereof into his eare luke warme and in two or three dayes he wyll be hole and heare well This is proued TO drawe out a toothe without any payne Take the goom of Iuy and greene Iuy leaues of each a lyke weyght and burne them to powder in a newe earthen potte and when it is made in fyne powder myxe it together with the mylke of Spurge and put some thereof into the toothe that you woulde haue out if it be hollow if not touch the toothe therwith and it wyll fall out but beware you touch none other toothe therwith AElianus dooth report that no sycke person of the Locrenses should vpon payne of death drynke any Wyne without the consent knowledge of the Phisition or any other geue it them without the commaundement of the Phisition IF you wyll proue whether there be any water mixed with Wyne or not put an Egge into the Wyne and if the Egge synke into it there is water myxt with it if the Egge swym then it is pure Wyne IF the scull of an aged man be hanged in a Doouehouse Pygions wyll be encreased there and wyl lyue quietly Albertus as Mizaldus doth wryte THe iuyce of Baye leaues distylled into the cares doth not permytte deafnesse nor other straunge soundes to abyde in the eares Petrus Hispanus A Question was asked of the state of a certayn person being sycke of what condition the disease was and whether they should recouer therof or not c It seemed at the fyrst syght that the party was hole for whome the question was made because the Sunne was in the tenth house and the parte Fortune in the Ascendent but many other testymonies shewed the contrary And also Mars dyd corrupt Venus Lady or Alumten of the Ascendēt and Venus also was vnder the beames of the Sunne and began to be Combust distaunt from the Sun ten degrees for Venus was in the .xxviii. degree of Sagitary and the Sun in the .viii degree of Capricorne which two degrees in Sagitary dyd sygnify two monthes being a common sygne and the .viii. degrees in Capricorne being a moueable sygne dyd sygnify .viii. dayes therfore it was to be doubted of the death of the sicke personne about two monthes and .viii. daies after the questiō was made as God would ordaine and so it hapned ryght by the appoyntment of God to whome it belonges onely to cure infyrmities griefes to raise vp the dead and to moderate the earthly bodies by the heauenly bodies and to dispose inferyor thinges by meanes to whom be glory Amen Guilelmus Anglicus in suo tractatu de vrina non visa AN excellent medicine for the ache in the bones or armes or any other place of the body Annoynt the place where the payne or ache is with good and pure Aqua Composita by the fyre and let it drinke in doo thus three or fowre tymes together then at the last tyme whyle it is wette cast vpon the wette place where the ache is the powder of Olibanum which is the fairest and the whitest of the Frankensence and so laye a lynnen cloath vpon the powder and sowe it fast and so let it lye three or fowre dayes vntyll it be well and whole Which wyll be by that tyme God wylling Proued ENuches that is they that be gelded be neuer balde nor gowtye Hippocr IT is a thing worthy of memory that Lampridius wrytes of Heliogabalus the Romaine Emperour who sayth he had fowre Hartes in his Charret that carryed him and so many Dogges calling him selfe Diana and fowre Tygers calling himselfe Bacchus and fowre Lyons calling him selfe Cibel and he ioygned fowre Women to his Charret as Sesostris King of Egipt dyd with fowre Kings O prowde presumptuous Prince he might ryde a good whyle in that Charret ere it woulde bring him to heauen IT is not good to burye any too hastely especially such as haue had the Apoplexy the falling sycknes and that are suffocate with the Strangulation of the wombe called the moother For such may seeme to be deade and yet reuyue againe within three dayes for it was the fowrth daye after Lazarus dyed ere Christe dyd rayse him from death to lyfe least any should falsely report that Lazarus had had the Apoplexy or the falling sycknes or such lyke and therfore but in a traunce or not perfectly dead whereby the iust meryte of Christes maruelous myracle thereof myght be darkned This is the meaning of Lemnius in his seconde Booke of the secrete myracles of Nature Therefore it is very meete to know whether any such be perfectly dead or not which you may doo by holding a lytle burning candle at the parties nose whose mouth is open or else by setting some lytle cuppe or glasse full of water to the brymme vpon the sayde partyes belly or nauell for by the mouing of the flame of the candle or of the vessell with water you shall perceyue his secrete breathing and whether there be any lyfe in him or not Camillus AN approued medicine dooth follow for the shortnes of breath doth maruelously helpe the same for if halfe an ounce thereof be geuen to the patient thryse in a naturall daye that is three howres before dynner two howres before supper and about mydnyght continewing the same three or fowre dayes and no moe you shall see the diseased healed Take of Manna elect or chosen called Manna Granata two ounces the flowre of Cassia newly drawne halfe an ounce Penyedes three ounces oyle of sweete Almondes being new one ounce the Lyghts or Lungs of a Foxe fynely beaten and powdred two ounces make the rest in powder that are to be powdred then myxe all together and make therof a Lectuary
with the syrrup of Hysop Emperica benedicti victoriâ— fauent You maye haue it well made at the Apothecaryes I haue tryed it to be an excellent thing in this case YF you wyll breake the great heate of Wyne in the vessell cast into the same a lytle peece of cheese and then you shall see a maruelous thing And why that is Georgius valla placentinus doth teache YF you annoynt your hands or other parts of your body with a Linement made of Nettels oyle and a lytle Salt it wyll defende the party therwith annoynted from the bytterest colde that is Mizaldus THere be braunches of a Bay tree wrapt vp or layd among cloathes and bookes wyll keepe the same safe from mothes woormes and other corrupcion Dioscorides IF you stampe Ants egges strayne them through a cloath and put therevnto the iuyce of Swynes grasse or Knot grasse and distyll it into the eares it helpes a long continewed deafnes A Powder to conserue the syght Take Bettony Rewe Celondine Saxifrage Louache Annyse seedes Cynamom Eyebryght of each one handfull Cardamomum Gynger Fennell Petroselyne Hysop Organy Syler mountaine of each one dram Galinga one ounce Sugar one ounce Let a powder be made of these and let it be taken continually with meate and the syght wyll be restored and kept This powder was ordeyned by Maister Geralde whose tryall an olde man dyd proue which vsed spectacles twelue yeares so that without them he could not see great letters but after he had vsed this powder onely one forty dayes he was free in so much that all the tyme of his lyfe he dyd see and read the least letter that was This Trotula hath written in the later ende of his Booke De passionibus mulâ—erum AN excelleÌ„t way to get out the water out of swolne legges wherby to make them as slender as they were before Seethe Otes in water vntyll they be tender then let the party diseased hold his legge that is swolne ouer the vessell that it maye receyue the fume or smoake of the sodde Otes and couer the partye with some thing that it may go downe rounde about the vessell and then blysters wyll come vpon the legge or swolne place out of which wyll runne much water and corruption then after annoynt the place with butter Doo thus fowre or fyue seuerall tymes if neede be This is well proued TWo or three drops of pure Aqua Composita put into the eyes morning and euening euery other daye for the space of fowre or fyue dayes wyll cleare the syght and helpe the eyes of a colde cause maruelously An olde Gentlewoman that tryed it on her selfe dyd reueale it to me THe hearbe Dandelyon well sodde in water is counted to be a chiefe helpe for the ioygning or knytting of woundes It is good for Ruptures or for them that be broken or brusten c. Mizaldus A Maruelous Water that soone and easily may be prepared more precious then Golde is made as followeth Put fayre and cleare water into a vessell wherein there was neuer before any lycquor or before neuer occupyed and when the water is verye hotte powre it to quicke Lyme being before in another newe and cleane vessell and let it remayne and rest so long vntyll you haue taken all the fowle spume that fleetes aboue from the same and that all the Lyme bee settled to the bottome and the water verye cleare then powre out the water very softlye without mouing the Lyme in the bottome and keepe the same water in a fayre cleane glasse or some other cleane vessell well couered or stopt vntyll you vse the same It wyll scantly be beleeued what a myraculous vertue and power it hath in all kynde of Ulcers and chiefly such as springes of the Frenche Pockes For the same being bathed or moystned with a lynnen cloath dypt or wet in the sayde water something warme a prety whyle and then a lynnen cloath well wet in the same and so layde vpon the Ulcer or sore in manner of a plaster and after renewed againe it wypes cleane away all the fylthe or corruption it ceaseth the paynes it fylles the Ulcer with flesh and it quyte quencheth the heate or inflamations in a small tyme Not without a great myracle for otherwyse quicke Lyme dooth burne with vehemencie of his heate Let them enioye this most excellent secrete which for great prayer and pryse to many I haue refused to vtter Thus much Mizaldus MYrre geuen to drynke in warme Wyne the quantity of a bygge Nut causeth the delyueraunce of the the chylde eyther quicke or dead Petrus Hispanus HEre followeth a blessed water for the Gowte Take of Romaine Uitryall two poundes of distylled Honny fowre pyntes distyll these together making the Uitryall fyrst in powder and when it is distylled adde to the same the thyrde part thereof of Aqua vite rectifyed which dillygently myâ—ed keepe to your vse and annoynt the sore or grieued place therwith Doo thus morning and euening vntyll you feele your selfe well which wyl be God wyllyng within seuen or eyght dayes at the furthest I wrote this out of an olde Booke I thinke it be also in the new Iewell of Health which is a worthy booke and full of many straunge and excellent things THe smoake of Iuy burned doth driue away Backs or Reremyse from that place where the same smoake is Anatolius IF any doth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie for any thing wherin he hath a hope to haue marke if the Lorde of the eleuenth house apply to the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Lord of the fyrst house to the Lord of the eleuenth house Iudge that he shall haue the thing which he hopes to get or haue and he shall come to it And if the Aspect be of a Tryne or Sextyle he shall quickly and easilye and by a good meane obtayne it but if it be by a quartyle or opposyte Aspect he shall get it with tediousnes and labor Furthermore if thou doost fynde the Lorde of the eleuenth house in an Angle receyued then iudge that he shall haue the thing which he so hopes to haue euen as he desyres Haly Abenragel A Peece of the roote of Craw foote eyther put into the hollowe toothe if there be any or applyed to the toothe that aketh wyll helpe the same presently A sure proued and often tryed medicine WHosoeuer hath a sorenes in the throate or else any harde swelling there called the Squinancie or Angina and perhappes thereby doth hardly draw his breath let them apply this following often times in a day and it wyll soften it and resolue it For it is proued Take of the rootes of Hollyock cut in small peeces and made cleane Camamell the flowres of Uyolets the flowres of Mallowes with the rootes of each one handfull let them boyle all in a sufficient quantitye of water vntyll the water be consumed then put to the same the flowre of barley Lynseede and Fenecreeke well stampt and beaten of each
and the howre of Iupiter is an excellent howre to doo any thing or to take any good thing in hande A Lytle Gunpowder put into a peece of fyne lynnen cloath and the same put into the hollowe toothe or holden betweene the teethe so that it touch the aking toothe It puts away the toothe ache presently This is very true IF you distyll hearbe Iue and geue the water therof to be drunken of them that are grieued or tormented with the gowte annoynting also therewith the gowty or grieued place it wyll heale or helpe them assuredly Great warrantyse was made of this medicine where I had it A Speciall medicine for all suddayne sycknes and especiall of the stomack or breast Take a spoonefull of Aqua vite and put therein halfe a spoonefull of the powder of Lycqueres and let it remayne therin three howres drynke it fasting or at euen when you go to bedde It is a soueraigne thing for the stomacke or breast LAye Saffern on the Nauell of them that haue the yallowe Iaundyse and it wyll helpe them This was affyâ—med to me as proued THis following is an excellent medicine to purge the head of naughty humors to helpe the headache the swymming of the head and the mygrym Washe the rootes of Beetes and cutte away the vppermost backe then stampe the same and wryng out the iuyce therof then snuffe some of it out of a spoone into your nose and a maruelous effect wyll followe and a speedy remedy therof A Gentleman a friende of myne tolde mee this as a most sure and proued thing in this case COckes that eates Garlycke are made stoute to fyght therefore trauellors do often byte thereof and also such as followes warres because it encreaseth agylytie strengthneth them and makes them bolde It is geuen to Horsses with bread and Wyne at the howre of the battell or conflyct to make them more fierce lyuely and to suffer more easily theyr labour and trauayle Mizaldus THere were young Mise found with the Persians in the bellyes of Myse that had young Myse in theyr bellyes Aristoteles as Mizaldus wrytes IF the feete of a great lyuing Tode be cutte off the Moone voide of course that is aspecting none and hastens towards the coniunction of the Sunne and hangd about the necke of him or her that hath the Kings Euyll it so profytes that oftentymes it delyuers the party from the disease Hieronimus Cardan IF Iupiter be in the eleuenth house well affected and not Retrograde nor Combust nor in his fall as in Capricorne but in Cancer Sagitary or Pisces it sygnifyes the Chylde then borne shall be fortunate happy and haue a common loue in all thinges chiefly if he haue any dignity in the Ascendent or in the place of the Sunne in the Natiuity of the daye or in the place of the Moone in the Natiuitie of the night Taisnier THis maruelous Water following wyll recouer the syght againe hyndred of any cause wherwith Constantine the Emprour receyued his syght Take three drams of Tutie made in very small powder as much of Aloe Epaticum in powder two drams of fyne Sugar syxe ounces of Rosewater as much of pure whyte Wyne myxe all together and put it in some cleane vessell of glasse and being well closed and stopt set it in the Sunne a month together sturring it together once euery daye Then take of the same water fowre or fyue droppes in your eyes morning and euening and with thus continewing a certayne space it wyll cause the syght to come againe as fayre as euer it was before This I knowe is proued for an excellent water for the eyes for it cleareth them maruelously I knew one that coulde not threede a needle without spectacles which put not past two or three drops of the same into theyr eyes at nyght and the next morning the same partie dyd see well to threede a needle without spectacles TO make a lyght that neuer shall fayle Take the Woormes that shynes in the nyght called Gloowoormes stampe them and let them stande tyll the shyning matter be aboue then with a fether take of the same shyning matter and myngle it with some quycksyluer and so put it into a Uyall and hang the same in a darke place and it wyll geue lyght This I had out of an olde booke which is not much vnlike to the discription of Mizaldus IF the Lyuer of a Mowse be geuen in a Fygge to a Swyne that Swyne wyll follow the geuer therof Mizaldus THe sounde of an Eccho is thought to dryue away Bees Therefore theyr Hyues ought to be plaste where the Eccho or the voyce doth not sound againe M. Varro WHosoeuer takes his iourney in the howre of Iupiter he shall haue good gaine in his substaunce and in his busynes and he shal haue profyt and gladnes in things vnlooked for Haly. IF a Spider be put in a lynnen cloath a lytle brused and holden to the nose that bleedes but touch not the nose therwith but smell to the same by by the bloud wil stay and the nose will leaue bleeding This is very true For the venemous Spyder is so contrary and such an enemie to mans bloud that the bloud drawes backe and shunnes the Spyder presently A maruelous thing WRyte what you wyl on fayre whyte paper with the iuyce of a redde Onion well myxed and tempered with the whyte of an Egge which being drie wyll appeare as though it were onely playne paper without any wryting But if you holde it against the fyre you maye then easilye reade it or perceyue the letters TO gylde Yron or Copper Take the gall of a Bull and rubbe the Yron or Copper well therwith so that the same before be well burnished all about that you woulde haue gylded and let it after drye in the Sunne foreseeing that there come no dust therto and when it is drye gylde vpon it as you would doo vpon Syluer SEethe an Egge in strong Uinegar vntyll it be very harde then let the same Egge lye three dayes in Urine then drye it and it wyll be maruelous harde Or let an Egge lye three dayes in Uinegar then drie the same at the Sunne three dayes and it wyll be very harde CAst Brymstone into a Chafyngdysh with hotte burning coales and holde a redde Rose ouer the smoake therof and it wyll be whyte TO seperate Golde from any thing gylded Seethe pure Sulphurevyue called quicke Brymstone in water vntyll halfe the water be consumed then wette the parte gylded with that water then drye it at the fyre then stryke the same gylded place with a lytle Yron and the Golde wyll fall from it This I had out of an olde wrytten Booke but howe true it is I knowe not Therefore as you trye it so take it TO proue or finde out the euent of any that is sycke Count the daies from the beginning of his or her sycknes and take the roote of an hearbe which hath so many leaues as
successe it was coumpted for a myracle Iohannes Agricola dooth say the lyke is done if a lytle peece of the same Hoofe be hanged vppon one that hath the same disease so that it may touche the skyn I doo heare sayth Mizaldus that the scrapings or fylings therof is geuen in Polonia for the same disease The Hoofe of the ryght hinder foote is to be chosen But you must take heede of false deceyuers which sels the Hoofes of Oxen or Kyne for the true Hoofes of Alces IT is a most sure and proued remedy as well in curying of spitting of bloud as also in preseruing from the same euery day in the morning fasting to eate a scruple which is the weyght of .xxiiii. Barly cornes of Rubarbe tosted at the fyre Emperica benedicti fauentini BAye Salt well beaten into powder and syfted and incorporated or myxed well with the yolke of an Egge and so layde vpon any Carbuncle plague sore botche byle or impostume assuredly by the grace of God it wyll drawe to it selfe all the venome of the plague or the sore and breake any byle or other thing So that in short tyme the same wyl be healed A tryed thing IF the foreheade of the sycke waxe redde and his browes fall downe and his nose waxe sharpe and colde and if his left eye become lytle and the corner of his eye runne if he turne to the wall if his eares be colde or if he maye suffer no bryghtnes and if his wombe fall if he pull strawes or the cloathes of his bedde or if he picke often his nosthryls wich his fyngâ—â—s and if he wake much being a young man or â—â—ing an olde man sleepe much These are most cerâ—ayne tokens of death POttage made of the leaues and rootes of Strawberies being eaten fasting certayne dayes of them that haue the Iaundise doth helpe them perfectly This was the secrete of a certayne Moonke wherwith he got maruelous much money A Serpente doth so hate the Ashe tree that she wyll not come nye the shadowe of them And therefore shee goes farre from them both morning and euening because then they geue the longest shadowes And Pliny sayth that he hath proued it that if one compasse a place about with the braunches of an Ashe tree so that there be a fyre and a Serpent enclosed in the same the Serpent wyll rather go into the fyre then she wyl seeke to escape ouer or through the sayd Ashen braunches c. Mizaldus YF the Lord of the Ascendent be found in the twelft house he that is then borne shal procure his owne enemity Taisnier IUmper berryes are medicinable against poysons for there is none of lyke operation vnto it And Dioscorides sayth also that they do helpe against poysons and styngings of Serpents Petr. Hispanus TO trye whether precious Stones be pure or not Heate a plate of Yron on the fyre then annoynt the same with Oyle and cast or strowe on the same the powder of glasse wherevpon saye qucke buâ—ning coales and then holde the stone that you would trie a good whyle ouer the same coales that the stone maye be hotte not touching the fyre and then iâ— the stone lose his cullour he is not good or pure But if he keepe his cullour he is then perfect and right AS principall a medicine as euer was ordained for the bone ache eyther in Woman or Man in what place so euer it bee Take a penny woorth of Aqua vite and an other of oyle Debaye and myxe them well together and annoynt the grieued place therewith not by the fyre and it wyll doo awaye the payne for euer vsyng it often But you must warme the Oyntment a lytle in a Sawcer before you laye it on and chafe it well vntyll it be dryed in and couer it warme at all tymes vntyll it be hole Thus I founde it wrytten EGremony Mugwoort and Bettony both leaues and rootes stampte with olde grease and vynegar or veriuyce and a plaster thereof applyed to the grieued or sore payned backe wyll quyte put away the paynes and griefe therof So that you vse it three or fowre tymes A sure and proued medicine IF you wyll catche Mowles or Woontes put Garlycke Leekes or an Onion in the mouthes of theyr hoales or in theyr entringes into the grounde and you shall see them come or leape out quycklye as though they were amased or astonied Albertus IF the Fystula be outwarde put into it the iuyce of Culuerfoote for it healeth it If it be inward drink it and it healeth also This is true for it hath bene proued FOr them that haue surfeyted or eaten too much let them stampe Bettony and temper it with hote water and a lytle Wine then strayne it well drinke a good draught thereof morning euening fyrst and last three dayes together and it wyl throughly helpe him God wylling This was told me for a trueth THe two hornes of a Snayle borne vppon a man wyll plucke away carnall or fleshly lust from the bearer thereof I had this out of an olde wrytten booke But howe true it is I knowe not FOr all euyls of the stomacke and for them that can not eate Take an hearbe called Centory seethe it well in stale Ale when it is wel sodden then stampe it after that seethe it againe in the same Ale let there be two handfull of Centory to three quartes of Ale and let them seethe as is before sayde to three pynts then put thereto one pynt of pure Honny and boyle them together and keepe it in some cleane vessell and geue to the party grieued three spoonefull therof fasting euery daye tyll he be hole and well for it driues away all the fleame corruption from the stomacke makes him haue a great desyre to his meate within fowre or fiue dayes Often proued THe powder of Bettony put in Wyne that is a spoonefull of the powder to a draught of Wyne a lytle boyled on the fyre being drunke doth presently helpe such as haue drunk poyson before And whosoeuer drinks the same in a morning fasting no poyson taken after the same day can hurt him This is a proued and tryed medicine THe dung of a Catte dryed so myxed with strong vynegar that it may be something thycke therwith any heayrye place rubbed often tymes or annoynted in a day it wyll cause that heair wyll grow no more in that place Proued of a countrey man Mizaldus IF the Lapwing doo syng before the Uynes doo budde it is sayde that it foreshewes great plentie of Wyne Mizaldus WHosoeuer deliuers a sum of Money in the howre of Iupiter he shall receyue it againe well with gayne Haly Abenragel THis pocyon or drinke following is wonderful and very often proued of me sayth Petrus Hispanus for it kylleth the Fystula in what place so euer it be and draweth out the corrupt and broken bones Take the rootes leaues of Planten Strawbery leaues the leaues or seedes of
Hempe the leaues or seedes of Mustarde the tops of sharpe Docke red Colewoort leaues and Tansey let them all seethe in a good quātity of whyte Wine after strayne all the whole put into the streyning as much Honny as shall be thought meete geue therof vnto the patient early late vntil such tyme as the cleare pocyon or drynke come forth by the mouth of the Fystula which must alwayes be kept open with a syluer Pype put into it and keepe vppon it alwayes a redde colewoort leafe It is of a wonderfull operation Petrus Hispanus And I my selfe haue proued it and it healed in such manner as is before declared It is a precious thing DRagans bounde to the priuities of a Woman in labour causeth her to be delyuered incontynent But there must be heede taken that it be quickly remoued least it drawe forth the Matrix with all Petrus Hispanus HEre followeth an excellent Oyle which maketh a fayre cullour in the face Take of Almonds scraped ten poundes of redde Saunders in powder sixe ounces of Cloues one ounce of whyte Wyne fowre ounces of Rosewater three ounces these after they be groslye beaten together let them lye in a marble Morter close couered for eyght or nyne dayes beating the same ouer once a daye then heate it all in an earthen vessell vntyll it begynne to fume and be through hotte and after that put it into a newe square bagge of lynnen cloath then put the same bagge into a presse betweene two smoothe plates of Yron something hotte ▪ for out wyll come a redde oyle wherewith Women maye annoynt theyr faces for it causeth a comly redde and bewtyfull skynne A secrete and practysed of fewe This is in the newe Iewell of Health a Booke of muche value and small pryce THe grease of an Eele and the iuyce of Syngreene mixed together of each a lyke much boyled a lytle and a lytle therof put into the deafe eare nyne nights together wyll bring the hearing agayne as well as euer it was TAke Salt Armoniacke Allom and Salt Niter of eache a lyke quantitie with a lytle fylings of Syluer let all be myxt together then put them vnto the fyre that they maye be hotte and when they shall cease to smoake then with the same powder alone or else myxte or moystened with the spettell of your mouth let Copper or Brasse be rubbed therewith and strayght way it wyll haue the cullour of Siluer SErpentes being within a cyrcle made of Byttony they can not go out of the same But rather wyll dye with beating them selues Plinius IF the Lorde of the seconde house be in the twelfth house enemyties wyll come many tymes to him that is then borne for money or through money Taisnier PLanten stampte and the iuyce wroong out put into the hollownesse of an Ulcer with a spowte healeth the same So doth Bettony stampte and applyed to a Fystula healeth it Petrus Hispanus ▪ The iuyce of Cinquefoyle doth heale the Fistula lykewise if it be put into the same with a spowte TO seperate Golde from any thing that is gylded Take Borace and temper it in water thē boyle it ouer the fyre and with the same water annoynt the thing that is gylded cast theron a lytle of the powder of quick Brymstone after put it into the fyre that it may be made red then quench it in running water you shall finde the gold in the bottome of the vessell FOr any paynes of the eares and for them that cannot heare Take a great Onion cutte a hoale therin and set it in the embers to roast then fyll it full of oyle Olyffe and euer as it dryeth fyll it vp againe tyl it be roasted well then take away the vppermost skin therof then strayne the Onion through a cloath and keepe it in some close glasse and when you wyll occupy thereof put some of it into the hole eare and let him lye on his sore eare when he goes to bedde and if he vse this nyne nyghts at the furthest it wyll helpe him Proued FOr the fundamēt that goeth forth Take the tops of redde Nettelles and stampe them in a morter then put it into an earthen potte then put thereto a good porcion of whyte Wyne and set it ouer the fyre and let it seethe tyll halfe the lycquor be concōsumed and geue the party diseased a good draught thereof something hotte to drinke morning and euening fyrst and last for the space of ten dayes And also apply the hearbes something warme to his fundament and it wyll helpe him perfectly Proued FOr eyes that be chafed and the lyddes turned vp or bleared eyes Take Arnement Honny and the whytes of Egges of each a lyke much temper them well together then take flaxe laye the same theron then applye the same vpon the sore eyes and it wyll draw the euyll bloud out of them and perfectly heale them This medicine hath bene proued IT is sayd that a Hart doth so abhorre a Ram that he can not abyde the syght of him Aristotil Plin. And other WHen fowre or fiue Planets be cōiunct or ioygned together in the Ascendent or fyrst house of any chylde that is borne that chyld wyll not lyue long Expositor doth say the King of our Cittie dyd cal me because one of his Women had borne a Son the Ascēdent was the eyght degree of Libra the terme of Mercury and Iupiter was in the same also Venus Mars Mercury and the company of the Astrologyans dyd meete together there and euery one of them dyd tell his opinion and I heald my peace The King sayde vnto me saye what thou can why doost thou not speake To whome I aunswered geue mee respyte for three dayes for if your Sonne shall passe the thyrd daye you shall see a great myracle of him And after xxiiii howres was ended the Chylde dyd ryse vp to sytte and he spake and gaue sygnes with his hande wherof the King was greatly afrayde And I sayde that he woulde speake some Prophesie or some myracle Then the King went to the Chylde and wee with him to heare what he would saye And the Infant sayde I am the Infortunate borne Chyld and I am borne to shew the losse of the kingdome of Azdexit and the destruction of the people of Almanaz And strayght way the Chylde fell downe and dyed Haly Abenragel THis following is a Secrete and proued thing for the Palsey whereof if you geue thryse in the daye to him that hath the Palsey halfe an ounce that is in the morning three howres before meate and two howres before supper and at his going to bedde it wyll helpe him thereof Take of the new and fresh brayne of an Hare broyled or fryed one pounde the iuyces of Sage of hearbe Iue and the iuyce of the roote of Acorus of each three drams of pure Cynamom Cloaues blacke Pepper of each halfe a dram Turpentyne washt with the water of hearbe Iue three ounces Sugar
them it taketh them away cleane And also if Purslane be rubbed vpon them it pulleth them vp dy the rootes Petr. Hispanus FOr the Coddes that be swolne Take the powder of Coomyn seede Barly meale and Honny of each a lyke much frye them together with a lytle Sheepe suet and bynde the same as a plaster all about the Cods and it wyll helpe it Proued THis following wyll breake a Byle Botche or a Fellon Lay fyrst thertoo some posset crudde and let it not be remoued of twelue howres and that wil gather the matter together and make it tender But if once applying of the posset crudde do it not then apply therof to it twyse or thryse then take vnquencht Lyme and cast vpon it some fayre spring water and myxe the same with blacke Sope and lay to the sore a peece thereof according to the greatnes that you woulde haue the hoale of the sore and when it is brooke then washe it with whyte Wyne a lytle heated and so heale it with Butter powder of Sugar mixed together This is a sure and approued thing A Notable secrete for all incurable aches paynes in the ioyntes where euer they be Take all the whole horne that a Buck castes off the later the better cast away the scawpe take nothing but the horne cut the same in shyuers or peeces then seethe the same in a gallon of fayre water vntyll all be comd to a pynt or some thing more then cast away the peeces of the horne and then let that in the vessell stand vntyll it be colde which then wyll be lyke a ielly And when you wyll occupy therof warme some of it in a sawcer or some other conuenient thing then annoint the grieued place therwith by the fyre morning and euening let it drynk in by the heate of the fyre and it wyl helpe and heale it throughly for euer God wylling within nyne or ten dressings This is very true and well proued which a friend of mine tolde me that helped him selfe of such an ache therwith that neyther counsell of Phisitions practise of Surgeons nor yet the long vsing of the Bathes could ease wherby he spent much money in vayne vntyll a Wenche by chaunce tolde him this excellent remedy Which as she sayde a noble man of this Realme dyd learne beyonde the Seas who hath reuealed it synce to the great commodity and helpe of many FOr swolne or sore throtes a rare and sure remedy Rubbe your hand on the bare earth or ground and then therwith rubbe the sore or swoolne throote if presently you do thus three seuerall tymes the swelling payne wyll myraculously go away This was taught me by a friende of myne that dyd knowe it to be true by proofe AN excellent remedy for a great heate pricking in the eyes Fyl an Egge she l newly emptyed with the iuyce of Syngreene set it in the hotte embers and skym of the greene baggage from it and then it wyll be a water then straine it and keepe it in a glasse and put some of it into the hotte eies fowre or fiue nights together and it wyll cease the burning and pricking therof quickly Often proued HE shall scantly or neuer dye an euyll death that hath a good Planet in his .viii. house Haly Aben. A Woonderfull drinke against brusings and it helpeth such maruelously that are brused through falling Take Egremony Bettony Sage Planten Iuy leaues Rosepearslie stampe them together and mixe Wyne therto geue the patient it often to drinke tyll he be hole A true and tried medicine I thinke that Petrus Hispanus hath the same IF you burne fowre ounces of Turpentine vpon a hotte or burning plate of Yron vntyll it maye be made in powder and then myxe two drams there of with fowre ounces of the water of Saxifrage and geue it twyse in a weeke early in a morning to thâ—m that haue the stone in theyr blather and so continew it two monthes he shall not onely be preserued from breeding of the stone in the blather but also it wyll burst and dryue forth the stone bred there already This is proued and a secrete and is to be kept well in minde Benedictus victorius Fauentinus IF Lauender be well sodde in water and then strayned and halfe a pynt therof droonke dayly fyrst and last for the space of a fortnight it wyll heale them that haue the Palsey This was founde in an olde written booke AN excellent and speedy remedy for many diseases and chiefly for the stomacke Myxe two spoonefull of Sallet oyle with two spooneful of pure Aqua vite and drynke all the same in the morning at one tyme doo so syxe or seuen morninges together It is a notable and often proued remedy FOr the Strangury a straunge medicine Take a pynt of good Aqua composita and put a good haÌ„dfull of Iuy leaues therin keepe the vessell wel stopt the Iuy leaues wyll consume therin vse to drink of the same three or fowre spoonefuls at one tyme morning and euening fyrst last fiue or sixe dayes together and you shall see a maruelous helpe therof THis following is a proued medicine for the ache in the huckle bone called the Sciatica Take a pounde of good black Sope one pint of good Aqua vite halfe a pynt of Sallet oyle and a quarter of a pynt of the iuyce of Rew seethe them and sturre them all together ouer an easie fyre vntyll it be something thycke and that it maye be made in a plaster then spreade some therof vpon a peece of lether and apply it to the ache or payned place and let it lye thereon vnremoued three dayes and three nyghts and if the payne be not then gone then applye such an other plaster thertoo and remoue it not of so long and it wyl helpe it certainly This was tolde me by one that knew it often proued THe powder of whyte harde Sugar put into a bloudshotten eye or that is some thing dymme of syght It helpes the same and mendes the syght very well Especiallye if you put afterwarde a lytle Rose water into the eye This I haue proued dyuers tymes to be true Yea and I thinke if it were vsed it woulde consume the webbe of the eye at length HAly sayth that he that begyns to set forewarde his iourney in sayling or enters to go to the Sea in the howre of Saturne he wyll be drowned or else wyll be lost by the inuasion of Pyrates or other or else the fiercenes or great raginge of the Sea wyll throw him to the land where he shal suffer shipwrack Or else into farre Ilands he shal be caryed perhaps vnknowne to him Which of trueth hath alwayes hapned to that Shyp that then sets forewarde as the booke of Natures dyd contayne which as he hath dillygently proued and read which chiefly entreates of the iudgements of howres And the sayde Haly saith further as foloweth when a certaine shyp dyd set forth
back emroddes therewith it is maruelous good for the gowte the making of the oyle is thus Take of the most purest and oldest whyte Wine one quart of the oldest oyle Olyffe three pound Carduus benedictus called the blessed Thistle Ualerian the lesser Sage with the flowres if you can get them of each a quarter of a pounde of the leaues flowres of S. Iohns Woort halfe a pounde let the hearbs and flowres be infused or stieped in the sayd Wine oyle xxiiii howres then the next day let all be put into an earthen vessell leaded or a vessell of brasse vpon an easy fyre vntyll the Wyne be consumed moouing it styl being ouer the fire then being taken from the fire streyned put therto of Uenys Turpentine a pound and a halfe then let all boyle together a quarter of an howre then put therto Olibanū fiue ounces Myrre three ounces Sanguis Draconis one ounce and let all boyle vntyl the Myrre be dyssolued then put it into a vessell of glasse stopped let it stand in the hotte Sun ten daies before you vse this oyle you must wash the sores or woūds with whyte Wine wherin must be the powder of Olibanū I haue writtē this here because I thinke thereby many shall haue knowledge of this precious Oyle which otherwyse should neuer haue heard of it A Sweete water an vnknowen wherof one part mixt with ten quartes of pure water maketh the whole most sweet Take Nutmugs Cloues Galingale Spiknard graines of Paradise Mase Cinamō of euery one an ounce pound or stamp thē all ad therto twenty graines of Musk or lesse as you delyght in the smell therof powre into them a pound a halfe of Rosewater let them so remayne together in a close vessell fowre or fyue dayes then put therto thryse as much Rosewater and distyl all the same in a potte or kettel ful of water seething as in Balneo marie keep the distylled water in a glasse wel stopt to the vse before sayd Euoni IF an Eg be painted with sundry cullors the same set vnder a Hen which syts to bring forth chickens she wyll hatche therof a Chycken hauing the lyke fethers vnto the cullors paynted on the Egge Thomas Hyll out of the naturall and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua affyrmes this IF one make a lytle rope of the guts of a Woolf and then bury the same vnder sand or earth there wyll neither Horse nor Sheepe go that way though you beate them with a staffe Albertus IT is sayd that a Hare doth lyue ten yeeres the age of a Cat is so much a Goate doth liue eight yeeres an Asse thirty yeeres a Sheepe ten yeeres but the Belwether many times doth liue .xv. yeeres a Dog. xiiii and somtymes .xx. a Bull .xv. but an Oxe because he lacks his stones doth lyue .xx. a Swine and a Peycocke .xxv. a Horse .xx. and oftentimes .xxx. there haue bene Horses that lyued fifty yeeres Pygeons lyues naturally .viii. yeeres a Turtle a Partrech .xxv. yeeres also a Ryngdooue which oftentimes lyues xl yeeres Mizal. THe body of a Byrch tree cut or scortched the spring time going before doth yeeld great plenty of water which water being droonke hath a maruelous strength to breake the stone in the raynes Matheolus vpon Dioscorides wrytes it FINIS Lib. 9. ¶ The tenth Booke of Notable things THere is an euident familiarity betweene the Oliue tree and the Myrte tree for as Andronicus reportes the branches of the Myrt tree do pleasauntly extende or spreade by the Olyue tree and the rootes of them do mutuallye embrace each other nor any other plant but the Myrt tree wyll grow well nye the Olyue tree This also Mizaldus doth affyrme THe smell of Bitumen rawe or the smoake thereof burned receyued by the nose of such as are grieuously tormented with the paynes of the moother is a present helpe or remedy It is most certainly proued Wherfore many Women which are grieued with the disease do hang it about theyr necks in wooll that they maye driue away theyr fyt by the oft smelling therof Mizaldus wrytes this And the learned Doctor Monardus affyrmes the lyke therof THe sparrowe Hawke is a fierce enemie to all Pygions but they are defended of the Castrell whose syght and voyce the Sparhawke doth feare which the Pygions or Dooues knowes well inough for where the Castrell is from thence wyll not the Pigions go if the Sparhawke be nye through the great trust she hath in the Castrell her defendor Iohannes Baptista Porta hath written this THe leaues of a Wyllow tree as also the bark therof sodde in Wine doth helpe them that haue the gowte if they be fomēted or bathed therwith Mizal. SToflerus an excellent Astronomer knowing by his Natiuity that he should be in daunger to be hurte about a certaine day or tyme kept him self then within his own house assured that it was strong inough The same day or very nye vnto it that the euent should happe certayne of his learned friends and he as they were reasoning together dyd vary in some certayne opynion about the tryall wherof as it should seeme he reached to take downe one of his bookes being placed among dyuers other when through the lacke of a nayle the whole classe or shelfe where the booke was fell vpon his head and wounded his head very sore Which doth not onely shew the worthynes and excellencie of Astrology especially in a learned and skylfull person therin but also our folly in flying from Fate for that our wisdome doth leade vs into it whē most of all we meane for to shun it Therfore perfect prayer passeth pollecie in preuenting of peryls THree halfe penny weyght of the powder of the Adamant stone droonke with the iuyce of Fennell drawes the water from them that haue the dropsie And the same stone put to the head takes away quite all the paynes therof Iacobus Hollerus an excellent Phisition affyrmes it IT is a manifest thing and proued by dayly experience that the bodies of them that be murthred when they be founde if any of theyr kynred be then present or the party or partyes that kylled or murthered thē or was the cause therof Immediatly bloud wil burst forth suddenly either out of the wound or nose or out of some other part of theyr body I could aleadge here a great sort of examples for the verifying thereof but I omyt them for it is a thing found true by dayly experience Besydes that Lucretius Philip. Melancton Iohannes Langius and Lauinius Lemnius haue written therof PEeces of Amber being put or tyed to the hynder part of the head doth helpe the running or watrines of the eyes with a maruelous successe and hanged about the necke doth hynder distyllations that they go not downe by the throate Mizaldus Besides that it is proued to be true A Certayne Woman went with a dead Chylde in her wombe aboue fowre yeeres which by
things they haue So that by the sayde Boyes reuealing the sayde Gentleman found the Stones in a certaine lytle purse that the mawe of the Beast hath wherin the hearbs doth lye when he chaweth the cudde The sayd Gētlman geues a maruelous commendation of them in a letter which he wrote to Doctor Monardus an excellent learned Phisitiō of Ciuil in Spaine saying that they are maruelous good against all venom and against all sorts of poyson as well in meates as otherwyse and in euylles of the harte and to expell and kyl woormes and that they haue healed such diseases with this Stone that it is woonderfull to be seene both of Ladies Gentlemen and many other naming many of theyr names in that letter saying further That as a new thing all such takes it in powder as haue diseases which can not be healed by medicine many do heale and so with many other thinges he prayseth God for the great benefyts receyued by the vertues of this Besaar Stone And the sayde Doctor Monardus hauing receyued of the sayd Stones from the sayd Gentleman doth maruelously prayse extol the sayde Stones in a worthy worke or booke made by him of certayne trees oyles plants and stones of woonderfull great and maruelous effects whose very wordes thereof as much as shall seeme needefull therfore I here do vtter If I would sayth he put here the great effectes and the diseases which the Stones of Peru haue healed that they which do com from thence do tell me that Gentleman doth wryte merit would make a great booke I wyll put that only which I haue experymented and the effectes that I haue vnderstoode that they do and these that haue past by my handes wherby all credyte may be geuen vnto it and as a thing certayne seeing that there is experience of it with all assurance and trust it maye be vsed Our Occidental Besaar Stones haue great vertues principally they do remedy many persons which be sycke of the harte for the which I haue geuen great quantitie of them that haue bene brought mee and they haue made maruelous effectes so much that to many persons which dyd swounde by taking it away from them they were delyuered from death It must be geuen when they do swound and before it come taking it in the morning fasting with Rosewater if the party haue great heate if not then with the water of flowres of Orrenges the quantity of fowre graines euery tyme made in powder In all kinde of venom it is the most principall remedy that we know now that which hath done best effect in many that haue bene poysned which haue taken it as well by venom taken at the mouth as by byting of venemous woormes which are full of poyson It doth truly a maruelous and a manifest worke vnto them that haue droonke water standing in a stinking lake being infected with Beasts or varment which are full of poyson and being swolne immediatly after they had droonke it by taking of this Stone two or three tymes they were remedyed as I haue seene them after c. In pestilent Feuers I haue geuen it many times surely it doth extinguish and kyl the mallyce of them ▪ which is the principall thing that the Phisitions should procure in the lyke diseases And although he doth take away the cause doth withdraw the putrifaction And if he do not extinguish take away the mallyce the cure is neuer at an ende For that is it which kylleth doth the principall hurt And where there is certaine spots in the body lyke to fle bytinges which do appeare in the lyke Feuers the Besaar Stone of our Indians doth make maruelous effects Of those which they haue brought mee I haue spent the most parte geuing them in the lyke diseases and surely it hath remedyed many with maruelous successe and in that which some of them haue bene spent by me hath bene in swoundings and surely I haue seene in these Stones the effectes so great that it seemeth a thing of woonder And especially I haue seene these causes more remedyed in women then in men it is a maruelous thing to be taken it hath done manifest effectes where there is melancholy humor it doth repayre him much And it doth in him in all thinges which do result of him a great worke be it vniuersall or perticular in the head or that as they cal Mirarchia also in them that haue Leprosie of the Arabienssor Elephanciacis of the Greekes It doth profyt much in Scabs in Itchings in Scuruines in all partes of the body that is infected It maketh a very good work and doth remedy the euyls manifestly For that this Stone hath property to heale them I haue geuen it in quarten agues although it taketh not away the quarten it taketh away the accidents of it the fayntnes and sadnes and the griefe of the harte which in these Feuers are common Surely they do feele with the vse of it notable profyt in all large importunate diseases c. It is good to cast into purges som grains of it that if the purge do carry venemous medicines it may rectify and amend them And if not it geueth force strength to the hart they worke the better In the Oryētal Indyas they haue a custom to purge them selues two tymes euery yeare and especially the noble people of estymation And after they haue purged them selues they take euery morning fasting fowre graines of the Besaar Stone with Rosewater or with water made for the purpose and they say that this doth concerue the youth and doth strengthē the members doth preserue them from diseases And it is a good vse for it can not but do them much good I haue geuen it to many people especially to chyldren and Boyes that are tormented with Woorms and I haue seene such workes as are not to be beleeued if they were not seene This more hath Doctor Monardus wrytten in his sayde Booke of this Stone and other worthy and woonderfull thinges Which booke is dillygently and truly translated into our Englyshe tongue by one Iohn Frampton Marchaunt Which booke is tytled and called Ioyfull Newes out of the new found World who deserueth great thankes and continuall commendations for publishing such a common commodity to his Countrey A Water which certainly wyll heale the Fystulaes Take two pounde of water that is distylled out of good whyte Wyne as you styll Aqua vite put therto of the water of Sage and of the water of Rosemary of eyther fyue pounde Sugar two pound distyl them all together and when they are distylled put too the water distylled one ounce of Sage and as much of Rosemary and when they are stiept together eyght dayes strayne it and vse it in curing of Fystulaes Euonymus In which booke is many excellent things IF you lay the wieke of a Candle to infuse or stiepe in the oyle of Hempseede and after make a
come neere that Wheate This I had out of an olde Booke And Iacobus VVeckerus also affyrmes the same WHen you first see the Cuckoo marke well where your right foote doth stande for you shall fynde there an heair Which if it be black it sygnifyes that you shall haue very euyll lucke all that yeare after If it be whyte then very good lucke But if it be graye then indyfferent It is sure that such a heair hath bene founde accordingly but what euent dyd follow therof I am yet vncertayne But this was affyrmed to mee for a very trueth It was also credibly reported vnto mee that the lyke heair wyll be founde vnder the ryght foote at the fyrst seeing of the Swallowe after they are comd at the spring tyme so that you looke after the sayde Swallowe as long as you can see her A Quantitie of Hempe seede stampt and strayned through a cloath when it is wel sodden with running water and a good draught thereof droonk last going to bed and so vsed wyll make one laxatiue and loose bellyed This is a proued thing therfore THe great Alexander being desirous that the long lyfe of Hartes might be knowne to his posterity caused golden Chaynes to be made fast vnto many Harts about theyr neckes I thinke the tyme when the same was done being exprest or marked in the same and they which were taken of the same Harts an hundreth yeares after dyd not yet seeme to be of the age of olde Hartes Mizaldus wrytes this who affyrmes that Pliny is the Author therof QUicke Lyme mixt with olde Cheese and well beaten together wyll fasten and glew strongly together broken stone vessels and also broken glasses This was very credibly tolde me for a very great secrete by one that proued it many tymes as he sayde WHosoeuer hath an extreame heate or sore burning Feuer let them vse to drinke fowre or fyue tymes in one day a good draught of the distylled water of wylde Poppy that is Papauer erraticum which growes among Corne with a red flowre much lyke the leafe of a Rose it is called of some red corne Rose This haue I tryed to be true THey in whose Natiuitie Saturne is Lord of the seuenth house are not lyke to marry before they be thyrty yeares of age or else vntyll Saturne from that tyme hath compassed the whole Zodiack which differs not much This is proued true by long experience I haue seene many whose seuenth house is Capricorne or Aquary the houses of Saturne and yet I neuer knew any of them but either dyed vnmaried or else married after they were thyrtie yeares of age And as I remember Cardanus agrees herein IF the bottom of a seething potte with meate newly taken from the fyre may be touched or felt without harme or daunger of burning then certaynly the same meate is boyled inough But if it be hotte and not sufferable then it is not sufficiently sodde This I know to be true for I haue seene the tryall thereof LAy a greene Iuy leafe in a dyshe or other vessell of fayre water eyther for your selfe or for any other on Newyeares euen at night and couer the water in the sayd vessel and set it in a sure or safe place vntyl Twelfe euen next after which wyll be the fyft day of Ianuary and then take the sayd Iuy leafe out of the sayd water and marke well if the sayde leafe be fayre and greene as it was before for then you or the party for whom you layd it into the water wyl be whole and sound and safe from any sicknes all the next yeare following But if you fynde any black spots theron then you or the party for whome you layde it into the water wyll be sicke that same yeare following And if the spots be on the vpper part of the leafe towards the stalke then the sycknes or paine wyll be in the head or in the neck or there about And if it be spotted nye the myds of the leafe then the sycknes wyll be about the stomack or hart And lykewise iudge that the disease or griefe wyll be in that part of the body according as you see the black spots vnder the same in the leafe Accoumpting the spots in the nether or sharpe end of the leafe to sygnify of the paynes or diseases in the feete And if the leafe be spotted all ouer then it signifies that you or the partie shall dye that yeare following You may prooue this for many or fewe at one time by putting in the water for euery one a leafe of greene Iuy so that euery leafe be noted or marked to whom it doth belong This was crediblye tolde me to be very certaine who affyrmed to me faithfully that it was diuers times proued for a verye trueth But because I neuer tryed it therefore I refer euery one that shall reade it to the tryall thereof BRusonious wryghtes and Georgius Fabricus affyrmes the same that the bones of Hens myxed with melted Golde doo consume the same Golde in to themselfe THe water distilled of Honny makes faire and comly cullored Heyre if it be often moystned or spunged therewith This is prooued THe rootes of Hollyockes stampt and myxt with the Grease of an olde Hogge and plastred to the Gowte healpeth it in three dayes Petrus Hispanus VEriuyce sodde vntill it be very hot and then put into a tâ—â—nen Bottell with a narrow mouth and then holden too or in the eare that the fume thereof may enter into the head it will helpe the head ache meruelously and the sounding of the eares And if there be any quick thinges in the head it wyll bringe them forthwith great speede A Gentleman taught this to a woman that was sore tormented in her head esteeming it as a precious secret but I neuer tryed it therefore as it prooues so prayse it IF one be wounded that hath the dropsye it is hard to heale him Hippocrates Therefore this is worth the marking YOu shall knowe how many dayes old the Moone is if you do as followeth especially shee being in the fyrst quarter holde before your eyes a peece of fyne Lawne and looke through it straight vpon the Moone and so many dayes old as the Moone is so many Moones shall you see or at the least they wyll seeme so many in your sight Assoone as you try it you wyll saye it is true For I haue seene the proofe thereof I Hard it tolde for a very truth by diuers persons that in a plague time in the Citty of Cullen there was a certaine woman dyed and was buryed with a Ring of golde on her fynger for the greedines whereof a couetous fellow within a whyle after she was buryed digged her Graue and opened the coffyn wherein shee did lye thinking thereby to take away the Ringe from her fynger but immediatly the sayd woman did soddainly sturre and mooue and began to syt vp which when the sayd fellow sawe with great feare he did runne
pag. 174.46 For swellings in a sore breast pag. 175.47 To helpe a wound in the hand pa. 175.48 A speciall medicine to strengthen the back pag. 175.49 For sore throates pag. 175.50 They are diuellishe that are borne at a certaine tyme pag. 175.51 That Beastes be not bytten of the blynde Mowse pag. 175.52 A good lesson to be obserued in Beastes that are with young pag. 176.53 Who are lyke to see true dreames pag. 176.54 A notable oyntment for â—ny payne in the head pag. 176.55 An excellent water for hearing pa. 177.56 A Wren wyll turne at the fyre by it selfe pag. 177.57 To make fyne pictures and vesselles with smal coast pag. 177.58 When the mother shall be of short lyfe pag. 178.59 To take awaye the hardnes of Womens pâ—ps pag. 178.60 To helpe mad â—â—en pag. 178.61 A precious thing for burning pag. 178.62 To cause one make water pag. 178.63 To hatche Chyckeâ—s without a Hen. pag. 179.64 The straunge vertue of the Medler pag. 179.65 That toasted or sodden flesh seeme bloody pag. 179.66 Of quicke and slowe deliuering out of pryson pag. 179.67 To heale a scalde head pag. 180.68 To destroy Wartes pag. 180.69 A Dogge taught to do the offyce of a seruaunt pag. 180.70 A most extreeme famine pag. 180.71 To dryue forth sande out of the reynes pag. 181.72 To cause speedy delyueraunce of a Chylde pag. 181.73 That scalding be not seene pag. 181.74 To drawe out a tooth easâ—ly pag. 181.75 To put away freckles in the face pag. 182.76 To helpe the Elfe cake in the syde pa. 182.77 To helpe shaking hands pag. 182.78 To know a ryght Tode stone pa. 182.79 To make that Garlicke shall not smell pag. 182.80 An easie medicine for the gowte pa. 183.81 An argument of death pa. 183.82 To make a Woman be speedely delyuered pag. 183.83 To know who shal be gelded pag. 184.84 To make that no Dogge bark at you pag. 184.85 To put away the quarten agâ—â— pa. 184.86 To helpe â—â—â—olde and incurable gowâ—e pag. 184.87 A notable medicine for the falling sicknes pag. 184.88 An excellent oyntment for the gowte pag. 185.89 To destroy an Itche pag. 185.90 To make a candle that wyll not be put out pag. 185.91 An excellent oyle for the Synewes and ach of the ioyntes pag. 185.92 To bring woormes and hurtfull things in a garden into one place pag. 186.93 A token of the fathers short life pa. 186.94 To helpe paynes and deafnes of the eares pag. 186.95 A proued water to heale the Fystula pag. 186.96 That horses be liuely quick pag. 187.97 To make a horse pysse pa. 187.98 A maruelous precious water pa. 187.99 For winde or sounding in the eares pag. 188.100 The Table of the eyght booke TO make vineger presently pag. 189.1 The straunge propertie of the Woolfe pag. 189.2 Deadlye wâ—â—re betweene the Hawke and the Eagle pag. 189.3 To take Byrdes that eates seedes that are sowne pag. 189.4 An euyll howre to take iourney on the seas pag. 189.5 Approued Pyls for the Palsey pa. 190.6 A straunge thing of a woman with chylde pag. 190.7 To turne whyte wine into red pag. 190.8 A rare medicine for the cough pag. 191.9 Who shall possesse greater rytches and honours then their Auncestors pa. 191.10 To cleare a dym syght pag. 191.11 A maruelous medicine for woundes and sores pag. 192.12 A straunge diuersitie betweene dead men and dead women pag. 192.13 The great vertue of Marygooldes pag. 192.14 A rare thing to helpe the gowte pa. 193.15 If one doo come or sende to thee in a good howre pag. 193.16 To cause a speedy byrth of a Chylde pag. 193.17 To knowe whether one that is sycke wyll lyue or dye pag. 193.18 To helpe them that be deaffe pag. 193.19 To drawe out a toothe without any paine pag. 194.20 A â—awe that no syck person shoulde drinke Wine pag. 194.21 Whether any water be myxt with Wyne or not pag. 194.22 To encrease Pigions in a Doouehouse pag. 194.23 An excellent thing for deafnesse pag. 1â—4 24 One dyd foretell of the tyme of the death of one that was sycke by Astrologie pag. 194.25 For ache in the bones or in any other place pag. 195.26 They that bee gelded are neuer gowtie pag. 196.27 A prowde and vaine glorious Emperour pag. 196.28 It is not good to burie any too hastelye pag. 196.29 A notable medicine for shortnes of breath pag. 197.30 To breake the great heate of Wine in the vessell pag. 197.31 To keepe any parte of the body from colde pag. 197.32 To keepe cloathes bookes from moaths pag. 198.33 To helpe a long continewed deafnesse pag. 198.34 A precious powder to concerue the syght pag. 198.35 To gette out the water out of swolne legs pag. 198.36 Aqua vite good for the eyes pag. 199.37 To ioygne or knyt wounds pag. 199.38 A water more precious then golde pag. 199.39 To cause a woman bee speedily delyuered pag. 200.40 A blessed water for the gowte pa. 200.41 To driue awaye Backes or Rearemyce pag. 201.42 To knowe whether you shall obtaine that thing you hope for or not pag. 201.43 A present helpe for the toothache pag. 201.44 To resolue the sorenes and swellings of the throate pag. 201.45 For the weaknes and paines in the backe pag. 202.46 To make one syng cleare and to haue a cleare voyce pag. 202.47 The straunge property of mints pa. 203.48 A daungerous howre to fall sycke in pag. 203.49 To breake a tooth and to take awaye the paine pag. 203.50 â—uido bonatus learnedly foretold a great daunger to the Emperour by his reuolucion pag. 203.51 A meruelous matter of a woman with châ—â—de pag. 204.52 A child borne in a certaine time wyll be a Shypman or a Sayler pag. 205.53 A perfet helpe for the Gowte pag. 205.54 To restore the deaffe to hearing pa. 205.55 A notable thing to stop the rewine p. 206.56 To help the Pocks in the eyes pa. 206.57 When the PhisitioÌ„ shall not profit the sick pag. 206.58 To make a toothe to fall out by the roote pag. 207.59 To restore one that is brought lowe pag. 207.60 A noble receate for the black Iaundyes pag. 208.61 Bettonye is meruelous good for the gowte pag. 208.62 An excellent thing for the pluresye and the stuffed stomack pag. 208.63 To make gotes giue much milk p. 209.64 He that is borne at a certaine time wil be a maister Carpenter pag. 209.65 To cease the outragious paine of the gowt pag. 209.66 A most approoued medicine for the Gowt pag. 209.67 To catch Byrdes with your handes pag. 209.68 To make a woman be speedelye deliuered pag. 210.69 A true medicine for the Gowte pa. 210.70 To kindle a Candle and to burne in the water pag. 210.71 To make that a Ram shall not putte pag. 211.72 A good howre to fall syck in pag. 211.73 A present help for the tooth ache pa. 211.74 A warranted medicine for the Gowte pag. 211.75 A specyall medicine for all suddaine sicknesse pag. 211.76 A straunge
one handfull the grease of a Hen one ounce oyle of Camamell and oyle of sweete Almonds of eyther a lyke much which wyl be inough to make the plaster â—atte This I knowe to be an excellent remedy in this case which I learned of Benedictus victorius â—auentinus in his booke called Emperica benedicti THis medicine following wyll helpe any paynes or weaknes of the backe Take a quart of Malmsey of Balme Neppe and Maydweede which Maydweede is a stynking hearbe hauing a flowre lyke a Daysie of eache one handfull stampe the hearbes well and strayne them well into the Malmsey or put some of the Malmsey in the stamping to them and strayne it into the rest of the Malmsey and drinke a good draught therof euery morning fasting and at night when you go to bed and within three or fowre dayes it wyl helpe you perfectly God wylling A notable and often proued medicine DRinke the iuyce of Centorie once euery morning fowre dayes together and it wyll make thee syng cleare and speake with a good voyce It cleanseth the breast maruelously Often proued MYntes doth abhorre yron as Rew doth Basyll for if Mynt be geuen to one that is wounded he wyll not easily waxe hole if Myntes be myxt with mylke and after taken from the same and the Rennet or Cheslyp put to the same mylke the same mylke wyll neuer gather together or come to crudde Florentinus in suo Georgico WHosoeuer falles sicke in the howre of Saturne his infirmity or disease wyl be prolonged or he wyll be long sycke and after wyll dye of the same sycknes Haly Abenragel FYll a hollowe toothe with Crowes dung and it wyll breake the toothe and take away the payne Petrus Hispanus GVido Bonatus wrytes a straunge thing which he founde out by the science of Astrology in the Reuolution of Henry the Emprour who had of the sayd Emprour a yearely stypende for that he was a man of famous knowledge which Emprour had many Astrologyans as well Phisitions as other in his owne house Who for a certayne yeare dyd trauell for the Calculation of the Reuolution of the sayde Natiuity of the sayde Emprour And euery one of them dyd draw out a Fygure therof a lyke and they found Mars in the same Fygure of the Reuolution in the Angle of the earth which is the fowrth house vnder the earth and they iudged Mars then to be of an euyll influence and thereby they iudged that the Emprour that yeare shoulde haue hotte Feuers of the nature of Mars And they agreed all in that opinion to the Emprour Guydo Bonatus being there had drawn the Emprours Reuolucion lykewise he fouÌ„d Mars going towards the fourth house being then of an euyll influence iudged thereby the poyson should be mynistred to the Emprour to kyll him Therfore he counsayled the Emprour that if any dyd whysper or had any priuie talke together or were found meeting or hauing confereÌ„ce together in his Court they should be apprehended Or if any should come to the Kytchin not woont or appoynted that some faythfull man of his Court should watche the same Which charge was commytted to the Maister of the Emprours housholde which being very dillygent therin espyed and founde two Knights of the Emprours Court that were very busye in talke together and had not only mutuall conference together more then they were woont but also oftentymes requyred to come into the Kytchin Whervpon the Maister of the housholde committed them to prison and then one of them called Iohannes Franciscus was sore tormented but yet he would confesse nothing So that they deuised a letter in the name of the sayde Iohannes Franciscus confessing therin the matter and shewed it to his fellowe which when he saw strayte way sayde that the sayd Iohannes Franciscus was the chiefe procurer therof entysed him to it Which vttered they had theyr desyre wherfore they were secretly executed Iohannes Ganiuetus lykewise discribes it A Certaine WomaÌ„ that vsed Mizaldus for her Phisition had a belly dyd so swell that it seemed shee was not able to carry her burthen from whome about the ende of nyne monthes there came an euyll shapen masse or peece wherevnto were two eares lyke the handles of a cuppe fastned lyke armes with feeling after that there dyd fall from her wombe a monster with a crooked byll or beake with a long rounde necke with brandishing eyes a sharpe tayle maruelous quicke of foote and as soone as it sawe any light it filled the Parlor or place with noyse and so it dyd runne from place to place but at the last the Women following it dyd smoolder or chooke it to death with pyllowes After the woman almost werryed not without great daunger of her lyfe did bring forth a Boye which was so tormented of the Monster that they had much to doo to christen it with lyfe Leuinus Lemnius is the Author IF Saturne be in the tenth house in a watry sygne and hath any dignity in the Ascendent the Chylde then borne wyll be a Shypman or a Sayler or else he wyll abyde gladly on the water and wyll delyght in fyshing Taisnier CUluer dung sodden in Wyne tyll the Wyne be coÌ„sumed and then emplastred hotte to the gowte healeth the same perfectly Use it morning euening fowre or fyue dayes together Petrus Hispanus TO restore the deaffe to hearing Take the roote of Houndstung out of the earth and make a hoale in the roote as long and deepe as you can and fyll the same hoale with Salt and couer it wel that nothing can come within it then set it in the earth againe as it was and couer it with earth and let it be there so three dayes and at the thyrde dayes ende take it vp and that which you finde therein keepe it in some cleane glasse and put some therof into the deaffe eare Let him vse it euery euening at his going to bedde vntyll he heare clearly which wyll be within a fortnyght at the furthest God wylling And when you do it into his eare let him lye in his bedde that the lycquor may enter This I had out of an olde wrytten booke Prayse it as it proues TAke two lytle peeces of good Lycqueres the bark scraped awaye of the length of a pyn and of the bygnes of two barley strawes put eyther of them into your mouth betweene your gooms and your cheekes that is on eyther syde one and so let them lye all the whole nyght Use this euery nyght for a fortnyght at the least and without doubt it wyll stop or stay the rewme For it conieales the thyn rewme into thyck fleame so that you may spyt it out This helpt one that was without all hope to be helpt TO helpe the Pocks in the eyes Take Saffern and lay it in a â—awcer with fayre water and let it stande whyles it be yallow and then droppe some of it into the eye with a sether and it wyll destroye the