Sluggish the Rest will be Discouraged Loyter and never Work Cheerfully to fill their Combs Secondly Observe the Swarm be Whole and Great which you may know by looking into the Hive or observing great Numbers clustering about the Mouth of it but if this way fail put your Mouth to the Mouth of the Hive and Blow in and if you are Answered by a great Humming Noise then it is a Full. stock but with a Little Faint one then but a Weak Thin stock Thirdly Beware how you Transport them far for the Change of the Air frequently Incommodes them and if you cannot avoid this to Remedy it place the Hives on convenient Stools in pleasant Gardens or scatter sweet smelling and wholsome Herbs and Flowers about their Hives in Removing beware of Josling for that Disorders their Combs and puts them so out of Humour that they will scarcely stay where you place them to carry them in Sheets on Poles cross Mens shoulders is the easiest way the best time to Remove them is in April and let the place you Remove them to be as like that in Scituation you Removed them from as may be and upon a Remove open them not in the Day time that so Resting in the Night they may settle themselves and finding their Hive open the next Morning go the quieter to Work However for two or three Days observe them that finding themselves in a strange Place they take not Wing and leave you for if they go all Out of the Hive it is an Ill sign they are gadding Fourthly In placing your Bees observe it be so that in Winter and Spring the Face of the Hives they are to come out at may stand to the Rising Sun and so order the Matter that in Winter they be not exposed to too much Cold nor in Summer to too much Heat place them above all things in a Wholsome Air where such Plants Herbs and Flowers are Growing near as best agree with them as Time Cassa Rosemary Wild Marjarum Wild Time Saffron bean Flowers Mellilot Poppys Roses c. As for Yew Cornel Sprig-lawrel Cucumbers Goards Elins and all bitter Herbs and Flowers are Enemys to them Fifthly They Thrive better on Rising Ground where the Air is free and open than in close Valleys yet love to be near Springs of purling Waters that are not deep and in such places where they Sip throw in Spray Wood that they may lye above the Water so that if they chance to drop in they may get out again by that help Sixthly Place their Hives in three Ranks standing a Yard one above the other and keep from them as much as may be all hurtful Creatures that Destroy the Bees or Spoil their Honey as Red-brests Toads Wood-peckers Moths Hornets Lizards Swallows Spiders Sparrows butter-flys Snakes Snailes Wasps and the like and so profitable are these little Creatures that if it be a seasonable Spring and Summer their Honey may he taken three times a Year as in some Countrys it is frequently observed viz. The latter end in May the end of July and the beginning of september but to leave them a Winter Supply the best is only to take it in May and August for then they Rest and Live upon part of what they got in Summer and if they Want you must be compelled to Feed them by putting gingerly in little hollow Canes or Kexes shivered like Troughs filled with Honey or sugar and Water Boiled together or they will Perish e'er they can get out to Work again for want of Food you may also put in for their Food bruised Raisons Figgs Currans or any Sweets that are Wholsome in Taste and Scent If the Weather be open after the 10th of March you may let them Abroad then will they Frame New Combs and that done begin to Breed then they Labour hard for their Honey Seventhly If the Hive by reason of the Young Brood be over-charged which is perceived by their Clustering about the Mouth of it and the great Humming Noise within prepare New Hives rubed with sweet herbs and Watch the coming forth of the Young Fry from 8 to 12 in the Morning lest they take Wing and be gone and if they refuse to come forth with the Fume of Galbanum you may Drive the whole stock and if they have two Kings they will settle separate from each other and so Hive each by themselves or if the stock be Decayed you may Incorporate two hives in one if you Kill one of the Master Bees else there will be continual Wars till they Consume one another If at any time you see them draw out to Flight it is but casting up some Dust among them and the Fray will end Ninthly To know when the Combs are full Watch if they Drive out the Drones which is a sign and soon after you will see them Playing about the hive Rejoycing and Neglecting their Work but in no wise take the Combs before full for that Displeases the Bees The Warreners Instructor or a Treatise of Coneys their Ordering to Preserve and Encrease them Diseases and Remedys SInce many times in Coney Warrens many Misfortunes happen to that little Creature so useful to Man I shall in this Useful Book set down what must needs be grateful to such as have the Care of them that their Wool may be good they Breed kindly and abundantly be Fat and preserved from the Diseases Incident to them which generally are but two kinds viz. Rot and Madness To preserve them then in the Frosty winter when the Snow lyes much on the Ground and they cannot well come at the Grass or any Herbs to sustain them provide your self well with the Sprigs of Birch Oke and Hazle to scatter in the Warren for this Bark before the Sap be much gone out of it is the best not only to feed them in some degree but proves Physical and binding to keep them from watry Distempers making them also thrive by giving them an Appetite to such other food as they can get Turnit Tops Peashame with dryed Pease in the pods and sprinkling of Parsley is Exceeding good for them for in the sharpest time of Winter when least is to be got they feed best and the reason is because then the Frost biting the Foggy Grass makes it sweeter and more pleasant to them than at other times besides the sharpness of the Air whets their Appetites In their Increase they are abundant bringing forth their Young once every Month usually Three or Four at a time and sometimes more for as soon as the Doe is Disburthened she presently taketh Buck again and when she has Kindled conceals her Young from the Buck as secretly as she can lest he should destroy them which when they are very Young he is apt to do but so soon as they can run about they are out of that danger I need not tell you what profit their Furs and flesh bring to man every one in a manner knowing there is great advantage
long Train of Light fore-run Winds that will soon ensue Chaff Leaves Feathers Thistle Down or such light things whisking about and turning round foreshow Tempestuous Winds A murmering noise in the Woods when little Wind is stiring foretells a storm is Engendering Cormorants and other Sea Fowl flocking to shore and often Crying denotes great storms to ensue Cattle on a sudden hasting to their stalls housing-places or other shelter do the like The Herns exceeding high flying denotes the Air is moved with Winds in the Upper Region and that sudden storms will ensue The much Whispering and Rusling among Reeds and Flaggs in Meadow-Ditches and Marshes Prognosticates the Wind is gathering in the Air. Small scattered Clouds to the South West that fly high lye as it were in Ridges and seem not to move engender Winds often producing Whirl-Winds A kind of a Murmering of Thunder from the North foretells great Tempests will arise A Reddish Circle about the Moon at the Full denotes much Wind. A Red Lowring Morning is the Forerunner of Wind. If in a Lamp the Oyl purls and sparkles the Wick grows hard that it Burns dimly it foretells a strong Wind engendring and will suddenly Rise If there appear Fiery spots or those of a Reddish Colour in the Sun upon its Setting much Wind will ensue speedily Signs of the Winds shifting or Changing in the several Points of the Compass VVHen the Sun Rises with many pale spots appearing in its Orbe and part of it Vailed in a Cloud the Wind in what Point soever it will soon shift to the South When the Wind has been setled 24 Hours or more in any of the Full Points as North East West and South when it begins to shift it will not settle till it comes to the opposite Point as from the North to the South and so from the Full East to Full West and so of the Angular Points as from North East to South East Let the VVind be in what Quarter it will upon the New Moon it presently shifts When the Generallity of the Clouds Rack or Drive with the wind yet many in little Fleeces or long strakes lying higher and appear not to move the wind is Flagging and will quickly shift Signs of storms Ceasing A Hasty shower of Rain falling when the wind has Raged for some Hours soon Allays it If a storm Rise with the Sun at the Falling of the Sun it will begin to Decline and about Mid-Night Cease If the Water Ruckles much and frequent Bubles arise the storm is of a short continuance If a Halcyon or Kings Fisher a Bird so called Attemps the Seas when the wind Blows hard it is a sign it is Abating and will soon Cease The uneasiness of Swine in their stys and their endeavouring to be Enlarged denotes the Wind in a little time to Cease The Merry Chiriping of Sparrows does the like as also the Moles coming out of their Holes Signs of Excessive Hot Weather LIttle strings like Cobwebs flying in the Air in a Morning show the Heat will be much especially for the season A Glissening on the Grass at the Sun Rise like the Threads of Spinners denotes much Heat in Summer or Autumn The steeming and smoaking of standing Waters when the Sun is about setting foretells a Hot Day to ensue for then the Mineral Fires are forcing their way to add to the Suns Enflaming the Air. Great swarms of Gnats abroad in Marshes and Fenny Places in the Evening foretells Hot weather to ensue Many Frogs coming out of the water on the Banks of Ditches Ponds c. presage Hot weather to ensue The Plover or Lapwing Flying high and then low making almost continual Crys foreshows much Heat to follow Signs of Cold weather or hard winter THE Suns setting in a Mist looking Red and Broader than usual The Clearness of the stars and their much Twinkling Starlings Feldefars and other Birds of a Hot Nature hastening in great Flocks or Flights from the Northern to the southern Climates Cold Dews and Morning Rymes on St. Bartholomew's Day and the three succeeding Days A Hoar Frost on Michaelmas Day in the Morning denotes a hard winter The Swallows going away soonner than usual denotes a Cold season to ensue The Birds laying up Haws slows and other stores in Old Nests or Hollows of Trees foretells a Hard winter Sea-Pys Flocking from Salt water about Fresh Rivers or Lakes signify a sudden alteration of the weather to much Cold. The Owl much Hooting in the Night at Michaelmas Tide denotes a Hard Frosty winter Ignis Fatuus or Will with whisp much and often appearing in Moorish Ground fore-runs a Cold season Prognosticks of Fair weather by the Planets Elements and Creatures c. THE Moon at four Days Old having her Horns sharp and pointed very Bright it predicts fair weather till the Full if not to the Months End The stars shine Clear and Bright seeming to Dart or Shoot out pointed Rays Little Clouds sinking Low as into Valleys at South East and South VVest The Sun Rising in the Morning Fair and Bright and setting at Night Blushing without Spots or Black Clouds near it The Larks Rising very high and continuing singing a long time The Halcyons and other Sea Fowl leaving the shores and Flocking to sea Mists or smoakings on the top of the water The Rainbow appearing after a shower and the Blew and Yellow part of it very Bright and Lightish Colour Fish often Rising and Bubbling at the top of of the water Cattle Feeding without often looking up or about them Scattering white Clouds like Fleeces of Wool to the North VVest Spiders VVebbs on the Grass and Trees foretells much fair weather Bees flying far from their Hives and coming late Home do the like A Bright Clear or Shineing Circle about the Moon at the Full promises fair weather predicts many fair Days to ensue Much Dew on sheeps wool in a Morning is a sign of fair weather Signs of Hail violent and moderate by the Planets Elements c. IF the Sun at Rising cast a Glittering Light as if it Reflected on some Lucid Matter though few or no Clouds at that time appear the Vapours are Condensed in the Cold Region and fore-runing into Clouds that will scatter Violent Hail If in the Morning the Eastern Skys before the Suns Rising look pale and Refracted Beams appear in Thick Clouds great storms of Hail will ensue to the great Damage of Corn Vineyards Fruit Trees c. If the Clouds look Fleecy Dusky White enclining to Yellowish and move but Heavily though the wind is pretty stiff the Vapours Composing them are Engendered and Frozen as Virgil says Ah then but I 'll defends her Grapes Such horrid Hail on House tops Ratling Leaps If the Clouds appear of a whitish blue and Expand much it will be small Hail or Drizling for that happens in VVinter or the Spring when it cannot be carryed high enough to be Condensed with a greater quantity of Cold because the
or Moon reflecting Light on them The Light in this case is instead of white and the dark shadow sets off the Figures such Apparitions seem terribly to represent and diversly mixed accordingly to the divers dispositions of the Exhalation they cause variety of colours according to the thickness or thinness of the Exhalation presenting to the imagination of fond fanciful Mortals Armies in Battel Seas and Navys engaging on them spacious Fields Houses Castles and the like though indeed but Airy Phantoms However they fore-run Storms and are accompanied with flashes of Lightning very often and in the hotter weather with prodigious claps of Thunder if the Clouds are gross and full of water looking a greenish dark in the middle tho' about the edges the Light may as in the thinner parts paint various Colours being composed of hot and moist Exhalations and though these are looked on as supernatural causes they are no more than the effect of Nature The Kinds of Earth-Quakes their cause and signs fore-running them and what they pontend IN this Treatise I cannot but make some Observation on the Causes of Earth-Quakes considering of late Years we have been so much alarumed with their prodigious Effects and so few people know what natural Effect produces them for wonderful Things are related by Historians concerning them but the best Opinions given of their Causes and the most probable is That extraordinary quantities of heat and cold shut up in the vast Caverns of the Earth contending for mastery and pressing violently to get out but find Opposition by the too much dryness or moisture of the Porus parts of the Earth seek a way to vent themselves by force and break their way through all Opposition The Signs of an Earth-Quake being at hand is the much tosing of the Sea or other great Waters when no visible cause is seen to occasion it for then the Vapours labouring to force their way to open Air first finding a more easy passage there than on the firm Land first make their way and boyl up the Waters as it were to force through them Also a cold Calmness of the Air is another Sign for then the Exhalation that should be abroad is forcibly pent up in the Earth and struggling to get out with violence Others Observe that when the Sky is as it were Clear some long strakes of Clouds are however seen but the most certain is a rumbling murmuring Noise in the Earth and a kind of whistleing Wind whisking about the Air being troubled for then the fore-runner or thinest part of the Vapour is spining out to make way for the greater Shock and more violent gross shock of it yet however the Cause is the same notwithstanding the manner of shaking the Earth is different as I shall briefly Note The First is when the Earth is shaken Laterally or to one side which is when the whole force of the enclosed Vapour driveth to one side or place and there is no contrary Motion to Let it if the Vapour be weak it only makes a Rocking or Trembling but if violent breaks out overthrowing the mightiest Buildings from their Foundations and by such an Earth-Quake in the Reign of Tyberius the Roman Emperor twelve great Cities in Asia were levelled in one and most of their Inhabitants buried in their Ruins and sad have those been of late at Naples in Italy also in the Island of Scicily at Lima and Jamaica in the West-Indies I will not mention what happened in England lately which was rather a Trepidation than an Earth-Quake Yet it caused much Consternation and the excessive quantity of Vapours that then effused in all probability have occasioned the Climate to be the Colder to this day A second kind of Earth-Quake lifts up the Earth so that falling on a sudden and lets it fall again this happens when the Wind in a great Mass struggles on a sudden to Evaporate but the Opposition is too strong and forces it down again The Third is that which breaks its way violently through causing openings and gaupings of the Earth so that Towers Cities Mountains and huge standing Waters have been swallowed up and lost All these are very Terrible and are in the hot season accompanied with prodigious Thunders and Lightnings the Vapours pressing too much infection upon the Air before it can be refined and purged it Infects the Bodies of Men and Beasts causing mortal Diseases and the Earth having spent so much that it cannot in a plentiful manner assist to produce fertility a scarcity ensues not only for the present but for some Years after till the Recruit comes to make the Ground more fertil c. Signs fore-running Thunder Lightning c. MEteors shooting in the Night in summer time denotes the Air Inflamed with much Heat and that Thunder and Lightning will ensue Many Clops and Clefts in the Ground signify that the fiery Vapours are Ascended from the Earth and have so Dryed and Parched it in their passage so that the fire being mounted so soon as thick Clouds Over-cast the Sky the grosser part of the fire Descending and strugling with the watery Clouds to get a passage through is that which is called the Lightning If no Clouds appear in sultry Weather and the Sun sets Red and Fiery great Flashes will appear in the North North West which is called Fulgetrum and is Lightning but not meeting with Opposition it carrys no Thunder with it though springing from the same Cause but wanting Opposition the Noise is not heard Of sudden Whirl-winds and surprizing Tempests VVHirl-winds are Vapours suddenly Rising out of the Earth and gathering in the Air imbodyed in Clouds and stretching them break forth Violently so forcing their way to the Earth with much Fury in a Narrow Compass as it were inclosed they Circle Round and Hurry things about Violently often Over-turning Houses Barns Sheep Cots and Lifting People and Cattle into the Air letting them Fall again many times to their Destruction though in these Countrys they are not so Violent as others nearer the Line where Vapours are carryed up more violently by the Heat The sings that fore-run them is a troubled Sky the Whisking and Circling Light Things about when as yet there appears little or no Wind a Murmering heard in the Air the Air beating down right as it were upon the Water and making it Wrinkle Trees Whisking in one place and not in another Approved Rules for Manageing Husbandry or Rural Affairs during the Twelve Months of the Year for ever In JANUARY LAY Warm Dung to the Roots of your Young Choice Trees and Plants Lop and take off Superfluous Branches in the New Moon if the weather be Open set Beans sow Pease Parsnip Seeds dig and trench your Ground especially in Gardens give your Cattle gentle Drenches and to the more Sickly and Weak warm Mashes of Bran and Mault sodden in Water keep them warm Housed if the weather be extream Cold and Cover your Choice Plants and Flowers In
long-ways and there will corrupt blood and infectious water issue out then having burnt Bay-salt and Allum mix them with Vinegar and rub it well into the wound this done slt the Hyde where the swelling outwardly appears and draw the Skin so that you make a hollowness between that and the swelled Flesh beat together Spear-grass burnt Salt and Butter put this kind of Poultis into the hollow between the Skin and the Flesh and stitch it together but not so close but the infectious Matter may evacuate This done take a lump of the bluest Clay you can get about four pound weight boyl it in two quarts or more of Man's stale Urine so much as the whole being stirred after well boyling will become thick bruise a good handful of the under bark of young Elder add this with a handful of Salt and a quarter of a pound of rasty Bacon well mashed and beaten to pieces stir them continually till the Ingreedients be as thick as pap then bath the Beasts Face from the Ears downwards towards the slit as hot as he may endure it so do three times a day till the swelling is abated separating the Infected from the Sound Cattle for fear of its spreading among them more than otherwise it would Then with an Oyntment made of Butter Tarr and Bees-wax Anoint the Sore Place as hot as may be and in so ordering the Beast will Recover unless exceeding far gone before taken in hand The like measures may be taken with Swine for the violent swellings in their Throat and Jaws contracted by an Infection through foul feeding and bad Airs disearned by the like symptoms Prognosticks of a Rot which fall upon Sheep IF it has been a hot close Summer great heat drops often falling and little Thunder then on St. Luke's Day which is the 18. of October make the Observations as before directed in the morning if the Sun rise clear otherwise do it as well as you can and taste the Dews upon the Grass if they be bitter or brackish the sign is apparent that it is likely to be an unhealthy year for Sheep and a forerunner of the Rot amongst them if great precaution be not had to prevent it especially if they be suffered to feed among old Grass that has not been mowed in moist wet low Grounds for then taking in a great deal of water it makes their Skins loose and their Lungs full of a Flegmatick water that Rots them Consider then in the first place how they ought to feed to preserve them which are so necessary in many Circumstances to us The Grass good and wholsom for Sheep is that among which grows a good quantity of Melilot Claver Selfheal Cinquefoil Broom Pimpernel and white Henbane also Sparrow-wort Knott-grass Pennywort and Middleweed-grass For here the Soil promises not only wholsom Grass but these are Medicinal to preserve them against the Infection that not only causes the Rot but many other Diseases High Grounds dry and fruitful are the best Pasture for them the Grass there being usually short and sweet but if you cannot avoid putting them in low Grounds for want of other conveniency take care not to bring them from the Fold till the Sun be risen and then with your Dog or otherways chase them about till they are well heated and then let them feed or rest This Chasing is many ways advantageous first it beats the Mildews from the Grass and other Dews very hurtful to them in their feeding likewise kettles webs and flasks which the Sheep licking up in feeding Contribute to the Rot it also stirs the Humours in them that wasts the Moisture and prevents the Effects of Rottenness They Feed also more deliberately and not so greedily as otherways they would do chusing their Food which is most Healthful and Propper Once a Month and oftner in the Raw wet season Rub their Mouths with Bay-salt and Vinegar which in a great Measure is a preservative against sickness and thus much to the Ordering them in general for now I come nearer to particulars Rot in Sheep how to provent it and other Diseases and Cure it when taken AS to the Rots particular to sheep that are for Grazing the Hunger Rot that Putrefies the flesh and skin and the Pelt Rot that cometh after great store of Rain to sheep new shorne Mildewing the skin and Corrupting the blood are the most sweeping and Mortal To prevent these then and all others the Danger sore-seen take the salt called Adracei and once a Week Rub their Mouths with it and it is a great Prevention and Preserver of them against Rots but if the Rot is got amongst them seperate the Infected immediately Bleed the rest in their Ears under the Tongue and in the Vain between the Laws give them Bay Salt Fennel and Ash Keys Boiled in their Water and every one of them a Brandy Cup full of Aqua Vitae sweetened with Honey As for the Infected Bleed them in the Temple Veins then take Fulsilago Colts Foot and Lungwort each an equal quantity stamp them and strain the Juice into Water pretty well sweetened with Honey and early in the Morning give it them warm to Drink to each a quarter of a Pint and they will soon Recover unless their Lungs be utterly Perished Feed them with short dry Hay and Tares the latter a little sodden in fair Water in which Fennel has been Infused let their Housings be free from any Moisture or Ill scents and let them Lye Warm on clean dry Straw or Fernn for a Sheep is a Nice Creature much affecting Cleanliness and Wholsome Airs Take Care likewise to drive away all Venomous Creatures from them and this may be done by Burning Galbanium Harts-horn Shaveings or Womans Hair you may also give them in their Troughs Barly and Beans Ground together or dryed Pease Acorns Ground mixed with Bran and if the Elme continues Leafy give them the tender Boughs to Brouze on and thus you will Preserve your own whilst others not Regarding these Rules will have theirs swept away by Scores if not by whole Flocks when the Rot comes amongst them therefore seeing you are well advised neglect it not How to Calculate Nativities to know Good or Bad Fortune Introducing to that curious Art plainly describing it by the Complexions Humours c. Consider first then to know the Day and Hour of the Birth of the Party whose Nativity you would Calculate as suppose on a Monday at half an hour past five in the Morning then you find the Moon has Dominion of that Birth the Person so born will be of a pale complexion soft flaxen or whitish hair subject to cold diseases inconstant of no great capacity or understanding and in peril of losing his or her Life by drowning See in this Case in the Scheem the Moon ascendant in Gemini II in the third Angle If on Tuesday when Mars predominates the Person be born it is discovered by a wide mouth a fiery countenance
it her Cry will soon call all those about her that are within hearing and there they will rage and run about leaping and capering to get at the Net which must be so hung or placed that they cannot easily do for they will certainly tear it to pieces and in this you will have pleasant pastime as well as to take and destroy them if they are offensive to your Gardens Houses Dove-Cots c. A Pleaget to wear about ones Neck to prevent Bugs Flens or Gnats biting in the night time THis to many people may prove no less advantageous than any especially where these Insects are a second plague of Aegypt to people To do this Gather Asmart or Hounds Tongue an Herb with a long sharp pointed little Leaf that grows in Ditches in moist places in Summer dry it to a powder add to it as much of the powder of Sarsafrax Wood as will lye upon a Shilling sprinkle them a little with Juniper Water mix it with the Wooll of a black Sheep cut off betwixt the Horns in the wain of the Moon write on a piece of paper these Characters ♒ ♂ ♠* ♄ ½ ⅕ Sprinkle the paper when you have foulded it up with the Juice of Rue and sew it up in a thin silk Bag and with a little small Cats Guts hang it about your Neck when you go to sleep and if you are awake the power is the same you will Rest without being disturbed with these or other Insects To drive away Mice or Rats in a House or Grainery IF you can get a He Weasel about the increase of the Moon kill him and take out his Fat then dry his Skin that you may write on the fleshey side of it these Characters ♉ ♈ ♊ ♋ ☽ * do it over with the Weasels Fat and stuff up the Skin with Moss taken from the Root or lower part of an Oak-Tree and place it on a sharp Haw-thornstick put the sharp end into it Belly wards and stick the other end into the Floar in a little hole made with a Gimblet in the place of their resort let it not be placed more than six Inches above the Floar and as many as come there will immediately avoid the House or out-house and if you would kill them there it is but strewing pot-ashes on the Floar and it will work so powerful that they cannot get away but there you may kill them at pleasure To prevent being Robbed on the Road or meeting with any bad Accident COnisider in this Case what Planet you set out under Ruling as to the days and its influence The Moon ruling Monday denotes inconstancy in Success Mars Tuesday violence Mercury on Wednesday deceit and fraud Saturn on Saturday envy and malignaminity But the Sun Jupiter and Venus Governing Sunday Thursday and Friday are very Friendly Planets promising Success However other Days are proper enough with the Cautions I shall give you hereafter and that is as followeth to prosper and prevent Ill Fortune it being Robbed Falling from your Horse or Sick falling into any Pit Water or the like Now Note That the Malignant Planets are friendly to others and befriended of them again Sol is friendly to Jupiter and Venus Luna to Jupiter Venus and Saturn Mars is friendly to Venus Mercury is friendly to Jupiter Venus and Saturn Jupiter is friendly to Sol Luna Mercury Venus and Saturn Venus is friendly to Sol Luna Mars Mercury and Jupiter Saturn is friendly to Jupiter Sol and Luna And these are temporizing to hinder the Malignancy of each other therefore the premises considered now as to what you are to put in practice for your security Gather Veruine an Herb so called in the New of the Moon hang it up in the Chimney to dry then powder it and steep it in the water of Agnus Castus then dry it again and reduce it to fine powder these temporize with the Planets Venus and Mercury which are so powerful in their influence for the protection of Travellers put this Powder into a Hollow Ring of any kind of Mettal and have these Characters engraved on the inside of it ♀ ☿ ♄ then you may go or ride safe without danger of any violence keeping your Mind on good things To find out a Thief or make him or her bring back the Goods stolen YOU must set down the day hour and minute if you can when the Goods were stolen and the name of the Planet ruling the day as I have before set down to direct you This being done set down these following Characters in a fair piece of Parchment ☽ ☉ ♄ * Δ Σ this done Turn Round thrice and if you hear no News in 44 Hours of the Thief as ten to one you will then Prick the Parchment full of Holes and hang it up in the Chimney where the Heat of the Fire may a little Scorch it and the Thief is held to be so restless in his mind and tormented that he or she will discover the Theft to be at Ease or bringing Home the Goods throw them privately into your House or some place appertaining to you A Pleasant Device or Stratagem to find out any Person Suspected to have Robbed you IF you Suspect a Servant or any other not being Positive you may first to Amuse them threaten to send for the Cunning Man to know by his Art what is become of the Things Lost and soon after have a Stranger come unknown to them and order the Pary you Suspect with some others for Company to come into a Room being Ignorant of what is Intended then the Stranger Whelming a Kettle very Sooty or Black at Bottom muttering hard Words the Room must be made quite Dark then he must bid them Walk three times Round the Kettle Hand in Hand then suddenly say Lay each of you your Hand upon the Kettle as hard as you can and when he that has Stole the Goods comes to do it for it must be done in Turns one after another the Cock will Crow and Discover him or her those that are Innocent will do it without Scruple but the Guilty Person if he be Ignorant of the Trick being in the Dark will Refuse it because it cannot be seen whether he does it or not and when they all say they have done it asking them severally over the Party must begin to admire the Cock Crows not for you must not expect he will do it upon this Account unless by chance and say He believes the Party is not here that has Stolen the Goods when making all Light again he must require to see their Hands to be more perfectly Instructed in the Matter and then by then if any of their Hands are not Smutted or have no Mark of Blackness it is plain that Party has not Touched the Kettle and then being home Charged with the Matter he will doubtless Confess it and the Reason he Declined it by which Means you may come by your Goods again if they have not been so
25th of this Month to the 24th of June the Signs Arises Taurus and Gemini Govern and Produce Moist and Hot Diseases as Agues Fevours Dropseys Dissenterys Fluxes and the like In this Month therefore to keep your Body in good Condition throughout the Quarter bleed freely if you are of a Sanguin Complexion and the Veins full of Blood having moderately purged 3 or 4 Days before to stir the Humours that the more Gross and Noxious may the better be carryed off and for a Week after take a Drink about a Quarter of a Pint in a Morning Warm made of Figgs Rasins Liquorish and a little Cardus Boiled in Ale and strained well so you will prevent Agues and Fevours and other Diseases incident to this Month. In APRIL This is the most proper Month to bleed and purge in but do it when the Air is Dry and Serene so shall Head-Aches pains in the Eyes sore Throats and Diziness with their Concomitants be prevented Eat Wholsome Warm broths but not too much of Raw Herbs lest you are Afficted with pains in the stomach and in bleeding purging and other weighty Matters observe to avoid the Bad Days that are Perillous to Health and Business as I before have set down In MAY. In this Month Walk abroad Eatly in the Fields for your Health sake but not Fasting nor upon too full a Stomach bleed as you see Occasion if you have not been Blooded in the fore-going Month Eat wholsome Warm Meats pretty freely and if the Weather be Seasonably Warm Bath in Clear Water but if your Health permit not then you may do it in Warm Water at Home in which Mallows Chamomil and Groundsil have been Boiled and it will much refresh and strengthen the Body purge with Senna Rhuburb or such like Harmless Refreshing purgations to Clense the stomach Liver Lungs and so prevent Distempers in the Hotter Season Eat not Raw Trash for fear of a Fiux or pains in the bowels keep to a wholsome Dyet and take such Cordials Fasting as may strengthen the Heart and keep out pestilential Infectious Aires c. In JUNE In this Month be sparing of Blood Letting unless it be upon urgent Necessity now Drink purging Waters Morning and Evening to Cleanse the stomach and bowels and keep the body Cool and Temperate but Drink not Hot Liquors upon it lest the two struggling Opposits throw you into a Fevour or surfeit or cause breakings Out with troublesome sores be Temperate in Meats and Drinks In JULY Refrain this Month from any Violent Exercise because the Humours are much stired and the Blood is apt to be put into a Ferment Bleed not but upon great Necessity Bath often and Rise Early in the Morning to take the Fresh Air but be not much Abroad in the Heat of the Day Eat Cooling Things but not over much In AUGUST Bleed not this Month because of the Canicular or Dog-days unless Necessity Urge it and then but a little forbear Eating-much Green Herbs or Fruits Drink Cooling Purging Waters Ales or such Liquors in the Morning and Sleep not over much and forbear Purging till the next Month. In SEPTEMBER I should have told you according to my Method that from the 24th of June to the 26th of this Month that the Signs Cancer Leo and Virgo are Predominant which are Hot and Dry and suitable Diseases attend them as the Small Pox Fevours Squincys Spotted Fevours and some times the Plague Therefore it is proper to be very Cautious as I have Hinted in temperate Dyet bleeding Physicking and the like however you may Eat this Month Cooling Fruits yet with Moderation now purge and bleed that the body Evacuated so of bad Humours may be the better Enabled to hold out against Winter Diseases as Dropsy Palsy Falling Evil and sometimes Phransy and other Defects in the Head and brain Sweat Moderately and Walk much when the Weather is Fair. The Signs that Rule from the 25th of This Month the rest of the Year not already mentioned are Libra Scorpio and Sagitarius and they are Cold Moist and Dry their Attendant Distempers are Dropsys Rheumatisms Colds Catarrhs Coughs Defects in the Lungs and Affliction of the brain also of the Nerves and Sinews Pains in the Joynts c. In OCTOBER Drink Cordials Fasting in the Morning or good Wine Eat Temperately forbear bleeding unless some Uneasiness in your Body obliege you to it and then do it on the Luckey Days when the Sign is well Posited that is neither in the Head Neck Shoulder nor Arms Eat wholsome Dyet and be not Late Abroad in Foggy Unhealthy Aires In NOVEMBER Go not Abroad if you can help it in Wet Drisling Days or Nights bleed not but for Necessity and then but a little for the blood and Humours are necessary to Fortify the Body against the ensuing Colds Eat Seasonably and Temporately and avoid being Abroad in Foggy Mornings above all things Hurtful to the Lungs In DECEMBER to the 25th of the Month. Take care to keep good Fires and wholsome Dyet bleed not at all take Caudles strengthening broaths and Cheer your Heart with a Glass of Wine Humming Ale Beer or Cyder or any good Warm Refreshing Liquor as you can come by it Forbear much going Abroad unless in a Clear Day when the Foggs and Damps are sucked up or dispersed by the Sun especially if you be not of a very Healthful Constitution and thus you may in a great measure keep your self free from all Griefs and Sickness and preserve a Healthful Constitution to extream Old Age as in the following Lines are Discribed by the Poet Nature is Kind if we her Rules Obey And stubbornly don 't throw our Health away 'T is Lifes Chief Jewel yet we many find When they Possess it do it little mind But when 't is gone O what they then would give That Temporately they had been Wise to Live Of BEES A Treatise of Bees how to Order Preserve Swarm Gather their Honey and all other Matters Relating to them THE Bee though a Creature Numbered among Insects is exceeding useful to Man their Wax and Honey being Commodities Trafficable in all Nations yet are they a Nice Choice Creature and without much Dilligence and Care cannot be brought to any extraordinary Perfection to the Profit and Advantage of the Owners which being proper to this Undertaking for the general good I shall for the Instruction of those that are Ignorant in it lay down Choice Rules and Directions how they should be Ordered to Preserve and Encrease their Stocks that so in a little time they may turn to the great Profit of the Owners First In the Choice of your Stock see they be Little Lively and Smooth for those that are Rough and Unsightly will never prove well above all if you can see the Master Bee or King consider if he be Long and Shining bedashed with Golden Spots and Cheerful for on him mainly depends the Welfare of the whole Stock for if he be Rough Drooping and