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
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
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
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
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
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
Lyserd hath a great delyght to beholde a Man in the face for he wyll louingly fawne vpon him as a Dog with the mouing of his tayle And as much as in him lyes wyll defende him from a Serpent that lyes lurking in the hearbes to hurte him Lemnius THe iuyce or water streyned out of Radish rootes before stamped myxt with whyte Wine and the powder of Turpentine burned or dryed in the Sun and so receyued is an excellent medicine to breake and dryue forth the stone And it is geuen with happy successe A thing proued much better then golde Mizaldus IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be founde in the nynth house he that is then borne shall of his owne free wyll go farre and long iourneyes And if there be a good Planet in the same nynthe house with him or else doth beholde him with a happye Aspect then it shall happen well to him in his iourneyes If an euyll Planet then contrarye Taisnier LAye a thynne peece of rawe Beefe to the forehead of them that haue lost theyr voyce and let it lye thereto all nyght vnremoued and it wyll helpe them presently or at the least within three or fowre seuerall applications TAke the bones of Beastes which be founde in the fyeldes and chiefly of Horsses because they be best therefore and let them be well washed after let them be dryed at the Sunne then put them into a great Cawdren with water let them seethe long and gather the fatte that swyms aboue wherewith annoynt the gowte or palsey of whatsoeuer cause they come and it wyll be helped SEethe Iuie Mugwoort Walwoort and the inner rynde of Elderne in water with much Salt and bathe therewith any Sciatica twyse or thryse a day for eyght or nyne dayes together and the partye grieued wyll be made hole This I had out of an olde wrytten booke wherin was many excellent thinges IF you sprynckle the powder of Saffern rounde about the weake vpon the Oyle in a fayre greene and bryght Lampe of glasse and let the same burne so that there be none other lyght in the same Chamber it wyll beawtifye all thinges in the same place with a fayre yallowe cullour You may proue it by other cullours lykewise THe dung of a Woolfe being hydden in a Stable or house where Cattell be especially Sheepe It wyll not onely make them leaue from eating of theyr meate but also it wyll cause them to sturre vp and downe and to blate or to make a noyse and also to quake and tremble as though their deuowring enemye the Woolfe were thert present Neyther wyll they cease from doing thus vntyll they feele or perceyue that the sayde dung is taken away Mizaldus THere is nothing better to drawe forth Thornes prickes or any other thing whatsoeuer in any part of the body whersoeuer it be then blacke Sope applyed to the place letting the same lye ▪ thereto twelue howres without remouing of the same A Certaine noble Matrone in the parts of Spaine had a strong Imagination of a great Etheopyan paynted in her Chamber with other in the tyme of the act of generation Which Lady afterward was delyuered of a Boye lyke to that great Etheopyan paynted before named Which chylde being borne euery one beleeued that she had leyne with some one of the slaues of the Sarseyns For that the chyld was like none of his Parents Whervpon the ministers of Iustice with consent of her Husbande and other dyd decree that she shoulde be burned after the monthes ende But before the mynistration of this Iustice or execution certaine wyse men were called whereof one desyred that he might see the place where the chylde was begotte which when he had seene he consydred that that generation was by the strength of the Imagynatiue vertue And then he sayde that that great Etheopyan was the father of the chylde Brynging forth for the confyrmation thereof that place of the Byble where Iacob put speckled Roddes before the Sheepe by which Imaginatiō the Ewes brought forth speckled Lambes Which when he had spoken the Lady was delyuered from burning Wherfore as I haue wrytten in other places of this Booke men ought not rashly to mislyke their Wiues hauing none other occasion because theyr chyldren are vnlyke to theyr Parentes For as you see here and in Iacobs Lambes Imagination is of maruellous force in the tyme of generation Which doth not onely worke in men but in Beasts Ganiuetus writes this Hystorye who as it should seeme hath it out of Lyra. THe flowres of Marygooldes as also of Succory and of certayne other hearbes do begyn to open at the rysing of the Sunne at noone they are fully and wholy opened But they are closed or are shutte when the Sunne doth sette Therfore some calles it and such other Sponsus solis the Spowse of the Sunne Because they sleepe and are awakened with him c. Mizaldus And the dayly tryall thereof affyrmes it IF Asses do eate much of Hemlockes they wyll be cast thereby into a deepe and dead sleepe that they wyll seeme to be dead Which hath deceyued the countrey men being ignoraunt therof for as they haue bene fleying of theyr skyns thynking that they were dead the sely Asses haue sturred and wakened out of their sleepe to the great terror of them that dyd flea them or cutte of their skyns and to the great laughing of them that dyd behold them As Andreas Matthiolus that learned Phisition hath wrytten in his commentaries vpon Diascorides PUt the ashes of a burnt Snayle vpon the spotte in the eye and within three dayes it wyll take it awaye Barth IF one come to aske or enquyre the Astrologian for any thing in the howre of an euyll Planet that is of Saturne or Mars it is a suspicion rather to euyll then to good And chiefly if that euyll Planet be any where impedyte Retograde or Combust or in his fall or Cadent from an Angle And this is to be vnderstanded lykewise of the comming of any on the behalfe of any that is sycke or brynging the vryne of the sycke or of any that doth aske counsayle or enquire of the estate of the sycke though the vryne be not seene it is a suspicion of euyll for the sick though it be not a full testimony therof Ganiuetus IF a Woman that is too much weakened with her monthly course doth cast the same or let the same runne into a hoale made in the grounde with a three squared stake the same stake immediatly after being put or driuen into the same hole and so remayne therin vnremoued her sayd fluxe wyll staye or cease being thought before to be vncurable An honest Woman reuealed this straunge secrete to me Which proued the same to be true and she learned it of a poore Woman that requyred almose of her at her doore IN the Lake called Larius which nowe is called Comensis certayne Fyshers in the wynter dyd drawe with theyr nettes to the drye lande a great sort
take of Mouth glue Allom equall paâ—tes myxing them together and then powre vinegar to them what thing soeuer you shal cast into the fire being rubbed or all ouer annoynted therwith it wyl not be burned Mizaldus MArs in the nynth house doth threateÌ„ in long iourneyes chiefly on the lande feare and euyll hap or successe but not in Capricorne seeing it is his exaltation Taisnier IT is credibly reported that whosoeuer is sycke and at the poynt of death though they be maruelous olde lying or being in a certayne place in Irelande the same partye can not dye vntyll he or she shall be remoued out of that place And many that haue bene there being very olde and weary of their lyues haue earnestlye desyred to be remoued from thence who as soone as they haue bene out of the same place haue dyed presently A very straunge thing if it be true STampe Rew with oyle of Roses and laye the same some thing thycke vpon the crowne of the head of one that is sycke the same being fyrst shauen and if the same partie do neese within syxe howres after hee wyll escape that sycknesse If not he wyll dye thereof TO make a greene that wyll not vade away Take the flowres of Flowredeluse stampe them and streyne them then put the iuyce thereof into goom water and drye it in the Sunne TO make Letters of gold Take goom of Almonds and temper it with Uermylyon finely grounde let the goom be dyssolued in the whyte of an Eeg then wryte therwith and it wyll be lyke golde Proued IF you wyll knowe in what yeare Wheate wyll be deare or cheape and what tyme of the yeare and what month the same wyll chaunce Elect or thuse twelue fayre cornes of Wheate in the kalends of Ianuary which is the first day of Ianuary then sweepe the fyre harth cleane and make a fyre then take a youÌ„g wench or a boy of the house or els one that dwels nye you and byd the same boye or wench laye one of the sayde Cornes on the same harth being hotte and made cleane and when that is done marke dilligently whether the sayde Corne abyde styll in the place or leape If it be styl then saye that the price wyll contynew If it leape a lytle the pryce wyll abate a lytle If it leape much then perswade thy selfe that it wyll waâ—e very cheape If it leape towards the fire it wyll be dearer in the fyrst month and so more or lesse for the greater or lesser accesse of the same to the fyre Doo so with the seconde Corne and it wyll presayge for the seconde month that is for February And so you maye iudge of all the rest That is the thyrde Corne for March the fowrth for Aprill and so of the other Mizaldus hath heard that it hath bene proued of many THe Lyon is more fierce against Men then Women for Nature hath taught him that Women are to be more myldlye vsed then Men as Pliny affyrmes And Aristotle sayth that it is more wycked to kyll a Woman then a man c. And the Poet sayth Quód faeminea in pena nullum est memorabile nomen Which is true A man also can get no prayse nor honesty by beating of a woman Which let butcherly beaters and cruel tormentors of theyr wiues marke well and consyder Mizaldus A Spoonefull or more of the powder of the Nettell seede droonke in good Wyne doth asswage all paynes of the Matrix and takes away the wyndenes thereof or the griefe of the Moother Petrus Hispan BY this meanes following you maye put an Egge into a narrowe mouthed glasse Laye an Egge in strong vinegar tyl it be tender then fyll the glasse almost ful with water then put the wyndie Egge into the glasse and anon it wyll be harde Thys is proued TO roaste a dyshe of Butter Take fyne grated whyte breade and myxe the same well with Sugar then put a lumpe of Butter vppon a spytte and turne the spytte at the fyre and styll cast the grated breade and the Sugar vppon the Butter and it wyll be a fyne and trymme dyshe of meate Proued IF a certaine Woorme with many feete which wyl become rounde lyke a pease if she be touched of some called a swyne lowse be prickt with a needle then any aking toothe touched with the same needle the payne therof wyll cease immediatly This I got hardly out of an olde booke THey are possest with diuels that haue not in theyr natiuities Mercury with the Moone in some aspect if neyther of them beholde the Ascendent Which is the more certaine if Saturne be there in the Natiuity of the daye and if Mars be there in the nyghtly Natiuity and if eyther of them be in an Angle such is the natiuity of Diuelles Albohazen And they are or wyl be madde that haue Mercury and the Moone in this sort except that Saturne contrary must be in an angle in the Natiuitie of the night and Mars in an angle in a Natiuity of the daye Iatromath THere is a certayne Well at Gratianapolis which although it hath not hotte or warme water therin yet oftentymes there coms out of the same together with the water flames of fyre Two contrary Elements at one tyme out of one place flowing out together Mizaldus wrytes this of the report of the Inhabytaunts of that place IF you stampe Hollyocks with the whytes of Egs and therewith annoynt your handes and throwe then vpon the same the powder of Allom you maye handle fyre without any harme Albertus Prayse it as it prooues DRinke no medicine in the howre of Saturne neyther enter or begyn then any iourney on the Sea. Haly Abenragel WHyte Wine wherein Lapis Calaminaris is seuen tymes quenched fyrst made very hotte in the fyre doth maruelously stop the running of the eyes and cleareth the syght if you put a few drops therof into them and vse to wash them therwith This is a tryed thing IF you would allure or bring Pigions to a Doouehouse Take a fatte Dog and flea him and fyll his bellye full of the seedes of Coomyn then rost him dry wash also the Pygion hoales in the Doouecote with water wherwith Coomyn is sodde but fyrst cleanse the sayde hoales from all fylthynesse then laye the rosted Dog vpon a broade stone in the Doouehouse and hang a great glasse in the top of the Louor and three or fowre lytle looking glasses within the Doouehouse by some of the hoales Also take good claye and myngle it with bay Salt Coomyn and make therof a great lumpe lyke a Sugar loafe then put it into an Ouen bake it harde and set it by the deade Dogge Beware of Owles Buszardes and Starlynges see the house be close that no vermyne come therein as Pollecattes Weselles or Ferryttes and you shall haue Pygions enowe Also make a shrape by the Doouehouse strawe chaffe there then laye therein a good quantitie of Barlye but it must fyrst be
degree a month if in a common signe it signifyes a meane time betweene both that is as I haue founde euerye degree a weeke Iohannes Ganiuetus But you must beware if the sayde Planet be dyrect that he doth apply to the degree ascending IF you take the outward rynde of the Radish roote and the hearbe Marcury of eyther one ounce of Saffern three graynes of Cassia Lignea fynely powdred one dram the iuyce of Sauine two drammes and then myxe them and let them all be beaten together and then tye the same in a fyne lynnen cloath that is thynne and then ioyne it to the necke of the Matryx of a Woman that is in her trauell and in the howre of the byrth which els should bring forth her chylde with dyffycultie by and by shee wyll be brought to bedde It is a secrete Benedictus victorius fauent HE in whose Natiuity Venus is coniunct or ioynd with Mercury and they both being vnder the beames of the Sun shal be gelded Iotromath Guat Ryff YF you plucke out one of the eyes of a blacke Dog whyles he is lyuing and wyll carrye it with you it wyll make that no Dogs shall barke at you yea though you walke among them But it wyl be more sure if you put therto a lytle of the harte of a Woolfe Sextus Platonicus and Albertus THe iuyce of Knotgrasse drunke with the powder of seuē Pepper cornes before the fytte doth quite put away the quarten ague But it is sayde that the hearbe must be gathered vpon a Thursday and the iuyce then lykewise there of must be gotten and streyned the Moone discreasing which is betweene the ful Moone and the change Mizaldus had this out of an olde booke of Secretes wrytten with the hande of one called Ianus or Faunus A Bathe wherein Emets or Antes and theyr Egs being stampt haue bene sodden doth quycklye heale an olde and almost incurable ioynt sycknesse Proued YF they that haue the fallyng sicknesse do vse to receyue twyse or thryse in the weeke at theyr going to bedde one of these lytle pylles following without doubt they wyll be hole thereof howsoeuer it coms Take of the best Castoreum Assafetida of eyther halfe a dram ▪ of the roote of Pyony fynely powdred one dram Aromaticum Rosatum two drams myxe them together with the syrrup of Mynts and make therof seuen pylles you may haue al this at the Apothecaries This is a proued secrete Emperica benedicti AN excellent oyntment for the gowte Take three pound of Walwoort and stampe it well then melt one pound of May butter put therto and let them stande so nyne dayes together then boyle the same halfe an howre on the fyre then streyne it through a canuas and so annoynt the payned place therewith It is a notable and proued thing not much vnlyke to one in this booke to that effect discribed by Mizald. THis medicine following wyll destroy the ytche in any part of the body Take of oyle Debay one ounce and one ounce of quicksyluer fyrst kylled with fasting spettle which must be a kylling therein with sturring of them together halfe an howre Then therwith annoint the palmes of your hands and the soles of the feete and within three or fowre tymes so doing it wyll kyll the ytch Proued IF you wyl make a Candle that wyl not be put out Fyll a Cane with the powder of brimstone with lynnen cloath broken in very lytle peeces then couer the same with waxe and so set it on fyre and then it wyl not be put out neyther with bellowes nor wind OYle wherin Frogges be sodden vntyll the flesh be gone from the bones doth maruelously helpe all affectes of the synewes and the ioynts and also all parts of the body that is colde or benumd If the places affected be annoynted therwith being fyrst made warme This is gotten out of the secretes of Ianus IF you wyll bring into one place or else kylle all Woormes and Beastes that are hurtfull in a garden Take the bellye or paunch of a Wether newly kylled with all the fylth or dung that is in it and bury the same in the place where they be and couer it a lytle with earth and then within two dayes thou shalt see all the Woorms and vermyne gathered thether if you do thus twyse or thryse you shall make all the hurtfull Woormes and thinges to gather together there And then you maye cast earth vpon them or else kyll them as you lyst Mizaldus dyd vnderstand that this was proued AN euyll Planet in Leo doth shewe or betoken short lyfe of the Father of that Chyld then borne Taisnier THe iuyce of Bettony put into the eare something hotte or lew warme wyll both put away paynes and the draffnes of the eares if there be any and also other impedymentes of the same I haue proued this diuers tymes and founde it excellent good in this case THis water folowing is both proued precious against Fistulaes and also it so hardneth yron that you maye cutte an other peece of yron therewith as easely as if the same were wood Take of earth woormes and draw of them a water by distyllation and lykewise drawe water of Radishe rootes both which waters myxed together then put therein an edged yron knyfe made redde hotte the same thus heated and quenched for three or fowre tymes by an equall quantity vsed at each tyme and the knife tempred with an edge then dyp it redde hotte againe into the sayd water and then after you may cutte any yron safely and easely therewith and this water is also maruelous in Fystulaes IT is sayd that if Horsses be shodde with that yron wherewith any hath bene before kylled it makes the same Horsses very lyuely and quicke And if of the same you make a bytte or a snaffle that Horse that hath it in his mouth wyl be made tame easy to be handled yea though he be neuer so wylde stubborne or geuen to byting Rasis et Albertus IF a Horse can not stale or pysse or else doth the same hardely or with much griefe or payne beate his body all aboutes easely myldly or gently with the bowes of Elderne full of leaues then after couer his head neck and all the body with the same leaues and it wyll helpe him very much Simoneta Cardinalis A Water whereby the Phisicion doth maruelles and is reputed as a Prophet Take the fylinges of Syluer of Brasse of Yron of Leade of Steele of Golde of Spume of Syluer and Golde of Storax according to the rytches and pouerty of the patient fyrst of all let them bee put in the vryne of a Boy that is a virgin the second day in warme white Wyne the thyrde daye in the iuyce of Fennell the fowrth daye in the whytes of Egges the fyft daye in Womans mylke that geues sucke to a boye the syxt daye in redde Wyne the seuenth daye in seuen whytes of Egs and put that onely into a Styll at
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
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
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
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
tallowe Candle therof which if you do lyght after it be colde the same Candle wyll not go out with any winde so long as the whole Candle lasteth And in lyke sorte may lyghts be made to serue in the night time if that fyne lynnen rags be fyrst soked in the Oyle of Hempseede dipped into mowlten tallow which so bound or wrought on a staffes ende or otherwyse lying in an Yron or plate at the ende of a staffe This is taken out of the naturall and Artificiall clonclusions of the Schollers of Padua c. THe young Swallowes of the fyrst broode that a Swallow hath being cut and opened before the full of the Moone two Stones wyll be found in their mawes wherof one is of one cullour the other is of dyuers cullours if these Stones so that it be before they touch any grounde be wrapt or enclosed in a Harte skynne and be tyed to the arme or about the necke of them that haue the falling sycknes it doth heale them of the same disease Mizaldus wrytes this by the report of an Italyan which affyrmed to him that he had proued it to be true WHosoeuer shall especially the fyrst Frydaye in May and euery other Frydaye in May before the rysing of the Sunne graue vp two turfes of new growne grasse with the dew vpon the same then doth tye the grasse sydes of them together and shall then laye the same in a water in the syde of a ponde or in some other water so that the vehemencie of the water dooth not remoue the sayde turfes from the place where they be layde so letting them lye there vnremoued nyne or tenne dayes if at the ten dayes ende he shall take vp the sayde turfes and vntye or loose the same he shal finde a great sort of young Eeles within the same although there be not one Eele in the same water at the laying there of the sayde turfes And then if he tye the sayde turfes with the young Eeles together againe lay them againe in the same water a great encrease of Eeles wyl after come therof This was credibly tolde me for a very trueth of one that dyd trye the same I thinke they breede of the same dew THe Uine tree dooth not agree with the Bay tree for with his odor or smell he is the woorse wherfore when the branches of the Uine drawes neere to the Bay tree he wyl draw backward flying the smel of his enemy Euen so the Burre is enemy or doth not agree with Lentyls Iohan. Bap. Por. AN Image of a Ram grauen or molten in Gold the fyrst degree of Aries ascending and Iupiter plaste in the same not impedite by any euyll Starre or Planet so that the Moone and Venus beholde him friendly is a maruelous helpe remedy to them that haue a continuall headache if they weare the same Image of golde Laurentius Miniatus by the report of Iouianus Pontanus dyd with the same help a friend of his of a continuall head ache Mizaldus IF you wyl cullour or paynt the brystles of a Swine with dyuers cullours when they be well washte and sodde in Allom water let them be put whyles they be warme in water cullored with Saffern if you wyl haue them yallow or in the iuyce of Elderne or Walwoort berries if you wyl haue them of a blew cullour or in water myxt with Flos eris or Uergdygrease if you wyll haue them of a greene cullour and so of other cullours You maye proue the same with the fethers of Byrds Mizaldus THe powder of Earthwoormes of Myce dung or of a Hartes toothe put into the hoales of teethe that be woormeaten doth plucke them vp by the rootes or makes them fal out without any other Instrument Mizaldus IF the Stone that is founde in the heade of a long Snayle be made in fyne powder and blowne in the eye it puttes quyte away all the spottes therof and it destroyes the webbe in the eye and any other euyll in the same Mizaldus affyrmes this IN the wynter tyme a spooneful of Aqua vite sweetned with good Sugar with a lytle peece of the purest whyte bread put into it least it shoulde trouble the braine or do some harme to the Liuer is healthfully geuen to grosse and flegmatyke bodyes that it may concoct the humors and defende theyr bodyes from the Lethargie which is a forgetfulnes and a losing almost of all the sences and frō the Apoplexie which is a ceassing as well of the inwarde sences as of the outwarde and from colde diseases Lemnius TO make a Candle burne vnder the water Take waxe brymstone vynegar of each a lyke much boyle all these together ouer the fyre vntyll the vinegar appeare all consumed and then after of that that remaynes make a Candle and you shall see the proper effect as aboue is wrytten This is taken out of the natural and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated by Thomas Hyll TAke a Ryng that is hollowe rounde about into which put quicksyluer and stop the same fast that it runne not forth after heate the Ryng somewhat in the fyre which being hotte laye on a table or stoole and soone after it wyll leape or daunce of it selfe vntyl it be colde It is proued QUenche hotte Yron in the iuyce of Hemlockes three or fowre tymes letting it remayne therin euery tyme vntyl it be colde the Yron wyl be soft Also Cardane wryteth that if you take Oyle putting into it mowlten leade seuen tymes together and after quench Yron red hotte in that Oyle fowre or fyue tymes together it wyll make the same Yron soft to worke vpon A Certayne Woman with Chyld seeing a Bakers shoulder naked or bare whyles he dyd put bread into the Ouen dyd long or desyre so much to eate of the sayde Bakers shoulder that she abhord or lothed all other meate Her husband hauing pitty of his louing wyfe dyd agree to geue the Baker certaine money for euery bytte that his sayd wyfe should byte of his shoulder and the same Baker suffered the sayde woman to haue two byts at his shoulder but when she beganne to byte at it the thyrde tyme he was so grieued with paine that he would suffer her no more to byte at his shoulder Immediatly after the woman traueyled and brought forth three children two of them a lyue and the thyrd dead Iohannes Langius is the Author hereof A Notable distylled water as followeth worthy to be compared to golde Take one part of Gentyan and two partes of Centory stampe them together then put Wyne to them and let them sooke together fyues dayes then distyll them keepe the water distilled in a close cleane vessell this water droonke morning and euening preserueth the body from all kinde of diseases it putteth away all impostumations it maketh good cullour it resysteth the plague it healeth the sycke of the Ptysicke it auoydeth the stuffed stomacke it breaketh the stones in the reynes
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
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
one pounde and put it into a body of Glasse and warme it at a softe and easye fyre vntyll it waxe lyquyd and put therein by lytle and lytle with myxting or sturring it the powder of Frankensense fyue drams of Lygnum Aloes Mastycke Cloues Galynga Cynamom Mace Quibybs of each one dramme all well powdred together goom of a Fygge tree syxe drammes lykewyse made in powder and all myxed together and myxe them all wyth the sayde Turpentyne made lyquyd as is before sayde and when they be well incorporated together set on the head of the Lymbeck and lute all the ioyntes of the same well and set it in ashes and put vnder it an easye fyre And when it begynnes to distyl let it droppe away a lytle for the fyrst droppes are lytle woorth then put the receyuer to the nose of the Lymbecke and close and lute them well together that no ayre go forth for then the vertue of it woulde go awaye Then knowe that at the fyrst wyll come forth a whyte and cleare water which keepe by it selfe Then wyll come forth the seconde water which is better of a heauenlye and ayrie cullour which keepe by it selfe Then receyue the thyrde which is the best which wyll be yallowe and thycke as Honny keepe this also by it selfe The fyrst of these is called the water of Balme the second the Oyle of Balme the thyrd is called Balme His proofe to all examynations is that you take one droppe of the same and let it be put in a vessell full of water as you doo of naturall Balme for the sayde droppe wyll go to the bottome of the water and it wyll stande theyr whole as though it were pure Balme This is maruelous and is of great vertues which is called of some moother of Balme The fyrst vertue thereof is that it burnes the seconde is that if thou washe thy face and nose therewith and that thryse in a daye it cures and helpes the rewme It cleareth the syght and it comforteth the Synnewes and if thou washe therewith the hynder parte of thy heade then it comfortes the memorye and all the vertues of the mynde This doth purify both Fysh and Flesh and if they be putrifyed or corrupt whatsoeuer therof is corrupt or putrifyed it takes and consumes it away And it keepes that that is good and sound so that you maye eate them as though they were new and fresh It bringes againe an appetite it cōforteth the stomack and if you take thereof morning and euening it consumes the fleame in the stomacke It helpes or cures a stynking breath as well comming of the stomacke as of the brayne if you take fowre or fyue drops therof once a daye in a lytle Wine No colde venemous thing may come neare it as Frogs Todes Serpēts and Scorpions if a cloath dypt in the same and compasse a Tode or Serpent compassed therwith they wyll dye although they touch it not and so it doth in all kinde of colde venoms as the byting of a Tode or of a Serpent For it heales it if you wash oftentimes therwith the grieued place And if you seethe an Eg in it it wyl sooner be sodde therin then in any boyling water It heales and dryes vp any kinde of scabbe or Tetter quickly if you wash it therewith twyse in a day and if you put three or fowre drops of this into the eare and suffers it there as long as you maye it helpes and cures all noyse and soundings of the eares If you myxe with this equall porcion of the iuyce of Germāder puts therof into the eare three or fowre drops fowre tymes in the day then it helpes cures all deafnes of what cause soeuer it comes Watryng eyes and bleared eyes it doth cure clarify restrayne and comforts if you wash them therwith twyse or thryse All Impostumes Ulcers all other superfluityes it doth restrayne cure and rectify And it is a thing more repercussyue consumptiue against colde humors thē the Saphyre or Planteyn All paynes of the teethe or running humors it doth helpe restrain fortify and it makes the teethe whyte if therwith you do wash the rootes of the teethe All woundes of the head though they be deepe are cured with this same Oyle if therwith you wash it twyse or thryse a daye Yea though the braine panne be broken so that Pia mater be not hurt It heales and cures all Fystulaes Cancers Noli me tangere the Kings Euyll and euery other eating Sore if you wash the same therwith twyse or thryse a day It heales and cures all kynde of Gowtes if you wash or annoynt them therwith so that they come of a colde cause and laying also a lynnen cloath dypt therein vppon the grieued place It helpes also all strokes with staues or other brusinges eyther by falles or otherwyse if you annoynt the brused or grieued place therwith heales them perfectly and well It helpes the Emrodes and the fundament that goes forth and makes it tarry in his place if you annoynt the same therwith It helps the Palsey and all weaknes of the members it doth strengthen if you annoint the same therwith Know that it is most hotte and is of such penetration and heate that if you put one drop therof in your hand by and by it penetrates the hand without any hurt And you shall not feele any swelling of the feete or of the legges or any payne of the ioyntes if you washe or annoynt the same therwith and it wyll helpe it if you dyp a lynnen cloath therin and plaster it therto And briefly if you wyll vse it it profites helpes and cures all colde griefes and all diseases comming of a colde cause of fleame or of putrifyed or corrupt bloud It hath yet many other vertues here left out and it is called the moother of Balme because it is better then Balme in many of his effects And if you wyll proue that it be a true Balme take a Chycken the fethers pluckt off and the guttes taken away and see that it be well washt made as cleane as can be and drye the same at a soft fyre so long as you may well holde it in your hande then annoynt the same Chycken wel both within without with the sayde Balme twyse or thryse then afterwards laye the sayde Chycken against the Sun for the space of two howres suffring it a lytle to drye at the Sun and afterwards laye vp the sayd Chycken where you wyll for it wyll neuer putrifye nor receyue any corruption so long as the worlde shall endure And knowe further that this Oyle hath eyghteene other vertues which are written but not here This notable Oyle of Balme I coppied out of a very old written booke which came out of the Abbey of Elsam in Lyncolnshyre And now by me conuerted out of Latin into English to the profyt of many I hope A Flye drowned in water Wine Ale or Beere and so throughly
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